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* Played with in ''GoldenEye''. Q whips up a bomb shaped like an ordinary ballpoint pen. Three clicks of the button arms it, three more disarms it.

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* Played with in ''GoldenEye''. Q whips up a bomb [[ShoePhone shaped like an ordinary ballpoint pen.pen]]. Three clicks of the button arms it, three more disarms it.
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Added a bullet to Durarara!! (Or maybe some superglue...)

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** Or maybe some [[CrowningMomentOfFunny superglue would be better?]]
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* Imaginary-Barry in ''AlanWake: The Signal'' DLC quotes[=/=]lampshades this after Alan takes out a wave of Taken. Granted, words in typewriter-font are utilized throughout the game, but ItMakesSenseInContext.

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* The pen isn't used for stabbing, but god, no mention of ''DeathNote''?
** [[spoiler:Until near the end when Teru Mikami uses his pen to commit suicide]].

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* The pen isn't used for stabbing, ''DeathNote'' features a considerable amount of murder via pen, but god, no mention of ''DeathNote''?
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not by stabbing. At least, [[spoiler:until near the end when Teru Mikami uses his pen to commit suicide]].suicide, with [[HighPressureBlood a truly ludicrous amount of blood]]]].
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[[TheProblemWithPenisland Easily confused with something]] [[SaturdayNightLive Sean Connery]] has been [[http://www.funnyordie.co.uk/videos/2c5b4742c7/snl-celebrity-jeopardy-3-20-99 searching all his life for]].

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[[TheProblemWithPenisland [[TheProblemWithPenIsland Easily confused with something]] [[SaturdayNightLive Sean Connery]] has been [[http://www.funnyordie.co.uk/videos/2c5b4742c7/snl-celebrity-jeopardy-3-20-99 searching all his life for]].
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* Matt from ''TheDementiaOfMagic'' simply [[http://dementiaofmagic.net/d/20050302.html uses]] [[http://dementiaofmagic.net/d/20050304.html both]].
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* Averting this trope is why patients in mental asylums are given chalk or crayons for writing and drawing, not pens or pencils.

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* Averting this trope is why patients in mental asylums are given chalk or crayons for writing and drawing, not pens or pencils. Though many a teacher knows how a thrown chalk can hurt.
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* In ''{{Monster}}'', when the conversation veers towards Johan, a serial killer ends an interview with his psychologist with a pen. The psychologist gets away with a scare, but not for lack of success on the other man's part...

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* In ''{{Monster}}'', ''{{Anime/Monster}}'', when the conversation veers towards Johan, a serial killer ends an interview with his psychologist with a pen. The psychologist gets away with a scare, but not for lack of success on the other man's part...



* In BattleRoyale manga, [[ZenSurvivor Shogo Kawada]] managed to finally [[spoiler:kill the CompleteMonster director Yomeni Kamon with a pencil by stabbing at his throat]].

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* In BattleRoyale the ''BattleRoyale'' manga, [[ZenSurvivor Shogo Kawada]] managed to finally [[spoiler:kill the CompleteMonster director Yomeni Kamon with a pencil by stabbing at his throat]].



* In LoveHina, Motoko manages to block a full-on katana slash with Keitaro's studyin' pencil. Maybe because it's full of his hopes and dreams, as she claims - or maybe some of his [[MadeOfIron peculiar invincibility]] just soaked in over the years.

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* In LoveHina, ''LoveHina'', Motoko manages to block a full-on katana slash with Keitaro's studyin' pencil. Maybe because it's full of his hopes and dreams, as she claims - or maybe some of his [[MadeOfIron peculiar invincibility]] just soaked in over the years.



* In an early episode of NabariNoOu, Raimei throws a handful of pencils at Miharu to test him. He, of course, didn't even notice.
* In ShugoChara, Amu's "Amulet Spade" character transformation fights with a paintbrush.

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* In an early episode of NabariNoOu, ''NabariNoOu'', Raimei throws a handful of pencils at Miharu to test him. He, of course, didn't even notice.
* In ShugoChara, ''ShugoChara'', Amu's "Amulet Spade" character transformation fights with a paintbrush.
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* Maximum Security, the third book in the {{CHERUB}} series, has a character almost killed by a biro to the throat.

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* Maximum Security, the third book in the {{CHERUB}} series, has a character almost killed by a biro to Lauren fighting off and seriously injuring an attacker with the throat.first thing she could grab- a hotel biro.
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* In ShugoChara, Amu's "Amulet Spade" character transformation fights with a paintbrush.
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Paintbrushes being used to write spells and {{curse}}s on opponents are common in eastern works; most popular depictions of this are derived from [[http://traditions.cultural-china.com/en/211Traditions9846.html a Chinese folktale]] about a boy who could bring paintings to life when he signed them. An evil emperor would force the boy into drawing him vast riches and he would instead conjure a dragon or tsunami to kill the emperor, depending on the telling.
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* Also in the spinoff ''{{Angel}}''.
--> '''Spike''': I had a wee spat with a werewolf myself once. Fought for over an hour! Brutal. Vicious. I almost lost my—
--> '''Fred''': Angel killed him with a pen.
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[[{{Naruto}} http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/MightyPen.jpg]]
[[caption-width:300:Bonus points for putting an [[ShockAndAwe Electric Aura]] around the pencil.]]

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[[{{Naruto}} [[quoteright:300:[[{{Naruto}} http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/MightyPen.jpg]]
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points for putting an [[ShockAndAwe Electric Aura]] around the pencil.]]
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* In the {{Metalocalypse}} episode 'Performance Klok', the band's therapist calls his old band to gloat about how he's in a new one... the scene changes to several cobweb-covered skeletons, one of which has his monogrammed pen sticking out of an eyesocket.
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* In an early episode of NabariNoOu, Raimei throws a handful of pencils at Miharu to test him. He, of course, didn't even notice.
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* The StationeryVoyagers are ''[[AnimateInanimateObject living pens]]'', and one of them is at risk of [[SuperpowerMeltdown turning into a nuclear bomb]].
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** In ''{{The Dark Knight|Saga}}'', {{the Joker}}'s "magic trick" involves making a pencil disappear...[[EyeScream into the eye of one of the Gotham Mob's thugs]].

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** In ''{{The Dark Knight|Saga}}'', {{the Joker}}'s "magic trick" involves making a pencil disappear...[[EyeScream into the eye of one of the Gotham Mob's thugs]]. ''[[HighOctaneNightmareFuel Eraser end first.]]''
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* ''GetSmart'' - Max sticks a sword-wielding KAOS agent with a pen carrying a paralysis drug, and says...well, you know...
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* [[AllThereInTheManual In the sound novel of]] ''[[UminekoNoNakuKoroNi Turn of the Golden Witch]]'', Rosa uses a sawed off rifle, a purse [[spoiler:with a bar of gold inside]] and a ''fountain pen'' to [[spoiler:fight off the goat butlers summoned by Beatrice.]]

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* [[AllThereInTheManual In the sound novel of]] ''[[UminekoNoNakuKoroNi Turn of the Golden Witch]]'', Rosa uses a sawed off rifle, a purse [[spoiler:with a bar of gold inside]] and a ''fountain pen'' to [[spoiler:fight [[spoiler: [[CrowningMomentOfAwesome fight off the goat butlers summoned by Beatrice.]]]]]]
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* This trope is why patients in mental asylums are given chalk or crayons, not pens or pencils, for writing and drawing.

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* This Averting this trope is why patients in mental asylums are given chalk or crayons, not pens or pencils, crayons for writing and drawing.drawing, not pens or pencils.
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* This trope is why patients in mental asylums are given chalk or crayons, not pens or pencils, for writing and drawing.
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* In ''{{Terminator}} 2'', Sarah Connor taunts her shrink about having previously stabbed him in the knee with a pen.
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* In ''{{Monster,}}'' when the conversation veers towards Johan, a serial killer ends an interview with his psychologist with a pen. The psychologist gets away with a scare, but not for lack of success on the other man's part...

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* In ''{{Monster,}}'' ''{{Monster}}'', when the conversation veers towards Johan, a serial killer ends an interview with his psychologist with a pen. The psychologist gets away with a scare, but not for lack of success on the other man's part...
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* When the conversation veers towards [[{{Monster}} Johan]], a serial killer ends an interview with his psychologist with a pen. The psychologist gets away with a scare, but not for lack of success on the other man's part...
** Tenma, also, [[http://www.onemanga.com/Monster/26/08/ uses a ballpoint pen to save himself from a group of Neo-Nazis.]]

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* When In ''{{Monster,}}'' when the conversation veers towards [[{{Monster}} Johan]], Johan, a serial killer ends an interview with his psychologist with a pen. The psychologist gets away with a scare, but not for lack of success on the other man's part...
** Tenma, also, [[http://www.onemanga.com/Monster/26/08/ Tenma also uses a ballpoint pen to save himself from a group of Neo-Nazis.]]

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** [[spoiler:Until near the end when Teru Mikami uses his pen to commit suicide]].



* ''{{Discworld}}'': Ankh-Morpork Patrician Olaf Quimby II had his reign ended when he was killed by a disgruntled poet during an experiment to test the truth of the saying "The pen is mightier than the sword". In his memory, it was amended to read: "The pen is mightier than the sword only if the sword is very small and the pen is very sharp".

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* ''{{Discworld}}'': Ankh-Morpork Patrician Olaf Quimby II had his reign ended when he was killed by a disgruntled poet during an experiment to test the truth of the saying "The pen is mightier than the sword". In his memory, it was amended to read: "The pen is mightier than the sword only if the sword is very small and the pen is very sharp".sharp."
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-->"''How about a magic trick? I'm going to make this pencil disappear...[[EyeScream TA-DA!]] It's...'''gone'''....''"

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-->"''How about a magic trick? I'm going to make this pencil disappear...[[EyeScream TA-DA!]] It's... Ah, it's '''gone'''....''"

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* Played with in ''GoldenEye''. Q whips up a bomb shaped like an ordinary ballpoint pen. Three clicks of the button arms it, three more disarms it.
-->'''JamesBond''': Well, they said the pen is mightier than the sword.\\
'''Q''': Thanks to me, they were right!
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*In one episode of SaturdayNightLive, during a Celebrity Jeopardy skit, SeanConnery (Darrell Hammond) misinterprets "The Pen Is Mightier" as "The Penis Mightier", and asks [[WillFerrell Alex Trebek]] if it will really mighty his penis.
**NicolasCage (Jimmy Fallon) is also curious about this.
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** Later in the light novels, [[spoiler:Mikado]] stabs Aoba through the hand with a ballpoint pen. Thus Aoba is [[EstablishingCharacterMoment basically recognized in fanart by the bandages around his hand]], [[NeverLetThemLiveItDown and there's a reference or joke in half the fics in which he features]].

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** Later in the light novels, [[spoiler:Mikado]] stabs Aoba through the hand with a ballpoint pen. Thus Aoba is [[EstablishingCharacterMoment basically recognized in fanart by the bandages around his hand]], [[NeverLetThemLiveItDown [[NeverLiveItDown and there's a reference or joke in half the fics in which he features]].
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* in ''{{Durarara}}'', Tagiri stabs [[MadeOfIron Shizuo]] with pens in both knees and through his palm. Shizuo shrugs it off, and walks away wondering if he'll need a band-aid.

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* in In ''{{Durarara}}'', Tagiri Seiji stabs [[MadeOfIron Shizuo]] with pens in both knees and through his palm. Shizuo shrugs it off, and walks away wondering if he'll need a band-aid.
** Later in the light novels, [[spoiler:Mikado]] stabs Aoba through the hand with a ballpoint pen. Thus Aoba is [[EstablishingCharacterMoment basically recognized in fanart by the bandages around his hand]], [[NeverLetThemLiveItDown and there's a reference or joke in half the fics in which he features]].

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