History Main / WhipSword

* In ''RatchetAndClank: Up Your Arsenal'', one of the weapons is a plasma whip. It's like the lightwhip from StarWars, only ten times more awesome. The [=ChainBlade=] in ''Going Commando'' is an even better example.

* [[VillainousCrossdresser Jakotsu]] in ''InuYasha'' has a sword referred to as the [[EsotericMotifs Kusanagi]] with this capability. It consists of a crescent-bladed sword with about a dozen more crescent-blades linked tip to tip attached to it, allowing him to flick out a chain of cutting edges. Interestingly, it's the only (regularly-used) sword in the show that doesn't have any magical powers or get a magical upgrade.

* ''[[MagicalGirlLyricalNanoha Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha A's]]'' has Signum, whose sword can take the "Schlangenform" (Snake form) to split into segments and be used to form a whirlwind-like effect.

* ''SpiderRiders'''s Prince Lumen has one of these, though he seems to use it more as an extending-length sword than an actual whip.

* Merietta Lixiss, the last member to join your party in ''AtelierIrisEternalMana'' (unless you go to the bonus Dungeon after beating the game to rerecrute Arlin) fights with a Whip Sword that has a strange star shaped point. Also, she can conduct Lightning through it.

* Merietta Lixiss, the last member to join your party in ''AtelierIris'' (unless you go to the bonus Dungeon after beating the game to rerecrute Arlin) fights with a Whip Sword that has a strange star shaped point. Also, she can conduct Lightning through it.

* Merietta Lixiss, the last member to join your party in [Atelier Iris] (unless you go to the bonus Dungeon after beating the game to rerecrute Arlin) fights with a Whip Sword that has a strange star shaped point. Also, she can conduct Lightning through it.

* Shaolin monks have 9-section steel chain whips as part of their arsenal, and often pull off some ''insane'' stunts with them while never actually hurting themselves with it. (Part of the reason for this is that the monks attached a ribbon to the last section, so that they could hear where the whip was at all times) As awesome as it sounds, it doesn't have that much killing potential.

This type of weapon often falls squarely into AwesomeButImpractical, where you'd need a pretty impressive engineering setup to create a mechanism and spring capable of holding the sword in sword-form without violating basic structural integrity ''and'' capable of sending it out as a whip. As of yet, no one's managed to make a working model of such a weapon in RealLife (though the [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chain_whip chain whip]] and the Indian ''[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chuttuval chuttuval]]'' come close in principle), but fiction usually {{Hand wave}}s any structural issues through magic. The closest practical RealLife equivalents, like the [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chain_whip chain whip]] and Indian ''[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urumi Urumi]]'', usually lack the cutting power of a sword or the reach of a whip.

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What's better than a [[WhipItGood whip]] or a [[HeroesPreferSwords sword]]? A WhipSword, of course! They have the flexibility and [[VariableLengthChain implausible reach]] of a whip and the cutting power of a sword, meaning that all sorts of fancy tricks can be done with them while cutting people to pieces.

This type of weapon squarely falls into AwesomeButImpractical. You'd need a pretty impressive engineering setup to create a mechanism and spring capable of holding the sword in sword-form without violating basic structural integrity ''and'' capable of sending it out as a whip. As of yet, no one's managed to make a working model in RealLife (though the [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chain_whip chain whip]] and the Indian ''[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chuttuval chuttuval]]'' come close in principle), but fiction usually {{Hand wave}}s any structural issues through magic. But then again, making a whip sword is only half the battle, since you would need extensive training to actually ''use'' it or else you'd be more likely to hurt yourself than anything you're trying to hit.

* The William Gibson short story ''JohnnyMnemonic'' features a villain who uses a monofilament whip, which is essentially a whip sword, except much more plausible.

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* Savior of the Soul [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Savior_of_the_Soul]] has not a whip sword, but a ''yo-yo'' sword.

* The William Gibson short story ''Johnny Mnemonic'' features a villain who uses a monofilament whip, which is essentially a whip sword, except much more plausible.

* In the older editions of WarhammerFantasy, this was essentially one of the possible powers that could be enchanted into a sword by the touch of [[BlackMagic Chaos]]. It didn't physically change, but the blade could extend and bend like it was a prehensile tongue made of razor-sharp steel.
* The Urumi is available in ''{{GURPS}}'': Martial Arts, sadly it has none of the strengths of a whip and none of the strengths of a sword.

* There is a drow weapon called a lashwhip (redundant, I know) in the D&D 3.5 supplement Arms and Equipment Guide, which is described as a whip with lots of shards of metal and glass protruding from the lash. If a non-drow uses it, it magically attacks them instead of their intended target.

*** Her joke weapon becomes a "Magical Sausage" in Soul Calibur IV.

** Due to the way Soma uses them in "Castlevania: Dawn of Sorrow", the whip swords essentially function as overly-complicated rapiers.

* Every melee weapon type in {{Aion}} has extend-able long-range versions.

* From AModestDestiny, The Crimson Skull's signature weapon, the Chain Sword.