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* ''VideoGame/{{Steelrising}}'': While she can use several different weapons, Aegis' bladed fans are heavily featured in promotional art and the game's logo is a bladed fan around a crown. Fans are also the starting weapon for the Dancer class.
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* ''VideoGame/{{Miitopia}}'''s "Princess" class uses a fan as their main weapon. While they can make direct attacks with it, as a support class, they generally use it to channel magic instead.

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* ''VideoGame/{{Arknights}}'': Swire the Elegant Wit uses a fancy gold-plated fan with blades as her weapon.



* ''VideoGame/{{Warframe}}'' finally added a pair of dual-wielded war fans called the ''[[http://warframe.wikia.com/wiki/Gunsen Gunsen]]'' to its ''absurdly'' expansive arsenal of weapons. Unlike most examples of this trope, the ''Gunsen'' doesn't even ''pretend'' they're real fans, having no actual surface between the curved, razor-sharp ribs for the purposes of wafting air. They are entirely and obviously tools for killing.

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* The category of warfans in ''VideoGame/{{Warframe}}'' finally added a pair of dual-wielded war fans called debuted with the addition of ''[[http://warframe.wikia.com/wiki/Gunsen Gunsen]]'' to its ''absurdly'' expansive arsenal of weapons. Gunsen]]''. Unlike most examples of this trope, the ''Gunsen'' doesn't even ''pretend'' they're real fans, having no actual surface between the curved, razor-sharp ribs for the purposes of wafting air. They air - they are entirely and obviously tools for killing.killing. Later updates added other warfans such as the Arum Spinosa, Quassus, Vericles and a prime version of the Gunsen.
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* ''VideoGame/MadouMonogatari I'': Arle uses one of these in the UsefulNotes/MegaDrive port (the DungeonCrawling predecessor to ''VideoGame/PuyoPuyo''). Since she's a SquishyWizard, her basic Fire spell costs no {{mana}} to cast, and the fan is an ordinary paper one with no enhancement, it's pretty much useless.

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* ''VideoGame/MadouMonogatari I'': Arle uses one of these in the UsefulNotes/MegaDrive Platform/MegaDrive port (the DungeonCrawling predecessor to ''VideoGame/PuyoPuyo''). Since she's a SquishyWizard, her basic Fire spell costs no {{mana}} to cast, and the fan is an ordinary paper one with no enhancement, it's pretty much useless.
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* ''VideoGame/SamuraiWarriors'': Takeda Shingen uses a ''gunbai'' as his weapon, in reference to the story of him using one in real life. Though in the game it has some sort of energy field that extends from it to give his attacks the same reach as a sword.
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* ''VideoGame/DeadOrAlive5'' introduces Nyotengu who has a handheld fan that she uses to produce wind attacks.

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* The second installment of ''VideoGame/DeadOrAlive'' features Gohyakumine Bankotsubom "Tengu" as it's main antagonist who fights using a fan with which he can stir up storms and hurricane gales. After making the occasional guest apperence in later games ''VideoGame/DeadOrAlive5'' introduces Nyotengu who has a handheld [[DistaffCounterpart Miyama no Nyotengu]] as his [[MovesetClone mechanical successor]] including her own fan that she uses to produce wind attacks.and related techniques.
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* In one episode of ''Series/{{Highlander}}: The Raven'', Amanda is stalked by an Immortal who has studied her fighting style and knows exactly how to beat her usual swordplay techniques. So she pulls out a pair of tessen and fights him using those.
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* ''VideoGame/GuildWars'': Mesmers could sometimes wield one as an off-hand weapon, so it served no real purpose beyond a StatStick.
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** Kinkaku use a legendary feathered fan called Bashosen, themed after one from ''Literature/JourneyToTheWest''. It allows him to [[BlowYouAway use]] [[MakingASplash all]] [[DishingOutDirt five]] [[ShockAndAwe elemental]] [[PlayingWithFire ninjutsu]]. After he is put to rest, Tenten claims it as her own.

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** Kinkaku use a legendary feathered fan called Bashosen, themed after one from ''Literature/JourneyToTheWest''. It allows him to [[BlowYouAway use]] [[MakingASplash all]] [[DishingOutDirt five]] [[ShockAndAwe elemental]] [[PlayingWithFire ninjutsu]].use the five main types of ElementalPowers. After he is put to rest, Tenten claims it as her own.
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* ''Fanfic/DungeonKeeperAmi'': "Unauthorised Expedition" has a vampiress with a "war fan", used to deflect attacks.
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* ''VideoGame/SamuraiShodown'': Although the [[BladeOnAStick naginata]] is his [[WeaponSpecialization weapon of choice]], the Kabuki fighter Senryo Kyoshiro uses fans in his attacks [[PlayingWithFire involving fire]], like fire fans as projectiles and using one to expand his [[BreathWeapon fire breath]].

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* ''VideoGame/SamuraiShodown'': Although the [[BladeOnAStick naginata]] naginata is his [[WeaponSpecialization weapon of choice]], the Kabuki fighter Senryo Kyoshiro uses fans in his attacks [[PlayingWithFire involving fire]], like fire fans as projectiles and using one to expand his [[BreathWeapon fire breath]].
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* In ''WesternAnimation/SamuraiRabbitTheUsagiChronicles'', Kitsune wields two bladed tessen in combat. When the group all get to choose kaikishi weapons in Season 2, she decides to stick with what she knows, and discovers the kaikishi tessen can alter in size, disappear when she's not using them, and the fish patterns on them can move to distract foes.
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[[caption-width-right:350:Superman is not a ''[[{{Pun}} fan]]'' of these fans.]]

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[[caption-width-right:350:Superman [[caption-width-right:350:Franchise/{{Superman}} is not a ''[[{{Pun}} fan]]'' of these fans.]]

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