History Main / DinerBrawl

** In the first ''Film/BackToTheFuture'' movie, Biff and his gang bully George [=McFly=] while in a diner and then turn their attention to Marty once he tries to stand up to them on behalf of his dad. Later, the characters go back to the same diner to beat up George only to have Marty trip them and sucker-punch Biff. This leads to the famous chase sequence outside.
** In ''Film/BackToTheFuturePartII'', it's Biff's grandson who bullies Marty's son, leading to a similar sequence of events.

* ''Series/Daredevil2015'' has a rather gruesome example of this in the episode "[[Recap/Daredevil2015S2E11380 .380]]". [[ThePunisher Frank Castle]] uses an unsuspecting Karen Page to lure two of the Blacksmith's henchmen to a diner. The hitmen come inside and Frank savagely beats and kills them both while a horrified Karen watches.

Occasionally the PortingDisaster of the BarBrawl, when, after a night of drinking, the [[MushroomSamba consumption of other substances]] and tension-building, the combatants-to-be have retired to a diner or restaurant for a meal.

* [[TwoAndAHalfMen John Cryer]] and his two friends (one of which is played by [[Music/RedHotChiliPeppers Flea]]) get into a diner brawl with a large punk in the Western action comedy, ''Dudes''. Later, the main characters get into another one at a redneck diner, which apparently houses brawls all day, judging by the warning the gas station attendant gives them just before going in.

* ''Film/{{Heat}}'' depicts a scene in which Creator/RobertDeniro beats up the TokenEvilTeammate while still in the diner booth. He follows up on the job outside.

* ''Series/Daredevil2015'' had a rather gruesome example of this in the episode "[[Recap/Daredevil2015S2E11380 .380]]". [[ThePunisher Frank Castle]] lures two hitmen to a diner with Karen Page being none-the-wiser. The hitmen come inside and Frank savagely beats and kills them both while a horrified Karen watches.

* Happens in RobertAltman's live-action ''Film/{{Popeye}}''.

** Later, during the battle in Smallville, Clark fights Faora in an IHOP restaurant.

* In ''Film/{{xXx}}'', protagonist Xander Cage is abducted from his home by government agents, and wakes up the next day in a busy road diner. Shortly after there's a stick-up by two armed men, but Cage easily dispatches both of them, even brazenly walking into the line of fire of the second gunman before taking his weapon. Agent Augustus Gibbons reveals himself and states it to be a test which Cage passed, but asks how he knew. Cage [[SherlockScan points out all the increasingly unlikely discrepancies he noticed before the hold-up]]; he can believe that the first gunman was using a cop-issue Beretta and even that the second gunman would be all dressed up and reading a financial newspaper for a day when the stock market's closed, but they blew it with the waitress. Because his aunt was one, he knows that no career waitress would come to work in high heels because it would just cause blisters, so he realized the whole thing was fake and the guns only had blanks.

* Narrowly averted in ''Film/{{Drive}}'', where the main character is spotted by an old client in a diner. The Driver threatens to beat the client if he says another word to him, so the client stands down immediately,

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* {{Defied}} in ''The Basalt City Chronicles''. Two rival gangs of teens are in Bev and Dev's Cafe. They don't ''hate'' each other, but they'd be up for a good brawl. Problem: [[TheBigGuy I'Brolent of the I'Brel Tribe]] is sitting between them. None of the teens in the cafe has any trace of doubt that [[OneRiotOneRanger I'Brolent can mop the floor with everyone if they try anything.]]

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* The JamesDean movie ''Film/{{Giant}}''. Seen [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e4ptm6F2KHQ here.]] Rock Hudson is the one delivering the beating, however.

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* An early storyline of ''{{ER}}'' had a doctor and her husband being diagnosed with HIV. The husband had not known about this and accidentally 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 harass them until the husband stepped in and fought him. It was one of the more dramatic examples of this trope.

* In the first episode of ''TheAquabatsSuperShow!'', "[=ManAnt!=]", the extremely famished band attempts to order at a deserted burger joint when [=ManAnt=]'s henchmen show up to attack.

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* In ''Literature/HarryPotterAndTheDeathlyHallows'', the main characters run into a diner to escape the Death Eaters, but two show up because they are able to track anyone who speaks Voldemort's name.
* ''[[Franchise/ANightmareOnElmStreet A Nightmare on Elm Street: Perchance To Dream]]'' has a Fast Food Restaurant Brawl, caused by everyone being rendered edgy, paranoid and violent due to Jacob Johnson stopping everyone in Springwood from dreaming for at least a month (to protect them from Freddy). Later on in the police station patrons are still fighting, with several cops now involved.

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* This happens in two Fleischer ''{{Popeye}}'' cartoons ''We Aim To Please'' and ''What - No Spinach?''.
* ''DanVs'' has one. Well, dinner theatre brawl actually, but pretty much the same. Incited by Dan.

* In ''WesternAnimation/TheAvengersEarthsMightiestHeroes'', the first time [[ComicBook/IncredibleHulk Bruce Banner]] first confronts the villain, the Absorbing Man, they are in a diner. Sure enough, Banner is soon tossed through the front door and has a HulkOut.

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* ''TheSecretSaturdays'': Zak and Fisk cause one at the start of "Cryptid vs. Cryptid".

* In ''Film/StreetsOfFire'', we're introduced to our hero Tom Cody when he arrives at a diner and finds some 50s-style bikers getting out of hand. He beats them all up and makes a big mess of the joint. It turns out that the hostess is his sister and a little annoyed that he trashed her business while protecting her honor.

* In ''WesternAnimation/AvengersEarthsMightiestHeroes'', the first time [[{{Hulk}} Bruce Banner]] first confronts the villain, the Absorbing Man, they are in a diner. Sure enough, Banner is soon tossed through the front door and has a HulkOut.

* Played for laughs (note the obvious stunt double) in ''Film/ImGonnaGitYouSucka'' when Mr. Big's goons arrive at a local diner to beat up Jack Spade. Luckily Jack's mother is there to protect him, much to Jack's chagrin. [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3lwyXHj5qXs Watch it here,]] 6:45-7:45. Includes a BarSlide.

* In the first ''Film/BackToTheFuture'' movie, Biff and his gang bully George [=McFly=] while in a diner and then turn their attention to Marty once he tries to stand up to them on behalf of his dad. Later, the characters go back to the same diner to beat up George only to have Marty trip them and sucker-punch Biff. This leads to the famous chase sequence outside.
* In ''Film/BackToTheFuturePartII'', it's Biff's grandson who bullies Marty's son, leading to a similar sequence of events.

* ''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.

* ''Film/UniversalSoldier'' featured an example in which the hero started the fight, although not intentionally. Creator/JeanClaudeVanDamme played a cyborg who just discovered food and orders multiple plates without realizing that he has to pay for it. [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HUwiKkgre6M&feature=related You can imagine where it goes from there.]]

* ''Film/SpaceTruckers'' has a fight scene in a [[GreasySpoon diner]] InSpace.

* The JamesDean movie ''Film/{{Giant}}''. Seen [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e4ptm6F2KHQ here]]. Rock Hudson is the one delivering the beating, however.

* Played for laughs (note the obvious stunt double) in ''Film/ImGonnaGitYouSucka'' when Mr. Big's goons arrive at a local diner to beat up Jack Spade. Luckily Jack's mother is there to protect him, much to Jack's chagrin. [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3lwyXHj5qXs Watch it here]], 6:45-7:45. Includes a BarSlide.

* ''TheInvisibles''. A local cowboy doesn't like the fact that Lord Fanny is a transsexual and tries to pick a fight. Doesn't go well when the heroes take down entire military bases on their off days.
* The graphic novel ''MesmoDelivery'' begins with a fight between the main characters in a truck stop.
* A backup feature in ''SavageDragon'' shows [[TheJuggernaut Zeek]] eating at a diner that happens to be owned by a superhero couple: [[SuperToughness Rock]] and [[AnimalThemedSuperbeing Widow]]. Zeek does not realize he has to pay for a meal so a fight erupts between him and Rock, which resembles the old 1960's fights between TheIncredibleHulk and [[ComicBook/FantasticFour The Thing]]. Eventually, the matter is solved by Rock employing Zeek.

* 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.
* In the first ''Film/BackToTheFuture'' movie, Biff and his gang bully George [=McFly=] while in a diner and then turn their attention to Marty once he tries to stand up to them on behalf of his dad. Later, the characters go back to the same diner to beat up George only to have Marty trip them and sucker-punch Biff. This leads to the famous chase sequence outside. In the sequel, it's Biff's grandson who bullies Marty's son, leading to a similar sequence of events.
* In ''ThePresidio'', Sean Connery's character has to take a JerkAss down in the middle of a diner, using only his [[PressurePoint thumbs]]. He says he'd only use his ''right'' thumb, as his left is [[BadassBoast far too powerful]]. Once the fight begins, [[TryingToCatchMeFightingDirty he uses both thumbs and a foot.]]
* The opening scene in ''NaturalBornKillers'' also has a particularly nasty DinerBrawl and one of the few examples of the [[VillainProtagonist protagonists]] causing it.
* In ''U-Turn'', another movie directed by Oliver Stone, 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.]]
* ''BadDayAtBlackRock'': Spencer Tracy as a one-armed HandicappedBadAss wipes the floor with Ernest Borgnine.
* Averted in ''DumbAndDumber'' when Harold throws a salt shaker and accidentally hits a large redneck named Sea Bass in the head. Sea Bass marches over to the two men and is ready to kick their collective ass until they apologize and offer to pay for his meal. They end up sticking him with the bill instead and flee the diner.

* Played for laughs (note the obvious stunt double) in ''ImGonnaGitYouSucka'' when Mr. Big's goons arrive at a local diner to beat up Jack Spade. Luckily Jack's mother is there to protect him, much to Jack's chagrin. [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3lwyXHj5qXs Watch it here]], 6:45-7:45. Includes a BarSlide.

* [[TwoAndAHalfMen John Cryer]] and his two friends (one of which is played by [[Music/RedHotChiliPeppers Flea]]) get into a diner brawl with a large punk in the Western action comedy, ''Dudes''.

* 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.

* ''Film/{{Heat}}'' depicts a scene in which RobertDeniro beats up the TokenEvilTeammate while still in the diner booth. He follows up on the job outside.
* The straight-to-DVD horror/comedy ''TheGingerdeadMan'' starts with Gary Busey killing people in a diner before being caught and eventually sent to the electric chair.

* Every {{Asterix}} book in which the heroes journey outside the village will feature at least one punch-up in a restaurant.

* Likewise in ''Film/ManOfSteel'', the fight between Superman and the villains eventually carries into and, after a bit, through an IHOP restaurant.
* Averted in ''Film/{{Drive}}'', where the main character threatens a former clinet when he tries to talk to him in a diner. The client stands down and leaves, so no fight occurs.

* ''{{Film/Love And Death On Long Island}}'' 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 hooligans beating up Jason Priestley at a 50's style diner.