History ImprovisedWeapon / AnimeAndManga

* Cilan, in an episode of ''Anime/{{Pokemon}}'', had his Pokemon incapacitated due to poisoning. So he had to fight off a Stunfisk with a fishing rod. He is able to keep the Pokemon at bay, [[spoiler:and sufficiently weakens it enough to catch it.]]

* Kirika from ''Anime/{{Noir}}'' is spectacularly good at this, able to take virtually anything at hand, even an item carried by her opponent, weaponize it and kill him in a second. On one occasion, she uses a [[{{Mooks}} mook's]] eyeglass earpiece as a shiv. In another, she takes apart a toy car at a dead sprint and drives the wheel axle into someone's spine. In yet a third, she slits an interrogator's throat with an ID card, [[CrazyAwesome while barely able to stand from blood loss after being gut-shot.]] The first time she snaps her opponent's neck with his own ''tie''. And then there's the time when she piths a mook at a cocktail party by driving a martini olive skewer into his brainstem. And don't even mention the [[ForkFencing silverware]]. Probably her tamest improv gig features using popcorn as a field-expedient mook detector in a pitch black room (mook steps on popcorn, popcorn crunches, mook eats bullets). In the second to last episode, she kills [[spoiler:[[TheDragon Chloe]]]] with a fork.

* ''Manga/RurouniKenshin''

* Rokudo Mukuro from ''Manga/KatekyoHitmanReborn'', during his fight with Tsuna, ended up disguising a stone as being an illusion, allowing him to smash it into Tsuna's [[EyeScream eye area]].

* ''LightNovel/{{Baccano}}!'''s [[AxCrazy Claire]] [[PsychoForHire Stanfield]] doesn't really care ''what'' he uses to kill people with, just as long as the [[ThereIsNoKillLikeOverkill end result is really,]] ''[[ThereIsNoKillLikeOverkill really]]'' [[{{Gorn}} bloody]]. Examples include guns, knives, scissors, rope, railroad tracks, his bare hands, and his own ''teeth''.

* Things that ''{{LightNovel/Durarara}}'''s Shizuo Heiwajima uses as weapons: crowbars, trash cans, traffic signs (up to and including those giant ones for freeways), guardrails, mailboxes, playground equipment, park benches, vending machines, motorbikes, van doors..the list goes on. If it has even a minor chance of breaking every bone in Izaya's body, he's probably going to use it as a weapon.

* In the final battle of Anime/TengenToppaGurrenLagann, [[spoiler:the Anti-Spiral throws entire galaxies around like throwing-stars]].

* In TheMovie of ''Series/HyakujuuSentaiGaoranger'', the [=GaoKong=] mecha (a giant red gorilla) arises from an erupting volcano, which sets all the trees in the area on fire, whereupon he grabs the burning trees, twirling them Hawaiian-style before hurling them at the enemy. This scene inspired the Hawaii setting in the fanfic ''The Ultimus Adventure'' (which gives this show the Franchise/PowerRangers treatment).

* In TheMovie of ''Series/HyakujuuSentaiGaoranger'', the [=GaoKong=] mecha (a giant red gorilla) arises from an erupting volcano, which sets all the trees in the area on fire, whereupon he grabs the burning trees, twirling them Hawaiian-style before hurling them at the enemy. This scene inspired the Hawaii setting in the fanfic ''The Ultimus Adventure'' (which gives this show the PowerRangers treatment).

* Early on in ''Manga/ShamanKing'', Yoh makes use of a wooden grave marker to beat up Wooden Sword Ryu and a few of his gang members. A few chapters late, he also makes use of the metal railing of a stair to do his fighting until he repairs the sword he uses for the rest of the series.

* [[GentleGiant Chad's]] first CrowningMomentOfAwesome in ''Manga/{{Bleach}}'' involves him beating down a Hollow with a '''telephone pole'''. Keep in mind this is before he [[TouchedByVorlons gained any powers]] whatsoever.

* Cilan, in an episode of ''Anime/{{Pokemon}}'', had his Pokemon incapacitated due to poisoning. So he had to fight off a Stunfisk with a fishing rod. He is able to keep the Pokemon at bay, [[spoiler: and sufficiently weakens it enough to catch it.]]

** Kaoru also tried to clock [[spoiler: Enishi]] with a vase in the final chapters of the manga, but failed.

* In the HetaliaBloodbath2010, Spain grabbed whatever he could to protect Netherlands from the ominious figure that attacked Netherlands. [[ShipTease *squee*]]

* Despite being mainly a swordsman, {{Yaiba}} is not above using various things (including a flag-pole, kitchen knives, a flashlight and his sandals) as weapons.

* In ''KenichiTheMightiestDisciple'', Shigure is told not to use bladed weapons against a group of attackers [[LudicrousGibs for obvious reasons]]. So she slices apart their weapons with a wooden rice spoon.

* ''OnePiece'': SupremeChef Sanji normally refuses to use knives in combat, despite being extremely skilled with them. He reasons that a chef's knives are tools for preparing food, not weapons. However, against one opponent that uses food as a weapon (which trips his BerserkButton, he ''hates'' people who waste food) he does not face this restriction.

* ''KarakuridoujiUltimo'''s Mizho used a crutch to beak a guy's arms....after using Pocky to attack another guy.

* In ''MaidenRose'', Taki's classmates come by on his first day to haze him armed with {{Broomstick Quarterstaff}}s, Taki promptly improvises with their improvised weapons, using the broom as a sword and tripping people over the buckets, other supplies, and their own comrades.

* In ''RanmaOneHalf'', there is a thin line separating any given martial artist from being a practitioner of this trope or an ImprobableWeaponUser. Of the main characters, however, Ranma Saotome and Akane Tendō are the ones who come closest to this, being ready, willing and able to pick up and use anything that is around as a weapon. Being practitioners of SupernaturalMartialArts may disqualify them though... how is a lawn roller (a large cylinder of concrete attached to an iron handle bar, used to flatten landscapes) an improvised weapon when you're strong enough to throw it?

* Kiri, the male protagonist of the manga ''DoubleArts'' attempts this. He cobbles a sword together using a large number of much smaller knives thrown at him by the ''very guy he's fighting.'' Subverted in that, while impressive, Kiri's improvised weapon fails, breaking on impact.

* Cilan, in an episode of Anime/{{Pokemon}}, had his Pokemon incapacitated due to poisoning. So he had to fight off a Stunfisk with a fishing rod. He is able to keep the Pokemon at bay, [[spoiler: and sufficiently weakens it enough to catch it.]]

* ''MoribitoGuardianOfTheSpirit'': Balsa isn't above smashing your face in with a rock if she loses her spear in a fight. [[MamaBear She will do anything to protect Chagum from harm.]]

* ''GunXSword'': Ray Lundgren's [[HumongousMecha Vulcan]] was originally a mining machine his wife built. In the series proper, it's a MightyGlacier with [[MoreDakka a lot of guns]] and seems to be capable of producing more power than an Original Seven armor.

* In ''HeroicAge'', the Silver Tribe gets major improv points for using an ''exploding planet'' as a weapon. When humanity ignites Jupiter in the hope that the fireball will consume the Silver Tribe fleet, they respond by using their shields to collapse the planet-turned-protostar into what appeared to be a gigantic ''nuke'', and directing most of the resulting explosion at the human fleet.

* [[InuYasha Inu-Yasha]] once threw a tree into the throat of a charging beast.

* ''DarkerThanBlack'': Hei doesn't use this trope excessively in season one, but come season two and he pulls out all the stops[[note]]since he suddenly [[BroughtDownToBadass has to be a little more creative]]...[[/note]]. He explicitly explains the concept of using this in combat, then demonstrates it by distracting Suou with a few thrown nuts and bolts, followed swiftly by a snowball flung hard enough to floor her and leave a mark on her face that persisted for the rest of the day.

* In ''DetectiveConan'', Conan can kick anything at the bad guys and knock them out (granted, he ''does'' have power-boosting sneakers invented by his GadgeteerGenius neighbor), and he was a pretty good soccer player anyway.

* Things that ''{{Durarara}}'''s Shizuo Heiwajima uses as weapons: crowbars, trash cans, traffic signs (up to and including those giant ones for freeways), guardrails, mailboxes, playground equipment, park benches, vending machines, motorbikes, van doors..the list goes on. If it has even a minor chance of breaking every bone in Izaya's body, he's probably going to use it as a weapon.

* Lucy of ''ElfenLied'' does this using her vectors to throw things with blinding speed and accuracy, including pens on numerous occasions.

* ''FateZero'' has [[TheBerserker Berserker]] whose Noble Phantasm Knight of Honor allows him to turn every kind of thing that can be recognized as a weapon in a Noble Phantasm. Due to his skill "Eternal Arms Mastership", he's also an InstantExpert, he can use any weapon as though he had trained with it his entire life, even if it isn't even a weapon he should be able to even understand. The Improvised Weapons are e.g. street lamp poles, enemy swords and spears, [[spoiler:two [=MP5K=] machine guns and a fighter jet F-15J]].

* ''FateZero'' has [[TheBerserker Berserker]] whose skill Eternal Arms Mastership allows him to turn every kind of thing that can be recognized as a weapon in a Noble Phantasm. Due to this skill, he's also an InstantExpert, he can use any weapon as though he had trained with it his entire life, even if it isn't even a weapon he should be able to even understand. The Improvised Weapons are e.g. street lamp poles, enemy swords and spears, [[spoiler:two [=MP5K=] machine guns and a fighter jet F-15J]].

* David from ''[[BloodPlus Blood+ ]]'' once escaped a tense situation by grabbing a hostage and threatening to stab him in the neck with a pen.