History Main / DartboardOfHate

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* Averted in ''{{Gremlins}}''. The Gremlins don't throw darts at a photo of Gizmo, they actually put Gizmo on the dartboard!
** But thank goodness, they miss.

* In the kitschy late-[[TheEighties 80s]] movie ''TroopBeverlyHills,'' the main antagonist Velma has one for her rival Phyllis.

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* Averted in ''[=~Grunts!~=]'' by MaryGentle. Orc Marines don't use a dart board to play darts, they just nail another orc to the wall and paint a bullseye on her stomach!

* The dartboard used in the Darts Championship of the Universe at CallahansCrosstimeSaloon was one of these. Author Spider Robinson wrote that the picture was of a politician who was to remain nameless - then heavily implied that it was Richard Nixon.

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* [[HomeImprovement Tim Taylor]] has one of these with Bob Vila's face on it, at which he shoots nails with a nail gun. Tim being Tim, they all miss.
* Shortly after Radar is rotated home on ''[[{{MASH}} M*A*S*H]]'', BJ and Klinger use a dartboard and syringes to play "Vaccinate Radar". BJ is upset because the daughter he's never seen called Radar "daddy", while Klinger is mad because he doesn't feel up to the Company Clerk's job he inherited.
* At the end of the episode of ''{{NCIS}}'' where Ari is introduced (by taking the medical examiner and his assistant and eventually Kate hostage in the morgue before shooting the ME's assistant in the shoulder, killing some people and putting a bullet in Gibbs' shoulder), Gibbs is seen in his basement messing with his gun. When Gibbs looks up he fires two shots that hit between the eyes of a picture of Ari pinned on a beam on the wall.

* After Boomer reveals her true nature and shoots Commander Adama, posters of her are used as targets on ''BattlestarGalactica's'' firing range.
** After her imprisonment on New Caprica, Kara uses a poster of Leoben.
* [[StargateSG1 Baal]] had a variation on this. Rather than a picture he chained Jack O'Neill to it, and used a [[DeathIsCheap sarcophagus to resurrect him]] every time he got a "bullseye".
* Spike drew a hilariously dorky-looking doodle of Angel to put on his punching bag after he saw the two of them kissing in the seventh season of ''{{Buffy the Vampire Slayer}}''.
** Uh, [[{{Squick}} please tell me the above sentence has a typo]].
** Merely unclear. Angel kissed Buffy, not Spike's punching bag.

* In season 5, episode 8 of ''TheBrittasEmpire'' one of Gordon Brittas's employees is revealed to have a photo of him in her locker for this purpose. Amusingly all the darts are embedded in the [[GroinAttack crotch area]].

* On CriminalMinds, an unsub used a photo of his stepmother as a dartboard. This normally funny trope becomes squicky when you realize the unsub had piquerism- a sexual obsession with stabbing, cutting and piercing.

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* Incredibly obscure [[BonnieScotland Scottish]] comic strip ''AngusOg'' had a miner's club rejecting the idea of using a photo of MargaretThatcher as a dartboard:

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* Zangief does this to Vega in one of his endings in ''StreetFighterII''.

* ''ResidentEvil4'' has one after Luis' death. The docuements in the game have an image in the background (surveillance photos of Leon when Mendez warns of a bid to rescue the President's daughter for example). Leon comes across a document on the Las Plaga being retrieved and the background is of Luis' photo on a dartboard.
* ''[[LegoCrossoverGames LEGO]] HarryPotter: Years 1-4'' has one of these in the Slytherin bedroom; Draco has a dartboard near his bed with a picture of Harry on it (how he got the photo/who gave it to him is something to ponder), which the player can throw darts at using Wingardium Leviosa, resulting in a monetary award.

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* Lucinda has a dartboard with Robotnik's face on it in ''AdventuresOfSonicTheHedgehog''.

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* Nintendo Magazine System, an Australian Nintendo magazine, had one of their reviewers, Amos Wong, give positive reviews on a Sega game for a games show. This earnt him the hatred of readers, to the point where the magazine had a cut out dartboard of the reviewer.

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* On CriminalMinds, an unsub used a photo of his stepmother as a dartboard.

* ''LEGOHarryPotter: Years 1-4'' has one of these in the Slytherin bedroom; Draco has a dartboard near his bed with a picture of [[HarryPotter Harry]] on it, which the player can throw darts at.

* On ''ParksAndRecreation'', Leslie planned to get the former heads of her department together for a photo to use on the cover of the parks newsletter. However, they turned out to be an awful bunch of career bureaucrats who didn't give a shit. Ultimately, a picture of Andy and April was put on the cover while the picture of the former heads was used as a dartboard by Ron and Leslie.

* EvenStevens had a variation: After Twitty, as a Pitcher, goes completely ballistic on Louis over nagging him in regards to Baseball one time too many, they get the idea of having the Umpire using a baseball mitt with Louis's photo on it, which Twitty, who still had sore feelings for Louis, was able to land a successful strike on the opponent.

* ResidentEvil4 has one after Luis' death. The docuements in the game have an image in the background (surveillance photos of Leon when Mendez warns of a bid to rescue the President's daughter for example). Leon comes across a docuement on the Las Plaga being retrieved and the background is of Luis' photo on a dartboard.
* LEGO HarryPotter: Years 1-4 has one of these in the Slytherin bedroom; Draco has a dartboard near his bed with a picture of Harry on it, which the player can throw darts at.

* ''TheMask'' The Animated Series: On the season two episode, "Flight as a Feather," Lieutenant Kellaway is taking a phone call about a pizza-napping and when he hears that the suspect is "green," he chucks a dart at a dartboard with The Mask's photo (and a couple of other darts that have missed the bulls'-eye).

** Similarly, this Cuban-American troper has a roll of toilet paper with Fidel Castro's face on each square.

* LEGO HarryPotter: Years 1-4 has one of these in the Slytherin bedroom; Draco has a dartboard near his bed with a picture of Harry on it, which the player can through darts at.

* One of the...[[strike: oh, shoot, what was their name? Those blonde twins? Started with O?]] Olsen twins movies had a sequence in which the two of them had a falling-out, and one theatrically lay on her bed throwing darts at a photograph while the other came in. Some utterly forgettable dialogue later, non-dart-throwing twin observes "that's a picture of you," and exits triumphant.

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* ResidentEvil4 has one after Luis' death. The docuements in the game have an image in the background (survailence photos of Leon when Mendez warns of a bid to rescue the President's daughter for example). Leon comes across a docuement on the Las Plaga being retrieved and the background is of Luis' photo on a dartboard.

* The Beatles movie ''Help!'' stars out this way, the villain throwing darts at a projected film of them performing (specifically targeting Ringo).

* One episode of ''TheMonkees'' had them throwing darts at a picture of another band. I think it may have been The Animals.
** Nope, it was ''TheBeatles''

* One [[StargateSG1 System Lord]] had a variation on this. Rather than a picture he chained Jack O'Neill to it.

* Dr. Horrible throws some darts at a picture of Captain Hammer in ''DrHorriblesSingAlongBlog'', during the montage in which he is planning to kill the captain.
** Subverted, since none of the darts actually ''hit'' the picture of Hammer, and Horrible has to cheat.

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* ''[[DoctorHorriblesSingAlongBlog Dr. Horrible]] ends up getting one of Captain Hammer. Of course, when he throws darts he misses the picture entirely, so he just walks up, grabs the darts and sticks them all into Hammer's picture.

* Serial killer Edmund Kemper, who absolutely hated his mother, used her severed head as dartboard after killing her.

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* One of the...[[strike: oh, shoot, what was their name? Those blonde twins? Started with O?]] Olsen twins movies had a sequence in which the two of them had a falling-out, and one theatrically lay on her bed throwing darts at a photograph while the other came in. Some utterly forgettable dialogue later, non-dart-throwing twin observes "that's a picture of you," and exits triumphant. OrSoIHeard.

* Shortly after Radar is rotated home, ''{{MASH}}'''s BJ and Klinger use a dartboard and syringes to play "Vaccinate Radar'. BJ is upset because the daughter he's never seen called Radar "daddy" and Klinger is mad because he doesn't feel up to the Company Clerk's job he inherited.

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