Tropescilloscope: Improbable Weapon User

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

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