History Main / GardeningVarietyWeapon

** The Soldier has the Market Gardener, basically an ImpracticalButAwesome garden shovel which does a CriticalHit on enemies while in a RocketJump. His standard melee weapon is a trench-digging shovel, which understandably can also be used for gardening purposes.

** Also, the Soldier's standard melee weapon is a shovel.

* The Beach in ''VideoGame/KingdomOfLoathing'' must be an ant farm, because the ants have the entire set of gardening tools, with which your familiar can "sow pain and reap Meat". The 'Zombie Slayer' challenge path starts you out with a rake, acquired from your first victim. Other garden weapons: pitchforks, scythes, shovels and a gardening trowel.

* The Beach in ''VideoGame/KingdomOfLoathing'' must be an ant farm, because the ants have the entire set of gardening tools, with which your familiar can "sow pain and reap Meat". The 'Zombie Slayer' challenge path starts you out with a rake, acquired from your first victim.

[[caption-width-right:247:Wouldn't, y'know, a ''gun'' be better?]]

[[caption-width-right:247:In case of emergency...]]

* One of the most iconic ninja weapons in popular culture is the kunai, which originated as a gardening trowel.

* Various varieties of heavy utility blades like the Germanic sax, the machete, and the Kukri. The eighteenth century fascine knife would count except it was a purely military tool(designed to cut twigs to bundle together in bundles called "fascines" to serve in a similar roll as sandbags); however the work it did was similar to gardening and it could be used as a gardening tool.

A subtrope of WeaponOfChoice and ImprobableWeaponUser. Supertrope of ShovelStrike, MacheteMayhem, SinisterScythe, AxCrazy (when it's a woodchopping axe and not a battle axe) and half of TorchesAndPitchforks. See also SaiGuy, when an agricultural tool becomes widely known as a weapon.

A subtrope of WeaponOfChoice and ImprobableWeaponUser. Supertrope of ShovelStrike, MacheteMayhem, SinisterScythe, and half of TorchesAndPitchforks. See also SaiGuy, when an agricultural tool becomes widely known as a weapon.

A subtrope of WeaponOfChoice and ImprobableWeaponUser. Supertrope of ShovelStrike, MacheteMayhem, SinisterScythe and half of TorchesAndPitchforks. See also SaiGuy, when an agricultural tool becomes widely known as a weapon.

* ''VideoGame/PlantsVsZombies'' allows you to purchase a rake which will kill the first zombie who steps on it. Additionally, each of your rows has a lawnmower which, as soon as one reaches the end of the row, will activate, clearing out all the zombies in the row.
* Any [[TheMiddleAges medieval-themed]] strategy game in which peasants can be drafted to a military force without gear or training will invariably supply their own TorchesAndPitchforks -- minus the torches.[[/folder]]

A subtrope of WeaponOfChoice and ImprobableWeaponUser. Supertrope of ShovelStrike, MacheteMayhem, and SinisterScythe. See also SaiGuy, when an agricultural tool becomes widely known as a weapon.

* ''Film/{{Braindead}}'' aka ''Dead Alive'' is most famous for the scene where the hero straps himself to a lawnmower to... erm... mow down the undead.

GardeningVarietyWeapon is when a character (not necessarily incompetent with more traditional weapons) turns a [[MundaneMadeAwesome mundane]] garden tool into a competent weapon.

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* Suiseiseki and Souseiseki from ''Manga/RozenMaiden'' use a watering can and a pair of giant shears respectively. Suiseiseki can use her watering can to make plants grow and manipulate them, while Souseiseki's shears are used like a melee weapon.

* In a montage in ''Film/VForVendetta'' a Fingerman shoots a preteen girl dead for graffitiing V's symbol on a wall. He gets surrounded by angry townsfolk who could give a crap about his badge, and the scene does a Gory Discretion Shot as one of them swings a shovel at him.
* ''Film/{{Braindead}}'' AKA Dead Alive is most famous for the scene where the protagonist straps himself to a lawnmower to... erm... mow down the undead.

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* In ''Webcomic/RustyAndCo'', Madeline the Paladin is all about this. She first shows up wielding an alleged "holy avenger" which turns out to be a simple hoe. Then the gnome who originally sold her the hoe shows up offering a "+1 trident" which is actually a rake. When Madeline reappears in a later scene, she's armed with a spade.

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* In ''WesternAnimation/RobotChicken'', one episode has Bob Barker become a vigilante pet spayer/neuterer. His weapon of choice? A pair of hedge clippers.

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* Any medieval-themed strategy game in which peasants can be drafted to a military force without gear or training will invariably supply their own TorchesAndPitchforks -- minus the torches.[[/folder]]

* ''VideoGame/PlantsVsZombies'' allows you to purchase a rake which will kill the first zombie who steps on it. Additionally, each of your rows has a lawnmower which, as soon as one reaches the end of the row, will activate, clearing out all the zombies in the row.[[/folder]]

[[caption-width-right:247:In case of emergency only.]]

[[caption-width-right:247:In case of apocalypse, grab your hoes.]]

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