Swords and guns, probably the two coolest and most versatile weapons in all media. As many creators have seen what those weapons could do, they are always trying to make the best out of those weapons, as if each is trying to out-cool the other – and in the process, they tend to mimic each other.
To put it simply, this is a list of tropes from Guns and Gunplay Tropes and I Like Swords (or other tropes from Weapons and Wielding Tropes) which have similar concepts to each other, the difference being the weapon used: Melee – Range. For example, "X Trope from Guns and Gunplay Tropes is Y Trope from I Like Swords WITH GUNS!" And vice versa.
Related to The Musketeer, Samurai Cowboy, Short Range Guy, Long Range Guy (and Guys Smash, Girls Shoot), Guns vs. Swords and its opposite Sword and Gun, all of which combine swords and guns. Not to be confused with Spear Counterpart.
Tropes
- Absurdly Sharp Blade – Armor-Piercing Attack
- Air Jousting, Punch Parry (and subsequently Pummel Duel) – Beam-O-War or Shoot the Bullet
- Armed Legs – Leg Cannon
- Audible Sharpness and Kung-Foley – Noisy Guns or Bang, Bang, BANG
- Ass Kicks You – Fartillery
- Bad with the Bone – Ballistic Bone
- Barehanded Blade Block, Punch Catch – Bullet Catch, Arrow Catch or Finger in a Barrel
- BFS or Telephone Polearm – BFG
- Bifurcated Weapon – IKEA Weaponry or Recursive Ammo
- Blade Below the Shoulder, Wolverine Claws, Power Fist – Arm Cannon, Finger Firearms, Rocket Punch
- Blade Enthusiast – Gun Nut
- Blade Lock, Brawler Lock – Mexican Standoff
- Blade Spam, Rapidfire Fisticuffs, Flechette Storm or Storm of Blades – Rain of Arrows, More Dakka, Beam Spam or Macross Missile Massacre
- Bouncing Battler – Pinball Projectile, Hyper-Destructive Bouncing Ball, Reflecting Laser
- Chainsaw Good, Deadly Rotary Fan or This Is a Drill – Gatling Good (delivering multi-hitting spin-tastic attacks!)
- Close-Range Combatant – Long-Range Fighter
- Dimensional Cutter – Teleport Gun
- Dual Wielding – Guns Akimbo
- Edible Bludgeon – Edible Ammunition
- Field of Blades – Weapon Tombstone (which itself covers rifles used this way)
- Flaming Sword – Fire-Breathing Weapon, Flare Gun, Arrows on Fire
- Flynning – Gun Fu and Gun Kata
- Girl with Psycho Weapon – Small Girl, Big Gun
- Handbag of Hurt – Briefcase Blaster
- Heroes Prefer Swords – Superhero Packing Heat
- Iaijutsu Practitioner – Quick Draw
- Implausible Fencing Powers or Slice-and-Dice Swordsmanship – Improbable Aiming Skills or Gun Fu
- Instant Death Stab – Instant Death Bullet
- Inverse Law of Sharpness and Accuracy or Set Swords to "Stun" – Family-Friendly Firearms (different, but related effect)
- Katanas Are Just Better – Revolvers Are Just Better or Shotguns Are Just Better
- Kid Samurai – Young Gun
- Laser Blade – Frickin' Laser Beams (melee and range attacks made of laser)
- Or Sword Beam – Wave-Motion Gun (both are Ranged Energy Attack Tropes which uses a sword and a gun respectively)
- Ludicrous Mêlée Accuracy - Improbable Aiming Skills
- Machete Mayhem or Kukris Are Kool (a really big knife) – Hand Cannon (a really big handgun)
- Martial Arts Staff – Boomstick, Sniper Rifle, Javelin Thrower
- Man Bites Man, Multipurpose Tongue – Breath Weapon, Super Spit (weaponizing your mouth)
- Master Swordsman – The Gunslinger or Fastest Gun in the West
- Multi-Melee Master – Multi-Ranged Master
- Never Bring a Knife to a Fist Fight – Guns Are Worthless
- Never Bring a Knife to a Gun Fight – Never Bring a Gun to a Knife Fight
- Off with His Head! – Boom, Headshot!
- One-Handed Zweihänder – Firing One-Handed
- Pile Bunker – Nail 'Em
- Razor-Sharp Hand, Megaton Punch – Hand Blast, Kamehame Hadoken
- Razor Wings – Feather Flechettes
- Reverse Grip – Gangsta Style (arguably)
- Seppuku – Ate His Gun or Leave Behind a Pistol
- Shield Bash – Throwing Your Shield Always Works
- Single-Stroke Battle – Showdown at High Noon or Ten Paces and Turn or Bullet Holes and Revelations
- Spell Blade – Depleted Phlebotinum Shells (modifying your weapon / ammo in such a way that it gives it a special secondary effect)
- Spin Attack – Multi-Directional Barrage
- Stab the Sky – Firing in the Air a Lot (arguably)
- Stepping-Stone Sword – Projectile Platforms
- Super Robots – Real Robots
- The former primarily use fisticuffs/melee weapons, with ranged projectiles as secondary weapons. The latter, meanwhile, primarily use rifles, with melee weapons as emergency backups.
- Swipe Your Blade Off – Smoking Barrel Blowout ("cleaning" your weapons after action)
- Sword Cane – Senseless Violins or Briefcase Blaster (all of them are about concealing weapons)
- Sword Limbo – Bullet Time or Dodge the Bullet
- Sword Lines – Every Bullet is a Tracer (showing the movement of the sword/bullet)
- Sword over Head – Bait-and-Switch Gunshot
- Sword Pointing – Dramatic Gun Cock, Sean Connery Is About to Shoot You
- Sword Sparks – Bullet Sparks
- Throwing Your Sword Always Works (and by proxy, Storm of Blades), Rocket Punch or Sword Beam – Pistol-Whipping, Short-Range Long-Range Weapon, and especially Bayonet Ya (The former two are about melee weapons used for ranged attacks, while the latter three are about long-range weapons used for close-range attacks)
- Unorthodox Sheathing – Unorthodox Holstering
- Weapon Twirling – Gun Twirling
- You Fight Like a Cow – Gunpoint Banter
