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Stepping-Stone Sword
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As the name suggests, this is when a sword (or any weapon, improvised or not) is used as a stepping stone, ladder, or perch for a character. Whether it was thrown there (and naturally landed point first and penetrated, whether or not the weapon is made for throwing), shot there, or the character used it to slow his fall, he can then run, jump, spin, or climb off it and get right back into the fight. This is actually Truth in Television, as this method was used by Frederick Barbarossa's soldiers to climb a crag during the siege of a bandit stronghold on the Adige in northern Italy, as recounted in Otto von Freising's Gesta Friderici. (Spears were used in this case.) See also The Blade Always Lands Pointy End In, Blade Brake, and Blade Run, which are commonly coupled with this trope. Related to Throwing Your Sword Always Works. When a sword is deliberately plunged into the ground, it's Sword Plant. When one steps on it in midair, it's Projectile Platforms. Examples |
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Adventure Time: In "The Eyes", Finn's sword gets stuck in the wall. Jake uses it as a springboard to jump off and attack the Ice King. | |
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The Rescue (1971) has the hero, Ho-wu, escaping a Mongolian fortress while carrying the unconscious heroine Shih-En using arrows and spears embedded in walls to hop over the walls. | |
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In the late-game cutscenes of Devil May Cry 4, Dante repeatedly uses his Rebellion sword as an anchor to keep himself from falling while fighting the giant Savior above the city, but prior to those, he used his sword as a platform to stand on while taunting Sanctus. | |
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In Depict1, this is the real purpose of the spikes that your Voice with an Internet Connection claims will kill you if you touch them. Throw them at the wall, then jump up onto them! | |
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In Brave Fencer Musashi, climbing with swords is the ability granted by the first piece of Legendary Armor. | |
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The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild: While not present in the final game, this was a planned feature at some point in development, with Link being able to stab his sword into cliff faces in order to create a perch where he could rest and regain stamina during long climbs. | |
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Völgarr the Viking allows you to throw your spear into some walls to use as a temporary platform. | |
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The Simpsons: In "Simpsons Bible Stories", Bart (as David) uses a pair of corn on the cob holder's from Goliath's (Nelson) giant cob to climb up the side of a castle, by stabbing them into the wall and pulling himself up. | |
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Nazuna in Log Horizon creates defense barriers horizontally and uses them like tiny footholds, allowing her and others to travel through the air. | |
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This is required in Wario Land to get to a secret exit that leads to Sherbet Land. | |
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Sephiroth in Super Smash Bros. Ultimate can use his foward aerial attack to stab his Masamune into the side of a wall to stop his fall or to climb up it. This can only be done up to three times before he has to land on solid ground, however. | |
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Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (2012): In "Target: April O'Neil", April uses throwing knives as steps to reach the fire escape of a building during her chasing. | |
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Naruto: Zabuza's entry scene has him throwing his BFS into a tree and then standing on it. Sasuke does this on a minefield, both to give him something to jump off of and to test his theory that the electrically charged blade would make the earth-based mines stop working. In Shippuden, Hidan uses his scythe to break his fall and stay just out of reach of Shikamaru's shadow. |
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Ladder of Swords: Exactly What It Says on the Tin; the main character (a down-on-his-luck circus performer on the run from the law) climbs a ladder made of swords both metaphorically and physically. He uses it as one of his acts and shows his skill off to his love interest. | |
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In Mystery Men, Blue Raja can throw forks... but not very well, until special training by the Sphinx allows him to throw them effectively enough for Mr. Furious to climb on them. | |
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In Kill Bill, the Bride pierces a wooden beam with a samurai sword in order to climb the balustrade during her fight with the Crazy 88s. | |
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Aladdin and the King of Thieves has Aladdin falling down a cliff and using his dagger to slow down. The guy who threw him down then uses his Wolverine Claws to slow his fall down so that the fight can continue. Al wins by using his dagger, which is still in the cliff, as support while he kicks the other guy into the ocean. | |
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Possible in The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion thanks to a bug that makes paintbrushes stay in midair when dropped. Entire staircases can be built with paintbrushes. | |
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In The Long Ships, Toke uses spears to climb the palisade of an enemy stronghold. | |
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Neon Genesis Evangelion: Asuka does this in her Evangelion, using her Progressive Knife and axe to climb to the top of the building that's sinking into the ground (which is actually an angel). | |
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Done for laughs in an episode of The Benny Hill Show... with toilet plungers. | |
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Robin Hood (1973) has a moment where Robin Hood, escaping from some guards, is barely clinging onto a protruding block on a wall. The guards hurl spears at him and miss, one embedding itself next to Robin Hood, who then using it to hoist himself up and climb to the top. | |
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Robin and Nightwing climb the exterior of Francine Langstrom's last place of employment by stabbing batarangs in the walls when they break in to see if any of the serum to return Man-bats to humans is in her lab. They're probably not too worried about the damage since it's a Wayne Enterprises building and they're only breaking in because Dick thinks it's fun, although an exasperated Tim declares there was an easier way for them to get access to the lab. | |
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Done in an episode of Xena: Warrior Princess. Xena is scaling the wall of an enemy stronghold and, when it looks like she is about to fall short, her allies fire arrows into the wall that she uses as rungs to scale the last few feet. | |
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The fight against Pete in Mickey Mania involves jumping on his thrown sword to reach a lever. | |
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Donald Duck in Quackshot uses a plunger gun to scale walls quickly. | |
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In Broforce, the Brodator's default attack is chucking his spears at enemies. If those spears hit any walls or terrain, it will get stuck there and can be used as a platform. Considering that the environment runs on Everything Breaks, and some levels can become very difficult to defeat or outright impassable if too much of your surroundings have been destroyed, occasionally this becomes a very useful feature. | |
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In Lara Croft and the Guardian of Light, Totec's spears (gifted to Lara in single-player) can be embedded in walls to the tune of three at a time; Lara's lithe build lets her balance on them in this state, but Totec will shatter them under his weight if he tries the same. Since weapons can only be fired level to the character, many puzzles involving scaling heights require figuring out where you can throw spears from to make paths that go upwards. | |
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The Order of the Stick: While fighting Vampire Durkon, Roy Greenhilt borrows the High Priestess of Odin's spear. He misses his foe when throwing it, but it stays stuck in the wall and Roy then uses it as perch to reach the upper walkway of the temple. | |
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In Soul Eater, Mifune sets up a Field of Blades and then runs across their hilts to attack Black Star. He sets a more traditional example in his battle against Sid, using his katanas to climb a cliff. | |
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Biomechanical Toy, in which your character is a Living Toy action figure battling hostile enemy toys, can use darts as stepping platforms to get to higher areas. | |
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Princess Mononoke: San begins climbing the wall of Iron Town by planting a spear in it. | |
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In The Stormlight Archive, Shardblades are sometimes used in this way. Since they cut through any nonliving matter like a chainsaw through butter and are totally unbreakable, they are considerably more useful for this than a regular sword. | |
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Spears are used in LEGO Indiana Jones as ladder rungs to reach higher and farther areas. | |
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Dungeons & Dragons: The supplement The Complete Thief's Handbook has "climbing daggers" that can be stuck into walls to make it easier for the thief to climb them. In 4e, rangers can get the power Archer's Stairway to shoot arrows at a wall and make it easier to climb. |
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In Fallout 4 the Harpoon Gun's harpoons can be stood on if lodged in a wall, allowing one to make an impromptu foothold, as seen here [1] | |
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Ascendance of a Bookworm: Cornelius is seen climbing a relatively small tree by planting a knife in the trunk and using it as a stepping stone alongside boosting his jump with enhancement magic. | |
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Berserk: During the Eclipse, Guts uses his knife as a Blade Brake to stop his fall from the side of God Hand's living tower made from human faces, and then uses the knife to claw his way to the top by repeatedly stabbing the pillar and dragging himself upward. The fact that the faces bleed and wail every time he sticks his knife in makes it messy work. | |
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Happens in The Warrior's Way. The Colonel thrusts at Lynne; missing her and getting his sabre stuck in the wall. Lynne uses his sabre as a step to retrieve her own sword, which is stuck higher up in the wall. | |
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Kung Fu Panda: Tai Lung is imprisoned on a pillar at the base of a cylindrical cavern, isolated from all doors and elevators, only accessible by a drawbridge. When he unlocks his restraints, the guards try shooting him with really big crossbow bolts, but he dodges them all, picks up the bolts, and kicks them into the cavern walls, creating a series of springboards to reach the elevator and upper walkways. | |
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In the opening cutscene of Final Fantasy XIII-2, Lightning has her gunblade knocked out of her hands and impaled in a floating rock. Light proceeds to leap after it and swing from it onto another floating rock to confront her enemy Caius. | |
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Happens constantly in Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children, the best example being during Cloud's fight with Sephiroth. After being thrown off a building, Cloud uses his Fusion Sword as a Blade Brake, before standing on it, splitting it in two, then doing a back flip while retrieving both swords in order to cut apart the huge chunks of concrete raining down on him from above. | |
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Final Fantasy XV lets Noctis warp to his weapons after throwing them; many battlefields have point-warp destinations (which instantly fill his MP and boost his HP recovery) high up on the sides of narrow structures or tall buildings, leaving Noct hanging from his broadsword until you act. If you then perform a warp-strike from an elevated position, the damage multiplier is a bit higher than if you hit them from the same distance horizontally. For a proper "stepping stone" effect, you can point-warp between multiple destinations to put a lot of distance between you and your enemy; in particular, the courtyard in Insomnia (which hosts the last boss of the Platinum Demo and the penultimate boss of the full game in the initial release) has enough warp points to scale the Citadel. | |
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In Darkwing Duck (Capcom), DW can shoot arrows from his gas gun to use as platforms along walls. This carried over to Mega Man 5 via its Super Arrow (it used the same game engine). | |
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A sword is used to cross a canyon in Lancelot, the Knight of the Cart (circa 1170). | |
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In Wonder Woman Vol 1 #14 Diana breaks off the tips of some spears and climbs up a tower to rescue the princess trapped inside by wedging them into the space between the stones on her way up. | |
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In an episode of Wakfu, Evangeline uses a Shushu-possessed BFS this way while jumping across rooftops. The Talking Weapon sure isn't happy about it, and makes it known. | |
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In Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl, Captain Jack Sparrow teeters on a thrown sword to avoid being hanged. | |
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Duster from Mother 3 uses Wall Staples to create ladders on walls, and to pin enemies down in battle. | |
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Teppic in Pyramids mentions that using knives for this tends to be impractical. You have to find a place just tight enough for the knife to get properly stuck, and you usually end up losing knives when you do it. Of course, he has to do it at the end of the book in order to assassinate a pyramid. | |
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Throwing spears in the video game Prehistorik Man. | |
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In one level of Psychonauts, the player has to swing on swords attached to a spinning wheel in order to advance. This is made harder by the fact that the swords are only thrown by enemies. The player has to dodge in order to get the swords to land properly. | |
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Kratos climbs walls many times using his swords in the God of War series. | |
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Giselle throws a sword into the side of a building for Robert to use this way in Enchanted. | |
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Tidus of Final Fantasy X plunges his sword into the ground and uses it as a springboard during his Blitz Ace Overdrive. | |
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Occurs in Danganronpa 2: Goodbye Despair when the killer in Chapter 2, Peko the Ultimate Swordswoman, used her bamboo sword as a stepstool to reach a high up window after tying it to its carrying case for retrieval in order to avoid leaving evidence behind. The tactic's alleged use by ninjas in ancient Japan is noted by the characters as well. | |
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In Asterix in Switzerland Asterix completes a mountain-climb by sticking his sword into the mountain as a handhold when there's not enough proper climbing gear to go around. | |
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The Day My Butt Went Psycho!: In "Basic In Stink", Zack fires a series of plungers on to the Butt-squatch before running up them to kick the Butt-squatch in the face. | |
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A sword is at one point used to anchor a rope for people to cross thin ice Ladyhawke. | |
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Inverted on one of the CSI programs, in which the victim turned out to have been kicked to death by someone who'd been wearing tree-climbing spurs strapped to both ankles. | |
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Rachel uses her hammer as a standing stone on a wall while waiting for the fight to reach her in Dead Fantasy. | |
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Worms lets you do this with arrows. | |
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In The Matrix Reloaded Morpheus uses a sword stuck in the side of a truck as a perch. Balancing on the sword handle and the side of another truck, he grabs the Keymaker off Trinity's bike, throws him up onto the top of the first truck, then jumps up after him. And whips off his Cool Shades. | |
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Hercules: The Legendary Journeys: Hercules is helped scaling a fort by arrows launched into its side. | |
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Oniken: Used by Zaku to climb Grimm's mech in Stage 4's post-level cutscene. | |
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Mega Man and Mega Man 5 have the Magnet Beam and the Super Arrow, respectively. The Magnet Beam shoots a beam that stays suspended in mid-air, creating a platform for you, and the Super Arrow shoots an arrow that sticks into a wall to create a place to step. | |
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One of the three uses for ninjato swords in Tenchu: Shadow Assassins (along with breaking locks and last-resort defense) is jamming them into certain walls to help scale them. | |
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In Spyro 2: Ripto's Rage!, the Icebuilders use their spears to help Spyro progress through Crystal Glacier. | |
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Duel to the Death uses this trope in a humorously illogical way during the final duel: each combatant jumps high up into the air, then puts his sword beneath his feet and pushes off in midair to Double Jump. | |
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Flynn uses crossbow bolts to scale Rapunzel's tower in Disney's Tangled. | |
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Stefano the sea lion pulls this off in the climax of Madagascar 3: Europe's Most Wanted using Vitaly's knives. | |
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Rurouni Kenshin: The protagonist does this to Sanosuke Sagara while fighting him and his BFS, all the while lecturing him on how the sword he uses is so big and heavy that it can only be swung down or sideways, making it very easy to predict. In the manga, one of Enishi's techniques involves sticking a sword upright in the ground, jumping off the hilt to achieve higher elevation, and hanging on to a tassel on the sword so he doesn't have to leave the sword behind. |
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Code Lyoko: Happens a few times with Ulrich's katanas; sometimes for himself, sometimes for other characters. Everyone also seems to use William's BFS as a platform whenever he gets it stuck in a wall. |
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Hellsing has vampire Nazis crossing a minefield by jumping on hilts of bayonets planted in the ground. | |
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Destan uses crossbow bolts to scale the city walls in the film version of Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time. | |
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