Improbable Weapon User / Video Games

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• The protagonist of 2 can find a knit stocking and wield it like a gun, complete with ammo.
• Alpha Protocol's Steven Heck is reputed to have carried out assassinations using Communion wafers, soccer balls, and a ten-speed mountain bike, which he somehow managed to lodge in the victim's abdomen.
• American McGee's Alice: The title character is all about unlikely weapons (just look at the main page quote), as her entire arsenal is toys from her childhood. Razor-sharp cards, explosive jack-in-the-boxes, demonic dice, and deadly jacks are just some of the deadly tools of her trade. Her BFG is an actual real-life weapon, though, but still extremely exaggerated in its utility.
  • The sequel, Alice: Madness Returns, has Alice with a pepper-grinder, a hobby horse, a teapot cannon and a clockwork bomb in the shape of a rabbit.
• Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood: Some of the multiplayer characters have unusual weapons. Most notably, the Engineer, who assassinates people with a sharpened compass.
• Arc the Lad: Twilight of the Spirits: Paulette uses a weapon called a "Sling Knife". It's rather hard to explain - she spins it in circles to build momentum and then tosses it at people.
• Armello Deconstructs this somewhat. Most of the heroes who are strong in combat use relatively sane and normal weapons, such as swords, shields, axes, daggers and whatnot (with the exception of Hargrave's rather exotic hand cannon mounted on a polearm, which is still a fairly practical weapon). Meanwhile, heroes who wield more esoteric weapons tend to be casters with a mediocre Fight score. These include Volodar (ritual bell) and Sargon (torch staff), both with 3 Fight, and Yordana (witch cauldron and spoon), sitting at a miserable 2. Apparently, exotic objects don't necessarily make for the best weapons!
• The Squaresoft game Bahamut Lagoon, while not having specific characters with improbable weapons, does have various items that all characters can throw to cause damage or status effects. These items include Sweet Memory, Erotic Book, and Burnt Cookie.
• Boo the Hamster in Baldur's Gate III can be used as a projectile weapon. He goes for the eyes.
• Baten Kaitos has Gibari, who fights with oars.
• Battleborn: Beatrix's weapon is her right cybernetic arm the Incistyx Injector which is a gigantic syringe-arm larger than herself. She typically uses it like a Sniper Rifle to shoot out diseases on the battlefield to either enfeeble enemies or aid allies.
• Battle Fantasia: A few fighters use unorthodox weapons, such as Olivia's flag, and Cat Girl waitress Coyori's plates and pies.
• Battlefield 1
  • One melee weapon is the dud club, a dud stick grenade that occasionaly explodes when you hit an enemy with it, killing you and anyone nearby.
  • The maps in the Apocalypse DLC all have glass bottles hidden around the place, which can be picked up and used as melee weapons. Killing five enemies using these bottles with unlock a broken bottle as an equippable melee weapon.
• Battle Moon Wars, has some improbable weapons too. LIKE WARCUIED'S RED MOON! THE MOON!
• Bayonetta: While many of her weapons are off-beat, of note is when the titular character obtains a pair of demonic ice skates named Odette, fueled by the soul of a demonic witch of the same name with the power of ice. Jeanne's ice skates are instead fueled by the soul of Karen, the vain and spoiled child from the Hans Christian Andersen story "The Red Shoes".
• Bendy and the Ink Machine: Due to Henry being a Combat Pragmatist, he ends up using many of these, among them are a syringe and a plunger. This moves into Improbable Weapon User territory when Alice assigns Henry such terrible weapons, despite having a gun and endless ammo available. Also, in Chapter 4, players can choose to fight Boris with the plunger rather than the wrench. This earns the achievement "Unlikely Victory."
  • Also common in the spin-off, Bendy in Nightmare Run. For example, Gaskette shoots his engine, and Canoodle throws silverware. Many of the unlockable weapons are this trope as well: bottles, toasters, skulls...
• In Billy Hatcher and the Giant Egg all the weapons are (if you could not guess from the title), eggs. It is slightly strange though in the fact that you can use eggs to break fences, crush enemies, and smash rocks, yet if an egg touches some thorns, it'll crack.
• BioForge: At the very beginning, the protagonist can bludgeon a psychotic character to death with the victim's own severed arm.
• Most of the weapons in The Binding of Isaac are pretty improbable. Isaac's standard weapon are tears, which can be upgraded into things like blood and urine, and stat upgrades typically involve things like sticks that pry his eyes open or a screw that bore into his skull to make him cry harder. You can also get familiars who attack on your behalf, which can be anything including, but not limited to, a flying Action Bomb fly, an aborted Anencephaly Baby, a "Meat Boy" or "Bandage Girl", or a floating head that vomits blood. There is also a lot of pooping and farting. In fact, things that actually qualify as "weapons" in real life are few and far between like the occasional laser weapon, or your consumable bombs which are much more commonly used to access hidden rooms and items rather than attacking.
• Bio Miracle Bokutte Upa: the titular character wields a magic baby rattle. Upa shakes his rattle at the enemies, turning them into balloons he can use as platforms.
• BlazBlue:
  • A lot of characters use sensible weapons in combat. Most. Then there's Bang Shishigami who uses a giant nail the size of himself that he can only use by punching it at people
  • Rachel Alucard's arsenal consists of her shapeshifting sentient umbrella cat and bat... thing, lightning rods, and an electric frog. One of her Supers summons a stream of junk to fire at the foe.
  • Carl and Relius Clover, in addition to Weaponized mechanical Dolls made from people also use a variety of mechanical devices and paraphernalia, such as a clockwork horse and gear for Carl and a clockwork Humongous Mecha arm (stored in Hammerspace) for Relius.
  • Taokaka may count in some way; though at first glance it looks like she's using her claws, when she's electrocuted it's revealed her arms aren't that long and she's holding fish bones to make up the length, meaning she may be beating people with bladed fish bones. Even without that, she still also throws scrap, garbage and kittens at people as an attack.
  • Amane uses a shawl that he shapes into whips and drills. Don't ask how that works.
  • Hakumen may count as an example; he technically uses a Nodachi, but it's completly blunt and lacks the tip, making it more a large flat paddle than anything else.
  • Platinum the Trinity's gimmick is creating a variety of tools out of thin air to use in combat. The more-normal options are the baseball bat, missiles, bombs and boomerang. The less-normal ones are a sledgehammer as big as she is, a frying pan, booby-trapped present boxes and a hammer shaped like a cat. She also uses a pogo stick and a small doll of herself in her special moves.
• Blood has a voodoo doll. Stabbing it hurts the enemy or you if there are none, and it can skin monsters alive.
• Bloodborne:
  • The Healing Church's Executioner fraction led by Logarious wielded massive wooden stagecoach wheels to massacre the Vilebloods and, with the Wheel Hunter Badge, the player Hunter can wield one of those, too. Granted, their staggering size and weight should make them just as violent and effective as smashing people's face in with a boulder, but it would also be extremely hard to handle, even with the two handles attached to the inner sides.
  • The Whirligig Saw, a Powder Keg weapon, is a mace that that transforms into what's essentially a buzzsaw on a stick.
  • The Old Hunters DLC added Brador, who fights using the Bloodletter, which you can obtain upon killing him. In its base form, the Bloodletter is just a plain mace, but its transformation involves impaling oneself on it (a pretty improbable thing to do with a mace in and of itself) and then tearing out one's own insides, leaving you fighting with a huge, spiky mace made of your own guts. In its transformed state, the Bloodletter is the only weapon capable of inflicting Frenzy, which is probably appropriate, considering you'd have to be absolutely insane to fight using a weapon like it, and you'd probably go mad if you saw someone use a weapon like it. Even its item description calls it "demented".
  • The Fist of Gratia weapon is a firearm replacement that's essentially a large hunk of iron with finger holes. Its creator, Gratia, was hopeless with firearms, so she preferred to just beat enemies senseless with said iron block. Given, a knuckle duster isn't that improbable a weapon as it is, but considering the context, that Gratia was a Hunter and her most likely enemies were werewolves... Knuckle dusters aren't exactly a part of your standard werewolf hunter's arsenal, and beating werewolves into smears of blood using one is cool if nothing else.
  • The final boss of the DLC is a contender for most improbable weapon users in all of fiction: It fights using its own placenta. Of course, said placenta is to all appearances pretty heavy, being almost as big as a grown man, can create organic explosives, and furthermore has an edge protruding out of it, so it's not like the thing isn't a viable weapon, and the umbilical cord makes it surprisingly versatile as well... Still, "I'm fighting a newborn orphan armed with its own placenta" is a pretty rare sentence, beaten only by "the newborn orphan armed with its own placenta is kicking my ass!"
  • Defeating the above-mentioned boss allows you to become a contender for most improbable weapon users in all of fiction as well, as doing so grants you the Kos Parasite, a tiny, squid-like, extraterrestrial parasite that's even called "atypical" in its own description. Regularly, it can only be grasped and swung, enhancing your unarmed damage, but if combined with the Milkweed Rune it allows you to turn into a Humanoid Abomination that fights by using Combat Tentacles, projectile vomiting, throwing slugs, and contorting your body until your spine snaps, releasing a burst of Star Power in the process.
  • Less eldritch, but more ridiculous, is the Kirkhammer, which appears to be an ordinary short sword...until you activate its trick weapon function, whereupon you sheath the blade in a giant block of masonry on your back, then beat people to death with it. Ludwig's Holy Blade, a related weapon, at least has the decency to have a sheath that looks vaguely functional; the Kirkhammer in shortsword mode looks like a back injury just waiting to happen.
  • The Nightmare Executioner enemies from the Old Hunters DLC wield gigantic, makeshift axes whose blades are fragments of broken church bells.
• Bunny Must Die: alternate protagonist Chelsea has a spell that produces a ladder. This is her only attack that lets her hit things above her head and is also the most damaging attack she has.
• Cactus McCoy and Cactus McCoy 2 feature the ability to use everything from frying pans to cherry bombs to tumbleweeds as a weapon, complete with an achievement award for a certain number of uses of each one.
• Castle Crashers: Throughout the game, players can find and use several strange objects as weapons. The list includes a frozen chicken, a dead fish, a lobster, umbrella, pumpkin peeler, carrot, golden key, a branch, a vine, a wooden spoon, a skeleton leg, a unicorn's horn, a steak, a sausage, a lollipop, a candlestick, a fishing rod, a wrench, and a leaf. These can be found from killing enemies, blowing up walls, or digging them up with a shovel.
  • In fact, even the shovel can be used to damage enemies.
  • Don't forget the horn, which can deal serious damage and fling enemies into the air with a single note.
• Castlevania:
  • Maria Renard tosses rapid-fire doves, kittens, or dragons at the enemy. She also uses a turtle shell as armor.
  • Aeon from Castlevania: Judgment fights with something that can only be described as a clock-spear. It's a clock with a pointed blade attached to it.
  • In Castlevania: Portrait of Ruin, the best subweapon to use against Richter is a cream pie.
  • And in Castlevania: Aria of Sorrow, using the Killer Mantle soul causes Soma to hit enemies with a piece of cloth, dealing a little damage and switching the enemy's HP and MP. Since Golems have no MP, this makes Killer Mantle a one-hit kill on otherwise nigh-indestructible enemies, such as Iron Golems.
  • The soul system in the Sorrow games in general can approach this, such as the Skeleton Waiter soul, which uses curries to kill enemies. The Yeti soul can make you roll up a snowball to attack enemies with too.
• Cave Story:
  • One weapon gets weaker when powered up; when fully leveled, it shoots rubber duckies.
  • Not to mention the Bubbler, a gun that shoots bubbles. It works about as well as you'd expect, though the fully-upgraded version creates bubbles that release shuriken when they pop.
• Chex Quest starts you off with the "Bootspoon", which, you guessed it, is a spoon. It can be upgraded, however, to the "Super Boot Spork," essentially an electric spork. The "Super Boot Spork" is, in fact, an excellent weapon, as, when jabbed, it does not have to be pulled back, leaving the enemy in a helpless state of constant recoil until defeated.
• Chrono Cross: The characters' weaponry includes stirring spoons, fishing lures, and carrots, among others. Making things slightly less ridiculous here is that, for the most part, you have to have them specially made by blacksmiths... although enough merchants do sell them that one wonders why.
• Chrono Trigger: It's possible to equip Crono with a mop. Here's the fun part: a max-level Crono can still solo Lavos with it, too.
• City of Heroes: Since they introduced alternate weapon skins, there's been a few of these available, mainly for the War Mace and Battle Axe powersets. War Mace gets a baseball bat, a shovel and a wrench, while Battle Axe gets the same shovel turned on its side. Your enemies aren't strangers to this either- see the Scrapyarders, why will sometimes use jackhammers against you.
  • And Jurassik, a Devouring Earth giant monster, who uses a car caught in a tree branch as a giant mace.
  • Custom shields add another layer of absurdity by providing a manhole cover to use in place of a conventional shield. Added by player request, no less.
• Coffee Crisis, in which you are a nerdy barista fending off an Alien Invasion, gives you a coffee maker as an improvised club, which can handily smash the faces of alien mooks. You can also use sacks of coffee beans to take on enemies by using them like cudgels.
• Command & Conquer: Red Alert 3: Technically speaking, every weapon is factory-built, but you wouldn't know it by looking at them. The stranger ones: Allied dogs and Soviet War Bears can use stun roars; Soviet tanks use "leech-beams" that suck armor off enemy vehicles and their Apocalypse Tanks feature Tractor Beams specifically built to allow them to run over other tanks, to say nothing of their Tesla (read: lightning gun) weapons; the Allies have a helicopter (and, in Uprising, an infantryman) that fire beams of cold and have shrink rays; and the Rising Sun fields ninja, complete with throwing stars, plus Energy Bow troopers and tiny flying robots that can self-destruct. Honorable mention: the Soviet Bullfrog's Man Cannon, which is not a weapon but a means of transport.
• Condemned: Criminal Origins, and Condemned 2: Bloodshot for the Xbox 360 have many improvisational weapons, including prosthetic limbs, crutches, and weirdest of all, exploding dolls. The game did feature firearms and hand to hand combat, but in the first Condemned, Ethan didn't carry any extra ammo, and so could not reload (however, the weapon could be used as a bludgeon both to conserve ammo and as a fallback if he ran out - the firearms were the only example of Breakable Weapons, though.), and in the second, ammo had to be scavenged from other weapons of the same type, or ammo boxes - which were, as usual, hard to come by. This led to the player relying on melee weapons (in the original) and his fists (in the sequel).
• Conker's Bad Fur Day: Conker uses a Frying Pan of Doom most of the time (except in the Spooky chapter in which he uses a shotgun). The remake gives him a baseball bat instead.
• The Dark Cloud series includes several of these, the most notorious being the Frozen Tuna.
  • Max even lampshades this in Dark Chronicle, taking out his wrench and saying, "I usually use this to fix stuff but it makes a pretty good weapon too." (Naturally it builds up into maces and hammers that are not quite so improbable when you consider how much that can hurt...there's a reason Clue had a Wrench listed as one of the weapons)
• Dark Souls' Havel the Rock wields the Dragon Tooth club a... dragon tooth, which is impressively heavy and unendingly durable. It also has a good shot of killing you in one hit.
  • There's also the Dragon Bone Fist, one of the Iron Golem's Boss Weapons, which is essentially a giant molar that you strap to your hand and pummel people to death with.
  • The player can also wield the same tooth, which is only beaten for absurdity by the King's Ultra Greatsword in the sequel, which appears to be a section of stone wall with a statue carved into it... With a handle. It isn't even sharp and is roughly 1.5 times as big as the player.
• Dark Souls II has Milibeth, who wields the Handmaid's Ladle. You can get it yourself by talking to her after killing the three nearby cyclopes, but unfortunately, it may be the weakest weapon in the game...although it does provide some stat improvements, making it a useful stat stick for certain builds, especially those attempting to play the game with no leveling.
  • Keeping in the tradition of using parts of a dragon as a weapon, the Malformed Skull is the skull of what may or may not have been a dragon with one of its horns cut off. The item's Flavor Text even mentions that you probably shouldn't be swinging around a priceless fossil like it all willy-nilly.
• In Dark Souls III, one of the more common enemies on the Road of Sacrifices is a zombie brandishing a sharpened tree trunk. They can actually do an alarming amount of damage with them, but then, it's a Dark Souls game; everything can.
• Daze Before Christmas, in which you're a Badass Santa. You use your sack as a melee weapon.
• Dead Rising has water guns, CDs, cash registers, King Salmon, chairs...if you can lift it, you can use it as a weapon.
  • The sequel includes the same anything-you-can-lay-your-hands-on arsenal, plus new Combo Weapons. These ranges from an RC helicopter with machetes on the blades, to a kayak paddle with chainsaws taped to either end.
• Death Flush: The toilet seat killer uses a modified toilet seat with two spikes at the end of it that he carries around.
• Devil May Cry 3: Dante's Awakening: Dante gains the boss Nevan's soul in the form of a guitar. That fires balls of lightning and bats. And has a scythe blade attached to it. It works much better than it seems, though, having high crowd control value and power.
  • And then there's the cutscene on 3 when Dante uses Lady's motorcycle to batter enemies. In the air.
• Devil Survivor 2: Fumi cows Trumpeter into submission by bashing him with an endless stream of laptops.
• In Diablo 2, when you go to the village of Tristram, you can find the corpse of Wirt (the annoying kid from the first game who would sell you overpriced magical items every so often), and rob his body, getting a LOT of gold....and his peg leg, which you can use as a club with 3 sockets....although if you didn't socket it, at the end of the game you could combine it with a Tome of Town Portal in the Horadric Cube to go to the Secret Cow Level. Still, the image of using someone's peg leg as a weapon is quite strange.
  • In Warcraft 3, the item "Wirt's Other Leg" exists, but isn't terribly useful.
  • In World of Warcraft, this is continued with the item "Wirt's Third Leg", a rare level 40 1-handed mace.
  • Hellgate: London has its own "Wart's Peg Leg", which functions as a "sword" but gives you added defense as well.
• In Dicey Dungeons, dice are normally loaded into weapons to activate them, but the Witch can throw her dice at her enemies for Scratch Damage. She can even throw them while they're burning without getting hurt, and they can also hit enemies with the Dodge status.
• Die by the Sword allows you to sever the limbs of your enemies, pick them up, and use them against them.
• Several Dink Smallwood mods have at least one joke weapon, such as a stale loaf of French bread in Cast Awakening: Initiation.
• Disgaea seems to have lampshaded this - for the description of the weapon "Lion's Heart" it has, "Why is this in the weapons category...?"
  • Of course, Disgaea has the infamous equippable horse wiener...
  • Disgaea 3 also gives us the Diez Gentlemen, supposedly a group of elite legendary demons (So legendary they count as a lie), the first one you fight carries a shovel as a weapon.
  • That's not all. There are also such weapons as dumbbells, tennis rackets, stop signs, and even baked potatoes and pieces of meat (and let's not even start on the Puppy paw Stick).
• Divinity: Original Sin has the infamous Barrelmancer build, the cornerstone of which is filling an indestructible container with as many heavy objects (like barrels) as possible, then throwing it into enemies with Telekinesis for colossal damage. It's actually so good as to be a Game-Breaker. (And still works in the sequel as well as Baldur's Gate III, which runs on the same engine.)
• Donkey Kong:
  • In Donkey Kong Country, King K. Rool demonstrates this by throwing his crown at you, which also functions like a boomerang.
  • Donkey Kong 64 has this with each of the Kongs' weapons. The weapons themselves aren't improbable, discounting that they're all made of wood: a gun, a pair of pistols, a blowgun, a crossbow, and a bazooka. However, they're used with Abnormal Ammo: coconuts, peanuts, grapes, feathers, and pineapples, respectively. The Kongs also use bongos, an electric guitar, a trombone, a saxophone, and a triangle for AOE attacks, and they throw oranges that act like grenades. Several enemies use orange grenades as well; theirs are unripened.
• Dragon Quest:
  • Dragon Quest III: Abacuses, in versions after NES. In the remix, the best abacus is one of the best weapons in the game.
  • Dragon Quest IV has the Astraea's Abacus, one of Torneko's weapon choices, and Meena's Silver Tarot Cards.
  • Dragon Quest V: In the Nintendo DS remake, Debora uses press-on fingernails to devastating effect.
• Dwarf Fortress:
  • Part of the throwing mechanic in this game was bugged in that even something as inconsequential as a thrown fly or a thrown glob of vomit would cause ridiculous wounds. Not to mention Captain Ironblood beating a hydra to death while naked... and wielding a cabinet. Monsters could do it as well; giants and colossi would wield the first thing holdable, leading to death by pants◊. Adventurers could do likewise, and rack up legendary kill-counts on the least likely of objects.
  • One of the most famous examples is a player in Adventure Mode who encountered a Bronze Colossus, grabbed the first thing he could find in his backpack, and proceeded to headshot the Bronze Colossus with a thrown Fluffy Wambler. Another legend of the forums is a user whose chosen weapon was a huge marble coffin quantum-stuffed with the corpses of everything he had ever killed, for extra weight. It was heavy enough to pulverize anything when thrown. A less extreme but more common example: A mining pick is one of the game's most deadly weapons, due to Real Life picks' advantages being simulated but not the disadvantages. Another common example is what players do when one of their soldiers lose a leg: just give that sucker a crutch made of the heaviest metal you can find and send him on his way. The extra weight really comes in handy when it's time to break someone's bones, and some dwarves have been known to prefer using the crutch rather than a regular weapon. ^note To make this clear: Any item you hold must either be put in a backpack or held in a hand. During combat the game chooses a hand and where to hit with the object in that hand. This means anything be held is liable to be used as a weapon at any point during combat. With dwarves, it's just a matter of when combat happens and if the dwarf likes holding an item. In adventure mode, you can invoke this by holding anything from meat to bones to armor to an actual weapon, as you directly control your character. Also, though not gamebreaking, thrown items still do a good bit of damage. If you find a source of rocks, you can just endlessly pick them up and throw them at a target, or you can pull out that shirt from your backpack and throw it.
• Dynasty Warriors: The female characters in the series tend to fight with improbable weapons: either a harp, or, in one especially memorable instance, a flute that magically sets people on fire.
  • Guo Jia uses a giant pool cue and magic billiard balls.
  • Zhuge Liang wields his signature feather fan. Sima Yi also wields one except in 6, where he wears claws that shoots cutting wires from the fingertips.
  • Samurai Warriors continues this, with Okuni's umbrellas, Oichi's kendama (Cup & Ball), and No's gigantic claws that pop in from Hammerspace. Mitsunari and Shingen's fans-as-weapons seems slightly more probable than those.
    • Motochika Chosokabe uses a Shamisen. And attacks with sound balls. Yoshimoto Imagawa has a sword but also carries around a kemari (ball) which he kicks at people and it explodes.
  • Hanbei Takenaka uses a bladed sundial yo-yo, among others.
  • Dynasty Warriors 7's Ma Dai fights with a giant paintbrush in a way reminiscent to Ōkami, Bao Sanniang fights with a giant bladed yo-yo and then, from the new Jin faction, we have Zhuge Dan, who fights with a feather fan like his better-known cousin, as well as the aforementioned Sima Yi, who returns with a faction change and his feather fan but still makes use of the DW6 claws in his Musous.
  • Don't forget Warriors Orochi's exclusive characters. Da Ji wields a pair of flying balls, Himiko wields similar weapons called Dogu (floating statue heads). Taigong Wang wields a fishing rod, and San Zang fights with her oversized sleeves.
    • And now in the third installment, Shuten Doji uses an enormous gourd which he swings with a rope. There are also Big Star weapons for each character, some of which are quite silly, including a giant corndog in place of a mace, fishing lures in place of knives, or probably the silliest of all, the giant boar-demon Gyuki has his stone club replaced by a soft-serve ice cream cone.
  • With the release of 7: Empires, a few weapons get shuffled around as well as the addition of DLC weapons and a couple new weapons as the EX weapon of several characters. Some characters stand out with Huang Gai and his Iron Boat (called "Arm Blade" in-game).
  • Now that 8 has been released, we get a couple of new characters including Lu Su, whose weapon of choice is a rake. Yes, like the gardening tool. Pang Tong gets a new weapon, "shadow fan" (basically fan on a stick, the kind often used to fan your king).
  • The The Legend of Zelda spin-off Hyrule Warriors also has some rather odd choices of weapons for some characters, though the majority use said weapon to focus their elemental abilities or use them to summon helpers. These include Link (one of his weapons is a spinner), Sheik (a harp), Lana (a book), Zelda (a conductor's baton), Agitha (a parasol), Linkle (winged boots), Skull Kid (an ocarina), Toon Link (his sand wand can summon a train) King Daphnes (a sail), Medli (a harp), Marin (a bell), and Yuga (a picture frame). But none of them compare to Tingle, whose weapon is a balloon, but in battle also uses folded maps, bags of rupees and statues of himself. And compared to the other character, none of these are magical in nature.

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• EarthBound (1994) has Ness saving the world with increasingly powerful baseball bats, sling-shots and yo-yos. Or Jeff and his incredibly powerful bottle rockets. Paula wields a frying pan. The prequel game is similar.
  • In Mother 3, Lucas and Flint wield wooden and metal rods, Kumatora equips gloves for weapons, and Duster uses boots. Improbable in more ways than one with Duster, since one of his legs is partially paralyzed.
  • Additionally, in the EarthBound ROM Hack EquestriaBound, while the group has equipment based on their personality (Apple Bloom using stuff like power tools, Scootaloo using different kinds of weather-based attacks) Dinky stands out in that she uses old mail as her main weapon.
• Elden Ring lives up to the Soulsborne legacy when it comes to letting you beat the crap out of enemies with crazy things. A partial list:
  • The Grafted Blade Greatsword. Someone stole a chunk off the Iron Throne and hid it in the Lands Between.
  • The Ruins Greatsword isn't really a sword, per se; it's a chunk of gravity magic-infuseed masonry that fell from the sky and got fitted with a handle.
  • The Ringed Finger. Remember those crawling hand enemies? Well, somebody cut off one of their fingers and now you're using it to beat people to death. The weapon skill allows you to enlarge the finger and finger-flick your foes to death.
  • The Cranial Vessel Candlestand is... well, a candlestand. Made of a Fire Prelate's severed head (+helmet), so you can use the fire attacks that the Fire Prelates conjure from the bowls on their heads.
  • The Rusty Anchor. What more needs be said?
  • The Envoy's Horn weapons are horns that can produce golden magical bubbles to attack foes.
  • The Giant's Red Braid is a braid of the Fire Giant boss's hair, long enough to be used as a whip and infused with fire magic.
  • The Antspur Rapier is an ant's stinger coated with Scarlet Rot.
  • The Fallingstar Beast Jaw is exactly what it sounds like- you ripped off a Fallingstar Beast's mandible and are now using it as a Colossal Weapon.
  • Death's Poker is classified as a greatsword, but it's really a giant fireplace poker enchanted with Deathflame, carried by Death Rite Birds.
  • The invader Inquisitor Ghiza wields (and drops) the Elden Ring equivalent to Bloodborne's Whirligig Saw, Ghiza's Wheel.
  • White Mask Varre wields a mace made to look like a bouquet of roses. It inflicts Bleed buildup since the petals are sharpened.
  • The invader Ensha of the Royal Remains wields the Clinging Bone, a weapon made out of a skeletal arm.
  • The Sacred Relic sword wielded by the final boss (and one option for its Remembrance) is Radagon's body, deformed into the shape of a sword.
• Eastern Exorcist has the first boss, Snow Ape, a giant ape demon whose weapon is a Chinese bronze incense burner. Which can trap souls.
• The Elder Scrolls:
  • The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind: In the Bloodmoon expansion, you can find and use a severed Nord's leg as a bludgeoning weapon. As with any other weapon in the game, you repair it by hitting it with a hammer.
  • The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion has a fan-made Game Mod that allows the PC to equip a particular slaughterfish as a gag weapon. It does just enough damage to get the City Watch on your case.
  • Another mod called Deadly Clutter that allows you to equip useless items such as paint brushes as daggers, bowls as helmets, paint pallets as shields, and many more.
• Elona has plenty: female underwear, raw weapons that you can actually eat, and if you manage to find it, a piano.
• Enchanted Arms: Makoto uses a saxophone for his weapon. This could possibly be justified by him also "singing" at a very high volume and blowing really hard into, which means that the enemies are taking damage from the intense volume of the sound that the sax is making - except that he uses the same animation for healing party members...
  • See also: Midvalley the Hornfreak from Trigun and his saxophone, Sylvia. It's also loaded with machineguns.
• Eternal Fighter Zero: Being a doujin fighting game starring various Visual Novel characters by Key/Visual Arts, this game has nearly every character as an Improbable Weapon User. Weapon examples include cellos, vacuum cleaners, jars of jam, giant taiyaki, ice cream cartons, stuffed animals, and lots of pulpy peach juice.
• Eternal Sonata: Frederic Chopin uses a conductor's baton as an offensive weapon. Polka wields an umbrella.
• Evolution Worlds: Three of the five playable characters qualify. Mag uses what is basically a cybernetic third arm that can also use hammers, bug spray, and bowling balls, Chain uses a jet pack with a giant blade on the back, and Linear uses a Frying Pan of Doom. The other two use guns/blasters.
• Exit Fate has wielders of a designer purse, two books, a fan, a walking cane, a sceptre, playing cards, a paintbrush, razorwire, a harp, a pencil, a monster tooth, a metal chain and a Holy Water Sprinkler.
• EXTRAPOWER: Star Resistance: At some point, Nemuri found a giant hand floating in space (actually a Bem, a parasitic alien last seen in Attack of Darkforce). What does she do with it? Strap it to her sled and name it Edelweiss and use its claws for on-command slash attacks!
• Fable has a sub-quest that lets you find a frying pan for use as a weapon....albeit one with 100 damage points and four augmentation spots. The trick, however, is to have all six clues to its whereabouts before you dig it up; if you cheat (or dig it up unintentionally) and skip gathering all of the clues, the frying pan will have no augmentation slots or damage points whatsoever.
• Fable II has a wanted sheet with the charge was "Assault with a weapon that no one thought was fatal but tragically was".
• Fable III: In the Mourningwood section, one of the soldiers will be bashing Hollow Men with a lute. "I never knew hollow men had such great acoustics!" indeed...
• Fallout 3 has plenty of regular items you can pick up and use as melee weapons - including a tire iron, a board with nails in it, a baseball bat, a lead pipe, a pool cue, and a rolling pin.
  • There is a whole weapon crafting profession you can take on whereby you can build surprisingly effective weapons from assorted junk and garbage.
    • You have the railway rifle which fires railway spikes which you build from a pressure cooker, a crutch, a steam gauge assembly, and a fission battery.
    • You can build your very own Flaming Sword using a lawnmower blade, an oven pilot light, and a motorcycle gas tank.
    • There is also a poison dart gun which you build by combining a paint gun, a child's toy car and dartboard darts dipped in mutated scorpion venom.
    • And the king of all improvised weapons, the Rock-it Launcher! Built out of a vacuum cleaner and a few other assorted parts, you can feed almost any random piece of garbage into it as ammo and it will fire the junk at lethal speeds at a target. Because of the physics engine of the game, small, heavy objects like billiard balls are best - but even objects like teddy bears can decapitate an opponent when fired with the launcher! It's also fun to decapitate raiders with stacks of dollar bills like a demented Scrooge McDuck (and it helps that Pre-war Money has 0 weight in your inventory).
  • A fan mod allows you to wield the same fire hydrant Super Mutant Behemoths use.
  • Speaking of which, Super Mutant Behemoths use a fire hydrant to bludgeon any poor sop who tries to fight back. The hydrant and the shopping cart strapped to their backs are over-sized because to make the monster look more intimating, the developers decided to just set the size scale bigger, awkward-looking parts be damned.
• In Fancy Pants Adventure: World 3, Fancy Pants Man obtains a pencil as a weapon halfway through the game. The game world is based off of doodles and scribbles, so a pencil makes a certain sort of sense.
• Fatal Frame: All but one of the characters have only the camera they carry with them as a weapon. The exception character uses a flashlight.
• In Fate/stay night, thanks to Shirou's affinity for strengthening magic, anything even vaguely sword-like becomes an effective weapon in his hands. Early on, he fends off a supernatural attacker with a rolled-up poster.
  • Fate/Zero also gives us Berserker aka Sir Lancelot who can turn any weapon into a Noble Phantasm. During his first fight, he even wield street lamps effectively as staves.
  • A popular joke among the Fate fanbase (particularly with Fate/Grand Order vastly expanding the sample size of characters) is how relatively few members of the Archer class actually use bows. They can use guns, swords, slingshots, magic portals that dump an entire armory on you, and, as of Christmas 2017, live sheep, as long as they're most famed for ranged attacks.
• The Final Fantasy games have a wealth of Improbable Weapon Users, including:
  • Setzer (playing cards and dice) and Relm (paintbrushes) in Final Fantasy VI.
    • Oddly enough, Relm is also shown not to be the only wielder of paintbrushes in her world: in the very beginning of the game when Locke is up against a small army of monsters, Mog shows up with three parties worth of generic moogles wielding a variety of weapons; the leader of the all-generic-moogle party is actually wielding Relm's starting weapon, Chocobo Brush. (Thanks to the game's programming, the leader of the all-generic-moogle party is actually Relm.)
  • With the right relic, Umaro can toss another party member at the enemy.
  • In Final Fantasy VII, Cait Sith equips "megaphones" (though it's the giant stuffed moogle who actually carries out the attacks), and Red XIII equips "headdresses" (though he is actually shown using claws and fangs to attack). Exactly how these "weapons" boost their attack power is unknown. Cait Sith's limit breaks also include dice and armies of toys.
    • Each character had a 'gag weapon' with no Materia slots but high attack. The list - a baseball bat with nails in for Cloud, gardening gloves for Tifa, a boxing glove for Barret, an umbrella for Aerith, a hairpin for Red XIII, a shell trumpet for Cait Sith, a mop (although actually a Squeegee) for Cid and a water pistol for Vincent. Yuffie had two gag weapons - a plastic windmill, and a rubber ball. This concept was even carried over into the prequel Crisis Core where Zack uses a beach umbrella whenever he is in Costa Del Sol.
  • Final Fantasy VIII also had some rather strange weapons, but the best one is a heavy anchor thrown at the enemy. Which the character then has to retrieve. The character's limit break tops it with a Dragoon-style Jump Attack.
  • Quina (fork) in Final Fantasy IX. Although this refers to Quina's culinary theme, tridents are a classic military weapon, and no torch-bearing angry mob or traditional devil warrior would be complete without a good pitchfork. Quina's forks are generally big enough to stand in for either. Stranger are the lacrosse-like "racket" weapons Garnet and Eiko often use, hurling projectiles of magical energy.
  • In Final Fantasy X, Wakka fights by throwing sports equipment at the enemy (a "blitzball") - although, oddly enough, spike-covered combat versions of this type of ball are commonly found in weapons shops. Considering how heavy a blitzball must be to move fluidly through water, it makes some sense. Also, Lulu's stuffed plush toys have the capacity to move and attack the enemy by themselves, though they cause very little damage because her strength is so weak. Their Weapon Abilities are far more valuable.
  • Final Fantasy Type-0 is awash with them, including a whip-sword, tarot cards, a flute, and screw-swords.
  • In Final Fantasy Tactics, certain classes can use dictionaries as weapons. If it helps matters, they attack by reading from it - presumably definitions man was not meant to hear. Also, all women can use handbags, but that's more of a practical weapon than a dictionary. And just to top it off, the "Dancer" class uses different types of cloth to attack.
  • The earliest example is, in fact, Final Fantasy III, with the Scholar (books again!), Geomancer (instruments) and Bard (harps) jobs. And yes, the aforementioned weapons are used as bludgeoning tools. In the remake, the harps are now played rather than swung. Probably songs man was never meant to hear.
  • Likewise, Final Fantasy V uses the Geomancer and Bard jobs with their instruments and harps, respectively. The weapons are still laughably bad, but they are played rather than swung now.
  • Quirky Bard Edward in Final Fantasy IV uses harps to attack. The sequel lets him use bows and knives, too, though this doesn't let him use his Bardsong ability.
  • Final Fantasy Tactics Advance and Final Fantasy Tactics A2 continue the tradition with instruments, souls (the first one) and books (the second one).
    • Final Fantasy Tactics A2 also brings back cards as the Trickster's main weapon, which has as much range as a gun!
  • In Final Fantasy XII we have the "measures" weapon class, which includes sextants, Scales, and calipers.
    • Though they are sort of realistically designed. Their attack is crap (though they ignore defense...but then again so do guns which are ranged weapons) and most buff the person they hit, but here's the thing; they weren't made to be weapons so much as an easy way to cure confuse without causing too much damage and buff someone at the same time
  • Final Fantasy XIII has male lead Snow Villiers, whose weapon is his trenchcoat. Okay, so he doesn't actually use it to hit enemies, just to buff his stats, but still...
    • Oerba Dia Vanille uses staves and rods, but unlike the typical staff of Final Fantasy games past, hers are equipped with four long wires with hooks that deal damage to enemies by latching on and pulling. I.e fishing rod.
  • Bravely Default has all the player characters and enemies using more-or-less realistic weapons, but then you get the ultimate summon, Susano-o, a giant war god standing in a Field of Blades. The "blades" in question being radio towers.
• Fire Emblem:
  • Fire Emblem: Awakening introduced a few "joke weapons" that were weaker than most weapons—the weakest axe was a ladle, the weakest sword a tree branch, and the weakest lance a log.
  • Fire Emblem Fates introduced quite a few more, not all of which were true "joke" weapons. Axe/Club users could attack with a Carp Streamer, a Frying Pan, or a Hoe (which actually equals the weakest non-joke axes/clubs in power but with the added bonus of ignoring enemies' terrain bonuses; Lance/Naginata users have a Broom, a Stick, a Bamboo Pole, and a Pine Branch (the last of which is actually fairly powerful, but inaccurate); Sword/Katana users can attack with a Daikon Radish, an Umbrella or Parasol, or a Bottle; Knife/Shuriken users can attack with Chopsticks, Plates, Trays, Hair Pins, Votive Candles, Pebbles, and Stale Bread, and one weapon that Bow/Yumi users can attack with is the Violin Bow (along with the Harp Yumi).
  • Fire Emblem Heroes somehow manages to take this to new extremes with its seasonal variant characters. Highlights include: a carrot lance, a giant spoon, and a Christmas tree^note lances; a watermelon on a stick, a sack of presents, a handbell, and a beach floatie^note axes; a bow made out of sweets, shooting sweets; seashell shuriken and mochi^note daggers; magical eggs, a magical bouquet, a musical score, and a tome that summons tomatoes from the sky^note tomes. And that's just covering the game's first year! More can be found in the game's own page.
• Furi: The game's eighth boss, The Edge, initially uses a sword. When he gets serious, he instead uses an oak oar.
• Gacha World:
  • Candy Tanuki summons candy rain from the sky all over her enemies.
  • Chocolate Clover summons three gigantic chocolate clovers that are irresistably tasty and kills her enemies by them overeating her chocolate summons.
  • Dice literally throws a massive dice that explodes and deals damage on a six and deals zero damage on a one^note For those that don't know, exploding dice is a system where if a Critical Hit is rolled, that dice gets rolled again until it is no longer a Critical Hit and all the previous critical hits are added up to the grand total. when summoned. There's 50% chance to roll a six and be over with it or failing that roll, a separate 50/50 roll of either a six or a one.
• Ganbare Goemon:
  • Ebisumaru can be said to have an entire arsenal of improbable weapons, with a new one for almost every game. This list includes flutes, noisemakers, paper fans, hula hoops, dance ribbons, squeaky hammers, hammers made of meat, spring-loaded boxing gloves, frying pans, rice spoons, badminton paddles, and even skewered oden. All he needs is a good umbrella to round things out.
  • The title character Goemon uses a tobacco pipe (with a grappling hook function, no less) and throws coins as projectile weapons.
• Gatling Gears: The Excavator Claw robots use a pine tree as a weapon. The Gardener also throws them at you.
• Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas has the usual fare of melee weapons, including stick-like implements. But then you have fire extinguishers, spray cans, bunches of flowers, and even sex toys. The kicker? They can still incapacitate or kill, and can even be used to bash cars until they catch on fire.
  • Their primary purpose is to be given to girlfriends as gifts, but still. If CJ's strength is maxed out, he can beat any ped to a pulp with flowers in a matter of seconds.
• In Grand Theft Auto IV, Niko Bellic can pick up almost anything on the ground and throw them at pedestrians. The list includes cellphones, paper cups, hot dogs, burgers, cinder blocks, cigarettes, etc.
• Grey: An Alien Dream: One of the enemy types Grey can face in his Dream Lands is a guy wielding a guitar.
• Gruntz: Almost every tool can be used to fight other gruntz. A few examples include giant straws, giant springs, wings, welder kits, ducky tubes, heavy boots, spy gears... their effectiveness varies, however.
• Guilty Gear loves this trope. To wit:
  • Sol Badguy's Fireseal sword is relatively normal (except that its blade is rectangular), but in Xrd he places it inside a housing that resembles a giant cigarette lighter.
  • May uses an anchor.
  • Millia Rage uses her hair.
  • Zato-1 uses his own shadow.
  • Venom uses a pool cue and pool balls.
  • Faust (aka Dr. Baldhead) uses a giant scalpel as well as various items that he pulls out of nowhere, like meteors, bombs, dolls and hammers.
  • Bridget uses a Killer Yoyo as well as her teddy bear.
  • I-No uses an electric guitar and her living hat.
  • A.B.A drags around a huge blood-absorbing key, which she often wields like an axe.
  • Dizzy's metamorphing wings are sentient and tend to do the fighting for her since she's a pacifist.
  • Anji uses hand fans in conjunction with his wind magic.
  • Sin charges into battle with a flag, a weapon that he's decided upon as being manly, stylish, and eye-catching.
  • Elphelt uses a variety of guns, which are perfectly reasonable...but she also uses a bouquet of roses and a champagne bottle, fitting her theme as a wedding-obsessed Love Freak.
  • Bedman uses a mecha that doubles as his own bed.
  • Lampshades are hung in various character's win comments against these characters, as they comment on their foe's tastes in arms.
  • Answer "The Ninja Businessman" throws business cards at enemies.
  • Goldlewis Dickinson might have one of the weirdest of them all; he wields a metal coffin that he swings around with a steel chain that contains a cryptid (not an alien) from Area 51 and a Hammerspace.
• In .hack, the Macabre Dancer class uses fans.
• Hades: If you make the mistake of trying to shoplift at Charon's shops, he will immediately show you that oar isn't just for the Styx by way of initiating a Superboss fight and slapping you to death with it. Not even the Final Boss hits quite as hard as getting paddled across the face by the damn thing.
• Half-Life 2: The Gravity Gun allows the player to turn anything into an instrument of death. When it's upgraded and becomes your only weapon in the final chapter, you have to resort to picking up any item, including those that are nailed down, and hurling it at the oncoming Combine soldiers.
  • One of the Steam achievements available in Half-Life 2 requires the player to kill someone by launching a toilet at them with the Gravity Gun.
• Hammerin' Harry: Or Daiku no Gensan in Japan; either way, the titular character gets alternate jobs which give him access to some improbable weapons. At the normal end is a baseball bat. Others include things like records, boomboxes, sushi, whole raw fish, anchors...
• In the Higurashi: When They Cry Daybreak videogame, the characters use a wide variety of weapons that are either dangerous everyday tools or seemingly harmless toys to beat the crap out of each others. These include quite a few water guns, rulers, pieces of chalk, a mop, a golf club, a shovel (used to throw large rocks), a ceremonial hoe, a fire extinguisher that shoots fire, a handsaw, a flying buzzsaw, a large wooden beam, a pot (smashed onto someone's head), a few homing explosive syringes, firecrackers, fireworks, banana peels, a boxing glove on a spring hidden in a cardboard box, the flash from a camera, and a life-sized KFC Colonel Sanders doll apparenty filled with molotov cocktail.
  • Try to guess which were used in the anime and manga to commit grisly murders.
  • Of course, all of these are roughly as effective as the machine guns and bullet-reflecting katanas also present in the game.
• Various enemies from Hours (2020) use odd items as weapons, such as a horse head with pink glowing eyes capable of shooting balls of energy at you. One of player characters, the Witness engages in this to, possessing a banjo that he smacks people with.
• The Typing of the Dead: You defeat hordes of zombies by typing, rather than using the Light Gun. In CutScenes, the characters are depicted as wearing Dreamcasts (The PS2 remake used a PS2) as backpacks), and using a computer keyboard instead of a gun.

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• Illusion of Gaia: Main character Will uses a flute to bash enemies.
• I=MGCM: All Magical Girl heroines wield various unusual weapons called “Magical Instruments.” Justified because Kamisaman's technology, which transforms the heroines into magical girls, also transforms their smartphones into objects based on their traits and will.
  • Iroha wields a giant paintbrush.
  • Kaori wields a giant plume pen.
  • Cocoa wields a "No Entry" street sign pole.
  • Seira wields a vacuum cleaner.
  • Akisa wields a giant retro key.
  • Eliza wields a retro microphone.
  • Ao wields a BFS-like object made of metal scraps.
  • Aka wields a giant hairpin.
  • Lilly wields an electric cello.
  • Hanabi wields a giant cruise missile.
  • Iko wields a giant lollipop.
  • Marianne wields a Parasol of Pain.
• Improbable Island: As the name implies, almost everyone is this seeing as how the Drive changes everything in humorous ways.
• The Jackbox Party Pack: In "Weapons Drawn" from Party Pack 8, the players are tasked to draw randomly selected murder weapons, which are then used to kill party guests, leading into the "detective" phase of the entertainment. These weapons range from the straightforward (such as "letter opener" or "cannon") to the odd (such as "bus" or "carry-on luggage") to the downright ridiculous (like "cosmic rays" or "family of raccoons") to abstract concepts (such as "tight deadline" or "emotional regret").
• Kabuki Quantum Fighter: The main character uses their hair as a weapon.
• Kingdom Hearts:
  • The main weapon featured in the series, wielded by many major characters, and all main playable ones, is a giant magical key that they hit people with.
  • Goofy's weapon is a shield, which while far more normal than a key is still odd.
  • Organization XIII also has members who use a shield, a book, a sitar, and a giant deck of playing cards.
    • We could also include the Organization's joke weapons from Days: giant fans, hairdryers, brooms, a pot lid, a squeaky hammer, a sandwich, a banana, pizzas, a tennis racket, a giant set of CDs, a ladle, dragonflies, and an umbrella. Six of the members also have odd weapons that "draw forth the wielder's personality": a trumpet, a moai, a broom, shamrocks, bellflowers, and lightbulbs.
  • In the Kingdom of Corona from Kingdom Hearts III, as in the movie, Rapunzel fights with her hair and Flynn/Eugene uses a Frying Pan of Doom. The latter also uses a barrel for one of his special attacks, balancing atop it and rolling into any surrounding enemies.
  • In Kingdom Hearts III, one of Sora's Formchanges is Storm Flag — a giant flag that he hits targets with.
• Kingdom of Loathing, with its absurdist twist on RPGs, is full of improbable weapons, such as the duck-on-a-string. What "normal" weapons there are tend to come in ridiculous variations (like the flaming cardboard sword and the denim axe).
• Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning: The entire world is governed by fate. However, thanks to an experiment, the main character is Immune to Fate and can manipulate fate around him/her in many ways. The Reckoning finishing moves involve the Fateless One physically manifesting an opponent's fate and beating them to death it.
• The King of Fighters: Lucky Glauber uses a basketball for several of his attacks.
• Kirby has a fairly large repertoire of abilities he can call upon with his copying powers. Some are understandable, like the Reflecting Laser or the fire breath. Then there's things like Parasol, Ball (Kirby becomes bouncy and spherical, and with enough velocity can damage enemies by bouncing into them), Wheel (Kirby turning into a wheel and rolls towards enemies at high speed), Mike (Kirby's voice is amplified to the point where it harms all onscreen enemies), and Stone (Kirby turns into a heavy object and drops onto the foe).
  • Kirby 64: The Crystal Shards allows you to combine two abilities^note Burn, Ice, Spark, Stone, Bomb, Needle, and Cutter, with two of the same being an option, often with insane results. Highlights include an active volcano (worn as a hat), ice skates made of ice, fireworks, and having him turn into a curling stone, a melting ice cube (hot steam), and a refrigerator that flings deadly food at the enemies... and any leftover food can be eaten to heal Kirby.
    • The Fire/Spark combo ability is another particularly silly one, being a simple wool cloth that Kirby rubs on his head to generate harmful sparks of static electricity. Do it for too long, though, and his head will ignite from friction burn and send him running around in a panic (Though ultimately no worse for wear), scorching anything he touches.
    • Using one Needle ability makes Kirby's body sprout spikes like a sea urchin. But if you double up on the Needle, he will instead simultaneously sprout a corkscrew, a syringe, a cactus, a fork, a bee stinger, a nail, a caliper, and a sharpened pencil. Sharp, but mostly improbable for weapons.
  • In Kirby Super Star, he can use a yo-yo as an effective weapon.
    • And how about the secret power paint, which basically Kirby raises a brush where colors blast out of it. It has (somehow) about the power of Crash.
  • In Kirby's Return to Dream Land, Dark Rooms have candles, not only as light sources, but they can be thrown to burn Mooks and to melt ice.
  • Bell ability, shown first in Kirby: Triple Deluxe has Kirby dual-wielding handbells that attack with sound waves.
  • The Doctor ability introduced in Kirby: Planet Robobot can throw pills Dr. Mario style, but also incorporates a multitude of other medical tools into its arsenal, like a clipboard, a medicine-spraying syringe, and a roll of bandage.
• Klonoa uses his Wind Ring, typically powered by one of his friends, which shoots a Wind Bullet out that inflates enemies like balloons and allows him to use them as projectiles.
• La Pucelle Tactics: Culotte may take the cake for shear variety of improbable weapons. He throws mushrooms, monsters, lollipops, bombs, apples, rocks, and many other unusual things at enemies. And those are just his "normal" attacks. One of his skills involves throwing a series of those 'weapons' at the enemy. The skill description reads "Everything but the kitchen sink..."
• The Last Story:
  • Some of the weapons you receive as quest rewards are pretty... screwy. The list includes: a leek (yes, a vegetable), a footstool/chair, a hoe (with a 1% chance of landing a One-Hit Kill) a ladle, a pitchfork - although you'd think this would actually hurt someone, a frying pan, flowers, a hunk of coral, and a wine bottle.
  • Apparently anything that isn't an actual sword or something similar makes for a poor weapon in Last Story, as the following: a lance, a sledgehammer, an axe and a kitchen knife have incredibly low stats.
• League of Legends: As an in-universe example of a Game-Breaker, legendary warrior Jax is so powerful and skilled that league officials only allow him to fight with a lampost. His Ascended Fanboy follower Urf tries to imitate him with a spatula and a fish. Twisted Fate fights with playing cards. Anne the Creepy Child transforms her teddy bear into a monster to maul people. Gragas uses his grog barrel.
• Left 4 Dead 2 has useful and practical weapons like machetettes, katanas, and axes. The game also has the downright silly weapons like golf clubs, guitars, and frying pans. Justified that when it comes to needing a blunt weapon, you take what you can get. Thanks to mods, you can have other kinds of silly weapons like foam fingers.
• Legacy of Kain: Defiance: A certain cheat code allows you to give Raziel a cardboard tube to replace the Soul Reaver, in a nod to the Penny Arcade strips about the cardboard tube samurai.
• In Legend of Illusion Starring Mickey Mouse, Mickey attacks his enemies by tossing soap bubbles at him. This is because Mickey worked as King Pete's laundry boy before Pete made him the temporary king and sent him on a quest to find the water of life.
• The Legend of Zelda:
  • In the early game of The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past, Link's most effective attack is throwing jars at opponents, as they do more damage than pretty much anything else in his arsenal. This tactic becomes obsolete once you find the Master Sword and the Hookshot, as these do more damage and have better range respectively and can be used indefinitely.
  • In The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time, you can take down Ganon with Deku Nuts, only needing the Master Sword for the finishing blow.
  • In The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask, after transforming into the Deku form, your main weapon is the point of your hat, which you attack with by doing a pirouette, and your secondary weapon is spit bubbles. Furthermore, in the Zora form, you attack by throwing your own fins at the enemy, like boomerangs.
  • Likewise, using an empty bottle against Ganondorf's projectiles in the first fight against him in Ocarina of Time actually works! When fighting the wizard in The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past, the Bug Catching Net can also reflect the projectiles back. The net is also Link's Joke Weapon in Soul Calibur 2.
  • In The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess, you can distract Ganondorf with a FISHING ROD, allowing you to then slash the idiot. The empty bottle is once again an effective weapon as well.
  • In the fight with Shadow Aghanim in Link's Awakening, you can reflect his magic using the shovel.
  • One of the Breakable Weapons you can pick up in The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild is a mop.
• LEGO Dimensions: Many characters use these, especially those who don't generally use weapons in the source material. For instance, in his various incarnations the Doctor beats villains over the head with his walking stick (First), his recorder (Second), the sonic screwdriver (Fourth, Eighth, Ninth, Tenth and War), a cricket bat (Fifth), his umbrella (Sixth and Seventh), a mop (Eleventh) and a spoon (Twelfth). (Third is the exception; he uses the fencing sabre from "The Sea Devils".)
• LEGO Indiana Jones: A notable game mechanic lets the player become this if they so choose. In many of the stages, half the destructible objects are usable as weapons, if the character is unarmed. One of the tips at the beginning of the game says, "Ammo problems? Start throwing the room at them!" This is often a wise choice, as unlike other games in the LEGO series, most of the firearms in this game have limited ammo, so the room itself can, indeed, be a viable weapon, chairs included.
• LEGO Island 2: The Brickster's Revenge has protagonist Pepper Roni using throwing pizzas at enemy Bricksterbots, which for some reason causes them to explode. Later, the Brickster modifies the design so that they can no longer be killed this way, so Pepper uses a boombox to make the Bricksterbots dance faster and faster until they collapse from exhaustion or dizziness. Then he hits them with a pizza and they explode.
• Little Samson: The eponymous character shoots bells at enemies.
• Lufia: The Legend Returns:
  • Seena the Fortune Teller uses various kinds of crystal balls, alongside her magic wands/rods.
  • Ruby the gambler uses playing cards, and many of her IP moves are based on gambling. One of her attacks actually has you play a simple card game in which you guess if the next card will be higher or lower in value than the previous one. The attack starts with a base power equal to your current IP, and doubles with each successful guess. How exactly this is supposed to deal damage is a mystery...
  • Isaac the inventor uses a plethora of strange gadgets, including a music box, a "slay speaker," and a machine simply called "Custom 65."
• In Lufia II: Rise of the Sinistrals the inventor, Lexis Shaia, uses a variety of tools as weapons, including the memorably named 'vice pliers'.
• Luminous Arc:
  • Vivi the Sky Witch uses a magic lamp that doubles as a machine gun.
  • Mel uses giant leaves.
• In Luminous Arc 2, quite a few of the characters do this, so much so that it sometimes seems like the real weapons are the improbable ones (slight exaggeration).
  • We've got Althea, who uses a wand that looks like a duster (along with her magic); Dia, a Musical Assassin of a Witch whose weapon is a conducting baton; Kaph, the Musical Assassin whose guitar fires bullets; Luna, who uses a fan; Alice, who uses a rolling pin, let's not forget Pop's whisk, Sadie's trumpet, Josie's fishbone staff...
• Lunar: Dragon Song: The two main characters both fight with unconventional weapons: Lucia with umbrellas and Jian with shoes (which he does at least kick with, not throw).
• Lunar: Eternal Blue has one in the form of Jean. Well, it's unorthodox before she learns Martial Arts and fights barehanded, but she still throws Bladed Dancer Fans.
• Mabinogi: Almost any tool can be used as a weapon. Not only the already weapon like gathering-axes, cooking knives, sickles, and blacksmith hammers; but also metallurgy (ore panning) sieves, cooking ladles, fishing rods, and L-rods (magic dowsing rods). All tools have a damage rate that is lower than bare-hand damage. However, nearly all wieldable tools can be upgraded to make them effective, if still low-powered, weapons.
  • Musical instruments can, however, actually be half-decent.
  • Event weapons (the ones which aren't simply alternate versions of normal weapons) are typically either effective but silly-looking ordinary weapons, toy versions of common weapons, or special-purpose weapons which are magical and/or elaborately improbably. An example of the first type is the "cat paw club", a club weapon with very good damage stats, shaped like a giant furry cat's paw. The second type have lower stats than their normal versions — eg. toy boy and arrow set has lower damage and shorter range than any standard bow. Examples of the third type are the ice sword (a sword made from an ice crystal); and a(n edible) magic wand made from a giant pocky stick, that turns monsters into giant edible cookies.
    • Special weapons invariably have a limited lifespan; either through deliberate time limits (the ice sword melted after the end of the event), or by making them unrepairable.
• In Madness Combat: Project Nexus, you can arm your character with beer bottles amongst many other weapons.
• Makai Kingdom features (among the more conventional guns / swords / drills / giant robots) books, frying pans, Magical-Girl style ribboned wands, balloons, UFOs (for stealing items) and... pies. (Though, to be fair, the pies are only good for healing.)
  • You also can pick up and use as a weapon anything on the field: debris, your party members and enemies. To top it off AI seems to like using his own troops as weapons.
• Mana Khemia: Alchemists of Al-Revis: The main character Vayne attacks with his cat (assuming the form of a katar and a BFS). Jessica uses her bag (wich has everything inside it, and one of her spells can drop swordfishs on the enemies. And the ghost Pamela uses her mana-possessed stuffed teddy bear as a weapon. Oh, of course, we have cards (Roxis) and an alien pod (Muppy).
• In the sequel, Mana Khemia 2: Fall of Alchemy, it is just as bad. We have books that are alive (Chloe), hoops (Etward), her magical maid (Liliane), her 3 Puni 'brothers'^note this worlds version of slimes (Puniyo), and a toy ball (Gotou). The only real weapons are claws (Yun), a giant robot fist (Enarsia), the shapeshifting morning star and sword of light (Ulrika and Razeluxe), and a ten foot mace! (Pepperoncino).
• Manhunt has quite a few gory weapons that can be used to massacre the various mooks, but the very first one you get is a plastic shopping bag, which is wrapped over a mook's head to suffocate him.
• Mario:
  • Princess Toadstool's weapons include a Parasol, War Fan, Frying Pan, and a Special Glove in Super Mario RPG: Legend of the Seven Stars and Super Smash Bros. Melee. In her own feature game, Super Princess Peach, she employs a parasol named Perry who can change shape. And devour enemies.
  • One of Bowser's weapons is a little Mario doll. Which he promptly uses to switch places and attack throwing the real Mario.
  • Bowser can also make use of a Chain Chomp, i.e one of the in-universe mooks (think Pac-Man with a lot more teeth) by swinging it over his head and throwing it at the enemy. If you know about timed hits, the Chomp latches onto the enemy's face with its teeth and starts biting.
  • Mallow uses Cymbals.
  • Booster uses a train, and Yaridovich uses his own head. The latter case is justified to a degree, since Yardiovich is a spear-like monster.
  • Super Mario Sunshine introduced us to Bowser Jr., along with his Magic Paintbrush, a paintbrush that's longer than he is tall.
  • While not a weapon per se, Mario Superstar Baseball has DK use a boxing glove instead of a baseball bat. This continues into the sequel, where Baby DK uses a Banana, King K. Rool uses his scepter, the Kremlings all use bats that look like spiked dumbbells, and Funky Kong uses a surfboard.
  • With hats as the central theme in Super Mario Odyssey, Mario gains the ability to weaponize his hat, throwing it like a boomerang. Bowser also gets a weaponized top hat with robotic arms with boxing gloves installed into it. Three of the four Broodals—Topper, Harriet, and Rango—attack with their hats as well: Topper carries multiple hats into battle and uses them as Pinball Projectiles, Harriet carries bombs in her hat, and Rango, like Mario, can throw his like a boomerang.
  • Luigi's Mansion: Luigi uses a Poltergust to suck up ghosts: it's essentially a vacuum cleaner with an attached flashlight, which in later games comes with a black light attachment.
• MDK2: Dr. Hawkins uses a variety of these, with his main weapon being atomic toast, where he fires radioactive toast from a radioactive toaster. He also uses various types of bread, with an infinite white loaf as regular ammunition, Pumpernickel as explosives, and baguettes as homing bread.
• MediEvil: If Sir Dan completes a task for a witch, she gives him a bucket of magic chicken drumsticks. When armed, you can throw them at your opponents, which appears to do nothing, until they suddenly turn into a delicious roast chicken. How that works is an entirely different question.
  • Sir Dan also has the capability to take off one of his arms and use it was a weapon. He can either use it as a club or throw it as a boomerang.
• Mega Man himself is probably the grandmaster of this trope. Fire, bombs, and even armor-piercing needles are logical enough along with the normal plasma and lasers, but sawblades, steerable boxing gloves, and globs of quick-dry cement?
  • Besides his Sinister Scythe, Prometheus from Mega Man ZX can kill people with his blue hair. And it would be pretty damn unavoidable against anyone who can't jump high enough or wall-jump.
  • There's also Quint from Mega Man II, who uses a nuclear-powered pogo stick.
  • In Mega Man Powered Up, Roll can take down hordes of robots with a broom. She can also be equipped with a flag, a net, an umbrella/parasol, a candy cane or a fish. She even has a BOX OF CHOCOLATES, for crying out loud!
  • If the above's not enough, in Mega Man X DiVE, her swimsuit variant uses a floating ring as her default weapon. Go figure.
• Melty Blood: Watanabe Seisakujo's Tsukihime doujin fighting game, later rehashed by Ecole, features the Tohno maids in full blast as Battle Maids. Hisui, powered by the Tatari, has her personal Hyperspace Arsenal ("Hisui's Gate of Babylon") where she can attack by launching books, hangers, vases, lamps and trays. Other weaponry include This Chair (and Table), Explosive Plum Bento, a Frying Pan of Doom, a Stirring Spoon of Hurt, a Bucket and Cloth and a watering can. Kohaku follows up with syringes, semi-sentient plants that can pack a punch (Go, Johnny!) and her trademark broom, which, justifiably, doubles as a sword sheath. And her Mech-Hisui, which is also a playable character...
  • Other lighter examples include Akiha's hair, Shiki's fruit knife, and Len's cats.
• Metal Gear:
  • In Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater you can kill guards with a friggin' Fork - even Sigint Lampshades this trope by asking why the hell Snake is carrying it with him.
  • In Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker, you can hold up guards with a banana.
  • Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance has this during the fight with Sundowner, if it lasts long enough after breaking his shields he'll try to whack you with a giant concrete pylon. You return the favor by throwing an unmanned surveillance drone at him.
• Miitopia
  • Every class (Excluding the Tank) can use a basic attack where they simply hit the enemy with their weapon. It makes sense with some like the Warriors and Imps (Who wield swords and spears respectively), but is rather ridiculous with ones like Flowers and Pop Stars, who use leaves and microphones to hit their enemies. Granted, there are some upgrades like the Spiky Mic that could do real damage, but the majority of the upgrades aren't.
  • Inverted if you choose the Ragged Armor. It's some strewn-together scraps of material that give absolutely no defense buffs whatsoever. However, you can equip the Ragged Armor and then equip the stats of another piece of armor, allowing you to have potentially the best defense buffs on some scraps of leather.
• In Miku Monogatari: Yume to Taisetsu na Mono, a Vocaloid fan game, Len has a keytar (basically a portable keyboard) that he use as a big sword.
  • The subweapons is full of improbable weapons. They range from various foods and produces, purple cats, headsets and large speakers, musical notes, and flying cockroaches.
• Minecraft: While swords and bows (and tools) are the only practical weapons, it is theoretically possible to beat a monster to death with a torch, bed, pumpkin, or even a block of dirt. Best of all, items without durability don't even get damaged by using them as improvised weapons.
  • In the Nether and the End, right-clicking a bed to sleep in it causes it to explode. Players have used this feature to their advantage during the Ender Dragon fight, by placing beds near the Dragon's path, shielding themselves from the explosion, then detonating it whenever the Dragon gets close. This tactic, while risky, is widely popular among experienced players - speedrunners especially - because of its low material cost and high damage output.
• Minion Masters: Fergus' weapons are jugs with blades attached to them.
• Minty Fresh Adventure!: Colgate's giant toothbrush that she stabs and whacks enemies with.
• Monster Hunter:
  • The Hunting Horn weapon class consists enirely of giant musical instruments used as hammers.
  • Also, there are some fish-themed joke weapons which include a swordfish used as a bow, a frozen tuna used as a sword, a shark used as a lance (it has a "no swimming" sign as a shield) and a salmon used as a club
  • Further, there are a fork and knife and Plush cats used as double swords and a feather duster used as a hammer
• Mole Mania gives Muddy Mole no direct means of offense, forcing him to avoid enemies...or throw objects at them. Said objects can be black balls, barrels, or cabbages, all bigger than Muddy himself is. When's the last time YOU killed something with a cabbage?
• Mortal Kombat: Sindel uses her hair as a weapon.
• Namu Amida Butsu! -UTENA-: Kongōman Bosatsu "Leader" has a very long flower garland, which he uses in battle as if it's a whip.
• Neptunia: The series features Hospital Hottie Compa, who uses a giant syringe in battle, 5pb., the blue-haired musician who wields a guitar and can kill her audience (of enemies) with music by playing said guitar or just outright smack them with it and Plutia, the CPU of another dimension who whacks enemies on the head with plush toys.
• NetHack: Virtually anything can be wielded in combat or thrown at enemies, including pickaxes, eggs, potion bottles, gems, coins, or the dead bodies of your enemies. The latter is actually quite effective when you're wielding a dead cockatrice. There's even an in-joke/tradition about beating one late-game enemy with the most improbable weapon you can think of.
• Ninja Gaiden: Ryu Hayabusa has a few questionable weapons in the Xbox game series. In the first game, he aquires a wooden bokuto which requires about 7 upgrades until the shop owner Muramasa forges the damn thing into an oar.
• No More Heroes: Subverted in that they are proper weapons, it's just that the users' job description as "assassins" hardly match with them. The game has, in order of encounters, a giant straight razor with energy properties and doppelganger spin, explosive bullets, sword beams, a crotch laser, a rocket launcher as a replacement leg, a multi-story experimental military earthquake generator operated by a giant brain, props more typical for a magic show, a ridiculously large wave motion gun, gimps, and a lightsaber dragon thingy.
• No More Heroes 2: Desperate Struggle has a gatling revolver, a boombox/power fist that can shoot missiles, a sports themed humongous mecha formed by a jerk jock and an army of assassin cheerleaders, a recorder that turns into a doublesided lightsaber, a flamethrower axe, perfect poison, the earthquake thingy again, a gun that shoots money and ricochets off walls, the crotch laser guy again, a laser blade that fires Laser Blade dragons, a pair of scythe/anti-material rifles, a Kill Sat, a multitude of Laser Blades that get thrown around...
• No More Heroes III defies the trope, on the basis that many of the bosses are aliens and use weapons that are as fantastical as themselves. The human bosses still play it straight, with one of them bringing back her recorder that turns into a doublesided lightsaber, and another using her own hands to cast demonic attacks.
• Ōkami:
  • Amaterasu can equip 3 kinds of weapons, 2 of which fits this: "reflectors", basically mirror shields which she bludgeons people to death with (and counters attacks), and "rosaries", chain of beads which she either whips people with or shoot projectiles from. The last one are standard BFSes. She also uses a paintbrush. That one, at least, is not her "main" weapon, but instead used to draw magic symbols for her magic attacks.
  • Waka uses his flute, which he plays deadly music with... and it can also project a Laser Blade.
• Ōkamiden: Chibiterasu can use the same weapons (reflectors, glaives and rosaries) as her mother, and Kagu attacks with fans. Kurow uses the sound from a flute and Laser Blades from said flute.
• Opoona: The eponymous character's trademark weapon is the "Energy Bon Bon." It resembles a small rubber ball, which can be equipped with elemental effects and special upgrades.
• Otogi 2: Immortal Warriors: Aside from the fact that Suetake is a magical levitating tree/human hybrid, his default weapon is a wagon wheel. A levitating, magical and most likely pointy wagon wheel, nonetheless, but it's still a WAGON WHEEL.
• Ougon Musou Kyou/Cross: A few characters have attacks with improbable weapons, but Shannon uses these exclusively, hitting with serving trays and carts, tea pots and cups, carpet beaters and scrubbing brushes, her skirt and apron.

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• PAGUI: Huo Wang, being a junior Taoist in training, uses a bamboo Taoist tablet as a weapon. There's also a ghost called the "Hanged Man" who uses the noose attached to his neck like a whip.
• Paladins: Mal'Damba is a witch doctor who uses a cobra as his main weapon, which spits globs of venom and shoots healing lasers from its eyes. He also "reloads" his snake by throwing it (which stuns enemies) and having a new one slither up his arm.
• PAYDAY 2: The sheer amount of melee weapons naturally means some of them are gonna be pretty strange. The various batons are to be expected, things like a meat tenderizer and a metal detector less so, but the strangest of them (and probably most popular due to its strangeness) is the Money Bundle, which is a stack of 100 US$ bills that you beat people over the head with.
• Penny Arcade Adventures: On the Rain-Slick Precipice of Darkness: Episode One'', your character uses a rake. By the end of the episode, it's a super-powered rake with spikes on it, but it's still, essentially, a rake. One of your other party members uses his fists, dipped in super-urine.
  • The sequel breaks your rake and gives you a hoe. You can also get a cardboard tube, just like in the comics!
• Persona:
  • Persona 2 Eternal Punishment has Baofu, who uses Yen Coins to attack with. Justified because it is stated in-game that he uses chi to throw his coins with the force of bullets but still.... coins?!
  • At least that one is explained... unlike, say, Jun's flowers Innocent Sin. Principal Hanya in that game also uses a giant wrench as his weapon.
  • Persona 3 has a number of 'gag' weapons that are remarkably powerful, gained as side quest rewards. These include the Toy Bow (with suction cup arrows), Nailbat (wielded as a two-handed sword), the Bus Stop Sign (wielded as a bludgeon weapon), the Steel Pipe (wielded as a one-handed sword), the Broom (wielded as a spear), the Rocket Punch (used as a gun for Aigis) and the Bone (used as a knife for Koromaru).
    • The PSP remake due to altering the weapon system adds even more joke weapons. The male lead (who can only use swords now) has several large kitchen knives, the female lead that uses bladed spears also gets several hockey and lacrosse sticks (the ultimate of which has the Atlus logo on it) and Mitsuru gets a few umbrellas. And of course, the Bus Stop Sign returns, although you won't see it much.
  • Persona 4:
    • The protagonist uses swords but can also use a golf club or baseball bat. Two of each are in the game, and one of each is a legitimately good weapon.
    • Yosuke wields twin knives or kunai, and several of them are pairs of pipe wrenches. One of which can be found early in the game and is useful for a long time after, as it is one of his most powerful weapons at that point and also increases his SP.
    • Kanji really takes the cake here. His weapons are classified as shields, but about half of them are just random heavy objects, including his starting weapon, a folding chair. And all of them are used as bludgeoning weapons.
    • Yukiko relies mainly on her magic, but for melee, her weapon is a Combat Hand Fan.
    • Persona 4: Golden adds a ridiculous amount of goofy weapons for the cast to use: Shovels, brooms, a Bus stop sign, cheering flag, bass guitar, Beach Parasol, bowling pins, grilled corns, Pinwheels, Bones, Trout (as in the fish), Megaphones, Maracas, socks, animal slippers, Inline Skates, Spring Boots, a Frisbee, serving tray (made of good silver), Tambourine, rubber band gun, water gun, crab claw, a Reindeer hoof, a factory sign, a much bigger fish, Cymbal, a Casket lid, floor tile, drum, and even a fricken Christmas Wreath.
    • As the team's Navigator, Rise doesn't fight in the main game. But in Persona 4 Arena Ultimax, she's made playable and uses a microphone and mike stand as her weapon.
  • Persona 5:
    • All of the characters have gun weapons in addition to their melee weapons. In the real world, they're just extremely realistic-looking models that become real due to the nature of the cognitive world. Even among those, Morgana stands out for using a slingshot that is somehow just as powerful as the other guns. In the original version, they even lampshade it.
    • The first boss uses volleyballs for his basic attack and his ultimate attack.
    • Fox's Persona is Goemon. As in Ganbare Goemon, his weapon is a comically oversized tobacco pipe. One of Fox's katanas looks just like it, too.
    • The final boss channels its power through four weapons: a gun, a sword, a bell, and a book.
  • Persona 5 Strikers:
    • Sophia/Sophie uses a pair of yo-yos as her melee weapons.
    • Wolf uses broadswords. And a specific quest with his name on it unlocks the Traffic Sign weapon for him. It is a large metal pole with 'Road Widens', 'Caution', and 'Pedestrian Crossing' signs on it. And it's his third-best broadsword.
• Phantasy Star Online includes a sidequest that requires you to find weapon fanatics, talk to them with the appropriate enthusiasm, and eventually talk to their leader. The "ultimate weapon"? A frying pan.
• Phantom Brave took this trope to the logical extreme, allowing you to use almost anything as a weapon, so long as you can pick it up. This includes rocks, shrubs, vegetables, and even people.
  • Don't forget about the fish. And fish cake. Oh and the giant bell.
    • And any of those items can be made into an Infinity +1 Sword.
• Skateboard and Boombox from PHIGHTING! both use a skateboard and boombox respectively as their form of attack on the battlefield. Players using Skateboard utilize his speed for hit-and-runs, while players using Boombox hit beats to a metronome to create shockwave-like attacks.
• Not actually used as a weapon, per se, but Godot from Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney – Trials and Tribulations has been known to chuck his coffee mug at Phoenix's head with unerring accuracy; Maya refers to them as "coffee grenades".
• Planescape: Torment: Let's see, a scalpel, a zombie's arm, your own arm, a hollow axe, a fingernail, three different sets of teeth...
• Plants vs. Zombies has you weaponizing plantation against invading zombies. From pea-shooting plants to a Man-Eating Plant, to the mushroom that creates a literal mushroom cloud, etc. And the second game gets even crazier. The zombies, being zombies, also have them too, especially Gargantuar who may wield an electric pole or a stop sign to bash plants flat.
• In Pokémon Red and Blue, Cubone and Marowak use bones, the Abra family uses spoons, and Farfetch'd and Sirfetch'd use leeks.
  • Some of the moves make use of improbable weapons as well; Grass Knot ties a grass knot around the foe's leg to cause them to trip, and Octillery's signature move Octazooka is a giant blast of ink. In Chansey's case, Egg Bomb qualifies as well, given that it's using its own egg as a weapon. Pay Day shoots coins at the opponent. If the trainer whose Pokémon used that move wins, they'll find money on the ground if the battle is a wild encounter, or will receive a boost in prize money, if it is a trainer encounter. Morgrem and Grimmsnarl's False Surrender attack uses their Prehensile Hair to lash out at the opponent.
  • Darkrai's 'Bad Dreams'. KOing a pokemon, possibly a LEGENDARY, with NIGHTMARES. For that matter, the moves 'Dream Eater' and 'Nightmare'.
  • There's also the Oshawott series, who use shells as makeshift swords. Oshawott has the one, Dewott dual-wields, and Samurott's are sheathed in his forelimbs. One particular piece of fanart shows Samurott taking his helmet off as an impromptu BFS before making a swarm of haters disappear in a fine red mist.◊
  • The Timburr line (Timburr, Gurdurr, and Conkeldurr) uses, respectively, a 2x4, a steel girder, and two cement pillars as weapons.
  • The move "Fling" lets your Pokemon use whatever item they're holding as a weapon by throwing it at the opponent. It's advised that you use an item that can deal a lot of damage, but you can easily stock up on though. This can be averted if your pokemon knows Recycle, but chances are you might accidentally take out your opponent with Fling before you have a chance to do anything else. Averted if you're using Fling in settings like the Battle Tower or Battle Subway where one-use items are replenished after each match, but that's still a move you can only use once per match, and with its Dark typing, it can only do massive damage to two types.
  • In the Manga, Mewtwo fights with a giant spoon. In the games, as mentioned above, Alakazam and Kadabra wield spoons as well (though more for show).
    • In the Manga section earlier, the spoons supposedly increase their psychic power.
    • Twisted Spoons are a game item that increases the power of Psychic attacks as well. It's a reference to the psychic/magic trick of spoon bending, where the supposed psychic or magician would bend a metal item without any apparent physical force.
• Portal: The ASHPD seems more like a Utility Weapon rather than improbable, until you use it to fire a portal on the moon and blast Wheatley out the 'airlock' and into space, with an enthusiastic space core!
• Prince of Persia: Warrior Within has five joke weapons: a teddy bear, a lawn flamingo, Rayman's glove, a hockey stick, and a glowing yellow sword.
  • Prince of Persia: The Two Thrones has four joke weapons: a baby rattle, Telephone, Swordfish and a chainsaw.
• [PROTOTYPE]: If vehicles aren't improbable enough^*since Alex has Super-Strength, the destroyed remains of military hardware should be. Oh, and throwable living beings.
• Punch-Out!!:
  • Being a boxing game, it shouldn't feature weapons other than fists and gloves. Nevertheless, in Super Punch-Out!!, luchador/boxer Masked Muscle uses (illegal) wrestling techniques, Dragon Chan uses Jeet Kune Do, Heike Kagero attacks with his Bishonen hair, Mad Clown has his juggling balls, and Hoy Quarlow likes to hit you with his walking stick repeatedly. It might be easier to mention the boxers that fight fair. And of course, the ref will never call them on it.
• In Quest for the Shaven Yak: Starring Ren Hoëk & Stimpy, Ren's basic method of attacking his enemies is by tossing toothbrushes at them, while Stimpy's is coughing up hairballs. The other weapons the duo can collect are a remote control that fires lightning bolts, soap that fires bubbles, and pieces of powdered toast.
• Ragnarok Online: In this Korean MMORPG, The Priest, Sage, and Taekwon Master (AKA Star Gladiator) classes are able to equip a variety of books as weapons, ranging from Bibles and diaries to ancient stone tablets. The priests and sages hit the opponents with them while the Taekwon Masters seem to simply hold them for inspiration.
  • In fact, the first Book a sage gets is their own hardcover graduation thesis. So... knowledge is power?
  • And let's not forget the Bard class and their instruments, which also can shoot arrows in certain skills.
  • Not exactly a weapon to wield, but Honorable Mention: Paladins can throw Holy Crosses at you.
  • The Merchant classes weaponize their vending carts with Cart Revolution skill. The damage dealt depends on how heavy their carts are.
    • As Merchant-derived classes, both the Blacksmith line and the Alchemist line have skills that revolve around weaponizing their carts, with both class lines sharing the Cart Boost skill. The Blacksmith line just uses brute force with their carts, like in their High Speed Cart Ram while the Alchemist line modifies their carts to the point they can fire cannonballs, like in their Cart Cannon.
• RemiLore: Lost Girl in the Lands of Lore: One type of One-Handed Sword is are Spatulas, with Flavor Text of:
  A peculiar tool from ancient times, made to invert something called "pancakes."
• Resident Evil:
  • Resident Evil 5 has a large number of chickens running around (just like in its predecessor). If you leave these things alone long enough, they will lay eggs which can be eaten to heal your wounds. Alternatively, they can be equipped by the player to be thrown like grenades. If they hit an enemy in the face, the enemy will be stunned long enough to be hit with a special melee attack (e.g. kick or straight). RE5, however, adds in the "rotten egg" which WILL NOT heal you and instead takes your right down to "dying" status if you are foolish enough to eat it. Its deadly power can be a boon since if you throw it at a regular enemy, it will be a one-hit kill and you don't even have to hit them in the mouth.
  • In Resident Evil 0, Billy uses his handcuffs (one bracelet's on his wrist, the other isn't) as brass knuckles to punch a Devastator (a mutated zombie gorilla) in a cutscene.
• Rhapsody: A Musical Adventure: Main character Cornet uses a trumpet as a weapon.
• Rhythm Thief & the Emperor's Treasure features characters using guns, swords, and Good Old Fisticuffs. Then there's Charlie, who uses footballs. They are normally kicked at enemies but also feature as Abnormal Ammo in the hang glider level.
• Rival Schools is flush with these. The first game has Natsu and Roberto, both of whom are able to set folks on fire with their volleyball and football/soccer ball attacks, and Shoma, who bats people. The first game's Updated Re-release adds Ran, a school newspaper report who damages opponents by taking their picture with her camera! And the sequel, Project Justice, introduces Momo, who wreaks havoc with her tennis racket, and Yurika, who uses her violin in her attacks!
  • Don't forget Hinata who kicks the opponent by throwing her infinitly respawning shoes at them.
• River City Ransom has conventional weapons one would expect to find in an urban environment, like clubs, pipes, bike chains, rocks, and brass knuckles, but you can also beat people up with trash cans, car tires, twenty-foot long poles, and ladders. You can even pick up enemies that have been knocked down and beat up thier buddies with them.
• Riviera: The Promised Land: Lina is a master of fruit-fu, being the only character of the four-girls-and-a-guy band who can use Overskills with Banangos and Applecots.
• Rockin Kats: Willy's weapon is the Punch Gun, a spring-loaded white boxing glove.
• Rogue Galaxy: Kisala also uses shoes as her secondary weapons (not worn on her feet, to clarify). Her primary weapons are a pair of daggers, though, and the other characters wield a fairly traditional combination of guns, swords, and other "real" weapons.
• Rune Factory 3: Among the many items Micah can weaponize and take into battle: carrots, daikon radishes, pineapples, leeks, soup ladles, backscratchers, a giant lollipop and a whole tuna. All of which of fairly strong mid-level weapons and a couple of which are used by some of your NPC companions.
• RuneScape has several strange weapons, including a rubber chicken and flowers.
  • Most of the silly weapons are Joke Items that do very little damage or actually make your character weaker, however there are several improbable weapons that actually are effective and useful. these items include Exploding Ridiculously Cute Critters, fire-breathing lizards, a ship anchor (formerly used by a boss you killed), shark shaped things you wear on your fist to bite or slash your enemies with, and several cooking utensils. It also is possible to buy a cosmetic override that makes any two handed sword look like a parasol. One boss in the game can only be damaged by magic secateurs (a tool for pruning plants).
• In Saints Row: The Third and Saints Row IV, you can be the Improbable Weapon User. Some of the weapons you can wield include black hole launchers, head inflators, and guns that shoot dubstep. Others are a gun that shoots octopi that speak engrish and explode after they attach to some poor bastard's head, a pair of oversized costume fists that turn people into bloody chunks, and a blunderbuss/chum maker that allows The Boss to summon the elusive and very real Steelport Sewer Shark. And then there's the The Penetrator dildo bat (with candy cane skin in How The Saints Saved Christmas). Some of the weapon skins can make your guns look improbable too, like the guitar case for the rocket launcher, rubber band gun for the SMG, and water gun for the assault rifle.
• Samurai Shodown: Several characters from the series have wacky weapon choices; the contender for top spot is Morozumi Taizan's giant calligraphy brush. Also of note is Wan Fu's stone pillar.
• Scribblenauts: Maxwell's weapons are damn near every noun in the English language.
• Sengoku Basara: A few of the characters are Improbable Weapon Users. Like Motochika's freaking anchors which he also uses to surf. Tachibana Muneshige skirts the line, with him dual wielding chainsaws. The Joke Items take this even further.
• Senran Kagura: Most playable girls wield proper weapons like knives or swords. Then you have Hibari who uses her bunny plush-thingy, Yumi with her paper fan, Minori who uses a bucket and frying pan, Jasmine with her giant smoking pipe, and Kafuru who wields 2 water guns. Yagyuu's umbrella at least can sprout out blades from its ribs, and Mirai's own umbrella is also a gun. Ryouki's strongest Ninja Art summons her own coffin, filled with guns and rockets, that she also swings around.
• Septerra Core: Led Campbell uses a huge wrench as her weapon.
• In Sharpshooter 3D have recurring drug addict enemies who tries attacking you with their syringes.
• Shadow Hearts: Several characters.
  • Alice Eliott (Shadow Hearts) uses books. Bibles, mostly. To smash people with.
  • Joachim Valentine (Shadow Hearts: Covenant), in true pro-wrestler fashion, uses an arsenal of "found" weapons which include a locker, a mailbox, a frozen tuna, and a submarine. (His teacher, the Great Gama, fights with a pirate statue.)
  • Anastasia Romanov (Shadow Hearts: Covenant) uses Fabergé eggs.
  • Gepetto (Shadow Hearts: Covenant) attacks with an ambulatory puppet which mimics his movements; his "weapons" are improved varieties of marionette string, the ultimate being the Red String of Fate.
  • In Shadow Hearts: From the New World, odd weapons include vintages of alcohol, guitars, and swords made by sticking a hilt on a vaguely cylindrical object (including a bus stop sign, a cactus, a firecracker, and a Sword in the Stone with stone still attached).
• Shadow of Rome: Once you've decapitated someone, you can pick up their head and hit people with it.
• Shantae uses her hair. She retains this ability in the third game despite the loss of her genie powers, implying she inherited her deadly hair from her father.
  • The Friends to the End DLC for Shantae: Half-Genie Hero has Rottytops use her own leg; not by kicking, but by detaching it and wielding it as a club. In Jammies Mode Shantae also wields a surprisingly deadly pillow. Though it's later revealed that Rottytops was inside the pillowcase all along.
• Shores of Hazeron was about vast, Star Trek-esque exploration, space battles and empire management. The weapon of choice for players clad in million-dollar Powered Armor? The humble Glue Gun, normally used for mending plastic tools. Due to a glitch, the glue gun's damage type would go straight through any sort of armor and the entity's skin resistance, directly damaging their health; using the glue gun on an enemy would simultaneous kill them and repair their armor. A Tech Level 32 glue gun could One-Hit Kill all but the most durable species. The bug was eventually fixed, leading players back to the more conventional assault rifle.
• Shovel Knight, obviously, is yet another shovel user in this page. And yet one of the most efficient wielders of the spade!
• Silent Hill 2: One of the special weapons is the Hyper Spray. Its effectiveness as a weapon depends on how high you score on previous playthroughs. At its weakest, it behaves on enemies as you might expect a can of unknown chemicals to behave: it merely stuns them. Earn a perfect 10 stars, however, and you have a spray can full of instant death to anything it touches!
  • The combat system of Silent Hill: Origins is at least partially built around this trope, as it features weapons such as televisions, toasters, typewriters, table lamps, and filing cabinets.
  • Silent Hill: Downpour has the same weapons mechanic as Origins above. Of all the weapons you can get in the game, many of which are actual weapons like knives, axes, and the like, the best weapon in the game is a fire hook. It has more range than any other non-projectile weapon in the game, decent damage, doesn't break, can be used to reach fire escapes, and isn't likely to kill enemies, (which is necessary if you're going for the good ending).
• In The Simpsons Arcade Game, of the four playable characters, Bart attacks with his skateboard, Marge with a vaccuum cleaner, and Lisa with a jump rope. The last (Homer) uses no weapons at all, just Good Old Fisticuffs.
• Skies of Arcadia: Fina's weapon is a floating blob by the name of Cupil. He himself is not an improbable weapon, but he then attacks by changing into an anvil, frying pan, cannonball, lance, etc... or, in his final form, just gets big and eats them. To add insult to injury, Final Cupil is also the Infinity +1 Sword.
  • Vyse and Aika, from the same game, get gag weapons if you complete a sidequest (Gamecube remake) or download them (Dreamcast original): a tuna fish and a giant lollipop. Each has an incredible spike in one stat, to the near-absolute loss of all the others.
    • The Swirlmarang (Aika's giant lollipop) has a 100% chance of causing panic if it hits anything not immune to it, effectively making it a Lethal Joke Item.
• Skullgirls:
  • Valentine's arsenal is strictly medical equipment. IVs, bodybags, scalpels, defibrillators, bonesaws; and being a ninja nurse, she demonstrates unthinkable proficiency with them.
  • Peacock is a cartoon-obsessed Reality Warper that throws pretty much everything at her enemies. Especially her Shadow of Impending Doom move, which makes use of: A bowling ball, a teacup, a sandbag, a fish, a flower pot, a shoe, a bottle, a sentient anvil and weight, a tv, the head of another character, a safe, an elephant, a piano, a fridge, an elephant, a steamroller, a barrage of spiked balls, and of course: the kitchen sink.
  • Marie in her playable appearance is wielding a skeleton-themed vacuum cleaner as her weapon of choice.
  • Beowulf wields a folding chair named "the Hurting" (a shoutout to the original poem where he wielded the legendary sword "Hrunting") and the severed arm of his first defeated opponent, Grendel.
• Slime Forest Adventure: Jenk starts out with a hoe as his only weapon. Well, he is a farmer, after all.
• Sonic the Hedgehog: Cream the Rabbit is known to use her pet Chao, Cheese, as a weapon. Similarly, in Sonic Adventure, Tails uses his tails as a flail-like weapon, with a pendant augmentation that allows him to spin at a much higher speed.
• Soulcalibur:
  • The series has joke weapons for most of its characters. The joke part is played up with silly sound effects that the weapons make upon hitting the enemy. Worth mentioning are Xianghua's giant calligraphy brush, Siegfried/Nightmare's sawed-off galley oar, Taki's tobacco pipes, Voldo's tambourines, Lizardman's leg of meat + grill lid and Raphael's cane (which comes complete with its own Laugh Track). A sword for Siegfried looks like a squid and goes squish when it hits something.
  • Tambourines got promoted to a non-joke discipline for custom characters in 3.
  • The aforementioned squid appears in Soul Calibur 3 in Nightmare's arsenal. In Soul Calibur 4 he has a surfboard on a stick. Yes...a surfboard on a stick.
  • One can argue that Tira's standard weapon, essentially an edged steel hula hoop, is an example as well. This comes full circle in IV, where her joke weapon is a hula hoop.
• Soul Hackers has devil summoners with some really odd COMPs, but perhaps the weirdest is Judah Singh, who built his into a saxophone for some reason.
• SpaceChem requires you to improvise raw chemicals into weapons to defeat each Boss Battle. For example, in the third boss, you have to make plutonium to fuel an improvised nuke against a giant squid, using nothing but water.
• Space Quest: Roger's used some really creative methods of taking out enemies. The jock-strap and hand puzzle used against a Labion terror beast, short-circuiting guard robots with the sprinkler system, using local wildlife when taking out a collection droid, using a boulder, and a Banana Inthe Tailpipe against another collection droid, liquid nitrogen and a crowbar against a third killer robot, a shag rug and static electricity against a kidnapper, and a rotting fish against the Big Bad of the sixth game.
• Splatoon: Though they might look normal at first glance, the majority of weapons are actually cobbled together from non-weapon items. The Nozzlenoses are repurposed garden hoses, the Inkbrush is a giant paintbrush, the Hydra Splatling is a portable fire hydrant, and the Luna Blaster is a hair dryer, for instance. There is also entire weapon classes consisting of gigantic paint rollers (which can be swung to flick harmful ink at foes or club them as a bludgeon), as well as Sloshers (which are described as "weapons-grade buckets", one of which looks like a bathtub) and Brellas (quite literally just umbrellas of varying sizes with a gun attachment). Listing all the examples would take all day.
• Splitgate: Certain game modes have the Oddball, a large ball that you must pick up and continuously hold without dying to score points; since you must handle it manually, it prevents you from using your usual weapons (though not your portal guns). The Oddball is also a perfectly serviceable melee weapon in itself, so its carriers are not helpless; plenty of unfortunate players have gotten beaten to death with the thing trying to kill its carrier.
• Star Ocean: The Second Story: Chisato has Tazers, Precis the Gadgeteer Genius has robot hands coming out her backpack, Leon uses books, and Welch from the PSP remake uses a freakin' handy stick.
  • It should be noted though that Chisato fights more like a martial artist using her tazer for a few of her killer moves and Leon summons a demon from the book to attack rather than using it like a blunt weapon.
• Peppita from Star Ocean: Till the End of Time fights with a combination of shoes and capes.
• StarTropics: Mike uses a yo-yo as his weapon to avert an alien invasion. Sure, he eventually gets it powered up, but still...
  • The Wii game takes it even further. Aran Ryan's rematch has him cause massive damage with a boxing glove on a rope.
• Street Fighter: Rose fights with her scarf.
• StreetPass Mii Plaza: The game Battleground Z has weapons based on the hobbies of the Miis from 3DS systems you pass by. Since most of these hobbies aren't exactly based around combat, they can get really bizarre when they get weaponized. The default weapon is the most normal one: A giant Wii Remote you swing around. Beyond that, you can attack with paintbrushes, the Internet, party poppers, pop-up books, selfies, suitcases, a tour bus that drives enemies into oblivion, and much more. The absurd weaponry makes this Zombie Apocalypse game a lot lighter.
• Suikoden is full of these.
  • Shovels, book belts, bundles of rope, shawls. Any game in the series will likely have at least half a dozen strange weapons. And they can all be sharpened by the same blacksmith. More fun unconventional weapons from the series: Rings, Nails (as in on the hands), Parasols, Woks and other cooking utensils, wrenches, musical instruments. None of them are in any way Joke Weapons.
  • As a specific example, Viki in V attacks by sneezing. Mind you, it's worse than it sounds, given that said sneeze causes her Blinking Rune to play up and teleport random furniture onto her target's head.. Furniture from the future too, given the look of that lamp.
• Superhero League of Hoboken: The heroes tend to obtain and use a wide variety of weapons over the course of the game, from pointy sticks and rusty nails, to cyanide-laced silly string, tee-ball set, and arsenic-dipped deer antlers, to devastating weapons like the dobermann, the modified jet engine and the nest of trained hornets. TRAINED HORNETS.
• In Super Robot Wars Z and Z2 Saisei-Hen there's the Gunleon. Its weapons include giant robot sized wrenches, nail guns, chainsaws, and an assortment of other tools. All topped off with a huge wrench that's as big as the robot itself.
• Super Smash Bros. has several instances of this:
  • Mario uses a cape for one of his attacks from Melee onward, turning his opponent to face the other direction if it hits them. From Brawl onward, he also uses FLUDD the water spraying machine from Super Mario Sunshine.
  • Luigi can use himself as a missile attack from Melee onward. And the fourth and fifth games give him the Poltergust vacuum from the Luigi's Mansion games as his ultimate weapon.
  • Ness uses a yo-yo and a baseball bat for his smash attacks.
  • Peach, who can use a parasol, a frying pan, or sports equipment. She can also bring out Toad as a counterattack.
  • Dr. Mario, in addition to the cape attack copied from Mario, flings giant pills as his basic attack instead of fireballs.
  • Mr. Game & Watch, using elements from the various Game&Watch games he is derived from, uses bacon, a turtle, a chair, a torch...
  • Wario has fart moves. And after he's finished riding his motorbike, he can throw it at you.
  • Lucas uses a twig that looks like he just picked it up randomly from the floor one day. He uses his psychic powers to turn it into a rather lethal bludgeoning weapon, though.
  • R.O.B. uses spinning tops for his down special, a reference to Gyromite.
  • The Villager brings out an entire arsenal of these, including bowling balls, flowerpots, turnips, a tree, his pockets...
  • The Wii Fit Trainer uses soccer balls, volleyballs, and hula hoops for some of their attacks.
  • Greninja uses shuriken and kunai...made of water.
  • As in Donkey Kong Country, King K. Rool throws his crown like a boomerang, and it packs a punch.
  • Isabelle uses many of the improbable weapons that the Villager does, and has a fishing rod as one of her special moves.
  • Banjo uses his partner Kazooie as his main weapon, whether that means shooting eggs like a rifle or inflicting Grievous Harm with a Body.
  • Steve/Alex, similar to Villager/Isabelle, use several mundane tools as weapons, from buckets filled with lava to anvils to even a whole functional minecart...
  • Various items in the game fall under this. If you play with them, that is.
    • The Giant Fan has been part of the game since day one, and its usefulness has varied from game to game.
    • The Home Run Bat, on the other hand? If someone lands a smash attack with that thing, it's usually a one-hit KO.
    • Two useful gadgets from The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword are the Gust Bellows, which is a reverse vacuum cleaner, and the Beetle, which is basically an RC helicopter that can grab and carry things. In Smash, the Gust Bellows lets you push your opponents with a powerful wind that makes it nigh impossible for even the best players to get back to the stage, while the Beetle carries whoever it grabs straight up and off the screen for an instant KO.

T-Z

• In the TaleSpin Licensed Game for the Sega Genesis, Baloo attacks his enemies with a paddle ball. It's twice as powerful as Kit's slingshot, but attacks enemies at a short distance.
• Tales of Monkey Island: In Chapter 5, W.P. Grindstump can even throw a freaking cash register at Guybrush to crush him if he revives as a zombie (that is, unless he surrenders)!
• Tales Series:
  • A running gag in the Tales Series is for the player to find extremely powerful but unlikely weapons for the characters late in the game. In Tales of Symphonia, for example, Lloyd can buy a pair of giant paper fans and Presea (who usually uses an axe) can buy a giant toy hammer.
  • The best one, though, would probably be Sheena, from Symphonia; she uses cards with shinto wards inscribed on them. Her gag weapon is even more ridiculous; she beats enemies up with paper money, referencing that summoners in medieval times delivered cards to summon people to court. Guess they did the research.
    • Her joke weapon is actually a Money Bag, presumably full of coins.
  • Tales of Symphonia also has Genis, who uses a kendama, a child's toy. Presumably, he plays with it to help improve his focus and rhythm while he has free time. He also claims to have knocked Lloyd out with it accidentally the first time he used it, and Lloyd knocks himself out with it when he plays with it in a skit. Presea and Zelos can randomly start a fight wielding a giant plush bunny or a bouquet of flowers, respectively, if they have their formal outfits on.
  • Anise in Tales of the Abyss quite sensibly uses maces and magic scepters as weaponry... But she never actually attacks with them. Instead, she attacks by animating her stuffed bear with magic and turning it into a seven foot tall engine of destruction. She's the game's Cute Bruiser, incidentally.
  • Most of the weapons used by the heroes in Tales of Vesperia tend to sit within the realm of probability—swords, maces, hammers, knives, polearms, bows, etc. That is, except for Rita, who uses sashes (Long pieces of cloth), along with the aforementioned kendama. She also gets some more practical chains and whips, though.
  • Tales of Eternia's Meredy uses a whistle to command her actual attacking weapon, her Team Pet Quickie. Chat uses handbags full of infinite cannonballs, which she throws.
  • Tales of Hearts carries on the tradition. Kohak's Soma Elrond's weapon half takes the form of a baton, and Beryl's Thiers produces a paintbrush as tall as she is.
    • The baton can be used as a blunt object, like a pipe or something though. The Elrond seems to be useful as a weapon with the balls at each end, and she sometimes uses magic to reinforce them in her melee moves
  • Tales of Legendia has more then its fair share of improbable weapon users, as well. There's Shirley who uses pens and brushes, Grune who uses urns, and Norma with straws that she uses to blow bubbles at enemies. Granted, none of the spellcasters can learn any physical attacks, but they're still odd weapon choices.
    • Shirley actually throws her Teriques, and is the only caster to actually have an attacking combo because she can send it halfway across the battlefield.
  • Tales of Zestiria has a unique twist on it; while Lailah uses paper (that she sets on fire), Edna uses a parasol, and Dezel and Zaveid use pendulums, this is actually normal for seraphim. Their weapons represent the element they are strong over (wind, water, and earth respectively), which means Mikleo is unusual for using a Magic Staff instead of something representing fire. He's doing it the hard way compared to the rest... and it's apparently because he's short compared to his Childhood Friend Sorey.
  • Tales of Berseria has Magilou with her shikigami, which are essentially pieces of paper, typically inscribed with some manner of facial design. Rather then enchant them with elemental magic, she alters their size, shape, and density to make them suitable for use as blunt weapons. There's also Laphicet, who wields paper tags in a manner similar to Lailah, but doesn't favor any particular element when it comes to enchanting them.
  • Tales Of The Rays has Mileena, who uses mirrrors.
• Team Fortress 2 has at least one for everyone.
  • The Scout's baseball bat might count, though more fitting are the Holy Mackerel (a fish) and the Mad Milk (a bottle of "milk"). There's also the Wrap Assassin, which is a roll of wrapping paper and bauble, and the Candy Cane.
  • The Soldier has the Equalizer and Escape Plan (pickaxes), the Disciplinary Action (a riding crop), and the Market Gardener as well as his stock weapon (shovels).
  • You could probably make a case for the Pyro's Flare Gun, but more fitting is the Degreaser, which is a bunch of car parts taped together to function as a flamethrower.
    • There are also a few of the Pyro's melee weapons, which include the Postal Pummeler (a mailbox), the Back Scratcher (a garden rake), the Powerjack (a car battery attached to an automobile jack with rubber bands), and the Neon Annihilator (an uprooted neon sign).
    • The Lollichop may not look like an improbable weapon to the average player (because it appears as a standard axe without Pyrovision), but unlike in the Meet The Pyro video, the Pyro can actually clobber the opposing team with the Lollichop on purpose.
  • Pyro's stock flamethrower is an ad hoc combination of a blow-torch, a leaf-blower, and a propane tank designed to make you, your teammates, and spies across the globe burn in hell without having to leave Earth.
  • The Demoman's stock weapon is a bottle of scrumpy.
    • You may also elect to decapitate people with a golf club.
  • The closest the Heavy has is the Killing Gloves of Boxing/Gloves of Running Urgently, which are boxing gloves. Downplayed in that the gloves themselves don't make them odd, since boxing gloves are made for fighting, but when you consider the fact that this is a mercenary war involving guns and live ammunition, it immediately looks out of place, especially since you are expected to kill with them.
    • And then comes the Warrior's Spirit, a pair of bear paws the Heavy has strapped over his hands. Gives new meaning to the phrase "I will kill you with BEAR HANDS!!!" He also has the Holiday Punch, which are a pair of winter mittens that he can kill and make people laugh with.
  • The Engineer has a wrench with which he can either build or bludgeon. He also has robot hands, but that's slightly more believable. Additionally, with the Frontier Justice equipped, the Engineer gains a kill taunt where he strums his guitar and smashes it over the enemy's head..
  • The Medic typically wields a bonesaw that he uses like a knife. He also has a bust of Hippocrates with a handle on the bottom which he can clobber people with.
  • The Sniper uses a mason jar filled with (his) urine Jar-based Karate as well as a sniper rifle that shoots darts with said Jar-based Karate. The Sniper also has a Huntsman bow which certifiably falls into the improbable category compared to many of the other weapons in Team Fortress 2, and when he has the Huntsman equipped, he too gains a kill taunt where he uses one of his arrows to stab an enemy.
  • The Spy is just about the only one that doesn't have one, although he is the one that's bringing a knife to a gun fight. However, as of the 2011 Christmas update, the Spy gains a new melee weapon in the Spy-cicle, which is a freaking thin icicle that the Spy uses as a knife. One of his Halloween weapons is a gigantic voodoo pin.
  • All that aside, every class can use the Saxxy, a trophy that bears a striking resemblance to an Emmy. This means that the Spy is somehow able to backstab people with a trophy. There's also the Conscientious Objector, which is a protest sign people can use to beat each other to death with, as well as a frying pan^note for users who also own Left 4 Dead 2, both of which are equippable by all classes except the Engineer and Spy. A couple of other weird weapons include an uprooted road sign, an antiquated 8mm camcorder, a giant cartoon bone-in ham, and the skeletal remains of a Scout/Soldier/Demoman/other unknown victim.
  • There are now bread weapons, specifically the Bread Bite, a loaf of bread torn in half and used as gloves, Mutated Milk, a loaf of bread in a jar of "milk", the Self-Aware Beauty Mark, a loaf of bread in a specimen jar of green liquid, And the Snack Attack, a loaf of bread suspended in a ring shaped device. They are reskins of the Gloves of Running Urgently, Mad Milk, Jarate, and the Sapper, respectively. Oh, and did I mention they are all self aware, have a mouth of very sharp teeth and are covered in tumorlike green blobs?
• Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Shredder's Revenge:
  • By virtue of becoming playable, April O'Neil mostly uses equipment from her reporter job to fight, including her trusty microphone, a camera pole, a boom mic, and (large) studio cameras.
  • Casey Jones uses his sports equipment as usual, namely his hockey stick, baseball bats and golf club. The most noteworthy one in this case is slam dunking with a basketball for one super.
  • During the Dual Boss fight alongside Groundchuck, Dirtbag will swing his shovel, whenever he doesn't use it to dig holes that can be fallen into. He also uses the light on his miner hat to stun the player(s).
• The Twisted Tales of Spike McFang: Spike fights monsters by spinning his cape and throwing his hat like a boomerang.
• Time Commando: The Modern Wars stage has a mook that blows cigar smoke, while the Future has a yo-yo that can destroy robots.
• Time Crisis 2: The second boss character, a bloke in sunglasses, picks up an ICBM and swings it at you......despite it surely weighing several tonnes. Then when you shoot him enough he drops it and it rolls away like a cardboard tube.
  • In its pseudo-sequel Crisis Zone, at the end of the Garland Technology Center stage, you fight a pair of elite soldiers: A thin athletic man with paired foldable blades on his wrists, appropriately named "Edgey", and a hulking brute with an anti-tank rifle named "Tiger". While Edgey spends his time dashing about and flinging throwing knives at the player, Tiger tends to simply use his greater bulk to shrug off hundreds of rounds pumped into him while firing his weapon in return. However, on occasion he will throw a large box, kick a ladder, or even pick up and swing a steel girder.
• Touhou Project has plenty of Improbable Weapon Users ranging from the plate-throwing Mononobe no Futo to journalist Aya Shameiru, who makes bosses blow up in-game from taking many pictures. We wish we weren't kidding.
• Tron 2.0: While there were other weapons, the hands-down most useful one was a frisbee. A glowing frisbee that doubled as a shield. Could be upgraded later on to exploding and multiple-throw versions. Throwing it to attack left you defenseless until it came back - and no, you couldn't switch to another weapon while it was in flight. This made the multiple-throw version useless, as you were defenseless until all the discs you'd thrown had come back to you.
  • The disc weapon is in keeping with canon (and the older Tron video games), where it is the most powerful weapon inside a computer.
• Ultima VII: The Black Gate lets you wield a surprising number of mundane objects, from shears to shovels to a rake and even a live hawk. Some even make passable weapons - the shears do as much damage as a one-handed sword. One of the deadliest weapons in the game is the Hoe of Destruction, which is a farming hoe accidentally enchanted to become lethally sharp.
• ULTRAKILL:
  • The Sisyphean Insurrectionists wield a dead Malicious Face as a makeshift flail by holding it with their extremely elastic arms.
  • The Ferryman uses a rowing oar as his weapon of choice.
• Uncommon Time has a few examples. The protagonist, Alto, fights with cello bows... somehow. Saki fights with card decks and Aubrey fights with handchimes, though their attack animations imply they may be attacking magically.
• Undertale: There are eight weapons in game (nine, counting a Genocide Route-only upgrade to one of them), most of them very improbable. Worn Dagger, Real Knife? Makes sense. Stick? Can do. Toy Knife? Tough Glove? Ballet Shoes? Torn Notebook? Burnt Pan? Special mention goes to Empty Gun. While the game never states that if it's a real gun or just a toy, it's explictly empty — meaning that the player character pistol-whips their enemies with it. It should be noted though that the monsters in the game are stated to be vulnerable to killing intent - meaning that even something completely ridiculous can be used to hurt them if their attacker wants it enough.
  • The game has not only improbable weapons, but also improbable armors (Bandage, Faded Ribbon, Manly Bandana, Old Tutu, Cloudy Glasses, Stained Appron, Cowboy Hat, Heart Locket, Locket and Temmie Armor) - though a piece of flavor text regarding Faded Ribbon ("If you're cuter, monsters won't hit you as hard.") seems to imply they're less of actual armor and more of defense-increasing Stat Sticks.
• Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines: the main character defeats a deranged prosthesis craftsman and in turn receives a severed arm to use as a weapon. Strangely, nobody seems to object to you walking the streets carrying a floppy sawed-off arm.
• Waku Waku 7: Tesse the super powered robot maid is the game's resident Improbable Weapon User, wielding brooms, giant syringes, and built-in floor buffers. And that's without even getting into her projectile attack, which allows her to throw different objects depending on how long you charge the attack. These range from the practical (Bullet Bills, giant bombs) to the improbable (cups and dishes) to the downright absurd (potted cacti, geese and small dogs.)
• Wandering Hamster: James uses an infinite supply of Spam cans^note based on his internet nickname, "SPAM Man" as weapon. There's also Dusty who uses bones and eponymous Bob the Hamster who can use fish instead of hammers.
• The video game movie adaptation, The Warriors, has practical weapons ranging from bricks, knives, bottles, cinder blocks, plywood, and other items. Some of the more silly weapons are foam fingers, donuts, chicken, and ice cream.
• Wasteland allows you to equip any random object you find as a Brawling weapon, from books to ropes to Visa cards to broken toasters. Obviously things like crowbars, fire axes and chainsaws are much more effective, though.
• Wild ARMs: Several games have at least one character fitting this trope.
  • Lilka (umbrellas) and Marivel (Hob and Gob, two little robot thingies) in Wild ARMs 2.
  • Arnaud (feathers) and Yulie (a set of three hoops) in Wild ARMs 4.
  • Wild ARMs XF has a ton of weirdness: iron fans (Arcanist), spanners/wrenches (Gadgeteers), bells (Fantastica), slingshots (Excavator), and batons (Martial Mage).
• The World Ends with You: Like Lulu from Final Fantasy X, Shiki Misaki animates her stuffed cat Mr. Mew for attacking (apparently scratching with non-existent claws). Then there are various environmental objects that Neku's Psychokinesis pins and Joshua's divine cell phone send at the Noise... Beat's skateboard is, ironically, one of the more realistic weapons in the game: he just uses it to smack the crap out of everyone.
• World of Warcraft: Besides the Leg weapons that reference Diablo 2 mentioned above, the game has quite a few gag weapons, such as a fish or a bear bone (which would be a pretty decent weapon if it didn't drop off enemies that are over twice the required level). Not to mention a slew of engineer toys that are just as likely to backfire as they are to do what they are intended for.
  • Cookie's Tenderizer. Nothing says you mean business like a rolling pin!
  • On the topic of the fish, Dark Herring is a fish, wielded as a dagger, that does more damage than the swords of one of the canonically stronger characters in the game. It can be dual-wielded as well. "Herring Seeks your life" indeed.
    • Combined with some of the treants (walking trees) and ancients (giant walking trees who threw boulders as their primary attack in warcraft 3), many Monty Python jokes can be made.
  • And during the Brewfest holiday event, you have a chance of getting a mug of beer to use as a 1H mace. It's actually pretty decent for Enhancement Shaman. Off the same boss, you also have a chance of winning a broken beer bottle to use as a dagger. And while the developers have explicitly said that in patch 4.3, joke items like the fish won't be usable for transmogrification (which you can use to change the appearance of your equipped items to other items of the same type in your possession), the mug currently is a valid item for transmogrification purposes on the PTR.
  • Brewmaster specced Monks have a couple abilities that tosses (or smashes) kegs full of beer.
• The World Is Your Weapon: Weaco can pick up objects and weakened enemies, and then wield them as weapons. Objects can include almost anything shown on the map, including stray clumps of grass, floor tiles, holes in the ground, traditional weaponry, buildings, and the ocean surrounding the island. While non-traditional weapons tend to have lower durability than traditional ones, some of them also have special effects or large hitboxes that could be advantageous in grid-based combat.
• The Worms series, which has featured such weapons as the Exploding Sheep, the Old Granny, and the Concrete Donkey. No, seriously.
  • And let's not forget the original "weird weapon" of Worms. The banana bomb. A replacement for the cluster grenade that could only be found by picking up crates. Instead of the usual cluster, it explodes into a lot of bananas that explode with a force comparable to the stick of dynamite, making it the single most destructive weapon in the entire (first) game!
  • Better still, you can potentially kill opponents with your digging tool (which is actually designated as a real tool and not a weapon; it deals pathetic damage).
• WWF No Mercy included a lot of the already used improbable weapons already mentioned in the Professional Wrestling section. It also included weapons improbable for even the wrestling industry's standards, such as a giant plastic block of cheese and a huge copy of The Rock's book The Rock Says.
• Xenogears: Emeralda, being a nanomachine colony, can morph her body into various deadly weapons, including turning her hair into blades or her limbs into hammers and drills.
• Xenosaga: In the first game, chaos (all lowercase) used gloves as his weapon. However, the upgrades were more like downgrades, going from large padded safety gloves down to old ragged pair of holey (Holy) gloves. In retrospect, chaos's character had the ability to destroy gnosis simply by touch, the gloves acting to seal his power, so really, "downgrading" to get more power isn't so implausible (in a fantasy-ish way).
• Zombies Ate My Neighbors: The protagonists Zeke and Julie can wield at least a dozen non-weapons as weapons. Water pistols, exploding six-packs of soda, fire extinguishers, weedwhackers... The only probable weapons in the game are the bazooka and the flamethrower.
  • The twist here is that every weapon (even the joke weapons like tomatoes and dinner plates) could One-Hit Kill the right enemy (For instance, the plates could take out Mummies in two shots and the tomatoes were great for use against Martians).
• Zombie Panic has, among more believable weapons, frying pans, cooking pots, wrenches, metal chairs, and computer keyboards (though some older models like IBM Model M or similar vintage Made of Indestructium keyboard had solid steel plates for reinforcement, making them less improbable).
• zOMG, a Gaia Online MMORPG, has the players using mystically-enhanced rings to battle, because conventional weapons don't harm the Animated. That alone would qualify for this trope.
  • The rings themselves invoke this trope. Some generate fairly standard BFG, BFS, Frickin' Laser Beams, and shuriken or bows and arrows to attack. Others can be protective Teflon Spray coatings, Pot Lid shields against attack, thrown Hornet's Nests to scare away enemies, or water balloons filled with heavy water.
  • Lastly, Gaia Online's notorious collection of strange accessories for your avatar include more than a few strange weapons.

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