History Main / TalkingWeapon

** When Ragnarok is in its sword form, it fits nicely into this trope. Not only can Ragnarok speak, it has a mean [[MakeMeWannaShout scream attack]].

*** The Commander Lilith DLC adds the Overcompensator from ''Videogame/TalesFromTheBorderlands'', only this time it now talks like a SurferDude. Another is the Hot Mama, a sniper rifle that speaks entirely in {{Double Entendre}}s and [[DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything moans]] when you score a CriticalHit.

* ''Franchise/FinalFantasy''

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* ''WesternAnimation/YoungJustice'' has ComicBook/BlueBeetle and the Scarab (see under Comic Books), but here the audience can actually hear what it says. (It's usually some variant of "[[MurderIsTheBestSolution use the plasma cannon]].")

* ''Film/WhoFramedRogerRabbit'': The Acme singing sword. Eddie tries to use it to fend off the Weasels, but it's too busy singing to actually be an effective weapon. In addition to being [[NoCelebritiesWereHarmed a caricature of Frank Sinatra]], is a ShoutOut to WesternAnimation/BugsBunny's singing sword in "Knighty Knight Bugs".

* ''GUN&SLINGER'' is designed for a GM and two players. One player is [[TheGunslinger The Slinger]], a mysterious wanderer on a quest, while the other one is The Gun, a sentient magical gun who works in tandem with the Slinger.

* One of the weapons of ''Series/UltramanZ'', in his Delta Rise form, is the Beliarok, a tonfa with a bust of Ultraman Belial's head on it's tip. The head can talk and snark constantly during combat, and verbally expresses his delight when it comes to slicing and devouring monsters during battles. In fact, right before Ultraman Z takes hold of the weapon, the Beliarok flat-out asks him, "Once you take hold of me, what will you do?"

* The Acme singing sword from the movie ''Film/WhoFramedRogerRabbit''. Which, in addition to being [[NoCelebritiesWereHarmed a caricature of Frank Sinatra]], is a ShoutOut to WesternAnimation/BugsBunny's singing sword in "Knighty Knight Bugs".

* OlderThanPrint: Myth/IrishMythology has multiple examples of talking swords. Two of the most notable are Orna, the sword of a Fomorian king named Tethra, which would speak and tell stories of its deeds in battle, and the sword of Conaire the Great, high king of Ireland around the time of Cu Chulainn, which actually ''sang songs'' when drawn from its sheath.

* OlderThanPrint: The following incident is from Myth/IrishMythology's ''Literature/TheBattleOfMaghTuireadh'':
--> It was in this battle Ogma found Orna, the sword of Tethra, a king of the Fomor, and he took it from its sheath and cleaned it. And when the sword was taken out of the sheath, it told all the deeds that had been done by it, for there used to be that power in swords.[[note]]Quoted from Lady Augusta Gregory's ''Complete Irish Mythology''.[[/note]]

* ''[[Creator/TerryPratchett A Blink of the Screen]]'' contained a story about an author who kills off his barbarian character, and finds him standing on his doorstep. Complete with a talking sword which frequently says only "I want to drink your blood".
* In ''Literature/TheCourtOfTheAir'', by Creator/StephenHunt, there is a talking sword that is actually wise and generous.
* ''Literature/{{Discworld}}'': In ''Literature/TheColourOfMagic'' (both the book and the miniseries), Rincewind comes across Kring, a talking sword that tries to help him save Twoflower from Wyrmburg. It had very definite ideas about how its wielder should act, threatening to kill Rincewind if he didn't do the suitably heroic thing, by pointing itself at his neck. The sword disappears afterwards and its current whereabouts are unknown, although it may have been dropped overboard from the back of a dragon flying at great height above a very deep sea. Whoops.
-->"What I'd really like is to be a ploughshare. I don't know what that is, but [[CallToAgriculture it sounds like an existence with some point to it]]."
** On a darker note, the Gonne from ''Literature/MenAtArms'' seemingly has a brief conversation with its wielder about why it fired on the dwarf who'd just repaired it. It's unclear if this is a real example or just the wielder going crazy.

* In ''Literature/TheSilmarillion'', Túrin Turambar has a "to be or not to be" moment where he asks his cursed sword, Gurthang, if it will take his life swiftly. The sword answers yes, and Túrin kills himself. This is overtly taken from Kullervo's death in ''Literature/TheKalevala'' (see the Myths folder below), but unlike Kullervo's sword Gurthang says it will gladly kill Túrin to [[spoiler:wash away the blood of the innocents he's murdered]]. And [[MaybeMagicMaybeMundane the story never makes it]] ''quite'' clear if it really talked: Túrin was less than sane, the sword only spoke that once, and nobody else was around to record the event or remember it after Túrin died.
* Several of these have popped up in Creator/BrandonSanderson's [[Literature/TheCosmere Cosmere]].
** ''Literature/TheStormlightArchive'': The [[spoiler:living Shardblades, since they are actually a form that the Radiant's [[ElementalEmbodiment spren]] companion can assume. The dead Shards as well]], though it's not so much ''talking'' as ''screaming in unspeakable agony''.
** Nightblood in ''Literature/{{Warbreaker}}'' is a sword that not only speaks (telepathically) nearly constantly, but is also something of a DeadpanSnarker. It also reads minds and seems to think any thought it picks up was directed at it. It has an unusual personality and something of a BlueAndOrangeMorality, because it was made to fight evil but its creator didn't consider that an inanimate object has at best a vague sense of right and wrong, and as a result is pretty constantly suggesting it's wielder to kill random people as they're probably evil. It does work somewhat, as evil people tend to kill themselves and their friends with it, while good people get sick and/or run away. [[spoiler: It's since turned up in Roshar, the setting for ''Stormlight Archive'', where it's wielded by one of the main characters and showing no signs of changing its distinctive personality.]]
* Racath's sword, Daragoian, in ''Three Acts of Penance'' is inhabited by an ancient, sentient consciousness with a glib sense of humor. It frequently falls silent for long stretches of time, but scarcely fails to mock Racath's failures (especially regarding his excuses surrounding not pursuing a relationship with Nelle) whenever the opportunity arises. The sword is well aware of its own usefulness and magical properties - indeed, it is actually capable of shaping magic on its own, enabling Racath to perform feats like [[FlashStep "the Red Surge"]] - and is frequently smug or arrogant about its own importance. For Racath this makes the BlessedWithSuck issue especially prominent.
* Craig Shaw Gardner's ''Literature/TheWanderingsOfWuntvor'' books have Cuthbert, a talking sword who's a total coward and wails pretty loudly about all this blood and ichor everyone insists on drenching him in.
* In the later books of the ''Literature/ZacharyNixonJohnson'' series, Zach's GadgeteerGenius friend Dr. Randy Pool builds him a talking gun with a built-in AI named GUS.

* Every weapon character in ''Manga/SoulEater'' could count as this, seeing as they are humans who have taken a weapon form. Excalibur in particular is ''extremely'' talkative (FOOL!), though more of the {{Cloudcuckoolander}}y type, and he's usually only in sword form when being used or stored in the stone.

* ''Manga/SoulHunter'': Hitou is a living sword which can shapeshift and talk, not to mention feel pain.

* In ''Fanfic/WithStringsAttached'', [[{{BFS}} Blackfire]] mostly just whines like a mosquito, but when the Hunter tries to throw it over a cliff at the urging of the four, it starts to scream “STAY AWAY, HUMANSSSS!” at the four. And he finds he can't let go of it....

** On a darker note, the Gonne from ''Literature/MenAtArms'' has a brief conversation with its wielder about why it fired on the dwarf who'd just repaired it. It's unclear if this is a real example or just the wielder going crazy.

** On a darker note, the Gonne from ''Literature/MenAtArms'' has a brief conversation with its wielder about why it fired on the dwarf who'd just repaired it.