Basic Trope: A drill is used as a weapon.
- Straight: Bob uses a power drill as a weapon.
- Exaggerated:
- Bob's car has a giant drill fitted to the front.
- Bob pilots a Humongous Mecha which uses a gigantic drill attached on the tip of a Pile Bunker as a deadly weapon with a very long reach and piercing damage.
- Downplayed: The drill is just one of Bob's many weapons.
- Justified:
- Bob is a cyborg who was given a choice of melee weapons when he got his new body. He picked the drill.
- Bob was attacked while he was drilling the hole for hanging the painting he bought yesterday.
- Inverted: Bob uses a Minigun as a drill.
- Subverted: Bob, known for using a drill as a weapon, turns up to a team meeting using a sword.
- Doubly Subverted: But only because he lost his drill and couldn't find anything better.
- Parodied: ???
- Zig Zagged: ???
- Averted: Nobody uses a drill as a weapon.
- Enforced: Rule of Cool
- Lampshaded: "What's with the drill, Bob?" "I just enjoy drilling people."
- Invoked: ???
- Exploited: ???
- Defied: "There are better weapons than drills."
- Discussed: ???
- Conversed: ???
- Deconstructed: Against an opponent with a weapon such as a sword or gun, Bob is easily overwhelmed and defeated.
- Reconstructed: Bob practices and trains hard, learning new ways to use his drill to fight.
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