9 Video Games That Make Stupid Weapons Awesome

Largely absent from the gaming landscape for over a decade at this point, the Red Faction franchise is one which holds a firm place in many gamers’ hearts for its sci-fi rebellion storylines and its literally groundbreaking environmental destruction mechanics. In amongst the gritty revolutionary war and desolate wastes of Mars’ surface, you wouldn’t expect a lot of room for stupid weapons, but Red Faction Armageddon packs an overcorrection you will never see coming.

A reward for completing the Red Faction: Armageddon storyline once, Mr. Toots is a cute and cuddly unicorn in the vein of other joke weapons who have come before him. Held facing backward by the player, this hapless mythical being will look around peacefully at the environment but, when danger approaches, the player can lift his tail and launch a rainbow beam from his nethers that obliterate anything in its path, complete with appropriately squeaky sound effect and uncomfortable expression on Mr Toots’ face.

It doesn’t get more stupid than a tiny unicorn’s butthole, and it doesn’t get more awesome than a plasma beam that destroys everything. This is Mr. Toots, and he’s a god damn icon.