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* The Home-run bat in ''VideoGame/SuperSmashBros'', which can become a {{one hit KO}} item when charged up. [[VideoGame/{{Earthbound}} Ness]] also uses his baseball bat as his forward Smash. This move can also reflect projectiles as well.

* The Home-run bat in ''VideoGame/SuperSmashBros'', which can become a {{one hit KO}} item when charged up.

** Aomame, a main character in ''Literature/OneQEightyFour'', contemplates using her softball bat as self-defense.

'''Shinji:''' [[UnderStatement ...powerful than usual.]]

* In the {{Elseworld}}s story ''Scar of the Bat'', Eliot Ness adopts the Franchise/{{Batman}} identity to take on UsefulNotes/AlCapone, wielding a baseball [[JustForPun bat]] as his primary weapon.

-->"Hold up, wait, the nigga started to load his gat\\

So I bashed his head in with my Louisville Slugger!

* Dancing Banana: "Peanut Butter Jelly Time"

* In BouncyBallMan #3, the titular hero, ambushed and without his costume, steals a baseball bat from an elderly neighbor to give himself a fighting chance against his would-be assassin.

* The creepy twins from ''Series/AmericanHorrorStoryMurderHouse'' show up with their bats in every single appearance they have. In the pilot, they took them inside the house for protection. When [[CreepyChild Adeleide]] warns them about the dangers of the house, they [[GenreBlind ignore]] [[TooDumbToLive her]] by replying "we have bats".

Also if a normal baseball bat isn't enough, it's common in fiction to just pound [[SavageSpikedWeapons nails, spikes or even glass into it]]. [[AwesomeYetImpractical They're not practical]], but they sure do look like they would hurt a lot if they connect. A more rare (and arguably more practical) version is to wrap [[ChainPain chains]] or even [[ComicBook/TheWalkingDead barbed wire]] around it or just cover it with other kinds of junk.

* In ''LightNovel/{{Baccano}}'', Isaac and Miria commit a robbery using baseball bats as weapons. They steal money from a major crime family while dressed as Babe Ruth and Ty Cobb. [[{{Cloudcuckoolander}} Yeah, they can be like that.]]

* In ''LightNovel/{{Baccano}}!'', Isaac and Miria commit a robbery using baseball bats as weapons. They steal money from a major crime family while dressed as Babe Ruth and Ty Cobb. [[{{Cloudcuckoolander}} Yeah, they can be like that.]]

Baseball bats are designed to hit very small, very fast things very hard. They're made out of solid wood or metal, and they're extremely well-balanced. You don't need a permit to buy one, and you can find them anywhere; even a supermarket with a sporting goods section is all but guaranteed to carry baseball bats. Even with no training whatsoever, it's possible for a beginner to pick up a bat and use it to great effectiveness.

* In ''Webcomic/OnePunchMan'', the superhero Metal Bat, true to his name is always armed with a baseball bat made out of a very sturdy metal, and can even battle giant monsters with it. After getting tired of his bats constantly bending or breaking from high impacts, he eventually acquires one that is seemingly MadeOfIndestructium.

* Comicbook/ThePunisher2099's signature weapon was the Power Bat, a club with an adjustable hardness setting ranging from "rubber" to "titanium"; he never uses the lower settings.
* A ''Comicbook/SpiderMan'' issue has the ShapeShifter Chameleon disguise himself as Peter and try to seduce MJ as part of his plan for revenge. She figures out the ruse fairly quickly and after luring him upstairs, you guessed it, [[DamselOutOfDistress beats him with her baseball bat]].

* {{Exaggerated|Trope}} in ''FanFic/ProHeroMetalBat'', where Izuku's powers seem outright dependent on a bat. He performs normal physical feats when unarmed, but becomes capable of hitting a ball ''2.5 kilometers'' away when he hits it with his bat.

** In the ''Series/{{Angel}}'' spin-off, Gunn uses a baseball bat whose head has been [[WoodenStake sharpened into a stake]] for killing vampires. Ironically the same weapon was used in a ''Series/{{MADtv}}'' spoof ''Buffy the Umpire Slayer''.

* Bad Girl from ''VideoGame/NoMoreHeroes''; Most of the other assassins the game use ridiculously complex gadgets and weapons (Speed Buster attacks you with a WaveMotionGun disguised as a ''shopping cart''). Bad Girl is able to rise above all but one of them with nothing but a wooden bat and [[AxCrazy a serious case of the deep-down crazies]]. And [[AbnormalAmmo projectile gimps.]] She even says the Trope name during her downward swing, and if you hurt her enough, she sets in on '''[[IncendiaryExponent fire]]'''. Her father Bad Man, as shown in ''Videogame/TravisStrikesAgainNoMoreHeroes'', also uses a diamond-cored bat that can clash with a beam katana and [[spoiler:briefly stun a rampaging HumanoidAbomination]] and was a baseball player before becoming an assassin.

* Used in the sequel to ''Videogame/TheSuffering'', but subverted in that it's [[JokeWeapon exactly as useless as you'd think]] compared to an M-60. (As one walkthrough remarked, "Put down the crack pipe.")

* Bats are the [[WeaponSpecialization weapon of choice]] of [[PlayerCharacter Javier Garcia]] from ''VideoGame/TheWalkingDead'' Season 3, who can wield them with skill since he was once a professional baseball player before his [[TheGamblingAddict gambling addiction got him kicked out of the major leagues.]]

* Goro Majima, the PsychoForHire rival to Kazuma Kiryu from the first ''Videogame/{{Yakuza}}'' game, in a Joker-like moment (Majima is voiced in the English version by Creator/MarkHamill), takes a baseball bat to one of his underlings before Kazuma's first battle with him for not laughing after Majima gets hit in the side of the head with a baseball at the batting cage. In the prequel ''Videogame/Yakuza0'', Majima as a playable character has a "Slugger" style that focuses on using a baseball bat to dispatch enemies. In ''Kiwami'', the remake of the first game, Majima will eventually show up as "Officer Majima" and try to bludgeon Kiryu with his "Slugger style" as a part of his "Majima Everywhere" system.

** In ''Videogame/YakuzaLikeADragon'', Ichiban's [[WeaponSpecialization weapon of choice]] is a baseball bat wrapped in barbed wire that he uses as his idea of a [[HeroesPreferSwords fantasy sword]] for his "Hero" class. He first finds his "Hero's Bat" [[OnlyTheChosenMayWield stuck on the ground]] and after pulling it out his imagination and delusions of grandeur run wild. Said bat can be upgraded from a shoddy bat wrapped in barbed wire to a golden electric bat with pronged blades sticking out of it.

** [[Recap/DoctorWhoS25E1RemembranceOfTheDaleks "Remembrance of the Daleks"]]: The Doctor's sidekick Ace fights a Dalek armed only with a baseball bat. Admittedly, it's a baseball bat that's been turned into an energy mace after being exposed to a long-lost alien superweapon. Creator/SophieAldred, who played Ace, considers the fact that she is the only person in the entire series to beat a Dalek to a pulp with a baseball bat ''very'' cool, and this led to the creation of the SugarWiki/MomentOfAwesome page in the first place.

* Ness from ''VideoGame/EarthBound1994'' wields one, possibly augmented by his psychic abilities. In ''VideoGame/EarthBoundBeginnings'', Ninten also wields a bat, and Lucas' ultimate weapon in ''Videogame/{{Mother 3}}'' is the Real Bat (though he otherwise wields [[CarryABigStick sticks]]). He has also a Fake Bat.

* ''VideoGame/PaperMarioStickerStar''. Mario can use Baseball Bat and Toy Bat stickers to knock enemies out of the stage.
** [[spoiler:This is the Tower Power Pokey's main weakness.]] The battle even begins with "PLAY BALL!" instead of "FIGHT!"

* Seeing as how the protagonist's name is literally [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin "The Batter,"]] it's not surprising that this how many physical attacks are delivered in ''VideoGame/{{OFF}},'' using a variety of different bats, such as the "Harold bat," the "Katsuhiro bat," and more.