"[[ImprobableWeaponUser This trope]] once killed a man with a pair of galoshes."

"[[MusicalAssassin This trope]] once killed a man with a harmonica."

"[[LethalChef This trope]] once killed a man with a bowl of chicken soup!"

"[[ThePenIsMightier This trope]]" once killed a man with a ''ballpoint pen!''"

"Yeah? Well ''this'' trope once killed a man...''''' [[NoodleImplements with a two paper clips, some fishing line, and a rubber band!]]'''''"

Few things can establish one's {{badass}} cred quite like [[ARealManIsAKiller claiming to have killed someone]] with something ''no one'' would think of as a weapon of any sort, let alone a lethal one.

Compare CutHisHeartOutWithASpoon and ImprovisedWeapon. May overlap with ThePenIsMightier.

A [[{{Badass}} Badass Trope]]. Can also be a StockPhrase.
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!Examples:

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[[folder: Anime ]]

* Lina's sister Luna Inverse from ''LightNovel/{{Slayers}}'' is often said to have slain a dragon with a butter knife.
* Used in the English dub of ''AxisPowersHetalia'', when Germany is angry with Italy for sleeping late.
--> '''Germany:''' I once killed a man in his sleep with his own mustache and a grape.
* In ''Manga/SayonaraZetsubouSensei'', Nozomu has heard of a soldier who once took down an enemy battalion with only a volume of ''Manga/KimagureOrangeRoad''.

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[[folder: Comic Books ]]

* One ''{{Punisher}}'' mook is called Ink because he killed a man with a pen. [[EyeScream Subverted in that they describe, in great detail, how it happened]].
* Being both an ImprobableWeaponUser and a PsychoForHire, [[{{Daredevil}} Bullseye]] has used pretty much every weapon available, including toothpicks and his own teeth.
-->'''Bullseye''': ''They keep me on a liquid diet and stool softeners because they're afraid if I have a solid bowel movement I'd kill someone with it. And I would, too. Just to say I did it.''
* Actually happens in Michael Fleisher's InNameOnly sequel to ''Harlem Heroes'' when Slice kills a man by throwing his ID card at his throat.
* In ''ComicBook/TheDarkness'' Jackie once killed a guy [[EyeScream with chopsticks.]]

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[[folder: Fanfiction ]]

* A variation of this occurs in ''[[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/3891630/1/Love_and_the_Art_of_War Love and the Art of War]]'' in a more casual setting than normally seen.
-->'''Nanao:''' You could probably kill someone with a paper crane…
-->'''Zaraki:''' Only by ramming it down their throat.
* In an ''Manga/AzumangaDaioh'' and ''Manga/BattleRoyale'' crossover. Sakaki's weapon of choice was a plush cat (she didn't really think it through), but at least she picked up a sickle from a fallen opponent later. Osaka chose a paper fan. [[spoiler: She ''won'']]. She also makes a remark about considering using a rubber band, and is infamous as the dreaded 'Ayumu "Paper-clip" Kasuga'. Really.
* In the ''Franchise/HarryPotter'' DarkFic ''[[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/2762511/1/A-Shattered-Prophecy A Shattered Prophecy]]'' [[HeroKiller Harry]], [[TheDragon the Dark Lord's assassin]], kills one of the aurors guarding him by shoving a feather quill into his throat.

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[[folder: Film ]]

* In ''Film/TheChroniclesOfRiddick'', upon coming across several guys menacing his friend Kyra, Riddick threatens to kill the ringleader with a teacup. [[NotHyperbole And he does it.]] As the dead guy's friends stare in disbelief, he takes out a ''sardine can key'', and sets it, slowly and meaningfully, on the same rock where the teacup was, then gives them a look that clearly says, "Who's next?"
* The two {{jerkass}} agents in ''Series/GetSmart'' once threatened this.
-->'''Agent #1''': You know, I can kill you with anything in this room. You wanna die by Post-It notes?
-->'''Agent #2''': And that's a ''slow'' death.
* The protagonist of ''GrossePointeBlank'' once killed the President of Paraguay with a fork. Later, he kills an assassin sent for him with a ballpoint pen.
* In ''TheGlimmerMan'', StevenSeagal's character kills a man with a credit card.
* In ''{{WesternAnimation/Ratatouille}}'', Sous-Chef Horst is said to have served time in prison, but [[MultipleChoicePast he never tells the same story about why he went to jail twice]]. These include robbing a bank with only a ballpoint pen, having created a hole in the ozone layer over Avignon or he "killed a man...with ''this thumb!''"; we never know for sure, but simply showing ''that thumb'' to Skinner is enough to scare him off when he shows it.
* ''Film/TheDarkKnight'': The Joker's magic trick. "I'm going to make this pencil disappear..." [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QehZjjwb7-I]]

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[[folder: Literature ]]

* * In the literary chronicle of Truman Capote, ''In Cold Blood'', Dick Hyckock decided to ask Perry Smith to help him with his "hit" because Perry told him that once he killed a black man by hitting him with a bicycle chain, "[[ForTheEvulz just for fun]]".

* * The protagonist of Trevanian's novel ''Shibumi'', Nicholaï Hel is skilled in a martial art which involves the use of ordinary objects as lethal weapons.

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[[folder: Live Action TV ]]

* ''Series/ThirdRockFromTheSun'': "I should warn you that I have killed men with everything from a steak knife, to a penny dropped from a skyscraper!"
* On ''Series/{{NCIS}}'', Ziva David boasted that she can kill a man eighteen different ways with a paperclip. Safety recommends she be believed.
** And from the episode "Jet Lag":
-->'''Ziva David:''' And plastic silverware is not as safe as you may think. I once killed a man with a credit card.
** In the same episode, she also states earphone cables could serve as a garrotte.
** She also told Tony, after he would not stop eating, that she would kill him with his spoon.
* In ''XenaWarriorPrincess'', assassin Sinteres is said to be deadly with any weapon. King of Thieves Autolycus, posing as Sinteres, has to demonstrate this by killing a man with a thrown toothpick [[spoiler:although Xena's use of a grappling hook helped]].
* In the first episode of ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'', Buffy mentions having once killed a vampire using only an exacto knife.
** She also uses a pencil once, somewhere along the line.
** And this bit from ''Series/{{Angel}}'':
-->'''Spike:''' I had a wee spat with a werewolf myself once. Fought for over an hour. Brutal, vicious. Almost lost my -
-->'''Fred:''' Angel killed him with a ''[[ThePenIsMightier pen]]''.
* ''Series/{{Leverage}}'' has Elliot describe a fellow hitter doing this. Elliot himself has also killed a man with an appetizer and another with a ''nerf sword''.
-->'''Eliot Spencer''': She'd mop the floor with you, Hardison
-->'''Alec Hardison''': I don't care.
-->'''Eliot Spencer''': Seriously, she actually killed a guy once with a mop. It's a funny story, actually. She broke the mop and took...

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[[folder: Mythology ]]

* Balor from CelticMythology could kill people just by looking at them with his dreaded Eye.
** Medusa could kill people (turning them to stone) just by looking at them as well.
* Samson from ''Literature/TheBible'' killed [[OneManArmy a thousand Philistine soldiers]] with a jawbone of an ass.
* Loki of NorseMythology tricked the blind Hodur into killing Baldur with a mistletoe ''twig''.

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[[folder: Newspaper Comics ]]

* In an early ''{{ComicStrip/Dilbert}}'' strip, Dilbert unintentionally killed the vice president of his company with an ''ear of corn'' when the other guy started a food fight. Dilbert apparently threw the corn hard enough to knock him out and he drowned in his soup. Later in jail, Dilbert's burly cellmate asks him why he's stuck there. Dilbert tells him that he killed a man with an ear of corn after being provoked. Cue the cellmate's OhCrap expression when they get ''corn on the cob'' for lunch.

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[[folder: Video Games ]]

* Professor Mordin from ''VideoGame/MassEffect2'' once killed somebody with "farming equipment."
** Later revealed, according to the Shadow Broker's file on him, to be a pitchfork through a '''''[[FoeTossingCharge charging]]''''' [[ProudWarriorRaceGuy Krogan's]] [[EyeScream eye]].
* ''VideoGame/DwarfFortress'': Someone once killed a bronze colossus by throwing a fluffy wambler at its head.
* In ''VideoGame/{{Half-Life2}}: Episode 2'', a Rebel-in-Training at the White Forest Base ([[FanNickname also called the AR3 Guy]]) first claims to have used [=AR3s=] (which don't exist), then claims to have killed Hunters (alien tripod cyborgs that are rather deadly) "with his own hands."
* In ''VideoGame/AlphaProtocol'', Steven Heck casually mentions that at sufficient velocity, soccer balls can decapitate people. He's also apparently killed Vatican officials using communion wafers, and at one point killed a man by impaling him with a ten-speed mountain bike.
* In ''MaxPayne'', when you finally meet Rico Muerte face to face, he's getting a blowjob from a hooker while telling this story:
-->'''Rico''': Two mad dog killers, ready to murder each other. They step into the next room, an' I'm thinkin', now they gonna do it. But no! They sit down in front of a tv an' solve their differences with a Kung-Fu fightin' videogame. I tell you, Candy, I was so depressed, I strangled them both with the videogame cables.
* A minor NPC from ''{{Arcanum}}'', a DeadlyDoctor, used a pen to stab a man to death.
* In VideoGame/{{Psychonauts}}, if Raz shows Coach Oleander a button:
-->'''Raz:''' If you had a button, we could play tiddly-winks.
-->'''Oleander:''' If I had that button, I could kill you in six different ways.

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[[folder: Web Comic ]]

* Azrael from the webcomic ''Webcomic/LifeAndDeath'' once killed Cthulhu with a gopher and a damp sponge.
* Fairbanks of ''Webcomic/SoreThumbs'' is proud of the fact that he killed two terrorists with a bowl of soup.
* Doythaban, from ''Webcomic/SchlockMercenary'', has killed people by spitting on them. And also by urinating on them. It helps that he was medically altered to have exploding saliva and to urinate high-strength acid. Don't ask about the shaped charges...
* In ''Webcomic/TheDragonDoctors'', Frankie says that the mobster boss Cary said she once killed a roomful of rival mobsters using only pocket change. Considering the fantastic nature of the setting, this is probably not hyperbole.

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[[folder: Web Original ]]

* Many ChuckNorrisFacts.
-->There are 1,214 objects in an average room that ChuckNorris can kill you with, including the room itself.
* ''Machinima/RedVsBlue'': Church relates how Tex once beat a man to death with his own skull.
-->'''Tucker:''' How do you beat someone to death with their own skull? [[HowIsThatEvenPossible That doesn't seem physically possible]].
-->'''Church:''' That's exactly what Jimmy kept screaming.
-->'''Flashback!Jimmy:''' [[SharePhrase This doesn't seem physically possible!]]
* ''TheChroniclesOfTaras'' mentions that Taras Jacobs once killed a man with a Bowl of Old Nachos and a Golden Retriever Puppy.
-->'''Sandra''': "How?"
-->'''Taras''': "Huh? Oh, Uh, I don't know. I wasn't really paying much attention."

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[[folder: Western Animation ]]

* ''WesternAnimation/TheVentureBrothers'': Rusty Venture once killed a man with a housekey. His father forced him to. He was ten.
-->'''Dean''': Oh, that's Brock. He's my dad's bodyguard. One time, I saw him kill a guy with a sock full of party snaps!
-->'''Triana''': Did the guy's head get blown off?
-->'''Dean''': Yes it did.
* ''ComicStrip/TheBoondocks'' episode "Granddad's Fight":
-->'''Uncle Ruckus:''' JeanClaudeVanDamme's the best martial artist in the world. He killed a man with his butt cheek power.
* ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'': Roberto to Bender: "You ever killed a man with a sock? It ain't so hard..."
* In ''WesternAnimation/DanVs'' "The Salvation Armed Forces," Dan tells his friend Chris that the bell ringer knows twelve ways to kill a man with a bell. Chris thinks about it, but can only come up with one.
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