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Crowbar Combatant
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"Is that a crowbar? [picks it up] Awesome! Now I can beat the snot out of people!

A type of Improvised Weapon.

Crowbars tend to be pretty popular - they are heavy enough to be used as clubs and have two bladed points that can do some nasty damage either by swinging or thrusting. Plus, they can be used as lock bypassers.

Interestingly enough, they are rarely seen used for their original purpose. Give a videogame character a crowbar and point him to a wooden crate, and his first impulse will be to smash it to pieces rather than pry it open.

See also Wrench Whack.

Examples:

Anime and Manga

Comics
  • In Marvel Comics The Wrecker is a man who was given a magical crowbar by Loki that grants him immense strength and endurance. He also has the ability to divide his power between others to form the Wrecking Crew, all with their own construction site weaponry.
  • This was the method of choice for The Joker in killing Jason Todd, with a time bomb delivering the Coup de Grāce.

Film
  • 28 Days Later's Jim uses a crowbar in one scene near the end, where he bashes a soldier's head in.
  • Crowbar is one the many things used to pin Freddy against a wall in Freddy's Dead: The Final Nightmare.
  • Michael in the remake of Dawn of the Dead as they enter the mall.
  • Surprisingly averted in Transformers: Dark of the Moon which had a bit Decepticon named Crowbar who used... guns and explosives. The same sub-faction also had another member named Hatchet who also used guns.
  • One of the intro victims in Cornered! is beaten to death with what looks like a crowbar.
  • A character gets stabbed in the eye with a crowbar in Carver.
  • The initial antagonist of I Spit on Your Grave, I Piss on Your Grave is killed with a crowbar.
  • Walter uses a crowbar to destroy a car in The Big Lebowski.
    • Do you see what happens, Larry!

Literature
  • The Zombie Survival Guide details why a crowbar is one of the better hand-to-hand weapons to use against zombies: it is strong enough to break skulls, doesn't need sharpening or loading, and, if needed, can be used to pry things.
  • Halloween: The Mad House ends with Michael being beaten into submission with a crowbar.
  • Freddy is fought with a crowbar in A Nightmare on Elm Street: The Dream Dealers.

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Western Animation
  • In the Robot Chicken sketch "Iron Cheney" the terrorists order the vice-president to build them weapons. He says he already has one and knocks one out with a crowbar, calling it the "Cheney Special." The terrorists say they'll take a thousand.

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