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Nothing can block a weapon made of a magical material — except for another weapon of the same material. Typically neither weapon will be affected at all; on rarer occasions, both will be destroyed utterly, or pass entirely through each other. The effect is the same in all cases- the phlebotinum weapons effectively cancel each other's usual superiority over opposing weapons, and only a direct hit on the opponent will end the duel... Which is also likely to kill them unless your Implausible Fencing Powers are good enough to disarm them without, y'know, "disarming" them. Needless to say, a character who thinks they have a Disc-One Nuke in the form of their sword will be very unpleasantly surprised when facing an opponent who can even the odds. They may even get crushed if they've let their skills get rusty by relying on the weapon's power. Such duels tend to prove suitably epic. A Sub-Trope of Mutual Disadvantage, of the "mutual invulnerability" variety. Also a subtrope of Elemental Rock-Paper-Scissors, where one of an element's defensive strong points happens to be itself. Contrast Takes One to Kill One, when only like can cut like. |
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The J-WITCH Series: The Samurai Khan's shadow katanas can cut through everything, except Jade's weapons she creates through her shadow magic. | |
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Samurai Jack: When Jack first meets the Scotsman, he's surprised to find his nigh-invulnerable sword cannot so much as scratch the Scott's similarly-enchanted weapon. The two spend the entire day fighting, and only succeed in exhausting themselves to the point where neither can lift their swords anymore. When asked what made his sword special, the Scotsman replied "magic runes, laddie". This implies that his claymore, like Jack's katana, is endowed with magical properties, by gods or otherwise. But somehow, Aku was able to break the Scotsman's weapon, something he's unable to do with Jack's. In another episode, Aku tries to kill Jack with his own magic katana, but it bounces harmlessly off his skin. Jack informs the villain that since the sword is good, it won't harm good creatures like himself. |
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In Guyver, high frequency swords can't cut other high frequency swords, and when two high frequency weapons come into contact with each other, they make a deafening shriek. | |
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Despite the utterly insane powers of the Red/Blue/Gold Keys of Umineko: When They Cry (including, but not limited to preemptively disallowing any sort of defensive concept) they can clash with each other. Note that in the Tips section it is mentioned that the Keys are limited in power for that Game Board, presumably to stop Dlanor swinging her sword twice and ending the story instantly. | |
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In the Naruto fanfic Son of the Sannin, Sasuke battles against Karui during the Chunin Exams, both of them using their swords. At one point, the two get into a Blade Lock, with Sasuke using Burning Edge and Karui using Thunder Blade against each other. Karui overpowers Sasuke and breaks his katana, forcing him to bring out his spare one. They get into another blade lock, but this time Sasuke uses the same jutsu as her, and she's unable to break his weapon in the same way. | |
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In Kill Bill, the only thing that can withstand the cut of a sword forged by Hattori Hanzo... is another one. | |
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In Harry Potter, Harry's and Voldemort's wands behave quite strangely when they try dueling each other, due to the wands being "twins", having feathers of the same phoenix (specifically, Dumbledore's pet phoenix Fawkes) as their respective cores. | |
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The Long Ships: Main characters Orm and Toke have andalusian swords, made from steel far superior to what's available to the other vikings. They tend to shatter the swords of their enemies quite a bit, but when the two accidentally cross blades, nothing happens. | |
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In XCOM: Enemy Unknown, alien alloys are extremely durable, making them ideal for armor and weapon designs. But this trope is massively subverted when you produce the Alloy Cannon: it turns out that while alien alloys are difficult to shape into a proper projectile, it's not impossible, and shards of alien alloy traveling at super-high velocity will shred anything (the Alloy Cannon has the highest damage in the game). Flavor text for the weapon also reveals that the alloy's extraordinary toughness, while ideal for use as ammo, resulted in the immediate destruction of the first Alloy Cannon prototypes because the standard materials used for the barrel couldn't withstand contact with the hyper-accelerated alloy shards — the pellets just cut right through the steel and blew the gun apart. Only a redesign that incorporated alien alloys into the barrel itself made the weapon actually viable for production. | |
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Castlevania: Lament of Innocence has this with the various Elemental types of enemies in regards to the special whips. The Fire, Frost, and Thunder Elementals are immune to the Fire, Ice, and Lightning whips, respectively. Likewise, the Flame and Frost Zombies are immune to the Fire and Ice whips, respectively. | |
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Also done in Star Wars RPG games (starting with Knights of the Old Republic); when eventually acquiring a lightsaber, the player will soon find that, rather than the Infinity +1 Sword they may be expecting, it's essentially an upgraded, shiny sword that only chips away heath rather than a Game-Breaker. | |
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Adamantium can cut through practically anything on Earth except for things that are made of Adamantium. This is the main reason that Wolverine has a lot of foes who use Adamantium weapons or armor, like Cyber and Lady Deathstrike. | |
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In Black Butler, the death scythes carried by the Grim Reaper dispatch can cut through anything. Naturally, a death scythe can't cut through a death scythe. | |
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Weirdly subverted in The Wolverine: Wolverine's claws can be blocked by ordinary Katanas, and a superheated adamantium sword is able to cut his claws off. | |
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Gourry's energy blade sword in Slayers is eventually tested against another weapon that was created by the same people. When the two energy blades meet, they shriek. They then actually began to fuse together, and the energy released began to open a door to another dimension, wherein dwelt the god-killing Dark Star. | |
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Borderlands: The Pre-Sequel!: Unlike basically every other elemental enemy, Phonic Kraggons don't resist their own element of Shock, instead being like a normal Kraggon, and resisting Fire. | |
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Shardblades in The Stormlight Archive can cut through any non-living substance except other Blades and Shardplate as easily as swinging them through the air (they pass straight through living flesh without leaving a mark, but kill the victim anyway). While Shardplate can only take a few hits from a Blade before shattering, the Blades can parry each other indefinitely without harm. This is because a Shardblade is the physical manifestation of a spren (it's complicated), taking the form of Honor and Cultivations combined Godmetals. Rhythm of War reveals the origins of Plate as well, being made of lesser spren associated with the Spren a radiant is bonded to, again in the form of the Godmetal above. Presumably it can break because it is formed of multiple Spren who can be seperated, compared to the Shardblade which is a single entity. | |
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Dungeons & Dragons: In 3.5, Adamantine weapons have the ability to bypass hardness when trying to damage weapons or objects if the material it is made out of has a hardness of less than 20. In turn, Adamantine is the only material (in the core books; supplements added a few others) that has a hardness of 20. On the other hand, Warforged with the Adamantine Laced feat invert this trope: they become resistant to damage from weapons that are not made of Adamantine. | |
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X-Men Film Series In X2: X-Men United, Wolverine and Lady Deathstrike both have adamantium claws/fingernails. X-Men Origins: Wolverine: Wolverine faces Weapon XI, who has an adamantium katana. William Stryker shoots Wolverine in the head with adamantium bullets (which is kinda justified, as a bullet, which is really fast, could have more impact than a blade). Doesn't kill him, but it does give him amnesia — presumably the shock of the impact gave him severe brain damage and his Healing Factor couldn't piece all his memories back together. Weirdly subverted in The Wolverine: Wolverine's claws can be blocked by ordinary Katanas, and a superheated adamantium sword is able to cut his claws off. |
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In X2: X-Men United, Wolverine and Lady Deathstrike both have adamantium claws/fingernails. | |
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In Sword of the Stars, Mesonic Torpedoes will go through all Deflector Shields except for Meson Shields. | |
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In the Incarnations of Immortality series, the highly magical Red Sword wielded by War cannot cut through Chrono's hourglass. | |
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In Super Robot Wars: Original Generation, one of the very few things that can stop Sanger Zonvolt's Colossal Blade is another Colossal Blade, wielded by Wodan Ymir, a man who is Sanger's equal in every way. | |
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In Samurai 7, the daito that the Samurai use can cut through anything from wood to Humongous Mecha... except other daito. | |
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12 Miles Below: Occult blades produce a blue field that can cut through anything besides other occult material, most obviously other occult blades. In fact, occult blades are basically indestructible while activated... which is a good thing, because it turns out that they're made of pewter, an otherwise extremely soft metal. | |
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Beam sabers in Gundam are made up of a superheated Minovsky Particle plasma encased in I-Fields. I-fields cannot block regular matter, so what allows beam sabers to cut through almost anything is the fact that hitting something with your saber is literally letting the plasma of the saber eat through whatever you're trying to cut. When two beam sabers make contact, the I-Fields from both swords are repelling the plasma of the other. As beam projectiles are also made of Minovsky particles, the same principles makes them scatter on contact with a beam sabe or other beam, though for obvious reasons that's less common. A rare exception to this is the beam zanber from Mobile Suit Crossbone Gundam; following the description above, the zanber is basically a giant plasma flame without an I-field containing it, and can cut through standard beam sabers by introducing more plasma than their I-fields can handle. Beam shields, introduced in the second Universal Century, rely on the same general principle, they're basically a beam saber elongated into a wide plane that can be used to block attacks. Incidentally, if enough force is applied to a beam shield (or enough concentrated pinpoint power in the case of the Variable Speed Beam Rifle), it's possible to collapse it and hit the target behind it. Subverted in Mobile Suit Gundam SEED Destiny, the beam sabers in Cosmic Era are formed with Mirage Colloid without the use of I-Fields and they go through each other should they clash. During the fight of the Destiny Gundam versus the Infinite Justice, the Infinite Justice cuts the Destiny's Arondight Anti-Ship Sword in a half when they clash with each other. However, shields can block beam sabers. |
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Blackstar has the Star Sword, and the Overlord has the Power Sword — two equally indestructible halves a superweapon called the Power Star (a few years before the Masters of the Universe toys would use the same gimmick). | |
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In the Wings of Fire series, the only antidote for a RainWing's corrosive venom is the venom of a sufficiently close blood relative. | |
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In The Wheel of Time, the Dark One can corrupt and destroy anything in existence — including reality itself — except his own power. The key to the Last Battle is an artifact that lets the hero siphon off some of that power and incorporate it into the seals that bind the Dark One outside the Universe, preventing him from unraveling their magic like he did previously. | |
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Pokémon Wack: In addition to the canon types, Wood, Steam, Magma, Paper, Rubber, Light, Nuclear, Glass, Plastic, and Grease are all types that resist their own. | |
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A Certain Droll Hivemind: Yui gets grabbed by someone and immediately shocks them. This does nothing, because the one who grabbed her is Misaka Mikoto, who is literally orders of magnitude more powerful than her. Thankfully, Mikoto of course isn't there to hurt her. | |
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Devil May Cry: The Nightmare-Beta was created from the essence of the demon known as Nightmare. Naturally, Nightmare is immune to its lasers when you fight the thing. | |
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Pokémon: The franchise plays this completely straight but then subverts, and inverts this in its Elemental Rock-Paper-Scissors. Of all the eighteen current types, nine types (Fire, Water, Electric, Grass, Ice, Poison, Psychic, Dark, and Steel) are resistant to their own attacks, two of them are weak to their own attacks (Ghost and Dragon), and the rest only take normal damage from their own attacks. Because of this, certain dual-typed Pokemon can be either weak or resistant to their own types (A Ground/Steel typed Pokemon resists Steel-Type moves, but takes double damage from Ground-Type attacksnote Ground normally doesn't resist itself, but the Steel-type is weak to the Ground-type, adding a weakness.) Several Pokemon have abilities that make them immune to their own type. For example, multiple Electric type Pokemon such as Jolteon, Electrivire, and Zeraora have the Volt Absorb ability, meaning they get stronger when hit by an electric type attack. If these Pokemon met in battle and only had electric type moves, the battle would be a stalemate until all participants ran out of PP and could use Struggle. |
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The titular Sword of Truth has been known to cut through any weapon or armor — except for one case when a similarly enchanted blade is encountered. | |
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Cyclops and Havok from the X-Men are immune to each other's energy projection powers, and being brothers, they are "like" on the genetic level, thus fitting the trope (except Scott and Alex's DNAs seem to deviate at different points, considering how their powers work differently from one another). It isn't often brought up often outside of these two but it's established through them that mutants who are genetic siblings are immune to each other's powers. Not just siblings, as the cousins Black Tom Cassidy and Banshee are also immune to each other's powers. |
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In Outlaw Star, Gene's caster shells could be blocked by firing another caster shell into them. Also subverted towards the finale, as there are some rare caster shells that will have abilities that only activate when blocked by another caster shell. |
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The energy discs in TRON and TRON: Legacy can cut through programs like butter, but will rebound off each other harmlessly. Except at the end of Tron and Sark's last duel, where Sark tries a standard disc-block to deflect Tron's attack, but Tron is so much more skilled that his own disc flies right through Sark's (and Sark's head) as if the latter were wet tissue. | |
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X-Men: The Animated Series: Like in the comic section, cousins Black Tom and Banshee are immune to each other's powers, a fact that causes them to usually settle their differences with their fists. This also sets up an interesting Easter Egg in a later episode when the X-Men find themselves up against X-Factor. Team leaders Cyclops and Havok are quite surprised to find their powers don't work on each other. Of course long time X-fans know why. | |
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Warhammer 40,000: Played straight in the case of power weapons contacting other power weapons. The disruptive fields surrounding such weapons clash but typically prevent any damage to the physical component of the weapon itself. | |
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Shadowrun. To stop monofilament attacks (e.g. a monofilament sword), wear armor/clothing with monofilament threads woven into it. | |
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The Severing Crime Edge: No matter how powerful the Killing Good is, it cannot destroy another killing good. | |
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Minecraft: Golden Pickaxes cannot mine Gold Ore — all other non-wooden pickaxes can mine the ore they're made of, but gold, true to Real Life, is exceptionally weak. | |
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Accel World: Incarnate Abilities are this. Only another Incarnate Ability can block them as they'll cut through anything else like butter. This is because while normal attacks are designed by the system, Incarnate Abilities are created by the players' will, essentially futzing with the system parameters until you break 'em. By order of the Kings, they're illegal to use in Brain Burst unless you're attacked by one first. Of course it's also illegal to actually TEACH these techniques to other players, which means when Noumi breaks out his to devastate Cyan Pile, the heroes are stuck having to rely on cryptic advice and vague hints from their friends in order to counter it. | |
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Subverted in Mobile Suit Gundam SEED Destiny, the beam sabers in Cosmic Era are formed with Mirage Colloid without the use of I-Fields and they go through each other should they clash. During the fight of the Destiny Gundam versus the Infinite Justice, the Infinite Justice cuts the Destiny's Arondight Anti-Ship Sword in a half when they clash with each other. However, shields can block beam sabers. | |
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A rare exception to this is the beam zanber from Mobile Suit Crossbone Gundam; following the description above, the zanber is basically a giant plasma flame without an I-field containing it, and can cut through standard beam sabers by introducing more plasma than their I-fields can handle. | |
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Battle Angel Alita: Last Order: Monomolecular wire can be stopped by a stick made out of monomolecular material. | |
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In Monkey Wrench, lythop crystals are sharp enough to cut through practically anything, but when two crystals clash, they produce an energy field which stops them from cutting each other. | |
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One of the rules of magic in The Apprentice, the Student, and the Charlatan: The First Fundamental Law is that, no matter how powerful one source is compared to the other, magic cannot pierce or go through magic through natural means. Magic can push other magic back, but it can't go through other magic. Given the author's attempt at having magic operate under quantum physics, it's justified In-Universe by magic automatically snapping to particle state when interacting with other magic. However, enter the magi-gun, which somehow manages to force magic into wave state when around other magic, making all forms of magical shields useless, and it's treated as such a dangerous weapon that the protagonist resolves to have it destroyed when its usefulness has run out. It explores the ramifications of this trope a bit, as well. Enchanted clothing by default comes with spell-shielding (though there are specific enchantments that give its article more energy to repel magical attacks, given that magic particles annihilate each other on contact), enchantments have to constantly be repaired after every run-in with magic, and ponies can't teleport through shields, but can teleport around them if it isn't a full encasement. |
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X-Men Origins: Wolverine: Wolverine faces Weapon XI, who has an adamantium katana. William Stryker shoots Wolverine in the head with adamantium bullets (which is kinda justified, as a bullet, which is really fast, could have more impact than a blade). Doesn't kill him, but it does give him amnesia — presumably the shock of the impact gave him severe brain damage and his Healing Factor couldn't piece all his memories back together. |
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