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* [[ToughBeetles Kabbu]] of ''VideoGame/BugFables'' is usually a short-ranged, ground-level melee fighter, but you can equip medals on him that let him throw pebbles or boulders at enemies. It's the only way he can attack aerial and back-row opponents without doing a CombinationAttack with [[VirtuousBees Vi]]. Mini-boss Pisci and regular {{mook}} Belostoss can also toss rocks at the heroes; in the latter's case, the party members can attack it when it has picked up a rock to make it drop it.
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* In ''Manga/FairyTail'', during the Tartaros Arc, Natsu and Lucy end up figthing Franmalth, a demon whose Curse allows him to absorb anything living or with magic in it... and is ultimately defeated when Natsu just grabs a giant slab of stone and proceed to turn him into a pancake.
* In ''Manga/{{Yaiba}}'', [[SuperStrength Ruby the Strong Soldier]] at one point uses her energy axe to lift a giant slab of stone from the ground and use the whole thing as an improvised hammer to slam the heroes. Noticeably, the slab is several time her size.
* In ''Manga/{{Yaiba}}'', [[SuperStrength Ruby the Strong Soldier]] at one point uses her energy axe to lift a giant slab of stone from the ground and use the whole thing as an improvised hammer to slam the heroes. Noticeably, the slab is several time her size.
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* ''Literature/LincolnRhyme'': in ''The Coffine Dancer'', at one point when we see the P.O.V. of the hitman, it's mentioned that he's not attached to his weapons and will use any method to terminate his targets, even a rock if it's convenient. Later, in ''The Twelfth Card'', the climax has [[spoiler: Amelia beating the killer into submission with half a brick after distracting him with her empty pistol, having lost her knife.]]
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* ''VideoGame/{{Avernum}}'', Giants are primitive humanoids, barely at bronze-age level of technology. They use massive boulders to attack from afar, with such efficiency that they can easily lay siege to whole towns without siege engines.
* ''VideoGame/{{Avernum}}'', Giants are primitive humanoids, barely at bronze-age level of technology. They use massive boulders to attack from afar, with such efficiency that they can easily lay siege to whole towns without siege engines.
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** Trolls hit each other with rocks all the time. However trolls are durable enough (being made of living rock themselves) that this is seen as a friendly greeting rather than an attack. If it's a ''pretty'' rock, then it's a ''very'' friendly greeting.
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* ''ComicBook/WonderWoman1942'': The first members of Villainy Inc to attack Diana on Reformation Island do so by trying to ambush her from the roof as she walks into the building throwing large boulders at her.
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* During the climax of ''Disney/SnowWhiteAndTheSevenDwarfs'', the dwarfs corner the evil Queen at the top of a cliff. Enraged, the Queen tries to dislodge a nearby boulder onto the dwarfs. [[AttackAttackRetreatRetreat It nearly works]], until a bolt of lightning strikes the Queen from her perch to her death.
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* During the climactic fight in ''Film/FloatLikeAButterfly'', local bully Eamann hits Frances in the face with a rock after she knocks him down, which almost completely negates the previous advantage she had over him. Given that they're supposed to be having a fair, stand-up boxing match, it's particularly dirty (and Eamann was ''already'' cheating by having stones hidden in his hand wraps).
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* In ''Film/RamboIV'', serves a s very dark CallBack during the climactic battle. As Rambo uses a [[MoreDakka .50 cal.]] to mow down Burmese troops, and [[FriendlySniper School Boy]] uses his [[{{BFG}} .50 cal rifle]] to cover the mercenaries, Lewis, one of the Hostages rescued by Rambo and the mercs., tackles a Burmese soldier that tried to flank the mercs. As they fighting, Lewis, who earlier preached to Rambo a "ThouShaltNotKill" spiel, picks up a rock and bashes it onto the soldier's skull.
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* In ''Series/GameOfThrones,'' when Lady Brienne finds Arya, she intends to take her with her, and after she refuses to go, Clegane, who was traveling with her, tells Brienne to leave them alone. When Brienne refuses, they get into brutal fight, that is ultimately ended when Brienne, picks up a rock, and bashes it onto Clegane's skull. Brienne then goes to look for Arya who ran off during the fight, shortly there after, [[spoiler: Arya confronts a badly injured Clegane, and after he tried to goad her into killing him [[MercyKill to end his suffering,]] she instead takes the coin bag, [[CruelMercy and leaves him to die on his own]].]]
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* Various monsters in the ''VideoGame/MonsterHunter'' series throw boulders as one of their attacks, including Tigrex, Rajang, and Deviljho.
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* ''WebVideo/EverymanHybrid'': In "All Good Things", [[spoiler:Vinny]] attacks [[spoiler:Evan]] with a rock during a battle-to-the-death, as it's the closest available object he can use.
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* ''WebVideo/ForgottenWeapons'': For AprilFoolsDay 2019, Ian released a video about the fictional military history of a rock with a handle on it, dubbed the Municion L.M.P. 1889. The joke is based on an image of a French World War I soldier heaving a rock over his head.
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* ''WebAnimation/{{Chadam}}'': During a large battle, Sandy is seen killing a Pallid by smashing their head with a rock.
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** The unnamed victor of the 73rd Hunger Games, whose arena was the ruins of an abandoned city, had killed the runner-up by beating him with a brick.
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* ''Series/TheFlash2014'': In the season 5 episode "Goldfaced", a temporarily depowered Ralph and Bary have to fight off Goldface's gang. Barry tries to toss Ralph a brick to use as a weapon, and ends up hitting one of the criminals instead, knocking him out.
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-->'''Fezzik:''' Oh good, my way. Thank you Vizzini... What's my way?
-->'''Vizzini:''' Pick up one of those rocks, get behind a boulder, in a few minutes the Man in Black will come running around the bend. The minute his head is in view, hit it with the rock!
-->'''Fezzik:''' Oh good, my way. Thank you Vizzini... What's my way?
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* In the 2nd season opening credits for ''Manga/{{Bleach}}'' , Chad is shown ripping a huge slab of stone out of the ground and throwing it at a group of approaching Soul Reaper combatants.
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'''Poison Ivy:''' [''ignoring Croc''] So, Harvey, what became of the giant penny?
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-->-- ''WesternAnimation/BatmanTheAnimatedSeries'', "Almost Got 'Im"
One thing that seems true regardless of where you are is that people can come up with some creative and scary ways to hurt each other. But what does someone do when conventional weapons aren't available, they aren't interested in or skilled at hand-to-hand-combat, and when they are in a rush? For the strongest and bluntest of characters, attacking their enemy with a rock will suffice.
This signals a few things about the character. One is that they are physically strong or at least going through enough of an adrenaline rush to gain some strength. This character is typically focused on doing the most damage they can as easily as possible, often marking them as a CombatPragmatist or a primitive brute. Another possibility is that the character, for whatever reason, doesn't have another weapon to use and is acting out of desperation.
Whether they're desperate or just brutish, however, one fact remains the same: they want to do some damage, and are willing to resort to literally crushing someone with a stone to accomplish their goal.
To apply, the weapon need not be a rock specifically. Concrete, bricks, cinder blocks, and other rock-like objects can count, as well.
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* [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Shadr-stone-proletariat.jpeg "The Cobblestone Is the Weapon of the Proletariat"]] is a famous sculpture by the Soviet sculptor Ivan Shadr, symbolizing the worker class' struggle against exploitation. It depicts a shirtless worker prying out a large cobblestone from the street to use as an improvised weapon in his rebellion.
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* In ''Manga/AkameGaKill'', alchemist Dorothea modified her own body to the point that she's able to survive having her neck broken. Leone responds to this by picking up a giant boulder and crushing Dorothea's entire body with it.
* In the 2nd season opening credits for ''Manga/{{Bleach}}'' , Chad is shown ripping a huge slab of stone out of the ground and throwing it at a group of approaching Soul Reaper combatants.
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*''ComicBook/{{Asterix}}'': Obelix sometimes uses a menhir [[note]] A large, pointed, prehistoric rock [[/note]] to bludgeon or crush his opponents. In ''Recap/AsterixAndTheBigFight'', this tactic comes back to bite him however when he tries to hit some Romans with a menhir, but ends up hitting Getafix instead, giving the druid amnesia.
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* In ''Fanfic/NeitherABirdNorAPlaneItsDeku'', Izuku digs his fingers into the ground and chucks a hunk of asphalt large enough to rip off the giant zero-point robot's arm with a glancing hit during the U.A. Entrance Exam.
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* During the climax of ''Disney/SnowWhiteAndTheSevenDwarfs'', the dwarfs corner the evil Queen at the top of a cliff. Enraged, the Queen tries to dislodge a nearby boulder onto the dwarfs. [[AttackAttackRetreatRetreat It nearly works]], until a bolt of lightning strikes the Queen from her perch to her death.
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* ''Film/DarkPassage'' opens with the wrongfully accused Vincent Parry escaping from prison and getting a lift from a passing motorist, Baker. When Baker realizes who his passenger is, Vincent punches him out of the car, knocks him unconscious, then desperately grabs a rock to kill him with. But before he can become a murderer for real, Irene (the one person who knows Vincent is innocent) shows up and persuades him not to go through with it.
* In ''Film/{{Labyrinth}}'', Sarah throws rocks at various goblins' heads in order to stop them from attacking the imprisoned Ludo.
* ''Film/NeverHikeAlone'': Kyle has so far had zero effect in his fights with Jason, and has just been disarmed of his only defense against his [[MacheteMayhem machete]] and thrown violently to the ground. In desperation, he grabs a rock and smashes Jason in the face with it, knocking his mask off. This being [[NighInvulnerable Jason]], knocking his mask off is all it does, and even that's quickly fixed.
* In ''Film/ThePrincessBride'', Vizzini (the brains of the bad guy trio) is the one who insists that the giant Fezzik should smash the Man in Black's head in with a huge rock--but Fezzik actually prefers a fairer fight. When the Man in Black does show up, Fezzik deliberately misses with the first rock, [[IfIWantedYouDead just to prove that he could have killed him]], then challenges the Man in Black to a fight without weapons.
-->'''Vizzini:''' Finish him. Finish him, your way.
-->'''Fezzik:''' Oh good, my way. Thank you Vizzini... What's my way?
-->'''Vizzini:''' Pick up one of those rocks, get behind a boulder, in a few minutes the Man in Black will come running around the bend. The minute his head is in view, hit it with the rock!
-->'''Fezzik:''' My way's not very sportsmanlike.
* The Ewoks from ''Film/ReturnOfTheJedi'' toss large rocks down upon a squad of Imperial troops. Though their Imperial armor mitigates the damage, the impacts nonetheless knock them off their feet.
* At the climax of ''Film/{{Tumblewood}}'', Lam attempts to smash Jim's head in with a rock. However, when he misses, the rock causes him to overbalance and he falls to his death of the cliff.
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* ''Literature/TheHungerGames'':
** Thresh, after believing that Clove had killed his young district partner Rue, had gotten so enraged that he killed her by smashing her head with a large rock.
** The unnamed victor of the 73rd Hunger Games, whose arena was the ruins of an abandoned city, had killed the runner-up by beating him with a brick.
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* ''Series/BeyondBeliefFactOrFiction'': One short story involves a murderer who killed a man by smashing his head in with a chunk of asphalt. He gladly recounts this story to his cellmate... [[spoiler: who turns out to be the victim's father, who isn't too happy to hear it.]]
* ''Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries''
** Episode "Arena". Captain Kirk and the Gorn captain are forced to fight each other with improvised weapons. During their battle, the Gorn captain picks up a boulder and throws it at Kirk, pinning Kirk's leg to the ground.
** "The Galileo Seven". While the crew of the shuttle craft is trapped on a primitive planet, they are attacked by giant cavemen-like humanoids.
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*** During a funeral ceremony, one of the cavemen throws a boulder at Spock, pinning him to the ground.
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* ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons''. In early editions, if giants have boulders nearby they can pick them up and throw them at their opponents instead of using their normal melee weapons.
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* The giant round boulder-wielding Infested Barbarians in ''VideoGame/DarkSoulsI'' are much more dangerous than the regular club-wielding kind, thanks to their extended move set, which includes slamming you (repeatedly) into the ground with the boulder, charging you from a distance by rolling the boulder in front of them, or just throwing their boulder at you from range (and immediately summoning another one into their hands).
* Disarmed Bokoblins and Moblins in ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaBreathOfTheWild'' will occasionally throw rocks projectiles. Bokoblins pick up small ones from nowhere, while Moblins use the large ones scattered around the overworld (which Link can also use).
* ''VideoGame/StreetFighter'': One of Cody's [[CombatPragmatist dirty fighting tricks]] is to pick up some stones and then throw them at people mid-fight. Later on, in ''VideoGame/StreetFighterV'', he's got a variant; he can toss up a stone and then punt it with his steel pipe like a baseball to hit enemies at range.
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* ''WebVideo/MarbleHornets'': Alex does this twice:
** After he and Jay are attacked by "Masky" and manage to not only defend themselves but take him down long enough to unmask him (finding their friend Tim), Alex, after being told he can't kill him, instead smashes his legs with a nearby rock to cripple him.
** He starts to become paranoid after Jay has been spending weeks doing nothing but stalking him. When a man innocently approaches him from behind, Alex goes into a fit of rage and murders the man with a rock, believing it to be Jay. This murder is seen on a video taken by totheark in order to expose Alex's crime.
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[[folder:Western Animation]]
* In ''WesternAnimation/ThePowerpuffGirls'' episode "Meet the Beat-Alls", while the other villains bring high-tech weapons (and in the case of HIM, magic) to fight the Girls, Fuzzy Lumpkins only has a boulder. However, he's the one who delivers the final decisive blow against the Girls by dropping it on them while they're immobilized by the other villains' attacks.
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->'''Killer Croc:''' There I was, holed up in this quarry, when Batman came nosin' around. He was getting closer, ''closer''...
'''Poison Ivy:''' And?
'''Killer Croc:''' ''I threw a rock at him!''
[''ChirpingCrickets'']
'''Poison Ivy:''' [''ignoring Croc''] So, Harvey, what became of the giant penny?
'''Killer Croc:''' [''Indignantly''] ...It was a ''big'' rock...
-->-- ''WesternAnimation/BatmanTheAnimatedSeries'', "Almost Got 'Im"
One thing that seems true regardless of where you are is that people can come up with some creative and scary ways to hurt each other. But what does someone do when conventional weapons aren't available, they aren't interested in or skilled at hand-to-hand-combat, and when they are in a rush? For the strongest and bluntest of characters, attacking their enemy with a rock will suffice.
This signals a few things about the character. One is that they are physically strong or at least going through enough of an adrenaline rush to gain some strength. This character is typically focused on doing the most damage they can as easily as possible, often marking them as a CombatPragmatist or a primitive brute. Another possibility is that the character, for whatever reason, doesn't have another weapon to use and is acting out of desperation.
Whether they're desperate or just brutish, however, one fact remains the same: they want to do some damage, and are willing to resort to literally crushing someone with a stone to accomplish their goal.
To apply, the weapon need not be a rock specifically. Concrete, bricks, cinder blocks, and other rock-like objects can count, as well.
When turned into a superpower, this is DishingOutDirt.
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!!Examples:
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[[folder:Art]]
* [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Shadr-stone-proletariat.jpeg "The Cobblestone Is the Weapon of the Proletariat"]] is a famous sculpture by the Soviet sculptor Ivan Shadr, symbolizing the worker class' struggle against exploitation. It depicts a shirtless worker prying out a large cobblestone from the street to use as an improvised weapon in his rebellion.
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[[folder:Anime and Manga]]
* In ''Manga/AkameGaKill'', alchemist Dorothea modified her own body to the point that she's able to survive having her neck broken. Leone responds to this by picking up a giant boulder and crushing Dorothea's entire body with it.
* In the 2nd season opening credits for ''Manga/{{Bleach}}'' , Chad is shown ripping a huge slab of stone out of the ground and throwing it at a group of approaching Soul Reaper combatants.
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[[folder:Comic Books]]
*''ComicBook/{{Asterix}}'': Obelix sometimes uses a menhir [[note]] A large, pointed, prehistoric rock [[/note]] to bludgeon or crush his opponents. In ''Recap/AsterixAndTheBigFight'', this tactic comes back to bite him however when he tries to hit some Romans with a menhir, but ends up hitting Getafix instead, giving the druid amnesia.
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[[folder:Fan Works]]
* In ''Fanfic/NeitherABirdNorAPlaneItsDeku'', Izuku digs his fingers into the ground and chucks a hunk of asphalt large enough to rip off the giant zero-point robot's arm with a glancing hit during the U.A. Entrance Exam.
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[[folder:Films- Animated]]
* During the climax of ''Disney/SnowWhiteAndTheSevenDwarfs'', the dwarfs corner the evil Queen at the top of a cliff. Enraged, the Queen tries to dislodge a nearby boulder onto the dwarfs. [[AttackAttackRetreatRetreat It nearly works]], until a bolt of lightning strikes the Queen from her perch to her death.
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[[folder:Films- Live Action]]
* ''Film/DarkPassage'' opens with the wrongfully accused Vincent Parry escaping from prison and getting a lift from a passing motorist, Baker. When Baker realizes who his passenger is, Vincent punches him out of the car, knocks him unconscious, then desperately grabs a rock to kill him with. But before he can become a murderer for real, Irene (the one person who knows Vincent is innocent) shows up and persuades him not to go through with it.
* In ''Film/{{Labyrinth}}'', Sarah throws rocks at various goblins' heads in order to stop them from attacking the imprisoned Ludo.
* ''Film/NeverHikeAlone'': Kyle has so far had zero effect in his fights with Jason, and has just been disarmed of his only defense against his [[MacheteMayhem machete]] and thrown violently to the ground. In desperation, he grabs a rock and smashes Jason in the face with it, knocking his mask off. This being [[NighInvulnerable Jason]], knocking his mask off is all it does, and even that's quickly fixed.
* In ''Film/ThePrincessBride'', Vizzini (the brains of the bad guy trio) is the one who insists that the giant Fezzik should smash the Man in Black's head in with a huge rock--but Fezzik actually prefers a fairer fight. When the Man in Black does show up, Fezzik deliberately misses with the first rock, [[IfIWantedYouDead just to prove that he could have killed him]], then challenges the Man in Black to a fight without weapons.
-->'''Vizzini:''' Finish him. Finish him, your way.
-->'''Fezzik:''' Oh good, my way. Thank you Vizzini... What's my way?
-->'''Vizzini:''' Pick up one of those rocks, get behind a boulder, in a few minutes the Man in Black will come running around the bend. The minute his head is in view, hit it with the rock!
-->'''Fezzik:''' My way's not very sportsmanlike.
* The Ewoks from ''Film/ReturnOfTheJedi'' toss large rocks down upon a squad of Imperial troops. Though their Imperial armor mitigates the damage, the impacts nonetheless knock them off their feet.
* At the climax of ''Film/{{Tumblewood}}'', Lam attempts to smash Jim's head in with a rock. However, when he misses, the rock causes him to overbalance and he falls to his death of the cliff.
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[[folder:Literature]]
* ''Literature/TheHungerGames'':
** Thresh, after believing that Clove had killed his young district partner Rue, had gotten so enraged that he killed her by smashing her head with a large rock.
** The unnamed victor of the 73rd Hunger Games, whose arena was the ruins of an abandoned city, had killed the runner-up by beating him with a brick.
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[[folder:Live-Action Television]]
* ''Series/BeyondBeliefFactOrFiction'': One short story involves a murderer who killed a man by smashing his head in with a chunk of asphalt. He gladly recounts this story to his cellmate... [[spoiler: who turns out to be the victim's father, who isn't too happy to hear it.]]
* ''Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries''
** Episode "Arena". Captain Kirk and the Gorn captain are forced to fight each other with improvised weapons. During their battle, the Gorn captain picks up a boulder and throws it at Kirk, pinning Kirk's leg to the ground.
** "The Galileo Seven". While the crew of the shuttle craft is trapped on a primitive planet, they are attacked by giant cavemen-like humanoids.
*** One of the cavemen uses a boulder to pound on the shuttlecraft.
*** During a funeral ceremony, one of the cavemen throws a boulder at Spock, pinning him to the ground.
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[[folder:Tabletop Games]]
* ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons''. In early editions, if giants have boulders nearby they can pick them up and throw them at their opponents instead of using their normal melee weapons.
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[[folder:Video Games]]
* The giant round boulder-wielding Infested Barbarians in ''VideoGame/DarkSoulsI'' are much more dangerous than the regular club-wielding kind, thanks to their extended move set, which includes slamming you (repeatedly) into the ground with the boulder, charging you from a distance by rolling the boulder in front of them, or just throwing their boulder at you from range (and immediately summoning another one into their hands).
* Disarmed Bokoblins and Moblins in ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaBreathOfTheWild'' will occasionally throw rocks projectiles. Bokoblins pick up small ones from nowhere, while Moblins use the large ones scattered around the overworld (which Link can also use).
* ''VideoGame/StreetFighter'': One of Cody's [[CombatPragmatist dirty fighting tricks]] is to pick up some stones and then throw them at people mid-fight. Later on, in ''VideoGame/StreetFighterV'', he's got a variant; he can toss up a stone and then punt it with his steel pipe like a baseball to hit enemies at range.
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[[folder:Web Video]]
* ''WebVideo/MarbleHornets'': Alex does this twice:
** After he and Jay are attacked by "Masky" and manage to not only defend themselves but take him down long enough to unmask him (finding their friend Tim), Alex, after being told he can't kill him, instead smashes his legs with a nearby rock to cripple him.
** He starts to become paranoid after Jay has been spending weeks doing nothing but stalking him. When a man innocently approaches him from behind, Alex goes into a fit of rage and murders the man with a rock, believing it to be Jay. This murder is seen on a video taken by totheark in order to expose Alex's crime.
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[[folder:Western Animation]]
* In ''WesternAnimation/ThePowerpuffGirls'' episode "Meet the Beat-Alls", while the other villains bring high-tech weapons (and in the case of HIM, magic) to fight the Girls, Fuzzy Lumpkins only has a boulder. However, he's the one who delivers the final decisive blow against the Girls by dropping it on them while they're immobilized by the other villains' attacks.
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