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{{trope}}
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[[Alice and Bob|Bob]] is really mad at Alice so he does the most cathartic thing he can: He puts a picture of her face over a dartboard and throws darts at her (or rather, the picture of her).
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See [[Decision Darts]] for another trope that involves dart throwing and [[Percussive Therapy]] for a more general example of taking out frustrations on inanimate objects.
{{examples}}
▲== Anime & Manga ==
▲* ''[[Urusei Yatsura (Manga)|Urusei Yatsura]]''
** Parodied: Kurama has one of Ataru; she throws a dart at it, only for the image to ''catch the dart in its teeth'' and gleefully ''eat it.''
** Also, one of the Spice Girls has a somewhat cruder version with doodled pictures of Benten, Oyuki, and Lum with Ataru. When she's trying to be dramatic about suggesting they try seducing Ataru to get to Lum, she attempts to look cool by announcing her intent with a thrown dart, but it misses by a huge
* In ''[[
* Used in the absolute most hilarious fashion possible in ''[[
* In ''[[
* ''[[Kara no Kyoukai
* In ''[[Hajime no Ippo]]'', when Ippo visits the Mashibas' appartment while on a date with Kumi, she admits to be embarrassed because there is a picture of Ippo in the living room. To Ippo's chagrin, the picture was pasted on Mashiba's sandbag.
* A subtle variation appears in the film of ''[[
== Comic Books ==
* [[Lex Luthor]] has one of [[Superman]]. He has also been known to purchase Superman merchandise to casually destroy.
* In an issue of ''[[The Flash]]'', Wally fails to rescue a woman from a fire because he needs to save 10 people in a plummeting elevator, and didn't have time to check the fire for anyone who might be trapped inside (a policeman tells him there is no-one there). The woman ends up badly scarred and loses both of her legs. Guess what she has on the dartboard in her hospital room?
* In ''[[Twisted
* An issue of ''[[Archie Comics|Archie's Joke Book]]'' had a full-page gag in which Archie's mother reprimanded him for throwing darts at a picture of Reggie.
* In the [[Archie Comics|Archie]] ''[[Sonic the Hedgehog (
* Starr from ''[[Preacher (Comic Book)]]'' has toilet paper decorated with the faces of Jesse, Cassidy, Eisenstein, and other foes that, over the course of the series, have left him a one-legged, castrated, head scarred to look like a penis, shell of his former self.
* [[Bonnie Scotland|Scottish]] comic strip ''Angus Og'' had a miner's club rejecting the idea of using a photo of [[Margaret Thatcher]] as a dartboard:▼
{{quote| "It widnae be right lads, she'd blunt the darts!"}}▼
* ''[[FoxTrot (Comic Strip)|FoxTrot]]'' did a variation that mixed this trope with [[Batter Up]] where Andy Fox, when expressing irritation at having to go golfing with Roger Fox while the kids are out, envisioned Roger Fox's face on the golf ball making statements that were apparently audio flashbacks to when he got her to go golfing, with Andy proceeding to hit the ball extraordinarily hard, enough to break the tee, with Roger obliviously remarking "Easy, dear. You want to ''hit'' the ball, not ''kill'' it.", with Andy, whose arms are currently twisted around her body, coldly responds "Says you."▼
▲* A subtle variation appears in the film of ''[[Film/Howls Moving Castle|Howls Moving Castle]]''. Howl points out the oath he took before becoming a wizard: it's pinned to a dartboard by several darts ''and'' what looks like a pair of scissors.
* ''[[The Swan Princess]]'' has 13-year-old Prince Derek shooting arrows at a drawing of Princess Odette.
* In Disney's ''[[Peter Pan (Disney film)|Peter Pan]]'', the pirates throw knives at a crudely drawn picture of their boss, Captain Hook.
* ''[[The Emperor's New Groove
* One scene from ''[[Hercules (
* In ''[[Harold
* In ''[[Matilda (
▲* In ''[[Harold and Kumar Escape From Guantanamo Bay (Film)|Harold and Kumar Escape From Guantanamo Bay]]'', there's a scene in which the title characters end up in [[George W. Bush]]'s den. In the den is a dartboard decorated with Osama bin Laden's hairy mugshot.
▲* In ''[[Matilda (Film)|Matilda]]'', [[Sadist Teacher|Miss Trunchbull]] is seen to have a dartboard on her office door covered in photos of random students. She's so [[Badass]] that she is able to throw about a dozen darts at the thing at once and accurately hit all of the pictures.
* In ''[[My Favorite Year]]'', which is set in a fictionalized version of ''Your Show Of Shows'', the arrival of the head writer/star causes a scramble of activity, including a few darts quickly pulled out of his picture.
* Averted in ''[[Gremlins]]''. The Gremlins don't throw darts at a photo of Gizmo, they actually put Gizmo on the dartboard! But thank goodness, they miss.
* [[The Beatles (
* ''[[Troop Beverly Hills]]'': In this kitschy late-[[The Eighties|80s]] movie, the main antagonist Velma has one for her rival Phyllis.
* The film version of ''[[Titus Andronicus (
* One of the Olsen twins movies has a sequence in which the two of them had a falling-out, and one theatrically lay on her bed throwing darts at a photograph while the other came in. Some utterly forgettable dialogue later, non-dart-throwing twin observes "that's a picture of ''you''," and exits triumphant.
* In ''[[X-Men (
* In ''[[Johnny English]]'', Johnny uses one with a picture of [[French Jerk|Pascal Sauvage]] after being demoted.
* In ''[[Birds of Prey (and the Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn)]]'', after Harley and Joker break up, she is seen throwing knives at a wall with target rings and aiming for the picture of Mr. J close to the center.
▲== Folklore ==
* There is an [[Urban Legend]] about a teacher at a Christian school who had the class bring pictures of people they hated so they could put them over a dart board in turns and throw darts at the images. Afterward the teacher revealed that underneath it all was a picture of Jesus, and quoted him: "Insofar as you have done it unto any of these the least of my brethren, you have done it unto me."▼
== Literature ==
* One of the books in the ''[[Horrible Histories]]'' series features an illustration of Kaiser Wilhelm II, Germany/Prussia's leader in [[World War I]], throwing darts at his [[Dysfunction Junction|grandmother]] Queen Victoria.
* Averted in ''[[Grunts
* In [[Diane Duane]]'s ''[[X-COM]]'' novel, base commander Jonelle Barrett relieves stress with one of these, featuring her thoroughly incompetent predecessor.
* No actual dartboard involved, but Morley Dotes from the ''Garrett, P.I.'' series once hung a cheap portrait on his wall and used it for knife-throwing practice. He claimed the picture resembled his brother-in-law.
* ''[[Callahan's
== Live-Action TV ==
* On a Christmas episode of ''[[Sabrina the Teenage Witch (TV series)|Sabrina the Teenage Witch]]'', a party of holiday-hating witches have [[Santa Claus]] on a dartboard. Apparently if you hit his picture in the right eye it [[Squick|bleeds.]]
* In the ''[[Star Trek:
* ''[[Murphy Brown]]'' had this in her office as a running gag. The picture on the dartboard was different pretty much every episode. At least once, it was a ''[[Mad Magazine]]'' ? I think the Murphy Brown cover, in fact.
* Sam, Sock and Ben have one of Ted in ''[[
* ''[[Home Improvement (TV series)|Home Improvement]]'': Tim Taylor has one of these with Bob Vila's face on it, at which he shoots nails with a nail gun. Tim being Tim, they all miss.
* ''[[M*A*S*H (
* ''[[
* The pilot episode of ''[[The Monkees (
* ''[[Battlestar Galactica
** After Boomer reveals her true nature and shoots Commander Adama, posters of her are used as targets on the ''Galactica''{{'}}s firing range.
** After her imprisonment on New Caprica, Kara uses a poster of Leoben.
* ''[[Stargate SG
* ''[[
* In a second season episode of ''[[The Wire]]'', Frank Sobotka has a Dartboard of Hate on the wall of his office. It's actually Bob Irsay, the owner of the Colts who moved them from Baltimore to Indianapolis.
* ''[[The Brittas Empire]]'': In season 5, episode 8, one of Gordon Brittas's employees is revealed to have a photo of him in her locker for this purpose. Amusingly all the darts are embedded in the [[Groin Attack|crotch area]].
* In an episode of ''[[
* ''[[Even Stevens]]'' has a variation: After Twitty, as a Pitcher, goes completely ballistic on Louis over nagging him in regards to Baseball one time too many, they get the idea of having the Umpire using a baseball mitt with Louis's photo on it, which Twitty, who still had sore feelings for Louis, was able to land a successful strike on the opponent.
* On ''[[
* ''[[
* One ''[[
* Clark told Lois in the ''[[Lois and Clark]]'' episode where a forged photo made everyone believe Lois cheated on Clark with [[Superman]] that some of the people who hate his alter ego for this have a dartboard of him. However, it's never shown onscreen.
* The Australian sketch comedy show ''[[Full Frontal]]'' did a sketch that parodied an advertisement from the lead up to the 1996 Australian election in which veteran Australian actor Bill Hunter openly abused Liberal Party leader John Howard. The parody, written after Howard won the election, featured Ross Williams doing an uncanny Hunter impersonation and explaining that he was lying and in fact thinks Howard is terrific. The zooming out and panning of the camera reveals, among other things, a dartboard bearing Howard's image and a poster with a Hitler mustache and swastika drawn on it.
== Music Videos ==
* Among other things, [[Metallica
== New Media ==
* Reverend Jeremiah has a game where you can throw darts at the Holy Ghost. Play it [http://jesuschristarcade.com/index.php?PHPSESSID=b5fa44e2d2c64960f72889f247d38a82&action=arcade;sa=play;game=21 here]{{Dead link}}.
== Newspaper Comics ==
▲* [[Bonnie Scotland|Scottish]] comic strip ''Angus Og'' had a miner's club rejecting the idea of using a photo of [[Margaret Thatcher]] as a dartboard:
▲* ''[[
== Oral Tradition, Myths, Legends, and Folklore ==
▲* There is an [[Urban Legend]] about a teacher at a Christian school who had the class bring pictures of people they hated so they could put them over a dart board in turns and throw darts at the images. Afterward the teacher revealed that underneath it all was a picture of Jesus, and quoted him: "Insofar as you have done it unto any of these the least of my brethren, you have done it unto me."
== Theater ==
* In ''[[The Curious Savage]]'', Mrs. Savage does this with a newspaper photo of her [[Rich Bitch]] stepdaughter.
== Video Games ==
* ''[[
* ''[[The Adventures of Sam
* The villainous Dr. Bredell in ''[[
* A variation occurs in ''[[Punch
* [[Ace Attorney
* ''[[
* ''[[Lego Adaptation Game
* Variant in ''[[Modern Warfare]] 3''. At the end of the Spec Ops mission "Stay Sharp", a picture of General Shepherd can be seen with three knives stuck in it.
* In ''[[The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword
* In ''[[
* In the Old World Blues DLC of ''[[Fallout
== Web Animation ==
* Strong Bad has one of ''[[
== Web Comics ==
* ''[[
* ''[[
* ''[[Freefall]]'' has [http://freefall.purrsia.com/ff1500/fc01495.htm Dave's Decoys] shop selling "practice targets" in distinct likeness of Sam Starfall. It's not like the owner dislikes Sam, he just knows what many colonists on Jean want and knows an opportunity to make money when he sees it (see the following pages).
** Someone also makes Sam [http://freefall.purrsia.com/ff3300/fc03255.htm chew toys].
== Web Original ==▼
* Dr. Horrible throws some darts at a picture of Captain Hammer in ''[[Dr. Horribles Sing Along Blog]]''. Of course, when he throws darts he misses the picture entirely, so he just walks up, grabs the darts and sticks them all into Hammer's picture.▼
* ''[http://behance.vo.llnwd.net/profiles/87189/projects/1714025/1b5b8e934dfec27f276e9fb0c27aa81a.jpg Ninja Practice]'' [http://www.behance.net/gallery/Glennz-Tees-Concepts-for-Voting-Jul-Sep-2011/1714025 by Glennz] -- in the old good [[Ninja Vs Pirate]] spirit.▼
▲== [[Web Original]] ==
▲* Dr. Horrible throws some darts at a picture of Captain Hammer in ''[[Dr.
▲* ''[https://web.archive.org/web/20130603023126/http://behance.vo.llnwd.net/profiles/87189/projects/1714025/1b5b8e934dfec27f276e9fb0c27aa81a.jpg Ninja Practice]'' [http://www.behance.net/gallery/Glennz-Tees-Concepts-for-Voting-Jul-Sep-2011/1714025 by Glennz]
== Western Animation ==
* The episode "Joker's Millions" from ''[[Batman: The
* In ''[[The Fairly
* The animation ''[[Robbie the Reindeer]]'' has Robbie spying on Blitzen and seeing him throw a series of weapons at a picture of Robbie.
* Parodied in ''[[The Simpsons (
* [[Darkwing Duck (
* King Koopa in ''[[Super Mario Bros. (
* An episode of ''[[
* ''[[Sonic the Hedgehog]]''
** Lucinda has a dartboard with Robotnik's face on it in ''[[
** A deleted scene from ''[[Sonic Sat AM
* An episode of the Sunbow [[G.I. Joe]] series shows the Joes with a dartboard sporting Cobra Commander's, um, [[The Faceless|face]]. It later turns out to be a [[Chekhov's Gun]] when Cobra Commander uses his image to [[Brainwashed|subliminally control a neighborhood]].
* ''[[The Mask (
* In ''[[Jimmy Two-Shoes]]'', [[Crazy Awesome|Saffi]] throws a figure of Lucius at a picture of him. The picture has darts through it, obviously having been used for this purpose. Oddly, it's hanging in [[The Pollyanna|Jimmy's]] house.
* In one episode in ''[[
* One episode of ''[[
* An episode of ''[[
* An episode of ''[[
* Tarantulas had one of Megatron in his lair during season 1 of ''[[
* ''[[
** In "[[The Legend of Korra
** In "[[The Legend of Korra
* ''[[The Adventures of Jimmy Neutron
== Real Life ==
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* In a similar vein, during [[WWII]] they sold a chamberpot in England with [[Adolf Hitler]] 's face on the bottom. Think about it...
** Egyptian businessman Mohammed al Fayed famously had the face of his hated rival "Tiny" Rowland printed onto a toilet seat.
* Serial killer Edmund Kemper, who absolutely hated his mother, used her severed head as a dartboard.
* In the aftermath of the Arab Spring, at least one Egyptian salesman has been seen selling sandals with Mubarak & co. printed on them. (Walking on somebody's image, throwing a shoe at them and similar actions are gross insults in the Arab world)
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