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[[File:GourryLina.png|link=Slayers (Anime)|frame|Getting the last meatball? [[Serious Business]].]]

* ''[[Slayers (Anime)|Slayers]]'', the [[Trope Namer]]. The first episode of ''Slayers NEXT'' has Gourry and Lina literally ''fork-fencing'' at super speed over the ''last bits of food on the table''. Neither of them end up getting it, as a fight breaks out in the tavern and their table is knocked over. Lina's response? [[Berserk Button|Well...]]

** Fighting over food is common for media from Japan, where meals are traditionally served in communal plates. For example, in ''[[Trigun (Manga)|Trigun]]'' Vash and Wolfwood fight over an enormous plate of spaghetti during the course of an argument.

* Sebastian uses silverware as weaponry in ''[[Black Butler (Manga)|Black Butler]]''. Then again, he is a [[Battle Butler]], so he can do some pretty wicked things with tableware.

* While Kenshiro of ''[[Fist of the North Star (Manga)|Fist of the North Star]]'' didn't use any forks, his incarnation in ''[[Fist of the Blue Sky]]'' used a whole bunch of them to take out a bunch of evil gangsters who were viciously mistreating his [[Blood Brothers|sworn brother]]. And in the anime adaptation of the manga, he uses Kenshiro's famous [[Kiai]] for the [[Rapid-Fire Fisticuffs|Hokuto Hyakuretsu Ken]] ("AHHHHTATATATATATATATATATATATA!") from the previous series while he's throwing those forks.

* While not exactly while fencing, {{spoiler|Chloe}} in ''[[Noir (Animeanime)|Noir]]'' was killed by {{spoiler|Kirika}} with a fork. Over {{spoiler|Mireille}}. Make your own conclusions about the symbolism of that scene.

* ''[[Katekyo Hitman Reborn (Manga)|Katekyo Hitman Reborn]]'' The {{spoiler|Vongola IV}} used a fork as his main weapon.

* In ''[[Darker Than Black (Anime)|Darker Than Black]]'', second season, Hei uses a knife to pin the hand of a {{spoiler|government official}} to the table, preventing him from setting off a bomb. A bit squickier than you'd think, since he jams it in ''sideways,'' rather than lengthwise as you'd expect.

* In the [[Martial Arts and Crafts|martial arts dining]] story arc in the manga of ''[[Ranma ½ (Manga)|Ranma One Half]]'' Soun and Genma duel with forks.

* In the first episode of ''[[Chrono Crusade (Manga)|Chrono Crusade]]'', Rosette attacks the Elder with silverware when he [[Dirty Old Man|sneaks a peak up her dress]]. The dub even adds a line of her threatening to "kill you with this spoon!!"

* Miharu Shimizu, the [[Psycho Lesbian]] [[Schoolgirl Lesbian]] of ''[[Baka to Test To Shoukanjuu (Light Novel)|Baka to Test To Shoukanjuu]]'' attacks the lead character with throwing forks for daring to lust after the target of her affections.

* Rorschach tries to do this at one point in ''[[Watchmen (Comic Bookcomics)|Watchmen]]''.

* In ''[[Calvin and Hobbes (Comic Strip)|Calvin and Hobbes]]'', Calvin magnificently won a fork duel with a greenish, seemingly gelatinous glob of something that was supposed to be food, before the thing cheated and used a spoon to run him off by lobbing pieces of itself at him. In his further defense, ''he'' was the one who said they should call out for pizza to begin with.

* WildStorm's ''[[Friday the 13th (Filmfilm)|Friday the 13 th]]'' has a scene where Jason kills a guy by stabbing him in the face with a two-pronged grilling fork.

* There are two sequences in ''[[Kung Fu Panda (Animation)|Kung Fu Panda]]'' where chopsticks are used as weapons.

* In the final scene of ''[[Corpse Bride (Animation)|Corpse Bride]]'', the hero uses an oversized fork as an [[Improvised Weapon]].

* Combined with [[Eye Scream]], entirely for laughs, in ''[[Hot Tub Time Machine (Film)|Hot Tub Time Machine]]''.

* Vimes' butler Wilikins in ''[[Discworld (Literature)|Discworld]]''.

* Tyrion Lannister uses this early in the first book of ''[[A Song of Ice and Fire (Literature)|A Song of Ice and Fire]]'' to annoy a particularly humourless member of the Night's Watch. When the knight leaves in a huff, Tyrion claims his share of dinner.

* A character gets slashed to death with a razor sharp fork in ''[[A Nightmare Onon Elm Street]]: Dreamspawn''.

* In ''[[Malcolm in Thethe Middle]]'', Malcom and Reese duels with their forks over the last piece of meat in one opening. Then it fell on the floor. Then the two just scramble to the floor wrestling over it.

* In the ''[[Angel (TV)|Angel]]'' episode "Just Rewards", Angel kills the villain's butler with a spoon. By throwing it at him so hard it lodges in his forehead. Spike is appropriately incredulous.

* [["Weird Al" Yankovic (Music)|Weird Al Yankovic]] parodied [[Michael Jackson (Music)|Michael Jackson]]'s "Beat It" (featuring two gang leaders in a knife fight) with "Eat It". The leaders were instead fighting over a chicken, and armed... well, one had a fork, the other a spoon.

* ''[[Kingdom of Loathing (Video Game)|Kingdom of Loathing]]'' features utensils of various stripe as weapons, including "foons". Think the opposite of "spork". And why does my spellcheck think "spork" isn't a word?

* In ''[[Final Fantasy IX (Video Game)|Final Fantasy IX]]'', Quina's weapon of choice is a giant <s>fork</s> ''spork''.

* In ''[[Rule of Rose (Video Game)|Rule of Rose]]'', your starting weapon is a dessert fork. It's about as effective as it sounds.

* In ''[[Dwarf Fortress (Video Game)|Dwarf Fortress]]'' because of their tiny contact area, they're a great weapon.

* ''[[The Elder Scrolls III Morrowind (Video Game)|The Elder Scrolls III Morrowind]]'' has [http://www.uesp.net/wiki/Shivering:The_Fork_of_Horripilation_(quest) The Fork of Horripilation].

* ''[[Homestar Runner (Web Animation)|Homestar Runner]]''. In the Cheat Commandoes Thanksgiving special, Blue Lazer Commander uses this to differentiate between his two cronies by [[Eye Scream|jabbing a fork into one crony's eye.]]

* In ''[[Buck Godot: Zap Gun for Hire]]'', Buck's uncle Frakkus is skilled with the [http://www.airshipentertainment.com/buckcomic.php?date=20080228 Hoffmanite Throwing Fork.]

* Jane Crocker of ''[[Homestuck (Webcomic)|Homestuck]]'' uses a spoon capable of [[Morph Weapon|morphing into a fork]] as her [[Weapon of Choice]].

* Referenced in ''[[Questionable Content (Webcomic)|Questionable Content]]'' with the [http://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=540 Indonesian Fighting Spoon], which can scoop out a man's lungs in the blink of an eye. Note that while that turns out to be just another one of Faye's jokes, the Malaysian Battle Spatula IS real...

* At the beginning of an episode of the 2002 ''[[He-Man and Thethe Masters of The Universe (Animation)|He-Man and The Masters of Thethe Universe]]'' remake, Prince Adam balked at learning table etiquette, leading Orko to challenge him to a flatware duel. Randor is not impressed.

* In one episode of ''[[The Simpsons (Animationanimation)|The Simpsons]]'', Homer wins a knife fight against a mobster using a pair of table forks. Giving us the truly [[Incredibly Lame Pun|groanworthy]] quote:

* ''[[Tom and Jerry (Animation)|Tom and Jerry]]'' once do battle using knives from a fancy banquet table.