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{{quote|''"I think it's time I cracked open this bottle!"''
|'''[[Ax Crazy|The Family Killer]]'''|''[[The Stepfather|The Stepfather II]]''}}
As one of the standard [[Improvised Weapon]]s for the [[Bar Brawl]], it makes sense that bottles have a certain special place in the world of weapons. Getting hit with one is actually fairly damaging due to the way they are constructed, and it's fairly easy to inflict serious head injuries on people with them.
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In [[Comedy Tropes]], they might attempt this with a ''plastic'' bottle; needless to say it doesn't break (or [[Rule of Funny|shatters like glass]]).
For all you beginning
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* ''[[Darker than Black]]'': Due to a cast full of [[Combat Pragmatist]]s, this trope is used several times. On one occasion, the protagonist is undercover in a Yakuza-run restaurant and an angry patron attacks him this way; While exactly what he did with it is off-screen, November 11 killed an entire room of people with a bottle [[An Ice Person|he froze]], {{spoiler|but was killed in the process}}. In the second season, Hei teaches the character Suo how to fight and during their [[Training
▲== Anime & Manga ==
▲* ''[[Darker than Black]]'': Due to a cast full of [[Combat Pragmatist]]s, this trope is used several times. On one occasion, the protagonist is undercover in a Yakuza-run restaurant and an angry patron attacks him this way; While exactly what he did with it is off-screen, November 11 killed an entire room of people with a bottle [[An Ice Person|he froze]], {{spoiler|but was killed in the process}}. In the second season, Hei teaches the character Suo how to fight and during their [[Training From Hell]], picks up a jagged bottle to demonstrate that anything in your surroundings is a potential weapon. In a variation, Suo later remembers this lesson {{spoiler|and grievously injuries someone who betrayed them by throwing shards of glass into her boomerang style}}.
* [[Played for Drama]] in ''[[Angel Beats!]]''. {{spoiler|Iwasawa is hit in the head with a bottle while her parents are fighting. As a result, she loses her ability to sing (her only outlet) and eventually her life.}}
* ''[[Speed Racer]]'': In one episode, a thug tries to knock Pops Racer out by breaking a bottle over his head. It doesn't work. In a later episode, Spritle and Chim-Chim are able to pin down a spy long enough to tie him up by throwing empty bottles at him.
* During a brawl in ''[[Yu Yu Hakusho]]'', a mook smashes Yusuke over the head with a beer bottle. [[Soft Glass|Not only does it have no effect whatsoever]], he complains about the guy wasting quality brew.
* Sheeta at the beginning of ''[[Laputa: Castle in the Sky]]'' tries to escape by hitting her captor with a champagne bottle. Unusually for this trope, the bottle does not break (but it does knock the man out).
* ''[[Watchmen (comics)|Watchmen]]'':▼
▲== Comics -- Books ==
▲* ''[[Watchmen (comics)|Watchmen]]''
** The Comedian gets scarred by one of these.
** In the film, someone Rorschach wants to [[Too Dumb to Live|talk to]] tries to threaten him with a bottle. Which Rorschach breaks, and then squeezes the shards into the man's hand. In the comic, the person is holding a shot glass. Rorschach grabs the glass-holding hand and does the same thing. Ouch!
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* Tintin and Captain Haddock of ''[[Tintin]]'' frequently makes use of this trope, mainly because Haddock's status as [[The Alcoholic]] means that there's always a whiskey bottle nearby for them to use.
* ''[[Pan's
* In a ''[[Get Fuzzy]]'' comic, Bucky attempts to do the "break the bottle on the table" move from movies. Unfortunately, it's a plastic bottle, so it bounces off and smacks him in the face instead.▼
== Films -- Live-Action ==▼
▲* ''[[Pan's Labyrinth|Pans Labyrinth]]'': A particularly nasty example averted the whole "easily broken" bit in a horrific scene where a man's face is smashed in with a bottle that doesn't break. This was based on an experience the director actually had in [[Real Life]], and he commented that he'd seen the breaking played straight a lot in Westerns. This was meant to be a character establishing moment for [[Complete Monster|Captain Vidal]] as this is the first evil thing he does in the film. It's in the first twenty minutes, and he only gets worse from there.
* ''[[The Avengers (1998 film)|The Avengers 1998]]'' has [[The Dragon]] smashing two milk bottles together for twice the weaponry.
* In ''[[The Golden Child]]'', a biker is holding a bottle of beer. Before getting into a fight he casually breaks it to create a weapon.
* In ''[[Dogma]]'', Bartleby smashes a bottle and holds it to Bethany's neck, once he realizes who she is. Bartleby, however, is an angel; [[Plot Armor|his exact level of intelligence/consciousness and strength would certainly be supernatural, allowing him to do it flawlessly on his first try
* In ''[[Serenity]]'', during the big Maidenhead bar brawl, River is attacked by a man using a beer bottle, and she shatters it against the bartop when she deflects his attack. She then turns and kicks another bottle into another man's head, knocking him out cold.
* ''I Went Down'': In this Irish film, a bad guy smashes a bottle against a table. But he breaks it by swinging it up and against the edge of the table, which seems even more unlikely to succeed.
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* ''[[Death In Brunswick]]'': Averted along with [[Soft Glass]] in this Australian film. A man smashes an empty beer bottle on the bartop and gets a hand full of broken glass for his trouble.
* In ''[[Stark Raving Mad]]'', a guy gets a wine bottle over the head and is knocked out.
* In ''[[Friday the 13th (film)|Friday the
* The [[Slasher Movie]] ''[[The
* ''[[Urban Legend (film)|Urban Legends]]: Bloody Mary'' has a scene where the titular murderess kills a boy by breaking a bottle over his head before slashing his throat with it several times.
* In ''[[The Texas Chainsaw Massacre]]'' remake Sheriff Hoyt breaks a liquor bottle into Morgan's face, severely injuring him and leaving him partially blinded and unable to talk for the rest of the film.
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* In ''[[Shaolin Soccer]]'', "Iron Head", the eldest of the Shaolin monks gets repeated bottle breaks over his head by his abusive boss to chastise his poor job performance, with no effect. Sing gets a bottle thrown over his head with effect from his poor band performance with Iron Head.
* A character gets stabbed to death with a broken ketchup bottle in ''[[Cornered]]''
* In ''[[Scary Movie
* In ''[[Dinosaurus]]'' this trope is subverted. The villain attempts to break a bottle to be more threatening, but does it wrong and the bottle breaks in his hand, cutting him badly. Oops.
* Somewhat related; in the urban slasher ''Holla If You Hear Me'', a character is bludgeoned with a can of Pepsi, which is then pounded down his throat.
* A guy has a beer can crushed into his head in ''Sleepover Nightmare''.
* Lifetime idiot Freddie from ''[[Layer Cake]]'' gets a ketchup bottle smashed into his face. And then [[It Got Worse|it gets]] [[No-Holds-Barred Beatdown|worse]]...
* Attempted by a Yakuza in ''[[Outrage]]'', but he is stopped by his friends before he can do anything. [[It Got Worse|Not that it helped
* During the [[Bar Brawl]] with machine guns in ''[[The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen (film)|The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen]]'', one of the mooks charges Quatermain, who smashes him in the face with a whiskey bottle and flips him.
{{quote|'''Quatermain:''' ''(glances at bottle label, then tosses it aside)'' [[Bond One-Liner|Wicked waste.]]}}
== [[Literature]] ==▼
* ''[[Discworld]]'': A variant turns up in ''[[
▲== Literature ==
▲* ''[[Discworld]]'': A variant turns up in ''[[Discworld/Night Watch|Night Watch]]''—Vimes notes that unless you know how to break a bottle properly, instead of a weapon you get a hand full of glass shards and a lot of bleeding. He uses this to his advantage while attempting to avert a riot, making sure the crowd sees an "amateur bottle fighter" hurt himself while Vimes' hands are both occupied with innocent tasks (a cup of cocoa and a cigar), then offers medical assistance. He also mentions to the crowd, while helping the injured man, that he saw someone try this trick against a less generous opponent. The guy reached down and squeezed the afflicted hand. This gets a groan of morbid appreciation. Earlier in the series, broken bottles have also been referenced as "Morpork knives", barfighting practically being the "lower" city's civic sport.
* ''[[X Wing Series|Iron Fist]]'': The more common unrealistic treatment is averted in the ''[[Star Wars Expanded Universe]]'' novel. At the beginning of the novel, agents of a rogue warlord stage a fight in order to get the Wraiths out in the open. To start it, a real bottle is used to hit one of the pilots over the head, and it does not break. (The victim survives without permanent injury, but [[Tap on the Head]] is averted; he spends about a week and a half on medical leave with concussion.) Later, when the Wraiths are using that trick on another world, one of them uses a stage-glass bottle against one of their own, which does break.
* ''[[Callahan's
* ''Confess, Fletch'', one of Gregory McDonald's eleven ''[[Fletch]]'' novels. The title character arrives in an apartment he's using as part of a housing swap to find a beautiful woman has been murdered there. With no evident murder weapon and the girl clearly dead, he pours himself a bottle of whiskey from the buffet nearby and calls the police. Unfortunately for Fletch, the whiskey bottle was the murder weapon, and was placed in the open so that he might incriminate himself. Police have a hard time figuring it out at first, as an open bottle would have made a much less effective murder weapon given that it might break. This is seen as more damning evidence that Fletch was trying to keep the murder weapon out of play by opening it for a drink.
* In [[H. G. Wells]]' ''The History of Mr Polly'', Polly breaks a wine bottle over the head of the villainous Uncle Jim, who comments, "Bolls? [sic] Fightin' with Bolls? I'll show 'im fightin' with bolls'!" He then breaks two bottles to use as daggers, a skill he had learned in a reformatory home.
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* In the ''[[Star Trek Deep Space Nine Relaunch]]'' novels, the psychologically unstable Thriss has a mini-breakdown in ''Quark's Bar'' and attacks one of her companions with a broken bottle.
* ''[[My Name Is Earl]]'', Joy threatens Catalina:
{{quote|'''Joy:''' You're not the one holdin' a freshly broken bottle, now are you!
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''(bottle remains whole)''
'''Joy:''' This would still hurt if I hit you with it! }}
* ''[[
** In a Shark Week episode, Kari tried to christen the new boat "Orca V" with a bottle. Unfortunately the bottle ''would not break'' despite her trying repeatedly until it finally broke and splashed Champagne all over her.
** In the "Buster Special," when Adam tried to christen the new "Buster 2.0". It took several three tries for the bottle to break. Apparently whenever the Mythbusters try to christen something one should expect them to need several tries to make the bottle shatter.
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* ''[[True Blood]]'' averted the [[Soft Glass]] portion of this trope when Tara's mother hits her over the head with a tequila bottle. Bottle doesn't break at all, and Tara is left with a nasty gash.
* ''[[Criminal Minds]]'' also averts the [[Soft Glass]] trope in the episode "Parasite", when a murder victim is repeatedly bludgeoned with a glass decanter without breaking.
* The British sketch show ''[[Harry
{{quote|'''Nelson Mandela:''' It contains no preservatives. It contains no additives. It is just 100% organic fighting beer. ''Smashes, then waves bottle''. Do you want some?}}
* In the ''[[Torchwood]]'' episode "Fragments", Jack's flashback starts with him reviving while having a broken bottle stuck in his gut. He then proceeds to pull it out and throw it away, and is killed again a minute later.
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* In the ''[[Midsomer Murders]]'' episode "Not In My Back Yard", the first [[Victim of the Week]] is done in with a broken bottle.
* ''[[Get Smart]]'': Max pretends to go on the bottle so he'll be recruited by KAOS. To help sell the premise, CONTROL stocks the bar with breakaway bottles so Max can hit [[Da Chief]] over the head with one when Chief comes in to try to get Max to go on the wagon. They do it, but the KAOS agent doesn't notice. So they move closer to him and do it again, and the KAOS agent still doesn't notice. They're out of breakaway bottles so Max orders a big bottle of champagne: he plans to break the bottle on the bar and threaten the Chief with the shards. But slamming the bottle on the bar just makes a hole in the bar.
* Played with in ''[[Sledge Hammer!]]''. The crook Agent Doreau takes on in a [[Bar Brawl]] tries several times to break a bottle to fight her and fails like he would in real life. So she grabs the bottle, breaks it for him on the first try as though the bottle is [[Soft Glass]], hands the broken bottle to him, then jump kicks him.
* In the first episode of ''[[Wild Boys]]'', Hogan smashes a bottle and uses to attack Jack in the pub.
* On ''[[Republic of Doyle]]'' Jake gets hit on the head with an empty wine bottle. The bottle does not break and he is knocked unconscious.
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* In the pilot of ''[[Firefly]]'', Dobson blindsides Shepherd Book with a [[Tap on the Head|wine bottle to the head]], averting [[Soft Glass]] in the process. Then he hits him over the head a couple more times to be sure.
* In an episode of ''[[Power Rangers Lost Galaxy]]'', Trakeena attempts to break a bottle to use a weapon. However, she is unable to shatter it on the bar top.
* ''[[Murder Call]]'': In "The Burial", the killer catches Steve by surprise and hits him with an oar, and then follows it up by smashing a bottle of wine over his head.
== [[Music]] ==
▲== Music ==
* The entire premise of Ms. B'Havin's outrageous, must-be-heard-to-be-believed song [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pMuBCWsq6jQ/ "Bottle Action"] is this trope.
▲* In a ''[[Get Fuzzy]]'' comic, Bucky attempts to do the "break the bottle on the table" move from movies. Unfortunately, it's a plastic bottle, so it bounces off and smacks him in the face instead.
==
* Lauren did this in a backstage segment on [[TNA]] to save Taylor Wilde from being thrown down the stairs by Daphne.
* [[Kurt Angle]] once hit [[Chris Benoit]] over the head with a beer bottle during a backstage brawl at a Halloween party. It was obviously stunt glass though.
* [[Chris Jericho]] did this to CM Punk once on an episode of Raw, when forcing him to finally drink alcohol.
== [[Tabletop Games]] ==▼
▲== Tabletop Games ==
* ''[[Deadlands]]'': Given the setting's [[Western|pastiche]], it had to happen. A bottle is stated in [[All There in the Manual|one rule book or the other]] as a small club, which does the attacker's ''Strength'' plus 1d4 damage. If the bottle were to break, it would presumably become a small knife instead, doing... the attacker's ''Strength'' plus 1d4 damage.
* An intact bottle is a weak club in ''[[GURPS]]'' and a broken one is the equivalent of a small knife.
* ''[[New World of Darkness]]'', in the book ''Armory'', gives rules for attacking with a bottle. It breaks if you do more than two damage with it, changing it from Bashing to Lethal... and then that shatters if you do more than two damage with ''it'', rendering it worthless. (It also takes a skill roll to break it ''intentionally'', and if you fail, your hand is a mess.)
* ''[[Dungeons
== [[Theatre]] ==
* In ''[[A Streetcar Named Desire]]'', Blanche unsuccessfully attempts to defend herself against her brother-in-law Stanley with a broken bottle.
== [[Video Games]] ==▼
* In the original ''[[Streets of Rage]]'' fighting game, you could pick up and break a bottle to use as a weapon.▼
▲== Video Games ==
▲* In the original ''[[Streets of Rage]]'' fighting game you could pick up and break a bottle to use as a weapon.
* In ''[[Kingdom of Loathing]]'', the drunken half-orc hobo has a bottle of Mad Train Wine as one of his weapons. It doesn't mention the bottle breaking on impact, but it may return a message about there being too much blood in your broken-glass-stream. If you're fighting a hobo found while [[Dumpster Diving]], he explicitly grabs a broken bottle.
* In ''[[Team Fortress 2]]''. the Demoman uses an intact bottle of cider as his melee weapon. When taunting with the bottle in hand, he drinks. If the bottle strikes something with a [[Critical Hit]], it breaks as per this trope, thought the effect is purely cosmetic. This doesn't make any difference to the taunt animation, and he drinks out of the broken bottle, presumably too sloshed to tell the difference. Due to the use of the same animations, he can also appear to be drinking from ''a frying pan'' as well.
* ''[[Ace Attorney]]'':
** In the second game's third case, another bottle is used as a weapon, but it's not the murder weapon and just leaves the victim with a concussion. It, however, broke. It was probably made from cheaper glass than Phoenix's favorite brand of grape juice.
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* ''[[The Punisher (2005 video game)|The Punisher]]'' for the [[Xbox]] subverts this. Thrown beer bottles hurt... oddly just as much as a bullet to the chest (on easy mode).
* Another example is the wine bottle weapon in ''[[Silent Hill 4]]''. True to form, it eventually breaks and changes from a clubbing weapon to a stabbing weapon after repeated use.
* [[Soft Glass]] is an [[Averted Trope]] in ''[[Raidou Kuzunoha vs. the Soulless Army]]'', when Raidou hits the game's resident [[Casanova Wannabe]], {{spoiler|Rasputin}}, over the head with a bottle. {{spoiler|Rasputin}} is knocked out, and the bottle does not break. Did I mention that {{spoiler|Rasputin}} is an {{spoiler|android}}?
* ''[[The Warriors (video game)|The Warriors]]'': One of the many items that can be picked up and used as a weapon in the video game adaptation. The brutality of hitting someone with a bottle is usually accented, so the game partially subverts the [[Soft Glass]] trope.
* ''[[Saints Row
* In ''[[World of Warcraft]]'' the "Barman Shanker" is a broken bottle, looted from a bartender in one of the (at the time) higher level dungeons. It is easier to get than anything from raids, and its damage-over-time effect was situationally useful. Most importantly, it was ''cool'' to carry around a broken bottle as a dagger.
** The seasonal boss Coren Direbrew also drops a shattered bottle that functions as a dagger.
** On a less serious note, some drinks leave a bottle behind after their use. You can sell them for a copper to vendors... or chuck them at other players.
* The most common weapon in the ''[[Doom (series)|Doom]]''-based first person [[Beat'Em Up]] ''[[Action Doom 2 Urban Brawl]]''. In fact, the very first weapon you get in the game is a bottle of Jack Daniels the player character drinks to reduce his sensitivity to pain and then uses as a weapon.
* [[Electronic Arts|EA]]'s adaptation of ''[[The Godfather (video game)|The Godfather
* ''[[God of War (series)|God of War]]'' has an alternate costume called The Dairy Bastard, which puts Kratos in a cow suit—and replaces his Chaos Blades with gallon milk jugs. Since the animations remain the same, Kratos can use them to fatally stab things.
* ''[[Bubble Bobble]]'' has Drunks as enemies that throw bottles, and the [[Big Bad]] Willy Whistle that throws entire waves of bottles.
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* Bottles are one of the many weapons you can use in ''[[Scott Pilgrim (video game)|Scott Pilgrim]]''. They do not break upon use, which means you can throw them and abuse the [[Game Breaker|juggling properties thrown weapons have]] against mooks.
* In the City Elf origin story for ''[[Dragon Age|Dragon Age: Origins]]'', a nobleman tries to interrupt the PC's wedding, leading to the PC's cousin driving him off by breaking a bottle on his head. He comes back later with armed mooks to kidnap a number of women from the wedding, including two bridesmaids, the cousin who knocked him out earlier, and either the PC or his bride, depending on which gender the player chose for the PC.
* ''[[Batman: Arkham City]]'':
** [http://mybrainongames.files.wordpress.com/2011/10/batman-arkham-city-penguin.jpg The Penguin's] [[High-Class Glass|monocle]] isn't actually a real monocle, but rather [[Eye Scream|the bottom of a beer bottle that was violently shoved into his face]] during a bar fight.
** Some inmates use broken bottles as weapons. They behave just like inmates with knives, but they aren't as common or as easy to spot.
▲== Web Comics ==
* ''[[Achewood]]'': Rodney Leonard Stubbs threw a beer bottle through Carl Veidt's head in the Great Outdoor Fight backstory. "Perfect spiral... scientists are still figuring it out..."
* This is what Steve from ''[[Questionable Content]]'' [http://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=472 recommends for dealing with tequila monsters.]
* In ''[[Impure Blood]]'', [https://web.archive.org/web/20120713050614/http://www.impurebloodwebcomic.com/Pages/Chapter002/ib010.html a guard tries this on Dara; Elnor interrupts it.]
* In ''[[Beyond the Canopy]]'', Glade gets knocked out by a [[Everything's Better with Chickens|chicken]] knocking her on the back of the head with a bottle of "It's Wine!".
* In ''[[The Order of the Stick]]'' [http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0798.html #798], Roy uses one of these against Thog.
== [[Web Original]] ==
▲== Web Original ==
* [[Todd in the Shadows]] mentioned at least twice in his videos the "[http://twitter.com/#!/ShadowTodd/status/5364185718329344 DL incident]" which he saw in his house.
== [[Western Animation]] ==▼
* ''[[The Simpsons (animation)|The Simpsons]]'':▼
▲== Western Animation ==
▲* ''[[The Simpsons (animation)|The Simpsons]]''
** Marge (playing Blanche Du Bois) uses a bottle in this manner against Ned (playing Stanley) in the ''[[A Streetcar Named Desire]]'' [[Musical Episode]]. Notably she has trouble breaking it at first, but after getting a bit ''too'' into the role and imagining Ned as Homer (whom she was mad at at the time) she successfully breaks it, tackles him, and judging from the bandage on his chest later apparently managed to hurt him.
** The Comic Book Guy goes to Moe's Tavern and states that he dislikes beer: "Beer is the nectar of the nitwit." Lenny is incited, yells out "No one badmouths Duff!" and proceeds to attempt to break the bottom end of the Duff bottle he's holding for a weapon. [[Rule of Funny|The entire bottle shatters in his hands]] (though it doesn't harm him) and he says dejected "Aw, [[Hypocritical Humor|piece of crap]]."
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* ''[[Futurama]]'': Bender mentions this when the crew goes to a Blernesball game. They have really good seats, with Bender noting, "We're close enough that if you hit a player with a bottle, he ''stays'' down."
** When they deliver the crate of game prizes to the lunar theme park, the park mascot tries to confiscate Bender's beverage. Instead of clubbing the guy with the bottle, he sticks it in the mascot's eye.
* ''[[Family Guy]]'': Meg interrupts a scene of ''[[Everybody Loves Raymond]]'' to tell Neil Goldman how much she hates him. It's followed by Ray angering Debra, who then shatters a wine bottle threatening him with it.
* The first episode of season 2 of ''[[The Spectacular Spider-Man]]'' has one of Mysterio's robotic doubles smashing a bottle over Spidey's head. In a Western Saloon prop house.
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