History Main / WeaponizedAnimal

** The setting also has grox- large, aggressive, omnivorous dinosaur-like herd animals raised by the Imperium as a food source. Most of the herd are lobotomized to make them more docile and safe to handle ("lobo-grox"), but to protect the herd, a few are instead fitted with a robotic arm tipped with a [[FrickinLaserBeams laspistol]] ("robo-grox").

* ''VideoGame/PokemonBlackAndWhite'' features the new Pokémon Genesect, which is a Bug/Steel type. With a ''[[FrickinLaserBeams laser cannon]] on its back''. It's species is listed as the 'Paleozoic Pokémon', and there is only one because it was [[spoiler:brought back to life by Team Plasma, who modified the laser]]. It was also stated that it was regarded as the fiercest hunter 300 million years ago. Now imagine if [[OhCrap this was a native species in the present timezone]].

* The [[WebGames flash game]] ''VideoGame/UltimateCrabBattle'' has a shark named Bobbeh with various weaponry, including FrickinLaserBeams.

* ''VideoGame/CommandAndConquerRedAlert2'' first featured [[HeroicDolphin dolphins]] equipped with sonar weaponry, as well as Soviet anti-ship squid. The sequel kept the dolphins and introduced attack dogs and [[BearsAreBadNews attack bears]] with sonar amplifiers that can paralyze attackers.
** As an April Fool's joke, the ''VideoGame/CommandAndConquerRedAlert3'' website features specs of a new unit: the Mammoth Tank. Unlike the classic Command and Conquer unit it's homaging, though, this was ''an actual mammoth'' mounted with gigantic guns.

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* One Creator/DaveBarry column, after discussing RealLife researchers measuring bovine flatulence and, yes, [[FartsOnFire lighting it on fire]], describes a hypothetical scenario of a terrorist blowing up a plane mid-flight using a cow of a type experimentally proven to emit unusually high amounts of methane. He notes that this cow "would not be detected by any type of metal detector currently in use."

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* [[ComicStrip/BloomCounty The Basselope Defense System]] involved strapping a nuke between Rosebud's antlers and pointing her in the direction of Soviet Russia.
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* In ''Manga/AssassinationClassroon'', there are Dobermanns trained to fire the machine guns strapped to their backs in [[spoiler: the God of Death's hideout.]]

See also WeaponizedCar. Wiki/{{Wikipedia}} has a [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Military_animals category for this.]] For animals used as weapons, see BaaBomb, GrievousHarmWithABody, LivingWeapon, ShamuFu, and AbnormalAmmo. For weapons they ''already'' have without outside interference see NaturalWeapon. Not related to WeaponizedOffspring.

** Pit War Tortoises had mounted [[EverythingsSquishierWithCephalopods Squid Launchers]].

* One of the more recent ''Franchise/CallOfDuty'' games features multi-player and scenario game modes that contain bomb-wearing attack dogs. It's about as bad as it sounds.

See also WeaponizedCar. Wiki/{{Wikipedia}} has a [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Military_animals category for this.]] For animals used as weapons, see BaaBomb, GrievousHarmWithABody, ShamuFu, and AbnormalAmmo. For weapons they ''already'' have without outside interference see NaturalWeapon. Not related to WeaponizedOffspring.

** There were also sometimes issues with the fact that the dogs were trained using Soviet tanks; as a result, once out in the field, they'd race straight for... [[HoistByHisOwnPetard well, you get the picture]].

** There were also sometimes issues with the fact that the dogs were trained using Soviet tanks; as a result, once out in the field, they'd race straight for... well, you get the picture.

* During UsefulNotes/TheCrimeanWar, the Russians trained pigeons to associate a person with a red coat with food. Then they tied a grenade to it and released it during a battle...

* ''ComicBook/BruteForce'': The good guys were a [[HeroicDolphin dolphin]], {{bears|AreBadNews}}, [[KangaroosRepresentAustralia kangaroo]], eagle, and lion. The villains were a [[KillerGorilla gorilla]], {{rhino|Rampage}}, vulture, [[ThreateningShark shark]], and [[EverythingsSquishierWithCephalopods octopus]]. All of them had their own weapons and PoweredArmor.

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* ''WesternAnimation/LegendOfTheGuardiansTheOwlsOfGaHoole'': some of the owls have metal talons, and the bats have blades on their wings.
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* In the film ''Film/{{Uncaged}}'', Jack knows that he will transform into a werewolf on the night of the full moon, and he wants to protect his pregnant love interest Rose, so he arranges to have himself captured by her abusive boyfriend Gonzo and his goons so that when he does transform he'll rip them apart instead of any innocent bystanders.

* The {{giallo}} film ''Sette scialli di seta gialla'' is about a serial killer who gives women shawls laced a scent that attracts cats whose claws have been tipped with poison.

* ''VideoGame/MedalOfHonor: Rising Sun'' had a set-piece towards the end of the game featuring a machine gun mounted on the back of an elephant, which you get to ride. This was rather less awesome than it sounds, unfortunately.

* The heroes and villains alike in ''{{Hero 108}}'' routinely mount cannons on turtles and chameleons, respectively, and aren't above weaponizing other animals.

** ''{{Pokemon}}'' also has [[TurtlePower Blastoise]] who has cannons under its shell. Octillery can be an example since evolution altered it to become a octopus/tank hybrid with a cannon-shaped mouth.

* ''VideoGame/DinoDDay'' Has ThoseWackyNazis do this to their [[StupidJetpackHitler cloned]] [[EverythingsBetterWithDinosaurs dinosaurs]], adding a variety of weaponry and armor to allow them to better [[BeastOfBattle fight the allies]]. The Allies also get in on it with a Triceratops the Nazis abandoned for a deformity, giving him a mounted machine gun and armor, and a prosthetic to fix said deformity.

* During the CrimeanWar, the Russians trained pigeons to associate a person with a red coat with food. Then they tied a grenade to it and released it during a battle...

* In ''Film/TheLordOfTheRings'', there are the [[http://lotr.wikia.com/wiki/Mumakil Oliphaunts]], fantasy equivalents of colossal, six-tusked elephants used as beasts of war by the warriors of Harad to aid Sauron's conquests. Most depictions have them with giant bamboo and canvas towers strapped to their backs filled with archers and spearmen, red banners, war paint, and sharp bamboo spikes strapped to their tusks to impale enemies.

* Another WW2 US military example: Pigeons are relatively well known in behavioral psychology circles for being easily programmable. That is to say, if you teach them to peck at a colored light to get food, and they will obsessively peck at that light hundreds of times a minute until they get it. This was exploited by teaching them to recognize aerial photos of ''German and Japanese warships'' and peck at them. The pigeons were then [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Pigeon loaded into the nose-cones of bombs and missiles]] behind a glass screen. Their pecking would tilt the screen in the direction of the ship and steer the bomb. The test-runs worked a charm, but the military flat-out refused to use such a bizarre weapon, and the inventor went on to develop it as a way of spotting life-rafts from planes after the war (this being the days before thermal imaging).

* [[http://www.onthewaymodels.com/reviews/TAS/graphics/TAS_TM011%20(1).jpg This]] German concept, which may not have been wholly serious... seen somewhere in Greece during WW2.

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