Heroes Prefer Swords: Difference between revisions

[[File:rsz_59675_3128.jpg|link=Cracked|rightframe| Even [[Emergency Services|urban heroes]] prefer them.]]

Given that a sword is a fairly useful melee weapon with a [[Jack of All Trades|wide variety of uses]] (and historically, pretty much everyone who could get a sword would have one) this makes some sense. Still, given modern society typically prefers ranged weapons, it looks out of place. This can lead to improbable weapons that take the coolness of a sword and combine it with the effectiveness of a weapon modern to the work's universe, such as "gunswords." This is more of a [[Justified Trope]] than one might think, since at the very least, bayonets are still used, both for their practical uses in close combat when bullets run out, but also because they are able to puncture body armor that bullets can't (according to a [http://en.[wikipedia.org/wiki/:Bayonet |bayonet]] article, a prototype was able to pierce a punching bag covered with aircraft aluminium and a ballistic vest).

* The trope is played with, then discarded in ''[[A KnightsKnight's Tale]]''. William starts out being more skilled with the sword than he is with a lance, and is champion of the sword in his first tournament. He never enters the sword ring again, officially because the prizes and prestige are better in the joust, and unofficially because he wants to beat Count Adhemar and impress Jocelyn.