History Main / SuperDetailedFightNarration

-->-- RobertDowneyJr. as '''Film/SherlockHolmes''', [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n-3PO_FnrL0 before laying down the smack]]

* In the fight scenes of both the ''Literature/{{Iliad}}'' and the ''Literature/{{Odyssey}}'', Homer tells in excruciating detail things like where a spear or arrow entered the body of a victim, what vital organs it penetrates and bones it fractures, and where the point emerges on the other side. May be considered the TropeMaker.

* A feature of ''VideoGame/DwarfFortress'', where organ systems are modeled down to tissue layers, and all that gets taken into account and described in combat.

->''"...[[TranquilFury This mustn't register on an emotional level]]. [[AHandfulForAnEye First, distract target.]] [[NoSell Then block his blind jab.]] Counter with cross to left cheek. [[SesquipedalianLoquaciousness Discombobulate.]] Dazed, he'll attempt a wild haymaker. [[NoSell Employ elbow block]], and body shot. [[NoSell Block feral left.]] [[NoHoldsBarredBeatdown Weaken right jaw. Now fracture. Break cracked ribs. Traumatize solar plexus. Dislocate jaw entirely. Heel kick to diaphragm.]] [[AfterActionReport In summary,]] [[CurbStompBattle ears ringing, jaw fractured, three ribs cracked, four broken. Diaphragm hemorrhaging. Physical recovery: six weeks.]] [[MindScrew Full]] ''[[MindScrew psychological]]'' [[MindScrew recovery: six months.]] [[DisproportionateRetribution Capacity to spit at back of head: neutralized.]]"''

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* In ''TrueLies'', Harry gives a detailed account on how he's going to escape from, and kill his captors, after being given a truth serum.
* In ''CharliesAngels'', one of the Angels is captured by the BigBad and tied to a chair. She manages to free her legs and then spends the next few seconds describing in detail how she's going to kick the {{Mook}}s' asses before "moonwalking out of there". The fight goes exactly as she described, except for the last part, because what she does can in no way be described as a moonwalk (doesn't matter if a MichaelJackson song is playing in the background).

** In the sequel, ''[[SherlockHolmesAGameOfShadows A Game of Shadows]]'', Holmes does this to an assassin, using metaphors for preparing omlettes to describe how he's beating the piss out of his opponent, i.e. [[GroinAttack "break the eggs"]]. [[spoiler: Sim interrupts the fight a quarter of the way through with a thrown knife.]] At the climax of the film, [[spoiler:Holmes and Moriarty do this with an entire brawl ''in their minds'', figuring out who is going to win by simply analyzing each other.]]

* Found in works by Creators/NealStephenson. He doesn't do it that often, but [[MoreDakka that scene with the Vickers machine gun]] in ''Literature/{{Cryptonomicon}}''...man.

* The 2009 ''SherlockHolmes'' film has two scenes wherein Sherlock plans a beatdown out in advance before delivery. Assisted by Robert Downey Jr's real-life knowledge of Wing Chun.
** In the sequel, ''A Game of Shadows'', Holmes does this to an assassin, using metaphors for preparing omlettes to describe how he's beating the piss out of his opponent, i.e. [[GroinAttack "break the eggs"]]. [[spoiler: Sim interrupts the fight a quarter of the way through with a thrown knife.]] At the climax of the film, [[spoiler:Holmes and Moriarty do this with an entire brawl ''in their minds'', figuring out who is going to win by simply analyzing each other.]]

* The 2009 ''SherlockHolmes'' remake has two scenes wherein Sherlock plans a beatdown out in advance before delivery. Assisted by Robert Downey Jr's real-life knowledge of Wing Chun.
** In the sequel, ''A Game of Shadows'', Holmes does this to an assassin, using metaphors for preparing omlettes to describe how he's beating the piss out of his opponent, i.e. [[GroinAttack "break the eggs"]]. [[spoiler: Sim interrupts the fight a quarter of the way through with a thrown knife.]] Later on, Holmes and Moriarty do this with an entire brawl ''in their minds'', figuring out who is going to win by simply analyzing each other.

* A common trope of stories aimed at the young male demographic, many super-powered kung-fu series make use of this extensively. Current prime offenders include such titles as {{Naruto}} and {{Bleach}}. Any given detail over the local form of [[MyKungFuIsStrongerThanYours magical kung-fu]] can take up entire chapters at a time. Coincidentally, this also helps to [[CaptainObvious extend the life of the series with entire fight-explanation-chapters.]]

* Lee Childs' hero JackReacher, as an ex-MP investigator with superhuman math skills, near-''{{CSI}}'' investigative abilities and HyperAwareness, gets outright ridiculous with these sometimes. In ''Killing Floor'', Reacher apparently mentally solves the geometry problem of whether or not he can turn on his firing arc to get the optimal angle to shoot the BigBad before the Big Bad can get the angle needed to shoot him (all in a fraction of a second, of course) and describes it to the reader.

* A feature of ''DwarfFortress'', where organ systems are modeled down to tissue layers, and all that gets taken into account and described in combat.

* In fight scenes of both the ''[[TheIliad Iliad]]'' and the ''[[TheOdyssey Odyssey]]'' Homer tells in excruciating detail things like where a spear or arrow entered the body of a victim, what vital organs it penetrates and bones it fractures, and where the point emerges on the other side.

* In both the ''[[TheIliad Iliad]]'' and the ''[[TheOdyssey Odyssey]]'' Homer tells in excruciating detail things like where a spear or arrow entered the body of a victim, what vital organs it penetrates and bones it fractures, and where the point emerges on the other side.

* In both the ''[[TheIliad Iliad]]'' and the ''[[TheOdyssey Odyssey]], Homer tells in excruciating detail where a spear or arrow entered the body, what vital organs it penetrates and bones it fractures, and where the point emerges on the other side.

* Found in works by NealStephenson. He doesn't do it that often, but [[MoreDakka that scene with the Vickers machine gun]] in ''{{Cryptonomicon}}''...man.

* In ''Film/CharliesAngels'', one of the Angels is captured by the BigBad and tied to a chair. She manages to free her legs and then spends the next few seconds describing in detail how she's going to kick the {{Mook}}s' asses before "moonwalking out of there". The fight goes exactly as she described, except for the last part, because what she does can in no way be described as a moonwalk (doesn't matter if a MichaelJackson song is playing in the background).

* Nearly all the fight scenes in ''The Five Ancestors'' series. The books were written by a martial arts master after all.

* See also JohnCleese's ''Holmes'' film, which parodies this: At one point, Holmes does this after Watson kills the murder victim [[LostInImitation by being a bumbling imbecile]], then explains that he was able to deduce the events ''because he was in the room the whole time''.

* In TrueLies, Harry gives a detailed account on how he's going to escape from, and kill his captors, after being given a truth serum.

* This is par for the course for MattStover. [[TheActsOfCaine Caine]], as a narrator, can spend pages on a 30-second fight.

** See also JohnCleese's ''Holmes'' film, which parodies this: At one point, Holmes does this after Watson kills the murder victim [[LostInImitation by being a bumbling imbecile]], then explains that he was able to deduce the events ''because he was in the room the whole time''.

** See also ''StarWars: {{Shatterpoint}}''. The guy's a martial artist.

** See also ''StarWars: {{Shatterpoint}}''.

* The 2010 ''SherlockHolmes'' remake has two scenes wherein Sherlock plans a beatdown out in advance before delivery. Assisted by Robert Downey Jr's real-life knowledge of Wing Chun.

->''"...[[TranquilFury This mustn't register on an emotional level]]. [[AHandfulForAnEye First, distract target.]] [[NoSell Then block his blind jab.]] Counter with cross to left cheek. [[SesquipedalianLoquaciousness Discombobulate.]] Dazed, he'll attempt a wild haymaker. [[NoSell Employ elbow block]] and body shot. [[NoSell Block feral left.]] [[NoHoldsBarredBeatdown Weaken right jaw. Now fracture. Break cracked ribs. Traumatize solar plexus. Dislocate jaw entirely. Heel kick to diaphragm.]] [[AfterActionReport In summary,]] [[CurbStompBattle ears ringing, jaw fractured, three ribs cracked, four broken. Diaphragm hemorrhaging. Physical recovery: six weeks.]] [[MindScrew Full]] ''[[MindScrew psychological]]'' [[MindScrew recovery: six months.]] [[DisproportionateRetribution Capacity to spit at back of head: neutralized.]]"''

->''First, distract target. Then block his blind jab. Counter with cross to left cheek. Discombobulate. Dazed, he'll attempt wild haymaker. Employ elbow block, and body shot. Block feral left. Weaken right jaw. Now fracture. Break cracked ribs. Traumatize solar plexus. Dislocate jaw entirely. Heel kick to diaphragm. In summary: ears ringing, jaw fractured, three ribs cracked, four broken, diaphragm hemorrhaging, physical recovery, six weeks, full psychological recovery, six months. Capacity to spit at back of head: neutralized.''