#2: May 1st 2011 at 10:25:20 PM
Please read the stickied threads. You want to ask on the Lost And Found.
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Just what it says on the tin. I notice a lot of media likes to stick to flashy versions of more or less legitimate martial arts that wind up being inefficient, but I'm yet to come across a trope that exemplifies that in particular. Broadly speaking, it falls under Rule of Cool, but so do other tropes and this is common enough to warrant its own trope. Especially considering that almost every film, anime and game partakes.
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