Basic Trope: A fighting style made out of randomness.
- Straight: Bob's fighting style involves numerous unorthodox tactics like fighting from the ground, striking without looking, and improvised weapons so his enemies never know what to expect.
- Exaggerated: Bob is a shapeshifting teleporting trickster. You never know how, where, or what he's going to hit you with. Bob might not know, either.
- Downplayed: Bob is a Drunken Boxing practitioner. His techniques may look unorthodox, but to a trained eye the principles of boxing and kung fu can still be seen.
- Justified:
- Bob is part of a Proud Warrior Race who value subterfuge and confusing the enemy.
- Bob is a very fragile and untrained fighter who can only hope to win by using his black belt in Ka-Razy.
- Inverted: Bob uses a style that is even more predictable than most real world fighting styles, but it's just as practical as it is predictable. He doesn't care if the enemy knows what's coming because he uses so much force they won't be able to stop it.
- Subverted:
- Bob's fighting style is unorthodox looking to the untrained eye, but his movements are based on predetermined patterns.
- Bob is actually drunk and has no clue what he is doing. We later find out that any success he's had in combat is due to sheer luck.
- Double Subverted:
- Parodied: Bob attacks by bombarding his opponents with a deluge of random objects such as rubber chickens, space shuttles, and size XXL underwear.
- Zig-Zagged: When Bob gets Character Focus in a one-on-one battle, he's a wildly unpredictable Dance Battler. When he's fighting in the background of mass battles, it looks like he's a pretty standard Bare-Fisted Monk.
- Averted: Bob may use the occasional feint, but his fighting style is no less unpredictable than that of your average martial artist.
- Enforced: "Okay, we have a Stone Wall, a Mighty Glacier, and a Fragile Speedster. We need someone with really crazy Difficult, but Awesome style to keep things interesting."
- Lampshaded: "Bob, have you ever won a fight while you were right-side-up?"
- Invoked: Bob learns the accepted fighting styles, but he realizes they rely on all combatants thinking in much the same way. So, he undercuts them by going for the unrecognized Achilles' Heels.
- Exploited: Master Swordsman Alice can't beat an opponent who can read her thoughts, but Bob is too unpredictable for even a psychic to counter properly.
- Defied:
- Bob claims that the unpredictability of his fighting style is his main draw. However, said fighting style is laughably ineffective and Bob is forced to switch to something else.
- Bob's opponent Jim is the most brutal brawler ever. Bob's plan of being "unpredictable" is totally useless when Jim strangles him on the first two seconds of the fight and whales on him until he's on the ground and has stopped twitching.
- Discussed: ???
- Conversed: ???
- Deconstructed:
- Even Bob doesn't know what he's going to do, and he hurts himself in a fight.
- Because he invents his moves on the fly, Bob can never really master them, leaving him an overshadowed Master of None.
- A truly random style leaves openings a skilled martial artist is able to use — and kill Bob with a single deadly counter.
- Reconstructed: Bob learns and masters techniques that throw his enemies off their game, like striking from blindspots and groundfighting, giving him the best of both worlds.
- Played for Laughs: Bob's Confusion Fu is literally flailing his legs and arms around. Everyone has a good laugh at him.
- Implied: Mike says after the fight, "Bob beat me because I had no idea what he'd do at any time."
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