"I once saw him kill three men in a bar, with a pencil. With a fucking. Pencil."
— Viggo on the title character, John Wick
JB:...they typically use a bomb or a gun, right...? But in this case, the murder weapon was a ballpoint...
Asako: Ballpoint? That a slang for something?
JB: No. It was quite literally a ballpoint pen. A perfectly commonplace thing you can buy at any corner store. Here, this is the report from that one...
Asako: Hrm... A single stab from under the chin straight to the brainstem, eh? Must've been dead before he knew what hit 'im. Pretty impressive.
JB: It's not exactly something worth admiring is it?
— JB and Asako discussing their "mysterious assassin" (Yuuji), in The Labyrinth of Grisaia.
...You don't... need a gun... to kill someone... or a blade, for that matter... Anything with a sharp point will do... even an ordinary ballpoint pen...
— Yuuji right before putting a fitting end to series villain Heath Oslo, at the climax of The Eden of Grisaia.
Blackboard in the background: Bullying Prevention Day
Instructor: For example, what would you, Yuna, do if one of your classmates viciously teased you again and again?
Yuna: Oh, that's easy. I'd take a pencil out of my pencil case...
Instructor: To write something to your teacher?
Yuna: ...make sure that it’s really sharp, and ram it right into her eye at full tilt!
Instructor: (stunned silent)
Yuna: (smiling) Mom always says the pencil is mightier than the knife because they can't outlaw bringing pencils to school.
Shepard: Wait, what are we talking about?
Thane: The number of ways Miss Lawson and I know how to kill someone with a pen.
Shepard: You do?! I totally knew it! That's so exciting! And it's super cool. So Thane knows eighteen? And how many do you know?
Miranda: Sixteen.
Joker: Okay, okay. Right, but how many of those have you actually used? I mean there's no way all of them could work.
Miranda: (exchanges a look with Thane, and shrugs) I think twelve. Enough to know the others would, indeed, do their job.
Thane: Impressive.
Miranda: Thank you.
Thane: I have only needed elven. However, one was a batarian.
Miranda: (nods) I've heard those kills are tricky.
