History Main / SuperDetailedFightNarration

-->-- Creator/RobertDowneyJr as '''[[Film/SherlockHolmes2009 SherlockHolmes]]''', [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hCOLTzk9Bk8 before laying down the smack]]

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--> There are seven working defenses from this position. Three of them disarm with minimal contact. Three of them kill. The other - [KRAKK] - hurts.

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** In the sequel, ''Film/SherlockHolmesAGameOfShadows'', 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. It's clear that Sherlock would lose because of his hobbling shoulder injury that Moriarty inflicted on him earlier... except, like the [[InvoluntaryCharityDonation theft of Moriarty's war chest]] and simultaneous SurpriseCheckmate he detailed earlier to his nemesis... it was all a bait for Moriarty's arrogance to occlude the HeroicSacrifice that Holmes was ''really'' planning.]]

** Bonus point for trying to burn the ropes tying her hands while talking to the mooks. Her lighter fails. "And, as my trusty zippo is not working, I'll do it with my hands tied". She does.

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* The History Channel's ''Series/DogFights''.

-->-- Creator/RobertDowneyJr as '''[[Film/SherlockHolmes2009 Film/SherlockHolmes]]''', [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hCOLTzk9Bk8 before laying down the smack]]

** The MostTriumphantExample in ''The Dark Knight Returns'' probably is this line, from the first fight scene where Batman's back in action, perfectly summing up his methods and attitudes.

-->-- Creator/RobertDowneyJr as '''Film/SherlockHolmes''', [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hCOLTzk9Bk8 before laying down the smack]]

* The 2009 ''Film/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, ''Film/SherlockHolmesAGameOfShadows'', 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. It's clear that Sherlock would lose because of his hobbling shoulder injury that Moriarty inflicted on him earlier... except, like the [[InvoluntaryCharityDonation theft of Moriarty's war chest]] and simultaneous SurpriseCheckmate he detailed earlier to his nemesis... it was all a bait for Moriarty's arrogance to occlude the HeroicSacrifice that Holmes was ''really'' planning.]]

* R. A. Salvatore's [[Literature/TheLegendOfDrizzt Drizzt]] books, set in ForgottenRealms, tend to do this. In his more recent books, he even does this with magic-using warlocks.

* Lee Childs' hero JackReacher, as an ex-MP investigator with superhuman math skills, near-''Series/{{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 trope found mostly in literature, this is the description of a fight in excruciating medical detail - as the fight is going on. Often the case if narrated by a combatant capable of AwesomenessByAnalysis.

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

** In the sequel, ''[[Film/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. It's clear that Sherlock would lose because of his hobbling shoulder injury that Moriarty inflicted on him earlier... except, like the [[InvoluntaryCharityDonation theft of Moriarty's war chest]] and simultaneous SurpriseCheckmate he detailed earlier to his nemesis... it was all a bait for Moriarty's arrogance to occlude the HeroicSacrifice that Holmes was ''really'' planning.]]

->''"...[[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.]]"''

* MatthewReilly gives pretty detailed descriptions. For example, what it looks like when [[LudicrousGibs a person gets shot with an anti-aircraft gun]].

** See also ''Franchise/StarWars: Literature/{{Shatterpoint}}''. The guy's trained in real-life martial arts, and when you add that to force powers and lightsabers, well...

** In the sequel, ''[[Film/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. It's clear that Sherlock would lose because of his hobbling shoulder injury that Moriarty inflicted on him earlier... except, like the theft of Moriarty's war chest and simultaneous SurpriseCheckmate he detailed earlier to his nemesis... it was all a bait for Moriarty's arrogance to occlude the HeroicSacrifice that Holmes was ''really'' planning.]]

** In the sequel, ''[[Film/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. When Holmes realises that his injured shoulder puts him at such a disadvantage that he ''will'' lose, he [[TakingYouWithMe grabs Moriarty and falls backward down the Reichenbach Falls]].]]

-->-- RobertDowneyJr. as '''Film/SherlockHolmes''', [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hCOLTzk9Bk8 before laying down the smack]]

* 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 Creator/MichaelJackson song is playing in the background).

* Frank Herbert's ''{{Dune}}''

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

* 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).

** In the sequel, ''[[Film/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.]]

* FrankMiller often does this, especially with Franchise/{{Batman}} in ''Comicbook/BatmanTheDarkKnightReturns''. He's far from the only Batman author to write this way either.

* The History Channel's ''DogFights''.

* R. A. Salvatore's Drizzt books, set in ForgottenRealms, tend to do this. In his more recent books, he even does this with magic-using warlocks.

* FrankMiller often does this, especially with {{Batman}} in ''TheDarkKnightReturns''. He's far from the only Batman author to write this way either.

* This is par for the course for MattStover. [[Literature/TheActsOfCaine Caine]], as a narrator, can spend pages on a 30-second fight.
** See also ''StarWars: {{Shatterpoint}}''. The guy's trained in real-life martial arts, and when you add that to force powers and lightsabers, well...

* ThePunisher's various authors have employed this, [[{{squick}} to incredible anatomical precision]].