History Main / ShovelStrike

[[TeamFortress2 http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/soldier_shovel_smash_1535.jpg]]
[[caption-width:320:You just got your Frenchie ass DOMINATED!]]

* ''{{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.

* ''ShaunOfTheDead'': Ed uses one

* In the first KaneAndLynch game, Kane beats [[spoiler:the man who just shot his wife]] to death with a shovel in a moment of UnstoppableRage.
* The very first melee weapon Ash acquires in [[EvilDead A Fistful of Boomstick]] is a shovel.

* ''{{Xombie}}'': Dirge's WeaponOfChoice is not only useful against rogue zombies and robots, but also to salvage for spare parts to fix himself up.
* The [[{{Nanowrimo}} National Novel Writing Month]] forums have for some years featured the Travelling Shovel of Death, a memetic item that as many novelists as possible aim to work into their stories.

[[caption-width:320:You just got your [[CheeseEatingSurrenderMonkeys Frenchie]] ass DOMINATED!]]

[[MysteryMen http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/the-shoveler.jpg]]

* Chiri Kitsu of ''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.

* Chiri Kitsu of ''SayonaraZetsubouSensei'' - in fact, one reading of her PunnyName is a reference to burying things.

* ''PumpkinScissors'' is set shortly after a FantasyCounterpartCulture version of WorldWarOne, 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.

* TheGoon uses one as his WeaponOfChoice against zombies.

* {{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.

* In ''HomeAlone'', when the burglars finally catch Kevin, [[TheBooRadley Old Man Murray]] saves him by beating them senseless with his snow shovel.

* The [[http://www.nanowrimo.org National Novel Writing Month]] forums have for some years featured the Travelling Shovel of Death, a memetic item that as many novelists as possible aim to work into their stories.

* In the BuffyTheVampireSlayer episode "Pangs," Willow attempts to kill a vengeful American Indian spirit with a shovel. ItMakesSenseInContext.

[[AC:RealLife]]
* Soldiers during WWI trench raids used what worked: knives and makeshift weapons over guns since they were much quieter. In particular sharpened entrenching tools could be swung with considerable force in cramped spaces. They were capable of killing instantly as opposed to the slow death of imperfect bayonet strikes.
* According to TheOtherWiki, the short-handled [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Entrenching_tool trench spade]] made such an effective weapon that Soviet Spetsnaz carried them even though they were generally never called upon to dig trenches.
* [[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.

* In the ''PushingDaisies'' episode "Girth", Emerson knocks out the Murderer of the Week with a shovel. And then tells the shovel that he loves it.

[[AC:WebOriginal]]