History Main / OddlyShapedSword

* Sawtooth sabres in ''TabletopGame/{{Pathfinder}}'' have a cutting edge with large teeth on it, meant to resemble a praying mantis's barbed arms (they're used by an assassins' guild devoted to the assassin god Achaekek, for whom mantids are sacred). You can use them as a martial weapon in which case they're mechanically identical to longswords, but if you take an Exotic Weapon Proficiency feat, you can treat them as a light weapon under the DualWielding rules.
* ''TabletopGame/WarhammerAgeOfSigmar'' miniatures are heading this way, particularly for Chaos; wherever the shapes of Chaos daemon weapons follow a comprehensible form, the the obsession with packing on pointless detail has led to the swords sprouting all manner of spikes, tendrils, loops, hooks, serrations and excess blades, to the point where you can't see the basic shape. And they only get worse from there. This also happens to their axes. [[TabletopGame/{{Warhammer40000}} Dark Eldar]] blades also have strange cutouts, excess points and other details on already-strangely-curved blades, which often curve in multiple directions.

* In one of the ''Manga/DragonBall'' filler episodes. Goku happens upon Shula, the King of the Demon Realm. He wields a [[https://dragonball.fandom.com/wiki/Shula%27s_sword large sword]] with six ''branches'' along it's blade, that he uses to keep a giant cursed gate open to make sure his demons can torment a nearby kingdom by nightfall.

* [[spoiler:The resurrected Yomi (Izumi)]] in ''Manga/GaRei'' is able to materialize a seven-branched sword out of thin air, [[spoiler: having lost the Shishiou.]]

* [[spoiler: [[BigBad Jouka]]]] from ''Manga/SoulHunter'' wields the Shihoken: technically a sword, it's better described as a nodachi designed and forged by someone obsessed with modern art. Considering that it works by erasing things with a big Kaboom, it doesn't need to be sharp or practical by normal swords' standards.

** The bifurcated swords came back on Amonkhet, as visible in [[http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?multiverseid=426922 Prepare]], because Amonkhet worshipped Nicol Bolas as a god and [[SigilSpam put a symbol based on his horns anywhere it could]] - that's it at the base of the sword there.
* The [[https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/Vorpal_blade_2840.jpg Vorpal Blade]], from ''TabletopGame/{{Munchkin}}'', is covered in spikes and curves that don't even always go in the same direction.

* In ''VideoGame/FateEXTRA'', Saber wields Aestus Estus, a large sword that tapers and widens somewhat randomly and comes to three points on the cutting edge... Well, [[http://images.wikia.com/typemoon/images/f/f9/AestusEstus.png see for yourself]]. It should perhaps come as no surprise that the true identity of the character who designed and uses such an insane sword is [[spoiler:[[UsefulNotes/{{Nero}} Nero Caeser]]]].

* ''VideoGame/GranblueFantasy'' features several examples of this, such as [[https://gbf.wiki/Balmung Balmung]] with its strange split edge, as well as several items that are ''clearly'' not swords of any kind being classified as such, like a [[https://gbf.wiki/Bewitching_Bouquet bouquet of roses]].

** In ''[[VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaMajorasMask The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask]]'', Link wearing the Fierce Deity's Mask wields the [[https://zelda.gamepedia.com/File:MM_Fierce_Deity_Sword_Model.png Double Helix Sword]] which has two blades that cross back and forth before coming to a point.

** ''[[VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaBreathOfTheWild Breath of the Wild]]'' has the Goron greatswords such as the Cobble Crusher. They are blunt crushing weapons rather than slicing weapons, they get progressively wider approaching the point, and said "point" is typically covered in a heavy adornment that further shifts its center weight to make it better suited for smashing blows. Also, the swords the [[BirdPeople Rito]] use have a hollow space where the fuller would be to make them lighter. Additionally, the [[LizardFolk Lizalfos]] may wield boomerang-type weapons that can have as many as [[http://zelda.wikia.com/wiki/Lizal_Tri-Boomerang three blades]], making it look like a cross between a boomerang, a kukri and a shuriken (and taking heavy inspiration from the African mambele knife).

* In ''VideoGame/MonsterGirlQuest'', Luka soon finds the Angel Halo, which is...well...[[https://static.miraheze.org/mgqwiki/7/77/Angel_Halo.png there's a reason if everyone he shows it to is shocked speechless]].

* In ''VideoGame/NeverwinterNights2'', the [[http://media.giantbomb.com/uploads/0/5427/850920-githsword_large.jpg Silver Sword of Gith]]. Possibly justified by it being an InfinityPlusOneSword [[SwordOfPlotAdvancement of Plot Advancement]]. And by not being human-made. And being more of a focus for magical/planar energies than a sword.

* Ein's sword, the [[Myth/NorseMythology Einherjar]], in ''VideoGame/RivieraThePromisedLand'' is bright yellow, bends backwards above the crossguard just to move back forward, and has an edge like a cleaver. [[https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/deptheaven/images/1/15/Ein.JPG/revision/latest?cb=20130325001159 It evokes feelings of a lightning bolt]]. Additionally, it cannot be [[BreakableWeapons broken]], but can only be effectively used by Ein himself.

* ''VideoGame/WorldOfWarcraft'' has some truly ridiculous blades, like the [[https://wow.zamimg.com/uploads/screenshots/normal/152183-sword-of-justice.jpg Sword of Justice]], the [[https://wow.zamimg.com/uploads/screenshots/normal/739903-schwarzklinge-von-shahram.jpg Blackblade of Shahram]], the [[https://wow.zamimg.com/uploads/screenshots/normal/455494-zwillingsklinge-des-ph%C3%B6nix.jpg Twinblade of the Phoenix]] or the legendary weapon [[https://wow.zamimg.com/uploads/screenshots/normal/426561.jpg Thunderfury]]. And the other weapon classes (axes, maces...) have similar offenders.
* ''VideoGame/XenobladeChronicles1'' gives us the Monado, a sword with a design that's almost cleaver-like, with the hilt and grip at the rear of the blade with the edge actually several inches forward of the grip, and a circular hollow within said blade to boot. [[spoiler: And that's just when [[BigBad Zanza]] loaned it to Shulk for a stint. When he reclaims it, it can best be described as "skeleton-bat sword."]]
* ''VideoGame/XenobladeChronicles2'' has some weird shapes for its swords too. From Pyra's Aegis Sword (the Monado with a more angular design philosophy) to Catalyst's "scimitar" (a flower growing on a pole of sorts) to [[spoiler: Malos' Monado (some weird middle ground between Shulk's Monado and Zanza's Monado)]], it's a wonder how they didn't become AwesomeButImpractical.

* In ''VisualNovel/DancingBladeKatteNiMomotenshi'', Momotenshi, the SuperMode of main heroine Momohime, wields a {{BFS}} [[http://download.minitokyo.net/Dancing.Blade:.Katte.Ni.Momo.Tenshi.387463.jpg with its tip shaped like a peach]], as a reference to Momohime's origins (she's a GenderFlip adaptation of Momotaro, the boy born from a peach).

* The sword depicted in the page image, along with a few other examples on this page, actually take after the [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seven-Branched_Sword Seven Pronged Sword]], which exists in real life, along with several replicas. Inscription on the sword indicates it was made as a gift from one king to another, and unlikely to have ever been used in real combat.

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* ''{{Webcomic/Homestuck}}'' has the [[RougeAnglesOfSatin SORD]], a ''WebComic/SweetBroAndHellaJeff''-themed weapon that looks like the already-on-this-list [[InfinityPlusOneSword Caladbolg]] from ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyX'', but [[StylisticSuck run through the washing machine too many times.]] It's described as [[JokeItem so shitty it's hard to even hold onto.]]

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* ''Anime/KillLaKill'' features two of these, which in part serve as [[SwordOfPlotAdvancement Swords Of Plot Advancement]], that each look like the separate halves of a pair of tailor's scissors, just ones enlarged to BFS proportions. They can also change size and shape, and become [[UpToEleven even more ridiculous]] when in Decapitation Mode. And yes, they do, also fit together to form a gigantic, double-edged pair of scissors! [[http://kill-la-kill.wikia.com/wiki/Scissor_Blades Take a look, but WATCH OUT FOR SPOILERS!!!]]

* In ''VideoGame/MonsterGirlQuest'', Luka soon finds the Angel Halo, which is...well...[[https://monstergirlquest.wikia.com/wiki/File:Angel_Halo.png there's a reason if everyone he shows it to is shocked speechless]].

* The sword depicted in the page image, along with a few other examples on this page, actually take after the [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seven-Branched_Sword Seven Pronged Sword]], which exists in real life, along with several replicas.

** [[http://finalfantasy.wikia.com/wiki/File:FFX_Weapon_-_Masamune.png Auron's ultimate weapon]] in ''Videogame/FinalFantasyX'' looks more like a really big wrench. Most of [[http://finalfantasy.wikia.com/wiki/File:TidusSwords.png Tidus's swords]] have odd shapes as well.

* ''VideoGame/XenobladeChronicles'' gives us the Monado, a sword with a design that's almost cleaver-like, with the hilt and grip at the rear of the blade with the edge actually several inches forward of the grip, and a circular hollow within said blade to boot. [[spoiler: And that's just when [[BigBad Zanza]] loaned it to Shulk for a stint. When he reclaims it, it can best be described as "skeleton-bat sword."]]
** ''VideoGame/XenobladeChronicles2'' has some weird shapes for its swords too. From Pyra's Aegis Sword (the Monado with a more angular design philosophy) to Catalyst's "scimitar" (a flower growing on a pole of sorts) to [[spoiler: Malos' Monado (some weird middle ground between Shulk's Monado and Zanza's Monado)]], it's a wonder how they didn't become AwesomeButImpractical.

* Possibly the strangest-shaped swords that are actually a weapon people really used are Chinese hook swords. The main blade ends in a hook, while the grip has has a shorter blade coming out of the bottom and has a pointy crescent shaped guard. Traditionally they are duel-wielded.

* Possibly the strangest-shaped swords that are actually a weapon people really used are Chinese hook swords. The main blade ends in a hook, while the grip has has a shorter blade coming out of the bottom and has a pointy crescent shaped guard. Traditionally they are duel-wielded.

** The strangest of all has to be Kisame's Samehada, which barely even looks like a swords. It's more like a giant club made of thorns.

* Swords in ''VideoGame/LufiaCurseOfTheSinistrals'' have [[{{BFS}} massive]] blades in the shape of a curved flame. Naturally, they typically overlap with FlamingSword. The game's [[SwordOfPlotAdvancement Dual Blade]] also possesses a curious one-edged design.
* The Excalibur from ''VideoGame/TombRaiderLegend'': clearly not forged by people of this world, it resembles a dark, thick broadsword built by a drunken blacksmith who, halfway through changed his mind and tried to make an axe. Then again, since the assembled sword can shoot volleys of supernatural green lightning, its design is merely to show how "alien" it is.
* The ''Franchise/{{Halo}}'' series has the [[LaserBlade energy sword]] and its two blades, emanating from the handle in a way that would be decidedly impractical if they were physical blades. Special mention goes to it for being both really odd ''and'' extremely well-designed to take advantage of its weightlessness in sword combat; plenty of edges designed to catch an opponent's blade while also protecting the hand. Justified to an extent, in that the sword was designed with the physiology of the Sangheili/Elites in mind, a species with symmetrical, two-thumbed hands.

* ''VideoGame/VagrantStory'' has a number of odd-looking swords such as the Rhomphaia and Rune Blade both of which look like planks. The really weird one is the Holy Win. This greatsword blade is based on the holy symbol of St. Iocus and look like the blade has a flattened 'X' symbol going through it.
* ''VideoGame/PrinceOfPersiaWarriorWithin'' has several weapons the Prince can pick up, including his main sword, which tend to have unusual designs such as the Spider Sword (A broadsword with a wide, fan-shaped tip), the Snake Sword (the handle is shaped like a twisting snake and the blade is wavy) or the Scorpion Sword (a massive, cutlass-like sword with edges and spikes over it). [[BigBad The Emperess of Time]] dual-wields swords with plain hooked falx-like blades coupled with an incredibly developed handle which can protect her forearms and a handle positioned so that the swords become, essentially, a set of BladeBelowTheShoulder. [[https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/princeofpersia/images/6/68/KaileenaSword%28WW%29.png/revision/latest?cb=20181101205054&path-prefix=en They look like this.]]
* Ein's sword, the [[Myth/NorseMythology Einherjar]], in ''VideoGame/RivieraThePromisedLand'' is bright yellow, bends backwards above the crossguard just to move back forward, and has an edge like a cleaver. [[https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/deptheaven/images/1/15/Ein.JPG/revision/latest?cb=20130325001159 It evokes feelings of a lightning bolt]]. Additionally, it cannot be [[BreakableWeapons broken]], but can only be effectively used by Ein himself.
* Befitting the religious and pious themes in ''VideoGame/{{Blasphemous}}'', the Penitent One's weapon is a sword designed for self-punishment. The grip is a religious statue held upside down and covered in stone barbs that constantly pierce into the wielder's hands. The crossguard is jagged and uncomfortable. The blade itself isn't too weird, except the barbs continue about halfway up the edge. The coiling thorns mirror the Penitent One's [[https://i.imgur.com/kyDWwqf.gif distinctive helmet]]
* Some of the swords from ''VideoGame/GrimDawn'' tend to have rough designs (as in, they're essentially metal scraps rearranged to serve as weapons) or implausible shapes, hooks and unnecessary barbs.

* In ''VisualNovel/DancingBladeKatteNiMomotenshi'', Momotenshi, the SuperMode of main heroine Momohime, wields a {{BFS}} [[http://download.minitokyo.net/Dancing.Blade:.Katte.Ni.Momo.Tenshi.387463.jpg with its tip shaped like a peach]], as a reference to Momohime's origins (she's a GenderFlip adaptation of Momotaro, the boy born from a peach).
* ''Franchise/AceAttorney'': the emerald Shichishito, which literally means "seven-branched sword", its branches supposedly representing the different paths life can take before its inevitable end. The fact that it is shaped so oddly comes up when [[spoiler:you prove that the defendant in the last case of ''Trials and Tribulations'' could not have shoved the sword all the way through the victim based on the wound and the blood on only the top branches]].

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* ''Manga/BeetTheVandelBuster'' gives us [[ImprobableWeaponUser Zenon]] who wields the deceptively named [[http://oi57.tinypic.com/fwsv0k.jpg Excellion Blade,]] which, despite the name, actually has multible blade'''s''', plural.
* ''Manga/{{Gamaran}}'' has some examples: The Maruyama brothers have the Murder Sword Ginguruwa (Silver Wheel): a sword with a very short, knife-like blade and a long, curved blade coming out of the back of said short blade. Another example is provided by Shinsuke's Soenmaru blade: A broadsword hollow inside composed by two katana-like blades on the hilt. Last but not least, Kibe refers to his weapon as a sword, while it's actually a colossal, spiked iron club.
* ''Anime/KillLaKill'' features two of these, which in part serve as [[SwordOfPlotAdvancement Swords Of Plot Advancement]], that each look like the separate halves of a pair of tailor's scissors, just ones enlarged to BFS proportions. They can also change size and shape, and become [[UpToEleven even more ridiculous]] when in Decapitation Mode. And yes, they do, also fit together to form a gigantic, double-edged pair of scissors! [[http://kill-la-kill.wikia.com/wiki/Scissor_Blades Take a look, but WATCH OUT FOR SPOILERS!!!]]
** The scissor shape is a plot point: Life Fiber monsters such as [[spoiler:Nui or Ragyo]] have a HealingFactor so rapid that their wounds begin closing before a blade can finish cutting through them, such that they can pull through things like decapitation and dismemberment unscathed because those extremities technically never left their bodies. The Scissor Blades, cutting in two directions at once and meeting in the middle, work fast enough to leave permanent injuries.
** Later, the story introduces the [[GratuitousEnglish Tailor's Dagger]], a combat knife with three parallel blades made specifically to sever the threads of the Life Fibers (to prevent the fiber's regenerative capabilities). The OVA has four custom versions for the EliteFour, namely a three-bladed katana for [[MasterSwordsman Sanageyama Uzu]], a three-bladed hatchet for [[MightyGlacier Gamagori Ira]], a knife with three blades shaped as musical notes for [[MusicalAssassin Jakuzure Nonon]] and a three-parted [[ImprobableWeaponUser club-keyboard thing]] for [[TheSmartGuy Inumuta Houka]].
* ''Anime/DevilHunterYohko''[='s=] title character wields a sword with a large bladed handguard; in one episode she demonstrates that she can un-dock the sword blade and use the remaining portion as a hand axe.
* [[spoiler:The resurrected Yomi (Izumi)]] in ''Manga/GaRei'' is able to materialize a seven-branched sword out of thin air, [[spoiler: having lost the Shishiou.]]
* ''Anime/GoLion'' carries a strange looking sword as his main weapon.
* [[spoiler: [[BigBad Jouka]]]] from ''Manga/SoulHunter'' wields the Shihoken: technically a sword, it's better described as a nodachi designed and forged by someone obsessed with modern art. Considering that it works by erasing things with a big Kaboom, it doesn't need to be sharp or practical by normal swords' standards.

* ''Manga/KongohBancho'': Kenpei Bancho's own sword Kanaria is, by his own ammission, a heavily modified ''phirangi'' sword, looking mostly like a longsword with a serrated segment near the hilt, a thinner katana-like blade half-way through broadening back into a flat tip with a triangular spearhead attached to the flat tip with screws, to give it a drilling attack. Kenpei Bancho admits that he customized his sword so that it could slice, dice, drill and impale as he wishes.
* In one of the ''Manga/DragonBall'' filler episodes. Goku happens upon Shula, the King of the Demon Realm. He wields a [[https://dragonball.fandom.com/wiki/Shula%27s_sword large sword]] with six ''branches'' along it's blade, that he uses to keep a giant cursed gate open to make sure his demons can torment a nearby kingdom by nightfall.

* In ''ComicBook/XOfSwords'', the sword Pogg Ur-Pogg is... a giant 6-armed crocodile in red crystalline armour with a sickle-like blade. Quite a number of the swords featured in the comic are oddballs though none match the Pogg.

* There are several in ''TabletopGame/MagicTheGathering'', including the spiral-shaped [[http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?multiverseid=221186 Trepanation Blade]], the hook-ended [[http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?multiverseid=193528 Pennon Blade]], and the blade split down the middle seen on [[http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?multiverseid=214070 Sword of Feast and Famine]] and its cousins.
** The bifurcated swords came back on Amonkhet, as visible in [[http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?multiverseid=426922 Prepare]], because Amonkhet worshipped Nicol Bolas as a god and [[SigilSpam put a symbol based on his horns anywhere it could]] - that's it at the base of the sword there.
* Most swords -and other weapons- in ''TabletopGame/AnimaBeyondFantasy'', with the bonus in quite a number of cases of being also a {{BFS}}. The epitome may be the ''Angelus'' and the similar ''Seoman Kephos'', the Imperial Sword, both forged (and the former used) by [[CrystalDragonJesus Abel]], [[AwesomeButImpractical but so cool as useless]] in RealLife (cue to ImplausibleFencingPowers and the RuleOfCool).

* Epic forms of [[TabletopGame/{{Warmachine}} Cryx warcasters]] also have bizarrely-shaped blades, often with too much blade mass. Epic Asphyxious even has a ''really'' odd weapon ''[[EvilWeapon made of a fallen rival]]''.
* Sawtooth sabres in ''TabletopGame/{{Pathfinder}}'' have a cutting edge with large teeth on it, meant to resemble a praying mantis's barbed arms (they're used by an assassins' guild devoted to the assassin god Achaekek, for whom mantids are sacred). You can use them as a martial weapon in which case they're mechanically identical to longswords, but if you take an Exotic Weapon Proficiency feat, you can treat them as a light weapon under the DualWielding rules.

* ''VideoGame/WorldOfWarcraft'' has some truly ridiculous blades, like the [[https://wow.zamimg.com/uploads/screenshots/normal/152183-sword-of-justice.jpg Sword of Justice]], the [[https://wow.zamimg.com/uploads/screenshots/normal/739903-schwarzklinge-von-shahram.jpg Blackblade of Shahram]], the [[https://wow.zamimg.com/uploads/screenshots/normal/455494-zwillingsklinge-des-ph%C3%B6nix.jpg Twinblade of the Phoenix]] or the legendary weapon [[https://wow.zamimg.com/uploads/screenshots/normal/426561.jpg Thunderfury]]. And the other weapon classes (axes, maces...) have similar offenders.
* The Soul Reaver from ''VideoGame/LegacyOfKain'' looks odd, but this kind of wavy blade actually exists, and is called a Flamberge. However, the undulations of the Reaver's blade are more pronounced than any Flamberge, thus seeming more kriss-like. It could be best described as a kriss blade crossed with a Flamberge design.
* The Dark Dragon Blade in ''Videogame/NinjaGaiden''. A fully upgraded [[{{BFS}} Dabilahro]] also has plenty of unnecessary curves and flourish. Enma's Fang in ''Sigma 2'' just… [[http://b6.raptrcdn.com/activity/award_def/psn/69/e5/69e56ddf18103edff73c3f66f63225fe.PNG cannot be described with words.]]
* The Seven Punishment Sword in ''Videogame/{{Okami}}'' is another example of the "flame shaped" variant.
** Ninetails' Nine-Pronged sword counts as well. [[MundaneUtility It also doubles as a lightning rod]] [[HoistByHisOwnPetard which is the key to defeating him]].

* ''Franchise/TheLegendOfZelda'':
** In ''[[VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaMajorasMask The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask]]'', Link wearing the Fierce Deity's Mask wields the [[https://zelda.gamepedia.com/File:MM_Fierce_Deity_Sword_Model.png Double Helix Sword]] which has two blades that cross back and forth before coming to a point.
** Though less exotic than some, in ''[[Videogame/TheLegendOfZeldaSkywardSword Skyward Sword]]'', the BigBad's sword is an EvilCounterpart to the Master Sword, and has [[https://zelda.gamepedia.com/File:SS_Demise_Render.png a blade shaped like overlapping diamonds with spikes at the corners.]]
** ''[[VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaBreathOfTheWild Breath of the Wild]]'' has the Goron greatswords such as the Cobble Crusher. They are blunt crushing weapons rather than slicing weapons, they get progressively wider approaching the point, and said "point" is typically covered in a heavy adornment that further shifts its center weight to make it better suited for smashing blows. Also, the swords the [[BirdPeople Rito]] use have a hollow space where the fuller would be to make them lighter. Additionally, the [[LizardFolk Lizalfos]] may wield boomerang-type weapons that can have as many as [[http://zelda.wikia.com/wiki/Lizal_Tri-Boomerang three blades]], making it look like a cross between a boomerang, a kukri and a shuriken (and taking heavy inspiration from the African mambele knife).
* In ''Monster Girl Quest'', Luka soon finds the Angel Halo, which is...well...[[https://monstergirlquest.wikia.com/wiki/File:Angel_Halo.png there's a reason if everyone he shows it to is shocked speechless]].

* ''VideoGame/SamuraiWarriors'': Kenshin Uesugi's standard weapon is a seven-bladed sword. Kojiro Sasaki can summon giant blades with a really weird design. Kunoichi's best weapon is a flame-shaped dagger. Ginchio Tachibana's sword has the blade shaped as a stylized lightning bolt.
* ''VideoGame/SengokuBasara'': Yukimura starts out with a spear. Ok, fine. His last weapon is a multi-pronged, flame like monstrosity. And he's not the only one. Hojo Ujimasa stands out too: His ''basic'' weapon is a pike with twelve blades that, in RealLife, would be a waste of wood and metal.
* The Darksword from ''VideoGame/DarkSouls'' looks more rectangular than anything else, but the prize goes to Quelaag's Furysword, which is basically the segmented leg of a giant spider (that catches fire when swung).
* While most weapons in the ''VideoGame/{{Soul|Series}}'' series are fairly reasonable and realistic, several extra weapons you can buy/obtain tend to fall into this category, such as Siegfried's Flamberge (a zweihander with a wavy flames design, not unlike the page image). [[DemBones Revenant]], an extra character in ''Soulcalibur III'' and ''IV'', also uses twin wave swords known as Gatekeeper.

* In ''VideoGame/BlazBlue'', Ragna the Bloodedge wields the Aramasa, a sword he inherited (via Jubei) from the original Bloodedge, an unsung hero of the Dark War who singlehandedly halted the advance of the Black Beast for a year (unknown to Ragna, Bloodedge is actually [[spoiler:an amnesiac Ragna thrown back in time]]). The sword has a somewhat wavy, almost hook-like shape to it. In its awakened state, the Aramasa is also capable of assuming the form of a scythe with a blade made out of crimson energy (the blade extends from the hilt and turns to resemble a scythe).
** There's also Kagura, who uses a blade that is best described as a black, angled gravestone on a stick. Also, it's friggin ''huge.''
* The Sparda sword in ''VideoGame/DevilMayCry'' has a huge crescent-shaped blade, and the position of the handle should make it quite difficult to wield. Lampshaded in the last line of [[http://thepunchlineismachismo.com/archives/899 this]] ''Webcomic/ManlyGuysDoingManlyThings'' comic.
* In ''VideoGame/FateEXTRA'', Saber wields Aestus Estus, a large sword that tapers and widens somewhat randomly and comes to three points on the cutting edge... Well, [[http://images.wikia.com/typemoon/images/f/f9/AestusEstus.png see for yourself]]. It should perhaps come as no surprise that the true identity of the character who designed and uses such an insane sword is [[spoiler:[[UsefulNotes/{{Nero}} Nero Caeser]]]].
* In the {{Franchise/Kirby}} series of games, Meta Knight's sword, Galaxia, is this, with large spikes protruding from the golden blade. They range in number from zero to six [[DependingOnTheArtist depending on the game.]]
* In ''VideoGame/MusashiSamuraiLegend'' the first four Elemental Swords may be unusual, but otherwise fine. Then there's the Void Sword: it looks like there are two blades merged: the one in the middle is straight and squared, the other one has a wave shape and is merged with the former. In RealLife this sword would be awfully hard to use properly.
* In ''VideoGame/NeverwinterNights2'', the [[http://media.giantbomb.com/uploads/0/5427/850920-githsword_large.jpg Silver Sword of Gith]]. Possibly justified by it being an InfinityPlusOneSword [[SwordOfPlotAdvancement of Plot Advancement]]. And by not being human-made. And being more of a focus for magical/planar energies than a sword.
* A lot of the higher-level swords and daggers in ''VideoGame/DragonAgeOrigins'' have serrated, zig-zagging, and/or wavy-edged blades.
* Given that they are carved from the bodies of the monsters the player hunts, it is no surprise that a lot of the swords--indeed, many of the weapons in general--in ''VideoGame/MonsterHunter'' are fairly strange looking. Examples include the [[http://images4.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20091003095037/monsterhunter/images/c/c2/BarrothGS.png Carapace Sword]], [[http://images2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20100816091319/monsterhunter/images/e/e5/AlatreonGS.png Alatreon Great Sword]] and the [[http://images4.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20100518042206/monsterhunter/images/0/03/Sharq-Attaq.png Sharq Attaq]].

* In ''Videogame/DarkSoulsII'', the [[http://img3.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20140329045159/darksouls/images/d/d5/King%27s_Ultra_Greatsword.png King's Ultra Greatsword]] is really more of a giant statue of Vendrick's beloved queen Nashandra on a stick than a sword. It even has the moveset of clubs instead of swords and does strike damage instead of slashing damage.
* The infamous "[[http://static.giantbomb.com/uploads/scale_small/1/18591/948664-marche.jpg Pizza]] [[http://www.abload.de/img/lusolljzw.jpg Cutter]] Sword" from the promotional artworks of ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyTacticsAdvance'' and ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyTacticsA2''.
* ''VideoGame/InfinityBlade'' is choc full of swords, some badass, some ridiculous. Actually scratch that, there are a lot of ridiculous swords. Special mentions go to the thornblade (not unlike the page example) which looks more like a meat-rack than an actual sword.

* The Dark Dragon Blade in ''Videogame/NinjaGaiden'', depicted above. A fully upgraded [[{{BFS}} Dabilahro]] also has plenty of unnecessary curves and flourish. Enma's Fang in ''Sigma 2'' just… [[http://b6.raptrcdn.com/activity/award_def/psn/69/e5/69e56ddf18103edff73c3f66f63225fe.PNG cannot be described with words.]]

* In ''Manga/{{Naruto}}'', among the swords owned by the Seven Swordsmen of the Mist only Zabuza's {{BFS}} looks like a real sword.

* ''Manga/BeetTheVandelBuster'' gives us [[ImprobableWeaponUser Zenon]] who wields the deceptively named [[http://oi57.tinypic.com/fwsv0k.jpg Excellion Blade]], which despite the name actually has multible blade'''s''', plural.

While the odd shapes for blades may vary. There's also one template that some strangely-shaped blades tend to draw inspiration from and it's the '''Nanatsusaya no Tachi''', the legendary ''[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seven-Branched_Sword Seven-Branched Sword]]'' currently housed in the Isonokami Shrine in Nara Prefecture, Japan.

** Sawagejou Chou, "the Sword Hunter" collects unusual swords. ''Renbatou'' consists of two katana blades whose hilts snap together to make one weapon with two parallel blades. [[RealityEnsues Kenshin easily destroys it]] by getting his scabbard between the blades and twisting to snap them off. More effective is ''Hakujin no Tachi'', which has a super-long, flexible blade that he can use like a whip.

* The depictions of Shardblades in ''Literature/TheStormlightArchive'' tend towards this, with spikes, spurs, and ripples common as decorations. {{Justified}} by the fact that Shardblades cut though things with magic rather than regular physics, and thus don't need a practical shape as much.

[[caption-width-right:250:Useful to look cool, less to stab your opponent.[[note]]Although it's ''definitely'' going to hurt if you're able to do so ''and'' then pull the thing out[[/note]]]]

* In one of the ''Anime/DragonBall'' filler episodes. Goku happens upon Shula, the King of the Demon Realm. He weilds a [[https://dragonball.fandom.com/wiki/Shula%27s_sword large sword]] with six ''branches'' along it's blade, that he uses to keep a giant cursed gate open to make sure his demons can torment a nearby kingdom by nightfall.

While the odd shapes for blades may vary. There's also one template that some strangely-shaped blades tend to draw inspiration from and it's the ''Nanatsusaya no Tachi'', the legendary [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seven-Branched_Sword Seven-Branched Sword]] currently housed in the Isonokami Shrine in Nara Prefecture, Japan.

[[caption-width-right:250:Useful to look cool, less to stab your opponent.]]