Basic Trope: A woman who fights primarily with her legs.
- Straight: Alice's preferred fighting style relies heavily on kicks, in contrast to her partner Bob, who favours a punching/grappling style.
- Exaggerated:
- Alice's fighting style is made up of nothing but super-powerful kicks, however seemingly impractical.
- Alice exclusively uses her legs not only for kicking but also for blocking, grappling, wielding weapons, firing energy attacks...
- Downplayed:
- Alice kicks her adversaries an average of only three times for every two times Bob kicks his adversaries.
- Alice uses her knees as much as her feet.
- Justified:
- Alice finds this offers several advantages when fighting with male opponents: the longer range makes up for her relative small size and the ability to deal more powerful blows makes up for relative lack of upper body strength. It also works well when male opponents try to incapacitate her by grabbing her arms and can be used to exploit their natural weak spot more effectively.
- Alice is a master of The Way of Fighting in High Heels, making good use of a pointed heel to deliver maximum pressure and making the best out of the many formal occasions wherein she is required to wear them that end in trouble.
- Alice is the Ms. Fanservice of the arena, and uses it as an excuse to show off her well-toned legs for the benefit of her male admirers, for obvious reasons.
- Alice only has legs as limbs.
- Inverted: Alice is a boxer or wrestler, both styles which limit or forbid kicks.
- Gender-Inverted: It's Bob who specializes in kicking and Alice who specializes in punching/grappling.
- Subverted: Alice raises her leg, looking as if she's preparing to deliver a devastating kick to her opponent ... then pulls a gun on them.
- Double Subverted: Her gun doesn't work, so Alice just goes with what she knows best and kicks the tar out of her opponent.
- Parodied:
- Alice solves even non-combat problems by kicking things.
- Female boxers are allowed to use kicks in competitions.
- Female animals like dogs and cats don't attack with bites and scratches, but rather kicking with their hind legs.
- Zig-Zagged: Alice alternates between using her legs, arms, weapons, and head as the situation demands.
- Averted:
- Alice's fighting style isn't particularly based on kicks.
- Alice prefers to use her gun rather than get into awkward hand-to-hand fighting.
- Enforced: Alice's actress was cast based on her kicking prowess.
- Lampshaded:Bob: Do you always kick bad guys, Alice?Alice: It's the only way I can fight, Bob.
- Invoked: Alice is taught a kicking-centric fighting style.
- Exploited: ???
- Defied: Alice cannot use her legs because they have been paralysed or severed.
- Discussed: "How the fuck do you fight with your legs, Alice? Legs are so... un-flexible!" "Well, I just work with what I have."
- Conversed: ???
- Deconstructed:
- One day, her legs are chopped off and she can never fight again.
- Her kick-based fighting style ends up being Awesome, but Impractical due to leaving her open for being taken off-balance, for one thing.
- Reconstructed: She gets robotic legs and can fight better than ever.
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