Overview[]
The Toothbrush is a weapon seen in Hotline Miami 2: Wrong Number. It is a shiv fashioned out of a green, prison-issued toothbrush.
Hotline Miami 2: Wrong Number[]
This weapon only appears in the level Release, being exclusively used by the Prisoners. This weapon is a one-time use, meaning it cannot be retrieved from your victim once used. Curiously, the Toothbrush does not knock down enemies if you throw it at them. This weapon is required for the A BOX FULL OF SHARP OBJECTS achievement.
Summary[]
Pros:
- Quick execution
- Long attack animation
Cons:
- Extremely rare, Hotline Miami 2 exclusive
- One time use weapon
- Slow swing rate
- Unable to knock over enemies by throwing
- Miniscule sprite
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Trivia[]
- There is an unused animation for Richter getting killed with a Toothbrush, it resembles the same animation used for the guards and prisoners when they are stabbed with it.
- Richter also has working sprites of him using the Toothbrush on other Prisoners while he is still in his prisoner outfit, however this can not be done without the use of bugs or the Level Editor since he never fights the Prisoner faction until he gets his guard uniform. This may imply that Richter was supposed to fight other Prisoners while still in his prison outfit at an earlier stage in development.
- Sometimes, when Richter kills a prisoner with the Toothbrush, his clothes change back to the prisoner outfit until the player presses the Throw Weapon button.
- If Richter manages to get a Toothbrush from one of the three escaping Prisoners at the start of Release, then uses it to kill a Guard, the death animation will be one of the default cut death sprites. If Richter attempts to do an execution with the Toothbrush on a Guard it will glitch and spawn the Default Enemy sprite.

