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{{quote|'''Bugs Bunny:''' ''(dressed as [[Teddy Roosevelt]])'' I speak softly, but I carry a ''big stick''!
'''Yosemite Sam:''' Oh yeah!? Well, I speak ''loud''! And I carry a ''[[Bigger Stick|BIGGER]]'' stick!! [[Crowning Moment of Funny|And I use it too!]]
'''WHAM'''
Perhaps the first weapon that humanity has mastered (besides his [[Good Old Fisticuffs|own two fists]]), the good old-fashioned club simply consists of picking up a stick (or [[Bad with the Bone|bone]]) and whacking something with it. Though the quality of these clubs has advanced over time, ranging from big logs to metallic, spiked maces, the general principle of bashing something over the head remains. A [[Cool Sword|sword]] might bounce off of heavy armor, but a well-designed bludgeoning tool will leave a sizeable dent and break any bones underneath.
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== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ==
* Shampoo's chúi in ''[[Ranma ½]]'' (often [[Fanon|mistakenly called "bonbori" in fan works]]). They're an obscure Chinese mace that looks like a basketball on a
* Haruka from the ''[[Mai-HiME (manga)|Mai-HiME]]'' manga wields a big honkin' mace, which also shoots [[Personality Powers|beams of light]].
* The Apostle Wyald of ''[[Berserk]]'' wields a wood club and when he goes [[One-Winged Angel]] he uses ''entire trees'' as clubs.
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* In Kenneth Branagh's ''[[Henry V]]'' the Duke of Exeter (played in tanklike armor by [[Brian Blessed]]) fights with a mace at Agincourt.
* [[Brian Blessed]] fights with a mace in ''[[Flash Gordon (film)|Flash Gordon]]'' as well.
* The Peter Jackson film adaptation of ''[[The Lord of the Rings]]'' had Sauron carry a mace big enough to knock half-a-dozen men into the air with every sweep.
* During the bar fight in ''[[Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon]]'', one of the combatants can be seen wielding a pair of unpainted chúi.
== [[Literature]] ==
* In ''[[The Lord of the Rings]]''
** Both Sauron and the Witch-King were fond of maces. The latter was upgraded to an [[Epic Flail]] for the film version.
** "Grond", Morgoth's "Hammer of the Underworld" in [[J. R. R. Tolkien|JRR Tolkien]]'s ''[[The Silmarillion]]'' is a mace in some adaptations, a hammer in others. (It is not to be confused with the giant wolf-shaped battering ram named after it that features in ''[[The Lord of the Rings (film)|The Return of the King]]'', despite equal massive smashiness.)
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