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{{quote|''"I think it's time I cracked open this bottle!"''|'''[[Ax Crazy|The Family Killer]]''', ''[[The Stepfather (Film)|The Stepfather II]]''}}

For all you beginning barbrawlers, you're generally better off hitting people with an intact bottle (if empty -- we did mention some beer bottles are harder than people's skulls, right?), or, if they're full and you have a good arm, ''throwing them''.

 

 

== Anime & Manga ==

* In the ''[[Sin City]]'' tale ''Just Another Saturday Night'', Marv smashes a whiskey bottle and comes after a group of psychopaths torching a homeless man to death. He gets shot in the shoulder and never gets the chance to use his makeshift weapon, however.

* In the first ''Death'' mini-series, "The High Cost of Living," Mad Hettie threatens Sexton with a broken bottle.

 

 

* ''[[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.

* The [[Slasher Movie]] ''[[The Stepfather (Film)|Stepfather II]]'' features a particularly brutal scene where the title serial killer murders his current lover's former husband by smashing a bottle against his head, before maniacally stabbing him with it over and over again.

* ''[[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.

* 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.

 

 

** 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.

* [[Electronic Arts|EA]]'s adaptation of ''[[The Godfather (Video Game)|The Godfather]] II'' actually uses a bottle thrown to the head as a required kill condition for a rival family's made man.

* ''[[God of War (Video Game)|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.

* 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 (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.

** [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.

* This is what Steve from ''[[Questionable Content (Webcomic)|Questionable Content]]'' [http://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=472 recommends for dealing with tequila monsters.]

* In ''[[Impure Blood (Webcomic)|Impure Blood]]'', [http://www.impurebloodwebcomic.com/Pages/Chapter002/ib010.html a guard tries this on Dara; Elnor interrupts it.]

* In ''[[The Order of the Stick (Webcomic)|The Order of the Stick]]'' [http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0798.html #798], Roy uses one of these against Thog.

 

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