Machete Mayhem: Difference between revisions

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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 effectibely wield it. Unlike a [[Knife Nut|kitchen knife]], you can actually lop someone's head off. And unlike a [[Sinister Scythe|scythe]], [[Awesome but Impractical|you can actually kill someone with it]]. That could be why they've become so popular in pretty much any movie where people get hacked to bits.

== Film ==

** Saw-backed machetes are [[Truth in Television]] for certain manufacturers, though the style used in the movie was irregular, apparently hand-made.

* The worst of the [[Complete Monster]] villains in ''[[Big Jake]]'' is fond of the machete as a weapon.

* Billy uses a machete in when he decides to [[Hold the Line]] in the original ''[[Predator]]'' film. {{spoiler|He gets his spine ripped out}}. In ''Predator 2'', Bill Paxton's character also uses a machete he finds on the subway after his gun runs out of ammo. {{spoiler|He gets his spine ripped out}}. In ''[[Predators]]'' Royce uses a machete to clear a path, rather than fight a giant alien big game hunter. {{spoiler|He doesn't get his spine ripped out. Coincidence?}}

* [[Rambo]] uses a machete instead of his usual Bowie knife in the fourth movie.

** One that he hand forged the night before from a broken truck leaf-spring.

** Strictly speaking, Rambo's knife in the fourth movie is more of a golok than a machete.

* One of Clayton's weapons in Disney's version of ''Disney[[Tarzan]]'' is a machete. Given that he's in a jungle, he has a very good reason to be carrying one.

== [[Tabletop Games]] ==

* ''[[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 ==

* It's the favorite melee weapon of the Sons of Samedi in ''[[Saints Row]] 2''

* ''[[Left 4 Dead]]'' 2 includes a machete as a melee weapon for clearing away troublesome patches of zombies.

** Trope is in full effect. The machete is the fastest-swinging bladed melee weapon, with the nightstick as it's blunt counterpart. Both pale in comparison to the [[Chainsaw Good]], but using that tends to have [[Awesome but Impractical|other problems.]]

* ''[[Far Cry]]'' and the various expansions and sequel, have the machete as the primary melee weapon.

* In ''[[Dead Rising]]'', Cliff's [[Weapon of Choice]].

* Dylan from [[Dino Crisis]] 2 had a machete as a side weapon at the start of the game and enabled him to hack away at doors that was covered in heavy vegetation.

* Chris from ''[[Resident Evil 5]]'' uses a machete as his default melee weapon. His partner [[Knife Nut|uses a knife]].

* ''[[Postal]] 2 Apocalypse Weekend'' added three [[Throwing Your Sword Always Works|throwable melee weapons]] to the roster; among them is a machete that [[Precision-Guided Boomerang|worked like a boomerang.]]

* One of Sakon Shima's [[BFS|huge swords]] in ''[[Samurai Warriors]] 2'' is an oversized machete.

** Likewise, Guan Ping from ''[[Dynasty Warriors]]''.

* Machete users are smattered through ''[[City of Heroes]]'', but special mention goes to the [[Sky Pirate|Sky Raiders]], who explicitly use machetes as part of a martial style that favors fast, maneuverable close-quarters weaponry that includes submachine guns and flamethrowers.

* 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]].

== Web Animation ==