History Main / ForkFencing

* At the beginning of an episode of the 2002 ''{{He-Man|AndTheMastersOfTheUniverse}}'' remake, Prince Adam balked at learning table etiquette, leading Orko to challenge him to a flatware duel. Randor is not impressed.

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* ''{{Slayers}}'', the TropeNamer. The first episode of ''Slayers NEXT'' has Gourry and Lina literally ''fork-fencing'' at super speed over the ''last bits of food on the table''. Neither of them end up getting it, as a fight breaks out in the tavern and their table is knocked over. Lina's response? [[BerserkButton Well...]]
** Fighting over food is common for media from Japan, where meals are traditionally served in communal plates. For example, in ''{{Trigun}}'' Vash and Wolfwood fight over an enormous plate of spaghetti during the course of an argument.
* Sebastian uses silverware as weaponry in ''{{Kuroshitsuji}}''. Then again, he is a BattleButler, so he can do some pretty wicked things with tableware.

* While Kenshiro of ''FistOfTheNorthStar'' didn't use any forks, his incarnation in ''FistOfTheBlueSky'' used a whole bunch of them to take out a bunch of evil gangsters who were viciously mistreating his [[BloodBrothers sworn brother]]. And in the anime adaptation of the manga, he uses Kenshiro's famous {{Kiai}} for the [[RapidFireFisticuffs Hokuto Hyakuretsu Ken]] ("AHHHHTATATATATATATATATATATATA!") from the previous series while he's throwing those forks.

* While not exactly while fencing, [[spoiler:Chloe]] in ''{{Noir}}'' was killed by [[spoiler:Kirika]] with a fork. Over [[spoiler:Mireille]]. Make your own conclusions about the symbolism of that scene.
* ''{{Reborn}}'' The [[spoiler:Vongola IV]] used a fork as his main weapon.
* In ''DarkerThanBlack'', second season, Hei uses a knife to pin the hand of a [[spoiler:government official]] to the table, preventing him from setting off a bomb. A bit squickier than you'd think, since he jams it in ''sideways,'' rather than lengthwise as you'd expect.

* In the [[MartialArtsAndCrafts martial arts dining]] story arc in the manga of ''[=~Ranma ½~=]'' Soun and Genma duel with forks.
* In the first episode of ''ChronoCrusade'', Rosette attacks the Elder with silverware when he [[DirtyOldMan sneaks a peak up her dress]]. The dub even adds a line of her threatening to "kill you with this spoon!!"
* Miharu Shimizu, the [[PsychoLesbian Psycho]] SchoolgirlLesbian of ''BakaToTestToShoukanjuu'' attacks the lead character with throwing forks for daring to lust after the target of her affections.

* In ''CalvinAndHobbes'', Calvin magnificently won a fork duel with a greenish, seemingly gelatinous glob of something that was supposed to be food, before the thing cheated and used a spoon to run him off by lobbing pieces of itself at him. In his further defense, ''he'' was the one who said they should call out for pizza to begin with.
* [=WildStorm=]'s ''FridayThe13th'' has a scene where Jason kills a guy by stabbing him in the face with a two-pronged grilling fork.

* There are two sequences in ''KungFuPanda'' where chopsticks are used as weapons.

* Pick a horror movie, any horror movie, and you'll usually find someone running around with kitchen cutlery, sometimes even the BigBad.
* In the first ''PiratesOfTheCaribbean'' movie, the heroes use cutlery when they run out of cannon ammunition. HilarityEnsues when an enemy pirate gets stabbed in the fake eye with a fork.
* The Blue Raja from the movie ''MysteryMen'' is an expert fork- and spoon-thrower (but, for no adequately explained reason, refuses to have any truck with knives).

* Vimes' butler Wilikins in ''{{Discworld}}''.
* Tyrion Lannister uses this early in the first bok of ''{{A Song of Ice and Fire}}'' to annoy a particularly humourless member of the Night's Watch. When the knight leaves in a huff, Tyrion claims his share of dinner.
* At the end of ''TheStepsisterScheme'', Tali - AKA 'Sleeping Beauty' - fights a TROLL using a knife-and-fork set. The twist being that she just grabbed that silverware off the table of a powerful member of TheFairFolk, and as such, they're magical enough to penetrate the troll's defenses. End result: The troll goes down with a table-knife in his throat.

* A character gets slashed to death with a razor sharp fork in ''ANightmareOnElmStreet: Dreamspawn''.

* In the ''{{Angel}}'' episode "Just Rewards", Angel kills the villain's butler with a spoon. By throwing it at him so hard it lodges in his forehead. Spike is appropriately incredulous.

* WeirdAlYankovic parodied MichaelJackson's "Beat It" (featuring two gang leaders in a knife fight) with "Eat It". The leaders were instead fighting over a chicken, and armed... well, one had a fork, the other a spoon.

* ''KingdomOfLoathing'' features ustensils of various stripe as weapons, including "foons". Think the opposite of "spork". And why does my spellcheck think "spork" isn't a word?
* ''MetalGearSolid3'' has an escape sequence where a fork is available to the player.
** You also get a unloaded Single Action Army, which you can get ammo for the moment you step out of the prison. Though the SAA makes a loud bang and can't be silenced, making the fork almost a weapon of choice.
* In ''FinalFantasyIX'', Quina's weapon of choice is a giant [[strike:fork]] ''spork''.
* In ''RuleOfRose'', your starting weapon is a dessert fork. It's about as effective as it sounds.

* In ''DwarfFortress'' because of their tiny contact area, they're a great weapon.
* ''TheElderScrollsMorrowind'' has [[http://www.uesp.net/wiki/Shivering:The_Fork_of_Horripilation_(quest) The Fork of Horripilation]].

* ''HomestarRunner''. In the Cheat Commandoes Thanksgiving special, Blue Lazer Commander uses this to differentiate between his two cronies by jabbing a fork into one crony's eye.

* Jane Crocker of ''{{Homestuck}}'' uses a spoon capable of [[MorphWeapon morphing into a fork]] as her {{Weapon of Choice}}.
* Referenced in ''QuestionableContent'' with the [[http://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=540 Indonesian Fighting Spoon]], which can scoop out a man's lungs in the blink of an eye. Note that while that turns out to be just another one of Faye's jokes, the Malaysian Battle Spatula IS real...

* At the beginning of an episode of the 2002 ''{{He-Man}}'' remake, Prince Adam balked at learning table etiquette, leading Orko to challenge him to a flatware duel. Randor is not impressed.
* In one episode of ''TheSimpsons'', Homer wins a knife fight against a mobster using a pair of table forks. Giving us the truly [[IncrediblyLamePun groanworthy]] quote:

* TomAndJerry once do battle using knives from a fancy banquet table.

* Rorschach tries to do this at one point in ''{{Watchmen}}''.

* Jane Crocker from {{Homestuck}} uses a spoon as her {{Weapon of Choice}}.

* In the final scene of ''CorpseBride'', the hero uses an oversized fork as an ImprovisedWeapon.

* Combined with EyeScream, entirely for laughs, in ''HotTubTimeMachine''.

** What's even better is that the spoon and fork are propped as ''switchblades''. To this troper, that borders on ImpossiblyCoolWeapon.

* ''MetalGearSolid3'' has an escape sequence where the only weapon available to the player is a fork.
** Not entirely true. You've got an unloaded Single Action Army, which you can get ammo for the moment you step out of the prison.
*** Though the SAA makes a loud bang and can't be silenced, making the fork almost a weapon of choice.

* In the ''{{Angel}}'' episode "Just Rewards", Angel kills the villain's butler with a spoon. Spike is appropriately incredulous.

* ''AConfederacyOfDunces'' features a fight between Ignatius J. Reilly and Clyde, his boss at Paradise Vendors (pushing around a [[FoodCart hot dog cart]]), in which Clyde uses the long, two-pronged fork he uses to prepare the hot dogs and Ignatius uses the plastic sword that is part of his pirate costume. [[RuleOfFunny Yes]].

->'''MarkHamill:''' H-Homer... Use the for...\\
'''Homer Simpson:''' The Force?\\
'''Mark Hamill:''' The forks! Use the ''forks''!
-->-- ''TheSimpsons''

** Fighting over food is common for media from Japan, where meals are traditionally served in communal plates. For example, in {{Trigun}} Vash and Wolfwood fight over an enormous plate of spaghetti during the course of an argument.

* While Kenshiro of ''{{Fist of the North Star}}'' didn't use any forks, his incarnation in ''{{Fist of the Blue Sky}}'' used a whole bunch of them to take out a bunch of evil gangsters who were viciously mistreating his [[BloodBrothers sworn brother]]. And in the anime adaptation of the manga, he uses Kenshiro's famous {{Kiai}} for the [[RapidFireFisticuffs Hokuto Hyakuretsu Ken]] ("AHHHHTATATATATATATATATATATATA!") from the previous series while he's throwing those forks.

* In ''{{Calvin and Hobbes}}'', Calvin magnificently won a fork duel with a greenish, seemingly gelatinous glob of something that was supposed to be food, before the thing cheated and used a spoon to run him off by lobbing pieces of itself at him. In his further defense, ''he'' was the one who said they should call out for pizza to begin with.

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* In the first ''{{Pirates of the Caribbean}}'' movie, the heroes use cutlery when they run out of cannon ammunition. HilarityEnsues when an enemy pirate gets stabbed in the fake eye with a fork.

* In RichieRich Cadbury is attacked by a knife-wielding bad guy. He tries to grab something to defend himself, fumbles with an armful of metal implements, and ends up with...a spatula.

* In ''{{Malcolm in the Middle}}'', Malcom and Reese duels with their forks over the last piece of meat in one opening. Then it fell on the floor. Then the two just scramble to the floor wrestling over it.

* [[TheDrewCareyShow Drew Carey]] was at one point coming to blows with someone, and took up a fork, claiming that it would be a deadly weapon in his hand, since, with it, he would "never miss." [[DontExplainTheJoke For you see, he is fat]].

* ''{{Kingdom of Loathing}}'' features ustensils of various stripe as weapons, including "foons". Think the opposite of "spork". And why does my spellcheck think "spork" isn't a word?

* In ''RuleOfRose'' your starting weapon is a dessert fork. It's about as effective as it sounds.

* In ''{{Buck Godot Zap Gun for Hire}}'', Buck's uncle Frakkus is skilled with the [[http://www.airshipentertainment.com/buckcomic.php?date=20080228 Hoffmanite Throwing Fork.]]

* The [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yUEFxSOVd6A pilot episode of]] CauseOfDeath has the [[DavidVsGoliath battle continue]] into the kitchen, where the slob grabs a knife. The killer grabs [[spoiler: a granola bar. And owns.]]

* In one episode of ''TheSimpsons'', Homer wins a knife fight against a mobster using a pair of table forks.
** Giving us the truly [[IncrediblyLamePun groanworthy]] page quote.
* TomAndJerry do battle using knives from a fancy banquet table.

* ''MetalGearSolid 3'' has an escape sequence where the only weapon available to the player is a fork.