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Improv Fu tends to involve quick tricks, trips, traps, a lot of dodging, and heavy implementation of objects or the environment available at any given moment. Sometimes the character essentially blunders through combat. Most of the time Improv Fu is played for comedy. May lead to ImprobableUseOfAWeapon if they find one they don't know how to use.

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Improv Fu tends to involve quick tricks, trips, traps, a lot of dodging, and heavy implementation of objects or the environment available at any given moment. Sometimes the character essentially blunders through combat. Most of the time Improv Fu is played for comedy. May lead to ImprobableUseOfAWeapon if they find one they don't know how to use.
use. A more specific case would be WithinArmsReach (where a character is being brutally attacked and manages to just happen to grab something that they can use to fight back).
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* ''Film/GameraVsGuiron'': At one point, Gamera swings on a huge horizontal pipe like it's a gymnast's parallel bars. [[NotMakingThisUpDislcaimer No, seriously.]]

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* ''Film/GameraVsGuiron'': At one point, Gamera swings on a huge horizontal pipe like it's a gymnast's parallel bars. [[NotMakingThisUpDislcaimer [[NotMakingThisUpDisclaimer No, seriously.]]
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* ''Film/GameraVsGuiron'': At one point, Gamera swings on a huge horizontal pipe like it's a gymnast's parallel bars.

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* ''Film/GameraVsGuiron'': At one point, Gamera swings on a huge horizontal pipe like it's a gymnast's parallel bars. [[NotMakingThisUpDislcaimer No, seriously.]]
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* ''Webcomic/GirlGenius'' has [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20160701 Heroic Freestyle]] which involves a lot of improvisation and getting hit a lot. Given that the only practitioners we know of are both two-person teams (the Heterodyne Boys and the Hoffmann brothers) it may also be based around team combat.

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* ''Webcomic/GirlGenius'' has [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20160701 Heroic Freestyle]] which involves a lot of improvisation and getting hit a lot. Given that the only practitioners we know of are both two-person teams (the Heterodyne Boys and the Hoffmann brothers) it may also be based around team combat.
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* During the finale of the first ''WesternAnimation/KungFuPanda'' [[AcroFatic Po]] is fighting [[BigBad Tai Lung]] and it is this "style" of making-stuff-up-as-the-fight-progresses that frustrates the later, who has this complex about being traditionally trained and skilled.

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* During the finale of the first ''WesternAnimation/KungFuPanda'' [[AcroFatic Po]] is fighting [[BigBad Tai Lung]] and it is this "style" of making-stuff-up-as-the-fight-progresses that frustrates the later, latter, who has this a complex about being traditionally trained and skilled.

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Zero Context Examples. Worm sounds like Heart Is An Awesome Power than this. Others, like the Certain Magic Index example, sounded more like Combat Pragmatist, or Good Old Fisticuffs.


* ''LightNovel/ACertainMagicalIndex'': Shiage Hamazura developed a fighting style which utilizes various martial art techniques, street fighting, and weapons. This combination, together with his ingenuity, allows him to hold himself off against high-level opponents. 99% of the time, it works to his advantage.



* Minako Aino in ''Manga/CodenameSailorV'' has shades of this, having gone so far to ''weaponize mosquito-repelling incense'' (to be fair, the youma of the week is a mutant mosquito with an army of the standard insects, so...).
* In ''Anime/RinneNoLagrange'', Madoka's fighting style starts off as this. She gets better.

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* Minako Aino in ''Manga/CodenameSailorV'' has shades of this, having gone so far to ''weaponize mosquito-repelling incense'' (to be fair, the youma of the week is a mutant mosquito with an army of the standard insects, so...).
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In ''Anime/RinneNoLagrange'', Madoka's fighting style starts off as this. She gets better.



* ''FanFic/DolphinRiderKoishi'': Newly-transformed Sirens are advised to just say the first thing that comes to mind when they want to attack.

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* %%%* ''FanFic/DolphinRiderKoishi'': Newly-transformed Sirens are advised to just say the first thing that comes to mind when they want to attack.



* ''FanFic/PacificWorldWarIIUsNavyShipgirls'': This is O'Bannon's fighting style (being based on classic comedy brawlers, no less), with a healthy dose of ImprobableWeaponUser added in for extra hilarity.

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* %%%%* ''FanFic/PacificWorldWarIIUsNavyShipgirls'': This is O'Bannon's fighting style (being based on classic comedy brawlers, no less), with a healthy dose of ImprobableWeaponUser added in for extra hilarity.



* Half the final battle in the first ''WesternAnimation/KungFuPanda'' is [[AcroFatic Po]] fighting in this manner, frustrating [[BigBad Tai Lung]].

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* Half During the final battle in finale of the first ''WesternAnimation/KungFuPanda'' is [[AcroFatic Po]] is fighting in this manner, frustrating [[BigBad Tai Lung]].Lung]] and it is this "style" of making-stuff-up-as-the-fight-progresses that frustrates the later, who has this complex about being traditionally trained and skilled.



* Creator/JackieChan's characters are all about this. This is because the Chan man loves action but dislikes violence so he uses his own style involving a lot of dodging and using the environment to combat his opponents. He's beaten people up with dresses, folding chairs, Legos, their own clothing, and most infamously a 10' tall stepladder. This is also true for his character in ''WesternAnimation/JackieChanAdventures''.
* Film/AceVentura invokes this when in a tight situation.

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* Creator/JackieChan's characters are all about this. This is because the Chan man loves action but dislikes violence so he uses his own style involving which involves a lot of dodging and using the environment to combat his opponents. He's beaten people up with dresses, folding chairs, Legos, their own clothing, and most infamously a 10' tall stepladder. This is also true for his character in ''WesternAnimation/JackieChanAdventures''.
* %%%%* Film/AceVentura invokes this when in a tight situation.



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* Vlad Taltos from the ''Literature/{{Dragaera}}'' novels tends to practice this in a pinch, although he ''is'' trained in fencing and capable of deadly strikes when an opening offers itself. Rather, as an Easterner fighting seven-foot-tall Dragaerans, he needs tricks and unpredictability to avoid being overwhelmed by sheer brute force.
* In Literature/{{Worm}}, where the setting is filled with people who can shoot lasers and punch through walls, Skitter can control bugs. She ends up doing this a lot, using tactics such as incapacitating an indestructible opponent with the excreted narcotic of a fallen comrade, tricking a massive foe into charging into spider silk frozen in time, and choking a woman to death by filling her lungs with bugs.
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* Vlad Taltos from the ''Literature/{{Dragaera}}'' novels tends to practice this in a pinch, although he ''is'' trained in fencing and capable of deadly strikes when an opening offers itself. Rather, as an Easterner fighting seven-foot-tall Dragaerans, he needs tricks and unpredictability to avoid being overwhelmed by sheer brute force.
* In Literature/{{Worm}}, where the setting is filled with people who can shoot lasers and punch through walls, Skitter can control bugs. She ends up doing this a lot, using tactics such as incapacitating an indestructible opponent with the excreted narcotic of a fallen comrade, tricking a massive foe into charging into spider silk frozen in time, and choking a woman to death by filling her lungs with bugs.
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* ''Series/MartialLaw'' has [[TheDanza Sammo Law]] present this art in its finest form.

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''Series/MartialLaw'' has [[TheDanza Sammo Law]] present this art in its finest form.



* The Everyman Hero from ''TabletopGame/FengShui'' has this as his or her Unique Schtick.

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* ''Webcomic/EvilInc'': Muskiday and Haynus ad-lib the latter having a "force field" to explain their "capturing" the alternate Miss Match to Up'n Atom. Only a ''very'' short time later, Haynus shows off a working force-field generator...
-->'''Haynus:''' While you were picking up [[MacGuffin Project X]], I got creative...\\
'''Muskiday:''' [[IncrediblyLamePun Sly dog.]]



* Sokka of ''WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender'' is a {{Badass Normal}} warrior in a group where all the other member have ElementalPowers. He is the one who frequently comes up with strategies and plans, including examples like creating bombs to try to simulate fire control, spreading perfume to confuse a creature with super smelling senses, offensive use of stink bombs, discovering a moment where the fire nation would lose their powers and plan an invasion on that day, and taking over a fire nation airship and use it as a projectile to destroy other airships... just to name a few. His ability to improvise plans was part of the reason the master Piandao accepted him as his student.

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* Sokka of ''WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender'' is a {{Badass Normal}} warrior in a group where all the other member members have ElementalPowers. He is the one who frequently comes up ElementalPowers, so he has to work with strategies and plans, including examples like creating bombs to try to simulate fire control, spreading perfume to confuse a creature with super smelling senses, offensive use of what he has, be it books, stink bombs, discovering a moment where the fire nation would lose their powers and plan an invasion on that day, and taking over a fire nation airship and use it as a projectile to destroy other airships... just to name a few.or clouds. His ability to improvise plans was part of the reason the master Piandao accepted him as his student. Creative thinking, in his masterly opinion is the key to victory.
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* ''VideoGame/UltimateMarvelVsCapcom3'': Frank West and Phoenix Wright fight like this to demonstrate that they're {{Badass Normal}} {{Action Survivor}}s in a {{World of Badass}} where everyone else has superpowers or fighting skills befitting soldiers and martial arts masters.

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* ''VideoGame/UltimateMarvelVsCapcom3'': Frank West and Phoenix Wright fight like this to demonstrate that because they're {{Badass Normal}} {{Action Survivor}}s in a {{World of Badass}} where everyone else has superpowers or fighting skills befitting soldiers and martial arts masters.
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*''VideoGame/UltimateMarvelVsCapcom3'': Frank West and Phoenix Wright fight like this to demonstrate that they're {{Badass Normal}} {{Action Survivor}}s in a {{World of Badass}} where everyone else has superpowers or fighting skills befitting soldiers and martial arts masters.
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* ''LightNovel/ACertainMagicalIndex'': Shiage's usual method of fighting higher level opponents, which works surprisingly often.

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* ''LightNovel/ACertainMagicalIndex'': Shiage's usual method of Shiage Hamazura developed a fighting higher level opponents, style which utilizes various martial art techniques, street fighting, and weapons. This combination, together with his ingenuity, allows him to hold himself off against high-level opponents. 99% of the time, it works surprisingly often.to his advantage.
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* This is Luffy's main fighting style from ''OnePiece'', as he'll use anything available to him so he can win. This causes his opponents to underestimate him because, more often than not, it looks like him fooling around rather than fighting seriously.

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* This is Luffy's main fighting style from ''OnePiece'', ''Manga/OnePiece'', as he'll use anything available to him so he can win. This causes his opponents to underestimate him because, more often than not, it looks like him fooling around rather than fighting seriously.
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ImprovFu tends to involve quick tricks, trips, traps, a lot of dodging, and heavy implementation of objects or the environment available at any given moment. Sometimes the character essentially blunders through combat. Most of the time ImprovFu is played for comedy. May lead to ImprobableUseOfAWeapon if they find one they don't know how to use.

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ImprovFu Improv Fu tends to involve quick tricks, trips, traps, a lot of dodging, and heavy implementation of objects or the environment available at any given moment. Sometimes the character essentially blunders through combat. Most of the time ImprovFu Improv Fu is played for comedy. May lead to ImprobableUseOfAWeapon if they find one they don't know how to use.
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* ''Series/KaizokuSentaiGokaiger''[='s=] Green Ranger, "Doc" Don Doggoier, is a LovableCoward who resorts to tricks like hiding in brush, {{Explosive Barrel}}s, and even breaking out a squeaky mallet at one point. Then there's [[CrowningMomentOfAwesome the episode]] where [[LetsGetDangerous he mans up]]...

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* ''Series/KaizokuSentaiGokaiger''[='s=] Green Ranger, "Doc" Don Doggoier, is a LovableCoward who resorts to tricks like hiding in brush, {{Explosive Barrel}}s, and even breaking out a squeaky mallet at one point. Then there's [[CrowningMomentOfAwesome the episode]] episode where [[LetsGetDangerous he mans up]]...
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* This is Luffy's main fighting style from ''OnePiece'', as he'll use anything available to him so he can win. This cause's his opponents to underestimate him because it, more often than not, looks like him fooling around rather than fighting seriously.
* ''Anime/Pokémon'': Ash Ketchum occasionally comes up with these in battles in order to counter a particularly tricky opponent. His most famous and popular one with the fans by far is the Counter Shield technique he developed in the Diamond & Pearl series.

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* This is Luffy's main fighting style from ''OnePiece'', as he'll use anything available to him so he can win. This cause's causes his opponents to underestimate him because it, because, more often than not, it looks like him fooling around rather than fighting seriously.
* ''Anime/Pokémon'': ''Anime/{{Pokemon}}'': Ash Ketchum occasionally comes up with these in battles in order to counter a particularly tricky opponent. His most famous and popular one with the fans by far is the Counter Shield technique he developed in the Diamond & Pearl series.
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* Many self-defense courses focus on using whatever you have in your hand or around you to incapitate the attacker or put him at disadvantage while you're running away.

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* ''FistOfTheNorthStar'': Jyuza gave Raoh one hell of a HumiliationConga with a fighting style he invented on the spot. The fight ends with him stealing Raoh's horse, Kokuoh.

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* ''FistOfTheNorthStar'': ''Manga/FistOfTheNorthStar'': Jyuza gave Raoh one hell of a HumiliationConga with a fighting style he invented on the spot. The fight ends with him stealing Raoh's horse, Kokuoh.



* Minako Aino in ''Manga/CodenameSailorV'' has shades of this, having gone so far to ''weaponize mosquito-repelling incense'' (to be fair, the youma was a mutant mosquito with an army of the standard insects, so...).

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* Minako Aino in ''Manga/CodenameSailorV'' has shades of this, having gone so far to ''weaponize mosquito-repelling incense'' (to be fair, the youma was of the week is a mutant mosquito with an army of the standard insects, so...).



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* Creator/JackieChan's characters are all about this. This is because the Chan man loves action but dislikes violence so he uses his own style involving a lot of dodging and using the environment to combat his opponents. He's beaten people up with dresses, folding chairs, Legos, their own clothing, and most infamously a 10' tall stepladder.
** This is also true for his character in ''WesternAnimation/JackieChanAdventures''.

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* Half the final battle in the first ''WesternAnimation/KungFuPanda'' is [[AcroFatic Po]] fighting in this manner, frustrating [[BigBad Tai Lung]].
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* Creator/JackieChan's characters are all about this. This is because the Chan man loves action but dislikes violence so he uses his own style involving a lot of dodging and using the environment to combat his opponents. He's beaten people up with dresses, folding chairs, Legos, their own clothing, and most infamously a 10' tall stepladder.
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stepladder. This is also true for his character in ''WesternAnimation/JackieChanAdventures''.




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* ''Franchise/PowerRangers'' has many examples of Improv fu but the most egregious one is that a lot of fight scenes throughout the series features the Rangers fighting grunts in a playground and use the equipment to augment their fighting.
** ''Series/MightyMorphinPowerRangers'': [[TheSmartGuy Billy the Blue Ranger]] of the team kind of sucks at fighting, but he manages by using this trope, though by the time he leaves the Rangers he's gotten much better at hand-to-hand

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** ''Series/MightyMorphinPowerRangers'': [[TheSmartGuy Billy the Blue Ranger]] of the team kind of sucks at fighting, but he manages by using this trope, though by the time he leaves the Rangers he's gotten much better at hand-to-hand hand-to-hand.




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* ''{{Wrestling/ECW}}'': Joke wrestler Wrestling/MikeyWhipwreck stumbled into winning, all the way to the World Championship.

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-->'''Haynus:''' While you were picking up [[MacGuffin Project X]], I got creative...
-->'''Muskiday:''' [[IncrediblyLamePun Sly dog.]]
* ''Webcomic/GirlGenius'' has [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20160701 Heroic Freestyle]] which involves a lot of improvisation and getting hit a lot. Given that the only practitioners we know of are both two-person teams (the Hetrodyne Boys and the Hoffmann brothers) it may also be based around team combat.

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* Sokka of ''WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender'' a {{Badass Normal}} warrior in a group where all the other member have {{Elemental Powers}} he is the one who frequently comes up with strategies and plans, including examples like create bombs to try to simulate fire control, spreading perfume to confuse a creature with super smelling senses, offensive use of stink bombs, discovering a moment where the fire nation would lose their powers and plan an invasion on that day, and taking over a fire nation airship and use it as a projectile to destroy other airships... just to name a few. His ability to improvise plans was part of the reason the master Piandao accepted him as his student.
* Half the final battle in the first ''WesternAnimation/KungFuPanda'' is [[AcroFatic Po]] fighting in this manner, frustrating [[BigBad Tai Lung]].

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* Krav Maga is a martial art that teaches improvised combat techniques.

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* ''Webcomic/GirlGenius'' has [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20160701 Heroic Freestyle]] which involves a lot of improvisation and getting hit a lot. Given that the only practitioners we know of are both two-person teams (the Hetrodyne Heterodyne Boys and the Hoffmann brothers) it may also be based around team combat.

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* Sokka of ''WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender'' is a {{Badass Normal}} warrior in a group where all the other member have {{Elemental Powers}} he ElementalPowers. He is the one who frequently comes up with strategies and plans, including examples like create creating bombs to try to simulate fire control, spreading perfume to confuse a creature with super smelling senses, offensive use of stink bombs, discovering a moment where the fire nation would lose their powers and plan an invasion on that day, and taking over a fire nation airship and use it as a projectile to destroy other airships... just to name a few. His ability to improvise plans was part of the reason the master Piandao accepted him as his student.
* Half the final battle in the first ''WesternAnimation/KungFuPanda'' is [[AcroFatic Po]] fighting in this manner, frustrating [[BigBad Tai Lung]].

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* In Literature/{{Worm}}, where the setting is filled with people who can shoot lasers and punch through walls, Skitter can control bugs. She ends up doing this a lot, using tactics such as incapacitating an indestructible opponent with the excreted narcotic of a fallen comrade, tricking a massive foe into charging into spider silk frozen in time, and choking a woman to death by filling her lungs with bugs.



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* In Literature/{{Worm}} where the setting is filled with people who can shoot lasers and punch through walls, Skitter can control bugs. She ends up doing this a lot, using tactics such as incapacitating an indestructible opponent with the excreted narcotic of a fallen comrade, tricking a massive foe to charge into spider silk frozen in time, and choking a woman to death by filling her lungs with bugs.
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* {{Ace Ventura}} invokes this when in a tight situation.

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* {{Ace Ventura}} Film/AceVentura invokes this when in a tight situation.
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Non-existent works don't get wicks.
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* ''FanFic/NexusRenegade'': Just like his trainer, Tyrogue thinks of his techniques right on the spot.

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* ''Anime/Pokémon'': Ash Ketchum occasionally comes up with these in battles in order to counter a particularly tricky opponent. His most famous and popular one with the fans by far is the Counter Shield technique he developed in the Diamond & Pearl series.



* ''Anime/Pokémon'': Ash Ketchum occasionally comes up with these in battles in order to counter a particularly tricky opponent. His most famous and popular one with the fans by far is the Counter Shield technique he developed in the Diamond & Pearl series.

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* ''Anime/Pokémon'': Ash Ketchum occasionally comes up with these in battles in order to counter a particularly tricky opponent. His most famous and popular one with the fans by far is the Counter Shield technique he developed in the Diamond & Pearl series.
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* ''Anime/Pokémon'': Ash Ketchum occasionally comes up with these in battles in order to counter a particularly tricky opponent. His most famous and popular one with the fans by far is the Counter Shield technique he developed in the Diamond & Pearl series.
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* Creator/JackieChan's characters are all about this. This is because the Chan man loves action but dislikes violence so he uses his own style involving a lot of dodging and using the environment to combat his opponents.

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* Creator/JackieChan's characters are all about this. This is because the Chan man loves action but dislikes violence so he uses his own style involving a lot of dodging and using the environment to combat his opponents. He's beaten people up with dresses, folding chairs, Legos, their own clothing, and most infamously a 10' tall stepladder.

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* ''Webcomic/GirlGenius'' has [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20160701 Heroic Freestyle]] which involves a lot of improvisation and getting hit a lot. Given that the only practitioners we know of are both two-person teams (the Hetrodyne Boys and the Hoffmann brothers) it may also be based around team combat.
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* Vlad Taltos from the ''Literature/{{Dragaera}}'' novels tends to practice this in a pinch, although he ''is'' trained in fencing and capable of deadly strikes when an opening offers itself. Rather, as an Easterner fighting seven-foot-tall Dragaerans, he needs tricks and unpredictability to avoid being overwhelmed by sheer brute force.
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* ''RanmaOneHalf'': Ranma Saotome has this trope reconstructed, featuring an as-serious-as-it-can-get Anything Goes Martial Arts dojo. While the fighting style has some of its own unique characteristics, Ranma's most distinctive ability is being able to adapt with remarkable skill, something that comes in handy when forced to engage in all sorts of rule-restricted MartialArtsAndCrafts.

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* ''RanmaOneHalf'': ''Manga/RanmaOneHalf'': Ranma Saotome has this trope reconstructed, featuring an as-serious-as-it-can-get Anything Goes Martial Arts dojo. While the fighting style has some of its own unique characteristics, Ranma's most distinctive ability is being able to adapt with remarkable skill, something that comes in handy when forced to engage in all sorts of rule-restricted MartialArtsAndCrafts.
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If TheStrategist finds himself in a situation where he has to fight directly instead of just advicing, he/she may use these tactics. Probably utilized by the ActionSurvivor as well.

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If TheStrategist finds himself in a situation where he has to fight directly instead of just advicing, advising, he/she may use these tactics. Probably utilized by the ActionSurvivor as well.

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* ''FanFic/PacificWorldWarIIUsNavyShipgirls'': This is O'Bannon's fighting style (being based on classic comedy brawlers, no less), with a healthy dose of ImprobableWeaponUser added in for extra hilarity.
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* In ''Anime/RinneNoLagrange'', Madoka's fighting style starts off as this. She gets better.
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ImprovFu tends to involve quick tricks, trips, traps, a lot of dodging, and heavy implementation of objects or the environment available at any given moment. Sometimes the character essentially blunders combat. Most of the time ImprovFu is played for comedy. May lead to ImprobableUseOfAWeapon if they find one they don't know how to use.

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ImprovFu tends to involve quick tricks, trips, traps, a lot of dodging, and heavy implementation of objects or the environment available at any given moment. Sometimes the character essentially blunders through combat. Most of the time ImprovFu is played for comedy. May lead to ImprobableUseOfAWeapon if they find one they don't know how to use.
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* JackieChan's characters are all about this. This is because the Chan man loves action but dislikes violence so he uses his own style involving a lot of dodging and using the environment to combat his opponents.

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* JackieChan's Creator/JackieChan's characters are all about this. This is because the Chan man loves action but dislikes violence so he uses his own style involving a lot of dodging and using the environment to combat his opponents.



* [[Film/TheBourneSeries Jason Bourne]]. In ''Film/TheBourneSupremacy'', he beats the shit out of a guy with a rolled up newspaper and blows up his condo with said newspaper when he's done.

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* [[Film/TheBourneSeries Jason Bourne]].Bourne. In ''Film/TheBourneSupremacy'', he beats the shit out of a guy with a rolled up newspaper and blows up his condo with said newspaper when he's done.

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