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{{quote|''"Guys, it's okay! He just wanted his machete back!"''|'''Professor Lowe''''s [[Famous Last Words]], ''[[Friday the 13th (film)]]''}}
The machete. The perfect weapon. Unlike a [[Chainsaw Good]], it doesn't need a power source, it never jams, and you ''can'' actually swing it like a sword. Unlike a [[Katanas Are Just Better|katana]], you don't need to pay hundreds of dollars for a decent one and you don't need years of training to
The original application, like a lot of such [[Torches and Pitchforks|implements]] [[Sinister Scythe|of destruction]], is agricultural; they were used to clear undergrowth. It was a necessary tool for picking sugarcane in the Caribbean early on. Particularly useful for cutting the heads off the non-venomous snakes that were apt to bite cane-pickers. And, you know, actually picking the sugarcane.
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== Comic Books ==
* [http://marvel.wikia.com/Ferdinand_Lopez_%28Earth-616%29 Machete](who oddly enough bears a striking resemblance to [[Danny Trejo]]) is a machete-wielding foe of [[Captain America (comics)]].
** Probably coincidence as Machete first appeared in 1985; the same year Danny Trejo made his first movie and years before ''[[Spy Kids]]''.
* Wallace, the main character in the [[Sin City]] story ''Hell And Back'', has a machete in the climax.
== Film ==
* [[Machete]], [[Danny Trejo]]'s character in the ''[[Spy Kids]]'' movies and the [[Darker and Grittier]] expansion of his character in a fake trailer of ''[[Grindhouse]]'' [[Defictionalization|later made into an actual movie]]. [[Meaningful Name|So named]] [[Captain Obvious|because he uses them]]. A lot. (The full movie reveals that's ''actually his name'' - "Machete Chavez.")
* [[Friday the 13th (film)|Jason Voorhees]], probably single-handedly responsible for the popularity of machetes in modern cinema. Funnily, a lot of people forget this and think he uses chainsaws ([[Beam Me Up, Scotty|he never has]]).
* [[Knife Nut|Soap]] has one in ''[[Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels]]''. "[[Bring My Brown Pants|Shit 'em right up!]]"
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* The killer's main weapon in ''[[Blood Rage]]'', ''[[The Pool]]'' and ''[[Motor Home Massacre]]''.
* A drunken Santa gets a machete slammed into his face in ''[[Don't Open Till Christmas]]''.
* One of Clayton's weapons in Disney's version of ''
* ''[[Licence to Kill]]'' ends with Sanchez suffering a [[Villainous Breakdown]] and attempting to hack [[James Bond]] to death with a machete. He comes damn close to succeeding to.
** Steven Obanno theatens to cut Le Chiffre's girlfriend's hand with a machete in ''[[Casino Royale]]''. He later uses it against Bond.
== Literature ==
* In S. M. Stirling's ''[[Emberverse]]'' novels, a modified version of a machete becomes a popular weapon all across post-Change America. The main villains of the second and third trilogy are called CUTters for a reason..
* [[You Are Number Six|Septimus]], slave of the [[Night Lords]] legion, combines this with a pair of salvaged imperial [[Frickin' Laser Beams|laspistols]] to serve as a credible [[The Musketeer|Musketeer]]. He does a [[Badass Normal|pretty good job]] of it, given he's fighting alongside ten thousand year old posthuman [[Super Soldier
* In [[The Zombie Survival Guide]], Max Brooks names the machete as the best edged weapon to use against zombies, due to its size, weight, and availability.
== [[Tabletop Games]] ==
* White Wolf, makers of ''[[The World of Darkness]]'' gamelines and ''[[Scion]]'', seem to like machetes. They're practically the only non-weapon weapon that never carries "[[Improvised Weapon]] penalties"... in ''any'' gameline. In the latter, they're particularly favored by Scions of the Loa (because they were commonly used in the Haitian Revolution).
* Even ''[[Magic: The
* ''[[Dark Heresy]]'' has the Bolo Knife from Malfi, which is the 40K equivalent of a machete. One of the few knives in the game that punches through flak armour.
== Video Games ==
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** Likewise, Guan Ping from ''[[Dynasty Warriors]]''.
* The first additional weapon you pick up in ''[[Indiana Jones and The Emperor's Tomb]]'' is a machete. It's okay in combat, but it's main use is clearing thick walls of vines out of your way.
* Machete users
* In ''[[Grand Theft Auto Vice City]]'', the machete is one of your options for melee weapon. You're able to both perform a one hit kill and run with it, meaning it's nearly as good as the [[Katanas Are Just Better]].
* In ''[[Manhunt]]'' you can get a machete from a slain Wardog. It's one of only three weapons that can be used to decapitate an enemy during an execution, along with the wire and the cleaver. The machete and the cleaver will decapitate an enemy with any level of execution.
* In yet another title from [[Rockstar Games]], The Warriors, the machete is one of the most powerful weapons in the game. Unfortunately you'll only get to use it three or four times over the course of the main story.
* Machetes appear as an equippable weapon in ''[[Spelunky]]'' which asides from having better upside range (and worser range straight ahead) can also get rid of spider webs.
* In ''[[Bastion]]'', the Machete is one of the first alternate weapons you pick up. It's relatively weak at first, but has an incredibly fast attack speed even without upgrades, and [[Throwing Your Sword Always Works|can be thrown]] for a decent amount of damage. Upgrades allow it to [[Standard Status Effects|damage over time]] on any strike and throw multiple blades at once, or massively increased [[Critical Hit]] damage. The latter upgrades combined with the ludicrous swing speed make it ''devastating'' when under the effects of the [[Critical Status Buff|Werewhisky tonic]].
* Kobra, the [[Blood Knight|bloodthirsty]] Black Dragon neophyte, wields a machete as his [[Weapon of Choice]] in ''[[Mortal Kombat Armageddon]]''.
* In ''[[Far Cry]] 2'', the machete is the player character's constant companion.
== Web Animation ==
* Machetes are used quite often in ''[[Madness Combat]]'', most notably in the sixth installment, Antipathy, where [[One-Man Army|Hank]] has one from the beginning and kills several mooks with it. [[Rule of Cool|And it's awesome]].
== Web Original ==
* Vadiir and the Laughing Clown in ''[[Dark Dream Chronicle]]'' each own a Black Iron kuri machete. Hanna has mentioned that she has several [[Shout-Out|emergency]] [[Everyman HYBRID|machetes]], as well.
== [[Real Life]] ==
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* On a far more depressing note, the Rwandan Genocide was chiefly conducted by men wielding machetes. See [[Hotel Rwanda]] for details.
* The machete on the [[wikipedia:Flag of Angola|Angolan flag?]] It actually stands for ''[[Harsher in Hindsight|agriculture.]]''
* The usefulness of a cheap heavy knife whether as a weapon or a tool is such that various versions can be found. According to one source this Troper has read (somewhere or other) the original Bowie knife was large enough to be a machete in function. The Saxons of course got their name from the Sax and would call the machete a sax, although amusingly [[White Anglo Saxon Protestant]]s are more familiar with machetes and would consider a sax an antique. The Fascine Knife for [[The Engineer]] to [[Exactly What It Says on the Tin|make fascines with]] (fascines being the eighteenth-century equivalent of sandbags made from bundled twigs) came in a variety of shapes, and its purpose was to cut twigs and tie them together.
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