Glass Shard

WEAPON

The Glass Shard in Manhunt.

The Glass Shard in Manhunt 2.

“*When you see your victim and you have no weapons, you have to become a bit inventive. With a quick thinking and a steady hand, a PIECE OF GLASS becomes a deadly weapon that can pierce your victim's jugular. THESE are the original that were used in many of Starkweather's features. - $34*”
―Valiant Video Winter / Spring catalogue, p.10
The **Glass Shard** is a green class weapon available in *Manhunt* and *Manhunt 2*.

## Description

### *Manhunt*

The Glass Shard is the only weapon that players can create by themselves through the resources in the scene. If a glass window, door, or pane is broken, it drops a Glass Shard where the glass once was for the player to use.

Apart from melee combat and executions, the Glass Shard shares the same ‘key’ function as the Knife and Machete, allowing the players to cut open ropes that secure certain gates preventing the player from advancing beyond them, as well as certain ropes in the scene Strapped for Cash.

#### Deliverance variant

In Deliverance, a Glass Shard variant (simply named **Shard**) can be found twice in Starkweather's Estate's attic and can be used to battle Piggsy.

It shares this same model as this common Glass Shard; however, it has its own HUD icon and execution animations, designed only for the battle with Piggsy. It cannot be used to execute any other hunters. The Shard shares execution animations with the Wooden Spike, which is also an exclusive weapon for this scene.

### *Manhunt 2*

The Glass Shard returns in *Manhunt 2* as a disposable weapon, not just in brutal executions, but also in melee combat. Swinging this glass shiv against a hunter or any surface around a number of three to five times will destroy it.

Unlike the original Glass Shard, this Shard in *Manhunt 2* is long enough to be swung around a corner while pressing against cover, an ability that was exclusive to certain Blue and Red melee weapons in the first game. Performing this against an incoming hunter will knock them down to the floor for 5 seconds before they recover. While downed, the player can beat them down. If the hits done to them while downed aren't lethal, then they will simply stand up uninterrupted even if the player is in the middle of hitting them. The player can execute the hunter in the brief interval after they recover and stand up, but only from a certain distance.

## Executions

**Note:** *The Glass Shard shares execution animations with the Knife.*

### *Manhunt*

 **Gruesome** (versus Piggsy) | insert | The player whirls the shard in the air and catches it, wielding it with a reverse grip. He then stabs Piggsy in the back, causing the beast to squeal in pain. As the player tries to tear out their shard, Piggsy backhands the player behind him and runs off like an injured animal, leaving the player stunned on their knees. The player stands after a short moment, gripping and shaking his head from the pain before fully recovering from the attack.

## Appearances

*Manhunt*
* Born Again (Found on a staircase after the basketball court fight, behind a gate leading to an open street leading to Carcer Mark Shopping Mall, up the stairs leading to the mall's second level, and in a building and a shadowy corner in that level)
* Doorway Into Hell (Starting weapon, if kept from Born Again. Found inside the first building the player enters. Obtained from destroying various windows in the level)
* Grounds for Assault (Obtained from destroying the glass windows in the left building after the padlocked gate)
* Strapped for Cash (Starting weapon, if kept from Grounds for Assault. Can be found in the room where the first hostage is in and in the aviary where the fourth hostage is in. Obtained by breaking the various glass panes and windows in the scene)
* View of Innocence (Obtained by breaking the glass door of the laundromat)
* Drunk Driving (Obtained by breaking the glass pane located before the first gate)
* Mouth of Madness
* Kill the Rabbit
* Press Coverage (Obtained from destroying the glass doors in the Journalist's apartment and the casino)
* Wrong Side of the Tracks (Starting weapon, if kept from Press Coverage)
* Border Patrol (Obtained from destroying the mirror in the garage where the player starts out)
* Key Personnel (Obtained from breaking certain paintings around the mansion)
* Deliverance (Found near a window at the end of a hallway next to the entrance to Piggsy's attic and near a window in a bedroom to the right)
* Brawl Game (Spawns at the center of the court every eight hunter deaths)
* Monkey See, Monkey Die (Obtained from destroying the windows in the store inside the shark's mouth building)
* Time 2 Die (Obtained from destroying various windows)

*Manhunt 2*
* Awakening
* Sexual Deviants
* Red Light
* Bees' Honey Pot
* Assassination
* Most Wanted
* Ritual Cleansing (PC/Wii only)
* Origins
* Broadcast Interrupted
* Altered State