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{{trope}}
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{{quote|''"My cause is just... my will is strong... and my gun is very, very large."''
|'''[[Fan Nickname|Doomguy]]''', from ''the [[Doom (Comic Book)|Doom]] comic''}}
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A [[Sub-Trope]] of [[Impossibly Cool Weapon]]. See also [[Big Bulky Bomb]] and [[
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See also: [[Beam Spam]], [[Splash Damage]], a [[Macross Missile Massacre]], [[Sphere of Destruction]], [[Wave Motion Gun]], [[Lightning Gun]], [[Freeze Ray]], [[Death Ray]], [[Disintegrator Ray]], [[Frickin' Laser Beams]] and [[Recursive Ammo]]. A
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== Anime and Manga ==
* A number of weapons from ''[[Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex]]'' qualify. Saito uses a sniper rifle, Batou uses a Minigun, Ishikawa uses a bazooka filled with Anti-[[Spider Tank|Tank]] Adhesive Countermeasure ammo, Borma uses a bazooka, and Motoko herself uses a .50 caliber anti-tank rifle... [[Crowning Moment of Awesome|with only one arm.]] Of course, considering that they are all enhanced with prosthetics to various extents, it makes some sense that they can wield these weapons. Togusa, the only non-cyborg, just uses a Mateba autorevolver. In the original movie Batou also uses a man-portable HEAT SPIW (High-Explosive Anti-Tank Special-Purpose Individual Weapon), which he affectionately calls "your standard-issue Big Gun".
* In at least one occasion on the classic cyberpunk anime ''[[Bubblegum Crisis]]'', (entirely human) police officer Leon McNichol makes use of a massive anti-mecha gun that appears to be some sort of miniaturized cannon. Again seen in the episode "Red Eyes" when Linna is equipped with a prototype motoslave connected to a huge cannon capable of not only reaching but vaporizing a [[Kill Sat]] ''in orbit''. And somewhat humorously presented in ''Revenge Road'' where the ADP has to deal with a rampaging super-car that seems to have taken on a digital mind of its own. Their response is to drag out a ''decommissioned tank'' so as to have a gun capable of stopping it.
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* In ''[[Hellsing]]'', Seras Victoria, a recently turned vampire, uses a 30mm cannon that weighs 120 pounds unloaded. Her strength enables her to wield it like a mundane personal rifle, much to the shock of the human troops. And this is one of the ''smaller'' guns in the series.
** She later upgraded to an even ''[[Up to Eleven|bigger]]'' cannon. It had two 30mm auto cannons, could fire grenades, and had the ability to take down armored vehicles at four kilometers.
* Natsuki Kruger in ''[[Mai-Otome]]'' is a proud wielder of a
* There's also the experimental laser rifle Kaneda gets a hold of in ''[[Akira]]'', when it's shown that Tetsuo can halt ordinary bullets in midair.
* ''[[Trigun]]'' thrives on this trope. Wolfwood wields the [[Creepy Cool Crosses|Cross Punisher]], which actually contains a machine gun, a missile launcher, and (in the anime) between six and eight normal-sized guns. Knowing that Wolfwood's Punisher is slightly taller than him and that Wolfwood is about 1.85m, the weapon must weigh at the very least 100 kilos, which makes it a more than honourable
* Traditional [[Magical Girl]] shows usually have the heroine wielding a cute little magic wand. In ''[[Lyrical Nanoha]]'', the heroine's weapon of choice is a long magical staff [[Swiss Army Weapon|that turns into]] a
* Bolt Crank's affectation for comedically over-sized armaments of all shapes and sizes amounts to half the appeal of [[Eat Man]].
* Sakuya of ''[[Koi Koi 7]]'' can call forth any gun at any time, and has a preference for
* Hitomi Landsknecht from ''[[ICE]]'' wields one, with a gorgeous [[Steampunk]] design.
* Miyu from the ''[[Mai-Otome]]'' manga has a tri-barrelled triple [[Gatling Good|gatling]] that is almost certainly a ''[[Xenosaga]]'' [[Shout-Out]]. Unfortunately, the enemies she attempts to use it on have [[Deflector Shields]]...
* ''[[Mahou Sensei Negima]]'':
** [[Robot Girl|Chachamaru]] at one point wields a gun as long as she is tall. It's powerful enough {{spoiler|to temporarily contain an uber-powerful demon.}}
** [[The Gunslinger|Mana]]
* America's ultimate weapon in ''[[Getter Robo|Getter Robo Hien]]'' is a
* ''[[Bleach]]'' - 2nd Division's Captain, Soifon, an expert in assassinations and melee combat, truly dislikes her Bankai. Why? Because it's a [https://web.archive.org/web/20121119070936/http://images4.wikia.nocookie.net/bleach/en/images/f/f7/Soi_Fon_Bankai.jpg freakin' missile launcher]. And it makes an insanely giant boom. Fans call it ''The Banzooka''. Also, the Zanpakutou of Hanataro Yamada, Hisagomaru, can, in materialized form, release a Death Ray from the
* ''[[Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann]]'': Yoko's enormous [[Magnetic Weapons|coilgun]]-sniper rifle. The gun is about as long as she is tall (mainly because of the barrel, which is fairly ridiculous on its own, the rest of the gun itself is actually fairly reasonably-sized considering its purpose, that, and it's a [[Kinetic Weapons Are Just Better|railgun]] that can accept any ammunition that can fit into the barrel, even ''arrows''), and is capable of taking down [[Humongous Mecha]], occasionally in ''one shot''. Turned [[Up to Eleven]] in the final episode {{spoiler|where Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann, the mecha that jumps on galaxies like stepping stones gets one of its own. Sized appropriately of course.}}
* ''[[S-Cry-ed]]'': George Tatsunami's Alter, Big Magnum, is, [[Exactly What It Says on the Tin|as its name would suggest]], a Big Fucking Revolver that shoots Big Fucking Bullets.
* ''[[The Law of Ueki]]'': Any one-star or above Celestial being, most notably Robert and {{spoiler|Ueki}} has a weapon called Kurogane, which turns their arm into a giant, 6-foot cannon that completely overshadows the user in size.
* Though not actually that big, Lady Eboshi's gun in ''[[Princess Mononoke]]'' is the prototype of a
{{quote|'''Eboshi:''' "Now watch closely, everyone. I'm going to show you how to kill a god."}}
* Many of ''[[GaoGaiGar]]'''s predecessors in the ''[[Brave Series]]'' had their ultimate forms come equipped with
* In [[Transformers Victory]], Deathsaurus has the [http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Living-Metal-Destroying_Cannon Living-Metal-Destroying Cannon].
* At one point, [[Pokémon Special|Lt. Surge]] has a bazooka. What makes it awesome is its ammo...which are ''Voltorb and Eletrode''. Seriously.
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* Hiromi in ''[[Patlabor]]'' has a tendency to end up packing an enormous anti-labor rifle in the movies; in the first, it's shown being fired at a police patrol car, [[Blown Across the Room|throwing it about fifty feet into the air trailing debris]]. The one he uses in the second movie forces him backwards with every shot even though he's braced ''and'' using a bipod, and is powered enough to go straight through the head of a [[Spider Tank|Extor]].
* Miltary Labors themselves typically have relatively small rotary guns or outsized rifles; Police Labors get [[Hand Cannon|massive revolvers]] or giant-sized versions of police shotguns.
* In ''[[RahXephon]]'', the Vermillion mecha that replace the planes Elvy's squadron use in the early part of the series are armed with a massive
* [[Bakugan Battle Brawlers]] has recently unveiled Battle Gear, which contains several things that qualify as
* Guts' [[Arm Cannon]] in [[Berserk]].
* [[D.Gray-man|D-Gray Man]]: {{spoiler|Allen Walker's anti-Akuma weapon can go into this form, first seen at the "Ghost of Martel" arc.}}
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* The [[Wave Motion Gun]] from [[Uchuu Senkan Yamato]].
* The Carbon-Freeze cannon and Gekko's Moonclub, which doubles as a Bazooka, in ''[[Yaiba]]''.
* Quite a few characters in ''[[Black Lagoon]]'' carry
** The best one has to be Roberta during the "Baile de la Muerte" arc, who starts sniping at the Grey Wolf unit with a Barrett M82 anti-materiel rifle. When some FARC soldiers show up behind her, she swings it around and blasts them ''one-handed''.
* Takeo from [[Noblesse]] uses a gun that is as tall as him, and he's one of the tallest characters in the series!
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== Comic Books ==
* During the [[Dark Age]], it was remarkably common for a hero's superpower to simply be [[Superhero Packing Heat|"uses a big gun."]] This was particularly true of [[Rob Liefeld]] and those inspired by him. This is especially true the way he drew [[Cable]]; see the third image from the bottom in [https://web.archive.org/web/20120427034333/http://www.progressiveboink.com/archive/robliefeld2.html this hilarious article]:
{{quote|"I think Cable should be holding a BIG gun on this cover."
"Well yeah, he usually is."
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* In the ''[[Transmetropolitan]]'' series, Yelena Rossini briefly picks up one of these at a gun shop. She is acutely disappointed when she is not allowed to take it home, and asks whether it's because of her sex, but it turns out that the weapon is "designed for people with two backup spines."
* The [[Rare Guns|GAU Avengers]] used by the trolls (and Shiro) in ''Samurai Cat in the Real World''.
* In the [[Superman]] [[Elseworld]]s comic [https://web.archive.org/web/20110826184039/http://sayitbackwards.blogspot.com/2007/05/i-found-comic.html At Earth's End], Superman uses a comically oversized gun (it's twice his size!) to kill twin clones of Hitler.
* In the first arc of Wildstorm's ''[[Gen 13]]'', the newly gen-active Fairchild picks up a massive laser/rifle type weapon she obtained from one of the fallen I/O ops to brandish in her fight to save her new comrades....though it seemed to be more of just a chance to see a hot spandex wearing redhead brandish a gun considering she was now about 6'5 and superhumanly strong regardless.
* Gene in ''Kingdom'' gets his hands on one when he falls in with the Wild Bunch. In his own words:
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* In ''[[Daredevil]]'', drugged-up [[Super Soldier]] Nuke wields a freaking beast of a firearm affectionately called [[I Call It Vera|Betsy]] after his beloved childhood babysitter. Betsy is titanic in size and power, and even sports a kill counter so Nuke's handlers can monitor his results.
* ''[[Transformers]]'': Fortress Maximus, as the biggest Transformer in G1, carried an appropriately sized up gun, but some Transformers, notably Galvatron and Shockwave, actually transformed into Transformer-sized guns.
** Megatron's [[Arm Cannon]] was ''the''
** Probably the largest in-scale weapon ever sported by a Transformer (who wasn't Unicron ''or'' Primus, whose Armada and Energon-incarnations sported guns the size of continents) is Trypticon's main cannon, which he only uses in battle station mode; in city mode, it becomes a ''sky scraper''.
* [[Last Man Standing (graphic novel)||Gabriel]] sports one, and it looks remarkably similar to a [[Warhammer 40,000|Bolter]].
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== Fan Works ==
* The Darned Nearly Recoilless Rifle from ''[[The Nowakverse|Under The Bridge]]'' is probably one of the smallest
== Film ==
* The [https://web.archive.org/web/20070712145116/http://www.world.guns.ru/machine/minigun-e.htm M134 Minigun] carried by Jesse "The Body" Ventura's character in the movie ''[[Predator]]'', lovingly nicknamed "Old Painless." Ventura commented the weapon was like trying to fire a chainsaw.
* Nikolai from ''[[Predators]]'' also gets a minigun, which Stans actually calls a "big ''fucking'' gun" when he was ranting about how everyone else (except for Edwin) has guns while he only has a shiv.
* The [[Terminator]] ''smiles'' over the same minigun in T2, with the grip arrangement the only thing altered; [[Kid Hero|John Connor]] notes, "Oh, yeah. It's definitely you." On set, Schwarzenegger was the only person who could physically carry the minigun by himself.
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* The ''[[Hitman]]'' film of the game series has this when Udre Belicoff goes [[Guns Akimbo]] with two RPDs.
* Played completely straight in ''[[The Matrix]]'': Mouse, the wimpiest member of the team, similarly attempts to go [[Guns Akimbo]] with two drum-fed fully automatic shotguns. Sadly his attempt to provide [[More Dakka]] does not result in any deaths at all except his own. Although the film has "lots of guns", they're mostly the type that can be concealed under a [[Badass Longcoat]]. Except for when Neo fires on the Agents holding Morpheus with a helicopter-mounted [[Gatling Good|Minigun]]. (How Neo avoided cutting Morpheus to shreds when one of the Agents was ''standing behind him'' was [[Fridge Logic|not mentioned]].)
* Nearly all the Prawn weapons in ''[[District 9]]'' count as
* One of the most plausible instances of this trope appears in the sci-fi film ''[[Alien (franchise)|Aliens]]''. In order to save colony survivor Newt, Ellen Ripley straps an automatic pulse rifle/grenade launcher combo to a flamethrower '''[[Duct Tape for Everything|with duct tape]]''', along with a belt of extra grenades, making her a [[One-Man Army|one-woman army]]. In the extra material on the DVD, Sigourney Weaver actually carried the weapon around the set while shooting scenes, although it was ridiculously heavy, and had to be taken off at regular intervals.
* Hellboy's latest weapon, "Big Baby" from ''[[Hellboy II]]: The Golden Army'', is a modified shotgun with an [[Rule of Cool|insanely large]] six-shooter attachment. Deleted scenes reveal that the gun's gigantic cartridges have bottles drawn on the sides, with the message, "Suck on this" written on the shells.
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* ''[[Rambo]]'' is big on this one. The fourth movie has a fifty-cal Browning M2 machine gun, typically used as an anti-aircraft weapon, used against infantry. Due to the movie's ''very'' [[Ludicrous Gibs]] nature, the results are pretty much what you'd expect - heads blow up like overripe melons, torsos are split in the middle, limbs are torn off, and blood rains everywhere. The big gun allows the good guys to win the fight - Rambo uses it to kill more baddies than the whole rebel army does with ordinary small arms.
* [[General Ripper|General Jack D. Ripper]] in ''[[Doctor Strangelove]]'' kept an [[wikipedia:M1919 Browning machine gun|M1919A4 machine gun]] in his ''golf bag!''
* Guy Ritchie likes to turn
** In ''[[Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels]]'', one of Dog's bandits brings a Bren light machine gun to hold up the pot growers. The gun is so loud that Dog threatens to kill him if he fires it again. Ultimately a girl grabs the gun and unloads the thing on Dog's crew. In slow-motion, the shells hitting the ground sound like oil drums.
** In ''[[Snatch]]'', Vinnie brings a giant semi-auto shotgun to hold up a bookie. Sol remarks, "It's a fucking anti-aircraft gun!" Vinnie uses it to blow a hole in the wall and force the girl at the counter to lower the protective shield, but she ultimately ''snatches'' it and fires on the thieves before making her exit.
* The ''[[Doom (film)|Doom]]'' movie, where it's lampshaded by being called the "Bio-Force Gun." Of course, when The Rock's character gazes in awe at it before acquiring it, he says to himself, "Big... Fucking... Gun..."
** The Rock, in a later interview, said that he was given a choice between a segment in first-person view and the
* While there is no specific
* There's at least one older example - ''[[Fritz the Cat (animation)|Fritz the Cat]]'' picks up a cop's sidearm and yells "Whoa! This is a Big Fucking Gun!" He then fires it a couple of times [[I Just Shot Marvin in the Face|at random around the apartment]], but considering everyone in the room is either stoned or in the middle of an orgy, not much is made of this.
* The Annihilator 2000 in ''[[Beverly Hills Cop]] III'', which is not only a highly powerful rail gun, but includes such additional features as—and none of these are exaggerations—a cell phone, radio, CD player, and ''microwave oven.''
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* In ''[[RoboCop]]'' the bad guys get hold of some "Cobra assault cannons" in order to take down the otherwise bulletproof cyborg hero. One of them test-fires one of the guns, blows up a car with one shot, and declares "I ''like'' it!"
* In ''[[Superman Returns]]'', one of the early [[Mooks]] that Superman faces is a bank robber with a tripod-mounted minigun with which he holds off the cops most spectacularly. Needless to say, his attempts to [[Shooting Superman|use it on Superman]] result in [[Hilarity Ensues|hilarity]].
* In the 1997 film, ''The Jackal'', Bruce Willis's character (The Jackal, who else?), has a custom-built
* [[Four Rooms]]: The Wrong Man segement... someone with a large caliber hand gun receives a phone call from another room in the hotel.
{{quote|''"No needles here, kid. Just a '''big fucking gun'''."''|'''Sigfrieg'''}}
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== Literature ==
* ''[[Duumvirate]]'' is loaded with
* ''[[Discworld]]'':
** Largely free of firearms, as the Disc is, the trope still shows up in the form of the massive
** When the Piecemaker is first used, it uses a ballista bolt. The results were so horrifying (And probably expensive) that they just tied a bunch of bolts together instead. The results were even more horrifying. The scene in ''[[
*** In fact, when Vimes mentions seeing it tested, apparently the target vanished so did the two targets on either side, and a flock of seaguls who happened to be in the wrong place. I.E. right above Detritus. It's the only weapon that can open both front and back doors simultaneously.▼
▲When the Piecemaker is first used, it uses a ballista bolt. The results were so horrifying (And probably expensive) that they just tied a bunch of bolts together instead. The results were even more horrifying. The scene in ''[[Discworld/Night Watch|Night Watch]]'' where it is fired - as a ''warning shot''! - at an assassin is perhaps the most hilarous (and most destructive) scene in all of Discworld. Yes, this even includes the exploding cabbages.
** In ''[[
▲In fact, when Vimes mentions seeing it tested, apparently the target vanished so did the two targets on either side, and a flock of seaguls who happened to be in the wrong place. I.E. right above Detritus. It's the only weapon that can open both front and back doors simultaneously.
▲In ''[[Discworld/The Fifth Elephant|The Fifth Elephant]]'', its destructive power was so terrifying that Vimes actually threatened an inanimate secret trapdoor into opening just by pointing it in roughly the general direction he thought it was in. Later, when Detritus used it to open the front door of an enemy castle, Vimes labelled it as a national emergency rather than a weapon. Several paragraphs later:
{{quote|'''Vimes''': Detritus, you can't fire that off in here! This is an enclosed building!
'''Detritus''': Only till I pull dis trigger, sir. }}
** The Gonne in ''[[
** A [[Real Life]]
▲** The Gonne in ''[[Discworld/Men At Arms|Men At Arms]]'' is one of the more powerful devices in the ''Discworld'' setting (it actually wounded the aforementioned Sergeant Detritus), and is usually depicted as huge-bore semi-automatic rifle using a horizontal rack of six chambers.
* Neal Stephenson's novel ''[[Snow Crash]]'' features "Reason,", a gatling gun firing depleted-uranium slivers at incredibly high velocities. It's a little hard to move around because its nuclear power supply, utilizing radiothermal isotopes, uses an outboard heat-disperser that drops into the ocean. [[
▲** A [[Real Life]] BFG was briefly alluded to in ''Pyramids''. The "puntbow" used by Pteppic's ibis-poacher tutor is a low-tech equivalent of the massive boat-mounted shotguns once used by commercial hunters to shoot entire flocks of waterfowl.
▲* Neal Stephenson's novel ''[[Snow Crash]]'' features "Reason,", a gatling gun firing depleted-uranium slivers at incredibly high velocities. It's a little hard to move around because its nuclear power supply, utilizing radiothermal isotopes, uses an outboard heat-disperser that drops into the ocean. [[Post Mortem One Liner|"See, I told you they'd listen to Reason."]]
* Neal Stephenson also features a Vickers machine gun in the World War II timeline of ''Cryptonomicon'', which is less futuristic than Reason because of the lower-tech setting, but noteworthy because of the (characteristic) pages-long description of its badassery.
* [[Lock and Load Montage|Piling up plasma cannons and other big guns]] in [[The Culture|Iain M. Banks's]] ''Use of Weapons'', Cheradinine Zakalwe says he'll need "FYT" weapons for a mission. His Culture handler says she doesn't recognise the term; it stands for "Fuck You Too".
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* In ''[[Phule's Company]]'', one of the sluglike Sinthians tries to shoot a full-auto shotgun... but since said trooper is half the body mass of a human ''and'' riding a [[Hover Board]] at the time, the resulting blast sends him into a rapid spin—fortunately Phule had the foresight to disable the "full auto" feature beforehand, so no further shots are fired and the surrounding soldiers remain unpunctured.
* [[John Ringo]] is in love with this trope, with nearly every story of his involving infantry/marines.
** The ''[[Prince Roger]]'' series, co-written with [[David Weber]], features a lot of
Taken to the extreme by Erkum Pol, [[The Big Guy]] even by the standard of the nine-feet-tall-on-average Mardukans. He likes
** The M-300 grav rifles from the [[Posleen War Series]] qualify. They use gravity drivers to fling antimatter-loaded pellets (or, later, when supplies are low, regular uranium pellets) around at just below the speed of light.
** In the ''[[Into the Looking Glass]]'' series, the initial invasion by the aliens later called the Dreen were countered in part by a bunch of Florida rednecks with a rather diverse collection of weapons, including a rifle used for hunting big game that fires the [[wikipedia:.577 Tyrannosaur|.577 Tyrannosaur round]]. Later books in the series include [[Space Marines]] who regularly carry around some pretty serious armament, in their [[Powered Armor]], including one who [[Guns Akimbo|dual wields]] two cut-down .50 caliber sniper rifles.
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* In ''[[The Prisoner|The Prisoner's]]'' spy spoof episode "The Girl Who Was Death", the title character Sonia, having failed to kill Number 6 with various elaborate death traps, finally decides on the direct approach, escalating from a machine gun to hand grenades and mortars before finally drawing a bazooka on him.
* ''[[Chuck]]'' has an excellent example of this trope in action during the first episode of the third season, when Casey gets to use his minigun. [[Crowning Moment of Awesome|Gunship battles, explosions and gunfights with terrorists ensue.]]
* ''[[Kamen Rider Ryuki]]'': Kamen Rider Zolda (Kitaoka Shuuichi) wields a gun twice as long as he is tall ([https://web.archive.org/web/20120315213725/http://members.fortunecity.com/jillun/ryuuki/zoldagun.jpg picture]), and two pretty big guns mounted on his shoulders, too. And that's nothing compared to his [[Macross Missile Massacre]] [[Finishing Move]]...
* ''[[Kamen Rider 555]]'''s Faiz Blaster. That thing was HUGE. Sad its gun form was rarely used.
** Faiz's Final Form Ride in ''[[Kamen Rider Decade]]'' is the Faiz Blaster. Of course, this time it's human sized due to being the transformation of a person. Dunno if this makes it bigger or smaller than the original, though.
** Then there's ''[[Kamen Rider Kabuto]]'''s Perfect Zecter which was both a
* ''[[Super Sentai]]'', and by extension ''[[Power Rangers]]'', loves this trope. In some seasons, the Rangers [[All Your Powers Combined|combine their individual weapons]] into a
** ''[[Tokusou Sentai Dekaranger]]'' (adapted into ''[[Power Rangers SPD]]'') has a [[Humongous Mecha]] that can [[Transforming Mecha|transform]] into a
** ''[[Mirai Sentai Timeranger]]'' (''[[Power Rangers Time Force]]''). The Rangers each have very oversized cannons (to [[Narm]]y effect when they're carried around in a manner that makes them seem like... well, nearly weightless props.) Individually, they're bigger than most team-wielded weapons. And they can combine into an even ''bigger'' one for [[Finishing Move|finishing purposes]].
** The (color) Vul from ''[[Choushinsei Flashman]]'' does the same thing the Timerangers do. Unlike the Vortech bazooka, it's a revolving
** ''[[Samurai Sentai Shinkenger]]'' has Shinken Red transform his [[BFS]], the Rekka Daizantou, into a
** ''[[Chouriki Sentai Ohranger]]'' is the series that popularized the Team Bazooka concept (which first appeared in ''[[Gosei Sentai Dairanger]]'' with the Super Chi-Power Bazooka) with the Ohre Bazooka, which ran on power crystals carried by each team member. ''[[Kaizoku Sentai Gokaiger]]'' lampshades this by having Ohranger's Grand Power allow them to build their own Team Bazooka, the Gokai Galleon Buster.
* ''[[Doctor Who]]'':
**
** Jack Harkness, of both ''[[Doctor Who]]'' and ''[[Torchwood]]'', has always been fond of them. He used a modified defabricator the size of a minigun in ''Doctor Who'''s "Bad Wolf" and "The Stolen Earth"/"Journey's End". He also constructs an equally beefy weapon in the ''Torchwood'' episode "Something Borrowed".
** The Special Weapons Dalek in the old-Who episode ''Remembrance of the Daleks'' was basically a self-propelled
** Though he doesn't actually fire it, Adric uses a cannon that's not only ''taller than him'' but is meant to be ''mounted on a spaceship'' to scare slave traders away from the Doctor and Romana in ''Warriors' Gate''. Yes. You read that right. ''Adric.''
* Harper in the ''[[Sharpe]]'' series of novels and television dramas carries a [[wikipedia:Nock gun|Nock Volley Gun]].
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* In one episode of ''[[Star Trek: Voyager]]'', the crew is taken to the Q continuum where they fight in the Q Civil War. The weapons look like USA-Civil war era guns, but in normal space they cause supernovas.
* In the ''[[Buffy the Vampire Slayer|Buffy]]'' episode "Innocence", the gang has to defeat an enemy called the Judge who "no weapon forged" could kill. However, that declaration was made before Christ, and humanity has much bigger weapons. Buffy decimates him with an AT-4 rocket launcher.
* Although the Cylon Centurions in the new ''[[Battlestar Galactica
* [[The Young Ones|"Vyvyan, where did you get that Howitzer?!" "Found it!"]]
* ''[[Babylon 5]]'' has the Nova-class, a human-built battleship armed with an obscene number of
== Tabletop Games ==
* Many of the heavy weapons in ''[[Warhammer 40,000]]'' are
** It is worth elaborating that the ''standard'' Space Marine weapon is a fully-automatic gun firing rocket-propelled explosive-tipped "bolt" rounds, each of which is capable of punching through most infantry armor to detonate within the target, or with sustained fire blast apart lightly-armored vehicles. "Normal human" version reduced to "mere" .75 caliber is somewhat less impressive, but expensive and of course is a status symbol.
** Among the heaviest of what still counts as Basic ("rifle" sized) weapons are [http://wh40k.lexicanum.com/wiki/Hot-Shot_Lasgun hot-shot lasguns] (aka hellguns), used mostly by Storm Troopers. While normal lasguns are on par with carbines or assault rifles (or shotgun with slugs, if overloaded enough to lose all their advantages), hellguns are comparable to bolters in performance against armored targets - and are just as finicky and maintenance intensive, though cheaper. The weapon itself looks ''a lot'' bulkier than a common lasgun, is heavier by half, and instead of powerpack the size of a rifle magazine is fed from a 10 kg [[Ammunition Backpack|cable-linked backpack]].
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** Cone rifles, basically bazookas. Ammo ranges from solid slug to high explosive to hallucinogenic gas to tacnuke (information on the blast radius is not available at your security clearance), and is [[Blatant Lies|always clearly labeled]].
** Plasma generators, only slightly below tacnukes in sheer destructive capacity. They also malfunction relatively often, and some of those malfunctions would cause the entire thing to explode; naturally, it being ''Paranoia'', you couldn't tell which malfunction was which, and neither could the rest of the party. And you had to strap the thing ''on'' to use it; taking it off suddenly (say, to get away from the now-it's-a-bomb strapped to your back) [[Hilarity Ensues|was not easy]]. Fixing it wasn't easy, either; you have to make one repair roll just to ''turn off the alarm'', another to stop it from exploding, and a third to actually get it to fire again (good luck with that). Oh, and as usual, you have to pay a fine if you let it get damaged.
* ''[[Rifts]]'' has a number of heavy weapons, from railguns to missile launchers, with a perennial favorite being Plasma Cannons. One of the most infamous is the "Boom Gun", the railgun used by the Glitter Boy [[Powered Armor]], which is so powerful the armor has to ''anchor itself to the ground'' before firing. A different style of Glitter Boy has a gun that can only be used by it because, without its unique stabilization system, any other mecha or vehicle would eventually ''shake itself apart'' with the recoil. Another weapon of note is the ATL-1 laser cannon, which is so powerful it drains an entire energy charge for a single shot. In Russia, the troops of the warlords there are so enamored with
* The ''Proteus'' expansion set to the now mostly forgotten ''Netrunner'' trading card game paid homage to the concept with the 'Big Frackin' Gun' icebreaker card—a powerful 'gun' for the Runner player to use in cyberspace to blow away the Corps's virtual sentries, cheap to install but with a hefty activation cost per 'shot'.
* ''[[Traveller]]'' has the PGMP (Plasma Gun, Man-Portable) and the even more OTT FGMP (Fusion Gun, Man-Portable) for when there's [[No Kill Like Overkill]]. Some models can only be used if you're wearing [[Powered Armour]].
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== Video Games ==
* Note: While all videogame mounted guns probably ''should'' qualify as this trope, in truth many either [[Nerf|do far less damage than they ought to]] or [[A-Team Firing|can't hit the broad side of a barn]]. Only mounted guns that are as powerful and useful as they look should be listed.
* ''[[Doom]]'' is the [[Trope Namer]], the
* The Eridian Canon in ''[[Borderlands]]'' qualifies, firing a huge energy blast. Its damage is hard to quantify given level scaling weapon drops, but suffice to say, when you're at a level where the most powerful sniper rifle deals 100 damage and most weapons deal in the 10 to 50 range, this thing does around 1200. If only the projectile didn't move at ''glacial'' speeds...
* In ''[[Virtual On]]'', Raiden has a warship laser cannon mounted in each shoulder. The lasers are powerful enough to completely destroy lesser Virtuaroids in one shot. As if that was not enough, some versions add a hand-held twin-barreled Flat Launcher that is about the size of the smaller mechs (It should be noted that Raiden's standard hand-held weapon is a ''bazooka''). Jaguarandi uses shoulder cannons very similar to Raiden's, and has two large arm cannons (one long, one short). Then there's Z-Gradt. Z-Gradt has one HUGE deployable MEGA-LASER, with a barrel diameter that's about as large as Raiden. Raiden stands about 18 meters high. Now that's what you call a
* The ''[[Quake]]'' series:
** The
** The
** In ''[[Quake 4|Quake IV]]'' it was named "Dark Matter Gun", but functioned almost identically to Q2's
* The ''[[Unreal Tournament]]'' series features the Redeemer, literally a shoulder-mounted nuclear warhead launcher, which can be either dumb-fired or remote-controlled. Launching this puppy in a clearing full of enemies is one of the best ways to get a MONSTER KILL or HOLY SHIT.
** The "ChaosUT" mod for UT featured the "
* ''[[Crysis (series)|Crysis]]'' has the TAC Launcher, a thermonuclear grenade launcher. Unfortunately it's an event item in the single player campaign which means you can't even ''use'' it until a certain scene (in the battle before that one, it would've been very useful). But in multiplayer (and you can cheat to get it in single player), it has devastating effects simiar to the above Redeemer.
** There is also a hand-held minigun designed for Nanosuit soldiers, a giant portable machinegun based on an alien [[Freeze Ray]], and frequent use of three-shot disposible guided missile launchers.
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** An earlier level has the Elephant Gun, which can be fired one barrel at a time or both at once. Firing from the hip, or before you take enough time to carefully brace yourself, will result in your character being knocked on his ass by the recoil.
* A full-sized rocket launcher pops up repeatedly in the ''[[Resident Evil]]'' series, often used to defeat a particularly indestructible monster towards the end, and later obtained in an "infinite ammo" variant in the [[New Game+]]. ''[[Resident Evil 2]]'' upped the ante by adding an infinite-ammo Gatling gun to the arsenal.
** ''[[Resident Evil 4]]'' was mostly about the [[Hand Cannon]]s, but the bad guys got to have more fun; there was a special enemy type who carried a portable gatling gun in the final stage, while in the castle Leon would occasionally find himself faced with cultists manning totally inexplicable vintage mounted gatlings placed in the middle of rooms for no adequately defined reason. The ''Separate Ways'' campaign in the PS2 and Wii versions went the final step of having Ada shoot up a warship with a series of huge mounted guns.
** ''[[Resident Evil 5]]'' ups the ante even further by having four
** Since [[Contemporary Caveman|CHRIS BIG]], Chris can also get a handheld minigun as an unlockable reward; it's the same type as wielded in both games by boss enemies, and comes with a [[Interface Screw|huge, vision-obscuring backpack]].
** In the relaunch of ''3'', the best weapon Jill can use is the Ferromagnetic Infantry-use Next Generation Railgun, or [[Fun with Acronyms| F.I.N.Ge.R.]]. It's a mystery how she can even lift this weapon, which is literally bigger than she is (she does strain ''a little'' when doing so) and she has to hook it to a generator the size of a house simply to fire it. Naturally, she can only use it for the [[Final Battle]] against Nemesis, but it certainly does the job.
* The ''[[Ratchet & Clank|Ratchet and Clank]]'' series, where nearly every gun (and there are a lot of them) is at ''least'' half the size of the protagonist. As they [[Evolving Attack|upgrade]], they soon match the name on the firepower scale, too. This didn't stop them from making a
** RYNOs actually got smaller between the first and third games - the RY3NO is physically smaller than Ratchet (although not by much), while the original...isn't quite so compact.
** The Harbinger/Supernova from ''[[Ratchet: Deadlocked]]''. Apparently Dreadzone, the evil game show the eponymous hero gets kidnapped by, felt that the '''RYNO''' guns were ''too sissy'', and design a gun that calls ''[[Frickin' Laser Beams]]'' down from space like it's the damn wrath of god, and can be upgraded ''' ''[[Up to Eleven|99 TIMES.]]'' '''
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** With enough skill points, you can unlock the gun size modifier cheat. Which makes the the guns ''[[Up to Eleven|even bigger]].''
** To sum it up: Ratchet is the new god of [[Team Fortress 2|Engineers]]. "Use more gun", ''indeed''.
** Also of note, one of the areas in ''Up Your Arsenal'' is called "Nefarious
* [[Subvein]] has several
* KOS-MOS in ''[[Xenosaga]]'' wields a number of
* Chris Stone in ''[[Freedom Fighters (video game)|Freedom Fighters]]'' can wield a [https://web.archive.org/web/20050801085047/http://world.guns.ru/machine/mg07-e.htm Kalashnikov PK-74 machinegun] like a normal assault rifle.
* ''[[Final Fantasy X-2]]'''s Gippal has a Big Fucking ''Pink'' Gun. With a sawblade on the end.
* ''[[Breath of Fire III]]'s'' resident [[Gadgeteer Genius]], Momo, uses this as her weapon.
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** The Cracker Launcher can be aimed for firecracker shooting fun.
** The Dark Cannons used by the Subspace Emissary bad guys that automatically turns any Smash fighter into a trophy.
** Samus's fully-charged [[Arm Cannon]] possibly counts, and if not her Final Smash definitely does. There's also a
** The magical bow Zelda/Sheik uses for their Light Arrow [[Limit Break|Final Smash]] counts too, between the sheer size of the bow and its effect.
* The agents of ''[[Syndicate|Syndicate Wars]]'' (and to a lesser degree ''Syndicate'') have a whole arsenal of
* ''[[Halo]]''
** The Spartan Laser in ''[[Halo 3]]'' is a huge shoulder-mounted anti-tank [[Wave Motion Gun|beam weapon]]. One shot can burn straight through three Warthogs lined up back-to-back. Not to mention [[There Is No Kill Like Overkill|tanks, enemy dropships]].
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** Spartans (and Elites) can wield gigantic Tri barreled minigun from the hip. This is a weapon that is about as long as the average UNSC Marine is tall.
** The "AIE-486H Heavy Machine Gun" (the minigun) only uses 7.62x51mm SLAP(Sabot Light Armor Piercing) ammunition.
** There is also the massive Anti Aircraft Battery of Halo 3's campaign level, "The Storm"? The description of that very mission is "Scarab.
** And the Mass Driver in the level "The Pillar of Autumn" in Halo Reach. It fires 15 cm rounds with a kinetic energy of up to 1.1 gigajoules.
** The Plasma Launcher from Halo Reach. Each time you pull the trigger, it shoots 4 plasma grenades... that home in on your target.
** Any MAC gun
* ''[[Super Robot Wars]]'' has so many
* Done with a twist in the ''[[System Shock]]'' games. In the first game, the strongest energy weapon is the LG-XX Plasma Rifle, which fires refracting orbs of plasma that leave glowing marks where they ricochet. In the second game, the Fusion Cannon takes the title, taking up 1/3 of your view and firing huge green balls of death. The problem with both weapons? You're more likely to kill yourself than your enemies, especially in cramped quarters, and more conventional weapons prove to be more useful in later stages of the games.
* The ''[[Fallout]]'' series:
** Features a slew of
** Scratch that. The Broken Steel DLC has the shoulder-mounted Tesla Cannon that can '''one-shot Vertibirds'''. And unlike the Fat Man, it uses microfusion cells as ammo, which are laughably common. Ambushing an Enclave patrol with a sniper rifle can net you a few dozen shots with the Tesla Cannon. Also, the Operation Anchorage DLC rewards you with a Gauss Rifle ''fitted with a sniper scope''. And a knockdown effect for critical hits.
** If you are not above using glitches, enter "player.additem 5DEEE 1" into the console. You'll get what looks like an ordinary missile launcher but it's boom instantly puts the Fat Man to shame. This is the weapon that gets used in one of the game locations where you can call a nuke strike from orbit.
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* ''[[Devil May Cry]]'' started out by giving Dante a revolver grenade launcher to play with, along with an energy shooting...thing, which covered his entire forearm. This was only a taste of the silliness that would come along later.
** ''Devil May Cry 2'' had him tool around with a distinctly more excessive Stinger missile launcher instead of the grenade launcher.
** ''3'' really got into the swing of things, throwing Dante a colossal Lahti L-39 anti-tank rifle called Spiral. There's also Lady's
** In ''[[Devil May Cry]] 4'', Dante sports the Pandora, a suitcase which can transform, among other things, into a bazooka, a stationary laser turret and a flying craft equipped with roughly twenty rocket launchers, all of which fire at once. Nero, meanwhile, has a carbine-sized [[Hand Cannon]] which can be powered up to fire timed-delayed high explosive bullets.
* General RAAM from ''[[Gears of War]]'' carries a fucking ''troika/shotgun combo'' for his weapon of choice in the first game!
* ''[[Iji]]'' has several
** The MPFB Devastator
** The [[Beam Spam|Velocithor]],
** The Plasma Cannon
** The insane [[Wave Motion Gun|Phantom Hammer]], which is capable of shooting through several kilometers of rock. While they are usually mounted on space ships, the final boss carries one of these.
** The [[Names to Run Away From Really Fast|Massacre]] is the grand king of
* The first ''[[Max Payne (series)|Max Payne]]'' game, near the end, gives you a Pancor Jackhammer, which is an fully-automatic shotgun that the [[Player Character]] still fires semi-auto. This is because it can kill any Mook you can see in one shot. The second game replaced it with the actually semi-auto Striker-12, and also had Mona cart around a rather big Romak PSL sniper rifle.
* ''[[Planescape: Torment]]'' features a level 8 spell, ''Mechanus Cannon'. Casting it fires a giant energy cannon on the plane of Mechanus, with the blast passing through a portal to strike your target.
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* ''[[Marvel vs. Capcom]]''. Say it with me...[[Iron Man|PROTON CANNON!!!]]
** And in the sequel, [[Game Breaker|HYPER VIPER BEAM!!]]
* ''[[Monster Hunter]]'' has a couple of different classes of
* Harman Smith of ''[[Killer7]]'' wields a Barrett M82 anti-material rifle, which he holds aloft from his wheelchair. Keep in mind that such guns weigh about 13 kg and are used to destroy lightly armoured targets, but have recoil mechanism that allow it to be fired from the shoulder.
* The Coffin in ''[[Gungrave]]'', which the main character carries strapped to his back, can transform into either a heavy machine gun/gatling gun, a bazooka, or a quad missile launcher. Grave can also smack the bad guys with it as a melee attack.
* Ciel in ''[[Tsukihime]]'' wields the Seventh Scripture, a harpoon gun that fires holy scriptures designed to prevent reincarnation and also [[Captain Obvious|kill things]]. She weighs around 90 pounds, the Scripture weighs around ''130.'' And that's without all the optional bits added on, which can double the weight. Yea, a gun that weighs 250+ pounds carried by a 90 pound girl. It doesn't seem to slow her down much except in ''[[Melty Blood]]'' during a sub boss fight so she's actually still possible to beat.
* ''[[The Conduit]]'' has two. The SMAW rocket launcher technically qualifies as a
* In [[Lost Planet]], most [[A Mech by Any Other Name|VS]] weapons can be used on foot. [[Gatling Good|Gatling gun]]? Check. Massive shotgun? Insanely large [[Stuff Blowing Up|rocket launcher]]? A [[Beam Spam|four barreled]] gun that shoots [[Roboteching|homing]] [[Frickin' Laser Beams|lasers]]? Check, check, and check.
* ''[[Return to Castle Wolfenstein]]'' started out with fairly ordinary weapons, with the strongest being a one-shot Panzerfaust rocket launcher and a [[Kill It with Fire|Flammenwerfer]]; however, the illusion of sanity is tossed out the window around the time the mutants and zombies start showing up, with the player being given a portable "Venom" minigun and a [[Lightning Gun|Tesla Gun]] in fairly short order.
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* The Contact Beam in ''[[Dead Space (series)|Dead Space]]'' is powerful enough to vaporize any non-boss Necromorph with one hit. It's meant to blast through dense rock strata. It's also probably meant to vaporize pirates too.
* Speed Buster's Buster Launcher from [[No More Heroes]], [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MQHbGxZJb3g just look at the thing.]
* If the Discworld ballista mentioned below qualifies as a
* Numerous areas in ''[[.hack GU]]'' show an absolutely massive cannon in the background, which the [[Show Within a Show|Game Within A Game]]'s backstory says killed the gods of The World. In ''[[.hack//Quantum]]'', Shamrock {{spoiler|aka Pi}}, [[Wave Motion Gun|uses it to fire a Data Drain]].
* ''[[Mass Effect 2]]'' gives the player access to an entire ''range'' of
** The Blackstorm Projector, which is quite simply a ''portable black hole cannon.''
** Then there is the M-98 Widow Anti-Materiel Rifle. An anti-vehicle rifle, designed to never be used without being braced or for use by heavily reinforced synthetics. Shepard in the second game can use it on the move (thanks to cybernetic enhancements) and primarily [[There Is No Kill Like Overkill|against infantry.]] Also worth mentioning is the [[Shotguns Are Just Better|M-300 Claymore]], an insanely high-powered shotgun designed for Krogan use. The designation is arranged to look like BOOM.
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* ''[[BioShock (series)]] 2'' lets the player character access a series of heavy weapons, including a four-barrelled .50 calibre [[Gatling Good|gatling gun]], a high-powered rivet gun, and a ''really'' big grenade launcher. This is especially impressive considering Subject Delta holds even the largest guns single handed.
* In ''[[Final Fantasy VII]]: [[Dirge of Cerberus]]'', Vincent can arm himself with a Cerberus variant sniper rifle or machine gun with a three-foot barrel. Goes further with [[The Brute]], an ogre called Azul, who's first seen armed with a portable tank cannon, then with a giant dual gatling gun.
* ''[[Aliens Versus Predator]] 2'' featured several
* In ''[[Resistance Fall of Man]]'', the Titan Chimera are armed with a gunpod taken from a [[Spider Tank|Stalker]] mecha, though for some reason it fires huge discharges of fire rather than the usual machine gun. Given it's from the creators of ''[[Ratchet & Clank|Ratchet and Clank]]'', it's no surprise the player gets to mess around with a stack of outlandish weaponry, including a rocket launcher that shoots missiles that can hover while re-aiming themselves and [[Recursive Ammo|fire off smaller missiles]].
* These are Rudolf "Rudo" Steiner's [[Weapon of Choice]] in ''[[Phantasy Star]] II''. His ultimate weapon, the Neishot, causes [[Stuff Blowing Up]] after [[Sucking-In Lines]].
* The [[Awesome but Impractical]] Microwave Pulse Gun in ''[[Soldier of Fortune]]'', whose secondary [[Charged Attack]] causes enemies to inflate and explode like microwaved hot dogs.
* The Evaporating Particle Beam in ''[[F.E.A.R.]]'', which [[Stripped to the Bone|skeletonizes its victims]].
* ''Black'' actually ''calls'' the M249 SAW "
* The ''[[Battlefield (series)|Battlefield]]'' series tend to let the player go nuts with these; the original games featured controllable ''coastal defence guns'', while later incarnations allowed the player to carry various massive weapons around.
** ''[[Battlefield Heroes]]'' has exaggeratedly huge rocket launchers and machine guns. The Uber Tank Buster, Panzerfist, and Super Cheeser are the most notable examples.
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** The third game, ''Guerrilla'', has the Thermobaric Rocket Launcher, the most powerful weapon in the game. It produces an explosion large enough to take down the largest structure in the game, a massive bridge spanning an entire canyon, in a couple shots, and can destroy EDF missile pod tanks in one shot as well. It can take down almost any building in one shot if it is detonated inside the building, and its alternate fire just happens to be a detonator. It only has four shots (8 when fully uprgraded), but is so powerful that those few shots are all you'll need.
* ''[[Half Life]]: Opposing Force'' has the Displacer, a gun which looks and functions a lot like the [[Trope Namer]], except it teleports on a direct hit. Its alt-fire teleports the player back and forth between Xen and Earth.
* There is a
* Every installment in the Counter-Strike series has the AWP, a sniper rifle that killed anything in one hit, regardless of how much HP or Armor they had. Combined with the Desert Eagle handgun, anybody wielding one was a force to be reckoned with. The weapon was so overpowered that some servers ban the AWP from use altogether, along with the automatic sniper rifles.
* ''[[Shogo: Mobile Armor Division]]'', being a game where you pilot a [[Humongous Mecha]] has this in spades, most notably with the Bullgut, a hand held quad-rocket launcher, the juggernaut, which can be best described as an artillery piece on steroids converted into a conventional gun, the shredder which is effectively a [[Gatling Good|rapid fire version]] of the juggernaut, and on one particular route at the end game (or, [[Game Breaker|if you're into getting yelled at]], hidden away in many multi-player maps), the Red Riot (which has a music track named after it), bearing a massive blast radius, and the same firepower as a small nuke (To the point where a careless wielder can be instantly vaporized by just being at the edge of the blast). Then, there the special juggernaut wielded by one particular boss mech, which is roughly the size of the unit holding it, and is used to bring down an underground tunnel in one blast when first encountered.
* In [[Free Allegiance]]'s RPS (Rock Paper Scissors) mod, the player teams can get the
* One ''[[Marathon Trilogy|Marathon]]'' [[Game Mod]], ''RED'', has a
* The water gun equivalent of this would be the Water Bazooka in ''[[Water Warfare]].'' Of course, it's just a water gun, so all it does is just... soak people badly.
* [[War Rock]] is notable for actually having a realistic .50 machine gun. In addition to being fully automatic with unlimited ammunition, it has sniper rifle accuracy and range, kills players in at most 2 hits and can quickly destroy light vehicles. Luckily they're mostly found on [[Glass Cannon|lightly armoured vehicles]], which keeps them from being too game breaking.
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* In ''[[Metroid: Other M]]'', Anthony's plasma gun. Nuff' said.
* Imca from ''[[Valkyria Chronicles III]]'' may be the queen of this trope. Not only does she get a huge missile launcher from the beginning, but it also has the capability to fire at all enemies on the screen in rapid succession. The thing is as big as she is, and overlaps a bit with [[BFS]] in that it has a huge blade down its length. It must weigh a ton, [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-igO8pjxS5M&feature=related but she still manages to swing it around in combat like it's nothing.]
* ''[[Shadows of the Empire]]'' has the Disruptor, which is similar to ''[[Doom]]'''s
* ''[[Strife]]'' features the Mauler, a combination energy super-shotgun and radial plasma bomb launcher. [[Disintegrator Ray|That disintegrates]].
* [[Will Rock]] features the Fireball Thrower (a bazooka), the [[More Dakka|Minigun]] and the [[Nuke'Em|Atomic Gun]].
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* ''[[Jagged Alliance]] 2'' has its share of anti-materiel rifles, usually from [[Real Life]]. ''[[Game Mod|v1.13]]'' adds in even more; special mention goes to the VSSK Vychlop, a ''silenced'' .50-cal anti-materiel rifle.
* ''[[X-COM]] UFO Defense'' has the Blaster Launcher as this. This gun will let you set up to 9 waypoints before you press a button that says "Launch Missile". The missile will follow an accurate path defined by the waypoints and at the final waypoint will unleash a massive explosion that has a diameter of 20 squares! If there is a group of people close together, they will more than likely be killed in the explosion ([[Captain Obvious]]). Oh, and the Aliens can use it just like you eventually can, and this gun must be treated with ''extreme'' caution!
* ''Vandal Hearts'' has four characters who can upgrade into the Sniper class. The character art for them as Snipers portrays them as having Big [[Battlestar Galactica
* The 1993 Amiga classic ''[[Video Game/Hired Guns|Hired Guns]]'' has the Disruptor Cannon, little more than a monstrous drum-shaped gun with a small display that just reads "OK". When fired, it actually throws the character back a few spaces (or deals huge damage when the backblast hits the wall behind him or her).
* Canderous Ordo (a.k.a. Mandalore) of the ''[[Knights of the Old Republic]]'' series has a taste for these. The first time you meet him he's carrying what amounts to the blaster equivalent of a .50 caliber machine gun ... as if it was a carbine. Later he mentions his disdain for Echani weapons, calling them "delicate with too little firepower".
* Yes, even ''[[World of Warcraft]]'' has one of these, though what counts as this trope changes as new expansions are released. [http://www.wowhead.com/items=2.3?filter=qu=4:5:6:7;maxrl=90#0-5-2 Here's a by-no-means-exhaustive list.] Oh, and by the way...[[Memetic Mutation|hunter weapon.]]
* In ''[[Vector Vendetta]]'', one of the enemies is [[Invoked Trope|called]]
* {{spoiler|Final Strike, the last functioning component of the Great Sacred Treasure, used to finish Hades once and for all}} in Kid Icarus: Uprising.
* ''Warframe'' has archguns, a category of massive firearms (nearly as big as the human-sized warframes themselves) designed to be used in Archwing space combat where gravity isn't an issue. It's possible to upgrade them using Gravimags, devices that compensate their daunting weight, to deploy and use them in ground combat as well.
== Web Comics ==
* [http://www.bobandgeorge.com/archives/020411c An ad] in Bob and George features "Big Freaking Guns... And the 50-foot Mechas that come with them" for a few days.
* Joyce Brown's shoulder-fired [[Hammerspace]] cannon in ''[http://www.itswalky.com/ It's Walky!!]'', which is even ''called'' a
* ''[[Girl Genius]]'':
** The "[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20030430 Clenk Gon]". Possibly seen again wielded by Klaus [http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20070119 much later].
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* Also in ''[[Megatokyo]]'' is an actual big gun, the [http://www.megatokyo.com/strip/561 Sony P4216A Killtrunk].
* Plasma cannons in [[SSDD]] are illegal because they have a tendency to blow up their owners and anyone around them, but that doesn't stop [[Super Soldier|Tessa]] from owning one (guess how sane she is).
* Schlock
** Schlock also gives us a new euphemism for these: "Wristbreaker."
* ''[[The Way of the Metagamer]]'' gives us the aptly-named Rod of Za-Boom.
* ''[[Axe Cop]]'' has Wexter, a [[Rule of Cool|tyrannosaurus rex with
* Captain Martello, from ''[[Mushroom Go]]'', carries a [[Super Mario Bros.|Bullet Bill cannon]]. Yes, carries it.
* Subverted in ''[[Sequential Art (webcomic)|Sequential Art]]'' : Pip "borrows" a few really, really big guns from the denizens living in their basement - only to discover that they have a range of about four centimeters. He even lampshades it.
{{quote|''Pip:'' Quit looking at me like that! I just grabbed the biggest, most-lethal looking guns I saw! Admit it! They don't ''look'' like short, ''short'' range weapons, ''do'' they?!}}
* ''In MS Paint Adventures: [[Homestuck]]'', there is a
** Jade Harley gains Iron Man's Proton Cannon from Marvel vs. Capcom by combining a rifle, her [[Captain Ersatz|Iron Lass]] suit, and a proton accelerator.
** Grandpa Harley has the Blunderbuss, which makes a dramatic entry of sorts before releasing fire along with a big '''BLAM''' on its target.
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== Web Original ==
* ''[[Tech Infantry]]'' features a wide variety of plasma and other weaponry designed to be carried by heavy-weapons troopers in [[Powered Armor]]. It greatly helps that many of those soldiers inside the armor are Werewolves.
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20101126182921/http://www.wetanz.com/holics/index.php?catid=4 Big Fucking Steam Punk Guns!]
* Linkara shows off his third favorite weapon in the Silent Hill Dying Inside review: a minigun he wears on his hand. It shows up in his Doom review and 90's Kid picks it up in the Might Morphin Power Rangers review. HE also has another
* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t6CXAaI1OAo&feature=recentf This] video is titled 'Huge Guns'. Frankly, it's a bit of an understatement.
* Used by a multitude of characters in [[Marvels RPG]], availability never being an issue given the Death Ray weapon available from the shop. Rocket Raccoon got an Item of Power simply named [[Exactly What It Says on the Tin|
* ''[[Darwin's Soldiers]]'' features two notable ones. Gustave Chiumbo, a ''[[The Big Guy|massive]]'' [[Funny Animal|Nile crocodile]], wields a double barreled 4-gauge shotgun. Clyco's prototype weapon from the second RP counts too.
* The XM78 in [[Noka]]. An anti-materiel rifle designed to annihilate armor plated targets such as tanks, most likely stolen by the heroes, and for what purpose? [[Insane Troll Logic|Noka has no skills with firearms so they let him use it on a panda.]] Yeah. It's [[Comedic Sociopathy|that]] [[Rule of Funny|kind]] [[Sliding Scale of Silliness Versus Seriousness|of]] story.
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* A lot of [[Transformers]] have these.
** The Requiem Blaster from ''[[Transformers Armada|Armada]]'', which changes hands a couple times over the course of the series.
** In ''[[Transformers: Robots in Disguise|Robots In Disguise]]'', Optimus Prime, Ultra Magnus, Hightower, Mega-Octane, and Rollbar had weapons which would qualify as
** Bumblebee was seen with a gun (more like a Big Fucking Cannon) that was twice as long as he was tall in Dreamwave's "War Within" issue 5, while one of IDW's "Infiltration" issue 4 cover homages that with [http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Image:Infiltration_4c.jpg a really large caliber gun].
** Both ''[[Transformers Generation 1|Generation 1]]'' and ''[[Transformers Animated|Animated]]'' Swindle have a giant gun that can mount on top of their vehicle mode.
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* Remember the quad-guns the ''Millenium Falcon'' had? The ones that Han and Luke used to shoot down TIE Fighters in the first ''[[Star Wars]]'' film? In ''[[Star Wars: Clone Wars|StarWars: Clone Wars]]'', a ARC Trooper ''carries one of those guns mounted on his chest.''
* Almost subverted, but not quite, in the CGI-animated ''Action Man'', when Coach gives Alex Mann a device called the BSU 10000. Alex thinks that this stands for something more sophisticated than the bazooka-like gun that it looks like at first glance, but Coach fires the gun at a pile of scrap metal (blowing it sky-high) and reveals that it ''really'' stands for "Blow Stuff Up". (Possibly a G-rated version of "Blow Shit Up", considering the show's audience.)
* ''C.O.P.S.'' featured Mace, who carried a laser bazooka, and uses it in the opening to slice a hole in a reinforced concrete walkway. Also featured Buttons McBoomBoom who, along with having THE GREATEST NAME IN ALL OF FICTION, kept a pair of
* Dot's gun in ''[[
{{quote|'''Dot''': What do you think? Does it make me look too butch'?
'''Mouse''': Hmm, nah.... listen, while I'm working on the codes with Megabyte, well, you'll watch my back won't'cha?
'''Dot''': What do you think this is for? <Cocks gun> }}
* The unofficial ''[[
* [[Royals Who Actually Do Something|The King]] in ''[[Sym-Bionic Titan]]'', while fighting with the army on the front lines and already shooting a
* On ''[[My Little Pony:
* In ''[[Thundercats 2011|ThunderCats (2011)]]''
** [[The Dragon]] Grune has a huge ''[[Carry a Big Stick|kanabo]]'' [[Morph Weapon]] that transforms into an equally huge [[Lightning Gun]].
** Mercenary slaver the Conquedor has a huge machine gun that [[Abnormal Ammo|fires]] adhesive [[Sticky Situation|goo]] and an absurdly long laser rifle he likes to use when tormenting [[Cute Machines]] villagers the Ro-Bear Berbils.
** [[Played for Laughs]] in "Between Brothers" when young Wilykat [[Invoked Trope|invokes]] it by appropriating an enemy's
* ''[[Generator Rex]]'': one of Rex's forms produces a ridiculously large gun, known as the Slam Cannon. It's about three times as large as its teenage wielder, and on one occasion used ''bowling balls'' for bullets - and they were small compared to its usual mass-of-rubble rounds.
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