<p>Depends on the results you're looking for (slicing vs choking). Realistically there is no current application of any material (carbon nanotubes composites included) thin enough and with enough tensile strength to be the equivalent of razor wire/floss that can cut thru things as if they were pudding.</p>
<p>This sort of trope is likely to have been inspire in part by the <a href="https://sofrep.com/gear/garrote-wire-sentry-removal/?" rel="noreferrer">garrote wire</a> (sometimes also referred to as the strangulation wire). This was a preferred method of <a href="https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garrotte" rel="noreferrer">silent assassinations</a> in the 17th and 18th centuries and especially in WWII by the French Foreign Legion, among other things.</p>

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<p>There are multiple manga/anime that depict threads as weapons. For example in Basilisk :
<a href="https://i.sstatic.net/fmwHD.jpg" rel="noreferrer"><img src="https://i.sstatic.net/fmwHD.jpg" alt="enter image description here" /></a></p>
<p>Are these weapons based on real world counterparts?</p>

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Realistic example from science fiction: in Liu Cixin's The Three-Body Problem they use nanowires to destroy a ship.
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Are threads as weapons real?
# Are threads as weapons real?
Posted by: username_0 on 2022-08-21
There are multiple manga/anime that depict threads as weapons. For example in Basilisk :
[![enter image description here](https://i.sstatic.net/fmwHD.jpg)](https://i.sstatic.net/fmwHD.jpg)

Are these weapons based on real world counterparts?
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> **username_1**: Realistic example from science fiction: in Liu Cixin's The Three-Body Problem they use nanowires to destroy a ship.  
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### Answer by username_2 on 2022-08-21. Score: 10 | Accepted answer
Depends on the results you're looking for (slicing vs choking). Realistically there is no current application of any material (carbon nanotubes composites included) thin enough and with enough tensile strength to be the equivalent of razor wire/floss that can cut thru things as if they were pudding.

This sort of trope is likely to have been inspire in part by the [garrote wire](https://sofrep.com/gear/garrote-wire-sentry-removal/?) (sometimes also referred to as the strangulation wire). This was a preferred method of [silent assassinations](https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garrotte) in the 17th and 18th centuries and especially in WWII by the French Foreign Legion, among other things.
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