VisualNovel.Crimes Of Passion: In Book 2 Chapter 5, paying the premium choice to read Lydea's profile shows she's rumored to have killed someone with a single sheet of A4 printer paper.
VideoGame.Serious Sam 4: In the first level, Sam remarks on a time he killed a Kleer with a nail clipper.
Characters.Shadowrun Returns: In his past life as a Red Samurai, Gaichu once killed a Shiawase executive with a pair of chopsticks after the executive's fiancé, a powerful mage, had forced him to drop his holdout pistol and tactical knife by making them red-hot.
Film.Lock Stock And Two Smoking Barrels: "Hatchet" Harry beat a man to death with a 12-inch black rubber dildo. This anecdote is told specifically as a means of underline that "Hatchet Harry is a man you pay, when you owe".
Buffy.Season Specific Tropes: In the first episode, Buffy mentions having once killed a vampire using only an exacto knife.
Webcomic.The Dragon Doctors: Cary allegedly killed a roomful of mobsters with pocket change. (Later in the story, it is revealed that this is literally the case.)
Website.Chuck Norris Facts: In an average room, there are 1,217 objects that Chuck Norris can use to kill you, including the room itself. One day, Chuck Norris plucked a hair from his beard and skewered three men through the heart with it.
Characters.Cross Ange Ange: Okay well she didn't really kill them (though admittedly she could have) but she did knock out three people while wearing nothing but a bikini and the head of the Perolina costume. The third one got knocked out from her sheer presence alone. And then there's the thing she did against Salia, Irma, and Tanya with nothing more than a pen.
ImprovisedWeapon.Literature: X-Wing Series: Aside from a couple of examples of Grievous Bottley Harm:In Rogue Squadron, the Rogues are carrying drop tanks during Second Borleias. Corran's gets punctured in a dogfight, he drops it, and the TIE behind him collides with the falling tank and crashes. In Iron Fist, Ton Phanan cuts a man's throat with a laser scalpel from his medical kit. During the debriefing he explains to a bemused New Republic Intelligence agent that under the right circumstances he can kill you with nearly anything else in there, even things like bacta patches.
HetaliaAxisPowers.I To P: In the dub, Germany claims to have killed a man with his own mustache and a grape.
WebAnimation.Red Vs Blue Family Shatters: Brick Joke: In episode 3, "Walk & Talk", Phase is handed some papers by a guy who has scissors sticking out of the back of his helmet. In episode 7, "Phase's Reputation", One sees Phase pick up some scissors, and recounts a rumor that Phase defended Viper base against shinobi and can cut off a limb with safety scissors. At the end of the episode, Phase offhandedly tosses the scissors into the ceiling behind her, hitting a hidden shinobi and causing him to fall down with the scissors stuck in the back of his head — the same guy (and scissors) seen in "Walk & Talk".
Recap.Doctor Who S 14 E 4 The Face Of Evil: Family-Unfriendly Violence: An ad-lib by Tom Baker to avert what he saw as this led to one of the Fourth Doctor's most memorable, awesome moments. The script called for him to take a man hostage, pull a knife on him, and threaten to slit his throat unless the aliens dropped their weapons. What he actually does in the show is take a man hostage, pull a jelly baby on him, and threaten to kill him with it unless the aliens dropped their weapons. And then, when his bluff is called, he nonchalantly responds by eating the jelly baby and coolly informing them that "I don't take orders from anyone."
Futurama.Tropes O To S: Roberto to Bender: "You ever killed a man with a sock? It ain't so hard..."
NoodleIncident.Film: In Ratatouille, one of the chefs at Gusteau's, Horst, has done time, but his story changes every time someone asks him about it, claiming among other things that he robbed the second-largest bank in France using only a ballpoint pen, and that he killed a man with his right thumb.
Fanfic.Project Tatterdemalion: Upon escaping his chrysalis, Shunsui had to face down a Hollow, and beat it down with a chair. Justified, because psychokinesis is channelled best through metal.
VideoGame.Crusader Kings III: If an assassination plot fails, the description of the failure can mention the target brutally murdering the assassin with an artifact. This can include such items as sandals, a sponge on a stick, or a lily.
Characters.Nijisanji VOLTACTION: The Pen Is Mightier: Cheerfully reminds viewers that pens have purposes other than writing when talking about the one in the shirt pocket of his school uniform outfit... and to not think about the implications of that too much.
Recap.The Boondocks S 1 E 4 Granddads Fight: While Ruckus is trying to claim that white men are the best at fighting: Uncle Ruckus: Jean-Claude Van Damme's the best martial artist in the world. He killed a man with his butt cheek power.
Fanfic.A Young Girls Delinquency Record: Mugging the Monster: The Crown Prince sending mages to hunt down or kill Tanya. If the mages he sent fail, then he has basically pissed off a mage who is capable of destroying cities, and has absolutely no problem of doing it again. Four Germanian mages in the Congo attempt to threaten a disguised Tanya into signing a bad business deal, going far enough to threaten to rape her. She kills the leader with her coffee cup.
Series.Third Rock From The Sun: "I should warn you that I have killed men with everything from a steak knife, to a penny dropped from a skyscraper!"
Series.Xena Warrior Princess: The assassin Sinteres is said to be deadly with any weapon. King of Thieves Autolycus, posing as Sinteres, has to demonstrate this by killing a man with a thrown toothpick although Xena's use of a grappling hook helped.
ImprovisedWeapon.Tabletop Games: In Nomine: Malakim of Creation (and any other Angel with their Choir Attunement) explicitly have the ability to pick up anything and use it as a weapon, the effectiveness determined by their stats rather than the object in question, the explanation being that "they fight creatively." Naturally, this leads to plenty of Once Killed a Man with a Noodle Implement.
ComicBook.Shadow War: Referenced in Deathstroke Inc. #8. Slade: Those are instruments of death and destruction, Respawn. Nothing that can take a life is ever a toy. Respawn: You telling me you've never killed someone with an action figure? Slade: Okay, maybe.
VideoGame.Superhot: In MIND CONTROL DELETE, you can kill a man with a paint pallete, which is as deadly as a saw blade.
Characters.Assassins Creed The Assassins: According to Uprising #1, she once killed three Abstergo agents with one scented candle. Mandarin and cranberry, to be precise.
Characters.Silent Hill 4: May have killed himself in prison with a serving spoon. He also killed other victims with this method.
Film.The Chronicles Of Riddick 2004: Riddick threatens to kill a man... with his teacup. Which he does. He lets the victim's friends live, but takes a sardine can key and carefully sets it on the rock...
Funny.Cracked: This combination of Bread, Eggs, Milk, Squick, Noodle Incident and Once Killed a Man with a Noodle Implement seen in the #4 entry of The 5 Creepiest Death Rituals from Around the World (Part 2): Quick: What's the first thing that happens when a person dies? Sure, there's shock and sadness and the occasional influx of tabloid journalists because there's no way anyone could do that with a bowling ball and lighter fluid and not wind up in a newspaper postmortem.
Characters.Gyakuten Kenji 2 Minor Characters: The one murder he personally commits is done in a way that is outlandish even by Ace Attorney standards. He kills the president of Zheng Fa... by crushing him with a hot air balloon.
Pantheon.Trickery: Was confronted for his crimes while preparing for another show. Combined with the true personality he exhibited during this event has many people painting him as quite the Monster Clown. This, along with his sociopathy, has earned him comparisons towards the likes of The Joker and the Klowns. Though, Simon could only scoff at such observations. After all, people are comparing him to the Joker. If it was an attempt at getting him to laugh then one has succeeded despite it being pretty unfunny. Now, while he's not nearly as bad as the Clown Prince of Crime he still has his sadistic streak. Back to the point, as far as he's concerned they're one of the remaining threats towards him and Dogen living out their lives in peace. As for their end, they do find the fact he killed someone with a hot air balloon actually pretty funny.
VideoGame.Psychonauts: If you show Coach Oleander Sasha's button. "If I had that button, I could kill you six different ways."
Characters.Futurama Antagonists: Roberto may favor knives, but he's apparently not above using socks to kill people. Roberto: You ever kill a man with a sock? It ain't so hard. HA-HAA!
Literature.Mr Blank: Tariq Suliman, notorious assassin, once killed a guy by stabbing him to death with a pillow.
WesternAnimation.Ratatouille: One of the reasons Horst gives for going to prison is that he "killed a man... with this thumb"; we never know for sure, but he shows that thumb to Skinner before he kicks him out of the restaurant.
Characters.X Wing Series: Combat Medic: Being a doctor can come in handy when you're asked to surrender your weapons. He cut a guy's throat with a laser scalpel at one point when everyone had been relieved of their blasters or vibroknives, because their captors hadn't realised his equipment could re-purposed. He's a good guy, but he's a little creepy about it. "It's a tool of medicine. I wasn't asked to turn over my bandages, bacta treatments, disinfectant sprays, or tranquilizers either, but I can kill a man with any of them, under the right circumstances."
Characters.Doom Patrol: He boasts that he knows 100 ways to kill a man using a box of matches and a TV remote control.
Music.Bone Machine: "Black Wings": They say he once killed a man with a guitar string
Literature.The Chronicles Of Taras: Taras once killed a man with a Bowl of Old Nachos and a Golden Retriever Puppy.Sandra: "How?" Taras: "Huh? Oh, Uh, I don't know. I wasn't really paying attention at the time."
Characters.Dungeons And Dragons Honor Among Thieves: To help establish Xenk's badass cred, Simon claims he once defeated a beholder with nothing but a sharpened gourd. Edgin does not believe this. Simon: Something sharp.
VideoGame.Max Payne: Rico Muerte excitedly relates a story of two mobsters who were about to kill each other — then decided to settle their differences by playing Mortal Kombat or some such. The anticlimax so disappointed Rico that, in frustration, he strangled both of them with the controller wires.
Recap.Buffy The Vampire Slayer S 1 E 2 The Harvest: Buffy regales Xander with a story of the time she sawed off a vampire's head with an Exacto knife. Buffy: ...You're not loving this story. Xander: No, actually, I find it oddly comforting!
Webcomic.Old Republic Paint Adventures: Ever killed someone with a bottle of aerosol? Darth Saber has. Didn't matter one bit, since the author resurrected the victim for an epic showdown of revenge later on.
Film.Grosse Pointe Blank: "What am I supposed to say to people? 'I killed the President of Paraguay with a fork. How have you been?'"
Characters.Overgeared Guild: He's killed Satisfy users by flinging beans, rice, and peas at them, in addition to once spitting out some bones from his chicken dinner in a guy's face with so much force that the damage was fatal.
NCIS.Tropes N To Z: Ziva David boasted that she can kill a man eighteen different ways with a paperclip. And from the episode "Jet Lag": Ziva David: And plastic silverware is not as safe as you may think. I once killed a man with a credit card.
Characters.Ace Attorney Defense Attorneys And Assistants: Two times, with one attempted.His first (though last planned) murder was committed by hitting a man over the head with a bottle of grape juice. His murder of Drew Misham involved giving him a postage stamp that had atroquinine on the back and instructing him to use the stamp to send Kristoph a letter confirming payment for the forged diary page, so that when Drew licked the stamp to put it on the envelope he'd ingest the poison. The weapon in his attempted murder of Vera was a poisoned bottle of nail polish; he took advantage of her trust in him to give the bottle to her as a "good luck charm" that she was to wear if she ever left the house, knowing that Vera had a nervous habit of biting her nails and if she were to be put in a stressful situation (say, being a witness in court, especially as she's agoraphobic) while wearing the polish, she'd bite her nails and ingest the poison.
Literature.The Empyrean: Violet defeats Jack Barlowe (who has been antagonizing her for most of the book) by analyzing his diet and realizing he is deathly allergic to oranges. The next time they fight, she breaks a vial of orange extract against his teeth, crippling him just before he can choke her to death.
WesternAnimation.The Secret Life Of Pets: Discussed, parodied, and subverted. When Max and Duke are making up a story for the Flushed Pets about how they "killed" their previous owners, they claim to have used a spoon. Snowball retorts that it's impossible to kill someone with a spoon, and the rest of the Flushed Pets agree. Max and Duke hurriedly "explain" that they used the spoon to turn on the actual murder weapon: a blender.
Film.Kiler: Kiler's badass status gets further exaggerated after he choked a man to death with a salt shaker in prison. He did. Accidentally.
Literature.Odd Thomas: (Probably) non-letal case. Once Odd recounts a list of improvized weapons, which he effectively used for self-defence: Over the years, in pinches and crunches, I have survived—often just barely—by the effective use of such weapons as fists, feet, knees, elbows, a baseball bat, a shovel, a knife, a rubber snake, a real snake, three expensive antique porcelain vases, about a hundred gallons of molten tar, a bucket, a lug wrench, an angry cross-eyed ferret, a broom, a frying pan, a toaster, butter, a fire hose, and a large bratwurst.
Funny.Red Vs Blue The Blood Gulch Chronicles: Church is telling a story of his experience of being terrorized by Tex on the ice planet Sidewinder, which he described to Caboose as "Really, fucking, cold!" after he was interrupted so many times: Church: Private Mickey was the first to go. He was halfway across he base, when all of a sudden, he just started screaming bloody murder. (Private Mickey seen spinning around shooting the ground wildly in the background) Private Mickey: Bloody murder! Bloody murder! (...) Church: Poor Jimmy was the last one to go. Tex walked up behind him, pulled Jimmy's skull out of his head and beat him to death with it. Tucker: Wait a second. How do you beat someone to death with his own skull? That doesn't seem physically possible. Church: That's exactly what Jimmy kept screaming. Jimmy: (While Tex is melee attacking him with the Oddball) This doesn't seem physically possible!
MassEffect2.Tropes N To S: Professor Mordin once killed with "farming equipment". Lair of the Shadow Broker demystifies the Noodle Implement: He stabbed a krogan. In the eye. With a pitchfork. It's also the reason why his right horn is missing.
Literature.Slayers: It's said that Lina's sister Luna was able to slay a powerful plasma dragon with a kitchen knife.
Recap.Episode Two Our Mutual Fiend: A Rebel-in-Training at the White Forest Base first claims to have used AR3s (which don't exist), then claims to have killed Hunters (alien tripod cyborgs that are rather deadly) "with his own hands". The one giving advice to the others immediately calls him on his BS and refuses to continue the lesson until that one leaves.
Funny.Ratatouille: One of the chefs, Horst, is a former jailbird who always changes the story when someone asks what he did time for. The last one is "I killed a man... with THIS thumb."It gets a hilarious callback when Skinner is trying to sneak back into the kitchen. He gets caught by Horst, who doesn't say anything, but silently and menacingly holds up his thumb before we cut to Skinner getting tossed out as we hear Horst yelling incoherently. He also claims to have robbed a bank using only a ballpoint pen or created a hole in the ozone layer over Avignon. One of them ("I defrauded a major corporation") even looks like he said it during his job interview.
Funny.Hitman 2016: The entire premise of the Gary Busey elusive target, for starters. Busey ran off the set of a commercial for a male hygiene product and now 47 has been hired to assassinate him. Evidently, he ran off screaming, “You'll never find me! I have the power of invisibility!” And immediately after this, the mission briefing displays a section of "Additional claims by Gary Busey" Teleportation (Debunked) Fire Breath (Debunked) Mind Control (Debunked) Invincible Robot Man (Undetermined) The following is Gary Cole's (comparatively more believable) dossier, much of which is actually atrocities he claimed to commit during the promotional campaign to vote who between him and Busey was the Worst Gary that the community wanted to kill for the mission: Biting and sarcastic Clips nails on public transportation Bludgeoned baby seal with another baby seal Busey's antics have racked up more than 840 (and counting) emergency calls… and one Bigfoot sighting.
WebAnimation.Red Vs Blue The Blood Gulch Chronicles: And Show It to You: A variant in Episode 10, where a man is killed with his own skull being used to beat him to death. Except the way Tex is said to have done this (tearing out the skull of the victim) doesn't seem physically possible...How Is That Even Possible?: ...which was Tucker (and the victim, Jimmy)'s reaction. Tucker: (confused) Wait, beating someone to death with their own skull? That doesn't seem physically possible. Church: (sadly) That's exactly what Jimmy kept screaming. Jimmy: This doesn't seem physically possible!
Funny.Outside Xbox: "7 Surprisingly Harrowing Deaths for Cute Characters" comes out of the gate strong. Ellen: From the dawn of video game history, game designers have understood the easiest way to tug at our heartstrings is by doing something terrible (stock photo of a hammer) to something adorable (stock photo of a puppy). The Kingdom Hearts entry leads Ellen to a surprising realization. Ellen: Wait a second... dead dog? Revenge killings? A hero who can snuff you out with just a key? Is Kingdom Hearts the inspiration for John Wick?! Apparently the Oxbox hiring process is... a little shady? Ellen: For a time, [Ori's] is a good life: endless sunny days, unlimited piggy-back rides, and fruits dropped in your mouth by a giant living pillow. All the things promised in my Outside Xtra job advert, in fact! Andy steadily getting more frustrated as his Trial-and-Error Gameplay in Ghost Trick keeps getting Missile the Pomeranian killed.
Fanfic.Intercession: Taylor warns that if Dumbledore erased Harry's memories of her, then she'll find him and "shove cockroaches down his throat until he drowns on dry land." And internally notes that she has done it before.
Characters.Overgeared Grid: When coming to Khan's rescue, the only thing remotely like a weapon he's got is a single epic arrow. He manages to land a critical hit with the arrow, giving the criminal a One-Hit Kill.
DanVs.Tropes M To Z: In "The Salvation Armed Forces", Dan tells his friend Chris that the bell ringer knows twelve ways to kill a man with a bell. Chris thinks about it, but can only come up with one.
CrossesTheLineTwice.Web Animation: Red vs. Blue has many examples.Often related to Death as Comedy — a flashback shows a man getting beaten to death with his own skull, while screaming "This doesn't seem physically possible!". Or Comedic Sociopathy — in Season 7, Wash shooting Donut was a Wham Shot; in Season 17, it happens repeatedly as Donut goes through Mental Time Travel, and gets funnier with every repetition! A case outside those is this exchange from Season 2: Doc: I'm a pacifist. Caboose: You're a thing that babies suck on? Tucker: No, dude, that's a pedophile. Church: Tucker... I think you mean a pacifier. Tucker: Oh, right, dude, I was... totally think of something else. Church: That's real classy, Tucker.
Characters.SF Debris Star Trek Voyager: A "Stupid Neelix Moment" involves not him, but Janeway's expression after he shoves some hors d'oeuvres at her. "Never hand Janeway an object she can use to beat you with; that's a rookie mistake."
