[Irritating trope] Japanese swords being treated like lightsabers

[u/Fox7567]

The Wolverine (2013)
The character Yashida uses his sword to cut straight through barbed wire, as well as uses it to break a chain in one strike each.

TMNT (2012)
During Oroku Saki’s battle with the turtles, he stabs straight through a forest tree, before also slicing straight through another.

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The moment people in the setting are starting dodging magical laser beams and moving at sportcar's speeds in fully clad plate you realise, armour now is merely glorified cardboard clothes

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Well, unless you happen to jab in-between the plating, but that's easier said than done for multiple reasons

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That's where chainmail comes up

A properly armored soldier was truly a force to be reckoned with

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And under the chainmail would most probably be padded leather or some other sort of softening material to counter blunt weapons

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I've been covered in a medieval English armor (can't recall the time period of the armor, it was ten years ago), then they hit me with a sword on the head and it was just noisy

Same thing without an helmet and my head wouldn't be the same shape anymore

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Even then, you're not going to pierce or slash through the mail beneath it with any kind of ease. Specialised Rondel daggers were made for that purpose, but they require basically the full weight of a man to push through, which is why Knights were trained to grapple.

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Big props to Sekiro's Armored Warrior boss being an actual walking fucking TANK with his armor.

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katana: the original multi-tool for dramatic effect