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{{quote|"''A powerful attack which drains 5% from your opponent's Attack, Ranged and Magic. This attack takes longer to perform than a normal attack.''"|''--[[Runescape]], Dragon Pickaxe [[Special Attack]]''}}
 
A [[Sub -Trope]] of [[Improvised Weapon]] and closely related to [[Shovel Strike]], pickaxes are commonly used to break up rocks and earth but also can immediately be used as a weapon. While usually not as sharp as a conventional melee weapon, the narrow spike and heavy head of the pick make it effective against armor. Because of their original purpose, they're also exceptionally sturdy and not as likely to break as other improvised weapons. Ice picks, used as a climbing aid in icy regions, are also covered by this trope. Though smaller than mining picks, their blades will tend to have a sharper edge and the weapon will be easier to both control and conceal.
 
In real life and fiction, some [[Drop the Hammer|warhammers]] and traditional axes also have a big spike on one side of their heads for punching through armor (and, on occasion, ribcages, heads and other things).
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* [[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.
* The killer in ''[[Death On Demand]]'' uses an [http://en.[wikipedia.org/wiki/Ice_axe:Ice axe|ice axe]].
* ''Curse of the Forty-Niner'', aka ''Miner's Massacre''.
* Alissa eliminates most of the remaining characters with a pickaxe she picks up in ''[[Blood Night the Legend of Mary Hatchet|Blood Night: The Legend of Mary Hatchet]]''.
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== [[Real Life]] ==
* Leon Trotsky was assassinated with either an ice axe or an ice pick, depending on who you ask.
* The [http://en.[wikipedia.org/wiki/Horseman%27s_pick:Horsemanchr(27)s pick|horseman's pick]] and other warhammers often had large pick-ends for piercing armor.
* [http://en.[wikipedia.org/wiki/Karla_Faye_Tucker:Karla Faye Tucker|Karla Faye Tucker]] was executed in 1998 for killing someone with a pickaxe.
 
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