History Main / CombatParkour

* Ace Bunny of the ''WesternAnimation/LoonaticsUnleashed'' rarely remains a stationary target in combat situations. This was best demonstrated when he was trapped in a railway car with a dozen military-grade MechaMooks armed with FrickinLaserBeams, and survived unscathed. Ace's partner Lexi Bunny has the SheFu variant developed from cheerleading routines.

* Alice (Creator/MillaJovovich) in the ''Film/ResidentEvil'' movies takes this to ridiculous extremes, with even an unpowered Alice sending full-grown adults (and zombies) flying with moves straight out of ''Franchise/TheMatrix''. She enjoys making use of Combat Parkour mainly to dodge and evade attacks (and even lasers) in ''Film/ResidentEvil3''.

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* The ''Videogame/{{Prince of Persia}}'' games have emphasised parkour since 2003, so naturally this is the Prince's fighting style.

* Harry develops this to an extent in ''FanFic/ChildOfTheStorm'', though since he's still a kid and only slightly trained, he's still very raw.

* ''Series/StarTrekPicard'': Elnor's fighting style involves lots of jumping and acrobatics, which includes flipping in the air, leaping from the ceiling, bouncing off walls, etc., often combined with a SpinAttack with his sword, and as typical for this trope, he doesn't receive a single scratch from his foes.

* Chaka of the ''Literature/WhateleyUniverse'' specializes in this style of fighting. Justified in that her [[KiAttacks ki powers]] make it extraordinarily easy for her to do so. In her first superhero fight with a bunch of ninjas, she drives her opponent up the wall by dodging his attacks with a series of flips.

* ''Series/StarTrekPicard'': Elnor's fighting style involves lots of jumping and acrobatics, which includes flipping in the air, leaping from the ceiling, bouncing off walls, etc., and as typical for this trope, he doesn't receive a single scratch from his foes.

* At the 2007 even ''[[Wrestling/RingOfHonor Death Before Dishonor V]]'', Matt Cross ran up a wall to deliver a somersault plancha.

* Momono Mio's opening strategy tends to involve running and diving around the ring and the arena [[IShallTauntYou while blowing raspberries at her opponents]], the idea being anyone foolish enough to chase her will either soon tire out, hurt themselves or otherwise become frustrated enough to make mistakes. [[WaifFu Towering, muscular gaijin men have fallen to this.]]

* ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons''. In 2nd Edition, use of the Tumbling non-weapon proficiency improved the user's armor class by 4 (making them harder to hit) and gave them a plus 2 to their chance to hit in unarmed combat.

* ''VideoGame/DevilMayCry3DantesAwakening'' takes it to the next level. On a double jump, you can flip upside down, spin and shoot, flip back up, flip upside down AGAIN, spin and shoot, and flip back up in time to land on your feet. Similar, if not even more extravagant, maneuvers are also possible in ''Devil May Cry 4''.

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* {{Daredevil}} and ComicBook/{{Nightcrawler}} also excel in this ability. Daredevil capitalizing on his [[HyperAwareness omnidirectional senses]] and Nightcrawler on his contortionist spine, combined with his prehensile tail.

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* Roy Harper in ''Series/{{Arrow}}'' uses this in addition to his street-based hand-to-hand combat to give him an advantage over his adversaries.
* One of ''LiveActionTV/{{Chuck}}'s'' adversaries was a former gymnast who used this trope to escape from the protagonists. His mistake: he stuck the landing, whereupon Sarah shot his kneecap out.
* ''Series/BirdsOfPrey'' used this to dodge and create space between fighters.
* ''Series/XenaWarriorPrincess'' uses this occasionally, and yet she still takes ''plenty'' of punches. It is an established part of Xena canon, based on WordOfGod, that cartwheeling/backflipping across an area is ''faster'' than running the same distance, so this is largely justified in-series.

* Matt Murdock from the Netflix version of ''Series/{{Daredevil}}'' will never walk straight towards an enemy or use a simple, effective attack if he has the option to bounce off the walls or do flashy somersaults, flips, and spinning jump kicks instead.

* ''[[Series/WonderWoman1975 Wonder Woman]]'': In "The Murderous Missile", Wonder Woman does a gymnastics routine using the bars in the ceiling of the barn before landing and knocking out the evil Sheriff. [[spoiler: George then sprays [[InstantSedation knockout gas]] at her revealing that he's the [[BigBad real mastermind]]!]]

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* At the 2007 even ''[[Wrestling/RingOfHonor Death Before Dishonor V]]'', Matt Cross ran up a wall to deliver a somersault plancha.
* Wrestling/JohnMorrison. Which has been played up by the commentators a lot, check [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7PPUYRBKEPI&feature=related it]] out. It helps that the practice is actually [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7PPUYRBKEPI part of his training]]. Said training did him a lot of favors at the Royal Rumble, where he proved to be about as hard to eliminate as Wrestling/KofiKingston, if not more so.
* After being thrown into a wall during EVOLVE 33's "Evolution's End" by Wrestling/JohnnyGargano, Rich Swann retaliated by running up that same wall and kicking him.
* Momono Mio's opening strategy tends to involve running and diving around the ring and the arena [[IShallTauntYou while blowing raspberries at her opponents]], the idea being anyone foolish enough to chase her will either soon tire out, hurt themselves or otherwise become frustrated enough to make mistakes. [[WaifFu Towering, muscular gaijin men have fallen to this.]]
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* In ''WebAnimation/{{RWBY}}'' this is Team RWBY's (and [[WaifFu most other females]]) main shtick. They use their weapon's gun form's recoil to speed up their attacks and use their [[WeaponOfChoice blade form's]] edge to hold on to obstacles or terrain to maneuver mid-flight to allow for high speed attacks and movement. This is best shown during ''Players and Pieces'', where they have to survive a fall to a forest using only their weapons.

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* VideoGame/SonicTheHedgehog takes full advantage of his speed and agility to flip and bound around badniks and Eggman's mechanical creations, expertly weaving between and around attacks before either striking them directly or kicking their missiles back at them. The parkour-like aspects of his fighting style are more apparent in cutscenes and in the animated adaptions.

* Franchise/SonicTheHedgehog takes full advantage of his speed and agility to flip and bound around badniks and Eggman's mechanical creations, expertly weaving between and around attacks before either striking them directly or kicking their missiles back at them. The parkour-like aspects of his fighting style are more apparent in cutscenes and in the animated adaptions.

* {{Daredevil}} and {{Nightcrawler}} also excel in this ability. Daredevil capitalizing on his [[HyperAwareness omnidirectional senses]] and Nightcrawler on his contortionist spine, combined with his prehensile tail.

** Steve Rodgers (Captain America) and Natasha Romanoff (Black Widow) also have more instances of acrobatics in their fight scenes, particularly in ''Film/CaptainAmericaCivilWar''.

* After being thrown into a wall during EVOLVE 33's "Evolution's End" by Johnny Gargano, Rich Swann retaliated by running up that same wall and kicking him.

* This is Franchise/SpiderMan's specialty. As a consequence of his powers, he fights reflexively. However he is extraordinarily limber and agile, so by reflex he jumps, twirls, twists, and contorts all over the place to dodge blows and missiles. [[note]]This doesn't really stop Spider-Man from taking severe blows. Indeed, almost every videogame starring him features a costume selection that is torn up and ravaged from all the damage he takes during the game. Because of his Spider-Sense, he's never really blind-sided, but his enemies just tend to be that fast and powerful. Often the Spider-Sense doesn't prevent him from getting ''hit'', just from getting ''killed''.
** Spidey's so well known for this that many people (both in and out of universe, including the Peter himself) forget that the he's also got SuperStrength.
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* Unlike her genetic father, {{Wolverine}}, ComicBook/{{X 23}}'s fighting style is much more acrobatic and in many of her fight scenes she can be seen using flips and handstands to bring her foot claws into play. Her father couldn't fight this way if he wanted to, because his adamantium skeleton adds over 100 pounds to his weight, while X-23 (who has only adamantium ''[[WolverineClaws claws]]'' as well as lacking his stocky build) is about 1/3 his weight.

* ''Franchise/DevilMayCry 3'' takes it to the next level. On a double jump, you can flip upside down, spin and shoot, flip back up, flip upside down AGAIN, spin and shoot, and flip back up in time to land on your feet. Similar, if not even more extravagant, maneuvers are also possible in ''Devil May Cry 4''.