Trench Knives in Popular Culture
- Popular G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero character Snake Eyes has an extensive collection of spike-knuckled trench knives.
- The Zombie Survival Guide praises the trench spike as "the best compact anti-zombie weapon on earth".
- The character "Bobby Maxwell" (played by DeVeren Bookwalter) in the Clint Eastwood movie The Enforcer carried a Mk. I Model 1918 (brass knuckle) trench knife.
- Lee Marvin's character "The Sergeant" in Samuel Fuller's The Big Red One carried a Mk. I Model 1918 (brass knuckle) trench knife.
- Frank Sinatra's character "Cpt. Tom Reynolds" in the John Sturges movie Never So Few carried a Model 1917 (triangular bladed) trench knife.
- Roberta, a maid and military-trained assassin in Black Lagoon, uses a spike-knuckled trench knife amongst a vast array of weaponry.
- William H. Macy's character in the film Edmond carries a 1918 model Trench Knife.
- Roland Weary in Slaughterhouse-Five carries a three-bladed trench knife with a spiked knuckle at all times, and often describes its various properties.
- Sylvester Stallone has been an avid knife collector for many years. In the first Rocky movie, he has an M1917 (triangular bladed) trench knife stuck in a corner on top of his dresser bureau (to the right of the mirror), and there is a Mk. I M1918 (brass knuckle) trench knife stuck in a side near the top of his dresser bureau.
- Kane of Kane & Lynch: Dead Men wields a trench spike of unknown model throughout the game.
- Can be used in the MMO Dead Frontier, as a rather weak melee weapon.
- Sarutobi Asuma of the anime Naruto uses two trench knives of the knuckle-duster variety as his weapons of choice. After his death, Asuma's trench knives are passed down to his student, Shikamaru Nara.
- In the video game Fallout 3 a retro-futurist knuckle-duster variant can be obtained after downloading the Operation Anchorage DLC.
- In Call of Duty: World at War a trench knife (Bowie Knife) can be obtained in Der Riese (Part of the Map Pack 3 DLC). This version is basically the massive blade of the Bowie Knife, with the infamous Knuckleduster grip of the M1917 Trench Knife.
- In the Nintendo DS game Sands of Destruction the main character Kyrie Illunis uses two knives, one in each hand, as his main weapons. He starts out with a cooking knife but later can obtain more powerful ones such as trench knives similar in design to the USMC-issue KA-BAR.
- In the HBO television show Boardwalk Empire, one of the main characters carries a trench knife that he received during service in World War I. The knife becomes the focus of a tense scene in which the character in question jokes that the skull crusher located on the bottom was used to crack walnuts.
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