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Ornamental Weapon
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There are some characters who like to walk around with their weapons out in the open, presumably to intimidate other people or to have it ready right away in the case of a monster fight. However, upon close inspection, you might find that the weapon barely has any signs of being "broken in" — no scratches, no gunpowder... it still looks as sharp as the day the guy bought it. Some reasons for this may be that the weapon in question has a sentimental value to its holder, can only be used for certain situations, or may just be Too Awesome to Use. At times, it may make one wonder if they might just be better off leaving the damn thing at home. Subtrope of Useless Accessory. Compare Stat Sticks, where weapons aren't so much "physically" used as they're just there to add stats. May sometimes overlap with The Pirates Who Don't Do Anything. Not to be confused with Bling-Bling-BANG!, where the weapon is covered in ornamentation but (usually) still sees actual use. Contrast Break Out the Museum Piece, where a seemingly obsolete or ornamental object (often a weapon) is still usable. |
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Subverted in The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess. Ganondorf carries the Sword of the Six Sages as a trophy from his escape from execution but finally resorts to using it after losing to Link in his Ganon form. | |
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Strobe from Demon Fist has that huge sword on his back, but fistfights his enemies. Apparently he swore an oath or something not to use it. | |
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One of the bad guys in Swamp Thing wears ammunition belts over both shoulders. He never picks up a gun during the film. | |
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Champions Online allows the player to customize their costume including some weaponry such as daggers on the belt or a sword slung across the back. However, because these are costume items, they merely show up on the player avatar and don't get any particular use (not even if you have the same weapon as what you're carrying). | |
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Rokurou in Tales of Berseria is extremely attached to his greatsword Stormhowl, despite using a pair of daggers in combat instead and deflecting whenever Velvet tries to ask why he doesn't use the bigger weapon. It's actually broken inside the sheath with only a few inches of blade attached to the handle. He carries it for sentimental/motivational reasons. He eventually does get an intact Stormquell that he pulls out for his final Break Soul and level 3 Mystic Arte. | |
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The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild: Prince Sidon wears a sword on his hip, but like all the other Zora he favors the spear in actual combat. The Royal Guard weapons the player can collect are basically this. These fancy and highly-decorative weapons do a great deal of damage, but are extremely fragile and don't last long. Their description even explicitly calls them ceremonial weapons, so they were likely never intended to actually be used as practical weapons, but for display purposes. |
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Ultimate zigzags this in Sheik's case. Though she doesn't have the sword on her person, she finally wields it as her Final Smash, Sheikah Dance. | |
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Assassins from Guild Wars are extremely guilty of this. Many armor sets (including the no-armor-equipped underwear, for women) feature several daggers strapped all over their body that are only textured on, not even in model. The assassin hero Anton is even worse: he prominently wears three katanas on his back that he never uses. | |
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G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero: Roughly half the members of G.I. Joe are equipped with some kind of combat webbing or utility belt laden with grenades, sidearms, knives, or other equipment. Out of the entire series, they have actually been used maybe twice. | |
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Tales Series: Tales of Destiny: Philia Felice's Swordian, Clemente, is a BFS, that, despite his size, is blunt (Philia even hugs the blade in one artwork) and very light, making him almost useless as an actual sword. Philia uses him mostly to get access to magic. Mary Argent always has a shortsword on her, that she keeps as a memento. In fact, her main weapon type is axes, and in the remake, she can't even use any swords. In Tales of Xillia, Alvin eventually takes a second gun that was a family heirloom but never uses it. Averted in the sequel, where he finally gets to use it in one of his arcane artes. Aside from that, there are various decorations that take the form of weapons to be placed on your characters, which of course cannot be used. Rokurou in Tales of Berseria is extremely attached to his greatsword Stormhowl, despite using a pair of daggers in combat instead and deflecting whenever Velvet tries to ask why he doesn't use the bigger weapon. It's actually broken inside the sheath with only a few inches of blade attached to the handle. He carries it for sentimental/motivational reasons. He eventually does get an intact Stormquell that he pulls out for his final Break Soul and level 3 Mystic Arte. |
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In the first Samurai Warriors game, Shingen Takeda has a katana sheathed on his belt, which he never uses. Looking closely at it reveals that it's actually chained to the scabbard. This was removed from subsequent costumes. In the second and third games, Mitsunari Ishida keeps an unused dagger sheathed hanging out the front of his coat. | |
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In Toriko, Starjun carries a sword with him, but he's never seen using it, until the Cooking Festival arc, revealing it to be a flaming special preparation kitchen knife. Lampshaded by Toriko himself. | |
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Meliodas of The Seven Deadly Sins carries a broken sword to deter customers from starting trouble in his bar by keeping it in a scabbard to make it look like a full sword. | |
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SCP Foundation: SCP-572 is a replica sword in a fantasy style, which, when held, produces a major mind-control effect, whereupon people will become convinced of its superior balance and sharpness, of which it really has neither, being purely a decorative piece. It also compels them to perform insane stunts with it (all while convincing them they can), such as deflecting bullets with the blade, taking on trained swordsmen with real swords, and cutting moving cars in half. Due to the prevalence of unnecessary blades facing in odd directions, the slightest swing will result in injury to the user. Fortunately, upon removing the sword from the holder with tongs, the psychological effects can be instantly redacted by a smack on the head. | |
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Averted in Halo: Reach, where the knife on a character's shoulder can be used for assassinations. However, it's played straight with the Security armor, which has a large kukri on its right shoulder that forever remains unused. | |
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Minfilia in Final Fantasy XIV carries a Mythril Dagger that is imbued with materia for enhanced power. However, due to her being more of a political figure than an actual fighter, she never uses the knife at all and she also doesn't use it in the times where she is captured. | |
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Inuyasha: Kouga carried a katana for ornamentation and used it only once in the whole story. Naraku's dragon, Byakuya of the Dreams carries around a sword that doesn't get used until the final arc of the series, where it's revealed that it can absorb any demonic aura within the area and use its power. |
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Crisis Core: Angeal Hewley from carries a gigantic Buster Sword around him on missions, but only maybe uses it a handful of times. Zack even comments on it during the mission in Fort Tamblin (dialogue not exact): Of course the other half of the reason is that the Buster Sword "is heavy and unwieldy", as an extra scene (in Zack's DMW) reveals. Even Zack is too clumsy to use it effectively (it pulls him off balance, he swings it slowly, and momentum is hard to stop)* The only person that's actually able to use the Buster Sword effectively is Cloud. Crisis Core actually deconstructs some iconic elements from the sub-series for laughs like that… The Buster Sword did end up getting rusted... when Cloud used it as Zack's gravestone. But not anymore; the new ending to Advent Children Complete reveals that Cloud polished and repaired it, and used it as a memorial in Aerith's church, overlooking Aerith's Lake (that contains the Great Gospel). |
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The Kung Fu Panda 2 villain Shen is often shown carrying and posing with a wave-bladed guan dao but spends most of his fights throwing knives (and uses a flail and sword when he invades Gongmen City). When he finally uses his guan dao in the final battle, he cuts one too many ropes on his ship and gets crushed by the cannon that was being held up by it. | |
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Princess Millerna from the The Vision of Escaflowne movie carried a sword on her belt throughout the film, but she never, ever takes part in a single action scene, and never gets to draw it from its sheath, cementing her status as a Faux Action Girl. | |
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In Freedom Fighters (2003), Christopher Stone gets a knife on his left shoulder, but his only CQC weapon is his wrench. | |
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Heroes of the Storm: Anduin wields his father's sword, Shalamayne, but leaves it on his back 99% of the time. Even when he's attacking an enemy in melee, he still shoots holy energy at them. The only animations where he even holds it involve him essentially waving it around like a Magic Wand. This does make some sense though — he's a Priest and not a Warrior, and was pretty bad at using the sword in World of Warcraft. | |
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In Slayers, one of the few things Naga wears is a large sword that seems to be purely for show. It gets stuck in the sheath the one time she tries to use it, and she tends to faint at the sight of blood (which shows up a lot around swords). | |
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In three of the Mortal Kombat games (Deadly Alliance, Deception and Armageddon) Raiden wears a saya (katana scabbard) on his alternate costumes, but he never actually uses a sword. | |
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Occasionally happens in Overwatch. Soldier: 76 has a pistol on his belt that he never uses, and Roadhog what appears to be a sawn-off shotgun (not his Scrap Gun) slung across his back. Genji has a sword that is decorative for 99% of the time, except when he uses his ultimate ability, which begs the question: wouldn't a sword be more effective than shurikens, even without the powered-up dragon that accompanies it in his ultimate? Ana and Widowmaker likewise have spikes on their arm to stabilize their weapons while sniping, although they never get used in-game (because you can't rest your arm on anything to stabilize). |
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In Blood: The Last Vampire, Saya steals a sword she had seen in a store window to use in a fight...only to watch the blade deform and twist on impact since it was ornamental and not functional. | |
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In Berserk, people usually think this of Guts' main weapon, a huge slab of iron even taller than he is, up until they see him use it. It's justified that they'd think so since in real life, there are many examples of oversized versions of standard zweihanders being made for purely ceremonial use. | |
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Captain Falcon and Snake have guns on their person if you look closely (the former has had his since the N64 original, while the latter has had his since Brawl), but naturally they don't get any use either. Sheik also carries a short sword or long dagger on her person but it likewise isn't used. Ultimate zigzags this in Sheik's case. Though she doesn't have the sword on her person, she finally wields it as her Final Smash, Sheikah Dance. |
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The Legend of Zelda A variation is done in The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past. Sahasrahla's sprite doesn't show him with a sword, but he tells Link he has one and admits he's too weak to use it anyway. Ganondorf has a short sword (or long dagger) strapped to his leg in The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time, but never draws it. He stops wearing it in the Bad Future. Subverted in The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess. Ganondorf carries the Sword of the Six Sages as a trophy from his escape from execution but finally resorts to using it after losing to Link in his Ganon form. Tetra the young pirate captain in The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker carries a cutlass but never uses it except in Hyrule Warriors. The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild: Prince Sidon wears a sword on his hip, but like all the other Zora he favors the spear in actual combat. The Royal Guard weapons the player can collect are basically this. These fancy and highly-decorative weapons do a great deal of damage, but are extremely fragile and don't last long. Their description even explicitly calls them ceremonial weapons, so they were likely never intended to actually be used as practical weapons, but for display purposes. |
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Halo: Halo 3 has an unlockable katana that can be worn on the back. It naturally cannot be used in-game. Also, the CQB armor has a knife on the front of the chest which cannot be used. Averted in Halo: Reach, where the knife on a character's shoulder can be used for assassinations. However, it's played straight with the Security armor, which has a large kukri on its right shoulder that forever remains unused. |
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In Monstrous Regiment, Maledict carries a sword he doesn't know how to use. As a vampire, he doesn't need one, but people see the sword and don't attack him. | |
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In Persona 4: Arena, Akihiko has a knife strapped to his hip that he never uses. The shoulder holster is probably holding his Evoker, which isn't really a weapon. | |
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In Dragon Quest Swords: The Masked Queen and the Tower of Mirrors, your partners carry weapons with them but don't actually use them, leaving you to do all of the heavy lifting while they provide assistance with magic. At least you never have to update their gear yourself, they get better stuff as they level up. | |
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Ornamental Weapon | |
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In The Bridge Kingdom Archives a married woman from Maridrina is supposed to wear two ornamental daggers, which her husband is supposed to use to protect her honor. Lara gets her set when she gets married as a part of peace treaty and they are really beautiful, their handles and scabbards are set with famous Maridrinian rubies. Subverted in that they are only a decoration, real weapons, small throwing knives, are cleverly hidden inside their handles. | |
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The Lord of the Rings: In Bree, Strider reveals that he's wearing a sword, and claims that if he wanted the Ring, he could just take it - but he doesn't, and he pledges instead to help Frodo and his companions. Then he draws his sword, revealing that it's broken. | |
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The Adventure Zone: Balance: Taako the wizard intends to carry the Flaming Poisoning Raging Sword of Doom around as a scary prop after swindling it away from Garfield. In the end, he gives it to Magnus, a fighter who can actually wield it. | |
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Ornamental Weapon | |
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A big shiny sword in The Familiar of Zero turned out to be ornamental and pretty useless. The rusted one, however... | |
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Ornamental Weapon | |
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Superman: The Fortress of Solitude has an armory full of alien super-weapons that Superman never touches. | |
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Ornamental Weapon | |
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Extreme Dinosaurs: Spike and Bullzeye have blasters on their arms and T-Bone has shoulder-mounted cannons. These weapons have no function other than decoration. | |
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Ornamental Weapon | |
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In Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance, Raiden has a knife sheathed alongside his HF Blade. You get to stare at it plenty with the game's third-person camera angle but it is never drawn; even when his sword is snapped in two, Raiden attempts to use the remaining stump instead of the knife. | |
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Ornamental Weapon | |
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BattleTech: Sun-Tsu Laio, ruler of the Capellan Confederation piloted a blinged out Emperor Battlemech that he never actually took into combat. Any time he took it out, it was only after the battlefield had been secured and no actual threats remained. The few times that it was deployed in real combat, one of his elite Death Commandos piloted it in his place while wearing a disguise so that people thought he was in it. The Flashfire, a light mech designed for use in the Gladiator Games of Solaris 7, featured a cosmetic gun housing in its right arm that had no actual to make it look more impressive and heavily armed than it actually was. |
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Ornamental Weapon | |
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The Wheel of Time: Power-forged weapons look like this because they have been enchanted to never break, rust, or need sharpening. One character mentions that over the thousands of years since his sword had been made his family has only had to replace the hilt. | |
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Ornamental Weapon | |
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Ganondorf's sword, which is only used for a victory pose in Melee and a taunt in Brawl, and is otherwise kept in Hammerspace. Finally used in Smash 4: One of his alternative special attacks is conjuring the sword and stabbing with it, instead of his insanely powerful Warlock Punch. Super Smash Bros. Ultimate also allows him to use his sword for his smash attacks. | |
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| Super Smash Bros. Melee (Video Game) | hasFeature |
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Ornamental Weapon | |
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Subverted with the Eto Gun in Et Cetera. It looks like a toy gun and could not be used to shoot normally, and Mingchao (initially) only keeps it to intimidate others. However, when added with a proper animal extract, the gun is considered one of the strongest weapons in the West. | |
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Ornamental Weapon / int_93f15e1d | |
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Ornamental Weapon | |
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Jack Russell of Radiata Stories is seen carrying around his father's giant sword, the Arbitrator, as a keepsake since he himself can't use it. Unless Jack gets promoted in the Fairy Path, he will never get to use it. | |
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Ornamental Weapon | |
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In Pocket Bomberman, our hero is seen in garb reminiscent of a Roman soldier. He has the sword and everything! He is even seen unsheathing it and holding it up heroically to the sky! But can he use it on any one of the dozens of monsters that are out to maul him? No. | |
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Ornamental Weapon | |
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One Piece: Pekoms of the Big Mom Pirates carries a sword on his left hip, but he primarily fights with his fists and Devil Fruit, making it just a decoration. Sentomaru of the Marines wields a massive axe but prefers to use sumo against weaker foes. |
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Ornamental Weapon | |
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Tetra the young pirate captain in The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker carries a cutlass but never uses it except in Hyrule Warriors. | |
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Ornamental Weapon | |
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The Demon Blade sub-class from Kritika carries a broadsword on his back, but actually fights using katana. | |
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Ornamental Weapon / int_a4b695fa | |
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Ornamental Weapon | |
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Aeolus from Mega Man ZX Advent carries a sword with him all the time, but he never uses it in combat. Although, from the transformation sequence, it appears that the sword is used as the base for his transformed model's swords, hence a reason to carry it around with him. |
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Ornamental Weapon | |
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The Magic: The Gathering card Garrison Sergeant has the following flavor text: "In the Legion, no flagpole is merely decorative, and every ceremonial sword bears an edge." The Boros Legion, the military forces of Ravnica, are Crazy-Prepared when it comes to combat, and so when they are marching in a parade their ceremonial weapons are anything but. | |
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Ornamental Weapon | |
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Dios, the commander of the Harmonian army in Suikoden III is challenged to a duel at one point, and rather sheepishly admits that his sword is ornamental. | |
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Ornamental Weapon / int_aa1d4fb4 | |
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Ornamental Weapon | |
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Ryu Hayabusa's sword in the Dead or Alive series. Same goes for Hayate's and Kasumi's swords. This was averted in the sixth numbered game. | |
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Ornamental Weapon | |
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Speaking of which, ninja Kagemaru in Virtua Fighter can have a sword. Drunken Master Shun Di can have a hermit staff as well. | |
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| Virtua Fighter (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Ornamental Weapon / int_ad1ffac9 | |
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Ornamental Weapon | |
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Ganondorf has a short sword (or long dagger) strapped to his leg in The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time, but never draws it. He stops wearing it in the Bad Future. | |
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Ornamental Weapon | |
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Temeraire: In Throne of Jade: One of these almost gets Captain Lawrence killed when he gets pulled away from a formal occasion to face combat still wearing his dress sword. It's still a live blade, but it's a lot flimsier than a service weapon and comes perilously close to breaking. Near the end of the book, Temeraire gifts Laurence an antique Chinese dao adorned with images of dragons in gold and jewels to replace his old broken dress-sword. This winds up being a subversion when Laurence swings it at a man's neck a book later, much to his reluctance, and it effortlessly slices the dude's head off. |
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In Game of Thrones, Petyr "Littlefinger" Baelish is a minor noble who manages the books for the Seven Kingdoms and carries a dagger on his belt instead of a full-length sword. He is not expected to use it, and only once draws it to threaten Ned Stark. | |
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Ornamental Weapon | |
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Adray from Star Ocean: Till the End of Time equips and prominently carries around a katana, but most of his attacks are a combination of magic and punches and he never takes it out of its sheath. | |
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| Star Ocean: Till the End of Time (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Ornamental Weapon / int_b358111c | |
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Ornamental Weapon | |
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In Paul, an expensive replica sword is revealed to be useless when the blade snaps off upon drawing. | |
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| Paul | hasFeature |
Ornamental Weapon / int_b36ef2c2 | |
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Ornamental Weapon | |
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In the 30 Days of Night prequel Blood Trails, Pat is turned into a vampire and Jenny has to grab a wallhanger sword to fend him off. What follows is a gory affair where she needs eight tries to force the blade all the way through Pat's neck. | |
| Ornamental Weapon / int_bb8b80ae | featureApplicability |
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| 30 Days of Night | hasFeature |
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Ornamental Weapon | |
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Almost everyone in Warhammer 40,000 has one, such as Chaos sorcerer staves, Tau bonding knives... | |
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Ornamental Weapon | |
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In Team Fortress 2, Pyro's bandolier has napalm grenades and the Soldier's belt has frag grenades. The former are always useless and the latter are only used in the Soldier's Suicide Attack taunt. Grenades were prominent in Team Fortress Classic but were Dummied Out in TF2. | |
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Ornamental Weapon | |
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Many weapons in Second Life don't actually do anything unless they are specifically scripted. While scripted weapons are available, unless you are in a roleplay or combat sim most swords, guns, hammers et cetera are only for decoration. | |
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Ornamental Weapon | |
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Any equippable weapon in either Dragon Ball Xenoverse or its sequel falls into this category, as the player will either not use a weapon at all, or the weapon will materialize in their hands when needed, and vanish after use (for example, if the player is using either Shining Slash or Burning Slash, Trunks' sword techniques). Android 17 also has his pistol, which is unused in the game. Since the player can equip #17s' pants that come with the sidearm (unless the players' top prevents it from appearing), it applies to them too. |
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| Dragon Ball Xenoverse (Video Game) | hasFeature |
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Ornamental Weapon | |
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Asterix: The titular hero has a Celtic sword, but fights exclusively with his fists. He does use it for Sword Fight twice, once for cutting cake, and once as a mountaineering tool, but he's never allowed to hurt anyone with it on the grounds that it would be too violent. Averted in Asterix and the Cauldron, in which he uses his sword to disarm his opponent. |
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| Asterix (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
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Ornamental Weapon | |
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In the arcade beat-em-up D. D. Crew, one of your enemies is a military-type who carries a large machine gun. At no point does he ever fire it, preferring to kick you instead. | |
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Ornamental Weapon | |
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Mobile Suit Gundam SEED Destiny gives us Ornamental Mobile Suits, the ZGMF-1017 GINN Ceremonial Decoration Type, which could be combat capable if their weapons weren't a bolt-action rifle and a foam sword in a world where beam weapons exist and are ridiculously common. | |
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| Mobile Suit Gundam SEED Destiny | hasFeature |
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Ornamental Weapon | |
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A variation is done in The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past. Sahasrahla's sprite doesn't show him with a sword, but he tells Link he has one and admits he's too weak to use it anyway. | |
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| The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past (Video Game) | hasFeature |
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Ornamental Weapon | |
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In Tales of Xillia, Alvin eventually takes a second gun that was a family heirloom but never uses it. Averted in the sequel, where he finally gets to use it in one of his arcane artes. Aside from that, there are various decorations that take the form of weapons to be placed on your characters, which of course cannot be used. | |
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Ornamental Weapon | |
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In Yojimbo, the villain Unosuke wears a katana for show but does all his fighting with a revolver. | |
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| Yojimbo | hasFeature |
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Ornamental Weapon | |
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No matter what he has equipped, Dagran in The Last Story always carries a small sword at his belt. This is later explained as being the first sword Dagran ever bought, and it is, in fact, meant to be an ornamental weapon—Dagran just wears it for sentimental reasons. | |
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| The Last Story (Video Game) | hasFeature |
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Ornamental Weapon | |
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In later seasons of Pleasant Goat and Big Big Wolf, Wolnie rarely hits anyone with her frying pan. She still carries it occasionally in later seasons but doesn't hit anyone. | |
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| Pleasant Goat and Big Big Wolf (Animation) | hasFeature |
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Ornamental Weapon | |
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In the Soul Series, customizable characters will sometimes get some. In 4, there is a pirate's belt that has a pistol on it, as well as gloves that have a claw on it. The only fighting is done with weapons. | |
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The Hunger Games: Subverted with Katniss' bow. After all, just because it's pretty doesn't mean it can't be deadly. | |
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Ornamental Weapon | |
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Halo 3 has an unlockable katana that can be worn on the back. It naturally cannot be used in-game. Also, the CQB armor has a knife on the front of the chest which cannot be used. | |
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Tales of Destiny: Philia Felice's Swordian, Clemente, is a BFS, that, despite his size, is blunt (Philia even hugs the blade in one artwork) and very light, making him almost useless as an actual sword. Philia uses him mostly to get access to magic. Mary Argent always has a shortsword on her, that she keeps as a memento. In fact, her main weapon type is axes, and in the remake, she can't even use any swords. |
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In Tekken 6, there is a character customization feature that lets you equip your characters with sheathed weapons, only for looks or stats in campaign mode. Occasionally subverted, as there are a few weapons that do allow a character to make an extra attack if they've got the weapon equipped, but the game doesn't tell which they are or how to perform the bonus moves. Most Fighting Games that focus strictly on hand-to-hand combat do this, usually when there's ninjas. |
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Ornamental Weapon | |
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NJ from Electric Wonderland always carries a katana despite having no formal training on how to fight with it. | |
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Ornamental Weapon | |
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In Star Wars Legends lightsabers in general were once this, as their early designs required the use of large battery packs that made them Awesome, but Impractical. Ironically it was the Sith who refined them into a viable weapon around the time of their first Empire. | |
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Ornamental Weapon | |
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Marcus Fenix of Gears of War fame carried a knife on his right boot but is never used. He finally uses it in the third game to kill Queen Myrrah. | |
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1.0 | |
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Ornamental Weapon | |
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In Fire Emblem: Awakening, some classes are guilty of this. Assassins have extra daggers strapped to their wrists and Swordmasters are carrying two extra sheaths, yet they will never use these extra weapons even if all the weapons in their inventory break. | |
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Ornamental Weapon | |
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Dragon Ball Z: Android 17 carries a pistol on his waist, which is odd considering his punches and energy blasts do far more damage than a pistol ever could. The only time he's seen using it is for kicks after he got shot at by an old man in the Bad Future. | |
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Ornamental Weapon | |
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The Transformers (Marvel): After Optimus Prime gets rebuilt as a Power Master he gains a pair of double-barreled shoulder cannons that he never uses. | |
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| The Transformers (Marvel) (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
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Ornamental Weapon | |
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Fantastic Four: Doctor Doom wears a pistol on his waist that he only uses for opponents he considers unworthy of facing his powered armor and other abilities, which happens rarely enough nowadays that it might as well be ornamental. | |
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Many miniatures are sculpted with more weapons on them than they are actually designed to use in the game. Malifaux is a big offender here, with many figures wearing multiple revolvers but only having a few attacks to use in the game, none of which involve all, or sometimes any, of them. | |
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Super Smash Bros.: Ganondorf's sword, which is only used for a victory pose in Melee and a taunt in Brawl, and is otherwise kept in Hammerspace. Finally used in Smash 4: One of his alternative special attacks is conjuring the sword and stabbing with it, instead of his insanely powerful Warlock Punch. Super Smash Bros. Ultimate also allows him to use his sword for his smash attacks. Captain Falcon and Snake have guns on their person if you look closely (the former has had his since the N64 original, while the latter has had his since Brawl), but naturally they don't get any use either. Sheik also carries a short sword or long dagger on her person but it likewise isn't used. Ultimate zigzags this in Sheik's case. Though she doesn't have the sword on her person, she finally wields it as her Final Smash, Sheikah Dance. |
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