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A BFG chiefly differs from a [[Hand Cannon]] in that the [[Hand Cannon]] is large ''for a pistol'', while the BFG is large for ... well, it's just plain ''large''. A BFG, possibly after [[Sucking-In Lines]], may cause people to be [[Blown Across the Room]] from the mere recoil of firing it.

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 BFG will almost certainly yield [[Stuff Blowing Up]], and will likely [[More Dakka|possess additional dakka]]. A [[Swiss Army Gun]] tends to also be a BFG, as does a [[Bigger Stick]]. Might cause the user to be [[Trigger Happy]].

Not to be confused with [[Roald Dahl]]'s book and character ''[[The BFG]]'' (Big Friendly Giant), TNA Wrestling's show Bound for Glory, or [[Big Friendly Dog]]. [[Freud Was Right|Or another type of gun.]]

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* 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]] LOVES the BFG: she does [[Guns Akimbo]] with Desert Eagles, and when she was hired to prevent love confessions in a determinated area she did it by shooting her targets with a tranquillizer-loaded, 14 kg anti-materiel rifle. At one point, she even uses an anti-tank machine gun to fight demons.

* America's ultimate weapon in ''[[Getter Robo|Getter Robo Hien]]'' is a BFG, made by ''transforming the Statue of Liberty into a laser cannon'' which is then wielded by one of their [[Humongous Mecha]]. This might be a shout-out to the Statue of Liberty Cannon from ''[[G Gundam]]''.

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* ''[[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'' BFG from Generation 1, however in a strange twist he himself transformed from one of the largest core Transformers into a Transformer ''handgun'' (a Walther P-38) which ''wasn't'' a [[Hand Cannon]]. His BFG became the ''scope''.

** 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|Gabriel]] sports one, and it looks remarkably similar to a [[Warhammer 40000|Bolter]].

* ''[[Empowered]]'' has ThugBoy's 50-cal [[Sniper Rifle]], although it gets destroyed during a fight. And the B.F.Gunnaz who are named after this trope.

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* In ''[[Tremors]]'', the "Elephant Gun" used in the Rec Room. In reality, an 8 gauge side-by-side shotgun. Probably fired roughly a 2 ounce slug of hardened lead, if it was loaded for elephant. (Why wouldn't it be? [[Crazy Prepared|You never know]] when you will face a war elephant.) In the sequel, there's the Grizzly Big Boar, a single shot .50 caliber rifle. Unfortunately, it was [[Nice Job Breaking It, Hero|a bit too big]].

* ''Tremors 4'' goes that extra mile, featuring an 8-foot 4-inch, 94-pound punt gun with a two-inch ("A" Gauge) barrel (see Real Life below). It was actually a prop built for the film using a triple-loaded 12-gauge inside to produce a muzzle flash; the barrel's inside was sprayed with WD40 prior to shooting to add more smoke. This is because apparently there are very few functional punt guns left in America today.

* In the [[The Western|western]] ''[[Appaloosa]]'', Viggo Mortensen's character carries a mammoth 8-gauge shotgun around with him at all times. The gun weighed 11 lbs and was 50 inches long. In the behind the scenes footage, the filmmakers described it as a punt gun, mounted to the sides of riverbarges and fired into large flocks of birds. In reality, 8-gauge shotguns would be considered ''too small'' to be a punt gun.

* In ''[[Eraser]]'', Arnold (who else?) wields two railguns which can see through walls and fire bullets at near-lightspeed; he mostly fires them from the hip like machine guns. An enemy [[Cold Sniper]] also uses one for most of the movie.

* Any projectile carried by a [[Transformers (film)|Transformer]] automatically fits this trope due to being wielded by alien robots that on average are 20 feet in height. Although in particular, [[Transformers Film Series|Ironhide and Optimus]] fit this quite well. According to the modelers, Ironhide's cannons have more pieces than some of the other Transformers in their ''entirety''. Megatron takes it a step further with the ''enormous'' Fusion Cannon he forms by slamming his hands together in the first movie.

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* ''[[Duumvirate]]'' is loaded with [[BF Gs]]. Fusion-powered microwave lasers, ''atomic slugs'', and there's a subplot involving "room eraser" spread weapons.

* ''[[Discworld]]'':

** Largely free of firearms, as the Disc is, the trope still shows up in the form of the massive 900 kg ballista siege weapon carried by Sergeant Detritus (an enormous troll made of rock) [[Automatic Crossbows|as a crossbow]], "The Piecemaker." It is called this because the iron stone-piercing spear it used to fire was replaced with a bundle of arrows, which was presumably supposed to allow it to operated as an area weapon but unintentionally results in the arrows disintegrating into an expanding cone of burning wood fragments when fired, making it more like a (very inaccurate) shotgun that can blow holes through walls, doors, and presumably people. 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 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. }}

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* [[The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy|The Guide]] is not very specific about its size, but the Kill-O-Zap gun is definitely not a gun to be trifled with: "The designer of the gun had clearly not been instructed to beat about the bush. "Make it evil," he'd been told. "Make it totally clear that this gun has a right end and a wrong end. Make it totally clear to anyone standing at the wrong end that things are going badly for them. If that means sticking all sort of spikes and prongs and blackened bits all over it then so be it. This is not a gun for hanging over the fireplace or sticking in the umbrella stand, it is a gun for going out and making people miserable with."

* [[Monster Hunter International]] features [[I Call It Vera|Abomination]], a fully automatic shotgun with attached grenade launcher, which gets a more detailed description than most of the human (or otherwise) characters.

* Desmond Bagley's thriller ''The Tightrope Men'' features a punt gun: an extremely large shotgun generally 4 gauge and bigger, which were mounted to the sides of riverbarges and used to fire into large flocks of water fowl to harvest many birds with a single discharge. One of the protagonists recognises it for what it is, and they actually use it in the appropriate way, blasting a mook with birdshot. One character remarks, "What weapon did you have on that punt? A bloody flamethrower?"

* Ferik Jurgen, aide of [[Ciaphas Cain]] ('''HERO OF THE IMPERIUM''') normally carries a melta, a squad support anti-tank weapon, as his personal weapon.

* {{spoiler|Vilmain}}, from the novel ''[[Malevil]]'', has a bazooka. Hardly the most massive weapon on this page, it is by the far the heaviest weapon in post-World War III rural France, were the only other weapons are shotguns. While not powerful enough to really ''damage'' the protagonist's castle, feet-thick stone being greater then a few inches of steel, it's more then enough to destroy the gates and kill the defenders behind their fortifications.

* Adam Anders of ''[[Domina]]'' has a 6-gauge "Saint George" ([[Stealth Pun|as in the dragon slayer]]) shotgun as one of his main weapons. Although that's pretty small compared to everything else on this page, that's basically the biggest shotguns get in real life.

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** ''[[Samurai Sentai Shinkenger]]'' has Shinken Red transform his [[BFS]], the Rekka Daizantou, into a BFG for the finisher attack. The "bullets" in this case are discs provided by the other Shinkengers.

** ''[[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]]'':

** BFGs are the weapon of choice against Daleks in "The Stolen Earth". The one {{spoiler|Rose}} carries looks like it weighs half as much as she does, and {{spoiler|Mickey and Jackie}} wield equally impressive versions. They were first used against the Cybermen in Series 2, though, by the Preachers.

** 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 BFG that first blew down a large metal gate before [[Curb Stomp Battle|taking out an entire rival Dalek squad]]. And they say its gun is ''fifty'' times more powerful than the normal Dalek gun. There's a reason the other Daleks called it "the Abomination".

** 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]].

* Where would this article be without Jayne of ''[[Firefly]]'', who never left ''Serenity'' without enough firepower to take out a ship? Hey! She has a ''[[I Call It Vera|name]]'', you know.

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** [[Space Pirate|Kaptin Badrukk]] has a particularly awesome example - it was taken from an Ogryn (basically an Ogre {{smallcaps| [[In Space|IN SPACE!]]}}) and is loaded with highly unstable plasma cylinders. ''Standing near it'' is a death sentence. Though this is less due to its firepower, and more because it's hotter than Chernobyl. (Badrukk himself wears lead under his kaptin's uniform, making him ''marginally'' less likely to die.)

** The Orks also have Shokk Attack Guns, which teleport a small Goblin through hell into an enemy's insides. Yes, really.

** One Ork Warboss loved his gun so much he went back in time to kill his past self so he could have another one. You heard me.

** Not to mention the ultimate big gun of the Warhammer40000: [[Names to Run Away From Really Fast|Abaddon the Despoiler's]] flagship, ''Planet Killer''.

** The Imperium also has a few of these, usually an ironclad that has been hollowed out and given a huge energy gun down its keel.

** The Nova Cannons on Imperial starships.

* ''Paranoia'' has a couple of 'em:

** 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]].

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* 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 "BFG 20K", which fired two variations of energy balls - tiny red ones that would home in on other players, or a giant green one a la ''Doom'''s own BFG. Also on the mod scene, a mod for ''Unreal Tournament 2003'' and ''[[Unreal Tournament 2004]]'' took the ''Q3'' BFG to its logical extreme with the "OMFG Gun" -- a 30-round rocket launcher with a fire rate of 30 rounds per second. Oh My Friggin'/Fuckin' God indeed.

* ''[[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.

** The expansion pack introduces the PAX Cannon which you can freely use (bonus points for infinite ammo), but you only acquire it some 2 minutes before the end of the game.

** The anti-vehicle turret in ''Warhead'' is also a sight to behold, knocking vehicles around like toys and taking down helicopters with a handful of shots.

* ''[[Tomb Raider]] 3'' has the rocket launcher, an extremely powerful weapon collected about halfway through the game. There is a very small amount of ammo for it in the entire game (and that's if you explore almost everything), so the player must use it very, '''very''' wisely. Since most enemies are too weak for the gun to be used on them and only a couple of the bosses are vulnerable to weapons (although it is very effective in those instances), the rocket launcher is [[Too Awesome to Use]].

* Every game in the ''[[Grand Theft Auto]]'' up until [[Grand Theft Auto IV|4]] features at least one of these, which, against all the laws of physics, ''can be fired by the player while standing still''. And yet the player characters are supposed to be average humans.

* Vulcan Raven of ''[[Metal Gear Solid]]''. His codename is based on the fact that he wields an [http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/89/Vulcan1.jpg M61 Vulcan gatling gun]. A normal Vulcan gun is 188 cm in height and weighs 112 kg, and he not only hefts the gun but also its ammunition (but not a power supply): an ammo drum the size of a refrigerator. In ''[[Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty]]'', we have Fortune, also known as Lady Luck, who carries a rather large railgun. Her motion actor said that the dummy gun she had to point around was so big and heavy she 'had bruises all over [her] body' from handling it. It was made of wood and cardboard -- one can only imagine the weight of the real thing. To top it off, Colonel Volgin wields a Davy Crockett recoilless launcher in the [[Metal Gear Solid 3 Snake Eater|third game]], even though he only uses it once in a cutscene.

** In ''[[Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots]]'', {{spoiler|1=Snake ''finally'' gets his own hands on one after defeating Crying Wolf, which is the one Fortune has on MGS2 and was given to Wolf by Vamp, which can take down almost anything in one shot.}} Snake can also purchase a Barrett M82A2, a bullpup version of the famous M82A1 anti-material rifle that can take down just about anything. It can kill five to ten lined-up enemies in one shot, it can take down a helicopter in two, and kill Gekko in one, so long as you aim for the neck.

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* KOS-MOS in ''[[Xenosaga]]'' wields a number of BFGs, notably a triple-barreled [[Gatling Good|tri-gatling gun]] (that's three sets of three barrels ''each'' -- and it's her ''weakest'' special weapon). And she dual wields them. Some would point out that KOS-MOS is, in and of herself, a BFG.

* Chris Stone in ''[[Freedom Fighters (video game)|Freedom Fighters]]'' can wield a [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.

* ''[[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.

* ''[[Zone of the Enders]] 2'' has the Vector Cannon, huge even by the standards of most of its [[Humongous Mecha]] and forcing the protagonist's [[Super Prototype]] mech Jehuty to actually land before it can be charged and fired.

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* ''Gauntlet: Legends'' did the Archer one better by making her fully-charged special a huge cannon. The narrator's voice [[Calling Your Attacks|calling the attack]] actually named it '''B.F.G.'''

* Maya Schrödinger in ''[[Wild Arms 3]]'' has a gatling gun [[Trouser Space|hidden up her skirt]]. She wriggles her hips and it just falls out.

* ''[[Super Smash Bros]] Melee'' and ''Brawl'':

* ''[[Super Smash Bros.]] Melee'' and ''Brawl'':

** The Super Scope item can be charged up for quite the shot given the opportunity.

** 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 BFG on the Halberd stage, as well as one featured in Subspace Emissary that takes down said battleship in one shot.

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** The Fuel Rod Gun fires green, highly explosive energy that can deal very severe damage, has a five round magazine, and can fire pretty freakin' fast for something that powerful.

** 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. BFG. End of World."

** And the Mass Driver in the level "The Pillar of Autumn" in Halo Reach. It fires 15cm rounds with a kinetic energy of up to 1.1 gigajoules.

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* ''[[Super Robot Wars]]'' has so many BFGs it's almost impossible to list them all. Some of the most notable are the SRX's HTB cannon, R-Gun ITSELF, Wing Gundam Zero's twin buster rifle, the Huckabein's black hole gun, DX Gundam's Twin satellite cannon, and F-type Evangelon unit 1's N2 launcher, to name a few. The most nefarious of them is the Ideon gun in SRW Alpha 3, which is probably the most powerful gun on this list, as it fries a huge part of the galaxy in front of it. It has huge damage, and the map attack version can annihilate the whole map, AND kill the final boss and his army IN THREE SHOTS. It has infinite energy too.

* 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 BFGs, even getting their own skill set for use. They range from the mundane Bazooka to laser Gatling guns and plasma rifles. The third instalment has the "Fat Man", described as a tactical (read handheld) nuclear catapult. Since [[There Is No Kill Like Overkill]], there is a unique Fat Man (the '''Experimental MIRV''') that fires ''eight'' mini nukes at once. Can kill anything with one shot, but the 8 mini nukes have a combined cost of over 2000 caps.

** 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.

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* ''[[Iji]]'' has several BFGs.

** 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 BFGs. How powerful is the Massacre? [[media:massacreinactionvl5.png|This powerful.]]

* 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.

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* If the Discworld ballista mentioned below qualifies as a BFG, so does the crossbow wielded by Regulus in the game ''Demigod''. When loaded it's as long as he is tall.

* 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 BFG-tier guns, known appropriately enough as "Heavy Weapons."

** 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.

** The M-26 Revenant LMG. A light machine gun that can rip apart pretty much anything. With accuracy upgrades, it becomes ludicrously powerful - stick any of the ammo upgrades on it and it becomes freakishly good. And the [[Large and In Charge|Shadow]] [[The Chessmaster|Broker]] wields it ''[[Badass|one handed.]]''

** The [[Lightning Gun|Arc Projector]]. First, it ionizes its target with a high-powered laser. Then, it releases an enormous burst of arcing electricity, which travels between targets. The results are impressive. Best of all, the thing has next to no recoil and can be fired by moving.

** The [[Frickin' Laser Beams|Collector Particle Beam]]. A directed energy weapon that causes targets to burn white hot and then decompose rapidly on screen. Did we mention the insane accuracy and the enormous ammo capacity too?

** The [[Freeze Ray|M-622 Avalanche]]. There is nothing quite like causing an enemy to freeze, then shattering them with normal gunfire. Also allows the player to revel in [[Video Game Cruelty Potential]] by shouting things like: [[Bond One-Liner|"Iced that guy," "cool off," and "my, you look shattered."]]

** The Cain. It has more concentrated kaboom than anything else in the game- ''boss attacks included.'' After using this beastie it takes several more missions to scrape together enough ammo to use it again- you can only fire it about once a mission unless you unlock all of the heavy weapon ammo upgrades, plus the hidden bonus ammo upgrade, ''plus'' the extra ammo leg armor piece. The little 'ptoonk!' noise it makes after warming up to fire is as hilarious as the following gigantic explosion is awesome. How powefull is it? On normal difficulty, the only thing that can survive the first hit is the ''final boss''. Everything else is vapor.

** ''[[Mass Effect 3]]'' turns Heavy Weapons into disposable, in-mission pickups, and even adds a few heavy weapons to boot. The Reaper Blackstar is essentially a single-shot, ''very'' rare, scaled-up version of the Blackstorm Projector from [[Mass Effect 2]]. The Cain also makes a reappearance, where it kills a Hades Cannon (i.e., a ''Reaper with a mounted gun on top'') in [[One-Hit Kill|one shot.]] One wonders why these aren't mass produced and deployed everywhere, especially because doing so would actually allow the galaxy to [[Did You Just Punch Out Cthulhu?|win the war conventionally]].

** Lastly, [[Mass Effect 3]] features a mounted turret that you can use on occasion, and it is exactly as powerful as its size suggests: it rips apart Brutes in 2-3 seconds, and its good rate of fire is only marred by a fast reload.

* ''[[Star Trek Elite Force]]''. Photon Torpedo Rocket Launchers, anyone? The sequel went a little further with the final gun being some kind of Romulan personal nuclear weapon.

* The ''Painkiller'' series has a handful of awesome guns. There is a gun that fires entire tree trunks and grenades as the secondary fire, and one that shoots shurikens like a machine gun. One of the games STARTS with you using the decapitated head of a wizard that shoots lasers.

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* ''World at War'' features some of the silliest examples the player could actually carry; an M1919 Browning .30 cal machine gun that can be fired from the hip, and a six-foot PTRS-41 anti-tank rifle that a normal soldier would have trouble even ''carrying'' assembled, which can also be fired from the hip. And then there's the 68-pound M2 flamethrower, which the player can carry ''as well as'' the aforementioned M1919. Like the earlier games, it also had the player firing a fixed, crew-served AA gun solo, this time a Japanese Type 96 triple 25mm gun (with a normal crew of 9).

* ''[[Call of Duty 4]]'' features a sniping mission using a huge mounted Barrett .50 cal anti-tank rifle to take down a target almost a mile away; the gun itself appears in multiplayer useable without the fixed bipod it has in the mission. There's also a shoulder-mounted Javelin anti-tank missile launcher, an M60 light machine gun, and a [[More Dakka|mounted minigun]]. All but the M60 return in the sequel, which was replaced with an M240 and MG4 instead, along with an AT4 anti-tank missile.

* ''[[Far Cry]]'' featured the terminally huge OICW as a standard rifle, also letting the player mess around with mounted miniguns and carry an M249 SAW and giant repeating rocket launcher; in addition, the "Fat Boy" Trigens got themselves a rocket-launching [[Arm Cannon]] out of this trope. The sequel kept the SAW and threw in a PK Machine Gun, AS50 anti-material rifle, MGL-140 grenade launcher, LPO-50 flamethrower, Carl Gustav recoilless launcher and a Chinese Type 63 mortar.

* Helghast Heavy Troopers in ''[[Killzone]] 2'' are armed with a giant rotary gun or a [[Lightning Gun]]; either way, the power pack turns out to be their undoing.

* ''[[Mega Man Zero]] 4'':

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== 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 BFG and is over a foot wide at the muzzle. Somewhat [[Justified]] by her superhuman strength.

* ''[[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].

** Agatha's [http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20041008 various death rays] are also good examples.

** A [http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20100719 crazy piece of tacticool Zola stole in Lucrezia's lab]. [http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20100721 The next strip] shows more close-up... and reveals what this thing ''does''.

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* 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 BFG he got off Cable that was used in the above mentioned Power Rangers review.

* [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|BFG]].

* ''[[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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** [[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 BFG. He staggers under its weight, attempting to aim it at a [[Walking Tank]] while enemy troops sneak up behind him. Its recoil is so tremendous he sails backward into them, knocking them out, while his errant shot manages to hit the tank's feet.

* ''[[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.