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* ''[[Ga -Rei Zero]]'': [[Exaggerated Trope|Used to great effect]]; the [[Red Shirt]] uses machine guns that can shoot the supernaturals, the two main characters use [[Katanas Are Just Better|katanas]] (and the titular [[Mons]]), and the other squad members use [[Improbable Weapon User|improbable weapons]] such as a gatling gun briefcase and a motorbike that engraves sacred runes on the street.

** This is actually a common misconception. Armor Class (AC) in D&D is not how difficult something is to hit, is how difficult it is to ''damage'' something--sosomething—so, it's all the same to AC if you dodge blows or you have tough-as-nails armor. You still need to be good enough with your attacks for them to deal any damage, be it by getting past your opponents' armor or compensating for his nimble movements. In, fact the ability of a character to dodge attacks is actually applied as a ''bonus'' to their Armor Class, which is removed under certain conditions--whichconditions—which makes heavy armor very useful for front-liners, as the amount of defense you lose when you're caught off guard is less crippling than if you're wearing light armor and have a Dexterity of twenty hojillion.

*** It's ''functionally'' the same -- thesame—the game doesn't distinguish between a blow that bounced off your armour and one that you dodged or that just plain missed. Also, if a blow does damage, it's the same damage range whether or not you're wearing armour.

** This is also noticeable with canon characters in the various game worlds. For example, in the Forgotten Realms, Drizzt Do'Urden [[Dual -Wielding|fights with two]] ''[[Dual -Wielding|scimitars]]''. Artemis Entreri fought, for a long time, with a ''saber'' and dagger (he eventually got a straight-bladed sword that was more heavily enchanted). And so on.

* The ''[[The Elder Scrolls|Elder Scrolls]]'' games include [[Katanas Are Just Better|Katanas]], [[Every Japanese Sword Is a Katana|wakizashi, tantos]] and <s>Orcish</s> Samurai armor along with early Medieval armor, claymores, longswords and sabres. Rapiers are absent however. According to the backstory, what we would call the Asian weaponry -- tantosweaponry—tantos, wakizashis, katanas, and dai-katanas -- arekatanas—are from the Akavir continent and exclusive to the Tsaesci (one of the four races of Akaviri known). The explanation of the Samurai suits is trickier: the Orc country Orsinium was allowed to exist during the rule of an Akaviri Potentate which may indicate inspiration. Blades armor and weaponry are based on Akaviri designs. The armor resembles Roman Lorica Segmentata, while the swords consist of Katanas.

* ''[[War CraftWarcraft]]'', especially ''[[World of Warcraft]]'', is also pretty guilty of this. For the most part, it doesn't even really matter which kind of weapon you are using, although a few classes can specialize in weapon types (and Rogues need daggers for [[Back Stab]] moves). But there is no inherent difference between an axe and a sword, other than the fact that not all classes can use both.

* Most games in the ''[[Final Fantasy (Franchise)|Final Fantasy]]'' series basically select weaponry choices based on personality or an abstract battlefield role within their battle system, at best simplifying the attributes of a particular weapon style to fit. Somewhat averted in [[Final Fantasy X (Video Game)|Final Fantasy X]], which generally takes into account the need for different kinds of weapons for different kinds of enemies, but in a pinch, anything will usually work, just not as well.

* ''[[Tales of Symphonia (Video Game)|Tales of Symphonia]]'': Lampshaded somewhat where another character wields a [[Improbable Weapon User|ball and cup game]]. At one point, Kratos points out that Lloyd's weapon choice and fighting style -- dualstyle—dual-wielded sabres -- issabres—is wasteful and inefficient. Lloyd's response (paraphrased) was that he uses two swords to get [[Breaking the Fourth Wall|twice the attack power bonus.]]

{{quote| '''Lloyd''': I thought if one sword had an attack of 100 then two swords would have an attack of 200 right?}}

* ''[[Fire Emblem]]'': These games go back and forth on this one. The trope is played straight in the notion that there are many, many kinds of weapons from swords, axes, lances and bows, many of which are nonsensical (one of Eliwood's better weapons throughout FE 7 is a rapier that does bonus damage against calvary and heavily armored units). This trope is subverted in the sense that most weapons have a bonus for attacking a certain type of unit or a certain weapon style in a [[Tactical Rock -Paper -Scissors|weapon triangle]].

* [[Loads and Loads of Characters|All 75 potential recruits]] in ''[[Exit Fate (Video Game)|Exit Fate]]'' have a unique weapon, often [[Named Weapons|named]], and while they usually fit a more specific trope than [[Improbable Weapon User]], the tropes in question vary wildly. What other game allows practitioners of [[Chain Pain]] and [[Throw the Book At Them]] to fight in the same party as a [[Death Dealer]]? Then again, most of the really ridiculous weapons are used by characters who have a low attack power...

* ''[[Team Fortress 2 (Video Game)|Team Fortress 2]]'' originally mostly used unique variations of [[Standard FPS Guns]] and this trope only applied to the melee weapons, which included things from knives to bottles to bats to bare fists. The unlockable items have since plunged headlong into this trope, with things like bows, crossbows, [[Power -Up Food|cans of soda, sandviches,]] flags carried around with a bugle, shields, boots, tranquilizer guns, flare guns, remote controls, lasers scavenged from crashed alien delivery ships, and jars of piss.

* In ''[[Rune Factory 3]]'', various townsfolk who accompany you to battle will carry a cutlass, a katana, a double-headed battleaxe, twin shortswords, a two-handed broadsword and a war hammer, respectively. And this isn't even including the magic users or or the [[Improbable Weapon User|Improbable Weapon Users]]s.

* In ''[[A BeginnersBeginner's Guide to Thethe End of Thethe Universe]]'', the {{spoiler|army of the future people}} use completely random weaponry (from shotguns to halberds). Justified in that they get all their weaponry from the [[Grows Onon Trees|miscellanopod trees]], which give them entirely random stuff. Meanwhile, the {{spoiler|members of the evil cult that opposes them are able to use [[Reality Warper]] powers to spontaneously manifest any weapons or equipment they want.}}

* In ''[[The Order of the Stick (Webcomic)|Order of the Stick]]'', the soldiers of Azure City are supposed to be a japanese/chinese fantasy counterpart. Yet, their weaponry include katanas (fine), western-style halbeards and large towershields.