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In general, if a character in a [[Fighting Game]] specializes in grapples, most of them will be of this variety.

Of course, in [[Real Life]], such crazy throws usually require the opponent to at least allow it to happen, and most of them require the person being thrown, suplexed etc. to actually assist in the attempt (not all, but most). This means that these moves would be very easily countered by a resisting target, and would thus be pointless to use in a real combat situation. However, one of the most commonly seen moves, the German Suplex, ''can'' be delivered to a struggling/actively resisting opponent (as its simplest form is just grappling and falling backwards), but it is never as clean as TV would have you believe, although some professional wrestlers have demonstrated the strength to perform a "deadlift" (unassisted) German suplex.

 

 

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== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ==

* Sayaka/[[Only Known by Their Nickname|Number Six]] does an Argentine Backbreaker in a dream sequence in ''[[Pani Poni Dash!]]''.

* Takamura uses it as a form of abuse on Ippo in ''[[Hajime no Ippo]]'' It's rather fitting to his brutish nature.

* The women of the Yoshinaga family in ''[[Gargoyle of the Yoshinagas]]'' do German Suplexes quite often.

** Gray performs a German suplex on Gauron's Arm Slave in The Wind Blows at Home part 3.

* Combining this trope with [[Motion Capture Mecha]], [[Mobile Suit Gundam ZZ|Judau Ashta]] is known for using his [[Mobile Suit Gundam ZZ|ZZ Gundam]] to grab opponents and toss them around. This is actually acknowledged in the video game ''Gundam vs. Gundam'', where the ZZ eschews the use of its [[Laser Blade|hyper beam saber]] entirely in favor of bare-knuckle fighting and grapples - including the [[Street Fighter|Screw Piledriver]].

* One argument between ''[[Trigun]]'''s Vash the Stampede and Nicholas D. Wolfwood was brought to an end by the judicious application of a Boston Crab.

* Nagasumi of ''[[Seto no Hanayome]]'' suplex'd a shark.

* Lena from ''[[Mai-Otome 0~S.ifr~]]'' pulls of a suplex against M-9 in the last episode, and like the [[Superman]] example below, she does it '''from orbit'''.

* [[Ken Akamatsu]] began the shinmeiryuu style in his [[The Verse|Verse]] with ''[[Love Hina]]'' as a [[Supernatural Martial Arts|super-powered]] [[Implausible Fencing Powers|swordsmanship]] school. With ''[[Mahou Sensei Negima]]'', he decided to introduce the Nagewaza branch, a short series in shinmeiryuu grappling techniques. Suddenly a sword style that mostly relies on [[Twinkle Toes Samurai|graceful dashes]] and acrobatics has Setsuna do a frankensteiner for [[Murderous Thighs|kicks]] and [[Rule of Cool|coolness]].

* Minami Shimada in the anime of ''[[Baka Test]]'' uses several painful-looking wrestling moves on [[Chew Toy|Akihisa]] whenever he pisses her off (intentionally or not), which happens at least once per episode.

** Sometime her [[Stalker with a Crush]] joins her

* Many ''[[School Rumble]]'' characters.

** Tenma is a fan.

* In ''[[Iczer|Iczelion]]'', Nagisa wants to be a pro wrestler, and uses wrestling moves in her fights. They're not terribly effective on invading aliens {{spoiler|until the end}}. Director Toshihiro Hirano is apparently a fan - previously, he had cast ''joshi'' wrestler Cutey Suzuki as the voice of Iczer-3.

* [[Butt Monkey|Keigo]] from ''[[Bleach]]'' is usually in other the receiving end of one of these he once [[Lampshade Hanging|lampshaded]] it.

* In ''[[Soul Eater]]'' Black Star does a few random submission holds to [[The Chew Toy|He]][[Extreme Doormat|ro]].

* In ''[[Dragonball Z]]'', instead of martial arts, Broly uses moves like lariats and slams.

* The ''[[Gundam AGE]]''-1 Titus literally is a [[Humongous Mecha]] Wrestler with beam spikes from its shoulder and knee to ram or kick with it as well as a beam lariat.

* Lucy from ''[[Fairy Tail]]'' does this from time to time. Her [[Alternate Universe|Edolas]] counterpart takes it [[Up to Eleven]].

** Ikushima is an active wrestler, [[Informed Attribute|Not that readers/viewers can see her in action, though.]]

** Yoshitake's older sister performed a particularly brutal Release German Suplex on Tadakuni in ''High School Boys and Holy Night''.

* Mio and the Principal from ''[[Nichijou]]'', both times [[Played for Laughs]]. The latter even ''German Suplexed a fucking deer'' !

 

== [[Film]] ==

* In ''[[Blade II]]'' Blade executes a perfect vertical suplex on one of the enemy mooks, driving him through the glass floor. Meanwhile, Nomak pulls off a massive flying elbow on Blade in their final throwdown.

* Any movie featuring a wrestler will often feature that wrestler's signature move somewhere in the film.

** Many films starring [[Dwayne Johnson|Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson]] have him use the Rock Bottom, his old finisher from his wrestling days, at some point. The most noticeable example is during the fight against the football players at the beginning of ''[[The Rundown]]''.

** In ''[[The Marine]],'' [[John Cena]] chokeslams one of the villains to his death. Unlike with [[Dwayne Johnson]] and the Rock Bottom, there's less [[Narm]] here because Cena doesn't actually use this move in wrestling, and the camera angle conceals the fact that he's much shorter than wrestlers, like [[The Undertaker]], who ''do.''

*** ''[[John Cena]]'' busting out a chokeslam is less [[Narm]]-y than The Rock hitting a lifting side powerslam?

** In actual films about wrestling, this might count as a subversion, lampshade, or [[Shout-Out]] to the fans.

** [[Steve Austin]] pulled off the Mother of All Spears against [[Sylvester Stallone]] in ''[[The Expendables]]''.

** With a short timeout on the way down to punch each other some more. Really, that fight is easily the best part of the movie. Just turn it off after that's over.

** Doomsday himself used a piledriver on Superman earlier in the fight.

* Even [[Jet Li]] got in one during ''[[Kiss of the Dragon]]'' when he performed a "wrong" i.e. ''lethal'' [[Don't Try This At Home]] piledriver to a Mook, purposely breaking his neck and killing him.

* In the second ''[[The Lord of the Rings (film)|The Lord of the Rings]]'' film, an orc knocks a colleague off of a tower with a Zangief-style dropkick.

* Quinton "Rampage" Jackson in ''[[The A-Team (film)|The a Team]]''. In the climactic sequence, B.A. Baracus executes a scoop slam on {{spoiler|Pike, before dropping him directly on his neck mid-move.}} Bad Attitude indeed.

* The main character of ''Battle Girl'', AKA ''Living Dead in Tokyo Bay'' is played by ''joshi'' wrestler Cutey Suzuki, who fights an enemy [[Super Soldier]] unit made up of fellow ''joshi'' wrestlers Devil Masami, Eagle Sawai, Miss A and Shinobu Kandori. Needless to say, wrestling moves are included.

* [[Gail Kim]] in one of her films ''Righteous Kill'' is seen performing a headscissors takedown on a person. That move in question normally requires the opponent to lift the wrestler up and hold them as they do the turning.

* In ''[[The Chronicles of Riddick (film)|The Chronicles of Riddick]]'', Riddick kills a mook by suplexing him onto a stalagmite.

* Parodied in ''[[Scary Movie|Scary Movie 3]]'', where Cindy and her boss get into a fight in the background because he won't let her tell the public about the murdering video tape.

* Not many of the American moves in evidence, but the gang fight scene in ''[[A Clockwork Orange]]'' is very much in the manner of a pro wrestling match.

* The main character of ''[[Angel]]'' likes professional wrestling moves. They usually have the crippling affect they would have when one isn't concerned about the other guy's safety. Even when all but his earliest memories are erased he still uses wrestling moves, even admitting he doesn't know anything about real fighting at this point! Professional Wrestling is older than many think but since he grew up in the ''1700s'', it must be much [[Older Than They Think]] in his universe.

* Maybe the above carried over to Buffy as an early Season 5 episode of ''[[Buffy the Vampire Slayer]]'' shows her performing a hurricanranna onto a vampire.

 

== [[Tabletop Games]] ==

* Averted in [[GURPS]], Professional Wrestling uses the Wrestling Art skill, which is not very effective for combat.

* [[Deadlands]] contains a ton of "fightin' maneuvers" in its extended rulebooks. Several of them are based off of pro wrestling, including a piledriver and the freaking ''Stone Cold Stunner''.

 

== [[Video Games]] ==

* ''[[Tekken]]'' has King and Armor King, who are wrestlers. But that doesn't explain Heihachi Mishima (a karate master) busting out powerbombs, or kickboxer Bryan Fury's tornado DDT, or even (Kenpo and Xing Yi practitioners) Michelle and Julia Chang's range of suplexes... the reason? Wrestling moves are cool!

** Jun Kazama's a mixed martial artist, we can accept that. Her moves stem from akido, judo, and karate, we can accept that. So why, as someone with perhaps the least interest in pro wrestling, is she busting out pro wrestling moves?

* ''[[Resident Evil 4]]'': Leon's ability to shoot an enemy in the knee, then run up to them and perform a Northern Lights Suplex on them is great. In fact many players used little else while fighting enemies that could be dispatched in this way. (Suplexing enemies also tends to stop plagas from spawning).

** And of course, Mike Haggar from ''[[Final Fight]]'' and later ''[[Saturday Night Slam Masters]]'', where he's an actual wrestler.

** ''[[Street Fighter III]]'' brings us Alex and Hugo, the latter being (alongside his base character, the Andore family from ''Final Fight'') based off of wrestling legend [[Andre the Giant]]. EVERY MOVE. And yes, Andre used to throw Drop Kicks in his more agile days.

** [[Street Fighter II|Guile]] and [[Street Fighter Alpha|Charlie]] do that devastating mid-air Backbreaker throw, and their grab move is a German Suplex

** [[Street Fighter II|Vega/Balrog]] does the Izuna Drop and the Super Rolling Izuna Drop.

* [[Mortal Kombat]] has Jax's signature Backbreaker, and Sonya's leg slam.

** Oh, and Kitana and Mileena pulling off German suplexes in the second game. Jade later does this, but with her staff in Ultimate and Trilogy.

* ''[[Final Fantasy VIII]]'': Sometimes, in the overworld, you'll meet a Wendigo, who'll quite happily powerbomb your characters, given the chance. He also uses back drops and clotheslines.

** ''[[Final Fantasy VI]]'' takes the gold for most absurd example, however. Sabin Rene Figaro uses a peculiar mixture of karate and pro-wrestling moves, which allows him to (among other things) SUPLEX AN ENTIRE TRAIN WHILE IT'S ROLLING AT FULL STEAM.

** One of Nightmare's side-throws is an Inverted DDT, albeit one accomplished by a huge leap into the air.

** Taki's back throw is a modified Inverted Death Valley Driver, with her lifting the victim up slightly above her shoulders before dropping him down on his head.

* Several characters, such as Sarah, Jacky, and Jeffry, of ''[[Virtua Fighter]]'' play this trope completely straight.

* In ''[[Lego Adaptation Game|Lego Indiana Jones]]'', the title character can hit back body drops, dropkicks, and [[The Karate Kid|sweep the leg]] during attack combos, and even can lock the [[Those Wacky Nazis|"enemies"]] in a full nelson before throwing them aside.

** In ''Lego Batman'', Bane and Killer Croc both have military presses as their grapple positions, and Croc can drop his into a sitout Tombstone Piledriver.

* Frank West from ''[[Dead Rising]]'' uses wrestling moves on zombies. Surprisingly effective when cornered and you've got nothing else to use as a weapon.

** He's covered wrestling matches, y'know.

* The piledriver also appeared as a counterattack in ''[[Okami]]''.

* Nero from ''[[Devil May Cry]] 4'' pays [[Homage]] to Zangief with his [[Super Mode|Devil Triggered]] [[Red Right Hand|Buster]] against the Alto Angelos.

* Without a ''doubt'', the most unbelievable instance of this is in the old Game Boy game ''[[Mole Mania]]''. You play as a mole, who, among other things, can perform ''suplexes'', not on his enemies, but on ''steel balls, cabbages, and barrels''. Crazy? Yes. [[Crazy Awesome]]? HELL YES!

* In the arcade lightgun shooter ''[[Ghost Squad]]'' (also available for the Wii), at one point after passing a hand-to-hand combat test you perform a suplex on a terrorist, [[Groin Attack|after punching him in the crotch]]. You also high-five the President in this game.

** Konoha also joins the list of [[Ninja]] who use the Izuna Drop piledriver.

* Jack from ''[[MadWorld]]'' can performs a jumping back breaker on mook opponents. Using it as a finisher will cause the mook to split vertically in half.

** That's not just a "jumping back breaker", that's the [[Kinnikuman|Kinniku Buster]].

** Its [[Spiritual Successor|spiritual ancestor]] ''[[The Incredible Hulk: Ultimate Destruction]]'' allowed the [[Incredible Hulk|Hulk]] to perform elbow drops (in the same way as Alex; that is, from the sides of buildings), chokeslams, piledrivers, and powerbombs.

* The main character from ''[[Saints Row]] 2'' can learn moves like the Death Valley Driver and Rock Bottom during the course of the Brotherhood missions.

* Most of the characters in ''[[Urban Reign]]'' have signature pro wrestling moves amongst their grappling sets: suplexes, DDT's, facelock jawbreakers, and powerbombs abound. In addition, there are team-up grapples that are [[Shout-Out|obvious tributes]] to a number of famous tag teams. The Japanese gangsters even get Masahiro Chono style [[Yakuza]] Kicks (in fact, two of the gangster [[Mooks]] are named Masa and Hiro).

** Well, that's because Masahiro Chono does in fact have actual Yakuza connections.

* Even ''[[Metal Gear]]'' might have gotten in on it; the '''C'''lose '''Q'''uarters '''C'''ombat style created and used by the Boss and Big Boss has been called 'fancy military wrestling'.

*** Explained by Otacon how back during {{spoiler|REX}}'s development, he and a bunch of the other scientists decided on a whim to add wrestling software into {{spoiler|REX}}'s programming. As you could guess, the military didn't approve of this and it was never fully developed, but Otacon installed the software anyways

* The Charger from ''[[Left 4 Dead|Left 4 Dead 2]]'' will hit you with a sort of short chokeslam if it catches you. Then it will do it again...and again...and again...

* Ezio of ''[[Assassin's Creed II]]'' apparently invented the chokeslam.

** In ''[[Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood|Brotherhood]]'', The Executioner kills targets from behind by pulling off a standing version of an Inverted Death Valley Driver/Burning Hammer, while the Blacksmith uses a backbreaker to kill targets facing him.

* ''[[Barkley, Shut Up and Jam: Gaiden]]'' has the party [[Combat Medic]] Cyberdwarf doing suplexes and body slams for his basic attacks.

* ''[[Bayonetta]]'' is shown being able to suplex A TWIN HEADED DRAGON and TEAR ITS HEADS OFF EASILY. We're not kidding. She can. And it's awesome. And even out-rivals Sabin from ''[[Final Fantasy VI]]'' in absurdity in this regard. And the kicker? She does this when she hasn't even gotten HER FULL POWERS BACK AT ALL!

** She also german suplexes what, 14 angels all at once in the opening movie? Yes, it's as ridiculously over the top as it sounds. It's also par for the course for her.

* In ''[[Metal Wolf Chaos]]'', President Michael Wilson finishes off a tank set to destroy the Statue of Liberty by grabbing it from the front and performing a Giant Swing.

** In ''Spider-Man 2: The Video Game'', Spidey can powerbomb a Mook OFF THE EMPIRE STATE BUILDING.

* In ''[[The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess]]'', you can catch charging goats and Gorons by grabbing them and throwing them off to the side. There's also a sumo match minigame, but unfortunately you can only play it once.

* The little oni Suika of the ''[[Touhou]]'' series has her "Massacre on Mt. Ooe" super move, where she grabs an opponent and delivers a devastating triple power bomb on her.

** She also has an alternate special move, Kidnapping Oni, where she grabs an opponent and does a single power bomb on her - after pulling her in for the grab with ''a black hole''.

* ''[[Tokimeki Memorial]]'' has Yumi Saotome, a ''[[Joshikousei|High School girl]]'' who's such a fan of Pro Wrestling, she has developed a personal wrestling move, the "Yumi Bomber", a lariat/grappling-type move. She honed the move on her [[Butt Monkey]] brother [[Bromantic Foil|Yoshio]] and even on {{spoiler|the Main Protagonist}} in one of the Verse's storylines.

* In ''[[Dynasty Warriors]] 7'', Huang Gai's Musou attacks consist of wrestling grapples, including a back drop (misnamed as Piledriver), and a backbreaker (complete with cheering), Deng Ai has an arm bar as one of his Musou and Zhang Fei can pull off a Giant Swing. Anyone who wears a gauntlet (like Ding Feng or Meng Huo) also has a Frankensteiner in addition of a weaker version of the aforementioned Giant Swing.

** In a more straight example, Tatsumaru was given the Izuna Drop as his strongest special attack in ''Tenchu 3''. Unfortunately, it was removed from his playable form in Co-Op. [[Game Breaker|Not that he needed it, anyway.]]

* Kirin in ''[[Cannon Dancer]]'' can apply a non-spinning Izuna Drop to most human-height enemies in his game, including some bosses.

* Initially averted by ''[[Pokémon]]''. Splash was completely useless while submission, take down and body slam was nothing like their professional wrestling counterparts...but then it was played straight in the ''mystery dungeon'' spinoffs where the splash was properly painful if not avoided.

* This shows up in(of all places), [[Samurai Warriors]]. [[Cool Mask|Takeda Shingen]] busts out a giant swing(grabbing the opponent by the legs and [[Everything's Better with Spinning|spinning rapidly in place]]). He also has a devastating dropkick that can scatter several enemies. Hojo Ujiyasu has a diving elbow drop. There's probably a few more in there.

* Hawk from ''[[Vendetta]]'' is an obvious Hulk Hogan clone, so obviously some of his techniques look like wrestling moves.

 

== [[Web Original]] ==

* Darnell Butler tends to use this in ''[[Survival of the Fittest]]'', especially since he is actually a member of the school wrestling team. During version three's Pregame tournament, he defeated one opponent ({{spoiler|Paul Smith}}) with a series of [[Suplex Finisher|German Suplexes]] and power bombs, essentially using one of [[Tekken|King's]] chain throws.

* Occasionally used as food preparation techniques on [[Regular Ordinary Swedish Meal Time]].

 

== [[Western Animation]] ==

* ''[[Megas XLR]]'': Coop has a giant robot. He also happens to like pro-wrestling. Put two and two together, well, we have the makings of something completely awesome.

* In ''[[Green Lantern: First Flight|Green Lantern First Flight]]'', Hal Jordan uses his ring to create a folding chair to smack his opponent with.

* In ''[[South Park]]'', Eric Cartman has demonstrated ability in sumo and grappling.

 

== [[Real Life]] ==

* Rolando McClain performs a [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oJ0LH_jiCDY&feature=related tackle on Rams receiver Danny Amendola] that may have made [[Dwayne Johnson|the Rock]] proud. Granted, unlike Dawkins, McClain got flagged for it. It also got a bit of [[Lampshade Hanging]] from the color commentator.

* The sport of [[Mixed Martial Arts]] allows a wide range of wrestling moves to be used in actual athletic competition, creating some spectacular matches. This [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yzk66VwinCc six minute compilation] provides a number of examples. In Japan, many pro wrestlers compete in both staged "show wrestling" and legitimate "shoot wrestling" in which they put their skills to work in actual MMA-style fights.

** Eventually, the highly dangerous nature of piledrivers would result in the WWE would outright ban any sort of piledriver barring less than a handful of exceptions and only in certain situations.

*** Notable aversion: the Tombstone Piledriver (of Undertaker fame) is one of the safest moves in wrestling when properly executed, as the only impact is to the piledrivee's knees, not the piledriven's head (please excuse the awkward nomenclature). Note the distinction of "PROPERLY EXECUTED", young Tropers. Professional wrestlers are just that: professionals. They train for years to do it safely, and look at the list of injuries for any one pro wrestler who's been wrestling for any length of time.

* Let's not forget that [[Abraham Lincoln]] invented the chokeslam.

* Bullying [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AdzZU0w1Mwk&feature=related Casey Haynes] is a very bad idea.

 

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