Tonfa in popular culture

The Tonfa is a popular weapon in video games, anime and manga.

In video games

In video games, tonfa are the weapons of many the characters.

Maki Genryusai from Final Fight 2
Makoto Nanaya in Blazblue: Continuum Shift.
In Mortal Kombat: Armageddon, Jax uses a pair of tonfa as his melee weapon.
Talim in the Soul Calibur series
Orchid in the Killer Instinct series
Mao in Tales of Rebirth
Rachael and Tracy in the Battle Arena Toshinden series
Yoko Kono in Last Bronx
Levin in Wild Arms XF
The protagonist of Suikoden II.
In Mega Man Zero 3, Zero can use "Recoil Rods", which resemble spring-loaded tonfa.
It is also used in Ninja Gaiden.
Parasite Eve II and Ninja Gaiden II offer tonfa as a selectable weapons.
In Cyber Troopers Virtual-On, the trademark of robots of the Apharmd series are a pair of energy beam tonfa, romanized as "tongfer".
In the Strider video game series, the main character, Strider Hiryu wields a bladed tonfa capable of generating a deadly plasma arc; however, the covers for these games' western releases usually depict the hero with a sword instead.
In Bayonetta one of the weapons available to the titular heroine is a pair of rocket launchers that can be used as a baton in melee combat.
In Grand Chase, Jin wields tonfa as a weapon for his 2nd class.
Tonfa are used by the warlord Sun Ce of Wu in the Dynasty Warriors franchise by Koei, which is based on Luo Guanzhong's Romance of the Three Kingdoms. The tonfa are Sun Ce's signature weapon, although in history, he used a 'Bronze Spear' at war. The tonfa was removed from the franchise in Dynasty Warriors 6, but returned in the 7th installment of the series, Dynasty Warriors 7.
In the Facebook game Legacy of a Thousand Suns, the Shock Tonfa is a wieldable off-hand weapon that can be used to shock the opponent; unlike its usual usage, it is not used as a pair of tonfa.
In the Super Robot Wars series of videogames and anime, the mecha PTX-014 R-Blade(or "Arblade") wields a pair of weapons called "Blade tonfa", in which the longer end of the tonfa is a short sword blade.
In Tekken 6, Lei Wulong can be equipped with Tonfa as a clothing option.
In Star Wars: The Force Unleashed, Maris Brood uses lightsaber tonfas. Also, several wookies carry bladed tonfas.
In Namco's Knuckle Heads, Robert Vincent uses dual tonfas
In Left 4 Dead 2, as a melee weapon
In Dynasty Warriors 3,4,and 5, Sun Ce uses tonfa.

In manga and anime

In manga and anime, tonfa are also often wielded.

Okina in Rurouni Kenshin
Marie Mjölnir in Soul Eater
Naizer in Black Cat
Kyoya Hibari in Reborn!
Takeru Teshimine in GetBackers
Akane Higurashi in My-HiME
Layla Ashley in Avenger
Most production-model Knightmare Frames fielded by Britannia in Code Geass: Glasgow, Sutherland, and Vincent Ward.
Gin in One Piece uses a tonfa with balls in its edge
Elie in Rave Master uses tonfa blasters.
Tenten from Naruto uses a tonfa in one episode, and Rock Lee uses them briefly in one episode.
In 07-Ghost, Teito used a pair of tonfa in a chapter.
In Saint Seiya, the tonfa is one of the weapons of the Libra Cloth
Ingrid Bernstein uses bladed tonfa in Freezing.
Carossa in Gun Sword.

In film

In the Hellboy movie series, the character Karl Ruprecht Kroenen wields tonfa-like swords (similar to the weapons wielded by Talim).
In the Star Wars universe (including in the video game Star Wars: The Force Unleashed), the Dark Jedi Maris Brood uses tonfa-hilt shaped lightsabers.
In Star Trek: Enterprise, MACO troops serving on the Enterprise (NX-01) wield steel tonfa with an electrically charged tip.
In the movie G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra, the character Snake-Eyes uses wood and metal tonfa
Tonfa were shown as "ninja weapons" in the South Park episode "Good Times with Weapons".
In the live action series Ninja Turtles: The Next Mutation, the character Michelangelo used tonfa instead of the nunchaku used by his character in previous incarnations (mostly due to the ban on nunchaku used in children media at the time).
In the Super Sentai series Chōriki Sentai Ohranger and Juken Sentai Gekiranger (Power Rangers: Zeo and Power Rangers: Jungle Fury in the American versions), the Blue Rangers of both series wield tonfa as their main weapons.
In the Korean drama Iljimae, one of the eponymous hero's weapons is a tonfa that can be merged into a bow.
In the Nickelodeon TV show Supah Ninjas Amanda uses a pair of Tonfa
In the short film Bionic, Zahia Dehar is attacked by a policeman who is trying to use a tonfa.