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Also see [[Head Desk]], which is Using Your Head [[Face Palm|out of frustration.]] Compare [[Ass Kicks You]]. A signature move of the [[Violent Glaswegian]].

 

** A lot? It's practically his off-basket signature move. One of his first scenes ''ever'' in the series involved him headbutting his [[True Companions]] for teasing him, then other people for unknowingly hitting one of his [[Berserk Button|Berserk buttons]], and more than once he has dealed them to his own teammates (like Miyagi), schoolmates (like Aouta) or people from other teams (like Hikoichi) if they piss him off enough. Akagi and Rukawa are pretty much the only ones who can resist his headbutts without being knocked-out.

** Early on, a flying headbutt was just about Goku's primary [[Finishing Move]], being used to end his fights, for example with Staff Officer Black.

** Goku headbutts Piccolo Jr. to send him out of the ring and win. That's right. [[Crowning Moment of Funny|He saved the world with a]] [[Ring Out]]. He already tried the same strategy against Tenshinhan 3 years ago, where it would have worked if it wasn't for [[Diabolus Ex Machina|that damned truck driver on the way]].

** His Son Gohan performs a rather impressive, armour-splitting headbutt on his uncle Raditz. He also pulls one against Garlic Jr. on [[Filler]].

** The second Goku vs. Vegeta fight has on the anime a [[Narm|rather ridiculous]] scene where the two fighters keep headbutting each other. Just like goats!

** Also, the filler episode where Hinata opens a door to find Naruto standing upside-down on the ceiling so that his face is, like, three inches from hers. She, [[Shrinking Violet|of]] [[Fan of Underdog|course]], [[Luminescent Blush|blushes beet-red]] with her crush so close to her. When Naruto puts a hand to her forehead (he [[Oblivious to Love|mistakes the blush for a fever-flush]]), she screams and then impulsively headbutts him across the room, knocking both him and herself out.

** At the end of chapter 563 Naruto {{spoiler|does this to Tobi}} immediately upon finding him. That's right, his opening move against {{spoiler|the [[Big Bad]]}} was a headbutt. Naruto complained about him having too hard a head afterward.

** In chapter 320, Negi invokes this to object with Fate.

** Isshin Kurosaki has used this on his son Ichigo more than once. Specifically, to break him out of [[Heroic BSOD]]'s, like the one that cam after {{spoiler|losing to Gin Ichimaru.}}

** More recently, [http://www.mangareader.net/bleach/467/18 a truly spectacular headbutt] is the key to {{spoiler|Ikkaku}} finally defeating {{spoiler|Shishigawara}} in the X-Cution arc.

** Ash's Scraggy likes to headbutt as a greeting, though this is natural for its species.

 

* This is the trademark of the ''[[Spider-Man (Comic Book)|Spider-Man]]'' villain [[Meaningful Name|Hammerhead.]]

* [[The Juggernaut]] from ''[[X-Men (Comic Book)|X-Men]]'' uses this mode of attack as well. In the ''[[Capcom vs. Whatever]]'' series, it's his one and only Hyper Combo.

* ''[[Strontium Dog]]'': For Middenface McNulty, this is practically his signature move. Though, [[Violent Glaswegian|given his reputation]], he would probably like to refer to this as a [[Glasgow Kiss]].

* Once in ''[[Iznogoud]]'', when he tells this to his lackey... he didn't mean it literally, but Wa'at Alaaf did.

 

 

** Subverted in the "outtake" of this scene where the grate is on too tight, and all of them just bash against it. Ow indeed.

'''Stoick:''' [[The Juggernaut|That rock split in two!]] }}

* One of the bad guys in the movie ''[[Suburban Commando]]'' had the top of his skull replaced with a metal cap for this particular reason. Not to mention he looked patently ridiculous while doing so.

* ''[[The Three Stooges]]'' occasionally had a [[Hard Head]] stooge (often Curly, but once in a while Shemp) used outright as a battering ram.

** A ''properly'' done headbutt (as in using the top of the forehead and targeting vulnerable areas) is probably one of the safest ways to strike. But doing it improperly (like, say, aiming at the ''other'' guy's forehead instead of, say, face) means damaging your head and likely your brain.

* In the climax of ''Mr. Nanny'' the [[Big Bad]] uses his metal scull-plate to knock [[Hulk Hogan]]'s character around.

 

** The Nac Mac Feegles. "Faceful o' heid!"

** [[Altum Videtur|"Vis-ne facem capite repletam?"]]

* Mace Windu does this to a guard twice his size who blocks his way in the [[Star Wars Expanded Universe]] novel ''Shatterpoint''. The guard taunts the "little Jedi" to draw his [[Laser Sword|lightsaber]]. Mace simply says that his head is all he needs and proceeds to show him exactly what he means, then steps away as the guard falls.

 

'''Kryten:''' [[Non Sequitur Thud|I'm fine, thank you, Susan]]... }}

* [[Informed Ability]] of the Klingons in all ''[[Star Trek]]'' series save TOS; [[All There in the Manual|the Star Trek Fact Files]] claim that those much-mocked [[Rubber Forehead Aliens|rubber foreheads]] are actually solid bone.

** Interestingly, a Klingon tries to do this to Data after losing their version of arm-wrestling to him only for Data to point out that his skull is made of the same stuff as starship hulls.

* In an episode of ''[[Dexter]]'', Doakes gets increasingly close to figuring out Dexter's secret. Once again, he confronts Dex in his office, at which point Dexter headbutts the cop and leaves the office into the main detective area, walking like nothing has happened. Two seconds later, Doakes flies out of the office, pissed off, and tackles Dex. The other cops assume he just snapped, as they didn't see the headbutt and he is well known to have a hatred for Dexter before he had a solid reason to. The whole thing [[Wounded Gazelle Gambit|was planned by Dexter]] to give Doakes even less credibility than usual.

'''Fonzie:''' Concrete. ''(passes out)'' }}

'''Justine:''' "It's kind of a trade-off, because without that much to drink (head-butts Holtz) hurts a lot more." }}

 

* The diving head butt is mostly used by Samoan wrestlers, but to the world a large, Bam Bam Bigelow and [[That Which Must Not Be Named|Perry Saturn]] are probably the most famous users.

* The Junkyard dog would comically get on all fours and repeatedly ram fallen opponents head first.

 

 

== Toys ==

* From ''[[Bionicle]]'', the Bohrok, and their [[Elite Mook]] cousins, the Bohrok-Kal have a headbutt gimmick. In-story, they used their heads and other powers to demolish the entire island of Mata Nui.

 

* ''[[Pokémon]]''

** The attack Skull Bash works in exactly this manner, as well as Headbutt, Head Smash, Iron Head and Zen Headbutt. However, Head Smash actually hurts the user.

** As said before, Scraggy and its evolution Scrafty.

** Mario and Luigi are frequently mistaken doing this to hit and break overhead blocks. However, they actually hit overhead blocks with their ''fists'' instead of their heads.

** For that matter, Luigi's side-B move, Green Missile, is basically a charge-up attack with which he launches himself head-first at an opponent. It's even possible for him to get jammed into walls this way, given enough force.

** In the third game, Shepard can end up doing this to Khalisah Al-Jilani after she dodges his/her traditional sucker punch.

** Also in the third game, but in multiplayer, this the standard melee attack for krogan characters.

* To state the obvious, so does ''[[Dynamite Headdy]]''.

* ''[[Street Fighter]]''

** Balrog, in all of his incarnations, always has a move that involves grabbing his opponents and headbutting them multiple times. It's even [[Lampshade Hanging|lampshaded]] in ''[[Capcom vs. Whatever|SNK vs. Capcom Chaos]]'':

'''Balrog:''' My headbutts are a work of art, eh? }}

** E. Honda has this, ever since his debut, as a special manoeuvre. Note that in-game graphics always show him as flying head-first like a kamikaze Superman, but one piece of art tried to pass it off as a shoulder ram. No-one's buying that, Capcom.

** Also Dhalsim, who starts with a normal headbutt attack and then takes it [[Beyond the Impossible]] by using headbutts as a drill-like Ultra move (Yoga Shangri-La).

* The ''[[Defenders of Dynatron City]]'' hero Toolbox attacks with his hammer-shaped head, but it has pitifully short range. Team leader Jet Headstrong does, too, but his is [[Rocket Punch|rocket-powered]], making him a bit more useful.

* One of Ram's loco moves in ''[[Total Overdose]]'' allows him to live up to his name, charging like a bull at double maximum running speed with his head down and fingers pointed forward like horns. Any non-Boss enemy hit by it is thrown in the air, and dies on landing. One battle in particular encourages its use by leaving the appropriate pickups scattered around, and takes place in the middle of a bullfight arena.

** All the animals save for Gon have a headbutt throw.

** Heihachi takes this [[Up to Eleven]] in two ways. First, in his ''Tekken 5'' interlude in Story Mode, he headbutts the crap out of Jack-5 after defeating him. Second, since ''Tekken 3'', he can perform a "Headbutt Carnival". Instead of a regular Stonehead throw, the recipient can reverse the Stonehead and, well, Stonehead him back!

** In ''Tekken Tag Tournament 2'', if you have two Mishimas on your team you can perform a ''tag Stonehead throw.''

 

* An interesting version of this trope resides in ''[[Dominic Deegan]]'' with the character Rachel, whose favorite pastime is breaking objects (and occasionally people) with her ''face''. This, of course, leads to comedy whenever villains try to punch, or occasionally headbutt, her in the face.

 

 

* ''[[Total Drama Action]]'':

:: [[Comically Missing the Point|He then headbutts]] [[Scary Black Man|Chef.]]

* ''[[Mike Lu and Og]]'': Lu actually says "Use your head" before coming up with the idea of ramming her head into a money printing press to put her face on the island's cash.

* ''[[Transformers]]''

* On at least one [[Classic Disney Short]] (''Mickey's Fire Brigade''), Goofy has been used as a battering ram.

** Goultard tells his apprentice Sadlygrove that he needs to know how to use his head in battle. Sadlygrove takes this advice literally and defeats {{spoiler|Rubilax}} by headbutting him so hard he sinks into the desert with a real risk of choking to death on sand. Goultard approves.

** Goultard himself also favors this tactic. In his special ''Goultard the Barbarian'', he headbutts Katar so hard that a ''crater'' forms underneath them. He does the same thing to {{spoiler|Rushu}} in the series proper.

* In ''[[Adventures of the Gummi Bears]]'' some of the characters are trapped in a barrel and only Tummi is around to help them. When told to use his head to find a way to free them, he of course rams head first into the barrel without any injury and creates a hole big enough for the rest to enlarge to get out.

 

* The animal kingdom has its share of bad-ass headbashers. Check out pachycephalosaurs, ''Majungasaurus'', bighorn sheep, some chalicotheres, and giraffes. Yes, ''giraffes''. Slightly subverted with the former, as they were originally thought to have engaged on direct-headbutting action, but biomechanical studies suggest that flank-butting (like giraffes) is more likely. Giraffes are basically the living version of [[Epic Flail]]. Don't believe me? [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=huxDnZs2_OQ Just look at this]. Yeah, you go and say giraffes aren't [[Badass]]. I'll be over here [[Tempting Fate|where it's safe]].

** Don't forget the triceratops (no longer with us, but still). Also rhinos.

** Heck, a plain ordinary ol' bull can headbutt your ribs into splinters, even without horns. And a full-grown male plains bison can easily do the same thing to your car's door.

 

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