15 Legendary Video Game Weapons
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03/06/2021
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Not every video game weapon is the Master Sword. There are plenty of bizarre and unusual video game weapons out there.
These fifteen weapons are quite unusual by every metric of the word but remain fairly iconic and incredible all the same.
And before you go, check out: 15 Odd Video Game Adaptations That Worked Amazingly
These fifteen weapons are quite unusual by every metric of the word but remain fairly iconic and incredible all the same.
And before you go, check out: 15 Odd Video Game Adaptations That Worked Amazingly
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Ever see something so sweet you suspect it farts out rainbows? Enter Mr. Toots in Red Faction: Armageddon. This portable unicorn is subjected to horrendous torment where it, as the name indicates, “toots” out rainbows. Of course, these are Sailor Moon-grade rainbows, since, unlike the usual kind you see after rainstorms, these unleash explosions. -
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Destroy All Humans parodies the alien invasion and abduction genre, so, naturally, it had to reference anal probing somewhere. The Anal Probe is a gun that shoves probes up victims’ anuses, usually to lethal effect. It’s disgusting, but also an effective, way of murdering everyone. -
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Saint’s Row is not a franchise you ought to take too seriously, but its Dubstep Gun takes that to a whole new level. This gun channels the power of every loud song you’ve ever heard at a bar, ranks it up to seventy-seven, and just...well, it just proves a sonic-gun is effective at killing more than just alien symbiotes. -
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Kingdom Hearts is a ridiculous franchise built on iconic characters, but its famous weapon, the Keyblade, is one of the most absurd fantasy weapons ever. It’s a blade without edges, which would make it more of a mace...yet it’s also a magical key that can unlock hearts. It doesn’t make total sense, but it’s still incredibly cool and fun. -
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Lulu is a black mage in Final Fantasy X. While she primarily uses spells to combat the forces of evil, she also has a collection of sentient dolls who she sends out to slap her enemies to death. There is something profoundly unsettling about watching Lulu pitch miniature Annabelles and Chuckys at her foes. -
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The Land Shark Gun is a gun...that kills you with sharks. Armed and Dangerous might’ve found the one thing Sharknado couldn’t dream of making. This gun doesn’t fire anything at its target, but rather allows a massive shark to materialize UNDERNEATH the target to devour it, dragging it down into the depths from whatever interdimensional hell world it came from. -
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The Gravity Gun is an iconic weapon now, but when Half-Life 2 first introduced players to this bizarre weapon, fans were more than a little in awe of it. The game introduced a realistic physics engine, which meant that literally ANYTHING could now become a weapon. Any item? Throw it at them. Tables? Plates? Nowadays, this isn’t special. At the time, it was mind-blowing. -
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So what’s up with Final Fantasy VIII’s Gunblade? It’s a sword, yes, but it has a trigger instead of a handle. On top of being awkward to wield, it makes little sense. How are you firing it? How are you swinging it? The weapon makes no sense, but it’s also undeniably one of the coolest, most absurd weapons to ever appear in Final Fantasy, and this is a franchise where one of the characters throws creepy voodoo dolls at people. -
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The Drill Bucket is one of many improvised weapons you can use in the Dead Rising series. However, this particular weapon is particularly strange. You don’t swing it, but rather plant it on a zombie’s head. The bucket acts as a helmet, while the two drills embedded into the bucket just...drill into a zombie’s brain. It’s remarkably brutal and grotesque. And funny. -
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The Worms series, which has spanned for decades, introduced audiences to the dangers of Sheep. There are various Sheep-related weapons to have appeared in the franchise, but all of them manage to work the same way. Sheep comes...and blows up. Exploding giblets send the target flying into the sea to drown, smothered in blood-soaked wool. -
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The Fat Man is not a weapon that involves any obese males, but actually a nuclear bomb launcher. It’s one of the stronger weapons in Fallout. So you might read this and think “Hey, wouldn’t launching a nuclear weapon that close to you result in the person firing it being caught in the blast?” Well, yes. Yes it would. A lot. -
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Ratchet & Clank: Up Your Arsenal introduced players to the Qwack-O-Ray. Sounds silly, yes, but few weapons are this grotesque. The Qwack-O-Ray turns your foes into ducks. Ducks that then you can do whatever you want with. Transfiguration is weaponized with this weapon. -
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Bayonetta has a lot of weird weapons. We almost put the Gunchucks on here – gun nun-chucks – but then we realized the obvious: isn’t it weird how HAIR is the primary weapon in this game? Sure, guns on nun-chucks are out there, but so are giant feet that kick you into the ground comprised of human hair elongated via witch magic. That’s kind of weird. -
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Turok 2 introduced players to one of the goriest weapons ever: the Cerebral Bore. This weapon fires a drill-like projectile that burrows through your face, infiltrates your head, then explodes outward. Your whole skull? Mist drifting down over your shoulders. Few weapons are quite as gory or grotesque as this. It seems designed to inflict as much gory, painful damage as possible. -
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Postal 2 is a demented game, but the Cat-Silencer is one of the most grotesque things ever. You silence your gun...by sticking a cat at the end of it. It’s just...what can we really say about this? It’s so absurd and ridiculous that it’s bloody hilarious.
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