In Popular Culture
- Batman's arch-nemesis The Joker is known to employ weaponized playing cards, particularly in the 1992 animated TV series.
- Gambit (X-Men) - skilled in the art of card-throwing with great accuracy, which he charges with energy to make them explode on contact.
- Yuri of the Dirty Pair sometimes employs the "Bloody Card" - a technologically-enhanced card - to attack multiple targets.
- City Hunter (1993) - features a gambling card thrower.
- Setzer, the gambling hero of Final Fantasy VI, uses a variety of card decks for weapons as well as darts and dice.
- 3 Ninjas: High Noon at Mega Mountain (1998) - uses a specially designed throwing card, which appears to be bent, a possible enhancement.
- Oswald (KOF XI) - practices the card-throwing art called Karnöffel.
- Twisted Fate (League of Legends) - utilises card throwing for all his attacks.
- Hellsing, the Japanese horror manga, features a card-slinging sorcerer known as The Dandy Man.
- Sheena Fujibayashi (Tales of Symphonia) swings and strikes with tarot cards for all of her abilities and employs techniques where she empowers those cards with energy called "seals".
- Sneff, a playable character in Chrono Cross, is a magician who uses a deck of cards as his primary weapon.
- Seto Kaiba has been known to do this in the original Yu-Gi-Oh! manga.
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