History Main / HolyHandGrenade

* And, of course, there is the one in Discworld. A preacher who walks across Uberwald with Forgiveness in his hands. [[spoiler: Forgiveness is a battleax.]]

* It took this long to mention ChurchMilitant Ciel from ''{{Tsukihime}}''? She wields the Seventh Holy Scripture, a unicorn horn fused with the soul of a sacrificed girl. Clearly, however, this wasn't good enough for her, so she modified it into a ''pilebunker''. It's so powerful that [[spoiler: it can stop the reincarnation of a Dead Apostle, INCLUDING [[EnemyWithin Roa.]]]]

* Light arrows in the ''TheLegendOfZelda'' series since ''Ocarina''. They were silver before.

Compare LightTheWay (using light like this), ElementalPowers, FireIceLightning, ReviveKillsZombie, DepletedPhlebotinumShells, BoltOfDivineRetribution (for when god cuts out the middleman).

** Note that ''Fidelaccius'', the Sword of Faith, is able to slice through [[spoiler: a Red Court [[PhysicalGod Lord of the Outer Night]]]] in a single chop. The Swords are ''hardcore'' holy weapons.

* In ''PowerRangersInSpace'', the Red Ranger is forced to resort to [[spoiler:Kill Zordon]]. Doing so unleashes a [[CareBearStare wave of goodness]] across the universe - all evil monsters are turned to dust, humanoid villains are turned good. That makes [[spoiler:Zordon]] a holy universal nuke.

*** Also in Fourth Edition, there is the Avenger class, which is a class pretty much devoted to this trope. Slightly subverted in that unlike other divine classes, Avengers are always allowed to be unalligned, regardless of the affiliation of the god they serve. Paladins also have very strong ties to this trope.
** ''[[http://index.rpg.net/display-entry.phtml?mainid=71 Book Of Exalted Deeds]]'' is a supplement for 3rd Ed. that is just ''full'' of this trope. It starts from the basic premise that people need to play better characters, in the moral sense, and does a fine job performing this stated goal- until you get to the Ravages and Afflictions. See, if poisons are Evil, then Good Guys can't use it. However, Ravages and Afflictions are poisons that only hurt Evil characters, so they're okay! It jibes badly with the rest of the book, and was probably thrown in so Munchkins would have something to do with their characters. Some of the stuff in there, though, is awesome- just not the Holy Hand Grenade part.

** Then again, in the Touhou series, Miracles are essentially another word for magic, specifically the magic of filling the screen with more bullets than the U.S. army has in its arsenal.

** Queen Minnie in KingdomHearts II wields this type of magic. Yes, THAT Minnie.
*** And she's damn good at it too. Too bad she's a SquishyWizard, and it's an EscortMission.
**** Yes. It is an EscortMission. [[InSovietRussiaTropeMocksYou SHE is escorting YOU.]]

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* The game ''{{DukeNukem}}: Time To Kill'' features a literal "Holy Hand Grenade" as a weapon, found when Duke travels back in time to the middle ages.

* ''{{Sinfest}}'' presents [[http://www.sinfest.net/archive_page.php?comicID=3063 GRACE!]]

* In ''TheDresdenFiles'', the primary methods ([[GoodIsBoring we've seen]]) for heavenly powers to interact with the mortal world has been through three swords that are supernaturally good at cutting up things, and soulfire, a form of magic booster that we first see used by a wizard to burn part of his soul in exchange for making a rather effective fist. While less violent than, say, giant bursts of hellish flame, very much not StaffChick material.

** Then again, in the Touhou series, Miracles are essentially another word for magic, specifically the magic of filling the screen with more bullets than the U.S. army has in its arsenal, SoYeah.

* Several [[http://www.imfdb.org/index.php/Constantine examples]] in the movie Constantine, including the Holy Shotgun.

In general, GoodHurtsEvil, and "Light" or "Holy" magic tends to work most effectively on demons, undead, and other irredeemably [[AlwaysChaoticEvil evil]] creatures. In {{RPG}}s, these tend to include most of the main enemies at the end of the game. In milder cases, Holy is sometimes treated as an elemental type damage that simply can't be mitigated.

->"''Oh Lord, bless this Thy hand grenade, that with it Thou mayest blow Thine enemies to tiny bits, [[HypocriticalHumor in Thy mercy]].''"

Simply put, this is when the Power of Good, which is supposedly devoted to sunshine, love, peace, and health, is used to crush, maim, desiccate, disembowel, and destroy (usually by spells or weapons). It seems that [[GoodIsImpotent Good is not impotent]] after all. Expect any ChurchMilitant to have tons and tons of such items.

[[caption-width:210:[[EtherealChoir "Hallelujah!"]] *boom*]]

** In TalesOfPhantasia, Judgement was, of all things, ''wind'' elemental.
*** That's because it was a mistranslation of an entirely seperate spell called God's Breath which has always been wind elemental.