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{{quote|''Quick! Use your fake guns as clubs!''|'''Civil War Reenactors''' from ''[[The Simpsons (animation)|The Simpsons]]''}}
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* At the store -- [[Produce Pelting|Fresh produce]], pop caps, anything in a can, cash registers, depending on the store TVs, furniture, VCRs, heavy electronics, candy balls, toys.
* [[Car Fu|A car]].
* Anywhere in your own
More and more video games, especially those with [[Ragdoll Physics]], allow the use of environment items as a weapon. Even in early [[Beat'Em Up|Brawlers]], it was a very useful tactic.
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* Lucy of ''[[Elfen Lied]]'' does this using her vectors to throw things with blinding speed and accuracy, including pens on numerous occasions.
** Which, while awesome, isn't nearly as improvised as Nana using her own prosthetic limbs for the same purpose.
* David from ''[[Blood Plus|Blood+
* Kiri, the male protagonist of the manga ''[[Double Arts]]'' attempts this. He cobbles a sword together using a large number of much smaller knives thrown at him by the ''very guy he's fighting.'' Subverted in that, while impressive, Kiri's improvised weapon fails, breaking on impact.
* Yomiko Readman of ''[[Read or Die]]'' lives by this trope, as she can turn any item made of any kind of paper into anything she likes. Notable examples include a bulletproof shield made from newspapers, a grappling hook and a Cessna-sized paper airplane from ungraded homework, a lockpick from a hair tie, a katana from $100 bills and several shuriken from 3x5 cards.
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* Despite being mainly a swordsman, [[Yaiba]] is not above using various things (including a flag-pole, kitchen knives, a flashlight and his sandals) as weapons.
* ''[[Baccano!]]!'''s [[Ax Crazy|Claire]] [[Psycho for Hire|Stanfield]] doesn't really care ''what'' he uses to kill people with, just as long as the [[There Is No Kill Like Overkill|end result is really,]] ''[[There Is No Kill Like Overkill|really]]'' [[Gorn|bloody]]. Examples include guns, knives, scissors, rope, railroad tracks, his bare hands, and his own ''teeth''.
* Kaname from ''[[Full Metal Panic!]]!'', arguably. She knocked Sōsuke out using the second base from the school baseball field by throwing it and hitting him right in the base of the neck.
** Sōsuke does this sometimes. There was one occasion where he took down an attacking Savage by uprooting a tree and throwing it straight into the Savage's head. It counts because he did have a gun at that time. On another, he was forbidden from using weapons (in his interpretation, firearms) in a fight; he whipped out a fire extinguisher instead.
* ''[[Gun X Sword]]'': Ray Lundgren's [[Humongous Mecha|Vulcan]] was originally a mining machine his wife built. In the series proper, it's a [[Mighty Glacier]] with [[More Dakka|a lot of guns]] and seems to be capable of producing more power than an Original Seven armor.
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** Once she used her hairband because she didn't have a weapon on her [[Full-Frontal Assault|for obvious reasons]]
* ''[[One Piece]]'': [[Supreme Chef]] Sanji normally refuses to use knives in combat, despite being extremely skilled with them. He reasons that a chef's knives are tools for preparing food, not weapons. However, against one opponent that uses food as a weapon (which trips his [[Berserk Button]], he ''hates'' people who waste food) he does not face this restriction.
* ''[[Darker than Black]]'': Hei doesn't use this trope excessively in season one, but come season two and he pulls out all the stops.<ref>since he suddenly [[Brought Down to Badass|has to be a little more creative]]...</ref>
** Suou learns this trope well, and is shown using it with disturbingly effective results when {{spoiler|rescuing July. She flings shards of glass like they were shuriken, hitting her target in startlingly vital and painful areas.}}
** Someone had Hei disarmed [[No Mister Bond I Expect You to Dine|and was trying to recruit him over lunch]]
* Things that ''[[Durarara!!]]'''s Shizuo Heiwajima uses as weapons: crowbars, trash cans, traffic signs (up to and including those giant ones for freeways), guardrails, mailboxes, playground equipment, park benches, vending machines, motorbikes, van doors..the list goes on. If it has even a minor chance of breaking every bone in Izaya's body, he's probably going to use it as a weapon.
** Shizuo is, naturally, not the only one to improvise weapons (although he is the only one so far to [[Grievous Harm with a Body|weaponize a Power Ranger]]) -- others resort to more manageable items like pens (Seiji, {{spoiler|Mikado}}), Jimmy bars ({{spoiler|Kida}}), soldering irons ({{spoiler|Walker and Erika}}) or garden trowels ({{spoiler|Mika}})
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* ''[[Serenity]]'' has Mal face off against The Operative in the final battle. The latter carries a sword so the former pulls out a screwdriver from a handy tool box.
* ''[[The Transporter]]'' specializes in these, or indeed anything with Jason Statham in it.
** The best example is beating up a roomful of [[Mook
* [[Indiana Jones]] lives by this trope. And he's not alone. As Marcus says, the pen is mightier than the sword.
** In ''[[Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade|The Last Crusade]]'', Professor Henry Jones Sr. has killed Nazis with the following: a pen, an umbrella, a flock of birds, a knowledge of the writings of Charlemagne. In addition to bashing his own son on the head with a vase.
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* In Dean Koontz' "Odd Thomas" series, the titular main character states that he hates using guns, but can, will, and has used anything else on hand as a weapon.
* Julio Poertena from the ''[[Prince Roger]]'' series carries a big wrench, which he uses to [[Percussive Maintenance|adjust the attitude of malfunctioning gear]] and enemies in close range with equal fervour and precision.
* In ''Blackout'', [[Cal Leandros]], who is normally happiest using large-caliber firearms, kills a spider the size of a German
* In ''[[Honor Harrington|The Honor of the Queen]]'', Honor uses a metal tray as a thrown weapon against {{spoiler|Protector Benjamin's would-be assassins.}}
* [[Time Scout
* In an explicit shout-out to [[Buffy the Vampire Slayer]], Harry [[Dresden Files|Dresden]] tries to turn his recently-broken blasting rod into two stakes for fighting vampires. It doesn't work. He's also been known to hold mouthfuls of garlic and let vampires tackle him, and use a (steel) letter opener and nails to ward off Fae. He's killed a demon with an elevator. He was much more fond of this earlier in the series.
** Toot Toot saved Harry from the skin-walker when Toot Toot tried to attack the skin-walker with a box-cutter and wearing makeshift armor. Remember, Toot Toot is the size of a G.I. Joe action figure, the skin-walker is (at the moment) about ten feet tall, and is always one of ''the'' heavy-weight eldritch abominations in the series.
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** Also spoofed in the ''[[Futurama]]'' episode "Where No Fan Has Gone Before'', in which their improvised weapons (including [[Rule of Funny|a bow with a bowstring made of caterpillars]]) all fail in practice, so Kirk has to resort to making out with his opponent.
** Also in ''[[Star Trek]]'' Original Series episode "Space Seed" Kirk uses a piece of equipment grabbed from a engineering console to beat up Khan.
* In the ''[[Babylon 5]]'' episode "Gray 17 is Missing", Garibaldi (who has a few bullets, but no gun) defeats a monstrous Zarg by stuffing the bullets into a steam pipe and using the head and pressure to fire them one at a time. Don't try this at
** In a more dramatic event, during a battle in the Earth-Minbari war a Minbari shuttle lures an Earthforce strike group to a precise location...and at least one vessel is destroyed when Minbari warships open jump points that intersect their hulls. (The Minbari were obviously just showing off at that point. Unless they Warrior Caste is much less like humans than they seem, there was probably a bet involved.)
* In ''[[Lost]]'', Sayid kills someone with a dishwasher... more precisely, a row of knives faced up in the dishwasher tray.
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* In an episode of ''McCloud'', Sam McCloud used a couple gallons of liquid detergent and a firehose to defeat a small army of armed killers breaking into poilce headquarters.
* In ''[[The Sarah Connor Chronicles]]'', [[Robot Girl|Cameron]] in particular and the Terminators in general use various improvised weaponry, often because [[Immune to Bullets|conventional weapons just do not work on them.]] Cameron has used weapons like a ripped-off exhaust pipe from a truck, a loose high power cable, and an ''elevator'', while other Terminators use weapons like a bar of coltan alloy, or barrels of radioactive waste.
* This trope pops up a lot in ''[[Misfits]]'', sometimes played for comedy (Nathan attacking the security guard with a stapler for instance), and sometimes through sheer
* In ''[[Flash Forward]]'', Mark Benford is blackmailed into coming to a deserted area with no support or weapons by the genius Dyson Frost. When they meet face to face, Mark asks to take a drink of water, then spits into Dyson's face, revealing the bottle to have been filled with gas from his car.
* In one episode of [[Legend of the Seeker]] imprisoned Kahlan makes herself a weapon by ''folding a plate'' and proceeds to kill a guard with it.
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== Pro Wrestling ==
* [[ECW]] employed this frequently, with everything from "Singapore canes" to fire extinguishers, staple guns, stop signs, barbed wire, and, on one occasion, a Sega Genesis. The style was later aped by [[WWE|WWF]] and WCW, with their hardcore matches; they added implements like galvanized-steel trash cans and cookie sheets to the mix. One infamous hardcore match between The Rock and Mankind saw Rock pummel Mankind with the handset to a pay phone while screaming, "It's for you!"
** The original ECW Arena was located near a thrift shop, and for a while, the management held contests for the most original fan-brought foreign
*** Speaking of skillets, that was how "Mighty" Molly (Holly) became one of the few women to win the Hardcore Title, by defeating her mentor, The Hurricane (she lost it shortly after when she ran into the upper half of a door that Christian was opening. He looked guilty at first, but then pinned her to claim it anyway.)
*** He mentions in his autobiography ''Have a Nice Day'' that the best improvised weapon he used was... a ''two-man kayak''. Which just goes to show that you ''can'' [[A Worldwide Punomenon|have your kayak and beat it]].
**** He also mentioned a WWE match against Owen Hart where they attacked each other with giant bags of popcorn. POPPED popcorn. It was mostly intended as a joke.
** One memorable match in [[Syfy]]'s ECW had Tommy Dreamer ram Christian into a hotdog cart and start hitting him with the contents inside, taking a break to eat. Christian came back and finished him off with a car door.
* Most "traditional" wrestling weapons are improvised, anyway. The ubiquitous folding steel chair is one of
** [[Chain Pain|Chains]] show up from time to time, as do brass knuckles and kendo sticks.
* Chris Jericho pulled off one of the rings on the ropes used to lift the steel cage and then beat Batista bloody with it.
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== Tabletop Games ==
* The ''Battletech'' [[Humongous Mecha]] wargame has rules to allow the 'Mechs to pick up arms and limbs that have been shot off other 'Mecha (although, there's nothing stopping a 'Mech using it's ''own'' amputated leg, come to that).
** If your 'Mech has hands and is in a forest
** There's also the option for an Assault class 'Mech to even use a lighter 'Mech as a melee weapon, in the [[Humongous Mecha]] version of [[Grievous Harm with a Body]].
* The Orks of ''[[Warhammer 40000]]'' have their ''entire civilisation'' based around this (and getting [[More Dakka]]). Everything is improvised, and ''everything'' is a weapon.
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* In ''[[In Nomine]]'', Malakites of Creation (and any other Angel with their Choir Attunement) explicitly have the ability to pick up anything and use it as a weapon, the effectiveness determined by their stats rather than the object in question, the explanation being "they fight creatively."
* In ''[[Scion]]'', a character with sufficient Epic Strength can use anything ranging from a motorcycle to a nuclear aircraft carrier as such.
* Scion's pseudo-progenitor ''[[Exalted]]'' has a lot of the same, only in one case, it's so much cheesier. The core rulebook's set of Exalted, the Solars, have their titular martial arts style, Solar Hero Style, have a minor focus on improvised weapons. The Lunar Exalted are much, much worse. Not in Lunar Hero Style, but because anything they can pick up, they can make a perfect attack with using one of their Charms (a perfect attack is [[Exactly What It Says on the Tin]]
** Meanwhile, a good chunk of the Exalted types get Melee and Thrown Charms. Under the right circumstances, these can apply to dessert forks and fruit. Similarly, the Sidereal Exalted get an Archery Charm that allows them to turn anything shorter than their
* Besides the normal improvised weapon rules ''[[GURPS]]'': Powers spends two whole pages on the effects of using improvised weapons that are bigger than you are (like cars, or I-beams).
** An in the ''Dungeon Fantasy'' setting Ninjas can temporarily make improvised weapons just as effective as proper weapons.
* Always at the cutting edge of tavern brawl technology, ''[[Seventh Sea]]'' features a school of fencing dedicated to the use of improvised weapons. Note that it doesn't give any advantage to combat with ''real'' weapons. Rather, at a low rank it allows the fencer to wield anything as if it were a
* In ''[[Paranoia]]'', Bouncy Bubble Beverage cans explode if you shake them enough, making them popular among citizens not cleared to use actual grenades.
* ''[[Dungeons and Dragons]]''
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** ''[[Dead Space 2]]'' drives it even more, the plasma cutter, Isaac's main weapon is made from a flashlight and a surgical tissue laser.
* The MMO ''[[Vindictus]]'' runs away with this trope. The player can pick up virtually any object lying about and use it to beat the hell out of their enemies, including vases, sticks, signposts, cauldrons, boulders, small ''trees''...needless to say, the results are spectacular. There are even several titles that can be earned this way. It's based on the Source engine, so perhaps the developers thought they'd pay their respects to [[Half-Life]] 2 in this way.
* In ''[[The Punisher]]'' many interesting objects can be picked up and used for a
** This was also present in the older arcade game, in which Frank could use anything from baseball bats to bags of sand to flower pots as weapons. They all broke eventually, but at least they last more than one hit.
* The characters in ''[[Siren (video game)|Siren]]'' and ''Siren 2'' generally use random objects they find as weapons. Examples would be umbrellas, wooden sticks, crowbars, fire pokers, shovels, hammers, wrenches, shoe horns, trophies, and pipes. Other characters might have guns or special objects instead, or might lack weapons entirely.
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* ''[[Phantom Brave]]'' by [[Nippon Ichi]] makes this an art form. ''Everything'' on a given stage can be used as a weapon, from swords and axes, to rocks, pillars, clumps of grass, and the bodies of your allies and enemies. Not only that, but these weapons and ordinary items have their own magic and special attacks. So if you pick up a log, for example, you can not only use it as a club, but if you [[Evolving Attack|level it up]], it also becomes a [[BFG]].
* The computer game ''[[Freedom Force]]'' and its sequels, based on [[The Golden Age of Comic Books|Golden]] and [[The Silver Age of Comic Books|Silver Age]] [[Superhero]] comics, has characters who can pick up pieces of the environment as weapons including electrical poles, cars and trees.
* In ''[[Saga Frontier]]'' Gen somehow cuts through a thick rope using a rusty length of pipe. Somewhat lampshaded when T260 remarks upon the absurdity of such a feat and nearly [[Logic Bomb
* ''[[SaGa Frontier 2]]'' allowed you to use the terrain you were standing on for magic. Standing on grass allowed you to use tree magic, snow allowed you to use water magic, etc.
* The cult RPG ''[[Earthbound]]'' for the Super Nintendo practically epitomizes this trope, as the main characters (all of them [[Kid Hero|young children]]) have to defeat enemies using improvised weapons such as [[Batter Up|baseball bats]], [[Frying Pan of Doom|frying pans]] and bottle rockets, just to name a few. The game even goes one step further, when, during the final boss battle, the character must use the power of prayer to help them get an edge over the last enemy. To be fair, the last boss of said game had become Evil Incarnate by eating an [[What Do You Mean Its Not Symbolic|apple of knowledge]]. You'd be praying for humanity and any good willed divinity you believed in as well if you had to fight [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9gbG_gzgyJI this].
* In the classic NES beat-em-up ''[[River City Ransom]]'', you can use various objects like pipes, tires, trash cans, baseballs, boxes, rocks, even unconscious foes as weapons. You can either throw them or use them as a club, leading to tons of wonderful fights where you knock someone out by tossing a tire at their head, then picking up their body and whacking their buddy with it.
* The bread-and-butter of the combat system in [[First-Person Shooter]] ''[[Condemned]]: Criminal Origins'', where the main method of arming yourself is by ripping something off the environment. Considering the game's themes and dark setting, not at all done for comedy (unless it's of the [[Dead Baby Comedy|dead baby]] variety). Some of the more... memorable weapons include the "cutter" part of a paper cutter, the fireaxe, the sledgehammer, and the butcher knife. And also ''mannequin arms''. See that gun, Officer Thomas? You can't reload it.
* The ''[[Super Smash Bros.]]'' series feature a large variety of items that can mostly be used offensively in some way. Among other things, a Paper Fan, Mr. Saturn (from ''[[Earthbound]]''), Smoke Bombs and Pokéballs (not only to release the Pokémon inside, the ball itself can hurt characters). Even Springs can be thrown at enemies for some damage. And ''keys''. And then there are characters that use things like an umbrella (Peach), turnips (Peach again), Pikmin (Olimar) or a chair (Mr.Game&Watch) to fight their enemies
Every single one of Mr. Game & Watch's attacks is an outrageously over-the-top weapon, from his manhole cover to a can of bug spray to various hammers (grand total three... not including the hammer items) to cooked meat out of a frying pan and the frying pan itself to a turtle. And they're all taken from actual Game & Watch games. Mr. Game & Watch is the honest-to-god ''embodiment'' of this trope.
* ''[[Pokémon]]'' is full of these.
** Cubone and Marowak use a dirt-covered bone (they're Ground-Type for ''some'' reason), and Farfetch'd uses a ''Stick'', which became an actual Item in ''Generation II''.
** Introduced in Gen IV is the move Fling, which makes you throw your held item- ''any'' held item- at the enemy.
* ''[[Nethack]]'' permits you to use any in-game object as a weapon. Whack someone over the head with a potion of blindness, and the bottle will shatter, blinding the
* There's a few of them in ''[[Indiana Jones and The Emperor's Tomb]]'', including a shovel.
* ''[[Justice League]] Heroes'' lets your chosen hero pick up a variety of items, from pipes and such (for heroes such as Batman and the Flash) to cars and dumpsters (for Superman and Wonderwoman).
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* Kratos from ''[[God of War (series)|God of War]]'' doesn't really need to ''improvise'' weapons, but he occasionally does anyway. Most notable might be from the second game, where he kills {{spoiler|Theseus}} by repeatedly slamming a door into his face. Ripping off a Gorgon's head and using it to petrify enemies also counts.
** He'll also use an enemies whole body as a projectile, ranging from kicking dogs across screen at someones heads to impaling footsoldiers and flinging them at larger groups.
* ''Psi-Ops'' is another case of telekinetically-fueled improvisation, as anything not bolted
* A defensive example: Marky of ''[[Backyard Sports]]'' makes shin guards out of newspaper. (It actually helps him.)
* ''[[Metro 2033]]'' has a host of improvised weapons fashioned by the inhabitants of the postapocalyptic Moscow Metro. There's the unreliable homemade assault rifle (It uses 5.45x39 bullets, so it's an AR, not a sub-machine gun), prone to overheating and known colloquially as the "Bastard", the
* ''[[Crisis Core]]: [[Final Fantasy VII]]'' manages this at one point of the story and in a few sub-missions at Costa Del Sol. Zack has to defend the area armed with nothing but a BEACH UMBRELLA. Which happens to be as powerful as his sword!
* In ''[[Alan Wake]]'', because your enemies are darkness, anything that creates light can be used as a weapon, usually your flashlight. At one point, the [[Plucky Comic Relief]] defends himself by wearing a headlamp ("It's my [[The Lord of the Rings|flaming eye of Mordor]]!") and wrapping himself in Christmas lights ("For protection. Like garlic against vampires."). And in a [[Crowning Moment of Awesome]], {{spoiler|the pyrotechnics of a [[The Power of Rock|rock stage]] help blast away the enemies' protective darkness.}}
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* ''[[Minecraft]]'': ANYTHING you pick up can be used as a weapon, even blocks of dirt and pork chops. Anything that isn't a pickaxe, sword, axe, or shovel does 1 heart of damage only, but you can still kill any enemy with any item obtainable in the game.
* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=39ynn8FG2h0 As the trailer] for [[Psycho Waluigi]] points out. 'With your newfound psychic powers EVERYTHING is a weapon!'
* ''[[Touhou]]'' is well known for being full of [[Improbable Weapon User
* ''[[Elvira Games|Elvira 2: Jaws of Cerberus]]'' allows you to use a mop as a weapon. It's not a very good one.
* ''[[Saints Row 2]]'' gives you the option to use these lying around Stilwater. These can range from road signs, to chairs, to cash registers and toilets and TVs.
* ''[[Power Dolls]]'' original story was that the eponymous walking vehicles are built on chassis of heavy loaders, which colonists on Omni already had in production when [[
* Pino in ''[[Thwaite]]'' tells Milo how to use July fireworks as makeshift anti-ballistic missiles.
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* [http://theuncle2k.deviantart.com/art/Improvised-Weapon-138751506 This.]
* This is ''extremely'' common among the protagonists of ''[[Darwin's Soldiers]]''.
** ''Nietzsche's Soldiers''
** The first RP:
*** James' team shorts out Cale with saline solution.
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** Not to be confused with the [[Healing Shiv]].
* The Pen Gun, a testament to Norwegian ingenuity, is made from standard office supplies and can launch a pencil through a soda can. More than enough to penetrate the tranchea or temple.
* Roman senator Tiberius Gracchus was killed with a bench. A little later, the tribune Saturninus and his followers were murdered while being held in the Senate
* In WWI, soldiers in the trenches would sharpen their entrenchment tools (small shovels) and use them in hand-to-hand combat.
** An American knife company makes a reproduction of the Soviet MPL-50 entrenching tool, with particular emphasis on the fighting and generally offensive applications of it.
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* Home-made guns in the USA were called "zip guns" they were very unsafe, and as handguns have become more readily available they are mostly forgotten.
* There was a CCTV recording showing a hotel clerk successfully fought off robbers with a fire extinguisher when they think they have everyone under control.
* [[wikipedia:Technical (vehicle)|Technicals]], which are usually nothing more than civillian pickup trucks with [[Scavenger World|salvaged guns or rocket tubes]] welded on, have proven to be effective in combat in the Middle East and North Africa whenever proper fighting vehicles are hard to come by. What technicals lack in armor, they make up for with speed and maneuvability, and are much less costly to produce, allowing belligerents to deploy them in large numbers to compensate for their fragility. Although as some such forces have learned from time to time, even a large number of such technicals are no match for proper armored vehicles in a force-on-force battle. Most machine guns will do little more than get the attention of a tank, and many of the rocket launchers will lack the penetration required if fighting armored vehicles head-on.<ref>
* Many medieval weapons descended from more peaceful implements: scythe set on a pole straight (fauchard or naginata), sharpened pitchfork, flail with a few extra iron bands, hammer...
* Many of the classic weapons of martial arts were improvised, as their origins dated from a time when swords were forbidden to anyone outside the samurai class. The bo staff was a wooden pole used to carry buckets of water; the sai was a piece of metal that kept wagon carts attached to the wagons. Tonfa were handles taken from wells. Nunchaku were implements used to whip horses (or to ground up grains; history is a little unclear on this one).
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* Even honest-to-goodness guns can be used this way, if circumstances arise that prevent you from using them for their designed purpose (out of ammo, weapon malfunction, bad guy inside the effective range, etc.). Members of the armed forces are trained to use their firearms as melee weapons, including a fluid set of four melee attacks for use with a rifle <ref>These are called [[wikipedia:Buttstroke|Buttstrokes]] ([[Inherently Funny Words|Stop giggling]]), You swing the butt of the rifle up, then thrust the butt forward, then swing the barrel down, slashing them with either the barrel or an attached bayonet. Then you can either try to hit them with the butt again, or jab them with the barrel (the last two moves make a lot more sense with a bayonet attached)</ref>
** 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
* [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.
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* The 1933 "Battle of Stockton", a clash between facist Blackshirts and pissed off locals, involved a great deal of improvised weaponry, ranging from sticks, pickaxe handles and stones, to at least one potato studded with razor blades. The latter actually managed to take one facist's eye out.
* During the [[wikipedia:Lisbon Regicide|assassination of King Carlos I of Portugal,]] Queen Amélie struck back at the assassins with the only object at her reach: a flower bouquet.
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