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{{trope}}
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[[Cool Sword|Swords are cool.]] [[Heroes Prefer Swords|That's why heroes prefer them.]] But for some authors, it seems that a sword with a plain, straight blade, a curved [[Katanas Are Just Better|katana]] or [[Sinister Scimitar|scimitar]], or some other exotically functional real blade like the wavy [[wikipedia:Kris|kris]] is still not quite cool enough. They need to invent their own special blade. So screw functionality and ergonomy! They will design swords with the weirdest shape possible, as long as it looks [[Rule of Cool|cool]], or at least unique. The odd shape won't have any practical purpose other than looking special, when it isn't outright [[Awesome but Impractical]]… [[Implausible Fencing Powers|not that it will prevent the wielder from fighting perfectly with it]].
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▲== Anime And Manga ==
* ''[[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…
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** Among the Swords of the Mist we also have Raiga's swords: really thin dual blades with spikes protruding from them.
* ''[[Turkish Star Wars]]'' has a big dumb-looking sword with a lightning-bolt blade. [https://web.archive.org/web/20160306045309/http://www.nanarland.com/Chroniques/tsw/tsw009.jpg Behold!] ("The ultimate weapon: the painted-wood saw-blade")▼
* ''[[The Swiss Family Robinson]]''; in the Disney film version [[The Dragon|the Big Pirate]] (the muscular, bald one who never wears a shirt) has a wavy-bladed sword.
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▲* ''[[Turkish Star Wars]]'' has a big dumb-looking sword with a lightning-bolt blade. [http://www.nanarland.com/Chroniques/tsw/tsw009.jpg Behold!] ("The ultimate weapon: the painted-wood saw-blade")
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▲* Bat'leth, the iconic Klingon sword from the ''[[Star Trek]]'' franchise, with a crescent (often complex shaped) edge on one side and multiple handles on the other side. Also less iconic mek'leth, which looks like a scimitar with an additional knife attached under the crossguard.
▲== Musical ==
* Don Quixote's sword in ''[[Man of La Mancha]]'' -- it ends in an impressive spherical helix, though it is ''rather'' second-hand.▼
▲== Tabletop Game ==
▲* 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.
== [[Theatre]] ==
▲* Don Quixote's sword in ''[[Man of La Mancha]]''
== [[Video Game]] ==
* The Soul Reaver from ''[[Legacy of Kain]]'' looks odd, but this kind of wavy blade actually exists, and is called a Flamberge.
* The Dark Dragon Blade in ''[[Ninja Gaiden]]'', depicted above. A fully upgraded [[BFS|Dabilahro]] also has plenty of unnecessary curves and flourish. Enma's Fang in ''Sigma 2'' just… [https://web.archive.org/web/20191017080213/http://b6.raptrcdn.com/activity/award_def/psn/69/e5/69e56ddf18103edff73c3f66f63225fe.PNG cannot be described with words.]
* The Seven Punishment Sword in ''[[Ōkami|Okami]]'' is another example of the "flame shaped" variant.
* In ''[[The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask]]'', Link wields the [http://images3.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20101109205945/zelda/images/a/a0/Double_Helix_Sword.png Double Helix Sword]{{Dead link}} which has two blades that cross back and forth before coming to a point.
** Though less exotic than some, in ''[[The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword|Skyward Sword]]'', the [[Big Bad]]'s sword is an [[Evil Counterpart]] to the Master Sword, and has [http://www.zeldawiki.org/images/thumb/0/0b/DemonBoss_BlackMasterSword.png/640px-DemonBoss_BlackMasterSword.png a blade shaped like overlapping diamonds with spikes at the corners.]{{Dead link}}
* 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.
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* 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.
* In ''[[
* 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 ''[[Neverwinter Nights 2]]'', the [http://media.giantbomb.com/uploads/0/5427/850920-githsword_large.jpg Silver Sword of Gith]{{Dead link}}. Possibly justified by it being an [[Infinity+1 Sword]] [[Sword of Plot Advancement|of Plot Advancement]]. And by not being human-made.
* A lot of the higher-level swords and daggers in ''[[Dragon Age: Origins]]'' have serrated, zig-zagging, and/or wavy-edged blades.
* In ''[[Might and Magic]]'' VI, VII, a Great Sword is a two-handed sword with a wavy blade and an extra cross piece. Unfortunately, its usefulness as a weapon is only mediocre.
== [[Visual Novel]] ==▼
▲== Visual Novel ==
* 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".
== [[Web Comics]] ==
* ''[[Looking for Group]]'' had [https://web.archive.org/web/20180329082637/http://www.lfg.co/page/1135/ that sword]. Originally it was [https://web.archive.org/web/20180329082757/http://www.lfg.co/page/1115/ rather ordinarily shaped] - perhaps something gone wrong in translation.
== [[Western Animation]] ==
* Drew of ''[[The Secret Saturdays]]'' has a broadsword that is normal except for a sunbeam-shaped sculpture at the top of the blade.
== [[Real Life]] ==▼
▲== Real Life ==
* 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.
* The Italian spatulated blade rapier. It had a leaf-shaped point rather then a straight one. This was because Italian fencing schools of the time they were fashionable often advocated tip cuts and a spatulated blade is more efficient for that.
* The Mensur blade is cut off so that it will only do tip cuts. Being scratched up once was a [[Rite of Passage]] in German schools and still is in some.
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