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{{trope}}
[[File:ipman_swd_vs_dusteripman swd vs duster.jpg|link=Ip Man|rightframe|If you think he's good at swordfights, wait till you see him do the dusting.]]
 
 
{{quote|''Did we mention he had windshield wipers?''|'''One of the many [[Mooks]] [[Jackie Chan]] whooped'''}}
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Contrast [[Cherry Tapping]], where the purpose of picking a weak weapon would be to humiliate their opponent. Also contrast [[Improbable Weapon User]], someone who regularly arms themselves with wacky weapons.
 
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== [[Anime]] & [[Manga]] ==
* ''[[Revolutionary Girl Utena]]'', on at least two occasions, Utena has actually wielded a Shinai - [[Wooden Katanas Are Even Better|that is, a bamboo- ''practice'' sword]] - against opponents using steel blades, and on both occasions, won. And in the movie she pulls the same feat off with a ''broombroomstick''.
** Though in the movie her opponent quickly slices the broom into pieces, and she wins only thanks to Anthy's timely interference - it's against the rules to duel without a sword, apparently.
* ''[[One Piece]]'': First duel of Roronoa Zoro with Mihawk, where the latter defeated the former with a dagger.
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== [[Comics]] ==
* In ''[[The Ultimates]]'' 2 Hawkeye shows off this ability. First by killing most of a SWAT team with things he finds in his kitchen. Then when he escapes the holding facility he tries to find a gun. The last panel of him before he shows up for the finale is a naked Hawkeye with his fingertips stretching toward a pistol while dozens of armored soldier with assault rifles open fire from a couple feet away.
* ''[[Daredevil]]'' villain Bullseye is all about this trope. If it can be thrown or shot, he can turn it into a deadly weapon. This includes arrows, guns, ballpoint pens, shards of glass, bits of his own broken teeth, etc...
 
== [[Film]] ==
* ''[[Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon]]'': Jen, wielding the legendary Green Destiny sword, is beaten by Li, using a twig.
* ''[[Fearless (Filmfilm)|Fearless]]'': in one of his many duels, Huo faces off against a guy wielding double broadswords, using only a short stick.
* ''[[Ip Man]]'': the titular Ip Man defeats a skilled northerner (who has already beaten all of the town's masters) wielding a broadsword, while using only a feather duster.
* '' The Chronicles of [[Riddick]]'': Riddick uses a teacup to kill a guy wielding a sledgehammer.
* ''[[God of Cookery (Film)|God of Cookery]]'' - when Stephen is accused of being a fake, he picks up a kitchen knife to threaten his accuser with. The accuser picks up a teaspoon and disarms him with it, explaining that long hours preparing food gives you strong hands and wrists, which Stephen doesn't have because he's a celebrity and not a proper chef.
* A recurring trope in ''[[Jackie Chan]]'' movies. The mooks (usually) have proper weapons and Jackie's character [[Deadly Dodging|dodges]] and uses whatever's around to [[Thou Shalt Not Kill|incapacitate]] them. One often-referenced example is from [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VcvXqLrgf0k First Strike], where uses a folding table, a jacket, Chinese dragon heads, a broom, wooden staves and finally a stepladder.
* ''The Twilight Samurai'': The main character beats Tomoe's abusive ex-husband using only a stick of wood verses the ex-husbands regular sword.
* Wong Fei-Hung from the ''[[Once Upon a Time Inin China]]'' series often uses an umbrella as a weapon of choice, even against crowds of mooks that take up entire streets. He almost always wins without getting a scratch on him, either.
** Wong Fei-Hung as a child also appears in ''[[Iron Monkey]]'', in which he takes on a gang of adult street thugs using, again, his umbrella. The street thugs never come close to standing a chance.
 
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* ''The Scavenger Trilogy'' by K.J Parker. Poldarn frequently goes into swordfights barehanded and prevails, (well-described) skill overcoming even this disadvantage. He even throws away weapons he gets off his attackers: they are heavy. Worse, they are covered in blood, which draws a lot of attention. He even reflects to himself that every time he needs a weapon, there's a weapon about.
* ''[[The Wheel of Time]]'': Matt defeats a pair of very skilled swordsmen with a quarterstaff (at the same time). Upon their defeat, their master points out that the greatest swordsman in history was defeated only once, by a farmer with a quarterstaff.
* In ''[[Fate /Zero]]'', [[Black Knight|Berserker]] has the explicit power to treat anything he holds as an [[Infinity Plus One+1 Sword]] which can damage magical beings, and to [[Instant Expert|wield it as if he had trained with it all his life]]. He can do this with anything from telephone poles to other [[Infinity Plus One+1 Sword|Infinity Plus One Swords]] (gaining control of them in the process) to ''jet fighters''.
 
== [[Western Animation]] ==
* [[Samurai Jack]] once had to indulge a [[Fake Ultimate Hero]] [[Jive Turkey|"Sa-mu-rai"]] in a duel. Not wanting to actually hurt the idiot, he offered to let him practice with bamboo stalks first, and managed to [[Defeat Byby Modesty|strip him naked]] with zero effort. He then dealt with an ''actual'' threat (robot assassins) [[Refuge in Audacity|still using the stick]].
* In the ''[[Batman: theThe Animated Series]]'' episode "There's a Batman in my Basement," when the Penguin draws his [[Weapon of Choice|umbrella sword]], Batman ([[You Can Barely Stand|still injured]]) picks up a screwdriver.
 
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