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A signature weapon is a weapon or weapons used by a character in a story that has made its owner so famous by using it the mere mention of the weapon makes one think of the character. The most famous signature weapon is probably Excalibur, which is almost always instantly associated with King Arthur. Other signature weapons include: Image File history File links Acap. ... For other uses, see Excalibur (disambiguation). ... For other uses, see King Arthur (disambiguation). ...

• Kratos's Blades of Chaos or Blades of Athena. Both are pairs of blades tethered to chains on Kratos' wrists.
• Raziel and Kain's vampiric sword, known as the Soul Reaver.
• James Bond's Walther PPK (later Walther P99)
• Francisco Scaramanga's golden gun.
• Agent Smith's Desert Eagle
• King Arthur's Excalibur
• Captain America's shield
• Thor's hammer Mjolnir
• The Jedi's lightsabers
• Arjuna's bow Gandiva
• Dirk Pitt's Colt M1911 pistol
• "Dirty" Harry Callahan's Smith & Wesson Model 29
• Paul Kersey's .475 Wildey Magnum pistol
• Indiana Jones's bullwhip and revolver
• Roland Deschain's two sandalwood-grip revolvers, which were formed from metal melted down from his world's version of Excalibur
• Alucard's customized Hellsing ARMS .454 Casull semi-automatic handgun and Hellsing ARMS "Jackal" 13mm Auto Anti-Freak Cannon.
• Vash the Stampede's Angel Arms Eagle .45 Long Colt top break underfire revolver.
• Batman's Batarangs
• Klingon Bat'leths, Federation Phasers, and Romulan Disruptors
• Haer'Dalis has signature dual swords named Chaos and Entropy in the Dungeons & Dragons game Baldur's Gate II: Shadows of Amn and it's expansion pack Baldur's Gate 2: Throne of Bhaal.
• Drizzt Do'Urden is a chaotic good drow character in the Forgotten Realms who uses dual scimitars called Icingdeath and Twinkle as signature weapons. (His archenemy, Artemis Entreri, has long possessed a dagger with a jeweled hilt; the assassin is so infamous that even those who have never seen him before, but are familiar with his reputation, instantly recognize him if they see the weapon.)
• Gordon Freeman's crowbar.
• Agent 47's classic trademark weapons include his dual Silverballer handguns, the Walther WA 2000 sniper rifle, and his fiber wire.
• Solid Snake's SOCOM pistol.
• Dante from Devil May Cry carries twin longslide 1911-based handguns named 'Ebony & Ivory,' unique devil arms Alastor, a lightning-endowed claymore, and Ifrit, a set of ever-burning gauntlets.
• Lara Croft's twin handguns - Previously included/resembled Nickel-plated versions of M1911 pistols, Browning Hi-Powers, Desert Eagles and most recently H&K USP Matches.
• Link's Master Sword.
• Mario's hammer.
• Rally Vincent's CZ 75 first version
• Lupin's Walther P38 and Jigen's Smith & Wesson Model 19
• Togusa from Ghost in the Shell's Mateba automatic revolver
• Characters in manga artist Masamune Shirow's works often use weapons made by the fictional arms manufacturer Seburo.
• The Terminator's Laser-sighted longslide .45, Uzi 9mm and 12 Gauge Autoloader, and the Winchester Model 1887/1901 from Terminator 2
• Blade's sword and glaives (bladed boomerang-like throwing weapons)
• Martin Riggs's Beretta 92F
• John McClane's Beretta 92F, later a Beretta Px4 Storm
• Cloud Strife's Buster Sword and Sephiroth's Masamune nodachi sword from Final Fantasy VII
• Roger Murtaugh's Smith & Wesson Model 19
• The Prince of Persia's Dagger of Time and Eagle Sword.
• The Predator's wristblades and plasmacaster
• InuYasha's Tetsusaiga
• Kurama's rose whip
• Anton Chigurh's Captive Bolt Pistol in No Country for Old Men
• Josh Randall from Wanted: Dead or Alive wields a shortened Winchester 1892 carbine called a Mare's Leg
• Horatio Caine's Beretta Cougar and later SIG P229
• Hellboy's modified, bulky pistol the Good Samaritan.
• Marcus Fenix's Lancer Assault Rifle (from Gears of War).

Many signature weapons are specially designed, or magically enchanted, so that only the heroes can use them (ex. Only someone worthy can lift Thor's Hammer; Ancient technology can only be used by people with the Ancient gene.). If villains or anyone else were to try using the weapons, either they won't work, or something bad will happen to them. Kratos may refer to: Cratos, a son of Zeus in Greek myth Operation Kratos, a codeword for SO13 tactics for dealing with terrorists Kratos MS 50, a tool for Electron ionization Kratos, the main protagonist in the video game series, God of War Kratos Aurion, a character from the Tales... Raziel is a fictional character, an anti-hero that appears in the Legacy of Kain series of video games, specifically Soul Reaver, Soul Reaver 2 and Defiance. ... Kain is a main character in the Legacy of Kain series of video games. ... The Soul Reaver is a weapon in the Legacy of Kain series. ... This article is about the spy series. ... The Walther PP ( Polizei Pistole ) was introduced in 1929. ... The P99 is a semi-automatic pistol developed by the German company Carl Walther GmbH Sportwaffen of Ulm for law enforcement, security forces and the civilian shooting market as a replacement for the Walther P5 and the P88. ... Francisco Scaramanga is a fictional character in the James Bond film and novel The Man with the Golden Gun. ... The Golden Gun is a customized pistol that is seen in the James Bond 007 movie The Man with the Golden Gun and several other James Bond 007 video games. ... Movie poster for The Matrix Revolutions, featuring the various copies of Agent Smith. ... The Desert Eagle is a large caliber gas-operated semi-automatic pistol manufactured primarily in Israel by IWI (Israel Weapon Industries) for Magnum Research, Inc. ... For other uses, see King Arthur (disambiguation). ... For other uses, see Excalibur (disambiguation). ... 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