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* ''LightNovel/GoblinSlayer'' shows a goblin champion who uses an anchor attached to a chain as a weapon.

* ''WebAnimation/YoutubePoop'' has Weegee, who is fairly commonly seen wielding one, especially in ''WesternAnimation/SpongebobSquarepants'' videos that feature him.

* BeatEmUp entry ''VideoGame/{{Vendetta}}'' had a gangster boss swing one of these, if memory serves.

* Boatswain mercenaries in ''VideoGame/KingdomRush: Frontiers'' wield anchors as weapons.

* The title character of ''VideoGame/ShovelKnight'' can use the Throwing Anchor relic, allowing him to toss a small anchor in an arc. Treasure Knight uses an anchor on a chain, fired from his ArmCannon, as his WeaponOfChoice.

* Miriam the [[NonHumanHumanoidHybrid wotan]], the first original character to join the crew in ''Fanfic/VoyagesOfTheWildSeaHorse'', ''[[DualWielding dual-wields]]'' anchors as melee weapons, alternating between the EpicFlail and AnAxeToGrind uses for them as she sees fit. More justified than some examples, as she's half SharkMan and half [[OurGiantsAreBigger Giant]], meaning she's 4 meters tall and has SuperStrength even beyond that.

[[caption-width-right:330:A four foot something teenage girl lifting a several hundred pound weight. [[WaifFu Why not?]]]]

* Roadhog from ''VideoGame/{{Overwatch}}'' normally throws a large hook on a chain at targets to [[YouWillNotEvadeMe pull them in close]] for easy blasting with his extremely ShortRangeShotgun. Some of his alternate skins change his AnimalMotif from pig to shark, and replace the hook with an anchor.

* The pirate-themed adventure game, ''VideoGame/PirateHunter'' has falling anchors as a constant hazard. Getting hit by one will take out a chunk of health, and standing directly underneath will lead to a OneHitKill.

* The [=GaoMuscle=] formation from ''Series/HyakujuuSentaiGaoranger'' uses the anchor on a chain variant. The [[Main/MonsterOfTheWeek Boat Org]] also fought with an anchor-shaped ax with the chain wrapped around his hand.

* The [=GaoMuscle=] formation from ''Series/HyakujuuSentaiGaoranger'' uses the anchor on a chain variant. The [[MosnterOfTheWeek Boat Org]] also fought with an anchor-shaped ax with the chain wrapped around his hand.

* Admiral Swiggins, a playable character in ''{{VideoGame/Awesomenauts}}'', wields an anchor. He can use it to reel himself forward or drop it and chain enemies to the ground. He probably took some inspiration from the Nautilus and Tidehunter examples above.

* May of ''VideoGame/GuiltyGear'', as seen in the page image.

* One of the first scenes of ''Anime/{{Zambot 3}}'' has Kappei and Shingo fighting each other with anchors meant for row-boats, using them somewhat like flails.
* In one episode of ''Anime/YuGiOhGX'', Jim faces an opponent who uses a card called Anchor Knight, a monster that fights with anchors. The ironic thing about this anime-only card is, it's a Fire-Attribute Monster.

* In ''Anime/DigimonFusion'' in the Golden Land, a member of Olegmon's pirate crew named Mermaimon wields an anchor.
* [[AnimalMotif Shark-themed leader]] of the [[QuirkyMinibossSquad Six Guards]] Requin from ''Manga/RaveMaster'' is seen carrying a long, slender anchor as his weapon. Subverted in that his strongest asset though is his [[MadeOfEvil Dark Bring]], which allows him to turn his body into a living mass of HollywoodAcid.
* At the beginning of the Sabaody Arc in ''Manga/OnePiece'', the Flying Fish Riders try to sink the Strawhats' ship by dropping a colossal anchor on it. Thankfully, the Sunny was equipped to dodge the anchor and save itself.

* ''LightNovel/GoblinSlayer'' shows a goblin champion who uses an anchor attached to a chain as a weapon.

* In ''Film/XMenFirstClass'', Erik uses a telekinetically-controlled anchor to wreck Shaw's yacht.

* The mermaid's [[SirensAreMermaids entranced]] minion uses an anchor to murder most of the victims in ''Nymph[=/=]Killer Mermaid''.

* In one of the ''Literature/{{Dragonlance}}'' books, the heroes and the mercenary ship they're traveling on is attacked by an enormous, flesh-eating [[AttackOfThe50FootWhatever Sea Slug]]. Since it proves nigh invulnerable to conventional weapons, they get rid of it by tricking the monster into swallowing the ship's anchor, and then suddenly steer the ship, so that the slug loses its grip and is dragged to the sea bed by the weight of the anchor.
* In the gamebook ''Literature/{{Bloodbones}}'', one of the enemies you can encounter is a pirate brute who tries to rough you up on the deck of a ship using an anchor as a weapon. You can defeat him by [[HoistByHisOwnPetard making him trip on the anchor's chains, and then knocking said anchor into the water]], where he gets dragged overboard to his death by his own weapon.

* In ''WesternAnimation/FilmationsGhostbusters'' (the live-action series, that is), Tracy throws an anchor to stop the Ghostmobile.

* ''VideoGame/TouhouSeirensenUndefinedFantasticObject'' brings us Captain Minamitsu Murasa, who flings around '''giant anchor bullets'''.
** In a variation, the anchor bullets are generated from spiritual power as part of her {{danmaku}}. Her actual weapon is the bottomless scoop she carries (which she does use to attack), which fits with her drowned ghost inspiration.
* Edgar of ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyVI'' has the Air Anchor as one of his weapon tools, although he doesn't really wield it in any way and what it actually does is make the enemy hit by it die instantly the next time they attack. So in other words, an UselessUsefulSpell.
* In ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyVIII'', Ward used a weapon that looked like a cross between an anchor and a harpoon. His LimitBreak is called "Heavy Anchor" and involves him tossing it high into the air and then riding it down on the enemies with a huge shockwave.

* A sailor boss in ''VideoGame/FinalFight 3'' uses one.
* BeatEmUp entry ''VideoGame/{{Vendetta}}'' had a gangster boss swing one of these, if memory serves.
* The swung-on-a-chain version comes in to play at the end of an ''VideoGame/{{ESWAT}}'' level. You had to guess which height it would be swung at, and for some reason it was swung just right so the enemy could deflect your bullets.

* Ruby Heart from ''VideoGame/MarvelVsCapcom2'' uses both a normal (small) anchor to hit and a (small) anchor with a chain to grab her hapless opponents. The second one may end with her FIRING A CANNON at their bellies.
* The ''VideoGame/{{Warcraft}}'' universe has a few creatures using anchors as weapons. Most notable are the Sea Giant and the Naga Royal Guard. Sea Giants are neutral enemies wielding actual anchors. One of their abilities is swinging it around, hitting everyone near the Sea Giant. The Naga Royal Guard is a reptilian merman wielding a giant spear that looks like an anchor.
* 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 halberd.
* Huang Gai in ''VideoGame/DynastyWarriors 7''. He even jumps from one ship to another while carrying the thing.
* The [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p9C6DxagIcI trailer]] for the sadly canceled ''[[Franchise/PiratesOfTheCaribbean Pirates of the Caribbean: Armada of the Damned]]'' shows the "evil" PlayerCharacter using a chained anchor to devastating effect.
* [[http://images2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20120214144457/leagueoflegends/images/0/0b/Nautilus_OriginalSkin.jpg Nautilus]] from ''VideoGame/LeagueOfLegends'' wields an anchor with great effect, being able to grab and pull enemies towards him with it and root them to the ground with his autoattacks. He's also one of the biggest playable characters in the game, along with Cho'gath with Feast stacks and Zac with a moderately large health bar.
** Between his anchor and his heavy diving suit, he's also tied for slowest character in the game. To compensate for that he can use his anchor as a grappling hook of sorts to pull himself along.
* [[http://dota2.gamepedia.com/Tidehunter Tidehunter]] from ''VideoGame/DefenseOfTheAncients'' and ''VideoGame/Dota2'' could be considered Nautilus's great-grandpa in this regard, slinging nautical weights with the best of them since the [[MultiplayerOnlineBattleArena MOBA]] genre's inception in ''[[OlderThanTheyThink 2003]]''.
* Captain Flynt from ''VideoGame/Borderlands2'' uses a huge anchor that looks and acts somewhat like a PowerfulPick, pounding it against the ground to create shockwaves. Its first DLC adds [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin Anchormen]], who dual wield anchors with short handles and long chains -- they can batter you at range or pull you up close and whale on you. Of some note is the fact that both Captain Flynt and all Anchormen are pirates.
* ''VideoGame/{{Skylanders}}'' has Thumpback, a giant whale-like monster who swings an anchor at his enemies to kill them.
* The title character of ''VideoGame/ShovelKnight'' can use the Throwing Anchor relic, allowing him to toss a small anchor in an arc. Treasure Knight uses an anchor on a chain, fired from his ArmCannon, as his WeaponOfChoice.
* In ''VideoGame/{{Terraria}}'', fishing in a Hardmode world occasionally nets you an Anchor (either directly or from wooden crates) that can be used as a flail-like weapon.
* Admiral Swiggins, a playable character in ''{{VideoGame/Awesomenauts}}'', wields an anchor. He can use it to reel himself forward or drop it and chain enemies to the ground. He probably took some inspiration from the Nautilus and Tidehunter examples above.
* ''VideoGame/PokemonSunAndMoon'' has Dhelmise, a [[OurGhostsAreDifferent haunted seaweed clutching an anchor]]. Fittingly, it has a SecretArt named Anchor Shot.
* Roadhog from ''VideoGame/{{Overwatch}}'' normally throws a large hook on a chain at targets to [[YouWillNotEvadeMe pull them in close]] for easy blasting with his extremely ShortRangeShotgun. Some of his alternate skins change his AnimalMotif from pig to shark, and replace the hook with an anchor.
* ''VideoGame/SaltAndSanctuary'': The Castaway's Greatadze is the result of a castaway with both great strength and a knack for improvisation finding themselves only with his skiff's anchor to fend off the island's horrors. It's been appropriately modified and sharpened for ease of use, and as a result is one of the better axes in the game.
* ''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 one of your heroes and tying them up in the chain. this not only causes the Crew's health to regenerate, but does massive Stress damage to the hero as they experience the Crew's drowning demise.
* Makoa from ''VideoGame/{{Paladins}}'' wields a dredge anchor that he uses in both varieties. His normal anchor attack is of the EpicFlail variant, hooking enemies and dragging them towards him while his ultimate lets him use it like a huge melee weapon.
* ''VideoGame/DigimonCrusader'' introduces Captain Hookmon who wields the Rage Giga Anchor as well as the 5th apperence of Mermaimon in a Video Game.

* ''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.
* ''VideoGame/MusashiSamuraiLegend'': TheBrute Glogh wields a comparatively small steel anchor as his weapon of choice, swinging it around as if it was a [[EpicFlail kusarigama]].
* ''VideoGame/DragonQuestVIII: Journey Of The Cursed King'' 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.
* Boatswain mercenaries in ''VideoGame/KingdomRush: Frontiers'' wield anchors as weapons.
* ''VideoGame/FateGrandOrder'': UsefulNotes/ChristopherColumbus is a Rider Servant. He uses an anchor on a chain as a weapon, and his Noble Phantasm, Santa Maria - Drop Anchor: Exploration of the New World, summons dozens of anchors on chains from his ship to attack.
* ''VideoGame/{{Onimusha}} Souls'' also features Chosokabe Motochika wielding a chained anchor slightly bigger than he is as his weapon of choice. Given that it's Capcom, the same who did ''VideoGame/SengokuBasara'', it's likely a nod.
* ''VideoGame/MegaManX6'': Metal Shark Player, one of the Maverick bosses, throws anchors during his fight. Fittingly, X and Zero gain the ability to use them after defeating him.

* Book 1 of ''Webcomic/{{Derelict}}'' features a huge Gargoyle (aptly named Iron Hand) with a full-size anchor and chain attached to his arm -- he's able to decimate a barn in only a few swings, nearly killing the protagonist. She's barely able to defeat it by shooting it in the head with an UV glow-bolt.

* Appropriately enough, WesternAnimation/{{Popeye}} has used an anchor as a weapon at least once.
* And quite inappropriately, they end up as convenient "hard and heavy" things for sillier cartoons, whether for dropping on heads or for loading into a bag of some sort and swung. Wrapping back around to appropriate when they are used to replace parachutes as a prank.
* 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.
* In ''WesternAnimation/HotWheelsAcceleracers'', Porkchop uses an anchor of the chain variety on a Racing Drone aircraft.

* This is Corvus' favorite weapon from ''WesternAnimation/TheDragonPrince''. The anchor is attached to a chain, and it can use this weapon in a variety of ways in combat.
* ''WesternAnimation/KongKingOfTheApes'' has Kong use a sunken ship's anchor to help him fight a pair of robotic Megalodons in the episode "King's Ransom."

* ''Literature/{{Bloodbones}}'': if you decide to investigate the docks, you may end up being attacked by an assassin called "Anchor Man", who, like the name suggest, tries to kill you with an anchor. It's quite possible to finish the fight by tricking him into tossing the weapon in the water and quickly tie the chain to his ankle, sending him to a FamilyUnfriendlyDeath by drowning.

* In ''Anime/DigimonXrosWars in the Golden Land, a member of Olegmon's pirate crew named Mermaimon wields an anchor.

* ''VideoGame/{{Touhou}} 12: Undefined Fantastic Object'' brings us Captain Minamitsu Murasa, who flings around '''giant anchor bullets'''.

* [[http://dota2.gamepedia.com/Tidehunter Tidehunter]] from [[VideoGame/DefenseOfTheAncients Defense of the Ancients]] and [[{{Videogame/Dota2}} Dota 2]] could be considered Nautilus's great-grandpa in this regard, slinging nautical weights with the best of them since the [[MultiplayerOnlineBattleArena MOBA]] genre's inception in ''[[OlderThanTheyThink 2003]]''.
* Captain Flynt from ''[[VideoGame/{{Borderlands 2}} Borderlands 2]]'' uses a huge anchor that looks and acts somewhat like a PowerfulPick, pounding it against the ground to create shockwaves. Its first DLC adds [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin Anchormen]], who dual wield anchors with short handles and long chains -- they can batter you at range or pull you up close and whale on you. Of some note is the fact that both Captain Flynt and all Anchormen are pirates.

* ''Videogame/SaltAndSanctuary'': The Castaway's Greatadze is the result of a castaway with both great strength and a knack for improvisation finding themselves only with his skiff's anchor to fend off the island's horrors. It's been appropriately modified and sharpened for ease of use, and as a result is one of the better axes in the game.
* ''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 one of your heroes and tying them up in the chain. this not only causes the Crew's health to regenerate, but does massive Stress damage to the hero as they experience the Crew's drowning demise.

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* ''Franchise/{{Onimusha}} Souls'' also features Chosokabe Motochika wielding a chained anchor slightly bigger than he is as his weapon of choice. Given that it's Capcom, the same who did ''VideoGame/SengokuBasara'', it's likely a nod.

* The [=GaoMuscle=] formation from ''Series/HyakujuuSentaiGaoranger'' uses the anchor on a chain variant.

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[[folder:Anime and Manga]]

[[folder:Film]]
* In ''Film/XMenFirstClass'', Erik uses a telekinetically-controlled anchor to wreck Shaw's yacht.
* In ''Film/FaceOff'', Castor Troy fights Sean Archer with an anchor during the climactic fight scene. Though to be fair, they ''are'' on a boat.

* The mermaid's [[SirensAreMermaids entranced]] minion uses an anchor to murder most of the victims in ''Nymph[=/=]Killer Mermaid''.

[[folder:Live Action TV]]

[[folder:TabletopGames]]

* ''{{VideoGame/Touhou}} 12: Undefined Fantastic Object'' brings us Captain Minamitsu Murasa, who flings around '''giant anchor bullets'''.

[[folder: WebComics]]

* Book 1 of ''Webcomic/{{Derelict}}'' features a huge Gargoyle (aptly named Iron Hand) with a full-size anchor and chain attached to his arm - he's able to decimate a barn in only a few swings, nearly killing the protagonist. She's barely able to defeat it by shooting it in the head with an UV glow-bolt.

[[folder: WesternAnimation]]
* Appropriately enough, {{Popeye}} has used an anchor as a weapon at least once.
* And quite inappropriately, they end up as convenient 'hard and heavy' things for sillier cartoons, whether for dropping on heads or for loading into a bag of some sort and swung.
** Wrapping back around to appropriate when they are used to replace parachutes as a prank.
* 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.