A crude but effective stabbing weapon made from construction rebar ground to a point and wrapped in salvaged grip tape. The Tetanus Kiss is not a designed weapon — it is what happens when someone who cannot afford a Φ50 knife takes a piece of structural steel and makes it dangerous. The rebar's corrugated surface tears rather than cuts, creating ragged wounds that are extremely difficult to close and prone to infection.

The weapon's street name reflects its most feared characteristic: lower-tier medical facilities treat rebar puncture wounds with a specific dread, because the corrugated steel surface drags environmental contaminants — rust, concrete dust, biological matter — deep into the wound channel. Without immediate antimicrobial treatment, infection rates approach 80%. In GLMZ's lower tiers, where medical access is intermittent and expensive, a rebar puncture can kill through sepsis days after the initial injury.

The Tetanus Kiss exists because poverty is a weapon that creates weapons. Every piece of rebar in GLMZ's lower tiers is a potential armament, requiring only motivation and a grinding wheel to transform. Security forces who patrol lower-tier corridors have learned that confiscating improvised weapons is futile — the raw materials are literally the walls and floors.