'''Basic Trope''': Weapons made from meteoric metal are awesome.
* '''Straight''': There are meteoric-metal weapons, and they're better than most/all of the alternatives.
* '''Exaggerated''':
** The series is set on a world with no terrestrial metal deposits. All weapons are made of meteoric iron.
** Weapons made from meteoric metal are ridiculously powerful. Bob manages to conquer an entire city with little effort using his meteoric sword.
* '''Downplayed''':
** The sword is only partly made of meteoric iron.
** The sword is made completely from meteoric iron, but doesn't seem to be that much better than any other sword.
* '''Justified''':
** Meteoric iron is better for making swords than terrestrial iron, because [insert [[{{Infodump}} 15-page explanation of metallurgy]]].
** Somehow the meteoric iron has a higher carbon content, turning it into steel in a setting without any.
** The setting is essentially Bronze Age, with no knowledge of how to smelt terrestrial iron ores. Any iron-forged weapons are superior to the conventional bronze weapons otherwise in use.
** It's a setting with a purely fantasy cosmology- meteoric iron has inherently magical, unearthly properties and is associated with the gods.
* '''Inverted''': Only suckers use swords made from meteoric iron; stainless steel is way better.
* '''Subverted''': The hero gets a sword. He's told that it has magical powers because it comes from the sky, but it's actually a MagicFeather that's no better than any other random sword.
* '''Double Subverted''': The hero gets a sword. He's told that it has magical powers because it comes from the sky, but later learns that it's actually a MagicFeather that's no more magical than any other random sword. After putting it aside in disgust, he realizes that its capability to hold an edge is exceptional (though nonmagical).
* '''Parodied''': The best swords come from the Isle of Skye.
* '''Zig Zagged''': The hero gets a sword. He's told that it has magical powers because it comes from the sky, but later learns that it's actually a MagicFeather that's no more magical than any other random sword. He's inspired by the story to make his own magic sword out of meteoric iron, but later learns that any random iron would have worked just as well for the spell he developed.
* '''Averted''': There are no meteoric-metal swords in the story.
* '''Enforced''': "Guy with sword has been done before, it's boring. I need ideas. "Sky Sword!!!!"
* '''Lampshaded''': "He's got a meteoric-iron sword?! Everybody run!"
* '''Invoked''': When given a choice, the hero ventures far and wide in search of meteoric iron for his new sword.
* '''Exploited''': A metal merchant claims his ore is meteoric to get a higher price for it.
* '''Defied''': "A meteorite crashed? Better blow it up so nobody can take the metal and forge it into some awesome sword or something."
* '''Discussed''': "Don't you remember? The most expensive weapons to buy are the ones made from meteoric-metal, and that's because they're really powerful!"
* '''Conversed''': "The main character always has a special sword. Being made from a meteorite's pretty popular, supposed to make it better or something."
* '''Deconstructed''':
** The scarcity of meteorite metal renders the awesome weapons too valuable to actually use for fear of losing or damaging them, so they're basically just museum pieces.
** Thunderbolt Iron is actually merely magnetic, and it was called magic by a people who didn't know what magnetism was.
** Their ignorance of modern chemistry that we take for granted lead them to miss that Thunderbolt Iron also happens to contain some impurities... some radioactive impurities.
* '''Reconstructed''':
** ...Then, in need of a really good weapon, the hero [[BreakOutTheMuseumPiece raids the museum and uses one of the priceless weapons]] anyway.
** The scarcity of meteorite metal made it [[TooAwesomeToUse too valuable to use for mundane or ceremonial pieces,]] so only the very best blacksmiths of the age got to use it, and only for the most dire of purposes. Their skill, rather than the material itself, is the reason the weapon is so effective.
** The enemies in the series are disoriented or wiped out by sufficiently strong magnetic fields.
** Said radioactive impurities happen to be what makes those swords powerful in the first place; By inflicting grievous sicknesses upon striking its target!
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