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[[Gun Fu]] is a catch-all term for the fancy moves Hong Kong action movie characters (and Western films inspired by said Hong Kong action movies) perform with their guns. It's essentially [[Exactly What It Says
Essentially, the main point of [[Gun Fu]] is the liberal application of [[Rule of Cool]] to firearms. Expect lots of [[Guns Akimbo]], [[Pistol-Whipping]], and a heat-packing version of the [[Offhand Backhand]]. While pistols are the most common weapon, it can also be done with anything else you could reasonably consider a firearm - Uzis, the [[Sawn Off Shotgun]], even rocket launchers, as long as you hold it in your hands and fire it. Occasionally, they mix in a little standard martial arts.
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It's become very common in modern action movies. Why? [[Rule of Cool|It looks awesome]], despite [[Awesome but Impractical|being a one-way ticket to the morgue if you try it in real life]]; this contrasts to 80s action movies, which favoured [[BFG|large guns]] and [[More Dakka|brute force]].
[[John Woo]] pretty much invented it in [[The Newest Ones in
Now it must be clear that this is ''not'' [[Gun Kata]]. It's a close relative. That trope is more about strategic dodging and aiming with guns, while this is about acrobatics with guns. Both are graceful and cool to an almost obscene degree, but [[Gun Fu]] is probably the less plausible of the two. Although both involve [[Improbable Aiming Skills]].
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== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ==
* The primary fighting style of adorable little assassin [[Badass Adorable|Yuumura]] [[The Woobie|Kirika-chan]] of ''[[Noir]]'', the [[Heroic Bloodshed]] homage by [[Bee Train]].
* ''[[Kenichi:
** Kenichi's ''father'', of all people, is capable of some of this; he managed to reload a giant shotgun with one hand, something that resident weapons master Shigure said wasn't possible.
* Played straight and subverted with Riza Hawkeye from ''[[Fullmetal Alchemist]]'', depending on the situation.
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* ''[[Equilibrium]]'' combines both this and [[Gun Kata]] in the Grammaton Clerics' signature fighting style.
* There are several scenes in ''[[Army of Darkness]]'' where Ash (immortalized by Bruce Campbell) mixes melee combat with rapid fire attacks from his shotgun. Call it Shotgun-jitsu.
* ''[[X Men Origins: Wolverine]]'' has Agent Zero, who fuses [[Guns Akimbo]], [[Unorthodox Reload]] and [[Improbable Aiming Skills]] into one [[Gun Fu]] Fighting package...shaped curiously like [[Myth Busters|Grant Imahara]].
* ''[[Shoot
* A sort of nascent example turns up in some [[Spaghetti Western|Spaghetti Westerns]] -- the lead who is not Lee van Cleef in ''The Grand Duel'' flips and [[Unnecessary Combat Roll|rolls]] through gunfights, once shooting a [[Mook]] while falling upside down after propelling himself into the air with the aid of a cart and a falling body.
* [[Kick
* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qOyjtcc1gyg&feature=player_embedded Kopps]
* Maggie Cheung's character in [[Heroic Trio]] fights with a shotgun and a machine gun in two scenes, weilding them as if they were swords.
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** Don't forget Golden Exhalation Style, for when you want to reload your gun with personal life energy, parry bolts of fire, and reload your weapon with the flame-stream of your enemy's gun.
* ''[[Cthulhu Tech]]'' gets this in the ''Vade Mecum'' companion book. Your standard pistol styles are all there, along with Rifle-Fu.
* And then there's the Gun Schticks one can get if you create a gun-using character in ''[[
* ''[[GURPS]]'' just straight up named its supplement on cinematic gunfighting "Gun Fu".
* Every character in ''[[
* ''[[Scion]]'', while not inherently an example of this trope, is a game where the player characters are half-divine heroes with reality-bending powers and, frequently, celestially-augmented weapons (including handguns). This is a setting where Gun Fu can be ''practical'' as a preferred combat style.
* The Fudge Factor article Fudge Firefight II introduces a bunch of knacks that are built to allow this. Jumping through windows firing a pair of pistols is standard practice.
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* The videogame ''[[Bayonetta]]'' takes this trope to its illogical extreme: [[Guns Akimbo]] x 2 (in your hands and on your feet)
* This is Noel's fighting style in the [[Fighting Game]] ''[[Blaz Blue]]''.
* York, the hero of ''[[
* Rubi's primary fighting style in ''[[Wet]]'' is a combination of [[Gun Fu]] and close-up work with the katana.
* [[Jak and Daxter|Jak]] is a black belt in [[Gun Fu]], with a favorite technique being a combination of his jumping spin kick with [[More Dakka|the Blaster or the Vulcan Fury]].
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* [[Final Fantasy XIII|Sahz Katzroy]] exercises this "martial art," and combines it with a [[Bifurcated Weapon]].
* ''[[Stranglehold]]'' is a video game sequel to John Woo's [[Hard Boiled]] (interestingly enough there are talks of making a live action movie for the game) and does an excellent job of replicating the Gun Fu of the movie in a videogame.
* Big Boss and the Boss of [[Metal Gear]] game developed a form of CQC that integrates a knife into a gun-holding stance, where the practitioner will hold a combat knife in the last two fingers of their off-hand, with the thumb and other two fingers still on the gun as normal (this produces some off grips on some rifles where just adding the knife with the off-hand where it normally goes would result in it stabbing the magazine; in [[Metal Gear Solid 4 Guns of the Patriots]], we can see Snake using a sort-of claw grip to prevent this problem with his M4 and AK-72.) In cutscenes, this is taken much further, with melee spectacles involving the snatching of full-sized rifles out of someone's hands and having it ready to fire in under a second, throwing to the ground ''with'' a rifle since both hands are tied up holding it, and breaking down someone else's gun before they can fire it.
* Vincent Valentine of ''[[Final Fantasy VII]]'' has been established as utilising this in the spin-offs, in the original game he was more of a straight up [[The Gunslinger|gunslinger]].
* Lightning in ''[[Final Fantasy XIII]]'' regularly shoots enemies while doing backflips.
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== [[Web Comics]] ==
* [[
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== [[Western Animation]] ==
* In the beginning flashback sequence of ''[[
== [[Real Life]] ==
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