I've always found both guns and swords to be boring weapons of choice, and are very overrated. They are constantly used in video games, anime, and other media. I've always been one to like more unique, and original weapons, which is probably why I like boomerangs so much, you rarely see them in video games as a weapon!
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| Cherri, a character I made when I was in college. Her weapon? The Flier. Essentially, the idea was, the orange thing around her hand, would be able to fly off, and into an enemy, and fly back. |
In the media, the hero and other characters almost always have a sword or a gun as a weapon, maybe even a bow or a magic staff.
Any character wielding a weapon that is seldom ever used is almost only ever used by a character that is either not in every episode, issue, chapter or in the game often. They're always that one guy, that gets killed in the only episode they've ever been in.
For example, there was an enemy in the tv series "Arrow" who used throwing knives as a weapon, he was quickly killed by the main protagonist. (This happens again in season 7, in the last episode. This time the person doesn't die, but just disappears.) The long running anime "Bleach" had a character who used a boomerang as their weapon, it was an enemy and he was only in one episode. The anime "Hunter X Hunter" had a cool character, his weapon were daggers that he could throw like a boomerang, he was easily killed by the series main antagonist Hisoka.
These three characters had such cool weapons, but they only had a very short screen time. Meanwhile, the main characters to those shows all had a conventional weapon (The Arrow = Bow/Arrow), (Bleach, most characters have swords) (Except Hunter X Hunter, the series protagonist uses a fishing rod, so that is indeed different.)
There are even video games where every playable character has a different version of the same weapon, which in my opinion is just plain and un-creative, and boring. (EX: Wild Arms 3 [Guns], The Last Story [Swords])
I don't mean to hate on bows, I do like them. But seeing 80 characters with a bow, and or gun in an RPG, and no other long range weapons, is annoying for me to see. There's no creativity in weapons!
(Disgaea for example.)
Togari from Hunter X Hunter had curved knives that would come back like a boomerang when thrown. A spin on a usual weapon.
It's true that sometimes there is a show, game or other that has a main character with a unique weapon, or just a weapon that isn't very used. But it doesn't happen often, and plenty of times it's a series not many know about, such as Shangri-La. Which is one of three anime to have a main character with a boomerang as their weapon (The other two being Inuyasha, yes a cult classic and Vividred Operation an anime with abysmal reviews. Shangri-La is in the middle of the two, ratings wise, as well as order of creation.). You might be able to count Daichi, from Captain Earth, but I haven't seen it, so I don't know the details.
Not to mention, the only time I've ever seen a knife thrower in an anime, was Merrill from Rune Soldier.
Plenty of people complain that shows and other forms of media have lost interest because everything has been done before, but I think that if you give characters different weapons, they could lead to different results. If characters have weapons that aren't used as much, we can get different kinds of battles, battles we haven't really seen that much of. It would be a taste of fresh air; to see something different in the world of swords, guns, bows and magic staffs!
The world needs more variety, and characters having the same weapon as usual is just not fun and gets pretty old, pretty quickly!
The following is a list of weapons that I think people in the entertainment industry should use more of! Beware, it's a big list! I have been writing down different kinds of weapons in a book of mine, to use for my own story purposes. They're both two pages with both sides written on!
Anything that has never been created, that I thought up will be a secret, but everything else goes!
Commonly used weapons:
Axe
Bow & Arrow/Crossbow
Claw
Daggers
Gun
Hammer
Magic Staff
Spear
Sword
Weapons that are rarely used:
Blowgun
Bo-Staff
Book
Boomerang
Cards
Chakram
Club
Disk
Fans
Flail
Javelin
Kadenma
Kunai
Mace
Needles (Multi Purpose, stab or throw)
Nunchucks
Sai
Scythe
Shuriken
Sickle
Slingshot
Throwing Axe
Throwing Knives
Tonfa
Whip
Wrench
Weapons that are never used or rarely used: (You may have to look some of these up)
Anchor (EX Logg, Suikoden V)
Amei Piercers
Bag
Ball ( EX Wakka Final Fantasy X)
Banana Peel
Black Eggs
Bombs
Cannon
Chain
Doll
Finger Pointer (Welch Star Ocean)
Fireworks (See Panda King Sly Cooper 3 or Yoimiya in Genshin Impact)
Fishing Lure/Fishing Rod (See Chrono Cross, Korcha and Hunter X Hunter, Gon)
Flower (See Simone, Suikoden II)
Fly Swatter (Why hasn't anyone done this yet?! This would be good for an anime about a bug invasion!)
Forks and Spoons (Quina Final Fantasy, Leena Chrono Cross)
Graveryl (Look up Velvet from Odin Sphere) or Chain Flail
Hooks (ARG e Matey!)
Jarts (Lawn Darts, they were banned because people were injuring themselves because of them.. great idea for a weapon if you ask me!)
Magic Seal (This can be seen in like ghost hunting anime)
Poison Powder (See Sango from Inuyasha)
Pots & Pans (Hai Yo, Suikoden, Leena, Chrono Cross)
Rubberband (To fling with my dear!)
Scissors (I believe Scissors were a weapon in a Billy and Mandy game on the Cartoon Network website)
Sling
Spiked Ball
Taser
Twin Hooks
Yo-Yo
Feel free to use these ideas to your own advantage!
Here are some characters from games, who do have very creative weapons!!
2. Riou, the protagonist of Suikoden II has a unique weapon known as Tonfa's. The only other character I have ever seen with the weapon is Elie from Rave Master, her Tonfa also doubles as a laser pistol.
Ironically, there are two characters named Eilie and Ellie in Suikoden II.
There is a character named Hoi in Suikoden II, his weapon is also Tonfa's, but only because he was impersonating Riou.
3. Fee from Atelier Iris II, her weapon is similar to Riou's, she can actually throw her weapon like a boomerang.
4. Tira from Soul Calibur has a giant ring as her weapon.
5. Quina from Final Fantasy IX uses an oversized fork as their weapon.
6. The anime Severing Crime Edge has the main character wielding Scissors, which is definitely different.
7. Characters like Serge from Chrono Cross, and Kyril, from Suikoden Tactics, have a cool weapon called the Swallow.
It's a staff like weapon, with blades on the ends. It's a really interesting weapon, and I've only ever seen these weapons in those two games.
To demonstrate, I'm also posting another character I made in college. Cherry, a twin of the earlier character, with a swallow type weapon!
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| Cherry |
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