| 1 | [[quoteright:280:[[ComicBook/CountdownToFinalCrisis https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/whap.jpg]]]] |
| 2 | [[caption-width-right:280:The sound of one man whapping.]] |
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| 4 | ->''"... and one count of using a victim as a deadly weapon against another victim." '' |
| 5 | -->-- '''[[http://rustyandco.com/comic/level-8-1/ Judge,]]''' ''Webcomic/RustyAndCo'' |
| 6 | %% Quote changed per thread: https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/posts.php?discussion=1327331003042025100&page=147 |
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| 8 | WhenAllYouHaveIsAHammer everything begins to look like a nail. And when all you have is a group of enemies... Taking the ImprovisedWeapon trope to heart, to the hard-pressed combatant, not just everything, but every'''body''', begins to look like hammers. |
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| 10 | Two common variants exist. In the first, regular individuals may choose to use a body part as a club, the source of that body part depending heavily on the setting: |
| 11 | * Neutral: Certain specific locations, like morgues or battlefields, will inevitably be littered with limbs, making it easy to locate one. |
| 12 | * Enemy: Particularly vicious characters may choose to forcibly dismember opponents, then attack them with it in a fit of sadistic humor. Of course, it's easier if your opponents tend to fall apart spontaneously, like {{Zombie|Apocalypse}}s or [[DemBones Skeletons]], or are MadeOfPlasticine. |
| 13 | * Self: If you're not particularly worried about the loss of your own body parts (hint: being a HumongousMecha or a {{Cyborg}} helps), you may, in a last-ditch situation, choose to use your own limb as a weapon. |
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| 15 | Alternatively, characters gifted with SuperStrength may eschew the dismemberment completely and use an entire body as a weapon. This is also an alternative for mechs of the appropriate size in relation to the body being used. Of course, you'd have to be nuts (or [[BashBrothers really, REALLY]] [[BattleCouple trusting]] / [[NighInvulnerability durable]]) to let anyone do that to you, which is why most "weapons" are either dead or unconscious — or will be by the time you're done. May be combined with MetronomicManMashing if you're attacking both the person you're hitting and the person you're hitting ''with''. |
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| 17 | ShamuFu is a SubTrope where the body in question is a fish or some other marine animal. The FastballSpecial is another subtrope where a powerhouse throws a (usually) willing partner at a target, at which point the partner's unique abilities come into play. For people who club others with bodies as their standard weapon see ImprobableWeaponUser. For the un-improvised version see EquippableAlly. StopHittingYourself is a variant when you use your opponent's limb (severed or not) to hurt them. For using a body to ''protect'' yourself rather than hurt your enemy, see HumanShield. |
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| 19 | For the video game variant that involves throwing enemies at other enemies, check out ThrowTheMookAtThem. |
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| 21 | Has nothing to do with a [[Franchise/StarWars certain general]][[labelnote:note]]Though [[Characters/StarWarsGeneralGrievous he]] does play this trope straight in ''WesternAnimation/StarWarsTheCloneWars''[[/labelnote]] or HumanWeapon. |
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| 24 | !!Examples: |
| 25 | * GrievousHarmWithABody/VideoGames |
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| 28 | [[folder:Anime & Manga]] |
| 29 | * Done by Briareos in the 2004 ''Manga/{{Appleseed}}'' film; he grabs an assassin-roid's arm, rips it off, and bashes her in the face with it. |
| 30 | * ''Manga/AttackOnTitan'': |
| 31 | ** During one of Eren and Annie's training sessions, Mikasa got tired of all the subtext and broke them up by throwing ''[[TheBigGuy Reiner]]'' at them. Annie got out of the way in time; Eren didn't. |
| 32 | ** [[spoiler: The Armored Titan]] tries this by flinging [[spoiler: other Titans]] at some escaping soldiers, they don't hit them, but they do block their escape. |
| 33 | ** Earlier, the Rogue Titan [[AnArmAndALeg has lost its arms]], so it grabs a nearby Titan with its teeth and starts using it as a weapon. |
| 34 | * The climax of the ''Literature/{{Baccano}}'' {{light novel|s}} ''Drugs and Dominoes:'' After getting his arm blown off by a high gauge revolver point blank, Luck Gandor picks up his own shattered limb and tears [[spoiler:Gustavo]]'s throat apart with its jagged, broken bones -- after which he calmly reattaches the severed arm ([[GoodThingYouCanHeal good thing he's immortal, huh?]]), gives a pithy BondOneLiner, checks to see if the resident [[TheIngenue Ingenue]] is alright... [[PostVictoryCollapse and then promptly passes out from the pain]]. |
| 35 | * In ''Manga/BattleAngelAlita: Last Order'', Alita allows one of her own arms to be cut off, specifically so she can use it as a weapon to increase her reach. |
| 36 | * Subverted '''spectacularly''' in ''Manga/{{Beelzebub}}'' when Oga attempts this with Arandron. Considering Oga's [[CharlesAtlasSuperpower insane strength]] and [[MachoCamp Adrandon's build]], one would think that this is a surefire combination... until his opponent simply punches him out of Oga's hands. |
| 37 | * ''Manga/{{Berserk}}'' contains an example in the first between the demon Zodd and the main characters, Guts and Griffith. Griffith, after Zodd transforms into his monstrous true form, chops Zodd's arm clean off with one slice ([[CleanCut somehow]]). Zodd then promptly picks up his severed arm and uses it to smack Griffith down, knocking him unconscious. |
| 38 | ** In ''Berserk: The Abridged Series'', Guts, after seeing this, comments, |
| 39 | ---> "Did you just beat him with your own arm? That is hardcore! Seriously, kill me right now, that is the coolest thing that I will ''ever'' see!" |
| 40 | ** [[CombatPragmatist Guts does this a bit]]: during the Eclipse tore of an opponents horn and used it as a spear to kill over a dozen apostles and when breaking Griffith out of the Tower of Punishment he uses a corpse as a shield before throwing it at his attackers. |
| 41 | * ''Manga/{{Bleach}}'': Used when [[spoiler: Zombie!Charlotte]] tosses [[spoiler: Zombie!Bambietta]] at [[spoiler: Mayuri Kurotsuchi]]. It would seem that this is an accident since [[spoiler: Charlotte tosses Bambietta aside and into a building when she attacks him]], but his reply when [[spoiler: Mayuri]] points out that he was almost hit confirms the trope: |
| 42 | -->'''[[spoiler: Charlotte]]''': [[BlatantLies Oops, my hand slipped--]] |
| 43 | %%* Done at least once in ''Manga/{{Bokurano}}''. |
| 44 | * In ''Manga/Brave10'', while being [[ChainedHeat tightly tied]] and weaponless, Rokuro decides to use Yukimura as an improvised weapon to take out the ninjas who bound them. |
| 45 | * In ''Anime/CarnivalPhantasm'', Berserket quickly replaces his missing stone axe with [[TheChewToy Lancer]]. He manages to wield Lancer so effectively that the spearman in question literally becomes his Noble Phantasm, [[http://i1.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/original/000/209/474/1320397102202.jpg stat sheet and all]]. |
| 46 | * [[HealingFactor Deneve]] in ''Manga/{{Claymore}}'' "blocks" extremely fast growing parasitic spikes with one arm. After seeing the first breath of her new attachments, she rips off her arm and impales the originator of the spikes' forehead with it. Not that that inconveniences either of them for more than a second. This chapter probably has the highest but per second count in the series]]. |
| 47 | * In ''Manga/DGrayMan'', Allen Walker, an exorcist, during his fight with Tykki-Mikk in the Ark, was able to turn his arm into a large sword. |
| 48 | * In the third episode of ''Anime/DaiGuard'', the Dai-Guard mecha rips off one of its own forearms to use as an improvised RocketPunch against the MonsterOfTheWeek. Widely considered a SugarWiki/MomentOfAwesome. |
| 49 | * Kengamine Nagi from ''Manga/DeadmanWonderland'' recently [[spoiler:''ripped off his own arm'' and used it to attack Hibana with the Branch of Sin]] after she disabled him. |
| 50 | * In ''Anime/DragonBallZ'', after Vegeta tries to attack Android #17, #18 grabs him by the leg from behind and slams him into Trunks. |
| 51 | * ''Manga/ElfenLied''. Perhaps not a straight example, but it counts: When environmental sources of throwable projectiles aren't available, Nana resorts to flinging her ''detachable prosthetic limbs''. |
| 52 | * ''Manga/TheElusiveSamurai'': Iwamatsu wields a massive blade that can cleave through katanas, trees, and humans in a single swing. To counter this, Mochizuki grabs the armored corpses of two fallen soldiers and uses them to block his powerful slashes. He then proceeds to swing them at Iwamatsu and parry his strikes like a pair of swords. |
| 53 | * In ''[[Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion End of Evangelion]]'', Asuka throws one of the Mass-production Evas through a wall, then pulls it out and throws it into another. It doesn't work, so she punches through both of them. |
| 54 | * ''Manga/FairyTail'': |
| 55 | ** In the Grand Magic Games, Natsu slams Rogue into Sting during the Dragon Slayer doubles match. |
| 56 | ** In the Avatar arc, Lucy grabs an enemy mook with her whip and briefly uses him as an EpicFlail against the other nearby mooks. |
| 57 | * The robot that comes out of Ninamori's head in ''Anime/{{FLCL}}'' jacks control of her body and uses her as a weapon. |
| 58 | * ''Manga/FullmetalAlchemist'': |
| 59 | ** Edward regularly uses his brother Alphonse's head as a throwing weapon. Since Al is a soul bound into a massive suit of armor, he really doesn't need his head, but it irritates him nonetheless. |
| 60 | ** Ed also comically clangs Ling in the face with his broken off automail arm. |
| 61 | ** When Alphonse fights Pride and Kimblee he gets his ([[AnimatedArmor metal]]) hand cut off but then uses alchemy to instantly replace it, grabs the original, and ''turns it into a sword''. Further, when a sword slash is blocked into a BladeLock, Alphonse has the blade bend at a ninety-degree angle toward his target. |
| 62 | * ''Manga/{{Gintama}}'' has a whole storyline where the characters end up in an RPG and use the stock RPG [=NPCs=] (and/or their corpses) as weapons. |
| 63 | ** Even in non-virtual situations, the characters have no problems using each other as weapons. |
| 64 | * In ''Manga/{{Guyver}}'', Akito as Gigantic Dark loses a leg when fighting a pair of Zoalords. Later on, he remotely controls the severed limb to fly through the air and smack into one of his opponents before reattaching it. |
| 65 | * One memetic scene from ''Anime/HappinessChargePrettyCure'' has Cure Lovely snatch up two [[{{Mooks}} Choiarks]] and pummel a [[MonsterOfTheWeek Saiark]] with them like they were boxing gloves. |
| 66 | * In one episode of ''Anime/HareGuu'', Haré gets pressed into service as a projectile in an [[EscalatingWar escalating game of dodgeball]] between Gupta and Guu. A relatively less violent cases of the trope, since Haré is both intact and conscious, but he is understandably dismayed. |
| 67 | * In ''Manga/HayateCrossBlade'', when Hayate is knocked out by a drug, Ayana uses her body as a 'human sword' in their duel against two other girls. ''She actually wins this way too.'' [[spoiler:She uses this to defeat Ensuu as well.]] |
| 68 | * In ''[[Manga/KenichiTheMightiestDisciple History's Strongest Disciple Kenichi]]'', one of the masters fought off an island full of heavily-equipped opposing forces by using them as giant shurikens. Arguably also a [[SugarWiki/MomentOfAwesome CMoA]]. |
| 69 | * Tsuchiya throws a thug at some others twice in ''Manga/{{Holyland}}'' chapter 144. |
| 70 | * In chapter 307 of ''Manga/HunterXHunter'' Gon [[spoiler: gets his arm ripped off]]. He later takes it and [[spoiler: stabs a headless Pitou through the torso with his own ripped off arm to pin them down]]. |
| 71 | ** Earlier, Uvogin takes a bite out of an opponent's head and spits out a fragment of his skull with enough force to hit and kill another guy. |
| 72 | ** [[BloodKnight Hisoka]] has the ability give his BattleAura the properties of rubber and gum. In one fight he uses it to grab a dozen of people at the same time, [[BodyHorror mashes them into a huge makeshift mace]] and utilises this to defend himself from a ZergRush. In the same fight, he also [[OffWithHisHead rips off the heads of a few people]] and attaches his rubber-like Battle Aura on them. An autor note mentions a human head weights about 5 to 6 kg (11 ~ 13 lbs) or as much as an average bowling ball, so the disembodied heads become quite effective weapons in Hisoka's hands. |
| 73 | * In ''Anime/{{K}}'', Kuroh throws one Scepter 4 Clansman at another during the fight in the stadium. |
| 74 | ** Misaki also picks up Rikio and throws him -- inverted, from their point of view, because he was trying to hurt Rikio, but played straight from Kusanagi's point of view -- what really ends up getting damaged is Kusanagi's beloved bar. |
| 75 | * ''Manga/KarakuriCircus'': Shirogane's puppet, Arlequin, uses a detached left arm to fight with. |
| 76 | * In ''[[Anime/KotetsuJeeg Kotetsushin Jeeg]]'', a MonsterOfTheWeek rips Jeeg's arm off, and an [[HotBlooded enraged]] Kenji responds by stealing it back and wielding it like a club. This example is actually [[JustifiedTrope justified]], since Jeeg is a modular robot built around magnetic joints and can thus drop, replace, and retrieve limbs easily. On top of that, the shoulder had a couple of fins which extend into blades, suggesting that it was '''meant''' to be used this way. |
| 77 | * ''Manga/TheLegendOfZeldaAkiraHimekawa'': In the adaptation of ''[[VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaTheMinishCap The Minish Cap]]'', Link uses his talking hat Ezlo as a flyswatter against a bee that was about to attack one of the tiny Minish. |
| 78 | * In the TraintopBattle of ''Anime/MagicalGirlLyricalNanohaStrikers'', [[CuteBruiser Subaru]] starts her attack by smashing the first [[MechaMooks Gadget Drone]] she comes across then chucking its damaged frame at a second Gadget Drone. |
| 79 | * In an early case of ''Manga/MajinTanteiNougamiNeuro'', two officers are arguing in the middle of an investigation. What does Neuro do to shut them up? Use [[ButtMonkey Yako]] as a club and whack them both. Also used as one of his standard attacks in [[VideoGame/JumpSuperStars Jump Ultimate Stars]]. |
| 80 | * Not strictly a weapon, but there is a [[{{Meido}} Maid]] Guitar in the opening of ''Manga/MariaHolic''. |
| 81 | * ''Mazinger'': |
| 82 | ** In ''Anime/MazingerZ'', [[{{Robeast}} Mechanical Beast]] Genocyder F9 had troubles shattering the HomeBase's {{Deflector Shield|s}}, so it ripped its own arm off and threw it against the barrier. The ensuing explosion successfully destroyed the energy shield, and Genocyder's [[MacrossMissileMassacre missiles]] pummeled the place flat. |
| 83 | ** In ''Anime/ShinMazinger'', Zeus gets his arm cut off by Hades. When he sees Mazinger Z use a RocketPunch later in the episode, he's so impressed that he picks up his own severed arm and ''throws it'' while shouting "ROCKETTO PAAAANCH!!" |
| 84 | ** In ''Manga/ShinMazingerZero'', ''[[Anime/MazingerZ Kouji Kabuto]]'' has his arm ripped off in the first story arc. Like a last resort, he does pick it up and RocketPunch his enemy with it. |
| 85 | ** In ''Anime/MazingerZInfinity'', when Mazinger Z is battling Dr. Hell’s Mechanical Monsters, it grabs one and spins it around, cutting down numerous others in the process. |
| 86 | * In ''Anime/MobileSuitGundamThe08thMSTeam'', Shiro Amada rips off his own Gundam's disabled arm and uses it as a club. This move is one of the Gundam's most iconic moments (along with TheWorfBarrage) and can be re-created in the ''VideoGame/GundamVsSeries'' (though there it shoves the arm back onto its elbow for continued use). |
| 87 | ** The eponymous [[Anime/MobileSuitVictoryGundam Victory Gundam]] is made up of a [[EjectorSeat Core Fighter]] and [[CombiningMecha replaceable modules for the upper and lower body]]. LaResistance manufactures the modules in bulk, so throughout the series, we see Usso firing off damaged modules as gigantic missiles and then calling for a replacement. |
| 88 | *** ''[[Anime/MobileSuitGundamSeedDestiny Gundam SEED Destiny]]'' {{homage}}d this in Shinn's battle with the Freedom Gundam; when the Impulse gets decapitated, he ejects the torso module at the Freedom, gets a replacement, and then shoots the damaged one with his beam rifle. |
| 89 | *** Likewise, the Bawoo from ''[[Anime/MobileSuitGundamZZ Gundam ZZ]]'' is a TransformingMecha that splits into upper and lower halves, the lower being remote controlled. The [[AllThereInTheManual official info]] says that the Neo Zeons looked into the idea of packing the leg module full of high explosives and using it as an enormous missile, but considered it too wasteful. |
| 90 | ** In ''Manga/MobileSuitCrossboneGundam'', one of Tobia's more memorable bits of ImprovFu involves grabbing an enemy machine by its WhipSword limbs and swinging it like a literal EpicFlail, before throwing it bodily into one of its teammates. This move, like the ''08th MS Team'' example, made its way into the ''VideoGame/GundamVsSeries''. |
| 91 | ** Speaking of Shinn, in an earlier episode of ''Destiny'', Shinn is tasked with trying to destroy a [[WaveMotionGun Lohengrin Launcher]] in a base and is running out of time as the cannon is going back into its hidey hole. Shinn damages up a Dagger L and chucks it down the tube before it closes, the resulting explosion taking out the gun and the base. |
| 92 | * During the students vs. teacher final exam of ''Manga/MyHeroAcademia'', All Might swings Midoriya down onto a charging Bakugo like bringing down a hammer on a nail. |
| 93 | * ''Manga/{{Naruto}}'': |
| 94 | ** [[spoiler: Tobi]]'s arm gets infected by TheVirus, so he [[LifeOrLimbDecision breaks it off before it spreads]], drops it on the ground, then kicks it at his other opponent (who dodges it because The Virus is spread by touch) which leaves his opponent open so he can [[spoiler:suck him into another dimension]]. |
| 95 | ** A while earlier, [[spoiler:Pain]] pulls a weird one on Naruto: after he [[ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice impales]] [[spoiler:Fukasaku]], he throws the corpse at Naruto, which distracts him long enough for [[spoiler:Pain]] to pull him in and pin him down. |
| 96 | ** Kinkaku likewise dropkicks his arm into Darui in response to Darui cutting it off, which, thanks to the artifact on his arm, makes Darui's soul come out [[PullingThemselvesTogether right before the arm reattaches]] because of the jutsu Kinkaku was [[BackFromTheDead reanimated]] [[OurZombiesAreDifferent with]]. |
| 97 | ** When Killer Bee grabs A with a [[CombatTentacles tentacle]] to let Naruto get past him, A grabs the tentacle and swings Bee into Naruto like an EpicFlail. |
| 98 | ** This gets {{Kaiju}}fied in the Jinchuuriki fight in the WarArc: All the Jinchuuriki are in full Tailed Beast form. One clamps onto Naruto's hand, and he swings it into another that's charging him to take care of two birds with one stone. |
| 99 | * ''Manga/NegimaMagisterNegiMagi'': Not harmful per se, but during the Magic World arc Fate's [[spoiler:arm is cut off during a fight]]. He then proceeds to console a member of his AmazonBrigade with the severed arm, in a rare moment of ComicallySerious for a character who normally comes off as a [[DistaffCounterpart Spear Counterpart]] ReiAyanamiExpy. |
| 100 | * ''Manga/OnePiece'': |
| 101 | ** During the [[FishPeople Arlong Arc]], Luffy grabs the seamonstercow Momoo and uses it to clear out all the {{Mooks}} prior to engaging the QuirkyMinibossSquad. |
| 102 | ** Zoro tries to use Sogeking as a sword. ItMakesSenseInContext. |
| 103 | ** In the Enies Lobby arc, Franky gets his revenge on Spandam by body-slamming an ''elephant'' onto him. |
| 104 | ** Later, Van Der Dekken turns several human mooks into {{homing projectile}}s to be used against Shirahoshi. |
| 105 | ** On Dressrosa, Commodore Orlumbus has a FastballSpecial called the "Commodore's Killer Bowling" where he throws a mook at other mooks. |
| 106 | ** Later in Dressrosa, Trafalgar Law uses [[spoiler:his own severed arm, still holding his sword]] as a weapon against Trebol. |
| 107 | ** Also in Dressrosa, Franky suplexes [[BrawnHilda Boss Kyuin]] as a way to foil Senior Pink's attacking him from behind, ramming Kyuin's head into Pink's head. |
| 108 | ** During the FinalBattle of Wano arc, Zoro is in a [[BandageMummy fullbody cast]] and carried by Sanji [[https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/5b7780e98efefb581e9e165dd6dadfdbea6c94dfb4934bff13abc4da5cdac0e0.jpg?w=800&h=410 who is perfect willingly and able to swing Zoro around as a weapon]] to send a mook flying. |
| 109 | * Absolutely ''not'' played for laughs in ''Manga/Overlord2012'' during Jaldabaoth's invasion of the Holy Kingdom. Jaldabaoth grabs the queen and uses her as a bludgeon against her own troops, completely wrecking her face and body. And by the time Jaldabaoth is seen again, he's still holding her... or what's left of her: the lower half of her rotting corpse. |
| 110 | * ''Franchise/{{Patlabor}}'': This is a "tactic" frequently used throughout the franchise. In the first volume of the ''Manga/MobilePolicePatlabor'' manga, Noa gets her first awesome moment when she rips a leg off a [[SpiderTank four-legged Labor]], then beats the Labor into submission with it. |
| 111 | * The Phoenix Emperor Saffron, Ranma's final enemy in ''Manga/RanmaOneHalf'', could [[HealingFactor regenerate from any injury]] by means of his own flame (being frozen solid prevented this, though.) Therefore, he had no trouble whatsoever ripping off [[WingedHumanoid his own wings]], setting them ablaze, and hurling them at his enemies as [[PrecisionGuidedBoomerang deadly flaming boomerangs]]. |
| 112 | ** Two more conventional applications of the trope appear in the [[MartialArtsAndCrafts Martial Arts Rhythmic Gymnastics]] and [[MartialArtsAndCrafts Martial Arts Shogi]] challenges (the latter of which only occurs in the anime). In the first, Ranma makes use of the fact P-chan has been chained to his (currently her) wrist to turn him into an impromptu flail, as the rules of the match strictly prohibit bare hands and feet. In the second, Akane, at one point, grabs Ranma and spins around wildly, using him as a human flail to defeat a swarm of FacelessGoons. |
| 113 | ** During the Martial Arts Rhythmic Gymnastics match, Kodachi counters an attack from Ranma by grabbing her own brother from the audience with her ribbon and flinging him at the table Ranma was tossing. |
| 114 | ** Another variation takes place in the Martial Arts and Ice Skating match. Whenever Mikado and Azusa fight, a good part of their tactics come from Mikado grabbing Azusa by the arms and spinning her so she sort-of becomes an extension of his body: At times he slides her on the icy ground so she can trip the rivals with her legs; at others, he spins her around in the air to kick the rivals in the face... |
| 115 | * In ''Manga/RosarioPlusVampire,'' [[spoiler:Tsukune]] picked up one Outcast monster by the skull and used him for a vicarious drop-kick against his friend. |
| 116 | * ''Manga/SakamotoDays'': The instant Gaku gets his arm cut off, he comments "Don't need this." and kicks it at his opponent. |
| 117 | * ''Literature/{{Slayers}}'' has done this a few times. Once, Naga had done something called a 'Baker' strike by throwing a baker at a demon. Lina has thrown Naga, and Zelgadis thrown Lina, but neither of those cases was primarily for damage, more to distract the foe they'd just chucked the person at. |
| 118 | * Princess Syalis of ''Manga/SleepyPrincessInTheDemonCastle'' regularly captures a demon known as Wicked Diamond in a sack for use as a blackjack. Its small size and hardness makes for a perfect tool for smashing treasure chests so she can repurpose the fittings. |
| 119 | * In ''Anime/TengenToppaGurrenLagann'' Kamina once [[GetAHoldOfYourselfMan smacked some sense into Simon]] by having the Gurren throw one of its arms at the Lagann. It may or may not have already been completely detached by the savage beating it just took. |
| 120 | ** Often the Gurren Lagann does a combination of this and a FastballSpecial when it throws the Lagann so it can reach an enemy; since the Lagann [[CombiningMecha forms the head of the Gurren Lagann]], it was actually ripping its own head off and throwing it. |
| 121 | * ''Manga/TerraforMARS'' has a decidedly unfunny example of this. Early on, one of the titular roach-monsters rips a man's head off, spine included, and uses the spine as a whip to cut down a couple of fleeing victims. |
| 122 | * In ''Manga/TigerMask'', Tiger's Cave assassin Red Death Mask was sent to kill Tiger Mask on ring, but broke his knee during the fight. He reacted by going at the journalist bench and use it to ''throw the journalists at Tiger Mask''. |
| 123 | * In ''Manga/ToLoveRu'', while trapped in a haunted house and confronted with the prospect of being raped, an adrenaline and fear-fueled Haruna picks up Rito and tosses him into the monster. |
| 124 | ** Haruna's typical reaction to anything threatening is to pick up Rito and use him like a hammer. On one occasion, it creates a tornado. |
| 125 | * Quant from ''Webcomic/TowerOfGod'' at one point throws [[TheSmartGuy Shibisu]] against [[InformedAbility First Emperor]] and knocks him out cold. |
| 126 | * ''Manga/UshioAndTora'' had an interesting variation, where Tora swung Ushio at an enemy, at which point Ushio took the Beast Spear to them. Also, Tora did use a [[TakenForGranite petrified Asako]] as an improvised bludgeon to repeal the tentacles of [[CreepyCentipedes Stone Eater]], with Asako sporting an [[RuleOfFunny indignant face just for that panel]]. |
| 127 | * Grabbing an ally and tossing him or her at an enemy is a favorite tactic of [[{{Jerkass}} Hamel]] in ''Manga/ViolinistOfHameln''. "Tron Bomber!" "Oboe Launcher!" "Flute Missile!" His ally usually screams bloody murder all the way. |
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| 130 | [[folder:Asian Animation]] |
| 131 | * ''Animation/{{Lamput}}'': In "Robinput", the evil king uses his assistant, who happens to have the right shape, as a boomerang as a way to attack Robin Hood Lamput's merry men while defending himself from a barrage of arrows. It hits them both, and they fall off the platform where Robin Hood Lamput's execution is taking place. |
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| 134 | [[folder:Comedy]] |
| 135 | * On his album ''On The Road'', Creator/GeorgeCarlin had a bit where he talked about the perfect murder: Pick a guy up, and use him to kill another guy. Both die, and there's no murder weapon. |
| 136 | [[/folder]] |
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| 138 | [[folder:Comic Books]] |
| 139 | * ''Franchise/TheDCU'': |
| 140 | ** During [[Characters/ShazamMarvelFamily Mary Marvel]]'s FaceHeelTurn in ''ComicBook/CountdownToFinalCrisis'', she lays the beatdown on [[Characters/WonderGirlDonnaTroy Donna Troy]] with [[ComicBook/GreenLantern Kyle Rayner]]. |
| 141 | ** Also, in ''ComicBook/Trinity2008'', Characters/{{Superman|TheCharacter}} grabs the ankle of his [[MirrorUniverse anti-matter]] [[EvilTwin counterpart]] [=Ultraman=] (not to be confused with the more famous ''tokusatsu'' character), and swings him face-first into the Characters/{{Wonder Woman|TheCharacter}} analogue, Superwoman. |
| 142 | ** In ''ComicBook/SupermanVsTheAmazingSpiderMan'', [[Characters/MarvelComicsOttoOctavius Doctor Octopus]] manages to grab Characters/{{Superman|TheCharacter}} and smash him into [[Characters/MarvelComicsPeterParker Spider-Man]] at one point during the final confrontation. |
| 143 | ** In ''ComicBook/InferiorFive'', a villainess holds up an inflatable infant and asks "you wouldn't hit a woman with a baby, would you?" Dumb Bunny: "No, I'd hit her with a grown man!" Wham! |
| 144 | ** In the second issue of ''ComicBook/DemonKnights'', [[Characters/DCComicsVandalSavage Vandal Savage]] beats a dinosaur to death [[http://comicrunway.files.wordpress.com/2011/10/demonnights-neves3.jpg with another dinosaur.]] |
| 145 | ** In one arc in the post-''ComicBook/ZeroHourCrisisInTime'' ''ComicBook/LegionOfSuperHeroes'', Mordru [[http://www.minorvariation.net/comics/Magno/sd/L482.jpg hit Star Boy with Mon-El,]] made especially notable by the fact that M'Onel is a CaptainErsatz of UsefulNotes/{{the Silver Age|OfComicBooks}} ComicBook/{{Superboy}}. |
| 146 | ** In ''ComicBook/RedDaughterOfKrypton'', Characters/{{Supergirl|TheCharacter}} grabs the tail of a Diasporan alien invader and swings him around, hitting a bunch of enemies with him. |
| 147 | ** In one ''ComicBook/Supergirl1972'' issue, Linda has to rescue a man from two giant octopi and a giant manta. Linda grabs the manta's left flipper and slams it into both cephalopods, wielding it like a flail. |
| 148 | ** During a battle in ''ComicBook/GothamCityGarage'', [[ComicBook/{{Supergirl}} Kara]] picks up an android's ripped arm and hammers another mechanoid with it. |
| 149 | ** ''ComicBook/{{Bizarrogirl}}'' provides a variant: Bizarrogirl tries to turn Supergirl into stone. Supergirl vibrates her way out of her stone shell, grabs it and slams Bizarrogirl with it. |
| 150 | ** Arm-Fall-Off-Boy, a rejected candidate to member of the ''ComicBook/LegionOfSuperHeroes'', may rip his ''own'' arm off and beat you with the wet end. |
| 151 | ** During one battle in ''ComicBook/TheGreatDarknessSaga'', a Servant of Darkness grabs Phantom Girl with a telekinetic lasso and slams her into her teammate Shadow Lass. |
| 152 | ** ''ComicBook/TheEarthwarSaga'': Variant. When the Legion engages a squad of space pirates, Superboy picks one of their starships and smashes it into another ship. |
| 153 | ** In ''ComicBook/{{Hitman|1993}}'', ComicBook/{{Etrigan}} uses the corpse of a dead mob boss to beat up an alien parasite who interrupted the funeral. |
| 154 | ** During one battle in ''ComicBook/TheGreatPhantomPeril'', Superman grabs Jax-Ur and uses him as a throwing hammer to beat up other Phantom Zoners. |
| 155 | ** In ''ComicBook/Superboy1994'', Black Zero takes out Kon-El and the original ComicBook/{{Superboy}} Clark Kent by pinning the one with his feet to the ground with his TTK and grabbing the flying one to bludgeon him with. |
| 156 | ** In ''ComicBook/TheJungleLine'', Superman is struggling with deadly hallucinations when Swamp Thing goes into his mindscape to calm him down. Believing him to be another hallucination, Superman tries to bludgeoning Swamp Thing with the bone of another creature conjured up by his feverish mind. |
| 157 | ** ''ComicBook/AMindSwitchInTime'': When three villains gang up on Superboy, one of them grapples with the young hero so his partner can punch him. However, Superboy whirls around so the first mook gets hurled off and collides with his partner. |
| 158 | ** ''ComicBook/ThePhantomZone'': At the climatic final battle, Superman grabs Kru-El by the ankles and slams him against his partner Jax-Ur. |
| 159 | ** ''ComicBook/ThePlagueOfTheAntibioticMan'': The story opens with Nam-Ek grabbing Flash by the ankles and using him to clobber Superman. |
| 160 | ** All the way back in ''ComicBook/SensationComics'' #2 Characters/{{Wonder Woman|TheCharacter}} is depicted swinging one goon by the ankle to hit his fellow with. The story inside is quite different, as it involves Dr. Poison's first appearance where she kidnaps an injured [[Characters/WonderWomanAllies Steve Trevor]] to try and force him to reveal Allied secrets with a truth serum. |
| 161 | ** In ''ComicBook/WonderWoman1942'' #28 Diana wrapped both hands around [[Characters/WonderWomanCheetah Cheetah]]'s neck and then lifted and spun her to knock down Cheetah's fellow Villainy, Inc. members. |
| 162 | ** ''ComicBook/WonderWoman1987'': During "The Witch and the Warrior" ComicBook/WonderGirl, [[ComicBook/YoungJustice Empress]] and Monstergirl take Mustang Suzie out of the fight with her ally Giganta. |
| 163 | * A [[WartimeCartoon WWII-era]] ''Cat-Man'' featured the eponymous hero [[https://web.archive.org/web/20150812092631/http://www.superdickery.com/more-cat-man/ beating up a German soldier with a Japanese one]]. |
| 164 | * "You realize you're talking to a man with a human head in his hands who has every intention of using it to beat these people to death?" -- Jack Hawksmoor, ''ComicBook/TheAuthority'' |
| 165 | * In ''ComicBook/{{Asterix}}'', if Obelix does not punch a Roman soldier (or a pirate), he will grab him by the foot and start hammering the others around him. |
| 166 | * In one ''ComicBook/LuckyLuke'' book, when menaced by one large and one small prison guard, Joe Dalton threatens to beat the big one up with the little one. |
| 167 | * In an issue of the ''Franchise/SuperMarioBros'' comic, in the ''WesternAnimation/CaptainNTheGameMaster'' portion, Princess Lana is framed for Mother Brain's crimes ([[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking including a plethora of unpaid parking tickets]]) and Samus is arrested for defending her (the real judge having been replaced by Ridley) and both are sent to different parts of a prison colony. While the Princess is off defending the rights of prisoners, Samus defends herself with this trope when attacked. |
| 168 | * In ''ComicBook/SecretInvasion2008'', Canadian goddess Snowbird killed the Skrull god [[PunctuationShaker Kly'bn]] with the spine of the slain [[EldritchAbomination Demogorge]]. |
| 169 | * ''ComicBook/XMen'': |
| 170 | ** One of their trademark attacks is the "FastballSpecial", where [[Characters/XMen70sMembers Colossus]] throws [[Characters/MarvelComicsLogan Wolverine]], claws outstretched, at the enemy. Other characters have done it too and called it such; at least once Nocturne possessed somebody in this manner. |
| 171 | ** [[TheComicallySerious For a character not known for his sense of humor]], Colossus once cut short an argument with [[Characters/MarvelComicsEmmaFrost Emma Frost]] by throwing her diamond body at a villain, taking to heart [[Characters/MarvelComicsCyclops Cyclops]]' advice to do something unexpected. |
| 172 | --->'''Emma:''' You can't just throw people at all your problems, dear. |
| 173 | * In ''ComicBook/SavageAvengers'', Wolverine passes out through blood loss with his claws out. Conan promptly uses him as a kind of living flail until he wakes up. |
| 174 | * ''ComicBook/{{Invincible}}'' did this while he was trying to protect Wolf-Man, who was framed for murder, from being taken by superhero team Guardians Of The Globe -- he just grabbed their leader's head and beat the rest of them with him, [[SugarWiki/MomentOfAwesome casually tossing him over the horizon when he was done.]] |
| 175 | * ''ComicBook/ThePunisher'': |
| 176 | ** Typical [[Characters/MarvelComicsFrankCastle Frank Castle]]: |
| 177 | --->'''The Punisher:''' Looks like they sent two hitmen after me. It's a lot of work resisting the urge to beat the big one to death with the little one. |
| 178 | ** When fighting The Russian, [[Characters/MarvelComicsPeterParker Spider-Man]] tries to get involved, and gets effortlessly tossed aside for his troubles. Punisher uses the unconscious Spider-Man to help throw the Russian off the Empire State Building. |
| 179 | --->'''Spider-Man:''' ''[waking up]'' ...what happened?\ |
| 180 | '''The Punisher:''' [[BondOneLiner We had a team-up. You were great.]] |
| 181 | * In the ''ComicBook/SamAndMaxFreelancePolice'' comic ''On the Road'', Sam grabs Max by the ankles and swings him at a biker, knocking him off his motorcycle. Max finds the experience refreshing. |
| 182 | * ''Franchise/{{Transformers}}'': |
| 183 | ** In issue 3 of the comic mini-series "Headmasters", Fortress Maximus throws Skullcruncher (in beast mode) into Scorponok to throw off his aim. |
| 184 | ** Also, an issue of ''Transformers'' where Apeface has his arm ripped off while in gorilla mode. He proceeds to pummel everything in sight with it. |
| 185 | ** ''ComicBook/TheTransformersMoreThanMeetsTheEye'' has [[MotorMouth Swerve]] saving [[TheAce Thunderclash]] from what turns out to be an opportunistic spy and would-be thief that's holding a gun to Thunderclash's head... by sneaking up on the villain and bashing them over the head with the psychologist Rung in his mysterious "ornament" alternate mode, albeit here serving the role of "beating stick". |
| 186 | ** In ''ComicBook/TheTransformersMegaseries'', Thunderwing picks up Ruckus and uses him to smack Roadgrabber out of the air, killing both Decepticons at once. |
| 187 | * [[Characters/MarvelComicsDeadpool Deadpool]] once threw Alani a.k.a. [[Characters/NewXMenAcademyX Loa]] at a bunch of BackFromTheDead zombie Acolytes. This trope is [[https://comicvine.gamespot.com/a/uploads/original/14/143741/2914780-xforceannual1loahasseri.jpg quite effective because Alani has the power to dissolve matter on contact.]] |
| 188 | * This technique is employed by Thorn Harvestar in the first volume of ''Comicbook/{{Bone}}'', where she uses Fone Bone (a CartoonCreature half her size) to headbutt an oncoming rat creature. Naturally, Fone is not amused by her actions. |
| 189 | -->'''Fone:''' [[WhatTheHellHero Hey!]]\ |
| 190 | '''Thorn:''' I'm sorry! It was a reflex! |
| 191 | * In ''ComicBook/DarkwingDuck'', F.O.W.L.'s giant mecha, The Walrus, freezes Steelbeak and Femme Appeal with a stasis beam. Then, for absolutely no discernible reason whatsoever, it grabs Femme and uses her as a ''sword'' to fight Darkwing... who then grabs Steelbeak and parries. Neither of the two F.O.W.L. agents was amused. |
| 192 | * A panel of ''ComicBook/TheLifeAndTimesOfScroogeMcDuck'' shows him wielding a miner wielding a shovel. |
| 193 | * Implied to have happened to [[ComicBook/{{Transmetropolitan}} Spider Jerusalem]] as he lays unconscious after a brain injury. Recalling the incident that put him under, Spider protests, "Bullshit. I've been hit harder than that. [[NoodleIncident I've had people from Scotland thrown at me.]]" |
| 194 | * In the final battle of ''ComicBook/GhostRider: Road to Damnation'', the archangel Ruth and the demon Hoss fight with a pair of still living soldiers. |
| 195 | * In the final battle of ''ComicBook/GodzillaRulersOfEarth'' volume 4, Godzilla grabs Anguirus's tail and uses him as a club against Mecha-King Ghidorah, swinging Angy so that he hits MKG with his hardened, spiked back. It is somewhat odd that the large spikes on Angy's tail don't make Godzilla's hands/paws bleed, especially given that the series has shown the Big G and other kaiju bleeding before. |
| 196 | * In [[http://blackestglass.tumblr.com/post/89510904574/myriadnakama-itseggplant-so-everyone-talks this picture]], ComicBook/IronMan gets used as a blunt weapon by [[Characters/MarvelComicsCarolDanvers Carol Danvers]]. |
| 197 | -->"Fine. The old-fashioned way, then!" |
| 198 | * In the new Marvel ''Franchise/StarWarsExpandedUniverse'' comics, Chewbacca is a big fan of this. In ''[[ComicBook/StarWarsVaderDown Vader Down]]'', he fights Triple-Zero by ripping off its arm and beating the assassin droid with it. And in [[ComicBook/StarWarsChewbacca his eponymous series]], Chewie dispatches a human mook by smashing a Gonk droid over the thug's head. |
| 199 | * In the IDW line ''ComicBook/StarWarsAdventures'', there's Bats, a slightly crazed B1 battle droid who spontaneously manifested a conscience when Obi-Wan deflected a blaster bolt into his head in such a way that it merely burned out his obedience circuits. Bats assists Obi-Wan and Captain Rex in escaping their predicament but is captured by his original droid company in turn, so as to analyze his newfound conscience. This turns out to be nothing but trouble for the Separatists, as Bats, being as unhinged as his name suggests, promptly snaps the arm off another B1 and begins threatening everyone else with it. It's no idle threat either, as Obi-Wan finds Bats beating the crap out of a T-1 Tactical Droid with the same severed limb. |
| 200 | -->'''Obi-Wan:''' Bats, I appreciate your enthusiasm, but please leave the T-1 alone. We're here to rescue you.\ |
| 201 | '''[[DeadpanSnarker T-1 Tacticial Droid]]:''' He's not the one who needs rescuing. |
| 202 | * ''ComicBook/{{Zombo}}'': Zombo uses a [[ManOnFire burning man]] as a weapon against zombies. |
| 203 | * Near the end of ''ComicBook/{{Revival}}'', one of the revivers uses his HealingFactor to sever his own arm and sharpen the exposed bone into an improvised weapon against his captors. |
| 204 | * In ''ComicBook/WynonnaEarp: Home on the Strange'', Wynonna rips an arm off one of the zombie mailmen and uses the arm to beat the zombie to death (again). |
| 205 | * ''ComicBook/AdventureTimeGraphicNovels'': LSP uses Tree Trunks as a weapon to beat the Zombie Twins. |
| 206 | * ''ComicBook/AtomicRobo'': In "It's a Lovely Day Tomorrow", Robo dispatches two German soldiers by grabbing one by the leg and beating up the other with him. |
| 207 | [[/folder]] |
| 208 | |
| 209 | [[folder:Fan Works]] |
| 210 | * The ''TabletopGame/BattleTech'' story ''Fanfic/AlongCameASpider'' has a battle between the Wolves and the Ghost Bears devolve to a battle between their Khans, Ulric in a [[LightningBruiser Gladiator]] versus Alethia in a [[FragileSpeedster Firemoth]]. The Ghost Bear’s Khan was [[DeathOfAThousandCuts taking Ulric’s ‘Mech apart a piece at a time]], severing the arm that carried the majority of his firepower. When she went in for the kill, he swung at her, but Alethia dodged just out of range of his fist… but not the severed arm he picked up. He proceeded to [[GoombaStomp crush her cockpit]], killing her and destroying the Ghost Bears’ morale. |
| 211 | * ''Fanfic/BrotherOnBoard'': What does Sabo use to free himself from Mr. 3's candle service set? Miss '10,000 Kilogram' Valentine, that's what. |
| 212 | * ''Fanfic/ACertainDrollHivemind'': From "Entry 14", mixed with StopHittingYourself, from Accelerator: |
| 213 | --> It does not hurt as much as when the Accelerator decided to play 'stop hitting yourself' with Misaka-2813's arms and legs, and we tolerated that. Even if it did take a long time for him to beat her to death with her own limbs. |
| 214 | * In the ''Manga/RanmaOneHalf'' fic, [[http://www.iamnota.net/ff:comes%20the%20cold%20dragon Comes the Cold Dragon]], a drunken Soun ends up using a waitress's ex-boyfriend as a makeshift naginata, in the middle of a bar fight instigated by Happosai. |
| 215 | * ''Fanfic/TheDarkLordsOfNerima'': During a sparring match between Ranma, Mousse, and Ryouga, which is crashed by the rest of the NWC, Kuno gets knocked out and is briefly used as a projectile between Ranma and Ryouga. |
| 216 | * In ''Fanfic/DiariesOfAMadman'', Trixie tries to hurl Twilight at Navarone but misses. Later Nav manages to injure himself through this, after killing a timberwolf but being knocked into a wall by the body. |
| 217 | * In ''Fanfic/DungeonKeeperAmi'', Marda, the troll chieftess, uses the body parts of several of Mercury's reaperbots to dismember their fellows during the stress-testing portion of their development. |
| 218 | * Shikome is a master of this technique in ''Fanfic/{{FREAKINGENSOKYO}}''. |
| 219 | * ''Fanfic/HailToTheKingThuktunFlishithy'': |
| 220 | ** Very frequent. It appears that this story's Godzilla has quite the penchant for ripping out a monster's arm and beating the monster with it. Just ask [[spoiler:Sachiel, Titanosaurus, Israfel (both of them)]]. A less gory example of this occurs in Chapter 10. During Operation Kusanagi, Godzilla pummels [[spoiler:Unit-02 into the ground with Unit-01]]. |
| 221 | ** In Chapter 22, Shinji uses [[spoiler:Anguirus]] as a mace against [[spoiler:Zeruel.]] |
| 222 | * Jun Shigeno in the ''Fanfic/HorseshoesAndHandGrenades'' story, ''Month of Sundays'' uses [[spoiler: Shotaro's mannequin arm, long story]] to fight off Damballa, even slapping him across the face with it! |
| 223 | * In ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/2565609/169/Odd-Ideas Acts of Mercy]]'', Mercy Graves clubs one [[Literature/HarryPotter Gringotts]] goblin with another goblin. Due to all participants statuses as {{Blood Knight}}s, the only complaint of the goblin being used as a club was that he wasn't actually fighting, which he rectified by stabbing Mercy in the stomach. |
| 224 | * In ''[[Fanfic/SecurityWorm I, Scion]]'', Scion confronts the Slaughterhouse Nine. Jack kept trying to talk, so Scion broke his jaw with Shatterbird. Recovering, Shatterbird tries to encase the hero in glass, so he broke out, using Jack as a blunt weapon. She kept trying to attack, so he beat her into submission, again, using Jack. |
| 225 | * Harry Potter in ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/2565609/183/Odd-Ideas Helitrox]]'' first beats up a goblin then , uses him as a club to beat up a troll. |
| 226 | * Chad to Yammy with the latter’s severed arm in ''Fanfic/HammeredDown'', because Hierro is too damn thick. |
| 227 | * In ''Fanfic/HellsisterTrilogy'', Kryptonian hero Dev-Em uses a Para-Demon as a whip to knock dozens of his comrades out of the sky. |
| 228 | -->Dev-Em had grabbed one of the Paras by the ankles and was using him as a more-or-less-human flail, knocking demons out of the skies by the dozens. He finally threw his "weapon" away and hurled himself bodily into a bunch of them, throwing them out like toothpicks catapulted from an uncovered blender. Luckily, [[Characters/SupergirlTheCharacter she]] could tell with her super-hearing that the Paras he hit were just kayoed, not killed. |
| 229 | * ''Fanfic/HereComesTheNewBoss'': Before meeting Elpis and getting some proper training, Konnigit reportedly beat up several E88 members using another member. Needler even quotes this trope. The level of brutality involved puts him on the PRT's suspect list for Butcher XV, although Kid Win notes that it's probably ''less'' dangerous than a SuperStrength punch. |
| 230 | * ''Fanfic/{{Hivefled}}'': Gamzee is [[BerserkerRage displeased]] when Vriska tells him to cheer up because the horrible mutilations he suffered at the hands of [[AbusiveParents his own bloodlink]] are "[[ComplimentBackfire fucking hardcore]]", and beats her up with her own torn-off mechanical arm. |
| 231 | * In ''Fanfic/AHollowInEquestria'', Ulquiorra invokes this when fighting the Majini during the filler. He grabs one by the legs and swings them about to take down a number of others. |
| 232 | * In ''Fanfic/KyonBigDamnHero'', Yuki invokes this trope in the first CurbStompBattle against Yakuza, when Yuki, Kyon, and Tsuruya are outnumbered 3 to 1. Kyon learns from this and invokes this trope when he engages in his CurbStompBattle, while outnumbered 12:1. In both cases, they kick/fling/punch their opponents hard enough that they collide with someone else. |
| 233 | * In ''Fanfic/TheLastSpartan'', The Master Chief uses a dead Geth Juggernaut's body to plow through other geth attacking him. |
| 234 | * In ''Fanfic/MyHeroAcademiaUnchainedPredator'', the Doomslayer tears off Shigaraki's right arm with his bare hands and delivers a brutal beatdown on him with it during his CurbStompBattle against the smug supervillain in the Kiyashi Ward shopping mall. |
| 235 | ** Later on, during the I-Island siege, the Slayer grabs a Saber by one of their legs and begins using him as a human club against the other mercs when he goes loud. |
| 236 | * ''[[https://archiveofourown.org/works/26868238/chapters/88634632 One Stands for All]]'': When the USJ Nomu tries to protect Shigaraki from Nana, her response is to pick it up and start beating Shigaraki with it until he lands a lucky hit and disintegrates it. |
| 237 | * ''Fanfic/OniGaShikuSeries'': Izuku's Armsmaster Style revolves around the use of all sorts of weapons, including other people - something he uses to great effect when the League of Villains attacks the USJ. He got the idea from watching Saejima do the same. |
| 238 | * In the ''WesternAnimation/{{Superjail}}'' fanfic ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/9496377/12/Passion-of-the-Guardiane Passion of the Guardiane]]'', Bruce beats OriginalCharacter Charlotte Lucien to death with her own prosthetic leg. |
| 239 | * ''Fanfic/ThePalaververse'': ''Wedding March'': In a version of the game ''TabletopGame/{{Clue}}'', murder could be committed by the use of "a very small and exceptionally pointy unicorn". |
| 240 | * ''Fanfic/ThePiecesLieWhereTheyFell'': [[spoiler: During the battle with Sharp Point and his gang, Vix-Lei grabs one of Sharp Point's ponies and starts using them like a flail]]. |
| 241 | * In ''[[Fanfic/PokeWars Poké Wars: The Exigence]]'', Mewtwo rips off Registeel's arms and proceeds to beat the crap out of him with them. |
| 242 | * Ash's Charmeleon used an enemy Ekans to fight off a horde of Poison Pokemon in ''Fanfic/PokemonResetBloodlines'' during the Poison War arc. This ended when he decided to use ''Fling'' with the Ekans. |
| 243 | * ''Fanfic/QueenOfShadows'': During the [[BigBadassBattleSequence Battle of Awaji]], Tsume at one point cuts a human soldier in half and tosses one piece of the corpse at [[ActionGirl Yasashi]], who bats it away and keeps chasing him. |
| 244 | * ''Fanfic/TheRedDragonsSaber'': While fighting the Fallen Angels, Artoria Pendragon swings and throws them into each other several times. |
| 245 | * In the ''WesternAnimation/JackieChanAdventures'' and ''WesternAnimation/TeenTitans2003'' crossover fanfiction ''Fanfic/AShadowOfTheTitans'', the Titans are watching footage of the AxCrazy villain Gadjo's early known career. We don't see or hear much of it, but at one point he's apparently "whaling on zombies ''with'' a zombie". |
| 246 | * In the ''WesternAnimation/XMenEvolution'' fanfic ''Fanfic/TheSuperStarrChronicles'', during [[spoiler: the battle against Bounty in chapters three and four, Fred tosses Pietro at the intergalactic bounty hunter]]. |
| 247 | * In ''Fanfic/TheSwarmOfWar'', the Host’s attack against Bugklaw’s forces starts with him summoning a small army of Zerg and ''flinging'' them at the Ork tanks and Stompa. |
| 248 | * In ''Fanfic/ThisBites'', Cross ends up as Luffy's weapon against the Billions. |
| 249 | ** Luffy does it again, this time with a random Marine, in Navarone. |
| 250 | * ''Fanfic/ThousandShinji'': During her battle against [[spoiler:the MP-Evas]], Asuka flung the body of an enemy she had just killed at another, hitting it squarely. |
| 251 | * ''Fanfic/VowOfTheKing'': At Nemu's execution, Ichigo knocks out Renji by hitting him with Iba. |
| 252 | * In ''Fanfic/ZeroVsKira'' when two Brittanian thugs attack Suzaku at once, he smashes them into each other. |
| 253 | [[/folder]] |
| 254 | |
| 255 | [[folder:Films — Animation]] |
| 256 | * In ''WesternAnimation/BarbieAndTheSecretDoor'', Malucia levitates the trogs with magic and throws them at Alexa. |
| 257 | * In ''WesternAnimation/ABugsLife'', Slim the walking stick bug is the sword in the circus bugs' Robin Hood routine (much to his displeasure). |
| 258 | -->'''Slim:''' (''flatly'') [[DeadpanSnarker Swish-swish. Twang-twang.]] |
| 259 | * ''WesternAnimation/TheIncredibles1'': This happens during the family's first fight as a team. They use Syndrome's {{Mooks}} as weapons to take out more henchmen. |
| 260 | -->'''Dash:''' Hey, mom! That was ''sweet'' when you snagged that bad guy with your arm and kinda whiplashed him into the other guy! |
| 261 | * ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyTheMovie1986'': In order to shake Draggle off it, the Phlume grabs her exposed ponytail and repeatedly rams her head into its bulb before pulling her away from it and slamming her into its midsection and ramming her head into that. It also rams Reeka and Draggle into each other later in the scene. |
| 262 | * ''Anime/PatlaborTheMovie'': Ohta runs out of ammo fighting rogue [[AMechByAnyOtherName Labors]] and briefly uses the arm of one he ripped off to destroy some of the others. |
| 263 | * ''WesternAnimation/ToyStory1'' features a scene where a LaughingMad Buzz is briefly [[GetAHoldOfYourselfMan brought back to his senses]] by a hard slap in the face from Woody. It's this trope because Woody does this using Buzz's own severed arm, lost in an earlier accident. As he is a plastic toy, this is hilarious rather than gruesome. Also in ''WesternAnimation/ToyStory2'', when the toys have to break through a vent that's been screwed shut, the fake Buzz tells Rex to [[UseYourHead "use your head"]]. [[GilliganCut Cut to a shot of them running down the vent]] with Rex as a battering ram as he yells "But I don't wanna use my head!". |
| 264 | * In ''Fanfic/TheSuperStarrChronicles'', Fred tosses Pietro at Bounty. |
| 265 | * ''WesternAnimation/TheTransformersTheMovie'': During the KangarooCourt scene where Kup and Hot Rod are hopelessly outnumbered by Sharkticons, Kup has no weapons available to him (Hot Rod at least has his [[ArmCannon exhaust blasters on his wrists]]). The old veteran's solution? Pick up a Sharkticon, snap its tail off, and use it like the flail it resembles. He immediately proceeds to brain two Sharkticons with it and wades into the fight. |
| 266 | [[/folder]] |
| 267 | |
| 268 | [[folder:Films -- Live-Action]] |
| 269 | * ''Film/AtomicBlonde''. During the apartment fight with the police, Lorraine [[ImprovisedWeapon wraps a fire hose around a cop's neck]] and flips him onto his back. As he does so the cop's feet fly into the air, hitting his partner in the face and knocking him out. |
| 270 | * ''Film/CityHunter'' has Ryo (Creator/JackieChan) pick up ''his partner'' (Chingmy Yau) and use her as a weapon. The gun in her leg holster does most of the work, though. |
| 271 | * Creator/JetLi picks {{Music/Aaliyah}} up and uses her to fight off a female assailant in ''Film/RomeoMustDie''. You see, he WouldntHitAGirl, so he manipulates ''her'' arms and legs to attack the bad girl. |
| 272 | * In ''Film/GodzillaXKongTheNewEmpire'', Kong is suddenly ambushed by a group of other giant apes, including a child ape named Suko. Suko lunges at Kong's face and tries to claw his eyes out, and Kong responds by grabbing the little guy by the leg and using him as a bludgeon against the other attacking apes before hurling him at one of them. Suko is not harmed by this at all though. |
| 273 | * ''Film/HellboyIITheGoldenArmy'': The climatic battle against the eponymous [[MechanicalMonster Golden Army]] had Hellboy using a severed arm from one of them, complete with blade extended from its wrist, to impale, sever, and slice apart several other creatures of the army. |
| 274 | --> '''Hellboy''': "[[VisualPun Give me a hand]]!" |
| 275 | * In ''Film/{{The Birth of a Nation|1915}}'' one of the ''"heroic"''(!) Ku-Kluxers clobbers several black guys with one of their friends. |
| 276 | * The display room fight in ''Film/HighRisk''between Kit and Rabbit. At one point, Rabbit throws a dead mook at Kit's direction in order to distract him, and lands a kick through the corpse knocking Kit over. |
| 277 | * ''Film/HouseShark'': When Abraham has the shark looming over him, he grabs a nearby squatter who was in the house and hits the shark with him several times. |
| 278 | * Another comedic example comes from ''Film/ShaunOfTheDead'', in which during the climax David [[spoiler: is pulled apart by invading zombies]]. His girlfriend, instead of lying back and crying, gets mad and [[spoiler: uses his separated leg to fight her way through the zombie horde]]. Strangely enough, according to the DVD extras [[spoiler: she survives]]! [[spoiler: And eats the leg a bit.]] |
| 279 | * In Creator/JetLi's ''Film/MyFatherIsAHero'' (also known as ''Letter To Daddy''), there's a scene where his character and his character's young son are surrounded on all sides by enemies. The young son is a martial arts champion in his own right and there's rope on hand, so Jet ties the rope around the kid's waist and proceeds to ''throw'' the kid at his enemies, whereupon the boy kicks at least half of them in the face running horizontally around their massed ranks. |
| 280 | * Threatened in ''Film/SurfNinjas'' when one character utters the line "Don' make me beat you with the leg of mine that no longer works 'cause ''I'll do it''!" |
| 281 | * In ''Film/SpaceJam'', one of the Monstars uses Tweety like a golf ball and uses Foghorn Leghorn as a club. |
| 282 | * ''Film/IronMonkey'': A woman is kicked and used as a projectile against Hin-hung. |
| 283 | * Referenced in ''Film/PiratesOfTheCaribbeanDeadMansChest'' after Will has been knocked out with an oar. "Leave him to lie, unless you plan on using him to hit something!" |
| 284 | * The fight in ''Film/ShakespeareInLove'' between Creator/WilliamShakespeare's cast and Burbage's men in the Rose ends when Hugh Fennyman KO's Burbage with a human skull prop. |
| 285 | * In ''Film/TheTerminator'' (first movie), Kyle Reese briefly uses the eponymous Terminator's severed arm to smack it across the face. |
| 286 | * ''Franchise/FridayThe13th'': |
| 287 | ** Played for laughs in ''Film/JasonX'' when Jason is lured into a holographic simulation designed to provoke him. By the time we cut back to Jason and a pair of (virtual) bubble-headed sexually promiscuous drug-and-alcohol-abusing female campers, Jason has somehow forced them back into their sleeping bags and is furiously using one to bludgeon the other. (This scene was a ShoutOut to a famous kill from ''Film/FridayThe13thPartVIITheNewBlood'', where Jason slams a woman in a sleeping bag against a tree.) |
| 288 | ** ''Film/FreddyVsJason'' also had Jason impaling Freddy with his own severed arm. |
| 289 | * In ''Film/TransformersRevengeOfTheFallen'', when Optimus Prime is triple-teamed by Megatron, Starscream, and Grindor, he is seen at one point beating Starscream with his own severed arm before [[spoiler:being killed by Megatron]]. Of course, being a robot, Starscream is able to retrieve his arm and reattach it afterward. After Megatron hits him with it a couple of times too. |
| 290 | ** In the last battle, Optimus Prime (now combined with Jetfire) manages to make Megatron shoot himself in the face. |
| 291 | ** After [[KidAppealCharacter Bumblebee]] [[spoiler:kills Ravage... [[FamilyUnfriendlyDeath by peeling him]]... he uses what's left to smack Rampage in the face]]. |
| 292 | * ''Film/{{Archangel}}'': Jannings is literally gutted by a German soldier, his intestines spilling all over the floor. Jannings manages to shake off this minor boo-boo long enough to get up and kill a German soldier by strangling the German with Jannings' own spilled intestines. |
| 293 | * In ''Film/{{Alexander}}'', one of Alexander the Great's companions - Cleitus the Black - is seen during the Battle of Gaugamela using his sword in one hand and a Persian's severed head in the other. He blocks another (more alive) Persian's attack with the sword, before clubbing them with the head. |
| 294 | * In the martial arts movie ''Film/TheGoldenLion'', the titular protagonist constantly uses his natural strength in fight scenes against multiple mooks to fling mooks into each other. |
| 295 | * In ''Film/{{Ironclad}}'', based on the siege of Rochester Castle in 1214, one of the castle defenders hacks the arm off one of the attacking mooks. Another defender, lacking a weapon, picks up the stump and proceeds to beat another attacker to death with the wet end. |
| 296 | * Similar to the Jet Li example above, in ''Film/ScottPilgrimVsTheWorld'', Scott is [[WouldntHitAGirl unwilling to attack Roxanne]] (one of Ramona's evil ex's). Ramona first fights off Roxanne with a giant hammer but is told that Scott must be the one to defeat her. So, Ramona jumps behind Scott and starts moving his arms and feet to land punches and kicks on Roxanne. |
| 297 | * ''Film/TheMatrixReloaded'': After Neo breaks free from the [[SendInTheClones Smiths]]' DogPileOfDoom, he grabs one of them, swings him around and throws him at a bunch of other Smiths, scattering them like bowling pins. |
| 298 | * Film/TheToxicAvenger is prone to doing this, most notably in the first movie where he rips a thug's arm off (so effortlessly, in fact, that the thug requires several seconds of visual confirmation before noticing) and casually knocks him out of the fight with it. |
| 299 | * In ''Film/NightOfTheDemon'', a man is whipped to death with his own entrails. By Bigfoot. |
| 300 | * A strip bar bouncer is clobbered with his own ripped off arm in ''Jolly Roger: Massacre at Cutter's Cove''. |
| 301 | * A woman is beaten with her friend's severed head in ''Blood Cult''. |
| 302 | * ''Film/DemolitionMan'': In one scene, Simon uses an innocent bystander not actually as a weapon but as a smashing tool to break a museum glass box. |
| 303 | -->'''Bystander:''' What seems to be your boggle?\ |
| 304 | '''Phoenix:''' My boggle? Oh, brother. (''beat'') Hold on... how much do you weigh?\ |
| 305 | '''Bystander:''' Well... I happen to weigh exactly... (''grab'') WAAAUUGGHH [=*SMASH*=] |
| 306 | * The final mech rampage from ''Film/District9'' have Wikus, powering the [[MiniMecha Prawn's exo-suit]], using it's zero-gravity beam to grab a pig and throw it into a mook. |
| 307 | * From ''Film/KungPowEnterTheFist'': "I need gopher-chucks!" |
| 308 | * In ''Series/KamenRiderOOO WONDERFUL: The Shogun and the 21 Core Medals'', Series/KamenRiderFourze, appearing as TheCameo[=/=]GuestStar uses Switch 5, Magic Arm, to grab Kamen Rider OOO and fling him into an opponent, knocking him back into where he came from. |
| 309 | * ''Film/KingKong2005'': In Kong's fight with the ''Vastatosaurus'', several times he uses his immense strength to lift up and bodyslam one of them into the other two. |
| 310 | * In the 2007 version of ''Film/{{Hairspray|2007}}'', in an attempt to get Tracy to appear on ''The Corny Collins Show'', the guards unknowingly use a giant bottle of hairspray (with Tracy inside) to bang open the door to the studio where the show was being filmed. |
| 311 | * In ''Film/TheLordOfTheRingsTheTwoTowers'', an Ent can be seen using an orc (along with a troll) to bludgeon other orcs. |
| 312 | * Downplayed in ''Film/JackReacher''; in the bathroom fight scene, Reacher knocks down one guy onto another and smashes the top guy's head into the bottom guy's until both are out. |
| 313 | * ''Film/TheTransporter''. The protagonist recaptures the 'package' (a BoundAndGagged young woman) and carries her back to his car [[OhCrap only to find two motorcycle cops have stopped to investigate]]. As a NotWhatItLooksLike ploy clearly isn't going to work, he throws the woman at the cops when they go for their guns, then follows it up with some martial arts. |
| 314 | * Variant in ''Film/SherlockHolmes2009'': Holmes, after swiftly calculating a couple of angles, touches an electrified fork to a metal pipe in the wall that a mook he has been engaged in fisticuffs with is hanging onto. The resulting shock not only sends the mook [[BlownAcrossTheRoom flying across the room]], it causes him to slam straight into ''another'' mook several feet away who is holding a knife to Watson's throat, sending ''him'' flying across the room as well (and as seen later, accidentally breaking his neck and killing him). |
| 315 | * ''Film/SnowWhiteAndTheHuntsman''. PlayedForLaughs with the introduction of Eric the Huntsman, who's in a BarBrawl with a GiantMook. At one point the mook punches an onlooker who gets in his way. Seeing this, Eric grabs another onlooker and throws him in the mook's path. It doesn't slow him. |
| 316 | * In ''Film/MontyPythonAndTheHolyGrail'', and by extension ''Theatre/{{Spamalot}}'', the French catapult a cow and numerous other animals at King Arthur and his knights. |
| 317 | * In yet another Jet Li example, ''Film/TheWarlords'' have Li's character, a general leading his own army, impaling an enemy rebel and throwing the rebel's corpse atop a cannon, causing it to misfire into the ground in a massive explosion killing a dozen other surrounding rebels. |
| 318 | * In ''Film/TheWorldsEnd'', several times human robots are beaten with their own limbs. |
| 319 | * ''Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse'': |
| 320 | ** In ''Film/IronMan2'' Tony does this with some Hammer Drones using parts from other Hammer Drones. |
| 321 | ** In ''Film/CaptainAmericaTheWinterSoldier'' the eponymous Winter Soldier takes down a Quinjet by kicking some poor bastard [[TurbineBlender into the engine]]. |
| 322 | ** During the opening battle of ''Film/AvengersAgeOfUltron'', Cap drags a HYDRA mook behind his motorcycle before throwing the guy into some other mooks. |
| 323 | ** In ''Film/CaptainAmericaCivilWar'', Bucky uses Cap's [[MadeOfIndestructium shield]] to help clear the way of mooks... with Cap still wielding it. |
| 324 | ** In ''Film/ThorRagnarok'', Thor's "Get Help" plan involves him staggering in holding a 'wounded' Loki, whom he then throws at the guards as a projectile. Hilariously, it's implied they've done this multiple times before. Loki is (needless to say) not as enthusiastic as Thor about using their old gag. |
| 325 | ** In ''Film/{{Captain Marvel|2019}}'', when Carol breaks free from the Skrulls' mind-reading machine, she throws Talos at his mooks, knocking them down. |
| 326 | * ''Film/Venom2018'': During the SWAT team fight, Venom grabs one mook and starts using him as a blunt instrument, knocking down seven other mooks before throwing him away. |
| 327 | * To escape from a stalker in ''Film/{{Limitless}}'', Lindy slashes him across the face with a small girl wearing ice skates. |
| 328 | * ''Film/{{The Three Musketeers|1921}}'': D'Artagnan is fighting with a mook at the top of a flight of stairs. Eventually, he picks up the mook and throws him downstairs into the path of a second mook who is climbing the stairs in pursuit. |
| 329 | * ''Franchise/UltraSeries'' movies have a few examples, with highly drestructive results befitting how the combatants are Ultra-warriors several stories tall, battling against kaijus and sometimes ''dai''kaijus. For instance in ''Film/UltramanRBTheMovieSelectTheCrystalOfBond'', where Ultraman Groob momentarily knocking Tregear out of the sky so that Tregear lands on the giant monster Snake Darkness and in ''Film/UltramanTaigaTheMovieNewGenerationClimax'' when Grimdo, now growing large to the point of dwarfing the Ultras, grabs a captive Ultraman Taro and flings him at Ultraman Reiga (though Reiga, having the powers of 11 Ultramen, is strong enough to catch Taro without hurting him). |
| 330 | * The final battle of ''Film/TheWarriorsWay'' has a quick scene where Yang runs his sword through a ninja, then flips him onto another, knocking the second ninja out cold. |
| 331 | * ''Film/{{Winterskin}}'': When Billy confesses that he let [[CanineCompanion King]] out the night before, leading to him being skinned by one of the monsters outside, Agnes gets mad at him, rips of one of King's back legs, and starts beating Billy with it. |
| 332 | * ''Film/Deadpool2016''. Deadpool is seen [[SeveredHeadSports soccer-kicking]] a baddie's [[OffWithHisHead decapitated head]] to pelt one of his buddies from afar. |
| 333 | * In ''Film/RogueOne'', heroic droid K2 is trying to talk three stormtroopers into going on a wild goose chase. Cassian chooses this moment to call in over comms, ruining the attempt. K2 gives up and just grabs one of the stormtroopers, then beats the other two unconscious with him. |
| 334 | * Emilio Capra [[https://i.imgur.com/Xi4Tf6A.jpg does this]] to an unfortunate Ducky Boy during the big brawl towards the end of ''Film/TheWanderers''. |
| 335 | * In ''Film/DemonKnight'', the demon possessed Cordelia uses [[BulletproofHumanShield Wally's body to block Brayker's shots]], and then throws the corpse at him. |
| 336 | * ''Film/OuijaMummy'': When Karate Irving tries to use his martial arts moves on Ahotep the 1st, she twists his leg off, and then beats him to death with it. |
| 337 | * ''Film/TodayWeKillTomorrowWeDie'': During the fight in the trading post, O'Bannion grabs one of the Comancheros and throws him bodily into several of his comrades. |
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| 340 | [[folder:Literature]] |
| 341 | * OlderThanFeudalism: In ''Literature/TheBible'' (Literature/BookOfJudges), the captured Samson breaks his bonds and kills a thousand Philistines using the first thing within reach: the jawbone of a donkey skeleton. |
| 342 | * In ''Literature/{{Beowulf}}''... well, let's just let [[WesternAnimation/{{Recess}} Miss Grotke]] explain: |
| 343 | --> ''"And then our hero, Beowulf, rips Grendel's arm off and beats him with it."'' |
| 344 | * Another pre-Biblical example in ''Literature/TheTrojanCycle'', where some versions have Neoptolemus, also known as Pyrrhus ([[PyrrhicVictory not that one]]), beating King Priam to death during the sacking of Troy... ''with his infant grandson Astyanax''. |
| 345 | * In ''Literature/{{Gone}}'', Caine throws Duck at the Darkness. It doesn't seem like much, but Duck has altered his mass to that of a ''mountain''. |
| 346 | * In ''Literature/RomanceOfTheThreeKingdoms'', Cao Cao's entourage was ambushed by their treacherous host. Trapped without his armour or weapons, Cao Cao's bodyguard, Dian Wei, grabbed a loose sword and slew the enemies until it broke... whereupon he picked up a couple of soldiers and used them as bludgeons. |
| 347 | * ''Literature/{{Discworld}}'': |
| 348 | ** ''Literature/LordsAndLadies'': |
| 349 | --->"I saw Jason Ogg hit three elves with the first thing he could lay hands on."\ |
| 350 | "Another elf?"\ |
| 351 | "Right." |
| 352 | ** ''Literature/{{Jingo}}'': |
| 353 | *** Reg Shoe gets his arm cut off while fighting Klatchians. Being a zombie, he's not much bothered by this and uses his severed arm as a club. And then he's puzzled when the enemy runs away screaming. Vimes muses they're not used to his form of [[{{Pun}} unarmed combat]]. |
| 354 | *** Earlier in the same book, the [[AllTrollsAreDifferent troll Watch officer Sergeant Detritus]] casually hits a bunch of men with another man. After climbing on top of the pile he tells the rest of the crowd they must disperse, or he is prepared to use force. The man who served as Detritus' weapon asks what he just used and is told that that was just "you helping the Watch." |
| 355 | ** Used vicariously by Corporal Carrot in ''Literature/MenAtArms'' to avert a potential riot between a parade of trolls (marching in one direction) and a parade of dwarves (marching in the other direction). When Carrot perceives that the bickering of Lance-Constable Cuddy (a dwarf) and Lance-Constable Detritus (a troll) is doing nothing to ease tensions between the two groups of marchers, he orders, "Lance-Constable Detritus, salute!" Detritus salutes. His hand is full of Cuddy. They're both wearing helmets. Mutual unconsciousness ensues. With their incitement thus removed, Carrot (using his "krisma") berates the other trolls and dwarves for being silly chaps who ought to be ashamed of themselves for wanting to riot and cause mass bloodshed and destruction. (With fellow watchman Nobby eventually commenting that if anyone ''else'' tried it, ''they'' would end up as a stain on the pavement. It's good to be Carrot.) |
| 356 | ** Lampshaded in ''Literature/GoingPostal'' when Moist overhears a group of would-be bar brawlers carefully choreographing their upcoming melee. |
| 357 | --->"We have an Igor standing by, so if your arm gets taken off do pick it up and hit the other bugger with it, it gets a laugh and twenty points." |
| 358 | ** The clown martial art of "''sloshi''", [[AllThereInTheManual as discussed in supplemental material]] like the ''Discworld Companion'', provides training as an ImprobableWeaponUser for all kinds of unlikely armaments -- buckets, ladders, balloons, pies -- including (cooperative) fellow clowns. |
| 359 | ** The Nac Mac Feegle take their babies into battle for use if a weapon if need be. |
| 360 | ** Various members of the Silver Horde have resorted to this. One of them is well known for fighting 100 men, killing 99 of them with his bare hands, and the remaining 1 with his (that is to say, the remaining man's) own hands. |
| 361 | * In ''Literature/TheHammer2022'', Tiny's favorite method of attack when unarmed is to grab a {{Mook|s}} and use them as a club against the other mooks. Given his superior SuperStrength from his Mana Body technique, he's able to swing grown men around like clubs and throw them as projectiles. The poor victims usually have bones in their legs broken at the very least. |
| 362 | -->'''Tiny:''' ''[after being mocked for not having a weapon]'' What do you mean "without a weapon"? ''[grabs a mook by the ankle]'' I have one right here. |
| 363 | * In ''Literature/TheHitchhikersGuideToTheGalaxyTrilogy'', Arthur Dent had the misfortune of meeting with Agrajag: an entity that has been constantly and continuously {{reincarnat|ion}}ed: always following a death that was directly or even indirectly caused by Arthur Dent. In one incarnation, Agrajag was a simple rabbit that got killed by Arthur Dent and had his body skinned to become a personal handbag. Later on, Agrajag was reincarnated as a housefly: and ended up getting crushed by Arthur Dent using ''the very same handbag'' that his previous incarnation was made into. |
| 364 | * In ''Literature/TheHeroesOfOlympus'', Percy defeats Polybotes by smashing his face in with Terminus' head. |
| 365 | * In ''Literature/WorldWarZ'', one of the last interviewees mentions having a [[ProfessionalWrestling former pro wrestler]] in his squad whom he describes as a "Roidasaurus" who at least once picked up a zombie and used it as a club against other zombies. |
| 366 | * ''[[Franchise/FridayThe13th Friday the 13th: Hate-Kill-Repeat]]'' has a part where Jason beats a girl to death with her boyfriend's severed head, while she's wrapped up in a tent. Later, another character is garroted with his own guts, though Jason apparently decides that this isn't killing the guy fast enough, so he proceeds to just rip his head off. |
| 367 | * In one ''Literature/{{Animorphs}}'' book, Rachel (in bear morph) beats a Hork-Bajir with her own severed arm. In another, she uses the blades on a Hork-Bajir's decapitated head to stab another Hork-Bajir. |
| 368 | * There was a Creator/ShelSilverstein poem, in which a bunch of pen-drawn people were being chosen for football positions. Each was drawn burly and compact, with the exception of one tiny little player, who became the designated "ball". |
| 369 | * In the ''Film/IronMan2'' novelisation, Tony beats on some Hammeroids with parts from other Hammeroids, noting that [[WhatMeasureIsANonHuman he wouldn't be able to do this with humans.]] |
| 370 | * In Creator/IsaacAsimov's novel ''Literature/TheNakedSun'', a robot's detachable arm is used as a murder weapon. The [[ThreeLawsCompliant First Law]] did not kick in, because the robot did not know until too late what would happen as a result of carrying out its instructions (which were to await the next furious argument between the murder target and his wife, then detach its arm and hand it to her). |
| 371 | * In ''[[Literature/TheLordOfTheRings Return of the King]]'', the armies of Mordor use psychological warfare at the siege of Minas Tirith: they catapult the severed heads of their enemies, branded with Sauron's eye symbol, over the walls of the city. |
| 372 | * A bizarre short story titled "Sen Yen Babbo and the Heavenly Host" involved a professional wrestler with a natural-looking cyborg arm. Part of his gimmick was that at a key point in a match, the adversary would rip the limb loose, with lots of simulated gore, and this guy would then come back from the "shock," seize his arm back with his other hand, and bludgeon his foe into defeat with the cyborg arm. Unfortunately, despite being promoted as a "Face," he was an AxCrazy who beat a few of his opponents ''to death''. And then Divine Justice came along, in the form of [[spoiler:a not-especially-bright adversary who got mixed up and tore off the ''wrong'' arm, causing the psycho "Face" to collapse in shock]]. |
| 373 | * [[TheBerserker Fyodor]] in ''Daughter Of The Drow'' caught one deepbat by the tail to clobber others from its pack with it. |
| 374 | * In the novel ''VideoGame/StarWarsTheOldRepublic: Fatal Alliance'', at one point, Satele Shan is caught in space without a suit, so she curls into a ball and uses yhe Force to protect herself while Shigar Konshi (who has a suit) pulls her into his ship. When he realizes that she's practically invulnerable in this state, he uses her as a battering ram against enemy droids. |
| 375 | * In ''[[Literature/TheDresdenFiles Changes]]'', while tag-team dueling a pair of monsters, Harry uses wind magic to pick up a Red Court vampire and slam it forcibly into the shins of its co-duelist. As its battle partner is several yards tall, the unlucky vampire gets stomped into paste, and the giant creature slips in the resulting LudicrousGibs. |
| 376 | * Creator/SimonRGreen: |
| 377 | ** ''Literature/ForestKingdom'': In the ''Hawk & Fisher'' spinoff series' book 3 (''The God Killer''), a psychotic magical construct calling itself the Dark Man goes on a rampage, part of which involves it smacking Watch officers around with the human head it's carrying. |
| 378 | ** Also a common battle-tactic of Droods in the ''Literature/SecretHistories'' series. At one point, Eddie takes down a helicopter by picking up one of the Mooks who've been machine-gunning him and [[HelicopterBlender tossing the man into the rotors]]. |
| 379 | * In ''Literature/TheVampireEarth'', Ahn-Kha (giant ape-like grog) beats a Twisted Cross minion to death with the head of the Twisted Cross, the General. Unfortunately, immortality hasn't been good to the General and he starts falling apart after the second blow. |
| 380 | * In Literature/TheOregonFiles book ''Corsair'', the protagonist finds himself facing a bad guy on top of a speeding boxcar. His solution? Tear off his own [[ArtificialLimbs prosthetic leg,]] use it as a war mace to beat the man within an inch of his life, then finish him off with the leg's [[ArmCannon built in high-caliber pistol,]] sending the man sailing over the side and into a ravine. |
| 381 | * The ''Literature/{{Redwall}}'' tale ''Eulalia!'' includes a scene of Mad Maudie beating up enemies with a live snake. |
| 382 | * In ''[[Literature/MonsterHunterInternational Monster Hunter Nemesis]]'', when veteran MCB agents are informing a newbie agent about Special Agent Franks, one of the stories they relate about Franks is that he once ripped the arm off a werewolf, and beat the were to death with his own limb. |
| 383 | * In ''Literature/TheNekropolisArchives'', protagonist Matthew Richter is a zombie, and it's not uncommon for his limbs to get torn off during combat. In "Disarmed and Dangerous", after a Cyclops named Troilus tears one of Matt's arms off, Matt picks up the severed limb and uses it to jab Troilus's eye out. |
| 384 | * In ''Literature/HorusHeresy'', Curze picks up Azkaellon and uses him as a blunt weapon in his fight with Sanguinus. For a touch of SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome, Azkaellon is hurt worse than Curze's intended target. |
| 385 | * In ''Literature/NoSuchThingAsWerewolves'' Blair uses one of the guys in power armor as a projectile to take out a helicopter. |
| 386 | * In some versions of UsefulNotes/TheTrojanWar, Neoptolemus beats King Priam to death with the corpse of his infant grandson. |
| 387 | * The RSM in Daniel Carney's ''Film/TheWildGeese'' threatens this during pre-op training: |
| 388 | --> "Lieutenant Fynn, sir," he said politely, but with infinite menace, "if you don't swing your right arm in unison with your left leg, I shall be forced to cut it off and hit you about the head with the wet end." |
| 389 | * In the ''Literature/ExHeroes'' series, the superhero St. George often fights off zombie hordes by simply grabbing one and using it as a flail or battering ram. Given that he's usually the first one to engage the hordes in battle, he does this a ''lot''. |
| 390 | * ''Literature/APracticalGuideToEvil'': |
| 391 | ** During the Battle of Great Strycht, one of the first drow Mighty that Catherine fights has a Secret that shatters her sword on contact, so she just grabs the Mighty itself by the leg and proceeds to use it as a handy combination of mace and shield. |
| 392 | --->'''Catherine:''' Look, it's just ''really'' hard finding a weapon that won't break. Bear with it. |
| 393 | ** It's a running gag among the band of heroes fighting the Dead King's invasion is that the best tactic they've found for taking out the fleshcrafted undead behemoths he fields as siege engines is for the Witch of the Woods to telekinetically bludgeon them with the Mirror Knight. |
| 394 | * ''Literature/AfterTheRevolution'': Roland's introductory chapter and EstablishingCharacterMoment involves him clubbing [[AssassinOutclassin a would-be assassin into submission with his own severed right arm]] while naked and high on acid. The fact that said arm had been shot loose by an anti-tank weapon, and that Roland's {{Nanomachines}} lets him simply reattach the errant limb to the stump after the battle, probably accounted for at least ''some'' of his reasoning for doing so. |
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| 396 | |
| 397 | [[folder:Live-Action TV]] |
| 398 | * Hercules is fond of this in ''Series/HerculesTheLegendaryJourneys''. Most often he grabs a bad guy (or even a damsel in distress occasionally), turns him/her sideways and holds him/her behind his back. Hercules then proceeds to use the person's feet and legs to kick/bludgeon bad guys repeatedly. |
| 399 | * ''Series/{{Scrubs}}'': |
| 400 | ** A fantasy sequence has Dr. Cox and Dr. Kelso pulling on Dr. Miller's arms, eventually ripping them off, and using them to beat each other. |
| 401 | ** A similar fantasy sequence has the Janitor use a saw to cut off JD's arm before picking it up and slapping him with it. |
| 402 | * ''Series/{{Andor}}'': Brasso ends up using the brick into which Maarva's cremains have been ceremonially baked as an ImprovisedWeapon against a couple of nearby Imperial agents. Considering how much she hated the Empire, it's likely that Maarva would have approved of her remains being used this way. |
| 403 | * ''Series/{{Angel}}'': |
| 404 | ** A flashback has Spike complimenting Angelus on beating the groom at a wedding they crashed to death with his own arm. A less direct example also had Angelus killing The Beast with a dagger made from its own bones, although he didn't have anything to do with creating it. |
| 405 | ** Illyria sees her most fervent follower shot dead by Wesley. She shows her callous disregard by kicking his corpse at Wesley. |
| 406 | * ''Series/TheBrittasEmpire'': Brittas and Linda are heavily implied (they’re covered in blood and feathers, and Brittas mentions that he was attacked) to have been attacked by a man using the body of his prized hawk after Brittas accidentally helps set up its death in “An Inspector Calls”. |
| 407 | * ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'' often has this to justify a VillainExitStageLeft, e.g. to explain why Buffy doesn't pursue a vampire, it's because the vamp threw the victim he was about to feed on into Buffy, knocking her down. |
| 408 | ** In "[[Recap/BuffyTheVampireSlayerS7E9NeverLeaveMe Never Leave Me]]", Buffy briefly uses a [[ButtMonkey tied-up Andrew]] to hit a pair of Bringers. |
| 409 | ** "[[Recap/BuffyTheVampireSlayerS2E21BecomingPart1 Becoming, Part One]]". Seeing Cordelia about to be attacked by a vampire, Xander throws the vampire he's struggling with into the second vampire. Bonus points for Xander doing this ''[[CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass after the first vampire had already broken his arm]]''. |
| 410 | * ''Series/{{Chuck}}'': |
| 411 | ** When Casey and Chuck were tied back-to-back in two chairs, Casey just lifted Chuck up and swung him around to kick baddies in the face. |
| 412 | ** In another episode, when Chuck and Sarah are handcuffed together, Chuck swings her around in a manner that looks like a hybrid of dancing and this. Casey also takes the same occasion to revisit the example above, this time using Morgan as a club. |
| 413 | * In ''Series/KamenRiderDecade'''s [[Series/KamenRiderDenO World of Den-O]] arc, Den-O[=/=]Momotaros' [[FinishingMove Final Attack Ride]] is Den-O's regular finisher, in which its sword blade detaches on an energy "chain" and is then swung around...except that the blade jabs into Yuusuke[=/=][[Series/KamenRiderKuuga Kuuga]], who is at the moment in his Final Form Ride form (an insect-like machine). What results is EpicFlail with a living flail, and the zenith of Yuusuke's ButtMonkey treatment (literally) in the Den-O arc. |
| 414 | * ''Series/SaturdayNightLive'': |
| 415 | ** One of the many commercial parodies includes "Bug Off", which instead of actually ''killing'' cockroaches submits them to ridiculous torture including tweezers ripping their limbs off and beating them senseless. |
| 416 | ** Another sketch has a bunch of ninjas discussing the ass-kicking they just received from some hero, and one of them tells another that when he was unconscious, the hero used him like a bludgeon against the rest of them. |
| 417 | * ''Series/TrueBlood'': When a {{Jerkass}} tries to [[spoiler:put silver in his face, [[EnsembleDarkhorse Eric Northman]] flips shit, rips off the guy's arm and beats him with it. There is no GoryDiscretionShot]]. |
| 418 | * ''Series/ICarly'': In "iHalloween", while the gang was broadcasting their web show in a supposed haunted house, things began to get freaky and they start to leave. Unfortunately, the door got locked. While trying to figure out a way to open the door, Carly suggests hitting it with something. Sam [[KickTheDog promptly proceeds to use Freddie.]] |
| 419 | * ''Series/NightCourt'': Two examples, both in Season 5 |
| 420 | ** In "Hit the Road, Jack", a riot is started in the cafeteria that involves Christine's father ''"knock[ing] Harry cold"'': |
| 421 | --->'''Christine''': What happened?!\ |
| 422 | '''Bull''': Your father hit him with something.\ |
| 423 | '''Christine''': What?\ |
| 424 | '''Sparky''': ''(a little person)'' Me! |
| 425 | ** In "Mac's Dilemma", Dan (the prosecutor) describes the actions of the defendant in a bar fight as getting into an argument with someone ''"...and then attacked him with a blunt instrument. Specifically, the manager."'' |
| 426 | * An episode of ''Series/FamilyMatters'' saw Steve Urkel advise Richie on how to deal with a bully who hit him over the head with his little brother whenever he complained to a teacher. Apparently, he learned it at home; after Richie beat up the bully, his mother confronted Richie's mom Rachel in a supermarket and tried to hit her over the head ''with her husband''. |
| 427 | * ''Series/StarTrekDiscovery'' had the crew of the ''Discovery'' fire a photon torpedo at a Klingon ship ''with a dead Klingon strapped to it''. [[NiceJobBreakingItHero That was not the brightest idea of the bunch]]. |
| 428 | * ''Series/StarTrekPicard'' decided to one-up that by having the ''Shrike'', the CoolShip of Season 3's BigBad Vedic, tractor beam a derelict ship ''and chuck it at the USS ''Titan'' as if it were nothing!'' |
| 429 | -->'''Jean-Luc Picard:''' (''incredulous'') What did she just ''do''?!\ |
| 430 | '''Sydney La Forge:''' She... threw a ship at us... sir. |
| 431 | * ''Series/TheEricAndreShow:'' A variation. One of the few times Eric Andre refused to do his usual [[TrashTheSet furniture-destroying, set-wrecking rampage]] during the intro, they hook him up to a wire harness and trash the set ''with'' him instead by using the guy as a wrecking ball. |
| 432 | * The ''Franchise/UltraSeries'' do this sometimes, and when it happens its ''awesome''. |
| 433 | ** ''Series/UltramanLeo'' does this on a regular basis, such as severing Antales's tail and using it to [[OffWithhisHead decapitate the monster]], tearing away Akumania's horn and [[EyeScream using it to stab Akumania in the eye]], ripping off Boze's arm and smacking Boze with it... |
| 434 | ** One episode of ''Series/UltramanEighty'' had 80 fighting Alien Baltan and a remote controlled Baltanian warship simultaneously. 80 resolves it by grabbing Baltan's legs and throwing him face-first into his own warship. Cue fiery explosion. |
| 435 | ** ''Series/UltramanOrb'' does this when he's in [[SuperpoweredEvilSide Thunder Breaster form]]. Such as pulling apart Galactron's appendages and using it to hammer Galactron, or slicing off Orochi's tail to smack Orochi in the face. |
| 436 | [[/folder]] |
| 437 | |
| 438 | [[folder:Magazines]] |
| 439 | * A common theme in men's adventure pulp magazines from the 1950s feature cover stories of attacks by vicious animals -- one titled "Weasels Ripped My Flesh" showed a guy brandishing a weasel to club away at a swarm of weasels. This was also used for a swarm of monkeys, flying squirrels(!), etc. |
| 440 | [[/folder]] |
| 441 | |
| 442 | [[folder:Music]] |
| 443 | * Music/NinjaSexParty: |
| 444 | ** The song "Samurai Abstinence Patrol" describes a heated battle, during which "[[AxCrazy Brian]] stabbed some random guy with a different guy." |
| 445 | ** In "The Mystic Crystal", [[spoiler:Ninja Brian again shows a tendency towards this, using Danny Sexbang's broken body as a club and beating the villain to death with him]]. |
| 446 | [[/folder]] |
| 447 | |
| 448 | [[folder:Podcasts]] |
| 449 | * In the ''Podcast/{{Sequinox}}'' episode "Inferno pt. 1", [[spoiler: Scorpio throws Chel at Syd with such force that Syd is killed on impact and Chel follows soon after]]. |
| 450 | [[/folder]] |
| 451 | |
| 452 | [[folder:Pro Wrestling]] |
| 453 | * Something of a staple. This comes in a few forms: |
| 454 | ** Helping an ally [[BellyFlopCrushing splash]], by providing a portable ringpost for them to climb. Often done when one member of a tag team is over the 2m height mark. |
| 455 | ** Whipping a partner to splash into a victim, often lying in a corner and waiting for impending doom. A real-life variant of a FastballSpecial. |
| 456 | ** The 'meeting of the minds', as it were: grab a head of each enemy, smash together. |
| 457 | ** And into the MightyGlacier realm ... making an opponent smash down into a victim. Whether done by whipping one enemy into a corner and following with another, or by throwing or slamming one down on a prone victim. |
| 458 | * In battle royals and the Wrestling/RoyalRumble, one way to eliminate two opponents at the same time is by throwing one into the other near the ropes so the momentum takes them both over the top. |
| 459 | * While fighting each to recruit Toshie Uematsu to their respective [[Wrestling/ProWrestlingZero1 Pro Wrestling Sun]] [[PowerStable stables]], [[Wrestling/KiaStevens Amazing Kong]] and Nanae Takahashi ended up hitting each other with Uematsu as if she was a club. |
| 460 | * In the build to Wrestling/WrestleMania 23, the mind games between {{Wrestling/Batista}} and Wrestling/TheUndertaker consisted mainly of them tossing opponents at each other. |
| 461 | [[/folder]] |
| 462 | |
| 463 | [[folder:Radio]] |
| 464 | * ''Radio/TheGoonShow'': |
| 465 | ** From "The Spanish Suitcase": |
| 466 | --->'''Bloodnok:''' You nincompoop, Eccles! Take that! And that! And that and that and that! ''[sound of thumping and Eccles yelping in pain]''\ |
| 467 | '''Seagoon:''' Stop! Major! It hurts me the way you're hitting him!\ |
| 468 | '''Bloodnok:''' Why?\ |
| 469 | '''Seagoon:''' You're hitting him with ''me!'' |
| 470 | ** From another episode: |
| 471 | --->'''Greenslade:''' I'll strike you down, sir!\ |
| 472 | '''Seagoon:''' One false move, and I'll horsewhip you -- with this!\ |
| 473 | '''Eccles:''' Put me down! |
| 474 | [[/folder]] |
| 475 | |
| 476 | [[folder:Roleplay]] |
| 477 | * Not actually done in ''Roleplay/DarwinsSoldiers'' but Gustave threatened to dismember Roux and beat her to death with her own limbs if she did anything funny. Alfred used the same threat on Kain. |
| 478 | [[/folder]] |
| 479 | |
| 480 | [[folder:Tabletop Games]] |
| 481 | * The third edition of ''TabletopGame/RuneQuest'' actually has rules for damage to a large creature used as a club by a larger creature, "Such as when a giant picks up an elephant and uses it to swat pesky adventurers." |
| 482 | * Knowing fully well what their players are likely to try to do, several TabletopGames include rules for using another person as an improvised weapon. ''TabletopGame/{{Shadowrun}}'' is one of these. |
| 483 | * One of the peculiarities of the HERO system is that bodies make decent projectiles: the penalties for unbalanced, unaerodynamic missiles are not so extreme to balance out the fact that a KO'd thrown by a high-strength character is actually capable of dealing more damage than, say, a thrown telephone pole. |
| 484 | * ''TabletopGame/MutantsAndMasterminds'' follows suit. People don't make especially good projectiles or melee weapons, but it does do damage to both parties and, since the rules for improvised weapons only allow increased damage from improvised weapons if their toughness is greater than your strength, using a super-tough opponent as a club is one of the few ways to break caps. |
| 485 | * [[http://theglen.livejournal.com/16735.html The 1250]] ''Blog/ThingsMrWelchIsNoLongerAllowedToDoInAnRPG'' has a RunningGag where he's forbidden from having weapon proficiency in using various races as clubs, battering rams, catapult ammunition, anvils... |
| 486 | * ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons'': |
| 487 | ** In 4[[superscript:th]] Edition, there is a magic item called Giant's Gloves. These improve your character's ability to grab an enemy, normally not very useful, but the Gloves add an extra bit of bite to this action. You can throw your grappled target at another enemy within a certain number of spaces, dealing a fair amount of damage to both of them and knocking at least one of them down. |
| 488 | ** More than a few 3e [=DMs=] house-ruled appropriate Weapon Proficiency skills for their creative players; "Weapon Proficiency: Thrown Dwarf", anyone? Bonus when your players then go out of their way to do more of it just to exercise their skill. Cue players grinning madly at the DM when a description of a room full of monsters happens to include a few of the appropriate living ammunition. |
| 489 | ** 3.5 had some feats for large characters: Creature Club, to pick up little guys and hit other little guys with them, and Fling Enemy, to use your opponents as thrown weapons. |
| 490 | ** There's also Fling Ally, but that's typically used to get your allies somewhere safe or more useful rather than actually using them as weapons. |
| 491 | ** 4e monks have no less than 3 ability choices that can do this to your enemy, usually in the old "human bowling ball" form to knock down if not damage a group. Also, Warlords now have the ability to fling their ''allies'' around; combing this with a feat that allows you to make a basic attack after forced movement and the Warlord's normal array of forced-movement and "make someone else attack" abilities, [[GameBreaker lets one character instigate something in the range of a dozen attacks during a single turn.]] |
| 492 | ** In addition the way logic and physics apply in ''D&D'' makes it entirely possible for an unusually strong character to use essentially any living thing he is capable of lifting as a weapon ranging from dwarves to dragons. One memorable case of exactly such an event involved a somewhat drunk human in an arena fight to the death using one giant lightning scorpion to smash another into a pile of gore. Make no mistake he still died, but he died like a man using giant scorpions to kill other bigger giant scorpions. |
| 493 | ** The [[BarBrawl Tavern Brawler]] feat can affect attacks like this, given some creativity, insanity, or [[BreadEggsBreadedEggs creative insanity.]] |
| 494 | ** From the ''Tome of Battle - Book of Nine Swords'', the Setting Sun discipline specializes in projections, and has a couple maneuvers allowing such a move. Notably, "Comet Throw" can propel an opponent against another, damaging both. "Ballisata Throw" is more powerful and throws the opponent in a 60-foot line, damaging everybody standing in the way. |
| 495 | * PlayedForLaughs in ''TabletopGame/GoblinQuest'' with the optional "Hammermancer" class, allowing goblins to tie living animals together and jam the resulting bundle on the end of a stick for use as a hammer. |
| 496 | * Some of the Power Attacks in the {{Kaiju}}-themed miniatures game ''TabletopGame/{{Monsterpocalypse}}'' involve knocking your opponent's monster and/or units around to do serious property damage, including Body Slam (which allows you to move an enemy monster into another space, including one occupied by one or more units or buildings) and Swat (which lets you knock an enemy unit into a building or monster). |
| 497 | * ''TabletopGame/BattleTech'', naturally (?) enough, comes with melee combat rules that among other things allow [=BattleMechs=] to potentially use each other's detached limbs as improvised clubs. Assault 'Mechs can even [[ImprovisedWeapon pick up and swing light 'Mechs around as giant melee weapons]]. |
| 498 | ** In the RPG, there's a picture of an angry-looking man missing an arm, wielding a severed arm that looks like it just might have been his. And he's apparently attacking someone... |
| 499 | ** Even better, the recent advanced rulebook, Strategic Ops now even has options for Battlemechs picking up smaller units like tanks and protoMechs and throwing them at opponents. |
| 500 | * The Infernal ''{{TabletopGame/Exalted}}'' have a Charm called "World-Breaker Grip". Being used as a blunt instrument is just about the ''nicest'' possible fate for the victim. |
| 501 | ** Frankly, the whole of Infernal Monster Style is designed for pure body horror but the worst has to be the charm that allows you to rip bits off someone and use them as improvised weapons. Arms and legs are normal and expected but the charm also functions for internal organs too. The levels of {{Squick}} involved reach a peak when you realise that you can now beat a person to death with a foetus. Bonus points if it was in their uterus until about three ticks ago... |
| 502 | ** And if you know Splintered Gale Shintai, you can ''[[DualWielding dual-wield yourself]]''. |
| 503 | ** The Abyssal's DarkMessiah Style can be used in conjunction with any improvised weapon. A corpse is explicitly mentioned as an improvised weapon for this purpose. There's no size limit for the corpse in either direction of age... |
| 504 | ** Solar Hero has a number of moves that permit you to bowl an opponent into a group of other opponents. |
| 505 | ** Really, Exalted is a game of such over the top action that many players had been wondering quite seriously 'how much damage does a body do' for some years before Infernal Monster Style came along and finally gave a clear baseline. Incidentally, the answer is 7 Bashing damage for an average sized person (which is the same as the number of health levels a Heroic Mortal has). Presumably, those with the Huge Size merit would deal an appropriately increased amount of damage. |
| 506 | * Quite a few Giant cards in ''TabletopGame/MagicTheGathering'', such as [[http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?multiverseid=140217 Brion Stoutarm]] and [[http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?multiverseid=45387 Bloodshot Cyclops]], have the ability "Sacrifice a creature: [This Card] deals damage equal to the sacrificed creature's power to target creature or player". The Card Art and Flavor Text makes it obvious how they do this (i.e., by chucking the sacrificed creature). This started with the Stone Giant in the first set. %% (not the card Fling four years after that). |
| 507 | ** One Goblin card, [[https://scryfall.com/card/lgn/101/goblin-lookout Goblin Lookout]], has a goblin calling for this in the flavor text. |
| 508 | ---> ''"Throw rocks at 'em! Throw spears at 'em! Throw Furt at 'em!"'' |
| 509 | * The ''TabletopGame/YuGiOh'' card game has some, too, most prominently the Catapult Turtle, which was taken to [[ScrewTheRulesIHavePlot hilarious extremes]] in [[Anime/YuGiOh the anime.]] The Amazon Archer works like that too, which would make it throwing allies at the enemy ''as if they were arrows''. The Cannon Soldier seems to use them [[PoweredByAForsakenChild as fuel for the cannon]], though. |
| 510 | ** The [[http://yugioh.wikia.com/wiki/Rokket Rokket archetype]] takes this to its logical extreme: the main deck monsters are dragons designed like bullets and have an effect that triggers when they get targeted by a Link Monster's card effect, self-tributing to destroy a specific enemy card. Meanwhile, their boss monster, [[http://yugioh.wikia.com/wiki/Borreload_Dragon Borreload Dragon]], is a dragon designed like a revolver. It has an effect that targets a monster while being a Link Monster. The rest should be fairly obvious. The anime exemplifies this pretty well: the Rokkets are depicted as being loaded into the cylinder in Borreload's chest and being launched from the barrel hidden in its mouth. |
| 511 | * The Dwarf Tossing card in ''TabletopGame/{{Munchkin}}'', in which a hapless party member who has been staying out of combat is grabbed by the scruff of his neck and hurled at either a monster or another party member. The ''dwarf'' takes no penalties for this. Unlike whoever gets hit. |
| 512 | ** In the set ''Munchkin Bites!'', a non-item bonus "Dead Friend" can be played for +2. If in that game someone has already died, it can also be used as a ''weapon'', is now a big item and takes two hands to use, and gives a +4 bonus. |
| 513 | * Creator/GamesWorkshop games: |
| 514 | ** ''TabletopGame/{{Warhammer}}'': |
| 515 | *** Giants who, as part of their randomized moveset, can grab an opposing creature and either fling it into its own unit or into a nearby unit. Needless to say the creature, and some of his comrades, do not survive this. |
| 516 | *** Orcs and Goblins can field the Goblin Doom Diver catapult, which uses Goblins fitted with wings as its AbnormalAmmo. It was originally conceived as a reconnaissance technique, but since very few divers survived, and typically the slates they were sent up with would be found with a message along the lines of "wheeeee", they decided to make the best of it and just shoot the goblins at enemy units. |
| 517 | *** Most Night Goblin Fanatics use a heavy ball and chain with which to fling themselves wildly into the enemy's ranks. Some used a chained up dwarf instead. |
| 518 | ** ''TabletopGame/Warhammer40000'': |
| 519 | *** [[HumongousMecha Imperial Knights]] equipped with [[PowerFist thunderstrike gauntlets]] can pick up defeated enemies and hurl them at their opponents. In-game, the 8th Edition rules represent this with a 50% chance of causing a nearby enemy unit to suffer [[UnblockableAttack mortal wounds]] if the Knight kills a monster or destroys a vehicle with its gauntlet. |
| 520 | *** The Shokk Attack gun usually fires a snotlings (read:small space goblin) through the Warp to try and TeleFrag the targets, which already does count. But among its many misfires, it can also end up flinging its wielder, who being a freaking ''[[OurOrcsAreDifferent Ork]]'' hurts even more, at the unfortunate target. |
| 521 | ** In ''TabletopGame/{{Gorkamorka}}'', models with the 'Chuck' Muscle Skill are able to throw a defeated opponent in a direction of the player's choice, including at another enemy model with both the thrown enemy and the target taking damage. |
| 522 | * In ''TabletopGame/{{Pathfinder}}'', the spell "Enemy Hammer" allows you to beat one enemy with another using telekinetic power. |
| 523 | ** Barbarians can get the rage power "Body Bludgeon". Basically, the same thing, only while grappling. |
| 524 | * ''Fantasy Craft'' has the grapple move "Screaming Club". After you successfully pin a smaller enemy with a grapple check you can use them as a club, both of the enemies (Club and target) take equal damage. |
| 525 | [[/folder]] |
| 526 | |
| 527 | [[folder:Theatre]] |
| 528 | * ''[[Theatre/TheRevengersTragedy The Revenger's Tragedy]]'': When an officer delivers the severed head of Supervacuo's brother to him, Supervacuo beats up the officer with the head. |
| 529 | [[/folder]] |
| 530 | |
| 531 | [[folder:Web Animation]] |
| 532 | * Occurs in the ''WebAnimation/DickFigures'' episode [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nc-d-2oPCvU&feature=showob "Kung Fu Winners"]]. Red tears off a ninja's leg to use in his fight against the rest of the ninjas. Later, he uses Blue as a human shield against a table flung at him by the big bad before, in turn, flinging him at the big bad. |
| 533 | * In ''WebAnimation/MadnessCombat'' Hank often resorts to this if he has no other weapon availiable. Be it torn off heads or entire people while ''still alive''. |
| 534 | * ''WebAnimation/RedVsBlue'': |
| 535 | ** It's quickly established how terrifying [[SamusIsAGirl Tex]] is: |
| 536 | --->'''Church:''' Poor Jimmy was the last one to go. Tex walked up to him, pulled Jimmy's skull right out of his head, and beat him to death with it.\ |
| 537 | '''Tucker:''' Wait a second... how do you beat someone to death with their own skull? That doesn't seem physically possible.\ |
| 538 | '''Church:''' That's ''exactly'' what Jimmy kept screaming!\ |
| 539 | '''Jimmy:''' ''[in flashback, being beaten to death with his own skull]'' This doesn't seem physically possible! |
| 540 | ** And of course, in her now famous [[CurbStompBattle smackdown]] of Sarge, Simmons, Grif, and Tucker (at the same time no less) in Revelations, all four of them are subjected to this trope at least once. |
| 541 | * Flippy from ''WebAnimation/HappyTreeFriends'' has been known to do this. In "This Is Your Knife", he rips out Cuddles' intestines and uses them to strangle Giggles; in "Keepin' It Reel", he kills Flaky and uses her as a club to hit Cuddles, and in "Operation Tiger Bomb", he uses his deceased friend Sneaky's body parts as weapons against the tiger army (his spine and ribcage as a mace, and his stomach organ as a machine gun using the teeth of one of the soldiers as ammo). |
| 542 | * In ''WebAnimation/ObjectMayhem'', specifically in episode 5, one of Gun's revenge plans involves throwing Mirror into earth in order to KILL Ice Cream. |
| 543 | * In ''WebAnimation/MarvelRisingUltimateComics'', Ms. Marvel does a variant on this against Loki. Thor is paralyzed and clutching his hammer. She can't lift his hammer [[OnlyTheChosenMayWield due to its magical properties]], but she can lift ''him'', so she swings him and hits Loki with the hammer. |
| 544 | * ''WebAnimation/UnbiasedHistory'' has Emperor Diocletian talk terms with the Sassanids he just defeated, and when the latter requested that the Romans be "magnanimous in victory", Diocletian fumed, taking the now-skeletal recovered corpse of Valerian[[note]]he had been captured during the Third Century Crisis, his corpse put on display[[/note]] to pound the escorted soldiers to death as an object lesson as to why they shouldn't be "magnanimous". |
| 545 | * In the ''WebAnimation/MonkeyWrench'' episode "Ghost Egg", Tyneen uses her cybernetic arm's GrapplingHookPistol mode to snare Nobert and swing him into Scratch like a wrecking ball. |
| 546 | * In ''WebAnimation/{{Alphabet}}'', the first thing F does is to beat up D, then use his body to beat up E. |
| 547 | * ''WebAnimation/KnightsOfTheOldRepublicCinematicUniverse'': When [[spoiler:Zaalbar]] is going through with his HeroicSacrifice, he grabs one of the Sith warriors and uses him to bludgeon two others before throwing him at two Sith troopers. |
| 548 | * ''WebAnimation/HelluvaBoss:'' Millie's big rampage at the end of "Exes and Oohs" involves a ''lot'' of beating goons using other goons (or their uprooted bones at least) as weapons, and at one point she even carves up a big one using ''Blitzo'' by swinging him horns-first. |
| 549 | [[/folder]] |
| 550 | |
| 551 | [[folder:Webcomics]] |
| 552 | * In ''Webcomic/BleachHappyToServeYou'', [[OldMaster Yamamoto]] [[NoodleIncident apparently once beat someone to death]] with [[DualWielding dual-wielded]] women (or he might have been trying to pull Unohana off someone). [[spoiler: He repeats the feat with Senna and Tatsuki]]. |
| 553 | * ''Webcomic/KidRadd'' features this as an actual FinishingMove, where Radd picks up the [[NighInvulnerability Nigh-Invulnerable]] Sheena and uses her to beat Kobayashi (pun ''very'' intended). |
| 554 | * In ''Webcomic/NotAVillain'', in the tutorial section of the Game, The Dude bludgeons a fiendi to death... by using the NPC child that he was supposed to be protecting as his weapon. |
| 555 | %%* ''Webcomic/CharbyTheVampirate'': Don't say "unhand me" to the [[http://www.charbythevampirate.com/comic/194/comic_archive cute lil' demon girl]]... |
| 556 | * ''Webcomic/EightBitTheater'' has the [[KamehameHadoken Fighterdoken]]. |
| 557 | ** Not to mention every time Black Mage gets ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice; the weapon he's impaled on will often still be used with him on it. |
| 558 | * Gamespy's webcomic ''Webcomic/FlintlockesGuideToAzeroth'' has Bloodrose. [[http://web.archive.org/web/20080629160139/http://pc.gamespy.com/flintlockes-guide-to-azeroth/episode-16-fast-times-in-arathi-basin/705778p1.html You do not mess with her.]] |
| 559 | * ''Webcomic/{{Girly}}'': Otra uses Winter to [[https://web.archive.org/web/20080226161357/http://girlyyy.com/go/510 beat off vore fetishists]]. |
| 560 | * In ''ComicStrip/{{Nodwick}}'', Yeagar has to have weapon specialization in Henchman. And since they tend to be shorter, he doesn't even have to disassemble Nodwick before attacking with him. |
| 561 | * ''Webcomic/BratHalla'': Before Thor gets Mjolnir, he tends to break every weapon he uses. At one point, having so disarmed himself, he suddenly realises that his brother Balder is ''invulnerable''... so he uses him as a weapon. Note that Balder can still feel pain... |
| 562 | * In ''Webcomic/SluggyFreelance'' Oasis actually grabs two guys who are [[http://www.sluggy.com/daily.php?date=010227 handcuffed together]] so she can use one as a human shield and swing the other one around like a club. |
| 563 | * ''Webcomic/DeadWinter'' has Fight using Flight as an improvised ball-and-chain [[http://deadwinter.cc/page/53 here.]] |
| 564 | * ''Webcomic/DanAndMabsFurryAdventures'' shows us this can even be part of [[http://www.missmab.com/Comics/Vol_1065.php sibling disputes]] just as well they can {{heal|ingFactor}}... |
| 565 | * Webcomic/AGirlAndHerFed: It's a cybernetic arm. [[http://www.agirlandherfed.com/1.662.html Here.]] |
| 566 | * ''Webcomic/TheAdventuresOfDrMcNinja'': |
| 567 | ** Reference: |
| 568 | --->'''Dan:''' So you see, you can beat an alligator to death with another alligator but it's probably not worth the investment. |
| 569 | ** Later used in a climactic confrontation, which doubles as a culmination of HolyBurnsEvil: [[spoiler:After King Radical is vampirized, ''Pope Francis'' is used as a holy bludgeon, which destroys the king completely]]. |
| 570 | * ''Webcomic/GirlGenius'': |
| 571 | ** [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20100224 Done in this strip]] by [[spoiler:Lucrezia]] on Zeetha with Theo as the bludgeon. |
| 572 | ** Later, Vole [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20110729 hits Tarvek with Gil]]. |
| 573 | * Done in a ''Webcomic/{{Goblins}}'' [[http://www.goblinscomic.com/08092010/ strip]] as a way for a lizardman to get around his conviction that you don't fight things you can't eat. After all, if it's one of the MechaMooks doing the actual impact, it's really that mook that's fighting his friends instead, right? |
| 574 | * In ''Webcomic/{{Hellbound}}'', at one point Mel throws a guy through another guy's chest. |
| 575 | * In ''Webcomic/ManlyGuysDoingManlyThings'', Jared catches a Magikarp in ''Franchise/{{Pokemon}}'', and levels it up by bludgeoning other Pokémon with it. He eventually gets his Magikarp, Mr. Fish, [[MagikarpPower to evolve into Gyarados]]. |
| 576 | * ''Webcomic/SchlockMercenary'': |
| 577 | ** Tagon [[http://www.schlockmercenary.com/2004-03-07 swung Breya]] at a goon as part of a tag-team attack. With an added kick (literally). |
| 578 | ** Corporal Chisulo, whose team was tasked with defending a group of UNS politicians, uses a bag full of politicians (ItMakesSenseInContext) as a weapon, [[http://www.schlockmercenary.com/2015-01-30 here.]] |
| 579 | --->'''Chisulo:''' I need to review my [[DiplomaticImpunity diplomatic immunity]] card. |
| 580 | * SupernaturalMartialArts expert Greg of ''Webcomic/ElGoonishShive'' further defies the already strained laws of physics regarding Fire Summons by using the "hair" of one of them to pull this manoeuvre off in [[http://www.egscomics.com/?date=2011-04-29 this strip]]. |
| 581 | * ''Webcomic/DominicDeegan'': |
| 582 | ** Fairly late in the Court of Karnak storyline, maybe November 2010, Karnak provokes Siegfried into striking at him and severing his chains, and then gets the chains wrapped around Siggy and uses him as a flail against the rest of the 'court.' |
| 583 | ** Some little while after this, he uses the same chains and the same move to throw exploding Bulgak into the middle of his enemies, so ''they'' can get hit with Redemption Spillover Damage, instead of him. In this case, obviously, it's less about the impact than the delivery-of-a-soul-hitting-nova. |
| 584 | ** How To Stop An Exploding Dead Orc. |
| 585 | ** And then there was the time when an Orc cult leader was bashed with an expelled rapist frost mage. Neither of them survived. |
| 586 | * Occasionally used in ''Webcomic/BobAndGeorge''. Since Ran can almost instantly respawn after death, leaving behind a corpse, he has been used in everything from explosive {{Fastball Special}}s to beating out fires with his own body. The phrase "Ran-bombs" has been thrown around on multiple occasions. |
| 587 | * ''Webcomic/ElectricWonderland'' [[http://www.platypuscomix.net/electricwonderland/index.php?issue=6&page=16 once]] had Aerynn use NJ as a bat to keep an angry mob at bay. |
| 588 | * In ''Webcomic/ImpureBlood'', [[http://impurebloodwebcomic.com/comic/chapter-1/page-004/ Roan tears off]] a BladeBelowTheShoulder and uses it on the {{Cyborg}} himself. |
| 589 | * ''Webcomic/{{xkcd}}'' fandom [[http://www.xkcdb.com/?6349 reminds]]: a body with excessive piercings can inflict more damage. |
| 590 | * In ''Webcomic/TheHandbookOfHeroes'' comic [[https://www.handbookofheroes.com/archives/comic/magic-weapon "Magic Weapon"]], Fighter uses Wizard as a club. Wizards are magic, so their bodies should count as magic weapons for overcoming damage resistance, right? |
| 591 | [[/folder]] |
| 592 | |
| 593 | [[folder:Web Original]] |
| 594 | * In the ''Literature/WhateleyUniverse'' story "Boston Brawl", Phase finds out that she can control [[spoiler:the {{Technobabble}} that makes Matterhorn seem to be a 40-foot giant]]. She then picks him up and beats the tar out of everyone in reach with his body. |
| 595 | * ''Literature/StoneBurners'': Olivia does this to Freedom Fighter with his own arm while under the [[UnstoppableRage effects of his powers.]] |
| 596 | * In ''Literature/PayMeBug'', [[StarfishAliens Ktk]] can do this with ''[[DualWielding three bodies at the same time]]''. |
| 597 | * [[http://knowyourmeme.com/photos/361214 "I'LL BEAT A MOTHERFUCKER.... WITH ANOTHER MOTHERFUCKER!!!"]] |
| 598 | [[/folder]] |
| 599 | |
| 600 | [[folder:Websites]] |
| 601 | * ''Website/SCPFoundation'': |
| 602 | ** When the PuppeteerParasite [[http://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-378 SCP-378]] is discovered by foundation medics in an agent, it tears off its host's arm and uses it to beat them to death. |
| 603 | ** [[http://www.scp-wiki.net/scp-1975 SCP-1975]] is a cursed dashboard ornament in the shape of a hula dancer that causes anomalous effects designed to cause accidents if placed in a moving vehicle. One of the effects is that it will cause large mammals such as deer or moose within five kilometers to be hurled towards the vehicle if it moves faster than 120 km/h. |
| 604 | * In a variation, [[Website/{{Cracked}} Robert Brockaway]] suggests that when facing off against a wild animal, you [[RunningGag BEAT IT WITH THEIR OWN KIND]]. |
| 605 | [[/folder]] |
| 606 | |
| 607 | [[folder:Web Videos]] |
| 608 | * [[BloodKnight Grog]] of ''WebVideo/CriticalRole'' once ripped the jaw off a TortureTechnician he was fighting and proceeded to beat his skull in with it. It was generally considered [[ColdBloodedTorture the guy deserved it]]. |
| 609 | * In ''WebVideo/DragonBallZAbridged'', though nothing comes of it, after being blown to bits, Android 16 asks Gohan if he could pummel his father to death with his head. |
| 610 | * ''WebVideo/MyWayEntertainment'': |
| 611 | ** Don't mess with Juggernaut. He'll [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bSuvOVH0aSQ hit you with your own pimp]]. |
| 612 | ** "I will beat the shit outta you, Charles. I'll beat the shit outta you ''with'' Charles!" |
| 613 | [[/folder]] |
| 614 | |
| 615 | [[folder:Western Animation]] |
| 616 | * ''WesternAnimation/AdventureTime'': |
| 617 | ** In the episode "Lady and Peebles", ''Princess Bubblegum'' does this to [[spoiler:Ricardio. Using one of his new legs! Which she '''ripped off'''!!]] |
| 618 | ** In another episode called "Little Dude", a candy person possessed by Finn's animated hat becomes super-strong and starts throwing a gummy horse around. |
| 619 | --->'''Life-Giving Magi:''' Look out! ''He's got the horse again!'' |
| 620 | * In "Season's Beatings" of ''WesternAnimation/AmericanDad'', TheAntiChrist Nemo takes control of Steve. When Steve proves a poor choice of bodyguard, Nemo telekinetically uses him to club Stan. |
| 621 | * In ''WesternAnimation/TheAvengersEarthsMightiestHeroes'' [[Characters/MarvelComicsBruceBanner The Hulk]] uses '''''The Everlovin', Blue-Eyed [[Characters/TheThing Thing]]''''' as a club to defeat Doombots! |
| 622 | * ''WesternAnimation/BatmanTheBraveAndTheBold'': |
| 623 | ** In "The Last Patrol!", the giant Elast-Girl grabs one of the Mutant Master's mutant bodies and uses it to pound another one. |
| 624 | ** Ironically, Mary Marvel gets pounded on by Captain Marvel using Captain Marvel Jr when he's possessed in "The Malicious Mr. Mind". |
| 625 | * In ''WesternAnimation/Ben10AlienForce'' season 3 (Primus), Ben didn't exactly rip Vilgax's arm off and beat him to with it, he just grabbed a hold of his wrist and proceeded to hit him repeatedly with it while saying "Stop hitting yourself" every time he uses Vilgax's fist to punch Vilgax in the face. |
| 626 | -->'''Kevin:''' "Heh-he, classic!" |
| 627 | * In ''WesternAnimation/{{Chowder}}'', when Mung and the others "rescue" Schnitzel from Endive, Mung uses a bagged Schnitzel as a sword against her, all while telling her [[HypocriticalHumor that Schnitzel should be with those who respect and care about him.]] |
| 628 | * In the ''WesternAnimation/DuckDodgers'' episode "Pig of Action", when the Cadet is transformed into a super-strong juggernaut, he uses Dodgers as a club to fight the Klunkins. |
| 629 | -->'''Dodgers:''' ''[inner thoughts]'' You know, for a minute there I thought this was real. But it must be a dream because if it wasn't, this would really hurt. ''[whack!]'' And I don't feel a thing. As a matter of fact, my whole face seems to be numb. ''[whack!]'' |
| 630 | * ''WesternAnimation/EarthwormJim'' did this in "The Egg Beater", when he uses Henchrat, having been frozen in a shell of hardened cheese, as a club to utterly plaster Henchrat's boss, Evil The Cat. |
| 631 | * ''WesternAnimation/EdEddNEddy'': |
| 632 | ** In "Big Picture Show", Edd attempts to get [[spoiler:Eddy's Brother]] to stop beating Eddy; in response, he hammers him into the ground with Eddy. |
| 633 | ** In "Little Ed Blue", Ed is in a very bad mood, so when Kevin and Eddy start pestering him he grabs Eddy, molds him into a baseball bat, and uses him to hit Kevin. |
| 634 | ** In "Here's Mud In Your Ed", Eddy used Ed as a bludgeon to knock down Rolf's front door. Though [[TheDitz Ed]] was [[{{Cloudcuckoolander}} blissfully unaware]] [[MadeOfIron and unharmed.]] |
| 635 | --->'''Ed:''' ''[whack]'' Who's there? ''[whack]'' Who's there? ''[whack]'' Who's there? |
| 636 | ** In "O-Ed Eleven", Lee knocks down a door using May. Lee's also used May as a rowboat paddle and an umbrella before. |
| 637 | ** In "May I Have This Ed", Lee grabs Ed and molds him into a hammer to whack Marie (who has similarly "borrowed" Eddy to use as a bludgeon against Nazz) with, but she's interrupted by May. |
| 638 | * ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'': |
| 639 | ** When a pillow fight between Peter, Joe, Quagmire, and Cleveland degenerated into a fistfight, Peter used Joe as a weapon against Quagmire and Cleveland. |
| 640 | ** In a deleted scene of another episode, some school boys can't decide whether to bully Chris or Meg, so they use Meg to beat up Chris. |
| 641 | ** One of the ways Peter tries to keep Brian away from him in "Brian Swings and Sings" is by throwing Stewie at him. |
| 642 | ** In the Peter vs. Giant Chicken fight in "No Chris Left Behind", they kill [[SewerGator an alligator while in a sewer]] then Ernie hits Peter with it. |
| 643 | ** In "It's a Trap!" (the ''Film/ReturnOfTheJedi'' parody), four female stormtroopers are jumped by Ewoks; each grabs her furry assailant and slams it around until it dies. Then use them against each other in a "pillow" fight. |
| 644 | ** In "Meg Stinks!", when Brian gets sprayed by a skunk and grabs Chris's leg while blinded, Chris beats him with Stewie to get him to let go. |
| 645 | * In one episode of ''WesternAnimation/FostersHomeForImaginaryFriends'', Mac and Bloo use Duchess to force open the door to the mansion in an attempt to get her back into Fosters. |
| 646 | * In the ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'' episode "Why Must I Be a Crustacean in Love?", Zoidberg cuts off Fry's arm in a fight to the death. Fry retaliates by beating Zoidberg over the head with it. |
| 647 | * ''WesternAnimation/GIJoeARealAmericanHero:'' In [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ogDdCy_7ke8 the season one opening title sequence]] Bazooka dives into a gun turret and throws out Destro, with Destro being caught in mid-fall by another Joe, who effortlessly tosses him to Roadblock, who then throws Destro straight into the charging Dreadnoks, knocking them to the ground. |
| 648 | * In the ''WesternAnimation/HeManAndTheMastersOfTheUniverse2002'' episode "The Last Stand", He-Man, having to fight Skeletor, ''all'' his Evil Warriors ''and'' the Council of Evil alone, starts the fight by punching a giant so hard he flew through the air and landed on Stinkor and Evil-Lyn, before repeating the performance with the other two and just throwing against the other enemies anyone stupid enough to come into grabbing range (Tri-Klops was the only one he didn't ''immediately'' throw or punch away, and even then it was only because he wanted to use his eye blasts to shoot down another Evil Warrior first). |
| 649 | * ''WesternAnimation/{{Invincible|2021}}'': [[spoiler:In the season 1 finale, Omni-Man holds up Mark in front of an oncoming train. Mark's invulnerable body acts like a brick wall against the train and all of its passengers, covering Mark in blood and guts as their bodies are splattered against his by the train's forward inertia]]. |
| 650 | * A ''WesternAnimation/JackieChanAdventures'' episode had a Franchise/JamesBond spoof where the super-spy Agent Tag was unconscious for the majority of the story, forcing Jackie to drag him around everywhere. One mook tried to intimidate Chan with his nunchuck skills, and Jackie replies by swinging around the dead weight Agent Tag like a nunchuck. [[RuleOfFunny It was quite comical.]] |
| 651 | * On ''WesternAnimation/JimmyTwoShoes'', a [[CatsAreMean Shwartzentiger]] uses Lucius to try and beat [[ItMakesSenseInContext a holographic duck]]. |
| 652 | * In ''WesternAnimation/KingOfTheHill'', Cotton's story on how he lost his shins in UsefulNotes/WorldWarII culminates with him beating Japanese soldiers to death with a chunk of his friend that had been previously mutilated by sharks (ItsALongStory). |
| 653 | * In ''WesternAnimation/KorgothOfBarbaria'', Korgoth tears off a mook's arm and beats him to death with it. |
| 654 | * [[MesACrowd Triplicate Girl]] on ''WesternAnimation/LegionOfSuperHeroes2006'' uses this move with her other selves, ''in a chain''. Validus didn't stand a chance. |
| 655 | * ''WesternAnimation/MegasXLR'' loves this trope. In fact, the very first fight [[IdiotHero Coop]] fights is won by ripping the arm off a charging [[MechaMooks Mecha-Mook]] and knocking it out with it. Hell, a later episode has Coop '''[[SuccessThroughInsanity tear the scales of a worm alien to use it as a nunchuk.]]''' |
| 656 | * The opening of ''[[WesternAnimation/MonstersVsAliens2013 Monsters vs. Aliens]]'' depicts Sta'abi using Link to beat Dr. Cockroach into the ground like a tent peg. She does the same with Coverton in one episode where most of the heroes are {{brainwashed}}, and Coverton is also used as ammo for a tank at one point. |
| 657 | * In ''WesternAnimation/PhineasAndFerb'', Buford does this to Django during a surf contest in "Lawn Gnome Beach Party of Terror". |
| 658 | -->'''Announcer:''' He's got him in a half nelson. Now a full nelson. Oh! And now he's actually beating him with Bobby Nelson! |
| 659 | * ''WesternAnimation/RobbieTheReindeer: Legend of the Lost Tribe'': Old Jingle claims that the last Viking was [[BloodKnight so desperate for a fight]], he [[KickingMyOwnButt beat himself to death with his own arm]]. |
| 660 | * ''WesternAnimation/ThePenguinsOfMadagascar'': |
| 661 | ** In the episode "Mort Unbound", Mort uses King Julien as a weapon to fight the penguins after he got zapped by Kowalski's Super Ray. |
| 662 | ** Leonard uses both Mort and King Julien as nunchucks in the episode "Nighty Night Ninja". |
| 663 | * ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'': |
| 664 | ** Almost happened when Homer was temporarily in charge of a navy fleet and accidentally shot the captain out while he was inspecting the torpedoes. The captain on the other ship tells his crew to respond in kind and when [[ExactWords they then grab him]], he clarifies that he meant with a torpedo. |
| 665 | ** In the ''Treehouse of Horror XV" segment "Four Beheadings and a Funeral", as Homer flees the opium den he throws people to slow his pursuers. Moe tells him to obey the sign, "No Tossing Addicts". |
| 666 | ** In "The Great Louse Detective", Marge remarks excitedly that Stagnant Springs Spa is famous as "[the place] where [[Music/JenniferLopez J-Lo]] hit [[Music/SeanCombs P. Diddy]] upside the head with Creator/GaryColeman". |
| 667 | * ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'': |
| 668 | ** In the episodes "Cartman Gets An Anal Probe" and "Cancelled", Kyle knocks down Cartman with his little brother Ike. |
| 669 | ** In "Super Fun Time", Butter's swings Cartman into a gunman. |
| 670 | * ''WesternAnimation/SpongeBobSquarePants'': The episode "No Weenies Allowed" has [[Characters/SpongebobSquarepantsPatrickStar Patrick]] doing this this ''to himself'' while throwing a fake fight to help [=SpongeBob=] gain admission to the Salty Spittoon. |
| 671 | * ''WesternAnimation/StarTrekLowerDecks'': In "[[Recap/StarTrekLowerDecksS1E02Envoys Envoys]]", in the [=SmorgasBorg=] simulation, Rutherford at one point rips off a drone's arm and uses it to slap said drone around. He later throws a Borg at two others, and the impact deactivates all three of them. |
| 672 | * ''WesternAnimation/StarWarsTheCloneWars'': |
| 673 | ** "[[Recap/StarWarsTheCloneWarsS1E10LairOfGrievous Lair of Grievous]]": After Kit Fisto cuts off Grievous' legs, Grievous manages to pull in one of the clone troopers trying to hold him still with cables and then swings the man's body into the rest of the group while hanging from the ceiling. |
| 674 | ** "[[Recap/StarWarsTheCloneWarsS7E7DangerousDebt Dangerous Debt]]": An Ithorian prisoner who Trace releases from his cell throws one Pyke guard into several others. |
| 675 | ** Wrecker of the Bad Batch shows a marked tendency to take out battle droids by hurling them into their fellows. |
| 676 | * ''WesternAnimation/StarWarsRebels'': "[[Recap/StarWarsRebelsS1E12RebelResolve Rebel Resolve]]" opens with the theft of an AT-ST. Ezra hands Zeb one of the pilots, and Zeb throws them into their fellows lined up shooting at the rebels from the ground. |
| 677 | * In ''WesternAnimation/{{Teen Titans|2003}}'', Kole is a girl whose ability is to transform into immobile diamond. Her best pal Gnarrk is a thawed-out caveman. When they need to fight, Kole willingly becomes a super-hard club for him to swing. She'll shape herself into whatever form best suits the moment, able to de-diamond, move, re-diamond, and be used in an instant, which shows the insanely good coordination between her and her partner, as well as the ability to think fast. [[HeartIsAnAwesomePower It ends up as a very effective use of a seemingly bad power.]] |
| 678 | * When ''WesternAnimation/TheTick'' and Arthur have a FreakyFridayFlip and some villains attack, Arthur/Tick shouts, "Arthur, my body is a weapon! Use it!" Tick/Arthur simply launches his own body at the enemies while screaming. |
| 679 | * ''WesternAnimation/TotalDrama'': |
| 680 | ** When Chris runs out of seagulls to shoot at Duncan in "[[Recap/TotalDramaBeachBlanketBogus Beach Blanket Bogus]]", he throws a few other props at him before resorting to throwing Lindsay. |
| 681 | ** In "[[Recap/TotalDramaThisIsThePits This Is the Pits!]]", a claustrophobia-powered Jasmine is determined to reach the surface and isn't about to let dirt or a gopher army stop her. So, she uses Topher as battering ram. |
| 682 | * In ''WesternAnimation/TransformersAnimated'', Optimus was able to defeat the body of Sentinel Prime [[GrandTheftMe controlled by a Headmaster unit]] by tearing the arm that held a shield arm off and beating it with it. When the Headmaster unit detached and Masterson tries to get away Optimus gets him by kicking Sentinel's decapitated head at him like a soccer ball. (We don't feel much sympathy for Sentinel since he's a {{jerk|Ass}}.) |
| 683 | ** In "Transwarped" Spittor, well, ''spits'' an Autobot medic at her comrades, after grabbing her with his tongues and coating her in explosive slime. |
| 684 | ** In "Human Error, Part 1" a virtual Megatron gets his arm cut off by Prowl and Optimus proceeds to beat him with it. He does it ''again'' in part 2 when he uses his grappling hook to grab Laserbeak, throws him at Soundwave, forcibly transforms it into a guitar, [[SugarWiki/MomentOfAwesome then uses it to cut Soundwave]] [[HalfTheManHeUsedToBe in half]]. |
| 685 | * In ''WesternAnimation/TransformersPrime'', the viewer's first introduction to [[AdaptationalBadass Wheeljack]] has him going head to head with a squad of Vehicons. At one point he proceeds to karate-chop one Vehicon's arm off and beat the living daylights out of another Vehiccon with it. |
| 686 | ** Done more brutally in Season 3, with [[spoiler: Predaking]] using a Vehicon as a club in his fight against Megatron. |
| 687 | * In the ''WesternAnimation/TUFFPuppy'' episode "Doom-mates", Dudley uses Kitty as a stick to whack Keswick and the Chief whom he thought were the Chameleon. |
| 688 | * In ''WesternAnimation/TheVentureBros'', when Brock Samson's hands were wrapped in bandages and a pirate was doing an anal cavity search to find his boat key (ItsALongStory), Brock clenched his ass, locking the pirate's arm in place, and swung him like a club to knock out him and his partner. |
| 689 | ** And in a fantasy scene by [[{{Cloudcuckoolander}} Hank and Dean]], Brock rips off a golem's arm and [[GroinAttack punches him in the nads]] with it until the golem breaks. |
| 690 | ** The episode "Love Bheits" features Brock hurling ''Doctor Venture'' at Baron Underbheit's henchmen. |
| 691 | * In ''WesternAnimation/{{Wakfu}}'', [[OurDragonsAreDifferent Grougaloragran the Eternal]] gets the upper hand against two of [[BigBad Nox's]] [[NightOfTheLivingMooks Zombies]] by using the shield-wielding [[StoneWall Feca]] to pummel the [[BloodKnight Sacrier]] brawler. |
| 692 | * In the ''WesternAnimation/WanderOverYonder'' episode "The Picnic", Lord Hater punches out his rival Emperor Awesome with one of Awesome's own "Fist-Fighters". |
| 693 | * In episode 5 of ''WesternAnimation/{{Young Justice|2010}}'', the background video when Batman is explaining the Amazo situation to the team shows the pointy-eared guy grabbing Superman by the cape and bludgeoning the rest of the League's response team with him. This is very cathartic since Clark had been a big meanie-pants to Superboy again in the previous scene. |
| 694 | [[/folder]] |
| 695 | |
| 696 | [[folder:Real Life]] |
| 697 | * TruthInTelevision: [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liver-Eating_Johnson John Johnson, a.k.a. Liver-Eatin' Johnson]] after being captured by a group of Blackfoot warriors, bit through his bonds, killed the man guarding him, cut off his leg, and used it to fight his way out of the camp. And then he [[ImAHumanitarian ate it]]. |
| 698 | * The blanket octopus is immune to the sting of the Portuguese Man O'War, and they have been known to tear pieces off a colony and carry them around as its own weapon. |
| 699 | * Boxer Crabs use the sea anemones growing on their claws as living weapons, albeit because the anemones are poisonous, not because they crack skulls. |
| 700 | * During the Black Death epidemic, infected cadavers were catapulted over the enemy's walls. At one point in history, this was actually fairly common. Invading forces would catapult dead bodies (most commonly dead livestock) over enemy walls, usually ones that had died as a result of an infectious illness. It was primarily an early form of biological warfare, but there were a few casualties as a result of people being squished by dead cows. |
| 701 | * [[http://cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/toddler-used-as-weapon-on-toronto-streetcar-1.1008791 A woman used a three-year-old as a weapon]]. Thankfully, nobody died. |
| 702 | * [[BadWithTheBone Bones]] have been used at many points in history as weapons, mostly as either basic clubs, the bases for things like axes, or handles for knives. And, before the development of steel, for making blades sharper than could be done with iron (the Romans did this as razors, for instance). |
| 703 | * White-capped capuchins defend themselves against perceived threats by throwing things like sticks, rocks, and squirrel monkeys. |
| 704 | * A pair of unfortunate Canadians [[http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2000763/Two-killed-bizarre-motorway-accident-airborne-21stone-black-bear-smashes-car-windscreen.html made the news]] a couple of years back when they were killed by an ''airborne bear''. The bear had been hit by another car and flew through their windshield. The bear died too. |
| 705 | * During the English Civil War, [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_Aston_%28army_officer%29 one unfortunate fellow was beaten to death with his own wooden leg]]. |
| 706 | * Famous Quebecois [[WorldsStrongestMan strongman]] Louis Cyr first made a living as a policeman. Louis, already strong enough to deadlift injured drafthorses and part-time as logging equipment, was notorious for [[http://lifeasahuman.com/2011/arts-culture/culture/louis-cyr-the-strongest-man-in-history/ using assailants as weapons]] and [[HumanShield shields]] against other assailants. Naturally, any time [[TheDreaded Louis]] was attacked, it was by a large group of men, thereby supplying him with ample weaponry and defense. |
| 707 | * Sea otters have been observed ripping the claws off of crabs and using them to break open the carapaces to get at the crab meat. |
| 708 | * The 1877-1878 Russo-Turkish war of Bulgarian liberation has the second Battle of Shipka. The eponymous [[YouShallNotPass mountain pass was defended for three days]] by Russian troops and Bulgarian volunteers against a superior Ottoman force. When they ran out of ammo and then out of rocks and other solid objects to throw at the enemy, the defenders resorted to throwing the bodies of their fallen comrades down at the attackers. |
| 709 | * An unintentional case, but it is believed [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aeschylus classic Greek playwriter Aeschylus]] was killed when a vulture mistook his bald head with a rock, and dropped a tortoise on him. |
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