Weapons Kitchen Sink: Difference between revisions

* ''[[One Piece]]'': Many organizations, even armies, don't have a proper, "uniform" equipment. Among the egyptian-like members of the Alabasta army you can see polearms, katanas, zweihanders, morning stars and muskets.

** Actually, that example is an aversion. The organized Royal Army actually ''does'' have uniform equipment. The Rebel Army is justified in adhering to this trope, as they were specifically stated to have scrounged up weapons from wherever they could get them.

 

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* The ''[[The Elder Scrolls|Elder Scrolls]]'' games include [[Katanas Are Just Better|Katanas]], [[Every Japanese Sword Is a Katana|wakizashi, tantos]] and <s>Orcish</s> Samurai armor along with early Medieval armor, claymores, longswords and sabres. Rapiers are absent however. According to the backstory, what we would call the Asian weaponry -- tantos, wakizashis, katanas, and dai-katanas -- are from the Akavir continent and exclusive to the Tsaesci (one of the four races of Akaviri known). The explanation of the Samurai suits is trickier: the Orc country Orsinium was allowed to exist during the rule of an Akaviri Potentate which may indicate inspiration. Blades armor and weaponry are based on Akaviri designs. The armor resembles Roman Lorica Segmentata, while the swords consist of Katanas.

** [[Gameplay and Story Segregation]] occurs in that respect in an unusual way in Final Fantasy X. The plot implies that Wakka's Blitzball, a thrown weapon, is best for use against aerial targets. In actuality, Wakka just starts with higher accuracy; ANY character with the same accuracy (and luck) stat would have the same chance of hitting a given target, whether they're using a blitzball, a sword, or even a doll.

* ''[[Dynasty Warriors]]'' and ''[[Samurai Warriors]]'' brings new meaning to the Kitchen Sink part of this. It has a ridiculous number of weapons that have no right coexisting the way they do, varying from [[Improbable Weapon User|the improbable]] (flutes, fans, and children's toys), to ones that shouldn't be present given the setting (boomerangs), to the misused (chakrams being used primarily as melee weapons; Chinese dagger-axes being dual-wielded or ''thrown''). [[Rule of Cool|But it's cool, so who cares?]]

{{quote| '''Lloyd''': I thought if one sword had an attack of 100 then two swords would have an attack of 200 right?}}

* In ''[[Phantom Brave]]'', anything you can pick up can be used as a weapon, from sunflowers to starfish to werewolves.

* ''[[Unwritten Legends]]'' is a particularly egregious example, in that just about every pre-internal-primer cartridge weapon you can think of probably has at least one example in game.

* Averted in [[Dragon Age]]: Origins, apart from the elvish curved blades most every sword or dagger is a medieval European straight blade, and if you are going to be fighting heavily armored foes you probably are going to be using a [[Drop the Hammer|mace or warhammer]].

* In ''[[Rune Factory 3]]'', various townsfolk who accompany you to battle will carry a cutlass, a katana, a double-headed battleaxe, twin shortswords, a two-handed broadsword and a war hammer, respectively. And this isn't even including the magic users or or the [[Improbable Weapon User|Improbable Weapon Users]].

 

 

* ''[[Sluggy Freelance]]'': During the "Oceans Unmoving" arc, the [[Space Pirates]] use swords, throwing hatchets, flintlock guns, grenades, switchblades, and even laser weapons. [[Justified Trope|Justified]] since the residents of Timeless Space are ''literally'' from different points in history, some coming from the present, others the far future, and others the distant past. Also justified when it's found that most of the 'pirates' are [http://www.sluggy.com/daily.php?date=050417 geeks of one sort of another], who took the opportunity of being stranded in timeless space to play pirates, and so picked whatever weapon they [[Rule of Cool|felt was cool]].

 

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