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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 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.
* The weapon of choice for the Capital Police in ''[[Jin-Roh: The Wolf Brigade]]'' is a hand-held version of the MG-42 heavy machine gun from WWII. In real life, this weapon weighed well over 11
** The foregrip is actually the standard bipod of that weapon and the firing stance used by the Capital Police officers (grabbing the weapon by the bipod and shooting from the hip) is [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dRPK-5jj4gg actually trained by real soldiers] as a firing method for certain combat situations. Only short and imprecise bursts of fire are possible though, whereas in the anime entire ammo belts are fired with great precision.
* 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.
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* ''[[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
* 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]]''.
* ''[[Bleach]]'' - 2nd Division's Captain, Soifon, an expert in assassinations and melee combat, truly dislikes her Bankai. Why? Because it's a [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 BFG concealed in his chest. This requires the absorbing of a certain amount of pain energy from some poor victim nearby. While in Zanpakutou form, this attack would likely be considered a Wave Motion Sword.
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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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* 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
* 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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* 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.
* First subverted, and later used straight, in ''[[Men in Black (film)|Men in Black]]'', when Agent J (Will Smith) asks for a really powerful gun, and Agent K (Tommy Lee Jones) gives him the Noisy
** In the [[Animated Adaptation|Animated Series]], J eventually acquires a suppressor for the Noisy Cricket that reduces the recoil to where he can fire it without bowling himself over each time.
* The ''[[Hitman]]'' film of the game series has this when Udre Belicoff goes [[Guns Akimbo]] with two RPDs.
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* While there is no specific BFG in the movie, ''[http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0105459/ Split Second]'' might have been the first to refer to them as such. "We need to get bigger guns. BIG Fucking GUNS!" These were the "Combat Shotguns" they checked out from the police armory- in actuality a pair of [[Gatling Good|miniguns]] that used shotgun shells instead of bullets.
* 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
* 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
* 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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* The Zorg ZF-1 in ''[[The Fifth Element]]'' is a rather large "pod weapon system" [[Swiss Army Gun|with a laundry list of handy functions]] including seeking bullets, a flamethrower and a rocket launcher. Just don't forget to ask about the [[Don't Touch It, You Idiot!|little red button.]]
** Subverted earlier in the movie with the [[Mugging the Monster|mugger]]. He yells "Gimme the cash!" [[Not with the Safety On, You Won't|Korban notes that one of the safeties is on.]] Korban coaches him on how to turn it off, then puts his pistol to the mugger's head with his other hand.
* In ''[[Moonwalker]]'', after [[The Aggressive Drug Dealer|Frankie Lideo's]] [[
* At the end of ''[[Scarface]]'', Tony Montana famously pulls out an M16 fitted with an M203. A common misunderstanding is that this gun was his "little friend;" actually, he was talking about the 40mm grenade he was firing. There was nothing little about the weapon.
* Nothing says "hello" quite like ''[[Blue Thunder]]'''s [[Gatling Good|20mm rotary cannon]] staring you in the face, as some cops find out in the [[Gunship Rescue]] scene in the film.
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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
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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{{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." }}
* 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
* [[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.''
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").
** 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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* ''[[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 BFG, while others use the "[[Fan Nickname|Team Bazooka]]", a separate weapon to which each Ranger contributes a power cell or ammunition.
** ''[[Tokusou Sentai Dekaranger]]'' (adapted into ''[[Power Rangers SPD]]'') has a [[Humongous Mecha]] that can [[Transforming Mecha|transform]] into a BFG so big it takes two or three other [[Humongous Mecha]] to wield it. (Its usual procedure is carry a [[Monster of the Week]] into orbit, and then use its BFG mode.)
** ''[[Mirai Sentai Timeranger]]'' (''[[Power Rangers Time Force]]''). The Rangers each have very oversized cannons (to [[Narm
** The (color) Vul from ''[[Choushinsei Flashman]]'' does the same thing the Timerangers do. Unlike the Vortech bazooka, it's a revolving BFG when combined (Rolling Vulcan).
** ''[[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.
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== Tabletop Games ==
* Many of the heavy weapons in ''[[Warhammer 40000|Warhammer 40,000]]'' are BFGs. It is worth noting that normal humans have to mount them on mobile platforms and use them in teams of
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.
** Special mention goes to the Tau Railgun, the main armament of the Hammerhead Tank and [[XV 88]] Heavy Crisis Suit.
{{quote|'''Major Kane, Mordant 607th Heavy Armoured Regiment:''' One of the light walkers carried a weapon of lethal effect. It fired a form of ultra-high velocity projectile. I saw one of our tanks after having been hit by it. There was a small hole in either flank - one the projectile's entry point, one its exit. The tiny munition had passed through the vehicle with such speed that everything within the hull not welded down had been sucked out through the exit hole. Including the crew. We never identified their bodies, for all that remained of them was a red stain upon the ground, extending some twenty metres from the wreck.}}
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** 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 BFGs that they actually designed and used a servo-harness to allow normal humans to carry them around.
* The ''Proteus'' expansion set to the now mostly forgotten ''Netrunner'' trading card game paid homage to the concept with the 'Big Frackin' Gun' icebreaker
* ''[[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]].
* The Grav Railgun from ''[[GURPS]]: Ultra-Tech'' can be carried by people in a good suit of [[Powered Armor]] and fires with enough force to punch straight through a a tank from five miles away... with more accuracy than a sniper rifle... [[More Dakka|twenty times a second]]... completely without recoil.
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** In ''[[Quake 4|Quake IV]]'' it was named "Dark Matter Gun", but functioned almost identically to Q2's BFG.
* 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"
* ''[[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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* ''[[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
** 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.
** Johnny also uses one for his [[Big Damn Heroes|Big Damn Hero]] moment. For no apparent reason as they are in the middle of boarding a ship and a single bullet from a handgun appears to be completely sufficient to kill the enemies wearing heavy body armor. Hideo Kojima [[Author Appeal|personally recommends]] the M82A1.
* ''[[Parasite Eve]] 2'' allows the small-framed heroine, Aya Brea, to pick up a shoulder-mounted railgun in ''[[New Game+]]''
* The [[Rare Guns|OICW]] from ''[[Eternal Darkness]]'' is the best gun when it comes to tearing apart [[Eldritch Abomination]] monsters. Considering that your character in that level has a miniscule [[Mana Meter]], you need it.
** 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
* ''[[Resident Evil 5]]'' ups the ante even further by having four BFGs exclusive to boss fights: when fighting the El Gigante clone, Chris and Sheva are using a minigun and PK Machine Gun mounted on a Humvee; there's a flamethrower used to fight one particularly tough monster; when fighting {{spoiler|Excella}} you use a {{spoiler|laser satellite tracker similar to the Hammer of Dawn of ''Gears of War'' fame}}; and of course the traditional RPG finisher on {{spoiler|Wesker}} in the final boss fight. And since this is a co-op based game, {{spoiler|Wesker gets TWO rocket launchers to the face. With a quick-time event and everything.}}
** 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]].
* 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 BFG so FB, that it actually warranted a ''new acronym'': the '''R'''ip '''Y'''ou a '''N'''ew '''O'''ne. What's more, the RYNO was only the ''first in a series of four guns'' ([[Ratchet & Clank (video game)|RYNO]], [[Ratchet and Clank Going Commando|RYNO II]], [[Ratchet and Clank Up Your Arsenal|RYN3O]]/[[Evolving Attack|RYNOCERATOR]], and [[Ratchet and Clank Future Tools of Destruction|RYNO IV/RYNO 4-EVER]]). Mind you, the last one never past the blueprint stage because it was deemed too powerful. ''This coming from a company that created a portable black hole launcher and [[Colony Drop
** 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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** Also of note, one of the areas in ''Up Your Arsenal'' is called "Nefarious BFG", which fits given how a BFG is the focal point of that area. Also doubles as [[Getting Crap Past the Radar]]!
* [[Subvein]] has several BFGs for every category of gun, for example, a BFG Machinegun is a Heavy Minigun.
* 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''
* 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.
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* Rozalin from ''[[Disgaea 2: Cursed Memories]]'' utilizes a Gatling gun in one of her special attacks.
* ''[[Team Fortress 2]]'':
** [[I Call It Vera|Sasha]], the Heavy Weapons Guy's primary gun in weighs 150
** The Soldier also has a rocket launcher with multiple shots in a clip - not as big as Sasha, but capable of a lot of damage in a couple of seconds. The Direct Hit, its alternate, is a ''sniping'' rocket launcher. He also has the Cow Mangler 5000, a [[Zeerust]] monstrosity of a laser cannon.
** The Engineer's philosophy is "Use a gun. And if that doesn't work, [[More Dakka|use more gun.]]" He's a sissy by this page's standards, though, because he sets up his combination rocket-launcher/double minigun as a turret.
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** 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
** 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
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* The indie game ''[http://shadowgroundsgame.com Shadowgrounds]'' has a few. For one, the minigun can be upgraded to have a shorter spinup time and can be placed on the ground as a sentry. For two, the rocket launcher's alt-fire is a ''dirty bomb''. For three, the lightning gun can fry even the biggest mooks in a second.
* ''[[Shadow the Hedgehog]]'' has a few of these, obviously. Most notable is the chain gun, probably the most broken weapon in the game. It gets more ammunition than any other, [[More Dakka|has the best firing rate]] and is one of the more powerful weapons as well. Oh, and he wields it in one hand.
* Seraphim characters in ''[[Sacred]] 2: Fallen Angel'' can learn an ability called BeeEffGee which summons, well, a
* ''[[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.
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* ''[[Starcraft]]'' has a [http://starcraft.wikia.com/wiki/C-14_rifle gauss rifle] designed to be fired while wearing [[Power Armor]]. Ghosts are armed with [http://starcraft.wikia.com/wiki/C-10_rifle C-10 Canister Rifles], which are basically ''sniper'' shotguns almost as long as they are tall. And no, they don't wear [[Power Armor]] at all.
** And then there's Marauders, assuming you count "dual [[Arm Cannon|integral]] [[Grenade Launcher|grenade launchers]]" as "gun".
** On the mechanized side of things, look no further than the Odin, which lugs around four 330mm artillery cannon. Lots of guns throw out piles of spent
* ''[[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 BFG-like weaponry. Heavy Bowguns are technically supposed to be crossbows, except that they're about as long as the wielder is tall, magazine-fed, and capable of launching ''cluster bombs''. In a similar vein, Gunlances are essentially a one-handed gauntlet with a cannon - yes, a human-sized cannon - mounted on it, and a bayonet mounted on ''that''. The Gunlance is actually more of a melee weapon, although it does have some ranged attack capability, but come on - it is what it is. Some of these "Crossbows" get so big they actually fold up into a (still huge) carrying mode when not in use.
* 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
* 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.
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** Despite what many players believe, such a weapon actually did exist, they were called [[wikipedia:Hand cannon|hand cannons]] (no not [[Hand Cannon|that]] kind).
* ''[[Uncharted 2]]'' lets Nathan Drake walk around with a GAU-19 .50 calibre rotary gun. It's the most powerful weapon short of explosives, but suffers from accuracy issues and ''weight'' (Drake is reduced to hobbling when carrying it, and also cannot jump, roll or duck). Still a lot of fun to use - especially since it takes a moment or two to wind up before the bullets come roaring forth, so you can imagine the look of horror on the faces of your foes.
* The [[John Woo]] game ''[[Stranglehold]]'' has two of
* 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.]
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** 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
* ''[[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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== Western Animation ==
* Itchy and Scratchy from ''[[The Simpsons]]'' have a duel where they come up with bigger and bigger guns; eventually Itchy has the good sense to actually shoot instead of getting yet another larger gun from hammerspace(his gun is already the size of planet Earth), and sends scratchy flying into the sun - improbable targeting skills at work, too!
* Roadblock (and his [[Suspiciously Similar Substitute]], Heavy Duty) from ''[[G.I. Joe]]''. Roadblock's gun is identified in the original comics as carrying a M2 Browning machine gun, a gun that is usually operated by a squad or vehicle mounted, and weighs up to 120
** Sometimes it's depicted as more like the smaller (but still large and normally crew-served) M1919 Browning machine gun. Especially the action figure of him, since it wouldn't be able to stand up while carrying a properly-scaled M2.
* While not completely fitting with this trope (it's more of a [[Wave Motion Gun]]), the [[Justice League]] watchtower has a [[Kill Sat|large laser]] that is quite literally called the [[Fun with Acronyms|Binary Fusion Generator]]. This was not unintended by [[Warren Ellis|the writers]].
* 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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** [http://tfwiki.net/w2/images2/d/d7/Stargatebattles_giant_megatron.jpg This] may be Megatron's B'est FG moment he's ever had. It's also [[Moment of Awesome|just plain awesone]].
** The ''[[Transformers Animated|Animated]]'' Megatron also has a fusion cannon which is almost identical (if not a little bit bigger!) than the original and even ''uses the same sound effect'' (Although slightly modified to sound like a weapon firing). Most impressively, he uses it while [[Dual-Wielding]]. Is it any wonder that this guy is considered to be a [[Badass]]?
** Meanwhile the Armada version of Megatron had a waist-mounted cannon which is so powerful it [http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Image:ArmadaMegs_fallenover.jpg blows him backwards along the ground]. Of course, most of the other Armada characters have similarly ludicrously powered weapons when they power up with Mini-
** Rampage's [[Fan Nickname|Hellbelcher]] from ''[[Beast Wars]]''.
** [[Fan Nickname|Another one]] is Rhinox's "Chaingun(s) of Doom,".
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