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* After using the Goldion Hammer (not a BFS, so much as a Big Friggen Hammer) during the original series run, ''[[GaoGaiGar]]'' gets to use the Goldion Crusher—a hammer of light made out of battleships—during the OVA.
** And yet, when the main villain of the OVA Pulls out a regal-looking mech-sized blade, ''[[GaoGaiGar]]'' counters with a green crystal version of Gai's "Will Knife", just scaled up to [[GaoGaiGar]] size.
* Mihawk's Kokutou Yoru in ''[[One Piece]]''. Can be mistaken, however, for a grave cross. The first time you see Mihawk's sword, you can easily mistake it for a giant marble cross that he's resting against. Then he draws it. The sword is bigger than he is. It gets progressively more badass afterwards, to the point where he can use it to slice through an iceberg, or cut a tsunami wave bigger than a fortress in half with it. Horizontally in half.
** Smoker's sword isn't nearly up to Mihawk's standards, but it is still pretty huge. And then there is Whitebeard. He is around, what, twenty feet tall? His sword is in proportion to his body.
* In ''[[Shakugan no Shana]]'', Sorath has one he calls [[Gratuitous German|Blutsauger]]. Both Tanaka and Satou later make several attempts to lift it, but neither of them succeeds to get it off of the ground completely. In Season 2, Yuji [[Took a Level in Badass|takes a level in badass]] and wields it with ease, at one point [[Throwing Your Sword Always Works|throwing it]] one-handed as a finishing move.
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** In fact, Bladedge himself IS a BFS. That, or his costume is one - depends on whether he's a guy in a costume, or a robot.
** It is however [[Inverted Trope|inverted]] with Defender, the Magical Knight and his... well, it would be generous to call that thing a "knife".
** For the Amazoness tribe, the size of the sword seems to be proportionate to authority. [https://yugipedia.com/wiki/Amazoness_Queen Amazoness Queen] has a a pretty big and fearsome sword, but [https://yugipedia.com/wiki/Amazoness_Empress Amazoness Empress] has a larger one, while [https://yugipedia.com/wiki/Amazoness_Augusta Amazoness Augusta] has the most fearsome weapon of all.
* The ''[[Neopets]]'' card game parodies this with the card "[[Exactly What It Says on the Tin|Big, Heavy Sword]]" which depicts an Usul (unsuccessfully) trying to wield it.
* Zenmaru in ''[[Gamaran]]'' has a gigantic katana named "Kutaragi Sadanaga". Partially subverted, as everyone points out how such a large weapon would be slow and impractical to use, but then played straight when Zenmaru take advantage of the blade's length and speed combined with his own strength to [[Crowning Moment of Awesome|bisects all his opponents in one swing]].
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* The Queen's Sword in ''[[Ico]]'' is almost as large as a grown man, and {{spoiler|when Ico wields it, he has trouble standing upright or even bringing it to bear}}.
** As a bonus weapon in ''Shadow of the Colossus'', it gets downsized quite a bit. Of note in the non-American versions of ''Ico'' is another bonus weapon—a Big Fuckin' ''Laser Sword'' that [[Unfortunate Implications|triples in length while he holds Yorda's hand.]]
* Exor in ''[[Super Mario RPG]]'' is a gigantic, [[Living Weapon| living sword]] longer than Bowser's Castle is tall. The plot of the game begins when it crashes through the Star Road, shattering it, and stabs right into the castle to become a portal for Smithy's invading forces.
** Subverted in that Exor is stationary, and you'd have to be stronger than twelve thousand Supermen in order to be able to actually lift him.
* The [[Ancestral Weapon|Holy Daedalus Blade]], the Dark Cloud, the Chronicle Sword, and the Island King in ''[[Dark Cloud]] 2''. The latter, in particular, is actually a surfboard-sized Tiki-mask with a pinwheel on one end and a hilt on the other.
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* Hakelda of ''[[Reliquary]]'' carries around a spiked club nearly as tall as [[Gentle Giant|she is.]]
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20110828230155/http://www.oglaf.com/obituator.html The Obituator], a one-off from ''[[Oglaf]]'' is a rare, possibly even unique, [[Literal Metaphor|literally]] literal example of the trope.
* Andy Frogman in ''[[Ultima
* ''[[The Book of
* ''[[Homestuck]]'': All of [[The Lancer|Dave]]'s alchemized swords are taller than he is in the comic's standard art style. In the various [[Art Shift]]s they are much more realistically proportioned (as is everything else), though still of considerable size.
* In ''[[Sinfest]]'', a comparision of swords [https://web.archive.org/web/20140209181953/http://sinfest.net/archive_page.php?comicID=2182 includes the claim that one is longer and the other is heavier.]
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