History Main / ParryingBullets

** Both Mizu are Taigen are skilled enough to cut arrows out of the air with their swords, but only one at a time. Against a RainOfArrows, all they can do is run and hide under cover.

* The Stage 2 boss in ''VideoGame/LethalEnforcers'' can block bullets with his swords, but not always.

* 'In ''VideoGame/Tekken8'', Yoshimitsu parries Bryan's machine gun bullets with his sword in their special intro.

* 'In 'VideoGame/Tekken8'', Yoshimitsu parries Bryan's machine gun bullets with his sword in their special intro.

* In ''WesternAnimation/CodeLyoko'', Ulrich is practically the equal to any Jedi Master at doing this, able to use his katana to deflect the energy weapons of XANA's mooks with relative ease.

* Subverted in ''WesternAnimation/BlueEyeSamurai'' when Fowler fires a musket at Mizu who blocks the bullet with her CoolSword...which then [[WreckedWeapon breaks in half]] while the bullet is deflected into her shoulder.

* It is possible for a sharp blade to cut a bullet in half, if both the gun and the blade are at the right angle. If a sword in battle blocks a bullet on the edge by pure chance, [[SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome the wielder will now have two bullet wounds instead]]. Laboratory conditions set to try this have shown it could be done on large slow bullets (such as from a pistol) while smaller high speed rounds (such as from rifles) will simply shatter even sword made from high quality steel.

* In ''VideoGame/KingdomHeartsII'', during battles with Sniper Nobodies, [[Film/PiratesOfTheCaribbean Port Royal]]'s undead pirates, and Xigbar, Sora can use his Keyblade to deflect incoming fire.

* In ''Film/Deadpool2'', Cable [[MoreDakka empties his guns]] into Deadpool while he slashes at the bullets, and is perfectly fine afterwards. Of course, that last part is [[GoodThingYouCanHeal due to his ridiculously strong healing factor]], not because he successfully deflected any of the bullets or anything.

* ''[[Literature/TalesOfTheKettyJay Retribution Falls]]''. Grayther Crake creates a daemon-infused cutlass that he gives to Captain Darian Frey as the price of his passage. At one point a rival pirate captain shoots Frey at close range and [[NoOneCouldSurviveThat leaves him for dead.]] To Frey's amazement, the cutlass he was carrying instinctively blocked the bullets and isn't even scratched.

* ''VideoGame/BeyondSunset'' have you using your trusty katana to deflect shots back into enemies constantly. You are a badass CyverNinja who spends the entire game kicking robot ass, after all.

* In ''AudioPlay/StrikersSoundStageX'' series, the [[NightOfTheLivingMooks Mariage]] has no need for DeflectorShields since they can block a barrage of Magic Bullets with a single [[BladeBelowTheShoulder arm blade]]. This Sound Stage also had a scene that had FragileSpeedster Erio using [[BladeOnAStick Strada]] to deflect physical bullets fired by an EvilPoacher.

* In ''[[Literature/{{Ravenor}} Ravenor Returned]]'', Ravenor’s agents encounter a hostile swordswoman who can do this. Nayl, after congratulating her for deflecting his first two shots, switches to full auto: she manages to block the first three bullets [[SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome before the rest turn her into Swiss cheese]].

* ''WebAnimation/HelluvaBoss'': In the FinalBattle in "Exes and Oohs", Millie ([[UnstoppableRage who's running at about 200% capacity]]) deflects bullets not only by [[SpinningToDeflectStuff spinning]] a [[ItMakesSenseInContext metal pole with a dildo on it]], but also just by kicking one.

* This is one of the defining traits of ''VideoGame/UBERMOSH''. Enemies will shoot bullets at you, which you can then cut with your sword, sending them back as your own projectiles!

* In ''LightNovel/{{Baccano}}'', Chane Laforet deflects bullets with knives. [[RuleOfCool Bullets fired from a pump-action rifle]]. In the novels, Chane's apparent Bullet Deflection was a fluke (pointed out in a monologue by Rachel who was observing the fight from behind Chane. (Ladd's perspective was obscured slightly by the smoke blowing back from the engine which a wind gust has pushed between them and he simply assumed she could deflect bullets and threw his gun away after the first first shot. The anime plays it up by adding extra shots, removing the fluke-nature, and removing Rachel from the scene (in the novel it's from Nice and Rachel's perspective), instead showing what one would guess is actually Ladd's recollection of the event (with his own embellishment).

* Shizu, in the Coliseum episodes of ''LightNovel/KinosJourney'', deflects bullets with his sword.

* ''LightNovel/SwordArtOnline'': In the game ''Gun Gale Online'', the lightsaber is considered a JokeWeapon because of its extremely limited range compared to every other weapon (which are guns). Kirito decides to use it regardless because that's the kind of weapon he's used to, and leaves everyone in ''GGO'' gobsmacked when he [[LethalJokeWeapon starts using it to deflect bullets]] (Kirito admits that ''Franchise/StarWars'' was an inspiration), close the distance, and slice people up. Slightly more plausible in that bullets' paths in ''GGO'' are shown to everyone beforehand, so it is possible to predict a bullet to some extent (still requires incredible reflexes), but Kirito takes it a step further and predicts the bullet lines, by carefully watching his opponents' eyes to see where they will aim. The skills he learned blocking bullets in ''GGO'' translate back to ''[=ALfheim=] Online'', where he is capable of cutting ''magic spells'' clean out of the air; although spells in ''ALO'' move slower than bullets in ''GGO'', their hitboxes are practically microscopic, and nullifying them requires hitting them with a Sword Skill (which is a system-guided swing or series of swings, so he needs to be '''very''' familiar with an SS to know when to activate it and where to aim).