↑ has also been used as a weapon in neomedieval times, used to impale a knight's opponent in a ↑ing match. Its origins can be traced back to Vlad the Impala, notorious for surrounding his castle and royal court with thousands of ↑'s upon which his enemies were impaled, flattening their tyres and slicing their still-beating hearts ruthlessly apart. The ↑ was to prove invaluable to Vlad in his long and bloody war of attrition against the Suzuki Samurai, that warrior from the east who chose mayhem, destruction and death by the ↑ as preferable to the dishonour of pacifism and defeat.