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*Germany: The [[https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_school_of_fencing#Guards_(also_known_as_huten_or_leger) Ochs]] (Ox) guard position of the Lichtenauer longsword tradition, where the sword is raised to the side of the head and pointed towards the opponent, in the manner of an Ox’s horn; like an Ox, the fencer is able to constantly threaten their opponent while still protecting their head.
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* ''VideoGame/ChronoTrigger'': Ayla attacks by running on all fours and clawing her enemies like a cat.
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*** The "Sleeping Tiger" style uses powerful strikes and smooth motions, favoring ambushes and a first-strike approach, just like the tiger it is named after. It is a rare and challenging style, requiring lots of strength and agility to properly master it.
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*** The "Tiger Claw" discipline makes use of short slashing weapons (including actual claws) and emphasizes jumping on the enemy, close contact combat and bloodlust. Several of its maneuvers are also named after ferocious animals, such as the wolf, wolverine, mongoose, bear or girallon.
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*** The "Tiger Claw" discipline makes use of short slashing weapons (including actual claws) and emphasizes jumping on the enemy, close contact combat and bloodlust. Several of its maneuvers are also named after ferocious animals, such as the wolf, wolverine, mongoose, bear or girallon.[[MultiArmedAndDangerous girallon]].
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** [[spoiler:When Zuko and Aang sought out the original firebending masters near the end of the Hundred Year War, they were brought to the last two surviving dragons, who taught them an ancient firebending form called "The Dancing Dragon."]]
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** [[spoiler:When Zuko and Aang sought out the original firebending masters near the end of the Hundred Year War, they were brought to the last two surviving dragons, who taught them an ancient firebending form called "The Dancing Dragon."]]Dragon".]]
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* ''Film/TheBatman2022'': Selina's fighting style is based on a cat, fitting her AnimalMotif. [[https://www.indiewire.com/2021/12/batman-zoe-kravitz-cat-fights-catwoman-1234687228/ Zoe Kravitz even watched footage of cats and lions fighting, and integrated their movements into her character's fight scenes.]]
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* ''Film/TheBatman2022'': ''Film/{{The Batman|2022}}'': Selina's fighting style is based on a cat, fitting her AnimalMotif. [[https://www.indiewire.com/2021/12/batman-zoe-kravitz-cat-fights-catwoman-1234687228/ Zoe Kravitz even watched footage of cats and lions fighting, and integrated their movements into her character's fight scenes.]]
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** ''Film/TheKarateKid1984'': The Crane Kick is the move Daniel uses to defeat Johnny in the tournament. It consists of balancing on one leg, while lifting the other and spreading the arms similar to how a crane spreads its wings.
** ''Film/TheKarateKid2010'': Inverted and played straight. Han takes Dre to a Taoist temple in the Wudang Mountains where Dre witnesses a woman making a cobra reflect her movements. In the climax, Dre uses the woman's snake stance to defeat Cheng.
** ''Film/TheKarateKid2010'': Inverted and played straight. Han takes Dre to a Taoist temple in the Wudang Mountains where Dre witnesses a woman making a cobra reflect her movements. In the climax, Dre uses the woman's snake stance to defeat Cheng.
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** ''Film/TheKarateKid1984'': ''Film/{{The Karate Kid|1984}}'' (1984): The Crane Kick is the move Daniel uses to defeat Johnny in the tournament. It consists of balancing on one leg, while lifting the other and spreading the arms similar to how a crane spreads its wings.
**''Film/TheKarateKid2010'': ''Film/{{The Karate Kid|2010}}'' (2010): Inverted and played straight. Han takes Dre to a Taoist temple in the Wudang Mountains where Dre witnesses a woman making a cobra reflect her movements. In the climax, Dre uses the woman's snake stance to defeat Cheng.
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* ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragonsThirdEdition'': The ''Tome of Battle – Book of Nine Swords'' introduces nine martial disciplines with poetic names, two of them invoking animals:
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** The "White Raven" discipline, on the other hand, favors cooperation and group tactics, like a flock of ravens.
** The "Tiger Claw" discipline makes use of short slashing weapons (including actual claws) and emphasizes jumping on the enemy, close contact combat and bloodlust. Several of its maneuvers are also named after ferocious animals, such as the wolf, wolverine, mongoose, bear or girallon.
** The "White Raven" discipline, on the other hand, favors cooperation and group tactics, like a flock of ravens.
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* ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragonsThirdEdition'': ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragonsThirdEdition'':
** The ''Unearthed Arcana'' proposes an array of fighting styles that can be adopted by monk characters as alternate class features, giving the opportunity to learn some special ability in exchange for a more rigid feat progression. Among them:
*** The "Cobra Strike" school of martial arts emulates the venomous snake's deadly fast strikes, emphasizing mobility and accuracy. The masters of this style have a reputation for cruel training methods resulting in skilled but hardened students, with rumors of dire fates for those who fail their teachings.
*** The "Sleeping Tiger" style uses powerful strikes and smooth motions, favoring ambushes and a first-strike approach, just like the tiger it is named after. It is a rare and challenging style, requiring lots of strength and agility to properly master it.
** The ''Tome of Battle – Book of Nine Swords'' introduces nine martial disciplines with poetic names, two of them invoking animals:
** *** The "Tiger Claw" discipline makes use of short slashing weapons (including actual claws) and emphasizes jumping on the enemy, close contact combat and bloodlust. Several of its maneuvers are also named after ferocious animals, such as the wolf, wolverine, mongoose, bear or girallon.
** *** The "White Raven" discipline, on the other hand, favors cooperation and group tactics, like a flock of ravens.
** The ''Unearthed Arcana'' proposes an array of fighting styles that can be adopted by monk characters as alternate class features, giving the opportunity to learn some special ability in exchange for a more rigid feat progression. Among them:
*** The "Cobra Strike" school of martial arts emulates the venomous snake's deadly fast strikes, emphasizing mobility and accuracy. The masters of this style have a reputation for cruel training methods resulting in skilled but hardened students, with rumors of dire fates for those who fail their teachings.
*** The "Sleeping Tiger" style uses powerful strikes and smooth motions, favoring ambushes and a first-strike approach, just like the tiger it is named after. It is a rare and challenging style, requiring lots of strength and agility to properly master it.
** The ''Tome of Battle – Book of Nine Swords'' introduces nine martial disciplines with poetic names, two of them invoking animals:
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** S-Class hero Watchdog Man attacks and defends on all fours while wearing a costume resembling his namesake. He is also the first hero to thoroughly trounce Garou, though circumstances prevent him from finishing the villain off.
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** S-Class hero Watchdog Man attacks and defends on all fours while wearing a costume resembling his namesake. He is also the first hero to thoroughly trounce Garou, though circumstances prevent This fighting style allowed him from finishing the villain off.to [[CurbStompBattle trounce]] Garou who was unaccustomed to facing an opponent with such techniques. Garou later decides to copy Watchdog Man's fighting style in his battles with Genos and Bang.
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SubTrope of AnimalMotifs. Can potentially overlap with AnimalisticAbilities if the fighting style is a [[SupernaturalMartialArts superhuman martial art]] that also grants animal-like abilities or if the animal-like power allows the opponent to create a fighting style based on the animal source.
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SubTrope of AnimalMotifs. Can potentially overlap with AnimalisticAbilities if the fighting style is a [[SupernaturalMartialArts superhuman martial art]] that also grants animal-like abilities or if the animal-like power allows the opponent to create a fighting style based on the animal source.
source. May also be a result of RaisedByWolves.
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* ''Film/TheBatman2022'': Selina's fighting style is based on a cat, fitting her AnimalMotif. [[https://www.indiewire.com/2021/12/batman-zoe-kravitz-cat-fights-catwoman-1234687228/ Zoe Kravitz even watched footage of cats and lions fighting, and integrated their movements into her character's fight scenes.]]
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** [[BrainwashedAndCrazy Wild Leona]] has a fighting style based on feline moves instead of ninjutsu[[note]]Team Ikari's fighting style is called Heidern style assassination techniques. Heidern and Leona use a ninjutsu based style while Ralf and Clark use a wrestling based style.[[/note]], running like a cat and using her nails to scratch her opponent instead of [[SpontaneousWeaponCreation forming energy blades]] like normally does.
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** [[BrainwashedAndCrazy Wild Leona]] has a fighting style based on feline moves instead of ninjutsu[[note]]Team Ikari's fighting style is called Heidern style assassination techniques. Heidern and Leona use a ninjutsu based style while Ralf and Clark use a wrestling based style.[[/note]], running like a cat and using her nails to scratch her opponent instead of [[SpontaneousWeaponCreation forming energy blades]] like she normally does.
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* ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyVI'': Gau learned to fight by copying the attack patterns and special attacks of the monsters and animals that migrated to Veldt.
* ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyXIV'': Pugilists and Monks fight with various techniques relying on rotating through three combat "forms" -- raptor, coeurl, and opo-opo.
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* ''Franchise/FinalFantasy'':
** ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyVI'': Gau learned to fight by copying the attack patterns and special attacks of the monsters and animals that migrated to Veldt.
* ** ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyXIV'': Pugilists and Monks fight with various techniques relying on rotating through three combat "forms" -- raptor, coeurl, and opo-opo.
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** Sie Kensou is trained in the dragon style of Kung Fu.
** [[BrainwashedAndCrazy Wild Leona]] has a fighting style that is based on feline moves instead of ninjitsu[[note]]Team Ikari's fighting style is called Heidern style assassination techniques. Heidern and Leona use a ninjitsu based style while Ralf and Clark use a wrestling based style.[[/note]], running like a cat and using her nails to scratch her opponent instead of [[SpontaneousWeaponCreation forming energy blades]] like she used to.
** [[BrainwashedAndCrazy Wild Leona]] has a fighting style that is based on feline moves instead of ninjitsu[[note]]Team Ikari's fighting style is called Heidern style assassination techniques. Heidern and Leona use a ninjitsu based style while Ralf and Clark use a wrestling based style.[[/note]], running like a cat and using her nails to scratch her opponent instead of [[SpontaneousWeaponCreation forming energy blades]] like she used to.
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** Sie Kensou is trained in the dragon style of Dragon Kung Fu.
** [[BrainwashedAndCrazy Wild Leona]] has a fighting stylethat is based on feline moves instead of ninjitsu[[note]]Team ninjutsu[[note]]Team Ikari's fighting style is called Heidern style assassination techniques. Heidern and Leona use a ninjitsu ninjutsu based style while Ralf and Clark use a wrestling based style.[[/note]], running like a cat and using her nails to scratch her opponent instead of [[SpontaneousWeaponCreation forming energy blades]] like she used to.normally does.
** [[BrainwashedAndCrazy Wild Leona]] has a fighting style
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* ''Manga/{{Vagabond}}'': Sasaki Kojirō uses the "Swallow Cut" technique his real life counterpart was known for. See the RealLife folder below.
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* Japan: [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sasaki_Kojir%C5%8D Sasaki Kojiro]] was a famed swordsman during the Azuchi–Momoyama and early Edo periods. His SignatureMove was the ''Tsubame Gaeshi'' ("Turning Swallow Cut"), named for how it mimicked the motion of a swallow's tail during flight.
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* Japan: [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sasaki_Kojir%C5%8D Sasaki Kojiro]] was a famed famous swordsman during the Azuchi–Momoyama and early Edo periods. His SignatureMove was the ''Tsubame Gaeshi'' ("Turning Swallow Cut"), named for how it mimicked the motion of a swallow's tail during flight.
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* Japan: [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sasaki_Kojir%C5%8D Sasaki Kojiro]] was a famed swordsman during the Azuchi–Momoyama and early Edo periods. His SignatureMove was the ''Tsubame Gaeshi'' ("Turning Swallow Cut"), named for how it mimicked the motion of a swallow's tail during flight.
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* ''Film/TheKarateKid2010'': Inverted and played straight. Han takes Dre to a Taoist temple in the Wudang Mountains where Dre witnesses a woman making a cobra reflect her movements. In the climax, Dre uses the woman's snake stance to defeat Cheng.
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* ''Film/TheKarateKid'':
** ''Film/TheKarateKid1984'': The Crane Kick is the move Daniel uses to defeat Johnny in the tournament. It consists of balancing on one leg, while lifting the other and spreading the arms similar to how a crane spreads its wings.
* ''Film/TheKarateKid2010'': Inverted and played straight. Han takes Dre to a Taoist temple in the Wudang Mountains where Dre witnesses a woman making a cobra reflect her movements. In the climax, Dre uses the woman's snake stance to defeat Cheng.
** ''Film/TheKarateKid1984'': The Crane Kick is the move Daniel uses to defeat Johnny in the tournament. It consists of balancing on one leg, while lifting the other and spreading the arms similar to how a crane spreads its wings.
* ''Film/TheKarateKid2010'': Inverted and played straight. Han takes Dre to a Taoist temple in the Wudang Mountains where Dre witnesses a woman making a cobra reflect her movements. In the climax, Dre uses the woman's snake stance to defeat Cheng.
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** [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hung_Ga Hung Ga]] has roots in the Five Animals. One of it's disciplines is the Tiger Crane Style.
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** [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hung_Ga Hung Ga]] has roots in the Five Animals. One of it's its disciplines is the Tiger Crane Style.
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* ''VideoGame/MarvelVsCapcom'': The [[VideoGame/MarvelSuperHeroes second game]] introduces Spider-Man, whose movements are based on a spider.
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* ''VideoGame/MarvelVsCapcom'': The [[VideoGame/MarvelSuperHeroes second game]] introduces Spider-Man, Spider-Man whose movements are based on a spider.
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* ''Franchise/AvatarTheLastAirbender'':
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** T. Hawk is trained in the Thunderfoot martial arts style, in which he mimics movements of various animals and an interesting point is that his battle stance resembles a hawk hunting its prey.
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** T. Hawk is trained in the Thunderfoot martial arts style, in style which he mimics movements of various animals and an interesting point is that his animals. His battle stance even resembles a hawk hunting its prey.
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* ''[[VideoGame/MarvelVsCapcom Marvel vs Capcom series]]'': In the [[VideoGame/MarvelSuperHeroes second game]], we were introduced to Spider-Man, whose movements are based on a spider.
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* ''[[VideoGame/MarvelVsCapcom Marvel vs Capcom series]]'': In ''Franchise/TheKingOfFighters'':
** Sie Kensou is trained in the dragon style of Kung Fu.
** [[BrainwashedAndCrazy Wild Leona]] has a fighting style that is based on feline moves instead of ninjitsu[[note]]Team Ikari's fighting style is called Heidern style assassination techniques. Heidern and Leona use a ninjitsu based style while Ralf and Clark use a wrestling based style.[[/note]], running like a cat and using her nails to scratch her opponent instead of [[SpontaneousWeaponCreation forming energy blades]] like she used to.
* ''VideoGame/MarvelVsCapcom'': The [[VideoGame/MarvelSuperHeroes secondgame]], we were introduced to game]] introduces Spider-Man, whose movements are based on a spider.
** Sie Kensou is trained in the dragon style of Kung Fu.
** [[BrainwashedAndCrazy Wild Leona]] has a fighting style that is based on feline moves instead of ninjitsu[[note]]Team Ikari's fighting style is called Heidern style assassination techniques. Heidern and Leona use a ninjitsu based style while Ralf and Clark use a wrestling based style.[[/note]], running like a cat and using her nails to scratch her opponent instead of [[SpontaneousWeaponCreation forming energy blades]] like she used to.
* ''VideoGame/MarvelVsCapcom'': The [[VideoGame/MarvelSuperHeroes second
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** [[BrainwashedAndCrazy Wild Leona]] has a fighting style that is based on feline moves instead of ninjitsu[[note]]Team Ikari's fighting style is called Heidern style assassination techniques. Heidern and Leona use a ninjitsu based style while Ralf and Clark use a wrestling based style.[[/note]], using her nails instead of using them in the form of blades like she used to and she runs like a cat.
** Sie Kensou is trained in the dragon style of Kung Fu.
** [[BrainwashedAndCrazy Wild Leona]] has a fighting style that is based on feline moves instead of ninjitsu[[note]]Team Ikari's fighting style is called Heidern style assassination techniques. Heidern and Leona use a ninjitsu based style while Ralf and Clark use a wrestling based style.[[/note]], using her nails instead of using them in the form of blades like she used to and she runs like a cat.
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** ''Series/PowerRangersMegaforce'': In "Spirit of the Tiger", Jake and Emma receive martial arts lessons from Jake the Jungle Fury Red Ranger. After learning to get in touch with their animal spirits, Jake and Emma take on and defeat the MonsterOfTheWeek using animal-like martial arts moves.
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** ''Series/PowerRangersMegaforce'': In "Spirit of the Tiger", Jake and Emma receive martial arts lessons from Jake the Jungle Fury Red Ranger. After learning to get in touch with their animal spirits, Jake and Emma take on and defeat the MonsterOfTheWeek using animal-like martial arts moves.
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** [[BrainwashedAndCrazy Wild Leona]] has a fighting style that is based on feline moves instead of ninjitsu[[note]]Team Ikari's fighting style is called Heidern style assassination techniques. Heidern and Leona use a ninjitsu based style while Ralf and Clark use a wrestling based style.[[/note]], using her nails instead of using them in the form of blades like she used to and she runs like a cat.
** Sie Kensou is trained in the dragon style of Kung Fu.
** [[BrainwashedAndCrazy Wild Leona]] has a fighting style that is based on feline moves instead of ninjitsu[[note]]Team Ikari's fighting style is called Heidern style assassination techniques. Heidern and Leona use a ninjitsu based style while Ralf and Clark use a wrestling based style.[[/note]], using her nails instead of using them in the form of blades like she used to and she runs like a cat.
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* The [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horse_stance horse stance]] is a common posture in Asian martial arts which takes [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin its name from the position assumed when riding a horse.]] It is most commonly used for practicing punches or to strengthen the legs and back.
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* [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fu_Jow_Pai Fu Jow Pai]] is based on Tiger Kung Fu.
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** [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drunken_Monkey Drunken Monkey]] is a variation of Monkey Kung Fu which imitates an intoxicated monkey.
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** [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eagle_Claw Eagle Claw]] is a martial art which focuses on joint locks, takedowns and pressure points. The stance often involves shaping the hand like an eagle's talon.
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** The aforementioned Five Animals and Northern Praying Mantis styles.
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** The aforementioned Five Animals Animals, and Southern and Northern Praying Mantis styles.