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[[File:242px-Hsien-Ko_MvsC3-FTW_8758.png|link=Darkstalkers (Video Game)|right|Let's see... [[The Legend of Zelda CDi Games|Bombs, lamp oil, rope]], statues, gongs, knives... Damn, maybe you should include 7Z compressor into that list?!]]
[[File:242px-Hsien-Ko_MvsC3-FTW_8758.png|link=Darkstalkers (Video Game)|frame|Let's see... [[The Legend of Zelda CDi Games|Bombs, lamp oil, rope]], statues, gongs, knives... Damn, maybe you should include 7Z compressor into that list?!]]


{{quote|''"I didn't think you was stupid, Mister Vimes. [...] [[I Know You Know I Know|I know]] a [[Genre Savvy|clever copper]] like you'd [[Subverted Trope|think I'd got two knives.]]"<br />
{{quote|''"I didn't think you was stupid, Mister Vimes. [...] [[I Know You Know I Know|I know]] a [[Genre Savvy|clever copper]] like you'd [[Subverted Trope|think I'd got two knives.]]"<br />
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* The protagonist of ''[[Kill Bill]]'' keeps a straight razor in her boot.
* The protagonist of ''[[Kill Bill]]'' keeps a straight razor in her boot.
* ''[[The Lord of the Rings|The Return Of The King]]''. In a deleted scene, Wormtongue kills Saruman with a knife hidden up his sleeve. The knife has a curved blade to fit against the curve of the forearm for better concealment, as weapons weren't supposed to be carried in King Theoden's hall.
* ''[[The Lord of the Rings|The Return Of The King]]''. In a deleted scene, Wormtongue kills Saruman with a knife hidden up his sleeve. The knife has a curved blade to fit against the curve of the forearm for better concealment, as weapons weren't supposed to be carried in King Theoden's hall.
* ''[[Inglourious Basterds]]''. An [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sedgley_OSS_.38 OSS glove pistol] is used to kill one of Hitler's guards.
* ''[[Inglourious Basterds]]''. An [[wikipedia:Sedgley OSS .38|OSS glove pistol]] is used to kill one of Hitler's guards.
* ''The Soldier'' (1982). The [[Renegade Russian]] has a sawn-off shotgun up his sleeve with a wire attached to the trigger, so it fires when he raises his hands in surrender when confronted by a police officer.
* ''The Soldier'' (1982). The [[Renegade Russian]] has a sawn-off shotgun up his sleeve with a wire attached to the trigger, so it fires when he raises his hands in surrender when confronted by a police officer.
* In ''[[The Adventures of Ford Fairlane]]'', Andrew Dice Clay keeps a nickeled S&W Model 38 up his sleeve in a spring-loaded gamblers' rig. Naturally it never works right 'til that one time...
* In ''[[The Adventures of Ford Fairlane]]'', Andrew Dice Clay keeps a nickeled S&W Model 38 up his sleeve in a spring-loaded gamblers' rig. Naturally it never works right 'til that one time...