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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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37Fight your way back to ImprobableWeaponUser using your folding chair.
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39%% Optional items, added after Conversed, at your discretion:
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41%%* '''Implied''': ???
42%%* '''Plotted A Good Waste''': ???

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