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A generally comic form of punishment in which you take someone or something that has been annoying you (or simply the designated [[Butt Monkey]]) and put it to work serving a useful function as a paperweight. Or a hole plug. Or live bait. Or a tv/radio antenna. Or anything in a long list of possibilities that are both a: improbable in real life and b: uncomfortable and awkward, even dangerous, for the person so used. (The danger may be mitigated by the person being [[Made of Iron]] or even [[Made of Indestructium]], which is often the case.)

A subtrope of [[Cool and Unusual Punishment]]. Related to [[Human Resources]].

 

 

== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ==

* For an episode of ''[[The Slayers]]'' Zelgadis, thanks to his stone skin, gets to do double duty as a boat anchor when the team is fishing for a lake dragon and the guy leading the fishing trip forgot to bring one. Later in the same episode, Gourry gets a turn being fishing bait.

* In ''[[One Piece]]'', Monkey D. Luffy is about to get attacked by Mihawk, a legendary swordsman. Finding old enemy Buggy standing around next to him, Luffy grabs him and uses Buggy as a shield. Mihawk proceeds to slice up Buggy anyway. This is okay, [[Good Thing You Can Heal|as Buggy's power allows him to separate himself into many pieces]]; all that happens is a thoroughly annoyed Buggy.

 

== [[Tabletop Games]] ==

 

== [[Video Games]] ==