History Main / WreckedWeapon

** In the Volume 8 finale, Jaune and Cinder fight over the fate of the Winter Maiden, leading to Jaune's sword being destroyed as a symbol for how he's been forced to break his ideals and his heart in the process. [[spoiler:Cinder fatally wounding the Winter Maiden causes her to ask Jaune to finish the deed so that she can choose a successor for the power and prevent it from going by default to Cinder. The sword breaks at the point where it is stained with the Maiden's blood.]] It remains broken throughout Volume 9, and [[BrokenBird so does Jaune]].

* As ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaBreathOfTheWild'' is the first game in [[Franchise/TheLegendOfZelda the series]] to feature BreakableWeapons[[labelnote:*]]Not including ''Ocarina of Time''[='=]s Giant's Knife[[/labelnote]], it shouldn't be a surprise that a Wrecked Weapon shows up. [[spoiler:That weapon is the '''Master Sword'''; before the Great Calamity, Link was faced with unending hordes of Guardians, and the Blade of Evil's Bane took enough damage to the point where parts of it rusted and chipped from all the nonstop combat. While the blade looks good as new in the present day, its adherence to ''Breath of the Wild''[='=]s Breakable Weapons system[[labelnote:*]]it can only be used for about fourty swings, eighty around manifestations of Malice, before it runs out of energy with a ten-minute recharge period[[/labelnote]] indicates that it still hadn't repaired itself completely.]]

* [[spoiler: Caliburn]] in ''[[VideoGame/SonicStorybookSeries Sonic and the Black Knight]]'' [[spoiler: gets broken defending Sonic from Merlina's attacks. He gets repaired and receives an upgrade once Sonic receives his latest SuperMode, Excalibur Sonic, though.]]

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles|2003}}'':
** In the 2003 cartoon, an extended sequence of everyone who serves the Shredder [[NoHoldsBarredBeatdown beating the holy hell out of Leonardo]] concludes with the Shredder snapping Leo's swords with his bare hands.

* In ''WesternAnimation/TeenTitans'', Cyborg's car is destroyed in what seems like all of its appearances.

* ''Literature/TheLionTheWitchAndTheWardrobe'': One way in which Edmund redeems himself is to smash the White Witch's wand, as she was using it to turn her enemies into stone.

* ''Literature/TheChroniclesOfNarnia'': A villainous version occurs in ''Literature/TheLionTheWitchAndTheWardrobe'', when Edmund uses his sword to break the White Witch's wand, thereby taking away her major advantage of being able to turn her opponents to stone (as well as earning some redemption for his own treachery earlier in the story).

* ''Fanfic/HuntersOfJustice'':
** Crescent Rose is destroyed while fighting against Trigon. Later on, Ruby makes a new one.
** Crocea Mors is broken in a later fight against Brother Blood. Likewise, Jaune replaces it.
* Izuku's [[BatterUp Metal Bat]] in ''Fanfic/ProHeroMetalBat'' ends up destroyed by the Zero Pointer in the Yuei entrance exam. While a dramatic occurrence at the moment, its replacement was treated with no fanfare. It was always just something Izuku fished out of Dagobah beach's trash and liked.
* ''Fanfic/QueenOfShadows'': During the Battle of Tobe, Ikazuki shatters the mystical naginata Houka against the ground after taking it off of its wielder [[ActionGirl Yasashi]] in their duel.

* ''Fanfic/ShadowsOverMeridian'':
** The rebels getting their weapons damaged by the [[BlackSwordsAreBetter Shadowkhan weapons]] of Phobos' loyalists does its work in making them realize [[TheWorfEffect how out of their depth they are against Queen Kage and her army]].
** After Jade's army turns the tide of the battle at Snowpoint and she brings an avalanche down on to the Sky Hunters, Vera finds her bow trashed, symbolizing the truth Albel [[KnowWhenToFoldEm forces her to face; they've lost the battle that was supposed to end the siege of Snowpoint and must regroup]].

** In the Volume 8 finale, Jaune and Cinder fight over the fate of the Winter Maiden, leading to Jaune's sword being destroyed as a symbol for how he's been forced to break his ideals and his heart in the process. [[spoiler:Cinder fatally wounding the Winter Maiden causes her to ask Jaune to finish the deed so that she can choose a successor for the power and prevent it from going by default to Cinder. The sword breaks at the point where it is stained with the Maiden's blood.]]

** The vehicular variation comes up in the Literature/XWingSeries book ''Starfighters of Adumar''. Much is made in the initial portion of the book about how superior the [[CoolSpaceship X-wing]] is compared to their local counterparts, the Blade-class fighter. When the BigBad [[spoiler: convinces the ''perator'']] to turn on Wedge's pilots and exile them, their X-wings are impounded, and they are forced to fight several pitched battles using [[GiveMeASword borrowed Blades]] instead -- including a four-on-four combat against Imperial TIE Interceptors, which are on par with the X-wing and therefore have a huge advantage over their Blades. Once they [[HesBack manage to seize the hanger where the X-wings are stored]], though, they return and lay a CurbStompBattle on the enemy forces.

Although sometimes on rare occassions and if at all possible, the victim of this trope will continue to use the broken weapon or at least, pieces of it to fight[[note]]Like say, a blade of a sword being shattered yet there's still enough metal left for it to be used as a knife, even a type of polearm (like say a [[BladeOnAStick spear]]) or even staff, being bisected in half. Forcing the user to either [[DualWielding dual-wield]] or use the blade part of the stick as a dagger, and that's barely scratching the surface[[/note]].

->'''''"YOU! — BROKE! — MY! — SWORD!!"'''''
-->-- '''Roy Greenhilt''', ''Webcomic/TheOrderOfTheStick''

* ''LightNovel/TheFamiliarOfZero'': Saito Hiraga's talking sword Derflinger gets shattered (in the light novel by an assassin, in the anime by a dragon). [[spoiler:Fortunately, it turns out Derflinger's spirit only uses the sword as a vessel, and transfers to another sword, bringing all of its abilities to it.]]

* ''LightNovel/SwordArtOnline'' has Kirito do this several times. The first time it happened, he intends to break a sword dropped by a rare monster with one he intends to purchase and instead [[TheWorfEffect breaks the one he intends to purchase on his monster drop]]. The second time, it's revealed that most players [[HowIsThatEvenPossible don't even know SAO's gameplay engine can do that]].

* ''Series/TheMandalorian'' the titular Mandalorian's CoolStarship, the Razor Crest, is destroyed. In personal weapon matters his signature disrupter rifle is destroyed with it. This forces him to rely much more on the help of his tenuous allies and the mandalorian spear that survived the wreckage.

** The rebels getting their weapons damaged by the Shadowkhan weapons of Phobos' loyalists does its work in making them realize [[TheWorfEffect how out of their depth they are against Queen Kage and her army]].

* ''LightNovel/HighSchoolDXD'': In the backstory, King Arthur's sword Excalibur was broken in battle. The pieces were reforged into seven blades that grant a fraction of the original's power: [[PersonOfMassDestruction Excalibur Destruction]], [[MorphWeapon Excalibur Mimic]], [[SuperSpeed Excalibur Rapidly]], [[MasterOfIllusion Excalibur]] [[DreamWeaver Nightmare]], [[{{Invisibility}} Excalibur Transparency]], [[HolyHandGrenade Excalibur Blessing]], and [[PeoplePuppets Excalibur Ruler]]. Xenovia collects the swords and fuses them into a sheathe for her sword Durandal. She is later able to turn the sheathe into the true Excalibur.

** In Season 5, Jack's futuristic weapons and armor are all destroyed by the Daughters of Aku in the second episode.

** And just a bit after that [[spoiler:Crystal and Bozzok break their signature weapons when Crystal turns on him.]] This is probably so that their parts are unambiguosly over and done with.

* ''LightNovel/HighSchoolDXD'': In the backstory, King Arthur's sword Excalibur was broken in battle. The pieces were reforged into seven blades that grant a fraction of the original's power: [[PersonOfMassDestruction Excalibur Destruction]], [[MorphWeapon Excalibur Mimic]], [[SuperSpeed Excalibur Rapidly]], [[MasterOfIllusion Excalibur]] [[DreamWeaver Nightmare]], [[{{Invisibility}} Excalibur Transparency]], [[HolyHandGrenade Excalibur Blessing]], and [[PeoplePuppets Excalibur Ruler]]. Xenobia collects the swords and fuses them into a sheathe for her sword Durandal. She is later able to turn the sheathe into the true Excalibur.

** Several times in the course of the series, Sango's [[BattleBoomerang Hiraikotsu]] will get cut in half, chewed up or otherwise rendered unfit for battle, forcing her to return to her demon slaying village to repair it. While it's usually more of a downplayed example due to her being able to fix it herself without much fuss, the final time it happens in the series requires her to go on a spirit journey of sorts to quell [[EmpatheticWeapon the demon souls that reside within the Hiraikotsu]] due to them feeling betrayed by how the weapon got destroyed (Sango slathering it in corrosive poison slave and then feeding it to a bone eating demon who had already taken several bites out of it.) After she and the demons come to an agreement, the Hiraikotsu is reforged for a final time and granted brand new powers that put it back on par with everyone else's weapons right when the Hiraikotsu was beginning to wane in effectiveness.

* In ''LightNovel/RebuildWorld'', Akira's [[PoweredArmor augmented suit]] and [[CoolBike bike]] are destroyed during his fight with the three Relic Thieves and the rest of his weapons are confiscated and taken apart by the government as evidence of the battle. Luckily for him, the government is willing to pay him 100 million aurum to keep him quiet about the whole thing, which lets him replace everything with even better equipment.

** This was used to show KatanasAreJustBetter in the flashback episode where Duncan gets his katana. Having just washed up on shore in old Japan, Duncan draws his European blade on an older samurai who simply breaks Duncan's sword off just short of the hilt. The dumbfounded look Duncan gives the now 2 inch long blade is hilarious.

** The "figuratively neutered" part of the trope comes in from a different angle, when she [[ArmorPiercingSlap clobbers him]] in response to his ham-handed attempt to talk her into another sort of "consolation".