Didn't someone lose a weapon in the Princess Bride?
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Samus Aran.
Does a vehicle getting a part blown off count as sundering?
Anduril was sundered at some point.
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The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles get disarmed pretty often in the new series - Leonardo loses his swords more than once (although usually not both) and there is an entire episode dedicated to Donatello's staff getting sundered again...and again...and again.
Poor guy just can't catch a break.
Also: If we count ranged weaponry like pistols the list will get looooong. Action heroes lose their guns all the time.
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Didn't someone lose a weapon in the Princess Bride?
The Man in Black disarmed Inigo, who had a devil of a time surviving the battle until he could make his way to where the sword fell and recover it.
And who can forget the final battle in "The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe" by C. S. Lewis? The main villain, the White Witch (a.k.a. the White Queen) had skin tough as armor, and superhuman strength, in addition to a powerful magic wand that turned people (or creatures) into stone. In the final battle, she was turning good guy after good guy into stone, resulting in a battlefield covered with stone statues. When Edmund fought his way over to the White Queen, she was amused enough to let him fight his way over to her. After all, what harm could a kid with a sword do? But Edmund bravely faced her, swung his sword...
...and sundered her WAND!
Naturally, the queen got mad and mortally wounded Edmund, before she proceeded to fight the rest of the battle by mundane means. And naturally, Lucy was able to save Edmund's life with a magic potion. This is a children's story, after all. But still, it was a nice twist.
Excalibur ended up in a lake.
In some stories Arthur also broke an earlier sword - which in some iterations was also claimed to be Excalibur.
Scott Pilgrim vs The World (End battle with Gideon Graves...)
Also for disarms see any number of Shaw Brothers Kung Fu movies.
Off the top of my head the end fight between Lau Kau Leung and Lau Kar Wing in LEGENDARY WEAPONS OF CHINA is them using an array of melee weapons with each mini duel ending in a disarm of some sort.
Then there's pretty much any Shaw Brothers movie with Kuo Chui, Cheng Sheng and Lo Mang and Lu Feng in it (oddly enough the movie that they're most well known for, FIVE VENOMS, isnt a weapon based one). Especially, MAGNIFICENT RUFFIANS and KILLER ARMY.
The fight at the end of Lau Kau Leung's DIRTY HO with Gordon Liu, Wang Yu on one side both using the same folding staff vs. Lo Lieh (armed with a Guan Dao) and his two henchmen (one bare handed the other armed with some sort of bladed weight). At the end of the fight Liu and Yu do an excellent job teaming up to trap Lo Lieh's arms and eventually disarm him.
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Elric got sundered by his own sword. Does that count? :)
People seem to get guns yanked out of their hands all the time in various TV shows and movies. The most common disarms-the-gunman moves seem to be someone wrestling the gun away, smashing the hand of the gun-holder and making him drop it, or *shooting* the gun out of their hand (usually with another gun, but, in Arrow or Smallville's Green Arrow, with a bow). Usually happens to bad-guys, but is also a theme when a gun or bow using good guy is facing an awesome martial artist or something.
Seems to be less common with superheroes. Nobody sunders or disarms Spidey's web-shooters or Thor's hammer or the Amulet of Agamotto. Defensive items are more likely to get messed up, as with Cap's shield or Iron Man's armor, which have 'get in the way of incoming attacks' as one of their roles in life.
Wolverine's claws got sundered pretty good in the last terrible Wolverine movie. Dude should get new claws made of whatever material holds the Hulk's inseams together. *That stuff* is indestructible!
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It was an Epic Disarm.Two movies I can think of right away.
'Stat Wars: Empire Strikes Back' Lukes loses his lightsaber. Wouldnt say that the weapon was sundered in this scene. I'd call it more of a dishand.
Made him a hand solo.
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"Human dude's" name is Isildur.
In Martin's Game of Thrones, Arya is a finesse fighter with a rapier named Needle. It is taken away from her and at this point in the books, I don't know where it is or if she's going to get it back. But it has a name and she learned to fence with it.
Later in the series, when the Hound Sandor Clegane endures a trial by combat, he wins his freedom by sundering Beric Dondarrion's flaming sword and following through his left shoulder.
I've never made a sunder guy that cleaves through broken weapons and into their owners, but I want to someday.
Han Solo once got disarmed.
What, you guys don't remember? Door opens on Cloud City, he sees Vader, and gets the blaster yanked out of his hand after the first few shots?
Eh, I guess it's easy to forget. It's not like Han got his hand hacked off or anything.
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In the first Conan flick (with Arnold), Conan sunders his father's sword whilst it is wielded by Rexxor in the Big Battle (TM) toward the end.
It's a great, clean shot of a sunder, with the blade splitting nicely in half, and a chunk of it flying into Rexxor's hair (in slow motion, no less).
Love that scene. And the music is spectacular.
"Human dude's" name is Isildur.
In Martin's Game of Thrones, Arya is a finesse fighter with a rapier named Needle. It is taken away from her and at this point in the books, I don't know where it is or if she's going to get it back. But it has a name and she learned to fence with it.
Really? I don't know GoT very well (just enough to know I don't care for it) but did she also have a dagger named Scalpel? Did she wear gray a lot too and hang out with red-headed barbarians? I guess if you're gonna rip something off you might as well go with the greats...
Really? I don't know GoT very well (just enough to know I don't care for it) but did she also have a dagger named Scalpel? Did she wear gray a lot too and hang out with red-headed barbarians? I guess if you're gonna rip something off you might as well go with the greats..."Human dude's" name is Isildur.
In Martin's Game of Thrones, Arya is a finesse fighter with a rapier named Needle. It is taken away from her and at this point in the books, I don't know where it is or if she's going to get it back. But it has a name and she learned to fence with it.
I have some issue with Martin, but comparing him to Lieber is ridiculous.
Arya and the Mouser are nothing alike at all. And since when is it uncommon for a weapon to be named?
Martin and Lieber are both great. But nothing alike. Their styles and their stories are miles apart. Nobody ripped anything off. You're just showing ignorance here.
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Max loses his trademark double barreled shotgun pretty early on in Thunderdome (had it for all three movies) and ends up wandering down the road with a hunting rifle and some javelins.
Iron Man 3 had a good chunk of time on screen without a functional suit - the premise of the movie was that he was more than his armor.
Dragon Ball Z they break the Z sword pretty much around the same time they find the thing doing a few practice swings. Then the plot advances because this releases a deity.
Lord of the rings. Surprised I got here first. Human dude fighting sauron or whatever.
You didn't get here first.
Anduril was sundered at some point.
Otherwise, yeah, I would have been surprised too.
Since the title only said books or movies, I didn't know that cartoons and comics counted. But since you allude to "Order of the Stick", how about this one?
Well, a webcomic isn't a book. Notice that I didn't criticize the mention of Marvel comics...
...although come to think of it, "Order of the Stick" was compiled into a series of dead tree books, so I guess that does count.
(Yes, I know that you were kidding.)
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Nobody sunders ... Thor's hammer ...Four posts above yours, I wrote, "The Destroyer slices a piece off Mjolnir in one of the early issues of Journey into Mystery."
Does having a tiny chip knocked out of your weapon, that in no way affects it's combat-worthiness, really count as a 'sunder,' though?
Seemed to be more cosmetic, like those (not rare enough!) times when somebody put a dent in Cap's shield, to show off their badassitude, but didn't actually sunder it.
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In pretty much every swordfighting action movie, the Hero has to retrieve his disarmed sword during a pivotal fight, wherein the BBEG gloats and toys with the Hero, stands on and/or kicks the sword, and grins villianously until the weapon is recovered and the Hero weakly lucks out a fall on the sword moment or he actually heroically slays/defeats BBEG.
See Weapon Stomp: http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/WeaponStomp
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Some One Piece ones..
Zoro get's two of this three swords sundered fighting Mihawk.
Zoro sunders all six of Hachi's sword during the Arlong Park arc.
I think Zoro disarmed Tashigi when they fought, but can't recall now.
Zoro lost his swords when fighting Das Bones. Then he 'sunders' Das Bones since his body is made of swordmetal.
Zoro has a legendary sword rusted (kinda like a sunder) during the Impel Down arc, resulting in it's destruction.
Tashigi gets disarmed during the battle with Monet.
Those are the ones off the top of my head.
Does having a tiny chip knocked out of your weapon, that in no way affects it's combat-worthiness, really count as a 'sunder,' though?"A tiny chip"? Not according to the story, or the picture.
The attack rendered the hammer essentially useless. Thor immediately put it aside and fought on without it.
And that's "its."
Yep, it fell into two pieces and it was quite a feat to get it reforged.
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In pretty much every swordfighting action movie, the Hero has to retrieve his disarmed sword during a pivotal fight, wherein the BBEG gloats and toys with the Hero, stands on and/or kicks the sword, and grins villianously until the weapon is recovered and the Hero weakly lucks out a fall on the sword moment or he actually heroically slays/defeats BBEG.
And as something of a counter-example, in Robin Hood Prince of Thieves, Robin disarms the sheriff, then the sheriff sunders (or just disarms?) Robin's sword.
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Indiana Jones disarms a few gunmen using his whip, if I recall.
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Does having a tiny chip knocked out of your weapon, that in no way affects it's combat-worthiness, really count as a 'sunder,' though?"A tiny chip"? Not according to the story, or the picture.
The attack rendered the hammer essentially useless. Thor immediately put it aside and fought on without it.
And that's "its."
Ah, must be a different story, then. The one I remember it was literally a tiny flake knocked off, that was later used to work some magic on the hammer, but this was probably in the 60s.
In the movie Excalibur King Arthur sunders Lancelot's sword to defeat him.
Big Trouble in Little China.