History Main / MoneyMauling

** In ''VideoGame/Persona2EternalPunishment'', Baofu uses coins as his melee weapon. He infuses them with qigong, allowing them to flick them at lethal speed.
** In ''VideoGame/Persona5 Royal'', FatBastard Junya Kaneshiro's "Make it Rain" attack deals a lot of Physical damage by dropping mountains of coins on the Phantom Theives. However, ItOnlyWorksOnce since he exhausts his vault to do it. If Kaneshiro tries it a second time, a single coin falls and [[EpicFail not only does absolutely nothing to the Phantom Thieves, but it makes his guards leave the battle]] since they're both OnlyInItForTheMoney.

* In ''Anime/SenkiZesshouSymphogearGX'', being the [[QuirkyMinibossSquad Autoscorer]] associated with [[TarotMotifs the suit of Coins]], Leiur can flick coins with the speed and power of a [[GatlingGood gatling gun]].

* Several games in the ''Franchise/FinalFantasy'' series have the Gil Toss/Spare Change ability, which has the user toss massive amounts of gil (the in-game currency) at their opponents to deal massive non-elemental damage.

* This is Halekulani's ''superpower'' in ''Manga/BoboboBoBoBobo''--his [[MartialArtsAndCrafts Fist of Gorgeousness]] allows him to control money, be it by sending waves of cash [[GemstoneAssault or jewels]] at his enemies or turning them into coins.

* ''Manga/JojosBizarreAdventureJojolion'' sees Tamaki Damo use a thousand-yen note ''as a torture device''... after using his Stand to soften someone's body enough that said note can be used to cut pieces off.

* In ''[[Anime/SenkiZesshouSymphogear Senki Zesshou Symphogear GX]]'', being the [[QuirkyMinibossSquad Autoscorer]] associated with [[TarotMotifs the suit of Coins]], Leiur can flick coins with the speed and power of a [[GatlingGood gatling gun]].

* In ''Film/TheLastJedi'', BB-8 takes out a couple guards on Canto Bight by shooting them with coins that some drunk guy filled him with, apparently thinking he was a slot machine (or the equivalent).

* In ''[[Literature/ElsabethSoesten Bait and Switch]]'', Husson and Elsabeth slip into the vaults of Castle Auch to recover the arms and armor the noble family, [[spoiler:however it's all a setup: Husson is there to rob the treasury, with Elsabeth as the patsy. Elsabeth gets wise and a fight breaks out, which ends when Husson smacks her with a sack full of coin, allowing him to escape. It happens again when Elsabeth and Hieronymus catch up with Husson and his partner, Maerten. Elsabeth kills the former in a duel, but Maerten pulls the same trick on Hieronymus while distracted, striking him with the bag of stolen coin]].

* One of the serial killers in ''{{Series/Profiler}}'' duct-taped a funnel to a victim's mouth and force-fed them silver dollars so they choked to death. Another victim was suffocated beneath the weight of sacks of silver dollars.

* In ''Videogame/Diablo3'', one of the attacks used by Greed, Baroness of the Treasure Realm has her attempting to crush the heroes beneath treasure chests filled with loot. It's a tad appropriate considering [[{{Plunder}} the series' main gameplay loop]]...

* ''Videogame/{{Fallout}}'' series:

* Justified in ''VideoGame/HeatSignature'': The game takes place in an interstellar cloud full of acid used to make batteries. This acid is traded as a currency, but the Fleshstripper fires it in large bursts capable of stripping even [[ArmorPiercingAttack armored]] enemies [[StrippedToTheBone to the bone]].

* While not necessarily used to ''attack'' per se, [[spoiler:President Haltmann]] throws money [[InterfaceScrew to obscure parts of the screen]] in ''VideoGame/KirbyPlanetRobobot''.
* In ''[[VideoGame/GanbareGoemon Legend of the Mystical Ninja]]'', you can swap out your melee weapon for throwing coins. The upside is that this gives you a valuable projectile attack, and the downside is that coins thrown are permanently lost (as one unfortunate contestant on ''Series/NickArcade'' learned the hard way).
* ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaI'' deducts 1 rupee every time you fire an arrow. This is ''probably'' just GameplayAndStorySegregation (they probably didn't have enough space on the cartridge to make arrows a separate consumable and had to use ''something''), but a hard gemstone that's shaped like [[https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/zelda_gamepedia_en/images/8/8f/TLoZ_Series_Green_Rupee_Artwork.png this]] ''would'' make for an effective arrowhead...
* Inverted in ''VideoGame/Metro2033'', where ammunition--specifically pre-apocalyptic assault rifle rounds--'''[[PracticalCurrency is]]''' money.

* Million Gunman, one of the assassins encountered in ''VideoGame/NoMoreHeroes2DesperateStruggle'', wield guns that shoot rolled-up dollar bills.
* In ''VideoGame/PaperMarioColorSplash'', Wendy attacks Mario by hurling golden coins (as well as {{Mooks}}) at him. If he fails to use the Instant Camera in time, she can even OneHitKO him with a huge shower of coins.
* In ''VideoGame/PaperMarioTheOrigamiKing'', Professor Toad attacks by digging coins out of the ground, launching them on enemies for heavy damage. An important part of this move, however, is that while Professor Toad is very good at discerning where coins are buried, his judgment is not perfect, and every now and then, he'll dig up nothing.

* In ''VideoGame/{{Persona 2}}'', Baofu uses coins as his melee weapon. He infuses them with qigong, allowing them to flick them at lethal speed.
* In ''VideoGame/{{Persona 5}} Royal'', FatBastard Junya Kaneshiro's "Make it Rain" attack deals a lot of Physical damage by dropping mountains of coins on the Phantom Theives. However, ItOnlyWorksOnce since he exhausts his vault to do it. If Kaneshiro tries it a second time, a single coin falls and [[EpicFail not only does absolutely nothing to the Phantom Thieves, but it makes his guards leave the battle]] since they're both OnlyInItForTheMoney.

* Winning enough Gears -- the in-game currency -- in ''VideoGame/ShellshockLive'' will earn you a new weapon: the Fat Stacks. Basically, your tank will fire green dollar bills to make it rain. What a great way to show who is the wealthy one around!

* ''VideoGame/{{Terraria}}'' added the Coin Gun in its 1.2 update, which fires coins from your inventory as ammunition and deals damage according to their value. Its damage can range from being moderately acceptable with the lowest valued coins, to being the hands-down strongest weapon in the game... for a few seconds.

* {{Discussed|trope}} in ''VisualNovel/PhoenixWrightAceAttorneyDualDestinies'', when Phoenix suggests that a bag of coins was the real murder weapon in the episode "Turnabout Reclaimed".

* In one case in ''Manga/DetectiveConan'', the murder weapon is an ImprovisedWeapon made from bunch of coins put inside a sock.

* TheVillain Gotron almost escapes ''WesternAnimation/TheHerculoids'' and justice aboard his longboat, which is laden with so much gold that it can barely move. Zandor pitches one more sack of gold at Gotron, which not only knocks him off his feet, but causes his boat to sink. Gotron never surfaces; either he can't swim, or his greed wouldn't let him unhand his gold.

* In ''VideoGame/Cyberpunk2077,'' Dexter DeShawn's trademark weapon (which you can later take for yourself) is the 'Plan B,' an Iconic pistol. Instead of using your actual ammunition, every shot takes one cred from your wallet.

* In ''VideoGame/{{Touhou}} ~ Antinomy of Common Flowers'', Yorigami Joon has an attack where she opens two suitcases filled with cash, which inmediately burst into flames. There is also Komachi Onozuka who, as TheFerryman, throws coins in some of her attacks.

* In ''[[Film/TheLastJedi Star Wars: The Last Jedi]]'', BB-8 takes out a couple guards on Canto Bight by shooting them with coins that some drunk guy filled him with, apparently thinking he was a slot machine (or the equivalent).

* This is Halekulani's ''superpower'' in ''Manga/BoboboBoBoBobo''--his [[MartialArtsAndCrafts Fist of Gorgeousness]] allows him to control money, be it by sending waves of cash [[GemstoneAssault or jewels]] at his enemies or turning them into coins.

* In the final "Saddle Tramp" strip from ''Eagle'', BountyHunter Trampas is captured by an Indian renegade who has just escaped from jail. Without weapons, Trampas manages to improvise a makeshift mortar out of a stovepipe, and uses the bagful of gold coins he received as reward money as ammunition. After the coins kill the Indian, Trampas looks at the corpse, then mutters that he is not dirty enough to want his coins back and walks off.
* ''ComicBook/SuskeEnWiske'': In "De Wilde Weldoener", Lambik finds a magic ring that can create gold coins. At one point, while in India, he finds himself ambushed by a group of thugs. He comes across an empty machine gun, and quickly uses the ring to fill it up with coins, which he proceeds to fire at his attackers.

* ''Film/TheCasino'': The protagonist kills several mooks in the final scene by flinging ''silver coins'' into their faces.
* ''Film/MagnificentWanderers'': The hero, Chu Tie-Xia, shoots golden spherical pellets from his bow to take down mooks. Made from the gold he had stolen from corript ministers, fitting his nature as a Robin Hood-style rogue.
* Jack Sparrow chucks gold coins in Barbossa's face during their duel at Isla de Muerta in ''Film/PiratesOfTheCaribbeanTheCurseOfTheBlackPearl''.

* In ''[[Film/TheLastJedi Star Wars: The Last Jedi]]'', BB-8 takes out a couple guards on Canto Bight by shooting them with coins that some drunk guy filled him with, apparently thinking he was a slot machine (or the equivalent).
* ''Film/SuperCop2'': Jessica Yang, while fighting a GiantMook in a vault, briefly uses two sacks of coins to bash his head in.

* In the original ''Film/DeathWish'' film, Paul Kersey uses a roll of quarters loaded into a sock to fend off a mugger who accosts him soon after his wife's funeral. This is the incident which sparks his turn to vigilantism.
* In ''Film/HoboWithAShotgun'', the Hobo smashes Slick in head with a sock full of loose change while rescuing Abby.
* In ''Film/NewsOfTheWorld2020'', Kidd pumps multiple bandits full of dimes from his shotgun. Also an example of AbnormalAmmo.
* ''Film/ValleyOfTheFangs'': The hero of this ''wuxia'' uses bronze Chinese coins as projectiles, instead of darts like these usual types of movies.
* The AbnormalAmmo variation of this trope shows up in ''Film/ResidentEvilAfterlife'', where Alice's sawed-off shotguns are loaded with shells that have quarters inside of them. The effect is used chiefly to show off the 3D effects, but the ammo doubles as a rather good caliber.[[note]]As noted below in the Real Life folder, this isn't really practical nor as deadly as one might think.[[/note]]

* In the ''Literature/AlexRider'' story ''Eagle Strike'', one of Damien Cray's henchmen agrees to work for Cray in exchange for a $2million bribe. When the henchman [[YouHaveFailedMe screws up and attracts unwanted attention from a journalist]], Cray locks him in a bottle-shaped chamber and gives him his money - $2million in quarters, crushing him to death.

* In ''[[Literature/ElsabethSoesten Bait and Switch]]'', Husson and Elsabeth slip into the vaults of Castle Auch to recover the arms and armor the noble family, [[spoiler:however it's all a setup: Husson is there to rob the treasury, with Elsabeth as the patsy. Elsabeth gets wise and a fight breaks out, which ends when Husson smacks her with a sack full of coin, allowing him to escape. It happens again when Elsabeth and Hieronymus catch up with Husson and his partner, Maerten. Elsabeth kills the former in a duel, but Maerten pulls the same trick on Hieronymus while distracted, striking him with the bag of stolen coin]].
* The protagonist of "Trouble is My Business" by Creator/RaymondChandler carries a roll of quarters in his pocket that he uses as [[WeightedGloves a fist load to give his punches extra impact]].
* ''Literature/FateStrangeFake'': Elderly, milquetoast priest Delmio Cervantes has the ability to fling coins (silver, for preference, since he specializes in fighting vampires) at extreme speeds.

* One of the serial killers in ''{{Series/Profiler}}'' duct-taped a funnel to a victim's mouth and force-fed them silver dollars so they choked to death. Another victim was suffocated beneath the weight of sacks of silver dollars.

* In ''Series/LastWeekTonightWithJohnOliver'', the titular host asserts that Donald Trump's last name evokes "[smacking] a mouthy servant" with a "wad of thousand-dollar bills". ("Trump!")

* Videogame/Borderlands3 has a money shooting submarine gun called The "Predatory Lending" which for every shot, drains $1 from the PlayerCharacter's money.

* In ''Digger'' tunnelling under bags of gold causes them to fall. If an enemy is underneath the bag when it falls, it is killed.

* In ''VideoGame/RagnarokOnline'', both the Merchant and Ninja classes are able to throw coins at the target that deals damage, as one of their skills

* ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaI'' deducts 1 rupee every time you fire an arrow. This is ''probably'' just GameplayAndStorySegregation (they probably didn't have enough space on the cartridge to make arrows a separate consumable and had to use ''something''), but a hard gemstone that's shaped like [[https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/zelda_gamepedia_en/images/8/8f/TLoZ_Series_Green_Rupee_Artwork.png this]] ''would'' make for an effective arrowhead...
* ''VideoGame/RagnarokBattleOffline:'' The Merchant's [[CastFromMoney Mammonite]] skill takes this form; the male one creates an absurdly large hammerhead out of gold coins and bashes the enemy over the head with it, while the female one simply smacks the enemy with a huge sack of coins.
* In ''VideoGame/TalesOfTheAbyss'', Anise's second [[LimitBreak Mystic Arte]], Fever Time, rains countless coins on the unlucky enemy before creating an explosion.
* In ''VideoGame/Cyberpunk2077,'' Dexter DeShawn's trademark weapon (which you can later take for yourself) is the 'Plan B,' an Iconic pistol. Instead of using your actual ammunition, every shot takes one cred from your wallet.

* ''WesternAnimation/SpongeBobSquarePants'': In "The Cent of Money", Mr. Krabs discovers that Gary has the ability to attract coins, leading him to use the snail to steal peoples' money. [[LaserGuidedKarma He later gets his just desserts]] when he takes Gary to an arcade and ends up getting crushed by a tidal wave of coins (and, adding insult to literal injury, [[PayingInCoins the coins he took are going toward his hospital bill]]).

* Near the end of the ''WesternAnimation/TinyToonAdventures'' episode, "[[Recap/TinyToonAdventuresS1E1TheLooneyBeginning The Looney Beginning]]", Buster and Babs, respectively disguised as Yosemite Sam and Elmer Fudd, are about to leave Montana Max's mansion with the scripts he stole from them, when Monty sees through their disguises and activates his security system. He has cannons shoot bags of money at the two rabbits , and tries to flatten them with a giant gold coin with his face on it, which the two rabbits evade, and [[HoistByHisOwnPetard the coin ends up flattening him instead]].

* In ''WesternAnimation/TokyoWoes'', Seaman Hook bombards TokyoRose with war bonds that explode like artillery shells.

* In the ''Literature/AlexRider'' story ''Eagle Strike'', one of Damien Cray's henchmen agrees to work for Cray in exchange for a $2million bribe. When the henchman [[YouHaveFailedMe screws up and attracts unwanted attention from a journalist]], Cray locks him in a bottle-shaped chamber and gives him his money - $2million dollars in quarters, crushing him to death.

* ''VideoGame/Payday2'' allows you to whack people on the head with a stack of Benjamins. It's weaker than using your fists (you need to use it twice to break thin glass), but the sheer ludicrousness of the situation causes trained special ops to fall down in surprise. The money stack can be swung fairly quickly and has a good amount of knockback, making the process of subduing law enforcement to be taken as hostages easier. What makes the weapon even sillier is [[YouHaveResearchedBreathing you have to unlock it at a certain level instead of just taking your own money]].

* In ''Film/NewsOfTheWorld'', Kidd pumps multiple bandits full of dimes from his shotgun. Also an example of Main/AbnormalAmmo.

* The Pay Day move in the ''VideoGame/{{Pokemon}}'' game franchise throws gold coins at your enemy. The move itself does damage, but also increased how much money you get at the end of the battle with each use of the move.

* ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaI'' deducts 1 rupee every time you fire an arrow. This is ''probably'' just GameplayandStorySegregation (they probably didn't have enough space on the cartridge to make arrows a separate consumable and had to use ''something''), but a hard gemstone that's shaped like [[https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/zelda_gamepedia_en/images/8/8f/TLoZ_Series_Green_Rupee_Artwork.png this]] ''would'' make for an effective arrowhead...

* In ''Film/NewsOfTheWorld'', Kidd pumps multiple bandits full of dimes from his shotgun. Also an example of ''Main/AbnormalAmmo''.

* In ''VideoGame/SaintsRowGatOutOfHell'', the Diamond Sting is one of the [[SevenDeadlySins Seven Deadly Weapons]] and represents the sin of Greed. It's a [[BlingBlingBang gold-plated]] SMG that fires coins at the enemy.

* ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaI'' deducts 1 rupee every time you fire an arrow. This could just be GameplayAndStorySegregation, but a hard gem ''could'' make a pretty good arrowhead.

* In ''Franchise/{{Mistborn}}'', Allomancers with the ability to draw power from steel can "push" nearby metals away with great force. They can use any metallic object -- a powerful allomancer with a wrought-iron fence makes for a MookHorrorShow in the [[Literature/MistbornTheOriginalTrilogy original trilogy]] -- but they're known in-universe as "coinshots" for being able to use spare change as effectively as bullets.

** If the player builds the Rock-It launcher, it uses many of the junk items found in the game as ammunition, including wads of pre-war currency. Downplayed in that pre-war money has lost most of its value since the apocalypse - assuming that the "Pre-War Money" item represents the same amount of money in Fallout 3 and New Vegas as in 4 and 76 (the lower-resolution textures used by 3 and NV make the denomination unclear), each stack is $2000, which is worth all of 10 bottle caps in the Capital and Mojave Wastelands and 8 caps in the Boston Wasteland, and that's contingent upon barter skill, as unlike NCR and Legion money, it's more of a historical curiosity than something anyone still uses as money.