Hmm, this is actually a little difficult because of the restrictions and there's a big numbers advantage for the enemy.
This thread realistically is more of an excuse to dig up links to scenes for me lol.
In this case I'm just going to define sword users as characters that prominently use a sword in at least 1 scene:
Team 1:
The Base of the Army:
Main character of the movie Revenger: Pretty skilled dude though not enhanced in any way.
The Northerner (Ip Man): Your standard arrogant martial arts movie antagonist 1, 2. Also hadn't realized, this is the same guy who played Ricky Oh in the brutal Story of Ricky live action film lol
Cheng Yi (Eye For An Eye): Pretty skilled fighter. The trick with the alcohol might be some form of speed right? Honestly he's mostly just here for me to post this scene again
Mid tier:
Yeonsoha (Shadowless Sword): 1,2, 3 Fairly middle of the road for this group but still quite skilled and can fly above the crowd with her wuxia stuff.
Tang Long (Wu Xia/Dragon): Skilled, has at least one pressure point type attack, and can take a beating
High Tiers
Milly (Hard Revenge Milly: Bloody Battle): A partially cyborg-form fighter who is less skilled and tough than some of the crowd here probably, but hits hard enough to dismember people with blunt nunchucks, and has both guns,a gun in her knee, guns in her nunchucks, and with her cyborg arms shecut swords apart, take blows that shatter concrete and rocket punch people, all with ludicrous gore. Close combat is a little dangerous since sh'e ostensibly human outside of the metal parts but she can play the ranged game for a long time potentially.
Alita (Alita Battle Angel): Cutting power and a bit of regen/durability in her new form (the same attack in the beginning of this clip ripped her original robot body apart) to the table. Even without the Energy sword she was able to kick robots apart so with it she'll really be making mincemeat of the crowd and shrugging off a lot of the attacks she gets.
S-tier
Nameless (Hero): Considerably faster and more skilled than the opposing force
Qiao Feng (Sakra): He's skilled as hell, strong as hell, manifests flight and enhanced movement in all his fights can shrug off significant hits that send him flying and breaking stone and that's before we take into account his massive telekinetic qi type blasts. This movie was criticized as being basically only a thin disguise for Yen to do MCU style superhuman stuff which I can't disagree with but is worth it for these fight scenes for me heh
Yoda (Star Wars): Laser Swords count right? Anyways, small target, fast and skilled, throws around Senate seats and lifts X-wings from the swamp, needs no introduction.
Team 1 is a stomp but I did want to get to 10 fighters lol. Probably just like, 1 or 2 of the S-tiers section could handle this challenge. The High Tiers and down have a decent shot too imo.
Alternatively:
Team 2:
9 unremarkable people of any choice
The Main Character of Mutant Ghost Wargirl who's name I can't remember: She's already way way faster than anyone here at the start of the movie, seeing the world in just about stopped time (and then amped up even more ludicrous lengths when the movie has her shown as basically teleporting around in that stopped time?). The substantial super strength and durability is really just a bonus on top of that. From then on she goes through not one but two instances of "I unlock my powers and blitz people who were clearly faster than me"
This is of course a ludicrous stomp even moreso than Team 1, since this character could probably step on the majority of the MCU who isn't super durable or a speedster like Makkari.
Ah, there's that name again
Ha, I only vaguely remember this one but she did some fun things iirc.
Good outside the box picks
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Kenshin Himura from the live action version. Not supernatural but could wade through rooms of samurai with ease.
Wonder Woman from the DCU movies - significant sword usage.
If the Black Knight ever makes it into the MCU beyond a cameo.
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So I'm guessing Manhua (chinese) as well?
Crap. Two of my characters started in Manhua.
Okay, I'm back down to using....
- Huek-woon (Arahan).
Hm. Will need to consider who I grab for my next one.
.....
Okay, I throw in Yeh Cool Son from The Duel, and between the two of them that's all she wrote.
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"Why throw punches when you can be making everyone around you sterile mutant corpses?" - Pendaran, regarding Dr. Fate
I'm going to go for overkill.
The T-1000 (It turned its arms into swords so it counts as a sword user)
Neo from that scene in the Matrix Reloaded where he fights the Merovingian's minions.
The Bride from Kill Bill
The Witch-King of Angmar from the Lord of The Rings Trilogy
Optimus Prime (He used a sword in one of the Bay movies and Transformers was originally based on a toy line)
Elder Vampire Viktor from Underworld movies
The Headless Horseman from Tim Burton's Sleepy Hallow (1999)
Violet Jat Shariff from Ultraviolet
The Kurgan from Highlander (Note that in this movie things like being shot didn't temporarily put down immortals. The Kurgan took bursts of machine gun fire to the chest and was still in fighting condition)
The Evil Ninja Spirit from Ninja 3: The Domination
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Master Cheeks from Halo the TV series.
Other than the names of characters, and the series, it has very little in common with the actual game and book franchise. Hell, the creators openly said they never played the games nor read the books. So, can I count him as a live action original? You know, to be the sacrificial meat shield for all the other characters?
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"...dropping an orca whale made of fire on your enemies is a pretty strong opening move." - Nik
"Why throw punches when you can be making everyone around you sterile mutant corpses?" - Pendaran, regarding Dr. Fate