"Gentlemen, you can't fight in here. This is the War Room!"
Fight scenes occur in strange places in works of fiction to the point where several tropes have been made regarding the most common places where the action takes place. These tropes provide a great deal of suspense and excitement for the audience. Not only are they seeing violence in what is normally a very mundane location, making the fight scenes more intense, but the locations themselves offer different obstacles and dangers for the combatants, sure to make things more interesting. This index is dedicated to these tropes. If a fight scene occurs outside of a war zone, arena, dojo, ring, or other location specifically designed for a fight and it's a trope, then it goes here.
- Abandoned Warehouse: A big, empty warehouse is usually a prime location for a fight.
- Ballroom Blitz: A fight happens during a party, often on a dance floor. Usually happens when the villains attack a party attended by the heroes.
- Bar Brawl: A fight scene in a bar, often taking place in a pub or a saloon.
- Bathhouse Blitz: A fight occurs in a bathhouse or sauna, where at least one party enters with the intention to harm someone.
- Bathroom Brawl: Two or more characters get into a fight while in the bathroom (or locker room).
- Battle Amongst the Flames: A battle where the area is on fire or is made out of fire.
- Blood on the Debate Floor: A physical fight during a country's legislative meetings.
- Bloodstained Glass Windows: A fight happens in a church.
- Cable-Car Action Sequence: A fight scene which take place aboard the gondola of an aerial-lift cable car, preferably while it is moving along its cableway.
- Chase Fight: A Chase Scene in which both parties are also shooting at each other in transit.
- Diner Brawl: Diners and restaurants are where two or more parties duke it out.
- Elevator Action Sequence: A fight in the lift/elevator.
- Executive Suite Fight: The final confrontation with the Big Bad takes place in their executive office.
- Fighting Across Time and Space: Characters fight or chase each other while teleporting across different locations or time periods.
- Fighting in the Playground: A violent confrontation in the children's playground, often at a local park.
- Free-Fall Fight: A fight scene where the combatants are falling from a high place.
- Hallway Fight: Combat in the corridors.
- Interesting Situation Duel: A fight that is made interesting by a special location and/or unusual circumstances.
- Kung-Shui: A fight results in property damage.
- Parking Garage: In real life, a quiet location to park vehicles underground. In fiction, a place where just about nothing good happens, like gunfights or fist-fights.
- Paying for the Action Scene: A character gets into a fight in a private establishment and pays the owner(s) for the damages afterwards.
- Retail Riot: Fighting over products in the shops and stores.
- Rooftop Confrontation: A fight on the roof of a building.
- Slaughterhouse Fight: Violent encounters in slaughterhouses.
- Taking the Fight Outside: Two characters who are fighting or about to fight in a building decide to continue their brawl outside, either voluntarily or being told to do so by a bystander.
- Throne Room Throwdown: Climatic confrontations in the throne room.
- Traintop Battle: Fight scenes on top of trains (or trucks).
- Wedding Smashers: Wedding ceremonies are a prime setting for conflicts and hijinks. In some cases, physical fights are thrown down.
- Wok Fu: Fighting in a Chinese restaurant.
