History Main / EverybodyWasKungFuFighting

* Played for laughs in ''Film/TheyCallMeBruce?'' where everyone from street thugs to FBI agents knows martial arts, but the protagonist doesn't despite people assuming from his name that he's like Creator/BruceLee.

** That also sums up the plot of ''They Call Me Bruce?'' (1982).

* In ''VideoGame/JadeEmpire'', almost every character or enemy seems to have some sort of training in a martial art. Even the lingering spirits of random dead people seem to be capable of martial arts skills as advanced as yours. Makes the sole cause of a DistressedDamsel (Fuyao, the girl who you rescue from slavers in Gao the Greater's pirate base) stand out.

* ''Manga/RanmaOneHalf''. Everyone knows some martial art variation, from Anything Goes Tea Ceremony to Martial Arts Figure Skating. You name it, it's a martial art. Even [[MartialArtsAndCrafts calligraphy]].
* The {{Mons}} genre in general. Every opponent the main character meet will inevitably have a theme to their item or pet, which they will invariably ALSO be a martial arts master in this style as well. As they [[CallingYourAttacks scream out the names of the attacks their item or pet does]], they will also (pointlessly) perform shadow fighting techniques to point out how kick ass they are. Perhaps to convince us (and themselves) that they're not just, you know, ''fighting with cards and plastic toys.''
** Although in the case of ''Franchise/YuGiOh'', many characters actually are good fighters, which was particularly relevant in the first few volumes of [[Manga/YuGiOh the manga]] and the [[Anime/YuGiOhFirstAnimeSeries Toei anime]]. Jounouchi is a skilled street fighter who knocks out a trained assassin and keeps up against a Leather Face expy, Honda isn't exactly a wuss either, Kaiba kicks the crap out of a couple of people, Anzu throws some mean punches, Yami Yugi is hinted at being quite capable (particularly in the Toei anime, where he has no troubles slamming his puzzle into the wall or kicking the daylights out of two of Kaiba's mooks who were twice his size (off-screen, sadly) and Yami Bakura wasn't exactly weak either; let's not even start bringing up their past selves, who were all without a doubt trained in combat.
* ''Manga/KenichiTheMightiestDisciple''. Subverted in some characters, like Niijima or the girl who has a crush on Kenichi, but pretty much the whole cast has knowledge of martial arts, even Shigure's mouse.
* ''Manga/{{Naruto}}'' is a justified example, considering that most of the events takes place in hidden villages completely organized around training HighlyVisibleNinja.
* ''Manga/IkkiTousen'', good God. Pretty much every person that gets any amount of time can be seen fighting at some point or another (and that's counting the minor ones).

* ''Manga/YuYuHakusho'': The Demon World to the extent that all out war is averted by [[NotJustATournament a tournament that is nearly as violent]] because no one knows how else to go about things. Even in the Living World, Yusuke and Kuwabara solve their problems by fighting.

* One of the staples of Creator/JackieChan's films is him playing a kung fu fighting cop. Jackie Chan's opponents tend to come from all walks of life, including accountants.
* A plot point in the movie ''Film/ShaolinSoccer'': the hero wants to spread Shaolin Kung Fu and points out to a soccer coach how it could be used to improve peoples' lives (like avoiding {{Banana Peel}}s and [[MundaneMadeAwesome parallel parking]]). After they win a soccer tournament with an entire team of Shaolin monks, the hero gets his wish, and we get a {{Montage}} of people using kung fu [[MundaneUtility in their everyday lives]]. In the English dub, the song that plays in the background is a cover of "Kung Fu Fighting" by Carl Douglas. The film also features a woman who uses tai chi to cook and [[spoiler:play goalie]].
* Played with in the 2008 ''Film/SpeedRacer'' film, as everyone in the Racer family is able to prodigiously defend themselves against enemy racers, ninjas, etc. Most of them somehow know Kung Fu, although Pops uses his wrestling pedigree to kick ass with GoodOldFisticuffs. The exception is the Racers' mechanic Sparky, who [[NonActionGuy is totally useless in a fight]] and repeatedly has to be bailed out by his infinitely more skilled companions.

* ''Film/{{Blade}}'' has Blade repeatedly fighting scores of {{mooks}} with martial arts. Vampires don't seem to hand out many guns to their minions.
* ''Film/EnterTheDragon'' ends with a massive kung fu battle. On one side you have Han's army of martial arts students, trained to kill mercilessly with their bare hands. On the other side you have... a bunch of vagrants and runaways, kidnapped from the streets of Hong Kong and freshly released from Han's dungeons. And Creator/BruceLee. The two sides appear to be about evenly matched.
* ''Film/{{Chocolate}}'', another Thai martial-arts film from the director of ''Film/OngBak''. Everyone on the streets of UsefulNotes/{{Bangkok}}, from warehouse laborers to butchers to gangsters, is a martial artist of some kind (except for the transvestite gangbangers, who use guns). Almost all of them have their ass handed to them by an autistic [[WaifFu teenaged]] [[LittleMissBadass girl]].
* ''Film/RushHour 3'': Carter clearly knows how to fight by now against other fighting experts. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4BvJZTe4L88&feature=related He even breaks into song afterward]].

* In ''Film/AnchormanTheLegendOfRonBurgundy'', every anchorman apparently keeps weapons on their person, at all times.
* [[JustifiedTrope Justified]] in ''Film/TheMatrix'' due to the training programs, where people can simply [[TransferableMemory download]] the necessary skills.
* 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]].
* Happens quite frequently in the [[Creator/TimBurton Burton]]/[[Creator/JoelSchumacher Schumacher]] ''Franchise/{{Batman}}'' films. While roughly half the arch-villains ([[ComicBook/TheJoker Joker]], Penguin and Riddler especially) are [[NonActionGuy very unathletic]] and/or [[SissyVillain physically weak]], their {{Mooks}} are often improbably masters of kung fu, karate, and various other styles, some of them even wielding ''[[KatanasAreJustBetter katanas]]''. For ''Film/BatmanReturns'', Burton even had to hire ten (mostly) nameless guys from a Hollywood dojo specifically for a fight scene. Gets ''really'' ridiculous in ''Film/BatmanForever'', where an entire street gang who spend most of their time threatening and mugging teenage girls are all skilled at kendo and various forms of hand-to-hand combat. A more realistic approach was taken in [[Creator/ChristopherNolan Nolan's]] ''[[Film/TheDarkKnightTrilogy Batman]]'' films, where the {{Mooks}} for the most part don't know how to fight and just rely on guns.
* Happens a little more than two-thirds of the way through Disney's ''Film/TheRocketeer'' when some gangsters try to shake down a diner. A fistfight breaks out, and ''everyone'' in the diner joins the action, including the kitchen staff who come out [[ImprovisedWeapon swinging their frying pans]].
* ''Film/MiamiConnection'' is the simple timeless story of a taekwondo rock band having to fight against street thugs and drug-dealing biker ninjas. Nearly everyone in it knows martial arts, even a nightclub owner and assorted extras. You can easily tell that most of the characters are played by martial artists, [[{{Narm}} not actors]].

* ''Film/RisingSun'': Since JapanTakesOverTheWorld, everyone is apparently learning karate as well. The Japanophile Connor is an expert, and the ordinary cop Web is also inexplicably an expert. The pair bypass a bouncer who brags about his black belt via some [[CombatPragmatist Combat Pragmatism]]. The film also adds a gratuitous scene where Connor and Web fistfight some mooks sent by the Japanese.
* Lampshaded at the end of ''Film/{{Bowfinger}}''. They're making a film in Taiwan, where all the locals know kung-fu. The Westerners are shown as painfully bad at it, but still mowing through mobs of extras.
* Played for laughs in ''Film/TheyCallMeBruce?'' where everyone from street thugs to FBI agents knows martial arts, but the protagonist doesn't despite people assuming from his name that he's like Creator/BruceLee.
* ''Film/TripleThreat2019'' Almost every named character is proficient in martial arts to some degree, resulting in a large number of close quarters combat sequences.

* From ''VideoGame/{{Assassins Creed II}}'' onwards, if you pickpocket anyone and they catch sight of Ezio, the victim will attempt to punch him out. Keyword being ''attempt'': It doesn't take many punches from Ezio to put them in their place.

* Turns out to be true for ''{{VideoGame/Thief}}'' ''1'', and to some extent ''2''. As the secret "outtakes" level proved, the same sword fighting system which allowed guards, humanoid monsters, and undead alike to go weapon-to-sword with Garret also works with all those harmless human servants, ballerinas, and passersby - if they weren't flagged to act as scared noncombatants they ''could kick your ass'' unarmed with the same moves, probably while [[ApologeticAttacker whimpering in fear]]. The developer notes lampshade it kind of looks like kung fu.

* 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.

* 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.
* ''WebOriginal/{{Sockbaby}}''. In Sockb4by, even Ronnie's next-door neighbor is one of the mook squad that attacks him.

* Music/LemonDemon's [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4WgT9gy4zQA song]] "UltimateShowdownOfUltimateDestiny" where pop culture icons from the past couple centuries all vehemently kick each other's asses. [[spoiler:Till only [[Series/MisterRogersNeighborhood Mr. Rogers]] is left standing.]]

* Music/LemonDemon's [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4WgT9gy4zQA song]] "The UltimateShowdownOfUltimateDestiny" where pop culture icons from the past couple centuries all vehemently kick each other's asses. [[spoiler:Till only [[Series/MisterRogersNeighborhood Mr. Rogers]] is left standing.]]

* In ''ComicBook/{{Scott Pilgrim}}'', '''[[UpToEleven everybody]]'''. Except [[NonActionGuy Wallace]].

* ''Film/TripleThreat'' Almost every named character is proficient in martial arts to some degree, resulting in a large number of close quarters combat sequences.

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* ''VideoGame/SleepingDogs'': Most people, including all mooks and many male civilians, know kung fu in UsefulNotes/HongKong. 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.

** The climactic plaza battle in ''WesternAnimation/TheHunchbackOfNotreDame''.

* Most Israeli citizens serve in the military and are consequently trained in Krav Maga. Due to the state of constant hostility with its neighbors, Israelis are more likely to need to fight than most other nations with a compulsory draft.

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* ''Manga/MagicalGirlLyricalNanohaVivid'' gives us a glimpse of what non-military life in Mid-Childa is like through the eyes of Nanoha's daughter. After a few chapters, it becomes this. ThoseTwoGirls? HeirToTheDojo of an ancient martial art and a {{Golem}} [[MarionetteMaster manipulator]] [[spoiler:who could also fight as a DittoFighter in close combat]] The BlitheSpirit nun-in-training? Tonfa-based WarriorMonk [[TheTrickster Trickster]] speedster. TheOjou? [[KnightInShiningArmor Literal]] MagicKnight fighting style passed down from Ancient Belka. The only named new character who hasn't been revealed to have a fighting style of some sort so far is TheOjou's butler, who is a very minor person.

* ''Film/{{Chocolate}}'', another Thai martial-arts film from the director of ''Film/OngBak''. Everyone on the streets of UsefulNotes/{{Bangkok}}, from warehouse laborers to butchers to gangsters, is a martial artist of some kind (except for the transvestite gangbangers, who use guns). Almost all of them have their ass handed to them by an [[TheRainman autistic]] [[WaifFu teenaged]] [[LittleMissBadass girl]].

** Well, they do live in a world where the very existence of the universe is at stake three, four times a year. Ninjas. Face-huggers. Sometimes even ''crime.'' You tend to get a lot of practice in close-quarters combat just walking down the street.

* It's never really explained why there just happens to be a Kung Fu school in the middle of a 6th century English town, in ''Film/KingArthurLegendOfTheSword'' but it is very convenient when Arthur is being chased by the Evil King's men, is on the verge of being overrun and needs refuge and back up in order to escape.

* One of the staples of Creator/JackieChan's films is him playing a kung fu fighting cop. Jackie Chan's opponents tend come from all walks of life, including accountants.

* ''Film/{{Chocolate}}'', another Thai martial-arts film from the director of ''Film/OngBak''. Everyone on the streets of UsefulNotes/{{Bangkok}}, from warehouse labourers to butchers to gangsters, is a martial artist of some kind (except for the transvestite gangbangers, who use guns). Almost all of them have their ass handed to them by an [[TheRainman autistic]] [[WaifFu teenaged]] [[LittleMissBadass girl]].
* ''Film/RushHour 3'': Carter clearly knows how to fight by now against other fighting experts. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4BvJZTe4L88&feature=related He even breaks into song afterwards]].

* 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]].
* Happens quite frequently in the [[Creator/TimBurton Burton]]/[[Creator/JoelSchumacher Schumacher]] ''Franchise/{{Batman}}'' films. While roughly half the arch-villains ([[ComicBook/TheJoker Joker]], Penguin and Riddler especially) are [[NonActionGuy very unathletic]] and/or [[SissyVillain physically weak]], their {{Mooks}} are often improbably masters of kung fu, karate and various other styles, some of them even wielding ''[[KatanasAreJustBetter katanas]]''. For ''Film/BatmanReturns'', Burton even had to hire ten (mostly) nameless guys from a Hollywood dojo specifically for a fight scene. Gets ''really'' ridiculous in ''Film/BatmanForever'', where an entire street gang who spend most of their time threatening and mugging teenage girls are all skilled at kendo and various forms of hand-to-hand combat. A more realistic approach was taken in [[Creator/ChristopherNolan Nolan's]] ''[[Film/TheDarkKnightTrilogy Batman]]'' films, where the {{Mooks}} for the most part don't know how to fight and just rely on guns.

* Robert Muchamore's ''Literature/CHERUBSeries'' has every member of the titular organisation be trained in martial arts, justified in that it's a SpySchool and the pupils are required to know this for missions.
* Smartly inverted in ''Literature/TheGallagherGirls'' series: the characters (teenagers who also attend [[SpySchool spy school]]) are completely used to everyone knowing kung fu, and so they don't realise until ''after'' beating off a kidnap attempt that ordinary kidnappers [[OhCrap shouldn't have been expecting]] a [[ValleyGirl senator's daughter]] and her best friend to know this much about martial arts.

** Lampshaded in "[[Recap/BuffyTheVampireSlayerS3E1Anne Anne]]" when the Scooby Gang are hunting vampires while Buffy's out of town and encounter a newborn vampire who hands them their asses in this fashion. When Xander, pissed-off, demands to know how the hell he learnt that stuff, Oz recognizes him as a former classmate who used to be captain of the gymnastics team.
* Any ''Franchise/PowerRangers'' hero or side character intended to become one later will have mad fight skillz even if there's no indication that they've ever taken a single karate lesson. If they don't have any the very first time the {{Mooks}} show up, they will by their second appearance.
** Also of note is that a ridiculous number of people in the original seasons were nuts about martial arts, long before Rita attacked. Once the franchise finally moved out of Angel Grove in season 7, this was realistically dropped. However, a couple later seasons had the heroes get caught up in the fight and become Rangers specifically ''because'' they had been already been training in SupernaturalMartialArts.

** Fully justified. Ancient Greece was, by modern standards, a violent place where swords, spears and unarmed fighting were commonplace, accepted elements of everyday life- yes, even in "gentle", civilized Athens. (Socrates was an ex-soldier). Pankration was a clearly defined martial art complete with strikes, throws, and submission holds, and remains a viable art even in the modern age of Ultimate fighting.

** Pankration was more like wrestling than a martial art relying on strikes, although it had those too. It was invented by hoplites in case a soldier fell down. In this case, trying to get up would most likely result in getting stabbed, so the alternative was to drag the opponent down on the ground with you and choke him to death. The original Olympics had Pankration as the main event with the top contenders fighting naked. The only moves disallowed are eye gouging, biting, and killing your opponent. The champions were treated as royalty.

* One episode of ''Series/{{Charmed|1998}}'' had no supernatural enemies whatsoever. Instead the episode's villain was a corrupt District Attorney who was trying to frame his mistress for murder. Towards the end of the episode the mistress confronts the District Attorney and the two of them suddenly engage in a brief kung fu fight completely out of left field.

* ''Series/TopGearUK'' created a TitleSequence for ''The Intercepters'', a non-existent Seventies action show, which featured members of Top Gear in PornStache taking out various villains with a well-placed karate chop. Eventually even hapless hotel butlers and dancing females are on the receiving end.

* It's even easier in ''TabletopGame/LegendSystem'' with the tracks. Everyone just takes one of the Monk class' "Discipline of the Serpent/Dragon/Crane" tracks, and you can have a barbarian that knows kung-fu, a jedi that knows kung-fu, a thief who knows kung-fu and a NinjaPirateZombieRobot that knows kung-fu.

** Sidereals (also known as ''fate ninjas'') are all over them. They ''all, mandatorily'' start with at least two points in martial arts (Endings Caste start with three and specialises in them). They also have their own ''whole tier'' of martial arts, which generally involves beating up ''concepts'' of reality and stands above everything else. They also have a unique Background related to having a martial arts teacher.

* ''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 ''[[spoiler:UsefulNotes/OsamaBinLaden]]''.
* In ''VideoGame/JadeEmpire'', almost every character or enemy seems to have some sort of training in a martial art. Even the lingering spirits of random dead people seem to be capable of martial arts skills as advanced as yours. Makes the sole case of a DistressedDamsel (Fuyao, the girl who you rescue from slavers in Gao the Greater's pirate base) stand out.

* The two-person non-lethal takedowns in ''VideoGame/DeusExHumanRevolution'' often begin with the targets attempting to expertly melee Jensen followed by an equally expert counter and finishing move. The takedowns can be done not just on enemies but also regular [=NPCs=]. Which means that you can witness elaborate martial battles not just between Jensen and soldiers, but between Jensen and ordinary civilians or even between Jensen and ''street prostitutes''.
* From ''VideoGame/{{Assassins Creed II}}'' onwards, if you pickpocket anyone and they catch sight of Ezio, the victim will attempt to punch him out. Key word being ''attempt'': It doesn't take many punches from Ezio to put them in their place.
* ''VideoGame/SleepingDogs'': Most people, including all mooks and many male civlians, know kung fu in UsefulNotes/HongKong. 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.

* Turns out to be true for ''{{VideoGame/Thief}}'' ''1'', and to some extent ''2''. As the secret "outtakes" level proved, the same swordfighting system which allowed guards, humanoid monsters and undead alike to go weapon-to-sword with Garret also works with all those harmless human servants, ballerinas and passersby - if they weren't flagged to act as scared noncombatants they ''could kick your ass'' unarmed with the same moves, probably while [[ApologeticAttacker whimpering in fear]]. The developer notes lampshade it kind of looks like kung fu.

* 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 term. As a result, huge numbers of mutants at the school can pull off some aikido or Shaolin kung fu or whatnot, and 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.
* There was an unusual prevalence of combat skilled characters in ''WebOriginal/SurvivalOfTheFittest'' V3 and its Pregame, especially since the characters are all, at best, highschoolers. Averted in V2 and V1, mostly, since few characters got opportunities to engage in hand to hand fighting.

* It seems that almost 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 enjoy recreational shooting.
* ''WebOriginal/{{Sockbaby}}''. In Sockb4by, even Ronnie's next door neighbor is one of the mook squad that attacks him.

-->'''Mayor Quimby:''' [[LampshadeHanging Can't this town go one day without a riot?]]

* 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 during before middle school, apparently), although it's changing now.

** [[JustifiedTrope Justified]], since [[SupernaturalMartialArts Kung-Fu is how to use superpowers]] in the world.

** {{Lampshaded}} in Season 7:

** Lampshaded in the Season 3 premiere when the Scooby Gang are hunting vampires while Buffy's out of town and encounter a newborn vampire who hands them their asses in this fashion. When Xander, pissed-off, demands to know how the hell he learnt that stuff, Oz recognizes him as a former classmate who used to be captain of the gymnastics team.

** Scuttle leading various other marine creatures in [[WeddingSmashers crashing the wedding]] of Prince Eric and Vanessa in ''Disney/TheLittleMermaid''.
** The servants-turned-household objects defending their master's castle from a mob in ''Disney/BeautyAndTheBeast''.
** ''Everyone'' joining the fight atop Pride Rock to overthrow King Scar in ''Disney/TheLionKing''.
** The climactic plaza battle in ''Disney/TheHunchbackOfNotreDame''.

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* Lampshaded at the end of ''Film/Bowfinger''. They're making a film in Taiwan, where all the locals know kung-fu. The Westerners are shown as painfully bad at it, but still mowing through mobs of extras.

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** [[spoiler: "Betrayal five!"]]

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** In the second season episode "Attack of the Killer Kung-Fu Wolf Bitch", Granddad's internet blind date, Luna, is revealed to know "White Lotus Kung-Fu" and to have won the [[BloodSport Kumite]] (every time the tournament's name is mentioned, there's a little [[MartialArtsMovie martial arts]] "hi-yah" noise). Needless to say, eventually Huey tests her skills [[spoiler: and is beaten to the floor for his troubles.]]

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* Creator/ZhangZiYi once starred in [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mJbe8napP_I a Visa ad]] where she is served a soup that is too salty for her, prompting the entire restaurant staff (especially the chef who feels very insulted) to gang up on her and resulting in a kungfu mayhem.[[note]]In case you're wondering about why there is kungfu, bear in mind that this ad was made not long after Zhang Zi Yi found success by starring in ''Film/CrouchingTigerHiddenDragon''[[/note]]