History Main / ChairmanOfTheBrawl

* In ''VideoGame/{{Persona 4}}'', a folding chair is one of Kanji's more memorable weapons. Another is a school desk.

* Anyone who has been involved in a bar fight knows that one's trusty seat is a useful tool to kick some serious ass
* There is actually a Chinese martial art based around using benches to fight your way out of taverns. Considering that 99% of all taverns/gambling den/restaurants at that time had big heavy pieces of sitting furniture readily available under...under hand, this is less of an asspull than pure genre savviness. Check out the demonstrations here: [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6C0YJcuoD04&NR=1]]

* In {{Persona 4}}, a folding chair is one of Kanji's more memorable weapons. Another is a school desk.

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* [[{{ptitle5cb6lhsb}} The Action Hero's Handbook]] has an entire chapter on how to take a hit from a chair.

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* In the ''Series/DoctorWho'' serial "City of Death", policeman Duggan grabs a chair with the intent of fighting off some guards and escaping, but the Doctor stops him: "For heaven's sake, that's a Louis Quinze!"

In fiction, chairs make for great bludgeoning objects capable of [[TapOnTheHead knocking people unconscious]] in one strike; enter the Chairman of the Brawl, that one guy who can be counted on grabbing the nearest sitting implement and smashing it across his unfortunate victim's head. If the chair is made of wood, it also immediately splinters into countless pieces to show how devastating the blow is.

A sub-category of ImprovisedWeapon.

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* There is actually a Chinese martial art based around using benches to fight your way out of taverns. Considering that 99% of all taverns/gambling den/restaurants at that time had big heavy pieces of sitting furniture readily available under...under hand, this is less of an asspull than pure genre savviness. Check out the demonstrations here: [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6C0YJcuoD04&NR=1]]

* ''[=~Monty Python's Flying Circus~=]'' sketch "Scott of the Sahara". Lieutenant Scott faces off against a lion wielding a chair, who breaks it over Scott's back.

* In ''Young Master'' we actually get to see Jackie Chan in an epic bench to bench combat. Can be seen here [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6uJW6UpCcyI]]

* Lisianthus from ''{{Shuffle}}'' often has to do this to her father in order to make him stop whatever innapprorpiate action he is doing at the current time.

* Anyone who has been involved in a bar fight knows that one's trusty seat is a useful tool to subdue the local assholes
* There is actually a Chinese martial art based around using big heavy pieces of sitting furniture readily available in all local taverns to beat the crap out of anyone who didn't pay his tab. Check out the demonstrations here: [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6C0YJcuoD04&NR=1]]

* In ''Young Master'' we actually get to see Jackie Chan in an epic bench to bench combat.

* In {{Persona 4}}, a folding chair is one of Kanji's more memorable weapons. Another is a school desk.

* In the ''DoctorWho'' serial "City of Death", policeman Duggan grabs a chair with the intent of fighting off some guards and escaping, but the Doctor stops him: "For heaven's sake, that's a Louis Quinze!"

** Also mentioned as why people who have not read the Marquis of Fantailler's book about The Noble Art of Fisticuffs tend to win against people who have.[[hottip:*:"The last words of a surprisingly large number of people were 'Stuff the bloody Marquis of Fantailler‐'"]]

* In {{Persona 4}}, a folding chair is one of Kanji's many weapons. Another is a school desk.

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* In the ''DoctorWho'' serial "City of Death", policeman Duggan grabs a chair with the intent of fighting off some guards and escaping, but the Doctor stops him: "That's a Louis Quinze!"

In fiction, chairs make for great bludgeoning objects capable of [[TapOnTheHead knocking people unconscious]] in one strike; enter the Chairman of the Board, that one guy who can be counted on grabbing the nearest sitting implement and smashing it across his unfortunate victim's head. If the chair is made of wood, it also immediately splinters into countless pieces to show how devastating the blow is.

A sub-category of ImprovisedWeapon. A character designated to perform one of these is the ChairmanOfTheBrawl.

* Played upon frequently in ''{{Discworld}}'', where brawls in the [[strike:Broken]] [[strike:Mended]] [[strike:Broken]] ''Mended'' Drum are practically an organized sport.

* One of the Lizzies in ''TheWarriors'' get a chair broken on her face.

* Lisianthus from {{Shuffle}} often has to do this to her father in order to make him stop whatever innapprorpiate action he is doing at the current time.
* In a BarBrawl cutscene from DragonQuestVIII, Yangus attempts to hurl a chair at a brawny troublemaker picking fights. [[BoisterousBruiser Someone's still sitting in it.]]

In fiction, chairs make for great bludgeoning objects capable of [[TapOnTheHead knocking people unconscious]] in one strike; enter the Chairman of the Board, that one guy who can be counted on grabbing the nearest sitting implement and smashing it across his unfortunate victim's head. If the chair is made of wood, it also immediately splinters into countless pieces to show how devastating the blow is.

-->''GIVE HIM THE CHAIR!''