List of Fictional Martial Arts - Books, Comics and Card Games

Books, Comics and Card Games

• Baritsu — Japanese wrestling style used by Sherlock Holmes, either a typographical error for, or a bowdlerization of, bartitsu.
• Cards as Weapons — mock martial art of throwing playing cards with extreme force and accuracy, as presented in magician/card-scaler Ricky Jay's book of the same title. It has since been used in many pieces of fiction as the martial arts of choice for a gambling rogue character, usually using razor-sharp shuriken designed like playing cards for their attacks. The Magician with Bill Bixby features steel playing cards used in this manner. Many Chinese television series use similar devices, when cards can be used to cut. Something similar is practiced by the Marvel Comics hero Gambit, who throws playing cards with extreme accuracy and uses his mutant ability to turn the cards into explosive projectiles.
• Coup de vitesse, favored by the Manticoran military in David Weber's Honorverse
• Déjà-fu from Terry Pratchett's Discworld. Specifically demonstrated in Thief of Time by the Lu-Tze, its only known master. It is best described as "the feeling that you have been kicked in the head this way before." Other Discworld martial arts include (comments by Lu-Tze):

Okidoki ("Just a lot of bunny hops.")

Shiitake ("If I wanted to thrust my hand into hot sand I would go to the seaside.")

Upsidazi ("A waste of good bricks.")

No kando ("You made that one up.")

Tung-pi ("Bad-tempered flower-arranging.")

• Do, a martial art known only to the "Akashic Brotherhood" in the White Wolf Publishing tabletop RPG Mage: The Ascension.
• Heliconan Twisting— a martial arts form seemingly equal parts Jiu Jitsu and Krav Maga. It is practiced by Hari Seldon, a key character from Isaac Asimov's Foundation series of books.
• Kem Kwong Killing Techniques— a martial art practiced by in the monasteries of the Kem Kwong monks. Used by Devlin Waugh in the 2000 AD comic series.
• Klurkor— a Kryptonian martial art used in the DC Universe.
• Kung Fu High School is a brutally descriptive action, romance, fiction novel written Ryan Gattis.
• Llap-Goch; a Welsh martial art featured in a mock advertisement in The Brand New Monty Python Bok, which claims to be able to teach students how to grow taller, stronger, faster, and more deadly in a matter of days. Those proficient in the style become "First Dai", awarded black braces (suspenders)
• Munchkin Fu — from the Games 'Munchkin Fu' and 'Munchkin Fu 2 - Monky Business' by Steve Jackson Games. The game describes styles like Drunken Monkey Kung Fu, Kong Fu, Fee Fi Fo Fu, Sna Fu, and Stomach Fu.
• Naked/Kill from Trevanian's novel Shibumi.
• Neue-stil Handgemenge, grappling style in David Weber's Honorverse
• Omnite, a martial art used by the title character in Logan's Run.
• Pung Fu; an Asian martial art for women, featured in the Norwegian comic Kollektivet. It is all about kicking men in the groin (the word "pung" can translate "testicles").
• Sinanju — a Korean martial art handed down for many generations in the Destroyer series. It is considered the forerunner to most real-world martial arts and is called "the sun source" by its practitioneers.
• Sumito; or 'The 97 Steps' a martial art developed by the Siblings of the Shroud in Steve Perry's Matador series. The books depict the creation of the martial art by Lazlo Mourn (who walks the Musashi Flex, an illegal underground martial arts competition named after Miyamoto Musashi, featurimg both armed and unarmed combat) and its eventual use to overthrow a corrupt interstellar government.