Use Your Head: Difference between revisions

** 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 (Disney film)|Hercules]]'', Hercules lands his first attack on the centaur Nessus in this manner [[Literal Minded|after Phil tells him to "use your head!"]]

* 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.

'''Gobber:''' [[Deadpan Snarker|You got a headache.]]<br />

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

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

* [[Deconstruction|Deconstucted]] in ''[[Paul Blart: Mall Cop]]'', where Blart tries this on a minion, only to hurt himself.

** 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.

* ''[[Boy Eats Girl]]'': When confronted by a zombified member of her [[Girl Posse]], the resident [[Alpha Bitch]] surprisingly headbutts her undead friend and escapes.

* [[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.

* 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.

 

 

== 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...

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

* Subverted in an episode of ''[[Cheers]]'' where Cliff claims to know karate and smashes a stack of boards with his head. Diane ends up having to sneak him off to the hospital.

* 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.

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

* ''[[Drop the Dead Donkey]]''. Psycho office assistant Joy is infamous for her ferocious headbutts.

* ''[[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." }}

 

* ''[[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.

* 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.

 

 

== Western Animation ==

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

:: [[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.

* ''[[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:

* ''[[Transformers]]''

** 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]].

* 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]]''.

* 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.

* ''[[Wakfu]]''

** 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.