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* ''[[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]].

== 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.

* Twice in ''[[X-wing Rogue Squadron|X-Wing: Iron Fist]]''. Both times, they are set up 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.

** 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]]."

 

* [[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. [[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.

 

 

* [[Linkin Park]]'s video for "Bleed It Out" is a [[Performance Video]] with a massive barroom brawl carrying on around them... ''in reverse.''

* [[P!nk]]'s music video for "Trouble" has P!nk as a [[Ladette]] who starts one of these.

* ''[[Uncharted|Uncharted 3: Drake's Deception]]'' opens with Nate and Sully starting a brawl in an old-fashioned English 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.}}

 

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