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-->'''Doctor:''' I have no sword. I don't need a sword. Because I am the Doctor. And ''this''... is my spoon!

* There are two sequences in ''WesternAnimation/KungFuPanda'' where [[ImprobableChopsticksSkills chopsticks are used as weapons]]. The second scene is important for Po's character growth as it shows that he has trained hard enough not just to be a kung fu master in his own right but also not to eat when he's stressed.

* There are two sequences in ''WesternAnimation/KungFuPanda'' where [[ImprobableChopstickSkills chopsticks are used as weapons]]. The second scene is important for Po's character growth as it shows that he has trained hard enough not just to be a kung fu master in his own right but also not to eat when he's stressed.

* There are two sequences in ''WesternAnimation/KungFuPanda'' where chopsticks are used as weapons. The second scene is important for Po's character growth as it shows that he has trained hard enough not just to be a kung fu master in his own right but also not to eat when he's stressed.

It may be part of the fighting style of the ChefOfIron, whose armaments may also include various cutlery, the FryingPanOfDoom and even [[FoodFight food itself]]. Normally played for laughs (especially if there's SwordSparks), but if the [[Pun chips]] [[LetsGetDangerous are down]], things can get pretty ugly.

It may be part of the fighting style of the ChefOfIron, whose armaments may also include various cutlery, the FryingPanOfDoom and even [[FoodFight food itself]]. Normally played for laughs (especially if there's SwordSparks), but if the [[LetsGetDangerous chips are down]], things can get pretty ugly.

->'''The Shoveller:''' You're the master of cutlery. You can't throw a knife sometimes when someone's trying to kill me?\\
'''The Blue Raja:''' No, I can't. You can't use a rake sometimes?\\
'''The Shoveller:''' No, I'm the Shoveller.\\
'''The Blue Raja:''' Well, I'm the Blue Raja. I'm not Stab Man. I'm not Knifey Boy. I'm the Blue Raja.
-->-- ''Film/MysteryMen''

* There are two sequences in ''WesternAnimation/KungFuPanda'' where chopsticks are used as weapons.

* ''VideoGame/TheElderScrollsIIIMorrowind'' and ''[[VideoGame/TheElderScrollsIVOblivion The Elder Scrolls IV: Shivering Isles]]'' has "[[http://en.uesp.net/wiki/Lore:Fork_of_Horripilation The Fork of Horripilation]]"[[note]]"Horrpilitaion" means "to have goose bumps/goose pimples/goose flesh"[[/note]]. It's a [[JokeItem pitifully weak]] weapon which drains ''your own'' Magicka when you use it. Naturally, it's involved in a quest for [[MadGod Sheogorath]], and you can trade it in for a ''much'' better weapon once you've completed it.

* In ''VideoGame/DwarfFortress'' because of their tiny contact area, they're a great weapon.
* ''VideoGame/TheElderScrollsIIIMorrowind'' has [[http://www.uesp.net/wiki/Shivering:The_Fork_of_Horripilation_(quest) The Fork of Horripilation.]] It's a [[JokeItem pitifully weak]] weapon which drains ''your own'' Magicka when you use it. Naturally, it's involved in a quest for [[MadGod Sheogorath]], and you can trade it in for a ''much'' better weapon once you've completed it.

* In the ''Anime/DragonballZ'' movie ''[[Anime/DragonBallZBattleOfGods Battle of Gods]]'', Beerus fends off all of the heroes very nonchalantly with a pair of chopsticks.

-->'''MarkHamill:''' H-Homer... Use the for...\\

* CalLeandros starts stabbing his friend Robin with a fork, repeatedly, after a case of amnesia.

* ''VideoGame/TheElderScrollsIIIMorrowind'' has [[http://www.uesp.net/wiki/Shivering:The_Fork_of_Horripilation_(quest) The Fork of Horripilation.]] [[MadGod Sheogorath's]] quest involves using it to kill a giant floating jellyfish-thing.

* Madison Eagles boasted to have strategies to defeat everyone who had wrestled for SHINE and everyone who could conceivably by the time of her debut. Her "strategy" for Wrestling/AmazingKong? Use a fork!(this apparently effective enough [[RunningGag to make it her apply it to the whole roster]])

* Rorschach tries to do this at one point in ''ComicBook/{{Watchmen}}''.

* In the first ''Franchise/PiratesOfTheCaribbean'', the heroes use cutlery when they run out of cannon ammunition. HilarityEnsues when an enemy pirate gets stabbed in the fake eye with a fork.

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[[caption-width-right:300:Getting the last meatball? \\

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!!Examples

** Fighting over food is common for media from Japan, where meals are traditionally served in communal plates. For example, in ''Manga/{{Trigun}}'' Vash and Wolfwood fight over an enormous plate of spaghetti during the course of an argument.
* Sebastian uses silverware as weaponry in ''Manga/BlackButler''. Then again, he is a BattleButler (and a demon), so he can do some pretty wicked things with tableware.
** By which we of course mean using them as throwing knives and taking on [[spoiler:an angel]] by holding them as WolverineClaws.
* While Kenshiro of ''Manga/FistOfTheNorthStar'' didn't use any forks, his incarnation in ''Manga/FistOfTheBlueSky'' used a whole bunch of them to take out a bunch of evil gangsters who were viciously mistreating his [[BloodBrothers sworn brother]]. And in the anime adaptation of the manga, he uses Kenshiro's famous {{Kiai}} for the [[RapidFireFisticuffs Hokuto Hyakuretsu Ken]] ("AHHHHTATATATATATATATATATATATA!") from the previous series while he's throwing those forks.
** Or in the French GagDub, the infamous "Hokuto de cuisine".

* In the [[MartialArtsAndCrafts martial arts dining]] story arc in the manga of ''Manga/RanmaOneHalf'' Soun and Genma duel with forks.

[[folder:Comics]]
* Rorschach tries to do this at one point in ''Comicbook/{{Watchmen}}''.
* In ''ComicStrip/CalvinAndHobbes'', Calvin magnificently won a fork duel with a greenish, seemingly gelatinous glob of something that was supposed to be food, before the thing cheated and used a spoon to run him off by lobbing pieces of itself at him. In his further defense, ''he'' was the one who said they should call out for pizza to begin with.
* [=WildStorm=]'s ''Franchise/FridayThe13th'' has a scene where Jason kills a guy by stabbing him in the face with a two-pronged grilling fork.
* In ''ComicBook/TheSmurfs'' comic book adaptation of "The Clockwork Smurf", both Clockworks fight each other with silverware -- the fake Clockwork with a fork and knife, and the real Clockwork with a spoon.

[[folder:Films -- Animation]]
* There are two sequences in ''WesternAnimation/KungFuPanda'' where chopsticks are used as weapons.
* In the final scene of ''WesternAnimation/CorpseBride'', the hero uses a serving fork as an ImprovisedWeapon.

* Vimes' butler Wilikins in ''Literature/{{Discworld}}''.
** In ''Discworld/NightWatch'', Vetinari, an Assassins' Guild student at the time, effortlessly catches thrown fruit on his fork. Without looking up from his book.

[[folder:Live Action TV]]

--> "A ''spoon''?! That's just -" (Butler pulls spoon out, looks murderous) "Well, okay, that's more- " ([[DoubleSubversion Butler falls over, dead]]) "Disappointing, really."

* In the ''Series/DoctorWho'' episode "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS34E3RobotOfSherwood Robot of Sherwood]]", the Doctor responds to a challenge from RobinHood with the following BadassBoast:
-->'''Doctor''': I have no sword. I don't need a sword. Because I am the Doctor. And ''this'' ... is my spoon!

* Music/WeirdAlYankovic parodied Music/MichaelJackson's "Beat It" (featuring two gang leaders in a knife fight) with "Eat It". The leaders were instead fighting over a chicken, and armed... well, one had a fork, the other a spoon.
** What's even better is that the spoon and fork are propped as ''switchblades''.

[[folder:Professional Wrestling]]

[[folder:Stand-up Comedy]]
* Ed Byrne once joked that banning things like nail clippers on planes was unnecessary, since he was certain that another individual armed with a pair of tweezers could probably take it back, commenting "There's a duel I'd like to see".
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* Still with Creator/PhilFoglio, in ''Webcomic/GirlGenius'' it is cranked up to eleven, as can be expected of Sparks, with Gil's [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20081015 Hand-cranked Runcible Gun.]]

* In the ''Series/{{Angel}}'' episode "Just Rewards", Angel kills the villain's butler with a spoon. By throwing it at him so hard it lodges in his forehead. Spike is appropriately incredulous.

* An interesting version occurs in the first episode of ''TheAquabatsSuperShow'', in which the Aquabats use ''giant'' forks to battle giant ants. Why forks? Who knows? (But then, [[RuleOfCool who]] [[RuleOfFunny cares]]?)

* Madison Eagles boasted to have strategies to defeat everyone who had wrestled for SHINE and everyone who could conceivably by the time of her debut. Her "strategy" for Wrestling/AmazingKong? Use a fork!

* Mahiro and his mom utilize forks in ''LightNovel/HaiyoreNyarkoSan'' to keep Nyarko, Cuuko, and Hasta in check if they start acting up too much.

A form of ImprovisedWeapon. Occurs when, for any reason, a character or characters in a story resort to fighting with basic kitchen silverware. Can be used to [[{{Squick}} sickeningly devastating effect]] in the hands of someone skilled/determined enough.

May be part of the fighting style of the ChefOfIron, whose armaments may also include various cutlery, the FryingPanOfDoom and even [[FoodFight food itself]]. Normally played for laughs (especially if there's SwordSparks), but if the [[LetsGetDangerous chips are down]], things can get pretty ugly.

* ''MetalGearSolid3SnakeEater'' has an escape sequence where a fork is available to the player. Attacking any normally captureable animals with it causes Snake to eat them instantly, instead of killing them normally.

* Combined with EyeScream, entirely for laughs, in ''Film/HotTubTimeMachine''.

* ''Anime/{{Slayers}}'', the TropeNamer. The first episode of ''Slayers NEXT'' has Gourry and Lina literally ''fork-fencing'' at super speed over the ''last bits of food on the table''. Neither of them end up getting it, as a fight breaks out in the tavern and their table is knocked over. Lina's response? [[BerserkButton Well...]] This is justified two-fold: First, both of them are notorious [[BigEater Big Eaters]]. Second, the party has a tradition where the person who eats the least has to pick up the tab.

* While Kenshiro of ''Manga/FistOfTheNorthStar'' didn't use any forks, his incarnation in ''FistOfTheBlueSky'' used a whole bunch of them to take out a bunch of evil gangsters who were viciously mistreating his [[BloodBrothers sworn brother]]. And in the anime adaptation of the manga, he uses Kenshiro's famous {{Kiai}} for the [[RapidFireFisticuffs Hokuto Hyakuretsu Ken]] ("AHHHHTATATATATATATATATATATATA!") from the previous series while he's throwing those forks.

* Miharu Shimizu, the {{Psycho|Lesbian}} SchoolgirlLesbian of ''LightNovel/BakaToTestToShoukanjuu'' attacks the lead character with throwing forks for daring to lust after the target of her affections.
* OnePiece: [[ChefOfIron Sanji]] believes that kitchen knives should only be used on food. One of his opponents uses a suit made out of [[ItRunsOnNonsensium ramen]]. [[ThisLooksLikeAJobForAquaman You do the math.]]