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* In ''{{VideoGame/Diablo}}'' using a wand or a staff as a necromancer or sorceress. Well any melee weapon with those two really.
** The ''Telekinesis'' spell, particularly in Diablo I, is the ultimate way to cherry tap your enemies.

** One forum member at the inc.gamers Diablo 2 fan site tried to make a Boxer build with the Barbarian class, aka no weapon at all. Punching always does 1-2 damage in-game, so he had to rely on percentage-reduction damage bonuses. Needless to say it was very item-dependent and, as he admitted, very boring due to how repetitive it got.

* The Amazon of ''{{VideoGame/Diablo}} 2'' is said to be able to beat Diablo with a broken short bow on hell difficulty.
** And the Druid can have his ravens peck the BigBad to death. It only takes about 30 minutes of realtime for Normal difficulty ...

* In VideoGame/{{Fallout 2}}, if you have your character learn about hitting targets critically, you can eventually make anything die by hitting it in juuuust the right spot. There are a few situations in which you'd want to kill a creature without actually damaging it, and so it's useful to carry around the weapon equivalent of dandelions to hurl at people's eyes.

* Wiegraf, "ThatOneBoss" of ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyTactics'', can be defeated by spending turn after turn evading him and using temporary stat-boost moves to bring up the speed and strength stats to [[PhysicalGod insane]] levels, then ending the fight by one-shotting him with...a thrown book.

* In {{Manhunt}} 2, there are a variety of small objects you can pick up and throw to distract enemies. However they can also do miniscule amounts of damage to anybody they hit. It is entirely possible to kill an enemy just by repeatedly throwing an empty soda can at him.

** In the spirit of the trope, though, [[http://www.warpcore.org/~sirian/diablo2/ember.html this player]] tried to play through the game using nothing but the Sorceress' weakest, most basic spell.

**** I know what's on my shopping list for my next camping trip...

* ''VideoGame/{{Castlevania}}: Portrait of Ruin'' gives you a bonus spell if you defeat the secret boss Gergoth using the Blank Book, Charlotte's weakest weapon.It's not that hard since you have to ''finish'' him with the book, so if you count down his HP until he has just enough to survive one more hit, it's easy.

* In Red Orchestra, getting killed by a melee attack (whether it's from being hit by the butt of the weapon or the bayonet) is considered extremely humiliating. Usually only possible on snipers who don't take care to watch their surroundings.

** There is a variant of this weapon, the Unarmed Combat. It's functionally identical except it uses "ARM KILL" instead of "FISH KILL". You're basically slapping someone to death. Double points if the enemy's a spy; the Unarmed Combat is a spy's severed arm. You're literally slapping him to death with his own arm.

** Any projectile, including the Sandman and the flare gun, can be reflected back at the opponent and can possibly kill them. These also have their own kill icons, with every single possibility present. This means you can kill another pyro with a deflected flare gun shot, and since pyros don't suffer afterburn, this is the ultimate Cherry Tapping (the flare itself does negligible damage).

** [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QxnjA9CTQoY Start here]]. Many are dubious or outright rigged for comedy, but plenty of these are legit, lethal ways to use the benign dispenser.

** KOing an opponent with an '''[[color:red:Objection!]]''' is not unheard of, it does a fair amount of damage for a single move that's used solely to transition to Turnabout Mode, and is used to cause stuns in said mode. If you're in Investigation mode or don't have 3 pieces of good evidence, Phoenix yells '''[[color:red:Hold It!]]''' instead, which does pathetic damage and needs to be used a lot more times to cause stun, making it very impractical. Still possible to K.O. though.

* A multitude of the ''{{Tales Series}}'' games have the Minimum Damage skill, which makes you only deal one HP of damage with all of your attacks. It's mostly meant for practicing combos, but whatever you decide to use a target dummy is going to go down eventually.

** Though not quite as extreme as the previous examples, [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J8k7jv5P27E this video]] of ''Monster Hunter Tri'' shows Cha Cha, a very weak computer-controlled sidekick who's only meant to provide minor support for the player, killing the Great Jaggi ''on his own.'' Though granted, this is very dependent on Cha Cha wearing the False Felyne mask, as it would otherwise take much longer.

** Sonic's spring jump does 3% damage if you manage to hit your opponent with the falling spring.

** There is an odd glitch that can be done with Ness and Mr. Game and Watch in ''Melee''. Charge Mr. Game and Watch's bucket (Down Special) with Ness's PK Flash (Neutral Special), and then pour the oil on Ness when he has his PSI Magnet (Down Special) activated. Ness will fly off the stage like he's been home-runned and take anyone he hits with him.

** In Halo:Reach, the Frag Grenade does a small amount of damage (One health bar) when it hits an opponent. Killing people in this way is rare but very hilarious because their corpse often ends up glitched into the floor.
** Killing people with the skull is also a favorite.

*** This could be because the needler is usually a easy way to kill someone (it drains you sheild so faster that you could blink and miss it happen), it doesn't help that the thing outright insta-kills you if you got no sheilds

** Any projectile, including the Sandman and the flare gun, can be reflected back at the opponent and can possibly kill them. These also have their own kill icons, with every single possibility present. This means you can kill another pyro with a deflected flare gun shot, and since pyros dont suffer afterburn, this is the ultimate Cherry Tapping (the flare itself does negligible damage).

** Another Scout melee weapon is the Holy Mackerel, a fish wrapped in foil. It has the same stats as the default bat (Meaning it has low damage output, but a faster firing speed), but it differs in the fact that it keeps track of every hit you make on an enemy using it. And when you actually kill an enemy with it, the screen will show "FISH KILL" just to drive the humiliation home. The official description even shows this:

** Most spies will run away if the fail a backstab on you. Some, however, prefer to stab you to death anyway, despite their knife having the lowest DPS of all default melee weapons. This is common enough to be known as "butterknifing", and is quite the humiliation, as it implies the player who killed you cannot even play properly (he'd have backstabbed you if he could).

** Not to mention you can also beat tanks until they explode with just your trusty crowbar. However on the big tanks the explosion will kill you if you are too close.
* In ''VideoGame/{{Half-Life 2}}: Deathmatch'', the 9mm pistol is usually scoffed at (beyond the crowbar or stunstick, the two melee weapons), however with a little luck and skill it its possible to get at least a couple kills per life thanks to its ability to shoot as fast as you can click and its huge ammo supply. Most servers play a clip saying "HUMILIATION" when killing or being killed with/by the pistol.

->'''Riddick''': I'll kill you with my tea cup.

** Dudley from ''Street Fighter III'' has a special taunt where he throws a rose at his opponent, which does a fraction of damage. Woe to those who meet an (un)dignified KO blow this way.

* In Chapter 13 of ''VideoGame/SpecOpsTheLine'' Captain Walker confronted by a mob of angry civilians. Trying to move forward without either [[VideoGameCrueltyPotential shooting them]] or scaring them off with a warning shot will result in a one of the civilians shoving Walker back and inflicting a small amount of damage. Your RegeneratingHealth is disabled in this segment, meaning that moving forward enough times without killing or dispersing the crowd will result in Walker literally being shoved to death.

* In the GBA rendition of ''[[TheLordOfTheRings Return of the King]]'', the Witch-king of Angmar can be slain with a ''spoon''.

* ''DungeonsAndDragons 3.5''

** And in the previous series, ''{{Yu-Gi-Oh GX}}', Manjoume/Chazz was at one point forced to duel one of his brothers, with the fate of Duel Academy riding on the outcome of the duel, and to make it extremely unfair, his brothers said he could only use monsters that had 500 attack points or less, while his brother would be using a deck that was full of rare cards. In the end, he won with superior tactics, which gave this troper an intense feeling of satisfaction.