History Main / SinisterScythe

** Reapers in ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyXIV'' fight using scythes in combination with ghostly Avatars. It's also the chosen job of [[BigBad Zenos yae Galvus]] going into his final battle with the Warrior of Light.

* ''Film/{{Unhinged}}'': A character gets killed with a scythe.

* ''VideoGame/BlazBlue'''s Ragna the Bloodedge, aka The Grim Reaper, has a {{BFS}} called Blood Scythe that unfolds into a scythe with a red energy blade for a couple of his attacks (most notably his FinishingMove).

* The only villain to use a scythe-like weapon is [[MasterOfIllusion Emerald]], who wields dual kama called Thief's Respite. [[spoiler:She eventually makes a HeelFaceTurn, though]].

* In ''VideoGame/{{Wynncraft}}'', [[ElementalPowers Air]]-based weapons for [[CharacterClassSystem Warriors]] appear as scythes instead of spears.

* ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons'': In ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragonsThirdEdition'' ''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 ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragonsFourthEdition''.

* Of course ''TabletopGame/{{Exalted}}'' brings us the scythe version of the BFS, creatively called a Grand Grimscythe.

* In ''TabletopGame/{{Scion}}'' Japanese Shinigami are shown to wield massive scythes whose blades are nearly three-quarters the length of the actual handle, and are mentioned to cut not with actual blade-edges, but with the literal supernatural essence of death -- making the act of hitting one with his own weapon ''entirely pointless'', as they are already dead.

* Serene from ''VideoGame/RivieraThePromisedLand'' is best with scythes. She is also has dark color motif and [[WingedHumanoid bat wings]], which leads the party to mistake her for a vampire. Some other characters can also use scythes, but they're not quite as proficient.

* Serene from ''VideoGame/RivieraThePromisedLand'' is best with scythes. Some other characters can use them, too, but they're not quite as proficient.

* Yeager in ''VideoGame/TalesOfVesperia'' uses a scythe where the handle is also a gun. It can also collapse into a crossbow.

Scythes have [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_scythe been used as polearms before]] in real life, though this usually involved straightening the blade into something more like a large BladeOnAStick. But even keeping the blade perpendicular to the shaft has its own benefits, such as being harder for the opponent to predict and building armor-piercing momentum in its swing, with the added bonus of being able to cut an opponent in half once you've impaled them. While farming scythes will only have the sharp edge on the inner curve, a war scythe will likely be sharp on both sides. Like its cousin the battle axe, don't be surprised if a fictional scythe is several times larger than anything you'd find in the real world.

* ''Manga/{{Gamaran}}'' has the Kasanemanji School, whose weapon is the kusari gama. However, they [[ShownTheirWork use it only as a melee, last resort weapon]] while swinging the weight around. [[AxCrazy Sasuke's]] [[BladeOnAStick spear Beninuki]] resembles a scythe thanks to the curved blade jutting from the side, which he can use to behead his opponents when required.

** Lynx from ''VideoGame/ChronoCross''. [[spoiler:Although when you switch bodies with him, outside of one battle, you use your [[BladeOnAStick swallow.]]]]

** Strangely, both ''Dark Souls I'' and ''II'' have a weapon that is called a "Scythe" but is clearly [[BladeOnAStick a bardiche]] and is classified in ''II'' as a halberd instead of a reaper (it's suspected this is one of several [[BlindIdiotTranslation translation errors]]; ''VideoGame/DarkSoulsIII'' finally made the name "Glaive").

* ''VideoGame/MountAndBlade'' features five such weapons, but does so with its trademark realism for the genre. The sickle and military sickle are one-handed weapons, the former being the traditional harvesting tool and latter resembling a kusarigama sans chain. Peasants will often carry a traditional field scythe, with an inward-curving blade mounted parallel to the shaft of the weapon. The military scythe is essentially a basic BladeOnAStick with a straight blade, whereas the shortened military scythe is the same weapon with its haft cut down to become a two-handed weapon, resembling a sword with a long wooden grip. ''With Fire And Sword'' actually has a unit type dedicated to the use of scythes, known as Scythe Wielders. Unfortunately, they are using ''agricultural'' scythes and are thus the weakest Polish conscripts available.

* Specter Knight of ''VideoGame/ShovelKnight'' has TheGrimReaper motif, wielding a scythe just as one would expect. When he's resized as a playable character, [[BladeOnAStick the blade alone is]] [[{{BFS}} almost as tall as he is.]]

* In ''VideoGame/{{Wynncraft}}'', [[ElementalPowers Air]]-based weapons for [[CharacterClassSystem Warriors]] appear as scythes instead of [[BladeOnAStick spears]].

* The Polish ''kosa bojowa'' (meaning just "combat scythe"), was used as a weapon in several Polish uprisings. It involved modifying the blade so that it extends upright and outward from the pole, making it an [[BladeOnAStick improvised glaive]]. Nowadays "setting the scythe upright" is an expression used metaphorically to symbolise militancy. Fun fact: [[http://polona.pl/item/3751263/10/ there are manuals]].

** ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaMajorasMask'': The miniboss Gomess wields one, and uses it during battle in two ways: By performing a conventional slash, and by repeatedly charging at Link while spinning it like a fan.
** ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaTwilightPrincess'': The Poes attack with scythes, giving the already ghostly enemies more of a Grim Reaper vibe.

* Vanessa, the Witch of Immolation, uses scythes in ''VideoGame/LuminousArc''.
* In ''VideoGame/LunarKnights'' Lucian is able to get the scythe Hel, which can split into four blades forming a claw that he can use in a {{spin attack}}.

** Magus from ''VideoGame/ChronoTrigger''.

* ''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's actions include a powerful SwordBeam and a quick, wide-reaching normal attack. 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/XenobladeChronicles2'':
** Vandham wields two hand sickles borrowed from his [[LivingWeapon Blade]] Roc.
** T-elos is a ruthless BloodKnight Blade, who gives her user a large scythe, although it's classified as a Greataxe by the game. It's a large departure from her [[VideoGame/{{Xenosaga}} home game]], where she, much like KOS-MOS, fights by [[ShapeshifterWeapon morphing her body into weapons]].
* ''VideoGame/XenobladeChronicles3'' has Moebius X who looks like a young girl but is as evil as most other Moebius. Her weapon of choice is great big evil looking scythe that's taller than her.

** And now there is Kiyomasa Kato, whose weapon is called "steel halbeard" but it's clearly a scythe with a straight handle and a spear tip.

* ''LightNovel/{{Campione}}'': Athena and her mother Metis wield scythes as in this verse, they are also death goddesses.

** [[{{Golem}} Jean-Luc]] can shape his limbs like scythes.

** [[Golem Jean-Luc]] can shape his limbs like scythes.

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Amphibia}}'': [[MindHive The Core]] uses a red-bladed technological scythe when engaging in battle.

* ''WesternAnimation/TheOwlHouse'': Darius Deamonne can shape his Abomination goo around his arm to form a scythe-like weapon.

** Hanzo wields a traditional [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kusarigama Kusarigama]].

** [[spoiler:Luna's]] Zanpakuto takes the form of dual scythes in Shikai, complete with CastingAShadow powers. And when she goes all out, she creates a single giant two-handed scythe with dual blades at both ends and covered along the shaft with smaller blades to swing with reckless abandon [[spoiler: while her [[SuperpoweredEvilSide werewolf form]] has literal scythes for claws.]]

* ''Film/ChildrenOfTheCorn'': The Children 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]].

* There's a secret scythe that can appear as an EasterEgg in ''VideoGame/BendyAndTheInkMachine'' Chapter 5. Henry can use it to [[spoiler: kill a bunch of [[{{Mooks}} Searchers]] in the Administration area, including Sammy Lawrence]].

* Cronus' weapon of choice in ''WesternAnimation/ClassOfTheTitans''.

Scythes have [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_scythe been used as polearms before]] in real life, though this usually involved straightening the blade into something more like a large BladeOnAStick. But even keeping the blade perpendicular to the haft has its own benefits, such as being harder for the opponent to predict and building armor-piercing momentum in its swing, with the added bonus of being able to cut an opponent in half once you've impaled them. While farming scythes will only have the sharp edge on the inner curve, a war scythe will likely be sharp on both sides. Like its cousin the battle axe, don't be surprised if a fictional scythe is several times larger than anything you'd find in the real world.

** Other classes can get a frost-themed scythe from the seasonal {{bonus boss}} Ahune. Like the warlock scythe, it's also classified as a staff.

* In ''VideoGame/StandstillGirl'', two of the bosses are armed with scythes. One is a [[TheGrimReaper Grim Reaper]]-like Time Scar created from some of Alice's memories. The other is a BonusBoss that can be fought at the mental hospital: he's a former highly decorated soldier who's now consumed by melancholy and depression, and the scythe is his treasured weapon from the times of war. You defeating him (which is very difficult to achieve) actually breaks his scythe instead of killing him, impacting him enough to let the hospital's Shadeling doctors take care of him.

->''"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."''
-->-- '''Creator/TerryPratchett''', ''Literature/{{Mort}}''

* ''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...

* ''LightNovel/TrinityBlood'': [[CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass Abel Nightroad]], also known as Crusnik 02, wields an especially wicked, multi-bladed scythe. Made of his own blood.