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The hero is walking away from his triumphant victory at the local grocer with his spoils and is attacked. He has no weapon to defend himself with, but fortunately he just bought some ISO-Standard Urban Groceries, so he improvises and pulls out his trusty baguette to demonstrate that pain is not just the French word for bread.

After all, bread is the staff of life. Bonus points if the opponent grabs one too, cuing a Sword Fight. Same if the victor takes a bite of the weapon on the way from the battlefield.

A Sub-Trope of Nerf Arm, Edible Bludgeon and Food Fight. A person using such a weapon may be an Chef of Iron, while anyone who can bake a loaf capable of concussing someone is a Lethal Chef.

Not what is meant by a Cockney hitting someone with his "Brown Bread".

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Anime & Manga

In one episode of Zombie Land Saga, Kotaro makes his morning greeting as a stereotypical Frenchman carrying a baguette, which he uses to smack Ai in the head for snarking about it. Ai immediately retaliates by grabbing the baguette from his hand and clobbering him with it so hard, it knocks him to the ground and breaks the baguette.

Comic Books

In the comic book version of The Tick, Paul the Samurai bakes a baguette around his sword to sneak it past customs. When fighting ninja later on, he doesn't bother removing the outer bread coating (though he does eventually eat it).

The Boys is not a series where you would expect this trope to be deployed, but during The Frenchman's reminisces, we get Le Saintes Des Haw-Haw, where Frenchmen settle their differences by jousting on Bicycles, using baguettes as lances. Frenchie claims that his father was killed by his childhood enemy thrusting a rock-hard stale croissant into the front wheel of the bicycle, which (if true) would count as de-nerfing this trope. Then again, he is just plain crazy (as well as Ax-Crazy)...

Comic Strips

In Peanuts, after Peppermint Patty returns from France, she takes a loaf of French bread to class and accidentally knocks Marcie off her seat.

In Bloom County, Opus lays waste to some mimes after they follow him from the grocery store with an olive loaf.

In a Garfield strip from 1980, Garfield enjoys "Playtime" with various foods. The second panel is him offering to "... take that machine gun nest out with my trusty bazooka here." The bazooka in question is a baguette. In another strip, Garfield shows Jon a weird lump in the tablecloth and offers him a baguette so he can flatten it. Right before Jon does it, he suddenly notices that Odie is missing...

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Fan Works

The Infinite Loops: One Star Wars loop has the Jedi's lightsabers replaced with baguettes, for no readily apparent reason (possibly based on the Dead Ringers example mentioned below). This temporarily drives Obi-Wan mad.

The aptly-named Miraculous Ladybug fanfic "Brought Down by Baguettes" : Marinette's parents beat the stuffing out of Hawk Moth using a bread paddle and several rock-hard stale baguettes.

Films — Live-Action

In Clerks, Dante and Randal have a knock-down drag-out in the Quick Stop, during which Randal whacks Dante across the face with a loaf of bread.

There's a brief Baquette duel in the So Bad It's Good B-Movie Dead Right, when the main protagonist chases down the serial killer in a supermarket.

In Herbie Goes to Monte Carlo, there is a scene where Herbie is waiting at a stoplight at an intersection when a truck driver gets a French woman carrying some groceries angry at him. She proceeds to pound on the side of the truck with a baguette, causing no obvious damage to bread or to the truck. It does result in the Love Bug getting dirty.

In Cheech and Chong's the Corsican Brothers (don't worry if you never heard of it), Chong's character discovers the weapon potential of day-old french loaves.

In Johnny English Strikes Again, Johnny does this to a hapless street vendor while wearing a VR headset.

A minor example in Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again—during the musical number for "Waterloo", Harry grabs a baguette (appropriate, as it takes place in a French restaurant) and mock-duels with a waiter.

Even thought its probably not something he is proud of, Michael Jai White can be seen in the video example below, during one of his earliest on-screen appearances, invoking this trope against homeless people.

Literature

Discworld: Battle Bread is a specialty of dwarven bakers. Of course, since gravel is one of the primary ingredients, it's also almost completely inedible, and is more effective as either a blunt instrument or a motivational tool. "Well, we could camp here for the night and dig out the bread for dinner... or we could keep going and see if we run across a convenient deer or berry patch or something. Failing that, we could eat our own feet." Some pieces are specifically designed for war. For dwarfs, bread baking is an art of warfare. A new revelation, in The Complete Discworld Atlas, is that there is such a thing as Dwarf Chocolate, which shares a catering philosophy with Dwarf Bread. It is also used as a weapon of war. It takes the form of a long rectangular block, with a line of serrated triangles of rock-hard chocolate rising from it, which in combat is used as a sword or a club. It also contains nuts. There is a suspicious resemblance to Toblerone.

In Tamora Pierce's Protector of the Small novel Squire, Kel and company batter Neal with baguette-type loaves of bread because he won't shut up about how hot the queen is (and is going into a lengthy quote on the subject of hot queens).

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Music

Tabletop Games

One less-than-serious article in an April edition of Dragon magazine included this trope taken Up to Eleven: the garlic bread golem!

Video Games

The classic Lucas Arts point and click adventure game Zak McKracken and the Alien Mindbenders features a stale baguette that could be used to kill a two-headed squirrel. You receive the baguette by annoying a baker into throwing it at you. The bread breaks the sidewalk.

Kass Basher (formerly titled "Whack-A-Kass"), a Neopets minigame, uses a baguette as one of the "baseball bats".

The MMORPG RuneScape used to have a (very irritating) random event called the Sandwich Lady. Every so often (i.e. usually at least once a day) she would appear out of nowhere and offer you one of a selection of treats (only one of which was actually useful for healing past level 10). If you picked the wrong one (or if you ignored her), she would knock you unconscious (guess what with) and you would wake up in a random city. Fortunately, this event has since been removed; she is now the owner of a bakery stall that you can steal from. However, if she catches you, she'll still hit you with her baguette, though this time it will not knock you out but instead alert a nearby guard to attack you.

In Kingdom o' Magic, in order to depose the High Steward of Minar Tragedy you have to get a sword baked into a baguette so you can get it past the guards.

Loaves of bread are available as weapons in Phantom Brave. With proper fusion, they can be quite powerful, granting the wielder a wide range of techniques.

In Tibia, there is a club weapon called "Stale Bread of Ancientness". You guessed it, it's a baguette.

In one of the competitions between Hu Delta Phart and Getta Loda Yu in the third game of The Spellcasting Series, you win a fight by casting a spell turning the lead Yu's weapon from a lead pipe into a loaf of bread (and a modified version of the spell turning the head Phart's weapon from a banana into a sword).

Should you eat the Stale Baguette in Kingdom of Loathing, you are mugged and beaten with it. You lose some hit points and Meat, but you still get the extra Adventures.

Mimi Baker/Mimmy Bread from Tales of Legendia uses a baguette as her weapon of choice when she shows up in the arena. She also uses renamed versions of Chloe's artes, such as Tiger Bread (Tiger Blade), and Bread Rain: Alpha (Sword Rain: Alpha), which she calls out appropriately.

In Octogeddon, the massive robot Enemy Mime in Paris has an attack during which it strikes Octogeddon with a gigantic baguette.

Web Animation

In the Flash Power Rangers parody Go Go Parody Rangers!, the team's Megazord's Power Sword is a baguette!

RWBY has the quite-literal Food Fight in the first episode of Volume 2, where besides just throwing food at each other, the members of Teams RWBY and JNPR also go to melee range, grabbing foods that simulate their Weapons of Choice. The sword-wielding Blake and Pyrrha play it title-straight while Ren uses two leeks in place of his paired daggers, Yang dons a pair of turkeys as boxing gloves, and Nora creates a warhammer by spearing a watermelon on a stick.

Web Comics

Web Original

In Le Donjon de Naheulbeuk, the Ranger inadvertently attacks a weremole with a tuna sandwich. It ends badly for him.

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Western Animation

In one episode of The Powerpuff Girls, Mojo Jojo beats an apparently invincible villain (due some sort of Unstoppable Rage) with his own hands and a baguette, culminating in a slow-motion final blow with the baguette. Mojo also used the baguette to whack a hapless grocery store employee earlier in the episode.

In an episode of Codename: Kids Next Door, Numbuh Five grabs two baguettes to fight Stickybeard in a grocery store. The villain mocks her for choosing a "sword" made of such a soft material. She retaliates by using the baguettes to knock all the cans off nearby shelves, and onto helpless Stickybeard.

Wakfu episode 8 "Xav the Baker" pushes this into a whole new level with a ninja-baker fighting by means of a giant Bread Golem.

It's revealed in The Loud House episode, "Cheater By the Dozen" that Lori did this to Lynn after the latter incorrectly claimed they were out of bread.

Real Life