Martial law

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Martial Law, short for Martial Arts Law (MAL), is the set of rules that govern how characters in martial arts movies fight. A synopsis:

  • No matter how many bad guys are swarming around the good guy, only one baddie can attack the hero at a time
  • When the biggest and baddest dude arrives, everyone stops fighting so he can make a grand entrance
  • At least 25 bad guys must be defeated for every good guy defeated

[edit] Other uses

Government: Martial law is the end result of a governmental body realizing that its administration is effectively FUBAR. When the citizens of a country realize how badly they've been screwed over since the country's foundation, the government sends in the military to bluntly do the job that it has been trying to inconspicuously accomplish for hundreds of years: taking away people's guns and newspapers and making sure they don't get the nation's flag near any gasoline or open flames. This gives the government enough time to rewrite the constitution while nobody's looking and start the country all over again.

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