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nombretomado (Season 1)
2020-02-11 19:26:33

I'm going with Index, since that's the page type. However, it has such an old history there's nothing we can access beyond 2015.

Adept MOD (Holding A Herring)
2020-02-12 07:26:30

An index of what, though? The page description seems overly narrow for an index, and the fact that it presents itself as an inversion of Heroes Prefer Swords exacerbates that.

It explicitly states that the exotic weapon is meant to signify the user as "noteworthy, badass, or just apart from the crowd", so unlike most Weapon Of Choice tropes, it does have a narrative significance.

Also other weapons indexes have a list of examples in addition to their sub-tropes, so does the fact that this one doesn't mean it's underperforming?

Edited by Adept
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