This article is a list of fictional swords in various pieces of literature, film and television. For swords originating in mythology and legend, see List of mythological swords. Swords that originate in epic poems, tales and chronicles that were taken at one time as a "true" accounting of history rather than being composed as works of fiction, such as Beowulf, The Tale of the Heike and the Kojiki of similar are not listed here, regardless of whether the swords themselves are believed by contemporary scholars to have existed historically.

Akita Yoshinobu: Sorcerous Stabber Orphen

Lloyd Alexander: The Chronicles of Prydain

J.M. Barrie: Peter Pan

Terry Brooks: The Sword of Shannara

Lewis Carroll: Jabberwocky

Cassandra Clare: The Shadowhunter Chronicles

Susan Cooper: The Dark is Rising Sequence

Brian Daley: Coramonde

David Eddings: The Belgariad & The Malloreon

Michael Ende: The Neverending Story

Steven Erikson: Malazan Book of the Fallen

David Gemmell: Drenai Series

Terry Goodkind: The Sword of Truth

Hideki Kamiya: Devil May Cry

Robert A. Heinlein: Glory Road

Brian Jacques: Redwall

Robert Jordan: The Wheel of Time

Fritz Leiber: Fafhrd and the Grey Mouser

C.S. Lewis: The Chronicles of Narnia

George R.R. Martin: A Song of Ice and Fire

Michael Moorcock: Eternal Champion

Christopher Paolini: The Inheritance Cycle

Rick Riordan: Percy Jackson and the Olympians and Heroes of Olympus

Daniel Radcliffe: Harry Potter

It is first pulled out by Harry Potter in Chamber of Secrets. It appears again and is drawn out of the Sorting Hat by Neville Longbottom in Deathly Hallows and used to kill the last Horcrux - Nagini the snake. The sword absorbs any substance that will strengthen it; for example, if immersed in poison, it gains the ability to poison its target. It also rejects any substance that would damage or tarnish it.

Fred Saberhagen: Books of the Swords

Brandon Sanderson: Cosmere

J. R. R. Tolkien: Middle-earth

Swords only appearing in the film adaptations:

Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman: Darksword

Tad Williams: Memory, Sorrow, and Thorn

Memory, Sorrow, and Thorn are three legendary swords key to the plot of the trilogy.

Gene Wolfe: The Book of the New Sun

Roger Zelazny: The Chronicles of Amber

Various authors: Dungeons & Dragons

Andrzej Sapkowski: The Witcher

In other fiction

Brandon Mull's Fablehaven

Andrew Hussie's Homestuck

Nintendo's The Legend of Zelda

Nintendo's Fire Emblem

Square Enix's Final Fantasy series

Ichihei Ishibumi's Highschool DxD

Team Ninja's Wo Long Fallen Dynasty

Other

In film and television

Bionicle

Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon

The Golden Blade

Heroes

Hook

Kill Bill

KonoSuba

Masters of the Universe

Pirates of the Caribbean

Power Rangers

Star Trek

Star Wars

Sword Art Online

Slayers

Thundarr the Barbarian

ThunderCats

Voltron

Zatoichi

Nasuverse