Ambiguous Name: Funny Bruce Lee Noises

Why it's Unclear:

The Laconic page says "Someone making exaggerated martial arts poses and sounds indicates that person does not know how to fight." The trope is supposed to be about people making poses and sounds like Bruce Lee to show that they're bad fighters or at least trying to trick their enemies. The name doesn't really indicate anything about fighting skill, nor does it mention anything about the poses.

Examples of Misuse:

1. A lot of entries on the page itself don't talk about whether the user is a bad fighter or not, they just mention that they make the noises. A good chunk of them are even about good fighters who aren't even using them to fake out the enemy. Examples include Bruce Lee under the film section (who the trope description itself says gets a pass); Dante from Devil May Cry (a guy who regularly kills demons) and the various Bruce Lee Clones from fighting games (who are just as competent as the other characters) in the video games section; and Rafiki from The Lion King (1994) (during the scene where he's beating the hyenas easily) in the western animation section.

2. Work pages and character pages also show this trope being misused. Pokkén Tournament says Blaziken makes them when it's a competent fighter, Lin You from Dragalia Lost has it even though she's a trained martial artist (Long Long used to have it before I changed it to Kiai), and several Bruce Lee Clones have it on their pages even though they aren't Joke Characters.

While there are plenty of examples that fit the meaning properly, I feel all of the wrong examples would be under Kiai instead if the name matched the trope's meaning more accurately. Maybe we could call it Bruce Lee Wannabe, since wannabe suggests the person is just pretending to act like Bruce Lee without having his fighting skill. Granted, this could cause confusion with Bruce Lee Clone, unless we change that trope's name as well.

Edited by MJTrooper on Apr 24th 2020 at 10:56:19 AM