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13	->'''Turtles:''' Turtles fight with honor!\
14	'''Irma:''' And women fight with handbags!
15	-->-- ''WesternAnimation/{{Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles\|1987}}''
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17	The use of a purse or a briefcase/suitcase as an ImprovisedWeapon.
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19	Sometimes, handbags may contain heavy objects, like bricks or anvils, to add more power to the attack, especially in cartoons.
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21	Often occurs in the CatFight and WimpFight. Often wielded by [[WhenEldersAttack elderly women]], and one possible reason why people should NeverMessWithGranny. If the handbag is used to hide a gun, you're thinking of BriefcaseBlaster.
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23	Little note -- fights in football in Britain are often mere slap fights, and the commentators occasionally describe such a fight as "handbags", a shortened version of Handbags At Dawn.
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26	!!Examples:
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28	[[foldercontrol]]
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30	[[folder:Anime & Manga]]
31	* Attempted in the fight between a Russian assassin and a serial killer (revealed to be [[spoiler:[[IdolSinger Hijiribe Ruri]]]]) in the 4th volume of ''Literature/{{Durarara}}''. Unfortunately for them that briefcase belonged to a [[spoiler:[[FromBadToWorse certain man in a bartender suit]]]].
32	* In ''Manga/FairyTail'', Levy [=McGarden=] smacks Gajeel Redfox with her purse and floors him with pain, even though she's a SquishyWizard and he's literally MadeOfIron.
33	* ''Manga/FruitsBasket'': In the first chapter, when Shigure is starting to get less-than-appropriate with his comments toward Tohru, Yuki drops his schoolbag on his head. Shigure asks if Yuki is carrying a dictionary, and Yuki says he's carrying two.
34	* In ''Manga/GTOTheEarlyYears'', both male and female delinquents beat others up with their school bags sometimes.
35	* ''Manga/GunslingerGirl''. Henrietta's EstablishingCharacterMoment is when the cute innocent girl breaks a terrorist's jaw with her violin case, before [[SenselessViolins using what's in it to massacre everyone else in the room]].
36	* ''Anime/KillLaKill'': Ryuko Matoi sometimes uses her weapon case offensively and defensively (though it is made of metal).
37	* An accidental example occurs in ''Manga/UzakiChanWantsToHangOut''. While they're attending a fireworks festival together, Sakurai praises Uzaki for how cute she looks in her yukata, and she playfully begins waving her hands around. Until she accidentally hits Sakurai in the jaw with her purse, leaving him knocked out for a few minutes.
38	* ''Manga/SPYxFAMILY'': While Twilight and Bond were ambushing a couple scientists in a mission that was given to him at the very last minute, he quickly proceeds in throwing the bag he uses to carry all of his gear towards one of scientist to take him out
39	* ''Anime/YuGiOh'':
40	** Seto Kaiba uses a briefcase when he is attacked by Pegasus' goons. His [[DistressedDude little brother]] ''tries'' to pull off the same moves later on, but fails miserably.
41	** In [[Anime/YuGiOhFirstAnimeSeries the first Yu-Gi-Oh! anime]], Kaiba hits Yugi with his school bag when [[BitchInSheepsClothing his true colours are revealed]]. This is actually a step down from the manga, where it was a metal briefcase. [[https://ms.yugipedia.com//e/e8/Eat_briefcase.png Ouch]].
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44	[[folder:Comedy]]
45	* Creator/EddieIzzard once suggested that the Queen should be attacked by dogs ([[ItMakesSenseInContext long story]]) and that she could defend herself with a handbag with a brick in it.
46	* Creator/MikeHarding described his grandmother as the sort of woman who would carry a brick in her handbag. So that if anyone ever tried to rob her, she could break his legs to prevent him from running away.
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49	[[folder:Comic Books]]
50	* ''ComicBook/MsTree'': Ms. Tree carries her pistol in her handbag, which makes it handy to swing at an enemy with unexpected force. Case in point when an argument with a militant feminist got physical and the protester suddenly hit the detective:
51	-->'''Militant:''' That was my black belt!\
52	''[Tree hits back with her handbag with a CLANG!]''\
53	'''Ms. Tree:''' That was my black '''gun''' in my black '''bag'''!
54	* ''ComicBook/StuckRubberBaby'' is a comic depicting civil rights demonstrations in the south. One character learns to defend herself with a brick -- in her handbag.
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57	[[folder:Fan Works]]
58	* In the story ''Bonnie Double'' of the ''Fanfic/TheMoreThingsChangeSeries'', while fighting the Fashionistas, Espadrille attempts to fight Max with a handbag. Max is not impressed.
59	-->'''Max:''' WHAT DO YOU THINK YOU ARE...SEVENTY?!
60	%%* Many ''Series/TheSentinel'' fanfics have Blair using his backpack this way.
61	* First John Gage, then Chet Kelly in the ''Series/{{Emergency}}'' fic "[[http://web.archive.org/web/20110317165013/http://www.twochickies.com/youmakemefeellikedancin.htm You Make Me Feel Like Dancin']]" get this. John and Roy get injured hilariously at the station and Chet has to drive them to Rampart. John is dressed as a clown after a fire dept. carnival. He has to make Chet stop so he can throw up and a woman starts hitting him with her bag, thinking he's a drunk clown. Chet gets out of the squad and is naked except for Roy's turnout coat (ItMakesSenseInContext). The old lady turns her bag on Chet, thinking he's a pervert. And John, wanting to annoy Chet, directs her on how to hit so Chet will feel it more.
62	[[/folder]]
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64	[[folder:Films -- Animated]]
65	* ''WesternAnimation/BatmanAndHarleyQuinn'': Harley attacks Nightwing with her purse during their fight. Said purse is revealed to be housing a ten-pound kettlebell.
66	* In ''WesternAnimation/Madagascar1'', an old lady attacks Alex with her purse. She does this again in the sequel, ''WesternAnimation/MadagascarEscape2Africa'', especially to [[BigBad Makunga]] when Alex gives it to him as a present.
67	* ''WesternAnimation/TheMitchellsVsTheMachines'': Near the end, Linda Mitchell finds herself surrounded by the improved Palbots, until she sees that her son Aaron was captured. She immediately [[AndShowItToYou rips the core out of one of the robots]] and stuff its in her handbag. She proceeds to use it to go absolutely MamaBear on them.
68	-->'''Linda''': "I am Linda Mitchell, mother of two! ''LOOK UPON ME AND FEAR''!"
69	* ''WesternAnimation/SpiderManAcrossTheSpiderVerse'': When the Spot finds himself in "[[PortalCrossroadWorld the Spotted Dimension]]", he tries out one of the portals by putting his head through. Finding himself in a world based on old-school comic strips, he startles a woman who immediately bashes him with her handbag.
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72	[[folder:Films -- Live-Action]]
73	* In the live-action ''[[Film/OneHundredAndOneDalmatians1996 101 Dalmatians]]'' movie, when Roger mistakes Perdita for Pongo and attempts to take her away, Anita puts a stop to it with this. She really is carrying bricks; she was paving her garden and collecting the leftovers.
74	-->'''Roger:''' What do you have in that purse of yours, rocks?\
75	'''Anita:''' Oh, no, bricks.
76	* ''Film/AllThroughTheNight'': Leda uses her purse to hit Gloves [[TapOnTheHead over the head]] to knock him out (though it's to keep Pepe from killing him).
77	* ''Film/CoalMinersDaughter'' shows Loretta Lynn, in self-defense, hitting her husband with her purse. She ends up breaking his finger.
78	* The heroine of ''Film/TheGodsMustBeCrazy's'' sequel keeps [[ThoseTwoGuys the two soldiers]] in line with her handbag. When they see her pull out a half-brick one worries about what else she's got in there.
79	* Mrs. Marcus from ''Film/ItsAMadMadMadMadWorld'' will very often hit other people with her purse when she's really angry. The following characters she's hit with her purse are: Melville Crump, J. Russell Finch, Col. Hawthorne, Otto Meyer, and a random pedestrian.
80	* In ''Film/JingleAllTheWay'', various mothers hit Howard with their purses when they [[PaedoHunt accuse him of touching a little girl]] (he was actually trying to get a lottery ball for a [[ShowWithinAShow Turbo Man]] action figure that ended up in her grasp).
81	* In ''Film/LiveAndLetDie'', Solitaire attempts to hit James Bond with her purse as Bond is ready to be put on a plane and sent skydiving to his death. Her purse slap is stopped by Bond as he uses it as a means of escaping.
82	* In the opening scene of ''Film/ManiacCop'', a waitress is attacked by two muggers as she walks home. She beats them off with her handbag and runs before she has the misfortune to encounter the eponymous maniac cop.
83	* ''Film/NothingButTheNight'': When Joan Foster attempts to pull Mary away from Anna Harb in the hospital, Anna whacks her with her handbag.
84	* In the miniseries ''Smiley's People'', elderly Russian émigrée Maria Andreyevna Ostrakova, fearing she will be attacked on the streets of Paris by Soviet agents, packs a flatiron in her capacious shopping bag. It comes in handy.
85	* In ''Film/OnTheBuses'', Mavis hits Blakey with her handbag after he is believed to have stolen her friend's laundry.
86	* ''Film/TheSting'': After Hooker yanks a woman out of a phone booth, the woman hits both Hooker and his partner with her purse.
87	* In ''Film/{{Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles\|1990}}'', after having the Raphael's sai knocked out of her hand in the subway station, April O'Neil uses her purse to defend herself and even holds her own against the Foot until she is knocked out with a punch to the face.
88	* ''Film/WatchYourStern'': When the Security Sergeant believes Miss Potter is a spy, she retaliates by swinging her bag at Nobby and his men.
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91	[[folder:Literature]]
92	* In the first book of the ''Literature/AlcatrazSeries'', Bastille mostly used her handbag to store her sword, but she also used it to whack Alcatraz.
93	* ''Literature/{{Discworld}}'':
94	** Agony Aunt Dotsie's unnaturally heavy purse provides a quick removal of any threat. Vimes, who is no stranger to delivering a proper TapOnTheHead to end a fight, considers her his superior in that aspect.
95	** And as Nanny Ogg says: "A lady is always polite, appreciative, and carries a horseshoe in her handbag. This is not for luck: the added weight can come in handy."
96	* ''Literature/HarryPotter'': Mrs. Figg hits Mundungus Fletcher with her handbag, which, from the clanking, appeared to be filled with cans of cat food.
97	* A variation in the ''Literature/MegLangslowMysteries'' book ''Crouching Buzzard, Leaping Loon'' has Meg demonstrating a self-defense technique that uses the ''strap'' of the purse to disarm and strangle an attacker. The killer uses a mouse cord in a similar way, but since pretty much the entire company has seen the technique, it doesn't help the cops narrow down their list of suspects.
98	* In Creator/MercedesLackey's ''Literature/TheSerpentsShadow'', Dr. Maya carries a "miser's purse" full of lead shot when she makes housecalls in dodgy parts of London, as well as an umbrella with a weighted handle and a solid steel shaft. When she becomes an adept-class Earth Mage she's even more formidable.
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101	[[folder:Live-Action TV]]
102	* ''Series/{{Batman\|1966}}'': Though Catwoman isn't a DarkActionGirl like in the comics, she does occasionally use a handbag to hit Robin over the head.
103	* ''Series/TheBigBangTheory'' has one where Amy tries to hit Bernadette with her purse, but she ducks and Amy accidentally hit Penny instead, breaking her nose in the process.
104	-->'''Penny:''' You idiot! What the hell do you have in there?!\
105	'''Amy:''' ''[mortified at what she did]'' Just my wallet, keys and a coffee can full of change I've been meaning to take to the bank!
106	* In the ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'' episode "[[Recap/BuffyTheVampireSlayerS7E1Lessons Lessons]]", Dawn improvised a weapon from a handbag and a couple of bricks. In the commentary, Creator/JossWhedon refers to it as "[[FooFu Bag fu]]."
107	* ''Series/TheGoldenGirls'': Sophia would sometimes indulge in this, using the beaded purse she carried with her everywhere. One episode of note is when her sister, Angela, moves to Miami and moves in with Sophia's current boyfriend Tony. Sophia automatically assumes that the two are having an affair and goes to confront them. Angela pleads her innocence, and Tony backs her up, saying that he only has eyes for Sophia... only for ''another'' woman (who apparently got the same line from Tony) to emerge from the bedroom. Sophia and Angela gang up on him.
108	-->'''Angela:''' You've insulted my sister's honor!\
109	'''Tony:''' I don't know what to say.\
110	'''Sophia:''' I'll tell you what you can say! Say "ouch"! ''[whacks him with her purse]''\
111	'''Angela:''' Say, "That hurts!" ''[whacks him with ''her'' purse]''
112	* ''Series/{{Leverage}}'' sees this happen to Sophie in "The Wedding Job." Well, in the first season, she wasn't much of a fighter.
113	* In ''Series/MalcolmInTheMiddle'', Dewey starts to carry a handbag with him as a backpack, [[PetTheDog despite Reese's desperate warnings that he'd get beaten up for it]]. When the inevitable happens and Dewey is accosted by bullies, he proceeds to beat the tar out of them with the bag, and then reveal that it had contained a brick the whole time.
114	* ''Series/MissFishersMurderMysteries'': Phryne uses her handbag to disarm and then knock down a killer in "Murder Under the Mistletoe".
115	* ''Series/MontyPythonsFlyingCircus'':
116	** Battley Townswomen Guild's Reenactment of the Battle of Pearl Harbour.
117	** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OFiN7Zsz2zM Hell's Grannies]].
118	** The Battley Townswomen's Guild did it again when reenacting the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CrDr4DL_A_U First Heart Transplant]].
119	* In the opening sequence for ''Series/{{The Odd Couple\|1970}}'', Felix is shown trying to help an old lady cross the street. The lady hits him with her handbag and a Boy Scout punches him. It's just not Felix's day.
120	* A staple of Ruth Buzzi's old lady character on ''Series/RowanAndMartinsLaughIn''.
121	* Aunt Esther from ''Series/SanfordAndSon'' was (in)famous for this method of attack. There was even [[https://twitter.com/GroovyHistory/status/1138174210591866880/photo/1 a line of purses]] named for her.
122	* Discussed in the final episode of ''Series/TheSarahJaneAdventures''. The villain asks if she's going to hit him with her handbag. She doesn't, unfortunately.
123	* ''Series/ThreesCompany'': When Mr. Roper believes a prospective tenant is a cross-dresser, she wallops Mr. Roper with her purse for poking her in the chest.
124	* On ''Series/TheXFiles'' a lizard man (unintentionally) attacks a UsefulNotes/{{Transgender}} prostitute, who fights back with her purse in this fashion. The encounter leaves a huge hole in her purse.
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127	[[folder:Music]]
128	* Jennifer Hudson has a song on her first album called "Pocketbook", the refrain of which is "Don't make me hitchu' wit' ma pocketbook," delivered with TranquilFury at a guy ([[AWildRapperAppears Ludicris]]) who won't stop hitting on her.
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131	[[folder:Pro Wrestling]]
132	* At ''New Year's Revolution 2006'', [[Wrestling/TheWorldsGreatestTagTeam Shelton Benjamin]] defeated Viscera after Shelton's mother clocked Viscera with her purse when the referee wasn't looking. After the match, she opened her purse and showed the audience there was a brick inside it.
133	* When she was with Wrestling/RandySavage in the late-1980's, Wrestling/SherriMartel regularly came to the ring with a loaded purse. It backfired on her at Wrestling/SummerSlam 1989 when Wrestling/HulkHogan got a hold of it.
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136	[[folder:Puppet Shows]]
137	* UsefulNotes/MargaretThatcher was often depicted wielding a killer handbag, especially on ''Series/SpittingImage''.
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140	[[folder:Tabletop Games ]]
141	* In 4th-edition ''TabletopGame/{{Champions}}'', the combat example is a bank robbery. At one point, a little old lady customer thwacks one of the goons with her purse. He goes down.
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144	[[folder:Video Games]]
145	* ''VideoGame/BanjoTooie'':
146	** After Banjo returns Groggy (the fat polar bear kid) to Mrs. Boggy, Groggy lies about Banjo forcing him to eat a hamburger (in actuality, he refused to let Banjo pick him up until after he ate it). Mrs. Boggy doesn't believe Groggy at all, and [[AbusiveParents she hits him with her purse several times]] in retaliation.
147	** Banjo himself provides a [[GenderInvertedTrope gender-inverted]] example. He can learn the Pack Whack, which allows him to take his empty backpack and swing it around his head, smacking any nearby enemies to their deaths.
148	* Handbags are a possible weapon, albeit a very weak one, for players to find in the ''VideoGame/DeadRising'' games.
149	* ''VideoGame/DeathStranding'' allows you to attack human enemies with briefcase-shaped cargo that you can carry on hand. They can either be slammed or thrown against up-close enemies. Doing this with your own cargo isn't a practical approach to combat since with one hit it damages the cargo, and another hit destroys it entirely. Enemy cargo can be picked up, however, and you can freely use them to knock enemies out if you don't intend on taking their stolen cargo for yourself.
150	* In one of the ''VideoGame/GodOfWar'' games, there is an unlockable character skin called Tycoonius, who beats people up with a pair of briefcases.
151	* Old ladies with handbags are a pretty common NPC in ''VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoIII''. Despite their frail appearance, they're actually very aggressive and more than eager to whack you with them once things get violent.
152	* In ''VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoV'', at the start of the "Vinewood Souvenirs" mission series, Nigel and Mrs. Thornhill, a pair of elderly British celebrity worshipers/stalkers on holiday, mistake [[PlayerCharacter Trevor Philips]] for actor/stuntman Jock Cranley. Nigel asks Trevor to play-choke him, imitating one of Jock's film posters, as a photo-op; however, Trevor gets too involved and starts throttling Nigel for real, with Mrs. Thornhill hitting Trevor with her purse to get him to stop.
153	* ''VideoGame/Hitman2'' features briefcases as a mundane prop that Agent 47 can use to sneak items into secure areas. Being a large, heavy piece of plastic lined with metal, 47 can also use it to [[TapOnTheHead swiftly render people unconscious with a whack in the head]]. It could also be thrown at people's heads for similar effect. An extremely popular GoodBadBug caused the briefcase to become a HomingProjectile and pursue targets at a slow but dogged pace. Despite all of its comically absurd abilities, the briefcase could only concuss people and would never kill them, as it has the 'non-lethal' damage flag.
154	* Tingle does a variation of this in ''VideoGame/HyruleWarriors''. Some of his attacks feature him walloping enemies with a big wallet stuffed with Rupees.
155	* ''VideoGame/{{Killer7}}'': Garcian Smith's down attack involves hitting an enemy with his large suitcase.
156	* ''VideoGame/MapleStory'': Both a leather purse and a briefcase are usable, though weak, weapons for players.
157	* Handbags were available as weapons in ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyTactics'' -- but only for female characters. Some of them actually packed a rather impressive punch.
158	* Kisarah Westfield from SNK's ''VideoGame/NeoGeoBattleColiseum'' is a schoolgirl who fights with her bookbag, which is a callback to the fighting game she originally comes from (''VideoGame/AggressorsOfDarkKombat'') where various weapons can be picked up and temporarily used.
159	* ''VideoGame/Persona4ArenaUltimax'': Marie's shoulder bag is her primary melee weapon. If swinging it around doesn't do the trick, she can also pull presents out of it, with varying surprises depending on which button combo the player uses.
160	* ''VideoGame/SilentHill4'': Eileen's handbag is the first weapon you get for Eileen, before even meeting her. Unfortunately, unlike most starter weapons in the series such as the [[PipePain Steel Pipe]], it has pathetic damage and reach, and may in fact be ''worse'' than giving her no weapon -- [[ArtificialStupidity her AI doesn't distinguish weapon power when setting her aggressiveness against enemies]], meaning she'll happily charge right into combat and take damage while swinging a "weapon" that is barely powerful enough to make monsters flinch when hit.
161	* In ''VideoGame/TheSims1: Hot Date'', ''VideoGame/TheSims2: Nightlife'', and ''VideoGame/TheSims4: Cottage Living'' expansions, the ambiguously wedded Mrs./Miss Crumplebottom carries a handbag that, while not murderous, is quite humiliating. She'll attack Sims for public displays of affection, usually with a few harsh words for them, too.
162	* Also wielding a schoolbag is Kyo's lover and hidden-battle JokeCharacter Yuki in ''VideoGame/SNKGalsFighters''. One of her special attacks has her throwing contents from it at the opponent.
163	* ''VideoGame/TalesSeries'':
164	** Chat in ''VideoGame/TalesOfEternia'' uses these as weapons, though sometimes she just pulls [[CarryABigStick hammers]] out of them.
165	** Karol from ''VideoGame/TalesOfVesperia'' smacks foes over the head with his large handbag for his various debuffing artes. He uses these as his secondary weapon and can be seen storing his main weapon in them outside of battle. The one he's currently using has his Bodhi Blastia[[note]]The artifact he needs to use his artes.[[/note]] attached to it.
166	* ''VideoGame/YakuzaLikeADragon'': Saeko and Eri can use both handbags and clutch bags as weapons for the Barmaid and Hostess jobs, respectively.
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169	[[folder:Web Animation]]
170	* ''WebAnimation/MoniRobo'': Cheating ex-girlfriends who try to get back with the MC after their affair got them in trouble and get rejected might use this to retaliate. This is deconstructed as the ex will end up in trouble with the law after trying this.
171	** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LO3aDzNKyIc "My wife got pregnant but…"]]: While a now-thin Yuki was strolling through the park with his new girlfriend, Saki, he stumbles upon his ex-wife Rina, who tries to get back with him. After he turns her down, she screams and swings her handbag around to hurt them, only for a police officer to stop and arrest her. Moreover, she ended up in prison for public property damage after she knocked over a bin and crashed into a bench, on top of physical violence in front of an officer.
172	** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N5OHRuTOcks "My wife cheated on me with her doctor…"]]: When Kengo dialed the police in response to Mana's refusal to leave after divorcing him for Dr. Nakajima, she tried to hit him with her handbag. Much to Mana's dismay, she fumbles and the flying bag breaks a window instead, which gives Kengo another reason to call the cops on her. After his daughters, Nami, Reina, and Misaki, disown her as a mother, a cop appears and arrests her for breaking into and damaging private property.
173	* In the final episode of ''WebAnimation/{{RWBY}}'' Volume 2, Coco from team [=CFVY=][[note]]Pronounced "Coffee"[[/note]] wipes the floor with a very large Grimm using her handbag, and wounds a few more. [[SwissArmyWeapon She then transforms said purse]] [[BriefcaseBlaster into a]] [[GatlingGood minigun]] [[CurbStompBattle and utterly]] ''[[CurbStompBattle destroys]]'' [[CurbStompBattle several other, larger Grimm with ease]].
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176	[[folder:Webcomics]]
177	* Laura Gates of ''Webcomic/BeyondReality'' has a lead weight sewn to the bottom of her purse for this exact purpose.
178	* ''Webcomic/ElGoonishShive'': while on a double date in the cinema, Tedd & Grace and Nanase & Ellen get accosted by one of Nanase's ex-boyfriends, Gerald. When Gerald refuses to leave, Grace threatens him with her handbag.
179	* In ''Webcomic/{{Lackadaisy}}'', Mitzi slams one into Mordecai's face in shock when he hid in [[DangerTakesABackSeat her backseat]] to have a word with her.
180	-->'''Mordecai:''' I'd like a word with you... if you can refrain from assaulting me with a bakelite for a moment.
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183	[[folder:Web Videos]]
184	* There is an (obviously faked) [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TQxcV4lu-a4 YouTube video]] of a little old lady in a crosswalk responding to the impatient honking of a motorist by whacking his front bumper with her handbag hard enough to set off his airbags.
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187	[[folder:Western Animation]]
188	* ''WesternAnimation/{{Animaniacs}}'':
189	** From the intro: "Goodfeathers flock together, Slappy whacks 'em with her purse."
190	** An issue of the comic has Minerva Mink do this to a man after he gets a little [[AllMenArePerverts too excited]].
191	* In ''WesternAnimation/{{Archer}}'', Mallory would use her handbag on occasion on Archer, usually as a DopeSlap.
192	-->'''Archer:''' Ow! What do you have in there, buckles?!
193	* A minor ''WesternAnimation/BatmanBeyond'' villain, a small-time gang leader and biological mother of her underlings, immediately attacks Batman with her handbag when the two of them meet up. This was so unexpected to Batman that she successfully knocks him to the floor with it.
194	* In ''WesternAnimation/TheFlintstones'', Betty and Wilma can knock anyone out with their purses. Enough so that '''they''' look like more badass fighters than their husbands.
195	* ''WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes'':
196	** "WesternAnimation/BostonQuackie": Quackie's girlfriend Mary clobbers the man in the green hat with her handbag. Of course, she is carrying an anvil in it...
197	** "WesternAnimation/BallotBoxBunny": Bugs pretends to be a baby and accuses mayoral candidate Yosemite Sam of biting him on the nose during a "[[PoliticiansKissBabies kissing babies]]" PR stunt. A crowd of angry mothers immediately swarm Sam and beat him with their handbags.
198	** ''Carrotblanca'' has Bugs [[DisguisedInDrag dressing in drag]] and smacking Sam with a handbag with an anvil in it.
199	* In the ''WesternAnimation/MegaManRubySpears'' cartoon, Ms. Lapierre swats at a shrunken Mega Man with her purse.
200	* Aunt Bogunda from ''WesternAnimation/MrBogus'' will very often use her purse to beat up those who dare to oppress her, sometimes even bonking Bogus on the head. It especially doesn't help matters that Bogunda is an {{Expy}} of Mrs. Marcus.
201	* ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'': In "The Mysterious Mare Do Well", Rainbow Dash gives Granny Smith an unwanted helping hoof and gets bonked with Granny's purse for her troubles.
202	* ''WesternAnimation/TheNewAdventuresOfWinnieThePooh'': In the climax of the episode "Owl in the Family", Owl's aunt Ophelia, uncle Torbit, and cousin Dexter show up to visit for a family reunion. Ophelia then swings her handbag at the crows who tricked her nephew into thinking that they were his relatives, driving them out of Owl's house.
203	* In one episode of ''WesternAnimation/TheSpectacularSpiderMan'', an [[BadassBystander old lady on the subway]] saves Spider-Man's life by employing this technique... against ''the Lizard!''
204	* ''WesternAnimation/ShaunTheSheep'': In "Hard to Swallow," a jealous mother duck packs a wallop with her [[TertiarySexualCharacteristics purse.]]
205	* ''WesternAnimation/SpongeBobSquarePants'':
206	** In the episode "[[Recap/SpongeBobSquarePantsS11E13FunSizedFriendsGrandmumsTheWord Grandmum's the Word]]", Grandma Plankton constantly hits [=SpongeBob=], Mr. Krabs, and Plankton with her purse.
207	** In "[[Recap/SpongeBobSquarePantsS12E2TheNitwittingTheBalladOfFilthyMuck The Nitwitting]]", when [=SpongeBob=] becomes as dumb as the rest of the members of the Empty Head Society without his brain, he tries asking a pedestrian for directions, and those results come out pretty self-explanatory:
208	--->'''[=SpongeBob=]:''' ''[[[{{lisp}}ing]]]'' Excuse me, large lady, I'm a widdle girl who's misplaced herself. Can you help find me? I'm pretty!\
209	'''Pedestrian:''' Weirdo! ''[smacks [=SpongeBob=] with her purse and runs away]''
210	* Irma, the dorky friend of April O'Neill, utters the battle cry in the page quote in ''WesternAnimation/{{Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles\|1987}}'' while facing off against an unstoppable robot.
211	* ''WesternAnimation/TopCat'': In one episode, a female cat sends [[TheCasanova Fancy-Fancy]] flying with her handbag.
212	-->'''Fancy:''' Oh boy, she's weakening! Last time, she hit me with her fist.
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215	[[folder:Real Life]]
216	* [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Woman_Hitting_a_Neo-Nazi_With_Her_Handbag The famous picture]] called "A Woman Hitting a Neo-Nazi with Her Handbag" from a 1985 Neo-Nazi demonstration in Sweden.
217	* While she was never known (outside of satire, as noted above) to use her iconic blue handbag as a melee weapon, UsefulNotes/MargaretThatcher was proud of what her supporters and detractors call her "[[ObstructiveBureaucrat handbag diplomacy]]".
218	* It's sometimes taught as part of self-defense for women, in case they're in a situation where they don't have or can't pull out anything specifically made for self-defense. Other blunt objects like books or umbrellas are also recommended for this technique.
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