Weapon Tombstone: Difference between revisions

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=== '''As a [[Death Trope]], all Spoilers will be unmarked ahead. Beware.''' ===

== Anime and Manga ==

* The Band of the Hawk from ''[[Berserk]]'' are memorialized with an entire [[Field of Blades]], each one forged by Rickert, the only member of the Hawks who wasn't there when the Eclipse went down. {{spoiler|It is on this field that Guts comes face-to-face with the reincarnated Griffith for the first time}}.

* The eponymous warriors in ''[[Claymore]]'' have a tradition of using the swords of their fallen comrades for this. Any large burial ground will thus naturally be a [[Field of Blades]].

** Undine uses a fallen friend's sword as her [[Dual Wielding|main hand weapon]] with her own in the other hand. She gets called out for not adhering to this trope during the last battle of the anime. Her response? "The dead don't need 'em!"

** Undine uses a fallen friend's sword as her [[Dual-Wielding|main hand weapon]] with her own in the other hand. She gets called out for not adhering to this trope during the last battle of the anime. Her response? "The dead don't need 'em!"

** The seven Claymore warriors who survived the War in the North but faked their death kept their swords. The absence of the weapons among the 17 swords of those actually dead clues in other characters that they're still alive.

* When ''[[Galaxy Express 999]]'' stops at a planet where [[Gladiator Games|slaves are forced to fight for the amusement of tourists]], Tetsuro is taken to an extensive graveyard with every grave marked by a rifle.

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== Comic Books ==

* Garth Ennis' ''[[The Boys]]'' has a variation on this in a Vietnam War flashback. After wiping out American troops armed with a crappy new rifle supplied by [[Evil Inc|Vought-American]], the VC leave the dead GI's weapons stuck in the ground with their helmets on top. However, the helmets aren't [[Decapitation Presentation|empty]]....

* Garth Ennis' ''[[The Boys]]'' has a variation on this in a Vietnam War flashback. After wiping out American troops armed with a crappy new rifle supplied by [[Evil, Inc.|Vought-American]], the VC leave the dead GI's weapons stuck in the ground with their helmets on top. However, the helmets aren't [[Decapitation Presentation|empty]]....

* In ''[[Hitman (Comic Book)|Hitman]]'', Tommy gives ex-Para Bob a tombstone consisting of his gun, and a scrap of wood with "God is airborne" written on it.

* In the ''[[Sgt Rock (Comic Book)|Sgt. Rock]]'' comics, the graves of fallen members of Easy Company were usually marked with their rifle and helmet. One of these was even the cover of the ''Between Hell and a Hard Place'' GN.

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== Video Games ==

* Dario's grave in ''[[Chrono Cross (Video Game)|Chrono Cross]]'' is marked with his sword, the Einlanzer. Party member Glenn can retrieve the sword after some [[Character Development]] and use it as his main weapon. Given that ''[[Chrono Cross (Video Game)|Chrono Cross]]'' deals with an [[Alternate Universe]], that this is actually the SECOND Einlanzer for him to gain, leading to [[Dual Wielding]] two identical [[Infinity ~~Plus One~~ Sword|legendary weapons.]].

* Dario's grave in ''[[Chrono Cross (Video Game)|Chrono Cross]]'' is marked with his sword, the Einlanzer. Party member Glenn can retrieve the sword after some [[Character Development]] and use it as his main weapon. Given that ''[[Chrono Cross (Video Game)|Chrono Cross]]'' deals with an [[Alternate Universe]], that this is actually the SECOND Einlanzer for him to gain, leading to [[Dual-Wielding]] two identical [[Infinity+1 Sword|legendary weapons.]].

* In ''[[Final Fantasy VII]]: [[Before Crisis]]'', Zack uses crossed swords to mark the grave of his fallen buddies Essai and Sebastian. The crossed swords and grave show up again in ''[[Crisis Core]]'' as one of the DMW memories with Tseng. As noted in the ''[[Advent Children]]'' example above, his sword was later used in the same way.

* ''[[Final Fantasy X]]'' subverted this trope: the unattended weapons may give the wrong impression, when combined with the opening piano and somber narration.

* In ''[[Fire Emblem]]: [[Fire Emblem Tellius (Video Game)|Path of Radiance]]'' Greil, Ike's father, is killed by the Black Knight and his [[An Axe to Grind|axe Urvan]] is left at his grave. Later in ''Radiant Dawn'' the weapon is retrieved and becomes the game's [[Infinity ~~Plus One~~ Sword|Infinity Plus One Axe]].

* In ''[[Fire Emblem]]: [[Fire Emblem Tellius (Video Game)|Path of Radiance]]'' Greil, Ike's father, is killed by the Black Knight and his [[An Axe to Grind|axe Urvan]] is left at his grave. Later in ''Radiant Dawn'' the weapon is retrieved and becomes the game's [[Infinity+1 Sword|Infinity Plus One Axe]].

* ''[[God of War (Video Game)|God of War]]: Ghost Of Sparta'': The Arms of Sparta become Deimos's tombstone.

* Near the end of ''[[Grandia II]]'' Mareg's grave is marked by one of his battle axes. Oddly enough Mareg's body isn't under the weapon and it wasn't the weapon he was using at the time.