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22	->'''Eithan Aurelius:''' He initiated an open attack against me in Serpent's Grave, and I was forced to take out ''the broom''.\
23	'''Emperor Naru Huan:''' I've never heard that expression. I assume you mean an actual broom.
24	-->-- ''Literature/CradleSeries''
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26	''All right, you primitive screwheads, [[Film/ArmyOfDarkness listen up. See this?]] ''This''... is my '''broomstick'''!''
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28	So our hero is weaponless and about to face a horde of {{Mooks}}. He desperately looks around for anything that he can use in a pinch. He grabs the first thing he can find -- a mop from the supply closet -- and goes to town, using it as one would a MartialArtsStaff.
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30	Note that the title need not be taken literally. Anything vaguely cylindrical and tall as the character wielded as an ImprovisedWeapon (for which this is a SubTrope) falls under this; broomsticks and mop handles are simply the most iconic. This is also a go-to weapon for [[AlmightyJanitor janitors]] and [[WitchClassic witches]], adding fight to their {{fl\|ying broomstick}}ight. Anyone who prefers this as their weapon of choice is an ImprobableWeaponUser. Theoretically, this can be TruthInTelevision.
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32	Removing the head, or simply attacking with the handle whenever it's a better weapon than the other end of the object, is optional based on the SlidingScaleOfSillinessVersusSeriousness.
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34	!!Examples:
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36	[[folder:Anime & Manga]]
37	* ''Anime/CowboyBebopKnockinOnHeavensDoor'': Spike infiltrates a chemical company [[JanitorImpersonationInfiltration disguised as a janitor]] (in another homage to Creator/BruceLee) and has to defend himself with a push-broom when detected by ActionGirl Electra. Not that he made it difficult, since he was using the broom to clean the walls for no reason.
38	* ''Manga/HighSchoolOfTheDead'': Rei starts out with one of these, being trained in combat with a spear, and learns the hard way early on that [[ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice impaling]] zombies with a broom handle [[RemovingTheHeadOrDestroyingTheBrain doesn't work]].
39	* ''Literature/KyoKaraMaoh'': Jennifer uses a broom in place of a fencing foil in the second season.
40	* ''Manga/MaidenRose'': A group of Luckenwalde students show up armed with brooms and buckets to haze Taki on his first day. By the time we see any action, it's Taki holding the broom and [[CurbStompBattle mopping the floor with his attackers]].
41	* ''Manga/NegimaMagisterNegiMagi'': The fight between Setsuna and Asuna in the TournamentArc features Setsuna wielding a push-broom against Asuna's PaperFanOfDoom, due to bladed weapons being verboten. Also, Setsuna and Asuna are in [[{{Meido}} maid outfits]] because they weren't as interesting, so Chao ordered them made cute.
42	** Earlier in the same arc, a minor character, Mei Sakura, wields a traditional broom as a magic weapon; unfortunately, she's up against Kotaro.
43	* ''Manga/RanmaOneHalf'': Ranma has used various things as quarter staffs such as a broom or a laundry pole.
44	* ''Manga/SchoolLive'': [[spoiler:Yuki]] comes across a zombie and is forced to kill it with a mop she's holding. It's a major part of her CharacterDevelopment as, until then, [[spoiler:she'd been oblivious to zombies even existing]].
45	* ''Manga/SlamDunk'': During the fight at the gym, one of the members of Mitsui's uses a mop to hit Rukawa in the head.
46	* In ''Manga/YamadaKunAndTheSevenWitches'', Miyamura and Noa show up armed with brooms when they [[TheCavalryArrivesLate arrive too late]] to fight Dark Takuma. It seems weird in Miyamura's case since he's otherwise a competent hand-to-hand fighter.
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50	* ''Franchise/{{Batman}}'': In ''Detective Comics'' #59, ComicBook/{{Batman}} confronts [[Characters/BatmanThePenguin the Penguin]] on board a riverboat. When the Penguin pulls [[SwordCane a sword from his umbrella]], Batman grabs a mop to defend himself. The Penguin cuts through the mop handle, and Batman slaps him in the face with the mop end.
51	* ''ComicBook/{{Daredevil}}'': Matt Murdock and his sensei Stick will use anything at hand as a staff or club, whole or broken.
52	* ''ComicBook/{{Empowered}}'': The weapon of choice for Maid Man. Fitting for a superhero dressed like a maid.
53	* ''ComicBook/HexWives'': In 2005, Isadora killed the Head Architect by stabbing him with a broomstick.
54	* In ''ComicBook/KajkoIKokosz'', a Polish comic, Kokosz at one point uses a broom as a very effective weapon. However, a MagicFeather is involved, so he immediately starts losing once it falls apart, even though the handle alone would have been harder.
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57	[[folder:Fan Works]]
58	* In the Literature/{{Discworld}}, Air Watch witch Irena Politek is reduced to using her broomstick to fend off locals in the Discworld's analogue of West Africa, [[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/7135641/10/Let-s-bungle-in-the-jungle when seeking admission to the local centre of government]] [[note]]The gate guard are being creatively obstructive[[/note]] and assailed by locals who are really keen to know her bank account details, so as to gain her assistance (as a woman of probity and moral worth) [[FourOneNineScam who can assist with getting a large amount of money out of the country]]. As she shouts while using her broom as a quarterstaff, how the Hells can over a hundred people ''all'' be related to the same disgraced ex-Finance Minister?
59	* ''Fanfic/TheUltimateEvil'': Valerie Payne often ends up using a broom as a weapon, like in her first encounter with the Dark Hand Enforcers. When Valmont hears about how his henchmen were defeated by an average woman armed with a broom, he says that to be the final proof that the Enforcers are hopelessly incompetent. When they are later sent to retrieve the Sheep Talisman from Uncle's shop, Shendu tells them to watch out for brooms, adding with dark humor that Valerie might have killed them had she been armed with a mop.
60	* ''Fanfic/WonderfulMazinja'': One of the many devices Taylor ends up creating is the Wonder-Mop. Originally meant just be a more efficient mop for cleaning purposes, Taylor wasn't able to calibrate it correctly, causing it to make a hole in the floor. It eventually ends up as [[spoiler:Emma]]'s weapon as ''Wonder Star''.
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63	[[folder:Films -- Animation]]
64	* ''Anime/AdolescenceOfUtena'': Utena uses a broom with the head removed as a sword against Saionji.
65	* In ''WesternAnimation/TurningRed'', Mei and Ming brandish brooms at some teens who vandalize their temple with spray paint.
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68	[[folder:Films — Live-Action]]
69	%%* Often performed by Creator/JackieChan in his movies.
70	* ''Film/AmericanPsycho2AllAmericanGirl'': A janitor is found with a mop handle impaled through his head.
71	* ''Film/ComingToAmerica'' has Prince Akeem ([[ChekhovsSkill professionally trained from childhood in martial arts]]) do this with an unscrewable mop handle to ward off an armed robber played by Creator/SamuelLJackson.
72	* ''Film/DeathLine'': One of the cleaners attacks the cannibal with a broom. The cannibal then kills him by shoving the broomstick [[ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice through his chest]].
73	* ''Film/EasterBunnyKillKill'': A prostitute has a broom handle shoved down her throat.
74	* ''Film/GoWestYoungLady'': During the final battle against Killer Pete's gang, several of the women of Headstone are armed with brooms that they use to whack the outlaws.
75	* ''Film/{{Hobgoblins}}'': Nick teaches Kevin all about "hand-to-hand" combat using garden implements.
76	* ''Film/{{Machete}}'': Machete uses a mop to fight his way past Booth's goons following the faked assassination attempt on the senator.
77	* ''Film/TheMatrixReloaded'': Neo rips a metal post out of the ground (which is almost a case of TelephonePolearm) to use against the army of Smith clones in the Burly Brawl. The first shot has him using the block of concrete at the end as a hammer, but once that breaks he uses it as a quarterstaff.
78	* ''Film/MyBloodyValentine3D'': The miner murderer is momentarily fought off with a mop.
79	* ''Film/OutlawBrothers'' have the hero being attacked by a {{BFS}}-wielding villain in the final battle. Unarmed, he grabs a nearby broom and use it surprisingly well to kick ass, and defeats his opponent. '''Broom -- 1, BFS -- 0.'''
80	* ''Film/PromNight1980'': Wendy knocks the killer down with a broom (and lays on a couple of additional blows while he's done) when she escapes from an auto shop.
81	%%* ''Film/TheRaid2Berandal'': Used by the hero in a prison brawl.
82	* ''Film/{{Takers}}'': When the crooks he is buying plastic explosive off try to double cross him and take the money, AJ grabs a broom to defend himself and beats the crap out them.
83	* ''Film/{{Tamara}}'': When attacked in the basement, Allison grabs a shovel to defend herself. When Shawn snaps the head off the shovel, Allison is left holding the handle. She then uses the sharp end of the handle to stab him.
84	* ''Film/Terminator2JudgmentDay'': Sarah Connor uses a mop handle during her asylum escape attempt, until she gets a nightstick to replace it.
85	* ''Film/TheTexasChainsawMassacre1974'': When it is revealed that [[spoiler:the gas store attendant is one of the villains]], protagonist Sally quickly grabs a knife to defend herself. She is immediately disarmed and beaten unconscious with a broomstick (in an almost unrealistic fashion).
86	* ''Film/{{UHF}}'''s Stanley Spadowski is a simple man. All he wants to do is clean the floors, dig the prize out of the cereal box, and occasionally host an insanely popular kids variety show. But [[BerserkButton get between him and his mop]], and you are asking for problems.
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90	* ''Literature/CradleSeries'': Eithan, being a proud janitor, uses a broom when he gets serious. A broom forged in soulfire, making it strong enough to perfectly conduct [[{{Mana}} madra]] and knock people through mountains. In ''[[Literature/Reaper2021 Reaper]]'', this is revealed to be a preference he inherited from Ozmanthus, the original patriarch of the Aurelius family. Ozmanthus was so unspeakably good at killing things, but all he really wanted to do was clean up the world by destroying the dreadbeasts that were infesting it. So he intentionally downgraded his weapon to a broom.
91	* ''Literature/HeraldsOfValdemar'': In one of the ''Tarma and Kethry'' short stories, Tarma defends herself against an armed drunk with a broomstick because she wants to avoid doing permanent damage if possible. Unfortunately, the drunk ends up cracking his head against the fireplace and dying. Fortunately for them, the drunk in question was well known and highly unpopular. ''[[ButtMonkey Unfortunately]]'' for them he also ran the town and was the only one the thugs he used for "law enforcement" would heed, so his not-so-bereaved widow pays Tarma and Kethry off to lead them out of town.
92	* In ''[[Literature/MatthewHawkwood Rapscallion]]'', Matthew Hawkwood defends himself with a besom broom. Played far more seriously than most examples, as Hawkwood shoves the twig end of the broom in his foe's face, causing dozens of sharp twigs to snap off and embed themselves in his face. Ouch!
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96	* ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'': Any wooden object can become a stake, and Buffy often improvises in this manner to slay vampires, most notably when she massacres a vampire gang in "[[Recap/BuffyTheVampireSlayerS5E10IntoTheWoods Into the Woods]]". It's also PlayedForLaughs a few times, including when Cordelia picks up a spatula thinking she will use it as a weapon.
97	* ''Series/ElChavoDelOcho'': A broom seems to be the most recurring weapon of choice for the titular character, especially when he wants to give Quico a lesson (when not trying to punch the lights out of him).
98	* ''Series/DoctorWho'': In "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS31E6TheVampiresOfVenice The Vampires of Venice]]", Rory attempts to take on a swordsman armed only with a broom.
99	* ''Series/FawltyTowers'': In "The Psychiatrist", Mr Johnson smuggles a non-paying girl into his room. Basil suspects this, and when he thinks he has them cornered, he leaps out of a cupboard brandishing a broom, saying "Right! The game's up." Unfortunately, he has ambushed Doctor and Mrs Abbott instead, and covers by sweeping the floor and the wall, saying "a bit of ''game'' pie got stuck up there".
100	* ''Series/GrangeHill'': In series 2, the caretaker Mr Garfield catches Cathy, Madelin, Jackie and Brenda smoking behind the bike sheds. When they run off, Mr Garfield and his colleague block the girls' path with a broom.
101	* ''Series/KamenRiderDenO'': Ryotaro uses a nearby broom on a MonsterOfTheWeek when he's fighting for his life. The broom is quickly broken. Despite its short-lived appearance, the so-named "Rider Broom" remained in the fandom's memory throughout the year.
102	* ''Series/MissFishersMurderMysteries'': In "[[Recap/MissFishersMurderMysteriesS3E04BloodAndMoney Blood & Money]]", Phryne grabs a mop and uses it to fend off a man who attacks her with a bayonet.
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105	[[folder:Pro Wrestling]]
106	* In 2005, WWC booked Wrestling/BlackRose and La Bella Carmen in a [[GimmickMatches brooms match]].
107	* When La Intrusa and Polly Star [[VillainTeamUp got together]] and enlisted the help of a referee to take out Diana La Cazadora during a 2006 LLF show, she ended up using a broom to fight the three of them off.
108	* During one of Wrestling/{{TNA}}'s [[GirlsNightOutEpisode all knockout shows]], Wrestling/{{Jacqueline}} pulled out a broom on [[Wrestling/JessicaKresa ODB]], leading to the crowd singing "[[Wrestling/{{Tazz}} Sweep her up Jackie, sweep her up!]]"
109	* Wrestling/KennyOmega took up a broom as part of his "Cleaner" gimmick in Wrestling/BulletClub. He's going to "sweep" all the "trash" out of Wrestling/{{New Japan\|ProWrestling}}'s super junior ranks.
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112	[[folder:Video Games]]
113	* Brooms are weaponisable in the ''Franchise/AssassinsCreed'' series starting with ''VideoGame/AssassinsCreedII''. Taken to absurd levels in that same game when you find out that it's possible to slit someone's throat using the broom, with the same sound effects of a regular bladed weapon. There's an achievement for killing someone using a broom in ''VideoGame/AssassinsCreedBrotherhood'', in which it is used the same way as a hammer.
114	* In ''VideoGame/AtelierShallieAlchemistsOfTheDuskSea'', one of the two main characters, Shallotte, uses brooms as her weapons. This fits with both her job as a janitor, and her dream of having a FlyingBroomstick.
115	* ''VideoGame/BuffyTheVampireSlayer2002'': Stuck without a weapon? Look for a broom or a mop (or just kick a chair in half).
116	* In ''VideoGame/ChronoTrigger'', [[VideoGameStealing Charming]] a Nu gives you a Mop, which Crono can wield like a katana. [[JokeWeapon It's weaker than even his starting weapon]], but that just makes it all the more entertaining when, after two or three passes through NewGamePlus, you get strong enough that you can equip the Mop and ''still'' [[CurbStompBattle curb-stomp]] everything in the game.
117	* ''VideoGame/CityOfHeroes'': One of the weapon appearances for the [[MartialArtsStaff Staff Fighting]] powerset is a broom, leading to people making characters with names like "[[TheMafia Maid Man]]".
118	* ''VideoGame/ClunkyHero'': [[PlayerCharacter Rufus]]' starter weapon is his wife's broomstick.
119	* Yan from ''VideoGame/CrisisBeat'', who's working part-time as a cleaner on a luxury ship called The Princess when terrorists take it over. Escaping with her trusty broom, she spends the entire game using it to whack the asses of several dozen terrorist mooks, and can even defeat enemy bosses with it.
120	* ''VideoGame/CrisisCore'': [[OneManArmy Zack]] fights a bunch of armed soldiers on the beach... wearing only a bathing suit and armed with an umbrella. [[ImprobableWeaponUser He wins.]]
121	* ''VideoGame/DeadRising'', king of the ImprovisedWeapon trope in video games, includes a broom. After a few hits, the end breaks off and Frank uses it as a spear.
122	* ''VideoGame/DungeonSiege'': The first game starts with the hero having to do this with a pitchfork until he gets a real weapon from his enemies.
123	* ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyVII'': One of Cid's weapons is actually a mop (well, more like a push broom...). Other characters have similar weapons, which are rather powerful but lack materia slots, the best example being an umbrella for Aeris.
124	* ''VideoGame/JackieChanStuntmaster'' has players becoming Jackie himself and kicking ass with an assortment of weapons, one of them being brooms. The first boss fight (against a ChefOfIron) even ends with Chan using a broom like a hockey stick to send his defeated opponent out of the screen!
125	* The janitor from ''VideoGame/{{Kindergarten\|2017}}'' regularly uses the handle of his mop [[ICallItVera Mr. Sweepy]] to stab to death children who anger him (or in the case of Monty, near death).
126	* ''VideoGame/LegendOfMana'': Lisa uses her father's broomstick as her weapon of choice. Partly justified in that she uses it as a staff, which mostly have magic-related specials. That doesn't stop her from cracking skulls with that thing.
127	* ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaBreathOfTheWild'': One of the melee weapons is a Wooden Mop, found either around the villages and stables or being wielded by Bokoblins, which is used like a thrusting spear. Strangely, when swung around it always makes a wet sloshing sound as if it had just been dipped in a bucket for a cleaning job, even the ones the Bokoblins use.
128	* ''VideoGame/MaceTheDarkAge'' has a HiddenCharacter named Ned the Janitor. He's a reskin of Xiao Long and uses a pushbroom in place of Xiao's quarterstaff.
129	* ''VideoGame/{{Miitopia}}'': One of the Mages' weapons is a broom. They can even ''cast spells with it''.
130	%%* ''VideoGame/MrShifty'': One of the weapons.
131	* ''VideoGame/Persona1'': The default weapon for some party members is a mop. It's the only weapon that can be equipped by all characters. Justified, because they're all school students who got caught up in the apocalypse and have to contend with whatever the school can provide.
132	* ''VideoGame/PillarsOfEternityIIDeadfire'': A NerfArm is a broom whose enchantments are allegedly only to make sweeping easier, but counts as a superb unique weapon and can cause dazing, possibly even confusion on a hit.
133	* ''VideoGame/PrisonArchitect'': Clubs (large, two-handed melee weapons) are among the possible contraband items that prisoners can steal from the cleaning cupboard are.
134	* ''VideoGame/RemiLoreLostGirlInTheLandsOfLore'': [[PlayerCharacter Remi]]'s weapon in the game is the broom she's sweeping the library with at the start. It's surprisingly strong to be able to smash objects and MechaMooks.
135	* ''VideoGame/ResidentEvilOutbreak'': Push brooms are available as (very weak) weapons. There's also nondescript wooden poles and crutches available.
136	* ''VideoGame/RiverCityRansom EX'' features mops as one of the available types of {{Improvised Weapon}}s. The only way to acquire a mop is by fighting the Entrees gang (who, in addition to mops, use ladders as weapons).
137	* ''VideoGame/SakunaOfRiceAndRuin'': There's a broom that Sakuna can equip as a two-handed weapon. It at first seems to nothing but a JokeWeapon that only deals 1 point of damage per hit, but when combined with several items it instead becomes a LethalJokeWeapon that's one of the most powerful two-handed weapons in the game.
138	* ''VideoGame/SoulCalibur'' features a broom as Seong Mi-na's unlockable [[JokeItem joke weapon]].
139	* ''VideoGame/SpikeOut'' have some occasional mooks armed with scrubbing brushes, which they'll use as a weapon. Though if left idle, they'll actually ignore you and start scrubbing floors (until you approach them).
140	* ''VideoGame/TalesSeries'': The Deck Brush is a recurring weapon in the series, and varies wildly in how effective it is.
141	** ''VideoGame/TalesOfDestiny2'': It's a JokeItem to the fullest extent, and will make Loni botch his ultimate LimitBreak in an amusing fashion if you try to use it while he has it equipped.
142	** ''VideoGame/TalesOfSymphonia'': It's a LethalJokeItem for Raine Sage, being one of her strongest weapons.
143	** ''VideoGame/TalesOfVesperia'': It's a LethalJokeItem for Judith, and also gives her a trio of special sweeping attacks if she's wearing her maid costume.
144	* ''VideoGame/TatsunokoVsCapcom'': [[VideoGame/MegaManClassic Roll]] uses a broom as a weapon.
145	* ''VideoGame/ThyDungeonman II'': The titular Dungeonman gets only a mop as a weapon, being a janitor working in a dungeon.
146	* ''VideoGame/{{Troublemaker}}'' has Alan as the only boss who fights using a weapon, that being his trusty broom. In both his boss fights.
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150	* ''WebAnimation/DeadFantasy'': Tifa does this with a service jack, before removing the thick metal end.
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153	[[folder:Webcomics]]
154	* ''Webcomic/DeadWinter'': Lizzie's primary weapon of choice is a mop. Becoming proficient with it due to her days as a waitress, somehow.
155	%%* ''Webcomic/ElGoonishShive'': Subverted. Elliot (a martial artist, mind you) picks up a broom lying on the ground to defend himself... and swings it like a baseball bat.%%Why is that a subversion?
156	* ''Webcomic/GirlGenius'': When Agatha and Tarvek [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20061020 get cornered]] by Vrin the sword-wielding Geisterdamen warrior-priestess, Tarvek tries without success to use a broom as a weapon; Agatha has better luck because commands issued in her voice trigger just enough of an involuntary reaction in Vrin to slow her down.
157	* ''Webcomic/{{Homestuck}}'': The nigh-omnipotent Doc Scratch uses a broom to smack around his "guest", a young girl. Later on, this same broom is used by [[AuthorAvatar Andrew Hussie]] himself to give Doc Scratch a senseless drubbing.
158	* ''Webcomic/NeverSatisfied'': [[NoNameGiven Broom Girl]] has carried a broomstick around since [[Recap/NeverSatisfiedChapterOne chapter one]], though she mainly uses it as [[FlyingBroomstick transportation]]. In the fifth round, she uses it as a weapon.
159	* ''Webcomic/TheOrderOfTheStick'': In [[http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0234.html one strip]], Roy considers using a broom handle as an improvised quarterstaff when deprived of more conventional weapons.
160	* ''Webcomic/PennyArcade'': The [[NerfArm Cardboard Tube]] Samurai -- except it's not an ImprovisedWeapon, it's his [[WeaponSpecialization weapon of choice]].
161	* ''Webcomic/{{Sinfest}}'': Nana [[http://www.sinfest.net/view.php?date=2012-09-09 scares off a couple of demonic bullies with her broom]], then goes back to using it to tidy up the coffee shop.
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165	* ''WesternAnimation/TheAdventuresOfJimmyNeutronBoyGenius'': One episode uses this in a fight between Jimmy's mother and a robot duplicate of her: After pulling out the broom, mop, and rake, and having each one snapped in half by the robot, she reveals that she keeps a [[{{BFG}} plasma rifle]] in her broom closet [[CrazyPrepared "for those tough, ground-in stains"]]. (Considering her son's experiments, a wise precaution...)
166	* ''WesternAnimation/AmericanDad'': In "Stan Knows Best", a stripper in a FrenchMaidOutfit uses a broom with a retractable blade in the handle.
167	* ''WesternAnimation/TheBoondocks'': Huey snaps the head of a broom off with a kick and uses the handle to subdue the theater security, but he doesn't fare as well against Uncle Ruckus's unforeseen nunchaku expertise.
168	* ''WesternAnimation/JackieChanAdventures'': In the first episode, Jackie is able to fend off the Dark Hand's Enforcers using a pair of windshield wipers, much to their boss's disappointment.
169	-->'''Valmont:''' [[LetMeGetThisStraight You mean to tell me]] that three of my best enforcers, armed with cutting edge high tech weaponry, were defeated by an ''{{a\|dventureArchaeologist}}rchaeologist''?\
170	[''Main/{{Beat}}'']\
171	'''Finn:''' Did we mention he had [[ImprovisedWeapon windshield wipers?]]
172	* ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'': In the Season 4 DVD menu, Marge uses a mop like a bo-staff.
173	* ''WesternAnimation/SupermanTheAnimatedSeries'': Subverted when Superman faces off with Parasite, who is able to [[PowerCopying copy powers by stealing them from their owners]]. He stole most of Superman's powers, as well as those of [[ShockAndAwe Livewire's]]. Superman bravely waves a mop in his face, and Parasite answers by using electricity to set it alight. Superman, unimpressed, raises the burning mop... [[OutGambitted next to a fire detector]], causing the sprinklers to activate, as being immersed in water [[WeaksauceWeakness causes Livewire's powers to act up]].
174	* ''WesternAnimation/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles2003'': When the turtles are held captive on an alien prison asteroid, they find a broom closet and get replacements for all of their weapons from the tools inside it.
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178	* An eighty-two year old woman, Willie Murphy, used a broom as a weapon against an intruder in November 2019 in Rochester, New York. Murphy, a regular weightlifter who can deadlift 225 pounds, started her defense with a table and a full bottle of shampoo before going at him with the broom.
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