Reforged Blade: Difference between revisions
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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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== 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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