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* ''Literature/ReturnToFiretopMountain'' has an evil witch who cast MindControl spells on unwary adventurers, turning them into her slaves, but her enchantment can be broken by ringing a silver bell within her presence.
* ''Literature/TempleOfDoom'': One of the most dangerous monsters inhabiting the Lost City of Vatos is the dreaded Night Horror, which can shrug off most hits from conventional weapons. However, it is vulnerable to the ringing of a Brass Handbell, which will force it to cover its ears in agony as it falls over dead.

* ''VideoGame/{{Armello}}'': Volodar uses a ritual bell as his weapon. His Fight ability is a very low 3, a trend common among improbable weapon users.

* The Literature/LordPeterWimsey novel ''The Nine Tailors'': [[spoiler: A man was left bound and gagged in a belfry, and it's thought that the sheer cacophony and loudness of the church bells being rung all night on New Year's Eve killed him--but the person who left him there never intended him to die, originally intending to bring him down before the bell-ringing began, only to be struck down by illness and unable to either rescue him or send someone else to do it.]]

* The Literature/LordPeterWimsey novel ''The Nine Tailors'': [[spoiler: A man was left bound and gagged in a belfry, and it's thought that the sheer cacophony and loudness of the eponymous bells being rung all night on New Year's Eve killed him-- but the person who left him there may never have intended him to die.]]

* ''VideoGame/KingdomHearts'':

** In ''VideoGame/KingdomHearts3D'', the keychain from [[Film/TheHunchbackOfNotreDame La Cité des Cloches (French for "The City of Bells")]] is the Guardian Bell, which gives the Keyblade a bell for its teeth, held in a gargoyle's mouth.

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* ''VideoGame/Persona5'': The Bell of Declaration is one of the four weapons that the FinalBoss wields. The sound waves can cause damage, increase the user's defense, decrease the opponents' defense, or inflict Vanity (weakness to all attacks) or Jealousy (brainwashing) upon an opponent.

* The ComicBook/ECComics story "For How the Bell Tolls!" (''Vault of Horror'' #28, Dec 1952) has an apprentice bellringer who after 34 years of not being allowed to ring the bell murders his master in sheer frustration. He is sentenced to death by the bell being rung all day-- with him as the clapper. (The story notes that near the end of the day the bell doesn't so much ''ring'' as ''[[NauseaFuel splat]]''...)

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* ''Literature/OldKingdom'': Necromancers and Abhorsens channel their magic through bells, which have effects varying from ForcedSleep, mind control, causing death, and reversing death.

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* ''Series/PowerRangersWildForce'': MonsterOfTheWeek Bell Org used a hammer to send sound waves from his own body, and also had the Bell Trapper attack, where he dropped a massive bell on an enemy and then hitting that bell with his hammer to attack them.

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* ''Franchise/FinalFantasy'': The recurring Geomancer [[JobSystem job]] uses bells as weapons. How this actually works varies; for example, in ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyIII'', they use the same generic attack animation as all melee weapons, making it unclear if the ringing somehow damages enemies or if the Geomancer is simply bludgeoning monsters to death with a pair of handbells, while ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyV'' shows a line of bells extending towards the foe (YMMV on which is more confusing).

* ComicBook/GreenLantern Rot Lop Fan comes from an area of the universe devoid of light. Therefore, he and his language do not have any concept of light, lanterns, or the color green. When inducted into the corps, he was inducted as a F-Sharp Bell, and his ring makes constructs of pure sound.

* ''Literature/TempleOfDoom'': One of the most dangerous monsters inhabiting the Lost City of Vatos is the dreaded Night Horror, which can shrug off most hits from conventional weapons. However it is vulnerable to the ringing of a Brass Handbell, which will force it to cover its ears in agony as it falls over dead.

** If any creature approaches within 90 feet of the Bell of Doom, a oni or ogre magi appears and attacks it. It thus acts as an area-denial weapon, like a minefield.

* ''VideoGame/PhantomBrave'': You can make pretty much anything into this game into not only a weapon, but an InfinityPlusOneSword. A bell is one of the options.

* ''WesternAnimation/TheVentureBros'': Subverted in [[Recap/TheVentureBrosS5E8TheDevilsGrip "The Devil's Grip"]]. The Monarch tries to torture Dr. Venture by placing him under a large bell and striking the side of it, hoping the ringing will make his eardrums explode. But Dr. Venture spent a lot of his childhood travelling in a supersonic jet, so the noise barely affects him.

* ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyV'': Bells are one of the weapon types in this game, used by the Geomancer job. Exactly how they hurt the enemy is unclear; the game animates the weapon's use by drawing a line of bells from the attacking Geomancer to the target, which then takes damage.

* GreenLantern Rot Lop Fan comes from an area of the universe devoid of light. Therefore, he and his language do not have any concept of light, lanterns, or the color green. When inducted into the corps, he was inducted as a F-Sharp Bell, and his ring makes constructs of pure sound.

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* ''Series/PowerRangersWildForce'': MonsterOfTheWeek Bell Org used a hammer to send sound waves from his own body, and also had the Bell Trapper attack, where he dropped a massive bell on an enemy and then hitting that bell with his hammer to attack them.
* ''Series/RobinHood'': Averted: when each of the Merry Men gets an InstrumentOfMurder, Little John gets ordinary and very ''small'' bells, which he tacks on the end of his SimpleStaff.

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* ''WesternAnimation/Coco'': In the backstory, Ernesto de la Cruz was killed when a large bell fell on him.

* ''Manga/{{Amatsuki}}'', the demonic Yakou carries around a little bell that [[BrownNote drives anyone who hears it insane]].

* ''Literature/TempleOfDoom'': One of the most dangerous monster inhabiting the Lost City of Vatos is the dreaded Night Horror, which can shrug of most hits from conventional weapons. However it is vulnerable to the ringing of a Brass Handbell, which will force it to cover its ears in agony as it falls over dead.

Usually used for unleashing powerful sound waves, they can also be bludgeoning weapons. Handbells wielded like hammers are the most common variety, though bigger bells swung similarly to flails exist as well. As well, the bell could also act as a calling device to SummonBiggerFish.