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* Grabbing an ally and tossing him or her at an enemy is a favorite tactic of [[Jerkass|Hamel]] in ''[[Violinist of Hameln]]''. "Tron Bomber!" "Oboe Launcher!" "Flute Missile!" Said ally usually screams bloody murder all the way.
* The climax of the ''[[Baccano!]]'' [[Light Novels]] ''Drugs and Dominoes:'' After getting his arm blown off by a high gauge revolver point blank, Luck Gandor picks up his own shattered limb and tears {{spoiler|Gustavo}}'s throat apart with it's jagged, broken bones—After which he calmly reattaches the severed arm ([[Good Thing You Can Heal|good thing for that immortality, huh?]]), gives a pithy [[Bond One-Liner]], checks to see if the resident [[The Ingenue|Ingenue]] is alright...[[Post Dramatic Stress Disorder|and then promptly passes out from the pain]].
* In ''[[Hayate
* Not strictly a weapon, but there is a [[Meido|Maid]] Guitar in the opening of ''[[Maria Holic]]''.
* In the [[Traintop Battle]] of ''[[Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha StrikerS]]'', [[Cute Bruiser|Subaru]] starts her attack by smashing the first [[Mecha-Mooks|Gadget Drone]] she comes across then chucking its damaged frame at a second Gadget Drone.
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** [[Atop the Fourth Wall|Linkara]], even as he admitted liking the scene, still listed it in his "Top Fifteen Worst Moments of Countdown", dubbing it a mood breaker.
** Also, in ''Trinity'', [[Superman]] grabs the ankle of his [[Mirror Universe|anti-matter]] [[Evil Twin|counterpart]], Ultraman (not to be confused with the more famous ''tokusatsu'' character), and swings him face-first into the [[Wonder Woman]] analogue, Superwoman.
* A [[Wartime Cartoon|WWII-era]] ''Cat-Man'' featured the eponymous hero [https://web.archive.org/web/20080925092603/http://superdickery.com/index.php?
* In his arc in the post-''[[Zero Hour]]'' ''[[Legion of Super-Heroes (comics)|Legion of Super-Heroes]]'', Mordru [http://www.minorvariation.net/comics/Magno/sd/L482.jpg hit Star Boy with M'Onel,] made especially notable by the fact that M'Onel is a [[Captain Ersatz]] of [[The Silver Age of Comic Books]] [[Superboy]].
** Also [[wikipedia:Arm Fall Off Boy|Arm Fall Off Boy]] will rip his ''own'' arm off and beat you with the wet end.
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* In the final battle of Ghost Rider: Road to Damnation, the archangel Ruth and the demon Hoss fight with a pair of still living soldiers.
== [[Fan Works]] ==▼
▲== Fan Works ==
* In ''[[Kyon: Big Damn Hero]]'', Yuki invokes this trope in the first [[Curb Stomp Battle]] against Yakuza, when Yuki, Kyon and Tsuruya are outnumbered 3 to 1. Kyon learns from this, and invokes this trope when he engages in his [[Curb Stomp Battle]], while outnumbered 12:1. In both cases, they kick/fling/punch their opponents hard enough that they collide with someone else.
* In ''[[Poke Wars|Poké Wars: The Exigence]]'', Mewtwo rips off Registeel's arms and proceeds to beat the crap out of him with said torn off arms.
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* The narrator in ''[http://fav.me/dd7ow55 Case of the Missing Technology]'' uses {{Spoiler|[[Spice Girls| Melanie C]]}}'s [[An Arm and a Leg|dismembered left arm]] on Monty as a reflex, as he was about to after her.
== [[Film]] ==
* The [[Non-Serial Movie|movie]] adaptation of ''[[City Hunter]]'' has Ryo ([[Jackie Chan]]) pick up ''his partner'' (Chingmy Yau) and use her as a weapon. The gun in her leg holster does most of the work, though.
* [[Jet Li]] picks [[Aaliyah]] up and uses her to fight off a female assailant in ''[[Romeo Must Die]]''. You see, he [[Wouldn't Hit a Girl]], so he manipulates ''her'' arms and legs to attack the bad girl.
* Notoriously racist [[The Oldest Ones in the Book]] example that I should be ashamed of myself for knowing. In ''[[The Birth of a Nation]]'' one of the ''heroic''(!) Ku-Kluxers clobbers several black guys with one of their friends. The way the man being swung as a club flops about indicates that Senator Stoneman isn't the only [[Straw Character|straw man]] in this film.
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* In ''[[Ironclad]]'', based on the siege of Rochester Castle in 1214, one of the castle defenders hacks the arm off one of the attacking mooks. Another defender, lacking a weapon, picks up the stump and proceeds to beat another attacker to death with the wet end.
* Similar to the Jet Li example above, in ''[[Scott Pilgrim vs. the World]]'', Scott is unwilling to attack Roxanne (one of Ramona's evil ex's). Ramona first fights off Roxanne with a giant hammer, but is told that Scott must be the one to defeat her. So, Ramona jumps behind Scott and starts moving his arms and feet to land punches and kicks on Roxanne.
* ''[[The Matrix|The Matrix Reloaded]]'' - After Neo breaks free from the [[Send in the Clones|Smiths]]' [[
* [[The Toxic Avenger]] is prone to doing this, most notably in the first movie where he rips a thug's arm off (so effortlessly, in fact, that said thug requires several seconds of visual confirmation before noticing) and casually knocks him out of the fight with it.
* In ''[[Night of the Demon]]'', a man is whipped to death with his own entrails. By Bigfoot.
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* In ''[[Kamen Rider OOO]] WONDERFUL: The Shogun and the 21 Core Medals'', [[Kamen Rider Fourze]], appearing as [[The Cameo]]/[[Guest Star]] uses Switch 5, Magic Arm, to grab Kamen Rider OOO and fling him into an opponent, knocking him back into where he came from.
== [[Literature]] ==▼
▲== Literature ==
* [[Older Than Feudalism]]: In ''[[The Bible]]'' (Book Judges), the captured Samson breaks his bonds and kills a thousand Phillistines using the first thing within reach: the jawbone of a donkey skeleton.
* In ''[[Romance of the Three Kingdoms]]'', Cao Cao's entourage was ambushed by their treacherous host. Trapped without his armour or weapons, Cao Cao's bodyguard, Dian Wei, grabbed a loose sword and slew the enemies until it broke... whereupon he picked up a couple of soldiers and used them as bludgeons.
* ''[[Discworld]]'' example, ''[[
{{quote|"I saw Jason Ogg hit three elves with the first thing he could lay hands on."
"Another elf?"
"Right." }}
** In ''[[
*** Earlier in the same book, the [[All Trolls Are Different|troll Watch officer Sergeant Detritus]] casually hits a bunch of men with another man. After climbing on top of the pile he tells the rest of the crowd they must disperse or he is prepared to use force. The man who served as Detritus' weapon asks what he just used, and is told that that was just 'you helping the Watch'.
** Used vicariously by Corporal Carrot in ''[[
** Lampshaded in ''[[
{{quote|"We have an Igor standing by, so if your arm gets taken off do pick it up and hit the other bugger with it, it gets a laugh and twenty points."}}
** The clown martial art of "''sloshi''", [[All There in the Manual|as discussed in supplemental material]] like the ''Discworld Companion'', provides training as an [[Improbable Weapon User]] for all kinds of unlikely armaments—buckets, ladders, balloons, pies—including (cooperative) fellow clowns.
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* In [[The Oregon Files]] book Corsair, the protagonist finds himself facing a bad guy on top of a speeding box car. His solution? Tear off his own [[Artificial Limbs|prosthetic leg,]] use it like a war mace to beat the man within an inch of his life, then finish him off with the leg's [[Arm Cannon|built in high-caliber pistol,]] sending the man sailing over the side and into a ravine.
▲== [[Live Action TV]] ==
* Hercules is fond of this in ''[[Hercules: The Legendary Journeys]]''. Most often he grabs a bad guy (or even a damsel in distress occasionally), turns him/her sideways and holds him/her behind his back. Hercules then proceeds to use the person's feet and legs to kick/bludgeon bad guys repeatedly while said person is held helplessly behind him and unable to attack him. In the episode of Xena's first appearance, after he's done using the bad guy he sets him upright and punches him in the face as the bad guy was still wanting to hit Hercules after all that.
* A fantasy sequence in ''[[Scrubs]]'' has Dr. Cox and Dr. Kelso pulling on Dr. Miller's arms, eventually ripping them off, and using them to beat each other.
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* ''[[iCarly]]'': In "iHalloween", while the gang were broadcasting their web show in a supposed haunted house, things began to get freaky and they start to leave. Unfortunately, the door got locked. While trying to figure out a way to open the door, Carly suggests hitting it with something. Sam [[Kick the Dog|promptly proceeds to use Freddie.]]
* During a case in ''[[Night Court]]'', Dan (the prosecutor) describes the actions of the defendant in a bar fight as getting into an argument with someone "...and then attacked him with a blunt instrument. Specifically, the manager."
== [[Professional Wrestling]] ==
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* In battle royals and the [[Royal Rumble]], one way to eliminate two opponents at the same time is by throwing one into the other near the ropes so the momentum takes them both over the top.
== [[Recorded and Stand Up Comedy]] ==
* On his album ''On The Road'', [[George Carlin]] had a bit where he talked about the perfect murder: Pick a guy up, and use him to kill another guy. Both die, and there's no murder weapon.▼
== [[Tabletop Games]] ==
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* The Dwarf Tossing card in ''[[Munchkin (game)|Munchkin]]'', in which a hapless party member who has been staying out of a combat is grabbed by the scruff of his neck and hurled at either a monster or another party member. The ''dwarf'' takes no penalties for this. Unlike whoever gets hit.
* [[Warhammer Fantasy]] has the famous Giants, who, as part of their randomized moveset, can grab an opposing creature and either fling it into it's own unit or into a nearby unit. Needless to say the creature, and some of his comrades, do not survive this.
* In the RPG parodying card game ''[[Munchkin]]'' (set Munchkin Bites), a non-item bonus "Dead Friend" can be played for +2. If in that game someone has already died, it can also be used as a ''weapon'', is now a big item and takes two hands to use, and gives a +4 bonus.▼
== [[Video Games]] ==
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* One of the many ways to kill someone in ''[[Psi-Ops: The Mindgate Conspiracy|Psi Ops the Mindgate Conspiracy]]''.
* ''[[Kirby]]'', anyone? In addition to being able to spit the enemies he inhales at other enemies, the Throw ability that appears in some games allows him to throw enemies with extra force, as well.
* The [[World Wrestling Entertainment|WWE]] ''Day of Reckoning'' [[Professional Wrestling]] games for the [[Nintendo GameCube]] let you do this as well. Nothing like a Giant Swing to give you a metre or two of clear space all around.
* In ''[[Decap Attack]]'', one of Chuck's power-ups is a skull that he can throw at enemies.
* In ''[[Lego Adaptation Game]] [[Star Wars]] II'' and ''The Complete Saga'', if you enable Extra Toggle, you can be a Lego Skeleton on certain levels. Attacking with him causes him to pull off one of his arms and club an enemy.
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== [[Web Comics]] ==
* ''[[Kid Radd]]'' features this as an actual [[Finishing Move]], where Radd picks up the [[Nigh Invulnerable]] Sheena and uses her to beat Kobayashi (pun ''very'' intended).
* ''[[Charby the Vampirate]]'': Don't say "unhand me" to the [
* ''[[8-Bit Theater|Eight Bit Theater]]'' has the [[Kamehame Hadoken|Fighterdoken]].
** Not to mention every time Black Mage gets [[Impaled with Extreme Prejudice]]; the weapon he's impaled on will often still be used with him on it.
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* ''[[Electric Wonderland]]'' [http://www.platypuscomix.net/electricwonderland/index.php?issue=6&page=16 once] had Aerynn use NJ as a bat to keep an angry mob at bay.
* In ''[[Impure Blood]]'', [https://web.archive.org/web/20130608195127/http://www.impurebloodwebcomic.com/Pages/Chapter001/ib004.html Roan tears off] a [[Blade Below the Shoulder]] and uses it on the [[Cyborg]] himself.
* ''[[
* ''[[Weregeek]]'' presents: "[http://www.weregeek.com/2016/12/21/ Jingle grells, jingle grells...]"
* ''[[Dilbert]]'' has [http://dilbert.com/series/73 "CEO Delegates by tossing Catbert at Problems" Series].
== [[Web Original]] ==
* Occurs in the ''[[Dick Figures]]'' episode [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nc-d-2oPCvU&feature=showob Kung Fu Winners]. Once where Red tears off a ninja's leg to use in his fight against the rest of the ninja's. And the second time being in Red's fight with the big bad head of the restaurant/dojo where he uses Blue as a human shield against a table flung at him by said big bad before, in turn, flinging him at said big bad. The big bad promptly knocks Blue away leaving Blue the only one injured in that altercation.
* ''[[Red vs. Blue]]'' quickly establishes how [[Badass|terrifying]] [[Samus Is a Girl|Tex]] is:
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* Smilies version: ''[http://theuncle2k.deviantart.com/art/Improvised-Weapon-138751506 Improvised Weapon]'' by TheUncle2k on DeviantArt.
== [[Western Animation]] ==
* In an episode of ''[[Family Guy]]'', when a pillow fight between Peter, Joe, Quagmire, and Cleveland degenerated into a fistfight, Peter used Joe as a weapon against Quagmire and Cleveland.
** And in a deleted scene of another episode, some school boys use Meg to beat up Chris.
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* In ''[[The Avengers: Earth's Mightiest Heroes|Avengers Earths Mightiest Heroes]]'' [[Incredible Hulk|The Hulk]] uses '''''[[Beyond the Impossible|The Everlovin', Blue-Eyed]] [[Fantastic Four (Comic Book)|Thing]]''''' as a club to defeat some Doombots!
== [[Real Life]] ==▼
▲* On his album ''On The Road'', [[George Carlin]] had a bit where he talked about the perfect murder: Pick a guy up, and use him to kill another guy. Both die, and there's no murder weapon.
▲* In the RPG parodying card game [[Munchkin]] (set Munchkin Bites), a non-item bonus "Dead Friend" can be played for +2. If in that game someone has already died, it can also be used as a ''weapon'', is now a big item and takes two hands to use, and gives a +4 bonus.
▲== Real Life ==
* [[Truth in Television]]: John Johnson, aka Liver Eatin' Johnson after being captured, bit through his bonds, killed the man guarding him, cut off his leg, and used it to fight his way out of the camp.
** And then he [[I'm a Humanitarian|ate it]].
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* Boxer Crabs use the sea anemones growing on their claws as living weapons, albeit because the anemones are poisonous, not because they crack skulls.
* During the Black Death epidemic, infected cadavers were catapulted over the enemy's walls.
* This troper heard something on the news about a woman using a three-year-old as a weapon.{{verify}} Thankfully, nobody died.
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