Oddly-Shaped Sword: Difference between revisions

 

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* ''[[Bleach]]'': every [[Empathic Weapon|Zanpakutou]] release that looks like a sword will have an unusual shape. During Ichigo's Bankai training, he has to retrieve his real sword among a [[Field of Blades]]. Every single sword in the field has a unique design. The most egregious example is maybe Izuru's sword: curved with two right angles and with no pointy end. One of his opponents even lampshades how impractical it is to fight (although shortly after he discovers [[Off with His Head|one way the blade can be used]])

* Samehada, Kisame's sword in ''[[Naruto]]''. If you can really call this thing a sword… it's more like a giant spiked club, but is refered to as a sword anyway…

** Among the Swords of the Mist we also have Raiga's swords: really thin dual blades with spikes protruding from them.

 

 

 

* The [[media:Vorpal blade 2840.jpg|Vorpal Blade]], from ''[[Munchkin (game)|Munchkin]]'', is covered in spikes and curves that don't even always go in the same direction.

** There's also the Funny-Looking Sword. It [[Exactly What It Says on the Tin|lives up to its name]].

* There are several in ''[[Magic: The Gathering|Magic the Gathering]]'', including the spiral-shaped [http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?multiverseid=221186 Trepanation Blade], the hook-ended [http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?multiverseid=193528 Pennon Blade], and the blade split down the middle seen on [http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?multiverseid=214070 Sword of Feast and Famine] and it's cousins.

 

 

* The Soul Reaver from ''[[Legacy of Kain]]'' looks odd, but this kind of wavy blade actually exists, and is called a Flamberge.

* The Seven Punishment Sword in ''[[Ōkami|Okami]]'' is another example of the "flame shaped" variant.

* The blades of both Noel's primary sword and Caius' [[BFS]] in ''[[Final Fantasy XIII-2]]'' are odd, to say the least.

** Auron's ultimate weapon in ''[[Final Fantasy X]]'' looks more like a really big wrench. Most of [http://finalfantasy.wikia.com/wiki/File:TidusSwords.png Tidus's swords] have odd shapes as well.

* While most weapons in the ''[[Soul Series]]'' series are fairly reasonable and realistic, several extra weapons you can buy/obtain tend to fall into this category, such as Siegfried's Flamberge (a zweihander with a wavy flames design, not unlike the page image). [[Dem Bones|Revenant]], an extra character in ''Soulcalibur III'' and ''IV'', also uses twin wave swords known as Gatekeeper.

* Sol Badguy's Fireseal/Fuuenken in ''[[Guilty Gear]]'' [http://images1.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20111030092758/guilty-gear/images/b/b8/Ggxxr_cs1_so.jpg is a blunt, rectangular blade.] It makes up for its supposed lack of sharpness due to [[Hot Blade|its ability to generate intense flames]] (presumably thanks to an engine/exhaust-like mechanism installed in the sword) although the blade is still able to draw blood in-game. By the time of ''Overture'', however, [http://images2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20111029045961/guilty-gear/images/1/1f/Gg2o_cs2_so.jpg the weapon has undergone heavy modification and resembles a more traditional sword] (the tip of the blade is still fairly blunt, though). Back during his days as a member of the Sacred Order of Holy Knights, Sol instead used [http://images1.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20111108135038/guilty-gear/images/4/43/Ggxxac_cs_or.jpg an unnamed sword] that appears to be little more than a giant slab of stone or concrete.

* The Sparda sword in ''[[Devil May Cry]]'' has a huge crescent-shaped blade, and the position of the handle should make it quite difficult to wield. Lampshaded in the last line of [http://thepunchlineismachismo.com/archives/899 this] ''[[Manly Guys Doing Manly Things]]'' comic.

* In ''[[Fate Extra]]'', Saber wields Aestus Estus, a large sword that tapers and widens somewhat randomly and comes to three points on the cutting edge... Well, [http://images.wikia.com/typemoon/images/f/f9/AestusEstus.png see for yourself].

* In ''[[Musashi: Samurai Legend]]'' the first four Elemental Swords may be unusual, but otherwise fine. Then there's the Void Sword: it looks like there are two blades merged: the one in the middle is straight and squared, the other one has a wave shape and is merged with the former. In [[Real Life]] this sword would be awfully hard to use properly.

 

* In ''[[Visual Novel/Dancing Blade Katte Ni Momotenshi|Dancing Blade Katte Ni Momotenshi]]'', Momotenshi, the [[Super Mode]] of main heroine Momohime, wields a [[BFS]] [http://download.minitokyo.net/Dancing.Blade:.Katte.Ni.Momo.Tenshi.387463.jpg with its tip shaped like a peach], as a reference to Momohime's origins (she's a [[Gender Flip]] adaptation of Momotaro, the boy born from a peach).

* ''[[Ace Attorney]]'': the Shichishito, which literally means "seven-branched sword".

 

 

* Drew of ''[[The Secret Saturdays]]'' has a broadsword that is normal except for a sunbeam-shaped sculpture at the top of the blade.

 

* The sword depicted, along with a few other examples on this page actually take after the Seven Pronged Sword, which exists in real life, along with several replicas.

 

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