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Caltrops

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Caltrops are tetrahedral items used for making ground hard to cover. They always land with a pointy bit sticking up. Handy for preventing pursuers from catching you, whether they are on foot, on horseback, or, in more modern cases, in a vehicle.
See also Spikes of Doom and Spiked Wheels. Expect Agony of the Feet. Land Mine Goes "Click!" is for the modern explosive equivalent.
Mythbusters tested their effectiveness in a police chase scenario and while they do work, what tends to happen is non-hollow caltrops plug the hole they create in the tire, meaning their effective power tends to take a few minutes to kick in.
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Kamen Rider Fourze has secondary Rider Ryusei Sakuta using caltrops for laughs on a very clingy and amourous girl that has fallen for our primary hero Gentaro Kisaragi. And that's just was the beginning.
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In Guild Wars 2, the thief profession has two caltrop abilities: a utility skill to drop caltrops around the thief which cause bleeding damage and reduced movement for enemies, and an unlockable trait that causes this to happen automatically when the thief dodges. In neither case is the thief or allies affected.
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Anti-horse caltrops are mentioned in one of the Brother Cadfael novels, which are set in the mid-12th century.
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The Dodge Interceptor from Freeway Fighter comes armed with three spike canisters, which can be used to puncture tyres of pursuing enemy vehicles.
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Part of the Scout's arsenal in Team Fortress Classic. Apart from doing a little damage, they also greatly slow down the victim.
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Death Race. Among the various weapons used by the participants in the eponymous race.
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One of the weapons available in Mini Ninjas.
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MythBusters: The crew tested and busted that road spikes could stop or slow down a pursuing car. A followup with hollow caltrops, however, confirmed the myth.
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In the 6th Bloons Tower Defense game, the Ninja Monkey can drop Caltrops which serve the same role as spikes.
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The Mad Meks 2 White Dwarf article for Gorkamorka introduces the Spike Droppa, a vehicle upgrade that scatters spiked balls behind a vehicle to puncture the tires of enemy vehicles and inconvenience warriors on foot.
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Shadow Warrior features these as a useable item: Lo Wang can get a box with three charges that can be deployed at will. Certain traps also scatter oodles of these around when triggered. They don't tell friend from foe, though, and if necessary they can be destroyed with explosives.
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Grand Theft Auto V features the JB 700, an Expy of the famous Aston Martin DB5 which has, amongst an array of spy movie-esque gadgets, caltrops dispensers in the rear bumper. In the mission "Pack Man", Franklin commandeers the JB 700 and uses its entire arsenal, including the caltrops dispensers, against the Los Santos Police Department pursing the crew.
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Early in Naruto, Kakashi uses some of these to prevent Zabuza from running over to attack him while he was open.
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The Crow's Foot mutation in Dead Cells makes the Beheaded drop three caltrops every time he rolls, dealing damage to and slowing enemies that step on them.
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Things I Am Not Allowed to Do at the PPC: Death Valley is bad enough without agents sprinkling caltrops all over the place.
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If your ninja in Shogun: Total War and Total War: Shogun 2 are detected, they will scatter a handful of caltrops behind them in an attempt to slow down the pursuers. It is often highly effective. Fun to watch, too.
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Izuna: Legend of the Unemployed Ninja: Izuna can scatter caltrops to damage whatever steps on the square next (possibly herself, if the player's not careful).
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Discworld:
Conina in Sourcery uses these, though they're not explicitly referred to as such.
Caltrops are among the ninja-esque equipment included in trainee Assassin Teppic's comically-extended Lock-and-Load Montage at the beginning of Pyramids. In his final examination, he also has to avoid caltrops he suspects are poisoned.
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Caltrops smeared with poison are one of the defenses improvised during the Siege of Chyrellos in The Elenium. This was particularly effective against the Rendorish mercenaries due to their footwear mostly consisting of thin-soled sandals.
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In Tokyo Shinobi Squad, Jin throws a handful of these on the ground to pop the tires of the shinobi squad hounding En at the start of the story.
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In the Mickey Mouse (2013) short "Three Legged Race", Huey, Dewey, and Louie use jacks as caltrops to sabotage the other racers. They puncture Horace and Clarabelle's feet, causing them to deflate.
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Robin (1993): In issue #80, Stephanie Brown uses caltrops to blow the tires on the van carrying the gun runners as they try to leave with guns blazing out every window after shooting Star.
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Vriska from Homestuck has trouble with four-sided die as well.
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In The Saga of Yngvar the Traveller, the Vikings use them when fighting King Jolf.
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Grand Theft Auto
The series features spike strips used by various police agencies to stop wanted players. Across all games they appear in, they usually start getting deployed at 3 star Wanted Levels and higher by either random foot patrolmen in the 3D era or police blockades in the HD eras. Naturally, the Lemming Cops are all too happy to plow their own vehicles through the very same deployed spikes in their ever-relentless pursuit of the players regardless of their own safety.
Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas features stinger strips only twice, in the "Pop and Control" Driving School lesson (already present on the ground) and in "Puncture Wounds", where it's CJ himself that uses them. Police make no use of them and can only flat a car's tires by shooting them accidentally.
Grand Theft Auto V features the JB 700, an Expy of the famous Aston Martin DB5 which has, amongst an array of spy movie-esque gadgets, caltrops dispensers in the rear bumper. In the mission "Pack Man", Franklin commandeers the JB 700 and uses its entire arsenal, including the caltrops dispensers, against the Los Santos Police Department pursing the crew.
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In Kemono Friends, Panther Chameleon has these as part of her general Ninja motif. However, rather than using them to injure her opponents, she throws them to try and pop balloons on their heads. She succeeds...and then a stray caltrop pops her own balloon.
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In The Aggression Scale, Owen uses jacks as improvised caltrops in his series of traps. He must have sharpened the tips, given how far they stick into Lloyd's flesh.
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James Bond's Cool Car from Tomorrow Never Dies has the ability to drop a whole bunch of these to pop enemy tires and mess up pursuit. See Tropes Examined By The Myth Busters for a report on how well that would really work. Bond gets double points for driving over his own caltrops, and fixing and reinflating the tires with just the press of a button!
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In Strawberry Marshmallow, while demonstrating "real" ninja techniques, Miu dumps a snack food on the floor, calling them caltrops. She is told to clean them up.
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The Iga ninja dogs use poisoned seeds shaped like caltrops as a trap in Ginga: Nagareboshi Gin. These are actually Truth in Television; the seeds of the water chestnut (also known as water caltrop) really are shaped vaguely like caltrops, though in real life they are used as food rather than Improvised Weapons.
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Used by Burglars in The Lord of the Rings Online.
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Caltrops are one of the trap types you can craft and deploy in Dragon Age: Origins. If standard caltrops aren't good enough, you can also create and use poisoned caltrops for extra damage.
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Mad Max: Fury Road: The final Chase Scene commences with Slit trying to get ahead of Furiosa's War Rig and spike their wheels. Fortunately it's an eighteen-wheel rig, so this isn't easy.
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The Batmobile in the The Dark Knight Trilogy can deploy these.
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Assassin's Creed: Revelations: caltrop bombs.
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Fire Emblem Fates has caltrops appear as a type of terrain hazard, slowing down units trying to walk through them and dealing damage to everyone who stands on them at the beginning of turn.
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The X-Files: in "Darkness Falls", an environmental terrorist called Doug Spinney scatters caltrops on the logging trails. He gets Hoist by His Own Petard when everyone (including Spinney) is desperately trying to drive out before dark to escape the Monster of the Week, only for them to burst their last remaining tires on the caltrops.
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Shuriken Sentai Ninninger has mecha-sized explosive ones, with KiNinger's Otomonin Dumpmaru being the one responsible.
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Dungeons & Dragons:
Caltrops were in the rules as far back as First Edition. Some are even Clockwork Creatures. As of Fifth Edition, caltrops are treated as an item that anyone can throw onto a five-foot square on the ground. Anything that doesn't carefully step through the caltrops has a chance to take a small amount of piercing damage and instantly stop moving.
A couple spells, such as spike growth or spike stones, can cover ordinary grounds with sharp spikes that are hard to detect, functionally similar to caltrops.
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In Mortal Kombat X, one of Erron Black's special moves sees him drop caltrops on the floor. They stop running opponents cold and do small but steady damage when they're on top of them.
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The Raider in Battle Realms can pick these as one of his Battle Gears, allowing him to leave them behind to damage pursuers after a hit-and-run attack on an enemy base.
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Batman: Arkham City: one of the tools Catwoman can use.
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Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas features stinger strips only twice, in the "Pop and Control" Driving School lesson (already present on the ground) and in "Puncture Wounds", where it's CJ himself that uses them. Police make no use of them and can only flat a car's tires by shooting them accidentally.
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Phineas and Ferb: Doofenshmirtz tries to use this trick during a race. It backfires because the caltrops come from the front of his car.
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In an episode of The Flash, the second Nightshade uses them to stop the Flash from pursuing him.
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In Gintama, Gintoki and Kagura end up becoming ninjas in order to help rescue Elizabeth in a particular story arc, and are provided with these to shake off some pursuers. However, they have no clue as to how to use them properly and start throwing them directly at their pursuers, which does slow them down still, but not much.
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In The Journeyman Project 2: Buried in Time, Leonardo da Vinci's studio has huge versions of these, among other prototype war machines being built for the Duke of Milan.
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When the players get angry in Knights of the Dinner Table and start throwing dice at one another, a common battle cry is "No 4-siders! No 4-siders!" (See Tabletop Games below.) There is also a punishment in the group called "The Walk of a Thousand Four-siders".
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In Shovel Knight, Donovan's standard subweapon when you play as him are caltrops. At least, before he became Specter Knight. He regains access to them if he collects every red skull in the game.
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In Batman: The Animated Series, Catwoman has them... in the shape of cats, naturally. She uses them in "The Cat and the Claw" to stop Red Claw's men from pursuing her through a ventilation duct.
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My Hero Academia: Aizawa uses these during his fight against Todoroki and Yaoyorozu; to incapacitate Todoroki, Aizawa leaves him hanging in the air and drops caltrops on the ground below him to ensure he won't escape.
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Usopp from One Piece sometimes uses these, and in one of the Video Games, he throws them on the ground as an attack.
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Pokémon
The moves Spikes and Toxic Spikes affect Pokémon when opposing trainer tries to switch Mons unless they're of the Flying type, have the Levitate or Magic Guard abilities, or (in the case of Toxic Spikes), immune to poisoning. A double layer of Toxic Spikes will badly poison the target. Spikes was even called Caltrops in the Japanese version. Poison types that aren't also one of the above are able to neutralize Toxic Spikes.
In Pokémon Scarlet and Violet, Glimmet and its evolution, Glimmora, are the currently the sole users of the ability Toxic Debris, which allows them to automatically scatter Toxic Spikes whenever they're physically hit.
It's possible to think of Stealth Rock as floating caltrops, seeing as they can also hurt Flying-types (for massive damage, too, thanks to Elemental Rock-Paper-Scissors).
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Caltrops are one of the many traps that are scattered around the grounds in Dungeons of Dredmor. The ones that do higher damage tend to be made of magical elements, such as Aetheral energy or Dragonsbreath.
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The La-Mulana remake adds caltrops as a subweapon.
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The Chill Spike from Mega Man 10 works like a spike strip (see Real Life below), damaging enemies that move onto it. Not surprisingly, it is effective against the robot/motorbike transformer Nitro Man, in the sense that it hurts his tires.
While he did not have access to them in Mega Man 3, noted ninja Shadow Man gains the ability to throw caltrops in Mega Man 2: The Power Fighters.
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Magic: The Gathering has two cards. Wall of Caltrops simply gains banding if it blocks with other walls. Caltrops deals damage to attacking creatures, including ones that can fly.
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Darkest Dungeon: A little while after release, the Bounty Hunter's "Hook and Slice" attack got replaced by tossing a handful of caltrops directly at the target. The victim takes minor base damage, bleeding damage, and gets a debuff that reduces speed and makes them take more damage; the main downside is that it can only target the back row of a formation. In the Butcher's Circus, against human opponents, it will hit every member of the opponent's team and give 25 rounds of Damage Over Time, and gives a debuff that makes them take more stress.
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The Legend Of Tian Ding have these, depicted as tiny balls of spikes, as a not-too-common short-range weapon. When used, you throw them a handful at a time at the enemy immediately before you, dealing a decent amount of damage given it's lack of distance compared to firearms.
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In Plants vs. Zombies, Spikeweeds (and their upgrade, Spikerocks) are living caltrops that you can plant on the ground, hurting zombies that step on them and popping the tires of vehicles.
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Super Sentai:
Ninja Sentai Kakuranger: Caltrops are one of the many tricks the rangers use.
Shuriken Sentai Ninninger has mecha-sized explosive ones, with KiNinger's Otomonin Dumpmaru being the one responsible.
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Caltrops are among the ninja-esque equipment included in trainee Assassin Teppic's comically-extended Lock-and-Load Montage at the beginning of Pyramids. In his final examination, he also has to avoid caltrops he suspects are poisoned.
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Some of the black-clad ninja in Bad Dudes toss makibishi. If you don't have a weapon, you can low-kick them out of the way. (If you've got the nunchucks, you can possibly fire upwards at them from a lower level. If you've got the knife, you suck.)
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In Drakensang 2: The River of Time, you can build these with a very low Forge lore. Of course, they can be placed as traps on the ground.
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The Musket hero class in Conqueror's Blade has two moves which throw caltrops on the ground. These slow enemies down and deal bleed damage until the enemy steps off them.
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In Future GPX Cyber Formula, Kaga throws some of these on the ground to pop the tires of a driver who tries to sabotage a checkpoint machine during the Fireball race. The driver tries to attack him for that but fails, which allows Hayato to use the checkpoint.
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In Pokémon Scarlet and Violet, Glimmet and its evolution, Glimmora, are the currently the sole users of the ability Toxic Debris, which allows them to automatically scatter Toxic Spikes whenever they're physically hit.
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In Gamer 2, the police enemies have laid out caltrops in their sector. If Hailey steps on them, she'll lose her deflector plate.
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Conina in Sourcery uses these, though they're not explicitly referred to as such.
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Car Wars has various types (including incendiary and explosive for extra damage) as one of the available weapon options.
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In Dragon Ball, Ninja Murasaki spreads these on the ground to prevent Goku from chasing him. Goku tries to follow him anyway and hurts his feet. He looks around and finds some wooden sandals that he can use to walk over them safely.
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Sharpe uses these in the book version of Sharpe's Rifle, as a defence against Colonel de l'Eclin's cavalry.
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In Diablo III, Demon Hunters can drop caltrops that damage and slow down enemies who step close to them.
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While he did not have access to them in Mega Man 3, noted ninja Shadow Man gains the ability to throw caltrops in Mega Man 2: The Power Fighters.
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Shinobido features makibishi as part of your Ninja equipment along with shuriken, grappling hooks, five-colored rice and various explosive stuff. Those caltrops though can actually kill enemies, but it takes some time...
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The Kishu enemy units in Marvel Puzzle Quest uses the Caltrops ability to deploy trap tiles, that once matched, hurt the whole player team.
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An absolutely essential tool in the arsenal of "Grey morality" Avatars in Ultima VII. Placed properly, you could use them to knock out mages for ease of stealing the potions they somehow managed to produce from nothing. Also a good way to knock out dragons for one-hit KO experience grinding. In the sequel, it was a way to get easy victories (and thus quicker/better training) in the arena of Monitor.
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Kevin improvises these in Home Alone. First, he uses tar to force Marv to take off his shoes, then puts a nail on the steps after said shoes are gone. If that wasn't enough, when Marv tries climbing in to Kevin's house through a window, Kevin's placed glass Christmas ornaments on the floor, which Marv also steps on.
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A mainstay of the Tenchu series, caltrops do a small amount of damage and stun anyone (including the player) who steps on them for a short time.
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GURPS: High-Tech mentions that a cheap way to make them more dangerous was to cover them in dung.
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Both Nioh titles allow the Player Character to ready & throw small groups of Caltrops at the floor. Though they deal very little damage, they come with an added side-effect of slowing down the enemy's movement. It even becomes possible to throw Bombs that explode into more Caltrops later on.
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In one of the Mobile Suit Gundam OVAs, the one where the Gundams are samurai, and then they are suddenly doing a Wacky Races parody, the Ninja robots use these.
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Ninja Sentai Kakuranger: Caltrops are one of the many tricks the rangers use.
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In the Sherlock Holmes short story, "The Noble Bachelor," caltrops appear on a coat of arms ("Azure, three caltrops in chief over a fess sable").
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Early in The High Crusade, after the dust settles from foraying into a hostile alien spaceship, the invaders, who were quite caught by surprise, are mildly remarked to have not prepared any caltrops.
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Killer Constable has a fight scene at night where the titular Constable, Master Leng, gets ambushed in his bedroom by two assassins. As Leng is wearing only his socks, one of the assassins then spills a pouch of spiked ball bearings all over the bedroom floor.
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Les Tontons flingueurs: After Theo tricks Fernand into driving a truck of bootleg alcohol to set a trap for him (and blame the Wolfonis), his goons first drop a box of caltrops over the road to make the truck crash, before trying to gun Fernand down.
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In City of Heroes, caltrops are available to certain powersets and do minor damage and massively debuff speed. Among enemies, certain Tsoo and all Knives of Artemis use them. The KoA in particular are annoying because they can quickly stack caltrops, at which point your character may as well not be able to move at all.
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Batman uses bat-shaped ones in Batman: Under the Red Hood.
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Caltrops
 Underrail (Video Game) / int_d1d2754b
type
Caltrops
 Splatoon (Video Game) / int_d1d2754b
type
Caltrops