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== [[Film]] ==
* ''[[Men in Black (film)|Men in Black]]'''s "Noisy Cricket". It's at most 2 inches long, with a needlelike tip another inch in length. Agent J think's he's going to break it. Later in the movie, he fires it...and manages to punch some huge holes. And the recoil launches him backwards several feet.▼
** Which some fan theories suggest is an in-universe example. It's completely useless (at least with the power K had it set to) for anything other than messing with rookies.▼
** ''[[Men in Black (animation)|Men in Black]]: The Series'' runs with that hypothesis, by giving J an attachment in series 2 that makes the gun actually usable.▼
* In ''[[Tangled (2010 film)|Tangled]]'', the Disney Rapunzel story, [[Frying Pan of Doom|a frying pan is used as the best weapon ever]]. {{spoiler|[[Dangerously Genre Savvy|Even up to a point where an entire platoon of guards is equipped with frying pans]].}}▼
== [[Video Games]] ==
* ''[[Final Fantasy VI]]'' has Imp equipment. Being Imped makes a character much weaker, and wearing Imp equipment does just about nothing, but by [[All Your Powers Combined|Their Powers Combined]], a character may become near-godly. With enough grinding (all of the Imp equipment is randomly dropped), it's possible to go into the final boss battle with thirteen of fourteen characters (one character cannot equip anything except Relics) transformed into Imps, but bristling with awesome equipment. This arguably makes the last boss easier; while it locks your special skills, all characters (even weak fighters like Relm) can strike with Imp Halberds [[For Massive Damage]]. Though the amount of grinding required to do that would make the characters too strong to ''need'' the boost.
* ''[[Final Fantasy V]]'' also has a few of these.
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* In ''[[Final Fantasy IV]]'', the Lustful Lali-ho is just a joke item—it's basically a porno mag. In ''[[Final Fantasy IV: The After Years|The After Years]]'', however, it's insanely valuable, since it can be traded in the final chapter for an item that permanently boosts MP by 50—the best such item in the game.
* The ''[[Dragon Quest]]'' series; Naughty/Sexy Underwear, an "armor" item for the girls that appeared through some iterations of the series; although the joke is only in the nature of the item, its effects and atributes are generally great, making it a great equip. Also due the blatant name, and its implication for the wearer venturing the land in nothing more than a sexy lingerie, the item is widely referred in [[Rule 34|Fanarts]] and [[Doujinshi]].
** The bikini top items in [[Dragon Quest IX|the ninth game]] start off pathetically weak, giving a whole '''one''' defense. A few upgrades later however, they provide decent defense and reduce magic damage (a rarity for torso slot items) which is far more important. If you hope to challenge the bonus bosses without absurd levels of grinding, hopefully you made your party all female.
* In ''[[Dirge of Cerberus]]'', a toy gun can be acquired. It's pathetic at first, but leveling it up multiple times reveals it to be the Ultima Weapon, which is the [[Infinity+1 Sword|Infinity Plus One Gun]].
* In ''[[Kingdom Hearts: 358/2 Days|Kingdom Hearts 358 Days Over 2]]'', every Organization XIII character has a joke weapon and a lethal joke weapon.
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* In ''[[Hitman]]'':
** In ''Blood Money'', you can get a nailgun. Very inaccurate, can only hit at close range, deals almost no damage, and it has a pause between each shot. However, when you realize that a headshot with any ranged weapon is an instant kill, your huge-capacity weapon becomes useful if you hide behind a corner while under attack by a large swarm of guards.
** In ''Hitman Contracts'', you can get a [[Penny Arcade (Webcomic)|cardboard tube]] that, when used properly, results in an instant kill on nearly any enemy. The weapon's description mentions that it was "crafted from the finest natural cardboard and honed to its maximum lethality".
* In ''[[Land of the Dead]]: Road To Fiddler's Green'', the kung-fu fists are so powerful(& fast firing) they are also a [[Game Breaker]]. After finding them {{spoiler|in a closet in your murdered neighbor's house}}, the game becomes a breeze, even with mods that add several thousand zombies, or turn your character into a [[One-Hit-Point Wonder]]. After getting the kung-fu fists, the only difficult mission is "Heavy Gunner", because you are given a minigun and must use it instead of the kung-fu fists.
* ''[[World of Warcraft]]'' has the carrot on a stick. [[Exactly What It Says on the Tin|It's a carrot on a stick]]. You get it for defeating a three-headed hydra in a giant ruined troll city that takes at least 45 minutes (back in the days, that was already an incredibly short time for a dungeon) to finish if you're going for the hydra part ASAP. That's right, you go into an ancient troll city to defeat a mystical three-headed hydra and all you get is a carrot tied to a stick with a piece of string; no, it's not something the hydra drops, it's a reward from a NPC who wants the hydra dead. It increases your mount's movement speed by 3%, which seems measly, but being the only way to increase it at the time made it a powerful item for catching up with fleeing enemies, often deciding the outcome of a [[PvP]] battle. In the current game, it's not effective for players above lvl 70, where faster mounts are available, which would make the item even more powerful.
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** ''[[Symphony of the Night]]'' has the Alucart equipment, which is basically joke copies of the true Alucard equipment. They give you poor stats and shouldn't be used - unless you use them all together, in which case your Luck is jacked up considerably (and your name in the status screen is Alucart!), making it much easier to get those random drops. Like the [[Game Breaker|game-breaking]] Crissaegrim.
** In ''[[Dawn of Sorrow]]'', you have the Waiter Skeleton soul. It throws out a plate of curry that acts as a landmine, causing damage to any enemy that touches it. The damage is minimal, it's a pain to get, it only stays for a few seconds, and it's less of a hassle to just smash something than hope the enemy walks across it. Then you meet the [[Boss in Mook Clothing|Iron Golem and Final Guard]], both of which move slowly and have titanic defense, and learn that a well-thrown plate of curry will hit them ''dozens'' of times, whittling their HP down far faster than almost any other weapon. It's also required to make the Yeti appear so that you can kill him and get his soul.
* The Boots of Blinding Speed from ''[[The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind]]''. They do [[Exactly What It Says on the Tin]]—make you really fast, and blind you. However, Magicka resistance reduces or eliminates the Blinding effect, allowing you to move around very, very quickly without using Fast Travel. Additionally, if you're playing without the fan made code patch (or the fan made engine replacement ''OpenMW'') blind is bugged and ''increases'' your accuracy while partial blind only makes the screen somewhat darker, meaning you can become incredibly accurate with them on. If you're a Vampire, these become absolutely essential, as the Fast Travel NPCs won't talk to you.
** ''[[Oblivion]]'' has the staff Wabbajack, an artifact of [[Mad God|Sheogorath]], which [[Baleful Polymorph|transforms its target into a random creature]]. It'll even work on [[Big Bad|Mehrunes]] [[Eldritch Abomination|Dagon]], potentially turning the game's nearly indestructible final boss into a sheep, which you can then kill in one hit. Due to a bug breaking gravity on them, random paintbrushes can be exploited to make [[Sequence Breaking]] stairs.
** ''[[The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim|Skyrim]]'' has buckets, which can be put on an NPC's head to blind them without angering them, letting you steal with impunity.
* The ''[[Baldur's Gate]]'' series:
** A pair of Golden Pantaloons can be found early in the first game, and have no obvious purpose. In the second game, one can also find the Silver Pantaloons and the Bronze Pantaloons as well. If you managed to get all three items, they can be used to create the most powerful armor as well as a couple weapons near the end of Throne of Bhaal, the last add-on. Overall the difference to standard equipment isnt that huge, though; the weapons especially aren't that useful.
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* ''[[Cave Story]]'' has a weapon called the Nemesis that works backwards—it's most powerful at level 1, but at max level it shoots rubber duckies. There's also the Bubbler—at levels 1 and 2, it fires unimpressive bubbles, but when maxed out, the bubbles will build up as long as you hold down the trigger and fly into the target in unison, making it useful for spamming large numbers of enemies. And for defending against projectiles. And for firing around corners. As the description says, "How you use it is up to you."
▲* ''[[Men in Black (film)|Men in Black]]'''s "Noisy Cricket". It's at most 2 inches long, with a needlelike tip another inch in length. Agent J think's he's going to break it. Later in the movie, he fires it...and manages to punch some huge holes. And the recoil launches him backwards several feet.
▲** Which some fan theories suggest is an in-universe example. It's completely useless (at least with the power K had it set to) for anything other than messing with rookies.
▲** ''[[Men in Black (animation)|Men in Black]]: The Series'' runs with that hypothesis, by giving J an attachment in series 2 that makes the gun actually usable.
* ''[[EverQuest]]'' has the Mossy Twig. It does very little damage and it initially seemed like a joke. Until someone figured out it was really, really fast. When you have spells or other items that go off every time you swing a weapon...
* Tales Series
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** In multiple games, the knife was largely seen as useless, as the player character would merely thrust it forward for a single, weak strike, and it used up valuable inventory space that needed to go towards firearms and ammunition. ''Code: Veronica'' turned its animation into a slash that registered multiple hits, and then ''4'' made it even '''more''' useful by having it be permanently equipped without sacrificing an item slot.
*** [[Resident Evil]] for the DS did this too, though kept the same attack.
** Finish the main game once in ''[[Resident Evil 4]]'' and complete the Separate Ways mini-game, and you unlock an option that gives Ashley medieval-style knight's armor. This looks kind of silly given the setting, but it makes the game a ''lot'' easier, protecting Ashley from attacks (enemy attacks ''and'' accidentally hitting her yourself) and makes her
** The rotten egg in ''[[Resident Evil 5]]'', looks like a waste of space and will take a massive amount of health away when eaten. It can also sell for a fair amount, but you don't want to do that. If thrown at a normal enemy, it does a whopping ''1,000 points of damage'', five times as much as the Shotgun, enough to kill any Mook zombie in one hit.
* ''[[Disgaea 3: Absence of Justice]]'' has quite a few "joke" weapons of varying usefulness. Probably the best is the Puppy Paw Stick, which grants a 20% chance to steal a random piece of equipment from each enemy the wielder defeats. This is especially useful in the Class World, where the player can randomly encounter duplicates of the party member hosting the world, wearing duplicates of that character's gear.
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** The Lazy Shell Armor greatly reduces attack power and speed (the joke), but gives you so much Defense (the lethality), that you become practically invincible. Now, ''who'' would want to be invincible, but so weak you couldn't hurt a fly? [[White Magician Girl|Toadstool]], of course! She can ''solo'' Culex (and anything else for that matter) while wearing the Lazy Shell Armor. It just takes '''[[Marathon Boss|a very long time]]''' to do so.
** Then there's the Frying Pan. Wait, hitting enemies over the head with [[Frying Pan of Doom|a frying pan]]? It's also Toadstool's best weapon.
* One of the most lethal objects in the [[Neopets]] Battledome is...the [https://web.archive.org/web/20130331230932/http://battlepedia.thedailyneopets.com/index.php/weapon/viewweap/1
* The Squeaky Hammer in ''[[Water Warfare]].'' It slows you down, has no range and temporarily replaces your water gun, and, when used on people, simply stuns them briefly...except during [[Random Number God|those rare instances]] where it acts as an instant KO. It also grants invincibility, at least.
* ''[[Crackdown]]'' had a joke weapon in the form of a rubber duck that could be thrown at enemies. Crackdown 2 made it lethal by turning it into the strongest grenade in the game. It's even better when you realize that its eyes glow red and it quacks.
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* In ''[[Angband]]'', a few of the literal [[Poison Mushroom]]s can do considerable damage to enemies when thrown at them.
* In ''[[Sengoku Basara]]'', you can obtain Joke Weapons if you beat a stage at the highest difficulty (like Yukimura's giant matches, Ieyasu's drills, etc). They are also the strongest weapons of the game.
▲* In ''[[Tangled]]'', the Disney Rapunzel story, a frying pan is used as the best weapon ever. {{spoiler|[[Dangerously Genre Savvy|Even up to a point where an entire platoon of guards is equipped with frying pans]].}}
* ''[[Assassin's Creed]]''
** In ''[[Assassin's Creed II]]'', the broom acquired by bumping store owners holding them was treated as both a sword and a hammer for the purpose of counters. Since all of the counters but the ones that just knock the enemy down are 1-hit kills, the broom becomes laughably powerful. See that elite-looking guard in massive shining armor that dwarfs normal guards' armor? Let him strike at you and then counter, and if you are lucky (as in, not unlucky) you will hit them in the (armored) gut with the soft bristles and proceed to finish them of with an upswing that should merely give your enemy's helmet a dusting. Or, if you are really lucky, you will finish them off by slicing into their neck and pulling it out with a glorious spin. And yes, blood will fly if it is turned on.
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* [[Warriors Orochi|Warriors Orochi 3]] has numerous joke weapons as special weapons for many characters, including wrenches for Guan Suo in place of his normal nunchaku, a ruler (Called [[Just for Pun|Measure of a Man]]) for Mitsuhide Akechi instead of a katana, and "poisoned dumplings" for Da Ji, a character that uses giant floating orbs as her weapon of choice. All of these have base attack damage just above the character's default weapon, but as the character uses them, many of these joke weapons will become more powerful then the normally ultimate fourth weapons. Only about three characters out of [[Loads and Loads of Characters|a hundred and thirty two]] are exceptions to this rule.
* ""Xiphiidae" in ''[[Lord of the Rings: Fellowship of the Ring]]''. In the game's Amon Hen level, there's a secret stage where Aragorn can chase after Gollum in something similar to a game of hide and seek. Find him three times and Gollum throws a fish at him. If used as a weapon, this fish does ''three times more damage'' than Andúril itself.<ref>Aragorn's sword in the novels, the legendary weapon that was reforged from the shards of Narsil, the sword that severed Sauron's hand - with the One Ring still on it - during the War of the Last Alliance.</ref>
* The Dung Pie in ''[[Dark Souls]]'', which is basically [[Dung Fu|a big clump of dung that you throw at an enemy]]. Which is surprisingly effective. in more than one way. It can inflict the Toxic condition on a foe,
* Mr. Toots from ''[[Red Faction|Red Faction Armageddon]]''. This is a baby unicorn that [[Fartillery|shoots rainbows from its behind]] (making a goofy sound in the process), unlocked by finishing the game once. As ridiculous as this sounds, especially for a game like this is arguably the game’s equivalent of the Infinite Launcher from Resident Evil 4, more powerful than anything you can use in the first run-through.
* The Thirst Zapper in ''[[Fallout 4]]'', specifically the Nuka World DLC, which takes place in the ruins of a [[Souvenir Land| Nuka Cola themed amusement park]]. This looks like a squirt gun, and the reason for that is, it ''is'' a squirt gun, a toy originally given free with purchase of a box of Nuka-Cola soft drink. Against most enemies, it’s as useful as any other squirt gun (as in, not useful at all) but against [[Boss|Colter]], it’s a different story. Colter’s [[Powered Armor]] makes him literally invincible, but because this armor is [[No Waterproofing in the Future|not even slightly waterproof]], a few hits with this weapon will short out the armor and make him easy to finish off with a real gun.
** Even better, if you find the Project Cobalt schematics, you can upgrade the Thirst Zapper (and other [[Joke Weapon]]s) so it [[My Little Panzer| does work like a real weapon.]]
* ''[[Haunting Ground]]'':
** The Frog costume (unlocked by beating the game with Ending C) is downright silly, making it look like Fiona is wearing a child's Halloween costume that was resized for an adult. Still, if you overlook this, the costume is very useful, letting her run with no loss of stamina.
** Stuffed Hewie is unlocked by beating the game on Hard mode. This replaces regular Hewie with a [[Living Toy]] version of Hewie. This version is invulnerable to damage, but his attacks are weaker.
* Finish ''[[God of War|God of War II]]'' on any difficulty, and you unlock... Cod of War, a skin that a developer with a really lame sense of humor added for the sake of making a pun. Again, this is like a Halloween costume of a fish. The benefit is, it doubles the value of any orbs collected - whether this is worth having Kratos fight his foes while looking utterly ridiculous is up to the player.
== [[Web Original]] ==
* [[The Spiffing Brit]] has made several videos about how to ''create'' such items in ''[[The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim]]'' out of ordinary utensils like the common fork and ''fishing rods''.
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