History Main / ForkFencing

* If the two weren't in production at about the same time, one would wonder from one of ''VideoGame/SonicUnleashed'''s [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zVr0ea6vWA0 unlockable cutscenes]] if the Sonic Team staff was composed of ''WesternAnimation/KungFuPanda'' fans.

* There are two sequences in ''WesternAnimation/KungFuPanda'' where [[ImprobableChopsticksSkill chopsticks are used as weapons]]. The second scene is important for Po's character growth as it shows that he has trained hard enough not just to be a kung fu master in his own right but also not to eat when he's stressed.

* While Kenshiro of ''Manga/FistOfTheNorthStar'' doesn't use any forks, his incarnation in ''Manga/FistOfTheBlueSky'' uses a whole bunch of them to take out a bunch of evil gangsters who were viciously mistreating his [[BloodBrothers sworn brother]]. And in the anime adaptation of the manga, he uses Kenshiro's famous {{Kiai}} for the [[RapidFireFisticuffs Hokuto Hyakuretsu Ken]] ("AHHHHTATATATATATATATATATATATA!") from the previous series while he's throwing those forks. Or in the French GagDub, the infamous "Hokuto de cuisine".

* ''WebAnimation/HomestarRunner''. In the Cheat Commandoes Thanksgiving special, Blue Lazer Commander uses this to differentiate between his two cronies by [[EyeScream jabbing a fork into one crony's eye.]]

* In ''Franchise/{{Splatoon}}''[='s=] Salmon Run mode, [[MiniMook Smallfry]] wield plastic spoons.

While forks have certainly been used as stabbing implements - Website/{{Wikipedia}} has [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Military_fork an article on military forks]] - this trope is about characters who use dinner forks, butter knives, and the like as personal weaponry.

While forks have certainly been used as a BladeOnAStick - Website/{{Wikipedia}} has [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Military_fork an article on military forks]] - this trope is about characters who use dinner forks, butter knives, and the like as personal weaponry.

* In one episode of ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'', Homer wins a knife fight against a mobster using a pair of table forks. Giving us the truly [[IncrediblyLamePun groanworthy]] quote:

* Mahiro and his mom utilize forks in ''LightNovel/NyarukoCrawlingWithLove'' to keep Nyarko, Cuuko, and Hasta in check if they start acting up too much. Keep in mind that the former two are ordinary humans and the latter three are {{Eldritch Abomination}}s from the ''Franchise/CthulhuMythos''.

* In part six of ''LightNovel/TheGardenOfSinners'', when Shiki goes undercover at Reien Academy and has to leave her signature knife behind, it takes her a whole of one scheduled meal to spirit away a table-knife. Given how this is the BreatherEpisode, however, she barely gets to actually used it for the rest of the episode.

* Tyrion Lannister uses this early in the first book of ''Literature/ASongOfIceAndFire'' to annoy a particularly humourless member of the Night's Watch. When the knight leaves in a huff, Tyrion claims his share of dinner.

* In ''[[Literature/InheritanceCycle The Fork, The Witch, and the Worm]]'', Murtagh finds himself in a fight without a weapon. He enchants a fork with a spell to prevent it from breaking, uses it to defeat sword-wielding mercenaries, and then presents it to a young girl so that she can keep it to defend herself when needed. (She names it "Mister Stabby.")

* In ''Franchise/{{Splatoon}}''[='s=] Salmon Run mode, the Smallfry wield plastic spoons.