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== [[Film]] ==

* [[It Got Worse|Shit gets worse]] in ''[[The Descent (Film)|The Descent]]'' when {{spoiler|Juno accidentally puts a climbing pick through her buddy's neck after a protracted fight with monsters. After said friend is found by another of Juno's friends [[Your Cheating Heart|(who are now rivals because Juno slept with her husband)]] she gets hunted down in revenge.}}

* The demon-possessed killer of ''[[Happy Hell Night]]'' uses a pickaxe.

* ''Curse of the Forty-Niner'', aka ''Miner's Massacre''.

* The villain of ''Simon Says'' has a severe pickaxe fetish, to the point of actually constructing a machine gun-like contraption that fires them.

 

== [[Literature]] ==

* ''[[Discworld]]'''s dwarfs use special axes: one side is a pickaxe, in case you need to mine; the other is a traditional axe, in case somebody tries to stop you.

 

* In an episode of ''[[CSI: NY]]'', someone was killed with an ice pick to the neck. As it turns out {{spoiler|he was dying of cancer and he requested that he be killed this way}}.

* There was an episode of ''[[Bones]]'' where a woman was murdered with a pick used for rock-climbing in caverns.

 

== [[Tabletop Games]] ==

== [[Video Games]] ==

* ''[[Dwarf Fortress]]'': picks deal piercing damage, which is one of the best ways to damage internal organs (and thus, potentially kill a victim in a single blow depending on where you hit.) The skill that governs weapon use also governs one's skill at mining, and so your best weapon-wielding dwarfs often start off as pickaxe-wielding miners, and may never trade up the pick for a hammer or sword in their life. Try temporarily recruiting a legendary miner (so s/he doesn't run away from the enemy) and not assigning him/her a weapon (so they continue to use the pick.) Ass will be kicked.

* ''[[Runescape]]'': partially averted; pickaxes can be wielded as a weapon, but they are less effective than weapons made of the same metal. That being said, players frequently wield their pickaxes while mining, rather than simply wield another weapon, because it saves an inventory space that could be used to carry more ore. Also, some bosses have armor than needs to be broken with a pickaxe before you can actually start hacking away at it's HP with another weapon (though you can still use the pickaxe if you wish).

* ''[[Modern Warfare]] 2'': one level has you using ice picks as melee weapons.

** Well, you get to see MacTavish using ice picks as weapons. To dismount a guy on a snowmobile, no less. It's ''beyond'' awesome.

* An ordinary icepick is the closest thing ''Ferazel's Wand'' has to an [[Infinity+1 Sword]], doing ''many'' times the damage of a dagger or a fireball spell.

* The Imperial Pick from ''[[Phantasy Star Online]]'' is a very good Partisan weapon, despite being, essentially, a very large and ornate pickaxe.

* Grayback from ''[[Battle Realms]]'' wields one; justified as he and most of the Wolf Clan pre-revolt were miners.

* One of the first weapons in ''[[Drakensang]] 2: The River of Time'' is a pick, classified as a "Two-Handed Axe" type weapon.