History Main / ThePenIsMightIEr

* In World 4 he upgrades to a fountain pen, which refills by killing ink monsters or standing on ink fountains and allow him to shoot a damaging stream of ink.

-->'''Bond''': Well, they said the pen is mightier than the sword.\\

* ''Film/Daredevil2003'' - Bullseye kills a guy with three pencils into the throat.

** Felix Gaeta, sent to talk to Gaius Baltar in the latter's prison cell, tries to kill Baltar with a pen instead, stabbing him in the neck but missing the carotid artery. Later on, during his trial, when, after Felix perjures himself on the stand, Baltar says (or more accurately, screams), "The whole fleet knows this man tried to stab me through the neck -- and you missed! Butterfingers!"

** Battlestar likes this trope. During TheMutiny Arc, Romo Lampkin stabs a marine with a pen. The first thing he does after that? He reclaims the sunglasses that the marine took from him and refers to the now-dead marine as his "[[BondOneLiner pen-pal]]".

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

You know, they weren't joking when they said the pen was mightier than the sword. Or the pencil. Or the paintbrush. In the proper hands ''any'' writing tool can become [[ImprovisedWeapon a truly deadly weapon]], and earns extra badass points for the user at the same time--especially if used against an opponent with one of those piddling "real" weapons.

Has [[JustForFun/IThoughtItMeant nothing to do with]] a certain [[TheProblemWithPenIsland body part]].

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

* ''Series/Daredevil2015'': When Benjamin "Dex" Poindexter attacks the ''New York Bulletin'' on Wilson Fisk's orders to discredit Daredevil and get rid of Jasper Evans, he uses a wide variety of office supplies as weapons during his fight with Matt. Once he uses a pair of scissors to incapacitate Matt, Dex breaks into the break room where Karen, Foggy, Ellison and Evans are hiding. After disarming Karen of her gun and knocking out Foggy, Dex uses a pencil to stab Ellison in the gut, before shooting Evans with Karen's gun. Ellison is hospitalized, and the wound is minor enough that just six episodes (and roughly four days) after the attack, he is walking around with no problem and Karen is able to seek him out to inform him about Nadeem's grand jury hearing.

** 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]], [[NeverLiveItDown and there's a reference or joke in half the fics in which he features]].

* In the 1989 ''Film/{{Batman}}'', Joker declares that "The pen is truly mightier than the sword!" after he kills one of Grissom's allies by stabbing a '''really''' sharp ink quill into the man's throat.

* ''VisualNovel/UminekoWhenTheyCry'':
** In "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.]]
** In ''Ougon Musou'' Rosa's grappling attack, she gets a [[PsychoticSmirk really nasty smile on her face]] while [[EyeScream stabbing her opponent in the eye]] with a pen.

* In ''LightNovel/{{Durarara}}'', 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.
** Or maybe some [[CrowningMomentOfFunny superglue would be better?]]

* In ''Series/{{Battlestar Galactica|2003}}'', Felix Gaeta, sent to talk to Gaius Baltar in the latter's prison cell, tries to kill Baltar with a pen instead, stabbing him in the neck but missing the carotid artery. This leads to something of a [[SugarWiki/FunnyMoments Crowning Moment of Funny]] on Baltar's part during his trial, when, after Felix perjures himself on the stand, Baltar says (or more accurately, screams), "The whole fleet knows this man tried to stab me through the neck -- and you missed! Butterfingers!"

* [[AllThereInTheManual In the sound novel of]] ''[[VisualNovel/UminekoWhenTheyCry 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: [[CrowningMomentOfAwesome fight off the goat butlers summoned by Beatrice.]]]]

-->Stan: [[ShoePhone Pen gun]]. Mightier than the sword. [[SwissArmyWeapon Sword gun]]. [[SpoofAesop Mightier than the pen gun]].

Has [[IThoughtItMeant nothing to do with]] a certain [[TheProblemWithPenIsland body part]].

* In ''TabletopGame/WarhammerAgeOfSigmar'', the Blue Scribe P’tarix is unable to use the magic that he catalogues so in battle he stabs his enemies with sharpened quills made from the feathers of a [[FeatheredFiend Lord of Change]].

* Nogiku from ''SengokuRance'' uses a pen in battle. Granted, that pen is about the same size of a spear...

* Calligraphy brushes are commonly used as weapon in {{Wuxia}} genre by fighters who specialized in hitting PressurePoint, since all they have to do is hit at the right spot.
* ''Maximum Security'', the third book in the ''Literature/CHERUBSeries'', has Lauren fighting off and seriously injuring an attacker with the first thing she could grab- a hotel biro.

* In ''ComicBook/DeathVigil'', Starlock is Clara's veilripper, and it takes the form of a quill pen. Clara finds out that she can draw wherever she wants with it, but she later finds out its true potential to [[ThinkingUpPortals Think Up Portals]] and tap into and fix other people's memories (although the latter ability is hinted to be 'her'' ability, not the veilripper's). In addition, like all veilrippers, it can be used to seal necromancers' powers.

You know, they weren't joking when they said the pen was mightier than the sword. Or the pencil. Or the paintbrush. In the proper hands ''any'' writing tool can become [[ImprovisedWeapon a truly deadly weapon]], and earns extra badass points for the user at the same time - especially if used against an opponent with one of those piddling "real" weapons.

Paint brushes 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.

* Mitama from ''VideoGame/FireEmblemFates'' proclaims it is "the mightiest of all!!" during one of her [[PreMortemOneLiner critical hit quotes]]. Fitting, as she's an avid haiku poet.