Removed the following from /Film:
- Sting is not a sword, "It's more of a letter opener really." And besides, everyone carries a sword, even the wizard carries a sword. The real heroic sword is Aragorn's broken sword that is reforged by the third film.
This scene still qualifies under the second form of the trope (i.e., a character is given a sword to indicate their hero status). Furthermore, while plenty of background humans and elves are seen carrying swords, the only hobbits who do so are members of the Fellowship.
Captain of USS Bajor
TRS page overhaul thread
ordered Archaic Weapon for an Advanced Age to be split from it.
The Dresden Files example, under Literature. I... don't remember Harry ever using a sword. Could someone confirm this one way or another?
On the other hand: The Wardens (who the White Council may see as heroes) all use silver swords (one of which Harry never gets), and the Knights of the Cross (who bloody well are heroes) each have a blessed sword.
PaperMaster
Page was given an overhaul in this thread.
Reworked in this YKTTW archive.
Grin and tonic
I'd say Soul Eater counts as a bit of an inversion (kinda); Maka uses a sythe, and really the most prominent sword-users in the series are Black*Star (and even then, that's only some of the time) Chrona. Inversion?
Ok so i know a long while ago, this page use to just have the averted examples since a good majority of the heroes used swords. Does the averted examples page still exist on this site somewhere? maybe under a different name? because it looked like an awesome list to see how many characters didn't use em and I wanted to try to read thru it again.
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