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Improbable Use of a Weapon

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Improbable Use of a Weapon	comment	This is when a weapon is used in such a way that shouldn't work (or would simply be inefficient). It can be broken down into a few subtypes: Where the writer, actor, or animator didn't bother to find out how the weapon is used (e.g. Using a rapier primarily for cutting, using a vehicle-mounted weapon as a man portable weapon). Or the user failing to understand how to use it In-Universe because of a lack of familiarity. When the weapon does something it wouldn't normally (see Set Swords to "Stun" for the most common example, lethal weapons being non lethal) or works better than it should (e.g. destroying a tank with a pistol). Using the weapon in the place of a tool when the tool it's replacing would do the job more efficiently (tools which are much more effective as weapons than they should be also fit). When this is done on a large scale, see Swords to Plowshares. Using a weapon which shouldn't be available (e.g. being anachronistic or extremely rare and/or expensive). See Exotic Weapon Supremacy for the rare variant. Using a weapon which wouldn't work in real life (e.g. BFS which are too heavy to lift). Using a weapon for its intended purpose, but also using it for other purposes as a secondary attack (e.g. using a bow as a close quarters melee weaponnote This is actually possible in a pinch depending on the bow. For example, an unstrung English longbow can be used like a spear, because it has pointed horn knocks on either end which could inflict damage if thrust into the throat or eyes. However, bows tend to be poor striking weapons because they're too light and flexible, as well as prone to damage if used for blocking.). Compare Improbable Weapon User for when something that clearly isn't a weapon is used as one. Supertrope to: Bullethole Door Gangsta Style Hammer Hilt Firing One-Handed Implausible Fencing Powers Improperly Placed Firearms No Scope One-Handed Zweihänder Pistol-Whipping Recoil Boost Removable Turret Gun Slice-and-Dice Swordsmanship Throwing Your Gun at the Enemy Throwing Your Shield Always Works Throwing Your Sword Always Works Not to be confused with the novel Use of Weapons.
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Improbable Use of a Weapon / int_110d4471	comment	In Predator, Jesse Ventura uses a hand-held GE M134 Minigun. It is impossible for anyone to really hold and use this weapon. In Real Life this gun is mounted on a helicopter or armored vehicle, it is far too heavy to be used otherwise. An even smaller version was actually designed to be man-portable, the XM214 "Microgun" of the 1970s, but even it was designed to be used with a tripod, and never made it past the prototype stage because it didn't offer any advantages over existing single-barreled machine guns that its own weight and extreme fire rate didn't circumvent.
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Improbable Use of a Weapon / int_11366f17	comment	In Betrayal at Krondor and its Spiritual Sequel Betrayal in Antara, you can thrust with slashing weapons and slash with thrusting weapons, but accuracy and damage increases if you a certain type of sword in the manner it was intended to.
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Improbable Use of a Weapon / int_1377df	comment	In Terminator 2: Judgment Day, the T-800 uses the same GE M134 Minigun. The Terminator's use of it can be handwaved by being a super-strong cyborg, though one wonders why Sarah Connor kept a helicopter's weapon in her arsenal to begin with.
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Improbable Use of a Weapon / int_145d9b29	comment	In Star Ocean: The Second Story, Opera has a laser rifle... That she smacks people with.
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Improbable Use of a Weapon / int_1484a16e	comment	In Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, the weapon itself is not exactly improbable but the manner in which it is used definitely qualifies. When Harry and Ron rescue Hermione from the troll they have locked into the girls' bathroom with her, rather than using it to cast any sort of useful spell, Harry accidentally shoves his wand up the troll's nose (It Makes Sense in Context). The distraction caused by having "a long bit of wood up its nose" allows Ron to use his own wand in a more conventional manner, using "Wingardium Leviosa" to raise the troll's own club high into the air and knock it out.
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Improbable Use of a Weapon / int_18ce5aab	comment	Samurai Shodown has a bit of this in its repertoire, of course. Some are justifiable, like the swordsmen taking a cheap shot with the hilt (or, for Ukyo, with the sheath). Some are a little more Rule of Cool, like Earthquake tossing the blade end of his kusarigama. And a few are less than textbook, like Cham Cham using her boomerang as a melee weapon or Andrew fighting in sword duels using the bayonet of his musket.
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Improbable Use of a Weapon / int_18d2fbe8	comment	Hawkeye is the world's greatest archer (and one of the above-mentioned other people who can throw Cap's shield effectively) as well as an all-around expert marksman — and we mean all-around. He's subdued enemies with coins, normal playing cards, and even his own fingernails (in Ultimate Marvel at least). Once when his bow was broken by enemies, he managed to subdue them by throwing arrows like darts. And when cornered, he can easily use his bow as a melee weapon.
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Improbable Use of a Weapon / int_1b35b3a3	comment	[PROTOTYPE 2]: James Heller is capable of ripping weapon mounts off of tanks and helicopters and carrying them around. In universe he's strong enough to punch out a tank, so this makes sense. However, in addition to carrying these weapons around and throwing them he can actually fire them which qualifies for this trope since these are vehicle mounted weapons that fired from inside the vehicle and don't actually have triggers. Many of these weapons (especially helicopter missile launchers) seem to have far more shots than you would expect from looking at them, which also counts.
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Improbable Use of a Weapon / int_1c1ceec7	comment	Bowguns and Bows in Monster Hunter can actually be used for melee attacks (sluggishly hitting monsters with your gun or your arrows, respectively). It's about as effective as it sounds and usually not worth the effort.
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Improbable Use of a Weapon / int_1c2dca78	comment	In Prince Caspian, Susan throws an arrow at a soldier. It lands point in, in his heart and kills him. Justified by the arrows being a gift from Aslan. And Susan wields her bow like a staff when soldiers are up close and personal.
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Improbable Use of a Weapon / int_1cc09117	comment	Bleach: A couple of quincies have shown they can fire bows with less hands than a bow really requires. Ryuuken's default choice is a two-foot bow that he fires with his left hand. When forced to, Yhwach can produce a gigantic bow in the sky that is fired without any hands at all. Masaki was capable of shrinking her bow down to such a tiny size it could be nestled between her fingers and thumb, but used normal sized bows with two hands. The difference between Ryuuken, Yhwach and Masaki is that Ryuuken is the only one whose bow looks solid instead of energy.
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Improbable Use of a Weapon / int_2161674a	comment	The Gamers: Successfully Back Stabbing a person with a ballista. In a tavern. It's technically possible in Dungeons & Dragons, unless the DM specifically forbids it.
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Improbable Use of a Weapon / int_21f00169	comment	This is a clue in the Lord Darcy story "Murder on the Napoli Express". A man is clubbed to death with his Sword Cane. Since it's far easier to kill a man with a sword cane by stabbing them rather than repeatedly whacking them on the head, this suggests to Darcy that the killer was someone who didn't know it was a sword cane.
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Improbable Use of a Weapon / int_261c8d3f	comment	An episode of The Simpsons has Homer buying a revolver, which he promptly uses to do things like opening beer cans and changing TV channels. This recklessness causes Marge to leave with the children and gets him kicked out of the local NRA.
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Improbable Use of a Weapon / int_27b0262b	comment	On MythBusters, shooting an escape hole in the floor or shooting out a lock proved possible but far, far more difficult than using the proper tools (a boltcutter and circular saw) and required fairly impressive firepower.
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Improbable Use of a Weapon / int_2930d0c4	comment	The introductory mission of Battlefield 3 has a shotgun used to bar a door between the cars of a subway train. You don't even get to use it for its intended purpose, as five seconds after you remove it from the door an enemy ambushes you and throws it out the window.
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Improbable Use of a Weapon / int_2c082d05	comment	Jason impales a woman with a cleaver in Friday the 13th: Hate-Kill-Repeat.
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Improbable Use of a Weapon / int_2e79ce7a	comment	Odin Sphere: Cornelius twirls his sword like a helicopter blade to glide through the air.
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Improbable Use of a Weapon / int_2f230a09	comment	Chaos Fighters has swiping, an type of attack which the weapon (usually a sword or a lance) is swung in a direction perpendicular to how its blade is aligned. In reality this would not work as well as depicted and could potentially break the weapon.
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Improbable Use of a Weapon / int_2fee008d	comment	In Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann, Kamina's first impression of a gun is to use its butt as a hammer to bash his enemies note This is a completely legitimate tactic in real life, but it's not recommended because that's why you have a knife. After almost shooting himself in the crotch through that method, he realizes how it's supposed to be used (but still holds it upside down). Later, during his first fight against Viral, he more cleverly uses an arrow as a makeshift knife.
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Improbable Use of a Weapon / int_32c541e6	comment	Maes Hughes in Fullmetal Alchemist fights with push knives but is always shown throwing them rather than punching with them.
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Improbable Use of a Weapon / int_33acebd8	comment	Axl Low of Guilty Gear uses a kusarigama with a second sickle in place of the weight on the other end of its chain. Sol wields his sword upside-down, in order to evoke the imagery of Freddie Mercury's baseless mic-stand.
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Improbable Use of a Weapon / int_34170b02	type	Improbable Use of a Weapon
Improbable Use of a Weapon / int_34170b02	comment	Samurai Warriors has Hanzo, who swings the scythe-part of his kusarigama, Shingen Takeda, whose warfan can be used for slicing people and Nagamasa using Slice-and-Dice Swordsmanship with his lance may count as well . Toshiie Maeda can use the two spears he carries on his back as boomerangs, just as his lord Katsuie Shibata can with his axes.
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Improbable Use of a Weapon / int_34ecce5f	comment	Lance's Crush skill (renamed Armor Crush in EBF5) has Lance pull out whatever shoulder-mounted gun he has equipped and whack them with it. Matt and Lance both get quotes for this skill in the fifth game:
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Improbable Use of a Weapon / int_353bdeb0	comment	In the Humanx Commonwealth novel The End of the Matter, Anti-Hero Skua September puts in his first appearance wielding a heavy military laser designed to be fired from a tripod. He wears the massive power supply as an impromptu backpack. He does comment that it's awfully heavy, which says something coming from a man as huge as he is.
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Improbable Use of a Weapon / int_3953baf0	comment	During the battle at the end of The Hunchback of Notre Dame, the gargoyles build a catapult and, instead of using it to fire something, they just push it off the cathedral onto the enemies below, who manage to avoid it while it lands face down.
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Improbable Use of a Weapon / int_3defe34c	comment	This is a Discussed Trope in Snake's Codec call on Falco. Slippy informs Snake that Falco's Reflector is supposed to be held in place to reflect projectiles, which is how Fox uses it. However, Falco uses it by kicking it to send it flying around like a boomerang. Snake comments that there's no reason a weapon can't have more than one use, and adds that the Reflector's versatility shows just how well Slippy designed it.
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Improbable Use of a Weapon / int_3e0b28b5	comment	In Dead Rising 2, the player can use machine-gun wheelchairs, pitchfork-shotguns, and chainsaw-paddles to mow down the undead.
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Improbable Use of a Weapon / int_40b4d50d	comment	In The Incredulity of Father Brown, this is actually the answer to the death of a millionaire that seemed to have been shot through a window by God. He was stabbed with an arrow where the angle pointed to the window.
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Improbable Use of a Weapon / int_430f1f6a	comment	Halloween 4: The Return of Michael Myers and the first Pumpkinhead have people being impaled with shotguns.
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Improbable Use of a Weapon / int_468bebb0	comment	In the Discworld City Watch Novels, Detritus the troll's weapon of choice is a ballista. He is able to use it like a crossbow just because he's so damn big. Sometimes it's used to fire the iron spears it was designed to fire, but most of the time Detritus loads it with bundles of arrows. Which shatter from the force of being fired. Then burst into flames from the air friction. When Detritus test-fired it for the first time, it wiped out the training targets, the hill behind them, and some birds that happened to be flying directly above him. He calls it the Piecemaker. It cannot be fired indoors, primarily because it's no longer indoors after he fires.
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Improbable Use of a Weapon / int_475972f0	comment	Y: The Last Man: One of the antagonists shows up for a fight Dual Wielding a pair of (two-handed) naginatas.
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Improbable Use of a Weapon / int_49ad83ee	comment	In World of Warcraft: The Warrior ability Heroic Throw does exactly what it sounds like it does - no matter what size or shape the Warrior's weapon is. One tie-in novel has a (granted, extremely skilled and demigod-blessed) warrior throw his giant two-handed sword like a spear. The Paladin ability Avenger's Shield has them throw their shield Captain America style, although they might be using magic. The ability Titan's Grip allows a Warrior to Dual Wield two-handed weapons. It gets a bit ridiculous when a gnome dual wields giant battleaxes. Most magic users are unlikely to ever use their weapons to hit things, but somehow their high-level weapons greatly improve their magic even when sheathed. Makes sense for keeping things balanced with items, not so much in how it is applied to the game itself. Then there are feral druids using their animal-form fangs and claws to attack, but somehow still draw upon their weapon (and the rest of their equipment that disappears when they shapeshift) stats to determine how effective their attacks are. Monks in Mists of Pandaria are similar, mostly attacking with their bare hands.
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Improbable Use of a Weapon / int_4be3aedd	comment	The characters in the Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers SNES beat-em-up don't have any ranged attacks, which leads to the bow-wielding Kimberly just beating everything to death with her bow.
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Improbable Use of a Weapon / int_4ce5263e	comment	XCOM: Enemy Unknown: Suppression is an action that involves throwing a lot of firepower a target's way to dramatically reduce its aim. Normally those that get it are Heavies, who have light machinegun-style guns, and Supports, who tote semi/full-auto rifles. Depending on "Training Roulette]]", which randomizes what skills a soldier can get, Suppression may be available to Assaults (and while they can equip the same rifles as Supports, it also works when their loadout is a shotgun) and Snipers, whose basic weapon is bolt-action.
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Improbable Use of a Weapon / int_56cb92c3	comment	In the trailers for Guardians of the Galaxy (2014), as in the comics, Rocket Raccoon is shown hand-wielding a minigun-type weapon bigger than he is. Not that a film featuring a gun-wielding raccoon and his buddy the talking tree should be held to a high standard of realism, but it may be justified as Rocket has been subjected to various painful augmentations.
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Improbable Use of a Weapon / int_5921531a	comment	Persona 3 has an example of the user not understanding how to use it: Junpei uses two-handed swords like they were baseball bats. The Evokers the party uses to summon their Personae are usually shaped like handguns, which they use to shoot themselves in the head.
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Improbable Use of a Weapon / int_5921531c	comment	Persona 5: Due to the Your Mind Makes It Real nature of the Mental World of the Palace, even prop weapons, such as a toy gun Ryuji gives the protagonist early in the game, are able to work as fully functioning weapons that can damage Shadows, although the amount of ammo it can fire is still limited. This also explains how Goro is able to use laser swords and ray guns as weapons.
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Improbable Use of a Weapon / int_5a3533fe	comment	It's mentioned that a Korean War veteran in My Name Is Earl killed three enemy soldiers with one bullet and no gun. He pushed it into their skulls with his bare hands — which logically considering it probably would mean a person capable of that could have just killed them with their bare hands anyway rather than bothering to shove the bullet through three separate heads.
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Improbable Use of a Weapon / int_5bddbfbd	comment	If you're smart while playing Zombies Ate My Neighbors, you will never once use the Bazooka to kill an enemy. It's simply too valuable for blasting open doors and cracked walls.
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Improbable Use of a Weapon / int_5c897f4a	comment	Schlock Mercenary: The titular mercenary, Schlock, is unable to take advantage of the flight-powered armour most of the mercenaries work, due to being a carbosilicate amorph. He eventually works out that in low- or zero-gravity enviromnents, he can use his plasma cannon as an improvised thruster. According to Maxim 44 of the Seventy Maxims of Maximally Effective Mercenaries "If it will blow a hole in the ground, it will double as an entrenching tool."
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Improbable Use of a Weapon / int_5c8bc496	comment	Epic Battle Fantasy series: Anna can whack her enemy with her bow (via the aptly-named Bow Whack skill) in Epic Battle Fantasy 5. Its complete inability to kill foes (leaving them at 1 HP instead), alongside its increased chance to get them to surrender makes it useful for capturing them. Lance's Crush skill (renamed Armor Crush in EBF5) has Lance pull out whatever shoulder-mounted gun he has equipped and whack them with it. Matt and Lance both get quotes for this skill in the fifth game: Matt, meanwhile, has the ability to throw his sword like a boomerang via the Sword Cyclone skill. This can overlap with Improbable Weapon User, given Matt's arsenal features a guitar and a hockey stick, among other things.
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Improbable Use of a Weapon / int_5ce3fc86	comment	Death The Kid in Soul Eater holds Liz and Patty Thompson upside down and pulls their triggers with his pinkies. This might be because he uses them something like tonfa in close combat (so holding them the way he does would give him more torque) but that just justifies one example with another.
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Improbable Use of a Weapon / int_5e150650	comment	In Exalted second edition, the standard use for a daiklave is to take some time and commit a few motes to attune to it. This will allow you to wield this ridiculously big chunk of metal as if it weighed no more than a regular sword. Of course, if you're in a hurry, unattuned daiklaves are listed as acceptable improvised weapons by at least one martial arts style. In which case you can wield the ridiculously big chunk of metal as if it weighed as much as a ridiculously big chunk of metal.
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Improbable Use of a Weapon / int_5e3832b5	comment	In Cave Story, the machine gun's most powerful upgrade has intense recoil... powerful enough that if you fire it downward, it propels you upward. In other words, you can use the machine gun as a makeshift jetpack, and it's actually better at this than the actual jetpack you acquire (unless you manage to get the jetpack's upgraded form, which is far more maneuverable).
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Improbable Use of a Weapon / int_638624c8	comment	Slayers has rapid-fire muzzleloaders. It subverted the "used the blunt side" trope, though—Zelgadiss assures someone he's just cut that he didn't use the cutting edge, then pauses, and looks at his sword. "Wait... this is a double-edged sword. Uh, sorry?"
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Improbable Use of a Weapon / int_65ccb34a	comment	Delirious inserted brass knuckles into his mask to deliver a headbutt hard enough to defeat Adam Pearce.
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Improbable Use of a Weapon / int_684610	comment	BlazBlue features the cyborg girl Nu-13, who uses a throwing knife with a loop in the hilt to tie off her braid.
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Improbable Use of a Weapon / int_69d15cc0	comment	Marvel Cinematic Universe: In The Avengers, Hawkeye runs out of arrows and is forced to fight the Chitauri with just his bow instead. This one has some historic precedent — unstringed longbows, for instance, made pretty good quarterstaves. By the time of Captain America: Civil War, Hawkeye has a new bow that can turn into a proper quarterstaff. In the trailers for Guardians of the Galaxy (2014), as in the comics, Rocket Raccoon is shown hand-wielding a minigun-type weapon bigger than he is. Not that a film featuring a gun-wielding raccoon and his buddy the talking tree should be held to a high standard of realism, but it may be justified as Rocket has been subjected to various painful augmentations. Thor often makes creative use of Mjölnir outside of combat, usually by taking advantage of the weapon's Only the Chosen May Wield nature. In his solo movie he restrains Loki by placing the hammer on his chest, knowing that Loki is not worthy and won't be able to move it on his own. In Thor: Ragnarok he combines the worthiness clause with the hammer's ability to return to his hand when thrown as a God Test to expose the fact that Loki is disguising himself as their father (the real Odin being worthy of the hammer). Thor throws the hammer into the distance, grabs "Odin" by the neck and holds him in the return path. Loki opts to dodge and drop his disguise rather than risk having his face caved in.
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Improbable Use of a Weapon / int_6a6a293a	comment	Robyn Hood: In Robyn Hood: I Love NY #2, Robyn is Caught in a Snare and unable to use her bow. She somehow manages to kill a Lizard Folk by throwing an arrow at it.
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Improbable Use of a Weapon / int_6c1234ed	comment	Dwarf Fortress brought in the German School of Swordsmanship mentioned in the Real Life section below, enabling Adventure Mode players to club opponents with pommels, the flat of swords and the shafts of polearms. And if you have a stack of bolts/arrows in hand, you can shank anyone that gets in melee range with them, so be careful about going melee on that crossbowman.
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Improbable Use of a Weapon / int_6c47db4e	comment	In Dynasty Warriors, Zhong Hui uses five floating swords that he controls seemingly through some form of telekinesis, although in the game anyone can use the swords like that.
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Improbable Use of a Weapon / int_6db5698	comment	The titular Transistor is shaped like a BFS, and Red uses it to fire bursts of energy and projectiles, set mines, summon a Process animal familiar...everything except use it as a sword. The only thing she actually uses it like a proper sword on is herself.
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Improbable Use of a Weapon / int_717c5f25	comment	Gamaran: In the first series, Sasuke Sakakibara wields a kata-kama yari (spear with a sickle-like sideblade), a weapon which is most effective in slicing and held in melee. His trump card, however, consist in throwing the yari like a javelin, but works in his favor as it's usually too fast to be dodged and, since it's unexpected, the enemy rarely has the reflexes to counter. In the second series Shura, member of a secret shinobi clan Jinkuu can use a secret technique which involves throwing the wakizashi at the enemy from below.... then grab it with your foot and use the momentum to slam it into the opponent's chest.
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Improbable Use of a Weapon / int_733ac336	comment	In the final cutscene of Unreal Tournament III the protagonist kills the Big Bad by clubbing her to death with a rocket launcher.
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Improbable Use of a Weapon / int_7d8c61a2	comment	Aric Jorgan, the Trooper's ranged damage companion in Star Wars: The Old Republic, qualifies as his combat stance is referred to as "Sniper Mode." His weapon of choice is also a blaster autocannon held at hip level. Usually, people use sniper rifles to do their sniping, but not Jorgan. Then again, neither do certain real-life war heroes mentioned in the real life section of this page, but Jorgan doesn't even use a scope or bipod, and, again, shoots from the hip. As of the Knights of the Fallen Empire re-vamp of SW:TOR across the board, this is no longer the case.
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Improbable Use of a Weapon / int_7d8f184d	comment	Among the many weapons available in Akiba's Trip is an anti-material rifle...which is used as a two-handed beatstick.
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Improbable Use of a Weapon / int_7f87dafc	comment	Mobile Suit Gundam SEED: Kira and Cagalli are attacked by terrorists while out on shore leave. Kira comes across a pistol, and promptly uses it...by throwing it at one of the terrorists, then performing a flying kick in the follow-through. Lampshaded by Cagalli: "Do you know how a gun is supposed to be used?!"* He doesn't.
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Improbable Use of a Weapon / int_8017eca0	comment	William in Snow White & the Huntsman frequently stabs enemies with arrows if they're too close to shot with his bow, despite having a perfectly good sword at his hip.
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Improbable Use of a Weapon / int_816a2880	comment	Fist of the North Star: Ken's Rage gets in on this with Jagi, the Dirty Coward Unfavorite of the Hokuto brothers. Instead of using his fists like pretty much everyone else, he elects to use shotguns and a freakin' bazooka as his weapons of choice. Sometimes this involves firing them like a proper gun-toting maniac. More often, though, he's clubbing people with them, or swinging the bazooka around like a club to wallop his enemies into the distance. Oddly enough, his regular attacks simply leave normal corpses behind, but his special attacks cause the series' traditional cases of Your Head A-Splode.
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Improbable Use of a Weapon / int_82643b4b	comment	Lena in Zoids: New Century pilots her Gun Sniper, which as the name implies is a precision sniping mecha. Hers is decked out with twelve extra guns and missile pods which she fires all at once. In fact, she's never once shown using the sniper rifle built into her mecha's tail.
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Improbable Use of a Weapon / int_8954c942	comment	The title character of Golgo 13 uses M16 rifles for sniping assassinations, often ones that require absurd feats of marksmanship. This is more possible than a lot of people would think (assault rifles can still very accurate in semi-auto, especially when they're close-bolt like an M16), but still a bit strange, as a bolt-action rifle in the same caliber would be smaller, lighter, and easier to obtain (especially in countries which restrict self-loading weapons more tightly, or in the manga's earlier years before AR platforms became so widespread). Various explanations have either been that an M16 is very common for a specific standardized firearm, or Duke Togo simply wants the benefits of an assault rifle in the unlikely circumstance of an unplanned firefight.
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Improbable Use of a Weapon / int_8be8295a	comment	Elektra: There's an issue where an old martial artist she's staying with mocks her for using sharp-tipped sai instead of ones with blunt tips.
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Improbable Use of a Weapon / int_8c6bc3c2	comment	Street Fighter III has Urien's Aegis Reflector, which is ostensibly an Attack Reflector, but since it deals continuous Scratch Damage for as long as it contacts the opponent, it's best used after herding your opponent into a corner to lock them into a Cycle of Hurting and open them up for combos.
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Improbable Use of a Weapon / int_8fff999c	comment	Vegan Black Metal Chef uses the weapon-used-as-a-tool variant. He crushes potatoes with a mace, chops mushrooms with an axe, and uses knives that would be more suitable as weaponry than kitchen utensils.
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Improbable Use of a Weapon / int_90a62d7d	comment	In Hot Shots! Part Deux, Topper's machine gun runs out of ammunition. He spies a crate filled with bullets and throws them at the bad guys... killing them. Unlike other examples, the improbability is the point of the scene considering it's a comedy movie.
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Improbable Use of a Weapon / int_90f42a9b	comment	In the first The Wheel of Time book, Rand uses his father's Heron-marked sword to cut the tongues off a wagon to make a stretcher. He's astounded that it works, and doesn't ruin the sword, not knowing at the time that it was made with magic.
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Improbable Use of a Weapon / int_91f0df16	comment	In Salt and Sanctuary, the Trinity Scepter is basically a scepter once used for channeling magic. But due to its massive size, it is used and classified as a Greathammer in-game for bashing your enemies.
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Improbable Use of a Weapon / int_95d534e1	comment	The Dragon Prince: In a flashback episode, some guards from Katolis are shown using their halberds (which are seemingly based on the Chinese ji and fitted with curved sideblades to slash) as javelins against the Magma Titan, tossing them across the air at the beast. The lack of effectiveness is apparently put on the fact that the target is made of living magma.
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Improbable Use of a Weapon / int_9e2f90f4	comment	One Piece: Ben Beckman, a member of Shanks' crew, has only been shown wielding a flintlock rifle as a bludgeon. The bounty hunter Jean Ango's fighting style involves picking up as many weapons as he can (various types of swords, maces, axes, polearms and so on) and then throw them like javelins with deadly accuracy, as he refers to himself as a sniper. This may or may not have just been because we saw him fight in a tournament that forbid ranged weapons. Roronoa Zoro uses three swords - one in each hand, and one in his mouth, held by the grip between the teeth. This is somehow an integral part of his fighting style - when without his third sword, he mentions, "I'm not that familiar with two-sword techniques", and when he gets it back actually turns the fight around. The sheer variety of things Usopp can fire from his slingshot push it into this territory - while it is a real-life Swiss-Army Gun, that doesn't extend to entire pint bottles of booze, rotten eggs or enormous strings of shuriken. Buggy the Clown likes to wield three or four knives in each hand, held between his fingers. This is a terrible idea for all sorts of reasons. Brook somehow manages to use his Cane Sword as a bow for his violin.
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Improbable Use of a Weapon / int_a4e6a00a	comment	Vyse from Skies of Arcadia holds one of his swords in a Reverse Grip, but he holds it by the crossguard like a tonfa.
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Improbable Use of a Weapon / int_aa5b7cc2	comment	Oglaf: In "Hilting", Kronar's right hand is missing all the fingers. Turns out he severed them by holding his sword by the blade so he could use the hilt to pleasure another man.
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Improbable Use of a Weapon / int_c4b82575	comment	Underworld (2003) is notable in the instance where Selene uses a pair of fully-automatic pistols to shoot a circle around her feet, creating an exit through the floor in a building when she tries to evade the werewolves and retrieve Michael.
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Improbable Use of a Weapon / int_c72c2d06	comment	Kanan from Star Wars Rebels knocks out Fenn Rau by bludgeoning him with the hilt of an unignited lightsaber.
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Improbable Use of a Weapon / int_cc1ec7ec	comment	Daredevil: Bullseye's the best assassin in the Marvel Universe and is capable of killing with any weapon or throwable object. Things that Bullseye has used as weapons include paperclips, toothpicks, paper airplanes, golf balls, peanuts, and his own teeth.
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Improbable Use of a Weapon / int_dbbabee0	comment	Ratchet & Clank (2010): Ratchet throws his pistol at Zogg's robots twice after it runs out of ammo. Once in the first issue and once in the fourth issue.
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Improbable Use of a Weapon / int_deda2888	comment	Much of The Eminem Show is dedicated to Eminem having a breakdown about his charge for pistol-whipping a man for kissing his wife. In real life, he (secretly) took the bullets out of the gun and waved it around to intimidate the man, wanting to scare him rather than actually kill him, and because he was not licensed to own a gun yet.
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Improbable Use of a Weapon / int_e67a7d6c	comment	Kaede Nagase in Negima! Magister Negi Magi is a ninja who mostly follows the rules of Hollywood Ninjas (kunai, explosives). Except for her being listed on BFS; it stands for BFShuriken. She does throw it, but it's normally used to shield her and smash her targets. Note that shuriken were used as make-shift blades for close-in defense in Real Life. They just happened to often be small and annoying. On one occasion she does throw it, she takes out a number of opponents. She assures some onlookers that the giant whirling deathball she just threw is totally nonlethal because she hit with the back of the blade. Do note that her shuriken doesn't appear◊ to actually have a dull side, and that the onlookers still think it should be fatal.
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Improbable Use of a Weapon / int_f120845f	comment	Kingdom of Loathings strongest melee attacks are specific to clubs. With the rare Iron Palm technique, fighters can use swords as if they were clubs by making their hand impervious enough to grip the blade and pummel with the hilt.
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Improbable Use of a Weapon / int_f15f622e	type	Improbable Use of a Weapon
Improbable Use of a Weapon / int_f15f622e	comment	MacGyver once used a revolver chamber as an improvised wrench, 70 feet up in the air. He even stated that he is afraid of heights and hates guns, and he happened to be in this situation.
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MacGyver (1985)	hasFeature	Improbable Use of a Weapon / int_f15f622e
Improbable Use of a Weapon / int_f3e1f424	type	Improbable Use of a Weapon
Improbable Use of a Weapon / int_f3e1f424	comment	Lampshaded in Merlin when Merlin, who in this version is a peasant boy about the same age as Arthur and realistically does not swordplay, just smacks the guy with the blade. It works, and Arthur's reaction is priceless.
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Merlin (2008)	hasFeature	Improbable Use of a Weapon / int_f3e1f424
Improbable Use of a Weapon / int_f4b0cbe2	type	Improbable Use of a Weapon
Improbable Use of a Weapon / int_f4b0cbe2	comment	In Ranger's Apprentice book 3, Halt finds out that Erak the Skandian actually has quite a lot of bows. He tried using them as fence palings, apparently, but found them to be too flexible, so he just packed them away. Halt dryly agrees that flexibility is something bows are typically selected for.
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Improbable Use of a Weapon / int_f651fac4	type	Improbable Use of a Weapon
Improbable Use of a Weapon / int_f651fac4	comment	In Titan A.E., a rifle of some sort ends up being used to bridge an electrical connection. Of course, the person who does this dies.
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Improbable Use of a Weapon / int_f651fac4	featureConfidence	1.0
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Improbable Use of a Weapon / int_fe85bfc8	type	Improbable Use of a Weapon
Improbable Use of a Weapon / int_fe85bfc8	comment	Super Smash Bros.: The series has a multitude of ranged and melee weapons that can be used in a normal fashion (though nobody actually wields the Super Scope as the manual says you should)... or you can simply opt to throw them into your opponent's face instead. Amusingly, this frequently is a more effective method of KOing your opponents than using the weapon in the standard fashion, due to it causing more damage and/or being a lot easier to hit them in this fashion. The Home Run Bat is probably the best example, as while being wielded, the only notably powerful offensive option it has is its ridiculously slow One-Hit KO smash attack, whereas it can be turned into a speedy projectile with a strength rivaling that of many fully charged smash attacks when thrown. Wario can eat any explosive item, which explode and damage nearby enemies (and himself). This is a Discussed Trope in Snake's Codec call on Falco. Slippy informs Snake that Falco's Reflector is supposed to be held in place to reflect projectiles, which is how Fox uses it. However, Falco uses it by kicking it to send it flying around like a boomerang. Snake comments that there's no reason a weapon can't have more than one use, and adds that the Reflector's versatility shows just how well Slippy designed it.
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Improbable Use of a Weapon / int_fe8ef766	type	Improbable Use of a Weapon
Improbable Use of a Weapon / int_fe8ef766	comment	The Paladin ability Avenger's Shield has them throw their shield Captain America style, although they might be using magic.
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Improbable Use of a Weapon	processingCategory2	Guns Do Not Work That Way
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A Sad Story (Fanfic) / int_63a8a557	type	Improbable Use of a Weapon
Most Unlikely of Friends (Fanfic) / int_63a8a557	type	Improbable Use of a Weapon
Most Unlikely of Friends (Fanfic) / int_63a8a557	type	Improbable Use of a Weapon
Don't Go in the Woods (1981) / int_63a8a557	type	Improbable Use of a Weapon
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Hatchet / int_63a8a557	type	Improbable Use of a Weapon
Missing Link / int_63a8a557	type	Improbable Use of a Weapon
Zombie Nightmare / int_63a8a557	type	Improbable Use of a Weapon
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Rebuild World / int_63a8a557	type	Improbable Use of a Weapon
Arn: The Knight Templar / int_63a8a557	type	Improbable Use of a Weapon
Bludgeoning Angel Dokuro-chan / int_63a8a557	type	Improbable Use of a Weapon
Clue / int_63a8a557	type	Improbable Use of a Weapon
Humanx Commonwealth / int_63a8a557	type	Improbable Use of a Weapon
Kino's Journey / int_63a8a557	type	Improbable Use of a Weapon
Rebuild World / int_63a8a557	type	Improbable Use of a Weapon
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Ash vs. Evil Dead / int_63a8a557	type	Improbable Use of a Weapon
Battle for Money (SentÅ�chÅ«) / int_63a8a557	type	Improbable Use of a Weapon
The Peter Serafinowicz Show / int_63a8a557	type	Improbable Use of a Weapon
Ultraseven / int_63a8a557	type	Improbable Use of a Weapon
Betrayal in Antara (Video Game) / int_63a8a557	type	Improbable Use of a Weapon
Blaster Master Zero II (Video Game) / int_63a8a557	type	Improbable Use of a Weapon
Chivalry 2 (Video Game) / int_63a8a557	type	Improbable Use of a Weapon
ClaDun (Video Game) / int_63a8a557	type	Improbable Use of a Weapon
Double Dragon Neon (Video Game) / int_63a8a557	type	Improbable Use of a Weapon
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I=MGCM (Video Game) / int_63a8a557	type	Improbable Use of a Weapon
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Mordhau (Video Game) / int_63a8a557	type	Improbable Use of a Weapon
Odin Sphere (Video Game) / int_63a8a557	type	Improbable Use of a Weapon
Path of Exile (Video Game) / int_63a8a557	type	Improbable Use of a Weapon
Persona Q2: New Cinema Labyrinth (Video Game) / int_63a8a557	type	Improbable Use of a Weapon
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Pirates Vikings and Knights (Video Game) / int_63a8a557	type	Improbable Use of a Weapon
Postknight (Video Game) / int_63a8a557	type	Improbable Use of a Weapon
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Titan Quest (Video Game) / int_63a8a557	type	Improbable Use of a Weapon
Transistor (Video Game) / int_63a8a557	type	Improbable Use of a Weapon
XIII (Video Game) / int_63a8a557	type	Improbable Use of a Weapon
Yie Ar Kung-Fu (Video Game) / int_63a8a557	type	Improbable Use of a Weapon
The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker (Video Game) / int_63a8a557	type	Improbable Use of a Weapon
Boo, Zino & the Snurks / int_63a8a557	type	Improbable Use of a Weapon
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[PROTOTYPE 2] (Video Game) / int_63a8a557	type	Improbable Use of a Weapon

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