Tropescilloscope: Improbable Weapon User

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

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Green-Eyed Monster Knife Nut Rousing Speech Victoria's Secret Compartment Our Vampires Are Different Male Frontal Nudity Vampire Fiction War Is Hell Yandere Did Not Get the Girl Title Drop Rich Bitch My Greatest Failure Armor-Piercing Question Papa Wolf Match Cut Eureka Moment Wrong Genre Savvy Fantastic Racism Light Is Not Good Fate Worse than Death Those Two Guys Not Even Bothering with the Accent Deus ex Machina Death Seeker Aside Glance Laser-Guided Karma Poor Communication Kills Killed Mid-Sentence Heroic BSoD The Remake Antagonist Title Mr. Fanservice The Smart Guy Daylight Horror Vitriolic Best Buds Historical Villain Upgrade Evil vs. Evil Chekhov's Skill The Chessmaster Bottomless Magazines Based on a True Story Roaring Rampage of Revenge Totally Radical Badass Normal Bloody Hilarious Get Out! Christmas Movies Index Daddy's Girl Extreme Doormat The End... Or Is It? Arch-Enemy Dark Reprise Noodle Incident BFG Men Are the Expendable Gender Suspiciously Specific Denial Crazy-Prepared All There in the Manual Heroes Want Redheads Screw the Money, I Have Rules! No Antagonist Screw This, I'm Outta Here! Spell My Name with an "S" "The Reason You Suck" Speech Blackmail No Celebrities Were Harmed "Awesome McCool" Name Race Against the Clock Not Using the "Z" Word It Will Never Catch On Spiteful Spit Bland-Name Product Becoming the Mask The Sociopath Ass Shove Ragtag Bunch of Misfits Mythology Gag Henpecked Husband Pre-Asskicking One-Liner Skewed Priorities Death Glare Nice Job Fixing It, Villain! Bi the Way Historical Hero Upgrade Red Right Hand Not So Above It All Oh, Crap! Chewing the Scenery Tempting Fate Blood Knight Author Appeal Historical-Domain Character Conspicuous CG Femme Fatale Action Survivor For the Evulz Faking the Dead Obstructive Bureaucrat Adult Fear The Hero Why Did It Have to Be Snakes? 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Guy Freudian Excuse Continuity Nod Improbable Weapon User Dirty Old Man Nice Guy Naïve Newcomer Defiant to the End Sir Not-Appearing-in-This-Trailer '80s Hair Documentary Self-Deprecation Red Shirt Maybe Ever After Karma Houdini The Mole Reality Is Unrealistic Lighter and Softer Handicapped Badass Determinator Every Car Is a Pinto Bound and Gagged And Starring Not Quite Dead Arranged Marriage Plot Hole And I Must Scream Shoot the Shaggy Dog Retired Badass Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking Easily Forgiven She's Got Legs Final Girl Gender Flip Cool Old Lady Film Series You Have Failed Me Retirony Homage Fat Bastard Red Oni, Blue Oni Villain Opening Scene The Musical I Did What I Had to Do Enemy Mine Camp Gay Never Trust a Trailer aka: Trailers Always Lie Sanity Slippage I Need a Freaking Drink Chiaroscuro Eagleland Grievous Bottley Harm Stuff Blowing Up Big Eater Adaptational Attractiveness Anachronic Order Works Set in World War II Why Don't You Just Shoot Him? 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Is a Crapshoot Sexy Discretion Shot Television Movie Index O.O.C. Is Serious Business In Medias Res Scare Chord Informed Ability Dwindling Party Betty and Veronica Make It Look Like an Accident Rule of Funny Ugly Guy, Hot Wife Girl-on-Girl Is Hot Karmic Death Exactly What It Says on the Tin Brother–Sister Incest Author Avatar Love at First Sight Never Found the Body Toplessness from the Back Slasher Smile Vomit Indiscretion Shot Bait-and-Switch No-Sell Hong Kong Films Happily Married As Himself Revenge Defrosting Ice Queen Jerkass Has a Point The Dreaded Pretty in Mink The Faceless Obfuscating Stupidity Covers Always Lie Captain Ersatz Screw the Rules, I Have Money! 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Reality Has No Subtitles Unreliable Narrator Boom, Headshot! 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Rule of Three Straight Gay Sudden Sequel Death Syndrome Made of Iron Artistic License – Law Fingore Framing Device The Voiceless Flashback All Just a Dream Romantic False Lead Left the Background Music On Fake Shemp It's Personal Non-Indicative Name Bring My Brown Pants Credits Gag Badass Boast Vomit Discretion Shot Police are Useless Decoy Protagonist Berserk Button N-Word Privileges The Ace Babies Ever After Outrun the Fireball Hero of Another Story Suspiciously Similar Substitute Curb-Stomp Battle Knight Templar The '90s Crucified Hero Shot Determinator aka: The Determinator Comically Missing the Point Deliberately Monochrome Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds The Ghost Catapult Nightmare 20 Minutes into the Future Naked People Are Funny Animal Title Index Jerk Jock Villain Ball Hero Antagonist Abhorrent Admirer Adaptation Name Change Fatal Flaw Hope Spot Improbable Aiming Skills Coming-of-Age Story Pragmatic Villainy The '60s Motor Mouth Amusing Injuries Rape as Drama