Line #95 Main/TelephonePolearm


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4	The use of extremely long and thick objects as blunt weaponry carried one-handed over the shoulder but swung two-handed in a devastating arc: think telephone poles, street lamps, trees, cabers... Basically, [[{{BFS}} Big Freaking Stick]].
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6	Usually an indicator that the wielder has SuperStrength. Usually an ImprovisedWeapon, often seen directly plucked and lifted.
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8	A SubTrope of BatterUp. See also ImprobableWeaponUser, PrimitiveClubs, CarryABigStick, and EpicFlail.
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16	* ''Manga/{{Bleach}}'': During [[TheBigGuy Chad's]] first fight against a Hollow (which he can't even see at the time), he rips a telephone pole out of the ground and sweeps it around until it hits something. This is ''before'' he gains any powers whatsoever; he's just that badass.
17	* Shizuo Heiwajima of ''Literature/{{Durarara}}'' is the page image. [[ReluctantWarrior He never intends to get in a fight]], so when his anger finds a worthy target, he grabs whatever's on the side of the road -- [[VisualPun most iconically Stop and Yield signs]], but he's ripped out safety rails and highway exit markers when he's been exceptionally wrathful.
18	* In the ''Dust Spurt''/''Wasted Minds'' miniseries by Creator/RumikoTakahashi, Yura, a psychic with SuperStrength grabs a pole and goes after an enemy agent who saw her strength and called her a "gorilla woman". The agency ''she'' works for is strapped for cash and the damages she caused with it led them to ask if she was actually on their side.
19	* ''Literature/FateZero'': Most Servants summoned for a Holy Grail War have a weapon of choice (or several) called a Noble Phantasm that is part of/inspired by their historic/legendary deeds in their past life and serves as their main means of fighting other Servants. This war's Berserker has the skill Eternal Arms Mastery, which lets him wield any conceivable weapon, however unlikely, as if it were his Noble Phantasm (he does have a 'true' NP, but it's such a colossal resource-hog that he rarely uses it). Among other things, his abilities allow him to use the midsection of a streetlight as a pole-arm to devastating effect against Saber.
20	* ''Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventure'':
21	** During Joseph's chariot race against Wamuu in ''[[Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventureBattleTendency Battle Tendency]]'', the first weapon is a large hammer hanging from a pillar. Joseph thinks he's got the advantage when he manages to take the lead and snatch the hammer, only to realize that Wamuu is able to use his SuperStrength to take ''[[OhCrap the pillar itself]]'' as an even more powerful weapon.
22	** During the FinalBattle in ''[[Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventureStardustCrusaders Stardust Crusaders]]'', [[BigBad Dio]] uproots a traffic sign from the ground with ease, intending to use it to decapitate [[TheHero Jotaro]], [[ThereIsNoKillLikeOverkill who has already taken numerous daggers to the head and torso and fallen 30 stories onto bare pavement]], [[ProperlyParanoid just to be sure]].
23	* Early in ''Manga/MyHeroAcademia'', during a training exercise, Uraraka uses her zero gravity powers to grab a column ripped from the floor, and uses it to smack a bunch of floating debris at Iida. Appropiately, she calls it "Improvised Special Attack: Home Run Comet!"
24	* A FillerArc in the ''Manga/{{Naruto}}'' anime included a boat trip for the protagonists. When, during an attack, their ship becomes unseaworthy, Sakura rips out its mainmast to use as a giant club. Especially notable in that, until this point in the series, [[TheLoad Sakura had done very little in combat that had proven even mildly useful.]] It could also count as foreshadowing, since after the TimeSkip SuperStrength becomes her primary ability and her combat-effectiveness [[TookALevelInBadass skyrockets.]]
25	* In ''Manga/NegimaMagisterNegiMagi'', Ku Fei gets one of these as her signature weapon after her Pactio. It's explicitly based on the Ruyi Jingu Bang from ''Literature/JourneyToTheWest'', and consequently its most memorable appearance is when she uses it as ''artillery support''.
26	* In ''Manga/OnePiece'', Urouge wields a giant wood pillar. WordOfGod states that it's actually a pencil, [[ItRunsOnNonsensoleum and he's looking for a sharpener]].
27	* Within the anime of ''Manga/RanmaOneHalf'', Ryōga uproots a concrete utility pole and swings it at Ranma after Nabiki convinces him the pills she gave him grant super-strength.
28	* Thorkell in ''Manga/VinlandSaga'' uses tree-sized sharpened stakes as either melee or ship-sinking ranged weapons.
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31	[[folder:Comic Books]]
32	* A common occurrence in Superhero comics due to the abundance of people with the strength to pull this off. [[ComicBook/FantasticFour The Thing]] will often employ this against stronger opponents, especially the [[ComicBook/TheIncredibleHulk the Hulk]], to keep his distance while still doing some damage.
33	* In one ''ComicBook/XMen'' comic, X-Men are trapped in another dimension and forced to take part in a large battle. Colossus (for who the whole arc is a serious case of ItsPersonal) goes to battle swinging a tree. The narration lampshades how horrified he would be at the damage if he wasn't so angry.
34	* ''ComicBook/JasonXSpecial'' features Jason killing a couple by ripping a tree out of the ground and crushing them with it.
35	* ''ComicBook/ArchieComics'': Archie found himself using a lamp post in this manner, though he didn't intend to. When he was confronted by a collection of oily thugs who called him and Jughead "fun on the run," Jughead signaled Archie to turn in his direction, which resulted in the whole gang being poleaxed. He finishes off the leader by landing the head of the post into his stomach, also unintentionally.
36	* At one point, ComicBook/TheMightyThor was being attacked by TheWildHunt. He led them onto the Brooklyn Bridge, tore a support beam out, and used it as a weapon. Turns out a several-hundred-pound chunk of ColdIron works rather nicely against TheFairFolk.
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40	* In ''Fanfic/WithStringsAttached'', [[SuperStrength Paul batters his way]] up the steps to the Heart of Evil while swinging a six-foot length of fallen rock pillar. Does a nice job of clearing off the undead in the way... until he reaches the intangible wraiths.
41	** In ''Fanfic/TheKeysStandAlone: The Soft World'', Paul does this with a convenient log when a bunch of dirt golems attack him. Unlike other examples of this trope, the log doesn't last very long because he's so strong, and [[PowerIncontinence so not-good with his strength]], that he rapidly squeezes the log into pieces, though it holds out long enough to take care of the golems. (At least until the guy making them starts making more.)
42	* In ''Fanfic/TheArtistAndTheFaker'', Nero uses a lamppost as a club. Archer asks how in the world she's so strong, since she's less than five feet tall and has no visible muscle mass.
43	* In ''Fanfic/SonOfTheSannin'', during the battle against Kakuzu and Hidan to retake Takigakure, Fu grabs one of the toppled trees scattered around and uses it as a club. She later decides to keep it as her personal weapon of choice, [[ICallItVera naming it "Arbor-chan"]].
44	* In ''Fanfic/VoyagesOfTheWildSeaHorse'', an early duel sees Ryoga Hibiki uprooting a coconut palm tree to use as an oversized club against a rival pirate crew, to their incredulity. WordOfGod is that it's a MythologyGag referencing the time Ryoga used this trope in the anime.
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48	* Manfred the mammoth in ''WesternAnimation/IceAge1'' uses a tree trunk against the saber-tooths in the climax of the first film.
49	* In ''WesternAnimation/{{Megamind}}'', the titular villain (in a {{mecha}}) briefly fences with Titan (who is a {{flying brick}}) using light poles.
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53	* In ''Film/TransformersRevengeOfTheFallen'', Optimus smacks Megatron around with a couple of trees during the forest battle.
54	* In ''Film/MightyMorphinPowerRangersTheMovie'', giant-sized Ivan Ooze rips out a phone pole to duel the Ninja Megazord with.
55	* [[BumblingSidekick Planchett]] in the 1973 adaption of ''{{Film/The Three Musketeers\|1973}}'' helps [[TheHero D'Artagnan]] out in a duel by hitting [[TheDragon Rochefort]] with a tree.
56	* Neo in ''Film/TheMatrixReloaded'' uses a pole against a mob of Smith clones.
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60	* ''Literature/LoneWolf'': In ''The Prisoners of Time'', the giant Chaos-master uproots a tree and wield it as a club to chase after Lorkon Ironheart, and then to fight Lone Wolf.
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64	* Done in several ''{{Literature/Discworld}}'' books, usually by Detritus or the Librarian, both of whom are strong enough to improvise clubs from all sorts of improbably large objects (enemy mooks are a favourite).
65	* You can tell the giant from ''Literature/TheFaerieQueene'' is a real threat to the likes of St. George and King Arthur because his club is really a tree trunk. Spenser probably borrowed this idea from either ‘’Literature/TheAeneid’’ or ‘’Literature/TheThebaid’’, where a giant and a half-giant respectively fight with tree trunks.
66	* ''Literature/JourneyToTheWest'': The Ryui Jingu Bang first appears as a twenty-foot iron pillar in the Dragon King’s treasury. In Sun Wukong’s hands it proves capable of SizeShifting, and shrinks into his signature staff. Being ridiculously strong, he has few problems wielding it at either size.
67	* In ''Literature/TheMagiciansNephew'', when Jadis visits London she rips the sticky-out pole thing provided for the lamplighter to lean his ladder against off a lamp-post and uses it as a club.
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71	* ''Series/UltramanAce'': The titular Ultra have a tendency of grabbing random objects lying around as improvised weapons on enemies, despite having the ability to conjure a katana from thin air at will. He notably rips out an entire cell tower when fighting an alien who's armed with a FlamingSword, and in one episode he actually challenges a monster to a duel... using ''uprooted trees as impromptu bats''.
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75	* The video for Music/OtavaYo's ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0JQ0xnJyb0A Sumetskaya]]''[[note]]subtitled as Russian Couplets for Fighting[[/note]] shows off the Russian version of this, which involves a strongman and a possibly three-metre length of substantial tree-trunk.
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79	* In ''Literature/TheThebaid'', Capaneus is so huge that his weapon of choice is a tree trunk that he wields like a club.
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83	* ''TabletopGame/GURPSSupers'' (4th edition) has rules for using such polearms, based on their length and how hard it is to hold them in hand.
84	* Prometheans in ''TabletopGame/PrometheanTheCreated'' can learn a transmutation specializing in making the body stronger, allowing them to pick up objects as though their strength rating was twice what it actually is. A second transmutation lets them use such objects as melee or thrown weapons. (Two further transmutations increase this effect to ''triple'' strength -- for those times when they really need to hit people with a minivan.)
85	* If your 'Mech has hands in ''TabletopGame/BattleTech'', you can pick up and use almost ''anything'' as a improvised club--this can include [[GrievousHarmWithABody pieces of other 'mechs]], [[BatterUp whole trees]], or [[ImprovisedWeapon whatever else]] you can get your giant metal mits on.
86	* Card game ''TabletopGame/VampireTheEternalStruggle'' has combat cards for vampires with Potence (super strength), that range from Thrown Sewer Lid and Thrown Grate to Well-Aimed ''Car''.
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90	* The first boss of ''VideoGame/BalaceraBrothers'', a gigantic troll who wields a tree like a baseball bat trying to swat the brothers.
91	* ''VideoGame/ConquerorsBlade'' features some literal polearms which approach telephone-pole proportions:
92	** Fortebraccio Pikemen use ridiculously long pikes which are meant to out-reach any and all enemy cavalry lances.
93	** In turn, Winged Hussars use similarly long lances to out-reach enemy pikes.
94	* In ''VideoGame/SaintsRow2'' the Boss can use various items of scenery as improvised weapons, including street signs.
95	* ''VideoGame/{{Warcraft}}'':
96	** Taurens in ''Warcraft III'' use their totems (essentially enormous, decorated logs) like this.
97	** The Mountain Giant night elf units can uproot a tree and use it as a club, giving them siege damage and increased range until the tree eventually breaks.
98	** The Taunka in ''VideoGame/WorldOfWarcraft'' use these totems as well. The Mountain Giants can also use trees as giant clubs. Jojo Ironbrow, after his [[CanCrushingCranium mighty brow]] fails to break a jade pillar, starts wielding said pillar as a weapon.
99	* In one verse during the sixth chapter in ''VideoGame/{{Bayonetta}}'', the titular witch has to swing a streetlamp to kill several angels. In addition to Bayonetta herself having SuperStrength, the choice of ImprovisedWeapon is justified; this particular verse has Bayo in the human world as opposed to in Purgatorio with the angels she's fighting, and so can't attack them directly, but the environment exists in all realms simultaneously.
100	* ''VideoGame/CrudeBuster'' had this as standard. Larger poles were picked up and thrown while smaller ones were used as clubs. You could also throw cars.
101	* ''VideoGame/SoulSeries'': Hualin (one of the shopkeepers from ''Soulcalibur III'' and a bonus character) uses an enchanted staff that can shift length and thickness to fight, and often shifts it to telephone pole dimensions for stronger attacks. It's based on the staff from ''Literature/JourneyToTheWest'', which could change length and width. See also, [[Manga/DragonBall Goku's Power Pole]].
102	* 'El Gigante' in ''VideoGame/ResidentEvil4'' can wield a tree at you. Roughly the same thing happens with the Ndesu in ''VideoGame/ResidentEvil5'', only he uses an actual telephone pole this time.
103	* Joachim in ''VideoGame/ShadowHeartsCovenant'' uses mailboxes and pillars as his weapons. He loves his [[ImprovisedWeapon Improvised Weapons]].
104	* Some characters in ''VideoGame/FreedomForce'' could rip poles right out of the ground and swing them. You could bring down a building by throwing enough trash cans at it or pounding it with light poles.
105	* This is possible in the ''[[ComicBook/TheIncredibleHulk Hulk]]'' video games.
106	* The Minotaur enemies in ''VideoGame/CastlevaniaBloodlines'' will grab sections of a marble column to swing at you. They'll even break it over your character if the swing connects.
107	* Also possible in several ''Franchise/{{Transformers}}'' games.
108	* In ''VideoGame/TimeCrisis 2'', the second stage boss is a huge ScaryBlackMan who fights you by ''bear-hugging a nuclear missile'' by the business end and beating you over the head with it in the second stage of the fight.
109	* The [[GiantMook Gargantuar]] from ''VideoGame/PlantsVsZombies'' can use a telephone pole as one of its weapons to ''[[OneHitKill instantly smash one of your plants]]''. Sometimes, it may instead use a street sign or even [[GrievousHarmWithABody another zombie]]. In later games, Gargantuars of different variations adapted to different weapons, such as giant torches, sharks, and hammers. Exaggerated with [[RobotMe Gargantuar Prime]] in ''VideoGame/PlantsVsZombies2ItsAboutTime'' - its arms ''are'' telephone poles!
110	* ''VideoGame/{{Fallout}}'':
111	** In ''VideoGame/Fallout3'', the Super Mutant Behemoth enemies carry an improvised club consisting of a ''fire hydrant'' at the end of a water pipe. It's also larger than any other in-game fire hydrant by a factor of two, making it about as big as the player without the pipe, because the Behemoth was meant to be rather less big. It got changed late in the game by punching up the stats and increasing the size of the model, resulting in the huge hydrant, not to mention the shopping trolley it uses as a backpack being a lot larger than what you'd expect.
112	** ''VideoGame/FalloutNewVegas'' also has the super mutant favorite Rebar Club, a trio of steel rebar beams, still attached to a large chunk of concrete. The player can also utilize it to full effect, through it takes a nearly maxed out strength score to make the most of it.
113	*** The unique version is added in ''Gun Runners' Arsenal'' DLC, called Nuka Breaker, which is a Nuka Cola neon sign. This itself is a ShoutOut to ''WebVideo/FalloutNukaBreak''.
114	*** ''Old World Blues'' has the X2 Antenna, and ''Lonesome Road'' has the Old Glory flagstaff.
115	* ''VideoGame/NexusWar'' allows characters with the [[ChromeChampion Cloak of Steel]] skill (or its upgraded variations) to do this with telephone poles, streetlamps, and uprooted trees. While it's possible to splatter a maximum-level character in three or four hits this way, such weapons are usually much less accurate than normal-size melee weapons.
116	* [[TheBigGuy Karok]] in ''VideoGame/{{Vindictus}}'' wields a ''battle pillar''. It isn't improvised, but it's certainly big enough.
117	* The larger characters in ''VideoGame/PowerStone'' are able to make use of street lights and telephone poles as weapons.
118	* ''Franchise/{{Pokemon}}'':
119	** ''VideoGame/PokemonBlackAndWhite'' introduces Timburr, which fights by using a piece of wood that's enormous when compared to it, and it even juggles it on a regular basis. Its evolutions are also examples, but to a lesser extent, though only because they're bigger in comparison: [[MeaningfulName Gurdurr]] and Conkeldurr, who swing around girders and concrete support beams, respectively.
120	** ''VideoGame/PokemonSunAndMoon:'' According to legend, thieves once encroached on Tapu Bulu's temple, only to wisely book it in the opposite direction when they were met with the guardian deity swinging trees around as clubs. Unsurprisingly, Tapu Bulu learns the move Wood Hammer.
121	*** In the anime episode when Ash challenges Tapu Bulu it uproots a tree in the middle of their fight to use as a club. Ash and pikachu have a moment of StunnedSilence as they witness this.
122	* Flint gets to use Lighter's four-by-four in ''VideoGame/{{Mother 3}}''. That same weapon is later used to [[spoiler:knock Flint out.]] Ouch.
123	* Some large creatures in ''VideoGame/{{Disciples}}'' use ripped out tree trunks as weapons.
124	* Trolls in ''VideoGame/TheBattleForMiddleEarth'' can rip out trees to use them as clubs.
125	* So has the ''VideoGame/RuneScape'' troll Dad, who fights with a tree trunk. A justifiable case, as he's much larger than most other trolls - the average mountain troll is more human-sized and uses weapons like large clubs, hammers, or bones.
126	* In ''VideoGame/DynastyWarriors 6: Empires'', [[BarbarianHero Meng Huo]] wields a large stone pillar.
127	* One of the weapons in ''VideoGame/DarkSouls'' is a club fashioned out of a WorldTree branch. Think of that what you will.
128	* From the same maker, ''VideoGame/ArmoredCore V'' features, as one of its so-called "Ultimate Weapon", a ''rocket-powered'' concrete pillar. As if that's not badass enough, one of the Story mode bosses fashions one out of rubble after being beaten. Befitting its name, getting hit once, and only once, is enough to destroy damn well anything slow enough to get hit.
129	* Many weapons available for the ''VideoGame/CityOfHeroes'' [[{{BFS}} Titan Weapon]] powerset qualify, such as the "Concrete Mallet".
130	* Wan Fu's weapon of choice in ''VideoGame/SamuraiShodown 2'' is a stone pillar about as tall as he is.
131	* One enemy in the arcade version of ''VideoGame/NinjaGaiden'' wields a spiked log.
132	* Doable in the first ''VideoGame/{{Darksiders}}'', breaking off the non-straight parts of the pole. Though as it turns out mortal steel can't hold up to the strain the protagonist puts on his weapons and his foes are really too tough to make improvised weapons practical, this isn't good for more than a bit of minor SequenceBreaking before you have a ranged weapon.
133	* In ''VideoGame/HyruleWarriors'', one of Link's special attacks while using the Gauntlets is to pull a huge pillar [[note]]the ones from ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaOcarinaOfTime'' that you need the Golden Gauntlets to lift[[/note]] out of the ground, swing it around, then throw it onto the enemies.
134	** In the 3DS remake, [[VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaTheWindWaker King Daphnes's]] fighting style of choice is to bludgeon enemies with the mast and sail of his own boat form.
135	** In ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaBreathOfTheWild'', Hinox can uproot trees and either throw them at Link or use them as a gigantic club.
136	* In ''VideoGame/UndercoverCops'', you can use steel beams and concrete columns as weapons.
137	* The [[GiantMook Unclean Giant]] from ''VideoGame/DarkestDungeon'' wields a small tree for a club. Its main attack, Treebranch Smackdown, is ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin, and is easily one of the most damaging attacks from a non-boss. Woe betide thee if it {{crit\|icalHit}}s, because even a fully healed tank-ish character like the Leper or the Crusader can be sent to [[LastChanceHitPoint Death's Door]]. Mortality clarified in a single strike, indeed.
138	* ''VideoGame/MikeShadowIPaidForIt'': Street Weapons Lvl.3 has Mike beat the machine with a street light that he pulls from the ground.
139	* Late into ''VideoGame/ZackAndWikiQuestForBarbarosTreasure'', the pirate ship Zack is on gets attacked, and its mast falls over in the process. Undeterred, Zack picks up the mast and starts attacking stuff with it. He's a bit slower than usual while holding it, but it doesn't otherwise seem to bother him at all.
140	* Gene from ''VideoGame/GodHand'' can uproot lamp posts and similar objects and clobber enemies senseless with them.
141	* In ''Videogame/MetalGearRisingRevengeance'', during his second phase Sundowner will rip out a nearby antenna pole to try and whack Raiden with.
142	* ''{{VideoGame/Valheim}}'' trolls can spawn carrying entire pine trunks single-handedly, which gives their attacks much longer range. Enterprising players have used this to kite trolls into clearing vast swaths of forest and smashing ore deposits into ore nuggets.
143	* ''VideoGame/KirbyAndTheForgottenLand'': At some point in his boss fight, [[spoiler:King Dedede]] drops his weapon in favor of a big stone pillar, which he swings around with ease.
144	* ''VideoGame/KrutTheMythicWings'': King Kinnon of the Garuda tribe uses a massive stone pillar ripped from the ground as an improvised club. Which he can pull a ShockwaveStomp by pounding the floor.
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148	* In ''WebAnimation/IfTheEmperorHadATextToSpeechDevice'', Marneus Calgar (The [[CanonSue Ultramarines']] chapter master) once picked up a ''Necron Pylon'' (read: a crescent-shaped structure about 10 times his size usually used as an artillery piece) and used it to devastate hordes of Necrons that were swarming him.
149	* In ''WebAnimation/DeathBattle'', Superman uses a street lamp on Goku. Needless to say, Goku is barely scratched and Superman is still nowhere near using his full strength at that point.
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153	* [[RobotGirl Ping]] yanks a streetlamp out of the ground and swings away with it in ''Webcomic/{{Megatokyo}}.'' Not only has she used a [[http://megatokyo.com/strip/369 telephone pole]] as a weapon/tool on more than one occasion, at least once she has fixed it back in place afterwards ([[http://megatokyo.com/strip/1169 and thanked it]]).
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157	* Used ''against'' Tennyo in the ''Literature/WhateleyUniverse'' story "Boston Brawl" when the Arch-Fiend rips up a streetlight and lets her have it. On the other hand, smashing Tennyo into the pavement doesn't stop her.
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161	* ''WesternAnimation/SupermanTheAnimatedSeries'': Superman briefly has to resort to use one of these while fighting off Metallo to keep his distance, due to Metallo's Kryptonite heart weakening him. [[NoSell Naturally it doesn't do much good against him]].
162	* ''WesternAnimation/JusticeLeague''
163	** During the Thanagarian invasion, Wonder Woman rips out a street lamp and clubs down several foes after she has to blow cover to save civilians.
164	** In the ''Unlimited'' episode "Hawk and Dove", Hawk rips a tree out of the ground and uses it to smack the Annihilator around.
165	* A WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes short, "WesternAnimation/ScaredyCat", ends with Sylvester ripping a branch off a tree, ready to charge into battle with a horde of killer mice... [[CutASliceTakeTheRest before throwing it away, uprooting]] ''[[CutASliceTakeTheRest the whole tree]]'', [[CutASliceTakeTheRest and then charging into battle.]]
166	** In "WesternAnimation/BaseballBugs", a baseball player makes a bat out of a whole tree trunk.
167	* In ''WesternAnimation/BeastWars,'' Rhinox uses a tree he knocked over earlier to swat Waspinator.
168	* ''WesternAnimation/TransformersPrime'' gives us one Con using a wooden log to [[CombatPragmatist knock Optimus Prime off a cliff]]. Bonus points for being large enough to use it effectively. Sadly, [[{{Mooks}} short-lived Con]].
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172	* Caber tossing comes pretty close.
173	* Ever seen a Renaissance pike? The largest could be up to 7.5 meters/25 feet long, and weigh up to 6 kg/13.2 lb.
174	** These in turn are in direct line of descent from the Greek hoplite spear, the ''dori'', which found its greatest expression in the Macedonian ''sarissa'' used by Alexander the Great's heavy infantry. The ''sarissa'' could be up to 22 feet in length and took real upper body stregth to wield effectively.
175	* Some students of Japanese swordsmanship develop their strength and control through practice swings with a ''furibo'', a wooden practice sword built to be heavier than normal. Some will go so far as to make a huge ''furibo'' out of a thick piece of lumber, which may be 6 ft. 4 in. long and weigh 17 pounds.
176	* Rods from God, a conceptual weapon that consists of [[KillSat satellites orbiting earth]], which can drop telephone pole sized tungsten rods like giant darts on any targets below. At falling speeds of up to Mach 10, an impact would have as much energy as more than 100 tonnes of TNT. In essence, weaponized ColonyDrop.
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