The design of the whip is based on those used by circus lion tamers and to fit with Jinnai's pet breeding hobby.. The titular heroine of Cutey Honey transformed into a white leather , corseted dominatrix in the second series. General Cloud Nine in D. Gray-Man and Lulu Bell. The anime adds this conversation.
Cloud Nine : "Maybe I should whip you [to make you work]. This detail comes from John's gospel, in which it appears to be an Improvised Weapon. Comic Books. Asterix : One of the Kush princess duo that competes in "Asterix and the Chariot Race" dishes it out with a whip.
Her colleague is something between Brawn Hilda and Amazonian Beauty and doesn't need one. His sidekick Bravo wielded the relatively similar bola. Catwoman is the quintessential comic book example. It's worth noting that the movies and cartoons always show her with a bullwhip, when in the comics, she normally uses a cat o' nine tails a whip with multiple ends tied to metal balls.
It is sometimes explained that she chose the weapon due to its difficulty of use; if someone managed to disarm her in a fight they'd be unlikely to be able to use it against her effectively. It is also worth noting that she is not above using a Groin Attack with it, as Prometheus found out the hard way. Sydney Savage from Danger Girl. Rum, Sodomy, and the Lash from Empowered. That's only one guy, by the way. Oh, it used to be a team of three dudes, but long story short the one who was previously just "the Lash" had to take over the whole name after a while.
One wonders how the other two fought. Also Vanity, the devil half of the Conjoined Twins superhero Divangelic. While it usually plays the trope straight as an arrow, one issue played things unusually realistic, if not deconstructive. Indy is trapped on a small hilltop by natives he stole an artifact from, and quickly runs through all his ammo.
He begins using the whip, and the setup is actually pretty realistic — he is on a hilltop, so he has lots of room to lash the whip around, to make the natives keep their distance, but he notes that he is already getting tired, and won't be able to keep things up much longer he is shortly captured, but Deus ex Machina shows up to save him.
In the G. Joe: Movie Prequel comic, The Baroness displays a previously unsuspected facility with a bullwhip. Whiplash a. Blacklash , a minor Marvel Comics villain, has an electric whip. He typically uses this to fight Iron Man , which if nothing else takes serious cojones. He's since died, but been succeeded by a couple who took both identities as Blacklash and Whiplash.
His daughter also took up his mantle once. Now they introduced a Whiplash similar to the movie version. The whip is the primary weapon of Lady Rawhide. New Gods : Lashina of the Female Furies has electrically charged steel whips that can extend, retract, and wrap around targets. Pretty Persuasions was a member of Psionex, a group of dysfunctional superhumans who fought The New Warriors.
She had the Naturally, she was a stripper. The Tarantula, a foe of the Marvel Comics Western hero the Phantom Rider, wielded a cat-o-nine-tails as his principal weapon. She also carries a whip with which she is an expert. It is this whip that enables the more observant characters to identify her as the fake Rulah. Sachs' primary weapon is bullwhip that she wields with a surprising degree of accuracy thanks to her previous career in softcore porn.
It hooks into a mobster's eye-sockets and yanks him down the hall. Though she mostly used it for flirting, the entire outfit she'd been given for that arc was designed to resemble a dominatrix.
Star Wars : Lady Lumiya, who debuted in Star Wars Marvel , used a lightwhip, which was actually a lot cooler than it sounds. Especially considering she used it to hand Luke Skywalker his ass on a plate in their big showdown.
Lumiya and her light-whip made a return in the Legacy of the Force series, and she even wrenched off Luke's mechno-hand in a duel. Luke stomps her in their next fight by Dual Wielding lightsabers to first destroy her whip then her. The squid-faced Sith Lord Darth Maleval used a shock-whip in Star Wars: Legacy , making him one of the most badass of Sith in his single, one-shot appearance. The Sith woman Githany, of the Old Republic era, also utilised a lightwhip quite effectively.
There have been a few others, too. In Tomahawk , patriotic heroine Miss Liberty is an expert with the whip, which she often uses to great effect from horseback. Sakura the yakuza lady from Usagi Yojimbo. His granddaughter briefly resurrected the name, dressed in the obligatory Stripperiffic costume in Seven Soldiers. Wonder Woman : Whips are commonly used by Sangtee Empire slave drivers, and the Emperor used one to non-lethally put down slave revolts prior to their ascension.
Emperor Sangtee's skill with it made it their signature weapon though they're good with a gun too. Comic Strips. Dick Tracy : Mrs Pruneface used a whip, although there was nothing fanservice-y about this grotesque character. In a much later arc, Tracy's friend and colleague, HPD officer Haku Kou, is depicted as being the technical advisor on a movie being filmed in Tracy's city because of the title character's facility with a blacksnake whip. Kou explains that he became proficient with that weapon leading to his being hired as the film's technical advisor in emulation of Chang Apana.
FoxTrot : One arc had Peter and Jason become obsessed with The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles , and charging around the house as the 16 year old and 9 old Indy respectively: wreaking havoc with their homemade whips. One smashed lamp too many results in Andy confiscating the whips. Peanuts has Linus Van Pelt who can use his blanket as a whip with intimidating power to deal with anyone teasing him: Linus : They never tease me more than once. Fairy Tales.
For her appearance in the Diva Delight costume battle royal in the pro wrestling story, Hello Again , Molly Holly came to the ring dressed as a dominatrix, complete with a whip that she playfully cracked at the announcer's table.
Italy is also drawn in fanwork with whip. Even Liechtenstein has a whip! Group picture consists of whips.
Last Child of Krypton : Shamshel has two cutting light whips. Thousand Shinji : Asuka's second favorite weapon is a long, barbed whip. In the right hand it held a titanic bronze battle axe dripping with blood on its adamantine blade, while in the left it bore a long, snaking whip covered in barbs. Films — Animated. At one point, the guy even shreds a boulder Lupin was using for cover, in a matter of seconds! The weapon of choice for The Coachman from Pinocchio. In the intro for Toy Story 3 , Woody is shown to be quite adept with a whip.
Films — Live-Action. Moriarty's henchman use whips to fight Sigerson in their battle atop the carriages. In Aliens vs. Predator: Requiem , one of the new weapons the Predator has is a whip which can slice a xenomorph in half.
Catwoman regularly uses a whip in Batman Returns , and in one scene better explained below in Real Life, she whipped the heads off no fewer than five mannequins. In one take. It eventually causes his death when he wraps it around the dragon's snout.
As the handle is looped round his wrist, he is unable to drop it when the dragon drags him into its mouth. He kill Shadeline with a single stroke after tying his spur to the end of it.
In Brotherhood of the Wolf , the Big Bad wields a sword made from a spine that can break apart into a scourge-like whip. It is almost certainly stolen from SoulCalibur. The youngest titular brother from Brothers Five is a whip expert. In the final battle against the main villain's Green Dragon sabre, the youngest brother contributes by expertly choking said villain with his whip. In Curse of the Headless Horseman , one of the Indian cowhands is an expert with the bullwhip and uses it to take down John when John is posing as the Horseman.
In Django Unchained , John Brittle was preparing to whip a female slave for breaking some eggs when Django showed up. He killed John, then used the whip on Roger Brittle before killing him. One of the villains of the film Drive used a whip to nasty effect on the hero's black sidekick Malik Brody during one of the final showdowns, even calling him "boy" as an old-style slave-driver would. When the sidekick turns the tables on him, he tells him off as he delivers a savage beating of his own with the butt of a gun: Malik Brody: You pulled a whip on me?
Are you out of your fucking mind? Narouz carries a bullwhip, demonstrates his effectiveness with it to those he wishes to intimidate, and uses it to kill in Lawrence Durrell's novel Mountolive one of the Alexandria Quartet. Edson 's Calamity Jane novels, Calamity's preferred weapon is a bullwhip.
In Asimov's "Robot" series, specifically in The Caves of Steel , the police are equipped with electric whips as a less-than-lethal way of dealing with criminals. Daniel's plasma blaster resembles the handle of one all to well, something he uses to stop more problems when a group of citizens were ready to attack some robots who were only doing their jobs as shoe salesmen.
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory : One of the storerooms in Willy Wonka's factory is devoted to "whips—all shapes and sizes. There are several other storerooms, each labeled with equally atrocious puns.
A scene in Farmer Boy , one of the Laura Ingalls Wilder books, has a schoolteacher use a bullwhip to successfully defend himself against six boys who made a habit of attacking the teacher. While it's pretty easy to sympathize with the teacher the "boys" are at least in their late teens, and students had killed the last teacher who'd worked in that area , the fact that that whip is clearly being used as a weapon in that scene makes it pretty disturbing later on when nine-year-old Almanzo expects to be whipped with it for getting stove polish on the nice parlor wallpaper.
We already knew from earlier that Almanzo's father whips his sons with actual whips, but that thing is described as being fifteen feet long with a lead-weighted handle that can kill an ox. The old Chinese classic Fengshen Yanyi has three noteworthy examples: The Hero Jiang Ziya or Taigongwang is granted by the Heavens the "God-Beating Whip", a beautifully carved, segmented wooden rod which holds incredible powers and is no less efficient than other magical swords, spears or hammers.
Apparently it was used by the Jade Emperor to punish rebellious deities. Wen Zhong, the Grand Tutor of the Shang Dynasty and reluctant dragon to King Zhou, dual wields a magnificent set of whip-like weapons referred to as the " Male and Female Dragon Serpents Twin Whips , and again he's feared as one of the strongest warriors of Shang.
The eponymous heroine of Forever Amber uses a horsewhip to attack her husband, who has tried to poison her. A blow from her servant finishes him off. In Isaac Asimov 's Galactic Empire books, and especially in The Currents of Space , soldiers employed "neuronic whips", which caused extreme pain to whatever part of the skin they touched. The noun is used metaphorically. These are actually guns which shoot Agony Beams. In Helliconia Winter , Uuundaamp uses a whip to direct the asokins horned dogs that pull his sled.
He also wields it in self-defense, and to haul open the gate of a kennel to turn several other sledge-drivers' ravenous asokins loose on his pursuers. Drow high priestesses from R. Salvatore's Homeland and Sojourn use whips.
Six-thonged, living, snake-headed whips that deliver poison when they bite. Compliment them on their Stripperiffic bondage outfits at your peril.
Also see War of the Spider Queen. Benvenuti from Eric Flint 's Joe's World series favors a whip in combat. It's not very deadly, but combined with the right words, can be terribly demoralizing. In Johnny Mnemonic , the yakuza assassin's thumb detaches to provide the ballast for a monofilament whip housed in his hand. He uses it to battle the razorgirl Molly Millions. The Kingdom and the Crown : Jesus' introduction in the first book is the cleansing of the temple.
The characters head towards the commotion , punctuated by the occasional crack of a whip, where they find Jesus throwing money tables around and using the whip to drive back anyone who approaches.
Tolkien 's The Lord of the Rings wields a huge whip alongside a sword. All the Balrogs in The Silmarillion have one.
Or so it seems. The orcs' motto about hard work and perseverance: " Where there's a whip, there's a will! One blow from it can force spirits out of the bodies they're possessing. It originally belonged to his mother, Yu Ziyuan, who used it to whip Wang Lingjiao when she tried to order Yu Ziyuan around.
Isabelle Lightwood from The Mortal Instruments , uses a silver-gold whip when she fights demons, one which can somehow cut through flesh and bone. It's partially magical, however, which explains its unusual cutting capacity. A traditional weapon of the garuda from Perdido Street Station. Yagharek wields a bullwhip to good effect in the closing chapters, despite it not being as well-designed for combat as the ones used in his homeland.
In Redwall , Cluny the Scourge uses his own tail as a whip, mostly to instill fear and deal out punishment, but can be equipped with a poisoned barb to become a very lethal weapon. Mariel's weapon of choice is a salt-water soaked rope with a knot at the end. In The Seventh Tower , Milla eventually gets to use a light whip.
A homing light whip. In A Song of Ice and Fire , one of the Dothraki weapons is the whip, and a silver-handled whip is a traditional gift at a Khal's wedding, given to his new bride, though she is expected to refuse and offer them to her new husband.
The slaves are whipped by the khalasar , and Viserys ends up on the wrong end of one, being slowly strangled by it at one point. Jhogo, one of Drogo's bloodriders, is particularly skilled with the whip, and inherits Drogo's silver-handled whip when Dany asks him to become her bloodrider after Drogo dies.
During A Storm of Swords , Daenerys acquires an army of Unsullied in the city of Astapor, signified by her ownership of the harpy's fingers, an intricate cat o' nine tails whip inlaid with gold.
After she turns the Unsullied and her dragons against the slavers, she lashes the slaver Kraznys mo Nakloz across the face with the whip, declaring that, "A dragon is no slave,". The Sand Snake Obara is a warrior woman who specializes in using a whip and spear. In the TV series, her usage of whips was given to her younger sister Nymeria instead.
The Star Wars Yuuzhan Vongs' melee weapon of choice, the amphistaff, has a whip form in addition to spear, staff, sword, and probably some other ones Said form is typically used to disarm, or to get the weapon's head it's a living snake-like creature behind an enemy. Slightly better for use as a weapon than a normal whip, since it's venomous. The amphistaff can be completely stiff for use as a staff or club or completely floppy for use as a whip.
Most Vong carry it wrapped around their arm in the floppy state and stiffen it to the stafflike state when ready for combat.
Does This Remind You of Anything? He is capable of pinpoint accuracy, doing such acts as deliberately missing Sherlock's eye by millimetres. Live-Action TV.
Ashes of Love : Liu Ying wields a whip, and uses it to duel Xu Feng and fight off a group of assassins.
The laser-whip used to punish him delivers a harsher shock with every lash. The Emperor sits and rapidly counts out the lashes to be administered while Lando watches. On The Borgias , Cesare flogs Micheletto.
Miccy doesn't seem to mind, and is in fact, the one to suggest it. Buffy the Vampire Slayer : Faith - "This one guy I ran with, he liked me to dress up like a schoolgirl, and take this friggen bullwhip, and I'd be like Lady Heather on CSI has one because she's a dominatrix, or was one, and she uses it on the guy who killed her daughter. In Deadwood , Calamity Jane briefly displays her prowess with the bullwhip. The Sycorax of Doctor Who have whips that reduce a human to a charred skeleton Game of Thrones : One of the weapons wielded by the Dothraki is a whip, with one of Khal Drogo's bloodriders, Rakharo, specifically using it as his main weapon in addition to the arakh, such as when he took down Viserys and the wineseller who tried to poison Daenerys.
However, this is not a good weapon for close combat so she also equipped herself a small knife. In the reboot of The Gong Show , the Sonic Sirens used whips to chop the heads off flowers one between their teeth, even! They achieved three perfect tens for it. Atalanta wielded one in Hercules: The Legendary Journeys. An episode of How I Met Your Mother had a sub-plot in which Ted was given a whip and a fedora upon becoming a professor.
Marshall, the friend who gave it to him, demands they go outside and play with it. One Gilligan Cut later and Marshall is shown holding a bruised jaw, telling Ted, "The whip is not a toy". He is later seen playing with it, however. Luna Joker does something like this, except that since Joker uses Good Old Fisticuffs , the "whips" are his own arms and legs.
Mendol Ikemen : The manager, Sakeo, uses a whip as weapon of choice. And for fetish purposes. In the Queen of Swords , the main heroine uses a whip as much as her swords in battle, complete with the standard whip sound-effect. Red Dwarf references a "holo-whip" on a few occasions, a weapon that apparently hurts both humans and holograms and can be utilized by either.
The only thing cooler than carrying a whip as a weapon is having said whip as a body part. And that's the case with two of Ultraman Jack's most iconic kaiju foes in Return of Ultraman , Gudon whose arms are whips and Twin Tail whose tails are whips.
Their combined lashing was so nasty that Ultraman Jack had to step out of the arena when he got in the way of their battle the first time he tried to take on them. One Saturday Night Live skit was about a fictional show called The Whipmaster , about a cowboy in The Wild West who fought with a whip rather than a gun with enough extraordinary skill as to disarm gunslingers, snatch cigars out of peoples mouths, and retrieve objects and saloon girls Star Trek 's Ferengi were originally armed with electric whips.
This was one of the only cool things about them, and since the writers quickly realized these guys would not work as intimidating villains, the whips were dropped. Another reason why it was dropped was because of Special Effect Failure.
The whip made a return during the appearance of the Ferengi on Star Trek: Enterprise. The Untamed : Like in the novel , Jiang Cheng inherits his mother's weapon Zidian, a whip made of purple lightning.
Whiplash : Although good with a pistol, Christopher Cobb's preferred weapon was his stockwhip. Word of Honor : A whip is one of Gu Xiang's main weapons. Just one of the many weapons wielded by Xena: Warrior Princess. The dominatrix Rider of Bally 's Centaur has a large leather bullwhip. Subverted in Stern Pinball 's Iron Man , which features Ivan "Whiplash" Vanko as a villain, yet his playfield figure is missing his iconic double whips.
Spring from Sequinox wields a whip made of vines and flowers. Antares also has a whip. Professional Wrestling. On the Dominican Republic television program International Wrestling , Lightning Hernandez made use of a belt with spurs on it. Dutch Mantel used to regularly come to the ring with a whip he called "Shoo-baby" During his mid's feud in the AWA with Larry Zbyszko who was doing a martial arts gimmick at the time , Nick Bockwinkel began bringing a whip to the ring to counteract Zbyszko's nunchucks.
Sable often had a whip with her when she was the valet for Marc Mero. The Bible : According to John's gospel, Jesus made a whip out of cords and drove all the sheep and cattle away from the temple courts.
He then scattered the coins of the money changers and overturned their tables. Failure to devise a holiday focused on repeating this act every year apparently was rather detrimental to the Christianity. Filipinos often make whips with handles from a stingray's tail-barb naturally called buntot-pagi in Tagalog, or "stingray 's tail".
Sometimes it's used in eskrima's whip training as the real-life section notes , but it's FAR more important ceremonially, as it wards off The Fair Folk. Tabletop Games. The Clanners in BattleTech use laser guided whips in their single combat duels, and as discipline in basic training.
A weapon in the setting known as the neural whip exists, but it is less a whip and more a fencing foil from hell—its mere touch is agonizing and immediately demands a saving roll versus being knocked unconscious, and repeated use causes permanent stat drain in a game where you technically don't get to level up.
Its less damaging sibling only in that it doesn't cause the stat drain is the neural lash, which operates on similar principles but is actually a proper whip, albeit one that telescopes back into its handle between strikes.
Needless to say, both are illegal to own. Given her sadistic streak, it was only a matter of time before she wound up with a rail enforcer like Violet Esperanza. Tools are items that allow you to complete the resource gathering skills.
Examples of these include pickaxes, hatchets, and fishing nets. All tools have several tiers, usually based on the metals acquired in mining, with the exception of fishing. Inconvenient items many players would forget about could now simply be permanently in a second inventory. Examples of items that now belong in the toolbelt include tinderboxes, rakes, and shovels. You can also utilize resource gathering tools by adding them to the toolbelt. Some skilling items consist of consumable items as well.
Consumable items are items that disappear after they are used. Farming has several tiers of compost that are used to help train the skill and improve crop survival rates.
Mining utilizes stone spirits to produce more ores in less time while mining. Consumables exist everywhere in Runescape, and the skilling items category is no exception. Quest items are items that are used for the purpose of questing in Runescape 3.
Every quest item is unique and can be used for only one quest or an entire quest series. Some items are even used in quests in different series, such as the ring of charos.
Every quest has a different role for the items within it. In some cases, the item will be useful to the player after the quest, such as Silverlight, while in other cases the item serves no functional purpose afterward. Consumables consist of any item that the player can use which leads to the item vanishing. Examples of consumables include food items, potions, and ammunition.
Food is used to heal in Runescape. It consists of a huge variety of different items and includes pizzas, pies, and all sorts of fish. Doing any combat without food for a long period of time is practically impossible due to the player taking damage. Potions are created using the herblore skill. They provide a variety of bonuses and uses, particularly to your combat skills. Using a potion of a certain combat skill will boost that skill an amount based on the tier of the potion.
Potions can also restore your Prayer and Summoning skills to improve how long you can use those skills in combat. Ammunition consists of items used to fight in Ranged and Magic combat. In Magic players utilize runes to battle, as each different spell has a rune requirement. Having a staff of the rune type will provide an unlimited amount of that type of rune and save ammunition.
Ranged ammunition consists of a wide variety of items, including knives, arrows, darts, and bolts. Each type of ammunition has its own costs and benefits, with arrows and bolts being the most common ammunition. Ultrarare items are items that can no longer be acquired in Runescape. They are usually the most expensive items in Runescape and serve no practical use.
Items like these usually cannot be bought on the Grand Exchange due to their immense value being above the maximum cash stack. They came out during the Christmas event and were obtainable from Christmas Crackers, mentioned below. Partyhats were never released again so the supply has never increased, only steadily decreasing.
As players from quit the game or get banned over time, some hats are simply removed from the game. Partyhats are some of the safest investments in the game and are the ultimate way for the super-rich to flex their wealth. As the source of the Partyhats, Christmas Crackers have some incredible value. They are even rarer than Partyhats due to how many were opened in the original event.
Christmas Crackers currently hold a value of 53 billion gold. Another way for people to flex their immense wealth, Santa hats are another discontinued Christmas item. They appeared everywhere on Christmas in , and the increased supply has kept the value significantly lower than the Party hats the year before. A Santa hat can easily go for 3. Answer: Absolutely! In order for something to be considered a real item in Runescape it must have graphics. There are no invisible items that are to be found in the game.
Answer: Runescape 3 is full of cosmetic items! From the rare partyhats to different robes representing your god of choice, there is definitely an outfit you will enjoy. Some abilities require dual wielded weapons to use.
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