Grievous Harm with a Body/Playing With

Basic Trope: Using a person's body or a part thereof as an Improvised Weapon.
 * Straight: Mark and Polly are surrounded by hundreds of Mooks. Polly uses her Super Strength to grab Mark and clobber the nearest Mook over the head with him.
 * Exaggerated: Polly specializes in Grievous Harm With a Body, and dual-wields flailing Mooks, one of which is Mark.
 * Downplayed: Mark falls asleep, and Polly wakes him by gently slapping him with his own hand.
 * Justified: Polly lacks a proper weapon, and Mark is both Nigh Invulnerable and really solid, and therefore is an effective bludgeon.
 * Inverted: One of the mooks has Healing Hands; Polly tries to swing it around as a Healing Shiv
 * Subverted: Polly hoists Mark over her head... and tosses him across the battlefield to where he'll be safe.
 * Double Subverted: A Reveal Shot shows that Mark knocked down several Mooks on the way over to his "safe spot".
 * Parodied: A Giant Mook on the opposing side grabs his colleagues and proceeds to have a "Body-fight!" with Polly, much to Mark's distaste.
 * Deconstructed: Polly's habit of using Mark as a weapon leaves him with just as much physical trauma as the people she beats up, if not more. Mark is practically dead by the end of the battle.
 * Reconstructed: No he isn't. Mark is Made of Iron, so he takes a lot less damage than his opponents do.
 * Zig Zagged: Polly wields Mark in some fights, and in others relies on her bare-hands and her wits.
 * Averted: Mark and Polly rely on Good Old Fisticuffs.
 * Enforced: ???
 * Lampshaded: "Polly, why can't you use a normal weapon like everyone else, instead of me?"
 * Invoked: Mark goads Polly into using him as a weapon, knowing himself as a Non-Action Guy despite his resistance to damage.
 * Defied: Polly attempts to use mark in this manner, but he squirms out of her grip in blind panic.
 * Discussed: “Hey, I wonder if you would be useful as a projectile…”
 * Conversed: “…That has got to hurt.” “Mark, or the other guy?” “Both really.”

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