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| 11 | [[caption-width-right:299:[[VideoGame/ShovelKnight STEEL THY SHOVEL]] [[Music/BrentalFloss AND FIGHT]]!]] |
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| 13 | ->''"Lucille, God gave me a gift. I shovel well. I shovel'' very ''well."'' |
| 14 | -->-- '''The Shoveler''', ''Film/MysteryMen'' |
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| 16 | A SubTrope of ImprovisedWeapon and closely related to the PowerfulPick, shovels are primarily used for excavation but can instantly become a weapon if the need arises. The handle gives the weapon a good reach while the head provides a weight allowing it to function as an oddly-shaped [[CarryABigStick mace]]. With proper sharpening of the blade, the shovel can even work as an oddly-balanced polearm. Especially dexterous individuals can even use the flat of the shovel as a shield, which can be quite comedic if the blocked blow was a punch. |
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| 18 | Can either be used as an easy way to render an enemy unconscious or as a lethal weapon depending on the user and media. Not to mention, it carries the advantage of being something inconspicuous in any home and useful if you need to [[DisposingOfABody get rid of a body.]] Indeed, if a gravedigger is presented as a combatant, he usually uses a shovel this way. |
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| 20 | TruthInTelevision: after studying the infantry dynamics of the World Wars, most modern military forces have been giving their entrenching tools a semi-sharp tool edge that can easily be honed further before a battle to increase its cutting power. Plus, it takes training to become proficient with bayonet, knife or sword combat -- but practically everyone on Earth [[BoringButPractical have used shovels sometime in their lives]]. In the bloody house-to-house fighting in the WWII Battle of Stalingrad, the entrenching shovel was often used in close quarters combat. |
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| 22 | It is also frequently used as a RealLife EmergencyWeapon against dangerous animals, since it can provide good reach and hitting power and a surprisingly effective cutting edge, making it an effective axe[=/=]spear hybrid. |
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| 25 | !!Examples: |
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| 27 | [[foldercontrol]] |
| 28 | |
| 29 | [[folder:Anime & Manga]] |
| 30 | * In ''Literature/ACertainMagicalIndex'', Touma Kamijou [[AHandfulForAnEye throws a shovel full of dust onto Etzali to blind him]], then at one point throws said shovel towards him. |
| 31 | * In ''Manga/DeliciousInDungeon'', Senshi takes down three earth golems using a shovel. Appropriate since he was using them as gardens for growing vegetables! |
| 32 | * ''Manga/GTOTheEarlyYears'': |
| 33 | ** After being forced to [[spoiler:betray his friends]], [[TheDogBitesBack Makoto]] hits [[spoiler:Saejima]] in the head with a shovel. |
| 34 | ** [[AxCrazy Joey]] swings a shovel at Eikichi's head, but misses. |
| 35 | * Leaky-Eye Luka uses a shovel as his weapon of choice in the ''[[Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventureGoldenWind Golden Wind]]'' segment of ''Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventure''. [[spoiler: He winds up hurting ''himself'' when he [[LaserGuidedKarma tries to slam a frog with it.]] Reason? The frog was a creation of Gold Experience--meaning that any injuries it would have suffered are instead sustained by the attacker...]] |
| 36 | ** In [[Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventureJojolion Part 8]], the main protagonist uses a shovel to fend off a zombiefied woman in order to prevent himself from being infected by the enemy stand. |
| 37 | * ''Manga/{{MAR}}'' designated [[GreenThumb plant user]] Jack wields the Battle Scoop as his main weapon, given to him by his father, who, like Jack, was a farmer. |
| 38 | * In ''Anime/MobileSuitGundamAGE'', the Mobile Worker Desperado has a heat shovel, which is a mecha-sized shovel with a heat-induced tip used for digging. It uses its shovel to great effect when one unit gets caught up against a group of Vagan Mobile Suits. It should be noted that it did ''a lot better'' than its "[[{{Sucksessor}} successor]]" the Genoace, who doesn't get ''any kills'' until they mass-produce the AGE-1's DODS Rifle. |
| 39 | * Aizawa Nagisa in ''Manga/MyMonsterSecret'' uses a "[[InsistentTerminology sleep induction device]]" as her close-quarters weapon of choice. In a later chapter, she gets in a shovel duel with [[spoiler:her future self]], who is capable of using her own shovel to slice Aizawa's in half. |
| 40 | * Dalton in ''Manga/OnePiece'' wields a large weapon that can only be described as a "Battle Shovel": that means the handle of a shovel and a large, flat blade similar to a sword. |
| 41 | ** In the 4Kids version, Bellemere also infamously used a shovel instead of a shotgun to threaten Arlong during Nami's flashback in the Arlong arc. |
| 42 | * ''Manga/{{Oyaji}}'' used a shovel to annihilate the yakuza that tried to burn his home down, with him and his family inside, the thugs are reduced to crying and screaming in fear of such an insane display of strength as they get killed. |
| 43 | * ''Manga/PumpkinScissors'' is set shortly after a FantasyConflictCounterpart of UsefulNotes/WorldWarI, and one of the heroes scares some would-be terrorists into backing down by mentioning that shovels (like the one he's holding) killed more people in the trenches than guns or knives did. |
| 44 | * Chiri Kitsu of ''Manga/SayonaraZetsubouSensei'' uses a shovel as one of her preferred ways of inflicting violence (although she sometimes goes for knives instead). She also uses it to bury her kills, and "to bury" is one implication of her MeaningfulName. |
| 45 | * Kurumi of ''Manga/SchoolLive'' uses a shovel [[spoiler: to fend off the zombies.]] |
| 46 | * Shovels are both the magical tools and weapons of choice for Gravekeepers in ''Literature/SundayWithoutGod''. |
| 47 | * ''Literature/TrappedInADatingSimTheWorldOfOtomeGamesIsToughForMobs'': Leon's mecha Arroganz includes a shovel among its armaments. The first time it appeared was during the duel between Leon and the five idiots, when Leon requested the sword and Luxion gave him the shovel instead. Naturally, it brought the laughs of everyone watching the duel, [[CurbStompBattle until he proceeded to trash his opponents' mechas with it]]. |
| 48 | [[/folder]] |
| 49 | |
| 50 | [[folder:Comic Books]] |
| 51 | * In ''[[ComicBook/BatmanTeenageMutantNinjaTurtles Batman[=/=]TMNT Adventures]]'', the Scarecrow takes Batman down with a shovel to the side of the head after Batman gets a lungful of the Scarecrow's fear gas. |
| 52 | * In a story set during ''ComicBook/TheCloneSaga'', a mercenary villain called the Pro forced Peter (who was suffering from a temporary loss of his powers) to unearth the skeleton of another clone (long story) and specifically warned him not to try this against him. However, when he got what he wanted, Ben Reilly (who was currently Spider-Man) jumped in, and after a free-for-all battle with a mob of other third-rate villains, the Pro was the only one left standing, pointing a gun at the now-exhausted Ben... [[BrickJoke At which point Peter let him have it with the shovel from behind]], who then said, "I've been waiting for that all day, pal..." |
| 53 | * ''ComicBook/CodeNameGravedigger'': In keeping with is background (he was formerly stuck on permanent graves detail) and code name, Captain Ulysses Hazard carries a shovel with him on missions, and it sees plenty of service as a weapon. |
| 54 | * ''ComicBook/TheFinalPlague'': Helen uses a shovel to crush an [[RaisingTheSteaks undead rat]]. It's still twitching a bit after that. |
| 55 | * ComicBook/TheGoon uses one as his weapon of choice against zombies. |
| 56 | * Bobby Brunswick, the first ''ComicBook/HackSlash'' villain, used a shovel as his main weapon. |
| 57 | ** In ''Entry Wound'', Vlad attempts to take down the Candlemas Killer with a shovel. He fails. |
| 58 | * One character in ''ComicBook/HalloweenNightdance'' is killed when he is surprised from behind with two blows from a shovel, which are then followed by a third one that finishes him off. |
| 59 | * Piledriver of the Creator/MarvelComics' villain team Wrecking Crew had a son who ran with the group at one point -- Excavator. Excavator's weapon of choice was a long shovel complete with a handle at the end. |
| 60 | * Roderick "Digger" Krupp used a shovel as a weapon after he stopped being a HorrorHost for [[Creator/MarvelComics Marvel's]] horror comics, and became a villain. |
| 61 | * To quote Elsa Bloodstone of ''ComicBook/{{Nextwave}}'': |
| 62 | -->"I've got two Uzis and a shovel. Which, I suppose, means I can shoot things and bury them afterwards".\ |
| 63 | A short time later she's attacked by a bunch of samurai robots. |
| 64 | -->"Samurai robots beat guns. No question. So it's just me and a shovel." *Badass pose* "Rock." |
| 65 | * Frank Castle, in the final issue of ''ComicBook/ThePunisherBorn'', uses a sharpened shovel to brain a soldier trying to get payback on Goodwin for disrupting his drug business, as well as using it to deadly effect [[spoiler:when he is the last man standing against the NVA overrunning Valley Forge]]. |
| 66 | * ''ComicBook/WeKillMonsters'': When Jake is attacked by a monster in Issue #1, Andrew saves him by driving a shovel blade into the creature's skull. |
| 67 | [[/folder]] |
| 68 | |
| 69 | [[folder:Fairy Tales]] |
| 70 | * In "Literature/LittleOtik", an old farmer uses a hoe to kill the titular monster by ripping its belly open. |
| 71 | [[/folder]] |
| 72 | |
| 73 | [[folder:Fan Works]] |
| 74 | * In the ''Literature/{{Discworld}}'', the Assassins' Guild School teaches a strictly optional module in Unorthodox Combat Techniques, stressing that it deals with ungentlemanly and certainly unladylike techniques of grappling, brawling, and proletarian street fighting. It is taught by somebody who has lots of combat experience and who has never claimed to be a lady. Whilst unarmed combat that makes ''krav maga'' look like a playground slap-fight is taught, the instructress asserts that Rule One of unarmed combat is what it always was - ''first make sure you find a weapon.'' And that anything will serve if handled correctly. The Guild School's botany teacher has indeed used rakes, trowels, a specially sharpened dibbler - ''and a spade'' - as her combat weapons of first choice. As she points out, she teaches ''gardening - for Assassins''. |
| 75 | * In ''Fanfic/{{DNMC}}'', Nara swings a shovel around that [[MixAndMatchWeapon doubles]] as a grenade launcher. |
| 76 | * ''Fanfic/ShadowsOverMeridian'': After Amelia loses her sword in the [[spoiler:crystal mines]], she ends up using a shovel to fight off a Ninja Khan. |
| 77 | [[/folder]] |
| 78 | |
| 79 | [[folder:Film — Animated]] |
| 80 | * Happens offscreen in ''WesternAnimation/TheAddamsFamily2019''. Wednesday has tricked Pugsley into [[DigYourOwnGrave digging his own grave]], and she's about to push him in when a red balloon floats by and momentarily distracts them. As the camera leaves them to follow the balloon, a loud "Thunk!" sound is heard. |
| 81 | * At the end of ''WesternAnimation/MonstersInc1'', [[spoiler:Randall is beaten with a shovel offscreen.]] |
| 82 | -->'''Trailer Son''': Mama, another gator got in the house!\ |
| 83 | '''Trailer Mom''': Another gator? Gimme that shovel! |
| 84 | [[/folder]] |
| 85 | |
| 86 | [[folder:Film — Live-Action]] |
| 87 | * ''Film/TwentyTwoBullets'': The mook who [[EvenEvilHasStandards balks at murdering Charly's young son]] hits Pascal—the one who gave him the order—over the back of the head with the shovel he was sent to fetch. |
| 88 | * In ''Film/ThreeTenToYuma2007'', Doc Potter does this to a prospector and then enthusiastically declares "Did you see me hit that guy with the shovel?" |
| 89 | * ''Film/FiveCardStud'': During their fight in the graveyard, Nick grabs the shovel that had been used to dig Mace's grave and hits Van with it. |
| 90 | * ''Film/TheABCsOfDeath'': In "H is for Hydroelectric Diffusion", when Bertie starts getting the upper hand, Frau Scheisse pulls a shovel off the side of the control unit and attempts to clobber him. |
| 91 | * ''Film/ActOfVengeance'': During the final fight in the zoo, Linda uses a shovel to knock Jack down and then beat him to death with it. |
| 92 | * ''Film/AllQuietOnTheWesternFront1930'' is set in the trenches of WWI. Kat, Paul's mentor tells him not to use a knife during trench raids since they often get stuck; in the time it takes to kick the enemy hard enough to free the knife he'd be dead. He is told to instead use a sharpened entrenching tool between neck and shoulder: faster, cleaner and safer for him. TruthInTelevision, disturbingly enough. The famous scene of the French attack on the German trench shows many soldiers swinging shovels. |
| 93 | ** The [[Film/AllQuietOnTheWesternFront2022 2022 film adaptation]] has a disturbing trench warfare scene where Paul goes diving into an enemy trench and attacks a French soldier with a sharpened shovel. |
| 94 | * ''ComicBook/BadKidsGoToHell'': [[spoiler:Dr. Day]] smacks Tarvek with a shovel when he [[AirVentPassageway emerges from the vents]]. |
| 95 | * Albert Dupontel's ''Bernie'': the mother "rescue" [[http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xo3id_bernie-la-pelle-a-casse-quelquechos_shortfilms scene]]. |
| 96 | * ''Film/BillyClub2013'': Alison knocks Billy unconscious with a shovel to the head. |
| 97 | * ''Film/BlazingSaddles'': Taggart gets clobbered by a shovel-wielding Bart near the beginning of the movie. |
| 98 | -->'''Taggart:''' Send a wire to the main office, and tell them I said... [CLONG] OW!\ |
| 99 | '''Lyle:''' "Send wire, main office, [[RepeatAfterMe tell them I said 'ow'.]]" Gotcha! |
| 100 | * In the climax of ''Film/BloodDiamond'', [[spoiler: Captain Poison]] gets brutally beaten to death with a shovel by [[spoiler: PapaWolf Solomon Vandy]]. It says something about the BlackAndGrayMorality of the film that administering a lethal NoHoldsBarredBeatdown with a shovel is a SugarWiki/MomentOfAwesome rather than a MoralEventHorizon. |
| 101 | * In ''Film/BloodyReunion'', Myung-Ho knocks Mi-Ja out by hitting her in the head with a shovel before he drags Mrs Park into the basement and attempts to [[ManOnFire set her on fire]]. |
| 102 | * ''Film/{{Boar}}'': During the fight at the shed, Bernie attempts to attack the boar with a shovel. This is not successful. |
| 103 | * When Gray the grave robber in ''Film/TheBodySnatcher'' comes across a barking dog that threatens to give him away during a night trip to the cemetery, he silences it with his shovel. |
| 104 | * During the climax of ''Film/BrideOfChucky'', Tiffany and Chucky each grab a shovel and fight each other. |
| 105 | * ''Film/{{The Bunker|2001}}'': During the final between Schenke and Baumann, Heydrich intervenes by hitting Schenke over the head with an entrenching tool. This ends badly for Heydrich, but does allow Baumann to escape. |
| 106 | * In ''Film/TheCabinInTheWoods'', one of the Zombie Redneck Torture Family uses a trowel as a weapon... and has it used against him. |
| 107 | -->Yeah, uh, I had to dismember that guy with a trowel. What have you been up to? |
| 108 | * In ''Film/CarryOnBehind'', Clive uses a shovel to hit a loudspeaker broadcasting unwelcome announcements from Major Leep throughout the caravan site, causing an explosion at the speaker, and in Major Leep's office. |
| 109 | * In ''Film/CemeteryMan'', zombies can only be destroyed by splitting their skulls. Over the course of the film, several zombies have their skulls cleaved by the gravedigger's shovel. |
| 110 | * ''Film/ClownKill'': [[MonsterClown Charlie Boy]] kills the boss in the office building by hitting him in the head with a shovel. He continues to do so even after the boss is already dead until his head is crushed completely. |
| 111 | * In ''Film/ColdComesTheNight'', Chloe carries a snow shovel around the motel when she anticipates trouble. |
| 112 | * In the Creator/JohnWayne film ''Film/TheCommancheros'', Texas Ranger Jake Cutter (Wayne) gets clocked with a shovel by "Monsoor" Paul Regret (Stuart Whitman) during an escape attempt. |
| 113 | * During the climax of ''Film/CrimsonPeak'', [[spoiler:Edith proves to be no match for her murderous sister-in-law Lucille during their confrontation while both are armed with more conventional deadly weapons, (Edith has a knife, while Lucille is wielding a large cleaver that she's used for murder before) but Edith has better luck when she grabs a shovel as an ImprovisedWeapon. [[DoubleTap Two blows to the head]] and Lucille is dead.]] |
| 114 | * In the made-for-TV movie ''Film/DarkNightOfTheScarecrow'', small-town bully Otis and his cronies dish out vigilante justice to a retarded GentleGiant who turns out to be innocent - the posse later start dying horribly one by one. When Otis's last friend freaks out and is ready to turn himself in, Otis soothes him -- and then brains him with a shovel from behind. |
| 115 | * ''Film/DeadAgainInTombstone'': After digging up the fake box, Guerrero uses the shovel to knock down the soldier guarding him before smashing his head with the box. |
| 116 | * ''Film/ADeadlySecret'' has a shovel-vs-sword fight when the hero, unarmed in the middle of a graveyard, uses a shovel as an impromptu weapon against the main villain. |
| 117 | * In ''Film/DeathLine'', the 'Man' buries a shovel halfway down the skull of own of the cleaners on Russell Square Station. |
| 118 | * ''Film/{{Deewaar}}'': When the racketeers fight Vijay, one of them uses a shovel as a weapon. When Vijay gets his hands on it and starts using it himself, they're quickly [[CurbStompBattle curb-stomped]]. |
| 119 | * In ''Film/DisturbingThePeace'', Matt knocks out the biker set up in a sniper position opposite the bank by hitting him with a shovel. |
| 120 | * ''Film/DontBreathe'': The Blind Man attempts to kill Alex with a shovel during the fight in the laundry. |
| 121 | * Ash, the hero of ''Film/TheEvilDead1981'', takes a mighty swipe at his possessed girlfriend, Linda, with a shovel and manages to knock her head clean off. |
| 122 | * In ''Film/Firestorm1998'', Shaye's fellow escapees use shovels to knock out the guards when they escape from the fire crew. |
| 123 | * At the start of ''Film/FistOfFury'', Creator/BruceLee's character is mad with grief after arriving late to his teacher's funeral and starts desperately trying to dig up the coffin. The officiating priest subdues him with a shovel to the head. |
| 124 | * At the start of ''Film/FrankensteinAndTheMonsterFromHell'', the bodysnatcher (played by Creator/PatrickTroughton) is stealing a body from a grave when his surprised by the local police sergeant. He throws his shovel at the sergeant, knocking him into the open grave. |
| 125 | * ''Franchise/FridayThe13th'' |
| 126 | ** Chris in ''Film/FridayThe13thPartIII'' knocks Jason out by hitting him the back of his head with a shovel. She then tries to kill him for good by hanging him, which fails. |
| 127 | ** After Jason's unexpected resurrection in ''Film/FridayThe13thPartVIJasonLives'', Tommy's buddy Hawes attacks him with a shovel, which doesn't faze Jason at all since he is now a revenant who feels no pain. |
| 128 | ** Jason [[NoSell no sells]] another shovel strike in ''Film/JasonGoesToHellTheFinalFriday'' after he manages to regain his body. |
| 129 | * Two grave diggers in ''Film/GirlsNiteOut'' are ambushed by the killer, who offs them with repeated slams and stabs from one of their shovels. They are then buried in the grave they had dug moments before. |
| 130 | * ''Film/GrandmothersHouse'': When the grandparents have the woman in the blue dress unconscious at their feet, the grandfather smacks her a couple times with a shovel. |
| 131 | * In ''Film/HellsHighway'', Lucinda kills the preacher by splitting his head in half with the shovel he used to bury her. |
| 132 | * ''Film/{{Hitchcock}}'' opens with SerialKiller Ed Gein beginning his life of crime by whacking his brother over the head with a shovel. |
| 133 | * ''Film/HitchhikerMassacre'': The killer knocks [[TheProtagonist Sally]] unconscious with a shovel [[spoiler:near the end so he can recapture her]]. |
| 134 | * In ''Film/{{Holes}}'', Zero hits Mr. Pendanski in the face with a shovel. |
| 135 | * In ''Film/HomeAlone1'', when the burglars finally catch Kevin, [[MisunderstoodLonerWithAHeartOfGold Old Man Marley]] saves him by beating them senseless with his snow shovel. |
| 136 | * ''Film/{{Horrific}}'': In ''Masters of Death'', Roz kills Len with a shovel in the graveyard. Later, the resurrected Len uses the same shovel to beat her to death. |
| 137 | * In the obscure Taiwanese king fu film ''Film/AnInsanityBeing'', the movie climaxed with a lengthy shovel fight, where the protagonist and mooks fight using shovels in place where swords would normally be featured. |
| 138 | * ''Film/KeepingMum'': Grace murders Lance in this way. |
| 139 | * At the end of ''Film/KillerWorkout'', [[spoiler:Lt. Morgan]] is planning to execute [[spoiler:Rhonda]] and bury her body. However, while he is monologue-ing, she grabs the shovel and hits him with it. |
| 140 | * In ''Film/TheLastRitesOfRansomPride'', Champ is checking the barn when he sees the silhouettes of the Bruja's men sneaking through the house. He grabs a shovel and sneaks in to rescue Juliette; using the shovel to knock out Shep. |
| 141 | * A gardener gets his head smashed in with his own shovel in ''Film/LasVegasBloodbath''. |
| 142 | * During a brief scene about 20 minutes into ''Film/TheLegendOfZorro '', Catherine Zeta-Jones' character attempts to fend off some attackers with a shovel. |
| 143 | * ''Film/TheLocals'': After being pushed into [[spoiler:Bill's]] grave, Grant grabs the shovel used to open it and smashes [[spoiler:Bill's skull]]. |
| 144 | * In ''Film/TheLoneRanger'' when Tonto is about to finish off Butch, Reid knocks him out with a shovel to do things by the book and let the court handle things. |
| 145 | * ''Film/MainStreetMeats'': When Neddy corners his third victim, he stabs him through the face with his own shovel. |
| 146 | * ''Film/TheManWhoCameBack'': When Delbert attacks Paxton with an axe at Caleb's place, Paxton grabs a shovel to defend himself. After knocking he axe out of Delbert's hand, Paxton kills him with a shovel strike to the head. |
| 147 | * In ''Film/MotorcycleGang'', the heroine's [[UsefulNotes/WorldWarII WW2]] [[PapaWolf veteran father]] sharpens the edge of his trench shovel and uses it to kill several of the gang who kidnapped her. |
| 148 | * Shovels appear prominently in ''Film/MyBloodyValentine'' and [[Film/MyBloodyValentine3D its remake]], with TheRemake featuring a girl getting beheaded at the jawline with one. |
| 149 | * ''Film/MyLittleSister'': When the Little Sister has Tom and Sheila as his prisoners, Sheila knocks the Little Sister unconscious with a shovel to the back of his head. |
| 150 | * ''Film/MysteryMen'': The Shoveler. He hits people with shovels. He hits people with shovels ''very'' well. He also has a smaller trowel in case he gets disarmed. In the original comic, he used a magical singing shovel. |
| 151 | * A groundskeeper gets his head whacked off with a shovel in the first ''Film/{{Nekromantik}}''. |
| 152 | * In ''Film/NightworldLostSouls'', [[spoiler:Graham Scofield]] attempts to knock Victor out with a shovel. Victor grabs the shovel and pushes him against the wall. |
| 153 | * ''Film/{{Pet Sematary|2019}}'': During the fight in the Pet Sematary, Louis attempts to behead Ellie with a shovel. |
| 154 | * At the end of ''Film/PsychoII'', [[spoiler: Norman casually brains Mrs. Spool with his shovel.]] |
| 155 | * In ''Film/{{Purgatory}}'', Lefty stabs a bandit with his shovel. |
| 156 | * In ''Film/ReAnimator'', [[spoiler: Herbert kills and beheads Dr. Hill with a shovel after Hill threatens to steal Herbert's work.]] |
| 157 | * In the third film of ''Film/TheSantaClause'', Jack Frost hits Scott Calvin with the latter's snow shovel after the Escape Clause is invoked so that Jack can become Santa. |
| 158 | * ''Film/ShaunOfTheDead'': Ed uses one. |
| 159 | * ''Film/StarshipTroopers3Marauder'': After a propaganda segment extolling the virtues of the humble shovel in the war against the bugs, a bug bomb goes off in the trench they're digging and one poor grunt gets [[HoistByHisOwnPetard impaled by a flying shovel]]. |
| 160 | * The eponymous villain of ''[[Film/TheStepfather Stepfather III]]'' beats and stabs a man to death with a shovel, in a particularly gory instance of this trope. |
| 161 | * ''Film/{{Tamara}}'': When Allison is attacked by Shawn in the basement, she grabs a shovel to defends herself. When Shawn snaps the head off it, she uses the handle as BroomstickQuarterstaff. |
| 162 | * During the climax of ''Film/TerrorTrain'', [[spoiler:the conductor hits Kenny twice a shovel, knocking him out of the car, where he falls off a bridge and into the frozen river]]. |
| 163 | * ''Film/ThatManFromRio'': Adrian faces off against a huge mook, trying to smack him with a shovel -- but the mook easily dodges it before grabbing it and snapping it in two. |
| 164 | * In ''Film/TigerHouse'', [[spoiler:Mark's stepfather]] hits Kelly over the head from behind with a shovel when she is about to kill Callum. |
| 165 | * ''Film/TimberFalls'': When Ida is trying to wrestle with Mike on the floor of the cellar, Sheryl picks up the shovel Ida had dropped earlier and brains her with it. |
| 166 | * ''Film/TortureGarden'': In "Enoch", the cat commands Colin to kill Nurse Parker. After she discovers the headless body of the tramp, Colin kills her with a shovel. |
| 167 | * ''Film/TrickRTreat'': When Wilkins realises the body he is burying is NotQuiteDead, he pounds it several times with his shovel to finish the job. All the while, he is trying not to attract Mr. Kreeg's attention. |
| 168 | * In one of the endings of ''Film/UnfriendedDarkWeb'', [[spoiler:Matias is knocked unconscious with a shovel before being BuriedAlive]]. |
| 169 | * ''Film/VForVendetta'': A montage showing the Norsefire regime beginning to collapse has a [[SecretPolice Fingerman]] shoot a preteen girl dead for graffitiing V's symbol. He then gets surrounded by angry townsfolk who couldn't care less about his badge and gun. Cue GoryDiscretionShot as one particularly burly man swings a shovel at his head. |
| 170 | * Karl, Jr. stabs a girl in the face with a shovel in ''Film/ViolentShit II: Mother Hold My Hand''. |
| 171 | * ''Film/WerewolvesWithin'': Emerson shows up to save [[spoiler:Finn from Werewolf Cecily]] by striking [[spoiler:her]] in the back of the head with a shovel. |
| 172 | * ''Film/{{Whiteout}}'': When Carrie catches up with the murderer after he has killed Rubin, she brings him down with a blow from a shovel, and then hits him several times while he is on the ground for good measure. |
| 173 | * During the final battle of ''Film/WildWildWest'', Jim faces a man who does a number of flashy martial arts moves and [[IKnowKarate brags that he learned them from a Chinaman]]. Jim knocks the man out with a shovel to the face and counters that he just made that up. |
| 174 | * When the junkies try to flee out the backdoor of trailer in ''Film/WindRiver'', Cory stops them by slamming them in the face with a snow shovel. |
| 175 | * In ''Film/YouMightBeTheKiller'', one of the counselors, Jaime, ends up with a shovel as her improvised weapon of choice. |
| 176 | [[/folder]] |
| 177 | |
| 178 | [[folder:Literature]] |
| 179 | * ''Literature/TheAdventuresOfTomSawyer'': The GraveRobbing scene, where Dr. Robinson strikes Muff Potter with a shovel. |
| 180 | * ''Literature/AllQuietOnTheWesternFront'': It's stated that veterans of both sides preferred sharpened entrenching spades as close-quarters weapons over their bayonets because bayonets tended to get stuck in the enemy, leaving you vulnerable to follow-up attacks. This is based on actual accounts. |
| 181 | * ''Literature/CHERUBSeries'': Lauren Adams becomes legendary among CHERUB agents for knocking out the [[SadistTeacher notoriously sadistic]] training instructor Mr. Large with a shovel. ''Twice.'' |
| 182 | * In ''Literature/CodexAlera'', a young Knight Terra (really, really strong when he needs to be) prefers using his shovel over a heavy mace because he grew up on a farm and that's what he knows. He even sharpens the edge and lines it with salt to take out wind furies. |
| 183 | ** It was a spade, and he insists it to be called so. |
| 184 | * ''Literature/TheCrownerJohnMysteries'': In ''Crowner's Quest'', John and Gwyn get the drop on a group of men; two of whom are in a hole. One of the men in the hole uses his shovel to knock Gwyn's legs out from under him. He then spends the rest of the fight trying to kill Gwyn with the shovel. |
| 185 | * ''Literature/{{Discworld}}'': In ''Literature/RaisingSteam'', Lord Vetinari assumes an alias to take part in a short, bitter, war. He may have encountered the Assassins' School's unorthodox combat tutor, or at the least read her course syllabus, as he poses as a railway stoker and wields a shovel to deadly effect. |
| 186 | * In ''{{Literature/Dracula}}'', Jonathan Harker strikes the Count with a workman's shovel while he is in his coffin. This proves ineffective at slaying the vampire, merely creating a large scar on Dracula's forehead. |
| 187 | * Part of the military training in Creator/JoeHaldeman’s ''Literature/TheForeverWar''. At the very beginning, one recruit isn't impressed by the "eight silent ways to kill a man": "(K)illing a man with a blow to the kidneys, from an entrenching tool (looks... kind of silly). I mean, when would you actually have only an entrenching tool, and no gun or knife? And why not just bash him over the head with it?" [[note]]"He might have a helmet on."[[/note]] |
| 188 | * The novels by Creator/SvenHassel also sing the praises of the entrenching tool. You can use it to dig foxholes against artillery, to shit on when you're inside a tank, and with the edge sharpened it's great for hand-to-hand combat. |
| 189 | * ''Literature/GarrettPI'': In ''Deadly Quicksilver Lies'', Slither kills a SuperSpeed-endowed flying killer bug by swatting it HomeRunHitter-style with the blade of a shovel. |
| 190 | * Griffin, aka ''Literature/TheInvisibleMan'', was mortally wounded with a shovel. |
| 191 | * In ''Literature/JourneyToTheWest'', Sha Wujing's weapon of choice in most modern media is a Monk's Spade, known as the "Monster-Conquering Precious Rod" (said weapon is also known as "Zen Rod", explaining the shift from staff to polearm). That being said, some versions averts this by giving his weapon only the crescent blade. Antagonists armed with a Spade include the Nine-Headed Monster (again, sometimes he only has the crescent blade) and the Tawny Lion Spirit, who brandishes a [[BlingBlingBang scraper/spade known as the Four Light Spade]]. |
| 192 | * Several times in ''Literature/LiseysStory'', Lisey uses a commemorative shovel of her late husband's as a weapon. At one point it's referred to as 'Little Lisey's Trusty Maniac Swatter, Copyright 1988, Patent Pending, All Rights Reserved.' |
| 193 | * ''Literature/MerkabahRider'': In "The Shomer Express", the Rider uses the fireman's shovel to batter the ''ghul'' into the firebox of the locomotive: the only way to destroy it being to KillItWithFire. |
| 194 | * In ''Literature/MobyDick'', whaling spades[[note]]Actually specialized implements for taking apart of the whale body, but generally similar to an actual spade.[[/note]] are used for killing sharks who are trying to scavenge on the whale carcass chained to the ''Pequod''. |
| 195 | * Used with devastating effect in ''Literature/TheNightingaleKristinHannah'', complete with the resultant {{Squick}}. [[spoiler:Vianne reluctantly sends a shovel through Captain Beck's skull, after he discovers her sister hiding an Allied airman. His LastWords ("Tell... my family...") provide both a TearJerker and potent NightmareFuel.]] |
| 196 | * ''Literature/WorldWarZ'' has the U.S. Marines making use of this trope via their [[TruthInTelevision standard-issue]] entrenching shovels, as they are credited with creating "the Lobotomizer": sharpened along the edge, the shovels made great battle axes for lopping off zombie heads. Surprisingly effective, and rather common by the end of the war, thanks of their ease of production and utility. The before-mentioned Monk's spade is also used by a old blind man to great effect in defending himself. |
| 197 | * In ''Literature/WorldWithoutEnd'', Sam uses one as an ImprovisedWeapon and actually kills his target with it. |
| 198 | * ''Literature/YoungSherlockHolmes'': In ''Red Leech'', when Sherlock is cornered in the ship's engine room by the murderous Grivens, he defends himself with stoker's shovel. |
| 199 | * ''Literature/TheZombieSurvivalGuide'' stresses that the Monk's Spade is an invaluable weapon against zombies as it can easily decapitates them and has good length. Granted, [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monk%27s_spade the real world weapon described in the book]] is more thrusting polearm than actual spade, but it did indeed evolve from a shovel. |
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| 201 | |
| 202 | [[folder:Live-Action TV]] |
| 203 | * In ''Series/TwentyFour'', Behrooz Araz strikes his would-be killer with the shovel he was supposed to use to dig his own grave. |
| 204 | * In the 2018 one-off BBC adaptation of ''Literature/TheABCMurders'', Sir Carmichael Clarke is beaten to death with a spade, when it was a different blunt instrument in the original novel. |
| 205 | * ''Series/AgathaRaisin'': In "Agatha Raisin and the Walkers of Dembley", the VictimOfTheWeek is struck down with a spade while walking across a field. |
| 206 | * ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'' |
| 207 | ** In "[[Recap/BuffyTheVampireSlayerS3E7Revelations Revelations]]", rogue Watcher Gwendolyn Post whacks Angel over the head with a shovel, unaware that he is a vampire. A [[GameFace vamped-out]] Angel gets up and comments on the giant bump on his head. Gwendolyn doesn't even bat an eye. She cheerfully replies that she intended to kill him, then cracks the shovel handle over her knee and tries to stake him with the pieces. |
| 208 | ** In "[[Recap/BuffyTheVampireSlayerS4E8Pangs Pangs]]", Willow attempts to kill a vengeful American Indian spirit with a shovel. ItMakesSenseInContext. |
| 209 | ** When Willow gave Riley advice on courting Buffy in "[[Recap/BuffyTheVampireSlayerS4E7TheInitiative The Initiative]]: "[[IfYouEverDoAnythingToHurtHer Have fun, and if you hurt her, I'll beat you to death with a shovel.]] A vague disclaimer is nobody's friend." |
| 210 | ** In "[[Recap/BuffyTheVampireSlayerS7E8Sleeper Sleeper]]", Buffy discovers [[spoiler:Spike]] has been killing people and burying them in a basement SerialKiller-style. The victims [[RiseFromYourGrave Rise From Their Grave]] as vampires, so she stakes them with the shovel used to bury them. |
| 211 | * In ''Series/LeCoeurASesRaisons'', [[ButtMonkey Madge]] gets hit in the face twice in the same night respectively by Criquette and Brett, just after being woken up. Coincidentally, during the previous season, Criquette mentioned in a letter (that she had ''Madge herself'' writing) the possibility of murdering her the exact same way. |
| 212 | -->'''Criquette:''' ''[to a sleeping Madge]'' Madge! Maaadge!\ |
| 213 | '''Madge:''' ''[waking up]'' What, madam...?\ |
| 214 | '''Criquette:''' ''[knocks Madge out with a shovel]'' Go to sleep, Madge. Go to sleep. |
| 215 | * ''Series/{{CSI}}'': The VictimOfTheWeek in the B plot in "Turn of the Screws" is a 13-year-old girl who gits hit with a shovel. The blade severs her spinal column causing her to asphyxiate. |
| 216 | * ''Series/CSIMiami'': In "Nothing to Lose", one VictimOfTheWeek is a convict firefighter who is [[ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice nailed to a tree]] with a folding shovel by an escaping convict during a fire in the Everglades. |
| 217 | * On ''Series/DeadliestWarrior'', the US Army Green Berets used their entrenching tool (a folding shovel) as their melee weapon vs. the Russian Spetznaz' spring-loaded ballistic knife. [[spoiler: The knife won that particular showdown.]] |
| 218 | * ''Series/DeadMansGun'': In "Death Warrant", a farmer attempts to claim the bounty of Pike's head by attempting to smash his head in with a shovel while Pike is sleeping in his barn. |
| 219 | * ''Series/TheDoctorBlakeMysteries'': In "My Brother's Keeper'', the killer bludgeons the VictimOfTheWeek with a shovel and then causes him to be [[ThisBearWasFramed trampled by cattle]]. |
| 220 | * ''Series/DoctorWho'': |
| 221 | ** "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS25E4TheGreatestShowInTheGalaxy The Greatest Show in the Galaxy]]": Ace hits Bellboy's robot with a shovel. |
| 222 | ** "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS37E8TheWitchfinders The Witchfinders]]: Yaz attacks a mud tendril with a shovel. |
| 223 | * ''Series/EldoradoKaDeWe'' (in English-speaking markets, ''[=KaDeWe=] Our Time Is Now''): Main character Harry returns to his family's department store after being demobilised from the German army in 1918 to discover four armed robbers holding the place up. With DissonantSerenity, he shoots the four men in about twice that number of seconds, and seeing one is still alive, stabs him with a [[ImprovisedWeapon cake slice]] until he dies. Dialogue in the following episode suggests that he was wielding the cake slice in precisely the same way that he used entrenching tools during hand-to-hand combat in the war. |
| 224 | * ''Series/{{Endeavour}}'': A flashback in "Harvest" reveals that the VictimOfTheWeek woke up as the killer was attempting to bury him, and was finished off by a blow to the head from a shovel. |
| 225 | * ''Series/FBIMostWanted'': In "[[Recap/FBIMostWantedS04E6 Patent Pending]]", when Jake steals his mother's ashes from the cemetery, he steals a shovel from the gravedigger's truck to break open her vault. When the gravedigger confronts him, Jake beats him with the shovel and then steals his truck. |
| 226 | * In the first episode of ''Series/GarthMarenghisDarkplace'', Dr. Rick Dagless, M.D. euthanizes his former friend's [[LosingYourHead disembodied head]] after he explodes, by hitting him with a shovel. This is viewed as highly unorthodox medical practice. |
| 227 | * ''Series/TheGrandTour'': While on a special forces training course, Clarkson is stuck in a window where terrorists are doing... [[AssShove unpleasant things]] to him. He begs for death; Hammond eventually complies with a blow to the head with a shovel. |
| 228 | * Used quite frequently in ''[[Series/LesGuignolsdelInfo Les Guignols de l'Info]]''. |
| 229 | * ''Series/HorribleHistories'': A sketch on the Saxon weregild features a Saxon woman who keeps killing members of the family she is involved in a blood feud with by hitting them in the head with a shovel; much to the frustration of the king who is attempting to explain the new law. |
| 230 | * ''Series/MajorCrimes'': In "Fifth Dynasty", the VictimOfTheWeek is killed by a shovel strike that almost severs his head off his body. |
| 231 | * ''Series/MidsomerMurders'': |
| 232 | ** Fliss Inkpen is done in by a blow to the head from a shovel in "[[Recap/MidsomerMurdersS4E1 Garden of Death]]". |
| 233 | ** "[[Recap/MidsomerMurdersS8E3 Orchis Fatalis]]": When exposed, the murderer attacks Barnaby and Scott with a spade and then attempts to escape. |
| 234 | ** In "[[Recap/MidsomerMurdersS24E2 Book of the Dead]]", Bertram Jewel, the first VictimOfTheWeek, is walking into the woods. He digs a hole and places the treasure under a glass globe. He takes a photo of it with his phone. Someone comes up and bashes him on the head with a shovel. Bertram is [[SandNecktie buried up to his neck]] with the glass globe over his head, suffocating him |
| 235 | * ''Series/{{Monk}}'': |
| 236 | ** In "Mr. Monk vs. the Cobra", gravedigger Chris Downey knocks Monk out with a shovel before putting him in a coffin and [[BuriedAlive burying him alive]]. |
| 237 | ** In "Mr. Monk Can't See a Thing", Eddie Murdoch walks into a firehouse to steal a firefighter's coat and helmet. As he is grabbing it, a firefighter named Rusty comes around the parked fire engine to confront him. Murdoch responds by grabbing a shovel and striking Rusty over the head, killing him. Seconds later, Monk comes around investigating the audible clang caused by the first hit, and Murdoch swings the shovel at him, though Monk dodges a would-be-lethal blow so that it hits him over the back. There is a struggle, and Monk grabs the shovel, but before he can swing it at Murdoch, Murdoch throws a container of acid in his face, blinding him. Monk drops the shovel and staggers backwards against the fire engine screaming in pain. |
| 238 | * ''Series/{{Motive}}'': In "Fallen Angel", the VictimOfTheWeek is killed with a shovel: first a blow to the head that does not drop him, followed by a slash with the blade that cuts his throat. |
| 239 | * ''Series/MurdochMysteries'': The VictimOfTheWeek in "Child's Play" is struck down with a shovel. |
| 240 | * In the ''Series/{{One Piece|2023}}'' episode "[[Recap/OnePiece2023S1E7TheGirlWithTheSawfishTattoo The Girl With the Sawfish Tattoo]]", Nojiko discovers Nami has been taking the cache of berries out of Belle Mere's grave and tries hitting her with a shovel. |
| 241 | * On ''Series/PrettyLittleLiars'', Alison [[spoiler:(actually Bethany)]] was knocked out by a shovel before being BuriedAlive. |
| 242 | * In the ''Series/PushingDaisies'' episode "Girth", Emerson knocks out the Murderer of the Week with a shovel. And then tells the shovel that he loves it. |
| 243 | * A slapstick variant in "The Stag Party" episode of ''Series/TheRedGreenShow'' when Bill accidentally hits Red in the face with a shovel while digging a hole. |
| 244 | * In the third season finale of ''Series/{{Revenge}}'', Emily whacks Victoria in the face with a shovel after Victoria catches her digging up Amanda Clarke's grave. Victoria wakes up in a mental hospital, framed for digging up Amanda's grave in the deluded belief that [[CassandraTruth Emily is Amanda Clarke]]. |
| 245 | * ''Series/{{Riverdale}}'': In "Silent Night, Deadly Night", [[SerialKiller Black Hood]] holds Archie and Betty at gunpoint. He orders Betty to bury Archie alive or else he will kill her. While she is doing this, Black Hood gets distracted when he hears police sirens. As soon as he looks away, Betty whacks him in the head with her shovel, making him drop his gun and run away. |
| 246 | * ''Series/TheSopranos'' episode "Pine Barrens" showcased gangsters Paulie Walnuts and Chris Moltisanti taking Russian mobster Valery out to the woods of New Jersey to kill him and discreetly dispose of the body. To that end, they have him dig his own grave. But the former Russian special forces operative turns the tables on them by striking Christopher with a shovel and (possibly) escaping. |
| 247 | * ''Franchise/SuperSentai''/''Franchise/PowerRangers'': |
| 248 | ** Since the motif is adventure and archaeology, the main HumongousMecha of ''Series/GoGoSentaiBoukenger''/''Series/PowerRangersOperationOverdrive'' has a huge shovel as one of its weapons. For added effect, it can also combine with an [[PowerfulPick equally large pickaxe]] into a BFS. |
| 249 | ** The main characters of ''[[Series/PowerRangersDinoCharge Dino Charge]]'' have a RunningGag of using shovels as weapons, although it [[FridgeBrilliance makes sense]], since they're frequently on ''archeological digs''. |
| 250 | * ''Series/{{Vera}}'': The VictimOfTheWeek in "Telling Tales" is done in by a blow to the head with a shovel. |
| 251 | * ''Series/TheWalkingDead'' has Rick Grimes using an entrenching tool to distract a zombie as he escapes the army tank he was trapped in. |
| 252 | * ''Series/{{Wednesday}}'': In the first season finale, [[spoiler:Thornhill]] knocks Wednesday out with a shovel to the back of the head. |
| 253 | * The opening tag to one episode of ''Series/TheXFiles'' showed a guy burying the man he had just killed. He then walks into the kitchen, sees the same man standing at the sink, and promptly takes a swing with the shovel [[spoiler: killing his wife; the episode dealt with hallucination-inducing subliminal messages.]] |
| 254 | * Rick did this to Neil once in an episode of ''Series/TheYoungOnes''. |
| 255 | [[/folder]] |
| 256 | |
| 257 | [[folder:Music]] |
| 258 | * NF does this ''to the personification his own fear'' in Intro III, before burying him in the back of his own mind. |
| 259 | [[/folder]] |
| 260 | |
| 261 | [[folder:Pro Wrestling]] |
| 262 | * Wrestling/TheUndertaker has been known to use a shovel as a weapon during "BuriedAlive" [[GimmickMatches matches]] in which the winner [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin has to bury their opponent alive]]. |
| 263 | * In the early days of his career, when transitioning from camera man to Universal Champion, a shovel was Wrestling/{{Carl|ito Colon}}y Colón's weapon of choice. |
| 264 | * At ''Extreme Rules 2014'', [[Wrestling/BryanDanielson Daniel Bryan]] used a shovel on Wrestling/{{Kane}}. |
| 265 | [[/folder]] |
| 266 | |
| 267 | [[folder:Radio]] |
| 268 | * ''Radio/OldHarrysGame'': This is just one of the many AmusingInjuries that Satan inflicts on [[ComedicSociopathy Thomas.]] |
| 269 | [[/folder]] |
| 270 | |
| 271 | [[folder:Tabletop Games]] |
| 272 | * ''TabletopGame/DeadReign'' prominently features several human survivors wielding shovels as weapons against the zombies in the artwork. The actual game also allows them to be used like this during gameplay. |
| 273 | * ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons'': |
| 274 | ** 3.5 Edition and older had the ''Mattock of the Titans'', a magical digging implement that was so large only an extremely big giant or an actual Titan could wield it. In addition to digging, which allowed the use to excavate ridiculous amounts of dirt in a single round, it also counted as a +3 morningstar, and thus was the shovel a Storm Giant brought when he went to kill a dragon. Its insane size meant that it was completely unusable by normal player characters barring the use of extremely powerful magic. |
| 275 | ** 5th Edition adds the Adze of Annam, a magic artifact said to have been used by Annam, the chief diety of the giants before he disappeared millenia ago. In addition to being a potent digging implement, it functions as a magical greataxe with substantial enchantements. It's left to a GM's discretion whether or not it's useable only by giant-sized creatures or if it will magically resize itself to fit a smaller being. |
| 276 | * ''TabletopGame/Warhammer40000'': |
| 277 | ** The Death Korps of Kreig specialize in trench and siege warfare, so have a special affinity for the "entrenching tools" that every single soldier carries. In-Universe, they're trained to use it as a weapons, as befits their inspiration (see the German Army entry in RealLife below). [[MemeticMutation Memetically]], however, the fandom has the Kreigers treat ''any'' type of shovel with [[CargoCult religious awe]], and charging Chaos Space Marines and Tyranid Tyrants with naught but a [[SuicidalOverconfidence sharpened spade]]. |
| 278 | ** On the Chaotic side, Warsmith Honsou of the Literature/IronWarriors states in one of the short stories about him that his personal shovel was crafted in forges run by a specific Warsmith who favoured shorter handles...because that made them more convenient for trench-fighting, a thing the Iron Warriors do a ''lot'' of. |
| 279 | [[/folder]] |
| 280 | |
| 281 | [[folder:Theatre]] |
| 282 | * In Creator/EugeneONeill's play ''Theatre/TheEmperorJones'', Brutus Jones escaped from a chain gang after killing the overseer who struck him with a whip by bringing down his work shovel on his head. When Jones returns to the chain gang in a hallucination, he relives the incident until realizing that he doesn't have a shovel. |
| 283 | [[/folder]] |
| 284 | |
| 285 | [[folder:Video Games]] |
| 286 | * In the free online FPS ''VideoGame/AceOfSpades'' the spade can be used as a melee weapon as well as a entrenching tool. |
| 287 | * ''VideoGame/AgeOfWonders 2'' basic Frostling unit Snowscaper uses his shovel for melee attack. |
| 288 | * ''VideoGame/AllianceOfValiantArms'' has a trench shovel as an available melee weapon the player can purchase in place of the default combat knife. |
| 289 | * In ''VideoGame/AtelierSophieTheAlchemistOfTheMysteriousBook'', Oskar Behlmer is a playable character, a grocer, gardener, and friend of plants who uses his shovel as a weapon. He has attacks such as Spinning Shovel, Skyfall Shovel, and Meteor Shovel. |
| 290 | * ''VideoGame/{{Basingstoke}}'': A shovel is one of the types of weapons you can pick up and use in the game. |
| 291 | * The Trench Shovel is featured as a melee weapon in ''VideoGame/{{Battlefield 1}}'' and ''VideoGame/{{Battlefield V}}''. These shovels purposely have short handles and sharp edges, allowing them to be used similarly to an axe. |
| 292 | * In ''VideoGame/TheBourneConspiracy'', Jason Bourne uses a graveyard shovel ''twice'' in the Manhiem fight, once as the arena ActionCommand weapon, and finally to knock him to his death in the final PressXToNotDie sequence. |
| 293 | * ''VideoGame/BrutalLegend'': the Grave Digger units fight with these. |
| 294 | * In ''VideoGame/CadenceOfHyrule'', Cadence's special ability is a shovel strike that clears walls and harms enemies in a rectangle in front of her, and her special weapon slot is the Greatshovel (which slashes enemies and digs nearby soft walls in a single strike). This is new to the game, she [[VideoGame/CryptOfTheNecrodancer previously]] only ever used shovels for digging. |
| 295 | * ''VideoGame/CityOfHeroes'' lets players use a shovel as either a club or an axe. |
| 296 | * ''VideoGame/ClashOfClans'' and ''VideoGame/ClashRoyale'' both feature the Miner, a troop that is capable into barging into key areas and out-of-bounds territory respectively and smacking nearby foes using his shovel. |
| 297 | * In the ''Yuri's Revenge'' expansion to ''VideoGame/CommandAndConquerRedAlert2'', Yuri's mining vehicle is a mobile refinery which collects ore by sending unarmored slaves out to dig it up with shovels. Destroying the miner frees the slaves, who join the other side and attack with their shovels, though they are extremely weak (then again, nobody said shovel versus tank was a good idea. |
| 298 | * The Shovel is one of the best melee weapons in ''VideoGame/{{Darkwood}}''. It's very slow and doesn't do as much damage as the Axe, but makes up for it in durability (especially if you give it the Sturdy Blade upgrade), swing arc and reach. You can also dig up scrap piles with it, though at a huge cost to its integrity. |
| 299 | * In ''VideoGame/{{Day of Defeat}}'', the melee weapon for the Germans is a shovel. |
| 300 | * One of the "fun" weapons in ''VideoGame/Disgaea3AbsenceOfJustice'' and ''VideoGame/Disgaea4APromiseUnforgotten''. It's treated as a spear for gameplay purposes. |
| 301 | * ''Franchise/DeadRising'': The shovel shows up repeatedly in the first three installments of this franchise. It is one of the few weapons that is not a component in a combo weapon. |
| 302 | * The Flash MMO ''VideoGame/{{DOFUS}}'' has shovels as one of its base weapon types, being the preferred class weapon of the Enutrof utility loot-finding class, and occasionally used by other classes with Water builds. |
| 303 | * In ''[[VideoGame/DontStarve Don't Starve]]'', while almost any dedicated weapon will do much more damage than a tool and even an axe or pickaxe will take fewer hits to kill an enemy, a shovel is adequate against weaker enemies and can also be used to dig things up. |
| 304 | * Meepo in ''VideoGame/Dota2'' uses shovel as his weapon. Doesn't sound dangerous? Well, that's until you see two or more Meepos alongside him and start bashing you with those shovels. |
| 305 | * The ''VideoGame/DragonQuest'' series has a group of mole-type enemies that hit people with their shovels. |
| 306 | * The very first melee weapon Ash acquires in ''VideoGame/EvilDeadAFistfulOfBoomstick'' is a shovel. |
| 307 | * ''VideoGame/{{Fallout}}'': |
| 308 | ** In ''VideoGame/Fallout3: Point Lookout'', there's a unique version called the "Fertilizer Shovel" that deals [[PoisonedWeapons poison damage]]. |
| 309 | ** In ''VideoGame/FalloutNewVegas'', the shovel's main use is for RobbingTheDead, but it can also be used as a melee weapon. |
| 310 | * ''VideoGame/FleshBirds'': The ground of the [[DontGoInTheWoods forest]] you're in is littered with shovels. They can splat the [[FeatheredFiend birds]] in one strike, but [[BreakableWeapons break with repeated use]]. |
| 311 | * Shovels are a melee weapon in [[VideoGame/TheGodfather the videogame adaptation]] of ''Film/TheGodfather''. |
| 312 | * The Grave-Digger's weapon in ''VideoGame/GodOfWarGhostOfSparta''. [[spoiler: Of course, being Zeus he can turn it into the [[InfinityPlusOneSword Sword of Olympus]] at will.]] |
| 313 | * In ''VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoSanAndreas'', shovels can be found and used as melee weaponry. Farmers are often equipped with it. There's also a cut scene in which a character is beaten with one. |
| 314 | * The fan-made GameMod for ''VideoGame/HalfLife2'' called SMOD gives Gordon Freeman several new weapons, one of which is a surprisingly powerful shovel, which makes his crowbar look like a rolled-up newspaper by comparison. For instance, hitting a lunging headcrab with the crowbar will simply make it fall to the ground, dead. Hit a lunging headcrab with the shovel, on the other hand, and it will be ''[[HomeRunHitter launched into the distance]]'', and if it hits a wall, the headcrab will explode in a gruesome green splatter like a bug hitting a windshield. |
| 315 | * In ''VideoGame/HellLetLoose'', the Germans are issued the Feldspaten as their melee weapon. |
| 316 | * [[VisualNovel/HigurashiWhenTheyCry Keiichi]] has this as one of his weapons in ''Higurashi Daybreak'', alongside [[BatterUp a baseball bat]] and [[GolfClubbing a golf club.]] |
| 317 | * In the first ''VideoGame/KaneAndLynch'' game, Kane beats [[spoiler:the man who just shot his wife]] to death with a shovel in a moment of UnstoppableRage. |
| 318 | * ''VideoGame/KillingFloor2'' combines Shovel Strike and CrowbarCombatant into one weapon, the [[CloseRangeCombatant Berserker's]] "crovel". |
| 319 | * The champion Yorick of ''VideoGame/LeagueOfLegends'' uses some kind of shovel as his weapon [[EarlyInstallmentCharacterDesignDifference before and after his redesign]], both used for pummeling enemies. With his initial design, he was an [[CreepyMortician undead gravedigger]] who wielded a traditionally-recognized dirt shovel, but with [[ArtEvolution his current design]] where he's instead [[LastOfHisKind the last of]] [[WarriorMonk an ancient monk order]], he wields what looks more like a stylized "[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monk%27s_spade monk's spade]]". |
| 320 | * A shovel can be acquired as a melee weapon in ''VideoGame/Left4Dead2'', with exclusive sound effects when bashing the Infected with. The only downside is the swing animation is different from other melee weapons, so it takes a bit of getting used to. Killing a certain number of Jockeys with the shovel (or the [[GardeningVarietyWeapon pitchfork]], either counts) nets you an achievement. |
| 321 | * In ''VideoGame/LegoIndianaJones'', several characters have a shovel as their special item, allowing them to dig, which is necessary to solve a lot of puzzles. They will also use their shovel in combat, because they don't have a short-range weapon and [[RuleOfCool it looks cooler than punching]]. |
| 322 | * This is one weapon that Greenies use in ''VideoGame/LuigisMansionDarkMoon''. (Mostly in [[JungleJapes Haunted Towers]] and [[ShiftingSandLand Old Clockworks]], two places you'd likely expect to find shovels; they tend to use weapons that fit the places they're in.) |
| 323 | * ''VideoGame/MakaiKingdom'' has the shovel weapon type. It does extra damage to buildings and using mostly digging attacks, including finding a hot spring under your opponent. |
| 324 | * A shovel appears in ''VideoGame/{{Manhunt}} 2'' as one of many weapons that the player can use to execute a foe (including one where they give a victim a rather vicious GroinAttack). In the story, the shovel is notable as it's the weapon Daniel uses to [[spoiler:kill Leo with]]. |
| 325 | * In a pinch, you can use your shovel as a weapon in ''VideoGame/{{Minecraft}}'', though it doesn't do as much damage as a sword, or even other tools like the axe or pick-axe. |
| 326 | * One of the weapons in ''VideoGame/NeverwinterNights2'' is a gardener's shovel blessed by the goddess of agriculture. |
| 327 | * ''VideoGame/NoMoreHeroes'': Holly Summers uses a shovel as a weapon, and probably also used it to dig all the holes on the beach where you fight her. |
| 328 | * ''VideoGame/NoMoreRoomInHell'': The spade is one of many weapons in the game that can be picked up and used by the player. It is a two-handed weapon with medium speed and deals medium damage. |
| 329 | * The Shovel in ''VideoGame/NuclearThrone'' has the widest swing arc of all melee weapons. Since melee weapons can reflect or destroy most projectiles, it makes for a fantastic defensive weapon. It also deals a decent amount of damage; its only downside is its slow swing speed. The Ultra version increases the damage and swing speed, at the cost of some [[ExperiencePoints rads]] per swing. |
| 330 | * ''VideoGame/PAYDAY2'' includes the K.L.A.S. Shovel as a melee weapon for owners of the Gage Shotgun Pack DLC. It has low damage, but a decent knockdown chance, and it makes a satisfying ''*clang!*'' sound upon hitting enemies. |
| 331 | * In ''VideoGame/Persona4 [[UpdatedReRelease Golden]]'', you're given the quest "100% Inaba-Grown Cabbage," where you help a local, freelance vegetable merchant/housewife ride out a cabbage shortage by growing your own to compensate for the deficit and she'll give you the 'Sharp Shovel' weapon for the MC as a reward. Not only does the shovel deal great damage when you get it, its special effect is a free casting of Auto-Tarukaja, meaning it does even more damage during the first three turns of any fight where it's used. |
| 332 | * ''VideoGame/Postal2'' gives you a shovel as a melee weapon. It can not only be swung with a loud CLANG as it whacks someone in the skull, it can be thrust forward with enough force to decapitate the victim. |
| 333 | * The shovel is just one of many [[ImprovisedWeapon household items]] you can choose to fight zombies with in ''VideoGame/ProjectZomboid''. Probably better not to, though. Shovels are hard to find, and they're the only way to [[UtilityWeapon move dirt]], sand, and gravel for landscaping. |
| 334 | * ''VideoGame/ResidentEvil'': |
| 335 | ** A Majini enemy type in ''VideoGame/ResidentEvil5'' attacks you with shovels. It does some serious damage if it connects. |
| 336 | ** Jack attacks Ethan with a shovel in the early parts of ''VideoGame/ResidentEvil7Biohazard'', and later uses it to murder the Deputy. |
| 337 | * ''VideoGame/{{Scribblenauts}}'' lets you use a shovel as a weapon, though considering the wide variety of weapons you can use, there's never really any advantage in using it. |
| 338 | * ''VideoGame/ShovelKnight'''s main character is a knight who uses a "Shovel Blade", which is essentially a giant shovel. His rival Black Knight also uses the same weapon while Polar Knight uses a giant snow shovel. Their unusual choice of weaponry is connected: Black Knight and Shovel Knight used to be friends, while Polar Knight has an unexplained history with Shovel Knight and considers him a WorthyOpponent. |
| 339 | * ''VideoGame/SilentHill4'' has a shovel as a weapon. If you down an opponent with it, instead of stomping them as a follow-up attack as usual, you jab it into their chest and stomp on ''the shovel''. |
| 340 | * ''VideoGame/SuperPunchPatrol'' have the boss Russel whose preferred weapon is a gigantic shovel larger than your playable characters, which he'll use for smashing heads or shoveling rocks at your direction as a ranged attack. |
| 341 | * ''VideoGame/SuperSmashBros'': |
| 342 | ** A character mod for ''[[VideoGame/SuperSmashBrosBrawl Brawl]]'' from [[http://forums.kc-mm.com/Gallery/BrawlView.php?Moderated=1&Reported=All&Wifi=0&Name=*crossing*&ByUser=*&Credit=*&Info=*&Thumb1=*&Type=**&TypeAlt=* Brawl Vault]] turns Ness into the boy villager from ''VideoGame/AnimalCrossingCityFolk''. The front smash becomes a shovel. |
| 343 | ** In his official appearance as a playable character, the Villager also uses the shovel as a weapon, but rather then hitting them directly, he digs out the ground from beneath them. |
| 344 | ** As of ''[[VideoGame/SuperSmashBrosUltimate Ultimate]]'', VideoGame/ShovelKnight joins the battle as an Assist Trophy. He's able to use his shovel blade to either throw chunks of dirt at an enemy, or shovel drop onto them from above. |
| 345 | * ''VideoGame/TeamFortress2'': the Soldier's default melee weapon is a folding trench Shovel. In "Meet the Soldier" he's seen backhanding an enemy Spy with it, and in game you can earn an achievement for getting revenge with it. In a tactical sense, the Shovel is more [[EmergencyWeapon a formality to fall back on]] if you don't have time to reload your rocket launcher and shotgun. Due to the class' stats and other weapons, the Soldier is probably tied with the Pyro and Heavy as the least likely to use his default melee weapon, and thus most likely to replace it with an unlockable weapon with a special effect. |
| 346 | ** The Soldier can also unlock the Market Gardener, another trench shovel that scores an automatic CriticalHit if you melee an opponent while {{Rocket Jump}}ing, at the expense of not scoring any {{random|NumberGod}} Criticals while on the ground. There are entire DifficultButAwesome builds based around the "Trolldier," involving using a combination of the Rocket Jumper launcher and the Market Gardener to bounce around the battlefield bonking skulls while airborne. |
| 347 | * ''VideoGame/{{Terraria}}'', the Gravedigger's Shovel is as powerful as a tungsten broadsword but has autoswing and greater range, making it a very servicable early game weapon. |
| 348 | * In ''VideoGame/UntilDawn'', Sam saves Mike from an attacking [[spoiler:wendigo]] by smacking it in the face with a shovel. |
| 349 | * Emile in the later stages of ''VideoGame/ValiantHearts'', likewise set during UsefulNotes/WorldWarI, uses this as his main weapon (which he also uses to tunnel past enemy lines). [[spoiler: It's how he inadvertently kills his commanding officer for sending countless men to their deaths.]] |
| 350 | * In ''{{VideoGame/Verdun}}'', one of the many weapons you can get is a shovel. Considering that it's a game set in UsefulNotes/WorldWarI, this isn't surprising. It also guarantees a OneHitKill. |
| 351 | * In ''VideoGame/VivaPinata'', the shovel is one of the first tools you're given. Among other things, it can be used to whack things you don't want in your garden, such as predatory or Sour piñatas. |
| 352 | * Dean's initial equipment in ''VideoGame/WildArms5'' is a shovel. Sadly, he switches to boring tonfa-gun things after an hour or so. |
| 353 | * ''Wild West Guns'', a LightGunGame set in the Old West, have most of your enemies using firearms, save for the gravediggers in the cemetery levels who use gigantic shovels instead. Somehow getting hit by their shovels deals roughly the same health damage as bullets, arrows or flung knives. |
| 354 | * A certain polearm-class weapon in ''VideoGame/WorldOfWarcraft'' is called "The Shoveler." No points for guessing its model. |
| 355 | * ''[[Website/GaiaOnline zOMG!]]'': players can make the item "Shovel Blade" with the proper recipe, loot components, and gold. |
| 356 | * ''VideoGame/ZombieInfection'': One level is set in an AbandonedMine, filled with zombified miners. Some of them carries shovels which they'll use to attack you. |
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| 358 | |
| 359 | [[folder:Webcomics]] |
| 360 | * Gordon Frohman of ''Webcomic/{{Concerned}}'' has a shovel as his weapon of choice. [[spoiler:It's ultimately responsible for his demise when it hits him in the head after both he and it fall from the Citadel.]] |
| 361 | * On ''Webcomic/GirlGenius'': [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20070907 "A shovel? Ha! What can you do with a...]] |
| 362 | * ''Webcomic/{{Housepets}}'': King finds himself [[LockingMacgyverInTheStoreCupboard trapped in a toolshed]] by Duchess, and uses a shovel found in the shed to knock her out, in [[http://www.housepetscomic.com/2012/03/19/the-optimal-solution/ this strip]]. |
| 363 | * In ''Webcomic/QuantumVibe'' Nicole takes out a gang of muggers [[http://www.quantumvibe.com/strip?page=485 with a shovel]]. Later she's given a [[http://www.quantumvibe.com/strip?page=888 more high-tech version]]. |
| 364 | * In ''Webcomic/RustyAndCo'', Madeline's second weapon. She thinks it's a vorpal halberd. Mimic, having seen her fight, decides not to argue the point. |
| 365 | * ''Webcomic/TheSwordInterval'': Murderous ghost the Visage has a [[GhostlyGape ghastly grin]] because he was killed by being stabbed in the face with a shovel. |
| 366 | * Jenny's weapon of choice in ''Webcomic/TheZombieHunters''. |
| 367 | * ''Webcomic/TheWeeklyRoll:'' Torvald the dwarf necromancer uses a shovel both to dig up graves and as a surprisingly effective weapon. It scares off a giant demon believing it to be a blade prophecied to kill him, although a flashbacck hows that nope, it's just a shovel. |
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| 369 | |
| 370 | [[folder:Web Original]] |
| 371 | * Used by VideoGame/ShovelKnight, of course, in his battle against [[WesternAnimation/DuckTales1987 Scrooge McDuck]] in ''WebAnimation/DeathBattle''. [[spoiler:And it's ultimately [[HoistByHisOwnPetard how he gets killed]] when Scrooge immobilizes him before chopping his head off with his own Shovel Blade]]. |
| 372 | * The [[UsefulNotes/{{Nanowrimo}} National Novel Writing Month]] forums have for some years featured the Traveling Shovel of Death, a memetic item that as many novelists as possible aim to work into their stories. |
| 373 | * Shovel Man from the ''WebVideo/WizardsWithGuns'' video "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cUN6PVdxLIQ They Said This Superhero was too "Shovel-Themed" for the Avengers]]" is a super-hero that's deadly-proficient with a shovel, managing to defeat a group of heavily armed criminals with nothing but his shovel. |
| 374 | * ''WebAnimation/{{Xombie}}'': Dirge's weapon of choice is a sharpened shovel, not only useful against rogue zombies and robots, but also to salvage for spare parts to fix himself up. |
| 375 | * In ''Zombie Go Boom'', a shovel is shown to be rather effective at cracking skulls. The damage inflicted is described as something like a cross between the injuries inflicted by baseball bat and that of a machete. |
| 376 | [[/folder]] |
| 377 | |
| 378 | [[folder:Western Animation]] |
| 379 | * In the "Die Fly, Die!" episode of ''WesternAnimation/BeavisAndButtHead'', Beavis accidentally hits Butt-Head with a shovel while trying to kill the fly. |
| 380 | * ''WesternAnimation/BooBoomTheLongWayHome'': Episode 25, Viola knocks out a German soldier with a shovel. |
| 381 | * ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'': To quote Bender Bending Rodriguez: |
| 382 | -->"This one time, I pounded a guy into the ground like a stake with a shovel." |
| 383 | * In the first episode of ''WesternAnimation/GravityFalls'', Soos offers Dipper a shovel as a weapon to save Mabel from her zombie boyfriend Norman. Soos also throws in [[BatterUp a baseball bat]] [[CrazyPrepared "in case you see a piñata."]] |
| 384 | * In the ''WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes'' cartoon "The Bee-Deviled Bruin", Junyer Bear takes care of a bee on his pop's nose by hitting it with a shovel - hard enough to leave a face-shaped imprint in the blade. Pop sets the dead bee on Junyer's nose, takes the shovel, and lets him have it. And Pop gets it again at the very end. |
| 385 | * ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'': Rockhoof, a legendary hero from Equestrian history, used a shovel as his weapon. In fact, his first act of heroism was to [[FastTunneling dig a trench]] in order to divert lava from an erupting volcano away from his hometown. |
| 386 | * ''WesternAnimation/RegularShow'': |
| 387 | ** When a wereskunk tries to beat up Rigby in an episode, Mordecai gets him to back off by threatening him with a shovel. |
| 388 | ** The video game ''[[FictionalVideoGame Dig Champs]]'' has one of the player characters wielding a shovel, and the other wielding a [[PowerfulPick Pick-axe]]. |
| 389 | * ''WesternAnimation/TotalDrama'': |
| 390 | ** Gwen's shovel strike of doom in season two has become a MemeticMutation among the fanbase. |
| 391 | ** An accidental example, but Mike is hit in the head by Scott in season five, [[spoiler: freeing his evil SplitPersonality Mal]]. |
| 392 | * The Enutrofs of ''VideoGame/{{Dofus}}'' are still around 1000 years later in ''WesternAnimation/{{Wakfu}}'', where CoolOldGuy Ruel Stroud regularly demonstrates the effectiveness of [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XbxMeYmRdyk crazy shovel kung fu]]. |
| 393 | [[/folder]] |
| 394 | |
| 395 | [[folder:Real Life]] |
| 396 | * During WWI trench raids, soldiers preferred using sharpened [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Entrenching_tool entrenching tools]] and variety of other improvised weapons over their bayonets. A rifle with an attached bayonet proved too long and unwieldy in the extreme close quarters of trench combat, and the stabbing wounds caused by bayonets did not have the immediate stopping power of clubbing strikes to the head and neck. |
| 397 | * Usage of entrenching tools as improvised weapons carried on for decades after WWI, to the point that soldiers even [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B_m2lZOQzIA trained in]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iwLmaQyl2RY their usage]]. |
| 398 | * [[http://www.winnipegsun.com/news/winnipeg/2010/02/21/12966566.html Winnipeg]] has seen a spate of cases where shovels were the preferred weapon for assaults. |
| 399 | * In Swedish military parlance the entrenching tool is referred to (even in fairly official contexts) as the "short light assault shovel." |
| 400 | * The [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monk%27s_spade Monk's Spade]] ''used to be'' an actual spade. |
| 401 | * The [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b60OZhrTB6o Chinese Military Shovel]] is a SwissArmyWeapon, which can be used, among other mundane things, as a bludgeon and even a shield. |
| 402 | * The German Army started its love affair with the 'Kampfspaten' (literaly: combat spade) in WWI and never looked back. It was a used in that capacity in the interwar struggles (the Freicorps battles with Poland and the inter-German conflicts) and it was used that way in [=WW2=]. The [[UsefulNotes/WeAreNotTheWehrmacht Bundeswehr]] only got a bayonet in 1990 (!) when they inherited (from East Germany) a number of AK bayonets that got converted to use for the new G36, but even today, and through all of the cold war, the primary melee weapon of the German soldier was the Kampfspaten: sharped on one side, saw tooth on the other, foldable and weighing in at less than one and a half kilogram. |
| 403 | * This trope may be OlderThanFeudalism. The kunai of ninja fame was a multiple-use tool that could be used for, amongst other things, a trowel for gardening purposes, yet it's famed as an improvised weapon. |
| 404 | * During the 2011 riots in Britain, the sales of folding shovels from Amazon rose by [[https://web.archive.org/web/20201207001620/https://www.smalldeadanimals.com/archives/017486.html 284,100%]]. A coincidence, surely. |
| 405 | * Shovels are an ideal self-defense weapon against snakes, to the point that they're the go-to weapon for killing poisonous snakes and other small but dangerous animals. The long reach of a typical shovel, coupled with the heavy weight, makes it an effective improvised axe and spear, and it especially deadly against an animal low to the ground, like a snake, komodo dragon, or small alligator or crocodile. A single thrust or swing will strike the animal and pin it against the ground, and can usually cut off a head or limb in a single blow. |
| 406 | * Enterprising Australian youths [[note]]or, for that matter, Australians who are less youthful,[[/note]] have been known to dispose of the invasive cane toad by virtue of blatting the offending creature with a shovel, typically resulting in an amphibian that has been flattened, bisected, or launched several yards into the distance. Given the cane toad's toughness and destructive effect on the native ecosystem, this is ''not'' overkill. When a spade is not handy, a [[GolfClubbing golf club]] works just as well. |
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