History Main / GardeningVarietyWeapon

TruthInTelevision in that many ancient weapons such as the [[EpicFlail flail]] and [[SaiGuy sai]] were essentially retooled farming implements.

* In ''TabletopGame/TranshumanSpace'', this trope is the reason that the C-Brown gardening cybershell has large off buttons on its front and back -- there's no record of one ever attacking, but the idea is a common one in in-universe fiction.

A subtrope of WeaponOfChoice, ImprobableWeaponUser, and frequently, ImprovisedWeapon. Supertrope of ShovelStrike, MacheteMayhem, SinisterScythe, AnAxeToGrind (when it's a woodchopping axe and not a battle axe), ShearMenace (when gardening shears are used) and half of TorchesAndPitchforks. Often used in MartialArtsAndCrafts if the craft is gardening.

* In ''Film/ReazioneACatena'', [[spoiler:Simon]] uses a billhook as his primary weapon for murdering people.

* In ''WesternAnimation/WallaceAndGromitCurseOfTheWereRabbit'', a shopkeeper hastily changes his sign from "Gardening Supplies" to "[[TorchesAndPitchforks Angry Mob Supplies]]" when the monster is sighted.

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* In ''Film/Madhouse1974'', Elizabeth Peters is stabbed through the throat with a pitchfork.

* In ''Film/GhostTown1988'', Devlin stabs Etta to death with a pitchfork.

* ''Literature/{{Discworld}}''

-->"Although the scythe isn't pre-eminent among the weapons of war, anyone who has been on the wrong end of, say, a peasants' revolt will know that in skilled hands it is fearsome."
** In ''Literature/{{Night Watch|Discworld}}'', some of the rebels are retired soldiers who used halberds and swords as garden stakes or fire pokers... but also, workers who bring their tools, that they use safely and legally every day--tools like boathooks. And meat cleavers. One poor city soldier tries to explain to his officers that "unarmed" civilians really can do a lot of damage with a pitchfork hurled ten feet straight downwards.

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* ''ComicStrip/ModestyBlaise'': In "The Young Mistress", Willie--who is disguised as a gardener--uses a hoe to knock out several thugs who have arrived to abduct the young woman Modesty is guarding.
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-->'''Aatrox''': A scythe? ''A scythe?!'' Are you planning on murdering fields of wheat?!

-->'''PC''': "Come rake, let us begin our [[RoaringRampageOfRevenge dark work]]!"

* 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.
** She more recently lost the vorpal spade in an ambush, and has since picked up a +2 Trident Of Warning (formerly a pitchfork). Should be noted that this [[ClapYourHandsIfYouBelieve actually is a Trident of Warning]], as seen [[http://rustyandco.com/comic/level-7-60/ here.]] (A Trident of Warning detects hostile aquatic life.)

* In ''WesternAnimation/WallaceAndGromitCurseOfTheWereRabbit'', a shopkeeper hastily changes his sign from "Gardening Supplies" to "[[TorchesAndPitchforks Angry Mob Supplies]]" when the monster is sighted.

* The norm during the Middle Ages, as the vast majority of "soldiers" were conscripted peasants who had to provide their own equipment
* 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 role as sandbags); however the work it did was similar to gardening and it could be used as a gardening tool. In any case the basic concept is known in several cultures.
* Entrenching Tools (folding shovels issued to soldiers for digging individual emplacements, among other tasks) are far more likely to be used in hand to hand combat than bayonets.

* In ''VideoGame/LeagueOfLegends'', [[CoolSword Aatrox]] will taunt [[SinisterScythe Rhaast]] about this.

** Death's scythe is only once truly used as a weapon, in a duel between ''Discworld/{{Mort}}'' and the Grim Reaper himself. The narration notes...

** In ''Discworld/NightWatch'', some of the rebels are retired soldiers who used halberds and swords as garden stakes or fire pokers... but also, workers who bring their tools, that they use safely and legally every day--tools like boathooks. And meat cleavers. One poor city soldier tries to explain to his officers that "unarmed" civilians really can do a lot of damage with a pitchfork hurled ten feet straight downwards.
** In ''Discworld/{{Snuff}}'', Vimes is forbidden from carrying a sword while visiting his country estate, and instead takes a bill hook to a midnight meeting, commenting that it would be a sad day when a landowner couldn't take a walk and prune any errant limbs.

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* 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. In any case the basic concept is known in several cultures.

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A subtrope of WeaponOfChoice and ImprobableWeaponUser. Supertrope of ShovelStrike, MacheteMayhem, SinisterScythe, AnAxeToGrind (when it's a woodchopping axe and not a battle axe), ShearMenace (when gardening shears are used) and half of TorchesAndPitchforks. Often used in MartialArtsAndCrafts if the craft is gardening.

* In ''Literature/JourneyToTheWest'', the pig Zhu Bajie uses a gardening rake as his Weapon Of Choice.

* ''ShakespeareAndHathawayPrivateInvestigators'': In "This Envious Court", the groundsman at the tennis club threatens Sebastian with a gardening fork when Sebastian discovers the burning aconite.

* ''ShakespeareAndhathawayPrivateInvesigators'': In "This Envious Court", the groundsman at the tennis club threatens Sebastian with a gardening fork when Sebastian discovers the burning aconite.

* The Mystery Shack's shovel in ''WesternAnimation/GravityFalls'' makes its rounds as a weapon, primarily against zombies (first time was against gnomes, the second time actually ''was'' against zombies).