Tropes that occur when people just make things up on the fly or can't access their normal resources to do the job.
Tropes:
- Banging Pots and Pans
- Battle Baton
- Bedsheet Ladder: Tying bed sheets together to make a ladder that can be used to climb out a window.
- Blind Jump
- Brandishment Bluff
- Carcass Sleeping Bag
- Cardboard Box of Unemployment: A person who got fired has to carry their belongings in a cardboard box.
- Cheap Costume
- Cigar-Fuse Lighting
- Closest Thing We Got
- Couldn't Find a Lighter
- Couldn't Find a Pen: Cutting yourself to draw or write stuff using your blood.
- Crafted From Animals
- Crappy Homemade Gift
- Cutlery Escape Aid
- Dynamite Candle
- Everything Is an Instrument
- Food Slap
- Gas-Cylinder Rocket
- Headgear Headstone
- Homemade Flamethrower
- Implausible Boarding Skills
- Improbable Weapon User: Someone uses an unorthodox object as a weapon.
- Improv
- Holding the Floor
- Line-of-Sight Alias: Making up an alias on the spot by looking around and forming a fake name based on the surroundings you observe.
- Throwing Out the Script
- Improvisational Ingenuity
- Heart Is an Awesome Power
- Indy Ploy: Making up a plan as you go along rather than having a plan ready.
- MacGyvering: Making devices and tools out of whatever you can find.
- Scavenged Punk
- Xanatos Speed Chess
- Plan B Resolution: The day is saved by Plan B, when they didn't think they needed it.
- Improvised Bandage
- Improvised Imprisonment
- Improv Fu
- Improvised Armour
- Improvised Clothes: Making clothes out of whatever you can find.
- Bankruptcy Barrel: Wearing a barrel in lieu of clothes.
- Curtain Clothing: Making clothes from curtains.
- Eggshell Clothing: A hatched bird wears the eggshells as clothes.
- Garden Garment: Someone wears plants as clothes.
- Hand-or-Object Underwear: A naked person deliberately covers their shame by placing their hands over their private parts or holding objects over their private parts.
- Improvised Diaper: Using whatever can be found to diaper an infant when diapers aren't available.
- Modesty Bedsheet: A character wraps a sheet around their bodies to preserve their modesty.
- Modesty Towel: A character wraps a towel around their bodies if interrupted in the middle of bathing.
- Nemean Skinning: Skinning an animal so their hide can be used to make clothes.
- Seashell Bra: A woman wears seashells over her breasts.
- Skeletons in the Coat Closet
- Improvised Cross
- Improvised Golems
- Improvised Jet Pack
- Improvised Lightning Rod
- Improvised Lockpick
- Improvised Parachute: Using whatever can be used to slow down your descent and avoid a fatal plummet.
- Parachute Petticoat: A woman uses her skirt as a parachute.
- Parasol Parachute: Using an umbrella as a parachute.
- Improvised Platform
- Improvised Sail
- Improvised Scattershot
- Improvised Screwdriver
- Improvised Training
- Improvised Umbrella
- Improvised Weapon
- Abnormal Ammo: Using whatever can be found as projectiles.
- Ballistic Bone
- Edible Ammunition: Using food to fuel weaponry.
- Aerosol Flamethrower
- Anchors Away
- Art Attacker
- Bad with the Bone: Using a bone as a weapon.
- Ball Cannon
- Booze Flamethrower
- Boulder Bludgeon
- Broomstick Quarterstaff
- Cane Fu: Using a cane as a weapon.
- Chain Pain
- Chairman of the Brawl
- Clothing Combat
- Crowbar Combatant
- Deadly Disc
- Death Dealer
- Deus Ax Machina
- Door Fu
- Dung Fu
- Edible Bludgeon
- Fire Hose Cannon
- Fork Fencing
- Frying Pan of Doom: Beating people with a frying pan.
- Gardening-Variety Weapon
- Grievous Bottley Harm
- Grievous Harm with a Body
- Handbag of Hurt
- Hooks and Crooks
- I Know Madden Kombat
- Improvised Catapult
- Instrument of Murder
- Instant Chucks
- Killer Yoyo
- Molotov Cocktail
- Musical Assassin
- Nail 'Em
- Paper Fan of Doom
- Parasol of Pain
- The Pen Is Mightier
- Pipe Pain
- Pistol-Whipping
- Powerful Pick
- Rings of Death
- Rod And Reel Repurposed
- Rolling Pin of Doom
- Sai Guy
- Shamu Fu: Using a fish as a weapon.
- Sheath Strike
- Shoe Slap
- Sinister Shiv
- Sock It to Them
- Solar-Powered Magnifying Glass
- Tae Kwon Door
- Telephone Polearm
- This Banana is Armed
- Throw the Book at Them
- 2xFore
- Use Your Head
- Washtub Throw
- Weaponized Camera
- Weaponsof Their Trade
- Wrench Whack
- Abnormal Ammo: Using whatever can be found as projectiles.
- Improvised Zipline
- Jar Potty: Relieving yourself in the first empty container you can find when you can't make it to a toilet in time.
- Last-Minute Baby Naming: Waiting until the baby is born to give them a name.
- Leaf Boat
- Mock Meal
- Mundane Utility: A superpower or gadget is used for a mundane purpose.
- Martial Arts and Crafts
- Martial Arts for Mundane Purposes
- Power Perversion Potential: A superpower is used for a perverted purpose (e.g. using X-ray vision to look through people's clothes, using invisibility to get away with voyeurism).
- Opportunistic Bastard
- Reed Snorkel
- Rip Tailoring
- Saw It in a Movie Once: Trying something just because you saw it done in a movie.
- Stepping-Stone Sword
- Theme Park Landscape
- Time for Plan B
- Trampoline Tummy: Jumping on a person's stomach to use it as a trampoline.
- Underwear Flag: Using underwear (usually but not always someone else's) as a flag.
- Unintentional Backup Plan
- Vacuum Mouth
- Weaponized Ball
- Weapon Tombstone
- Within Arm's Reach: Being able to find a weapon during a brutal and near-fatal attack that you can use to fight back and win.
