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Sinister Switchblade

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Sinister Switchblade	comment	When it comes to planning out the weaponry of a story, Good Weapon, Evil Weapon never fails to display itself. That said, the switchblade gets a particularly bad rep. The small size, concealability, and razor-sharp edge make it almost impossible for the poor weapon to be seen in a positive light. This is especially the case with "stiletto" switchblade, named for the similarly shaped dagger. Gangsters scare their targets (and the viewers) with a single flick of their blades, and assassins slit the throats of unsuspecting victims who barely have time to hear the click sound given off by the weapon. As the above states, when this trope is applied, almost always expect it to be the iconic Italian stiletto switchblade. In real life, a lot of countries ban or severely restrict switchblades, flick knives, and similar weapons such as butterfly knives. These weapons have such a bad reputation that even countries that allow more conventional knives to be carried without restriction have laws against them. The actual effects of the legislation range from prohibiting the use of switchblades to anyone outside the military (Hungary) to banning all switchblades with blades longer than a few centimeters (Japan) to adding specific clauses to laws that distinguish between "tools" and "weapons" that always prohibit them no matter what (Canada) to banning the sale, use, or transport of the knives altogether (The Netherlands). It's to the point that even countries that allow you to own and even carry blades that could be far more deadly like butcher's knives or used in the exact same manner like straight razors nevertheless ban switchblades.note Some U.S. states, apparently noticing that faster-opening and deadlier knife designs were perfectly legal, have relaxed their laws on switchblades, either by removing restrictions altogether, or permitting possession (e.g. for collectors) but disallowing them to be carried around. A Sub-Trope of Psycho Knife Nut and Retractable Weapon. See also Sinister Scythe and Sinister Shiv, which are also bladed weapons associated with unsavory people.
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Sinister Switchblade / int_1449a8e8	comment	Played with in Dirty Harry, where the titular character carries a hidden switchblade when he goes to confront Scorpio and stabs him in the leg with it. Harry's not evil, but he's a definite Cowboy Cop who's not at all opposed to violence towards perps. Watching Harry tape the knife to his leg, Da Chief expresses his disgust that a police officer would know how to use such a weapon (however he doesn't order Harry to leave it behind).
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Sinister Switchblade / int_1f00cb01	comment	Death Wish. Paul Kersey pretends to be engrossed in his newspaper on the subway, supposedly not noticing the two hoodlums eyeing him until one of them announces his intentions by slashing his newspaper in half with a switchblade. Bad idea. The next time however, one of the muggers is able to cut Paul before he's shot.
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Sinister Switchblade / int_1f86ee96	comment	In Christine, school bully and delinquent Buddy threatens Arnie with a giant switchblade, which leads to Buddy being expelled when a teacher intervenes (particularly because it's a switchblade). In the film, he uses it to stab Arnie's lunch.
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Sinister Switchblade / int_21efefef	comment	The Jontron video Love Is Like Drugs characterizes a drug dealer as evil nigh instantly by having him open a switchblade in front of our main characters, which sends them fumbling to find a magical analogy to get them out of the situation.
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Sinister Switchblade / int_22147342	comment	In Arrow, Ricardo Diaz stabs Oliver with a switchblade in the middle of a fistfight.
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Sinister Switchblade / int_240b7286	comment	Jay White from NJPW is nicknamed the "Switchblade" and is certainly sinister enough, considering his Manipulative Bastard tendencies.
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Sinister Switchblade / int_2a787959	comment	The main antagonist of Dennis the Menace (1993) is Switchblade Sam, a town robber armed with a switchblade, and he's not above using it on little children.
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Sinister Switchblade / int_39c20861	comment	Highlander. In the episode "The Sea Witch", one of Alexi's thugs carried around a classic Italian Stiletto as a back-up weapon to his Desert Eagle. It's seen quite prominently on-screen when he draws it on Richie and later on Richie's girlfriend of the week just as Duncan arrives in a Big Damn Heroes moment. Both scenes make sure to highlight him clicking it open.
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Sinister Switchblade / int_3e0ce028	comment	The murder weapon in 12 Angry Men is a switchblade, but the blade's reputation even extends to its non-usage; Juror #4 is appalled when Juror #8 pulls out an identical blade to prove that there are more copies of the supposedly rare knife than previously thought.
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Sinister Switchblade / int_40fe09b5	comment	The ending of Ichi the Killer has Takeshi wielding a switchblade after being brainwashed into becoming an assassin.
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Sinister Switchblade / int_469771d2	comment	Subverted in The Powerpuff Girls episode "Schoolhouse Rocked": When the Gangreen Gang are forced to attend Pokey Oaks kindergarten, the girls tackle Lil' Arturo when he shows off what looks like a switchblade. Turns out it was just a switchblade-style comb.
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Sinister Switchblade / int_4972ed78	comment	In Halloween (2018), Dr. Sartain has a retractable blade inside his pen. While this is ostensibly because he spends most of his time looking after Michael Myers, he turns out to have been Evil All Along and he stabs Sheriff Hawkins with it.
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Sinister Switchblade / int_503d3d54	comment	The Rocky Horror Picture Show has the song Eddie's Teddy invoking this.
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Sinister Switchblade / int_59da62aa	comment	Fallout: New Vegas has the switchblade as a holdout weapon (e.g. you can sneak it into casinos, which normally take your guns). It's typically used by the Fiends, Powder Gangers, and the infamously overaggressive Freeside thugs.
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Sinister Switchblade / int_5ad2b4e9	comment	Played with in Batman Beyond: Return of the Joker, where Batman keeps a serrated switchblade for use in escaping traps, but actually throws at the Joker's head (just barely missing) when he finds out the Joker tortured Tim Drake into insanity. The weapon marks the first and only time in this Batman's timeline that he was willing to use lethal force.
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Sinister Switchblade / int_5ada53ed	comment	James Bond At the start of Live and Let Die, a seemingly respectable man in suit and tie stands next to a surveillance agent watching a funeral procession. The man produces a switchblade from under his clasped hands and flicks out the blade. Quantum of Solace. When Edmund Slate catches Bond trespassing in his apartment he tries to kill him with an automatic knife, leading to an extensive brawl that ends when Bond stabs him with a pair of nail scissors.
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Sinister Switchblade / int_5db577ba	comment	Most of the knives carried by the Joker in The Dark Knight are switchblades. The most sinister scenes with them are the two "scar story" sequences; in the first, he puts one of his knives in Gambol's mouth before killing him, and in the second, he presses the same knife against Rachel's face menacingly as he's talking to her.
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Sinister Switchblade / int_61a39969	comment	Avengers: Infinity War has Thanos using a double-bladed switchblade to explain his perception of "balance", and the slaughter it entails, to a young Gamora.
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Sinister Switchblade / int_67fdaed6	comment	In the Sonja Blue series, antihero and part-time monster Sonja Blue has a silver switchblade as her favorite weapon. Silver to help fight other monsters, and a switchblade because she's just that brutal.
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Sinister Switchblade / int_6bcd58c7	comment	Inverted in the film adaptation of Sin City, where the heroic John Hartigan uses a switchblade to incapacitate the Serial Rapist Roark Jr., who wields a Bowie knife.
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Sinister Switchblade / int_6c1d09b4	comment	Fallout 4 again features a switchblade in the "swinguard" style commonly seen in movies as a basic melee weapon sometimes carried by Raiders. It's possible to modify them with a serrated blade that inflicts extra bleeding damage, making them somewhat more useful than typical straight-edged one.
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Sinister Switchblade / int_7c48915b	comment	In Gunnerkrigg Court, Jack is introduced leading the rest of the class to see a lake which (thanks to some crazy experimental science/magic) immediately boils away. He then proceeds to draw what appears to be a switchblade (from the way it clicks and the way the panels are framed), but is then revealed to be an umbrella (he didn't warn them it was about to come back down again).
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Sinister Switchblade / int_7dbd95ef	comment	The switchblade is the villainous bookie Troy's weapon of choice in Circus. The first time it is seen, it appears seemingly out of nowhere as he holds the blade against Leo's neck. At other points, he whips it out while threatening to cut off various of Leo's body parts for non-payment of debts.
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Sinister Switchblade / int_85d276c8	comment	In the 1980 war movie The Sea Wolves, a beautiful German spy uses an automatic knife hidden in her purse for assassinations.
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Sinister Switchblade / int_86c3beca	comment	In Girl Genius Prof. Tiktoffen pulls one out after getting smacked in the face by a wrench and uses it against Agatha.
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Sinister Switchblade / int_8877cc89	comment	The primary weapon of Henry Bowers in It (2017) is a switchblade. His fall to madness is punctuated by him killing his father with it.
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Sinister Switchblade / int_8ba43df	comment	In John Wick, mob boss Viggo Tarasov owns a stileto with pearl grips. He uses it in his final fight with John, who takes a stab so he can withdraw it and stab Viggo back.
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Sinister Switchblade / int_8df0f9c3	comment	These Are the Damned. Joan, who works as the lure for a gang of muggers, has a switchblade tucked into the front of her tight pants when she first appears, as part of her bad girl image. When a member of her gang finally produces one however, it's just so he can lend someone his knife for non-lethal purposes.
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Sinister Switchblade / int_8e402581	comment	In Cowboy Bebop: Knockin' on Heaven's Door, Vincent uses a switchblade to cut Faye's top before brutally killing one of his own henchmen.
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Sinister Switchblade / int_9058ad7e	comment	The Terminator: The three punk hoodlums at the start pull switchblades on the Terminator when he threatens them. Obviously, since they're really Mugging the Monster, he doesn't even flinch from getting stabbed.
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Sinister Switchblade / int_97a70962	comment	The Professionals. Not only villains but Bodie and Doyle can be seen using them on occasion, probably as part of their Combat Pragmatist image.
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Sinister Switchblade / int_994af351	comment	In the Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney bonus case Rise from the Ashes, the Spree Killer Joe Darke's weapon was a switchblade. It was also the true murder weapon of Bruce Goodman before a second knife was used as a decoy.
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Sinister Switchblade / int_9baa0c1c	comment	Highschool of the Dead has a crazed survivor holding up Rei with a switchblade.
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Sinister Switchblade / int_9bc3ea01	comment	Assault on Precinct 13 (1976). After several members of their gang are killed in a police ambush, the leaders of the Street Thunder gang stick switchblades into their forearms to make a Blood Oath to avenge them.
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Sinister Switchblade / int_9f997b2b	comment	Quantum of Solace. When Edmund Slate catches Bond trespassing in his apartment he tries to kill him with an automatic knife, leading to an extensive brawl that ends when Bond stabs him with a pair of nail scissors.
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Sinister Switchblade / int_a4a6b86a	comment	Code Geass Inverted with Kallen, one of the (more) straightforwardly heroic characters, who owns a trick wallet that can project a blade switchblade-style. Played straight with Rolo, an assassin who can combine his Time Stands Still powers with a switchblade.
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Sinister Switchblade / int_a61bda23	comment	Played with in Life Is Strange. When Frank is introduced, he threatens Max and Chloe with one, but he quickly proves to be something of a Paper Tiger, and that he tends to bring a knife to a gunfight means his switchblade marks him as a bit pathetic. Indeed, the worst that can happen is that Max and Chloe accidentally kill him in self-defence in episode 4, if the player fails to convince him to join their investigation (and if Chloe ends up fighting him unarmed, she easily manages to stab him with his own knife). In the prequel his much more dangerous friend Damon threatens Chloe and Rachel in a similar scene (in the same place, no less) but uses a much scarier looking combat knife to make it clear that he's much more of a threat.
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Sinister Switchblade / int_ae369c06	comment	A Clockwork Orange has the gang leader Billy-boy pull a switchblade in response to Alex's challenge to a brawl.
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Sinister Switchblade / int_b8d2ac56	comment	At the start of Live and Let Die, a seemingly respectable man in suit and tie stands next to a surveillance agent watching a funeral procession. The man produces a switchblade from under his clasped hands and flicks out the blade.
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Sinister Switchblade / int_c0d295c4	comment	Team Fortress 2's Spy carries a butterfly knife around with him as a default weapon. He can also use an alternate weapon, the Big Earner, a more conventional switchblade whose switch has been broken.
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Sinister Switchblade / int_c3d9e7c2	comment	Switchblades are very common among the gangs in The Outsiders.
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Sinister Switchblade / int_cfc8e79	comment	Dementia (1955): Before going out, the woman takes a switchblade out of a drawer, flicking it open and smiling strangely. Sure enough, she later uses that switchblade to stab the fat man in the gut.
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Sinister Switchblade / int_d5f2df48	comment	In The Warriors naturally, given that it's a Seventies movie about street gangs, most notably used by Swan in his climatic confrontation with Luther. Earlier, it's downplayed. The leader of the Orphans, Sully, wields a straight razor, and while it might look menacing, being the orphans, it's practically worthless.
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Sinister Switchblade / int_da16095e	comment	The final confrontation in Blackboard Jungle involves a delinquent with a switchblade. One of the protagonists manages to take advantage of the weapon's fragile lock to snap the blade off the handle.
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Sinister Switchblade / int_dba119e7	comment	Bitter Rice: Giuseppe the thief has one. When he finds Francesca unwilling to help him steal the rice, he says "Jail isn't the worst thing that could happen to you," and he flips open his switchblade creepily.
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Sinister Switchblade / int_e75c6d45	comment	In Goblins one of the alternative Minmaxes carries twin flip-swords (or very large daggers).
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Sinister Switchblade / int_e9a99785	comment	Go to Sleep (A Jeff the Killer Rewrite): An adult Randy flicks out a switchblade in self-defense as he hears commotion in the bushes. Then Jeff, the boy who Randy made insane some years ago, reveals himself to Randy, much to his disbelief.
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Sinister Switchblade / int_f16adb7	comment	Inverted in Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull as Mutt Williams carries one but is on the side of the heroes, and it is most often used for regular cutting tasks as opposed to a weapon. He does flick it open in an attempt to intimidate the two KGB agents, but closes it after realizing they're predictably carrying guns.
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Sinister Switchblade / int_fb27829b	comment	In Fantastic Mr. Fox, the villainous Rat has a switchblade as his main weapon.
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Sinister Switchblade / int_fdfd6055	comment	The song Switchblade Serenade by Swedish heavy metal band Sister Sin is about a yandere who murders the object of her affection with a switchblade, then sings about how much she loves them while they bleed to death. The cover of the album, Switchblade Serenades, also features a tattooed arm holding a switchblade, with menacing-looking thugs in the background.
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