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->''"Oh no! That antique breakaway chair has been in the family for years!"''
-->--''Series/MysteryScienceTheater3000'' on ''Film/DangerDeathRay''

In fiction, chairs make for great bludgeoning objects capable of [[TapOnTheHead knocking people unconscious]] in one strike; enter the Chairman of the Brawl, that one guy who can be counted on grabbing the nearest sitting implement and smashing it across his unfortunate victim's head. If the chair is made of wood, it also [[DieChairDie immediately splinters into countless pieces]] to show how devastating the blow is.[[note]]These chairs are actually made of balsa, one of the softest woods available, and held together with toothpicks to break apart easier. DontTryThisAtHome.[[/note]]

If there is a BarBrawl going on, this is to be expected. Pretty much every single [[TheWestern Western]] featuring a BarBrawl, ever, has used this one, to the point of being a DeadHorseTrope.

A subtrope of ImprovisedWeapon and WrestlerInAllOfUs. Compare BatterUp and GolfClubbing. Not to be confused with ExecutiveSuiteFight, although this trope could certainly show up there, too.

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[[folder:Anime & Manga]]
* In Chapter 1 of ''Manga/SpyXFamily'', Loid throws a can at a gunman's face, then finishes him off by hitting him with a chair.
* In Chapter 140 of ''Manga/GTOTheEarlyYears'', the Yokohama Cavalry smash a wooden chair over Nakajo's head.
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[[folder:Audio Plays]]
* ''AudioPlay/BigFinishDoctorWho'': In ''[[Recap/BigFinishDoctorWho006TheMarianConspiracy The Marian Conspiracy]]'', Evelyn [[SickCaptiveScam fakes being ill to lure the warder inside their cell]] and the Doctor hits him over the head with a chair: all the while complaining because he had already told Evelyn that this was precisely ''not'' the plan they were going to go with.
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[[folder:Comic Books]]
* In ''ComicBook/HexWives'' #6, Bradley hits Aaron with a wheelchair as the Architects [[AHouseDivided start to fall apart]].
* ''ComicBook/ThePlagueOfTheAntibioticMan'': As battling an unknown alien, Superman breaks a ski-lift's chair in his head.
* ''ComicBook/Robin1993'': When Tim Drake discovers the hotel he's at is being overrun by Kobra operatives he tosses a chair in one of their faces before sliding under a lounger and flipping that up to whack another one with.
* ''ComicBook/TheUltimates2015'': During the events of ''Civil War 2'', America decides Carol Danvers is going too far, and decides to take action, starting by bludgeoning her with one of the chairs in the Ultimate's meeting room.
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[[folder:Comic Strips]]
* ''ComicStrip/DickTracy'': Model's [[AlcoholicParent alcoholic father]] hits with a chair to prevent from turning in her criminal brother Larry.
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[[folder:Fanfiction]]
* ''Fanfic/ADarkerPath'': Bastard Son's power lets him turn minions into expert {{Improbable Weapon User}}s, and one of the weapons he chooses for going after Atropos is a folding chair. However, she proceeds to demonstrate that "Chairman" wasn't trained to use the ''pieces'' of a folding chair, right before she knocks him out with a bowling pin [[UseTheirOwnWeaponAgainstThem taken from another minion]].
* ''Fanfic/DungeonKeeperAmi'': From ''Dealing with the Blockade Ship'', when Anise is being molested by Tserk:
--> Anise felt something slimy wrap around her left ankle and suddenly found herself suspended upside down in the air, prompting alarmed cries from her sisters. She gulped. This could end badly. She suddenly wished that their outfits offered some more coverage than swimsuits. On the bright side, however, she could make out a few eyes in the centre of the mass from her elevated vantage point, and she still had her chair…\\
''“Much better. Now- OW!”''
* ''Fanfic/PatternsOfThePast'': The first move Old Missie makes after she's untied from the chair she's bound to as a DefiantCaptive is taking the chair and throwing it full-force at the Patternista, who barely misses it.
* ''Fanfic/ThisBites'': Cross kickstarts the BarBrawl in Skelter Bite by slamming a chair into Killer's face.
* In episode 16, ''[[https://archiveofourown.org/works/21447313?view_full_work=true Final Stand of Death]]'', [[WesternAnimation/CelebrityDeathmatch Celebrity Deathmatch]] FIC, Spur ([[spoiler: Emma Bunton]]) uses a chair to hit Zum's like a baseball bat, as the latter heads towards her.
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[[folder:Film — Animated]]
* During the first big fight between the clans in ''WesternAnimation/{{Brave}}'', Young Macguffin is seen using a bench as a weapon.
* ''WesternAnimation/TheGreatMouseDetective'' has some chairs being thrown and smashed in the BarBrawl scene.
* In ''WesternAnimation/TheLegoMovie'', Bad Cop takes down an army of MechaMooks. With a chair. It's the culmination of a RunningGag involving him repeatedly throwing chairs whenever he's in a bad mood - said Mecha Mooks are ''not'' the first ones he's taken out this way. In the "Behind the Bricks" video released to promo the film's theatrical release, he's nearly ready to do it to President Business after the latter reveals he actually attempted to kill the other cast members.
* During the fight at [[BadGuyBar the Zit]] in ''Film/OsmosisJones'', a random germ tries to take out Drix by breaking a chair over his back. Drix [[NoSell doesn’t even notice]], and the germ [[OhCrap quickly backs away in fear]].
* When ''WesternAnimation/Shrek1'' is fighting against a LOT of knights, who are under orders to kill him to win a chance to rescue a princess, he ends up in a setup remarkably similar to a wrestling arena. Egged on by a bloodthirsty granny no less, he employs this trope on an unfortunate knight, much to the audience's delight.
-->'''Granny:''' The chair! Give him the chair!
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[[folder:Film — Live-Action]]
* An obligatory trope in the {{Film Serial}}s of the 1930's-50's, regardless of whether the chairs being used by or against outlaws in TheWestern, gangsters and mad scientists in the new SuperHero genre, or alien invaders and [[TinCanRobot clunky]] {{killer robot}}s in ScienceFiction.
* In ''Film/ThirteenSins'', Elliot repeatedly smashes a chair over Witter's brother's head in the hospital before he even realizes it's one of the challenges.
* Averted in ''Film/TheAlligatorPeople''. When Paul is fighting Manon to rescue his unconscious wife from being molested, he grabs a chair, but Manon quickly yanks it away from his hands, followed by him socking Paul to the jaw.
* In ''Film/AustinPowersTheSpyWhoShaggedMe'', Dr. Evil shows up on ''Jerry Springer'' (see below) and initiates a fight, doing this during it.
* ''Film/{{The Avengers|2012}}'' introduces ComicBook/BlackWidow tied to a chair and being 'interrogated' (as in, it's her doing the interrogating, not the other way around). At that point, when she's called to come in, she uses the chair she's tied to kick copious amounts of ass.
* ''Film/TheBanditOfSherwoodForest'': Lady Catherine stops the Sheriff of Nottingham from [[ThrowingYourSwordAlwaysWorks throwing his sword into Robert's back]] by tossing a chair at him.
* ''Film/BeyondTheValleyOfTheDolls'': Emerson smashes a chair on Randy's back to stop him from raping Pet.
* ''Film/BloodyReunion'': During the fight in the basement, Myung-Ho tries to smash a chair onto Jung-Wa's head, but he manages to roll out of the way.
* During his fight with Bragg in the saloon in ''Film/CanyonPassage'', Logan smashes a chair over Bragg's head.
* ''Film/TheCasino'': Chairs and stools are frequently used as weapons during the film's fight scenes, with plenty of these getting destroyed in the process.
* ''Film/TheCasino'': The movie's protagonist uses plenty of ImprovisedWeapon in his fights, including stools and chairs. There's also the Casino's madam, who gets killed by a stool to the head by the main villain.
* In ''Film/CircusOfHorrors'', Rossiter smashes a chair down on Ames during their fight in Nicole's tent.
* ''Film/ClownKill'': After freeing herself from the chair [[MonsterClown Charlie Boy]] ties her down into, [[TheProtagonist Jenny]] picks the chair up and hits him with it.
* ''Film/CominRoundTheMountain'': Wilbert warns Devil Dan Winfield that Winfield will "get the chair" when he tries to kill Wilbert. Devil Dan dismisses this, stating that every judge on the local circuit is a Winfield, only to find out Wilbert meant it literally when Dan's hit with a chair by Matt.
* ''Film/DDay'' have Ivan fighting a henchman in a seedy motel. Said henchman swings a chair at Ivan, knocking him down, but after a while Ivan gets up and demolishes said chair with a punch.
* ''Film/DeepInTheValley'': On entering the examination room and finding Lester being tortured by Suzi, Carl grabs a folding chair and knocks her out with it. Later, Lance is about is about to hit Lester with what appears to be the same chair (parodying the lack of budget in porn films), Carl snatches it off him and knocks him out with it.
* ''Film/DocSavageTheManOfBronze''. A minion working for Captain Seas has his gun knocked out of his hand, so he picks up a chair instead, only for one of the Fabulous Five to drive his fist through the chair bottom and into the mook's face.
* ''Film/DraculaVsFrankenstein'': During the fight in Dr. Durea's MadScientistLaboratory, Groton smashes Mike with a Heavy wooden bench.
* ''Film/TheEscapist'': When Lacey [[BreakTheCutie finally snaps]], he grabs a chair and starts bashing Tony with it hard enough to snap the steel legs. Frank has to grab the chair off him to prevent him from killing Tony.
* Film/FoxyBrown got her black belt in ''bar stool''!
* ''Film/FrankensteinCreatedWoman'': During the fight in the cafe, Johann attempts to smash a chair over Hans's back.
* In ''Film/GodOfCookery'', Creator/StephenChow brings out a wooden folding chair and uses it in the middle of a CookingDuel to beat up his main rival. The CausticCritic actually comments on his good form and even mentions the advantages of the folding chair as a weapon.
* In ''Film/GodsGun'', Jenny rather ineffectively hits Jess Clayton with a chair when the Clayton Gang take over the saloon.
* In ''Theatre/GuysAndDolls'', both Sky and Sarah use chairs as weapons during the brawl in the cafe in Havana.
* When Harry and Ron are playing Wizard's Chess in ''Film/HarryPotterAndThePhilosophersStone'', Ron's queen takes one of Harry's pieces by smashing it in half with her throne.
--> '''Hermione:''' That's totally barbaric!\\
'''Ron:''' (''grinning'') That's ''Wizard's Chess!''
* ''Film/HolmesAndWatson'': After being thrown out of the Hexagon, Watson returns with a folding chair and bludgeons Brawn into unconsciousness.
* ''Film/IShotJesseJames'': During the scene where John Kelley is involved in a BarBrawl, one of the con men breaks a chair over his head. However, the chair just shatters and [[MadeOfIron doesn't even faze Kelley]].
* ''Film/JamesBond'':
** In ''Film/TheLivingDaylights'', Bond smashes a chair over the jailer as he is escaping from the Soviet airbase.
** In ''Film/GoldenEye'', Bond kicks a fallen chair to knock General Ourumov's legs out from under him.
** This is Bond's only protection against someone's ShamuFu in the BarBrawl of ''Film/LicenceToKill''. It is notable for failing to block the top of the swordfish.
* ''Film/JohnnyReno'': During the fight in the saloon, Yates attempts to smash a chair over Reno's head, but misses and hits the bar (and, amazingly, the chair does not shatter).
* ''Film/KingOfThieves'': During the argument while divvying up the loot, Terry smashes an oak chair on the floor and uses it to threaten Basil.
* In ''Film/KnifeForTheLadies'', Jarrod smashes a stool over Burns' head during their brawl in the jailhouse.
* ''Film/LadyOnATrain'': After being locked in Margo's dressing room, Nikki escapes by throwing a chair through the two-Way mirror.
* ''Film/LostInAHarem'': When the boys end up screwing up their act and hitting Mr. Ormulu with a flying bottle, he responds by picking up a chair and throwing it at ''them''.
* Bounty hunters seeking ''Film/TheMasterGunfighter'' consult [[KnowledgeBroker Jacques]] on where to find him. When one man offers threats instead of gold for the information, Jacques takes hold of his seat to stand up...then smashes it across the man's face, knocking him clear off the balcony. His friends are more reasonable after that.
* In ''Film/MoneyMovers'', Dino smashes a chair over Leo--who is already lying on the floor--during the fight in the counting room.
* Used in ''Film/TheMummy1999'' when Creator/BrendanFraser's character stops the cowardly Beni from running away. As he's striding toward Beni, he grabs a wicker chair without missing a beat and ''throws'' it at Beni's legs, tripping him.
* In ''Film/TheMysteryOfTheHoodedHorsemen'', During the fight in the saloon, Blackie smashes a chair over Tex's head. Tex shrugs it off as if it is nothing.
* The cops get a wheelchair thrown at them in the climax of ''Film/MysteryOfTheWaxMuseum''.
* ''Film/NightSchool1981'': During the fight in the café, Carol attempts to hit the killer with chair. The killer shrugs it off.
* ''Film/OneFootInHell'': When Dan is threatening the bartender in the saloon, he hefts a chair and waves it about threateningly.
* In ''Film/{{Parker}}'', Parker uses a stool to battle, knock down, pin and interrogate Hardwicke's brother.
-->"...And you'll have the posthumous humiliation of having been killed by a chair."
* ''Film/ThePhenixCityStory'': When John Patterson gets in a fight with Clem Wilson at the Poppy Club, one of the other patrons comes at John with a chair.
* ''Film/ThePredator''. Casey Bracket is handcuffed to a chair, so she uses it to hit the mercenary who's [[YouKnowTooMuch about to execute her]], then shoves a [[GrenadeTag live grenade down his vest]] and dives over a railing to escape the blast...and then the [[OhCrap chair catches on the railing]].
* In ''Film/ThePrinceOfThieves'', Robin and Will Scarlet hit several of Sir Fitz-Alwin's men over the head with stools when they storm the Head household.
* During the GamblingBrawl between Blazer and The Abilene Kid in the Blue Moon Saloon in ''Film/{{Rimfire}}'', Porky ThePianoPlayer gets hit by a chair thrown by Blazer. He keeps playing for several minutes before gradually keeling over sideways.
* Eric throws a stool at Marian's ghost in ''Film/TheScreamingSkull'.
* Subverted in ''Film/SharkysMachine'' (1981). Sharky is attacked by [[AllAsiansKnowMartialArts Asian kung-fu hitmen]], and does quite well until he picks up a folding deck chair and tries swinging it at them. The ImprovisedWeapon is too awkward and he misses his blows, giving them a chance to knock him out.
* ''Film/ShootOutAtMedicineBend'': When Devlin is chasing Clark up the stairs in the Emporium during the final fight, Clark throws several chairs at him in desperation.
* ''Film/SpiderMan1'' uses this in the well-known professional wrestling context, as "Bonesaw" lays out Peter Parker/Spider-Man with an aluminum folding chair during the cage wrestling scene.
* In ''Film/{{Swashbuckler}}'', Ned's opening move in the BarBrawl in the brothel is to sweep a chair into one of the advancing soldiers. Later, during the assault on the fortress, several of the soldiers get bashed with a chair.
* ''Film/TheTerrorOfTinyTown'': During the fight in the cabin, Haines attempts to smash a chair down on Buck while he is lying on the floor. Buck manages to roll out of the way just in time.
* ''Film/TopSecret''. While in a underwater {{Western}} bar (DontAsk), the BigBad breaks a chair over TheHero.
* ''Film/TragedyGirls'': During the attack in Jordan's bedroom, Sadie mashes a chair over Lowell's head.
* In "Weird" Al Yankovic's movie, ''Film/{{UHF}}'', this happens quite a lot on the revamped ''Town Talk'' (as a parody of the ''Geraldo'' incident); the audience themselves wield some absurd weaponry, like a giant boulder.
* ''Film/TheWalkingDead1936'': On finding Ellman in his bedroom, Merritt grabs a chair and attempts to hit him with it.
* ''Film/TheWarriors''. When the [[AmazonBrigade Lizzies]] try to [[SchmuckBait seduce and then kill]] the Warriors they have to [[ImprovisedWeapon grab whatever's at hand]], and a Lizzie gets a chair broken on her face in SlowMotion when she tries to shoot one of them.
* ''Film/WhereTheSidewalkEnds'': After Mark receives his NoHoldsBarredBeatdown from Scalise's goons, Scalise is ready to beat him to death with a stool, and is only stopped when one of his men convinces him that killing a cop will bring down too much heat on them.
* Taw smashes a chair over the head of one of the brawlers during the BarBrawl in ''Film/TheWarWagon''.
* ''Film/WonderWoman2017'': Etta Candy finishes the pub bruiser off by smashing a chair on him.
* In ''Film/TheWorldsEnd'' Andy (Nick Frost) ends up kicking a good deal of ass by ''dual-wielding two bar stools'', each one mounted on his arm like a PowerFist.
* ''Film/TheYoungVagabond'': The arguement in a classroom leads to punches being thrown, and the protagonist Su Qi-er promptly grabs a stool. He ends up using the stool in hitting his class teacher on the noggin' instead, who walked in at the wrong time. OhCrap indeed...
* Played with in ''Film/YoungMaster'' Creator/JackieChan stages an epic [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6uJW6UpCcyI bench to bench combat]] with his fellow disciple.
* ''Film/ZoltanHoundOfDracula'': When the vampiric dogs attempt to break in through the cabin window, Michael hits one with a chair and then wedges the chair in the window frame to block their entry.
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[[folder:Literature]]
* ''Literature/TheActionHerosHandbook'' has an entire chapter on how to take a hit from a chair.
* ''Literature/TheCinderSpires'': In ''The Aeronaut's Windlass'', the heroes Gwen, Benny, and Master Ferus having a heated discussion with a big burly merchant, whose rooms Gwen "stole" by paying the innkeeper an exuberant amount of money to claim these reserved rooms, when Ferus has a vision of a potential future. He quickly warns Benny and Gwen to arm themselves and slides the heavy wooden chair to the merchant, saying he will need it. Seconds later [[spoiler:a monstrous beast breaks into the inn]] and the merchant uses the chair against the common enemy.
* Played upon frequently in ''Literature/{{Discworld}}'', where brawls in the [[strike:Broken]] [[strike:Mended]] [[strike:Broken]] ''Mended'' Drum are an organized sport, complete with a point system and [[AttackPatternAlpha named plays]].
** Also mentioned as why people who have not read the Marquis of Fantailler's book about The Noble Art of Fisticuffs tend to win against people who have.[[note]]"The last words of a surprisingly large number of people were 'Stuff the bloody Marquis of Fantailler--'"[[/note]]
* ''Literature/{{Dragaera}}'': In the ''Literature/KhaavrenRomances'', Mica, Tazendra's lackey, wields a bar stool as his [[WeaponSpecialization weapon of choice]].
* ''Literature/TheDresdenFiles''
** ''Literature/{{Storm Front|DresdenFiles}}'': Harry Dresden knocks out [[spoiler:Morgan]] with one of the chairs at [=McAnally's=]. He lampshades the "splintering wood" part as the chair is a very solid one, and the barman actually has to check that the guy is alive afterwards.
--->"In real life, the chair doesn't break when you slug somebody with it, the way it does in the movies. The person you hit is the one who breaks."
** [[OurVampiresAreDifferent Thomas]] does this during ''Literature/TurnCoat'' to his intolerable cousin, Madeline. He breaks the chair, which is [[SuperStrength more impressive than it sounds]], since the chairs are steel.
* One ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons'' novel has a seasoned adventurer tell his inexperienced traveling companion to stay on their guard when they enter a bar, as the experienced member notices that it's an old, worn building with a lot of new furniture. He identifies this as a sign that the place experiences frequent {{Bar Brawl}}s. Sure enough, one swiftly breaks out.
* ''Literature/JamesBond''
** Bond uses a chair in ''Literature/FromRussiaWithLove'' to defend himself from Rosa Klebb's poisoned knitting needles, and pins her to a wall with it. She is then captured by his fellow agents, but not before she manages to land a hit on him with a small blade on her shoe, which is also poisoned.
** Captain of Largo's yacht in ''Literature/{{Thunderball}}'' became completely loyal to him after Largo smashed a chair over his head for not following his orders.
** In ''Literature/TheSpyWhoLovedMe'', Vivienne tries to slash Sluggsy with a knife, but he and Horror grab a chair each and overpower her. Things afterward look bad for her, but Bond's sudden arrival saves the day in the long run.
** In ''Literature/ForSpecialServices'', Bond pushes [[spoiler:Nena Blofeld]] into a DeathTrap [[HoistByHisOwnPetard meant for him]] with a chair.
* John becomes this (adding to it with a HurricaneOfPuns) in one of the big fights of ''Literature/JohnDiesAtTheEnd''.
* ''Literature/MatadorSeries'': {{Defied}} in ''The Man Who Never Missed''. The chairs in Khadaji's bar are bolted to the floor to avoid this trope. In fact, he uses the ability to overcome the bolts as a hiring test for his bouncers. {{Heavyworlder}} [[TheBigGuy Bork]] does it ''one-handed''.
* After Dox uses the ChairmanOfTheBrawl trope twice in ''Redemption Games'' (both times because he doesn't have a gun on him), Literature/JohnRain quips that he should market a ''[[FooFu Chair-fung-do]]'' style.
* ''Literature/SherlockHolmes'': ''The Adventure of Charles Augustus Milverton'' has ''Doctor Watson'' of all people resorting to this when the titular master blackmailer goes too far.
-->''He [Charles] stepped forward, took up his coat, laid his hand on his revolver, and turned to the door. I picked up a chair, but Holmes shook his head and I laid it down again.''
* Not at all comedic in the ''Literature/SienkiewiczTrilogy'', where a minor (but very large) character uses an 8 foot solid oak bench in a bar fight. It crosses into TelephonePolearm territory and largely contributes to the other side getting wiped out.
* ''Literature/TheThinkingMachine'': In "The Motor Boat", when the killer manages to get the better of Detective Mallory through use of some jujitsu tricks, Hatch ends the fight by the simple expedient of breaking a chair over the killer's head.
* ''Literature/TortallUniverse'': In ''[[Literature/TrickstersDuet Trickster's Queen]]'', when Imajane thinks Rubinyan is cheating on her, she throws a chair at him.
* ''Literature/UniversalMonsters'': During book 4, when he and Nina are attacked by a baboon and jackal (really the reanimated heads on a set of canopic jars), Levi Tovar grabs a lounge chair and throws it at the jackal. Nina later takes it up and uses it to fend off the jackal when it tries to attack her again, and then uses it against the baboon.
* ''Literature/YoungBond''
** In ''Literature/BloodFever'', armed thieves burst into home of Bond's cousin Victor while he and company are dining, and each person present reacts to the situation with their own way; Bond's reaction being that he grabs a chair and charges the assailants with it.
** Bond and Kelly in ''Literature/DoubleOrDie'' are found by Deighton and a Mook aboard the ship ''Empress'', and think they won't put up much of a fight, being young teens. They are proven wrong when they are quickly subdued by the two who arm themselves with chairs.
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[[folder:Live-Action TV]]
* ''Series/AdamAdamantLives'': In "Death By Appointment Only", Adam uses a chair to fend off a villain who has stolen his SwordCane.
* In ''Series/AmericanHorrorStoryMurderHouse'' Vivien fights off attackers while tied to a chair in Home Invasion.
* ''Series/{{Angel}}''. A spell has made Angel all touchy-feely. Confronted by shotgun-toting Mafia boss Little Tony, instead of vamping out and attacking, Angel pulls out a chair and invites Tony to discuss his issues. [[BewareTheNiceOnes Then Angel hits Tony across the face with it.]]
* ''Series/BarbaryCoast'': In the pilot movie, Jeff Cable (in his disguise as 'Joe Hook') smashes a chair over the head of a croupier in order to start a BarBrawl in the Golden Gate.
* 1960s ''Series/Batman1966'' series episode "That Darn Catwoman". After Robin is placed under Catwoman's control, he breaks a chair over Batman's head while fighting him. Afterwards, Robin shatters what is left of the ([[SpecialEffectsFailure prop]]) chair with his bare hands.
* ''Series/BeakmansWorld:'' In the segment on Movie Stunts, a little movie plays where Phoebe gets to be the Chair''woman'' of the board by breaking a chair over the villain's back. Later, they explain that the chair was made of balsa and toothpicks so that it would break easily.
* ''Series/TheBookOfBobaFett'' has a Trandoshan using a chair on Black Krrsantan. He [[NoSell barely even registers the hit]] and the Trandoshan winds up finding out why it's not wise to piss off a Wookie.
* In ''Series/ConanTheAdventurer'' someone hits Conan in the back with a chair during a bar fight. Unlike most examples of this trope, it's not very effective.
* A variation in the last episode of ''Series/CowboyBebop2021'': When Spike picks up a chair Vicious slices it up with his katana, so Spike uses one of the pieces as an improvised tonfa to fend him off.
* ''Series/{{CSINY}}'':
** Downplayed in Lovato's first episode, "[[Recap/CSINYS09E02 Where There's Smoke]]." As she arrives unannounced at the precinct, still dressed in her undercover get-up, the cops are trying to restrain a very large, very aggressive perp who breaks away from them and barrels in her direction. She calmly slides a metal chair into his path with her foot, tripping him so they can recapture him.
** In "[[Recap/CSINYS09E14 White Gold]]", Flack and Lovato attempt to arrest a suspect in a bar. The suspect knocks Flack down and then uses a bar stool to knock Lovato's gun out of her hand and knock her down. Flack puts a gun to his head before he can finish her off.
* ''Series/DoctorWho'':
** In [[Recap/DoctorWhoS17E2CityOfDeath "City of Death"]], policeman Duggan grabs a chair with the intent of fighting off some guards and escaping, but the Doctor stops him: "For heaven's sake, that's a Louis Quinze!"
** [[Recap/DoctorWhoS31E10VincentAndTheDoctor "Vincent and the Doctor"]]: At one point, Vincent van Gogh fends off the MonsterOfTheWeek with his painting chair.
** In [[Recap/DoctorWhoS33E11TheCrimsonHorror "The Crimson Horror"]], Clara grabs a chair to smash up a SteamPunk device the VillainOfTheWeek is using to bring about TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt.
--->'''Doctor:''' Hang on, hang on! I've got a sonic screwdriver!
--->'''Clara:''' Yeah? I've got a chair. ''(jams the legs into the rotors of the infernal device)''
--->'''Doctor:''' Yeah... [[BoringButPractical That worked.]]
* ''Series/ExtraordinaryAttorneyWoo'': In a flashback to the day Young-woo and Geu-ra-mi met, Geu-ra-mi [[YouLeaveHimAlone intervened when she saw Young-woo being bullied in class]]. She defended her by grabbing a chair, swinging it around a bit, and announcing she'd gladly throw it at someone's head if they messed with Young-woo any more.
* ''Series/FastForward''. A spoof of ''Series/KungFu1972'' has a cowboy trying to break a chair during the requisite BarBrawl, only he can't break it as he's moving the chair in SlowMotion; he then reverts to normal speed to build up enough force to break the chair.
* ''Series/{{Firefly}}'': Malcolm Reynolds on occasion persuades someone with a seat to the face, as in the opening bar fight during "Shindig".
* ''Series/TheGoodies''. In "The Baddies", Graeme Garden is fighting his robot doppelganger outside a furniture store, so he buys a chair off the owner to hit the robot with ([[NighInvulnerable to no effect]]).
* ''Series/HowIMetYourMother'' shows this sometimes happens when someone gets fired from Goliath National Bank. Including when Ted gets hired as an architect for an episode and is subsequently fired himself.
--> '''Ted:''' I gave him a four-pronged counterargument that really brought him to his knees.\\
'''Barney:''' so you hit him with a chair.\\
'''Ted:''' Oh yeah!
* ''Series/InspectorGeorgeGently'':
** In "Gently Underground", Bacchus hits a suspect over the back with a chair when it appears that he's about to attack a floored Gently. It turns out to be a NoSell, but luckily the suspect is just horrified that he hit a cop.
** The VictimOfTheWeek in "Gently Among Friends" is done in by a chair to the head, aided by some judicious kicking once he is down on the ground.
* Naturally tends to happen during fights on ''Series/JerrySpringer''; and over on its cousin ''Series/TheSteveWilkosShow'', Steve got so pissed off once he threw a chair into a wall so hard ''it stayed embedded in the wall''.
* ''Series/MadamSecretary'': In one episode, Elizabeth wants to hire Kat for her staff, and is [[RunningGag constantly reminded]] of a rumor that Kat threw a chair at somebody once. Towards the end of the episode, Elizabeth asks Kat about it directly, and Kat gladly clears it up. She didn't throw a chair... she threw a ''table''. At a chair. Of the Armed Services Committee. Liz hires her anyway, especially once Kat clarifies that she did it in a moment of anger after finding out said chair had been bribed, and that she does genuinely regret losing her temper like that.
* ''Series/MarriedWithChildren:'' When Bud gets into his first nudie-bar brawl, Al is proud to see his son carry on the family tradition of sucker-bashing his opponent with a chair.
* ''Series/{{Motive}}'': In "The Score", a bar owner being strong-armed by a couple of mob types has a stool broken over his head.
* ''Series/MontyPythonsFlyingCircus'' sketch "Scott of the Sahara". Lieutenant Scott faces off against a lion wielding a chair, who breaks it over Scott's back.
* ''Series/{{Nikita}}'': In "Pilot", Nikita uses a chair a shield to block the bullets fired y the bodyguard of her targets, and then to knock the man down.
* ''Series/NovolandEagleFlag'': Yu Ran breaks a chair over a pervert's head.
* ''Series/TheProfessionals''. An [[EarlyInstallmentWeirdness early version]] of the TitleSequence featured Bodie and Doyle running through an assault course which included someone charging out to hit Bodie with a chair!
* ''Series/PsychopathDiary'': Dong-sik briefly uses a chair as a weapon against In-woo.
* In the ''Series/RedDwarf'' episode "Backwards", during the reverse bar-brawl, Cat hits someone with a chair...in reverse.
* ''Series/ShaunMicallefsMadAsHell'': In one of the "Curiosity Cul-de-sac" sketches in 2018, Tosh Greenslade's detective finally has enough of Steven Hall's policeman's showbiz anecdotes and smashes a chair over his head as he starts yet another one in the police station.
* ''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration'': Worf gets a chair to the head in the episode "[[Recap/StarTrekTheNextGenerationS6E8AFistfulOfDatas A Fistful Of Datas]]". It [[NoSell doesn't even faze him]].
* ''Series/StrangersFromHell'': Jong-woo briefly uses a chair as a weapon during his fight with Moon-jo.
* The ''Series/Warehouse13'' episode "Queen for a Day" features a [[WeddingSmashers fight at the wedding rehearsal]] of Pete's ex-wife and her fiancée. After all the drama and the wedding, Pete admits he was impressed by the new husband's use of a chair in the fight, and the husband jokingly says that one of the [[ChestOfMedals ribbons on his chest]] is for "distinguished valor in combat with rental furniture".
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[[folder:Podcasts]]
* Chell from ''Podcast/{{Sequinox}}'' goes out of her way to try and hit Sargas with a chair, even though it does far less damage than her actual Sequinox attacks. Then again, she does succeed in the hit.
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[[folder:Professional Wrestling]]
* Smacking people with aluminum folding chairs (when the [[EasilyDistractedReferee referee isn't looking]], of course) is a staple of professional wrestling, though in general it's considered to be a cheap move and thus used by {{Heel}} types. They're typically referred to by the announcers as being ''steel'' chairs to make getting hit by one seem more devastating.
** [=WWE=] banned headshots with chairs shortly after Wrestling/ChrisBenoit's [[PaterFamilicide murder-suicide]] in reaction to the countless concussion injuries caused by them.
** Another use of the folding chairs is for a wrestler to place a fallen opponent's leg inside and jump on the chair to fold it flat, ({{kayfabe}}) breaking their ankle and thus giving the other wrestler a storyline excuse to be out of the ring for a while, either to recover from a real injury incurred elsewhere or to do something like star in a movie. The move is often known as the "Pillmanizer", after the late great Wrestling/BrianPillman (although Pillman was famously the ''victim'' of it at the hands of Wrestling/StoneColdSteveAustin, not the perpetrator).
** One thing to note is that despite being made from metal (steel or otherwise), folding chairs are generally: lightweight, thin, and designed to fold and unfold easily. The net result is that if used properly (as in, hitting with the broad side of the chair rather than any of the corners), the folding chairs have a lot more give than you might expect, making them safer to hit someone with than many solid objects might be. Which doesn't mean that getting smacked by a folding chair doesn't ''hurt'', just that it doesn't hurt as much as it ''looks'' like it does. Again, if used properly; an ''im''properly administered chair shot (accidental or otherwise) is an excellent way to give someone a terrible concussion or worse, as Wrestling/StevieRichards and [[Wrestling/JohnBradshawLayfield JBL]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Aj1ScIBpUq0 demonstrate here]].
* Subverted by the late Wrestling/EddieGuerrero, who would bring chairs into the ring behind the ref's back, but instead of using it on his opponent, he would smack the mat with it, toss it to his opponent, and pull a WoundedGazelleGambit when the ref turned back around. This required NotCheatingUnlessYouGetCaught to be ignored, as the ref would disqualify the opponent despite not actually seeing the alleged chair shot. Though just as often, Eddie would use the distraction of the referee taking the chair away from his opponent to [[GroinAttack hit them with a low blow]] and pin them.
* Wrestling/LaParka, luchador extraordinaire, known during his Wrestling/{{WCW}} tenure as the Chairman of WCW. Simply put, he was associated with chairs in a way few wrestlers will ever be.
* Wrestling/{{Edge|Wrestler}} and Wrestling/{{Christian}} perfected the double chair head sandwich know as the Con-Chair-To.
** After splitting from Edge, Christian began doing the one-man-Con-Chair-To, where he'd put one chair flat on the ring, put the opponent's head on it, and then hit him on the head with another chair.
* In a variation, Wrestling/{{Raven}} was known for his signature move of setting up a folding chair in the middle of the ring, and doing a drop toe-hold to smash his opponent's face into it.
* Wrestling/RobVanDam was famous for his use of chairs with two of his finishing moves: the Van Daminator was a [[SpinAttack spinning]] thrust kick to the face, typically after tossing a chair the opponent would inevitably catch right in front of their face; the Van '''Ter'''minator consisted of sitting an opponent in the corner, placing a chair (or collapsible garbage can) in front of their chest and face, then climbing to an adjacent corner and performing a missile drop kick. Not that the added weaponry was necessary to make that impressive, as that's a good ''fifteen feet'' he jumps, plus the height difference, and physics alone makes it devastating.
* First step of Wrestling/{{Sabu}}'s triple jump moonsault. Set up the chair, jump on it, jump to the top rope, moonsault off. [[Website/{{Botchamania}} If he can make all three stops]].
** He also has the [[SignatureMove Arabian Facebuster]]--a slingshot leg drop from the apron onto a downed opponent... with a chair under his leg as he jumps.
* Wrestling/{{FMW}}'s first son Wrestling/MasatoTanaka is known f. or [[NoSell no-selling]] sick chair shots to the head. Western audiences can see demonstrations in his matches with Wrestling/MikeAwesome at Wrestling/{{ECW}} ''Heat Wave '98'' and WWE ''One Night Only '05''.
* Hardcore Legend Wrestling/MickFoley had a long and, uh, "involved" relationship with chairs over the course of his long career. One of his signature moves was a dive off the ring apron to an opponent on the outside while holding a chair. One time he wrapped a chair in rags, ''set them on fire,'' then hit Wrestling/TerryFunk with it; after this came damn close to ''killing'' Funk he never tried it again. And then there was the infamous "I Quit" match against [[Wrestling/DwayneJohnson The Rock]] at the 1999 ''Wrestling/RoyalRumble'', where he took '''''eleven''''' completely unprotected (as his hands were cuffed behind his back) and increasingly stiff chair shots directly to the head in one of the most [[NightmareFuel/ProfessionalWrestling genuinely horrifying]] displays of violence WWE ever allowed; Mick's wife and children were at ringside to watch the gruesome display and were reduced to traumatized tears. And one last (much less injurious) display they were involved in when both Mick and Terry were fighting Public Enemy in the ECW; Terry made the mistake of asking the notoriously aggressive ECW crowd for a chair to finish them off, and [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AxldOEOnzPA got the entire arena's worth of seating thrown into the ring]].
* [[Wrestling/AllEliteWrestling Shawn Spears]] took up the moniker of the 'Chairman', using the steel chair as his signature weapon after brutally assaulting Wrestling/CodyRhodes with a chair as his first action in the company.
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[[folder:Video Games]]
* A blink-and-you-miss-it moment at the start of ''VideoGame/BatmanArkhamCity'' while Bruce Wayne is being transferred into Arkham City, you can turn and see Black Mask defending himself with a chair against some TYGER guards to no avail.
* In ''VideoGame/CrusaderKingsIII'', it is possible for an assassin to kill their target with an artifact their target owns... such as their own throne.
* Spend enough time in ''VideoGame/DeadRising'' and you'll eventually find yourself having to grab a chair so you can bludgeon zombies with it, usually to conserve more useful and powerful weapons. Pick up a bench and you can shove an entire crowd into a tangled pile of moaning undead bodies. ''Dead Rising 2'' and ''3'' provide the unique circumstance of allowing players to beat a person to death with a wheelchair.
* ''VideoGame/DeathRoadToCanada'' points out several times that picking up and tossing furniture at zombies is a good attack method, and it is: thrown objects, even light ones, deal very good damage and knockback. Just so happens that chairs are the lightest furniture to pick up and yeet around, even by survivors with low physical stats.
* In ''VideoGame/DragonAgeInquisition'', [[OldSoldier Blackwall]] mentions this happening in the BarBrawl that got him recruited into the Grey Wardens. When one of his opponents broke a chair over Blackwall's back, [[MadeOfIron Blackwall]] just grabbed one of the chair's broken legs and used it as a bludgeon.
* In a BarBrawl cutscene from ''VideoGame/DragonQuestVIII'', Yangus attempts to hurl a chair at a brawny troublemaker picking fights. [[BoisterousBruiser Someone's still sitting in it.]]
* For reasons unknown, Liu Shan was given [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IKNESBEeYf0 a bench]] as his weapon of choice in ''VideoGame/DynastyWarriors 8: Empires.'' While the series is full of {{Improbable Weapon User}}s, the bench is certainly one of the more surreal entries seen thus far.
* ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyVIIRemake'' has Aerith cheerfully bringing down a chair towards one of Don Corneo's lackeys.
* Used oddly with the Gravity Gun in ''VideoGame/HalfLife2''. It lets you pick up [[AbnormalAmmo anything that isn't nailed down or too heavy]] and lob it at the enemy at high speed. Among the items you can use are various items of furniture, including chairs and benches.
* ''VideoGame/HeroesOfTheStorm'': There is a set of wrestling-themed alternate skins for some of the characters. Garrosh's skin swaps out his axe [[NamedWeapons Gorehowl]] for a metal chair.
* The Veteran of ''Super VideoGame/MondayNightCombat'' uses a spike-covered stool as his melee weapon. His grapple consists of setting down the stool and bashing his victim into it a few times.
* ''VideoGame/Persona4'': Kanji Tatsumi uses [[LuckilyMyShieldWillProtectMe a shield]] as his weapon of choice, but his default one is a folding chair. Said chair is also his weapon in ''VideoGame/Persona4Arena''.
** ''VideoGame/Persona5 Royal'' has a surprise successor in the form of Makoto Nijima, who slams a folding chair onto whatever poor shadow is opposing her in her and Haru's Showtime.
* In ''VideoGame/SaintsRowTheThird'', after [[spoiler:Phillipe Loren]] dies, his former [[TheDragon Dragon]] [[MaskedLuchador Killbane]] decides to [[DragonAscendant take over]] TheSyndicate. When [[EvilBrit Matt]] [[TheCracker Miller]] objects to this, pointing out that [[CoDragons Kiki and Viola DeWynter]] should be the leaders instead, due to being [[spoiler:Loren's]] second-in-commands, Killbane belts him with a chair. Impressively, Matt [[MadeOfIron survives this]], despite Killbane being powerful enough to snap necks with just two fingers.
* Lisianthus from ''VisualNovel/{{Shuffle}}'' often has to do this to her father in order to make him stop whatever inappropriate action he is doing at the current time.
* DLC character Beowulf of ''VideoGame/{{Skullgirls}}'' is a wrestler who wields a chair by the name of "The Hurting", a reference to [[Literature/{{Beowulf}} his namesake's]] sword Hrunting. Yeah, that's right: his chair is so respected and famous that ''[[NamedWeapons it has its own name.]]''
* Referenced in the Creator/ChoiceOfGames title ''VideoGame/{{Slammed}}''. Choosing to give an autograph to a kid results in you getting criticized for breaking kayfabe. Your character will archly respond with "Maybe I should have hit her with a chair."
* When she uses her V-Trigger II in ''VideoGame/StreetFighterV'', Rainbow Mika calls in her tag team partner to clobber her opponent with a chair and then throw it at them.
* In the ''VideoGame/SuperSmashBros'' series, Mr. Game and Watch uses a chair for his forward tilt attack, taken from the Lion game. His LimitedAnimation means he doesn't so much swing it as hold it out in front of himself like a shield, but it'll still [[RagdollPhysics send anyone who touches it flying]].
* ''VideoGame/{{Troublemaker}}'', a beat-em-up set inside a school, have you grabbing chairs and using them to pummel other bullies, in stages set inside classrooms. Heck, there's even a power-up called "Eat This Chair" where you can whip out a chair from [[{{Hammerspace}} out of nowhere]] and smack some bullies across their noggins.
* Used by the various protagonists of the ''VideoGame/LikeADragon'' series. For example Kazuma Kiryu can swing an office chair, toss it, or smash it against the head of a loan shark so hard that he flips over and can't fight anymore. Taken to extremes with the "Essence of Improvisation" for the [[BruceLeeClone Action Star]] Job in ''Videogame/LikeADragonInfiniteWealth'', where the character uses a folding chair, a sofa, an office chair and a bench to attack his enemies Jackie Chan-style, stacking them up into a massive tower, climbs said tower and rests on the sofa as it falls down and crushes his foes.
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[[folder:Webcomics]]
* ''Webcomic/FurryFightChronicles'' has smacking opponents with a chair being a common {{Heel}} tactic.
** Scalitor hits Donkizari with a chair to hurt her and gather Heat, negative reaction from the audience to cement herself as the strongest {{Heel}} Combagal.
** Kalita hits [[spoiler: Sleepy with a chair to the back to show that she's turned into a {{Heel}} Combagal.]]
* Such a fight happens in ''Webcomic/GirlGenius'', during the regularly scheduled bar brawl at the Jager tavern. To keep things friendly, there's a "No weapons" policy, but:
-->''[Higgs hits a Jagermonster with a chair. Zeetha stares at him.]''\\
'''Higgs:''' ...what?\\
'''Zeetha:''' You just said: "No weapons."\\
'''Higgs:''' That wasn't a ''weapon'', that was a ''chair''.
** Which leads to:
--->'''Jagermonster:''' Ow!\\
'''Zeetha:''' ''Ha!'' That's not a weapon, that's a ''chair!''\\
[...]\\
'''Jagermonster:''' Aie!\\
'''Zeetha:''' ''Tankard!'' Not a weapon!\\
[...]\\
'''Jagermonster:''' ''Urg!''\\
'''Zeetha:''' ''[[RuleOfThree That's]]'' [[RuleOfThree not a weapon!]] That's a ''table!''
* Minmax from ''Webcomic/{{Goblins}}'' traded his ability to wink for [[http://www.goblinscomic.org/04052010/ Weapon Proficiency: Furniture]]. He fights with a table in that particular scene though.
* ''Webcomic/{{Insecticomics}}'':
** Used by the Predacons after they start a wrestling tournament. Silverbolt gets whacked on the head by Jetstorm, then starts thinking that ''he's'' Jetstorm, so Blackarachnia and Jetstorm are forced to hit him repeatedly in an attempt to get him back to normal.
** After getting fed up while dealing with a teenager who only speaks in LeetLingo, a GrammarNazi finally tells her that if she doesn't start speaking correctly she'll be hit with a chair.
* The main protagonist in Great from ''Website/KiwisByBeat'' uses a bar stool like a lethal weapon. He used it once when drunk in self-defense and managed to take out tens of gang ridden streets with it.
* In Volume 5 of ''Webcomic/MayonakaDensha'', Hatsune uses a chair to fend off Constance's [[AttemptedRape would be rapist.]]
* Threatened in one storyline of ''Webcomic/ScaryGoRound'', when MinionWithAnFInEvil Gibbous Moon gets sent to the Orkneys to help capture the Kraken[[note]][[WorldOfWeirdness (long story)]][[/note]]. A couple of the locals take quite a shine to her, but she [[MegatonPunch takes exception]] when they bully her partner Desmond. The following comic opens with both boys bleeding from the face, Moon brandishing a chair, and Desmond [[LovableCoward nowhere to be seen]].
-->'''Moon:''' Any more o' you hicks want to ride the lightnin'?!
* ''Webcomic/TheSwordInterval'': Early in the first arc, David Shimizu breaks the arm of a man harassing him in a diner with a barstool.
* ''Webcomic/{{Unsounded}}'': During his escape from [[HumanTraffickers The Red Berry Boys]], Jivi is ambushed by [[MadDoctor Cutter]]. He [[https://www.casualvillain.com/Unsounded/comic/ch06/ch06_50.html escapes]] by smashing a wooden stool over the Imak's head and using a dropped knife to break his SlaveCollar.
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[[folder:Western Animation]]
* In [[Recap/ArcherS7E7DoubleIndecency an episode]] of ''WesternAnimation/{{Archer}}'', during the brawl at the end of the episode, Archer gets [[RuleOfThree three chairs in a row smashed over his head]].
-->'''Archer''': Goddammit! [[LampshadeHanging What the hell IS this, a chair factory???]]
* ''WesternAnimation/TheBoondocks''
** Inverted: ''just'' throwing a chair is believed to be the actual cause of a brawl in the first place. It doesn't even need to ''hit'' anybody, simply throwing a chair into a crowd just spontaneously starts a riot.
** Riley brandishes a footstool against Huey on one occasion.
* ''Franchise/DCAnimatedUniverse'':
** ''WesternAnimation/BatmanTheAnimatedSeries'' - In the Riddler's first episodes, one of his mooks breaks a chair on Batman's back. He looks pretty pleased with himself...until Batman gets back up, now ''angry.''
** In the ''WesternAnimation/JusticeLeague'' episode "Maid of Honor", Batman hits ComicBook/VandalSavage in the face with an office chair.
--->'''Batman:''' You're in my way. ''[slam]''
* ''WesternAnimation/GravityFalls''
** When [[{{Yandere}} Giffany]] takes over some animatronics in "Soos and the Real Girl", Soos' date Melody clobbers one with a chair before being overwhelmed.
** Done again in "Dungeons, Dungeons, and More Dungeons" when Grenda uses an ''armchair'' to [[CuttingTheKnot beat the living crap out of an ogre who tried to distract them with a side-quest]].
--->'''Stan:''' There's no cops in the forest. [[LetUsNeverSpeakOfThisAgain We take this to our graves]].\\
'''Grenda:''' (winks solemnly)
* ''WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes'': In ''WesternAnimation/TheCaseOfTheStutteringPig'', after the villain mocks [[BornInTheTheatre "the guy in the third row"]] all throughout the cartoon, he's thwarted by [[FromBeyondTheFourthWall said guy throwing a chair at him]].
* ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons''
** In "Thirty Minutes Over Tokyo, when the eponymous family took a vacation in Japan, Bart & Homer went to a sumo wrestling event; Homer ended up in the ring, Bart got the tag, and hit the sumo wrestler with a folding chair. The crowd booed them.
** In "A Milhouse Divided", Luanne's new boyfriend Pyro, an [[Series/AmericanGladiators American Gladiator]], shows Bart that a chair can be broken on him with no adverse effects. In the next scene, Bart tries whacking Homer across the back with a wooden chair with no warning while the latter is bathing.
--->'''Homer:''' (''screams in pain'') What the hell is wrong with you?!\\
'''Bart:''' Geez, sor-ree. It's a pretty standard stunt, Homer.
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[[folder:Real Life]]
* Anyone who has been involved in a bar fight knows that one's trusty seat is a useful tool to kick some serious ass.
* There is actually a Chinese martial art based around using benches to fight your way out of taverns. Considering that 99% of all taverns/gambling den/restaurants at that time had big heavy pieces of sitting furniture readily available under... under hand, this is less of an out-from-under-the-ass-pull and more genre savviness. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6C0YJcuoD04&NR=1 Check out the demonstrations here.]]
* The December 2011 Mall of America brawl involved quite a few thrown chairs.
* Poet [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murō_Saisei Murō Saisei]] is known for an incident where he angrily swung a chair in the middle of a poets' conference to break up an argument that involved close friend Hagiwara Sakutarō.
* This once happened in a [[BloodOnTheDebateFloor brawl in the Austro-Hungarian]] ''Reichsrat'' sometime around 1900 (an altogether too common occurrence) while Creator/MarkTwain was visiting:
-->''"One night, while the customary pandemonium was crashing and thundering along at its best, a fight broke out. It was a surging, struggling, shoulder-to-shoulder scramble. A great many blows were struck. Twice [Pan-German party leader and racist Georg, Ritter von] Schonerer lifted one of the heavy ministerial ''fauteuils''--some say with one hand--and threatened members of the Majority with it, but it was wrenched away from him; a member hammered [German Radical party leader and racist Karl Hermann] Wolf over the head with the President's bell, and another member choked him; a professor was flung down and belabored with fists and choked; he held up an open penknife as a defense against the blows; it was snatched from him and flung to a distance; it hit a peaceful Christian Socialist who wasn't doing anything, and brought blood from his hand."''
* Self-proclaimed King of the Youtube Walkthrough [[https://www.youtube.com/user/theRadBrad TheRadBrad]] has done this in ANY game whenever he finds something akin to a chair. He even has ''Professional Chair Thrower'' in his channel description.
--> ''[Finds a chair during a game]''\\
'''TheRadBrad''': ''FUCK YOU, CHAIR!''... ''YEEEAAAHH...!''
* Though details surrounding [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-xaV-u7-pTA this altercation]] aren't clear, what ''is'' clear is that people are throwing and swinging a lot of folding chairs around...including one lady who ups the ante by throwing a ''folding table.'' She also catches a thrown chair with one hand.
* 2010 match between Greece and Sebia national basketball teams ended in brawl concluded with Nenad Krstic ''throwing'' the chair into Greek players. It eventually hit Giannis Bourousis and cost Krstic three-game suspension before the FIBA World Championship.
* A Turkish football match descended into rather bizarre violence when angry supporters of both teams [[http://sports.yahoo.com/blogs/dirty-tackle/besiktas-galatasaray-match-abandoned-turning-giant-plastic-chair-025149909--sow.html stormed the field and attacked each other with plastic chairs]] after a red card was called. It got so bad that riot police were called in. In the meantime, two men took ''their'' chairs out to one of the goal nets, sat down, and pointed and laughed at the proceedings.
* Similarly and what has been described as "the most embarrassing moment in the history of Chilean tennis", the 2000 Davis Cup match between Argentina and Chile ended up with drunken fans pelting the field with plastic chairs, along with anything that wasn't nailed to the floor, injuring 3 people and getting the match cancelled.
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