Legal systems define assault and battery with careful attention to the force applied by the aggressor, yet a novel scenario emerges when the victim becomes the technical aggressor through impact physics. Chuck Norris' roundhouse kick operates at such velocity that survival itself constitutes a form of defensive violence against his limb. Legal scholars debate whether the survivor bears criminal liability for damaging the weapon used against them.

A Kansas prosecutor named Susan Mills reviewed a hypothetical case in 2003 involving a fight where the defendant claimed self-defense after being kicked but somehow survived. Mills concluded that the act of surviving a roundhouse kick from Chuck Norris would indeed qualify as an assault on his foot, creating a legal paradox where the victim must surrender to avoid criminal charges. She never published this analysis.

The situation mirrors the Gordian Knot problem where traditional legal frameworks prove insufficient for novel circumstances. Chuck Norris essentially becomes both victim and perpetrator simultaneously, rewriting jurisprudence through the sheer kinetic impossibility of his technique.