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Ever since Richard Gatling's 1861 invention, the rapid-firing rotary gun has had a special place among [[BFG
The gatling gun is likely to function as a significantly more powerful version of a regular machine gun, requiring hulking mountains of muscle to move them, or some kind of vehicle mount. If one gets used, you can expect it to give a nice steady buzz as it spews a constant stream of death.
Modern superfast Gatling guns actually make a strange, deafening buzzing sound in the bass register (5000 rounds per minute equals 83.
A popular form of the [[BFG]] in fiction, and both a fictional and real-world way of achieving [[More Dakka]] via [[Everything's Better with Spinning]]. It may be present even if [[Energy Weapons]] are abundant in the setting, as [[Kinetic Weapons Are Just Better]]. See also [[Bang Bang BANG]].
According to ''[[Cracked.com]]'', owning one of these things is [http://www.cracked.com/article_17016_7-items-you-wont-believe-are-actually-legal_p2.html perfectly legal]... in the USA.
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== Anime
* A man with a Gatling gun killed several powerful villains (in fact, practically ''every villain besides himself'') early on in ''[[Rurouni Kenshin]]''. It was actually a very primitive design, was operated ''manually'' with a hand crank, and jammed after one of the villains stuck a poison dart in the ammo bandoleer in the anime (he ran out of bullets in the manga after firing non-stop at everyone).
* In ''[[Yu-Gi-Oh! 5D's|Yu-Gi-Oh 5 Ds]]'', [[Combat Pragmatist|Lotten]] uses Gatling Ogre, with which he does a First Turn Kill.
* ''[[Fullmetal Alchemist (manga)|Fullmetal Alchemist]]'': When Basque Grand transmutes an enormous arsenal of weapons, there's a gatling gun somewhere in there.
* For a while, a Vulcan cannon was the primary "weapon" of Bungo Takano's "shadow dragon" Hainekuwele in ''[[Narutaru]]''.
* ''[[Gundam]]'' features gatlings all the time. The most prominent example is probably the [[Mobile Suit Gundam Wing|Gundam Heavyarms]]. Aside from the [[BFG|Beam Gatling]] fitted on the arm, it also carries [[Chest Blaster|a pair hidden in its chest]]. Later in the series, it gets upgraded to a double beam Gatling. In ''Endless Waltz'' it was [[
* ''[[Macross]]'' (and ''[[Robotech]]'') both feature [[Humongous Mecha]] scale Gatling cannons typically called Gunpods as their primary weapon for nearly all Valkyries, in various forms since inception. It should be noted that the Gatling cannons generally have a ''[[BFG|two inch bore]]''.
* Gargomon in ''[[Digimon Tamers]]'' had a Gatling gun [[Arm Cannon|on both arms]], making him dangerous to the humans as well as the Digimon early
* ''[[Zoids]]'' had the Hibilt Vulcan cannon, a massive six-barreled beam Gatling weapon. Oddly enough, the anime would often inconsistently depict it as a projectile weapon instead. There are too many Zoids that can equip it to list here, but we will mention Karl Shuvaltz in ''Chaotic Century'', who was known for having all his [[Ace Custom]] units being armed with one.
* [[
* In episode 21 of ''[[Zettai Karen Children]]'' when Oboro Kashiwagi the otherwise ordinary secretary lays eyes on a life sized doll of herself, her response is to whip a ''minigun'' out of nowhere and shoot it to dust.
* ''[[Appleseed]]'' has large tanks that have stupidly large six-barreled rotary cannons in place of the main gun. And the monstrous mobile gun platforms have ''four'' of the same. Each.
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** His brother Caribou also carries one inside of him.
* One villain from ''[[Black Lagoon]]'' wields one in "The Hunt for Greenback Jane"/"Roanapur Freak Show".
* The first ''[[Rebuild of Evangelion]]'' movie featured Unit 01 with a ''[http://img.youtube.com/vi/R110lcX_hnw/0.jpg huge gatling gun]''.{{Dead link}} Eva-scale. With [[Spent Shells Shower|spent casings]] that crush cars underneath them.
* The titular [[Humongous Mecha|Exaxxion mecha]] from ''[[Cannon God Exaxxion|Cannon God E Xa X Xion]]'' subverts this by making a trio of 88
* Milly Thompson of ''[[Trigun]]'' carries a semiautomatic version that fires expanding projectiles with enough force to knock over whatever they hit, including armored trucks.
** Monev the Gale uses a pair of wrist-mounted Gatlings powerful enough to tear through buildings, then switches to an even larger one that can destroy a bank vault.
* ''[[Magical Record Lyrical Nanoha Force]]'' has Arnage, whose Divider is [http://img831.imageshack.us/i/1288308301596.jpg/ basically a pair of Gatling guns strapped together which she easily wields with one hand].
* In ''[[Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex|Ghost in The Shell Stand Alone Complex]]'', Batou uses a gatling in the style of "Ol' Painless" from ''Predator'' during an invasion of Section 9's headquarters by a military wet team.
*
* ''[[The Big O]]'''s [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QlvLpYoUUfc&t=3m47s "O Thunder"] is a pair of retractable gatling [[Arm Cannon|arm cannons]].
* The Gatling Missile from ''[[Voltes V]]''.
== Comic Books ==
* Rocket Racoon's preferred weapon in the recent ''Annihilation: Conquest'' miniseries and new ''Guardians of the Galaxy'' ongoing is a gatling gun bigger than he is. Opinions are divided on whether to call it proof of [[Super Strength|super-procyonid strength]] on Rocket's part or chalk it up to [[Rule of Cool]].
* [[War Machine (Comic Book)|War Machine]] typically [[Shoulder Cannon|carries one of these on his left shoulder]]. With his current ability to integrate external technology into his armor, he can (and often does) add more.
* Minor [[Marvel Universe]] villain Gattling wears a battlesuit with twin Gatling-style machineguns mounted on each forearm. Yes, he's a villain created in the '90s.
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* [[The Punisher]] foe Rapido has a gatling [[Arm Cannon]].
== Fan Works ==
* In the ''Stargate SG-1''/''X-COM: UFO Defense'' crossover ''[[XSGCOM|XSGCOM: Goa'Uld Defence]]'', the Tau'ri make a gatling staff weapon.
* ''[[
* ''[[And If That Don't Work?]]'', an [[Neon Genesis Evangelion|Evangelion]] [[Fanfic]], has a Texas arms manufacturer come up with a Gatling railgun.
* ''[[The Life of the Legendaries]]'' features 20
== Film ==
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* Spoofed in ''[[Carry On|Carry On up the Khyber Pass]]''. The heroes turn a hand-cranked gatling-type on the horde of rampaging Burpers, only for it to play music instead. They open the drum magazine [[Rule of Funny|to discover a gramophone record]].
* ''[[Kick-Ass (film)|Kick-Ass]]'' features a suit of [[Power Armor]] with gatling guns built into each arm.
* The Rojos in ''[[A Fistful of Dollars]]'' steal a shipment of gold by posing as American soldiers, using the Hand-cranked Gatling Gun the real soldiers they'd already ambushed and killed had brought along.
* There seems to be a pattern of Machine Gun use by villains in [[Spaghetti Western
* The [[Fixed Forward-Facing Weapon|long-nine bow cannons]] on the [[Pirates of the Caribbean|''Flying Dutchman'']] had three rotating barrels.
* In ''[[Rango]]'', the moles are seen riding on bats mounted with civil war-style gatling guns. In addition, Rattlesnake Jake has a gatling gun [[Arm Cannon|where his rattle should be.]]
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* In ''[[Death Race]]'', four out of the ten cars present in the film have rotary guns - most M134 miniguns, but one has two M61 vulcans.
* Jonah uses a small, man-portable gatling gun at several points during ''[[Jonah Hex (film)|Jonah Hex]]''.
* ''[[RoboCop]] II''. Notably, after RoboCain fired his Gatling [[Arm Cannon]], there was almost always a zoom in on the no-longer-firing barrels still spinning for a second or three.
== Literature ==
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* The [[Western]] series ''Gatling'' by Jack Slade had as its hero an operative for the Maxim Gun Company named Gatling. The series hook was that the title character used period automatic weapons, including gatling guns.
* [[John Ringo]]'s ''[[Paladin of Shadows|Unto the Breach]]'' features the Dragon, a modified [[Reporting Names|Hind]] helicopter equipped with quad gatling guns. Another Hind owned by the Kildar uses the more conventional miniguns to port and starboard for defense when used as a troop transport.
* The ''[[Hell's Gate]]'' series by [[David Weber]] gives us the Yerthak Pedestal Gun, a naval weapon designed to destroy torpedo boats and hastily converted by the Fort Salby garrison into makeshift anti-aircraft guns. They are four to six barreled ''Gatling Cannons'' that come in one-point-five-inch and two-point-five-inch calibers capable of firing shrapnel rounds, high-explosive or solid ammunition. They're used to shoot down dragons.
* The titular mercenaries in [[David Drake]]'s ''[[
* Mentioned in the ''[[Honor Harrington]]'' series where variants of the Gatling Gun were used for anti-missile defense until they were quickly replaced by newer Laser Clusters. They are still used by some second- and third-rate powers like the Silesian Confederacy {{spoiler|and the Solarian League.}}
* ''[[
▲== Live Action TV ==
▲* ''[[Myth Busters]]'' used a Gatling gun as the last stage of the "shooting fish in a barrel" analogy. They busted out a privately owned minigun and unleashed it on the barrel; by the time it was over, the barrel was in a million pieces and there was more lead in the fish than fish.
** They also used the minigun on at least two other occasions: Once, to see if incendiary rounds could blow up a gas tank (busted), see if you could chop down a tree with bullets (confirmed) and blow up a propane tank (confirmed).
* The penultimate episode of ''[[Stargate Atlantis]]'' had a [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AqSX3rEuUxg#t=4m14s scene of a Wraith being strafed] by an A-10. Also, ''The Daedalus Variations'' showed us that the Tau'ri ship-mounted railguns are gatlings.
* ''[[Wiseguy]]''. Hitman Roger Loccoco has a car with a gatling gun firing from the trunk, and twin machine-guns between the headlights.
* G3-X from ''[[Kamen Rider Agito]]'' has the handheld [[BFG|GX-05 Cerberus]], which is utilized as a [[Finishing Move]].
* The Giga Streamer from [[Tokkei Winspector]] is a handheld energy Gatling Gun. Recoil and vibration makes it impossible to use effectively without the user wearing a [[Powered Armor|Crash Tector suit]] - and even then, it has a steep learning curve.
* In one episode of [[Sons of Guns]], Will is challenged to build an electric gatling ''shotgun''. The initial attempt fails. Miserably. Changing gears, they take 3 stock semi-auto Saiga shotguns off the shelf and mount them in the reconstructed remains of the gatling unit. It works well enough that the customer buys the result.
* ''[[Andromeda]]'''s assault bots are armed with ''six'' Gauss Gatling guns, each firing guided rounds.
* ''[[Power Rangers]]'': The [[Power Rangers Zeo|Red Battlezord]] has gatling laser cannons [[Arm Cannon|built into its arms]]. One of the [[Power Rangers Turbo|Rescue Megazord]]'s guns is a huge gatling gun. The [[Power Rangers in Space|Delta Megazord]] has gatling gun hands. The [[Power Rangers Lightspeed Rescue|Supertrain Megazord]] is armed with a gatling ''missile launcher''.
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* Used in an elimination challenge during Season 3 of ''[[Top Shot]]''; the goal was to cut through a group of telephone poles.
* [[Deadliest Warrior]] season 3 has [[Theodore Roosevelt]] vs. [[Lawrence of Arabia]], and one of Roosevelt's weapons was a hand-cranked gatling gun.
== Manhwa ==
* Novic from ''[[Priest (manhwa)|Priest]]'' carries around a gatling gun. He doesn't seem to have any trouble firing it from the hip.
== Music ==
* [[The Protomen]] present Proto Man and [[Mega Man (video game)|Mega Man]] with Gatling guns for arms in artwork and live performances, as opposed to the plasma cannons they have in the games.
== Tabletop Games ==
* ''[[Warhammer
* ''[[BattleTech]]'' commonly depicts many machineguns and Autocannons as rotary-style guns, and recently introduced the separate Rotary Autocannon as its own class of weapon.
* Many mecha and vehicles in ''[[Rifts]]'' are adopting [[Rule of Cool|rotary railguns]] as antipersonnel weapons.
* ''[[Shadowrun]]'' has, in addition to its more ordinary miniguns, a vehicle mounted weapon called the "Victory Rotary Assault Cannon", which is [[Exactly What It Says on the Tin]]: a rotary gun that fires artillery rounds.
* The evil rat-like Skaven in ''[[Warhammer Fantasy Battle]] Fantasy Battle'', ever on the cutting edge of technological development, have gatling guns. Naturally, they're called ratling guns.
* ''[[GURPS]]'': Ultratech has gatling versions of just about everything which are at the low end of the high power weapons but have four times the rate of fire and about twice as many shots.
* ''[[Gammarauders]]'', a game about giant mutant cyborg animals fighting in the radioactive wastes after an apocalyptic nuclear war, features the Macrotechnic Popgun, so called because though it is of little use against the bioborgs it can still waste a lot of regular human soldiers, called popcorn because the bioborgs eat them like snacks.
* [[Iron Kingdoms|Warmachine]] has two warjacks wielding gatling guns, both part of Cygnar's armies. The first is the [https://web.archive.org/web/20130909131541/http://privateerpress.com/warmachine/gallery/cygnar/warjacks/sentinel Sentinel], a light warjack sporting a gatling gun for its right arm and a shield on its left and second is its bigger brother, the [https://web.archive.org/web/20130909092038/http://privateerpress.com/warmachine/gallery/cygnar/warjacks/cyclone Cyclone] heavy warjack. Cygnar also have [https://web.archive.org/web/20130907213304/http://privateerpress.com/warmachine/gallery/cygnar/units/trencher-chain-gun-crew chaingun teams among their ground troops.]
* Gatling guns exist in [[New Horizon]]. They're quite powerful, but extremely expensive.
* Just one of the many weapons employed by the Jammers in ''[[Feng Shui]]''. Subtle, these guys are not.
== [[Video Games]] ==
* The Terran Republic in ''[[PlanetSide]]'' have a ''handheld'' [[BFG]] gatling gun. It has a crazy rate of fire, ammo size, and damage per second. Unforunately, it's useless past 50m. Some of the Terran vehicles also have miniguns, but they're bigger and fire more slowly.
* The pioneers of [[First-Person Shooter|First Person Shooters]], ''[[Wolfenstein 3D]]'' and ''[[Doom]]'', used these, the former as the player character's most powerful weapon, and the latter as his default automatic weapon. It's also used by bosses, Hans/Gretel Grosse and [[Stupid Jetpack Hitler|Hitler]] in the former, and Spider Mastermind in the latter. It's become a standard weapon in First Person Shooter games since.
** ''[[Return to Castle Wolfenstein]]'' has a Gatling-like gun, the Venom, that charges for a bit before opening fire. And if an enemy (except [[Demonic Spiders|the really strong ones]]) takes too many bullets, it explodes into [[Ludicrous Gibs]].
* ''[[Quake II]]'' features the "chaingun", a gatling gun which is one of few examples of this trope played straight in games. It has very high damage output and ''tremendous'' rate of fire, high enough to literally mince most enemies in a blink of an eye and deplete all player's bullets within few seconds of continuous firing.
* ''Outlaws'', the Wild West Themed FPS from the good old days of Lucasarts, had a gatling gun as a weapons. Due to it being mounted on a tripod, you had to be stationary to use it.
* Though all the [[Unreal]] games have a minigun in one form or another, the Ballistic Weapons mod of ''[[Unreal Tournament 2004]]'' adds a realistic minigun with variable rate of fire: it can fire single shots, 900 RPM, 1800 RPM or 3600 RPM. A short burst can tear the target in two but it has a beastly recoil when firing at full auto. It even has a tripod mount which can be deployed to become a stationary turret with no recoil - quite useful in team games. Oh, and it has enough ammo to score at least 50 frags if you conserve it.
** Speaking of ''Unreal'', the Pulse Gun in ''[[Unreal Tournament]]'' goes with this as well, having six barrels that rotate at a high rate whenever it's fired.
* ''[[Command
** ''Tiberium Wars'' continues the proud tradition of gatling weapons, now in the hands of the Forgotten mercenaries. GDI also had gatling weapons mounted on the Hammerhead gunship in the ''Kane's Wrath'' expansion.
* ''[[Grand Theft Auto]]'' occasionally features the absurd hand-held minigun.
* Heavy Weapons Guy in ''[[Team Fortress 2]]'' one-ups this by lugging around something resembling a dismounted GAU-8. Known simply as [[I Call It Vera|Sasha]], this minigun [[Description Porn|weighs over 300 pounds and fires $200 rounds ten thousand times a minute]] ([[Gameplay and Story Segregation|except in gameplay, when its fire rate drops to 2,400 rounds a minute]]). The Engineers Sentry Gun sports dual miniguns after the first upgrade.
* In ''[[Resident Evil 4]]'', one of the most powerful enemies is J.J, a huge guy with a belt-fed minigun, a later-stage counterpart to Dr. Salvador, the earlier "huge guy with a chainsaw." Lucky for you, it takes an obscene amount of time for him to spool up the barrels, fires it without much regard as to your location, and stops shooting as soon as a bullet connects with you. He also tends to appear in places with extremely convenient cover.
** ''[[Resident Evil 2
** In ''[[Resident Evil 5]]'', you can unlock a gatling gun for Chris once you fully upgrade the first machinegun. It comes with a huge vision-obscuring backpack and Chris can't move as fast while equipped with it, but after a brief moment to spin it up, he can give everything in his path a dose of hot lead, and the backpack is bulletproof.
* An alien "chaingun" appears in ''[[Perfect Dark]]''. It's got [[Chainsaw Good|sharp edges]] too.
* ''[[Cosmic Break]]'' has three well-known weapons: Large Gatling, Buster Gatling and a Bazooka Gatling.
* Vulcan Raven from ''[[Metal Gear Solid]]'' wields not only a full sized M61 Vulcan cannon, but he also carries its ammunition drum on his back. Though notably not any kind of power source. The titular model of Metal Gear is armed with twin Vulcan cannons for surface-to-air defense.
* ''[[Universe At War]]'' has the minigun-wielding Colonel Moore as a hero.
* Maya Schroedinger of ''[[Wild
* ''[[Final Fantasy VII]]'''s Barret has a gatling gun built into his arm.
* In ''[[Xenosaga]]'', one of KOS-MOS' signature weapons is a triple set of tri-barreled Gatlings, that she could carry one-handed.
* ''[[Makai Kingdom]]'' has gatling guns as equippable weapons.
* In ''[[Disgaea 2: Cursed Memories]]'', one of Rozalin's special attacks was pulling a Gatling out of [[Hammerspace]] and opening up.
* ''[[Serious Sam]]'' can use a <s>chaingun</s> rotary gun while running and not lose any accuracy. The Arachnoid enemies also have an [[Arm Cannon]] version. In [[Serious Sam]] II, one of the enemies carries a minigun too.
* One of the purchasable weapons in ''[[Army of Two]]'' is an M134 Minigun.
* In ''[[Super Robot Wars]]'', when Kyosuke Nanbu findshis [[Super Prototype]] Alt Eisen wasn't super enough for the battles ahead, he gets it upgraded to the Alt Eisen Riese. Among the upgrades is to replace the tri-barreled Autocannon on the right arm with a gatling gun, which is misnamed as a Chaingun in the original Japanese text and in the English localization.
** Suzuka from ''[[Endless Frontier|Super Robot Wars OG Saga: Endless Frontier]]'' controls the Jyaki-GUN-Oh (Devil Gun King), which carries eight gatling guns.
* The ''[[Fallout]]'' games have several models of personal-scale gatling-style guns. Most playthroughs of the first game have the player first encountering them in the hands of eight-foot-tall, muscle-bound Super Mutants.
* The relatively obscure FPS games ''Mace Griffin: Bounty Hunter'' and ''[[Alpha Prime]]'' both feature assault rifles with 6 rotary barrels. This doesn't seem to be so much for practical functionality as it is for [[Rule of Cool]].
* ''[[Halo]]'' featured the Warthog, which was essentially a jeep with a gatling gun mounted on the back. In ''[[Halo 3]]'', the player could fire a stationary turret-version of the gun, and then [[Removable Turret Gun|rip]] ''that'' gun off its stand and carry it.
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* In the popular [[James Bond]] 007 game ''[[James Bond 007: Nightfire]]'', the PC version features a portable minigun, although it has been created by the weapons lab of the evil Phoenix group, as some sort of explanation of how someone could carry it. In both the console and PC versions you can acquire a remote-controlled briefcase that unfolds into a minigun.
* In ''[[The Matrix]]'' game ''Path of Neo'', the player controls the helicopter's minigun for a level.
* ''[[Total Annihilation]]'''s [[Expansion Pack]], ''The Core Contingency'', added Gatling artillery emplacements to each side. They wiped out your power reserves in a matter of seconds, but could erase an enemy base even faster.
* ''[[Supreme Commander]]''. The Cybrans have the [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7shvfQrz3fY Scathis Experimental Mobile Rapid-Fire Artillery] which costs an arm and a leg to build and fire and has a large spread but if you can make one lay down constant suppressive fire on the enemy base (provided you can get into range), they are dead. The expansion ''Forged Alliance'' makes it even better: the Scathis had it's maximum range removed. That's right, it now can fire across the whole map. Too bad it has such a low damage that two heavy shields can hold off a single Scathis indefinitely.
* In ''[[Armored Core]] For Answer'', one can mount hand or back mounted gatlings onto your AC. Also of note is GA's arms fort great wall, possessing two sets of two gatlings the size of aircraft carriers.
* In ''[[Rise of Legends]]'', the Vinci hero Lenora rides a flying machine with a massive Gatling gun mounted on the bottom. Of course, it's not nearly effective as it should be.
* ''[[Just Cause (video game)|Just Cause 2]]'' has turret-mounted miniguns placed around most military bases. The player can actually pull them off and use them like a normal gun, but with some
* Subverted in ''[[Escape Velocity]]'', where the mass driver, described as "the modern-day equivalent of the ancient gatling gun," has only an average rate of fire and its shots travel far slower than the standard [[Frickin' Laser Beams]], which also have the advantage of being primary weapons.
** ''[[Escape Velocity]]:Nova'''s chaingun follows the trope straight, however, with a fire rate (while firing, as it fires in bursts of 20) of 1800 rounds per minute (the maximum allowed by the game per gun). Additionally, it has a longer range and tends to deal more damage than medium-range blasters (and can out-damage the heavy blasters).
* In the game ''[[Syndicate]]'', your remote-controlled cyborg agents will end up carting these around as their primary weapon after a while. In fact, because of ammo issues, they'll be carrying several. [[Hyperspace Arsenal|Each]].
* The Gatling Gun is one of the strongest weapons in ''[[Star Fox (series)|Star
* The first ''[[Turok (series)|Turok]]'' game, on the [[Nintendo 64]], has a realistic-looking minigun in its arsenal (though with a pathetic rate of fire). The sequel ''Turok 2'' takes this trope up a notch with the Firestorm Cannon, essentially a minigun version of a ''plasma gun'' with [[Bang Bang BANG|awesome noise]]. Needless to say, it's one of the best weapons.
** ''Turok: Evolution'' took it to a more ridiculous level. Instead of being three or so spinning barrels, its three spinning groups of six barrels each (which also spin). And it mulches dinosaurs like nobody's business.
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* The second ''[[Battle Tanx]]'' game introduced the Rattler, a small tank built around GAU-8 gatling cannon, giving it considerable punch for its size.
* The boss of the [[Wild West]] chapter in [[Live a Live]] (O.Dio) uses a Gatling gun. If he hits with it, it's pretty much an instant KO, though its limited firing arc makes it easy to avoid.
* ''[[Descent]]'' features a Gatling gun in the form of the Vulcan Cannon, and the sequel ups the ante somewhat with the Gauss Cannon, a Gatling shotgun which uses the same ammo as the Vulcan cannon, albeit dealing MUCH more damage per round. The third game combines the two into the Vauss Cannon.
* ''[[Mega Man Battle Network]] 3's'' final boss has a Gatling gun mounted on its head. It's slow even by video game standards (and yet one of the fastest rapid-fire attacks in the series), and barely does any damage unless you completely stop moving. Later games added a modified version (called Vulcan) to the player's arsenal; its ammo is very limited, but the bullets stun on contact.
** ''[[Mega Man Star Force]]'' has actual Gatling Gun cards. Three levels of them.
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* ''[[Rogue Galaxy]]'''s Deego's secondary weapon.
* In ''[[House of the Dead]]'': Overkill, the main characters find some miniguns "just lying around" that are used to take on the final boss. After beating the Director's Cut mode, the same minigun can be purchased for use in regular play.
* ''[[
* ''[[Champions Online]]'' has a handful of rotary gun weapon powers: a handheld Gatling Gun, the shoulder-mounted Mini Gun, and the remotely controlled Munitions Bots. Gatling Gun and Mini Gun are capable of piercing through targets, while the Munitions Bots can spray bullets in a wide cone of effect. It is possible to use [http://i268.photobucket.com/albums/jj2/Rhomphaia/Quadwield.jpg all three] [http://i268.photobucket.com/albums/jj2/Rhomphaia/Parallel.jpg simultaneously].
* The ''[[Ghost Recon]]: Advanced Warfighter'' series has several rail shooter sequences where the player mans a Blackhawk mounted gatling gun. A few seconds of sustained fire is able to shred infantry and cut armored vehicles apart. However, unlike its real life counterpart, the gatling gun in the game is prone to overheating after continuous fire.
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* In ''Warhammer 40,000: Soulstorm'', in the campaign, the Tau Commander's starting weapon is an energy gatling gun.
* The ''[[Star Trek Elite Force]]'' games feature a [[Beam Spam|Tetryon]] Gatling gun.
* ''[[Hellgate
* ''[[Crackdown]] 2'''s turret-mounted (but carryable, if your Agent is strong enough) miniguns are more a case of Gatling Bad. You can't use [[Camera Lock On|lock-on targeting]] while wielding one, nor can you [[Le Parkour|climb ledges.]] They do tremendous damage, but since they can't be aimed easily and limit your agility, they're rarely worth using.
* The gunner darklings from the video game adaptation of [[The Darkness]] carry miniguns.
* ''[[Alien Swarm]]'' features two types, which are specific to the Special Weapons class.
* ''[[Red Dead Redemption]]'' only allows you to access a gatling gun from a fixed position and only on a few missions of the many you do. It does not reduce the raw awesome of mowing dozens of mounted troops down with nothing but [[More Dakka|raw Dakka]] from the back of a steam train as it barrels down a railroad track towards its destination.
* The Vulcan Cannon in ''[[SaGa 2|SaGa 2 / Final Fantasy Legend II]]'' is one of these, although it did not reach its awesome Dakka potential until the DS remake, where we could finally see it in all its glory.
* Alisa Amiella in ''[[Gods Eater Burst]]'' wields the red gatling gun Raging Lore as the gun part of her Swiss Army Weapon. Later on, the player can create the very same gun, or a blue version, named Silent Cry.
* ''[[Shattered Union]]'' has Vulcan Anti Air unit, which is basicly [[Exactly What It Says on the Tin|a tank with Vulcan instead of cannon]]. Pacifica takes the cake tough, by mounting two cannon sized gatling guns on their special unit.
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* [[Armored Core]] 5 has a melee-version of this. A giant weapon consisting of 6 chainsaws that can either be positioned adjacent to each other to rip stuff to pieces, or in a circular fashion resembling a gatling-gun. The weapon is simply named the "Grind Blade", and is, according to a customization-trailer revealed to be the strongest weapon in the game, being able to rip even the strongest enemy mecha to pieces with only a few hits. It's also one of the biggest, bulkiest and heaviest weapons, thus making it less ultimate. But it's still a pretty awesome weapon.
* ''[[X 3 Terran Conflict]]'' has the OTAS Venti starfighter. [[Unfortunate Names|Despite sounding like a coffee]], this is a seriously badass ship with twin wing-mounted gatling lasers.
* Subject Delta uses a four-barreled variant in ''[[
* In ''[[Alpha Protocol]]'', if you hire Steven Heck to provide fire support for a mission in the Taipei subway, he mounts a miningun inside a subway car and performs a drive-by on the station platform where you're pinned down. [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rMAhGRVDCvM No, seriously.]
== Web Animation ==
* A gatling gun is seen once in ''[[Madness Combat]] 8: Inundation''. The [[Big Bad|Auditor]] tries to kill [[Kung Fu Jesus|Jesus]] with it, but misses because Jesus [[Dodge the Bullet|dodges it]] by levitating towards him very fast. If you think this sounds weird, look at the [[Exactly What It Says on the Tin|title]] [[Refuge in Cool|again]].
== [[Web Comics]] ==
* In ''[[Sluggy Freelance]]'' Riff invents [http://www.sluggy.com/comics/archives/daily/981004 an anti-vampire gatling gun that fires 100 wooden stakes per second.] Falls into [[Awesome but Impractical]] territory since it only holds 100 stakes and takes two days to reload.
* The [[Humongous Mecha]] {{spoiler|Dr. Silas Merlot}} of ''[[Girl Genius]]'' comes equipped with double gatling guns as its primary weapon. There's also Gil's [http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20081015 "hand-cranked Runcible Gun"], which [[Literary Allusion Title|fires sporks]].
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* [[Global Guardians PBEM Universe|Global Guardians]] villain Caliber, a member of [[Hard Corps]], wears a suit of [[Powered Armor]] whose primary weapon is a huge minigun mounted on his right shoulder.
* [[FPS Russia]] has showcased a M134 Minigun in one of his videos. At the end he shows that while it's possible to fire it by hand it's still [[Awesome but Impractical]]
* Coco's weapon in ''[[RWBY]]''
== Western Animation ==
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** ''[[Transformers Cybertron|Cybertron]]'' Megatron's Death Machine Gun.
** ''[[Transformers Animated|Animated]]'' Swindle actually has such a "chaingun" ''[[Chest Blaster|in his chest]]''.
** Skyquake continues the tradition in ''[[Transformers Prime]]''.
*** Likewise his brother Dreadwing.
* The ''[[Swat Kats]]''' jet, the Turbokat, included among its [[Hyperspace Arsenal|many weapons]] a Gatling gun that fired ''[[Abnormal Ammo|balls of cement]]''.
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* ''[[Batman: The Brave And The Bold]]'': In "Mitefall!" the steam-powered cyborg assassin John Wilkes Booth has twin gatling guns.
* In the Season 2 Finale of ''[[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic|My Little Pony Friendship Is Magic]]'', Twilight Sparkle demonstrates her ability to use magic lasers. Pinkie Pie being [[Cloudcuckoolander|Pinkie Pie]], she picks up Twilight and uses her tail as the trigger to fire off a ''[http://i.neoseeker.com/mgv/574321-Liege/321/86/vbha1_display.gif unicorn magic gatling gun.]''
== Real Life ==
* Richard Gatling invented the Gatling Gun in 1861, in time for occasional use in the American Civil War. It was a hand-cranked device on a small carriage, firing a rifle cartridge. Models varied between ten and six barrels. It was one of the first machine guns.
** In 1890, a Gatling was mated with a motor for the first time. This gave such promising results that Gatling himself patented a version with 10 barrels and a built-in electric motor in 1893. It fired 50 rounds per second, a rate that would go unsurpassed for 60 years.
* The rotary gun experienced renewed popularity in the second half of the 20th century as anti-aircraft weapons. Where firing windows are measured in fractions of seconds, higher rates of fire are a massive advantage and an externally powered gun can't be stopped by a dud cartridge. The 20mm M61 Vulcan, developed in 1959, is still in use to this day on US fighter aircraft. Newer versions of the M61 are lighter and have a faster rate of fire, with derivatives (GAU-22 and GAU-8) firing heavier shells.
* The M134 Minigun is a smaller version of the Vulcan chambered in 7.62 NATO. It's used by some helicopters and ground vehicles as a more rapid-firing alternative to conventional machine guns. The huge ammunition stores required, power feeds and weight of the gun preclude a man-pack configuration.
* The GAU-8 Avenger, a gun so [[wikipedia:Image:GAU-8 meets VW Type 1.jpg|enormous]] that the A-10 Thunderbolt II ([[Fan Nickname|AKA]] "Tank-Killer" or "Warthog") was built around it. It fires seventy 30mm depleted uranium rounds per second, each capable of penetrating 69mm of armor at 500m. The gun can expend its entire magazine of 1,200 rounds in 17 seconds, and at maximum fire rate, the recoil force is a significant fraction of the engines' thrust. The recoil is not enough to [[Recoil Boost|stall the airplane or fly it backward]].
* The [https://web.archive.org/web/20110520121735/http://www.quarry.nildram.co.uk/RED%20QUEEN.htm T249 "Vigilante"], a tank with a [[BFG|37mm Gatling cannon]].
* The Russians built the Gryazev-Shipunov [https://web.archive.org/web/20080403100210/http://www.kbptula.ru/eng/str/cannons/gsh6_23.htm GSh-6-23], a gas operated rotary cannon firing at the incredible rate of 10,000 rounds per minute. Its higher-caliber relative [https://web.archive.org/web/20120107015745/http://www.kbptula.ru/eng/str/cannons/gsh6_30.htm GSh-6-30] has 6000 rpm.
** And an even more powerful variant, that is mounted on CIWS fires can fire 10,000 rounds per minute (sasha was a [[Shout-Out]] to this gun, even though its actual firing rate is 2400) but is 2 tonnes heavier than the standard 630.
* When President Obama was going on his procession to his inauguration, he had better protection than you probably realize; he was tailed by an Secret Service SUV with a gatling gun turret that pops out of the roof. [
** While certainly complete overkill from a tactical perspective (a regular belt fed machine gun would do the job just as well, or even better considering a much reduced waste of ammo), this thing is just perfect for covering any escape. When that thing pops out from nowhere, it is guaranteed to get everyones complete attention immediately with any possible attackers very likely forgetting about their original target. Even so, the amount of collateral damage that would occur from actually trying to use this to fight off assassins makes it just ludicrous.
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