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== Professional Wrestling ==
* [[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.
== Real Life ==▼
* 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.▼
** Soviet military equipment often had an extra, and usually unexpected purpose. Behold not just a sharp-edged combat tool, but the '''[[Crazy Awesome|Mortar]] [[wikipedia:37mm Spade Mortar|shovel]]'''.▼
* [http://www.winnipegsun.com/news/winnipeg/2010/02/21/12966566.html Winnipeg] has seen a spate of cases where shovels were the preferred weapon for assaults.▼
* In any Real Life case, shovels do have a primary advantage over other weapons, ie, you can't dig a grave with a gun. Well, you can try, but it probably wouldn't work very well.▼
* The [[Yanks With Tanks|U.S. Army]] Combatives Field Manual actually advocates the use of the [[wikipedia:Entrenching tool|entrenching tool]] as a field-expedient weapon when better alternatives are unavailable.▼
* Well the [[wikipedia:Monk's spade|Monk's Spade]] ''used to be'' an actual spade.▼
* The [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b60OZhrTB6o Chinese Military Shovel] is a [[Swiss Army Weapon]], which can be used, among other mundane things, as a bludgeon and even a shield.▼
* This trope may be [[Older Than Feudalism]]. The kunai of ninja fame was a multiple-use tool that could be used for, amongst other things, a trowel for gardening purposes, yet it's famed as an improvised weapon.▼
== Theatre ==
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{{quote|"This one time, I pounded a guy into the ground like a stake with a shovel."}}
* 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].
▲== Real Life ==
▲* 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.
▲** Soviet military equipment often had an extra, and usually unexpected purpose. Behold not just a sharp-edged combat tool, but the '''[[Crazy Awesome|Mortar]] [[wikipedia:37mm Spade Mortar|shovel]]'''.
▲* [http://www.winnipegsun.com/news/winnipeg/2010/02/21/12966566.html Winnipeg] has seen a spate of cases where shovels were the preferred weapon for assaults.
▲* In any Real Life case, shovels do have a primary advantage over other weapons, ie, you can't dig a grave with a gun. Well, you can try, but it probably wouldn't work very well.
▲* The [[Yanks With Tanks|U.S. Army]] Combatives Field Manual actually advocates the use of the [[wikipedia:Entrenching tool|entrenching tool]] as a field-expedient weapon when better alternatives are unavailable.
▲* Well the [[wikipedia:Monk's spade|Monk's Spade]] ''used to be'' an actual spade.
▲* The [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b60OZhrTB6o Chinese Military Shovel] is a [[Swiss Army Weapon]], which can be used, among other mundane things, as a bludgeon and even a shield.
▲* This trope may be [[Older Than Feudalism]]. The kunai of ninja fame was a multiple-use tool that could be used for, amongst other things, a trowel for gardening purposes, yet it's famed as an improvised weapon.
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