History Main / FryingPanofDoom

-->'''Marie:''' This is what you get for shooting at my restaurant! [whacks a mook and send it flying off-screen]

** Used deliberately in a later story arc: when facing the fire-breathing Rouge (in her Asura form,) Ranma and Pantyhose Tarou arm themselves with griddles, pans, pots, and other kitchen utensils that they can use as shields. After Tarou punches Ranma high above the flying Rouge, Ranma comes down on top of her to deliver an overhead frying-pan smash to one of her heads.

* ''ComicBook/{{Asterix}}'': In ''[[Recap/AsterixAndSon Asterix & Son]]'', Impedimenta is told to "[[StayInTheKitchen get back to your pots and pans, woman]]." She promptly smashes the [[TemptingFate offending Roman over the head with a pan]].

* In an issue of ''ComicBook/BlackPanther'', [[Characters/MarvelComicsStorm Storm]]'s American grandmother knocked out a HYDRA agent with a frying pan, while grandpa took on several more in the living room. They were actually disappointed by the low turnout, saying "HYDRA played us soft just because we're old."

* ''ComicBook/EdgeOfSpiderVerse2022:'' While exploring the local marketplace, Princess Petra is fascinated by seeing a frying pan for the first time. Moments later, she uses it to clobber Bishop Octopus as he attacks people (since at that point she lacks superpowers).

* In an issue of ''ComicBook/SpiderMan'', while [[Characters/MarvelComicsFrankCastle The Punisher]] was cooking bacon in a pan, a group of hitmen attempted to sneak up on and ambush him. He first threw the hot grease in the pan into the face of one hitman, then threw the pan at another's head knocking that guy unconscious. The others are then driven away with gunfire.

--> I tracked down my other sons and daughters, but earned a frying pan to the head when my exes saw that I was trying to bring their children into a dangerous life of monster hunting.

* ''Fanfic/{{Quizzical}}'': From ''Thweet Geniuth'''''s'' ''[[https://www.fimfiction.net/story/72475/19/thweet-geniuth/and-the-winner-is-reprise "And The Winner Is..." Reprise]]'':

** When Cross warns Nami about Usopp's...'liberties' in building her Clima-Tact, she resolves to involve herself in the blueprints. Cross recommends that she considers "Five Cast Iron" for the meeting, a combination of the five iron golf club and this trope. Usopp ends up looking the way he did after the fight with the Mr. 4 pair.

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---> '''Peter''': I tickle you, you hit me in the head with a frying pan?!\\
'''Lois''': I told you to stop!\\
'''Peter''': I taste blood!\\
'''Lois''': Well, there's a lot of it.

* In "Film/Mousehunt", the brothers try to kill the mouse with one of these. Unfortunately, they miss.

* In Film/Mousehunt", the brothers try to kill the mouse with one of these. Unfortunately, they miss.

** In "Sins of Commission", an intruder in the hall is knocked out by the housekeeper wielding a frying pan.
** In "Last Year's Model", the VictimOfTheWeek is murdered by being bludgeoned to death with a heavy saucepan.

* In "VideoGame/{{EarthBound|1994}}", Paula's main weapon is a frying pan that she uses to bash enemies.