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12	Bladed weapons come in all different shapes and forms, from swords to spears. Then there are scissors. Believe it or not, these everyday household tools are considered to be dangerous by the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transportation_Security_Administration TSA.]]
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14	Typically, characters who use these as their weapon of choice are gardeners/groundskeepers (using shears) or tailors (using scissors). However, those associated with death may also use them; [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atropos Atropos]] was known for using scissors to cut the threads of life. Morticians and taxidermists also use scissors when they perform autopsies or prepare bodies for their final, possibly mounted, resting place.
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16	Subtrope of ImprobableWeaponUser and ImprovisedWeapon. See also PowerPincers. Can overlap with MartialArtsAndCrafts.
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18	Has absolutely nothing to do with RockPaperScissors or ScissorsCutsRock. Scissors that are capable of cutting rock and other hard materials is [[AbsurdlySharpBlade something completely different]]. When a Shear Menace is running, it's an example of RunsWithScissors.
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25	* [[CloudCuckoolander Banjo Yoriko]] from ''Manga/AbnormalKeiJoshi'' happily threatens others with her pair of scissors she keeps on hand at all times.
26	* The assassin Sheele from ''Manga/AkameGaKill'' wields Extase, a giant pair of scissors that are capable of cutting through anything tangible. It also comes with a cute panda design on the holding pin. In addition, an alternate spelling of her name, Schere, [[BilingualBonus means scissors in German]].
27	* Chick, the Gandor brothers' TortureTechnician from ''Literature/{{Baccano}}'', uses scissors as his weapon to the point that he treats them as an extension of his body.
28	* In ''Manga/BoboboboBobobo'', Over uses a giant pair of scissors as his default weapon. If he loses one pair, he can summon another pair or two so disarming him is out of the question.
29	* In ''Manga/CodeGeassOzTheReflection'', one of the many weapons in the Byakuen's SwissArmyWeapon right arms is the "Type 3 Rough Bite Shears"; the individual halves also function as {{Hot Blade}}s, and when closed they form an even larger blade.
30	* [[DarkMagicalGirl Haruhiko]] [[GenderFlipped Beppu]] from ''Anime/CuteHighEarthDefenseClubLove'' wields a pair of huge scissors—which resemble the ones he uses for [[GreenThumb bonsai-cutting]]—as his primary weapon to both slice and channel his powers.
31	* Shutmon from ''Anime/DigimonUniverseAppMonsters'' is a WolfMan that wears a pair of gauntlets with scissor-blades [[BladeBelowTheShoulder attached]]. He also carries a larger pair of scissors on his back to use for his Luna Impulse attack. In the anime, he wields the thing as a single blade with two handles for a DiagonalCut. In the manga, it's a BifurcatedWeapon whose halves he wields alongside his arm blades. According to his [[AllThereInTheManual reference book entry]], a single cut with any of them can shut anything down including body parts.
32	* Kirihime from ''Literature/DogAndScissors'', names her scissors Hasajiro.
33	* Cancer from ''Manga/FairyTail'' [[DualWield wields two]], presumably to go with his crab theme. Worth noting that [[MundaneUtility he's also a hair stylist]].
34	* Kaoru Koganei of ''Manga/FlameOfRecca'', has the third form of his Kogan Anki: Kyoku, which are basically giant shears.
35	* Chokomei from ''Manga/HoshinEngi'' wields a big pair of scissors called Kinkousen. Uniquely it's not used to cut stuff, but to summon giant [[EverythingsBetterWithRainbows rainbow-colored]] [[OurDragonsAreDifferent dragons]].
36	* In ''Manga/HunterXHunter'', minor character Binolt carries a few scissors. He usually uses it as a bladed weapon, but he'll sometimes use it to cut his opponents' hair: By consuming someone else's hair, he can then learn the physical attributes and personality traits of that person.
37	* In ''Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventure'', Enya carries a pair of scissors on her at all times. Normally, she lets her Stand powers do the work, but she is always ready to bring out those scissors if enemies get too close or if enemies are successfully avoiding her Stand's attacks. For an old lady, she is absurdly quick with them. Unlike most examples of this trope, however, she never opens the blades, instead only stabbing people with the scissors fully closed.
38	* Ryuko Matoi from ''Anime/KillLaKill'' wields [[TwoHalvesMakeAPlot half a]] [[{{BFS}} giant pair of scissors]]. [[spoiler:Nui Harime wields the other half, but Ryuko later repossesses the other half from Nui.]]
39	** Specifically the Sword Scissors resemble the type of scissors used to cut cloth (sometimes known as dressmakers scissors) which is [[ClothesMakeTheSuperman appropriate given the plot.]]
40	* In the second season of ''Anime/MobileSuitGundamIronBloodedOrphans'', the Gusion Rebake Full City's shield/rear skirt can turn into a gigantic pair of pliers. These are used less for cutting and more for crushing [[spoiler:like the time its pilot killed an enemy leader by crushing his mech like a sardine can]].
41	* In the end of the first volume of ''Literature/MyHappyMarriage'', [[spoiler: Kaya Saimori menaces her stepsister Miyo with a pair of scissors, making a damaging cut in her new kimono and then threatening to cut her throat next with them if she doesn't renounce her engagement to Kudou. She then brings out a pair of garden shears, although this is just to cut the rope holding her hands up so she can gloat over Miyo collapsed on the floor.]]
42	* Urabe Mikoto from ''Manga/MysteriousGirlfriendX'', wields {{absurdly sharp\|Blade}} safety scissors.
43	* ''Manga/OnePiece'':
44	** Inazuma has the power to turn his body parts into scissors that can cut through anything and allow him to manipulate the pieces as if they were paper.
45	** Gekko Moriah uses a huge pair of scissors to [[CastingAShadow cut off people's shadows]]. The scissors double as a BifurcatedWeapon since they can be split into [[DualWielding two swords.]]
46	* A pharmacist is murdered in ''Anime/PsychoPass'' by having a pair of scissors stabbed in his mouth.
47	* Gertrud, the first witch to appear in ''Anime/PuellaMagiMadokaMagica'', has a gardening theme. To that end, she uses [[CombatTentacles vines]] with giant scissors on the ends. Her [[AdorableEvilMinion familiars]] have smaller scissors, which, when not menacing {{Muggles}}, they mostly use to [[MundaneUtility cut roses for her.]]
48	** A magical girl introduced in ''VideoGame/MagiaRecordPuellaMagiMadokaMagicaSideStory'', Konomi Haruna, also uses a pair of scissors. [[spoiler:While it hasn’t yet been confirmed if she and Gertrud are one and the same, there are other eerily similar signs between the two.]]
49	* Souseiseki from ''Manga/RozenMaiden'', uses garden shears as her weapon of choice.
50	* S'yne Lokk from ''Literature/TheRisingOfTheShieldHero'', wields the Vassal Sewing Set which takes the form of a giant pair of scissors. It's also a Main/BifurcatedWeapon which be separated in halves for Main/DualWielding.
51	* Kiri from ''Manga/TheSeveringCrimeEdge'', wields Crime Edge: an AncestralWeapon passed down by his serial killer ancestor, Grayland.
52	* ''Manga/SleepyPrincessInTheDemonCastle'': Princess Suyaris has a massive pair of scissors that she uses for crafting new objects to make her prison cell more comfortable. [[ComedicSociopathy This normally translates to her using it as a weapon to slaughter innocent demons and harvest their body parts as materials]].
53	* In ''Anime/{{Symphogear}}'', Kirika's Twin Cutter Cinderella fuses her two scythes into a giant pair of scissors.
54	* The [[{{Youkai}} Kamaitachi]] [[DarkActionGirl Nao]] from ''Manga/UshioAndTora'' has unique blades in that, rather than producing normal scythe blades from her body, she tends to generate parallel blades which cut their opponents like giant scissors.
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58	* ''Animation/ScissorSeven'' is, as anyone can imagine from the title, about a guy named [[CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass Seven]] who fights with a pair of scissors. He can control them [[FlyingWeapon remotely using his chi,]] or [[BifurcatedWeapon split them apart for more attacks.]] Since he's also a hairdresser, it gives him some MundaneUtility as well.
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62	* In ''[[ComicBook/TheBatmanAdventures The Batman and Robin Adventures]]'' #8, Harley becomes jealous of the brainwashed Robin being Poison Ivy's new favourite and attempts to stab him with a set of hedge clippers.
63	* Creator/GrantMorrison's run of ''ComicBook/DoomPatrol'' introduces the Scissormen, word-salad-spouting menaces with enormous scissors for hands who can snip their victims out of existence, from the nonexistent alternate world of Orqwith.
64	* In the ''ComicBook/{{Supergirl}}'' story arc ''ComicBook/DayOfTheDollmaker'', one of the titular villain's murdering dolls uses a pair of scissors to stab Toyman in the chest.
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68	* One strip of ''ComicStrip/TheFarSide'', completed but never submitted for publication "for some reason" until ''The [=PreHistory=] of the Far Side'', showed TheGrimReaper as a child terrorizing playground youngsters with a pair of scissors.
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72	* ''FanFic/ADarkerPath'': When raiding Kaiser's private weapon collection, Taylor sees his bodice shears — essentially a giant pair of scissors with each blade sharpened like a two-edged dagger — and immediately wants them. They quickly become her signature weapon as "Atropos", the Fate who cuts the threads of mortal lives, and Kaiser himself, when he makes the connection between the robbery and the character, is suitably alarmed.
73	* ''FanFic/AShadowOfTheTitans'': After Jade [[spoiler: gets her chi reunited]], Jinx welcomes her back with a gift of a pair of scissors that she's enchanted to grow to garden shear size on command. Furthermore, the wielder can cause the blades to [[DualWielding separate]] at will.
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77	* The serial killer in ''Film/TwentyTwo'' kills his victims one every 22nd day of a month with a pair of scissors. [[spoiler:After his death, his partner continues to do so in order to avenge him]].
78	* ''Film/ActOfVengeance'': When Jack rapes Karen, she attempts to fight him off with a set of dressmaker's shears, but he effortlessly takes them off her.
79	* ''Film/Aftermath2021'': Natalie uses a pair of scissors to defend herself against the guy who comes to her house and tries to force himself on her [[spoiler:and again to kill Otto]].
80	* In Creator/JanSvankmajer's ''Film/{{Alice\|1988}}'', the White Rabbit carries around a large pair of scissors. It turns out he uses them to carry out [[OffWithHisHead beheadings]] for the Queen of Hearts.
81	* ''Film/{{Asylum\|1972Horror}}'': In "Lucy Comes to Stay", Barbara finds George slumped in his chair: stabbed in the chest with the shears Lucy had been using to cut the phone lines.
82	* ''Film/AxeMurderingWithHackley'': The sole female killer at [=RKS=] seems to use a small pair of gardening shears as her weapon.
83	* During The Dude's unconscious fever dream in ''Film/TheBigLebowski'', he's chased by Karl Hungus and his nihilist cronies, all carrying massive shears (a call back to when they threatened to "cut off [his] johnson"), which promptly sends him running and brings him back to reality, running down a Malibu street with cops approaching.
84	* In the horror anthology film ''Film/BodyBags'', in "The Eye" segment, Brent tries to murder his own wife with a garden shear when the late [[SerialKiller John Randall]]'s visions turn him into a murderous lunatic as well.
85	* The first hostage to die in ''Film/{{Botched}}'' is [[OffWithHisHead beheaded]] by a giant pair of scissors that emerges for the lift doors.
86	* Cropsy commits the murders in ''Film/TheBurning'' with garden shears, which he was fond of even before his disfiguring accident.
87	* In the "People Can Lick Too" segment from ''Film/CampfireTales1997'', the guy stalking Amanda picks up a pair of old garden shears from the backyard bushes before entering her house. [[spoiler:He kills the family dog with them, and pretends to be it under Amanda's bed]].
88	* Not in the movie itself, but the poster for ''Film/ChildsPlay2'' had Chucky using a pair of scissors to cut off the head of a jack-in-the-box.
89	* In ''Film/CradleOfFear'', Melissa stabs herself repeatedly in the belly with a pair of scissors in an attempt to kill her FetusTerrible.
90	* Creator/EmmaThompson is killed with scissors in a past life in ''Film/DeadAgain''. [[spoiler:In the present, the villain who killed her when he was a child is first stabbed in the back with scissors, then impaled on a giant scissors sculpture.]]
91	* Jodie stabs Bunny with a pair of scissors in ''Film/DeadlyAdvice''.
92	* In ''Film/DialMForMurder'' Margot kills the man hired to murder her by grabbing a pair of scissors and stabbing him in the back while he is strangling her.
93	* ''Film/DemonOfTheLute'' has a martial artist whose weapon of choice is a pair of shears. This being a slapstick martial arts-parody movie, most of his fights involve him using those shears to strip his opponents.
94	* One of the female zombies in the horror-comedy ''Film/{{Doghouse}}'' has a pair of scissors in each of her hands, and she constantly tries to have a snip on the male protagonists.
95	* In ''Film/DontBreathe'', the Blind Man goes to stab Alex with a pair of garden shears during the fight in the laundry. [[spoiler:He winds up stabbing Money's dead body instead.]]
96	* Film/EdwardScissorhands has scissors for hands which he later uses to kill the sort of BigBad.
97	* In ''Film/{{Faceless}}'', Nathalie murders the gigolo she hired for Ingrid by driving a pair of scissors through his throat.
98	* In ''Film/FridayThe13thPartVANewBeginning'', "Jason" uses a pair of garden shears to gouge out the eyes of Tina.
99	* In ''Film/HappyBirthdayToMe'', [[spoiler:Alfred]] is stabbed to death with the garden shears Ginny keeps by her mother's grave.
100	* One of the murders in ''Film/HotFuzz'' is committed via a pair of garden shears to the throat.
101	* In ''Film/JuliaX'', Jessica's favourite weapon is a pair of scissors. She uses them to stab three people to death.
102	* ''Film/KildTV'': [[spoiler:Adel]] kills one of [[spoiler:her]] victims by stabbing her to death with a pair of scissors.
103	* In ''Film/LostRiver'' Bully carries around a pair of hand scissors. He's fond of [[FacialHorror cutting peoples' lips off with them]].
104	* ''Film/MainStreetMeats'': Neddy kills a sunbathing woman during a murder {{Montage}} by stabbing her through the torso with gardening shears.
105	* In ''Film/{{MFA}}'', Noelle uses a pair of scissors to threaten Calvin when she has him taped to a chair in the gymnasium. When she is disturbed by a campus cop, she hurriedly stabs him in the neck with them. There is a gush of blood, but because she was rushed, he survives.
106	* In the opening case in ''Film/MinorityReport'', we see premonitions of a husband catching his wife and her lover in bed. He goes berserk and grabs a pair of scissors laying around to kill them both.
107	* ''Film/MyLittleSister'': While Sheila is disguised as Little Sister's father, Little Sister has her kill [[spoiler:Nadine]] with a pair of scissors.
108	* Creator/DarioArgento's ''Film/{{Phenomena}}'', which served as the primary inspiration for the ''VideoGame/ClockTower'' games, opens with a suspenseful sequence of an unsuspecting victim being stalked and attacked by an unseen assailant who stabs her with a large pair of scissors.
109	* The second murder in ''Film/AShotInTheDark'' is the gardener, stabbed to death with his own shears [[spoiler: after he threatens to blackmail M Ballon with evidence that he might have committed the first murder]].
110	* [[spoiler:Tara]] stabs the paramedic to death with a pair of scissors at the end of ''Film/{{Shrooms}}''.
111	* In ''Film/SistersOfDeath'', [[spoiler:Francie]] is stabbed in the back with a pair of scissors.
112	* In ''Film/{{Slashers}}'', Dr. Ripper uses a giant pair of surgical shears to behead his victims.
113	* ''Film/Snapshot1979'': When Angela thinks someone is sleeping in her bed, she grabs a large pair of scissors Linsey uses for editing film and uses them to threaten the shape beneath the blankets, which turns out to be [[DeadAnimalWarning a pig's head]].
114	* In ''Film/StageFright2014'', the killer stabs [[spoiler:Tom]] with a heavy pair of dressmaker's shears.
115	* ''Film/TalesFromTheDarksideTheMovie'': In "Lot 249", Susan stabs the mummy with a pair of scissors. The mummy then pulls a LodgedBladeRecycling and uses the scissors to rip open Susan's back.
116	* ''Film/TalesOfHalloween'': During her showdown with the killer in "Friday the 31st", Dorothy stabs him in the neck with a pair of scissors.
117	* In ''Film/TigerHouse'', Kelly attempts to stab Callum with the scissors she finds in the bathroom, but SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome and the small scissors do almost no damage to him.
118	* In the epilogue to ''Film/TortureGarden'', the fifth patron goes berserk and uses the shears of Atropos to "kill" Dr. Diabolo in front of the others, causing them to panic and flee.
119	* In ''Film/UncleSam'', Sam kills Willie with a pair of garden shears (implicitly by decapitation).
120	* ''Film/{{Us}}'' has as its villains' legions of doppelgangers carrying golden scissors.
121	* In ''Film/WhenEvilCalls'', Alice has [[EyeScream both eyes poked out]] when she slips and lands face first on a pair of open scissors.
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125	* ''Literature/BlackHouse'': Charles Burnside uses a pair of razor-sharp hedge clippers to kill Henry. Among other things, he clips off some of Henry's fingers. Later he does the same to a nurse at Maxton Elder Care Facility, and Chipper Maxton.
126	* ''Literature/BryonyAndRoses'': The blurb at the back of the book {{implie\|dTrope}}s that Bryony will wield her gardening shears against the dangers in the manor she's trapped in:
127	--> But when Bryony is caught in a snowstorm and takes refuge in an abandoned manor, she stumbles into a house full of dark enchantments.\
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129	Armed only with gardening shears and her wits, Bryony must untangle the secrets of the house before she—or the Beast—are swallowed by them.
130	* Literature/CuckooSong has scissors as the natural weakness of the [[TheFairFolk besiders]], and Mr Grace carries a huge sword-size pair as a weapon against them, much to the protagonist's terror
131	* In Literature/TheFinishingSchoolSeries, the students of Mademoiselle Geraldine's School For Young Ladies of Quality are ''all'' taught to carry a good pair of scissors, along with a number of other seemingly innocuous items which can be used to...[[UnusualEuphemism ''finish'']] their targets.
132	* The Scissor Man in ''Literature/{{Hogfather}}'' is said to slice off the thumbs of misbehaving children. It's basically a velociraptor made of scissors.
133	* Shadow Gale from ''Literature/MagicalGirlRaisingProject'' wields a giant pair of scissors as one of her two weapons of choice.
134	* The demon Barbetorem in ''Literature/{{Pact}}'' carries a large pair of shears as his primary weapon, magical implement, and occasional alternate form.
135	* The scissor man in ''Literature/{{Struwwelpeter}}'' is a nightmarish version of the Shear Menace. See for yourself [[http://www.gutenberg.org/files/12116/12116-h/images/018-1.jpg here.]] ([[http://www.gutenberg.org/files/12116/12116-h/12116-h.htm#The_Story_of_Little_Suck-a-Thumb full story here]]).
136	* In ''Literature/ToKillAMockingbird'', Boo Radley [[UrbanLegends is said to have nonchalantly stabbed his father in the leg with scissors]] while clipping articles from a newspaper, followed by wiping the blood off on his pants, and [[RefugeInAudacity continuing to clip the newspaper.]]
137	* ''Literature/FengshenYanyi'' features the magic weapon known as the Golden Dragons' Scissors, a LivingWeapon born from the transformation of two dragons that can move on its own and slice through anything. It's among the most feared weapon of the novel, with even many immortal sages being wary of it.
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141	* ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'', "School Hard": Principal Snyder is trying to decide whether Buffy or another girl, Shiela, is the biggest delinquent in the school, saying that while Shiela hasn't burned down a school building, Buffy hasn't stabbed a teacher with a trowel. Shiela objects, "I didn't stab anyone with a trowel. They were pruning shears."
142	* In ''Series/{{Cluedo}}'', scissors were sometimes among the murder weapons, and twice held menacingly by Mrs Peacock.
143	* ''Series/DeathInParadise'': In "Death in the Salon", the VictimOfTheWeek is stabbed to death with a pair of hairdressing scissors.
144	* Back at the very beginning of ''Series/DoctorWho'', [[Recap/DoctorWhoS1E3TheEdgeOfDestruction the third story]] involved the travelers turning on each other (because the ship itself was trying to communicate, only its methods were inhuman and therefore [[SanitySlippage mentally disorienting]]). One memorable moment, later regretted by the producer for the attention it drew, involved Susan threatening the others with a pair of large and lethal-looking dress scissors before using them to viciously stab a bed. (Susan-with-Scissors is currently the page image for the story recap.)
145	* ''Franchise/KamenRider'':
146	** [[MeaningfulName Kamen Rider Scissors]] from ''Series/KamenRiderRyuki'', has this as his Visor, essentially a weapon that functions as a card reader. Appropriately enough, his BondCreature is a GiantEnemyCrab.
147	** Kamen Rider Gatack from ''Series/KamenRiderKabuto'' can combine his [[DualWielding Gatack Double Calibur swords]] to turn them into giant pair of scissors for his Rider Cutting FinishingMove.
148	** In ''Series/KamenRiderWizard'', Gremlin is able to use his two swords to form scissors. This might be in tune with his human form, Sora, as he used to be a hairstylist [[spoiler:and ''still is'' a SerialKiller who murders with his stylists' scissors]].
149	* A strange episode of ''Series/LawAndOrder'' had an elderly woman stabbed to death with a pair of pinking shears. The prime suspect was a woman who ran a dress shop and co-owned the apartment building with her very estranged brother.
150	* In the ''Series/MidsomerMurders'' episode "[[Recap/MidsomerMurdersS13E1 The Made-to-Measure Murders]]" a large pair of tailor's scissors are used as the murder weapon.
151	* On ''Series/{{Monk}}'', when an intruder attempts to strangle Natalie, she grabs a pair of scissors and stabs him in the chest with them.
152	* ''Series/{{Motive}}'': In "The One Who Got Away", the VictimOfTheWeek is stabbed to death with a pair of garden shears.
153	* The ''Series/MurderSheWrote'' episode "[[{{PunBasedTitle}} Shear Madness]]" revolves around two murders committed with pruning shears.
154	* ''Series/PowerRangersDinoThunder'': The [[AnimalMecha Parasauruszord]] becomes a scissor-arm weapon (with the scissor formed from the two halves of its tail) when combined with a [[CombiningMecha Megazord]].
155	* {{Subverted\|Trope}} in one episode of ''Series/{{Supernatural}}''. Dean almost uses a pair of scissors to disembowel the MonsterOfTheWeek, but it [[spoiler:[[HeelFaceTurn becomes harmless]]]] before he has to.
156	* ''Series/TalesFromTheCrypt'': When Charles starts to snap in "Collection Completed", one of his first acts is to chase the cat Mewmew around the garden with an enormous pair of hedge clippers.
157	* ''Series/{{Victorious}}'' brings us the girl known as [[{{Goth}} Jade]] [[IceQueen West]], who has this as a personal motif. She's constantly seen carrying and using pair of scissors, she decks her locker out with them, and her favorite movie is a paranormal slasher titled ''The Scissoring'' ([[DoubleEntendre make of that]] [[AmbiguouslyBi what you will]]), in which the monster is a girl who comes back from the dead and uses [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin a pair of scissors]] to hack her two best friends to death. Jade is a downplayed example, though, because while she does threaten people with her scissors, she never uses them in a fight, which is good for maintaining the kid-friendly vibe.
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161	* In the Music/{{Vocaloid}} song, "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m8L75guzMn4 Tailor Shop on Enbizaka]]", it turns out that the women are murdered by the titular tailor with her scissors. As it turns out in the [[Music/EvilliousChronicles overarching series]] and [[AllThereInTheManual its guidebooks]], the scissors are also [[SealedEvilInACan the vessel of the demon of Envy.]]
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165	* The Japanese [[{{Youkai}} youkai]] known as the kuchisake-onna ([[GlasgowGrin slit-mouthed woman]]) is armed with large scissors, which she will use to cut you in half if you answer her question "am I pretty?" with "no". If you say yes, she will instead use the scissors to cut your mouth to match her own. Answering her question with "you're average/so-so" or throwing candy at her will make her confused and allow you to run away safely.
166	* Atropos, one of the Fates from Myth/ClassicalMythology, ended mortal lives with her scissors.
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170	* Wrestling/BrutusBeefcake: How many of the heels regarded "the Barber," especially Wrestling/BobbyHeenan (on color commentary), Beefcake's ex-manager, "Luscious" Johnny Valiant and Beefcake's ex-tag team partner Wrestling/GregValentine. Wrestling/JimmyHart and the Wrestling/HonkyTonkMan have also had similar unkind words (at least in kayfabe) for Beefcake's love of cutting hair.
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174	* In-universe fiction in ''TabletopGame/TranshumanSpace'' sometimes features a C-Brown gardening robot being reprogrammed to kill its owner with its built-in shears. While this has never actually happened, concern is great enough that later models have a BigRedButton to switch it off, positioned where it could be easily reached if the machine was rushing towards you.
175	* ''TabletopGame/TheUnofficialHollowKnightRPG'': Scissor blades are one-handed weapons that can be dual-wielded or linked together to form a pair of scissors, a two-handed weapon that functionally allows you to hit the enemy with both blades at once. Notably a single Scissor counts as both a Nail and a Hook for the purposes of weapon arts, while a linked pair of scissors is in the Needle and Tusk categories, meaning that a scissor-wielding character has access to a wide variety of weapon arts.
176	* Creator/GamesWorkshop games:
177	** In ''TabletopGame/BloodBowl'', the Halfling Star Player Neddley Verrüca is a renowned gardener and [[WhenTreesAttack Treeman]] stylist who often takes to the pitch with his trademark shears so that he can give his clients a quick trim during a match. He is also not above using his razor-sharp gardening tools on the opposition, something the 5th Edition rules represent with the [[ArmourPiercingAttack Stab]] and Secret Weapon skills.
178	** In ''TabletopGame/WarhammerAgeOfSigmar'' and ''TabletopGame/Warhammer40000'', Horticulous Slimux goes into battle armed with a pair of rusted and filth-covered lopping shears rather than the usual balesword or plaguesword wielded by Daemonic Heralds of [[{{Plaguemaster}} Nurgle]]. These shears are just as efficient at cutting up the enemies of Grandfather Nurgle as any other weapon of the Plague God and fit with Horticulous' role as head gardener of the [[GardenOfEvil Garden of Nurgle]].
179	** Ork Power Klaws in ''TabletopGame/Warhammer40000'' are massive hydraulic combat shears that can go through tanks. Commissar Yarrick wears one he took from an Ork Nob's corpse, to replace the arm he lost to the same Nob.
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183	* The interactive whodunit comedy ''Shear Madness'' is set in a hair salon where the landlady is found murdered from having been stabbed to death with a pair of shears. The audience votes on which of the four suspects is the one they think did it, with the character who receives the most votes being the true culprit.
184	* In ''Theatre/SweeneyToddTheDemonBarberOfFleetStreet'', Jonas Fogg, the evil insane asylum owner, advances on Anthony with his (often gigantic) pair of scissors. [[NeverBringAKnifeToAGunFight Anthony is armed with a pistol, and Fogg is eventually shot by Johanna]].
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188	* "The Caretaker" from [[Ride/UniversalStudios Universal's]] Theatre/HalloweenHorrorNights uses what looks like a twisted combination of a surgical clamp and a pair of garden shears as his weapon of choice.
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191	[[folder:Toys]]
192	* ''Toys/SuperThings'': There are four villains based on scissors: Mad Blades, Double Shack, Cutleaf (who’s specifically based on gardening shears), and Shack Shock. All of them share AbsurdCuttingPower as their ability.
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195	[[folder:Video Games]]
196	* In ''VideoGame/BioShockInfinite'', [[spoiler:Elizabeth kills Daisy Fitzroy]] by stabbing her in the back with a pair of scissors.
197	* In ''VideoGame/BloodstainedRitualOfTheNight'' you meet Todd, a man who has been cursed to turn into one of the murderous Killer Barbers roaming the castle. He explains that he has sentient cursed scissors attached to his hands, the only way to remove them is to come up with 666 unique hairstyles, and that they have to be good: he can't just be lazy and keep snipping until he hits 666 or else the scissors will know he's cheating and murder whoever he's giving a haircut to. Miriam even {{lampshade\|hanging}}s how stupidly and conveniently specific the curse is by calling it "the worst curse she's ever heard of". Speaking of, there are also the much less friendly other Killer Barbers roaming the castle as well.
198	* ''Franchise/{{Castlevania}}'':
199	** The UsefulNotes/SegaSaturn version of ''[[VideoGame/CastlevaniaSymphonyOfTheNight Symphony of the Night]]'' features an extra area called Underground Garden, which has gardeners wielding huge shears as enemies.
200	** ''[[VideoGame/CastlevaniaOrderOfEcclesia Order of Ecclesia]]'' features a character named "Anna Molly" (get it? Anomaly?), who seems to warp into existence just to try and snip Shanoa's head off with a giant pair of scissors.
201	* ''VideoGame/CatAndKnightsSamuraiBlade'': Kana fights with a pair of scissors as part of her floating weapon set and that can separate as she helps cut down enemy yokai.
202	* The appropriately named Scissorsman/woman/twins from the various ''VideoGame/ClockTower'' games use these as their preferred weapon of choice. Even Scissorman Ralph and Scissorwoman Jemima from ''VideoGame/ClockTower3'', who actually dual-wield large daggers, will often put them together and make "snipping" gestures just for their namesake.
203	* ''VideoGame/CrossbowCrusade'': The first boss of the game, The Gardener, will sometimes charge across the battlefield with a large pair of bloody hedge clippers. They will cut up any arrows you fire at him as long as he has them out.
204	* In the video game ''VideoGame/DarkFall: Lost Souls'', the Inspector uses scissors to stab some hideous grub-creatures to death, and other times as a makeshift crowbar to pry things apart. These can break, but stashes exist in certain areas to replace them.
205	* The Oolacile Scarecrows from ''VideoGame/DarkSoulsI'' have shears as their main weapon. In one area you see them using the shears to trim trees, implying that these guys are less guardsmen than they are gardeners. Their shears work pretty well against intruders all the same. Unfortunately, [[UnusableEnemyEquipment the shears are unobtainable]].
206	* The [[{{Mooks}} Sin Scissors]] and [[EliteMook Death Scissors]] demons in ''VideoGame/DevilMayCry1'' attack by trying to slice and snip Dante with gigantic pairs of scissors. According to the former's enemy file, they use those scissors as mediums to appear in the human world.
207	* Shows up in the third and fourth entries from ''VideoGame/DragonQuest'' as a weapon exclusive to a Warrior class character. Interestingly, it's a one-handed weapon, with one handle being in the bearer's hand and the other strapped to their bicep. Apparently, you flex to close the contraption.
208	* ''VideoGame/{{Faria}}'' has the Scissors Monster, a boss which spawns flying scissors. Gold beats scissors.
209	* Mephistopheles from ''VideoGame/FateGrandOrder'' wields a pair of huge scissors as a weapon. When he reaches Third Ascension, they evolve to look like a pair of large mandibles.
210	* ''VideoGame/FightLeague'' has Bisector Snips, who carries a gigantic pair of scissors that she can separate and {{Dual Wield\|ing}}.
211	* [[LivingToys Gwen, the Hallowed Seamstress]] of ''VideoGame/LeagueOfLegends'' wields a giant pair of ghostly tailor scissors, an empowered form of the very pair she was once created with as a lowly doll. Her gameplay is all about [[DeathByAThousandCuts whittling down enemies over many, many strikes]], and thankfully, [[BladeSpam she works very fast]].
212	* Vector, one of the bosses of Zenebatos in ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfDragoon'' fights with a pair of scissors.
213	* Red Riding Hood from the ''VideoGame/MarySkelterNightmares'' trilogy uses a massive pair of scissors as her default weapon. She can use it to cut down netting within the Jail, and [[spoiler:[[ChildrenForcedToKill reflexively stabbed a berserk Little Mermaid with them]] ten years before the first game's events]].
214	* ''Franchise/MegaMan'':
215	** ''VideoGame/MegaManClassic'': Cut Man, who has a giant scissor blade on his head, has the Rolling Cutter weapon, throwable scissor blades that return like boomerangs.
216	** Crush Crawfish (Japanese name: Scissors Shrimper) from ''VideoGame/MegaManX3'' has pincers used like scissors.
217	** Hornet Man's stage in ''VideoGame/MegaMan9'' has animate gardening shears as enemies.
218	* Sundowner from ''VideoGame/MetalGearRisingRevengeance'' {{Dual Wield\|ing}}s a pair of [[MacheteMayhem machetes]] that can be linked together to form a giant pair of scissors, which you in turn can buy and use them yourself after you kill him. MissionControl even lampshades the relative ineffectiveness of such a weapon, at least when compared to more conventional blades, when reflecting on how Sundowner uses them for the psychological effect they'd have on his opponent, and because he's enough of a cruel bastard that to him "ineffective" just means "slower and more painful for his victims".
219	* No. 7 in ''VideoGame/MightyNo9'' uses a huge pair of scissor blades, though he prefers to detach them and use the blades [[DualWielding like a pair of swords]].
220	* Yuri from ''VideoGame/MillionKnightsVermillion'', wields scissors as large as she is. She separates the blades for some attacks.
221	* ''VideoGame/MonsterHunter4'': [[GiantSpider Nerscylla]] possesses a huge pair of scissor-like mandibles drenched in deadly poison. Interestingly, when not in use, these mandibles are able to be concealed within Nerscylla's body.
222	* In ''VideoGame/{{Omori}}'', [[spoiler:Basil, having flown over the DespairEventHorizon, eventually gets his hands on a pair of garden shears. Depending on your actions, he then either [[EyeScream stabs Sunny's eye out]] or [[DrivenToSuicide disembowels himself]] with them]].
223	* It is unclear if these are actually [[FauxAffablyEvil Richard Trager]]'s weapon of choice in ''VideoGame/{{Outlast}}'', but he does use them prominently, such as when he [[spoiler:cuts off two of [[PlayerCharacter Miles Upshur]]'s [[{{Fingore}} fingers]] with a pair and later stabs an executive to death with them before chasing Miles around the Male Ward]]. It's more of a situational element he uses than an explicit case of it being what he always uses, though given he is [[ArcVillain only in one chapter]], it's hard to tell the difference.
224	* ''VideoGame/PaperMario'':
225	** In ''VideoGame/PaperMarioStickerStar'', several Things Mario can use in battle are scissors, which cut away Mario's foes.
226	** Scissors appears again in ''VideoGame/PaperMarioTheOrigamiKing'', however, he's now much more menacing than before, being a ''sentient'' [[ManOfKryptonite Thing of Kryptonite]] in a world made of paper working ''against'' Mario this time. He can reduce anything he encounters into confetti and can OneHitKill Mario during his boss battle.
227	* The Franchise/{{Pokemon}} Scizor has claws that function like scissors as well as, of course, being named after scissors. Naturally, it learns the move X-Scissor, and it's one of the best moves it can have since it gets same-type attack bonus from Scizor's Bug typing and takes advantage of its massive Attack stat.
228	* Kutaro of ''VideoGame/Puppeteer2013'' fights with a pair of magical scissors called Calipers.
229	* ''VideoGame/RemiLoreLostGirlInTheLandsOfLore'': The Craft Scissors, one of the weapons in the game, is a giant pair of scissors big enough for [[PlayerCharacter Remi]] to wield them like a sword.
230	* In ''VideoGame/ResidentEvil7Biohazard'', you will end up fighting [[spoiler: Jack Baker]], who is armed with a pair of shears made out of ''[[ChainsawGood two chainsaws.]]''
231	* In ''VideoGame/SaltAndSanctuary'', two of the Greatswords in the game are classified as Greatscissors, both of which share a unique two-handed strong attack that has you clip with the scissors instead of the thrusting attack regular greatswords have. The Jaws of Death was conceived by an Askarian inventor who joined two recycled greatswords together on a hinge and was subsequently approved for use in the Askarian army after successful field testing. The Northern Cross was Markdor's attempt to outdo their rival nation and create a superior version. They both succeeded and failed in that the weapon is indeed superior to the Jaws of Death, dealing magic damage in addition to physical with S-rank scaling in both Strength and Magic; however, unlike the Jaws of Death, it was impossible to mass-produce due to the rarity of its materials. Both weapons are extreme {{Game Breaker}}s, primarily because greatswords in general are overpowered already, and the scissor attack is both extremely powerful and can be spammed very quickly, cutting even the toughest bosses to ribbons in no time.
232	* In ''VideoGame/SilentHill2'', Pyramid Head's {{BFS}} is actually one half of a pair of scissors, representing the duality between himself and James.
233	* In the ''VideoGame/{{Skylanders}}'' games, the fourth series character Short Cut wields a giant pair of [[{{Unobtainium}} Traptanium]] scissors as his weapon.
234	* Xiu "The Bride" from ''VideoGame/SoulAtStake'' wields a pair of scissors as her chosen weapon.
235	* Voldo's unlockable "Tofana Scissors" in the ''Videogame/SoulCalibur'' series are a pair of scissor-shaped poisoned blades.
236	* In ''VideoGame/TwistedMetal2012'', Marcus Kane's daughter Sophie Kane stabbed Sweet Tooth [[EyeScream in the eye]] with a pair when he was [[OffingTheOffspring trying to kill her]], leaving that distinctive eye-hole in his mask.
237	* Ethan's father in ''VideoGame/TheVanishingOfEthanCarter'' uses a pair of scissors to commit a HeroicSuicide in order to weaken the evil spirit that has befallen his family.
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240	[[folder:Visual Novels]]
241	* Genocider Syo/Genocide Jack from ''VisualNovel/DanganronpaTriggerHappyHavoc'' is a SerialKiller who crucifies her victims using custom-made scissors. The scissors even count as {{Absurdly Sharp Blade}}s, since they can seemingly slice through anything. When Syo/Jack returns in ''VideoGame/DanganronpaAnotherEpisodeUltraDespairGirls'', she can cut through robots made of solid steel with ease using just these scissors.
242	-->'''Genocide Jack:''' Why go with blunt-force trauma when I can just grab some scissors and paint the town red?
243	* Sayuri, one of the {{Yandere}} love interests in ''VisualNovel/MyHaremHeavenIsYandereHell'', has a pair of scissors for her weapon. For a majority of her Bad Ends, she uses them on [[IfICantHaveYou Yuuya]] and/or [[MurderTheHypotenuse other "threats"]] for her relationship with him.
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246	[[folder:Webcomics]]
247	* ''Webcomic/PantyAndStockingWithGarterbeltSeason2'': Stocking's stockings now turn from {{katanas\|are just better}} to scissor blades. Yes, ''[[Anime/KillLaKill those]]'' scissor blades.
248	* The aptly-named robot Tailor from ''Webcomic/SchlockMercenary'' has a pair of built-in scissors, and since they're designed to cut nanotube fabric for making armor, they double as fearsome weapons.
249	* ''WebComic/SleeplessDomain'': Cassidy, as the {{magical girl}} Flash Cut, wields a giant pair of scissors as her weapon, though she uses them in a manner that is less than straightforward. Rather than using the scissors on their own as a weapon, Cassidy uses them to cut ''herself'' in half, activating her SelfDuplication ability. Afterwards, each clone uses half the pair of scissors as a sword.
250	* In the ''Webcomic/{{xkcd}}'' strip [[https://xkcd.com/697/ Tensile vs. Shear Strength]], Black Hat Guy cuts the SpaceElevator with a pair of pruning shears.
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254	* One episode of ''WebVideo/JonTron'' has Jon play ''VideoGame/ClockTower'', and later encounters a real-life Scissorman. [[MakesAsMuchSenseInContext He later defeats him with a slice of ham]].
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257	[[folder:Western Animation]]
258	* ''WesternAnimation/TheFlintstones'': In "A Haunted House is Not a Home", Fred and Barney [[OnOneCondition have to spend a night in Fred's uncle's mansion in order to inherit his fortune]]. Also in the house are three servants who will inherit if Fred fails to do so. All of them are carrying weapons, with the gardener carrying a huge pair of hedge clippers that he wields with ghoulish abandon.
259	* In ''WesternAnimation/GravityFalls'', [[EnfantTerrible Li'l Gideon]] once tried to kill Dipper Pines with a pair of lamb shears, or at least [[TongueTrauma cut his tongue out]].
260	-->'''Dipper:''' [Mabel]'s never gonna date you, man!\
261	'''Gideon:''' That's a lie. And I'm gonna make sure you ''never'' lie to me again.
262	* In ''WesternAnimation/ToxicCrusaders'', the incident that turned Mowerman into a mutant with gardening powers gave his right hand a pair of permanent garden shears. This leads to the show's heroes calling him a mutant of "shear size and strength".
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265	[[folder:Real Life]]
266	* In October 1993, Wrestling/{{WCW}} fired wrestler [[Wrestling/SidEudy Sid "Sid Vicious" Eudy]] after he and [[Wrestling/ArnAnderson Martin "Arn Anderson" Lunde]] got into a RealLife fight in a hotel room in England involving stabbing each other with scissors. This would later get a CallBack during 2000 when Wrestling/VinceRusso and Wrestling/EricBischoff vacated all the titles, and Bischoff asked Sid, "What's the matter? Can't find your scissors?" So if you’ve ever wondered why he said that seemingly random line, now you know.
267	* In January 2012, a man was robbed at scissor-point in Queensland, Australia.
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