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* ''WesternAnimation/PhineasAndFerb'': [[spoiler: Downplayed In the [[Movie TheMovie]], as Phineas Flynn uses the bat to deflect the shot of his baseball launcher in 2nd Dimension Doofenshmirtz's hand, double for destroying the satellite dish to control his Normbots.]]

* The [[https://enterthegungeon.fandom.com/wiki/Casey Casey]] weapon in ''VideoGame/EnterTheGungeon'' is a baseball bat that enables its wielder to [[AttackReflector smack projectile attacks back to sender]] as its primary function. It can also be used for melee attacks of course, though, given [[BulletHell the nature of the Gungeon]], getting up close to the enemy is generally not the best idea.

* ''Film/TheShining''. When Wendy first realises there's something seriously creepy about the hotel, she starts carrying a baseball bat to defend herself. She's reluctant to use it against her AxeCrazy husband, but finally does so when it's clear he intends to take it off Wendy and use it against her.

* Wendy in ''Film/TheShining'' tries to use one to defend herself from Jack. Changed from a roque mallet in the novel.

* ''Series/{{CSI NY}}'':
** In one episode, a guy who tried to fake his death to collect on the insurance by using blowfish poison to make him appear dead was betrayed by his spouse and buried alive. He managed to break out, so the spouse's lover killed him with a cricket bat (but not before he managed to inject both of them with the poison).
** In the episode "Tanglewood," the Tanglewood Boys kill a wannabe with an autographed baseball bat taken from a sports bar. The fragment of signature on the splinter left in the body provides the CSI investigators with a vital clue.

** Jones gets knocked out with a cricket bat in "Last Man Out", and the killer would have beaten him to death with it had not Barnaby shown up.

** A cricket bat is used as a murder weapon in "Dead Man's Eleven".

* In ''ComicBook/{{Critter}}'', sports-themed superheroine Rookie often forms HardLight baseball bats with which to clobber evildoers.
* Examples in Franchise/TheDCU:
** The mentally unbalanced vigilante Nite-Wing (completely different person from ComicBook/{{Nightwing}}, but he's only appeared in Nightwing's series) uses a baseball bat and a golf club to strike fear into the hearts of evildoers (or random people he's ''decided'' are evildoers). He also does it by beating people to death.
** Also, mentally unbalanced [[Franchise/{{Batman}} Bruce Wayne]] when he became the Batman of Zurr-En-Arr (just go with it) wore a garish purple costume and went around beating criminals up with a baseball bat.
** The Sportsmaster also used a wooden bat. This was bad news for Alan Scott since his version of the Green Lantern Ring is useless against wood.
** This is often ComicBook/HarleyQuinn's [[WeaponSpecialization weapon of choice]] in recent years as a more practical substitute for her mallet. It is most notably in DC video games and in ''Film/{{Suicide Squad|2016}}''.
** Franchise/GreenLantern Hal Jordan is fond of making baseball bats with his ring. In fact, quite a few of the Earth [=GLs=] do it across several media. This is especially ironic because, as mentioned above, the first Green Lantern's WeaksauceWeakness was not "the color yellow", but rather "wood".
** In the elseworlds story ''ComicBook/DCComicsBombshells'', Batwoman/Kate Kane is a professional baseball player in her civilian life, so as a hero, she wields a baseball bat.
* In the {{Elseworld}}s story ''Scar of the Bat'', Eliot Ness adopts the Franchise/{{Batman}} identity to take on UsefulNotes/AlCapone, wielding a baseball [[{{Pun}} bat]] as his primary weapon.
* In ComicBook/BouncyBallMan #3, the titular hero, ambushed and without his costume, steals a baseball bat from an elderly neighbor to give himself a fighting chance against his would-be assassin.
* In ''ComicBook/{{Fables}}: The Wolf Among Us'', Bigby uses a cricket bat ([[ICallItVera labelled "Crowd Control"]]) to smash up the Pudding 'n Pie Club.
* In ''ComicBook/HackSlash'' [[BadassNormal Cassie Hack's]] main weapon is a baseball bat with "KISS IT" carved into it.

* In ''ComicBook/JonSableFreelance'' #10, Sable goes looking for trouble and finds three thugs standing by a TrashcanBonfire with baseball bats. Jon challenges the biggest one to a fight and picks up one of the bats. He then says "Okay, let's get the rules straight". When another of the thugs responds "[[ThereAreNoRules There ain't no rules!]]", Sable invokes the PlankGag by turning quickly with bat over his shoulder and whacking the big guy in the head. He then follows it up by using the bat to launch a GroinAttack on the second thug.
* In the comics series ''ComicBook/MageTheHeroDiscovered'', Kevin Matchstick is a reincarnation of King Arthur, and his version of Excalibur is a magical bat. Other items of power are reborn in this way; one hero, with the power of Joseph from the bible, has his trumpet replaced by a kazoo.
* ComicBook/ThePunisher2099's signature weapon was the Power Bat, a club with an adjustable hardness setting ranging from "rubber" to "titanium"; he never uses the lower settings.
* A ''ComicBook/SpiderMan'' issue has the ShapeShifter Chameleon disguise himself as Peter and try to seduce MJ as part of his plan for revenge. She figures out the ruse fairly quickly and after luring him upstairs, you guessed it, [[DamselOutOfDistress beats him with her baseball bat]].

* In ''Franchise/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles'', Casey Jones's signature weapon is a baseball bat, but he does use other sports-related blunt instruments.
* In ''ComicBook/TheWalkingDead'' Negan wields a baseball bat wrapped in barbed wire dubbed "Lucille."

* ''{{ComicBook/Preacher}}'': The "Good Ol' Boys" story has Jody participate in a pit fight against a gorilla, killing it using a baseball bat. Once he emerges from the fight to have a word with the fight's organizer, he rams the bat up the organizer's ass.

** In the Fanfic/HomeLuzAU, Luz wields a bat, notably using it to take down Adegast.