Razor Floss: Difference between revisions

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* The garrotte wire used by Yoji in ''[[Weiss Kreuz]]'' occasionally functions as [[Razor Floss]], although much more often he simply strangles or restrains people with it.

* L.A. from ''[[El Cazador de la Bruja]]'' is freakishly efficient with this weapon.

{{quote| '''A random cop''': Get forensics down here ASAP. Uh, someone who's good at puzzles...}}

{{quote|'''A random cop''': Get forensics down here ASAP. Uh, someone who's good at puzzles...}}

* Chocolate from ''[[Sorcerer Hunters]]'' is yet another user.

** In the anime, Chocolate's weapon is less the wire and more the long, thin needle attached to it; in the manga, it's straight [[Razor Floss]], with some attention paid to its physics in a few chapters-- it can stretch to incredible lengths and is highly conductive to electricity. Tira has a ''spool'' of it, and at one point uses it to marionette an entire ''casino hall'', resulting in Tira winning a fortune in cheated winnings and the pit boss ending up as party cubes.

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* Before he became a ninja, Dororo of ''[[Keroro Gunsou]]'' was a deadly assassin and this was his trademark weapon.

* In the [[Touhou]] [[Hentai|H]]-[[Doujinshi|doujin]] ''Ningyou Kakumei'', [[Yandere|Alice]] manages to trick the naive [[Living Toys|doll Medicine]] into consenting to helping her in her ''[[Unusual Euphemism|research]]'' to make a self-capable Doll. As soon as Medicine said that she'd help, Alice traps her with puppeteer's threads:

{{quote| '''Alice:''' It's puppeteer's thread... you'll only cut yourself if you try to struggle... so please be a good doll and stay still...}}

{{quote|'''Alice:''' It's puppeteer's thread... you'll only cut yourself if you try to struggle... so please be a good doll and stay still...}}

* In ''[[Trigun]]'', Vash the Stampede occasionally ties a string to his gun in the anime format, allowing him to retrieve it quickly if disarmed and also, with some simple pulley mechanics, to fire on an enemy from a different angle than the foe expects. In the manga format, Leonof the Puppet Master also uses invisibly thin strings to control his hordes of killer marionettes (in the anime, he apparently just uses remote control). Finally, [[The Dragon|Legato]]'s ability to control the bodies of his enemies is revealed to work by means of microscopic threads which infiltrate the nervous system and manipulate it by means of electrical pulses.

** Leonof did use wires in the anime; that was where Vash got the idea for the wire-trigger trick.

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* A support wire is used for just the first part of the mass murder in the opening scene of the horror movie ''[[Ghost Ship]]''.

* The magic tinsel employed by the elves to break Tim Allen out of jail in the first ''[[The Santa Clause]]''.

{{quote| '''E.L.F.S. Leader''': ''Tinsel. Not just for decoration.''}}

{{quote|'''E.L.F.S. Leader''': ''Tinsel. Not just for decoration.''}}

* In the film adaptation of ''[[Johnny Mnemonic]]'', the yakuza assassin's monofilament whip is attached to a giant gold thumbnail rather than the whole digit. It also glows like some sort of laser-whip.

* A famous scene in the Australian cult classic ''Stone'' involves the murder of a biker by a high-tension wire, followed by his head rolling along the road.

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* In one of L.E. Modesitt's [[Saga of Recluce]] novels, the heroes set up defenses involving razorfloss strung along paths down which the enemy cavalry would charge.

* In [[Alastair Reynolds]]' ''Absolution Gap'', one of the bad guys has an artificial hand with razor floss built into it.

* In ''[[The Ship Who|The City Who Fought]]'' by [[Anne McCaffrey]] and ~S. M. Stirling~, Joat, a young girl, sets up several strands of monofilament wire across a corridor than baits a Kolnari patrol to chase her, running into the trap. The Kolnari are literally sliced to pieces by the molecule-thick wire, making for a gruesome, bloody scene. As Joat says, it "...gives a new meaning to 'cut off at the knees!'"

* In ''[[The Ship Who|The City Who Fought]]'' by [[Anne McCaffrey]] and [[S. M. Stirling]], Joat, a young girl, sets up several strands of monofilament wire across a corridor than baits a Kolnari patrol to chase her, running into the trap. The Kolnari are literally sliced to pieces by the molecule-thick wire, making for a gruesome, bloody scene. As Joat says, it "...gives a new meaning to 'cut off at the knees!'"

* The third episode of Dan Simmons' [[Hyperion]] Cantos, ''Endymion'', features monofilament wire used as a tripwire in an ambush. It was also conveniently hidden in a spool of sewing thread.

* The short story "[[Outbound Flight|Mist Encounter]]" has Thrawn running rings around the Imperials sent to investigate his place of exile, then calmly explaining exactly how and what he did to the captain. One of the many things he did was cause a TIE fighter to crash.

{{quote| '''Mitth'raw'nuruodo''': I knew the spacecraft would come to search. In preparation, I had strung some of my monofilament line between two of the taller treetops. One of the spacecraft hit it.}}

{{quote|'''Mitth'raw'nuruodo''': I knew the spacecraft would come to search. In preparation, I had strung some of my monofilament line between two of the taller treetops. One of the spacecraft hit it.}}

* ''[[The Stainless Steel Rat]]'' encounters an assassin using monofilament wire, but only to lower himself to a balcony where his target is. Jim DiGriz, who's working as a bodyguard of the target, has to drop several stories onto the balcony to stop him, as an attempt to climb down the wire would slice his hands open.

** From ''West of Eden'' and its sequels by the same author, monofilament knives are the standard cutting tools for Yilane (basically intelligent tool-using dinosaurs).

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** Also notable as a subversion -- when Mainwaring actually tries to demonstrate the technique (on a dummy, if I recall correctly), the wire snaps and breaks out of the handle.

*** He just demonstrated the motion in mid-air and ended up pulling too hard.

* In one [[Bones]] episode, the murderer was a sculptor who, driven to rage by his neighbour's singing, garotted him with a sharp wire he used to cut clay.

* The "wire strung across the road" trick was used in a ''[[Midsomer Murders]]'' episode to decapitate a motorcycle rider.

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* The Eldar of ''[[Warhammer 40000]]'' are fond of monofilament wire, and apply it to their enemies with many creative ways, such as forming clouds out of it, or unfurling a spoolful of it inside an enemy.

* List of [[Things Mr. Welch Is No Longer Allowed to Do In An RPG]] [http://theglen.livejournal.com/131998.html (1001-1250)] reminds us for a reason that

{{quote| 1032. Monofilament does not automatically make the world a better place.}}

{{quote|1032. Monofilament does not automatically make the world a better place.}}

* In TSR's short lived RGP, ''[[Alternity]]'', there was a particular type of villain named the "kroath" who made use of monofilament wire to set up traps. On a good roll, the material was capable of killing PCs in one attack.

* ''[[GURPS]]'' finds a bunch of clever uses for monowire from whips to swords to fences to bullets. There's also a superior version called nanothorn which is like monowire but doesn't cut things so much as it ''dissolves'' them.