History Main / EverybodyWasKungFuFighting

* ''Series/{{CSINY}}:'' "Corporate Warriors" involved a firm whose executives were all highly skilled martial arts experts. One was killed by a second who was subsequently killed by a third. One of the clues Danny & Stella found was a footprint ''on the ceiling of a completely trashed pool bar.''

* ''TabletopGame/{{Shinobigami}}: All player characters, and likely a high percentage of [=NPCs=], are {{Ninja}}.

* ''TabletopGame/{{Shinobigami}}: All player characters, and likely a high percentage of NPCs, are {{Ninja}}.

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* The climax of ''Film/BlazingSaddles''. After the "fake Rock Ridge" is blown up by the Waco Kid, Sheriff Bart leads every single one of the townspeople in a wild and confused attack on Hedley Lamarr's gang. Even the women throw punches, the preacher [[GroinAttack knees some guy in the groin]] (immediately asking God to forgive him for that), and the town drunk knocks a thug [[BreathWeapon simply by breathing on him]]. The free-for-all eventually literally [[BreakingTheFourthWall Breaks The Fourth Wall]] - [[NoFourthWall not that there was much of one, to begin with]] - onto the Warner Brothers studio lot where ''Blazing Saddles'' is being filmed, with other productions being swept up in the turmoil and everyone eventually fighting their way into the studio cafeteria, where one of the cooks ''just happens'' to have a huge tray of custard pies handy so the entire cast can [[PieInTheFace throw pies at each other]].

* Many, many animated Disney films (both classic ones and ones from more modern eras) often have a climax that's all about this, with [[RagtagBunchOfMisfits various unlikely hero characters]] taking on the villains in a zany brawl with plenty of opportunities for outrageous slapstick and similar comical moments in what may well be an otherwise serious scene [[MoodWhiplash (or leading up to one)]]. Examples include:
** Scuttle leading various other marine creatures in [[WeddingSmashers crashing the wedding]] of Prince Eric and Vanessa in ''WesternAnimation/TheLittleMermaid1989''.
** The servants-turned-household objects defending their master's castle from a mob in ''WesternAnimation/BeautyAndTheBeast''.
** ''Everyone'' joining the fight atop Pride Rock to overthrow King Scar in ''WesternAnimation/TheLionKing1994''.
** The climactic plaza battle in ''WesternAnimation/{{The Hunchback of Notre Dame|Disney}}''.

* One episode of ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'' had the entire family break out into an epic brawl after criticizing each other's faults. Ironically (or maybe not), this brought the family closer together.
** Not to mention the multiple chicken fights.
* In ''WesternAnimation/ThePenguinsOfMadagascar'' the penguins use violence to solve everything from runaways to making popcorn pop. Skipper, the leader, even says in one episode, "I find reason tedious and boring. We use force."
* ''WesternAnimation/JackieChanAdventures'' is the living embodiment of this trope, and it is awesome.
** In a TimeTravelEpisode set during the character Jackie's childhood during TheSeventies, a fight breaks out between present-Jackie, past-Uncle, present-Jade, and the Dark Hand, prompting one of the kids watching to say "[[ShoutOut Everybody is Kung-Fu Fighting!]]".
* ''WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender''; almost every main-character, both good and evil, knows a version of kung-fu. Most of them know [[ElementalPowers ''superpowered' kung-fu based on one of the four elements]]. Exceptions are Sokka, who functions as the team's BadAssNormal (eventually), and a few minor characters, like Yue, Yugoda and the Cabbage Merchant.
* ''WesternAnimation/MuchaLucha'' does it with Mexican ProfessionalWrestling. The main setting is a school for luchadores, and true to form, pretty much 90% of the entire cast (and that's counting one-shot characters) dabbles in wrestling.
* The entirety of the ''WesternAnimation/KungFuPanda'' series, of course. Heck, it even has a cover of the song quoted at the top of this very page (with slightly more [[ValuesDissonance politically correct]] lyrics, natch).

* This is part of the {{conscription}} training for citizens of both Koreas, with Tae Kwon Do instead of Kung Fu as the martial art. In fact, in the case of South Korea, it is more or less an unwritten rule that all children should learn Tae Kwon Do (and only before middle school, apparently), although it's changing now.

* Outdoor aerobics-style tai chi classes are extremely common in China, predominately for health benefits. Since tai chi is a martial art, in theory, the people in these classes can defend themselves if they just perform the movements faster. Thus, [[DownplayedTrope A Reasonable Amount Of People Might Be Kung Fu Fighting If They Really Needed To]].

** Even Wallace [[VideoGame/ScottPilgrim isn't afraid to fight now.]]

* ''VideoGame/SleepingDogs'': Most people, including all mooks and many male civilians, know kung fu in Hong Kong. If you hijack a car or start punching people in the street, you may be surprised by the number of people who will at least try to hit back.

* ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolid4''. Everybody seems to have a hardon for Big Boss's CQC system.

* ''VideoGame/FugitiveHunterWarOnTerror'' is all about tracking down terrorists around the globe, taking them on in fistfights, and capturing them. Terrorists who, inexplicably, have the same martial arts skills as you do? including ''''.

* It seems that almost every character in ''WebOriginal/DarwinsSoldiers'' is fairly skilled with firearms. [[JustifiedTrope Justified]] in that firearms training and basic marksmanship are mentioned as being mandatory or that the employee in question enjoys recreational shooting.
* Pretty much the case in ''WebOriginal/GreekNinja''.
* ''WebOriginal/{{Sockbaby}}''. In Sockb4by, even Ronnie's next-door neighbor is one of the mook squad that attacks him.
* There was an unusual prevalence of combat skilled characters in ''WebOriginal/SurvivalOfTheFittest'' V3 and its Pregame, especially since the characters are all, at best, high schoolers. Averted in V2 and V1, mostly, since few characters got opportunities to engage in hand to hand fighting.

* Justified in the ''Literature/WhateleyUniverse'' stories; in this CapePunk world, just having powers of some sort marks one as a target of both FantasticRacism and SuperhumanTrafficking, so the [[SuperHeroSchool Whateley Academy]] school administration is determined to give every one of their students at least some sort of fighting chance. Students have to take either introductory martial arts ("introductory" in the [[BoxingLessonsForSuperman superpowered sense of the word]]) or Survival (which is more about [[CombatParkour evasion techniques]] than wilderness survival), and those who don't take it in their first semester usually regret it when they discover the Combat Finals at the end of the term. As a result, huge numbers of mutants at the school can pull off some aikido or Shaolin kung fu or whatnot, and a fair number are quite proficient; there are even [[Characters/WhateleyUniverseSchoolClubsAndCliques two rival 'schools']], the [[TigerVersusDragon Dragons and the Tigers]], within the school walls. There are over half a dozen teachers whose job is teaching martial arts, in a school of under 600 mutants. At least three students (Fey, Bladedancer, and Pejuta) have ''personal'' martial arts trainers, though these specialists also help with some other students sometimes.

* {{Warrior2019}} has just about every major Asian character know martial arts. The non-Asian characters tend to be adept fighters in their own right.