Basic Trope: Projectiles are deflected with melee weapons.
- Straight: A Mook fires a bullet at The Hero. In response, he blocks it with his sword.
- Exaggerated: Millions upon millions of bullets rain down upon The Ace, who casually swats them away with a feather.
- Downplayed:
- Out of bullets, a mook throws a rock at The Heavy in desperation, and he deflects it with a shield.
- Alice throws a tomato at Bob, but he protects himself with his cane.
- Justified:
- The hero has Super-Reflexes or Combat Clairvoyance.
- The hero's sword is big enough to double as a shield.
- The sword has a strong magnetic field that pulls bullets towards the blade.
- The mooks are firing Painfully Slow Projectiles.
- Alice didn't put a lot of strength into her throw, and Bob had good enough reflexes and accuracy to hit the tomato out of the air.
- Inverted: A redshirt swings his sword at the Big Bad, who proceeds to shoot it off-course.
- Subverted: The hero uses his sword to block the bullet, but it fails and he gets shot despite his efforts.
- Double Subverted: The hero's sword failed to block the bullet. His other sword didn't.
- Parodied:
- The bullets are pinatas and wearing a blindfold increases your chances of hitting them.
- The Hero, being caught in the rain without an umbrella, uses his sword to parry raindrops and remain dry.
- Zig Zagged: The hero's other sword failed too. Good thing he has a third one.
- Averted: Ranged weapon users never get into fights with melee weapon users.
- Enforced:
- "Let's have the protagonist deflect bullets with his sword to show how cool he is!"
- In the Game of the Movie, Blocking Stops All Damage, and bullets are not special in this regard.
- Lampshaded:
- "How the he-Damn you! The bullets are faster than you and you know it!"
- "...So much for never bringing a sword to a gunfight."
- Invoked: The villain spends hours designing a robot fast enough to block gunshots, just for the look on the hero's face when it works.
- Exploited:
- The bullets are filled with acid capsules, and when struck by a blade they open, dissolving the weapon and leaving the hero helpless against another volley.
- The hero doesn't stop at blocking bullets, he moves his blade in such way as to send them back at the mooks.
- Defied: The hero refuses to fight gun wielders with swords, and opts for more suitable weapons.
- Discussed: "What if he starts swatting bullets out of the air like flies?"
- Conversed: ???
- Implied: We see the aftermath of the hero's path, with bloodstains across the hall, mooks and walls cut apart, and a trail of split-in-twain bullets.
- Deconstructed:
- The hero cuts the bullet in two!... and ends up getting hit twice by the same bullet.
- No human being has the Super-Reflexes necessary to reliably parry a bullet - the only way this trope occurs is through incredible luck.
- Reconstructed: The hero cuts the bullet so forcefully that it creates a Razor Wind, safely blowing the halved bullets away from him.
- Played For Drama: The Terror Hero does The Slow Walk towards a group of mooks who empty entire magazines at him and hit nothing but air, and they either piss their pants and beg for mercy or desperately flee.
Smack these things back to Parrying Bullets!
