Tropescilloscope: Improbable Weapon User

This character's Weapon of Choice is usually an Improvised Weapon. (read more at tvtropes.org)

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More Tropes Artistic License – History Blatant Lies Artistic License – Physics Shell-Shocked Veteran Man on Fire Anachronic Order Combat Pragmatist Femme Fatale Left the Background Music On Scenery Gorn Agony of the Feet Rich Bitch Silence Is Golden A God Am I Never Found the Body Humans Are Bastards The Bad Guy Wins Honor Before Reason Toilet Humour aka: Toilet Humor Dark Action Girl Funny Background Event An Axe to Grind Really Gets Around Villain Song Woman in White Hero Antagonist Reality Is Unrealistic Half the Man He Used to Be Sanity Slippage MacGuffin Hate Sink Show Within a Show Thriller Evil Is Hammy Parental Incest Your Cheating Heart Suddenly SHOUTING! 20 Minutes into the Future The Load The Vamp Artistic License – Geography Disguised in Drag The Ghost Conspicuous CG The Film of the Book Evil Counterpart Final Girl Imagine Spot Shoot the Shaggy Dog Sequel Hook The End... Or Is It? Bond Villain Stupidity Naïve Newcomer Laser-Guided Karma Arranged Marriage In Medias Res Genre Throwback Lighter and Softer Actually Pretty Funny Greater-Scope Villain Older Than They Look Make It Look Like an Accident The Faceless Distracted by the Sexy Artistic License – Military Attempted Rape Sports Stories Nice Job Breaking It, Hero! Improbable Weapon User Affectionate Parody Parental Substitute Camp Gay Superhero Ax-Crazy Romantic Comedy Red Shirt Darker and Edgier Jerkass Adaptation Distillation Easily Forgiven Animal Title Index Narrator She's Got Legs Ghost Fiction Vitriolic Best Buds Deadpan Snarker Mooks Grey and Gray Morality Cool Car What You Are in the Dark Chewing the Scenery Outrun the Fireball Meaningful Echo Evil vs. Evil Dark and Troubled Past Arc Words Only in It for the Money Friend to All Children I'm a Humanitarian Biopic Hypocrite As Himself Would Hurt a Child Rousing Speech Manipulative Bastard Race Lift Sole Survivor Cruel and Unusual Death Screw This, I'm Outta Here! Pretty Little Headshots Dramatic Gun Cock Depraved Bisexual Action Genre Mythology Gag La Résistance The Dog Bites Back Russian Films Jerk with a Heart of Gold The Remake Sacrificial Lion Foil Say My Name Token Minority Dramatic Irony O.O.C. Is Serious Business Chiaroscuro Crucified Hero Shot I Want My Beloved to Be Happy Bavarian Fire Drill Would Hit a Girl Put on a Bus What the Hell, Hero? Manchild Papa Wolf Romantic False Lead Serious Business Bound and Gagged Break the Cutie German Films After the End Super Strength Trailers Always Spoil Betty and Veronica Broken Aesop Bullying a Dragon Evil Brit Smoking Is Cool Deliberately Monochrome This Is Gonna Suck Genre Savvy Your Head A-Splode Driven to Suicide Jump Scare Even Evil Has Loved Ones Bowdlerise The Atoner Chuck Cunningham Syndrome Leitmotif Silent Movie Sexy Discretion Shot Mama Bear Dumb Blonde The Lancer One-Man Army Slasher Smile Slap-Slap-Kiss Corpsing Police Brutality Australian Movies Expy The Cameo Scare Chord It's Personal Real Life Writes the Plot Drowning My Sorrows Death Seeker Get Out! Curb-Stomp Battle Heterosexual Life-Partners Blackmail In the Back Time Skip Mr. Fanservice Hero of Another Story Fainting Diabolus ex Machina Hell Is That Noise Sudden Sequel Death Syndrome Video Credits Roaring Rampage of Revenge The Bully Hollywood Law Drives Like Crazy Big Eater Badass Grandpa Heel–Face Turn Small Name, Big Ego Aside Glance Only a Flesh Wound Implacable Man Big Brother Instinct Mr. Exposition Insult Backfire Guile Hero Science Fiction Films Loads and Loads of Characters Race Against the Clock Names to Run Away from Really Fast Downer Ending Bloody Hilarious Obviously Evil Getting Crap Past the Radar Recycled IN SPACE! Tagline Wounded Gazelle Gambit The Smurfette Principle Colour-Coded for Your Convenience aka: Color Coded For Your Convenience Screw the Rules, I Have Money! Line-of-Sight Name Deus ex Machina Bunny-Ears Lawyer Demoted to Extra Did Not Get the Girl Stock Footage Rule of Symbolism Alliterative Name The Mole Black Dude Dies First Redemption Equals Death Instant Death Bullet No-Sell Bland-Name Product Badass Longcoat Stepford Smiler Villain Opening Scene My Greatest Failure The Hero Dies Happily Married Never Trust a Trailer Cloudcuckoolander All for Nothing Informed Ability Tap on the Head Knife Nut Documentary Dying Moment of Awesome Karma Houdini Anti-Hero Heroic BSoD Shipper on Deck Pimped-Out Dress Ship Tease The Cavalry Stuff Blowing Up Not So Stoic Darkest Hour Shout-Out Action Girl Hong Kong Films Rape Is a Special Kind of Evil A Date with Rosie Palms Pet the Dog Knight Templar Last-Name Basis Death by Irony Alas, Poor Villain Better to Die than Be Killed Roger Ebert: Great Movies List Dramedy Parental Abandonment Soft Glass "Shaggy Dog" Story Hooker with a Heart of Gold Face Death with Dignity Disproportionate Retribution Face–Heel Turn Reckless Gun Usage Adapted Out Laughing Mad For the Evulz Gainax Ending Villainous Breakdown Television Movie Index Stalker with a Crush Stylistic Suck Drugs Are Bad Dressing as the Enemy The Chick Facial Horror It Will Never Catch On Closed Circle The Un-Favourite aka: The Un Favorite Psychological Thriller Domestic Abuse Comically Missing the Point Spanner in the Works The '80s Determinator aka: The Determinator Gold Digger Coming-of-Age Story Obfuscating Stupidity For Want of a Nail He Who Fights Monsters Epic Movie Idiot Ball Breaking the Fourth Wall The Alcoholic The Dragon Serial Killer Unusually Uninteresting Sight Logo Joke Moment Killer Take a Third Option Early-Bird Cameo Red Herring Punch-Clock Villain Spiritual Successor Love at First Sight Hypocritical Humor Off with His Head! Defrosting Ice Queen Those Two Guys Body Horror The Dreaded Arch-Enemy Interrupted Suicide Insistent Terminology Black Comedy Insane Troll Logic Mundane Made Awesome Celebrity Paradox Four-Temperament Ensemble Scenery Porn Overprotective Dad Animal Motifs Pre-Asskicking One-Liner Be Careful What You Wish For Loophole Abuse Kubrick Stare Demonic Possession And Starring Big Bad Duumvirate Random Events Plot Early Installment Weirdness Author Avatar Sir Not-Appearing-in-This-Trailer Only One Name Artistic License – Gun Safety Costume Porn B-Movie Sassy Black Woman My Beloved Smother Developing Doomed Characters Neck Lift Wrong Genre Savvy Apocalypse How Auto Erotica Vampire Fiction Not Using the "Z" Word Men Are the Expendable Gender Homage It's All About Me Bury Your Gays Grievous Bottley Harm Due to the Dead Not Quite Dead An Aesop Room Full of Crazy Psycho for Hire All Men Are Perverts Gory Discretion Shot "Awesome McCool" Name Mexican Standoff Bilingual Bonus Offscreen Moment of Awesome As You Know Shown Their Work Woman Scorned Self-Deprecation "Where Are They Now?" Epilogue Punctuated! For! Emphasis! Hair-Trigger Temper Undying Loyalty Canadian Movies Captain Ersatz Double-Meaning Title Dull Surprise Hope Spot Reality Has No Subtitles Covers Always Lie Frame-Up The Un-Reveal The Oner Sadistic Choice Bald of Evil Central Theme Our Vampires Are Different Break the Haughty Badass in a Nice Suit Jerk Jock Batman Gambit Age Lift Dropped a Bridge on Him Film Series Black and Gray Morality Guns Akimbo Boom, Headshot! Ripped from the Headlines Totally Radical French Films Bare Your Midriff Real Life Disney Villain Death You Have Failed Me Improbable Infant Survival aka: Infant Immortality Extreme Doormat Karmic Death Death by Sex Foregone Conclusion Bi the Way Crazy Jealous Guy Posthumous Character Bittersweet Ending Foreshadowing Dirty Cop Call-Forward Adaptation Name Change Never Trust a Trailer aka: Trailers Always Lie Humiliation Conga The '90s Didn't Think This Through Almost Kiss Eye Scream Missing Mom Visual Pun Bloodless Carnage Mercy Kill Dogged Nice Guy Even Evil Has Standards Only Sane Man Black Comedy Rape It Can Think Dies Wide Open Ambiguous Ending No OSHA Compliance Mugging the Monster Big Damn Heroes Exact Words Cool Old Guy The Stinger Smug Snake No-Holds-Barred Beatdown Red Right Hand Storming the Castle Badass Bookworm Canon Foreigner Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep" Back from the Dead Why Don't You Just Shoot Him? Broken Pedestal Establishing Character Moment The Smart Guy Eyepatch of Power Creator Cameo The Starscream Beauty Is Never Tarnished Kick the Son of a Bitch Heel Realization Camera Abuse The '60s Amusing Injuries I Have Your Wife Ooh, Me Accent's Slipping Setting Update Large Ham Cain and Abel As Long as It Sounds Foreign Rule of Funny More Dakka Pragmatic Adaptation The Ace Epic Fail Hollywood Darkness Here We Go Again! A Minor Kidroduction Adaptational Badass Rewatch Bonus No Antagonist Works Set in World War II Neck Snap Manly Tears The Stoic Artistic License – Law Nice Job Fixing It, Villain! Riddle for the Ages Reality Ensues Spell My Name with an "S" All Girls Want Bad Boys Intergenerational Friendship Black Best Friend Male Gaze Disney Death The Lost Lenore Determinator Vacation Films Up to Eleven Novelization Badass Normal Morality Pet Jerkass Has a Point Let's Get Dangerous! Cluster F-Bomb Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds Rule of Three Aww, Look! They Really Do Love Each Other Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking Not What It Looks Like Defiant to the End Pyrrhic Victory Groin Attack Index of Film Westerns Title Drop Truth in Television Whole Plot Reference Handicapped Badass Ungrateful Bastard The Brute Spared by the Adaptation Evil Is Petty Martial Arts Movie Fanservice Extra Scary Black Man Deliberate Values Dissonance Department of Redundancy Department Spiteful Spit Meaningful Background Event Everyone Has Standards Malevolent Masked Men Non-Indicative Name In Name Only Those Wacky Nazis Casting Gag Catapult Nightmare Disappeared Dad Famous Last Words Chase Scene Blonde, Brunette, Redhead Stealth Pun Sliding Scale of Idealism vs. Cynicism Recap / RiffTrax aka: Riff Trax Movies Badass Boast Wham Line Hair of Gold, Heart of Gold Bar Brawl I Just Shot Marvin in the Face Jack Bauer Interrogation Technique Wicked Cultured Wham Shot Horror Comedy What Happened to the Mouse? Took a Level in Badass Zombie Stories Mad Scientist Big Applesauce Needs Wiki Magic Love Kill 'em All Shut Up, Hannibal! Rape as Drama Retired Badass Manic Pixie Dream Girl No Celebrities Were Harmed Why Did It Have to Be Snakes? Adaptational Heroism Expository Hairstyle Change Adaptational Attractiveness Babies Ever After Important Haircut Freeze-Frame Bonus Crapsack World Deal with the Devil Butt-Monkey Imperial Stormtrooper Marksmanship Academy Despair Event Horizon Re-Cut Not Even Bothering with the Accent Dark Reprise Affably Evil Bitch in Sheep's Clothing The Chessmaster Properly Paranoid Composite Character Continuity Nod Naked People Are Funny Air-Vent Passageway And the Adventure Continues Belligerent Sexual Tension Drill Sergeant Nasty Deconstruction Accidental Misnaming My God, What Have I Done? The Big Guy Faking the Dead Does Not Like Shoes No Name Given Poor Communication Kills Curse Cut Short Daddy's Girl The Sociopath Vomit Discretion Shot Sinister Minister Tempting Fate The Great Depression Flashback Impaled with Extreme Prejudice The Musical Not So Different Made of Iron Crazy-Prepared Ominous Latin Chanting Killed Mid-Sentence Dark Is Not Evil Death Glare An Arm and a Leg The Mafia The Quiet One Pragmatic Villainy Fatal Family Photo The X of Y Cat Scare Kick the Dog Took a Level in Jerkass Flipping the Bird Every Car Is a Pinto Meet Cute Funny Foreigner Improbable Aiming Skills Pun aka: Incredibly Lame Pun Public Domain Feature Films The Stoner Ascended Extra Bolivian Army Ending Extremely Short Timespan Damsel in Distress Abhorrent Admirer Annoying Younger Sibling Villain Ball Enemy Mine Bait-and-Switch I Did What I Had to Do Those Two Bad Guys Villain with Good Publicity Dwindling Party Revenge Contrived Coincidence Blood from the Mouth You Killed My Father Leaning on the Fourth Wall Based on a True Story No Good Deed Goes Unpunished Evil Laugh Twist Ending Even Bad Men Love Their Mamas Shower Scene Gender Flip Well-Intentioned Extremist Creative Closing Credits Psychopathic Manchild Ragtag Bunch of Misfits Animated Credits Opening The Voiceless Aluminum Christmas Trees Japanese Films Heroic Sacrifice Chekhov's Skill Adorkable He Knows Too Much Mystery and Detective Films Never My Fault Call-Back Throwing Your Sword Always Works Taking the Bullet Nice Guy Christmas Movies Index The '70s Action Prologue NO INDOOR VOICE Death of a Child Motor Mouth Eldritch Abomination Slashed Throat Gorn Empathic Environment Retcon Big Fancy House Victoria's Secret Compartment Artistic License – Biology Product Placement Horror Films Captain Obvious Gone Horribly Right Adults Are Useless Catch-Phrase Mighty Whitey Adaptation Expansion Italian Films Brainless Beauty Freudian Excuse Berserk Button Adult Fear Sealed Evil in a Can Cool Guns Translation Convention Anti-Villain Wretched Hive One-Word Title Beard of Evil Police are Useless Ironic Echo Running Gag Meaningful Name The '50s Ass Shove Evil-Detecting Dog The Alleged Car Improvised Weapon Exactly What It Says on the Tin Asshole Victim Unwitting Instigator of Doom Blood Knight Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass Earn Your Happy Ending Suspiciously Similar Substitute Lock and Load Montage '80s Hair Oh, Crap! Death by Adaptation Only Known by Their Nickname Gilligan Cut Mind Screw Kill It with Fire Danny Peary Cult Movies List Big-Bad Ensemble Actor Allusion You Have Outlived Your Usefulness Anyone Can Die All There in the Manual Creepy Child Toplessness from the Back Not So Above It All Fat Bastard Maybe Ever After Playing Gertrude timeperiod Hoist by His Own Petard Children Are Innocent "The Reason You Suck" Speech Evil Plan Suspiciously Specific Denial Big Bad Light Is Not Good One Steve Limit Fourth Date Marriage Antagonist Title Music Stories Screw the Rules, I'm Doing What's Right! Red Oni, Blue Oni Jitter Cam Green-Eyed Monster Dual Wielding Fun with Acronyms British Films Cowboy Cop Pay Evil unto Evil Eureka Moment Gratuitous English Action Film, Quiet Drama Scene Taking You with Me Historical Hero Upgrade All Just a Dream folderlabel Calling the Old Man Out From Nobody to Nightmare Hidden Depths Awesome, but Impractical Fan Disservice Overly Long Gag Intrepid Reporter BFG Cool Shades Rule of Cool Straight Gay Fake Shemp Plucky Comic Relief Shirtless Scene Retirony "Well Done, Son!" Guy Character Development Parental Neglect Dissonant Serenity Lampshade Hanging Adaptational Villainy Politically Incorrect Villain Fanservice Daylight Horror Beware the Nice Ones Unresolved Sexual Tension Fingore Historical Villain Upgrade Sir Swears-a-Lot A.I. Is a Crapshoot Corrupt Corporate Executive Sequel Escalation Punny Name Eiffel Tower Effect Slasher Movie Very Loosely Based on a True Story Peek-a-Boo Corpse Monumental Damage Brother–Sister Incest From Bad to Worse Nothing Is Scarier Refuge in Audacity Horror Doesn't Settle for Simple Tuesday Tranquil Fury Amoral Attorney Book-Ends Fate Worse than Death Advertised Extra Film Noir Kids Are Cruel Pre-Mortem One-Liner Good Is Not Nice Mistaken for Gay Bond One-Liner Protagonist Title Married to the Job Destination Defenestration I Need a Freaking Drink Match Cut Decoy Protagonist Redshirt Army Brutal Honesty Together in Death Soundtrack Dissonance Fiery Redhead Fire-Forged Friends Rated M for Manly The Power of Love Off-into-the-Distance Ending Girl-on-Girl Is Hot Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane Obstructive Bureaucrat Authority Equals Asskicking Bad "Bad Acting" Word of God Brick Joke Take That! Heroes Want Redheads Market-Based Title Red Eyes, Take Warning Fantastic Racism Alpha Bitch Male Frontal Nudity Fatal Flaw Genre Shift Framing Device Abusive Parents Same Language Dub The Hero Failed a Spot Check Unreliable Narrator True Companions Cat Fight Noodle Incident Offscreen Teleportation She Cleans Up Nicely Villain Protagonist Military and Warfare Films Skewed Priorities Credits Gag Evil Cannot Comprehend Good The Reveal Film Noir Index Nice Hat Cold-Blooded Torture Adaptation Dye-Job The Place Faux Affably Evil Once More, with Clarity! Beta Couple Sci-Fi Horror Reasonable Authority Figure A Father to His Men World of Ham Evil Sounds Deep And I Must Scream Chekhov's Gunman Precision F-Strike Star-Crossed Lovers Stealth Hi/Bye There Is No Kill Like Overkill Accidental Murder Historical In-Joke All There in the Script Armor-Piercing Question Bad Boss As the Good Book Says... Ambiguous Disorder Bloodier and Gorier Immune to Bullets Henpecked Husband N-Word Privileges Have a Gay Old Time May–December Romance Dirty Coward Ugly Guy, Hot Wife Unspoken Plan Guarantee Becoming the Mask Paper-Thin Disguise Car Fu Anachronism Stew Vomit Indiscretion Shot Major Injury Underreaction Dutch Angle The Casanova Author Appeal You Have Got to Be Kidding Me! Our Zombies Are Different Eagleland Fantasy Films Card-Carrying Villain Cassandra Truth Made of Explodium Five-Man Band The Ditz Rasputinian Death Bring My Brown Pants Dirty Old Man Unusual Euphemism Pretty in Mink Bottomless Magazines No Ending Mood Whiplash Anguished Declaration of Love Does This Remind You of Anything? Broken Bird How We Got Here Action Survivor Worthy Opponent Irony Ms. Fanservice Madness Mantra Ambiguously Gay Fish out of Water Award-Bait Song Training Montage Plot Hole Chekhov's Gun Historical-Domain Character Double Entendre Country Matters Too Dumb to Live Leave the Camera Running Yandere Cool Old Lady War Is Hell Love Triangle Screw the Money, I Have Rules! Big "NO!"