History Main / BroomstickQuarterstaff

* ''Film/OutlawBrothers'' have the hero being attacked by a {{BFS}}-wielding villain in the final battle. Unarmed, he grabs a nearby broom and use it surprisingly well to kick ass, and defeats his opponent. Broom -- 1, BFS -- 0.

* ''WesternAnimation/TheBoondocks'': Huey snaps the head of a broom off with a kick and uses the handle to subdue the theater security, but he doesn't fare as well against Uncle Ruckus's unforeseen [[FightingWithChucks nunchaku expertise]].

* ''Fanfic/TheUltimateEvil'': Valerie Payne often ends up using a broom as a weapon, like in her first encounter with the Dark Hand Enforcers. When Valmont hears about how his henchmen were defeated by an average woman armed with a broom, he says that to be the final proof that the Enforcers are hopelessly incompetent. Later, Shendu tells the Enforcers to watch out for brooms, adding with dark humor that if Valerie had been armed with a mop, she might have killed them.

* ''Webcomic/PennyArcade'': The [[NerfArm Cardboard Tube]] Samurai -- except it's not an ImprovisedWeapon, it's his WeaponOfChoice.

Note that the title need not be taken literally. Anything vaguely cylindrical and tall as the character wielded as an ImprovisedWeapon (for which this is a SubTrope) falls under this; broomsticks and mop handles are simply the most iconic. This is also a go-to weapon for [[WitchClassic witches]], adding fight to their {{fl|ying broomstick}}ight. Anyone who prefers this as their WeaponOfChoice is an ImprobableWeaponUser. Theoretically, this can be TruthInTelevision.

* It's not unheard-of for martial artists who want to take a few lessons in the bo staff, but don't want to sink a lot of money into their first bo or are unsure if they will plan to continue, to use a broomstick instead of buying a bo. It's basically the same thing, but much cheaper.
* Ditto for students of {{UsefulNotes/Kendo}} and [[UsefulNotes/HistoricalEuropeanMartialArts HEMA]]; though your average broom handle lacks the weight of a sword, it's about the right length for practicing the basic stances. Particularly in HEMA, the longsword and the quarterstaff are actually wielded in a similar manner, so the same piece of wood can be used to practice both.
* It's not quite this trope, but several knife companies make a sheath knife with a handle that can unscrew, to allow attachment to a standard broom or brush handle. The idea being, you carry the knife on you, and when the zombies come (or whatever), you grab the nearest broom and attach the knife, resulting in a 4-6 foot stabbing spear. In skilled or at least fit hands, would definitely beat a basic knife as a self-defense weapon, and can be carried in places you can't legally have a gun.

* Pool cues can be dangerous weapons, as their weight is unevenly distributed toward the butt end. In at least one case someone had their skull cracked with one during a fight and never woke up.

* ''Literature/CradleSeries'': Eithan, being a proud janitor, uses a broom when he gets serious. A broom forged in soulfire, making it strong enough to perfectly conduct [[{{Mana}} madra]] and knock people through mountains. In ''[[LiteratureReaper2021 Reaper]]'', this is revealed to be a preference he inherited from Ozmanthus, the original patriarch of the Aurelius family. Ozmanthus was so unspeakably good at killing things, but all he really wanted to do was clean up the world by destroying the dreadbeasts that were infesting it. So he intentionally downgraded his weapon to a broom.

''All right, you primitive screwheads, [[Film/ArmyOfDarkness listen up. See this?]] ''This''... is my '''broomstick!''' ''

* ''Manga/KodomoNoJikan'': A few unnamed students use them in class before being told to clean up.

* ''Manga/NegimaMagisterNegiMagi'': The fight between Setsuna and Asuna at the TournamentArc featured Setsuna wielding a push-broom against Asuna's PaperFanOfDoom, due to bladed weapons being verboten. Earlier in the arc, a minor character wielded a traditional broom as a magic weapon; unfortunately, she was up against Kotaro. Also, Setsuna and Asuna were in [[{{Meido}} maid outfits]] because they weren't as interesting, so Chao ordered them made cute.

* ''Manga/SlamDunk'': During the fight at the gym, one of the members of Mitsui's uses the mop to hit Rukawa in the head.

* ''Franchise/{{Batman}}'': In ''Detective Comics'' #59, Batman confronts the Penguin on board a riverboat. When the Penguin pulls [[SwordCane a sword from his umbrella]], Batman grabs a mop to defend himself. The Penguin cuts through the mop handle, and Batman slaps him in the face with the mop end.
* ''ComicBook/{{Daredevil}}'': Matt Murdock and his sensei Stick would use anything at hand as staff or club, whole or broken.

* In ''ComicBook/KajkoIKokosz'', a Polish comic, Kokosz once used a broom as a very effective weapon. However, a MagicFeather was involved so he immediately started losing once it fell apart, even though the handle alone would have been harder.

* ''Film/ComingToAmerica'' has Prince Akeem (professionally trained from childhood in martial arts) do this with an unscrew-able mop handle to ward off an armed robber played by Creator/SamuelLJackson.

* ''Film/MyBloodyValentine3D'': The miner is momentarily fought off with a mop.
* ''Film/PromNight1980'': Wendy knocks the killer down with a broom (and lays on a couple of additional blows while he's done) when she escapes from the auto shop.

* ''Film/{{Takers}}'': When the crooks he is buying the plastic explosive off try to double cross him and take the money, AJ grabs a broom to defend himself and beats the crap out them.

* ''Literature/CradleSeries'': Eithan, being a proud janitor, uses a broom when he gets serious. A broom forged in soulfire, making it strong enough to perfectly conduct [[{{Mana}} madra]] and knock people through mountains. In ''Reaper'', this is revealed to be a preference he inherited from Ozmanthus, the original patriarch of the Aurelius family. Ozmanthus was so unspeakably good at killing things, but all he really wanted to do was clean up the world by destroying the dreadbeasts that were infesting it. So he intentionally downgraded his weapon to a broom.
* ''Literature/HeraldsOfValdemar'': In one of the ''Tarma and Kethry'' short stories, Tarma defends herself against an armed drunk with a broomstick because she wanted to avoid doing permanent damage if possible. Unfortunately, the drunk ends up cracking his head against the fireplace and dying. Fortunately for them, the drunk in question was well known and highly unpopular. ''[[ButtMonkey Unfortunately]]'' for them he also ran the town and was the only one the thugs he used for "law enforcement" would heed, so his not-so-bereaved widow paid Tarma and Kethry off to lead them out of town.
* ''Literature/MatthewHawkwood'': In ''Rapscallion'', Hawkwood defends himself with a besom broom. Played far more seriously than most examples, as Hawkwood shoves the twig end of the broom in his foe's face; causing dozens of sharp twigs to snap off and embed themselves in his face. Ouch!

* ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'': Any wooden object can become a stake, and Buffy often improvises in this manner to slay vampires, most notably when she massacres a vampire gang in "Into the Woods". It's also PlayedForLaughs a few times, including when Cordelia picks up a spatula thinking she will use it as a weapon.
* ''Series/DoctorWho'': In [[Recap/DoctorWhoS31E6TheVampiresOfVenice "The Vampires of Venice"]], Rory attempts to take on a swordsman armed only with a broom.

* ''Series/MissFishersMurderMysteries'': In "Blood & Money", Phryne grabs a mop and uses it to fend off a man who attacks her with a bayonet.

* In 2005, WWC booked Wrestling/BlackRose and La Bella Carmen in a [[GimmickMatches brooms match.]]

* ''VideoGame/AssassinsCreedBrotherhood'': There's is an achievement for killing someone using a broom. It is used the same way as a hammer. Brooms were first weaponisable back in ''VideoGame/AssassinsCreedII''. Taken to absurd levels when you find out that it's possible to slit someone's throat using the broom, with the same sound effects of a regular bladed weapon.

* ''VideoGame/CityOfHeroes'': One of the weapon appearances for the [[MartialArtsStaff Staff Fighting]] powerset is a broom, leading to people making characters with names "[[TheMafia Maid Man]]".
* ''VideoGame/RemiLoreLostGirlInTheLandsOfLore'': [[PlayerCharacter Remi]]'s weapon in the game is the broom she was sweeping the library with at the start. It's surprisingly strong to be able to smash objects and MechaMooks.
* ''VideoGame/ResidentEvilOutbreak'': Push brooms are available as (very weak) weapons. There's also nondescript wooden poles and crutches available.
* ''VideoGame/SpikeOut'' have some occasional mooks armed with scrubbing brushes, which they'll use as a weapon. Though if left idle, they'll actually ignore you and start scrubbing floors (until you approach them).
* Yan from ''VideoGame/CrisisBeat'', working part-time as a cleaner on a luxury ship called The Princess, when terrorists took over the ship. Escaping with her trusty broom, she spends the entire game using it to whack the asses of several dozen terrorist mooks, and can even defeat enemy bosses with it.
* ''VideoGame/CrisisCore'',:[[OneManArmy Zack]] fights a bunch of armed soldiers on the beach... wearing only a bathing suit and armed with an umbrella. [[ImprobableWeaponUser He wins.]]

* ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyVII'': One of Cid's weapons is actually a mop (well, more like a push broom...). Other characters have similar weapons, which are rather powerful but lack materia slots. The best examples being an umbrella for Aeris, and baseball bat with a nail in it for Cloud.
* ''VideoGame/JackieChanStuntmaster'' have players becoming Jackie himself and kicking ass with an assortment of weapons, one of them being brooms. The first boss fight (against a ChefOfIron) even ends with Chan using a broom like a hockey stick to send his defeated opponent out of the screen!

* ''VideoGame/SakunaOfRiceAndRuin'': There's a broom that Sakuna can equip as a two-handed weapon. It at first seems to nothing but a JokeWeapon that only deals 1 point of damage per hit, but when combined with several items it instead becomes a LethalJokeWeapon that's one of the most powerful two handed weapons in the game.

* ''Webcomic/DeadWinter'': Lizzie's primary weapon of choice is a mop. Becoming proficient with it due to her days as a Waitress, somehow.

* ''Webcomic/NeverSatisfied'': [[NoNameGiven Broom Girl]] has carried a broomstick around since chapter one, though she mainly uses it as [[FlyingBroomstick transportation]]. In the fifth round, she uses it as a weapon.

* ''Webcomic/{{Sinfest}}'': Nana [[http://www.sinfest.net/view.php?date=2012-09-09 scares off a couple of demonic bullies with her broom,]] then goes back to using it to tidy up the coffee shop.

* ''WesternAnimation/TheAdventuresOfJimmyNeutronBoyGenius'': One episode uses this in a fight between Jimmy's mother and a robot duplicate of her: after pulling out the broom, mop, and rake, and having each one snapped in half by the robot, she reveals that she keeps a [[{{BFG}} plasma rifle]] in her broom closet [[CrazyPrepared "for those tough, ground-in stains"]]. (Considering her son's experiments, a wise precaution...)
* ''WesternAnimation/AmericanDad'': In "Stan Knows Best", the stripper in the FrenchMaidOutfit uses a broom with a retractable blade in the handle.

* ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'': In the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ShaX_gy6PM0&t=0m56s season 4 DVD menu]], Marge uses a mop like a bo-staff.

* An eighty-two year old woman, Willie Murphy, used a broom as a weapon against an intruder, in November 2019, in Rochester, New York. Murphy, a regular weightlifter who can deadlift 225 pounds, started her defense with a table and a full bottle of shampoo before going at him with the broom.

* ''VideoGame/CityOfHeroes'': One of the weapon appearances for the [[SimpleStaff Staff Fighting]] powerset is a broom, leading to people making characters with names "[[TheMafia Maid Man]]".

So our hero is weaponless and about to face a horde of {{Mooks}}. He desperately looks around for anything that he can use in a pinch. He grabs the first thing he can find -- a mop from the supply closet -- and goes to town, using it as one would a SimpleStaff.

* ''Literature/CradleSeries'': Eithan, being a proud janitor, uses a broom when he gets serious. A broom forged in soulfire, making it strong enough to perfectly conduct [[{{Mana}} madra]] and knock people through mountains. In ''Reaper'', this is revealed to be something he inherited from Ozmanthus, the original patriarch of the Aurelius family. Ozmanthus was so unspeakably good at killing things, but all he really wanted to do was clean up the world by destroying the dreadbeasts that were infesting it. So he intentionally downgraded his weapon to a broom.

* ''WebAnimation/DeadFantasy'': Tifa does this with a [[UpToEleven service jack]], before removing the thick metal end.

->'''Eithan Aurelius:''' ''[faux-serious]'' He initiated an open attack against me in Serpent's Grave, and I was forced to take out ''the broom''.\\
'''Emperor Naru Huan:''' ''[dryly]'' I've never heard that expression. I assume you mean an actual broom.

''All right, you primitive screwheads, listen up. See this? ''This''... is my '''broomstick!''' ''

So our hero's weaponless and about to face a horde of {{mooks}}. He looks around for anything that he can use in a pinch. He grabs the first thing he can find -- a mop from the supply closet -- and goes to town, using it as one would a SimpleStaff (or a ''bo).''

Note that the title need not be taken literally. Anything vaguely cylindrical and tall as the character wielded as an ImprovisedWeapon (for which this is a SubTrope) falls under this; broomsticks and mop handles are simply the most iconic. This is also a go-to weapon for witches and warlocks, adding fight to their {{fl|ying broomstick}}ight. Theoretically, this can be TruthInTelevision.

* ''VideoGame/ChronoTrigger'': A mop is Crono's JokeWeapon, which he uses like a katana.

So our hero's weaponless and about to face a horde of {{mooks}}. He looks around for anything that he can use in a pinch. He grabs the first thing he can find — a mop from the supply closet — and goes to town, using it as one would a SimpleStaff (or a ''bo).''

Note that the title need not be taken literally. Anything vaguely cylindrical and tall as the character wielded as an ImprovisedWeapon (for which this is a SubTrope) falls under this; broomsticks and mop handles are simply the most iconic. (Also a go-to weapon for witches and warlocks, adding fight to their {{fl|ying broomstick}}ight.) Theoretically, this can be TruthInTelevision.

* In ''Anime/CowboyBebopKnockinOnHeavensDoor'', Spike infiltrates a chemical company [[JanitorImpersonationInfiltration disguised as a janitor]] (in another homage to Creator/BruceLee) and has to defend himself with a push-broom when detected by ActionGirl Electra. Not that he made it difficult, since he was using the broom to clean the walls for no reason.
* Rei starts out with one of these in ''Manga/HighSchoolOfTheDead'', being trained in combat with a spear. And learns the hard way early on that [[ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice impaling]] [[NotUsingTheZWord them]] with a broom handle [[RemovingTheHeadOrDestroyingTheBrain doesn't work]].
* In ''Kodomo No Jikan'', a few unnamed students use them in class before being told to clean up.
* Jennifer in ''LightNovel/KyoKaraMaoh'' uses a broom in place of a fencing foil in the second season.
* In ''Manga/MaidenRose'', a bunch of Luckenwalde students show up armed with brooms and buckets to haze Taki on his first day. By the time we see any action, it's Taki holding the broom and [[CurbStompBattle mopping the floor with his attackers]].
* The fight between Setsuna and Asuna at the TournamentArc of ''Manga/NegimaMagisterNegiMagi'' featured Setsuna wielding a push-broom against Asuna's PaperFanOfDoom, due to bladed weapons being verboten. Earlier in the arc, a minor character wielded a traditional broom as a magic weapon; unfortunately, she was up against Kotaro. Also, Setsuna and Asuna were in [[{{Meido}} maid outfits]] because they weren't as interesting, so Chao ordered them made cute.
* Ranma from ''Manga/RanmaOneHalf'' has used various things as quarter staffs such as a broom or a laundry pole.
* In the ''Manga/SchoolLive'' manga, [[spoiler:Yuki]] comes across a zombie and is forced to kill it with a mop she's holding. It's a major part of her CharacterDevelopment as, until then, [[spoiler:she'd been oblivious to zombies even existing]].

* In ''Detective Comics'' #59, Franchise/{{Batman}} confronts the Penguin on board a riverboat. When the Penguin pulls [[SwordCane a sword from his umbrella]], Batman grabs a mop to defend himself. The Penguin cuts through the mop handle, and Batman slaps him in the face with the mop end.

* The weapon of choice for Maid Man in ''ComicBook/{{Empowered}}''.

* In the ''WesternAnimation/JackieChanAdventures'' fanfic ''Fanfic/TheUltimateEvil'', Valerie Payne often ends up using a broom as a weapon, like in her first encounter with the Dark Hand Enforcers. When Valmont hears about how his henchmen were defeated by an average woman armed with a broom, he says that to be the final proof that the Enforcers are hopelessly incompetent.
** Later Shendu tells the Enforcers to watch out for brooms, adding with dark humor that if Valerie had been armed with a mop, she might have killed them.

* A janitor is found with a mop handle impaled through his head in ''Film/AmericanPsycho2AllAmericanGirl''.
* Creator/EddieMurphy's ''Film/ComingToAmerica'' has Prince Akeem (professionally trained from childhood in martial arts) do this with an unscrew-able mop handle to ward off an armed robber played by Creator/SamuelLJackson.
* In ''Film/DeathLine'', one of the cleaners attacks the cannibal with a broom. The cannibal then kills him by shoving the broomstick [[ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice through his chest]].
* A prostitute has a broom handle shoved down her throat in ''Film/EasterBunnyKillKill''.
* During the final battle against Killer Pete's gang in ''Film/GoWestYoungLady'', several of the women of Headstone are armed with brooms that they use to whack the outlaws.
* Nick teaches Kevin all about "hand-to-hand" combat using garden implements in ''Film/{{Hobgoblins}}''.
* In ''Film/{{Machete}}'', Machete uses a mop to fight his way past Booth's goons following the faked assassination attempt on the senator.
* In ''Film/TheMatrixReloaded'', Neo rips a metal post out of the ground (which is almost a case of TelephonePolearm) to use against the army of Smith clones in the Burly Brawl. The first shot has him using the block of concrete at the end as a hammer, but once that breaks he uses it as a quarterstaff.
* The miner is momentarily fought off with a mop in the ''Film/MyBloodyValentine3D''.

* Used by the hero in a prison brawl in ''Film/TheRaid2Berandal''

* Sarah Connor uses a mop handle during her asylum escape attempt in ''Film/Terminator2JudgmentDay'', until she gets a nightstick to replace it.

* In ''[[Literature/MatthewHawkwood Rapscallion]]'', Hawkwood defends himself with a besom broom. Played far more seriously than most examples, as Hawkwood shoves the twig end of the broom in his foe's face; causing dozens of sharp twigs to snap off and embed themselves in his face. Ouch!
* In one of the ''[[Literature/HeraldsOfValdemar Tarma and Kethry]]'' short stories, Tarma defends herself against an armed drunk with a broomstick because she wanted to avoid doing permanent damage if possible. Unfortunately, the drunk ends up cracking his head against the fireplace and dying. Fortunately for them, the drunk in question was well known and highly unpopular. ''[[ButtMonkey Unfortunately]]'' for them he also ran the town and was the only one the thugs he used for "law enforcement" would heed, so his not-so-bereaved widow paid Tarma and Kethry off to lead them out of town.

* Played straight countless times on ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'' -- any wooden object can become a stake, and Buffy will use it to great effect to slay a vampire, most notably when she massacres a vampire gang in "Into The Woods". It's also PlayedForLaughs a few times, including when Cordelia picks up a spatula thinking she will use it as a weapon.

* Ryotaro in ''Series/KamenRiderDenO'' uses a nearby broom on a MonsterOfTheWeek when he's fighting for his life. The broom is quickly broken. Despite its short-lived appearance, the so-named "Rider Broom" remained in the fandom's memory throughout the year.

* Wrestling/KennyOmega took up a broom as part of his "Cleaner" gimmick in Wrestling/BulletClub. He's going to "sweep" all the "trash" out of Wrestling/{{New Japan|ProWrestling}}'s super junior ranks.[[/folder]]

* In ''VideoGame/AssassinsCreedBrotherhood'', there is an achievement for killing someone using a broom. It is used the same way as a hammer. Brooms were first weaponisable back in ''VideoGame/AssassinsCreedII''. Taken to absurd levels when you find out that it's possible to slit someone's throat using the broom, with the same sound effects of a regular bladed weapon.

* Variant: In ''VideoGame/ChronoTrigger'', a Mop is Crono's JokeWeapon, but he uses it like a katana.
* One of the weapon appearances for the [[SimpleStaff Staff Fighting]] powerset in ''VideoGame/CityOfHeroes'' is a broom, leading to people making characters with names "[[TheMafia Maid Man]]".

* In ''VideoGame/ResidentEvilOutbreak'', push brooms are available as (very weak) weapons. There's also nondescript wooden poles and crutches available.
* In ''VideoGame/CrisisCore'', [[OneManArmy Zack]] fights a bunch of armed soldiers on the beach...wearing only a bathing suit and armed with an umbrella. [[ImprobableWeaponUser He wins.]]

* The first ''VideoGame/DungeonSiege'' starts with the hero having to do this with a pitchfork until he gets a real weapon from his enemies.
* In ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyVII'', one of Cid's weapons is actually a mop (well, more like a push broom...). Other characters have similar weapons, which are rather powerful but lack materia slots. The best examples being an umbrella for Aeris, and baseball bat with a nail in it for Cloud.
* Lisa from ''VideoGame/LegendOfMana'' uses her father's broomstick as her weapon of choice. Partly justified in that she uses it as a staff, which mostly have magic-related specials. That doesn't stop her from cracking skulls with that thing.
* In ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaBreathOfTheWild'', one of the melee weapons is a Wooden Mop, found either around the villages and stables or being wielded by Bokoblins. Strangely, when swung around it always makes a wet sloshing sound as if it had just been dipped in a bucket for a cleaning job, even the ones the Bokoblins use.
* The obscure arcade and UsefulNotes/Nintendo64 fighting game ''Mace: the Dark Age'' had a HiddenCharacter named Ned the Janitor. He was a reskin of Xiao Long and used a pushbroom in place of Xiao's quarterstaff.
* One of the Mages' weapons in ''VideoGame/{{Miitopia}}'' is a broom. They can even ''cast spells with it''.
* One of the weapons in ''VideoGame/MrShifty''.
* The default weapon for some party members in ''VideoGame/{{Persona|1}}'' is a mop. It's the only weapon that can be equipped by all characters. Justified, because they're all school students who got caught up in the apocalypse and have to contend with whatever the school can provide.
* A NerfArm in ''VideoGame/PillarsOfEternityIIDeadfire'' is a broom whose enchantments are allegedly only to make sweeping easier, but counts as a superb unique weapon and can cause dazing, possibly even confusion on a hit.
* In ''VideoGame/SakunaOfRiceAndRuin'', there's a broom that Sakuna can equip as a two-handed weapon. It at first seems to nothing but a JokeWeapon that only deals 1 point of damage per hit, but when combined with several items it instead becomes a LethalJokeWeapon that's one of the most powerful two handed weapons in the game.
* The ''VideoGame/SoulCalibur'' series features a broom as Seong Mi-na's unlockable [[JokeItem joke weapon]].
* The Deck Brush is a recurring weapon in the ''VideoGame/TalesSeries'', and varies wildly in how effective it is.
** In ''VideoGame/TalesOfDestiny2'', it's a JokeItem to the fullest extent, and will make Loni botch his ultimate LimitBreak in an amusing fashion if you try to use it while he has it equipped.
** In ''VideoGame/TalesOfSymphonia'', it's a LethalJokeItem for Raine Sage, being one of her strongest weapons.
** In ''VideoGame/TalesOfVesperia'', it's a LethalJokeItem for Judith, and also gives her a trio of special sweeping attacks if she's wearing her maid costume.
* In ''VideoGame/TatsunokoVsCapcom'', [[VideoGame/MegaManClassic Roll]] uses a broom as a weapon.
* In ''VideoGame/ThyDungeonman II'', the titular Dungeonman gets only a mop as a weapon, being a janitor working in a dungeon.

* In ''WebAnimation/DeadFantasy'', Tifa does this with a [[UpToEleven service jack]], before removing the thick metal end.

* Lizzie's primary weapon of choice is a mop in ''Webcomic/DeadWinter''. Becoming proficient with it due to her days as a Waitress, somehow.
* Subverted in ''Webcomic/ElGoonishShive'': Elliot (a martial artist, mind you) picks up a broom lying on the ground to defend himself... and swings it like a baseball bat.

* In ''Webcomic/{{Homestuck}}'', the nigh-omnipotent Doc Scratch uses a broom to smack around his "guest", a young girl. Later on, this same broom is used by [[AuthorAvatar Andrew Hussie]] himself to give Doc Scratch a senseless drubbing.
* [[NoNameGiven Broom Girl]] from ''Webcomic/NeverSatisfied'' has carried a broomstick around since chapter one, though she mainly uses it as [[FlyingBroomstick transportation]]. In the fifth round, she uses it as a weapon.
* Roy considers it an option in [[http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0234.html This episode]] of ''Webcomic/TheOrderOfTheStick''.
* The [[NerfArm Cardboard Tube]] Samurai in ''Webcomic/PennyArcade'' -- except it's not an ImprovisedWeapon, it's his WeaponOfChoice.
* Nana, resident CoolOldLady of ''Webcomic/{{Sinfest}}'', [[http://www.sinfest.net/view.php?date=2012-09-09 scares off a couple of demonic bullies with her broom,]] then goes back to using it to tidy up the coffee shop.

* In the ''WesternAnimation/AmericanDad'' episode "Stan Knows Best", the stripper in the FrenchMaidOutfit uses a broom with a retractable blade in the handle.
* In ''WesternAnimation/TheBoondocks'', Huey snaps the head of a broom off with a kick and uses the handle to subdue the theater security, but he doesn't fare as well against Uncle Ruckus's unforeseen [[FightingWithChucks nunchaku expertise]].
* True to form, used at least once in ''WesternAnimation/JackieChanAdventures''.
* One episode of ''WesternAnimation/TheAdventuresOfJimmyNeutronBoyGenius'' uses this in a fight between Jimmy's mother and a robot duplicate of her: after pulling out the broom, mop, and rake, and having each one snapped in half by the robot, she reveals that she keeps a [[{{BFG}} plasma rifle]] in her broom closet [[CrazyPrepared "for those tough, ground-in stains"]]. (Considering her son's experiments, a wise precaution...)
* In ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'' [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ShaX_gy6PM0&t=0m56s season 4 DVD menu]], Marge uses a mop like a bo-staff.
* SubvertedTrope in ''WesternAnimation/SupermanTheAnimatedSeries'' when Superman faces off with Parasite, who is able to [[PowerCopying copy powers by stealing them from their owners]]. He stole most of Superman's powers, as well as those of [[ShockAndAwe Livewire's]]. Superman bravely waves a mop in his face, and Parasite answers by using electricity to set it alight. Superman, unimpressed, raises the burning mop... [[OutGambitted next to a fire detector]], causing the sprinklers to activate, as being immersed in water [[WeaksauceWeakness causes Livewire's powers to act up]].
* Done in ''WesternAnimation/{{Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles|2003}}'', when the turtles are held captive on an alien prison asteroid. They find a broom closet and get replacements for ''all'' of their weapons from inside.

* In ''Anime/CowboyBebopKnockinOnHeavensDoor'', Spike infiltrates a chemical company [[JanitorImpersonationInfiltration disguised as a janitor]] (in another homage to Creator/BruceLee) and has to defend himself with a push-broom when detected by ActionGirl Electra.

* In ''Film/DeathLine'', one of the cleaners attacks the cannabil with a broom. The cannibal then kills him by shoving the broomstick [[ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice through his chest]].