An index of tropes related to tools.
Not to be confused with Tropes Are Tools.
Tropes:
- Anvil on Head: A character gets hit on the head with an anvil.
- Axe Before Entering
- Blaming the Tools: A person who failed their task places the blame on having ineffective tools rather than their own incompetence.
- Broomstick Quarterstaff
- Building Is Welding
- Chainsaw Good
- Circling Saw
- Cow Tools
- Crowbar Combatant
- Cutlery Escape Aid
- Deus Ax Machina
- Do-Anything Robot: A robot that is able to perform any function, often because they're equipped with a tool for every situation.
- Druidic Sickle
- Duct Tape for Everything
- Every Device Is a Swiss-Army Knife
- Fire Hose Cannon
- Forging Scene
- Gadget Watches
- Garden-Hose Squirt Surprise
- Gardening-Variety Weapon
- Grappling-Hook Pistol
- Hairpin Lockpick
- Hammer and Sickle
- Handy Man
- Hockey Mask and Chainsaw: A classic serial killer getup.
- Hollywood Glass Cutter
- Hook Humiliation
- Hooks and Crooks
- Hyperspace Mallet
- Improvised Lockpick
- Improvised Screwdriver
- Jail Bake: Trying to help someone get out of jail by sending them a cake that has tools they can use to escape hidden inside.
- Kukris are Kool
- Ladder Tipping
- Laser Cutter
- Lethal Letter Opener
- Lumber Mill Mayhem
- Machete Mayhem
- Magic Tool
- Makeup Weapon: Weaponized cosmetics.
- A Master Makes Their Own Tools
- Mundane Utility
- Nail 'Em: Weaponized nail guns.
- Outlandish Device Setting
- Pile Bunker: Weaponized jackhammers.
- Plunger Detonator
- Powerful Pick
- Rake Take: Stepping on a rake and getting hit in the face.
- Rescue Equipment Attack: Ironically using rescue tools to engage in violence or as means of distraction.
- Robotic Assembly Lines
- Runs with Scissors
- Rust-Removing Oil: Oil is unrealistically depicted as restoring rusted metal to how it was before it got rusted.
- Sawblade Anatomy
- Saw Blades of Death
- Shear Menace
- Shoe Phone
- Shovel Strike: Using a shovel as a weapon/shield.
- Sinister Scythe
- Solar-Powered Magnifying Glass
- Skeleton Key
- Sticky Situation (frequently involves glue guns and other such tools)
- Super Wrist-Gadget
- Swiss-Army Appendage: A cyborg has a prosthetic limb that can turn into whatever tool they need.
- Swords to Plowshares
- Thermometer Gag: Jokes about rectal thermometers and the unfortunate people who end up being subjected to them.
- This Is a Drill
- Tools of Sapience
- Torches and Pitchforks
- Ultimate Blacksmith
- Ultimate Forge
- Utility Belt
- Utility Weapon
- Vicious Vac
- Video Game Tools: Video Game items with some sort of functionality.
- Water Hose Rodeo
- Weapons of Their Trade
- Weapons That Suck (when the weapon is an actual vacuum cleaner)
- Wood Chipper of Doom
- Wrench Whack