1 | '''Basic Trope''': The maid is a badass fighting machine. |
2 | * '''Straight''': Alice's maid Lucy breaks out some kung fu moves. |
3 | * '''Exaggerated''': Lucy is a black belt in karate, runs her own dojo, and is the best fighter in the story. |
4 | * '''Downplayed''': Lucy has taken enough self-defense courses to know how to fight off some muggers. |
5 | * '''Justified''': |
6 | ** Alice needed an inconspicuous, female bodyguard, so she hired kung fu expert Lucy to pretend to be her maid. |
7 | ** Lucy is a martial artist who takes a job as a maid because she can't find any other work, for some reason. |
8 | * '''Inverted''': |
9 | ** Alice breaks out the martial arts skills to protect her maid, Lucy. |
10 | ** The badass bodyguard with the mad kung-fu skills is revealed to be surprisingly adept at housework. |
11 | * '''Gender-Flipped''': Lucius, the butler, is a [[BattleButler skilled martial artist]]. |
12 | * '''Subverted''': |
13 | ** Alice thought Lucy knew kung fu, but when an enemy appears Lucy cowers in terror. |
14 | ** Lucy is a ninja first and a maid somewhere third- The only reason she's wearing [[FrenchMaid the maid outfit]] is [[HumiliatingWager because she lost a bet with Alice,]] |
15 | * '''Double Subverted''': |
16 | ** It turns out Lucy was just pretending and pounced when the enemy their turned their back. |
17 | ** Lucy loses another bet with Alice, and becomes her WagerSlave permanently-which naturally includes the normal maid tasks. |
18 | * '''Parodied''': |
19 | ** All maids are expected to know kung fu, and part of the standard job interview involves defeating other household servants in a fight. Young girls are taught martial arts in school to be better suited to the job of domestic workers. |
20 | ** There are several flashbacks to Lucy's maid training school, which is basically a boot camp except with maids instead of soldiers. References to popular works set in the military are a must. |
21 | ** "Ah yes, Lucy. Great ninja, but a ''horrible'' maid." |
22 | * '''Zig Zagged''': Lucy fights off an enemy, but later it turns out that was just luck. Later still, she reveals "just lucky is a ruse for her fighting style, "DeadlyDodging," and later ''still'' it turns out she is simply BornLucky. |
23 | * '''Averted''': The maid has no fighting skills. |
24 | * '''Enforced''': The writers want to give a lower-class character a achievement to prove they're not elitist, so they let Lucy fight off the enemies. |
25 | * '''Lampshaded''': |
26 | ** "Wow, I'd never have expected that from a maid, Lucy." |
27 | ** "Now if you'll excuse me, I have to clean up this blood before it stains the carpet." |
28 | * '''Invoked''': |
29 | ** Alice is looking for a maid because she needs someone to protect her. |
30 | ** Lucy learns domestic skills and etiquette in order to diversify her employment options |
31 | * '''Exploited''': Lucy makes some extra money on the side teaching martial arts at a local dojo. |
32 | * '''Defied''': |
33 | ** When planning his attack on Alice, Bob waits for Lucy's day off. |
34 | ** When Evulz attacks Alice's mansion, he orders his snipers to shoot the maids first, correctly guessing they're warriors. |
35 | * '''Discussed''': "So, Lucy, any chance you have mad fighting skills?" |
36 | * '''Conversed''': "Just you wait. The maid always knows kung fu in anime." |
37 | * '''Deconstructed''': |
38 | ** After a violent episode in young Lucy's life, she began to study martial arts to ensure that she would never be a victim again. She's poor, so she takes a job as a domestic servant. When Alice is attacked, Lucy protects her, to everyone's amazement. However, none of Lucy's co-workers can look at her the same way after this, including the butler who once crushed on her but is no longer interested because NoGuyWantsAnAmazon. |
39 | ** While skilled, Lucy is still outmatched against an armed assailant, as she can't carry her weapons to work and her broom isn't made to withstand being used as a melee weapon. |
40 | * '''Reconstructed''': |
41 | ** However, Alice is immensely grateful and officially employs Lucy as her personal bodyguard, keeping the maid attire just so she'll remain undercover. Lucy's co-workers gradually adjust to this new situation, and she gains the attention of Daniel, an AmazonChaser. |
42 | ** Lucy's skills include ImprobableWeaponUser and thereby makes everything in arm's reach a potential weapon. Additionally, her broom is also a SwordCane. |
43 | ** Lucy's employer allows her to carry weapons as she is assigned the roles of both a guard and a maid. |
44 | * '''Implied''': The broom closets in Alice's house contain [[KatanasAreJustBetter katanas]] for some reason. |
45 | * '''Played For Laughs''': Lucy treats fighting {{Mooks}} as just another casual cleaning task, and by the time she's done fighting, you'd swear nothing happened. |
46 | * '''Played For Drama''': Lucy's last employer died on her watch, making her feel very guilty, so she trained herself in combat so this won't happen again. |
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49 | Allow me to escort you back to NinjaMaid, Master, and rest assured: I [[{{Deadly Euphemism}} cleaned up]] the assassins and booby traps myself. |
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