Thor has his hammer
Cap has his shield
Green Lantern has his ring
Tim Drake has his staff
Dick Grayson has his escrima sticks
But why does no comics character have a really noteworthy sword they're associated with?
The closest is probably Magik and she's strictly C-List
Katana
Black Knight
Katana.
Katana's in one movie and now she's a big name?
Did she even do anything? I haven't seen SS and all the praise I heard was for Harley, Diablo and Deadshot
Silver Samurai, Ronin, Ra's al Ghul, Wonder Woman, Deathstroke, Deadpool, and Task Master
Katana has been in three TV series and a Movie.
Leonardo of the TMNT.
>Katana
>Sword
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Yes user, a katana is a sword. Thank you for reiterating what everyone else has said. I'm sure that we can count on you in the future if we need other obvious things to be stated.
Hellboy.
Unless you are talking about the complete garbage that are the serialized capecomics.
>100% of the things listed are blunt weapons.
>most heroes have an affinity for not killing.
>most attacks made by a sword can mortally wound an opponent.
Gee, I dunno.
Tim Drake and Dick Grayson are not C List?
And tellingly, the sword OP mentions is traditionally non-lethal to non-magical beings
Blade
Shining Knight comes to mind. Either version.
Also if you want to go beyond DC/Marvel cape comics there are countless examples.
Black Knight's whole thing was having a legendary sword.
He-Man and Lion O's magic swords:
The Sword of Power.
The Sword of Omens.
They're trying their hardest to make Wonder Woman's iconic weapon a sword
I will never yield to this propaganda.
Not originally a comics character I guess, but there have been Elric comics since the '70s.
Not entirely comics, but Stormbringer.
uuhhhh, fucking Deadpool!?!
Deadpool. He's pretty A-list now.
that's a nodachi you fagboy
>Wonder Woman
Honestly her lasso and bracelets are the more defining weapons of her. Heck her jet is more memorable than her using a sword.
Conan
Shatterstar
Drift uses swords.
Because sword's kill people and there's this meme where superheroes don't kill.
Azrael;-;
Dick Grayson has been A list for years, Tim is B list.
Why are you sad user? You know they brought him back correct? He kickstarts the new run of Detective Comics.
ever since they started to play up the greek thing they've been trying to turn her into female Leonidas so she dons a kopis and hoplon and sometimes a spear.
(not really a complaint, "ancient warrior" is cooler/easier to work with than BDSM princess)
my question is, if there's a Greek based Diana, is there a Roman based hero or villain? an Egyptian? Semitic-Phoenician? Mesopotamic-Persian?
His examples were, but OP didn't specify capeshit.
>comics character
What is CONAN the barbarian, even the genre is Sword and sorcery.
No one in this thread have named him, shame on you Sup Forums, you are just a Sup Forums board at this point
Look at the examples in the OP. It's pretty categorically blunt weapons. You're able to feature fight scenes with people trading nonlethal hits more believably than two people waving swords at each other for several pages and fail to dismember or grievously injure the other party.
His new design is actually pretty GOAT, but he's been in a hospital bed for months with no mention of why the fuck he's in Gotham.Also the fact he goes though swords like Batman does cars.
that's only because comic creators are literally the most uncultured people on the planet on average and couldn't portray fencing moves accurately if they were hired to draw a fucking manual for it.
That's interesting, user.
I never thought about it and yet it's completely true.
The most famous and iconic - by far - weapon in Western thought has always been the sword, and yet we have two of the Marvel big three wielding the alternatives - a shield and a war hammer (we're missing spears, but a spear would be a weird primary weapon for a superhero).
Wonder Woman technically has a sword but it's not as important or essential.
Huh. You'd think more modern mythical heroes would use the standard weapon of actual mythical heroes.
You asked for comic characters with swords not a-listers featured in films.
>Did she even do anything
She got mah back
swords are tools of bourgoisie oppression.
Not to derail the thread but out of curiosity, who would win in an eskrima match between Nightwing, Mockingbird, Mako Mori, and Black Widow?
sword are offensive and superheroes are defensive
None of those are cutting weapons.
Blades are more associated with lethality, which comic book heroes tend to shy away from.
Can't really slash or stab under comics code
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Nightwing. No contest at all.
>superheroes are defensive
No, man. The distinction is that villains act, heroes react (or proactive vs. reactive).
Superheroes are offensive as fuck, unless you're watching 90s Spider-Man.
Conan doesn't originate in comics.
Barbarians or mythological based characters are in their majority sword wielders.
you're right, I was leaning into Cap and his symbolism with the shield.
skaar
NINJAK
deathstroke
deadpool
wonderwoman
snake eyes
taskmaster
Ahm, hmm.. Wolverine??
this is true, Wolverine has 6 swords
I love the capitalization of NINJAK
Ever read Camelot 3000?
Hellboy uses a sword about as often as Batman uses a 2x4
>The distinction is that villains act, heroes react
Is that always strictly true, though? Though Superman acts as a reaction to natural disasters and the like, Lex Luthor (at least in more modern comics) often reacts to Superman's presence specifically.
Is a shame neither of them uses their sword to actually hurt their opponents, just cut some rope to drop something else on the bad guys, or free the abducted damsel in distress in turn.
Except when the opponent is a robot or something non-alive, but I'm not sure if that counts.
>sword
It's not even that and it looks pretty boffer to me.
For Lion O, probabaly you are right. But He-Man uses his sword in comics. A lot.
There is also his Muramasa blade no?
>thor
>not a fan of killing
>the only hero that has a sword is japshit for weebs
Comics are so fucking dumb.
Captain Marvel has a sword.
a similar reason why fewer heroes use guns, and why the most famous bow-wielders are known for using trick arrows.
the most popular cape characters are the ones that were popular in the 70s or earlier, when violence in comics was a bigger deal than it is today. blood guts and death were a touchy subject. they still happened sometimes, and there's definitely exceptions (wolverine) but the dominant philosophy was "heroes are good, good guys don't hurt people"
the 80s and 90s were the rebound of this philosophy and now things are evening out, but brand new characters don't sell as well as the originals and most of the originals were created in a time when heroes didn't draw blood.
>not one mention of Zauriel yet
The fuck's wrong with these heathens?
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It's the rule of too easy OP, same reason we only have like 3-4 actually popular characters who regularly use guns, despite guns being the most practical modern weapon. But we see guns and swords all of the time, we see them in movies and TV and read about them in history books, we're aware of guns and swords. But comic books are weird, so they're a great place for odd fighting ideas to take hold. A guy who fights exclusively using old phonebooks and is successful with it is way more interesting than sword guy #2355387. How does he effectively wield the phonebooks in combat? Why them exclusively? Swords and guns already have these answers, what they don't have is intrigue
>Lex Luthor (at least in more modern comics) often reacts to Superman's presence specifically.
i think that's a matter of semantics, reacting to someone's mere existence doesn't really count. Lex does something to hurt Superman (physically or otherwise), Superman reacts to the attempt. It's usually the villain who goes "looking for trouble" first.
Conan. While technically not a comic character he has pretty much become one since the 70s even if one of the big two don't own him anymore.
Well, that bit of explicit loop holing aside, most heroes have an aversion to even lethally harming their opponent, magical or not.
>A guy who fights exclusively using old phonebooks and is successful with it is way more interesting than sword guy #2355387.
someone needs to draw this ASAP
i would argue guns are also boring to watch in action/a medium like comics and it takes a lot of work to make it work
>Zauriel
Who?
>A guy who fights exclusively using old phonebooks and is successful with it is way more interesting than sword guy #2355387.
I can see Badger doing something like that.
Nightwing.
Many characters from japanese comics have swords, you know.
His Name is Bell, and he stalks the former US looking the one who killed his grandfather. But he doesn't have a name all he has are... the numbers.
Angel. B-lister. Supposedly the "Ambassador of Heaven", but he didn't really do his job much. Bit stuck up. Has done jack shit besides guard stuff in the New 52, so it's not surprising that you might not have heard of him.
its honestly disgusting that this board doesnt seem to know anything about comics outside of marvel and DC, so thought id really hammer home vertigo's poster boy
Morrison wanted Hawkman on his JLA but couldn't get him so he created this guy to take his place
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The last thing I heard, she was a new marvel (?) character. Funny thing: she's french. Wonder why?
>Leonardo
>not using his sword
He slices whatever the hell he wants in most comic incarnations. The 2k3 series and 2012 series too, to a lesser extent, too (the 2012 series has a lot of regenerating monsters specifically so that the turtles can slice shit up without upsetting the censors).
And footbots.
Logan also uses katana in some circumstances.
Off the top of my head, Conan and Red Sonja always have a sword, though if you're thinking "named blade", neither counts. And either is just as likely to wield an axe.
Prince Valiant had the Valiant Blade and Clarent. De Rode Ridder had the Red Blade. The Shining Knight had a sword, but not a named blade.
Zorro is older than comics, so I dunno if y'all want to count him.
He-Man isn't specifically a "comics" character, so he doesn't count.
Going deeper, comics started as stories with two-fisted heroes, police detectives, ray gun spacemen, and Wild West gunfighters. Swords are a weapon of nobility, at least as far as the tropes that comics stick to go. Since a LOT of comics and pulp has arguably vague socialist roots, it's just not common or popular.
Holy crap, it's Jim Butcher as a comic book character.
>Muslim
>Female
>Wielding THE Sword of the original Christian king of Britain.
This triggers me. Holy SHIT, 'm actually mad. Should at least be Zulfiqaar since she's Islamic.
'Sup.
zemo uses a sword but i dont know if it has a name or is unique
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>mainstream Angel depiction
Boring. Where are the Angels with four heads and four eye-covered wings and goat feet? Where are the six winged firey angels who use their wings to cover their face and feet? Where are the giant wheels covered in eyes?
Usagi's sword isn't noteworthy. He himself is.
They showed up too, Superman wrestled with them
I'm surprised that the religious people of comic books haven't suffered some break down from so many conflicting religions being true at the same time
This is only because most writers have no concept of how fighting works. Much less fighting with swords and guns. It's not the phonebooks being more interesting. The phonebooks are merely the only thing they know how to write in an interesting way.
Sadly, the way you write interesting fighting would probably be dismissed immediately as weebshit because it's not two immobile bricks blindly firing their OP beams at eachother or whatever ability they have.