History Main / PaperFanOfDoom

* In ''Literature/AcendanceOfABookworm'', Rozemyne creates one when she receives samples of a new paper made from Illgner wood and tries using it against her guardian Ferdinand. He's too quick for her and confiscates it, but hands it back immediately when her adoptive brother Wilfried accidentally commits a faux pas in front of the Archduke's rival.

* Fan Geisha from ''VideoGame/BattleRealms'' use these, obviously.

* ''VideoGame/GodHand'' has these as weapons Gene can pick up, but they aren't that strong compared to, say, a [[DropTheHammer hammer]] or big club.

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* While it may only be five minutes long, the music video for Music/{{PassCode}}'s song ''Ninja Bomber'' is shot like a (parody of a) samurai film. Near the end, Kaede mows down several armed men by dual-wielding giant paper fans.

* Papillon of ''VideoGame/LaPucelle'' wields a paper fan as her main weapon and can do pretty good damage with it. This being Creator/NipponIchi, 'pretty good damage' means 'nearly unlimited with enough grinding.'

* Hilariously enough, UsefulNotes/OdaNobunaga from ''VideoGame/SengokuBasara'', one of the baddest and most feared badasses has a paper fan (like the one in the image) as his [[JokeItem Joke Weapon]].

* Mondine, the matriarch of the Glady family in ''La Famille Glady'', has a magic fan that can actually ''teleport you through the world'' when she smacks her terraquean globe with it.

* In one episode of ''{{Anime/Pokemon}}'' ("The Purr-fect Hero"), Misty convinces the boys to do what she wants by beating them with a fan. Jessie has also been known to use a fan on her [[TerribleTrio Team Rocket]] partners.

It's just an ordinary, if large, paper fan -- accordion-pleated white paper, taped at one end to form a handle, but some characters wield them the way others do the dreaded HyperspaceMallet, and get much the same results -- the unfortunate target usually goes rolling down the street from the force of the blow.

* In ''LightNovel/FullMetalPanic!'', Kaname acquires a paper fan from episode 8 and onward, and [[HyperspaceMallet relentlessly whacks Sousuke with it]] in order to teach him how to be a civilized civilian.

* The primary weapon of Sanada Yukimura in ''LightNovel/SamuraiGirls''. In her Master Samurai form, it even has wind powers.

* Kosuzu Sakurazaki/Tanpopo of ''LightNovel/{{Dokkoida}}'' is a cute little schoolgirl/alien [[MissionControl mission controller]] who wields a mean paper fan.

* In ''Manga/KaguyaSamaLoveIsWar'', Ishigami makes fun of Kaguya and Fujiwara's breasts ([[ACupAngst nonexistant]] and [[BuxomIsBetter comically large]] respectively, in his opinion)...while the girls are [[RightBehindMe standing right behind him]]. Fujiwara responds by ''crafting'' a paper fan on the spot, then furiously whacking Ishigami upside the head until she's out of breath.

Sometimes used as a symbol of dubious authority, the paper fan (or ''harisen'' in Japanese) has roots in the Japanese equivalent of vaudeville comedy, particularly of the slapstick variety -- and like an actual [[http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/slapstick slap stick]] it makes a lot of noise with little real hurt. It is the tool of a ''tsukkomi'', or "{{straight man}}", of a standard two-man comedy team in [[BokeAndTsukkomiRoutine a kind of routine]] common to the Kansai region called ''[[BokeAndTsukkomiRoutine manzai]]''; it's used to upbraid the other member of the team (the buffoonish ''boke'') when he says or does something foolish. Naturally, this has been carried right over into anime and, being a tradition stemming from the Kansai region, it should be noted that, usually, either the wielder or the target are TheIdiotFromOsaka.