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13 | [[quoteright:350:[[Film/{{Spy}} https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/kitchen_chase.jpg]]]] |
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15 | A ChaseScene Trope. Our hero flees the pursuing bad guys through a back door which leads to a kitchen, usually a commercial kitchen, like the kind you see in restaurants, though writers have used an ordinary home kitchen or the kitchen set of a cooking show. Danger is escalated as not only do you have to escape the gaining henchmen, but dodge prep cooks, flaming stoves, and the occasional angry chef waving a meat cleaver or big knife yelling "Hey! You can't be back here!" |
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17 | This setting will also turn up the heat (no pun intended) because a kitchen will have knives, glass, cleaning agents and boiling liquids - all of which can do a ''lot'' of harm to the human body, making it a veritable arsenal of [[ImprovisedWeapon improvised weapons]] for everyone involved. |
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19 | Bottom line: if you can't stand the heat, escape through the kitchen. |
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21 | Usually ends with them chasing each other through the backdoor into some shady alley, where the fight goes on. |
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23 | But whatever you do, just don't stay in there. |
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25 | Subtrope of ExcuseMeComingThrough and sister trope of CrashingThroughTheHarem. See also ImprovisedWeapon. Not to be confused with CookingDuel. This trope may also appear after a DinerBrawl or a WokFu scene. Can involve FryingPanOfDoom. |
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28 | !!Examples: |
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30 | [[foldercontrol]] |
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32 | [[folder: Advertising ]] |
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34 | * Used in an ad for AT&T cell phones, as the hero runs through the kitchen in order to head them off at the pass (in this case, the back door of the restaurant/kitchen). |
35 | * [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nqvrs0SxtFE&feature=player_embedded This]] Gillette Deodorant commercial features an escape through the kitchen, it just isn't very fast paced like other examples. |
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37 | [[/folder]] |
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39 | [[folder: Anime and Manga ]] |
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41 | * An early episode of ''Anime/DarkerThanBlack'' has Hei and Chiaki escaping from two hostile Contractors through the kitchen of the restaurant they were just eating at. |
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43 | [[/folder]] |
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45 | [[folder: Fan Works ]] |
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47 | * In the ''Series/StarTrekVoyager'' fanfic "The Flux of Mortal Things", B'Elanna and Seven run through an animal slaughterhouse to escape an assassination attempt. |
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49 | [[/folder]] |
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51 | [[folder: Films -- Live-Action ]] |
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53 | * ''Film/CastADeadlySpell''. After a restaurant owner tries to put a written curse on him, Philip Lovecraft goes after him into the kitchen to return it. The curse manifests when a demon comes out of a pot on a stove. Philip joins forces with a cook to defeat it. |
54 | * ''Film/{{Cleanskin}}'': At the hotel, Ewan spots Ash and chases him into the hotel kitchen where they get into a brutal fight. |
55 | * ''Film/EnemyOfTheState'': Daniel runs through a the kitchen of a club to escape the pursuing federal agents. |
56 | * In ''Film/FinalDestination5'', Sam reserves the restaurant for an after-hours date with Molly. Peter, who has become unstable after Candice's death, interrupts the date and tells them that he will kill Molly to take her lifespan. After Peter draws a gun, Sam and Molly both escape to the kitchen. Peter pursues and running chase/battle ensues. |
57 | * In ''Film/FreebieAndTheBean'', a shooter crashes his van and flees into a restaurant kitchen, pursued by Bean. Dozens of plates are destroyed, and a giant pan of of sauce is emptied onto him. Bean uses a FryingPanOfDoom to knock him back, then shoots him, causing him to fall onto a lit grill. |
58 | * ''Film/FrightNight1985'': Charlie and Amy run through the kitchen of a club to escape the vampire. |
59 | * ''Film/TheFugitive'': During the confrontation between Kimble and the villain at the hotel. |
60 | * The {{flashback}} in ''Film/GIJoeTheRiseOfCobra'', with Kid!Snakeeyes and Kid!Stormshadow. |
61 | * ''Film/InTheLineOfFire'', though they're actually not chasing anyone, just rapidly evacuating the President after an assassination attempt. |
62 | * ''Film/JamesBond'' |
63 | ** ''Film/NeverSayNeverAgain''. The assassin trying to kill James at Shrublands follows him into a kitchen and a fight breaks out, complete with a terrified female chef. |
64 | ** One scene in ''Film/TheLivingDaylights'' involves a full-on fight between a British intelligence mook and a KGB hitman in the kitchen of an [=MI6=] safehouse. |
65 | ** ''Film/QuantumOfSolace''. The gunfight in the opera house between James and several bodyguards leads from a restaurant and passes through the kitchen. |
66 | * ''Film/{{Juncture}}'': After filing to kill Shaver, Anna flees through the hotel's kitchen. |
67 | * ''Film/{{Jurassic Park|1993}}''. Two velociraptors pursue the children into a kitchen and try to hunt them down inside it. |
68 | * ''Film/TheKarateKid1984'' - Daniel sneaks into a country club's kitchen in hopes of meeting Ali. But when he notices her dancing with her former boyfriend he turns to leave, colliding into a waiter carrying a tray. |
69 | * ''Film/KungFuTheLegendContinues'': The Ancient One just won a lottery and was rich. Caine and The Ancient One get in a fight in the kitchen against some Kung Fu punks who want the ticket while escaping a golddigger at a formal dinner in a hotel. |
70 | * ''Film/LeonardPart6'': Monroe is shooting at Leonard with a revolver, switches to an uzi, then switches to another revolver, and his shooting "accidentally" opens a bag of coffee beans into a coffee grinder, breaks a couple eggs for frying, and punctures a carton of oil which some eager chefs help themselves to for cooking. |
71 | * ''Film/{{Nikita}}'' is cornered in the kitchen by several bodyguards after making a hit in a restaurant, and dives down the garbage chute to escape being blown up by a rifle grenade. |
72 | * ''Film/{{Outland}}''. A lengthy ChaseFight through the colony ends up with a brutal fistfight in a kitchen. At one point, the criminal O'Niel is chasing throws drugs in a pan of boiling oil to destroy the evidence, but [[TheDeterminator our hero plunges his bare hand in and fishes it out]]. |
73 | * The hotel chase in ''Film/TheRock'' goes through a kitchen before heading outside. |
74 | * ''Film/TheRocketeer'': Cliff Secord is chased by Lothar and other gangsters through the kitchen of the South Seas Club. {{Justified|Trope}} as Cliff was disguised as a waiter. |
75 | * ''Film/RushHour'': The two heroes run through a kitchen and an explosion scares off the {{Mooks}}. |
76 | * ''Film/SisterAct'': Deloris witnesses a mobster committing a crime, and she makes a hasty getaway through the kitchen of the Reno casino where she performs. |
77 | * During the lengthy foot chase in ''Film/{{Takers}}'', Welles and Hatch pursue Jesse through the restaurant kitchen in the Munroe Building. This is where [[spoiler:Hatch is shot and killed]]. |
78 | * In ''Film/{{Tamara}}'', Chloe and Jesse have to fight a BrainwashedAndCrazy Kisha in the deserted kitchen of the hospital (although, oddly, one the deep fryers is still running). |
79 | * ''Film/TheThing2011''. When a human is exposed as the shapeshifting alien it's torched by a flamethrower, and thoughtfully [[ManOnFire staggers into the kitchen]] where it can be incinerated within the stainless steel walls without burning the entire base down (that comes later). |
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81 | [[/folder]] |
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83 | [[folder: Literature ]] |
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85 | * ''Literature/TheBartimaeusTrilogy'': In book 1, when Bartimaeus tries to evade the BigBad's guards by running through the kitchen, the "chef" turns out to be his old enemy, Faquarl. |
86 | * In the Creator/StephenKing story ''Lunch at the Gotham Cafe'' (found in the collection ''Literature/EverythingsEventual''), two characters flee the insane maitre d' by going through the kitchen. |
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88 | [[/folder]] |
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90 | [[folder: Live Action TV ]] |
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92 | * Booth chases a suspect through one in ''{{Series/Bones}}''. Brennan tried to help by throwing a head of lettuce at the guy and Booth uses a FryingPanOfDoom to knock the guy out. It is extremely funny. |
93 | * ''Series/TheBookOfBobaFett''. Played for laughs when Boba and Fennec Shand sneak into Jabba's palace via the kitchen, only to be confronted by a chef droid [[MultiArmedAndDangerous swinging six cleavers simultaneously]]. Boba is squaring off to fight [[NegatedMomentOfAwesome only for Fennec to pop up behind it and cut its head off.]] A rat catcher droid actually gives them more trouble, as Boba struggles to catch the small droid as it scrambles through every tight space in the kitchen. |
94 | * ''Series/{{Daredevil|2015}}'' |
95 | ** Season 2 opens with Matt Murdock chasing down some diamond thieves who are evading the cops that are pursuing them. He manages to corner one of the thieves in a Japanese restaurant kitchen and beats the guy senseless. Once Matt is gone, the kitchen staff get their turn to beat the shit out of the thief. |
96 | ** In ".380", Frank Castle gets into a DinerBrawl with a couple of hitmen. They end up behind the bar and make use of the various cooking implements there as per this trope. |
97 | * In ''Series/{{Dollhouse}}'', Paul and Echo's fight starts in a kitchen. |
98 | * ''Series/{{Forever|2014}}'': In "Social Engineering" Henry and Jo first encounter hacktivist Liz while she is working in the kitchen of a fancy restaurant, a job she took in order to record a political event held there. When Henry recognizes Boltzmann's entropy formula tattooed on her shoulder, she pulls down a shelf and makes a break for it, and Henry and Jo give chase. |
99 | * ''Series/GameOfThrones''. During the climatic battle in Season 4, several wildlings burst into the mess hall of Castle Black, where they're handily butchered by the Nights Watch cooks. Special mention goes to a cook who hits a wildling in the face with a pot of boiling water, then bashes his skull in with the same pot, and another (whom astute book readers will recognize as Three-Fingered Hobb) who hacks a guy to death with a [[TheButcher giant cleaver!]] |
100 | * ''Series/{{Gotham}}'': In "Pilot", when Mario Pepper flees from Jim Gordon, the last place he runs through is a commercial kitchen, where he snatches up a knife he later uses to try to kill Jim. |
101 | * ''Series/{{Harrow}}'': In "Sub Silentio" ("In Silence"), Fern sends Callan a photo of SerialKiller Francis Chester. Callan looks at it and realises that Francis is his fellow kitchen hand. Francis then chases Callan through the restaurant kitchen; a chase that ends when Callan [[LookBothWays runs into the street and gets hit by a scooter]]. |
102 | * ''Series/PersonOfInterest''. Played with in "Booked Solid", when Hersh captures Reese and takes him at gunpoint into the kitchen where there's plenty of NoodleImplements for a JackBauerInterrogationTechnique. Reese frees himself and they end up [[ImprovisedWeapon fighting with kitchen knives]]. |
103 | * In the ''Series/Vegas1978'' pilot, Dan Tanna chases a rapist through a casino kitchen. |
104 | * ''Series/{{Treadstone}}''. The home kitchen version happens in "The Berlin Proposal". Petra returns to her old apartment in Moscow, and a woman living opposite lends her a fuse to get the lights working. Petra invites the woman inside and puts on a kettle...which she then smashes across her face, leading to a brutal fight to the death between the two women, both former KGB agents. |
105 | [[/folder]] |
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107 | [[folder:Video Games]] |
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109 | * ''VideoGame/LittleNightmares'': Many sequences of this in the Kitchen area, with Six running from one or both of the Twin Chefs while jumping on tables, throwing food, and generally causing havoc. |
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111 | [[/folder]] |
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113 | [[folder: Western Animation ]] |
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115 | * ''WesternAnimation/ChipNDaleRescueRangers'': An episode has a chase scene in a TV studio - they bump into a TV show chef, just as he is in the middle of explaining how much care today's dish requires. |
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117 | [[/folder]] |
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