Isn't it obvious: Good Old Fisticuffs

This trope used to be about fighting people with your fists. The page quote called fist fighting the most pure form of combat and if you look on Natural Weapon and other parts of the wiki, artifacts of this are still there.

Somehow this has mutated into the belief that untrained fighters are superior. I say cut it, its pretty much Combat Pragmatist now.

edited 4th Jun '11 5:45:36 PM by Cider

A preference for fighting with your fists would likely be Extremity Extremist wouldn't it? And how is "untrained fighters are superior" a clone of Combat Pragmatist?

Because the page explains the idea that those who only followed the rule win, when learning how to fight are better than those who took it "easy".

Heck, even the Extremity Extremist page references to "just fighting with your fists". The page lost its old meaning.

To be fair, Fisticuffs Boss seems to be exactly what the page used to be, But for video games. Maybe that is enough for situations where someone chooses to fight only with their fist, yet it doesn't change the fact that name of the trope this topic was created for does not match the description.

edited 4th Jun '11 7:42:50 PM by Cider

I want to say it got TRS'd for being too similar to another trope and this was the result, but I'm not sure.

How about split what it decayed into as another trope?

nevermind

edited 2nd Jul '11 4:37:28 AM by Cider

So no one thinks this name is misleading?