Talk:Tonfa

Midnighter comic book hero
The comic book superhero Midnighter seems to use a tonfa. Can anyone confirm this? --Janto 20:11, 21 November 2005 (UTC)

He is actually using a police baton. It is a modified version of the tonfa, created for the purpose of being used solely (tonfa are used in pairs). —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.224.161.117 (talk • contribs)
 * I'm currently reading The Authority, so far so long, he has used a stick, but I'll continue reading and get back on this point. --Ketin Porta 12:58, 6 February 2006 (UTC)
 * Here it is: [[Image:midnightertonfa.jpg|300px]] --Ketin Porta 21:52, 6 February 2006 (UTC)

Saint Seiya
The Libra Golden Armor includes a fancy built pair of tonfas. --Ketin Porta 13:00, 6 February 2006 (UTC)

Tonfa History
I've read that tonfa were used as tools to husk corn or some other agricultural product.

An article suggests that tonfa supposed to be a millstone handle. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.140.118.217 (talk) 17:12, 27 May 2013 (UTC)

A tip for whoever is editing this article
A strong recommendation: Remove/move the tonfa in fiction/popculture links. They cover more than 60% of this entire article-length and it doesnt improve the article. In the Martial Arts project we remove this type of section and the respective articles state this-or-that character use the tonfa. Otherwise we'll have an article with nothing BUT these types of entries. Fred26 08:48, 19 July 2007 (UTC)


 * I agree, this stuff should go. Every fictional character that ever used a weapon resembling a tonfa does not need to be listed.  A couple of more prominent ones maybe, but this is silly.  Canadian Ninja 18:04, 5 September 2007 (UTC)

I've never liked these links/entries about fictional characters using certain weapons or martial arts but they seem to be very popular. Someone has got to realize that these sections are irrelavent to their respective articles.

So does anyone object to me seriously trimming this list down to perhaps a few entries? Canadian Ninja 15:21, 21 September 2007 (UTC)


 * If I remember correctly I originally created the "Media depiction" section long ago because people kept placing these irrelevant things inside the other sections. I'm afraid if we remove or trim down the section it will just keep coming back. I suggest moving it into its own article. Janto —Preceding signed but undated comment was added at 18:40, 22 September 2007 (UTC)


 * I see the list has grown again. I'm moving it into its own article Tonfa in popular culture similar to Kusanagi in popular culture. janto (talk) 15:19, 14 March 2011 (UTC)


 * The solution to an indiscriminate, poorly maintained list being in an article is not to just make it a separate article (that gets less attention) without fixing the issues. V2Blast (talk) 21:25, 25 September 2020 (UTC)


 * Sigh. Even though the Tonfa in popular culture page has successfully served for almost 10 years to capture these type of entries, it has now been removed by Deletionists . I predict that these pop culture entries will now yet again end up here. janto (talk) 21:52, 18 November 2021 (UTC)

"kittys"
should be "kitties" or "kittens" —Preceding unsigned comment added by 72.223.90.8 (talk) 13:51, 7 January 2008 (UTC)

In popular culture
Sun Ce, a character in Dynasty Warriors, used a pair of tonfas in Dynasty Warriors 4 and Dynasty Warriors 5, but was given a generic spear in Dynasty Warriors 6.

Talim, a character in Soulcalibur II, uses a pair of bladed tonfa as her weapon of choice.

Orchid of Killer Instinct uses tonfa.

The protagonist of Suikoden II (named Riou by default) uses a pair of large, heavy tonfa.

Hibari Kyoya, one of the protagonists in the manga/anime Reborn uses dual metal tonfa as his weapon of choice.

Okina in the anime Rurouni Kenshin wields dual steel tonfa during his duel with Shinomori Aoshi

In the Star Wars universe, the Dark Jedi Maris Brood used tonfa-hilt shaped lightsabers.

Naizer, of the manga and anime Black Cat, wields a pair of oversized tonfa during an attack on Creed Diskenth.

Gin, of the manga and anime One Piece used a pair of customized tonfa with iron balls in its edge.

The video game Ninja Gaiden II offers tonfa as a selectable weapon.

in Hellboy, Karl Ruprecht Kroenen wields tonfa-like swords.

I guess might be reinstated, but after cleaned-up/rewritten. --Ostateczny Krach Systemu Korporacji (talk) 23:08, 25 June 2009 (UTC)

German
(German: Frag) WHAT? I'm German and have no clue what that could mean.... —Preceding unsigned comment added by 92.193.112.79 (talk) 02:31, 19 November 2009 (UTC)

I'm German as well and I just wondered the same thing. To be sure I googled a bit and checked out the German Wikipedia website and now I'm pretty sure that "Frag" isn't German at all or even a proper term for a tonfa. Someone should remove it. 80.138.116.81 (talk) 22:39, 19 November 2009 (UTC)

Law Enforcement
Okay, this is in the wikiproject Law Enforcement category and yet there's nothing in the article about tonfas being used by cops, seems contradictory to me but what do I know, anyway it would probably be a good idea for someone to add a law enforcement section. Navilluss (talk) 05:18, 24 December 2009 (UTC)
 * A police baton is no tonfa, tonfa is made of wood and is slightly different in build (thicker at bottom), also not sure whether a police baton is equally large.
 * the tonfa-inspired police baton is adequately covered in Baton_(law_enforcement) - there's a link in the body of the tonfa article RayBarker (talk) 01:46, 16 January 2010 (UTC)

maybe that should be mentioned in the article.zeroro(talk)(edits) 21:57, 16 February 2013 (UTC)

Kanfo
Could the adding of brass rings on a tonfa increase its effectiveness as a (less lethal) weapon ? The weapon would be a blend of the kanabo and the tonfa, where metal rings (as in kanabo) are replaced with brass ones (less dense metal) in order to have a higher damage rate than tonfa, but lower then kanabo, also, the use of rings would make the damage somewhat more local, yet still enough spread to not do too great of damage. 91.182.181.98 (talk) 13:59, 26 December 2009 (UTC)

Other Chinese names?
Found here: 拐​棒 KUAI PANG or GUAI BANG 89.201.201.113 (talk) 22:11, 14 November 2020 (UTC)