History Main / ThrowTheBookAtThem

-->'''Shigure:''' What do you have in there, a dictionary?\\

-->'''Mary:''' This ''(holding the Bible)'' is ''not'' a weapon!

* ''Literature/{{Discworld}}''

-->'''The Name of This Book is Secret''': [This book] probably won't injure you at all. Unless somebody throws it at you, which is a possibility that should never be discounted.
-->'''This Isn't What It Looks Like''': Use of this book for other than the intended purpose is not advised. While it may seem like an ideal projectile, the makers of this book cannot guarantee your safety if you throw it at someone. There is always the possibility that [[CatchAndReturn that person will throw it back]].''

--> So I started watching some TV\\
Played my new CD player, too
--> She said: "Turn it off!
--> Or I'll call the cops,
--> And I'll throw the book at you."

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* In ''TabletopGame/{{Pathfinder}}'' the Living Grimoire archetype of the inquisitor hits people with their deity's holy book, as well as using it as a SpellBook.

* ''Webcomic/ElGoonishShive'': The [[http://egscomics.com/comic/2012-09-13 Literary Dragon card]] from the ''TabletopGame/MagicTheGathering'' expy within the comic is portrayed as wielding a book.

* In ''Webcomic/{{Nodwick}}'', Artax got annoyed by an arrogant sorcerer and clobbered him in the face with a ''Literature/TheWheelOfTime'' novel after being asked to [[TemptingFate demonstrate one way in which books were superior to a sorcerer's innate magic]].

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---> (quietly) "Who's badass now?"

* Books are the weapon of choice for thirteen-year-old rebel militia leader Tamika Flynn of ''Podcast/WelcomeToNightVale''. Usually fired from a slingshot. Despite living in a town where students are regularly provided firearms by paramilitary government agencies (and often have to use them against the horrors of everyday life), Tamika and her "book club" are among the most effective combatants around.
** It probably helps that certain books, like the hardback edition of ''The Awakening'' by Kate Chopin, are apparently sold with things like teargas canisters attached to the back cover.

* In one of the promotional shorts for ''WesternAnimation/DuckTales2017'', Huey knocks out Bigfoot by throwing the Junior Woodchuck Guidebook at him. If you [[FreezeFrameBonus look carefully]], Huey consults the book before throwing it, implying that the guidebook instructed him to use it as a weapon.

* In ''WesternAnimation/{{The Smurfs|1981}}'' episode "Tailor's Magic Needle", when Brainy pesters Tailor about using the magic needle to sew up his hard-cover books, Brainy gets thrown out of the village along with his books.
* In ''WesternAnimation/TheSmurfsTheLegendOfSmurfyHollow'', Brainy does this to Gutsy when he finds out that Gutsy tricked him with a fake Headless Horseman shadow he had created to scare him.

** Towards the end of the first book, ''Furies of Calderon'', the resident ObstructiveBureaucrat is mentioned to have bludgeoned what is strongly implied to be a ''[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phorusrhacidae terror bird]]'' to death with his accounts ledger saving himself and some childrend.

* Okabe from ''VisualNovel/SteinsGate'' gets one from Kurisu after discovering Ruka's genderswap through a rather... [[CrotchGrabSexCheck inappropriate method.]]

* Brainy in ''ComicBook/TheSmurfs'' story "The Smurfs And The Book That Tells Everything" whacks a few Smurfs in the head with the titular book in order to get them away from him.

* In ''WesternAnimation/TheSmurfs'' episode "Tailor's Magic Needle", when Brainy pesters Tailor about using the magic needle to sew up his hard-cover books, Brainy gets thrown out of the village along with his books.

* In the ''WesternAnimation/StarVsTheForcesOfEvil'' episode "Sleep Spells", Princess Smooshy captures Star and attempts to literally steal her face. When Marco's attempts to talk her down fail, he instead throws his psychology book, which nails Smooshy in the head and knocks her out.

* ''WesternAnimation/ElTigreTheAdventuresOfMannyRivera'': In "Yellow Pantera", Frida announces that she found something at the library to help them defeat [[MonsterOfTheWeek El Mal Verde]]. Rather than finding his weakness in a book, she just grabbed the biggest book she could find and threw it at Mal Verde... where it bounces off with no effect.
-->'''Frida:''' Well, that's all I got. Thoughts?

* In 2002, the leaders of the already-unstable coalition government of Turkey convened at a high-level meeting. Story goes that during the meeting, an argument broke out and one of the coalition leaders hurled a book (or a dossier) containing the constitution at the then-Prime Minister, Ecevit. [[FromBadToWorse The coalition collapsed soon after and took the country to a period of recession with it]].

** The most common size and binding for the average manga makes it nicely hand-sized when gripped opposite to the spine, and just thin and strong enough for effective aimed strikes to areas such as the wrist. If you're already holding a book, there are much worse choices for an ImprovisedWeapon.

** Having been prevented from carrying *actual* weapons into the away end at football matches, the famously violent fans of Millwall FC discovered that nobody would stop a man with a newspaper under his arm. A tightly rolled and folded newspaper is called a 'Millwall brick'.

** Death himself is buried under a pile of books in ''Literature/TheLastContinent'' upon asking for a list of [[DeathWorld dangerous creatures of XXXX]] (the setting's counterpart to UsefulNotes/{{Australia}}, complete with [[UsefulNotes/AustralianWildlife ridiculously dangerous wildlife). He decides it would be easier to ask for a list of ''safe'' creatures of XXXX, whereupon a tiny piece of paper flutters down reading "[[spoiler:some of the sheep]]".

** Death himself is buried under a pile of books in ''Literature/TheLastContinent'' upon asking for a list of [[DeathWorld dangerous creatures of XXXX]]. He decides it would be easier to ask for a list of ''safe'' creatures of XXXX, whereupon a tiny piece of paper flutters down reading "[[spoiler:some of the sheep]]".

** In ''Literature/GuardsGuards'', Vimes orders Carrot to "throw the book" at the perpetrator. [[BluntMetaphorsTrauma Carrot takes this literally]]. Since the book weighs about ten pounds and the criminal is standing near a ledge, the criminal is knocked over the edge and falls to his death.

* In ''The Shadow of the Lion'', the villain is knocked out by a falling Bible. Then a voice declares "[[IncrediblyLamePun Let Evil Feel The Weight of the Word of God!]]".

* Variant: Fumi Kanno attacks Trumpeter with several laptops in ''VideoGame/DevilSurvivor2''. [[IncrediblyLamePun Throw The MacBook At Them?]]

* ''Series/HorribleHistories'': In the Shouty Man's ad for 'New Emperor Statue', the bookworm emperor kills the warrior by hitting him over the head with a massive tome.

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* In ''WesternAnimation/LiloAndStitch'', when Cobra Bubbles visits Lilo and Nani's house to talk abut the latter losing her job, Stitch comes up to him with a book... before suddenly growling at him and chucking the book at his face, which gets Nani in even more trouble with Cobra.