Pickaxe

A pickaxe is a tool designed for digging, but let's face it... it's best used to dispatch someone who has thoroughly pissed you off. A pickaxe is distinguished from other types of axes by the fact that one end of the head is a sharpened point, while the other is blunt. Boring people use these for agricultural purposes or for mining, but those who really know their stuff recognize it as an effective, if albeit clumsy, tool for vanquishing zombies. One solid blow to the back of the melon will make just about any zombie drop like a bag of apples.

In television

 * Defiance: Kindzi uses implant technology to take control of Doc Yewll's physical body and threatens to have her cut her own hand off with a pickaxe.


 * Fear the Walking Dead: Chris Manawa used a pickaxe to kill his first walkers from behind a chain-linked fence in "We All Fall Down".


 * The Walking Dead: A pickaxe was also used in the "Pretty Much Dead Already" episode of AMC's The Walking Dead.

Appearances

 * Defiance: Ostinato in White
 * Fear the Walking Dead: We All Fall Down
 * Walking Dead: Wildfire
 * Walking Dead: Pretty Much Dead Already