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* The Brazilian band Music/PatoFu, whose name means -- really! -- ''Duck Fu''.

* From ''Manga/RanmaOneHalf'': although the correct translation for the "Neko-ken" DangerousForbiddenTechnique is "Cat Fist", it is also often called "Cat Fu", especially in [[FanFic fanfictions]]. This prevalence might be because Genma refers to the technique as "Cat Fu" when he first mentions it in the English-dubbed anime, going on to explain that "Cat Fu" is actually the shorthand reference for "Freestyle Cat Fist Fighting".

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* There is a film called OfCooksAndKungFu whose premise is that a 'cooking' style of kung fu exists.

* In the ''Series/AgentsOfShield'' episode "Ragtag", May and Skye discuss their emotions over [[spoiler:Ward betraying the team for HYDRA]]:

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* This trope was inspired by a mention of "poor search-fu" in another entry, and hacker culture applies it to coding.
* Google-fu is skill at finding the right keywords to use in a search engine. It's fairly widely used. It can be either good or bad, as in
-->"How did you find that so fast? I've been looking for it for days!"\\\
"My Google-fu is strong!"\\\
"Can someone with better Google-fu than me find a site for this?"\\\
"[[http://community.livejournal.com/little_details/781434.html Improve your Google-fu!]]"
* The GNU Image Manipulation Program has a Script-Fu console for making your own custom effects.

* The Cheerleaders, a trio of supervillains from the ''Roleplay/GlobalGuardiansPBEMUniverse'', regularly use their "Jiggle Fu" distraction powers against male opponents.
* WebVideo/TheNostalgiaCritic, about the aformentioned "Quack Fu" in ''Film/HowardTheDuck'':
-->"[[http://thatguywiththeglasses.com/videolinks/thatguywiththeglasses/nostalgia-critic/2453-howard-the-duck Well, the superior joke here would be Tai Quack Do...]]"

%%* TechFu

''Trope Fu'' was originally considered as a name for this trope, but it was ultimately decided that ''Trope Fu'' is the sublime art of [[WikiCurator tending to examples and descriptions]] which we all practice in ThisVeryWiki.

AsYouKnow, "''Kung fu''" (Chinese: 功夫, literally "achievement through sustained effort") is a collective term for a number of fighting styles which have roots as ancient as the 18th century BCE and have continued to evolve to this day. The greatest spike in popularity and variety of ''Kung Fu'' came in the 20th century; not only did the now-iconic "drunken boxing", "five animals" and "tai chi chuan" styles develop during that period, but upon exposure to contemporary western pop culture, ''Kung Fu'' experienced a veritable ''explosion'' of applications to a variety of professions, aspirations and walks of life other than the canonical ''kung''.

* Foo Fu, [[ThisTropeNameReferencesItself duh]].

->''"Just the fact that they can release a fighting game starring Shaquille O'Neal and call it ''VideoGame/ShaqFu'' pretty much proves that you can put 'Fu' at the end of anything. How about ''Creator/RobinWilliams Fu'', or ''Music/{{U2}} [=Fu=]''?"''

* Willow's Witch Fu is admired in an episode of ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer''.

* FooFu, [[ThisTropeNameReferencesItself duh]].

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* FooFu, [[ThisTropeNameReferencesItself natch]].

* ''TabletopGame/{{Munchkin}}''

* In the ''Series/AgentsOfShield'' episode "Ragtag", May and Skye discuss their emotions over [[spoiler: Ward betraying the team for HYDRA]]:
-->'''May''':I'm furious. But I'm sure as hell not gonna waste it on a tantrum. I'm gonna mine it, save it... and when we find [[spoiler: Ward]], I'm gonna use every bit of it to take him down.\\
'''Skye''': Wish I knew how to use that hate-fu.\\
'''May''': I'm usually up around 5:30.

* ''Webcomic/SchlockMercenary''

* The Cheerleaders, a trio of supervillains from the ''GlobalGuardiansPBEMUniverse'', regularly use their "Jiggle Fu" distraction powers against male opponents.

* A martial-arts-themed segment of ''TheSuperMarioBrosSuperShow'' has a scene in which Mario and Luigi try to learn karate and fail miserably... so the martial arts master trying to train them makes up a plumbing-themed martial art called "Plumb Fu", which they master immediately.

* The animated version of ''WesternAnimation/TheBoondocks'' upgrades Robert "Granddad" Freeman's preference for corporal punishment using a belt to an actual fighting style that fans have referred to as "Belt Fu", with a talent for ensnaring objects and opponents with an ordinary men's belt that would make [[Main/IndianaJones Indiana Jones]] proud.

The term ''"Foo Fu"'' for this general phenomenon was coined JustForPun, and basically means the same as "X Fu" or "Whatever Fu". It comes from ''"Foo"'', a placeholder often used by programmers as a stand-in for whatever should be there instead (the technical term for this kind of placeholder is "[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metasyntactic_variable Metasyntactic Variable]]"). Has nothing to do with [[Music/FooFighters fighting foo]].

* ''DealtInLead'': The title earned by maxing your level in the hand-to-hand skill? Pencil-Fu. Yes, pencils can be used as weapons. Yes, it's awesome.

* The ''Literature/{{Discworld}}'' novel ''Discworld/ThiefOfTime'' introduces "Déjà Fu", the martial art practiced by the History Monks, in which the practitioner travel in time as well as in space. The book give us as a "translation": "The feeling that you have been kicked in the head this way before."

* In the ''Series/AgentsOfShield'' episode "Ragtag", May and Skye discuss their emotions over [[spoiler: Ward betraying the team for HYDRA]]"

* From ''Manga/RanmaOneHalf'': although the correct translation for the "Neko-ken" DangerousForbiddenTechnique is "Cat Fist", it is also often called "Cat Fu", especially in [[FanFic fanfictions]]. This prevalence might be because Genma refers to the technique as "Cat Fu" when he first mentions it in the English dubbed anime, going on to explain that "Cat Fu" is actually the shorthand reference for "Freestyle Cat Fist Fighting".

* Joe Bob Briggs' "Drive In Reviews" would often use the "fu" suffix when listing the various weapons used in the target movie, which would lead to line items like "hubcap-fu", "tree branch-fu" and "brick-fu".

* The ''Literature/{{Discworld}}'' novel ''Discworld/ThiefOfTime'' introduces "Déjà Fu", the martial art practiced by the History Monks, in which the practitioner travel in time as well as in space. The book give us as a ''translation'': "The feeling that you have been kicked in the head this way before."

* The Brazilian band PatoFu, whose name means -- really! -- ''Duck Fu''.

-->"How did you find that so fast? I've been looking for it for days!"\\
"My Google-fu is strong!"
::or
-->"Can someone with better Google-fu than me find a site for this?"
** [[http://community.livejournal.com/little_details/781434.html Improve your Google-fu!]]

* In ''[[WesternAnimation/TheSmurfsAChristmasCarol The Smurfs: A Christmas Carol]]'', Grouchy tells his chimney-crawling visitor (who turns out to be the Smurf of Christmas Past) that he has a blue belt in Smurf Fu.
* The animated version of ''ComicStrip/TheBoondocks'' upgrades Robert "Granddad" Freeman's preference for corporal punishment using a belt to an actual fighting style that fans have referred to as "Belt Fu", with a talent for ensnaring objects and opponents with an ordinary men's belt that would make [[Main/IndianaJones Indiana Jones]] proud.

The term ''"Foo Fu"'' for this general phenomenon was coined JustForPun, and basically means the same as "X Fu" or "Whatever Fu". It comes from ''"Foo"'', a placeholder often used by programmers as a stand-in for whatever should be there instead (the technical term for this kind of placeholder is "[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metasyntactic_variable Metasyntactic Variable]]").

* In ''ComicBook/CaptainCarrotAndHisAmazingZooCrew'', Alley-Kat-Abra knows Kat-Fu in addition to magic.

* In ''[[WesternAnimation/TheSmurfsAChristmasCarol The Smurfs: A Christmas Carol]], Grouchy tells his chimney-crawling visitor (who turns out to be the Smurf of Christmas Past) that he has a blue belt in Smurf Fu.

* GoogleFu