History Main / ChefOfIron

*** Gym Leaders Katy and Kofu are a baker and a seafood chef respectively, and both are also gym leaders, Katy specializing in Bug-type while Kofu Water-type.

* Siebold in ''VideoGame/PokemonXAndY'' has a normal job as an executive chef, but he's also good enough at Pokémon battling to be a member of Kalos's Elite Four. He specializes in the [[MakingASplash Water-type]], which is quite fitting for his line of work and makes him either a Type 1 or Type 2, depending on whether his Pokémon are his partners in the kitchen or not (the game never makes it clear).

* Link becomes this in ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaBreathOfTheWild'', owing to how important the cooking/crafting system is in the gameplay. As ever, he's the chosen hero who ventures out into the world with the aim of defeating Ganon, doing battle with many kinds of beasts and adversaries on the way there. However, this time around, in-game journals characterize him as being something of a [[BigEater gourmand]], and, judging by the results of a particular sidequest where he sources and recreates cake recipes from the ruins of Hyrule Castle, he's a fantastic chef. Of course, throughout the game, you'll likely have him whip up a wide variety of meals and snacks with all sorts of ingredients, often bestowing a range of status buffs on top of the health they recover.

* While all playable characters in ''VideoGame/GenshinImpact'' can both cook and fight, Xiangling is the only one who works as a chef. Her fighting skills also come in handy as she likes scouring various places in the wild in search for exotic ingredients, running across monsters along the way.

* "Ordinary" (or more ordinary than the following examples at least) people who are skilled in normal combat and mundane, if excellent cookery; one or the other tends to be his day job. If the day job is fighting (e.g. military, police work) being a cook may show the character has a sensitive side (sometimes a case of RealMenWearPink and/or RealMenCook); if cooking is the day job, they may be leading a double life of hidden badass. Or, they might be [[CampCook a chef for an army or suchlike]], where they do both at the same time. In this form, may overlap with the AlmightyJanitor.
* A cook whose special skills include using cooking implements in combat. They may be an ImprobableWeaponUser; there are many ways you can hurt people with boiling liquids, big chef's knives, [[ForkFencing eating utensils and cutlery]], [[FryingPanOfDoom heavy skillets]], etc. An angry ApronMatron brandishing a RollingPinOfDoom at you may cross over into this trope slightly, especially if it's their primary means of defending themselves. Compare IKnowMaddenKombat.
* A chef for whom cooking ''is'' their means of fighting, and we're not talking about {{Cooking Duel}}s. {{Baguette Beatdown}}s, entangling noodles, golems made of food, chemical weapons made from [[BlazingInfernoHellfireSauce hot pepper sauce]], the [[FoodFight pantry's the limit]]. May be combined with kitchen implements as above. In this form, they are practicing MartialArtsAndCrafts.

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* Simon Brezhnev from ''LightNovel/{{Durarara}}'' is a Russian sushi chef and former member of the special forces. He demonstrates veritable [[CharlesAtlasSuperpower Charles Atlas Superpowers]], jumping down several stories and stopping an equally strong guy throwing a vending machine mid-throw! And still he's a pacifist and only fights to stop fights with minimal violence. It's implied that the boss of the Russian Sushi is just as badass, though he's more subdued about it.

* [[CatFolk Nyan-ta]] of ''LightNovel/LogHorizon'' is a high level [[DualWielding Swashbuckler]] who is capable of kicking major ass when he needs to. He's also capable of whipping up meals that would make Creator/GordonRamsay proud. Bonus points for being one of (if not ''the'') first Adventurer to discover how to make food with real taste in the new world.

* The second season of ''LightNovel/{{Slayers}}'' has in one episode a chef who knows how to prepare Dragon Cuisine. Of course, the first step in cooking a dragon is collecting fresh ingredients.

* Brock from ''Anime/{{Pokemon}}'',who can kick your ass in a gym battle and still whip up a great dinner.

** Baratie, Zeff's restaurant at sea, is actually filled completely with Fighting Chefs, who are so fearsome that customers visit the restaurant just as much to watch them fight as eat their cooking. They're technically all Type 1 like Sanji, but their weapons ''look'' like food and cooking instruments (even if they're not the same ones they use to actually cook with) giving the appearance of Type 2 and 3. A flashback reveals that Zeff wrote "[[BunnyEarsLawyer damned cooks]] are welcome" in the job posting.

** Baratie, Zeff's restaurant at sea, is actually filled completely with Fighting Chefs, who are so fearsome that customers visit the restaurant just as much to watch them fight as eat their cooking. They're technically all Type 1 like Sanji, but their weapons ''look'' like food and cooking instruments (even if they're not the same ones they use to actually cook with) giving the appearance of Type 2 and 3. A flashback reveals that Zeff wrote "damned cooks are welcome" in the job posting.

** Because of the associations with Betty Crocker, it is sometimes joked by fans that [[spoiler:her Imperious Condescension, or her previous incarnation Meenah Peixes,]] must be a mean pastry chef as well.

* ''Manga/DeliciousInDungeon'' has Senshi, who hunts dungeon monsters for food. He has to be since [[spoiler: he lives in the dungeon full time.]]

** The biggest example in the series, and the one who provides the page quote, is Sanji, the archetypal "ordinary" Fighting Cook. [[ExtremityExtremist He fights with his feet]] to save his cooking hands from damage and considers a Chef of Iron Type 2 or 3 to be a personal insult (due to almost dying of starvation as a child [[spoiler: and feeding the poor despite being hated by his family for it in his backstory]], he [[BerserkButton REALLY hates it when people waste food]], or uses cooking instruments for things that aren't food).

* Creator/PatriciaCWrede's short story "Utensile Strength" is about the royal family of the ''Literature/{{Enchanted Forest|Chronicles}}'' attempting to find an owner for a literal FryingPanOfDoom. They decide to hold a "warriors' cooking contest" with the Pan as the grand prize, and attract contestants from across the kingdoms. [[spoiler: During the event, a non-competing princess-disguised-as-scullery-maid is found to be the Pan's rightful wielder. The warriors insist on completing the cooking contest anyway.]]

* From Team FK Digital's ''VideoGame/ChaosCode'', there's [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bYmMkavy2Zg Bravo Pepperonicine]].

* ''VideoGame/ClayFighter 63 1/3'' has Kung Pow, a Chinese chef who attacks with woks, chopsticks, knives, and other cooking utensils. All his moves are named after Chinese dishes.

* Indie game ''VideoGame/TheDishwasher'' has [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin The]] [[EveryoneCallsHimBarkeep Chef]]. He serves as something of a GuardianAngel to the Dishwasher himself, appropriately enough. Oh, and he also messily wipes the floor with dozens of government-trained, heavily armed cyborgs [[spoiler: and ''survives'' his ObiWanMoment of being chainsawed in half from the shoulder to the hip.]]

** Emiya Shirou was the SupremeChef before beginning to master his combat abilities, becoming a Type 1. By extension, this makes [[spoiler: Archer]] one as well, though this is most obvious in ''VideoGame/FateGrandOrder'' where he's basically part of the Chaldea kitchen staff when he's not out in the field kicking ass.

** [[spoiler: Matou Sakura]] as well, but mostly [[spoiler: in the Heaven's Feel path... when she snaps due to all the BreakTheCutie piled up on her and shows how everyone should BewareTheNiceOnes.]] In fact, [[spoiler: Shirou himself taught her to cook, and he has apparently said she is now the best of the two.]]

** One of the [[spoiler: Alpha]] kids, Jane, is a descendent of the Betty Crocker fortune with a knack at baking and detective work. She also wields a giant fork/spoon as a weapon.
** Dad Egbert is seen using homemade baked goods themselves as weapons. [[spoiler: He also has ties to Betty Crocker.]]
** Because of the associations with Betty Crocker, it is sometimes joked by fans that [[spoiler: )(er Imperious Condescension, or her previous incarnation Meenah Peixes,]] must be a mean pastry chef as well.

** Baratie, Zeff's restaurant at sea, is actually filled completely with Fighting Chefs, who are so fearsome that customers visit the restaurant just as much to watch them fight as eat their cooking. They're technically all Type 1 like Sanji, but their weapons ''look'' like food and cooking instruments (even if they're not the same ones they use to actually cook with) giving the appearance of Type 2 and 3.

** Cracker, Streusen and others members of Big Mom crew also fit the trope.

* Ogre Butchers from ''TabletopGame/{{Warhammer}}'', who use a specialized Lore known as "Gut Magic". Skrag the Slaughterer is likely the best at this, having [[ArtificialLimbs implanted his cooking utensils where his hands used to be]] and actively stuffing anything he murders in battle into his massive cooking cauldron, to be served in the victory feast later on. The ogres, [[ExtremeOmnivore hungry as they are]], are more than happy to follow him in battle.

** From ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyIX'', we have Quina, who is also an ExtremeOmnivore, wielding an oversized set of cutlery in combat, along with [[AmbiguousGender his/her]] chef-hat. It's never clarified if Quina's cooking is [[AlienLunch edible by humans]].

** ''VideoGame/FireEmblemAwakening'' has Stahl (good general cook, one half of the traditional Red and green Cavalier duo), Gaius (expert in [[SweetTooth sweets]] and the local LovableRogue), Noire (great baker, an ArcherArchetype LadyOfWar in the making), Cherche (good general cook as well, NinjaMaid and DragonRider), Sumia (a believer in ComfortFood and the local submissive badass), and even [[PlayerCharacter the Avatar]] (whose cooking, [[HeroicSelfDeprecation despite his/her doubts]] that [[LethalChef it's even edible]], seems to be ''loved'' [[AlienLunch by the non-humans in the party]], like Panne, Nowi, and Nah).

* Kouji Kabuto from ''Anime/MazingerZ'' was a Chef of Iron in the original manga. He is shown on screen to be the one that cooks for his household breakfast. It is also implied that his cooking is pretty good no matter how ridiculous it is (his croquette is huge (Sayaka said it's a [[HumongousMecha Mazinger-class]] croquette referring to its size) and can shoot Rust Tornado (Unleash wind when cut) and Rocket Punch (launch a part of it when its cut, directly to Shiro's mouth), and of course he kicks ass in battle.
* Given the amount of MartialArtsAndCrafts in ''Manga/RanmaOneHalf'', you had better believe that this shows up a few times:
** Ukyō Kuonji, the third of Ranma's unwanted fiancees, is an [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Okonomiyaki Okonomiyaki]] chef who spent over a decade training in martial arts for revenge on Ranma. She's primarily defined as an ImprobableWeaponUser who fights with spatulas; smaller ones she flings as projectiles, and a massive one that she uses as a melee weapon. However, she also has techniques that weaponize okonomiyaki ingredients; using a cocktail of batter and rubber cement to glue foes in place, oversized noodles as binding rope, and a blend of tempura flakes and gunpowder as an explosive smokescreen. She's even been seen throwing bags of flour as smokescreens. In the anime, she even has an ultimate attack called the Batter Dragon, which animates okomiyaki batter into self-propelled dragon-shaped pseudopod that grabs a victim, wraps around them, and then explodes, transforming into a flash-cooked okonomiyaki with the stunned foe trapped in the center.
** A {{filler}} episode of the anime introduces Crepe King Joe, a one-off rival of Ukyō's who wields an arsenal of throwing spatulas and crepes stuffed with various nasty surprises, such as explosives or small flamethrowers. His ultimiate attack is the Golden Crepe of Death, where he wraps a victim up in a super-tough crepe to immobilize them before the C4-whipped cream blend inside explodes, taking the victim out of the fight.
** The manga likewise gives Ukyō a one-off rival in the form of the masked Martial Arts Takoyaki chef Hayato, who fights with an oversized takoyaki skewer and can flick takoyaki as fast as bullets and with such strength they can dent steel.
** A variant of the idea is ''Martial Arts Takeout'', a style practiced by takeout delivery girls that involves fighting to protect the takeout they are carrying, even going so far as to use the food itself as a weapon (such as noodles being used as a whip). In the manga, Shampoo is shown to know this style, whilst the anime instead gives it to a unique fiancee of Ranma's called Kaori Daikoko.
** The same anime {{filler}} episode that features Crepe King Joe also has the Temple of the Golden Stomach, a shrine and training center for all practitioners of cooking-based martial arts.

* The anime ''Bistro Recipe[=/=]Manga/FightingFoodons'' essentially turned Type 3 into Mons style food themed monsters.
* Akito Tenkawa from ''Anime/MartianSuccessorNadesico''... AcePilot and restaurant-level chef.
* ''Manga/BlackButler'':
** [[BattleButler Sebastian]] can go kick some ass and be home in time to prepare a five-star meal.
** Baldo, the ''actual'' chef of Phantomhive Manor, isn't much for cooking, but he can beat you down with a frying pan. [[spoiler:He's actually an ex-soldier kept on for his combat experience. His food might suck, but his ability to blow shit up is what he was ''hired'' for.]]

* Shell and Leon from ''Manga/ChuukaIchiban'' (mistranslated as ''Cooking Master Boy''). The former has a steel staff and the latter has seven knives including [[{{BFS}} a large cleaver for cutting cows open]]. Following the context of the show, all these are simply fantastic cooking implements, but their owners are well able to put them to lethal use whenever they need to. Also in the series, they've faced opponents who are clearly superhuman as well as a [[NinjaPirateZombieRobot ninja chef]].
* ''Manga/NegimaMagisterNegiMagi'':
** Chao Lingshen. Chef and owner of the Chao Bao Zi restaurant and {{Magitek}}-using TimeMaster BigBad of the Mahora Festival StoryArc.
** Also Eishun Konoe, who's both the greatest swordman in both mundane and magical world and TeamChef for his band of invincible idiots. [[BerserkButton And Heaven help them if they don't eat it all.]]
* In the ''Manga/Cyborg009'' series, Chang Changku/006 is a former Chinese chef turned cyborg -- and he still cooks in his spare time. And he even uses [[MundaneUtility his fire-breathing powers in the kitchen]]! In the 2001 series, he manages to re-open his restaurant and proves that his cooking skills haven't gone down at all.

* In ''Manga/HunterXHunter'', two of the test-givers in the Hunter Exam were "Gourmet Hunters", who specialized in tracking down rare foods and ingredients and were expert cooks, but were just as capable of kicking ass as any other Hunter; in particular, the ActionGirl of the duo, the {{Tsundere}} Menchi, ''almost killed a guy with her bare hands'' when he pressed her BerserkButton by openly doubting her Chef of Iron credentials. Then, when she had to come up with an impromptu test, Menchi told the aspirants to get a very rare kind of egg inside a very dangerous canyon... and to set the example, she easily got it herself. Almost everyone else got almost killed by merely trying.
* Makoto/Sailor Jupiter of ''Franchise/SailorMoon'': Being a soldier of justice, she's also a very good cook and respectable domestic figure (she has to be, given she lives alone and was [[ParentalAbandonment orphaned]]) which balances out her tough bruiser personality.
* Tenii in ''Shin Anime/KoihimeMusou''. She impresses the main cast with her cooking at a local tavern, and is called on to prove her skill by Sousou. Then she grabs a raging bull by the horns and throws it into the air.

* Simon Brezhnev from ''LightNovel/{{Durarara}}'' is a Russian sushi chef and former member of the special forces. He demonstrates veritable [[CharlesAtlasSuperpower Charles Atlas Superpowers]], jumping down several stories and stopping an equally strong guy throwing a vending machine mid-throw! And still he's a pacifist and only fights to stop fights with minimal violence. It's implied that the boss of the Russian Sushi is just as badass, though he's more subdued about it.
* After more than a decade (viewer time) of being little more than the munchkin in the kitchen, ''Anime/TenchiMuyo'''s Sasami Masaki Jurai showed in the third OVA series that as well as cooking up a storm on a regular basis, she could not only out-think a highly-trained and heavily-armed Galaxy Police officer, but also hand her ass to her with little effort. Sasami would have been about nine years old at the time, and did not appear to use her divine connections or avatar powers at the time -- just a quarterstaff that she kept tucked away in her hair. Seriously.
* Masaru Aoki from ''Manga/HajimeNoIppo'', a ramen restaurant cook who also is training to become a professional boxer.
* ''Franchise/LyricalNanoha'':
** Shiro Takamachi. Baker and owner of the popular Midoriya Cafe who also happens to be a [[VisualNovel/TriangleHeart3SweetSongsForever former ninja-assassin bodyguard]].
** Most of the [[BadassFamily Takamachi family]] qualifies, since Midoriya is a FamilyBusiness. The only ones that don't qualify are Momoko (who isn't a fighter) and Miyuki (who can't cook).
** Hayate Yagami, the TeamChef of the Wolkenritter who also happens to be a PersonOfMassDestruction capable of nuking cities with her magic.
** Miura Rinaldi is a highly skilled martial artist and a self-taught chef ([[AwesomenessByAnalysis from observing the cooks at her family's restaurant]]).
* Sai Saici of ''[[Anime/MobileFighterGGundam G Gundam]]'' is a Type-1 with shades of Type-2. Not only is his food delicious, his cooking is quite showy, and quite a crowd-pleaser. His combat-skills, however, are unrelated to cooking - he uses basic Shaolin Kung-Fu, and quite well at that.
* Whenever ''[[Anime/MobileFighterGGundam G Gundam]]'' and ''Anime/MartianSuccessorNadesico'' appear in the same ''VideoGame/SuperRobotWars'' game, Sai Saici and Akito Tenkawa can usually be found bonding in the Nadesico's kitchen over their mutual interest in giant robots and cooking.
* China from ''Webcomic/HetaliaAxisPowers'', and specially in the anime. He uses his beloved wok to cook delicious dishes ''and'' to kick ass.
* In ''Manga/{{Mahoromatic}}'' Mahoro is this. One of the side characters, Chizuko, seems to be there mainly to identify the exact dish from the precise 5* restaurant, which Mahoro has just replicated to perfection.
* Brock from ''Anime/{{Pokemon}}'',who can kick your ass in a gym battle and still whip up a great dinner.
* Yuuhi from ''Manga/CeresCelestialLegend'', an excellent cook who can also kick some serious ass with a pair of chopsticks.
* Dita Liebely from ''Anime/{{Vandread}}''. TheHero and her love interest Hibiki enjoys her cooking and is a high-ranking Dread pilot.

* [[CatFolk Nyan-ta]] of ''LightNovel/LogHorizon'' is a high level [[DualWielding Swashbuckler]] who is capable of kicking major ass when he needs to. He's also capable of whipping up meals that would make Creator/GordonRamsay proud. Bonus points for being one of (if not ''the'') first Adventurer to discover how to make food with real taste in the new world.
* ''Manga/AkameGaKill'' has Akame herself: who does the cooking for Night Raid most of the time. She also is the most deadly of them overall.
* ''Anime/PrincessConnectReDive'': Pecorine is a gifted chef with a passion for learning new recipes, and also a nigh-unstoppable warrior when the quest for new ingredients and recipes means running into monsters, as often seems to be the case. At one point she takes down a dragon with one MegatonPunch.

* ''ComicBook/SunfireAndBigHero6'': Wasabi No-Ginger is an expert chef, able to prepare many local and international dishes simply for the joy of cooking. He's also a deadly knife slinger and doesn't appreciate his cooking [[BerserkButton being interuppted by villain attacks]].
* ''ComicBook/{{Deadpool}}'': A girl from Deadpool's past calls this trope by name: "In the Heya kitchen, they call me... the Iron Chef!"

* ''Fanfic/ACrownOfStars'': Even after being inactive for a long time, Shinji is still a good pilot. And after starting living together again so long Asuka confirms that he is still a very good cook.

* In ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/7247199/1/The-Paths-Diverge The Paths Diverge]]'' Natasja, being a Muggle as well as a pretty good cook, favors implements such as frying pans and marble rolling pins when faced with troublesome wizards. She actually takes down a not-yet-captured Bellatrix Lestrange with a ''baking sheet'' and throws a barbecue fork at ''[[DidYouJustPunchOutCthulhu Voldemort himself]]'' in the graveyard after the Third Task.
* ''Fanfic/OnceMoreWithFeeling'': According to Asuka, Shinji ''knows'' how to cook well, and his piloting skills almost match hers.

* Po from ''WesternAnimation/KungFuPanda'' was raised by a noodle chef, prior to being chosen to be trained as a kick-ass warrior. As a result, he knows a little something about cooking, and while it's not played up, he's definitely good at it. Once he receives his kick-ass martial training, he's a classic type 1.

* Steven Seagal in his classic ''Film/UnderSiege''... when terrorists hijack a navy battleship, they secure the entire, battle-hardened crew... but they forget the ship cook. Who is a former Navy SEAL. Played by ''Creator/StevenSeagal'', of all people. Yeah, they're pretty much fucked.
-->'''Jordan Tate:''' You're not a cook.\\
'''Casey Ryback:''' Yeah, well... I also cook.
* In ''Film/UnderSiege2DarkTerritory'', there is a scene where Seagal's character sends a message to his co-worker, another chef. And everyone expected serious kickassery... But it turned out he just wanted the other chef to call the MissionControl.

* The chef in ''Film/DragonInn'' (another Martial Arts movie) is equally deadly with his meat cleaver in the kitchen and on the battlefield.

* In the Creator/StephenChow film ''Film/GodOfCookery'':
** The world famous chef and title-holder is disgraced by an underling. He picks up a knife and is disarmed with a teaspoon by the underling who claims that the title-holder has not cooked for so long his grip has grown weak. The disgraced cook then embarks on a journey to become a Chef Of Iron once more.
** Sister Turkey. In a fight she punches through an upturned table to hold a meat cleaver right in front of the face of the man behind it. By day she sells fast food.
* Hanzo Hattori from ''Film/KillBill'', people! After [[RetiredBadass retiring]] from [[TheBlacksmith his blacksmith duties]], he became a sushi chef in Okinawa. And then he came out of retirement to forge The Bride's iconic katana.
* The Champion of Justice in ''Film/FishStory'' is an excellent example. He leaves the scene to get an apple pie out of the oven, and returns to find a hijacking in progress. They shoot him, but [[OnlyAFleshWound it doesn't stop him]] [[spoiler:at first[[note]]and not later, either.[[/note]]]]

* ''Film/ArmyOfTheDead'': Scott Ward works as a cook in a burger joint when Bly Tanaka comes to recruit him for the heist based on his combat experience during the Las Vegas zombie outbreak. He wants to buy himself a food truck once the mission is over.

* ''Literature/{{Temeraire}}'': The SupremeChef Gong Su faithfully follows Will Laurence across five continents and, in a pinch, reveals that he can use his {{Absurdly Sharp Blade}}s just as handily against enemy soldiers as on the day's cut of meat. {{Justified|Trope}} with TheReveal that [[spoiler:he's an agent of the Chinese Emperor, sent to look after Laurence.]]

* The Chairman of ''[[Series/IronChef Iron Chef America]]'', played by Mark Dacascos, is a black belt (both in character and in Real Life), and isn't shy about showing moves off in Kitchen Stadium. While it's not explicitly said that he cooks himself, he's a gourmand, and given the trope's namesake, [[RuleOfCool he ought to count]].
* The original ''Series/IronChef'' has at least two of these as challengers. One a former Sumo turned chef after a knee injury forced him to quit and another who was a professional chef who also competed at the national level in karate as a sixth degree black belt. (It should be noted said karateka, Lin Kunbi, was also the first challenger to tie with an Iron Chef.)

%%* Shouichi Tsugami of ''Series/KamenRiderAgito''.
* Souji Tendou of ''Series/KamenRiderKabuto'', a world-class chef with fighting skills to match and an ego that outweighs both of them combined.
* Michael Garibaldi, the ''[[Series/BabylonFive Babylon 5]]'' chief of security, is also a near gourmet-level chef (specializing in Italian food), which poses two problems for him: 1. Being security chief on a SpaceStation tens of light-years from the nearest proper farm, getting certain ingredients (like fresh eggs and butter) is nigh-impossible, and 2. [[TheMedic Dr. Franklin]] doesn't approve of heavy foods. Most of his time is spent [[KnightInSourArmor being]] [[ProperlyParanoid suspicious]] and kicking ass, so the cooking dimension [[RealMenWearPink serves to make him more three-dimensional]]. Note that it's Garibaldi who complains the most about the rations on B5, leading to a [[Funny/BabylonFive Crowning Moment Of Funny]].
* ''Series/{{Charmed|1998}}'': Piper Halliwell. Chef-turned-club owner by day, powerful witch by night. Her cooking abilities make it easier for her to brew potions, which can be used to kill demons. In the end, after she retires from being a witch, Piper buys a restaurant.
* Captain Benjamin Sisko of ''Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine'', exquisite chef who grew up working in his dad's restaurant. And one of the most badass beings in the alpha quadrant.
* ''Series/{{Reaper}}'' contains a demon couple who, among other things, are shown to be excellent cooks. They're not big on the fighting side; but, being demons, they can seriously kick ass when they need to.

* Oren Pierre Alfonzo from ''Series/KamenRiderGaim''. Former special forces soldier (implied to be the French Foreign Legion) turned pâtissier (pastry chef) and then Armoured Rider Bravo.
* Sam Tyler, the main character from ''Series/LifeOnMars2006'', is a 2006 modern police officer transported to 1973, where cops are more likely to punch you in the gut than read you your rights. The fact that Sam is an excellent cook is used as an example of his modern values, which surprise the 1970s populace, to whom the idea of a man who is not a professional chef being able to cook is pretty strange.
* Sayid from ''Series/{{Lost}}''. He's best known for being a badass soldier turned torturer turned assassin. In the middle of all that, one of his flashbacks show him working as a chef in Paris.
* Special Agent Dwayne "King" Pride from ''Series/NCISNewOrleans'' enjoys cooking for his team when they're not fighting bad guys.
* Tanis from ''Series/{{Letterkenny}}'' is the honorary leader of the nearby First Nations reserve, absolutely does not take shit from anyone, will stop at nothing to protect the interests of her people, is the premier {{Ladette}} of the series, and is so serious about her skill behind the grill that even Wayne and the rest of the Hicks do not dare get in her way when she takes command.
* ''Series/GameOfThrones'': When the wildlings attack Castle Black, the cooks defend their kitchen with enormous and expertly wielded meat cleavers.

* Ogre Butchers from ''TabletopGame/{{Warhammer}}'', who use a specialized Lore known as "Gut Magic". Skrag the Slaughterer is likely the best at this, having [[ArtificialLimbs implanted his cooking utensils where his hands used to be]] and actively stuffing anything he murders in battle into his massive cooking cauldron, to be served in the victory feast later on. The ogres, [[ExtremeOmnivore hungry as they are]], are more than happy to follow him in battle.
** Halflings also qualify. As well as being excellent cooks they are known to be talented thieves and capable archers. In addition to serving as skirmishers on the battlefield they also employ the Halfling Hot Pot, an artillery piece consisting of a giant slingshot used to hurl pots of scalding hot soup at the enemy.
** More specifically, there's the Fighting Cooks, a mercenary squadron of [[strike:Hobbits]]Halflings who are highly-skilled as trackers, hunters, and ambushers - and quite capable of going head-to-head too. More importantly, they improve the morale of the entire army with their delicious cooking!

* ''TabletopGame/ChangelingTheLost'': The Knights of the Knowledge of the Tongue are always on the search for new flavors, particularly those of Goblin Fruits and Hedge Beasts. Which means they need to be fit to walk into, and survive, the Hedge, find the ingredients, get the ingredients (which may have lethal defenses or even be actively trying to eat them first), and then make it home alive. Then they gotta successfully cook what they brought back.

* ''Theatre/CyranoDeBergerac'': Baker Ragueneau is a realistic example of this trope at Act IV: He is a supreme chef who is capable of cooking enough food for a regiment and then he cleverly disguises in a carriage (and to occult the smell!) to smuggle it through enemy lines for the French troops (he is the coachman and goes through various Spanish checkpoints). He is risking his life for his friends, the cadets.

* ''VideoGame/LittleKingsStory'': Downplayed. With most monsters, the "Chef" profession will be nigh useless, however, once you get to the Sunflower Plains (one of the largest areas in the game), chicken enemies start to appear, and these are among the game's DemonicSpiders even if you have a good army. Chefs can [[OneHitKO instakill]] these chickens and give you food in return.
* In ''VideoGame/HitmanCodename47'', you get attacked by one of the chefs wielding a meat cleaver.

* The ''VideoGame/{{Suikoden}}'' series has several, but the most notable one is no doubt Hai Yo from ''VideoGame/SuikodenII''. Quite possibly the finest chef in the world, and a master of the CookingDuel, he is also available as a combat unit, with decent stats, and an interesting fighting-style. Wields kitchen-implements.
* Regal from ''VideoGame/TalesOfSymphonia'' is a fighter who cooks well. ChildMage Genis from the same game is also a good chef, though he's less of a fighter, being the resident BlackMage instead.
* Jam Kuradoberi from ''VideoGame/GuiltyGear'': master chef who dreams of opening a restaurant as well as fighting ''ki'' master.
* ''VideoGame/StreetFighterIV'' has El Fuerte, a MaskedLuchador cook who enters the tournament to find new recipe ideas. [[LethalChef He can't cook anything]] unless it's Mexican food according to the letter of the recipe as he loves trying to mix anything.
* Marshall Law from ''VideoGame/{{Tekken}}''. He's even called "the fighting chef".
* In the first level of ''VideoGame/TimeCrisis'': ''Project Titan'', one of the sub-bosses Richard battles is a chef who throws meat cleavers as weapons. He's one hell of a good shot too, and can take multiple shots before he's finally taken down, compared to regular mercenaries who dies in one or two hits.
* Elzam von Branstein of ''VideoGame/SuperRobotWars''. Gourmet chef with a badass SuperRobot and unstoppable theme song. There's a reason why he took the name [[PaperThinDisguise Ratsel Feinschmeker]] in his HeelFaceTurn.
* From ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyIX'', we have Quina, who is also an ExtremeOmnivore, wielding an oversized set of cutlery in combat, along with [[AmbiguousGender his/her]] chef-hat. It's never clarified if Quina's cooking is [[AlienLunch edible by humans]].
* Julyan Manderville from ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyXIV'' is a Culinarian who can whip up fantastic dishes and antidotes, and also wields a FryingPanOfDoom [[spoiler:and an even larger one via Dark Knight abilities]] with enough skill to be a OneManArmy that scares the Warrior of Light and make her husband sweat, who himself MinoredInAsskicking.
* The Chef Kyroo dream eater from ''VideoGame/KingdomHearts3DDreamDropDistance'' is a variant of the more knightly frogs who trades in the sword and shield for a [[FryingPanOfDoom frying pan]] and pot lid. Its repertoire boasts a vicious midair combo, [[PlayingWithFire various fire attacks]], and even "hot potato" land mines. It also shows its cooking skills with its habit of occasionally cooking an ordinary treat into a rarer Royal Cake instead of eating it.
* ''VideoGame/JackieChanStuntmaster'' have it's first boss, a burly, overweight chef (simply called "chef" in-game), complete with stereotypical chef's hat, who attacks Jackie by flinging pots, pans, rolling pins and assorted objects he can find in his kitchen. Jackie however can obtain food from the chef's larder to boost his health during battle.
* Henpecked Hou from ''VideoGame/JadeEmpire''. Although he's sworn off fighting due to his wife, he was once a master of the Drunken Master kung-fu style, and can teach it to the player.
* Won-Won, the first Boss of ''[[VideoGame/FinalFight Final Fight 2]]'' is [[AllThereInTheManual supposedly a sushi chef]].

* In ''VideoGame/KingdomOfLoathing'':
** Saucerors and Pastamancers fit the Type 3 description to a T; Saucerors conjure various hot/cold/spicy sauce spells to hurt the monsters and can craft potions by cooking them; Pastamancers have spells such as "Entangling Noodles" and can summon pasta golems. Both classes also acquire skills that let them cook high-quality food items.
** There are also enemies that fit the bill - Degrassi Knoll and the Gnollish War Chef, the Assistant Chefs in Cobb's Knob each have chefs, the Spookyraven Manor has zombie chefs and at the higher levels during the war between the hippies and the frat boys each side has the Baker Company (think herbal brownies) and the Grill Seargents respectively. (The later two, you might expect, kick considerably more ass, especially the EliteMook versions.)
** There's also the spring 2013 [[SelfImposedChallenge special challenge path]] "Avatar of Jarlsberg", which allows you to channel the spirit of Loathing's original chef-magus and access some of his very impressive prowess in both magic and cookery.
* ''VideoGame/ClayFighter 63 1/3'' has Kung Pow, a Chinese chef who attacks with woks, chopsticks, knives, and other cooking utensils. All his moves are named after Chinese dishes.
* ''VideoGame/MedalOfHonor'':
** One level in ''[[VideoGame/MedalOfHonorFrontline Frontline]]'' takes place on a U-Boat, with the player fighting his way past the entire crew. The level route goes through the galley, where the U-Boat's cook will attack by throwing knives. He goes down easy, though. The same chef reappears in several different levels, including the final level, having somehow survived his previous encounters with you, but appearing more battered and bruised each time.
** Weaker versions of the chef appear as an uncommon enemy in a few levels of ''[[VideoGame/MedalOfHonorRisingSun Rising Sun]]''. They attack in the same way, but don't hit as hard and take less damage to go down.
* [[FatBastard Gordo]] from ''VideoGame/SkiesOfArcadia'': you first meet the man when he attacks your ship intending on looting its kitchen. He is one of the most feared pirates in the northern skies and owns a bistro you have to visit in the game. For the most part Gordo and his crew qualify as type 2, using kitchen knives as weapons and dressed up as chefs, one of Gordo's special attacks however ranks him up to type three.
* The first boss of ''VideoGame/JackieChanStuntmaster'' is a huge, burly chef who puts up one hell of a fight. But as you fight him in his kitchen, you can find plenty of food to boost your health.
* ''Franchise/{{Kirby}}'':
** Kirby can eat a fighting cook enemy to gain the ability to cook his foes. Kirby can also use this ability in ''VideoGame/SuperSmashBrosBrawl'' as his Final Smash.
** While Kirby fits the third type, the enemy that gives him that power, Chef Kawasaki, is a mix between the second and third types. He throws plates and can grab Kirby and cook him by extending his frying pan.
* One of [[UsefulNotes/GameAndWatch Mr. Game & Watch's]] attacks in ''VideoGame/SuperSmashBros'' has him pull out a frying pan and fling out food that harms opponents.
* ''VideoGame/POEd'' have you playing as a chef [[JustForFun/RecycledInSpace IN SPACE!!]] aboard a crew of {{Space Marine}}s that crash-landed on an alien outpost. With everybody on board dead, you're alone fighting hordes and hordes of hostile aliens and robots, with your default weapon being your FryingPanOfDoom (which does wonders smashing the skulls of alien enemies).
* ''VideoGame/PowerStone'' has ''two'' battling chefs, Wangtang and Gourmand. The former is a type 1 while the latter is a type 3.

* From Team FK Digital's ''VideoGame/ChaosCode'', there's [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bYmMkavy2Zg Bravo Pepperonicine]].
* Iksel from ''VideoGame/{{Atelier Rorona|The Alchemist of Arland}}'' is pretty laid-back when working at the Sunrise Cafe, but wields a mean frying pan in battle.
* One of the Psychopaths in ''VideoGame/DeadRising2'' is Antoine, an EvilChef [[ImAHumanitarian who decides to serve Chuck as his next masterpiece of cuisine.]]
* Indie game ''VideoGame/TheDishwasher'' has [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin The]] [[EveryoneCallsHimBarkeep Chef]]. He serves as something of a GuardianAngel to the Dishwasher himself, appropriately enough. Oh, and he also messily wipes the floor with dozens of government-trained, heavily armed cyborgs [[spoiler: and ''survives'' his ObiWanMoment of being chainsawed in half from the shoulder to the hip.]]
* "Captain" Cookie, in ''VideoGame/WorldOfWarcraft'''s revamped Deadmines dungeon.

* Your player character in the ''VideoGame/RuneFactory'' games can become this, optionally. Put enough effort in, and you can create dishes that will wow even the local gourmand or SupremeChef. ''VideoGame/RuneFactory3'' even allows you to craft utensils for use in battle.
* While [[VideoGame/GalaxyAngel Milfeulle Sakuraba]] is a very cheerful SupremeChef, her day job is piloting a manned weapon of mass-destruction that sports a {{BFG}}. You do not want to cross her. Ever.
* Patty from ''VideoGame/TalesOfVesperia'' is a minor type 2 example, smacking or searing enemies with a frying pan for her Little Big Chef and Fire Big Chef artes (While simultaneously producing a helpful or harmful dish in the process), and making woks of prepared food fall from the sky or sometimes just a wok of boiling water that she flips at the enemy with her Welcome Dish arte.
* Ludger from ''VideoGame/TalesOfXillia2'' is a type 1 example, easily being one of the strongest protagonists in the entire series thanks to his SuperMode and trio of weapons he can freely switch between on the fly, while preparing some [[FoodPorn seriously tasty looking]] dishes that everyone acknowledges as being delicious, even getting a proper chef costume from a sidequest. He can also take it into the type 2 territory if he's wielding his [[LethalJokeWeapon omelet cooking set]] along with the chef costume, which allows him to use the aforementioned Fire Big Chef arte.

* The Chef ring set in ''[[Website/GaiaOnline zOMG!]]'' is meant to simulate one of these. The original Chef set was Pot Lid (armor), Teflon Spray (armor), Knife Sharpen (attack buff), and Meat (HP increase), and the complete set's passive boost was to armor, making the Chef a BarrierWarrior best played with a second set or a few allies. In late 2009, ring sets were tweaked for balance: the Chef set switched Teflon for the powerful-but-pricy Hack (attacking) ring, Knife Sharpen's use was changed to an attack ''debuff'', and the complete set's passive boost was changed to the dodge stat, making Chef more versatile in solo play.
* The CHEF (caps required, it's a bot) in ''VideoGame/RiskOfRain'' is an unusually literal example of the trope, what with being a robot whose directives allow it to absolutely massacre "customers" (actually angry aliens) with both a large set of boomerang-like cleavers, its friers and massive amounts of cooking oil, making it qualify for type 2.
* Link becomes this in ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaBreathOfTheWild'', owing to how important the cooking/crafting system is in the gameplay. As ever, he's the chosen hero who ventures out into the world with the aim of defeating Ganon, doing battle with many kinds of beasts and adversaries on the way there. However, this time around, in-game journals characterize him as being something of a [[BigEater gourmand]], and, judging by the results of a particular sidequest where he sources and recreates cake recipes from the ruins of Hyrule Castle, he's a fantastic chef. Of course, throughout the game, you'll likely have him whip up a wide variety of meals and snacks with all sorts of ingredients, often bestowing a range of status buffs on top of the health they recover.
* Miis from the Chef class in ''VideoGame/{{Miitopia}}'' can cook delicious meals to restore their allies' health... while beating the crap out of monsters with their FryingPanOfDoom.
* Siebold in ''VideoGame/PokemonXAndY'' has a normal job as an executive chef, but he's also good enough at Pokémon battling to be a member of Kalos's Elite Four. He specializes in the [[MakingASplash Water-type]], which is quite fitting for his line of work and makes him either a Type 1 or Type 2, depending on whether his Pokémon are his partners in the kitchen or not (the game never makes it clear).
* ''VideoGame/MassEffectAndromeda:'' Nakmor Drack, [[ProudWarriorRaceGuy a krogan]], becomes the ''Tempest'''s chef once he joins the team. He's an incredibly ancient krogan, having killed a ''lot'' of things in his time, and evidently a good cook. Anyone who touches meals before they're done has to make do with sandwiches.
* The [[{{Samurai}} Jingu Clan]] have one of these in ''VideoGame/TheSecretWorld''. A giant of a man by the name of Akashi, he spends most of his time chopping vegetables and serving ramen to the hungry refugees gathering at the diner; however, he's easily one of the toughest fighters of the group - to the point that he often served as the diner's bouncer in quieter times. Plus, in the attack on Orochi Tower, he goes into battle alongside [[LadyOfWar Gozen]], the immortal leader of the Jingu; not only does he consistently keep up with her, but also with the gun-toting MadOracle of a [[TheDon Yakuza boss]] and the [[PlayingWithFire pyrokinetic]] [[{{Oni}} demon]] [[PrivateMilitaryContractors mercenary captain]] tagging along for the ride.

* Your goal in ''VideoGame/DungeonMunchies'' is to become an ''undead'' one, specializing in cooking magical creatures at the behest of your similarly undead boss, Simmer.
* ''VideoGame/DontStarve'': Warly, the resident SupremeChef, can hold his own in a battle just as well as the other characters, and in ''Don't Starve Together'', is even able to apply buffs to attack and defense.
* ''VideoGame/SpaceStation13'': On most servers, the Chef of the station will have the super deadly ''Close Quarter Cooking'' martial arts while within the confines of his kitchen. This lets him single-handedly deal with any pesky intruders or even dangerous threats...if they dare enter.
* ''VideoGame/YakuzaLikeADragon'':
** Any character on the "Chef" career path is this, by definition. Pulling knives, pans, pressure cookers and pepper mills out of {{Hammerspace}} and wreaking havoc on the enemy is their bread and butter.
** Zhao is one of the leaders of the Yokohama Liumang and runs a high-end Chinese restaurant as a front for his operation. He also apparently occasionally works in the kitchens, and Nanba and Adachi praise his chili shrimp to the skies. Zhao is also by ''far'' the most technically proficient fighter in the game. He is clearly trained in Five Animal Style kung fu, and uses a precise, fluid fighting style with either his bare hands or a Chinese saber in his default job. He is also the character who benefits most from taking levels in "Chef".
%%* Lau Chan from the ''VideoGame/VirtuaFighter'' series.
* While all playable characters in ''VideoGame/GenshinImpact'' can both cook and fight, Xiangling is the only one who works as a chef. Her fighting skills also come in handy as she likes scouring various places in the wild in search for exotic ingredients, running across monsters along the way.

* ''Webcomic/SluggyFreelance'' did the parody story of "[[Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer Muffin the Vampire Baker]]", complete with armaments such as a portable oven. Of course, Sam has some things to show them about more effective (and traditional) ways to deal with said vampires...
* ''Webcomic/RoninGalaxy'': Giancarlo can hold his own in a gunfight and still manage to cook up a full-course meal for breakfast the next morning.
* Type 3 is very important in ''Webcomic/TriangleAndRobert,'' where several of the characters are "Cuisine Mages" who can cast awesomely powerful spells derived from cooking.
* ''Webcomic/GirlGenius'':
** Ol' Man Death. [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20100524 Can make you any type of sandwich you can name]] (but no soup). And [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20100526 kick]] a [[SuperSoldier Jägermonster's]] ass [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20100602 without being too distracted from sandwiches]].
** By extension, anyone who manages to cook in the kitchens of Castle Heterodyne for any period of time. The castle (and kitchen) was built by MadScientist Faustus Heterodyne, and is controlled by a schizophrenic ArtificialIntelligence with a sadistic sense of humor and unbridled contempt for anyone not affiliated with House Heterodyne.
* Belkar from ''Webcomic/TheOrderOfTheStick'' is a minor example of Type 1. As well as being a skilled knife fighter, he also has 4 ranks in Profession (gourmet chef). He makes a vulture stew for the Monster in the Darkness, and when a bounty hunter threatens to feed Roy's heart to one of his associates, he suggests cooking it with garlic to bring out the flavor. "Hey, I'm trying here! I have exactly two skill sets, and you get mad when I use the other one!"

* In ''Webcomic/{{Homestuck}}'':

* ''WesternAnimation/CelebrityDeathmatch'' featured the four-armed Japanese chef Beni Trauma, one of [[HumanoidAbomination the Super Freaks]], who is a pastiche of the DNA of Emeril Lagasse and Jackie Chan.
* In ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'', Bender proves a literal example by being a chef of 30% iron. And various other metals like titanium, zinc, dolomite, etc. It varies by episode and the [[RuleOfFunny requirements of the gag being made.]]
* [[TeamMom Applejack]] and [[{{Cloudcuckoolander}} Pinkie Pie]] of ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'', the former being a [[PromotionToParent motherly sister]] and the latter being a professional baker. They're both more than capable in a fight, on one occasion fighting off an entire horde of changelings with their bare hoofs, a cannon that shoots party supplies, and the magic of StockFootage.

* "Ordinary" (or more ordinary than the following examples at least) people who are skilled in normal combat and mundane, if excellent cookery; one or the other tends to be his day job. If the day job is fighting (e.g. military, police work) being a cook may show the character has a sensitive side (sometimes a case of RealMenWearPink); if cooking is the day job, they may be leading a double life of hidden badass. Or, they might be [[CampCook a chef for an army or suchlike]], where they do both at the same time. In this form, may overlap with the AlmightyJanitor.

* The original ''Series/IronChef'' has at least two of these as challengers. One a former Sumo turned chef after a knee injury forced him to quit and another who was a professional chef who also competed at the national level in some form of martial arts.

* ''Manga/RanmaOneHalf'':
** Ukyō. A practitioner of {{Martial Arts|AndCrafts}} [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Okonomiyaki Okonomiyaki]] (Japanese omelete-pizza... ''stuff'') and wields spatulas from normal to giant size.
** Cologne, when she moves to Japan, opens a noodle shop and picks up some martial arts moves of the entangling noodles variety. She also has her granddaughter Shampoo learn Martial-Arts Takeout Delivery.

** Ukyō. A practitioner of [[MartialArtsAndCrafts Martial Arts]] [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Okonomiyaki Okonomiyaki]] (Japanese omelete-pizza... ''stuff'') and wields spatulas from normal to giant size.

* ''FanFic/WhatLiesBeyondTheWalls'': The mole chef Meklarn is a fantastic cook, but when he finds himself cornered in his kitchen by vermin, he doesn't hesitate to defend himself. With a frying pan and rolling pin. ''The vermin don't even scratch him''.

* Some '"TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons'' examples:

** Another Patty comes from ''VideoGame/FireEmblemJugdral'', though whether she's [[LightningBruiser a good fighter]] [[FragileSpeedster or not]] depends on who her dad is.