History Main / WeaponizedAnimal

* ''WebOriginal/HamstersParadise'' has the sapient, violent Harmsters weaponizing rakatusks, giant mammoth-like herbivores, into WarElephants during the great world war, mounting flamethrowers and bolt launchers on their backs. They also [[FormerlySapientSpecies enslave and domesticate captured enemy harmsters into the mindless Brutes]], which they use as attack dogs and beasts of burden.

* In ''VideoGame/AgeOfWondersPlanetfall'', the Amazon race uses animals with attached weapons in place of mechanical units. For example, their scout and aircraft units consist of a PteroSoarer with an attached repeating laser, while their artillery unit is a chemical cannon carried by a tank-sized toad.

* In ''VideoGame/{{Okami}}'', Amaterasu, the sun goddess protagonist in white wolf from, can wield various weapons which hover over her back. She starts out with a [[FlamingSword flaming]] [[LuckilyMyShieldWillProtectMe shield]], but can also use other shields, [[CoolSword swords]], or necklaces, (which are used like a [[WhipItGood whip]], or shot like bullets.)

* In ''VideoGame/AgeOfWondersPlanetfall'' the Amazon race uses animals with attached weapons in place of mechanical units. For example, their scout and aircraft units consist of a PteroSoarer with an attached repeating laser, while their artillery unit is a chemical cannon carried by a tank-sized toad.

* ''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.

* ''VideoGame/{{Turok}}'' games famously feature all manner of [[MoreDakka weapon-toting]] [[EverythingsBetterWithDinosaurs dinosaurs]].

** ''VideoGame/CommandAndConquerRedAlert3'' kept the dolphins and introduced attack dogs and [[BearsAreBadNews attack bears]] with sonar amplifiers that can paralyze attackers. As an additional April Fool's joke, the 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. Which may be a not to VideoGame/KrushKillNDestroy.
* In ''VideoGame/{{Devastation}} you get your hand on a remote-mind-controlled suicide-bomber rats.

** ''VideoGame/CommandAndConquerRedAlert3'' kept the dolphins and introduced attack dogs and [[BearsAreBadNews attack bears]] with sonar amplifiers that can paralyze attackers. As an additional April Fool's joke, the 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.

* The ruins and wastelands of ''LightNovel/RebuildWorld'' are ''filled'' with animals designed for use as living weapons. Many of them naturally grow armor and weaponry from their bodies thanks to the {{nanomachines}} implanted in their bodies. These nanomachines are also self-replicating, meaning that they can also reproduce to create even more animals like them.

See also WeaponizedCar. We've also got a [[UsefulNotes/MilitaryAnimals Useful Notes page]] for animals in the military. 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.

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* {{Inverted|Trope}} in ''Manga/OnePiece'': Lassoo, Mr. 4's gun-dog, is an animalized weapon. How exactly this happened has yet to be explained. For added humor, it had a cold and sneezes explosive baseballs.
** Played straight during Skypiea. Shura's bird-mount [[BreathWeapon can breathe fire]] because it has a flame dial (sea shell) in its beak.

** Another inverted example is Funkfreed, a sword which was somehow fed the Elephant Fruit and became an elephant sword.

** ''Franchise/{{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/EldenRing'' has birds scattered throughout Stormveil Keep with their talons replaced with very sharp blades. Some of them are trained to throw explosives at you or use a ''lighter'' to spew flames from their mouths.

* ''VideoGame/{{Mother 3}}'': [[EverythingsBetterWithMonkeys Gorillas]] with [[EpicFlail wrecking balls]], hippos with missiles, moles with [[ThisIsADrill drill]] arms, mice with propellers, and so much more.

* In one ''[[VideoGame/PuyoPuyo Madou Monogatari]]'' novel, the protagonist Schezo discovers that his Dark Sword was swallowed by Arle's companion Carbuncle. As a result, Schezo ''wields'' Carbuncle as he were just his sword and uses him to cast spells.

* ''Toys/{{BIONICLE}}'': Jaller Mahri had a Hahnah Crab that was equipped with a [[GatlingGood Cordak Blaster]].

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* ''Literature/{{Zoofights}}'' has it right in the title.
* Though only a fan work, [[http://guarddog.50webs.com/ The Item Retrieving, Cannon-Appended Canine Unit]] [[http://www.teamfortress.com/1308.htm got recognition]] from the Team Fortress team.
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* ''Anime/MobileSuitGundamSeed'' has the mobile suits Bacue , and it's commander type Lagowe, four-legged, canine-based units designed for ground battle, excelling at mobility on terrains that a two legged unit may struggle on. They also mount missile launchers and railguns for the former, and beam cannons on the latter.
** ''Anime/MobileSuitGundamSeedDestiny'' get the advanced versions, the Kerberos, which have two extra heads mounted on the back, doubling as beam cannons. then there is the Gaia Gundam, which can transform into a canine-based mode, and used side-mounted sword to quickly chop up enemies.
* Many Franchise/{{Digimon}} (especially in their evolved versions) are animaloids with weapons attached, such as in ''Anime/DigimonFrontier'': Burning Greymon is a winged dinosauresque monster who has full automatic guns on his arms/forelegs while Metal Kabuterimon is a beetle who has a big cannon mounted on his head.

* The ''Film/BrotherhoodOfTheWolf'' attach metal armor, claws and fangs to their "beast" to make it more fearsome and otherwordly.

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

* ''Literature/TheWindupGirl'' by Paolo Bacigalupi: war megodonts (giant genetically-engineered elephants) have carbon fibre armour, blades attached to their tusks and machine-gun cages on their backs.

* In the Creator/JackLondon short story "Moon-face", the narrator plots to kill his neighbor, the titular moon-faced man, using a variation on this. The gent in question had but a single vice: dynamite fishing, which he would engage in every spring without fail. So the narrator goes and gets a dog and teaches it a single trick: to fetch. Then he presents the moon-faced man with a dog that no matter what, will always ''always'' '''always''' bring back what has been thrown. Of course, the moon-faced man brings his new dog with him the next time he goes fishing...
* In one ''[[VideoGame/PuyoPuyo Madou Monogatari]]'' novel, the protagonist Schezo discovers that his Dark Sword was swallowed by Arle's companion Carbuncle. As a result, Schezo ''wields'' Carbuncle as he were just his sword and uses him to cast spells.
* One Creator/DaveBarry column, after discussing RealLife researchers measuring bovine flatulence and, yes, [[FartsOnFire lighting it on fire]], describes a "chilling" hypothetical scenario of a terrorist blowing up a plane mid-flight by bringing aboard 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," and suggests that the passengers' panicked cries of [[HesGotAWeapon "He's got a cow!"]] would be shortly followed by "the entire cabin [being] filled with the chilling, unmistakable sound of: the Death Moo."
* In Kieran Shea's Koko (a.k.a [=EBK=] book series), ex-mercenary Koko Marstellar has her synthetic dog Gammy modified with a [[PlasmaCannon top-tier Beretta Pulse Pistol]] that extends out of a hidden chest compartment.

* [[Series/SaturdayNightLive Andy Samberg's]] Laser Cats!

* Similar to the real life example from the Crimea (below), the Empire from ''TabletopGame/{{Warhammer}}'' has, among its weapons of war, Herstel-Wenck Pigeon Bombs.
* The Bioborgs of ''TabletopGame/{{Gammarauders}}'' are 10 to 40 meter tall cyborg animals and don't really ''need'' attached weapons against conventional forces ("popcorn" in the game's terminology), but they have them anyway; they're mainly used for fighting each other (the rule for bioborgs vs. unassisted popcorn is basically "the bioborg wins").
* ''TabletopGame/{{Shadowrun}}'': Biodrones are animals (normal or Awakened) that have been fitted with extensive cybernetics and turned into remote-operated drones. They're used primarily by Aztechnology and one of the chief reasons why 'runners like to avoid taking jobs against Aztechnology sites.

* ''VideoGame/MetalSlug'': various slugs are animals, such as elephants, mules, camels, and ostriches.
* ''VideoGame/MetalMax'' series has dog-mounted rocket launchers.

* ''VideoGame/{{Scribblenauts}}'' provides us with the aforementioned laser-sharks as well as a novel item: ''glue''. Glue + large steel spike + elephant + [[ChainsawGood chainsaw]] = '''awesome'''

* ''VideoGame/TransformersWarForCybertron'': the slugs encountered in the Autobots campaign have turrets mounted on them for Optimus and co. to use.
* ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyXIII'' features militarized monsters enhanced with cybernetics and magic which can be summoned from MagiTek portals. It's all very flashy. Ironically, they're consistently ''less'' fearsome and dangerous than the actual animals they're based on.
* ''Command and Conquer: Red Alert'' series:
** ''VideoGame/CommandAndConquerRedAlert2'' first featured [[HeroicDolphin dolphins]] equipped with sonar weaponry, as well as Soviet anti-ship squid. As a Soviet player you could also jury-rig your own by mind-controlling on-map animals like cows, strapping time bombs to them, and then sending them into an enemy base.
** ''VideoGame/CommandAndConquerRedAlert3'' kept the dolphins and introduced attack dogs and [[BearsAreBadNews attack bears]] with sonar amplifiers that can paralyze attackers. As an additional April Fool's joke, the 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.
* ''VideoGame/PokemonBlackAndWhite'' features the new Pokémon Genesect, which is a Bug/Steel type. With a ''[[EnergyWeapon 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]].
** ''Franchise/{{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.
** There's also Magmortar, with its hand-flamethrower thing.
* In ''VideoGame/{{Okami}}'', Amaterasu, the sun goddess protagonist in white wolf from, can wield various weapons which hover over her back. She starts out with a [[FlamingSword flaming]] [[LuckilyMyShieldWillProtectMe shield]], but can also use other shields, [[CoolSword swords]], or necklaces, (which are used like a [[WhipItGood whip]], or shot like bullets.)
** Oki also wields a sword, which hovers over his back when he is in wolf form, like Amaterasu.
* The [[WebGames flash game]] ''VideoGame/UltimateCrabBattle'' has a shark named Bobbeh with various weaponry, including [[EnergyWeapon Frickin' Laser Beams]].
* In ''VideoGame/{{Iji}}'', after the [[SillinessSwitch Scrambler]] is unlocked, "missile ponies" (a pony with missiles) become a reoccurring conversation subject.
* ''VideoGame/{{Turok}}'' games famously feature all manner of [[MoreDakka weapon-toting]] [[EverythingsBetterWithDinosaurs dinosaurs]].
* One of the three main playable characters in ''VideoGame/JetForceGemini'' is Lupus, a dog with a laser gun on his back. Later in the game he is upgraded into some sort of [[NinjaPirateZombieRobot jet pack tank dog.]]
* In ''VideoGame/GearsOfWar'', the Locust equip many of their various [[BeastOfBattle warbeasts]] with weapons and/or amour.
* The laser-shooting Toaster Dog in ''VideoGame/SecretOfEvermore''.
* In ''[[VideoGame/RomeTotalWar Rome: Total War]]'' one of the earliest units you can create is a herd of pigs. As you might suspect pigs are not fearsome fighters. So instead you would cover the pigs in oil, set them alight and hope they charge into the enemy. The aim was to break up formations, demoralize the men and spook any animals on the opposing side.
* Many of the examples listed in Real Life appear in the ''VideoGame/AgeOfEmpires'' series and other History-based RTS games.
* ''VideoGame/SwordOfTheStars: The Pit'' has Cyberjaeger Bears, which are native bearlike creatures turned into cyborgs and given heavy weapons.
* Near the end of ''Videogame/FarCry3BloodDragon'', Rex comes across [[spoiler:the [[FunWithAcronyms Battle Armored Dragon Assault Strike System]], a Blood Dragon (a creature that was already the most powerful predator of the game) with a mini-gun strapped to it.]] Thanks to the [[SwordOfPlotAdvancement Killstar]], the creature states that Rex is now it's rider. Cue the rampage as Rex and the [[spoiler:BADASS]] destroy what's left of the villain's forces.
* ''VideoGame/MedalOfHonorRisingSun'' 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.
* One of the later ''VideoGame/CallOfDuty'' games features multi-player and scenario game modes that contain bomb-wearing attack dogs. It's about as bad as it sounds.
* ''VideoGame/MegaManX'': Many Maverick bosses are animal robots that wield weapons. Some of them are NaturalWeapon, while some others are this, such as Storm Owl's ArmCannon or Snipe Anteater's BackpackCannon. This also continues in ''VideoGame/MegaManZero'' and ''VideoGame/MegaManZX''.

* Conversed in ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons''
-->'''Burns''': I suggest you leave immediately.\\
'''Homer''': Or what? You'll release the dogs, or the bees, [[BreadEggsBreadedEggs or the dogs with bees in their mouths]] and when they bark they [[BeeBeeGun shoot bees at you]]? Well, go ahead -- do your worst! ''Burns slams the door and locks it'' He locked the door! I'll show him -- ''rings the doorbell and runs away''
** In a deleted scene they had a [[PokeThePoodle Robotic Richard Simmons]] instead of the closing the door gag.

* The cult classic ''WesternAnimation/DinoRiders'' had a race of good HumanoidAliens (possibly far-removed descendants of human space colonists) fighting a race of evil reptilian/amphibian/fishy aliens. They somehow ended up back on prehistoric Earth, and the first thing they thought to do was strap a bunch of armor and lasers and rockets to the various dinosaurs they found.

* In ''WesternAnimation/{{Centurions}}'' , [[BigBad Doc Terror]] once broke out of a correctional facility using cyborg mice with little [[FireBreathingWeapon flamethrowers]].

* There is at least one instance of the ancient Chinese using automatic repeating crossbows that were knocked, drawn and fired by a mechanism tied to a cart's axle. A force that had more horses than soldiers would tie horses to the carts and then attach burning rags to their tails, creating a hell-bent arrow-shooting chariot of death.