Big Freaking Gun: Difference between revisions

{{quote| '''Wedge''': "A laser cannon is nine meters long, [[You Are Number Six|Five]]."<br />

'''Kell''': "Not the essential components and housing, sir. Strip out all the computerized aiming and synchronization equipment, the diagnostics, the flashback suppressor, I think we could chop it down to a meter and a half, two meters." }}

* [[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 BFGs, but the giant four-armed Mardukans really take the cake. They can "off-hand" wield cannons meant to serve Humans as crewed support weapons and capable of blowing large concrete buildings and stone walls to dust. When some madman decides to equip a squad of them with a species-appropriate version of [[Powered Armor]], the standard issue weapon that goes with it is more typically the main gun of a ''tank.''<br /><br />Taken to the extreme by Erkum Pol, [[The Big Guy]] even by the standard of the nine-feet-tall-on-average Mardukans. He likes BFG's, and can carry the aforementioned tank gun ''without'' [[Powered Armor]]. On the other hand (one of them, anyway), his aiming skills aren't even up to [[Imperial Stormtrooper Marksmanship Academy]] standards. When he takes the tank gun along on a hostage rescue mission (supposedly just for intimidation purposes<ref>hey, firing a BFG is bound to be intimidating</ref>), [[Hilarity Ensues]] (for "hilarity" read "an entire city block being set on fire").