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Compare to [[What a Piece of Junk]]. If someone who doesn't recognize its true value throws it away, or sticks it in the basement with all the other worthless junk, it's the [[Grail in The Garbage]]. See also [[Wrecked Weapon]].
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== Anime & Manga ==
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** In the first Seiken Densetsu game ([[Final Fantasy Adventure]]), the hero acquires a Rusted sword. The same twist applies: it's the Mana Sword. The remake doesn't let you wield it, but it opens the path to the Dime Tower in both versions of the game.
* Pale Justice in ''[[Icewind Dale]]'' is an extremely powerful sword for paladins, and looks exactly like an ordinary longsword.
** A sidequest during the [[Easing Into the Adventure|prologue]] has you retrieving a broken heirloom sword for a villager named Jhonen (no, not '''that''' [[Jhonen Vasquez|Jhonen]]). In the last chapter, if you did this quest, you can talk to him again to find out that the sword magically reforged itself sometime while you were off doing the [[Buffy
* ''[[Dragon Quest IX]]'' features the Rusty equipment, the first piece of which you're likely to find is the Rusty Sword towards the end of the game. It's not much use at first, but add a little glass powder and some [[Unobtainium]] (Orichalcum, in this case) and you get the third best sword in the game. And then the rest of the equipment is also the third best of its type in the game. It is very difficult [[Guide Dang It|to find anything other than the sword.]]
* Various rusted weapons can be found at a low chance in the ''[[Monster Hunter (Video Game)|Monster Hunter]]'' series by mining them or from quest drops. They usually tend to subvert this trope in being generic iron swords, hammers, et al. On the off chance you're lucky, you'll get a "Rusted" or "Worn" weapon which, with a lot of work in getting parts to break the rust, become some powerful weapons. In particular are the Eternal Hate and the Divine Exodus, two Sword and Shield weapons with the highest Dragon attributes in Tri, bar none.
* ''[[Glory of Heracles]]'' often hands you Rusty items. These are useless until you visit a Polisher, who scours the rust off. Usually you get pretty decent gear out of it. Sometimes subverted in that the rust is so far gone all you get is Scrap Iron.
* In ''[[World of Warcraft]]'' one of the most powerful knives in the game when it was introduced looked exactly like a [[Grievous Bottley Harm|small broken bottle]]. There are also a few magical maces that just look like unadorned bones.
* Many of the [[Infinity
* In ''[[Assassin's Creed II (Video Game)|Assassin's Creed II]]'', the Sword of Altair (best weapon in the game) is actually the simplest and least-adorned weapon in the entire game, especially when compared with the exceptionally ornate blades and hilts of the other sabers, scimitars, and rapiers Ezio can buy. The only real adornment on the blade is a subtle eagle-head carving in the sword's pommel.
* In ''[[Lunar the Silver Star]]'', Althena's Sword (so named for the goddess of Lunar) can only be wielded by her champion, the Dragonmaster--but has been lost since the last known Dragonmaster, Dyne, died. {{spoiler|Truth is, it's been hiding in plain sight, crusted over with debris and buried to the hilt in Dyne's monument right outside the (mostly) [[Silent Protagonist]] Alex's own village. After proving himself as the next Dragonmaster, Alex is able to draw Althena's Sword [[Only the Chosen May Wield|from the stone]] and reveal its true power.}}
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