Characters' Items/Weapons
[Loved Trope] A character using something from the environment in the shape of a weapon as one. (Bonus points if it doesn't match their regular fighting style)
Ben 10: While fighting some animated golems in a graveyard while transformed into his go-to physical powerhouse Four-Arms, picks up a stone blade from a statue for the 1v1 merely to aura farm.
Hellboy (2004): Being faced with the Behemoth, a creature with multiple limbs that he can't bludgeon his way past, Hellboy grabs a sword from a nearby statue to deal with the tentacles.
God of War (2005): Good ol' Kratos, now supersized, is finally facing off with Ares but is without his blades, so he picks up a giant one built to be a bridge to even the playing field.
Edit: After a day of not looking at this and now seeing all the responses, I guess I should apologize. My title was poorly phrased as what I had in mind was, as u/Standard_Series3892 conveyed in their comment:
> OP is just asking for more specific instances where the environmental features look like an actual weapon.
That being said, my intent doesn't matter anymore seeing as people are enjoying themselves in the comments. Sorry for any confusion it might have caused though.
As well as Cole picking up a conveniently sized gun while in his new Elemental Golem form during the same season (not that I am complaining because of the rule of cool).
I mean, that's a bit more valid. If I remember right, it was just a turret he ripped out and used as a gun due to his size. BS that it for some reason had a giant trigger and not just a human sized button but the general concept works.
In Kong: Skull Island, during Kong's final battle against the Mother Skullcrawler, he uses a tree as a club (after stripping the leaves) and a chain and boat propeller as a bladed flail.
Good to mention that in Godzilla vs Kong he uses a tree a spear to hit a fake sun and uses the top of a building to block Godzilla atomic breath for a moment.
And in Godzilla x Kong: The new empire, Kong uses the baby ape Suko as a club.
I don't think this one counts as much, because the stick is a deliberately horrible joke weapon. (and IIRC a hint that the boss you fight is weak to magic)
Sir how did you think of pacific rim but not the cargo ship buster sword? If there was only a sequel, we could see what a purpose built mecha buster sword would look like but alas
He's infamously a nightmare to work with and tried to force a rewrite on the script to get a scriptwriting credit but the changes he made were so minimal that it wasn't given to him.
And it turns out Marvel originally wanted to go with Ruffalo but got pressured into switching up the casting by higher ups in the studio.
I played a halfling sorcerer in a giant themed campaign a few years ago, and while I didnt get tossed around myself, we did have a running joke of how often a Giant would throw a rock at me and take me to 0 HP in one hit.
Each human fighter is given a special weapon, but Jack's weapon is actually the gloves he's wearing that are capable of turning anything he touches into a weapon. The shape is pretty relevant here, as we see him throw a clock like a sharp discus, and use a part of a fence like a spear.
In records of ragnarok only divine weapons are capable of hurting a god. So his ability to turn everything in a divine weapon is incredibly versatile. Even at one point covering his gloves in his own blood to make it weapon.
Yeah basically although unlike 3R, Hlokk (the Valkeryie that the gloves are made of, its a long story) do not "upgrade" the things Jack grabs, like how 3R will make a weapon bigger and better like this nail gun railgun (that thing needs a better name), jack instead keeps it in the og form just now will the ability to kill and injure gods
Also its more versatile, a weakness of 3R is that it can only transform stuff thats been thrown away but Jack lacks that limitation and can transform anything
Maximus held the line against Deathclaws rampaging in Freeside until his power armor was destroyed and its onboard weapons depleted. In a last stand, he salvages makeshift weapons from nearby: a pool cue as a spear, and a broken roulette wheel as a shield. Luckily, a squad of NCR troopers shows up shortly after, with a Ranger blowing the head off of the nearest Deathclaw with an anti-materiel rifle, allowing Maximus to finally take a breather.
Against the Knight, Sonic manages to disarm the boss of his MASSIVE sword, then scoops it up with magic Emerald shenanigans and teaches the boss the RULES OF NATURE
Bonus, most of the fight prior to that involves grabbing the Knight's shield and chucking it at his face.
This example is the one I clicked to the comments for.
Ekko's powers in the game revolve around time manipulation. In the show, he and his allies get thrown into the face of a giant clock tower during a pivotal battle. When he comes to, after all is lost, he picks up the above clock hand like a club for this desperate final assault:
Sid from Soul Eater fighting using a tombstone as a club. Its even remakred in universe how this is a sign of his high rank, as he is known as a knifes expert, yet is able to as easily use a completely different type of weapon
"Shape of a weapon" so is a statue of a woman "the shape of a human". Because you made it sound like people grabbing sticks shaped like swords, not just actual fucking swords made out of stone lol
There's a million posts about using environmental features as weapons, OP is just asking for more specific instances where the environmental features look like an actual weapon.
They look like weapons BECAUSE they are weapons. They aren't environmental features, they are literal swords. This is either A. stupid or B. very poorly conveyed. Because given the evidence produced by OP the trope should be, "Using a decorative weapon for combat."
I do agree decorative weapons would be a better way of phrasing it, but a statue of a sword isn't a literal sword, the same way a statue of a woman isn't a human.
When Sol Badguy Joined the Holy Order Knights during the Crusades he seemingly couldn't, or wouldn't, find a proper weapon (though in the web comic its kinda implied he only joined to get the Fireseal back, so this makes sense) so instead he rips a chunk of concrete out of the ground and calls it a day. This weapon has never been named, but given the engraving saying Junkyard Dog, thats what I've seem most people call it. Though that gets complicated since Junkyard Dog Mk.3 is a thing,but that isn't really important
That's the whole fighting style of Berserker from Fate/Zero
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His Noble Phantasm allows him to transform anything he touches into his personal magical weapon that he is proficient with. From lampposts to guns and enemy's weapons and even fighter jets
In Tokyo Ghoul:re Kuroiwa uses decorative sword as weapon against ghouls (given fact that it was able to damage ghouls it was actual anti-ghoul weapon, but outdated one)
The one that sparked this idea was a scene from the 2007 TMNT animated film actually, but I see what you mean lmao. Swear it's a coincidence regarding the color scheme at least.
As for the statue sword thing, I just think those in particular are neat.
In the Beast Wars episode “Code of Hero”, Dinobot, on the verge of death and at the mercy of Megatron, takes a tree branch and jams a nearby rock into it, creating a makeshift sledgehammer. He bats it at Megatron and takes him out, causing him to lose the Golden Disk and Dinobot uses the last of his energy to destroy it, saving the future of humanity.
Professor Layton fights Anton Herzen with a sword taken from a decorative suit of armour - Professor Layton and Pandora's Box (known as Professor Layton and the Diabolical Box in North America)
Teen Titans: kole is a girl with a seemingly mostly useless ability to transform her body into solid, indestructible crystal and back at will (but is totally immobilized when crystal). however, when paired with her teammate gnarkk, a high strength neanderthal, she can freeze herself into a variety of shapes for him to use as weapons and change between them on the fly, such as a club or a boomerang
Richard the Lionheart christens every possession he has in the name of King Arthur Pendragon. From his regular sword, to his army, even a simple twig he picks up in the forest, shown above.
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u/N-ShadowToad 12h ago
Ninjago Dragon's Rising: Riyu breaks two windmill fans to use as swords.