In the novel Starship
Troopers, one of the martial arts taught
to the Mobile Infantry is savate.
The main character in
Le Pacte des Loups (Brotherhood of the
Wolf), Grégoire de Fronsac, uses savate
in the rare moments when he is seen
fighting.
In the film Jules and
Jim, the two eponymous characters are
seen practicing savate.
Vega from the Street
Fighter video games has a fighting style
which is partially based on savate.
Lee Chaolan from the
Tekken video game series does not have a
set martial art, but borrows a variety
of maneuvers from other styles, and
several of his moves are based on
savate.
In the film Nikki, Wild
Dog of the North (1961), two of the
characters fight using savate.
Caroline, a
British-Korean teacher in Unbalance x
Unbalance, was a Savate practitioner.
Japanese pro-wrestler
Takuma Sano is known for the frequency
with which he executes the rolling
savate kick (or rolling solebutt), a
spinning back kick to the gut, like the
revers. His official shirt shows Sano in
mid-kick, with the word
"savate" written underneath.
In the famous Japanese
animation One Piece, Sanji, the chef of
the Strawhat Pirates and his mentor
"Red Leg" Zeff uses this
fighting technique, but only kicks since
the hands are only for cooking.
Savate was featured in
the fourth episode of The History
Channel's show Human Weapon on August
10th 2007.
The fictional character
Sherlock Holmes was said to be an expert
in baritsu (a typographical error for
the real martial art of Bartitsu, which
incorporated savate and French/Swiss
stick fighting along with boxing and jiujitsu).
Spike Spiegel from the
television series Cowboy Bebop uses Jeet
Kune Do, which incorporates its
kicks from Savate.
