Sunday, October 12, 2025

Fighters with Swords, Daggers, Spears, Fists

 This subsection of fighters are those jokers with swords (but not money bags, that's a subsection), spears, daggers, and a few who have no weapons other than their fists.

My jokers with swords section starts with  two jokers where the four suits are designed into the picture. The shield of this ferocious green fighter shows that he fights for the hearts, spades, clubs, and diamonds, regardless of their color.  Note his manly mustache and yellow curls!  And his fierce gaze and jolly chapeau (ie hat). Don't mess with Mr Green Boots and Red Tights unless you too are a fearsome swordsman.


On this joker, the suits have been collected onto his sword. It looks like they kebobs ready to be grilled.


Here are the ensemble pictures.


This next set of "World Jokers" goes on for a little over three pages. Seeing all the distinctions is a bit of a test to see details.  Notice differences in teh banner, the clothes colors, and the text on the page.








AT first glance, one might doubt whether the top three below belong in the fighters section. The first guy has webbed feet and a farming tool. And the one on the far right is short one leg and one eye. Perhaps he was a fighter but he is ill-equipped at this point for combat. But the middle one has a sword and some sort of breast-plate. Since I never split up a group, I felt fighters with swords was the best fit for them.

In the middle row, there are also jokers whose categorization could be debated. Two of them have fighters on horseback. Should they be in the equestrian joker section? And the middle on the page is killing a dragon. Perhaps his name is George. Should he be in the Historical Europeans with names or with the dragon jokers?








The middle of the top row below seems to be a guy holding a bat or club, not really a sword.

Here is the whole suite of articles about jokers who are fighters.

Fighters with swords. Or spears, daggers, clubs, or no weapons  - THIS article
Money bags jokers. ie Fighters with swords and bags of money
Fighters with halbards (long poles which have sharp points and a hook for pulling horsemen off their horse)
Archers and pairs of fighters where one is an archer
Fighters with guns. 

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