History ImprovisedWeapon / WesternAnimation

* Parodied in the ''WesternAnimation/ThePowerpuffGirls'' episode, ''[[ThePowerpuffGirlss2E2CollectHerSupperVillain Supper Villain]].'' The Powerpuff Girls' [[IJustWantToBeSpecial jealous]] and [[RidiculouslyAverageGuy very ordinary]] neighbor who wants to be a supervillain, Harold Smith, takes Professor Utonium hostage with his raygun, which is [[HarmlessVillain actually]] a blowdryer with a bubble wand taped to it...

* ''WesternAnimation/GravityFalls'' uses this trope a lot, but Mabel is the undisputable ''queen'' among the cast. Leaf blowers, karaoke machines, confetti cannons, fake candles, nerf guns, doors, ''tickling'' and even [[spoiler:''Wax Coolio's head'']] have all been in her
arsenal.
* In ''AmericanDad'', Stan and Francine go on an unauthorized publicity tour to market Mr. Pibb (they just really like the soda). When representatives from the company show up to tell them to stop, Stan discusses things reasonably... as a distraction, so Francine can fill her purse with cans of soda and use it to beat the tar out of them.

* ''WesternAnimation/GravityFalls'' uses this trope a lot, but Mabel is the undisputable ''queen'' among the cast. Leaf blowers, karaoke machines, confetti cannons, fake candles, nerf guns, doors, ''tickling'' and even [[spoiler:''Wax Coolio's head'']] have all been in her arsenal.

** ComicBook/TheQuestion does this a couple of times. In 'Question Authority', he throws a computer at a mook who was sneaking up on Huntress. In 'Flashpoint', once again to defend Huntress from someone sneaking up on her, he uses a ''bedpan'', of all things, to knock out an enemy clone. He also has a moment of CarFu in the final episode. This seems to be a tendency of his, as there's also a neat moment in the comics which plays into both this and Question's paranoid nature. He has rigged a filing cabinet to explode if anyone other than him tries to open it. When he is seemingly attacked by [[spoiler:Martian Manhunter, Question recalls the Martian weakness to fire. Then he ''throws'' the filing cabinet at J'onn.]]

* Parodied in the ''WesternAnimation/PowerpuffGirls'' episode, ''[[ThePowerpuffGirlss2E2CollectHerSupperVillain Supper Villain]].'' The Powerpuff Girls' [[IJustWantToBeSpecial jealous]] and [[RidiculouslyAverageGuy very ordinary]] neighbor who wants to be a supervillain, Harold Smith, takes Professor Utonium hostage with his raygun, which is [[HarmlessVillain actually]] a blowdryer with a bubble wand taped to it...

* ''WesternAnimation/GravityFalls'' uses this trope a lot, but Mabel is the undisputable ''queen'' among the cast. Leaf blowers, karaoke machines, confetti cannons, fake candles, nerf guns, doors, ''tickling'' and even [[spoiler: ''Wax Coolio's head'']] have all been in her arsenal.

* "Justice League: War" features Superman hitting several attacking monsters with a tanker truck (hand-held, not driven), then using his heat vision to ignite the contents into a massive explosion. Flash has a more creative one: When the villain tries to kill him with a target-seeking disintegration beam, Flash uses it against numerous mooks by repeatedly changing direction faster than the beam can turn.

* Parodied in the ''WesternAnimation/PowerpuffGirls'' episode, ''[[ThePowerpuffGirlss2E2CollectHerSupperVillain Supper Villain]].'' The Powerpuff Girl's [[IJustWantToBeSpecial jealous]] and [[RidiculouslyAverageGuy very ordinary]] neighbor who wants to be a supervillain, Harold Smith, takes Professor Utonium hostage with his raygun, which is [[HarmlessVillain actually]] a blowdryer with a bubble wand taped to it...

** This trope is taken to the extreme when Batman uses the Justice League Space Station to take out a gigantic thanagarian wormhole-generator by destabilizing it's orbit and then manually steering it to it's target.

* GravityFalls uses this trope a lot, but Mabel is the undisputable ''queen'' among the cast. Leaf blowers, karaoke machines, confetti cannons, fake candles, nerf guns, doors, ''tickling'' and even [[spoiler: ''Wax Coolio's head'']] have all been in her arsenal.

* In ''WesternAnimation/LiloAndStitch'', Stitch uses many household objects in a fight, and makes a doll into an IED.

-->'''Dinobot:''' Improvise.

* In {{Archer}}, he and Lana lost their duffle bag full of ammo in a swamp with a ''very'' pissed off, wounded gator. All they had was a cooler full of beer, bottled water, and dry ice (to keep the beer extra-cold!). Lana thought they were stuck with no weapons, until Archer pointed out that dry ice combined with undiluted water in a sealed container (like a closed beer bottle) causes a pressure buildup until it explodes and essentially makes a glass-based frag grenade. Archer is actually [[TruthInTelevision correct in his chemistry here]], and after some measuring trials, they are ready for the gator, but they never get to use one on it as they run out of bottles by the time the figure out a combination that will be destructive enough but still safe enough to deal with.

** ''StaticShock'';

** Jean Grey uses it a lot, especially in ''XMenEvolution''.
** This sums up the "Propel" attack in ''CityOfHeroes''. Extra hilarity because the projectile looks like a different stock object to each player, due to a programming quirk.

* In the ''JusticeLeagueUnlimited'' episode "The Great Brain Robbery", Flash and Lex Luthor swap minds. While trying to fend off his pursuers at the Watchtower, Luthor, in Flash's body, runs to the cafeteria and starts throwing food at them. At first it seems useless, since Green Lantern has created a shield around his teammates to avoid being hit. Just then, he picks up a dish filled with yellow pudding and throws it at him... And the pudding easily goes through the shield and splats GL squarely in the face! This is due to the one great limitation of GL's power ring: it doesn't work on anything that's yellow (since it symbolizes fear, which is the essential opposite to willpower, whose token color is green).
** Also in JLU ("Divided We Fall"), WonderWoman uses a Javelin--as in [[CoolPlane the League's standard transport/fighter/spaceship]]--to stop the fused Brainiac/Luthor from completing his plan to assimiliate all of Earth's knowledge. How? By ''throwing it at him''.

** TheQuestion does this a couple of times. In 'Question Authority', he throws a computer at a mook who was sneaking up on Huntress. In 'Flashpoint', once again to defend Huntress from someone sneaking up on her, he uses a ''bedpan'', of all things, to knock out an enemy clone. He also has a moment of CarFu in the final episode. This seems to be a tendency of his, as there's also a neat moment in the comics which plays into both this and Question's paranoid nature. He has rigged a filing cabinet to explode if anyone other than him tries to open it. When he is seemingly attacked by [[spoiler: Martian Manhunter, Question recalls the Martian weakness to fire. Then he ''throws'' the filing cabinet at J'onn.]]
* Prowl of ''TransformersAnimated'' occasionally improvises; in his first fight against Lockdown, he came at the bounty hunter with a metal pole he picked up from a pile of scrap, and his [[MerchandiseDriven toy]] comes with a traffic light he can use as a mace.

** Most of the Autobots in Animated were part of a repair crew, and as such have power tools instead of dedicated weapons. Even Optimus Prime's axe goes with his fireman theme rather than being presented as a straightforward implement of harm.

* Any of the handful of "real world" battles in ''CodeLyoko'' apply, since the characters are Middle School students, and swords aren't exactly commonplace. However, Odd and Jim gain a special commendation for shooting monsters with a nailgun in the last episode of Season 1.

* Used in ''WesternAnimation/BatmanMaskOfThePhantasm'', when the Phantasm attacks the Joker, and he has two possible weapons to defend himself with: a kitchen knife, and a loaf of bologna. [[RuleOfFunny Guess what he chooses.]]
* In one episode of the 2003 ''[[WesternAnimation/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles2003 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles]]'', the turtles are imprisoned and stripped of their weapons, and therefore have to resort to fighting with cleaning supplies. They manage to take down a whole squad of ''alien triceratops guards'' this way, with Raph, of all turtles, getting in a ShoutOut to TheTick: [[BattleCry SPOOOON!]]
* TheTick himself went up against super-strong Baron Violent, who threw a car he crushed with his bare hands, and then threw a big slab of pavement. It landed on The Tick's "dog" Speak, leaving him untouched but prompting The Tick to run him to the vet, hysterically shouting "BAD-MAN-HIT-DOG-WITH-'''STREET!!!'''"
* Parodied in ''TheSimpsons''. Bart is pinned down in a scuffle with Milhouse, and starts groping around behind him for something to use as a weapon. His hand passes over a brick, a broken bottle and possibly various other suitable objects, and settles instead on a Magic 8-Ball.
** Also, a recently-fired Chief Wiggum attempts to rob Homer at gunpoint, but it's revealed that the gun has no firing mechanism. He continues to threaten Homer anyway: "I can throw this pretty hard."

* In the first S-Force episode of ''MegasXLR'', Coop is surprisingly able to take down two of the members of the group without his mech. His weapon of choice is a novelty talking fish.
* In ''LiloAndStitch'', Stitch uses many household objects in a fight, and makes a doll into an IED.
* On ''DastardlyAndMuttleyInTheirFlyingMachines'', Klunk must use resources at hand to create aircraft for the Vulture Squadron in "Have Plane, Will Travel." He also turns crashed airplanes into a flying dump truck in "A Plain Shortage Of Planes."
* In ''WesternAnimation/RoswellConspiracies'' Nick Logan was trained to fight using anything he could get his hands on. He was unknowingly being trained to fight the various aliens that have taken up on Earth.

* "Justice League: War" features Superman hitting several attacking monsters with a tanker truck (hand-held, not driven), then using his heat vision to ignite the contents into a massive explosion. Flash has a more creative one: when the villain tries to kill him with a target-seeking disintegration beam, Flash uses it against numerous enemy mooks by repeatedly changing direction faster than the beam can turn.

** TheQuestion does this a couple of times. In 'Question Authority', he throws a computer at a mook who was sneaking up on Huntress. In 'Flashpoint', once again to defend Huntress from someone sneaking up on her, he uses a ''bedpan'', of all things, to knock out an enemy clone. He also has a moment of CarFu in the final episode.

* In ''TheVentureBros'', Brock, the tough bodyguard character, often uses anything to kill people (often nearly anyone.) Once he is pinned under a man with a samurai sword in a hotel room, but then Hank opens the hotel room's end table drawer. Brock remembers what a pastor told him earlier that day... "The only weapon you'll ever need is the bible." [[spoiler:He reaches in, taking the hotel bible and bludgeoning his attacker over the head.]]

* On ''DastardlyAndMuttleyInTheirFlyingMachines'', Klunk must use rescources at hand to create aircraft for the Vulture Squadron in "Have Plane, Will Travel." He also turns crashed airplanes into a flying dump truck in "A Plain Shortage Of Planes."

* Used in ''BatmanMaskOfThePhantasm'', when the Phantasm attacks the Joker, and he has two possible weapons to defend himself with: a kitchen knife, and a loaf of bologna. [[RuleOfFunny Guess what he chooses.]]