History Main / PutTheirHeadsTogether

* ''Franchise/{{Dragonball}}'':
** Beerus does this to Gohan and Majin Buu in "Battle of Gods".

* Broadway once did this to a pair of Dracon's goons in one episode of ''WesternAnimation/Gargoyles''

* ''Anime/SamuraiChamploo'': In "The Art of Altercation", an exasperated Fuu does this to Jin and Mugan [[ThatsGottaHurt while they're still hung-over]] from last night's debauchery.

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Birdman}}'': ''WesternAnimation/TheGalaxyTrio'' episode "Versus the Moltens of Meteorus". While Meteor Man is fighting the Moltens he picks up two of them and slams their heads together, knocking them out.

* ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'': A NotHerself Buffy does this to Xander and Oz in "Living Conditions".

* Happens in Creator/AlanMoore's ''ComicBook/{{Marvelman}}'' reboot, to two of [[spoiler:Dr. Gargunza's unfortunate mooks]]. This being a Moore-penned superhero, lots of [[LudicrousGibs red ink]] is involved in the art.

SubTrope of UseYourHead and TapOnTheHead.

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* ''Franchise/{{Tintin}}'': Captain Haddock does it in ''Recap/TintinTheCalculusAffair'', when two rival factions are fighting over the kidnapped professor. No less to two rivaling faction members.
* ''ComicBook/DuckTales'': During the "Rightful Owners" arc, Launchpad is discovered by two natives who have been tricked into helping the Beagle Boys. He grabs them and bangs their heads together, knocking them out, and steals one of their wigs and leaf skirts as a disguise before going off to deal with the Beagle Boys.
* Darkman in ''ComicBook/DarkmanVsArmyOfDarkness'' takes out two Deadite guards by knocking their heads together. This has unintended consequences, as they are old possessed corpses, so are reduced to dust by the impact.
* Happens in Creator/AlanMoore's ''ComicBook/{{Marvelman}}'' reboot, to two of [[spoiler: Dr. Gargunza's unfortunate mooks]]. This being a Moore-penned superhero, lots of [[LudicrousGibs red ink]] is involved in the art.

* ''ComicBook/SensationComics'': In the Franchise/WonderWoman feature Paula von Gunther takes down two members of the Crime Combine by slamming their heads together to knock them out.

* In ''Fanfic/MasterPokemon'', Iris's Archen ends up defeating Ghestis's Hydreigon by flying so clumsily the Dark Dragon knocks itself out by smashing all three of its heads into each other.

* In the fourth chapter of ''Batman'' story ''Fanfic/DanceWithTheDemons'', Killer Croc smashes two guards' heads together.
-->Croc ripped his arms out of the straitjacket, tearing the reinforced fabric asunder like wet paper. His freed hands whipped out, grabbed the two burly guards, and cracked their heads together in a guaranteed skull-fracture impact. They fell unconscious. He had their guns in the next instant.

* In ''ComicBook/{{Shazam}}'' story ''Fanfic/HereThereBeMonsters'', Doctor Sivana's eldest son bangs his father and little brother's heads together during one brawl.
-->"What the heck," said Magnificus, and leaped into the fray. He took Junior in one hand, his father in the other, and banged their heads together with a most satisfying crack.

* ''WesternAnimation/BatmanBeyond'': Terry [=McGinnis=] tricks the Deedees into this in ''WesternAnimation/BatmanBeyondReturnOfTheJoker''.

* Creator/ArnoldSchwarzenegger uses this tactic a lot.
** Harry Tasker does this to two guard dogs in ''Film/TrueLies''. "Stay."
** Again in ''Film/TotalRecall1990''. When a group of {{mooks}} attack Douglas Quaid after he leaves Rekall, he takes out two of them by slamming their heads together.
** Mr. Freeze does it in ''Film/BatmanAndRobin'' to two Arkham Asylum guards while trying to escape.

* A regular occurrence on ''Film/TheThreeStooges'', usually Moe doing it to Larry and Curly, and to bad guys.
* Jason kills a pair of deputies this way in ''Film/JasonGoesToHellTheFinalFriday''.

* ''Film/TheAdventuresOfBuckarooBanzaiAcrossThe8thDimension''. Right after Dr. Lizardo is possessed by Lord John Whorfin, he cracks together the heads of two colleagues who just pulled him out of a wall.
* ''Film/TheGreatRace''. While The Great Leslie is infiltrating a castle he knocks out two guards in this way.
* A pair of zombies are disposed of this way in ''Film/ViolentShit III: Infantry of Doom''.

--> '''Franco''': "Say, what's that street called?"
--> (grabs both distracted guards and clank their noggins together)

* In ''Film/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles1990'', after the Turtles escape April's burning junk shop, Tatsu gets very pissed and starts trashing the Foot's hideout, taking out his rage on any Foot ninja who gets near him or tries to calm him down. At one point he grabs two of them and slams their heads together.
* In the final act of ''Film/{{Moonraker}}'', Jaws does this with two underlings when pulling his MookFaceTurn.
* ''Film/JackReacher''. After being attacked by two incompetent criminals in a confined space, Reacher knocks down one guy onto another, then [[GrievousHarmWithABody smashes the top guy's head into the bottom guy's]] until both are out.

* It pops up in the first ''Literature/ArtemisFowl'' book, when [[BattleButler Butler]] picks a fight with a bunch of dockworkers to provide a distraction for Artemis. He mentally comments on how cliche it is, not to mention being ridiculously inefficient from a martial-arts standpoint -- but since the whole point of the fight is to be loud and spectacular, he uses it anyway.

* Creator/RobertAHeinlein
** A lethal version occurs in ''Literature/TheMoonIsAHarshMistress'' during a riot.
--->Shorty had other two guards each by neck; he grinned as he cracked skulls together. They popped like eggs and he yelled at me: "Git!"
** From ''Literature/StarshipTroopers''
--->Jelly was a Finno-Turk from Iskander around Proxima -- a swarthy little man who looked like a clerk, but I’ve seen him tackle two berserk privates so big he had to reach up to grab them, crack their heads together like coconuts, step back out of the way while they fell.
* Happens a couple of times in ''Literature/{{Animorphs}}'', often courtesy of Marco's gorilla morph.

* The BadassPreacher of ''Literature/PanTadeusz'', father Robak, puts an end to a quarrel this way.

* The original ''Series/TheAdventuresOfSuperman'' TV series had it.
* ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'': A NotHerself Buffy does this to Xander and Oz in "Living Conditions".
* ''Series/Batman1966'' episode "The Penguin's A Jinx". At the end of the fight between the Dynamic Duo and the Penguin and his henchmen, Batman takes out the Penguin and one of the henchmen by knocking their heads together.

* In the ''Series/XPlay'' segment "Kung Fu [[VideoGame/{{Halo}} Master Chief]]", the title VideoGame character slams the heads of two ninja together.
* ''Series/WonderWoman'' episode "The Nazi Wonder Woman". While being attacked by two Nazi guards, Wonder Woman grabs their shoulders and knocks their heads together, knocking them out (they were wearing helmets at the time).
* One episode of ''Series/{{Bones}}'' has the team investigating what had caused a pair of conjoined twins death. Turns out that they fell from a from a tight rope, and landing on the safety net caused them to smack heads hard enough to die instantly.

* ''Series/BlakesSeven''. In "The Harvest of Kairos", a manly construction worker called Jarvik is hauled before Servalan for some rank impertinence. His response is to tell the President of the Terran Federation that she's beautiful [[RefugeInAudacity and snog the hell out of her]]. Servalan's first response is to have Jarvik thrown in the cells, but after Jarvik bangs the Security goons heads together and removes their weapons, Servalan decides that [[WomenPreferStrongMen she quite likes his primitive Alpha Male behavior]].
* ''Series/JackOfAllTrades''. Our hero does this to a couple of French soldiers in the TitleSequence.

* ''Series/LegendsOfTomorrow'': In the season 4 episode "Nip/Stuck", Mona, as Wolfie, does this to a hypnotized Ava and Nora. It effectively undoes the hypnosis.

* Duncan does this in a ''{{Series/Highlander}}'' episode by quickly moving back as two Russian mooks come at him so they wind up smacking their heads together.

* ''Franchise/SpiderMan'':
** ''Spider-Man & Venom: VideoGame/MaximumCarnage''. Using your webs while surrounded by two enemies will do this. The attack deals damage to both targets equal to the health of the weaker enemy, which means that it can actually OneHitKill some of the non-supervillains bosses in one hit if done right.
** Also possible in ''Separation Anxiety''.

* In the FinalBattle in ''VideoGame/DevilMayCry5'', [[spoiler:Nero can do this to [[FinalBoss Vergil]] and his Doppelganger via a Buster move]]. What really sells it is this gem he gives out:
-->'''Nero:''' You dropped this! ''[WHAM!]''

* In an [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q0BYJW7Yw7c animated short parody]] of ''Series/TheMandalorian'', Toys/{{Funko|Pop}}-style, Mando clonks together the helmets of two Stormtroopers who were bothering Grogu. ([[RuleOfFunny Despite the fact that,]] in this super-deformed style, Mando's arms are way too short to reach around both helmets.)

** [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=2011072 Vole inflicts this on Tarvek and Gil]] while holding them in a NeckLift. Then, he starts strangling.

* Done as a sneak attack on two Bone Hunters by Ackar in ''WesternAnimation/{{BIONICLE}}: The Legend Reborn''.
* On ''WesternAnimation/MightyMax'' Norman does this in the opening credits. Then he gives the viewer a thumbs up for some reason.
* Raphael does this to two Foot Soldiers on the old ''WesternAnimation/{{Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles|1987}}'' cartoon. "I think it's time you two met!"

* Duke Igthorn's good twin in ''WesternAnimation/GummiBears'' did it to two guards when blackmailed into villainy.
* A favorite tactic of Roadblock in ''WesternAnimation/GIJoe'' whenever he can get two Cobra {{Mooks}} within arms reach; see the page image -- which comes from the movie, in case you were wondering.

* A variation done by ''WesternAnimation/TheTick'' against the Idea Men: he smacked the head of one man in a line of them, causing them all to knock against each other like a clicking balls toy.
* Angel did this to two of the Leroy clones in ''WesternAnimation/LeroyAndStitch''.
* Creator/{{Filmation}} ''WesternAnimation/TheNewAdventuresOfSuperman'' episodes.
** "The Deadly Super-Doll". Superman does it to two crooks robbing a fur company.
** "The Deadly Icebergs". Superman does it to ''three'' crooks who are using exploding icebergs as weapons.

* ''[[WesternAnimation/{{Birdman}} The Galaxy Trio]]'' episode "Versus the Moltens of Meteorus". While Meteor Man is fighting the Moltens he picks up two of them and slams their heads together, knocking them out.
* ''Young Samson & Goliath'' episode "Moon Rendezvous". Samson and Goliath throw two Moon Beasts at each other head first. Their heads slam into each other and the monsters are knocked unconscious.

* ''WesternAnimation/TheBananaSplits'':
** In a Three Musketeers episode ("The Jewel of India"), Porthos takes down one pair of thugs this way. Athos does the same thing to another pair of thugs, only while inside a tree.
** This also happens on ''WesternAnimation/ArabianKnights:'' in "The Great Gold Robbery", this is how Rasim decommissions two of Bakaar's thugs.
* ''WesternAnimation/{{Kaeloo}}'': In Episode 69, Bad Kaeloo does this to Mr. Cat and Stumpy.
* ''WesternAnimation/ThePowerpuffGirls:'' In "Just Desserts," this is how Bubbles knocks out Bud and Julie Smith (the kids).
* ''WesternAnimation/KimPossible'' did this to two of the BeeBee robots by jumping on them from behind causing them to shock each other, but when she tries to attack the third one it catches her out of the air.

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* In ''Manga/{{Gokusen}}'', [[TheBigGuy Tetsu]] does this to a pair of Nekomata Gang mooks.

* ''Franchise/{{Tintin}}'': Captain Haddock does it in ''Recap/TintinTheCalculusAffair'', when two rival factions are fighting over the kidnapped professor. No less to two rivaling faction members!

* A favorite tactic of ComicBook/{{Batman}} when dealing with common scum.

-->'''Nero:''' You dropped this! ''[BONK]''

** In ''ComicBook/AMindSwitchInTime'', ComicBook/{{Superboy}} catches two bak robbers and puts them out of commission by smashing his heads together.