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* The Laguz in ''VideoGame/FireEmblemPathOfRadiance'' as well as ''VideoGame/FireEmblemRadiantDawn'' and [[OurDragonsAreDifferent Mamkutes]] elsewhere in the ''Franchise/FireEmblem'' series. The former use claws, beaks, etc. while the latter use {{Breath Weapon}}s.

** In ''VideoGame/HalfLife1'', Xen aliens have "natural" weapons galore. Vortigaunts can produce huge bolts of directed electricity. Grunts have [[BeeBeeGun hornet]] [[LivingWeapon guns]], which seem to be some sort of insect hive that they've managed to turn into a weapon. Controllers can shoot balls of energy (ball lightning?) and the Nihilanth shoots these as well as teleport portals.
** In ''Opposing Force'', you have the Race X aliens: pit drones, which shoot some sort of biological darts from their forehead, the shocktroopers, which like the Xen grunts use two more forms of biological weapons (shock roaches and spore launchers), voltigores, which like Xen vortigaunts can shoot massive charges of electricity, the pit worm, which can fire a laser from its eye, and the gene worm, which can fire a chemical stream from its mouth.
* Interestingly {{defied|Trope}} in ''VideoGame/KnightsOfTheOldRepublic''. Wookiees have claws and they use them as tools, but are not allowed to use them as weapons, because only animals do that. Any wookie that fights with his claws is branded a mad-claw and banished.
* Baraka, from ''Franchise/MortalKombat'', is a member of the Tarkatan race, which have retractable blades in their arms. These blades serve many violent purposes, such as chopping off heads and impaling Torsos.
* Several species of ''VideoGame/{{Pokemon}}'' base moves around their anatomy. Bulbasaur is famous for moves like Vine Whip and Bullet Seed, which use the bulb on its back; Octillery's signature move is Octazooka, which uses its mouth as an artillery piece, and so on. A full list would take up the entire page.

* Lots in ''Literature/{{Animorphs}}''. Andalites have a scythe blade at the end of their tails, and Hork-Bajir are covered head to toe in blades and spikes. Humans are considered particularly vulnerable in large part because we don't have any, and the protagonists all acquire various animal morphs suitable for close combat, e.g. tiger, grizzly bear, or rhino.

* Many monsters in ''TabletopGame/YuGiOh'' have these, some more extravagant than others.
** Barrel Dragon has [[{{BFG}} oversized]] ''[[RevolversAreJustBetter revolver cannons]]'' on its hands and head.

* ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'': In one episode, Spike says that one advantage a [[OurVampiresAreDifferent vampire]] has over a [[VampireHunter Slayer]] is that while the Slayer needs to reach for her weapon, a vampire is always armed with their fangs. The episode in question demonstrates this by having Buffy suffer a near fatal encounter with a vampire in which he uses her own [[WoodenStake stake]] against her.
-->'''Spike: Lesson the first, a Slayer must always reach for her weapon. ''[vamps into GameFace]'' I've already got mine.

* MakeMeWannaShout: Someone has a loud scream as their super power.

-->-- '''Calvin''' on [[https://www.gocomics.com/calvinandhobbes/1987/11/21 ambushing a tiger on its back]], ''ComicStrip/CalvinAndHobbes''

* The {{Trope Namer|s}} is ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons'', where "natural weapon" is a special ability for monsters (with some ways to gain access to them for non-monster player characters). Some special abilities that don't fall into the natural weapon category could also qualify (in 3e/3.5 natural weapons are specifically weapons ''in the game-mechanical sense'' that are part of the body, so more mundane breath weapons, poison secretions, etc. aren't natural weapons so far as mechanics are concerned).
* {{Defied|Trope}} by the Vorox in ''TabletopGame/FadingSuns''. They are ten-foot-tall six-limbed alien bear-lion-wolves, but many of them shave their claws as a mark of being "civilized".
* Lots of them in ''TabletopGame/{{GURPS}}''. Innate Attack is the most common (since it can represent thousands of different things) but the list includes: Strikers, Claws, Teeth and Spines.

* Everyone in ''TabletopGame/{{Ironclaw}}'' has at least one, how effective it is depends on their brawling skill and their [[SlidingScaleOfAnthropomorphism species stat]].
* Present and [[MinmaxersDelight very desirable]] in the ''TabletopGame/LegendSystem''. They gain something of a power boost from the fact that they -- and, by extension, their properties -- are always active and available even with another weapon drawn. This allows you to have an active weapon loaded to the gills with defensive properties while still having a strong attack freely available. Most tracks that grant them are also built around supporting them.
* In ''TabletopGame/MyriadSong'' some Legacies can take gifts that give them natural weapons. Adhilians can have a blade on one of their tails. Elvers can constrict or generate electricity. Ishato can have stinging tentacles. Morphirs can develop thorns, sticky sap, or disorienting spores. Rhax a poisonous bite and/or webs. Towsers can have a toxic bite and hardened alloy claws with the same gift.
* In ''TabletopGame/{{Pathfinder}}'', natural weapons are any melee weapons that are a natural part of a creature's body. Claws, fangs, pincers, stingers, and tentacles all count, but things like [[BreathWeapon breath weapons]] and natural magical abilities don't. Note that unarmed strikes don't count either, as it refers exclusively to appendages meant to do damage and not a bunch of fingers curled into a crude ball and used as an improvised bludgeoning weapon. Despite this, you'd be hard pressed to find a defensive ability that inflicts a penalty on attackers using natural weapons but not on those using unarmed strikes, or vice versa.
* In ''TabletopGame/RocketAge'' many creatures have natural weapons, including the Venusians. It is a trait in the character and monster creation system and can be taken to either give a creature something like AbsurdlySharpClaws or SuperSpit.

What to do when [[GiveMeASword you're without a weapon]]? PunyHumans must resort to hands and feet (or [[ImprovisedWeapon obtain]] an EmergencyWeapon). On the other hand, non-human races, animals and aliens tend to have claws, stings and other such abilities.

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->I keep forgetting that five of his six ends are pointy when he lies like that.
-->--'''Calvin''' on [[https://www.gocomics.com/calvinandhobbes/1987/11/21 ambushing a tiger on its back]], ''ComicStrip/CalvinAndHobbes''

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