1 | '''Basic Trope''': One member of the party in skilled in fighting using something that wouldn't normally be seen as a weapon. |
2 | * '''Straight''': Alice fights with a hockey stick. |
3 | * '''Exaggerated''': |
4 | ** Alice fights with a stash of hockey pucks, badminton racks, golf clubs and such... |
5 | ** Alternately, Alice's stick alone allows them to beat hordes of enemies armed with actual weapons. |
6 | ** She uses something that shouldn't ''be'' a weapon by any train of logic (like [[Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventure soap]] [[Manga/OnePiece bubbles]]). |
7 | ** Alice fights using a toothpick. Not [[DeathOfAThousandCuts many]], just one. |
8 | ** Alice fights with a stick (a ''regular'' stick, like from a tree or campfire) that she strategically whittled down to make into a sword. Stabbing bad guys ''and'' giving them splinters. |
9 | * '''Downplayed''': Alice uses kitchen knives, when combat knives are available. |
10 | ** Alice uses a toothpick as a secondary weapon to [[CombatPragmatist prick people's fingers]] in order to distract them. When they break, she reveals that she has an entire box of them. |
11 | * '''Justified''': |
12 | ** Her hockey stick accidentally came in contact with GreenRocks and now has magical powers making it more deadly in combat than any actual weapon. |
13 | ** Alice is a ProfessionalKiller, and she thinks using daily life objects for assassination is easier to cover up her acts. |
14 | ** Alice was caught off guard by her enemies and didn't have time to acquire a proper weapon. |
15 | * '''Inverted''': Alice uses a mace to play hockey. |
16 | * '''Subverted''': Alternatively: Alice's weapon of choice isn't actually a hockey stick, she just used it as an ImprovisedWeapon due to its similarity to something she ''is'' skilled with. |
17 | * '''Double Subverted''': Alternatively: After so long using the hockey stick, she's gotten rusty with her actual weapon, and ends up just sticking with the hockey stick. |
18 | * '''Parodied''': Alice's hockey stick is basically an InfinityPlusOneSword with the ability to [[DidYouJustPunchOutCthulhu take down Cthulhu]]. |
19 | ** Exaggerated #5, except Alice knights people with the "sword" when they comment on how long it must have taken. |
20 | * '''Zig Zagged''': |
21 | ** The usefulness of Alice's hockey stick-fu changes wildly on many occasions. |
22 | ** (Continuing from Double Subverted) Alice starts using her old weapon again, trading skill for raw power. |
23 | * '''Averted''': Alice has training in sword combat and is very good with a blade. |
24 | * '''Enforced''': "Let's give this character a weird weapon to make them more unique." |
25 | * '''Lampshaded''': "You fight using ''that''?" |
26 | * '''Invoked''': Alice is a multidisciplined fighter, carrying a hockey stick among her various other weapons. |
27 | * '''Exploited''': [[BigBad Dr. Evulz]] purposefully destroys everything that could be used as a weapon to leave Alice completely helpless. |
28 | * '''Defied''': Alice is given the opportunity to choose her weapon. The hockey stick is available, but she passes it over for a sword. |
29 | * '''Discussed''': "Just watch: she's totally gonna kick his ass with that hockey stick." |
30 | * '''Conversed''': "How long do you think it takes to master hockey stick-fu?" |
31 | * '''Deconstructed''': Alice is being attacked and uses a hockey stick to defend herself. It is ineffective and her attacker overpowers her. |
32 | * '''Reconstructed''': |
33 | ** Alice is fighting an enemy who is [[WeaksauceWeakness vulnerable to the type of wood used in hockey sticks.]] |
34 | ** Alice was using the weapon in a way it was ineffective. With proper knowledge of what kinds of attacks are best applied where, the borderline improvised weapon becomes as lethal as any "normal" weapon. |
35 | * '''Played For Laughs''': Alice uses ''any item in reach'' from chairs to water bottles to ''the water inside those water bottles'', and no, she isn't a [[MakingASplash waterbender]]. |
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37 | Fight your way back to ImprobableWeaponUser using your folding chair. |
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39 | %% Optional items, added after Conversed, at your discretion: |
40 | %% |
41 | %%* '''Implied''': ??? |
42 | %%* '''Plotted A Good Waste''': ??? |
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