Dual Wielding / Webcomics

Dual Wielding in Webcomics.

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• 8-Bit Theater
  • Fighter has four swords and wields a pair of them on a regular basis. On one occasion he even used all four at once when sufficiently pissed off (He is the only person in history to have mastered the sword-chucks, let alone dual-wielding them). Black Mage and Thief have also been known to use paired daggers to deadly effect (although Thief seems to really more on his ninja skills later on), leaving Red Mage as the only main protagonist to simply resort to a single sword.
  • Not to be outdone, Ranger dual-wields bows. And then, as a dual-class Ranger/Ranger he dual-wields his dual-wield to perform "the mythical art of quad wielding and its dodecarrow storm!" When Sarda asks how he's holding four bows in two hands, Ranger admits it's not easy and really hurts his neck.
• The title character of The Adventures of Dr. McNinja dual-wields katanas when assaulting a ninja-laden stronghold to save his sidekick. Yeah. It's awesome.
  • Then there's the Uber-ninja, whose custom-made nunchaku basically mean he's dual-wielding two roped-together chainsaws
• AntiBunny has two dual wielders. One wields two guns, the other wields two bats. They end up getting married to each other.
• Aurora: The storm god Tynan uses twin swords.
• At the end of chapter three in Bits Fair, Ananda's opponent dual-wields daggers.
• Kei of Circumstances of the Revenant Braves wields two swords.
• El Goonish Shive has fun with Susan dual wielding cleaner bottles. She used to triple-wield Hammers. Well, almost.
• Kit from Fey Winds.
• Bernadette of Flipside fights with two swords in a style called "split rose". One sword parries and the other counter-attacks.
• Girl Genius:
  • Zeetha uses dual katars.
  • When called upon to fight Boris, the Baron's secretary, wields four swords, one in each arm.
• In Goblins, Thaco fights with a sword-cane which consists of 2 swords. The dwarf paladin Kore dual-wields chain-firing crossbows, as well as a pair of axes for close-quarters combat.
• Harry Potter Comics
  • Several characters have opted for wand/gun combos.
  • More "traditional" wizards (including Ron) have occasionally also used double wands, or even wands transfigured into swords. (They can still cast that way!)
• Homestuck: John has been seen charging around wielding the Pogo Hammer in one hand and the Wrinklefucker in the other. He later stopped dual-wielding and settled on using just the Warhammer of Zillyhoo.
• In Irregular Webcomic!, during the Space theme's first cyberspace story arc, the characters run into a Darth Maul avatar wielding his signature dual-ended lightsaber. Paris attempts to face off against him with dual-wielded lightsabers, before her teammates charge into battle with their own multibladed lightsabers.
• Cale An'non from Looking for Group dual-wields curved elven swords... with varying effectiveness.
• The Order of the Stick:
  • Belkar uses twin daggers. This is because he's a Ranger, and gets the ability for free. He uses daggers instead of swords because of his size, although possibly also because, as a Halfling, he has a penchant for thrown weapons.
  • Miko Miyazaki wields the standard Japanese Katana/Wakizashi pair.
  • Zz'dtri, an obvious parody of Drizzt, wields two scimitars. This gives him an advantage over V because they give him an alternative to spell casting, which the other elf lacks. They also channel his magic when he's blasting V.
• In The Overture, dual wielding wakizashi blades has become fashionable with younger nobles. Richard Olsen only fights in this manner and does not carry the traditional katana of his forefathers.
• Planescape Survival Guide:
  • Milny initially dual-wields curves short swords, later switching to a double-sword (with a handgun in the holster for good measure)
  • Meleras dual-wields a longsword and dagger.
  • Railah/Jergal dual-wields a double axe AND a sword in her off-hand. (Triple wield!)
  • Also, when Torin is stuck carrying two chests of gold around, he opts to dual-wield those rather than his sword.
• Schlock Mercenary:
  • The four-armed Andy attempts to impress Thurl by quad-wielding pistols. Thurl promptly puts him in his place by saying that he still has a humanlike eye arrangement, so he can't possibly be getting good sight pictures on those pistols-the result would be ammo-wasting, collateral-damage-causing A-Team Firing. Later he practices this anyway when local fauna volunteers to turn a beach-volleyball match into an impromptu skeet session.
    Thurl: That's all right, I'll put you down as 'very enthusiastic' and 'seen too many John Woo movies'. You're in.
  • Schlock, with his arbitrary anatomy, successfully dual and triple wields things like plasmacannons and antitank rifles. Or everything he can carry at once.
• Both Oasis and Kusari from Sluggy Freelance dual-wield their bladed weapons (large knives for Oasis, small scythes for Kusari).
• Unsounded: Lemuel, who was drafted into the military when he was tweleve, had a sword break on him in combat when he was quite young and has always carried and used two ever since. It's become something of a superstition for him and if he were to lose one in combat he'd lose his nerve as well.
• Use Sword on Monster: Humphrey dual-wields two chainsaws in a fortunately off-panel hack-n-slash of a trollkir.
• In Yet Another Fantasy Gamer Comic, There Is No Kill Like Overkill, apparently.
• Zokusho Comics: Raziel of the Wayward Cross uses a pair of short swords.

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