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* This is one of the weapons Harry's Reaper equips him with on his return to life in ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/14139525/3/Fear-the-Reapers Fear the Reapers]]''. He makes good use of it as the fic progresses.
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* Jonathan Harker wielded a kukri in ''Literature/{{Dracula}}''. And attacked with enough ferocity to force Dracula to retreat. Then decapitated the Count with it after Quincey Morris stabbed him in the heart with a Bowie knife.

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* Jonathan Harker wielded a kukri in ''Literature/{{Dracula}}''. And attacked with enough ferocity to force Dracula to retreat. Then decapitated the Count with it after Quincey Morris stabbed him in the heart with a Bowie knife. It's been argued that the choice of weapon is symbolic: it looks like a fang, and Victorian England had heard the legend that kukris should not be resheathed until they drew blood, making it a rather [[ATasteOfTheirOwnMedicine ironic]] weapon to use against a vampire.

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* The character known as The Bailiff wields a kukri to murder his harem of lovers in the Caitlin R. Kiernan novel ''Literature/{{Daughter of Hounds}}''.

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* ''Literature/BlackTideRising'': [[LittleMissBadass Faith]] eventually adds a kukri to her arsenal of zombie-killing weapons, and wields it with enough skill to earn praise from several Gurkhas she meets in ''Islands of Rage and Hope''.
* The character known as The Bailiff wields a kukri to murder his harem of lovers in the Caitlin R. Kiernan novel ''Literature/{{Daughter of Hounds}}''.''Literature/DaughterOfHounds''.

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