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Set Swords to "Stun"

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Set Swords to "Stun"	comment	You're fighting your opponent in armed combat, and you lay a finishing move across his neck with your Absurdly Sharp Blade. The announcer declares your victory: "Knockout!" — Wait, what? A character in a fighting game is not "dead"; he's just... unconscious... even though you've been hitting him with a sword for 30 seconds... and broken both his arms... and impaled him on your blade before kicking him off at least twice. For that matter, why are you still alive, after being whacked in the head with his axe a few times? It seems all that stuff saying you should Never Bring a Knife to a Fist Fight was complete baloney. (Well, except for the not dying part.) Compare Strong Flesh, Weak Steel, As Lethal as It Needs to Be and Made of Iron. Contrast Nerf Arm.
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Set Swords to "Stun" / int_12381dc	comment	Divinity: Original Sin II: Arena fights in the Gladiator Subquest are handled exactly the same as normal combat but are confirmed to have been non-lethal after the fact, even if you burned your opponent to a bare skeleton and then detonated the bones.
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Set Swords to "Stun" / int_17ae2a7	comment	Same goes for Tatsunoko vs. Capcom. Even if you ignore the weapon-wielding fighters like Soki or Tekkaman Blade, there are giant characters like PTX-40A, a Humongous Mecha fitted with all manner of offensive weapons. These include, but are not limited to, a gatling gun, chainsaws and multiple missiles. Somehow getting hit with these is completely survivable, unless they are used to end the round. And even then, it's still just a "K.O." rather than a kill.
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Set Swords to "Stun" / int_18cbb00e	comment	In Tenchi Muyo! GXP, Seiryo Tennan knocks out Tarant Shank with a single stroke of his lightsaber. He then says not to worry, that he'd hit him with the flat side of the blade. Fellow Space Pirate Kyo Komachi is openly confused because energy blades don't have a flat side.
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Set Swords to "Stun" / int_18ce5aab	comment	In the Samurai Shodown series, only the last strike of the round can be fatal. Played completely straight in Samurai Shodown: Tenkaichi Kenkudan/VI, which has a "festival" theme and therefore nothing's explicitly lethal. However this comes off of the Bloodier and Gorier Samurai Shodown V Special so Samurai Shodown can play it both ways...
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Set Swords to "Stun" / int_1bc17a54	comment	Sword of the Samurai 2 is both an example and a subversion, in that, on Extreme mode, any hit from any weapon could kill you.
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Set Swords to "Stun" / int_1e3b270	comment	In Darkstalkers 3, certain attacks by each character can kill, by slicing the opponent in half... but only if they're the last blow in the last round. If it's not, the killing effect is seen regardless but the damage done to the characters' bodies is instantly fixed in a cartoony manner, like for example the upper body of the character being cleaved clean off, only for it to perform a quick somersault and land back on the waist with no lasting damage. Likewise, these attacks don't always line up with what should be fatal — Bulleta/B.B. Hood's throat-slit grab is, understandably, fatal, but her various guns, missiles, and mines aren't.
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Set Swords to "Stun" / int_2172e43f	comment	Batman: Arkham Knight: The Batmobile can shoot bad guys in the head with "slam rounds" and instantly neutralize them during certain combos. As mentioned on Tap on the Head, this is actually very dangerous, and would have a high chance of breaking their necks. He also sends mooks flying with the 'Mobile itself, using a "pulse taser" force field that activates and neutralizes anyone within proximity of the vehicle while it's in motion (in other words, shocking someone with a medium-wattage taser the size of a tank and shooting them ten feet up in the air is somehow far less lethal than a collision with the tank itself). This is especially absurd when the taser doesn't work on other vehicles, so cars will upend, fly through the air, and even explode without any goons inside being harmed.
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Set Swords to "Stun" / int_2192aeb3	comment	Fire Emblem: An unusual in-universe example occurs in Fire Emblem: The Binding Blade (the last one to not be released outside Japan) with the eponymous Sword of Seals. Although it doesn't affect Roy's battle capabilities when he ultimately gets to use it, its strength evidently depends on the resolve of its wielder. Its original owner, Hartmut, had used it to slay a great number of dragons during The Scouring, but, upon discovering that their leader had assumed the form of a frail young girl, didn't have the heart to kill her, so, when he struck her with the blade, it ensured that the attack would only knock her out. At several points in the Conquest route of Fire Emblem Fates, it's noted that Corrin and their allies only knocked out the Hoshidans they were fighting, even though the Nohrian army is still using razor-sharp swords, lances, and axes (indeed, the only blunt weapons in the game are Hoshidan clubs, and throughout Birthright and Revelations, they have exactly as little trouble inflicting lethal injuries as would be expected of a massive, two-handed bludgeon) and in the animations, they're clearly not striking with the flats of the weapons.
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Set Swords to "Stun" / int_23598724	comment	This is Deconstructed in The Bloodstained Hero. Izuku points out that bladed weapons are designed to kill. Non-lethal use is only possible when you are just that skilled to avoid all vitals, or your opponent can regenerate. Momo spends a long sparring session stabbing Izuku in various spots only to hit an organ or artery each time. Izuku is unharmed due to his Healing Factor.
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Set Swords to "Stun" / int_265fb4f1	comment	Hyrule Warriors, made by the same people behind Dynasty Warriors, goes back and forth on whether you're killing enemy units or not. Like Dynasty Warriors, it uses a K.O. count, and defeating enemies is usually framed as you either knocking them out and forcing them to retreat. That said, one of Fi's battle quotes has her remark that the enemy's life-force can no longer be detected (bear in mind that Fi is a sentient sword), and one of Proxi's quotes has her worry if an allied officer is 'still alive' after they've retreated.
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Set Swords to "Stun" / int_26674ed5	comment	The High Frequency Blade in Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty is lethal, inasmuch as Raiden can kill any human enemy with it (the reason that it takes several strokes to kill is that the enemies from that point in the game wear extremely heavy armor). However, he can reverse his grip so that he smacks foes around with the dull edge instead of slicing them to kibble, knocking them out in order to allow the player to complete a "No Enemies Killed" play-through. You still kill them if you stab, though. Raiden uses the same technique again in Metal Gear Online.
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Set Swords to "Stun" / int_26a33287	comment	In Mount & Blade, a leader with the Surgery skill has a chance to convert any friendly casualty into a KO. Even if it was inflicted by a knight's full-speed couched lance charge, which usually hits for about 2-3 times the maximum hit points of any unit. Heroes, nobles, and the player can never be killed, only knocked out, even if you ram a lance through their faceplate at 25mph. However, enemy casualties are for the most part accurate; stab a mook, and he's almost certainly going to die. The player can order their troops to switch to blunt trauma weapons to raise the chances of knocking out enemies to keep as prisoners. Of course, that has the inverse problem - blunt type attacks can never kill. Even when you cave someone's skull in with a two-handed mace, they'll live to be taken prisoner.
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Set Swords to "Stun" / int_275c56fe	comment	The Marvel vs. Capcom games feature characters with incredibly sharp claws or blades like Wolverine, Black Panther, Dante, Vergil and Monster Hunter, top tier physical powerhouses like Hulk, and characters with access to powerful energy projectiles like Storm, Doctor Doom, Phoenix and Captain Marvel. Despite the fact that many of the other combatants are human martial artists (albeit ones with Charles Atlas Superpowers), government agents or even reporters and lawyers, they're perfectly capable of withstanding beatdowns, slashes and energy blasts from the superpowered characters without dying.
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Set Swords to "Stun" / int_287f2362	comment	BloodStorm: You could cut your opponent in half, but again, only decapitation was fatal. The game would actually credit you if you somehow managed to win a fight without any limbs at all.
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Set Swords to "Stun" / int_28815529	comment	Likewise, in the SNK vs. Capcom series, certain characters carry bladed weapons (Capcom vs. SNK 2: Mark of the Millennium has Haohmaru and Nakoruru from Samurai Shodown and Hibiki Takane from The Last Blade among the cast) but all their opponents only get KO'd by their attacks and are capable of blocking their sword strikes with their bare hands. Vega's claw only does nominal damage as well, although he has been bound by this restriction since his debut.
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Set Swords to "Stun" / int_2a893b9b	comment	Counter-Strike: Can you survive a shotgun blast from point-blank range? In Real Life, even with kevlar, the answer is no. In the game, you might.
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Set Swords to "Stun" / int_2d316ba2	comment	Used for every blade in Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (2003), notably Leonardo's katanas and the Shredder's claws. If used on a non-living object, like a Mouser robot or a water tower, swords and blades are ludicrously sharp. If used on other characters, swords and blades simply knock people unconscious or seem to inflict the same damage as a direct hit with a blunt object. However, exceptions are made in certain situations, such as when Karai stabs Leonardo in the back or when Leonardo decapitates the Shredder, which turns out to be a case of Mobile-Suit Human.
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Set Swords to "Stun" / int_2e9ef429	comment	Batman: Arkham Series: In Batman: Arkham City and Batman: Arkham Origins, Bruce beats criminals in light clothing to a pulp in the dead of winter, often inflicting crippling injuries and leaving them exposed to the weather and rival gangs. But he's not killing anyone, honest! Batman: Arkham Knight: The Batmobile can shoot bad guys in the head with "slam rounds" and instantly neutralize them during certain combos. As mentioned on Tap on the Head, this is actually very dangerous, and would have a high chance of breaking their necks. He also sends mooks flying with the 'Mobile itself, using a "pulse taser" force field that activates and neutralizes anyone within proximity of the vehicle while it's in motion (in other words, shocking someone with a medium-wattage taser the size of a tank and shooting them ten feet up in the air is somehow far less lethal than a collision with the tank itself). This is especially absurd when the taser doesn't work on other vehicles, so cars will upend, fly through the air, and even explode without any goons inside being harmed. Whenever the player uses a clearly lethal character (Joker or Red Hood), all takedowns, be it an explosion, Neck Snap or more than enough bullets, will have the bodies still breathing afterwards. Justified Trope, due to engine limitations, and they are not supposed to get up. In challenge maps/outside his story DLC, Red Hood's victims will be identified unconscious, and medics can revive them. note There are several reasons to this; to add challenge, and because the character selector was quickly added to address complaints for it's disappearance. It could be argued that it's justified in-universe, since challenge maps are a simulation.
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Set Swords to "Stun" / int_3504b58e	comment	Mortal Kombat 11: Cassie Cage has a throw that finishes with shooting the opponent in the back of the head. If used on an opponent's last hit point, it can be used as a Brutality as a Subversion. She can also use her pistols to shoot an opponent in the knees, which can be Enhanced to kick them up in the air and shoot them a couple more times. They don't seem to have much trouble standing afterwards. Erron Black uses a level-action hunting rifle in battle, and the individual shots are only marginally more powerful than his fists. Quite literal with the Shao Lin Arrow fired by using the Broken Quiver Konsumable. It fires an arrow that deals low damage and stuns its target. Some of the scenery hazards can be used to impale a Kombatant through the chest or crush their skulls, and are only slightly more powerful than a Kritical Hit.
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Set Swords to "Stun" / int_3565350a	comment	Paladins in Final Fantasy Tactics Advance can learn the skill "Subdue", which makes them hit their target with the flat side of their sword, dealing one point of damage. You're supposed to use this on charmed and confused allies, to break their trance.
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Set Swords to "Stun" / int_3583b777	comment	Semi-justified in Eternal Darkness in that, for the most part, you're using medieval (or earlier) weapons against anything from The Undead to Eldritch Abominations. It also allows you to perform a Coup de GrÃ¢ce to a downed monster to regain some sanity points. The one time you're in a modern day story and get a fully-automatic assault rifle with underslung grenade launcher, it's much easier to take the nasties down.
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Set Swords to "Stun" / int_35e05f2a	comment	Justified in RWBY (also by Monty Oum) where people have Aura that manifests as a form-fitting force field. This lets characters score flurries of slashing blows on each other without reducing them to sushi. Best exemplified by Penny in the season 1 finale, when her swords toss mooks aside but slice through metal and pavement. However, if your aura is used up or your opponent can cut through it, sharp pointy objects still do terrible things to soft humans as Yang and Pyrrha find out. Cinder later finds out that the downside to having a Grimm arm is that she can't protect said arm with Aura, making it vulnerable.
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Set Swords to "Stun" / int_37317955	comment	Advanced Dungeons & Dragons 1st Edition: The Monster Manual had a rule specifically for dragons that allowed players to try subduing them rather than killing them.
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Set Swords to "Stun" / int_3a38519	comment	A version occurs in the Dungeon Keeper series. Enemy creatures are 'knocked out' by such things as steel claws, spiked balls hung from the horns, hurled dwarves and imps, huge swords and generally lethal weaponry. This is so they can be dragged to your prisons, and used or abused appropriately. However, if left untouched by your or enemy imps (which drag them back to their own base to recuperate), the creatures will actually die. So it's easy to assume that they are wounded too badly to keep fighting, but might survive given medical attention. In the first game, you can toggle whether enemies are stunned rather than killed on or off.
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Set Swords to "Stun" / int_3acdf09f	comment	The Capcom vs. series: The Marvel vs. Capcom games feature characters with incredibly sharp claws or blades like Wolverine, Black Panther, Dante, Vergil and Monster Hunter, top tier physical powerhouses like Hulk, and characters with access to powerful energy projectiles like Storm, Doctor Doom, Phoenix and Captain Marvel. Despite the fact that many of the other combatants are human martial artists (albeit ones with Charles Atlas Superpowers), government agents or even reporters and lawyers, they're perfectly capable of withstanding beatdowns, slashes and energy blasts from the superpowered characters without dying. Likewise, in the SNK vs. Capcom series, certain characters carry bladed weapons (Capcom vs. SNK 2: Mark of the Millennium has Haohmaru and Nakoruru from Samurai Shodown and Hibiki Takane from The Last Blade among the cast) but all their opponents only get KO'd by their attacks and are capable of blocking their sword strikes with their bare hands. Vega's claw only does nominal damage as well, although he has been bound by this restriction since his debut. Same goes for Tatsunoko vs. Capcom. Even if you ignore the weapon-wielding fighters like Soki or Tekkaman Blade, there are giant characters like PTX-40A, a Humongous Mecha fitted with all manner of offensive weapons. These include, but are not limited to, a gatling gun, chainsaws and multiple missiles. Somehow getting hit with these is completely survivable, unless they are used to end the round. And even then, it's still just a "K.O." rather than a kill.
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Set Swords to "Stun" / int_3ddddb25	comment	Xiaolin Showdown: Justified by the Sword of the Storm; normally it controls the wind, but when Raimundo tries to use it like an actual sword, the blade just phases through his opponent's weapon. It can't actually harm someone directly.
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Set Swords to "Stun" / int_41d79599	comment	Dark Forces Saga: Jedi Knight Dark Forces II nicely avoided this problem, though, making the lightsaber nearly a Disc-One Nuke. Hit anything with the saber (well, anything smaller than a truck), and it goes down. Jedi Knight II: Jedi Outcast went back to the usual patheticness, but a simple and popular .cfg option restored the instant deadliness of a lightsaber. Even grazing an unshielded character, whether you were attacking or not, would sever limbs, heads, or torsos on contact. Best of all, this applied to the player too, so while Mooks became much easier, battles against multiple Dark Jedi became much more challenging. Jedi Knight: Jedi Academy: A simple and popular .cfg option restores the instant deadliness of a lightsaber. Even grazing an unshielded character, whether you were attacking or not, would sever limbs, heads, or torsos on contact. Best of all, this applied to the player too, so while Mooks became much easier, battles against multiple Dark Jedi became much more challenging. Jedi Academy multiplayer servers use house rules when dealing with lightsaber damage. Occasionally, one will find a server where damage behaves just like one would expect a condensed plasma stream to behave. For extra simulation, there is a dismemberment-on-death flag that can be toggled in the *.cfg file.
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Set Swords to "Stun" / int_45e573c8	comment	Time Killers allowed you to perform instant amputations and decapitation moves that could end a fight in one blow. However, only decapitation was fatal.
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Set Swords to "Stun" / int_4e9f355	comment	Though Crisis Core doesn't specify whether enemies die or not, Zack goes out of his way to use the dull end of his sword (except in the battle animation) to prevent "wear and rust" because his sword is an heirloom. Therefore he's probably just knocking them all out.
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Set Swords to "Stun" / int_515b23b8	comment	An example of Non-Killing Bullets: In Terminator 2: Judgment Day for the Sega Genesis, enemies are described at the end of a level as having been "immobilized" due to "non-fatal wounds." Despite being shot. In the chest. With a shotgun. At point blank range. Of course, this comes from a joke in the movie: John Connor tells the Terminator not to kill anybody, and so the Terminator shoots a man in the knee. ("He'll live.") Doesn't explain how a chest shot could be non-fatal, though.
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Set Swords to "Stun" / int_526d4c5c	comment	Knights of the Old Republic treads the line a bit. Lightsabers are still the deadliest melee weapons by far, and can be used to break open doors and containers effortlessly, but many weapons and armors of this era are made with "cortosis weaves" (something that's supposed to be much rarer than KoToR implies) that enables them to resist a saber being sliced right through them. They are still far less deadly than they really should be, though: the basic saber has a 2d8 damage die, equivalent to a bastard sword for a Large creature in Dungeons & Dragons 3rd Edition, which the games' ruleset is partly based on.
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Set Swords to "Stun" / int_5436b1a9	comment	Senran Kagura: Being a lighthearted version of a Hack and Slash game, attacks never deal any visible damage other than their clothing, even if they're done by swords, knives, hammers, guns, or even explosives.
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Set Swords to "Stun" / int_5803e162	comment	Dragon Ball Fighter Z: Majin Buu can turn his opponents into cookies and then eat them. While this obviously killed people in the TV show, the victims return to normal immediately after being devoured in the game.
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Set Swords to "Stun" / int_59da62aa	comment	If you're not using hardcore mode, companions in Fallout: New Vegas cannot be permanently killed — they go unconscious and wake up when the fight is over. (Some extremely powerful enemies may avert this — for instance, the enemies at the Deathclaw Promontory can tear ED-E into scrap and make him vanish, although the game still thinks he's in your party.)
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Set Swords to "Stun" / int_5b08c386	comment	Justified in Way of the Samurai 3: you can use the blunt end of your sword to knock out opponents as opposed to killing them.
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Set Swords to "Stun" / int_5c66fff9	comment	Neverwinter Nights 2: Playable characters don't die outside of Plotline Death, they merely go unconscious. This makes one wonder why the King of Shadows, despite being an ancient evil capable of destroying entire civilizations, seems utterly incapable of killing your gang of misfits. Averted in the second expansion Storm of Zehir, which follows the pen-and-paper rules more closely in this regard. Party members that lose all their HP fall unconscious and will bleed out if not treated.
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Set Swords to "Stun" / int_5e150650	comment	Exalted: Alchemical Exalted can install a Charm that allows them to keep all members of their unit alive in a war, despite damage done to a unit. An upgrade — the Riot-Dispersion Attack submodule — allows them to extend this benefit to the enemy unit they're attacking. Lunars, on the other hand, have a Subduing the Honored Foe Charm that ensures that they only cause bashing damage — even if they wields First Age chainsaw katana while being a 12-feet tall man-beast monstrosity.
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Set Swords to "Stun" / int_610a694a	comment	In PokÃ©mon Adventures, Viola shoves Y out of the way of an attacking Honedge and merely gets knocked out with nothing more than a nasty bruise on her head. Considering that Honedge are living swords, the top half of Viola's head should have been sliced off.
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Set Swords to "Stun" / int_62570927	comment	Marvel Universe: Justified by Black Knight. He sometimes uses a photonic sword which cuts through inanimate objects like a solid blade would, but acts like a high-powered taser when used on humans. Captain America's shield is depicted as having edges capable of sheering through metal cables, but will never do more than bounce off a living target in a painful but decidedly non-lethal manner. Psylocke generates a glowing arm-blade with her Psychic Powers. As such, it can slice through anything, but against living opponents it causes temporary incapacitation. However, it can kill if she puts enough power into it and plunges it directly into your head, something that, naturally, she threatens but never quite gets around to actually doing.
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Set Swords to "Stun" / int_6348f5cf	comment	Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha ViVid introduces the DSAAnote Dimension Sports Activity Association Contact System, which lets Device users safely deal non-fatal and non-permanent damage to one another while still receiving simulated battle injuries for strong hits through "Crash Emulate". This allows participants of the Inter-Middle Championship to use swords, claws, and other normally fatal weapons without accidentally bisecting or decapitating their fellow competitors.
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Set Swords to "Stun" / int_63792245	comment	Avoided partially in Bio F.R.E.A.K.S.. Your characters could take explosive rounds, rockets, and chainsaws to the face surprisingly well, but most characters had moves that could strip your enemy of one or both arms, or the head, the first two greatly limiting their fighting abilities, and the latter instantly killing them. Similarly, getting tossed into some of the hazards, such as industrial grinders, would either kill you outright or strip you of your arms.
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Set Swords to "Stun" / int_638624c8	comment	Played with a bit in an episode of Slayers. Zelgadis tries to knock someone out by hitting him with the blunt side of his sword, then remembers too late that his sword is double-edgedâ€¦ This was a parody of The Vision of Escaflowne, where such confusion didn't happen.
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Set Swords to "Stun" / int_640d9be1	comment	An unusual in-universe example occurs in Fire Emblem: The Binding Blade (the last one to not be released outside Japan) with the eponymous Sword of Seals. Although it doesn't affect Roy's battle capabilities when he ultimately gets to use it, its strength evidently depends on the resolve of its wielder. Its original owner, Hartmut, had used it to slay a great number of dragons during The Scouring, but, upon discovering that their leader had assumed the form of a frail young girl, didn't have the heart to kill her, so, when he struck her with the blade, it ensured that the attack would only knock her out.
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Set Swords to "Stun" / int_66b7b92d	comment	Jedi Knight II: Jedi Outcast went back to the usual patheticness, but a simple and popular *.cfg option restored the instant deadliness of a lightsaber. Even grazing an unshielded character, whether you were attacking or not, would sever limbs, heads, or torsos on contact. Best of all, this applied to the player too, so while Mooks became much easier, battles against multiple Dark Jedi became much more challenging.
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Set Swords to "Stun" / int_67ce5a04	comment	At several points in the Conquest route of Fire Emblem Fates, it's noted that Corrin and their allies only knocked out the Hoshidans they were fighting, even though the Nohrian army is still using razor-sharp swords, lances, and axes (indeed, the only blunt weapons in the game are Hoshidan clubs, and throughout Birthright and Revelations, they have exactly as little trouble inflicting lethal injuries as would be expected of a massive, two-handed bludgeon) and in the animations, they're clearly not striking with the flats of the weapons.
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Set Swords to "Stun" / int_68c8e9ad	comment	Super Robot Wars: The games can't seem to decide on how lethal the attacks are. Defeating a given character, so they explode entirely, may result in that character dying, that character ejecting, that character running away. There are missions in which you 'capture' an enemy unit by bringing it down below 10%... and in the same mission you capture another unit by blowing it up completely. Additionally, there are some characters with weapons designed to cleave battleships in single strikes, but you still won't necessarily kill targets with it. Lampshaded in one chapter of Super Robot Wars: Original Generation 2, where, Kyousuke uses his "Trump Card" against Wodan's Thrudgelmir (and hit him straight in the cockpit, no less!) leaving the other protagonists to wonder how Wodan could have survived that. To be fair, Wodan is a cyborg zombie samurai. Played straight in Super Robot Wars L, where "killing" a boss unit won't show the animation of it getting destroyed. They simply escape afterward most of the time, exploding only if it's actually destroyed during the storyline.
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Set Swords to "Stun" / int_6a17032e	comment	Black Butterfly: The titular heroine of this martial arts film, a Robin Hood-esque thief, isn't a fan of killing, and wouldn't take lives unless she doesn't have a choice. So when fighting city guards and soldiers whom are just doing their jobs, she repeatedly knocks them unconscious with her swords, non-fatally, while fleeing. She does start taking names in the film's climax, since at that point she's fighting hostile bandit mooks.
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Set Swords to "Stun" / int_6ac55ec7	comment	Dungeons & Dragons had several iterations of this across its several editions. Advanced Dungeons & Dragons 1st Edition: The Monster Manual had a rule specifically for dragons that allowed players to try subduing them rather than killing them. Advanced Dungeons & Dragons 2nd Edition featured an optional rule that allowed standard weapons to do nonlethal damage (normally the province of unarmed combat and a few particular weapons) in exchange for an attack penalty, since you're purposely using your weapon wrong in order to not seriously harm your enemy. Dungeons & Dragons 3rd Edition: The nonlethal damage mechanic causes the target to lose consciousness if their current Hit Points minus nonlethal damage they've taken is a negative number. There are several ways to inflict nonlethal damage with normally lethal attacks: Weapon wielders can inflict nonlethal damage by taking a -4 penalty on their attack roll. It also extends to inflicting lethal damage with nonlethal weapons (such as saps and non-monk unarmed strikes), justified by needing to seek out the most vital regions to strike. With the right feat, you can optionally do nonlethal damage with spells. Yes, even Disintegrate. There are also magical weapons with the "Merciful" quality, which allows the wielder to inflict nonlethal damage, even with a sword or crossbow. This quality is generated by imbuing the weapon with a healing spell, ironically. Dungeons & Dragons 4th Edition: This edition finally simplified it all by allowing a player to declare whether a monster is killed or unconscious when reducing its hit points to zero, even if this was done with an explosion or disintegrate spell. Just let the players make up a reason for why it works. Dungeons & Dragons 5th Edition: A player can declare whether the final blow against an enemy was lethal or merely incapacitating when its HP hits zero, but only with a melee attack, presumably because a ranged or magical attack would be less discriminating.
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Set Swords to "Stun" / int_6b85085e	comment	Mortal Kombat: Mortal Kombat 3: Technically, you can hit an opponent 5 or 6 times in a round with Stryker's hand grenades, as they only do 7-8% of damage. His pistol attack (only in Ultimate MK3) is curiously a ranged one and consists of firing 3 bullets from point-blank range. It does a bit more damage than a grenade, but still, the other character should be dead on the spot. Cyrax and Sektor use bombs and rockets respectively. They inflict about the same damage as Stryker's hand grenades. Mortal Kombat 4: All characters have weapons that do significantly less damage than one would think. This trope applies to Sonya for example, who is a regular human, yet a full-on swing with a sword can't kill her on the spot. You can also throw stones and skulls at your opponent, and realistically these items also would inflict quite a lot more damage. As a precursor of the X-Ray moves in Mortal Kombat 9, MK4 has "bone breakers", which are unique for each character, and consist of breaking the opponent's bones. All the fighters of course are a-ok in just a few frames, losing around 15-20% of their health, and are perfectly capable of punching and comboing normally, using their (supposedly) broken limbs. The most egregious example is Liu Kang's bonebreaker, as he is straight up breaking the other character's spine... as usual, without any gameplay-affecting ill effects. In Mortal Kombat: Deadly Alliance, though, some characters had an "Impale" feature for their weapons, which allowed you to, well... impale the enemy with your weapon, causing them to leak blood and reduce their health gradually at the expense of losing the ability to use your weapons for the rest of the round. Mortal Kombat 9: Once and for all, it is proven that swords are indeed sharp, because all character models show damage. By the end of a close fight, both fighters will have missing skin and exposed innards to go along with the bones that were shown being physically broken. It doesn't affect your fighting ability, though. (And then you stand up for round 2, and your health is refilled but the damage is still visible.) The worst part is the X-Ray moves. Over the course of the match, Sub-Zero can freeze and shatter his opponent's liver several times. Baraka's move involves using one blade to impale and lift the opponent through the stomach, while using the other to impale him through the throat and then through the head. Some Kombatants break their opponent's skulls, legs, spines, whatever, and the opponent just gets up and keeps fighting after all of this. Mortal Kombat X: The 10th game of the series marks the return of Brutalities. These finishers were last featured in UMK3, but work entirely differently than in that case. They are now tied to the specials of the characters, and are sometimes involving stabbing weapons. Kitana and Mileena are the worst offenders. Kitana has a special move, where she is jumping on the opponent's chest and slices their throat using her fans. Even though normally this would be instant death, when the opponent has more than 10% of health (or so), this only damages them. It turns into a Brutality when (a) the opponent has less HP than that and (b) the Kitana player performs the right input for the finisher, and only then will it chop the other figher's head off. Mileena's stabbing special move, where she uses her sais to absolutely gut the opponent with multiple stabs, is similarly only lethal under the Brutality circumstances detailed above. Mortal Kombat 11: Cassie Cage has a throw that finishes with shooting the opponent in the back of the head. If used on an opponent's last hit point, it can be used as a Brutality as a Subversion. She can also use her pistols to shoot an opponent in the knees, which can be Enhanced to kick them up in the air and shoot them a couple more times. They don't seem to have much trouble standing afterwards. Erron Black uses a level-action hunting rifle in battle, and the individual shots are only marginally more powerful than his fists. Quite literal with the Shao Lin Arrow fired by using the Broken Quiver Konsumable. It fires an arrow that deals low damage and stuns its target. Some of the scenery hazards can be used to impale a Kombatant through the chest or crush their skulls, and are only slightly more powerful than a Kritical Hit.
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Set Swords to "Stun" / int_6c1d09b3	comment	In Fallout 3, during your escape from Vault 101 in the beginning, you cannot kill Amata. No matter what. Shooting her in the head five times at point blank range renders her "unconscious." James likewise is a Determinator of the grandest scale for walking across the wasteland in only a ratty vaultsuit and taking down super-mutants with a lead pipe (or, when the pipe breaks from excessive wear, his fists.) He's the protagonist's father, so badassery may be genetic.
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Set Swords to "Stun" / int_6c1d09b4	comment	Fallout 4 has an amusing twist: if one of your settlements is attacked, the settlers can't be killed by the raiders. They're just winded for a minute and then get back up and rejoin the fight. A stray shot from your own gun, however, is still quite lethal.
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Set Swords to "Stun" / int_6c47db4e	comment	Dynasty Warriors: The games have a K.O. count instead of kill count. In Musou Mode, a general will live or die depending on if his character is needed, meaning that most generals will only die on the last level. Justified in that, because not every general uses a weapon capable of killing, from staves to the power of wind, it's easier just to tack "K.O." on the counter and the bladed weapon just wounded them badly or they suffered blood loss. The Japanese version of Fist of the North Star: Ken's Rage also had the same KO counter, despite the fact that dozens of Mooks are turned into red paste or getting cut up into ribbons every time you use a Signature Move on them or hit them with a heavy attack, and even when you don't, they leave a large pool of blood under them as they collapse. Changed in the US/PAL version where the counter now reads "Kills", although the trophy/achievement icons are unchanged and still read "KO". Hyrule Warriors, made by the same people behind Dynasty Warriors, goes back and forth on whether you're killing enemy units or not. Like Dynasty Warriors, it uses a K.O. count, and defeating enemies is usually framed as you either knocking them out and forcing them to retreat. That said, one of Fi's battle quotes has her remark that the enemy's life-force can no longer be detected (bear in mind that Fi is a sentient sword), and one of Proxi's quotes has her worry if an allied officer is 'still alive' after they've retreated. Fire Emblem Warriors: Three Hopes, again made by the same people, has a rather blatant case early on when, in a cutscene, the Player Character Shez takes a stab to the chest from Byleth (the now-Rogue Protagonist of Three Houses), and instead of being run through like you'd expect, they get knocked back and sprawled out on the ground as if Byleth was wielding a bomb on a stick instead of a sword. Naturally, because this is still the first mission, Shez survives this.
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Set Swords to "Stun" / int_6d10ab05	comment	Mortal Kombat 3: Technically, you can hit an opponent 5 or 6 times in a round with Stryker's hand grenades, as they only do 7-8% of damage. His pistol attack (only in Ultimate MK3) is curiously a ranged one and consists of firing 3 bullets from point-blank range. It does a bit more damage than a grenade, but still, the other character should be dead on the spot. Cyrax and Sektor use bombs and rockets respectively. They inflict about the same damage as Stryker's hand grenades.
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Set Swords to "Stun" / int_6d10ab06	comment	Mortal Kombat 4: All characters have weapons that do significantly less damage than one would think. This trope applies to Sonya for example, who is a regular human, yet a full-on swing with a sword can't kill her on the spot. You can also throw stones and skulls at your opponent, and realistically these items also would inflict quite a lot more damage. As a precursor of the X-Ray moves in Mortal Kombat 9, MK4 has "bone breakers", which are unique for each character, and consist of breaking the opponent's bones. All the fighters of course are a-ok in just a few frames, losing around 15-20% of their health, and are perfectly capable of punching and comboing normally, using their (supposedly) broken limbs. The most egregious example is Liu Kang's bonebreaker, as he is straight up breaking the other character's spine... as usual, without any gameplay-affecting ill effects.
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Set Swords to "Stun" / int_6d10ab0b	comment	Mortal Kombat 9: Once and for all, it is proven that swords are indeed sharp, because all character models show damage. By the end of a close fight, both fighters will have missing skin and exposed innards to go along with the bones that were shown being physically broken. It doesn't affect your fighting ability, though. (And then you stand up for round 2, and your health is refilled but the damage is still visible.) The worst part is the X-Ray moves. Over the course of the match, Sub-Zero can freeze and shatter his opponent's liver several times. Baraka's move involves using one blade to impale and lift the opponent through the stomach, while using the other to impale him through the throat and then through the head. Some Kombatants break their opponent's skulls, legs, spines, whatever, and the opponent just gets up and keeps fighting after all of this.
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Set Swords to "Stun" / int_6d10ab2a	comment	Mortal Kombat X: The 10th game of the series marks the return of Brutalities. These finishers were last featured in UMK3, but work entirely differently than in that case. They are now tied to the specials of the characters, and are sometimes involving stabbing weapons. Kitana and Mileena are the worst offenders. Kitana has a special move, where she is jumping on the opponent's chest and slices their throat using her fans. Even though normally this would be instant death, when the opponent has more than 10% of health (or so), this only damages them. It turns into a Brutality when (a) the opponent has less HP than that and (b) the Kitana player performs the right input for the finisher, and only then will it chop the other figher's head off. Mileena's stabbing special move, where she uses her sais to absolutely gut the opponent with multiple stabs, is similarly only lethal under the Brutality circumstances detailed above.
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Set Swords to "Stun" / int_7291539d	comment	In Batman: Arkham City and Batman: Arkham Origins, Bruce beats criminals in light clothing to a pulp in the dead of winter, often inflicting crippling injuries and leaving them exposed to the weather and rival gangs. But he's not killing anyone, honest!
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Set Swords to "Stun" / int_76b8cb10	comment	Fallout In Fallout 3, during your escape from Vault 101 in the beginning, you cannot kill Amata. No matter what. Shooting her in the head five times at point blank range renders her "unconscious." James likewise is a Determinator of the grandest scale for walking across the wasteland in only a ratty vaultsuit and taking down super-mutants with a lead pipe (or, when the pipe breaks from excessive wear, his fists.) He's the protagonist's father, so badassery may be genetic. If you're not using hardcore mode, companions in Fallout: New Vegas cannot be permanently killed — they go unconscious and wake up when the fight is over. (Some extremely powerful enemies may avert this — for instance, the enemies at the Deathclaw Promontory can tear ED-E into scrap and make him vanish, although the game still thinks he's in your party.) Fallout 4 has an amusing twist: if one of your settlements is attacked, the settlers can't be killed by the raiders. They're just winded for a minute and then get back up and rejoin the fight. A stray shot from your own gun, however, is still quite lethal.
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Set Swords to "Stun" / int_7832b74c	comment	In Steven Universe, while Rose Quartz's sword is sharp enough to hurt organics, its real purpose in combat was to destabilize a Gem's physical form as quick as possible, often in a single strike, without doing damage to their core gemstone. A Gem's body is a Hard Light hologram created by its Heart Drive gemstone; destroy the body, and she will eventually regenerate, but the Gem is out of commission for some time. Destroy the gemstone, and say adios.
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Set Swords to "Stun" / int_7ba704de	comment	The lightsabers in Star Wars: Galaxies did bashing damage in their first incarnation. It has then been changed to energy damage.
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Set Swords to "Stun" / int_7d728397	comment	Erus and Zenka in Super Cosplay War Ultra have rather Egregious examples of this. One of Erus' super attacks has her ripping out her opponent's heart and crushing it in her bare hands. It only deals about 1/6th of a life meter of damage. And then there's Zenka's MAX, which, while one of the most devastating attacks in the game, isn't necessarily lethal. When used against male opponents, it acts as The Nudifier, but if used against girls and certain male characters, it flat out bisects them.
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Set Swords to "Stun" / int_7d8c61a2	comment	''Star Wars: The Old Republic: For game balance reasons, lightsabers don't do any more damage than any other weapon in gameplay. It's a different story in cutscenes, where getting hit by a lightsaber is always a grievous if not immediately lethal wound.
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Set Swords to "Stun" / int_7dc73376	comment	The Force Unleashed has the lightsaber as the ONLY available weapon. Some players have referred to it as the "lightbat" because of its inability to cut through anything. Indeed, hitting a stormtrooper only creates a small glow on the point of impact and causes them to fall over. Some enemies don't even die on the first hit. This complaint has been addressed in the sequel (at least as far as enemies go). Stormtrooper heads and limbs will be lost this time for sure. As for slicing up the rest of the level... probably not.
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Set Swords to "Stun" / int_7f02dd41	comment	Star Wars: Battlefront: Lightsabers are the strongest weapon in the game, yet it took at least 2 hits to kill the average mook.
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Set Swords to "Stun" / int_7fbc380f	comment	Musashi Gundoh does this literally, with the protagonist wielding an electric stun sword along with a gun full of "sleeping bullets".
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Set Swords to "Stun" / int_816a2880	comment	The Japanese version of Fist of the North Star: Ken's Rage also had the same KO counter, despite the fact that dozens of Mooks are turned into red paste or getting cut up into ribbons every time you use a Signature Move on them or hit them with a heavy attack, and even when you don't, they leave a large pool of blood under them as they collapse. Changed in the US/PAL version where the counter now reads "Kills", although the trophy/achievement icons are unchanged and still read "KO".
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Set Swords to "Stun" / int_81c929fa	comment	Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order requires multiple lightsaber strikes to kill a humble Stormtrooper. It also introduced Stamina, a secondary protective layer that melee attacks have to break through before health damage can be inflicted, and like in The Force Unleashed your lightsaber is your only weapon. About half of the imperial troop types are specialized melee fighters with weapons that can block and parry lightsabers as if they were standard swords, so even a guy with a stun baton can kick your lightbat-swinging posterior in this game. And if you thought that the wildlife makes easy prey at least, read the in-game databank and reconsider - a disturbingly large percentage of the critters you encounter are stated to have lightsaber-resistant hides or scales.
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Set Swords to "Stun" / int_88fce462	comment	Particularly bad in The King of Fighters games, as many characters have attacks that could level a building, yet leave no lasting damage anyway. One really nasty example is Orochi (a god), who can apparently steal and destroy his opponent's soul, yet if said opponent is not KO'd by this attack, then they can still get up and fight, despite the fact that they should be a hollow shell. Whip has a gun and, in some games, it doesn't even deal damage. She has another one as an HSDM and at least deals a good amount of damage. Other characters even have missiles, lasers, a gigantic drill, an iron ball... Hell even the flames should be enough to deal third-degree burns but don't. Also, Nakoruru literally stabs you in the heart as part of her throw move, and as long as your HP isn't completely depleted, no overly long bleeding occurs and your character walk away just fine.
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Set Swords to "Stun" / int_8ac4e993	comment	Gundam: The holographic battle system in Gundam Build Fighters simulates battle damage mostly harmlessly. Getting blasted by a beam cannon will leave your model fine by the end of the fight, and dismemberment by beam sword might mean you just have to pop the arm back on. But actual physical damage like from punching or impalement by a Physically-modeled weapon could leave the model with very real damage. In Gundam Build Fighters Try, the new and improved Gunpla Battle machine has Damage Level settings which affect the level of damage the participants' models suffer after the game powers down but has absolutely no effect on the damage it seems to incur during battle. In one episode, one Gunpla's forearms shatter like glass, but since the machine was set to Damage Level C it's perfectly fine afterward. Level B is more like the battles in the original series, while Level A apparently inflicts all damage realistically on the model. This trope actually becomes a major plot point in the successor series, Gundam Build Divers. The Gunpla Duel system, which worked similarly to Build Fighters' own when set to Damage Level A, is phased out in favor of the virtual MMO, Gunpla Battle Nexus. Tsukasa Shiba, the first half's main antagonist, wants to destroy this game world because in his mind the combat experience there doesn't carry the same 'weight' as GP Duel, since players' Gunpla are scanned into the game world and do not take damage at all in the real world. Riku defeating Tsukasa on an old GP Duel machine with his 'inferior' combat experience forces Tsukasa to realize how baseless that ideal is.
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Set Swords to "Stun" / int_8d862a74	comment	Melty Blood is a particularly strange case. The victory screens, the character portraits, the backgrounds, etc. can all show as much blood as they want to, but absolutely no blood comes out from anyone. Makes sense, they're all being punched and kicked... except by the characters that have claws and one in particular who uses a fruit knife to devastating effect. The rerelease of Melty Blood: Act Cadenza even removes what little blood was present (one character throwing a knife into someone and ripping it out, and a young vampire ripping into someone barehanded). Also add to the fact that, much like Soul Calibur, certain attacks should be fatal. Shiki not killing anyone by simply knife-fighting is justified and plausible... but his Arc Drives use his Mystic Eyes of Death Perception, one of which slices the opponent into seventeen pieces. Though granted, he never seems to use the truly, unquestionably fatal attack... which his Enemy Without, Nanaya, does use - on top of slitting his enemy's throat.
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Set Swords to "Stun" / int_9009562f	comment	Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Turtles in Time on the SNES has Leonardo as a character you can choose, but his Katanas — which should slice the advancing foot soldiers in half at each swing — are not performing as well as their Real Life counterparts.
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Set Swords to "Stun" / int_9be5f2d6	comment	In Mortal Kombat: Deadly Alliance, though, some characters had an "Impale" feature for their weapons, which allowed you to, well... impale the enemy with your weapon, causing them to leak blood and reduce their health gradually at the expense of losing the ability to use your weapons for the rest of the round.
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Set Swords to "Stun" / int_9d34190a	comment	The Elder Scrolls: Starting with Oblivion and continuing into Skyrim, story/quest important characters merely get "knocked unconscious" rather than killed, no matter if they got mauled by a bear, gored by a minotaur, or gutted by bandits. You can try to kill them, but that'll just aggro them against you until you knock them out. This is largely an Anti-Frustration Feature in response to the previous game, Morrowind, averting this trope, making it entirely possible to break the game if certain characters died, which the game refers to in a pop-up window as "severing the thread of prophecy".note Sort of. The developers included a "back way" to complete Morrowind if you do this by mistake, though it's a major Guide Dang It!. If you also break THAT one, you have only yourself to blame.
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Set Swords to "Stun" / int_9db821ee	type	Set Swords to "Stun"
Set Swords to "Stun" / int_9db821ee	comment	In The Red Ranger Becomes an Adventurer in Another World, Red and Rosie's swords only seem to harm monsters. When used against people, they only seem to knock them out. This becomes especially egregious after Red uses the Maximum Kizuna Kaiser to push Lurguat's mutated body into space, cut it in half, and make it explode with Rosie's help, only for Lurguat to show up merely unconscious on the ground.
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Set Swords to "Stun" / int_9e2f90f4	comment	Subverted in One Piece; When Zoro the swordsman wants to knock someone out, he uses the blunt side of his katana, usually saying he did so for the audience's sake. Nami and Chopper point out that this can still be fatal due to broken bones and internal injuries.
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Set Swords to "Stun" / int_9f89a5f0	comment	PokÃ©mon: Level 80 CHARIZARD used Blast Burn! Enemy CATERPIE fainted... "Electrode, Explosion!" No, Electrode doesn't actually explode, so much as cause an explosion around itself, but this wasn't revealed until PokÃ©mon Snap.
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Set Swords to "Stun" / int_a6543322	comment	Touhou Project: Since battles in the series almost always result in a Non-Lethal K.O. or mild Clothing Damage due to the spellcard system, it's implied that all characters are actually using their own powers but with them being limited to incredibly flashy attacks (such as Marisa's "spark" spellcards or Yukari's boundary themed attacks) Inverted in one (and only one) notable case. During the fight against Mokou, Reimu and friends go all out, killing her repeatedly.
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Set Swords to "Stun" / int_a752aff5	type	Set Swords to "Stun"
Set Swords to "Stun" / int_a752aff5	comment	The aeon edge from Aeon Legion: Labyrinth has a non lethal setting where it passes through people and objects, freezing them in stasis rather than cutting them. Justified in that the Aeon Legion does not want to kill temporal criminals and change the history of those who may need to live on in their own times.
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Set Swords to "Stun" / int_a81325d3	comment	Final Fantasy: Dissidia Final Fantasy: Throughout the series, characters are extremely resilient to begin with, beginning with shrugging off bullets and ending with being relatively unfazed by the destruction of half the solar system. Everyone's beating the crap out of each other with giant swords and explode-y magic, the same ones that can reduce monsters into a pile of ashes in the original games, yet nobody seems worse for wear because of it. Final battles are fatal, however. It isn't explained how your final battles with them should be any different than the dozen or so times you've beaten them before. During their death scenes, none of them seem particularly injured at all, they just fade away. Of particular note is the specific mechanics of the game. There are two attack types, brave attacks and HP attacks. Brave attacks drain your foe's brave, and HP attacks expend all of your brave to do that much damage to your opponent. Brave attacks do absolutely nothing, but make your next HP attack do more damage (And make your opponent do less). Which means characters can get hit infinitely by bravery attacks (Which involve guns, fire, lightning, and all manner of sharpened melee weapons) and never die. Paladins in Final Fantasy Tactics Advance can learn the skill "Subdue", which makes them hit their target with the flat side of their sword, dealing one point of damage. You're supposed to use this on charmed and confused allies, to break their trance.
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Set Swords to "Stun" / int_ac6b386d	comment	Almost every character in Skullgirls has deadly weaponry of one form or another, but no-one is killed in even in Story Mode as a result of using them.
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Set Swords to "Stun" / int_ac9f81ac	comment	Jedi Knight: Jedi Academy:
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Set Swords to "Stun" / int_ad6a095e	comment	Princess: The Hopeful: All the various charms that add weapons (ranged, melee, or other) to a Princess's Regalia have a rule that lets her switch them between inflicting Bashing and Lethal damage at will. There is no requirement that this change be reflected in the weapon's actual appearance.
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Set Swords to "Stun" / int_ae54c340	comment	Reign of the Seven Spellblades: Justified by the ubiquitous use of the "dulling spell" Securus in the series' frequent Wizard Duels, which creates a magical barrier on mages' athames to prevent injuries. Upperclassmen are allowed to set the spell at half-strength, which allows the weapon to draw blood but still not inflict a lethal wound (which is difficult with mages anyway: they're much harder to kill than nonmagicals). During their first sparring session, Oliver and Nanao both break the dulling spells on their athames, having connected as warriors on a spiritual level—though they're immediately stopped from pursuing a Duel to the Death by the teacher. There's also an opposite spell, Acutus, which ensures a sword does have a lethal edge.
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Set Swords to "Stun" / int_af7f68ad	comment	Fire Emblem Warriors: Three Hopes, again made by the same people, has a rather blatant case early on when, in a cutscene, the Player Character Shez takes a stab to the chest from Byleth (the now-Rogue Protagonist of Three Houses), and instead of being run through like you'd expect, they get knocked back and sprawled out on the ground as if Byleth was wielding a bomb on a stick instead of a sword. Naturally, because this is still the first mission, Shez survives this.
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Set Swords to "Stun" / int_b0544c3f	comment	Played straight in Super Robot Wars L, where "killing" a boss unit won't show the animation of it getting destroyed. They simply escape afterward most of the time, exploding only if it's actually destroyed during the storyline.
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Set Swords to "Stun" / int_b09be8	type	Set Swords to "Stun"
Set Swords to "Stun" / int_b09be8	comment	The holographic battle system in Gundam Build Fighters simulates battle damage mostly harmlessly. Getting blasted by a beam cannon will leave your model fine by the end of the fight, and dismemberment by beam sword might mean you just have to pop the arm back on. But actual physical damage like from punching or impalement by a Physically-modeled weapon could leave the model with very real damage. In Gundam Build Fighters Try, the new and improved Gunpla Battle machine has Damage Level settings which affect the level of damage the participants' models suffer after the game powers down but has absolutely no effect on the damage it seems to incur during battle. In one episode, one Gunpla's forearms shatter like glass, but since the machine was set to Damage Level C it's perfectly fine afterward. Level B is more like the battles in the original series, while Level A apparently inflicts all damage realistically on the model.
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Set Swords to "Stun" / int_b1f436be	comment	Dungeons & Dragons 3rd Edition: The nonlethal damage mechanic causes the target to lose consciousness if their current Hit Points minus nonlethal damage they've taken is a negative number. There are several ways to inflict nonlethal damage with normally lethal attacks: Weapon wielders can inflict nonlethal damage by taking a -4 penalty on their attack roll. It also extends to inflicting lethal damage with nonlethal weapons (such as saps and non-monk unarmed strikes), justified by needing to seek out the most vital regions to strike. With the right feat, you can optionally do nonlethal damage with spells. Yes, even Disintegrate. There are also magical weapons with the "Merciful" quality, which allows the wielder to inflict nonlethal damage, even with a sword or crossbow. This quality is generated by imbuing the weapon with a healing spell, ironically.
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Set Swords to "Stun" / int_b2f04a0	type	Set Swords to "Stun"
Set Swords to "Stun" / int_b2f04a0	comment	In Shaolin Wuzang, Tang sometimes slashes opponents with his sword, only to have them fall down afterward as if unconscious.
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Set Swords to "Stun" / int_b90cbebd	type	Set Swords to "Stun"
Set Swords to "Stun" / int_b90cbebd	comment	Dungeons & Dragons 4th Edition: This edition finally simplified it all by allowing a player to declare whether a monster is killed or unconscious when reducing its hit points to zero, even if this was done with an explosion or disintegrate spell. Just let the players make up a reason for why it works.
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Set Swords to "Stun" / int_b962c879	type	Set Swords to "Stun"
Set Swords to "Stun" / int_b962c879	comment	Fairy Tail has Erza Scarlet, capable of summoning all sorts of armor and weapons, who will unleash storms of blades at her opponents without spilling any blood at all.
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Set Swords to "Stun" / int_bbe42b2	type	Set Swords to "Stun"
Set Swords to "Stun" / int_bbe42b2	comment	In She-Ra: Princess of Power, Sea Hawk can do this in the most literal way possible with the photon cutlass that his father, the legendary pirate the Falcon, gave him. His photon cutlass has two modes in addition to its default one, the red blade mode makes it cut through anything (even through other energy swords in the story), and the blue blade mode stuns a person hit by its blade.
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Set Swords to "Stun" / int_c0c57462	type	Set Swords to "Stun"
Set Swords to "Stun" / int_c0c57462	comment	Chrono Trigger: During the prison escape sequence, it's possible to sneak up behind many of the guards and slash them in the back of the neck with your katana. This knocks them out. Note that this makes sense if Crono is using the Wood Sword from the start of the game. (He'll likely have picked up at least a metallic upgrade by this point, though.)
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Set Swords to "Stun" / int_c0eae17	type	Set Swords to "Stun"
Set Swords to "Stun" / int_c0eae17	comment	The pre-Empire Total War games have the capture mechanic that allows your soldiers to take prisoners on the battlefield. Basically, any strike to an enemy's back is usually treated as a Non-Lethal K.O.. If the enemy wins the battle, then these soldiers are treated as wounded who are healed after the battle. If you win, then they are considered prisoners, at which point you can decide what to do with them. You can execute them (earning your faction ruler dread), release them (earning him chivalry), or offer to release them for a price. In the latter case, if the enemy refuses to pay, the prisoners are executed automatically (earns you no points on the Karma Meter). This was removed starting Empire and not even re-introduced in the Shogun and Rome remakes.
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Set Swords to "Stun" / int_c49480dc	type	Set Swords to "Stun"
Set Swords to "Stun" / int_c49480dc	comment	Battle Arena Toshinden has a similar schtick (weapon-based fighting game), including Rungo's massive club or Vermillion's guns.
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Set Swords to "Stun" / int_c56964f4	comment	BlazBlue: Calamity Trigger, ironically, subverts the hell out of this — each and every fight that the players play can not only result in a character's death, but can be argued to be canonically possible as well. The reason? The entire game is stuck in an insanely long "Groundhog Day" Loop. Any killed characters simply return once the loop resets. This being said, the particular brilliance of this isn't present in the sequel, Continuum Shift. This varies. In story mode, quite a few characters survive the battles against other characters (indeed, some of the alternative plot lines can only be accessed by losing certain battles). In fact, some characters are canonically "defeated" by having the player character hold their own in the battle (even though they still have to be beaten the same way). For example Rachel never suffers any harm from being defeated and either leaves or kicks the character out of her garden when she's met in story mode, Arakune always flees or is spared at the end of a battle (or Litchi appears and talks down whoever defeated him), while the best any character can hope for while fighting Nu-13 is to survive long enough to note that their attacks haven't been doing anything before being killed Or suffer a Fate Worse than Death in Ragna's case. The most amusing example is probably Bang (who every other character treats as an annoyance), who fails to beat anyone (sometimes justified, for example; by Ragna basically muttering about how he let Bang defeat him so he wouldn't have to kill him).
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Set Swords to "Stun" / int_c6531c6e	type	Set Swords to "Stun"
Set Swords to "Stun" / int_c6531c6e	comment	Dungeons & Dragons 5th Edition: A player can declare whether the final blow against an enemy was lethal or merely incapacitating when its HP hits zero, but only with a melee attack, presumably because a ranged or magical attack would be less discriminating.
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Set Swords to "Stun" / int_c67c3ee7	type	Set Swords to "Stun"
Set Swords to "Stun" / int_c67c3ee7	comment	Star Wars: Masters of TerÃ¤s KÃ¤si is basically Tekken but with Star Wars characters, meaning that lightsabers aren't treated as lethal. In fact, much like the swords in Soul Calibur, they act more like clubs or baseball bats. Even if you defeat an opponent by using a lightsaber, it's still simply classified as a "Knockout" rather than anything fatal.
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Set Swords to "Stun" / int_c72c2d06	type	Set Swords to "Stun"
Set Swords to "Stun" / int_c72c2d06	comment	Star Wars Rebels kills an age-long Star Wars joke about younglings killing each other by accident (started when small children in Attack of the Clones were using lightsabers and probes to train) by showing that lightsabers can be set to stun for training. (This had previously been explained away in Star Wars Legends but this is the concept's first appearance in Disney canon.)
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Set Swords to "Stun" / int_c7f59f7d	type	Set Swords to "Stun"
Set Swords to "Stun" / int_c7f59f7d	comment	In Teen Titans, Robin once gave Ravager a pair of literal "stun swords" so she could use her otherwise very lethal fighting techniques to the fullest without actually killing anybody.
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Teen Titans (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Set Swords to "Stun" / int_c7f59f7d
Set Swords to "Stun" / int_c811f17f	type	Set Swords to "Stun"
Set Swords to "Stun" / int_c811f17f	comment	Advanced Dungeons & Dragons 2nd Edition featured an optional rule that allowed standard weapons to do nonlethal damage (normally the province of unarmed combat and a few particular weapons) in exchange for an attack penalty, since you're purposely using your weapon wrong in order to not seriously harm your enemy.
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Advanced Dungeons & Dragons 2nd Edition (Tabletop Game)	hasFeature	Set Swords to "Stun" / int_c811f17f
Set Swords to "Stun" / int_ca2e41f3	type	Set Swords to "Stun"
Set Swords to "Stun" / int_ca2e41f3	comment	Wolfsmund: Plays with and possibly Justifies the use of this trope. Some of Wolfram's knights find Johanna escaping through the castle, and—remembering that they're not supposed to kill her—decide to grip their swords by the blade and beat her unconscious with their hilts. Shown Their Work, as this is a legit technique from German Longsword called mordhau.
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Wolfsmund (Manga)	hasFeature	Set Swords to "Stun" / int_ca2e41f3
Set Swords to "Stun" / int_cc2f62b7	type	Set Swords to "Stun"
Set Swords to "Stun" / int_cc2f62b7	comment	Hero Clix characters are KOd at the end of their dials. It doesn't matter what you're using on them, from powers named "Blades/Claws/Fangs" or "Big Uzi" or even "Death Comes Swiftly", whatever it is that hits you, it just knocks you out.
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Hero Clix (Tabletop Game)	hasFeature	Set Swords to "Stun" / int_cc2f62b7
Set Swords to "Stun" / int_cccafd49	type	Set Swords to "Stun"
Set Swords to "Stun" / int_cccafd49	comment	All melee weapons in the first Gothic were set to stun, forcing the player to administer a Coup de GrÃ¢ce to every human enemy before they would be considered dead. Rectified in the second game where the weapon lethality is automatically adjusted based on whether you might want a certain enemy alive, allowing you to perform therapeutic pummeling sessions while saving you the need to extra-stab every last bandid least they stand up and annoy you further. Zig-Zagging Trope: Magic and arrows (except blunt arrows in 3) are always lethal which makes some duelling side-quests Nintendo Hard for characters that specialize in those.
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Gothic (Video Game)	hasFeature	Set Swords to "Stun" / int_cccafd49
Set Swords to "Stun" / int_cd00c365	type	Set Swords to "Stun"
Set Swords to "Stun" / int_cd00c365	comment	Super Star Wars: Tusken Raiders can sometimes survive a full-contact swing with the lightsaber. Also, Stormtroopers can survive one laser blast from your gun, while in the movies, they usually died when that happened.
Set Swords to "Stun" / int_cd00c365	featureApplicability	1.0
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Super Star Wars (Video Game)	hasFeature	Set Swords to "Stun" / int_cd00c365
Set Swords to "Stun" / int_cdef7c74	type	Set Swords to "Stun"
Set Swords to "Stun" / int_cdef7c74	comment	In Monty Oum's web video series Dead Fantasy, the girls are beating the crap out of each other with swords, Rachel has her War Hammer, Yuna is using guns, and the Final Fantasy girls in general are using potent magic. What do they have to show for this? Not even a bruise. Averted with extreme prejudice from episode IV onwards.
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Dead Fantasy (Web Animation)	hasFeature	Set Swords to "Stun" / int_cdef7c74
Set Swords to "Stun" / int_ce1f7b52	type	Set Swords to "Stun"
Set Swords to "Stun" / int_ce1f7b52	comment	The Dresden Files stipulates that any Taken Out result has the player who won the exchange getting to decide how this plays out, meaning any kind of attack can be non-lethal, though given the abstract nature of the game's mechanics, a fireball taking out someone non-lethally can be something like the target dodging but running into something and getting knocked out, or they're forced into surrender.
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The Dresden Files (Tabletop Game)	hasFeature	Set Swords to "Stun" / int_ce1f7b52
Set Swords to "Stun" / int_ce9bf544	type	Set Swords to "Stun"
Set Swords to "Stun" / int_ce9bf544	comment	The Last Blade games follow the same mold as Samurai Shodown, in that attacks can only be lethal on the last hit of the round, and some of the characters are surprised when slashing their foe to itty-bitties manages to kill them dead. Hibiki is downright horrified when she kills someone... unless she does it too many times.
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The Last Blade (Video Game)	hasFeature	Set Swords to "Stun" / int_ce9bf544
Set Swords to "Stun" / int_d1fa00ca	type	Set Swords to "Stun"
Set Swords to "Stun" / int_d1fa00ca	comment	While some of the franchises in Magical Battle Arena have the benefit of possible in-universe justifications, such as how the Lyrical Nanoha characters may be using Magical Damage or how the lethality of Cardcaptor Sakura's Sakura Cards may be based on Sakura's intent, others do not. Somehow, getting sliced by a Ragna Blade or being drilled repeatedly wouldn't end with death.
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Magical Battle Arena (Video Game)	hasFeature	Set Swords to "Stun" / int_d1fa00ca
Set Swords to "Stun" / int_d2bb929d	type	Set Swords to "Stun"
Set Swords to "Stun" / int_d2bb929d	comment	Soul Series: Soulcalibur II: The cake goes to Ivy Valentine in II — her throw from behind involves wrapping her bladed whip around her opponent's neck, kicking them to their knees, and stomping on their back, causing their spine to very audibly snap. Then they get back up and fight. Taki has many by the same virtue. One of her throws has her grab her opponent by the neck and shove her sword straight through their neck clear to the other side. Or Raphael, who stabs his opponent roughly 10 times in the chest. Actually averted by Guest Fighter Link, whose most oft used throw is just a painful (and overly flashy) arm twist. It proves to be one of the most lethal anyway. Soulcalibur III is an especially notable example, considering that Sigfried uses an incredibly large sword, and is frequently seen to drive the pointy end directly into an opponent's skull, yet sometimes after a match, he remarks, "I avoided your vitals. You'll live." Not only that, but any throw would be fatal. Any throw. And yet, it takes roughly six or seven to "K.O." your opponent (and sometimes more than that). To clarify, Siegfried/Nightmare (either or both, depending on the game) throws his opponent by ramming his 6 foot long, 2 foot wide BFS straight through the opponent's body, lifting them into the air, and slamming them to the floor. Ouch. Of course, this is only the most over-the-top ones. The more subtle ones involve simply snapping the opponent's neck. A particularly bad example has to be the lightsabers in IV. They're shown clashing with swords, despite being shown in the films to cut through almost anything.
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Soul Series (Video Game)	hasFeature	Set Swords to "Stun" / int_d2bb929d
Set Swords to "Stun" / int_dab32e3	type	Set Swords to "Stun"
Set Swords to "Stun" / int_dab32e3	comment	Mega Man X: Zero is a frequent offender. It's especially noticeable in his own games, where most enemies have a special animation for being cut in half by his Z-Saber. Okay — so why didn't that happen until the final hit? Because the kill shot is always the final hit.
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Mega Man X (Video Game)	hasFeature	Set Swords to "Stun" / int_dab32e3
Set Swords to "Stun" / int_dca06c7f	type	Set Swords to "Stun"
Set Swords to "Stun" / int_dca06c7f	comment	Tales of MU: "Mockboxes" used during class create phantasmal copies of real weapons, which generate disappearing injuries. Justified in Callahan's classes, as the roster would be drastically reduced after each class otherwise.
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Tales of MU	hasFeature	Set Swords to "Stun" / int_dca06c7f
Set Swords to "Stun" / int_ddf3c3ac	type	Set Swords to "Stun"
Set Swords to "Stun" / int_ddf3c3ac	comment	Mayfair Games' DC Heroes RPG featured two styles of gaming, one "gritty and realistic", and the other more in keeping with the Silver Age mentality where nobody dies. This is spoofed in one of the modules where the characters are left at ground zero of a nuclear explosion, but it's all okay because of the game mode!
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DC Heroes (Tabletop Game)	hasFeature	Set Swords to "Stun" / int_ddf3c3ac
Set Swords to "Stun" / int_e26905cd	type	Set Swords to "Stun"
Set Swords to "Stun" / int_e26905cd	comment	In the Tekken series, characters frequently suffer broken arms, legs, necks, etc., dislocated shoulders, hyper-extended joints, crushed gonads, and occasional impalement, only to get back up off the floor and jump back into battle, unless the round is over. Particularly bad in the case of Lee, many of whose moves are flat-out murder. One, for instance, is a snap-kick to the opponent's nose; in the game, it merely stuns the opponent for a moment and does less damage than a standard kick. In real life, that move, called fouettÃ© Ã figure ("whip-kick to the face") is banned from sport savate, for its tendency to snap people's necks. And then there's Kuma, Panda, Yoshimitsu, Kunimitsu, Devil Kazuya, Devil Jin, Angel, True Ogre and Alisa. Negan in Tekken 7 carries with him "Lucile", his barbed-wire baseball bat, and his Rage Art even mimics the scene where he kills Glen in the series but you'll still get up after if you have any health left.
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Set Swords to "Stun" / int_e392e047	type	Set Swords to "Stun"
Set Swords to "Stun" / int_e392e047	comment	This trope actually becomes a major plot point in the successor series, Gundam Build Divers. The Gunpla Duel system, which worked similarly to Build Fighters' own when set to Damage Level A, is phased out in favor of the virtual MMO, Gunpla Battle Nexus. Tsukasa Shiba, the first half's main antagonist, wants to destroy this game world because in his mind the combat experience there doesn't carry the same 'weight' as GP Duel, since players' Gunpla are scanned into the game world and do not take damage at all in the real world. Riku defeating Tsukasa on an old GP Duel machine with his 'inferior' combat experience forces Tsukasa to realize how baseless that ideal is.
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Gundam Build Divers	hasFeature	Set Swords to "Stun" / int_e392e047
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Set Swords to "Stun" / int_e3c4fe80	comment	Parodied in RPG World, where Deadpan Snarker Cherry reacted like a normal person would when she saw Hero (yes, the main character's name is just Hero) get shot in the face with an assault rifle. She's in disbelief until the next enemy takes his turn and she gets shot in the face too, to the tune of a few minor points of damage.
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RPG World (Webcomic)	hasFeature	Set Swords to "Stun" / int_e3c4fe80
Set Swords to "Stun" / int_e6267766	type	Set Swords to "Stun"
Set Swords to "Stun" / int_e6267766	comment	Star Wars Legends: Several works including the Jedi Apprentice and Jedi Quest series explain this away for Jedi younglings with the concept of "training sabers": lower-powered versions of lightsabers which usually just cause a painful burn if they hit skin. However, they're only less lethal: Anakin is still able to kill a monster with his training saber in the opening scene of The Path to Truth, though it takes effort.
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Star Wars Legends (Franchise)	hasFeature	Set Swords to "Stun" / int_e6267766
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Set Swords to "Stun" / int_e67a7d6c	comment	The Mahora Festival arc of Negima! Magister Negi Magi ended with a giant fight between the student body and an army of killer robots firing guns and Wave Motion Beams. At first, their weapons only served as stripper rays, but eventually they were upgraded to hurl whoever they hit forward in time to after the battle, effectively taking them out of the fight without killing them.
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Negima! Magister Negi Magi (Manga)	hasFeature	Set Swords to "Stun" / int_e67a7d6c
Set Swords to "Stun" / int_e9c7b01b	type	Set Swords to "Stun"
Set Swords to "Stun" / int_e9c7b01b	comment	Dissidia Final Fantasy:
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Dissidia Final Fantasy (Video Game)	hasFeature	Set Swords to "Stun" / int_e9c7b01b
Set Swords to "Stun" / int_eab90aec	type	Set Swords to "Stun"
Set Swords to "Stun" / int_eab90aec	comment	The Yakuza series has a certain amount of notoriety for the dissonance between the player characters stance on killing and the many clearly lethal combat options available to the player. You can brandish anything from butterfly knives to shotguns against your enemies but after the fight ends they'll be no worse off than if you'd slapped them around a bit.
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Set Swords to "Stun" / int_ee384546	type	Set Swords to "Stun"
Set Swords to "Stun" / int_ee384546	comment	Cyberpunk 2077 features a weapon mod for firearms that makes them nonlethal, and a cybereye mod that makes every weapon, from katanas to sniper rifles, nonlethal.
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Set Swords to "Stun" / int_eef5470a	type	Set Swords to "Stun"
Set Swords to "Stun" / int_eef5470a	comment	Rurouni Kenshin: Kenshin has a reverse blade sword made specifically so he can stun or knock out opponents with it to keep his vow that he'll never kill again. How he doesn't frequently cause severe crushing wounds is better left unasked, though he does occasionally deal them on purpose, so he may be pulling his swings. Kenshin in fact used the crushing damage of the dull edge to break the thumb of a bloodthirsty opponent so he wouldn't be able to wield a sword in his dominant hand; when he learned to wield it southpaw, Kenshin crushed his other thumb so he couldn't hold one at all. Kenshin also attempted to use a crushing strike on another enemy once, which failed due to his opponent's sword hilt dampening the blow.
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Set Swords to "Stun" / int_ef076a36	type	Set Swords to "Stun"
Set Swords to "Stun" / int_ef076a36	comment	The Star Trek: Voyager episode "Prophecy" reveals that a Klingon bat'leth (that bigass curved sword) can be blunted for non-lethal duels. This precedent was established by an emperor who didn't want his warriors to kill each other when they still had enemies to fight.
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Set Swords to "Stun" / int_f8f51b13	type	Set Swords to "Stun"
Set Swords to "Stun" / int_f8f51b13	comment	Unreal Tournament: An automag bullet in the brain? No problem, it hurts a bit, but it only takes away 25 HPs. Shock Rifle blast to the face? More dangerous, you lose 50 HPs. The ultimate weapon, the Redeemer, should be a nuke, but it also tends to underperform. There are however weapons that can insta-kill.
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Set Swords to "Stun" / int_fa5e90fd	type	Set Swords to "Stun"
Set Swords to "Stun" / int_fa5e90fd	comment	City of Heroes: You can "defeat" opponents with a katana, broadsword, battle axe, gigantic mace, or Netherworld-energy punches... but they are just arrested. And that's just counting the melee weapons, not the assault rifle, lightning bolts, or Atomic Blast. This is a superhero game...
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Set Swords to "Stun" / int_fc4215a0	type	Set Swords to "Stun"
Set Swords to "Stun" / int_fc4215a0	comment	Psylocke generates a glowing arm-blade with her Psychic Powers. As such, it can slice through anything, but against living opponents it causes temporary incapacitation. However, it can kill if she puts enough power into it and plunges it directly into your head, something that, naturally, she threatens but never quite gets around to actually doing.
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Set Swords to "Stun" / int_fe85bfc8	type	Set Swords to "Stun"
Set Swords to "Stun" / int_fe85bfc8	comment	Super Smash Bros.: Characters like Link and Fox can come equipped with blasters, bombs and the Master Sword, yet they never even knock people out - just send them flying away until they fall off the edge of the screen. Even in the pre-rendered trailers in the fourth game, getting slashed by a sword means you get launched far away, not getting cut up. The games imply that the characters are actually just a child playing pretend with toys, so this is just a case of kid-friendly Never Say "Die".
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Set Swords to "Stun" / int_fe8ef766	type	Set Swords to "Stun"
Set Swords to "Stun" / int_fe8ef766	comment	Captain America's shield is depicted as having edges capable of sheering through metal cables, but will never do more than bounce off a living target in a painful but decidedly non-lethal manner.
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Batman: Arkham Knight (Video Game) / int_259dd888	type	Set Swords to "Stun"
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