Grievous Bottley Harm: Difference between revisions

* 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''.

* 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.

* ''[[Discworld (Literature)|Discworld]]'': A variant turns up in ''[[Discworld (Literature)/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.<br />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.

* ''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 [[HG 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.

* In the City Elf origin story for ''[[Dragon Age (Video Game)|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 (Video Game)|Batman Arkham City]]''

** 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.

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