History Main / SwordfishSabre

* ''VideoGame/SleepingDogs'': During fights taking place in fisheries or similar, there are some swordfish heads conveniently lying around so you can insta-kill enemies by dropping them on top.

->'''Max''': Are you thinking what I'm thinking?\\
'''Chief''': I dunno, were you thinking "Holy shit! Holy shit! A swordfish almost went through my head"? If so, then yes.

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* ''ComicBook/WonderWoman1942'': In the Impossible Tales ComicBook/WonderGirl story in #107 Ronno sees a swordfish about to attack a teenaged Diana from behind and ends up wounded by it, then Diana uses a piece of corral as a makeshift "sword" and fences with it until is has enough and swims away.

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* At one point in Herman Melville's ''Literature/MobyDick'', Steelkilt jokes that a leak that's somehow appeared in the hull of the ''Town-Ho'' was probably just caused by a swordfish, and that if Radney's worried about it coming back with a saw-fish and a file-fish, he should jump overboard and chase all the fish away himself.

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* WebOriginal/{{Mortasheen}} has the [[http://www.bogleech.com/mortasheen/scalamax.htm Scalamax,]] which takes the swordfish pun further by putting a cutlass on its face, and even gives it a SpinAttack that allows it to [[FlyingSeafoodSpecial to hurtle itself out of the water and glide like a bladed discus for several kilometers]].

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* ''[[VideoGame/ShadowHearts Shadow Hearts From the New World]]'': [[McNinja Frank]]'s Marlin Saber is ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin: a sword made by adding a hilt to a massive swordfish.

* WebOriginal/{{Mortasheen}} has the [[http://www.bogleech.com/mortasheen/scalamax.htm Scalamax]], which takes the swordfish pun further by putting a cutlass on its face, and even gives it a SpinAttack that allows it to [[FlyingSeafoodSpecial to hurtle itself out of the water and glide like a bladed discus for several kilometers]].

* There is at least one case of an angler [[https://www.fieldandstream.com/blogs/honest-angler/2013/02/thats-when-it-hits-you-swordfish-bill-gut#page-2 getting run through by a swordfish they'd caught]], though it was most likely accidental. As noted above, swordfish don't use their bills for stabbing - the tips are actually too blunt for such a purpose.

Swordfishes, sailfishes, and marlins (aka billfish) are formidable undersea predators that are well-known for their impressive rostrums that look like a threatening [[SpikesOfDoom Spike Of Doom]]. They usually use them to knock out preys and slash them, though contrary to popular belief they do not spear them.

* WebOriginal/{{Mortasheen}} has the [[http://www.bogleech.com/mortasheen/scalamax.htm Scalamax]], which takes the swordfish pun UpToEleven by putting a cutlass on its face, and even gives it a SpinAttack that allows it to [[FlyingSeafoodSpecial to hurtle itself out of the water and glide like a bladed discus for several kilometers]].

** One can catch a swordfish by fishing. It turns out the fish makes an perfectly fine spear. And by fishing in laval, one can catch an Obsidian Swordfish, which makes an even better spear.

* In ''WesternAnimation/IceAge4ContinentalDrift'', the villain Captain Gutt uses the skull of a sawfish as a sword.

->'''Wilson''': ''I hope this sword doesn't start to smell...''

* During the FoodFight in the season 2 premier of ''WebAnimation/{{RWBY}}'', Weiss uses a swordfish to mimic her rapier. Even serves as this tropes page image!

* In ''VideoGame/{{MonsterHunter}}'', a recurring item is the Frozen Speartuna, a Greatsword made using a [[CaptainObvious frozen Speartuna]] (the Monster Hunter equivalent to a swordfish) as a weapon. Zigzagged, however, as the Speartuna's rostrum is used as a handle, rather than being used to spear enemies.

* In ''VideoGame/{{MonsterHunter}}'', a recurring item is the Frozen Speartuna, a Greatsword made using a [[CaptainObvious frozen Speartuna]] (the Monster Hunter equivalent to a swordfish) as a weapon. Zigzagged, however, as the Speartuna's rostram is used as a handle, rather than being used to spear enemies.

Note that there are some other, lesser-known fishes and sea animals that also have rostrums (or similar pointy appendages) were given a similar treatment in some works. Those include sawfishes, which are closely related to stingrays and whose rostrums are [[SerratedBladeOfPain Serrated Blades Of Pain]], and narwhals, a species of cetaceans whose long, menacing horns are actually a specialized tooth.

* During the FoodFight in the season 2 premier of ''WebAnimation/{{RWBY}}'', Weiss uses a swordfish to mimic her rapier.

* In the ''Series/{{CSINY}}'' episode "Dancing with the Fishes," one of the cases is a fish merchant who was stabbed with his very own swordfish catch.

* During the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019_London_Bridge_stabbing 2019 London Bridge stabbing]] at Fishmonger's Hall, one of the witnesses used a mounted narwhal tusk as an impromptu weapon to defend himself from the killer.

* In the ''Series/CSINewYork'' episode "Dancing with the Fishes", one of the cases is a fish merchant who was stabbed with his very own swordfish catch.