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Whenever an army of evil creatures like Orcs and such is introduced, be sure that most of the time they will be armed with scimitars, falchions, sabers and other curved weapons. Alternatively, a particular evil character or warrior is armed with such a weapon to underline his bad guy status. Seen more often if the "good guys" or the "good army" wields straight swords.

* [[Vampire Hunter D|D]]'s crescent sword.

* Many high-level enemies in ''[[Yaiba]]'' are armed with large scimitars, namely the [[Elite Mook|Mushroom Soldier]], [[Attack of the 50 Foot Whatever|Gold]] and [[Noble Demon|Gozuma]].

** [[Filler Villain|Lord Yao]] in the [[Dragon Ball GT|DragonBall GT Movie]]

* The pirate Porchemy in ''[[One Piece]]'' carries a huge scimitar around, and has a penchant for ''scalping his victims [[Family-Unfriendly Violence|alive]]''.

** Cutlasses are often found for [[Mooks]] on both Pirates and Marines, although higher-ranking marines usually tend to go for Katanas. With the exception of a [[General Ripper]] by the name of Onigumo who wields eight of them when using his powers.

** Its also the preferred weapon of [[Badass|Zabuza Mamochi]] when he doesn't have his [[BFS|Kubikiribocho]].

* In ''[[Rave Master]]'' the Sacrifar sword is the second most powerful form of Ten Commandments but is also the darkest and most dangerous to both wielder and enemy.

 

 

 

* The Orcs in ''[[The Lord of the Rings]]''

* Mallorean soldiers in the ''[[Belgariad]]'' are described as using large and clumsy curved broadswords.

* Many evil guys in ''[[Conan the Barbarian]]'' are equipped with curved blades, expecially [[The Empire|King Yezdigerd]]. Of course, [[Combat Pragmatist|Conan used them too, as well as anything else he could lay his hands on]].

* The Calormens in The ''[[Chronicles of Narnia]]''.

** Played even straighter when Eustace isn't even allowed to carry a scimitar even though he knows how to fight with it, but has to relearn how to fight with a Narnian longsword from scratch.

 

 

== [[Film]] ==

 

 

 

 

* Orcs and Goblins in ''[[Warhammer Fantasy]]'' indulge in scimitars. Also the [[The Undead|Tomb Kings armies]], which at least have a egyptian-like setting.

 

 

* The Darkspawn in ''[[Dragon Age II]]'' after their redesign (though the Darkspawn Longsword in the original game did look a lot like a Ram Dao).

* The Dark Amazons in ''[[Drakensang|Drakensang II: The River of Time]]'' are armed with Amazonian Scimitars and later you have to fight several pirates armed with cutlasses and two-handed falchions. Note however that this is also averted by the playable character (if uses sabers) {{spoiler|And a secret summonable Jinn hidden in the Water Dragon Cavern}}.

* In ''[[Dynasty Warriors]]'' there are several scimitar users, both heroic and villainous. In the latter case, there would be Xiahou Dun (debatable) and the much less debatable [[Fat Bastard|Dong Zhuo]] who combines this with [[Serrated Blade of Pain]].

* In ''[[Metal Slug]]'' 2 and 4 there are [[Qurac|arab-looking enemies]], berserkers and pirates all armed with scimitars. [[Throwing Your Sword Always Works|They can even toss it at you]].

* The "Bandit" type Heartless found in Agrabah in ''[[Kingdom Hearts]]''. Though, given that [[Guest Star Party Member]] Aladdin also uses a Scimitar, it's likely simply the default sword for that world.

* Wan Fu from the first ''[[Samurai Shodown]]'' game. Averted of course if you play as him.

* The fearsome [[Names to Run Away From Really Fast|Devil]] [[Authority Equals Asskicking|King]] [[Norio Wakamoto|of The]] [[Large Ham|Sixth Heaven]] [[Oda Nobunaga]] in ''[[Sengoku Basara]]'' combines this one with [[Sword and Gun]], thought is more like a Falchion.

* Throughout most of the ''[[Final Fantasy]]'' series, [[Summon Magic|Odin]]'s instant-kill swords are often curved blades, often wicked into a rough lightning-like shape.

* In ''[[Dead Rising 2]]'' one of the magicians, Roger, dual wields scimitars.

* In ''[[The Elder Scrolls V Skyrim]]'', the Alik'r all wield scimitars, though they aren't evil, just somewhat suspicious in the eyes of the more close-minded Nords of Skyrim. Nazir, who's a member of the [[Murder, Inc.|Dark Brotherhood]] fits this to a tee however.

 

== [[Web Comics]] ==

 

* In ''[[Looking for Group]]'' the enemy soldiers attacking Kethenecia in the past are armed with scimitars.

 

== [[Western Animation]] ==

 

* [[Looney Tunes|Hassan]], the huge arab guard who appears in some shorts and wields a massive scimitar.

{{quote| "Hassan CHOP!!!"}}

 

 

== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ==

 

** Also in the filler episode 287, which has a [[Arabian Nights Days]] setting features scimitar-looking Zanpakuto for everyone.

* [http://xhunterxhunterx.altervista.org/Immagini/armi/scimitarra.png Agon] from ''[[Hunter X Hunter]]''. Though he's more neutral than fully evil/good.

* One of the other forms of [[Rave Master|Ten Commandments]] is [[Holy Hand Grenade|MillionSun]] which is definetively positive.

* in ''[[Inuyasha]]'' the Tessaiga blade is fang-shaped, hence looking a bit like a massive scimitar.

 

 

* ''[[Conan the Barbarian]]'' has also used several curved swords himself, including scimitars, sabers and tulwars ([[Knife Nut|which are wrongly described as long knives]]). He however often stated that he was at his best with a western longsword.

* Averted and played straight in ''[[The Dark Elf Trilogy]]'' and the rest of ''[[The Legend of Drizzt]]''. Drizzt Do'Urden (a dark elf but one of the most morally upright characters in whole series) wields [[Dual-Wielding|twin scimitars]], but so do some of the [[Always Chaotic Evil|other drow.]] Note however that in contrast to the typical drow, [[Defector From Decadence|Zaknafein]] used straight blades.

{{quote| '''Victor''': I thought swords had to be straight.<br />

'''[[Dirty Old Woman|Mrs Cosmopolite]]''': Perhaps they start out straight and get bendy with use. A lot of things do. }}