History Main / FightingInThePlayground

* Discussed in ''WebVideo/DrHorriblesSingALongBlog''. Dr. Horrible refuses to fight an online challenger at a local park because children play there. Presumably, there's a playground.

-->-- '''WebVideo/{{Paw|Dugan}}''', Website/ChannelAwesome's ''WebVideo/SuburbanKnights''

* In the ''Film/{{Daredevil}}'' movie adaptation, Matt and Elektra's first meeting is a martial arts fight near an inner city playground where children are still playing.

* In ''Series/{{Ultraviolet}}'', the confrontation at the climax of the first episode takes place in an empty playground at night.

* ''Film/{{Colossal}}'' features two characters who inadvertently create {{kaiju}} avatars of themselves in Seoul if they step foot in a particular playground at a certain time. This results in the two characters clashing on the playground in their human forms while their giant monster forms duke it out on the other side of the globe.
* In ''Film/{{Hanna}}'', Erik's fight with Isaacs and his henchmen happens in a playground with Erik using the equipment to help take them out.
* Creator/JackieChan engaged in one against a set of mooks in ''Film/PoliceStory'' ''2'', with his usual creative use of the environment in the fight choreography.

* The ''Series/DoctorWho'' story "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS26E4Survival Survival]]" has a chase scene through a playground, with the quarry going over and through the rides in an attempt to shake off the pursuer.
* ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer''. The episode where Buffy has her eighteenth birthday opens with her fighting a vampire in an AbandonedPlayground, for the requisite leave-childhood-behind symbolism.

* In the Website/ChannelAwesome production ''WebVideo/SuburbanKnights'', some of the critics have a fight scene in a park against the supernatural villains.

* Discussed in ''WebVideo/DrHorriblesSingALongBlog''. Dr. Horrible refuses to fight an online challenger at a local park because children play there. Presumably, there's a playground.

* Stewie fights with his half-brother Bertram in ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'' over who would get the right to be the most popular person at the playground, which leads into a literal war with weaponry and ChildSoldiers.

* Creator/JackieChan engaged in one against a set of mooks in ''Film/PoliceStory2'', with his usual creative use of the environment in the fight choreography.

* ''WebVideo/{{Smosh}}'' [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z-xiNaTXZV8 did a brief parody of]] ''VideoGame/SuperSmashBros'' in which [[Franchise/StarFox Fox McCloud]] questioned why he, [[Franchise/TheLegendOfZelda Link]], [[VideoGame/MetalGear Solid Snake]], and [[Franchise/{{Pokemon}} Jigglypuff]] choose to fight in a playground instead of doing something "productive" instead. When Fox tries to escape, he's obliterated by the drop from the slide to the floor, so the others decide to stay where they are.

* ''WebVideo/{{Smosh}}'' did a brief parody of ''VideoGame/SuperSmashBros'' in which some of the video game characters questioned why they choose to fight in a playground instead of doing something "productive" instead. When one of them tries to escape, they're obliterated by the drop from the slide to the floor, so the others decide to stay where they are.

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-->-- '''{{WebVideo/Paw|Dugan}}''', Website/ChannelAwesome's ''WebVideo/SuburbanKnights''

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* At ''Wrestling/{{CHIKARA}} Aniversario And His Amazing Friends'', May 21, 2011, Wrestling/{{UltraMantis Black}} and Chuck Taylor fought out of the Palmer Center in Easton, PA into a playground next door. The fight involved Taylor coming down the slide and Mantis chopping him.[[note]]Mantis won in the ring with the Praying Mantis Bomb.[[/note]]

* In ''Film/Hanna'', Erik's fight with Isaacs and his henchmen happens in a playground with Erik using the equipment to help take them out.

* ''Film/{{Colossal}}'' features two characters who create {{kaiju}} avatars of themselves in Seoul, South Korea is they step foot in a particular playground at a certain time. This results in the two characters clashing on the playground in their human forms while their giant monster forms duke it out on the other side of the globe.

-->-- '''{{WebVideo/Paw|Dugan}}''', Website/ThatGuyWithTheGlasses' ''WebVideo/SuburbanKnights''

* The ''Series/DoctorWho'' story "Survival" has a chase scene through a playground, with the quarry going over and through the rides in an attempt to shake off the pursuer.

-->'''{{WebVideo/Paw|Dugan}}''', Website/ThatGuyWithTheGlasses' ''WebVideo/SuburbanKnights''

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* MegaManZx: the boss battle against Purprill takes place in his personal room, which is decorated like a playground, complete with sandy floors.