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 characters.

In Warframe, the Kronen are bladed tonfas that may be used by the player.
Eri Kasamoto and Fio Germi from Metal Slug series
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
Noa in Legend of Legaia
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 Dungeon Fighter Online, the Fighter class can wield a variety of tonfas.
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, the Survivors can utilize this melee weapon from several campaigns, although it is referred to as a nightstick.
In Dynasty Warriors 3,4,5, and 7, Sun Ce uses tonfa.
In the Game Dead Island
In the 1995 DOS game Bioforge, your character eventually acquires a large gun called a "Tonfa Gun" which can also be used as a club.
In Yakuza 3, Kazuma Kiryu is able to wield tonfas.
In the 1985 fighting game Yie Ar Kung-Fu, Tonfun uses two tonfas.
Rebecca from the Double Dragon fighting game uses twin tonfas as her weapons.
Eri Hasumi From Vanguard Princess fighting game uses twin tonfas as her weapons.

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 pair of tonfa with cannonball sized weights on the ends.
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 six sets of weapons of the Libra Golden Cloth. In the Poseidon Saga, Cygnus Hyoga uses one of the tonfas to take down one of the Marine Pillars.
Ingrid Bernstein uses bladed tonfa in Freezing.
Carossa in Gun Sword.
In Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha StrikerS, Schach Nouera uses dual tonfa as her Armed Device, Windenschaft.
In Future Diary, Akise Aru was shown to defend Ueshita Kamado from Gasai Yuno's attack with the tonfa.
In Fairy Tail, Edolas Wendy is shown to use tonfa as her main weaponry.
In Tokyo Mew Mew, Kish Ikisatashi is shown to use tonfa in the manga.

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.
In the Korean drama Gwanggaeto, The Great Conqueror, one of Damdeok's followers, Sagal Hyeon, wields a pair of tonfa blades.
In the film City Hunter (adapted from the manga of the same name), Jackie Chan fights Richard Norton with a pair of tonfa.

In comics

Justice League villain Prometheus wields a high-tech tonfa.
In the webcomic El Goonish Shive, the character Noah (in the guise of The Child Left Behind) uses tonfas in his fight with the Taurcanis Draco in the "New and Old Flames" story arc.