Nunchakus (ヌンチャク, Nunchaku^?) are a recurring weapon in the Final Fantasy series that appear as pair of sticks joined together by a chain or rope.

About NunchakuEdit

Nunchaku are eastern world hand-to-hand fighting weapons, making the use of short rods and staves to be flailed and swung to inflict damage. While also consisting varieties like the tripartite sansetsukon, they may also cover truncheon weapons like tonfa, and even similar weapons with different features and designs.

These weapons are often wielded by Monks and their related classes.

AppearancesEdit

Final FantasyEdit

Nunchaku appear in the original Final Fantasy as weapons for Monks. However, due to how barehand damage is calculated, it is usually better for Monks to avoid using them at all cost.

List of Nunchucks:

• Nunchaku
• Iron Nunchaku

Final Fantasy IIIEdit

Three types of nunchaku, the Nunchaku, Tonfa, and Sansetsukon, are available in the beginning of the game as a weapon for Monks and Black Belts. These weapons are only found in the original NES version of the game, having been removed for the Nintendo DS remake.

Artwork for the Nunchaku weapon.

Artwork of the Tonfa weapon. The artwork actually shows a pair of sai.

Artwork of the Sansetsukon, or three-section staff, weapon. The artwork actually shows a pair of tonfa.

Before Crisis -Final Fantasy VII-Edit

Nunchaku (Male) wields nunchaku as his weapon of choice.

List of Nunchaku:

• Nunchaku
• Storm
• Tornado
• Improved Tornado

Dirge of Cerberus -Final Fantasy VII-Edit

Shelke the Transparent uses EM Sabers that are attached to a rope similar to a nunchaku, though they closely resemble lightsabers.

Final Fantasy VIIIEdit

Selphie Tilmitt uses an over-sized nunchaku as her weapon of choice. They are referred to as 'Shinobou' in the PAL version of the game as at the time Nunchaku were illegal in various parts of the world.

List of Nunchaku:

• Flail
• Morning Star
• Crescent Wish
• Strange Vision

Final Fantasy Legend IIIEdit

There are two Nunchakus that appears in this game. The Iron has an attack power of 21 and the Gold has an attack power of 40.

TriviaEdit

• Fighter McWarrior from the webcomic 8-Bit Theater often makes jokes about putting nunchucks and swords together to form the "Sword-chucks". Though the idea was at first ridiculed by his peers, Fighter successfully used them to do battle against Kary, the Fiend of Fire.
• In another joke, the weapon shop owner for the first town mentions the only non-wooden item he has are nunchucks. When Red Mage asks why nunchucks, an eastern weapon, are being used in a western-medieval style setting, the owner replies "why do you think I still got a whole crate of them?".