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{{quote|'''Dale:''' The guy got into a little, you know, stance. And I'd just seen that movie, ''[[Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon|Crouching Tiger]]'' or whatever, and I thought...
'''Judge Frasier:''' You thought he could fly?|''[[This Is Wonderland]]''}}
[[Chop Sockey]], assisted by the fact that the actor is tethered to the ceiling.
A (comparatively) easy way to make a fight scene more impressive is to use fine wires to support the actor during acrobatics that would not be possible for a normal human: long lateral jumps, jumping "off the air", being thrown back by an explosion, or even hanging suspended. Wires can also be used to slow down an actor's movement without the undesirable side effects of [[Overcrank
Also called "Wirework" (though that term is more general; "
Expensive and time-consuming, it is often now replaced by computer-generated effects.
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== Card Games ==
* The ''[[Munchkin (
** But prevents you from wearing armor.
** There is also a monster -5 debuff "with visible wires"
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== Films -- Live Action ==
* [[Wuxia]] films use Wire Fu to perform exaggerated feats of ''qinggong''. For example, the film ''[[Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon]]'', ''[[Hero (
* Wire Fu is noticeably absent in Jackie Chan films; Chan insists on doing all his own stunts and eschews this technique. This may end in the near future, however: Jackie Chan is getting older.
* ''[[The Matrix]]'' is this trope's [[Crowning Moment of Awesome|CMOA]] in the west.
* Just about every single [[Jet Li]] film. His training just makes it look really good.
* Spoofed in ''[[
** Never one to leave a dead horse unbeaten, Mike Myers used this in ''[[Austin Powers]]: Goldmember'' with Fat Bastard,
* The teaser trailer for ''The Other Guys'' spoofs this by having the two main heroes striking a flying kick pose and firing guns before hitting each other in midair and swinging from their wires.
* Brilliantly averted in the "corridor fight" scene in ''[[Inception]]''. When the one mook falls down a side corridor when gravity shifts to the side, the stuntman's fall was slowed by regular wirework, as were the parts when gravity completely stops. However, for the fight between Arthur and a mook when gravity is spinning out of control, the director went for an even more expensive and time consuming solution, building an entire set inside a huge metal cylinder that could actually be rotated. But it was completely worth the effort, as [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OGg3eBaZrxo the result looks infinitely better] than any Wire Fu. Because it '''IS''' real.
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** Used quite ludicrously on one episode: the Yellow Ranger is surrounded by [[Mooks|Putties]], leaps into the air, hovers for a few seconds (surely there was some [[Chroma Key]] involved here), falls back down to Earth, and then beats them up. The jump accomplished nothing, but the Red Ranger then compliments her on her "good move".
** On another occasion (possibly from the very same episode), an out-of-costume Blue Ranger leaps into the air and lands with his legs around a Putty's head, killing it. That's right, he killed a guy with his crotch.
** [[Super Sentai]] and [[Kamen Rider]] get their fair share of Wire Fu when [[Power Rangers]] alumnus Koichi Sakamoto does the action scenes. ''[[
* Fight scenes in ''[[Angel]]'' made use of this in contrast to ''[[Buffy]]'', where people only went flying into the air when kicked up there. One commenter on the show speculated that it was specifically moving to Los Angeles that granted vampires the ability to jump really high.
** Buffy did make at least one use of wire fu that was gratuitously conspicuous.
* ''[[Xena: Warrior Princess]]'' makes copious use of
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== Theatre ==
* ''[[Batman Live]]'' is full of
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