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* In ''In Bruges'', Ken throws himself from a tower window in order to equip his friend Ray with a pistol to defend himself against [[spoiler:his murderous boss]]. Of course, [[spoiler:after impact the pistol is a pile of rubbish. Ken: "Okay I think you're gonna die now."]]

* In ''Berserk'', Guts's sword is broken while fighting General Vascogne. Zodd appears and throws his own giant sword into the middle of the duel, which Guts them picks up and uses to win the fight.
* Inverted in {{Claymore}}, where the characters' swords cannot even be dented. Swords that are {{Made Of Diamond}}, huh.

* One of the quarry in {{Predators}} demands he be given a gun. Nobody provides him one.
* In ''Film/{{Gladiator}}'', Maximus disarms Commodus in the arena, and Commodus immediately starts demanding one of the surrounding royal guards to give him a sword. If he hadn't recently and publicly dishonored his own royal guards, they might have given him one.
** That situation is inverted earlier in the movie when Juba throws Maximus a sword when he didn't ask for one.

* Done with shields in the duel scene in ''The 13th Warrior'' - Viking duels being fought with shields, which are shattered by the blows of the swords. Turns out, the hero is far better off without.
** This scene is more complex than that, and more accurate than you would believe. Viking shields were usually wooden and considered single-use. Duels with the right to three shields are not unheard of in sagas, and the foregone conclusion is that he who has his last shield destroyed will die. It is also outright stated in the film that the winner could have ended the duel with a single strike at any time, but chose to wait just to rattle the other guy's boss.
*** There is a lovely scene in Egils saga about this. Egill dueled with Atli hinn skammi. Egill had a shield and in his right hand a ''kesja'' which is a short spear equally useful for thrusting and hewing. He also had a sword tied to his right arm. Atli also had a shield, spear and a sword. As the duel went on, both spears had been thrown, both shields been chopped up, and Egill then discovered that Atli was mystically protected, since Egils sword never had any effect. Well, what to do in such a situation? Egill took the "obvious" way out, ran towards Atli and bit his throat all the way through.

* No one mentioned TheNutcracker?

* In {{Discworld/Mort}}, [[GrimReaper Death's]] servant Alfred goes back to the Unseen Univerity, and starts acting like a BadBoss. When Death comes to take him back he hisses to the cowardly Rincewind for his staff, but Rincewind doesn't give it. The other wizards praise him afterwards, untill Rincewind admits he couldn't ''find'' the staff. The Librarian makes it clear he took it, with an 'ook'.

* In ''StarWars: Return of the Jedi'', Luke, Han, and Chewbacca are sentenced to a long and painful death by being forced to jump into a Sarlacc's pit. Luke signals to R2, who is on a gliding barge several hundred yards away, to get his lightsaber ready. Luke then steps off the plank, grabs it, uses it to launch himself in the air while R2 shoots his lightsaber to to him, catches the lightsaber, does a front flip, and begins to kick ass.

* This Troper is shocked that no one has put one of the [[CrowningMomentOfAwesome coolest]] examples this on here. In final Star Wars film, Return of the Jedi, Luke, Han, and Chewbacca are sentenced to a long and painful death by being forced to jump into a Sarlacc's pit. Luke signals to R2, who is on a gliding barge several hundred yards away, to get his lightsaber ready. Luke then steps off the plank, grabs it, uses it to launch himself in the air while R2 shoots his lightsaber to to him, catches the lightsaber, does a front flip, and begins to kick ass.
** In other words, [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AELImg_jnBA&feature=related THIS.]]
** That scene also contains TheForce (naturally), LaserBlade (naturally), DeadpanSnarker [[OverlyLongGag (with Harrison Ford? Naturally.)]], and FanService. ''Naturally''

** After beating Saito to a pulp.

** 'After' beating Saito to a pulp.

* A particularly [[strike:Awesome]] stupid example in the BazLuhrmann ''Romeo + Juliet'', which ironically features a gun rather than a sword, despite [[http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/Narm this line:]]
-->"Fetch me my longsword."
** According to the plate on the stock, it's the brand of his shotgun; their handguns are the "Sword" model.
*** while Romeo's Gun is a "Rapier"

** This enables Rüdiger to fulfil his duties as Etzel's vassal (his liege has ordered him to attack Hagen and co.) without completely breaking his oath of friendship to the Nibelungs - he is giving one of them material aid. And so it is significant that Hagen asks Rüdiger for a shield rather than just picking up one of the dozens lying on the ground.

* Interesting variant in ''Das Nibelungenlied''. Hagen von Tronje, a heroic/villainous knight trapped in a building with his fellow nobles and warriors, faces the hero Rüdiger von Bechlarn, who he has previously sworn friendship to (they are forced to fight by a code of honor and oaths). Hagen requests a shield as his is broken, and Rüdiger offers his.

* A particularly [[strike:Awesome]] stupid example in the BazLuhrmann ''Romeo + Juliet'', which ironically features a gun rather than a sword, despite [[CrowningMomentOfAwesome this line:]]

"WreckedWeapon" may lead to this, or having a sword jam in the wound so the character can't pull it free.

It's often a tribute to the fighting skill of the unarmed man or {{Fire Forged Friends}}hip of the one who gives it -- especially if he does not use the StockPhrase but the other characters do so anyway, or someone else says "Give him your sword." Location may also be significant -- throwing a sword to a man who is toe-to-toe with the monster is only prudent (and avoids "ThrowingYourSwordAlwaysWorks"). Of course, failure to do that get the inverse effect, which may shade into "TheDogBitesBack", if a {{Mook}} refuses to give the BigBad something without which he is powerless and helpless.

Unlike "ItWasAGift", this is temporary, especially for the CoolSword and other weapons not easily replaced. Expect the character to return the weapon after the fight, with thanks. If he is then told to keep the weapon, it transformed into "ItWasAGift" as well; it is a particularly strong tribute, particularly with the CoolSword or other unusual weapons.

* Interesting variant in ''Das Nibelungenlied''. Hagen von Tronje, a heroic/villainous knight trapped in a building with his fellow nobles and warriors, faces the hero Dietrich von Bern, who he has previously sworn friendship to (they are forced to fight by a code of honor and oaths). Hagen requests a shield as his is broken, and Dietrich offers his.

** Inverted earlier in the movie when Juba throws Maximus a sword when he didn't ask for one.