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| 10 | [[caption-width-right:246:...please tell me you're going to make breakfast with--'''**SPANG**''']] |
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| 12 | ->''"Let me stress that again: ''heavyweight''. A thin-bottomed saucepan is useless for anything. (...) A proper saute pan should cause serious head injury if brought down hard against someone's skull. If you have any doubts about which will dent -- the victim's head or your pan -- then throw that pan right in the trash."'' |
| 13 | -->-- '''Creator/AnthonyBourdain''', ''Series/KitchenConfidential'' |
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| 15 | Pans and skillets are versatile utensils, useful for frying, sautéing, braising and [[BreadEggsMilkSquick bruising]]. [[TruthInTelevision There is actually some truth to this,]] as unlike many other [[ImprobableWeaponUser Improbable Weapons]], a frying pan (particularly if it's made of cast-iron and/or has recently been used) can actually make a decent weapon and can also do quite a bit of damage. Because a good skillet is considerably heavier than most war maces, it would take a considerable amount of arm strength to effectively wield one as a weapon, so one can safely assume that getting hit over the head with a slab of iron weighing five to ten pounds (or more) would cause a concussion at the very least. Indeed, the noble frying pan is a worthy melee weapon. |
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| 17 | Just as it is in any good kitchen, this is an absolute ''staple'' of slapstick comedy. In some cases, it might also be considered the Western counterpart of the HyperspaceMallet. May be found in the arsenal of the ChefOfIron or ApronMatron. |
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| 19 | The frying pan may also be considered or used as an impervious shield, but it would likely need to be made from {{Phlebotinum}} in order to really block most kinetic damage. |
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| 21 | Possibly used for a TapOnTheHead. Sister trope of RollingPinOfDoom. [[JustForFun/IThoughtItMeant Not to be confused]] with WhipPan. |
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| 24 | !!Examples: |
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| 28 | [[folder:Advertising]] |
| 29 | * An advertisement for the mobile device game ''VideoGame/DesignIsland'' shows a little old lady getting increasingly honked off as a giant hand, presumably representing the player, ineptly rearranges her kitchen appliances, wrecking the place and endangering her. [[CameraAbuse She throws a frying pan at the camera.]] |
| 30 | * In 1997, French cookware brand Durandal made an ad featuring Roland, the hero of ''Literature/TheSongOfRoland'', defending himself against a Saracen using... a frying pan, and kicking his ass. The joke being that "Durandal" is almost the same as "Durendal", Roland's CoolSword from the legend. |
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| 33 | [[folder:Animation]] |
| 34 | * ''Animation/BoBoiBoy'': |
| 35 | ** PlayedForLaughs by Gopal in episode 5. He hits both [=BoBoiBoy=] Earth and [=BoBoiBoy=] Wind on the head with frying pans in an attempt to restore their memory, just because [[SawItInAMovieOnce he saw it on TV]]. When he can't recall which channel it was, [[RobotBuddy Ochobot]] suddenly slams his head with a frying pan to get him to remember, and he falls face-flat on the floor, followed by a CranialEruption growing on his head. Even better, he murmurs "TV 4" while dazed, suggesting that it worked. |
| 36 | ** In episode 12, since the other two elementals' upgraded forms were [[PsychoactivePowers unlocked through emotion]], Gopal suggests different feelings for [=BoBoiBoy=] Earth to try out to get his upgrade. One suggestion is pain, to which Earth contests that pain isn't an emotion, but is interrupted mid-sentence by Gopal hitting the back of his head with a frying pan, causing him to fall over with a CranialEruption through his hat. |
| 37 | * ''Animation/HappyHeroes'': In Season 3 episode 12, Arcas's mother hits him with a frying pan twice - once after seeing the trouble he's caused, and again when he forgets to refill their ship's fuel. |
| 38 | * In the ''Animation/MotuPatlu'' episode "Motu Ke Sawaal", Motu decides to constantly ask questions to increase his knowledge. This gets on Patlu's nerves, so much so that Motu just barely dodges a frying pan that Patlu throws at him in his anger. |
| 39 | * In ''Animation/PleasantGoatAndBigBigWolf'', Wolnie's preferred method for punishing Wolffy is to hit him with a frying pan. |
| 40 | [[/folder]] |
| 41 | |
| 42 | [[folder:Anime & Manga]] |
| 43 | * In ''Manga/DeliciousInDungeon'', a RunningGag on the volume covers is the main cast using cooking implements as weapons. On the cover of the first volume, Laios is using a frying pan. |
| 44 | * ''Anime/DoraemonNobitasTreasureIsland'': In the final battle, Marie attempts to fend off some MechaMooks using her frying pan. It works ''surprisingly'' well, but then again she's a ChefOfIron. |
| 45 | -->'''Marie:''' This is what you get for shooting at my restaurant! [whacks a mook and send it flying off-screen] |
| 46 | %%* Chi-Chi from ''Manga/DragonBall''. The extent to which it's used, however, is significantly [[CharacterExaggeration overstated]] by {{Fanon}}. |
| 47 | * Mana from ''Manga/DragonHalf'' frequently uses a frying pan to rein in her [[PervertDad perv of a husband]]. |
| 48 | * Played with in ''Manga/EtCetera'' where Ming-Chao has a wok of doom which can be used as anything from a weapon to a lifeboat to a shield capable of repelling bullets (to some extent). |
| 49 | * Played straight with a twist in ''Manga/FairyTail'', when Natsu battles a mercenary whose weapon of choice is a gigantic, magic frying pan. |
| 50 | * In ''Webcomic/HetaliaAxisPowers'', a frying pan is Hungary's ''other'' weapon of choice, aside from her spear. Especially when around France, and ''maybe'' Prussia. |
| 51 | ** In the anime, China owns a ''[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wok wok]]'' of doom. |
| 52 | * Yuno of ''Manga/HidamariSketch'' hits Miyako repeatedly on the head with a possibly hot frying pan for flipping her fried egg. The sound annoys Sae into coming up and meeting Yuno for the first time. |
| 53 | %%* Rain in ''Manga/ImmortalRain'' attempts this, but doesn't hurt anyone. |
| 54 | * The Creator/JunjiIto short story, "Glyceride", have BigBrotherBully Goro trying to strangle his own sister and drown her in grease when his father - finally having enough of Goro's terrible behaviour - intervenes by whacking Goro behind the head using a frying pan. |
| 55 | * In ''Manga/KaijuGirlCaramelise'', Kuroe Akaishi carries one when confronting what appears to be a Film/{{Mothra}}-esque caterpillar on the street in front of her apartment, out of fear that it means to [[BehemothBattle fight her]] in her {{Kaiju}} form. She ends up dropping the frying pan the moment the caterpillar twitches -- though it turns out the "caterpillar" isn't looking for a fight anyway. |
| 56 | * Tamako in ''Manga/KemekoDeluxe!'' wields a mean frying pan against Kemeko. |
| 57 | * The Frying Pan Of Doom becomes Shinobu's weapon of choice in ''Manga/LoveHina''. Fitting, since she is the resident chef of Hinata House. And yes, in the manga at least, she ends up smacking [[ButtMonkey Keitaro]] with it at least twice. |
| 58 | * A RunningGag in ''Anime/MartianSuccessorNadesico'', started by the chef main character, has various human baddies taken out by a sneak attack with a frying pan. Oddly, [[GunsAreWorthless they seem more effective than the machine guns]]. |
| 59 | * ''Manga/OnePiece'' has an early use of this. Ninjin (Carrot), one of Usopp's child followers in Syrup Village, used this as his makeshift weapon against the Black Cat Pirates. He used it to great effect when he fought TheDragon, using it to deliver a GroinAttack. Poor Jango... |
| 60 | ** In the anime only G8 arc, Navarone's head chef Jessica uses this, but only to reprimand her underlings for not working hard enough. |
| 61 | * ''Manga/RanmaOneHalf'': |
| 62 | ** One of the many blunt objects Akane introduces to Ranma's skull. |
| 63 | ** 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. |
| 64 | * In the ''Anime/RidingBean'' OAV, it takes a frying pan (hot off the stove with eggs still sizzling in it) to awaken [[HeavySleeper Bean Bandit]] from his slumber. Note that he slept through a stun-gun to the neck (or rather, his eyes shot open, then closed again) immediately before this. |
| 65 | * Ataru from ''Anime/UruseiYatsura'' becomes quite proficient with a frying pan. Which he uses both to block Jariten's flame breath and to bat the floating brat into next week (or off some combo of walls floor and ceiling). There's also one PetTheDog moment when Jariten tries to get a mothers day carnation for his mother but winds up being delayed so that she's just left when he gets back. Ataru promptly uses his frying pan to smack him in a trajectory that lands him right on his mother's bike. |
| 66 | %%* Jun from ''Manga/{{Wagnaria}}'' uses one when Souma gets on his nerves. Which is often. |
| 67 | * In the manga ''Manga/{{Worst}}'', [[RedBaron King Joe]] as a freshman perfectly justified his use of a Frying Pan against Tsukamoto Mitsunobu in stating that in a 6 versus 1 (King Joe being by himself), that the Frying Pan was his handicap. |
| 68 | * In ''Anime/YuGiOhArcV'', Shingo Sawatari rescues Crow from a prison guard about to grab him by hitting him in the face with a frying pan from the prison's cafeteria kitchen. However, being [[SmallNameBigEgo Sawatari]], he wastes time posing and bragging while Crow runs away, as the guard gets up and attacks him. |
| 69 | [[/folder]] |
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| 71 | [[folder:Card Games]] |
| 72 | * The ''[[Franchise/TolkiensLegendarium Lord of the Rings]]'' [=TCG=] made a card out of the frying pan used by Sam in the movie. In-game, it could be used to do direct damage to any orcs the wielder was fighting. Because you could give it to any hobbit you wanted (including Frodo, who for a while was a necessity in every deck), it ended up banned because it made orc-based decks much less effective. |
| 73 | * In ''TabletopGame/NinjaBurger'', one of the combat boosting items you can get is the spatula, which is as deadly as the Ninja Burger Official Wakazashi. Also, a training card "Wok the Casbah" shows a ninja dual-wielding iron-cast woks on top of the Casbah. |
| 74 | [[/folder]] |
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| 76 | [[folder:Comedy]] |
| 77 | * [[Creator/SuzyEddieIzzard Eddie Izzard]]: Part of the "Heimlich Gesture", along with being thumped in the stomach and [[GroinAttack kneed in the bollocks.]] |
| 78 | * Creator/DaraOBriain has a comment on frying pans as part of a bit on confronting burglars in the home. |
| 79 | -->Don’t be fooled by the frying pan industry, they don’t go “dong” when you hit someone. There is no setting for “stun” on a frying pan. You're either going to anger the burglar, or you're going to fucking kill them. |
| 80 | [[/folder]] |
| 81 | |
| 82 | [[folder:Comic Books]] |
| 83 | * In the third of book of ''ComicBook/{{Amulet}}'', ''The Cloud Searchers'', Karen Hayes's first response to Gabilan, an armed assassin, telling her to put her hands up where he can see them is to do exactly that by using them to bash him in the head with a frying pan. [[AllForNothing Not that that mattered; he had a metal helmet on]]. |
| 84 | * ''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]]. |
| 85 | * Characters/{{Batman|TheCharacter}} once used a frying pan to beat up a ninja and block another ninja's shuriken. |
| 86 | * 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." |
| 87 | %%* Getting older, Franchise/TheDCU's Ma "Original ComicBook/RedTornado" Hunkel has been known to administer a beatdown with one of these. |
| 88 | * ''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). |
| 89 | * ''ComicBook/SuskeEnWiske'': Tante Sidonia uses frying pans often to defend herself. |
| 90 | * In ''ComicBook/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtlesAdventures'', Master Splinter and April O'Neil fend off Baxter Stockman's robotic rat-catchers: Splinter with his cane and April with her skillet. |
| 91 | * 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. |
| 92 | [[/folder]] |
| 93 | |
| 94 | [[folder:Comic Strips]] |
| 95 | * In ''ComicStrip/FootrotFlats'', Wal once gave his girlfriend Cheeky Hobson [[GiftGivingGaffe a frying pan for her birthday]]. It wound up wrapped around his head. |
| 96 | * ComicStrip/{{Garfield}} [[https://www.gocomics.com/garfield/1982/12/31 did this once]] to a spider... while Jon was [[ThatsGottaHurt about to flick it away]]. |
| 97 | * ''Family Warfare'' (雙響炮), a Taiwanese comic strip popular in the 90s revolving around a skinny HenpeckedHusband and his grossly overweight wife, who would whack her husband around randomly either with a frying pan or a RollingPinOfDoom. |
| 98 | %%* ''ComicStrip/{{Nero}}'': Madam Pheip and Madam Nero's favorite weapon of defense, along with a RollingPinOfDoom. |
| 99 | [[/folder]] |
| 100 | |
| 101 | [[folder:Fan Works]] |
| 102 | %%* In ''Fanfic/CrownsOfTheKingdom'', Cinderella wields one at one point. |
| 103 | * In ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/5664828/18/Harry-Potter-and-Future-s-Past Harry Potter and Future's Past]]'', Winky makes very effective use of cookware to keep Pettigrew subdued while Harry and Hermione are figuring out how best to deal with him. |
| 104 | * In the fanfic [[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/5136823/4/The-Life-of-Harry-Potter-and-Hermione-s-part-in-it The Life of Harry Potter and Hermione's part in it]], Hermione's mother wields one in defense of her daughter. |
| 105 | * In ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/11331407/1/Supreme-Champion Supreme Champion]]'', a frying pan is Narcissa's preferred tool for marital communication. |
| 106 | * In ''Fanfic/KedaborysMuppetMania'', frying pans often pop up as the Swedish Chef's weapon of choice, first used in Episode 1 to subdue Animal and prevent him from mauling Rizzo, and again in Episode 3 after finding out Wayne and Wanda "borrowed" his son for their act without him knowing about it. |
| 107 | * In [[https://archiveofourown.org/works/17317772 this MHA fanfic]], an unknown vigilante wields a wok and successfully takes out the majority of crime in the country. The fic is told from the perspective of [[BigBad All-For-One]] as he attempts to deduce their identity, whilst preventing his successor from becoming their next victim. |
| 108 | * ''Fanfic/NotTheIntendedUseZantetsukenReverse'': From [[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/11960165/7/Not-the-intended-use "Chapter 7: Leon"]], as described by Leon, talking about his past: |
| 109 | --> 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. |
| 110 | * ''Fanfic/OnceUponAStudioVersionTwoPointOh'': In this reimagining of Creator/{{Disney}}'s [[WesternAnimation/OnceUponAStudio centenary short]], Mickey is ''even more'' startled as [[WesternAnimation/TheJungleBook Kaa]] tries to hypnotize Clarabelle. Fortunately, Rapunzel is soon on the case, as she whacks Kaa with her frying pan to snap him out of it. |
| 111 | * ''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]]'': |
| 112 | --> Bon Bon turned to the nearest camerapony, held up her frying pan, and smiled. "The secret is to turn it on edge. You don't want to hit them with the flat; you want to chop like it's a cleaver. Puts 'em down every time." |
| 113 | %%* This is Sonata Dusk's Harmonic weapon in ''Fanfic/TheRainsverse''. |
| 114 | * ''Fanfic/ThisBites'': |
| 115 | ** 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. |
| 116 | ** During the G-8 Arc, Jessica finds out that her husband Jonathan had [[ThisIsUnforgivable not only been throwing out the meals she had made for him, but he had been giving them to his subordinates and lying about it instead.]] A listening [[Advertising/TheManYourManCouldSmellLike Isaiah]] suggests giving him a workover with a "Nine Cast Iron". |
| 117 | * ''Fanfic/VowOfNudity'': |
| 118 | ** Carnerri the Succubus' first scene is threatening Haara with a frying pan when she catches the latter stealing trash from her backyard. |
| 119 | ** Father Pyrestein, a cleric whom Kay’la encounters in the snowy mountains, wields a flaming frying pan as his weapon of choice. |
| 120 | [[/folder]] |
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| 122 | [[folder:Film -- Animated]] |
| 123 | * ''WesternAnimation/BatmanBadBlood'' Kate Kane uses one to defend herself when she is attacked in her bathrobe, and knocks out an attacker with it. |
| 124 | * In ''WesternAnimation/TheEmperorsNewGroove'', Chicha is startled by Llama Kuzco at the kitchen window and she hits him with the pan she was holding. |
| 125 | * ''WesternAnimation/GoWestALuckyLukeAdventure'' has a whole caravan turn into a battlefield of frying pans, wielded by angry housewives who found their husbands sneaking near the dancers carriage. |
| 126 | * ''Franchise/KungFuPanda'': |
| 127 | ** A Super Bowl commercial for ''WesternAnimation/KungFuPanda2'' called "We Will Wok You" shows [[SugarWiki/MomentOfAwesome Po using two woks to beat a bunch of wolf thugs]] with "We Will Rock You" by Music/{{Queen}} playing. Woks are technically giant Chinese frying pans. |
| 128 | ** Averted in ''WesternAnimation/KungFuPanda3'' when the fight with the Jombies ends up in Mr. Ping's kitchen and Po grabs his favourite pan as an ImprovisedWeapon, only for Ping to snatch it off him and hand Po a (far less effective) spoon. Later the trope is played straight when Li Shan and Mr. Ping, fighting in unison, use their woks to save Po from a Jombie-Shifu. |
| 129 | * ''WesternAnimation/TheSonOfBigfoot'': Adam's mom takes out one of the [=HairCo=] guards that is keeping her trapped in her house this way. The other one overpowers her before she can get to him as well. |
| 130 | * ''WesternAnimation/TheSwordInTheStone'': Sir Ector and Kay discover that Merlin has enchanted the kitchen to wash the dishes automatically, and start smashing them up with their swords to stop it. Ector shoves a row of dishes backwards, they come roaring back at him, he swings his sword overhand, hitting the frying pan at the front of the line so hard his blade ''shatters''. |
| 131 | * Subverted in ''WesternAnimation/TheSuperMarioBrosMovie''; Toad looks like he's about to bludgeon some Toad guards with his pan when they don't allow Mario into Peach's castle, but he [[DeliciousDistraction cooks food with the pan instead as a distraction for the guards]]. |
| 132 | * {{Exaggerated|Trope}} in ''WesternAnimation/{{Tangled}}''. While Rapunzel (the lead character) isn't the first Disney Princess to use a weapon, she's the first to use a cooking implement as one (specifically a cast-iron skillet); AlwaysFemale is averted when Flynn starts to use it as well, to fight off some guards. Then Maximus, the ''horse'', uses it as well... and in the end it even [[spoiler: becomes the entire Royal Guard's weapon-of-choice]]. |
| 133 | -->'''Flynn:''' Oh Mama, [[ShoutOut I've got]] to [[Film/IndependenceDay get me one of]] ''[[LethalJokeWeapon these!]]'' |
| 134 | * ''WesternAnimation/{{Trolls}}'': |
| 135 | ** Downplayed when Branch throws one at a giant (relative to a Troll) spider and hits it in the head, but the spider is only briefly confused and charges him. |
| 136 | ** Subverted with Bridget, who attempts to smash Branch with a frying pan before Poppy interrupts her. |
| 137 | [[/folder]] |
| 138 | |
| 139 | [[folder:Film -- Live-Action]] |
| 140 | * ''Film/TheABCsOfDeath'': In the first short, a hysterical woman attacks her bedridden husband with this. [[spoiler:She had meant for him to die from poisoning long before then but has run out of time. The title is then revealed to be "A is for Apocalypse", implying that this is a MercyKill.]] |
| 141 | * ''Film/AntManAndTheWasp'': During the fight against Sonny Burch's goons in the restaurant's kitchen, one of them tries to hit the Wasp with a frying pan, but she grabs his arm and knocks out another goon with it. |
| 142 | * ''Film/AustinPowers'': Austin Powers whacks Mini-Me on the head with one during their fight in ''Goldmember''. |
| 143 | * ''Film/CarryOnBehind'': Vera Bragg hits Bob with a one for coming on to her, then she and Sylvia Ramsden repeatedly pound their husbands, Fred and Ernie, with them after they find them sitting with in their caravan with Carol, Sandra, Sally and Maureen. |
| 144 | * ''Film/TheCherokeeKid'': Abby knocks out Isaiah and Cortina with a frying pan and ties them up so she can turn them in for a reward. |
| 145 | * In one of the more graphic scenes in ''Film/{{Chocolat}}'', a drunken Serge breaks into Vianne's flat to try and get his wife Josephine back. He ends up assaulting Vianne until Josephine sneaks up behind them and bangs the frying pan on Serge's head. |
| 146 | -->'''Josephine:''' Who says I can't use a skillet? |
| 147 | * Invoked but not actually used in ''Film/CoronerCreek''. Chris gets Frank Yordy to spill the beans by threatening him with a skillet full of hot grease. |
| 148 | * In ''Film/DogSoldiers'', one of the men beats a werewolf near to death with a skillet while screaming bloody murder. Unfortunately, another one comes and knocks it out of his hand. |
| 149 | %%* The primary weapon used in ''Film/EatingRaoul''. Bong! |
| 150 | * ''Film/EdWood'': After Ed has given the leading actress role to Loretta King for his next movie ''Film/BrideOfTheMonster'', Dolores throws dishes and glasses at him. She even throws a frying pan at Ed's head [[DisproportionateRetribution for giving her the file clerk role.]] |
| 151 | * In ''Film/EvilBreedTheLegendOfSamhain'', Shae uses a skillet she finds in the [[CannibalLarder cannibal's kitchen]] to beat the Shape to death. |
| 152 | * The initial fight scenes of ''Film/TheExpendables2'' has Yin Yang going all frying pans ''akimbo'' on incoming mooks after he ran out of bullets. |
| 153 | %%* In ''Film/FatalInstinct'', Laura Lincolnberry uses one to give her ex-husband a TapOnTheHead. |
| 154 | * Creator/JohnnyDepp's cameo in ''Film/FreddysDeadTheFinalNightmare'' involves him being whacked in the face with the frying pan during a "This Is Your Brain On Drugs" commercial. |
| 155 | * ''Film/FreebieAndTheBean'': During a KitchenChase, Bean knocks a shooter back by hitting him with a pot. |
| 156 | * In ''Film/FreshMeat'', Heri kills Johnny by beating his skull in with a [[BrickJoke crock pot]]. |
| 157 | * ''Film/TheFunhouseMassacre'': When Morgan decides to arm himself against [[SerialKiller Jeffrey "Animal The Cannibal" Rameses]], he grabs a frying pan and uses that. |
| 158 | * ''Film/GoWestYoungLady'': Bill uses a frying pan to knock out several bandits during the final battle. She then accidentally knocks [[TheHero Tex]] out with it while gesturing. |
| 159 | * In one scene in ''Film/TheGreatDictator'', two {{Mooks}} and the Tramp get knocked out with a frying pan. |
| 160 | * Martin Blank in ''Film/GrossePointeBlank'' uses a frying pan to deliver a CoupDeGrace on a {{mook|s}} in his girlfriend's kitchen. |
| 161 | * [[PlayedForLaughs Hilariously averted]] in ''Film/{{Hancock}}'' when the titular hero attempts to prove a point. When trying to get answers from [[spoiler: invincible counterpart Mary]] he manages to bend a barbecue fork in her back, shatter a rolling pin over her head and finally attempts to smash two frying pans on her head. She manages to stop him in time, though it is unlikely the frying pans would have had any physical effect, aside from CrossPoppingVeins. |
| 162 | * In the musical ''Film/TheHarveyGirls'', during a riot the waitresses of the title come charging out armed with pans, pots, and rolling pins. |
| 163 | * ''Film/TheHillsHaveEyes2006'': When Lynn returns to the trailer hand finds Lizard threatening her baby, she grabs a frying pan out of the sink and hits him with it. |
| 164 | * In ''Film/TheHobbit'', Bombur uses a soup ladle as a weapon. |
| 165 | * ''Film/HobokenHollow'': When Trevor tries to force his way out of the Broderick kitchen, Lisa knocks him out with a frying pan. |
| 166 | * In ''Film/HocusPocus'', Allison first grabs a broom to hit Mary Sanderson with, and then grabs a frying pan to knock Sanderson out. |
| 167 | * In ''Film/JuliaX'', Julia knocks The Stranger out in the kitchen by hitting him on the head with a frying pan. |
| 168 | * ''Film/JuOn'': In the second VHS movie, Yoshimi Kitada kills her husband by walloping him with a frying pan. The scene is recreated in the [[Film/TheGrudge second American movie]], though this time, the wife pours scalding hot oil on his head before hitting him with the pan. |
| 169 | * ''Film/KeepingMum'': Grace threatens Mrs Parker with a frying pan, causing her to die of shock. |
| 170 | * ''Film/KillBill Volume 1'' has The Bride using a skillet as a parrying weapon against Vernita's knife at one point during their fight. |
| 171 | * ''Film/LittleMan'': Darryl tries to play a game of peekaboo with "baby" Calvin. Eventually, Calvin gets tired of it and whacks Darryl on the head with a frying pan, knocking him out. He then drags Darryl's unconscious body to the den and places him on the couch to make it look like he was sleeping there. Vanessa then walks in and awakens Darryl and berates him for "sleeping while watching Calvin", leaving poor Darryl completely baffled. |
| 172 | * In the Film/JamesBond film ''Film/TheLivingDaylights'' there's a NoHoldsBarredBeatdown in a kitchen between [[TheDragon Necros]] and an [=MI6=] BattleButler. A saucepan full of boiling water is thrown but the target ducks out of the way, and the fight is finally ended by Necros knocking out the butler with a straight example of the trope. |
| 173 | * In the movie adaptation of ''Film/TheLordOfTheRingsTheFellowshipOfTheRing'', Sam takes down a few goblins in Moria with his trusty frying pan. |
| 174 | -->'''Sam:''' I think I'm getting the hang of this... |
| 175 | * In ''Film/MadMaxBeyondThunderdome'', Scrooloose, one of Max's young "followers", wields a metal frying pan during the final chase scene... and gives the driver (a follower of Ironbar) swat to the chops. ''TWICE''. |
| 176 | * ''Film/MaryPoppins'' The cook, Mrs. Brill, attempts to use a frying pan to fend off the chimney sweeps when they hide in the Banks household. |
| 177 | %%* One of the killers is beat to near-death with one in ''Film/MotorHomeMassacre''. |
| 178 | * In “Film/MouseHunt”, the brothers try to kill the mouse with one of these. Unfortunately, they miss. |
| 179 | * ''Film/TheOutlawsIsComing'': During the final chase, Ken and the Stooges are in a chuck wagon being pursued by an [[WeaponizedCar armoured stagecoach]] with a [[GatlingGood Gatling gun]]. The Stooges are reduced to throwing pots and pans at their pursuers. |
| 180 | * In ''Film/RaidersOfTheLostArk'', during the battle in the streets of Cairo, Marion takes out an assailant with a handy frying pan. It's such a memorable moment that the Marion action figure in the new line comes with a frying pan. The stunt show at Disney's Hollywood Studios features this as well, with Marion using a frying pan on the roof of a building to knock back a {{mook|s}} on a ladder, though her backswing hits Indy as well. |
| 181 | * In ''Film/TheScorpionKing'', a little boy knocks out a mook by clocking him in the head with a frying pan. |
| 182 | * In ''Film/SherlockHolmes2009'', Dr. Watson bashes a thug over the head with the chemical laboratory equivalent of a frying pan. |
| 183 | * In ''Film/{{Spy}}'', a fight in a kitchen [[ImprovisedWeapon predictably]] involves one. It's one of the more effective objects used. Others include a dishcloth and (yes, plural) ''baguettes''. |
| 184 | * In ''Film/{{Sunset|1988}}'', Cheryl hits Captain Blackworth in the face with a frying pan in the kitchen of the Kit Kat Club, breaking his nose and blackening his eyes. |
| 185 | * ''Film/SweeneyToddTheDemonBarberOfFleetStreet'': Todd gives a NoHoldsBarredBeatdown to Pirelli with an iron tea kettle, then [[SlashedThroat finishes him]] with one of his razors. |
| 186 | * Hilariously used in ''Film/ThrowMommaFromTheTrain'' between Creator/DannyDeVito and Creator/BillyCrystal. |
| 187 | -->'''Momma:''' Who the hell is this?\ |
| 188 | '''Owen:''' Oh, this is Cousin Paddy. He's coming to stay with us a while. Isn't that nice?\ |
| 189 | '''Momma:''' [suspiciously] We don't ''have'' a "Cousin Paddy".\ |
| 190 | '''Owen:''' [to Larry] You lied to me!\ |
| 191 | '''[Wham!]''' |
| 192 | * In the movie ''Film/{{Thursday}}'', the protagonist gets bound to a chair in his own kitchen. He manages to free himself while alone in the room, grabs a frying pan, and sits back down in the chair with it held behind his back as the villain who was going to torture him returns. And proceeds to berate himself for not grabbing the hidden gun nearby instead. |
| 193 | * ''Film/{{UHF}}'': "Hey, Bobbo, look up! Now look down! Now look at Mister Frying Pan!" '''''clang''''' "Uh-oh! Bobbo fall down; go boom." In the special features commentary, Al describes that he accidentally hit the actor portraying Bobbo VERY hard with the skillet. The pain and utter aggravation he exhibits is a [[EnforcedMethodActing real reaction]]. |
| 194 | * In ''Film/TheUmbrellaCoup'', Josyane mistakes Moskovitz for Grégoire and whips him one with a huge pan when he enters the apartment. |
| 195 | * ''Film/VetHard:'' Played different than usual, as Bennie knocks someone out by ''throwing'' the frying pan at his head ([[https://youtu.be/RUgBZt-3PUM?t=55 as seen here]]), instead of the usual holding the pan in your hands to hit someone. Also [[JustifiedTrope justified]] that he uses this as a weapon since the scene takes place in the kitchen of the snack bar he owns. |
| 196 | * Invoked in ''Film/{{Vicki}}''. When Steve arrives at the apartment to pick up Vicki, Jill opens the door with a frying pan in her hand (she had been making breakfast when he knocked). Steve looks nervously at the pan and assures her she won't need it. Jill's expression indicates that she is not convinced. |
| 197 | * ''Film/WhiteSpace:'' The ship's cook has two convictions for assault, using her frying pan as a weapon. |
| 198 | * ''Film/WhoFramedRogerRabbit'': |
| 199 | ** At one point, Jessica knocks Roger cold with a frying pan... but only because [[PercussivePrevention she didn't want him to get hurt.]] Bonus points for her putting it [[BagOfHolding inside her tiny handbag afterwards.]] |
| 200 | ** Earlier in the opening cartoon “Somethin’s Cookin” Roger is once again knocked out by metal cookware. After dislodging a shelf over piled with pots and pans, Roger gets clunked on his tea kettle head by the metal utensils, rendering him unconscious. This is short-lived, however, as a bottle of BlazingInfernoHellFireSauce falls down onto the spout of the kettle [[HotSauceDrinking pouring its fiery contents directly into Rogers’s mouth]], setting his head on fire. |
| 201 | * ''Film/WitchHunt'': 38 minutes in, Tyrone holds up one to threaten Lovecraft. Lovecraft distracts Tyrone and pushes it into his face, knocking him out. |
| 202 | * ''Film/{{Wonka}}'': After Wonka releases Lofty from the jar, Lofty asks Wonka to pass him the frying pan hanging on the wall behind him. Wonka does so, and Lofty immedately hits him in the head with it and runs off with Wonka's chocolates. |
| 203 | %%* In ''Film/XMenDaysOfFuturePast'', Wolverine does this [[spoiler:while breaking Magneto out of prison]]. |
| 204 | [[/folder]] |
| 205 | |
| 206 | [[folder:Literature]] |
| 207 | * Creator/JenniferCrusie and Bob Mayer's joint story ''Agnes and the Hitman'' features a heroine who has a notorious habit of hitting men (particularly cheating boyfriends) over the head with frying pans. It is hilariously alluded to throughout the book from the first chapter - when she accidentally kills a dognapper by hitting him repeatedly with a frying pan, sending him hurtling backwards into a hidden basement - onwards. She even notes the differences in damage between frying pans ("It was nonstick, not cast iron, so he shouldn't even need a plate in his head!") |
| 208 | * In the fourth book in ''Literature/TheBadGuys'', Granny Gumbo needs to extract venom from Mr. Snake; to do so, she knocks him out with a frying pan. She isn't licensed to do that, if her words are any indication. |
| 209 | * In Anne Bishop's ''Literature/BlackJewels'' series, a woman throws a pot at her employer during her "moontime." He then takes several of her cooking implements outside to throw around. She thinks that the ProudWarriorRaceGuy is just taking out his anger on things other than her. Turns out he's trying to figure out which of them would make the best weapon for her, then trains her to be literally lethal with a frying pan. As a result of that training, the rather gentle, caring, and sweet female character declares that she can ''break bone nine times out of ten'' when she throws a skillet at someone. |
| 210 | * Dean, Garrett's live-in housekeeper and cook, whacks the spy Lurking Felhske on the noggin with a skillet in ''[[Literature/GarrettPI Cruel Zinc Melodies]]''. |
| 211 | * Tika's most prominent scene in the ''[[Literature/{{Dragonlance}} Dragonlance Chronicles]]'' has her bashing a draconian in the head with a cast-iron skillet. The skillet was listed in her equipment (1d8 damage) in a version of the campaign modules on which the novels were based. In the 15th anniversary edition of the trilogy (The Annotated Chronicles), Tracy Hickman notes that Tika had a special weapon specialization, known as "Skillet Bashing", which gave several benefits when wielding a skillet. |
| 212 | ** In 1st edition ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons'' rules, this makes Tika's skillet as deadly as a longsword or a heavy mace. |
| 213 | * In ''Literature/EvidenceOfThingsNotSeen'', Dwight's mom uses one to try to defend herself against her abusive husband, but it only briefly stuns him before he beats her even more violently. |
| 214 | * An early victim in ''[[Franchise/FridayThe13th Friday the 13th: Carnival Of Maniacs]]'' tries to fight Jason off with a big iron skillet, to no avail. |
| 215 | * In ''Literature/FriedGreenTomatoesAtTheWhistleStopCafe'', Frank Bennet is killed by getting a good, hard smack on the back of his skull with a heavy, iron skillet. [[spoiler: It was wielded by [[NeverMessWithGranny Sipsy]].]] |
| 216 | * ''Literature/HarryPotter'': |
| 217 | ** Aunt Petunia attempts to hit Harry with a frying pan in ''Literature/HarryPotterAndTheChamberOfSecrets'', but he dodges it. |
| 218 | ** The house elves use them against the Death Eaters along with other cooking implements in ''Literature/HarryPotterAndTheDeathlyHallows''. |
| 219 | ** In the seventh ''Harry Potter'' book, Kreacher gives Mundungus a much-deserved bang on the head with a copper saucepan. |
| 220 | * In the Star Wars EU novels ''Literature/TheLandoCalrissianAdventures'', Lando winds up in jail at one point, and his droid is impounded as evidence, resulting in this exchange when they're released: |
| 221 | -->"Master, did you know that the most common murder weapon here is a frying pan?"\ |
| 222 | "Blunt trauma or just bad cooking?" |
| 223 | * John Irving's "Last Night in Twisted River" has a few of these: The cook, Dominic, is rumored to once have hit a bear with his 18-inch cast-iron skillet to get it out of his kitchen ([[spoiler:in reality, he had hit his friend Ketchum with it when he found out Ketchum had been sleeping with his wife]]). His son Daniel later uses the skillet as a weapon against what he believes to be a bear mauling his father, [[spoiler:killing his babysitter in the process]]. |
| 224 | * One of several improvised weapons used in an effort to disable the crazed maitre d' in Creator/StephenKing's short story "Lunch at the Gotham Cafe" (found in the collection ''Literature/EverythingsEventual''). |
| 225 | * In Dan Wells's ''Literature/MrMonster'' John Cleaver knocks out [[spoiler:Agent Foreman]] with a frying pan. In this case, there is no levity in the use of a frying pan. |
| 226 | * In ''Literature/NativeSon'', Bigger kills a rat in his apartment with a heavy iron skillet. |
| 227 | * In the ''Literature/PhryneFisher'' novel ''Queen of the Flowers'', non-action girl Ruth knocks out an intruder in the Fisher household with a long-handled frying pan. |
| 228 | * In ''Literature/ThePinballs'', Carlie's backstory involves a violent stepfather who all but killed her with his bare hands; Carlie retaliated with a frying pan before she passed out. What isn't outright mentioned, however, is that while Carlie's intention was just to get even, her action may have actually saved her life, as her stepfather would in all likelihood have continued to beat her even after she lost consciousness, potentially to the point of killing her, if he hadn't been incapacitated. |
| 229 | %%* Jemimah uses one against El Feo in ''[[Literature/BloodyJack Rapture Of The Deep]]''. |
| 230 | * In the ''Literature/{{Relativity}}'' story "My Big Fat Superhero Wedding", mobsters crash a wedding reception. Sara sneaks away to unwrap the gift she bought for the couple - a large frying pan. |
| 231 | * The opening chapter of ''Literature/RemoteMan'' has Janet smashing a TV with a frying pan, the first indication we get of her nervous breakdown. |
| 232 | %%* An example from ''Literature/{{TKKG}}'', the popular series of kids novels in German-speaking countries: Gaby uses it on one of her kidnappers. |
| 233 | * Short story "Utensile Strength" by Creator/PatriciaCWrede, part of her ''Literature/EnchantedForestChronicles'', centered around what to do with "The Frying Pan of Doom". [[spoiler:It's not just a large blunt object -- when wielded by the right person, it turns anyone whacked on the head with it into a poached egg.]] The pan is usually so hot that whoever holds it must wear an oven mitt; only its Rightful Wielder can hold it bare-handed. |
| 234 | * ''Literature/TheWanderingInn'' features a main character who uses frying pans to fight monsters. It’s justified in that 1) she has a unique skill that gives her the ability to fight with improvised weapons rather than with swords or magic and 2) Liscor ''doesn't'' do light-weight aluminum-based, non-stick anything; heavy-duty, properly seasoned copper or iron pots and pans = ouch... and double-dead ouch if you happen to intrude on deep fat frying experiment day. |
| 235 | * In the ''Literature/{{Discworld}}'' book ''Literature/TheWeeFreeMen'', Tiffany uses a cast-iron skillet as a weapon on her journey with the Feegles to Fairy Land (justified, because [[TheFairFolk elves and other creatures of Fairy Land]] can't stand ColdIron). |
| 236 | [[/folder]] |
| 237 | |
| 238 | [[folder:Live-Action TV]] |
| 239 | * ''Series/TheAdventuresOfLanoAndWoodley'': Lano and Woodley, interviewed by Andrew Denton, explained how a very lightweight frying pan or baking tin can be used this way for comic effect. It makes a funny clanging noise, and the actor's reaction sells it as a hard hit. Of course, the demonstration goes awry, and the resulting impact is a little harder than either comedian expected, turning this into another example of TruthInTelevision. |
| 240 | * ''Series/{{Annika}}'': In [=S2E1=], DS Tyrone Clarke chases a suspect into a hotel kitchen. While the two of them are wrestling on the kitchen floor, the hotel chef clouts the suspect over the back of the head with a frying pan, knocking him out. |
| 241 | * In ''Series/{{Atlantis}}'' when one of the heroes fails at the IKnowYoureInThereSomewhereFight to break a kidnapee's brainwashing, another of the heroes resorts to using a large pan for a TapOnTheHead instead. |
| 242 | * ''Series/TheAvengers1960s''. While fighting in a railway dining car, a helpful crewmember called Crewe throws a sheet over a {{mook|s}}'s head, then offers Emma Peel a frying pan. |
| 243 | -->'''Crewe:''' Ladies first.\ |
| 244 | '''Peel:''' Be my guest! ''(Crewe knocks out mook)'' |
| 245 | * Booth uses one because it happens to be within reach when chasing a suspect through a restaurant kitchen in ''{{Series/Bones}}''. |
| 246 | * ''Series/BostonLegal''-- Bernard Ferrion killed his mother by hitting her in the head with a skillet, and later killed his neighbor the same way when he thought she was had found out about the first murder. It then showed up ''again'' when Bernard himself was killed the same way by Creator/BettyWhite after he said that he wanted to kill again. |
| 247 | * ''Series/{{Bottom}}'': In "Gas", Eddie repeatedly hits the gasman over the head with a frying pan, to stop him discovering them stealing gas from next door. |
| 248 | --> '''Richie:''' Eddie! You've killed him! |
| 249 | --> '''Eddie:''' ([[DramaticDrop drops the frying pan]]) I never touched him. |
| 250 | --> '''Richie:''' No, but the frying pan did, and you were touching that. |
| 251 | * ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'': |
| 252 | ** Anya takes out at least one of the Knights of Byzantium with a frying pan in "[[Recap/BuffyTheVampireSlayerS5E20Spiral Spiral]]". A much more serious example -- in his [[spoiler:fake]] vision of their future together, Xander hits Anya in the head with a skillet after she chews him out for being such a terrible husband. |
| 253 | ** And Buffy takes out [[Recap/BuffyTheVampireSlayerS2E11Ted Ted]] with the same cast-iron skillet he made those damn mini-pizzas with! |
| 254 | ** In "[[Recap/BuffyTheVampireSlayerS4E12ANewMan A New Man]]", Xander is woken up by a demon whom he drives off in a hail of cookware; he later advises Buffy to look for a demon with a saucepan-shaped dent on its head. |
| 255 | ** Not played for comedy in the Season 6 episode "[[Recap/BuffyTheVampireSlayerS6E17NormalAgain Normal Again]]" when a deranged Buffy hits Xander with one, then drags him to the basement to be killed by the MonsterOfTheWeek. |
| 256 | * ''Series/ElChavoDelOcho'': La Chilindrina decides to go fetch a frying pan from the kitchen "just in case", and uses it to fight off the "ghost" lurking around the vecindad (actually Mr. Barriga [[BedsheetGhost disguised as a ghost]] trying to scare El Chavo). |
| 257 | * Ellie Bartowski manages to knock out John Casey with two blows of a frying pan in one episode of ''Series/{{Chuck}}''. Later on, she also uses a frying pan on Daniel Shaw. |
| 258 | * ''Series/CinderellaChef'': Ding Qi beats a man up with a frying pan. |
| 259 | * In an episode of ''Series/LeCoeurASesRaisons'', Criquette knocks her fiancé Brett out with a frying pan to avoid telling him about her pregnancy. |
| 260 | * ''Series/ComeBackMrsNoah''. Mrs. Noah is trying to cook something up for the people trapped on the space station, but gets annoyed by Cunliffe making one too many lewd comments about how she's the only woman on board, and knocks him off his seat with the frying pan. |
| 261 | * ''Series/{{Community}}'' - Troy narrates a spooky story where mad doctor Pierce has sewn him and Abed together. After their initial horror, they realize they have a new psychic bond - they knock Pierce out with a telekinetically hurled skillet. Then they levitate a big kitchen knife...and cut a sandwich on the counter in two and levitate it over to eat. |
| 262 | * ''Series/{{Copper}}'': In "Home Sweet Home", LittleMissBadass Annie knocks out the seemingly MadeOfIron psycho Buzzie Burke with a frying pan while he is holding Kevin at gunpoint. |
| 263 | * ''Series/{{Dexter}}''. Dexter uses one to knock Rita's ex-husband unconscious after he makes one threat too many. Dexter then [[spoiler: stages Paul passed out having a relapse, getting him thrown back into prison]]. |
| 264 | * ''Series/DoctorWho'': |
| 265 | ** In "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS32E12ClosingTime Closing Time]]", the Doctor uses a saucepan in an attempt to batter the Cybermat off of Craig, but winds up hitting Craig instead. |
| 266 | ** In "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS39E2FluxChapterTwoWarOfTheSontarans War of the Sontarans]]", Dan's parents work out that a Sontaran can be taken down by hitting their probic vent with a blunt object, so turn up to save their son with cookware. They lend him a wok when he infiltrates the Sontaran base, which he uses for a BondOneLiner after knocking out a guard. |
| 267 | --->'''Dan:''' How do you like that, eh? Pan-fried Sontaran. Now, I'm going to 'wok' right out of here. ''([[TemptingFate runs into an entire squad of Sontarans]])'' |
| 268 | * On the second season premiere of ''Series/TheDukesOfHazzard'', Daisy chased after Bo and Luke with a frying pan after finding out they destroyed her car. |
| 269 | * A non-comic example occurred in ''Series/EastEnders'' with the death of popular, long-running character Pauline Fowler. After several months of leading viewers on a wild goose chase as to who her killer was, it emerged that she died from a brain hemorrhage after being hit on the head with a frying pan by husband Joe. Which is a ContinuityNod to a 1993 storyline where Pauline discovered her then-husband Arthur had been having an affair. The ensuing argument saw Pauline whack Arthur with a frying pan; unlike Joe's attack on Pauline, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VyaeQe8DJVw this was shown on-screen (3'53" in)]]. |
| 270 | * An episode of ''Series/{{Emergency}}'' had the paramedics sent repeatedly to a couple who are hurting each other during huge arguments. Only minor the first couple of times, the final time the unconscious husband has to be taken to a hospital after his wife hits him with a frying pan to the head. |
| 271 | * In ''Series/FaerieTaleTheatre'''s take on "The Three Little Pigs," this is how Tina Pig helps defeat Buck Wolf when he slides down the chimney of Larry Pig's brick house. |
| 272 | * ''Series/FatherBrown'': In "The Penitent Man", the VictimOfTheWeek is bludgeoned to death by his wife with a frying pan. |
| 273 | * In an episode of ''Series/FawltyTowers'', Basil Fawlty brains Manuel with a frying pan after mistaking him for a burglar. According to Website/TheOtherWiki, Creator/JohnCleese used a real metal frying pan instead of a rubber one and actually knocked Andrew Sachs (Manuel) unconscious. And according to the documentary, the sound you hear when Basil hits Manuel on the head with a frying pan is him ''actually'' hitting Manuel. Not a good sound and shows how this trope actually ''can'' be TruthInTelevision. |
| 274 | * ''Series/{{Friends}}'': |
| 275 | ** When Chandler and Joey prepare for the arrival of Joey's StalkerWithACrush, Joey grabs a heavy frying pan. Chandler balks at this, suggesting a back-up plan "in case she isn't a cartoon!" |
| 276 | ** Another time, Monica and Phoebe are screaming because of leg-waxing strips. Joey and Chandler run in holding a pot and a tea kettle respectively. |
| 277 | * ''Series/GameOfThrones'': Hobb, Castle Black's cook, kills a few wildlings by flinging boiling stew and then pummeling them with his cooking pot. |
| 278 | * In ''Series/TheHauntingHour'' episode "The Return of Lilly D", Lilly D (an evil doll) tries to attack Natalie with a knife, but Natalie knocks it out of her hand with a frying pan, then uses the pan to knock Lilly D's head off. |
| 279 | * In the ''Series/HereComeTheBrides'' episode "The Legend of Bigfoot," the women sleep with frying pans under their pillows so they can defend themselves against Bigfoot if necessary. Captain Clancey runs into the dormitory at the wrong moment and gets beaten up. |
| 280 | * On ''Series/{{Justified}}'', Ava uses her mother's cast-iron pan to beat down a member of Boyd's gang and assert her authority over everyone in Boyd's absence. |
| 281 | * In one episode ''Series/KenanAndKel'', Kel used one to take down a thug. [[SelfOffense And Kenan. And Kenan's parents. And a police officer.]] |
| 282 | * ''Series/{{Leverage}}'': In "The French Connection Job", Elliot is posing as a chef and uses a frying pan to casually knock out a thug who comes to try and drag him out of the kitchen. |
| 283 | * Subverted in ''Series/LieToMe'': When attacked in her kitchen, Gillian grabs a frying pan and hits one of the attackers with it -- only for it to make a little "ding" sound and the mook to tackle her to the ground. |
| 284 | * ''Series/LostInSpace''. Judy Robinson wields one in "Welcome Stranger", knocking Jimmy Hapgood out during his fight with Don. As a CallBack in the season two episode "A Visit To Hades", she tries this again with a pipe, only this time she hits Don instead of the guy he's scuffling with. |
| 285 | * In the ''Series/{{MADtv|1995}}'' skit "I'm Sorry Mrs. Jackson," parodying a song by Music/{{Outkast}}, Mrs. Jackson is seen wielding one in response to the Reverend Jesse Jackson's cheating on her. |
| 286 | * ''Series/MidsomerMurders'': |
| 287 | ** In "[[Recap/MidsomerMurdersS7E4 Sins of Commission]]", an intruder in the hall is knocked out by the housekeeper wielding a frying pan. |
| 288 | ** In "[[Recap/MidsomerMurdersS9E8 Last Year's Model]]", the VictimOfTheWeek is murdered by being bludgeoned to death with a heavy saucepan. |
| 289 | * ''Series/MurderSheWrote'': The VictimOfTheWeek is killed by a blow to the head with a skillet in "The Sins of Castle Cove". |
| 290 | * Lampshaded in an episode of ''Series/{{NCIS}}''. At Gibbs' place (doubling as a safe house for a young crime witness), Abby helps Ziva to subdue an intruder. |
| 291 | -->'''Abby:''' It's a frying pan. It's a little cliché.\ |
| 292 | '''Ziva:''' Works for me. |
| 293 | * ''Radio/OurMissBrooks'': In "Angela's Wedding", Mrs. Davis uses a frying pan to great effect on the noggin of a gym teacher who [[BerserkButton insults her deviled eggs.]] |
| 294 | * In ''Series/PeakyBlinders'', Tommy mentions an incident from his HilariouslyAbusiveChildhood where his mother sent him to buy some basic groceries and he blew the money on a top-hat and a coconut instead. Presumably he thought she'd be pleased, but instead she smacked him furiously with a frying pan. |
| 295 | * ''Series/PerryMason'': In the episode ''"The Case of the Bogus Buccaneer"'', a pregnant wife of a murder suspect is threatened by a man, claiming her husband owes him a lot of money. Della Street comes to her rescue by knocking him out with a handy skillet! |
| 296 | * A GenderInvertedTrope in ''Series/PersonOfInterest''. Root is guarding the VictimOfTheWeek in his apartment when a Vigilance hit team attacks. Instead of hitting them with the pan, she uses it to cook up some field-improvised tear gas. Later John Reese gets hold of the pan and uses it in the traditional way to knock out the Vigilance mooks. |
| 297 | * In "[[Recap/ResidentAlienS1E10HeroesOfPatience Heroes of Patience]]," the first season finale of ''Series/ResidentAlien'', the government agents David Logan and Lisa Casper break into the Hawthorne home to grill the boy Max Hawthorne for information about the alien. They are chased out of the home by Max's parents, Ben and Kate, in an epic beatdown, using whatever household objects they can get their hands on. Kate's main weapon of choice is a large frying pan. |
| 298 | %%* Frequently used by Reeves and Mortimer, especially in ''Series/ShootingStars''. |
| 299 | * In an early episode of ''Series/SixFeetUnder'', the opening "Death of the Week" segment involves a woman killing her boring MotorMouth husband with a single blow of a frying pan. |
| 300 | * In the ''Series/StarskyAndHutch'' episode "Satan's Witches," Hutch uses a frying pan to knock out several [[HollywoodSatanism Satanists]]. |
| 301 | * During the AllJustADream sequence in the ''Series/StarTrekVoyager'' episode "Projections", Neelix brained a Kazon warrior with his favorite saucepan (unfortunately, it was not hardy enough to survive without denting). |
| 302 | * ''Series/{{Timeless}}'': Emma uses one on one of Flynn's goons on the ''Hindenburg''. |
| 303 | * In the ''Series/XenaWarriorPrincess'' episode "A Day In The Life", Xena fends off an attack by some bad guys with a frying pan. She even throws it like a chakram to take out a few goons. Gabrielle later laments Xena for destroying the only thing they had to cook their food. |
| 304 | * ''Series/TheXFiles''. In one episode the MonsterOfTheWeek is an [[{{Intangibility}} Intangible Man]]. He breaks into the house of his ex, who swings a glass frying pan at him. The boiling contents pass right through his body, but fortunately, glass is the one thing that doesn't, so he gets knocked out long enough for her to flee. |
| 305 | * On the ''Series/YouCantDoThatOnTelevision'' episode about bullying, Barth hits Zilch on the head with a frying pan several times. |
| 306 | [[/folder]] |
| 307 | |
| 308 | [[folder:Music]] |
| 309 | * Music/TheyMightBeGiants, with ''Particle Man'': "Person Man, Person Man, Hit on the head with a frying pan..." |
| 310 | * Music/JustinTimberlake's love interest in his video for ''TKO'' knocks him out with a frying pan. |
| 311 | [[/folder]] |
| 312 | |
| 313 | [[folder:Pinballs]] |
| 314 | * The Bride of Frankenstein uses this against her mate in ''Pinball/MonsterBash''. |
| 315 | [[/folder]] |
| 316 | |
| 317 | [[folder:Podcast]] |
| 318 | * In ''Podcast/ThePenumbraPodcast'', Mary-Ann wields a frying pan during ''The Coyote of the Painted Plain'', [[spoiler: using it to knock out her fiancée Beau]]. |
| 319 | [[/folder]] |
| 320 | |
| 321 | [[folder:Pro Wrestling]] |
| 322 | * During the Texas Death Match between [[Wrestling/MickFoley Cactus Jack]] and [[Wrestling/JimFullington the Sandman]] at ''Wrestling/{{ECW}} Double Tables'', February 4, 1995, Jack grabbed a frying pan from ringside, fully expecting it to be a light aluminum pan bought from the dollar store next to the arena. It was cast-iron. According to Foley, Sandman's brains didn't unscramble for two weeks. This was back in the days of fans bringing their own weapons to the arena for the wrestlers to use on one another. [[ObviousRulePatch Immediately following this match, ECW stopped allowing it]]. |
| 323 | * At Wrestling/{{WWE}} ''Wrestling/{{WrestleMania}} X-8'', Wrestling/MollyHolly turned on her partner [[Wrestling/GregoryHelms The Hurricane]] by hitting him with a frying pan and pinning him to win the [[http://www.wrestling-titles.com/wwe/wwf-hc.html WWE Hardcore Title]]. She was upset because she saw him looking at the Godfather's Hos. |
| 324 | * In September-October 1999, Wrestling/{{Chyna}} (who was being considered the ultimate feminist) had entered a feud with [[http://www.wrestling-titles.com/wwe/ic.html WWE Intercontinental Heavyweight Champion]] Wrestling/JeffJarrett (who had [[{{Kayfabe}} adopted]] a StayInTheKitchen mentality.) They decided to run with it and, for the October 99 ''Wrestling/NoMercy'' PPV, booked WWE's only "Good Housekeeping" match, where the area around the ring was littered with household objects. In her autobiography, there's a photo of Chyna bringing a frying pan down hard on Jarrett's head. Chyna won the match and the title, exiling Jarrett from the company in the process, after hitting Jarrett with a guitar. (Jarrett had debuted in December 1993 as "Double-J" Jeff Jarrett, doing an [[DreadfulMusician evil country singer]] [[TheGimmick gimmick]] [he's from Tennessee], and he has continued to use a guitar as his [[WeaponSpecialization Signature Weapon]] to this day.) |
| 325 | * At Wrestling/{{WCW}} Uncensored 1996, [[Wrestling/BrutusBeefcake The Booty Man]] gave Wrestling/HulkHogan and Wrestling/RandySavage frying pans to fend off the Alliance to End Hulkamania inside the Doomsday Cage. |
| 326 | [[/folder]] |
| 327 | |
| 328 | [[folder:Puppet Shows]] |
| 329 | * In ''Series/{{Dinosaurs}}'', the baby repeatedly beats Earl over the head with a frying pan, all the while shouting, "Not the mama! Not the mama!" |
| 330 | * ''Series/TheMuppetShow'': In the Roger Moore episode, during the introduction to the "In the Navy" skit, the Swedish Chef takes offense at Kermit disparaging the Vikings as "cruel, heartless Scandinavian marauders" and hits him with a skillet. |
| 331 | [[/folder]] |
| 332 | |
| 333 | [[folder:Radio]] |
| 334 | * ''Radio/TheStephanieMillerShow'' has voice impressionist Jim Ward portray former president UsefulNotes/BillClinton's reaction to titillating news stories of the day. Then his wife hits him with a frying pan after the inevitable innuendo. Mind you, this is a ''liberal'' radio show. |
| 335 | [[/folder]] |
| 336 | |
| 337 | [[folder:Roleplay]] |
| 338 | * In ''Roleplay/WeAreOurAvatars'', [[WebVideo/EpicMealTime Harley Morenstein]] wielded a frypan made of Adamanitium and used it to deflect bullets with ease. |
| 339 | [[/folder]] |
| 340 | |
| 341 | [[folder:Tabletop Games]] |
| 342 | * A classic story passed around in role-playing circles tells of the Dungeon Master who has a monster attack his players that can only be harmed with magic weapons, knowing that they have no such weapons in stock. Instead of fleeing like they were supposed to, one of the characters picks up the only magic item the party has, a self-heating frying pan the DM had previously given them as gag treasure. The character defeats the monster and the player goes on to build the character around frying-pan battle techniques. |
| 343 | * In reference to the Dragonlance novels, several editions of ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons'' had rules for using frying pans as weapons. |
| 344 | * The fast-food themed (and soundly tongue-in-cheek) ''TabletopGame/{{Feast Of Legends}}'' naturally includes a frying pan on its weapon list, along with its bigger cousin the two-handed cast-iron skillet. |
| 345 | * One of Samwise Gamgee miniatures by Games Workshop dual wields a sword and a frying pan. |
| 346 | * ''TabletopGame/{{GURPS}}'' features the "Pan, Iron". This kitchen accessory functions as a slightly weaker round mace OR small iron shield. Unlike most [[ImprovisedWeapon improvised weapons]], it is as solid as a Good quality weapon (most are of Cheap quality). |
| 347 | * In ''TabletopGame/{{Mysterium}}'', one of the possible murder weapons is a frying pan. |
| 348 | * In ''TabletopGame/{{Zombicide}}'', set after a ZombieApocalypse, four to six survivors start with the following weapons, each distributed randomly to one of them: a fire axe, a [[CrowbarCombatant crowbar]], a [[{{Handgun}} pistol]] and a Frying pan per survivor beyond 3. In the Wild West-themed ''Zombicide: Undead or Alive'', "Bruiser" characters (who have special abilities with melee weapons) automatically start the game armed with a cast-iron frying pan. |
| 349 | * ''TabletopGame/{{Pathfinder}}'': Frying Pan is listed as a halfling weapon in one of the expansions for ''Pathfinder 2e''. It is essentially a club, but it does extra damage on a critical hit at the cost of not being throwable. |
| 350 | [[/folder]] |
| 351 | |
| 352 | [[folder:Theatre]] |
| 353 | * In the Broadway version of ''Theatre/CharlieAndTheChocolateFactory'', Willy Wonka subjects the factory visitors to an obstacle course of invisible hazards including a path with swinging frying pans. Most of the visitors take a blow or two as they navigate the course, though Mike Teavee takes the brunt of them, getting knocked silly repeatedly. |
| 354 | * In the Met Opera's production of Donizetti's ''Theatre/DonPasquale'', Norina playfully fences with Doctor Malatesta while they're coming up with their plot - she with a frying pan, he with a ClassyCane. This can be seen in the 2011 recording, though the revival [[https://youtu.be/XGbRsHpoZpE?t=26s changed it]] to a RollingPinOfDoom. |
| 355 | [[/folder]] |
| 356 | |
| 357 | [[folder:Video Games]] |
| 358 | * Featured in ''VideoGame/AloneInTheDark2''. The frying pan can even block most of the blow darts from the EvilChef. After the chef exhausted his darts, he will go into a frying pan duel with you. |
| 359 | * ''VideoGame/AnnieLastHope'' has a DeadWeight ChefOfIron zombie boss who tries attacking Annie with a ''huge'' pan. A single hit is enough to send Annie halfway across the boss area. |
| 360 | * Iksei of ''VideoGame/{{Atelier Rorona|The Alchemist of Arland}}''. Since he actually is a cook and runs a cafe, he can be literally considered a ChefOfIron. |
| 361 | * In ''VideoGame/AttackOfTheMutantPenguins'', a frying pan is Bernard's main weapon. |
| 362 | * ''VideoGame/{{Basingstoke}}'': One of the weapon types you can find and use in the game is a frying pan. |
| 363 | * Barbara Johnson (also known as "The {{Housewife}}") in ''VideoGame/BioShock2'' Multiplayer uses a frying pan as her unique melee weapon. |
| 364 | * In ''VideoGame/ChampionsOfNorrath'', one might be able to deliver melee blows with The Scrambler. |
| 365 | * In ''VideoGame/ChronoCross'', several characters use various cooking utensils as weapons, the strongest of which is a frying pan made of [[{{Unobtainium}} Rainbow Shell]]. Combined with a battle system that utilizes stringing weak-fierce blows together, this leads to, among things, an unassuming village girl unleashing a rapid-fire, martial arts SpamAttack with her trusty frying pan. |
| 366 | * Conker's main weapon in ''VideoGame/ConkersBadFurDay''. The remake gave him a baseball bat. |
| 367 | * A decent [[MartialArtsAndCrafts Chef weapon]] in ''VideoGame/{{Contact}}'', though the carving knives are better. |
| 368 | * In ''VideoGame/TheCurseOfMonkeyIsland'', if Guybrush goes to the chicken shop after being [[TarAndFeathers tarred and feathered]], Blondebeard will mistake him for "El Pollo Diablo" and clobber him with a frying pan. Fortunately, this leads to Guybrush getting smuggled onto the Sea Monkey, which is where he needs to be. |
| 369 | * The Vorpan is a weapon in ''VideoGame/DeadCells''. It's quite powerful, makes an immensely satisfying "clonk" sound when striking an enemy with it, and always inflicts {{Critical Hit}}s when attacking an enemy from the front. |
| 370 | * ''Franchise/DeadRising'': |
| 371 | ** It's an amazingly powerful anti-zombie weapon in ''VideoGame/DeadRising''. You can smackdown a decent number of zombies with it ordinarily, but for massive damage, use the pan with a handy stove, to create a Red-Hot Frying Pan - which you can then use to toast the zombies' faces! One-hit knockout against any zombie, while also looking hilarious. |
| 372 | ** In ''VideoGame/DeadRising2'', psychopathic chef Antoine Thomas uses a frying pan as his main weapon. He can even block bullets with it. |
| 373 | * In ''VideoGame/DungeonsAndDragonsOnline'', the final quest against a Droaam monster invasion has one fight involving a camp cook, armed with a frying pan that's not only a dangerous bludgeoning weapon to an unwary player, but also throws bacon grease around to [[SlipperySkid make escape or evasion difficult]]. [[{{Pyromaniac}} The enemies or you can set the grease ablaze]]. |
| 374 | * In VideoGame/{{EarthBound|1994}}, Paula's main weapon is a frying pan that she uses to bash enemies. |
| 375 | * In ''VideoGame/{{Eastward}}'', the protagonist John's primary weapon is a skillet that he uses to both hit things as well as to cook food. |
| 376 | * In ''VideoGame/{{Evergrace}}'', you not only get a frying pan for Sharline, but the first upgrade adds a pair of eggs, and the second adds a strip of bacon to make a happy breakfast plate. Upgrades add enormous bashing damage (though not as good as the monstrous hammers) and fire attacks. |
| 377 | * ''VideoGame/EvolutionTheWorldOfSacredDevice'' has one of the main characters, Linear, use a frying pan as her main weapon. What is odd is that they are exploring ancient ruins, yet she keeps finding upgrades for her weapon. Surely the ancients had some really tough eggs to fry. |
| 378 | * After the treasure hunting quest chain ''VideoGame/FableI'', the prize is a frying pan, which has several augmentation slots. [[note]]If you cheat and just dig it up, it has none. If you collect all the clues, it has two -- plus two more invisible ones that cease to exist if you don't use them right away.[[/note]] |
| 379 | ** It's even better than that. Close inspection will reveal the [[http://fable.wikia.com/wiki/Frying_Pan imprint of some unfortunate person's face on it]]. |
| 380 | * ''VideoGame/FightTheHorror'': A frying pan is a weapon the players can use to fight the bosses. |
| 381 | * ''Franchise/FinalFantasy'': |
| 382 | ** In ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyIV'', Yang's Wife (later named Sheila in ''[[VideoGame/FinalFantasyIVTheAfterYears The After Years]]'') gives the heroes a frying pan with which to hit Yang, and doing so [[EasyAmnesia cures his memory loss]]. It's hinted that this is because it reminded him of the ''many'' times it apparently happened before. It's even hinted that she [[{{Tsundere}} shows her love with physical violence]] in the Japanese version, where the item is actually called the "Frying Pan of Love". The "Frying Pan of Love" returns with a ladle (meant for Yang and Sheila's daughter, Ursula) in ''The After Years''. After Yang and Ursula take their beatings, they groggily mumble as though waking up, clearly believing that Sheila was the one who hit them. [[WrenchWench Luca]] is left utterly dumbfounded. |
| 383 | ** A variation is in ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyIX''. A chef wants to use his frying pan as a hammer to help rebuild [[spoiler:Alexandria]], but he's told his work is just as valuable making sure everyone else is fed and healthy, so they can rebuild. |
| 384 | ** In ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyXIV'', Julyan Manderville's discipline is a Culinarian, yet she wields a frying pan with enough skill to be a OneManArmy who terrifies everyone around her. [[spoiler:She also has an even larger frying pan, which she combines with Dark Knight attacks.]] |
| 385 | * In ''VideoGame/FireEmblemFates'', a Frying Pan is a JokeItem (in the axe/club category) acquired from random drops in skirmishes or around the avatar's castle. It's not completely useless, as it adds 10 to the wielder's Dodge rating, and unlike the E-ranked brass/bronze weapons, it is capable of scoring critical hits. |
| 386 | * In ''VideoGame/FuryUnleashed,'' the frying pan does double the damage of the default melee weapon, and [[LuckilyMyShieldWillProtectMe has a chance to block incoming damage.]] |
| 387 | * One of the best weapons in ''VideoGame/HarvestTown'' is a frying pan, which the player can obtain from Foxy after her RelationshipValues is at least 10. |
| 388 | * ''Franchise/KingdomHearts'': |
| 389 | ** The Chef Kyroo Dream Eater in ''VideoGame/KingdomHearts3DDreamDropDistance'' wields one as a weapon, utilizing it both for close-range combos and long-range fire attacks. |
| 390 | ** In ''VideoGame/KingdomHeartsIII'', like in ''WesternAnimation/{{Tangled}}'', Flynn wields a frying pan as a party member. The [[WesternAnimation/{{Ratatouille}} Grand Chef]] Keyblade can Formchange into a skillet-shaped [[LuckilyMyShieldWillProtectMe shield]]. |
| 391 | * Sauceror characters in ''VideoGame/KingdomOfLoathing'' wield a class of saucepans for their Saucery and for bludgeoning as per this trope. The frying brainpan, depicted and described as a frying pan, is among the top-level available. |
| 392 | * ''VideoGame/Left4Dead2'': The humble cast iron skillet is every bit as deadly as any other melee weapon -- maybe even more so, as it can be swung faster with a shorter cooldown. Its only downside is its inability to cut Smoker tongues, though that is very hard to pull off and as such, a niche disadvantage at best. It's such a liked weapon that in the promotion for ''The Passing'' DLC, the Frying Pan was added to Creator/{{Valve|Software}}'s other hugely popular multiplayer game, ''VideoGame/TeamFortress2''. |
| 393 | * Bud from ''VideoGame/LegendOfMana'' uses his mother's frying pan as his preferred weapon. The game treats it as a two-handed sword. |
| 394 | * The [[ChefOfIron War Chefs]] from ''VideoGame/LegendsOfRuneterra'' beat down enemies attempting to cut of the Demacian army's supply lines with these. One of their attack quotes is "Pan to the face!" |
| 395 | * In ''VideoGame/LittleBigPlanet'', one of the costume objects is a frying pan. If you try to do a Sackboy Slap while holding it, you get the expected sound. It's also supposed to knock the target further than a standard slap. |
| 396 | * In the Old West chapter of ''VideoGame/LiveALive'', a frying pan is one of the traps that can be set up against O. Dio's gang. Annie has to be the one to wield it. |
| 397 | * ''Literature/TheLordOfTheRings'' |
| 398 | ** When you play as Sam in one of the tie-in [=RPG=]s, one of your abilities uses a frying pan that has a stun effect. |
| 399 | ** Likewise, in ''VideoGame/LegoTheLordOfTheRings'', every version of Sam has a Frying Pan in his inventory, useful for both bashing Orcs if you're playing as an unarmed Sam, and actual cooking, that you have to do to solve some puzzles. |
| 400 | * ''VideoGame/LoveAndPies'': When Sam tries seducing Amelia after serenading to her that he's better than Joe, she whips out her frying pan, presumably to hit him for it, [[MomentKiller just when Joe walks in on them.]] |
| 401 | * Tia of ''VideoGame/LufiaIIRiseOfTheSinistrals'' uses frying pans as her weapon of choice. |
| 402 | * Luna Noa from ''VideoGame/LunarTheSilverStar'' usually uses canes, daggers, or bows in most versions of the game, but in the UsefulNotes/GameBoyAdvance version, ''Lunar Legend'', she uses frying pans. |
| 403 | * The Chef class in ''VideoGame/MakaiKingdom'' uses Frying Pans as one of their preferred weapons. They're a pretty rare find, as they only show up in mid-to-high level random dungeons. |
| 404 | * ''VideoGame/MassEffectAndromeda:'' A murder victim on Kadara is found to have a frying pan nearby when Ryder examines the scene of the crime. Bear in mind, the murder victim was a krogan, who have SuperStrength. He could've just killed his attackers with his bare hands. |
| 405 | * Hisui wields a pan, in addition to several other cooking (and cleaning) implements, in ''VideoGame/MeltyBlood. Pishi!'' Of course, Hisui is deadly with a frying pan [[LethalChef even out of combat...]] |
| 406 | * The Chef class in ''VideoGame/{{Miitopia}}'' wield frying pans as their primary weapons. They can also use them to cook food to their allies and restore their health. |
| 407 | * Frying pans are ''the'' recurring weapon of choice for the female leads of the ''VideoGame/{{Mother}}'' trilogy. They were the sole weapons available to Ana in ''VideoGame/EarthBoundBeginnings'' and Paula in ''VideoGame/EarthBound1994''. Kumatora can use a Fake Frying Pan late in ''VideoGame/MOTHER3'', but they're not her primary weapon type. |
| 408 | * In ''Franchise/TheMuppets: On with the Show!'' for the UsefulNotes/GameBoyAdvance, the "The Swedish Chef Cooking Hour" mini-game involves the Swedish Chef hitting Rizzo and the rats with his frying pan to keep them from stealing his food ingredients. |
| 409 | * Uzumaki Kushina from ''VideoGame/NarutoShippudenUltimateNinjaStormRevolution'' uses a frying pan and a ladle as her preferred combat weapons. |
| 410 | * Frying pans are among the many items you can use as weapons in ''VideoGame/PaintTheTownRed''. |
| 411 | * Your main method of attack in non-Japanese versions of ''VideoGame/PanicRestaurant'' is a frying pan. |
| 412 | * [[SubvertedTrope Subverted]] in ''VideoGame/{{Parasocial}}'', where you can take a frying pan to use as a weapon against [[spoiler: the stalker in the bad ending]], but it turns out to be useless. |
| 413 | * An entire sidequest in ''VideoGame/PhantasyStarOnline'' involves a club of weapon enthusiasts talking about the ultimate weapon, which turns out to be the frying pan of the club's president's wife. Amazingly enough, it's actually more effective than some of the ''real'' weapons you usually get around that time. |
| 414 | * Pans are usable as weapons in ''VideoGame/PlayerunknownsBattlegrounds'' where, aside from doing the most damage of any melee weapon, they will also block any shots that hit them, whether the player is holding the pan or [[ImprovisedArmour has it "holstered" on their back]]. |
| 415 | * ''VideoGame/POEd'' have you playing a ChefOfIron stranded in a space station full of hostile aliens and robots, with your first weapon being your frying pan. And it works surprisingly well, with one or two hits capable of beating alien monsters to death. |
| 416 | * The frying pan is one of many household items that can be [[ImprovisedWeapon drafted for combat duty]] in ''VideoGame/ProjectZomboid''. It's only mediocre—much better used for making "[[ReducedToRatburgers small animal meat]]" stir-fry—but if you're desperately scrabbling through kitchen cabinets and your only other choice is a butter knife, take the pan. |
| 417 | * ''VideoGame/RagnarokOnline'' has the Lunakaligo, a transcendent acolyte class weapon, and the monster Magnolia, a reanimated fried egg that uses a frying pan as a weapon. |
| 418 | * In ''VideoGame/SaltAndSanctuary'', the Iron Pot is the starting weapon of the Chef class (or any class if the player chooses to attempt the "Pot Only" challenge), and can be found very early in the game for everyone else. Its damage is as laughably pathetic as you'd expect a cooking utensil to be in a world where fighting off giant Cthulhu-like monstrosities is just a part of daily life... [[MagikarpPower at least at first]]. When upgraded at a blacksmith it gets a ''much'' bigger damage boost than other weapons. At max upgrade level, it has the highest base damage out of anything smaller than a {{BFS}}, and even beats out most of ''those''. Granted, its stat scaling is still utter crap, so most other weapons will still do more damage if your stats are remotely decent, but its high base damage makes it very strong when used with elemental buffs, since the buff damage is based on the weapons base damage and does not factor in any scaling bonus. It also has the "Fast Hitter" ability, which makes it swing much faster than other weapons in its class. |
| 419 | * Minori from ''VideoGame/SenranKagura'' uses this as part of her fighting style [[ImprovisedWeapon (that, and a bucket full of candy).]] |
| 420 | * Frying pans are an available weapon in ''VideoGame/SilentHillDownpour''. They're actually the best weapon in the game if you're going for the best ending, due to their high toughness, availability (Every house has one in it) and tendency to lay out enemies [[PacifistRun without actually killing them]]. |
| 421 | * The first two stages of ''VideoGame/SlapsAndBeans'', respectively in an outback and a saloon, have frying pans as useable weapons to smash into mooks' faces. It's especially when Bud TheBigGuy uses it. |
| 422 | * Frying pans are a weapon in the ''VideoGame/SnowboardKids'' series. They are launched into the air rather than swung and will hit all other racers (unless they're made immune in some way, such as invisibility), flattening them and bringing their forward momentum to a screeching halt. Anyone in midair, such as when going off a jump or doing a trick, when hit by the frying pan, will plummet straight down. Disastrous over a {{Bottomless Pit|s}}. |
| 423 | * In ''Franchise/{{Splatoon}}'', this is the weapon of choice for [[FishPeople the Salmonids]]. A ''VideoGame/Splatoon2'' Sunken Scroll even mentions that they are {{Ancestral Weapon}}s passed down from generation to generation and lovingly cared for. |
| 424 | * ''VideoGame/{{Suikoden}}'': |
| 425 | ** ''VideoGame/SuikodenI'' has the pair of recruitable chefs, Antonio and Lester. Antonion specializes in wielding pans (specifically of the milk, frying and ceramic varieties), while Lester uses various implements (a pan, a pot, and a wok, respectively). |
| 426 | ** ''VideoGame/SuikodenII'' has Hai Yo, a chef who fights with a wok and frying pan. [[LethalJokeCharacter He can be made into one of the most powerful characters in the game]]. |
| 427 | * ''Franchise/SuperMarioBros'': |
| 428 | ** In ''VideoGame/SuperMarioOdyssey'', there is a Hammer Bro in the Luncheon Kingdom who throws frying pans instead of hammers. |
| 429 | ** This is [[InfinityPlusOneSword the best weapon]] for Peach in ''VideoGame/SuperMarioRPG''. She also uses it in the ''VideoGame/SuperSmashBros'' series as her side Smash attack alongside a [[VideoGame/MarioGolf golf club]] and a [[VideoGame/MarioTennis tennis racket]]. Not only does it deal the most damage out of the three, but it makes a [[SugarWiki/MostWonderfulSound hilariously satisfying]] ''whang!'' sound when it connects, too. In ''VideoGame/SuperSmashBrosUltimate'' Daisy, being an [[MovesetClone Echo Fighter]] of Peach, is also able to use a frying pan. |
| 430 | * The online game ''VideoGame/{{Survivio}}'' has a frying pan one can get in an airdrop crate. It is a rare find but it only takes a few licks to knock out or kill an opponent. They also deflect bullets. |
| 431 | * In ''VideoGame/SwordOfVermilion'', if the hero refuses to go save a woman's husband, he gets whacked over the head with her frying pan. |
| 432 | * ''VideoGame/TalesSeries'': |
| 433 | ** The [[VideoGameRemake remake]] of ''VideoGame/TalesOfDestiny'' ditches Lilith Aileron's martial arts moves in favor of cooking-themed moveset. While her actual equippable weapon is a ladle, she uses a frying pan for her blocking animation and several artes. |
| 434 | ** Patty Fleur in ''VideoGame/TalesOfVesperia'''s [[UpdatedReRelease PS3/DE versions]] uses a frying pan for her "Little Big Chef" and "Fire Big Chef" artes. In the former arte she smacks the enemy over the head with it, while in the latter she momentarily simulates cooking food. Somehow, both variants can produce dishes that may heal or [[LethalChef harm]] your party. |
| 435 | ** In ''VideoGame/TalesOfXillia2'' Ludger can obtain a dual blade weapon called "Cookware", that looks like a giant spatula and a rectangular frying pan. If he uses these weapons while wearing the "Cook" costume, he can use the aforementioned "Fire Big Chef" attack, albeit renamed in English version to "Master Chef". No cooking this time, though. |
| 436 | * ''VideoGame/TeamFortress2'': The frying pan was ported in from ''VideoGame/Left4Dead2'' as a cosmetic change to the stock melee weapon of all classes except for the Spy and Engineer. It became notorious for an abnormally high CriticalHit chance, [[UrbanLegendOfZelda despite actually having the same stats as stock]]. As it makes the same '''CLANG!''' sound on hitting a player regardless of them being friendly or enemy, it's also found a secondary use as a meme weapon to bonk teammates with. There's even the rare [[BlingBlingBang Golden Frying Pan]], which can be equipped on every class, ''including'' the Engineer and Spy, and [[TakenForGranite turns the victim into a golden statue]] on kill. It can be [[RandomDrop obtained]] from playing the Two Cities tour in [[HordeMode Mann vs. Machine]] mode, at a [[RareRandomDrop VERY small chance]]. Very few Golden Pans exist, making them a prestigious item to own; [[https://www.hardcoregamer.com/2013/11/27/money-money-money-ultra-rare-team-fortress-2-item-sells-for-5500/63944/ one]] was sold for $5,500 in real money. |
| 437 | * In ''VideoGame/TinyToonAdventuresBabsBigBreak'', when Hamton is playing the [[WhackAMonster Montana Mash]] mini-game, a frying pan is his weapon of choice. |
| 438 | * One of Miyu's weapon lines in ''VideoGame/TrinityUniverse'' is an over-sized [[XtremeKoolLetterz Phrying Pann]]. |
| 439 | * While you never get to see your character use it, as such, the "burnt pan" is a weapon that can be equipped in ''VideoGame/{{Undertale}}''. In addition to being the most powerful weapon thus far, it's also the last to have a passive bonus: all food items, including the [[JokeItem instant noodles]], heal for 4 more HP than usual. This makes it a good weapon for Pacifist Routers who aren't confident in their dodging abilities, and the best weapon for fighting [[spoiler:Sans, who only takes one hit to kill once he finally stops dodging]]. |
| 440 | * In a rather weird and somewhat different usage of the Frying Pan Of Doom, but not as a handheld weapon, you've got the EvilChef boss in ''VideoGame/WarioLand: Shake It!'', Large Fry. He actually rides around in a frying pan as some kind of flying device, uses it to charge at Wario for one attack and slam into the ground from above the screen in another attack, and uses said improbable weapon in quite possibly an evil more improbable way than most. |
| 441 | * Warriors at the beginning of a ''VideoGame/{{Wildermyth}}'' campaign can choose a frying pan as their StarterEquipment. |
| 442 | * In ''VideoGame/XenobladeChronicles3'', Manana uses a cooking pan as a shield and bludgeon. It's deconstructed in her Ascension Quest, where it's pointed out that her abuse of her utensils is degrading the quality of her cooking. |
| 443 | * In ''VisualNovel/YourTurnToDie'', Kai's frying pan is used as a weapon multiple times in the first chapter of the game. Kai himself uses it to hit [[ArcVillain Sue Miley]] in retaliation for her mocking a traumatized Kanna, and Nao is forced to in order to steal the laptop from Sou. |
| 444 | * In ''VideoGame/ZombiePanic'', one of the many melee weapons available is a frying pan. On a similar note, another is a cooking pot. |
| 445 | [[/folder]] |
| 446 | |
| 447 | [[folder:Webcomics]] |
| 448 | * Iris from ''Webcomic/{{Broodhollow}}'' pulls a BigDamnHeroes moment with one, [[spoiler:pounding the tailor-skeleton [[PaintingTheMedium until the colors go back to normal]]. And then a bit more for good measure]]. |
| 449 | * Parodying ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyIV'', Yang's Wife in ''Webcomic/CaptainSNES'' believes that ''any'' status effect can be cured by being hit over the head with her frying pan. |
| 450 | * ''Webcomic/TheCyantianChronicles'': A young bat with the [[MeaningfulName appropriate name]] of Skitter wields one successfully [[http://cyantian.net/blog/comic/genoworks-saga-chapter-1-10/#comments here]]. |
| 451 | * [[http://thedevilspanties.com/archives/2395 This]] strip from ''Webcomic/TheDevilsPanties''. Comes with a side of GoodAngelBadAngel. |
| 452 | * Kyo'nne of ''Webcomic/{{Drowtales}}'' pulls this offscreen [[https://www.drowtales.com/moonless-age/6578 when a halme sneaks up on her]] [[https://www.drowtales.com/moonless-age/6610 to hilarious effect]] |
| 453 | * ''Webcomic/GirlGenius'': |
| 454 | ** As demonstrated, the best weapon is [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20050916 the one you don't use]]. |
| 455 | ** Later, [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20061013 the pan makes another appearance]]: |
| 456 | --->'''Marie:''' And now I'd like you to convince me you're not out to hurt Agatha.\ |
| 457 | '''Wooster:''' Or you'll hit me with the pan? |
| 458 | * In ''Webcomic/{{Housepets}}'' Grape snaps Bino out of one of his crazy moments with a [[http://www.housepetscomic.com/2008/09/19/grape-solves-another-problem-with-violence/ pan to the head]]. Then wonders why the "Good ol' dogs club" even had one. |
| 459 | %%* [[http://machall.com/view.php?date=2002-07-01 Invoked]] in ''Webcomic/MacHall''. |
| 460 | * [[https://www.rhjunior.com/nip-and-tuck-0218/ Also invoked]] in ''Webcomic/NipAndTuck'', especially against a girl's drunken boyfriend who is too violent to reason with and manhandles his date. |
| 461 | -->'''Nip:''' Good thing Ma [[ChekhovsGun still serves her cornbread in the pan]]. |
| 462 | * [[http://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=697 Done]] in ''Webcomic/QuestionableContent'' by Marten to a couple of badass kung-fu monks. Yes, you read that correctly. |
| 463 | * [[Film/{{Labyrinth}} Sarah Williams]]' signature weapon in the fancomics ''Webcomic/{{Roommates}}'' and ''Webcomic/GirlsNextDoor'' justified by the same thing as the ''Literature/{{Discworld}}'' example earlier: Most of her troubles are [[TheFairFolk fae]] in nature so ColdIron is a good bet. |
| 464 | [[/folder]] |
| 465 | |
| 466 | [[folder:Web Animation]] |
| 467 | * "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LwaLVBtj97A Banana Joe vs. Predator]]" answers the question you probably never asked: "Can Creator/BudSpencer beat up a Franchise/{{Predator}} with nothing but a frying pan?" |
| 468 | * In the [[https://www.youtube.com/profile_videos?user=bolegbros Boleg Bros Lego Apprentice parodies]], CGI-Lego recreation of ''Series/TheApprentice'', being hit with a frying pan is the usual form of dismissal. |
| 469 | * ''WebAnimation/{{Dreamscape}}'': In the flashback in episode 7, Dylan tries to fight a dog demon curse with one of these, but upon attacking it, he becomes frozen and drops the pan. |
| 470 | * In the ''WebAnimation/HomestarRunner'' short "Bug in Mouth Disease", Strong Bad knocks Homestar out with a skillet when he's watching Caleb Rentpayer. With an OffhandBackhand, even. |
| 471 | -->"That was a great skillet nap!" |
| 472 | [[/folder]] |
| 473 | |
| 474 | [[folder:Web Original]] |
| 475 | * Rhia, from the ''Fanfic/AntiClicheAndMarySueEliminationSociety'' uses a frying pan as her weapon of choice. |
| 476 | * A character in ''Literature/{{CAPOW}}'' uses a Frying Pan of Heaven. Luckily for the rest of the cast she's a staunch {{pacifist}} who only uses it to fix glitchy code in the WorldTree, and the planned storyline where TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt hits and her optimism gets [[BreakTheCutie broken]] in the worst possible way never came to full fruition. |
| 477 | [[/folder]] |
| 478 | |
| 479 | [[folder:Web Videos]] |
| 480 | * ''WebVideo/GloveAndBoots'': Fafa hits [[spoiler:Mario's father]] with a frying pan. |
| 481 | * Hillary Clinton uses one to hit Bill with in the ''Website/JibJab'' video "Time for Some Campaignin'". |
| 482 | * Kate knocks out Steve with a frying pan in the ''WebVideo/KateModern'' episode "Ding Dong". |
| 483 | * ''WebVideo/ScottTheWoz'': |
| 484 | ** Scott uses a frying pan to swat a copy of ''VideoGame/PaperMarioColorSplash'' he encountered on his desk in the episode "The Best Games of All Time". |
| 485 | --->'''Scott:''' Always keep a frying pan handy, you'll never know when a 7/10 game is gonna strike. |
| 486 | ** Scott himself ends up on the receiving end of one to the head in ''Virtual Boy: I've Seen Better'' and ''Borderline Forever''. |
| 487 | * In ''WebVideo/TheUnexpectables'', the NPC kiwi kenku Rogue appropriately named Kiwi uses a frying pan exclusively during the events of the Canary Perch Arc against the zealous United Clergy of Orun, to surprisingly great effect despite being under leveled compared to the party. |
| 488 | [[/folder]] |
| 489 | |
| 490 | [[folder:Western Animation]] |
| 491 | * During Huey and Riley's fight in ''WesternAnimation/TheBoondocks'' episode "Let's nab Oprah!", Riley first pulls out a frying pan from his pants ([[TrouserSpace and later produces a gun from there as well]]), while Huey fends him off with a [[KatanasAreJustBetter katana]]. As the fight moves into the kitchen area, Huey uses a frying pan that's lying around to knock Riley down. |
| 492 | * In the ''WesternAnimation/{{Bunnicula}}'' episode "Curse of the Were-dude", [[HumanityEnsues Chester becomes human]] thanks to being bitten by Patches the Were-dude. Chester initially thinks it's great since he can do human things. Then he tries to go home. Mina greets Chester with a frying pan to the face, understandably freaked out by a strange man trying to sneak into her house via the pet door. |
| 493 | * An episode of ''WesternAnimation/CampLazlo'' has Slinkman hitting Lumpus with a "full-moon" frying pan when he gets delusional. [[NoodleIncident It's implied this wasn't the first time it's happened.]] |
| 494 | * Sissi uses one in ''WesternAnimation/CodeLyoko'''s "Bad Connection" to knock out a XANA-possessed Herb. |
| 495 | * A rarer male example occurs in the ''WesternAnimation/DarkwingDuck'' episode "[[Recap/DarkwingDuckS1E50TimeAndPunishment Time and Punishment]]"; in a BadFuture where Darkwing has become a KnightTemplar, Bad Future!Launchpad kayoes him with a frying pan after he threatens Gosalyn with a missile loaded gun. |
| 496 | * ''WesternAnimation/{{Disenchantment}}:'' A pair of hillbillies try to roast King Zog and Prince Derek in a giant skillet, which gives the later a massive phobia of skillets. They also manage to subdue Bean, Elfo, and Luci with a regular frying pan and are as surprised as anyone else. |
| 497 | -->'''Hillbilly:''' You know, when we bought the set, I never thought the little 'uns would come in handy... |
| 498 | * From ''WesternAnimation/TheFairlyOddParents'' episode "Stage Fright", [[BabysitterFromHell Vicky]] tries to audition for a movie role and has Timmy playing the role of her character's little brother, who is in a coma. |
| 499 | -->'''Timmy:''' But I'm not in a coma.\ |
| 500 | '''Vicky:''' You are now! ''*CLANG*'' |
| 501 | * ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'': |
| 502 | ** Peter realizes that Lois will hit him with a frying pan if she finds out he is going golfing on their anniversary. So he invents an antidote for frying pans to the head. It doesn't work. |
| 503 | ** In "Mother Tucker" Peter won't stop tickling her so she responds with this. |
| 504 | ---> '''Peter''': I tickle you, you hit me in the head with a frying pan?!\ |
| 505 | '''Lois''': I told you to stop!\ |
| 506 | '''Peter''': I taste blood!\ |
| 507 | '''Lois''': Well, there's a lot of it. |
| 508 | %%* Wilma from ''WesternAnimation/TheFlintstones'' likes to use these. Usually on Fred. |
| 509 | * A season 5 episode of ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'' has Ndnd of the Planet Omicron Persei 8 and Leela facing off with these. Bender sells them when they start arguing. |
| 510 | * In an episode of ''WesternAnimation/GIJoeARealAmericanHero'', Roadblock used a frying pan as a shield against a flamethrower blast from the "Dreadnok" named Torch. Like every improbable thing in that series, this worked. |
| 511 | * ''WesternAnimation/{{Jellystone}}'': When Yogi starts freaking out, Cindy uses a frying pan as a "sedative". |
| 512 | * ''WesternAnimation/{{Kaeloo}}'': |
| 513 | ** Mr. Cat and Pretty do this on occasions, usually to Stumpy. |
| 514 | ** A variant was in Episode 88 where Mr. Cat throws the frying pan at [[HollywoodToneDeaf Stumpy]] to get him to stop singing, with the same effect as usual. |
| 515 | ** In Episode 130, Mr. Cat tells Kaeloo to StayInTheKitchen because she's a girl, and she angrily picks up a frying pan from the kitchen and repeatedly bashes him on the head with it for being sexist. |
| 516 | ** Exaggerated in Episode 59, where Bad Kaeloo uses a giant frying pan to hit [[RoguesGallery Stumpy, Mr. Cat, Pretty, and Olaf]] on their heads at the same time. |
| 517 | * ''WesternAnimation/MollyOfDenali'': In "[[Recap/MollyOfDenaliS1E4FirstFishAMazeIngSnow First Fish]]," Nat allegedly took down his whopper of a salmon by hitting it with a frying pan. |
| 518 | * The ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'' episode "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS2E24MysteryOnTheFriendshipExpress MMMystery on the Friendship Express]]" has the cake-guarding Pinkie Pie taken out with one by an elderly {{Ninja}} lady in one of Pinkie's {{Imagine Spot}}s. |
| 519 | * In the Lego ''WesternAnimation/{{Ninjago}}'' episode "The Attack", Misako uses one to defeat a Vermillion Warrior. |
| 520 | * In ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'' Halloween Special Segment "Survival of the Fattest", Marge knocks out Mr. Burns and Smithers just before they kill Homer. |
| 521 | * ''WesternAnimation/SpongeBobSquarePants'': In the infamous "A Pal for Gary", Gary uses one during the one-on-one battle with [[FluffyTheTerrible Puffy]] [[IronicName Fluffy.]] |
| 522 | * In the ''WesternAnimation/StevenUniverse'' episode "Laser Light Cannon", Greg busts out of his van brandishing a waffle iron when he thinks someone is trying to break into it. |
| 523 | * Weapon of choice for Irma, April O'Neil's dowdy coworker in ''WesternAnimation/{{Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles|1987}}''. She nearly brains Donatello before she realizes who it is. |
| 524 | * Chris in the first episode of ''[[WesternAnimation/TotalDrama Total Drama World Tour]]'' hits Owen over the head with one in the first episode when he freaks due to his fear of flying. |
| 525 | * In the ''WesternAnimation/WackyRaces'' episode "Idaho a Go-Go", Dastardly lures Penelope Pitstop into a Red Riding Hood scenario, with Muttley as the wolf. Except that Penelope's an ActionGirl, so rather than hide from the wolf, she clobbers him with a frying pan. When the real wolf shows up, he doesn't fare any better. |
| 526 | [[/folder]] |
| 527 | |
| 528 | [[folder:Real Life]] |
| 529 | * [[UsefulNotes/RichardTheLionHeart Richard the Lionheart]] is reputed to have died after being called out of his tent to come see an enemy {{Mook|s}} using a frying pan as a shield. The actual cause of death was being shot by crossbow though. Some versions claim that the lethal bolt was fired from the crossbow of the man with the frying pan. [[ImprobableAimingSkills Lucky shot]] indeed. |
| 530 | * As mentioned in the trope page; this trope is often seen because yes, Frying Pans can be pretty heavy and several people ''have'' put them to use as makeshift weapons in self-defense. Adding to that, if the frying pan has been recently used, it could also be red hot while it's being slung around. Not only that, but it might also have some ''blisteringly hot'' oil inside to fling at your would-be attacker, though there's a genuine risk of getting yourself burnt at the same time if you're too clumsy. |
| 531 | * As the page quote shows, Anthony Bourdain once wrote that if you even think that the frying pan you want to use will dent on someone's head instead of the other way around, you should throw it out and get a heavier one. [[DontTryThisAtHome Please don't actually test frying pans in this way.]] |
| 532 | * Back when fighter airplanes were unarmoured, many pilots sat on frying pans to cover themselves from [[GroinAttack shots from under the plane]]. |
| 533 | * [[https://web.archive.org/web/20160120202022/http://www.thetruthaboutguns.com/2016/01/robert-farago/defensive-gun-use-of-the-day-north-carolina-frying-pan-follow-up-edition/ A man]] used a frying pan to fend off a home invader. |
| 534 | * And [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HA3SuHtCWo0 this man]] apparently used one to fend off a crocodile. |
| 535 | * On a darker note, [[https://prosecutor.summitoh.net/news/31917/only_pdf/sydney-powell-jury-guilty-092023.pdf this Ohio girl]] murdered her mother by beating her on the head with an iron skillet, then stabbing her in the neck multiple times. |
| 536 | [[/folder]] |
| 537 | ---- |
| 538 | ->''[[WesternAnimation/{{Tangled}} Frying pans... who knew, right?]]'' |
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