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6	Fights can take place in many strange locations such as a [[BarBrawl bar]], a [[DinerBrawl diner]], or even [[TrainTopBattle on top of a train]]. Each location creates its own atmosphere and limitations which dictate the movements of the fighters.
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8	A Hallway Fight, as the name implies, takes place in a corridor. The fighters are more or less forced to go in one direction while the narrow and cramped quarters force them into a more claustrophobic battle. Because of these restraints, the fights can be very close and quite brutal. If the director so chooses, it can also be the perfect opportunity for TheOner. It can also be a way to HandWave the MookChivalry trope as multiple opponents often have to come one by one.
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10	Compare ChokepointGeography.
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12	!!Examples:
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16	[[folder:Anime & Manga]]
17	* ''Manga/FullmetalAlchemist'': Ed and Al clear a hallway in record time through a combination of psychological warfare, fly kicking people in the face and generally beating them up.
18	* ''Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventure'':
19	** ''[[Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventureStardustCrusaders Stardust Crusaders]]'': Jotaro battles against [[EruditeOrangutan Forever]] within the hallway of a ship freighter while being confined to the wall.
20	** ''[[Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventureStoneOcean Stone Ocean]]'': In Jolyne's fight with [=MiuMiu=], she chases her around the prison's hallways and having to avoid armed guards after being affected with a PerceptionFilter.
21	* ''Manga/LuckStealer'': Kurusu's targets often run out in the hallway in whichever building they are in, either to meet their fate or fight Kurusu when he's running after them.
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24	[[folder:Comic Books]]
25	* An issue of the Creator/WarrenEllis run on ''ComicBook/MoonKnight'' has Mr. Knight fighting his way through an entire brownstone house to rescue a kidnapped girl, including several hallways.
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28	[[folder:Fan Fiction]]
29	* ''Fanfic/TarkinsFist'': Tenel Hja gets into one of these with the Army Rangers from Task Force Odysseus who are guarding the access point to the bridge of the hijacked Super Star Destroyer Ares.
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32	[[folder:Films -- Live-Action]]
33	* ''Film/{{Inception}}'' features a hallway fight between Arthur and a nameless mook. Because they are inside the dreaming mind of a person in a rolling vehicle, the two men end up grappling as the [[SpectacularSpinning hallway rotates]] and they flop this way and that.
34	* In ''Film/KillBillVol2'', the Bride and Elle briefly get into a sword fight in the hallway of Budd's trailer, which leads to the Bride [[spoiler: ripping the eye from her socket and considering she only had one eye to begin with, it gives her the win.]]
35	* Though not necessarily a hallway, per se, one is present in ''Film/KungFuHustle'' after [[spoiler:Sing's powers as a Kung Fu Master have awoken]] and a large group of mooks are confronted on one of the long balconies of Pig Sty Alley. For further amusement, [[BattleDiscretionShot we don't actually get to see the beat down]] as the camera focuses on [[spoiler:The Beast's]] rather bemused reaction to it all and when the camera shows the actual carnage the mooks are absolutely laid out with some even stuck in the ceiling!
36	* ''Franchise/TheMatrix'':
37	** In ''Film/TheMatrix'', the FinalBattle between Neo and Agent Smith takes place in a building hallway inside the Matrix.
38	** In ''Film/TheMatrixReloaded'', Neo and Morpheus right their way through a horde of Smith clones when they are ambushed in the hallway of a building leading to the Source.
39	* In ''Film/{{Oldboy\|2003}}'', Oh Dae-Su fights his way through a long hallway of mooks, armed with a hammer. It is perhaps the most well known action sequence in the movie due to it's intense level of violence, the serious CombatBreakdown that occurs mid-fight, and for being TheOner.
40	* In ''Film/TheRaid'', the main characters have to take down an entire apartment building full of gangsters, which leads to plenty hallway fights. One of the main fights involves them slashing their way through bad guys with machetes.
41	* ''Franchise/StarWars'':
42	** ''Film/ANewHope'' opens with Imperial Stormtroopers blasting their way into Princess Leia's starship, leading to a series of intense shoot-outs in the narrow corridors of the ship.
43	** ''Film/RogueOne'': The climax involves [[spoiler: Darth Vader himself]] killing his way through a corridor of a Rebel spaceship in order to obtain plans for the Death Star. Calling it a "fight" is perhaps [[CurbstompBattle being generous.]]
44	* The action thriller ''Film/{{Snowpiercer}}'' takes place on a train, so all unfolding fight scenes resemble hallway fights.
45	* ''Film/StarTrekIntoDarkness'' has hand-to-hand combat aboard the Starfleet supership ''Vengeance''. [[OneManArmy John Harrison]] [[spoiler:who is actually AVillainNamedKhan]] has no problems kicking ass in close quarters.
46	* In ''Film/Terminator2JudgmentDay'', young John Connor is trapped in the narrow gallery of a corridor in a shopping mall when the T-1000 comes around the corner and starts shooting at him. Luckily for John, T-800 is around and [[TuckAndCover shields]] the boy from the bullets, although an unlucky janitor is killed in the crossfire. Then T-800 pushes John into an adjacent room and a shoot-out between the two terminators unfolds in the corridor.
47	* ''Film/WhatWeDoInTheShadows'' has a hallways fight between two vampires in their apartment, which goes up the walls and across the ceiling as a parody of the aforementioned ''Inception'' scene.
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51	* In the premiere of ''Series/{{Ahsoka}}'', two Dark Jedi ([[StudentAndMasterTeam one fallen Jedi and his apprentice]]) carve through New Republic soldiers in the corridors of the cruiser ''Vesper'' to liberate Morgan Elsbeth.
52	* Of all places, season 5 of ''Series/ArrestedDevelopment'' features a brief yet very gymnastics-heavy fight between George-Michael and Micheal.
53	* ''Series/{{Arrow}}''. In "The Undertaking", Oliver Queen slugs and arrows his way through the goons in the corridor outside the room where Walter Steele is being held prisoner.
54	* ''Series/CobraKai:'' "No Mercy." Tory confronts Sam at the intersection of the locker room area in what was meant to be [[DesignatedGirlFight between only the two of them]]. Instead, it sparks an all out MobWar between the RivalDojos that takes place throughout the school's corridors and shows just how ''brutal'' [[SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome a close quarters fight between two groups of teens who hate each other and all have legitimate karate training would actually be]].
55	* In the ''Series/{{Doom Patrol\|2019}}'' episode "[[Recap/DoomPatrol2019S1E03PuppetPatrol Puppet Patrol]]" Robotman bloodily dispatches a squad of Heinrich Von Fuchs HiveMind [[ThoseWackyNazis Nazi minions]] in a hallway of the Fuchtopia facility.
56	* Season 4 of ''Series/{{The Flash\|2014}}'' has the villain [=DeVoe=] breaking into ARGUS Facility and butchering the guards with his psychic powers in a corridor.
57	* ''Series/TheJoelMcHaleShowWithJoelMcHale'' parodied these in a [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qQ-if5YpEIo fake trailer]] for Netflix's newest 12-episode series, ''Hallway Fight''.
58	* In the third season of ''Series/{{Lucifer\|2016}}'', there's a scene where the title character enters a Korean drug dealer's hideout and proceeds to deliver a NoHoldsBarredBeatdown to the {{Mooks}} - all set to, most appropriately, "Lucifer" by Music/SHINee.
59	* ''Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse'': This seems to be something of a CreatorThumbprint for the MCU's Creator/{{Netflix}} shows:
60	** ''Series/{{Daredevil\|2015}}'':
61	*** In "[[Recap/Daredevil2015S1E2CutMan Cut Man]]", Matt Murdock [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B66feInucFY fights his way through a hallway full of Russian mobsters to rescue a kidnapped boy]]. This is considered the signature one of the hallway fights, since [[TheOner it's shot in one take with no changes of camera angle]].
62	*** In "[[Recap/Daredevil2015S2E3NewYorksFinest New York's Finest]]", after freeing himself from Frank Castle, Matt fights off Dogs of Hell bikers in the hallway of an apartment building, which eventually leads to a stairwell fight. This is an homage to ''The Raid''.
63	*** In "[[Recap/Daredevil2015S2E9SevenMinutesInHeaven Seven Minutes in Heaven]]", Wilson Fisk needs to get rid of Dutton, the guy who runs the prison's underground economy. So he tricks Frank Castle into entering Dutton's cellblock. After Frank kills Dutton, Fisk locks him in, and releases all the prisoners who are quick to get revenge on him for killing their boss. He ends up having to go down a corridor, stabbing his way out with a shiv.
64	*** "[[Recap/Daredevil2015S3E4Blindsided Blindsided]]" sees Matt have a continuous one-take fight that one-ups the season 1 fight. In this one, Matt visits Rikers to try to get information on Fisk's time there. Fisk finds out he's there, and a nurse on his payroll proceeds to attack Matt. Matt disarms the nurse but not before the man is able to inject him with a sedative. Fisk then calls Matt to tell him that this is retaliation for [[Recap/Daredevil2015S2E10TheManInTheBox the threats Matt made to keep Vanessa from him when Matt visited him last year]], then hangs up. Fisk directs a bunch of inmates to start a riot and attempt to kill Matt, forcing Matt to fight his way out down several corridors, get information from the Albanians on Jasper Evans, then escape escorted by an Albanian disguised as a guard, all before the sedatives can kick in. This one is a true ''ten minute long'' [[TheOner one-take fight]], with zero cuts at all.
65	** ''Series/{{Jessica Jones\|2015}}'':
66	*** When Will Simpson turns into a psychotic super soldier, he attacks Jessica in her apartment. The two of them fall through a wall and start smashing each other against sides of a small passageway.
67	*** The season 1 finale sees Jessica have to fight her way through a hospital corridor filled with doctors and patients that Kilgrave has ordered to stop her. She tries to sneak down the hall to get out but she is soon spotted and forces her way through, getting a nasty cut with a scalpel for her troubles.
68	** ''Series/{{Luke Cage\|2016}}'': In "[[Recap/LukeCage2016S1E3WhosGonnaTakeTheWeight Who's Gonna Take the Weight]]", Luke Cage attacks Crispus Attucks, the location of Cottonmouth's main stash, using his SuperStrength to bulldoze his way through Cottonmouth's henchmen in three different hallways before finding the vault where all of the money is stashed.
69	** ''Series/{{Iron Fist\|2017}}'':
70	*** A group of Triads armed with [[InsistentTerminology hatchets]] show up at Danny Rand's hotel suite and try to kidnap Joy Meachum in retaliation for a pier deal she and Ward reversed on Harold's orders. Danny fights his way down a corridor full of their men until he gets to the elevator, [[ElevatorActionSequence where he dispatches the last two]], before fleeing with Joy to Colleen Wing's dojo. Harold later kills the guy who hit Joy by splitting his head open with a sword.
71	*** Danny and [[spoiler: Davos]] later fight a group of Hand members in a narrow passage while escaping Bakuto's compound, and almost get overwhelmed due to the cramped quarters.
72	*** A few episodes later, Colleen Wing and [[spoiler: Davos]] rescue Danny from Bakuto and his men as they try to capture him from Harold's penthouse. The three of them dispatch Bakuto's men in the lobby of the General Electric Building, then chase down and fight off Bakuto in Central Park.
73	** ''Series/{{The Defenders\|2017}}'': This one is how the heroes all end up coming to meet. It starts in the boardroom of Midland Circle Financial as Danny confronts Alexandra. After taking out a dozen fighters armed with tranquilizer guns, he is eventually overpowered by a second wave. He is about to be captured when Luke suddenly breaks down the doors and they fight their way out. They burst out through the wall into the nearby hallway just as Matt and Jessica arrive. After an awkward exchange as Luke and Jessica recognize each other, they find themselves pinned down, with Elektra approaching on one side and a bunch of goons coming from the elevator and stairwells. Luke, Jessica and Danny handle the henchmen while Matt fights Elektra one-on-one.
74	** ''Series/{{The Punisher\|2017}}'':
75	*** When Frank infiltrates the enemy compound during a flashback to his service in Kandahar, he begins shooting his way through a few corridors before running put of ammo and using a knife, then a rock.
76	*** A hallway fight/stairwell chase happens in a hotel as Frank overpowers several cops and Anvil security operatives as he's chasing after Lewis Wilson, a PTSD-afflicted soldier-turned-MadBomber who has taken Karen hostage.
77	** Matt does it again in ''Series/SheHulkAttorneyAtLaw'' when he and She-Hulk end up having to rescue his client from hers. Matt beats up a gang of mooks, but when a second group shows up and starts to rush him, Jennifer suddenly drops in through the ceiling on top of them, knocking them all out at once.
78	* ''Series/StrangersFromHell'': The final fight between Jong-woo and Moon-jo takes place mainly in the studio's hallway.
79	* ''Series/{{Wonder Woman\|1975}}'': In "Judgment from Outer Space", Major Steve Trevor and friends are trapped in a hallway by two groups of Nazi soldiers. Wonder Woman rescues them by overpowering both groups.
80	* The Season 2 finale of ''Series/TheMandalorian'' delivers several of these on board [[BigBad Moff Gideon]]'s cruiser:
81	** First, the AmazonBrigade of Cara Dune, Fennec Shand, Bo-Katan Kryze and Koska Reeves vs. the Stormtroopers, which the women win with relatively little issue.
82	** Then, The Mandalorian vs. a Dark Trooper, which he narrowly wins.
83	** Next, Beskar spear-wielding Mando vs Darksaber-wielding Gideon, which Mando wins due to better fighting experience.
84	** And finally, [[spoiler:Luke Skywalker]] vs. every single Dark Trooper, which [[spoiler:Luke]] wins handily. The similarities with [[spoiler:Darth Vader's fight in ''Film/RogueOne'' [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=keq6Hd-oNz8 have been duly noted]] and are certainly not a coincidence.]]
85	* ''Series/TheWalkingDead'': The final season features a three-on-one fight with Maggie, Elijah, and Negan going up against Brandon Carver, a member of the villainous Reapers. Even though the heroes are all badasses in their own right, Carver is a bloodthirsty Afghanistan war vet who quickly turns the tables on them. Elijah also [[WorfHadTheFlu is suffering from a wounded leg]] despite being perhaps the most vicious of the three heroes present. Negan only wins the fight for the heroes when he distracts Carver with a bell he displays prominently, and then throws sand into his face, giving him the opportunity to finally knock Carver down. Even then, Carver has to be knocked unconscious by Daryl.
86	* ''Series/TheLordOfTheRingsTheRingsOfPower'': Galadriel engages in a fierce fight with the Numenorian guards on the hallway of the prison she and Halbrand are kept in, than locks them in her dungeon.
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90	* ''VideoGame/ANNOMutationem'': At Noctis City, [[ActionGirl Ann]] is ambushed by thugs from the [[TheMafia Factio Pugni]] at the top floor of an apartment building's hallway. She easily takes them down, then chases after the leader through a SuperWindowJump at the end of the hall.
91	* Off-screen example in ''VideoGame/EvilGenius'', in which the greatest triumph of Super Agent [[NoCelebritiesWereHarmed Jet Chan]] was defeating an evil genius who built a long, narrow lair which ran the length of the Great Wall of China. Chan reportedly used the lair's layout to his advantage, forcing the genius' {{mooks}} to fight him one-on-one rather than let them gang up on him.
92	* ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaTwilightPrincess'': The Snowpeak Ruins miniboss room appears on the map as a circle, as with all the other. Once inside, however, it's actually a long corridor (the extra space is used for storing, of all things, cannons)., with the miniboss being a giant armored lizard swinging an EpicFlail. To get past him without getting smashed to bits, Link has to hookshot the ceiling behind the lizard and drop down behind to attack hi unarmored tail.
93	* A frequent occurrence in the ''VideoGame/{{Yakuza}}'' series, usually when Kiryu or his allies are in the process of StormingTheCastle to get to the main villains.
94	* One of the sequences in ''Videogame/AWayOut'' has the game switch to a 2D perspective as one of the protagonists takes a hammer and starts bashing away at a horde of foes as a shout-out to the scene from Oldboy.
95	* Another ShoutOut to ''Film/{{Oldboy\|2003}}'' is ''VideoGame/{{Sifu}}'', where the student fights through a hallway in the slums, being shot in a similar way to the Oldboy scene.
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99	* ''WebVideo/AnimeCrimesDivision'': Season 2 has Joe get in a hallway fight when he visits Prestige TV City, a city dedicated to beloved western shows like ''Breaking Bad'' and ''Game of Thrones'' instead of anime. It's even lampshaded with an original song playing in the background all about how you have to have a hallway fight scene now.
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103	* ''[[WesternAnimation/{{Arcane}} Arcane: League of Legends]]'': In Episode 3, Vi fights Silco's mooks one by one on a catwalk.
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