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There are multiple manga/anime that depict threads as weapons. For example in
Basilisk : [![enter image description
here](https://i.stack.imgur.com/fmwHD.jpg)](https://i.stack.imgur.com/fmwHD.jpg)

Are these weapons based on real world counterparts?


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Are threads as weapons real?


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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