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Sword Cane

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ASword Cane is a short sword or other bladed weapon that is concealed inside of acane. The cane is opened by twisting the top or pressing a release button, then pulling on the handle to reveal a blade,often with a "Tzing" sound. This weapon is typically used byCultured Badass characters or as a weapon of advantage by a character who walks with a limp. Also popular amongst blind swordsmen. Occasionally, this will be altered by the character having a gun or stun baton disguised as a cane, which are also real weapons (and arguablymore practical), but relatively rare in fiction.

Connected to, and sometimes overlaps with,Parasol of Pain. CompareCombat Haircomb.

Sword Cane is aSub-Trope ofArsenal Attire.

Examples of Sword Cane include:

Anime andManga

  • Bleach: Kisuke Urahara's Zanpaku-to, Benihime.
    • Ryūjin Jakka, Captain Commander Yamamoto's Zanpaku-to/wooden staff, which literally dissolves to reveal a normal katana rather than being a fancy blade.
  • FromLupin III:
    • Lupin's associate Ishikawa Goemon's sword might look like one, but it's not.[1] He has, however, disguised it as a cane on a few occasions.
    • The TV specialAngel Tactics has two examples. At the very beginning, when Goemon is disguised as a scientist, he hides his sword like this. Later, his opponent also disguises her katana as a cane. This is how Goemon realizes she's hostile: someone who genuinely needed a cane couldn't possibly have climbed that mountain.
  • Brook ofOne Piece.
  • Until Death Do Us Part: the main character is blind (he can "see" with the aid of his special sunglasses, butthat's a different trope) and stores his katana in his white cane.
  • Xerxes Break inPandora Hearts.
  • AlexRowe has a gun-in-a-cane. Pretty powerful one at that.
  • Saito Hajime uses one in his first appearance inRurouni Kenshin. It breaks the first time he uses it to perform agatotsu,so he discards it and goes back to using a katana.
  • Sailor Moon has Tuxedo Mask's cane, which can function as both a sword or a staff depending on the type of ass-kicking he's in the mood for.

Comic Books

  • In one of the olderMickey Mouse comic books, among the items Mickey inherits from a deceased uncle is a cane that supposedly "will help you in your time of need." The context makes it sound like it's in case he hurts himself, but in a critical moment he figures out that it can be bent and reconfigured into a long-barrelled rifle. (He uses it to shoot a coconut and knock it out of a tree so it lands on the villain's head. This is Disney, after all.)
  • The Sandman: Fiddler's Green has one which he carries with him when wandering around in human form. He uses it duringThe Doll's House arc.
  • Jedi Master Zao has alightsaber cane. That is, a lightsaber built into a cane.
  • Used by one of the villains inTintin in America.
  • DCU character The Shade has one, although it's really just a solid formation of his shadow powers.
  • The FourthFoolkiller, Mike Trace, from the Marvel MAX series has one.
  • Matt Murdock's cane conceals a variety of weapons and tools, including a billy club, grappling hook and (originally) a small-caliber rifle.

Film

Literature

  • In a flashback inThe Count of Monte Cristo, it was mentioned thatBadass Grandpa Monsieur Noirtier carried one and was even able to defeat a seasoned military officer armed with a full-sized rapier with it.
  • More or less subverted in the bookA Dirty Job. Charlie Asher has one. Then, being an antique, it jams when he tries to draw it. He gets a newer one, then turns out to leave it at home when he just gets a friend to lend him a gun.
  • 'Ham' Brooks' preferred weapon in theDoc Savage novels. The blade is fairly short and slides out of the cane's tip when he twists the handle, rather than being unsheathed as in the trope description above. It's also coated with a drug thatrapidly produces unconsciousness when he scratches someone with it.
  • Koudelka in theVorkosigan Saga has a swordstick. It gains special historical notability when it is used (bySergeant Bothari) tobehead a pretender to the throne. It has an ejector mechanism that is so powerful that it turns the sheath into a projectile weapon, which is the subject of some comedy as Koudelka slowly masters its workings.
  • In Barthe DeClements'sDouble Trouble, villainous teacher Mr. Gessert has a gun version.
  • Discworld:
    • Secret Police leader Captain Swing inNight Watch carries a sword cane, which like other "covert weapons" (i.e. flick knives and palm daggers) is looked upon with disgust by Vimes. Swing surprises him by notFlynning but actually being a fairly competent swordsman
    • In bothThe Truth andMaking Money, rumour has it that Vetinari's walking stick is a sword cane, possibly forged from the blood of his enemies. Vetinari's own view is that if people think your stick might be a sword, they forget that it'sdefinitely a stick.
  • Star Wars Expanded Universe: An older Lando Calrissian, as of theLegacy of the Force series, carries a cane with a small blaster and a voice-activated stunner. (Which stuns anyonetouching the cane - in case it's taken from him. Lando'slike that.)
  • In one ofAgatha Christie'sTommy and Tuppence stories, Tommy (who is pretending to be blind to win a bet with his wife) has one concealed in his fake "white stick" in one of the tales inPartners in Crime.
  • InThe Dresden Files, Harry Dresden hastwo of these. One is an authentic 19th-century sword cane that's been prepared to be a focus for magic, useful for moving around without drawing attention and as a backup magic-focusing tool. The other isone of the Swords (capital "S" there) wielded by theKnights of the Cross; the latter is actually ashirasaya, a type of Japanese sword that, when sheathed, looks just like a long, somewhat curved walking stick.
  • InThe Wrecking Crew,Matt Helm fights a man wielding a Sword Cane.
  • Syme, the protagonist ofThe Man Who Was Thursday carries one, mostly because it fits with his sense of living a life of whimsy and adventure, although he actually does know how to fence. The author,G. K. Chesterton, also carried a Sword Cane (and quite frequently a revolver) for much the same reason.
  • In one of theFather Brown stories,the solution hinges upon the murderer using a sword cane.
  • Doctor Talos inThe Book of the New Sun turns out to be armed with one of these.
  • TheEighthDoctorAdventure novelThe Slow Empire has The Doctor discover that the question-mark umbrella he carried in his previous incarnation contained a sword which had never been used. Presumably because The Seventh Doctor wasCrazy Prepared enough not to have to resort to swordplay.
  • Peter S. Beagle's recurring character Lal carries a swordcane.
  • Granny Carry of theLiavek anthologies has a swordcane, although she never actually has to use it.
  • The victim in theLord Darcy mysteryMurder on the Napoli Express was killed by his own swordstick. This turns out to be a major clue:He was bludgeoned to death with the stick. Every member of the original list of suspects knew that it was a swordstick, and thus would presumably use the blade if they planned to kill someone with it.
  • In theMatthew Hawkwood novelResurrectionist,Mad Doctor Colonel Titus Hyde carries a sword cane and very nearly does the hero in with it.
  • In the kid's horror novelThe Nightmarys, the main character is afraid that the old man he and his friend are going to talk to has one.
  • Ravirn stores his court weaponry (rapier and dagger a la a Renaissance nobleman) in his ski poles in the first book. They're actually useful, too, even though he also carries a gun (he doesn't have any silver bullets, but the silver inlay on the rapier proves very helpful when his werewolf cousin attacks him).
  • Steerpike ofGormenghast uses a swordcane.
  • Rehvenge in theBlack Dagger Brotherhood series has a swordpimp-cane with ablood-red blade.
  • Artemis Fowl - The Lost Colony, Billy Kong uses crutches modified as tranquilizer guns whilst attempting demon capturing.
  • Simon Templar, BKAThe Saint, uses a sword cane in his early adventures, notably "The Man Who Was Clever."
  • The narrator inUmberto Eco'sThe Prague Cemetery carries one so nobody will notice he's armed. The first person he meets immediately congratulates him on carrying such a fineCane Sword.
  • Manly Wade Wellman'sOccult Detective Judge Pursuivant has a silver version of one of these, with the words "Sic pereant omnes inimici tui" (thus perish all your enemies) engraved on it. When he becomes too old to wield it, the Judge passes it on to his colleague John Thunstone.
  • One apparent adversary in aThe Three Investigators book carried a sword cane. He revealed this as part of an attempt to intimidate them, unsheathing it and then frowning, remarking he hadn't cleaned it properly, and adding that blood was bad for fine steel.He never actually said that the red, sticky substance he then wiped from the bladewas blood....

Live-Action TV

  • InThe Avengers TV series, Steed had a sword concealed within his umbrella.
  • Adam's trademark weapon inAdam Adamant Lives.
  • The private rail car inThe Wild Wild West included (during the first season) a sword concealed in a pool cue.
  • House carried not a sword, but an axe and a shotgun within his cane during a dream sequence.

House: *Slice* Good thing I brought my Ax Cane.

    • In one episode, House has a cane confiscated by airport security- it was an antique cane made for a vintner that had a corkscrew concealed in the handle.

Music

  • Bob Dylan'sOn The Road Again fromBringing it all Back Home:

Your grandpa's cane, it turns into a sword
Your grandma prays to pictures that are pasted on a board
Everything inside my pockets your uncle steals
And you ask me why I don't live here - honey, I can't believe that you're for real!

Tabletop Games

  • Sword canes show up inGURPS: High-Tech. They're expensive, low quality and bad for parrying. On the up side beating people with the cane is still a viable option. There's also arifle cane.
  • 7th Sea includes a swordsman's school based around the use of a sword cane.
  • Dark Heresy has apower sword cane.
  • TheNew World of DarknessSourcebookArmory has these listed. They deal bashing damage with the cane on and lethal with the blade out.
  • Dungeons & Dragons adventure DA1Adventures in Blackmoor. In the Comeback Inn, the Master Closet has five walking sticks, one of which is a sword cane.
  • Pathfinder has stats for them inUltimate Equipment. It's pretty useless since it's worse in almost every way compared to a club (which can be an actual, non-bladed, cane). Its only advantage is that it can be used with weapon finesse and benefits from light blade specialization.

Theatre

Video Games

  • Master Rishu fromSuper Robot Wars Original Generation is a proud owner of one of these.
  • Not quite this trope, but clearly influenced by it:Kohaku conceals a sword in herFlying Broomstick.
  • Case3-5 ofAce Attorney featured one of these.It belonged to the victim, and was themurder weapon.
    • Plum Kitaki has a blade in the handle of her broom, and often displays it when she's irate.
  • The weapon of choice of Ujiyasu Houjou inSamurai Warriors 3. Both a sword cane AND a gun cane.
  • InOnimusha Blade Warriors, Juju-ran has a hidden blade in the handle of her parasol.
  • Setsuka of theSoul Series conceals a sword in her parasol.
  • Saints Row offers you a Shotgun Cane. A ShotgunPimp Cane no less. Your character's idle animation while holding it is to rest on it like a regular cane.
  • Special maces inRomancing SaGa 3 allow you to draw out a sword from within them through a special skill. Afterwards, it is treated like a short sword.

Web Comics

Web Original

  • Jeremy Franco ofSurvival of the Fittest was given this as his assigned weapon. As seen by the page quote, he enjoyed it.
  • Roman Torchwick ofRWBY carries a cane that doubles as a gun, complete with a crosshairs sight on the end that flips up for aiming.
    • His partner/minion Neo has a more traditional sword blade built into herParasol of Pain.

Western Animation

Real Life

  1. ↑It's a katana withshirasaya style mounting.
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