Basic Trope: A single weapon that encompasses vast utility, as opposed to carrying many weapons that could match it.
- Straight: Bob carries the Multiarm, which can transform into a longsword, a greatsword, a mace, a spear, a shield, and a bow.
- Exaggerated: Bob carries the Omni-Weapon, which can transform into anything he wants it to. ABSOLUTELY ANYTHING.
- Downplayed: Bob carries a mundane halberd, a trench knife or a glaive.
- Justified: The Multiarm's "blade" is actually made of Nanomachines that can shape itself according to whatever shape is programmed into its hilt.
- It's made of a magical polymorphic material that allows it to shape itself according to the user's will.
- Inverted: Bifurcated Weapon: Instead of one weapon with many forms, many weapons come together to form one weapon.
- Subverted: ???
- Double Subverted: ???
- Parodied: Bob fights with a Swiss Army Knife scaled up to BFS size.
- Zig-Zagged: ???
- Averted: Bob's sword is a perfectly ordinary non-transforming sword, and that's all he needs.
- Enforced: "We need to sell toys to kids!" "How about we make the hero's weapon have six forms? Kids love transforming weapons!"
- Lampshaded: "This Multiarm is REAL handy. Saves up the hassle of carrying all the weapons I'm good at."
- Defied: "This weapon can turn into six different forms-" "Oh hell no, I'm not training 6 different weapons at once! Just give me a normal sword!"
- Discussed: "Bob's Multiarm is amazing. Why can't we have one standard issue?" "We'd go bankrupt, that's why. Have you seen the price tag on the damn thing?"
- Deconstructed: There's a reason those things never caught on. Multiarm is extremely heavy, far too fragile for extended use, performs mediocrely at best with any of its forms, and it's immensely expensive — You could buy six well-made standalone weapons for one. It's ultimately just a nobleman's toy, certainly not anything even remotely resembling a practical weapon.
- Reconstructed: ???
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