History Main / FooFu

-->-- '''The Angry Video Game Nerd''', ''WebVideo/TheAngryVideoGameNerd''

->''"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 Robin Williams Fu, or U2 Fu?"''

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

* The Brazilian band Music/PatoFu, which means "duck fu".[[note]]This was a reference to a ''ComicBook/{{Garfield}}'' [[https://www.gocomics.com/garfield/1979/02/26 strip]] in which Garfield attacks the mailman using his "cat fu" skills. In Portuguese the difference is just one letter, pato/gato.[[/note]]

Evidently, there was something exotic and evocative about the phrase ''Kung Fu'' and the excellence it symbolized that western culture found irresistible. Soon those privy to the great secrets of juggling liabilities and equity professed to be practicing the art of ''account fu'', green-thumb enthusiasts the world over discovered the inner focus allowing them to transform their mere gardening skills into ''snip fu'' and high-brow enthusiasts began polishing their assorted gambits and defenses into ''bona fide'' ''chess fu''.

!!This is no mere section. This is ''Example Fu'' of the highest calibre

* The ''Literature/{{Discworld}}'' novel ''Literature/ThiefOfTime'' introduces "Déjà Fu", the martial art practiced by the History Monks, in which the practitioner travels 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."

-->'''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.\\

* The Brazilian band Music/PatoFu, which means "duck fu".[[note]]This was a reference to a ''Comicbook/{{Garfield}}'' [[https://www.gocomics.com/garfield/1979/02/26 strip]] in which Garfield attacks the mailman using his "cat fu" skills. In Portuguese the difference is just one letter, pato/gato.[[/note]]

[[folder:Web Comics Fu]]

* WebVideo/TheNostalgiaCritic, about the aformentioned "Quack Fu" in ''Film/HowardTheDuck'':

* In a ''WesternAnimation/CowAndChicken'' episode called "Karate Chicken", Red smacks Chicken with his ass in the dojo. They calls this "[[AssKicksYou Butt-Fu]]" and they trains students to attack with their butt.

* Although it may looks like it at first glance, ''WesternAnimation/{{Wakfu}}'' isn't an example of this trope. Its MMORPG spinoff ''The Guardians'', however, features the "Wakfung" {{Supernatural Martial Art|s}}.

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

* The Brazilian band Music/PatoFu, which means "duck fu".[[note]]This was a reference to a ''Garfield'' strip in which Garfield attacks the mailman using his "cat fu" skills. In Portuguese the difference is just one letter, pato/gato.[[/note]]

** After Sydney ''finally'' [[https://www.grrlpowercomic.com/archives/comic/grrl-power-862-pew-and-pew-again/ succeed in a live fire course under 4 minutes]] (which takes her all day) the AltText ranks her: "Shoot-Fu: C+. Reload-Fu: D-"

* ''Webcomic/GrrlPower'': Martial Artist Jabberwokky has the power to copy any animal-based kung fu style, including some made up on the spot. The AltText calls it [[https://grrlpowercomic.com/archives/comic/grrl-power-968-menagerie-fu/ "Menagerie Fu"]].

* ''VideoGame/ShaqFu'', a martial arts FightingGame starring Shaquille O'Neal. The character bio for Shaq's fighting style is (you guessed it) "Shaquido".

* ''VideoGame/ShaqFu'', a martial arts FightingGame starring Shaquille O'Neal.

AsYouKnow, "''Kung fu''" or actually "''[[SpellMyNameWithAnS Gongfu]]''" [[ItIsPronouncedTroPay in pinyin]] (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''.

''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 Wiki/ThisVeryWiki.

* 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".

* In an Earboy skit of ''Series/AllThat'', Ross Perrot knows Kung Pow Weenie, the "ancient art of weenie combat".

* In ''TabletopGame/BunniesAndBurrows'', Fighter rabbits use Bun Fu.

* ''VideoGame/ShaqFu'', a martial arts FightingGame starring Shaquille O'Neal.
* In ''VideoGame/QuestForGlory IV'', the Adventurers' Guild bookshelf had a book on Talk Fu, the art of delivering witty {{One Liner}}s during combat.

* I-Mockery's ''[[http://www.i-mockery.com/minimocks/santa-fu/ Santa Fu.]]''
* ''VideoGame/SpyFoxInDryCereal'' allows players to "master" the sacred art of "Cock-A-Doodle-Fu."

* [[http://www.applegeeks.com/comics/viewcomic.php?issue=297 Strip #297]] of ''Webcomic/{{Applegeeks}}'' is titled "[[ShowSomeLeg FlashFu]]". With good reason -- it must be on the level of a martial art if you have it working on a woman.

* [[http://images.google.com/images?q=%22Cat+Fu%22 Images-Googling for "Cat Fu"]] can get you some hilarious results.

* WesternAnimation/DarkwingDuck and his master Goose Lee are "Quack Fu" martial artists.

* A martial-arts-themed segment of ''Series/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.
* In ''WesternAnimation/TheSmurfsAChristmasCarol'', 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 ''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 Franchise/IndianaJones proud.
* ''WesternAnimation/{{Arthur}}'' has an episode where Binky tries to teach ballet to D.W. When Binky's Tough Customer friends see him practicing ballet with a preschooler, he tries to defend it by saying that she was actually teaching her a martial art called "Kung Fu Young".

[[quoteright:349:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/shaq_fu.png]]

[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/shaq_fu.png]]

->''"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 Robin Williams Fu, or U2 Fu?"''

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]], despite Creator/MrT's [[WesternAnimation/RobotChicken confusion]].

* I-Mockery's ''[[http://www.i-mockery.com/minimocks/santa-fu/ Santa Fu]]''.

-->"How did you find that so fast? I've been looking for it for days!"\\\

* "Google Fu" is internet slang for excessive googling for a topic.

* Willow's "Witch Fu" is admired in an episode of ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'', an in a DVDCommentary Creator/JossWhedon refers to Buffy's "bag fu" after she uses a couple of bricks inside a bag as an ImprovisedWeapon.

* The ''Literature/{{Discworld}}'' novel ''Discworld/ThiefOfTime'' introduces "Déjà Fu", the martial art practiced by the History Monks, in which the practitioner travels 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."

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

-->-- '''WebVideo/TheAngryVideoGameNerd'''

-->"[[http://thatguywiththeglasses.com/videolinks/thatguywiththeglasses/nostalgia-critic/2453-howard-the-duck Well, the superior joke here would be Tai Quack Do...]]"