Dance Combat

Dance Combat
Mr. 2 Bon Clay (One Piece) fighting Vinsmoke Sanji with his "Ballet Kenpo", a combination of ballet dancing and martial arts.
Power/Ability to:	Combine physical combat with dance.

"Those that make contact with the gods would dance while their conscience was intoxicated and cut down all who stood before them"

― Kyou Kai explaining the Priestess Dance to Shin (Kingdom)

The power to infuse dance with physical combat. Technique of Dance Manipulation. Variation of Combat Merging.

Also Called

• Capoeira (Real life)
• Engolo (Real Life)

Capabilities

The user can infuse dance in their physical attacks, having the ability to move from one attack to the next effortlessly while being graceful and elegant. The user can dodge attacks easily and execute combat with little problem.

Applications

• Enhanced Agility
• Enhanced Balance
• Enhanced Combat
• Enhanced Flexibility

Associations

• Adoptive Muscle Memory
• Flawless Coordination
• Mystical Dancing
• Superhuman Dancing

Known Users

See Also: Dance Battler and Capoeira.

Cartoons/Comics

• Stan Smith (American Dad!)
• Pearl (Steven Universe)
• Garnet (Steven Universe)
• DJ Stylbator (Samurai Jack)
• Black Widow (Marvel Comics)

Movies

• Balthazar Bratt (Despicable Me 3)

Live Television

• Ryuutaros (Kamen Rider Den-O)
• Oliver (Mighty Med)
• Skylar Storm (Mighty Med)
• Zack Taylor (Mighty Morphin Power Rangers)

Manga/Anime

• Kaien Shiba (Bleach)
• Sawada Keizaburo (Kengan Ashura)
• Clan Shiyuu (Kingdom)
  • Kyou Kai
  • Yuu Ren
• Skull-Face Jack (The New Gate)
• Bentham/Mr. 2, Bon Clay (One Piece)
• Sanji (One Piece) via Black Leg Style
• Aoshi Shinomori (Rurouni Kenshin)
• Mugen (Samurai Champloo)
• Honoka (The Third: Girl with The Blue Eye)
• Monkey King Bambina (Toriko)

Video Games

• Hazama (Blazblue series)
• Miki (Chrono Cross)
• Lisa Hamilton (Dead or Alive Series)
• Duck King (Fatal Fury series)
• Richard Meyer (Fatal Fury series)
• Bob Wilson (Fatal Fury series)
• Mog (Final Fantasy VI)
• Momoko (King of Fighters XI)
• Sora (Kingdom Hearts II); with Jack Skellington
• Fi (The Legend of Zelda)
  • Luna Luna (Queen's Blade:Rebellion)
• Sonic the Hedgehog (Sonic the Hedgehog)
• Elena (Street Fighter series)
• Dee Jay (Street Fighter series)
• Pullum Purna (Street Fighter EX series)
• Fairlion Type-S and Type-G (Super Robot Wars)
• Eddy Gordo (Tekken series)
• Tiger Jackson (Tekken series)
• Christie Monteiro (Tekken series)
• The Harlequins (Warhammer 40k)

Gallery

Stan Smith (American Dad!) wielding spinning his double-headed blade in a dancing manner when attempting to kill Fussy.

Kaien Shiba (Bleach) is noted for his spear technique reminiscent of a dance, using one wrist as the center of its rotation.

Fi (The Legend of Zelda) fights using a style similar to ballet dancing.

Zack Taylor (Mighty Morphin Power Rangers) enjoys dancing so much that he created his own dance-based fighting style, Hip Hop Kido.

Aoshi Shinomori (Rurouni Kenshin) using sword dance to confuse his enemy with fluid and ever changing speed, and then dealing the fatal strike.

A key part of Sonic's (Sonic the Hedgehog) fighting style is breakdancing-style kicks.

Elena (Street Fighter series) is a well known practitioner of Capoeira, a dance based martial art.

Mugen's (Samurai Champloo) highly unorthodox swordplay and fighting style is based on breakdancing - dubbed champuru kendo and was ostensibly developed by himself.

The Priestess Dance (Kingdom) is a deadly martial art technique that was born from a millennium of ancient ritual dancing as Clan Shiyuu refined it into a skill...

...to kill people with...

...as noted by the elders of the Clan Shiyuu to be the most talented practitioner of her generation, displaying her mastery by killing multiple Shiyuu masters.

Black Widow (Marvel Comics)

Miki (Chrono Cross)

Richard Meyer (Fatal Fury) is a Capoeira master who used his skills to entertain the nightclub crowds.

Dee Jay (Super Street Fighter II) fights using kickboxing, a popular martial art in most of the world. Dee Jay, however, sees it as a form of dancing.

Bob Wilson (Fatal Fury) learned Capoeira from his "Mestre" (master), Richard and is the actual full-contact version and not performance version.

Momoko (King of Fighters)

Pullum Purna (Street Fighters)

Mog (Final Fantasy VI)

Sanji's Black Leg Style martial arts (One Piece) incorporates the acrobatics aspects of Capoeira.

Videos

PowerRangers HipHopKido

Zack Taylor's(MMPR) Hip Hop Kido