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A [[Voluntary Shapeshifter]] is never without a weapon, because they ''are'' a weapon. When nothing else is within reach, they can form their body or [[Artificial Limbs]] into [[Wolverine Claws|claws]], [[Blade Below the Shoulder|blades]], [[Cool Guns|guns]], [[Drop the Hammer|hammers]]... their arsenal is limited only by their [[Green Lantern Ring|imagination]]! (And possibly the story's [[Magic
Some Shapeshifters use this as their primary [[Weapon of Choice]], while others favor conventional weapons and only [[I Am Not Left-Handed|reveal this power after being otherwise disarmed]].
Part of what makes the [[Shapeshifter Showdown]] so spectacular. Compare with the [[Morph Weapon]], which has similar powers but isn't part of the wielder's body, and [[Retractable Weapon]]. Not to be confused with the [[Calvin and Hobbes|Transmogrifier]] [[Transformation Ray|gun]]. See [[Equippable Ally]] for when they still need a little help from an ally to take advantage of this.
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== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ==▼
▲== Anime and Manga ==
* ''[[Narutaru]]'' had a weird arms-out-the-back [[Mons]] that kept growing gatling guns.
* Edward Elric in ''[[Fullmetal Alchemist]]'' frequently uses his abilities to turn his [[Artificial Limbs|prosthetic arm]] into a sword. In the manga, Envy can turn into literally ''anything''. During a fight with Lin Yao, he turns his limbs into a sword and a ''snake''. In the anime, Envy turns his arm into a black spike near the end. At another time, he copies Ed's arm and the sword trick. Wrath in the 1st animé had the ability to transmute ''his own body''.
** Greed can make his skin hard as diamond and uses this for defense and offense in battle.
** Lust possess the Ultimate Spear, meaning she can make her fingers [[Captain Obvious|long and pointy...like spears.]]
** [http://imageshack.us/f/854/fatherhandgun1234.png/ Father once formed his hand into a gun]... [[Incredibly Lame Pun|A handgun, so to speak]]
* Naraku of [[Inuyasha]] spontaneusly sprouts [[Combat Tentacles]] whenever he needs them, or morphs his hands into those to impale his enemies.
* Elder Toguro of ''[[Yu Yu Hakusho]]'' loves turning his body parts into pointy things to stab people with.
* Eve from ''[[Black Cat (manga)|Black Cat]]'' turns her limbs and hair into weapons, usually blades. Same for her [[Expy]] Yami-chan from ''[[To
* Chachamaru in ''[[Mahou Sensei Negima]]'' can transform her forearms into blades or even guns. Judging from his ability to mimic other people exactly, Albireo can likely use his pactio item on his larynx. Evangeline also enjoys a good shape-shift here and there (claws are her favorite).
* A subtrope is when someone bleeds themselves, and then morphs the blood into weapons. Seen in ''Flame of Recca'' and [[Black Cat (manga)|Black Cat]]. See [[Bloody Murder]].
* There was an episode of ''[[Pokémon]]'' involving a Ditto that eventually turned into a cannon for a [[Fastball Special]]. Now if it could only turn into an actual cannon in the games...
* The [[Night of the Living Mooks|Mariages]] in ''[[Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha]] StrikerS [[All There in the Manual|Sound Stage X]]'' do battle by converting their arms into weapons such as swords, lances, or [[Arm Cannon|artillery]].
* ''[[Soul Eater]]'' has a few [[Equippable Ally|shapeshifters]] able to transform parts of their bodies.
** In the chapter 63, Marie said that the ability of manipulate their form is one of the basical traits of the Death Scythes. Indeed, Spirit, Marie and {{spoiler|Soul Eater}}
** Crona has the ability to use Ragnarok the Demon Sword. Although Ragnarok has its own soul and own personality, it was born of and lives in Crona's blood, effectively meaning that it is a part of Crona.
* Nube's Oni Hand in ''[[Hell Teacher Nube]]''. He has to be careful when doing this, though, lest the hand overpower him and consume his entire body.
* On ''[[Blood
* , Eve Neuschwanstein from [[NEEDLESS]] is a shapeshifter and likes to change costumes along with her arms into weapons.
* [[Miko|Arashi Kishuu]], from ''[[X 1999]]'', can draw a sword out of her hand whenever she needs it. There's also [[Genki Girl|Yuzariha's]] dog/[[His Dark Materials|daemon]] Innuki, who can transform into a sword at
* The titular characters of ''[[Karakuridouji Ultimo]]''.
* Alissa Southerncross from ''[[Keroro Gunsou]]'' fights aliens with the help of her shape-shifting "daddy", Nebula.
* The titular [[Parasyte
* Kanade from ''[[Angel Beats!]]'' had the abilities to change her [[Blade Below the Shoulder|arm]] into four different types of weapons.
* Gajeel from ''[[Fairy Tail]]'' can change his limbs into a club, a spear or a sword. And a chainsaw.
== [[Comic Books]] ==
* The [[Marvel Universe]] has several:
** [[X-Men (Comic Book)|X-Men]] villain Apocalypse can make anything from [[Battering Ram
** The X-Men's own Random can also turn his arms into guns. Like, [[BFG|really huge ones]]. It's pretty weird-looking when he does it.
** Also in X-Men, Cessily Kincaid, Mercury III, forms blades, maces, and hammers among other things. At least once, she's also done a variant where she's acted as armor for another character.
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** Mystique can do this with some effort, but usually doesn't because she still has organs and needs to remember where they are. Instead, for example, she'll shift most of the muscles of her upper body into her right arm just as she delivers a punch, thereby increasing its power. She's also been known to hide guns ''inside herself''. At one point she even gave herself two heads and four arms to fight on two fronts at once.
** Carnage (and to a lesser degree, the other symbiotes) is a perfect example, as he's famous for morphing his body into weapons, especially axes and other blades.
*** While Carnage and his ilk are seen most often using symbiote-weapons, Venom has been using one since it first bonded to Spider-Man: the web shooting. This ability is mostly limited by imagination; What-If and crossovers have shown other options, such as the Punisher getting the Venom symbiote and making ''guns'' with bullets of symbiote-stuff. Of course he also had a tremendous appetite, since the ammo had to come from
* [[The DCU]] has a few as well:
** Guy Gardner, when he was Warrior. A bit of a step down from a [[Green Lantern Ring]] (''especially'' since he had the yellow ring before).
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== [[Film]] ==
* The liquid-metal T-1000 from ''[[Terminator (franchise)|Terminator 2]]'' could turn its arms into
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▲* The liquid-metal T-1000 from ''[[Terminator (franchise)|Terminator 2]]'' could turn its arms into blades -- handy for killing people when it was imitating someone who wouldn't be carrying a firearm.
▲{{quote| '''T-8000:''' Guns and explosives have chemicals, moving parts. It doesn't work that way. But it can form solid metal shapes.<br />
▲'''John:''' Like what?<br />
'''T-800:''' Knives and stabbing weapons. }}
* John Carpenter's ''The Thing'' could spontaneously grow teeth, claws, arms, mouths, etc. anywhere on its body.
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* Mystique did this in the first ''[[X-Men (film)|X Men]]'' [[The Movie|movie]] with Wolverine's claws (which failed miserably against the real ones).
* ''[[Transformers Film Series|Transformers]]'': Pretty much every weapon used by the titular species is formed from their limbs (except, for some reason, Optimus's gun). Other exceptions include [[Fan Nickname|Brawlvastator]]'s over-shoulder missile launchers (his tank [[Kibbles and Bits|kibble]]) and Blackout's [[Chest Blaster]].
* The [[Eldritch Abomination|Harvesters]] in ''[[The Deaths of Ian Stone]]'' use a [[Blade Below the Shoulder]] version of this [[Dual-Wielding|with both arms]]. Antagonists go full-on [[One-Winged Angel]], but {{spoiler|[[Tomato in the Mirror|our hero]]}} shifts noticeably less than them, and eventually gains the ability to take advantage of this trope [[Partial Transformation|while remaining otherwise normal]].
* Limb removed? The "engineers" in ''[[Tokyo Gore Police]]'' grow a chainsaw or some other weapon out of there.
== [[Literature]] ==
* Visser Three does this in at least one ''[[Animorphs]]'' book, "The Reaction". His Levtin Javelin Fish morph throws spears at the fleeing Animorphs until someone punches a hole in it.
* In ''[[Quantum Gravity]]'', Lila Black is implied to be capable of this from book four onwards. In fact, book five heavily implies that she could turn her body parts into anything.
== [[Live Action TV]] ==▼
* ''[[Stargate SG-1]]'': RepliCarter has the same bladed arm as the T-1000 as a homage to ''[[Terminator|Terminator 2]]''.
* Odo from ''[[Star Trek: Deep Space Nine]]'': his shapeshifting powers are his main tool in keeping the peace.
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== [[Tabletop Games]] ==
* Obliterators in ''[[Warhammer
▲* Obliterators in ''[[Warhammer 40000]]''. These are genetically-engineered supermen who've caught a daemonic contagion that fuses them to their armour and gives them the ability to form a wide variety of guns from their bodies -- up to and including giant laser and plasma cannons. Iron Warriors are particularly prone to catching this Obliterator Virus, even those who are not armoured [[Space Marines]].
▲* ''[[Dungeons and Dragons]]''
** 3.5 ed. has a Prestige Class, the Warshaper, basically devoted to this, allowing a character to use his extant shapechanging ability (gained from another class or racial feature) to give himself natural weapons and superstrength, along with a few other perks.
** ''[[Forgotten Realms]]'' has
** The Keepers, creepy [[The Men in Black|Men in Black]] with malleable bodies, such that they can reshape their hands into clubs or knives.
* ''[[GURPS]]: Magic'' has a whole set of spells called Partial Shapeshifting that allow the caster to transform body parts into enhanced versions of animal ones.
== [[Video Games]] ==
* Huitzil in ''[[Darkstalkers]]'' has the rather unexplained ability to transform his arms and legs into various weapons and tools in combat. Also Rikuo, Lord Raptor, and Q-Bee, for reasons equally unexplained. [[Mega Man Legends|Tron Bonne]] in ''[[Marvel vs. Capcom]] 2'' has the same ability.
▲* Huitzil in ''[[Darkstalkers]]'' has the rather unexplained ability to transform his arms and legs into various weapons and tools in combat. Also Rikuo, Lord Raptor, and Q-Bee, for reasons equally unexplained. [[Mega Man Legends|Tron Bonne]] in ''[[Marvel vs. Capcom]] 2'' has the same ability.
* The MMO ''Warhammer Online'' features a Chaos class called the Marauder, who can turn his arms into giant blades, maces, and claws. Too bad they removed the female version, which would had have so much [[Fetish Fuel]] (let's see: an evil, muscular woman that can turn her arm into stuff)
** The official explaination for male-only marauders is that they wanted them all to be bare-chested. Yes, ''all'' of them. But they wanted to avoid an explicit Mature rating; same reason Slaaneshi daemons (notoriously naked) are in short supply and covered up more-than-usual.
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== [[Web Comics]] ==
* Ysengrin from ''[[Gunnerkrigg Court]]'' can crush robots with his tree-arms, and turn his arms into blades. Also Reynardine has a habit of doing similar things with the lockpicks [[Snooping Little Kid|Annie was storing in the doll]] which he possessed.
* The [[Exactly What It Says on the Tin|Goblin Slayer]] from ''[[Goblins]]'' is basically a tree-cyborg, and is in the habit of growing blades, bows, and arrows from his tree-arm.
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== [[Western Animation]] ==
* Diamondhead from ''[[Ben 10]]'' can turn his arm into a pointy crystal. The [[
▲* Diamondhead from ''[[Ben 10]]'' can turn his arm into a pointy crystal. The [[Nano Machine]] [[The Blob|blob]] Upgrade from the original series and the green-slime blob Goop from ''[[Ben 10: Alien Force|Ben 10 Alien Force]]'' have been seen molding their fists into various weapons as well.
** [[Punny Name|Kevin E. Levin,]] {{spoiler|after another Omnitrix-induced mega-mutation,}} is capable of turning his limbs into weapons, a la [[Metamorpho]].
* The animated version of the ''[[Teen Titans (animation)|Teen Titans]]'' character Plasmus is basically the poor man's Clayface. He eventually gains the power to spew acid sludge as well.
** Madam Rouge, a member of the [[Quirky Miniboss Squad]] in the final season, also uses this- her powers are a combination [[Rubber Man|rubber woman]] and more general [[Voluntary Shapeshifting]], so doing things like turning her fingers into talons or elongating her whole body like a snake to strangle enemies are well-documented techniques.
* In ''[[Static Shock]]'', there is a recurring minor minion named Shiv, who can turn his arms into almost anything he can imagine, almost like a [[Green Lantern]] (but without the need for a ring.) As per his name, he prefers sharp things.
* [[Generator Rex]] can do this, as he's full of [[Nanomachines]].
* Yaksha from [[Hero: 108]].
* Jake of ''[[Adventure Time]]'' has incredible control over the size and density of every part of him, and utilises this to a great extent. At least once he even uses his ''jowls'' to beat on an unsuspecting foe (because seriously, who expects jowls to be used as a weapon?).
* In [[Justice League Unlimited]] several characters use this, including Martian Manhunter, Clayface, and Metamorpho
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[[Category:Anatomy Arsenal]]
[[Category:Weapons and Wielding Tropes]]
▲[[Category:Shapeshifting]]
▲[[Category:Shapeshifter Weapon]]
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