History Main / PaperFanOfDoom

* Also, in a couple of the ''SamuraiShodown'' games, Kyoshiro Senryou uses a fan either to directly hit his opponent or as a flaming projectile.

* [[{{Persona4}} Yukiko Amagi]] makes use of these. Oddly, she throws them at enemies rather than the typical smacking.

* "Sailor Luna" from ''PrettyGuardianSailorMoon'' (the live-action version of ''SailorMoon'') used a harisen as her primary weapon.
** Actually, it was a wand identical to Sailor Moon's ''transformed'' into a fan. She also turns it into a ''golden'' fan and once, a butterfly net. She uses it as a wand more often as that's the only she can use her only magical attack, Luna Sucre Candy.

** Played with in the fanfic [[http://florestica.com/dbsommer/azumanga/ar/index.htm "Azumanga Royale"]], in which the ''Manga/AzumangaDaioh'' class is selected for the Battle Royale. Osaka actually ''requests'' a paper fan as her weapon... [[spoiler:and kills everyone with it, not realizing she's allowed to take weapons from her victims]].

* Hilariously enough, OdaNobunaga from ''SengokuBasara'', one of the baddest and most feared badasses has a paper fan (like the one in the image) as his [[JokeItem Joke Weapon]].

* An incredibly rare non-anime example: In TamoraPierce's ''TortallUniverse'', the Yamani women of the warrior class use ''shukusen'', the delicate, deadly Japanese "war fans". Said women carry these fans when they feel endangered but can't carry a weapon openly. They are silk with razor-sharp steel ribs, are much heavier than they look, and can slice fingers like sausage.
** Which means that when one of the characters just jumps in and joins a fan-tossing game, the women proceed to freak out (in a surprisingly well controlled fashion) because while ''they'' know what they're doing, he doesn't even know how close he came to losing all the fingers on the hand he caught it with until after the game is ended. To quote Keladry's reaction:
---> Kel: Didn't your mother teach you not to grab things? You could have lost all your fingers. I doubt your father, [[HealingHands good as he is]], could have put them back on.
** Kel also mentions that her mother, who raised her in the Yamani Isles, used to whack her children with fans if they didn't cooperate with healers.
** And once Queen Thayet learns about the purpose of the ''shukusen'', she becomes intent on asking the Yamani princess for one of her very own.
** That same character who tried to join the game later falls in love with one of the women playing it, and once they're engaged starts to carry her fan at his belt. (She gave it to him after his Ordeal, and special mention is made of the fact that he carried it at his knighting ceremony. [[CrowningMomentOfHeartwarming Aww.]])

** And now there's a slightly more literal version called Bashosen. Powerful, but it takes a heavy toll on whoever uses it, I.E. Chakra Drain.
** Tenten is the last one seen holding it. Make of that what you will

* ''{{Mulan}}'' uses one [[CrowningMomentOfAwesome to disarm the villain in their final showdown]].

* Used and referred to by name often in ''Manga/LoveLab'', with most subtitles [[{{Woolseyism}} translating]] it as "a slapstick".

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* Pictured is Senoo Aiko from ''OjamajoDoremi''.

* Asuna from ''MahouSenseiNegima'' has a ridiculously enormous harisen as her magical weapon, which dispels summoned enemies in addition to packing a comedic wallop. It can turn into a {{BFS}} when things get serious.

This may go back even further though, since fans with sharpened metal ribs were allegedly used as weapons of war and assassination, being particularly suited to the latter due to ease of disguise. (In fact; there are arts about using fans, as well as fans ''made'' for weapons.)

* The ''SuperSmashBros'' games feature the paper fan as a weapon. It doesn't do much damage, but it destroys shields with one Smash hit.
** Never mind the fact that it can knock people around almost as well as a hammer if ''thrown'', slamming them skyward if they're on the ground and downward if they're in the air (regardless of throwing angle).
** It's also the fastest weapon in the game, making it difficult for the victim to counter.
** Both Ice Climbers with fans + Tapping A = double speed infinite combo of death.
** And in ''Brawl'' at least you can 'fantrap' people, getting them stuck and dealing [[MemeticMutation massive damage]]... if you have the patience.
*** [[LethalJokeCharacter Jigglypuff]]+Fantrap+Rest (in itself a Lethal Joke Attack) = GAME!

Sometimes used as a symbol of dubious authority, the paper fan (or ''harisen'' in Japanese) has roots in the Japanese equivalent of vaudeville comedy, particularly of the slapstick variety -- and like a slapstick it makes a lot of noise with little real hurt. It is the tool of a ''tsukkomi'', or "{{straight man}}", of a standard two-man comedy team in [[BokeAndTsukkomiRoutine a kind of routine]] common to the Kansai region called ''[[BokeAndTsukkomiRoutine manzai]]''; it's used to upbraid the other member of the team (the buffoonish ''boke'') when he says or does something foolish. Naturally, this has been carried right over into anime and, being a tradition stemming from the Kansai region, it should be noted that, usually, either the wielder or the target are TheIdiotFromOsaka.

* {{Gackt}} has done this.

* In ''DynastyWarriors'' and ''WarriorsOrochi'' the two Qiao sisters, Da and Xiao, take out entire armies with their twin paper fans[[hottip:*:It takes a close examination, but the edges are tipped with metal, which is what they use to fight]]. Strategists Sima Yi and Zhuge Liang use big feathered fans that shoot FrickinLaserBeams. Sima Yi trades his in for RazorFloss and claws in [=DW6=] but gets it back in 7, also where Zhuge Dan takes up the family tradition with a feathered fan of his own. Of course, they are actually incredibly weak weapons though by 7 the feathered fan users can summon lightning as part of their repertoire and attack more by blowing gusts of wind at their opponents than simply whacking them.

*** In ''SuperRobotWars'', Daitarn 3 can use said paper fan to either block attacks in defense by opening the fan, or use it ''like a sword'' to block sword attacks and missiles. Note that Daitain already has a pair of swords and it ''still'' uses the paper fan like this.

* Each of the Elemental Lords in ''SuperRobotWars'' (the best known of which is Masaki Andoh's Cybuster) has a familiar, and with that familiar comes the ability to release it in battle (called "High Familiar"). The familiars of the Elemental Lord of Earth Zamzeed are three... platypus things... and when released for High Familiar, two of them smash the enemy as normal, and the third finishes by clobbering the target with a metal harisen.

* Retsu from ''JukenSentaiGekiranger'' uses dual bat-themed fans that can inflict pain and deflect energy beams. He can also fly with them. Considering he got this by dancing with [[PeopleInRubberSuits a giant bat]], it's not entirely surprising.

* Another ''SuperSentai'' example is Mako/[=ShinkenPink=] from ''SamuraiSentaiShinkenger'', whose weapon is the Heaven Fan. It may be a fan, but it's no less effective than any other weaponry on the team.

* Natsumi produces one of these against Tsukasa in the File 17 of the Net Movie Spinoff of ''KamenRiderDecade'''s movie. (It helps that the Net Movies in general are purely for comedic purpose to begin with.) [[{{Troll}} Daiki]] then somehow gets a hand on it a few seconds later to whack Yuusuke with it.
* Gotou uses one on a completely lovestruck Eiji in #24 of ''KamenRiderOOO'', although the attempt of [[GetAHoldOfYourselfMan knocking sense]] back into Eiji doesn't work.

* In perhaps the deadliest example of the harisen, Anita King from ''RODTheTV'' (the TV sequel to ''Anime/ReadOrDie'') uses one much of the time. This coupled with Anita being a Paper User and her own not-inconsiderable strength means each hit with the fan can carry the force of a sledgehammer, or, at least, a lil harder than a normal paper fan, when the target isn't an enemy, but her ditz of a sister, how blew the food money on books.

* ''HarryPotterAndTheHalfBloodPrince''. Hermione uses a parchment for this purpose when informing Harry that Romilda Vane has taken an interest in him.

* Played with a bit in PrincessTutu: Ahiru (or Duck, whatever) blocks a ''sword'' with a fan.

* The priest Genjou Sanzo in ''{{Saiyuki}}'' exercises his moral and scholastic authority over Son Goku by hitting him with a fan. Gojyo's not exactly exempt, either.