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{{trope}}
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{{quote|'''The Shoveller:''' You're the master of cutlery. You can't throw a knife sometimes when someone's trying to kill me?
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'''The Blue Raja:''' Well, I'm the Blue Raja. I'm not Stab Man. I'm not Knifey Boy. I'm the Blue Raja.|''[[Mystery Men]]''}}
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May be part of the fighting style of the [[Chef of Iron]], whose armaments may also include various cutlery, the [[Frying Pan of Doom]] and even [[Food Fight|food itself]]. Normally played for laughs, but if the [[Let's Get Dangerous|chips are down]], things can get pretty ugly.
In real life, this was once deadly serious business. Louis XIV, the Sun King himself, banished pointed knives from the tables in an effort to reduce violence at [[Dinner and a Show|rowdy dinner parties]]. The humble [[wikipedia:dinner knife|dinner knife]] has since saved many aristocrats from death or dismemberment. And according to legend, [[Confucius]] invented chopsticks for the same reason.
Subtrope of [[Improvised Weapon]].
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== Anime & Manga ==
* ''[[
** Fighting over food is common for media from Japan, where meals are traditionally served in communal plates. For example, in ''[[
* Sebastian uses silverware as weaponry in ''[[
** By which we of course mean using them as throwing knives and taking on {{spoiler|an angel}} by holding them as wolverine claws.
* While Kenshiro of ''[[
** Or in the French [[Gag Dub]], the infamous "Hokuto de cuisine".
* While not exactly while fencing, {{spoiler|Chloe}} in ''[[Noir (
* ''[[
* In ''[[Darker
* ''CLAMP in Wonderland 2'' has a scene between Fuma the anti-Christ and Kamui, the Christ figure, duking it out over a stolen waffle... with spatulas!
* In the [[Martial Arts and Crafts|martial arts dining]] story arc in the manga of ''[[Ranma ½
** At other points, mostly early in the manga/anime, Genma and Ranma fight with chopsticks over the dinner table.
* In the first episode of ''[[
* Miharu Shimizu, the [[Psycho Lesbian]] [[Schoolgirl Lesbian]] of ''[[Baka to Test
* Mahiro Yasaka in ''Haiyore! Nyaruko-san'' uses forks as stabbing or throwing weapons when especially irked with the extraterrestrials who've become a not-entirely-welcome part of his life [[Unwanted Harem|(including the ones who want him to father their children)]]. Mahiro apparently inherited the "[[Star Wars|power of the]] [[Incredibly Lame Pun|fork]]" from his [[Hot Mom]], a professional "monster hunter." The Other Wiki notes that "He appears to attack so fast that currently no alien has been able to dodge yet." And his mother is '''better''' at it. For her, they're '''not''' [[Improvised Weapon]]s, but her normal arsenal.
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== Comics ==
* Rorschach tries to do this at one point in ''[[Watchmen (
* In ''[[
* WildStorm's ''[[Friday the 13th (
== Films -- Animation ==
* There are two sequences in ''[[
* In the final scene of ''[[
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* In the first ''[[Pirates of the Caribbean]]'', the heroes use cutlery when they run out of cannon ammunition. [[Hilarity Ensues]] when an enemy pirate gets stabbed in the fake eye with a fork.
* The Blue Raja from ''[[Mystery Men]]'' is an expert fork- and spoon-thrower (but, for no adequately explained reason, refuses to have any truck with knives).
* Combined with [[Eye Scream]], entirely for laughs, in ''[[
* In the Brandon Lee vehicle ''Rapid Fire,'' Lee's character beats a couple of corrupt FBI agents who are planning on killing him to unconsciousness and death... with a ''kitchen.''
* In ''[[Richie Rich (comics)|Richie Rich]]'', Cadbury is attacked by a knife-wielding bad guy. He tries to grab something to defend himself, fumbles with an armful of metal implements, and ends up with... a spatula.
== Literature ==
* Vimes' butler Wilikins in ''[[
* Tyrion Lannister uses this early in the first book of ''[[
* At the end of ''[[The Princess Series|The Stepsister Scheme]]'', Tali - AKA 'Sleeping Beauty' - fights a TROLL using a knife-and-fork set. The twist being that she just grabbed that silverware off the table of a powerful member of [[The Fair Folk]], and as such, they're magical enough to penetrate the troll's defenses. End result: The troll goes down with a table-knife in his throat.
* [[Cal Leandros]] starts stabbing his friend Robin with a fork, repeatedly, after a case of amnesia.
* ''[[A Confederacy of Dunces]]'' features a fight between Ignatius J. Reilly and Clyde, his boss at Paradise Vendors (pushing around a [[Mobile Kiosk|hot dog cart]]), in which Clyde uses the long, two-pronged fork he uses to prepare the hot dogs and Ignatius uses the plastic sword that is part of his pirate costume. [[Rule of Funny|Yes]].
* Perry Dawsey in Scott Sigler's novel ''Infected''. "Fork you, buddy."
* A character gets slashed to death with a razor sharp fork in ''[[A Nightmare
== Live Action TV ==
* In ''[[Malcolm in
* In the ''[[
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** In "Harm's Way", Harmony and another vampire both grab chopsticks in a fight in the cafeteria. Harmony eventually stakes the other vamp with her chopsticks.
* ''[[The Drew Carey Show]]'': Drew Carey was at one point coming to blows with someone, and took up a fork, claiming that it would be a deadly weapon in his hand, since, with it, he would "never miss." [[Don't Explain the Joke|For you see, he is fat]].
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== Music Videos ==
* [["Weird Al" Yankovic
** What's even better is that the spoon and fork are propped as ''switchblades''.
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* Ed Byrne once joked that banning things like nail clippers on planes was unnecessary, since he was certain that another individual armed with a pair of tweezers could probably take it back, commenting "There's a duel I'd like to see".
== Tabletop Games ==
* While forks are not ''in'' the book, [http://rpggeek.com/image/522946/moonsea cover art] of [[Forgotten Realms]] regional [[sourebook]] ''The Moonsea'' by Danilo Gonzalez. A warrior (whose dinner apparently was rudely interrupted) parries another's sword with a fork, while stabbing him in the neck with a baguette <ref>under which something thin is hidden, though he holds it as if there wasn't</ref>.
== Video Games ==
* ''[[
* ''[[Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater]]'' has an escape sequence where a fork is available to the player.
** You also get an unloaded Single Action Army, which you can get ammo for the moment you step out of the prison. Though the SAA makes a loud bang and can't be silenced, making the fork almost a weapon of choice.
* In ''[[
* In ''[[
* In ''[[Improbable Island]]'', four of the weapons available to new players are bits of cutlery, from the humble Spork to the half-decent Kitchen Knife.
* In ''[[
* ''[[The Elder Scrolls III
== Web Animation ==
* ''[[
== Web Comics ==
* In ''[[Buck Godot: Zap Gun for Hire]]'', Buck's uncle Frakkus is skilled with the [https://web.archive.org/web/20150428210106/http://www.airshipentertainment.com/buckcomic.php?date=20080228 Hoffmanite Throwing Fork.]
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* Still with [[Phil Foglio]], in ''[[Girl Genius]]'' it is cranked up to eleven, as can be expected of Sparks, with Gil's ''[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20081015 Hand-cranked Runcible Gun].
* Jane Crocker of ''[[
* Referenced in ''[[
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== Western Animation ==
* At the beginning of an episode of the 2002 ''[[He-Man and
* In one episode of ''[[The Simpsons (
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'''Homer Simpson:''' The Force?
'''Mark Hamill:''' The forks! Use the ''forks''! }}
* ''[[
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