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11Implausible fencing powers are, collectively, the ability to do things with swords that really shouldn't be possible. This superhuman capability with a blade usually comes from pure skill in the art of swordplay and generally constitutes a CharlesAtlasSuperpower, though occasionally its backed up with explicit powers like SuperStrength, SuperSpeed, and/or CombatClairvoyance, as well. Often the purview of the MasterSwordsman, implausible fencing powers are virtually a requirement to give swords a fighting chance in GunsVsSwords.
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13The scope of implausible fencing powers is broad enough to be considered a SuperTrope, covering a number of {{Sub Trope}}s. Below is a list of them:
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15* {{BFS}}: Using a sword that's absurdly large, which would require impressive skill to wield ''as a sword'' instead of as an enormous, vaguely sword-shaped bludgeon.
16* BladeRun: Dodging an enemy blow by leaping up and balancing on the blade of their sword. [[RuleOfCool Somehow]].
17* BladeSpam: Attacking extremely quickly -- sometimes to the point individual strikes are impossible to see with the naked eye.
18* CleanCut: Making a single, perfect slash that bisects the target with ease.
19** DiagonalCut: Making a single, perfect slash that results in a cut so fine, the target remains intact for a {{Beat}} before falling to pieces.
20* CuttingThroughEnergy: Slicing through intangible things, like PureEnergy or HardLight.
21* DodgeTheBullet: Using fancy footwork and incredible reflexes to just dodge the shots entirely.
22* {{Flynning}}: Swordfighting that looks cool, but would be useless or worse than useless in real life.
23* LudicrousMeleeAccuracy: Inhuman feats of accuracy, like deliberately causing ClothingDamage in lieu of injury (possibly [[PinnedToTheWall pinning the target down]] in the process) or [[PaperCutting minor cosmetic wounds]] instead of landing a serious blow.
24* OneHandedZweihander: The ability to effortlessly wield a Zweihander (or other [[{{BFS}} similar sized]] blade) with one hand, usually with superhuman speed and precision.
25* ParryingBullets: Using a blade to parry incoming weapons fire.
26* SwordBeam: Using a sword to make a ranged attack by slashing in the general direction of something, likely as a form of RazorWind or KiManipulation.
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28See ImprobableAimingSkills for the ranged weapon counterpart. Implausible fencing powers are the leading reason why GunsAreUseless. You might also want to check out our UsefulNotes page on UsefulNotes/{{Swords}}.
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35* In ''Anime/AfroSamurai'', this is evident within the first five minutes, and endemic throughout. Memorably, the title character cleaves a bullet, and the shrapnel kills several of his opponents, leaving him unharmed. Upon seeing this, the man who tried to shoot Afro [[LampshadeHanging quite rightly says]] "What the... that's impossible!"
36* In ''Manga/BlackButler'', Tanaka shows off these skills during the Green Witch Arc, cutting a bullet in ''half''. While its still in ''mid-air''.
37* Sephiria Arks from ''Manga/BlackCat'' has demonstrated, among other things, the ability to juggle a filled wine-glass on the tip of her sword without spilling a drop, the ability to move her sword faster than the eye can see, the ability to create cuts with her blade that are thinner than the blade itself and, perhaps most impressively, the ability to ''hit something with her sword so hard it disintegrates''.
38* In ''Manga/{{Bleach}}'', high-level sword users have commonly been seen employing pretty much the entire list.
39* ''Manga/{{Claymore}}'' loves this trope. Warriors of the Organization are superhumanly strong, so much so they can easily wield their distinctive {{BFS}}es one-handed, even though the swords in question are usually longer than the users are tall. And that's not even getting into yoki techniques.
40* In ''Manga/DemonSlayerKimetsuNoYaiba'', Yoriichi Tsugikuni, a legendary demon slayer, with swordmanship so inhuman that a combat training dummy modelled after him to train Demon Slayers had to be installed with ''six'' arms, with a blade in each hand, to even begin to emulate his techniques.
41* Erza Scarlet from ''Manga/FairyTail'' has been shown to have cut through ''airspaces'', redirect Evergreen's FlechetteStorm, easily blocks bullets, uses feet to deflect/attack enemy attacks, she's also capable of RazorWind, and easily wields {{BFS}}.
42* A lot of this shows up in ''Anime/FinalFantasyVIIAdventChildren'' to justify why anyone would have a sword when there are guns around. [[RuleOfCool Other than the obvious reason]].
43* In ''Manga/FullmetalAlchemist'', despite plenty of characters having abilities that make them [[PersonOfMassDestruction persons of mass destruction]], Fuhrer Bradley manages to take on gunmen, alchemists, and even a tank with only swords. The only character who manages to fight him on equal terms is fellow MasterSwordsman Ling Yao.
44* In ''Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventure'', several stands are capable of doing this. Silver Chariot is capable of [[CuttingThroughEnergy skewering flames on its blade]], cutting [[AbsurdCuttingPower through solid rock]], and [[ParryingBullets slicing bullets in half]], along with [[BladeSpam moving so fast it appears there are eight copies of it at once]]. At one point it even makes a ''functioning clock'' out of a table and his opponent's flames. A later Stand, Anubis, is [[WeaponWieldsYou nothing but a sword, which possesses its users]]. Naturally, [[spoiler: it ends up possessing Polnareff, Chariot's user, for some DualWielding action]].
45* Shigure Kosaka from ''Manga/KenichiTheMightiestDisciple''. '''Everything''' she uses (including an ordinary ''wooden spoon'') becomes an AbsurdlySharpBlade, and with said object she can cause massive ClothingDamage on multiple opponents without them noticing.
46* Goemon Ishikawa of ''Franchise/LupinIII'' can do most of the things on the list. He can [[CleanCut cut through anything]] with [[BladeSpam extremely rapid strikes]] and [[LudicrousMeleeAccuracy ridiculous precision]], up to and including [[ParryingBullets cutting automatic gunfire out of the air]]. He's also been known to cut through [[CuttingThroughEnergy non-physical objects]], like lightning bolts and tornadoes. Often, things he cuts apart will [[DiagonalCut remain intact until he sheathes his sword]] and spouts his catchphrase.
47-->'''Goemon''': Once again I have cut a worthless object.
48* In ''Manga/{{Naruto}}'', multiple characters display this.
49** Madara Uchiha's [[PowerArmor Perfect Susanoo]] carries two gigantic katanas and the shockwave created by a casual warm up swing from just one of these blades can cut mountains in two.
50** Mifune's so fast with his sword he can blitz even seasoned Shinobi like Hanzo before they can even ''weave'' seals. And cut opposing blades in half with ease.
51** And then there are the Seven Swordsmen, who (as the name suggests) are all capable of various impossibly-awesome feats.
52** Killer Bee. He wields [[DualWielding seven (later eight) swords at once]], and is able to out-fence Sharingan-powered Sasuke, who's normally able to predict the incoming attacks, simply because there are [[ConfusionFu so many blades moving too randomly]] for even ''him'' to follow.
53* Most of the accomplished swordsmen in ''Manga/OnePiece'' are shown to be capable of this in some form or another. Zoro gets to show it off most often, but any number of sword-wielding enemies get in on the action as well. Zoro wields ''three swords at once'', one in each hand and the third ''[[CutlassBetweenTheTeeth between his teeth]]'', most of the sword-wielding cast is capable of ParryingBullets (from pistol rounds to cannonballs), and individual people have accomplished just about everything else on this page.[[WorldsBestWarrior The World's Greatest Swordsman]] Dracule Mihawk sliced up a frozen tidal wave. ''Lengthwise''.
54* ''Webcomic/OnePunchMan'':
55** Spring Mustachio is a trained fencer. One of his moves is called "Tomboy"; it involves him coiling his sword and launching the blade great distances.
56** Atomic Samurai only needs one visible swing of his katana to cut a horde of monsters into shreds, with hundreds of slashes seen coming from all directions.
57* ''Anime/RevolutionaryGirlUtena'' uses this trope a lot. For example, ''cleaving a row of approaching cars just by pointing a sword in their general direction!'' Swordfighting in Utena is highly symbolic and has nothing to do with reality.
58* Unsurprisingly, almost all of the major samurai in ''Anime/RurouniKenshin'' exhibit one or more of the variations at one point or another during the show.
59* ''Anime/SamuraiChamploo'' uses this extensively, both with protagonists Mugen and Jin and various antagonists that appear in individual episodes. Mugen and Jin especially use LudicrousMeleeAccuracy [[note]]at one point the two of them make a perfect CleanCut through a pair of apples resting on top of Fuu's head. Simultaneously. While blindfolded. And ''hungover''.[[/note]] and both of them regularly [[DodgeTheBullet dodge arrows]] fired at them and [[ParryingBullets cut them out of the air]], as well as [[GunsVsSwords taking on people using guns]] and winning. Individual enemies include a guy who kills his targets without cutting them (using KiManipulation channeled via his sword), and a BlindWeaponmaster in addition to more conventional MasterSwordsman opponents.
60* ''Manga/SamuraiDeeperKyo'' is practically a showcase for every kind of implausible fencing power in existence and then some. As the series progresses, it gets to the point where one of Kyo's regular sword swings has enough power to produce explosions that outmatch most modern-day artillery.
61* A strong example would be the samurai in ''Anime/SamuraiSeven'', whose most notable trait in the anime is that they can carve up cyborgs, powered armor, even gigantic floating warships, with katana. Several times, shells are cleaved asunder and the most skilled of samurai are enabled to deflect {{Wave Motion Gun}}s.
62* The Weapon Types in ''Manga/{{Sekirei}}'', in particular Karasuba and [[spoiler: Miya]]. Expect to see them dodge bullets, deflect elemental attacks, slice through just about anything, destroy opponents' clothing without harming them, and produce RazorWind with a swing of their weapons. Quite a few of them effortlessly wield weapons the same size -- or larger -- than them, thanks to SuperStrength.
63* Gourry Gabriev from ''Literature/{{Slayers}}'' demonstrates implausible fencing powers on numerous occasions.
64* ''Literature/SwordArtOnline'': Kirito's abilities as a swordsman are pretty ridiculous. He uses a LaserBlade in the game ''Gun Gale Online'' (where, given that the focus is on guns, it's considered a JokeWeapon) and starts using it to [[ParryingBullets deflect bullets]] while he closes the distance in order to slice people up. In ''[=ALFheim=] Online'', he prefers a {{BFS}} because he claims other weapons are "too light", and eventually learns how to [[CuttingThroughEnergy cut through spells]] in that game, as well.
65* The manga ''Manga/{{Vagabond}}'' has UsefulNotes/MiyamotoMusashi's implausible fencing powers as his ability to judge distance and range ("seeing one's sword"), his [[MadeOfIron incredible constitution]], and his unheard-of strength. When he takes on the four senior disciples of the Yagyuu, one of them actually believes DualWielding to be AwesomeButImpractical... up until Musashi breaks another disciple's sword (held in both hands) with a one-handed slash. Musashi later manages to split [[spoiler:Yoshioka Seijuurou]] in two (from the left shoulder to the right hip), sever [[spoiler:Yoshioka Denshichirou]]'s left hand, and knock back opponents with one-handed strokes.
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69* The protagonist of ''ComicBook/VForVendetta'' (both comic and film) is capable of successfully attacking opponents wielding firearms while using only daggers himself. This is because AppliedPhlebotinum, in the form of unspecified experiments performed on him when he was an inmate in a concentration camp, has given him superhuman reflexes, speed and endurance.
70* ''ComicBook/XMen'': Nightcrawler is a second-generation mutant with [[HandyFeet prehensile feet]], a {{prehensile tail}}, superhuman agility and the ability to {{teleport|ation}} (accompanied by a dark cloud of sulfurous gas). Combined with his skill at fencing (he fancies himself a fuzzy blue-black Errol Flynn), this lets him wield three (or in extreme cases five) swords simultaneously while potentially attacking from any direction while partially obscured.
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74* ''Fanfic/SecondWind'': Zoro, even more so than usual. He can cut seastone, which is as hard as ''diamond''. As far as we know, not even Mihawk can do that, having failed to cut "Diamond" Jozu during the Marineford War in the previous timeline. That alone proves that Zoro would've probably beaten Mihawk at the Baratie had he been at full strength.
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78* In ''Franchise/StarWars'', implausible fencing powers abound. Mostly {{justified|Trope}} by the fact that both Jedi and Sith are using [[LaserBlade lightsabers]] and have CombatClairvoyance via the Force. This lets them [[ParryingBullets parry blaster bolts]] (or just [[DodgeTheBullet avoid the shot]] instead), [[LudicrousMeleeAccuracy strike with unerring accuracy]] and [[CleanCut slice things apart with one blow]] as standard abilities. Non-Force users occasionally get in on the action by being [[MechaMooks combat droids]] or aliens with absurd (by human standards) reflexes.
79* Karl Ruprecht Kroenen in ''Film/Hellboy2004'' is so skilled with his tonfa blades that he can cut through feet of solid material such as rock and steel and can kill gunmen by deflecting their fired bullets back at them.
80* Wade Wilson in ''Film/XMenOriginsWolverine'' doesn't [[ParryingBullets parry bullets]]. Instead, he cuts them in half in midflight, and each half hits and kills a different [[{{Mooks}} mook]].
81* In ''Film/TheCourtJester'', Hawkins' (Creator/DannyKaye) ''alter ego'' "Giacomo" is astonishingly good. The one opponent we see him face at any length is Ravenhurst (Creator/BasilRathbone), who is also quite skilled, but more at the "I've been practicing this for forty years" level as opposed to Giacomo's supernatural talent. The only reason the fight lasts more than a few moments is that Hawkins and Giacomo switch personalities at the snap of a finger, and whomever gets the upper hand in the battle keeps saying "And now, your life isn't worth ''that''<snap>."
82* ''Film/{{Yellowbeard}}'': Despite being blind, Pew is able to extinguish a candle flame with one precise strike of his SwordCane.
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87* The greatest swordsman in the world is giving a demonstration of his skill to a crowd. As he draws his sword, his assistant releases a single housefly. The swordsman watches the fly buzz around, waits for his moment, and strikes! ...And then the fly buzzes away again. As the crowd groans, the swordsman holds up his hand. "Look again, my friends. The fly lives, yes, but he will never be a father!"
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91* In the ''TabletopGame/ForgottenRealms'' novel ''Daughter of the Drow'' the trope was used straight (drow), averted (berserkers) and subverted when one met another. A drow warrior [[TheFightingNarcissist flaunts]] his awe-inspiring mastery of two-weapon swordplay to TheBerserker in the battle rage wielding a ''[[{{BFS}} really massive]]'' (and magical) blade. Fyodor ends up ''very'' amazed, Brizznarth ends up ''very'' dead: some things are too heavy to be stopped by fancy parries and some people are too arrogant to consider this. Another shot him at least five times with hand crossbow, but he was [[BulletTime accelerated]] enough to parry all with a club.
92* [[Literature/TheLegendOfDrizzt Drizzt]] from the R.A. Salvatore novels deflects arrows and does a variety of amazing things with his scimitars. Of special note is ''[[Literature/HomecomingDrizzt Homecoming]]'' where Drizzt has some aid from a psionically charged forcefield, but [[spoiler: cutting Demogorgon to pieces with his tiny, tiny scimitars]] seems absurd nonetheless.
93* This is the signature ability of [[ExtraOreDinary metalcrafters]] in ''Literature/CodexAlera''. ''Especially'' Araris Valerian, widely recognized as the greatest swordsman in the world. Talented metalcrafters can move their swords absurdly fast, slice through just about anything, and tell the location of an opponent's weapon with incredible precision; the setting doesn't have guns, but they can and do swat arrows out of the air.
94* In ''Literature/RiversOfLondon'' this is legitimately a ''power''; Michael Cheung, Chinatown's Legendary Swordsman, is a magical practitioner, just one who gets his mind in the right place by wielding a blade rather than reciting Latin.
95* Fencing enjoys some popularity among telepaths in ''Literature/InConquestBorn'' as a means of improving both reaction time and psychic sensitivity. The goal is to move faster than thought so your opponent cannot [[CombatClairvoyance lift your intentions from your mind]]. One of the main characters has such an aptitude for this sort of fighting that she uses it to dominate a seasoned warrior in a duel when she is 11 years old.
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99* ''Series/{{Highlander}}'' tried very hard to keep its swordplay plausible, but it occasionally strayed into this trope. Most swordfights ended in one combatant beheading the other - which is certainly possible with a sword, but takes a powerful swing starting from a stable position. In a couple of episodes, poor choreography meant that Duncan was shown beheading his opponent with a stroke that wouldn't be anywhere near strong enough to do that in the real world.
100* ''Series/PushingDaisies'': PlayedForLaughs. Ned (a pie-maker) confronts a murderer who has trained with a sword for years and has won a prestigious sword-fighting competition three times. [[Franchise/StarWars Ned grew up wanting to be a Jedi]].
101* ''Series/StarTrekPicard'': With his [[MasterSwordsman extraordinary swordsmanship]] with a [[AbsurdlySharpBlade tan qalanq]] and his SuperReflexes, Elnor can [[CleanCut behead someone with a single stroke]] (which includes a DiagonalCut) and [[DodgetheBullet dodge multiple projectiles]] to the point where GunsAreWorthless against him.
102* Doggie "Boss" Kruger in ''Series/TokusouSentaiDekaranger'' can perform all these tricks with ease. In a minor subversion, though, it's learned in a CrossOver [[TheMovie movie]] that an injury to his spine forces him to miss 1 out of every 200 attacks, until fixed by one of the crossover characters.
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106* ''TabletopGame/Warhammer40000'' and its spinoffs use various versions of this. Most mundanely, there are a large number of units that wield [[{{BFS}} swords larger than they are]], though given the fact that most of them have SuperStrength in one form or another and that advanced extremely-light-but-strong materials are available in the setting, it's not completely unreasonable. Wielding a glorified {{chainsaw|Good}} as an actual sword is more difficult to {{justif|iedTrope}}y, though. In addition, in several spinoffs it's possible for characters (even theoretically normal humans) to be capable of ParryingBullets.
107* ''TabletopGame/{{Shadowrun}}'' allows for this sort of thing, particularly with characters loaded up with cybernetic enhancements.
108* In ''TabletopGame/{{Exalted}}'', any Exalted that focuses on melee will be capable of literally impossible feats. It comes with the territory of Exaltation. Of particular note are perfect attacks and perfect defenses -- which will let you hit (or block/dodge) ''literally anything''... except each other. This typically happens with a daiklaive, which are [[{{BFS}} roughly the size of an ironing board]] on the ''small end'', as well.
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112* ''VideoGame/DevilMayCry'': Thanks to their demonic nature, Dante, Vergil, Trish and Nero can pull off some stylish and over-the-top moves that would require superhuman strength, speed, and reflexes. They have demonstrated ridiculous tricks with sword, like; catching and parrying bullets, tossing enemies away with a baseball swing, making blinding-fast stabs with one hand, creating portals and distortions out of thin air, sending [[SwordBeam shockwaves via slashes]], tossing the sword and making it return like a boomerang, igniting the sword in flames without any side effects, using the sword to impale a demon on the ground and skate with it, propelling oneself forward in mid-air with a slash, etc...
113* ''VideoGame/EldenRing'' has Malenia, Blade of Miquella, whose main claim to fame is that she is ''really good'' with the katana she has built in to her prosethetic arm. So good that it's said she has never known defeat, despite being deathly ill with the Scarlet Rot her whole life. If you fight her as a boss, you'll find that she hits like a tank shell, has a varied and elegant moveset, can chain individual attacks into combos, and has various nasty super moves- the most infamous being Waterfowl Dance (three successive sword flurries; it's incredibly difficult to dodge them all because of how she moves during the attack). She uses no magic until her second phase, but even her first phase is enough to curbstomp most players (and, if somehow pitted against them, most bosses).
114* The ''VideoGame/MetalGear'' franchise displays this frequently. Generally justified by the users being {{Cyborg}}s and wielding [[{{Vibroweapon}} high-frequency blades]]. But it's ''Metal Gear'', so the real justification is [[RuleOfCool because it's awesome]].
115* ''VideoGame/LeagueOfLegends'' offers a good amount of champions featuring this:
116** Most notable is Riven, being able to wield a BFS that, as her lore states: "was heavier than a kite shield". Her skills also include swinging it around like crazy and her ultimate which allows her to cast Wind Slash. [[RazorWind Three guesses what it does,]] the first two don't count.
117** There is also Jax, a champion so masterful with a sword that he instead fights with a lamppost as a ''SelfImposedChallenge''. He still swings it around as if it were made of bamboo.
118** Jarvan IV can wield his BFL (Big Freakin' Lance) with 1 hand. This lance is as tall as he is (he towers above every other character except Nautilus by about 3 feet) and with only a couple of items he can swing it twice a second. There's also the mystery behind the fact that Jarvan can slam the earth so hard with it that the surrounding ground forms a ring without any visible damage to it, though it is implied to be made of dragon bones.
119* ''VideoGame/PrincessPeachShowtime'': As Swordfighter Peach, she can fence with both speed and agility, as the trailers show.
120* VideoGame/SagaFrontier - Many of the more advanced sword attacks fall into this trope, but most notable is the swordsman Gen who, early in [=T260G=]'s storyline, cuts a rope using a lead pipe. When [=T260G=] comments on the impossibility of this, Gen tells him [[MST3KMantra not to worry about it]].
121* The ''VideoGame/SoulSeries''' Mitsurugi has this. In the first game ''VideoGame/SoulEdge'', he searches for the titular sword to help him compete with handheld firearms coming into play on the battlefields of Japan. By the second game, he's not the least bit scared of guns anymore because he's just ''that'' good now.
122* In ''Videogame/{{Warframe}}'', the Tenno can use absurdly large weapons like the RocketPoweredWeapon, the Jat Kittag, with only minor difficulty courtesy of their void powers and [[PoweredArmor warframes]] - though some ''really'' huge weapons require the assistance of their JetPack, the Archwing. The Tenno can deflect projectiles with any melee weapon, including their bare fists, though reflecting projectiles back requires a specific warframe module. Amusingly, a long-gone GoodBadBug allowed the Tenno to deflect projectiles so well that they could deflect ''suffocation'' from ContinuousDecompression on Corpus ships with blown windows.
123* In ''VideoGame/SuperHot'' the player has to dodge bullets but with the katana you cut them in half while the world is in slow motion.
124* The Ronin Titan in ''VideoGame/Titanfall2'' can ''block a nuclear explosion'' with its sword. No, the sword is not six feet thick or radiation-shielded. It's just that good.
125* Any practitioner of the Eight Leaves One Blade style in ''VideoGame/TrailsSeries'' can cut through metal as though it was nothing. Best demonstrated with both [[VideoGame/TheLegendOfHeroesTrailsFromZeroAndTrailsToAzure Arios MacLaine]] who can cut through a metallic doll and [[VideoGame/TheLegendOfHeroesTrailsOfColdSteel Rean Schwarzer]] who can cut through a padlock silently. And he was still just beginner rank.
126* ''VideoGame/WorldOfWarcraft'': There ''are'' normally sized weapons in this game. But, a lot of the weapons used by the player character as well as prominent [=NPCs=] would very much qualify for BigFreakingSword status. Special mention here to The Ashbringer: which is roughly the same size as it's wielder, despite having been made for a human to use. Even if we assume it is made of lighter than steel fantasy metal, it should be unwieldy simply on account of it's size. The characters are also implausibly skilled, even for people supposedly living in this incredibly dangerous world: routinely pulling off maneuvers that only the best RealLife weapons' masters dare attempt. OneHandedZweihander also occurs in Sylvanas' death cutscene. Ironically, they got the technique for using a blade of Frostmourne's shape correct. Rather than bring the edge down on Sylvanas, Arthas thrusts it at her point first: since it's a leaf-shaped blade this absolutely is how it should be used. However, he's on horseback, so he can't use the sword two-handed. He's using it the way that we see Byzantine kataphraktoi use their spathas in murals: but a spatha is literally half the size of Frostmourne! Arthas shouldn't be able to ''hold'' Frostmourne one-handed much less wield it effectively that way, given it's size proportional to him. That this occurs is particularly strange since it is intentionally averted by Varian Wrynn and Shalamayne: through the nifty mechanic of having the overly large Shalamayne split into two blades, that actually look perfectly plausible as one-handed swords due to being skinny.
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130* ''Webcomic/TheAdventuresOfDrMcNinja'''s Dr. [=McNinja=], as a doctor who is also a ninja, is more than capable of superhuman feats from [[DodgeTheBullet dodging bullets]] to [[CleanCut cleanly slicing things]] into pieces with his [[KatanasAreJustBetter katana]], to [[LudicrousMeleeAccuracy precisely targeting specific pressure points]].
131* ''Webcomic/GirlGenius'': [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20120523 General Goomblast]] can disarm a sword-toting goon and send the dropped sword careening into another one's chest, in two flicks of his rapier. Funnily enough, the rapier's about toothpick-sized for someone as big as he is.
132* ''Webcomic/EightBitTheater'': This is Fighter's entire schtick. Using swords is the ''only'' thing he's good at, but he's really, ''really'' good at it.
133** In one of his GeniusDitz moments, Fighter survives a fatal fall by parrying. He figures it is NotTheFallThatKillsYou, that because impact causes damage it is therefore an attack, and that he can block any attack. He ''blocks the ground'' and is unaffected by FallingDamage. He explains this to his teammates, who are [[HowIsThatEvenPossible dumbfounded]].
134* ''Webcomic/KillSixBillionDemons'': [[MasterSwordsman Masters of Sword Law]] are capable of using their blades to cut physics and all its attendant 'laws'. Mathangi ten Meti, aka "Auntie Maya" or [[NamesToRunAwayFrom "Murder the Gods and Topple Their Thrones"]] is a student of the Art of Cutting, so of course she can do things like ParryingBullets and [[spoiler: cutting an angel in half, along with [[SwordBeam the room behind it]]]]. Her master Meti was a master swordsman to the degree that she didn't even need a sword, and once [[DontThinkFeel unconsciously decapitated fifteen men with a piece of driftwood]].
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138* [[YouAreNumberSix Enriqueta-2856]] from v4 of ''Roleplay/OpenBlue'' was a LittleMissBadass DistaffCounterpart of [[Manga/FullmetalAlchemist King Bradley]], having been trained since three via TheSpartanWay, which included an expy of him as her sword instructor.
139* [[Literature/TheBible Able]] from the Website/SCPFoundation uses a justified form of this. He has super speed, strength and toughness along with the ability to pull swords out of the air. He is baffled by the fact that anyone would use guns instead of closing to use swords. This is probably just because it [[BloodKnight sounds less fun]].
140** [[http://www.scp-wiki.net/scp-572 SCP-572]] is a [[KatanasAreJustBetter katana]] which makes its wielder ''think'' that they have Implausible Fencing Powers. Not only does it not grant its wielder any powers whatsoever, it's poorly balanced and barely sharp enough to cut butter.
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144* ''WesternAnimation/SamuraiJack'' is nearly unbeatable with his magic katana, slicing through virtually anything at will and occasionally deflecting all the bullets from several machine guns fired at him at once.
145* Snake Eyes from ''WesternAnimation/GIJoeRenegades'', being a ninja with a very heavy anime influence, can pull off multiple implausible sword stunts.
146* Six from ''WesternAnimation/GeneratorRex'', appropriately the sixth deadliest man on the planet, checks off several items from the list. And it is ''awesome''.
147* Pearl in ''WesternAnimation/StevenUniverse'' is a tame example since she doesn't really show off that she could do most things listed. But her Holo Pearl ([[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin a holographic version of herself with all of her abilities]]) proves what she is theoretically able to do. Among others, [[https://66.media.tumblr.com/0f23550f8bd4ba73415d9ab545abf3c7/tumblr_nsy3d1qVbN1st6i8ao1_r1_500.png cutting through a tree]] ''with a balloon''.
148** [[LampshadeHanging Lampshaded]] by the ShowWithinAShow Lonely Blade, whose signature "Boomerang Blade" technique is criticized as "unrealistic"... [[HypocriticalHumor by Pearl herself]].
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