History Main / AnchorsAway

* In ''WesternAnimation/HotWheelsAcceleracers'', Porkchop uses an anchor of the chain variety on a giant mosquito.

* ''VideoGame/DragonQuestVIIIJourneyOfTheCursedKing'' has living anchors as sea-bound enemies, which apparently are half-submerged and can strike with both extremities of their bodies. They also tend to be very resilient against physical attacks.

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* In ''VideoGame/RuneScape'', the player can use a [[http://runescape.wikia.com/wiki/Barrelchest_anchor Barrelchest anchor]] as a weapon. Taken from the [[EverythingFades lack of a corpse]] of the [[WetwareCPU Barrelchest]] itself, the previous user.
** And true to the fact that anchors are very, ''very'' heavy, wielding the Barrelchest Anchor gives you a +100 STR bonus. Though you can't attack very fast at all with it.

As their intended purpose is to hold down a ship, anchors are supposed to be exceptionally heavy. You'd expect any anchor wielder to be a huge, burly man or [[TheBigGuy big guy]]. This just makes little girls swinging anchors all the more amusing. Especially if she's the one to go into the PreAssKickingOneLiner.

* ''Videogame/DarkestDungeon'': The Drowned Crew were done in by a cursed anchor that tied them up in its chain and pulled them into the depths, and they will use it against you in a similar manner by tossing it at you and tying you up in the chain, forcing you to experience their drowning demise.

* 'VideoGame/Fallout4'': At the SwanBoats of Boston Commons lies a cluster of Pre-War boats in a stagnant pool of water... and Swan. Swan (once Edgar Swann) is a Super Mutant who uses a large boat anchor as a [[ImprovisedWeapon makeshift]] [[DropTheHammer hammer]] instead of as a spiked chain.

* Sea Giants in ''VideoGame/WarcraftIII'' and ''VideoGame/WorldOfWarcraft''.

As their intended purpose is to hold down a ship, anchors are supposed to be exceptionally heavy. You'd expect any anchor wielder to be a huge, burly man or [[TheBigGuy big guy]]. This just makes little girls swinging anchors all the more amusing.

* In the ''WesternAnimation/SpongebobSquarepants'' episode ''[[Recap/SpongebobSquarepantsS3E4NastyPattyIdiotBox Nasty Patty]]'', one of the police officers strike down the [[spoiler:health inspector they thought to be a zombie]] with an anchor square on the head.

* ''A Ravel of Waters'', by Geoffrey Jenkins. A sailing ship damages a modern destroyer by hanging an anchor from the yardarm and swiping the radar and other electronics as they sail past each other through a narrow strait.

* ''A Ravel of Waters'', by Geoffrey Jenkins. A sailing ship manages to damage a modern destroyer by hanging an anchor from the yardarm and swiping the radar and other electronics as it sails through a narrow strait.

* With the Throwing Anchor item, ''VideoGame/ShovelKnight'' can employ this trope. Treasure Knight uses an anchor as his WeaponOfChoice.

* Chosokabe Motochika in ''VideoGame/SengokuBasara'' wields his one handed and surfs through the air on it while it's on fire. Functionally it's used in equal parts as a flail or as a giant bludgeon/spear.

* One of the mercanary factions in ''[[{{IronKingdoms}} Warmachine]]'' is a group of pirates. Their warjacks (giant robots about 12+ feet tall) tend to wield anchors as weapons (or carry ship cannons as ranged weapons). Justified in that their warjacks tend to be built out of parts salvaged from wrecked ships, either their own or their unfortunate opponents, whichever is available.

* ''VideoGame/{{Pokemon}}'' has Dhelmise, a [[OurGhostsAreDifferent haunted seaweed clutching an anchor]]. Fittingly, it has a SecretArt named Anchor Shot.