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* ''Literature/{{Discworld}}'s Cut-Me-Own-Throat Dibbler will sell almost anything "onna stick!", including Rat on a Stick for dwarfs.

* Heavy Weight = DropTheHammer[=/=]CarryABigStick

* [[CoolGuns Gun]] = BoomStick

* ''[[VideoGame/SoulSeries Soul Calibur IV]]'': Seong Mi-Na's JokeWeapon is a "pimp-slap on a stick" instead of the usual BladeOnAStick.

* [[CoolSword Sword]] = BladeOnAStick

'''Tropes on a Stick'''
* BladeOnAStick
* MotivationOnAStick

See also DoubleWeapon when you add more than one thing to it. Compare with InstantChucks.

* Fork = ProngsOfPoseidon

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Madagascar}}'': "One Fun-side special coming right up. Seaweed on a stick."

* Another Stick = FightingWithChucks

* [[AnAxeToGrind Axe]] = Poleaxe

* ''Let's Get Harry'' is a 1986 action movie about a group of construction workers, advised by a mercenary and financed by a businessman who's an EgomaniacHunter, going to Columbia to rescue a colleague kidnapped by terrorists. A RunningGag involves the businessman boasting, "I've had that on a stick!" whenever he sees various wildlife. This becomes a PreAssKickingOneLiner when he encounters the terrorist leader. "You son-of-a-bitch, I'll have you on a stick!"

* ''Machinima/RedVsBlue'': Washington tricks Locus (who is cloaked) into revealing his position by propping his helmet on a stick and poking it just barely out of cover. Locus shoots it, thinking it's Wash, and the direction of the shot gives away his general location, which the rest of the group promptly bombards.

Ah, the SimpleStaff. Very versatile if you just add another thing to it.

* [[CoolSword Sword]][=/=][[KnifeNut Knife]] = BladeOnAStick

* ''Film/FiveShaolinMasters'' have the DragonVsLancer fight at the end, where the lancer managed to dismantle the dragon's ax. The villain however managed to retrieve his axhead, grab a nearby pole, and jam the axhead on it to create a makeshift spear.

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* One of the ads in the 2013 Super Bowl was a Tide detergent ad with a guy who got a Joe Montana shaped stain on his football jersey. In his ImagineSpot, people are coming to see the stain, and there's a guy selling "stain on a stick". No idea what kind of food it was though.

* An ''Upright Citizens Brigade'' sketch suggests the efficiency of using dog poo on a stick as a weapon.

** In ''Discworld/TheScienceOfDiscworld'', while discussing the concept of "privatives", things that are talked about as though they have a real existence even though they're actually the ''absence'' of something (cold, dark, vacuum, etc.), the authors note that vacuum can be very valuable, and suggest Dibbler could sell vacuum on a stick. They then add that there are plenty of people on [[RealLife Roundworld]] who sell ''cold'' on a stick.

* Crafting in ''VideoGame/{{Minecraft}}''. A torch is coal on a stick, a redstone torch is a pile of crushed redstone on a stick, an iron sword is two ingots on a stick, and a diamond pickaxe is three diamonds on two sticks.

* ''VideoGame/''{{Bloodborne}}'': Many trick weapons.

* [[CoolSword Sword]] / [[KnifeNut Knife]] = BladeOnAStick

* Heavy Weight = DropTheHammer