History Main / ShovelStrike

* ''Series/FBIMostWanted'': In "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.

* At the end of ''WesternAnimation/MonstersInc'', [[spoiler:Randall is beaten with a shovel offscreen.]]

* ''Series/MidsomerMurders'': 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

* ''Series/MidsomerMurders'': 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

* ''Series/MidsomerMurders'': In "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

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* During the 2011 riots in Britain, the sales of folding shovels from Amazon rose by [[http://www.smalldeadanimals.com/archives/017486.html 284,100%]]. A coincidence, surely.

->''"Lucille, God gave me a gift. I shovel well. I shovel very well."''

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%%* Used quite frequently in ''[[Series/LesGuignolsdelInfo Les Guignols de l'Info]]''.
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* ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons'' 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.

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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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--> '''Taggart''': Send a wire to the main office, and tell them I said... [CLONG] OW!
--> '''Lyle''': "Send wire, main office, [[RepeatAfterMe tell them I said 'ow'.]]" Gotcha!

* ''Film/TheBunker2001'': 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.

* ''Film/PetSematary2019'': During the fight in the Pet Sematary, Louis attempts to behead Ellie with a shovel.

* ''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.

* 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]]

** [[Recap/DoctorWhoS25E4TheGreatestShowInTheGalaxy "The Greatest Show in the Galaxy"]]: Ace hits Bellboy's robot with a shovel.
** [[Recap/DoctorWhoS37E8TheWitchfinders "The Witchfinders"]]: Yaz attacks a mud tendril with a shovel.

%%* Used quite frequently in ''[[Series/LesGuignolsdelInfo Les Guignols de l'Info]]''.

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* In ''Webcomic/RustyAndCo'', Madeline's weapon. She thinks it's a vorpal halberd. Mimic, having seen her fight, decides not to argue the point.

* In the "Die Fly, Die!" episode of ''WesternAnimation/BeavisAndButthead'', Beavis accidentally hits Butt-Head with a shovel while trying to kill the fly.

* In ''Film/CarryOnBehind'', a student carrying a shovel hits a loudspeaker broadcasting unwelcome announcements from the Major at the caravan site, causing an explosion at the speaker, and in the Major's office.