D&D 5E Best on screen depictions of the Monk class

[DrunkonDuty]

Re. Paladins, don't forget Roland. The original.

 

[Tony Vargas]

I mean Kung Fu probably helped make the monk a popular idea, but there were a lot of kung fu movies going around America in the 70's as well. the important part about The Destroyer was establishing the "uses qi to get weird powers" variety of monk as the standard for d&d.

Thing is, the monk's weird Ch'i powers - slow-fall, arrow deflection, the dread 'quivering palm' - showed up in Kung Fu, too. My guess is they were drawing from the same sources of inspiration.

 

[Sacrosanct]

Re. Paladins, don't forget Roland. The original.

What movie or TV show was he a character as?

 

[Panda-s1]

Thing is, the monk's weird Ch'i powers - slow-fall, arrow deflection, the dread 'quivering palm' - showed up in Kung Fu, too. My guess is they were drawing from the same sources of inspiration.

well I guess that makes sense. I always thought Kung Fu was just some totally-not-a-white-guy who could punch good because Orientalism, I didn't realize he also got super powers as well.

 

[Tony Vargas]

well I guess that makes sense. I always thought Kung Fu was just some totally-not-a-white-guy who could punch good because Orientalism, I didn't realize he also got super powers as well.

I think the quivering palm may have been a baddie's technique. But, yeah "...a Shao-lin Monk can walk through walls..." right in the intro, every week.

 

[Panda-s1]

I think the quivering palm may have been a baddie's technique. But, yeah "...a Shao-lin Monk can walk through walls..." right in the intro, every week.

yeah y'know I never really looked into the show. even as a dumb teenager in the mid-2000's yellowface was a pretty big turn off for me lol. still didn't change the fact how many people around my age got into it, like geez.

 

[Tony Vargas]

yeah y'know I never really looked into the show. even as a dumb teenager in the mid-2000's yellowface was a pretty big turn off for me lol. still didn't change the fact how many people around my age got into it, like geez.

Yeah, I was in grade school when it first aired, still remembered it when I got to the Monk description in the 1e AD&D PH years after it was canceled.

 

[Eyes of Nine]

Neo (The Matrix) - Way of the Open Hand
John Wick (John Wick) - Way of the Sun Soul (with bullets replacing sun bolt)
Obi-Wan Kenobi (Star Wars) - Way of the Kensei

+1 to hit if you had included only Keanau Reeves characters.
Jack Traven (Speed) - Way of really being a good driver

 

[PsyzhranV2]

 

[ad_hoc]

Tomorrow's poll: Paladin. Here's what I have so far. Using 5e paladins, this means paladins of archfey and redemption can be included. Taking submissions:

Inigo Montoya is THE Vengeance Paladin.