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This is a common form of [[Mix-and-Match Weapon]]. Many fictional examples have a blade (or blades) permanently attached or even ''molded'' to a gun, which will often be used as a melee weapon with a [[Ranged Emergency Weapon]] attached. [[Rule of Cool]] dominates in these cases.

As a look through a history book will tell you, this is very much [[Truth in Television]].

 

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* Father Anderson in ''[[Hellsing]]'' uses blessed bayonets as weapons.

* ''[[Gunslinger Girl]]'': Triela has one either attached to her Winchester 1897 Trench Gun or sheathed at her waist (with [[Badass Adorable|her size]] making it a virtual sword).

** ''[[Gundam SEED Astray|Gundam SEED X Astray]]'' has the Hyperion Gundam, which can ''[[Throwing Your Sword Always Works|fire]]'' it's beam bayonet.

 

== Live Action TV ==

 

* ''[[Deadliest Warrior]]'': As attachments for the musket of the musketeer and the AK-47 of the Taliban.

* Seen occasionally in ''[[Sharpe]]''. The elite Rifles use longer bayonets for their weapons, which [[Insistent Terminology|must be referred]] to when deployed as 'fix swords!' rather than 'fix bayonets!' as for the musket-wielding regulars.

 

* Some systems allow you to fix bayonets as a standard action. This turns your gun/crossbow into a polearm, and often prohibits firing the weapon.

* Quite common in ''[[Warhammer 40000|Warhammer 40,000]]''. They even had [[Chainsaw Good|chainsaw]] bayonets before ''[[Gears of War]]'' did.

 

== Toys ==

* ''[[Gears of War]]'': the Lancer has a ''[[Chainsaw Good|chainsaw]]'' bayonet. The original has a blade, though, but they crammed the chainsaw in when they discovered that the Locust were [[Made of Iron]], and could just shrug off a regular bowie-knife bayonet.

** ''Gears of War 3'' features regular bayonets on the older Pendulum war era variant of the Lancer, the Retro Lancer. At first look, [[Gameplay and Story Segregation|the regular bayonet seems perfectly effective at killing Grubs,]] though that weakness of the bayonet may be considered to be represented by how the bayonet on the Retro Lancer cannot be used unless the player builds up enough momentum from charging for a few seconds - melee attacking with the Retro Lancer with have the player swing with the rifle's back end instead, and running into a target with the Retro Lancer charge's with insufficient momentum will be ineffective.

* An early version of ''[[Doom]]'' includes the rifle's bayonet as the melee weapon. This was later dropped in favor of fists/chainsaw.

* In the first-person areas of ''[[Banjo Tooie]],'' Kazooie can eventually learn the Beak Bayonet to perform an ammo-less melee attack. It's only ''used'' for one task, but it's useful in the first-person areas in general.

* Saika Magoichi of ''[[Samurai Warriors]]'' has a bayonet on his musket. They get bigger with each weapon tier, culminating in his fifth weapon, which seems to have a longsword welded under the barrel.

* Several weapons in ''[[Project Reality]]'' have the option to fix bayonets on them for close-quarters melee combat. The weapons even have convincing lunge/stab animations when used in this fashion.

* The Burasta of the ''[[Super Robot Wars Z|Second Super Robot Wars Z Hakai-hen]]'' carries the Bayonet Spiker, where its handheld gun emits an energy-variant of a bayonet. Should the player make the Burasta a melee-oriented machine, its ultimate attack works in conjunction with its SPIGOT-VX [[Attack Drone|Attack Drones]] to create an [[Bigger Is Better|even bigger bayonet]].

* The M5A2 Carbine from ''[[Resistance]] 3'' has a bayonet as its first upgrade.

* Several weapons in ''[[Brink]]'' feature a bayonet as a possible customization; equipping it improves melee power, but melee strikes will no longer knock enemies down.

* ''[[Video Game/Incubation|Incubation]]'' provided bayonets on Advanced Combat Guns and Standard Assault Rifles, the second and third weapons the player received. Since the blade's damage was great (easily enough to decimate lesser aliens) and ammo was very limited, the fairly weak SAR remained a mainstay through much of the game.

** The expansion pack ''finally'' introduced another bayoneted weapon, the Light Plasma Gun... which had good damage and unlimited ammo ''anyway'', making it pointless.

** Krogans like [http://images2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20120213120608/masseffect/images/5/5d/Graal.png bayonets.]

* ''[[Dead Rising 2]]'', which uses [[MacGyvering]] as a gimmick, gives you the option of creating a shotgun with a pitchfork bayonet.

 

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