Big Ball Of Violence / Western Animation

• 2 Stupid Dogs: Happens in the episode "Sheep Dogs" when the two dogs and Hollywood attempt to shear a sheep.
• One of the cartoon film editions of Adventures in Odyssey had a fight between a cat and dog where the dust ball of violence formed several mushroom clouds so large that they could apparently be seen from outer space.
• Adventure Time: In the episode “Loyalty To The King”, Ice King pretends to be a different person by shaving his beard and working out in order to get the princesses attention which works at first, by the end of the episode, thanks to Finn, the princesses figure out the “Nice King” is really the Ice King, so they end up beating him up in the background while Finn and Jake talk, eventually forming a ball of violence.
• All Dogs Go to Heaven: In the series, Itchy and Thor get into one with Otto and his gang in the episode "Trading Collars". Itchy tries to get out but is dragged back in by one of the dogs.
• Animaniacs: Pesto from the Goodfeathers cartoons would always get into one of these with Squit after the latter accidentally insults him.
  Pesto: Dat's it!
• Avatar: The Last Airbender: In "The Waterbending Scroll," a three-way brawl between pirates, the Fire Nation, and Team Avatar occurs in a literal ball of smoke, as an excuse for frequent gags of this sort.
• "Big Nate": Occasionally when Nate and his friends get into a brawl.
• Beany and Cecil: In the cartoon "DJ's Disappearing Act" (1988 series), a huge fight breaks out because Dishonest John had stolen a rare diamond, Uncle Captain asks Cecil "What's that??" and Cecil responds "The biggest fight cloud in the history of Saturday morning cartoons!"
• The Berenstain Bears: In the episode "Too Much Birthday", this happens during a game of Musical Chairs when the music stops and the kids jump to try and sit on the chairs. Sister Bear winds up the first one out, much to her chagrin.
• Bobby's World: One episode had this happen to multiple food inside a cooler. An apple and a cheese start the fight, and then the rest join in, resulting into one of these.
• CatDog: One of these kicks up whenever the Greaser dogs beat up the titular conjoined duo. Often played with, such as when only Cat is in the Big Ball and Dog is just sticking out, running wherever he is wont to go. Also, in the same episode, the camera actually goes inside the Ball, revealing Shriek's reluctance to punch Dog.
• In The Chinaman (1920), an early Max Fleischer cartoon, Koko the Clown fights it out with an angry coolie. Their battle forms a Big Ball of Violence complete with Koko's hat momentarily flying out, only to be yanked back in.
• The Cuphead Show!: Occasionally when Cuphead and Mugman argue and they fight a lot most of the time.
• Dangermouse and Penfold get into one of these with Mad Manuel the Flamenco Assassin. DM finally just exits the cloud and pulls Penfold out as well. Manuel keeps right on fighting in the cloud of dust, shouting "Olé! Olé olé olé!"
• Darkwing Duck gets into one of these with three martial artists in one episode. He pokes his head out of it to hold a ludicrously long conversation with his friends.
• Drawn Together had one of these in its first episode, when Clara and Foxxy break out into a fight after a language-related tiff.
  • Foxxy had another one when her reunion with the other Foxxys went rapidly downhill. The smallest Foxxy is seen running from the ball with a looted television.
• Earthworm Jim: Happens whenever Jim accidentally hurts Peter Puppy causing him to hulk out and maul him.
• Ed, Edd n Eddy features the occasional Big Ball of Violence. Amusingly enough, one in "Home Cooked Eds" has the (three) Kanker Sisters reaching out to grab Johnny 2x4 and Plank, but four pairs of arms come out.
• The Golden Book Video adaptation of The Exciting Adventures of Super Grover adds one to the story of "Super Grover and the Three Bears" during Grover's struggle to capture the three "bears" (actually Bert, Ernie and Herry Monster performing in a play.)
• The Fairly OddParents! uses this frequently, usually when Timmy is mauled.
• Family Guy: Parodied in one episode where British comic strip character Andy Capp is seen playing darts with the boys at the Drunken Clam. His wife shows up, and they have one of their signature Big Ball of Violence fistfights. Quagmire gets sucked into it, then spat back out. His response: "What the hell? Did I just get laid?"
  Peter: Hey, careful, Quagmire. Don't get too close to that thing.
• Fat Albert and the Cosby Kids: Happens whenever the gang starts fighting amongst themselves: a big cloud of dust with the occasional head, arm and leg projecting from it.
• Garfield and Friends: Happens occasionally such as when Garfield and Odie get in a scuffle, Orson's brothers attacking the barnyard gang, or in "Frankenstein Feline" when Irving attacks Jon for not doing anything to stop Garfield from eating his barbecue.
• Heathcliff & the Catillac Cats has one of these on every other episode. Like in the episode "Heathcliff's Double" when Heathcliff beats up Spike in front of his owner and grabs him by the ears when he tries to get out as shown here.
• House of Mouse: In one episode, Donald and Goofy get into one after Goofy thinks Donald was going to fire him.
• Used on Jimmy Two-Shoes. When Cerbee is mauling something, for instance.
• Kaeloo: Any time a fight happens that's not very important to the plot of the episode.
• Kid vs. Kat uses this trope so much that you'd think the creators had a patent on it.
• Littlest Pet Shop (2012) Usually between the pets when they get in a big brawl.
• Looney Tunes uses this often.
  • Sometimes a character (usually Porky Pig) will crawl out of the dust and stop to do things before getting back into the fight.
  • At the end of the Merrie Melodies short "Boulder, Wham!", Wile E. Coyote attacks Road Runner after Road Runner rushes across the gap to see who is beeping. It had the whole cloud of dust, several poking out body parts and even cat sound effects. After the dust clears, Wile E. Coyote stands midair next to a cliff, while Road Runner stands safely on the cliff.
  • In Hiawatha's Rabbit Hunt, Hiawatha proclaims that he's going to tie Bugs up. Bugs laughs derisively, followed by Hiawatha attacking Bugs in a Big Ball of Violence. When the smoke clears, Hiawatha is tied up.
  • In Easter Yeggs, After Bugs gets an egg thrown on his face and his leg bitten by the little boy, the two end up getting into one of these.
• The Loud House:
  • Frequently seen between Lincoln and his ten sisters. One time, Lincoln's sisters even formed a vortex called a "sisternado". This started to tone down in the later seasons after Chris Savino got fired from the show.
  • In "The Loudest Thanksgiving", Lola and Carl get into one of these after the latter unplugged Luna's electric guitar by accident.
• One of the MGM Oneshot Cartoons, "Abdul the Bulbul-Ameer" (based on the poem of the same name) depicts the end of the title character's brawl with Ivan Skavinsky Skavar as one of these. A trio of reporters (based on the Marx Brothers) even jump into the ball to capture front-row views of the action. A Russian stuffs a bomb into Abdul's trousers, Ivan tries to escape but is dragged back by Abdul, and it ends with a big explosion.
• A regular occurrence in the Mickey Mouse cartoons. In the short "Tapped Out" , for example, after Pete crashes into Donald Duck and makes him spill his nachos, this enrages Donald and he attacks Pete, resulting in one of these.
• Mission Hill: The animation is so good and detailed, that all of the comical fight is visible when brothers Andy and Kevin roughhouse. The cartoony dust cloud just appears for stylistic reasons.
• My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic:
  • Used in the episode "Fall Weather Friends", where after continually trying to cheat one another out of first place in a race, Applejack and Rainbow Dash end up in Big Ball of Violence, which carries them across the finish line. They both come joint-last.
  • Spike gets into one with a chicken in "Owl's Well that Ends Well". The chicken pulls the "slip out and leave your opponent fighting himself" trick at one point.
  • Occurs several times in the second-season premiere, "The Return of Harmony". The first one occurs when Scootaloo, Sweetie Belle, and Apple Bloom fight in front of Discord's petrified form. Later, another one occurs in the Ponyville library when Twilight Sparkle tackles Applejack and Pinkie Pie to recover a book.
  • In "Lesson Zero", an unhinged Twilight casts a "Want-It Need-It" spell on her old Smarty Pants doll so she can fabricate a scenario for her friendship report to Princess Celestia. It ends up with half the town fighting over the old doll, with about a dozen Big Balls of Violence going on at once at one point.
  • Happens in "Baby Cakes", in which Pinkie slugs it out with two newborns in an attempt to change their diapers and achieves an Epic Fail by the time the dust clears.
  • The Mane Six end up in a massive one when fighting the changeling horde in the second half of the season two finale "A Canterlot Wedding". Somewhat subverted in that we actually end up seeing most of what happens inside.
  • The pets of the Mane Six get into one in "Just for Sidekicks".
• My Little Pony Tales: In "Shop Talk", Teddy gets into one with Ace and Lancer when they hear that he sleeps with a teddy bear.
• Oggy and the Cockroaches: Often seen with Bob the Dog and Oggy.
• Peg + Cat: The teaser for "The Pirate Problem" has the pirates engaged in one of these, leading Peg and Cat to wonder just what it is they're seeing. Maybe a tornado, a tumbleweed, or a giant hairball? It's seen in the story proper also.
• In this Pixie and Dixie and Mr. Jinks short which aired on Cartoon Network, Mr. Jinks gets a restraining order placed on him, so every time he comes within three feet of Pixie and Dixie he immediately gets attacked by a Big Ball of Violence full of cops with nightsticks.
• Popeye frequently got into a Big Ball of Violence with Bluto, once seen momentarily sticking out from the melee to relight his pipe before going back in.
• Pound Puppies (2010): The Pound Puppies team gets into one with the Kennel Kittens at the end of "Catcalls" after the leader of the latter team spits in Lucky's face for no apparent reason.
• The Powerpuff Girls (1998): This happens in the episode "Telephonies" when Mojo Jojo, Him, and Fuzzy Lumpkins beat up The Gangreen Gang, resulting in one of these.
• Puppy in My Pocket: Adventures in Pocketville: In the episode "Believe in Yourself", Magic, Zull, Gort, and Frankie get into a ball of violence as they fight to get the ball to the goal to earn one final point.
• Ready Jet Go!: In the episode "Uncle Zucchini Babysits", Jet, Sean, Sydney, Mindy, Uncle Zucchini, and Moonbeam form one of these while trying to grab Sunspot so they can give him a bath.
• "Rise of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles": In "Race", the Turtles race to April's house to get free pizza and get into a ball of violence. And in "Pizza Puffs", Raph fights himself in the end.
• Rock, Paper, Scissors": Usually between Rock, Paper and Scissors when they argue and they fight a lot, not involving the cloud version, it's more of a No Holds Barred Beat Down.
• Scooby-Doo, Where Are You!: In the episode "Jeepers! It's the Creeper!", Fred, Daphne and Velma get in one when they believe they've caught the titular Monster of the Week, but it turns out to be Shaggy and Scooby... with a baby chick who thinks he's a dog. Parodied later in the episode when Shaggy, Velma, Daphne, Fred and the titular Monster of the Week jump into a pile of hay to fight inside there as they poke out their arms and legs out of it, making it look like a Big Hay-Pile of Violence.
• Occasionally used in Tex Avery's MGM cartoons, most notably in the cartoon "Screwball Squirrel (1944)" in which at the end Screwy, Meathead, and their twins attack Sammy Squirrel for interrupting the cartoon.
  Sammy: My cartoon would have been cuter.
  Screwy, Meathead and their twins: Oh, brother, NOT THAT!
• The Simpsons: Particularly in The Tracey Ullman Show shorts, Bart and Lisa tended to get into one whenever fighting.
• SpongeBob SquarePants:
  • "Survival of the Idiots": Hibernating Sandy jumps down and beats up SpongeBob and Patrick as they scream in fear.
  • "Band Geeks": Patrick kicks Sandy in the shin, angering Sandy, which then results in a big ball of violence. Averted in the same episode: the entire band gets into a fight, and the dust cloud is only there for a brief second before poofing away, showing the chaotic and hilarious brawl.
  • In "Plankton Retires", SpongeBob, Mr. Krabs, and Plankton get into a dust cloud fight, which Squidward gets dragged into. SpongeBob casually answers the phone while sticking out of the top of the cloud.
    SpongeBob: (answering phone) Hello? Krusty Krab, may I take your order? No, Mr. Krabs is unable to come to the phone right now. He's trapped under a dust cloud brawl. Yeah, he'll have to call you back. (hangs up)
• Summer Camp Island In the episode “Bear with me”, Barb is talking with the horse and sheep who are sitting on the couch, Barb reveals that the couch is actually a bunch of bears, who then attack the horse and sheep, where the cloud is shown for a few seconds.
• Played with in all three Super Mario cartoons. Parodied in one episode of Super Mario World, in which Yoshi pokes his head out to eat berries from a nearby bush mid-fight.
• Swing, You Sinners!: Every time Bimbo dives in to try and catch the chicken it results in a ball of chaotic dust, and the two emerge wearing each other's clothes or with parts of each other traded until the final tussel when they return to normal upon falling out of the cloud of dust.
• Taz-Mania: Taz beats up two dinosaurs in a pit and they both try to get out but he drags them back in.
• Occurs occasionally in Tiny Toon Adventures, one notable example comes from the segment "Oh, For Art's Sake" where Plucky sees a cat and dog duke it out in his backyard, he tries to get them to stop but they pull him inside, he finally has had enough and freeze them with the pause button on his tv remote which he then passes off as a painting, he soon becomes famous for it and Buster realizes that they aren't paintings at all and unfreezes them causing a massive fight to break out, after it's over Plucky is placed into one of the paintings as a fight cloud breaks out with him trapped in the middle.
• Cat-and-mouse violence is largely unobscured in Tom and Jerry, but the occasional beatdown by Spike the bulldog features Tom doing various things like trying to escape, writing his will, digging his own grave, and so on.
• Totally Spies!: In "Planet of the Hunks", the main trio gets into one (twice) over a struggle with clothes and Clover's diary.
• T.U.F.F. Puppy: This happens quite a bit like in the episode "Snapnapped" when Keswick pretended to turn evil to capture D.O.O.M. Doom started beating up Dudley and Kitty and when they stuck their heads out of the dust cloud to try and reason with him they got pulled back in.

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