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The rolling pin as a weapon, often aimed at someone's head. Most often wielded by a cook, or else [[Stay in
An [[Improbable Weapon]], though one that does have reasonable efficacy. Closely related to the [[Frying Pan of Doom]] and often used in conjunction with it. Note that most of these rolling pins are made of ''wood'', as plastic is usually too light to do any damage.
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== [[Comic Books]] ==
* In ''Marvel Adventures Spider-Man'' #56, Chat hits Dagger with a rolling pin.
* Chachi Bini, the wife of famous Indian comic character, Chacha Chaudhary, always has a rolling pin (belan) in her hand. She often uses it as a weapon against thieves and robbers.
== [[Film]] ==
* Shows up in ''Dolores Claiborne''.
* Billy kills his mother with one in the ''[[Black Christmas]]'' remake.
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== [[Literature]] ==
* In ''[[Howl's Moving Castle (
* In the [[Gordon Korman]] series [[Island]] the one brother and sister hospitalised one another on Halloween night. She was a chef armed with a marble rolling pin. We're not told what he was carrying.
* Lampshaded - but not used - in ''[[
* An [[Ogden Nash]] poem describes a cartoonist whose life was a stream of classic comic strip tropes. When his wife finally had enough of it all, she naturally used a rolling pin to do him in.
== [[Live
* On ''
== [[Newspaper Comics]] ==
* A standby in the ''[[Andy Capp]]'' newspaper comic since 1957.
* In ''Sappo'', by [[Popeye]] creator Segar, John Sappo is always in danger of being bopped by his wife, and several strips involve his attempts to circumvent this. In one arc, he constructs a series of special, protective cages to wear, made of transparent metal, so his wife can't see what's stopping the rolling pin. He then sells several of these cages to other [[Henpecked
== [[Theatre]] ==
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== [[Video Games]] ==
* In the arcade game ''[[
* [http://www.wowhead.com/?item=5197 This item] in ''[[World of Warcraft]]'', obtainable from [[Evil Chef| Captain Cookie]] from the Deadmines. Sadly, this weapon cannot be used for transmorgrification.
* Filomena of [[Urban Rivals]] wields a rolling pin.
* Several rolling pins can be found in the Wastelands of [[Fallout]] 3, likely as a [[Joke Item|gag weapon]].
** They are also in ''[[Fallout]]: New Vegas''... even going as far as including a street gang consisting of old ladies equipped with rolling pins that ambush you in an alley.
* You can have one in ''[[
* In the murder mystery game The Ship, this is a possible murder weapon for you to use (or to have used on you)
* A few ''enchanted'' rolling pins can be found in ''[[
== [[Western Animation]] ==
* Perhaps most famous in ''[[The Flintstones]]''
* ''[[Courage the Cowardly Dog]]''. Muriel almost always whacks Eustace in the head with her rolling pin after he has finished scaring Courage.
* In ''[[
* ''[[Looney Tunes]]''
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:* "Bedevilled Rabbit" Bugs Bunny is being chased by Taz, so he dresses up as [[Disguised in Drag|a Tasmanian she-devil]] in order to seduce him - it works, until Taz's ''actual'' wife appears, angrily clubs him with a rolling pin and drags him home.
* In ''[[Wallace and Gromit|The Wrong Trousers]]'', Gromit brandishes a rolling pin at Feathers McGraw. Feathers responds by pulling a gun on Gromit and forcing him into the wardrobe with Wallace.
* ''The Twelve Tasks of [[Asterix]]'' has Impedimenta using a rolling pin on a gladiator.
== Other Media ==
* Disneyland's Pirates of the Carribean ride has at one point a large woman chasing a food-thieving pirate with a rolling pin.
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