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[[File:ReforgedBlade 4248.jpg|link=The Lord of the Rings (film)|frame|Is there a [[The Blacksmith|blacksmith]] in the house?]]
{{quote|''From the ashes a fire shall be woken,''
''A light from the shadows shall spring;''
''Renewed shall be blade that was broken,''
''The crownless again shall be king.''
|'''[[J.R.R. Tolkien]]''', ''[[The Lord of the Rings]]''}}
[[Exactly What It Says on the Tin|As it sounds]]. A blade, once broken, reforged! It's probably the [[Sword of Plot Advancement]] or [[Infinity+1 Sword]], but it could also just be the hero's signature weapon, if it got [[Wrecked Weapon|broken somehow]]. In reality, going through something like this would weaken the integrity of a blade, if it is possible at all (realistically "reforging" a blade would be melting down and recycling the metal as well as adding some new metal if you want a same sized blade, effectively making it a new sword, which might be handy for [[Unobtainium]]). In fiction, they might actually come out of the reforging STRONGER than they went in.
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Overlaps with [[Wrecked Weapon]] in several places. Contrast [[Like Cannot Cut Like]].
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▲== Anime & Manga ==
* Pretty early in ''[[Rave Master]]'' the Ten Commandments broke. They brought it to the smith who forged it originally, "Musica," the old one. The sword is stronger thanks to advances in technology.
** Reforged again by "Musica", the young one, toward the end of the series.
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* ''Samurai Troopers'' (aka ''[[Ronin Warriors]]'') has a truly bizarre reforging scene. In it, Ryo climbs inside Mount Fuji and throws the broken blades of his Rekka-ken into the magma. The volcano erupts, and Ryo catches some of the magma on the broken hilts, which forms itself into new blades.
* This is the special power of Kubikiri Boucho ("Decapitating Carving Knife") in ''[[Naruto]]''. Even if it's broken, it will always be remade... because it actually absorbs the iron from the blood of its victims to repair any damage it suffers.
* In ''[[Gundam SEED Astray]]'', Lowe Guele's [[Katanas Are Just Better|Gerbera Straight]] is broken by [[Big Bad|Rondo Ghina Sahaku]], so he returns to the [[Hermit Guru]] who crafted it in the first place. Instead of reforging it himself, the old man teaches Lowe how to do it because he knows he's going to die soon and wants his craft to live on in a worthy successor. In a subversion, the repaired Gerbera is just that—repaired—and not made anything really amazing. On the other hand, Lowe uses his knowledge along with a giant hunk of [[Thunderbolt Iron]] to forge [[
== Literature ==
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== Web Comics ==
* The [[Ancestral Weapon|hereditary Greenhilt Sword]] from ''[[The Order of the Stick]]'', which got broken by [[Big Bad|Xykon]] during Roy's first confrontation with him. Reforged with [[Thunderbolt Iron|Starmetal]], it's now a Plus Five Sword, with extra bonuses and [[Power Glows|neat glowy effects]] against Undead.
* In a recent development (published July 2010) in ''[[Looking for Group]]'', Pella reforged the Sword of Truth into two new swords for Cale: Evil and Good
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