History Main / IKnowMaddenKombat

** Princess Peach uses a golf club and tennis racquet, inspired by her appearances in the ''VideoGame/MarioGolf'' and ''VideoGame/MarioTennis'' games.

** In ''Wii U/3DS'', Wii Fit Trainer knows ''yoga'' combat. All of her moves are yoga poses - struck with enough force to damage her opponents.

* Himeko of ''Manga/SKETDance'' uses a (field) hockey stick as her WeaponOfChoice.

* Creator/MarvelComics has a recurring villain group called the Death Throws who are-- wait for it --criminal ''jugglers''. Their juggling implements are also thrown weapons, and they have names like Ringleader, Oddball, Knicknack, Tenpin (''snrk!'') and Bombshell so you know what their WeaponOfChoice will be before they even start to * snort* juggle. We're sorry. We we'll try to stop giggling.

* Johnny Maximum from ''VideoGame/WorldHeroes'' has a heavily football inspired fighting style which includes punting, rushing attacks and [[CatchAndReturn catching projectiles and throwing them back]]. [[RuleOfCool Let’s not dwell on the fact that football is a sport with highly specialized positions and no player would have all these skills]]. His idle pose is even a lineman’s three-point stance. He's also based on Joe Montana (note the initials and his default uniform colors).

* Johnny Maximum from ''VideoGame/WorldHeroes'' has a heavily football inspired fighting style which includes, rushing attacks and [[CatchAndReturn catching projectiles and throwing them back]]. Justified in that he works officially as a quarterback, just...a very violent one. He's also based on Joe Montana (note the initials and his default uniform colors).

* Johnny Maximum from ''VideoGame/WorldHeroes'' has a heavily football inspired fighting style which includes, rushing attacks and energy footballs as projectiles. Justified in that he works officially as a quarterback, just...a very violent one. He's also based on Joe Montana (note the initials and his default uniform colors).

* The Golden Boys mercenary squad in ''TabletopGame/BattleTech'' is somewhat related to this trope; they used to be an actual basketball team, are commanded by their old coach, employ masseurs and physical therapists to ensure they're always ready for "game-time", and keep their morale high with a group of cheerleaders.

* The iconic sentai team in ''TabletopGame/RandomAnime'' has this trope as their theme.
* ''TabletopGame/{{Rifts}} Australia'':
** It features the Sportsman O.C.C., a talented athlete in a sport of your choice who adapts the skills from his chosen profession into combat maneuvers. Note that, being ''Rifts'', many familiar sports are barely not gladiatorial combat.

* In ''TabletopGame/ThroughTheAges'', building Team Sports or Pro Sports buildings ramps up your civilization's military strength.
* One of the 18 skills in ''[[UsefulNotes/{{Unisystem}} Unisystem Lite]]'' is 'sports', every example of its use is given in the rulebook is one of these.

* ''VideoGame/NoMoreHeroes''
** Travis Touchdown mixes his apparently professional sword training with Mexican luchador wrestling moves learned by watching video tapes, as well as special attacks learned from his favorite fictional ''moe'' ''anime'', 'Pure White Lover Bizarre Jelly'. Despite his last name, he has no attacks that have anything to do with football.
** Subverted with Charlie [=MacDonald=] who despite being a football player (with two dozen cheerleader minions) actually fights Travis in a HumongousMecha showdown. He has ''one'' attack where he throws a giant football at Travis and his mech's main body is shaped like a football, but the theme isn't really all that strong.
* In ''VideoGame/Persona3'', Junpei Iori holds his sword with the wrong foot forward, meaning that he's essentially swinging it like a baseball bat. His critical hit even has him yell '''''"HOME RUN!!"'''''. As befitting ''TheLoad'', he falls over a lot doing so.
** Taken to a logical conclusion in ''VideoGame/Persona4Arena'' in its sequel, where he fights with a baseball themed moveset and mechanic of gaining homeruns.

* ''Comicbook/AstroCity'' featured the Golden Age football-themed All-American and his sidekick, the baseball-styled Slugger.

* ''Comicbook/NFLSuperpro'' had the physical attributes of an elite NFL player multiplied tenfold, with tackling skills that served him very well as a crimefighter.
* "Calamity" James Wa from ''Comicbook/TheOrder2007'', a former baseball prodigy and track star who lost his legs to a drunk driver, well... let's just say his game still revolves around speed, with his state-of-the-art cybernetic legs allowing him to break the sound barrier. He's also adept at improvising "bats" out of nearby debris, at one point splattering the brains of dozens of zombies with an uprooted parking meter.

* ''VideoGame/{{Fallout 3}}'':

* In ''VideoGame/{{Splatoon 2}}'', one of the sub-weapons available to use is the Curling Bomb, a curling stone that slides along a straight line, bouncing off walls, and eventually explodes. From the same game, the Bomb Launcher special weapon resembles Nintendo's Ultra Machine, a pitching machine.

* ''WesternAnimation/UltimateSpiderMan'': When the symbiote assimilates with Flash Thompson, he integrates his football techniques and gear into Agent Venom's attacks.

* "Calamity" James Wa from ''Comicbook/TheOrder'', a former baseball prodigy and track star who lost his legs to a drunk driver, well... let's just say his game still revolves around speed, with his state-of-the-art cybernetic legs allowing him to break the sound barrier. He's also adept at improvising "bats" out of nearby debris, at one point splattering the brains of dozens of zombies with an uprooted parking meter.

* Sportsmaster also appears in ''WesternAnimation/YoungJustice'' as a recurring mercenary and the Light's main enforcer, with lots of weaponised sports equipment. [[spoiler: He's also the father of main character Artemis.]]

* ''ComicBook/{{JLA}}'': Fastball of the Cadre, a minor league baseball pitcher turned assassin after being given a high tech exoskeleton that allowed him to throw exploding balls at supersonic speeds.

* Jamal from ''Film/BlackKnight''. He even shouts the name of the sport style he's using right then. He also trains the [[RagtagBunchOfMisfits rebel army]] to run football plays in combat.

** The [[VideoGame/PokemonSunAndMoon Alolan]] primate Passimian performs like an American football (rugby) player, and actually does better in Doubles battles due to its ability "Receiver" taking its partner's ability when said partner leaves the field.
** The [[VideoGame/PokemonSwordAndShield Galarian]] rabbits Scorbunny, Raboot and Cinderace perform like coalition football (soccer) players, and specialize in kicks, but Cinderace epitomizes the trope in its SecretArt Pyro Ball, where it picks up a pebble, kicks it repeatedly to heat it up like a dropped soccer ball, and then launches it at the opponent for power comparable to a Fire Blast.

* ''Toys/{{Bionicle}}'':As a Toa Mata, Pohatu kicks Kohlii balls (read:small boulders) in combat and later does the same with his Kodan ball as a Toa Nuva. Since his feet are his main weapons, he only ever adopts the early soccer-like version of the sport instead of the lacrosse-based version introduced in ''Mask of Light''. His set even gives him a ball to kick with his gear function.

* Since the Summer 2003 ''Toys/{{Bionicle}}'' setline put such a big emphasis on action features based around their FictionalSport of Kohlii, the makers of the movie ''Mask of Light'' decided that the big showdown at the end would consist of TheHero and the BigBad playing a more furious and deadly version. In the end, it was a Kohlii move that struck down the villain (if only temporarily). Meanwhile, the main ''BIONICLE'' story writer thought this was a stupid and cheap way of cheating the viewers of a real fight.

* ''VideoGame/StreetsOfRage'' 2 and 3 lets you pick a character named Skate, whom fights hoodlums using his roller-blades.

* [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pétanque Pétanque]], a game all about throwing metal balls near a small ball (named piglet) can be SeriousBusiness enough for players to kill each others by throwing the metal balls they are playing with at each other over an argument.

* ''Series/ShakespeareAndHathawayPrivateInvestigators'': In "This Envious Cort", the villain attackes Frank and Lou with [[BallCannon a tennis ball launcher]]. Lou uses a tennis racquet to smash the ball back at her, hitting her in the bridge of her nose and knocking her down.

* This is the central premise of the Thai action film ''film/BornToFight''. The football player use footballs, flaming coconuts, and even a hot wok as projectiles. The gymnast flips acrobatically over swinging machetes while walking a balance beam and drop kicks from uneven bars. The rugby player... punts people in the stomach, slams tables on heads and tackles people through walls.

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* Casey Jones from ''Film/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles1990'' uses baseball and cricket bats, hockey sticks and golf clubs as bludgeons. However there are times in the movie, such as his finishing moves, where he actually swings the cricket bat and the golf club in the proper way,

* The infamous scene in ''Film/TheLostWorldJurassicPark'' in which the little girl uses some conveniently placed parallel bars to gymnastics-kick a velociraptor. Resulting in the expected follow-up line: "And they dropped you from the team?"
* This is the central premise of the Thai action film ''Born to Fight''. The football player use footballs, flaming coconuts, and even a hot wok as projectiles. The gymnast flips acrobatically over swinging machetes while walking a balance beam and drop kicks from uneven bars. The rugby player... punts people in the stomach, slams tables on heads and tackles people through walls.
* {{Inverted}} in ''Film/RememberTheTitans''--Sunshine uses Tai Chi to flip an opposing tackle ass-over-teakettle.
* ''{{Film/Tron}}'':
** The {{Novelization}} of the film explains that Kevin Flynn was as good as he was on the lightcycle arena and jai alai matches because he wrote those game programs based on sports and skills he already knew, making it a cross of this and IKnowMortalKombat.
** ''Film/TronLegacy'' establishes [[SpinOffspring Sam Flynn]] as being an extreme sports junkie and expert motorcyclist, skills that translate all too well into {{Cyberspace}}.

* ''Literature/WildCards'' has Curveball, a softball enthusiast whose "card turned" during a high-pitched game, and ever since then, she's been able to turn any object that can be thrown in one hand into a deadly weapon. It helps that she can telekinetically direct its path. And make it ''explode''.

* In the Literature/ModestyBlaise short story "A Better Day to Die" in ''Pieces of Modesty'', a missionary's cricketing skills allow him to play GrenadeHotPotato.
* ''Literature/HarryPotterAndTheGobletOfFire'': Harry uses his Quidditch skills to help him win the first task in the Triwizard Tournament. He uses his masterful flying to avoid the dragon and his flames, the Wronski Feint (a complicated technique which he had only learned a few months earlier) and seeker skill to scoop up the egg the moment the dragon moves away from it.

* PlayedForLaughs in ''Literature/BoredOfTheRings'' with the Ballhog, a basketball-playing demon.
-->As Goodgulf stepped onto the bridge the passage echoed with an ominous ''dribble, dribble'', and a great crowd of narcs burst forth. In their midst was a towering dark shadow too terrible to describe. In its hand it held a huge black globe and on its chest was written in cruel runes, "Villanova."
* In ''Literature/TowardsZero'', tennis pro Neville Strange murders a woman with a heavy weight attached to a stick that he swings backhanded like a tennis racket. He deliberately uses his backhand to make it look like the murderer was left-handed in order to implicate his left-handed ex-wife.

* In one episode of the series ''Series/{{Masquerade}}'', Operation Masquerade recruited a baseball player to help them on the mission. He ended up using his baseball skills to take on a {{Ninja}}, including [[CatchAndReturn catching a shuriken in his mitt and hurling it back]].
* The second episode of ''Series/BandOfBrothers'' had 1st Lt. Lynn 'Buck' Compton, the starting catcher for the UCLA baseball team before he joined the paratroopers, hit a German soldier with a grenade with such accuracy and strength that it exploded as soon as it hit him.
** This was absolute TruthInTelevision; in fact they toned things down for the show. Lt. Compton actually nailed his enemy ''in the head'' with his grenade.
* Series/{{Angel}} doubts Cordelia's claim that her cheerleading experience allows her to remember the swordfighting moves he's teaching her. She does a "cheerleading routine" with her sword and ends up about an inch away from him, holding the sword to his throat, whereupon Angel laughs nervously and says "Go Team!"
* In the first episode of ''Series/KamenRiderFourze'', Gentarou pisses off his school's football team, so they drag him outside and give him the once-over... by using him as a tackling dummy.
* ''Series/RelicHunter'': In "Diamond in the Rough", Sydney knocks out a fleeing bad guy with a perfectly pitched baseball to the head.
* ''Series/DeathInParadise'': In "Death in the Clinic", Inspector Poole stops a fleeing criminal by grabbing a coconut and bowling it at him: a perfect full toss that hits him in the head and knocks him out. Poole immediately undercuts the moment by remarking that he hadn't expected that to work.
* ''Series/ShakespeareAndHathawayPrivateInvestigators'': In "This Envious Cort", the villain attackes Frank and Lou with [[BallCannon a tennis ball launcher]]. Lou uses a tennis racquet to smash the ball back at her, hitting her in the bridge of her nose and knocking her down.

* One of the 18 skills in [[UsefulNotes/{{Unisystem}} Unisystem Lite]] is 'sports', every example of its use is given in the rulebook is one of these.
* The iconic sentai team in ''[=RandomAnime=]'' has this trope as their theme.
* The Golden Boys mercenary squad in ''TabletopGame/BattleTech'' is somewhat related to this trope; they used to be an actual basketball team, are commanded by their old coach, employ masseurs and physical therapists to ensure they're always ready for "game-time", and keep their morale high with a group of cheerleaders.

* ''TabletopGame/HunterTheVigil'' allows player characters to take the career of Athlete as a way to give themselves additional skills when hunting monsters. It's mentioned that athlete have valuable skills that translate easily into monster hunting like excellent physical fitness and the drive to succeed against opponents.

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* ''Webcomic/SoulSymphony'': Seconds after waking up in a magical world for the first time, [[IdiotHero John]] is told to summon whatever he is passionate about to use as a weapon. He then kills five enemies using a basketball. He takes out the unlucky sixth using a [[VideoGame/BarkleyShutUpAndJamGaiden certain dunk.]]

* In the '80s ''WesternAnimation/{{Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles|1987}}'' animated series, Casey Jones doesn't have any sports skill to back up his attacks, although he does make some horrible sports puns. In the '03 series Casey has used hockey tactics in his fighting style.
* In ''WesternAnimation/MightyDucksTheAnimatedSeries'', the Ducks' combat skills, weapons, gadgets and way of thinking are mostly based off hockey. Their whole planet's culture revolves around hockey.

** The Sportsmaster appears in ''WesternAnimation/BatmanTheBraveAndTheBold'' using, well, sports equipment. His first appearance had him trying to kill everyone at a bowling tournament, since he didn't believe that it was a real sport.
** Sportsmaster also appears in ''WesternAnimation/YoungJustice'' as a recurring mercenary and the Light's main enforcer, with lots of weaponised sports equipment. [[spoiler: He's also the father of main character Artemis.]]
* WesternAnimation/KimPossible has SheFu moves and fighting ability that is rooted in her cheerleading ability.

* ''WesternAnimation/ProStars'' was a TV show featuring the crime fighting trio of Michael Jordan, Bo Jackson, and Wayne Gretzky. And yes, all of their crimefighting gadgets involved their respective sports (except, of course, Bo Jackson, who could seemingly pull out any sport he wanted due to the Bo Knows commercials).

* In an {{inver|tedTrope}}sion, WesternAnimation/RockyAndBullwinkle use tactical plans from Robert E. Lee as their football plays, to some success.
* ''Franchise/GIJoe'' character Captain Gridiron, an ex-quarterback that runs around in modified football gear and throws football-shaped grenades. The toyline also featured famous Chicago Bears Defensive End William "the Refrigerator" Perry, who had a chain with a spiked metal football at the end. It was actually a tradition for each new wave of figures to feature at least one sport-themed character, though many aren't quite so blatant as the examples already given; one of the few on the Cobra side of things are Frag-Vipers, hand grenade experts outfitted with a "manual hurling basket" based on a Jai Alai cesta

* Hongo Joichi from ''Manga/TerraFormars'' uses soccer moves in conjunction with his altered legs to fight Martian roaches and another recipient of the Mosiac Organ Operation.

* Used quite a bit in ''Manga/RanmaOneHalf'': Martial Arts Rhythmic Gymnastics, Martial Arts Figure Skating fit in this category, to say nothing of all the MartialArtsAndCrafts styles.
* In ''Anime/BakutenShootBeyblade'', it's common for beybladers to personalize their blading style with another interest or skill of theirs and sport is a common one. Many even have personalized shooters that function as an item related to their sport of choice. First and foremost, there's the All Starz, the American team, which members all are star sportsmen. Steve plays football and is both strong and agile, Eddy is into basketball and is nimble with a great downwards attack, Emily has a thing for tennis and outright smashes through the competition, while Michael is baseball personified and a balanced player. His right pitch is so powerful that it is considered the All Starz's secret weapon. Other bladers that use sports are two members of Spintensity, Mario and Paula, respectively good at soccer and fishing, and Hikaru, who's killer at roller-skating. Uniquely, he doesn't have a personalized shooter, but a personalized bey which enjoy added balance due to the presence of wheels.
* Like ''Beyblade'' above, ''Anime/CrushGearTurbo'' has the Mighty Gears, a team that consists of professional players of different sports (baseball, shogi, nine-ball and Formula One).
* Inverted in ''Manga/Eyeshield21''; Orio Tokashiki of the Teikoku Alexanders uses his skills as a boxer to better play American football. Makoto Otawara, Daikichi Komusubi, and Futoshi Omosadake all use their sumo wrestling talents in the sport, as well.
** Also in ''Eyeshield 21'', several players use skills that they picked up from other sports while playing American football, especially Mizumachi, whose overall technique is based around his abilities as a swimmer.
* In ''Manga/CaptainTsubasa'', Wakashimazu Ken is an ex-HeirToTheDojo who also uses his karate skills to play soccer better. Later on, [[spoiler: Nitta takes up karate to improve his skills in the Road to 2002 series]].
* In ''Manga/NegimaMagisterNegiMagi'', during the [[CookingDuel epic dodgeball match]], the girls in going with the lead's advice to use their skills in this environment, used a number of unorthodox sports techniques including a soccer kick, a swimming stroke, a basketball dribble and ''rhythmic gymnastics''. The number of things that Makie can do with a gymnastics ribbon is limited only by her imagination.
* ''Manga/AirMaster'', of course. Once known as the 'Queen of Japanese Gymnastics', she is now known, and feared, in the underground street-fighting circuits as the undefeated Airmaster! She even goes as far as to frequently strike the standard 'finishing pose' of gymnastics after kicking ass.
* Several characters in ''Manga/{{Kinnikuman}}'', most notably Specialman, whose entire gimmick is about being an American football player and whose signature move is "Glorious Touchdown", and Kinnikuman Big Body, whose moves are also heavily based on his love of American football. There's also The Mari, who is literally a giant volleyball with arms and legs.
* In the first fight between Goku and Tien in ''Manga/DragonBall'', Tien eventually unveils his most powerful technique: Using volleyball moves to toss his opponent around like a ball.
** ''Anime/DragonBallZ'' had a football team get into an altercation with an imperfect Cell. When tempers flared, they lined up and tried to rush him. Being that it was Cell, it didn't end well for the team.
** In one of the [[AllThereInTheManual video game manuals]], it's explained that most of the Ginyu Force got their powers from fairly mundane sources during their childhoods; Jeice developed his Crusher Ball technique from being a baseball pitcher, Burter owes his speed to doing chores for his demanding grandmother, and Recoome's agility despite his size lends itself to dance lessons. Ginyu and Guldo already had their powers, but put them to [[MartialArtsAndCrafts mundane, selfish use]] at the time.
* Many of the trainers in ''Manga/PokemonAdventures'' have unorthodox methods of launching Poké Balls. These include Crystal's soccer style, Gold's pool cue, Yellow's fishing rod, Erika's bow and arrows, Koga and Janine's shuriken, Bruno and Brawly's nunchucks, Falkner's boomerangs, and Clair's whip.
* Among the main characters in ''Manga/Reborn2004'' is Takeshi Yamamoto, a swordsman who substituted his initial lack of formal training with his mastery of baseball, even using a baseball bat that turned into a sword when swung fast enough for a while.
* Waku from ''Manga/{{Bokurano}}'' is a very talented soccer player. While piloting Zearth his arms are pinned by the enemy robot so he instead resorts to soccer kicking the other robot to death.
** In the manga version he instead kicks Zearth's severed arm right through the enemy robot.
* Himeko of ''Manga/SKETDance'' uses a (field) hockey stick as her WeaponOfChoice.

* Gon in ''Manga/HunterXHunter'' applies to combat his skills he developed for fishing and passes the extremely selective Hunter Exam thanks to it (with the help of friends he gained along the way). It is implied that Gon's father Ging had the same fishing background and is now one of the three strongest fighters in the world.
** Razor and all of his underlings have sports-themed powers, with Razor himself choosing volleyball as his sport of choice. However, only Razor is seen fighting (with the rest of them using their powers to set up challenges). Though his SignatureMove is a spike done with a charged-up volleyball that is capable of tearing a yacht to shreds at its weakest, his actual ability is creating a bunch of autonomous humanoids, so he can be a team by himself.
* In the expanded material for ''{{Anime/Gunbuster}}'', we have the [[CallingYourAttacks BUSTAAAH HOOOME RUN!]]
* In ''Anime/CrossAnge'', Ange, while piloting a Para-mail simulator, notes that it's like flying the hoverbike used for the in-game sport called "Iaria" and excels at it on her first try.
* In ''Manga/BlackClover'', Magna is a [[PlayingWithFire fire mage]], but the way he uses and names his spells has a distinct baseball theme to them. At one point, Magna finds himself facing his friend Asta in a TournamentArc and throws fireballs like he's pitching baseballs, forcing Asta to knock them away with his sword like it was a bat.

* ''Anime/KillLaKill'': Overlaps with MartialArtsAndCrafts. Apparently, just about every school club activity, including but not limited to sports, can become a deadly fighting style - assuming you wear the right uniform for the task. However, actual fighting techniques are more effective. Lampshaded by Ryuko, when she is challenged by the tennis club president to a tennis duel and wonders why she can't just beat her up without any regard for sport rules, like she did with her previous opponent, the boxer. Eventually, she decides that beating the enemy at their own game would be more humiliating and decides to roll with it.
** In the invasion of Kobe, some of the Kobe high schoolers have American football-themed uniforms and attacks.

* The [[UsefulNotes/TheGoldenAgeOfComicBooks Golden Age]] ''Creator/DCComics'' super villain, the Sportsmaster was an Olympic level athlete who used sporting-themed weapons such as exploding baseballs, flying bases, rocket baseball bats, knockout basketballs, lacrosse snare nets, exploding hockey pucks.
** There was also the Franchise/{{Batman}} villain Sportsman, who had the same gimmick except with lots of anabolic steroids.
* Creator/MarvelComics has a recurring villain group called the Death Throws who are-- wait for it --criminal ''jugglers''. Their juggling implements are also thrown weapons, and they have names like Ringleader, Oddball, Knicknack, Tenpin (''snrk!'') and Bombshell so you know what their WeaponOfChoice will be before they even start to * snort* juggle. We're sorry. We we'll try to stop giggling.
* ComicBook/GreenLantern villain Javelin, who threw gimmicky javelins and was supposedly a former Olympic athlete... No, not in curling.
* By a similar token, Fastball of the Cadre in Franchise/TheDCU, a minor league baseball pitcher turned assassin after being given a high tech exoskeleton that allowed him to throw exploding balls at supersonic speeds.
* And the jai alai themed ComicBook/BlueBeetle villain Overthrow, as well.
** Joining him in this category is Scoopshovel of the Demolition Team, whose skills as a jai alai player are utilized along with his hydraulic toothed bucket arm to uproot entire buildings and send any force back where it came from, plus interest.
* "Calamity" James Wa from ''Comicbook/TheOrder'', a former baseball prodigy and track star who lost his legs to a drunk driver, well... let's just say his game still revolves around speed, with his state-of-the-art cybernetic legs allowing him to break the sound barrier. He's also adept at improvising "bats" out of nearby debris, at one point splattering the brains of dozens of zombies with an uprooted parking meter.

* [=NFLSuperpro=] had the physical attributes of an elite NFL player multiplied tenfold, with tackling skills that served him very well as a crimefighter.

* Using sports equipment as weapons was the main gimmick of Casey Jones of ''Franchise/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles'' fame.

* Rookie from ''ComicBook/{{Critter}}'' is a sports-themed superheroine with the ability to form hard light constructs in the shape of sporting equipment. Baseball and ice hockey seem to be her favourite sports.

* Casey Jones from ''Film/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles1990'' uses baseball and cricket bats, hockey sticks and golf clubs as bludgeons. However there are times in the movie, such as his finishing moves, where he actually swings the cricket bat and the golf club in the proper way,
* Jonathan Cabot from combines ninjutsu and gymnastics to make a new martial art, ''Film/{{Gymkata}}''.

* In ''Film/TheRunningMan'', Ben Richards must defeat a hockey themed hunter in modified goalie pads who calls himself "Sub Zero."
* ''Film/StarshipTroopers'' had the "flip-6-3-hole" play imported from some kind of shiny football. It was ''not'' in the original story.

* In ''Film/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'', Buffy uses [[SheFu cheerleading]] to kill vampires.
* ''Film/NowYouSeeMe'' seems to believe that being magician is equivalent to being a ninja (either that, or the Four Horsemen were somehow chosen for their fighting abilities on top of their on-stage prowesses). One of the magicians takes down several cops at melee combat, and even ''uses playing cards as shurikens''. They're also all pretty good with handcuffs. And one of them is a mentalist, which apparently gives him JediMindTrick-like powers.

* Though it's not combat per se, the bad guys in ''Film/PaulBlartMallCop'' execute the takeover of the mall by means of freestyle bicycling and skateboarding, as well as freerunning techniques.

* ''Literature/HarryPotterAndTheGobletOfFire'': Harry uses his Quidditch skills to help him win the first task in the Triwzard Tournament. He uses his masterful flying to avoid the dragon and his flames, the Wronski Feint (a complicated technique which he had only learned a few months earlier) and seeker skill to scoop up the egg the moment the dragon moved away from it.

* Series/{{Angel}} doubts that Cordelia's claim that her cheerleading experience allows her to remember the swordfighting moves he's teaching her. She does a "cheerleading routine" with her sword and ends up about an inch away from him, holding the sword to his throat; whereupon Angel laughs nervously and says "Go Team!"

* ''Series/ShakespeareAndHathawayPrivateInvestigators'': In "This Envious Cort", the villain attackes Frank and Lou with [[BallCannon a tennis ball launcher]]. Lou uses a tennis racquet to smash the ball back at her; smashing her in the bridge of her nose and knocking her down.

* ''VideoGame/PlantsVsZombies'': The [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin Football Zombie]] attacks using the only thing he remembers from when he was alive: [[ChargeAttack rushing]], American Football-style (minus the actual football). His counterpart from the ''[[VideoGame/PlantsVsZombiesGardenWarfare Garden Warfare]]'' games, the All-Star, uses a football ''cannon'' and can tackle enemies. He can adopt the equipment of various other sports, but his abilities are always based on American Football.

** In the invasion of Kobe, some of the Kobe high schoolers have American football-themed uniforms.

* ''Anime/KillLaKill: Overlaps with MartialArtsAndCrafts. Apparently, just about every school club activity, including but not limited to sports, can become a deadly fighting style - assuming you wear the right uniform for the task. However, actual fighting techniques are more effective. Lampshaded by Ryuko, when she is challenged by the tennis club president to a tennis duel and wonders why she can't just beat her up without any regard for sport rules, like she did with her previous opponent, the boxer. Eventually, she decides that beating the enemy at their own game would be more humiliating and decides to roll with it.

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* Since the Summer 2003 ''Toys/{{Bionicle}}'' setline put such a big emphasis on action features based around their FictionalSport of Kohlii, the makers of the movie ''Mask of Light'' decided that the big showdown at the end would consist of TheHero and the BigBad playing a more furious and deadly version. In the end, it was a Kohlii move that struck down the villain (if only temporarily). Meanwhile, the main ''BIONICLE'' story writer thought this was a stupid and cheap way of cheating the viewers of a real fight.
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* Various ''Franchise/{{Pokemon}}'' attack using sports techniques.