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* ''Der Nasse Fisch'', by Creator/VolkerKutscher. The uniformed police connect a hose to a fire hydrant and hose down demonstrators in an illegal May Day parade. As this is taking place in the UsefulNotes/WeimarRepublic in 1929, the observing Vice Squad detectives treat this as an entirely new tactic.
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* ''Der Nasse Fisch'', by Creator/VolkerKutscher. The uniformed police connect a hose to a fire hydrant and hose down demonstrators in an illegal May Day parade. As this is taking place in the UsefulNotes/WeimarRepublic in 1929, the observing Vice Squad detectives treat this as an entirely new tactic.
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* In 1999 on an episode of ''Wrestling/WWERaw'' Wrestling/StoneColdSteveAustin uses [[https://youtu.be/_O89Y0VwdPs?t=195 a firehose attached to a beer truck]] to take out Wrestling/TheCorporation.
* In a CallBack in 2001, Wrestling/KurtAngle takes out Wrestling/TheAlliance, led by Steve Austin, using [[https://youtu.be/-6Q7UpGv0Uc?t=125 a firehose attached to a milk truck.]]
* In 2023 on ''Wrestling/WWESmackdown'' Angle brings out the milk truck again [[https://youtu.be/X9xFtmuJK1Y?t=247 to hose down]] the Wrestling/AlphaAcademy who had interrupted [[ABirthdayNotABreak his birthday celebration]].
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* In 1999 on an episode of ''Wrestling/WWERaw'' Wrestling/StoneColdSteveAustin uses [[https://youtu.be/_O89Y0VwdPs?t=195 a firehose attached to a beer truck]] to take out Wrestling/TheCorporation.
* In a CallBack in 2001, Wrestling/KurtAngle takes out Wrestling/TheAlliance, led by Steve Austin, using [[https://youtu.be/-6Q7UpGv0Uc?t=125 a firehose attached to a milk truck.]]
* In 2023 on ''Wrestling/WWESmackdown'' Angle brings out the milk truck again [[https://youtu.be/X9xFtmuJK1Y?t=247 to hose down]] the Wrestling/AlphaAcademy who had interrupted [[ABirthdayNotABreak his birthday celebration]].
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* ''Film/TheManWhoKnewTooMuch'': Creator/AlfredHitchcock reported that the London police, who were cooperating with the production, objected to the police being shown using guns against the criminals holed up in house behind the temple. When he asked them how they would deal with it, they suggested using fire engines and hoses: a technique which had been employed in the Siege of Sidney Street in 1911. Eventually, the police agreed to the scene showing the police using rifles, so long as they were shown as being specifically issued for the assault.
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* ''Film/TheManWhoKnewTooMuch'': Creator/AlfredHitchcock reported that the London police, who were cooperating with the production, objected to the police being shown using guns against the criminals holed up in a house behind the temple. When he asked them how they would deal with it, they suggested using fire engines and hoses: a technique which had been employed in the Siege of Sidney Street in 1911. Eventually, the police agreed to the scene showing the police using rifles, so long as they were shown as being specifically issued for the assault.
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* ''Film/AdvanceToTheRear'': During the final battle between Company Q and Zattig's men, weapons include a fire hose, [[ImprovisedWeapon chamber pots, pans, a makeshift catapult built out of old crates, and at least one rolling pin]].
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* ''Series/{{Emergency}}'': On one occasion, the paramedics are trying to help a police officer who's been shot by a sniper in an apartment building. Engine 51 uses the truck's water cannon to spray the apartment windows, giving the paramedics cover to evacuate the wounded cop.
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* ''VideoGame/DisneysMagicalQuest'': In the first game, one of the outfits Mickey or Minnie obtains is a firefighter outfit, which uses the hose as a weapon, along with the utility of pushing blocks into better positions.
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* A promo for the 2023 season of ''Series/TheWeeklyWithChharliePickering'' describes attempting to keep up with the constant flow of news as like "drinking from a fire hose". The ad then attempts to show Charlie as the man for the job by having him [[LiteralMetaphor actually drink from a fire hose]]. A second before they turn the hose on, Charlie realises what a bad idea this is and tries to to get them to stop, but it is too late, and he is blasted out of his chair by the high power jet of water.
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* A promo for the 2023 season of ''Series/TheWeeklyWithChharliePickering'' ''Series/TheWeeklyWithCharliePickering'' describes attempting to keep up with the constant flow of news as like "drinking from a fire hose". The ad then attempts to show Charlie as the man for the job by having him [[LiteralMetaphor actually drink from a fire hose]]. A second before they turn the hose on, Charlie realises what a bad idea this is and tries to to get them to stop, but it is too late, and he is blasted out of his chair by the high power jet of water.
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* A promo for the 2023 season of ''Series/TheWeeklyWithChharliePickering'' describes attempting to keep up with the constant flow of news as like "drinking from a fire hose". The ad then attempts to show Charlie as the man for the job by having him [[LiteralMetaphor actually drink from a fire hose]]. A second before they turn the hose on, Charlie realises what a bad idea this is and tries to to get them to stop, but it is too late, and he is blasted out of his chair by the high power jet of water.
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* ''Film/ProblemChild'': In the second movie, Trixie uses the school's fire hose against Junior, pushing him across the entire hallway.
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Compare MakingASplash, where characters can do this ''without'' a hose.
Very much TruthInTelevision as any firefighter can testify to the concussive force of a stream from a high-pressure hose, and the difficulty of getting back to your feet if you are being bombarded by it.
Very much TruthInTelevision as any firefighter can testify to the concussive force of a stream from a high-pressure hose, and the difficulty of getting back to your feet if you are being bombarded by it.
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Compare MakingASplash, where characters can do this ''without'' a hose.
Very much TruthInTelevision as any firefighter can testify tohose. See RescueEquipmentAttack for violence committed via the concussive force use of a stream from a high-pressure hose, fire extinguishers and the difficulty of getting back to your feet if you are being bombarded by it.
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* ''Film/TheAmazingSpiderMan2'' have Spider-Man taking down an out-of-control Electro by blasting a fire hose at him from nearby.
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* ''Film/HerNameIsCat'' (unrelated to ''Black Cat'' have the police interrogating the arrested FemmeFatale assassin, Cat, by stripping her down and blasting her with a firehose while wearing only her undergarments. And when Cat refuses to give in, they decide to have her, still dripping wet and barely clothed, tied up in a freezer.
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* The first ''Film/BlackCat'' have a moment played for FanDisservice reasons, when the arrested Katherine gets tortured by the police by having a firehose blasted on her at max speed while in a t-shirt and panties.
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* ''Film/TheBodyguardThai'' have the titular character pursued by a number of thugs in a warehouse, and noticing a firehose nearby. He then turns it to maximum and blasts his way through everyone.
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* ''Film/HalloweenKills'': When Michael emerges from the burning house, one of the firefighters attacks him by spraying him with his hose. [[NoSell Michael just walks right through it]].
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* ''VideoGame/Spyro2RiptosRage'': The large landblubber enemies in Breeze Harbor wear firefighter helmets and attack Spyro by spraying water at him from their hoses. They also use these hoses to put out fires.
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* Snout Spout from ''WesternAnimation/HeManAndTheMastersOfTheUniverse'' and ''WesternAnimation/SheRaPrincessOfPower'' was an Eternian fireman who wore a face concealing helmet in the shape of an elephant's head. He was able to use the trunk to suck up nearby sources of water and [[FireHoseCannon squirt it out with the force of a heavy firehose]], blasting fires (and enemies) with a jetstream of water.
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* Snout Spout from ''WesternAnimation/HeManAndTheMastersOfTheUniverse'' and ''WesternAnimation/SheRaPrincessOfPower'' was an Eternian fireman who wore a face concealing helmet in the shape of an elephant's head. He was able to use the trunk to suck up nearby sources of water and [[FireHoseCannon squirt it out with the force of a heavy firehose]], blasting fires (and enemies) with a jetstream of water.
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* ''Series/AllOfUsAreDead'': Nam So-ju uses a fire hose to decent effect against a zombie horde when evacuating politician Park Eun-hee and her staff from a government building.
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* ''VideoGame/DisasterReport'': In the level in the Lincoln Plaza, you come across a fire hose. At first, you use one that's on the ground floor - and it's incredibly powerful. How much? Well, it's so strong that it ''destroy debris like it was nothing''. Better yet, you eventually use it to [[spoiler: take down the only boss in this game - a helicopter containing the Bazooka Goon, by either "shooting" at an elevator lift or suspended pillars that resemble a chandelier. Either one will send it crashing and exploding. Read that again: you take down a helicopter with a fire hose.]]
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* ''VideoGame/DisasterReport'': In the level in the Lincoln Plaza, you come across a fire hose. At first, you use one that's on the ground floor - and it's incredibly powerful. How much? Well, it's so strong that it ''destroy debris like it was nothing''. Better yet, you eventually use it to [[spoiler: take down the only boss in this game - a helicopter containing the Bazooka Goon, by either "shooting" at an elevator lift or suspended pillars that resemble a chandelier. Either one will send it crashing and exploding. Read that again: you take down a helicopter with a fire hose.]]
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* Near the end of ''Film/CityWar'', after Ken had killed off all of Ted's henchmen in the abandoned bus depot, Ted ambushes Ken with a high-pressure hose (used for cleaning vehicles) and tries to drown Ken alive. The timely intervention of Ken's grievously-wounded buddy, Dick, who turns out to be NotQuiteDead, is what ultimately saved Ken's life by tripping Ted from the back.
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* ''Film/{{Mannquin}}'': Hollywood uses a fire hose to hold off a bunch of security guards so Jonathan can save Emmy from being killed in a trash compactor.
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A water cannon is a device that shoots a high-velocity stream of water, which is frequently used for riot control. This weapon evolved from the use by authorities of fire hoses to quell riots in the late 19th and early 20th century.
Sometimes in fiction, a character (almost always TheHero) will still use a fire hose (or other high-pressure water source) as an ImprovisedWeapon. In most cases (especially if the wielder is TheHero) the target will be an individual or small group rather than a mob.
A SisterTrope to WaterHoseRodeo and to DeusAxMachina, as many public and industrial buildings contain fire hoses (probably more than have fire axes).
Compare MakingASplash, where characters can do this ''without'' a hose.
Very much TruthInTelevision as any firefighter can testify to the concussive force of a stream from a high-pressure hose, and the difficulty of getting back to your feet if you are being bombarded by it.
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* In ''Film/BetYourLife'', Sonny uses the deluge gun on a fire boat to knock Joseph out of his helicopter: firing the stream of water in one door and out the other.
* ''Film/TheDelinquent'': During the warehouse raid when Boss Lam's minions attacks the warehouse Shum works as a night watchmen, Shum briefly uses a water hose turned at full blast to defend himself from a bunch of thugs. It works for a short while, but a thug who entered from the back door hacked the pipe and stopped the water altogether.
* In ''Film/FirstBlood'', one of the tortures the deputies subject Rambo to in the cells is blasting him with a high-pressure fire hose.
* At the climax of ''Film/HerbieRidesAgain'', Alonzo Hawk's [[VillainousGentrification attempt at bulldozing Grandma Steinmetz's firehouse with her in it]] is temporarily slowed down by Grandma and the man she's dating using the firehouse's hose to toss the operators off their construction equipment until the hose bursts from overuse. Hawk only has a few seconds to gloat that they can't stop him before Herbie (and all of the Beetles in San Francisco) attack.
* ''Film/TheManWhoKnewTooMuch'': Creator/AlfredHitchcock reported that the London police, who were cooperating with the production, objected to the police being shown using guns against the criminals holed up in house behind the temple. When he asked them how they would deal with it, they suggested using fire engines and hoses: a technique which had been employed in the Siege of Sidney Street in 1911. Eventually, the police agreed to the scene showing the police using rifles, so long as they were shown as being specifically issued for the assault.
* ''Film/OperationDeltaForce'': In the final shootout, one of the main villains, Praetorian, tried making his escape carrying a sample of the Ebola viral antidote, and the Delta team are unable to gun him down for concerns about accidentally damaging the antidote's container. Cue Captain Lang grabbing a nearby firehose, turning it to full blast, and using the impact to knock Praetorian off his feet and subduing the villain long enough for the antidote's retrieval.
* Played for laughs in ''Film/{{UHF}}''; when a kid finds a marble in a sandbox filled with oatmeal, he wins the prize of drinking from the firehose, which blows him across the room.
* In ''Film/AViewToAKill'', Film/JamesBond knocks the police chief over by opening a valve on the fire engine, blasting him with a high-pressure jet of water; allowing him and Stacy to escape in the confusion.
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* ''Series/MacGyver1985'':
** In "Last Stand", Mac uses the hose on the fire truck to knock a bad guy off of a motorcycle.
** In "Deathlock", Mac uses a high pressure water outlet as a water cannon to push Quayle against overloaded fuse box to electrocute and stun him, before finishing him off with a punch.
** In "Tough Boys", Mac weaves a fire hose through the rungs of a ladder, which enables him to aim the hose at the roof of building before turning on the hose and blasting the thug on the roof.
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* ''VideoGame/DisneysMagicalQuest'': In the first game, one of the outfits Mickey or Minnie obtains is a firefighter outfit, which uses the hose as a weapon, along with the utility of pushing blocks into better positions.
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Sometimes in fiction, a character (almost always TheHero) will still use a fire hose (or other high-pressure water source) as an ImprovisedWeapon. In most cases (especially if the wielder is TheHero) the target will be an individual or small group rather than a mob.
A SisterTrope to WaterHoseRodeo and to DeusAxMachina, as many public and industrial buildings contain fire hoses (probably more than have fire axes).
Compare MakingASplash, where characters can do this ''without'' a hose.
Very much TruthInTelevision as any firefighter can testify to the concussive force of a stream from a high-pressure hose, and the difficulty of getting back to your feet if you are being bombarded by it.
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* In ''Film/BetYourLife'', Sonny uses the deluge gun on a fire boat to knock Joseph out of his helicopter: firing the stream of water in one door and out the other.
* ''Film/TheDelinquent'': During the warehouse raid when Boss Lam's minions attacks the warehouse Shum works as a night watchmen, Shum briefly uses a water hose turned at full blast to defend himself from a bunch of thugs. It works for a short while, but a thug who entered from the back door hacked the pipe and stopped the water altogether.
* In ''Film/FirstBlood'', one of the tortures the deputies subject Rambo to in the cells is blasting him with a high-pressure fire hose.
* At the climax of ''Film/HerbieRidesAgain'', Alonzo Hawk's [[VillainousGentrification attempt at bulldozing Grandma Steinmetz's firehouse with her in it]] is temporarily slowed down by Grandma and the man she's dating using the firehouse's hose to toss the operators off their construction equipment until the hose bursts from overuse. Hawk only has a few seconds to gloat that they can't stop him before Herbie (and all of the Beetles in San Francisco) attack.
* ''Film/TheManWhoKnewTooMuch'': Creator/AlfredHitchcock reported that the London police, who were cooperating with the production, objected to the police being shown using guns against the criminals holed up in house behind the temple. When he asked them how they would deal with it, they suggested using fire engines and hoses: a technique which had been employed in the Siege of Sidney Street in 1911. Eventually, the police agreed to the scene showing the police using rifles, so long as they were shown as being specifically issued for the assault.
* ''Film/OperationDeltaForce'': In the final shootout, one of the main villains, Praetorian, tried making his escape carrying a sample of the Ebola viral antidote, and the Delta team are unable to gun him down for concerns about accidentally damaging the antidote's container. Cue Captain Lang grabbing a nearby firehose, turning it to full blast, and using the impact to knock Praetorian off his feet and subduing the villain long enough for the antidote's retrieval.
* Played for laughs in ''Film/{{UHF}}''; when a kid finds a marble in a sandbox filled with oatmeal, he wins the prize of drinking from the firehose, which blows him across the room.
* In ''Film/AViewToAKill'', Film/JamesBond knocks the police chief over by opening a valve on the fire engine, blasting him with a high-pressure jet of water; allowing him and Stacy to escape in the confusion.
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* ''Series/MacGyver1985'':
** In "Last Stand", Mac uses the hose on the fire truck to knock a bad guy off of a motorcycle.
** In "Deathlock", Mac uses a high pressure water outlet as a water cannon to push Quayle against overloaded fuse box to electrocute and stun him, before finishing him off with a punch.
** In "Tough Boys", Mac weaves a fire hose through the rungs of a ladder, which enables him to aim the hose at the roof of building before turning on the hose and blasting the thug on the roof.
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* ''VideoGame/DisneysMagicalQuest'': In the first game, one of the outfits Mickey or Minnie obtains is a firefighter outfit, which uses the hose as a weapon, along with the utility of pushing blocks into better positions.
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