History Main / TelephonePolearm

* * ''Manga/JojosBizarreAdventureBattleTendency'': During Joseph's chariot race against Wamuu, the first weapon is a large hammer hanging from a pillar. Joseph thinks he's got the advantage when he manages to take the lead and snatch the hammer, only to realize that Wamuu is able to use his SuperStrength to take ''the pillar itself'' as an even more powerful weapon.

* In ''Manga/MahouSenseiNegima'', Ku Fei gets one of these as her signature weapon after her Pactio. It's explicitly based on the Ruyi Jingu Bang from ''Literature/JourneyToTheWest'', and consequently its most memorable appearance is when she uses it as ''artillery support''.

* ''Comicbook/JasonXSpecial'' features Jason killing a couple by ripping a tree out of the ground and crushing them with it.

* From the same maker, VideoGame/ArmoredCore V features, as one of its so-called "Ultimate Weapon", a ''rocket-powered'' concrete pillar. As if that's not badass enough, one of the Story mode bosses fashions one out of rubble after being beaten. Befitting its name, getting hit once, and only once, is enough to destroy damn well anything slow enough to get hit.
* Many weapons available for the VideoGame/CityOfHeroes [[{{BFS}} Titan Weapon]] powerset qualify, such as the "Concrete Mallet".

* Doable in the first ''{{VideoGame/Darksiders}}'', breaking off the non-straight parts of the pole. Though as it turns out mortal steel can't hold up to the strain the protagonist puts on his weapons and his foes are really too tough to make improvised weapons practical, this isn't good for more than a bit of minor SequenceBreaking before you have a ranged weapon.

* During the chariot race in the Part 2 of ''Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventure'', Joseph takes the first weapon available, a warhammer suspended from a pillar. Wham's response? "If you take the warhammer... I'LL TAKE THE PILLAR!" And he does so. (Later, since one of the race's gimmicks was that weapons would be hung from that pillar, Cars forces two vampires to fill in for it.)
** During Part 3, Dio Brando attempts to behead Jotaro using a traffic sign.

* ''Manga/JojosBizarreAdventureBattleTendency'': During Joseph's chariot race against Wamuu, the first weapon is a large hammer hanging from a pillar. Joseph thinks he's got the advantage when he manages to take the lead and snatch the hammer, only to realize that Wamuu is able to use his SuperStrength to take ''the pillar itself'' as an even more powerful weapon.

* Ever seen a real medieval pike? They're about twelve feet long and several inches thick.

* ''WesternAnimation/TransformersPrime'' gives us one Con using a wooden log to [[CombatPragmatist knock Optimus Prime off a cliff]]. Bonus points for being large enough to use it effectively. Sadly, [[{{Mook}} short-lived Con]].

* ''Manga/OnePiece'' character Urouge wields one of these. WordOfGod states that it is actually a pencil...and he's looking for a sharpener.

The use of extremely long and thick objects as blunt weaponry carried one-handed over the shoulder but swung two-handed in a devastating arc: think telephone poles, street lamps, trees, cabers...

Usually an indicator that the wielder has SuperStrength.

Pretty much a combination of BatterUp and {{BFS}}; subtrope of the former.

Some overlap with ImprovisedWeapon.

* ''WesternAnimation/SupermanTheAnimatedSeries'': Superman briefly has to resort while fighting off Metallo to keep his distance, due to Metallo's Kryptonite heart weakening him. [[NoSell Naturally it doesn't do much good against him]].

* Also possible in Transformers games.

* The [[GiantMook Gar]][[MightyGlacier gan]][[DemonicSpider tuar]] from ''VideoGame/PlantsVsZombies'' can use a telephone pole as one of its weapons to ''[[OneHitKill instantly smash one of your plants]]''. The others weapons it uses are street signs and [[GrievousHarmWithABody another zombie]].

* In ''Fanfic/SonOfTheSannin'', during the battle against Kakuzu and Hidan to retake Takigakure, Fu grabs one of the toppled trees scattered around and uses it as a club. She later decides to keep it as her personal weapon of choice.

Usually an indicator that the wielder has SuperStrength, as using something that big and heavy like this is beyond the ability of a normal human.

* ''VideoGame/PokemonBlackAndWhite'': Timburr fights by using a piece of wood that's enormous when compared to it, and it even juggles it on a regular basis. Its evolutions are also examples, but to a lesser extent, though only because they're bigger in comparison: [[MeaningfulName Gurdurr]] and Conkeldurr, who swing around girders and concrete support beams, respectively.

* The [[GiantMook Gar]][[MightyGlacier gan]][[DemonicSpider tuar]] from ''VideoGame/PlantsVsZombies'' can use a telephone pole as one of its weapons to ''[[OneHitKill instantly smash one of your plants]]''. The others weapons it uses are street signs and [[GrievousHarmWithABody another]] [[ThatOneAttack zombie]].

* In Literature/TheMagiciansNephew, when Jadis visits London she rips the sticky-out pole thing provided for the lamplighter to lean his ladder against off a lamp-post and uses it as a club.

* TabletopGame/GURPSSupers (4th edition) has rules for using such polearms, based on their length and how hard it is to hold them in hand.

* If your 'Mech has hands in TabletopGame/BattleTech, you can pick up and use almost ''anything'' as a improvised club-this can include [[GrievousHarmWithABody pieces of other 'mechs]], [[BatterUp whole trees]], or [[ImprovisedWeapon whatever else]] you can get your giant metal mits on.

* ''LightNovel/FateZero'': Berserk's abilities allow him to use the midsection of a streetlight as a pole-arm, to devastating effect against Saber.

* If your 'Mech has hands in TabletopGame/BattleTech, you can pick up and use almost ''anything'' as a improvised club-this can include [[GrievousHarmWithABody pieces of other 'mechs]], whole trees, or whatever else you can get your giant metal mits on.

* In ''VideoGame/TheMatrixPathOfNeo'' you play through ''Film/TheMatrixReloaded'' example above.
* In ''VideoGame/ShadowTheHedgehog'' many stages let you break pieces of scenery (such as traffic signs) and use them as melee weapons.

* ''Comicbook/JasonXSpecial'' features Jason killing a couple by ripping a tree out of the ground and crushing them with it. Later, he kills another pair of teenagers by beating them with a picnic table.

* ''Film/TheMatrixReloaded''. During the Burly Brawl with the hundred Smiths, Neo tears a signpost out of the ground and uses it as a staff.

The use of extremely long and thick objects as blunt weaponry carried one-handed over the shoulder but swung two-handed in a devastating arc: think telephone poles, streetlamps, trees...

* In one verse during the 6th chapter in ''VideoGame/{{Bayonetta}}'', the titular witch has to swing a streetlamp to kill several angels.