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[[File:Ram-Man_4307Man 4307.jpg|link=He-Man and the Masters of the Universe|frame|[[Pokémon|Ram-Man used Headbutt!]] [[Memetic Mutation|It's super effective!]] ]]
 
{{quote|''"But I don't wanna use my head!"''|'''Rex''', ''[[Toy Story (franchise)|Toy Story]] 2''}}
 
It has been shown time and again, in cartoons, movies, and video games, that the best way to break something is by hitting it with your head. ''Really hard.''
{{quote|''"But I don't wanna use my head!"''|'''Rex''', ''[[Toy Story]] 2''}}
 
We're not talking ordinary, run-of-the-mill headbutts here. Heck, we're not even talking about [[Headbutt of Love|headbutts of love]]. When a character uses his head, they transform from ordinary bloke to full-on [[Battering Ram]]. The character may go into full on raging-bull mode, charging blindly ahead at whatever stands in his path. Or his companions may actually ''pick him up'', using the blunt end of his skull to smash down whatever it is that needs smashin'. This can be an effective means of attack for some. For others, it's simply the easiest road to destruction. When somebody breaks out the cranial cannonball, the walls are going to come tumblin' down.
It has been shown time and again, in cartoons, movies, and video games, that the best way to break something is by hitting it with your head. ''Really hard.''
 
Strangely enough, no character who ever employs this technique ever seems to [[Hard Head|get a concussion--or even a headache]]. This may be because he's a [[The Big Guy|Big Guy]] or a [[Cloudcuckoolander]]--two—two character subspecies known for this trope--andtrope—and for having very thick skulls, or maybe he's wearing [[Weaponized Headgear]]. ([[Genius Bruiser|Genius Bruisers]]s are, of course, an exception.)
We're not talking ordinary, run-of-the-mill headbutts here. Heck, we're not even talking about [[Headbutt of Love|headbutts of love]]. When a character uses his head, they transform from ordinary bloke to full-on [[Battering Ram]]. The character may go into full on raging-bull mode, charging blindly ahead at whatever stands in his path. Or his companions may actually ''pick him up'', using the blunt end of his skull to smash down whatever it is that needs smashin'. This can be an effective means of attack for some. For others, it's simply the easiest road to destruction. When somebody breaks out the cranial cannonball, the walls are going to come tumblin' down.
 
Although the [[Trope Namer|Trope Naming]] phrase doesn't ''always'' precede incidences of this trope, if you utter it in the presence of the Big Guy or a Cloudcuckoolander in battle, you know [[Literal -Minded|exactly what you're likely to get]].
Strangely enough, no character who ever employs this technique ever seems to [[Hard Head|get a concussion--or even a headache]]. This may be because he's a [[The Big Guy|Big Guy]] or a [[Cloudcuckoolander]]--two character subspecies known for this trope--and for having very thick skulls, or maybe he's wearing [[Weaponized Headgear]]. ([[Genius Bruiser|Genius Bruisers]] are, of course, an exception.)
 
Although the [[Trope Namer|Trope Naming]] phrase doesn't ''always'' precede incidences of this trope, if you utter it in the presence of the Big Guy or a Cloudcuckoolander in battle, you know [[Literal Minded|exactly what you're likely to get]].
 
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]].
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As [[Knowing Is Half the Battle| Ram-Man himself]] said in one cartoon, [[Don't Try This At Home]]. It could cause a concussion, fracture, or worse. Much better to use your head the way it was intended, for ''thinking''.
== Anime & Manga ==
 
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== [[Anime]] &and [[Manga]] ==
* Hanamichi Sakuragi from ''[[Slam Dunk]]'' likes to do this a lot.
** 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.
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** 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!
* ''[[Mazinger Z]]''
** Kouji -- whoKouji—who is a full-blown [[Combat Pragmatist]] -- has—has no qualms uisng that tactic when he is fighting with Mazinger-Z. It should be justified, since he is using his [[Humongous Mecha]]'s head to ram the enemy instead of his own -- butown—but it is not, since Mazinger-Z's cockpit is ''on the head of the giant robot.''
** ''[[Great Mazinger]]'': Tetsuya is an even bigger of an offender than Kouji.
** ''[[UFO Robo Grendizer]]'': Duke also uses that tactic sometimes, although he has a good excuse: usually he is trying to ''ram'' the enemy rather than head-butt it, but his [[Humongous Mecha]] head is on the front of his [[Starship]] when [[Combining Mecha|both mechas combine]], so that it is the first thing hits the enemy.
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* Rin does this in ''[[Blue Exorcist]]'' when told by his brother to start using his head in battle. He literally does when knocking out a demon twice his size with a headbutt and the only damage done to him is a minor nosebleed, which is only seen in the anime.
* In ''[[Code Breaker]]'', this appears to be The Prince's favorite way of getting her point across.
* In one of ''[[Baccano!]]''!'s climactic scenes, [[Shrinking Violet|Jacuzzi]] [[Took a Level Inin Badass|Splot]] uses a ''series'' of relentless headbutts to the face to distract and disorient his opponent.
 
== [[Comic Books]] ==
 
== Comic Books ==
* 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.
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* Once in ''[[Iznogoud]]'', when he tells this to his lackey... he didn't mean it literally, but Wa'at Alaaf did.
 
== [[Fan Works]] ==
 
== Fan Works ==
* ''[[Shinji and Warhammer40K|Shinji and Warhammer 40 K]]'': It's called the Ikari. It begins with a headbutt and it ends with the opponent on the ground crying for mercy. The best part of this is it was first used in a [[Crowning Moment of Awesome]] where EVA-01 loses the function of both its arms [[When All You Have Is a Hammer|and only has its head]].
* [[Real Person Fic]], ''[[Just Taken]]'': Chapter 1, [[Spice Girls|Melanie]] headbutts one of the criminals who get into a fight with her and her friends. The move results in a black eye, which Melanie [[Major Injury Underreaction| didn't seem fazed]].
 
== Radio[[Film]] ==
 
== Films -- Animation ==
* Jubei, the [[Badass Normal]] hero of ''[[Ninja Scroll]]'', keeps headbutting an immortal enemy until that enemy's face is ''caved in'' towards the end of the movie.
* Played straight in ''[[Toy Story (franchise)|Toy Story]] 2''. When breaking through a vent that's been screwed shut, the fake Buzz tells everyone to "use your head". [[Gilligan Cut|Cut to a shot of them running down the hallway]] with Rex as a battering ram as he yells "But I don't wanna use my head!" Justified in that Rex is a toy and technically has no biological brain that can be damaged.
** Subverted in the "outtake" of this scene where the grate is on too tight, and all of them just bash against it. Ow indeed.
* In Disney's ''[[Hercules (Disney1997 film)|Hercules]]'', Hercules lands his first attack on the centaur Nessus in this manner [[Literal -Minded|after Phil tells him to "use your head!"]]
{{quote|'''Phil:''' Not bad, kid! Not exactly what I had in mind, but not bad...}}
* Princess Fiona's mother does this to walls twice in ''[[Shrek]] the Third''. The second time she does it leaves her understandably disorientated. And [[Crowning Moment of Funny|humming]] ''[[Actor Allusion|My Favorite Things]]''.
* Discussed by one of the Viking kids in ''[[How to Train Your Dragon (animation)|How to Train Your Dragon]]'', though he doesn't get to actually do it. "I will cut off the legs of every dragon I see. ''With my face''." Also discussed by Stoick.
{{quote|'''Stoick:''' When I was a boy, my dad told me to bang my head against a rock, and I did it! I thought he was crazy, but I didn't question him. And do you know what happened?
'''Gobber:''' [[Deadpan Snarker|You got a headache.]]<br />
'''Stoick:''' [[The Juggernaut|That rock split in two!]] }}
 
 
== Films -- Live-Action ==
* Neo and Agent Smith both do this to each other in ''[[The Matrix]]''.
* 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.
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* Felson (played by [[Ron Perlman]]) is fond of this in ''[[Season of the Witch]]''.
* In the climax of ''Mr. Nanny'' the [[Big Bad]] uses his metal scull-plate to knock [[Hulk Hogan]]'s character around.
* ''[[Night at the Museum]]''. Larry is worried about the misunderstandings between him and his son, and thinks the Neanderthal (long story) is paying attention. He reads the Neanderthal's attempts to mime something for him as "open the door to his head," and so does not see that the Neanderthal meant "open the door with my head" until he hears the glass smash.
 
== [[Literature]] ==
 
== Literature ==
* In ''[[The Lord of the Rings]]'', Gandalf (jokingly, perhaps, although he was pretty cranky by that point and might well have done it) threatens to use Pippin's head as a battering ram to try to open the gates of Moria: "But if that does not shatter them, and I am allowed a little peace from foolish questions, I will try to seek the opening words."
* Done by Ecthelion in ''[[The History of Middle Earth|The Book of Lost Tales]]'' to kill [[The Dragon|Gothmog]]. Of course, at that point in time, Ecthelion had ''[[An Arm and a Leg|lost both of his arms]]'' and had a [[Impaled with Extreme Prejudice|great big spike on his helmet]].
* ''[[Discworld]]''
** The Nac Mac Feegles. "Faceful o' heid!"
** Also Wee Mad Arthur from ''[[Discworld/Feet of Clay (novel)|Feet of Clay]]'', as a rather long running gag.
** [[Altum Videtur|"Vis-ne facem capite repletam?"]]
* [[wikipedia:Danica Maupoissant|Danica Maupoissant]], from the ''[[Forgotten Realms]]'' series ''Cleric's Quintet'', who broke a big-ass block of stone with a headbutt. Earlier, under the influence of the evil potion, she repeatedly slams her face into brick blocks trying to figure out the technique. It gets a minor mention in the second book when she uses it to shatter an ogre's chest when he's bear-hugging her.
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{{quote|'''Guard:''' What you gonna do, think me to death? ''(headbutt)''}}
 
== Films -- [[Live-Action TV]] ==
 
== Live-Action TV ==
* In the ''[[Red Dwarf]]'' episode "White Hole", Holly powers down to conserve her remaining runtime, thus shutting off the engines and the powered doors. Solution? Bash down the 53 doors between them and the science room using... Kryten! Of course, he's a mechanoid, so it doesn't cause him ''too'' much damage...
{{quote|'''Lister:''' You okay, man?
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* [[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 ''[[Home Improvement (TV series)|Home Improvement]]'', Tim and Al had a Karate expert show how he break boards with his head. Al volunteered to try and Tim waited for him to hurt his head only to succeed. After Al, Tim decided to give it a try and ended up hurting his head. Al revealed that he had training in karate.
* 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.
* Subverted in a ''[[Happy Days]]'' episode where Arnold's catches fire, trapping Fonzie inside the men's room with Ralph and Potsie. Fonzie tries donning his motorcycle helmet and crashing through a wall.
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* ''[[Game of Thrones]]'': When Jon Snow is at some point pinned to a wall, he uses this to get himself free from his attacker.
* ''[[Angel]]''. Vampire hunter Holtz is stalking Justine, a vampire-killing vigilante whom he intends to recruit. He turns a corner and intercepts her fist with a [[Punch Catch]].
{{quote|'''Holtz:''' "Your punch could have been quicker...[[Drowning My Sorrows|without so much to drink]]."<br />
'''Justine:''' "It's kind of a trade-off, because without that much to drink (head-butts Holtz) hurts a lot more." }}
 
== Pro[[Professional Wrestling]] ==
 
* The Battering Ram -- aRam—a finishing move used by several wrestlers, most notably The Bushwhackers. Which was first used by Bobo Brazil (Houston Harris -- aHarris—a former baseball player), and called the Coco Butt, in 1950.
== Pro Wrestling ==
* The Battering Ram -- a finishing move used by several wrestlers, most notably The Bushwhackers. Which was first used by Bobo Brazil (Houston Harris -- a former baseball player), and called the Coco Butt, in 1950.
* 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.
 
== [[Radio]] ==
 
* From the ''[[Kenny Everett|Captain Kremmen]]'' radio show: "''I shall break out of this cell using the hardest substance known to Mankind! MY HEAD!''"
== Radio ==
* From the ''Captain Kremmen'' radio show: "''I shall break out of this cell using the hardest substance known to Mankind! MY HEAD!''"
 
 
== Sports ==
* The danger of a concussion is why direct, intentional helmet-to-helmet collisions are not allowed in the NFL. Spearing, the practice of diving into another player helmet-first, is also illegal due to the risk of spinal injury. This practice gained a lot of notoriety during the 1990s, largely because safety Chuck Cecil was so fond of using it. Yes, before he was a controversial assistant coach often fined by the NFL for his actions, he was a controversial player who was often fined by the NFL for his actions.
 
 
== 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.
 
== [[Video Games]] ==
 
== Video Games ==
* In ''[[Dragon Strike]]'', when the rogue is unable to unlock a magically sealed door, the fighter makes a crack about it. In frustration, the rogue pushes the fighter into the door, causing him to do this.
* ''[[Pokémon]]''
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* ''[[Super Mario Bros.]]''
** 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.
** In the ''[[Super Smash Bros.]].'' series, several fighters use their heads as some form of attack. While most instances of this are only about one or two moves, Yoshi uses almost only headbutt-related moves when on the ground, as his arms are too short to effectively punch.
** 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 ''[[Super Mario RPG]]'', give Bowser the Hurly Gloves and watch him take his frustrations with Mario out on the enemies, even if Mario is at 0 HP!
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** 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.
* Double H from ''[[Beyond Good & Evil (video game)|Beyond Good and Evil]]'' does this frequently, although he prefers to put on a helmet first.
* [[Ristar]] uses this as his ''primary attack''. On ''everything''.
* To state the obvious, so does ''[[Dynamite Headdy]]''.
* ''[[The Lost Vikings]]'': Erik the Swift's power is head-butting enemies and breakable obstacles.
* ''[[Earthworm Jim (video game)|Earthworm Jim]]'' offers an interesting variation of this trope: Since the player is essentially a (freakishly large) earthworm in a humanoid exoskeleton, you can actually use your wormy head to ''[[Whip It Good|whip your enemies]]'' and ''as a propeller'' to slow down a long descent. In the sequel though, Jim gains the Snott Parachute because last game's Helicopter Head made him quite dizzy and left him with some severe lower back pain.
* In ''[[Killer 7Killer7]]'', Mask De Smith stops a bullet by headbutting it out of the air.
* ''[[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]]'':
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* In ''[[River City Ransom]]'', Ivan, who attacks outside the high school, can use a fairly powerful headbutt.
* The Headbangers from ''[[Brütal Legend|Brutal Legend]].'' Well, they ''are'' [[Exactly What It Says on the Tin]].
* Keine Kamishirasawa of the ''[[Touhou Project]]'' is well known for handing these out to errant students. And woe be to you if she does this when she's in [[Horned Humanoid|Ex-Mode]] -- it—it's called being CAVED with good reason!
* 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.
* Although not an attack, Firebrand from ''[[Demons Crest]]'' headbutts objects in the background to find money and [[Upgrade Artifact|Upgrade Artifacts]]s.
* 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.
* Subverted in ''[[Castlevania II: Simon's Quest|Castlevania II Simons Quest]]''. One of the townspeople tells Simon to "HIT DEBORAH CLIFF WITH YOUR HEAD TO MAKE A HOLE." This is a lie.
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* ''[[The Godfather (video game)|The Godfather]] 2'': You can do this to enemies you're grabbing.
* In ''[[Sengoku Basara]]'': Samurai Heroes, Ieyasu has dispensed with his staff and gone for [[Good Old Fisticuffs]] as his new fighting style of choice. One of his Super Arts, however, is an [[Unblockable Attack]] which involves him essentially smashing his face against whatever defense an opponent might want to put up against him. It almost becomes comical when players discover it can also be used as a [[Spam Attack]].
* Quite the case for a lot of characters in ''[[Tekken]]''. Every Mishima <ref> Yes, Jinpachi, Heihachi, Kazuya, Jin (was the case for the first ''Tag'' title, now specific to Devil Jin), even Lars has this move. Though Lee doesn't.)</ref> has Stonehead as a throw. As you might guess it's a headbutt throw.
** 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.''
 
== [[Web Comics]] ==
 
* In ''[[8-Bit Theater (Webcomic)|Eight Bit Theater]]'', as explained by Black Mage: "The main tactic of the Ram Form of Zodiackenshido is to break your opponent's equipment with your head before he breaks your head with his equipment." Fighter's the only human ever to succeed at this without dying in the process.
== Web Comics ==
* In ''[[8-Bit Theater (Webcomic)|Eight Bit Theater]]'', as explained by Black Mage: "The main tactic of the Ram Form of Zodiackenshido is to break your opponent's equipment with your head before he breaks your head with his equipment." Fighter's the only human ever to succeed at this without dying in the process.
* 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.
 
== [[Web Original]] ==
 
== Web Original ==
* V4 of ''[[Survival of the Fittest]]'' recently has the death of {{spoiler|David Anderson}} via a well-placed headbutt to the face, breaking his nose and sending bits of bone into his brain.
* Faun from ''[[Tasakeru]]'' invented the story's equivalent of the [[Heavy Metal]] Headbutt by giving a Glasgow Kiss to a drunk bar patron. Nicely Lampshaded.
{{quote|"Do you knowhow to do the 'headache?'"}}
 
== Films --[[Western Animation]] ==
 
== Western Animation ==
* ''[[Total Drama Action]]'':
{{quote|'''Justin:''' And then I thought, "WWCD", "What Would Courtney Do"? Use her head that's what!}}
:: [[Comically Missing the Point|He then headbutts]] [[Scary Black Man|Chef.]]
* In ''[[Futurama]]'', Bender has been used as a battering ram whenever the situation calls for it. In the movie "Bender's Big Score", when ordered to break down a wall, he voluntarily does it it with his head.
* Ram-Man of ''[[He-Man and the Masters of the Universe]]''. It's his frikkin' superpower! ([[Cyborg| Well, that and having coiled springs for legs]] that made him a [[Flying Brick]]...)
** In the 2002 remake he didn't have the springs, being more of a [[Mighty Glacier]] type of fighter, but still a practical living bulldozer.
* ''[[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.
* Toph uses this in ''[[Avatar: The Last Airbender]]'' to illustrate the basic principle of Earthbending to Aang:
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** The Dinobot Slag of ''[[Transformers Generation 1]]'' does this on more than one occasion. One of the best instances would be when he rams Devastator in ''[[Transformers: The Movie]]''. Being a giant robot who transforms into a robot Triceratops is very useful for this. For this guy, [[Ramming Always Works]].
** Slag's ''[[Transformers Animated]]'' counterpart Snarl (who would have been called Slag too had Hasbro not chickened out) also turns into a robotic Triceratops.
** Also, the [[Fan Nickname|Conehead]] Decepticon Seeker [[Meaningful Name|Ramjet]] has a reinforced nosecone for doing this in vehicle mode. It counts because his nosecone is indeed part of his head. Ramjet actually did fail at this once -- thenonce—then again, he was trying to ram ''[[Tank Goodness|Warpath]]''.
** There's [[Beast Wars|Rhinox]] too, and [[Transformers Cybertron|Backstop]], both of whom turn into Rhinoceri.
* In the ''[[Legion of Super-Heroes (TV series)|Legion of Super Heroes]]'', Stone Boy was used as a head-first battering ram to ram open a door. Justified in that he can turn himself into stone, and so cannot be injured from this.
* On at least one [[Classic Disney Short]] (''Mickey's Fire Brigade''), Goofy has been used as a battering ram.
* [[Donald Duck]] has also tried to break through doors with his head on a number of occasions, and elicits snarky commentary from his uncle Scrooge once he does this in ''[[DuckTales (1987)]]''.
{{quote|'''Scrooge:''' That's how he exercises his mind!}}
* In one episode of ''[[Popeye (comic strip)|Popeye]]'', while trapped in a cell Olive Oyl tells him to use his head, and being who he is he obviously thinks this is what she meant.
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** 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.
* ''[[Looney Tunes]]'': In an old ''[[Arabian Nights]]''-themed short, [[Porky Pig]] defends a fortress from [[Punny Name| Ali Baba and the Dirty Sleeves]]; four of them tries to ram down the door using a fifth one as the ram, while a sixth throws him something from a jar of "headache pills" after each hit.
 
== [[Real Life]] ==
 
== Real Life ==
* [[The Beautiful Game|Football/soccer]] player Zinedine Zidane [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zAjWi663kXc shows] that the most effective way to punish someone for [[My Sister Is Off-Limits|insulting your family]] is not a conventional kick or punch, but a headbutt square in the chest in the middle of a [[FIFA World Cup|World Cup final]]. This has also been [[Memetic Mutation|parodied rather hilariously]] [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yUjFRKWk6gQ to no end].
** He might be the [[Trope Codifier|most infamous]] [[Never Live It Down|example]], [[wikipedia:Headbutt#Association Football|but he definitely isn't the only one.]] In particular, Luis Figo headbutting Mark van Bommel was one of the "highlights" of the EXTREMELY dirty Netherlands vs. Portugal match in that same World Cup's semifinals. ([[Karma Houdini|He only got a yellow card for it, tho.]])
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** 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.
 
=== Sports ===
* The danger of a concussion is why direct, intentional helmet-to-helmet collisions are not allowed in the NFL. Spearing, the practice of diving into another player helmet-first, is also illegal due to the risk of spinal injury. This practice gained a lot of notoriety during the 1990s, largely because safety Chuck Cecil was so fond of using it. Yes, before he was a controversial assistant coach often fined by the NFL for his actions, he was a controversial player who was often fined by the NFL for his actions.
 
 
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