Anatomy Arsenal tropes are a particular subset of Weapons and Wielding Tropes, dealing with weaponised bodyparts. Popular in Speculative Fiction.
Tropes
- Absurdly Sharp Claws
- Arm Cannon: Someone has a cannon for an arm.
- Armed Legs
- Artificial Limbs
- Ass Kicks You: Attacking someone by hitting them with your rear end.
- Attack of the Monster Appendage: A monster which shows up as a separate limb, tentacle or body part, with the rest of the creature remaining unseen.
- Become Your Weapon
- Beware My Stinger Tail: A creature has a stinger at the end of their tail that they use to strike their enemies.
- Belly Flop Crushing
- Blade Below the Shoulder
- Bloody Murder: Blood used as a weapon.
- Breath Weapon: A being has breath that they can use to attack.
- Butt Cannon
- Chest Blaster
- Combat Tentacles: Weaponized tentacles.
- Cranial Plate Ability: When a character acquires new abilities thanks to a steel piece implanted (accidentally or via surgery) in their head.
- Deadly Gaze: Killing someone by looking at them.
- Detachment Combat: Characters who fight by separating themselves into sections.
- Electronic Eyes: Not always a weapon, but can be.
- Extendable Arms
- Eye Beams
- Fartillery: Weaponizing your own flatulence.
- Feather Flechettes: Weaponized feathers.
- Femme Fatalons
- Finger Firearms
- Floating Limbs
- Giant Hands of Doom
- Good Prosthetic, Evil Prosthetic
- Hand Blast
- Head Blast
- Hook Hand: A person whose hand is replaced with a hook.
- Horn Attack
- Hypnotic Eyes
- Ki Manipulation
- Leg Cannon
- Magical Eye
- Man Bites Man
- Multi-Armed and Dangerous
- Multipurpose Tongue
- Nasal Weapon
- Natural Weapon
- Power Fist
- Power Palms
- Power Pincers
- Prehensile Hair: Treating long hair as one or more extra limb(s).
- Prehensile Tail
- Razor Wings
- Rocket Punch
- Rubber Man: A character with the power to stretch their body into various forms as if they were a rubber band.
- Shapeshifter Weapon: A shape-shifter creates a weapon by turning themselves or part of their body into one.
- Shoulder Cannon
- Spider Limbs
- Super-Senses
- Super Spit
- Super-Strength: A character is much stronger than a normal human being.
- Swiss-Army Appendage
- Tail Slap
- Tentacle Rope
- Torpedo Tits: Shooting things from the breasts.
- Typical Tentacle Tactics
- Unbreakable Bones
- Unusual Weapon Mounting
- Use Your Head: Someone uses their head to slam against things.
- Weaponized Headgear
- Weaponized Stench
- Wolverine Claws
- X-Ray Vision: A being is able to see through solid objects.
