Axe Proficiency

Enhanced Axemanship
Gimli (Lord of the Ring) is quite impressive with his skills with an axe.
Power/Ability to:	Possess great skills with an axe.

The ability to possess the skills to wield an axe. Variation of Weapon Proficiency.

Also Called

• Axe Proficiency
• Enhanced Tomahawk Proficiency

Capabilities

Users are able to demonstrate a savage aptitude for the ways of the axe. The user is able to wield an axe with great proficiency in brute power and destructive features to kill strong enemies. They are able to perform feats such as stopping large incoming objects, break through objects (possibly even steel), and use wide sweeps to attack many enemies at once, they may also be proficient in wielding throwing axes to add a ranged attack to their repertoire.

They can also use their axes as a tool or chopping wood cutting through most materials.

Associations

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

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

• If the user is strong enough, they may be able to perform:
  • Fissure Creation by slamming it into the ground.
  • Razor Wind

Limitations

• May not be able to wield other bladed weapons with the same proficiency.
• May only be effective against other melee fighters.

Known Users

See also: An Axe to Grind.

Manga/Anime

• Daidara (Akame Ga Kill!)
• Baraggan Louisenbairn (Bleach)
• Nnoitra Gilga (Bleach)
• Lulu (Blood+)
• Victor Powered (Buso Renkin)
• Kotori Itsuka (Date A Live)
• Taurus (Fairy Tail)
• Candice (Marchen Awakens Romance)
• Jinin Akebino (Naruto)
• Mangetsu Hozuki (Naruto)
• Captain Morgan (One Piece)
• Sentomaru (One Piece)
• Vander Decken IX (One Piece)
• Ba Tei (Kingdom)
• Eliza Faust (Shaman King)
• Bui (Yu Yu Hakusho)
• Maximum Gorar (Binan Koukou Chikyu Bouei-bu Love! Love!)

Comics

• The Woodsman (Fables)

Television

• Marceline the Vampire Queen (Adventure Time)
• Axe Cop (Axe Cop)
• Kintaros/Kamen Rider Den-O Ax Form (Kamen Rider Den-O)
• Traximus (Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles)
• Optimus Prime (Transformers)
• Wiro Sableng (Wirosableng Pendekar 212)
• Various Power Rangers and Villains (Power Rangers franchise)
• Various Super Sentai Rangers and Villains (Super Sentai franchise)
• Sunder (Ben 10: Alien Force/Ultimate Alien)
• Jean-bot (Ultraman series)
• Barabas (Ultraman Ace)
• Tyrant (Ultraman series)
• Mold (Ultraman series)

Literature

• Gimli (Lord of the Ring)
• Johanna Mason (The Hunger Games)

Mythology/Folklore

• Paul Bunyan (American Folklore)
• Minotaur (Greek Mythology)
• Skarphéðinn Njalsson (Icelandic Sagas)

Film

• Victor Crowley (Hatchet)
• Astrid Hofferson (How to Train Your Dragon)
• Steppenwolf (DC Extended Universe)

Tabletop Games

• Egil Styrbjorn (Warhammer)
• Angron the Red Angel (Warhammer 40,000)
• Khârn the Betrayer (Warhammer 40,000)
• Khorne (Warhammer 40,000)

Video Games

• Assassins (Assassin's Creed franchise)
• Father Gascoigne (Bloodborne)
• Eddie Riggs (Brütal Legend)
• Dante Alighieri (Dante's Inferno)
• Manus, Father of the Abyss (Dark Souls)
• Elana, the Squalid Queen (Dark Souls II)
• Absalom (Darksiders)
• Death (Darksiders)
• Dante (DmC: Devil May Cry); via Arbiter
• La Hire (Jeanne D'Arc)
• Rufus (Jeanne D'Arc)
• Bartolomeo (Jeanne D'Arc)
• Blaze (Jeanne D'arc)
• Thunder (Killer Instinct)
• Aeleus (Kingdom Hearts)
• Lexaeus (Kingdom Hearts)
• Kongol (Legend of Dragoon)
• Ymir (Queen's Blade)
• Astaroth (Soulcaliber)
• Aeon Calcos (Soulcaliber)
• Cress Albane (Tales of Phantasia)
• Presea Combatir (Tales of Symphonia)
• Forest Ledoyen (Tales of the Tempest)
• Horseless Headless Horseman (Team Fortress 2)
• Last Dragonborn (The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim)
• Bloody Mary (Valkyrie Crusade)
• Kratos (God of War)

Gallery

Daidara (Akame Ga Kill!) wielding the Double-Bladed Axe: Belvaac, a very heavy axe that possesses tremendous offensive power and can be split apart and thrown with homing capabilities.

Nnoitra Gilga's (Bleach) pre-released Zanpakuto, Santa Teresa, is more like an axe, which he is masterful in wielding with one hand.

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Baraggan Louisenbairn (Bleach) was skilled wielding his gigantic battleaxe Zanpakuto, Arrogante, with just one hand...

...and wields the Gran Caida upon releasing Arrogante, a sleeker battleaxe infused with accelerated aging powers.

Kenpachi Zaraki (Bleach) releasing his Zanpakuto, Nozarashi, which becomes a gigantic axe that can slice a meteor to pieces.

Victor Powered (Buso Renkin) is very powerful with his Buso Renkin of the Great Axe: Fatal Attraction, controlling gravity with it to increase its strike...

...and in taking apart his Fatal Attraction into two smaller tomahawks, each with an energy blade.

Kotori Itsuka (Date A Live) wielding her giant halberd, Camael, which possesses side blades like an axe, and can be dismantled into the cannon, Megiddo.

Rex (Generator Rex) wielding two giant battleaxes generated from his nanites within his own body.

Darkray (Kurohime) wielding the Death Angel Axe in her weapon form, along with five others.

Jinin Akebino (Naruto) using the Kabutowari's hammer to add force to the axe like a wedge, allowing him to cut through all defenses.

Sentomaru (One Piece) wielding his giant battleaxe that he only uses in tougher situations, or to smash the annoying Demaro Black to the ground.

Eliza Faust (Shaman King) wielding a halberd with a razor attached, similar to an axe, with great dexterity and can cleave through normal material via Oversoul.

Jean Bison (The Sly Cooper) was a skilled lumberjack, able to clear an entire forest alone with nothing but an axe.

Bui (Yu Yu Hakusho) wielding a very large battleaxe with tremendous force, splattering his victim's pieces all over the audience.

Bloody Mary (Valkyrie Crusade)

Because of the film and how he died, Victor Crowley's (Hatchet) signature weapon is a hatchet.

Astrid Hofferson (How to Train Your Dragon)

Taurus (Fairy Tail) has extraordinary skills in wielding his battle axe.

The Woodsman (Fables) the unknown-by-name lumberjack who saved Little Red Riding Hood from the Big Bad Wolf (now Bigby Wolf) in the Homelands.

Ba Tei of Rigan (Kingdom) is a proficient wielder of yue (鉞) heavy axes.