All about weapons and what people do with them.
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Non-specific Weapon Tropes:
- Ancestral Weapon
- Anchored Attack Stance
- Arbitrary Maximum Range
- Arbitrary Minimum Range
- Archaic Weapon for an Advanced Age
- Arms Dealer
- As Lethal as It Needs to Be
- Axes at School
- Bifurcated Weapon
- Bigger Stick
- Brandishment Bluff
- Breakable Weapons
- Can't Bathe Without a Weapon
- Crystal Weapon
- Dangerous Backswing
- Detachable Blades
- Double Weapon
- Draw Sword, Draw Blood
- Elegant Weapon for a More Civilized Age
- Elemental Crafting
- Elemental Weapon
- Emergency Weapon
- Empathic Weapon
- Equipment-Based Progression
- Equippable Ally
- Evil Weapon
- Evolving Weapon
- Exotic Weapon Supremacy
- Extended Disarming
- Family-Friendly Firearms
- Five-Finger Fillet
- Flying Weapon
- Forged by the Gods
- Full Potential Upgrade
- Girl with Psycho Weapon
- Give Me a Sword
- Glass Weapon
- Good Weapon, Evil Weapon
- Guns in Church
- Guns vs. Swords
- Hammer and Sickle
- Happy Fun Ball
- Healing Shiv
- Hidden Supplies
- Hidden Weapons
- Hungry Weapon
- Hyperspace Mallet
- IKEA Weaponry
- Improbable Use of a Weapon
- Improvised Scattershot
- Infinity +1 Sword
- Intimidation Demonstration
- The Lethal Connotation of Guns and Others
- Left Your Lifesaver Behind
- Legendary Weapon
- Like Cannot Cut Like
- Living Weapon
- Lost Superweapon
- Ludicrous Melee Accuracy
- Magnet Hands
- Magnetic Weapons
- The Man Makes the Weapon
- A Master Makes Their Own Tools
- Mix-and-Match Weapon
- Morph Weapon
- National Weapon
- Natural Weapon
- Nemesis Weapon
- Nerf Arm
- No-Gear Level
- Non-Lethal Deadly Weapon
- Nothing Up My Sleeve
- Not-So-Fake Prop Weapon
- One-Handed Zweihänder
- Only the Chosen May Wield
- Parrying Bullets
- Person of Holding
- Phallic Weapon
- Phlebotinum-Handling Requirements
- Point Defenseless
- Point That Somewhere Else
- Poisoned Weapons
- Power Equals Rarity
- Quick Melee
- Retractable Weapon
- Reverse Grip
- Rock Beats Laser
- Scarred Equipment
- Scrappy Weapon
- Secret Weapon
- Self-Defenseless
- Self-Destruct Mechanism
- Set Swords to "Stun"
- Shapeshifter Weapon
- Situational Sword
- Socketed Equipment
- Sorting Algorithm of Weapon Effectiveness
- Spectral Weapon Copy
- Spell Blade
- Spontaneous Weapon Creation
- Stat Sticks
- Sticks to the Back
- Stock Ninja Weaponry
- Super Weapon, Average Joe
- Summon to Hand
- Swiss Army Weapon
- Sword and Fist
- Sword Limbo
- Sword of Damocles
- Sword over Head
- Take Up My Sword
- Talking Weapon
- They Call Him "Sword"
- This Banana is Armed
- *Twang* Hello
- Ultimate Blacksmith
- Ultimate Forge
- Unholy Holy Sword
- Utility Weapon
- Weapon of Choice
- Weapon Jr.
- Weapon of Peace
- Weapon of X-Slaying
- Weapon Running Time
- Weapon Title
- Weapon Wields You
- Weapons Kitchen Sink
- Weapons That Suck
- What the Fu Are You Doing?
- "With Our Swords" Scene
- The Workhorse
- Wrecked Weapon
The Aesthetics of Weapons
Aiming Projectiles
Carrying and Wielding Multiple Weapons
What's in a Weapon Name?
Assorted Weapons
- Aerosol Flamethrower
- Attack Drone
- Blow Gun
- Booze Flamethrower
- Caltrops
- Chain Pain
- Epic Flail
- Extendo Boxing Glove
- Fighting with Chucks
- Hooks and Crooks
- Hot Blade
- Inescapable Net
- Knows the Ropes
- Nail 'Em
- Pile Bunker
- Powerful Pick
- Prongs of Poseidon
- Razor Floss
- Rings of Death
- Sai Guy
- Stun Guns
- Whip It Good
Bladed Weapons
See also swords-specific tropes
- Absurd Cutting Power
- An Axe to Grind
- Audible Sharpness
- Bayonet Ya
- Barehanded Blade Block
- Blade Brake
- Blade Reflection
- Blade Run
- Blade Spam
- Chastity Dagger
- Clean Cut
- Criss-Cross Attack
- Cutlass Between the Teeth
- Cutting Through Energy
- Diagonal Cut
- Druidic Sickle
- Excalibur
- Implausible Fencing Powers
- Instant Death Stab
- Inverse Law of Sharpness and Accuracy
- Knife Fight
- Knife Nut
- Knife Outline
- Kukris Are Kool
- Licking the Blade
- Lodged-Blade Recycling
- Machete Mayhem
- Never Bring a Knife to a Fist Fight
- Never Bring a Knife to a Gun Fight
- Oddly Shaped Sword
- Reforged Blade
- Royal Rapier
- Serrated Blade of Pain
- Shear Menace
- Single-Stroke Battle
- Sinister Scimitar
- Sinister Scythe
- Sinister Shiv
- Sinister Switchblade
- Slice-and-Dice Swordsmanship
- Split Hair
- Storm of Blades
- Swipe Your Blade Off
- Sword Cane
- Sword Lines
- Sword Plant
- Sword Pointing
- Sword Sparks
- Throw the Sheath Away
- Unorthodox Sheathing
- Whip Sword
- Wolverine Claws
Blunt Instruments
Bombs and Explosives
See also Grenade Tropes, Naval Weapons
- Big, Bulky Bomb
- Bombproof Appliance
- Bomb Disposal
- Boom in the Hand
- Cigar-Fuse Lighting
- Cut the Fuse
- Dynamite Candle
- Eat the Bomb
- Empty Quiver
- Explosive Leash
- Explosive Stupidity
- Fake in the Hole
- Fantastic Nuke
- Feed It a Bomb
- Gas-Cylinder Rocket
- Grenade Hot Potato
- Grenade Launcher
- Grenade Spam
- Harpoon Gun
- High-Speed Missile Dodge
- Holy Hand Grenade
- Incredibly Obvious Bomb
- Insert Grenade Here
- Jettison Jetpack Attack
- Land Mine Goes "Click!"
- Macross Missile Massacre
- Misguided Missile
- Missile Lock-On
- Molotov Cocktail
- Nuke 'em
- Phlebotinum Bomb
- Plunger Detonator
- Powder Trail
- The Rest of the Nuclear Club
- Riding the Bomb
- Rocket Jump
- Sea Mine
- Space Mines
- Sticky Bomb
- Strapped to a Bomb
- Super-Persistent Missile
- Time Bomb
- Trick Bomb
- Unplanned Manual Detonation
- Why Am I Ticking?
- You Nuke 'Em
Defense
See also Tropes in Shining Armor
Guns
See also Guns and Gunplay Tropes
- Backpack Cannon
- BFG
- Briefcase Blaster
- Bubble Gun
- Flare Gun
- Freeze Ray
- Gun Accessories
- Gun Fu
- Gun Kata
- Gun Nut
- Gun Twirling
- Hey, It's That Gun!
- Kinetic Weapons Are Just Better
- Marked Bullet
- More Dakka
- Never Bring a Gun to a Knife Fight
- No Range Like Point-Blank Range
- Painfully Slow Projectile
- Pinball Projectile
- Pistol-Whipping
- Ranged Emergency Weapon
- Recursive Ammo
- Removable Turret Gun
- Sawed-Off Shotgun
- Sean Connery Is About to Shoot You
- Short-Range Long-Range Weapon
- Short-Range Shotgun
- Shoulder Cannon
- Shrink Ray
- Smart Gun
- Sniper Pistol
- Sniper Rifle
- Spread Shot
- Stick 'em Up
- Trick Bullet
- Trigger Happy
- Weak Turret Gun
Lasers
See also Ranged Energy Attack Tropes
Powered Weapons
Slings and Arrows
- Annoying Arrows
- Archer Archetype
- Archery
- Arrow Catch
- Arrowgram
- Arrows on Fire
- Automatic Crossbows
- Bows Versus Crossbows
- Brats with Slingshots
- Energy Bow
- Great Bow
- Horse Archer
- Invisible Bowstring
- Multishot
- No "Arc" in "Archery"
- Rain of Arrows
- The Straight and Arrow Path
- Sacred Bow and Arrows
- Splitting the Arrow
- Suffer the Slings
- Trick Arrow
- William Telling
Sticks, Staves, and Spears
Super Weapons
Throwing Weapons
Weapons on Wheels
Weird Weapons
See also Improbable Weapon User
- Anchors Away
- Arsenal Attire
- Art Attacker
- Bad with the Bone
- Battle Tops
- Bee Bee Gun
- Cat-apult
- Chairman of the Brawl
- Clothing Combat
- Cloth Fu
- Combat Haircomb
- Combat Hand Fan
- Comedy as a Weapon
- Crowbar Combatant
- Door Fu
- Edible Ammunition
- Food Slap
- Fork Fencing
- Gardening-Variety Weapon
- Gemstone Assault
- Greek Fire
- Grievous Harm with a Body
- Handbag of Hurt
- Improvised Weapon
- Instant Knots
- Instrument of Murder
- Killer Yoyo
- Money Mauling
- Musical Assassin
- Once Killed a Man with a Noodle Implement
- Paper Fan of Doom
- Parasol of Pain
- The Pen Is Mightier
- Shamu Fu
- Sheath Strike
- Shoe Slap
- Sock It to Them
- Solar-Powered Magnifying Glass
- Telephone Polearm
- This Banana is Armed
- Throw the Book at Them
- Tricked-Out Shoes
- Unusual Weapon Mounting
- Weaponized Ball
- Weaponized Camera
- Weaponized Headgear
- Weapons of Their Trade
- Wrench Whack
