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Eric DVH: Removed the following:

• On the subject of chainsaw swords, Neal Stephenson's The Diamond Age features the heroine using a personal computer and a nanotech fabricator to build a chainsaw sword and a chainsaw knife. And just to prove she was scary enough to use them, she designs the things in her head, while being raped. Possible subversion — she barely gets to use them.

Those weren't chainsaw blades, but vibroblades. Possibly a related trope though (Shadow Run, Fallout, etc…)

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Large Blunt Object: Reverted edit by goodtimesfreegrog removing the Ctrl+Alt+Del quote and replacing it with "Look ma, I'm a lumberjack" because the first quote, no matter how much you hate CAD, is a really good quote for defining Chainsaw Good, while the second is, well, not.

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fleb: Maybe I'm blind and I missed the explanation, but is the title of the trope Animal Farm-style Hulk Speak, as in "Chainsaw Good, Rocko Bad!" — or another creative reappropriation of nouns as adverbs, as in "It's not just good. It's Chainsaw Good." ?

Adam850: It's a qutoe from Army Of Darkness

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Archaix: Oddly, in banner ads, 'Wonderland' the happy cutesy-looking house buildy thinger always appears at the top for me. Which would just be slightly funny, but now it's got me eyeing that off-color liquit splat on the lift corner a little apprihensively...

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Citizen: 450px is an absurd width for an image placed like that. Shrunk with extreme prejudice.

Operator: O'm not particularly wiki-savvy, but for Movies: Doesn't one of the robots from Robot Jox have a chainsaw, or am I thinking of that green laser?

Also, Killing Floor (a zombie apocalypse survival horror, yadda yadda, based on the U T2k 4 engine) features a chainsaw as an available weapon for the Berserker 'perk'. Said perk allows you to level up your resistance to damage, deal more damage, and swing melee weapons faster. The game also allows fans to create maps, and one map that has been officially sanctioned by Tripwire (the developer) is an homage to the first level of Doom 2.