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== [[Film]] ==
* ''[[Men in Black (film)|Men in Black]]'''s "Noisy Cricket". It's at most 2 inches long, with a needlelike tip another inch in length. Agent J think's he's going to break it. Later in the movie, he fires it...and manages to punch some huge holes. And the recoil launches him backwards several feet.▼
** Which some fan theories suggest is an in-universe example. It's completely useless (at least with the power K had it set to) for anything other than messing with rookies.▼
** ''[[Men in Black (animation)|Men in Black]]: The Series'' runs with that hypothesis, by giving J an attachment in series 2 that makes the gun actually usable.▼
* In ''[[Tangled (2010 film)|Tangled]]'', the Disney Rapunzel story, [[Frying Pan of Doom|a frying pan is used as the best weapon ever]]. {{spoiler|[[Dangerously Genre Savvy|Even up to a point where an entire platoon of guards is equipped with frying pans]].}}▼
== [[Video Games]] ==
* ''[[Final Fantasy VI]]'' has Imp equipment. Being Imped makes a character much weaker, and wearing Imp equipment does just about nothing, but by [[All Your Powers Combined|Their Powers Combined]], a character may become near-godly. With enough grinding (all of the Imp equipment is randomly dropped), it's possible to go into the final boss battle with thirteen of fourteen characters (one character cannot equip anything except Relics) transformed into Imps, but bristling with awesome equipment. This arguably makes the last boss easier; while it locks your special skills, all characters (even weak fighters like Relm) can strike with Imp Halberds [[For Massive Damage]]. Though the amount of grinding required to do that would make the characters too strong to ''need'' the boost.
* ''[[Final Fantasy V]]'' also has a few of these.
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* In ''[[Final Fantasy IV]]'', the Lustful Lali-ho is just a joke item—it's basically a porno mag. In ''[[Final Fantasy IV: The After Years|The After Years]]'', however, it's insanely valuable, since it can be traded in the final chapter for an item that permanently boosts MP by 50—the best such item in the game.
* The ''[[Dragon Quest]]'' series; Naughty/Sexy Underwear, an "armor" item for the girls that appeared through some iterations of the series; although the joke is only in the nature of the item, its effects and atributes are generally great, making it a great equip. Also due the blatant name, and its implication for the wearer venturing the land in nothing more than a sexy lingerie, the item is widely referred in [[Rule 34|Fanarts]] and [[Doujinshi]].
** The bikini top items in [[Dragon Quest IX|the ninth game]] start off pathetically weak, giving a whole '''one''' defense. A few upgrades later however, they provide decent defense and reduce magic damage (a rarity for torso slot items) which is far more important. If you hope to challenge the bonus bosses without absurd levels of grinding, hopefully you made your party all female.
* In ''[[Dirge of Cerberus]]'', a toy gun can be acquired. It's pathetic at first, but leveling it up multiple times reveals it to be the Ultima Weapon, which is the [[Infinity+1 Sword|Infinity Plus One Gun]].
* In ''[[Kingdom Hearts: 358/2 Days|Kingdom Hearts 358 Days Over 2]]'', every Organization XIII character has a joke weapon and a lethal joke weapon.
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** There's also the tool The Funkatron, a disco ball that can cause any enemy nearby to start dancing. Including the bosses. Including the final boss. And while they're dancing, you're free to attack them with everything you have. Using this during the final boss battle in Tools Of Destruction will give you vital moments to switch weapons, pick up ammo and nanotech, and all in all just unload destruction unload on him.
** There's also the Chimp-O-Matic, which turns enemies into harmless monkeys. But, unlike it's predecessor, it's not so useful. You get it late in the game, it takes a long time to turn, and that is all that it does.
* The Sheepinator is probably inspired by ''[[Hexen]]''{{'}}s Porkinator, a very rare usable item that could turn multiple enemies into pigs, and ''Heretic'''s "Morph Ovum". Not surprisingly, it turns enemies into chickens. If you get turned into a chicken during deathmatch, you start clucking, your viewpoint is lowered to about a foot off the ground, and you can peck things.
* ''[[Dark Cloud]]'':
** The Frozen Tuna in the first game.
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* ''[[Iji]]'' can acquire more powerful weapons, but the Banana Gun still packs an explosive punch- in the form of a rubber squeaky toy shaped like a banana. It is also the only weapon affected by gravity, and thus can be thrown from above.
* In ''[[Hitman]]'':
** In ''Blood Money'', you can get a nailgun. Very inaccurate, can only hit at close range, deals almost no damage, and it has a pause between each shot. However, when you realize that a headshot with any ranged weapon is an instant kill, your huge-
** In ''Hitman Contracts'', you can get a [[Penny Arcade (Webcomic)|cardboard tube]] that, when used properly, results in an instant kill on nearly any enemy. The weapon's description mentions that it was "crafted from the finest natural cardboard and honed to its maximum lethality".
* In ''[[Land of the Dead]]: Road To Fiddler's Green'', the kung-fu fists are so powerful(& fast firing) they are also a [[Game Breaker]]. After finding them {{spoiler|in a closet in your murdered neighbor's house}}, the game becomes a breeze, even with mods that add several thousand zombies, or turn your character into a [[One-Hit-Point Wonder]]. After getting the kung-fu fists, the only difficult mission is "Heavy Gunner", because you are given a minigun and must use it instead of the kung-fu fists.
* ''[[World of Warcraft]]'' has the carrot on a stick. [[Exactly What It Says on the Tin|It's a carrot on a stick]]. You get it for defeating a three-headed hydra in a giant ruined troll city that takes at least 45 minutes (back in the days, that was already an incredibly short time for a dungeon) to finish if you're going for the hydra part ASAP. That's right, you go into an ancient troll city to defeat a mystical three-headed hydra and all you get is a carrot tied to a stick with a piece of string; no, it's not something the hydra drops, it's a reward from a NPC who wants the hydra dead. It increases your mount's movement speed by 3%, which seems measly, but being the only way to increase it at the time made it a powerful item for catching up with fleeing enemies, often deciding the outcome of a [[PvP]] battle. In the current game, it's not effective for players above lvl 70, where faster mounts are available, which would make the item even more powerful.
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** There's also the gray bag of tricks, an item that pulls out small animals that easily die, which can be used at very high levels to distract a large group of guards and get them to leave their posts. Especially useful if combined with ghost sound to have the animal taunt the guards. It may not be a curb stomp, but it is using an item that is normally useless to high level players to get into a place without having to fight. Also, one type of Bag of Tricks has a chance of summoning rhinos or elephants. And there is no listed altitude limit to where you can summon them.
** Dungeons and Dragons had darts. Darts were usually given to mages for when they ran out of magic missiles. However, in 2nd ed, with weapon proficiency rules, a haste spell and gloves of returning, and +5 darts in each hand, a dart-specced warrior could unload enough damage in one round to kill gods (provided he didn't fumble - and he was critting on anything higher than a 2). Beware the dart warrior.
** Honestly, in the hands of a [[Crazy Awesome|creative thinker]], damn near ''anything'' in D & D could fall into this. Another example would be the Tree Token, a one-use item that creates a large oak tree on command.
** Plain old trees are immune to the lethal Disintegrate spell. It has one effect if it hits a creature, and one effect if it hits non-living matter, but no effect if it hits living matter that is not a creature.
* ''[[Ancient Domains of Mystery]]'':
** The wand of wonder also appears in ''ADOM'' with the ability to randomly cast any spell in the game, which is marginally useful in itself. However, it also instantly ''teaches'' the spell to your PC (just enough to cast it once or twice), even to classes that aren't supposed to be able to learn spells. You can cast from books without decreasing the spell marks; if you get lucky, find the right spellbook and have enough power points, your mindcrafter can cast bolt spells.
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** ''[[Symphony of the Night]]'' has the Alucart equipment, which is basically joke copies of the true Alucard equipment. They give you poor stats and shouldn't be used - unless you use them all together, in which case your Luck is jacked up considerably (and your name in the status screen is Alucart!), making it much easier to get those random drops. Like the [[Game Breaker|game-breaking]] Crissaegrim.
** In ''[[Dawn of Sorrow]]'', you have the Waiter Skeleton soul. It throws out a plate of curry that acts as a landmine, causing damage to any enemy that touches it. The damage is minimal, it's a pain to get, it only stays for a few seconds, and it's less of a hassle to just smash something than hope the enemy walks across it. Then you meet the [[Boss in Mook Clothing|Iron Golem and Final Guard]], both of which move slowly and have titanic defense, and learn that a well-thrown plate of curry will hit them ''dozens'' of times, whittling their HP down far faster than almost any other weapon. It's also required to make the Yeti appear so that you can kill him and get his soul.
* The Boots of Blinding Speed from ''[[The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind]]''. They do [[Exactly What It Says on the Tin]]—make you really fast, and blind you. However, Magicka resistance reduces or eliminates the Blinding effect, allowing you to move around very, very quickly without using Fast Travel. Additionally, if you're playing without the fan made code patch (or the fan made engine replacement ''OpenMW'') blind is bugged and ''increases'' your accuracy while partial blind only makes the screen somewhat darker, meaning you can become incredibly accurate with them on. If you're a Vampire, these become absolutely essential, as the Fast Travel NPCs won't talk to you.
** ''[[Oblivion]]'' has the staff Wabbajack, an artifact of [[Mad God|Sheogorath]], which [[Baleful Polymorph|transforms its target into a random creature]]. It'll even work on [[Big Bad|Mehrunes]] [[Eldritch Abomination|Dagon]], potentially turning the game's nearly indestructible final boss into a sheep, which you can then kill in one hit. Due to a bug breaking gravity on them, random paintbrushes can be exploited to make [[Sequence Breaking]] stairs.
** ''[[The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim|Skyrim]]'' has buckets, which can be put on an NPC's head to blind them without angering them, letting you steal with impunity.
* The ''[[Baldur's Gate]]'' series:
** A pair of Golden Pantaloons can be found early in the first game, and have no obvious purpose. In the second game, one can also find the Silver Pantaloons and the Bronze Pantaloons as well. If you managed to get all three items, they can be used to create the most powerful armor as well as a couple weapons near the end of Throne of Bhaal, the last add-on. Overall the difference to standard equipment isnt that huge, though; the weapons especially aren't that useful.
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* ''[[Cave Story]]'' has a weapon called the Nemesis that works backwards—it's most powerful at level 1, but at max level it shoots rubber duckies. There's also the Bubbler—at levels 1 and 2, it fires unimpressive bubbles, but when maxed out, the bubbles will build up as long as you hold down the trigger and fly into the target in unison, making it useful for spamming large numbers of enemies. And for defending against projectiles. And for firing around corners. As the description says, "How you use it is up to you."
▲* ''[[Men in Black (film)|Men in Black]]'''s "Noisy Cricket". It's at most 2 inches long, with a needlelike tip another inch in length. Agent J think's he's going to break it. Later in the movie, he fires it...and manages to punch some huge holes. And the recoil launches him backwards several feet.
▲** Which some fan theories suggest is an in-universe example. It's completely useless (at least with the power K had it set to) for anything other than messing with rookies.
▲** ''[[Men in Black (animation)|Men in Black]]: The Series'' runs with that hypothesis, by giving J an attachment in series 2 that makes the gun actually usable.
* ''[[EverQuest]]'' has the Mossy Twig. It does very little damage and it initially seemed like a joke. Until someone figured out it was really, really fast. When you have spells or other items that go off every time you swing a weapon...
* Tales Series
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* ''[[Drakengard]] 2'' has the Silver Butterfly, a relatively weak sword that becomes one of the most powerful weapons in the game [[New Game+|(at least for the first play through)]] once you level it up. The sword itself is not entirely useless. Its low damage lets you rack up lots of combos if done right. The problem is that it requires about 4 times more XP to level up than most other weapons.
* The Fang in ''[[Backyard Sports|Backyard Baseball]]''. It will always be a ball, but the batter will normally swing at it, resulting in a strike.
* ''[[Resident Evil]]'' examples:
* The rotten egg in ''[[Resident Evil 5]]'', looks like a waste of space and will take a massive amount of health away when eaten. It can also sell for a fair amount, but you don't want to do that. If thrown at a normal enemy, it will instantly kill them no matter their health.▼
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*** [[Resident Evil]] for the DS did
** Finish the main game once in ''[[Resident Evil 4]]'' and complete the Separate Ways mini-game, and you unlock an option that gives Ashley medieval-style knight's armor. This looks kind of silly given the setting, but it makes the game a ''lot'' easier, protecting Ashley from attacks (enemy attacks ''and'' accidentally hitting her yourself) and makes her too heavy for enemies to carry away, a frequent problem you have without it. By the way, this same option also dresses Leon up like a gangster and makes his weapon look like a Tommy gun, but this is merely cosmetic.
▲** The rotten egg in ''[[Resident Evil 5]]'', looks like a waste of space and will take a massive amount of health away when eaten. It can also sell for a fair amount, but you don't want to do that. If thrown at a normal enemy, it
* ''[[Disgaea 3: Absence of Justice]]'' has quite a few "joke" weapons of varying usefulness. Probably the best is the Puppy Paw Stick, which grants a 20% chance to steal a random piece of equipment from each enemy the wielder defeats. This is especially useful in the Class World, where the player can randomly encounter duplicates of the party member hosting the world, wearing duplicates of that character's gear.
** Disgaea4, on the other hand, made it harder to pull that trick off. To obtain the PPS, you have to catch a Basset (Tier Six Nekomata) and hope that the chest contains the stick. Mind you, getting the stick in the last game only required you to beat a fairly easily post-game boss. As for fighting the duplicates, they appear a lot less, given the new system for the Character World.
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** The Lazy Shell Armor greatly reduces attack power and speed (the joke), but gives you so much Defense (the lethality), that you become practically invincible. Now, ''who'' would want to be invincible, but so weak you couldn't hurt a fly? [[White Magician Girl|Toadstool]], of course! She can ''solo'' Culex (and anything else for that matter) while wearing the Lazy Shell Armor. It just takes '''[[Marathon Boss|a very long time]]''' to do so.
** Then there's the Frying Pan. Wait, hitting enemies over the head with [[Frying Pan of Doom|a frying pan]]? It's also Toadstool's best weapon.
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* The Squeaky Hammer in ''[[Water Warfare]].'' It slows you down, has no range and temporarily replaces your water gun, and, when used on people, simply stuns them briefly...except during [[Random Number God|those rare instances]] where it acts as an instant KO. It also grants invincibility, at least.
* ''[[Crackdown]]'' had a joke weapon in the form of a rubber duck that could be thrown at enemies. Crackdown 2 made it lethal by turning it into the strongest grenade in the game. It's even better when you realize that its eyes glow red and it quacks.
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* In ''[[Angband]]'', a few of the literal [[Poison Mushroom]]s can do considerable damage to enemies when thrown at them.
* In ''[[Sengoku Basara]]'', you can obtain Joke Weapons if you beat a stage at the highest difficulty (like Yukimura's giant matches, Ieyasu's drills, etc). They are also the strongest weapons of the game.
* ''[[Assassin's Creed]]''
▲* In ''[[Tangled]]'', the Disney Rapunzel story, a frying pan is used as the best weapon ever. {{spoiler|[[Dangerously Genre Savvy|Even up to a point where an entire platoon of guards is equipped with frying pans]].}}
** In ''[[Assassin's Creed II]]'', the broom acquired by bumping store owners holding them was treated as both a sword and a hammer for the purpose of counters. Since all of the counters but the ones that just knock the enemy down are 1-hit kills, the broom becomes laughably powerful. See that elite-looking guard in massive shining armor that dwarfs normal guards' armor? Let him strike at you and then counter, and if you are lucky (as in, not unlucky) you will hit them in the (armored) gut with the soft bristles and proceed to finish them of with an upswing that should merely give your enemy's helmet a dusting. Or, if you are really lucky, you will finish them off by slicing into their neck and pulling it out with a glorious spin. And yes, blood will fly if it is turned on.
** The cotton swab in ''[[Assassin's Creed: Origins]]''. Yes, it's a ''giant'' cotton swab the size of a quarterstaff, which you get from the Wacky Items DLC. Most of the stuff in this DLC are simply Joke Items, but Bayek can kick some serious ass with the Cotton Swab, as it's a Legendary Item that ''triples'' the damage to a foe with ''each consecutive hit'', gives a speed boost for each kill he makes with it, ''and'' recovers 1% of his health with every hit he lands with it!
* In ''[[Fallout 2]]'', there are the flares. They do 1 point of damage, and cost one Action Points to throw. But if you take the perk [[Deadly Doctor|Living Anatomy]], you do an additional 5 points of damage to any attack. These 5 points ignore armor. So with 10 AG, Action Boy (Insert [[Action Girl|Girl]] if you wish)*2, jet*2 and cookies*2, you can have 18 Action Points, allowing you to do 90 damage per round to any non robotic
* In ''[[Homestuck]]'', the Warhammer of Zillyhoo ''looks'' really goofy but is actually one of the most powerful weapons for the [[Drop the Hammer|Hammerkind Abstratus]]. There's also {{spoiler|"Liv Tyler", the plush rabbit [[Running Gag|from]]''[[Con Air]]'', which has been patched up and modified to the point that it's now a robotic powerhouse carrying miniature versions of several of the most powerful weapons in the game, including the aforementioned hammer.}}
* In ''[[Star Ocean: The Last Hope]]'', there's the Tri-Embl'''u'''m. At first glance, it's like the Tri-Embl'''e'''m, the best unmodified accessory in the game...except with 1/100 of the stats and none of the cool factors. However, it has a particular hidden stat whose worth doesn't become apparent until the post-game: A Synth limit of 8. This allows you to synthesize up to 8 other items onto it to beef up its power. The regular Tri-Emblem has a limit of only 3, but transfers 100% of its stats when synthing. If you synth some Tri-Emblems together, you can get one awesome one with 4x the stats. Or, you could synth 8 of them to a Tri-Embl'''u'''m, getting an accessory with 8x the stats of a regular Tri-Emblem, three of the four awesome factors found on the Tri-Emblem, and best of all, able to be duplicated for the dirt cheap price of 1 Magical Clay, allowing you to outfit your whole party with them. What's not to love?
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* ''[[Super Robot Wars Alpha]]'' has [[Mobile Suit Gundam|Tem Ray's Circuit]]. When you put it on any mech, its stats will be drastically reduced, the plus side is that the mech will cost only 10 credits to repair (in other words, the part turn it into another [[Joke Character|Boss]] [[Mazinger Z|Borot]]). If you want real menace, however, just put it on [[Neon Genesis Evangelion|EVA-01]] along with another part to lessen the penalty, then send Shinji on suicide attack. Paying only 10 instead of 40000, using [[The Berserker|Berserk EVA]] now sound like practical strategy.
* [[Warriors Orochi|Warriors Orochi 3]] has numerous joke weapons as special weapons for many characters, including wrenches for Guan Suo in place of his normal nunchaku, a ruler (Called [[Just for Pun|Measure of a Man]]) for Mitsuhide Akechi instead of a katana, and "poisoned dumplings" for Da Ji, a character that uses giant floating orbs as her weapon of choice. All of these have base attack damage just above the character's default weapon, but as the character uses them, many of these joke weapons will become more powerful then the normally ultimate fourth weapons. Only about three characters out of [[Loads and Loads of Characters|a hundred and thirty two]] are exceptions to this rule.
* ""Xiphiidae" in ''[[Lord of the Rings: Fellowship of the Ring]]''. In the game's Amon Hen level, there's a secret stage where Aragorn can chase after Gollum in something similar to a game of hide and seek. Find him three times and Gollum throws a fish at him. If used as a weapon, this fish does ''three times more damage'' than Andúril itself.<ref>Aragorn's sword in the novels, the legendary weapon that was reforged from the shards of Narsil, the sword that severed Sauron's hand - with the One Ring still on it - during the War of the Last Alliance.</ref>
* The Dung Pie in ''[[Dark Souls]]'', which is basically [[Dung Fu|a big clump of dung that you throw at an enemy]]. Which is surprisingly effective. in more than one way. It can inflict the Toxic condition on a foe, which can make some of the toughest bosses - even nasty ones like the Capra Demon - easier to bring down. If the player uses it to inflict that condition on himself, he is immune to more lethal forms of poison (you can't have the same debuff twice) like the Toxic Darts. Savvy players have also discovered you can use these as a “bank” for souls, meaning you can buy them (thereby converting souls, which you can lose, to items, which you cannot) and then selling them to Frampt, who for some reason, [[We Buy Anything|will buy them from you for 200 souls, the original sale price.]]
* Mr. Toots from ''[[Red Faction|Red Faction Armageddon]]''. This is a baby unicorn that [[Fartillery|shoots rainbows from its behind]] (making a goofy sound in the process), unlocked by finishing the game once. As ridiculous as this sounds, especially for a game like this is arguably the game’s equivalent of the Infinite Launcher from Resident Evil 4, more powerful than anything you can use in the first run-through.
* The Thirst Zapper in ''[[Fallout 4]]'', specifically the Nuka World DLC, which takes place in the ruins of a [[Souvenir Land| Nuka Cola themed amusement park]]. This looks like a squirt gun, and the reason for that is, it ''is'' a squirt gun, a toy originally given free with purchase of a box of Nuka-Cola soft drink. Against most enemies, it’s as useful as any other squirt gun (as in, not useful at all) but against [[Boss|Colter]], it’s a different story. Colter’s [[Powered Armor]] makes him literally invincible, but because this armor is [[No Waterproofing in the Future|not even slightly waterproof]], a few hits with this weapon will short out the armor and make him easy to finish off with a real gun.
** Even better, if you find the Project Cobalt schematics, you can upgrade the Thirst Zapper (and other [[Joke Weapon]]s) so it [[My Little Panzer| does work like a real weapon.]]
* ''[[Haunting Ground]]'':
** The Frog costume (unlocked by beating the game with Ending C) is downright silly, making it look like Fiona is wearing a child's Halloween costume that was resized for an adult. Still, if you overlook this, the costume is very useful, letting her run with no loss of stamina.
** Stuffed Hewie is unlocked by beating the game on Hard mode. This replaces regular Hewie with a [[Living Toy]] version of Hewie. This version is invulnerable to damage, but his attacks are weaker.
* Finish ''[[God of War|God of War II]]'' on any difficulty, and you unlock... Cod of War, a skin that a developer with a really lame sense of humor added for the sake of making a pun. Again, this is like a Halloween costume of a fish. The benefit is, it doubles the value of any orbs collected - whether this is worth having Kratos fight his foes while looking utterly ridiculous is up to the player.
== [[Web Original]] ==
* [[The Spiffing Brit]] has made several videos about how to ''create'' such items in ''[[The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim]]'' out of ordinary utensils like the common fork and ''fishing rods''.
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