A flashback in " Fool for Love " reveals that Spike received the scar from the sword of the first Slayer he killed in 1900.

Aesthetic differences included: the Mirror-crew's uniforms were flamboyant and somewhat robe-like, with ceremonial daggers for the officers ; Mirror-Sulu was a Gestapo-like political officer with a disfiguring facial scar ; Mirror-Spock had a goatee ( which has led to a number of pop culture references of people from " evil alternative universes " having goatees ), whereas the regular character does not ; the " United Nations " emblem of the Federation was replaced in the Terran Empire symbol, which consisted of the Earth imposed over a vertical sword of conquest.

She has a scar below her left eye, and usually has a katana sword in hand.

The four-episode Queen Emeraldas OVA series would re-invent her scar as a wound received during a sword duel with a different opponent.

Jacques-Louis David's facial abnormalities were traditionally reported to be a consequence of a deep facial sword wound after a fencing incident.

The word sword comes from the Old English sweord, cognate to Old High German swert, Old Norse sverð, from a Proto-Indo-European root * swer-" to wound, to cut ".

" Revelation 13: 13, 14 says, " And he doeth great wonders, so that he maketh fire come down from heaven on the earth in the sight of men, and deceiveth them that dwell on the earth by the means of those miracles which he had power to do in the sight of the beast ; saying to them that dwell on the earth, that they sould make an image to the beast, which had the wound by a sword, and did live.

While slashing attacks were still moderately effective against infantry wearing half-plate armor, cutting and slicing attacks against an opponent wearing plate armour were almost entirely ineffective in providing any sort of slashing wound as the sword simply could not cut through the steel, although a combatant could aim for the chinks in a suit of armour, sometimes to great effect.

And Manannan girt him for the fight with his own deadly sword, called the Answerer, from the wound of which no man ever recovered, and those who were opposed to it in battle were so terrified that their strength left them.

This battle lasts " over half a day " until Christian manages to wound Apollyon with his two-edged sword ( a reference to the Bible, Heb.

However, Staurakios was paralyzed by a sword wound near his neck, and was saved by the Imperial guard which retreated from the battlefield towards the safety of Adrianople.

He was killed by a sword wound to the head and was stabbed 19 times.

Furthermore, it is impossible to cure a wound from Cai's sword.

Eglon was eviscerated by the blow, which caused him to leak excrement ; he was so overweight that the sword disappeared into the wound and Ehud left it there.

Realizing that the wound was mortal, he ordered his armor-bearer to thrust him through with his sword, so that it might not be said he had perished by the hand of a woman ().

Young Silanus, however, did not open his veins, when invited to do so ; he went down fighting with his fists, and Tacitus notes that the centurion was forced to run him through with his sword ; his fatal wound, according to the historian, was in front 16. 9.

When Beowulf wounds the dragon a second time, striking so hard his sword shatters, Wiglaf strikes at the open wound with his own sword, tearing at the dragon's throat so it can no longer breathe fire.

Harada, wishing to prove the man wrong, immediately drew his sword and attempted to commit seppuku ; however, the wound was shallow, and he survived.

The sword wound had not bled, meaning that Godfrey was already dead when he was impaled, maybe for 4 – 5 days.

She transforms into a panther and kills him, though he manages to wound her in the shoulder with the sword concealed in his cane.

The sword grip was usually made of an organic material such as wood, horn, or antler ( which does not often survive for archeological uncovering ) and may well have been wound around with textile.

The Roman writer Cassius Dio in his Roman History described Roman against Roman in the Battle of Philippi: " For a long time there was pushing of shield against shield and thrusting with the sword, as they were at first cautiously looking for a chance to wound others without being wounded themselves.

: His sword would wound no one but himself.

The sword is also enchanted so that even a small nick or cut will prove eventually fatal, as the wound will fester and eventually poison the victim.

As he withdrew the sword, Fazal Din, despite his terrible wound, seized the sword from the Japanese officer and killed him with it.

Recovering fast, he engaged in psychological warfare against his cell warden Inferno, staying completely silent and still to increasingly unnerve him to the point where he got sloppy ; at that point, Bludgeon telekinetically had his sword escape from an ammo store and viciously wound Inferno, allowing the Mayhems to escape.

Going through the Imperial Gate in the wall, I entered the grounds of Topkapi Palace, home of the Sultans and nerve center of the vast Ottoman Empire, and walked along a road toward another gate in the distance, past the Church of St. Irene, completed by Constantine in 330 A.D. on my left, and then, just outside the second gate, I saw a spring with a tap in the wall on my right -- the Executioner's Spring, where he washed his hands and his sword after beheading his victims.

In the end, I did the same old picture, the naked girl and the guy in the doorway, only I put a Lord Byron shirt on the guy, gave him a sword instead of a pistol, and painted in furniture from the stills of a costume movie.

Made of gold-plated britannium on a black metal base, it is 13. 5 in ( 34 cm ) tall, weighs 8. 5 lb ( 3. 85 kg ) and depicts a knight rendered in Art Deco style holding a crusader's sword standing on a reel of film with five spokes.

The story of Ajax was frequently made use of by ancient poets and artists, and the hero who appears on some Locrian coins with the helmet, shield, and sword is probably this Ajax.

Ajax at first gets the better of the encounter, wounding Hector with his spear and knocking him down with a large stone, but Hector fights on until the heralds, acting at the direction of Zeus, call a draw: the action ends without a winner and with the two combatants exchanging gifts, Ajax giving Hector a purple sash and Hector giving Ajax a sharp sword.

The sword carried by the Republic in the Marseillaise relief broke off on the day, it is said, that the Battle of Verdun began in 1916.

Atreus in his enmity towards his brother sent Aegisthus to kill him ; but the sword which Aegisthus carried was the cause of the recognition between Thyestes and his son, and the latter returned and slew his uncle Atreus, while he was offering a sacrifice on the seacoast.

Postumus, on hearing of the Roman victory, fell on his sword.

He was clad in silk and velvet, with the royal lions of Aquilonia worked in gold upon his rich jupon, and the crown of Aquilonia shone on his square-cut black mane ; but the great sword at his side seemed more natural to him than the regal accoutrements.

He hid in a closet with a sword and waited until seeing a fiendish cat-like creature stalk around his niece's bedroom and bite her on the neck.

An early published notice on him, dating from 1604 and describing his lifestyle three years previously, tells how " after a fortnight's work he will swagger about for a month or two with a sword at his side and a servant following him, from one ball-court to the next, ever ready to engage in a fight or an argument, so that it is most awkward to get along with him.

Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser stories, a jocose take on the sword and sorcery subgenre.

The sword pierces a piece of paper on which is written ‘ I vote the death of the tyrant ’, and as a tribute at the bottom right of the picture David placed the inscription ‘ David to Le Peletier.

In 2007 the Autonomous Community of Castile and León bought the sword for 1. 6 million Euros, and it is currently on display at the Museum of Burgos.

* Plastron, an underarm protector, which goes underneath the jacket and provides double protection on the sword arm side and upper arm.

The gods thrust " a certain sword " into Fenrir's mouth, the hilt of the sword on Fenrir's lower gums and the point his upper gums.

Eventually, she becomes his wife but first Freyr has to give away his magic sword which fights on its own " if wise be he who wields it ".

He perfected the technique on a sword swallower.

Eventually, Hector breaks Ajax ' spear with his sword, forcing him to give ground, and he sets the ship on fire.

One reason for such a threat is that, unlike the typical sword and sorcery adventurer, the hero is seldom bored stiff by ordinary life and therefore will not abandon it quickly and on any excuse.