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Comedy as a Weapon

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Comedy as a Weapon	label	Comedy as a Weapon
Comedy as a Weapon	page	ComedyAsAWeapon
Comedy as a Weapon	comment	Instead of sheer force, a BFG or a great display of magic, a character uses jokes, puns, slapstick, laughs, etc... to fight an enemy or achieve a goal. Sometimes humor may be used to distract the amused opponent or even leave them Helpless with Laughter, while at other times the humorist may literally cause his audience to Die Laughing. Sub-Trope of Art Attacker.
Comedy as a Weapon	fetched	2023-10-21T21:31:27Z
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Comedy as a Weapon	processingComment	Dropped link to DieLaughing: Not an Item - FEATURE
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Comedy as a Weapon	processingComment	Dropped link to TheBeatles: Not an Item - IGNORE
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Comedy as a Weapon / int_14abfe56	comment	In Patch Adams, the titular character believes in helping patients through humour and laughter.
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Comedy as a Weapon / int_1520dbc2	type	Comedy as a Weapon
Comedy as a Weapon / int_1520dbc2	comment	In Song of the South, after Johnny is attacked by a bull and rendered unconscious, Uncle Remus gets him to come to by telling him the story of Br'er Rabbit and the Laughing Place.
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Comedy as a Weapon / int_1f2edb72	type	Comedy as a Weapon
Comedy as a Weapon / int_1f2edb72	comment	Toontown Online: The battle system for the Toons is based entirely on Zany Cartoon gags and jokes, which can deal damage, stun, and heal fellow Toons. It's stated in-universe that their enemies, the Cogs, can't take a joke and that gags are the things that can defeat them.
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Comedy as a Weapon / int_21e321da	type	Comedy as a Weapon
Comedy as a Weapon / int_21e321da	comment	In Dragon Quest VII, the jester class has a variety of abilities that make enemies laugh, preventing them from attacking. They tend to be Useless Useful Spells due to Contractual Boss Immunity, but it's worth using the "One-liner" ability on mooks just to see all the jokes the game has to display.
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Comedy as a Weapon / int_334120fc	type	Comedy as a Weapon
Comedy as a Weapon / int_334120fc	comment	In 8-Bit Theater Black Mage accidentally kills an arc villain using bad puns.
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Comedy as a Weapon / int_3abf6f91	type	Comedy as a Weapon
Comedy as a Weapon / int_3abf6f91	comment	The monster Dandelo in the final book has the ability to tell jokes that induce literally killing laughter in his victims.
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Comedy as a Weapon / int_4e5b6428	type	Comedy as a Weapon
Comedy as a Weapon / int_4e5b6428	comment	In the end of Making Money, Mr. Bent, a bank manager who's the son of a clown, upsets the trial of Moist von Lipwig by throwing pies and performing stunts with a ladder. Admittedly, he mostly only serves as a distraction, but he does manage to also bring the ledgers that Vetinari needs in order to determine that the gold was stolen before Moist arrived at the Royal Bank. More seriously, he also nearly manages to paste Vetinari in the face with a pie. Given the reputation damage that would have resulted, and that in Ankh Morpork's political instability it could have ended Vetinari's tenure as patrician, Moist jumping in front of it is treated as Taking the Bullet.
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Comedy as a Weapon / int_5286ec36	type	Comedy as a Weapon
Comedy as a Weapon / int_5286ec36	comment	In Who Framed Roger Rabbit?, Eddie defeats the Weasels by making them laugh until they die. Roger even states that in dire situations, laughter might just be the only weapon you have.
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Comedy as a Weapon / int_5755b96a	type	Comedy as a Weapon
Comedy as a Weapon / int_5755b96a	comment	In The Order of the Stick, Elan takes a level of the Prestige Class "Dashing Swordman", which makes him vastly more effective in combat by letting him apply his Charisma bonus (basically a measure of his charm and/or force of personality) to attacks with a weapon if he uses a pun or otherwise uses some clever wordplay while attacking. But his target apparently has to actually get the joke (and he can't just repeat the same line if he's used it before). Eventually he runs into an opponent who is also trained in this style combat, resulting in a duel where they are literally matching wits and blades at the same time, parrying each others' physical blows with rapid wordplay until one of them flubs his reply (while distracted) and is immediately disarmed by the other.
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Comedy as a Weapon / int_5afbc0cb	type	Comedy as a Weapon
Comedy as a Weapon / int_5afbc0cb	comment	In Undertale Snowdrake can be spared after laughing at one of his jokes, and monsters accompanying him can be spared after making your own joke.
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Comedy as a Weapon / int_68237790	type	Comedy as a Weapon
Comedy as a Weapon / int_68237790	comment	In Pathfinder a Great Wyrm Copper Dragon can, once per day, tell a joke so funny it makes the listener die laughing. For obvious reasons, they don't actually provide an example of such a joke.
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Comedy as a Weapon / int_69fa7496	type	Comedy as a Weapon
Comedy as a Weapon / int_69fa7496	comment	The Donald Duck comic story "Zio Paperone e i predoni dello spazio" has Donald Duck and Uncle Scrooge go after Space Pirates, but first they run into a helpful, but pacifistic Reality Warper animal which transforms their disintegrator rays into laughter-inducing rayguns. These prove highly effective in debilitating the pirates.
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Comedy as a Weapon / int_7e79f5bd	type	Comedy as a Weapon
Comedy as a Weapon / int_7e79f5bd	comment	In Wizard and Glass, Eddie kills Blaine the Mono by telling him a lot of lame jokes. They are not just lame jokes, they have no logic, no smart puns. He basically kills Blaine with non-sequitors.
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Comedy as a Weapon / int_7ff3216c	type	Comedy as a Weapon
Comedy as a Weapon / int_7ff3216c	comment	In a US Acres short on Garfield and Friends, aliens who consider laughter a powerful weapon try to steal Earth's comedy, and Orson and company try to make them laugh in order to defeat them.
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Comedy as a Weapon / int_8f422dc7	type	Comedy as a Weapon
Comedy as a Weapon / int_8f422dc7	comment	Bobobo-bo Bo-bobo is nothing BUT Comedy as a Weapon - in-universe, it's an actual fighting style known as Hajike (Wiggin in English) used by most of the main characters. It mostly consists of unpredictable attacks sight gags and puns used to confuse or drive their opponents (and sometimes their allies) crazy.
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Comedy as a Weapon / int_960062b7	type	Comedy as a Weapon
Comedy as a Weapon / int_960062b7	comment	In My Hero Academia, it's Ms.Joke's whole schtick. Her Quirk, "Outburst", makes her opponents laugh uncontrollably and lose control of their motor and cognitive skills, which makes it easy for her to finish them off with a good brass-knuckles-boosted punch in the face.
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Comedy as a Weapon / int_a5f4ab7	type	Comedy as a Weapon
Comedy as a Weapon / int_a5f4ab7	comment	One Blue Seed omake involved Kunikida, normally a lame pun-user, manage to make a joke so funny, the victim would Die Laughing.
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Comedy as a Weapon / int_b4996199	type	Comedy as a Weapon
Comedy as a Weapon / int_b4996199	comment	Spider-Man explains exactly how this works in the The Amazing Spider-Man: Renew Your Vows miniseries:
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Comedy as a Weapon / int_c4282b71	type	Comedy as a Weapon
Comedy as a Weapon / int_c4282b71	comment	My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic: In part 2 of the series premiere, Pinkie Pie teaches her friends to literally laugh in the face of danger with a song, which happens to banish an illusion conjured by Nightmare Moon.
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Comedy as a Weapon / int_ca5d97f1	type	Comedy as a Weapon
Comedy as a Weapon / int_ca5d97f1	comment	Monty Python's Flying Circus has covered this a few times: The "World's Funniest Joke" sketch revolves around a joke so funny that everyone who hears it or even reads it will fall down and Die Laughing, even with precautions such as somber music and funeral chants. The military has it translated into German to use as a weapon against the Nazis in World War II. Even then, people translating portions of the joke have been hospitalized for accidentally reading too much at a time. In the "Piranha Brothers" sketch, Doug Piranha kept his underlings in fear by his use of sarcasm. "He knew all the tricks - dramatic irony, metaphor, bathos, puns, parody, litotes and... satire. Grown men would pull their own heads off rather than see Doug."
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Comedy as a Weapon / int_cc1bf35b	type	Comedy as a Weapon
Comedy as a Weapon / int_cc1bf35b	comment	The results of sword fights in the Monkey Island games are based entirely on insults and puns.
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Comedy as a Weapon / int_cd81de4	type	Comedy as a Weapon
Comedy as a Weapon / int_cd81de4	comment	In Quest for Glory IV, The Hero must make use of The Ultimate Joke in the game's final battle. While the joke itself is not lethal, it will incapacitate anyone (even a vampire with no sense of humor!) by making them laugh uncontrollably the first time they hear the joke.
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Comedy as a Weapon / int_cebbba4f	comment	The Dark Tower In Wizard and Glass, Eddie kills Blaine the Mono by telling him a lot of lame jokes. They are not just lame jokes, they have no logic, no smart puns. He basically kills Blaine with non-sequitors. The monster Dandelo in the final book has the ability to tell jokes that induce literally killing laughter in his victims.
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Comedy as a Weapon / int_d9c602eb	comment	In South Park, Jimmy saves himself from a vengeful pimp by telling him jokes to distract him.
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Comedy as a Weapon / int_dccfc4b8	type	Comedy as a Weapon
Comedy as a Weapon / int_dccfc4b8	comment	In Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, Boggarts are introduced as beings that transform into the viewer's worst fear, but laughter repels them. Professor Lupin teaches his students the spell Riddikulus to turn the scary displays into funny ones to inspire laughter.
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Comedy as a Weapon / int_f81101f2	type	Comedy as a Weapon
Comedy as a Weapon / int_f81101f2	comment	In Pokémon: The Original Series, Ash's Haunternote Technically it's not owned by him. Ash's Gengar in Journeys is completely unrelated. saves the day by making Sabrina laugh with its antics, causing her to lose focus on the Gym Battle and thereby giving Ash both a Gym Badge and his friends' freedom from Sabrina's clutches.
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Comedy as a Weapon / int_fe9efc72	comment	Hamtaro: In episode 198, the Ham-Hams were able to save Snoozer from the dream-eating Baku through a combination of Howdy's terrible Baku-related puns and tickling its body to make it laugh hard and spit out Snoozer's good dream.
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Comedy as a Weapon	processingCategory2	Comedy Tropes
Comedy as a Weapon	processingCategory2	Weapons and Wielding Tropes
Mewkledreamy / int_42176a2d	type	Comedy as a Weapon
Life in Manehattan (Fanfic) / int_42176a2d	type	Comedy as a Weapon
Patch Adams / int_42176a2d	type	Comedy as a Weapon
Who Framed Roger Rabbit / int_42176a2d	type	Comedy as a Weapon
The Dark Tower / int_42176a2d	type	Comedy as a Weapon
The Dark Tower (2004) / int_42176a2d	type	Comedy as a Weapon
The Unknown Soldier / int_42176a2d	type	Comedy as a Weapon
Wizard and Glass / int_42176a2d	type	Comedy as a Weapon
Escape from Monkey Island (Video Game) / int_42176a2d	type	Comedy as a Weapon
The Curse of Monkey Island (Video Game) / int_42176a2d	type	Comedy as a Weapon
The Secret of Monkey Island (Video Game) / int_42176a2d	type	Comedy as a Weapon
Toontown Online (Video Game) / int_42176a2d	type	Comedy as a Weapon
Promos (Web Video) / int_42176a2d	type	Comedy as a Weapon
8-Bit Theater (Webcomic) / int_42176a2d	type	Comedy as a Weapon
Dr. Dimensionpants / int_42176a2d	type	Comedy as a Weapon

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