History Main / ImprobableAccessoryEffect

* ''{{Disgaea}}'' is the former TropeNamer, introducing the Horse Wiener, which you can in fact ''steal'' from the enemy zombie who has it equipped. Equipping the item in question grants 110 Attack, 30 Speed, and 30 Hit (before you enter it and level it up).

* The badges in ''MarioAndLuigiSuperstarSaga'' (and sequels) and ''PaperMario''. Why does a badge increase attack power, stats and make an Infinity Plus One Sword? God knows.

* ''{{Disgaea}}'' supplies the page image and the former TropeNamer, introducing the Horse Wiener, which you can in fact ''steal'' from the enemy zombie who has it equipped. Equipping the item in question grants 110 Attack, 30 Speed, and 30 Hit (before you enter it and level it up). Thankfully, the in-game picture is merely a [[DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything large exclamation point]].

[[quoteright:350:[[{{Disgaea}} http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/horsewiener.jpg]]]]
[[caption-width-right:350:[[GreekChorus The point is, how would you block a horse wiener, dood?]]]]

** The hold items from the main series also flirt with this: holding a piece of charcoal helps immolate opponents? A small berry nerfs the damage from having rocks dropped on top of you?

* ''{{Disgaea}}'' supplies the page image and the former TropeNamer, introducing the Horse Wiener, which you can in fact ''steal'' from the enemy zombie who has it equipped. Equipping the item in question grants 110 Attack, 30 Speed, and 30 Hit -- ''unless you enter it and level it up.'' Thankfully, the in-game picture is merely a [[DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything large exclamation point]].

** [[LampshadeHanging Lampshaded]] with the Accelerator: ''false teeth'' that vastly increase movement range. The item description reads: "Why teeth?"[[hottip:* :It's a ''{{Cyborg009}}'' reference. The main character's Accelerator, which speeds up his reaction time to insane levels, was hidden in his back left molar, and was activated by a switch on it. It should be noted you get the iten from Kurtis, who is himself a homage of Cyborg 002, from the same series.]]

* ''Suikoden'' III has sets of armor and accessories that are divided up into things that particular characters can use based on their relative size/class; characters that can wear lightweight things generally can't wear heavyweight things, and so on. In particular there is the "Girl" class of items which generally can only be worn by women, which includes jewelry pieces-- but the first Squishy Wizard you can get in your party can equip Girl-class accessories despite being a man. The strategy guide advises buying him a pearl necklace (and taking him out to dinner).

Let's face it, strapping on more and more identical metal bits is ''boring'', and anyway nobody really knows what a vambrace[[hottip:*:[[CompletelyMissingThePoint Aren't those protectors that you wear on your forearms?]]]] is. So when it comes time to flesh out the equipment in a game, just about anything will do. It doesn't matter what the item is, as long as it adds the right bonuses to stats to keep the game balanced (or [[DiscOneNuke otherwise]]). This leads to random items giving stat bonuses that make no sense--but which no one seems to [[SuspensionOfDisbelief question]], because nobody wants to give up their precious items for the sake of mere logic.

Let's face it, strapping on more and more identical metal bits is ''boring'', and anyway nobody really knows what a vambrace[[hottip:*:[[CompletelyMissingThePoint Aren't those protectors that you wear on your forearms]]]] is. So when it comes time to flesh out the equipment in a game, just about anything will do. It doesn't matter what the item is, as long as it adds the right bonuses to stats to keep the game balanced (or [[DiscOneNuke otherwise]]). This leads to random items giving stat bonuses that make no sense--but which no one seems to [[SuspensionOfDisbelief question]], because nobody wants to give up their precious items for the sake of mere logic.

Let's face it, strapping on more and more identical metal bits is ''boring'', and anyway nobody really knows what a vambrace is. So when it comes time to flesh out the equipment in a game, just about anything will do. It doesn't matter what the item is, as long as it adds the right bonuses to stats to keep the game balanced (or [[DiscOneNuke otherwise]]). This leads to random items giving stat bonuses that make no sense--but which no one seems to [[SuspensionOfDisbelief question]], because nobody wants to give up their precious items for the sake of mere logic.

* TeamFortress2 has the Equalizer, a pickaxe that lets you run faster when you're low on HP.

** [[LampshadeHanging Lampshaded]] with the Accelerator: ''false teeth'' that vastly increase movement range. The item description reads: "Why teeth?"[[hottip:* :It's a ''{{Cyborg009}}'' reference. The main character's Accelerator, which speeds up his reaction time to insane levels, was hidden in his back left molar, and was activated by a switch on it. It should be noted you get the iten from Kurtis, who is himself a parody of Cyborg 002 of the same series.]]

** [[LampshadeHanging Lampshaded]] with the Accelerator: ''false teeth'' that vastly increase movement range. The item description reads: "Why teeth?"[[hottip:* :It's a ''{{Cyborg009}}'' reference. The main character's Accelerator, which speeds up his reaction time to insane levels, was hidden in his back left molar, and was activated by a switch on it.]]

* ''{{Disgaea}}'' supplies the page image, introducing the Horse Wiener, which you can in fact ''steal'' from the enemy zombie who has it equipped. Equipping the item in question grants 110 Attack, 30 Speed, and 30 Hit -- ''unless you enter it and level it up.'' Thankfully, the in-game picture is merely a [[DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything large exclamation point]].

* ''PlanescapeTorment'', being in large part a deconstruction of RPGs, has no armor or shields, and precisely one sword somewhere late in the game. What it ''does'' have is tattoo slots, earrings, equippable intestines, replaceable teeth, and an ''eyeball'' item slot.

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*** Though to be fair, the leaf is a reference to the Tanuki, the mushrooms are of the vein found in Alice in Wonderland, and the flower is a pun on the Japanese word for fireworks.[[hottip:* :The word is "hanabi", and it literally means "Flower Fire". Turn it around, and you get "Fire Flower". Neat, huh?]]

* ''KingdomOfLoathing'', being a parody of computer [=RPG=]s, embraces this trope with all of its being.

*** Though to be fair, the leaf is a reference to the Tanuki, the mushrooms are of the vein found in Alice in Wonderland, and the flower is a pun on the Japanese word for fireworks.