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Ambiguous Name: Ranged Emergency Weapon

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Prime32 Since: Jan, 2001
#1: Feb 25th 2016 at 11:50:30 AM

An Emergency Weapon is a weak weapon with infinite ammo. A Ranged Emergency Weapon is a weak ranged weapon used by a Close-Range Combatant, which may or may not rely on ammo.

However, some of the examples misuse it as "Emergency Weapon which is a ranged weapon". The page for Emergency Weapon itself refers to the infinite-ammo pistol in a First-Person Shooter as a Ranged Emergency Weapon.

Since Ranged Emergency Weapon is not actually a subtrope of Emergency Weapon, I recommend it be renamed to make that more clear, and the references to the latter trope removed. Maybe something along the lines of "Katana, Chainsaw, Squirt Gun"?

shimaspawn from Here and Now Since: May, 2010 Relationship Status: In your bunk
#2: Feb 27th 2016 at 11:07:37 PM

OP must demonstrate misuse with wick check.

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