History Main / BarBrawl

** In "[[Recap/StarTrekTheNextGenerationS6E14Tapestry Tapestry]]", [[PhysicalGod Q]] (possibly, it's up for interpretation) showed [[TheCaptain Jean-Luc Picard]] that a bar brawl was a pivotal moment in the life of the young captain (even though it nearly killed him, he had to get a artificial heart after he was stabbed). Essentially, had Picard been the sort of man who would have avoided the [[NoHoldsBarredBeatdown fight]], he would have never made captain; his career stalling as a junior officer who never takes risks, and is never noticed.
** On ''Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine'', O'Brien, Bashir, and Worf have an off-screen argument about organized labor that somehow escalated into a bar brawl, landing all three in a jail cell. Sisko was not pleased.
** Another [=DS9=] brawl occurs as the natural result of having Klingons, Romulans, and alcohol in the same place.
** During the occupied [=DS9=] arc, the station resistance is able to engineer a brawl between Cardassian troops and a number of Jem'Hadar after Rom steals a copy of a Cardassian contingency plan to poison the Jem'Hardar in the event they run out of ketracel-white (Jem'Hadar in withdrawal tend to go on indiscriminate killing rampages) and arranges for the information to fall into Jem'Hadar hands. The fight--between the genetically engineered SuperSoldiers and [=DS9=]'s go-to analogue for the [[ThoseWackyNazis Nazis]]--immediately turns deadly.
** In "Sons and Daughters", General Martok reprimands Worf for breaking up a messhall brawl because it would let the crew of their Klingon warship release some pre-battle tension. [[DeliberateValuesDissonance That was a brawl involving knives, incidentally, and Worf broke it up because his own son was at risk.]]

* [[WesternAnimation/TexAveryMGMCartoons Tex Avery's]] ''Droopy'' cartoon '"The Shooting Of Dan [=McGoo=]'', based on a Creator/RobertWService poem, has an establishing shot in the Malamute Saloon, panning across a full-scale riot.

* In ''Series/GameOfThrones'', Sandor gets into a lethal version with some of his brother's men he encounters in a tavern who want to haul him back to King's Landing for a reward.

* In ''Film/TheAmazingMaurice'', Darktan triggers one when he escapes from the Pit. By the time he gets away, all of the humans attending the rat coursing have knocked each other out (and the chicken is pecking triumphantly at the butt of one the unconscious spectators).

*** Subverted during Chapter 8 in Half-Moon Inn. A brawl is about to break out when Kyril deliberately provokes [[GreenEyedMonster Morgan]] by pulling Grace close to him. It does not come to pass in the end, as Morgan's men decide to bail their leader out upon witnessing him receiving a kick in the gut the sends him flying.

* You can start one in ''VideoGame/RedDeadRedemption''. It also serves as a stage of the first game, ''VideoGame/RedDeadRevolver''.

It happens in RealLife and the destruction of furniture is TruthInTelevision: when drunk, people are less likely to aim their blows or [[CantHoldHisLiquor even stand properly]]; additionally, the [[CombatPragmatist smarter fighters]] (aka the ones not engaging in "drunk boxing") will almost always be grabbing {{chair|man of the brawl}}s, [[GrievousBottleyHarm bottles]], pool cues (used like a BroomstickQuarterstaff), and other nearby objects that just so happen to make for good {{improvised weapon}}s.

-->-- '''Jack Cates''', ''[[Film/FortyEightHours Another 48 Hrs]]''

* There is one in episode 17 of ''Anime/SonicX'', "The Aventures of Knuckles and Hawk", but it's very short because... well, Knuckles is the one fighting so the guys fighting him never stood a chance. This extremely short fight occurs when Knuckles starts looking for [[DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment his human friend Hawk.]]

* Used for BlackComedy in the fifth album of the original ''Adele Blanc-Sec'' stories. News that the UsefulNotes/FirstWorldWar has ended reaches Paris, and the French in a local bar begins to cheer and sing national hymns. Unfortunately, a band of American soldiers are present, insulting the French by reminding them that ''they'' [[AmericaSavesTheDay actually won the war]] on behalf of the French. After a brief argument involving UsefulNotes/TheAmericanRevolution and Lafayette, the discussion turns into a brawl.

* ''Franchise/{{Superman}}'':

* It's revealed in ''ComicBook/TheTransformersMoreThanMeetsTheEye'' that the entire millions of years long Cybertronian Civil War was, in fact, the result of a bar brawl that was triggered by someone's need for a bendy straw.
* Franchise/WonderWoman:

* ''VideoGame/DragonAgeOrigins'':
** A sizable number of these in Denerim, one in Lothering, and one outside of a bar at the Lake Calinhad. Hell, in these bar fights you actually get a Rogue class specialization and an NPC follower!

** In [[VideoGame/DragonAgeInquisition the third game]], one of these can happen offscreen if the [[PlayerCharacter Inquisitor]] is human. If the player opts to publicly denounce some distant relatives who are trying to take advantage of his/her position, one cousin gets so incensed that he picks a fight with an Inquisition soldier in a tavern. This descended into a full brawl that ended when an angry cook took a [[RollingPinOfDoom rolling pin to the cousin's head]].

* At least two of the multiple versions of Alaskan Western ''Literature/TheSpoilers'' culminate in an epic, and classic, one-on-one example. Balconies are fallen over, valuable pots are smashed, chairs and bottles are used as weapons, men are thrown over the bar, tables are flipped, and every sheet of glass in the place is smashed. It finishes with the hero and villain going out the window and finishing the fight in the mud. The 1942 [[Film/TheSpoilers1942 version]] features Creator/JohnWayne and Randolph Scott losing their shirts, while the 1955 version has showgirls who just keep on dancing as the furniture flies, and a leading lady who slides down the bannisters in order to keep watching her man.

* At least two of the multiple versions of Alaskan Western ''Film/TheSpoilers'' culminate in an epic, and classic, one-on-one example. Balconies are fallen over, valuable pots are smashed, chairs and bottles are used as weapons, men are thrown over the bar, tables are flipped, and every sheet of glass in the place is smashed. It finishes with the hero and villain going out the window and finishing the fight in the mud. The 1942 version features Creator/JohnWayne and Randolph Scott losing their shirts, while the 1955 version has showgirls who just keep on dancing as the furniture flies, and a leading lady who slides down the bannisters in order to keep watching her man.

* ''ComicBook/GuardiansOfTheGalaxy'': In vol 2, the team gets into one started by Phyla, fresh off a DealWithTheDevil, hearing some Shi'ar talking smack about her dead dad. Soon the entire bar's gotten involved. It stops when Adam Warlock returns, but given he quit the team because of issues with Star-Lord's leadership, he points out finding him right in the middle of a brawl isn't doing him any favors.

* ''Wiki/SCPFoundation'' The tale [[http://www.scp-wiki.net/the-chosen-few The Chosen Few]] sees an anomalous one [[InvokedTrope started]] by a paracriminal to [[WeNeedADistraction avoid arrest from the FBI.]]

* In ''Film/NineteenFortyOne'', Wally, who's wearing stolen Shore Patrolman's uniform to enter the serviceman's only ball, gets punched by Army-man Sitarsky, who was trying to make off with Wally's girlfriend. In retaliation, Wally's friend, Dennis who's wearing [[MilesGloriosus a rented Marine Corps uniform to pick up girls]], tries to hit Sitarsky with a chair, but ends up hitting some sailors instead, who pick him up and toss him onto a squad of actual Marines. Soon after that, [[InterserviceRivalry the three branches slug it out]] to the point that the brawl spills out out onto the streets as a riot.

* In Creator/RobertEHoward's "Literature/TheTowerOfTheElephant", Franchise/ConanTheBarbarian starts one in the opening scene.

* ''ComicBook/LeScorpion'': Armando starts one between the warrior monks and the Swiss Guard in ''In the Name of the Father'' so he and his allies can slip out of the bar without being seen by the monks.