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{{quote| ''[[Professional Wrestling|GIVE HIM THE CHAIR!]]''}}
 
In fiction, chairs make for great bludgeoning objects capable of [[Tap Onon the Head|knocking people unconscious]] in one strike; enter the Chairman of the Brawl, that one guy who can be counted on grabbing the nearest sitting implement and smashing it across his unfortunate victim's head. If the chair is made of wood, it also immediately splinters into countless pieces to show how devastating the blow is.
 
If there is a [[Bar Brawl]] going on, this is to be expected.
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== Film ==
* ''[[Top Secret]]''. While in a underwater [[Western]] bar ([[Don't Ask|don't ask]]), the [[Big Bad]] breaks a chair over the [[Hero]].
* One of the Lizzies in ''[[The Warriors (Filmfilm)|The Warriors]]'' gets a chair broken on her face.
* Used in ''[[The Mummy 1999 (Film)Trilogy|The Mummy 1999]]'' when Brendan Fraser's character stops the cowardly Beni from running away. As he's striding toward Beni, he grabs a wicker chair without missing a beat and ''throws'' it at Beni's legs, tripping him.
* Improbable weapon master Jackie Chan is rather famous for his use of seating material
** Played with in ''Young Master'' Jackie Chan stages an epic bench to bench combat with his fellow disciple[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6uJW6UpCcyI\]
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== Literature ==
* [[The Action HerosHero's Handbook (Literature)|The Action Heros Handbook]] has an entire chapter on how to take a hit from a chair.
* Played upon frequently in ''[[Discworld]]'', where brawls in the <s>Broken</s> <s>Mended</s> <s>Broken</s> ''Mended'' Drum are an organized sport, complete with a point system and [[Attack Pattern Alpha|named plays]].
** Also mentioned as why people who have not read the Marquis of Fantailler's book about The Noble Art of Fisticuffs tend to win against people who have.<ref>"The last words of a surprisingly large number of people were 'Stuff the bloody Marquis of Fantailler--'"</ref>
* Mica, [[Dragaera|Tazendra]]'s lackey, wields a bar stool as his [[Weapon of Choice]].
* John becomes this (adding to it with a [[Hurricane of Puns]]) in one of the big fights of ''[[John Dies Atat the End]]''.
* Harry Dresden uses a chair in the first book. He lampshades the "splintering wood" part as the chair is a very solid one, and the barman actually has to check that the guy is alive afterwords.
* Not at all comedic in [[Sienkiewicz Trilogy]], where a minor (but very large) character uses an 8 foot solid oak bench in a bar fight. It crosses into [[Telephone Polearm]] territory and largely contributes to the other side getting wiped out.
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== Live Action Television ==
* In the ''[[Red Dwarf (TV)|Red Dwarf]]'' episode "Backwards", during the reverse bar-brawl, Cat hits someone with a chair...in reverse.
* ''[[Monty Python's Flying Circus (TV)|Monty Python's Flying Circus]]'' sketch "Scott of the Sahara". Lieutenant Scott faces off against a lion wielding a chair, who breaks it over Scott's back.
* In the ''[[Doctor Who (TV)|Doctor Who]]'' serial ''City of Death'', policeman Duggan grabs a chair with the intent of fighting off some guards and escaping, but the Doctor stops him: "For heaven's sake, that's a Louis Quinze!"
* 1960s ''[[Batman (TV series)|Batman]]'' series episode "That Darn Catwoman". After Robin is placed under Catwoman's control, he breaks a chair over Batman's head while fighting him.
 
 
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== Video Games ==
* Lisianthus from ''[[Shuffle]]'' often has to do this to her father in order to make him stop whatever inappropriate action he is doing at the current time.
* In a [[Bar Brawl]] cutscene from ''[[Dragon Quest VIII (Video Game)|Dragon Quest VIII]]'', Yangus attempts to hurl a chair at a brawny troublemaker picking fights. [[Boisterous Bruiser|Someone's still sitting in it.]]
* In ''[[Persona 4 (Video Game)|Persona 4]]'', a folding chair is one of Kanji's more memorable weapons. Another is a school desk. It's also his weapon in ''[[Persona 4 Arena (Video Game)|Persona 4 Arena]]''.
 
 
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