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== Anime & Manga ==

== 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]].

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== 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|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 as the Broken 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.

* 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 ''[[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 as the Broken 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 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.