History Main / TheBladeAlwaysLandsPointyEndIn

* In {{Film/Damsel}}, When Lord Bayford drops his sword while [[spoiler: fighting the dragon]], it lands with the point sticking into the ground.

* ''Franchise/{{Zorro}}'':
** In ''Film/{{The Mark of Zorro|1920}}'' (1920), Don Diego flings his sword at his enemy, and it sticks into the ground at his feet.
** In ''Film/{{The Mark of Zorro|1940}}'' (1940), Don Diego flings his sword at the ceiling, and it sticks in a beam.

* The ''Realmz'' scenario ''Castle in the Clouds'' has your party notice a blue dragon far overhead lose a fight to some reds attempting to find something it had. Later, you can discover a powerful quarterstaff planted in the ground, having split a large bush's trunk in two top to bottom.

* In ''Manga/OnePiece'', Zoro tests a super-sharp cursed sword against his luck by throwing it in the air and holding his arm out. The sword spins around his arm perfectly and lands point down, sinking through the wood floor almost to the hilt. {{Justified}} as the sword is semi-sentient; it's implied that Zoro's courage earned its respect and loyalty.

* Xiahou Dun manages to pull this off in a cutscene of ''VideoGame/DynastyWarriors 5'' [[spoiler: with Guan Yu's BladeOnAStick.]] For a while, Guan Ping also had a charge move where he throws his {{BFS}} and it lands in the ground sharp end first, causing an explosion.

* In ''VideoGame/StarCraftII'' [[spoiler:General Warfield]] pulls a hydralisk spike out of his arm and drops it. It sticks point-first into the ground and sinks in about halfway through. ''[[AbsurdlySharpClaws Into solid rock]]''.

* Averted to humorous effect in ''VideoGame/Goldeneye1997''. Throwing knives never stick in any enemies, but rather comically bounce off of their body and leave a little red spot where they landed.

* Zig-Zagged in ''Videogame/HotlineMiami'', where tossing bladed weapons has a higher chance of knocking enemies out rather than killing them. Of course, if you have the Jake mask equipped, tossing stuff at enemies always results in a kill no matter what.
* Averted in ''Videogame/DragonAgeInquisition''. If you let Sera [[spoiler:kill Pel Harmond]] during her personal quest, she will draw a knife and throw it, only for the hilt to bonk the noble. After chastising Sera, she simply beats him to death.

* In VideoGame/FireEmblemAwakening whenever Chrom is defeated his sword is sent flying away and eventually lands in the ground embedding itself tip first. This happens regardless of what sword Chrom is using.

* In ''Fanfic/LiveAHero'', Izuku was raised as a {{Tykebomb}} by the League of Villains to be able to do this with any kind of knife. Even when he's actively trying not to hurt others, he can still easily sink a knife into a concrete wall blade-first with a flick of his wrist in the middle of a fight against Iida, who has SuperSpeed.

* Happens ''constantly'' in ''Manga/InuYasha'', where even a staff and a boomerang are capable of pulling off this feat. This is especially ridiculous when you remember Tessaiga will shrink from a {{BFS}} to a normal katana when it leaves the titular character's hand, which should leave it sitting in a crater, which should in turn destabilize it enough for it to fall over.

* In ''Roleplay/RecordOfLodossWar'', all weapons land on the pointy end. Always! It happens about two or three times each episode.

* Played straight and inverted in VideoGame/BatmanArkhamKnight. In the battle with Professor Pyg, Pyg throws butcher's knives at you, and you have the ability to counter them and throw one back at him. When Pyg tosses knives, the blades strike Batman. When Batman flings them back, the handle will bonk Pyg in the face instead. As he has a ThouShaltNotKill policy, this is intentional.

* Played slightly straight and slightly subverted in ''Literature/TheHungerGames''. While demonstrating her knife-throwing ability, Katniss impressively lodges a knife in a wall, but by accident. She even notes that it got stuck in a seem in the paneling, making it appear to have penetrated deeper than it actually did and that she'd be unable to make such a throw again. Later on, a girl in the Games with knife-throwing as her primary skill chucks several at Katniss. One of them actually hits her blade first in the head but does not have super-skull-piercing velocity, only giving her a nasty cut.

* Defied in ''ComicStrip/ModestyBlaise'': Willie Garvin's WeaponOfChoice is throwing knives, but he can hit his targets with the blade or pommel at will. He usually uses the pommel, since he is just that good and prefers not to kill people.

* In ''VideoGame/CallOfDuty: VideoGame/ModernWarfare 2'', the throwing knife is like this, no matter what it hits. It's also an instant kill. ''VideoGame/CallOfDutyBlackOps'' takes it further by replacing the throwing knife with a throwing ''tomahawk'', which has even less blade area.