Frying Pan of Doom: Difference between revisions

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See also [[Tap on the Head]].

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== Anime and Manga ==

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* Played straight with a twist in ''[[Fairy Tail]]'', when Natsu battles a mercenary whose weapon of choice is a gigantic, magic frying pan.

* ''[[Ranma ½]]'': One of the many blunt objects Akane introduces to Ranma's skull. Used deliberately in a later story arc: when facing the fire-breathing Rouge (in her [[A God Am I|Asura form]],) Ranma and Pantyhose Tarou arm themselves with griddles, pans, pots, and other kitchen utensils that they can use as shields. After Tarou punches Ranma high above the flying Rouge, Ranma comes down on top of her to deliver an overhead frying-pan smash to one of her heads.

* The Frying Pan Of Doom becomes Shinobu's weapon of choice in ''[[Love Hina]]''. Fitting, since she is the resident chef of Hinata House. And yes, in the manga at least, she ends up smacking [[Butt Monkey|Keitaro]] with it at least twice. When he isn't being smacked around by Naru's [[Megaton Punch|fist]] or Kaolla's [[Dynamic Entry|feet]].

* The Frying Pan of Doom becomes Shinobu's weapon of choice in ''[[Love Hina]]''. Fitting, since she is the resident chef of Hinata House. And yes, in the manga at least, she ends up smacking [[Butt Monkey|Keitaro]] with it at least twice. When he isn't being smacked around by Naru's [[Megaton Punch|fist]] or Kaolla's [[Dynamic Entry|feet]].

* Ataru from ''[[Urusei Yatsura]]'' becomes quite proficient with a frying pan. Which he uses both to block Jariten's flame breath and to bat the floating brat into next week (or off some combo of walls floor and ceiling). There's also one [[Pet the Dog]] moment when Jariten tries to get a mothers day carnation for his mother, but winds up being delayed so that she's just left when he gets back. Ataru promptly uses his frying pan to smack him in a trajectory that lands him right on his mother's bike.

* Tamako in ''[[Kemeko Deluxe]]!'' wields a mean frying pan against Kemeko.

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* Played with in [[Et Cetera]] where Ming-Chao has arguably a wok of doom which can be used as anything from a weapon to a lifeboat to a shield capable of repelling bullets (to some extent).

* Mana from ''[[Dragon Half]]'' frequently uses a frying pan to rein in her [[Pervert Dad|perv of a husband]].

== Card Games ==

* In ''[[Ninja Burger]]'', one of the combat boosting items you can get is the spatula, which is as deadly as the Ninja Burger Official Wakazashi. Also, a training card "Wok the Casbah" shows a ninja dual wielding ironcast woks on top of the Casbah.

* The ''[[Lord of the Rings]]'' TCG made a card out of the frying pan used by Sam in the movie (see Film). In-game, it could be used to do direct damage to any orcs the wielder was fighting. Because you could give it to any hobbit you wanted (including Frodo, who for a while was a necessity in every deck), it ended up banned because it made orc-based decks much less effective.

== Comic Books ==

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* In an issue of ''[[Black Panther]]'', Storm's American grandmother knocked out a HYDRA agent with one of these, while grandpa took on several more in the living room. They were actually disappointed by the low turnout, saying "HYDRA played us soft just because we're old."

* [[Batman]] once used a frying pan to beat up a ninja and block another ninja's shuriken.

== Film ==

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* One of the killers is beat to near-death with one in ''[[Motor Home Massacre]]''.

* [[Johnny Depp]]'s cameo in ''[[Freddys Dead the Final Nightmare]]'' involves him being whacked in the face with the frying pan during a "This Is Your Brain On Drugs" commercial.

== Literature ==

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* John Irving's "Last Night in Twisted River" has a few of these: The cook, Dominic, is rumored to once have hit a bear with his 18-inch cast-iron skillet to get it out of his kitchen ({{spoiler|in reality, he had hit his friend Ketchum with it when he found out Ketchum had been sleeping with his wife}}). His son Daniel later uses the skillet as a weapon against what he believes to be a bear mauling his father, {{spoiler|killing his babysitter in the prosess}}.

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== Live-Action TV ==

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* ''[[Boston Legal]]'' — Bernard Ferrion killed his mother by hitting her in the head with a skillet, and later killed his neighbor the same way when he thought she was had found out about the first murder. It then showed up ''again'' when Bernard himself was killed the same way by [[Betty White]], after he said that he wanted to kill again.

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== Live Action TV ==

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* ''[[Boston Legal]]''~~—Bernard~~ Ferrion killed his mother by hitting her in the head with a skillet, and later killed his neighbor the same way when he thought she was had found out about the first murder. It then showed up ''again'' when Bernard himself was killed the same way by [[Betty White]], after he said that he wanted to kill again.

* Kel in ''[[Kenan and Kel]]'' use one to take down a thug. And Kenan. And Kenan's parents. And a police officer.

* An early episode of ''[[Six Feet Under]]'', the "Death of the Week" is provided by a woman killing her husband with one just t stop him talking about nothing.

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* Subverted in ''[[Lie to Me (TV series)|Lie to Me]]'': When attacked in her kitchen, Gillian grabs a frying pan and hits one of the attackers with it—only for it to make a little "ding" sound and the mook to tackle her to the ground.

* ''[[Lost in Space]]''. Judy Robinson wields one in "Welcome Stranger", knocking Jimmy Hapgood out during his fight with Don. As a [[Call Back]] in the season two episode "A Visit To Hades", she tries this again with a pipe, only this time she hits Don instead of the guy he's scuffling with.

== Professional Wrestling ==

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* At [[WWE]] [[Wrestlemania]] X-8, Mighty Molly turned on her partner The Hurricane by hitting him with a frying pan and pinning him to win the Hardcore Title.

* In one storyline, Chyna (who was being considered the ultimate feminist) had entered a feud with Jeff Jarrett (who had adopted a misogynist [[Stay in the Kitchen]] mentality.) They decided to run with it and booked WWE's only "Good Housekeeping" match, where the area around the ring was littered with household objects. In her autobiography, there's a photo of Chyna bringing a frying pan down hard on Jarrett's head.

== Music ==

* [[They Might Be Giants]], with ''Particle Man'': "Person Man, Person Man, Hit on the head with a frying pan..."

== Radio ==

* ''[[The Stephanie Miller Show]]'' has voice impressionist Jim Ward portray former president [[Bill Clinton]]'s reaction to titillating news stories of the day. Then his wife hits him with a frying pan after the inevitable innuendo. Mind you, this is a ''liberal'' radio show.

== Stand Up Comedy ==

* [[Eddie Izzard]]: Part of the "Heimlich Gesture", along with being thumped in the stomach and [[Groin Attack|kneed in the bollocks.]]

== Tabletop Games ==

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* In ''[[Attack of the Mutant Penguins]]'', a frying pan is Bernard's main weapon.

* Bud from ''[[Legend of Mana]]'' uses his mother's frying pan as his preferred weapon. The game treats it as a two handed sword.

== Web Comics ==

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* [http://www.rhjunior.com/NT/00218.html Also invoked] in ''Nip & Tuck''.

** Then again, the pig was being a jerkass.

== Web Original ==

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* Being hit with a frying pan is the usual form of dismissal in the [http://www.youtube.com/profile_videos?user=bolegbros Boleg Bros Lego Apprentice parodies].

* Hillary Clinton uses one to hit Bill with in the ''[[JibJab]]'' video "Time For Some Campaignin'"

* A character in ''[[CAPOW]]'' uses a Frying Pan [[Of Doom|Of Heaven]]. Luckily for the rest of the cast she's a staunch [[Pacifist]] who only uses it to fix glitchy code in the [[World Tree]], and the planned storyline where ~~the~~ [[~~Endofthe~~ World As We Know It]] hits and her optimism gets [[Break the Cutie|broken]] in the worst possible way never came to full fruition.

* A character in ''[[CAPOW]]'' uses a Frying Pan [[Of Doom|Of Heaven]]. Luckily for the rest of the cast she's a staunch [[Pacifist]] who only uses it to fix glitchy code in the [[World Tree]], and the planned storyline where [[The End of the World as We Know It]] hits and her optimism gets [[Break the Cutie|broken]] in the worst possible way never came to full fruition.

* In this [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=23g5Nc1YWlo&feature=related CGI-Lego recreation of '''The Apprentice''], each fired contestant is shown the door by way of a frying pan.

* In the ''[[Homestar Runner]]'' short "Bug in Mouth Disease", Strong Bad knocks Homestar out with a skillet when he's watching Caleb Rentpayer.

** And it's an [[Offhand Backhand]] too.

* Rhia, from the [[Anti Cliche and Mary Sue Elimination Society]] uses a frying pan as her [[Weapon of Choice]].

== Western Animation ==

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* Chris ''[[Total Drama Island|Total Drama World Tour]]'' hits Owen over the head with a Frying Pan of Doom whenever he freaks due to his fear of flying.

* In the ''[[Wacky Races]]'' episode "Idaho a Go Go", Dastardly lures Penelope Pitstop into a Red Riding Hood scenario, with Muttley as the wolf. Except that Penelope's an [[Action Girl]], so rather than hide from the wolf, she clobbers him with a frying pan. When the real wolf shows up, he doesn't fare any better.

* ''[[Tangled]]'' has one of these. It's the signature weapon of Rapunzel (well, besides her hair), and early in the film she knocks out Flynn at least three times with it. Later Flynn has a swordfight with ~~Maximus—Flynn~~ using the frying pan, while Maximus uses the sword. [[Improbable Weapon User|Maximus is a horse]].

* ''[[Tangled]]'' has one of these. It's the signature weapon of Rapunzel (well, besides her hair), and early in the film she knocks out Flynn at least three times with it. Later Flynn has a swordfight with Maximus — Flynn using the frying pan, while Maximus uses the sword. [[Improbable Weapon User|Maximus is a horse]].

* The ''[[My Little Pony: ~~Friendship Is Magic|My Little Pony~~ Friendship Is Magic]]'' episode "[[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic/Recap/S2/E24 MMMMystery on the Friendship Express|MMMystery on the Friendship Express]]" has the cake-guarding Pinkie Pie taken out with one by an elderly [[ninja]] lady in one of Pinkie's [[Imagine Spot]]s.

* The ''[[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic]]'' episode "[[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic/Recap/S2/E24 MMMMystery on the Friendship Express|MMMystery on the Friendship Express]]" has the cake-guarding Pinkie Pie taken out with one by an elderly [[ninja]] lady in one of Pinkie's [[Imagine Spot]]s.

== Real Life ==

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