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* Chiri Kitsu of ''[[Sayonara, Zetsubou-sensei]]'' uses a shovel as one of her preferred ways of inflicting violence (although she sometimes goes for [[Knife Nut|knives]] instead). She also uses it to bury her kills, and "to bury" is one implication of her [[Meaningful Name]].

* ''[[Pumpkin Scissors]]'' is set shortly after a [[Fantasy Counterpart Culture]] version of [[World War I]], and one of the heroes scares some would-be terrorists into backing down by mentioning that shovels (like the one he's holding) killed more people in the trenches than guns or knives did.

* In ''[[School-Live!]]'', Kurumi's main weapon against the zombies is a shovel, which she carries herself everywhere. She relies on it so much, at some point Yuki mockingly asks [[Cargo Ship|why she doesn't marry it]].

 

* [[The Goon]] uses one as his [[Weapon of Choice]] against zombies.

* Piledriver of the Wrecking Crew had a son who ran with the group at one point—Excavator. Excavator's weapon of choice was a long shovel complete with a handle at the end.

* In a story set during ''[[The Clone Saga]]'', a mercenary villain called the Pro forced Peter (who was suffering from a temporary loss of his powers) to unearth the skeleton of another clone (long story) and specifically warned him ''not'' to try this against him. However, when he got what he wanted, Ben Reilly (who was currently Spider-Man) jumped in, and after a free-for-all battle with a mob of other third-rate villains, the Pro was the only one left standing, pointing a gun at the now-exhausted Ben... [[Brick Joke| At which point Peter let him have it with the shovel from behind]], who then said, "I've been waiting for that all day, pal..."

 

* At the end of ''[[Monsters, Inc.]]'', {{spoiler|Randall is beaten with a shovel.}}

{{quote|'''Trailer Son''': Mama, 'nother gator got in the house!

'''Trailer Mom''': Another gator? Gimme that shovel! }}

* ''[[Mystery Men]]''. The Shoveler. He hits people with shovels. He hits people with shovels ''very'' well. He also has a smaller trowel in case he gets disarmed. In the original comic, he used a magical singing shovel.

* ''[[Blazing Saddles]]'': Taggart gets clobbered by a shovel-wielding Bart near the beginning of the movie.

* During the final battle of the ''[[Wild Wild West]]'' movie, Will Smith's character faces a man who does a number of flashy martial arts moves and brags that he learned them from a Chinaman. Smith [[Good Old Fisticuffs|knocks the man out with a shovel to the face]] and counters that he just made that up.

* A groundskeeper gets his head whacked off with a shovel in the first ''[[Nekromantik]]''.

 

* In the ''[[Codex Alera]]'', a young Knight Terra (really, really strong when he needs to be) prefers using his shovel over a heavy mace because he grew up on a farm and that's what he knows. He even sharpens the edge and lines it with salt to take out wind furies.

* At one point in ''[[Lisey's Story|Liseys Story]]'', Lisey uses a commemorative shovel of her late husband's as a weapon.

* In ''[[Garrett P.I.|Deadly Quicksilver Lies]]'', Slither kills a [[Super Speed]]-endowed flying killer bug by swatting it [[Home Run Hitter]]-style with the blade of a shovel.

 

* In the ''[[Pushing Daisies]]'' episode "Girth," Emerson knocks out the Murderer of the Week with a shovel. And then tells the shovel that he loves it.

** Also, when Willow gave Riley advice on courting Buffy: "[[If You Ever Do Anything to Hurt Her...|Have fun, and if you hurt her, I'll beat you to death with a shovel.]] A vague disclaimer is nobody's friend."

* On ''[[Deadliest Warrior]]'', the US Army Green Berets used their entrenching tool (a folding shovel) as their melee weapon vs. the Russian Spetznaz' spring-loaded ballistic knife. {{spoiler|The knife won that particular showdown.}}

* Since the motif is adventure and archaeology, the main [[Humongous Mecha]] of ''[[Go Go Sentai Boukenger]]''/''[[Power Rangers Operation Overdrive]]'' has a huge shovel as one of its weapons.

 

* The [[Spike Jones]] song [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=orywozdlS8s "Never Hit Your Grandma With a Shovel"] warns:

{{quote|''Never hit your grandma with a shovel

''Geeks would try to smack you with a shovel''}}

 

* [[The Undertaker]] has been known to use a shovel as a weapon during "Buried Alive" matches in which the winner has to bury their opponent alive.

 

* In Eugene O'Neill's play ''The Emperor Jones'', Brutus Jones escaped from a chain gang after killing the overseer who struck him with a whip by bringing down his work shovel on his head. When Jones returns to the chain gang in a hallucination, he relives the incident until realizing that he doesn't have a shovel.

 

* A certain polearm-class weapon in ''[[World of Warcraft]]'' is called "The Shoveler." No points for guessing its model.

* ''[[No More Heroes]]'': Holly Summers uses a shovel as a weapon, and probably also used it to dig all the holes on the beach where you fight here.

* The Grave-Digger's weapon in ''[[God of War (series)|God of War]]: Ghost Of Sparta''. {{spoiler|Of course, being Zeus he can turn it in the [[Infinity+1 Sword|Sword of Olympus]] at will.}}

* In ''[[Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas]]'', shovels can be found and used as melee weaponry. Farmers are often equipped with it.

* Shovels are a melee weapon in [[The Godfather (video game)|the videogame adaptation]] of ''[[The Godfather]]''.

* ''[[Age of Wonders]] 2'' basic Frostling unit Snowscaper uses his shovel for melee attack.

* [[Exactly What it Says on the Tin|Unsurprisingly]] the title character of ''[[Shovel Knight]]''.

 

* ''[[Housepets]]'': King finds himself [[Locking MacGyver in the Store Cupboard|trapped in a toolshed]] by Duchess, and uses a shovel found in the shed to knock her out, in [http://www.housepetscomic.com/2012/03/19/the-optimal-solution/ this strip].

 

* ''[[Xombie]]'': Dirge's [[Weapon of Choice]] is a sharpened shovel, not only useful against rogue zombies and robots, but also to salvage for spare parts to fix himself up.

* The [[NaNoWriMo|National Novel Writing Month]] forums have for some years featured the Traveling Shovel of Death, a memetic item that as many novelists as possible aim to work into their stories.

* Jenny's [[Weapon of Choice]] in ''[[The Zombie Hunters]]''.

 

* ''[[Total Drama Island]]'' has Gwen; her shovel strike of doom in season two has become a [[Memetic Mutation]] among the fanbase.

* In the ''[[Looney Tunes]]'' cartoon "The Bee-Deviled Bruin", Junyer Bear takes care of a bee on his pop's nose by hitting it with a shovel - hard enough to leave a face-shaped imprint in the blade. Pop sets the dead bee on Junyer's nose, takes the shovel, and lets him have it. And Pop gets it again at the very end.

* The Enutrofs of ''[[Dofus]]'' are still around 1000 years later in ''[[Wakfu]]'', where [[Cool Old Guy]] Ruel Stroud regularly demonstrates the effectiveness of [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XbxMeYmRdyk crazy shovel kung fu].

 

* Soldiers during WWI trench raids used what worked: knives and makeshift weapons over guns since they were much quieter. In particular sharpened entrenching tools could be swung with considerable force in cramped spaces. They were capable of killing instantly as opposed to the slow death of bayonet strikes.<ref>The heart is a surprisingly small target and lung strikes that kill in sixty seconds just aren't good enough.</ref>

* According to [[The Other Wiki]], the short-handled [[wikipedia:Entrenching tool|trench spade]] made such an effective weapon that Soviet Spetsnaz carried them even though they were generally never called upon to dig trenches.