39,327
edits
Throwing Your Sword Always Works: Difference between revisions
update links
(update links) |
|||
Line 111:
* [[Double Subverted]] in Richard Lester's ''[[The Three Musketeers (1973 film)|The Three Musketeers 1973]]'', where Porthos invents a move involving throwing his sword at the enemy. Aramis, unimpressed, ask Porthos to perform this move on him and easily parries the thrown blade, pointing out that Porthos is unarmed now. Later however, Porthos uses this move anyway, and it does work as intended.
** In the sequel ''The Return of the Musketeers'', Porthos throws his sword at Justine de Winter during the climactic battle. He misses, but it does provide a crucial distraction.
* D'Artagnan also uses this move in ''[[The Man in the Iron Mask (1998 film)|The Man in the Iron Mask]]'' (the one with [[Leonardo DiCaprio]]).
* Nathan Algren kills Bagley with a katana using this method in ''[[The Last Samurai]]'', presumably in order to ensure Bagley's death before everyone is cut down by [[Gatling Good|Gatling gunfire]].
* Used ridiculously in the climactic scene of Kenneth Branagh's ''[[Hamlet]]'', in which Hamlet skewers his uncle with a thrown fencing foil (which not only impales him, but ''pins him to his throne'') before ''dropping a chandelier on him'' and finishing him off by forcing him to drink poison.
Line 148:
=== Gamebooks ===
* In the ''[[Lone Wolf]]'' series, the opportunity to throw your sword is very rarely given, since the hero has usually plenty better opportunities, like using a [[Bow and Sword
Line 174:
* In one of the ''[[Saga of Recluce]]'' novels several characters can reliably use swords as a thrown weapon, [[Justified Trope|since they use magic to make sure it works]]. It also helps that each of them carries around two swords, so they can throw one and still use the other one for hand-to-hand combat.
* In Harry Connolly's ''Twenty Palace Society'', main character Raymond Lily often uses this with his Ghost Knife. Because he made it, it's like the Ghost Knife is a part of him, so he can call it back to him after throwing it, which tends to have it pass through the victim a second time. Of course, the fact that [[A Wizard Did It|it's magic]] helps him alot.
* At the tag end of ''Prayers for the Assassin'', Rakkim kills {{spoiler|Darwin}} by throwing his Fedayeen knife, something that he was expressly forbidden to do during his [[Training
* In ''[[The Rescuers]]'' (the novel upon which the Disney film was based), it is Bernard's desperate, last ditch throwing of his dagger that causes the villain to lose his grip on the ladder, leading to his ultimate defeat.
* In the final battle of ''[[Villains by Necessity]]'', Sir Fenwick throws his sword at Sam and misses - he hasn't trained in throwing blades and longswords aren't really suited for that kind of thing in the first place. Sam takes the sword and throws it at Mizzamir, and hits. ''He'' had trained in how to throw a sword and actually hit something, and had magically enhanced throwing skills on top of that.
Line 210:
=== Tabletop Games ===
* ''[[Dungeons
** ''Basic D&D'' provides rules for rarely thrown weapons in the Master Set. Targets may get a saving throw to halve damage, making it a less-than-perfect tactic.
** There is a feat called "Throw Anything" that allows a character to throw melee weapons (swords included) without the ridiculous penalties that it would normally entail. There's even a [[Prestige Class]] (the Bloodstorm Blade), dedicated to this... whose feats include not just throwing anything, but ''[[Precision-Guided Boomerang|having it return]]''.
| |||