Firing One-Handed: Difference between revisions

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== Handguns and Other Small Arms ==

=== Anime and Manga ===

* In the booklet of ''[[Audio Adaptation|StrikerS Sound Stage X]]'', all art of ''[[Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha]]'''s Teana with the [[Hand Cannon|Cross Mirage's Blazer Mode]] show her wielding it one-handed. A little weird since she usually uses her gun with two hands when she's not going [[Guns Akimbo]] or using her other hand for something else.

* Subverted in ''[[DOGS Bullets and Carnage]]''. Mihai chastises Ian to "stop trying to look cool" and hold his gun in two hands when he sees him practicing with a one-handed grip.

 

=== Comic Books ===

 

=== Film ===

* All the characters in ''[[The Matrix]]'' fire all manner of weapons one-handed, sometimes while performing various acrobatics, including one character who at one point dual-wields a pair of drum-fed automatic shotguns. This is all possible because it's happening in the Matrix, where the characters can bend the laws of physics.

 

=== Literature ===

** This goes so far, in that Roland uses [[Guns Akimbo|a revolver per hand]] before above happens. It goes so far that he draws, shoots, (probably) cocks the gun, and even reloads with one hand per gun, one bullet at a time.

*** [[Improbable Aiming Skills|And never misses.]]

* Discussed in the [[Tom Clancy]] novel ''Teeth Of The Tiger'', in which one of the protagonists expresses a preference for firing one-handed whilst standing side-on to the target, on the grounds that this presents a narrower profile and makes him harder to hit. Whether this makes up for the reduced accuracy (his preferred sidearm is a .45ACP weapon) is a matter for opinion.

 

* ''[[Blake's 7]]'', justified most of the time by the fact they're using directed-energy weapons.

* In ''[[Torchwood]]'', Captain Jack Harkness teaches WPC Gwen Cooper to shoot this way rather than the modern two-handed technique, though it may just have been an excuse to [[Covert Pervert|feel her behind]].

* This was tested on ''[[MythBusters]]'', and found to be reasonably accurate in comparison to the classic two-handed "Weaver" technique, and ''far'' more accurate than shooting from the hip or using [[Gangsta Style]].

 

=== Tabletop Games ===

* Ashelin from ''[[Jak and Daxter]]'' usually wields her handgun single-handedly, as does Veger.

* In ''[[Boktai]]'', both Django and Aaron fire their smaller Solar Guns one-handed during normal gameplay. During the cutscene where Aaron fires his first shot, he uses both hands; the resulting shot is [[Gameplay and Story Segregation|so powerful that it]] ''[[Gameplay and Story Segregation|goes through]]'' [[Gameplay and Story Segregation|the skeleton he was firing at]]... wait, change that. The shot was big enough to annihilate the skeleton and ''keep on going''!

* Shepard in ''[[Mass Effect]]'' uses two hands in combat, but only one when s/he wants to look cool (like at a photo op) or is threatening someone.

* ''[[Soldier of Fortune]]'s'' Desert Eagle-lookalike [[Hand Cannon]] is fired one-handed.

* In ''[[Half-Life (series)|Half Life]]'', Gordon Freeman holds his trusty low-powered, low-recoil Glock 17/Beretta M9 two-handed, but somehow fires the high-power, high recoil Colt Python revolver with one hand. In ''[[Half-Life 2]]'' it's reversed, with the USP Match held one-handed and the Python held two-handed. It just goes to show that [[Revolvers Are Just Better]].

* Nero in ''[[Devil May Cry]] 4'' fires a double-barrel revolver in which the caliber is almost that of a Smith & Wesson Model 500 revolver with ''one hand''. Revolvers of that size are normally shot with TWO hands to brace for recoil. Can be justified by him being a quarter-demon with [[Super Strength|superhuman strength]], much like Dante.

* Saika Magoichi from ''[[Sengoku Basara]]'' fires her flintlock pistols one-handed at all times and has impeccable aim. Thankfully all her other guns she holds with two.

* In [[Jurassic Park]]: [[Trespasser]], main character Anne uses all weapons one handed, due to her other arm being broken (read: not being programmed into the game). This includes rifles. And an ''extremely heavy metal mace''.

* In ''[[GoldenEye 007 (1997 video game)|Golden Eye 1997]]'' on the Nintendo 64, one bonus mission has Jaws coming at you with dual ''<s>M-16s</s> [[AKA-47|AR-33's]]'', which you can use if you take him down. With the all weapons cheat, this extends to everything from submachineguns to ''rocket launchers''.

** There's also a glitch that can be done with the all weapons cheat that allows you to mix up weapons, resulting in such combinations as having an RCP-90 in one hand with a shotgun in the other, or somehow managing to use the Moonraker Laser in tandem with the Watch Laser (which altogether, would require ''three'' hands to operate).

* In ''[[Team Fortress 2]]'', the Heavy doesn't use his shotgun with one hand to fire, but he does [[Super Strength|twirl it around like a pistol in a taunt.]]

* Plenty of people use sawed-off shotguns in ''[[Umineko no Naku Koro ni]]'', but [[Hot Chick in a Badass Suit|Kyrie]] is the only one to wield it one-handed, which makes quite a sharp contrast among them. You can really tell that under her [[Cool Big Sis]] personality, she's not to be trifled with.

* In ''[[X-COM (Video Game)|X-COM]]'', weapons that do not automatically take up both hand slots can be fired one-handed, but if the other hand is not empty, accuracy drops ([http://ufopaedia.org/index.php?title=Accuracy_formula to 80% base]). Of course, accuracy is penalized for critical wounds on both arms if both are involved (by 10%, thus with more than 1 wounds to the off hand, may as well fire one-handed). The character models, however, will always show your characters firing them one-handed.

 

* In ''[[The Last Days of Foxhound]]'', Sniper Wolf occasionally uses her rifle with just one hand. But that's a [[Charles Atlas Superpower]] for you...

* In ''[[The Adventures of Dr. McNinja]]'', Dr. McNinja doesn't usually use guns, but he apparently makes exceptions for a [[Zombie Apocalypse]], where he wields a ''shotgun'' [https://web.archive.org/web/20091205084547/http://drmcninja.com/page.php?pageNum=27&issue=8 in one hand] and his sword in the other.

 

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