Line #39 ImprovisedWeapon/WebOriginal


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10	* ''WebVideo/AskANinja'' has many examples; Gift cards, [[DeathDealer playing cards]](sorry, ''working cards''), folded flags, a boiling hot burrito, [[NoodleImplements two cowboy hats and a walnut]]... Ninjas have a saying, "if you can't kill it with paper you cannot kill it with steel".
11	* In a borderline ridiculous example, the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yUEFxSOVd6A first episode of]] ''WebVideo/CauseOfDeath'' featured the killer using [[spoiler:a granola bar]] during the [[DavidVersusGoliath fight]].
12	* ''Series/CobraKai:''
13	** Miguel uses a lunch tray and {{chair\|man of the brawl}} to deal with a GangOfBullies in the [[DinerBrawl school cafeteria]] in the first season.
14	** "No Mercy": In the school-wide brawl, one representative of each dojo uses one. Tory (battling Sam) takes off her spiked bracelet and wraps it around her knuckles, slicing Sam's blouse and leaving three lines of gashes on her arm. Meanwhile, Chris uses a [[ThrowTheBookAtThem textbook]] to finish off Mitch.
15	* This is ''extremely'' common among the protagonists of ''Roleplay/DarwinsSoldiers''.
16	** ''Nietzsche's Soldiers'' -- Eddie kills someone with a mop handle.
17	** The first RP:
18	*** James' team shorts out Cale with saline solution.
19	*** Zachary kills a terrorist by ambushing him and beating him to death with a pipe.
20	*** Sharon kills a terrorist by ambushing him and beating him to death with a steel rod.
21	*** Arguably, Shelton's use of ''Lockdown's hand'' to disintegrate a rogue soldier counts.
22	*** Joey (an unspecified experiment) uses a piece of rebar to attack terrorists in the final battle.
23	** The second RP:
24	*** Shelton and Dr. Kerzach use a waterlogged mattress to temporarily disable two guards to escape from prison.
25	*** Dr. Rawlson/[[spoiler:Dr. Jeston]] tries to kill Dr. Zanasiu with a crowbar.
26	*** Kerzach kills Dr. Gallo with a letter opener.
27	*** Only the aftermath is seen but two construction workers beat a Dragonstorm scientist to death with a chunk of concrete and a piece of rebar.
28	** The third RP:
29	*** Alfred uses a table then a chair to knock out some punks who decided to pick a fight with the group.
30	*** Aimee kills two soldiers with a ''sharp stick'' during an ambush on a lonely Oregon road.
31	*** Zachary kills another soldier with a chunk of concrete during that same ambush.
32	*** Hans uses a MRI machine to trap Subject 19.
33	*** Subject 19 kills someone with an operating table. She also has the habit of using nearby large items like tables as projectiles.
34	*** Alfred throws a metal trolley then an oxygen tank at Trinity whe he runs into her at the hospital.
35	*** Alfred throws a small ''trailer pulled cement mixer'' at some Dragonstorm agents.
36	*** Shakila takes out two reptilian guards with her own laptop at Trinity Facility.
37	*** Shakila makes use of Trinity Facility's power room, followed by the sprinkler system to destroy Project Zeta
38	*** During the battle at Lab 101 Alfred throws a boulder at a Dragonstorm experiment.
39	*** During said battle, Alfred also uses a sledgehammer to [[OffWithHisHead behead]] another Dragonstorm experiment.
40	*** Again during said battle, he throws an oil drum at a Chimera. [[spoiler:It is not very effective.]] Then follows it up with a pickax. [[spoiler:It too is not very effective.]]
41	*** Aimee uses a broken pickax handle to kill one of the Lab 101 guards shooting at Alfred.
42	*** Alfred kills the remaining Lab 101 guard with a ''log''.
43	*** Gustave subdues Slash with a tool box then a mechanic's cart.
44	*** Shelton subdues and then kills someone with a pot of boiling coffee and ''the coffee maker''.
45	*** Gustave's use of a ''handicapped parking sign'' as a club probably counts.
46	*** Sharon uses a hammer intended for breaking the glass on a box containing a fire ax to kill a guard.
47	*** Dr. Zanasiu uses a fire extinguisher as an impromptu smokescreen to get past a group of guards. He also uses it to bludgeon a guard.
48	*** When Famine turns everyone on each other, Zachary and Gustave proceed to try and kill each other with a variety of improvised weapons. Zachary with a [[KillItWithFire welding torch]] and then a [[DeusAxMachina fire ax]]. Guistave uses a ''filing cabinet'' and then Zachary's dropped ax.
49	** ''Fools Gold'':
50	*** Dr. Kerzach sprays lubricant into an assailant's face.
51	*** A rogue worker attacks Dr. Kerzach with a fire axe.
52	** ''New Divide'':
53	*** Rhino throws a motorcycle at Subject 18.
54	* Alexis in ''Literature/AGreyWorld'' always has an eye out for potential weapons.
55	* The Internet based [=RP=] ''[[http://z7.invisionfree.com/thegangoffive/index.php?showtopic=5145 Insane Café 3: The Curse of the Haunted Hotel]]'' features the characters using a ''lot'' of improvised weaponry.
56	** [[WesternAnimation/TheLandBeforeTimeIITheGreatValleyAdventure Strut]] using a crowbar then a shovel to subdue a super powered Human who had tried to pick a fight with the entire hotel.
57	** [[Fanfic/TwilightValley Rime]] using a machete to protect [[Franchise/SpyroTheDragon Spyro]]
58	** [[Roleplay/DarwinsSoldiers Zachary]] using a fire ax to take down a magically summoned knight.
59	** [[ChefOfIron Haresh]] using a [[FryingPanOfDoom frying pan]] to knock out an enemy mage.
60	*** Also him throwing lawn darts, rubble and furniture at the mages from the 2nd floor during a massive battle.
61	** [[Fanfic/TwilightValley Ms. Swimmer]] throwing furniture and rubble (also from the 2nd floor) at the mages during the same massive battle, killing two mages with a toilet and a radiator, also thrown from the 2nd floor, and fighting off and killing six assassins sent after her. In the bathroom with a baby changing station, a stall door, a metal paper towel dispenser and an end table.
62	** Franz, Werner and Hans fighting off some summoned creatures using a piece of rebar, a pickax and a fire ax.
63	* ''WebVideo/KateModern'' often features Improvised Weapons, such as Terrence's garden gnome in "Seven Dials: 5pm - 23rd November 2007" or Lauren's [[BatterUp cricket bat]] in "Batwoman". At one point in ''The Last Work'', Charlie uses an ornamental sword that just happens to be on hand.
64	* ''WebVideo/LeftPOORDead'': Rolling Pins, violins and walking sticks.
65	* ''WebVideo/LG15TheResistance'' Chapter 3, "Trust Fall" includes a scene in which Jonas and Sarah fight off [[TheGuardsMustBeCrazy security guards]] using [[NoFourthWall the camera]] and the [[TomeOfEldritchLore Samsaran Doctrine]].
66	* ''WebVideo/PiratesSMP'': {{Discussed\|Trope}} on Day 1. When most of the Heron faction goes out questing, Cleo checks to make sure everyone else is armed in case the quest in question requires more than digging up treasure.
67	-->'''Cleo:''' Okay, who's actually got a weapon?\
68	'''Scott:''' I have a rapier.\
69	'''Owen:''' I've got a pistol.\
70	'''Olive:''' …I have a cello?
71	* Shibuya in ''Podcast/RollToBreathe'' regularly uses these as a superhero without any superpowers. This leads to her defeating villains with weapons ranging from a wooden baseball bat to a flamethrower to a stool.
72	* ''Roleplay/RubyQuest'' has a few of these: Ace's harpoon, Ruby's heavy gloves wrapped in barbed wire, and the '''BLUDGEONY CANESHOVEL'''.
73	* ''WebVideo/SMPLive'':
74	** Joko and JC the Caster have a fight where they smack each other [[ShamuFu with fish]].
75	** The server cops get "enforcement sticks", which are just literal sticks for them to hit players with.
76	* Happens from time to time in ''Roleplay/SurvivalOfTheFittest'', especially when students who are assigned useless weapons simply make new ones out of available materials, such as Niniko Kishinawa (v1) and Dan Brent (v3) making spears out of nearby items and, in Niniko's case, a shaft of bamboo. Walter Smith of v2 also used his assigned rock to smash a window and make a knife out of the biggest, sharpest, fragment he could find. To top it off, [[spoiler:Dominica Shapiro]] killed [[spoiler:Nigel Gillespie]] with a frigging ''ocarina'', while [[spoiler:Blake Ross]] killed [[spoiler:Gregory Moyer]] by hitting him in the face with a bible and knocking his head onto a rusty nail. And lets not forget the most recent case where [[spoiler:Shameeca Mitchell]] killed [[spoiler:Boxer Carvahlo]] with a customised [[spoiler:double-ended dildo!!]].
77	** Less immediately fatal, no less impressive, V4 example, combined with ProductPlacement: [[spoiler:Jimmy Brennan and the can of Moxie]].
78	* ''Literature/UnlikelyEden'' manages to make an axe one of these -- as wielded by a ten-year-old girl.
79	* Chaka, in the ''Literature/WhateleyUniverse'', has control of Ki, so her aim is unnatural. She disarms a sword-wielding super-powered ninja using a handful of playing cards. And then there's her aim with a sewing needle...
80	** She's been known to ''shelve books'' by throwing them just right without getting up. This tells us everything about her ki-powered ImprobableAimingSkills that we'll likely ever need to know.
81	* Psycho Gecko of ''Literature/WorldDominationInRetrospect'' will use anything around him to lethal effect. There are supervillain ghost stories about him using a walnut to bring down a helicopter.

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