Modern smiths use a specially-constructed bundle of straw as a substitute for human bodies. Even with a good blade, it still requires a lot of skill from the swordsman. The samurai spent years practicing their technique. I have also heard that, among the Gurkhas of Nepal, the boyhood-to-manhood ritual requires you to decapitate an ox with a single blow.
This site claims it was. People cut people in half. My coach holds a black belt and a training license in Samurai swordfighting. In fact, it's practically a default cut in this manga. Yoruichi and Byakuya have each seemed to be the victim of this trope Kenpachi has one of the more notable examples, where his slash after releasing his Power Limiter cuts down a skyscraper. Technically performed in the anime adaptation of Witchblade , where the main heroine performs a vertical cut on a demon.
After a few seconds nothing has happened and she begins to walk away. The demon cries "Hey, I'm not finished with yo-" and is cut off by his own explosion. Afro Samurai : Done often. It's probably best demonstrated in the movie in which Afro faces off against a band of mooks, he slashes at them with his sword rapidly then puts it back in its sheath.
Moments later, blood starts spraying from the mooks' wounds before they fall into pieces. Justice sets himself up as a major badass by pulling one of these off with a revolver , holstering it after doing some Gun Twirling for extra Cool. Subverted, in that he actually used a sword, held with his hidden third arm. Still badass, though. Almost all monsters of the week were killed this way in Voltron.
Setsuna of Negima! Magister Negi Magi does this occasionally. She has a technique explicitly made for cleaving solid rocks in two and having them fall seconds later, though less dramatically. Because of the nature of the series at least before volume 20 , she doesn't do this much unless a paper bird falling apart in mid-flight counts.
This is visualised by Mewtwo transforming his "psychic weapon", aka, a spoon, into the biggest katana you will ever see. Farfetch'd was able to do this with a green onion. Although This Is a Drill and not a sword, the way the Giga Drill Breaker from Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann goes off — Gurren Lagann passes through the victim, swings its right arm back while retracting the drill, followed by the victim exploding — is stylistically identical to the archetypal Diagonal Cut Single-Stroke Battle.
Later, after Shinn receives the Destiny , he uses his new Gundam's BFS a standard weapon on this one to do this to a giant enemy mobile suit. The Destiny drops down through frame incredibly fast, and doesn't seem to have done anything at first, until the enemy machine's two halves slide apart, a fraction of a second before it explodes.
Admittedly, this is a vertical cut rather than a diagonal one, but otherwise a classic example. During the same battle, Shinn orders that the twin BFSs from his old mecha be launched for his two companions to use, so that they can also slice up the other, identical giant enemy Gundams.
At one point, an enemy Mobile Suit comes after him with his friend Kisato strapped to its head. Lowe's attack not only does this to the mecha, but catches part of Kisato's sleeve too despite being about as thick as she is wide. As a Technical Pacifist , Lowe is quite adept at doing this so that the targeted mecha will fall apart without harming the pilot.
He does the same thing in a Gundam SEED Astray mini- OVA , but that time does a double diagonal cut, forming an X-shaped pattern that causes the enemy mobile suit to fall apart in four pieces and the pilot to fall out of the cockpit unharmed. He did this using the severed head of a dog-like BuCUE mobile suit that he'd rigged to fit over Red Frame's right hand like a gauntlet holding a double-bladed beam saber.
This is to demonstrate that once Domon completes his training, the quality of the blade will be irrelevant; it's just a focal point for the swordsman's spirit. Domon's Bakunetsu God Slash has this effect as well, but since it's used on the Mandala Gundam , it has the effect of making all the balls that make up its arms and waist pop off like a broken pearl necklace. He bifurcates Bismark's BFS in the process, which is remodeled into a pair of barely smaller swords afterward.
Way before that, Mao does it. With a chainsaw. In the fourth episode of Diebuster Nono does one of these to a planet from the inside. Happens all the time in Murder Princess. Inuyasha : Inu-Yasha kills Hiten like this. Cutting through the haft of Hiten's halberd and Hiten's head and shoulder.
When demonstrating to Jaken what Tenseiga's power is, Sesshoumaru performs a diagonal cut on him. Subverted because Tenseiga is incapable of cutting living or physical objects, so Jaken wasn't really injured. However, when Sesshoumaru later kills spirits with it, he'll often kill them via a diagonal cut. In particular, when he slashes Magatsuhi's true body, he does this to Magatsuhi's face.
Kaijinbou, when possessed by Toukijin , does this to Jaken. Parodied in a filler episode where Shippo and Soten both score one In Full Metal Panic! With a machete the size of a car. Too bad Gauron had auxiliary sensors so he didn't have to fight blind. Parasyte : A parasite's organic Absurdly Sharp Blade can cut through a human so cleanly and fast that they'll have time to get scared before they realize they are already dead. In chapter 3, a parasite performs a Clean Cut all around him which causes the humans in front of him to fall to pieces right away, but the woman behind him is seemingly left standing.
She raises her hands to her head and screams, only for her head and hands to belatedly separate from the rest of her. In Chapter 6, Tamaya kills The Chikan who came back to get revenge on her with a single cut. At first his hand comes off and the sight of it makes him freak out, then he turns his head to see the wound opening in his neck, and as his head falls off his eyes are transfixed on the bleeding stump of his neck as if he can't believe what hit him.
In the MegaMan NT Warrior manga, Mega Man Protosoul debuts by combining this with both Implausible Fencing Powers and an energy attack-based Out of the Inferno , slicing through not only Bass GS' newest and most powerful attack yet, but through the dark-energy dragon he summoned to use the attack as well.
He also uses the non-lethal variation against machines, weapons and clothes. Subverted in Naruto : when Sasuke is fighting Deidara, he cuts clean through Tobi, who falls over a second later, but to Sasuke's confusion Tobi gets back up , seemingly unharmed, shortly thereafter.
It had appeared that her Attack Hello on Sieg was harmlessly deflected by the latter without effort, but after the two had a conversation that lasted a few pages and Micaiah started to walk away, the Modesty Towel Sieg was wearing suddenly started to fall apart. Panzer World Galient : The titular mecha does this all the time to finish an enemy. Kill la Kill : The Scissor Blade can do this to pretty much anything, at almost any distance , up to and including skyscrapers.
Frog : Dororo seems to be a master of this. Killer Killer : When Hijirihara confronts the killer behind the "Monk Idol" case, and the killer lunges at him with a deadly weapon, Hijirihara draws his knife and Flash Steps behind the killer, having carved a tight grid pattern of cuts into the killer's face on the pass. The trope is surreally inverted because right away the killer has visibly been cut into little cubes that are somehow still holding together, but then the pieces reunite into a seamless whole as if someone was playing a film of a Diagonal Cut in reverse.
The confused killer says "what I'm fine? Hijirihara calls this attack "Super Dismemberment". In Stardust Crusaders , Boingo's Thoth Stand predicts that Jotaro will die from having his face split open, which ends up happening to his older brother, Oingo, from stepping on a tangerine laced with a bomb.
Cut 23 years later to Stone Ocean , however, and Enrico Pucci unleashes a Flechette Storm of knives in Jolyne Cujoh's direction, so Jotaro, determined to save his daughter , pushes her out of the way, causing the knives to diagonally swipe at his face, slicing it open and killing him on the spot. Comic Books. Happens in the fourth book of Scott Pilgrim , in which the victim is actually able to get a few words in before sliding apart. In one issue of G. Joe , Snake-Eyes demonstrates his "subtle cut" against a practice dummy.
When the dummy doesn't fall apart, the following comments pop up in the background: Air-Tight: Are you kidding? That cut was so subtle it missed the target! Random Joe: note who is never identified by name, and his appearance isn't distinctive enough to clearly identify him Just keep watching. Tales of the Undiscovered Swords features its characters performing tameshigiri see Real Life folder below , so naturally the kesa cut will make an appearance.
Damascus swords — sharp enough to slice a falling piece of silk in half, strong enough to split stones without dulling — owe their legendary qualities to carbon nanotubes, says chemist and Nobel laureate Robert Curl.
Japan had no good quality iron mines, so they had to invent a forging and smithing technique to make use what they had. The folding during smithing made the steel hard and sharp, but brittle. In many ways, being cut by a Katana is more debilitating and potentially deadly than being shot. An effective cut can and will sever not only flesh and muscle, but tendons, ligaments and even bone, penetrating to and severing internal organs.
A thrust by a Katana can be more damaging or deadly than being shot. Actually, a sword can slice through bullets. Some guy mounted a Katana into a block or something and shot at it, and the bullet was cut in half.
No one moves fast enough to block bullets with a sword, or cut them in half. Katanas are sharp and strong enough to cut cleanly through bone, metal, armor, and probably even the sun, if only someone could get close enough. There is a scene in Resident Evil which traps several characters in a Laser Hallway. The first is decapitated, the second cut in half through the waist, and the third gets "cubed" when the lasers make a grid that passes right through him.
In Highlander , Connor 's final fight with the Kurgan ends with the Kurgan giving an ambiguous smile, just before his head slowly flops off. You see, Katanas Are Just Better. Stargate Continuum features Que'tesh warning Ba'al that her sword's blade has been sharpened to the width of an atom and that it would be very easy to cut a body in half as she later does. Arguably inverted in The Fifth Element. Leeloo kicks a sword perfectly in half. Slither , except only partially, has a guy slashed open in the front of his body, but not his half, resulting in all of his innards falling out.
The most important blows are delivered this way in Kill Bill. O-Ren Ishii beheaded a mutinous henchman with a single swipe, and the Bride cut an arm off Sofie Fatale, chopped another sword into pieces like it was a straw, and then sliced off the very top of O-Ren's head. Maida decapitates a mook quite cleanly in The Ice Pirates. Michael Myers from the Halloween series is fond of this trope. A particularly memorable example had him decapitate Jen in Halloween: Resurrection in one clean swipe with a kitchen knife.
In the remake of The Omen , photographer Keith Jennings gets his head sliced cleanly off Seeing as the momentum wasn't terribly large, that thing must've been sharp as hell. Then again, higher powers are also at work, which might help explain it. Thir13en Ghosts features this Karmic Death for the cast member whose ulterior motives put the whole diabolical clockwork into action, in exchange for money.
A sheet of glass descends from the ceiling, and for a few seconds he's frozen and can't move. His eyes blink, and then his front half succumbs to gravity as his back half remains suspended. Complete with Gallows Humor when an oblivious cast member asks, "Did the lawyer split?
We get to see his shocked expression and a drop of blood from his nose before the two halves break apart. The Sword of the Sun can sever limbs with minimal efforts, cut a shield in twain with one blow, or tear off armor like paper. In the Dagorhir system of foam-padded swordfighting, any solid hit to a limb with a slashing weapon is considered to have cut it off. In this game, your limbs are essentially your hit points , and the only other damage that's tracked is damage to shields and armor; therefore there's no middle ground between Only a Flesh Wound and Deliberate Injury Gambit.
Discworld : Taken to the logical extreme with Death 's scythe — so thin and fine that it sharpens on daylight and can cut a person's words to pieces. His sword too, introduced in Hogfather is only visible at the edge, due to it cutting tiny pieces of the air in half.
Said sword cut through, without any effort on the part of the wielder, in fact by accident, a large portion of the dining table at UU, as well as numerous forks, knives etc. So little effort was needed, in fact, that the wielder was rather surprised to find a large chunk of table falling away. In The Fifth Elephant , a highly trained assassin uses a karate chop on an opponent and decapitates him with his bare hands ; At least, that's what it looks like, until we find out later about his palm dagger.
Which was apparently remarkably sharp. In Carpe Jugulum , a rather unimpressive priest completely decapitates a vampire with a simple axe without harming a baby the vampire was holding or even knocking the vampire's head off his shoulders. Said vampire is told not to nod quickly. Lampshaded in Interesting Times. A messenger delivers bad news to Lord Hong. Lord Hong picks up the sword he's working on. The messenger, who can't bear to look, shuts his eyes and hears the swish of the blade. When he opens his eyes, he's still alive.
He gingerly touches his neck Toward the end of Guards! The attacker's sword is cut clean in two, leaving its wielder flabbergasted. It's never been used for such, but imagine what it could do if turned against a villain in a cut, not a thrust, which it has been used for. In the His Dark Materials series, the Subtle Knife has two blades edges: one for cutting through anything tangible, and the other for cutting through the fabric separating alternate universes.
Taken to extremes in the various Hammer's Slammers stories by David Drake. In many of the stories, the mercenaries are shown to have knives so sharp that they can cut leaves hanging on trees without disturbing them. In addition, there is a "cutting bar" used that can slice through things such as chain link fencing without stopping.
Though the cutting bar is said to have "vibrating, interlocking teeth" in it, making it a combination of a Machete and a chainsaw in action The Gears of War novel Aspho Fields averts this, as a character's attacking a Locust with the chainsaw bayonet on the game's infamous Lancer Assault Rifle is an extended pushing of the chainsaw into the Locust, and they later found out they had a piece of bone stuck in them that flung off during the altercation.
In the Known Space series of short stories by Larry Niven , there is a type of thread referred to as "Sinclair molecule chain" — a thread that is one molecule wide, and can slice through anything with just a gentle tug. How they manage to attach handles to it is a different story This is also used in the "variable-knife" and "variable-sword" from the same series, which is nothing more than Sinclair chain spun out from a handle, with a "stasis field" to support it.
Not to mention a red ball at the end, so you can tell where the thread ends. In another Larry Niven story, the 'attach handles' part is explained when we find out that Sinclair had no trouble designing the monomolecular chain, but the hard part was devising molecular links for the ends so handles could be attached and the chain wouldn't unravel. In Endymion a trap made of monomolecular wire gets noticed when one of the heroes realizes he doesn't have an arm any more. Alice in Wonderland features the Vorpal Sword, a Parody of this trope.
Capable of removing the head of a Jabberwock with little more than a snicker-snack. Raven's weapons of choice in Snow Crash are glass knives, invisible to millimetre-wave radar and not much thicker than a molecule along the cutting edge.
Usually mounted on an Aleut whaling harpoon for armour-piercing death at a distance. Headhunter : Michael Slade's serial killer can take a victim's head off with one blow. Possibly justified, as the cutlass-like killing blade is equipped with a sliding weight on its blunt side, which shifts from hilt to tip when the weapon is swung and dramatically increases the force of impact.
In the short story "Epinikion" by Desmond Warzel, the alien Squids have natural weaponry that not only does this to their human opponents, but leaves them alive for several hours after being bisected. This is what the Shardblades in The Stormlight Archive do to anything not living. If it is alive, it Cleanly Cuts the soul. All blades in Greek Ninja seem to have this ability. The most profound example is Sasha cutting off Creon's arm with ease, near the end of the battle.
Asian Saga : In the adaptation of Shogun, Englishman John Blackthorne is shocked to see a samurai slice the head off an oldster who did not bow when he was supposed to. It's averted with Anne's accused lovers. It takes three swings to remove George Boleyn's head, but the rest come off in one. Anne herself is executed by an expert from France who uses a specially-designed sword and a technique to misdirect the condemned so that they'll be best positioned for the strike.
He does tell Cromwell that even he can't guarantee it if they aren't steady in position. Used as a metaphor in Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency ; Michael Wenton-Weakes calls his mother an old battleaxe, but the narrator says that if she was a battleaxe, she'd be a very elegant one, with a blade so sharp that you only realise it's hit you when you try to check your watch and notice you don't have an arm any more.
Temeraire : The first time Will Laurence fights with an exquisite sword he was gifted in Imperial China , he is shocked to decapitate a man with almost no resistance.
Live-Action TV. Sweet Home : Jae-heon slices off half a monster's head with ease. Especially notable because his sword is a keepsake, therefore he probably doesn't sharpen it regularly. Xena: Warrior Princess featured numerous instances of unusually clean cuts, however one of the most graphic of these examples was in the incredibly controversial episode "The Way", in which Xena's arms were cut clean off by Indrajit, the King of Demons.
It's alright though, not two minutes later into the episode she has six arms. By the end of the episode, all is well again and she has her own two arms back.
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