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So you have a Cool Sword, An Axe to Grind, or another bladed or Energy Weapon that is absurdly sharp. Sweet! Now nothing can stand in your way, not even Ray Enforced adamantium-mithril alloy bulkheads! ... except for another, equally sharp weapon made of the same material, magical enchantment, technology or by the same Ultimate Blacksmith. Why? Well, maybe your Laser Blade's containment field is naturally blocked by your opponent's. Maybe they're both so impossibly sharp that the prospect of one cutting the other is like trying to make water wetter by splashing it with more water? Perhaps since both were Forged by the Gods, their nature as Empathic Weapons recognizes a sibling and refuses to harm it?

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  • So you have a Cool Sword, An Axe to Grind, or another bladed or Energy Weapon that is absurdly sharp. Sweet! Now nothing can stand in your way, not even Ray Enforced adamantium-mithril alloy bulkheads! ... except for another, equally sharp weapon made of the same material, magical enchantment, technology or by the same Ultimate Blacksmith. Why? Well, maybe your Laser Blade's containment field is naturally blocked by your opponent's. Maybe they're both so impossibly sharp that the prospect of one cutting the other is like trying to make water wetter by splashing it with more water? Perhaps since both were Forged by the Gods, their nature as Empathic Weapons recognizes a sibling and refuses to harm it?
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  • So you have a Cool Sword, An Axe to Grind, or another bladed or Energy Weapon that is absurdly sharp. Sweet! Now nothing can stand in your way, not even Ray Enforced adamantium-mithril alloy bulkheads! ... except for another, equally sharp weapon made of the same material, magical enchantment, technology or by the same Ultimate Blacksmith. Why? Well, maybe your Laser Blade's containment field is naturally blocked by your opponent's. Maybe they're both so impossibly sharp that the prospect of one cutting the other is like trying to make water wetter by splashing it with more water? Perhaps since both were Forged by the Gods, their nature as Empathic Weapons recognizes a sibling and refuses to harm it? Whatever the case, neither weapon will scratch or dent, much less become a Wrecked Weapon. Only a direct hit on the opponent will end the duel... which is also likely to kill them unless your Implausible Fencing Powers are good enough to disarm them without, y'know, "disarming" them. Needless to say, a character who thinks they have a Disc One Nuke in the form of their sword will be very unpleasantly surprised when facing an opponent who can even the odds. They may even get crushed if they've let their skills get rusty by relying on weapon's power. Such duels tend to prove suitably epic. A Sub-Trope of Mutual Disadvantage, of the "mutual invulnerability" variety. Contrast Takes One to Kill One, when only like can cut like. Examples of Like Cannot Cut Like include:
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