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* Blade once stuck a vampire to the ceiling with an electric screw driver. Points for ramming it through him without turning it on.
* In their first encounter, the Punisher managed to defeat the Russian (an ungodly powerhouse who shrugged off a knife to the gut like it was nothing and casually tore apart a pistol with his bare hands) using only a hot pizza and an extremely fat man.
** Ennis's Welcome Back Frank is full of instances of the Punisher using improvised weapons with lethal results. The best example is when Frank gets trapped by mobsters in the Bronx Zoo without ammo and [[Animal Assassin|uses the animals to kill them off.]] He throws one guy at a snake, dunks another one head first in a piranha tank and leads the rest into a polar bear pit. Unfortunately, the bears are more docile and curious than Frank expects, so he '''[[Crazy Awesome|punches]] [[Refuge in Audacity|a]] [[Crowning Moment of Awesome|polar bear]] [https://web.archive.org/web/20071005100415/http://overcaffeinated.net/img/punisher2.jpg in the face]''' to get it angry.
* Hank Pym once used [[Applied Phlebotinum|Pym Particles]] to enlarge coins and use them as throwing weapons. He specifically said he was [[A Worldwide Punomenon|"throwing big money at the problem."]]
* The Tick in one of his early stories as related by the Ninja/victims, "And then he threw a chimney at us!"
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* In ''[[Dwarf Fortress]]'', if you can hold it, you can kill someone with it. This includes a handful of sand, a handful of vomit, a handful of gravel, and ''the enemy's own pants''. That applies mostly to throwing the improvised weapon - swinging a pair of pants does what it sounds like it would do, unless you are exceptionally big and strong (bronze collossi have been known to beat dwarves to death with a sock), but it isn't as effective as punching. However, throwing seem to turn everything into deadly projectiles.
** Not just sand, [[Ridiculously Cute Critter|Fluffy Wamblers]] were [http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=56935.0 confirmed] as being able to [[Did You Just Punch Out Cthulhu?|decapitate Bronze Collossi]].
** Or there's this little gem [http://www.bay12games.com/forum/index.php?topic=44778.msg867205#msg867205 from forums]{{Dead link}}:
{{quote|- My favourite thing in adventure mode is being able to take water out of a waterskin, throw it such that it spins, and then watch it break the arm of my target.}}
** Also, miners' picks are not only useable as weapons, but are very good as weapons.
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** See also the fight between Gwynn and Oasis, where the former uses her telekenetic powers to attack Oasis with... well, anything at hand, including the chunk of wood with which the assassin gets impaled, before being knocked off a cliff.
* In ''[[The Adventures of Dr. McNinja]]'', the the title character's ninja clan were formed from Irishmen who fought off pirates with frozen shamrocks, which they used as ''shuriken''. At one point, the doctor recreates the trick... though as he does, he laments, "This is so ''retarded''."
* ''[[Walkyverse]]'': [https://web.archive.org/web/20131011030134/http://www.itswalky.com/d/20030925.html Sal uses the door.]
* ''[[The Order of the Stick|Order of the Stick]]'': [http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0396.html So does Thog.]
** O-Chul {{spoiler|has also taken a bar from his cage and ''[[Crowning Moment of Awesome|Smite Evil'd Redcloak's right eye out]]'', as well as offed Jirix and a demon-roach.}}
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** And bayonets initially were an example of turning a rifle into an improvised weapon, in this case, you make it into a short spear by sticking a knife on the end. The Plug Bayonet was rammed into the end of a musket after it was fired for charging into close quarters combat. It was quickly realized that it was rather better to have a bayonet that could be attached before firing the gun, since time is rather short in the middle of a battle, and bayonet lugs were invented.
* In September 2010, Sergeant Dipprasad Pun of the Royal Gurkha Rifles apparently [http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/mobile/uk-12854492?SThisFB beat a Taliban attacker] off a rooftop with the tripod of a heavy machinegun. The thing weighs about sixteen pounds and is made of solid steel, so smacking somebody with it is probably a lot like whalloping them with a warhammer.
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20110808065944/http://jkdtalk.com/showpost.php?p=12683&postcount=10 This poster] on the Jeet Kune Do Talk forum used ''[[Urine Trouble|his own piss]]'' as [[Squick|gross]] and [[Humiliation Conga|embarrassing]] but effective defense when he was attacked while using the urinal.
* The Dutch were infamous throughout their history for using their own country as a weapon. Because most of the populous west lies below sea level, more than one war has been won by breaching the right dike at the right time and flooding or cutting off enemy troops. Once, they even sailed their own fleet inland to liberate a besieged city.
** In a similar vein, the Russians have repeatedly used their merciless winters ([[wikipedia:General Winter|promoted to General]]) against invaders. Both Napoleon's and Hitlers armies have been savaged by them. One of the few nations to use this successfully against Russian troops were the Finns during the Winter War, when they would (among other things) systematically destroy field kitchens of Red Army detachments. Having no hot food in -40C conditions is very bad for you.
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