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Contrast [[Artistic License Martial Arts]], [[Martial Arts and Crafts]].
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== Anime and Manga ==
* A mook in ''[[Fist of the North Star]]'' [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mUlFqL72iV0 tries using Hokuto Shinken on Kenshiro] and [[Crowning Moment of Funny|fails miserably]].
* In the third ''[[Naruto]]'' movie, Rock Lee manages to knock himself in the head with nunchucks, despite being an otherwise competent fighter.
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== Comic Books ==
* Near the beginning of ''[[Tintin|Flight 714]]'', Prof. Calculus mentions that he practiced Savate in his youth and tries to demonstrate a high kick (lit. "face kick"), but only manages to fall on his back and empty all his pockets.
== Film ==
* ''[[Who Is Harry Crumb]]?'' had the titular Harry trying to show off aikido, so he does a backflip over the couch (imagine doing that when you're the size of [[John Candy]]), and the landing causes the dinosaur egg to fall. His boss catches it, though.
* Sing (Stephen Chow) in ''[[Kung Fu Hustle]]'' before he develops his powers.
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== Literature ==
* In ''[[
▲* In ''[[Discworld/Sourcery|Sourcery]]'', Nijel The Destroyer, a barbarian hero wanna-be gives quite a swordsmanship show when confronted with multiple guards... culminating in the sword getting stuck in the ceiling.
* In ''[[Heralds of Valdemar|Exile's Valour]]'', two students try to show off using stage fighting. A thrown sword shatters a huge mirror.
== Live
* In an episode of ''[[The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air]]'', Will Smith visited a dojo to learn martial arts. He finds a convenient block of wood on a stand and tries to hand chop through it. One hurt hand later he tries it with his foot and actually makes to break through it. Then he finds a samurai sword lying around while waiting for the sensei. He picked up the sword and proceeded to strike dramatic poses with it while talking with his mouth out of sync with his words. The sensei came in while he was going this and asks him if he's having fun and tells him that everybody tries that. On the other hand,
▲* In an episode of ''[[The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air]]'', Will Smith visited a dojo to learn martial arts. He finds a convenient block of wood on a stand and tries to hand chop through it. One hurt hand later he tries it with his foot and actually makes to break through it. Then he finds a samurai sword lying around while waiting for the sensei. He picked up the sword and proceeded to strike dramatic poses with it while talking with his mouth out of sync with his words. The sensei came in while he was going this and asks him if he's having fun and tells him that everybody tries that. On the other hand, he wonders who broke his coffee table. [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S-xTRt2wAeM\]
* Bulk in multiple episodes of ''[[Mighty Morphin Power Rangers]]''. In one episode called "A Star Is Born," there were auditions for a commercial about karate. Bulk entered the audition and showed of his "incredible karate skills" (read: making random movements while shouting). He passed the audition, but at the end of the episode we see the finished commercial; Bulk is the "before" and Tommy (who actually ''is'' a competent martial artist) is the "after".
** And he continues it in ''[[Power Rangers Samurai|Samurai]]'', as early as the first episode. Poor [[Generation Xerox|Spike]], being taught to be a samurai by "Uncle Bulk".
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* Anytime someone is shown with [[nunchaku]]s on ''[[America's Funniest Home Videos]]'', expect it to end like this (usually with one end headed [[Groin Attack|"down south"]]).
* Invoked in ''[[Kamen Rider Fourze]]'': In one episode the [[Monster of the Week]] attacks [[Second Rider|Ryusei]], who defends himself with his considerable Jeet Kun Do skills. However, he realizes that [[Goth|Tomoko]] (a member of the Kamen Rider Club) is watching, and in order to maintain [[Obfuscating Stupidity|his cover]] as a [[Lovable Coward]], he throws out a really clumsy kick that lands him on his butt, then runs screaming away from the monster.
== Newspaper Comics ==
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== Professional Wrestling ==
* One episode of [[TNA]] featured James Storm trying to use nunchucks on his opponent, only to hit himself in the head with them.
== Video Games ==
* ''[[Breath of Fire]]''
** Near the beginning of ''[[Breath of Fire III]]'', Ryu (no, not [[Street Fighter|that one]]) is just an amnesiac kid who's fallen in with bad company and been handed [[With This Herring|a shortsword]]. Resultingly, his basic Attack-animation consists of him turning his back to the enemy, covering his face with his arm, and flailing his sword wildly in the general direction of his foe. After he's gotten some experience and [[Character Development]], it turns into a conservative-but-effective shoulder-slice, but strangely enough, [[Gameplay and Story Segregation|this affects neither his hit-percentage nor his damage-output]]...
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== Web Comics ==
* Kiel'ndia from ''[[Drowtales]]'' [https://web.archive.org/web/20200812171229/http://www.drowtales.com/mainarchive.php?order=chapters&id=766 smacks herself in the head with her own chain whip] after Kyo'nne (the girl she's trying to rescue) tells her to stop attacking.
* This exchange in ''[[Schlock Mercenary]]'':
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== Web Original ==
* ''[[Whateley Universe]]'': Generator tries teaching herself using her roommate's nunchuks and clocks herself. Even after she uses her powers and 'possesses' the nunchuks, she still gets hit. By possessed nunchuks that are trying to tell her something.
* The battle between [[The Cinema Snob|Kung Tai Ted and Master Kempo Dojo]] feature this heavily due to deliberately bad acting, and both of them manage to inflict a [[Groin Attack]] on themselves with their nunchuks.
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== Western Animation ==
* Sokka of ''[[Avatar: The Last Airbender]]'', when he was trying to find a good weapon. He kept falling over or smacking himself until he found a sword.
* ''[[Kung Fu Panda]]'' played off Po's clumsiness in the beginning of the film.
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== Real Life ==
* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oXFCIjk01xA Diemon Dave], an Appalachian [[McNinja]] with his own line of [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GuigcXvcy1A training videos].
* Anyone, anywhere, who watched a lot of kung fu flicks and thought they could fight by imitating what they saw (commonly referred to as a [[Kung Fool]]).
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