History Main / DinerBrawl

* Happens in Robert Altman's live-action ''[[http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Film/Popeye Popeye]]''

* AHistoryOfViolence has a very violent, yet important instance of this trope. After the main character kills two robbers in his diner, it begins a cycle of violence and unearths his shady past.

* The Kris Kristofferson movie {{Convoy}} begins with a diner fight between truckers and a corrupt sheriff. The truckers win but they have to flee across the state line in order to avoid trouble.
* KickAss features the hero's first fight just outside of a diner.

* {{Supernatural}}: Sam and Dean get into a lot of diner brawls.
* An early storyline of {{ER}} had a doctor and her husband being diagnosed with HIV. The husband had no known about this and accidentaly infected a co-worker during a work-related accident. The co-worker saw the doctor and her husband in a diner in one episode and began to harrass them until the husband stepped in and fought him. It was one of the more dramatic examples of this trope.

* In ''[[Film/{{Superman}} Superman II]]'', Superman loses his powers and is reduced to mild mannered Clark Kent. He visits a diner, only to be harassed by a truck driver and roughed up. Later in the movie when he regains his powers, he goes back to the same diner and throws the truck driver down the length of the counter. He leaves, claiming that he's been working out?

* The opening scene in ''NaturalBornKillers'' also has a particulalrly nasty Diner Brawl and one of the few examples of the [[VillainProtagonist protagonists]] causing it.

* ''BadDayAtBlackRock'': Spencer Tracy as a one-armed Handicapped BadAss wipes the floor with Ernest Borgnine.

* The Kris Kristofferson movie ''Convoy'' begins with a diner fight between truckers and a corrupt sheriff. The truckers win but they have to flee across the state line in order to avoid trouble.

And then there are those times where a character is simply having his or her lunch and the BigBad happens to show up in the same place.

* ''Invisibles''. A local cowboy doesn't like the fact that Lord Fanny is a transexual and tries to pick a fight. Doesn't go well when the heroes take down entire military bases on their off days.

* ''IndianaJonesAndTheKingdomOfTheCrystalSkull'' has the scene where Indy and Mutt start a DinerBrawl between the [[JerkJock jocks]] and the [[AllGirlsWantBadboys Greasers]] in order to get away from the KGB agents that had them cornered. It even came with 50's brawling music!

* ''IndianaJonesAndTheKingdomOfTheCrystalSkull'' has the scene where Indy and Mutt start a DinerBrawl in order to get away from the KGB agents that had them cornered. It even came with 50's brawling music!

* In ''The Presidio'', Sean Connery's character has to take a JerkAss down in the middle of a diner, using only his [[PressurePoint thumbs]].
** Using only his ''right'' thumb. His left was [[BadassBoast far too powerful]]

** This tends to happen at 24 hour diners or open late diners in general, as an example in Troper Tales will show. Often, 24 hour diners or late-open diners are in areas with a lot of nightlife. The DinerBrawl in these cases is often just a [[IncrediblyLamePun]] [[PortingDisaster]] of the BarBrawl.

* Search for "Dennys Brawl" and at least three different viral videos will pop up depicting nasty fights witnessed in the diner-chain. They must be putting something in the ''Moon Over My Hammy''.

* In ''ThePresidio'', Sean Connery's character has to take a JerkAss down in the middle of a diner, using only his [[PressurePoint thumbs]].

* In ''UTurn'', another movie directed by OliverStone, Sean Penn's character gets beaten up in a diner by a jealous boyfriend who is pissed that his girlfriend has a crush on him. He [[HumiliationConga actually gets beaten up a lot in this movie.]]

* ''LoveAndDeathOnLongIsland'' has an in-universe example. John Hurt watches a [[ShowWithinAShow Movie Within a Movie]] called ''Hot Pants College II'' which apparently starts with a scene of holligans beating up Jason Presly at a 50's style diner.
* The JamesDean movie ''{{Giant}}''. Seen [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e4ptm6F2KHQ here]]. Rock Hudson is the one delivering the beating, however.
* ''SpaceTruckers'' has a fight scene in a [[GreasySpoon diner]] [[InSpace in space]].

* ''SecondhandLions'' has a memorable brawl, with Hub giving the teen delinquents who are hassling him fighting lessons, then working off some angst on them, then bringing them home to provide first aid and a lecture called "what every boy needs to know about being a man".