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Split Hair
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One way of showing the sharpness of a blade is dropping a strand of hair, or thread, on it and watch it split it in half. Other items used to demonstrate the blades sharpness include silk fabric or a cushion. An absurdly sharp blade will likely make a sound, too. Not to be confused with splitting hairs, which is about fine distinctions. |
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| Split Hair / int_15d05f51 | type |
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In The Hardy Boys mystery "The Secret of Pirates' Hill", Joe drops an envelope on the blade of some pirate cutlasses in the museum to test it's sharpness. {Hint, it's very sharp} | |
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| Split Hair / int_2bbcacd9 | type |
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| Split Hair / int_2bbcacd9 | comment |
Looney Tunes Ali Baba Bunny: Hassan manages to chop Daffy Duck's hat, the diamond on it, and finally, the hair on his head. In Broom-Stick Bunny, as Witch Hazel is about to prepare Bugs for a brew, she remarks that her cleaver is "sharp enough to split a hair. Split a hare? AHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!" Subverted in the short A Bear for Punishment, when Junyer tests the razor, the hair splits just fine, but as Junyer Does Not Know His Own Strength he wrecks the blade as the follow-through of the swing smashes it on a table. |
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| Split Hair / int_34170b02 | type |
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| Split Hair / int_34170b02 | comment |
Samurai Warriors: In Honda Tadakatsu's route in the first game, his opening cinematic shows a dragonfly land on the blade of his spear only to be split in half by its own weight. This was a reference to the legend that the real Honda Tadakatsu's spear was that sharp. | |
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| Split Hair / int_5283bd72 | type |
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| Split Hair / int_5283bd72 | comment |
In Protector of the Small, Raoul demonstrates the sharpness of Kel's naginata to Flynn by placing a feather on the blade. It, of course, cuts the feather in half without any effort. Kel also tests the sharpness of a blade sent by her Anonymous Benefactor with a hair from her head. | |
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| Split Hair / int_5e839978 | type |
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| Split Hair / int_5e839978 | comment |
In Water Margin, Yang Zhi, one of the novel's heroes, is forced to sell his family heirloom of a sword in the street. When confronted by a drunken local bully who demnds a dirt cheap price, he tells the latter that the sword is capable of "cut metals like mud, slice through hair by the merest touch, and kill people with no blood on the blade". It's all true, and Yang Zhi proved the third feature on the bully himself. | |
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| Split Hair / int_740815bb | type |
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| Split Hair / int_740815bb | comment |
The split-a-piece-of-silk variant appears in Interesting Times, when a samurai attempts to intimidate Cohen the Barbarian by cutting a silk handkerchief this way. Cohen then subverts it by throwing up a bogey-covered hankie, and decapitating three of them as they look up before they realize what's happening. | |
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| Split Hair / int_7482155 | type |
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| Split Hair / int_7482155 | comment |
In The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad, Brom Bones intimidates Ichabod during his telling of the legend of the Headless Horseman by slowly splitting a hair off his head with a large knife. | |
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| Split Hair / int_7c48915b | type |
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| Split Hair / int_7c48915b | comment |
Gunnerkrigg Court: Kat and Annie test the Coyote Tooth, a blade made from the fang of a Physical God, by dropping a steel ball bearing on the edge; it's bisected without even slowing down. | |
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| Split Hair / int_8dd4a32c | type |
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| Split Hair / int_8dd4a32c | comment |
Played straight and inverted in a Popeye short where Popeye and Bluto were competing store salesmen. Bluto shows that his knives are quality with this trope, then Popeye shows how crappy they are by having the hair split the knife. | |
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| Split Hair / int_90f7114 | type |
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| Split Hair / int_90f7114 | comment |
In Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street, during the contest with Pirelli, Sweeney does this. Generally, on-stage, he pulls one of his hairs out, slices it, and watches it fall to the ground, all during a pause in Pirelli's song. | |
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| Split Hair / int_945d5d4c | type |
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| Split Hair / int_945d5d4c | comment |
The Bodyguard: Frank Farmer demonstates the sharpness of a katana he owns by taking a silk scarf off the woman he's bodyguarding and letting it float down onto the blade, where it's cut by just its own weight. | |
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| Split Hair / int_a4a2a0f0 | type |
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| Split Hair / int_a4a2a0f0 | comment |
A similar gag happened in the Talkartoons short "Dizzy Dishes". | |
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| Split Hair / int_b63c9b56 | type |
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| Split Hair / int_b63c9b56 | comment |
Ali Baba Bunny: Hassan manages to chop Daffy Duck's hat, the diamond on it, and finally, the hair on his head. | |
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| Ali Baba Bunny | hasFeature |
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| Split Hair / int_ba0f7022 | type |
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| Split Hair / int_ba0f7022 | comment |
Various Vytal Ventures, "Hard and Soft": Ren does this to test his Storm Flower after cleaning and sharpening them. | |
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| Split Hair / int_cf2d20a8 | type |
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| Split Hair / int_cf2d20a8 | comment |
Johnny Bravo has a similar joke when Johnny enters a lumber-cutting competition. After a lumberjack splits a hair with his axe, Johnny splits an axe with his hair—which was still on his head. | |
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| Split Hair / int_cf3e7a82 | type |
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| Split Hair / int_cf3e7a82 | comment |
Often subverted in Superman stories, especially in the height of the Silver Age, when Superman appeared to get amnesia about every other issue. They proved to him who he was frequently by trying to cut his hair with scissors - and the scissors would be cut by the hair, instead. | |
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| Split Hair / int_dee66693 | type |
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| Split Hair / int_dee66693 | comment |
Subverted in the short A Bear for Punishment, when Junyer tests the razor, the hair splits just fine, but as Junyer Does Not Know His Own Strength he wrecks the blade as the follow-through of the swing smashes it on a table. | |
| Split Hair / int_dee66693 | featureApplicability |
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| A Bear for Punishment | hasFeature |
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| Split Hair / int_e199d649 | type |
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| Split Hair / int_e199d649 | comment |
Noticeably averted in Inheritance Cycle where while training a dragon rider to care for his weapons properly an actual metalsmith points out that you don't want that sharp an edge on most blades, being that fine of a point also weakens the metal by making it so thin it can cut hair meaning the sword in question wouldn't last very long before being damaged beyond the point of usability as a sword rather then a mace. | |
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| Split Hair / int_f01be35d | type |
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| Split Hair / int_f01be35d | comment |
On Gor, blades are frequently described as being "so sharp it would cut a piece of silk dropped on it." | |
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