Clean Cut: Difference between revisions
m
clean up
m (clean up) |
|||
Line 1:
{{trope}}
[[File:
Animating and detailing realistic [[Sword Fight|battles with edged weapons]] is remarkably difficult. Real-life edged weapons usually leave rough, horrible wounds, and severing arms, legs, or the neck of an individual is a very difficult task requiring either brute strength or significant time to saw at the wound. But quite aside from the simulation issues, if realistic blade wounds were done, then a [[Single-Stroke Battle]] would be far more difficult to conceive of as trying to go all the way ''through'' your victim would be nearly impossible. [http://www.straightdope.com/columns/read/2810/could-historic-japanese-samurai-swords-cut-a-human-body-in-two-with-one-stroke Nearly.]
Line 7:
Bonus points if it [[Diagonal Cut|doesn't manifest]] [[You Are Already Dead|until the attacker has sheathed their sword]], and extra bonus points if the wound does not manifest until the victim (for example) reaches up to feel his neck, at which point his head falls off, or [[Tempting Fate|the victim assumes the attacker missed]]. Even more bonus points if the sword is thick enough (i.e. the sword blade is visible) that no matter what the edge is like, the width of the blade should shove out the pieces of the object as it passes through them.
May be [[Justified Trope]] (read: [[Hand Wave
See also the delayed version, the [[Diagonal Cut]], and cousin trope [[Half the Man He Used To Be]]. See also [[Paper Cutting]]. Contrast [[Like Cannot Cut Like]].
Line 19:
** And Luke Valentine as well, although he's a supernaturally strong and fast vampire.
* Happened a lot in ''[[Lone Wolf and Cub]]'', especially with Ogami Itto, the protagonist. Justified occasionally in that in his old line of work, cutting heads clean off with a single strike was his ''job''.
* ''[[Tsukihime]]'''s Shiki Tohno can see "lines of death" on pretty much everything, and any cuts he makes along these lines are
** Same thing goes for Shiki Ryougi in ''[[Kara no Kyoukai:|Kara no Kyoukai]]''.
* Justice decapitates the title character's dad in ''[[Afro Samurai]]''... with a ''pistol''. {{spoiler|Or so it looks. He actually has three arms, the last one holding a sword and tucked under his cape.}}
Line 97:
* ''[[Harry Potter/Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows|Harry Potter]]'': Neville decapitates Nagini (Voldemort's snake) with a single swipe of a sword.
* In the short story [http://dailysciencefiction.com/story/desmond-warzel/epinikion "Epinikion"] by Desmond Warzel, the alien Squids have natural weaponry that not only does this to their human opponents, but leaves them alive for several hours after being bisected.
* This is what the [[Absurdly Sharp Blade|Shardblades]] in ''[[The Stormlight Archive|The Way of Kings]]'' do to anything not living. If it is alive, it
Line 123:
* ''[[Devil May Cry]]'' has Yamato, a katana apparently so sharp it can effortlessly cut through several feet of stone. From about half a mile away. Also used to separate dimensions.
** Not to mention Dante's Rebellion. It cuts a cubic meter of solid steel/stone/magic die neatly in half.
** With Yamato, Vergil swishes his sword, turns around, puts it in his scabbard, waits a second... and then as he clicks it in the enemy is slashed apart by the
*** One of the enemies even manages to speak several lines after the slash, before its head goes in pieces.
* ''[[Call of Duty]] 4'' and ''World at War'' kind of exhibits this trope for bullets, as the game allows you to shoot through certain materials - many things make sense for the bullets to go through, like wood and sheet metal, and they always do so with reduced damage. However, once they start shooting through stone, it kinda stretches it since the bullets can still go through and actually hurt. If they implemented a mechanic that allows you to permanently damage all material, it might make more sense with continuous shooting, but, there currently isn't.
Line 158:
== Real Life ==
* As the link above shows, swords that can cut through several bodies in a single stroke aren't unheard of. "5-body blades" as they're called are out there, and fetch a ridiculously high price at auctions. In fact, it's not too unreasonable to assume that some of these swords can cut through MORE than
** Though it should be noted that since the amount you could cut through is just as, if not more dependent on momentum then sharpness, this trait isn't unique to the famously sharp Katana. Its just that no one other then the Japanese used unarmored and restrained corpses cut in a blow as a unit of measurement. One could probably cut through more with a heavier European weapon, with an axe cleaving deeper then a sword.
* Obsidian scalpels. Sharper than normal surgical steel scalpels, but don't last as long.
Line 164:
* Guillotines.
* "Water saws", which use extremely hot and extremely high-pressure water. It cuts steel in half extremely quickly without resistance, and applying it to a human wouldn't be pretty.
* Swords made of Damascus/Damascene Steel are said to be capable of this, being [[Absurdly Sharp Blade
** Though people tend to forget that we're capable of so much more with the modern science of metallurgy. Theres no need to rediscover a lost technology we've now surpassed in performance.
*** However by rediscovering it we can build from it, and learn new things.
**** For example, Katana's are so sharp because of the way that they added carbon to the iron thus proving a metallurgical concept.
* The way a Samurai's katana is made, from it's shape to the composition of the steel used is designed to pretty much cut through flesh and bone in a single stroke (provided that the wielder is a trained swordsman).
** The composition of steel is to compensate for the generally poor grade irons available to Japan at the time. The lengthwise curvature is to ensure greater drawing action on the swing and to take advantage of the human body's natural vacuum to add pull to the swing's momentum. A less skilled swordsman could embed the sword so firmly it would take a struggle to free, but a more skilled swordsman would get a
| |||