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** [[Magikarp Power|And the elemental version of the weapon is the best weapon you can have if you need to break an opponent's weapon]], so it's still very useful.

* This is used a few times in the ''[[Shenmue]]'' series. For example, the second game where Ryo has to clear his mind by catching leaves.

* In perhaps one of the darker examples of this trope, there is a book you can read in ''[[The Elder Scrolls|Morrowind]]'' that tells the story of a young orphan sent to live with his uncle on a farm, and learn a trade from him. The Uncle gives him three chores to perform; dusting his bookshelves, ringing the bell to call farmhands, and scouring clean all the floors in the house. Each task had to be done perfectly; the bookshelves completely dust-free, the large iron bell rung loudly (and frequently,) and the floors spotless. In his eighteenth year, the boy discovers that his uncle means to abandon the now-failing farm, and the boy with it, without teaching him anything. The boy [[Tranquil Fury|silently]] picks up a heavy axe, to discover it doesn't weigh any more than the dusting rod he'd used for years. The dusting and bell-ringing gave him the strength and muscle-memory to chop his uncle to bits, and finally cleaning up what was left of the man was far easier than cleaning up the grime that had usually covered the floor, in fact the floors are so clean that no-one could tell there had been a murder. Deciding he had indeed learned a trade after all, the young man eventually goes off to join the Assassin's Guild.

** Incidentally, the book you read this [[Sarcasm Mode|charming]] little story from, titled "The Axe Man," is a skill book. What skill does it raise? Axes.

 

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