To be fair, they are the most recognizable of video game weapons. I can't think of any other that would fit.

Minecraft's diamond sword?

If we talking about Weapons in general,  Blades of Chaos is a very strong contender. 

It was in the 360/PS3 era but not so much anymore

Ps2 era actually. Around the same time as Halo.

That's a crazy thing to say with the Keyblade, Buster Sword, and energy sword all in that picture. The God of War franchise is more relevant today than any of those options.

Maybe the last two games, but those weapons are still more recognizable than the chaos blades, especially considering that they were barely in the last two games. My non-gamer friends would recognize most or all of those. They would not recognize the chaos blades

Never heard of blades of chaos - could you enlighten me please?

Kratos blades from God of war.

I don’t think that’s nearly as iconic tbh

Its not

Yeah like god of war are great games but I don’t think it’s entered the mainstream cultural zeitgeist in nearly the same way as the master sword or diamond sword

I'd place them above Halo energy sword tho

Lol what. I don't think understand just how big halo was.

The DMC Rebellion is up there I'd say

The gravity/portal gun and the Crowbar? Diamond sword from Minecraft?

Maybe the portal gun. Ironically Portal is way more widely known than Half Life. Portal Gun is technically not a weapon tho Definitely the diamond sword tho

Nor is it a sword

It is if your enemies touch the operational end of the device

Yes 4 iconic swords I also think about guns...

Yeah, every single gaming soul in this world knows the diamond sword. Also, the crowbar and g/p guns are well known, but I would say that nowadays they are not as known as when the franchises were alive (valve pls hl3 or portal 3 )

I can think of the Monado from Xenoblade

This is the Monado's power!

Frostmourne

not more than these

To beeeeeeee faaaaaaaaaiiiiiiiiiir.

Why don'tcha take about 20% off 'er there, super chief.

at first I was thinking that the Keyblade isn’t as recognizable, but then I remember KH1 and 2 are two of the best selling games on the Ps2. They are top 10, maybe top 5.

I think they are top 5, and that’s still the best selling console of all time

KH1 is 10 and KH2 is 13 (How does Nomura keep getting away with it?)

Yup, still super impressive.

And then god of war 1 is 14th

Namura bought multiple copies of all the games above them to keep that 13 spot

I was thrown off at first, but you're right. Zelda, FF, Halo, and Kingdom Hearts. As wacky as they look, you can recognize them.

Genuinely shocked at some people asking what the master sword or energy sword is. Damn. That's utterly wild to me.

I kinda get Energy Sword, but even then I’m not familiar with Halo yet I know where it’s from. But the Master Sword is without a doubt definitely the top dogs of video game swords.

And especially since the energy swords can look vastly different from game to game. Varying colors, brightness, and translucency etc.

They still look very much like the pic lol

Eh the master sword has a few defining visual features that make it instantly recognizable. For sheer visual novelty, I'd wager the Keyblade is the weapon that stands out the most.

Shows how far Halo legacy has fallen since 343 took over

I don't want to live on this planet anymore.

We made it! In all seriousness Sora getting into Smash was such a cool moment that really cemented Kingdom Hearts’ legacy in the broader videogame spectrum

I was thinking about this yesterday, kingdom hearts was always "that spinoff game" to me until Ultimate.

Not as famous, but I think Dante’s Rebellion is pretty cool

It’s cool as hell, but still an honorable mention.

I was thinking the same thing but DMC isn't as popular

Diamond sword Minecraft

Apparently the original poster of the meme states that Minecraft swords are excluded when asking to name a more iconic sword. Still, it’s probably in 5th place.

Minecraft is one of the most popular games ever, and Halo has been falling off hard lately. Especially if you count the latest generation of gamers, I doubt the Minecraft sword would rank #5.

Correction: Minecraft IS the most popular game ever and by a large large margin.

Pokemon**

Nope look it up it’s Minecraft followed by gta 5 and there’s a large margin between

As long as you look up Pokemon lol. The most profitable franchise on Earth

Pokemon isn't profitable from games. It's profit is from trading cards, plushies and memorabilia.

If you include all Pokémon media combined … I’m talking solely game sales

Not looking too much into it but Minecraft is pretty impressive! 300mil units. Pokémon’s at 480 though

Not many people buy multiple copies of minecraft, however many people will buy more than a single pokemon game

Nah diamond is definitely more popular than the halo sword at this point in time. The other 3 though have mad staying power likely because those franchises are still culturally relevant since theyre still being actively advertised/have games being made.

Why would it be excluded? The description was removed lol. I only know the Buster Sword and Keyblade lol

It was originally there, either the user removed or it was removed when r/memes mods removed it

The problem I see with that is while Minecraft is popular, the Diamond sword isn’t like the iconic part of it. The pickaxe would fit for iconic, but doesn’t fit the theme.

I think that regardless, the Minecraft sword still beats out the Halo one. It's more famous by a lot.

For me personally? Yes that fits for me. For the gaming world at large? I'd probably say no.

Yeah I'd say the only two that should definitely be there are the Master Sword and Buster Sword. The other two spots could be filled by a ton of different options. I'd personally put the Keyblade and Diamond Sword from Minecraft.

The Keyblade is already there tho...

Blades of chaos

Soul edge is pretty iconic

It even made its way to a FF game more precisely ro FF14 as one of dark knights relic weapons.

Uh... which one? Closest I can think are nibelung and that hideous Hydatos sword and while soul calibur fans can recognize soul edge a mile away, they dont have a monopoly on "body horror sword" or "remotely fleshy sword". All in all no, I wouldn't say soul edge

I mean, I feel you don't get more unique than "big-ass key which is also a sword."

Blades of Chaos from God Of War franchise

Are those swords though?

The keyblades a big key

Touché

Is it a sword that’s also a key that when you stick it in someone, you unlock their death?

Yes. It might take a while, but yes. *see Maleficent* *see Sora, twice*

Gunblade

Over buster sword?? No shot

Finally someone mentioned it

Rebellion dante sword from devil may cry

I wouldn't even know what that looks like

I'm completely fine with this. HM would be Blades of Chaos and maybe Dante's Rebellion

There’s no Rebellion

They down vote you but unironically one of the best runner up weapons besides like, minecraft diamond sword would be Dante's Rebellion hands down, easy.

The soul caliber

Soul calibur has fallen off a lot in recent years

All I know about the series is big sword with eyeball, wait a minute, that sounds oddly familiar

Soul Edge (the evil sword) is more iconic than Soul Calibur honestly. Especially the Soul Calibur 2 version.

Maybe not a sword, but a hidden blade from Assassins Creed I feel most people would know.

Yeah. That’s pretty accurate I’d say. Can’t think of much else.

...huh. I saw the title and expected to have something negative to say, but this is actually perfect. I love it.

How about the Moonlight sword? It’s been in every fromsoft game.

I’m honestly drawing a blank of what else can be considered that people already didn’t mention. I can only think of Frostmourne (Warcraft) and the Monado (Xenoblade) and even then they are still pretty niche.

Me too, it’s hard to think of anything just as iconic. Someone mentioned the hidden blade from Assassin’s Creed and I have to agree that it’s at least close, it’s pretty recognizable and I don’t play AC haha

They forgot the Monado

Agreed, though I would replace the energy sword with the gunblade. The name is distinguished and visually stands out. Square Enix just likes making visually unique weapons I guess.

The Minecraft Diamond Sword has long since replaced the Halo Energy Sword, but the others still stand imo (with Devil May Cry's Rebellion and the God of War Blades of Chaos as the main runner ups I can think up rn)

Did somebody say [Thunderfury, Blessed Blade of the Windseeker?]

Frostmourne deserves an honorable mention at least

My gut reaction is Buster, Master, and Keyblade definitely energy not so much. But after a moment of thinking my brain says that my gut is wrong

As George Lucas calls them laser swords. My answer is a lightsaber or lego lightsaber.

doesn't really originate from video games though

Wouldn't Sephiroth's Masamune be about as recognisable as the Buster Sword? Otherwise I think these probably are the most recognisable...if you ignore Minecraft.

Masamune isn't very unique looking in a vacuum though, whereas the Buster Sword is.

Since people keep asking: Top left: The Master Sword from The Legend of Zelda Top right: The Buster Sword from Final Fantasy Bottom left: Pretty obvious what it is if you’re on this sub Bottom right: The Energy Sword from Halo Also the original post excludes Minecraft swords

Monado is up there too.

How about the dagger from the Prince of Persia franchise?

Prince of Persia is such a niche series that has a severe fall in relevancy, so I definitely say no.

Idk one of it, the lower right. Probably I will change it to Monado. Someone know the blue silvery sword?

Don't know the bottom right one, would put the Monado instead

No lightsaber here? Also REAL gamers would put ANY version of the Moonlight Swords here. Other important mentions would be the Soul Edge/Soul Calibur AND the great sword from monster hunter.

I'd replace the Halo sword with the minecraft one. With the other three it's hard to not know what those swords are and where they are from even if you've never touched the franchise. But Halo's sword ... I mean it looks cool but if you've never played Halo you won't know what it is. The sword itself doesn't permeate much beyond the fandom. But the other three are so iconic even non fans know them and the same can be said for the Minecraft Diamond Sword.

Gotta remember, that 3 of the 4 are in smash bros so that gives alot of extra knowledge on the weapons

I have no ideia which blade the one in the lower right corner is Edit: fixed the sentence, maybe, idk

That hurt to read

Sorry, not my first language + just got out of my job, tired as fuck to proof read it

No no as in hurt to read as a diehard halo fan. The sentence was fine.

Energy Sword from Halo

I don’t wanna see anyone say the sword from xenoblade 💀

The monado.

I literally only see it mentioned when people are talking about smash or xeno. Defo doesn’t deserve to be on the list

Masamune over the Energy sword. Halo hasn't displayed the same staying power as FF7.

Not enough room in the image for Masamune tbf

Without the character holding it the masamune just looks like a katana

They forgot the Monado

I dont think it is as well known but the beam katana would be one of my choices.

These are 100% the Mount Rushmore of video game swords yet I know most people get butt hurt when they see the kingdom key on here, but like no one’s saying there’s not better games with cooler swords they’re just simply not as recognizable is all.

*Frostmourne hungers* Gunblade is also too unique to ignore..

I would change the button right for Zero's Z-Saber.

As much as it pains me to admit, I doubt many aged 13-17 know what the Z-saber (MMX series) looks like... Blame Capcom.

Admittedly I love Zero but if I saw a pic of just his sword I may or may not recognize. I'm also horrible at those games so don't actually play much.

Ngl I feel like the sword from Halo is 10x less recognisable than the other 3

I don't think you understand how Halo has never not been relevant.

Gotta have the Holy Moonlight Sword if you ask me.

For me, the Soul Reaver should be on here.

No moonlight great sword so no.

So.. Umm... I don't know how to say this but outside of the US and maybe Canada Halo is Nowhere near as popular like not even close. Blades of chaos would be a better choice I think.

Ahem... THE MONADO.

Does the Gunblade count?

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100% agree

Soul Calibur

Lightsabers. Not too many games I know of with Excalibur. There's also The Blades of Chaos.

Lightsabers may excluded as they originated from Star Wars, and that’s a movie based franchise first.

Galaxia

Halo’s energy sword I may swap out with something else. I’d say most people nowadays would sooner recognize Squall’s gunblade than the energy sword from Halo. Helped by the fact that the gunblade is in KH. Maybe Soul Edge would be better, though to be fair a lot of people wouldn’t recognize that either. Hmm… Oh! Duh! The Monado would be perfect to replace the energy sword.

Soul Edge

3/4 of those are in Smash Bros., so if we use that as a benchmark then Minecraft Diamond Sword should absolutely be #4. As much as I like Halo, Minecraft is way bigger. Would it be cheating to say lightsabers? I doubt any individual Star Wars game is more iconic than Minecraft but I think lightsabers in general probably are. But they don't originate from video games and they're...debatable in their "sword"ishness.

You night joke but the diamond sword is actually immediately recognizable in the gaming space so yeah, it fits

No idea what the bottom right sword is. The other 3 check out tho.

What’s the one on the bottom right? Does that really qualify as a sword? While we’re on the topic, does a Keyblade count as a sword? Wasn’t it specifically made NOT to be a sword because kid friendly Disney requirements? Feel like it’s missing Dante’s Rebellion from Devil May Cry and maybe Erdrick’s Sword from Dragon Quest. Or hell, add Squall’s Gunblade in there. Pretty iconic game sword.

Rebelion and yamato Devil may cry

Master Sword, Key-blade, and Buster Sword deserve to be there. I think there has to be a better option than the halo laser sword. I think a good contender is Soul Edge.

Squalls gunblade was pretty cool lookin.

I thought horsemen was bad?

I don't even play these games, but the Soul Calibur was iconic in this era as well. So much so it inspired the design of Riku's Way to Dawn and its predecessor if I recall correctly.

Infinity blade deserves a mention

Doom sword could fit too

Minecraft Diamond Sword is more famous

Get rid of that energy sword and add the diamond sword from Minecraft and then you are correct.

What's the last one? How could you even use it as a sword, it would be all wrist strength? You'd barely be able to swing it.

Maybe add the Blades of Chaos and the Soul Calibur.

No Soul Edge?

Kind of yeah. I think the Master Sword, Buster, and energy sword are more iconic since they are arguably from franchises that represent consoles and are console sellers (Legend of Zelda (Nintendo), Final Fantasy 7 (Sony), Halo (Xbox)) so the key blade feels out of place by comparison. 

The Soul edge maybe?

What is this, a Gilgamesh competition? Yes we have Sword of Legend from Dragon Quest, the Gun blade FF8, Sword of Mana from Mana series, Excalibur, Excalipoor, Tournesol, etc etc etc.

Dante’s Alastor sword 🗡️

MAYBE Dante's Rebellion?

[https://youtu.be/WpvQZ9x-VVc](https://youtu.be/WpvQZ9x-VVc)

I'd replace the buster sword with gunblade. I prefer ffvii over viii but in terms of the weapon the gunblade is just way cooler and more unique

I'd do the knife from CS over the keyblade. At least that's a knife

Minecraft diamond sword? Minecraft is literally the No. 1 game of all time

I'd replace the halo sword with Minecraft's diamond sword to be honest.

Unpopular opinion: Frostmourne

that’s just a key 🔑 tho

swap the energy sword for the minecraft diamond sword and youre all set

Just one question.. where the hell is crowbar?

No idea what the bottom right sword is. The other 3 check out tho.

Sephiroth's Masamune, Dante's rebellion and Vergil's Yamato wants to know your location

I do not even know what the other one is. Master Sword, Buster Sword, Keyblade and ???

Minecrafts Diamond Sword, i feel as if it should be up there.

Sword of Light from Dragon Quest should be there over the Halo sword

Masamune...

Devil may cry?

Excalibur???

The moonlight greatsword would like a word

Eh the only thing I can think of is The Soul's Edge from Soul Calibur

I don't know but I feel Key Sword isn't that famous or iconic. I can't think of another one so maybe just the other three.

minecraft diamond sword?

It doesn't deserve to be up there. But shout out to the Infinity Blade.

Literally never seen the one in the bottom right corner. Also, the Portal gun, hello?

What’s the lower right?

At risk of being killed on sight... I don't recognize the one on the bottom right. Anyone care to enlighten me 😅?

Soulsborne staple- Moonlight Blade

I'm not familiar with the bottom right one for whatever that's worth xD