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A futuristic bladed weapon that has Absurd Cutting Power because it vibrates. The idea is that high-frequency vibrations in the blade allow the weapon to cut through nearly anything, essentially making it an extreme version of an electric turkey carver. Often, this results in a humming noise and the blade of the weapon visibly blurring or even glowing. Bonus points if it cleans itself — rather explosively. Potentially has great Mundane Utility: it is the descendant of real tools very closely related to the fast cleaner/washer/perfect blender. These weapons may be as dangerous to the user as the enemy. Often, the only thing that can stop a vibroweapon is another vibroweapon, although that doesn't follow if you think about it. A variant of this is blunt weapons (sometimes even the person's own body) that are charged with high-frequency vibrations; in this case, it's used to deliver higher striking power, as well as giving the target a violent dose of vibrations, which can bypass defenses. Compare Hot Blade and Laser Blade, which use heat or light energy instead of vibrations to cut better than a mundane sword. A subtrope of Absurd Cutting Power. For lower-tech cutting weapons with moving parts, see Chainsaw Good. For another weapon that uses vibrations, see Sonic Stunner. |
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An upcoming melee weapon in TerraTech is literally called the Vibro-Blade. If it actually worked, it would cause heavy damage upon contact. | |
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Bleach: Cirucci Thunderwitch uses blades that vibrate at a rate of 1.1-1.3 million times a second. They are detachable components of her wings and therefore fly through the air at tremendous speeds. The vibration makes them unstoppable as they can cut through almost anything. Seele Schneider is a very powerful, but old-fashioned, Quincy weapon that collects reishi from the atmosphere via the handle, concentrating it into a blade that vibrates at a rate of 3 million times a second. Although the weapon looks like a sword, it's an arrow. Uryuu stole five from his father's secret armory for his trip to Hueco Mundo and easily defeated Cirucci's vibrating wing-blades due to the greater vibration rate. Using five together allows for a phenomenal explosion of power, but only if the wielder has the opportunity to set up a Quincy Cross formation around the opponent. |
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Vibrobladed cutting blades are common in Honor Harrington, though the legal requirement for such blades to include an alarm sound when activated (for safety reasons) limits their usefulness as a weapon. It's rather hard to stab someone in the back when your knife is blatting away like a demented alarm clock, which is why the (highly illegal) versions issued to covert ops units lack the noisemaker. | |
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In Guyver, every Guyver and even some Zoanoids possess high-frequency swords (though, in the later series, they look like Laser Blades). | |
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In Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty, Raiden has a Vibroblade katana which, like an actual Katana, only has one edge. It can be flipped to be used as a non-lethal weapon when swinging it. (though it's lethal when using the forward lunging strike) All of the swords wielded by the various Cyborg Ninja in the series, Raiden included, are vibroblades, which helps explain their ridiculous cutting power.note Interestingly, this apparently comes from the vibrations weakening the molecular bonds of the target and making it easier to cut, rather than mechanising the sword's cutting power. | |
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A villain from Murciélago wields a high-frequency blade, which the protagonist yearns for. | |
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Justice League Unlimited: After taking over The Flash's body, Lex Luthor threatens to use his super speed to vibrate his finger through a man's head if he doesn't comply with the villain's wishes. | |
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In Lyrical Nanoha, Subaru has her Inherent Skill as a Type-Zero Cyborg, the Vibration Shatter. When she activates it, anything she hits will shatter from the oscillating energies released from her punches. Examples that have been destroyed with one punch include Nanoha's Deflector Shields and the lead Mariage's nigh-unbreakable arm-blade. | |
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Naruto: This is described as the reason lightning chakra has such piercing power (or at least when Killer Bee uses it): it rapidly vibrates objects it charges. Killer Bee gets bonus points for the fact his weapons are Super Vibrato Lightning Blades. |
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The Flash can do this with his entire body, as demonstrated numerous times by Wally West when he chainsawed his way through objects instead of vibrating through intangibly like Barry Allen. It is also the signature move of the Reverse-Flash, ever since he used it to kill Iris West-Allen (she got better). | |
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In 8-Bit Theater, Red Mage made Fighter use his swords as chainsaws - he was too stupid to realize this was physically impossible, and used it to make short work of a bunch of dragons (which exploded). | |
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X-Factor Shatterstar's mutant powernote he has other superhuman abilities, but they're not unusual for his species, is to generate vibratory shockwaves, turning his swords (which are specifically tailored to his vibrations) into vibroweapons and also allowing them to fire a Sword Beam. | |
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The Vibranium metal exists on just the right wavelength to allow it to cut through any other metal. Yes, even adamantium (Depending on the Writer). In New X-Men, an anti-mutant group attacked the compound and one of them managed to stab Emma Frost in her diamond form with a vibranium knife; the blade cut clean through and left her shoulder a bleeding mess. Weirdly, some types of Vibranium can melt metal without coming in contact with it. There are two types of Vibranium, the stuff from Wakanda (Black Panther's kingdom) and a different lode found in Antarctica, they are almost identical but seem to possess different properties when put into contact with other types of unobtanium. The supervillain known as Klaw has a vibranium weapon that channels a destructive vibrational wave. Captain America's shield is partially (or in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, wholly given adamantium is exclusive to the X-Men Film Series) built out of vibranium. Thus it's the reason for being indestructible: everything that hits the shield just bounces off by being absorbed and reflected. One of Apocalypse's minions is Moses Magnum, an Ethiopian weapons manufacturer who was granted the power to generate vibrations. |
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The Union and AEU mobile suits in Mobile Suit Gundam 00 play the trope straight with their sonic blades. The first episode shows one activated during an attack on a new MS exhibition, complete with the audience covering their ears in pain. This also results in several glass-panes shattering. The Gundam Exia's GN Sword not only boosts its sharpness through the use of GN Particles but also increases its cutting power by vibrating. It only has this power in Setsuna's battles against the Thrones, though. One of the Unicorn Gundam Banshee's various optional armaments, the Armed Armor VN (Vibration Nails) resembles a glove that opens up to reveal the claws when activated. In her brief tenure with the machine, a Brainwashed and Crazy Marida Cruz uses the weapon to brutal effect, shredding Riddhe Marcenas's Delta Plus to scraps and badly injuring him. |
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In Jedi Outcast, Luke mentions that cortosis is a very rare mineral, and Fyyar making a Power Armor out of it is considered to be a highly-expensive feat. On the other hand, everybody and their mother in KotOR has a cortosis-woven blade. This can, presumably, be handwaved by saying that it wasn't so rare 4000 years before the movies' timeline, but that would indicate that an entire galaxy's supply of a mineral could be mined out in a few millennia. Then again, it is never specified how much cortosis is needed for one blade to make it lightsaber-resistant. | |
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The Progressive Knives from Neon Genesis Evangelion have vibrating blades that can cut through a fighter jet with ease. A couple of times, Asuka gets Unit 02's hands on the Sonic Glaive and Smash Hawk, which are in all likelihood also "progressive" weapons. |
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Final Fantasy XIV's Gunbreaker job wields gunblades similar in function to those in VIII, with an added splash of Hot Blade; pulling the trigger sets off an aetherically-charged cartridge to heat the blade and send a shockwave down its length. This is in contrast to the more standard Mix-and-Match Weapon gunblades used by Garlean forces, which the Gunbreaker job tutor aptly describes as "simply edged weapons with a firearm bolted on". | |
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The World of Warcraft table top roleplaying game features vibroweapons as a type of tech-mod that can be applied to swords and knives. | |
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In the 80s The Transformers cartoon, Computron is able to stop the combiner Abominus by using intense vibrations to separate him into his Terrorcon components. | |
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Star Wars: Republic Commando features a small vibroblade built into your clone's knuckle plate, used as a sort of punch dagger for fast melee strikes. It makes a mess of everything it comes across: droids, organics, and occasionally parts of the local architecture. It's arguably your best Emergency Weapon; your auto-recharging blaster pistol is somewhat weak, slow, and has a low number of stored shots. Furthermore, if you're forced to use the blaster pistol, you're stuck Pistol-Whipping as your melee attack instead—the attack with the lowest damage-per-second in the game. | |
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Ophelia in Claymore wielded a non-vibrating BFS but vibrated her arm at super-speed to imitate the effect. Depending on your translation, she may or may not call it the "ripple sword" technique. | |
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Metal Gear In Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty, Raiden has a Vibroblade katana which, like an actual Katana, only has one edge. It can be flipped to be used as a non-lethal weapon when swinging it. (though it's lethal when using the forward lunging strike) All of the swords wielded by the various Cyborg Ninja in the series, Raiden included, are vibroblades, which helps explain their ridiculous cutting power.note Interestingly, this apparently comes from the vibrations weakening the molecular bonds of the target and making it easier to cut, rather than mechanising the sword's cutting power. In Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots, Raiden returns with a similar blade, but vibrates to the point where the blade heats up and turns red. In Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance they've become the standard melee weapon for cyborg to cyborg combat (since they tend to be Immune to Bullets, or at least very resistant). It's explained that normal swords can be turned into them and their cutting power is proportionate to the original blade's quality (just to make it clear that Jetstream Sam's repurposed 16th century katana is just better). |
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In Soul Eater, Ragnarok converts itself into a vibroweapon when it screams. | |
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In New X-Men, an anti-mutant group attacked the compound and one of them managed to stab Emma Frost in her diamond form with a vibranium knife; the blade cut clean through and left her shoulder a bleeding mess. | |
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Used extensively in the world of Miles Vorkosigan by Lois McMaster Bujold, to the point that the eponymous character gets sarcastic comments for carrying around a blade that's just plain steel. | |
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Marvel Universe: The Vibranium metal exists on just the right wavelength to allow it to cut through any other metal. Yes, even adamantium (Depending on the Writer). In New X-Men, an anti-mutant group attacked the compound and one of them managed to stab Emma Frost in her diamond form with a vibranium knife; the blade cut clean through and left her shoulder a bleeding mess. Weirdly, some types of Vibranium can melt metal without coming in contact with it. There are two types of Vibranium, the stuff from Wakanda (Black Panther's kingdom) and a different lode found in Antarctica, they are almost identical but seem to possess different properties when put into contact with other types of unobtanium. The supervillain known as Klaw has a vibranium weapon that channels a destructive vibrational wave. Captain America's shield is partially (or in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, wholly given adamantium is exclusive to the X-Men Film Series) built out of vibranium. Thus it's the reason for being indestructible: everything that hits the shield just bounces off by being absorbed and reflected. One of Apocalypse's minions is Moses Magnum, an Ethiopian weapons manufacturer who was granted the power to generate vibrations. X-Factor Shatterstar's mutant powernote he has other superhuman abilities, but they're not unusual for his species, is to generate vibratory shockwaves, turning his swords (which are specifically tailored to his vibrations) into vibroweapons and also allowing them to fire a Sword Beam. |
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In Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots, Raiden returns with a similar blade, but vibrates to the point where the blade heats up and turns red. | |
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X-COM's palette switch writ large, Terror From The Deep, has three of them. The first weapon is called the VibroBlade and it does what it says. The second two can be built using alien tech research and are called the Thermic Lance and Heavy Thermic Lance. These heat up the "drill" to cut through armor like a hot knife through butter. Neither of the three look particularly like ordinary bladed weapons, however. They work best against armored enemies like the Lobstermen, who are resistance to guns and bombs. Unfortunately, Lobstermen are deadlier in close-quarters combat. | |
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Etrian Odyssey IV: Legends of the Titan: Drive Blades are large mechanical engine-powered swords wielded by the Imperial class. When an elemental Drive attack is called for use, the Blade unleashes it with tremendous power, but then releases some steam and heats, requiring a cooldown period (namely a number of in-battle turns) to be used again (there are certain skills that shorten the period, though). | |
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A common melee weapon of evil speedsters in The Flash (2014), who vibrate their hands into lethal weapons. It also lets them become intangible leading to Bloodless Carnage as they attack internal organs like hearts instead of cutting apart bodies. Barry also learns this trick and uses it to defeat Solovar, the ruler of Gorilla City, and break one of Savitar's spikes. | |
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Fallout takes this a bit too far into Ninja Pirate Zombie Robot realm as the description for the Ripper states that it is a vibroblade chainsaw knife. It's strange, but there are no other Vibroweapons, though the setting has a wild collection of melee weapons and it's a veritable Portable Power Feast (in FoT, a single mission can give enough Fusion Cells to burden 6 PCs to a crawl). Fallout 3 retreats from this and makes the Ripper just a chainsaw knife. It is of course entirely possible that 'vibroblade' was just used because it sounds cool, not because it actually does. In-universe marketing speak, effectively. The description of the weapons just claims that they're chainsaw knives, and makes no mention of any vibrating effect outside of the name. |
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Similarly, it's suggested that this is one of the reasons the heroes in Samurai 7 can cut through the Nobuseri. This is demonstrated when Kikujiyo uses a giant Nobuseri sword to stop the falling capital. Because of the sword's size, it literally sings while he's holding it up. | |
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In Fred Saberhagen's Book of Swords series, several of the Swords vibrate for various individual reasons, several of which are for cutting things (stone, dragon scales, weapons, armies, etc). | |
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In Centurions, one of John Thunder's weapons is a Vibro Knife. | |
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Vibroblades are the top tier melee weapon in the one extant BattleTech RPG, Crescent Hawk's Inception, easily outpacing the other available options (those being daggers, one-handed swords, and lengths of wood). It does pretty impressive damage to unarmored enemies, killing in as few as four hits. The problem is that melee weapons are woefully outclassed in the game, since most engagements start at range, and there is no restriction on running and shooting in the same turn. To add insult to injury the vibroblade is the second most expensive anti-personnel weapon in the game, behind the SMG. By the time a vibroblade user can get to their target, they've usually taken half a dozen bullets en route. | |
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One of the Unicorn Gundam Banshee's various optional armaments, the Armed Armor VN (Vibration Nails) resembles a glove that opens up to reveal the claws when activated. In her brief tenure with the machine, a Brainwashed and Crazy Marida Cruz uses the weapon to brutal effect, shredding Riddhe Marcenas's Delta Plus to scraps and badly injuring him. | |
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Cyberpunk 2020 too. For example, a vibrokatana. | |
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Fading Suns has vibrating blades as artifact weapons, they don't do any additional damage but penetrate the setting's Dune-style Deflector Shields more easily. | |
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Parodied mercilessly, and of course tactlessly, in South Park: The Stick of Truth when you can acquire the "Vibroblade" during the Day 3 mission "Beat Up Clyde", which is just a vibrator. If that isn't bad enough it's found when (ahem) "exploring" Mr. Slave and grants +500 gross. | |
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JauntTrooper has vibra-knives, vibra-swords, and vibra-lances. | |
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In Pay Me, Bug!, Amys has several vibroknives. They work just as well when thrown as when wielded normally. | |
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Shadowrun has various vibro blades in its arsenal. | |
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Zombie Powder: Gamma Akutabi's Chainsaw BFS was originally going to be a vibrating sword. Kubo admitted it was "really just a sort of perverted weapon". | |
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Eclipse Phase has vibroblades as one of the available melee weapons. Slight subversion of the trope as it's actually a fair bit less effective than the good melee weapons (the Diamond Axe and Monofilament Sword) but it's more realistic in that when used for extended sawing, it is better than any other melee weapon (double damage and armor piercing when sawing). | |
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In Matter, one of Ian M. Banks' The Culture novels, a drone vibrates a wire held by two knife missiles, cutting through the supply wagons of an army. | |
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SLA Industries, a futuristic role-playing game by Nightfall Games, actively encourages Players to undertake Melee combat through various means. One of these methods is to include a cool list of powered weapons, ranging from a fairly humble vibroknife to a vibroboxing-glove and even a vibroSCYTHE. Which also has a retractable 'flick' blade. And can have a tazer built into it. | |
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Mackie Messer of Wild Cards can make his hands vibrate like this, essentially turning them into vibroknives. | |
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In the Star Wars Expanded Universe novel, Shatterpoint features vibroshields wielded by the Jedi's Chaotic Neutral Counterparts, the Akk Guards of Haruun Kal. Super-conducting metal shields with the edges sharpened and powered to vibrate so that they can slice and cut as well as block blaster bolts, lightsabers and "slugs" (bullets). They're worn on the lower arms. Mace Windu comments that they're like twisted mirrors of Jedi lightsabers. He uses his sword as a shield, while these guys use their shields as swords. They also subvert the idea that only a vibroblade can stop another vibroblade. In the end, the vibroshield-wielding villain attempts to block another vibroshield by knocking its cutting edge away with the broad portion of his own. The edge goes right through his shields, takes off both his hands at the wrists, and goes a fair way into his upper torso. | |
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The Eisenhorn books mention "shivered" weapons, knocked sideways in space-time to produce a similar effect. | |
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In the zombie episode of Panty & Stocking with Garterbelt, Stocking uses (what else?) an actual vibrating dildo to fight the Zombie Apocalypse. | |
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One of Apocalypse's minions is Moses Magnum, an Ethiopian weapons manufacturer who was granted the power to generate vibrations. | |
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GURPS has vibroweapons but their operational time is limited by weight. If they're made out of hyperdense materials their cutting power jumps to ridiculous levels but severely limits how long it works for. | |
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In Elfen Lied, the remarkable cutting capabilities of vectors are justified by high-frequency vibration. | |
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They're also favored weapons in Rifts. More like a necessity, given that everyone and their mother has body armor that can stop a tank shell. Strangely enough, depending on which book you look at (it's not terribly consistent) a vibro-blade doesn't actually shake the blade itself but surrounds it in a vibrating energy sheath, bizarrely invalidating it for this trope by making it a sort of Laser Blade with a solid core. | |
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Kranz Maduke, one of the Chrono Numbers from Black Cat, has one of these as his signature weapon. | |
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This is how gunblades work in Final Fantasy VIII according to the Ultimania guide. Whenever the wielder triggers a round, it sends a wave of kinetic energy down the blade, adding an extra "kick" to their swings. The blades are notoriously difficult to use as not only do you need a good sense of timing, it's difficult to keep the weapon under control once it starts ringing like a bell. | |
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Spoofed by, of course, Kingdom of Loathing, where the "Vibrating Cyborg Knife" has + 20 damage, but 3 times the chance of fumbling and injuring yourself. | |
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In Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance they've become the standard melee weapon for cyborg to cyborg combat (since they tend to be Immune to Bullets, or at least very resistant). It's explained that normal swords can be turned into them and their cutting power is proportionate to the original blade's quality (just to make it clear that Jetstream Sam's repurposed 16th century katana is just better). | |
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At least one version of Gamma World included vibroblades in the weapon list. Subverted in that it was a vibroblade In Name Only, the description placing it more as a hand-held force field generator configured to project an Absurdly Sharp Blade. | |
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Hc Svnt Dracones has the "vibrox" enhancement that can be applied to any cutting weapon. Normal cutting weapons can't damage armor with more than 35 HP, Vibrox weapons can damage any armor. | |
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Captain America's shield is partially (or in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, wholly given adamantium is exclusive to the X-Men Film Series) built out of vibranium. Thus it's the reason for being indestructible: everything that hits the shield just bounces off by being absorbed and reflected. | |
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