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Line 2: {{quote\|''"I don't want to get in a bar fight. People are always gettin' in bar fights. It's such a damn cliché. You hear about it all the time and you see it in the motion pictures, people are gettin' hit in the head with [[Grievous Bottley Harm\|beer bottles]], and [[Chairman of the Brawl\|furniture]], and--"'' (breaks bottle over man's head)\|'''Jack Cates''', ''[[48 Hrs.\|Another 48 Hrs.]]''}} A [['''Bar Brawl]]''' is a fight scene where the emphasis is less on fighting skill and more on [[Kung Shui\|destruction of furniture]]. [[Window Pain\|Glass will be broken]], [[Grievous Bottley Harm\|ordinary bottles turned into weapons]], and very probably [[Chairman of the Brawl\|a chair as well]], most likely across somebody's back. Someone will probably swing from a chandelier, [[Lampshade Hanging\|even if there weren't any there to start with.]] ([[Incredibly Lame Pun\|groan]]) At some point, the fighting will become widespread among the patrons who aren't involved in the instigating argument. A good clue this is about to happen is when [[The Piano Player]] secures the piano and leaves. Bar Brawls are staples of [[The Western]], and not uncommon in [[The Need for Mead]]. This commonly overlaps with [[Escalating Brawl]]. Expect to see one guy [[Strolling Through the Chaos]], drink in hand, until he reaches either the exit or the bartender. Sometimes it's capped with a [[Check, Please!]] moment. Compare and contrast [[Chop Sockey]]. If this scene takes place in a diner, it's a [[Diner Brawl]], though the [[Diner Brawl]] can also be the [[Porting Disaster]] of the [['''Bar Brawl]]'''. It happens in [[Real Life]] and the destruction of furniture is [[Truth in Television]]: when drunk, people are less likely to aim their blows properly or [[Can't Hold His Liquor\|even to stand properly]]. {{examples}}▼ ▲{{examples}} == Anime &and Manga == * ''[[One Piece]]'' ** A rival pirate crew attack Luffy and Zoro while they're in a bar in Mock Town; however, the other pirate crew was so pathetically weak Luffy and Zoro don't bother fighting back. They look pretty torn up in the end, but they're [[Made of Iron\|ultimately unhurt]]. Line 25: == Comic Books == * ''[[Lucky Luke]]'' In the comic, most pianists and dancers can only play right with "atmosphere" ~~-- that~~—that is, massive fights during their performances. In one case, the people are at the bar following a funeral and a brawl breaks out for whatever reason. At the end, Luke raises his glass to the dead man, and two participants are seen limping away, commenting on how well that fight turned out, shame the dead guy couldn't have been in it. ** Averted at another time with a town composed exclusively of men, who no longer have the heart to start brawling anymore as there's no woman to fight over. * ''[[X-Men (Comic Book)\|X-Men]]'' Charles Xavier would occasionally [[Flash Back]] to his past friendship with Magneto, before the two became bitter enemies. One of the most memorable of these involved the two starting a [[Bar Brawl]] with a bunch of drunken sailors because Charles didn't like seeing them pick on a cripple for "being different" ~~-- and~~—and winning without using their mutant powers. Well, ''mostly'' without their powers... Another X-Men comic has a bar brawl between the Juggernaut and Colossus. [[Blatant Lies\|Surprisingly, there was no property damage.]] ** Wolverine gets into these all the time. Line 41: == Fan Works == * Early on in the ''[[Firefly]]''/''[[Doctor Who]]'' fanfic ''[[The Man ~~qith~~with No Name (fanfic)\|The Man With No Name]]'', the Doctor wears his usual attire (a brown coat) into an Alliance-friendly bar. Much to his confusion, he is quickly punched out a window. * In the ''[[Fallout 3]]'' fan fiction ''[[Trouble]]'', Butch gets into huge fights every night with the two former slavers and the ex-raider living in Rivet City, along with off duty guards. Though for the most part they all admit they have fun beating the crap out of each other. * ''[[Nobody Dies]]'' has {{spoiler\|Gendo starting one of these in an UN-sponsored dinner with the presidents of almost every nation on Earth. The reason? France's representative dared to say that Yui's legs got her a job at NERV. Ends in an epic [[Cross Counter]] with [[Stephen Colbert\|the president of the U.S.]] and a ''massive'' [[Xanatos Gambit]] explanation to Yui. And it works.}} Line 48: ** Months later, when the four leave Ta'akan for good, they have dinner at the pub and watch the nightly brawl as a form of closure. * In the ''[[Ghostbusters]]'' fan film ''Return of the Ghostbusters'', Neil and Pavel get into one of these. The call they make to Ed later asking him to post bail implies that this wasn't the first time. * Frankstien's monster starts one in ''[https://www.wattpad.com/691957325-final-stand-of-death Final Stand of Death]'', not to mention a [[Full-Frontal Assault]], much as the [[Squick\| dismay]] of those watching. == Films -- Animation == Line 91: * ''Brannigan'' (1975). [[John Wayne]] gets into a fight when he tries to interrogate someone in an English pub. The crook tries to fight him, leading to a brawl in which an innocent bystander keeps getting punched in the face every time he tries to walk in the door, then the poor man gets arrested by responding police. "I was only here for the beer!" * The main characters witness one in ''[[Race with the Devil]]''. One of the characters even lampshades it, saying it's the "first one of the night". * ''[[Tron: Legacy]]'': {{spoiler\|Zeus's betrayal}} of the heroes gets Clu's forces storming the End of Line club. A ''massive'' fight breaks out. The reaction of the [[Daft Punk\|club DJs]]? Look at each other, and [[Sorry I Left the BGM On\|change the music to something a little more fast-paced]]. * [[Universal Soldier]] has Van Damme scuffling with some local toughs - "I just want to eat." Line 97: == Literature == * Subverted in ''[[Rats, Bats, and Vats\|The Rats, the Bats and the Ugly]]'' by [[Eric Flint]] and [[Dave Freer]]. The brawl doesn't take place in a bar but in a three-star restaurant, and it's started by the proprietor. * In Terry Pratchett's ''[[Discworld]]'' novels, most of the scenes in The Mended Drum ("the most reputable disreputable tavern" in Ankh-Morpork) involve a huge fight breaking out. By the time of the ''[[~~Discworld/~~Going Postal (Discworld)\|Going Postal]]'', it's become the closest thing Ankh-Morpork has to a professional sport, complete with a standardized points system. ''Postal'' even features a scene with some bar brawlers discussing strategy. Such a history in fact, that its first ~~appearance -- unnamed~~appearance—unnamed as the Broken ~~Drum -- has~~Drum—has a bar fight started over a chest full of gold coins, shortly before it is burnt to the ground and most of the city with it. * Twice in ''[[X-wing Rogue Squadron\|X-Wing: Iron Fist]]''. Both times, they are set up ~~beforehand -- in~~beforehand—in the first, the Wraiths are being set up to be carted off by fake cops, in the second, they are setting up to kidnap Imperial pilots. The fact that they consider "We start a [[Bar Brawl]]" to be a reasonable step in a covert operation tells you almost everything you need to know about the Wraiths. * In Richard K. Morgan's book ''Black Man'' (a.k.a. ''Thirteen''), the protagonist starts a few lethal barfights with lowlifes in order to satisfy his genetically mandated bloodlust. * In ''Dark of the Moon'', the second book of P.C. Hodgell's ''[[Chronicles of the Kencyrath]]'' series, a particularly vicious bar brawl takes place at a tavern in Peshtar, a bandit-ridden mountain town. Line 106: * In one story from the ''[[Starfleet Corps of Engineers]]'' series, Mor glasch Tev (the Tellarite second officer) accidentally starts a bar brawl on Rhaax, due to mistaking hostility for Tellarite-esque argumentative politeness. Under his people's [[Blue and Orange Morality]], insults and blustering argument are a form of polite discourse. He misjudged in this case, though. * In ''[[Myth Adventures\|Myth-Inc in Action]]'', Chumley goes to wait outside while his sister Tananda takes on an entire bar, amusing himself by cataloguing the various damage she was causing by sound alone. * In ''[[Mass Effect: Retribution]]'', it's made clear that the xenophobic Cerberus assassin, Kai Leng, is a huge badass when we learn why he was kicked out of the Alliance marines in the first place. He had a [[Bar Brawl]] with a '''[[Made of Iron\|KROGAN]]''' and killed it with ''nothing more than a knife''. Keep in mind that krogan have redundant vital organs, meaning that you essentially have to kill them twice, and are strong enough to break a human's neck by simply backhanding them. * One of the men on trial with Fisk in the ''[[Knight and Rogue Series]]'' was arrested for getting into a bar brawl, though it's implied that he and the man he was fighting do so frequently enough that people only care anymore if they happen to destroy furniture. * Also happens, of all places, in a ''[[Bionicle]]'' book, ''Raid on Vulcanus''. After the first attempt at the titular raid has been thwarted, [[Jerkass]] Strakk starts a fight with the chef at Vulcanus' inn, prompting the temperamental Kiina to step in between. Strakk then gets into a full-blown brawl with her, wrecking the place. Line 112: == Live-Action TV == * ''[[Star Trek]]'', "[[Star Trek: The Original Series\|The Trouble With Tribbles]]". When the cast of ''[[Star Trek: ~~Deep Space Nine\|Star Trek~~ Deep Space Nine]]'' was to be [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l6KGOkzbf_c spliced into original series footage] for the episode "Trials and Tribbleations" (which returned via [[Time Travel]] to "The Trouble With Tribbles"), one of the more difficult tasks they faced was learning how to avoid the more realistic fight choreography used today in favor of 1960s-style stage fighting so they would not look out of place during the [[Bar Brawl]]. * ''[[Star Trek: The ~~Next Generation\|Star Trek the~~ Next Generation]]'' had SEVERAL bar brawls: two in Ten-Forward started by edgy crewmen who were being influenced by some external force, one in one of Barclay's holodeck fantasies, and another in Alex's Ancient West holodeck program. Honorable mentions go to Riker for minor bar violence on two separate occasions, neither of which erupted into full-scale brawls. Also, one of the Ten-Forward incidents led to Guinan's [[Crowning Moment of Awesome]]: she fired off a blast from a rare antique phaser rifle over the heads of the brawlers, mentioned that she'd just fired it on setting one, and then asked if anyone cared to see setting ''two''. {{spoiler\|Nobody did.}} * ''[[The A-Team]]'' was rather fond of them, as it allowed an impressive and plausible fight scene without killing anyone. (As opposed to the impressive implausible shootouts [[A-Team Firing\|without killing anyone.]]) * ''[[Red Dwarf]]'' A [[Bar Brawl]] in ''reverse'' in the episode "Backwards". As Lister puts it, "It's not a bar room brawl, it's a bar room ''tidy''! Unrumble!" There's also the one in "Gunmen of the Apocalypse", where the cast are in a virtual Western-style world. Rimmer's special skill in this is beating the crap out of everyone. Which he does. * Serenity's crew in ''[[Firefly]]'' gets into these constantly. Especially on Unification Day. Line 128: * ''[[Stargate SG-1]]'': SG-1 starts one in "Upgrades" after another patron insulted Daniel. Two (much bigger) guys stand up for each member (sans Teal'c), and Jack even [[Lampshade Hanging\|lampshades]] it as cliché. They are under the influence of [[Super Strength]]-granting [[Applied Phlebotinum]] armbands, courtesy of the Tok'ra. Asskicking ensues. * ''[[Lie to Me (TV series)\|Lie to Me]]'': Subverted in "The Canary's Song." Lightman [[Grievous Bottley Harm\|smashed a bottle]] on the bar and threatened the miners with it, but an actual fight didn't ensue. * There is one great [[Bar Brawl]] in each of the first three seasons of ''[[Babylon 5]]'': In the first season, one is started by a guy trying to hit on a drunk Ivanova, resulting Ivanova beating up everyone in the bar. [[Da Chief\|Garibaldi]] refused to arrest her. {{quote\|'''Garibaldi''': I want to live.}} The second season was a dispute over a spilled drink in a bar containing at least a company of Marines (and one pilot), resulting in a massive free for all. It only ended with the bellowing of the [[Drill Sergeant Nasty\|Sergeant Major]]. ** The third season has Marcus investigate a kidnapping by walking into a seedy bar and state that if he isn't provided with information about the kidnapping withing ten minutes, he will be the only man in the bar still standing. Ten minutes later, he looks around and declares "[[Babylon 5/Funny\|Bugger! Now I have to wait for one of them to wake up]]." * In ''[[Married... with Children]]'', this happens a lot at the strip club Al takes Bud to, so much that even the waitress throws a lethal left hook. * For a long stretch during ''[[The Wild Wild West (TV series)\|The Wild Wild West]]'', James West couldn't walk into a bar without starting a brawl. == Music ==▼ * [[Truth in Television]] for hard rock and heavy metal bands in the 1980s, in what sadly seems like a (somewhat) more "innocent" [[Foreshadowing]] of the [[Darker and Edgier\|violence]] that would haunt the rap scene. More than one bar or hotel would find itself the worse from one of these events. In America, [[Guns N' Roses]], [[Motley Crue]], and [[Motorhead]] were among the worst for this (though pretty much any [[Hair Metal]] band could play [[Follow the Leader]]), whereas in Japan pretty much ''any'' [[Visual Kei]] band seemed to be in a [[Follow the Leader]] contest for brawling with [[X Japan]] and Rosenfeld, among others.~~<br~~ />[[Yoshiki Hayashi]]? of [[X Japan]] was a subversion of this, being that he was, as well as the drummer, [[The Piano Player]]... and often, if it wasn't [[Hideto Matsumoto\|hide]] or [[Taiji Sawada\|Taiji]] from his band starting shit, it was him. There's no word if he usually secured his piano first...▼ ▲== Music == ▲* [[Truth in Television]] for hard rock and heavy metal bands in the 1980s, in what sadly seems like a (somewhat) more "innocent" [[Foreshadowing]] of the [[Darker and Edgier\|violence]] that would haunt the rap scene. More than one bar or hotel would find itself the worse from one of these events. In America, [[Guns N' Roses]], [[Motley Crue]], and [[Motorhead]] were among the worst for this (though pretty much any [[Hair Metal]] band could play [[Follow the Leader]]), whereas in Japan pretty much ''any'' [[Visual Kei]] band seemed to be in a [[Follow the Leader]] contest for brawling with [[X Japan]] and Rosenfeld, among others.<br />[[Yoshiki Hayashi]]? of [[X Japan]] was a subversion of this, being that he was, as well as the drummer, [[The Piano Player]]... and often, if it wasn't [[Hideto Matsumoto\|hide]] or [[Taiji Sawada\|Taiji]] from his band starting shit, it was him. There's no word if he usually secured his piano first... * The [[Dropkick Murphys]] song "Barroom Hero" is about a man who has a chronic habit of getting into bar brawls, with dangerous consequences. == Music Videos == * [[Linkin Park]]'s video for "Bleed It Out" is a [[Performance Video]] with a massive barroom brawl carrying on around them... ''in reverse.'' * [[~~Pink~~P!nk]]'s music video for "Trouble" has P!nk as a [[Ladette]] who starts one of these. * The [http://everything2.com/title/The+True+Story+of+the+Bridgewater+Astral+League plot notes] for ''[[The World /Inferno Friendship Society\|The True Story of the Bridgewater Astral League]]'' have one of these breaking out during "Tarot Americaine", while Jack and his friends are getting drunk at the Sweetwater Tavern [[To Absent Friends\|after his sister's funeral]]. Line 152 ⟶ 153: == Tabletop Games == * These are pretty standard for the setting in ''[[Shadowrun]]''. A stock joke has the difference between high-class bars and low-class bars being whether the bouncer takes away your guns or hands out loaners. * The Wizards of the Coast card game, ''[https://web.archive.org/web/20100203051133/http://www.wizards.com/DnD/Article.aspx?x=dnd~~/drdd/20071109~~%2Fdrdd%2F20071109 Inn Fighting]'', is based entirely around this trope. * Classic ''[[Traveller]]'' Introductory Adventure (a.k.a. Adventure 0) "The Imperial Fringe". The adventure is started off by a brawl in a tavern, after which the [[PC~~\|PCs~~]]s meet their patron, Administrator Galadden. "The Traveller Adventure". While in a bar on the planet Zila, the [[PC~~\|PCs~~]]s are mixed up in a fight between crews from Oberlinded and Akerut ships. This leads to a meeting with Marc hault-Oberlindes, owner of Oberlindes Lines. * The Deep 7 game ''Arrowflight'' has a pub known as the "Drink and Fight", where patrons are expected to have a drink and then have a good fight. The current champion is the tavern's owner, an ex-mercenary. * In the ''Creature Codex'' (a book of monsters published by third-party publisher Kobold Press, using ''[[Dungeons & Dragons]]'' 5th edition rules) a Bar Brawl is given stats as a monster. Which actually makes sense, as it's easier for a player or party of them to conduct combat against one monster (even one designated as a Swarm) than against dozens of individual ones. == Theater == Line 175 ⟶ 176: * ''[[World of Warcraft]]'' A lot of world [[Player Versus Player]] ends up in an Inn. Inns usually are bars... when 4 Blood Elves walk into an Alliance Tavern where there's 3 Alliance Players and a [[Scrub\|Death Knoob]]... it's on. Starting a [[Bar Brawl]] is part of a quest line in the Blackrock Depths dungeon. ** The ''Cataclysm'' expansion of ''World of Warcraft'' features the Speedbarge Bar in Thousand Needles. Goblins and Gnomes in the same room, all just waiting to be set off by your character [[Grievous Bottley Harm\|throwing an easily bought bottle]]... and it's actually a quest for you to do so. The quest givers even encourage doing it again. * ''[[Kingdom of Loathing]]'' Line 181 ⟶ 182: ** There's also the Typical Tavern, with "A Barroom Brawl" as one adventuring area. * You can start one in ''[[Red Dead Redemption]]''. * ''[[Uncharted\|Uncharted 3: Drake's Deception]]'' opens with Nate and Sully starting a brawl in an old-fashioned English ~~pub -- specifically~~pub—specifically, they take on [[The Dragon]] and his thugs in the parlour, but it spills over into the rest of the pub and the English patrons are more than keen to give the troublemaking Yanks a good thumping. It's done to teach the player ''Uncharted 3'''s new hand-to-hand combat mechanic, and setting this tutorial in a pub gives the player an opportunity to hit bad guys in the head with bottles, pool cues and fridge doors. * ''[[Tron 2.0]]'', like the ''[[Tron: Legacy]]'' example above, has one of these. Jet goes to the Progress bar to help Ma3a assimilate some code that could protect her. And in the middle of the process, in barges [[The Corrupter\|Thorne]] and a horde of virus-inflected Z-Lots, forcing Jet into fighting them off long enough to protect Ma3a. {{spoiler\|Unfortunately, the code's horribly bugged, and the corrupted Ma3a forces Jet to run for his life with ''both'' Thorne and Ma3a on his tail.}} * In ''[[Raid: Shadow Legends]]'', Maulie Tankard is a Champion who is made for this venue of combat. Seriously, [https://ayumilove.net/raid-shadow-legends-maulie-tankard-skill-mastery-equip-guide/ just look at her], she has armor with a design of a serving maid’s outfit, she has a tankard on her belt, and her warhammer looks like a flaming sausage on a fork. <ref>The lore in game (such as it is) states her first act as a Champion was to fight a bunch of demons who stormed her tavern, and she used an actual sausage on a fork to fight them, inspiring a blacksmith to make her a hammer to commemorate the event.</ref> Plus, the names of her Skills have the Trope’s theme, Roast, Bar Brawl, Cheers!, and Rowdy Crowd. Not coincidentally, she first became available as part of an [[Oktoberfest]] promotion. == Web Comics == Line 196 ⟶ 197: * A staple of the sillier ''[[CAPOW]]'' threads is to start a bar brawl for no good reason at all, sometimes even [[Breaking the Fourth Wall]] to let the players join in on the fun with their characters. * The second of Tiernan Douieb's Twitterbrawls was a bar brawl in the Victorian East End. Someone did indeed swing from the chandelier. * In ''[[Pay Me, Bug!]]'', the protagonists are attacked by a group of [[Cyborg]] slavers while in a bar. Line 204 ⟶ 205: ** Hawk and Dove's debut on ''[[Justice League Unlimited]]'' involves this trope in a sports bar. The trophy case gets demolished ''before the fight actually starts.'' * An episode of Disney's ''The New Adventures of [[Winnie the Pooh]]'' has a card player in a Western saloon start a brawl with his opponents over being told to "[[Most Common Card Game\|Go Fish!]]" * In one episode of ''[[The Simpsons (animation)\|The Simpsons]]'', there is a [[Bar Brawl]] and the Jukebox is used as a weapon. {{quote\|'''Patron One:''' Let's fight! '''Patron Two:''' Them's fight'n words. }} Line 218 ⟶ 219: [[Category:Truth in Television]] [[Category:The Wild West]] [[Category:~~Bar~~Alliterative ~~Brawl~~Trope Titles]] [[Category:{{PAGENAME}}]]