Improbable Use of a Weapon: Difference between revisions

** Ahem. ''[[Crosses the Line Twice|Successfully]]'' sneak attacking a person with a ballista. ''In a tavern.''

** Lampshaded by the DM.

* In ''[[The Mummy Trilogy|The Mummy Returns]]'', they have flashback sequences to ancient Egypt, where two female characters duel with [[wikipedia:Sai (weapon)|dual sai]]. Not only did the sai originate as a weapon in around the seventeenth century AD in East Asia instead of 2000 BC Egypt, but sai were typically blunt truncheon-type weapons mostly used for blocking and breaking swords instead of sharp knife-type weapons. Although there is evidence or sai-like weapons from ancient Egypt which were blunt, it's not likely they were used like that.

* In ''[[Ultraviolet]]'', guns are used for '''everything''', including opening doors, cauterizing wounds, and occasionally killing people.

** Justified if you wear thick gloves, otherwise ...

** Any form of sword fighting intended for use in real combat (as opposed to tournament fighting or acting) has this sort of thing. You're trying to kill or disable the other guy before he's able to kill or disable you, and you may be trying to deal with multiple opponents or confined spaces where some types of moves don't work. If you lack the room to swing your sword and have someone up close, striking them in the face with the hilt can be quite effective (most swords used in real combat would, used this way, be like being hit with a hammer).

** SWAT and Special Forces personnel called upon to breach a door are trained to shoot at the hinges instead of the lock as they tend to be flimsier, but even then, without specialised ammunition they're normally better off with a sledgehammer or crowbar.

* Carlos Hathcock, a famed Marine Corps sniper (one of his famous achievements being a [[Scope Snipe]]), once used a ''.50 machinegun'' [http://www.bobtuley.com/50bmg914.jpg modified and mounted with a scope] as an improvised sniper rifle. He set the record for the longest combat kill at 2,286 meters, a feat not surpassed until the Afghanistan war, in which dedicated sniper rifles firing the same .50 caliber round were employed. This counts as a trope example since the M2 was not designed for precision sniping, it doesn't even have a semi-automatic mode. It's just that the rate of fire is low enough (relative to most smaller machine guns, that is) that a careful user can fire off a single round by very quickly pulling and releasing the trigger.

** The sniper's [[Cherry Tapping|taunt kill]] has him stab an opponent with the arrows from his unlockable bow.

** "I am heavy weapons guy, and ''this'' is my weapon. [[BFG|She weighs 150 kilograms]] <ref>330 pounds</ref> and fires 200 dollar custom-tooled cartridges at [[More Dakka|ten thousand rounds a minute]]. It costs four hundred thousand dollars to fire this weapon for ''twelve seconds''."

* [[Samurai Shodown]] has a bit of this in its repertoire, of course. Some are justifiable, like the swordsmen taking a cheap shot with the hilt (or, for Ukyo, with the sheath). Some are a little more [[Rule of Cool]], like Earthquake tossing the blade end of his kusarigama. And a few are less than textbook, like Cham Cham using her boomerang as a melee weapon.

* The [[Ascended Extra|Bandana Dee]] in [[Kirby]] [[Kirby's Return to Dream Land|Returns to Dreamland]] [[Everything's Better with Spinning|twirls his spear like a helicopter to fly.]]

* Daria from [[Rune Factory 3]] uses her hammer as a ''paintbrush.''

* In ''[[World of Warcraft]]'', the Warrior ability [[Throwing Your Sword Always Works|Heroic Throw]] does exactly what it sounds like it does - no matter what size or shape the Warrior's weapon is. One tie-in novel has a (granted, extremely skilled and demigod-blessed) warrior throw his giant two-handed sword like a spear.