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* This was the central theme of many, ''many'' early Jackie Chan kung-fu movies (such as ''[[Drunken Master]]'' and ''[[Fearless Hyena]]''), which may have set the stage for many of the examples mentioned in the rest of this section. (The quintessential American equivalent is the original ''[[The Karate Kid]]'', but you don't see Neo in the Matrix saying, "I know ''karate''!")

* What do you get when you take a philandering, perpetually-drunk thirty-year-old salaryman, kidnap him off the street for no apparent reason, stick him in a private prison that looks like a hotel room, feed him nothing but Chinese take-out once a day, and leave him there for fourteen years? You get [[Oldboy|Oh Dae-Su,]] who can deliver [[Curb Stomp Battle|beat-downs]] with his bare fists and [[Improvised Weapon|kill people with nothing but a toothbrush.]]

* Loki seems to have taken a few--possibly traumatic--levels in badass between the events of ''[[Thor (film)|Thor]]'' and ''[[The Avengers (film)|The Avengers]]''. While he was ostensibly the [[Big Bad|main antagonist]] in the former, his return in the latter is accompanied by a shiny new spear of doom, an army of alien cyborgs, and a new plan to [[Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds|rule the earth]]. The scariest part is that he seems pretty capable of carrying out this plan.