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