It acts as a sword and Luke Skywalker in escence is a swashbuckler. Case closed.[QUOTE="FREE_DISEASE"][QUOTE="no_more_fayth"]
The term swash meaning "the fall of a blow" and buckler as in "shield" is used for characters with a sword and/or shield.
A lightsaber isn't a sword, it's a rod of light.
It does have "saber" in its name, which is a type of sword.
But I guess you could call Luke Skywalker a swashbuckler.
no_more_fayth
I was agreeing with you.
And he does fit the original description: "one who screams menacingly while attacking his opponent's shield."
And of course the "shield" in Star Wars is the Force.
Oh, I wasn't speaking directly to you (sorry about quoting you). But yeah, you've got it right and its also got Star Wars under the Swashbuckler article for, "Indeed, adventure and disaster films were all the rage in the seventies with films like The Towering Inferno (1974), Earthquake (1974) and Jaws (1975), which also starred Shaw, and Swashbuckler was capitalizing on that and his success, albeit formulaic and budget minded. It also tapped into the trend of a revival of classic genres; other examples of this are Chinatown (Film noir) and Star Wars (serial/sci-fi)"
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