In November 2004, martial law was declared in Zhongmou County, Henan, to quell deadly ethnic clashes between Han Chinese and the Muslim Hui Chinese.

At the pinnacle of Librian law enforcement are the Grammaton Clerics, who are trained in the deadly martial art of gun kata.

At the time, Tim was working with former DEA agent Clyde Rawlins, and the deadly martial artist Lady Shiva.

However, he is a master of several of the world ’ s most deadly martial arts.

Set in a post-apocalyptic world that has been destroyed by a nuclear war, the story centers around a warrior named Kenshiro, the successor of a deadly martial art style known as Hokuto Shinken, which gives him the ability to kill most adversaries from within through the use of the human body's secret vital points, often resulting in an exceptionally violent and gory death.

When the village is attacked by a biker gang and Lin is taken hostage by their leader, Ken breaks free from his cell and rescues Lin by defeating the leader with his deadly martial art technique.

To honor his mentor out of gratitude and respect for having been allowed the training in place of Senzo Tanaka's deceased son, Dux leaves for Hong Kong to participate in the Kumite — an illegal and underground, freestyle, single-elimination and occasionally deadly full-contact martial arts tournament to which the world's best martial artists are clandestinely invited every five years.

He learns that the prisoner is a deadly martial artist who is developing a technique called the Lion ’ s Roar, which he will use to escape his captivity.

Using these " photographic reflexes ," the Taskmaster is highly skilled in various forms of combat, as an exceptional martial artist ( mimicking Elektra, Iron Fist, Shang-Chi ), a skilled swordsman ( Black Knight, Silver Samurai, Swordsman ), a deadly accurate marksman ( Captain America with a shield, Hawkeye with a bow and arrow, Punisher with firearms, and Bullseye with various projectiles ) as well as displaying a strenuously honed athletic ability ( Black Panther, Daredevil, Spider-Man ).

A variety of mundane and arcane archetypes are available, including " Sykers " ( characters with deadly psychic powers ), " Doomsayers " ( magical priests of radiation ), " Templars " ( members of a martial organization patterned after the Knights Templar ), " Junkers " ( humans with the supernatural ability to create working devices from the scavenged debris of pre-apocalypse civilization ), and even just plain-old everyday humans, surviving by their wits and their gun.

In 19th century France, a closed fist was considered a deadly weapon and thus combatants would kick or strike each other with an open-palmed slap, possibly influencing the French martial art Savate.

Examples of the former include an interconnected series of jokes based on figures of speech and an advertisement for the fictional Welsh martial art of Llap Goch, which claims to be able to teach students how to grow taller, stronger, faster, and more deadly in a matter of days.

The game covers the Dark Tournament story arc in which Yusuke and his allies are invited by a powerful demon named Toguro to participate in a deadly martial arts tournament.

After accepting an invitation by a seemingly invincible demon named Toguro, Yusuke and his companions travel to a deadly, demon martial arts tournament where the winners may claim any prize desired.

* Hokuto no Ken or Fist of the North Star, the title refers primarily to " Hokuto Shinken ", a deadly martial art school.

* Karatti, Mutant with deadly martial arts skills.

Snake Eyes is quiet in his movements and is a swift and deadly master of multiple martial arts.

But if at times, dirges punctuated the deadly silence of the town, at others, martial music and excited voices rent the air to welcome distinguished personages.

After Gaia was born in the Berkshires to Tom Moore and Katia Moore, Oliver covertly attempted to gain Gaia's affection as a child by secretly visiting her and teaching her deadly martial arts.

Riki-Oh will encounter many deadly opponents with either superhuman strength or martial arts during his travel for avenging his girlfriend and in search of his brother.

Although the " kid brother " of the title — who is actually referred to by the name Connery in this film — has little in the way of secret agent skills, he is an expert at hypnotism and archery as well as some deadly martial arts.

Her early wuxia pictures from 1948 to 1957 were in both Mandarin and Cantonese dialogue, with stories intended to increase cooperation of the Northern Style and Southern Style of martial arts, as seen in The heroine of deadly darts ( 女俠響尾追魂鏢 ) in 1956.

Eastern martial artists refined the technique of throwing light objects until they could toss them with deadly speed and accuracy, though most of these depictions are wildly exaggerated.

From the back cover of the backinprint, com paperback edition: A Gift Upon the Shore is a lyrical, haunting story of two women, an artist and a writer, who survive pandemic, the collapse of civilization, and a deadly nuclear winter.

Possibly the most deadly martial artist on Orb.

* In the 2011 film Rise of the Planet of the Apes, a fictional gene therapy called ALZ-112 was a drug that was a possible cure for Alzheimer's disease, the therapy increased the host's intelligence and made their irises green, along with the revised therapy called 113 which increased intelligence in apes yet was a deadly, interinal virus in humans.

The film, produced in 1913, showed the play's Broadway actors reciting every line of dialogue, resulting in a stiff film that Pickford later called " one of the worst I ever made ... it was deadly.

A " deadly sin " can be either venial or mortal, depending on the situation ; but " they are called ' capital ' because they engender other sins, other vices.

And Manannan girt him for the fight with his own deadly sword, called the Answerer, from the wound of which no man ever recovered, and those who were opposed to it in battle were so terrified that their strength left them.

* Pern — A planet pelted by a deadly spore ( called Thread ), capable of eating anything but rock and metal, for periods of fifty years every two to four centuries in Anne McCaffrey's Dragonriders of Pern novels.

As the war's conclusion drew near, many shocked voices called for the establishment of institutions able to permanently prevent deadly international conflicts.

To the north, General Vandamme's division attacked an area called Staré Vinohrady (" Old Vineyards ") and through talented skirmishing and deadly volleys broke several Allied battalions.

Whitfield was deeply troubled about what he called Bath's " deadly sins.

Following a particularly deadly series of accidents in 1986 where nine horses were killed in chuckwagon racing incidents alone – including five horses in one spectacular crash – humane society officials, fans and even some drivers called for major changes to the races, while others called for the sport to be banned entirely.

The right of self-defense ( according to U. S. law ) ( also called, when it applies to the defense of another, alter ego defense, defense of others, defense of a third person ) is the right for civilians acting on their own behalf to engage in violence for the sake of defending one's own life or the lives of others, including the use of deadly force.

the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that although fatalities may result from intentional collisions between automobiles such fatalities are infrequent, and therefore unlawful deadly force should not be presumed to be the level of force applied in such incidents ; however, the Adams case was subsequently called into question by

Sepsis (; from the Greek: the state of putrefaction and decay ) is a potentially deadly medical condition characterized by a whole-body inflammatory state ( called a systemic inflammatory response syndrome or SIRS ) that is triggered by an infection.

Túrin, son of Húrin and Morwen, is sent to Doriath, and lives there until he comes of age, when he flees after a deadly quarrel with an elf called Saeros, a high councillor of Elu Thingol, King of Doriath.

A Jedi strike force, led by Anakin, is to infiltrate a Yuuzhan Vong cloning facility where the invaders craft deadly Jedi-hunting beasts called Voxyn.

Nitschke created devices to aid people who want euthanasia, including a product called the " exit bag " ( a large plastic bag with a drawstring allowing it to be secured around the neck ) and the " CoGen " ( or " Co-Genie ") device. The CoGen device generates the deadly gas carbon monoxide, which is inhaled with a face mask.

To the north, General Vandamme's division attacked an area called Staré Vinohrady and through talented skirmishing and deadly volleys broke several Allied battalions.

After Tristran helps them escape deadly trees called serewood, he learns he has the ability to find any location in Faerie.

Tarantism is an alleged, possibly deadly envenomation, popularly believed to result from the bite of a kind of wolf spider called a " tarantula " ( Lycosa tarantula ).

Staying with them is Marlene, Barret's adopted daughter, and Denzel, an orphan with a rampant and deadly disease called Geostigma.

A younger version of a femme fatale would be called a fille fatale, or " deadly girl.

* In the Warhammer 40, 000 universe, the Inquisition uses weapons called Needle Rifles or Needle Pistols that fire shards of crystallized venom that can be deadly when penetrating an unarmored or lightly armored target.

* In the 1965 Italian parody film Due Mafiosi Contro Goldginger, the equivalent of Oddjob is a huge black man called Moloch ( played by ex-wrestler Alejandro Barrera ) dressed in a black suit and bowler hat, who throws a deadly shoe to kill his opponents.

In the video game Fallout: New Vegas, the Tarantula Hawks have been mutated inside a research facility known as the Big MT into deadly new creatures called " Cazadores " which means " hunters " in Spanish.