Although Spode regularly threatens to harm others, he is generally the one who gets injured. In "The Code of the Woosters", when Spode advances to attack Gussie, Gussie manages to hit him on the head with an oil painting. Spode's head goes through the painting, and while he is briefly stunned, Bertie envelops him in a sheet. Bertie then hits Spode with a vase, but gets grabbed by Spode; Bertie frees himself by burning Spode with a cigarette. In other novels, Spode is knocked out three times: he is hit with a cosh by Bertie's Aunt Dahlia in "Jeeves and the Feudal Spirit", he is punched by Harold Pinker in "Stiff Upper Lip, Jeeves", and Emerald Stoker smashes a china basin on his head in the same book. He is also hit in the eye with a potato at a candidate debate in "Much Obliged, Jeeves".