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* [[More Dakka|Machine Guns]]: Evil.
** Exception made for soldiers in war movies who sometimes use them, although they are generally not the hero.
*** And [[Commando (
* [[Gatling Good|Gatling Guns]]: [[Badass]] (again, [[Terminator|Arnold]] [[Predator|or his friend]])
* Dagger: Sign of the thief or traitor; generally evil.
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*** Conversely, if it has two snakes, usually good and used by the medic, despite the single-snake staff being associated with [[Classical Mythology|Asclepius, ancient Greek god of medicine and healing]], and the two-snakes caduceus being associated with [[Did Not Do the Research|Hermes]], messenger of the gods and [[Critical Research Failure|guide to the Underworld]].
* Spears: Good if used by named characters, evil if used by mooks. Non-named non-evil characters with spears will usually be [[Red Shirts]].
* [[Blade
** Another exemption is any Chinese action film set in the Three Kingdoms period, as at least one of the main [[Authority Equals Asskicking|Generals]] favors a polearm.
* [[Blade Below the Shoulder|Wrist blades]]/[[Wolverine Claws|claws]]: Definitely well into dark [[Badass]] or [[Nineties Anti-Hero|antihero]] territory, if not outright [[Ax Crazy]] evil.
** If they resemble animal claws more than artificial weapons, you're probably dealing with some sort of shaman or druid.
* [[Torches and Pitchforks|Torches]]: Mainly the preserve of antagonistic mobs, and villains. May also be used opportunistically by good guys in a pinch.
* [[Kill It
** And [[True Lies|Arnold]].
** And the [[Church Militant|Adeptas]] [[Warhammer 40000|Sororitas]].
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== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ==
* In ''[[Higurashi no Naku Koro
* With all the [[Heel Face Turn|Heel Face Turns]] in ''[[Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha]]'', the good guys end up not really following any rules on weapon alignment besides [[Rule of Cool|whatever looks cool]]. Undeniably evil characters like [[Big Bad|Precia and Jail]] however, stick with mainstay villain weapons like whips and claws.
* ''[[Fate/stay
* King Fahn and Lord Ashram of the first ''[[Record of Lodoss War]]'' anime wield swords of good and evil, respectively, that grow stronger the closer they are to each other.
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** Justified in that one of the two defining characteristics of the Nyissans is an extensive knowledge and ... ''creative'' ... use of pharmaceuticals. (The other one is a positively astounding ability at being devious and conniving.)
** And from the same series, there's the Ulgo knife, which is generally described as one of the most unpleasantly mutilat-y weapons in the world. The Ulgos are good guys.
* A partial exception to [[Poisoned Weapons]] is ''[[
* In ''[[The Lord of the Rings]]'' Sauron is depicted using a mace, and his lieutenant, the Witch-king, swings an [[Epic Flail]]. His ancient teacher, Morgoth, fought with a warhammer.
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* ''[[Ace Combat]]'' has a variant; It has been noted that in almost every game, the protagonist squadron and sometimes his allies usually fly Western Fighter Aircraft (usually American) while the antagonist ace squadron(s) usually use either high-tier Russian fighters (usually a variant of the [[Cool Plane|Su-27 Flanker]] ). This is however subverted multiple times.
** In ''[[Ace Combat 2]]'' the protagonist squadron (presumably, given the cover art) flies the Su-35 Super Flanker, while four of the ZOE aces use IRL-American jets.
** In the uncut ''[[Ace Combat 3 Electrosphere]]'', the only faction that flies Russian planes (a futuristic MiG and two upgraded Sukhois) is UPEO, which is the starting faction (you can later defect) and is [[Grey and Gray Morality|as close as it comes to the Good Guys in this game]].
** In ''[[Ace Combat 5 The Unsung War]]'' one of the enemy ace squadrons you fight flies the [[Rare Vehicles|F-15S/MTD]].
** In ''[[Ace Combat Zero]]'', out of the 12 major ace squads you face in the game, only three (Gelb, Gault and Schwarze) play this trope straight.
** In ''[[Ace Combat X]]'', some of the ally Redshirts use the Flanker.
** In ''[[Ace Combat Joint Assault]]'' Varcolac uses both Russian and Western planes.
* In ''[[Halo]]'', this shows up in the two warrior races of the [[Scary Dogmatic Aliens|Covenant]]: The characteristic weapon of the ([[Heel Face Turn|ultimately]]) good Elites is the [[Laser Blade|Energy Sword]]. The signature weapon of the Brutes is a big, well, [[Exactly What It Says
* In ''[[The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword]]'', {{spoiler|the Master Sword is shown at the very end of the game to have an [[Evil Counterpart]] wielded by the [[God of Evil|Demon King]] [[Bigger Bad|Demise]], whose spirit and humanoid form is named [[Big Bad|Ghirahim]].}}
* Averted in the ''[[Mass Effect]]'' series, where alignment is independent of weapon choice. Machine pistols are very common on both sides in the [[Mass Effect 2|second game]], Shepard can get [[AI Is a Crapshoot|Geth]] guns in all three games and [[Bug War|Collector]] guns in the second, and gets access to [[Hand Cannon|large pistols]], [[More Dakka|assault rifles]], and [[Blade Below the Shoulder|wrist-mounted omni-blades]] regardless of [[The Paragon|Paragon]]/[[Anti-Hero|Renegade]] alignment.
* In [[Knights of the Old Republic]] there are sometimes weapons or objects (lightsaber crystals for example) that can only be used if one has the proper alignment.
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