History Main / TelephonePolearm

* Neo in ''Film/MatrixReloaded'' uses a pole against a mob of Smith clones.

* This is occasionally used by ''LightNovel/{{Durarara}}'''s Shizuo Heiwajima -- Sometimes with actual telephone poles, and other times with equally unwieldy objects like roadside guardrails.

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

* ''Literature/JourneyToTheWest'': The Ryui Jingu Bang first appears as a twenty-foot iron pillar in the Dragon King’s treasury. In Sun Wukong’s hands it proves capable of SizeShifting, and shrinks into his signature SimpleStaff until he needs it to be bigger. Being ridiculously strong, he has no problems wielding it at either size.

See also ImprobableWeaponUser, PrimitiveClubs, BladeOnAStick, CarryABigStick, DropTheHammer, and EpicFlail.

* Card game ''VampireTheEternalStruggle'' has combat cards for vampires with Potence (super strength), that range from Thrown Sewer Lid and Thrown Grate to Well-Aimed ''Car''.

->Straight line of the year: "Face me, Hulk." says Hercules in ''[[ComicBook/TheIncredibleHulk Hulk]]'' #404, "Without benefit of shrubbery!" There's only one correct response to THAT challenge: [[Film/MontyPythonAndTheHolyGrail Ni!]]
-->-- ''Marvel Year In Review 1993''

* ''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.
** During Part 3, Dio Brando uproots a traffic sign from the ground with ease, intending to use it to decapitate Jotaro, [[NoKillLikeOverkill who has already taken numerous daggers to the head and torso and fallen 30 stories onto pavement.]] [[ProperlyParanoid Just to be sure.]]
* ''Manga/OnePiece'' character Urouge wields a giant wood pillar. WordOfGod states that it is actually a pencil...and he's looking for a sharpener.

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See also ImprobableWeaponUser, BladeOnAStick, CarryABigStick, DropTheHammer, and EpicFlail.

->Straight line of the year: "Face me, Hulk." says Hercules in ''[[ComicBook/TheIncredibleHulk Hulk]]'' #404, "Without benefit of shrubbery!" There's only one correct response to THAT challenge: ''[[Film/MontyPythonAndTheHolyGrail Ni!]]''

-->-- '''Marvel Year In Review 1993'

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* Within the anime of ''Manga/RanmaOneHalf'', Ryoga uproots a concrete utility pole and swings it at Ranma after Nabiki convinces him the pills she gave him grant super-strength.

* ''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.

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** In one [[ComicBook/XMen X-men]] comic, X-men are trapped in another dimension and forced to take part in a large battle. Colossus (for who the whole arc is a serious case of ItsPersonal) goes to battle swinging a tree. The narration lampshades how horrified he would be at the damage if he wasn't so angry.

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* Used ''against'' Tennyo in the Literature/WhateleyUniverse story "Boston Brawl" when the Arch-Fiend rips up a streetlight and lets her have it. On the other hand, smashing Tennyo into the pavement doesn't stop her.

* [[CrazyAwesome Thorkell]] in ''Manga/VinlandSaga'' uses tree-sized sharpened stakes as either melee or ship-sinking ranged weapons.

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Megamind}}'': Megamind uses a light pole as an impromptu sword during a fight with Titan (who is also using a light standard or telephone pole as a weapon).

** Including, memorably, the use of a large motorway signpost, complete with sign, that he used to slice the top off a van.
*** Don't forget the tree he completely uprooted. The poor sap in the tree certainly didn't.

->''Straight line of the year: "Face me, Hulk," says Hercules in ''[[ComicBook/TheIncredibleHulk Hulk]]'' #404, "Without benefit of shrubbery!" There's only one correct response to THAT challenge: ''[[Film/MontyPythonAndTheHolyGrail Ni!]]
-->-- '''Marvel Year In Review 1993'''

* The video for Music/OtavaYo's ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0JQ0xnJyb0A Sumetskaya]]''[[note]]subtitled as Russian Couplets for Fighting[[/note]] shows off the Russian version of this, which involves a strongman and a possibly three-metre length os substabtial tree-trunk.