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* ''ComicBook/TheSandman1987'': In ''ComicBook/DeathTheHighCostOfLiving'', Mad Hettie threatens Sexton with a broken bottle.

* In ''ComicBook/BlackMagick'' #8, J.P. Brandt is fleeing from Rowan and Morgan when he throws a bottle at Morgan that hits him in the head.

* In ''ComicBook/DeathTheHighCostOfLiving'', Mad Hettie threatens Sexton with a broken bottle.

* In ''ComicBook/TheShadowHero'', Wun Too is a legit kung-fu master, but [[CombatPragmatist he'd much rather have a couple of broken bottles]] in his hands.
* In the ''ComicBook/SinCity'' tale ''Just Another Saturday Night'', Marv smashes a whiskey bottle and comes after a group of psychopaths torching a homeless man to death [[ForTheEvulz for fun]]. He gets shot in the shoulder and never gets the chance to use his makeshift weapon, however.

* ''ComicBook/SupergirlWomanOfTomorrow'': As she is drinking liquor in a bar, ComicBook/{{Supergirl}} witnesses a mercenary stealing a young girl's sword. Kara stops the mercenary, and when the man refuses to give the sword back, she smashes one bottle against his head.

* Back in the early years of ''ComicBook/WonderWoman'' a wine bottle was among the many, ''many'', things ComicBook/SteveTrevor got [[TapOnTheHead knocked out]] with by bad guys.
* In a flashback in ''ComicBook/WynonnaEarp: Season Zero'' #1, Wynonna jams a beer bottle into [[MoeGreeneSpecial the eye of a biker]] who is hassling her in a bar.

** During Majima's fight with Nishikiyama in ''VideoGame/Yakuza0'', Reina tries to help by breaking a wine bottle over Majima's head. Failing the QuicktimeEvent sees her knock a chunk of Majima's health off, and [[AchievementMockery "earns"]] the player a trophy.

Many of these end up falling under the SoftGlass rule and shatter easily when they likely wouldn't in real life, (beer bottles, in particular, are actually rather hard to break without a lot of force and knowhow due to how thick the glass is; indeed, most [[http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jflm.2008.07.013 beer bottles are tougher than most people's skulls,]]) though this aspect of them is occasionally subverted comically. Some people in RealLife expect bottles to break as easily as they do in movies and wind up with either a whole bottle or [[JustForFun/TelevisionIsTryingToKillUs a handful of glass shards]]. In short, instead of breaking when swung, a bottle can make for a rather durable club if thick enough.

* ''Series/{{CSI}}'':
** In "The Case of the Cross-Dressing Carp," the VictimOfTheWeek attacks himself with a broken beer bottle; hacking at unwanted breast tissue on his chest before committing suicide.
** In "Meet Market," the VictimOfTheWeek is bludgeoned to death with a champagne bottle.
* ''Series/CSIMiami'': In "Habeas Corpse," corrupt ASA Josh Avery is killed by a blow to his head with a wine bottle.
* ''Series/{{CSINY}}'':
** Danny gets one of these in "Officer Involved." The bottle breaks and he gets knocked out.
** The VictimOfTheWeek in the first of the trio of stories that make up "Blood Actually" is bludgeoned to death with a champagne bottle.

* ''TabletopGame/NewWorldOfDarkness'', in the book ''Armory'', gives rules for attacking with a bottle. It breaks if you do more than two damage with it, changing it from Bashing to Lethal... and then that shatters if you do more than two damage with ''it'', rendering it worthless. (It also takes a skill roll to break it ''intentionally'', and if you fail, your hand is a mess.)