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{{quote|''Give 'em a bit of the old cold steel, Captain Mainwaring! [[Catch Phrase|They don't like it up 'em]], sir, they do not like it up 'em!''|'''Corporal Jones''', ''[[DadsDad's Army (TV)|Dad's Army]]''}}
 
[[Cool Guns]] are great ... until you run out of ammo. Thankfully, you won't be lugging around dead weight when you attach a sharp blade on it, allowing the empty gun to improvise as a [[Blade On a Stick]]. Even better when you can detach it and use it as is.
 
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]].
 
A [[Sub -Trope]] of [[Gun Accessories]]. See also [[Knife Nut]], [[Swiss Army Weapon]], [[Emergency Weapon]], and [[Blade On a Stick]]. [[I Thought It Meant|Do not confuse with]] ''[[Bayonetta]]''.
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== Live Action TV ==
 
* ''[[DadsDad's Army (TV)|Dad's Army]]'': Corporal Jones was always advocating the use of the bayonet - see the page quote.
* ''[[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.
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* [[British Royal Guards]] typically march around (or stand completely still) with bayonets fixed to their guns.
** It's not just for show. The Army are still very keen on their bayonets on the battlefield. There are multiple reports of firefights in Afghanistan ending when some likely lads from a Scottish battalion fix bayonets and charge. Seems the Taliban don't like it up 'em either.
** Not only the Scots. [http[wikipedia://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lewis_MillettLewis Millett|"Fix bayonets and follow me."]]
** [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3pzxb2sxbDU "Alreet get yourselves sat doon there so you can all see... THE BAYONET!!!"]
** Bayonets can be very effective in combat for two psychological reasons: First, soldiers who are prepared to fight with bayonets will often be trained to go into a [[The Berserker|certain mindset]], which is traditionally ingrained into them in Basic Training in some armed forces such as the US Army. Second, and perhaps much more relevant: Having a bunch of guys running at you with improvised spears and screaming for blood is ''pants-shittingly terrifying''.
* [http://www.laserlyte.com/Pistol_Bayonet/PB-1/PB-1.html Bayonets for pistols.]
* Before the invention of the bayonet, early gunpowder age infantry would often be split into musketeers and pikemen. The muskets fired too slowly, inaccurately, and with too short a range to reliably defend [[Anti -Cavalry|against cavalry charges]], and proved less than adequate in hand to hand fighting. Therefore, it was the pikemen's job to keep the horsemen at bay with a medieval style pike formation, while also serving as a buffer between the gunmen and hand to hand combat. The Bayonet revolutionized things by turning the musket into a spear, allowing a musketeer to both shoot volleys and stop cavalry, all while not being useless at hand to hand. Due to the early musket's aforementioned disadvantages, bayonet charges also served as a surprisingly effective means charging enemy infantry, something a single shot gun could hardly be used for. The bayonet started out not as an emergency weapon, but as primary form of armament.
* Giuseppe Garibaldi once said "The rifle is no more than the grip of the bayonet."
* Famously used in [[The American Civil War]] by the 20th Maine Volunteer Infantry under Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain. During the battle of [[Gettysburg]], Chamberlain's troops were suffering heavy casualties and running out of ammo, and he knew they would be unable to defend their vital position on Little Round Top against the approaching Confederate army. So, in a complete [[Badass]] move, he ordered a bayonet charge, which even at the time was considered an old-school textbook maneuver, but which Chamberlain realized could be used as a simultaneous frontal attack and flanking. The Confederates were utterly cowed and the 20th Maine [[Moment of Awesome|won the day]]. Chamberlain himself received a Medal of Honor for it.
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* ''[[Super Smash Bros Brawl]]'' has Wolf, whose blaster has a claw on the end of it that can deal an extra hit in addition to the fired shot.
* Imperial monks' rifles are equipped with bayonets in ''[[Final Fantasy X]]'' though they never use them.
* In ''[[Parasite Eve]] 2'', one of the numerous [[Gun Accessories|attachments]] you could get for the assault-rifle was... a humble Bayonet. Considering that you could, instead, mount it with a [[Fire -Breathing Weapon|flamethrower]], a triple-size magazine, a giant [[Static Stun Gun|Taser]], or [[Frickin' Laser Beams]], you probably won't use it. Ever ... unless you play on '[[Harder Than Hard|Nightmare]]' difficulty, where most of the good weapons and attachments simply aren't there, and ammo is rare. Then that bayonet becomes a lifesaver which will carry you through the later half of the game.
* ''[[Halo]]'': the Brute Shot, Spiker, and Mauler.
** In ''[[Halo]] 2'', the reverse-end bayonet on the Brute Shot was the second best weapon at dismembering Flood forms and the second best melee weapon in multiplayer right behind the [[Laser Blade|Energy Sword]].
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* 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.
* ''[[Wild Arms 2 (Video Game)|Wild Arms 2]]'': the bayonet is Ashley's [[Weapon of Choice]].
* Musketeers in ''[[Age of Empires III (Video Game)|Age of Empires III]]'' use bayonets as their melee attacks. It's fairly effective [[Anti -Cavalry|against cavalry]].
* 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.
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