The Blade Always Lands Pointy End In/Playing With

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Basic Trope: When falling, a blade will always land point end in.

  • Straight: A sword falls out of the sky, hits the ground at a perfect 90 degree angle point first, and sticks.
  • Exaggerated: Multiple swords fall from the sky, all sticking in the ground point first at the same angle.
  • Justified: The blade is a weapon designed to land point first, like a dart is.
  • Inverted: A throwing weapon always lands hilt first.
  • Subverted: A sword falls end over end, but clatters to the ground on its side.
  • Double Subverted: ...and hits the ground point first and sticks in on the second bounce.
  • Parodied: A really ridiculous object, such as a staff, snaps to the ground point first like it was magnetized.
    • When swords are set down, they stab themselves into whatever they were set on.
  • Deconstructed: Swords are damaged and dulled by stabbing into the ground.
  • Reconstructed: The main character gets a new, sharper sword to replace the old one.
    • The main character can get away with it because his sword is made of a magically hard metal.
  • Zig Zagged: The sword clatters on the ground, sticks upright on the bounce for a moment, then falls over.
    • Variable results for each throw.
  • Averted: All swords land realistically.
  • Enforced: It's done for dramatic effect
  • Lampshaded: A character, when asked, shrugs and says: "Swords seem to do that a lot."
  • Invoked: Alice runs by where her sword is about to land, knowing it will land point down and can be drawn when she passes by.
  • Defied: Bob intercepts the fall as Alice's sword flies by to prevent it from hitting the ground.
  • Discussed: "If this is an adventure story, then supposedly when I throw this sword it will stick over there and quiver dramatically."
  • Conversed: "Ever notice how swords always land dramatically point down in this heroic fantasy stuff?"
  • Played For Drama: The sword lands point down on an innocent bystander and kills them.
    • The sword spikes Lord Evulz in the top of the head in the Grand Finale, thus ending the conflict.
  • Played For Laughs: The sword lands point down on someone's foot.
    • The sword lands point down in thin air. Not in the ground. Thin air.
    • No matter what, its completely impossible for any character to drop a sword with anything but the point down.
    • Tying two swords together results in them hovering in midair, unable to decide which direction to fall (somewhat like the cat "paradox").

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