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It should be noted that [[Art Major Biology]] really comes into play here. In fiction, not only do the creatures seem to not be affected by the force of the impact, they also don't seem to suffer much from being out of the water. And let's not even mention the fact that their spines can stand up to this abuse.

Note this is actually hitting something with a fish. If it's merely tossing the fish anywhere other than someone you intend to hurt, it doesn't count.

* ''[[20th Century Boys]]'' contains a completely serious example: one member of the Friend cult responsible for {{spoiler|spreading the second wave of [[The Plague]] around Japan}} pretends to be delivering salmon to get into someone house, kill the girl inside, and erase the video she was sent that would prove he was there. When Kyoko tries to warn the girl over the phone, the man smacks the girl in the head with the salmon.

* ''[[Hayate the Combat Butler]]'': During an ocean cruise the boat they are on starts to sink (it was basically a clone of the ''Titanic'' so it was hardly unexpected) Hayate ends up in the lower levels, injured and in danger of being eaten by a giant shark with poor Isumi trying to save him by waving a pathetically small stick. As soon as Nagi jumps in to help him he recalls there were ''two'' sharks. When Nagi's attacked by the other one, she has about a couple seconds to be afraid before Hayate ''brains it with the first shark effortlessly'' taking them both out in one hit.

== Comic Books ==

** You forgot the [[UFOs]] and the nuclear explosion in the background.

* In ''Jonah: A [[Veggie Tales]] Movie'', Ninevites are notorious for slapping people with fishes.

* In ''[[Despicable Me]]'', Gru's rival Vector seems to have an obsession with [[Abnormal Ammo|guns that shoot sea creatures]], given his gushing over his "piranha gun" and his "squid launcher".

* In Disney's ''[[Sleeping Beauty (Disney film)|Sleeping Beauty]]'', Kings Stefan and Hubert get into an argument and the latter uses a swordfish as a sword while the former uses a plate as a shield. They eventually get over it.

** One Disney short showed Mickey Mouse doing the same thing while fighting against Pete, who was using a scabbard.

* There is a scene in ''[[My Super Ex-Girlfriend]]'' with the shark being tossed into the guy's window.

* Chris Farley in ''[[Beverly Hills Ninja]]'' [[Dual-Wielding|dual-wields]] fish towards the end of the movie.

* ''[[Tank Girl]]'' does it too.

* ''[[Asterix]] and Obelix vs. Caesar'', true to its source, begins with a large fish fight within the Gaul village.

== Literature ==

* In ''[[Animorphs]]'' #39, the team has the last-ditch plan to {{spoiler|have Cassie morph into a whale in mid-air and fall onto a helicopter. It doesn't quite work, but fortunately, a [[Deus Ex Machina]] gull shows up and gets sucked into the engine.}}

** This is after a whale-tackle does work perfectly {{spoiler|in the first Megamorphs to shove a space-beast from Saturn into the ocean, as [[Weaksauce Weakness|water paralyses]] the millions of micro-organisms that it's built from.}}

** There is a throwaway reference to a spree-killing by someone bearing the title of "The Notorious Herring Thrower". Granted, it wasn't ''specifically'' stated that throwing fish was how this person killed...

** According to the ''City Watch Diary'', there was once a laughable misunderstanding over the law that the Citizen's Militia should be armed with pikes.

* Carl Hiaasen's novel ''Skin Tight" begins with the main character killing a would-be assassin with a stuffed and mounted marlin.

* In chapter three of the ''[[Gotrek and Felix]]'' book ''Manslayer'', Gotrek [[Dual-Wielding|dual wields]] sturgeon.

== Live-Action TV ==

* Lew Zeeland, one of the minor puppet-characters on ''[[The Muppet Show]]'', threw fish as boomerangs, and was occasionally seen smacking another character with one.

* [[Xena: Warrior Princess|Xena]] had a long-standing habit of using seafood as weaponry in mortal combat. She fought off several attackers in season one, who'd attacked her while fishing, and in season three, an episode climax featured Xena fighting off an army, just using the fish she'd spent the episode catching.

== New Media ==

* The "slapping" feature in mIRC : "X slaps Y around a bit with a large trout"

== Theatre ==

* ''[[Spamalot]]'' features the "fisch schlapping" business in the "Finland" number.

== Video Games ==

* ''[[Shank]] 2'' allows the titular hero (or his friend [[Action Girl|Corina]]) to use frozen fish as weapons, or, in a variation, flick a switch and send either a net full of fish or a great white shark careening into their foes.

* Kidd from the ''[[World Heroes]]'' games uses sharks as projectiles. Who needs shuriken or fireballs when you're throwing a shark at someone?

== Web Comics ==

== Web Original ==

* Number 165 on [http://angevin2.livejournal.com/148520.html The Evil Shakespeare Overlord List] is "At no time shall [[Romeo and Juliet|Romeo]] slap Tybalt with a fish. This is especially key during their confrontation in 3.1 [where Romeo kills Tybalt]."

== Western Animation ==

'''Eris:''' Because the mackerel wasn't fresh. }}

* In the ''[[Ren and Stimpy]]'' episode "I Was a Teenaged Stimpy" upon finding that Stimpy made himself a cocoon with his corn magazines he starts beating it with a mounted swordfish.

== Real Life ==

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