JAFAAC: Arrogant Kung Fu Guy: Arrogant Kung Fu Guy

Or rather just a face and not even a caption. So in the image we have someone performing some sort of move, and that's about it, no other indication as to why they should fit the trope.

Not sure how we could picture this trope, unless someone has a comic panel that would demonstrate it, still I think we should pull the current image.

Fixed the tag for you. And yes, this does seem like JAFAAC.

Thanks for the fix. And anyone got any good replacement images?

Okay, it's not quite JAFAAC. It's a bad image, but it's got the "kung fu" element.

Motion to pull image.

Current image lacks anything beyond a display of kung fu, rather than any content of arrogance or any of the other personality traits necessary for the trope.

Seconded for those reasons.

I'm having a surprisingly hard time finding good pics for this...here's some options: 1◊, 2◊.

Bumping

I don't think either of those will work; they both rely pretty much entirely on text to convey the concept.

How about this?◊ Sonny Chiba, with his knee on somebody's chest, looking like a tool.

And here I sit without a DVD of Kill Bill Vol. 2. If someone can get a decent image, how about one of Pai Mei laughing?

1. Pai Mei nearly breaking Uma Thurman's arm.◊ Seems appropriately dickish and badass, but he's not exactly in focus, and Thurman's face is a little disconcerting.

2. Pai Mei on Thurman's sword.◊ Bad ass, and the pose is casual enough to possibly suggest arrogance, but it hardly makes him look quite dickish enough.

3. Pai Mei punching through wood.◊ Badass, but for all we know he's a wonderful, humble dude with a remarkable ability to punch things.

4. Cobra Kai making fun of Daniel.◊ They certainly look like jerks, and they're wearing the proper uniforms. But I don't love it.

5. The head of Cobra Kai putting a finger in Pat Morita's face.◊ Love the photo, but low quality.

6. This comic making fun of Cobra Kai.◊ Funny, but a little wordy.

7. An LOLCat with the caption "Sweep the Leg Johnny"◊

edited 31st Jul '11 11:32:39 PM by Andrew

Are you sure that you understand the trope? Pretty sure this is a subtrope of Worf Barrage.

I think it is more of a subtrope/sistertrope of Opposing Sports Team. Designing the opponent as strong but dislikable so the audience can cheer for the underdog protagonist.

This is the first paragraph of the trope description:

More Sonny Chiba than Bruce Lee, the Arrogant Kung Fu Guy is a loner. He's simply too mean to have friends. Unparalleled in combat, he has The Gift. His interpersonal skills are nonexistent, and his temper is best described as "volcanic." Living in a constant state of aggravation, his only joy comes from Trash Talking and putting "foolish fools" in their place. He may not actually enjoy fighting, but it's all he knows. Their view of the world means they can never understand the concept of the Worthy Opponent, as they are either better than you or you are the roadblock standing in the way of greatness.

So, as I see it, the laconic version would be, "Jackass skilled in martial arts." Which would seem to be conveyed reasonably well by the title, and not by the page image.

The image should look something like this: Angry-looking jerk in a Qi Pao; Lan Di from Shenmue is about the clearest example I can think of, or Betty from Kung-Pow: Enter The Fist (and by extension the film it was made from). There should be a lot more in other Hong Kong films, as well. Look for shots of someone looking angry, imperious, taking umbrage; These characters, I think, get Hitler Cam'ed a lot (as we saw with Pai Mei and Iron Cobra back there), so there should be that, too.

Bump. I'm for pulling the current image.

Pulled.

Having recently watched Kill Bill, I'd say the one with Pai Mei jumping on the Bride's sword (this one◊) works pretty well, with the caption "From here you can get an excellent view of my foot."

EDIT: Cropped and resized:

edited 25th Sep '11 5:01:02 PM by hotrods4ben

I'd say that's something else besides this trope...depending on the caption to get the arrogance across isn't a good thing for our purposes, generally.

It's kind of hard to that that somebody is arrogant and a kung fu guy in the same picture. And captions are meant to aid the images anyways. I mean, he looks show-offy right...?

edited 27th Sep '11 4:50:56 PM by hotrods4ben

I proposed this the last time there was an Image Picking discussion of this before said discussion just kinda died with no resolution.

Nothing there explicitly showing arrogance. Lemme find the pic I posted for Small Name, Big Ego and post it here, as it'd fit both tropes.

EDIT: Here we go.

edited 18th Oct '11 9:17:51 AM by Willbyr

It'd be great if there was one panel that expresses all that, but that only works if all three are present. I thought the policy was to avoid overly huge pics?

It's best if pics don't hang down very far into the examples list, but at the same time if that's what it takes to get the point across, then so be it. I think either the first or second two panels could get the point across well enough, even though all three panels make for a complete package.

I say we put Dan Hibiki on Small Name, Big Ego and put Pai Mei on Arrogant Kung-Fu Guy. The both get the point across.

Dan Hibiki has no relation to this trope.