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A weapon that is either impossible, unlikely, or impractical in Real Life, but in fiction is both existent and effective, Rule of Cool be thanked. Usually made of a bunch of cool weapons and mash them together, such as many examples of Mix-and-Match Weapon, or cranking up the weapon's abilities. Naturally, this often relies on Artistic License – Physics. The difference with Improbable Weapon User is that these are based on actual weapons, not non-weapon things used as weapons. A Flaming Sword would count as an impossibly cool weapon. A cardboard tube would count as an improbable weapon. A Sub-Trope of Rule of Cool. A Super-Trope to: Absurdly Sharp Blade BFG (most examples of it, so let's save space by leaving them there) BFS Epic Flail Flaming Sword Freeze Ray Fuuma Shuriken Humongous-Headed Hammer Instant Chucks Laser Blade Lightning Gun Macross Missile Massacre (in that a weapon fires more missiles than it should be able to hold) Mix-and-Match Weapon (many Real Life examples are perfectly practical and reasonable, but fiction often dives headfirst into Rule of Cool) More Dakka (any weapon capable of it) Morph Weapon Precision-Guided Boomerang Ray Gun (especially before the invention of the laser) Rocket-Powered Weapon Swiss-Army Weapon This Is a Drill Whip Sword A Sister Trope of Abnormal Ammo, Cool Sword, Exotic Weapon Supremacy, Improbable Weapon User, and Oddly Shaped Sword. Compare Cool Starship, Impossibly Cool Clothes, Scary Impractical Armor, Awesome, but Impractical, Weaponized Landmark, and Things Are More Effective in Hollywood. Compare/Contrast The Power of Index specifically the "(Weapon Name) Are Better" tropes (when normal weapons are impossibly cool by themselves). Not to be confused with weapons that should overheat but don't. |
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Honda Tadakatsu from Sengoku Basara wields a drill-tipped spear almost as tall as he is as his primary weapon. It can later be upgraded to have three separate drill tips. Mori Motonari uses a giant ring-blade that can separate into two curved swords. Chosokabe Motochika uses a giant anchor-flail that can be detached and swung around on a chain and is frequently on fire. And then there's Tachibana Muneshige, who dual-wields chainsaws. | |
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The title character of the Sten series has a knife sharp enough to cut a diamond by the weight of the blade, fitted perfectly to his grip in a sheath installed inside his arm. It's described as having a wrist muscle redirected to hold the sheath closed, and will drop the knife into his hand whenever he needs it. | |
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Heralds of Rhimn has Brightfate, a sunlit sword bloodforged by the sun god Gardhe himself. It radiates sunlight, burns, and absorbs the souls of those it kills to fuel its enchantment — and as if that wasn’t enough, if you kill a Herald with it, it will also kill the god they’re bound to. | |
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Devil May Cry 4 has Pandora's Box, a demonic firearm manifesting as a briefcase capable of morphing into a variety of heavy weapons. A crapload of forms and they're all awesome. Also Lucifer — bright pink exploding energy spears, anyone? | |
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Devil May Cry 5 cranks up the insane awesomeness, even for this series. Nero's new Devil Breaker that replaces his Devil Bringer arm can stop time, function as a Swiss-Army Weapon complete with grappling hook that he can then chain into a powerbomb on unfortunate demons; and can be fired away and surfed on. Dante, never one to be outdone in his own series, gets a demonic motorcycle that's a functioning and usable devil arm. As dual chainsaws. | |
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Hawkman: Thanagarians have armor and weapons made from Nth Metal which allows them to fly, bestows all sorts of powers Depending on the Writer and is immune to magic. | |
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Those Lacking Spines,: Jeffiroth gets the coveted Masamune that Sephiroth wields. This is lampshaded. It's even impractical for self-use. |
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The Mighty Thor: Just about any Asgardian weapon in the Marvel Comics universes. The most famous example being Thor's Hammer Mjölnir; it can be thrown and come back like a boomerang, only he (for the most part) can lift it, it shoots lightning...and if that wasn't enough, it's forged from a piece of the meteor that killed the dinosaurs. In The Ballad of Beta Ray Bill, Bill's enchanted weapon Storm Breaker has all the powers of Mjolnir plus it's a Mix-and-Match Weapon: the head is a hammer on one side and an axe on the other. The Wrecking Crew have construction-themed weapons gifted to them by Loki (or because one of them was mistaken for Loki Depending on the Writer): Wrecker wields an indestructible crowbar with magical properties. Bulldozer has an armored metal helmet and fights by ramming his victims head-first. Piledriver fights with his over-sized pile-driving fists. Thunderball wields a huge demolition ball on a chain. |
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Neo Cortex's ray gun as well as N. Tropy's tuning fork, both from the Crash Bandicoot series. | |
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Lobo: Lobo's trademark hook and chain, as well as his extraterrestrial arsenal. | |
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Monster Hunter is all about this trope. Serrated BFSs with teeth that fold into the blade when not being wielded, giant telescoping Jousting Lances, and giant collapsible crossbows that worked more like BFGs are par for the course. As if that wasn't enough, there are several weapon types that are this trope, as well. This includes Gunlances, lances with built-in shotguns that can fire enormous dragon-fire explosions, Switch Axes, large mechanical axes that can transform into giant swords, and Charge Blades, a sword-and-shield combo that can combine to form a humongous axe, which can fire off pure elemental energy and further power up into a giant buzzsaw axe. | |
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Outriders has the Legendary weapons. Each of them, in addition to the most powerful Tier III mods, has a distinctive, often very weird appearance. For example, there are guns that look like they're carved out of stone, a sniper rifle that's encased in ice and a submachine gun made out of meat. | |
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Bleach: Ikkaku Madarame's Bankai Ryūmon H�zukimaru, which turns his zanpakutou H�zukimaru into that monstrosity of a weapon; all three blades give us one of the most creatively designed (and enormous) adaptations of a monk's spade seen in manga or anime. Most captains' Bankai are this. For examples, Soi Fon's Bankai "Jakuh� Raik�ben" turns "Suzumebachi" into a huge stinger missile with amazing attack power, and Byakuya's Bankai "Senbonzakura Kageyoshi" manifests as a thousand blades that appear out of nowhere, which then dissolve and proceed to attack the target from all conceivable directions. Due to his Power Incontinence, Ichigo's unreleased sword "Zangetsu" is one of these. Five feet long, 8-10 inches wide at minimum and an inch or more thick, it would weigh 30-50 pounds if actually made of steel but he waves it around in one hand like a feather duster. His Bankai "Tensa Zangetsu" is the only form that actually makes his sword smaller. Word of God is that the characters can easily wave around such massive weapons because, as parts of their soul, the giant axes/swords/etc. are weightless to them (though not to other beings, who would indeed find themselves holding several dozen pounds of metal). That said, if the weight of their weapons end up multiplied (like by "Wabisuke's" Shikai ability), they won't be able to lift them eventually. |
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Neal Asher's Gridlinked introduces us to Tenkian weapons, named after their designer. They're mostly low-tech thrown weapons, but with an AI embedded into them to aid in aiming and targeting. Main villain minion John Stanton gets a throwing knife that can be called up into his hand with a flick of his wrist; the character he gets it from says the AI will keep it from slicing his fingers off as he does so. The protagonist, Ian Cormac, has a shuriken that works on similar principles, but that can also expand up to 25cm across. (About the size of your average table saw blade.) |
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Bowser himself in Super Mario RPG gets armed with a Chain Chomp, i.e a living flail that can bite enemies painfully. | |
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The Escudo swords from Magic Knight Rayearth. They start off as impressive yet plausible, but Escudo weapons evolve. The design of the hilts alter with each new iteration and the swords are duplicated in large form by the Mashin. And the final form of Fuu's sword is longer than she is tall by a good foot and a half. | |
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Angel's sleeve stakes and Wesley's arm sword thingy. | |
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House (yes, that House) has a cane that transforms into an axe and a shotgun. Okay, it is just in a dream of his, but it is still impossibly cool. | |
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Jonah Hex (2010): Jonah has dual-wielded crossbows that shot sticks of dynamite! And horse-mounted Gatling guns! | |
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Enter the Gungeon lives in this trope. It has t-shirt cannons, t-shirt cannons that fire poison shirts, a unicorn horn that fires a rainbow laser and plays music, a demon's head that shoots a fire beam, a wood beam that is exactly what it says; a piece of wood that grows to the length of the room you're in and lets you smack enemies with a melee weapon at a gun's range, a baseball bat that returns bullets to the shooter, a gun that looks like two brick cubes stuck together that fires turtle shells, a block of meat that fires saw blades, a lower-case r that fires the word 'bullet' one letter at a time that when upgraded with explosive bullets fires the words 'boom', 'explosion' and 'rocket', and a bullet that shoots guns that shoot bullets. You heard me. | |
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Problem Sleuth features Death's scythe, which can transform into anything. ANYTHING. Anti-tank rockets, F-16s, nuclear bombs, Manny Calavera's head, you name it. | |
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Walter practically mentions the trope by name in reference to an anti-gravity pistol in the series finale of Fringe. | |
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Bloodborne has Trick Weapons, which are psuedo-realistic Morph Weapons. A shortsword that splits into two daggers. A metal cane that unfolds into a serrated whip. A foldable scythe with a giant curved sword for a detachable blade. Two longswords that can be inserted into their enormous metal sheaths to create a greatsword or a greathammer. A mace that can charge itself with electricity. Another mace that you can merge and grow with your blood by impaling yourself. A metal club that can be attached to a pair of huge circular saws to create a motorized circular saw-axe. A scimitar which unfolds into a bow. A hammer with a miniature furnace in the head that explodes when charged. The still alive and sentient severed arm of an Eldritch Abomination which can be swung like a giant club or simply held out in front of the wielder and left to its own devices, attacking enemies with its scythe-like hand. An adorable alien parasite that does little more than act as a magic charm for your fists - until you infest yourself with Lumenwood, turning it into a plethora of insane attack tentacles that summon magic attacks by crushing your skeleton. |
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Guild Wars has "The Dreamer" a legenday bow that looks like a butterfly wing forged into a bow... And shoots Rainbow trailing unicorns. | |
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Some weapons in the Tales Series qualify when they're not verging on ludicrous. Hubert's...weapon...thing in Tales of Graces leaps to mind. It's a dual-bladed sword that can separate into two regular swords. And a pair of handguns. Which fire bullets made of magic. And it can also shoot arrows like a bow. No wonder it gives the wielder INSTANT BALLS. Malik of the same game has a BOOMERANG SWORD. He throws it... and it flies back. Hubert is slightly explained by it being a custom weapon he personally designed to be over the top to give off the image as a bad ass military warrior to inspire fear in his enemies and morale in his subordinates. It was actually based off a weapon from his universe's equivalent of Batman. He spent years training himself to become proficient and make it an effective weapon. In other words he was intentionally invoking this trope and struggled hard to make it work. Tales of Vesperia: Yeager weirlds a shotgun scythe. Raven's weapon of choice is slightly less "cool", but it's a bow that can fold up into a short sword for close combat. Marta from Tales of Symphonia: Dawn of the New World the sequel wields a ring with a pair of blades poking out of it, or a ring with three blades poking out of it. Which apparently spin without a motor, which would realistically render this weapon even more useless than it already it. Not that that stops her from extremely long combos in melee and cutting down foes left and right. |
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An episode of SD Gundam Force features the Zakos showing off an "ultra space universe bazooka cannon gatling triple double wonderful drill super missile rocket machine gun gun gun". It ended up actually impossibly cool because it completely fell apart upon trying to use it. | |
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Many of the characters in Blade of the Immortal use weapons that look incredibly cool... until you start asking questions about how they'd work in reality. The creator, Hiroaki Samura, hung a lampshade on this with the "Samura's Weapon Shop!" feature, which explains all the weapons, including the ones that don't make any sense. Examples: two sickles connected by an expansible chain ("The chain fits into one of the scabbards, and can stretch out to about seven feet. Whether this is good for anything is another question entirely."), a blade with little curved hooks on both edges ("What the hell is this thing? Don't ask me."), and two blades so narrow they look like kitchen skewers ("To be perfectly honest, I wonder why he doesn't just use a normal sword..."). Later, the sadistic Shira, who's had one hand cut off by Manji, makes up for this by (warning: squicky) sharpening the protruding bone and using that as a weapon. It works about as well as you might expect. Surprisingly, these examples work in real life: the chain-and-sickles is a variation of the traditional Japanese Kusari-gama, also used by Guilty Gear X's Axl (in the same two-sickle formation); the hooked blade can be justified by the additional damage caused by ripping action of the hooks upon cutting (the jagged edges of the wound heal slower), in the same fashion as soldiers who used to saw teeth into their bayonet blades; as for the narrow sword, almost all swords from the renaissance onwards were very thin, flexible blades, useful for only their stabbing action (they could only inflict superficial cuts, nothing like a medieval claymore). Other weapons are a sharpened handcuff but designed to cut necks on a chain and an L-shaped piece of metal. Even the author was surprised to find they were real weapons: a flying guillotine and a blunt ax. |
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Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann has the famous [[GIGA!!!! DRILL!!!! BREAKER!!!!]] - a drill-based Finishing Move that just keeps getting bigger, much like the title mecha itself - and when said mecha is 63 billion light-years tall, that's a pretty big fucking drill. | |
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Rave Master's Ten Commandments - a shape-shifting BFS with elemental powers. | |
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Atlas in Borderlands 3 now features guns with homing bullets — you paint your target with a tracker dart, and all your normal bullets will bend sharply towards your target. They look like impossibly super modern defense industry prototypes, and feature all kinds of gimmicks such as holographic displays or automatic reload mechanisms. | |
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Green Arrow of DC and Hawkeye of Marvel both have a huge compliment of trick arrows. | |
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RWBY: This urban fantasy-meets-sci-fi show focuses on the training of "Huntsmen" to protect civilisation from the monsters that go bump in the night. Almost all the combat-capable characters have complex weapons that can perform a variety of functions, including transformations into different types of weapons or weapon-combinations. Rooster Teeth lampshaded this with a t-shirt showing off many of the weapons framed around the phrase "It's also a gun", highlighting that most weapons in the show also double as guns. Examples include: Weapons that masquerade as one weapon before transforming into something else: examples include Qrow's huge sword, which can tranform into a gun-sword and scythe; the Grimm Reaper's twin kama that can combine into a dual-bladed staff. Weapons with multiple transformations that can sometimes be used in combination: examples include Ruby's customised scythe/sniper rife; Blake's sword, which can transform into a gun and a gun-sword-flail on the end of a ribbon; and Sun's staff, which becomes two nunchaku, which can simultaneously be used as four lever-action shotguns. Weapons that don't look like weapons until used or transformed: examples include Blake's sword-sheath which can be used as a cleaver; Jaune's sword-sheath, which expands into a shield and can become a two-bladed weapon when the sword is sheathed; Coco's satchel, which transforms into a mini-gun; Neo's parasol, which is a cane-sword and shield; or Flynt's trumpet which uses Wind Dust when played. Non-transforming weapons that have surprising functions: examples include Weiss's rapier that contains a Dust revolver for ranged elemental attacks; Roman's cane, which is secretly a gun; Raven's sword, which is a sheath containing multiple Dust blades, and her sword handle can select which blade to use. |
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The Valaes Tairn elves in Eberron favour a double-bladed scimitar. Despite the inherent impracticality of this weapon, the Valaes Tairn pull it off, possibly because they're badass Elf Proud Warrior Race guys who will kill you if you point this out. | |
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Wonder Woman: Wonder Woman has weapons forged by Hephaestus, the god of blacksmiths. Most famous is her Golden Lasso; unbreakable and anyone bound by it must tell the truth. The other most famous of Wonder Woman's accouterments are her bracelets, gifted by Aphrodite and nigh indestructible. She also wields the Sword of Hephaestus, which is sharp enough to split molecules and because it is magic, can kill Superman. And who can forget her razor-sharp tiara which she can throw like a boomerang? | |
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Trigun: Vash's angel arm. Apparently a large break-open, six-shot, low-barrel revolver — and one of really rather underwhelming power when you consider the size — turns on command into a gigantic laser cannon with wings that can wipe entire cities off the face of the planet, or put a large crater in the moon, in a single shot. Runs on life. For that matter, the same series gave us Nicholas D. Wolfwood's "Punisher", a cross-shaped object wrapped in cloth which he claims is so heavy because it's "so full of mercy." It turns out that apparently Wolfwood considers "mercy" to be synonymous with "ammunition"; the Punisher is basically a (semi-)portable arsenal. One arm of the cross contains a rack of multiple Colt 1911s, the bottom portion contains a machine gun, the other arm most likely contains ammo for the machine gun, and the top portion contains a missile launcher. Wolfwood's mentor, Chapel the Evergreen, has his own Punisher, which splits in half to form two machine guns. Other gun-based weapons in the show really make no sense. But who cares? They deliver. |
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GaoGaiGar FINAL manages to top that, though. How? The Goldion Crusher. An enormous energy hammer, made by combining three spaceships, which are individually larger than GaoGaiGar. Its hammerhead is made of Hard Light and localized gravitational shockwaves, and dwarfs the three ships' initial combined form in turn. It's so powerful that everyone aboard evacuated, except for Mikoto, who helped to operate it. It was built to assault enemies on the level of the Z-master, and is so dangerous that it requires a two-key activation system, a la nuclear launches, just to initiate the three ships' combination. And it was used to destroy an enemy mech that was essentially a sun. | |
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The Saints Row series typically has some weird weapons and Lethal Joke Items thrown in, but Saints Row IV just goes nuts with this. It helps that the game takes place in a virtual world, so the weapons don't have to make any sense, because they're not even real in-universe anyway. Notable examples include the Abduction Gun, which produces an UFO-style light beam to suck enemies into the sky, the Singularity Gun, which fires black holes, and the famous Dubstep Gun, which shoots weaponized dubstep music. | |
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Anarchy Reigns, the spiritual sequel to MadWorld, has an even more insane selection of weapons. This includes lightsabers on all limbs, a mechanical snowflake that contains freezing tracking missiles, and a whip that transforms into a spiky club. Jack's arm also now has two chainsaws in it. | |
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Detritus's "Piecemaker" crossbow in Discworld. Detritus is a massive troll made of living stone and uses a 'crossbow' that was originally a wagon-mounted siege weapon that fired a six-foot iron bolt used to knock down doors. Later, Detritus started firing bundles of normal crossbow bolts tied together with some string, which breaks apart immediately after firing (the string and the bolts), blotting out the sun. The much smaller bolts are fired with such velocity that they actually catch on fire from air friction. Whenever Detritus pulls this out, everybody stands behind him. Everybody. Those who don't are Not Very Lucky. "When mister safety-catch is not on, mister cross-bow is not your friend." When first firing it at the testing range, it took out the target, the targets on either side of the target, the earth behind the target, the ground, and a passing bird that was directly above Detritus when he pulled the trigger. |
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Many of the swords in World of Warcraft. Either they're ridiculously huge, they look like they were designed by Kit Rae in collaboration with Fred Flintstone and a Taos jeweler, or both. Truth in Television: It should be noted that Kit Rae's fantasy weapons are for display purposes only. | |
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Kaptain K Rool's blunderbuss in Donkey Kong Country 2: Diddy's Kong Quest. It can fire cannonballs, sure, but it can also... suck in objects, fire spiky mines, fire mines that bounce across the screen, fire mines that rotate and fly around, sometimes in pairs, fire barrels that rotate and fly around, be used as a sort of engine, fire gasses that freeze Kongs in place, reverse the controls and slow them down, and it even manages to turn K Rool invisible. | |
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MadWorld: The main character, Jack Cayman, has a retractable chainsaw in his prosthetic arm. The boss Von Twirlenkller has air turbines for arms. |
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Master of the Flying Guillotine: The infamous Flying Guillotine. Drop the basket on someone's head, pull the chain, and it's Off with His Head!. | |
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Xena: Warrior Princess has the chakram, a precision guided frisbee of death that can defeat entire armies. It actually existed, although it lacked the ability to cut through multiple people at the same time. Probably. | |
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Inevitable in Homestuck with its volatile combination of Item Crafting and young protagonists; their weapons are often created by fusing together actual weapons with whatever random shit they find lying around, frequently leading to some awesomely ridiculous arsenals. Examples include the Wrinklefucker (a sledgehammer with spring-loaded electric irons attached to the head that can launch the user into the air), the Caledscratch (a broken BFS that has the ability to reverse its own timeline to a point when it was whole, and back again), the Thorns of Oglogoth (a pair of knitting needles that can harness the powers of the Horrorterrors), and the Pop-a-Matic Vrillyhoo (a combination of TWO Infinity+1 Swords). There's also the concept of innocuous doubles (originating in Problem Sleuth); weapons that exist as other, more harmless objects until they're ready to be wielded. Keys become handguns, a sextant becomes a sniper rifle, a typewriter becomes a Chicago Typewriter, etc, and most prominently Kanaya's weapon of choice: a tube of lipstick that transforms into a chainsaw. |
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Marta from Tales of Symphonia: Dawn of the New World the sequel wields a ring with a pair of blades poking out of it, or a ring with three blades poking out of it. Which apparently spin without a motor, which would realistically render this weapon even more useless than it already it. Not that that stops her from extremely long combos in melee and cutting down foes left and right. | |
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A villain from Samurai Champloo had a delightful kusarigama variant that seemed to violate several laws of physics. The scythe head shot off of the haft, propelled by springs, gunpowder or black magic and then retracted so quickly that the scythe somehow beheaded or bisected anyone in between it and the haft. | |
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In Star Wars: The Clone Wars Pre Vizsla wields the Darksaber, a black-bladed, lightsaber katana looted from the Jedi Temple centuries ago by one of his ancestors. | |
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Green Lantern: The various power rings of the color-coded emotional spectra; rings that make the user's imagination happen through their expression of the appropriate emotion. | |
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The Evoker from Persona 3. It's basically a pistol. Except instead of using it to shoot people, you point it at your head and use it to summon the physical manifestation of your psyche. It's much more convenient for awakening the offensive manifestation of your soul than some bow and arrow, after all. |
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The Ballistic Fist from Fallout: New Vegas is a shotgun welded to the top of gauntlet, with a pressure pad as a trigger. It is also the most damaging unarmed weapon in the game. | |
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Hellgate: London is full of these. Every weapon the Cabalists can use is one, notably ones that shoot bees or tentacles. The Hunters get more conventional firearms, but even they can play with a rifle that fires electrified spinning sawblades that explode. | |
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Anything from James Bond, from his wristwatch/high-powered laser to Oddjob's sharpened bowler hat which can be thrown like a disc and cut off heads. | |
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Wolverine: Wolverine's skeleton is Made of Indestructium, including the 12" claws that pop out of his hands. They are mono-molecularly sharp, never dull, cut through anything and are indestructible. | |
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Warcraft III: The game has the same weapon as the Krull example above (with the same name) but increased to the size of a human torso. Throwing it (or launching it out of a massive slingshot) is apparently not a problem. Even more confusingly, Illidan's weapon of choice, the Twin Blades of Azzinoth◊ are also called glaives, even though they're more like two curved swords attached to the opposite sides of the same hilt. He took them from a demon he killed. The glaives in question had the option of detaching into the two blades, but Illidan just prefers to use them like that all the time. In World of Warcraft, he has a pair of them, for a total of four blades. Similar weapons are exclusive to the group he leads, the demon hunters. |
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Dark Souls II features the Samurai Superboss known as Sir Alonne, who wields a katana as long as he is tall (and he's way larger than the Player Character). This katana has the distinction of being a classical depiction of a zanbato, combining an extra large handle and a lengthy blade, which makes it only practical for two-handing it. On top of that, it can power itself with Abyss magic by absorbing the blood of whoever it pierces. | |
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In Devil May Cry 3: Dante's Awakening you get Nevan, a frickin' electric guitar scythe that shoots out purple lightning and bats. And which used to be a massively hot succubus. And before that, Cerberus, a three-sectioned nunchaku made of ice. | |
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Exalted has a fascinating variety of impossible yet awesome weapons. These range from the comparatively mundane (daiklaves, which are BFS's that would make Sephiroth jealous), to the slightly less plausible (the infinite jade chakram, which produces duplicates so you never have to actually throw it), to the straight-out absurd (gyroscopic chakrams, which are Captain America's shield as designed by Ash Williams). Any and all of this can be justified with magic. The kicker, however, is the Grand Goremaul. Imagine the Megaton Hammer tripled in size. In order to wield it, you need to use as much magical power as it would take to nuke a city, and also have a Strength of at least 4-one step below human maximum. | |
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Resident Evil 4: The Mercenaries minigame features enemies that wield double-bladed chainsaws that are on fire. | |
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Resident Evil 5 also has a triple-barreled shotgun. | |
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Cable: Having traveled back in time from a far-distant future, Cable has an arsenal of futuristic weapons at his disposal in modern times. As does Bishop. | |
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In one of the Slayers novels, Lina and Gourry are attacked by a group of battle homunculi wielding executioner's swords. Presumably in a similar fashion to meat cleavers. | |
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Fire Emblem: The Binding Blade has Eckesachs, Zephiel's sword/trident, which he uses just as a sword, in addition to the aforementioned Durandal and Armads. | |
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In addition to chainswords, .hack//G.U. has Azure Kite's weird triple-bladed swords. They look like they'd be hard to handle with just two arms, but hey. Slightly justified by characters in .Hack being virtual avatars in a game being controlled by players at a computer. So the laws of physics and coordination need not necessarily apply. Furthermore Azure Kite himself is an A.I. in the system, so they definitely don't apply to him. | |
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From Buso Renkin we have Valkyrie's Skirt wielder Tsumura Tokiko. | |
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Fire Emblem Fates has the Omega Yato, otherwise known as the Fire Emblem, which you only get near the end of the Golden Path. It's a flaming chainsaw-sword fusion with the power to kill a god, which you then proceed to do so with. | |
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Ragna The Bloodedge's sword in BlazBlue, the Blood-Scythe, looks more like a slab of metal in the shape of a cleaver than a sword, it has a cylinder and a trigger which makes the blade slide forth along an extender, turning it into a blunt scythe, and from that form it can fold back the blade and produce a much larger energy scythe. It also eats the soul of anyone slashed with it. It should also be noted that while cool weapons abound in the game's 'verse, most of them are sorted into a two categories; Ars Armagus and Nox Nyctores. The Blood Scythe is neither... In fact, considering the time loops that have resulted in Ragna inheriting the weapon from his future, time-displaced self, the weapon's existence itself is a paradox. |
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Iron Man: Tony Stark's Iron Man armor, and any derivatives thereof; War Machine, Iron Monger, Crimson Dynamo, et al. | |
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In "Tokyo Delta Jetlag D," the in-universe anime/manga series from Unwinder's Tall Comics, main character Jaded Lament uses the Katagun, a katana that shoots bullets in the shape of the blade. Check it out (and some entertaining lampshading of anime/manga tropes) here. | |
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From Dungeons & Dragons the double axe, the two-bladed sword, the spiked chain, and especially the dire flail. | |
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Some craftable weapons from Fallout 3; namely, the Railway Rifle. It's a steam-powered cannon that launches railway spikes with such force that a kill instantly dismembers and pins the affected limb to the nearest hard surface behind the target. And as an extra, firing the weapon produces a train whistle. | |
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Farscape: D'argo's Qualta Blade is a sword that works as a pulse rifle. Two weapons for the price of one! | |
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Fire Emblem: Path of Radiance features Ragnell and Alondite, a twin pair of holy BFSs once dual-wielded by a slim, petite Lady of War. | |
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Etrian Odyssey IV: Legends of the Titan and Etrian Odyssey Nexus have Drive Blades, which are huge blades that are used by the Imperial class and motorized to inflict a massive amount of damage to the enemy in one swing. The only downside is that using them will lead to a necessary cooldown period to attack with the again, though upgrading certain skills will reduce that time. | |
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Danger 5: In "Diamond Girls", the nuns who break into the World Bank have crucifixes that can shoot ammo. | |
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Gift: The Shadow Gun. It should be armed at shadows of enemies or objects. Somewhat downplayed since it only freezes enemies and doesn't kill. | |
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Dungeons of Dredmor has waaaay too many to list, what with the massive amounts of weaponry that is either a reference, amusingly weird, or both. But some examples are a dagger that looks more like a metal bush, because the blade branches and branches until every tip's a single atom sharp, and thus stabs a zillion times each thrust, a seriously big pole with six axe blades, three on each end stacked vertically, making for something like a macahuitl made of axes, a double-chainaxe with two running edges at the front, which sometimes swings itself at foes for an extra blow, and a quadruple razor sword, like a giant's shaving tool which you swing around without the plastic clutter, "for when you really, really, really, really need to be sure". That's just the start, by the way. | |
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Borderlands has a plethora of guns that, at best, simply should not work as well as they do and, at worst, violate the laws of physics. Some prime examples include a shotgun that fires rockets and several special weapons that replenish their own ammo supply from nothing. In the first game, the basic Psycho enemy uses a handweapon that is basically an axe with a circular saw for a blade. Dr. Ned from the first DLC also uses it. Torgue guns, all of them shoots explosive rounds. This includes: pistols, assault rifles, shotguns, SMGs and even sniper rifles. The Assault on Dragon Keep DLC ups the ante with the SWORDSPLOSION!!! shotgun, which fires swords that explode. Into three smaller swords. Which also explode. Even better if you manage to get the coveted 'Casual' prefix, which causes the gun to shoot three swords that explode into nine smaller swords that then also explode, carpeting the battlefield in explosions, or, even better, detonating right in the face of the enemy you originally shot at, making it a nearly One-Hit Kill on all but the most badass. It's one of most powerful weapons in the game. Tediore guns, which EXPLODE if you throw them, has SMGs that shoots like a bouncing betty. Even better, Tediore rocket launchers go blasting off when they're empty, thus becoming rockets themselves! Jakobs may be the only serious-business manufacturer of the whole lot — but that doesn't mean in the least bit their guns are any less cool, as they make up for it with exquisite craftsmanship, their high tier guns being made with ivory, gold, silver, precious wood and finely crafted details, and usually having the best accuracy and damage-per-shot of the game. They do have a few eccentric guns though — such as shotgun revolvers, assault rifles that fire cannonballs (they function like a grenade launcher), an assault rifle that's essentially a poor man's sniper rifle, a sniper rifle that fires six bullets like a shotgun, and a shotgun that fires electric tornadoes. Hyperion guns, GOLDEN guns with a futuristic design, loads bullets mechanically and increases accuracy the more you fire. Maliwan guns, which don't even use regular bullets — they use instead battery packs, and shoot pure elemental energy. Vladof, high priest of the Church of More Dakka, gives us their special rotating gatling-style barrel for pistols, assault rifles and sniper rifles. Unsurprisingly, Vladof guns with these have an extremely high rate of fire (only beat out by Jakobs, though that's because none of them are full-auto and can shoot as fast as you can mash the fire button). Their sniper rifles have the fire rate of an assault rifle with no accuracy loss, and are only held back from being total killing machines by the sniper rifle's comparatively small ammo pool. Heck, their more pedestrian variant of assault rifle muzzle has two barrels, unlike any other manufacturer. Atlas in Borderlands 3 now features guns with homing bullets — you paint your target with a tracker dart, and all your normal bullets will bend sharply towards your target. They look like impossibly super modern defense industry prototypes, and feature all kinds of gimmicks such as holographic displays or automatic reload mechanisms. |
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Starfighters of Adumar introduces the blastsword, signature weapon of the Adumari. It's pretty much what it sounds like. | |
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Mass Effect 2's M-490 Blackstorm, a black-hole gun. And if you thought that was impressive, try swinging around a pseudo-nuclear cannon that can cause a mushroom cloud on impact and take down minor Reapers in one shot. That's the M-920 Cain, for you. Not to be outdone, the heavy weapons in the sequel are pretty impressive: aside from the triumphant return of the M-920 Cain, there's the Geth Spitfire (a rotary plasma gun), the Reaper Blackstar (basically the Blackstorm, but as built by the Reapers), and the M-560 Hydra (which shoots eight rockets at once). There's also something of an arms race in Mass Effect 3's sniper rifle category. The second game's M-98 Widow anti-materiel sniper rifle is only the start. Upgrades include a semi-automatic Widow, the Geth Javelin, which shoots "beams" of red-hot molten iron, and the M-90 Indra, which shoots ordinary bullets but is fully automatic (the only full-auto sniper rifle in the game, in fact). Then DLC came around and things went a little crazy: Resurgence brought the Kishock Harpoon Launcher, which sometimes instantly kills humanoid enemies on a headshot regardless of damage, then Rebellion featured the Krysae sniper rifle, which fires explosive bullets, and finally Retaliation dropped in the Collector Sniper Rifle, which has modest performance but automatically regenerates ammo by nature of being a semi-organic gun that fires lasers. |
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Fallout: The earlier games have the Super Sledgehammer, a giant sledgehammer with a rocket built into the head. Start it swinging and press the button and foosh! It's capable of knocking someone down and sliding them literally a full city block. The Fantasy Ball from Fallout Tactics: Brotherhood of Steel. Sole possible explanation for its existence: designed to weird the hell out of anyone in sight, thus compelling target to waive Agility bonus. Fallout Tactics also has a weapon called the punch gun. Some craftable weapons from Fallout 3; namely, the Railway Rifle. It's a steam-powered cannon that launches railway spikes with such force that a kill instantly dismembers and pins the affected limb to the nearest hard surface behind the target. And as an extra, firing the weapon produces a train whistle. The Rock-It Launcher. Anything that can turn stuffed animals into insta-gibbing projectiles is automatically awesome. The Ballistic Fist from Fallout: New Vegas is a shotgun welded to the top of gauntlet, with a pressure pad as a trigger. It is also the most damaging unarmed weapon in the game. Thanks to the Gun-Runner's Arsenal content pack, we now have the Ballistic Fist's big brother, named 'Two-Step Goodbye': killing shots implant a live grenade in the target. |
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The alien weaponry in District 9. One of the less impressive ones is a cannon that fires a burst of compressed air. Which can knock a guy through a wall. Also, pig gun. There aren't enough weapons that kill your opponent with a goddamn pig. | |
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Fire Emblem: The Blazing Blade features Armads, Durandal, and Sol Katti (Armads being a gigantic thunder axe which causes tremors when it touches the ground, Durandal a gigantic sword of "sacred fire", and Sol Katti just a really long katana). | |
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Ant-Man: Hank Pym's "Pym Particles" used to cause objects to grow and shrink at will by shunting matter into Another Dimension when shrinking a subject or accruing extra matter from that dimension when enlarging. | |
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Batman: Batman, being a Badass Normal relies on a whole arsenal of Bat-themed weapons repurposed from other sources. Batman also finds creative uses for more conventional weapons like flashbangs, grenades, C4, smoke bombs, tear gas, etc. For instance, he once used C4 stuck to the back of a dumpster to launch it as a missile against Amazo. Take your pick of The Penguin's Swiss-army umbrellas: machine guns, knockout gas, hypno-ray, personal helicopter. Or even the mundane sword-stick, befitting a gentleman such as himself. |
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Bayonetta has, well, nearly every damn weapon of the game. To list, normal handguns and shotguns, a demonic katana, a whip that's actually a snake demon, a pair of claws that can switch between fire and lightning modes, ice skates, rocket launcher tonfa, laser pistols, gun-chucks, a lightsaber, and rings which turn into every angelic weapon in the game. Did we mention that those guns, shotguns, bazookas and laser pistols come in sets of four, are all wielded at the same time and that two of each set are attached to the heels? Bayonetta 2 adds plant based double whips (Alruna), demonic scythe that shoots its own blades (Chernobog), gigantic thunder hammer (Takemikazuchi), living bow that shoots poisonous bugs (Kafka), bellows that shoot out streams of ice or fire (Undine) and a Chain-Chomp on a flail. Bayonetta 3 continues the tradition with an arsenal that includes, but isn't limited to, bladed yo-yos, massive chainsaws and a club/rifle hybrid. |
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In The Force Unleashed, Maris Brood uses a pair of lightsaber tonfas. | |
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Heavenly Sword: One of the playable characters, Kai, had a HUGE crossbow that fired like a Gatling gun. It also had unlimited ammo and had arrows that could actually be guided directly into an enemy's skull from a kilometer away. The titular Heavenly Sword was also fairly cool, a pair of curvy ornate swords that could also be attached together into one big powerful two handed sword or strung out on chains and whipped around for God of War style long range attacks. |
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Far Cry 4 has a few of these. One of which is a pistol-sized, automatic crossbow that fires silent bolts from a helical magazine. Another, offered as part of a DLC, created by resident lunatic Hurk is a hand-held version of a harpoon gun normally mounted on the bows of whaling ships. Yet another is...a humble chunk of meat. When thrown, said chunk of meat nearly instantly summons nasty predators to kill enemies for you. | |
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The Sword of Plundarr from ThunderCats. Two curved jagged blades, each attached to the opposite side of a little tiny handle. Mumm-ra mostly used it to create giant whirlwinds of fire. Naturally, it shrank down to the handle when he wasn't using it. | |
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Transformers: Armada introduced the Requiem Blaster and Sky Boom Shield. The Blaster is the most powerful gun in all of Transformers lore, while the Shield is the only thing that can block the Star Saber. | |
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Super Mario Bros.: Some games gave Bowser Jr. Junior Clown Car, a bowl-shaped vehicle with a propeller on the bottom and more weapons inside of it than could feasibly fit. Bowser himself in Super Mario RPG gets armed with a Chain Chomp, i.e a living flail that can bite enemies painfully. |
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Scarlett's crossbow from GI Joe The Rise Of Cobra. It has two bows, one on top of the other, like a double-barreled shotgun. It has four Laser Sights, a hi-def camera to allow you to target specific body parts, and its arrows are somehow guided using the camera and onboard computers. Oh, and the arrows also explode. | |
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Metal Armor Dragonar features one of the strangest sniper weapons in any Real Robot anime series: The Caulking Gun. To elaborate, it fires a shell that penetrates Humongous Mecha armor, then proceeds to inject a fast-hardening foam substance that damages computer systems, destroys circuit conductivity, and for the very unluckiest of victims, suffocates the pilots by filling the cockpit. Particularly effective since every robot in the series can fly, and is usually doing so. | |
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The XADA Destroyer from Implosion shoots stationary spinning discs with lasers that can kill all but the strongest monsters who wander into their radius, but ignore your WarMech. It's so powerful its ammo is limited to three shots. Runner-up would be the Singularity Gun, which shoots black holes and is limited to 8 shots. Earning enough badges unlocks the unlimited versions of these weapons. | |
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Odin's sword in Final Fantasy IX. | |
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It seems fitting that the director who gave us the Iron Man movies made Cowboys & Aliens. The trailer shows Daniel Craig's character with an alien gauntlet attached to his wrist, and a holographic scope of sorts pops up; he aims it at an alien ship and takes it down. Then all the parts retract back into the gauntlet. The expression on the face of Harrison Ford's character is priceless. Especially since he is armed with only a six-shooter. | |
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Power Stone 2 had the so called '3-way shotgun' and its powered up version, the 5-way shotgun. Of course. | |
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Wizards, Warriors and You: Among the weapons the titular Warrior can choose in this series by R. L. Stine, is the Triple Crossbow. The Triple Crossbow is shaped like an upside-down Mercedes symbol with 2 extra bolt slots pointing about 40 degrees away from the centre and can shoot bolts in 3 different directions as a mob control weapon. It should be an impractical weapon, but is actually one of the best choices for the Warrior and is a life-saver on many occasions. | |
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The Star Sword and the Power Sword from Blackstar, which would join to form the even more awesome Power Star if they weren't wielded by the hero and the villain respectively. Used for shooting energy beams more often than as actual swords. | |
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Literally almost every weapon in Painkiller is based around this trope. To wit: Your main melee/ranged weapon, the eponymous Painkiller, is essentially a horizontally held weed whacker that can be sent flying through enemy ranks, blades spinning. Secondary fire launches the spinning blade forward and then pulls it back, tethered to the gun by a beam of energy that also damages anything it touches. Your standard garden-variety shotgun, which can not only freeze your enemies, but packs enough of a punch to send them flying into the air. A gun that shoots yard-long wooden stakes through the air at high speeds, that spontaneously burst into flames after a moment which can pin enemies to walls by their limbs. The secondary fire shoots grenades, and you can shoot the grenades with the stakes to create a long ranged explosive projectile that impales the enemy, and then explodes. A rocket launcher and minigun combined into the same weapon. And lastly, the Electrodriver, a gun that shoots shurikens and lightning. And even shurikens which themselves shoot lightning. |
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Xenoblade Chronicles 1: The game revolves around the Monado. A cool Laser Bladed BFS Of Combat Clairvoyance And Plot Advancement. Try to compete with THAT. Never mind that it's basically the embodiment of the game's main antagonist — the soul of the titan you live on and your planet's long-forgotten god. Riki uses biters as his weapon of choice. They're essentially maces with heads in the shape of that of various animals, and he attacks by making the head bite enemies. While his starting one looks extremely silly, the later ones come in the shape of cool animals like lions and dragons. |
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The Night Land and Awake in the Night Land have the Diskos◊. They are tuned to the soul of their user and cannot be used by anybody else. On top of that, they can selectively hurt only monsters and not humans. | |
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The cast of Mana Khemia use weapons that range from cool to downright improbable, among them Nikki's giant hammer with retractable dual flails for a head, electric drill claws for Pamela's possessed teddy, and Flay's shuriken-launching mechsword. The sequel adds Enna's Power Fist and Et's bladed hula hoop, complete with dual and bow forms. | |
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New Warriors: A crossbow-taser was a favorite of Night Thrasher's stepbrother Bandit. Even more weird in that his own body generated the electricity for it. | |
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The ZF-1 from The Fifth Element definitely qualifies, and doubles as a Swiss-Army Gun. | |
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Many generals carry absurd weapons in Farce of the Three Kingdoms. They include a triangular sword, a three-hundred-pound bow, several comically large weapons of various types, and a flying fork. | |
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Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance Jetstream Sam's high-frequency katana would be totally mundane for the setting, if not for the fact that its sheath is actually a gun that fires the katana out of it for insanely fast quick draws. Did we mention that Sam is an Iaijutsu Practitioner? There's also L'Étranger, a spear made out of interconnected robot arms that doubles as a whip, and Bloodlust, a pair of giant machetes that both Sundowner and Raiden wield like a pair of giant scissors thanks to an additional mechanical arm attached to their wrist. There's even a chainsaw axe that's SO BIG, that the person wielding it had his body attached to a giant robot just so he could use it. LQ-84i uses a chainsaw on a whip, which is evidently capable of cutting through a whole building. |
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Anima: Beyond Fantasy artwork has a good share of them (many are swords), that double as Cool Swords as well as BFS and require a good deal of Implausible Fencing Powers to wield them. The Angelus, gripped by Abel, may be the best example being huge and ornamented with feathered wings. | |
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Two Worlds II: About a third of the weapons that come with blades (as well as many of those that don't), with the second third consisting of almost game breaking ones, and the last third based strictly on actual historical weaponry. | |
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Gloryhammer's second album, Space 1992: Rise of the Chaos Wizards contains two examples where you have to ask what that's even supposed to mean: The "Crystal Laser Battle Axe" of the Astral Dwarves of Aberdeen. The Astral Hammer, "forged in the heart of the celestial fire" and "powered by lasers entwined in a star." |
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The Devil May Cry 'verse has many: In Devil May Cry 3: Dante's Awakening you get Nevan, a frickin' electric guitar scythe that shoots out purple lightning and bats. And which used to be a massively hot succubus. And before that, Cerberus, a three-sectioned nunchaku made of ice. Devil May Cry 4 has Pandora's Box, a demonic firearm manifesting as a briefcase capable of morphing into a variety of heavy weapons. A crapload of forms and they're all awesome. Also Lucifer — bright pink exploding energy spears, anyone? On the slightly more mundane (but still strange) front, we have the weapons of the Order: a sort of revved-up flame/vibro-sword for Alto Angelos (and Nero), and the equally insane rocket-powered lance wielded by the Bianco Angelo armor suits for jet-propelled lunges. DmC: Devil May Cry reworks Dante's Rebellion sword into a weapon with multiple forms. Its default form is still a sword, but it can turn into a set of shurikens and a scythe (for his angelic side), a pair of fists and a heavy axe (for his demonic side), and a Grappling-Hook Pistol (for both sides). Devil May Cry 5 cranks up the insane awesomeness, even for this series. Nero's new Devil Breaker that replaces his Devil Bringer arm can stop time, function as a Swiss-Army Weapon complete with grappling hook that he can then chain into a powerbomb on unfortunate demons; and can be fired away and surfed on. Dante, never one to be outdone in his own series, gets a demonic motorcycle that's a functioning and usable devil arm. As dual chainsaws. |
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Muscle Man's track and field equipment from Regular Show. | |
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Just about every weapon in the Ratchet & Clank universe is impossibly cool. The first ads for the games even showed how they just wouldn't work in real life. Of particular note is the RYNO note Rip Ya A New One series of weapons, which only get bigger and more ridiculous as the series goes on. All of them are considered Purposely Overpowered and generally function as the Infinity +1 Sword. The first RYNO shoots nine homing missiles. The RYNO II fires blue laser shots that instakill tanks. The RY3NO fires a swarm of homing energy rockets and can be upgraded into the RYNOCIRATOR, which simply reduces everyone around you to ash. The Harbinger (Deadlocked's version of the RYNO) is basically a Kill Sat, with its upgrade (the SuperNova) being a rainbow-colored orbital bombardment. The RYNO IV is a Wave-Motion Gun. The RYNO V fires a flurry of rockets and plays the 1812 Overture while fired, with additional homing rockets fired at musically-appropriate points. In Rift Apart, the RYNO 8 tears space-time itself to the point it can open huge portals to other dimensions bringing stuff from there as well. |
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8-Bit Theater: Sword-chucks, yo! | |
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The title weapon from Galtar and the Golden Lance, an enchanted weapon of prophecy that can only be wielded by a Chosen One, it can split into two smaller blades and shoots powerful energy zaps. | |
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Sunset Overdrive includes a bowling ball launcher, vinyl record gun, toy helicopters with pistols attached to them, and teddy bears strapped with dynamite as part of your arsenal. | |
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Vyse's Dream Cutlass in Skies of Arcadia. | |
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Bentley's Cool Chair from Sly 3: Honor Among Thieves, which can fire rockets and has a jetpack. | |
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Jesus can create energy swords with his mouth - which is both this trope and a pretty cool biblical allusion to boot. | |
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In The Ballad of Beta Ray Bill, Bill's enchanted weapon Storm Breaker has all the powers of Mjolnir plus it's a Mix-and-Match Weapon: the head is a hammer on one side and an axe on the other. | |
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The Ghostbusters' proton packs, being man-portable "unlicensed nuclear accelerators" with the potential to destroy the world via crossing the streams. | |
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Sorority Row has the villain using a lug wrench with innumerable blades jutting out of it. | |
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Several weapons in Magic: The Gathering could count, but Worldslayer takes the cake. It's a sword that, on impact, destroys the world. | |
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The titular Heavenly Sword was also fairly cool, a pair of curvy ornate swords that could also be attached together into one big powerful two handed sword or strung out on chains and whipped around for God of War style long range attacks. | |
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No More Heroes III: Since many of the ranked assassins, mooks and minibosses are extraterrestrial beings with unique superpowers, this trope has a smaller presence as many of them don't need weapons. But Gold Joe, the 9th-ranked assassin, has four of his six limbs equipped with well-crafted, culb-like swords. Also, Sniping Lee has a large rifle he can use to kill targets with perfect accuracy, though he gets killed by asupporting character shortly before the reveal of the true boss of that rank chapter. | |
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On a related note, The Force Awakens also introduces the cross-guard lightsaber, in which the cross-guards are mini plasma blades that can both protect the users hands and cut into an opponent. Strangely, these kinds of lightsabers are rare in this franchise, despite being more practical weapons. | |
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The titled protagonist of Ty the Tasmanian Tiger has different types of boomerangs. | |
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Outlaw Star has Grappler ships (including the ship of the title). Ships with arms. That tend to use giant, EVA-style knives. And similar melee weapons, including axes. And oversized handguns. | |
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The Russian Overkill mod for Doom II has giving you these as its modus operandi. Also counts as Awesome, yet Impractical, because saying some of these are portable nuke launchers, and that you can easily kill youself with them without God Mode on, is, in no way, hyperbole. | |
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On Game of Thrones, the Dothraki use a wicked-looking sickle-sword called an arakh. The sword's curved blade with sharpened outer edge is similar to other cavalry swords, though the sword itself looks more literally like a sickle, with a straight shaft that suddenly bends into a moon crescent blade partway up, making it look similar to a khopesh. | |
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Reborn! (2004) has Lancia's giant flail, which can utilize air currents to inflict more damage as well. | |
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Fairy Tail's Ten Commandments - a shape-shifting spear with elemental powers. | |
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Fate/stay night features Ea, The Sword Of Rupture, Gilgamesh´s drillsword and the single most powerful weapon in the Nasuverse, which comes from it´s ability to rotate so fast that it literally breaks the world around it apart, destroying anything in the vague direction it´s pointed at, including the world itself if it´s given enough time to charge. Even at an absolutely minimum of it´s power it can easily overpower Saber´s Excalibur, the supposedly strongest sword. On top of all that,it looks fucking awesome. | |
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The game has the same weapon as the Krull example above (with the same name) but increased to the size of a human torso. Throwing it (or launching it out of a massive slingshot) is apparently not a problem. | |
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Inverted Weapons in Tenet. While actually being typical guns and other ordnance that have been Temporally Inverted, the unique visual of bullet holes reforming into undamaged walls, sending a bullet flying back into the gun, is as Impossible and Cool as it sounds. If the user is Inverted, they will of course percieve the gun functioning as normal, but non-Inverted characters are also shown to be able to catch Inverted bullets at several points. And that's not even getting into the mind-bending effects of Inverted injuries. | |
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Most Warhammer 40,000 weapons fit this trope. The weakest weapon in the setting is a laser gun which can blow the arm clean off an unarmoured normal, and they just get bigger, and more awesome from there. For instance, the Ork gun which fires Snotlings THROUGH HELL into the target's brain. Chainsaw swords (and chainsaw fists). Demon-powered swords. Razor Floss cannons. Weaponised cutting torches which can shoot through tank armour. Molecule-thick shuriken shooters. Guns which fire needles of frozen poison. And so forth. And let's not forget that virtually all of the setting's weapons have versions which can be mounted to Humongous Mecha. And then, there's the Tyranids and their organic weapons systems... Don't forget the eponymous Bolter, which is basically a rapid-fire RPG in assault rifle form. Also comes in pistol size, to be wielded alongside the aforementioned chainsaw swords. |
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Many weapons in Team Fortress 2. The Soldier has a semi-auto rocket launcher, the Heavy has several 150-kilogram minigun that can kill in a second, the Medic has a chaingun that shoots blood-sapping syringes and a bizarre mix of a saw, a short sword, and a hypodermic needle, the Spy has a Hand Cannon with the Scout's mom on it, the Scout has a shotgun with enough kick to send his target and him flying ten feet, the Engineer has his turrets, the Pyro has an ax covered in barbed wire that instakills people on fire, an ax that has a superheated coil for a blade that atomizes opponents, and a flamethrower shaped like a dragon, the Demoman has a sticky bomb launcher with so much firepower, the programmers referred to them as "winbombs", and the Sniper has a jar of piss that causes people to lose the will to live. | |
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The Punisher: From this Superdickery page: It's a gun, Frank. A gun that shoots swords. | |
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Judge Dredd has The Lawgiver, a pistol that has six different types of ammunition: Standard, Ricochet, Armor Piercing, Heat Seeker, Incendiary, and Hi-Ex. Each of these can be combined with More Dakka. | |
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The FarSight from Perfect Dark, an alien laser rifle. One-Hit Kill, unlimited penetration and equipped with a scope that can see through walls and doors and automatically track people. You literally just have to sit back and pull the trigger. The only downside is that the firing rate is very slow. The RCP-120, which has a magazine of 120 bullets, an insane firing rate and comes with its own cloaking device. Yes, you can also use it to become invisible. There's also the laptop gun, itself a 50 shot assault rifle. But you can also throw it at a nearby wall, where it'll set itself up as a sentry turret and kill your enemies for you. |
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The Master's laser screwdriver from Doctor Who. The laser screwdriver is a deadlier form of the Doctor's sonic screwdriver and a weapon that shoots out a laser beam that kills instantly and can rapidly age victims whose DNA it possesses. Prior to this, he always used a shrink ray called a Tissue Compression Eliminator. It didn't shrink you neatly, it compressed (that is, crushed) your tissues down to the size of a doll, so it was quite lethal, and left a teeny-tiny corpse. Regrettably, the show never addressed the fact that the doll-corpses should have been very heavy... But, eh, so what? Rule of Cool. |
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The Inquisitors of Star Wars Rebels one-up that with spinning double sabers that also function as personal helicopters. | |
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Most of the weapons on The Pirates of Dark Water look like they were designed by Kit Rae. | |
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No More Heroes: The final five-ranked assassins in the first game come at you with a portable brain-powered earthquake generator, a magic show, a Wave-Motion Gun disguised as a shopping cart, the aforementioned lightsaber dragon, and... a wooden baseball bat. And the assassin who totes that last one is by far the deadliest of the bunch. | |
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Jet Force Gemini gives each of your characters their own tri-rocket launcher relatively early in the game. | |
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In TRON: Legacy, the discs are no longer neon Frisbees but awesome laser buzzsaw-chakrams that can be used in close-combat and can be thrown. And are still really something like process ID codes. Evidently, this is what happens when a video game designer's running the system. |
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From Beast Wars, we have Rhinox's dual Chain-Guns of Doom. | |
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The goddamn rocket-powered sledgehammer from Battle Angel Alita. | |
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In Deadman Wonderland, Genkaku's double Gatling-gun electric guitar. One of the creators even said in his blog that he isn't sure if it would even be possible in real life. | |
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Sonic X: Dark Chaos features Fuckslayer, a demonic guitar with six necks wielded by Beelzebub. It's the very first guitar ever invented. Not only is it both a Lightning Gun and a rocket launcher, but the music it makes is so loud that it can shake battleships apart. Jesus can create energy swords with his mouth - which is both this trope and a pretty cool biblical allusion to boot. |
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The Sword of Protection from She-Ra and the Princesses of Power. It's a BFS that turns the chosen wielder into an 8-foot-tall amazonian goddess with super strength, super speed, and nigh-invulnerability. It shoots lasers and can shapeshift into just about anything. It also lets her heal people, can transform animals to give them wings/horns and sapience, and acts as the activation key to ancient technologies. | |
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In the Blade Trilogy Blade has an extensive arsenal of custom weapons to dispense vampires with. An acid-etched silver-plated katana with a failsafe that cuts the hand off of anyone else who tries to use it. Shotguns modified to fire silver stakes at ballistic speeds. A retractable wrist dagger that dispenses an anti-coagulant which turns vampire blood explosive. Sunlight flash grenades and bombs that flood a small area with sunlight very quickly. The arch, a UV arc laser that puts out a beam hotter than the sun, and folds up to a convenient carrying size. In Trinity the Nightstalkers use smart guns with ultraviolet ammo and built-in cameras so they can review fights after the fact. Also in Trinity Abigail Whistler uses a bow with a holographic sight and camera so she can blind fire her trick arrows around corners and do impossible bank shots. |
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The greatswords in Fable. | |
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Damn near everything in the Turok series is one of these. Among them are a gun that shoots land mines that shoot up and shoot out a ring of shrapnel at roughly knee-height, a gun that launches energy helices that carbonize foes and cause them to explode seconds later, and the cerebral bore, which fires an orb that embeds itself in your enemy's head. Then it starts digging. Then it blows up. On that note, the Cerebral Bore, plus nearly half of the Turok series' other weapons. Remember the minimum of three barrels per rocket launcher? The landmines specifically designed to amputate at the shin? The electrified shotgun that can put the same bullets through a single target six times over? The rocket-propelled sledgehammer? The precision-guided boomerang chainsaw? That gun that desiccates enemies and leaves behind jerky? The sticky, radioactive flares that slowly microwave people?ks the unlimited versions of these weapons. |
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No More Heroes 2: Desperate Struggle: The tutorial boss uses a revolver that revolves revolver cylinders. It gets crazier from there: There's a boom box/rocket launcher that transforms into a giant pair of robot arms, a flamethrower axe, a pair of sniper rifles/scythes, a double beam katana/recorder that shoots deadly bubbles, a pair of guns that shoot money, a giant football-themed robot, an improved, upgraded version of the first game's brain-powered quake-maker, and a backpack covered in waldoes, most of them with lightsabers on the end. It even delivers on the lightsaber dragon from the first game somewhat with a beam naginata that summons giant laser dragons. There's also the Peony, a beam katana that grows in length with the user's fighting spirit, until it's longer than Travis is tall. | |
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League of Legends: Many weapons qualify, though Jarvan IV's lance takes the crown. It is a giant lance that can launch its head at a target point where it falls from the sky and deploys a banner of Demacia, raising the courage of his allies. It can also extend to about the range of a frickin' arrow in order to impale all enemies in front of him and break their armor. If this connects with his flag, it pulls him to the flag and flips the enemies in his path into the air. Another League example: Jayce's hammer, his own invention, which transforms back and forth between a melee hammer and a ranged energy cannon, with abilities to match. A lot of League is like this, though, from Caitlyn's home-made sniper rifle, to Riven's massive, broken sword. |
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Codename: Kids Next Door: The KND have a wide array of 2x4 Tech weapons built out of seemingly random objects (such as hair-dryers, or gumball machines) yet prove to be surprisingly effective. Though sometimes subverted as said weapons occasionally break or come out of the wielder's hand depending on who the KND Operative is fighting. In one episode, Numbuh Four uses a handheld gun that shoots mattresses. Entire mattresses. One of the most notable subversions is from "Operation: T.R.I.C.Y.C.L.E.": the "K-Strike", a giant ketchup bottle that fires a massive beam of ketchup from their moon base down to Earth. Unfortunately, it had no effect on the giant, evil tricycle that they were trying to destroy- one KND pilot points this out: |
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Killy from Blame! has the Graviton Beam Emitter, which looks like a small gun...that has recoil of cannon and firepower of a DEATH STAR. Oh, and that's pretty much the only weapon he uses. Needless to say, destruction, to both the city he is traveling in and his arm, ensues. At its lowest setting, the recoil causes Killy's arm to snap back while the projectile goes... well, we're not really sure what the range is, but nothing stops it until it reaches it. A full power shot causes Killy to go flying backward while things in front of him start blowing up. Also, Killy sometimes Overcharges the gun which, when fired, rips his arm off (though it's easily reattached). |
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Manly Guys Doing Manly Things has an action figure with a big gun that shoots handguns that shoots deep-fried beer cans. | |
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Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Buffy has her Slayer Scythe, a multi-purpose superweapon that only the Slayer can use, and is basically Vampire kryptonite. There is also Olaf the Troll God's Hammer, said to contain his godly power. Buffy used it to pound a previously thought invulnerable godlike entity into submission. |
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Panty & Stocking with Garterbelt gives us Panty's pistol and Stocking's swords. Scanty's revolvers and Kneesocks' scythes aren't too far shabby, either. Neither is the heaven-piercing drill made of angelic lingerie from the final episode. | |
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The artifact sword named Demonhealer from GURPS: Dungeon Fantasy doesn't have a blade so much as it has a hole in reality that happens to be in the shape of a blade. | |
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Most energy weapons in Virtual-ON. Homing beams, beam swords, homing beam swords, anti-ship cannons, heart shaped beams, circle beams, scythes— anything is possible. Temjin has a beam rifle that doubles as a beam sword. | |
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Paperinik New Adventures: The Extransformer shield. It can fly, transform into a boomerang, stop individual time and has an extendable punch. A lot of new gadgets will be added as the series progresses. | |
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Gears of War: The Lancer, a Chainsaw-Machine Gun hybrid. For buyers of the Limited Edition of Gears of War 2, it comes in a solid gold variety. | |
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Bayonetta 2 adds plant based double whips (Alruna), demonic scythe that shoots its own blades (Chernobog), gigantic thunder hammer (Takemikazuchi), living bow that shoots poisonous bugs (Kafka), bellows that shoot out streams of ice or fire (Undine) and a Chain-Chomp on a flail. | |
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Bayonetta 3 continues the tradition with an arsenal that includes, but isn't limited to, bladed yo-yos, massive chainsaws and a club/rifle hybrid. | |
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DmC: Devil May Cry reworks Dante's Rebellion sword into a weapon with multiple forms. Its default form is still a sword, but it can turn into a set of shurikens and a scythe (for his angelic side), a pair of fists and a heavy axe (for his demonic side), and a Grappling-Hook Pistol (for both sides). | |
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This Gunblade is different from Final Fantasy VIII's in that it transforms into a sword or gun, but not both at the same time. Also, it uses bullets instead of vibration when fired. | |
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Final Fantasy XIII seems to be made of this trope, along with a reappearance of the aforementioned Gunblade, we're also introduced to Twin Guns that combine into an Assault Rifle, a Giant Folding Battle Boomerang, a Double-Ended spear that breaks apart into a Three-Segmented Nunchaku, and some sort of... Staff-whip Fishing Pole... thing. This Gunblade is different from Final Fantasy VIII's in that it transforms into a sword or gun, but not both at the same time. Also, it uses bullets instead of vibration when fired. |
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And lastly, the Electrodriver, a gun that shoots shurikens and lightning. And even shurikens which themselves shoot lightning. | |
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Kiwami Japan's handiwork in knife-crafting is nothing short of awe-inspiring. His carbon fiber, paper and rice-derived cellulose fibre and bismuth knives are of special mention. | |
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The minor villain Cho from Rurouni Kenshin has a whole collection of strange swords, including one that is several feet long and so thin it can be waved around like some sort of razor-sharp ribbon (this is an actual type of weapon, called Urumi). Cho shows that users of this weapon aren't instantly badass, though, as almost every strange weapon he pulls out is effortlessly beaten by Kenshin (only the Urumi poses any threat.) |
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Most of the built-in weapons used during the Casa Cristo Classic in Speed Racer. | |
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Most of the weapons from the Mega Man series. Hell, ALL OF THEM. Excluding Top Spin. Nobody likes Top Spin. Until you need it to beat the final boss, anyway. Except in Smash 4, where it works properly and is as deadly as the others. Zero's Z-Saber may be a simple Laser Blade, but then you see it turning into an electric blade or an ice blade for his moves. Acid Ace from Mega Man Star Force 3 wields a Ray Gun with a built in Laser Blade, which can also shoot a bunch of other attacks at you. |
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Parodied by many Kingdom of Loathing weapons, most blatantly with the Ridiculously Overelaborate Ninja Weapon, which grants a +15% chance of landing a critical hit, and a +200% chance of fumbling. | |
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Dead Rising is a general parody of the Zombie Apocalypse genre in general, with incredible superweapons that shouldn't be capable of mowing through zombies, let alone function off Macguyvered scrap. From Dead Rising 2 onwards you can combine weapons to create new ones, and the results get more cartoonish as the series goes on. Examples include (but are not limited to) lightsabers, working megabusters, beer hats, chainsaw motorcycles, chainsaw daggers, flaming fireball-throwing scythes, steamroller motorcycles, fireworks skewer launchers, Elemental staves (powered by batteries and traffic lights), dildo launchers, angry robot bears with LMGs, candy cane crossbows, zombie slingshot trucks, and all the way up to power armor that lets you create localized blizzards or tornadoes in front of you. | |
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The Javelin from Dead Space 2 is a pneumatic spear gun. As if shooting mutated corpses with spears wasn't already cool enough, its alternative fire mode causes the last spear you fired to emit an electrical storm. Powerful, and useful for mopping up many smaller, weaker necromorphs such as The Pack. Even more awesome than that, once you upgrade the Javelin sufficiently enough, its alt fire mode now causes the spear to EXPLODE after the electrical charge in it runs out. | |
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Bulletstorm has the Boneduster - a four-barreled shotgun, the Penetrator (a literal drill-gun) and the Flail-Gun (a gun that shoots two grenades chained together). | |
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In Kamen Rider Spirits, Skull Rider uses a bizarre weapon that's a combination of brass knuckles & a shotgun. It has shells in it that go off when you punch something. No explanation is given for how he manages to keep them from blowing his own hands off. | |
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Alucard of Hellsing has two guns, the latter of which is this trope personified. Known as "The Jackal", it's 39 cm or 16" long, 16 kg (or 35 pounds), and fires holy bullets that are powerful enough to explode entire walls. A real gun like that would be too heavy for a human to lift, and the recoil would likely snap his or her arm; but Alucard is a vampire, so he has the strength for it. There are several weapons that can be carried and used by a single human in that weight class, I admit all of them are two-handed weapons like medium MG's and multi-use anti-tank weapons (FN MAG can be fired while shouldered, it has a weight of 11.79kg empty, the ammo adds 4-5kg dependent on the belt length). Seras's shoulder-mounted anti-zeppelin BFG. The doctor prescribed some 30mm Harkonnen II goodness for those crazy Ghostapo mooks! |
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YuYu Hakusho: In the semi-finals of the Dark Tournament Kirenja pulls out a big sword. Bui counters with a giant ax. Everyone is skeptical that Bui can wield it in time. It turns out he can. | |
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Megatron's Fusion Cannon is a BFG that draws power from a black hole. While this was merely a rumor/bit of useless trivia for a long time, IDW turned it into a plot point in their More Than Meets The Eye series. The Magnus Armor from the same series qualifies. |
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The villain of Phantasm, the Tall Man, uses flying killer spheres to take out his enemies. They fly at you, stick into your head with twin blades that pop out, then they kill you by drilling into your brain, with the blood exiting through a hole in the back. And then there's the Golden Spheres that have the aforementioned extras, additional buzz-saw blades, LASERS, and can either possess people or turn into them. There's also Reggie's four-barreled shotgun, which he made himself by putting together two flip-open dual-barreled hunting shotguns in the second movie, and has continued using in all movies since. | |
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Hayden's Glaive from darkSector, you can even use the PS3 motion control to use it sometimes. (Though it's damn hard.) The weapon makes a return in the game's Spiritual Successor Warframe, along with a whole class of similarly behaving weapons. |
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In Jackals, Nichol's weapon of choice is, er... well, completely fictional in design, resembling nothing so much as a grossly oversized bat'leth. He calls it "the Alligator", because of its jagged "teeth", colossal size, and ability to rip through human flesh like it ain't no thang. | |
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Voltron's Blazing Sword, an indestructible blade the size of a good-size building, wielded by a giant robot for hacking apart other giant robots. A solid object, but re-created out of Pure Energy every time it's needed. Despite the name, it is not a Flaming Sword. At least until Voltron: Legendary Defender. | |
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Transformers is full of examples Megatron's Fusion Cannon is a BFG that draws power from a black hole. While this was merely a rumor/bit of useless trivia for a long time, IDW turned it into a plot point in their More Than Meets The Eye series. The Magnus Armor from the same series qualifies. The Star Saber in any series that uses it. Its a BFS (even for 'bots the size of Optimus Prime) with an Absurdly Sharp Blade that launches energy waves. Transformers: Armada introduced the Requiem Blaster and Sky Boom Shield. The Blaster is the most powerful gun in all of Transformers lore, while the Shield is the only thing that can block the Star Saber. From Beast Wars, we have Rhinox's dual Chain-Guns of Doom. |
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FLCL has Haruko's Model 4001 Rickenbacker bass guitar, which doubles as a paddle, shotgun, rocket launcher, machine gun, satellite-bashing baseball bat, and hoverboard. Naota later gets a Gibson Flying V and later a Gibson EB-0, whose awesomeness stems from being powered by a solar system-busting Space Pirate. | |
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One of the playable characters, Kai, had a HUGE crossbow that fired like a Gatling gun. It also had unlimited ammo and had arrows that could actually be guided directly into an enemy's skull from a kilometer away. | |
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The natives of the fantasy dimension from season 2 of Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency do battle using bladed weapons that are essentially giant scissors. | |
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Super Smash Bros.: The Dark Cannon. | |
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Captain America: Captain America's mighty shield. It's almost indestructible, throwable, and ricochets off at all sorts of crazy angles to come back to Cap after he throws it. | |
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Some of the longswords in Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind. | |
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