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Can alternately be used as an easy way to render an enemy unconscious or as a lethal weapon depending on the user and media. Not to mention, it carries the advantage of being something inconspicuous in any home and useful if you need to get rid of a body.
[[Truth in Television]]: after studying the infantry dynamics of the World Wars, most modern military forces have been giving their entrenching tools a semi-sharp tool edge that can easily be honed further before a battle to increase its cutting power (although technically these have a tendency to be spades, which still count). Trowels count too.
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* Dalton in ''[[One Piece]]'' wield a large weapon that can only be described as a "Battle Shovel": that means the handle of a shovel and a large, flat blade similar to a sword.
* Leaky-Eye Luka uses a shovel as his weapon of choice in the ''Vento Aureo'' segment of ''[[JoJo's Bizarre Adventure]]''. {{spoiler|He winds up killing ''himself'' when he [[Laser-Guided Karma|tries to slam a frog with it.]] Reason? The frog was a creation of Gold Experience--meaning that any injuries it would have suffered are instead sustained by the attacker...}}
* In the manga ''[[Saga of Tanya the Evil]]'' chapter 22 we see Visha holding a bloody shovel, standing next to what looks like a decapitated enemy corpse. In chapter 26 she explains that she used her shovel as a weapon because [[Wrecked Weapon|her gun's barrel got bent]] when she [[Pistol-Whipping|struck an enemy with the butt stock]].
== Comic Books ==
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