ITT: Characters that know karate for some reason

That’s not karate it’s kah rah tae

Isn't it the same way in real life? There's always some random asshole who knows karate for whatever reason.

It was always the nerdy weeb in your class

Does he still know Crane style kung-fu or has that never ever been brought up again?

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>taking a martial art just because it has your name in it
Was it autism?

Gwen Tenyson. Falls into that category of "girls who knows Karate because otherwise she wouldn't be able to be relevant. (At least in the OS) I mean Ben turning into aliens was the focus of the show so it gets overshadowed but I recall Gwen manage to incapacitate grown men on a somewhat regular basis.

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she looks cute in a gi tho

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>for some reason

One of the complaints I always saw on here about Joker on The Batman is that he's able to go toe to toe with Batman in a fight and I think it's a dumb complaint. Why shouldn't Joker know martial arts?

He's a super criminal, supposedly the number one super criminal in Gotham. A lot of those guys have superpowers and Joker is meant to be the most threatening one just because he's super crazy? Not the 7 foot tall lucha monster who can lift a car over his head or the guy literally made of living clay? In a universe where someone like Black Canary can outfight superpowered beings with just her martial arts training, it makes no sense for Joker NOT to know how to fight. Everyone in DC should. Martial arts classes should be packed full in their universe.

Just imagine if Richard Dragon opened a dojo in Central City or something and taught martial arts for kids.

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>Karate
>self defense
Kek

What’s the point of traveling all over the world to learn all forms of martial arts if any (literal) clown can just go to the local karate school and still have a decent chance to beat you

Yes, tell me what's the point only getting beaten up by some one time henchmen?
Joker is also in many iterations an expert gunman without any training, but people seem to ignore that part.

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What's the point in being a clown prince of crime trying to take over Gotham if the first person you try to mug can disarm you and judo flip you because they took self defense and you only know how to make fish smile?

It makes sense for spongebob actually, its more his fun hobby and never feels like a plot convenience.

>Pic related

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isn't she also a fucking space wizard?

>Not this fat fuck
Seeing Penguin do some bicycle kicks and move like a fucking ninja pissed me off to no end. Why don't we draw some fat chick beating the shit out of people with roundhouse kicks. It would be just as believable.

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if anything, Penguin should've learned Bartitsu - suits his image more

Why doesn’t every Batman villain just learn martial arts? Is there a good plant based one? Or an ice themed fighting style?

>Is there a good plant based one
Actually BTAS Poison Ivy is more capable in close combat fighting than TB Pam.

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Penguin being a master martial artist is something that's been in the comics for a long time though. Not the Joker. You're mad at the cartoon for staying true to the comics?

karate is such a worthless martial art

how come writers dont update it with muay thai or MMA

she knew how to fight in the movie so i guess they decided to make it apart of her character

him hiring skilled martial artists as body guards good move
him actually being able to fight bad

also has iron man pengiun been done yet

It's funny how they took the her being a pretty good fighter from the live action movies and then exaggerated it into her being so good that she was invited to Japan to compete in a global martial arts tournament.

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The Joker actually can match Bats in combat in the comics, depending on who's writing him.

>him actually being able to fight bad
Why?

other than having to use tools him personally getting his hands dirty just seems wrong for the character

and he should be thought as an inverse of bruce

see You don't become a Gotham crimeboss without beating someone to death yourself at least once.

Or krav maga

She’s never been kidnapped. Not sure where Got that ides from.

yeah but her spells are never ysefuland are just purple glass basically

I'm pretty sure if you look up the powers/abilities of every single Batman villain, the phrase "Martial arts expert" shows up somewhere.

FFS, I'm pretty sure even Riddler knows some kung fu in canon just so you can write a fist fight with him and Bats that isn't just a one-hit KO punch.

pretty manly except for the girl's kung fu pants

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You can learn karate anywhere. It's not a rare skill. My niece goes to taekwando.

Can she beat you up?

I guess that means Catwoman gets a BDS... err cat themed martial art.
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They don’t have cool pajamas

They actually put it in the right spot.

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>Daphne
>karate

Move aside, bitch.

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She kicked me in the goolies once. It was on accident but she had me reeling.

probably force of habit and early marketing of the martial arts schools. and there where a lot of fake martial arts schools and teachers that lasted until UFC started to get big. It appears that comic and cartoon writers didn't get the memo and are sticking by the pre mma philosophies or just dont want to hear Joe Rogan commentate a fight. Or they dont want to change how they been doing martial arts.

How did she know karate again?

I think it's just easier. You say karate people just instantly get it. I guess most people wouldn't really NEED an explanation about kung fu either but kung fu is really NOT quite the same thing as that gets into philosophy and any one style isn't quite as overtly clear as karate.

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Yes it was & he also had a pet crane

Did he commit robberies by picking up armored vans with a crane?

do most people not know how to throw a punch?

As a matter of fact, yes.

>purple glass
I haed how weak and stupid that was.
I never liked AF Gwen, and Kevin took some time to get used to.

you would be surprised.

that's kung fu you brainless mongoloid

at least kevin was sorta useful. gwen made a set of stairs once, thats all i remember. af sucked though, the entire series was just a cornfield fighting dna aliens from what i remember

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Why isn't Daphne in Mortal Kombat?

I know his name is a specific reference to kung fu but I'm pretty sure he called it karate in the show.

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her outfits are too exposing

Joker is inexplicably good at hand to hand combat. Snyder had him BTFO the entire Gotham police department and KO Hawkgirl with a chainsaw.

Just chalk it up to his "hyper sanity" or whatever.

Most people put their thumbs inside their fingers.
And to think, learning how to fight was considered mandatory to be a gentleman back in Victorian times. How far we have fallen...

>girl learns how to fight
>makoto appears out of nowhere to challenge them to a fight
She'd make a great saiyan. Or bag one for herself.

>For some reason
Do you really need a "reason" to learn martial arts?

>Dissing Karate

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but crane knows crane style

Zootopia did it first.

Was that the movie, pretty sure in the show she had a pony tail.

Joker has had plenty of opportunities to fire a gun to get good at it. He fucking robs banks and shit.

Did the live action movie introduce this it did it exist before then?

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>Just imagine if Richard Dragon opened a dojo in Central City or something and taught martial arts for kids.
Having Joker legitimately showing up and promising to never cause any problems in the dojo and actually staying true to his word so that he can learn to fight is pretty funny.

>
One of the complaints I always saw on here about Joker on The Batman is that he's able to go toe to toe with Batman in a fight and I think it's a dumb complaint. Why shouldn't Joker know martial arts?
I mean, joker managed to fight both batman and terry (in separate occasions, of course) hand-to-hand during BTAS/the new batman adventures and later on return of the joker, why should this joker being able to stand up to bats be any problem?

pretty much. she and her black friend changed designs a bit in the show. also pretty sure the karate thing was hardly mentioned during the show.

Is happen to Spider-man.

There were a few episodes where it popped up

>character "knows karate"
>it's just screaming "HI-YAH!," throwing a few vertical knifehands, and the occasional aikido throw that defies physics
>karate is apparently crane-style kung fu
>random-ass stances
Only Spongebob got away with it.

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I'm just going to assume you didn't watch the original

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Pretty Daphne kidnapped can fill a folder if you take the time

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LOOK his body. Does Penguin look like he'd know a martial art? Look at those legs and stature. Maybe if his karate focused on dick punching it would be watchable.

>comics
>good
I seriously hope I didn't find the one comic purist on Yea Forums. They didn't even have Harley Quinn. I've never read the comics but I think anyone seeing this fat fuck kick ass with his stumpy legs would skip that issue.

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>LOOK his body. Does Penguin look like he'd know a martial art?

Not at all. Bartitsu was invented by an English lord after learning Jiu Jitsu. One of the core pillars of the arts was learning to use everyday items as weapons. In the Victoria era, when Lord Bartus lived, this included using a cane and a pocketwatch as a weapon.

Since Penguin loves his Umbrella-o-tricks, I figured it would be more his style than Karate.

>pocketwatch as a weapon.
I don't know why but the idea of some rich fat guy swinging a pocket watch like a nunchuck is very funny to me

The footjobs she could give..

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Never a fan of the spider-fu.

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Based.

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Marco knowing karate is the reason why the show even works
would you either have no male lead and turn Star vs. into a girl cartoon in disneys eyes and not getting greenlit or him being defenseless so the girl can save the day each and every time.

WE HAVE COME FOR THE GOLDEN ASS

Were the other 2 ever depicted as studying martial arts?

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I'm sure. That's usually a given for spy character. Could you imagine Black Widow in Avengers if she couldn't fight?

I meant in a kimono (or whatever a japanese martial arts robe is called) and practicing. I can't seem to recall Sam or Clover ever doing that.

“For some reason”? Like karate is a super power?

All it takes is a few years of dedication, anyone who’s not a lazy imbecile can pick it up.

>only a yellow belt
Seems pretty pathetic for a super spy

Well, they did spend a lot of time getting their asses handed to them and being captured, only to win in the end thanks to plot armour, desu ex machina gadgets and higher physics.

NG+

>only to win in the end thanks to plot armour, desu ex machina gadgets and higher physics
also don't forget the writer's fetishes

>instagram.com/sib_jiujitsu_girls/p/BeVoIVNg7Kg/
Where do I sign up?

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>also don't forget the writer's fetishes
That usually why they got captured, not part of their victory. Also, they were everyone's fetishes, given how broad they went.

I think I remember the red headed one in a gi in an episode

>RR: 2015
>Zootopia: 2016

Yes

It was genetic, from her mom... apparently

Is this show any good? Thats the brazilian cartoon, right?

>karate is apparently crane-style kung fu

Well, it's not really all that far away from truth. It's a martial art which developed in the Ryuukyuu Kingdoms after Chinese immigration. And said Chinese were generally from the province which also birthed Crane-style kung fu.

That is a horrendous stance

KYS

Not surprising. It’s why all Asians know kung fu

Well, it is American karate, lol

Who was the first person to come up with the idea to do this? Who..tf...literally thought hey a good fighting move would be kicking somebody between the legs.

You can take that farther.
Practically every fucking super hero knows martial arts, and a vast majority of villains that have physical or no powers do too.

>Who..tf...literally thought hey a good fighting move would be kicking somebody between the legs.

Because it works, you idiot. The key is to not keep your foot there because it'll get caught when the person clamps their legs together in pain.

Joker is dangerous for the same reason Lex is a danger to Superman. Turning him into a dumb brawler so he can fight his hero 1v1 just feels like a dumb contrivance and an excuse to shove in an action scene.

That's not classic Penguin, though. He's an aristocrat. He doesn't need to beat you up, he has people to do that for him. The closest he should get is shooting or stabbing someone with a trick umbrella.
>a worthless martial art
Karate literally means "empty hand" and is a *type* of martial art, not a single style. Any unarmed combat style is, by definition, karate.>kung fu
"Kung fu" means "great accomplishment" and is even less accurate than describing karate as a single art. The term referring to martial arts came from the language barrier.
>"What's that guy doing over there?"
>"He has kung fu." ("He's really good.")
And people have thought that was the name of a style ever since.
See Also:
>origin of the name kangaroo (literally mans "I don't know")
>origin of the name Yucatan (literally means "I don't understand what you're saying")

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>kangaroo

A common myth about the kangaroo's English name is that "kangaroo" was a Guugu Yimithirr phrase for "I don't understand you." According to this legend, Cook and Banks were exploring the area when they happened upon the animal. They asked a nearby local what the creatures were called. The local responded "Kangaroo", meaning "I don't understand you", which Cook took to be the name of the creature. This myth was debunked in the 1970s by linguist John B. Haviland in his research with the Guugu Yimithirr people.

based

>walks around barefoot all the time
Just masturbate with some sandpaper.

Is there a cartoon that didn’t have a karate episode?

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The only krav maga people I knew were bullied nerds with inferiority complexes who were chomping at the bit for the ability to professionally and legally hit someone in the dick. Being able to disable people in a second doesn't make up for being a fucking nerd.

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She wears it for fashion, because her spysuit was yellow.

Your pic is a hilarious example. He looks like a nerd so he gets in fights. He get's in so many fights and get's kicked out of school or juvie he actually doesn't have a real formal education. So Muntz is actually smarter than him.

Faggot. The first person who thought of it would have no idea whether it worked or not or what the reaction would be.

Shut the fuck up retard.

yeah is that cartoon, Irmao do Jorel and yes, it is legitimately a good show

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When you have to deal with guys like Bruce every day you must put up with it

That’s stupid, Black is cooler and looks better with the white

What about The Ventriloquist? In his case, it just requires knowing how to plan a good heist with a decent bat counter plan.

The dummy knows karate

Most of these non-meta heroes would be dead.

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Are you a woman? Any guy becomes aware of how sensitive balls can be around early teens.

He could fight him in Return of the Joker because he was actually Tim Drake. Tim is a trained ninja.

>Joker is dangerous for the same reason Lex is a danger to Superman.

Since when is Joker smarter than Batman?

Karate doesn't teach fancy defense sequences like that, dum-dum. It teaches proper kicks and punches.

Wouldn't you rather be armed than take on a group of guys who are going to be far more aggressive and rapid than your sparring partner has ever been? Especially if they have melee weapons.

>autism

Sure, so what? Nobody says martial arts are a better self-defense than being armed. But they can still be useful.

>It teaches proper kicks and punches

Then why so few karate fighters had good results when facing other martial arts? Even in striking martial arts only competitions like K-1? Why the martial art that teaches "proper kicks and punches" was, in recent history, so overwhelmed by strikes from boxing or muhai thay?

You must be an autist because I refuse to believe that someone can be this retarded

Hahaha wouldn't be funny she started to gain weight so she can do sumo wresting

I don't know why. Whatever it is, karate in its essence is about kicks and punches, not fancy self-defense techniques, and I presume a karate kick is not much different from a taekwondo or muay thai kick. I'm a taekwondo guy myself, so I wouldn't know what exactly is wrong with karate.

Only two people in this world know karate, that’s the Chinese and the King

LOOKS LIKE THOSE CREEPS HAVE GOT SOMETHING TO EAT

>I don't know why

I do, the same thing it is wrong with most martial arts, they believe they can learn how to fight without actually fighting. just practicing fancy moves in the air

Probably because actual martial arts mastery is about techniques involved with acting and reacting to your opponent. Just doing kicks and punches really, really crisp doesn't help when your target can dodge. And if we include non-striking MA's like Aikedo and Judo the very concept of punching and kicking become meaningless quickly.

>Aikido

Punching and kicking is not meaningless against Aikido, but mostly because aikido is more of a role playing than fighting,

Um... you two do realize that sparrings are part of the training in martial arts? You don't just "practice moves in the air", you actually fight with an opponent. At least in competitive martial arts like taekwondo.

>Robot Chicken knows the lore apparently
robot chicken is the only parody show I like because they actually do they homework.

>Um... you two do realize that sparrings are part of the training in martial arts? You don't just "practice moves in the air"

Oh man how much I wish this was true. There are countless gyms out there that will teach you martial arts and will barely have you go full contact, if they ever do. Mostly the ones who calim to be "too deadly for spar" like krav maga and some kung fu styles. It is beyond me how anyone can think they are learning how to fight whithout fighting, no one think they can swim by just practicing the moves out of the water.

Krav Maga is barely a martial art at all, more like just basic lessons in how to hurt people without any frilly ritual shit attached.
That said, “comic book martial arts” has each martial art be completely and utterly unique and like a mini superpower on it’s own of course and “mastering” any one lets you take on absurd odds and win.

>Just imagine if Richard Dragon opened a dojo in Central City or something and taught martial arts for kids.
That would be an adorable origin story

Joker’s power is almost literally his precise exploitation of his own plot armor. His stats in Mutants and Masterminds even show this; he can’t actually do half of the shit he does, so how does he do it?
The answer of course is that the writer (and GM) cheats in his favor.

karate can be a valid martial art

The problem is millions of phony or just outright terrible martial arts schools that were around during the Karate Kid era

plenty of kickboxing and mma champions have karate as a base

krav maga is an even bigger meme than karate

The M&M stats were fun
>Karate Kid's powers are bullshit so just have him power stunt a lot to represent super martial arts
>The only woman with Attractive (2) is Super-Woman from Earth-3. This makes her hotter than Starfire.
>Batman is the most powerful JLA character point wise.

>plenty of kickboxing and mma champions have karate as a base

plenty is relative, the number of karate fighters in MMA pale in comparasion to those with their base in boxing, muai thay, BJJ, wrestling, and so one, and even the ones who do have their base in karate completely traded their moves in favor of those other martial arts. There is pretty much just one UFC fighter who actually uses karate in his fighting as far as I know, Lyoto Machida. In kickboxing the things are a bit less embarrassing for karate, but still, most fighters still use mostly boxing punches.

That's exactly why they are meaningless. What kind of fucking faggot goes into an Aikido dojo and starts punching people? You have to be some special kind of sperglord to do that.
Sparring in Karate schools almost always foregoes anything like a fighting dynamic because it is simply far too rigid in what it considers part of the curriculum.

Don't follow the sport much do you?

Machida's been in Bellator for months now and is close to retiring.

You don't know Robert Whittaker? Stephen Thompson? Not to mention all the past champions.

Sensitive? I’m not sure what having sex has to do with this.

I've said it before and I'll say it again, Scooby Doo should have a much higher violence rating so Daphne can be the team's heal-slut.
The Supernatural episode comes to mind. Shaggy should realistically get injured very often so that him being scared makes sense, but Daphne can treat his injuries so that he can get back in the fight.

You must be a dumbass.
Somebody had to be the first person to come up with the idea of kicking people in the groin, and they would have no idea what an advantage that would be in a fight.
You dumbfucks don’t know how history works.

You sound like a spoiled bitch, I got kicked in the balls first time when I was 5.

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Gee, user. You think maybe somebody had to be the first person to come up with the idea of chewing food, not knowing what advantage that could bring?
Or are you willing to concede that some knowledge may be genetic?

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Daphne knowing karate has been brought up multiple times. In ‘Scooby Apocalypse’ she was a ninja and even her LEGO minifig bio mentions she knows karate.

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That stance in unbeaten. Respect it

Seth Green is just a soiboi who knows all the lore of all nerd entertainment by heart.

In the movie said they were recruited for either their raw, unhoned talent or independently developed skills,
which sounds cooler than it probably was
,having any martial arts at all would do them loads of good.

>An American Dad bit character has a better backstory then most people will ever write.
Weird way to inspire me but thanks anyways, brain.

No. No knowledge is genetic, even if we don’t have the historical records to point back to.

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That's a reach

He never used it on the bigger kids and it always bothered me.

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>He's an aristocrat.

No he's not. That's the point. He's a criminal and a common thug who WANTS to be an aristocrat, but he can't escape what he really is.

Not exactly fair, every character in the show has like a fighting style whether it be weapon based or hand to hand.

His grandma did it too I totally forgot about this

What are they doing?

Because it was the biggest thing in Cali when they were growing up

wax on wax off

cmon man

See, now I know you're at troll because only mentally handicapped people would be so stupid and Yea Forums's shitty interface is too clunkly for them to use.

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HA

Marco was originally supposed to be a dragonball-obsessed karate student. Just like how Star was supposed to be a sailormoon-obsessed self insert.

>a spic obsessed with Dragon Ball
heh

Yeah I mean if you commit to the concept the show writes itself.
Once they asked Nefcy to make it an actual magic princess show she chose to ruin the concept out of spite.

>new anime makes it seem like he's one of the strongest people in the series
>turns out he's actually pretty weak sauce compared to most of the masters even to his ralphthemoviemaker looking ass son

Only a pathetic loser concedes an argument by using the word “troll”