Not exactly a lethal weapon, but the husband (back then boyfriend) of an internet acquaintance of mine, a boxer, did get into trouble for hitting a man who was about to rape some woman on the street and (as far as I remember) breaking at least one of his bones.
Since he was a boxer, at least back then, his bare hands qualified as weapons, and hence, upon the “victim” fabricating a completely false story about what happened, the judge was ready to punish him for assault with a weapon. (Fortunately, the woman they saved did testify, and told the actual story, so the judge let him off with the lightest punishment possible — no criminal record and he basically had to walk the dogs in the local dog pound for some weeks.)
So, it is possible to have your hands qualified as weapons, but you probably don’t want to.
If all else fails, there is the always the 4th panel solution here: https://www.bugmartini.com/comic/lethal-weapon/
Not exactly a lethal weapon, but the husband (back then boyfriend) of an internet acquaintance of mine, a boxer, did get into trouble for hitting a man who was about to rape some woman on the street and (as far as I remember) breaking at least one of his bones.
Since he was a boxer, at least back then, his bare hands qualified as weapons, and hence, upon the “victim” fabricating a completely false story about what happened, the judge was ready to punish him for assault with a weapon. (Fortunately, the woman they saved did testify, and told the actual story, so the judge let him off with the lightest punishment possible — no criminal record and he basically had to walk the dogs in the local dog pound for some weeks.)
So, it is possible to have your hands qualified as weapons, but you probably don’t want to.
Even if it may be easier, how is cheating in the third panel any better than cheating in the second?
Are those Wolverine Style claws in the fourth panel?