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In Cave Story , the Blade weapon unless you have leveled it up to maximum, in which case you throw King's spirit instead. Which is kinda odd, because the credits artwork show the protagonist swinging the Blade instead of throwing it. In Rogue and its descendants such as NetHack , any item in your inventory can be thrown.

However, if it's a standard melee weapon, don't expect it to be particularly effective. Subverted in Warcraft 3 and a miniaturized version in World of Warcraft.

Thrall tosses his hammer at Mannoroth at the very beginning of the fight, and it is easily deflected. You can throw anything in Dwarf Fortress. It might not be perfect, but there's a very good chance it will do some serious hurt if you do hit. This leads to some "interesting" fights. Not only that, but with a high enough Throwing skill which is much, MUCH less time and ammo consuming than training in using a ranged weapon you can throw arrows and crossbow bolts by hand , doing more damage and with a much higher speed than you would by firing them with their appropriate weapon.

Fluffy Wambler to the head! He can also throw a scythe that cuts people in half, but starts to drop off after some distance. He also picks up a machete that not only can be thrown with accuracy, but ricochets off walls and always comes back to him. The sledgehammer and scythe have to be retrieved each time however, and if you happen to throw the hammer at the back end of a cow, well, lets just say it's slightly less fun to retrieve.

The A Week in Paradise mod adds a katana, which can be thrown in the same manner as the sledgehammer, stabbing whoever it hits but then having to be retrieved except in Enhanced Mode, where you can toss as many of them as you want. Many guides will suggest spending all one's money on the last weapon shop the player can visit and throw them all at the boss fight.

The Game-Breaker potential of this is mitigated by shops being the only source of expendable weapons, and those being somewhat expensive.

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In Chinese Paladin 4 , the main character's special move is to shoot his sword at his enemy with a bow. In Colossal Cave , this is the only way to destroy the ogre. Attack it with the axe, or by hitting it with your sword? He never runs out of them. To make things worse, he does this while jumping all over the damn place, making him a very irritating boss to fight against. In Dead Rising , you can get a sword which like every other weapon except the guns you can whip at an enemy. The Elder Scrolls backstory has an example in the Snow Prince.

During the late Merethic Era, the ancient Atmorans Precursors of the modern Nords went to war with Skyrim's native Falmer Snow Elves after the Falmer sacked and slaughtered the Atmoran colony of Saarthal in Skyrim, with the Atmorans going so far as to attempt to drive the Falmer to extinction. After nearly wiping them out on the mainland, the Atmorans pursued the remaining Falmer to the barren, frozen island of Solstheim. During the Falmer's Last Stand at the Battle of the Moesring, an individual known only as the Snow Prince single-handedly turned the tide of the battle, killing many prominent Atmoran heroes in the process.

However, the daughter of one of the slain warriors threw her mother's sword in grief and impaled the Snow Prince, killing him. Unlike the remains of his fellow Falmer, which were burned as per Atmoran tradition, the Snow Prince was considered a Worthy Opponent and was buried with full honors befitting any great warrior, with guards even stationed at his tomb, which would one day become Jolgeirr Barrow.

Twilight Princess has the Darknuts throwing their huge swords at you before unsheathing a much lighter one. The first time it happens during a cut-scene, so you automatically dodge it; but all other times you have to dodge out of the way yourself.

Meanwhile, The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker features Link throwing their swords at the Darknuts or any other enemy in reach. Amusingly, throwing that sword is actually the most effective way of using it, considering how slow and awkward actually swinging the damn thing is. With The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword , the first boss is with Demon Lord Ghirahim out of three battles with him.

He can do a Bare-Handed Blade Block on your sword, and if you don't get it out of his hands in time, he takes it for himself and starts swinging it at you. Oh, you get it back quickly, but not without him throwing it at you first. Throwing your opponent's sword always works, too. As far back as the original The Legend of Zelda , at full health, Link could fire his sword off, tip-first, at anything in a straight line although modern interpretations posit these were meant to a Sword Beam. Any weapon can be thrown in The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild , and they always break on impact.

This is more practical than it sounds since the game uses Breakable Weapons anyway, and doing this with a damaged weapon makes it go out with a highly-damaging hit that will usually knock the target over. In Rise of the Kasai , none of the playable characters throw any of their melee weapons. However, while fighting unarmed, it's possible to disarm enemies and kill them with their own weapons. For enemies with swords, they're headbutted, knocked away and the sword is thrown into their throats.

So throwing your enemy's sword always works. Touhou In Mystic Square we have Yumeko , who throws swords everywhere to hit you. Elly in Lotus Land Story throws her Sinister Scythe like a boomerang, as if you weren't already having trouble dodging her bullet patterns. Sakuya in Embodiment of Scarlet Devil does like Yumeko above, though with knives instead. A technique in Tales of Destiny allows Stahn to throw your sword forward. It has the obvious drawback of leaving him unarmed until you pick it back up. In Tales of Vesperia , Zagi throws his sword forward for one of his artes, which proceeds to return to him after reaching the end of its trajectory.

It leaves him about as open to abuse as you might expect. Alexei also throws his sword to trace a glyph for his Brilliant Cataclysm mystic arte, which definitely works. It also returns to him afterward. In Tales of Graces , Malik uses this as his primary means of physical offense. His swords are called bladerangs, but visually, they don't vary much If at all in shape from swords of the standard RPG fare.

As the name implies, they return to him after being thrown, but he can also manipulate their trajectory to make them strike the enemy multiple times.

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One of the items in Companions Of Xanth is a sword that you pick up fairly early. You never use it at all throughout the game until the very end, at which point you throw it at the Prize you have been seeking all game to stop your rival from getting at it. Alice Twilight of No More Heroes 2: Desperate Struggle is equipped with five regenerating beam swords which she throws at every opportunity. It's an effective attack. It hits Harvey's eyes- rendering him blind- but doesn't kill him. Travis has a much more Karmic Death in mind Brotherhood has this for all two handed weapons.

If the player holds down the attack button Ezio, the player character, throws the weapon. The recently thrown weapon will then decide to make friends with the skull of person it encounters, no matter the current trajectory of the pointy bits. Granted, no matter it doesn't matter if your weapon makes a new skull buddy, the weapon is lost and has to be manually retrieved, unless the player goes to the nearest fabbro Blacksmith and re-equip it. Kenshi in Mortal Kombat 9 starts his x-ray special by throwing his sword at his opponent.

He is a telekinetic however, and the opponent can avoid it by simply holding block. Inverted in his second fatality from the same game. He plants his sword in the ground then throws the opponent at it. In Mortal Kombat X , Kenshi is still sword tossing and his son Takeda also has some blade throwing moves in his Ronin variation.

Aditionally, Guest Fighter Jason Vorhees has his Slasher variation which gives him various special moves with his signature machete , including throwing it. And fellow guest fighter Leatherface takes it up to eleven in his Pretty Lady variation: Done to ridiculous extents by Rubi from Wet. At one point during a Car Chase , she makes a Wall Jump off the side of a moving truck onto a car, from which a mook is about to shoot her point blank, and while still in the air , throws her katana at him, lands, and pulls it out of his chest before he can fall out of the car window.

In Dead Island , throwing your sword, axe, knife, hammer, baseball bat, wrench, crowbar, pointed stick or whatever other weapon you have except for guns and knuckle-dusters always works. Logan has skills specifically to exploit this. Sho and Kane in Silent Scope 2 throw their blades as a ranged attack. In Duel Savior Destiny Taiga at one point summons his sword Traitor, but instead of just hacking away, he chucks the sword at the monster.

It is then used as a target by someone else to injure the monster enough that it drops its hostage, Lily.

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Near the end of the Prologue of The Witcher , Geralt throws the rusty training sword he's been using at the Professor as the latter escapes through a portal after killing Leo and stealing the secrets of witcher mutations. This trope is averted as the portal closes before Geralt's sword reaches it, letting the Professor escape alive. In The Witcher 2 , Geralt has a group finisher where he kills three human enemies by throwing his steel sword on the first, his silver sword on the second, and killing the third one in close combat.

He also has a finisher against harpies where he throws his silver sword and it stabs the harpy in mid-air, killing it. Also in The Witcher 2 , Roche also manages to kill an enemy soldier via thrown sword in a cutscene. In another cutscene Geralt does the same. In The Witcher 3 , while fighting the Crones, Ciri attempts to finish off Weavess like this , but the witch dissolves into a murder of crows right before the blade hits her.

In the epilogue to one of the endings, Geralt tries the same thing and succeeds. Interestingly enough, each of those examples have characters throw their swords either in the end-over-end or in the boomerang fashion. In the books , meanwhile, while both Cahir and Geralt can be seen throwing their sword to reach a distant target, the narration makes it clear both times that they throw their sword straight, like a javelin.

Jetstream Sam in Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance uses a modified form of this as a technique - his sword's sheath is built out of an AR receiver which, when fired, forces his sword out at extremely high speed, at which point he grabs it for a super-fast swing. Capcom 3 Arthur's moveset consists almost completely of throwing his Jousting Lance , although he has a lot more than just lances in that armour. It's a reference to his home series, Ghosts 'n Goblins , where he similarly throws every weapon he picks up, with the exception of the actual sword weapon from Ghouls 'n Ghosts.

In Realms of the Haunting as part of the good ending of the game, Aelf will throw his weapon and successfully impale Florentine without breaking the last seal he wears as a necklace, provided the player has chosen the right conversation tree during the final showdown in the Chamber of the Soulstone.

Sensibly, Aelf throws his sword like a spear, rather than the typical overhead hurl. In the original, the protagonist's primary weapon was a yo-yo explained in game as him having a really good throwing arm. It always came back to him, so the player could logically keep using it. His second adventure, however, starts him off with melee weapons that are thrown at enemies instead. Despite the first two of these being a primitive axe and a dagger which would presumably get lodged in a fleshy target , he can always toss another one a moment later, with a never ending supply of whatever his primary weapon is.

Funny with the ax, downright questionable with the dagger. Path of Neo subverts this - you can throw your sword and it'll hit the enemy, but it won't stick and the sword clatters to the floor. Icewind Dale has a double subversion: A man had it enchanted so that he could throw it and it would always return to his hand, but he took it to a wild mage, whose enchantment made it so that it would always hit with the handle instead of the blade. However, the enchantment also caused the handle to inflict as much damage as the blade would normally do, so it's still an effective ranged weapon.

A number of Mobile Suits can throw their melee weapons in the Dynasty Warriors: Gundam games, including two Qubeley variants and one Gelgoog. All weapons in Superhot can be thrown tossing firearms is much faster than waiting for the next bullet to cycle into the chamber , but the katana is the only weapon that is lethal when thrown, as well as the only one that doesn't break on impact.

In One Finger Death Punch , your opponents can throw weapons to attack you, but, depending on the color of the weapon, they can either be knocked away gray or caught and thrown back white. There's even a skill that allows you to turn a captured weapon into a thrown weapon. Automata by using the horizonal disc technique, often doing so several times in a combo, with the same sword. Considering they dissolve into light and reform in her hand when thrown, and aren't always in her grip when she's performing a "normal" attack anyway, it fits in with the rest of her style.

The Steam Early Access game Sword With Sauce makes extensive use of this - any weapon except the silenced pistol which for gameplay purposes the game treats as a gadget rather than a separate weapon can be thrown, and, circumstances depending, it's a one-hit kill the same as shooting, slashing, or bashing them with it normally would be. Ciel, an Executor , fights using the standard-equipment Black Keys, literal throwing swords; she only carries the small hilts reputedly hundreds of them , and materialise the blades as needed.

If he throws them to the sides of an opponent, they'll pull themselves to cut it. This is the basis of his Crane Wing Three Realm , which uses three different pairs of Kanshou and Bakuya, the first two purposely blocked until the third comes out for a finishing blow since the enemy is unable to keep up.

Archer is also capable of circumventing the main flaw in this tactic, due to his ability to instantly summon his blades back to his hands if he's ever disarmed or, in reality, just project a new identical pair of swords. This is also Gilgamesh's main tactic. With his Gate of Babylon, he has access to an unlimited amount of magic swords and weapons, and his default strategy is to just fire them from the Gate like a cannon Hence his class in the Fourth War , Archer. Saber of Red does this while fighting some Golems. It's described as a mark of how skilled a warrior she is since A. Someone throws a sword at someone else, only for him to fall down the stairs and impale the first through the head.

Claudita throws her sword to finish off a demon. The Other in Girl Genius throws a sword to kill off an enemy holding up a delicate piece of machinery. The Order of the Stick Zig-zagged in one strip , where Roy throws a broken sword to save his friends from being hanged by a group of bandits. The sword cuts through the nooses of Elan, Haley, and Vaarsuvius, but misses Belkar's.

Then it stabs the hangman Fortunately, the next strip reveals Belkar is too lightweight to be hanged. Done humorously again in another strip , where Thog kicks away Roy's greatsword to disarm him during a gladiator fight, and it lands in the public, beheading one of Thog's fans. Tarquin's able to throw his greataxe at close range in a spin to knock off and wound an opponent about to finish off one of his companions — perhaps not quite as unrealistic, and he only chooses to do so when forced to run away anyway so the loss of a weapon doesn't matter so much.

Justified in later strips as Roy gains an ability to summon his thrown sword back to his hands. This page of Cheshire Crossing. In Gunnerkrigg Court two last Defenders of the Court did it. Eglamore Chapter 7 and Mr. Thorn in Chapter 22 opted to throw some sort of a glowing sword In the former case it's still a bit too late. In Terinu Space Pirate Mavra Chan throws her sword and not only hits her target but manages to pierce Mama Bear Leeza's fully modern clamshell torso armor. Errant Story plays with this trope with a little magical help in these two strips.

Happens all the time in Hitmen For Destiny , but the sword in question is magical and is able to find its target. While she didn't actually hit her target it did work out on the next page. McNinja kills a zombie sneaking up on Gordito by throwing his ninjato sword attributed to ninjas, like a katana but straight, pretty much fictional through its head.

It's nothing special for him. Ninja Charlie fights off a bunch of monsters with a katana , which gets bent out of shape when one of the monsters blocks it. She then throws it like a boomerang , which slices through all the monsters in the room — apart from Demon Rupert — before embedding itself in the wall, right next to where Charlie is standing. Charlie pulls it out of the wall bending it back into shape in the process and throws it directly at Rupert, skewering him. In Zeonquest , then-rookie Zolomon Ringo kills not one, but two Federation jets by throwing his Zaku's Tomahawk at them.

He hasn't stopped being awesome since. Justified in Worm , since the character throwing the sword has a superpower that lets her imbue any objects she touches with the ability to ignore gravity and penetrate through absolutely anything, no matter how it hits. Genoa has tossed a sword on occasion and Arachne has tossed around a dismembered arm that she was using as a sword.

In both cases, they were able to manipulate their weapon in some manner to increase accuracy, either through ferrokinesis or thread. Gavin Free bets fellow Achievement Hunter Ryan Haywood that he can throw any sort of knife into a wall and make it stick. Ryan counters that it can't just be any old knife, since throwing knives are designed to be balanced enough to be thrown and you have to counteract the off-balanceness of a regular knife.

Indeed, Gavin makes his throw and ends up slapping the bulletin board while Ryan shows the proper way to thrown a regular knife and makes it stick. William also sometimes throws his sword, despite it being HUGE ; he rarely stays disarmed, however, since he can call it back with telekinesis. The Inquisitor is able to turn his double-bladed lightsaber into a spinning disc that he can throw at his opponents. In one episode of Batman: The Animated Series , Batman is dueling with Ra's al Ghul, and decides that the best use for his sword would be to throw it at Ghul's Doomsday Device which was seconds away from blowing up half the planet.

Batman in the "Birds of Prey" episode of Batman: The Brave and the Bold with a pair of daggers. Not only does he throw them both at once , but one of them cuts through a rope to drop a Falling Chandelier of Doom , while the other deliberately hits Two-Face in the head with the blunt end. Hawkgirl and her mace in Justice League. How he was capable of knowing that it would not physically harm her is anyone's guess. When Tom and Jerry are trying to have a duel with swords, Jerry accidentally bends his epee while showing off.

Jerry throws his sword at Tom but misses. But since the sword is now bent into a boomerang , it comes around and hits Tom in the rear. The fork pins Nibbles to the table by his diaper.

Agent Six from Generator Rex uses this trope a lot. One of the best examples is in the very first episode during his fight with Breach, who can open portals through space. She surrounds him with portals and proceeds to punch and kick him from every direction, until he finally throws his fold-out katanas through two of them. A few seconds later, Breach and both swords fall through another portal several yards away. Transformers Prime episode " Regeneration ": Megatron chucks the Dark Star Saber at the Spark Extractor in order to prevent his spark from getting extracted.

Doesn't save the numerous mooks much closer to the Extractor, though Jack is no stranger to using this technique as a finishing move. Memorably, he once pinned an enemy ninja to a wall by throwing his sword from a concealed spot and giving him no time to dodge. Fortunately, like most things Jack kills, the ninja turned out to be a robot, so it was okay to show on TV.

Also used by an Ally of Jack, the Spartan King, throwing Jack's Katana through a mechanical monstrosity's head and killing it. This applies to the Minions of Set as well. One of the Minions has two swords. One of them is attached to its left bracer, but the other is held in the right hand and is used for several special throwing attacks, including a kienzan-like homing attack and a spectacularly fluid and flawlessly executed leap off of a tall pillar while simultaneously throwing its sword into the back of Jack's knee, knocking him to the ground and allowing the still-falling Minion to almost land on top of him.

Jim is fond of throwing his magic sword, Daylight. Since it's magic, as long as its not struck down too hard, he can simply will it back into its hands. The Adventures of Puss in Boots: Armed with a magical living sword that can think and move on its own, El Guante Blanco frequently throws the Goodsword as an attack, as it can fly back to him afterward. Legendary Defender can pull off insane stunts with their blades, including bouncing them off walls to strike an opponent from the back or throwing them with pinpoint accuracy.

Then again, they are essentially alien ninjas whose blades are Empathic Weapons in some way linked to their wielder's Quintessence. Combined with their proficiency with Combat Parkour it allows for them to combat and even kill Galra Druids. Keith, while not initially on the same level of the Blade of Marmora, is still capable of throwing his sword in a perfectly straight line without the blade spinning into his opponents from across a room.

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It must be a Galra trait. He also won over 60 duels in his life, and tended to win using things like wooden sticks and metal fans , so he may have been a special case. In his book on Musashi, martial artist Kenji Tokitsu comments that Musashi probably threw his short-sword as a surprise attack, in order to create an opening for his long sword. Also, because Musashi spent a lot of time wandering, this skill would have come in handy when it came to catching his supper. Some African groups use a Hungamunga, an awesomely named and bizarre-looking sword that can be thrown effectively.

Though it's really more of an axe than a sword. This weapon mambele is actually a throwing weapon that can be used for melee in a pinch. In Gladiatoria manuscript, MS Germ. Note the twelfth play. If you want to end him rightly? Close in with the throw and use your sword or spear, whatever suits you best. When he throws his pommel at you, keep your buckler close to you and watch out for the throw. Hold your spear in your right hand and prepare to thrust, to stop him from closing in if it is his intention. The Fior di Battaglia An Italian fighting manual contains a plate wherein the stance in which a longsword may be thrown is detailed.

This being real life, the stance is a modified javelin throw stance, not the two-handed overhead swing commonly used in fiction. Skallagrim released a video with a brief overview of Fiore's technique. The Spetsnaz Ballistic Knife: The whole incident just illustrates the state of completely berserk rage he's in at the time. Subverted in the opening to World Destruction though the weapon is a large blade rather then a sword where Morte throws her weapon at Lia and misses.

Lia then shoots her. Pyramid of Light , Yugi, in desperation, throws a dagger at a jewel that's the Big Bad 's weakness. Realistically, he hits the very corner of the jewel with the wrong end of the dagger, which only slightly weakens the Big Bad Lampshaded in the Abridged Series: Norris throws his Gouf's sword. However, the intent was not to hit Shiro but to distract him, giving Norris time to shoot Shiro with his heat-wire and disable his Gundam.

And he retrieves it with his Electric Grappling Cable of Death. Played for laughs as he has trouble getting back out of the portrait of his grandfather. In Fist of the North Star , Amiba tried to kill Kenshiro by throwing a sword at him before he entered his room. He ended up killing one of his own minions that Kenshiro dragged along. The opening sequence of Sands of Destruction: Apparently the sun was in his eyes.

At the Battle of the Hydaspes, Alexander throws his sword at King Poros in a futile attempt to kill him, only to miss. Also in the Final Cut, during the Battle of Gaugamela, Antigonus the one-eyed general barely manages to protect himself with his shield from an arrow, and then counterattacks by tossing his sword at the Persian archer. Another funny subversion from the same film: In , the spear cuts Xerxes' cheek, humiliating him. In Alexander , Darius casually leans out of the way of the thrown spear with a puzzled expression on his face as if to wonder what this Greek loony was thinking.

Subverted and lampshaded at the end. Jack knows he just blew it big time, as Gracie glares at him. Lo Pan picks it up, comments, "Good knife. Like Jack said, it's all in the reflexes. Averted in The Prisoner of Zenda ; Rupert of Hentzau hurls his sword at Rudolph Rassendyl, who easily parries it despite being already wounded. Defied in the climactic duel scene from Rob Roy. One of the rules is: Given the nature of Shaw's powers, the dagger would not have harmed him even if it had scored a direct hit.

In Black Death , Ulric attempts to throw his sword at the last of a group of bandits who raided his camp and killed one of his men. His sword falls several feet short of his target. While Azeem used this successfully in Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves , Robin himself failed. In Robin's duel with the sheriff, Robin's sword is broken and in desperation he throws the hilt shard at the sheriff.

Nottingham barely even has to move to avoid it. If they choose this option, however, they miss, and the only effect is that they have to fight the Big Bad without a stat boost. Salvatore's Road of the Patriarch , when Artemis Entreri throws his sword at his fleeing opponents. It just embeds itself in a door frame, but still kills the guy who tries to pick it up. Artemis' sword likes him. Discworld Subverted in Guards! There is an art in throwing knives and, even then, you need the right kind of knife. Otherwise it does just what this one did, which is miss completely. He did, however, manage to stick a sword in a wall by throwing it in Night Watch , but it's explicitly a result of pure dumb luck.

Rincewind does the same in The Colour of Magic , but then his supernatural luck comes into play, and it bounces off a rock and lands in the back of the bad guy's bad troll anyway neck. Shiro, nephew to the titular Samurai Cat, throws a sword at a fleeing bad guy, and strikes the man firmly in the head with the pommel of the sword, knocking him out cold. He had been aiming for decapitation. As the axe is mundane, and his opponent is a giant stone statue, it's utterly ineffective at doing any damage. It does make the bad guy flinch, though, allowing the hero to get in the killing blow.

Subverted in one of the Artemis Fowl books. Secondary antagonist Billy Kong attempts to kill a man with a thrown knife, but hits him with the handle, knocking him out. It's interesting that he threw the knife and hit his target exactly so said man would get knocked out, when you consider Foaly's earlier joke about Kong working at a circus in the past Corwin notes explicitly that it's a stupid move that shows his opponent's desperation, only made remotely possible by the family's super-strength and the fact that Corwin is retreating at the time in the face of approaching reinforcements, so Eric's being unarmed won't matter.

It still doesn't work. Averted in the Bordertown novel Elsewhere. The main character, when facing a gang, throws his knife at a bar's door , seeking to get the attention of everyone inside instead of hurting anyone. More to the point, the knife, which is not balanced for throwing, strikes the door hilt first. It has the desired effect indeed, it probably made more noise than if it had stuck in, blade first , but the character laments that this never happens in the movies. The Dresden Files book White Night at least lampshades it, as Harry says throwing knives aren't efficient due to the easy chance of hitting pommel first.

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That is, unless you happen to be a vampire with heightened dexterity and centuries to practice. Or, in Skin Games , if you're immortal with powerboost from a fallen angel and a millennia of practice, for throwing an actual sword. It bounces off his armor, and he doesn't even feel it. In Taggerung, Antigra claims the Taggerung killed Sawney Rath by stunning him with his thrown dagger's pommel, then stabbing him and Felch to death before running off.

In fact, she'd killed Sawney with a slingstone, then stabbed his corpse and Felch for good measure. Oz tries this with a stake in the Buffy the Vampire Slayer Season 3 premiere, only for it to fall far short of its target and bounce comically off a tombstone instead. He mutters "That never really works" afterwards. Blood and Sand Spartacus tries this during gladiator training. Not only does his opponent easily deflect it, the stray weapon kills a fellow gladiator recruit by slicing open his throat. Spartacus immediately gets chewed out by the trainer for this stupidity.

Throw your sword in the arena and you are dead. In Vengeance "Libertus", Spartacus standing in the arena throws a spear at Glaber who is in the pulvinus royal box. His aim is dead on, but she makes it disappear in a puff of magic. Hell on Earth outlines this as one maneuver that a desperate Templar no, not that one might perform. Unless the player rolls well, though, the sword will most likely hit pommel-first Perhaps ironically in lights of the real life information about such techniques, the system's usual fondness for detail, and the cinematic throw-anything skill option mentioned above, there is actually no "mundane" Thrown Weapon skill for swords longer than knives which are sorted into the general "sword" group for melee weapon skill purposes listed in the basic rulebook.

It's also easily predicted if not used carefully because it's one of her only two projectiles. In Bushido Blade 2 , any character that can wield two swords as their specialty can throw said sword. If the opponent is struck by said sword, they are immediately killed. However, it is very hard to pull this off as the sword has a pretty pathetic range and is easily avoided.

The Fire Emblem games generally subvert this by having the sword being the only unthrowable member of the weapon triangle ; however, there is usually a sword capable of a non-physical ranged attack via magic. The Genesis Super Mario World pirate game which plays more like the NES Rescue Rangers games than any Mario game features enemy rats who not only throw swords, but throw them hilt-first thanks to the sword sprite being flipped. In The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess , the miniboss Darknut throws his sword or mace at Link after losing his armor, then subverts it by drawing a rapier that is more fitting for the more agile fighting style he adopts afterwards.

It's also subverted by the throw not being a particularly effective attack, as Link can easily jump out of the way or even just block it with his shield. Although if you allow it to make contact or just fumble your evasion , it still fucking hurts. There's also a subversion when he pulls the rapier out. He doesn't throw it at you, but when he draws it he flings the scabbard away, which can hurt you for paltry damage. In Baldur's Gate II , a Large Ham will show up fairly early, spout something about his unbeatable technique, then lob a scimitar at you.

When it fails to do any significant damage, he reacts with incredulity at the failure and escapes. The whole thing is just completely out of left field. It deals no damage as your character catches it and it temporarily replaces your weapon for several rounds before dropping off. That character also appears later in a certain priest's house and throws money at you which does do damage, if very little. But then, according to the priest he wasn't trying to throw money at you , just into the temple.

The priest even lampshades that the fellow is quite odd. It connects, but he's invincible and simply kills you anyway. The Blade monster type in various Castlevania games throws one of it's swords forward during it's death animation. It doesn't actually do anything though, as even if you jump into it, you take no damage.

All this does is give him a sword to use for the rest of the prologue. However, when you fight him at the end, we find out that that wasn't Carmine's actual battle weapon. Postal 2 subverts this trope with armed enemies, who will block your thrown melee weapons if they see them coming with their own weapons. Even if I can only read a paragraph or two at a time. A couple of days ago I finally finished another page in my colouring book, Restore My Soul. The prompt was to identify five strengths we see in ourselves.

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By continuing to use this website, you agree to their use. In such an instance, the Master Sword is its own separate sword. In essence, Link being the true heir to the sword's legacy allows an otherwise-ordinary sword to evolve into the Master Sword, rather than the Master Sword being a tangible sword that exists on its own. If you're going to go toe-to-toe with Nintendo's biggest characters , you're going to make sure you have all of your best equipment with you.

Among the most important ways that the two games connected was that it was the only way you could use the Master Sword in either game. Although it could be done in either order-- with slightly different parameters depending on which order you played them in-- you needed to have one of the games completely beaten before you'd have the option of unlocking the sword in the other game. Otherwise, the most powerful sword you can get in either game is the Noble Sword. However, there are some games where the Master Sword itself is further upgradable, meaning that you only initially receive a version of the sword whose true power hasn't truly been unlocked yet.

Whether that makes it four times as strong as the Master Sword of other games is tough to say, but it sure sounds impressive. Generally, the Master Sword is considered a special weapon that only a particular generation's Link can use. But there have been a few examples of Nintendo letting that canon get played with a little bit and allowing other characters to be able to use the sword.

It can be argued that its just a replica of the Master Sword and not the sword itself, but it still applies as it is effectively an exact clone of the weapon. It is the only time the Master Sword is ever seen being used in a more martial arts style rather than the medieval dueling style that Link favors. In the previous examples of characters besides Link using the Master Sword, it has still been in the context of those characters imitating or otherwise paying tribute to Link in some fashion.

Mystery of the Emblem. Unfortunately, neither of those games have yet been localized outside of their native Japan. Generally, the Master Sword is looked at as a mythical, godlike weapon that can attack and defend against anything and never suffers damage of any kind. It can rust, it can get dirty, it can be negatively affected by lightning, and while it doesn't actually break like the other weapons in the game, it can become unusable for a time and has to regain its strength before it can be used again.

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