History Main / SwordDrag

* Guts' sword in ''{{Berserk}}'' frequently drags his BFS across walls and floors -- often leaving smashed cobblestones behind him. It's also common for his sword to end up buried in the ground after a blow.

* Slayers in ''TheSuffering'' will often drag one hand-blade along the ground as they charge. [[HellIsThatNoise The sound]] is often the first sign that they're coming. It also often kicks up sparks which are sometimes the first thing you see if they're coming out of the darkness.

* Pyramid Head in ''Franchise/SilentHill.'' The [[SinisterScrapingSound loud scraping/whining noise of his giant blade]] becomes [[OhCrap a signal of his approach]]. Justified in that Pyramid Head's weapon, the Great Knife, is a meat-cleaver blade roughly the size of a Buick.

** Same as [[SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute The Butcher]] and his Meat Cleaver.
* Dullahan's entrance in ''VagrantStory'' is heralded by the sound of his sword scraping on the floor. When he enters, he drags it for another moment, and then cuts a mystic circle around himself.

* [[VideoGame/CodeOfPrincess Solange]] does this with the [[{{BFS}} DeLuxcalibur]] because the sword really is too big for her that she has to drag it around just to move.

* [[JustifiedTrope Justified]] in ''{{Claymore}}'', in which a secondary character use this to boost the power of her attack (and use an unbreakable sword). Her opponent do note that it's a very predictable move that you can't pull twice.

* [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2WYH2sFCGvE The first trailer]] of ''BrutalLegend'' sees Eddie do this with an ''[[AnAxeToGrind axe]]''. Hopefully, it'll make it to the final release...

* One technique commonly used by cavalry involves holding your sword downwards and out to the side while riding. Doing so allows you to utilize the forward momentum of your mount to increase the power of an upward slash. Occasionally, the sword may drag along the ground, either unintentionally or for psychological reasons:

* Street-type knife fighters fight from a low crouch and, if they're on a hard surface like pavement or concrete, will sometimes scrape the tip of the blade along the ground to psyche out an opponent.

* One of the zombies does this (though with a sledgehammer rather than a sword) in Film/ResidentEvil.

* Used realistically in ''RobRoy'' to indicate that the character is so exhausted from less than five minutes' fighting that he can barely lift his sword.

* ''TheCrazies'' has a ''pitchfork'' drag. One of "the crazies" shambles toward a field hospital ward full of people who are strapped helplessly to beds and cannot move. [[NightmareFuel Horror]] [[ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice ensues]].

* [[CodeOfPrincess Solange]] does this with the [[{{BFS}} DeLuxcalibur]] because the sword really is too big for her that she has to drag it around just to move.

Naturally, this would be a terrible maneuver to use in real life as it would wear down any good sword, slow down the wielder, and telegraph the coming attack obviously. Thankfully in fiction, we have the RuleOfCool to make up for that.

* Kojuro in ''SengokuBasara'' does this when he gets particularly pissed off, loses all composure as a swordsman and enters [[UnstoppableRage Berserk Mode]], apparently to seem more threatening toward his opponents. In the anime season 2 he pulls it off in fine style against Hanbe and his mooks.
* The [[LeagueOfLegends League of Legends]] champion [[TheBerserker Tryndamere]] runs around dragging his sword behind him with one hand. But then again, [[{{BFS}} with a sword like that]], you have to wonder if he kills stuff by cutting with the blade's edge or just smashing with the weight of it.
* The Black Knights from DarkSouls tend to do this a bit. Semi-justified, since it's usually the prelude to a big, air-launching upwards sweep attack. A player armed with a Black Knight weapon can do this as well.

* In Franchise/ResidentEvil, both videogame and film incarnations, [[GiantMook the Executioner]] drags his [[AnAxeToGrind axe]][[DropTheHammer hammer]] on the ground. Again, justified because the weapon is [[{{BFS}} only slightly smaller]] than the Executioner himself.

* ''TombRaider: The Last Revelation'' has undead warriors who do this.

* Terui Ryuu does this with the Engine Blade during episode 18 of ''KamenRiderDouble'' prior to his transformation into Kamen Rider Accel. This may count as a subversion though, since it's not to look intimidating, but rather because the blade is to heavy to carry normally while untransformed.
* In ''KamenRiderDragonKnight,'' Kamen Rider Wrath will scrape his {{Absurdly Sharp Blade}}s against each other, creating SwordSparks. You'd think it'd dull them, but his ability to [[CurbStompBattle curb stomp]] good Riders never suffers.

* In ''HotelRwanda'', the extremist Hutus intimidatingly slide their machetes along roads while marching toward the slaughter of Tutsi refugees.
* The Hutu extremists also do this in ''SometimesInApril'', another movie about the Rwandan Genocide.

* ''{{Blade}}'' does this in the opening fight scene of his first film.
* In ''InglouriousBasterds'' the Bear Jew , unseen in a tunnel, smacks the walls with his baseball bat while the German soldiers outside are being interrogated.

* In ''{{Alatriste}}'', when Íñigo Balboa duels with Gualterio Malatesta, [[RuleOfCool he pauses the fight to creating nice trail of sparks while dragging his rapier along the wall.]]

* In [[Characters/SoulcaliburIII Soul Calibur III]] if you are playing as Nightmare or Siegfried, there are two versions of the same cutscene with slightly different dialogue upon reaching the Forgotten Cathedral, wherein Nightmare arrives and approaches Siegfried while dragging a new version of '''[[ArtifactOfDoom SOUL EDGE]]'''. Justified, naturally, as this is one of the more famous of video game {{BFS}}s. It is made all the more sinister by the fact that Nightmare is actually the will of the cursed sword (the one being dragged) made solid and given "life". The creepy eye doesn't make it any less frightening, nor does the [[SinisterScrapingSound menacing sound of the blade]] [[SwordSparks sparking on the ancient stone]].

* In [[Characters/SoulcaliburIII Soul Calibur III]] if you are playing as Nightmare or Siegfried, there are two versions of the same cutscene with slightly different dialogue upon reaching the Forgotten Cathedral, wherein Nightmare arrives and approaches Siegfried while dragging a new version of '''[[ArtifactOfDoom SOUL EDGE]]'''. It is made all the more sinister by the fact that Nightmare is actually the will of the cursed sword (the one being dragged) made solid and given "life". The creepy eye doesn't make it any less frightening, nor does the [[SinisterScrapingSound menacing sound of the blade sparking on the ancient stone]].

* In one of the trailers for ''Film/PacificRim'', [[HumongousMecha Gipsy Danger]] does this with a large freighter before clubbing one of the giant monsters upside the head with it.

* In ''Ryan vs. Dorkman 2'', Ryan drags his lightsaber through a puddle of water. At another point in the film, Ryan swings his blade into the floor, throwing a shower of sparks into his opponent's face.

* A magazine ad for ''StarWars: [[VideoGame/DarkForcesSaga Dark Forces III]]: [[VideoGame/DarkForcesSaga Jedi Knight II]]: [[VideoGame/DarkForcesSaga Jedi Outcast]]'' has Kyle doing this with a lightsaber after {{Zorro Mark}}ing the wall with the game's insignia.