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** As well as the Swiss Army Knife's major competitor, the Leatherman Tool (get your minds out of the gutter), which uses pliers rather than a knife as the 'core' tool.
** Both of these, of course, are mostly ''not'' supposed to be weapons. Even more standard knives for other militaries are generally not designed for the sole purpose of killing someone - its an addon..
** That 85-function knife is [[Awesome but Impractical]], since it's clearly too unwieldy to make effective use of most of the functions. (Does "bludgeon" count as a function?).
**A lot of models of Swiss come with no bigger then a three inch main blade and no locking device. If you wish to use that as a weapon it can only be done in a stealth attack aimed at a neck artery. It is hard to make a fighting knife that folds and though it can be done you really should have a sturdy tang. Also the labyrinth of crevices for blood to drip into tell you that it would be hard to clean after a fight. You ''can'' use the awl as a punch dagger but it is so short that all it will get you is a change from a night in the lockup for brawling to assault with a "deadly" weapon. Swisses are work knives or hobby knives not fighting knives and though they can be used as weapons, as indeed can almost anything, they don't work well.
* Toy version: The [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JCBvu9MX-po Johnny Seven OMA (One Man Army)].
** One episode of ''[[Law and Order: Criminal Intent]]'' had Detective Goren gleefully mess about with one to force an antique store owner to say where he got a certain piece of merchandise (which he was avoiding showing its rightful own in the cold opening).
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