History Main / BadWithTheBone

* ''Film/RedSonja'': Falkon (Prince Tarn's fat bodyguard) uses a big bone as a mace, and gives a smaller bone weapon to Tarn before departing to climb the villains' castle's wall.

* Myth/CelticMythology: In some accounts, the magic spear Gae Bolg of the hero Chu Chulainn was made of the rib of a massive sea serpent.

** This carries over from the earlier ''[[VideoGame/{{Diablo}} Diablo II]]'', where there were wands, helmets, and shields made of bone plus socketable demon skulls. All particular favorites of the necromancer class. The SpiritualSuccessor ''VideoGame/HellgateLondon'' follows with Necromancer-inspired abilities to throw bones as javelins and skulls as fragmentation grenades. Some skeletal enemies shoot homing bone spikes and explode with bone shrapnel on death.

* ''VideoGame/{{Skully}}'' sees you playing as an anthropomorphic skull. You can launch ''yourself'' as an attack.
* ''Franchise/SuperMarioBros'':
** ''VideoGame/SuperMarioWorld'': Uniquely for this game, Dry Bones periodically throw bones at Mario or Luigi, and the bones are unaffected by gravity. The only other times in a ''Mario'' platformer when they do this are in ''VideoGame/SuperMarioMaker'' and ''VideoGame/SuperMarioMaker2'', and in both games they only do this in the ''Super Mario World'' game style.
** ''VideoGame/NewSuperMarioBros1'': Instead of throwing hammers, Dry Bowser throws bones at Mario or Luigi during battle.
** ''VideoGame/PaperMario'': Dry Bones attack primarily by throwing bones at Mario. In ''VideoGame/PaperMarioStickerStar'', they sometimes drop the Bone sticker, allowing Mario himself to attack his enemies that way.
** ''VideoGame/LuigisMansion1'': The "Mr. Bones" ghosts throw their bones as weapons. This ends up crumbling them temporarily, however, likely because the bones they throw are holding their structure.
** ''VideoGame/LuigisMansion3'': Ug's third phase involves him swinging around a T-Rex bone like a club. He also uses it to block Luigi's Strobulb flashes.

* ''WebAnimation/HelluvaBoss:'' Millie proves to be ''very'' skilled at using bones as weapons during her [[WeddingCrashers wedding-crashing]] at the end of "Exes and Oohs". Made especially impressive by the fact the bones in question had been inside another enemy ''[[LudicrousGibs less than a second before that]]''.

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** ''VideoGame/AdventureQuest'':

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Another variant is creating a weapon out of bones. This is particularly common in more fantastic settings, where [[CraftedFromAnimals bones of fantastic creatures]] can be dense enough to be used as material for making weapons or armor. Those who use/create these kind of weapons tend to be the primitive sort of people, although on occasion there may be rare and powerful weapon made of exceptionally strong bones.

** ''VideoGame/LuigisMansion'': The "Mr. Bones" ghosts throw their bones as weapons. This ends up crumbling them temporarily, however, likely because the bones they throw are holding their structure.

* ''VideoGame/LuigisMansion''
** In the first game, the "Mr. Bones" ghosts throw their bones as weapons.
** In ''VideoGame/LuigisMansion3'', Ug's third phase involves him swinging around a T-Rex bone like a club. He also uses it to block Luigi's Strobulb flashes.

* ''VideoGame/PaperMario'': Dry Bones attack primarily by throwing bones at Mario. In ''VideoGame/PaperMarioStickerStar'', they sometimes drop the Bone sticker, allowing Mario himself to attack his enemies that way.