Sandbox / Chop Sockey

Definition: A derogatory term to criticize Martial Arts Movie and explicit parodies of Martial Arts Movie.

Martial Arts Movie perceived to be "corny or campy"

• Live-Action Films: Kill Bill has a deleted scene from Bill and the Bride's time in China that has Bill facing off against the student of a guy he killed and his band of mooks in vintage Hong Kong Chop Sockey style.
• Tin Can Brothers - Genre Roulette: Corey goes to buy more paper towels, only to end up in a corny Chop Sockey Martial Arts Movie trying to retrieve the last roll in the store from Arrogant Kung-Fu Guy Curt Mega.
• The Super Inframan: The very first Chinese superhero film, The Super Inframan is a Tokusatsu-style film produced by the legendary Shaw Brothers Studio in 1975 and released in America the following year under the title Inframan...Nevertheless, it's a fun, campy Chop Sockey film whose special effects and acting are, if not great, then at least in the same league as its "inspirations."
• The Twins Effect: Even includes a fight scene with Jackie Chan versus biker vampires!

interchangeable with Martial Arts Movie

• Hong Kong Phooey: 'Hong Kong Phooey is a Hanna-Barbera-produced Animated Series that aired on ABC in 1974 as a response to the Chop Sockey martial arts fad of the time, especially the Adventure Series Kung Fu (1972)''.
• The Forbidden Kingdom: If Jason is so obsessed with Chop Sockey and Wuxia films, why doesn't he immediately get what Lu means by his "empty your cup" speech? That sort of movie is always packed with such cryptic proverbs.
• Stuck at the Galleria: Parodied (affectionately, of course!). "I must say that your Glass Fu is no match for my Judo Chop!"
• Buffy the Vampire Slayer S5E3 "The Replacement". - Artistic License – Martial Arts: Buffy complains about the unrealistic fight scenes in the Chop Sockey movie.
• White Collar - Pastiche: The movie Mozzie uses to teach Neal the game Pai Gow, Tiles of Fire, appears to be an Affectionate Parody of the Chop Sockey genre, since the film has lots of sequels, a Hong Kong Dub, Mickey Mousing, Kung-Foley, and an Artistic License – Martial Arts moment.
• Sleeping Dogs (2012) - Out-of-Genre Experience: Done again with the Zodiac Tournament DLC. Where the rest of the game pulls from the Heroic Bloodshed movies of the 90's and 00's, this section of the game resembles nothing so much as a 1970's Chop Sockey film.
• Artistic License – Martial Arts: Played with in Nick Harkaway's The Gone-Away World when discussing the so-called martial arts secrets that obviously must exist, since every single Chop Sockey film has made use of them.
• Heir to the Dojo: Jack in Kickin' It is a textbook example of the Western variant mentioned above. His grandfather taught the former Chop Sockey movie actor that the strip-mall dojo he, Jack, now trains at was named for.
• The '80s: While some Westerners were somewhat already familiar with Hong Kong Dub Chop Socky martial arts films through occasional showings in grindhouse movie theaters, these films eventually migrated to television and became even more ubiquitous. In North America, they often ran in dedicated weekend time slots known as Kung Fu Theater or Black Belt Theater.
• Live-Action Films: Volume 2 of Kill Bill has a deleted scene which has Bill and the Bride visiting China (most likely to introduce her to Pai Mei), and which has Bill facing off against the former student of a guy who Bill killed and his handful of mooks, in a scene straight out of one of the old Shaw Brothers Chop Socky movies.
• Vindicated by History - Big Trouble in Little China: ...The western fandom for [Hong Kong] films extant in 1986 revolves around Bruce Lee, Shaw Brothers Chop Socky, and real-world martial arts practice. It sure isn't ready for lightning-throwing warriors or ghostly sorcerers... - this is a snippet from a quote taken from a book
• Big Trouble in Little China - Older than You Think: ...The western fandom for [Hong Kong] films extant in 1986 revolves around Bruce Lee, Shaw Brothers Chop Socky, and real-world martial arts practice. It sure isn't ready for lightning-throwing warriors or ghostly sorcerers... - this is a snippet from a quote taken from a book
• So Bad, It's Good/Film: The German movie Die unglaublichen Abenteuer des Guru Jakob (The Incredible Adventures of Jakob the Guru). Starring German ex-child star Tommi Ohrner as the High-School Hustler (wannabe) Tommi and Israeli Zachi Noy, veteran of the soft-sex comedy film series Lemon Popsicle, as the titular Jakob Feierabend, who spent his time getting fired from various jobs and being rejected by girls, until he is mistaken for an Indian guru, like Baghwan, by the people of an Upper Bavarian village, who are looking for somebody to buy the old castle of the village, and soon unwillingly starts his own cult, with Tommi as his manager. Add porn star Sibylle Rauch as Ms. Fanservice and a Chinese restaurant owner for Chop Sockey kung fu action and Unfortunate Implications. It's like a mixture of slapstick, sex comedy, Bavarian Heimatfilm, youth movie, and "let's pretend we're warning people about the danger of strange sects"-film. Oh, and the repeatedly played song "Hey, ho, nochmal Schwein gehabt" (Hey, ho, got lucky again).

Explicit Parodies

• The Man with the Iron Fists: As part of the loving homage to 70's kung fu movies, many scenes are intentionally Chop Sockey. The opening fight scene in particular stands out for this reason.

misuse

• Akimbo Albino - I Know Karate: In addition to being an escrima master, Mack is also skilled in a MMA-style that utilzes multiple Kung Fu disiplines, Muay Thai, Boxing, Savate, Judo, Professional Wrestling, and Krav Maga.
• Pretty Cure All Stars Fanfics - Shugo and Lina demonstrate how it's done, and Yasu calls them out for being too acrobatic. Lina explains that Jackie Chan was her sensei when she was younger.
• Live-Action Films: Bud Spencer in many of his movies. Punch him wherever you want. He won't flinch. Go Chop Sockey on him. He still won't flinch. Hit his back with a table leg. The table leg will break; he still won't flinch. You'll just make him slightly more angry.
• Bonanza S 01 E 01: The fight scene toward the end of the episode involves several Chinese launderers fighting with mining tycoon Alpheus Troy's hired muscle. And a bit-overeager 17-year-old Joe Cartwright gets right into the middle of it.
• The X-Files S05 E11 "Kill Switch": "Scully's" martial arts kicking ass scene, played for laughs.
• The Legend of the 7 Golden Vampires - So Bad, It's Good: Come on, it's Hammer Horror Chinese vampires versus Chinese martial arts masters, with both Count Dracula and Van Helsing tossed in, to boot!
• Functional Magic - Deadlands: "Enlightened" Martial Artists (read: Chop Sockey fighters) believe they're using their Life Energy to brutal effect, but it's actually a type of Force Magic.
• Mr. Imagination: In Ressha Sentai ToQger, the ToQgers are all this; their imagination-fueled powers demand it. The clearest example is Pink: normally more the type to duck and cover than do Chop Sockey if a bunch of the Big Bad's goon squad show up, when in battle she's at her most scared she imagines herself having super powers, and we get a cutesy Imagine Spot... followed by her using that power to deliver epic beatdowns.
• Video Games: In Mini Ninjas, most of the voice actors are trying to adhere to a Chop Socky accent, but commonly slip into more genuine Japanese accents. Huh.

ZCE

• Western Animation/Animalympics: Bruce Kwakimoto's floor exercises are that.
• Hong Kong Action Theatre: How a lot of kung fu battles tend to go.
• Big Wolf on Campus
• Chou Kuse ni Narisou
• Kujibiki♡Unbalance
• Scion - Kiai: "Chopsocky-hai!"
• Tongan Ninja: The entire film is a send up to this genre.

non-example usage (indexes, descriptions, JFF, etc)

• Too Specific
• X Meets Y Entries A To G
• X Meets Y Entries H To N
• Wuxia: This is a loaded and rather disrespectful term, but may apply in movies depending on the production values.
• Wok Fu: Being part of a Chop Sockey setting is, of course, not unheard of.
• This Index Knows Kung-Fu
• Stylistic Suck: Chop Sockey ("bad" martial arts sequences)
• Parodied Trope
• Martial Arts Movie: Or Chop Sockey, where the stereotypical elements of classic films such as Hong Kong Dub or Artistic License – Martial Arts are Played for Laughs.
• Fight Scene
• All Asians Know Martial Arts: Can lead to a Chop Sockey.
• Action/Adventure Tropes
• Asia
• The Far East
• All Asians Know Martial Arts: Played For Laughs: Chop Sockey for literally EVERYTHING.
• The Boondocks: The Kumite. (wa-cha!)
• Danny Lee: The film's campiness and Chop Sockey value makes Lee a popular choice for the studio, and after appearing in The Mighty Peking Man, Lee becomes a mainstay at Shaw Brothers.