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** In fact, save for obvious exceptions such as swords and firearms, most weapons have mundane predecessors. The spear and bow were originally hunting tools, for example, and axes and hammers were and still are construction tools.
*** Gunpowder was invented in an alchemy experiment that was ''trying'' for an [[Immortality Inducer]], and a sword is just a longer knife. A great many battles have also been fought with hunting guns—the sharpshooter units of many European armies are called "hunters" (chasseurs in French, Jägers in German) ''[[Exactly What It Says on the Tin|because that was what they did for a living in peacetime]]''.
* The French fighting style ''Savate'' originated in [[Bar Brawl|harbor brawling.]]{{context|reason=How is this an example of the trope as written?}}
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