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I'm looking for a xianxia, or wuxia manhua (Chinese manga?) that I don't remember the title of about a boy who. I believe is searching for/getting ingredients for cultivation or something, and some ...
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The mc used to be the strongest disciple of the demonic cult leader I think. He was betrayed by his fellow disciple and killed. Then he went back to his past self before getting abducted by the ...
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The title was something like I am an immortal but the MC got into a car accident and went to the cultivation world. When he reaches the top, however, his disciple or his friends attack him and he is ...
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It is a manwha where guy gets reincarnated as a animal (i believe a bird)in a murim world and gets captured by a martial arts sect (he maneges to convince a girl to save him (by helping her break tru)...
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The story is in a martial art world, the young boy can't see colour he sees in black and white, he draw very well and he can kill if he finishes by drawing the eyes of a person, he is a martial art ...
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I know it’s normal for a character without special powers such as Batman to have hand to hand skills, but Batman was fashioned after pulp heroes and film noir characters. The Shadow inspired his dark ...
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There's this story about a main character (MC) whose name I forgot, along with most of the story. It has an ancient Chinese or Japanese tone to it. I forgot what they called those times when they were ...
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The story is about a male mc they have these long slabs of stones with writing that you read to get to the next level and this happens in some kind starry space. The person can only read the slabs for ...
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The MC is murder and regreses into a body of a young girl and she gets to see the one that kills her. She decides to not get revenge because of how he is being treated so she teaches him martial arts
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The story starts with the main character dead (I forgot how and why he died or maybe it doesn't get explained in the story) and he meet Yama, the death god that read the main character's story and got ...
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The protagonists are one girl and two boys (if I remember correctly). The girl can control water, but I don't remember about the boys. Her clothes are pink (I believe). They are fighting against a ...
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I read this comic almost 2 to 3 years ago. I believe this comic was full colour. A young man starts to meditate. When he wakes up from meditation, he finds that the whole Earth has changed and the ...
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I don't clearly remember the story but I do remember that the main character is regressed to the past and has a teacher with only one arm because he had a curse or something that made him have to cut ...
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I know the title isn't much to go off on, but from what I can remember, the main character was betrayed by his ex and was forced into a cage after having his martial arts broken and his physique ...
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The reason I remember clearly about this series is that in one epsoide he made a prosthetic arm and leg with iron for a bandit out of pity but that bandit/robber used it to rob bank or pawn shop (cuz ...
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I used to own the first book of what I think was a duology. I'm pretty sure I bought it, in England, in the late seventies, possibly early eighties, and it was recent at that time, so not a reprint of ...
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So far as I remember the name of the movie/book was something like "the golden dragon", all I can remember is how there was a martial arts tournament where the protagonist fights along a ...
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I can't remember if the MC woke up in the cave on the stone bed , was teleported there or if he died and was temporarily reincarnated there. However the MC get a notification telling him to witness ...
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The nerve pinch has been seen multiple times. Although Spock spoke once of trying to teach Kirk the technique, I wonder if there is some aspect that means an untrained human can't do it or even a ...
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This is a manga about a guy who is from Earth but transferred to a cultivation world with a system he made. When he opened his eyes he found that he is a master and all disciples are very strong. His ...
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C rank mercenary dies, activating artifact that returns him to when he first got isekai'd. The world has people isekai from a magic world or murim martial art world. The third isekai is a normal who ...
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I'm looking for a manga where the main character is poisoned or injured by a relative or clan member, dies from it, but reincarnates into same body a couple months before he dies, and he goes hunting ...
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What martial arts did Doc Savage use in the novels? He was portrayed as a martial artist for a pulp character created in 1933. What martial arts could he be using and how many he could have known? Did ...
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l-o-n-g time searching for an old Chinese movie (english dubbed) about a man who accidentally entered a higher realm where flamboyantly-dressed 'gods' (much like Stargate Goa'ulds) were playing a ...
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Okay, I am going to take the answer in SciFi/Fantasy meta (Are old school Martial arts films considered SciFi/Fantasy?) as permission to ask about a martial arts film with iron skinned fighters who ...
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The manhwa is new but is about a boy who knows martial arts, but in the time period he lives in, magicians are better. He went to a dungeon and found like a eye, and then he fought a person in a ...
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I'm trying to find a manga where the main character dies due to poison, and is reincarnated in another world, where he gets a healing item. The main character is killed and reincarnates into the same ...
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I remember that he first talks about his 40 yo uncle, that he is adventurous and used to talk with him about that stuff. Later he lost touch with him, but suddenly gets a package containing a PC ...
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At the start, the MC was asked to fix something for his classmate. It was a old recorder or something, I forgot, but on his way home, he sees some guy jump in front of a train. The MC then gained that ...
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It's about two boys and one girl, they're all martial artists. When I watched it as kid it always played on Megamax. All I can remember is that the girl had black hair and one of the boys had hair ...
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I sadly don't remember much about this one - hoping someone else can shed some light or at least add details to help the search. This was a foreign-language movie whose main character was a 20-...
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On the Wikipedia page for Karate Kid it says that Karate Kid (Val Armorr) used something called "super-karate" to briefly hold his own against Superboy. The pages for the comic scene are in ...
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I'm looking for a manga where the main character is trained by a martial arts master that he thinks is a wizard. He is looking to find the answers about how to gain the ability to use mana. The main ...
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If I remember correctly the movie was sometime between 1995-2005. I don't remember it being in English but was subtitled. The main language may have been Japanese. For some reason, I think the title ...
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Trying to find a fantasy karate/kung-fu movie I only saw a scene from and it had a older Asian lady with white braided hair that went to the ground and her and I think two or three other older people ...
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In one Teen Titans episode, Starfire's sister, Blackfire, is comically shown throwing Robin while teaching him some techniques from a strange alien fighting system. The only alien martial art very ...
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I am trying to recall a martial arts movie, likely chinese/Hong Kong but not 100% sure. I think I ran into it because of a small interest in Master of the Flying Guillotine and wanted more over-the-...
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I remember reading this manga like 2 to 4 years ago. It was like the princess of the aliens (who is a diamond) somehow destroyed their planet. I don’t really remember how, but they come to Earth and ...
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Does anyone know any more details about Karate kid from DC? I posted this pic of him fighting Marvel's Deadpool and noticed there are similarities in that both heroes have some hidden abilities. I ...
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I remember Jon Pertwee's third Doctor was portrayed as a martial arts expert - a skill I don't remember any other Doctor displaying. Are there other examples of skills or abilities that seem to have ...
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When I saw The Dark Knight Rises, I was perplexed by the fighting style Batman uses against Bane - specifically, his reliance upon elbow strikes. I did some research ...
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In season 4, episode 9 (Hard Time), Miles O'Brien gets annoyed with Quark's slow service and grabs hold of his hand into some sort of joint lock. What martial art did it originate from? Did the actor ...
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