Basic Trope: Using a blade as a brake or anchor to stop one's movements.
- Straight: Bob stabs his sword into the ground to avoid being blown away.
- Exaggerated: Bob saves himself by stabbing into a wall after having reentered the planet's atmosphere.
- Downplayed: Bob is able to stab his sword into the ground to slow, but not outright stop, his movement.
- Justified: Bob's sword has magnetic properties, thus allowing him to be anchored if stabbing into metal.
- Inverted: Bob's Super-Speed is activated by him stabbing into something, most commonly the ground or a wall.
- Subverted: Bob's sword barely does anything to slow him down, just cleaving through in the process.
- Double Subverted: ...Until he hits a sturdier area, his blade and himself stopping because of it.
- Parodied: Bob manages to stop his fall- By stabbing into the clouds.
- Zig Zagged: Bob stabs his sword into the roof to avoid being blown away, but succeeds in only slowing himself down. Just as he gets blown off however, he stabs out at the wall which successfully stops him... Until the crack spiderwebs, leaving him cleaving downward until he thinks a sturdier part. Even then...
- Averted: Bob's sword fails to anchor him, either because it couldn't break through in the first place or the sharpness is too much to serve as an anchor.
- Enforced: "We need to show Bob's a Badass in the first episode. Hey, let's have him use his sword to resist being blown away by the villain!"
- Lampshaded: "How is your sword actually helping you? Either it should have broken or be too sharp to hold you so..."
- Invoked: Bob is offered a reward for helping God. Bob, having wanted to perform the blade brake, asks for selectively projected durability so the sword wouldn't break in the process.
- Exploited: Drake uses his Telekinesis to pull out Bob's sword, leaving him careening to his death.
- Defied: Bob, trying to clear up his reputation, refuses to use his sword as a brake to avoid causing excessive damage.
- Discussed: ???
- Conversed: ???
- Implied: Bob, a famous superhero swordsman, is known to safely land somehow. Though, lacking anything like flight or teleportation, people aren't certain how he does it.
- Deconstructed: Bob goes through numerous swords, weakening and breaking them as a result of blade brake. In addition, he becomes infamous for always causing property damage. Thus, Bob ultimately has financial problems because of constantly replacing his swords and having to repay people for the damages.
- Reconstructed: The blade brake a major tactic for Bob, he searches for either a sword or the means to make a sword that'll survive his usage of the technique. Ultimately acquiring his dream sword, the property damage he leaves in his wake is dramatically lessened to easily sealed or avoided blade holes.
- Played For Laughs: Bob stops his fall using Drake's lair right before Drake activates his Agony Beam. When Bob lands, Drake instantly changes into a lawyer costume, puts on glasses, and sues Bob for property damage.
- Played For Drama: Bob, though successfully stopping his fall, is left high up too out of reach to safely land anywhere. Unable to hang on forever, Bob desperately hopes for someone to rescue him.
Back to Blade Brake. There's a cliff on the way there, so remember to stop with your sword while you fall!
