History Main / BigBallOfViolence

* During the Wheel of Fortune miniarc in ''WebVideo/VaguelyRecallingJoJo'', Jotaro suspects that one of [[EarlyBirdCameo La Squadra di Esecuzione]] is the driver of the car Kakyoin knocked off the road earlier and tries beating them up, which resulted with this happening between them and Jotaro's group. The ones not in the brawl are Kakyoin and the Runaway Girl.

--> '''[[WesterAnimation/FamilyGuy Quagmire]]:''' "Did I just get laid?"

Sometimes a character escapes from the Big Ball of Violence, leaving the other participant to realize he's been beating up himself (or, if several characters had ganged up on the escapee, each other). In other cases if a character witnesses a SecondPersonAttack, and is ''easily'' overpowered, than the BigBallOfViolence may mean the overpowered character is taking an ass-kicking.

Sometimes a character escapes from the Big Ball of Violence, leaving the other participant to realize he's been beating up himself (or, if several characters had ganged up on the escapee, each other).

* HaroldLloyd's Film/TheKidBrother, and
** KungFuHustle are a couple of live-action films with fights that vanish into a cloud of dust.

* ''DrawnTogether'' had one of these in its first episode, when Clara and Foxxy break out into a fight after a language-related tiff.

* In ''MissionHill'', the animation is so good and detailed, that all of the comical fight is visible when brothers Andy and Kevin roughhouse. The cartoony dust cloud just appears for stylistic reasons.
* In ''CatDog'', one of these kicks up whenever the Greaser dogs beat up the titular conjoined duo. Often played with, such as when only Cat is in the Big Ball and Dog is just sticking out, running wherever he is wont to go. Also, in the same episode, the camera actually goes inside the Ball, revealing Shriek's reluctance to punch Dog.
* ''{{Popeye}}'' frequently got into a Big Ball of Violence with Bluto, once seen momentarily sticking out from the melee to relight his pipe before going back in.
* Used frequently in ''TheFairlyOddparents'', usually when Timmy is mauled.
* Usen on ''{{Jimmy Two-Shoes}}''. When [[CallASmeerpARabbit Cerbee]] is mauling something, for instance.
* Occasionally used in TexAvery's [[TexAveryMGMCartoons MGM cartoons]], most notably in the cartoon "The Screwball Squirrel" in which at the end Screwy, Meathead, and their [[OffScreenTeleportation twins]] [[EnemyMine attack]] [[RidiculouslyCuteCritter Sammy Squirrel]] for interrupting the cartoon.

* KidVsKat uses this trope so much that you'd think the creators had a patent on it.

--> '''Quagmire:''' [[FamilyGuy "Did I just get laid?"]]

* Subverted slightly in the ''{{Asterix}}'' comics. Fights between the villagers are common (usually involving [[ShamuFu fish as weapons]], and on one memorable occasion menhirs) and these take the form of a huge piled-up scrum of struggling bodies in a dust cloud. The difference is that instead of being hidden by the cloud the fight is fully detailed, with the villagers drawn kicking, punching, gouging and stomping. It is notable that Asterix himself never once gets involved in one of these. Obelix wants to, but being permanently infused with the [[SuperMode magic potion]], nobody wants to fight him.

* An old issue of Archie's ''Comicbook/SonicTheHedgehog'' comics had Sonic involved in a stationary version of this with [[strike:Whatsisface]] Geoffrey St. John the [[strike:Aussie]] British skunk. It had the whole cloud of dust, poking out arms-and beneath it, Sonic and Geoffrey's feet, standing firmly on the ground, killing the illusion that anything's actually going on in there.

* Though it's an illustrated novel, CaptainUnderpants featured something similar to this, lampshading how easy it made the pages to draw.

* The German Club Nintendo comic [[SuperMarioBros Mario]] in: Mariozilla uses this trope [[http://www.suppermariobroth.com/image/49793843263 in page 4 when Mario and Kamek fight.]]

* In {{Disney}}'s version of ''Disney/{{Aladdin}}'' there is one scene during the song ''One Jump Ahead'' where all guards jump Aladdin at once, resulting in one of these. Aladdin and Abu aren't actually in it; they sneak off hidden under jars.

* ''MickeyMouse'' had an early example in a comic strip from May 5, 1930, written by Walt Disney himself. Mickey entered a room to free the captive Minnie, but was jumped by Pegleg Pete, Sylvester Shyster, and an unnamed third crook. As the Big Ball of Violence rolled around on the floor, Mickey neatly escaped from it, untied Minnie, and fled, leaving the bad guys to clobber one another until they got a clue.
* ''{{Heathcliff}}'' was always getting into fights like these.

* Very common between Andy and Flo in ''AndyCapp''.
* Frequently used with Beetle and Sarge and others in ''BeetleBailey'' (see picture above). Also subverted once in the sense that Beetle was actually making it by himself, not fighting Sarge as it appeared. Another time, Killer and Beetle were making one, and Sarge told them to stop and that they should water the ground first so that fighting doesn't raise so much dust.
* A standard fight scene in ''CalvinAndHobbes'' when the duo come to blows (read: a lot) complete with GoshDangItToHeck (and other more creative insults). This is sometimes lampshaded, subverted, and averted when Calvin returns home from school, but usually ends up with this because Hobbes [[GenreSavvy learns fast]]. Miniature stars and planets typically surround the cloud.
* Sometimes happens in {{Garfield}} when Garfield fights with Odie or some other animal.

* In ''The Chinaman'' (1920), an early Max Fleischer cartoon, Koko the Clown fights it out with an angry coolie. Their battle forms a BigBallOfViolence complete with Koko's hat momentarily flying out, only to be yanked back in.
* ''WesternAnimation/EdEddNEddy'' features the occasional BigBallOfViolence. Amusingly enough, one in "Home Cooked Eds" has the (three) Kanker Sisters reaching out to grab Johnny 2x4 and Plank, but four pairs of arms come out.
* Parodied in one episode of ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy''. British comic strip character AndyCapp is seen playing darts with the boys at the Drunken Clam. His wife shows up, and they have one of their signature BigBallOfViolence fistfights. Quagmire gets sucked into it, then spat back out. His response: "What the hell? Did I just get laid?"

* One of Peter's abilities in ''WesternAnimation/Family Guy Video Game!'' is this.

* In ''The Sims'' and ''VideoGame/TheSims 2'', whenever two Sims get annoyed enough to attack each other, it erupts into a Big Ball of Violence, complete with the usual cartoon shticks of the smoke cloud, random limbs sticking out, characters trying to crawl out and being pulled back in, etc.
** And with the "Unleashed" Expansion for the Sims, a pet dog can get into a similar dustup with a raccoon, complete with raccoon falling out and performing "put up ya dukes" sparring moves before jumping back in.
*** The "Pets" expansion for the Sims 2 allows two dogs (and less frequently, cats) to fight if they hate each other enough. After the dust clears, one dog is lying on the floor looking sorry for itself and the other looks distinctly smug.

** In ''MySims'', one of the "Be Mean" actions is to leap on the target Sim, initiating a Big Ball of Violence.

* The opening of ''[[SuperMarioBros Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door]]'' has Mario and Goombella escaping a Big Ball of Violence involving Lord Crump and an army of X-Nauts. By the time Crump realizes what happened, they're long gone.
* In [[MarioParty Mario Party 5]], the victim of a Ukiki capsule gets attacked by a Ukiki forming a big cloud of dust, during which all his capsules are sent flying.
* In ''[[SamAndMaxFreelancePolice Sam & Max Hit the Road]]'', Sam and Max get into a Big Ball of Violence fight with Conroy Bumpus's bodyguard at Gator Golf.

* In ''{{Disgaea}} 2'', this is one of the potential animations for a four-person CombinationAttack.
* ''Videogame/CrashTwinsanity'' has this as a gameplay feature, during moments when Cortex just gets too pissed off at Crash and the two end up as this. The player then has to roll them like a hamster ball through the upcoming obstacle course. If the ball is left still, an IdleAnimation will play of one of the two characters getting the upper hand, including one where Cortex... spanks Crash.

* In the SNES game based on the movie ''CoolWorld'', there's a Big Ball of Violence that moves slowly back and forth across one part of a nightclub. Get too close and it'll drag you in, resulting in the loss of a life.

** Other {{Sierra}} games use this trope whenever you die from a beating such as a wolf in ''VideoGame/KingsQuestI'' and a mugger in ''VideoGame/PoliceQuest II''.
* In ''DokaponKingdom'', fights that last more than a day are marked by a Big Ball of Violence, and the player can't move to another space until the fight is finished (and in this game, [[FightClub fights will go on as long as they have to]]). Other players can interrupt the fight and decide to [[VideogameCrueltyPotential attack the player]], or [[KillSteal step in and take out that player's bounty]].

* Used a few times in ''ZackAndWiki'' during cutscenes and [[TheManyDeathsOfYou deaths.]]

* In ''PuzzleClubhouse'' [[http://www.puzzleclubhouse.com/player?episode=00001 Episode 1]] you must block attacking lawn gnomes and steer them into fights with one another. Each kerfuffle is a Bag Ball of Violence obscured by clouds of plaster dust.

* ''SuperRobotWars''' Soulgain have an ultimate move named Code: Kirin, which in the [=OGs=] or the PSP remake of the original had that mecha throw a lot of {{Kamehame Hadoken}}s to create a mountain of dusts... then the mecha will enter the dust and temporarily turn it into a Big Ball of Violence, then throw the enemy out... for more violence.

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* Frequently used in the British comic ''TheBeano''. For a long period the [[http://www.grannymar.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2008/07/beano.jpg title panel]] of ''DennisTheMenaceUK'' was a Big Ball of Violence.

* The Zappa Boys of ''Clayfighter'' feature this as a supermove, complete with the leader yelling "Get 'em!"

* Done when Bun-Bun [[http://www.sluggy.com/daily.php?date=990225 fights a horde of zombies]] in ''SluggyFreelance''.

* The first ''ZooTycoon'' game had a Big Ball of Violence whenever an animal kills another.

* Frequently used with Beetle and Sarge and others in ''BeetleBailey'' (see picture above). Also subverted once in the sense that Beetle was actually making it by himself, not fighting Sarge as it appeared.

* The German Club Nintendo comic [[SuperMarioBros Mario]] in: Mariozilla uses this [[http://www.suppermariobroth.com/image/49793843263 in page 4 when Mario and Kamek fight.]]

-->'''Sammy:''' [[TastesLikeDiabetes My cartoon have been cuter.]]\\

-->'''Sammy:''' [[TastesLikeDiabetes My cartoon have been cuter.]]

* Occasionally used in TexAvery's MGM cartoons most notably in the cartoon "The Screwball Squirrel" in which at the end Screwy, Meathead, and their twins attack Sammy Squirrel for interrupting the cartoon.

* [[spoiler:[[{{Tanuki}} Mamizou's]] [[LimitBreak Last Word]] in the ''VideoGame/{{Touhou}}'' fourth fighting game, ''Hopeless Masquerade'', includes this, complete with cartoony sound effects.

* Frequently used in the British comic ''TheBeano''. For a long period the [[http://www.grannymar.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2008/07/beano.jpg title panel]] of ''Dennis the Menace'' was a Big Ball of Violence.