History Main / SinisterScythe

* ''Manga/{{Digimortal}}'': The protagonist is a merc in a super-powered black armor with a toothy grin and skeleton-like features. Weapon of choice? A scythe.

*** The Creator/KunioOkawara designed incarnations actually avert many of the potential problems with using a scythe as a weapon by having the beam emitter mounted on a pivot, allowing its angle to be adjusted, though this only comes up in the show once.

* ''VisualNovel/HiiroNoKakera'': [[TheDragon Zwei]] wields one in addition to eating people's souls.
* ''LightNovel/HybridXHeartMagiasAcademyAtaraxia'': Grace Sinclavia wields a scythe called Harvest that drains the energy from whatever it stabs and feeds it to her to strengthen herself.

* ''VisualNovel/{{Ookamikakushi}}'': A scythe gets major use as a murder weapon.

* ''VideoGame/DotHackGUGames''
** Haseo has a scythe as his special weapon. "Ticking Death". Subtle, eh? His badass AI alter ego, Skeith, uses one too.
** Despite so, in-game, scythe-wielders are just a job-class. In this game, scythes are actually ''defensive'' weapons, with a respectable range (behind spears and guns) and can take on multiple enemies to boot. A player would swing it in a circular arc, thereby affecting any enemies caught in its swipe. Charged attacks would throw enemies away before they can get too close, hence the class's name, Flick Reapers.

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* In the ''VisualNovel/HigurashiWhenTheyCry'' fighting game, Daybreak, Rika Furude's standard weapon is a standard hoe. However, in the expansion, she can switch to a scythe, which gives her a number of magical attacks as well as being very quick.
* ''VisualNovel/UminekoWhenTheyCry'' has Erika Furudo, who wields a scythe of Truth. As in, literally made out of Truth. Her master has a similar one herself, with the ability to reap miracles. This is potentially a major clue about [[spoiler:[[EnemyWithout her true origins]]]]. Erika also uses this weapon in the ''Ougon Musou'' fighting games.
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* [[spoiler:Season 2 BigBad Qilby]] in ''WesternAnimation/{{Wakfu}}'' can create and wield a scythe made of [[PureEnergy pure wakfu]].

* In ''VideoGame/XenobladeChronicles2'', Vandham wields two hand sickles borrowed from his [[LivingWeapon Blade]] Roc.

** The scythe is the WeaponOfChoice of many evil deities, most notably Urgathoa, the goddess of disease and undeath, and Deskari, the demon lord of locusts and infestations, the latter of whom plays a prominent role in the First Edition ''Wrath of the Righteous Adventure Path'' and [[VideoGame/PathfinderWrathOfTheRighteous its video game adaptation]].

* ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons'':
** In 3rd/3.5 edition and ''TabletopGame/{{Pathfinder}}'', Scythes do a relatively small amount of damage for a large weapon (2d4 compared to 1d10, 1d12, or 2d6) but make up for it by having a whopping x4 critical modifier, meaning they do quadruple damage on a critical hit in comparison to most weapons, which do double. So while they don't do very much damage on most swings, when they hit big, they ''really'' hit big. Their effectiveness is rather reduced by the changes in critical damage rules in 4th edition.
** The favored weapon of Chauntea, GodOfGood and of agriculture in the ''TabletopGame/ForgottenRealms'' is the scythe.

* ''WesternAnimation/PussInBootsTheLastWish'': the Wolf hunting down Puss duel-wields a pair of collapsible sickles.

* Paula from ''VideoGame/ArcRiseFantasia'' wields a rather awesome one.

* ''VideoGame/GrandiaIII'': DarkActionGirl Violetta carries one, called "Demon Scythe". Much like with weapons of other humanoid bosses, it's classified as an enemy on its own, which effectively gives Violetta two separate [[CombatantCooldownSystem cooldowns]], albeit with different actions. The scythe also has its own HP, and you technically can break it, but it has ''more'' HP than the woman herself, and will "die" alongside her [[spoiler:and won't come back even if Violetta's [[DualBoss partner]] revives her]].

** ''VideoGame/CastlevaniaChroniclesOfSorrow'' allow you to equip Death's Scythe. It's insanely powerful but very, very awkward to use, and often difficult to score a hit with. Death himself wields a double-bladed scythe when he [[TurnsRed engages you directly]] in ''Aria''.

** ''Anime/UFORoboGrendizer'': The WeaponOfChoice of the title HumongousMecha is Double Harken, a double-bladed scythe.

* ''Fanfic/TheButcherBird'': This is [[VillainProtagonist Grigori]] [[MadScientist Vinci's]] WeaponOfChoice, although the blade is reattached to be parallel to the shaft, making it more practical than most examples.

%%* ''Fanfic/TheEquestrianWindMage'': This is Sombra's WeaponOfChoice.

* ''Fanfic/ThroughHerEyes'': Ruby still has her Crescent Rose. However, Ruby's Grimm powers in this story also let pull a black scythe from the portals she uses to summon Grimm, described in-story as so dark it doesn't reflect light at all. One chapter also does some WorldBuilding on ''why'' scythes have a reputation as sinister on Remnant: The fighting style that accompanies the weapon itself utilizes odd angles and unusual attacks make them both [[ConfusionFu very hard to defend against]] and [[DifficultButAwesome equally hard to master]], making for a very intimidating weapon in the right hands. The intimidation factor is only helped by the tendency for them to have been the WeaponOfChoice of many of the more... [[AntiHero unheroic]] Huntsmen over the years.

* ''Film/BehindTheMaskTheRiseOfLeslieVernon'': A hand scythe is the WeaponOfChoice for the title character.

* ''Film/TheButchers'': The Zodiac Killer uses a sickle as his WeaponOfChoice.

* ''Literature/DreadNation'': The combat schools teach their students the following melee weapons for dealing with Shamblers: scythe, dual-wielded sickles and dual-wielded dual-edged short swords known as "Mollies" (cavalry sabres aren't that great on Shamblers). The scythe does a lot of damage, but main character Jane [=McKeene=] dislikes it as even combat-specced scythes are unwieldy and tiring to use. She favours the sickles and her WeaponOfChoice are a pair given to her as a break-up gift by her ex-boyfriend. These sickles are much wider than the traditional sickle--almost a half-moon instead of crescent moon shape. Made of high-quality steel, they're finely balanced, very durable and extremely sharp--easily capable of decapitating a shambler in a single swipe.

** The arakhs that are the WeaponOfChoice of the Dothraki, given that they do most of their fighting from horseback.

** Median XL's Necromancers are quite fond of using scythes as their WeaponOfChoice, and have some nice attacks such as Angel of Death that do nasty damage.
** While Malthael, the BigBad of the ''VideoGame/DiabloIII'' expansion ''Reaper of Souls'', is the Angel of Death, his WeaponOfChoice are two wickedly-sharp sickle-like swords known as shotels rather than a scythe.

* Noob Saibot uses a scythe as his WeaponOfChoice in ''VideoGame/MortalKombat4''.

* Karkat Vantas from ''Webcomic/{{Homestuck}}'' wields a sickle as his WeaponOfChoice. His Sburb aspect is, [[StealthPun naturally]], [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sickle-cell_disease blood]].

* ''ComicBook/KaykoandKokosh'' - The wicked magic user Zmierzchnica uses a Scythe as her weapon of choice, in refrence to [[Myth/SlavicMythology Południce]], the Polish demon she is base upon.

* ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'': Although frequently referred to as such, the mystical "Scythe" in the last season is technically a combination of [[AnAxeToGrind axe]], [[ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice spear]], and [[CarryABigStick mace]].

* ''ComicBook/KaykoandKokosh'' - The wiched magic user Zmierzchnica uses a Scythe as her weapon of choice, in refrence to [[Myth/SlavicMythology Południce]], the Polish demon she is base upon.

A sub-trope of WeaponOfChoice.

* ''Webcomic/GrimTrigger'': Death has two of them, and Valamar has at least one, which he revealed during his MilitaryCoup.

* In ''Six-Guns: Gang Showdown'' from Creator/{{Gameloft}}, the game is set in a Weird West Arizona and Oregon so there's more than just revolvers and rifles for weaponry. There's also a number of powerful melee weapons, including 2 scythes, with the 2nd scythe being the most damaging weapon in the game and was the very weapon used by the [[HorsemenOfTheApocalypse Horseman, Death]].

* [[GrumpyBear Karkat Vantas]] from ''Webcomic/{{Homestuck}}'' wields a sickle as his WeaponOfChoice. His Sburb aspect is, [[StealthPun naturally]], [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sickle-cell_disease blood]].

* ''Literature/TheBartimaeusTrilogy'': Yhe eponymous character is confronted by an afrit wielding a scythe who uses it to deflect Bartimaeus's magical attacks.

* Marluxia from ''Franchise/KingdomHearts''. It's worth it to mention not only that his scythe is huge and sinister-looking, but also that the blade is '''PEPTO-BISMOL PINK'''. Marluxia also backed this with some serious [[GreenThumb pink thumb]] flower magic. Originally it was specifically CherryBlossoms, which also angled his power towards death, fitting of his weapon. Later versions changed this to roses.

* The title characters of ''Manga/ZeroSevenGhost'' each carry a BFS (Big Fucking Scythe).
* Once ''Manga/AoiHouse'' gets around to parodying action/horror, [[{{Tsundere}} Elle]] [[AlphaBitch Mathers]] gets a scythe...and immediately makes an extremely corny pun.
* Chikuma Koshirou from ''Manga/{{Basilisk}}'' {{dual wield|ing}}s two kama scythes that [[PrecisionGuidedBoomerang return to his hands when thrown.]]
* Among the supposed members of the Shinigami Dispatch Association in ''Manga/BlackButler'', only one has an actual scythe in possession -- [[spoiler:a rogue shinigami named Undertaker]].

* Dead Master wields the black Dead Scythe in ''Anime/BlackRockShooter''.
* Tsutomu Nihei (The creator of ''Manga/{{Blame}}'') made a one-shot manga called ''Digimortal''. The protagonist was a merc in a super-powered black armor with a toothy grin and skeleton-like features. Weapon of choice? A scythe.

* In ''LightNovel/{{Campione}}'', Athena and her mother Metis wield scythes as in this verse, they are also death goddesses.
* The cover art of the ''Manga/DeathNote'' manga show Light Yagami wielding a scythe; this is a mix of CoversAlwaysLie and RuleOfSymbolism. Also, several minor {{Shinigami}} characters are drawn with scythes.
* The ''Franchise/{{Digimon}}'' Phantomon (''Anime/DigimonAdventure'') and [=MetalPhantomon=] (''Anime/DigimonDataSquad'') wielded scythes.
* Upon further improvement in ''Anime/DragonBallSuper'', [[EvilTwin Goku Black]] demonstrates the ability to convert his LaserBlade into one and use it to open a portal to create copies of himself to overwhelm his enemies.
* In ''LightNovel/{{Durarara}}'', Celty can manipulate the [[CastingAShadow darkness flowing from her neck]] to form a scythe. As expected from something based on the Grim Reaper. Or a CYBORG Grim Reaper...

* At least one incarnation of ''Manga/GetterRobo'' carries as its main weapon a curious type of double-edged poleaxe with one blade that extends into a scythe-like shape with a more conventional axe-head behind it.

* Zorin Blitz from ''Manga/{{Hellsing}}''. An evil [[DarkActionGirl (female)]] Nazi with a scythe and [[MasterOfIllusion illusion]] and [[MindRape mind powers]].
* [[TheGrimReaper The]] [[{{Meganekko}} Grim]] [[{{Kawaiiko}} Reaper]] (natch) in ''Manga/HellTeacherNube''. It even has "Death" engraved in lovely cursive letters on the blade.
* [[TheDragon Zwei]] from ''VisualNovel/HiiroNoKakera'' wields one in addition to eating people's souls.
* Kohaku's weapon of choice in ''Manga/InuYasha'' is a kusarigama made of demon bones; its blade is closer to the crescent curve of a western scythe.
* Fate's [[SwissArmyWeapon Bardiche]] from ''Franchise/LyricalNanoha'' has an energy scythe form.

* Elise from ''Anime/MagicalWitchPuniechan'' wields a huge, menacing-looking scythe. Strangely, she hardly uses it for actual combat, which is very unwise against the protagonist of the show.
* Yama Rikudo from ''Manga/MakaryuudoDemonHunter'' fights with a large crimson scythe. It seems to be made out of her own hair.

* Dominikov in ''Manga/MurderPrincess''. He is a {{Shinigami}}, too.
* Both of Fumi's incarnations in ''Anime/MyHime'' and ''Anime/MyOtome'' use a scythe as their primary weapon.

* Doc Q of the Blackbeard Pirates in ''Manga/OnePiece'' wields a scythe. A double-bladed scythe. Appropriate, as his epithet is "{{Shinigami}}".
* A scythe gets major use as a murder weapon in ''VisualNovel/{{Ookamikakushi}}''.
* Oz of ''Manga/PandoraHearts'' fame is capable of summoning a good one. Originally believed to belong to Alice, later chapters have revealed him to be the original owner of it. And it's not just a good sinister scythe, but an indicator of awesome action. Whenever the [[NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast B-rabbit]]'s Scythe is in his hands, shit's about to go down. After all, when he calls on the power the scythe represents, his nature as an incarnation of destruction shows itself.
** ''Anime/GreatMazinger'': One of the CoDragons -Hardias, general of Evil Spirits Army of the Mykene Empire- was armed with a vicious-looking scythe.

* Kneesocks of ''Anime/PantyAndStockingWithGarterbelt'' transforms her socks into a pair of large golden scythes for combat.
* In the first of many [[UnstoppableRage unstoppable rages,]] Ivan Isaacs of ''Manhwa/{{Priest}}'' decimates a horde of zombies with an ordinary farm scythe.
* Kirika Kure, of ''Manga/PuellaMagiOrikoMagica'', uses WolverineClaws shaped like sickles.
* In the ''Manga/Reborn2004'' manga, this is [[spoiler:Daemon Spade's weapon of choice-as opposed to the anime only episodes, where he used a gentleman's cane-like staff]].
* [=ReiQ=] from the third ''Anime/RebuildOfEvangelion'' movie wields a mecha-sized one, probably for the Death implications.
* Kamatari of ''Anime/RurouniKenshin'' is a scythe wielder. Notably, he usually uses it not to cut, but rather to smash enemies, and the sheer weight of the weapon is actually used effectively in battle. FYI, this is actually a subtle pun. He calls his weapon an ''ogama'', and a common Japanese word for a gay man is ''okama''. (Kamatari is a very feminine transsexual in love with a man.) Also, most of the smashing was done with [[EpicFlail a large ball and chain on the other end of the pole]], making it kind of a giant, mutant kusuri-gama.
* Umanosuke, leader of the three brothers trailing Mugen in ''Anime/SamuraiChamploo'' had a kusarigama with an AbsurdlySharpBlade. [[spoiler:Mugen actually beats him by getting in really close and manipulating the chain into [[HoistByHisOwnPetard cutting the guy's head off]].]]
* In ''Anime/{{Symphogear}} G'', Kirika Akatsuki's Armed Gear is a scythe with a green blade, fitting Kirika's {{Shinigami}} theme. Her Armed Gear can also change its appearance, but it's always a scythe.
* [[spoiler:Ikuto]] from ''Manga/ShugoChara'' turns his [[spoiler:violin]] into a big scythe when transformed into [[spoiler:Death Rebel]].

* Gilmer in ''Anime/TransformersSuperGodMasterforce'' is armed with a small, double-bladed scythe.
* [[CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass Abel Nightroad]], also known as Crusnik 02 from ''LightNovel/TrinityBlood'' wields an especially wicked, multi-bladed scythe. Made of his own blood.
* One of the four candidates to the [[WeaponOfXSlaying Beast Spear]], [[CreepyChild Kirio Inasa]] from ''Manga/UshioAndTora'' can fight monsters with the weapon crafted by his father, the Elzaar Scythe, which he thinks it can be mass produced and used against [[BigBad Hakumen]] herself [[spoiler:, not knowing that it's just a plot from Hakumen to destroy the Spear]]. The scythe is collapsible and sports an axe-like blade in the back, resembling some sort of halberd.
* [[spoiler:Yuki]] eventually gains one in ''Manga/VampireKnight''. She only uses it to help people.
* Sizer from ''Manga/ViolinistOfHameln'' wields a giant scythe with her name engraved on the blade and a flute embedded in the handle.
* In ''Manga/VirginRipper'', this trope is played straight with most shinigamis, but notably averted by Hikari, whose "scythe" is in fact a giant ''spoon''.

* In ''Manga/{{Yaiba}}'' there are some scythe users, including [[{{Ninja}} Kotaro Fuuma]] who used a kusarigama, [[TheStarscream Basho Matsuo]] who wielded a large scythe with some kanji written on the handle and last but not least [[EvilGenius Diamond]]. In her case is justified since her scythe was an EnergyWeapon and thus able to cut almost everything.

* The weapon of choice for the Reaper, the BigBad of ''Franchise/{{Batman}}: Year Two''.
* [[Franchise/GreenLantern Nekron]], the BigBad of the ''ComicBook/BlackestNight'', wields a scythe that has a Power Battery built in.
* The Hooded One from ''ComicBook/{{Bone}}''.
* [[MonsterClown Chuckles]] from ''ComicBook/{{Burlap}}'' wields a sickle.
* In ''ComicBook/{{Cavewoman}}: The Zombie Situation'', Meriem uses a scythe to mow down a horde of zombies.
* [[DontFearTheReaper Bernie]] in ''ComicBook/DeathVigil'' wields an ornate scythe, but she uses it more for its inherent magical properties than for its blade. The scythe itself can revive people and create [[SpellBlade veilrippers]], but it's, in her words, finicky to use.
* Isaac of ''Reaper 7'' wields a scythe, and is even called "Grim Reaper" by mooks for doing so. Later battle sequences seem to indicate that the scythe has an inward and outward blade.
* The Mosaic Man from ''[[ComicBook/HackSlash Hack/Slash]]'' used a scythe constructed from the bones of his early victims.
* The Brazilian Comic Book ''ComicBook/HolyAvenger'' had a troglodyte character who wielded a scythe... but called it an Axe. Interestingly enough, it was later revealed the scythe had the advantages of both an Axe and a Scythe by ''D&D'' rules (as the Comic Book took place in a world that worked under the Rules of ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons''... and ''Defenders of Tokyo''... don't ask). Also intriguingly the character's name was Tork, a reference to Torque, stated below as one of the Scythe's main actual advantages.
* One of ComicBook/LadyDeath's weapons is the Scythe of Eternity which originally belonged to Reaper, the eternal personification of Death in the Chaos Comics universe. He gave Lady Death the scythe after he appointed her as his chosen avatar.
* Reaper of Creator/MarvelComics has always used one. Even after [[ArtificialLimbs losing both of his hands]].
* The ''ComicBook/RedRobin'' villain codenamed "Sac" wields a pair of sickles in addition to his devastating and horrifying use of his PestController abilities.
* The demonic wheat scarecrow wields one in the ''ComicBook/WynonnaEarp'' story "Blood is the Harvest".

* In ''Fanfic/TheBridge'', King Sombra wields a black bladed scythe sharp enough to slice through walls of crystals and a Kaiju's hide. When Xenilla manages to shatter the blade, Sombra is undaunted and tries to stab him in the throat with the broken handle.
* In ''Fanfic/TheButcherBird'', this is [[VillainProtagonist Grigori]] [[MadScientist Vinci's]] WeaponOfChoice, though the blade is reattached to be parallel to the shaft, making it more practical than most examples.

* This is Sombra's WeaponOfChoice in ''Fanfic/TheEquestrianWindMage''.
* Likewise, Sunset Shimmer's choice weapon in ''Fanfic/FriendshipIsMagicalGirls''.
* Alice of the ''LightNovel/SwordArtOnline'' fic ''Fanfic/IWillNotBow'' wields a scythe.
* In ''Fanfic/LightDarknessAndParadox'', both Ruby and Nero wield enormous scythes as weapons. Ruby's scythe also functions as a sniper rifle, while the latter's looks so impractical (it has a handle on the inner edge of the blade) that it shocks Ruby when she first sees it.
* Rep-Stallion's weapon in ''Fanfic/MyBravePonyStarfleetMagic''.
* [[spoiler:Kurosaki Karin]]'s zanpakuto [[spoiler:Ongetsu]] from the ''Manga/{{Bleach}}'' fanfic ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/6902577/1/Phases-of-the-Moon Phases of the Moon]]'' is one of these. It overlaps with FourIsDeath at the end when she becomes [[spoiler:fourth seat of the Eleventh Division]]. [[spoiler:Ongetsu is also an example of AntiMagic]].
* In the ''Fanfic/PonyPOVSeries'':

* [[Manga/DeathNote Light]] gets one as an EmpathicWeapon in ''Fanfic/ThePrinceOfDeath''.

* The Pyrefrost Beowolf in ''Fanfic/RaindropsHearthsWarmingEveMiracle'' owns two massive ones carved of ice and has fire emanating off of them.
* Ruby in ''Fanfic/RWBYDark'' plays it straight unlike her canon counterpart. [[AdaptationalVillainy This version]] is a malevolent, AxCrazy SerialKiller who lives for nothing but bloodlust. Crescent Rose is often stained in blood.
* Drayke Blackwood of the ''Fanfic/ShatteredDimensions'' series usually wields one.
* [[WebAnimation/{{RWBY}} Ruby]], in ''Fanfic/ThroughHerEyes'' naturally still has her Crescent Rose. However, Ruby's Grimm powers in this story also let pull a black scythe from the portals she uses to summon Grimm, described in-story as so dark it doesn't reflect light at all.
** One chapter also does some WorldBuilding on ''why'' scythes have a reputation as sinister on Remnant: The fighting style that accompanies the weapon itself utilizes odd angles and unusual attacks make them both [[ConfusionFu very hard to defend against]] and [[DifficultButAwesome equally hard to master]], making for a very intimidating weapon in the right hands. The intimidation factor is only helped by the tendency for them to have been the WeaponOfChoice of many of the more... [[AntiHero unheroic]] Huntsmen over the years.
* Baphomet, one of the "boss" Beasts, in ''Fanfic/WarriorsOfTheWorldSoldiersOfFortune'' uses an eight-foot-long black scythe.
* ''[[https://archiveofourown.org/works/10860252/chapters/24119295 The World Is Ours]]''. Airi's main weapon is a scythe.

* ''WesternAnimation/BatmanGothamKnight'': [[ScaryScarecrows Scarecrow]] and his gang of escaped [[BedlamHouse Arkham]] inmates and CrazyHomelessPeople wield scythes and sickles in the "In Darkness Dwells" segment.
* Pitch Black of ''WesternAnimation/RiseOfTheGuardians'' wields a massive scythe made of Nightmare Sand.
* In ''WesternAnimation/StevenUniverseTheMovie'', Spinel's rejuvenator, which is designed to revert Gems to their earliest states and [[IdentityAmnesia erase their memories]], takes the shape of a scythe with an energy blade.

* The killer of ''Film/AmericanScarecrow'' uses a sickle as his main tool of murder.

* Mitsuko Souma from ''Film/BattleRoyale'' wields a small scythe. ''For a beginning''.
* A hand scythe is the WeaponOfChoice for the title character in ''Film/BehindTheMaskTheRiseOfLeslieVernon''.
* In ''Film/BlackPanther2018'', the standard weapon of the Border Tribe are [[SinisterScimitar shotels]], which they wield in tandem with their vibranium-powered energy shields.
* In ''Film/TheButchers'', the Zodiac Killer uses a sickle as his WeaponOfChoice.
* ''[[Film/CabinByTheLake Return to Cabin by the Lake]]'': SerialKiller Stanley kidnaps a guy from the set who annoyed him to torture him to death. He grabs a set of increasingly scarier weapons from a shelf to scare the victim, ending with a scythe. When the victim claims that it's just a prop, Stanley pokes him with the blade to dissuade him from that notion.
* The ''Film/ChildrenOfTheCorn'' favor agricultural scythes and sickles, for obvious reasons. They often [[http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_xdN0QQwsP1A/TED-Ln0Q9RI/AAAAAAAAJfU/6TfsgGphgCY/s400/children_of_the_corn.jpg appear on posters as well]].

* The mute Amish man in ''Film/DiaryOfTheDead'' uses one -- though interestingly enough not to decapitate any zombies, just skewer them.
* In ''Film/DraculaIIAscension'' and ''Film/DraculaIIILegacy'', Uffizi (the vampire-hunting priest) uses something that bears a strong resemblance to a switchblade scythe (along with a whip that can sever limbs or heads).
* A zombie Etruscan in the SoBadItsGood Italian ZombieApocalypse film ''Film/BurialGroundTheNightsOfTerror'' uses a scythe to decapitate a victim.

* The Mutos from ''Film/{{Godzilla|2014}}'' (2014) have curved scythe-like legs.
* A character gets slashed [[GoryDiscretionShot partially]] offscreen with a scythe in ''Film/Halloween5TheRevengeOfMichaelMyers''.

* A sickle is the only weapon used by the killer in ''[=HellBent=]''.

* In the ''Film/InterviewWithTheVampire'' movie, one of the French vampires uses a scythe when playing death in a theatre, using it to cut things on stage. It is later used by Louis in his RoaringRampageOfRevenge against said French vampires after they killed Claudia, with lethal effect.

* The killer's main weapon in ''Mountaintop Motel Massacre''.

* In ''Film/ScarecrowSlayer'', the Scarecrow dual wields a pair of sickles as his preferred weapons.
* A scythe is one of the major weapons wielded by Miller Hendrik in ''Film/TheWindmillMassacre''. The other is a [[HooksAndCrooks metal hook on the end of a long chain]].
* One of the scarecrows in ''Film/{{Scarecrows}}'' wields a sickle as its personal weapon.
* One of these (with a candy cane handle) is used to kill Goldie, Frank and Deputy Giles in ''Film/SilentNight2012''.

* Deacon, the main psycho in ''Film/TimberFalls'', uses a strangely shaped sickle with a second spring-loaded blade as his main weapon.
* A character gets killed with a scythe in ''Unhinged''.

* Andalites in ''Literature/{{Animorphs}}'' have scythe-like blades built into their tail anatomy.
* In ''Literature/TheBartimaeusTrilogy'', the eponymous character is confronted by an afrit wielding a scythe who uses it to deflect Bartimaeus's magical attacks.

* In one of the ''TabletopGame/DarkSun'' books, one of the wraiths of [[BigBad Boris' warriors]] wielded a dual bladed scythe. Whether it is a DoubleWeapon or a scythe with two blades on the same side is not clear.

** Commented on in ''Literature/{{Mort}}'': "Although the scythe isn't pre-eminent among the weapons of war, anyone who has been on the wrong end of, say, a peasant's revolt will know that in skilled hands it is fearsome." In this instance, those hands belong to TheGrimReaper who, as you might imagine, has some practice with it.
** On a possibly related note, the novel ''Literature/ReaperMan'' is one of the few, if not only, fictional portrayal of scythes which notes that the traditional [[TheGrimReaper Grim Reaper]] scythe is slightly different from the standard agricultural scythe. It also shows how Death makes his scythe. It's made of iron, sharpened on a whetstone, then an oilstone, then a steel, then hessian, then calico, linen, satin, silk, ''cobweb'', a ''breeze'', and finally ''daylight''. At this point it's so sharp that it can cut ''sound'' and the edge glows faintly from the plasma created by random air molecules bumping against it and getting sliced in half. That wasn't the "official" scythe, though, just an improvised scythe. His actual scythe is even sharper.
** Although in ''Literature/CarpeJugulum'', a vampire lord's ShamingTheMob strategy involves criticising the angry mob's choice of weapons "Pitchforks, yes, good mob weapon -- but scythes? The way you're waving them about you'll do more harm to each other. May I recommend sickles if you want to go down that route -- much more manageable."
* In Justina Ireland's post-American Civil War ZombieApocalypse ''Dread Nation'', the combat schools teach their students the following melee weapons for dealing with Shamblers: scythe, dual-wielded sickles and dual-wielded dual-edged short swords known as "Mollies" (cavalry sabres aren't that great on Shamblers). The scythe does a lot of damage, but main character Jane [=McKeene=] dislikes it as even combat-specced scythes are unwieldy and tiring to use. She favours the sickles and her WeaponOfChoice are a pair given to her as a break-up gift by her ex-boyfriend. These sickles are much wider than the traditional sickle--almost a half-moon instead of crescent moon shape. Made of high-quality steel, they're finely balanced, very durable and extremely sharp--easily capable of decapitating a shambler in a single swipe.

* In ''Literature/ExpeditionZ'', TheHero Adam equips himself with a scythe for the titular expedition despite its impracticality as he assumes that he's not going to be under constant threat by zombies.
* In the fantasy novel ''A Gathering of Heroes'' from Paul Edwin Zimmer, one of the heroes uses a "battle scythe" to literally mow down rows and rows of attacking Goblins. Before the battle, he carefully takes notes of the range and politely asks his companions to stay away from him, as he "doesn't like to cut down his friends too".

* Unsurprisingly, it is the weapon of choice for Zane, the incarnation of Death, in Creator/PiersAnthony's ''Literature/IncarnationsOfImmortality'' series. His scythe is a switchblade model, with the blade (magically?) concealed in the shaft. It even comes with built-in snorkel.

* In ''Literature/ParadiseLost'', Cain is described as using a scythe to reap his fields shortly before he murders Abel, both to indicate his role as a farmer and as an indication that Cain is about to cause the first death in history.
* Kronos in ''Literature/PercyJacksonAndTheOlympians'' carries a scythe. It's actually Luke's CoolSword Backbiter reforged into a scythe, able to hurt both gods and men - and guess what our hero [[HalfHumanHybrid Percy]] [[SemiDivine Jackson]] is.
* In the ''Literature/{{Rigante}}'' novels, Huntsekker has one as his signature weapon. It's a European-style scythe blade, but with a shortened hilt so it's wielded like a kama and worn like a sword.
* The, uhm, magic police in ''Literature/SkulduggeryPleasant'' uses scythes.
* In the ''Literature/{{Tunnels}}'' series, the Styx villains use scythes as their primary weapons.

* The demonic warrior Vocah Wolfram and Hart summoned in ''Series/{{Angel}}'' possessed the ability to pull scythes out of {{Hammerspace}}. Eventually Angel killed him using one of the scythes he'd discarded.

* Although frequently referred to as such, the mystical "Scythe" in the last season of ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'' is technically a combination of [[AnAxeToGrind axe]], [[ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice spear]], and [[CarryABigStick mace]].

* The Reapers in ''Series/{{Grimm}}'', use Sinister Scythes to murder Grimms.

* Subverted in ''Series/{{Supernatural}}'' when Dean gets his hands on Death's scythe -- it's a rusty hand tool like you'd use for gardening. But then it soon becomes obvious that TheGrimReaper does not need props to be scary.

* Mr. Pogo and Shark Tsuchiya used scythes in [[Wrestling/{{FMW}} Frontier Martial-Arts Wrestling]]

* Therizinosaurs were theropod dinosaurs with the largest claws of any dinosaur, which were used for defense agaist tyrannosaurs as much as they were used for gathering plants to eat. They're name even means Scythe lizard.

* In the ''Manga/Reborn2004'' manga, this is [[spoiler:Daemon Spade's weapon of choice-as opposed to the anime only episodes, where he used a gentleman's cane-like MartialArtsStaff]].

* In the ''Manga/Reborn2004'' manga, this is [[spoiler:Daemon Spade's weapon of choice-as opposed to the anime only episodes, where he used a gentleman's cane-like SimpleStaff]].

* ''Literature/CradleSeries'': Ozriel the Reaper, Eighth Judge of the Abidan Court, earned his mantle when he forged The Scythe. It was such an ultimate tool of destruction that the universe itself marked him as the avatar of Death, manifesting a new aspect of reality beyond the seven the Abidan already had. The Scythe, ironically, is mostly not used as a ''weapon'' (even though Ozriel did originally create it for defense), but closer to the purpose of an actual scythe: It can destroy an Iteration outright, leaving no corrupted fragments behind. With Ozriel's help, the Abidan entered an unprecedented era of expansion. Makiel, who never trusted Ozriel, attempted to create a Scythe of his own, but failed. When Ozriel disappeared, Makiel's prototypes were stolen, and someone finally managed to forge them into a reasonable fascimile of the true Scythe... and then sold it to the Mad King, who used it to try to cut down the Abidan one world at a time.

* Scythe blades mounted on a straight pole like a spear or glaive have been used as weapons and have been made specifically for warfare as far back as 400 BC by the Thracians north of Greece, called rhomphaia. Blades that curve forwards were quite common in antiquity, and were very effective against armor of the day; Roman soldiers encountering Dacian warriors, who were commonly equipped with a similar weapon called a [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Falx falx]] soon found themselves needing to modify and reinforce their armor, virtually unheard of at the time. They can still be found in {{Kukris|AreKool}}, various forms of [[MacheteMayhem machetes]], and even some [[KnifeNut knives]] such as hawkbills and karambits.