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* Chris from ''[[Resident Evil 5]]'' uses a machete as his default melee weapon. His partner [[Knife Nut|uses a knife]].
* ''[[Fallout New Vegas]]'' has machetes that are quite obviously made from broken lawn mower blades. There is also an option to do a [[Reverse Grip]] attack in VATS. Coincidentally [[Danny Trejo]], the actor who plays Machete, is also in the game though his character is [[The Gunslinger]]. Caesar's Legion uses them extensively, in lieu of the historical ''gladius'', because there's no readily-available stock of period Roman swords in the post-apocalyptic American West.
* ''[[Postal]] 2 Apocalypse Weekend'' added three [[Throwing Your Sword Always Works|throwable melee weapons]] to the roster; among them is a machete that [[Precision
* In ''[[Scarface the World Is Yours (Video Game)|Scarface the World Is Yours]]'', machete wielding mooks are all over the place. At one point survival depends on punching out one of them, taking his blade and hacking up a gunman. Ambushes help.
* One of Sakon Shima's [[BFS|huge swords]] in ''[[Samurai Warriors]] 2'' is an oversized machete.
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== 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
== [[Real Life]] ==
* Machetes were used as weapons in a slew of uprisings and rebellions throughout the Third World, especially in Cuba. Check [[The Other Wiki]] on guys like [
** In the rural areas of Venezuela, people used it for dueling instead of swords. And there were those hardcore farmers that [[Crazy Prepared|hid them under their pillows and/or matresses]], but that was before the robbers met the firearms.
* On a far more depressing note, the Rwandan Genocide was chiefly conducted by men wielding machetes. See [[Hotel Rwanda]] for details.
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