History Main / ForgingScene

* ''Film/{{Conan the Barbarian|1982}}'' (1982) starts with the forging of the Father's Sword. It dramatically but anachronistically depicts a steel sword being made by pouring liquid metal into a mold before hammering it on an anvil.

* ''WesternAnimation/HowToTrainYourDragon'', has Hiccup forges not a weapon, but an artificial wing to harness Toothless' flying ability.

** The second movie has Ivan Vanko making his own arc reactor and suit, and later Tony [[spoiler:creating a new element to power his arc reactor in his lab]].

** In ''[[Recap/TheLordOfTheRingsTheRingsOfPowerS1E5Partings Partings]], Halbrand finally gets to show off his blacksmith skills, depicting the process step by step by forging swords for the Númenoreans, impressing the very people that doubted his skills and refused him earlier for not having the smith guild crest.
** Halbrand gets another forging scene in ''[[Recap/TheLordOfTheRingsTheRingsOfPowerS1E8Alloyed Alloyed]]''. He sweet talks his way into Celebrimbor's new forgery, and helps Celembribor and Elrond to find a way to harness mythril's properties and use it to tap into the powers of the Seen and Unseen World. He secretly plans to forge [[spoiler:two rings, for him and Galadriel, but he cannot carry out his plans to the end because Galadriel finds his true identity.]]
*** [[spoiler:After Halbrand's sudden departure]], Galadriel proposes for three rings to be forged in order to balance their powers, and we finally get to see the forging of the Three Elven Rings: Nenya, Narya and Vilya.

** In ''Series/TheBookOfBobaFett'', the same Armorer melts the head of the beskar spear to forge a small chainmail vest destined to Grogu, on the Mandalorian's request.
*** There's an extended scene of Boba carving his own gaderffii stick from the branch he found while on a {{vision quest}}. Unlike most forging scenes, this involves more woodwork than metal-forging--which is only used for the spear tip and bracing collars.

* Will gets a forging scene in ''Film/PiratesOfTheCaribbeanTheCurseOfTheBlackPearl'', which would later go on to provide [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JImcvtJzIK8 the beat]] for the StupidStatementDanceMix.

* In ''Anime/SakuraWarsTV'', after Sakura breaks her sword, it had to be reforged back. No shirtless men, since they are mostly elderly.

* In the 90's, the UK satellite channel UK Gold, which focused on older BBC and ITV programs (now known as GOLD and dedicated to comedy, had an entire ident set based around this, from 1994 to 1997. It concerned the UK Gold logo forged on a gold brick, as a man labored to do it.

** Given a DarkReprise in "[[Recap/DoctorWho2019NYSResolution Resolution]]" when [[spoiler: the Dalek-controlled Lin rebuilds its casing in a farm smithy]].

* In ''VideoGame/DragonAgeOrigins'', whichever Paragon you side with at the end of the Orzammar quest chain will forge a crown for whoever you choose to be the new king of Orzammar. It's kind of [[strike: weird]] awesome seeing [[spoiler: a huge steel golem do this if you choose Caridin.]]

* The opening of ''VideoGame/{{Drakensang}}'' has the narrator (a cyclops) start to make a weapon for the hero prophesized to defeat the ancient evil. [[spoiler: You get to [[InfinityPlusOneSword pick up the finished product near the end of the game]].]]

* Dr. Horrible gets one in the third act of ''WebVideo/DrHorriblesSingAlongBlog'', when he [[spoiler: converts his freeze ray into a Death Ray]].

*** [[Spoiler:After Halbrand sudden departure]], Galadriel proposes for three rings to be forged in order to balance their powers, and we finally get to see the forging of the Three Elven Rings: Nenya, Narya and Vilya.

* ''VideoGame/MonsterHunter'':
** The introduction videos of Monster Hunter and Monster Hunter Unite take care to show the weapons and armor being forged in loving detail. The surprising part is that unlike many of the other works that simply use forging scenes for drama, these scenes show the loving amount of work required to make the works of art that you as the hunter who collected the materials to get them. The game even takes it a step further to show the fantastic side of the process by showing how the parts of the creatures will factor in the creation like pouring molten metal on a Rathalos Tail spine to fill in the gaps of the tail grooves.

* ''ComicBook/PlanetHulk'' ends with [[Comicbook/IncredibleHulk Hulk]] and Hiroim forging the sword Hulk would go on to use in ''ComicBook/WorldWarHulk''. This is done with the BookEnds narration "This is the story of the Hulk... and how he finally came home." over a shot of the Hulk pointing his still cooling sword at an image of Earth on the screen.

* The [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JBbnT-cIDVM second intro]] to the ''WesternAnimation/IronMan'' animated series features one of these, courtesy of Tony Stark himself. Most other versions have a slightly different kind of montage, but that one has the scene complete with hammering. The result is so [[TestosteronePoisoning ridiculously manly]] that viewing it carries a risk of spontaneous chest-hair growth.

* The Music/WindRose cover for [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=34CZjsEI1yU "Diggy Diggy Hole"]] is inter-cut, in its beginning, with short forging scenes, illustrating typical dwarven activities.

* ''Webcomic/OverlyGamey'' parodies this [[http://www.overlygamey.thecomicseries.com/comics/12 here]].