The Cheese-Eating Surrender Monkeys caption could be done with too, if you wanna have my biased opinion.
"Your kindness gives me the presentiment I can be reborn. Now, I want to believe at least in you." - Kaori YaePerhaps the picture could simply be changed to a shovel with a caption like of "The weapon of choice" or something similar?
Uh, I hate to say this, but I still couldn't make out the shovel very well. It looked more like a small hatchet to me. :P
Yeah that is not a good picture the shovel is hard to make out...
Something along the lines of [1]◊ (properly cut) would work.
Sparkling and glittering! Jan-Ken-Pon!The Shovler◊ is who I thought of first.
Reality is that, which when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away. -Philip K. DickThere's a picture of Shoveler on Improbable Weapon User. Added by myself, in fact, because at the time I didn't know we had a page for weaponized shovels.
I don't know why this didn't occur to me before, but perhaps we could find a better picture for the IWU and put him here?
Yes, because a shovel isn't improbable.
Pages Needing ImagesWhy did you change the pic from the windmill user?
Fight smart, not fair.That pic of the Shoveler is what I put in this trope first ... then it got replaced by the TF 2 one.
With a '0', not an 'O'There's that one episode of Sponge Bob Square Pants that shows a health inspector getting bashed over the head with a shovel many times in the episode. We just need a screencap of it in action, because it is very clear.
I remember the health inspector choking on a fly, getting hit over the head with an anchor and a barrel, and having a door slam on his face... I remember him being buried with a shovel, but I don't remember the health inspector getting hit with one.
Didn't the police officer smack him with the shovel near the end of the episode?
^Nah, that was both with an anchor and a barrel.
Oh.. It has been a long time since I saw it. Ok nevermind. I know there are examples of people getting bashed with a shovel that I see every now and then, but nothing else comes to mind right now.
I know for certain that a shovel has been a signature weapon in all the Evil Dead movies. Although, if I remember correctly, it's used mostly as a decapitation tool.
I do recall reading something from the Zombie Survival Guide about the Shaolin Spade being good for decapitation, so it works.
With a '0', not an 'O'I may have a potential picture for this trope, if you don't mind a black & white one.
Here's a quick webcam capture of a panel of MÄR, with Jack dealing a hit on Wizard with his trademark Battle Shovel.
If this pic interests you, I can scan it for better quality. Just ask me in that case.
EDIT : Picture edited out, no need to keep it there anymore now.
edited 28th Oct '10 1:04:56 PM by AceNoctali
"Your kindness gives me the presentiment I can be reborn. Now, I want to believe at least in you." - Kaori YaeIt's a mess and it's not even clearly a shovel until you stare at it for a few minutes. It's hard to tell the weapon from the motion lines, and even then it's not clearly a shovel and not a spear or something.
edited 26th Oct '10 3:30:28 PM by shimaspawn
Reality is that, which when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away. -Philip K. DickCome on, this can't possibly be a spear. The motion and the way he would have hit wouldn't be the same (read: it would have been a stab, not a strike). And the other end of the weapon (aka the handle) wouldn't be that shape in the case of a spear.
Okay, looks like I need to scan the pic and cut out the bubble part after all, to see how much the quality improves. Will do this tomorrow.
edited 26th Oct '10 3:40:17 PM by AceNoctali
"Your kindness gives me the presentiment I can be reborn. Now, I want to believe at least in you." - Kaori YaeHere are a few options from Sayonara Zetsubou Sensei [1]◊ [2]◊ [3]◊ [4]◊ [5]◊[6]◊
Also Magical Girl's who You Gotta Have Colorful Hair and uses a Shovel, Zigzag Paper Tassel, and a Cell Phone (in which texting the Konami Code is her ultimate strike) is freaken funny as hell.
edited 26th Oct '10 4:05:42 PM by Raso
Sparkling and glittering! Jan-Ken-Pon!I like your last one.
Fight smart, not fair.The last one, definitely. (a) Clearly a shovel; and (b) Clearly a weapon? Sign me up.
It's not only being used in an ongoing fight, it's covered in blood. Both good traits for a weapon.
Fight smart, not fair.
Soldier is a GREAT subject for this picture. However, in the current image, the shovel itself is kind of hard to make out. Anyone have a similar image of Soldier shoveling someone?