Talking Weapon: Difference between revisions

== Literature ==

* In ''[[Discworld/The Colour of Magic|The Colour of Magic]]'' (both the book and the miniseries), Rincewind comes across Kring, a talking sword that tries to help him save Twoflower from Wyrmburg. It had very definite ideas about how its wielder should act, threatening to kill Rincewind if he didn't do the suitably heroic thing, by pointing itself at his neck. The sword disappears afterwards and its current whereabouts are unknown, although it may have been dropped overboard from the back of a dragon flying at great height above a very deep sea. Whoops.

** There was also Imp/Buddy's harp, which (as the focal point of The Music) didn't talk, but definitely had a mind of its own.

* In ''[[The Silmarillion]]'', Turin Turambar has a "to be or not to be" moment where he asks his cursed sword, Gurthang, if it would take his life swiftly. The sword answers yes, so Turin kills himself. This is overtly taken from Kullervo's death in ''[[The Kalevala]]'' (see the Myths folder below).

* The sword of Kullervo from the Finnish epic ''[[The Kalevala]]'' talks. The sword is not a chatterbox though; it speaks only once and then just before Kullervo is about to kill himself with it, making its point that it enjoys [[Artifact of Doom|drinking blood regardless of whether it's innocent or guilty]]. Otherwise, the sword is unremarkable and unnamed.

* [[Older Than Print]]: The following incident is from [[Irish Mythology]]'s ''Battle of Magh Tuireadh'':

* The Swordians from ''[[Tales of Destiny]]'', who are revealed to have once been people from the past. Or rather, their memories and personality imprinted onto the swords.

* As the above quote illustrates, Lilarcor from ''[[Baldur's Gate]] 2''. Lilarcor has an [[Ax Crazy]] personality. Many players find it to be a most suiting weapon for the mentally less-than-stable Ranger Minsc. So much in fact that a fan-made [[Game Mod]] adds extra banter if Minsc is wielding the sword.

'''Lilarcor:''' Because you've got the grip and I've got the rip! [[Evil Laugh|Mwahahahahahahahaha!]] }}

* In ''[[Devil May Cry]] 3'', Dante gets a pair of talking swords that he soon tells to shut up. Notable in that most of his weapons were former demons, but aren't too talkative; Agni and Rudra, however, ''started'' as swords.

== Web Comics ==

* Torg's magic sword, Chazz, in ''[[Sluggy Freelance]]'', activated in the arc That Which Redeems, and used frequently thereafter. Notable in that it must drink the blood of the innocent for it to speak.

* There's a stuck-up teenage emo sword in ''[[Dumnestors Heroes]]''.

* Blackshard, the talking -- and shapeshifting! -- sword in ''[[Darken]]''.

** In [http://nodwick.humor.gamespy.com/gamespyarchive/index.php?date=2002-03-13 another story] the group is plundering several intelligent weapons with personal agendas (a hammer that hates giantkind, a trident gunning for enemies of the sea, and a black sword that just likes to kill things) and make Nodwick carry everything. When the party encounters enemies that fall into all three categories, [[Powers Via Possession|the weapons push Nodwick into a raging frenzy and he goes to town on them]].

* Discussed in [[The Rant]] of this ''[[Darths and Droids]]'' [http://www.darthsanddroids.net/episodes/0421.html strip].

Is that the perfect game mechanic or what? [[Gary Gygax|Gary]], we are humbled by your boundless game mastering genius. }}

* Oruuka from ''[[Fiyora Nya]]'' due to pretty much being a [[Soul Jar|soul jar.]]

* In ''[[Wakfu]]'', Rubilax is a powerful elemental demon (called a "Shushu") [[Sealed Evil in a Can|trapped inside a sword]]. He's very much of a [[Jerkass]] [[Deadpan Snarker]], regularly belittling his guardian, [[Idiot Hero|Sadlygrove]], and even sometimes trying to possess him. But this is still a hundred times better than letting the demon out of his prison.

* The ''[[Muppet Babies]]'' acted out a fantasy [[Rags to Riches]] story where Piggy had to go on a quest to find a "Singing Sword", which never shut up until she shoved a sock in its mouth... and then wouldn't sing until she told it ''what song'' to sing.

* [[Looney Tunes]]: In "Knighty Knight Bugs", Bugs is tasked to retrieve a singing sword.

* In one episode of ''[[Mad Jack the Pirate]]'' Mad Jack and his crew, which consists entirely of an anthropomorphic rat that is several times more competent than his captain, are tasked with retreiving the Singeing sword in order to slay a monster so they can get something epically ridiculous, only after they retrieve it do they discover it is not a blazing sword, as was advertised on the wall of the temple from which they got the quest, but a singing sword, that is prone to talking as a [[Deadpan Snarker]], but mostly singing. This results in hilarity for the viewers and annoyance for the characters.