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* [WesternAnimation/TotallySpies Totally Spies!

]: In "Planet of the Hunks", the


main trio gets into one (twice) over a struggle [Main/ItMakesSenseInContext with
clothes and Clover's diary.]

* In ''The Chinaman'' (1920), an early Max Fleischer cartoon, Koko the Clown fights
it out with an angry coolie. Their battle forms a Big Ball of Violence complete
with Koko's hat momentarily flying out, only to be yanked back in.

* [WesternAnimation/EdEddNEddy Ed, Edd n Eddy] features the occasional Big Ball of


Violence. Amusingly enough, one in "Home Cooked Eds" has the (three) Kanker Sisters
reaching out to grab Johnny 2x4 and Plank, but four pairs of arms come out.

* Parodied in one episode of [WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy Family Guy]. British comic


strip character [ComicStrip/AndyCapp Andy Capp] is seen playing darts with the boys
at the Drunken Clam. His wife shows up, and they have one of their signature Big
Ball of Violence fistfights. Quagmire gets sucked into it, then spat back out. His
response: "What the hell? Did I just get laid?"
"Stay away from that thing, Quagmire!"

* Happens occasionally in [WesternAnimation/GarfieldAndFriends Garfield and


Friends] such as when Garfield and Odie get in a scuffle, Orson's brothers
attacking the barnyard gang, or in "Frankenstein Feline" when Irving attacks Jon
for not doing anything to stop Garfield from eating his barbecue.

* In an episode of [WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender Avatar: The Last


Airbender], a three-way brawl between pirates, the Fire Nation, and Aang's gang
occurs in a literal ball of smoke, as an excuse for frequent gags of this sort.

* [Main/HairTriggerTemper Pesto] from the Goodfeathers cartoons on


[WesternAnimation/Animaniacs Animaniacs] would always get into one of these with
Squit after the latter accidentally insults him.
'''Pesto:''' Dat's it!

* Cat-and-mouse violence was largely unobscured in [WesternAnimation/TomAndJerry


Tom and Jerry], but the occasional beatdown by Spike the bulldog featured Tom doing
various things like trying to escape, writing his will, digging his own grave, and
so on.

* [WesternAnimation/HeathcliffAndTheCatillacCats Heathcliff and the Catillac Cats]


has one of these on every other episode.

* [WesternAnimation/DrawnTogether Drawn Together] had one of these in its first


episode, when Clara and Foxxy break out into a fight after a language-related tiff.

* Foxxy had another one when her reunion with the other Foxxys went rapidly
downhill. The smallest Foxxy is seen running from the ball with a looted
television.

* In [WesternAnimation/MissionHill Mission Hill], the animation is so good and


detailed, that all of the comical fight is visible when brothers Andy and Kevin
roughhouse. The cartoony dust cloud just appears for stylistic reasons.

* In [WesternAnimation/CatDog CatDog], one of these kicks up whenever the Greaser


dogs beat up the titular conjoined duo. Often played with, such as when only Cat is
in the Big Ball and Dog is just sticking out, running wherever he is wont to go.
Also, in the same episode, the camera actually goes inside the Ball, revealing
Shriek's reluctance to punch Dog.

* [WesternAnimation/Popeye Popeye] frequently got into a Big Ball of Violence with


Bluto, once seen momentarily sticking out from the melee to relight his pipe before
going back in.

* Used frequently in [WesternAnimation/TheFairlyOddparents The Fairly Oddparents],


usually when Timmy is mauled.

* Usen on [WesternAnimation/JimmyTwoShoes Jimmy Two-Shoes]. When


[Main/CallASmeerpARabbit Cerbee] is mauling something, for instance.

* Occasionally used in [Creator/TexAvery Tex Avery]'s


[WesternAnimation/TexAveryMGMCartoons MGM cartoons], most notably in the cartoon
"[WesternAnimation/ScrewballSquirrel Screwball Squirrel]" in which at the end
Screwy, Meathead, and their [Main/OffScreenTeleportation twins] [Main/EnemyMine
attack] [Main/RidiculouslyCuteCritter Sammy Squirrel] for interrupting the cartoon.

* Often used in [WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes Looney Tunes]. Sometimes a character


(usually Porky Pig) will crawl out of the dust and stop to do things before getting
back into the fight.

* In the [WesternAnimation/BeanyAndCecil Beany and Cecil] cartoon "DJ's


Disappearing Act" (1988 series) a huge fight breaks out because Dishonest John had
stolen a rare diamond, Uncle Captain asks Cecil "What's that??" and Cecil responds
"The biggest fight cloud in the history of Saturday morning cartoons!"

* Played with in all three [Series/TheSuperMarioBrosSuperShow Super]


[WesternAnimation/TheAdventuresOfSuperMarioBros3 Mario]
[WesternAnimation/SuperMarioWorld cartoons]. Parodied in one episode of
[WesternAnimation/SuperMarioWorld Super Mario World], in which Yoshi pokes his head
out to eat berries from a nearby bush mid-fight.

* One of the cartoon film editions of [Radio/AdventuresInOdyssey Adventures in


Odyssey] had a fight between a cat and dog where the dust ball of violence formed
several mushroom clouds so large that they could apparently be seen from outer
space.

* [WesternAnimation/KidVsKat Kid vs. Kat] uses this trope so much that you'd think
the creators had a patent on it.

* In [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GHBJL3q_W-Q this Pixie and Dixie and Mr.


Jinks short][[Image:Image1.png|top]] which aired on Cartoon Network, Mr. Jinks gets
a restraining order placed on him, so every time he comes within three feet of
Pixie and Dixie he immediately gets attacked by a Big Ball of Violence full of cops
with nightsticks.

* [WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyTales My Little Pony Tales]: In "Shop Talk", Teddy


gets into one with Ace and Lancer when they hear that he sleeps with a teddy bear.

* [WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic My Little Pony: Friendship Is


Magic]:
** Used in the episode "Fall Weather Friends", where after continually trying to
cheat one another out of first place in a race, Applejack and Rainbow Dash end up
in Big Ball of Violence, which carries them across the finish line. They both come
joint-last.
** Spike gets into one with a chicken in "Owl's Well that Ends Well". The chicken
pulls the "slip out and leave your opponent fighting himself" trick at one point.
** Occurs several times in the second-season premiere,
"[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS2E1TheReturnOfHarmonyPart1 The Return of
Harmony]". The first one occurs when Scootaloo, Sweetie Belle, and Apple Bloom
fight in front of [Main/TakenForGranite Discord's petrified form]. Later, another
one occurs in the Ponyville library when Twilight Sparkle tackles Applejack and
Pinkie Pie to recover a book.
** In "Lesson Zero", an unhinged Twilight casts a "Want-It Need-It" spell on her
old Smarty Pants doll so she can fabricate a scenario for her friendship report to
Princess Celestia. It ends up with ''half the town'' fighting over the old doll,
with about a dozen Big Balls of Violence going on at once at one point.
** Happens in "Baby Cakes," in which Pinkie slugs it out with two newborns in an
attempt to change their diapers and achieves an [Main/EpicFail Epic Fail] by the
time the dust clears.
** The Mane Six end up in a massive one when fighting the changeling horde in the
second half of the season two finale
"[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS2E26ACanterlotWeddingPart2 A Canterlot
Wedding]". Somewhat subverted in that we actually end up seeing most of what
happens inside.
** The pets of the Mane Six get into one in "Just for Sidekicks".

* [WesternAnimation/DarkwingDuck Darkwing Duck] gets into one of these with three


martial artists in one episode. He pokes his head out of it to hold a ludicrously
long conversation with his friends.

* On [WesternAnimation/PoundPuppies2010 Pound Puppies (2010)], the Pound Puppies


team gets into one with [Main/SimilarSquad the Kennel Kittens] at the end of
"Catcalls" after the leader of the latter team spits in Lucky's face
[Main/CatsAreMean for no apparent reason].

* Occurs occasionally in [WesternAnimation/TinyToonAdventures Tiny Toon


Adventures], one notable example comes from the segment "Oh, For Art's Sake" where
Plucky sees a cat and dog duke it out in his backyard, he tries to get them to stop
but they pull him inside, he finally has had enough and freeze them with the pause
button on his tv remote which he then passes off as a painting, he soon becomes
famous for it and Buster realizes that they aren't paintings at all and unfreezes
them causing a massive fight to break out, after it's over Plucky is placed into
one of the paintings as a fight cloud breaks out with him trapped in the middle.

* Happens in various episodes of [WesternAnimation/TheSmurfs The Smurfs].

* In [Literature/TheBerenstainBears The Berenstain Bears] episode


"[Main/BirthdayEpisode Too Much Birthday]", this happens during a game of Musical
Chairs when the music stops and the kids jump to try and sit on the chairs. Sister
Bear winds up the first one out, much to her chargin.

* Happens in [WesternAnimation/EarthwormJim Earthworm Jim] whenever Jim


accidentally hurts Peter Puppy causing him to hulk out and maul him.

* A regular occurrence in [WesternAnimation/MickeyMouse Mickey Mouse] cartoons. In


the short "Tapped Out" , for example, after Pete crashes into Donald Duck and makes
him spill his nachos, this makes Donald enraged and he attacks him resulting in one
of these.

* In [WesternAnimation/ThePowerpuffGirls The Powerpuff Girls] a big ball of


violence is seen in the episode "Telephonies" when the Gangrene gang are receiving
a beating from Mojo Jojo, Him and Fuzzy Lumpkins.

* [WesternAnimation/Dangermouse Dangermouse] and Penfold get into one of these with


Mad Manuel the Flamenco Assassin. DM finally just exits the cloud and pulls Penfold
out as well. Manuel keeps right on fighting in the cloud of dust, shouting "Olé!
Olé olé olé!"

* On [WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons The Simpsons],'' particularly in


[Series/TheTraceyUllmanShow The Tracey Ullman Show] shorts, Bart and Lisa tended to
get into one whenever fighting.

* Two instances in [WesternAnimation/SpongeBobSquarePants SpongeBob SquarePants]:


** "Survival of the Idiots": Hibernating Sandy jumps down and beats up SpongeBob
and Patrick as they scream in fear.
** "Band Geeks": Patrick kicks Sandy in the shin, angering Sandy, which then
results in a big ball of violence.[Main/AvertedTrope Averted] in the same episode:
the entire band gets into a fight, and the dust cloud is only there for a brief
second before poofing away, showing the chaotic and [Main/HilarityEnsues hilarious]
brawl.

* [WesternAnimation/OggyAndTheCockroaches Oggy and the Cockroaches]: Often seen


with Bob the Dog and Oggy.

* [WesternAnimation/AllDogsGoToHeaven All Dogs Go to Heaven] in the series Itchy


and Thor get into one with Otto and his gang in the episode "Trading Collars" Itchy
tries to get out but is dragged back in by one of the dogs.

* [WesternAnimation/TazMania Taz-Mania] Taz beats up two dinosaurs in a pit and


they both try to get out but he drags them back in.

* ''In [WesternAnimation/TUFFPuppy T.U.F.F. Puppy] this happens quite a bit like in


the episode "Snapnapped" when Keswick pretended to turn evil to capture D.O.O.M.
Doom started beating up Dudley and Kitty and when they stuck their heads out of the
dust cloud to try and reason with him they got pulled back in.

* Happens in the [WesternAnimation/TwoStupidDogs 2 Stupid Dogs] episode "Sheep


Dogs" when the two dogs and Hollywood attempt to shear a sheep.

* In [WesternAnimation/TheLoudHouse The Loud House], it happens frequently with


Lincoln and his ten sisters. One time, Lincoln's sisters even formed a vortex
called a "sisternado".

* [WesternAnimation/Kaeloo Kaeloo]: Any time a fight happens that's not very


important to the plot of the episode.

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