History Main / ChairmanOfTheBrawl

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* Used by the various protagonists of the ''VideoGame/LikeADragon'' series. For example Kazuma Kiryu can swing an office chair, toss it, or smash it against the head of a loan shark so hard that he flips over and can't fight anymore.

* In ''Film/TheBanditOfSherwoodForest'', Lady Catherine stops the Sheriff of Nottingham from [[ThrowingYourSwordAlwaysWorks throwing his sword into Robert's back]] by tossing a chair at him.

* ''VideoGame/DeathRoadToCanada'' 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.

** ''Literature/StormFront'': Harry Dresden knocks out [[spoiler:Morgan]] with one of the chairs at [=McAnally's=]. He lampshades the "splintering wood" part as the chair is a very solid one, and the barman actually has to check that the guy is alive afterwards.

* Poet [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murō_Saisei Murō Saisei]] is known for an incident where he angrily swung a chair in the middle of a poets' conference to break up an argument between close friend Hagiwara Sakutarō and another poet named Okamoto Jun.

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

* WhereTheSidewalkEnds'': After Mark receives his NoHoldsBarredBeatdown from Scalise's goons, Scalise is ready to beat him to death with a stool, and is only stopped when one of his men convinces him that killing a cop will bring down too much heat on them.

* [[Wrestling/AllEliteWrestling Shawn Spears]] of The Pinnacle has taken up the moniker as the 'Chairman of the Board', using the steel chair as his signature weapon.

* 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.

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** [=WWE=] recently banned headshots with chairs in reaction to the countless concussion injuries caused by them.

* [[Wrestling/AllEliteWrestling Shawn Spears]] of The Pinnacle has recently taken up the moniker as the 'Chairman of the Board', using the steel chair as his signature weapon.

* Poet [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murō_Saisei Murō Saisei]] was known for an incident where he angrily swung a chair in the middle of a poets' conference to break up an argument between close friend Hagiwara Sakutarō and another poet named Okamoto Jun.

* Poet [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murō_Saisei Murō Saisei]] was known for an incident where he picked up and swung a chair in the middle of a poet's conference to break up an argument between close friend Hagiwara Sakutarō and another poet named Okamoto Jun.

* Used by the various protagonists of the ''VideoGame/{{Yakuza}}'' series. For example Kazuma Kiryu can swing an office chair, toss it, or smash it against the head of a loan shark so hard that he flips over and can't fight anymore.

** ''VideoGame/Persona5'' has a surprise successor in the form of Makoto Nijima, who slams a folding chair onto whatever poor shadow is opposing her in her and Haru's Showtime.

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 [[DieChairDie immediately splinters into countless pieces]] to show how devastating the blow is.[[note]]These chairs are actually made of balsa and held together with toothpicks to break apart easier. DontTryThisAtHome.[[/note]]

* 1960s ''Series/Batman1966'' series episode "That Darn Catwoman". After Robin is placed under Catwoman's control, he breaks a chair over Batman's head while fighting him. Afterwards, Robin shatters what is left of the ([[SpecialEffectsFailure prop]]) chair [[RatedMForManly with his bare hands.]]

** When the eponymous family took a vacation in Japan, Bart & Homer went to a sumo wrestling event; Homer ended up in the ring, Bart got the tag, and hit the sumo wrestler with a folding chair. The crowd booed them.

--->'''Homer:''' [''screams in pain''] “What the hell is wrong with you?”\\
'''Bart:''' “Geez, sor-ree. It's a pretty standard stunt, Homer.”