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* The {{spoiler|Key-maker}} from ''[[The Matrix]]'' Trilogy.

* Hattori Hanzo from ''[[Kill Bill]]''. He's not living in isolation, though; just in secret.

** Tony Stak builds a power suit out of spare weapons parts as a prisoner in a weapons bunker. He later makes several improved versions of the suit, including one that converts into a suitcase. He also manages to create a new element using his own personal partical accelerator.

** Ivan Vanko is Stark's foil, building power suits of his own that stand toe-to-toe with Stark's.

== Literature ==

* [[Discworld]] has Jason Ogg, the only man with enough skill to shoe Death's horse, Binky. He can and will shoe anything in the world-he once put horseshoes on an ant just because someone dared him to. Ant-sized horseshoes.

** In "Lords and Ladies," he actually {{spoiler|shoes a unicorn with silver horseshoes}}.

** In addition, he knows the "special horseman's word" which will allow him to shoe even the most ill-tempered of beasts: {{spoiler|"Well, ma'am, what happens is, I gets old of 'un and smacks 'un between the eyes with the hammer before'un knows what's happening, and then I whispers in his ear, I sez, 'Cross me, you bugger, and I'll have thy goolies on t'anvil, thou knows I can'"}}.

* In ''[[Dragonlance]]'', there's Theros, who makes the weapons that the series is named after.

* In the ''[[Inheritance Cycle]]'', Rhunön, if she hadn't unfortunately sworn to never make another sword in the Ancient Language, making it impossible to break the oath. {{spoiler|She later gets around this by using magic to [[People Puppets|control Eragon's body]] so technically he is making it, satisfying the condition that she didn't make it}}.

* The dwarf Telchar in ''[[The Silmarillion]]''. It was he who forged Narsil "in the depths of time", which would later become Aragorn's sword, Andúril.

** There was also Curufinwe/Feanor, who was "pretty good" with weapons and armor and also crafted [[Mineral MacGuffin|some trinkets]] that got mentioned in that work once or a few hundred times.

** There used to be a lot of people who fit this trope; all Aes Sedai with skills in making power-wrought items. Most of the examples encountered are unbreakable blades, though any forged Angreal, Sa'angreal, or other Ter'angreal definitely counts.

* The smith Volund (see Myth and Legend) shows up in [[David Drake]]'s [[Northworld Trilogy]]. As with the myth, he's more a force of nature than a man, whose creative abilities border on godlike.

* Iorek Byrison in ''[[His Dark Materials]]''. His skill with metalworking is [[Chekov's Gun|shown in the first book,]] but it's only latter on we learn just how good he is.

 

 

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== Video Games ==

** Make that two, in the DS remake: the nameless Tail Guy, who gives you trinkets for bringing him tails [[Randomly Drops|(which drop from monsters at an absolutely disgusting rate)]], including Adamant Armor and Onion Swords, and the nugget of [[Green Rocks|adamantite]] he gives you for bringing him the Rat Tail. You take the adamantite to Kokkol (who lives at the edge of the underworld, and yes, there are dragons where he hangs around), and a few plot events later, your dear old [[Sword of Plot Advancement]] has become the [[Infinity-1 Sword|Excalibur]].

* A dwarf makes a powerful sword in some of the ''[[Final Fantasy]]'' games.

* Biggoron, who made the Biggoron Sword from ''[[The Legend of Zelda]]: [[Ocarina of Time]]'' and ''[[Oracle of Seasons]].'' In ''[[The Minish Cap]],'' you get the {{spoiler|Mirror Shield from him}}, instead.

** The {{spoiler|[[Dark World]]}} dwarves that have to be reunited from ''[[A Link to The Past]]'', though they improve an existing weapon rather than making a new one.

* Similarly Watts in several of the [[Seiken Densetsu|Mana games]]. He forges and upgrades the many types of weapons SD is known for.

** And arguably the player character himself in ''Legend of Mana.'' With the right materials, you can make just about any kind of equipment imaginable, from joke items like a [[Cherry Tapping|cotton sword]] to [[Game Breaker|weapons powerful enough to one-shot pretty much everything.]]

*** ''"Ye be me!"''

* In the ''[[Suikoden]]'' series, there's always an Ultimate Blacksmith for you to recruit. He's always the only one capable of upgrading weapons to the max level. For the most part, he starts out somewhat worse, but gets better as you bring him better hammers... and of course, the Golden Hammer is the best one. Somehow.

** The first, original, ''[[Suikoden I|Suikoden]]'', however, did things differently - you recruited a whole ''bunch'' of smiths, each better than the last, and finally had to go find the Ultimate Smith (who was, indeed, hidden in a hut at the end of forever) - and bring all of the other smiths with you, since they're all students of his. Together, they persuade him to join you!

*** ...he still wields a Gold Hammer, though.

** Accessible to the player's party, that is. Anybody else that wants to make use of Cespenar's services had better learn how to travel to a demonic pocket dimension constructed and held together solely by the main character's will.

*** Furthermore, Cespenar answers to nobody but the protagonist of the story. But the actual [[Ultimate Blacksmith]] of the game is probably ''Kerrick the Smith''.

* Thursagan in ''[[Battle for Wesnoth]]'''s Scepter of Fire campaign. Lives in a mountain.

* Grischa in ''[[Divine Divinity]]'', though he lives in a major dwarf city.

* ''[[Fallout]]'''s Smitty in Adytum, Boneyard can convert your already-decent Plasma Rifle into the Turbo Plasma Rifle, fully loaded. Provided you fix the hydroponic parts first.

** Algernon from ''[[Fallout]] 2'' blows every other tinkerer in the game out of the water. He'll perform just about any upgrade in the game--Mega Power Fists, Turbo Plasma Rifles, improved flamer fuel, and more--for ''zero'' cost, and he's available in one of the biggest towns in the game, guarded by two dogs who won't attack. Even better, his scripting gives automatically fills the magazine of any gun you give him to upgrade.

* Boutell in ''[[Avernum]] 1''. He's one of the best blacksmiths around, and he knows it.

* The Dwarven Blacksmith in ''[[Shining Force]] II'' was the only one who could turn pieces of mithril into the ultimate weapons for each character. Of course, the fact that he randomly decided which weapon to make also meant that he was also classified as a [[Scrappy Mechanic]].

* ''[[Golden Sun]]'' has Sunshine/Sunpawa, who is depressed and refuses to forge anything unless you hand him interesting material. Sadly, the best he can forge is still worse than the game's real ultimate weapon (although you get only one of those, and can technically forge as many Excaliburs as you want for the other sword-wielding characters)

** However, he does create the best shield (Cosmos Shield), best clothes (Mythril Clothes, rated higher than just about everything except the only-one-available Valkyrie Mail, which can only be worn by four of the eight characters anyway), etc...The Golden Boots is another only-one-available, and the second-best boots are yet another forgeable item. Also, if you have the Cleric's Ring, the Darksword is actually stronger than the Sol Blade, except for the unleash.

** Obaba is said to be the only person in the world capable of working the ancient forge to repair the [[Sword of Plot Advancement|Trident of Ankohl]]. She can also use it to summon salamanders. {{spoiler|[[Golden Sun Dark Dawn|Thirty years later]], she still has enough in her to forge any equipment you need from whatever you bring her, and many of the options are very powerful, second only to cursed equipment, the Sol Blade, and Sveta's Umbra Gear.}}

* The Moogles in ''[[Kingdom Hearts]]'', capable of turning raw material into the [[Infinity+1 Sword|Ultima Weapons]] in both games.

* ''[[Dragon Age]]'' has Wade of Wade's Emporium. He considers himself to be more of an artist than a businessman ([[Talker and Doer|his partner is the one stuck worrying about money]]) and jumps at the chance to forge powerful armor with Drake {{spoiler|and Dragon}} Scales. Although he will forge the armor sets free of charge, paying him enough extra gold nets you superior armor.

** The ''Warden's Keep'' DLC has Mikhael Dryden, who will appear at the Soldier's Peak after you beat the associated quest. Given a lump of Meteor Metal, he'll forge Starfang, a Longsword or a Greatsword that is superior to pretty much every other weapon in its class in the unmodded original game.

** Wade and Herren return in ''Awakening'' and have apparently expanded into forging weapons, too. Give Wade the materials he needs and he will forge [[Infinity+1 Sword|Vigilance]], a sword so powerful it even merits a mention in the epilogue.

* While exaggerated, Carl from ''[[Mechwarrior]] 4'' is affectionately described as one of these. Give Carl a hundred tons of steel wool and he'll knit you an Atlas.

* As long as you have the items, Gordon in ''[[Agarest Senki 2]]'' can forge you the ultimate weapon whatsoever.

* Your blacksmith character in ''[[The Sims]] Medieval'' can undertake a quest to become one.

* ''[[Touhou]]'': Strongly implied with Suwako: she is a goddess of the earth and can/[[Gotterdammerung|could]] create new soil as she please. She used to own an impressive arsenal of metal weaponry, which she used to pacify the curse-gods of [[God-Emperor|her kingdom]]. Unfortunately it meaned little when she fought Kanako, who, being the goddess of rain, rusted all of Suwako's weapons.

* Eorlund Gray-mane the Companions' smith in ''[[Skyrim]]'' and the man in charge of running the legendary Sky-forge. During the Companions' quests, he will eventually forge you a brand new Skyforge Steel weapon. Later, he will reforge Wuuthrad once the fragments of the ancient axe are gathered. He is also a Master Smithing trainer, meaning he can help you become an [[Ultimate Blacksmith]] in your own right. In-universe, he is quite rightly regarded as the best smith in all of Skyrim.

** [[Fridge Logic|Makes you wonder why the other blacksmiths in the province don't take up apprenticeship with Eorlund, or put Fire Salts into it as this other smith wants to make his forge just as awesome.]]

 

== Webcomics ==

* ''[[The Oswald Chronicles]]'' features the god Kalvaitis, who forges the sun every night.

 

 

== Western Animation ==

** To be fair, that wasn't the first time the sword broke. The first time that happened, it was reforged by a fire elemental who lived in a volcano - and promptly challenged the Thundercats to take it back. Late in the series, the sword was broken ''again'' and was taken by someone claiming to be the best smith in the ''universe''. He wasn't bluffing either. He reforged the Sword of Omens into the [[Infinity+1 Sword|Infinity Plus Two Sword]].

 

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