History Main / ThrowtheBookAtThem

** Towards the end of the first book, ''Furies of Calderon'', the resident ObstructiveBureaucrat is mentioned to have bludgeoned what is strongly implied to be a ''[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phorusrhacidae terror bird]]'' to death with his accounts ledger saving himself and some childrend.

* Okabe from ''VisualNovel/SteinsGate'' gets one from Kurisu after discovering Ruka's genderswap through a rather... [[CrotchGrabSexCheck inappropriate method.]]

* Brainy in ''ComicBook/TheSmurfs'' story "The Smurfs And The Book That Tells Everything" whacks a few Smurfs in the head with the titular book in order to get them away from him.

* In ''WesternAnimation/TheSmurfs'' episode "Tailor's Magic Needle", when Brainy pesters Tailor about using the magic needle to sew up his hard-cover books, Brainy gets thrown out of the village along with his books.

* In the ''WesternAnimation/StarVsTheForcesOfEvil'' episode "Sleep Spells", Princess Smooshy captures Star and attempts to literally steal her face. When Marco's attempts to talk her down fail, he instead throws his psychology book, which nails Smooshy in the head and knocks her out.

* ''WesternAnimation/ElTigreTheAdventuresOfMannyRivera'': In "Yellow Pantera", Frida announces that she found something at the library to help them defeat [[MonsterOfTheWeek El Mal Verde]]. Rather than finding his weakness in a book, she just grabbed the biggest book she could find and threw it at Mal Verde... where it bounces off with no effect.
-->'''Frida:''' Well, that's all I got. Thoughts?

* In 2002, the leaders of the already-unstable coalition government of Turkey convened at a high-level meeting. Story goes that during the meeting, an argument broke out and one of the coalition leaders hurled a book (or a dossier) containing the constitution at the then-Prime Minister, Ecevit. [[FromBadToWorse The coalition collapsed soon after and took the country to a period of recession with it]].

** The most common size and binding for the average manga makes it nicely hand-sized when gripped opposite to the spine, and just thin and strong enough for effective aimed strikes to areas such as the wrist. If you're already holding a book, there are much worse choices for an ImprovisedWeapon.

** Having been prevented from carrying *actual* weapons into the away end at football matches, the famously violent fans of Millwall FC discovered that nobody would stop a man with a newspaper under his arm. A tightly rolled and folded newspaper is called a 'Millwall brick'.

** Death himself is buried under a pile of books in ''Literature/TheLastContinent'' upon asking for a list of [[DeathWorld dangerous creatures of XXXX]] (the setting's counterpart to UsefulNotes/{{Australia}}, complete with [[UsefulNotes/AustralianWildlife ridiculously dangerous wildlife). He decides it would be easier to ask for a list of ''safe'' creatures of XXXX, whereupon a tiny piece of paper flutters down reading "[[spoiler:some of the sheep]]".

** Death himself is buried under a pile of books in ''Literature/TheLastContinent'' upon asking for a list of [[DeathWorld dangerous creatures of XXXX]]. He decides it would be easier to ask for a list of ''safe'' creatures of XXXX, whereupon a tiny piece of paper flutters down reading "[[spoiler:some of the sheep]]".

** In ''Literature/GuardsGuards'', Vimes orders Carrot to "throw the book" at the perpetrator. [[BluntMetaphorsTrauma Carrot takes this literally]]. Since the book weighs about ten pounds and the criminal is standing near a ledge, the criminal is knocked over the edge and falls to his death.

* In ''The Shadow of the Lion'', the villain is knocked out by a falling Bible. Then a voice declares "[[IncrediblyLamePun Let Evil Feel The Weight of the Word of God!]]".

* Variant: Fumi Kanno attacks Trumpeter with several laptops in ''VideoGame/DevilSurvivor2''. [[IncrediblyLamePun Throw The MacBook At Them?]]

* ''Series/HorribleHistories'': In the Shouty Man's ad for 'New Emperor Statue', the bookworm emperor kills the warrior by hitting him over the head with a massive tome.

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* In ''WesternAnimation/LiloAndStitch'', when Cobra Bubbles visits Lilo and Nani's house to talk abut the latter losing her job, Stitch comes up to him with a book... before suddenly growling at him and chucking the book at his face, which gets Nani in even more trouble with Cobra.