History Main / FryingPanOfDoom

* In "'VideoGame/{{EarthBound|1994}}'", Paula's main weapon is a frying pan that she uses to bash enemies.

* In "VideoGame/{{EarthBound}}", Paula's main weapon is a frying pan that she uses to bash enemies.

* ''Fanfic/OnceUponAStudioVersionTwoPointOh'': In this reimagining of Creator/Disney's [[WesternAnimation/OnceUponAStudio centenary short]], Mickey is ''even more'' startled as [[WesternAnimation/TheJungleBook Kaa]] tries to hypnotize Clarabelle. Fortunately, Rapunzel is soon on the case, as she whacks Kaa with her frying pan to snap him out of it.

* In ''VideoGame/Left4Dead2'', the humble skillet is every bit as deadly as any other melee weapon – maybe even ''more'', as it has a shorter cooldown between swings. Funnily enough, it's such a liked weapon that in the promotion for ''The Passing'' DLC, the Frying Pan was added to Creator/{{Valve|Software}}'s other hugely popular multiplayer game ''VideoGame/TeamFortress2'' as a cosmetic change to the Soldier's shovel and the Demoman's bottle, where it became notorious for a high CriticalHit chance [[UrbanLegendOfZelda despite actually having the same stats as stock]]. Then, it reached [[MemeticMutation memetic status]] as part of the "Demopan", a fan-made parody of the many, ''many'' promotional items of ''VideoGame/TeamFortress2''. As of now, the Frying Pan can be equipped by every class except the Spy and the Engineer. Considering that using the Scout's bat is one of the most annoying things to be hit with, you can only ''imagine'' how many [[{{Griefer}} people]] started to use the Frying Pan when playing as the Scout. As it makes the same sound regardless of whether it does damage or not, it's also found a secondary use as a means to play pranks on teammates or simply wake them up from being [=AFK=] with the frying pan's majestic '''CLANG!''' sound it makes when hitting things.
** And now, there's the rare [[BlingBlingBang Golden Frying Pan]], which can be equipped on every class, including Engineer and Spy, and [[TakenForGranite turns the victim into a golden statue]] on kill. It can be [[RandomDrop obtained]] from playing the Two Cities tour in [[RobotWar Mann vs. Machine]] mode, at a [[RareRandomDrop VERY small chance]]. Very few Golden Pans exist, making them a prestigious item to own; [[https://www.hardcoregamer.com/2013/11/27/money-money-money-ultra-rare-team-fortress-2-item-sells-for-5500/63944/ one]] was sold for $5,500 in real money.

* When you play as Sam in one of ''Literature/TheLordOfTheRings'' tie-in [=RPG=]s, one of your abilities uses a frying pan that has a stun effect.
** Likewise, in ''VideoGame/LegoTheLordOfTheRings'', every version of Sam has a Frying Pan in his inventory, useful for both actual cooking (as you have to do to solve some puzzles) and bashing Orcs if you're playing as an unarmed Sam.

* In ''Film/{{Sunset}}'', Cheryl hits Captain Blackworth in the face with a frying pan in the kitchen of the Kit Kat Club, breaking his nose and blackening his eyes.

* On a darker note, [[https://prosecutor.summitoh.net/news/31917/only_pdf/sydney-powell-jury-guilty-092023.pdf This Ohio girl]] murdered her mother by beating her on the head with an iron skillet, then stabbing her in the neck multiple times.

* In an issue of ''ComicBook/SpiderMan'', while Characters/{{The Punisher|FrankCastle}} was cooking bacon in a pan, a group of hitmen attempted to sneak up on and ambush him. He first threw the hot grease in the pan into the face of one hitman, then threw the pan at another's head knocking that guy unconscious. The others are then driven away with gunfire.

--> '''Eddie:''' ([[DramaticDrop drops the frying pan]])) I never touched him.

* ''TabletopGame/Pathfinder'': Frying Pan is listed as a halfling weapon in one of the expansions for Pathfinder 2e. It is essentially a club, but it does extra damage on a critical hit at the cost of not being throwable.

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Also invoked]] in ''Webcomic/NipAndTuck'', especially against a girl's drunken boyfriend who is too violent to reason with and manhandles his date.

* ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'': Peter invents an antidote for frying pans to the head. It doesn't work.

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%%* A regular fixture of ''Film/CarryOn'' films.

* ''Series/{{Annika}}'': In S2E1, DS Tyrone Clarke chases a suspect into a hotel kitchen. While the two of them are wrestling on the kitchen floor, the hotel chef clouts the suspect over the back of the head with a frying pan, knocking him out.

* ''Anime/DoraemonNobitasTreasureIsland'': In the final battle, Marie attempts to fend off some MechaMooks using her frying pan. It works ''surprisingly'' well, but then again she's an IronChef.

* Frying pans are ''the'' recurring weapon of choice for the female leads of the ''[[VideoGame/EarthBound MOTHER]]'' trilogy. They were the sole weapons available to Ana in ''VideoGame/{{MOTHER}}'' and Paula in ''VideoGame/EarthBound1994''. Kumatora can use a Fake Frying Pan late in ''VideoGame/MOTHER3'', but they're not her primary weapon type.

Just as it is in any good kitchen, this is an absolute ''staple'' of slapstick comedy. In some cases, it might also be considered the Western counterpart of the HyperspaceMallet. May be found in the arsenal of the ChefOfIron.

Possibly used for a TapOnTheHead. Sister trope of RollingPinOfDoom.

* Subverted in ''WesternAnimation/TheSuperMarioBrosMovie''; Toad looks like he's about to bludgeon some Toad guards with his pan when they don't allow Mario into Peach's castle, but he [[DeliciousDistraction makes them a salad with the pan instead as a distraction]].