History Main / RoyalRapier

* ''GGundam'': Rose Gundam uses a beam rapier.

** You can't mention the ''{Persona}}'' series here without mentioning the original RoyalRapier wielder, Eriko Kirishima.

* ''FireEmblem'': some Lord classes can exclusively use rapiers, such as Roy, Eliwood, and Eirika. The rapiers are effective AntiCavalry and ArmorPiercing weapons.

* Essentially every sword-using Lord in ''FireEmblem''.

* In the most recent FinalFantasy games, the rapier became the weapon of choice of TheRedMage job.
** Larsa from FinalFantasyXII wields one (quite fittingly for a prince of the empire).

* In most of his apparition, the weapon of choice of Zorro seems to be a spanish rapier.

* [[FieryRedhead Lilly]] [[SheIsAllGrownUp Pendragon]] carries one in ''{{Suikoden III}}''. She also dresses like a musketeer, complete with [[NiceHat a big plumed hat]].

If musketeers are involved, you can definitely expect them to use rapiers.

* Julie from ''{{Our Little Adventure}}'', when she decides to do melee combat. [[EvilCounterpart Umbria]] also likes rapiers and uses them more often.

* Rapiers did see use around the early renaissance era, usually by noblemen who studied fencing. It was at the time a favorite weapon for use in duels. From a more militarized point of view, the rapier did see some limited use on the battlefield, but proved ineffectual due to its difficulty penetrating armor, the hard time involved in using it to slash effectively, and the tenancy of its long narrow blade to break. There is however no denying that it is more [[RuleOfCool classy]] then the more practical military blades, which were typically more pragmatically designed to kill things without such niceties as looking good or elegant doing it.

* ''{{Persona 3}}'': [[{{Ojou}} Mitsuru's]] WeaponOfChoice. It's [[GratuitousFrench C'est Magnifique]].

* Used in the latest adaptation of TheCountOfMonteCristo. Fairly accurately, at that. Toward the end of the movie, Albert takes advantage of the blade's flimsiness to break the Count's own rapier in two with his own similar, yet more durable blade.

* [[RebelliousPrincess Estelle]] from ''{{Tales Of Vesperia}}'' can wield these as well as [[StaffChick staves]].

* The fencer line of units in ''{{Battle for Wesnoth}}''.

Note that in the hey-dey of the rapier, it was as likely to be associated with travelling entertainers who gave what we would call "performances" with the rapier and buckler (small shield -- whence the term {{swashbuckler}}) as with the courtiers, like Pietro Monte, whose favorite weapon it was. Old-fashioned gentlemen of the Elizabethan period tended to despise the "foining" and dancing they associated with the weapon, and preferred the good old longsword.