History Main / ChairmanOfTheBrawl

* When ''WesternAnimation/{{Shrek}}'' is fighting against a LOT of knights, who are under orders to kill him to win a chance to rescue a princess, he ends up in a setup remarkably similar to a wrestling arena. Egged on by a bloodthirsty granny no less, he employs this trope on an unfortunate knight, much to the audience's delight.

* ''Franchise/{{DCAU}}'':

--->'''Stan:''' There's no cops in the forest. We take this to our graves.\\

--> Anise felt something slimy wrap around her left ankle, and suddenly found herself suspended upside down in the air, prompting alarmed cries from her sisters. She gulped. This could end badly. She suddenly wished that their outfits offered some more coverage than swimsuits. On the bright side, however, she could make out a few eyes in the centre of the mass from her elevated vantage point, and she still had her chair…\\

* ''Film/{{The Avengers|2012}}'' introduces ComicBook/BlackWidow tied to a chair and being 'interrogated' (as in, it's her doing the interrogating, not the other way around). At that point, when she's called to come in, she uses the chair she's tied to to kick copious amounts of ass.

* ''Film/BloodyReunion'': During the fight in the basement, Myung-Ho tries to smash a chair on to Jung-Wa's head, but he manages to roll out of the way.

* In ''Film/ThirteenSins'', Elliot repeatedly smashes a chair over Witter's brother's head in the hospital before he even relaizes it's one of the challenges.

* ''Film/DeepInTheValley'': On entering the examination room and finding Lester being tortured by Suzi, Carl grabs a folding and knocks her out with it. Later, Lance is about is about to hit Lester with what appears to be the same chair (parodying the lack of budget in porn films), Carl snatches it off him and knocks him out with it.

* ''VideoGame/DeafhRoadToCanada'' points out several times that picking up and tossing furniture at zombies is a good attack method. Just so happens that chairs are the lightest furniture to pick up and yeet around, even by survivors with low physical stats.

* Self-proclaimed King of the Youtube Walkthrough [[https://www.youtube.com/user/theRadBrad TheRadBrad]] has done this in ANY game whenever he finds something akin to a chair.

** He even has ''Professional Chair Thrower'' in his Channel Description.

* Inverted in ''WesternAnimation/TheBoondocks'' where ''just'' throwing a chair is believed to be the actual cause of the brawl in the first place. It doesn't even need to ''hit'' anybody, throwing a chair into a crowd just spontaneously starts a riot.
** Though Riley brandishes a footstool against Huey on one occasion.

* 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 out-from-under-the-ass-pull than pure genre savviness. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6C0YJcuoD04&NR=1 Check out the demonstrations here.]]

** [[Recap/DoctorWhoS33E11TheCrimsonHorror "The Crimson Horror"]], while the VillainOfTheWeek is distracted, Clara grabs a chair to smash up the SteamPunk device with which they intend to bring about TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt.

--=>'''Clara:''' Yeah? I've got a chair. ''(jams the legs into the rotors of the infernal device)''

* ''Literature/{{Dragaera}}'': In the ''Literature/KhaavrenRomances'', Mica, Tazendra's lackey, wields a bar stool as his WeaponOfChoice.

* Wrestling/{{Edge}} and Wrestling/{{Christian}} perfected the double chair head sandwich know as the Con-Chair-To.

* Though details surrounding [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WajTpTmsrQQ this altercation]] aren't clear, what ''is'' clear is that people are throwing and swinging a lot of folding chairs around...including one lady who ups the ante by throwing a ''folding table.'' She also catches a thrown chair with one hand.

* Hardcore Legend Wrestling/MickFoley had a long and, uh, "involved" relationship with chairs over the course of his long career. One of his signature moves was a dive off the ring apron to an opponent on the outside while holding a chair. One time he wrapped a chair in rags, ''set them on fire,'' then hit Wrestling/TerryFunk with it; after this came damn close to ''killing'' Funk he never tried it again. And then there was the infamous "I Quit" match against [[Wrestling/DwayneJohnson The Rock]] at the 1999 ''Wrestling/RoyalRumble'', where he took '''''eleven''''' completely unprotected (as his hands were cuffed behind his back) and increasingly stiff chair shots directly to the head in one of the most [[NightmareFuel/ProfessionalWrestling genuinely horrifying]] displays of violence WWE ever allowed; Mick's wife and children were at ringside to watch the gruesome display and were reduced to traumatized tears. And one last (much less injurious) display they were involved in when both Mick and Terry were fighting Public Enemy in the ECW, and Terry made the mistake of asking the notoriously aggressive ECW crowd for a chair to finish them off, and [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AxldOEOnzPA got the entire arena's worth of seating thrown into the ring]].

* Referenced in the Creator/ChoiceOfGames title ''VideoGame/{{Slammed]}''. Choosing to give an autograph to a kid results in you getting criticized for breaking kayfabe. Your character will archly respond with "Maybe I should have hit her with a chair."

* ''AudioPlay/BigFinishDoctorWho'': In ''[[Recap/BigFinishDoctorWho006TheMarianConspiracy The Marian Conspiracy]]'', Evelyn fakes being ill to lure the warder inside their cell and the Doctor hits him over the head with a chair: all the while complaining because he had already told Evelyn that this was precisely ''not'' the plan they were going to go with.

* ''ComicBook/ThePlagueOfTheAntibioticMan'': As battling an unknown alien, Superman breaks a ski-lift's chair in his head.

* In ''ComicBook/HexWives'' #6, Bradley hits Aaron with a wheelchair as the Architects start to fall apart.

* ''[[Fanfic/PatternsOfThePast Patterns of the Past]]'': The first move Old Missie makes after she's untied from the chair she's bound to as a DefiantCaptive is taking the chair and throwing it full-force at the Patternista, who barely misses it.

* Improbable weapon master Jackie Chan is rather famous for his use of seating material.
** Played with in ''Film/YoungMaster'' Creator/JackieChan stages an epic [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6uJW6UpCcyI bench to bench combat]] with his fellow disciple.

* One ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons'' novel has a seasoned adventurer tell his inexperienced traveling companion to stay on their guard when they enter a bar, as the experienced member notices that it's an old, worn building with a lot of new furniture. He identifies this as a sign that the place experiences frequent {{Bar Brawl}}s. Sure enough, one swiftly breaks out.

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

* Used oddly with the Gravity Gun in ''VideoGame/HalfLife2''. It lets you pick up [[AbnormalAmmo anything that isn't nailed down or too heavy]] and lob it at the enemy at high speed. Among the items you can use are various items of furniture, including chairs and benches.
* The Veteran of ''Super VideoGame/MondayNightCombat'' uses a spike-covered stool as his melee weapon. His grapple consists of setting down the stool and bashing his victim into it a few times.
* A blink-and-you-miss-it moment at the start of ''VideoGame/BatmanArkhamCity'' while Bruce Wayne is being transferred into Arkham City, you can turn and see Black Mask defending himself with a chair against some TYGER guards to no avail.
* DLC character Beowulf of ''VideoGame/{{Skullgirls}}'' is a wrestler who wields a chair by the name of "The Hurting", a reference to [[Literature/{{Beowulf}} his namesake's]] sword Hrunting. Yeah, that's right: his chair is so respected and famous that ''[[NamedWeapons it has its own name.]]''
* Spend enough time in ''VideoGame/DeadRising'' and you'll eventually find yourself having to grab a chair so you can bludgeon zombies with it, usually to conserve more useful and powerful weapons. Pick up a bench and you can shove an entire crowd into a tangled pile of moaning undead bodies. ''Dead Rising 2'' and ''3'' provide the unique circumstance of allowing players to beat a person to death with a wheelchair.
* For reasons unknown, Liu Shan was given [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IKNESBEeYf0 a bench]] as his weapon of choice in ''VideoGame/DynastyWarriors 8: Empires.'' While the series is full of {{Improbable Weapon User}}s, the bench is certainly one of the more surreal entries seen thus far.
* Referenced in the Creator/ChoiceOfGames title ''Slammed!''. Choosing to give an autograph to a kid results in you getting criticized for breaking kayfabe. Your character will archly respond with "Maybe I should have hit her with a chair."

* In ''VideoGame/DragonAgeInquisition'', [[OldSoldier Blackwall]] mentions this happening in the BarBrawl that got him recruited into the Grey Wardens. When one of his opponents broke a chair over Blackwall's back, [[MadeOfIron Blackwall]] just grabbed one of the chair's broken legs and used it as a bludgeon.
* ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyVIIRemake'' has Aerith cheerfully bringing down a chair towards one of Don Corneo's lackeys.
* When she uses her V-Trigger II in ''VideoGame/StreetFighterV'', Rainbow Mika calls in her tag team partner to clobber her opponent with a chair and then throw it at them.
* In ''VideoGame/SaintsRowTheThird'', after [[spoiler:Phillipe Loren]] dies, his former {{Dragon}} [[MaskedLuchador Killbane]] decides to [[DragonAscendant take over]] TheSyndicate. When [[EvilBrit Matt]] [[TheCracker Miller]] objects to this, pointing out that [[CoDragons Kiki and Viola DeWynter]] should be the leaders instead, due to being [[spoiler:Loren's]] second-in-commands, Killbane belts him with a chair. Impressively, Matt [[MadeOfIron survives this]], despite Killbane being powerful enough to snap necks with just two fingers.

* In [[Recap/ArcherS7E7DoubleIndecency an episode]] of ''WesternAnimation/{{Archer}}'', during the brawl at the end of the episode, Archer gets [[RuleOfThree three chairs in a row smashed over his head]].
-->'''Archer''': Goddammit! [[LampshadeHanging What the hell IS this, a chair factory???]]

* In one episode of ''Series/ConanTheAdventurer'', someone hits Conan in the back with a chair during a bar fight. Unlike most examples of this trope, it's not very effective.

** [[OurVampiresAreDifferent Thomas]] does this during ''Literature/TurnCoat'' to his intolerable cousin, Madeline. He breaks the chair, which is [[SuperStrength more impressive than it sounds]], [[UpToEleven since the chairs are steel]].

* In ''[[ComicBook/RobinSeries Robin]] 83'' when Tim discovers the hotel he's at is being overrun by Kobra operatives he tosses a chair in one of their faces before sliding under a lounger and flipping that up to whack another one with.

* ''Series/FastForward''. A spoof of ''Series/KungFu'' has a cowboy trying to break a chair during the requisite BarBrawl, only he can't break it as he's moving the chair in SlowMotion; he then reverts to normal speed to build up enough force to break the chair.