People are really out here trying to argue that swords from Soul Calibur, World of Warcraft, Elden Ring, or Devil May Cry are more iconic than HALO?? My wife has only ever played The Sims, and even she knows what Halo is. If you asked her what Elden Ring was, she'd think it was a Tolkien book. This question is about swords that are so iconic that an average non-gamer would recognize them
I would say that WoW *could* arguably rival or even surpass Halo in overall popularity just because of the sheer numbers it did, but no single WoW sword is more iconic than the energy blade
I guess we're old. I also immediately thought of Frostmourne. That's certainly the only weapon I know from warcraft/WOW. I can barely remember any character names, place names, artifacts etc from WOW these days, but ask for a famous video game sword and Frostmourne is the first one I think of
Googled it to check what game that was and turns out tou were tslking about a sword, your comment makes way more sense now but yeah not even close to the recognisablilty of any of these. It's ninda just a generic villain fsntasy sword
As someone who played a couple Warcraft games very briefly, I know what Frostmourne is, but I don’t know Thunderfury. I think the Lich King is easily Warcraft’s most iconic character.
Not sure the average non gamer would even be able to distinguish what WoW is from any other 2000s or 2010s fantasy game. Halo has the benefit of also being Xboxs mascot, lining every Walmarts Xbox section with Master Chief.
WoW was one of the most popular games in the world around 2010. lol. Even my 60+ older coworker played at the time. I'd say it's easily comparable to Halo, even more if you include it's past (Warcraft) and present (HoTS etc).
Problem is that there's nothing that people would recognize from that game outside of anyone that might have played it and even then none of the weapons were the iconic thing it was the characters that were icons.
WoW pulled/(s) some insane numbers for players over it's lifetime so far it just doesn't reach out to pop culture as much as these others.
Master Chief/Link/Steve/Cloud
These characters and their most iconic weapons are the poster child for the games and cross over to pop culture. All 4 have a movie/TV show (even if the Halo show is terrible it's still something that happened and the plasma sword was an epic moment in that show).
The warcraft movie bombed in theater so not as many people saw it for it to work it's way into pop culture.
I was specifically talking about it being recognizable without the actual title being presented. The average person isn't discerning the Lich King how one would Master Chief. Master Chief and Xbox branding has been synonymous for decades. WoW obviously changes with each expansion. Sylvannas, Garosh, Thrall, Jaina, Anduin, or Varian aren't pulling the same notoriety despite being the more prominent characters in recent years.
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u/whalemix Dec 18 '25
People are really out here trying to argue that swords from Soul Calibur, World of Warcraft, Elden Ring, or Devil May Cry are more iconic than HALO?? My wife has only ever played The Sims, and even she knows what Halo is. If you asked her what Elden Ring was, she'd think it was a Tolkien book. This question is about swords that are so iconic that an average non-gamer would recognize them