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Master Swordsman

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Master Swordsman	comment	This trope is a character noted for their mastery of the sword. They might be a deadly duelist, a skillful swordsman, or just someone who is notably better at putting holes in other people. They may or may not possess Implausible Fencing Powers depending on the level of realism within the work. Their weapon of choice might be a Cool Sword, katana, rapier, BFS, or something completely mundane. Some might be undefeated and renowned as the best swordsman in the world, while others might be an anonymous badass trying to stay alive. Often a Mentor, often helping other characters Take a Level in Badass. Occasionally an Old Master. May be Badass Normal if there are superhumans to compare to. May well be the World's Best Warrior. The ranged counterparts are the Master Archer and The Gunslinger. Due to biblical associations, Michael (or local equivalent) is a common name for these characters. Note that this trope is about the character, even when the actors are Flynning badly.
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Master Swordsman / int_10ddd3d5	comment	In The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess, Link's mentor is Rusl, who is another master swordsman. There's also the Hero's Shade, who passes up to seven secret sword skills to Link. He's a previous incarnation of Link, having been the Hero of Time himself.
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Master Swordsman / int_1173aa7e	comment	Colleen Wing was trained in the art of the samurai sword by her grandfather.
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Master Swordsman / int_11b7db91	comment	Rattleballs from Adventure Time is an old robot swordsman whose skill with the blade greatly surpasses Finn's. He can do a "Shadow Thrust", which can swiftly cut objects around a person without hitting them, and in the fight against the Banana Guards, he manages to take them all down without fatally harming anyone. Finn is so impressed with his skill that he convinces Rattleballs to train him.
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Master Swordsman / int_14060d41	comment	Luke Skywalker has become so skilled with a lightsaber that one villain who thinks of himself as a god admits to himself that Luke is better with a lightsaber than he is. In Fate of the Jedi: Abyss, Luke is able to pick apart a Sith teacher in one opening while facing two highly skilled attackers simultaneously, despite having been weakened for several weeks. And when lightsaber sparring with his own son Ben, no slouch despite his youth, Luke defeats him without taking out his lightsaber for a very long time, and at the start doesn't even have to take a step.
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Master Swordsman / int_15a7dbac	comment	Gilbert of The Witch Watch appears to be this. He talks about swords frequently and trained with them from a young age. Being able to disarm someone by letting them stab you and just turning away is useful, but Prince Leopold is clearly in another class.
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Master Swordsman / int_1615beee	comment	The School for Good and Evil (2022) fanfic Not a prince: Lesso is revealed to be an expert at sword fighting and even hides one in her cane.
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Master Swordsman / int_17655771	comment	There is an ancient order of Mantids in Shadows of the Apt known as the Weaponsmasters. While many of them prefer the Claw (an Elegant Weapon for a More Civilized Age), there're a good number of rapier specialists — including Tynisa, by the end of the second book.
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Master Swordsman / int_1869a077	comment	Jack from Samurai Jack definitely qualifies. He's a master of just about every weapon and martial art known to man, but his primary weapon is a sword. The Scotsman qualifies as well, by virtue of matching him blow-for-blow for three days on end without taking one scratch.
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Master Swordsman / int_187d570a	comment	Devil May Cry 4: Credo is a master swordsman and is the one who trained Nero in sword fighting.
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Master Swordsman / int_1af341a1	comment	Several of the units in Disgaea start off with swords as their most effective weapons and definitely become this by the time you've learned all their moves.
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Master Swordsman / int_1b021fcb	comment	Tokyo Ghoul: Due to the setting centering around a conflict between humanoid abominations, the eponymous ghouls, capable of producing and manipulating a razor-sharp liquid-muscle organ in several distinct forms, and humans who harvest and reverse-engineer these to produce the most cost-effective ghoul-slaying weapons, close-quarters-combat expertise is a necessary mainstay of the setting. While not all of the combat could exactly be called swordplay, as many kagune (the organs) and quinque (the reverse-engineered weapons) can resemble anything from tentacles and wings to whips and energy-guns respectively, most kokaku ghouls, whose kagune sacks are located below their shoulder, will choose to wield their kagune as a sword, and most of the mass-produced, standard-issue quinque resemble Japanese traditional katana to some degree. Thus, blade-on-blade combat is common throughout the manga, with a few notable individuals standing out in particular. Kishou Arima, the CCG's Reaper, is the undisputed champion in eliminating ghouls and has been since he was fifteen years old. Most of the quinques he has used throughout his career take the form of swords, from the katana-like "Yukimura" to the massive BFS "Owl". Arima is skilled enough to take the strongest fighters in the setting, protagonist included, head on and come out of it unscathed, and experienced enough to chide his pupil for his reaction speed being 0,1 second too slow. Of course, his half-human, half-ghoul physiology is responsible for a lot of that, but even among the hybrid assassins, Arima is stated to be an unparalleled prodigy. Haise Sasaki, who is being groomed to become Arima's Superior Successor by the man himself, prefers to use the quinque gifted to him by Arima, "Yukimura", instead of his powerful but mentally debilitating kagune. His fighting style is noted to be similar to Arima's, with one observer stating it to be "as smooth as water." Take Hirako, Arima's former pupil and an excellent Investigator in his own right, is notable in that, during the climax of the story, he is one of the only remaining characters who isn't a ghoul, a one-eyed ghoul, a quinx or a half-human hybrid, and can not only keep up with them but actually takes out countless genetically superior enemies. Much like his mentor, Hirako's quinque-of-choice is "Nagomi", which takes the form of a broad, single-edged blade. Shuu Tsukiyama, while not being nearly on the same level as the previously mentioned characters in terms of raw combat ability, is notable since he uses his sword-like kokaku kagune in a manner deliberately invoking fencing, as a part of his Wicked Cultured aesthetic. Matsumae, the Tsukiyama family's Battle Butler and Shuu's personal tutor/servant/bodyguard, is capable of arguably even more impressive feats of swordsmanship than her master. She was personally trained in the art of kagune combat/swordplay by the family's patriarch, Mirumo, from an early age, in order to effectively protect her young master. Though being capable of detaching her kagune to form a wall of spikes, she prefers using it as very literal sword and shield combo and is skilled enough to take on one of Arima's pupils head-on, along with several other Investigators, and almost manages to win despite the odds. Yumitsu Tomoe, an Aogiri Tree member, known by her alias as "the Grave Robber", is unique among ghouls in that she prefers to keep and use the quinques of Investigators she kills, since her own bikaku kagune, while extremely sharp, also causes her to rapidly run out of stamina. Over the years, she has gained enough skill with all kinds of quinque types to be a serious match for even experienced Investigators. V, the main enforces of the story's Ancient Conspiracy, are this collectively. Since almost all of their agents are half-humans, none of them possess a kagune, which they more than make up for with their Implausible Fencing Powers — Hirako himself tells Kaneki to think of each of them as "matured Zero Squad" (Zero Squad consisting exclusively of Arima's apprentices). Interestingly, most of them seem to wield regular katanas, though they don't appear to have much trouble cutting through the infamously tough skin of ghouls, suggesting they might be made of "quinque steel". Kaiko, the ostensible leader and most prominent V agent, claims to have trained with Arima and demonstrates his incredible skill near the end of the manga. Even when fighting four-on-one against some of the toughest fighters the protagonists can field, he initially has little trouble fending them off and manages to wound several of them. He is even able to dodge incoming blows he is physically unable to see coming, all the while effortlessly Dual Wielding a katana and an ornate dagger.
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Master Swordsman / int_1b386512	comment	Kuno, from Ranma Â½, is a Kendo Team Captain and is capable of doing tremendous damage with a bokken. He is a scarily skilled fighter, despite his many personality flaws and general idiocy.
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Master Swordsman / int_1b7f85df	comment	K has Kuroh Yatogami and Yukari Mishakuji, both badass, both trained by the same master: Ichigen Miwa. He could have probably curb stomped both of his students but being a Posthumous Character means that won't ever happen. As is, Yukari is better than Kuroh (who can wipe the floor with everyone except for Kings) until the finale of the 2nd season where Kuroh manages to reach beyond him in skill. Bonus points for all of them invoking Samurai aesthetics in different ways.
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Master Swordsman / int_1c25dba1	comment	Suikoden V: Georg Prime. He has nations across two continents calling him "Deathblow" like it's his first name. There's a good reason that, in one of these games, you don't get him until pretty close to the end, and in the other, he spends about 2/3 of it unavailable to your party because he's on some 'secret mission'.
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Master Swordsman / int_1c5bbe78	comment	Lupin III: The Italian Adventure adds another character to the swordsmen roster: Leonardo da Vinci, whose immense list of skills he mastered includes swordsfighting, going toe-on-toe with Goemon for a while before losing. He had the advantage that they were using his favorite Renaissance-era blades, which Goemon was unfamiliar with, but as other opponents with a similar advantage had previously gone down in seconds.
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Master Swordsman / int_1c649ab3	comment	The Rising of the Shield Hero: Eclair Seatto is the best swordswoman in Melromarc, who, when recruited to train the Cardinal Heroes on how to use their swords properly easily defeats them in sparring in spite of her vastly inferior stats. Subverted with Ren, the Sword Hero, who mostly gets by the raw power of his Cardinal Weapon - and gets schooled by Eclair both in training and when insane due the effects of the Curse Series. He initially doesn't care, as he still does his job against monsters and the Waves of Destruction.
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Master Swordsman / int_1cc09117	comment	Bleach: Captain Unohana is reputed to be a master swordsman even though she's the top Combat Medic of the Gotei 13. Hisagi's fame with swordsmanship is solidified when he proves to be capable of defeating the also renowned swordsman Yumichika in a sword duel. Jinemon Kotsubaki, former 7th Division lieutenant and father of 13th division third-seat Sentaro, was renowned as a master swordsman. Yachiru is the name given to the only shinigami that ever mastered all known styles and forms of sword combat, who was also the person that founded both the 11th division and the "Kenpachi" title, which is given to the strongest captain in any given generation of captains. She is eventually revealed to be Captain Unohana.
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Master Swordsman / int_1d6f193a	comment	Tales of Berseria has Artorius Collbrande and Shigure Rangetsu. Even after Rokurou wins against Shigure near the end, he admits he still has a long way to go; he needed three swords to match Shigure's one.
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Master Swordsman / int_1e9e2d34	comment	The Desert Storm has several examples. Ben Naasade a.k.a. Obi-Wan Kenobi from four years after Revenge of the Sith, temporally displaced to about six years before The Phantom Menace. Despite his body having been battered by about 15 years of warfare and 4 years of alcoholism (partway through the series he has to have practically every organ in his body replaced), he effortlessly dismantles pretty much every single Jedi he faces. This is especially after an open challenge is made - beat him in a duel and they get to take his padawan (ironically, his younger self, not that anyone but a few members of the Council is aware of it) to train for a month out of concern for his methods. It gets to the point where in some cases he is noted to literally be Just Toying with Them. Even a young Darth Maul isn't immune, despite his vast skill and significantly greater physical advantages - Ben ends up dismembering Maul while making a point not to kill him. It's only because of some unwanted help that Maul escapes. In the sequel series, Cin Drallig, the Jedi Battlemaster, explains to the family of his Mandalorian Padawan that yes, in terms of pure sabre-skill, he's up there with Ben Naasade, but in battle, Ben was something else entirely. Both Yoda and Windu also qualify, with Ben being pretty open about how he's more or less certain that Yoda would destroy him. However, it never comes up as they make a point not to get involved in the above challenge because they feel it's stupid. Windu is also one of the only people to beat him, albeit in a practice duel when a still unhealthy Ben was trying to draw out his full range of skill. Dooku is noted to be arguably the greatest swordsman in the Order, and it's mentioned that between stories he duelled Ben to demonstrate Makashi to Obi-Wan. Little is said of it other than it was an apparently astonishing combat to witness, and that Dooku is not listed among the people who have beaten Ben in a straight fight (those two being Jango, who took him hand to hand, and Ni Hiella, who got up close to him and injected him with happy drugs). Obi-Wan the Younger assumes that he's a terrible swordsman, and not a great Padawan in general, due to his master's insistence on a) training in secret, b) repeatedly drilling him in the most basic training form long after people progress past it, c) not focusing on a single style. Also, he has rampant self-esteem issues. As it turns out, Ben was invoking Achievements in Ignorance, as when Obi-Wan actually gets in a practice duel he finds to his own surprise that he's capable of flattening Senior Padawans with most of a decade of growth and experience on him. And as he points out, while the most basic training form is one most people move past, it's also the basis for all other sabre combat and it's much less predictable when used by a Master. Later on in the series, he is considered arguably the best swordsman of any Padawan in the Order, and better than most of the younger Knights. By the second series, Rise and Fall, he's canonised the new Eighth form of sabre combat, Daosaan, 'the Dancing Form', designed for multiple Jedi and is generally considered to be one of the very best in the Order.
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Master Swordsman / int_1fca96ce	comment	Lafarga of Magic Knight Rayearth is a swordsman with no magic, but he's strong enough that he can create Razor Wind just by swinging his weapon. Even Hikaru, who's pretty good with a sword, can't beat him while he's Brainwashed and Crazy. The title given to him in-universe is "Dal".
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Master Swordsman / int_203162b8	comment	In Suitor Armor, Sir Baynard was the kingdom's undefeated champion swordsman until a suit of Animated Armor was entered into the latest royal tournament and trounced him through sheer might, being literally Made of Iron.
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Master Swordsman / int_2192aeb3	comment	Fire Emblem: In general, the Myrmidon and the Swordmaster classes are portrayed as unparalleled fighters known for their speed and grace. In addition to wielding all types of swords, several games grant them either extra critical hit rate and/or damage output to complement their status. Since the inclusion of skills, the Swordmaster class is associated with the Astra skill. Ayra, Shannan, Larcei, and ScÃ¡thach in Fire Emblem: Genealogy of the Holy War belong to the Od bloodline, known for their swordsmanship and the legendary technique, Astra. Their lineage allows their exalted, like Shannan, to wield Balmung, one of the twelve Holy Weapons wielded by their ancestor that ended the Holy War against the Loptous Empire. Karel from Fire Emblem: The Binding Blade and Fire Emblem: The Blazing Blade. In The Blazing Blade, he's reviled and admired as the infamous 'Sword Demon', but, after the death of his sister, he becomes Older and Wiser by the time the events of The Binding Blade occur, and changes his title to 'Saint of Swords'. Greil in Fire Emblem: Path of Radiance was once a mighty swordsman and the renowned general of Daein under the name "Gawain." However, he gave up the sword when he cut a tendon in his sword arm out of guilt over murdering his wife in a chaos-infused madness. He has since passed his sword technique to his son, Ike, and his pupil, now known as the Black Knight. In Fire Emblem: Radiant Dawn, Altina, one of Ashera's Three Heroes and sole Beorc of the group, was revealed to have wielded both Ragnell and Alondite when Ike and the Black Knight, respectively, could wield only one.
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Master Swordsman / int_223c2a48	comment	Link is explicitly referred to as such in The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild, several diaries make it a point to say just how skilled with a sword he is. Zelda's personal diary even mentions he was able to best fully grown opponents whilst he was still just a child.
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Master Swordsman / int_22d74b2e	comment	Redwall: Anybody who wields the Sword of Martin especially counts, including Matthias, who wields the sword in battle. Matthias notably used it to kill Asmodeus the Snake when he tried to hypnotize him.
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Master Swordsman / int_23d67c89	comment	The Hobbit: The Elvenking Thranduil is extremely proficient with a sword (or two). When he's surrounded by a few dozen orcs inside Dale, he slays them all while Dual Wielding.
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Master Swordsman / int_24dbab61	comment	Oyuki from Lady Snowblood, is a Master Swordswoman who uses a short sword concealed in a parasol.
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Master Swordsman / int_25371c3d	comment	In The Adventure of Sherlock Holmes' Smarter Brother, Sigerson (Gene Wilder) and Prof. Moriarty (Leo McKern) boast to each other about their swordsmanship and have a duel on a high ledge in the climax. Wilder, who also wrote and directed the movie, was a champion fencer in college at the University of Iowa, making him a real-life example of this trope.
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Master Swordsman / int_2604077	comment	Obi-Wan Kenobi: Obi-wan Kenobi's skills are rusty at the start of the series. Vader toys with him during their first fight, but he gets his mojo back and manages to defeat Vader in the second fight.
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Master Swordsman / int_277bb575	comment	In the Castle of the Night has Count Nicolai Gabriel von Krolock, one of the few villains in The Kindness of Devils who can handle himself against Hardestadt in a proper swordfight.
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Master Swordsman / int_291e9857	comment	A great many of them across the Dark Souls franchise, though many of the enemies you fight are a shadow of what they once were. In spite of this, the near-mindless Artorias nevertheless retains a vast set of skills and techniques that will force you on the defensive for the entire fight while fighting using his off-hand and without his signature greatshield. Dark Souls II upped the ante with Raime, Sir Alonne, and the Ivory King; all exceptional swordsmen who don't suffer from the mental handicaps Artorias did. Dark Souls III has probably the most understated example, as the best duelist in the game can be found just outside of Firelink after you fight the first boss.
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Master Swordsman / int_295048d5	comment	Maria herself, due to being a reincarnate from Bloodborne. She uses an aggressive Dual Wielding acrobatic style that overwhelms everyone she fights. When Alan finally gets a chance to see her fight, he and the king have a discussion about how she could possibly be so skilled and actually come close to guessing that she's a reincarnate.
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Master Swordsman / int_29650d1e	comment	MurciÃ©lago has Kurono Miyamoto, one of the toughest opponents Kuroko has ever faced. She is considered a prodigy when it comes to swordsmanship, and she constantly forces Kuroko, who's no slouch at fighting, to go on the defensive. A sniper even learns the hard way how adept Kurono is with the sword when she deflects a bullet right back into his skull.
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Master Swordsman / int_2a4482ad	comment	The Sword Master, Carla, in The Secret of Monkey Island. Guybrush must defeat her in order to win a T-shirt and impress the pirate leaders — through superior repartee.
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Master Swordsman / int_2b70efd4	comment	Old World of Darkness: Any character with five levels of the Melee skill and a specialization in "Swords" can be a master swordsman. Because the game is not as combat-focused as other tabletop games, a starting character can be a master swordsman.
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Master Swordsman / int_2ea6ae26	comment	Star Trek: Picard: Elnor's favourite weapon is the tan qalanq, the traditional sword of the Qowat Milat which has a very sharp blade. Thanks to the specialized training he had received from the warrior nuns who terrify the Tal Shiar, he's so agile and deadly with it that he can defeat multiple opponents equipped with energy weapons.
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Master Swordsman / int_2ef7cb74	comment	Lyrical Nanoha: Signum, the Magic Knight ancient leader of the Wolkenritter. She's introduced in Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha A's as someone who could match Fate in melee combat even while holding back and is later shown fighting a Post-StrikerS Nanoha on Blaster Mode Lv 1 to a draw even though she was fighting in standard form. In Magical Record Lyrical Nanoha Force, Cypha was introduced as the master swordsman of the Huckebein group and, as a show of power, curbstomps Signum in their first duel after she's shown to be immune to all of Signum's attacks. And as it turns out Curren is even better, stomping Erio and Vita without even needing to go Super Mode. Nanoha comes from a family of skilled swordsmen (including her father, brother, sister, and aunt), though she herself lacks any such training outside of the INNOCENT continuity.
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Master Swordsman / int_2fa6ae81	comment	Many characters from Blade of the Immortal at least claim to be examples of this trope.
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Master Swordsman / int_30001f71	comment	Demons of the Deep: the fencing instructor Cyrano, at a Skill of 11, is just one point shy of the maximum Skill a character can normally have. But where this master swordsman really shines is in teaching. Even if you are at the maximum Skill of 12, he's capable of instructing even a master of the sword and can increase you into superhuman levels.
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Master Swordsman / int_30a5ebfd	comment	Naruto: Killer Bee can fight with seven swords at once by holding them in every possible place on his body, except for his hands. Mifune is a master Iaijutsu Practitioner capable of holding his own against high-level shinobi despite having no ninjutsu or genjutsu. His longtime rival Hanzo the Salamander (an infamous One-Man Army of a ninja) stated that Mifune's swordsmanship is so great that attempting to use hand signs (a requirement for most ninjutsu and nearly all genjutsu) against him would be a futile gesture. Anyone who becomes one of the 7 Swordsmen of the Mist is this by default as well, particularly Zabuza, who probably has the most relatively normal sword out of the group, and was able to give Kakashi a run for his money even after his resurrection by Edo Tensei.
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Master Swordsman / int_30cf883b	comment	In Grent's Fall, both King Osbert and the Bladecleaver. Naturally, they wind up dueling each other.
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Master Swordsman / int_318b09a0	comment	Murtagh, Arya, and Oromis in The Inheritance Cycle qualify as this. Eragon runs into a problem in the last two books when he realizes that, while very good, he's still well below their level, and needs to make some serious improvements to his technique for when he needs to go blade-to-blade with opponents on this level. Even at the end of the series, after making his improvements, he grudgingly admits that Murtagh is still better.
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Master Swordsman / int_32c541e6	comment	President Fuhrer King (Civilian rank, military rank, first name) Bradley in Fullmetal Alchemist. He routinely draws his sword and cuts his opponent down so quickly that most people don't even see him move before the other guy takes a fatal wound. The man can take on a tank and win with nothing but his saber, and it wasn't even an Absurdly Sharp Blade. He's later shown slicing bullets in half — and when Scar cuts off his arms, he holds the blade of the broken saber in his teeth and still keeps fighting! The proof of mastery for any other Master Swordsman in the series is crossing blades with Bradley... and surviving the first pass. Second place goes to Ling Yao, who is the only person who comes close to being able to hold his own against Bradley in a fight.
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Master Swordsman / int_334120fc	comment	Fighter from 8-Bit Theater is this. Despite having failed the school's philosophy, he's a natural-born master of both sword and his creation: Sword-Chucks. His skill is so great he can use swords like shields, ranging from blocking pure dark energy to the planet itself.
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Master Swordsman / int_3381cfbc	comment	Ollie from Power Rangers Dino Fury cites six years of training in fencing when thrown into his first fight, giving him an edge against the Hengemen when fighting with a Chromafury Saber.
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Master Swordsman / int_343830b9	comment	The Night Unfurls: All five hunters in the story use trick weapons that either resemble a sword, or have a sword mode, and they can certainly hack through any foe like a knife cutting through butter. Due to his proficiency with the greatsword, Vault is regarded as a hero of Eostia, famed for repulsing the enemies from Eostia's borders numerous times during the Forever War between Celestine and Olga. His skill is best showcased in Chapter 3 of the remastered version, where he is able to trade blows with Kyril. It says a lot when Kyril, after said duel, admits that a normal warrior would have trouble fighting Vault, prey worthy of hunting. Three out of the Seven Shields count as this. Both Claudia and Alicia earn their prestiges through their skill with the sword, while the Dual Wielding Maia is known as one of the strongest mercenaries in Eostia. Several knights of the nobility, like Sir Mikhail Pantielle and Grave Levantine, are this by reputation only.
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Master Swordsman / int_3823caa4	comment	Trapped on Draconica: In terms of skill Taurok outclasses everyone else in the setting.
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Master Swordsman / int_386eaf91	comment	Kyuuzou and Kambei from Seven Samurai are the best swordsmen of the seven, slaying many bandits.
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Master Swordsman / int_39067934	comment	Nameless and Broken Sword in Hero (2002) are China's deadliest swordsmen.
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Master Swordsman / int_39c20861	comment	Every Immortal in Highlander becomes this with at least one type of bladed weapon, since they depend on their swordsmanship to stay alive. However, a few learn multiple types of swords and styles of combat: Duncan MacLeod always prefers his dragon-head katana, but throughout the series, he's seen to use several other swords with some degree of skill, including a Scottish claidheamh mÃ³r, a basket-hilted broadsword, a rapier, a smallsword, and a boarding cutlass. In one episode he dual-wields twin wakizashi; in another, he fights with rapier and dagger in the style that 16th-century swordmaster GÃ©rard Thibault called "the Mysterious Circle." Amanda uses two or three different swords, and once in the short-lived spinoff series Highlander: The Raven she uses a pair of tessen. At over five thousand years old, Methos has probably outlived whatever his first weapon-of-choice was. He's seen to use several different swords and styles in various episodes. One of the villains-of-the-week, Xavier St. Cloud, was first seen using a katana, then switched to a rapier after Duncan cut off one of his hands. Kanewulf the Viking is pretty good with a sword, but his preferred weapon is a Norse battle-axe.
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Master Swordsman / int_39e3b5ff	comment	Many characters from Kill Bill, especially the Bride, Bill, and O-Ren Ishi. The Bride uses her Hattori Hanzo sword, and of course every swordsman uses a katana.
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Master Swordsman / int_3ab71c22	comment	Dungeon Keeper Ami Commander Cathy, a mercenary hired by Keeper Mercury to train her troops and later Mercury herself. The Avatar. While a lot of his powers come from the stamina and endurance the Light gives him, most of his real power comes down to well-trained reflexes, natural dexterity, experience, and pure skill.
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Master Swordsman / int_3aeb1c75	comment	Future Trunks from Dragon Ball, to date the only main character to use a weapon in a world where someone's finger poke could topple a mountain. Mind you it's not as much of a gimmick as it could have been. Trunks has proven to use it effectively in battle, even getting several techniques utilising his sword in his video game skillsets.
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Master Swordsman / int_3c912cc2	comment	In Tales of Vesperia Yuri Lowell fits this in a Performer fashion; the only one that beats him is Don Whitehorse who's a Master Swordsman of even more experience. His comments about how he never could beat Flynn Scifo (at least until the Duel Boss with him) suggests he's also one of some calibre. Considering Duke's Cool Sword and how he uses it, and his reputation he also fits this.
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Master Swordsman / int_3dd45b50	comment	Goemon Ishikawa XIII is the best of all. His demonstrations of Implausible Fencing Powers pretty much fit into every category, with his trademark moves being Parrying Bullets and cutting a group of enemies' guns, clothes, and hair before they can realize what happened, and it would actually be shorter to list the things he hasn't managed to cut in half. His fighting skills without the sword are nothing to sneeze at either. Part of Goemon's skills come from his Absurdly Sharp Blade. That said, he can block bullets with any sword; it's just that if he uses a common sword, it's going to be ruined.
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Master Swordsman / int_3df46758	comment	Admiral Harper from Open Blue is a legendary swordsman. Unfortunately, at the height of his career, he was recruited as a trainer for special assignments by his government's intelligence agency. In order to justify his transfer out of the field, they faked an accident where he allegedly broke his leg. Because of his apparent lack of determination to recover from his 'injury', his reputation has since gone bad.
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Master Swordsman / int_3fc6395e	comment	In The Tomb of Dracula (#49), the Count defeats both Zorro and D'Artagnan with the blade. Given the age of Dracula's birth and the length of his Unlife, it makes sense that he'd be a consummate duelist; as Groundhog Day showed, practice anything for enough centuries and you'll get really good. Then again, the story does leave us asking Or Was It a Dream?.
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Master Swordsman / int_4150349a	comment	In Captain Kronos: Vampire Hunter, Kronos himself and Lord Hagen Durward (whose tombstone proclaims him the finest swordsman of his day). Unsurprisingly, the film ends with a duel between the two.
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Master Swordsman / int_41b0198a	comment	The Dresden Files by Jim Butcher: Shiro, Knight of the Cross is only around for a single book, but in that book, we see him as being a swordsman without mortal peer. In the space of a second and a half, he kills two mooks and holds a fallen angel hostage. He is so skilled that Nicodemus, a two-thousand-year-old Nigh Invulnerable villain possessed by a Fallen Angel, who has killed over a hundred Knights of the Cross, is scared of him. As Michael put it, "Shiro knew fencing like Mozart knew music". Michael himself is no slouch, being quite literally the only other person who Nicodemus regards as even being a decent sparring partner. And it turns out that Nicodemus was understating it - all those times they fought, Michael was holding back, because the job of the Knights is to try and save those possessed by the Fallen, even if they're clearly collaborating - or quite possibly in charge, in the case of Nicodemus. When in Skin Game Nicodemus finally outright rejected Michael's plea to give up the coin and try and redeem himself, Michael went all out, and very nearly killed him, with Nicodemus only saving himself through 'sheer nerve' - he uses the Holy Grail as a shield.
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Master Swordsman / int_43a9c333	comment	Cowboy Bebop: Vicious is so skilled with his katana that he can hold his own in a future setting with a whole lot of guns, and is a match for Spike's shooting ability.
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Master Swordsman / int_449b44c9	comment	In The Myth of Link & Zelda: Survivors of the Calamity, Link has all of his skills from The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild, and due to an Age Lift also has a couple decades more experience as a fighter. Indeed, his official title is â€œMaster.â€�
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Master Swordsman / int_45599333	comment	Arie Hon from Tower of God developed a unique style of swordsmanship that Word of God stated can only be defeated by either overwhelming power or by someone else being more skilled in the sword style. As the creator of the style (among other things), this naturally makes Arie Hon the greatest swordsman in the Tower.
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Master Swordsman / int_46aac2a3	comment	Elden Ring Malenia's biggest claim to fame is that she is possibly the best swordswoman in the Lands Between; she has several Talismans dedicated to her prowess with the sword (Prosthesis-Wielder Heirloom, Winged Sword Insignia, Rotten Winged Sword Insignia, Millicent's Prosthesis) and lore about her repeatedly talks about the beauty and deadliness of her bladework. She's so good with her katana that she was considered possibly the most powerful Demigod in The Shattering despite being a Magically Inept Fighter going up against Magic Knights... oh, and being a blind and deathly ill triple amputee. If you fight her yourself, you'll find that she has a complex moveset with the ability to chain individual moves into combos, will dodge ranged attacks if she can, can cancel her staggers whenever she damn well pleases, and has a special move called the Waterfowl Dance that consists of three steps of Blade Spam attacks — and due to how she moves during the attack, dodging it is difficult and counter-intuitive. Oh, and did we mention she heals upon hitting you? Because she does that, too. And all of this is just phase one! In phase 2, she decides you've crossed the Godzilla Threshold, unleashes the Scarlet Rot instead of holding it back, becomes much more aggressive and gains new attacks with Rot build up. Malenia learned all she knew from the Blind Swordsman, a Hero of Another Story who used the Flowing Curved Sword to seal away the God of Rot long ago. He's credited with inventing the Guard Counter technique to compensate for his blindness, allowing him to retaliate once the enemy had given away their position. If the items related to him in-game are any indication, he wore light armor (he's associated with the Blue Cloth Set, and the Blue Dancer Charm made in the image of his fairy companion raises attack power the lower your equip load) and focused on remaining mobile and taking advantage of opportunities (such as when he guard-countered an opponent) to strike as hard as he could. Starscourge Radahn couldn't match Malenia in pure technique, but even with his mind long rotted away, he's a terrifying fighter who is capable of smoothly integrating gravity magic and dual-wielded greatswords into his fighting style, and when he and Malenia faced off in the Battle of Aeonia, he was able to duel her to a stalemate that she could only "win" by crossing the Godzilla Threshold and making sure everybody lost. Bloody Finger Okina is a hearkening back to the concept of a "Shura" (a swordsman who was consumed by bloodlust and became a murderous demon) from Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice. He's considered one of the best swordsmen to ever come from the Land of Reeds, and he has completely dedicated his life to mastering his katana. In-game, he's a late-game invader who has a habit of shredding the unprepared with his constant use of the Corpse Piler weapon skill. Maliketh, the Black Blade, is The Dreaded of the setting, not so much for his swordsmanship skill as the fact that his sword is Deastined Death itself, but you really have to give the guy credit for being able to leap around like Yoda while wielding a sword as big as he is and probably heavier as well.
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Master Swordsman / int_495f277f	comment	Hayate the Combat Butler: Hinagiku Katsura is the Kendo Team Captain in addition to being the Student Council President and has proven to have far greater skill than the rest of the club put together. She has acquired two magical swords so far. The first is Wooden Masamune which lets her cut ghosts and brings out its wielder's maximum potential, and seems to be semi-sentient as it is very fond of her, either for wielding it so well in battle or because everyone is fond of Hinagiku. The second is Shirosakura which seems to be made out of crystal and she's been shown easily slicing through boulders with it and it seems like it may be able to kill ghosts as well...and lets her fly (which she's used only once due to her intense fear of heights. Notably, she is able to pull these swords seemingly from nowhere, though we did get a humorous short of Isumi lamenting that Wooden Masamune keeps disappearing, shown to be from answering Hinagiku's call for it whenever she finds monsters and ghosts in need of a beat-down. While he claimed otherwise early on in the series, Hayate himself is about on par with Hinagiku. In a duel with Kotetsu, Hayate nearly killed him with the incredible speed and power of his strikes and in Greece, he was able to one-shot a 12-foot-tall Minotaur with little effort using only a decorative sword from a nearby suit of armor. Borrowing Wooden Masamune he could even deflect the Storm of Blades from the Greece Arc's Big Bad and defeat it without taking much more damage than he already had. Athena may count as this due to being the one who taught Hayate. She certainly had skill in the End of the World Flashback arc but hasn't done much fighting in the present.
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Master Swordsman / int_49a0a477	comment	Hiro in Snow Crash. Says so right on his business card. The claim seems dubious at first. His success in VR seems to come from the fact that he wrote the swordfighting code himself. In the real world, however, he proves to be just about as good as he claims he is.
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Master Swordsman / int_49a87cb3	comment	Final Fantasy VII: Sephiroth's swordsmanship and overall prowess stand out even among the series' characters, which include several notable swordsmen. In one of Crisis Core's cutscenes, Sephiroth was able to casually fend off attacks from both Genesis and Angealnote both were SOLDIER First Class while holding back. Cloud Strife, although never an official member of SOLDIER, becomes an extraordinary swordsman over the course of the series. He starts out casually wielding the Buster Sword with one hand in the original game and by the time of Advent Children, he's capable of expertly using a composite BFS composed of six component swords, either individually or in Dual Wielding combos. Easily the 2nd best swordsman, and while Sephiroth is subject to hubris, Cloud is the only one skilled enough to take advantage of that hubris. In the prequel Crisis Core: Genesis, Angeal, and (to a lesser extent) Zack Fair each attained the top rank of First Class in SOLDIER, Shinra's elite paramilitary unit, which is entirely composed of highly trained, bioaugmented supersoldiers. Each of them could fend off a small army with their sword skills alone.
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Master Swordsman / int_49a88435	comment	Final Fantasy XII: Basch.
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Master Swordsman / int_49a88442	comment	Final Fantasy XIV: The Samurai Job; while several Jobs use swords (Red Mage, Dark Knight, Paladin, and Gunbreaker) they all supplement it with either magic, brute force, or some combination thereof. Only the Samurai relies on pure skill with the blade.
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Master Swordsman / int_4ab17360	comment	Inuyasha: The ambidextrous Sesshoumaru masters any weapon the second he touches it, and sometimes even before. He advises the struggling Inuyasha on how to properly use Dragon-Scale Tessaiga after overhearing a single conversation and handles even Sango's Hiraikotsu with ease. The only weapon he ever struggled to master is his own sword Tenseiga, which requires mastering compassion instead of physical strength or skill.
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Master Swordsman / int_4c7d31ab	comment	Alan Breck Stewart in Stevenson's Kidnapped.
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Master Swordsman / int_4d910120	comment	Shay Patrick Cormac, the Assassin-turned-Templar protagonist of Assassin's Creed Rogue is likewise a dual-wielding swordsman in the vein of Edward, but favours a sword and dagger combo.
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Master Swordsman / int_4db97159	comment	Blue Eye Samurai: Mizu is a self-taught one, having watched the men her master forged swords for practice and imitated their moves, giving her a distinctively eclectic blend of different sword styles to draw from. Abijah Fowler is a strong and capable swordsman for someone his size and age, to the point that even Mizu remarks on the cleanness of his cuts. Taigen is one by reputation, but he is outclassed by Mizu. He just seemed to be an up-and-coming swordsman because he was a decently talented fighter training at a dojo whose style was trash.
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Master Swordsman / int_4e9f355	comment	In the prequel Crisis Core: Genesis, Angeal, and (to a lesser extent) Zack Fair each attained the top rank of First Class in SOLDIER, Shinra's elite paramilitary unit, which is entirely composed of highly trained, bioaugmented supersoldiers. Each of them could fend off a small army with their sword skills alone.
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Master Swordsman / int_4f46b380	comment	Azazel from X-Men: First Class. Add the teleporting, and it's a deadly combination.
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Master Swordsman / int_50555681	comment	Katanagatari: Meisai Tsuruga, or Uneri Ginkaku . The main characters have to duel them to get the twelves katanas of Shikizaki Kiki. Shichika considers himself one as well, despite not using a katana. He uses a martial art in which the swordsman himself is the katana. Hakurei Sabi in particular, is considered the best Swordsman of Japan's history and is an in-universe Memetic Badass said to be able to cut anything.
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Master Swordsman / int_5082a6a	comment	The Three Musketeers, especially the hot-blooded D'Artagnan and the wise Old Master Athos. Porthos is prodigiously strong and Aramis is quite the Badass Bookworm.
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Master Swordsman / int_50e2e357	comment	Star Trek (2009): Sulu announces that his close-quarters fighting experience is fencing, which causes Kirk some concern until Sulu starts wrecking Romulans with a fold-out saber.
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Master Swordsman / int_51d5faa8	comment	Knaves on Waves has Captain Jacques Beaufort, widely regarded as the greatest swordsman alive. The only other contender is Captain Hargrave, and the promise of a duel between them is one of the biggest events the Empire has ever seen.
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Master Swordsman / int_5261d625	comment	Samurai Champloo: The two heroes are master swordsmen, Jin, and Mugen. Jin is a traditional swordsman, while Murgen relies more on his incredible speed, unique and unpredictable fighting style, and killer instinct rather than any traditional martial arts. This is largely why Jin's hardest battles are usually classic sword duels, whereas Mugen is conversely pitted against unconventional foes who don't rely on swords. Various antagonists also qualify. Chief among them are jovial mercenary swordmaster Inuyaka, the deadly Shaolin Tsujigiri Ukon, and Kariya Kagetoki — a peerless swordsman of such great talent that he is known widely as the 'Hand of God'! During Episode 21, Jin meets an old hermit called Matagi. Later, when the hermit is asked about his real name he quietly mutters that he is actually Miyamoto Mushashi — perhaps the most legendary Japanese swordsman in history! When Jin asks him to repeat himself more loudly the old hermit dismisses the topic.
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Master Swordsman / int_53a73ca0	comment	Star Wars: The Clone Wars: Obi-Wan later matches the Multi-Armed and Dangerous General Grievous (an infamous Jedi-killer) multiple times, fights evenly with an older and more powerful Darth Maul, and routs both Maul and Savage at the same time with two sabers, removing Savage's arm and sending them running for their lives. Anakin shows that he's matured into a juggernaut capable of matching Dooku for periods and curbstomping almost everyone else. Dooku repeatedly handles Anakin and Obi-Wan comfortably enough and pretty much anyone else who comes up against him, even when blinded and outnumbered three to one.
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Master Swordsman / int_53fdef82	comment	While there are a number of sword users in Snow White with the Red Hair the prince (later king) Izana Wistaria and the knights Sir Lowen Mitsuhide and Lady Kiki Serian stand out as expert swordsmen who have not been seen defeated even in practice and flashbacks to their youth.
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Master Swordsman / int_56e10d85	comment	Tolkien's Legendarium has a lot of these. Stand-out examples are: Maia EÃ¶nwÃ«, the greatest swordsman in Arda history, received the sword from ManwÃ« himself. Turin Turambar, slayer of Glaurung, destined slayer of Morgoth at the Last Battle, and the dude that accidentally married his sister, is generally acknowledged as the greatest swordsman in Middle Earth's history. The fact that his sword is probably sentient and possibly evil doesn't help. Maedhros Feanorion is one of the greatest elf swordsmen, and responded to losing his sword hand by training himself to become even more lethal with his remaining left hand. Earendil the Mariner, slayer of Ancalagon the Black, the greatest dragon in Middle Earth's history, in some versions the slayer of Ungoliant (giant spider, possibly an Eldritch Abomination, powerful enough to terrify Morgoth and require an army of Balrogs to chase off), and latterly Morgoth's prison guard, is also up there. In the later days of Middle-Earth, Aragorn, especially while wielding Anduril, is recognised as an example.
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Master Swordsman / int_5755b96a	comment	Julio ScoundrÃ©l, Elan's mentor in the ways of the Dashing Swordsman, in The Order of the Stick. Roy's grandfather is even better than he is.
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Master Swordsman / int_59bc4ced	comment	Zorro, of course. In The Curse of Capistrano, he easily is the best swordsman in the area, and later works only cement his status as a Master Swordsman.
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Master Swordsman / int_5ada53ed	comment	In the James Bond film Die Another Day, there's an intense sword duel scene between Gustav Graves and 007. Both Bond and Graves display mastery with a wide range of swords they grab from the walls of the complex, including rapiers, katana, and longswords. Likewise, Miranda Frost is a former gold medal (by default) Olympic fencer and uses a sword during a climactic fight.
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Master Swordsman / int_5b0f2776	comment	Redo of Healer has the Clyret family, whose members have been so good and dedicated to the sword they developed a new Class, Sword Saint, that can only be achieved by someone in their bloodline. Kureha, as their strongest member alive, is flat-out the best swordsfighter in the world, enough that when the Sword Hero dies she's able to pass the terrifying test to claim the Class for herself rather than let it be reincarnated. Keyaru is one by virtue of copying Kureha's skills. Blade, the Sword Hero, believes herself to be this... But her swings are so bad and unrefined Keyaru found himself embarrassed during their fight. She only won and got her reputation by her superhuman strength and speed and her Divine Armament amplifying her physical abilities and granting her a Healing Factor.
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Master Swordsman / int_5bfa9c98	comment	In Warframe, Excalibur is noted as being a "master of gun and blade", being the first Warframe ever made. Excalibur deals more damage with swords of all flavors and has sword-themed powers. "Slash Dash" rockets him forward slashing enemies in the process, "Radial Blind" blinds enemies with light from his sword, "Radial Javelin" has him slam his sword into the ground, spewing out ethereal swords than pin enemies to walls, and "Exalted Blade" summons an energy sword that sends out waves of destructive energy with every slash.
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Master Swordsman / int_5cd98612	comment	The Rise and Fall of D.O.D.O.: The badass career soldier Tristan realizes that if he's going to survive his trips in time to Elizabethan England, he'd better learn how to properly sword fight. When he runs into a group of historical fencing enthusiasts in the park, he recruits one, Mortimer, to train him. With Mortimer's tutelage, Tristan becomes quite the swordsman.
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Master Swordsman / int_5ce3fc86	comment	Mifune from Soul Eater. Bonus points for having a set of literally dozens of katanas he carries around in oversized holsters. Bonus bonus points for being the only full-blooded human to be able to go toe-to-toe with people and creatures with supernatural powers.
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Master Swordsman / int_5e150650	comment	Solar and Abyssal Exalted who favour Melee can do things with a sword that would make Miyamoto Musashi swear to be a better person for the rest of his life in exchange for just one lesson. Titan-slaying power is nice like that.
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Master Swordsman / int_5fd4696	comment	Jitsu Squad have both the hero, Hero, and The Dragon, Dash, being capable swordsmen who can slice and dice through their enemies like no tomorrow. Appropriately enough, they're sworn enemies towards each other.
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Master Swordsman / int_60520421	comment	Gosu: As the successor to the Soseondang's Flying Flash Sword Style, Soh Jinhong is naturally a master of swordsmanship being able to effortlessly cleave through trees and solid rock as if they were paper.
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Master Swordsman / int_61e400a0	comment	Path of Exile has Daresso, the Sword King, who was in life the greatest champion of the Grand Arena of Theopolis. He is still revered over a century after his disappearance, with both Vagan the Weaponmaster and the Duelist player character speaking of him with awe. He also provides a pretty challenging boss fight being fast and strong and always on your grill with slows and blades to catch you off-guard.
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Master Swordsman / int_6237d46d	comment	Inglis/Chris in Reborn to Master the Blade is a good king who's granted a dying wish by the goddess of his world, and uses it to wish for a rebirth so that he can spend it becoming the greatest swordsman of all time. The goddess, being annoyingly prescient, reincarnates him as a girl, but that doesn't stop her from pushing forth towards her ultimate goal.
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Master Swordsman / int_624523ec	comment	Telemachon in Black Legion is acknowledged as a genius swordsman even by people who hate him. He's capable of holding back a powerful Khornate daemon, literally born of swordsmen's thoughts, with his two swords, and as Khayon puts it, if one can master Dual Wielding as practical art and not theatricsnote Incredibly difficult feat in Real Life, he certainly qualifies for such title.
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Master Swordsman / int_62570927	comment	The Swordsman and The Black Knight (Dane Whitman) in the Marvel Universe have this as their shtick, with Dracula commenting that Dane was one of the best swordsmen of all time. The latter also has to contend with the nature of his sword.
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Master Swordsman / int_630755ab	comment	Codex Alera has several characters noted for their sword skills. It's unusual in that much of this skill comes from metalcrafting, magical abilities that can massively increase their focus, endurance, and pain resistance, as well as allow them to sense metal and strike with remarkable speed and force. Although (almost) everyone has Furycrafting abilities, anyone who doesn't have tremendous metalcrafting skill has no chance against someone who does in a sword fight. Since most of the high lords are excellent metalcrafters, stone knives are favored for assassination attempts. The best of them is almost certainly Araris Valerian, whose abilities are advanced enough that he can transform his skin into metal, something only one other character seems to be able to do. Aldrick ex Gladius and Phrygiar Navaris are both only just below Araris in terms of skill, and are similarly famous for their abilities. Sir Miles is also up there; before his leg got crippled, he was just below Aldrick (his crippled leg is thanks to his brother Araris pushing him in front of a cart so that Miles wouldn't be killed by Aldrick). Tavi is also pretty good after training from Araris, being able to kill Phrygiar Navaris, although that was largely through his words rather than his skill with a blade. The duel that took place between Aldrick ex Gladius and Araris Valerian prior to the first novel took them all around the city and lasted for several DAYS (with the help of their metalcrafting). It is continuously cited as the greatest contest of skill ever seen in Alera, although Aldrick does not share that sentiment. Princeps Gaius Septimus may in fact be the only person to equal Araris Valerian, it's ambiguous whether Septimus is the most skilled swordsman to have lived or that Araris deliberately underplayed his abilities when sparring with the Princeps to give this illusion.
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Master Swordsman / int_632bff3d	comment	As per canon, Yoda, Mace, and Dooku all qualify as this in Star Wars: Lineage. Obi-Wan also deserves mention: Despite being in his early-mid 20s by the end of the series, he's an Adaptational Badass and even more of an One-Man Army than in canon, mowing down hordes of zombies and robot tanks and very nearly matching Qui-Gon, a Jedi Master three decades his senior, in ability.
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Master Swordsman / int_640d9be1	comment	Karel from Fire Emblem: The Binding Blade and Fire Emblem: The Blazing Blade. In The Blazing Blade, he's reviled and admired as the infamous 'Sword Demon', but, after the death of his sister, he becomes Older and Wiser by the time the events of The Binding Blade occur, and changes his title to 'Saint of Swords'.
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Master Swordsman / int_6749d524	comment	Danielle de Barbarac of Ever After claims that her deceased father was an expert swordsman and taught her to be likewise. Given that her father died when she was eight years old, however, it's entirely likely that she's bluffing.
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Master Swordsman / int_6a4c8f1b	comment	One-Punch Man: Kamikaze, or by his hero name Atomic Samurai, is the most skilled swordsman in the world and can perform feats so fast, that it looks like he never even moved.
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Master Swordsman / int_6a550211	comment	Blind Fury: The hero is a Blind Weaponmaster who wields a sword hidden in his cane in 1980s America. The character is an obvious Expy of Zatoichi.
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Master Swordsman / int_6a8aff51	comment	The Stormlight Archive: Adolin Kholin is generally considered one of the best duelists on the planet, to the point where his religious purpose in life is dueling. Of course in Alethi culture, competition and being the best is everything, so many others won't admit his prowess even while doing everything they can to avoid being caught in a dueling ring against him.
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Master Swordsman / int_6ac55ec7	comment	Dungeons & Dragons: The kensai/weapons master class kit is a subclass of fighter who forfeits all armor in favor of sword mastery. He can take five skill levels in a single weapon (other fighter classes can take up to two) and do, indeed, crazy things with swords. For example, a level 16 Weapons Master Dual Wielding katanas (which he is fully proficient with) with Haste buff can land as many as 24 successful hits in one round. Any fighter that specializes in a sword will get a bonus to attack and damage while using a sword, turning him or her into, essentially, a master swordsman. The Duelist prestige class from 3rd Edition is a master fencer. The class focuses on combat with a light weapon (usually a rapier), with the off-hand kept free. The Player's Option Guide for 2nd Edition introduced Weapon Mastery, High Mastery, and Grand Mastery for Fighters opening the door for Grand-Master swordsmen. In Fifth Edition, the Battlemaster fighter is a capable battlefield controller who can disarm, knock down, or intimidate enemies through swordplay. Any class can buy into a fraction of those skills with a feat. Other frontrunners in sword skills are the Kensei, a monk path that specializes in using martial weapons, and the College of Swords Bard, a Dance Battler who can do Flourishes and fight like a Martial.
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Master Swordsman / int_6bbde1c8	comment	Overwatch: Genji, the resident Cyber Ninja, is clearly a master swordsman. He regularly deflects bullets, arrows, explosives, even a storm of bullets from Bastion's Gatling Gun can't touch him... And he fires it all right back at them. With a wakizashi. His Ultimate Ability has him draw his actual katana, which he can cut through anyone and anything, doing the highest melee damage in the game. Killing four to five people in one Ult is not unknown of. Genji's older brother Hanzo was one of these back in the past, and was apparently so skilled that he could match and probably defeat Genji's current cyborg self. However, after nearly killing Genji on orders from the clan (which resulted in Genji needing to become a cyborg to survive), Hanzo hung up the sword and took up the bow and arrow.
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Master Swordsman / int_6c5a9849	comment	In Shadow of the Conqueror, Daylen was always a passionate duelist, and attained the highest possible rank — Grand High Master of the Sword, signifying that he's among the top fifty or so swordsmen in his world. His abilities atrophied a bit in old age with the weakening of his body, but his newfound youth brings them back to their peak. What startles him is that Ahrek also attained the same rank, with the golden mark to prove it.
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Master Swordsman / int_6cd3b44f	comment	Ginji Matsuzaki from Black Lagoon can use his katana to defeat a group of thugs and hold his ground against gunslingers like Revy. It's particularly noteworthy that the shirasaya mount for his sword isn't even practical for fighting, since it has no handguard or hilt wrappings, but he's good enough to wield it anyway despite this.
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Master Swordsman / int_6d564c8	comment	Tricolour in the second Freedom Force can take on the Nazi Army and keep up with Freedom Force's super-powered heroes with just Olympic-level fencing.
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Master Swordsman / int_6f1bcb62	comment	Greil in Fire Emblem: Path of Radiance was once a mighty swordsman and the renowned general of Daein under the name "Gawain." However, he gave up the sword when he cut a tendon in his sword arm out of guilt over murdering his wife in a chaos-infused madness. He has since passed his sword technique to his son, Ike, and his pupil, now known as the Black Knight.
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Master Swordsman / int_6f7cfb8d	comment	In The Princess Bride, Inigo spends many years trying to become a Master Swordsman. When he's finished his training, he's actually graduated to the even higher level of "Wizard." Even still, the Man in Black defeats him.
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Master Swordsman / int_6fde2d0d	comment	Yamada Asaemon is the Shogun's sword-tester and is thought to be the only swordsman in Japan who can match Ogami. He goes up against Ogami, and is only defeated because Retsudo secretly tampered with his sword. The creators later made a spin-off starring Asaemon, Samurai Executioner.
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Master Swordsman / int_701f0ece	comment	Berserk features several notable masters of the sword: The protagonist Guts stands out for his ability to wield his giant Dragon Slayer with as much speed and skill as someone who mastered the use of an ordinary sword, enabling him to cut down one hundred men in one encounter and slay giant Apostles. Besides his strength and speed he is surprisingly crafty and talented at improvising. Griffith originally gets Guts to join the Band of the Hawk by fencing circles around him in a duel, managing to parry Guts' monstrous blows with his light single-handed saber through sheer skill and agility. However, after Guts becomes superior to him in skill as well as strength, Griffith finally tastes defeat. Casca was second only to Griffith as a swordfighter in the Band of the Hawk before Guts came along, and acquits herself heroically in the Hundred Man Fight, Battle of Doldrey, and the Escape from Midland. Her style emphasizes acrobatics and speed. Serpico at first opposes and eventually aids Guts with his impressive sword skills, relying on speed, smarts, and analysis. He is especially adept at using the environment to put his opponent at a disadvantage, and against Guts' inhuman abilities he has no choice but to be a combat pragmatist whenever he fights him. The Skull Knight is an ancient undead warrior of peerless skill with the blade, honed from centuries' worth of experience fighting against the Godhand and their Apostle minions. Wielding the Sword of Actuation, he fearlessly wades through The Legions of Hell on a regular basis, slices them apart in rapid succession, and makes the whole spectacle look damn easy.
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Master Swordsman / int_72262aee	comment	Avatar: The Last Airbender: Master Piandao. Backstory has him retiring from the Fire Nation Army when he grew sick of war. The Firelord sent a hundred soldiers to force him to rejoin or kill him. He sent them all back, and the Firelord decided to not force the issue again. Jet is capable enough with his dual blades to take on Fire Nation soldiers and outfight Aang at one point. It's worth noting that he's not a classically trained swordsman and uses a lot of Confusion Fu to give himself the edge. Zuko is also a great swordsman, being trained to use twin dao swords by Master Piandao. He used this skill in his alter ego as the Blue Spirit and once surprised Jet by dueling him to a draw without bothering to use his firebending.
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Master Swordsman / int_72d0fad7	comment	The eponymous Cruz Diablo. He's only defeated after he's shot in the back while running away.
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Master Swordsman / int_733f2aaf	comment	Cradle Series: Adama, the Sword Sage, was widely considered the greatest swordsman in the world — and since this is a world where weak swordsmen can parry arrows and cut boulders in half, that's really saying something. He died before we meet him, but his disciple Yerin is a main character, and she repeatedly punches above her weight class by sheer dint of the sword skills he taught her. Min Shuei, Sage of the Frozen Blade school, is the other Sword Sage, using a combination of Sword and Cold madra rather than the pure Sword madra Adama used. She was also engaged to him, but he delayed their marriage until Yerin finished her training. Since he died during that training, Min Shuei is rather upset, but still considers Yerin an estranged daughter.
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Master Swordsman / int_735a44a9	comment	The Rangers from Zyuden Sentai Kyoryuger and the American counterpart Power Rangers Dino Charge all have access to swords, but Souji and his counterpart Riley use them far more often than their teammates, and are noted for their sword skills. This is reflected in their Humongous Mecha, who become slashing weapons for the team's megazords.
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Master Swordsman / int_7406f8b2	comment	In Quest for Glory I, the fresh-off-the-correspondence-course would-be Hero, at least when classed as a fighter, has the opportunity of learning from the Baron's Swordmaster. The Hero fights with a sword and shield, while the Swordmaster fights with just the sword (and insinuates that the Hero is inferior for using a shield...several times). By the end of the game, after both training and practical experience, the Hero is able to defeat the Swordmaster, who claims that he slipped, that it didn't count, and that he's still superior, before he runs away, never to be seen again. Throughout the course of the series, the Fighter (and later Paladin) Hero continues to improve and is eventually a world-class Swordmaster...who is still outshone by Elsa Von Spielburg in the fifth game.
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Master Swordsman / int_741491bd	comment	Most of the immortals in Highlander have centuries of swordfighting experience.
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Master Swordsman / int_747a18bc	comment	Royal Guards and Elvish Champions from Battle for Wesnoth.
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Master Swordsman / int_74c659e6	comment	Silthanka duelists in Rocket Age, Silthuri who specialise in the use of the Silthanka sword, are the best swordsmen in the solar system, selling their services as champions to various royal families.
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Master Swordsman / int_74f7210c	comment	The various Links in The Legend of Zelda series all become master swordsmen sooner or later (depending on the game). After all, they do wield the Master Sword at one point or another. In The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask, there is a sword school in West Clock Town run by an Old Master Swordsman, who can teach Link sword techniques for a fee. In The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker, Orca is an old man living on Outset Island who spent his life studying swordsmanship. He teaches swordsmanship to Link and gives him the Hero's Sword. He grades Link's ability until Link surpasses him. In The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess, Link's mentor is Rusl, who is another master swordsman. There's also the Hero's Shade, who passes up to seven secret sword skills to Link. He's a previous incarnation of Link, having been the Hero of Time himself. In The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword, Eagus has the role of teaching the students of the Knight Academy everything about swordfights. As expected, Link is one of those students. Link is explicitly referred to as such in The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild, several diaries make it a point to say just how skilled with a sword he is. Zelda's personal diary even mentions he was able to best fully grown opponents whilst he was still just a child.
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Master Swordsman / int_7559ae0b	comment	Dune: The planet Ginaz is famed for training the best swordsmen in existence. The most famous of the Ginaz swordsmen is Jool Noret, the first true Swordmaster. His skill with a blade was so great that no man or machine could kill him. Only a massive tidal wave finally ended him. Duncan Idaho, a Ginaz-trained swordsman, bodyguard, and fencing teacher who is entrusted with protecting and tutoring Paul. Gurney Halleck (who notably is not Ginaz-trained), is also a master by any standard, perhaps even moreso than Duncan. While public perception is that Duncan is clearly better (if not much better), Duncan states that Gurney beats him six times out of ten when they spar.
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Master Swordsman / int_75622e41	comment	Nightcrawler from X-Men. Even in his original run, he was known for his mastery of European fencing, and his prehensile tail (which is as strong as his other limbs) allow him to triple wield swords. Combined with his teleportation, he's a Lightning Bruiser of deadly steel.
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Master Swordsman / int_768392ae	comment	Miyamoto Iori of Fate/Samurai Remnant aims to be this in the story, but is unable to reach the heights of his potential due to being born in Sakoku Japan. Thanks to the Waxing Moon Ritual, he gets to truly test himself by crossing swords with powerful Servants, roving bandits, foreign mages and supernatural creatures, in addition to having the Servant version of his adopted father continue his training where the last one and Kojiro left off. Towards the end of the tale, he manages to defeat Berserker Musashi despite the fact that his mastery of Niten Ichiryu is still lower than hers, thanks to integrating Sasaki Kojiro's Tsubame Gaeshi into his two-sword style. As she's Rayshifting away, she declares him unparalleled under the heavens.
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Master Swordsman / int_79ab0b3c	comment	In the Tortall Universe, we have Gareth the Elder of Naxen, who Alanna says is the best swordsman in the kingdom. Alanna herself becomes one later — the Protector of the Small series mentions that she's never lost a fight as King's Champion.
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Master Swordsman / int_7a805e3c	comment	Blood and Honor: Only once does Sanguis meet someone who's nearly her equal in swordsmanship, and that is early in her career. All others - Sith or Jedi, Darths or Masters - are no match for her. She spends most of her free time improving her skills.
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Master Swordsman / int_7ac38ec4	comment	Rebuild World: When Akiraâ€™s Virtual Sidekick Alpha controls his Powered Armor like People Puppets to use a sword, Akiraâ€™s movements are described like this due to her efficiency as an Artificial Intelligence. The Cyber Ninja Nelia is a master of Dual Wielding, first using two liquid-metal-based swords, and then when sheâ€™s using a Mini-Mecha, two Laser Blade ones. Sheâ€™s good enough to make Akira reconsider his Opposing Combat Philosophies arguing against melee and get a sword for himself.
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Master Swordsman / int_7bc59b9a	comment	Just like their literary counterparts all of The Musketeers, up to and including Captain Treville. Special mention to Athos who is considered the best in the regiment, with his protege D'Artagnan considered a likely successor.
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Master Swordsman / int_7be30333	comment	The Duelist in the ThunderCats (2011) episode "The Duelist and the Drifter," a man who goads less experienced swordsmen into duels, and uses his skill to divest them of their swords, which he keeps as trophies.
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Master Swordsman / int_7d8c61a2	comment	In Star Wars: The Old Republic, the Jedi Knight and Sith Warrior player characters are reputed as the best in their faction for the entire galaxy by the end of their storylines. This is partly helped by the defeat or death of many of the other greatest swordsmen in the progression of the game's story.
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Master Swordsman / int_7f39a041	comment	Gintama has quite a few awesome sword wielders: Okita (best sword in the Shinsengumi), Hijikata, Katsura, Takasugi, Nobume, etc. But Gintoki is the main character and big badass with his curry-stained, mail-order, frequently broken wooden sword. He'll use real swords when it gets really serious, and when he's serious, he's pretty much unbeatable.
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Master Swordsman / int_7f48827f	comment	Ultraman 80: One of the '80s most infamous foes was Emperor Galtan, ruler of the Rattler aliens and wielder of a massive scimitar that he used to great skill.
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Master Swordsman / int_8125b468	comment	Batman: The Cavalier is an expert swordsman, who sometimes wields an electrified rapier. In Where Were You on the Night Batman Was Killed?, he claims to have killed Batman in a sword duel, and he is good enough that people are willing to give serious consideration to this claim. Ra's al-Ghul has centuries of experience in this, boasting of having fenced in the courts of King Louis XII through XVI, and surviving Cossack dueling circles - right before kicking Bane's ass in a sword fight.
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Master Swordsman / int_82aff0d1	comment	Kamika from Corpse Princess. Her sword skills earned her the in-universe title "Sword Princess" and she's even been shown capable of creating massive explosions just by drawing her twin katana's.
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Master Swordsman / int_82f84b64	comment	In Desolate Era, the most powerful swordfighters are Sword Immortals. Although many immortal practitioners use a sword, a small number actually study and comprehend the Dao of the Sword. Of those that comprehend some of it, one character notes that no one in the entire world has fully comprehended it. In particular, one Sword Immortal, Immortal Northwalker, was so strong that he single-handedly fought against a supreme clan and won. Immortal Diancai, the one Sword Immortal currently in the Black-White College, had stated that he will only take as a disciple one that can commune with the sword-intent of Immortal Northwalker, which members of the College had taken to mean that Diancai would never take a disciple.
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Master Swordsman / int_8459204b	comment	Richard in Legend of the Seeker can defeat pretty much anyone with the Sword of Truth, in large part thanks to the sword's abilities. The Big Bad Darken Rahl is also pretty good with a sword, although he is known to use magic to trick his opponents.
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Master Swordsman / int_8501afb1	comment	Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children: Cloud, who expertly uses a composite BFS composed of six component swords, either individually or in Dual Wielding combos.
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Master Swordsman / int_85eecea0	comment	The Garden of Sinners: Shiki Ryougi is mainly known for fighting with a knife, but her skill with a sword was enough to surprise and eventually kill an immortal Buddhist mage who had basically set up an alternate reality to capture her. Shiki's father is also implied to be one since he trained her in the first place. We only see him in flashbacks and in one practice match with her that he wins handily, though.
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Master Swordsman / int_86269885	comment	In The Weaver Option Lelith Hesperax, already a master swordsman in the source material, is given a massive upgrade in skill due to her new backstory. Rather than just a skilled wych thousands of years old, she is now the last surviving Aeldari from the time of the War in Heaven who has mastered swordsmanship to such a degree that she can warp space with just a slice of her blade.
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Master Swordsman / int_86558c1c	comment	Mouse Guard features Lieam, a redfur who defeats an owl in single combat.
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Master Swordsman / int_86814cd0	comment	Final Fantasy IV: Cecil and King Baron (Who gets to show them off as the Eidolon Odin).
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Master Swordsman / int_86814cd2	comment	Final Fantasy IX: General Beatrix and Steiner.
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Master Swordsman / int_86814e56	comment	Final Fantasy VI: Cyan.
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Master Swordsman / int_86814ea1	comment	Final Fantasy XV: Noctis and Gladiolus.
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Master Swordsman / int_86c3beca	comment	Girl Genius: JÃ¤gergeneral Goomblast was seen during the Siege of Mechanicsburg, cornered by six Wulfenbach soldiers with poisoned swords, and proceeded to whip out a smallsword and kill all six with their own weapons.
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Master Swordsman / int_86dab158	comment	In Men of the Moss Hags and its sequel Lochinvar, Jack Scarlet and his pupil Wat Gordon are superlative swordsmen.
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Master Swordsman / int_88d95e84	comment	Jintetsu of Kurogane, despite being Just a Kid, is an extremely capable swordsman and renowned assassin.
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Master Swordsman / int_891b3c34	comment	Wizards, Warriors and You: the Warrior is both a Multi-Melee Master and Multi-Ranged Master, he's believed to be perhaps the Worlds Greatest Warrior. But his favourite weapons are swords.
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Master Swordsman / int_89465e75	comment	Percy Jackson and the Olympians: Percy Jackson is said to be one of the best swordsmen in the past few hundred years. He's survived fights with four Titans, beat Ares at the age of 12 (admittedly, it was only a flesh wound, but still), and carves his way through the Roman Twelfth Legion during war games.
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Master Swordsman / int_8966f7cc	comment	In The Fire's Stone, Darvish is wickedly talented with a blade, but his alcoholism interferes with it. Keeping himself occupied with it actually helps him stay sober.
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Master Swordsman / int_8a0b1052	comment	Katana in The DCU. In addition to being a master swordswoman, her sword Soultaker can take the souls of those it kills, storing them inside the sword, where they can engage in limited communication with whoever wields it.
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Master Swordsman / int_8b31c7ac	comment	The Thousand Sons have Sanakht, the greatest swordsman in their Legion. During the Horus Heresy his skills were so great that Lucius the Eternal sought Sanakht out to challenge him to a duel, in which Sanakht soundly kicked his ass. His skills have not diminished over the centuries: he is a master of Dual Wielding and can hold his own against daemons and other superhuman opponents with just his swords and reflexes, and his psychic powers allow him to predict what his enemies are going to do and react accordingly.
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Master Swordsman / int_8bc62500	comment	Ichi, from Zatoichi (and the 2003 film), is one of the Trope Codifiers for Blind Weaponmaster and Handicapped Badass.
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Master Swordsman / int_8bf307b3	comment	Disney Mouse and Duck Comics examples: Stories set in times where swords are a common weapon usually have Donald Duck as one, capable of slicing the weapons of an entire army with one stroke. Even modern Donald is no slouch but not comparable, as a stroke from his sword slices "only" a dozen or so enemy swords. Anyway, he's always the (relatively) Unskilled, but Strong when compared to Mickey (see below) Mickey Mouse is also portrayed as one, with stories set in modern times establishing him as a hobbyist fencer with Olympic-level skills. Then there's the middle ages and fantasy stories that put him on the same level as middle ages Donald. The culmination was in "Mickey Mouse and the Invincible Sword", where he was so good that he was actually convinced he was wielding an invincible magic sword until the sword's smith explained otherwise (even re-enacting the I Am Not Left-Handed scene from The Princess Bride, with Mickey as the one who switched hands later), and its sequel "Mickey Mouse and the Sword of Time", where his opponent had an invincible sword that could block all attacks by seeing the future and he won by exhaustion (the sword made the wielder slim down until he disappeared. His opponent was Pete... And Mickey matched him for hours until Pete realized what the sword was doing him and dropped it in horror). He's the Weak, but Skilled compared to Donald, relatively weak but more skilled.
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Master Swordsman / int_8c87469c	comment	In The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword, Eagus has the role of teaching the students of the Knight Academy everything about swordfights. As expected, Link is one of those students.
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Master Swordsman / int_8cb4a772	comment	Ultraman Mebius tops them all with Zamusha, an alien warrior who fights to prove himself as the mightiest warrior in the universe. Although armed with nothing but his katana Hoshikirimaru, Zamusha has defeated countless foes and even sliced an entire comet in half with a single strike. The only person who has ever beaten him was Hunter Knight Tsurugi/Ultraman Hikari, who is no slouch himself, as he has put his Knight Blade to excellent use against many a kaiju.
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Master Swordsman / int_8d7e861e	comment	From GARO, we have the protagonist Kouga Saejima, his father Taiga Saejima, and his rival-turned-best friend Rei Suzumura. Later, the second season introduced The Man in The Red Mask the one-off character Igari Juzo in episode 8, Kouga's mentor Wataru Shijima and Makai Priest Reo Fudou.
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Master Swordsman / int_90f42a9b	comment	The Wheel of Time: Blademaster is an actual title within the setting, earned either by being recognized as such by a group of pre-existing blademasters or by killing one in a duel. The Heron-mark sword is the symbol of a blademaster, and you're only supposed to carry one if you've earned it. Rand is given a Heron-mark sword by his father, Tam (who doesn't exactly say where he got it), and earns his position as a blademaster after killing a Seanchan High Blood who's a blademaster in his own right at the climax of the second book. At this point in the series, he's still not very far removed from being a simple sheepherder, so it's quite an accomplishment. He ends up as one of the best - arguably, apart from Lan and Demandred, the best - swordsmen in the series. Lan is the stand-out in the series—in the prequel to the series, seven men come to kill him. He muses to himself as he faces them that only in stories does one man face seven and come out unharmed... or alive. He doesn't do the former but obviously manages the latter. There are many others, too, and having a 'Heron Marked' blade is the sign of a true master swordsman. It's notable that he's the one who trains Rand, who ends up as one of the best swordsmen in the series. Other significant ones include Galad, Gawyn, and a couple of the Forsaken, notably Be'lal (who helped invent swordsmanship, or at least rediscover it as a form of combat, apparently) and Demandred, who proves himself in the last book to be quite possibly the greatest swordsman in the entire series, beating three master swordsmen in succession in one battle, and only dying because the third was willing to take a fatal wound in order to get close enough to deliver one in return. Commonly-taught Warder history is that a Warder named Jeroam was the greatest swordsman in history; in his lifetime he supposedly fought in ten thousand battles and duels, at one time defeating ten men at once and lost only one of those fights (to a farmer with a quarterstaff). Notably averted by the Aiel, who are some of the most badass people in the world, but refuse to use swords.
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Master Swordsman / int_920bdb7c	comment	Kill Six Billion Demons: Posthumous Character Meti ten Ryo was the best swordswoman — or for that matter, the best fighter, period — in the entire comic. Having depended on mastery of Sword Law and Charles Atlas Superpower in her youth, to the degree that she could fight a hundred men and win, she evolved honing a style based on pure Killing Intent to the degree that she became Master of the Principle Art of Cutting and obtained Royalty. Meti's deeds from this period, amongst others, includes fighting and defeating ten thousand men at once while naked. However, having spent her whole life living by the sword, she knows better than anyone that swords are worthless hunks of metal and their wielders idiots. The training manual she authored instructs its readers to perform Wax On, Wax Off, and then, having mastered many domestic skills, to spend the rest of their lives doing something productive instead of learning to use a sword. Mathangi ten Meti (or "Mathangi Mantra" pre-apprenticeship, a name meaning Murder The Gods And Topple Their Thrones) was Meti's apprentice and Student of the Principle art of Cutting. She manages to cleave through an Angel, the rest of the room, a significant portion of Mottom's floating palace, and the comic frame's border in one stroke using the broken stub of a sword. Like Meti, she regrets ever picking up a sword, and wishes she'd stayed a simple noodle vendor. Meti had another student beside Maya, Incubus, who is also implied to be no slouch with a sword even if he does not quite reach Maya's standard. Meti is implied to have taken him on only to show Maya what not to do; namely, using his skill to become a self-serving killing machine. The main competitor to Meti in the lore is the similarly deceased sword master Lord Intra, who was known as the "Sword-Saint" for his singular mastery of the blade. Similarly to Meti he is known to have obtained Royalty, had a highly odd outlook on mastery of the sword (his own technique was based on Strategy, Schmategy), and communicated mostly in koans. Also like Meti and Maya he refused to live by the sword and became a wandering mendicant instead. According to Word of God, a match between Meti and Intra would lead to "one of them cutting down the other and losing".
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Master Swordsman / int_944191c6	comment	Kyo Kara Maoh!: Conrad is the 'best swordsman in Shin Makoku' and turns out to have an international reputation; he takes after his father, Dan Hiri, who was a widely known master in his day. Gunter, who is easily taken for a Squishy Wizard, turns out to be amazing with a blade as well. (Yuuri has still never seen him fight.) In season three we learn Gunter trained Conrad — in his adolescence (i.e. maybe fifty years old?) he was getting to be cocky and bitter due to his social isolation and genius, and Gunter, who was still teaching back then, handed him his ass to show how much he still had to learn. Their only battle during showtime (probably the best fight in the series) was inconclusive since Conrad had a separate agenda and ran away at the first opportunity he could make. Hube is also pretty damn good, and prone to cutting improbable things; he fixated on Conrad in his first appearance because he knew only a master-level fighter could defeat him.
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Master Swordsman / int_97bb943d	comment	Maximus in Gladiator uses his gladius to good effect.
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Master Swordsman / int_98b8816	comment	Ruina: Fairy Tale of the Forgotten Ruins: Laban is capable of learning most of the skills from the Swordmaster class. He's also an expert in Uryu's particular swordplay, allowing him to counter her moves easily if the player chooses to have him duel this boss.
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Master Swordsman / int_99c93cb	comment	Lancelot from Arthurian myth, including literature such as Le Morte d'Arthur and The Once and Future King, is the greatest knight in the realm.
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Master Swordsman / int_9a17c5fc	comment	An episode of the second series had Oscar FranÃ§ois de Jarjayes show up and fight Lupin, and she was winning before he got his hands on Goemon's sword, at which point Lupin used the invincible sword to cut hers.
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Master Swordsman / int_9a7c85d6	comment	When the Last Sword Is Drawn: Protagonist Yoshimura Kanichiro was a dojo instructor in Nambu, and though only a poor samurai from the northern backcountry, he's able to hold his own when a drunken SaitÅ� Hajime draws on him outside a bar despite having a few drinks in him himself. Late in the film, he singlehandedly attacks a company-strength unit of the Imperial Army with only his katana and wakizashi, and actually survives long enough to make it back to Nambu before succumbing to his injuries the following night.
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Master Swordsman / int_9ae2d3d5	comment	Fire Emblem on Forums has many examples, owing to the games being a World of Badass. Most characters from the Myrmidon class line end up fitting this by default. For a few significant examples: Chains of Horai: The Five Kingdoms, being a heavily Japanese-influenced setting, has a lot of these. The strongest in the setting is the Big Bad, Empress Genmyo, who curbstomps the only somewhat-less skilled Todoroki and Madoka in quick succession. Others include Hisao, the Cursed Rooster, and Hitoshi Tokiwa, the man who taught Yusuke and Todoroki how to fight. Wonderful Blessing: Kazuto and Asuna, whose skills are a side effect of the wish they made to be like Kirito and Asuna respectively. Others include Lucifer and Mammon. Final Hour: Ketsuki, wielder of the Cool Sword Galeforce and wearer of an Eyepatch of Power.
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Master Swordsman / int_9c33c15d	comment	Nanoha comes from a family of skilled swordsmen (including her father, brother, sister, and aunt), though she herself lacks any such training outside of the INNOCENT continuity.
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Master Swordsman / int_9d34190a	comment	The Elder Scrolls: The series' various In-Game Books mention several. Each installment post-Daggerfall features numerous trainers who let you upgrade your skills, including swordsmanship, for a fee. Only a single master trainer, however, can usually max out a particular skill: the Buoyant Armiger Ulms Drathen (Long Blade) and Redguard Blade Todwendy (Short Blade) in Morrowind, Alix Lencolia in Oblivion, and the Orc Warchief Burguk (One-Handed) and the Inner Circle Companion Vilkas in Skyrim. Unless the respective game's PC maxes out their swordfighting skills, these individuals are generally acknowledged as the Master Swordsmen of the respective region. This is the "hat" for the Redguards, a Proud Warrior Race of dark-skinned humans whose culture is a blend of the Moors, Arabs, and Samurai. They are acknowledged as the most masterful swordsmen in Tamriel, with their race's Sacred Scripture being a treatise on sword techniques. Even among the Redguards, there are some who take it to another level: The Ansei, or "Sword Saints", were an order made up of the greatest "sword singers," Yokudan warriors who follow "The Way of the Sword," a martial philosophy on blade mastery. So great was their mastery of the blade that they could manifest a sword from their very soul, known as a Shehai or "Spirit Sword". Ansei of the highest ranks had Shehai which shined brighter and were much deadlier. Described as an "unstoppable weapon of great might" that could cut down foes like "a scythe through wheat", disarming such an Ansei could only be done by severing their head or taking their mind. (However, there was some evidence to suggest the Shehai of an Ansei could be shattered, leaving behind only its essence.) The greatest Ansei could use a technique known as the "Pankratosword," which allowed them to "cut the atomos" with their Shehai (and may have been responsible for the destruction of Yokuda). Considered to be a Dangerous Forbidden Technique, the Pankratosword has since been lost to history. (If it ever actually existed at all.) While the Ansei came with the Redguards to Tamriel, their numbers dwindled over time. There hasn't been a known Ansei warrior since the 2nd Era, and by the 4th Era, they are considered a myth. Frandar Hunding was perhaps the greatest of the Ansei. Says Allena Benoch, another Master Swordsman, of Hunding and swordsmanship in general: Frandar is believed to be one manifestation of the HoonDing, the Yokudan/Redguard spirit of perseverance and "Make Way God". The HoonDing has historically manifested whenever it is needed to "make way" for the Yokudan/Redguard people. In all known forms, the avatar of the HoonDing has excelled at swordsmanship. Another was Gaiden Shinji, a 1st Era leader of the Order of Diagna and founder of the Imperial City Arena (where he served as the first "Blademaster"). For Shinji, the title was not cosmetic.
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Master Swordsman / int_9d47a2a2	comment	Many knights and some other characters are noted as such in A Song of Ice and Fire: Ser Arthur Dayne is generally remembered as the quintessential "greatest swordsman," aided no doubt by his Thunderbolt Iron sword Dawn. Jaime Lannister tells Ser Loras Tyrell, "I served with Ser Arthur Dayne, the Sword of the Morning, who could have slain [all six of the other current Kingsguard] with his left hand while taking a piss with his right." Jaime Lannister himself is famed as possibly the best swordsman in Westeros in his prime. However, he may ultimately be a deconstruction of the idea, due to losing his sword hand and consequently undergoing an identity crisis, as so much of his life and personality revolved around his skill in battle he doesn't know how to cope without it. Syrio Forel is the former First Sword of Braavos, a culture that takes its fencing very seriously. He kills several armed and armored guardsmen with his wooden practice stick. Ser Barristan Selmy, Lord Commander of Robert Baratheon's Kingsguard, is near the age of 60 and generally held as the last representative of a bygone age of chivalry and heroes. He's quick enough to kill two guardsmen without a weapon and is also no slouch with a quarterstaff. According to Word of God, Selmy in his youth could have fought even Dayne to a standstill, if the latter were armed with a normal sword instead of Dawn. Qhorin Halfhand is a legendary ranger of the Night's Watch, famed for his skill with a sword. He got his nickname when the fingers of his right hand were cut off by a wildling; he sprayed the blood into the wildling's eyes and killed him. He then spent years training his left hand with the sword and became as good with his left hand as he had been with his right. Prince Aemon the Dragonknight is considered the greatest knight in Westeros' history, but even he was impressed by Lord Cregan Stark's swordsmanship. Daemon Blackfyre is literally considered godlike when he had the Blackfyre sword in hand. The only one who came close to beating him in a sword fight was the Kingsguard knight Ser Gwayne Corbray who fought him to a standstill for an hour. Sandoq the Shadow, former pitfighter and bodyguard to Larra Rogare when she was still in Westeros, demonstrates his mastery with his curved Valyrian steel blade by pulling a One-Man Army to defend her, Aegon III and Viserys II when they were besieged in Maegor's Holdfast during Unwin Peake's coup. He was described as dancing around all of his foes and "betwixt every fresh wound he dealt Ser Amaury [Peake], he would kill one of his remaining minions".
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Master Swordsman / int_9db1766a	comment	Devil May Cry: Dante wields his massive claymore with style and skill. Starting from Devil May Cry 3: Dante's Awakening, he has access to a fighting style called "Swordmaster". Dante's brother and rival Vergil is a katana-wielding, lightning-fast Iaijutsu Practitioner. Devil May Cry 4: Credo is a master swordsman and is the one who trained Nero in sword fighting.
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Master Swordsman / int_9e202b7b	comment	Shigure Kosaka of Kenichi: The Mightiest Disciple is renowned for her immense prowess with any kind of weapon (even handcuffs), but she prefers swords above all. That said, she can make a weapon out of practically anything. Case in point, she can cut through someone's clothes with a wooden spoon!
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Master Swordsman / int_9e2f90f4	comment	One Piece: There are many master swordsmen in the series. Those of particular mention include: Dracule "Hawkeye" Mihawk is the best swordsman in-universe. He could, upon introduction, effortlessly hold off the previously unstoppable tri-wielding Zoro with a three-inch dagger, or use his main sword to chop an entire fleet of at least fifty galleons in half from a distance. His main sword is a large cross-shaped affair that's longer than he is tall (he's 6'6"!), that he uses on whatever he feels like. He's skilled enough to deflect bullets with it, playing into his iconic line, "A sword without subtlety is but an iron bar." Zoro himself also qualifies. While his main specialty is three swords, he is proficient at two swords and one sword as well, able to cut down a man made of steel, a legendary samurai, and bring down a government assassin. Despite having the second-lowest supernova bounty (now tied for 4th highest as of Dressrosa), even the other supernova are wary of him. His only major loss was against Mihawk, whereas even the main character has lost more times. While he was initially very power-based, Zoro has honed his skills. After the time-skip, during which Mihawk personally trained him, Zoro has taken a few pages from Mihawk's book by casually slicing a ship in half while half asleep. The Wano Country is a country unaffiliated with the World Government. Their special brand of swordsmen are called samurais, and supposedly are so powerful, even the Marines don't want anything to do with them. Didn't stop Kaido and his crew from conquering the nation. "Flower Sword" Vista, commander of the Whitebeard Pirates 5th Division, also qualifies. When he fought against the aforementioned Dracule Mihawk at Marineford, the latter said that among swordsmen only an idiot wouldn't know who Vista is. Shanks probably qualifies. Aside from strong Conqueror's Haki, he doesn't seem to have any special powers, but he used to duel Mihawk to a draw on the regular. Even after losing an arm, he's still powerful enough to clash with Whitebeard, prevent Kaido from joining the War of the Best at Marineford, and then end the fighting at Marineford himself with the threat of being a new opponent for the Navy to face. While he's not as overtly powerful as those listed above, Brook is certainly a master of the sword and one built around sheer speed; there are several moments within the series where he'll seemingly walk past an opponent at a casual pace, only to sheathe his sword and reveal he struck a Delayed Causality blow that takes them down in one strike. He killed one of Gecko Moria's strongest zombies this way, and also badly injured Zeo of the New Fishman Pirates while the latter was boasting his defensive capabilities made him untouchable.
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Master Swordsman / int_9f19f7b1	comment	Lone Wolf and Cub: Ogami Itto. Being the former Executioner of the Shogun, he was expected to fight for the right to get such a cushy job, presumably besting every other swordsman in Japan for the right to be "the Shogun's right hand". Consequently, when he goes rogue, no man/woman/ninja hit squad can stand against him. At one point in the series, he literally fights off an entire crowd of female assassins while drugged unconscious. Despite this, the series is fantastic for trying to find new, creative ways for the bad guys to provide some challenge worthy of him. His enemies, acknowledging him as the greatest swordsman in Japan, will attempt to send, say, the greatest rifleman in Japan against him, or some such. Yagyu Retsudo, the series' main antagonist, is also a master swordsman and Ninja. Yamada Asaemon is the Shogun's sword-tester and is thought to be the only swordsman in Japan who can match Ogami. He goes up against Ogami, and is only defeated because Retsudo secretly tampered with his sword. The creators later made a spin-off starring Asaemon, Samurai Executioner.
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Master Swordsman / int_9fdbe934	comment	Madmartigan in Willow styles himself the world's greatest swordsman and makes a strong claim.
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Master Swordsman / int_a037ae41	comment	The prequel novels Fate/Zero add another to the roster, specifically Berserker aka The Black Knight aka Lancelot. He has a skill called 'Eternal Arms Mastery', only awarded to the most masterful Master Swordsperson in his or her era, which means his skill with a sword (or indeed anything else) is so great that the insanity that comes with the Berserker Class, which would usually rob him of all tactical and combat skill, doesn't affect it. How good is he? His first appearance has him fight his way through the Storm of Blades coming from Gilgamesh's Gate of Babylon without a scratch, using only weapons stolen from the Gate while they were flying at him. This is with random weapons he's picked up — using his own personal weapon, Arondight, he's even better — good enough to completely overwhelm Saber within ten seconds, though she was suffering from handicap at the time.
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Master Swordsman / int_a040500a	comment	Best Served Cold: The effete General Ganmark seems to be a "lead from the rear" type, but it turns out that he's one of the best swordsmen in the world, holding off both Monza and Cosca at the same time.
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Master Swordsman / int_a05243da	comment	Elsabeth Soesten and Brother Hieronymus both are highly skilled with the sword, the former preferring the longsword, while Hieronymus prefers the sword and buckler. European Swordsmanship is a major influence.
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Master Swordsman / int_a2dee471	comment	In The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker, Orca is an old man living on Outset Island who spent his life studying swordsmanship. He teaches swordsmanship to Link and gives him the Hero's Sword. He grades Link's ability until Link surpasses him.
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Master Swordsman / int_a33d74a4	comment	Richard of the Sword of Truth becomes this due to the memories magically imbued in the titular sword, accrued from every single former user of the blade. He unlocks the knowledge in battle with thirty blademasters. Each one is also an example of this trope, coming from a culture that has been training for 3,000 years just to help Richard unlock the sword's power. Richard also becomes an expert with all sorts of bladed implements. His skill with the symbolic language of magic is ultimately explained by it being analogous to swordsmanship.
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Master Swordsman / int_a3d2bcec	comment	In the Modesty Blaise novel A Taste for Death, one of the under-villains, Wenczel, is an egotistical master fencer who spends all his spare time practicing. Modesty goads him into a duel as part of her escape plan. She's not as good as him at handling a sword, but she wins by out-thinking him, and partly because he out-thinks himself (he makes things easier for her by deciding he'll show off by killing her with a single thrust through the heart, which makes him predictable and leads him to pass up opportunities to disable her less elegantly).
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Master Swordsman / int_a4ff8e01	comment	The Saber that features in Fate/Stay Night, in particular, is noted to be the best of the entire Saber Class. Seeing as she is actually the verses' version of Arthur Pendragon, this makes sense. This is further confirmed in Fate/Grand Order, where it is implied that Arturia qualifies for the Grand Saber class, which is literally the greatest Saber to ever exist.
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Master Swordsman / int_a68c19b8	comment	Ayra, Shannan, Larcei, and ScÃ¡thach in Fire Emblem: Genealogy of the Holy War belong to the Od bloodline, known for their swordsmanship and the legendary technique, Astra. Their lineage allows their exalted, like Shannan, to wield Balmung, one of the twelve Holy Weapons wielded by their ancestor that ended the Holy War against the Loptous Empire.
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Master Swordsman / int_a753b87d	comment	By the Sword is centered on a conflict between two fencing masters.
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Master Swordsman / int_a7c9f8e9	comment	In all incarnations of the Legend of the Five Rings, the Kakita and Mirumoto are entire families of master swordsmen.
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Master Swordsman / int_a81325d3	comment	The Final Fantasy series has plenty of them: Final Fantasy IV: Cecil and King Baron (Who gets to show them off as the Eidolon Odin). Final Fantasy VI: Cyan. Final Fantasy VII: Sephiroth's swordsmanship and overall prowess stand out even among the series' characters, which include several notable swordsmen. In one of Crisis Core's cutscenes, Sephiroth was able to casually fend off attacks from both Genesis and Angealnote both were SOLDIER First Class while holding back. Cloud Strife, although never an official member of SOLDIER, becomes an extraordinary swordsman over the course of the series. He starts out casually wielding the Buster Sword with one hand in the original game and by the time of Advent Children, he's capable of expertly using a composite BFS composed of six component swords, either individually or in Dual Wielding combos. Easily the 2nd best swordsman, and while Sephiroth is subject to hubris, Cloud is the only one skilled enough to take advantage of that hubris. In the prequel Crisis Core: Genesis, Angeal, and (to a lesser extent) Zack Fair each attained the top rank of First Class in SOLDIER, Shinra's elite paramilitary unit, which is entirely composed of highly trained, bioaugmented supersoldiers. Each of them could fend off a small army with their sword skills alone. In Final Fantasy VIII, Squall and Seifer are renowned for being the only two to ever master using a gunblade, the awkward combination design of which makes it very difficult to learn to use effectively. This is reflected in the game mechanics by both characters having 255% accuracy with the most basic models of their gunblades right from the start of the game, ensuring that they will never fail to land an attack. Final Fantasy IX: General Beatrix and Steiner. Final Fantasy X: Auron. Final Fantasy XII: Basch. Final Fantasy XIII: Lightning. Final Fantasy XIV: The Samurai Job; while several Jobs use swords (Red Mage, Dark Knight, Paladin, and Gunbreaker) they all supplement it with either magic, brute force, or some combination thereof. Only the Samurai relies on pure skill with the blade. Final Fantasy XV: Noctis and Gladiolus. Dissidia: Warrior of Light. Gilgamesh in all of his appearances.
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Master Swordsman / int_a9f8f0bb	comment	In RA Salvatore's The Dark Elf Trilogy, the drow ranger Drizzt Do'Urden is one of the greatest swordsmen in the Forgotten Realms, famously Dual Wielding scimitars. His primary disadvantage is that he is small and, while in excellent shape, not as strong as, say, an orc king or an ogre warrior. He starts training at sixteen; in most of the novels, he's around seventy or eighty, but for a dark elf that's still young. Drizzt not only had natural talent but also received personal training from his father Zaknafein, who was himself a Master Swordsman and the deadliest weapon master Menzoberranzen had ever produced.
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Master Swordsman / int_accb04fd	comment	In The Matrix: Path of Neo there's Neo himself after having the sword skills downloaded. Along with the A.I. sword master who tests Neo's skills. "I was told a man legendary with a blade would come. Are you worthy of the blade, can you beat me?"
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Master Swordsman / int_ad622d64	comment	The Malazan Book of the Fallen, due to having a large cast, has quite a few examples: The Seguleh are a whole race of these; their culture focuses on swordsmanship to the exclusion of all else, to the extent that they're ranked according to their sword skill, and as such are regarded as some of the deadliest hand-to-hand combatants in the whole World of Badass. In Memories of Ice, the Seguleh send a Punitive Army to the Pannion Domin, which consists of... three Seguleh warriors, and one of them, Senu, is fourteen years old. They are confident that three Seguleh swordsmen are enough to kick the Pannion Seer's army in the butt. Icarium Lifestealer is Famed In-Story, though unfortunately not for his sword skills. But secretly, he is very capable with both his sword and his bow, and can take on Barbarian Hero Karsa Orlong with no problem, provided he can stay calm long enough. Whiskeyjack is considered the best swordsman in the Bridgeburners and it is heavily implied that, at the end of Memories of Ice, he would have won his duel against the millennia-old High King Kallor had his leg not been injured. Dassem Ultor used to be the First Sword of the Malazan Empire, a title equivalent to World's Best Warrior for the Malazans, putting him as the highest-ranked commander of the Malazan armies. He was so competent with his sword, in fact, that the T'lan Imass decided he deserved the original title of First Sword, which was theirs, and transferred it to him despite him being a mortal human. High King Kallor is one hundred thousand years old, looks like one hundred, lugs a huge bastard sword around, and is rumored to have never been defeated. However, Caladan Brood notes that this is at least partly because Kallor picks his opponents well. Brys Beddict is considered the best swordsman in the Kingdom of Lether and has, by the time he is introduced in Midnight Tides, just recently been raised to the position of the King's Champion and personal bodyguard based on his skill and despite his unfortunate family connections. At the end of the book, he duels Rhulad Sengar and wins despite his opponent's Artifact of Doom sword which enhances his abilities. Not only does Brys win, he — while fighting — devises a plan on how to prevent Rhulad from dying and being resurrected by surgically targeting his opponent's tendons with his sword. Anomander Rake is the Warrior Prince of the Tiste Andii and their best swordsman as well. Despite not being a Seguleh, he holds the rank of Seventh in their society after taking an afternoon stroll on their island and ending up having to fight his way off it because all the Seguleh wanted to test their skills on him. It is heavily implied that he could have gained a higher rank had he not gotten annoyed and teleported himself away. He is also the only living being capable of wielding the forged by the Elder God Draconus BFS Dragnipur that consumes souls. Silchas Ruin, Anomander Rake's youngest brother, prefers to fight with two swords, Sarat Wept and Glory Goat, but is a Combat Pragmatist despite their funny names, and inclined to just kill his opponents at the first chance. Udinaas claims that if the Emperor of Lether knew who Silchas Ruin was, he would send ten thousand warriors after him. Spinnock Durav is known as being an exceptionally good swordsman, one whom Anomander Rake considers his best weapon. Good enough, in fact, to send him to hunt a dragon. On his scouting mission to the continent of Assail, he fought his way through hordes of its inhabitants just to be able to leave it again. Nimander, Anomander Rake's son, is not even aware of how good he is with the sword, because he's used to thinking of himself as a coward, but he — and his entire group of Tiste Andii, in fact — have been responsible for defending the Throne of Shadow, and in Toll the Hounds, he and his followers defend against the Dying God's saemankelyk addicts without breaking a sweat. Fear Sengar becomes his tribe's Weapons Master based on his skill with the sword and, at the start of Midnight Tides, he is said to have won the most trophies among his tribe in the Unification Wars (and since wars among the Tiste Edur are highly ritualised, skill does matter more than in any other given war). Onos T'oolan used to be the First Sword of the T'lan Imass before the title was transferred to Dassem Ultor. That changed nothing about his sword skills, though, and he is still able to fight off all three members of the Seguleh Punitive Army in Memories of Ice, though not all at once. When he becomes mortal again and marries into the Barghast White Faces, he becomes clan leader based on his martial prowess. Lorn is a superlative swordswoman who uses her Anti-Magic otataral sword to defeat powerful foes who would otherwise rely on magic to augment their skills. However, she's completely flabbergasted when fighting a random soldier in the Crimson Guard, Corporal Blues, and discovers that he's more than her match without any aid of sorcery.
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Master Swordsman / int_aef6c6f9	comment	Shizu from Kino's Journey is one, being able to deflect bullets with his sword just by moving it slightly.
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Master Swordsman / int_b0544c4b	comment	Super Robot Wars X: Shibaraku as usual in his series, though he oversees both Suzaku and Shou's training in this game as well.
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Master Swordsman / int_b1e6eef4	comment	Joe Gibken from Kaizoku Sentai Gokaiger. Every member of his team starts out with a Sword and Gun but prefer to swap weapons mid-battle (except their leader). He and Pirate Girl Luka are the ones who prefer Dual Wielding. At one point, Joe goes the extra mile by using all five heroes' swords at once.
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Master Swordsman / int_b29c63f7	comment	Lancelot in Excalibur is the best fighter of Arthur's round table.
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Master Swordsman / int_b2fba3e0	comment	Ultra Series Ultraman Leo: One of Leo's first opponents was the alien Tsuruk, who had two swords welded to his wrists that he used with deadly precision by butchering MAC members in the blink of an eye and pushing Gen through some of his most brutal Training from Hell in the series. Ultraman 80: One of the '80s most infamous foes was Emperor Galtan, ruler of the Rattler aliens and wielder of a massive scimitar that he used to great skill. Ultraman Mebius tops them all with Zamusha, an alien warrior who fights to prove himself as the mightiest warrior in the universe. Although armed with nothing but his katana Hoshikirimaru, Zamusha has defeated countless foes and even sliced an entire comet in half with a single strike. The only person who has ever beaten him was Hunter Knight Tsurugi/Ultraman Hikari, who is no slouch himself, as he has put his Knight Blade to excellent use against many a kaiju.
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Master Swordsman / int_b30ae4db	comment	Game of Thrones: Syrio Forel is only this by reputation, at first. Eventually showcased in "The Pointy End" when he takes out five fully armed and armored Lannister guardsmen and takes on a knight of the Kingsguard with a wooden practice sword. Jaime Lannister and Ned Stark both display high skill in swordsmanship, and are able to match each other blow for blow. Also, Barristan is impressed by Ned's skill. Jaime is ironically one of the few remaining knights of the Kingsguard who actually earned that position and isn't just a Lannister political appointee. However, after the loss of his hand, he's no longer as competent a swordsman as he once was. For his part, Jaime Lannister describes the swordsmanship of Barristan Selmy with awe, calling him "a painter who only uses red." Ned mentions being glad they never met in combat, as the widow's life wouldn't suit Catelyn. He cut through Sons of the Harpy like they were nothing until some finally surrounded him. In a flashback, Ser Arthur Dayne is shown to be quite proficient at Dual Wielding, cutting down several Northern men-at-arms with ease and almost killing Ned Stark, who was saved by his friend stabbing Dayne in the back. While he's clearly a very good swordsman anyway, his actual fighting style seems to be heavily reliant on constant parrying and rotating his swords to keep his opponents off guard. The Stark soldiers and Dornishmen he fights at the Tower of Joy are noticeably unprepared to face an opponent with such an unorthodox technique. As of Season 6, Jon Snow seems to be shaping up to become one of Westeros' most legendary swordfighters, slaughtering his way through three of the four major onscreen battles in the series, killing a white walker in single combat, and being called out by Ramsay Bolton as a living legend in the North. The Clegane brothers Sandor and Gregor are also formidable for their combination of skill and brute strength. Sandor's style is rough, pragmatic, and absurdly brutal, abusing all his natural advantages and Lightning Bruiser capabilities, while Gregor just maximizes force in such a way that just one strike is unsurvivable. Brienne of Tarth also shows significant skill but is generally underestimated because of her sex. She's the winner of Renly's tourney, defeating all opponents, including Loras Tyrell, who is considered a great warrior. She quickly takes down the members of Renly's Kingsguard who try to kill her, and even the Kingslayer seems impressed when he first sees her in action. Come Season 3, she easily defeats Jaime. Granted, he was wearing manacles at the time and somewhat out-of-practice, but it's still no mean feat, particularly since near the end of their engagement, she actually looked slightly bored. She also beat Sandor Clegane, who himself is one of the few people who can match his brother, The Mountain. Bronn is an extremely competent swordsman, due to a combination of honest skill and ruthless pragmatism.
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Master Swordsman / int_b53b86fa	comment	Four are name-dropped in The Princess Bride: Rocco Bonetti, Ridolfo Capo Ferro, Gerard Thibault d'Anvers, and Camillo Agrippa. Capo Ferro was an Italian fencing master who, oddly enough, is well regarded today but was largely ignored during the Renaissance when he was active. Thibault was a Dutch fencer who wrote a highly detailed fechtbuch about his unorthodox style of swordsmanship. He was also a brilliant mathematician and wrote that a knowledge of geometry is essential for true fencing mastery. Oh, and he wrote books on ritual magic too. Agrippa was an Italian polymath of the Renaissance and a renowned fencing theorist. His Treatise on the Science of Arms with Philosophical Dialogue made radical changes to the fencing of his time, including the focus of turning the rapier into a thrusting weapon. His work is considered the foundation for Jeronimo Sanchez's Destreza.
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Master Swordsman / int_b5ce2a1d	comment	Hirayama Kujuro, Shimada Shinzaemon, Kuranaga Saheita, and Kitou Hanbei from 13 Assassins are the most skilled assassins of the thirteen.
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Master Swordsman / int_b6d1e59b	comment	Isshin Ashina, the Sword Saint, from Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice, is a legendary warrior known throughout Japan and was one of the only things that was stopping the Central Forces from steamrolling the Ashina clan. By the time you meet him, he's about 90 years old, looked shriveled up as a Hollow, and is mere hours from just dying from old age, but can still fight with incredible skill. And when you fight him in his prime, you learn the hard way that it's not only swords he's good at using...
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Master Swordsman / int_b6d7b1e1	comment	That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime: First of all there's Hakurou, the elderly oni of roughly 300 years that trained the warriors of his village in swordsmanship and was considered one of the finest in the world. For reference, he was called the "Sword Saint" in his youth despite being an unnamed ogre at the time (meaning he never actually reached his full potential). After being named by Rimuru, evolving into an oni, and receiving some rejuvenation in age, his improved physical abilities allowed him to take his swordsmanship to the next level, capable of not only striking faster than the eye can track, as well as cutting down dozens of foes at once with a few swift strikes but move so fast a swordsman who could boost his perception by 300x easily and 1000x at max couldn't dodge his killing strike and in fact had a delayed effect of even seeing it. Both before and after being named, he mentored many beings who would become this trope themselves. Gazel Dwargo, the dwarf king of Dwargon, was one of Hakurou's students from the time he was the nameless Sword Saint. Much like his master, he can move faster than the eye can track and could easily hold his own and dominate in a mock sword fight with Rimuru, who had been recently training under Hakurou himself. In fact, Gazel expressed a desire to travel to Tempest and renew his tutelage under Hakurou upon learning of his master's naming and increase in strength. Albert, the Death Paladin who served the Wight King Adalman both in life and death as subordinate and friend, is an undead swordsman who was not only one of the finest knights of his time but has spent the past 1000 years honing his ability and is capable of fighting evenly with Hakurou with pure skill alone. Particularly impressive since the first time they clashed, Albert managed this as a Death Knight despite Hakurou having received a power boost from Rimuru's True Demon Lord ascension and himself wielding no special weapons or gear. When put in the Labyrinth on Floor 60 with Adalman and given a set of special Unique-class equipment tailored to his undead status, Albert becomes a juggernaut, on his own handing a Curb-Stomp Battle to three Otherworlders from the Eastern Empire who had previously worked as a well-oiled machine to clear all challenges on the previous 59 floors. Hinata Sakaguchi of the Holy Empire Ruberios and the Western Saints Church is their finest paladin, and by extension, this makes her their finest swordswoman. Rimuru commented that her skill completely trumps his despite his continued training and only his physical boosts from True Demon Lord ascension closes the gap and that she would ultimately beat Hakurou in a proper fight. Krishna of the Eastern Empire is ranked 17th among the 100 Imperial Guardians, and despite his rather minor role, he's one of the finest known swordsmen in their ranks. Wielding a set of Legendary-class equipment and armed with the power to slice through dimensional space, these together with his technique allow him to fight evenly with Albert in one-on-one combat during the Empire's invasion of the Labyrinth and even ultimately shatter Albert's sword before claiming victory. In the past, there was Hakurou's grandfather Byakuya Araki, a human samurai Otherworlder who passed his skills on to the ogre village he lived in (after single-handedly saving them from a dragon) as well as among the Tengu before his eventual death. His techniques in the "Oboro" sword style would form the foundation of many masters of the sword, especially through his grandson Hakurou's teachings. When he reincarnated as a demon of the Yellow lineage, his swordsmanship alone would take him to one of the strongest acknowledged of his kind and a personal lieutenant of the Primordial Yellow Jaune herself despite his relative youth (in the centuries rather than the usual thousands of years of his peers) and being almost completely lacking in magical skill, which is usually the opposite of how it is with demons. After being named "Agera" and evolving, he eventually gains the ability to become a sword and impart all his skill to the wielders of his choice. But none of these hold a candle to Chloe Aubert. When she and her fellow Otherworlder children get swordsmanship training under Hakurou and Hinata, while all of them improve drastically, Chloe blows them out of the water and both of her teachers believe she will surpass them in time. As Chloe was/is/will be the greatest True Hero in the world, capable of cutting through space itself, they have no idea how right they are. The one explicitly called the greatest swordsman in the whole world is one of the True Demon Lords, the "Sleeping Ruler" Dino. He's also one of the oldest beings in the whole setting and wields two Mythical-class swords, Excalibur and Caliburn. The catch? Dino is the epitome of a Lazy Bum and Brilliant, but Lazy, and so can't be bothered to actually show off how skilled he really is when he actually bothers to fight instead of taking the path of least resistance.
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Master Swordsman / int_b704a08a	comment	Reborn! (2004): Sword Emperor Tyr, Superbi Squalo, Genshiki, Ugetsu Asari, and Yamamoto Takeshi. Sword Emperor Tyr was the original boss of the Varia before Squalo managed to kill him in a two-day-straight duel when he was fourteen. Squalo was thought to be the presumptive leader if he didn't step down for Xanxus. Yamamoto is also a Child Prodigy learning his father's "Shigure Soen Ryu", a style known to be invincible because its forms branch out to be either be weak or strong depending on the master and student's contribution. Yamamoto learned the style in a week and defeated Squalo by learning its secret. Later, he was mentored by Squalo to further expand the style in the Future Arc.
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Master Swordsman / int_b8e7bb8	comment	Super Sentai and Power Rangers have their share: Hiba Takayuki from Taiyou Sentai Sun Vulcan Doggie Krueger from Tokusou Sentai Dekaranger. In a police-themed series, he's the only character using a sword — and his first scene as a Ranger involves wiping out 100 henchmen without breaking a sweat. His American version matches up. All of the Rangers in Samurai Sentai Shinkenger and Power Rangers Samurai seem to have more of a focus on swordplay than the standard Ranger team, but especially Shiba Takeru and Fuwa Juzo in the former and their counterparts Jayden and Deker in the latter. Understandably, Juzo/Deker sees Takeru/Jayden as a Worthy Opponent. An interesting partial subversion in Shinkenger is that Takeru is stated to only be the third most skilled swordsman of the team (and that was before the Sixth Ranger for the season showed up), but his Determinator status more than closes the gap. Joe Gibken from Kaizoku Sentai Gokaiger. Every member of his team starts out with a Sword and Gun but prefer to swap weapons mid-battle (except their leader). He and Pirate Girl Luka are the ones who prefer Dual Wielding. At one point, Joe goes the extra mile by using all five heroes' swords at once. The Rangers from Zyuden Sentai Kyoryuger and the American counterpart Power Rangers Dino Charge all have access to swords, but Souji and his counterpart Riley use them far more often than their teammates, and are noted for their sword skills. This is reflected in their Humongous Mecha, who become slashing weapons for the team's megazords. Ollie from Power Rangers Dino Fury cites six years of training in fencing when thrown into his first fight, giving him an edge against the Hengemen when fighting with a Chromafury Saber.
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Master Swordsman / int_b962c879	comment	In Fairy Tail, there's Erza Scarlet, one of the strongest characters in the series, who has lots and lots of swords. She usually Dual Wields two BFSes.
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Master Swordsman / int_b999b655	comment	Barracuda is full of characters who are experts with a blade, but Flynn is almost universally acknowledged as being the finest swordsman in the Wretched Hive of Puerto Blanco.
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Master Swordsman / int_b9aed0de	comment	Blade in the Blade film series slices and dices vampires with a silver sword.
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Master Swordsman / int_b9b796cf	comment	A few characters in the Fate/stay night-verse are explicitly referred to as master swordsmen, and all of them are different. The Saber class, by definition, comprises nothing but Master Swordsmen. Every individual ever summoned in this class at the bare minimum is one of the most renowned swordsmen of their era. The Saber that features in Fate/Stay Night, in particular, is noted to be the best of the entire Saber Class. Seeing as she is actually the verses' version of Arthur Pendragon, this makes sense. This is further confirmed in Fate/Grand Order, where it is implied that Arturia qualifies for the Grand Saber class, which is literally the greatest Saber to ever exist. The standout example, ironically enough, however, is Assassin — actually some nobody who only got summoned because he was a master swordsman. He was the only person who ever really learned Tsubame Gaeshi (the technique later attributed in legend to Sasaki Kojirou) — this being a technique that uses 'dimensional refraction' aka the Second Magic to let him deliver three simultaneous strikes. Assassin achieved this not through some magical artefact or hidden superpower; he just trained really hard for a really long time and was rewarded with this beast of a technique, on par with a Noble Phantasm all by itself. In-universe, Tsubame Gaeshi is classified as True Magic, meaning that Assassin managed to break into the parallel worlds not via magic or divine miracles, but just by training the same sword strike over, over and over again until the universe gave in. Further, only having the bare minimum above-human physical prowess needed to qualify as a servant, he scares Lancer and would have beaten Saber (who uses bursts of mana to stand toe-to-toe with Lightning Bruiser Berserker), only his sword bent. In Unlimited Blade Works it's mentioned he successfully fended off Lancer, Rider, and Berserker himself, again using nothing but his own ludicrous sword skill. In Fate/unlimited codes, he defeats and kills Berserker. Bear in mind that Berserker's "God Hand" ability means he has to be killed twelve times to permanently die, and he becomes immune to any previous method used to kill him. Meaning that Assassin had to take him down eleven times without Tsubame Gaeshi. In short, Assassin's swordsman skill is the only thing he has going for him compared to other Servants, but it's just that good. Taiga Fujimura, of all people, is noted to be extremely skilled with a blade. She's nowhere near the level of a Servant (she challenges Saber at one point and is almost instantly defeated), but she is recognized as a world-class swordswoman (who, according to Word of God, is on par with Ryougi Shiki) despite her rambunctious personality. The prequel novels Fate/Zero add another to the roster, specifically Berserker aka The Black Knight aka Lancelot. He has a skill called 'Eternal Arms Mastery', only awarded to the most masterful Master Swordsperson in his or her era, which means his skill with a sword (or indeed anything else) is so great that the insanity that comes with the Berserker Class, which would usually rob him of all tactical and combat skill, doesn't affect it. How good is he? His first appearance has him fight his way through the Storm of Blades coming from Gilgamesh's Gate of Babylon without a scratch, using only weapons stolen from the Gate while they were flying at him. This is with random weapons he's picked up — using his own personal weapon, Arondight, he's even better — good enough to completely overwhelm Saber within ten seconds, though she was suffering from handicap at the time. Had he not lost his skills due to Madness Enhancement, the original game's Berserker, AKA Herakles, would have qualified. This is discovered when Shirou copies his 'sword' and the skills coming with it and whips out his ultimate attack Nine Lives, that is three Tsubame Gaeshi executed at the same time. To add insult to injury, that's actually an inefficient adaptation, as Nine Lives was originally an archery technique that would strike one hundred times per arrow. In the anime version of Unlimited Blade Works and Heavens' Feel his skill is actually so ingrained it overrides the madness enhancement, allowing Herakles to still fight with remarkable form. Archer considers himself neither a true swordsman nor a true bowman-indeed, Lancer claims his swordsmanship "lacks pride" — and deems himself a mage first and foremost, but this does not take away from the fact that his skills with a blade and bow are highly advanced, such that he can put up a good fight against both Saber and Assassin. This makes sense too, as his ace in the hole is basically a pocket dimension with an endless supply of magical blades- rather useless if one was not able to actually use said blades. His skill with these many weapons neatly contrasts Gilgamesh, whose Gate of Babylon gives him an endless supply of vastly superior blades, but since Gilgamesh is only decently skilled at swordsmanship and can't bring out their full power he prefers to just magically fire them from a distance.
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Master Swordsman / int_bc1dc95a	comment	Most of the characters in Pirates of the Caribbean are all accomplished swordsmen. The creators ranked the swordsmen in the following order: Will is the greatestnote He's also the one who remarks that he practices [swordfighting] four hours a day - and that's while he's keeping up a job as a blacksmith., followed by Barbossa and Norrington tied for second. Jack is the least of the four, but he is enough of a trickster to match blades with any one of the aforementioned.
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Master Swordsman / int_bcadd7cb	comment	Many more examples from Warhammer 40,000. Games Workshop must love this trope. The Dark Eldar Incubi. Unlike most Dark Eldar who fight for pleasure, souls or riches, the Incubi are a warrior sect who believe the fight is the reason. Their weapon of choice is a BFS which can cleave clean through Terminator power armour, and the Incubi wield this weapon with the grace of a cheerleader wielding a baton. Lelith Hesperax, Wych Champion supreme. Well over 10 thousand years old, regularly participates in Wych arena performances note More like free-for-all bloodbaths against the most dangerous things from the galaxy and beyond that Dark Eldar manage to bring to arena. In the most artistic and painful ways, of course., raids in Imperial Space and internal power struggles with the latter being the most dangerous. Notable for totally abstaining from combat drugs and lacking any scars to show for her trouble. She fights with a pair of short blades. Drazhar, whose name means "Living Sword". No one knows what he is, but he is wearing original Pre-Fall Incubi armor and a similar sword, never speaks a word, and can best the Hierarch of the Great Shrine of the Incubi with ridiculous ease. He's rumored to be fallen Phoenix Lord. The Craftworld Eldar Howling Banshees. Armed with similar weapons (in earlier editions) and being just as skilled as the Incubi, these ladies are utterly deadly. Jain Zahr, the Storm of Silence, the Phoenix Lord of the Howling Banshees. The founder of the Aspect and the single best swordsman of the Eldar race. The Avatar of Khaine has a superb weapon skill on the tabletop rivaled by none (except when he frequently is in the fluff). He often fights with a longsword made of molten metal. While Tyranid Hive Tyrants are already equipped with razor-sharp bone blades on their arms, The Swarmlord takes this to an even greater degree, wielding four swords at once and creating an impenetrable wall of whirling blades to anything that tries to engage it in melee. The Tau are more known for their power at long-range combat, but they have produced a few skilled close-quarters combatants. Commander Farsight's Ace Custom Crisis battlesuit is armed with a huge sword, the Dawn Blade, speculated to be of Necron, Chaos, or Eldar origin, and he's good enough with it to have fought the previously-mentioned Swarmlord to a draw.note Don't try this in the game though, Farsight will get brutally slaughtered. The Ethereal Aun'shi is a master with the ritual Honour Blade; in one battle where a mining colony was under attack by Orks, The Cavalry arrived just in time to find him at the gates to an Ethereal shrine, surrounded by Ork corpses, his Honour Blade slick with blood. The Space Marines, both Loyal and Chaos, often wield swords of various kinds and are extremely proficient at wielding them. Specific examples include: Abaddon. Joke about his arms all you want, he is the only living thing in M41 that comes close to the might of the Primarchs. His sword, Drach'Nyen was witnessed to destroy a Land Raider and flay souls of those it touched. It's an Eldritch Abomination in sword form. The Blood Angels Chief Librarian Mephiston is one of the best swordsmen on the Imperial side. His stats including his weapon skill are crazy enough, without him being able to buff himself and attack his opponent with psychic powers. He's one of the only things in the game that can actually kill Abaddon reliably. The Grey Knight's Brotherhood Champions ignore all other forms of combat to focus on their sword skill. Castellan Crowe takes the cake though, being so impossibly skilled that he can pierce any armor and wound anything, without using any of the near-infinite evil powers of his daemon blade, making it no different from a regular sword so long as he doesn't tap into these. Because he knows the moment he caves in and tries, the blade will probably corrupt him. The Primarch of the Emperor's Children, Fulgrim, is a consummate Master Swordsman in keeping with his perfectionism. Both times he dueled a fellow Primarch he has come out on top: Ferrus Manus lost his head and Roboute Guilliman got a Slashed Throat (and fatally poisoned). Lucius the Eternal, Slaanesh's Chosen Champion, follows in his Primarch Fulgrim's footsteps and is also an incredibly gifted swordsman. His reputation as a duelist is such that the above-mentioned Lelith Hesperax wants to duel him, thinking he'd be a perfect Worthy Opponent. Sword wielding worshippers of Khorne also fall into this category, but are uncommon as they generally prefer axes over swords. Necron Lychguard take such pride in their skills with swords (or Warscythes) that they suffer a Villainous Breakdown if they fail to kill a target with a single strike.
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Master Swordsman / int_beac6ffb	comment	In The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask, there is a sword school in West Clock Town run by an Old Master Swordsman, who can teach Link sword techniques for a fee.
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Master Swordsman / int_bfd23f28	comment	Masters of the Universe: He-Man and the antagonist Blade are badasses with swords.
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Master Swordsman / int_c02ce5b4	comment	House of the Dragon: Two Targaryens are particularly skilled with swords, Daemon and his nephew Aemond. It's even more impressive for Aemond since he's one-eyed.
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Master Swordsman / int_c2374a54	comment	Red Sonja's signature weapons are her broadsword and her fury, earning the name She-Devil with a Sword. At one point she meets a swordsman called Osric the Untouched because he's literally never been hit when duelling.
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Master Swordsman / int_c2463c55	comment	Final Fantasy X: Auron.
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Master Swordsman / int_c34f83b2	comment	Peko Pekoyama from Danganronpa 2: Goodbye Despair, being the Super High School Level Swordswoman and Fuyuhiko Kuzuryuu's bodyguard.
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Master Swordsman / int_c3a5fa9	comment	Nasir in Robin of Sherwood. Usually uses two swords at once, but is just as deadly with only one.
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Master Swordsman / int_c59abec0	comment	Braveheart: William Wallace occasionally uses other weapons, but he always goes into war with his signature claymore and never loses a fight with it in his hand.
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Master Swordsman / int_c62995ba	comment	Child of the Storm Fandral the Dashing is reckoned as the best swordsman in the Nine Realms - which, considering he's a Lightning Bruiser even by Asgardian standards, with millennia of experience, makes him utterly lethal in close combat. His only equal, in Asgard at least, is Sif, who's the resident War God. Both Fandral and Sif were trained by the Lady Knight, a legendary immortal warrior and unwilling time traveller (as in, she'd suddenly jerk forward several centuries without any choice or warning) who has been a Living Legend in several lifetimes. When she finally makes her appearance, she demonstrates that her reputation is not in the least overblown by effortlessly destroying a Scarab Warrior in a swordfight without a) a helmet, or b) breaking a sweat. Harry, who's watching, is left in awe, comparing her skill to Mozart or the Red Baron, explicitly states that after all this time she's still better than Sif and Fandral, and hangs on her every word when she's "teaching class." Harry's quickly revealed to have a talent at the age of 13, and in Book II, is noted to be well on the way to mastery. His talent is compared to none other than Arthur Pendragon - and he was, by the Lady Knight's extremely high standards, brilliant. She also notes that he has a more or less perfect list of physical and mental attributes to put that talent to best use, while accounting for his telepathy to revise Sif's estimates for how long it would take for him to achieve technical mastery: 17 (human standards) and 30 (Asgardian standards). Given that at the time, at about 15, he's nigh-flawlessly impersonating Obi-Wan Kenobi well enough to both duel another Master Swordsman, Anakin Skywalker (which somehow makes sense in context), to a standstill and sell the deception for a good while despite the latter having over a decade of experience of the former's Fighting Fingerprint, you can see her point. Sir Dane Whitman a.k.a. the Black Knight, is as brilliant a swordsman as his canon counterpart. However, he's in his early 20s and is described as being young and a bit excitable, which leaves him vulnerable. Also qualifying are Sir Michael and Sir Sanya, Knights of the Cross.
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Master Swordsman / int_c72c2d06	comment	Star Wars Rebels: Shortly before the Original Trilogy, Obi-wan Kenobi shows his swordsmanship by defeating Maul in approximately five seconds, despite the fact that Maul is still capable of gleefully curbstomping three Inquisitors at once. Vader, meanwhile, treats everyone not called Ahsoka Tano as a passing amusement at best, and even she can only match him - and wound him - for a short while.
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Master Swordsman / int_c8e04b53	comment	The Legend of Zelda: Four Swords (2004) has Link, who can non-fatally cut down three bandits in a split second. His clone Vio turns out to be even better, decisively beating him in a match when pretending to betray him.
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Master Swordsman / int_c9633211	comment	Travis Touchdown from No More Heroes. He can deflect automatic gunfire with his sword, slaughter scores of mooks at a time, and is able to defeat virtually every other swordsperson he encounters.
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Master Swordsman / int_cbdbf3a0	comment	Fear Sengar becomes his tribe's Weapons Master based on his skill with the sword and, at the start of Midnight Tides, he is said to have won the most trophies among his tribe in the Unification Wars (and since wars among the Tiste Edur are highly ritualised, skill does matter more than in any other given war).
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Master Swordsman / int_cceb25de	comment	In The Locked Tomb, Gideon is described as the best swordswoman the Ninth has ever produced, and it's no idle boast. Despite spending most of her life training with a two-hander and only having a few months to learn rapier, she easily keeps pace with and defeats opponents who were born to it. In a series full of proficient swordsmen, some of whom have spent over 10,000 years honing their craft, none of them match Gideon, and most need a significant handicap on her part (using an unfamiliar weapon, being stuck in Harrow's emaciated body) just to survive a fight with her.
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Master Swordsman / int_ce1f7b52	comment	The Dresden Files: skills worth mentioning are usually rated from Average (+1) to Superb (+5), a one-point difference in modifiers is significant, and a two-point difference is a pretty good indication of who will usually win a straight dice-off. According to his Our World writeup, Shiro Yoshimo has a baseline Weapons skill of Fantastic (+6)...plus easily 2-3 aspects invokable in combat for another +2 or a reroll each, assuming sufficient fate points...plus another couple of combat stunts and the usual holy powers of a Knight of the Crosds on top of that, and none of this is really figuring in the innate powers of his Sword yet. The other two Knights as well as experienced Wardens like Morgan are also sword masters, though not as great as Shiro.
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Master Swordsman / int_ce67d43a	comment	Tales of Xillia's Milla Maxwell is heavily implied to be this. Though she at first relied on the Great Spirits to do anything (leaving her unable to even combo for a time) she's later shown, only a few months later, to have progressed to an advanced understanding of sword techniques.
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Master Swordsman / int_cf206581	comment	Ultraman Leo: One of Leo's first opponents was the alien Tsuruk, who had two swords welded to his wrists that he used with deadly precision by butchering MAC members in the blink of an eye and pushing Gen through some of his most brutal Training from Hell in the series.
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Master Swordsman / int_cf43d248	comment	The Cavalier is an expert swordsman, who sometimes wields an electrified rapier. In Where Were You on the Night Batman Was Killed?, he claims to have killed Batman in a sword duel, and he is good enough that people are willing to give serious consideration to this claim.
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Master Swordsman / int_cf5c0f55	comment	Suikoden: the Falcon Rune is a good indicator of the really skilled, accomplished swordsmen among the Stars of Destiny. Standout examples are Valeris (Suikoden and Suikoden II) and Belcoot (Suikoden V).
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Master Swordsman / int_cf8d31cb	comment	Sanjuro from Yojimbo and Sanjuro is a badass ronin.
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Master Swordsman / int_d0744832	comment	The Avengers: The Swordsman and The Black Knight (Dane Whitman) in the Marvel Universe have this as their shtick, with Dracula commenting that Dane was one of the best swordsmen of all time. The latter also has to contend with the nature of his sword. Faiza Hussain, the wielder of Excalibur, Dane's steward and eventual Love Interest, takes Dracula, King of the Vampires, in a sword fight, despite his Super-Strength and Super-Speed and the fact that he'd just crushed Dane. While this was probably partly thanks to Excalibur's nature as a holy weapon, it's still very impressive. Fandral the Dashing of Asgard, though he rarely gets the chance to show it.
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Master Swordsman / int_d1d1b9f8	comment	Second Apocalypse: Kellhus, being Dunyain, has been conditioned from birth to be nigh-superhuman. As a result, he has superlative skill in swordsmanship. He can defeat large groups of lesser opponents with computer-like precision and is able to best even the greatest swordsman of his age. Cnaiur is the greatest warrior of the Skylvendi, a Proud Warrior Race. In addition to being The Berserker who fights with Unstoppable Rage, he is also a skilled tactician, allowing him to lead armies as well as overwhelm every opponent save Kellhus himself in personal combat with a sword. In one particular battle, he fights as a One-Man Army, daring the enemy to kill him and stop the horror of his wrath as he slaughters untold numbers of their soldiers.
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Master Swordsman / int_d3cc40b5	comment	In Embers in the Dusk, characters with "Master Of The Blade" trait, like Fredrick Rotbart. Some characters, like General Leopold Schwarz, are Grandmaster Swordsmen. Arbitrator Jane Oakheart takes it even further, being a Paragon Swordsman. This level of skill allows her (and anyone else at or above her level) to perform outright physically impossible feats, which, in Jane's case, is the ability to cut Warp effects. (It even works with things that aren't her sword, like random kitchen knives, as long as they are sharp enough). It also gives her a chance of a One-Hit Kill on anything smaller than a skyscraper.
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Master Swordsman / int_d431bdc7	comment	Maria Campbell of the Astral Clocktower: Maria herself, due to being a reincarnate from Bloodborne. She uses an aggressive Dual Wielding acrobatic style that overwhelms everyone she fights. When Alan finally gets a chance to see her fight, he and the king have a discussion about how she could possibly be so skilled and actually come close to guessing that she's a reincarnate. Katarina, surprisingly. When she regained her past life memories when she was eight, she realized there was a strong possibility of being murdered by a sword in ten years. So she has spent every day since then diligently training in the sword. Her skills are utterly basic but also absolutely perfect; her defense is unbreakable, and even though she is terrible at attacking, her counterattacks are swift and uncompromising. Even Maria is impressed with her skills.
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Master Swordsman / int_d54469f8	comment	Meta Knight from Kirby, although this characteristic is developed further in the anime adaptation. Also Kirby himself, at least when he has the Sword copy ability. Kirby and the Forgotten Land even has an upgrade for the Sword ability to give Kirby some of Meta Knight's special abilities.
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Master Swordsman / int_d62bbf7a	comment	Ezio Auditore from Assassin's Creed II. Certainly, one who can consistently strike the weak points of plate-clad opponents in a stand-up fight is no slouch.
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Master Swordsman / int_d6423831	comment	John Carter of Mars, the greatest swordsman of two worlds, at least. He's not the only one, though, what with swordsmanship being an incredibly prized skill among the Martian races, almost all of whom are varying degrees of Proud Warrior Race. In particular, Carter complements the Therns for their swordsmanship (though it's the only thing he finds praiseworthy about them), and the Okar (Yellow Martian) elite guard Solan gives Carter a serious run for his money in the third book.
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Master Swordsman / int_d64fad36	comment	Orson Gregory in The Dreamside Road is well known for besting the leader of city-destroying Thunderworks â€œblade-to-bladeâ€�. He displays his swordsmanship at the end of the Wintertide Festival arc when he battles Master Nine and his Extra-ore-dinary abilities. Orson has a whole arsenal, but his swordsmanship keeps Tucker on the ropes the entire fight.
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Master Swordsman / int_d79ba0ac	comment	Azumi, the titular character of the 1990s feudal Japanese manga, is a kunoichi who wields a dual-bladed katana with such skill that she can easily decimate dozens of soldiers by herself.
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Master Swordsman / int_d8e24914	comment	Yaiba is full of powerful swordsmen, including the eponymous hero by the end, Takeshi Onimaru, Miyamoto Musashi, Sasaki Kojiro, Yagyu Jubei, Soshi Okita, and Kenjuro Kurogane.
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Master Swordsman / int_d908efc	comment	In Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba, the setting centers around a centuries-long feud between humans and demons (called Oni in-universe), wherein a dedicated order of humans, the Demon Slayer Corps, utilize swordsmanship disciplines (known as "breathing styles" to slay demons. One character in particular, Yoriichi Tsugikuni, the only person in centuries to ever come close to killing the progenitor of all demonkind Muzan Kibutsuji, was a genuine Samurai from the Sengoku period, and an absolutely godlike master swordsman whose skill defied all logic and laws of physics - to the point that the demons, who on average are much stronger than their human opponents, were baffled at his inexplicable martial prowess, believing him to be divine providence given human form. In modern times, the Demon Slayer Corps employs a number of elite fighters, the Hashira, each of whom is the undisputed champion in their chosen breathing style: Water Hashira: Giyu Tomioka, the first Hashira introduced. Giyu is a stoic, pragmatic and unemotional fellow and is an all-rounder when it comes to swordplay. Water Breathing is said to be the easiest breathing style to learn for beginners and was used to derive the greatest number of new Breathings except for the original Sun Breathing technique. It is focused on chaining attacks into a seamless, flowing link, with an emphasis on sweeps, cuts, and slashes. Flame Hashira: Kyojuro Rengoku. A Hot-Blooded Nice Guy Hashira, almost unusually cheery and upbeat no matter the situation, Kyojuro is energetic and prefers offense to defense. His Flame Breathing relies greatly upon the swordsman's mobility and is focused on swift dashes forward followed by a slash or a lunge to deliver a decisive blow. Stone Hashira: Gyomei Himejima, the strongest of the Hashira, a mountain of a man who prefers using a massive kusarigama to a sword - except the chain-end of his weapon ends with a massive spiked ball of nichirin metal, while the blade in his other hand is more similar to an axe than the typical scythe. As such, he favours massive, broad sweeps which aim at catching the enemy in between both ends of his weapon, as well as lightning-fast thrusts utilizing the unusual length of his flail to the fullest. Wind Hashira: Sanemi Shinazugawa, a mildly sadistic Blood Knight. His Wind Breathing is all about rapid, brutal cuts and slashes, with no thought spared for defense or fluidity of movement. A skilled Wind Hashira resembles nothing so much in combat like a raging typhoon, with similarly devastating effects. Sound Hashira: Tengen Uzui, an Agent Peacock extraordinaire who is, ironically, the stealthiest of the Hashira, as befitting one of the last surviving shinobi. Tengen's unique style, allegedly inspired by Thunder Breathing, revolves around being able to gauge the opponent's "rhythm" of movements, then producing a new "rhythm" involving fast, direct cuts and stabs in a seamless link to disrupt and break the opponent's "rhythm". As an ex-shinobi, Tengen also frequently utilizes several varieties of bombs, in order to confuse his opponents with rapid bursts of light and sound. Mist Hashira: Muichiro Tokito, the youngest of the Hashira and probably the most naturally gifted swordsman of the present day, as befitting of the last descendant of Yoriichi's twin brother Michikatsu, now Upper Moon Rank 1. Kokushibo. His Mist Breathing, derived from Wind Breathing, puts emphasis on confusion and lying with one's body language, meaning Muichiro relies on quickly landing a series of devastating slashes from unexpected directions, dispatching his opponents before they can mount a proper defense. Unfortunately, should they be able to anticipate his attacks, much like Wind Breathing, Mist Breathing has very little in the way of solid defensive techniques. Few enemies live long enough to figure this out, however. Insect Hashira: Shinobu Kocho, a Creepy Good Stepford Smiler and the younger sister of the late Flower Hashira, Kanae Kocho. Shinobu is the self-proclaimed weakest member of the Hashira - while true in the sense that her physical strength is indeed lesser than that of most other swordsmen, she also uses this claim to her advantage, to goad her enemies into underestimating her. Her Insect Breathing is uniquely focused on thrusting, stabbing, and inflicting shallow cuts, none of which would usually suffice to kill even the weakest of demons. However, Shinobu, being a talented Combat Medic first and foremost, has managed to create a poison made of wisteria flowers, lethal to demons in even small doses. A single cut with her slim poisoned blade is usually more than enough to grant even more powerful demons a swift, painful demise. Flower Breathing: Kanae Kocho's style of combat was more focused on weaving and spinning than Shinobu's more straightforward lunging and stabbing and more in line with the style she derived hers from, Water Breathing. These techniques are still practiced by the Kocho sisters' ward and adoptive sister, Kanao Tsuyuri. Serpent Hashira: Obanai Iguro, a Weak, but Skilled Jerk with a Heart of Gold and the second weakest of the Hashira in terms of raw power. Iguro compensates for his lack of physical strength by focusing his style on locating and hitting the critical weaknesses within his enemies' defenses, using wavy serpentine movements involving a lot of slashing and stabbing to slide his sword in between enemy counters and deliver maximum damage with a minimal amount of force. Love Hashira: Mitsuri Kanroji, a Girly Bruiser with a unique muscular condition which, ironically, makes her the second physically strongest of the Hashira, despite her small stature and athletic build. Her immense strength allows her to wield a unique, whip-like sword which bends whenever she swings it while remaining razor-sharp. Much like her mentor Kyojuro, Mitsuri relies greatly on her agility and mobility, with the added benefit of her whip-sword providing her with incredible reach. Despite her incredible skill, out of combat, she is ironically somewhat clumsy and unfocused. Thunder Hashira: While the position is vacant at the start of the series (since the last Thunder Hashira, Jigoro Kuwajima, has retreated into retirement), one of the main characters, Zenitsu Agatsuma, is a prominent Thunder Breathing user and is expected to eventually inherit the title. Thunder Breathing is heavily inspired by real-world iaido, and its practitioners are usually fast and strong, expected to be able to perform a Flash Step and finish the fight with a single, decisive slash. Though not a Hashira, the Upper Moon Rank 1. Kokushibo, formerly known as Michikatsu Tsugikuni, twin brother to the legendary Yoriichi, prefers to use his own style of swordsmanship, the Moon Breathing, being one of the founders of Breathing Styles. Due to being an immortal demon, Kokushibo is not only capable of greater strength, speed, agility, and dexterity than any of the individual Hashira, but can also amplify his attacks with his Blood Demon Art spells, sprouting new blades from both his main sword and his body, creating slashing gusts of air, cutting through stone architecture like paper and expanding his cuts to ludicrous lengths and widths. Notably, he possesses at least sixteen different techniques, more than even the widely-practiced Water Breathing. Unsurprisingly, despite Muzan being the most powerful demon due to the sheer amount of damage he can endure and come back from, Kokushibo is usually seen as the most skilled enemy the heroes have to face, having become a demon for the explicit purpose of perfecting his swordsmanship and finally surpassing his legendary brother.
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Master Swordsman / int_da52a723	comment	Michael Cheung in Rivers of London is a Legendary Swordsman — it says so on his business card. According to Nightingale, Michael's magical Implausible Fencing Powers have been the trademark of Chinatown's defenders for generations, but the postmodern bit with the business card is new. He's also training Constable Guleed.
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Master Swordsman / int_da72cf97	comment	Several people in the Trails Series are this trope. Examples include Cassius Bright, Loewe the Bladelord, Arios MacLaine, Victor S. Arseid, Aurelia Le Guin, Rufus Albarea, and by Cold Steel IV, Rean Schwarzer.
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Master Swordsman / int_dab32e3	comment	From the Mega Man X and Mega Man Zero series, Zero's primary weapon is his signature Z-Saber, with which he is able to do many advanced techniques like a Three Point Combo and a Rolling Slash. By comparison, when X attempts to use it in X6, he swings it much slower and is much weaker with it.
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Master Swordsman / int_dbaabb61	comment	Mickey Mouse is also portrayed as one, with stories set in modern times establishing him as a hobbyist fencer with Olympic-level skills. Then there's the middle ages and fantasy stories that put him on the same level as middle ages Donald. The culmination was in "Mickey Mouse and the Invincible Sword", where he was so good that he was actually convinced he was wielding an invincible magic sword until the sword's smith explained otherwise (even re-enacting the I Am Not Left-Handed scene from The Princess Bride, with Mickey as the one who switched hands later), and its sequel "Mickey Mouse and the Sword of Time", where his opponent had an invincible sword that could block all attacks by seeing the future and he won by exhaustion (the sword made the wielder slim down until he disappeared. His opponent was Pete... And Mickey matched him for hours until Pete realized what the sword was doing him and dropped it in horror). He's the Weak, but Skilled compared to Donald, relatively weak but more skilled.
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Master Swordsman / int_dbe77265	comment	Hiba Takayuki from Taiyou Sentai Sun Vulcan
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Master Swordsman / int_dd6c417	comment	All of the Rangers in Samurai Sentai Shinkenger and Power Rangers Samurai seem to have more of a focus on swordplay than the standard Ranger team, but especially Shiba Takeru and Fuwa Juzo in the former and their counterparts Jayden and Deker in the latter. Understandably, Juzo/Deker sees Takeru/Jayden as a Worthy Opponent. An interesting partial subversion in Shinkenger is that Takeru is stated to only be the third most skilled swordsman of the team (and that was before the Sixth Ranger for the season showed up), but his Determinator status more than closes the gap.
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Master Swordsman / int_e2b86487	comment	The Riftwar Cycle has several. Among them, Prince Arutha in the early books is well-known for his skill with the rapier; in the later books, Talwin Hawkins and his son Tyrone are both declared Champions of the Masters' Court (that is, winners of worldwide swordfighting tournaments).
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Master Swordsman / int_e3c46dbc	comment	In XVII century Poland, fencing was an important skill, so it comes to reason that most (male) characters in Sienkiewicz Trilogy are at least decent at it. But MichaÅ‚ WoÅ‚odyjowski is repeatedly stated and shown to be cream of the crop. If you duel him, Plot Armour is the only thing that can save you.
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Master Swordsman / int_e42289f8	comment	Bazil Broketail: Bazil is easily the best sword fighter in the whole series, widely known for his many victories over mighty foes like the Doom of Tummuz Orgmeen, Malacostracan Gammadion, and even the Dominator. Some other named battle dragons like Alsebra or Burthong are particularly skilled with a sword as well.
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Master Swordsman / int_e58add6f	comment	Yu Mi-Ra of The God of High School is this, having sufficient skill to take on foes meant to slay gods with a blade sharp enough to cleave through mountains, clouds, and buildings that are nowhere near the target of the attack.
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Master Swordsman / int_e5c5bc22	comment	The advantage Weapon Master in GURPS is designed for this exact purpose. Not only can you do more damage with your chosen weapon, but you're also proficient with anything similar to it.
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Master Swordsman / int_e6405649	comment	The Dinosaur Lords: The two most notable in the series are Voyvod (later Duke) Karyl Borgomirsky and Count (later Prince) Jaume Llobregat. In Jaume's case, there's no better swordman in the country of Nuevaropa and uniquely among Dinosaur Knights in mounted combat, Jaume not only still favors a sword but can put each attack in whatever target he aims at despite the incredible jostling of the dinosaur mount (most mounted Dinosaur Knights instead favor mauls or long-hafted maces to knock over enemies from their mounts). Karyl is so amazing a swordsman that he was able to go toe to toe with the superhuman Grey Angel Raguel, despite the being's inhuman size and speed, he even cuts off one of Raguel's hands before tiring out.
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Master Swordsman / int_e694aadb	comment	This is one of the things about Commissar Ciaphas Cain that makes one stop and wonder just how fair he's being to himself in insisting he's no hero. He's explicitly said to be very good at it, and all kinds of inhuman monstrosities and Super Soldiers have found their rampage stopped by one (usually secretly terrified) human officer wielding a chain sword who just won't die. The books acknowledge, in a roundabout way, that Cain in the tabletop game would be considered a Commissar Lord, a unit that has better ability in melee combat than a genetically modified super-soldier. Cain proves this in the book in question twice over by holding off two Chaos Space Marines of Khorne, unstoppable juggernauts incapable of feeling anything other than pure rage.
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Master Swordsman / int_e71c679	comment	Doggie Krueger from Tokusou Sentai Dekaranger. In a police-themed series, he's the only character using a sword — and his first scene as a Ranger involves wiping out 100 henchmen without breaking a sweat. His American version matches up.
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Master Swordsman / int_e82c9823	comment	Black Cat The Big Bad Creed is dangerous with a sword, capable of splitting bullets and being one of the very few people able to face off against the hero Train. It's later subverted in that he gradually becomes more dependent on using the magic of the Tao elixer and high-tech nanomachines to keep up with his competition. Sephiria Arks is the best swordswoman of her generation, having such control over her blade that she can balance a filled glass on it.
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Master Swordsman / int_e9c58049	comment	Exar Kun of Tales of the Jedi is perhaps the greatest lightsaber duelist of the age, and he knows it too. He even defeats his master twice. Unfortunately for everyone else, Kun is also very evil and he goes on to kill many Jedi after his astoundingly unsurprising fall to the Dark Side.
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Master Swordsman / int_e9c7b01b	comment	Dissidia: Warrior of Light.
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Master Swordsman / int_e9d7acf9	comment	Lone Wolf: Lone Wolf can be a master swordsman if he chooses the Weaponskill ability and picks the sword as one of the 3 weapon choices. The Weaponskill ability will later on evolve into the Weaponmastery and Grand Weaponmastery skill (these two skills in turn evolve as you go on to new books).
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Master Swordsman / int_ea91a4bf	comment	Each installment post-Daggerfall features numerous trainers who let you upgrade your skills, including swordsmanship, for a fee. Only a single master trainer, however, can usually max out a particular skill: the Buoyant Armiger Ulms Drathen (Long Blade) and Redguard Blade Todwendy (Short Blade) in Morrowind, Alix Lencolia in Oblivion, and the Orc Warchief Burguk (One-Handed) and the Inner Circle Companion Vilkas in Skyrim. Unless the respective game's PC maxes out their swordfighting skills, these individuals are generally acknowledged as the Master Swordsmen of the respective region.
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Master Swordsman / int_eb1a2ec5	comment	Played with extensively in The Baroque Cycle. The Earl Of Upnor is generally regarded as the finest swordsman in England, but the book and characters within it point out that what that actually means is that he's a rich psychopath who endlessly starts duels with men who don't have the faintest chance of even scratching him, essentially just For the Evulz but sometimes in service to his friends' political agendas. Bob Shaftoe, who has survived battlefield after battlefield but has no real skill with his sword at all, trains up to try and fight Upnor, who has kidnapped Bob's fiancee, and is very definitely about to be killed by Upnor when one of his friends shows up with a long pole and unceremoniously beats Upnor to death with it, lecturing Bob all the while on the stupidity of expecting to win a fair fight with the man. A relieved Bob announces he will memorialize the moment; "Here lies the finest swordsman in England, beaten to death in a boggy field by an Irishman with a stick."
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Master Swordsman / int_eb6719f6	comment	In Final Fantasy VIII, Squall and Seifer are renowned for being the only two to ever master using a gunblade, the awkward combination design of which makes it very difficult to learn to use effectively. This is reflected in the game mechanics by both characters having 255% accuracy with the most basic models of their gunblades right from the start of the game, ensuring that they will never fail to land an attack.
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Master Swordsman / int_eb6802b4	comment	Final Fantasy XIII: Lightning.
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Master Swordsman / int_ed260e15	comment	Chains of Horai: The Five Kingdoms, being a heavily Japanese-influenced setting, has a lot of these. The strongest in the setting is the Big Bad, Empress Genmyo, who curbstomps the only somewhat-less skilled Todoroki and Madoka in quick succession. Others include Hisao, the Cursed Rooster, and Hitoshi Tokiwa, the man who taught Yusuke and Todoroki how to fight.
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Master Swordsman / int_ed2a7866	comment	Sword Art Online: Zig-Zagged under most circumstances. In the realm of VRMMORPGs that translate nerve pulses directly into in-game movement, Kirito, Asuna, Heathcliff, "Red-Eyed" XaXa and Yuuki are strong enough to have each gained Red Baron status in the various games they play. In the real world, though, Kirito's mediocre at kendo, Asuna has never even picked up a sword, Heathcliff is the computer genius who made VRMMORPGs in the first place, including the combat system, XaXa's real body is too frail and sickly to let him effectively use a sword, and Yuuki is confined to a hospital bed. Played straight by Suguha/Leafa, Kirito's cousin. In ALO she's one of the most skilled players despite technically having lower levels than one would expect, and in real life, she's an extremely skilled kendo player (national-level middle school quarter-finalist). In fact, her in-game skill comes directly from her real-life experience, and she started playing ALO specifically because it was a skill-based game rather than a level-based one.
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Master Swordsman / int_edece829	comment	There are a lot of skilled swordsmen in The Brotherhood of the Black Flag, but Michael McNamara and Captain Stephen Reynard definitely count as worthy of this trope. According to Word of God, Dona Catalina would be as well if she'd had the same level of training and experience — and she's still quite formidable with a blade.
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Master Swordsman / int_eef5470a	comment	Just about everyone in Rurouni Kenshin, with Implausible Fencing Powers out the wazoo. Special mention goes to the hero, Himura Kenshin (loosely based on Kawakami Gensai, below), Shinomori Aoshi, Hiko Seijuro, Saitou Hajime (loosely based on the real Saitou Hajime), Makoto Shishio, Seta Soujirou, and Yukishiro Enishi.
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Master Swordsman / int_ef9ba9b4	comment	Ben Naasade a.k.a. Obi-Wan Kenobi from four years after Revenge of the Sith, temporally displaced to about six years before The Phantom Menace. Despite his body having been battered by about 15 years of warfare and 4 years of alcoholism (partway through the series he has to have practically every organ in his body replaced), he effortlessly dismantles pretty much every single Jedi he faces. This is especially after an open challenge is made - beat him in a duel and they get to take his padawan (ironically, his younger self, not that anyone but a few members of the Council is aware of it) to train for a month out of concern for his methods. It gets to the point where in some cases he is noted to literally be Just Toying with Them. Even a young Darth Maul isn't immune, despite his vast skill and significantly greater physical advantages - Ben ends up dismembering Maul while making a point not to kill him. It's only because of some unwanted help that Maul escapes. In the sequel series, Cin Drallig, the Jedi Battlemaster, explains to the family of his Mandalorian Padawan that yes, in terms of pure sabre-skill, he's up there with Ben Naasade, but in battle, Ben was something else entirely.
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Master Swordsman / int_f10619d8	comment	Tales of the Abyss's Van Grants is confirmed to be this. Luke beating him at the end confirms he has become one.
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Master Swordsman / int_f1d185d1	comment	Gilgamesh in all of his appearances.
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Master Swordsman / int_f1da64b5	comment	Aragorn in The Lord of the Rings trilogy fights with his ancestral sword of kings and kicks ass.
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Master Swordsman / int_f367511c	comment	There's quite a few in Yu-Gi-Oh!, but a standout card that exemplifies this is Gearfried the Swordmaster, a Level 7 Light/Warrior monster that can only be summoned by the effect of a related spell card. As it is, his 2600 Attack and 2200 Defense is only respectable...however he has the ability to destroy one monster on the field upon being given any equip card.
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Master Swordsman / int_f3ae2950	comment	Metal Gear Rising has Sam, who comes from a long line of sword martial artists. He is never seen using another weapon aside from his sword. Among other impressive displays of skill, his most notable technique is a super-fast draw with a gun-like mechanism built into his scabbard, allowing him to draw and slash his weapon with insane speed and force.
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Master Swordsman / int_f3e1f424	comment	In Merlin (2008), Arthur, as may be expected, is this trope, as is Lancelot. Aside from Lancelot, only a few other characters in the entire series ever beat him in a duel.
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Master Swordsman / int_f52eb927	comment	Way of the Tiger: While your character barely knows which way to hold a sword, his Arch-Enemy Honoric is perhaps the greatest swordsman in the world. In his position of Marshal of the Legion of the Sword of Doom, he trains by fighting 40 of his warriors at once with a normal sword and drives them off. For him, this is a light workout before breakfast.
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Master Swordsman / int_f53022c6	comment	Feng Shui, with the right Schticks, can create a character like this. The Leaping Storm fu path in particular is based on Wuxia and specializes in high-flying swordplay.
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Master Swordsman / int_f6a54e75	comment	Several from the Kingdom Hearts series, which shares many characters with Final Fantasy. Though the main characters wield giant Keys, they are functionally magic swords. In that vein, Mickey Mouse and Riku are Master Swordsman, as well as Terra, Xehanort, and Eraqus from the prequel. You also have Auron, Mulan eventually, Cloud and Leon, and Jack Sparrow and Hector Barbossa. However, the main character, Sora, comes to eclipse them all due to the sheer amount of experience he has whacking Eldritch Abominations and Disney Villains with his Keyblade.
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Master Swordsman / int_f7712bb4	comment	Wonderful Blessing: Kazuto and Asuna, whose skills are a side effect of the wish they made to be like Kirito and Asuna respectively. Others include Lucifer and Mammon.
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Master Swordsman / int_f84c42c0	comment	Lupin III: Goemon Ishikawa XIII is the best of all. His demonstrations of Implausible Fencing Powers pretty much fit into every category, with his trademark moves being Parrying Bullets and cutting a group of enemies' guns, clothes, and hair before they can realize what happened, and it would actually be shorter to list the things he hasn't managed to cut in half. His fighting skills without the sword are nothing to sneeze at either. Part of Goemon's skills come from his Absurdly Sharp Blade. That said, he can block bullets with any sword; it's just that if he uses a common sword, it's going to be ruined. Lupin himself is no slouch. While not as good as Goemon, he's good enough to understand how he fights, and the rare times he has his sword he has been seen Parrying Bullets. An episode of the second series had Oscar FranÃ§ois de Jarjayes show up and fight Lupin, and she was winning before he got his hands on Goemon's sword, at which point Lupin used the invincible sword to cut hers. Lupin III: The Italian Adventure adds another character to the swordsmen roster: Leonardo da Vinci, whose immense list of skills he mastered includes swordsfighting, going toe-on-toe with Goemon for a while before losing. He had the advantage that they were using his favorite Renaissance-era blades, which Goemon was unfamiliar with, but as other opponents with a similar advantage had previously gone down in seconds.
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Master Swordsman / int_f8956ef3	comment	Hiei from YuYu Hakusho cut Seiryu 16 times before his enemy knew what hit him. Keep in mind he could throw 100 punches in a split second! There's also the time Hiei cut Makintaro's arm off and held said arm in the air because Makintaro had no idea what was going on. Or the time Hiei stabbed Sniper in the abdomen, intentionally missing every vital organ and muscle, making the stab just enough to put him down.
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Master Swordsman / int_f953dbb1	comment	In Magical Record Lyrical Nanoha Force, Cypha was introduced as the master swordsman of the Huckebein group and, as a show of power, curbstomps Signum in their first duel after she's shown to be immune to all of Signum's attacks. And as it turns out Curren is even better, stomping Erio and Vita without even needing to go Super Mode.
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Master Swordsman / int_f9b9dfe4	comment	In Fire Emblem: Radiant Dawn, Altina, one of Ashera's Three Heroes and sole Beorc of the group, was revealed to have wielded both Ragnell and Alondite when Ike and the Black Knight, respectively, could wield only one.
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Master Swordsman / int_fca0567c	comment	Conan the Barbarian (1982) was trained for gladiatorial combat and fights with his famous Atlantean sword.
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Master Swordsman / int_fd1016b9	comment	Lyonesse: Aillas doesn't come across as someone who's even interested in fighting, but when he encounters a legendary outlaw and swordsman sent to murder him, he suddenly reveals that he's just about the best swordsman in the land. A character who witnesses the duel warns her family that "he's a demon with a sword!"
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Master Swordsman / int_fd10c44f	comment	In Forging Divinity, Taelien is a Magic Knight with sufficient swordsmanship abilities to stomp any ordinary swordsman he comes across — or even several at once. He meets his match in Myros, the local god of battle.
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Master Swordsman / int_fe225cd4	comment	Benedict in The Chronicles of Amber. Most of the male members of the Royal Family of Amber are experts with a sword, but Benedict is universally acknowledged as being the greatest among them.
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Master Swordsman / int_fe4dc9c6	comment	The Chronicles of Dorsa: Joslyn is a mizana, the term for a female sword-master. She learned the art from her Ku-sai (teacher), another example, after going through intense initiation. Throughout the books she's doubtless the best sword fighter, with such feats as beating multiple opponents at once.
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Master Swordsman / int_febb8460	comment	Master Yupa of NausicaÃ¤ of the Valley of the Wind is yet another very old swordmaster who manages to hold his own against small armies. His swordsmanship is an Informed Ability for at least half of the movie until he finally lashes out and sweeps down an army full of enemy soldiers.
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Master Swordsman / int_ff9ab17f	comment	Throughout Star Trek: The Next Generation and Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, Worf is one of the most skilled wielders of the bat'leth (a Klingon broadsword) and the mek-leth (a shortsword). He uses his skills to win a bat'leth tournament, kill numerous enemies who attack the Federation, and de-throne Chancellor Gowron.
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Halo Legends / int_17a606bd	type	Master Swordsman
Highlander: The Search for Vengeance / int_17a606bd	type	Master Swordsman
Kaiketsu Zorro / int_17a606bd	type	Master Swordsman
Last Order: Final Fantasy VII / int_17a606bd	type	Master Swordsman
Mobile Suit Gundam Wing / int_17a606bd	type	Master Swordsman
Persona 4: The Golden Animation / int_17a606bd	type	Master Swordsman
Samurai 7 / int_17a606bd	type	Master Swordsman
Sword of the Stranger / int_17a606bd	type	Master Swordsman
The Three Musketeers / int_17a606bd	type	Master Swordsman
Age of Apocalypse (Comic Book) / int_17a606bd	type	Master Swordsman
Barracuda (Comic Book) / int_17a606bd	type	Master Swordsman
Batman (Comic Book) / int_17a606bd	type	Master Swordsman
Elektra (Comic Book) / int_17a606bd	type	Master Swordsman
Gargoyles: Bad Guys (Comic Book) / int_17a606bd	type	Master Swordsman
Green Arrow (Jeff Lemire) (Comic Book) / int_17a606bd	type	Master Swordsman
Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) / int_17a606bd	type	Master Swordsman
Okko (Comic Book) / int_17a606bd	type	Master Swordsman
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Red Skull (Comic Book) / int_17a606bd	type	Master Swordsman
Red Sonja (Comic Book) / int_17a606bd	type	Master Swordsman
Richard Dragon, Kung-Fu Fighter (Comic Book) / int_17a606bd	type	Master Swordsman
Shadowpact (Comic Book) / int_17a606bd	type	Master Swordsman
Star Wars: Republic (Comic Book) / int_17a606bd	type	Master Swordsman
The 5 Lands (Comic Book) / int_17a606bd	type	Master Swordsman
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Another Journey (Fanfic) / int_17a606bd	type	Master Swordsman
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Fairy Without Wings (Fanfic) / int_17a606bd	type	Master Swordsman
Fate of the Clans (Fanfic) / int_17a606bd	type	Master Swordsman
Fate/Zero Paradox (Fanfic) / int_17a606bd	type	Master Swordsman
Finding Your Wings (Fanfic) / int_17a606bd	type	Master Swordsman
Forum of Thrones (Fanfic) / int_17a606bd	type	Master Swordsman
Foxfire (Fanfic) / int_17a606bd	type	Master Swordsman
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Friendship Is Grievous (Fanfic) / int_17a606bd	type	Master Swordsman
Guardians, Wizards, and Kung-Fu Fighters (Fanfic) / int_17a606bd	type	Master Swordsman
Her Life and Her Death (Fanfic) / int_17a606bd	type	Master Swordsman
Imaginary Seas (Fanfic) / int_17a606bd	type	Master Swordsman
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Not a prince (Fanfic) / int_17a606bd	type	Master Swordsman
Nymeria's War (Fanfic) / int_17a606bd	type	Master Swordsman
Sansûkh (Fanfic) / int_17a606bd	type	Master Swordsman
Shadows over Meridian (Fanfic) / int_17a606bd	type	Master Swordsman
Stormwolf Adventures (Fanfic) / int_17a606bd	type	Master Swordsman
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The Albion Cycle (Fanfic) / int_17a606bd	type	Master Swordsman
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To My Death I Fight (Fanfic) / int_17a606bd	type	Master Swordsman
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Blade of the Immortal / int_17a606bd	type	Master Swordsman
Blind Fury / int_17a606bd	type	Master Swordsman
Captain Fracassa's Journey / int_17a606bd	type	Master Swordsman
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon / int_17a606bd	type	Master Swordsman
Cruz Diablo / int_17a606bd	type	Master Swordsman
Die Another Day / int_17a606bd	type	Master Swordsman
Dinner for Schmucks / int_17a606bd	type	Master Swordsman
Excalibur / int_17a606bd	type	Master Swordsman
Harakiri / int_17a606bd	type	Master Swordsman
Hero (2002) / int_17a606bd	type	Master Swordsman
Le Bossu (1959) / int_17a606bd	type	Master Swordsman
Le Capitaine Fracasse / int_17a606bd	type	Master Swordsman
Le Capitan / int_17a606bd	type	Master Swordsman
Mirror Mirror (2012) / int_17a606bd	type	Master Swordsman
Night at the Museum / int_17a606bd	type	Master Swordsman
On Guard / int_17a606bd	type	Master Swordsman
Only God Forgives / int_17a606bd	type	Master Swordsman
Raiders of the Lost Ark / int_17a606bd	type	Master Swordsman
Rob Roy / int_17a606bd	type	Master Swordsman
Samurai II: Duel at Ichijoji Temple / int_17a606bd	type	Master Swordsman
Samurai I: Musashi Miyamoto / int_17a606bd	type	Master Swordsman
Sanjuro / int_17a606bd	type	Master Swordsman
Scaramouche (1952) / int_17a606bd	type	Master Swordsman
Seven Samurai / int_17a606bd	type	Master Swordsman
Shanghai Noon / int_17a606bd	type	Master Swordsman
So Close / int_17a606bd	type	Master Swordsman
Star Trek (2009) / int_17a606bd	type	Master Swordsman
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The Black Pirate / int_17a606bd	type	Master Swordsman
The Devil's Mirror / int_17a606bd	type	Master Swordsman
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The Forbidden Kingdom / int_17a606bd	type	Master Swordsman
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The Imperial Swordsman / int_17a606bd	type	Master Swordsman
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The Jade Faced Assassin / int_17a606bd	type	Master Swordsman
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The Mark of Zorro (1920) / int_17a606bd	type	Master Swordsman
The Mark of Zorro (1940) / int_17a606bd	type	Master Swordsman
The Mummy Returns / int_17a606bd	type	Master Swordsman
The Princess Bride / int_17a606bd	type	Master Swordsman
The Sword Stained With Royal Blood / int_17a606bd	type	Master Swordsman
The Three Musketeers (2011) / int_17a606bd	type	Master Swordsman
13 Assassins / int_17a606bd	type	Master Swordsman
Thor: Love and Thunder / int_17a606bd	type	Master Swordsman
When the Last Sword Is Drawn / int_17a606bd	type	Master Swordsman
Willow / int_17a606bd	type	Master Swordsman
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Conan the Barbarian (Franchise) / int_17a606bd	type	Master Swordsman
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Highlander (Franchise) / int_17a606bd	type	Master Swordsman
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Star Wars Legends (Franchise) / int_17a606bd	type	Master Swordsman
Super Sentai (Franchise) / int_17a606bd	type	Master Swordsman
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Hiraheishi Wa Kako O Yumemiru / int_17a606bd	type	Master Swordsman
Lord Marksman and Vanadis / int_17a606bd	type	Master Swordsman
Mushoku Tensei / int_17a606bd	type	Master Swordsman
Mushoku Tensei: Jobless Reincarnation / int_17a606bd	type	Master Swordsman
Record of Grancrest War / int_17a606bd	type	Master Swordsman
The Asterisk War / int_17a606bd	type	Master Swordsman
The Misfit of Demon King Academy / int_17a606bd	type	Master Swordsman
A Conspiracy of Serpents / int_17a606bd	type	Master Swordsman
Arn: The Knight Templar / int_17a606bd	type	Master Swordsman
Best Served Cold / int_17a606bd	type	Master Swordsman
Black Legion / int_17a606bd	type	Master Swordsman
Bloßfechten	seeAlso	Master Swordsman
Captive Prince / int_17a606bd	type	Master Swordsman
Cassandra Palmer / int_17a606bd	type	Master Swordsman
Codex Alera / int_17a606bd	type	Master Swordsman
Conciencia y Voluntad / int_17a606bd	type	Master Swordsman
Demons of the Deep / int_17a606bd	type	Master Swordsman
Dirty Pair / int_17a606bd	type	Master Swordsman
Dragaera / int_17a606bd	type	Master Swordsman
Dune / int_17a606bd	type	Master Swordsman
Elsabeth Soesten / int_17a606bd	type	Master Swordsman
Emberverse / int_17a606bd	type	Master Swordsman
Gaunt's Ghosts / int_17a606bd	type	Master Swordsman
Godclads / int_17a606bd	type	Master Swordsman
Green Rider / int_17a606bd	type	Master Swordsman
Hard to Be a God / int_17a606bd	type	Master Swordsman
Hiraheishi wa Kako o Yumemiru / int_17a606bd	type	Master Swordsman
Inheritance Cycle / int_17a606bd	type	Master Swordsman
INVADERS of the ROKUJYOUMA!? / int_17a606bd	type	Master Swordsman
John Carter of Mars / int_17a606bd	type	Master Swordsman
Kino's Journey / int_17a606bd	type	Master Swordsman
Knights of the Borrowed Dark / int_17a606bd	type	Master Swordsman
Kushiel's Legacy / int_17a606bd	type	Master Swordsman
Le Bossu / int_17a606bd	type	Master Swordsman
Legends of the Red Sun / int_17a606bd	type	Master Swordsman
Lockwood & Co. / int_17a606bd	type	Master Swordsman
Lord Marksman and Vanadis / int_17a606bd	type	Master Swordsman
Lord of Light / int_17a606bd	type	Master Swordsman
Lout of Count's Family / int_17a606bd	type	Master Swordsman
Lyonesse / int_17a606bd	type	Master Swordsman
Modesty Blaise / int_17a606bd	type	Master Swordsman
Mushoku Tensei: Jobless Reincarnation / int_17a606bd	type	Master Swordsman
Record of Grancrest War / int_17a606bd	type	Master Swordsman
Rumo & His Miraculous Adventures / int_17a606bd	type	Master Swordsman
Sangue Serenissima / int_17a606bd	type	Master Swordsman
Shadow of the Conqueror / int_17a606bd	type	Master Swordsman
Shadows of the Apt / int_17a606bd	type	Master Swordsman
Sienkiewicz Trilogy / int_17a606bd	type	Master Swordsman
Solo Leveling / int_17a606bd	type	Master Swordsman
Super Supportive / int_17a606bd	type	Master Swordsman
Talisman of Death / int_17a606bd	type	Master Swordsman
That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime / int_17a606bd	type	Master Swordsman
The Asterisk War / int_17a606bd	type	Master Swordsman
The Baroque Cycle / int_17a606bd	type	Master Swordsman
The Blood War Trilogy / int_17a606bd	type	Master Swordsman
The Broken Empire Trilogy / int_17a606bd	type	Master Swordsman
The Chronicles of Dorsa / int_17a606bd	type	Master Swordsman
The Dinosaur Lords / int_17a606bd	type	Master Swordsman
The Fire's Stone / int_17a606bd	type	Master Swordsman
The Hagakure / int_17a606bd	type	Master Swordsman
The Legend of Drizzt / int_17a606bd	type	Master Swordsman
The Misfit of Demon King Academy / int_17a606bd	type	Master Swordsman
The Night Angel Trilogy / int_17a606bd	type	Master Swordsman
The Princess Bride / int_17a606bd	type	Master Swordsman
The Prophecy of the Stones / int_17a606bd	type	Master Swordsman
The Reader and Protagonist Definitely Have to Be in True Love / int_17a606bd	type	Master Swordsman
The Reincarnated Sword Saint Wants To Take It Easy / int_17a606bd	type	Master Swordsman
The Riyria Revelations / int_17a606bd	type	Master Swordsman
The Trials of Apollo / int_17a606bd	type	Master Swordsman
The Wandering Inn / int_17a606bd	type	Master Swordsman
The Worm Ouroboros / int_17a606bd	type	Master Swordsman
Their Bright Ascendancy / int_17a606bd	type	Master Swordsman
Thousand Sons / int_17a606bd	type	Master Swordsman
Trash of the Count's Family / int_17a606bd	type	Master Swordsman
Villains Are Destined to Die / int_17a606bd	type	Master Swordsman
Words of Radiance / int_17a606bd	type	Master Swordsman
Zorro (2005) / int_17a606bd	type	Master Swordsman
MasterSwordsMan	sameAs	Master Swordsman
MugenKagemaru	seeAlso	Master Swordsman
NinpuuSentaiHurricaneger	seeAlso	Master Swordsman
SeijuuSentaiGingaman	seeAlso	Master Swordsman
TaiyouSentaiSunVulcan	seeAlso	Master Swordsman
Angel Crush (Manga) / int_17a606bd	type	Master Swordsman
Azumi (Manga) / int_17a606bd	type	Master Swordsman
Birdy the Mighty (Manga) / int_17a606bd	type	Master Swordsman
Blade of the Immortal (Manga) / int_17a606bd	type	Master Swordsman
Claymore (Manga) / int_17a58e9d	type	Master Swordsman
Corpse Princess (Manga) / int_17a606bd	type	Master Swordsman
Fairy Tail: 100 Years Quest (Manga) / int_17a606bd	type	Master Swordsman
Gamaran (Manga) / int_17a606bd	type	Master Swordsman
King of Wolves (Manga) / int_17a606bd	type	Master Swordsman
Mizutama Honey Boy (Manga) / int_17a606bd	type	Master Swordsman
NausicaÃ¤ of the Valley of the Wind (Manga) / int_17a606bd	type	Master Swordsman
SPYÃ—FAMILY (Manga) / int_17a606bd	type	Master Swordsman
Saint Seiya: Episode.G Assassin (Manga) / int_17a606bd	type	Master Swordsman
Sou Bou Tei Must Be Destroyed (Manga) / int_17a606bd	type	Master Swordsman
The Legend of Zelda (Manga) / int_17a606bd	type	Master Swordsman
The Legend of Zelda: Four Swords (2004) (Manga) / int_17a606bd	type	Master Swordsman
The Yagyu Ninja Scrolls (Manga) / int_17a606bd	type	Master Swordsman
Ultraman (Manga) / int_17a606bd	type	Master Swordsman
Until Death Do Us Part (Manga) / int_17a606bd	type	Master Swordsman
Watashi no Messiah-sama (Manga) / int_17a606bd	type	Master Swordsman
Wolfsmund (Manga) / int_17a606bd	type	Master Swordsman
World Trigger (Manga) / int_17a606bd	type	Master Swordsman
Yaiba (Manga) / int_17a606bd	type	Master Swordsman
Dark Air (Manhwa) / int_17a606bd	type	Master Swordsman
Skeleton Soldier Couldn't Protect the Dungeon (Manhwa) / int_17a606bd	type	Master Swordsman
BitFCity	seeAlso	Master Swordsman
The Big Damn Roleplay (Roleplay) / int_17a606bd	type	Master Swordsman
A Dragon of the North (Roleplay) / int_17a606bd	type	Master Swordsman
A Dynasty of Dynamic Alcoholism (Roleplay) / int_17a606bd	type	Master Swordsman
A Sword Without A Hilt (Roleplay) / int_17a606bd	type	Master Swordsman
Cardboard Chronicles (Roleplay) / int_17a606bd	type	Master Swordsman
MorimuneHighSchoolRP	seeAlso	Master Swordsman
The Dragon Has Three Heads (Roleplay) / int_17a606bd	type	Master Swordsman
The Lost Primarch Quest (Roleplay) / int_17a606bd	type	Master Swordsman
There And Back Again RP (Roleplay) / int_17a606bd	type	Master Swordsman
Twilit Overture (Roleplay) / int_17a606bd	type	Master Swordsman
Warhammer Fantasy Divided Loyalties (Roleplay) / int_17a606bd	type	Master Swordsman
Who Needs Harmony (Roleplay) / int_17a606bd	type	Master Swordsman
Chōjinki Metalder / int_17a606bd	type	Master Swordsman
Highlander / int_17a606bd	type	Master Swordsman
Lockwood & Co. (2023) / int_17a606bd	type	Master Swordsman
Marco Polo / int_17a606bd	type	Master Swordsman
Obi-Wan Kenobi / int_17a606bd	type	Master Swordsman
Power Rangers RPM / int_17a606bd	type	Master Swordsman
Star Trek: Picard / int_17a606bd	type	Master Swordsman
The Witcher (2019) / int_17a606bd	type	Master Swordsman
Zorro (1990) / int_17a606bd	type	Master Swordsman
TV Tropes Superhero Team / Sugar Wiki / int_17a606bd	type	Master Swordsman
Feng Shui (Tabletop Game) / int_17a606bd	type	Master Swordsman
Highlander (Tabletop Game) / int_17a606bd	type	Master Swordsman
RPGStuck (Tabletop Game) / int_17a606bd	type	Master Swordsman
Rocket Age (Tabletop Game) / int_17a606bd	type	Master Swordsman
The Dresden Files (Tabletop Game) / int_17a606bd	type	Master Swordsman
Warhammer (Tabletop Game) / int_17a606bd	type	Master Swordsman
Romeo and Juliet (Theatre) / int_17a606bd	type	Master Swordsman
Agarest Senki (Video Game) / int_17a606bd	type	Master Swordsman
Agarest Senki 2 (Video Game) / int_17a606bd	type	Master Swordsman
Age of Wonders (Video Game) / int_17a606bd	type	Master Swordsman
Assassin's Creed II (Video Game) / int_17a606bd	type	Master Swordsman
Battle Brothers (Video Game) / int_17a606bd	type	Master Swordsman
Blade & Soul (Video Game) / int_17a606bd	type	Master Swordsman
Blade of Honor (Video Game) / int_17a606bd	type	Master Swordsman
Crisis Beat (Video Game) / int_17a606bd	type	Master Swordsman
Fire Emblem Elibe (Video Game)	seeAlso	Master Swordsman
Fire Emblem Elibe (Video Game)	seeAlso	Master Swordsman
Fire Emblem: Path of Radiance (Video Game) / int_17a606bd	type	Master Swordsman
Flash of the Blade (Video Game) / int_17a606bd	type	Master Swordsman
For Honor (Video Game) / int_17a606bd	type	Master Swordsman
Gekokujo (Video Game) / int_17a606bd	type	Master Swordsman
Gunfire Reborn (Video Game) / int_17a606bd	type	Master Swordsman
Imperium Nova (Video Game) / int_17a606bd	type	Master Swordsman
Iruna Online (Video Game) / int_17a606bd	type	Master Swordsman
Lost Odyssey (Video Game) / int_17a606bd	type	Master Swordsman
Mahou Daisakusen (Video Game) / int_17a606bd	type	Master Swordsman
Mazin Saga: Mutant Fighter (Video Game) / int_17a606bd	type	Master Swordsman
NanoBreaker (Video Game) / int_17a606bd	type	Master Swordsman
No More Heroes (Video Game) / int_17a606bd	type	Master Swordsman
Onimusha 2: Samurai's Destiny (Video Game) / int_17a606bd	type	Master Swordsman
SaGa Frontier 2 (Video Game) / int_17a606bd	type	Master Swordsman
Samurai Shodown (Video Game) / int_17a606bd	type	Master Swordsman
Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice (Video Game) / int_17a606bd	type	Master Swordsman
Shinobi (Video Game) / int_17a606bd	type	Master Swordsman
Star Ocean: The Second Story (Video Game) / int_17a606bd	type	Master Swordsman
Suikoden V (Video Game) / int_17a606bd	type	Master Swordsman
Super Robot Wars X (Video Game) / int_17a606bd	type	Master Swordsman
Superhot (Video Game) / int_17a606bd	type	Master Swordsman
Swordsman (Video Game) / int_17a606bd	type	Master Swordsman
The Legend of Heroes: Trails from Zero (Video Game) / int_17a606bd	type	Master Swordsman
The Legend of Heroes: Trails from Zero and Trails to Azure (Video Game) / int_17a606bd	type	Master Swordsman
The Matrix: Path of Neo (Video Game) / int_17a606bd	type	Master Swordsman
Total War: Warhammer II (Video Game) / int_17a58e9d	type	Master Swordsman
Trails Series (Video Game) / int_17a606bd	type	Master Swordsman
Vanguard Princess (Video Game) / int_17a606bd	type	Master Swordsman
Warhammer Online (Video Game) / int_17a606bd	type	Master Swordsman
Yakuza: Like a Dragon (Video Game) / int_17a606bd	type	Master Swordsman
YsSEVEN	seeAlso	Master Swordsman
The Legend of Heroes: Zero no Kiseki (Video Game) / int_17a606bd	type	Master Swordsman
Choice of Games / Videogame / int_17a606bd	type	Master Swordsman
Zodiac Axis (Visual Novel) / int_17a606bd	type	Master Swordsman
Bunnykill (Web Animation) / int_17a606bd	type	Master Swordsman
An Ordeal In Osondu (Web Video) / int_17a606bd	type	Master Swordsman
U Realms Live (Web Video) / int_17a606bd	type	Master Swordsman
A Returner's Magic Should Be Special (Webcomic) / int_17a606bd	type	Master Swordsman
CHEVALIER (Webcomic) / int_17a606bd	type	Master Swordsman
Chevalier The Queens Mouseketeer (Webcomic) / int_17a606bd	type	Master Swordsman
Infinite Leveling Murim (Webcomic) / int_17a606bd	type	Master Swordsman
No Need for Bushido (Webcomic) / int_17a606bd	type	Master Swordsman
Old Republic Paint Adventures (Webcomic) / int_17a606bd	type	Master Swordsman
Suitor Armor (Webcomic) / int_17a606bd	type	Master Swordsman
The Idaten Deities Know Only Peace (Webcomic) / int_17a606bd	type	Master Swordsman
The Story of Black Pearl (Webcomic) / int_17a606bd	type	Master Swordsman
Way Of Wushu (Webcomic) / int_17a606bd	type	Master Swordsman
Amphibia / int_17a606bd	type	Master Swordsman
Blue Eye Samurai / int_17a606bd	type	Master Swordsman
Catwoman: Hunted / int_17a606bd	type	Master Swordsman
Conan the Adventurer / int_17a606bd	type	Master Swordsman
Dogtanian and the Three Muskehounds / int_17a606bd	type	Master Swordsman
Molierissimo / int_17a606bd	type	Master Swordsman
Mr. Peabody & Sherman / int_17a606bd	type	Master Swordsman
Xyber 9: New Dawn / int_17a606bd	type	Master Swordsman
Zorro: The Chronicles / int_17a606bd	type	Master Swordsman
The Melinda Chronicles (Fanfic) / int_17a606bd	type	Master Swordsman
Akame ga Kill! (Manga) / int_17a606bd	type	Master Swordsman
Ys (Video Game) / int_17a606bd	type	Master Swordsman

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