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*** Yuri Lowell from ''[[Tales of Vesperia]]'' starts with a sword and continues to use them, but can also equip one-handed axes. One skit actually lampshades his [[Weapon of Choice|weapons of choice]], with Estelle and Karol discussing whether Yuri looks cooler with a sword or an axe.
**** Judith actually suggested that he use one in each hand.
***** [[Hilarious in Hindsight|Which is funny]], because that's exactly what [[Tales of Symphonia: Dawn of the New World|Richter]] would later do.
**** [[Tales of Phantasia|Cless]], the very first Tales hero, can actually equip halberd-like axes. Many heroes after him, like Stahn (though most people never ever change his starting talking sword weapon), can also do the same. The majority of their arsenal are still swords though.
** If you're going for "but he can use this too" then about half of the protagonists in the Tales series fits in that category. Cless and Stahn can both use halberd or axe-like weapons. More than 80% of the time though, they are probably going to be using swords.
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* In ''[[Arcanum]]'', swords are a fairly common class of melee weapon, ranging from the delicate and magical Filament Sword to massive two-handed weapons. On the other hand, one could just use axes, daggers, or maces for the entire game. And that's without going into the bow, gun, or boomerang options.
* Yuuto Kannagi (known as York Neely in the U.S. version) of ''[[Cross Edge]]'' uses guns. Apparently his father taught him jujitsu but he deemed that obsolete and instead went with science and the forces of firepower, so he probably would end up avoiding swords anyways.
* ''[[Atelier Iris: Eternal Mana]]'' is interesting in that not only does the protagonist, Klein, not use a sword (he uses maces and staves), he's both a mage-type ''and'' your party's primary healer.
* Hilbert, the protagonist of ''[[Last Scenario]]'' uses a bow. In fact, for most of the game, the entire party consists of non-sword-users. The work consistently ignores a number of weapon stereotypes--for instance, the [[Knife Nut|knife-wielder]] is a kindly old fellow and [[Stone Wall|mostly suited for defense]] to boot.
* ''[[Mega Man Battle Network]]'' - Mega Man's default weapon is still his arm cannon. And while sword chips do exist, shot chips are still quite good.
* ''[[Mega Man X Command Mission]]'' has the hero X wielding an [[Arm Cannon]]. [[The Lancer]], Zero, is the one who uses a [[Laser Blade]].
* ''[[Star Ocean]]'' - Here it is a [[Justified Trope]]. The main character comes from a high tech civilization but crash-lands on a primitive world, and there are [[Obstructive Code of Conduct|laws about whipping out blaster pistols]] on such worlds. So he has his [[Matter Replicator]] whip up a sword. And {{spoiler|by the time he gets an opportunity to switch, it [[Person of Mass Destruction|probably doesn't matter what kind of weapon he's using anyway.]]}}
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* ''[[Alter AILA]]'', like ''Wild Arms 3'', avoids this by giving every character some type of gun. (The main character's still comparatively "cool," however, as he's the only one who can [[Guns Akimbo|dual-wield them]].)
* In ''[[Dark Cloud|Dark Cloud 2]]'', Max uses wrenches as his main weapon. Granted, Monica uses swords, but she doesn't even enter the game until chapter 2; Max is very much the lead character.
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