Your signature melee weapon

[FolkLikePanda]

Cricket Bat with Nails and Barbed Wire wrapped around it and a little point thing at the end of the handle to stab the git with and a sharp edge on the top so I could decapitate downed enemies more easily.

 

[Wise_Smiling_Panda]

Definitely chains...

 

[The_root_of_all_evil]

The balisong.

Gentlemen?

 

[DJ_DEnM]

Spiked Bat.

For fantasy, Clouds Buster sword. SLASHIN TIME.

 

[Daniel Allsopp]

A Kusarigama, a scythe on a chain with a weight on the other end. Need to cut something? Need to knock someone out? Need to scale a wall? No problem.

http://www.monstercommute.com/wp-content/uploads/kusarigama.jpg

 

[hannan4mitch]

A Longsword.
Ok, ok, it's not very imaginative, but it gets the job done (and well).
And it's the only melee weapon I'm actually good and have some degree of training with.

 

[blind_dead_mcjones]

a sledgehammer, straight razor, and a brick in a sock

Twin flaming kunai on barbed wire.
For those who don't know what a kunai is, it looks like this:

funfact: kunai is little more than an glorified garden trowel

Lol, I know. It doesn't sound as badass when you put it that way though...
Fine, new option: The dagger dagger!

i wasn't trying to be derogatory, if anything using a garden trowel as a weapon is even more badass than using something that is designed from the get go to be a weapon

 

[dementis]

A keen edged Kukri, My rogue in D&D wields one.

 

[serenityzero]

Dualie daggers

 

[EHKOS]

Well, I have a katana and sword cane, but I think going with a raipier with an ostentasious handle, gilded with jewels would be pretty awesome.

 

[Da pyro man 999]

The unjustly under rated cricket bat, hit a zombie with the side and that zombie ain't getting up.

 

[Asdalan08]

A Pen USB Stick... You can make up the rest of the story

 

[Cj Vanek]

Depends, if I'm an fps character I want a warhammer. If something else I'll go with a zweihander.

 

[Sebster 105]

Painkiller blade

 

[xXGeckoXx]

No more heroes style laser sword.

Or a really massive monkey wrench.

 

[SangRahl]

Alex Mercer mutation.
Huge nasty claws, insane whip-claw, bad-*ss blade, and chic armor form... Yeah, I'll take that.

 

[evilengine]

There have been many colourful hand-to-hand weaponary so far, wrenches, bare fists, crowbars, daggers and so on. I thought the other day, what would I pick as my basic melee weapon if I was video game protagonist? I like the idea of a whip, with it's cool cracking sounds and flashy tricks, whereas something simpler like a large spanner would be more satisfying to whack an enemy with. With so many possibilities it's hard to decide what I would choose.

So I ask you, readers, what would you pick as your signature melee weapon?

Whips work well if whatever you are fighting is very lightly, unarmored, and susceptible to pain.

As you could almost literally stunlock something to death with a bullwhip due to them being half incapacitated due to pain.

it works for Simon Belmont

 

[FirMothoth]

My signature weapon?

Certainly a piercing gaze and a rapier wit, tempered by a suave demeanor.

 

[SteakHeart]

Seeing as I've always fancied stealth, a syringe of sedatives (if it counts). Replace with poison if I'm going after a target. It's just badass, and if it's good enough for Agent 47...

But if we're talking plain hand-to-hand, nothing beats the classic SOG knife. Admittedly, it's not as crazy or powerful as some of the other things I've seen on this thread, but it gets the job done.

 

[Nedoras]

Just for the fun of it, a cartoonishly large needle. Nothing's more fun than chasing down your enemies with a giant needle screaming "it will only hurt for a second". Plus you can even throw in horrible puns like "I think you see my point" or "put down the gun, someone may get a shot". Ah the fun I would have.