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== Anime &and Manga ==
* The ''[[RPG Episode|Knight Gundam]]''/''[[SD Gundam Force|Lacroa]]'' version of [[Gundam Wing|Gundam]] [[More Dakka|Heavyarms]] weilds a bizarre weapons that's a combination of his traditional [[Gatling Good|Gat']] & a crossbow.
* In ''[[Berserk]]'', Guts's primary ranged weapon is a repeating crossbow. His ''other'' ranged weapon is a [[Arm Cannon|steampunk gunpowder cannon built into the replacement for his left arm]].
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== Literature ==
* ''[[Discworld]]'' novels, particularly the City Watch books, use this quite a bit. ''[[Discworld/The Truth|The Truth]]'' and ''[[Discworld/The Fifth Elephant|The Fifth Elephant]]'' even feature a small spring-powered crossbow that's been so heavily modified that it's a gun in everything but the most technical sense. There's also Sergeant Detritus's "Piecemaker," a giant siege weapon that fires six foot long arrows, which he converted into [[BFGBig Freaking Gun|biggest handheld weapon on the Disc]]. Although both are described, most emphatically, as being ''slow'' to reload.
** The issue with the Piecemaker is that it doesn't ''need'' to be fired more than once. Or even ever. In its latest incarnation/modification it's practically the equivalent of waving a rocket-launcher in somebody's face, in proportion to the technology level of the Disc.
** Automatic or multi-shot crossbows are alluded in at least ''[[Discworld/Men At Arms|Men Atat Arms]]'' and ''[[Discworld/The Last Continent|The Last Continent]]''. ''The Last Continent'' even used a crossbow to parody ''[[Army of Darkness]]''' famous [[This Is My Boomstick]] scene.
** Crossbows in ''[[Discworld/Night Watch (Discworld)|Night Watch]]'' carry a clip of several bolts, but the string still has to be pulled back.
** Lampshaded a bit in the end of ''[[Discworld/Guards! Guards!|Guards! Guards!]]''. The protagonists storm the palace to catch the villain, and when the gate is locked, Captain Vimes, drunk on authority and briefly forgetting he's only ''acting'' like Dirty Harry, orders Sergeant Colon to "[[Shoot Out the Lock|shoot it open!]]" Colon is not sure how he's supposed to accomplish that with a bow and arrow.
** In ''[[Discworld/Going Postal (Discworld)|Going Postal]]'', Moist, on several occasions, finds himself staring down the barrel of Miss Dearheart's... automatic crossbow, taking the place of the shotgun that a shopkeeper would normally have.
* [[David Gemmell]]'s anti-heroic assassin Waylander the Slayer used a weapon normally referred to as a "double crossbow" — effectively two small crossbows stuck one on top of the other, allowing two shots without reloading. The second shot often takes people by surprise, which is handy because he's a mediocre swordsman.
* In ''[[Romance of the Three Kingdoms]]'', Zhuge Liang is credited with inventing these, although they aren't used until after his death because of problems of implementation.
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