Inspirational movies unrealistically have minimally trained heroes beat lifelong skilled villains

Inspirational movies be like :
Villain who practised all his life.
Hero who did a two month crash course.

This is a two-panel comparison meme that satirizes a common overused trope in inspirational media. The top panel uses a still from the 2010 The Karate Kid film showing the antagonist Cheng, a highly skilled martial artist who has trained his whole life, captioned 'Villain who practised all his life.'. The bottom panel uses a still of the film's protagonist Dre Parker, played by Jaden Smith, in a kung fu competition pose, captioned 'Hero who did a two month crash course.'. The joke highlights the unrealistic plot device where the underdog hero with minimal, short-term training easily defeats a far more experienced, lifelong practitioner antagonist that logically should win the fight.

This meme was sourced from an RSS feed of the Reddit r/Meme subreddit, where it was posted with the original title 'For real..'. It repurposes still frames from the 2010 American martial arts film The Karate Kid, a remake of the 1984 film of the same name. This type of trope-mocking meme is widely shared across social media platforms including Reddit, Twitter/X, and Instagram, with different media properties often used to illustrate the same joke about unrealistic inspirational movie writing.