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Devious Daggers

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Devious Daggers	comment	Knives as a primary weapon are rarely used by the most moral, upstanding, honorable types. There is a strong cultural association between knife-wielders and crime or treachery, and as such, those who use short blades as their weapon of choice are usually Combat Pragmatists and/or The Sneaky Guy. This may be due to the properties of a knife: its small size and light weight mean that it doesn't encumber one's movements when sneaking around or fleeing a crime scene. This also allows it to easily be concealed on one's person, both before and after using it to stab someone: the revelation that someone has a knife hidden in their sleeve or boot can make for prime material for a Traitor Shot. However, these properties also make it less effective against a combatant who sees it coming, as its reach is short, and its small size makes it harder to inflict a fatal injury compared to a larger weapon like a sword. Therefore, the types who gravitate towards this weapon will rely on stealth, trickery, and agility to best take advantage of its strength and minimize its weaknesses. Because Poison Is Evil, and knife-users aren't exactly nice guys, knives are a common choice for Poisoned Weapons. This can also help with the aforementioned difficulty dealing fatal damage: if the victim doesn't die from the stab, the toxin will finish the job. Ironically, this would be much less effective in real life than it is in fiction: as you know, being stabbed makes you bleed a lot, which makes it likely that the poison would just get washed away by all the gushing blood. Daggers, in particular, are a popular choice for guile characters due to their long history of being used to carry out assassinations, which gives them the reputation of being a "dishonorable" weapon. The dagger's narrow blade and acute point are specifically designed for piercing vital organs and give them few utilitarian purposes like an ordinary knife does also lends to this reputation; a character packing a dagger or stiletto isn't likely to be using it mainly to cook, hunt, or defend themselves. The expression "cloak and dagger" refers to secretive and underhanded activity. This comes from both In the Hood and the association of daggers with being easily concealed weapons that might come in handy during a sudden betrayal. Despite this, such characters are not inherently evil or antagonistic. A Lovable Rogue on the heroes' side can use a knife to represent the "rogue" side of the trope without diminishing the "lovable" aspect. That said, they will usually be an Anti-Hero at the nicest, since sneakiness and pragmatism are not the traits of an Ideal Hero. In fiction, knife-wielders will often be thieves, assassins, spies, or Ninjas. In gaming, their playstyle will commonly be that of a Fragile Speedster, Stealth Expert, and/or Critical Hit Class and are usually better able to use the Back Stab mechanic to deal extra damage (the ability to Back Stab may even be exclusive to knife users). When a knife-wielder surprises someone with their blade, the result will often be an Instant Death Stab; in some cases, the victim won't even be able to scream before dropping dead, allowing The Sneaky Guy to stealthily take out an entire room of enemies one by one without any of them being aware of the slaughter until it's too late. While the term "dagger" specifically refers to double-edged knives, note especially if they have a sword-like "hidden tang" grip construction instead of the knife-style "full-profile tang" single-edged knives can also carry the same sneaky connotations. The trope name uses "dagger" because we like the Alliterative Name, not to restrict which knife-wielders fit the trope. See also Retractable Weapon and Hidden Weapons for particular properties of certain knives that help them be concealable. The Sinister Switchblade is a sister trope more commonly used outside of period/fantasy settings, and usually implies a lot of the same things about the character wielding it. These type characters are often Blade Enthusiasts. For psychotic or unhinged characters who wield knives, see Psycho Knife Nut.
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Devious Daggers / int_13349140	comment	Sonic the Hedgehog (IDW): Mimic is a deceptive shapeshifter who betrayed his former team, the Diamond Cutters. While his skill with them is never shown, he does wield knives in the first issue of the Tangle & Whisper mini-series.
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Devious Daggers / int_143611d3	comment	The Questport Chronicles: The Professional Killer Ato smuggles knives into the Questport Temple, where weapons of any kind are absolutely forbidden.
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Devious Daggers / int_1449a8e8	comment	Dirty Harry, a Cowboy Cop Anti-Hero, tapes a switchblade to his leg as a hidden backup weapon before going to a hostage exchange (where he will most certainly be forced to discard his firearm), prompting Da Chief to express his disgust that an officer of the law would know how to use such a weapon.
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Devious Daggers / int_155c7e93	comment	Maplestory: Daggers are the weapon of choice of the Bandit subclass of Rogues.
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Devious Daggers / int_168c4727	comment	Guild Wars 2 features two classes that can dual-wield knives: elementalists and thieves. However, only thieves make actual use of the knives themselves. Aside from a super-fast attack rate, Dagger Thieves can throw daggers to damage and cripple a target, leap at an enemy with a quick strike, stack copious amounts of bleeding on enemy groups, and even turn invisible — which sets up a devastating Backstab move for at least double damage. Heck, even their normal auto-attacks will poison enemies continuously. Thieves can also use daggers in their offhand with a sword and can dual-wield a dagger/pistol combo in either hand for different results. A favorite trick among players is to use the pistol skill Black Powder Shot and leap through the cloud with the dagger skill Heartseeker. This renders the player instantly invisible and sets up a backstab. Suffice it to say, knives are at the heart of any good thief's offense.
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Devious Daggers / int_18331b58	comment	Goyokin. Rokugo carries throwing darts in a leather pouch, and kills a fleeing and unarmed bride with a dart In the Back. This contrasts him with the Honor Before Reason Magobei, and during their final duel he uses the darts to wound Magobei to negate his advantage.
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Devious Daggers / int_187d5708	comment	Devil May Cry 2: Lucia uses throwing knives instead of guns like most of the playable characters in the games. At one point she tries to kill the main villain by disguising herself as one of her fellow artificial demons in order to get to him. Unfortunately, he sees through the disguise.
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Devious Daggers / int_187d570a	comment	Devil May Cry 4: The character Gloria is shown using curved daggers in battle against demons. She appears to be working for the villainous Order of the Sword but is revealed to be Trish, Dante's heroic ally who is spying on the villains.
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Devious Daggers / int_18b424d6	comment	Tales of Legendia has Jay, an information broker who uses knives and used to be an assassin.
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Devious Daggers / int_1aacbbc9	comment	In Dragon Age the melee weapon option for the Rogue class are sets of paired daggers that they use for rapid striking and back stabs. Even Rogues with bows will lash out at enemies who get too close with a small knife that is otherwise not listed in their inventory or shown on their person.
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Devious Daggers / int_1c1ceec7	comment	In Monster Hunter, one of the fourteen weapon types is a pair of large knives known as Dual Blades. These are the fastest attacking of all weapon types, but trade it for the lowest damage per hit of any weapon. Thanks to the series' love of designing comically oversized weapons these "knives" tend to be at least the size of real world longswords.
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Devious Daggers / int_1cc8e29f	comment	Hunters in Destiny (and its sequel) act as the stealth experts and rogue class stand-in among the Guardian player characters. Almost every Hunter subclass uses a distinctive knife as a fallback melee weapon when one's close-range attack isn't charged. The only exception to this is the second game's Arcstrider, which uses a charged fist instead; conversely, Gunslinger Hunters can lean into their knife expertise with the Blade Barrage super attack and the throwing knife melee abilities.
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Devious Daggers / int_2372359	comment	The Belgariad: Silk is a Lovable Rogue, a Living Legend in the Drasnian Intelligence Agency, and an expert knife fighter. He keeps a bewildering number of daggers secreted on his person at all times.
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Devious Daggers / int_2990bf98	comment	In Dicey Dungeons, the Thief is shown carrying twin daggers; his standard equipment only starts him with one, but it's endlessly reusable.
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Devious Daggers / int_2a04866b	comment	The Assassin class from Guild Wars. Even though the dagger is the lowest-damage weapon in the game, Assassins use them to great effect, often drawing out huge amounts of bonus damage from their skills. They also have a few skills that allow them to throw knives for different effects.
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Devious Daggers / int_2d644371	comment	Tales Series: Suzu from Tales of Phantasia is a ninja whose weapon is either a very long dagger, or a very short sword. In her Tales Of The Rays awakened portrait she also holds several kunai. Tales of Legendia has Jay, an information broker who uses knives and used to be an assassin. Tales of Zestiria has Rose, an upbeat and plucky merchant girl, armed with knives since her mercantile activities are a cover for being the boss of a assassin's guild.
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Devious Daggers / int_2ffcbd43	comment	Fire Emblem: Thief/Assassin/Rogue characters. In the early games, these are just swords animated as knives (particularly cool for the assassins). In Fire Emblem: Path of Radiance, knives became their own weapon type, which thieving characters use exclusively and Sages can also use (though they have to forgo staves to do so), although this latter feature is no longer in effect in Fire Emblem: Radiant Dawn. Knives return in Fire Emblem Fates as the weapon of choice of Ninjas, their promotions (Master Ninja and Mechanist), Dread Fighters, and oddly enough, Maids and Butlers. In Fire Emblem Heroes, Theives from games without daggers, such as Yuri from Fire Emblem: Three Houses become dagger uses.
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Devious Daggers / int_3501cc23	comment	Gentleman Bastard: Locke Lamora, the eponymous Guile Hero and career criminal, keeps stilettos hidden in his sleeves and shoes. However, he's not much good with them; a Combat Pragmatist in a pinch, he much prefers to leave his stouter friend Jean in charge of the violence.
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Devious Daggers / int_37a71462	comment	The Les MisÃ©rables example above also appears in the musical adaptation.
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Devious Daggers / int_38304f1d	comment	Shir Gold of Phantasy Star II, being the resident thief of the party, can only equip knives and daggers. Sadly, what should have been her best weapon, the Laconia Dagger, has absolutely terrible stats, forcing her to equip Laser Knives instead (or just put on two emels and go full mage instead).
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Devious Daggers / int_3bdff8e5	comment	In The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past (2005), the treacherous, conniving Agahnim rarely has to rely on anything more than his magic, but he does resort to using a dagger against Link's uncle and Link himself.
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Devious Daggers / int_3c673da2	comment	The very title of Blades in the Dark invokes the imagery of being mugged at knife point during the night (also, "blade" was originally the in-universe term for violent criminals in general and for Player Characters in particular, but it was phased out in favor of "scoundrel" everywhere but in the title during development). Even the cover of the rulebook depicts a hoodlum threatening the viewer with a pair of daggers. Lastly, all Scoundrels' equipment options include the deliberately vaguely-defined "A blade or two" as the default close-quarters weapon.
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Devious Daggers / int_3e374b30	comment	The Dark Knight Rises: Invoked in a speech by Talia al-Ghul when she stabs Bruce upon revealing her treachery to him.
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Devious Daggers / int_4462f9dd	comment	Marionetta: Julia uses knives and is seen killing her boss, Tonny, at the start of the first episode. Downplayed, as while she is willing to do some horrific things to further her goals, she does have standards. Played straight with Sahed, who uses a dagger to kill Kamille and a knife to slit Julia's throat to prove a point.
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Devious Daggers / int_44ad56d6	comment	100 Cupboards has Monmouth, a Magic Rogue type who seems to have a knife or two on him at all times. He's cheerful, friendly and firmly on the side of the protagonists, but has no qualms about stabbing enemies In the Back, distracting them first, or attempting to choke a man to death bare-handed when all else fails.
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Devious Daggers / int_46823c49	comment	Moriarty the Patriot: Louis is most associated with knives as the character most often using them and he rarely switches to other weapons when he has a choice. He's also by far the most pragmatic of the Criminal Found Family Moriarty crew, and they conceal the same way his brother William's Sword Cane does.
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Devious Daggers / int_49a88442	comment	In Final Fantasy XIV, the Rogues' Guild exclusively use their stabbers to mill those who have broken the Pirate's Code. Due to their propensity for staying in the shadows and ambushing unwary marks, swords, axes, and heavy armor are far too conspicuous and unwieldy for their work. Hence their preference for easily concealed knives, daggers, and short swords that can be used within a densely packed crowd and tucked out of sight when the job is done. Doman and Hingan Ninja also prefer knives for the same reasons.
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Devious Daggers / int_49ad83ee	comment	The Rogue class from World of Warcraft is represented by Valeera Sanguinar, who dual-wields fel-powered daggers and can infinitely summon them each turn (for 2 mana) for her heroic power. She can also equip various dagger-like weapons if they're in her deck and many of her spells are based on how one uses a knife, as many of them depict someone putting a knife in someone else (Eviscerate and Shiv are such examples). There's also Fan of Knives, where she throws a lot of knives at any enemy minion on the board.
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Devious Daggers / int_4a1549c1	comment	On The Edge: The Torture episode Torture Sommelier vs Dagger-weilding Yakuza [sic] stars the titular Kagawa, who is proficient in the use of a dagger. He raped and killed the client's daughter Satsuki for trying to escape him.
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Devious Daggers / int_4c41602c	comment	Kingdom Adventure: Considering that he's actually named "Dagger", it's not surprising that (a) a dagger is indeed his weapon of choice, and (b) he works as an infiltrator, messenger, and spy for Zordock. He doesn't often fight or kill, but he does pull a knife when he needs to.
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Devious Daggers / int_53684a3f	comment	In Thief: Deadly Shadows, the sneaking, thieving protagonist Garrett has ditched the shortsword he used in the previous two games in favour of a dagger.
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Devious Daggers / int_53fdef82	comment	Snow White with the Red Hair: Obi is a former assassin for hire turned knight who never trains with a sword, bow or spear like the usual knights and keeps his throwing knives and dagger as the weapons he uses. He also keeps his ties to the underworld and sneaks around to gather information and creep up on unsuspecting targets rather than fight "honorably" as expected of a knight.
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Devious Daggers / int_569093cc	comment	DuckTales: The recurring character Gabby McStabberson, as her name would suggest, uses various blades including knives, daggers, and swords as her weapons of choice. She is also an assassin and mercenary, and is first introduced working for Glomgold.
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Devious Daggers / int_58b600de	comment	World of the Five Gods: Master Bosha, Lady Xarre's albino bodyguard and assassin, carries multiple poisoned daggers.
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Devious Daggers / int_58cf4968	comment	Suzu from Tales of Phantasia is a ninja whose weapon is either a very long dagger, or a very short sword. In her Tales Of The Rays awakened portrait she also holds several kunai.
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Devious Daggers / int_5908ee91	comment	Skyrim: The main advantage of daggers and knives as weapons is the 15x damage bonus that they gain from undetected sneak attacks and the Assassin's Blade perk — more than any other weapon type. This can be doubled to 30x with the Shrouded Gloves, which doubles backstab damage for one-handed weapons. Riften's crest is a pair of crossed daggers which is in reference to their previous Jarl, Hosgunn Cross-Daggers. Hosgunn was believed to have assassinated the previous jarl and took the title despite public outcry and he was known as a cruel and corrupt man who hoarded taxes for his own benefit and executed anyone for breaking the rules (even for something as minor as breaking curfew). After a 31-year reign, the people of Riften rebelled and executed Hosgunn by burning his palace down while he was trapped inside. Riften is seen as a corrupt place that is home to the Thieves Guild and run by Maven Black-Briar.
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Devious Daggers / int_59151283	comment	Metal Gear: Later games in the series has Solid Snake or Big Boss carrying a knife for their stealth-based missions. Slashing someone to death is a lot less likely to bring in curious enemy soldiers than firing an assault rifle.
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Devious Daggers / int_5921531c	comment	Joker from Persona 5 uses knives as his weapon of choice. A fitting weapon for a sneaky Phantom Thief. This is in contrast to most Persona protagonists, who generally prefer swords. It's implied this started due to rumors Kamoshida spread about him when starting at Shujin, one of which was that he carried a concealed knife on him. Once he awakened to his Persona, the students' cognition of him resulted in that becoming his default weapon.
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Devious Daggers / int_5bfa9c98	comment	Warframe All Warframes are equipped with a Parazon, which is basically a cross between a rope-dagger and a USB connector (like RoboCop's terminal strip). While it can be used to simply stab enemies in a Finishing Move, it's more importantly how the Tenno interface with enemy computers. This lets them disable security systems, steal enemy data during Spy missions, cause catastrophic malfunctions during Sabotage that destroy entire outposts, and so on, turning a simple blade into a weapon of underhanded virtual warfare. Daggers can be outfitted with the Covert Lethality mod that increases the damage dealt by finishers (which include sneak attacks). Kullervo is a dagger-based Warframe, but in an interesting twist, these blades represent less that he's treacherous, and more that he was betrayed himself: he's a Human Pincushion of knives, with the blades being part of his punishment during his imprisonment in Duviri. The Red Veil —a syndicate of ruthless assassins and revolutionaries— provides a few stealth-oriented weapons, including the Rakta Dark Dagger which temporarily makes its wielder harder to spot by enemies every time it's pulled out.
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Devious Daggers / int_5d020c4a	comment	Valeera herself, while not appearing much in the main game, has always been fighting using knives during her comic debut. But when she does appear in Heroes of the Storm, she's carrying her pair of trusty Fel Daggers and comes complete with sneaky underhanded rogue repertoires from stealth, backstabbing and disabling her opponents.
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Devious Daggers / int_5d4da196	comment	Spider-Man: The Green Goblin, despite being bombastic and hammy, is presented as a cunning, dextrous fighter who likes to use sharp weapons, including his Razor Bats and his spiked glider. An alternate version of him shown in Spider-Man: No Way Home is seen wielding a Blade Below the Shoulder.
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Devious Daggers / int_5db577ba	comment	The Dark Knight: The Joker is a cunning schemer and master of mind games. He frequently carries a knife and even has one hidden in his shoe.
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Devious Daggers / int_618bcaf2	comment	For the King: Among NPCs, knives are used by thieves and scamps — Fragile Speedsters whose Signature Move is to try to cut the PC's purse and flee combat. Their attacks aren't powerful but can be Armor Piercing.
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Devious Daggers / int_62f94c6	comment	The Dark Knight Trilogy: The Dark Knight: The Joker is a cunning schemer and master of mind games. He frequently carries a knife and even has one hidden in his shoe. The Dark Knight Rises: Invoked in a speech by Talia al-Ghul when she stabs Bruce upon revealing her treachery to him.
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Devious Daggers / int_69d15cc0	comment	Marvel Cinematic Universe: Loki is a mischievous shapeshifting Trickster God who often uses knives and daggers as his primary weapons, being stated in Loki that he literally backstabbed people fifty times.
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Devious Daggers / int_6ac55ec7	comment	Dungeons & Dragons: The sneaky Thief/Rogue class is always able to use daggers in some respect (and they are always one of the weapons that can be used for their signature Sneak Attack ability). In addition, while the mechanics vary from edition to edition, daggers are easier to conceal and can be thrown as ranged weapons without any penalty. The Knife Master archetype specializes in dealing additional (sneak attack) damage with daggers and other light blades, as well as receiving less damage from other light blade users.
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Devious Daggers / int_6b85085e	comment	Mortal Kombat: Kano is an unscrupulous, knife-wielding mercenary who will take any job as long as it pays. He's worked with those who seek to conquer his home realm simply for profit and his backstory in Mortal Kombat 9 has him posing as an informant for the Special Forces before betraying them. Kano's fellow Black Dragon member Kira also uses knives. And like Kano, she is also a sly, deceptive person. Her backstory has her selling weapons in Afghanistan while disguised as a man and her Mortal Kombat: Deception ending has her using superior tactics to defeat Kobra.
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Devious Daggers / int_6d10ab0b	comment	Kano is an unscrupulous, knife-wielding mercenary who will take any job as long as it pays. He's worked with those who seek to conquer his home realm simply for profit and his backstory in Mortal Kombat 9 has him posing as an informant for the Special Forces before betraying them.
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Devious Daggers / int_6de33ac8	comment	Dead by Daylight has a few knife-wielding Killers. They all fall under the Psycho Knife Nut trope, but some also overlap with this one due to their sneakiness. Michael Myers, wielding his iconic kitchen knife, has no Terror Radius when his Evil Within level is at 1, letting him stalk victims around in the early game. The Pig wields a Hidden Blade as her weapon. She can also crouch to disable her Terror Radius, making her undetectable until she launches her Ambush Dash at a victim, stabbing them with increased range and speed. The Ghost Face specializes in stalking targets, being able to knock his prey down with one hit from his tactical knife if he can observe them undetected for long enough.
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Devious Daggers / int_6ecaff2e	comment	Scribblenauts: Assassin characters always spawn holding knives, and are distinguished from other character classes by the fact that they're hostile and will attack even other assassins, yet will run away from police.
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Devious Daggers / int_6ed7a5ec	comment	Game of Thrones universe: Game of Thrones: Like in the books, the Boltons suffer from (or rather, enjoy) Chronic Backstabbing Disorder. They are associated with knives thanks to their house's tradition of Flaying Alive, not to mention Ramsay's affinity for it. His father Roose stabs Robb Stark at the Red Wedding and takes over Winterfell and the North... until Ramsay stabs HIM. In a slight change from source material, Tyene, not Nymeria, is the Snake Sand who prefers knives. In a fight, she slashes Bronn with a poisoned dagger, flashes her breasts at him to raise his heartbeat and accelerate the poison's effect, and gives him the antidote only when he agrees to proclaim her the most beautiful woman he's seen. Arya Stark first learns to wield a Royal Rapier, but when House Stark is ruined and she enters training as an assassin, she becomes a skilled knife fighter. She uses daggers both to execute covert attacks and to outmanoeuvre more powerful opponents, best demonstrated when she kills the Night King with a bit of fancy knifework. House of the Dragon: Aemond Targaryen carries a dagger in Season 1's finale when visiting Lord Borros Baratheon for an Altar Diplomacy offer. Being mad for revenge for the loss of his eye in his childhood, he draws it against Lucerys Velaryon and threatens to use it to cut one of Lucerys' eyes. Lord Borros wants none of it in his throne room and prevents him from going further.
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Devious Daggers / int_6fe277bc	comment	In Divinity: Original Sin and Original Sin II, the Scoundrel skill line focuses on sneakiness, dirty fighting, and inflicting harmful Status Effects with weapon strikes. Many of its skills require an equipped dagger (or two, for extra credit).
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Devious Daggers / int_6fe3e8a7	comment	Neopets: Members of the Thieves Guild wear dark clothes and cloaks, sneak around to steal treasures, and are often shown carrying bladed weapons — especially during the obelisk skirmish battles, in which each member carries at least one of them for each fight.
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Devious Daggers / int_7745cffb	comment	Gildhe from Heralds Of Rhimn fights with twin blades, Bark & Bite, characterizing them as a Loveable Rogue in contrast to Crislieâ€™s battle-ax brutality. At one point they point out that at least theyâ€™re honest about the fact that their daggers are stolen, whereas she keeps insisting that she won Ember as â€œa prize of battle.â€�
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Devious Daggers / int_79ab0b3c	comment	In the Tortall Universe, George prefers knives for their ease of concealment, and his daughter Aly inherits the trait for her spy work. She hides at least six on her person whenever possible and makes use of them for surprise attacks and sneaky kills. Their ancestor Beka Cooper preferred her police baton but also hid a few knives on her person just in case, even commissioning flat-hilted ones to blend in perfectly beneath her sleeves.
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Devious Daggers / int_7b039953	comment	In Avatar, Col. Miles Quaritch has an appropiately-sized combat knife in a quick draw position on his AMP Suit, which, in-universe, is an optional feature.
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Devious Daggers / int_8426674b	comment	Conan the Destroyer: Malak, Conan's thief sidekick and lancer is skilled with knives, able to both throw them accurately and cleanly slit a man's throat from behind. It's a subversion of the trope because his cowardice is played for laughs and his willingness to literally backstab people is due to Combat Pragmatism, not treachery.
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Devious Daggers / int_8e00d6e6	comment	Swashbuckler: Cudjo is a knifethrowing rogue who helps the main character stage a revolution against the Big Bad Governor Durant.
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Devious Daggers / int_8ee238c9	comment	Persona: The Ninja-themed Yosuke Hanamura from Persona 4 uses Dual Wielded knives as his weapon. Joker from Persona 5 uses knives as his weapon of choice. A fitting weapon for a sneaky Phantom Thief. This is in contrast to most Persona protagonists, who generally prefer swords. It's implied this started due to rumors Kamoshida spread about him when starting at Shujin, one of which was that he carried a concealed knife on him. Once he awakened to his Persona, the students' cognition of him resulted in that becoming his default weapon.
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Devious Daggers / int_8ee7338a	comment	Royal Blue: Inverted, Acantha, the only character that uses daggers, is strictly heroic.
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Devious Daggers / int_9068877a	comment	Red vs. Blue: Phase is a knife-wielding villain who uses teleportation to attack from unexpected angles.
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Devious Daggers / int_95c22ad4	comment	In AFK Arena, Oscar is an assassin disguised as a butler, whose signature weapon is a set of table knives. His codename, "The Mannered Knife", was given to him because as opposed to the roguish, brutal methods of his fellow assassins, he used them to make such a clean job of it while never dropping his sophisticated demeanor that it takes several hours for anyone to even notice that his victims are dead. His official artwork has him holding up a tea plate in one hand and his knives fanned out behind his back in the other.
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Devious Daggers / int_95d534e1	comment	The Dragon Prince: Rayla, a trained assassin, has two large knives loosely based on real butterfly knives, which she uses in almost every fight. These knives can be switched between blade and hook shapes, allowing her to switch between using them as fighting and climbing tools at a moment's notice.
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Devious Daggers / int_960062b7	comment	Himiko Toga from My Hero Academia uses knives, which match her deviousness and trickery (thanks to her Shapeshifter Quirk) as much as they do her psychotic love of violence. She can disguise herself as one of the heroes in order to approach a target and catch them off-guard with a sudden knife to the back, as she did to Rock Lock during the Shie Hassaikai Raid.
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Devious Daggers / int_98b697e9	comment	The Ghost Face specializes in stalking targets, being able to knock his prey down with one hit from his tactical knife if he can observe them undetected for long enough.
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Devious Daggers / int_9bb0a36b	comment	Rush'n Attack: Your Green Beret operative has a knife as his weapon as he infiltrates a Soviet base.
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Devious Daggers / int_9cba83fd	comment	Crusader Kings III: One of the artifact types added by the Royal Court expansion are daggers, which increase a character's intrigue skill (making them better at sneaky affairs) in addition to their combat skill. On the council screen, your spymaster will be shown wielding a dagger.
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Devious Daggers / int_9d34190a	comment	The Elder Scrolls: Mehrunes' Razor is a recurring artifact dagger tied to Mehrunes Dagon, the Deadric Prince of Destruction. It can sever the link between its victim's body and their soul, killing them instantly. Naturally, it is often sought by devious types like thieves and assassins. Skyrim: The main advantage of daggers and knives as weapons is the 15x damage bonus that they gain from undetected sneak attacks and the Assassin's Blade perk — more than any other weapon type. This can be doubled to 30x with the Shrouded Gloves, which doubles backstab damage for one-handed weapons. Riften's crest is a pair of crossed daggers which is in reference to their previous Jarl, Hosgunn Cross-Daggers. Hosgunn was believed to have assassinated the previous jarl and took the title despite public outcry and he was known as a cruel and corrupt man who hoarded taxes for his own benefit and executed anyone for breaking the rules (even for something as minor as breaking curfew). After a 31-year reign, the people of Riften rebelled and executed Hosgunn by burning his palace down while he was trapped inside. Riften is seen as a corrupt place that is home to the Thieves Guild and run by Maven Black-Briar.
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Devious Daggers / int_9d47a2a2	comment	Like in the books, the Boltons suffer from (or rather, enjoy) Chronic Backstabbing Disorder. They are associated with knives thanks to their house's tradition of Flaying Alive, not to mention Ramsay's affinity for it. His father Roose stabs Robb Stark at the Red Wedding and takes over Winterfell and the North... until Ramsay stabs HIM.
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Devious Daggers / int_9db1766a	comment	Devil May Cry: Devil May Cry 2: Lucia uses throwing knives instead of guns like most of the playable characters in the games. At one point she tries to kill the main villain by disguising herself as one of her fellow artificial demons in order to get to him. Unfortunately, he sees through the disguise. Devil May Cry 4: The character Gloria is shown using curved daggers in battle against demons. She appears to be working for the villainous Order of the Sword but is revealed to be Trish, Dante's heroic ally who is spying on the villains.
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Devious Daggers / int_9f380d17	comment	Record of Ragnarok: Jack the Ripper mainly uses throwing knives when fighting Heracles. During the fight, he flees, lies, lures, and improvises, a lot.
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Devious Daggers / int_9f89a5f0	comment	PokÃ©mon: The spy-themed Inteleon has a knife hidden in its tail.
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Devious Daggers / int_a04c736b	comment	In the Thieves' World shared universe, Hanse called Shadowspawn typically carries at least five knives: a long dagger which he uses like a short sword, a shorter dagger, and three (or more) hidden throwing-knives.
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Devious Daggers / int_a13a0bb0	comment	Six of Crows: Inej Ghafa is proficient in wielding several knives, which she uses for her job as a spy and assassin for the Dregs, the criminal gang she's part of. She's known as "The Wraith" for her ability to sneak around undetected.
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Devious Daggers / int_a2317bb8	comment	Scarlet Nexus: Kagero Donne uses knifes and has the power of invisibility. His SAS link allows the player character to become invisible and perform a Back Stab. He also clearly has more than a few secrets, being a spy for a villainous organisation, who eventually grew to despise their goals.
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Devious Daggers / int_a3748187	comment	JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Golden Wind: Mario Zucchero's Stand, Soft Machine, wields a strange knife that looks like either a very short rapier or an oversized thumbtack, and which has the ability to deflate whatever it stabs. Using this ability, Zucchero deflates his own body and pulls off a clever trick to sneak around a boat,note by deflating another boat of the same model and overlaying it over the other, he was able to move his flattened body between the two layers and hide his victims there incapacitating and abducting the heroes one by one before Bucciarati finally figures it out and manages to defeat him.
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Devious Daggers / int_a8150af4	comment	The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power: The Ascetic, one of the In-Universe Weird Sisters, is versed in using knives and throws them with a great precision.
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Devious Daggers / int_aa2506b8	comment	Mice and Mystics: Filch the thief has the unique ability to triple-wield daggers with his Prehensile Tail and can learn to attack with all of them at once. Some daggers have secondary effects, like the ability to rob an enemy as part of an attack.
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Devious Daggers / int_ad622d64	comment	Malazan Book of the Fallen: Crokus Younghand, who later renames himself Cutter, starts out as a thief who is rather inefficient in combat, but learns the trade of an assassin from his Love Interest Apsalar and becomes scarily competent with knives. Competent enough that he catches Hitman with a Heart Rallick Nom by surprise.
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Devious Daggers / int_aef6c6f9	comment	Kino's Journey: Kino carries several weapons, and is, at one point, told by a group of slavers to disarm. After Kino throws down her guns, they tell her to also toss her knife. She asks, "Which one you want?" They reply, "All of them." Kino proceeds to dump a dozen knives from her person until she's holding just one. It turns out to be a combination of fully functional knife, and concealed pistol with laser sight. Kino shoots one of the slavers with the pistol function, stabs the next fatally with the blade, and retrieves her gun to finish off the third.
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Devious Daggers / int_b2d7b634	comment	Shadow and Bone: Appropriately for a stealthy and acrobatic thief nicknamed "The Wraith", Inej carries many knives on her person and is shown throwing them with great accuracy.
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Devious Daggers / int_b30ae4db	comment	Game of Thrones: Like in the books, the Boltons suffer from (or rather, enjoy) Chronic Backstabbing Disorder. They are associated with knives thanks to their house's tradition of Flaying Alive, not to mention Ramsay's affinity for it. His father Roose stabs Robb Stark at the Red Wedding and takes over Winterfell and the North... until Ramsay stabs HIM. In a slight change from source material, Tyene, not Nymeria, is the Snake Sand who prefers knives. In a fight, she slashes Bronn with a poisoned dagger, flashes her breasts at him to raise his heartbeat and accelerate the poison's effect, and gives him the antidote only when he agrees to proclaim her the most beautiful woman he's seen. Arya Stark first learns to wield a Royal Rapier, but when House Stark is ruined and she enters training as an assassin, she becomes a skilled knife fighter. She uses daggers both to execute covert attacks and to outmanoeuvre more powerful opponents, best demonstrated when she kills the Night King with a bit of fancy knifework.
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Devious Daggers / int_b5ecc53	comment	An interesting example is Black Tiger, essentially Black Tiger's real weapon is an Epic Flail, but his flails are so epic that they shoot a three-way stream of daggers. Allowing him to attack enemies at a distance with every swing of his flail.
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Devious Daggers / int_bb1b8e8c	comment	Critical Role: Vax'ildan from the first campaign exclusively uses daggers, and is, as rogue, a rather under-handed and sneaky character by trade.
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Devious Daggers / int_bb547993	comment	Dawncaster: The Rogue's default weapon is Daggers, which deal an empowered Critical Hit on Ambush, meaning when used at the start of your turn or after using a card that resets your Ambush. Cards which reset Ambush tend to have a sneaky theme, like Sneak Attack or Take Cover, further reinforcing the connection between daggers and sneakiness.
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Devious Daggers / int_be0c33a5	comment	Ghost of Tsushima: The first step Jin Sakai takes towards ditching his Honor Before Reason mindset in favour of Combat Pragmatism (which enables him to better defend the people of Tsushima) is learning to sneak behind Mongols and stab them quietly with a dagger, however well-armed they are. He learns this trick from his friend Yuna the thief, whose Establishing Character Moment consists of pretending to be a tearful, traumatized villager to distract a Mongol who confronts her in her house, and then stabs him from behind whilst he's searching for her rice.
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Devious Daggers / int_be32a6fb	comment	The Guild Wars franchise: The Assassin class from Guild Wars. Even though the dagger is the lowest-damage weapon in the game, Assassins use them to great effect, often drawing out huge amounts of bonus damage from their skills. They also have a few skills that allow them to throw knives for different effects. Guild Wars 2 features two classes that can dual-wield knives: elementalists and thieves. However, only thieves make actual use of the knives themselves. Aside from a super-fast attack rate, Dagger Thieves can throw daggers to damage and cripple a target, leap at an enemy with a quick strike, stack copious amounts of bleeding on enemy groups, and even turn invisible — which sets up a devastating Backstab move for at least double damage. Heck, even their normal auto-attacks will poison enemies continuously. Thieves can also use daggers in their offhand with a sword and can dual-wield a dagger/pistol combo in either hand for different results. A favorite trick among players is to use the pistol skill Black Powder Shot and leap through the cloud with the dagger skill Heartseeker. This renders the player instantly invisible and sets up a backstab. Suffice it to say, knives are at the heart of any good thief's offense.
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Devious Daggers / int_bf1e7c24	comment	First Blood: John Rambo is a former Green Beret who prefers to use a knife while he's being hunted in the county woods by Fat Bastard Sheriff Teasle and his deputies. John Rambo can certainly use firearms well, but he knows that gunfire attracts attention and gives away his position. A knife is a silent killer, and he can exploit "ghost hunter" tactics with it to great effect. Rambo's knife finds the throat of Sheriff Teasle to punctuate his message "Stop pushing."
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Devious Daggers / int_c02ce5b4	comment	House of the Dragon: Aemond Targaryen carries a dagger in Season 1's finale when visiting Lord Borros Baratheon for an Altar Diplomacy offer. Being mad for revenge for the loss of his eye in his childhood, he draws it against Lucerys Velaryon and threatens to use it to cut one of Lucerys' eyes. Lord Borros wants none of it in his throne room and prevents him from going further.
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Devious Daggers / int_c0d295c4	comment	Team Fortress 2's Spy is known for two things: his sneakiness, thanks to being able to both turn invisible and disguise himself as an enemy, and his ability to inflict a One-Hit Kill with a Back Stab from his butterfly knife.
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Devious Daggers / int_c21df7ae	comment	The End Times: Vermintide and Vermintide II: The Skaven Gutter Runner is a fast-moving, mobile, ninja-like special enemy that attacks from stealth with a pair of punch daggers. Kerillian's "Shade" career in the sequel casts her as an assassin with extra emphasis on critical strikes and stealth attacks. Her special ability grants the greatest damage bonus for a Back Stab with a pair of daggers.
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Devious Daggers / int_c433d063	comment	Final Fantasy: Knives and daggers are most commonly associated with the Thief job across the franchise. While many Thieves are also able to wield swords, the Chicken Knife grows in power with every every battle the heroes flee from, and there's no better job at fleeing than the Thief (aside from its traditional upgrade, the Ninja). In Final Fantasy XIV, the Rogues' Guild exclusively use their stabbers to mill those who have broken the Pirate's Code. Due to their propensity for staying in the shadows and ambushing unwary marks, swords, axes, and heavy armor are far too conspicuous and unwieldy for their work. Hence their preference for easily concealed knives, daggers, and short swords that can be used within a densely packed crowd and tucked out of sight when the job is done. Doman and Hingan Ninja also prefer knives for the same reasons.
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Devious Daggers / int_c5e0a232	comment	The Legend of Zelda (Akira Himekawa): In The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past (2005), the treacherous, conniving Agahnim rarely has to rely on anything more than his magic, but he does resort to using a dagger against Link's uncle and Link himself. In the adaptation of The Minish Cap, a flashback shows the Evil Chancellor who betrayed King Gustaf using a dagger to mortally wound him.
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Devious Daggers / int_c5f15de8	comment	The Dual Blades hero weapon in Conqueror's Blade (which consists of two daggers held in reverse grips) is an assassin-themed class with special moves that let it turn invisible. This trope is even lampshaded with the default armor sets for light heroes (which includes Dual-Blades users): Rogue and Brigand. In addition, the Hashashins (a unit of Persian assassins) are armed only with daggers and smoke bombs.
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Devious Daggers / int_ca5cb239	comment	Circle of Magic: Briar Moss lived a hard life as a Street Urchin and gang thief, and never feels fully safe unless he has a knife on him. He got kicked out of his first dormitory in Winding Circle for hiding knives and when he's challenged to a duel as an adult, he has to remove eight knives from his person beforehand.
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Devious Daggers / int_d328cd69	comment	Dungeon Fighter Online: The Thief can use daggers, specifically the Shadow Dancer subclass, with the Rogue also having them as an option.
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Devious Daggers / int_d43be22a	comment	Michael Myers, wielding his iconic kitchen knife, has no Terror Radius when his Evil Within level is at 1, letting him stalk victims around in the early game.
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Devious Daggers / int_d4e486c7	comment	Dota 2 has a few sneaky heroes who wield knives: Mortred, the Phantom Assassin, is part of a shadowy cabal of assassins called the Sisters of the Veil. One of her abilities, Stifling Dagger, has her attack with a throwing knife. Her Blur ability hides her from being detected by creeps and wards when there are no enemy heroes around, and she can suddenly warp to an enemy, or out of combat, by using Phantom Strike. On the other hand, her normal method of attacking is by using an axe-like dual scythe. However, the Stifling Dagger is an important part of her kit, and it also procs her ultimate, Coup de Grace (dealing massive critical damage on a random basis in a normal attack), meaning that a single dagger throw can suddenly produce sudden massive gush of blood as if eviscerating with an axe-scythe. Riki is the Stealth Expert hero of Dota 2, thanks to his passive Invisibility. This lets him sneak around the map and inflict a Back Stab on his enemies with his dagger.
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Devious Daggers / int_d57e9015	comment	OMORI: The Shady Mole is a Con Artist with a knife as his main weapon.
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Devious Daggers / int_d5a7cfcd	comment	SMITE: Loki, the Norse trickster god, is one of the sneakiest characters in the game, being able to turn invisible, teleport behind opponents, and inflict extra damage with a Back Stab. So of course, he wields two knives as his weapons.
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Devious Daggers / int_d616724d	comment	League of Legends: Katarina Du Couteau, also known as the Sinister Blade, is an elite assassin born to a noble family of Noxus. A Fragile Speedster, she can gut a single target or even entire teams in a flurry of daggers, thrown and swung, if given the chance. Talon is another assassin sworn to General Du Couteau. Even before being coerced into the general's service, he was feared as a self-taught assassin and thief who regularly slaughtered the other hired blades sent to kill him. He's cold, merciless, and taciturn, even attempting to kill Katarina on her father's orders after she made a critical blunder in pursuit of glory.
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Devious Daggers / int_d6b55b59	comment	Villainous Nights: In addition to his wind powers, Renzei likes to use actual knives - so much so that on a couple of routes Monarch wonders if his power is simply "knife." He is also the team member who is the most morally gray and willing to use violence.
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Devious Daggers / int_da73d677	comment	Quest for Glory, Daggers are the weapon of choice of the thief hero. In fact, it isn't until the fifth game that the thief has the option to use any weapon other than a dagger, besides thrown rocks.
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Devious Daggers / int_dc17fc41	comment	The Persistence: The creepy little hunchbacks who fight you by sneaking up behind you and run away whenever you try to fight back wield tiny daggers. This demonstrates both their intelligence in using tools and their sinister nature, preferring to back-stab you then take you in a straight fight.
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Devious Daggers / int_dc500fbe	comment	Tales of Zestiria has Rose, an upbeat and plucky merchant girl, armed with knives since her mercantile activities are a cover for being the boss of a assassin's guild.
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Devious Daggers / int_e247f391	comment	In the adaptation of The Minish Cap, a flashback shows the Evil Chancellor who betrayed King Gustaf using a dagger to mortally wound him.
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Devious Daggers / int_e365af07	comment	Dino Attack RPG: Dust is a master knife fighter, having killed five TumTum natives with just a knife. It fits his characterization as sly, cunning, and devious. Ata was raised to become a shinobi, and the knife appeared to be his weapon of choice since it was what he used in battle against the corrupted Master Yogen. In the Dino Attack, he used the knife a lot when he murdered most of the Second Headquarters Squad, during which time he was certainly putting his old skills as a stealthy infiltrator to good use. The Professional Killer Silencia Venomosa's weapon of choice is the knife, which she prefers for being able to silently kill her targets. Although she tried to distance it from herself after becoming Amanda Claw, old habits die hard and she soon found herself using it again, hinting at her being a darker Pragmatic Hero compared to her Ideal Hero boyfriend Rex. During her infiltration of Fort Legoredo, Maria killed Hybrids with a knife in order to keep silent and avoid raising an alarm. In keeping with his inspiration, Spy's weapon of choice is a knife, which he uses to cleanly and quietly kill his foes during stealthy infiltration missions.
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Devious Daggers / int_ecff1d09	comment	Believe it or not, Lupin III was originally this in his earliest manga appearances; while the Walther pistol became his trademark within a few years, in those early capers his Calling Card was often a knife handle sticking out of someone's back (or chair).
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Devious Daggers / int_eda74693	comment	In Saints Row (2022), the Nahualli is a vicious One-Man Army who occasionally uses stealth, and loves to collect knives. More relevantly to this trope, he uses one of his many blades to betray the Boss at the start of the game's final act, suddenly stabbing them in the gut.
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Devious Daggers / int_f15f622e	comment	MacGyver: The assassin known as Murdock is versed in many weapons, including knives. In one episode, he is meeting with members of his organization and is forced to leave his weapons behind. After a metal detector catches him trying to keep one on his person, he is seemingly completely disarmed, and the heads of his group ask him what makes him think he can finish off MacGyver when he's failed in the past. Murdock produces a knife that he was still carrying, and says that, unlike Mac, he cheats.
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Devious Daggers / int_f4b0e573	comment	Kano's fellow Black Dragon member Kira also uses knives. And like Kano, she is also a sly, deceptive person. Her backstory has her selling weapons in Afghanistan while disguised as a man and her Mortal Kombat: Deception ending has her using superior tactics to defeat Kobra.
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Devious Daggers / int_f5a661a6	comment	Woljif from Pathfinder: Wrath of the Righteous is a magical rogue who dual-wields daggers and has a habit of looking out for himself through subterfuge.
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Devious Daggers / int_f691fa67	comment	Hearthstone: Heroes of Warcraft: The Rogue class from World of Warcraft is represented by Valeera Sanguinar, who dual-wields fel-powered daggers and can infinitely summon them each turn (for 2 mana) for her heroic power. She can also equip various dagger-like weapons if they're in her deck and many of her spells are based on how one uses a knife, as many of them depict someone putting a knife in someone else (Eviscerate and Shiv are such examples). There's also Fan of Knives, where she throws a lot of knives at any enemy minion on the board. Valeera herself, while not appearing much in the main game, has always been fighting using knives during her comic debut. But when she does appear in Heroes of the Storm, she's carrying her pair of trusty Fel Daggers and comes complete with sneaky underhanded rogue repertoires from stealth, backstabbing and disabling her opponents.
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Devious Daggers / int_f7d93e4a	comment	The Assassins from Assassin's Creed have the Hidden Blade as their most iconic weapon, a small dagger that can retract into their sleeves, making for a murder weapon that practically hides itself, greatly facilitating sneaky assassinations.
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Devious Daggers / int_fb0c0a3b	comment	Voltes V: After her plot to assassinate Kenichi fails, Katherine tries to finish the job by producing a dagger hidden in her clothing. After it seems that his sword fight with Kenichi is over, Heinel pulls out a dagger from his clothing. His intentions with it are obvious as he gives him a Death Glare.
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Devious Daggers / int_fb873b86	comment	The Pig wields a Hidden Blade as her weapon. She can also crouch to disable her Terror Radius, making her undetectable until she launches her Ambush Dash at a victim, stabbing them with increased range and speed.
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Back to the Beginning (Fanfic) / int_b15f8d35	type	Devious Daggers
Eight Intertwined (Fanfic) / int_b15f8d35	type	Devious Daggers
Five Funny Nights at Freddy's (Fanfic) / int_b15f8d35	type	Devious Daggers
Forum of Thrones (Fanfic) / int_b15f8d35	type	Devious Daggers
Harry Potter and the Endless Night (Fanfic) / int_b15f8d35	type	Devious Daggers
Highlander Penance (Fanfic) / int_b15f8d35	type	Devious Daggers
Sora's Misadventures in Equestria (Fanfic) / int_b15f8d35	type	Devious Daggers
Brotherhood of the Wolf / int_b15f8d35	type	Devious Daggers
Goyokin / int_b15f8d35	type	Devious Daggers
Mission: Impossible â€“ Dead Reckoning / int_b15f8d35	type	Devious Daggers
Rolli – Amazing Tales / int_b15f8d35	type	Devious Daggers
Swashbuckler / int_b15f8d35	type	Devious Daggers
The Dark Knight Rises / int_b15f8d35	type	Devious Daggers
The Story of Robin Hood and His Merrie Men / int_b15f8d35	type	Devious Daggers
Young Guns / int_b15f8d35	type	Devious Daggers
Fire Emblem (Franchise) / int_b15f8d35	type	Devious Daggers
100 Cupboards / int_b15f8d35	type	Devious Daggers
Six of Crows / int_b15f8d35	type	Devious Daggers
Solo Leveling / int_b15f8d35	type	Devious Daggers
Star's Reach / int_b15f8d35	type	Devious Daggers
The Belgariad / int_b15f8d35	type	Devious Daggers
Natomatos (Manga) / int_b15f8d35	type	Devious Daggers
The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past (2005) (Manga) / int_b15f8d35	type	Devious Daggers
The Legend of Zelda (Akira Himekawa) (Manga) / int_b15f8d35	type	Devious Daggers
Critical Hit (Podcast) / int_b15f8d35	type	Devious Daggers
The Gamer's Alliance (Roleplay) / int_b15f8d35	type	Devious Daggers
Kingdom Adventure / int_b15f8d35	type	Devious Daggers
Kyūkyū Sentai GoGoV / int_b15f8d35	type	Devious Daggers
Uchu Sentai Kyuranger / int_b15f8d35	type	Devious Daggers
Blades in the Dark (Tabletop Game) / int_b15f8d35	type	Devious Daggers
Arabian Magic (Video Game) / int_b15f8d35	type	Devious Daggers
Asgard's Wrath (Video Game) / int_b15f8d35	type	Devious Daggers
Battle for Wesnoth (Video Game) / int_b15f8d35	type	Devious Daggers
Berwick Saga (Video Game) / int_b15f8d35	type	Devious Daggers
Blandia (Video Game) / int_b15f8d35	type	Devious Daggers
Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night (Video Game) / int_b15f8d35	type	Devious Daggers
Captain Commando (Video Game) / int_b15f8d35	type	Devious Daggers
Conqueror's Blade (Video Game) / int_b15f8d35	type	Devious Daggers
Crusader Kings III (Video Game) / int_b15f8d35	type	Devious Daggers
Curious Expedition 2 (Video Game) / int_b15f8d35	type	Devious Daggers
Darkest Dungeon (Video Game) / int_b15f8d35	type	Devious Daggers
Drakensang (Video Game) / int_b15f8d35	type	Devious Daggers
Dread X Collection (Video Game) / int_b15f8d35	type	Devious Daggers
Dungeon Fighter Online (Video Game) / int_b15f8d35	type	Devious Daggers
Fantasy Life (Video Game) / int_b15f8d35	type	Devious Daggers
Far Cry 3 (Video Game) / int_b15f8d35	type	Devious Daggers
Fights in Tight Spaces (Video Game) / int_b15f8d35	type	Devious Daggers
Final Fantasy Type-0 (Video Game) / int_b15f8d35	type	Devious Daggers
Final Fantasy V (Video Game) / int_b15f8d35	type	Devious Daggers
For the King (Video Game) / int_b15f8d35	type	Devious Daggers
Frankie's Dungeon (Video Game) / int_b15f8d35	type	Devious Daggers
Heroine's Quest (Video Game) / int_b15f8d35	type	Devious Daggers
Infernax (Video Game) / int_b15f8d35	type	Devious Daggers
Kingdom of Loathing (Video Game) / int_b15f8d35	type	Devious Daggers
Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning (Video Game) / int_b15f8d35	type	Devious Daggers
Magic Rampage (Video Game) / int_b15f8d35	type	Devious Daggers
Mega Man Super Fighting Robot (Video Game) / int_b15f8d35	type	Devious Daggers
Mount & Blade II: Bannerlord (Video Game) / int_b15f8d35	type	Devious Daggers
Octopath Traveler: Champions of the Continent (Video Game) / int_b15f8d35	type	Devious Daggers
Path of Exile (Video Game) / int_b15f8d35	type	Devious Daggers
Pathologic (Video Game) / int_b15f8d35	type	Devious Daggers
Phantasy Star (Video Game) / int_b15f8d35	type	Devious Daggers
Quest for Glory II (Video Game) / int_b15f8d35	type	Devious Daggers
Scribblenauts (Video Game) / int_b15f8d35	type	Devious Daggers
StarTropics (Video Game) / int_b15f8d35	type	Devious Daggers
Styx: Master of Shadows (Video Game) / int_b15f8d35	type	Devious Daggers
The Age of Decadence (Video Game) / int_b15f8d35	type	Devious Daggers
The Persistence (Video Game) / int_b15f8d35	type	Devious Daggers
Time Commando (Video Game) / int_b15f8d35	type	Devious Daggers
Underrail (Video Game) / int_b15f8d35	type	Devious Daggers
Wanderers.io (Video Game) / int_b15f8d35	type	Devious Daggers
Yandere Simulator (Video Game) / int_b15f8d35	type	Devious Daggers
Famicom Detective Club (Visual Novel) / int_b15f8d35	type	Devious Daggers
Red vs. Blue: The Chorus Trilogy (Web Animation) / int_b15f8d35	type	Devious Daggers
Team Fortress 2 (Web Animation) / int_b15f8d35	type	Devious Daggers
Soviet Womble (Web Video) / int_b15f8d35	type	Devious Daggers
Marionetta (Webcomic) / int_b15f8d35	type	Devious Daggers
Royal Blue (Webcomic) / int_b15f8d35	type	Devious Daggers
Blue Eye Samurai / int_b15f8d35	type	Devious Daggers

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