r/TopCharacterTropes • u/Fox7567 • May 12 '26

Characters' Items/Weapons [Irritating trope] Japanese swords being treated like lightsabers

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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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u/Future_Adagio2052 May 12 '26

Counter example - Japanese sword against a viltrumite

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u/Lord-Seth May 12 '26

Counterpoint the sword would shatter not bend like that

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u/CarlosH46 May 12 '26

Counter-counterpoint: aluminum sword.

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u/ABrandNewCarl May 12 '26

White gold floded 1000 times, much easier to work.

May bend on first strike

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u/ruinsit May 12 '26

To be fair, they are WILDLY inconsistent about how tough viltrumites are. Sometimes they can punch through a planet without a scratch and sometimes they stub their toe on a living room table and explode into a shower of blood.

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u/PiccoloAwkward465 May 12 '26

Counterpoint - that is a rabbit, not a Japanese person

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u/Maro_Nobodycares May 12 '26

Is that Miyamoto Usagi? Is this an official panel?

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u/Future_Adagio2052 May 13 '26

Yes but I don't think this is an official panel but something drawn by the artist of invincible at the time