Knife Proficiency

Dagger Proficiency
Roronoa Zoro (One Piece) is a powerful master of Tantojutsu, creating a Flying Slash Attack strong enough to cut down his target and a building as well as multiple highly skilled Samurai with a simple Tanto.
Power/Ability to:	Possess great skill with a dagger

"You see, it's the slow knife... the knife that takes its time, the knife that waits years without forgetting, then slips quietly between the bones... that's the knife that cuts deepest."

― Talia al Ghul (The Dark Knight Rises)

The power to possess great skill in wielding a dagger. Variation of Weapon Proficiency.

Also Called

• Enhanced Dagger Fighting/Proficiency/Throwing
• Enhanced Daggermanship
• Enhanced Knifemanship
• Enhanced Knifeplay
• Enhanced Knife Fighting/Proficiency/Throwing
• Enhanced Trench Knife Skill
• Tantōjutsu

Capabilities

Users have an incredible aptitude for the ways of the dagger. They are able to wield small blades with great proficiency and cunning as well as stealth; concealing multiple knives on their person flawlessly, to be retrieved at will in combat.

Applications

• Extreme skill with all forms of a dagger, paired with the ease with which such weapons may be hidden on the body, allows the user to employ a richly varied fighting style: switching between any number of exotic types of knife mid-battle to hack, jab, hook or otherwise harm a target. More powerful users of this ability may even use some specialized varieties of a dagger in ways they were not designed for, such as throwing a stiletto accurately or impaling with a curved blade.
• Trick moves, misdirection and feints to add to the user's abilities in combat as well as for the purposes of display.
• The ability to target and exploit an opponent's vital points with flawless accuracy, often in order to make a swift, silent kill or disable without inflicting lethal wounds.
• Some varieties of dagger lend themselves to throwing, in which case the user's aim can be expected to be nigh perfect, even in the middle of combat or when throwing multiple weapons. In addition, this may allow the user to pin targets down through their opponent's clothing or flesh, preventing them from moving without actually killing them.
• The shortness of a dagger offers a smaller blind-spot than long swords, while at the same time allowing them to take advantage of such spots in the face of swordsmen.

Associations

• Adoptive Muscle Memory
• Demonic Weaponry
• Divine Weaponry
• Empathic Weaponry
• Enhanced Combat
• Intuitive Aptitude
• Magic Weaponry
• Sentient Weaponry
• Soul-Bound Weapon
• Weapon Creation
• Weapon Manipulation
• Weapon Physiology
• Weapon Proficiency Touch

• If the user possesses energy capabilities, they may be able to perform:
  • Dagger-shaped Energy Beam Emission
  • Energy Blast via swings
  • Energy Infusion
  • Ergokinetic Blade Construction
  • Spatial Slicing
  • Temporal Slicing

Limitations

• User may not be able to handle a larger blade with similar skill.
• Aside from the actual act of eliminating a target, this ability does not enhance a user's stealth.

Known Users

Cartoons/Comics

• Razor the Shark (Archie's Sonic the Hedgehog)
• Mai (Avatar: The Last Airbender)
• Black Manta (DC Comics)
• Roy Harper (DC Comics)
• Morgan Ducard/Nobody (DC Comics)
• Talons (DC Comics)
• Drax the Destroyer (Marvel Comics)
• James "Bucky" Barnes/Winter Soldier (Marvel Comics)
• T'Challa/Black Panther (Marvel Comics)
• Tandy Bowen/Dagger (Marvel Comics)
• Elektra Natchios (Marvel Comics)
• Ororo Munroe/Storm (Marvel Comics)
• James "Logan" Howlett/Wolverine (Marvel Comics)
• James Proudstar/Warpath (Marvel Comics)
• Sarah/Marrow (Marvel Comics)
• Sergei Kravinoff/Kraven the Hunter (Marvel Comics)
• Anastasia Kravinoff (Marvel Comics)
• Diego Hargreeves/Number Two/The Kraken (The Umbrella Academy/Dark Horse Comics)
• Eyeball Ruby (Steven Universe)
• Raphael (Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles)
• Brock Samson (The Venture Bros.)
• Knives Chau (Scott Pilgrim)
• Aerrow (Storm Hawk)
• Angor Rot (Tales of Arcadia)
• Walter Stricklander (Tales of Arcadia)
• Jim Lake Jr. (Tales of Arcadia)
• April O'Neil (Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 2012 TV series)

Anime/Manga

• Kenny Ackerman (Attack On Titan)
• Levi Ackerman (Attack On Titan)
• Juda (Berserk)
• Guts (Berserk)
• Kranz Maduke (Black Cat)
• Kensei Mugurama (Bleach)
• Shaz Domino (Bleach)
• Neutrophils/Whie Blood Cells (Cells at Work!)
• Kid (Chrono Cross)
• Maes Hughes (Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood)
• King Bradley (Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood)
• Jacob Lessio (Fairy Tail)
• Asuma Sarutobi (Naruto)
• Sid Barrett (Soul Eater)
• Dracule Mihawk (One Piece)
• Vinsmoke Sanji (One Piece)
• Roronoa Zoro (One Piece)
• Dao Ma (Guardian's Blade)
• DIO Brando (JoJo's Bizarre Adventure)
• Bruno Bucciarati (JoJo's Bizarre Adventure Part V5: Golden Wind/Vento Aureo)
• Enrico Pucci (JoJo's Bizarre Adventure Part 6: Stone Ocean)
• Diego Brando from Another Universe (JoJo's Bizarre Adventure Part 7: Steel Ball Run)
• San (Princess Mononoke)
• Juuzou Suzuya (Tokyo Ghoul)
• Tooru Mutsuki (Tokyo Ghoul:re)
• Izaya Orihara (Durarara!!)
• Kyoma Mabuchi (Dimension W)
• Dorothy (Marchen Awakens Romance)
• Babbo Version 6 - Puss in Boots (Marchen Awakens Romance)
• Guardian ÄRM, X (Zehn) (Marchen Awakens Romance)
• Hati (Saint Seiya Ω)
• Kang Tae-Shik (Solo Leveling)
• Sung Jin-Woo (Solo Leveling)
• Shiki Tohno (Tsukihime)
• Shiki Ryougi (Kara no Kyoukai)
• Shizuku Sangou (Kampfer)
• Belphegor (Katekyō Hitman Reborn)
• Rasiel (Katekyō Hitman Reborn)
• Tokaku Azuma (Akuma no Riddle)
• Isuke Inukai (Akuma no Riddle)
• Jirou Sorashima (Wallman)

Video Games

• Robloxians (Roblox); via Bombo's Survival Knife
• Alice Liddell (American McGee's Alice)
• Larxene (Kingdom Hearts)
• Assassins (Assassin's Creed series)
• Rogues (Warcraft)
• Warlocks (Warcraft)
• Valentine (Skullgirls)
• Sakuya Izayoi (Touhou Project)
• Hassan-i-Sabbah (Assassin) (Fate/stay night)
• Jack the Ripper (Fate/Apocrypha)
• Leon S. Kennedy (Resident Evil)
• Jack Krauser (Resident Evil)
• Echidna (Queen's Blade)
• Irma (Queen's Blade)
• Shizuka (Queen's Blade)
• Zidane (Final Fantasy series)
• Rem Tomikiya (Final Fantasy series)
• Terumi Yuuki (BlazeBlue)
• Rogues (Dragonfable)
• Dampierre (Soulcaliber)
• Greed (Soulcaliber)
• Hawkeye (Seiken Densetsu 3)
• Sothe (Fire Emblem)
• Heather (Fire Emblem)
• Player Character (Runescape)
• Jack the Ripper (Valkyrie Crusade)
• Maya (Killer Instinct)
• Various Characters (Far Cry)
• Spy (Team Fortress 2)
• William "B.J." Blazkowicz (Wolfenstein)
• Lincoln Clay (Mafia III)
• The Marstons (Red Dead Redemption)
  • John Marston
  • Jack Marston
• Lord's Blade Ciaran (Dark Souls)
• Feower/Quatre (Granblue Fantasy)
• Kiryuu Kazuma (Yakuza Series)

Literature

• Annabeth Chase (Percy Jackson and the Olympians/Heroes of Olympus)
• Elmindreda "Min" Farshaw (The Wheel of Time)
• Thomdril "Thom" Merrilin (The Wheel of Time)
• Bell Cranel (Danmachi)
• Shadowhunters (Shadowhunter Chronicles)
• Laura Bodewig (Infinite Stratos)
• King's Rangers (Ranger's Apprentice Series/Royal Ranger Series)
• Connovan (King's Dark Tidings)

Live Television/Movies

• Dean Winchester (Supernatural)
• Sam Winchester (Supernatural)
• Angels (Supernatural)
• Ghostface (Scream)
• Clove (The Hunger Games)
• Enobaria (The Hunger Games)
• Richard B. Riddick (The Chronicles of Riddick)
• Fuu Houhou (The Outcast)
• V (V for Vendetta)
• Oishi Kawaii (Oishi High School Battle)
• Trini Kwan/Yellow Ranger (Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers)
• William "Bill the Butcher" Cutting (Gangs of New York)
• Micheal Myers (Halloween)
• Cicada (Arrowverse)
• Black Noir (The Boys)

Others

• Jeff The Killer (Creepypasta)
• Colet (Jeanne D'Arc)
• Tarzan (Tarzan Series)

See Also

For fan-fictional to non-canon characters, see here.

Gallery

Cartoons/Comics

Razor the Shark (Archie's Sonic the Hedgehog)

Black Manta (DC Comics)

The Court of Owls' Talons (DC Comics) are extremely skilled in wielding short blades and daggers.

Nobody (DC Comics)

Stewie Griffin (Family Guy) showing complete mastery in bladed weapons, using a knife against his mother's makeshift spear.

Brock Samson (The Venture Bros.)

T'Challa/Black Panther (Marvel Comics)

Mister Negative (Marvel Comics) is extremely skilled in wielding short blades and daggers for combat...

...brutally slaughtering his minions.

April O'Neil (Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 2012 TV series)

Anime/Manga

Kenny Ackerman (Attack On Titan)

Tokaku Azuma (Akuma no Riddle) is expert knife user, whether its throwing or fighting with them.

Guts (Berserk)

Kranz Maduke (Black Cat) wielding his Mars knife that vibrates at high-frequency, slicing through bullets with ease.

Kensei (Bleach) wielding his dagger like Zanpakuto

Shaz Domino (Bleach) utilizes daggers created from reishi as throwing weapons.

Kyoma Mabuchi (Dimension W) wields his Wire Daggers with skillful proficiency.

Jacob Lessio (Fairy Tail) is a skilled knife user and can throw them at ludicrous speed.

Shizuku Sangou (Kampfer)

Belphegor (Katekyō Hitman Reborn) is great in using knives.

Like his brother, Rasiel (Katekyō Hitman Reborn) also uses knives.

Darkray (Kurohime) wielding the Death Angel Dagger in her weapon form (who transformed into an additional hands for her master), along with five others.

Dorothy (Marchen Awakens Romance) possesses a Weapon ÄRM called Ring Dagger which she can wield with great skill.

Asuma Sarutobi (Naruto) was very skilled with his trench knives.

Dracule "Hawk-Eye" Mihawk's (One Piece) supreme swordsmanship skills…

…extends to daggers and knifes...

...defeating powerful swordsmen like Roronoa Zoro with ease.

Though it goes against his style as a chef, Sanji (One Piece) is able to use kitchen knives in combat.

While growing up with the wolf clan, San (Princess Mononoke) trained herself with knives.

Since his childhood in the slum streets of London, DIO (JoJo's Bizarre Adventure) was proficient in wielding knives, later using his skills with The World's ability to stop time...

...to throw multiple daggers at Jotaro Kujo.

Bruno Bucciarati (JoJo's Bizarre Adventure Part V/5: Golden Wind/Vento Aureo)

Thanks to his powerful swordsmanship, King Bradley (Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood) can wield knives and daggers with equal potency.

Tooru Mutsuki's (Tokyo Ghoul:re) advanced knife throwing technique – juggling…

…and throwing.

Jirou Sorashima (Wallman) shows off his proficient with a combat knife on some hitmen.

Sung Jin-Woo (Solo Leveling) can cut apart his targets with his daggers

As an assassin, Kang Tae-Shik (Solo Leveling)...

Video Games

Alice Liddell (American McGee's Alice)

Bell Cranel (DanMachi) is master in wielding knives for combat.

Larxene (Kingdom Hearts)

Jack the Ripper (Valkyrie Crusade)

A Vietnam veteran, Lincoln Clay (Mafia III) knows his way around a knife.

Yuki Terumi (Blazblue)

Shiki Ryougi (TYPE-MOON)

As an Eternal, Feower/Quatre (Granblue Fantasy) is one of the most powerful dagger wielders throughout the skies.

Sakuya Izayoi (Touhou Project)

Stucker (Slush Invaders) is skilled in the use of his twin daggers, able to fight off multiple Blues, and control his blades remotely.

Kazuma Kiryuu (Yakuza Series) is an expert in Tantojutsu.

Live Television/Movies

Riddick (The Chronicles of Riddick) is skilled with using knives, particularly ulaks.

Drax the Destroyer (Marvel Cinematic Universe)

Ghostface (Scream) kills his victims by stabbing the vital points of the body or slitting their throats.

Trini Kwan/Yellow Ranger (Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers) uses the Power Daggers with skill.

Bill "The Butcher" Cutting (center) (Gangs of New York) lives up to his name.

An adept knife fighter, Dean Winchester (Supernatural) can subdue human assailants with ease and best physically more powerful supernatural creatures with only a blade.

Like his brother, Sam Winchester (Supernatural) is an adapt in knife fighting and has killed multiple supernatural creatures with just a blade.

Others

Colet (Jeanne D'arc)

Videos

Crocodile Attack The Venture Bros. Adult Swim