Dual Wielding in Film.
- 300: Xerxes's elite, the "Immortals" dual-wield scimitars, as opposed to the comic in which they are armed primarily with shield and spear.
- Alatriste: There is whole bunch of dual-wielding fights with rapier and parrying dagger in La Verdadera Destreza style.
- An Empress And The Warriors: This historical epic starring Donnie Yen as a badass Frontline General have Yen pulling a Last Stand where he dual-wields BFSes against an entire army, killing mooks left and right as he does. During battle he briefly drops one of his swords and got a spear from a slain enemy as replacement, but soon after discards the spear and gains another sword.
- Army of Darkness: Ash briefly wields two swords while fighting on the castle wall's stairs.
- Assassin's Creed (2016): In the fight to escape Abstergo, Callum Lynch uses Aguilar's Hidden Blades in tandem, a skill he picked up from the man himself. Cal even kills a Templar in the same way Aguilar executes Ojeda. (Two blades to the throat while the enemy is injured and on their knees.)
- Ballistic: Ecks vs. Sever: Rogue agent Sever (Lucy Liu) dual-wields a pair of telescopic batons
to great effect. - Barbarella: Our introduction to the villainous Black Queen has her stabbing two men In the Back simultaneously, as they leer at our hapless heroine with sinister intent.Queen: Hello, pretty-pretty... (dual knife twirling)
- Blindsided: the Game: The protagonist, Walter, frequently wields a blade in one hand and a blunt weapon in the other, using one side to cut and one to block and bludgeon. First, it's a knife and a cane. Then, it's his sword and its wooden sheath. Later, he faces a gangster who dual-wields knifes, with one held in Reverse Grip.
- Captain Kronos: Vampire Hunter: Kronos uses a sabre in his right hand and a katana in his left in order to fight off an angry mob.
- The Chronicles of Narnia:
- The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe: Oreius, Aslan's badass right-hand centaur, fights using two longswords. Jadis, the White Witch, wields a longsword and a wand, which turns people to stone. She picks up another longsword when the wand is broken. In the book, she uses a stone knife and her wand.
- Prince Caspian: Edmund fights with two swords during the final battle.
- Conan the Barbarian (2011): During the final fight, Conan dual-wields a pair of longswords against Khalar Zym's twin scimitars.
- Deadpool: Wade Wilson wields dual katanas.
- His "Weapon XI" incarnation in X-Men Origins: Wolverine has dual Blade Below the Shoulder.
- Film/Dragonheart: Kara is shown wielding a pair of axes in battle.
- Dragon Hunter: Darius can not only dual-wield but fight off multiple people at once with two swords.
- Excalibur: Arthur dual-wields Excalibur and a mace while dueling Lancelot, showing that he's become rather kill-crazy.
- The Forbidden Kingdom: Golden Sparrow dual-wields short-swords.
- Freddy vs. Jason: At one point, Freddy steals Jason's machete and wields it along with his own razor glove.
- Freebie and the Bean: The protagonists follow a criminal into the men's room and order him to come out of the stall. When they see him reaching for the gun on the floor, they both start blasting away with two guns each.
- Ghost Rock: The outlaw known as the Barber wields twin cutthroat razors in combat.
- The Golden Voyage of Sinbad: In the most awesome scene, the evil wizard Koura animates a statue of the goddess Kali to fight off Sinbad and his crew. Kali has six arms and wields a sword in every one, against multiple simultaneous opponents.
- The Grey: For his final showdown with the alpha wolf, John Ottway wields a hunting knife in one hand and shattered miniature liquor bottles between the fingers of the other (like razor-sharp brass knuckles).
- The Hobbit
- Thorin can be seen wielding both a dwarf axe and the sword Orcrist.
- Dwalin is also well-known for dual-wielding his prized axes "Grasper" and "Keeper". note
- Fíli and his twin swords.
- During the fight inside Dale, Thranduil wields two elven blades against a horde of orcs.
- Ivanhoe: Done semi-realistically in the 1952 version; Ivanhoe uses a dagger in his left hand whenever he fights. Also, in the 1997 miniseries, Bois-Guilbert briefly dual wields an axe and sword during the trial by combat.
- Kill Bill: A member of the Crazy 88, and the Bride herself (although briefly) during the same scene.
- King Arthur (2004): Several characters dual-wield weapons
- Lancelot is the only one who dual-wields swords. His swords are notably smaller than the broadswords used by Arthur and Dagonet.
- Bors uses two curved knives. Though he might also use a single battle-axe.
- Gwain uses a (small) mace and hatchet.
- The various Woads also occasionally dual wield smaller weapons.
- Kingdom of Heaven: Used briefly by Guy de Lusignan. Then he loses one sword and pulls a dagger...
- Also used by Odo, the German knight following Godfrey of Ibelin, during the battle with the Sheriff's forces, packing a sword in one hand and an axe in the other. Unlike Guy as mentioned above, he kicks fairly judicious amounts of ass with the combination. With an arrow through his neck, at that.
- The Last Legion: Demetrius carries twin swords in upside-down scabbards on his back (yet they never fall out).
- The Last Samurai: There are two brief instances of dual-wielding badassery: first, by Katsumoto against the ninja at 3:42, and later, by Algren against the ronin (fight begins at 1:40).
- The Lord of the Rings
- Gandalf is shown swinging his staff and his longsword against the invading enemy, including a nice twirl of the staff before smacking an unfortunate Orc with blade and blunt.
- Legolas' other weapons (besides his bow) are twin fighting knives. The actor claims he actually became more proficient with that than with his bow.
- In The Fellowship of the Ring, Saruman dual-wields his own staff and Gandalf's briefly.
- Éowyn in The Return of the King briefly uses two swords on horseback (with Merry holding the reins) to good effect against the Mûmakil outside Minas Tirith.
- Sam wields a sword and a frying pan in Moria (at least one shot, after Frodo is hurt, seems to show him using both at once). When facing down the monstrous spider Shelob, he wields the Elvish blade Sting in one hand and the phial containing the Light of Earendil in the other. Later, when he storms the tower of Cirith Ungol, he wields Sting as well as his normal sword.
- In some of the fights Gimli wields two axes (occasionally throwing the smaller off-hand axe), in the other fights he "just" wields a double-headed battle axe.
- Machete: The title character wields a pair of machetes against Torrez, who uses a katana and wakizashi.
- The Magic Blade: The protagonist, Fu Hung-hsueh, uses twin bladed tonfas in combat, to great effect too, especially in the climax of the second movie.
- Marvel Cinematic Universe:
- The Avengers (2012): During the battle against the Chitauri, Black Widow fires off two handguns at once.
- Avengers: Age of Ultron: In the battle against Ultron’s robots, Black Widow wields a pair of collapsible electrified batons.
- Guardians of the Galaxy (2014): Nebula's dual blades, Drax's long curved knives, and Star-Lord's energy guns.
- Black Panther (2018): When attacking Killmonger and his defenses from behind, Shuri is armed with a vibranium strike gauntlet on each arm, and Nakia wields a pair of energized chakrams. Killmonger himself wields a vibranium sword and spearhead broken off its shaft.
- Avengers: Endgame: Thor kicks off the Final Battle by wielding both Mjolnir and Stormbreaker and later in the fight, Captain America wields both Mjolnir and his shield.
- The Mask of Zorro: Both Diego and Alejandro with the crappy Zorro costume do it with a sword and a knife. Later, Alejandro, this time with the official costume, does it with two swords against Montero and Love.
- The Mummy Returns: Princess Nefertiri/Evy and Anck Su Namun fight with dual sai type daggers.
- Pirates of the Caribbean
- When Will and Jack first meet in Curse of the Black Pearl they engage in a duel. At one point, Will briefly uses two swords. Justified, as they're in a blacksmith's and so there are plenty of fresh swords available.
- After Blackbeard breaks his crutch during their duel in On Stranger Tides, Barbossa starts Dual Wielding its broken shaft along with his sword.
- Pixels:
- Lady Lisa fights using two katanas.
- In the final battles, main characters are armed with photon pistol and photon gun and use both — in Violet's case, at once.
- Planet Terror: When denied a gun by Sheriff Hague, El Wray opens up his glove compartment and takes out a pair of Balisongs. His subsequent zombie-killing rampage through the hospital is one of his most awesome scenes.
- The Princess: The princess and Linh both wield two swords at once with great skill.
- Robin Hood: The Rebellion: During his final battle against Robin Hood, the Sheriff of Nottigham wields a longsword in each hand.
- Save The Emperor: Seen in this Russian movie about the Russian Revolution and Civil War. The Cossack character in red in a frenzied attack against Red forces, briefly used two sabers to slash down the Reds. [1].
- Serenity: River Tam dual-wields a sword and an axe in the climax.
- Shanghai Knights: In the final battle, the villain Lord Rathbone (named for the great actor and swordsman, Basil Rathbone) dual-wields a rapier and a saber against Jackie Chan (who just has the rapier).
- Shaw Brothers: Numerous wuxia flicks made by them will have the heroes using two weapons at once, allowing them to kill twice the amount of mooks, twice at fast. Notably in Come Drink With Me, Golden Swallow, The New One-Armed Swordsman (at least, until the hero lose his arm and lives up to the film's title), The Water Margin, Killer Clans, Killer Darts'', and several others.
- Sleepy Hollow (1999): The Headless Horseman, shortly before he becomes headless, fights some American soldiers with a sword and a hatchet. He seems to parry with both weapons and use both weapons to deliver decapitating blows. Of course, he's just that badass. And, later, Brom is shown fighting the decapitated Christopher Walken using two sickles.
- Solomon Kane: With rapier, dagger, falchion, a pair of muskets, or one of each, Kane is fond of a weapon in each hand.
- Spawn (1997): Priest saves Wynn from Spawn at the last second by opening fire on him with two automatic rifles.
- Swordsmen in Double Flag Town: The hero Haige dispatches the bandits threatening the village with dual-wielded short-swords.
- Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (2014):
- Leonardo wields twin katanas, as per usual.
- Ralphael wields twin sai.
- Michelangelo wields twin nunchaku.
- The 13th Warrior: One of the Vikings wields a sword and a short axe in the final battle.
- The Three Musketeers (1973): Famous of the realism of its sword fights, has many characters fighting with both sword and dagger.
- Thor: Hammer of the Gods: In the final fight of this Sci-fi Channel original movie, the only thing NOT dual-wielding is a wolf.
- Transformers: Revenge of The Fallen: Optimus Prime, of all people, gets to dual-wield superheated retractable blades.
- TRON: Legacy
- Tron wields two Identity Discs, which fit together during the coup. Turns out to be a Chekhov'sGun in identifying who's behind the Rinzler helmet.
- Quorra fights with both a Laser Blade and her Identity Disc in the left hand.
- When the Last Sword Is Drawn: Saitou Hajime's last memory of Yoshimura Kanichiro is seeing him charge into a musket platoon of the Imperial Army with his katana and wakizashi. He disappears into a cloud of smoke and we're only shown the aftermath of the fight: Yoshimura making it back to his home clan badly wounded, with his katana a Wrecked Weapon.
- X-Men: Apocalypse has Psylocke wielding both a regular katana and her psyonic sword.
- Zatoichi: In the 1962-1989 series and the 2003 Takeshi Kitano film, Ichi, played by Shintaro Katsu, often used his tsue (scabbard) held in the left hand, mostly to deflect and parry strikes.
