Weapons And Wielding Tropes
Basic Information
List of Tropes related to Weapons and how they are used:
- Absurdly Sharp Blade
- Aerosol Flamethrower
- An Axe To Grind
- Anatomy Arsenal
- Ancestral Weapon
- Animated Armor
- Annoying Arrows
- Arm Cannon
- Armed Legs
- Arrow Catch
- Arrows On Fire
- Attack Drone
- Audible Sharpness
- Automatic Crossbows
- Barehanded Blade Block
- Batter Up
- Beam Spam
- Bee Bee Gun
- BFS
- Bifurcated Weapon
- Bigger Stick
- Blade Below The Shoulder
- Blade Brake
- Blade On A Stick
- Blade Reflection
- Blade Run
- Boom Stick
- Boomerang Comeback
- Breakable Weapons
- Bubble Gun
- Cartoon Bomb
- Chainsaw Good
- Chest Blaster
- Clean Cut
- Cool Sword
- Cutlass Between The Teeth
- Death Dealer
- Death Ray
- Diagonal Cut
- Doomsday Device
- Double Weapon
- Drop The Hammer
- Dual Wielding
- Electric Joybuzzer
- Elegant Weapon For A More Civilized Age
- Elemental Crafting
- Elemental Punch
- Emergency Weapon
- Empathic Weapon
- Energy Weapon
- Epic Flail
- Every Japanese Sword Is A Katana
- Everything's Better With Spinning
- Evil Weapon
- Exotic Weapon Supremacy
- Extended Disarming
- Field Of Blades
- Flaming Sword
- Flechette Storm
- Flynning
- Forged By The Gods
- Frickin Laser Beams
- Frying Pan Of Doom
- Good Weapon Evil Weapon
- Grievous Bottley Harm
- Grievous Harm With A Body
- Gun Fu
- Gun In My Pocket
- Happy Fun Ball
- Healing Shiv
- Hidden Weapons
- Holy Hand Grenade
- Hyperspace Arsenal
- Hyperspace Mallet
- I Call It Vera
- IKEA Weaponry
- Implausible Fencing Powers
- Impossibly Cool Weapon
- Improbable Aiming Skills
- Improbable Use Of A Weapon
- Improbable Weapon User
- Improvised Weapon
- Incredibly Obvious Bomb
- Infinity Plus One Sword
- Insert Grenade Here
- Instant Knots
- Instrument Of Murder
- Inverse Law Of Sharpness And Accuracy
- Katanas Are Just Better
- Kill It With Fire
- Kill It With Water
- Kill Sat
- Killer Yoyo
- Kinetic Weapons Are Just Better
- Knife Nut
- Knife Outline
- Land Mine Goes Click
- Laser Blade
- Licking The Blade
- Lost Superweapon
- Luckily My Shield Will Protect Me
- Macross Missile Massacre
- Magic Wand
- Magnet Hands
- Master Swordsman
- Molotov Cocktail
- Morph Weapon
- Musical Assassin
- Named Weapons
- Nerf Arm
- Never Bring A Knife To A Fist Fight
- No Arc In Archery
- Not Compensating For Anything
- Nothing Up My Sleeve
- Nuclear Weapons Taboo
- Nuke Em
- Paper Fan Of Doom
- Parasol Of Pain
- Penultimate Weapon
- Pistol Whipping
- Poisoned Weapons
- Powder Trail
- Power Fist
- Powered Armor
- Precision Guided Boomerang
- Prongs Of Poseidon
- Rain Of Arrows
- Ray Gun
- Razor Floss
- Razor Wind
- Reverse Blade Sword
- Reverse Grip
- Riding The Bomb
- Rings Of Death
- Roboteching
- Rock Beats Laser
- Rocket Punch
- Sawed Off Shotgun
- Scaramanga Special
- Sea Mine
- Sean Connery Is About To Shoot You
- Selectively Lethal Weapon
- Self Destruct Mechanism
- Shamu Fu
- Shapeshifter Weapon
- Shock And Awe
- Short Range Long Range Weapon
- Simple Staff
- Single Stroke Battle
- Sinister Scythe
- Slice And Dice Swordsmanship
- Sniper Rifle
- Sorting Algorithm Of Weapon Effectiveness
- Standard FPS Guns
- Sticks To The Back
- Stock Weapon Names
- Straight Arrow
- Sucking In Lines
- Swipe Your Blade Off
- Swiss Army Weapon
- Sword And Gun
- Sword Fight
- Sword In The Stone
- Sword Lines
- Sword Over Head
- Sword Sparks
- Take Up My Sword
- The Pen Is Mightier
- The Straight And Arrow Path
- The Sword That Speaks
- This Is A Drill
- Throw The Book At Them
- Throwing Your Sword Always Works
- Thwarted Coup De Grace
- Time Bomb
- Trick Arrow
- Trigger Happy
- Twang Hello
- Ultimate Blacksmith
- Unbreakable Weapons
- Vibroweapon
- Wall Of Weapons
- Warring Without Weapons
- Wave Motion Gun
- Wave Motion Tuning Fork
- Weak Turret Gun
- Weapon Of Choice
- Weapon Of Mass Destruction
- Weapons Kitchen Sink
- Weapons That Suck
- Weather Control Machine
- Where Did They Get Lasers
- Whip It Good
- Whip Sword
- Wolverine Claws
- Wooden Katanas Are Even Better
- Wooden Stake
- Wrecked Weapon
- Yin Yang Bomb
See Also:
Combat Tropes
Guns and Gunplay Tropes
Sources
Bibliography
Game and Story Use
- Exciting ways to spice up a character or fight scene. Some of these tropes may even be a staple that defines your campaign setting.
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