If we're going to quibble, the "longsword" is actually an arming sword, the "bastard sword" is more like a longsword, the "falchion" is actually a saber, and claymores looked nothing like that.
"I like sword; that's a personal weapon!"
— Lo Wang, Shadow Warrior
Tropes dealing mainly with swords, knives, and other such bladed weapons.
Tropes:
- Absurd Cutting Power
- Absurdly Sharp Blade
- All Swords Are the Same
- Audible Sharpness
- Bare-Handed Blade Block
- Bayonet Ya
- BFS
- Black Swords Are Better
- Blade Across the Shoulder
- The Blade Always Lands Pointy End In
- Blade Below the Shoulder
- Blade Brake
- Blade Lock
- Blade on a Stick
- Blade Reflection
- Blade Run
- Blade Spam
- Bow and Sword, in Accord
- Butterfly Knife
- Cool Sword
- Cutlass Between the Teeth
- Cutting Through Energy
- Detachable Blades
- Diagonal Cut
- European Swordsmanship
- Every Japanese Sword Is a Katana
- Excalibur in the Rust
- Field of Blades
- Five-Finger Fillet
- Flaming Sword
- Flynning
- Forged by the Gods
- Heroes Prefer Swords
- Hot Blade
- Iaijutsu Practitioner
- Implausible Fencing Powers
- Katanas Are Just Better
- Kenjutsu
- Knife Nut
- Knife Outline
- Knife-Throwing Act
- Kukris Are Kool
- Laser Blade
- Licking the Blade
- Like Cannot Cut Like
- Lodged-Blade Recycling
- Ludicrous Melee Accuracy
- Machete Mayhem
- Master Swordsman
- Multi-Melee Master
- The Musketeer
- Oddly Shaped Sword
- One-Handed Zweihänder
- Reforged Blade
- Reverse Grip
- Royal Rapier
- Sharpened to a Single Atom
- Sheath Strike
- Sinister Scimitar
- Sinister Shiv
- Sinister Switchblade
- Soul-Cutting Blade
- Stab the Sky
- Staring Through the Sword
- Stepping-Stone Sword
- Storm of Blades
- Swipe Your Blade Off
- Sword Almighty
- Sword and Gun
- Sword Beam
- Sword Cane
- Sword Drag
- Sword Fight
- Sword Limbo
- Sword Plant
- Sword Pointing
- Sword/Shield Contrast
- Swords
- Sword Sparks
- Swordfish Sabre
- Technicolor Blade
- Throwing Your Sword Always Works
- Unorthodox Sheathing
- Whip Sword
- Wooden Katanas Are Even Better
