History ImprovisedWeapon / VideoGames

* ''Franchise/{{Disgaea}}'' has many items classed as "Fun" weapons, such as sunflowers for swords, clothes hangers for bows, and giant paintbrushes for staves. These weapons have as much innate attack power as you'd expect, ''but'' [[LethalJokeItem they inherently come with powerful Unique Innocents/Specialists that require investing time into leveling up standard weapons to get for them]].

* ''[[VideoGame/{{MineCraft}} Minecraft]]'': ANYTHING you pick up can be used as a weapon, even blocks of dirt and pork chops. Anything that isn't a pickaxe, sword, axe, or shovel does 1 heart of damage only, but you can still kill any enemy with any item obtainable in the game.

* ''VideoGame/MineCraft'': ANYTHING you pick up can be used as a weapon, even blocks of dirt and pork chops. Anything that isn't a pickaxe, sword, axe, or shovel does 1 heart of damage only, but you can still kill any enemy with any item obtainable in the game.

* Kratos from ''VideoGame/GodOfWar'' doesn't really need to ''improvise'' weapons, but he occasionally does anyway. Most notable might be from the second game, where he kills [[spoiler:Theseus]] by repeatedly slamming a door into his face. Ripping off a Gorgon's head and using it to petrify enemies also counts.

* ''VideoGame/TheWorldIsYourWeapon'' is built around letting you pick up anything off the ground and giving your enemies a good whack with it as long as it isn't anchored there by some kind of mysterious magic, and when we mean anything, we do mean '''[[UpToEleven anything.]]'''

* The weapons in ''VideoGame/TylerModel005'' are made up of small, household items like screws and razor blades. [[JustifiedTrope Justified]], since you play as a tiny robot.

* In ''VideoGame/AlanWake'', because your enemies are darkness, anything that creates light can be used as a weapon, usually your flashlight. At one point, the PluckyComicRelief defends himself by wearing a headlamp ("It's my [[TheLordOfTheRings flaming eye of Mordor]]!") and wrapping himself in Christmas lights ("For protection. Like garlic against vampires."). [[spoiler:The pyrotechnics of a [[ThePowerOfRock rock stage]] help blast away the enemies' protective darkness.]]

* In ''VideoGame/AlanWake'', because your enemies are darkness, anything that creates light can be used as a weapon, usually your flashlight. At one point, the PluckyComicRelief defends himself by wearing a headlamp ("It's my [[TheLordOfTheRings flaming eye of Mordor]]!") and wrapping himself in Christmas lights ("For protection. Like garlic against vampires."). And in a CrowningMomentOfAwesome, [[spoiler:the pyrotechnics of a [[ThePowerOfRock rock stage]] help blast away the enemies' protective darkness.]]

* ''VideoGame/{{Warframe}}'': Many Corpus weapons are actually tweaked mining lasers, maintenance tools, and the occasional security cattle prod. Very few of them were designed specifically military weapons. The Corpus do ''make'' plenty of weapons, but typically only when other people pay them to. [[OnlyInItForTheMoney Even their enemies]].

* Kazuma Kiryuu from ''Videogame/{{Yakuza}}'' is capable of beating the crap out of people with a range of unconventional weaponry including, but not limited to: bowling balls, flowerpots, briefcases, traffic cones, tea kettles, and salt shakers. His Beast/Destroyer style even lets him lug a motorbike onto his shoulder and beat a man over the head with it!

** At one point, the player gets the chance to turn a gigantic magnetic crane into a weapon. Few things say "you're fucked" like having a shipping container dropped on your head.

* In ''VideoGame/{{Fallout 3}}'' you can obtain schematics for [[HomemadeInventions various weapons]] to make out of the junk which litters the game's AfterTheEnd setting. These weapons themselves qualify to a degree (such as a crossbow made from a paint gun and a toy car and a flaming sword made from a lawnmower blade and a petrol tank) but the straightest example of this trope is the Rock-It-Launcher, which can fire ''[[AbnormalAmmo anything]'' you put into it as a projectile.
** In ''VideoGame/FalloutNewVegas'', the trend is continued, with machetes that are clearly lawnmower blades electrical-taped onto a wooden handle. Another is a "rebar club" which is literally a steel rebar with a chunk of concrete on the end swung as a club. There's also the Bumper Sword, which is literally a car bumper, license plate still attached, which has been fashioned into a massive sword.
** ''VideoGame/{{Fallout 4}}'' has its own share of improvised weapons. The Rock-It launcher is back, renamed as the Junk Jet and can shoot any item classified as "Junk" (which includes bundles of [[CastFromMoney pre-War currency]]), as well as most of the other improvised weapons from ''3''. New to this game is the Syringer Rifle, which shoots [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin syringes]] [[AbnormalAmmo full of chemicals]], with the effects depending on the chemical inside the syringe.

* Kazuma Kiryuu from ''Videogame/{{Yakuza}}'' is capable of beating the crap out of people with a range of unconventional weaponry including, but not limited to: bowling balls, flowerpots, briefcases, traffic cones, tea kettles, and salt shakers.

** Cubone and Marowak use a dirt-covered bone (they're Ground-Type for ''some'' reason), and Farfetch'd uses a ''leek'', which became an actual item in ''Generation II''.
** Introduced in Gen IV is the move Fling, which makes you throw your held item- ''any'' held item- at the enemy.

* There are so many improvised weapons available in ''[[NexusWar Nexus Clash]]'' that the [[PerpetualBeta development team]] had to dial back the number of them in the game in favor of more normal weapons. Characters can pummel their enemies to death with fishing poles, frying pans, broken bottles, chunks of ripped-off coral reef, HollywoodTorches, and more.