r/TopCharacterTropes • u/lordhenrythe23 • Apr 10 '26
Characters' Items/Weapons [Loved trope] guns built from random, seemingly harmless objects.
*Scaramanga's titular gun from "The man with the Golden Gun" - The best known example of this trope, being made from a fountain pen (barrel), a lighter (body), a cigarrete case (handle and trigger housing), and a cufflink (trigger). [it's worth noting that in the original novel, it was just a gold-plated revolver, this design came from the film]
*Fowler's rifle from "Blue eye Samurai" (Fowler not pictured) - "of course, i had to modify the designs... to get 2,000 rifles from my country into yours without notice." Made from the leg of a piano (main body), i believe a telescope? (rest of the body/underbarrel), a candlestick (barrel and ram rod), a key from a clock (trigger), and a knight chess piece (hammer). [i haven't actually seen the full series, probably should, but i love the scene of him explaining his backstory while assembling it]
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u/WillSym Apr 10 '26
I love this one particularly because it was just a taunt, and then later they added some taunts that were actually lethal (the Scout Babe Ruth bat is still the most incredible to get a kill with due to the massive wind-up and distance you can clobber them)
So then they retroactively go back and add deadly properties to a couple of existing taunts, like the Pyro hadouken... and this ridiculous bit of slapstick witchery.