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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.''

* 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.

== 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.

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

{{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?

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

* [[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.

* 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.

* ''[[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]].

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

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