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Action fiction, the Glossary

Action fiction is a literary genre that focuses on stories that involve high-stakes, high-energy, and fast-paced events.^[1]

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Action (genre)
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Action (narrative)

In literature, action is the physical movement of the characters.

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Action comedy

Action comedy (often listed with a hyphen as action-comedy) is a genre that combines aspects of action and comedy.

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Action Comics

Action Comics is an American comic book/magazine series that introduced Superman, one of the first major superhero characters.

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Action fiction is a literary genre that focuses on stories that involve high-stakes, high-energy, and fast-paced events. Action fiction and Action fiction are action (genre), drama genres, fiction-writing mode, literary genres and Narratology.

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Action film

The action film is a film genre that predominantly features chase sequences, fights, shootouts, explosions, and stunt work.

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Action game

An action game is a video game genre that emphasizes physical challenges, including hand–eye coordination and reaction time. Action fiction and action game are action (genre).

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Action hero

An action hero (sometimes action heroine for women) is the protagonist of an action film or other form of entertainment which portrays action, adventure, and often violence. Action fiction and action hero are action (genre).

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Action-adventure game

An action-adventure game is a video game hybrid genre that combines core elements from both the action game and adventure game genres.

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Adventure fiction

Adventure fiction is a type of fiction that usually presents danger, or gives the reader a sense of excitement. Action fiction and Adventure fiction are literary genres.

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Airwolf

Airwolf is an American action military drama television series.

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Anime

is hand-drawn and computer-generated animation originating from Japan.

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Antagonist

An antagonist is a character in a story who is presented as the main enemy and rival of the protagonist.

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Arcane (TV series)

Arcane (titled onscreen as Arcane: League of Legends) is an adult animated steampunk action-adventure television series created by Christian Linke and Alex Yee.

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Avatar: The Last Airbender

Avatar: The Last Airbender, also known as Avatar: The Legend of Aang in some regions, is an American animated fantasy action television series created by Michael Dante DiMartino and Bryan Konietzko and produced by Nickelodeon Animation Studio.

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BBC

The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) is a British public service broadcaster headquartered at Broadcasting House in London, England.

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Blue Eye Samurai

Blue Eye Samurai is an adult animated action television series created and written for Netflix by wife-and-husband team Amber Noizumi and Michael Green, with supervising director and series producer Jane Wu.

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Captain Easy

Captain Easy, Soldier of Fortune is an American action-adventure comic strip created by Roy Crane that was syndicated by Newspaper Enterprise Association beginning on Sunday, July 30, 1933.

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Cloak and dagger

"Cloak and dagger" was a fighting style common in the Renaissance involving a knife hidden beneath a cloak.

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Comic book

A comic book, also called comicbook, comic magazine or simply comic, is a publication that consists of comics art in the form of sequential juxtaposed panels that represent individual scenes.

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Conflict (narrative)

Traditionally, conflict is a major element of narrative or dramatic structure that creates challenges in a story by adding uncertainty as to whether the goal will be achieved. Action fiction and conflict (narrative) are Narratology.

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Connie (comic strip)

Connie is an American adventure comic strip created by the cartoonist Frank Godwin, who introduced a book illustration style to the comics page.

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Counterstrike (1990 TV series)

Counterstrike is a Canadian-French crime-fighting, espionage, action-adventure television series.

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Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon is a 2000 martial arts film directed by Ang Lee and written for the screen by Wang Hui-ling, James Schamus, and Tsai Kuo-jung.

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Dick Tracy

Dick Tracy is an American comic strip featuring Dick Tracy, a tough and intelligent police detective created by Chester Gould.

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Dirty Harry

Dirty Harry is a 1971 American neo-noir action thriller film produced and directed by Don Siegel, the first in the ''Dirty Harry'' series.

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Extreme sport

Action sports, adventure sports or extreme sports are activities perceived as involving a high degree of risk of injury or death.

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Fallout (American TV series)

Fallout is an American post-apocalyptic drama television series created by Graham Wagner and Geneva Robertson-Dworet for Amazon Prime Video.

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Fiction

Fiction is any creative work, chiefly any narrative work, portraying individuals, events, or places that are imaginary or in ways that are imaginary.

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First Blood (novel)

First Blood is a 1972 American action-thriller novel by David Morrell about a troubled homeless Vietnam War veteran, known only by his last name of Rambo, who wages a brutal one-man war against local and state police in Kentucky.

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Ghost in the Shell (1995 film)

Ghost in the Shell is a 1995 adult animated neo-noir cyberpunk action thriller film directed by Mamoru Oshii and adapted by frequent Oshii collaborator Kazunori Itō.

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Graphic novel

A graphic novel is a long-form work of sequential art.

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Hand-to-hand combat

Hand-to-hand combat (sometimes abbreviated as HTH or H2H) is a physical confrontation between two or more persons at short range (grappling distance or within the physical reach of a handheld weapon) that does not involve the use of ranged weapons.

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Hanna (film)

Hanna is a 2011 action thriller film directed by Joe Wright.

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Highlander: The Series

Highlander: The Series is a science fantasy action-adventure television series featuring Duncan MacLeod (Adrian Paul) of the Scottish Clan MacLeod, as the eponymous "Highlander".

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Kubo and the Two Strings

Kubo and the Two Strings is a 2016 American animated action fantasy film produced by Laika.

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List of female action heroes and villains

The following is a list of female action heroes and villains who appear in action films, television shows, comic books, and video games and who are "thrust into a series of challenges requiring physical feats, extended fights, extensive stunts and frenetic chases." Elizabeth Abele suggests that "the key agency of female action protagonists is their ability to draw on the full range of masculine and feminine qualities in ever-evolving combinations.".

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List of genres

This is a list of genres of literature and entertainment (film, television, music, and video games), excluding genres in the visual arts. Action fiction and list of genres are literary genres.

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List of male action heroes and villains

This is a list of notable male action heroes and villains.

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Literary genre

A literary genre is a category of literature. Action fiction and literary genre are literary genres.

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MacGyver (1985 TV series)

MacGyver is an American action-adventure television series created by Lee David Zlotoff and starring Richard Dean Anderson as the title character.

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Mad Max: Fury Road

Mad Max: Fury Road is a 2015 Australian post-apocalyptic action film co-written, co-produced, and directed by George Miller.

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Man on Fire (Quinnell novel)

Man on Fire is a 1980 thriller novel by the English novelist Philip Nicholson, writing as A. J. Quinnell.

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Manga

are comics or graphic novels originating from Japan.

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Martial arts

Martial arts are codified systems and traditions of combat practiced for a number of reasons such as self-defence; military and law enforcement applications; competition; physical, mental, and spiritual development; entertainment; and the preservation of a nation's intangible cultural heritage.

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Martial arts film

Martial arts films are a subgenre of action films that feature martial arts combat between characters.

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My Name (TV series)

My Name is a 2021 South Korean action crime thriller television series directed by Kim Jin-min and starring Han So-hee, Park Hee-soon, and Ahn Bo-hyun.

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Mystery fiction

Mystery is a fiction genre where the nature of an event, usually a murder or other crime, remains mysterious until the end of the story. Action fiction and mystery fiction are literary genres.

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Nikita (TV series)

Nikita is an American action thriller drama television series that aired on the CW from September 9, 2010, to December 27, 2013, in the United States.

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Nothing Lasts Forever (Thorp novel)

Nothing Lasts Forever is a 1979 action thriller novel by American author Roderick Thorp, a sequel to his 1966 novel The Detective.

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Pace (narrative)

In literature, pace or pacing is the speed at which a story is told—not necessarily the speed at which the story takes place. Action fiction and pace (narrative) are Narratology.

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Protagonist

A protagonist is the main character of a story.

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Raiders of the Lost Ark

Raiders of the Lost Ark is a 1981 American action-adventure film directed by Steven Spielberg from a screenplay by Lawrence Kasdan, based on a story by George Lucas and Philip Kaufman.

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Seven Samurai

is a 1954 Japanese epic samurai action film co-written, directed and edited by Akira Kurosawa.

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Spy fiction

Spy fiction is a genre of literature involving espionage as an important context or plot device.

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Tarzan in comics

Tarzan, a fictional character created by Edgar Rice Burroughs, first appeared in the 1912 novel Tarzan of the Apes, and then in 23 sequels.

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Terry and the Pirates

Terry and the Pirates is an action-adventure comic strip created by cartoonist Milton Caniff, which originally ran from October 22, 1934, to February 25, 1973.

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The A-Team

The A-Team is an American action-adventure television series that ran on NBC from January 23, 1983 to March 8, 1987 about former members of a fictitious United States Army Special Forces unit.

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The Bourne Identity (novel)

The Bourne Identity is a 1980 spy fiction thriller by Robert Ludlum that tells the story of Jason Bourne, a man with remarkable survival abilities who has retrograde amnesia, and must seek to discover his true identity.

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The Chinaman (novel)

The Chinaman is a thriller novel written by Stephen Leather, first published in 1992.

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The Equalizer (film)

The Equalizer is a 2014 American action thriller film directed by Antoine Fuqua and written by Richard Wenk.

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The Heights (newspaper)

The Heights is the independent student newspaper of Boston College.

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The Legend of Korra

The Legend of Korra (abbreviated as TLOK), also known as Avatar: The Legend of Korra, or more rarely simply as Korra, is an American animated fantasy action television series created by Michael Dante DiMartino and Bryan Konietzko for Nickelodeon.

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The Long Kiss Goodnight

The Long Kiss Goodnight is a 1996 American action thriller film co-produced and directed by Renny Harlin, and produced by Shane Black and Stephanie Austin with screenplay written by Black.

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The Phantom

The Phantom is an American adventure comic strip, first published by Lee Falk in February 1936.

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The Transformers: The Movie

The Transformers: The Movie is a 1986 animated science fiction action film based on the ''Transformers'' television series.

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The Villainess

The Villainess (translit) is a 2017 South Korean action thriller film directed by Jung Byung-gil, starring Kim Ok-vin.

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Thriller (genre)

Thriller is a genre of fiction with numerous, often overlapping, subgenres, including crime, horror, and detective fiction. Action fiction and Thriller (genre) are literary genres.

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Top Gun

Top Gun is a 1986 American action drama film directed by Tony Scott and produced by Don Simpson and Jerry Bruckheimer, with distribution by Paramount Pictures.

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University Press of New England

The University Press of New England (UPNE), located in Lebanon, New Hampshire and founded in 1970, was a university press consortium including Brandeis University, Dartmouth College (its host member), Tufts University, the University of New Hampshire, and Northeastern University.

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58 Minutes

58 Minutes is a 1987 thriller novel by American novelist Walter Wager.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Action_fiction

Also known as Action (fiction), Action (genre), Action adventure fiction, Action genre, Action novel, Action series, Action-adventure (genre), Action-adventure comics, Action-adventure fiction.

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Action (genre)

Drama genres

Fiction-writing mode

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