"With Our Swords" Scene

If you're the bad guys, This Is Gonna Suck.

The Big Bad has succeeded in his goal of stealing the Crystal of Unstoppableness! Soon he will be unstoppable! And to make things worse, all the heroes have been wounded and are unable to fight... except for John Q. Protagonist.

Stone Wall: Take my Everlasting Shield. You know how tough it is. It's not doing me much good right now anyway.

The Rival: Hmmph. I'll let you borrow my Sword of Eternity, but you're giving it back right after this is over.

Love Interest: Please, John, just take my Amulet of Hope. Be careful.

The main character then goes on to kick a ton of bad guy ass using all of the items he received. This can be done with a single character who lends him a weapon, in which case it is usually The Rival. Usually reserved for the Final Battle.

Occasionally this will happen in a series with modular robots, in which case the other heroes (or their vehicles) lend their leader parts of their bodies (not to be confused with the entire robots combining).

Related to All Your Powers Combined, Set Bonus and Combined Energy Attack. See also Give Me a Sword. Often assumes that Possession Implies Mastery.

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Examples:

Advertising

• One of a series of ads Australian online gambling company Sportsbet did for their 'Bet with Mates' featured a High Fantasy gathering of allied groups. A group of knights swear "You have our swords!", followed by the merchants saying "And our gold!", and the witches "And our craft!". Then a trio of bogans add "And our tips!" and the ad goes into an explanation of how Bet With Mates works.

Anime & Manga

• Beet the Vandel Buster: Beet starts the series with the magical soul-born weapons of five veteran warriors who saved his life, and then disappeared. He still has to struggle to master each of them, however.
• In Dorohedoro this happens to Fujita. Subverted when it's revealed he was chosen for the mission because he's weak and cowardly, and that he can't bring anything he was given because it would affect the invisibility magic.
• Gaiking: Legend of Daiku Maryu: Gaiking's cockpit combines with the arms of Raiking and the legs of Vulking to form the ludicrously powerful "Gaiking the Great".
• In the finale of GaoGaiGar, the robot team lend their brains to GaoGaiGar's component machines to ensure that GaoGaiGar can combine and fight at his best.
• In Godannar, Gainer lends its Transforming Mecha sword to the eponyomous mech, resulting in "Godannar Triple Drive".
• The Grand Finale of Gundam Build Fighters features Sei abandoning his Build Gundam Mk-II in order to attach its booster to Reiji's Build Strike. Later, Mao lends the damaged Build Strike his own Gundam's limbs and weapons so that it can participate in one last fight.
  • The Exia Dark Matter is an unusual case. Defeated heroes lending Tatsuya their signature abilities before his big fight with Reiji would normally be touching... except that both Tatsuya and his donors are forced into it by villains who want Reiji to lose, and one of these upgrades is Aila's EMBODY System at full power, which is used to Brainwash Tatsuya into compliance.
  • Both inverted and played straight in the sequel series, where Fumina's Winning Gundam is designed to break apart into weapons for her teammates to wield.
  • And during the decisive match of the championship, Sekai's Try Burning has its damaged parts replaced with those from Yuuma and Fumina's Gunpla. Much to everyone else's surprise, as both Yuuma and Minato redesigned them to have all their parts interchangeable just in case.
• Medabots has a scene where Metabee has been badly damaged, so he borrows Sumilidon's super-fast legs and the Arm Cannons of Crosserdog and Kantaroth.
• Pokémon Adventures used this during the climax of the Diamond and Pearl arc. After Platinum discovers that the Sinnoh Gym Leaders had been taken out, the injured Candice, Gardenia, and Maylene each offer their one healthy Pokemon to Platinum to help her in the final battle. Then a wayward attack from Dialga and Palkia damages the mechanism of their Pokeballs, rendering them unusable but she's allowed to keep them afterward for a different mission.
  • This also happened in an earlier arc, during the FireRed/LeafGreen chapter, between Red and Green. Red's resident Giant Flyer, Aerodactyl, was still wounded from Red's encounter with Deoxys, so Green had to trade his Charizard with Red's Venusaur in order for Red to go after Giovanni.
• Saint Seiya has the fight between Seiya and Ikki. After his friends are knocked out, Seiya is forced to fight alone and is systematically helped by Shiryu's Dragon Shield and Shun's Andromeda Chain. An interesting variation happens at the climax of the battle when Seiya finds out he has received Hyoga's "Diamond Dust" and uses it together with his "Ryu Sei Ken" for increased power.
• Used in Yu-Gi-Oh! 5Ds:
  • Yusei's in jail and the arrogant warden tells him he can duel his way out — of course, his deck was confiscated when he was arrested. However, all of the prisoners have smuggled in a card or two with special meaning to them, so they loan them all to Yusei, giving him enough to make a usable deck to take the warden down a few pegs.
  • Before the final battle with Z-ONE, the other members of Team 5Ds lend Yusei their Signer Dragons. He ends up using them all to perform an Over Limit Accel Synchro, summoning Shooting Quasar Dragon.

Comic Books

• The Marvel/DC Intercontinuity Crossover JLA/Avengers ends with one of these. Superman wields Captain America's shield, and later Mjölnir, to fight the Big Bad. The way it's illustrated on the cover of the final issue might count as one of the most awesome things ever done in comics.
• Runaways: Given a clever twist when the character who receives the main character's equipment and powers reveals that they've been the mole all along, and deliberately orchestrated the scenario to play out this way.

Film — Live-Action

• Famously, the climax of Avengers: Endgame sees Thor lend Captain America his legendary hammer Mjolnir for the final battle against Thanos. Normally this would be impossible due the hammer's "worthiness" enchantment, but it turns out Captain America is just good enough to be worthy to lift the hammer and gain Thor's powers.
• A variation is used in Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer. Johnny has been power-swapping with the other three members for most of the film, and in the climax, he takes on all four of their powers to fight the Big Bad.
• The 2009 film Transformers: Revenge of The Fallen features Jetfire sacrificing himself after a severe injury so that Optimus Prime can snap on his parts for the final battle.

Literature

• In The Sapphire Rose, an injured Bevier passes his Lochaber Axe to Berit when he's about to go with the main group into Azash's lair. Berit uses said axe in the climax to break Azash's concentration during his battle against Sparhawk and the Bhelliom.

Live-Action TV

• Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Buffy goes into battle against the Master in the Series 1 finale wielding a crossbow given to her by Giles, a leather jacket she got from Angel, and a prom dress previously worn by her mom.
• In Farscape, John is the only one of the crew who isn't too incapacitated by an alien who altered the bioluminescence on Moya (due to his comparatively poor eyesight). In a Lock-and-Load Montage the others give him heat-absorbent paste (pre-digested by Zhaan to increase its potency^note "IT'S PUKE?!"), dorky flight goggles, a cap soaked in the same bio-paste, a cape (solar-reflecting flare wrap), a shield (an armored section of Aeryn's Prowler), and D'Argo's Qualia blade. He then decides to Stab the Sky while humming "Ride of the Valkyries". Upon seeing this Aeryn simply folds her arms and says "We are going to die."
• Kamen Rider
  • The Kamen Rider Decade crossover with Samurai Sentai Shinkenger shows Decade and Shinken Red briefly trading their BFS weapons (the Blade Blade and Rekka Daizantou, respectively) in order to finish Chinomanako off.
    • In the same show, as well as a novel that retells the series, Kaito finally gives Decade the Diend card so they can win a battle.
  • Kamen Rider Saber: The swordsmen all offer up their Seikens in order to help Touma summon the ultimate Seiken, the Haouken Xross Saber.
• Power Rangers: In Power Rangers S.P.D., Sky idolizes his father (who was a Red Ranger years ago); but when he becomes a Ranger himself he is assigned as a lower-ranked Blue Ranger because of his arrogance. When it comes time to face the alien criminal who killed his father, Jack loans Sky his Red Ranger Morpher for the battle.
  Sky: This one's for you, Dad. S.P.D.! Emergency!
• Super Sentai
  • In Denji Sentai Megaranger #17 Miku's temporary upgrade Super MegaPink grants her the personal weapons of her fellow Megarangers.
  • Parodied in GoGo Sentai Boukenger, where Satoru is given a heaping of bad luck. His friends/teammates hand him lucky items that, while making a hilarious costume (and a Crowning Moment of Funny), serves to be quite effective against the Monster of the Week.
  • Done literally in Kaizoku Sentai Gokaiger, with four of the Rangers handing their swords to Gokai Blue. Yes folks, one guy with FIVE swords.
    • Later on, Gokai Green tries to build a new weapon but runs out of spare parts. He eventually works up the nerve to ask the rest of his team for their weapons to disassemble, which they give without hesitation.
  • The final battle of Ressha Sentai ToQger has all the ToQgers lending their transformation Ressha for ToQ 1 to become "ToQ 1 Rainbow" and defeat Emperor Z.

Podcasts

• Taako from the The Adventure Zone swindles the Flaming Poisoning Raging Sword of Doom from a shopkeeper, but his player, Justin, refuses to use it or give it to anyone else because the item was acknowledged In-Universe as a Game-Breaker. Only in the final arc did he relent and give it to the group's fighter, who used it to great affect in fighting the multivers-chomping monster.

Video Games

• This is a regular part of playing Battleground Z/StreetPass Zombies: The survivors you find will all lend you, or at least offer you, items they either have been using to fight off zombies or have some personal value to them, which you then use as weapons anyway. They then flee offscreen, presumably to safety, trusting you to take out the zombie hordes in the area.
• A variation in Final Fantasy IX. Much of the story is about the characters' finding their purpose or reason for fighting. At the end of the game, a Hopeless Boss Fight sees your entire party defeated. Whichever four party members are inactive share their reason for fighting or the meaning they have found in their journey together, each reviving one of the active party members for the boss fight that immediately follows.
• Inverted in Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha A's Portable because it's the villains that pull this in The Gears of Destiny. Lord Dearche finds herself on the ropes in her efforts to obtain the powers of Unbreakable Darkness with her loyal retainers Stern and Levi heavily injured in the process of weakening the system and she herself prepared to expend a lot of energy to save them. They won't have any of it and instead transfer their remaining power to her to give her the ability to defeat U-D by herself. She doesn't take this very well.
• In Mega Man X, if you haven't gotten the arm cannon upgrade, Zero will give X his arm cannon (which has the upgrade) just before he dies in Sigma's castle. In X3, he'll do it again; if you use him to fight a particular mid-boss in Sigma's fortress, he'll die after defeating it, but not before giving X his Z-Saber.
• Octopath Traveler II The opening moments of Temenos' chapter 1 is him retelling a story of the eight gods of Solistia. They once fought against Vide, an evil entity representing nihilism and desiring the annihilation of the world. Each one is beaten and down, but they have enough strength to empower Aelfric, the Top God, to stand once more and fight Vide.
• The final story of Sonic Heroes sees the 12 playable characters all pull out the Chaos Emeralds they've gathered throughout the game and give them to Team Sonic so they can defeat Metal Sonic.
• Inverted in World of Warcraft in the fight against Kael'thas Sunstrider in Tempest Keep, as he makes the players fight a bunch of his super-powered weapons in order that (from the game's perspective, not his) they can pick them up and use them against him and his minions in the next stages of the battle.

Web Video

• The cast's characters from Critical Role frequently trade magical items after gaining new ones or before going into difficult fights.
  • Most notably, Vax has given his much-envied Boots of Haste to his twin sister on two occasions. In both instances, the two were facing impossible odds against dragons, the same creatures that killed their mother, and Vax put aside his childish feuding with Vex to give the group the best chance to avenge their mom.
  • Percy lends his Dragon-Slayer longsword to Vax for two dire dragon fights. Percy mainly uses his guns, but giving it up means Percy is defenseless if the dragons get up close and personal, which is the risk of his life.
  • In the face of the growing danger in their life and political intrigue, Vax gives up the Displacer Cloak he's had on for forty episodes to Keyleth, who he has come to love. This is right before they go to another continent to fight an ancient demon and a predator dragon in the middle of a snowstorm.
  • For the final battle, Percy gives up his beloved Boots of Spider-Climbing to his rival, Grog. Percy may be stuck-up and a bit of prick, but in the face of a flying necromancer, he's more than willing to swallow his pride to get a half-giant barbarian a better chance to get in close and finish the sucker.

Western Animation

• Avatar: The Last Airbender: Before the climax of the two-parter that started off the end of the second season, Katara gives Aang her water pouch, which has been an essential part of her fighting as a water-bender. With it, Aang stands a much better chance facing off with Azula than if he just relied on earth and air.
• The Batman: The Brave and the Bold episode "Fate of the Equinox" ends with all the heroes of Earth temporarily giving Batman their superpowers so he can defeat Equinox and stop him from destroying the world.

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