Blade Below the Shoulder/Playing With

Blade Below the Shoulder: A sharp bladed weapon that is attached to the arm, springs from the arm, or IS an arm.

• Straight: Ninja Kenshin wields a foot-long retractable blade attached to his left vambrace.
• Exaggerated:
  • Expy Mustelidae has a trio of them spring out of his fists on all six arms, and each claw is 3 feet long.
  • He has a groovy CHAINSAW attached there that is still somehow retractable.
• Downplayed: Kenshin has spiked gloves.
• Justified: He’s an assassin, and as it turns out blades that seamlessly retract into his sleeve are easy to hide.
• Inverted: ???
• Subverted: Kenshin flexes his arm and poses as if to call forth the blade… and activates the smoke bombs he placed there.
• Double Subverted: He’s pressed the wrong button, and after the smoke clears he sheepishly unretreacts his blade.
• Parodied: Kenshin has trouble keeping his blades retracted when around his crush…
• Deconstructed: Carmillia has Wolverine Claws that retract into her flesh, but not the regeneration to protect her from the damage done. She’s none to happy about this.
• Reconstructed: ???
• Zig Zagged: Sometimes Kenshin has arm blades, some days he doesn’t, and sometime he has a bootknife instead.
• Averted: All weapons are wielded, and no retractable blades appear.
• Enforced: ???
• Lampshaded: “Why not just carry a sword?” “…It’s the principle of the thing!”
• Invoked:???
• Exploited:
  • Kenshin keeps his blade retraced until the villains least expect it.
  • He uses the armblades so he can fight and gesture rudely at the same time.
  • He uses armblades so he doesn’t forget to bring a weapon with him.
• Defied: “No, Timmy, you can’t have the vambrace. We don’t trust you around concealed sharp objects anymore…”
• Discussed: “Bet he has trouble picking his nose.”
• Conversed: There’s fanart of the above incident.
• Played For Laughs: Kenshin modified the claws to go *Snkit* when exposed.
• Played For Drama: ???

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