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Tropes about skills and all the varied and weird ways in which they are learned. For where you learn, see School Tropes.
What You Know:
- Becoming the Boast
- Boxing Lessons for Superman
- Brick Break
- Charles Atlas Superpower
- Chekhov's Skill
- Enlightenment Superpowers
- Fantastic Fighting Style
- I Know Madden Kombat
- I Know Mortal Kombat
- I Don't Know Mortal Kombat
- Master of Your Domain
- The Medic
- My Kung Fu Is Stronger Than Yours
- One Trick Pony
- The Power of Acting
- Suddenly Always Knew That
- Switch-Out Move
How You Learned It:
- A Lesson in Defeat
- Adaptive Ability
- Awesomeness By Analysis
- But I Read a Book About It
- Can't Catch Up
- Deadly Training Area
- Die or Fly
- Don't Think, Feel
- Dumbass No More
- HAD to Be Sharp
- Hands-On Approach
- Improvised Training
- Incompletely Trained
- Olympic Swimmer
- Physical Fitness Punishment
- Raw Eggs Make You Stronger
- Simulated Urban Combat Area
- The Spartan Way
- Taught By Experience
- Taught by Television
- Teach Me How to Fight
- Time to Unlock More True Potential
- Took a Level In Badass
- Training From Hell
- Training Montage
- Victor Gains Loser's Powers
- Wax On, Wax Off
- When You Snatch the Pebble
- Your Eyes Can Deceive You
- You Are Not Ready
Shortcuts/Cheating:
- Acrofatic
- Adaptational Badass
- Drunken Master
- Look What I Can Do Now!
- Hard Work Hardly Works
- Mooching Master
- Opponent Switch
- Traumatic Superpower Awakening
- Xenafication