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• The scythe is seen handled by the Grim Reaper, the mythological personification of death. European folklore believes that a person sees the Grim Reaper when they die so that their soul can be "reaped", or harvested.

• The scythe, along with the Grim Reaper, is a common concern of the lyrics and cover art conjured by the popular Finnish metal band Children of Bodom.

• The scythe has appeared as a mystical weapon used by vampire slayer Buffy Summers from Joss Whedon's Buffy the Vampire Slayer as well as Melaka Fray another Slayer from a Whedon comic set in the future.

• The scythe is also a commonly used weapon in a number of video games.

• One of the most notable uses of a scythe in video games is by Death himself in the Castlevania series, where Death acts as one of the last boss characters before Dracula. In recent games, Death's Scythe has been a useable weapon.

• There is a Pokémon named Scyther, named due to its arms largely resembling scythes, and a Pokémon named Absol, which has a black scythe-like growth on the right side of its head.

• Magus, a character from Chrono Trigger, uses a scythe as his main weapon.

• Abel Nightroad, a character from the anime Trinity Blood, uses a large stylized scythe made from his own blood in combat while in his Crusnik form.

• Zasalamel, a central villain in the video game Soul Calibur III uses a scythe as his weapon of choice as well.

• Testament from the Guilty Gear series also wields a deadly scythe.

• The scythe is used as a weapon in the Final Fantasy video game series.

• In Devil May Cry, the devil sword Sparda has the ability to transform into a massive scythe via combo moves in battle. In Devil May Cry 3, the Scythe is a popular weapon, used by the Hellkeeper family members Pride, Envy, Sloth, Lust, the Hell Vanguard and Abyss, as well as by Dante himself, who uses a scythe called Nevan (the name of a succubus that transformed herself into this weapon). However, the Nevan is spliced with an electric guitar.

• In the anime Chrono Crusade Fiore summons a scythe-like weapon to stop Satella from interfering (episode 19), to break Joshua out of the Magdalene order, and to fight Satella with. In the fight with Satella; Fiore uses her scythe in twisting, attack motions as a powerful weapon; seen recently in some shows, backing away from its original purpose.

• In "Yakusoku no Chi: Riviera" ("Riviera: the Promised Land")) one of the main characters known as Serene, uses the scythe as her primary weapon.

• In Kingdom Hearts: Chain of Memories, Marluxia, uses a scythe with a pink blade.

• Scythes are used as weapons in various Gundam anime - Duo Maxwell's Deathscythe and Shani Andras's Forbidden both carry scythes as melee weapons.

• In the roleplaying game Dungeons and Dragons scythes are used as powerful melee weapons. They were carried over into the D&D-based computer game Neverwinter Nights, but weren't as useful due to a lack of strong magical ones.

• In the game World of Warcraft warlocks receive a quest at level 50 featuring a scythe called the Soul Harvester as one of the three rewards.

• In the game RuneScape, a scythe was given to the players for halloween on one year.

• The scythe also appears as a weapon in the game Postal²: Apocalypse Weekend, where the Postal dude could slice people, and with the right click throw it and cut a person in half, spilling their innards. The weapon is available for use in the rest of the week by downloading the AW7 Mod.

• The scythe is the trademark weapon of Mortarion, Primarch of the Death Guard Chaos Space Marine legion of Warhammer 40,000. Death Guard commanders commonly use daemonically possessed scythes called Manreapers.

• Manny Calavera, in the video game Grim Fandango, carries a scythe as part of his equipment as a Grim Reaper.

• Used by the Dachshund of Death to harvest souls. Uses what is arguably the smallest scythe ever made.

• In the Gorillaz DVD, the cover features all of the band members wielding scythes, and during the intro to the DVD, the camera shows the members using their scythes in a field.

• In Final Fantasy XI the Scythe is among the strongest weapons of the game, mainly equippable by Dark Knights only, and is the best weapon a Dark Knight can use. They feature high delay with high damage.

• The horror-themed first-person shooter game Clive Barker's Undying features the Scythe of the Celt as its strongest melee weapon and a significant plot item. It is an ancient magical artifact that, along with being a powerful close-combat weapon, has the ability to drain life from enemies.

• In Dragon Quest VIII Yangus can use a scythe as his weapon and can use it to steal items from enemies.

• In Soul Calibur II The character Astaroth has a large scythe named Thanatos as his ultimate weapon. It can steal health from an opponent, but you cannot block with it.

• Piastol, a pirate hunter from the RPG Skies of Arcadia Legends, carries a huge scythe with her as her weapon.

• In Guild Wars Nightfall, a new profession called the Dervish uses scythes as its primary weapon.

• Robert Frost's poem "Mowing" uses the scythe as the main symbol in one of his most famous works known to date.

• In Mortal Kombat 4 & Mortal Kombat Gold the character Noob Saibot uses a scythe as his primary weapon & the weapon has returned in Mortal Kombat: Armageddon as the choice weapon for Wu Lae.

• In the Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha series, Fate Testarossa's Bardiche has a Scythe Form.

• In the game Yggdra Union, scythes are used by the Dragon Knight/Dragoon classes.

• In the game Lunar Knights, Lucian can wield a scythe that is an optional weapon named Hel, after the Norse Goddess of the Underworld. It is able to split into four blades making it look like a large claw, and spun around for a 360 degree spin.

• In the Dynasty Warriors series, the character Yue Ying uses a scythe as her weapon, though it's called a spear in the games.

• In the game Sengoku Basara (Devil Kings in US), the character Akechi Mitsuhide (Reaper in Devil Kings) uses a pair of scythes.

• In the manga Soul Eater by Ookubo Atsushi, primary characters Soul Eater and Deathscythe are capable of transforming into scythes so that their partners can wield them; similarly, Tsubaki, partner of the ninja Black Star, turns into a kusari-gama.

• In the games "Golden Sun" and "Golden Sun: The Lost Age", two of the villians, Menardi and Karst (who are sisters) use scythes as their weapons. Menardi's scythe has the ability to down a player's character in one hit, though this is a rare occurrence.

• In the Manga series Naruto one of the villans, Hidan uses a 3 bladed scythe and also in his 'curse state' takes on a skeletal like appearence, similar to the Grim Reaper

• In the game Chrono Cross, the antagonist, Lynx uses a scythe as his main weapon.