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14[[caption-width-right:322:Nothing says evil like a flame-throwing banjo!]]
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16->''"I forgot to mention that when Burroughs plays a requiem, it is always for my enemies. Never for me."''
17-->-- '''Kanae Otori''', ''VisualNovel/FullMetalDaemonMuramasa''
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19So you're an assassin who is also a musician. Unfortunately, you cannot [[ThePowerOfRock kill people with the power of your music alone]], and you're not a MusicalAssassin. So what are you going to do? Why, have a musical instrument that doubles as a deadly weapon of course. A step up from SenselessViolins, with no danger of your weapon being discovered if anyone opens your case.
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21This trope covers weapons hidden in musical instruments. For people that use ''normal'' instruments as weapons, see ImprobableWeaponUser (or ImprovisedWeapon if it is not a usual occurrence). For assassins who kill their targets with music, see MusicalAssassin. For weapons used as instruments, see InstrumentalWeapon. See XylophoneGag for instruments rigged to kill the player. Sort of the evil counterpart to SignatureInstrument.
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28* Jiro in the ''Anime/AndroidKikaiderTheAnimation'' OVA "The Boy Who Carried a Guitar: Kikaider Vs. Inazuman" has a guitar that acts as a machine gun. He can also play it as an instrument and incapacitate people.
29* ''Manga/BladeOfTheImmortal'': The ridiculously skilled Makie Otono-Tachibana, who specializes in WaifFu, wields a double-bladed three-section-staff called Haru-no-Okina concealed in a hollowed-out shamisen, a mandolin-like Japanese instrument which she is able to play when not slicing and dicing her enemies.
30* Hagi in ''Anime/BloodPlus'' borders on this trope. He regularly uses his cello ''case'' as a weapon/shield. The cello itself is only used to perform music. One does have to wonder how it hasn't been smashed to pieces inside his case though.
31* Genkaku the Hypermonk from ''Manga/DeadmanWonderland'' has a guitar that can split into a pair of machine guns. Or, alternately, it turns into a gun capable of punching head-sized holes through people. Take your pick.
32* Shoutmon, the headliner Franchise/{{Digimon}} in ''Anime/DigimonFusion'', wields a giant microphone like a bo staff.
33* Zeref's ''Lullaby'' demon flute in ''Manga/FairyTail'', as well as Vidaldus' guitar.
34* ''Anime/{{FLCL}}'':
35** Haruko wields a pull-string-ignition bass guitar. It can also blast doors in half with some kind of firearm function. It's more a question of what Haruko ''can't'' do with her guitar.
36** In the final episode, [[spoiler:after absorbing Atomsk's power]], Naota dual-wields his own Flying V with [[spoiler: Atmosk's]] Gibson EB-0 1961 Model Bass Guitar.
37* ''Manga/{{Gintama}}'': The character Kawakami Bansai can use the strings from his shamisen to restrain people.
38* The blade concealed within a Japanese string instrument was [[TropeMaker popularized]] by the titular 1969 manga character, ''Manga/HunterOryuu'', an assassin disguised as a traveling musician. She is better known for her JidaiGeki adaptation from the same year, ''[[LiveActionAdaptation Female Assassin Hanakasa Oryuu]]''.
39* One villain in ''Anime/KaiketsuZorro'' hides a rifle inside his guitar, which he plays a few notes on moments before shooting his targets.
40* In ''Anime/{{Kiba}}'', Roya's spirit Afkarel shoots ''lasers'' out of her harp.
41* [[SnakeCharmer Chandra Sijiema]] from ''Anime/MobileFighterGGundam'' has a blade hidden in his flute, which he attempts to use against Domon Kasshu to eliminate him before their scheduled Gundam Fight match.
42* ''Manga/OnePiece'':
43** The chancellor of Alabasta also uses a firearm/saxophone as his weapon of choice.
44** Caesar Clown use a pair of "Gastanets," castanets that produce sparks when clicked to detonate his explosive gas.
45** Benten of the Oniwabanshu wields a biwa with a gun hidden inside it.
46* ''Anime/PrettyCure'' series:
47** ''Anime/YesPrettyCure5'': Cure Lemonade's Symphony Set is a castanet that gives her an upgraded attack.
48** ''Anime/FreshPrettyCure'':
49*** Cure Pine plays her Cure Stick like a flute when she activates her attack.
50*** Cure Passion's weapon is a small heart-shaped harp.
51** ''Anime/HeartcatchPrettyCure'': Cure Sunshine's weapon is a sun-shaped tambourine that fires a sunflower magic attack.
52** ''Anime/SuitePrettyCure'': Cure Beat's weapon is the Love Guitar Rod. It has two modes; the Guitar Mode, on which Cure Beat uses the Love Guitar Rod as a normal guitar to dispel attacks or protect people from them, and the Soul Rod Mode, on which she uses it to amplify harmony energy and unleash a powerful purification attack.
53** ''Anime/HappinessChargePrettyCure'': Cure Fortune's second weapon is a star-shaped tambourine.
54** ''Anime/GoPrincessPrettyCure'': Cure Scarlet plays a violin to summon her Phoenix Blaze attack.
55* Nagisa, of ''Anime/PuellaMagiMadokaMagica,'' wields a trumpet that can blow out a [[BubbleGun stream of bubbles]]. It's surprisingly quite effective, with the bubbles apparently possessing concussive force.
56* M.M. in ''Manga/Reborn2004'' uses vibrations from her clarinet to microwave and melt things. In a pinch, she can also hit people with it.
57* In ''Manga/SaintSeiya'', the Asgardian God Warrior Benetnasch Eta Mime, wears a Cloth reminiscent of a harp. As such, he is prone to laying down RazorFloss around the environment as traps, as well as send them flying towards his opponents to entangle them. Note that his harp's strings are strong, and sharp enough, to crack and cut through solid rock, as well as Bronze Cloths and the very human skin of the Saints wearing them.
58* ''Anime/SamuraiChamploo'': In the first part 'Hellhounds for Hire' Jin is disguised as a woman carrying a biwa (a traditional Japanese instrument similar to a guitar). When asked to play a song on it, he pulls his katana from the neck and reveals that he is actually a samurai. He also happened to have smoke bombs hidden in the body of the instrument.
59* ''Anime/ShatteredAngels'' has one of these in the form of the ''Mana Buster'', a modified cello that provides fire support during the final showdown.
60* Carol’s signature weapon in ''Anime/{{Symphogear}}'' is the harp relic Daurdabla, most often used in the form of a [[PoweredArmor Faust robe]]. While transformed its primary power is to conjure harp strings that can bind her enemies, work as RazorFloss, and even form solid constructs. On top of that, it has harp-like mechanical wings that can play themselves to magnify her ElementalPowers.
61* The anime adaptation of ''Manga/TokyoMewMew'' redesigned the [[MagicalGirl Mew Mews']] weapons (which were much more plain-looking in the manga) to make them look like musical instruments. Mew Ichigo has a bell that fires energy blasts, Mew Mint has a bow that kinda looks like a lyre, Mew Lettuce has a pair of castanets that shoot water, Mew Pudding has tambourines that [[FoodBasedSuperpowers encase a target in jello]], and Mew Zakuro has a handle that resembles a flute and turns into a [[CrossAttack cross with an energy whip]].
62* Midvalley the Hornfreak in ''Manga/{{Trigun}}'' is mostly a MusicalAssassin who tears it up with sound waves from his saxophone, but it's also a complicated firearm that he eventually [[spoiler:used to commit suicide... not by shooting himself with it, but by playing it after the B-flat got shot out. It blows up.]]
63* In the anime adaptation of the light novel ''Literature/TrinityBlood'' the Rosenkreuz Orden builds a weapon known as the Silent Noise system, an earthquake device that's apparently controlled via a pipe organ and a series of bells. The massive sonic vibrations reek untold destruction in Barcelona where they first tested the weapon before sneaking it into the Vatican for the [[spoiler:Pope's uncle Alfonso d'Este]] to destroy all of Rome.
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67* Cacofonix in ''ComicBook/{{Asterix}}'' uses his ordinary lyre as a blunt instrument whenever he fights, be it in a village brawl or combat with the Romans.
68** In his case, this is arguably less cruel than playing it at them.
69** On a different note, he can also make it rain when he sings in later issues of the comic.
70* ''ComicBook/{{Batman}}'':
71** While doing a Creator/JackBenny homage, the Joker uses a violin bow with a razor blade instead of a string.
72** One-shot villain the Maestro (''Batman'' #149) uses a number of gimmicked instruments, including a harp that shoots arrows and horns that fire bullets.
73* In ''ComicBook/BlackCanary'' #6, Bonfire -- the guitarist in Bo M -- attempts to barbecue Dinah with a flamethrower hidden in her guitar during a battle of the bands.
74* The ''ComicBook/{{Dazzler}}'' villain Johnny Guitar wields an electric guitar that fires sonic blasts. He has a partner in Dr. Sax, and you can probably figure out the rest on your own.
75* The Minstrel, one-time foe of ComicBook/DollMan, who wielded a [[HomemadeFlamethrower flame]]-[[FireBreathingWeapon throwing]] banjo.
76* The Fiddler, a [[UsefulNotes/TheGoldenAgeOfComicBooks Golden Age]] ''ComicBook/TheFlash'' villain, was primarily a MusicalAssassin. However, he would occasionally use gimmicked violins containing blades or guns.
77* Brazil once had a superhero, [[http://br.geocities.com/quadrinhos_brasileiros/herois9.htm Golden Guitar]], who used a gizmo-filled electric guitar to fight crime.
78* The golden age ComicBook/GreenLantern foe named the Harlequin had a weighted mandolin that served as a club (and a vaulting pole!).
79* One ComicBook/JusticeSocietyOfAmerica foe (from ''All Star Comics'' #38) masqueraded as Nero and carried a fiddle that spewed strangling gas.
80* In ''ComicBook/LoriLovecraft: Back to the Garden'', Elston Gunn uses an electric guitar that fires blasts of eldritch energy to attempt to kill Lori.
81* The preferred weapon of Minstrel Maverick, a {{Western}} character from Creator/DCComics, was a reinforced guitar that he used to whack owlhoots.
82* Musical intruments are typically used in Spanish comic book ''ComicBook/MortadeloYFilemon'' as improvised weapons. In its first story, ''ComicBook/ElSulfatoAtomico'', they use a trombone to silence an enemy.
83* Although seldom used as a weapon in the comic, Captain Clarinet's clarinet from ''ComicBook/{{PS 238}}'' does possess a number of combat functions, chief among them being that it's made from the metal from his father Argo's (a CaptainErsatz of ComicBook/{{Superman}}) spaceship, making it nearly indestructible.
84* ''ComicBook/TheSimpingDetective'': Jack Point used an electric guitar to kill raptors. Justified in that loud noises are the only thing they are vulnerable to.
85* ''ComicBook/{{Spyboy}}'': Yoma Ma - a villain on Spygirl's [[ShowWithinAShow TV show]] - uses his violin to fire bows like arrows.
86* '''ComicBook/{{Superman}}'': In one of his early appearances, the Prankster used a miniature gun concealed in a playful-looking flute.
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90* ''ComicStrip/SpyVsSpy'' sometimes has weapons disguised as instruments.
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94* In ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/5055274/1/The-Graduation-Class The Graduation Class]]'' by ''Franchise/{{Discworld}}'' fan-author Creator/AAPessimal, it's revealed that one of [[OverlyLongName Madame Emmanuelle-Marie Lapoignarde les Deux-Epées']] kills as an unlicensed Assassin was with a violin-crossbow. The Guild's music teacher is justifiably wary when she produces the same violin during her turn to demonstrate her proficiency with a musical instrument.
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98* ''WesternAnimation/BatmanReturnOfTheCapedCrusaders'': When attacking the Gotham Palace, the Joker uses an electric guitar that fires entangling streamers that tie up the audience.
99* In ''WesternAnimation/{{Coonskin}}'', Sonny uses a machine gun disguised as a banjo to try and kill B'rer Rabbit. He only succeeds in wounding B'rer Bear and dies after being run off the road by Rabbit.
100* ''WesternAnimation/DespicableMe3'': Balthazar Bratt has a keytar that produces ''powerful'' sonic blasts that blow the victim away--''literally''.
101* At the climax of ''WesternAnimation/RockAndRule'' Omar uses his curiously-shaped, futuristic guitar as an axe to severe the power cables of Mok's machine.
102* In ''WesternAnimation/TheSpongebobSquarepantsMovie'', Spongebob uses a laser-shooting electric guitar to destroy the citizens' mind control helmets - [[AutobotsRockOut and he plays a pretty damn catchy]] TriumphantReprise of the Goofy Goober song while he's at it!
103* In ''WesternAnimation/TrollsWorldTour'', the Rock Trolls use shooting guitars to fight the other Troll tribes, although not to kill.
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107* Creator/MattHelm movie ''Film/TheAmbushers''. An assassin tries to kill Matt with maracas that have built-in guns.
108* In ''Film/{{Amusement}}'', The Laugh kills Rob using a metal scope Victrola that fires a dart out of its horn once the tune finishes playing.
109* El Chinchinero, one of the CarnivalOfKillers in ''Film/BringMeTheHeadOfTheMachineGunWoman'', is a OneManBand who uses guns concealed in his bass drum.
110* [[HandicappedBadass The Blind Man]] in ''Film/CircleOfIron'' has a staff/walking stick that is also a flute. And he [[BlindWeaponmaster fights with it]]. It has its limitations, though, as he once remarks, "It's hard to kill a horse with a flute!"
111* ''Film/TheCityOfLostChildren'' has a music box that controls a circus flea, making it inject its host with a nerve agent. The affected person then turns violent and [[MindControl attempts to kill whoever they happen to be with]].
112* Mudy from ''Film/Comic8'' has a guitar that doubles as a machine gun, and the case ''doubles as a bazooka''.
113* The magical lyre of death in ''Film/DeadfulMelody'', which can cause massive qi explosions, overload its victims with insane amounts of qi energy and remove heads, arms and limbs. The sheer existence of the instrument can destroy the world of martial arts, and Snow’s parents – its guardians – considers it a forbidden weapon that must be kept sealed, and never be used. It’s final and most powerful attack, the "Heavenly Dragon Eight Notes", [[spoiler: can utterly wipe out an army in under a minute, as Snow demonstrates in the climax by unleashing the lyre’s full power]].
114* ''Film/DemonOfTheLute'': True to it's title, the eponymous lute houses a dangerous demon that can destroy the world. Whomever wields the lute can gain access to the demon's powers. Most of the film revolves around the heroes' efdorts to destroy it before the demon can be unleashed.
115* {{Downplayed|Trope}} in ''Film/DungeonsAndDragonsHonorAmongThieves'', where Edgin the Bard occasionally uses his lute to bonk his enemies over the head. Supplementary material reveals that his lute has been reinforced, presumably to enable this purpose, also explaining why it hasn't shattered to pieces after a few uses. However, Edgin himself is a NonActionGuy who prefers to let his buddies do the fighting for him, so it seems the intent was to only ever be for use in [[EmergencyWeapon a last-ditch emergency]].
116* In ''Film/EvilRoySlade'', Bing Bell has a guitar which also doubles as a gun.
117* ''Film/TheFastestGuitarAlive'', a humorous Western from 1967, stars Roy Orbison (!) who wields a guitar/rifle.
118* In the movie ''Film/TheForbiddenKingdom'', Golden Sparrow has throwing blades disguised as the tuning pegs of her ''[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pipa pipa]]''.
119* The mastermind in ''Film/HolmesAndWatson'' plots to assassinate Queen Victoria with a bomb concealed in a kettle drum.
120* In ''Film/HomeSweetHome'', Jay mangles Mistake's electric guitar and portable power supply, and electrocutes him with them. It is the most well lit night scene in the entire film.
121* In ''Film/TheInvincibleFist'', Southern Geese Peng Yun-chiang, who uses a pipa as his weapon. The instrument's strings are made of RazorFloss and it contains hidden projectile launchers on it's front.
122* ''Film/JamesBond'':
123** In ''Film/CasinoRoyale1967'', Ursula Andress uses the old machine-gun-in-the-bagpipes trick.
124** ''Film/TheLivingDaylights'' featured a boom box built by Q, which had a built-in rocket launcher.
125--->'''Q:''' Something we're making for the Americans. It's called a [[{{Pun}} Ghetto Blaster]]!
126** ''Film/TheWorldIsNotEnough'' had a bagpipe flamethrower being tested in Q's lab.
127--->'''Bond:''' I guess we all have to pay the piper sometimes.\
128'''Q:''' Oh, pipe down, 007!
129* In ''Film/JohnWickChapter2'', the violinist assassin attacks John with a gun hidden in her violin.
130* During the final showdown in ''[[Film/{{Sartana}} Light The Fuse... Sartana Is Coming]]'', Sartana calmly waits for the bad guys by playing a pipe-organ in the middle of the dusty street. When the bad guys appear, he pulls some levers in the organ which reveal [[HiddenWeapons machine guns]], [[MoreDakka a GATLING GUN]] and A FRIGGIN' CANNON. And the pipe-organ is a fully functional instrument. [[RuleOfCool Holy crap.]]
131* In ''Film/MadMaxFuryRoad'', Immortan Joe's in-movie [[SourceMusic soundtrack provider]] the Doof Warrior plays a double-necked electric guitar that has a built-in flamethrower. He mostly uses it just for spectacle, but in the final battle it does end up getting used as a serious weapon.
132* ''Film/MightyMorphinPowerRangersTheMovie'': More like "Instrument of Destruction": When Ivan Ooze says to Zordon, "It's time... to pay [[Literature/ThePiedPiperOfHamelin the piper]]," Ooze takes out his piping flute and plays a bit like a [[StealthPun literal piper]] before using the flute's electric powers to damage the entire Command Center and weaken Zordon to a withering mortal.
133* One of the assassins in ''Film/MissionImpossibleRogueNation'' has a rifle disguised as a bass flute.
134* The Mariachi from ''Film/OnceUponATimeInMexico'' used a guitar that doubled as an assault rifle and grenade launcher in the opening shootout/flashback. The narrator [[LampshadeHanging freely admits]] that the details have been... [[UnreliableNarrator embellished.]] "Just read between the lines." The character himself doesn't actually have one, instead using the old "guns concealed in a guitar case" trick. His friends both have weapons disguised as guitar cases, specifically a flamethrower and a remote-controlled car with a bomb.
135* ''Film/OurManFlint''. While Flint is dancing at a nightclub, Gilia knocks out the harpist and takes her place, using the strings like a bow to fire a poisoned dart at Flint.
136* ''Film/ThePinkPantherStrikesAgain''. An assassin uses a blowpipe disguised as a clarinet (or possibly uses a clarinet as a blowpipe, the movie isn't clear).
137* The ''wuxia'' fantasy film ''Film/PortraitInCrystal'' has a high-level assassin who wields a ''pipa'' made of human bones. When played, [[BrownNote unfortunate victims within vicinity ends up collapsing and frothing from their mouths]], unless their ''qi'' level is high enough to resist its power.
138* The RayGun that Riff Raff shoots Frank with in ''Film/TheRockyHorrorPictureShowLetsDoTheTimeWarpAgain'' is also a guitar.
139* Banjo in the western ''[[Film/TheSabataTrilogy Sabata]]'' hides a repeater rifle inside his, well, banjo.
140* ''Sivaji: The Boss'': During the "Athiradi" song, Sivaji's guitar case falls to the side, then rotates and opens, the guitar pulled towards him as if by telekinesis. Sivaji strums a few chords and blasts away two groups of thugs by firing from the guitar, sets the guitar on the ground in front of the remaining thug, and kicks it at him. And dances.
141* The killer in ''Film/SlumberPartyMassacreII'' film uses an electric guitar infused with a power drill.
142* ''Film/TempleOfTheRedLotus'': The eponymous Lute (actually a guqin i.e. zither) from ''The Sword and the Lute'' counts, being an enchanted weapon that can fire poisoned needles from it's front upon being played. Gui-wu in an early scene notably uses this lute to kill ten mooks who tries robbing him in ''seconds''.
143* ''Film/TheTownThatDreadedSundown'' has a particularly infamous kill which involves the Phantom stabbing a woman to death using a bayonet attached to a trombone. He plays it to make the blade go in and out of her.
144* Amongst the weirdness in ''Film/WildZero'' are katanas hidden in the necks of the band Guitar Wolf's guitars, and guitar picks thrown like shuriken.
145* The massacre at the end of the first ''Film/{{Wishmaster}}'' film has a pianist attacked by his own piano, which rips his head off with its wires.
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149* In Creator/JoeAbercrombie's ''Literature/BestServedCold'', the main characters hire a band of thugs who pose as [[DreadfulMusician musicians]]. One of the thugs has his lute built around an axe, on the theory that the lute will break on impact, [[DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment leaving only the axe in his hands.]] [[spoiler: It almost works, but he gets so tangled in the wreckage that he's unable to pull it free from his first victim to defend himself. He dies.]]
150* One of the possible solutions to the murder suggested in ''Literature/DeathInTheClouds'' is that a flute had been used as a blowgun to launch the dart. [[spoiler:It wasn't.]]
151* In the ''ComicBook/{{Fables}}'' novel ''Peter and Max'', Peter Piper ends up killing [[spoiler: his evil brother Max Piper, the Pied Piper of Hamelin]] with a magic flute. [[spoiler: It was made of a giant's finger bone and ''very'' sharp -- his brother was gloating and off his guard, and Peter stabbed him.]]
152* The end of ''[[Franchise/FridayThe13th Friday the 13th: Carnival Of Maniacs]]'' has Jason going on a rampage at a music video recording he was being used as a prop in while comatose. He kills one of the band members by throwing a cymbal with enough force to slit the guy's throat.
153* ''Literature/{{Indexing}}'': Mentioned when a magically created thought of using a flute to kill people crosses a Pied Piper's mind. It's supposed to be a MusicalAssassin, but she hasn't internalized her power yet:
154--> ''If I had my flute, I'd show them,'' she thought viciously, and froze, trying to figure out where the thought had come from. Show them what? How to play "Hot Cross Buns" one-handed? A flute wasn't a good blunt instrument, and it was an even worse lock pick.
155* The Erich Zahn violin in ''Literature/TheLaundryFiles''. "This machine kills demons" indeed. In fact, it takes extreme skill and luck (and often costs sanity) to limit its killing to just demons, as it actually is one itself.
156* The novel ''Literature/{{Mothstorm}}'' by Philip Reeve has hostile aliens whose primary weapons seem to be sedative-tipped darts blown from things that are consistently described as looking like bagpipes.
157* One of Creator/SamuelRDelany's ''Literature/{{Nova}}'' protagonists has senso-syrinx, a complex futuristic instrument capable of projecting holographic images, complete with sound and odours. The thing is, it includes a laser to create holograms, has a very sharp focus and runs on near-inexhaustible batteries. As the bad guys learn the hard way, with [[ImprovisedWeapon its maximum output focused on a person]], it can knock them out with horrible stench, blow their eardrums out and not only blind them with a laser, but ''[[KillItWithFire set them ablaze]]''.
158* In the Literature/PhryneFisher mystery ''The Green Mill Murder'', the mute in a cornet is used as a blowgun.
159* In ''Franchise/StarTrek'' novels (building on background material from the Original Series films), the Andorians often carry a flabjellah - a combination sidearm and musical instrument.
160* In ''Franchise/StarWarsLegends'', [[ProudWarriorRaceGuy Mandalorian]] instruments can often double as these. Their idea of a flute has a sword blade attached.
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164* Eaglebones Falconhawk and his brother Eagleclaw from ''Series/TheAquabatsSuperShow'' duel against each other with guitars that [[EnergyWeapon shoot lasers]].
165* One enemy agent in ''Series/TheAvengers1960s'' has a clarinet with a blade that slides out of the bell when the right key is pressed. He uses it twice: once to kill a fellow he catches trying to steal the MacGuffin, and once in an unsuccessful fight with Steed... who remarks that the instrument probably plays "sharp".
166* The ''Series/{{CSINY}}'' episode "Stuck on You" has a member of a girl band use the handle of a guitar to smash a victim's throat, crushing his larynx so that he couldn't breathe.
167* The Cactus monster's guitar also shoots like a rifle in episode 20 of ''Series/DaiSentaiGoggleFive''.
168* ''Series/DoctorWho'':
169** In "[[Recap/DoctorWho2005CSTheChristmasInvasion The Christmas Invasion]]", the [[BadSanta robot Father Christmases]] wield brass instruments that double as weapons, including a trombone-flamethrower.
170** The evil robot Santas return the following year in "[[Recap/DoctorWho2006CSTheRunawayBride The Runaway Bride]]" and attack a wedding reception with their weaponized instruments.
171* An episode of ''Series/FridayThe13thTheSeries'' features a cursed violin. The violin itself isn't used as a weapon, but the blade hidden in the bow certainly is.
172* ''Series/GameOfThrones'': After using his trusty horn for the purposes of psychological assault during the past few episodes, Ramsay repurposes it for ''physical'' assault in "[[Recap/GameOfThronesS3E7TheBearAndTheMaidenFair The Bear and The Maiden Fair]]" by hitting Theon in the face with it hard enough to knock him to the floor.
173* ''Series/GetSmart'' has a gun hidden in a violin, and a double-barreled flute that acts as an airgun.
174* ''Series/TheGoodies'': In the episode "The Stolen Musicians", the Goodies use a euphonium as a cannon, only to be outgunned by the Music Master's pipe organ that doubles as a multi-barreled artillery piece, but are saved when the symphony orchestra arrives shooting bows from their violins.
175* The villainous Basco from ''Series/KaizokuSentaiGokaiger'' has a trumpet that when played with Ranger Keyes inside, can summon those keys as mindless evil copies of those rangers. The trumpet is also capable of stealing the Ultimate Power from past Sentai who carry it.
176* ''Franchise/KamenRider'':
177** All of the Riders in ''Series/KamenRiderHibiki'' use these. Hibiki straps a taiko drum to the monsters and proceeds to beat them to death with taiko drumsticks (and even without the drum, the drumsticks can [[BoomStick shoot fireballs]]). Todoroki uses [[ThePowerOfRock an electric guitar]] that doubles as an ax. Ibuki has a gun that can transform -- by shifting the parts around -- into a trumpet. Ibuki's actually works in reverse from normal: he uses the gun to implant bullets in the MonsterOfTheWeek (who is naturally ImmuneToBullets) then switches to the trumpet to create a resonance that blows it up. It can get fairly silly with some of the minor Oni Riders, who use weaponized tubas and ''triangles''.
178** The ''Series/KamenRider555'' Hyper Battle DVD had the Faiz Sounder, a boombox that transformed into a powerful sonic cannon. This was the winning contest entry Toei had for a new weapon for Faiz, which like all other weapons in the show, was based on a real-world object.
179* ''Series/LukeCage2016'': [[spoiler:Maria kills Cottonmouth with a microphone stand.]]
180* ''Series/MidsomerMurders'': The first VictimOfTheWeek in "The Curse of the Ninth" is a violinist who is strangled with one of his own violin strings. The second is a violist who has the strings of his viola covered in powered strychnine, causing him to inhale a lethal dose as he plays.
181* In the ''Series/MIHigh'' episode "The Visit", the enemy spies use an alpine horn that spews knockout gas.
182* ''Series/MissFishersMurderMysteries'': "The Green Mill Murder" (adapted from the Literature example above) has the mute in a cornet used as a blowgun.
183* One sketch of ''Series/TheMuppetShow'' features a performance of the William Tell Overture that ends with the cellist firing the bow from his cello to [[WilliamTelling shoot an apple off Beauregard's head]].
184* An early ''Series/MurderSheWrote'' episode, "Death to a Jazz Beat", offers an inversion; a jazz clarinetist who's planning on firing his back-up band before signing a huge recording contract is murdered by a poisoned clarinet reed.
185* ''Series/NinpuuSentaiHurricaneger'' has the Ninjamisen, a SwissArmyWeapon that functions as a gun, a rock guitar, a shamisen and a means of summoning Revolver Mammoth for giant battles.
186* ''Series/RaisingHope'': Burt uses a guitar as a club to take out [[{{Jerkass}} Smokey Floyd]].
187* ''Series/RobinHood'': Will makes these as part of a plan to break into the castle in "For England..!", including a dart-shooting flute and a lyre that conceals a bow for Robin. Each outlaw gets a weaponized instrument except for Little John, who gets... bells. Just regular bells. Not even the big bells you can use to hit people, no, just ''tiny'', cutesy bells. So he promptly tacks them on the top of the staff he regularly wields.
188* ''Series/SpiderManJapan'': Goh Tachibana carries around a guitar with a gun hidden inside.
189* ''Series/{{Victorious}}'': In the short film that the group of friends made in "The Slap Fight", Robbie's character has one: a violin with a knife hidden in it, or a "stab-olin."
190* A sketch of ''Series/YoureSkittingMe'' has a girl attempting to return a recorder that acts as a blowgun. In the end, the store swaps it for one that fires a disintegrator ray.
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194* The video for "Mr. Spock" by ''Music/NerfHerder'' has Linus shoot a beam from his guitar and kill a RedShirt.
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198* Scoring during certain Super Feature modes in ''Pinball/{{Aerosmith}}'' prompts an animation of one of the band's members firing shots from his guitar.
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202* ''Podcast/{{Jetjammer}}'': The turtle bartender of the Spicy Tuba also has a tuba on display, which you must never ask him to play. Because when he does, he activates the flamethrower inside.
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206* Any tabletop RPG with rules covering the use of ImprovisedWeapon allows this. As long as you don't mind breaking the instrument you're using.
207* The Bard class in ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons'' qualifies as a variety; while they aren't using the instrument itself as a weapon (although certain rule interpretations can allow for this), the instrument acts much the same as a Wizard's spell catalyst or a Cleric's holy symbol as a tool with which they cast their magic, meaning that any offensive spells they cast are caused by the instrument they use.
208* In ''TabletopGame/SilverAgeSentinels'', Feedback is a rock star turned superhero who wields a guitar that focuses his powers into energy blasts.
209* ''TabletopGame/{{Warhammer 40000}}'':
210** Noise Marines can do this. If blasting the enemy with ThePowerOfRock doesn't work, they can simply ''beat'' the enemy to death with their daemonic, spiky guitars and superhuman strength.
211** The Sisters of Battle have the Exorcist tank, a mobile church organ on a tank chassis that plays inspiring hymns and shoots missiles at enemies.
212* Practitioners of the [[MusicalAssassin Silver-Voiced Nightingale Style]] in ''{{TabletopGame/Exalted}}'' can use the Weapon-Tuning Resonance Charm to attune weapons to the style, so long as the weapon in question has “harmonic qualities.” For example, a sword crafted out of chimes, or a bow equipped with flute-toned arrows.
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216* During one mission in ''VideoGame/AssassinsCreedRevelations'' Ezio and the other Assassins pretend to be minstrels to infiltrate a party and protect Prince Suleiman from Byzantine killers. Towards the end, one of them charges Suleiman, but Ezio breaks his lute in half and stabs the killer in the heart with the handle.
217* Lyude in ''VideoGame/BatenKaitos'' uses a weird trumpet/gun as his weapon. His Magnus cards reveal that it's actually a weapon specifically designed for use by assassins. [[FridgeLogic No comment]] on why the HonorBeforeReason party member is using it.
218* The first ''{{VideoGame/Bayonetta}}'' featured an item called the Magic Flute, which looks like a golden conch shell that used to be played by the mythical Sirens and can be used by the titular character for a powerful AreaOfEffect attack. In the first game [[OurAngelsAreDifferent Affinity angels]] can also sometimes drop ExclusiveEnemyEquipment Trumpets that are actually a WaveMotionGun, and in [[{{VideoGame/Bayonetta2}} the sequel]] [[OurCentaursAreDifferent Acceptance angels]] sometimes drop Harps that are actually bows that fire a RainOfArrows.
219* In ''VideoGame/BrutalLegend'' all magic is powered by kickass guitar shreds. All factions have a character who is a guitarist, and who uses that guitar to rain fire and lightning on their foes and inspire their friends to new badass feats. It should be said that ''Brutal Legend'' is set in a universe which has [[ThePowerOfRock '80s metal album covers]] instead of physics.
220* One boss in ''VideoGame/CastleCrashers'' plays a pipe organ with cannons for pipes.
221* The titular band in ''VideoGame/CharlieMurder'' each uses their instruments in their special attacks or to give themselves and teammates a temporary stat boost by strumming a chord, banging on the drums or [[SuperScream screaming into a microphone]].
222* In ''VideoGame/DevilMayCry3DantesAwakening'', one of the coolest available weapons is Nevan, [[MundaneMadeAwesome a guitar that shoots lightning, controls bats, and turns into a scythe]].
223* BigBad Lord Fredrik in ''VideoGame/DonkeyKongCountryTropicalFreeze'' uses a magical Viking war horn that can change in size in order to fire various AbnormalAmmo such as balls of ice with enemies inside them and ice ''dragons'', including a gigantic ice dragon that freezes DK Island in the opening cutscene.
224* Aliciaconda from ''VideoGame/DustyRevenge'', one of the bosses, uses a flute as her weapon. Which she can use as a flamethrower and a BlowGun.
225* The Hero from ''VideoGame/EphemeralFantasia'' has a sword hidden in a guitar.
226* A couple of characters in ''VideoGame/EternalSonata'' use musical weapons, such as a clarinet/gun/mallet and a fencing rapier shaped like a conductor's baton.
227* In ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyXIV'' Archers are promoted to [[TheBard Bards]] upon reaching Level 30, gaining MagicMusic but retaining their archery skills. Their high level (Relic and Anima) weapons are either bows with a harp/lyre built into it... or a very large harp that doubles as a bow. [[note]]If you don't have one of those equipped, the Bard just pulls an actual lyre [[HyperspaceArsenal out of thin air]] whenever a class skill uses it. [[/note]]
228* ''VideoGame/GaiaCrusaders'' have a recurring enemy in the China stage; ladies playing an ''erhu'' which can summon fireballs at you.
229* I-No of ''VideoGame/GuiltyGear'' uses a shapeshifting electric guitar. She can either smash people with it or create cacophonic sounds to defeat her opponents.
230* Rocketbilly Redcadillac's electricity-shooting guitar from ''VideoGame/{{Gungrave}}: Overdose''. The artbook says its name is "B.L. 20,000V". ("Blue Lightning 20,000V"). Made by the Electrigger Company! Despite being weak with melee fighting, Billy can do a little dance that causes his guitar to spin around him, bludgeoning mooks.
231* ''VideoGame/Heidelberg1693'' has zombie musicians whose violins can fire projectiles shaped like musical notes. Which damages you on contact.
232* In ''VideoGame/HeroesOfTheStorm'', E.T.C. (Elite Tauren Chieftain) is a MusicalAssassin that wields a guitar that doubles as an axe as his primary weapon.
233* In ''VideoGame/HyruleWarriors'', Marin from ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaLinksAwakening'' attacks enemies using the [[DeadlyRinger Sea Lily's Bell]], and proves just as ludicrously lethal with it as the other warriors are with legitimate weapons.
234* Will from ''VideoGame/IllusionOfGaia'' bonks enemies on the head with his flute.
235* ''Franchise/KingdomHearts'':
236** Equipping Xigbar with the [[JokeWeapon Mystery Gear]] in ''[[VideoGame/KingdomHearts358DaysOver2 358/2 Days]]'' makes him wield a pair of ''trumpets'' in the stead of his Arrowguns. They shoot musical notes, accompanied by the appropriate sound effects.
237** In both ''{{VideoGame/Kingdom Hearts II}}'' and ''358/2 Days'', Demyx uses a weaponized sitar in conjunction with [[MakingASplash his power over water]].
238** In ''[[VideoGame/KingdomHeartsBirthBySleep Birth By Sleep]]'', the Symphony Master is an early-game boss that uses a drum, a trumpet, and a violin as {{Attack Drone}}s with sound-based attacks and increasingly TurnsRed as each is destroyed.
239* Some of the ranged weapons in ''VideoGame/KingdomOfLoathing'' are musical instruments that double as weapons. Also, the Stolen Accordion is the default weapon of [=KoL's=] bard class, the Accordion Thief. The Accordion Thief also has singing as a basic attack.
240* There was an old Christian-themed computer game called ''VideoGame/KnightsOfVirtue'' which featured among its weapons the "trump of fire" and "trump of lightning", a pair of trumpets that, if pointed at your enemy and played, wouldn't make a note (just a "ffffff" noise like someone blowing into a tube, fancy that), but ''would'' rain down fire or lightning on them.
241* Almost all of the main villains in ''VideoGame/LollipopChainsaw'' are {{Musical Assassin}}s, but Lewis Legend also wields a guitar with a built-in machine gun.
242* Kaph's guitar doubles as a gun in ''VideoGame/LuminousArc2''.
243* In ''VideoGame/{{Mabinogi}}'', one of the weapons you can have is a lute with spikes on it, useful both for hitting enemies with and casting MagicMusic. There's also Sadie, the Breeze Witch, uses a trumpet as a weapon. It's surprisingly effective.
244* In ''VideoGame/MagiaRecordPuellaMagiMadokaMagicaSideStory'', Tsukasa Amane primarily fights by enhancing herself with her MagicMusic and then hitting her opponent with her flute.
245* The AI Weapons in ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolid: Peace Walker'' are primitive Music/{{Vocaloid}}s put into big, heavily-armed tanks.
246* Orc bards in ''VideoGame/MiddleEarthShadowOfMordor'' carry around a playable lute but with an axe blade attached on the side.
247* Suzume in ''VideoGame/MiniNinjas'' uses her flute both as a close combat weapon and an improvised boat paddle.
248* ''VideoGame/MonsterHunter2Dos'' introduces the Hunting Horn weapon type, which can be used as a large club in addition to [[MagicMusic allowing a Hunter to buff himself and his party members]].
249* ''VideoGame/{{NetHack}}'' features the Frost Horn, the Fire Horn, and the Earthquake Drum. Yes, they're {{Exactly What It Says On The Tin}}.
250* [[{{Yandere}} Kimmy Howell]] of ''VideoGame/NoMoreHeroes2DesperateStruggle'' has a flute that turns into a double-ended LaserBlade.
251* A rare weapon in ''VideoGame/NuclearThrone'' is Fish's Guitar, which is about as strong as a sledgehammer but has fast reload speed, making it one of the better melee weapons in the game. It can only be found [[spoiler:at the camp site if you loop as Fish]] or as a default weapon in the Weekly Run.
252* In ''VideoGame/{{Okami}}'', Waka has a flute that turns into a LaserBlade.
253* In ''VideoGame/{{Okamiden}}'', [[spoiler:Kurow has two {{Laser Blade}}s in his flute. He only uses them after he does his FaceHeelTurn, though.]]
254* Bards and their more powerful counterparts in ''VideoGame/RagnarokOnline'' fight with their musical instruments. What doesn't entirely make sense is how they manage to throw/shoot arrows (depending on the skill) by swinging it at their opponents. They can also be ''Musical Assassins'' by spamming songs, but it takes more effort, mana, and time.
255* Motochika Chokosabe from ''VideoGame/SamuraiWarriors 2/ Warriors Orochi 2'' rocks out on his shamisen to attack.
256* In ''VideoGame/ShadowHeartsFromTheNewWorld'', the last party member you acquire is a Mariachi with an [[SwissArmyWeapon arsenal in his guitar]]. Shotgun, flamethrower, multiple rocket launcher rack, machine gun... all packed into a single guitar which, oddly enough, still sounds just as sweet. Clearly based out of the Mariachi from ''Film/OnceUponATimeInMexico''.
257* Implied in ''VideoGame/ShinMegamiTenseiI'', where the three strongest 'sword' weapons are a violin, a trumpet, and a bell.
258* Somewhere on the border between this and SenselessViolins, there's a brief cutscene in ''VideoGame/ShogunTotalWar'' that shows a ninja assassinating his target with a poison dart blown out of a flute.
259* ''VideoGame/{{Skullgirls}}'':
260** Big Band takes this trope to a whole new level. All of his attacks are based on band instruments ranging from standard drums to wind instruments and even firing missiles modeled after trumpet mutes.
261** Eliza's weapon of choice (aside from her parasite Sekhmet) is a microphone stand that doubles as a SinisterScythe.
262* Melody of ''VideoGame/SmashmuckChampions'' uses her keytar. Her playing is so infamously loud it causes sonic waves, has literally brought several houses down, and once woke up the dead. (Said dead is now trying to date her.)
263* DJ Octavio of ''Franchise/{{Splatoon}}'' pilots a (usually floating) weapons platform that is operated by (wasabi-spun) turntables.
264* TheEngineer in ''VideoGame/TeamFortress2'' has the Frontier Justice's "Dischord" taunt, where he pulls out his guitar, plays a chord, and then smashes the area in front of him. If an enemy player is within range, they will get killed and the corpse of said enemy will have their head pounded into their chest.
265* One of the power-ups in ''VideoGame/TotalOverdose'' are two guitars that act like machine guns, in a clear homage to the ''Once Upon a Time in Mexico'' example above.
266* One of Rockstar Bonnie's [[HaveANiceDeath kill quotes]] in ''VideoGame/UltimateCustomNight'' states that he's going to {{impale|dWithExtremePrejudice}} you with his guitar.
267* The Arcanite Ripper of ''VideoGame/WorldOfWarcraft'' fame is an axe that doubles as a guitar.
268* The second boss of ''VideoGame/{{Zool}}'' is an electric guitar that rains fireballs on you. You also face violins that shoot their fiddles at you.
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272* In ''WebAnimation/HelluvaBoss'', Millie ends Asmodeus' musical number by smacking Fizzarolli over the head with her husband's guitar. She then gives the instrument back to him to finish his love song.
273* ''WebAnimation/HomestarRunner'': One of the selling points of Strong Bad's "monster truck" (read: The Cheat stuck in a tire) rally is Strong Mad smashing Marzipan's guitar over Homestar's head...who is oddly okay with it.
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277* In ''Webcomic/GirlGenius'', Sleipnir O'Hara has the 'Hot Pipes', a set of bagpipes that shoot [[IncendiaryExponent fire]].
278* Penk in ''Webcomic/GuildedAge'' uses his drum as a weapon. Wav can also use his keytar in combat, at least against the EldritchAbomination summoned by cultists, since its form is disrupted by rhythmic harmonies.
279* ''Webcomic/KeychainOfCreation'' has the deathknight Resonance Ben, who just recently upgraded to an entire band.
280* Telv's steel-plated banjo from ''Webcomic/PlanescapeSurvivalGuide''.
281* In one ''Webcomic/{{Skullkickers}}'' side story there's a [[http://comic.skullkickers.com/index.php?id=398 whole band]] of those. Axe blades in a lute, hidden sword in a flute, harp doubles as a bow, and hurdy gurdy is a flamethrower.
282* ''Webcomic/SoulSymphony'': Enemies in Charlie's Soul World literally fight by swinging microphones and electric guitars around.
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286* ''[[http://student.francis.edu/~adfst5/209/Main3.html The Ongoing Saga of Fritz the Unfortunate]]'' follows a troupe of musicians who all wield these.
287* [[http://www.scp-wiki.net/scp-298 SCP-298]] is a pipe organ, believed to be from around 1400 (as it has no stop controls, which is consistent with organs made before 1450) which, when played, causes the audiences' blood to expel itself slowly from the body, while taking on a solid appearance and amazing elastic properties, until 47 seconds after playing is stopped, when it returns to its more fluid state. This will usually kill everyone in the audience apart from a two-metre radius around the console. This appears to be [[ThePowerOfRock sonic]] in nature, as people who can't hear it don't seem to be affected. If the organ is used for parts, some of its properties can spread to other organs.
288* ''Roleplay/SurvivalOfTheFittest'' had Isabel Guerra making a shiv out of a trumpet and broken piece of glass. [[ICallItVera It's called Partario]].
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292* In ''WesternAnimation/AdventureTime'', Marceline the Vampire Queen has a bass-guitar shaped like an axe. It tends to get used like a guitar, though, which is not to say it hasn't been involved in ass-kicking.
293** If her father is to be believed, the instrument started life as an axe and was turned into a bass-guitar later.
294* In ''WesternAnimation/TheAmazingWorldOfGumball'' episode "The Triangle", [[spoiler:Leslie]] tries to sabotage Darwin's slide-whistle solo by using a dart gun disguised as a flute.
295* The Music Meister from ''WesternAnimation/BatmanTheBraveAndTheBold'' had a smoke-spewing pipe organ he used to cover his escape and laser-firing microphones that formed part of his DeathTrap. In fact, any weapons he had followed this theme.
296** And in "Night of the Batmen!", the Vigilante has a guitar that doubles as a rifle.
297** In "Powerless!", the Scottish [[ComicBook/TheJoker Joker]] in the Jokers of Many Nations has a set of bagpipes that fires missiles.
298* ''WesternAnimation/BobsBurgers'': Banjo from the SpaghettiWestern that Bob and Gene watch in "Spaghetti Western and Meatballs" has a banjo that shoots bullets.
299* ''WesternAnimation/DannyPhantom'': "Fanning The Flames" has a melee fight between Danny and Ember in which the former uses a microphone stand while the latter uses her guitar.
300** Ember [=McLain's=] guitar in ''WesternAnimation/DannyPhantom'' had many different functions, one of those being the ability to produce energy blasts.
301* The King from ''WesternAnimation/DarkwingDuck'' has a guitar that fires destructive energy beams.
302* Valhallen, the viking god of rock and roll in ''WesternAnimation/DextersLaboratory'' uses his magic guitar as an instrument, as an actual weapon, and as a means to fly riding it like a surfboard. Being an expy of Thor from viking mythology means he is also able to shoot blasts of lightning from it.
303* ''WesternAnimation/DuckDodgers'' brings in [[Music/{{Megadeth}} Dave Mustaine]] to help fight the Martians' Smooth Jazz dreadnought. When the Martians try to attack the band, they find out that Dave's guitar has a built-in laser cannon.
304* ''WesternAnimation/{{Grojband}}'': In "Dreamreaver", Grojband confronts a dream version of themselves inside Trina's mind. Dream-Corey uses his guitar as [[MotorcycleJousting a lance on a dirt bike]], Dream-Kin's keytar fires energy blasts, and Dream-Kon's drums create earthquakes.
305* The ''WesternAnimation/InspectorGadget'' episode "A Star is Lost" has a dart-shooting piano and an electrified harp in MAD's music studio.
306* Dr Agon uses a laser trumpet in the first episode in ''WesternAnimation/LavenderCastle''.
307* The Cosmic Guitar from ''WesternAnimation/LoonaticsUnleashed'' which, amongst its other powers, could fire energy blasts.
308* In the ''WesternAnimation/MiraculousLadybug'' episode "Guitar Villain", Guitar Villain wields a guitar that fires devastating sonic blasts. [[ArsonMurderAndJayWalking It can also make people dance]].
309** Volpina has a flute that creates [[MasterOfIllusion illusions]]. These powers are based on that of the Fox Miraculous, which also comes with an illusion-casting flute.
310* ''WesternAnimation/QuickDrawMcGraw'', in his occasional disguise as the masked vigilante El Kabong, would whack his opponents on the head with a guitar.
311* The ''WesternAnimation/RegularShow'' episode "Trash Boat" had former rockstar The Urge, a time traveller who used an electric guitar that could shoot energy beams in order to kill Rigby (who changed his name to Trash Boat, which ended up killing The Urge's fame). After Rigby changes his name back, ''another'' musician time travels to the past and kills The Urge with his ''own'' instrument of murder. This repeats ad infinitum as more and more rockstars enter the scene and kill each other.
312* ''WesternAnimation/RickAndMorty'' featured a minor villain named Concerto who used a giant piano to execute his victims.
313* In ''WesternAnimation/SamuraiJack'', the bounty hunter Jujunga uses a blowgun disguised as a workable flute; he lures a victim close with his music before using it to ambush with.
314* In the ''WesternAnimation/ShaggyAndScoobyDooGetAClue'' episode "Operation Dog and Hippie Boy", the evil hippie robot Groovy Don carries a laser beam firing guitar.
315* In the ''WesternAnimation/SillySymphonies'' short "Music Land" the Land of Symphony shoots weaponized musical notes out of giant cannon-like organ pipes and the Isle of Jazz does the same with brass and woodwind instruments. The notes impact like small cannonballs.
316* In ''WesternAnimation/SilverHawks'', Bluegrass wielded a sonic blaster guitar as a weapon while his EvilCounterpart Melodia had a keytar that fired laser blasts shaped liked musical staves. Got a ShoutOut in the ''[[WesternAnimation/AdventuresOfTheGalaxyRangers Galaxy Rangers]]'' ep "Battle of the Bandits" where the Rangers and a pack of Slaverlords started firing their "modified" guitars at one another.
317* In ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'' episode "Homer of Seville", Homer's stalker Julia uses a blowgun concealed in a conductor's baton.
318* ''WesternAnimation/TotalDramaRama'': In "Robo Teacher", Harold makes a blowgun out of a recorder; which doesn't help in the slightest against the aforementioned Robo Teacher.
319* ''WesternAnimation/TransformersAnimated'''s version of Soundwave has an electric guitar that turned into his attack bird Laserbeak. At least until Prime used him as an axe. (Sorry!) While some examples of this trope can look rather silly, most fans agree that this is the version of Soundwave that is, aesthetically at least, the most awesome.
320** Soundwave also has a keytar that transforms into [[BatOutOfHell Ratbat]]. Both Laserbeak and Ratbat can be used as sonic weaponry, and Ratbat can also be used to produce MindControlMusic.
321* Simon Bar Sinister, a principal adversary to ''WesternAnimation/{{Underdog}}'', built a weather machine modeled closely after a pipe organ. Each key on its keyboard could lose some kind of weather phenomenon, including typhoons and earthquakes. However, early tests of the device tended to wreck Simon's laboratory first, so he and [[TheDragon Cad Lackey]] hijacked a moon rocket to install the device on Earth's airless satellite.
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325* The shakuhachi (Zen bamboo flute) of Japan; initially it was just a normal flute, no military applications attached. However, when the samurai that normally used it became unemployed and unable to use their swords by law, they beefed the flute up to be strong enough to be used as a club, thus becoming their main weapon of defense.
326* A sufficiently hard instrument ''case'' works as a decent ImprovisedWeapon, if you're not too worried about the instrument inside - it hurts plenty to be hit in the head with a flute case.
327* And then there's the 1812 Overture. No less than 16 cannon shots are written in that piece. Possibly an inversion, as a weapon is used as an instrument instead of the other way around.
328** Music/{{ACDC}} incorporated cannons into their stage act for "For Those About to Rock".
329** Also by AC/DC, the cover for ''[[http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/f/f6/Acdc_If_You_Want_Blood_You%27ve_Got_It.JPG If You Want Blood You've Got It]]''.
330* [[Music/{{KISS}} Gene Simmons']] bass looks like an axe. Unfortunately, it's only functional as a bass.
331* The shawm (an ancestor of the oboe) was used as a weapon from time to time.
332* An unspecified spy service apparently at least once modified a flute to fire a single pistol round. The instrument was still fully functional for musical purposes.
333* This is an InvokedTrope for some military weapons, due to their many rows of barrels resembling an organ's pipes, leading to the weapons being referred to as such:
334** The Katyusha, the original Soviet MRLS artillery piece, was nicknamed "Stalin's Organ" by the Wehrmacht.
335** The "Organ gun", also known as [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ribauldequin Ribauldequin]] or infernal machine, was an early form of field artillery. Its name derives from its appearances - several small-calibre barrels placed in a row, which were then fired in lethal volleys. It also appears in ''VideoGame/MedievalIITotalWar'' and ''TabletopGame/{{Warhammer}}''.
336** Some Allied UsefulNotes/WorldWarII tanks carried a similar rocket array, certain models of which were dubbed "calliope" in certain areas.
337* Inverted with the ''[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Escopetarra escopetarra]]'', where an assault rifle is converted to a harmless musical instrument.
338* [[https://www.wdtn.com/news/parents-beat-convicted-pedophile-to-death-with-his-own-trumpet/ Marcelo Fabian Pecollo]], a Argentinian music teacher who was released from prison early after being convicted of child molestation was [[VigilanteExecution fatally beaten]] with his own trumpet after an AngryMob of his victims' parents confronted him in a church where he was playing the trumpet.
339* The ancient Chinese musician [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gao_Jianli Gao Jianli]] was a skilled ''zhu'' player who gained entrance to the court of then-king UsefulNotes/QinShiHuangdi. After the king found out he was a former friend of Jing Ke, an assassin who had nearly killed him, he was blinded but allowed to stay on as a court musician. He bided his time until the king let his guard down, then filled his instrument with lead and tried to assassinate him with it. He failed and was executed.
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