Axes
Firearms
Both words in one sentence
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Archaic Weapon for an Advanced Age: While the reborn and their enemies use firearms, they often favour close combat weapons such as swords and axes.
Source: Literature / The Memory Wars - The first trailer showed him wielding swords, spears, axes, multiple types of firearms, magic, and a primary weapon consisting of a falchion with an engine built into the hilt.
Source: Choice of Two Weapons - Marvel Comics character Devil-Slayer lives this trope; he has a magic "Shadow Cloak" that allows him to pull weapons of virtually any sort (mostly swords, axes and other Hawkman-approved implements of destruction, but has included modern firearms and high-tech ray-guns).
Source: Hammerspace / Comic Books
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