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{{trope}}
{{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.
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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
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]].
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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]].
** In the fourth movie, Luffy, Zoro, and the bounty hunter Shuraiya get into a large fight with the crew of General Gasparde.
* No sooner did Negi of ''[[
* As soon as Lucy steps into the eponymous guild in ''[[
* There is one in episode 17 of ''[[
* In the ''[[
== Comic Books ==
* ''[[Lucky Luke]]''
** In the comic, most pianists and dancers can only play right with "atmosphere"
** 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
** 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.
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* ''[[Sin City]]'': Marv likes to get into these as well.
* At one point in ''[[Preacher (Comic Book)]]'', Jesse, sensing that Cassidy is in a bad mood (his girlfriend had just died of an overdose), deliberately picks a fight in a bar to burn off the bad vibes. (He still had limits, however, and stopped Cassidy from eating his opponents.)
* ''[[
** During the "Gang War" arc, we get to see a [[Bad Guy Bar]] filled with supervillains. The storyline revolves around a power vaccum in the supervillain underworld so a brawl was bound to happen... twice. Both times were pretty violent.
** The eponymous hero also got involved in one in the first issue of the ongoing series (the character first appeared in a miniseries) while [[Drowning My Sorrows|drowning his sorrows]].
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== Fan Works ==
* Early on in the ''[[
* In the ''[[
* ''[[
* ''[[
** At the beginning of the Second Movement, having just arrived in the Baravadan city of Ta'akan, the four unknowingly wander into a skahs pub, where they have barroom brawls roughly once a night. It's just about all the skahs have to do these days. Afterward, the employees sell healing potions to the crowd, and all the broken stuff magically disappears.
** 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 ''[[
* 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 ==
* Disney's ''[[
* ''The [[
* In ''[[
* Happens during the climax of ''[[Cars
== Films -- Live-Action ==
* The film ''[[Shane]]'' has a classic scene.
* ''[[
** A brief brawl in the first movie, and a rather more massive one in the second. And Jack [[Strolling Through the Chaos|walks right through it without becoming involved]], trying on a variety of recently-vacated hats.
** Tortuga, as it is portrayed in ''Pirates'', seems to be a bar brawl the size of a city.
* In ''[[Thor (
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'''Drunk!Selvig:''' I still don't think you're the God of Thunder... But you should be! }}
* In the climactic fight in ''[[Top Secret (
* There's a particularly messy one in the ''[[James Bond (
* In ''[[Indiana Jones and
* One of the notable scenes of ''[[Pearl Harbor]]''´s [[Romantic Plot Tumor]] is a Bar Brawl started by the two competing halves of the love triangle.
* The T-800 starts one in "Film/Terminator2". It's very one-sided.
* Between two card-playing Girl Scouts in ''[[
* There is a great martial art bar brawl in ''Project A'' with Sailors vs. Cops, starring Jackie Chan.
* In a bit of a meta-subversion, in the Director Commentary for ''[[Shanghai Noon]]'', the director talked about how Jackie Chan had never [[Values Dissonance|heard]] of a barroom brawl and assumed that he would be fighting everyone.
* Scorsese's ''[[
* ''[[The Great Race]]''. "Now can I get me some fighting room?"
* Averted in ''[[
* Unsurprisingly, ''[[The Dukes of Hazzard]]'' movie has one of these.
* In ''[[Romper Stomper]]'', the skinhead gang led by Russell Crowe's character gets into a bar brawl when they discover that a Vietnamese family has just bought their local pub. One brother escapes to call reinforcements, bringing the city's entire population of Vietnamese factory workers down on the gang's bald heads. The fight spills into the streets and across half the city as the gang literally runs for their lives.
* In the beginning of ''[[Star Trek (
* One particularly one-sided brawl in ''[[Popeye (
* ''[[Cool Runnings]]'' has one in a famous cowboy bar.
* ''[[Batman:
* ''[[Blazing Saddles]]''. The fight between Hedley's thugs and the citizens of Rock Ridge eventually spills out [[Breaking the Fourth Wall|into the Warner Bros.' commissary.]]
* [[Waif Fu|River]] starts one in ''[[
* ''[[Our Man Flint]]''. Flint starts one with 008 (Triple-O-Eight) so he can talk with him without anyone realizing that they're allies.
* The pool hall fight in the first ''[[Rush Hour]]'' movie.
* Subverted in ''[[An Officer and
* ''[[The Boondock Saints]]'' has the McManus brothers getting into one of these against two Russian mob dudes who have come to close down their favorite bar. The Russians get their asses kicked and the brothers even set the ass of one of them on fire. This ''supremely'' pisses them off, and they retaliate by busting down the brothers' door, cuffing Connor to a toilet and leading Murphy off to be executed, which sets up Connor's first [[Moment of Awesome]].
* The [[Boom Town]] which is the setting for the Western spoof ''[[Support Your Local Sheriff]]'' has these breaking out pretty much anywhere, until the hero becomes sheriff and puts an end to it.
* ''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
* ''[[Tron
* [[Universal Soldier]] has Van Damme scuffling with some local toughs - "I just want to eat."
== Literature ==
* Subverted in ''[[Rats, Bats, and Vats
* In Terry Pratchett's ''[[
* Twice in ''[[X-wing
* 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.
* In ''The Solitary Cyclist'', [[Sherlock Holmes]] gets in a bar brawl. He comes out with a bruise. His opponent had to be carried in a cart.
* In the ''[[
* In [[Robert E. Howard]]'s "The Tower of the Elephant", [[Conan the Barbarian]] starts one in the opening scene.
* 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
* One of the men on trial with Fisk in the ''[[
* Also happens, of all places, in a ''[[
== Live-Action TV ==
* ''[[
* ''[[Star Trek:
* ''[[
* ''[[
** A
** 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 ''[[
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''([[Gilligan Cut|cut outside]], where Jayne is fighting four guys at once and mostly winning)'' }}
* ''[[
** The episode "Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang" had one of these between rogue Time Agents Capt. Jack Harkness and Capt. John Hart. Incidentally, it was combined with [[Kiss Kiss Slap]], and thus was preceded by a snogfest between the two of them.
** Owen gets into one in the episode "Combat".
* It must be genetic, because ''[[Power Rangers]]'' siblings [[Power Rangers in Space|Andros]] and [[Power Rangers Lost Galaxy|Karone]] both ended their undercover jaunts to the [[Bad Guy Bar]] this way.
* To prove to the viewers that something is wrong in ''[[
* ''[[
* ''[[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
** 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.
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** 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
* 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.
* [[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, [[
* The [[
▲== 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 (Music)|Guns N' Roses]], [[Motley Crue (Music)|Motley Crue]], and [[Motorhead (Music)|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 (Music)|X Japan]] and Rosenfeld, among others.<br />[[Yoshiki Hayashi (Music)|Yoshiki Hayashi]]? of [[X Japan (Music)|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 (Music)|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.''
▲== Music Videos ==
* [[
* The [http://everything2.com/title/The+True+Story+of+the+Bridgewater+Astral+League plot notes] for ''[[The World
▲* The [http://everything2.com/title/The+True+Story+of+the+Bridgewater+Astral+League plot notes] for ''[[The World Inferno Friendship Society (Music)|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]].
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== Tabletop Games ==
* These are pretty standard for the setting in ''[[
* The Wizards of the Coast card game, ''[https://web.archive.org/web/20100203051133/http://www.wizards.com/DnD/Article.aspx?x=dnd
* Classic ''[[
** 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
** "The Traveller Adventure". While in a bar on the planet Zila, the [[PC
* 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 ==
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== Video Games ==
* Upcoming MMORPG ''[[Conan the Barbarian|Age of Conan]]'' will feature bar brawls as PVP combat.
* In ''[[
* One of the levels in ''[[The Warriors (
* A few battles in ''[[Final Fantasy Tactics
* ''[[
** A sizable number of these in Denerim, one in Lothering, and one outside of a bar at the Lake Calinhad. Hell, in these bar fights you actually get a Rogue class specialization and an NPC follower!
** One of the 'follower base' locations (where your companions live when they're not in your party) is a bar called the [[Wretched Hive|Hanged Man]]. It isn't all that surprising, then, that you seem to get into fights there at least once a chapter. [[Pirate Girl|Isabela]] is introduced fighting against three guys (and apparently started one that wound up involving more than twenty people), and your opponents can include drunken wretches, corrupt guardsmen, and irritable blood mages.
* Guybrush starts one inadvertently, due to his [[Evil Hand|poxed hand]], in ''[[
* The third ''[[
* ''[[
** 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
** 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.
* ''[[
** Barrney's Barr, essentially a continuous bar fight with occasional breaks for [[Monkey Island (
** There's also the Typical Tavern, with "A Barroom Brawl" as one adventuring area.
* You can start one in ''[[
* ''[[Uncharted
* ''[[Tron
* 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 ==
* In ''[[
* Mamma Gkika's bar and burlesque show from ''[[
* Roy starts a brunchroom brawl with bounty hunters in ''[[
* In ''[[Rusty and Co
* In ''[[
== Web Original ==
* A staple of the sillier ''[[
* 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
== Western Animation ==
* ''[[Justice League (
** The episode "Comfort and Joy", wherein we (and her rather unfortunate boyfriend, Green Lantern) learn that Hawkgirl likes starting these for fun. Apparently, on [[Proud Warrior Race Guy|Thanagar]], this is the tradtional method of celebration. Followed by a scene of both Hawkgirl and Green Lantern sleeping off their drinks, lying against the large alien who they started out fighting. It's oddly heartwarming.
** 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 (
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'''Patron Two:''' Them's fight'n words. }}
* ''[[
** One was started as a distraction so that Iroh and Zuko could slip out of a bar when some bounty hunters come after them.
** Another was shown briefly in the multi-part finale when the [[Incredibly Lame Pun|Gaang]] are looking for June.
* Used regularly on ''[[
* In ''[[
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