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Contents 1 Tales of Symphonia 2 Request 3 Proper Use? 4 too much fancruft 5 Accurate Range? 6 Use in media

[edit] Tales of Symphonia

Overall, a well written article. I'd never heard of "Tales of Symphonia" up until this article, but isn't the comment on Collete Brunell a violation of the NPOV? Dessydes 14:00, 13 March 2006 (UTC)

It indeed is. Fix'd. ~regruBgniK

I don't quite understand what anybody could have wrote to violate the NPOV, but Tales of Symphonia was an immensely popular game and deserves its mention in the article - especially given the large fanbase that will undoubtedly wonder what the heck a chakram is (I certainly didn't know or care before ToS, and the word isn't even in Firefox's spellcheck dictionary). I've added a line on Collete similar to the others, and I'm pretty sure it expresses no POV. --69.115.161.97 (talk) 12:36, 23 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Request

I remember seeing a movie where a guy from the future travels back in time to inject heroin in victims and extract the endorphins produced by the brain in response to the drug, which he will presumably sell later as a much more expensive drug. He has an array of futuristic weapons, among which a remote-controlled razor disk. I can't for the life of me remember the title, nor have I identified it yet. Anyone? --62.110.27.250 16:20, 12 July 2006 (UTC)

I Come In Peace aka dark angel.--D-Boy 21:46, 5 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Proper Use?

I actually have one of these. I have always wondered how one throws it without cutting oneself. Shador5529 15:25, 23 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] too much fancruft

need to move it to it's own page.--D-Boy 06:05, 3 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Accurate Range?

40 to 50 metres seems very far for a weapon like this. Is there any evidence backing up these figures?

I find the figure difficult to credit. However, since I don't really know anything about this weapon, I contented myself to add a "citation needed". Orcoteuthis 20:39, 26 June 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Use in media

The current phrasing of this section is misleading: "A much larger (and purely fictional) version of the chakram has been used in a lot of fantasy and martial arts media, including the television show, Xena: Warrior Princess. This version, most likely due to its size, is restricted mostly to being a melee weapon instead of a throwing one, with its fighting technique being similar to the acrobatic use of a hula hoop in circus acts."

While perhaps a larger version, used like a hula hoop, is shown in 'a lot of fantasy and martial arts media' (I've never seen such a thing, but I haven't seen all of the video games and shows mentioned), the chakram in Xena is of the size described for the historical chakram in this article, and is used as a throwing weapon almost exclusively.

As I haven't seen the other media items mentioned, I don't know if the use of the chakram described above is accurate for them, but I imagine from the words 'dual-wielded' that it isn't. I hesitate to rewrite the section without input from someone who knows about the other characters mentioned, though I can provide cites for Xena's chakram. Anybody? LaPrecieuse 05:01, 27 May 2007 (UTC)

Also, in the game Baten Kaitos one of the major characters, Mizuti, uses a Chakram as her main weapon. It's quite small, about the size of the real chakrams in the Indian painting, and used only for throwing. 24.78.225.171 (talk) 02:39, 1 May 2008 (UTC)