History ImprovisedWeapon / FIlm

* Both ''Film/TheFaculty'' and the remake of ''Film/{{A Nightmare on ElmStreet|2010}}'' feature the use of the arm of a paper guillotine as an improbably sharp bladed weapon despite the arm of actual paper guillotines being entirely blunt.

* ''Film/{{The Warriors}}'' , dealing as it does with a fantasy take on New York fighting gangs, is crammed full of these; besides the famous [[BatterUp Baseball Furies]] fight, chains, hockey sticks, two-by-fours, pipes, and bottles get heavy play.

* ''Film/Colombiana''. The final confrontation between the ActionGirl and TheDragon involves towels and toothbrushes akimbo. In the end TheDragon gets his hands on a pistol, only for her to eject the magazine, field-strip the slide and stab him in the neck with it.

* In ''Film/{{District 9}}'', the alien Christopher is able to improvise a bomb out some random pieces of alien technology left sitting around. Later on, [[spoiler:Wikus]] uses the [[HalfLife Gravity Gun]] on a prawn mini-mech to hurl a pig at a soldier with rather devastating results.

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* ''Film/TheTransporter'' specializes in these, or indeed anything with JasonStatham in it. The best example is beating up a roomful of {{Mooks}} with a ''fire hose'' in the second film. Then turning the hose on and leaving it to beat up the mooks by itself. Complete with UnflinchingWalk.

* In the movie ''SurfNinjas'', the mysterious guardian Zatch finds himself without a weapon against ninjas. So he reaches for the nearest object at hand... a skateboard. Which he uses as a Bo Staff.
* A more popular example can be seen in ''Film/ShaunOfTheDead''; the titular hero wields a cricket bat for most of the film. There is also a scene in which Shaun and Ed hurl albums at two zombies, as the zombies slowly meander towards them. In the scene at the pub, they fight the zombie bartender with pool cues, darts, and the jukebox. The swingball pole Shaun used to hit a zombie with the ball was ineffective, but then impaled the zombie to a tree with the pole itself (which stopped the zombie as a threat and helped the group afterwards when they learned to imitate zombies).
* JackieChan's characters are considered masters of the form, squeezing it for all its slapstick value. Notable occasions include [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l0JYNznbL0Q this]] sequence using paste tables, his own jacket, a box full of paper, his opponents' fighting-sticks, sheets of plasterboard, a Chinese lion head, a [[BroomstickQuarterstaff broom]] and, most famously, a [[CrowningMomentOfAwesome stepladder]]. Also see Jackie trying a series of items in succession, after which the mook surrenders when Jackie gets to the 15-inch pipe wrench.
* In ''ShanghaiNoon'', he used ''antlers'' like a [[Franchise/StarTrek bat'leth]], made a blunt rope dart using a lasso and horseshoe, and "piss shirt bend bar"...
* In one of the most memorable scenes from the original ''Film/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles'' movie, Casey Jones takes out Shredder's [[TheDragon Dragon]] using a golf-club found in the crime-wave warehouse. (Casey's motif is usually other sports equipment as weapons; this gave him a new respect for golf.) Casey is in fact an ImprobableWeaponUser, as in the battle described above, Casey spends the first half of the fight getting his ass summarily handed to him. The exact moment when Casey turns the fight around and goes from being a punching bag to being a {{badass}}, making quick work of TheDragon? When he finds the golf club in a pile of debris into which TheDragon knocked him.
** ''TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles: Secret of the Ooze'': in an act of major bowdlerization, the turtles do this throughout the whole movie, most notably in the shopping center at the beginning.

* ''Film/{{Oldboy}}'' features a toothbrush, a claw hammer, a screwdriver, and a broken CD are all used as weapons.

* In ''Terminator2JudgmentDay'' Sarah Connor takes a psychologist as a hostage using a syringe full of cleaning fluid stuck in his neck, and threatening to kill him by injecting it if she wasn't left alone. The same psychologist comments how she had earlier stabbed his knee with a pen.
* ''Film/TheDarkKnight'': The Joker makes a pencil "disappear" with a bit of EyeScream.
** Likewise, his incarnation in Tim Burton's ''Film/{{Batman}}'' used a quill pen to kill a local mob boss.

* The best thing in the ''Film/{{Daredevil}}'' movie was Bullseye's mastery of the Improvised Weapon. Killing someone with a paper clip or a ''peanut''? Badass.

* The ChuckNorris movie ''An Eye for an Eye'' has Mako as Norris' sensei knock down one of several attackers, then render the {{mook}} fully unconscious by hitting him with a desktop telephone (rotary, no less). He growls, "The warrior uses what is at hand!"

* ''Film/TheTransporter'' specializes in these, or indeed anything with Jason Statham in it. The best example is beating up a roomful of {{Mook}}s with a ''fire hose'' in the second film.
** Then turning the hose on and leaving it to beat up the mooks by itself. Complete with {{Unflinching Walk}}.

** Marion Ravenwood knocked out a {{mook}} in ''Film/RaidersOfTheLostArk'' with a FryingPanOfDoom. The ''pan'' is mightier than the sword?

* There is a moment near the end of the original ''Film/{{Stargate}}'' movie, when Jack killed [[TheDragon Anubis]] using [[PortalCut transporter rings]]. Yes, he used the local teleportation device to kill a guy. A really badass guy.

* In ''UndercoverBlues'', Jeff Blue uses his daughter's stroller to beat up two muggers.

** A fridge door, beer bottles, a rubber machete prop, a golf club, an ice-pick, a picture frame and a phone-receiver in an obvious TakeThat to the killer's tendancy to [[HarassingPhoneCall stalk his victims over the phone]].
* In ''NoCountryForOldMen'', Anton Chigurh regularly uses a captive bolt pistol to not only kill people, but blast the locks off doors. He also strangles a deputy with handcuffs.

* ''IpMan'' may be a MartialPacifist, but if pushed has no qualms against using a feather duster, a long bamboo rod, wood pallets etc. to fight.

* In the JeanClaudeVanDamme film ''Film/SuddenDeath'', he kills a man with a chicken bone ([[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Wwa9ExLhSA death #2 here]]).
* In ''Film/{{REC}}2'' a teenager uses a bottle rocket to take out a zombie.

* Both ''Film/TheFaculty'' and the remake of ''Film/ANightmareOnElmStreet2010'' feature the use of the arm of a paper guillotine as an improbably sharp bladed weapon [[CowboyBeBopAtHisComputer despite the arm of actual paper guillotines being entirely blunt]].

* Occurs in the first ''SpyKids'' movie [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DrDnbGTgV14&t=2m10s here]]. Subverted in that the next movie reveals said device ''is'' a weapon, though we still don't see it fire.
* ''Film/SherlockHolmes'': Watson's [[FryingPanOfDoom pot]] or [[http://i-am-mustang.deviantart.com/art/SH-Whatever-Works-192592235 hat]]. See also Holmes' [[CrowningMomentOfFunny (attempt)]] with a [[DropTheHammer hammer]].
* In ''LawAbidingCitizen'', all that Clyde wants is his steak. His Porterhouse steak. Turns out, the bone is a pretty effective punch dagger.

* In ''Film/CrocodileDundee'', the chauffeur who was driving around Mick yanked the in-car phone antenna off of the limo he was driving, and used it as a boomerang to take down a fleeing {{mook}}.
* In ''IfLooksCouldKill'', [[PsychopathicManchild Zigesfeld]] uses a gold serving tray to kill the French finance minister during his [[BoardToDeath meeting with Steranko]] at the beginning, bashing him upside the head so hard he's knocked out of his chair and send sliding across the floor and into the wall.

* ''{{Sleeper}}'' - in a fight with a guard at a futuristic farm, Creator/WoodyAllen knocks him cold with a strawberry the size of a medicine ball. Earlier he subdued another guard by asphyxiating him with a block of blue cheese.
* PlayedForLaughs in ''HotShotsPartDeux'', Topper attempts to take out a guard using a bow and arrow. After missing every single shot (which the guard hilariously doesn't notice till he turns to look at the wall behind him), Topper then utilizes a chicken and shoots the guard with it. In another scene, he also "kills" a bunch of random {{Mooks}} by simply throwing bullets at them with his hand.

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* In the JeanClaudeVanDamme film ''Sudden Death'', he kills a man with a chicken bone ([[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Wwa9ExLhSA death #2 here]]).

* In ''Film/DieHard2'', [=McClane=] kills a mook with a handy icicle.

* In ''DieHard2'', [=McClane=] kills a mook with a handy icicle.

** In ''Film/TheLastCrusade'', Indy beats a Nazi motorcyclist by using a flagpole as a jousting lance.

* In ''Film/{{Scream}}'' Sydney takes out one of the killers by dropping a television on his head.

* ''{{Sleeper}}'' - in a fight with a guard at a futuristic farm, WoodyAllen knocks him cold with a strawberry the size of a medicine ball. Earlier he subdued another guard by asphyxiating him with a block of blue cheese.

* A more popular example can be seen in ''ShaunOfTheDead''; the titular hero wields a cricket bat for most of the film. There is also a scene in which Shaun and Ed hurl albums at two zombies, as the zombies slowly meander towards them. In the scene at the pub, they fight the zombie bartender with pool cues, darts, and the jukebox. The swingball pole Shaun used to hit a zombie with the ball was ineffective, but then impaled the zombie to a tree with the pole itself (which stopped the zombie as a threat and helped the group afterwards when they learned to imitate zombies).

* In the 1992 version of ''{{Godzilla}} vs. Mothra'', a freakin' ''ferris wheel'' is used as a weapon. That's how giant monsters roll.

* ''TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles: Secret of the Ooze'': in an act of major bowdlerization, the turtles do this throughout the whole movie, most notably in the shopping center at the beginning.
* In ''LockStockAndTwoSmokingBarrels'', a man is beaten to death with a black rubber penis.

* ''{{Oldboy}}'' features a toothbrush, a claw hammer, a screwdriver, and a broken CD are all used as weapons.
* In ''HotFuzz'', Nicholas Angel knocks out an assailant with a flowerpot, and in another scene Doris Fletcher takes out a mad stock girl brandishing a box cutter by whacking her upside the head with a "Wet Floor" sign. Later on in the film, a line of shopping carts becomes a battering ram. There's also the Shoplifter being KO'd with a lobbed spray can. [[spoiler: Nearly all of the murders are committed without traditional weapons: part of the church roof, gardening shears, a car and a combination of natural gas and burning food. Only once the NWA is found out do they use guns]].
* In ''{{Terminator}} 2: Judgment Day'' Sarah Connor takes a psychologist as a hostage using a syringe full of cleaning fluid stuck in his neck, and threatening to kill him by injecting it if she wasn't left alone. The same psychologist comments how she had earlier stabbed his knee with a pen.

* ''GrossePointeBlank'': Among his post-high school accomplishments, [[HitmanWithAHeart Martin Blank]] lists "kill[ing] the president of Paraguay with a fork." He later [[spoiler: stabs an assassin in the neck with a souvenir pen, and smashes a still-plugged-in television over his business rival's head, electrocuting him.]]

** ''Film/FridayThe13thPartVIITheNewBlood'', Jason picks up a camper in her sleeping bag, and swings it into a tree]].

* ''TheTransporter'' specializes in these, or indeed anything with Jason Statham in it. The best example is beating up a roomful of {{Mook}}s with a ''fire hose'' in the second film.

* ''DunstonChecksIn'' has one in the kitchen of a 5-star hotel. Among the implements used are a ladle, a whisk, and a 20-pound bag of coffee beans. And a wine bottle, almost:

* In ''TheLivingDaylights'', [[TheDragon Necros]] shows great improvisation skills, infiltrating a MI6 safe house through the kitchen and taking out guards with a headphone cord, rolling pin, electric knife, cooktop, boiling water, and that old standby the cast iron skillet.

* PlayedForLaughs in ''Film/HotShots Part Deux'', Topper attempts to take out a guard using a bow and arrow. After missing every single shot (which the guard hilariously doesn't notice till he turns to look at the wall behind him), Topper then utilizes a chicken and shoots the guard with it. In another scene, he also "kills" a bunch of random {{Mooks}} by simply throwing bullets at them with his hand.
* In ''The Raid: Redemption'', a group of beleaguered cops blow their way out of a room by building a bomb out of a propane stove and a fridge. In about 10 seconds flat.

* There was a reason Thorin in ''Film/TheHobbit'' was called Oakenshield, where he literally used an oak branch to protect himself and win against Azog. In his second rematch with Azog, he has fashioned an armored gauntlet reinforced with iron fitting out of the same oak branch.