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{{quote|"''Guns for show, knives for a pro.''"|'''Soap''', ''[[Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels]]''}}

 

 

Finally, they're generally easier to obtain and own legally than guns.

* ''[[Yu-Gi-Oh!]]'': Yami Bakura. ''Especially'' in ''[[Yu-Gi-Oh!: The Abridged Series|Yu-Gi-Oh the Abridged Series]]''. "I like knives. They make me feel all tingly."

* Chloe and [[Mafia Princess|Lady Silvana]] in ''[[Noir]]'' and Nakhl in ''[[Madlax]]'' (almost) never use any weapons other than ritual daggers in combat and are nigh undefeatable with them.

** Maes Hughes uses push knives, of course adding to his status as [[Ensemble Darkhorse]]. His skill makes him the fastest to {{spoiler|kill a homunculus}}, and he even did it ''twice''. Of course {{spoiler|[[Death Is Cheap]]... [[Killed Off for Real|for them at least]].}} He can ''throw'' his knives, which are not in any way suited toward throwing, to impale skulls. They're called ''push'' knives for a reason.

** Barry the Chopper likes to cut up helpless people for fun.

* Rin from ''[[Mnemosyne]]'' is virtually a [[Distaff Counterpart|female version of Hughes]], barring the fact that she's immortal. [[Stoic Spectacles]]? Check. Investigative line of work? Check. [[Obfuscating Stupidity]]? Check. And of course, push knives? Check.

* In ''[[Berserk]]'' Judeau's weapon of choice are throwing knives. They're later incorporated into {{spoiler|Guts}}'s arsenal following {{spoiler|his death in the Eclipse}}.

** Not half the badass Mihawk is, but we briefly meet a villain named 'Big Knife' Sarquiss because... well, his knife is really big.

** Buggy the Clown also has shown a tendency to use knives.

* [[Spell My Name with an "S"|Kuro(u)do(u)]] Akabane (aka Dr. Jackal) from ''[[GetBackers]]'' pulls off [[Diagonal Cut|Diagonal Cuts]] in rapid succession with his (wait for it) scalpels, when he's not throwing them [[Flechette Storm|en masse]] [[Calling Your Attacks|("Deadly Rain!")]]. And you don't want to know [[Nightmare Fuel|where he]] [[Body Horror|stores them]]...

* Asakura Ryouko, the [[Girl with Psycho Weapon]] in ''[[Suzumiya Haruhi]]''. Worse yet, it's a combat knife [http://www.designchronicle.com/memento/images/suzumiyaharuhi/10/noyuuutsu1008LG.jpg with nasty spikes] on the backside. And Asakura can be scary. [[Uncanny Valley Girl|Very scary]].

* ''[[Tsukihime]]'':

** In the novels, Kino is shown to buy knives from nearly every shop she visits, often just because they "look pretty."

* ''[[Basilisk]]'' has all three of these: Akeginu, Hotarubi (from the Iga) and Kagerou (from the Koga) using knives as their [[Weapon of Choice|Weapons of Choice]], in addition to their own powers.

* Shenhua of ''[[Black Lagoon]]'' is as good with knives as [[Heroic Sociopath|Revy]] is [[The Gunslinger|with guns]].

* Palm Siberia from ''[[Hunter X Hunter]]'' definitely qualifies.

* ''[[Gunslinger Girl]]'''s Pinocchio (particularly the manga version), cites knives to be his favorite weapon.

* ''[[Gunsmith Cats]]''. [[Career Killer]] Natasha Radinov uses a Spetznaz knife that shoots its spring-loaded blade.

* ''[[Full Metal Panic!]]''. Xia Yu Lan likes machettes, at one stage battling Melissa Mao with one in each hand. Even though Mao was armed with a rifle she was lucky to escape with her life.

** And this skill of hers can be traced back to its origins: Gauron. After all, he was the one that took Yu Lan in, and trained and raised her. It's revealed in the novels that Gauron's [[Weapon of Choice]] and specialty is with knives. Sousuke learned this the hard way during his first fight with him.

* The [[Nightmare Fetishist]] narrator in ''[[Goth (manga)|Goth]]'' becomes one of these over the course of the series. He gets his first set of knives from a collection left behind in a home that a [[Serial Killer]] had abandoned and quickly becomes proficient with them, his own homicidal urges being a strong source of motivation.

* Daggers were [[Vinland Saga|Thorfinn's]] [[Weapon of Choice]] for close combat pre time-skip, but he is good at [http://img813.imageshack.us/img813/6219/vinlandsaga05144.png throwing] [http://img43.imageshack.us/img43/6919/vinlandsaga05145.png knives] too.

* After being [[Break the Cutie|blackmailed and broken]] by her [[Complete Monster]] of a teacher, Chizuru Honda of ''[[Bokurano]]'' started to carry a knife with her at all times. She threatens Kako with it when he was about to rape her in her house, and {{spoiler|in the manga, she stabs him in the neck and slits his jugular with it when he [[Freak-Out|freaks out]] during his battle. And before dying, she passes it down to Kirie, who later uses it to injure Hatagai}}.

* The titular character of ''[[Violence Jack]]''. Due to not remembering his name, he named himself after his [[Weapon of Choice|signature]] jackknife. {{spoiler|His real name is [[Devilman|Akira Fudo]].}}

 

== Comic Books ==

* ''[[X-Men (Comic Book)|X-Men]]'' character Warpath currently [[Dual-Wielding|dual-wields]] knives made of vibranium as his signature weapons in ''X-Force''. Noteworthy in that he is ''not'' [[Ax Crazy]] at all.

** Short time ''X-Man'' and heroic sociopath Marrow, also from the ''X-Men'' comics, almost always uses bone knives which grow from her own body as weapons. She is drawn with them on nearly each cover she appears on.

** Also Batman's son, Damian.

* Here's some obscure ones from [[DC Comics]]: The assassins Hellhound, Brutale, and Lady Vic all make use of a variety of knives, as does the serial killer Murmur. Wonder Woman occasionally ran into a mercenary who called herself Moot, who favored a stiletto she called "The Moot Point". On the heroes' side, Nightblade and Black Condor II are both noted as skilled knife throwers.

* Many members of the ''[[G.I. Joe]]'' team (as well as Cobra) are skilled with knives, but [[Badass|Snake-Eyes]] has ''collections'' of them. His spike-knuckled trench knives get mentioned more than a few times during the Marvel Comics run alone, and his third costume (assembled from parts taken from his Cobra interrogators) has a pair of knives mounted ''right on his chest''.

 

 

 

* ''[[Kick-Ass (film)|Kick-Ass]]'' has a scene where Mindy (aka Hit-Girl) when asked what she wants for her birthday, replies (after first worrying her father by pretending to want a puppy and a doll) that she'd love "a Benchmade Model-42 Butterfly Knife". On the day in question, she receives a matching set of them and is overjoyed. She even proceeds to demonstrate just how good she is with them in a display of twirling.

* Nadia from ''[[Pandorum]]'' is this.

* In the 80s Van Damme movie ''[[Cyborg (film)|Cyborg]]'', Van Damme awesomely used dozens of knives as he carved his way through gangs and bandits in an [[After the End]] setting.

* In the scary category, the shower scene of [[Alfred Hitchcock]]'s ''[[Psycho]]'' involves a screaming woman, a big knife, and [[Psycho Strings|scary music]].

* [[Rambo]] just can't live without one. He actually makes a knife himself in [[Rambo|the fourth film]].

* ''[[Repo! The Genetic Opera]]''

** The Repo Man himself, though his "companion" technically makes him a Scalpel Nut.

* Detective Somerset in ''[[Se7en]]'' is a completely sane heroic example, always carrying a switch blade wherever he goes and practicing throwing it at night.

* ''[[Inglourious Basterds]]'': Lt. Aldo Raine and Sgt. Hugo Stiglitz ''love'' their knives. Stiglitz's knife even has the phrase "My Honor is Loyalty" engraved on it, which is [[Irony|ironic]] since {{spoiler|he is a German traitor who killed thirteen Nazis officers}}. Presumably it's an SS-issue dagger.

* Saso, from ''[[Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time|Prince of Persia the Sands of Time]]'', though he doesn't limit himself solely to knives.

* Rincon from the movie ''[[Zombie Strippers]].''

{{quote|'''Rincon:''' I like knives.}}

* The Fremen of [[Death World|Arrakis]] from the ''[[Dune]]'' series are an entire society of knife nuts. Every man, woman, and adolescent wields a curved crysknife made from the tooth of a 400 meter-long [[Sand Worm]], and they train their entire lives to become impossibly deadly with it. They practically worship their knives. For insance, their knives are never allowed to leave the planet, anyone who owns one cannot leave the planet without their permission, and any outsider who sees the blade of a crysknife must either be cleansed or killed. Their obsession comes in surprisingly handy given that shields have made melee combat the standard for infantry soldiers.

* Each member of the ''[[Black Dagger Brotherhood]]'' gets a custom-made, matched-to-the wielder set of black knives, perfect for stabbing the [[Mooks|Lessening Society]] members back to the [[Big Bad|Omega]]. They are hand forged (literally) by Vishous.

* Briar from the ''[[Circle of Magic]]''. Seems to be [[Tamora Pierce]]'s [[Weapon of Choice|favorite weapon]] for commoners.

* [[Terry Pratchett]]'s [[Discworld]] series features a multitude:

** Carcer Dun is a knife-wielding, psychopathic [[Serial Killer]] who always has an extra one.

** Pteppic is a certified assassin and Pharaoh of Djelibebyi. When he finds of that his "companion" feels naked without her many bracelets, he has to admit that he feels naked without his knives.

** Assassins in general are known to conceal so many knives on their person that they could qualify as a live-in kitchen.

** Lord Vetinari keeps a drawer full of sharp, pointy greetings for rude callers.

* In ''[[Snow Crash]]'', Raven, named by Hiro Protagonist as "[[Badass|the baddest motherfucker in the world]]," is an Aleut from a tribe that perfected the art of making glass knives with [[Absurdly Sharp Blade|monomolecular edges that cut right through kevlar]]. Raven carries an arsenal of them, using them for throwing and fighting. Before the story begins, he steals a nuclear warhead from a submarine after slaughtering the entire crew with his knives. Uncle Enzo, the leader of the Mafia as well as an ex-commando, always carries a straight razor in his pocket. In the end, {{spoiler|the two have themselves a knife fight. Enzo manages to shatter Raven's knives, but gets the worst of the exchange.}}

* Bèbelle from ''[[Malevil]]''. A [[Creepy Crossdresser]] [[Disguised in Drag|who pretends to be a woman]] to get close enough to cut throats.

* Annabeth from ''[[Percy Jackson & the Olympians|Percy Jackson and The Olympians]]''; knives are used by clever fighters according to [[Big Brother Mentor|Luke]], and since she is a child of Athena, she uses one as her weapon of choice.

* [[All Tomorrows Parties|All Tomorrow's Parties]] features the Taoist assassin {{spoiler|Konrad}}, who takes meticulous care of his tanto, practices an Argentine school of knife fighting considered mythical within the setting, and is ridiculously deadly with his blade. While not knife nuts per se, Rydell and Chevette wind up carrying a ceramic switchblade and a knife with a pattern-welded blade made from the drive chain of a 1952 Vincent Black Lightning, respectively. Both are used at crucial points in the plot.

* The ''[[Nightside]]'' books have Razor Eddie, Punk God of the Straight Razor, who unsurprisingly wields an [[Absurdly Sharp Blade|absurdly sharp straight razor]]. It's mystically bonded to his very being. Bad Penny also carries a brace of silver daggers, one blessed, the other cursed. When she uses both simultaneously, it's noted that some gods would die from such a blow.

** In another episode, she hurls a knife through her beeping alarm clock instead of simply pressing the snooze button. So clearly she ''really'' likes knives.

** And the Greta (played by [[Summer Glau]]) have a tendency to get out her switchblade for everything.

* The cast of ''[[NCIS]]'' follows Gibbs' Rule No. 9: "Never go anywhere without a knife." [[Badass Israeli|Ziva David]] is especially enthusiastic, with an extensive selection, and she holds a knife-throwing class for the team, naturally hitting the target over the heart in her demonstration. [[Obfuscating Stupidity|Tony]] hits the stomach, [[Hollywood Nerd|McGee]] doesn't even get the knife to the target, and [[Non-Action Guy|Lee]] lets the knife slip out of her hand, almost hitting [[Memetic Badass|Gibbs]] in the face.

* ''[[Star Trek]]''. Everyone in the [[Mirror Universe]], though the women seem to be the only ones who actually use them.

** "I'll cut your ****ing head off; you will need to beep that, BBC 2."

* [[Stargate Atlantis|Ronon]] has as many knives on him as you need. He has a hell of a time getting through airports.

* Al Swearengen in ''[[Deadwood]]'' is a skilled knife-fighter who cuts a number of throats through the series. He is a self-confessed terrible shot with a gun, and at one point curses himself for sticking with knives rather than learning to shoot properly.

 

 

* [[Meaningful Name|Stiletto Anyway]] in ''[[Anachronox]]'' uses plenty of throwing knives.

** Gene from ''Portable Ops'' was pretty good with a knife as well.

* Tonberries in ''[[Final Fantasy]]''. [[Demonic Spiders|Behold the evil!]]

** Kiros in ''[[Final Fantasy VIII]]'', double armed knives. His standing battle pose even makes him look like an [[Axe Crazy]] assassin at the first grace.

* Knife kills in ''[[Counter-Strike]]'' are a particularly [[Badass]] [[Cherry Tapping]].

* A knife called the "Vorpal Blade" is Alice's primary weapon in ''[[American McGee's Alice]]''. It gets deadlier in ''[[Alice: Madness Returns]]''

* In ''[[Rise of the Kasai]]'', while Tati does have access to other weapons including a huge axe, a deadly spear, and a supply of exploding toxic mushrooms, her favorite weapon is a pair of twin knifes that she especially uses to maul Kasai warriors.

** This may have something to do with the fact that, besides the Hammer and the weaker Nanatsu Yoru, the Knife is one of the only weapons that can kill without draining all of your energy.

* Sherudo Garo, the Stage 2 boss and [[Big Bad]] of ''[[Time Crisis]]''. Given how annoying knives are in the ''Time Crisis'' series, this also has the effect of making him into [[That One Boss]].

** * ahem* ''Queen of Blades''.

* Kyrie of ''[[World Destruction]]: Michibikareshi Ishi'' uses knives for his basic attack. All his attack spells involve either knives or throwing several knives. His [[Limit Break]] can throw up to ''sixteen'' knives that, due to lazy programming, hit ''every enemy''.

** Do not forget the final fight of the single player campaign! You fight the [[Big Bad]] with nothing but your knife, {{spoiler|but you seem to drop it when he stabs you into the chest with his own. After passing out for a minute or two, you [[Badass|pull that very same knife out of your own chest]] and [[Throwing Your Sword Always Works|throw it]] [[Eye Scream|through his eye]]!}}

* The Green Beret character from the ''[[Commandos]]'' series is something of a knife nut, even quipping that they should help an isolated group of Allied soldiers by "offering a hand. Or a knife." Plus, the Diver can throw knives from the second game on.

* Souji in ''[[Suika]]'' always carries a silver knife in his pocket, but isn't actually a murderer or anything. But he does consider using it at several points and appears to have a fairly violent side that he suppresses. {{spoiler|It's finally justifiably used near the end, but he doesn't kill anyone.}}

* Konstantin Brayko in [[Alpha Protocol]] is a both a nutter and a knife fanatic. A [[Incredibly Lame Pun|Knife Nutjob]], if you will. Michael himself uses a knife for stealth kills.

* The main character from ''[[Rush N Attack]]'' squares off against an army of soldiers, all clearly holding rifles (although few of them actually use them), but other than the occasional bazooka, fights solely with his knife. The HD remake most of the enemies also fight with knives or punch knives.

* Warrant Officer Emile-A239 from ''[[Halo: Reach]]'' is never seen without his signature kukri, and is introduced while sharpening it on his armour. Ironically, he never uses it in combat.

** In ''Deception'', he also {{spoiler|kills the most powerful biotic in the galaxy (basically an individual with a bunch of very powerful psychokinetic powers, and the ability to summon miniature black holes and energy balls at will) with... [[Improvised Weapon|a sharpened toothbrush.]] }}

* [[Psycho for Hire|Kano]] and [[An Ice Person|Frost]] from the ''[[Mortal Kombat]]'' series. They both dual wield them.

* As with almost every weapon-to-personality trope<ref>well, except for [[White Magician Girl]]</ref>, ''[[Last Scenario]]'' completely averts this--the knife-using party member is the closest thing available to a [[Science Hero]].

* ''[[Star Wars: The Old Republic]]'': Imperial Operatives specialize in knife attacks, and all Imperial Agents get an equipment slot for them. They are always used more like daggers though, gigantic daggers.

 

 

 

 

** ''OOTS'' also contains a subversion: in strip [http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0393.html #393], Nale's knife is apparently no match for Elan's rapier and Elan mocks him for it.

* [http://www.drunkduck.com/Games_of_the_Mad/index.php?p=118354 John Burke] in the now abandoned comic "Games of the Mad"

* Oasis from ''[[Sluggy Freelance]]'' might use [[Improvised Weapon|Improvised Weapons]] or [[Frickin' Laser Beams|laser cannons]] on occasion, but her favorite weapons are definitely knives. Whenever she comes [[Back From the Dead]], she always seems to bring a few dozen knives along with her. That's all she needs to kill trained assassins, small armies, and [http://pics.sluggy.com/daily.php?date=000425 chocolate ice cream].

* [[Achewood|Oooh]], [[Memetic Mutation|these]] [http://achewood.com/index.php?date=12072001 knives]!

* [[Basic Instructions|Scott Meyer's]] friend, [http://basicinstructions.net/basic-instructions/2010/1/24/how-to-accept-creative-input-from-a-friend.html presumably].

* [[Shadownova|Shadownova's]] Cameron Hunter. He's a [[Blood Knight]] and the [[Alt Text]] implies that [[I Call It Vera|he names them]] to boot.

* The Purple Shirted Eye Stabber of ''[[Cyanide and Happiness]]'' fame.

* [[The Voiceless|Finland]] of ''[[Scandinavia and The World]]'' is always seen with a knife in his hand.

* [http://www.impurebloodwebcomic.com/Pages/Chapter002/ib011.html Elnor] in ''[[Impure Blood]]''.

* Williams from ''[[Remus]]'' is one, with [http://www.remuscomic.com/2012/02/20/018/ heavy emphasis] on the "nut" part.

* ''[[Yu-Gi-Oh!: The Abridged Series]]'' has Bakura, who once states, "I like knives. They make me feel all tingly inside." He has also proposed to kill Yugi multiple times with knives.

* Rhianna von Adolph from ''[[Open Blue]]'' uses a [[Made of Diamond|diamond-coated]] combat knife, which she tends to playfully toss into the air and catch whenever she's talking to somebody. She can either chuck this at people with alarming accuracy, or cut them up seven times before they hit the ground.

* [[Darwin's Soldiers|Dr. Kerzach's]] [[Weapon of Choice]] is his amorphous metal switchblade. He is quite proficient with its use as a weapon too.

* [http://www.youtube.com/user/cutlerylover Cutlerylover] has a channel (as you can tell from the title) primarily focused on blades, knives in particular.

 

 

* Mai in ''[[Avatar: The Last Airbender]]''.

{{quote|'''Tim-Tom''': We could take out his tongue.

'''Kevin''': With a knife!

* Jim Bowie was so renowned for his skill as a knifefighter that the type of large hunting knife he carried became colloquially known as a "Bowie knife." He once brought a knife to a gun fight and won.

* Singer and former actress Taylor Momsen has said she collects knives and enjoys playing with them.

* [[Jack the Ripper]] and other assorted murderers.

** [[The Triads and the Tongs|Triads]], end up using a lot of cleavers and machetes.

** In the Dominican Republic, locals can identify long-time gang members by their machete scars.

** Conscripts that go through NCO or Reserve Officer School get knives for their graduation. That's right, in some countries you get a class ring, in Finland you get a knife!

** There is a proverb in Russian, roughly translated: ''Q: Who are the bravest men in the world. A: The Finns. ''Finik'' (Finnish man) is the only man in the world who dares to sleep with a naked ''Finka'' (Literally "a Finnish woman", but means also a "knife" in Russian). [Finnish women have a reputation of Amazons in Russia.]

* The "KA-BAR" used by the United States Military has been standard issue since WWII. It isn't just used in combat, it is also used to open cans, mark walls, cut lines and ropes, and dig trenches. Veterans often continue to use a KA-BAR (either the one from their tour of duty, or one bought as a civilian) in Civilian Life, since they like it so much. The name KA-BAR came from a poorly-written letter from someone whose rifle jammed and was forced to use one of their knives to [[Badass|kill a bear]].

* William Ewart Fairbairn, known today as the father of modern special forces and SWAT teams, the guy who could [[Memetic Badass|kill you three times with blade or pistol in the time it takes you to blink]], repeatedly stated that if you were expecting trouble, one of the best tools to have at your side was a knife. Drawing on his police experience on the mean streets of [[Wretched Hive|pre-war Shanghai]], he advocated a light double-edged knife, such as the Fairbairn-Sykes dagger he and his partner designed for use by British commandos, and use it "like a paintbrush." As he put it: "In close-quarters fighting there is no more deadly weapon than the knife."

* Multiple murderer Donald Gonzalez actually was nicknamed "the Knife Nut" by the media.

* Gabe Newell of [[Valve]] has an impressive knife collection in his office that has been shown off in a couple of video tours. No word on him actually using them on anyone, though.