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Escalating Brawl

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Escalating Brawl	comment	The heroes entered the classical old pub, saloon, or roadside bar, probably looking to relax. Normally, a particularly nasty guy taunts one of the characters and tries to hit him. Sometimes it connects. Other times, the hero is able to duck, and the other guy hits a bigger, nastier guy who proceeds to toss him against a table, causing the people sat at that table to react, and soon enough three quarters of the customers are tangled in a chaotic battle, throwing chairs, bottles, and tables and resorting to dirty fights. You get the picture. This trope tends to be quite common and is often paired with Bar Brawl with some exceptions. The focus point is that it starts as a duel and ends up growing and dragging along other characters, like an avalanche. In westerns this tends to be quite common. Especially funny if the participants just start fighting each other for the hell of it, even if they have no grudges against each other. Sometimes even if they are friends! Often instigated by a Fisticuff-Provoking Comment. See also Bar Brawl, Food Fight, Diner Brawl, Everyone Join the Party, and compare Escalating War (albeit more prank based).
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Escalating Brawl / int_2273d9c2	comment	The first Project A has an arguement in a bar between the protagonist, a hotshot navy officer, and another army recruit, which turns into a shouting match, and later escalates into a massive Bar Brawl where more than twenty members from the navy and army ends up beating the crap out of each other.
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Escalating Brawl / int_261c8d3f	comment	The Simpsons can't get enough of this trope. The people of Springfield just can't help getting into fights over everything, usually starting with one character becoming so offended by what another character said that he punches him in the face; somehow, this encourages every single person on the street to start brawling with whichever person is closest to them at the time (which backfired horribly on Moe the Bartender once when the person next to him turned out to be a heavyweight champion boxer).
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Escalating Brawl / int_3306d2a2	comment	Brannigan (1975). The idea is that a British detective will pretend to arrest a suspect, then the American detective (Brannigan) posing as a drunken tourist will intervene to save the man, earning his trust. Brannigan hits the British copper a bit too hard, so the return punch makes Brannigan stumble into someone who spills another person's beer. Soon the whole pub is involved including an Innocent Bystander who keeps getting punched every time he walks in the door (worse, when the bobbies turn up he's arrested for affray!)
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Escalating Brawl / int_49ad83ee	comment	The parody song "Alla Fiera Thunder Bluff" (based on World of Warcraft), a gnome wizard tries to buy a trinket in Thunder Bluff but is mugged by a Tauren. The following, escalating conflict ends up in a titanic brawl and eventually a Blizzard GM appears, scolds the gnome for causing the mess and then gets fired.
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Escalating Brawl / int_4a41522a	comment	In Dragon Ball: Insanity School at the end of the World Tournament Vegeta, angry against Trunks hits him, prompting Pan to come to his help and getting hit, prompting Gohan to join the battle, prompting Trunks to protect his father, prompting Goten to defend his brother, prompting Vegeta to protect his son and finally pushing Goku to help his sons.
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Escalating Brawl / int_5755b96a	comment	In The Order of the Stick, the argument between Roy, Gannji and Enor ends up in a gigantic pub brawl.
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Escalating Brawl / int_67c9eaab	comment	In Barry Louis Polisar's "When Suzie Sneeze", the titular Suzie's sneeze caused Emily to accidentally push Debbie, which somehow escalated into a massive brawl between them, Tommy, Richard, Jack, Johnny, Laura, Steve, Billy and Timmy. Somehow tanks and guns got involved in the fight, and after the narrator declines his friend's invitation to join in the fun, he laments that he's the only one left to sing the song, implying that all the others have somehow killed each other over a sneeze.
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Escalating Brawl / int_72262aee	comment	Subverted in Avatar: The Last Airbender, where Hakoda tries to invoke a prison riot by shoving the stereotypical huge tattooed guy... who responds with words because he's working on controlling his anger. And then double subverted by Chit Sang, who picks up a prisoner and throws him at another prisoner. Yup, that'll do it. (Granted, it's hard to escalate from that point, but it spreads.)
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Escalating Brawl / int_7f6eb95d	comment	The opening scene of Romeo and Juliet has a servant of the Capulets taunt a servant of the Montagues with an obscene hand gesture on a street in Verona. This is enough to trigger a gigantic brawl between everyone in both families that soon spreads all over town, until Prince Escalus threatens to have anyone who fights from that point forward executed.
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Escalating Brawl / int_801b44d	comment	The New Edition Story re-enacts the infamous Home Again tour brawl between Bobby Brown & Bell Biv Devoe. Bobby, who was refusing to end his set and leave the stage, was eventually kicked off by a suitably pissed Ronnie Devoe. Infuriated, Bobby goes backstage, and tries to spray BBD with a fire hose (which was actually a fire extinguisher in the real-life fight). When that fails, he simply bumrushes the stage, and starts fighting with the group, prompting their respective entourages to get involved and start shooting guns at each other. The brouhaha results in the rest of the tour being cancelled, and Bobby and Mike Bivins quitting the group.
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Escalating Brawl / int_8d814070	comment	In the MASH episode "A Night at Rosie's", a dispute over a crap game turns an all-night party into a melee of violence that encompasses the entire bar.*
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Escalating Brawl / int_8d84a932	comment	One of the several openings of Soap shows a brawl that starts with Burt trying to get in front of Chester for the family photo, but ends up involving all except the Major (who is too out of it to notice) and Billy (who considers himself the Only Sane Man in his family, and sits watching amused by it all) and Benson, the resident Servile Snarker just leans against a wall with a bored look on his face.
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Escalating Brawl / int_9420ea59	comment	In Uncharted 3: Drake's Deception, Sully and Nate are jumped in a backroom transaction gone wrong. They fight their way out of the backroom only to be attacked by the patrons in the main room of the bar as well. Nate fights his way through the bar, behind the bar counter, into the bathroom, out of the bathroom, and ends up in the back alley of the bar. The closer he gets to escape, the stronger and more plentiful the mooks.
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Escalating Brawl / int_9e2d11c3	comment	The brawl in chapter 31 of Earth and Sky stars with Applejack confronting Baron Redtail and kicking one of his bodyguards into a crowd of angry ponies threatening the Flim-Flam brothers over all the cheating they've been doing. Things sort of escalate from there.
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Escalating Brawl / int_9e2dbb4d	comment	In the Regular Show episode "Karaoke Video", Mordecai and Rigby's fight over an embarrassing video tape with a karaoke bar's owners escalate into a huge brawl involving all of the bar's guests.
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Escalating Brawl / int_a4420d22	comment	The Venture Bros. has invoked these a few times. In "Tag Sale, You're It", The Monarch started one with a high-speed pebble. It was easy, since Dr. Venture's yard sale had attracted a huge number of costumed villains. Maybe overkill, though, since all he wanted was to sneak inside to use the bathroom. In "Now Museum—Now You Don't", the critical mass of heroes and villains is due to the grand opening of a museum honoring the late Jonas Venture. Telepathic villain Brainulo adds the powder by stirring up the guests' fears and shames. Then the abused event staff, formerly a pirate crew, light the fuse by confronting the owner.
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Escalating Brawl / int_ad20e006	comment	Wonder Woman: In "The Deadly Sting", Professor Brubaker's mind control darts are shot at a dinner filled with football players. As more and more players are hit, the brawl escalates until it's necessary for Wonder Woman to break up the fight.
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Escalating Brawl / int_b962c879	comment	In Fairy Tail, the first time we see the titular guild, Natsu causes one of these. Luckily, Makarov stops the brawl before anyone resorts to magic.
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Escalating Brawl / int_bd54ba07	comment	Blazing Saddles has a famous one that (literally) crashes through the (in-universe) Fourth Wall, starting out as a street battle pitting the townspeople against the Mooks hired by a crooked railroad tycoon to terrorize Rock Ridge. The combatants eventually brawl their way onto a movie soundstage, where one of them punches the director in the gut and all the castmembers join the fight in retaliation. Then the fight spills over into the studio commissary (packed with extras dressed in various ridiculous costumes, of course), and everyone begins throwing pies at each other.
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Escalating Brawl / int_bdf04207	comment	The Great Race: In the town of Borracho, a fight between The Great Leslie and Texas Jack quickly turns into an all-out Bar Brawl. The pie fight scene develops this way; people walk in to the bakery, see what's going on, get hit by a missile intended for someone else and join the scrum—except, of course, for the Great Leslie, who walks through the crossfire unscathed until he eventually gets one in the face at close quarters.
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Escalating Brawl / int_c4282b71	comment	My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic: Season 2, Episode 3: "Lesson Zero": Twilight puts a "Want It, Need It" spell on a ratty old toy of hers named Miss Smartypants to get the Cutie Mark Crusaders to fight over it. But because Twilight's in the middle of a freak out, the spell is so strong that anypony who sees the toy wants it and gets into the fight. By the end of the episode, there's a Big Ball of Violence involving everyone in Ponyville except the core cast.
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Escalating Brawl / int_c511c682	comment	Asterix: Huge brawls between all the inhabitants of the Gaulish village are rather common. Usually, they start with just two characters getting into an argument—most often blacksmith Fulliautomatix insulting fishmonger Unhygenix's fish, but there are many different causes. Then everybody joins in. Purely because every male in the village is a Boisterous Bruiser and there's an excuse to fight.
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Escalating Brawl / int_cffa1bda	comment	Happens near the end of the second act of Richard Wagner's Die Meistersinger.
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Escalating Brawl / int_d5b5746a	comment	Happens several times in Tex Willer, including an epic brawl that ended when the resident Boisterous Bruiser Gros Jean kicked all the bad guys out of the inn and then chopped the supporting pillars with an axe, wrecking the whole place.
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Escalating Brawl / int_fc155c23	comment	The Odd Angry Shot: The barbecue and spider versus scorpion match dissolves into a brawl when Bung accuses the Americans of cheating and stomps on the scorpion. One of the Americans then punches him. Attempts to grab the two belligerents just results in the fight spreading the entire camp.
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Escalating Brawl / int_fea9f0b9	comment	Arkham Asylum: Living Hell has a scene where the Scarecrow punctures Warren White's hand with a fork to get him scream. Another inmate, annoyed that Crane's antics caused so much racket, wallops the ex-professor. A guard tries to stop him, and pretty soon the brawl escalates to involve virtually every inmate and guard, leaving the dining hall in a complete wreck.
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