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8	[[quoteright:349:[[VideoGame/ShaqFu https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/shaq_fu.png]]]]
9	[[caption-width-right:350:A kind of Fu you want to say F.U. to.]]
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12	->''"Just the fact that they can release a fighting game starring Creator/ShaquilleONeal and call it ''VideoGame/ShaqFu'' pretty much proves that you can put 'Fu' at the end of anything. How about ''Creator/RobinWilliams Fu'', or ''Music/{{U2}} Fu''?"''
13	-->-- '''WebVideo/TheAngryVideoGameNerd'''
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15	AsYouKnow, "''Kung fu''" or actually "''[[InconsistentSpelling Gongfu]]''" in pinyin (Chinese: 功夫, literally "achievement through sustained effort") is a collective term for a number of fighting styles which have roots as ancient as the 18th century BCE and have continued to evolve to this day. The greatest spike in popularity and variety of ''Kung Fu'' came in the 20th century; not only did the now-iconic "drunken boxing", "five animals" and "tai chi chuan" styles develop during that period, but upon exposure to contemporary western pop culture, ''Kung Fu'' experienced a veritable ''explosion'' of applications to a variety of professions, aspirations and walks of life other than the canonical ''kung''.
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17	Evidently, there was something exotic and evocative about the phrase ''Kung Fu'' and the excellence it symbolized that western culture found irresistible. Soon, those privy to the great secrets of juggling liabilities and equity professed to be practicing the art of ''account fu'', green-thumb enthusiasts the world over discovered the inner focus allowing them to transform their mere gardening skills into ''snip fu'', and high-brow enthusiasts began polishing their assorted gambits and defenses into ''bona fide'' ''chess fu''.
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19	Skills that were previously thought to be mundane were revealed to be [[MundaneMadeAwesome awesome beyond imagination]], with those graceful enough in their application often finding [[AdrenalineTime time speeding up and slowing down]] in the appropriate dramatic fashion as they [[SomeDexterityRequired snip a particularly difficult bonsai tree]], perform ''[[ThatOneRule en passant]]'' or [[NeedleInAStackOfNeedles locate the source of the $0.03 imbalance]].
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21	The term ''"Foo Fu"'' for this general phenomenon was coined for the sake of {{pun}}s, and basically means the same as "X Fu" or "Whatever Fu". It comes from ''"Foo"'', a placeholder often used by programmers as a stand-in for whatever should be there instead (the technical term for this kind of placeholder is [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metasyntactic_variable "Metasyntactic Variable"]]). Has nothing to do with [[Music/FooFighters fighting foo]], despite Creator/MrT's [[WesternAnimation/RobotChicken confusion]].
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23	''Trope Fu'' was originally considered as a name for this trope, but it was ultimately decided that ''Trope Fu'' is the sublime art of tending to examples and descriptions which we all practice in Website/ThisVeryWiki.
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26	!!Behold! A Flawless Demonstration of ''Index Fu''
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28	[[index]]
29	* CaneFu
30	* CarFu
31	* ClothFu
32	* ConfusionFu
33	* DoorFu
34	* DungFu
35	* FooFu, [[ThisTropeNameReferencesItself duh]].
36	* ForkliftFu
37	* GunFu
38	* ImprovFu
39	* IKnowKungFaux
40	* JuggleFu
41	* KungShui
42	* MyRuleFuIsStrongerThanYours
43	* ShamuFu
44	* SheFu
45	* WaifFu
46	* WhatTheFuAreYouDoing
47	* WireFu
48	* WokFu
49	[[/index]]
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52	!!This is no mere section. This is ''Example Fu'' of the highest caliber!
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54	[[foldercontrol]]
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56	[[folder:Anime & Manga Fu]]
57	* From ''Manga/RanmaOneHalf'': although the correct translation for the "Neko-ken" DangerousForbiddenTechnique is "Cat Fist", it is also often called "Cat Fu", especially in [[FanFic fanfiction]]. This prevalence might be because Genma refers to the technique as "Cat Fu" when he first mentions it in the English-dubbed anime, going on to explain that "Cat Fu" is actually the shorthand reference for "Freestyle Cat Fist Fighting".
58	[[/folder]]
59
60	[[folder:Comic Books Fu]]
61	* In ''ComicBook/CaptainCarrotAndHisAmazingZooCrew'', a series about AnimalSuperheroes, Alley-Kat-Abra was a master and teacher of the martial Kat-Fu before gaining superpowers. It was intimated that Abra's tendency towards the more mystical aspects of the art was what caused her to develop full-blown magical powers, as most of the original Zoo Crew members (who were all exposed to the same AppliedPhlebotinum) gained powers that were either directly or ironically connected to some aspect of their lives.
62	* ComicBook/HowardTheDuck is a practitioner of Quack-Fu.
63	[[/folder]]
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65	[[folder:Card Games Fu]]
66	* ''TabletopGame/{{Munchkin}}'':
67	** The card game has a set named "Munchkin Fu" (including a style card literally called "WireFu").
68	** The various style cards also all end in "fu". Banana Fu, Clown Fu, Gun Fu, etc.
69	[[/folder]]
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71	[[folder:Films Fu -- Live-Action]]
72	* Joe Bob Briggs' "Drive-In Reviews" would often use the "fu" suffix when listing the various weapons used in the target movie, which would lead to line items like "hubcap-fu", "tree branch-fu" and "brick-fu".
73	* ''Film/HowardTheDuck'': "No-one laughs at a master of ''Quack Fu!''"
74	* There is a film called ''Film/OfCooksAndKungFu'' whose premise is that a "cooking" style of kung fu exists.
75	[[/folder]]
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77	[[folder:Literature Fu]]
78	* The ''Literature/{{Discworld}}'' novel ''Literature/ThiefOfTime'' introduces "[[DejaVu Déjà Fu]]", the martial art practiced by the History Monks, in which the practitioner travels in time as well as in space. The book gives us as a "translation": "The feeling that you have been kicked in the head this way before."
79	* In her book about her life with Jim Morrison, the writer Patricia Kennealy refers a lot to "evil fu"...
80	* When Dox uses the ChairmanOfTheBrawl trope twice in ''Redemption Games'', Literature/JohnRain quips that he should market a ''Chair-fung-do'' style.
81	[[/folder]]
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83	[[folder:Live-Action TV Fu]]
84	* In the ''Series/AgentsOfSHIELD'' episode "Ragtag", May and Skye discuss their emotions over [[spoiler:Ward betraying the team for HYDRA]]:
85	-->'''May:''' I'm furious. But I'm sure as hell not gonna waste it on a tantrum. I'm gonna mine it, save it... and when we find [[spoiler:Ward]], I'm gonna use every bit of it to take him down.\
86	'''Skye:''' Wish I knew how to use that hate-fu.\
87	'''May:''' I'm usually up around 5:30.
88	* In an Earboy skit of ''Series/AllThat'', Ross Perrot knows Kung Pow Weenie, the "ancient art of weenie combat".
89	* Willow's "Witch Fu" is admired in an episode of ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'', an in a DVDCommentary Creator/JossWhedon refers to Buffy's "bag fu" after she uses a couple of bricks inside a bag as an ImprovisedWeapon.
90	* ''Series/StarTrekPicard'': In "Et in Arcadia Ego, Part 2", Jurati asks Soong if he can use his "cryptographic kung-fu" to get into Maddox's encrypted files.
91	[[/folder]]
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93	[[folder:Music Fu]]
94	* The Brazilian band Music/PatoFu, which means "duck fu".[[note]]This was a reference to a ''Comicstrip/{{Garfield}}'' [[https://www.gocomics.com/garfield/1979/02/26 strip]] in which Garfield attacks the mailman using his "cat fu" skills. In Portuguese the difference is just one letter, pato/gato.[[/note]]
95	[[/folder]]
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97	[[folder:Tabletop Games Fu]]
98	* In ''TabletopGame/BunniesAndBurrows'', Fighter rabbits use Bun Fu.
99	* ''TabletopGame/{{Cyberpunk}}'' has "Gun-Fu", the fine art of running up to people and shooting them.
100	* The ''TabletopGame/{{Exalted}}'' fandom coined the term "Social-Fu" to describe the MindControl and MoreThanMindControl effects Exalted can have on mortals, and possibly other incautious Exalted.
101	[[/folder]]
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103	[[folder:Video Games Fu]]
104	* ''VideoGame/DealtInLead'': The title earned by maxing your level in the hand-to-hand skill? Pencil-Fu. Yes, pencils can be used as weapons. Yes, it's awesome.
105	* In ''VideoGame/QuestForGlory IV'', the Adventurers' Guild bookshelf had a book on Talk Fu, the art of delivering witty {{One Liner}}s during combat.
106	* As of ''VideoGame/RaymanOrigins'', Globox's fighting style is described as his being an expert in 'Fung-Ku', which predominantly revolves around slapping things.
107	* I-Mockery's ''[[http://www.i-mockery.com/minimocks/santa-fu/ Santa Fu]]''.
108	* ''VideoGame/ShaqFu'', a martial arts FightingGame starring Shaquille O'Neal. The character bio for Shaq lists his fighting style as (you guessed it) "Shaquido".
109	* ''VideoGame/SpyFoxInDryCereal'' allows players to "master" the sacred art of "Cock-A-Doodle-Fu."
110	[[/folder]]
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112	[[folder:Webcomics Fu]]
113	* [[http://www.applegeeks.com/comics/viewcomic.php?issue=297 Strip #297]] of ''Webcomic/{{Applegeeks}}'' is titled "[[ShowSomeLeg FlashFu]]". With good reason -- it must be on the level of a martial art if you have it working on a woman.
114	* ''Webcomic/GrrlPower'':
115	** Martial Artist Jabberwokky has the power to copy any animal-based kung fu style, including some made up on the spot. The AltText calls it [[https://grrlpowercomic.com/archives/comic/grrl-power-968-menagerie-fu/ "Menagerie Fu"]].
116	** After Sydney ''finally'' [[https://www.grrlpowercomic.com/archives/comic/grrl-power-862-pew-and-pew-again/ completes a live fire course in under 4 minutes]] (which takes her all day), the AltText ranks her: "Shoot-Fu: C+. Reload-Fu: D-"
117	* ''Webcomic/SchlockMercenary'':
118	** A variation when Schlock refers to the company lawyer as having "owned you with his legal-jitsu." Jitsu means art, so it actually is kind of appropriate.
119	** Played straight with the same character here: "Shodan told me you passed [[http://www.schlockmercenary.com/d/20060621.html his unarmed combat course]]".
120	* Inverted in [[http://www.footloosecomic.com/footloose/pages.php?page=50 one chapter]] of ''Webcomic/{{Footloose}}'': the CombatStilettos style is called... Kung-Shoe.
121	* The webcomic ''Webcomic/WhatTheFu''.
122	[[/folder]]
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124	[[folder:Web Original Fu]]
125	* [[http://images.google.com/images?q=%22Cat+Fu%22 Images-Googling for "Cat Fu"]] can get you some hilarious results.
126	* This trope was inspired by a mention of "poor search-fu" in another entry, and hacker culture applies it to coding.
127	* Google-fu is skill at finding the right keywords to use in a search engine. It's fairly widely used. It can be either good or bad, as in
128	-->"How did you find that so fast? I've been looking for it for days!"\
129	"My Google-fu is strong!"\
130	"Can someone with better Google-fu than me find a site for this?"\
131	"[[http://community.livejournal.com/little_details/781434.html Improve your Google-fu!]]"
132	* The GNU Image Manipulation Program has a Script-Fu console for making your own custom effects.
133	[[/folder]]
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135	[[folder:Web Videos Fu]]
136	* WebVideo/TheNostalgiaCritic, about the aforementioned "Quack Fu" in ''Film/HowardTheDuck'':
137	-->'''The Critic:''' [[http://thatguywiththeglasses.com/videolinks/thatguywiththeglasses/nostalgia-critic/2453-howard-the-duck Well, the superior joke here would be Tai Quack Do...]]
138	* ''WebVideo/SuperPowerBeatDown'': In "The Joker & Harley Quinn vs. Deadpool & Domino", Deadpool uses a rubber chicken as a weapon at one point and calls it cluck-fu.
139	* In the first verse of ''Music/TheUltimateShowdownOfUltimateDestiny'', Franchise/{{Godzilla}} and ComicBook/{{Batman}} have just gotten into a fight, when Creator/ShaquilleONeal intervenes on Batman's behalf and "opens up a can of Shaq-Fu" (naturally). However, it doesn't last long, as he in turn is attacked and beaten up by Music/AaronCarter.
140	[[/folder]]
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142	[[folder:Western Animation Fu]]
143	* ''WesternAnimation/{{Arthur}}'' has an episode where Binky tries to teach ballet to D.W. When Binky's Tough Customer friends see him practicing ballet with a preschooler, he tries to defend it by saying that she was actually teaching her a martial art called "Kung Fu Young".
144	* The animated version of ''WesternAnimation/TheBoondocks'' upgrades Robert "Granddad" Freeman's preference for corporal punishment using a belt to an actual fighting style that fans have referred to as "Belt Fu", with a talent for ensnaring objects and opponents with an ordinary men's belt that would make Franchise/IndianaJones proud.
145	* In a ''WesternAnimation/CowAndChicken'' episode called "Karate Chicken", Red smacks Chicken with his ass in the dojo. They call this "[[AssKicksYou Butt-Fu]]" and they train students to attack with their butt.
146	* WesternAnimation/DarkwingDuck and his master Goose Lee are "Quack Fu" martial artists.
147	* The Flash cartoon ''WesternAnimation/SkunkFu''
148	* In ''WesternAnimation/TheSmurfsAChristmasCarol'', Grouchy tells his chimney-crawling visitor (who turns out to be the Smurf of Christmas Past) that he has a blue belt in Smurf Fu.
149	* A martial-arts-themed segment of ''Series/TheSuperMarioBrosSuperShow'' has a scene in which Mario and Luigi try to learn karate and fail miserably... so the martial arts master trying to train them makes up a plumbing-themed martial art called "Plumb Fu", which they master immediately.
150	* Although it may look like it at first glance, ''WesternAnimation/{{Wakfu}}'' isn't an example of this trope. Its MMORPG spinoff ''The Guardians'', however, features the "Wakfung" {{Supernatural Martial Art\|s}}.
151	* ''WesternAnimation/YinYangYo'' has the art of Woo Foo.
152	[[/folder]]
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154	[[folder:Real Life Fu]]
155	* The Marine Corps Martial Arts Program or MCMAP, also affectionately referred to as "Semper Fu". A play on the motto of the U.S. Marine Corps [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semper_fidelis Semper Fidelis]], which is shortened to Semper Fi.
156	[[/folder]]

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