History Main / PillowFight

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->''"I've codified the five different types of pillow fights:''
->''Man vs Woman: Fun''
->''Woman vs Woman: [[GirlOnGirlIsHot Awesome]]''
->''Man vs Man: Gay''
->''Man vs Pillow: [[CloudCuckoolander Crazy]]''
->''and Pillow vs Pillow: CrazyAwesome"''
-->-- '''Demetri Martin'''

A gathering of female characters in a not particularly serious battle or physical challenge for purposes of [[{{Fanservice}} titillation]]. Often, literally, a pillow fight (i.e., at a SlumberParty) but may include [[FetishFuel similar situations]] like volleyball, particularly when [[{{Stripperific}} wardrobe is skimpy]] and the action is bouncy.

If it actually involves pillows, the chances of said pillows breaking apart and covering the place with their stuffing is fairly high.

For the other kind of pillow fight, the one with kids goofing around that is meant to portray innocent fun and not Fanservice, see ChildishPillowFight.
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[[folder:Advertising]]
* A promo for the Australian version of ''Series/BeautyAndTheGeek'' featured a pillow fight between the beauties and the geeks. The beauties, of course, were clad in lingerie.
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[[folder:Anime & Manga]]
* The Pillow Fight in ''Manga/KemekoDeluxe'' is... excessively destructive. But fanservice is given, nonetheless.
* There's a particularly adorable one in ''Manga/TokyoMewMew''.
* A uselessly badass pillow fight with the Japanese team in ''{{Manga/Eyeshield 21}}'' involves players using their special techniques with the pillows against each other.
* In ''Manga/FairyTail'', there is a pillow fight after the Garuna arc, just before [[spoiler:Loki is revealed to be Leo, stellar spirit of the Lion]]. It starts out pretty normal. Then Natsu hits Lucy so hard with a pillow she ends up flat on her back in the yard. She decides to leave before she gets killed.
* ''Manga/MahouSenseiNegima''
** During their Kyoto vacation[=/=][[ClassTrip school field trip]], several of the girls of 3-A have an [[CookingDuel epic pillow fight]] with their [[{{Shotacon}} boy]] [[ChickMagnet teacher]]'s kiss as the prize. Despite what you may assume from the previous sentence, very little of it was used as FetishFuel.
** [[http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/Pillow_Fight.jpg Also take note that the girls will indulge in the occasional pillow fight given the opportunity]].
* Akira and Fumi from ''Manga/AoiHana'' love to show their friendship by pummeling each other with pillows from time to time.
* In the two-part "Remote Island Syndrome" from ''LightNovel/HaruhiSuzumiya'', the title character is extremely good at it during the club trip. Just before the [[spoiler:murder mystery]] starts, Haruhi throws one into Arakawa's face unerringly. The MoodWhiplash is quite hard, especially if you haven't read the light novels.
* ''Manga/OnePiece'': When the Strawhats spend the night in Yuba, a pillow fight is started when Usopp tries to sleep, [[BlatantLies claiming he'd worked hard that day.]] Zoro argrily throws a pillow at him saying he'd rested the most of any of them. Usopp throws one at Zoro as payback, one at Chopper [[FishOutOfWater for having to be carried the whole way]], [[RuleofThree and one at Sanji]] for trying to [[HandsomeLech sleep in Vivi's bed.]] Eventually the four of them start beating each other up.
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[[folder:Comedy]]
* From the words of comedian DemetriMartin:
-->"I've codified the five different types of pillow fights:\\
Man vs Woman: fun\\
Woman vs. Woman: awesome\\
Man vs. Man: gay\\
Man vs. Pillow: crazy, and \\
Pillow vs. Pillow: {{crazy awesome}}."
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[[folder:Comic Books]]
* A pillow fight precedes the ScrewYourself scenario in the ''XXXenophile'' story "Doppelgang-Bang".
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[[folder:Films -- Animation]]
* There is a scene in ''WesternAnimation/{{Megamind}}'' remarkably similar to a pillow fight scene, complete with slow motion and feathers flying through the air. Except with bags of money. The feathers are replaced by hundred dollar bills.
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[[folder:Films -- Live-Action]]
* OlderThanTelevision: ''Pillow Fight'', [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qVvkDY6Fp8M Thomas Edison, 1897.]]
* ''AnimalHouse''. Arguably the TropeCodifier.
* Dale Arden vs. Princess Aura in the 1980 ''Film/FlashGordon'' movie. Real pillow fight.
* Used with a twist in ''TheHotChick''. [[http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=TUUDjXpZYyo Whoever knew a pillow could be so deadly?]]
* A pillow fight between Jenny [=McCarthy=] and Pamela Anderson in the opening of ''Film/ScaryMovie 3'' starts with Anderson's character hitting [=McCarthy=]'s with a pillow, but it eventually leads to them using a glass vase, a laptop, & Anderson's character giving [=McCarthy=] a wedgie.
* A pillow fight happens in ''Film/SpiceWorld''.
* Gender-flipped in ''Film/LittleNicky''. The ShapeShifterShowdown for the fate of the Earth includes Nicky and Adrian [[MundaneMadeAwesome beating each other up with pillows]] (after one of them conjured a bed to break a fall).
--> "Oh, you want a pillow fight, do ya? Well, [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yearud9w25o let's let the feathers fly!]]"
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[[folder:Live-Action TV]]
* In the ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'' episode "Dirty Girls". Xander is wakened from a dream of scantily clad Potential Slayers having a pillow fight, to the reality of the girls in frumpy pyjamas and bathrobes, complaining about a clogged toilet.
* The ''Series/MightyMorphinPowerRangers'' episode "Crystal of Nightmares" features Billy instigating one with the male cast, complete with feathers flying around the room.
* In the ''Series/That70sShow'' episode "Your Time Is Gonna Come," Donna, Jackie and Kelso's girlfriend Annette hold one of these. The guys imagine them in a stereotypical "sexy slumber party" setting, where they, among other things, suggest having a nude pillow fight. In reality, they just sit around bored.
* Savannah and Marti have one in ''{{Hellcats}}'', though they are fully clothed at the time.
* ''HowToBeIndie'': One occurs between Indie and Evil Cousin Ruby in "How to Keep Your Cool in a Heat Wave". Evil Cousin Ruby has a 'hand tooled combat pillow'.
* The second series finale of ''{{Series/Glee}}'' features one between the girls in their hotel room.
* Joe of ''Series/ImpracticalJokers'' manages to instigate one in an Ikea showroom. Impressively, no pillow actually breaks.
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[[folder:Music Videos]]
* The music video for Music/AKB48's "[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lkHlnWFnA0c Heavy Rotation]]" features the girls pillow fighting in their underwear.
* DuranDuran did it first, with lacy lingerie, and the models astride a whipped-cream covered pole in the vid for "Girls on Film"
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[[folder:Pro Wrestling]]
* Often used for titillation in the {{Wrestling/WWE}}, where pillow fight matches between Divas often appear at [=PPVs=].
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[[folder:Tabletop Games]]
* Featured on the art for [[http://yugioh.wikia.com/wiki/Xyz_Tribalrivals this]] card from the ''TabletopGame/YuGiOh'' card game. (The two "combatants" are Alchemic Magician and Slacker Magician.)
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[[folder:Video Games]]
* The entire purpose of ''VideoGame/DeadOrAlive Xtreme Beach Volleyball''.
* To a lesser extent, ''Beach Spikers''.
* ''VideoGame/BrainDead13'': Sort of... by male example, when Lance grabs a pillow and has to fight off the ghosts with it in the bedroom.
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[[folder:Web Comics]]
* Used [[http://lfgcomic.com/page/167 as part of a spell]] in ''Webcomic/LookingForGroup''.
* In ''Webcomic/SluggyFreelance'': ''[[RPGEpisode Years of Yarncraft]]'', the She-Demons of the sorority house Flaya Hed'decappa fights with [[http://www.sluggy.com/comics/archives/daily/080910 Vorpal Pillows]] against the adventurers panty-raiding them.
* In ''{{Sinfest}}'', [[http://www.sinfest.net/archive_page.php?comicID=3060 the succubi lure the enraged Monique into one]]. [[http://www.sinfest.net/archive_page.php?comicID=3057 She's unaware that they were interfering]] with [[http://www.sinfest.net/archive_page.php?comicID=3055 God's match-making.]]
* In ''Webcomic/TheFrumps'', Lance and Virgil (dressed up as Kirk and Spock), discover that pillow fighting between two girls can actually [[http://www.thefrumps.com/comic/2013/05/27/spacetime slow down time]].
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[[folder:Web Original]]
* A pillow fight ensues between Little Miss Gamer and WebVideo/TheNostalgiaChick in the one-year Anniversary Brawl of Website/{{ThatGuyWithTheGlasses}}.com.
* In the ''Literature/WhateleyUniverse'', pillow fights are somewhat common among Team Kimba, particularly between Tennyo and Jade.
* HomestarRunner is invited to a college-girl pillow fight in an email accidentally sent to Strong Bad in [[http://www.homestarrunner.com/sbemailtwohundred.html "email thunder"]]. Homestar's apparently [[http://www.homestarrunner.com/hremail49.html been to one before]].
* Bridget McManus always ended her Afterellen.com vlog, Brunch With Bridget, with a pillow fight between her and the guest. More than once someone mentioned how cliche the lesbian pillow fight fantasy was. Then they went along with it anyway.
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[[folder:Western Animation]]
* Parodied in ''{{WesternAnimation/SpongeBob SquarePants}}''. Patrick's pillow can be [[DramaticGunCock cocked like a gun.]]
* Also parodied in ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'', where Joe, Cleveland, Quagmire, and Peter get into a pillow fight, which turns into a fist fight in which Peter brandishes Joe as a weapon.
* The short-lived American adaptation of the Australian sitcom ''WesternAnimation/SitDownShutUp'' has an episode where the hippie science teacher Miracle Grohe tells Principal Sezno about an underground club where women in skimpy pajamas pillow fight each other.
* The end credits for ''WesternAnimation/CodeLyoko'' Season 1 (taken from the short pilot ''Garage Kids'') show [[UnresolvedSexualTension Ulrich and Yumi]] having a pillow fight.
* Applejack and Rarity's conflicting attitudes culminate in one in "Look Before You Sleep" from ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic''.
* Happens commonly in ''{{Literature/Madeline}}''.
* Happens at the end of the pilot of ''WesternAnimation/TheGrimAdventuresOfBillyAndMandy'' with Billy and [[TheGrimReaper Grim]]. It is one-sided and Grim is at a disadvantage since it is [[LosingYourHead just his body.]] His head can still feel the pain, though.
* Used in a MundaneMadeAwesome manner in ''PowerPuffGirls'' the girls have invited their class over for a slumper party, which Mojo Jojo crashes and knocks the Power Puffs out. The other kids come to the rescue by beating the crap out of him with pillows, which is done in the exact same way as all of the fist fights on the show.
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->'''Chandler:''' You know when guys hang out, they don't just drink beer and hammer up drywall.\\
'''Monica:''' When girls hang out, we don't have pillow fights in our underwear. ''(Chandler looks horrified)'' I'm sorry, we do. We do! I don't know why I said that.
-->-- ''{{Series/Friends}}''

* In ''Manga/KOn'', Mugi can hardly wait to start one during the {{class trip}}. She has scarily good aim, too.

A gathering of female characters in a not particularly serious battle or physical challenge for purposes of [[{{Fanservice}} titillation]]. Often, literally, a pillow fight (i.e., at a SlumberParty) but may include [[FetishFuel similar situations]] like volleyball, particularly when [[{{Stripperific}} wardrobe is skimpy]] and the action is [[{{Gainaxing}} bouncy]].

->'''Monica:''' When women hang out, we don't have pillow fights in our underwear.\\
'''Chandler:''' ''(look of horror)''\\
'''Monica:''' I'm sorry, we do. We do! I don't know why I said that.

'''Chandler:''' ''(doubled over in shock)''\\