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Alternatively, characters gifted with [[Super Strength]], or simply the [[Charles Atlas Superpower]], may eschew the dismemberment completely and use an entire body as a weapon. This is also an alternative for mechs of the appropriate size in relation to the body being used. Of course, you'd have to be nuts (or [[Bash Brothers|really]], [[Battle Couple|really]] [[Nigh Invulnerable|trusting]]) to let anyone do that to you, which is why most "weapons" are either dead or unconscious - or will be by the time you're done.

 

 

Has nothing to do with a [[Star Wars (Franchise)|certain general.]]

** Haruna's typical reaction to anything threatening is to pick up Rito and use him as a hammer. On one occasion, it [http://www.mangafox.com/manga/to_love_ru/v02/c016/11.html creates a tornado].

* In the third episode of ''[[Dai-Guard (Anime)|Dai Guard]]'', the Dai-Guard mecha rips off one of its own forearms to use as an improvised [[Rocket Punch]] against the [[Monster of the Week]]. Widely considered a [[Crowning Moment of Awesome]].

** Two more conventional applications of the trope appear in the [[Martial Arts and Crafts|Martial Arts Rhythmic Gymnastics]] and [[Martial Arts and Crafts|Martial Arts Shogi]] challenges (the latter of which only occurs in the anime). In the first, Ranma makes use of the fact P-chan has been chained to his (currently her) wrist to turn him into an impromptu flail, as the rules of the match strictly prohibit bare hands and feet. In the second, Akane, at one point, grabs Ranma and spins around wildly, using him like a human flail to defeat a swarm of [[Faceless Goons]].

** During said Martial Arts Rhythmic Gymnastics match, Kodachi counters an attack from Ranma by grabbing her own brother from the audience with her ribbon and flinging him at the table Ranma was tossing.

* A [[Wartime Cartoon|WWII-era]] ''Cat-Man'' featured the eponymous hero [http://superdickery.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&catid=35%3Apropaganda-index&id=869%3Amore-cat-man&Itemid=24 beating up a German soldier with a Japanese one].

* In his arc in the post-''[[Zero Hour]]'' ''[[Legion of Super-Heroes (Comic Book)|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]].

** In the second issue of ''[[Demon Knights]]'', [[Vandal Savage]] beats a dinosaur to death [http://comicrunway.files.wordpress.com/2011/10/demonnights-neves3.jpg with another dinosaur.]

* In the [[Cult Classic]] comic book series ''[[Hitman (Comic Book)|Hitman]]'', [[Etrigan]] uses the corpse of a dead mob boss to beat up an alien parasite who interrupted the funeral.

 

== Fanfiction ==

* 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.

* In ''[[The Last Spartan (Fanfic)|The Last Spartan]]'', The Master Chief uses a dead Geth Juggernaut's body to plow through other geth attacking him.

 

== Film ==

* [[Jet Li]] picks [[Aaliyah (Music)|Aaliyah]] up and uses her to fight off a female assailant in ''[[Romeo Must Die (Film)|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 (Film)|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.

* Played for laughs in ''[[Friday the 13th (Film)|Jason X]]'' when Jason is lured into a holographic simulation designed to provoke him. By the time we cut back to Jason and a pair of (virtual) bubble-headed sexually promiscuous drug-and-alcohol-abusing female campers, Jason has somehow forced them back into their sleeping bags and is furiously using one to bludgeon the other.

** ''[[Freddy vs. Jason (Film)|Freddy vs. Jason]]'' also had Jason impaling Freddy with his own severed arm.

** In the last battle, Optimus Prime (now combined with Jetfire) manages to make Megatron shoot himself in the face.

** After [[Kid Appeal Character|Bumblebee]] {{spoiler|kills Ravage... [[Family-Unfriendly Death|by peeling him]]... he uses what's left to smack Rampage in the face.}}

*** But if you do a circuitous roundabout of commands (or just a single command, in the episodes) to play with the super gravity gun in the rest of the game... [[Video Game Cruelty Potential|*maniacal laughter* ]]

** ''[[Bio Shock]]'', with the telekinesis plasmid.

** ''[[Dead Space (Video Game)|Dead Space]]'', with the kinesis module. Most body parts you can throw won't do much though.

* ''[[Painkiller]]'' has an enemy demon with telekinetic powers that pick up corpses from the ground and hurls them at you.

** "I will beat the shit outta you, Charles. I'll beat the shit outta you ''with'' Charles!"

* In ''[[Pay Me Bug (Literature)|Pay Me Bug]]'', [[Starfish Alien|Ktk]] can do this with ''[[Dual-Wielding|three bodies at the same time]]''.

** Alfred used the same threat on Kain.

 

* A ''[[Jackie Chan Adventures (Animation)|Jackie Chan Adventures]]'' episode had a [[James Bond]] spoof where the super-spy Agent Tag was unconscious for the majority of the story, forcing Jackie to drag him around everywhere. One mook tried to intimidate Chan with his nunchuck skills, and Jackie replies by swinging around the dead weight Agent Tag like a nunchuck. [[Rule of Funny|It was quite comical.]]

* In ''[[Teen Titans (Animation)|Teen Titans]]'', Kole is a girl whose ability is to transform into immobile diamond. Her best pal Gnarrk is a thawed-out caveman. When they need to fight, Kole willingly becomes a super-hard club for him to swing.

* In ''[[Transformers Animated (Animation)|Transformers Animated]]'', Optimus was able to defeat the body of Sentinel Prime [[Grand Theft Me|controlled by a Headmaster unit]] by tearing the arm that held a shield arm off and beating it with it. When the Headmaster unit detached and Masterson tries to get away Optimus gets him by kicking Sentinel's decapitated head at him like a soccer ball. (We don't feel much sympathy for Sentinel, since he's a [[Jerkass|jerk]].)

** In "Transwarped" Spittor, well, ''spits'' an Autobot medic at her comrades, after grabbing her with his tongues and coating her in explosive slime.

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