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* WesternAnimation/MiraculousLadybug: The mouse miraculous' signature weapon is an infinite jump rope. Multimouse and Polymouse both wield one, and it functions as the costume's tail when not in use.

* "WesternAnimation/MiraculousLadybug": The mouse miraculous' signature weapon is an infinite jump rope. Multimouse and Polymouse both wield one, and it functions as the costume's tail when not in use.

* "WesternAnimation/MiraculousLadybug": The mouse miraculous' signature weapon is an infinite jump rope. Multimouse and Polymouse both wield one, and it functions as the costume's tail when not in use.

* Vanessa Enoteca from ''Manga/BlackClover'' uses Thread Magic, letting her form magical string that's virtually invisible to entangle enemies, move them like puppets, and even seal wounds.

** Joseph Joestar prefers to fight with rope and string in ''Manga/BattleTendency'' when he's not relying on ImprovisedWeapon ConfusionFu. He first uses a network of string to manipulate Straizo into blowing himself up with a dozen grenades. Next, he outsmarts Esidisi by using a [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cut_and_restore_rope_trick cut and restore rope trick]] to allow him to land the finishing blow, and lastly turns around a battle with Kars with another rope trick and plenty of misdirection. Joseph continues this trend in ''Stardust Crusaders'' when he gains the vine-like Stand called Hermit Purple.
** Also in ''Manga/StardustCrusaders'', Kakyoin's Stand; Hierophant Green, is able to unravel its body into long ropes. These ropes can function as normal bindings (like during the fight with Wheel of Fortune) or as spears (as [[StarterVillain Tower of Gray]] [[ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice found out]]), but the fight with DIO reveals that Kakyoin can also use these ropes as tripwires that fire off powerful Emerald Splashes whenever they're touched.
** Jolyne Cujoh in ''Manga/StoneOcean'' is able to use her Stand, Stone Free, to unravel her body into string. [[SwissArmySuperpower She uses this ability to create nets, bindings, communication devices, pickpocket other people, and to transport herself and others around an area]]. Fittingly, she also has a [[ArachnidAppearanceAndAttire spider motif]].
** Mountain Tim's Oh! Lonesome Me in ''Manga/SteelBallRun'' allows him to break his body apart and travel across a rope from his body. Even when he's not using his Stand, he's also skilled at using a lasso.

* ''VideoGame/Destiny2'': The Strand element, introduced in the penultimate expansion ''Lightfall'', focuses on using green chords that connect everything in the universe for its abilities. Titans shape it into claws for cutting, Hunters into rope darts for acrobatic attacks, and Warlocks use it to create minions, but all of them can also use it to swing around the battlefield or pull them toward enemies.
* Sam Porter Bridges from ''VideoGame/DeathStranding'' uses ropes to parry attacks and bind enemies; useful, since every dead body summons a [[OurGhostsAreDifferent Beached Thing]] that can quite literally annihilate cities.

* ''VideoGame/MarioPartyIslandTour'': The minigame Git Along, Goomba has the characters stand respectively on round wooden platforms that surround a large stand with Goombas. Each character has to spin a lasso and then throw it at the stand to capture as many Goombas as possible (the more a character spins their lasso, the bigger its diameter will be, giving them the chance to capture a larger Goomba crowd). After 30 seconds, the character who captured the most Goombas will win.

* ''VideoGame/WarioWorld'': One of Spideraticus' attacks is to spit Glue Globes out on his web-lines trying to get Wario stuck, and then suck them back in. Doing so allows Wario to get close enough for a GroundPound.

Sure, it might not be lethal, but you can use it to pull anything or anyone anywhere, [[BoundAndGagged restrict your opponent's movement]] [[GrappleMove or just get a hold on them]], [[CatapultToGlory use tension or torsion to launch something]], [[TrapMaster lay a trap for an unsuspecting foe]]... or just about anything else that can control the flow of a fight. Fiction allows for shenanigans like VariableLengthChain and InstantKnots, so these characters can duplicate a GrapplingHookPistol to pull themselves around in settings that don't technologically allow for one.

* Jack Sparrow in ''Film/PiratesOfTheCaribbean'' applies this attitude to the ropes and pulleys that hold together the ship's rigging. His SignatureMove involves setting off a chain reaction in the rigging that eventually lets him grab a rope and pull himself out of an undesirable situation.

* In ''ComicBook/{{Spyboy}}'', ProfessionalKiller Hanging Chad is an expert with the lasso and uses it hang his targets.

* In ''ComicBook/((Spyboy}}'', ProfessionalKiller Hanging Chad is an expert with the lasso and uses it hang his targets.

* ''Franchise/{{Batman}}'' made frequent use of this fighting style prior to ''Film/Batman1989'' and subsequent adaptations making the GrapplingHookPistol his IconicItem. Particularly notable in 70's-90's era Batman, where a batrope attached to a batarang (combining this trope and BattleBoomerang) was used both to facilitate a BuildingSwing when required, as well as to entangle and ensnare Bat-foes as needed.
* In ''ComicBook/{{Critter}}'', Lasso Lass, a member of the superhero team The In Crowd, uses a high-tech lasso as her weapon of choice.
* ''ComicBook/FirestormDCComics'' villain Slipknot fights with ultra-durable ropes, which he uses to strangle, grapple with, or immobilize his opponents.
* In ''ComicBook/JudgeColt'', Colt's part-time bailiff and travelling hangman Jesse Stone knows his way around a rope. In #2, after emptying his gun during an ambush, he pulls out his hangman's rope and uses it like a lasso: dropping the noose around the neck of one of his attackers and choking him into submission.

* ''Franchise/SpiderMan'':
** The titular hero utilizes his webbing like this as much as he uses it to actually web things like a traditional spider. This is particularly noticeable in the video games, where it's often used to make a [[EpicFlail flail-like]] weapon out of rubble or unfortunate mooks, as well as slingshots to launch Spider-Man at enemies at high speed.

* ''Franchise/WonderWoman'''s magical Lasso of Truth is her most iconic weapon. Her sidekicks [[ComicBook/WonderGirl Donna Troy and Cassie Sandsmark also use lassos of their own.]]

* ''Literature/ThePhantomOfTheOpera'': Erik travelled throughout the world after running away from home when young. During his travels, he visited India, where he learned to kill people using the Punjab lasso. The Punjab lasso that Erik wields is "curiously made from catgut"; the only way to escape it is to keep one's hand raised to eye level, thus preventing the loop from closing.

** Mountain Tim's Oh! Lonesome Me in ''Manga/SteelBallRun'' allows him to break his body apart and travel across a rope from his body. Even when he's not using his Stand, he's also skilled using a lasso.

* In ''ComicBook/JudgeColt'', Colt's part-time bailiff and travelling hangman Jesse Stone knows his way around a rope. In #2, after emptying his gun during an ambush, he pulls out his hangman's rope and uses it like a lasso: dropping the noose around the neck of one his attackers and choking him into submission.

** The titular hero utilizes his webbing like this as much as he uses it to actually web things like a traditional spider. This is particularity noticeable in the video games, where it's often uses to make a [[EpicFlail flail-like]] weapon out of rubble or unfortunate mooks, as well as slingshots to launch Spider-Man at enemies at high speed.

* Percy's ship control powers in ''Fanfic/SonOfTheWesternSea'' extend to controlling ropes with his mind which allows him to bind his opponents in ropes, toss them huge distances and make those same ropes immune to damage. [[MundaneUtility Or he can just use them to lift things around the ship]].

* The kung-fu film ''Film/TheDeadlyBreakingSword'' has the plucky protagonist (played by Creator/AlexanderFuSheng) being ambushed by several mooks armed with ropes. But he skillfully dodges all their attacks, and tricks his would-be captors to tie each other up instead.
* In ''Film/GhostTown1988'', one the outlaws is hiding atop the windmill and expertly drops a noose around Langley's neck and attempts to strangle him.

* The EstablishingCharacterMoment of the 13th Prince from ''Film/TheHeroicOnes'', when challenged by a GiantMook (who had killed four of his men), decides to forfeit using his spear, choosing to use a rope in combat instead. In the subsequent fight, the Prince easily disarms his opponent, and had strangled him with said rope in a CurbStompBattle.

* The heroine of ''Film/TheThunderingSword'' (played by kung-fu queen Creator/ChengPeiPei) has a lengthy fight scene, where she's not supposed to kill or hurt anyone, despite her enemies being armed with swords. So instead she grabs a long coil of rope, and expertly ties all of them together after a short fight.

* ''Literature/JourneyToTheWest'': the novel's version of Prince Nezha has him wielding a demon-subduing rope as part of his six weapons. Much later, the two [[AsianFoxSpirit half-hulijing brothers]] Gold Horn and Silver Horn possess the treasure known as the Golden Canopy Rope, a magical golden rope which can tie itself around anything when ordered. Sun Wukong tries to use it against Silver Horn, but the demon is able to turn the tables on the Monkey King.

* ''Literature/TheThreeMusketeers'': Porthos's servant Mousqueton is extremely adept Western-style roping, a talent he puts to good use when his master needs wine. Mousqueton lassos bottles of wine out of the cellar like an expert and hauls them back to Porthos.

* ''VideoGame/KirbysEpicYarn'' has Kirby becoming a living yarn construct due to a curse put on him by the BigBad, Yin-Yarn. In this adventure, Kirby has to use his yarn body to solve puzzles in the yarn-and-cloth-ified world, frequently by turning them into ropes that interact with things, or turning his body into various shapes.

* Sion in ''VideoGame/MeltyBlood'' wields, along with a pistol, the Etherlite. The thread is invisible to the naked eye but virtually indestructable, and she can use it as a MindProbe to read other people's minds. She can use it like a whip or trip up or pull the opponent in combat.

[[caption-width-right:350:They did [[JustForPun knot]] see that coming.]]

* Sion in ''VideoGame/MeltyBlood'' wields, along with a pistol, the Etherlite. The thread is invisible to the naked eye but virtually indestructable, and she can use it as a MindProbe to read other people's minds. She can use it like a [[WhipItGood whip]] or trip up or pull the opponent in combat.

[[WhipItGood Whips]] and [[ChainPain chains]] offer plenty of advantages in combat. Being able to hit your opponents from a distance with just a cool flick of the wrist is way too unrealistic to pass up.

BladeOnARope is a sub-trope of this if the rope has, [[CaptainObvious well blades at the end of it]].

* ''Franchise/SpiderMan'' utilizes his webbing like this as much as he uses it to actually, web things like a traditional spider. It particularity noticeable in the video games, where's it's often uses to make [[EpicFlail Epic Flail]] out of rubble or unfortunate mooks, as well as slingshots to launch Spider-man at enemies at high speed.

* In ''ComicBook/{{Critter}}'', Lasso Lass, a member of the superhero team The In Crowd, uses a high-tech lasso as her WeaponOfChoice.

* Decim from ‘’Anime/DeathParade’’ is able to manipulate a seemingly infinite amount of strings as his power. Regular humans are unable to break them, and he’s able to [[ForcedSleep magically put someone to sleep]] with them. While he usually only uses them to carry people or restrain guests who become violent, he’s also used them to hurl furniture at a coworker who angered him.

* ''Literature/JourneyToTheWest'': the novel's version of Prince Nezha has him wielding a demon-subduing rope as part of his six weapons. Much later, the two [[{{Kitsune}} half-hulijing brothers]] Gold Horn and Silver Horn possess the treasure known as the Golden Canopy Rope, a magical golden rope which can tie itself around anything when ordered. Sun Wukong tries to use it against Silver Horn, but the demon is able to turn the tables on the Monkey King.

** Also in ''Manga/StardustCrusaders'', Kakyoin's Stand; Hierophant Green, is able to unravel its body into long ropes. These ropes can function as normal bindings (like during the fight with Wheel of Fortune) or as spears (as Tower of Gray found out), but the fight with DIO reveals that Kakyoin can also use these ropes as tripwires that fire off powerful Emerald Splashes whenever they're touched.