History Main / BoxingKangaroo

* 1996's ''Film/{{Storybook}}'' has an anthropomorphic boxing kangaroo character named Pouch, who also wears a [[KangaroosRepresentAustralia stereotypical outback hunting outfit]]. Like Matilda above, he's [[PeopleInRubberSuits portrayed by an actor/stuntman in a kangaroo suit]] (the same actor from ''Matilda'', no less), but unlike ''Matilda'', Pouch is an anthropomorphic kangaroo, greatly decreasing the UncannyValley.

* ''VideoGame/EtrianOdyssey IV'' features a [[BossInMookClothing FOE]] called a Bounding Beast. It's a massive (its ''joey'' is taller than the average human!) black-and-white kangaroo monster that, naturally, fights using devastating punches and uppercuts. Later in the game, {{Palette Swap}}s of it appear as regular enemies.

* The kangaroo-shaped ceramic coin-and-watch holder[[note]]as seen in ''Film/PulpFiction'', but also [[AluminumChristmasTrees a real thing]][[/note]] wears little boxing gloves.

* Ryohei's CoolPet [[PunnyName Kangaryu]] from ''Manga/Reborn2004''.

* In ''Film/AlexanderAndTheTerribleHorribleNoGoodVeryBadDay'', a boxinh kangroo is one of the animals brought in for Alex's Australian themed birthday party. Alex's dad Ben attempts to tackle it, and gets beaten up for his trouble, after it escapes from the yard.

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Animalympics}}'' has Joey Gongolong, a [[NoCelebritiesWereHarmed kangaroo version of Muhammad Ali]], competing for a gold medal in boxing.

*** A WesternAnimation/DonaldDuck short also had him taking care of a baby boxing kangaroo named Joey. Despite all the hard time Donald has keeping it in line, the pet really loves him, to the point of attacking him while he was dressed in a bear rug because it thought Donald was eaten by said bear.
*** And a WesternAnimation/{{Goofy}} short, ''Baggage Buster'', had him working at a train station as a baggage handler keeping track of a magician's luggage. While he was messing with the magician's cape, it disgorges a boxing kangaroo which beats the snot out of him before hopping off.
*** In ''WesternAnimation/MagicianMickey'', Mickey's magic hoop briefly [[ForcedTransformation turns]] Donald into a kangaroo with boxing gloves on.

* An episode of ''WesternAnimation/MrMagoo'' had the titular character accidentally walk in on a fight which featured a kangaroo who would start boxing if he heard a bell go "ding ding".

*** In ''WesternAnimation/MagicianMickey'', Mickey's magic hoop briefly [[ForcedTransfomation turns]] Donald into a kangaroo with boxing gloves on.

*** In ''WesternAnimation/MagicianMickey'', Mickey's magic hoop briefly [[BalefulPolymorph turns]] Donald into a kangaroo with boxing gloves on.

* While it never appears in the TV series, one of the ''[[Anime/MobileFighterGGundam G Gundam]]'' mangas features the Jumping Gundam, a Gundam that not only looks like a boxing kangaroo, it is ''piloted'' by a boxing kangaroo using a motion-capture interface.

* In ''ComicBook/LegendsDC'', Beast Boy turns into one when dealing with Captain Boomerang.

* ''VideoGame/StreetsOfRage3'': Roo, a mid-level boss and unlockable character, is a trained kangaroo wearing red boxing gloves, blue training shorts, and a leash with a broken chain. During the fight, Bruce will mostly stay out of range while Victy attacks the player with jump kicks or a spinning kick attack.
* ''VideoGame/{{Tekken}}'': Roger and Roger Jr. (actually Mrs. Roger) are a variant: they borrow quite a bit (at least in ''Tekken 2'' and ''Tekken Tag Tournament'') from ProfessionalWrestling. The series also notably features Alex, a boxing ''[[RaptorAttack Velociraptor]]''.




%%* ''VideoGame/SpaceStationSiliconValley'': One of the DemonicSpiders are the boxing kangaroos.
* ''VideoGame/GadgetTwins'': One of the bosses during the final world is a mechanical kangaroo with boxing gloves piloted by the game's antagonist, Thump.

* ''VideoGame/SierraChampionshipBoxing'' (an old PC game from the 1980's) let you create your own boxer, choosing from 4 races: white, black, cartoon, and kangaroo.
%%* ''VideoGame/ClayFighter2'': Kangoo and palette swap Thunder.
* ''Franchise/{{Pokemon}}'':
** Kangaskhan can learn a variety of punching attacks, including Comet Punch.
** Breloom seems partially based on a kangaroo; it's part-Fighting-type, has a very high Attack stat, and learns a variety of punching moves. It even has red "hands" that look like boxing gloves.
%%* ''Franchise/{{Digimon}} V''-Pets: [[http://wikimon.net/Kangalmon Kangalmon]].
* ''VideoGame/TeamFortress2'': The nucleus of the metal element Australium, named after [[KangaroosRepresentAustralia the country in which it was discovered]], resembles two kangaroos boxing. Ingots of Australium are also stamped with the image of a man boxing a kangaroo, which is the method by which Australia chooses its king.

* ''VideoGame/TwilightHeroes'': If you're playing as a {{Natur|eHero}}alist, the first superpower attack you'll learn is the Kangaroo Punch. It's not very strong, but it's accurate.

%%* ''VideoGame/{{Kangaroo}}'' has a boxing-gloved Mama.
* ''VideoGame/TokyoJungle'' features one during a story section.
* ''VideoGame/MoleMania'': Kangaroon, the first boss, wears boxing gloves, but instead of directly hitting you with them, he pulls out gloves from his pouch and tosses them at you.
* ''VideoGame/AnimalCrossing'''s first (and currently only) two male kangaroo villagers are this; Rooney is dressed up like a boxer and has a house full of training equipment and with boxing ring, while Walt is more discret example of this, featuring HandwrapsOfAwesome.
* ''VideoGame/EtrianOdyssey IV'' features a [[BossInMookClothing FOE]] called a Bounding Beast. It's a massive (its ''joey'' is taller than the average human!) black-and-white kangaroo monster that, naturally, fights using devastating punches and uppercuts. Later in the game, {{Palette Swap}}s of it appear as regular enemies.

* The WesternAnimation/MickeyMouse cartoon ''Mickey's Kangaroo'' (1935) has him training the title character, a nonhumanized kangaroo named Hoppy, to be a boxer. It gets hilarious once the kangaroo really gets into the role and starts punching Mickey's face several times per second, while Mickey's still as [[ThePollyanna happy-go-lucky]] as ever.
** In the cartoon, Hoppy beats the bejesus out of Mickey alone. But in the comics of the same period, she fights Pegleg Pete's KillerGorilla Growlio, and wastes no opportunity along the way to pound luckless assistant trainer Horace Horsecollar into the ground.

** "Pop 'im, Pop" had Hoppy's "mother," Gracie the Fighting Kangaroo.

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'': Theodore Roosevelt comments on a boxing match between Super King/Bender and a supervillain's trained kangaroo in "Less Than Hero".
* Barney and Betty Rubble in ''WesternAnimation/TheFlintstones'' had Hoppy, a dinosaur boxing kangaroo.

* An episode of ''WesternAnimation/MrMagoo'' had the titular character accidentally walk in on a fight which featured a kangaroo who would start boxing if he heard a bell go "ding ding".
* ''WesternAnimation/TheFairlyOddParents'' has Punchy the boxing kangaroo, who only says "SHRIMP ON THE BARBIE!".
* ''WesternAnimation/JackieChanAdventures'': The first episode to feature the Monkey Talisman has Jackie, a skilled martial artist even in the cartoon, turned into a kangaroo; naturally, he proceeds to knock out the Dark Hand enforcers one by one.
** Of course, the fact that he was turned into a ''female'' kangaroo with a pouch brings up other questions.
* An old ''Pixie & Dixie and Mr. Jinks'' short pitted Jinks against a boxing kangaroo, K.O. Kangy. Like Sylvester, Jinks thought K.O. was a giant mouse.
* ''WesternAnimation/{{Animalympics}}'' has Joey Gongolong, a [[NoCelebritiesWereHarmed kangaroo version of Muhammad Ali]], competing for a gold medal in boxing.
* ''WesternAnimation/TotalDrama'' has Leshawna fight a boxing kangaroo in the ''[[NewSeasonNewName World Tour]]'' season. Leshawna is a powerful girl, but the kangaroo knocks her out with a single punch. Harold jumps into the ring to fight for his girlfriend's honor, only to share her fate.

* The Walter Lantz short ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x2I08Qz24lU&feature=player_embedded#! Punchy Pooch]]'' had one of these.
* Joey the kangaroo on ''WesternAnimation/ThePenguinsOfMadagascar'' would beat up anyone who invaded his habitat.
* ''Kangoo'' is a French cartoon series about about a team of basketball-playing and crime-fighting kangaroos. TheBigGuy Kevin is also a [[GoodOldFisticuffs "freestyle"]] martial artist.
* The ''WesternAnimation/TomAndJerryTheFastAndTheFurry'' movie had Punchy the Boxing Kangaroo, who beats up Tom when he sawed Australia in half.

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* In ''Anime/RevolutionaryGirlUtena'' there was a kangaroo (the gloved variety) in one early episode. It attacks [[ButtMonkey Nanami]], but [[BigDamnHeroes is knocked down by Touga]] who is wearing boxing gear for God knows what reason (there was also no explanation as to why there was a boxing kangaroo on campus in the first place).
* A [[NinjaPirateZombieRobot boxing kangaroo Zombie]] appears in the "Thriller Bark" arc of ''Manga/OnePiece''.

* While it never appears in the TV series, one of the ''[[Anime/MobileFighterGGundam G Gundam]]'' mangas features the Jumping Gundam, a Gundam that not only looks like a boxing kangaroo, it is ''piloted'' by a boxing kangaroo using a motion-capture interface.

* A travelling circus in ''Anime/MichikoAndHatchin'' has a boxing kangaroo. They give Michiko a bruised eye which [[AbuseMistake causes a man to think someone at the circus did it]].
* There's a boxing match between a Red Kangaroo and a Wallaroo in ''Manga/SetonAcademyJoinThePack''
* One episode of the 2012 anime of ''Manga/NinjaHattori'' involves Hattori boxing a kangaroo in order to retrieve a medal.

%%* ''Franchise/{{Digimon}}'' has [[https://wikimon.net/Kangarumon Kangarumon]], which is exactly this trope.

* In the French comic ''The Diamond Boomerang'', The ButtMonkey finds himself fighting one of these in an underground Australian boxing rings, and ''wins''.
* Invoked by the Creator/MarvelComics villain the Kangaroo--two of them, in fact. The first was just an enhanced guy, but the second wears a full suit of kangaroo armor.

* In ''ComicBook/LegendsDC'', Beast Boy turns into one when dealing with Captain Boomerang.
* In the ''ComicBook/SuskeEnWiske'' comic ''De Blinkende Boemerang'' (The Shining Boomerang), Lambik fights a boxing kangaroo in Sydney to win a cash prize. He wins by cheating, so the kangaroo's handlers drop him off in the middle of the jungle.

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%%* In ''Film/AlexanderAndTheTerribleHorribleNoGoodVeryBadDay'', Alex's dad Ben tangles with one after escaping from the yard.
* The titular kangaroo from ''Film/KangarooJack'' boxes one of the protagonists during a confrontation.
* ''Film/WarriorsOfVirtue'' has five kung-fu kangaroos aiding the hero on his journey in the land of Tao.
* 1978's ''Matilda'' (no relation to the Roald Dahl story) is a movie based around this concept.
* 1996's ''Storybook'' has an anthropomorphic boxing kangaroo character named Pouch, who also wears a [[KangaroosRepresentAustralia stereotypical outback hunting outfit]]. Like Matilda above, he's [[PeopleInRubberSuits portrayed by an actor/stuntman in a kangaroo suit]] (the same actor from ''Matilda'', no less), but unlike ''Matilda'', Pouch is an anthropomorphic kangaroo, greatly decreasing the UncannyValley.
* There's a quick shot in ''WesternAnimation/AllDogsGoToHeaven'' depicting two kangaroos fighting in a boxing match. It's just another sporting event the anti-hero Charlie wagers on.

* OlderThanRadio: A cartoon titled "Jack, the fighting Kangaroo with Professor Lendermann" appeared in a Sydney newspaper in 1891.

* ''Series/{{Beetleborgs}}'' had a MonsterOfTheWeek like this named [[PunnyName Roothless]]. Ironically, this one was actually competent, but [[TurnedAgainstTheirMasters couldn't be controlled]], requiring the only real EnemyMine situation in the series.
* PlayedForLaughs in ''Series/TheBeverlyHillbillies'' when [[NeverMessWithGranny Granny Clampett]] gets into a fist-fight with a kangaroo that had escaped from the zoo and wandered onto their property: she mistakes it for a "giant jackrabbit" and wants to catch it for stew.
* An episode of ''Series/AndyRichterControlsTheUniverse'' had him going up against a boxing kangaroo. He thought it was unfair that it really used its feet.
* An episode of ''Series/HannahMontana Forever'' has Jackson in a demeaning job where he is forced into one of these matches.
* ''Franchise/KamenRider'' has occasionally granted kangaroo-themed power-ups in DVD {{Bonus Episode}}s, all of which include the boxing aspect:
** ''Series/KamenRiderOOO'' has the Kangaroo Medal, a JokeItem which can be used as an Arm Medal that grants OOO RedBoxingGloves or as a Leg Medal that grants OOO red sneakers with [[InASingleBound enhanced hopping ability]] (and a penchant for performing Music/MichaelJackson dance moves).
** ''Series/KamenRiderZeroOne'' has the Hopping Kangaroo Progrise Key. While more focus is placed on using the kangaroo pouch as a HyperspaceArsenal, the form does have extra armor padding on the fists and a punch-based fighting style.
** ''Series/KamenRiderRevice'' has the Kangaroo Vistamp, and oversized {{Power Fist}}s are once again part of the package.

%%* ''VideoGame/StreetsOfRage3'': Roo, a midlevel boss and unlockable character, is a boxing kangaroo.
* ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaOracleGames'': Ricky, one of the three {{Powerup Mount}}s, is a boxing kangaroo. In both games, you had to retrieve his gloves for him before you could ride him.
* ''VideoGame/{{Klonoa}}'': Chipple is an [[FunnyAnimal anthropomorphic]] boxing kangaroo. He wasn't at first, though; he was introduced as a humanlike boxer, and inexplicably became a kangaroo between games.
%%* ''VideoGame/KaoTheKangaroo'': The titular Kao. ([[DontExplainTheJoke Geddit? "KO"? Geddit?]])

* Averted by the bizarre case of the man who [[https://youtu.be/FIRT7lf8byw?t=28s punched a kangaroo to save his dog]]. The kangaroo didn't punch back.

* The ''TabletopGame/YuGiOh'' monster Des Kangaroo is this, along with a PaletteSwap called Kangaroo Champ. Des Kangaroo is also used as one of the fusion materials for Master of Oz, a [[NinjaPirateZombieRobot giant green boxing koala/kangaroo hybrid]].

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* OlderThanRadio: A cartoon titled "Jack, the fighting Kangaroo with Professor Lendermann" appeared in a Sydney newspaper in 1891.
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* Roger and Roger Jr. (actually Mrs. Roger). from ''VideoGame/{{Tekken}}''. Minor subversion: they borrow quite a bit (at least in ''Tekken 2'' and ''Tekken Tag Tournament'') from ProfessionalWrestling. The series also notably features Alex, a ''boxing [[RaptorAttack velociraptor]]''.
* Roo, a midlevel boss and unlockable character from ''VideoGame/StreetsOfRage 3'' is a boxing kangaroo.
* Ricky, one of the three {{Powerup Mount}}s from ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaOracleGames'', is a boxing kangaroo. In both games, you had to retrieve his gloves for him before you could ride him.
* Chipple from the ''VideoGame/{{Klonoa}}'' series is an [[FunnyAnimal anthropomorphic]] boxing kangaroo. He wasn't at first, though; he was introduced as a humanlike boxer, and inexplicably became a kangaroo between games.
* There's the [=titular=] ''VideoGame/KaoTheKangaroo''. ([[DontExplainTheJoke Geddit? "KO"? Geddit?]])
* One of the DemonicSpiders in their respective areas of ''VideoGame/SpaceStationSiliconValley'' were the boxing kangaroos.
* In a very old game for Sega Genesis, ''Gadget Twins'', one of the bosses during the final world is a mechanical kangaroo with boxing gloves piloted by the game's antagonist, Thump.
* One of the minigames in ''Lenny Loosejocks Goes Walkabout'' pits Lenny against a boxing kangaroo. While it takes several hits from Lenny to knock out the 'roo, if she manages to kick you, it's an [[OneHitKill instant knockout]] for Lenny.
* ''Sierra Championship Boxing'' (an old PC game from the 1980's) let you create your own boxer, choosing from 4 races: white, black, cartoon, and kangaroo.
* Kangoo and palette swap Thunder from ''VideoGame/ClayFighter 2''.

** [[NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast Kangaskhan]] can learn a variety of punching attacks, including Comet Punch.

* The ''Digimon V''-Pets gave us [[http://wikimon.net/Kangalmon Kangalmon]].

* [[ClosestThingWeGot Yoshi's Kangaroo costume]] in ''VideoGame/MarioKartTour'' comes with a pair of boxing gloves.
* In ''VideoGame/MegaManX7'', the kangaroo-based Maverick named Vanishing Gungaroo and his [[MiniMecha Ride Armor]] are based on this trope.
* If you're playing as a {{Natur|eHero}}alist in ''VideoGame/TwilightHeroes'', the first superpower attack you'll learn is the Kangaroo Punch. It's not very strong, but it's accurate.

* The Atari rescue-the-Joey game simply titled ''VideoGame/{{Kangaroo}}'' with a boxing-gloved Mama.

* Kangaroon, the first boss of ''VideoGame/MoleMania'', wears boxing gloves, but instead of directly hitting you with them, he pulls out gloves from his pouch and tosses them at you.

* One of the various cards in ''VideoGame/PlantsVsZombiesHeroes'' is the Kangaroo Rider, an [[RaisingtheSteaks undead kangaroo]] wearing boxing gloves with an Imp in her pouch. She packs a punch, but automatically [[TacticalWithdrawal retreats back into the zombie hero's hand]] if she's non-lethally damaged.

* One of the main characters of furry webcomic ''Webcomic/AAndHClub'' is a kangaroo who teaches martial arts.
* In ''Webcomic/BoxerHockey'', the Sydney screamers' goalie is one of [[http://boxerhockey.fireball20xl.com/?id=60 these.]]

%%* ''Franchise/{{Digimon}}'' has [[https://wikimon.net/Kangarumon Kangarumon,]] which is exactly this trope.

* In the 80s, there was a comic book series called ''[[TeenageMutantSamuraiWombats Pre-Teen Dirty-Gene Kung-Fu Kangaroos]]'' that were [[Expy/ComicBooks Expies]] of the Franchise/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles , but in a marsupial sense.

* Creator/WoodyAllen fights a [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LP3qZhdmhGQ real boxing kangaroo]] in a comedy skit for the TV show ''Europe’s Big Top Circus Stars Live from the Hippodrome'' – AKA ''The Hippodrome Show''.

* Roger and Roger Jr (actually Mrs. Roger). from ''VideoGame/{{Tekken}}''. Minor subversion: they borrow quite a bit (at least in ''Tekken 2'' and ''Tekken Tag Tournament'') from ProfessionalWrestling. The series also notably features Alex, a ''boxing [[RaptorAttack velociraptor]]''.

* The ''Digimon V''-Pets gave us [[http://wikimon.net/Kangalmon Kangalmon.]]

** Though [[WhoWillBellTheCat ''Bell Hoppy'']] represented quite the victory over the "monster" for the lisping "puddy tat."

* ''Series/PowerRangersNinjaStorm'' had an episode with a monster named "Boxing Boparoo", a kangaroo who boxed.
** Later in ''Series/PowerRangersDinoThunder'', the ''Pachycephalasaur'' zord often behaved just like a boxing kangaroo (it's bipedal with a large tail and even its 'hands' were permanently molded as bronze fists).

* An episode of ''[[Series/HannahMontana Hannah Montana Forever]]'' has Jackson in a demeaning job where he is forced into one of these matches.
* ''Series/KamenRiderOOO'' has the Kangaroo Medal, a JokeItem exclusive to the Hyper Battle DVD (and the Ganbaride arcade game) which can be used as an Arm Medal that grants OOO RedBoxingGloves or as a Leg Medal that grants OOO red sneakers with [[InASingleBound enhanced hopping ability]] (and a penchant for performing Music/MichaelJackson dance moves).

* The German silent movie ''Film/DasBoxendeKanguruh'', directed by Max Skladanowsky in 1895, featured a boxing kangaroo.

* ''Film/WarriorsOfVirtue'' had five kung-fu kangaroos aiding the hero on his journey in the land of Tao.
* 1978's ''[[SimilarlyNamedWorks Matilda]]'' was a movie based around this concept.
* 1996's ''Storybook'' had an anthropomorphic boxing kangaroo character named Pouch, who also wore a [[KangaroosRepresentAustralia stereotypical outback hunting outfit]]. Like Matilda above, he was [[PeopleInRubberSuits portrayed by an actor/stuntman in a kangaroo suit]] (the same actor from ''Matilda'', no less), but unlike ''Matilda'', Pouch is an anthropomorphic kangaroo, greatly decreasing the UncannyValley.

* In a very old game for Sega Genesis, ''GadgetTwins'', one of the bosses during the final world is a mechanical kangaroo with boxing gloves piloted by the game's antagonist, Thump.
* One of the minigames in ''VideoGame/LennyLoosejocksGoesWalkabout'' pits Lenny against a boxing kangaroo. While it takes several hits from Lenny to knock out the 'roo, if she manages to kick you, it's an [[OneHitKill instant knockout]] for Lenny.

* One of the controllable animal-machines in ''Silicon Valley'' for the N64 was a classic boxing kangaroo.
* ''Franchise/{{Pokemon}}''

* The kangaroo-based Maverick Vanishing Gungaroo from ''VideoGame/MegaManX7'' and his [[MiniMecha Ride Armor]] are based on this trope.

* {{Kangoo}} is a French cartoon series about about a team of basketball-playing and crime-fighting kangaroos. TheBigGuy Kevin is also a [[GoodOldFisticuffs "freestyle"]] martial artist.

In media, kangaroos are often portrayed as either literally wearing boxing gloves, or else as capable of boxing moves. The origins of this image lay in the fact that, when defending itself, a kangaroo uses its upper legs (the ones usually thought of as "arms") ''first'', to hold an opponent in place, while it rakes its opponent with its lower legs, thus giving the animal, for a short while, anyway, the appearance of "boxing". Not only that, but the 'arms' of an alpha male kangaroo are both humanlike and alarmingly muscular, meaning that they're one of the few animals that ''looks'' like they could take apart a human being in a boxing match.

In media, kangaroos are often portrayed as either literally wearing boxing gloves, or else as capable of boxing moves. The origins of this image lay in the fact that, when defending itself, a kangaroo uses its upper legs (the ones usually thought of as "arms") ''first'', to hold an opponent in place, while it rakes its opponent with its lower legs, thus giving the animal, for a short while, anyway, the appearance of "boxing".

* The German silent movie ''Das Boxende Kanguruh'', directed by Max Skladanowsky in 1895, featured a boxing kangaroo.

* ''Series/SkippyTheBushKangaroo'' shows Skippy wear boxing clubs at the end of an episode, but as a joke. She never actually boxes.

* Rooney, ''VideoGame/AnimalCrossing'''s first male kangaroo, is dressed up like a boxer and has a boxing ring in his house.

* The Australian family film ''Joey'' revolves around an underground gambling operation involving poached kangaroos.

** Breloom seems partially based on a kangaroo; it's part-Fighting-type, has a very high Attack stat, and learns a variety of punching moves.

* A travelling circus in ''Anime/MichikoToHatchin'' has a boxing kangaroo. They give Michiko a bruised eye which [[AbuseMistake causes a man to think someone at the circus did it]].