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{{quote|''"Give a man a gun, he's Superman. Give him two, [[Blasphemous Boast|and he's God]]!"''|'''Superintendent Pang''', |''[[Hard Boiled]]''}}

This trope is a standard feature of [[The Western]]. Usually the two-gun fighter is just that much better than his opponents, that he can draw two guns in the time it takes them to draw one. In [[The Wild West|The Old West]] and [[The Cavalier Years]], carrying two pistols was a practical result of long reload times on muzzle-loaders (although they were never used for suppressive fire like in the trope) as well as percussion revolvers and Single Action Revolvers that were loaded one cartridge at a time. As a matter of fact, real people in these times often wore entire bandoleers of a couple dozen [[Throw -Away Guns]] strapped to their body. After break action revolvers and speed-loaders came around, one gun could do all the work.

In police oriented shows, [[Police Procedural|procedurals]] and action shows alike, this trope is largely a villain trait. The two-gun fighter is usually a destructive psycho with no regard for collateral damage, particularly [[More Dakka|Two Uzi Guy.]] Police characters generally use a proper technique, and fire one handgun with both hands. Also, accuracy of any kind is rather hard to achieve with two guns, and most times, [[A -Team Firing|you'll be lucky if you hit anything you're aiming for at all]].

In [[Anime]], as in much of Asian action cinema, especially [[Heroic Bloodshed]] movies, this trope is one of the primary elements of the art of [[Gun Fu]], and the two-gun fighter in these media is often very skilled, [[Improbable Aiming Skills|able to pick off multiple targets with pinpoint accuracy]] and [[Pistol -Whipping|able to use his guns as melee weapons]] as well as other crazy things one would not normally be able to do with a gun. Sometimes the character has two special guns, with individual names and special properties, hearkening back to the samurai stories about named swords with special enchantments.

God help you if you need to reload, but the wide availability of [[Bottomless Magazines]] and the habit of a lot of two-gun fighters to [[Throw -Away Guns|throw away their guns when they run out of bullets]] usually means it's not a problem. They may also go for an [[Unorthodox Reload]], if they want to show off.

The logical conclusion is to make the wielder [[Multi -Armed and Dangerous]].

Compare [[Dual -Wielding]], [[Sword and Gun]], and [[Firing One -Handed]]. A popular way of achieving [[More Dakka]]. See also [[Gun Kata]] and [[Gun Fu]].

* Kirika manages init once in ''[[Noir]]'', although she only fires one at a time and only because she really didn't want to reload...

* In an extreme example, in ''[[Dead Leaves]]'', Retro (briefly) uses ''three'' guns at once.

* Motoko Kusanagi in ''[[Ghost in Thethe Shell: Stand Alone Complex]]''. Normally, Motoko uses a single handgun or rifle, supported with both hands. However, in the episode "BARRAGE" in the first season, she utilizes a Seburo M-5 handgun in each hand. These are not quite as impractical to wield as they fire low recoil armor-piercing 5.7mm rounds reinforced by her cyborg body and firing software, but the fact that she was fighting an [[Powered Armor|Armed Suit]] made the attempt almost completely ineffective. After getting her left arm blown off, she single-handedly uses an anti tank rifle to make the pilot inside regret that he ever messed with her.

** In another example, [http://media.giantbomb.com/uploads/2/26927/898302-hellsingv07c02_05_super.jpg this page]{{Dead link}} from the manga. If one Harkonnen is overkill, what's two at the same time?

*** Livio's alter-ego Razlo takes this trope even farther, having a cybernetic arm grafted to his back so that he can triple-wield three massive, six-foot steel cross Punishers.

* Teana Lanster of ''[[Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha]]'' does this with a pair of pistols [[Swiss Army Weapon|that can become]] [[Laser Blade|a pair of energy daggers]] for [[Dual -Wielding]].

* Jo from ''[[BakuretsuBurst TenshiAngel]]'' can dual-wield ''a pair of Desert Eagles'' with pinpoint accuracy. Yes, she's just that badass. {{spoiler|Made easier by being an [[Artificial Human]] created for combat.}}

** ''[[Mobile Suit Gundam 00]]'' is fairly fond of this one. Both Gundam Dynames and Cherudim Gundam akimbo a pair of beam pistols. Gundam Arios has two double barreled beam rifles (and a pair of beam gatlings mounted in each arm). Not to be trumped, Gundam Virtue and Gundam Seravee are both capable of using two beam bazookas at once. Gundam Zabanya (which succeed Dynames and Cherudim) can not only akimbo two of its 10 Rifle Bits, but also break them down to Pistol Bits for the same purpose.

* In ''[[Gungrave]]'', in both timelines, the main character Brandon Heat uses them (crossed) once he [[Took a Level Inin Badass]] through training with Bear Walken. Fellow hitman Bunji Kugashira and antagonist Brad Wong do as well (the latter using decorative gold and silver revolvers), and all are insanely good shots. When Brandon is resurrected as the deadman called Beyond the Grave, he still dual-wields a pair of even ''[[Hand Cannon|bigger]]'' handguns, the Cerberus.

* The Lancelot from ''[[Code Geass]]'' was already a master at [[Dual -Wielding]], but when it was upgraded into its Albion form, it started carrying around a rifle in each hand.

* In the ''[[Gunsmith Cats]]'' manga Rally Vincent manages to thoroughly debunk both [[Guns Akimbo]] and [[Gangsta Style]] techniques while moonlighting as a firearms instructor. Ironically, this actually gets her fired, since the shooting range owner makes his real money selling lots and lots of ammo.

** Kid is so obsessed with [[Super OCD|being symmetrical at all times]] that he literally [[Justified Trope|will not fire]] unless he is wielding both guns. He is psychologically incapable of not using [[Guns Akimbo]].

* ''[[Neon Genesis Evangelion]]'' did it with Giant Robots. Asuka starts off her showdown with the 14th Angel firing one rifle, but with a bunch of weapons stacked behind her (probably a 7 Samurai [[Shout -Out]]). As she runs out of ammo, she progresses through (giant) machine-guns akimbo to (multi-shot) bazokas-akimbo. Unfortunately for her, it's [[So Last Season]].

* Kevin McDougall, a member of the Sweeper Alliance in ''[[Black Cat (Mangamanga)|Black Cat]]'', wields two pistols. Although he looks like the most timid and helpless of the group (especially when he was injured by Shiki), he is actually one of the more dangerous and useful sweepers during the attack on the [[Big Bad]]'s base. Using two guns, he's able to subdue multiple [[Elite Mooks]] at once. Mind that these Elite "Mooks" are actually very hard to kill, much less subdue.

** In [[One Piece Film: Strong World (Anime)|the 10thtenth film]], during their [[Big Damn Heroes]] moment, all the Straw Hats (minus Nami) bring out [[BFG]] and use them against [[Big Bad]] Shiki's forces. This is the only time we ever see Luffy and Zoro even carry guns. Not to mention how those who hardly fight with weapons, such as Sanji, actually using a weapon.

* Scanty of ''[[Panty and& Stocking With Garterbelt (Anime)|Panty and Stocking Withwith Garterbelt]]'' wields two revolvers. She's not terribly accurate, but then, neither is Panty when shooting at her. Note that in order to do this, due to the nature of the wapons, she has to wear two pairs of panties at all times.

** At one point Dwight's .45s results in a [[Shout -Out]] to [[The Shadow]].

* The Saint of Killers from ''[[Preacher (Comic Book)]]'' almost always used two Walker Colts together. After the job of [[The Grim Reaper]] was passed down to him, his new guns were forged from the old Angel of Death's sword, making them perfectly accurate.

* [[The Avengers (Comic Book)|Kang the Conqueror]] uses a dual minigun that's light enough to fire with one hand, preventing the need to dual wield, but he sometimes holds an additional gun in his offhand, because he can.

* [[Deadpool]] is frequently depicted [https://web.archive.org/web/20061212233135/http://www.mcnabbstudios.com/whats_new/topps_cards/deadpool_final.jpg using two guns]. Of course, he also uses two katanas, two sais...I think maybe he really, really likes twos. (Then again, he can kill you with his bare hands, <s>two</s> too.) but how many hands does he have? TWO!

* Casanova, Zephyr Quinn and [[Crazy Awesome]] [[Big Bad]] Newman Xeno all do this in ''[[Casanova (Comic Bookcomics)|Matt Fraction's Casanova]]''.

== Fan FictionWorks ==

* ''[[Light and Dark The Adventures of Dark Yagami (Fanfic)|Light and Dark- The Adventures of Dark Yagami]]'' features [[British English|Gratuitously British]] [[Badass Grandpa|Watari]] doing this with a pair of [[Rouge Angles of Satin|"snipper"]] [[Crazy Awesome|rifles]]. In an odd instance that is presumably a case of [[Rouge Angles of Satin]], Dark "jumped out of a kimbo with guns".

* ''[[Poke Wars]]'' features [[Pokémon (Animeanime)|Dawn]] wielding twin .45 caliber pistols in ''Dawn of a New Era''. In ''The Coalescence'' she wields twin pistols of an unspecified caliber. [[Justified Trope|Justified]] because {{spoiler|she gains [[Improbable Aiming Skills]] from the [[Power Limiter|dampener]] removal}}.

* In ''[[Fallout Equestria: Pink Eyes (Fanfic)|Fallout Equestria Pink Eyes]]'', there is a griffin mercenary named Henrietta who does this after she obtains her [[Tragic Keepsake|dead father's gun]].

** John Woo's first use of [[Guns Akimbo]] happened during ''[[A Better Tomorrow]]'', where Chow Yun-Fat's most memorable character, Mark Gor, [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hlQ_iyQ61ig blows away a restaurant full of bad guys] to avenge the betrayal that got his friend Ho sent to prison.

** The final showdown of ''[[A Better Tomorrow]] III'', a prequel to the first two movies which was directed by Tsui Hark instead of John Woo, had Mark wielding two ''M-16s'' in [[Guns Akimbo]] mode.

*** ''[[The Corruptor]]'' stands out as one of the few movies where Chow Yun-Fat doesn't rely on [[Guns Akimbo]]. The only time he wields two guns is because he already had his backup weapon drawn and only kills one guy this way. He even uses the same service weapon throughout the movie - ''and'' he reloads it!

** [[Guns Akimbo]] has also shown up in just about every movie [[John Woo]] has made in the US, including ''[[Face Off|Face/Off]]'', whose [[Big Bad]] Castor Troy even wielded [[Bling Bling Bang|a pair of golden .45s]] during the opening shootout of the movie.

* In almost any movie where he wields a weapon, Antonio Banderas will inevitably end up using one in each hand to dramatic effect. Even if it's [[Dual -Wielding|two swords against two different opponents]] as in ''[[The Mask of Zorro]]''.

** This is especially true of his portrayal of the Mariachi in ''[[Desperado]]'', who draws two Rugers from his sleeves in order to blow away an entire bar full of bad guys.

*** Even moresomore so in the sequel, when he dual wields a sawed off shotgun and a sub-machine gun during a shootout!

* [[Blade (Filmfilm)|The Blade series]] features this frequently. When Blade isn't killing vampires with his blades, he's usually dual wielding pistols or customized sub-machine guns. Whistler gets in on the act too when rescuing Blade, busting through a wall wielding a pair of MP5s and delivering a [[Pre -Ass -Kicking One -Liner]]. In part 2, aside from Blade, Scud is shown dual wielding a pair of Desert Eagles when investigating a noise outside his van, Nyssa wields a pair of machine pistols, and Reinhardt tops them both by wielding a pair of [[Mix -and -Match Weapon|Berettas with huge blades built into them]]! In Blade Trinity, both Abigail Whistler and Hannibal King occasionally dual wield revolvers, Abby's being regular guns and King's being heavily customized versions.

* [[Russell Crowe]]'s character in ''[[The Quick and Thethe Dead]]'' does something very similar. With ''Winchesters''.

* Appears a lot in ''[[Hot Fuzz]]''. Then again, it's a comedy. For an example of how silly it gets, one character fires two pistols while riding down the street on a motability scooter. Slowly. Then there's the part where Nicholas Angel (briefly) [[Dual -Wielding|dual-wields]] ''pens''.

{{quote| "Ever fired two guns whilst jumping through the air?"}}

** And, [[Rule of Cool|of course]], the Saints always have [[Guns Akimbo|a gun in each hand]] whenever they attack. In the first film they each had a pair of suppressed Beretta 92's, trading them in for custom [[Hand Cannon|Desert]] [[Rare Guns|Eagles]] in the sequel. [[Guns Akimbo]] is part of what makes them so [[Badass]].

* In the opening scene of ''[[XXX (Film)|xXx]] 2'', this is the easy way to tell who is going to survive the attack on the [[Elaborate Underground Base]]... namely, the guy who's dual-wielding semi-automatic weapons while everybody else are toting rifles.

** Neo dual-wields pistols at several points in the first film, though again his being in the Matrix meant his strength was far higher than humans could normally have. In one sequence, he fires dual silenced 9mm pistols using subsonic ammunition; the relative lack of recoil would make this ''slightly'' more plausible than most other forms of [[Guns Akimbo]]. He even switches off which one he's aiming down at certain points.

** And then there was Mouse, who [[Dual -Wielding|dual-wielded automatic shotguns]] when cornered by the police/agents. It was his [[Crowning Moment of Awesome]], but it sadly was also right before he was shot.

* [[Bruce Willis]]' character in ''[[Last Man Standing (Filmfilm)|Last Man Standing]]'' does this throughout the entire film, reloading in a very similar fashion to the ''AvP'' example below.

* In the ''[[Lara Croft: Tomb Raider (Film)|Tomb Raider]]'' movie, Lara uses her signature dual pistols (see Video Games examples below), but has a neat reloading mechanism; when she ejects the mags, a rack in her backpack comes out with a new set of mags angled right so she can just sweep her arms behind her to load them.

* In ''[[The Mummy 1999 (Film)Trilogy|The Mummy 1999]]'', it was common for the American characters to dual wield revolvers. However, this was only used in situations where there were an overwhelming number of enemies, negating the need for accuracy. When facing several riders bearing down on him, in fact, Rick O'Connell (the main character, played by Brendan Frasier) empties two revolvers at them...then drops them and draws two more. However, he never fires simultaneously (another possible advantage being that he can more easily cover a wider angle).

* [[Guns Akimbo]] abound in the questionably-competent ''[[Hitman]]'' film of the game series, escalating from pistols up to a villain's usage of twin [[BFG|RPDs]]. This last one was completely good for nothing more than tearing the furniture a new one.

* In [httphttps://vidsweb.archive.org/web/20210424053259/https://myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&VideoID=12327823 this]{{Dead link}} amateur film (appropriately, an entry to the Stranglehold Short Film contest), the hero pulls off Guns Akimbo with flintlocks. Lots and lots of flintlocks.

* Ash Williams from the ''[[Evil Dead]]'' series usually has a [[Sawed -Off Shotgun]] in one hand and a [[Chainsaw Good|chainsaw]] on the stump of his other arm.

* [[James Bond (Filmfilm)|James Bond]], unique action hero that he is, almost ''never'' uses two guns simultaneously. The only examples is in the film ''[[Tomorrow Never Dies (Film)|Tomorrow Never Dies]]'', where ends up dual wielding an SMG and his Walther P99 while running through Elliot Carver's base. It looks... a little silly.

* Captain Picard's dual-wielding in ''[[Star Trek Nemesis (Film)|Star Trek: Nemesis]]'' threatens to rival Bond's in terms of the silly factor.

* In ''[[The Last of the Mohicans (Film)|The Last of the Mohicans]]'' Hawkeye uses two flintlock Kentucky longrifles, ''and hits both targets!''.

* ''[[The Crow]]'' has two such instances of [[Guns Akimbo]]. The first has Eric Draven himself going both-guns-blazing against Top Dollar's entire gang at his boardroom in the movie's biggest shootout, and the second has Eric and Officer Albrecht battling it out against a two-gun-wielding Top Dollar and his [[The Dragon|Dragon]] at the church where Sarah was taken. Draven is an undead avenger played by the late Brandon Lee; Top Dollar...well, he's [[Badass|played by Michael Wincott]].

* In ''[[Tombstone]]'', [[Crazy Awesome|Doc Holliday]] confronts one of the cowboys ([[Mook|Mooks]]s who wear red bandannas) and pulls a pistol on him. The man says that Holliday is so drunk (which he clearly is) he's probably seeing double. Holliday then pulls out a second pistol with the other hand, points both of them at the guy, and says, "I have two guns... one for each of ya."

* Subverted in ''[[The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen (Filmfilm)|The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen]]''. Tom Sawyer, who's otherwise an excellent shot with his Winchester, often attempts to bring down enemies by unloading twin revolvers at them simultaneously. However, he never actually hits anything when he attempts this, and every time he tries it in front of Allen Quatermain, he is berated for "shooting like a bloody fool".

{{quote| '''Quartermain:''' Very American. Fire enough bullets and hope to hit the target.}}

* Turns up in a scene in the remake of ''[[Dawn of the Dead (2004 (Filmfilm)|Dawn of the Dead 2004]]''; the character possibly has an excuse, considering at least one of his legs is broken and he is being frantically dragged through a sewer just ahead of a pursuing swarm of zombies. {{spoiler|Unsurprisingly, it doesn't help, and he dies.}}

* Marion from ''[[Film/Undead|Undead]]'' not only uses this technique, but takes it [[Rule of Cool]] by at one point throwing the guns (he catches them again, so that doesn't really qualify for [[Throw -Away Guns]]) and using the nearest cop's trigger finger, and later doing it while hanging by his spurs from a doorway. Then again, Marion's an [[Improbable Weapon User]].

* ''[[Ghost Dog]]'' in ''The Way of the Samurai'' does the alternating-shots version, when infiltrating his boss' Jersey Mafia hideout.

* ''[[Tropic Thunder]]'' Done with two full sized M-16s that were hidden under a cloak until it became clear that an attempt at infiltration had failed and it was time for [[More Dakka]]. Concludes with an [[Asskicking Pose]] AND a [[One -Liner]]. I'm a LEAD FARMER, motherf* cker!

** That scene was probably more of a subversion of this trope, Lazarus doesn't actually hit anyone when he goes all [[Guns Akimbo]].

* [[Incredibly Lame Pun|Cranked]] [[Up to Eleven]] in ''[[CharliesCharlie's Angels|Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle]]''. [[Villain Sue|Madison Lee]] fires two [[Bling Bling Bang|golden]] [[Rare Guns|Desert Eagle]] [[Hand Cannon|.50 Action Express]] both simultaneously and Woo Style (they are chambered in .50 Action Express as you can see in a lot of close-ups on the muzzles). [[Law of Inverse Recoil|Not that there was any recoil distracting her, by the way.]] Still not enough? There's a Mongolian earlier in the film dual-wielding [[More Dakka|belt-fed machine guns in full-auto mode]].

* Will Smith in the film adaptation of ''[[I, Robot (Filmfilm)|I Robot]]'' takes this to the nth degree by pulling both pistols out of his jacket, aiming, firing, and utterly obliterating his target while RIDING A MOTORCYCLE.

* In [[Underworld (Filmfilm)|the 3 Underworld films starring Kate Beckinsale]], [[Action Girl|Selene]] is the only Death Dealer who uses dual automatic pistols in every gunfight. All others prefer assault rifles (not akimbo). Being a [[Our Vampires Are Different|vampire]], she doesn't care about recoil and is a pretty good shot with both guns. In one scene, she uses the guns on full auto to "draw" a circle under her and collapse the floor.

* In [[Resident Evil (Filmfilm)|the Resident Evil]] films, Alice wields almost everything akimbo. Over the course of the series, she wields semi-auto handguns, revolvers, sub-machine guns, and even sawed-off shotguns akimbo(she does have enhanced strength though). Even when forced into melee combat, she swaps over to [[Dual -Wielding]] fighting batons or kukri knives! A couple of other characters do this as well. In Resident Evil:Apocalypse, Carlos wields a pair of Desert Eagles, LJ wields a pair of gold-plated Desert Eagles, and Jill Valentine uses guns akimbo briefly as well. These are all trumped however by the monstrous Nemesis, who wields a chaingun and rocket launcher akimbo.

* ''[[The Maiden Heist]]'' begins with a [[Daydream Surprise]] with [[Christopher Walken]] dual-wielding pistols to stop a gang of nefarious art thieves.

* Chuck Norris famously wields a pair of Uzis in ''[[Invasion USAU.S.A.]]''.

{{quote| '''DuQuesne:''' You know I am handy with a gun myself?<br />

'''Professional assassin Mook:''' You're faster than I am, and that's saying something. You're chain lightning.<br />

* In [[Stephen King]]'s ''[[The Dark Tower (Literature)/The Gunslinger|The Dark Tower]]'', Roland Deschain fights with a gun in each hand. He is somehow able to juggle both guns and reload at the same time. {{spoiler|However, he loses two fingers at the beginning of ''[[The Dark Tower (Literature)/The Drawing of the Three|The Dark Tower]]''," and is thereafter limited to one gun at a time.}}

* Discussed in ''[[Sixteen Thirty Two1632]]'', during the Croats' attack on Grantville, Dan Frost is tempted to do this, but doesn't.

* In the ''[[Honor Harrington (Literature)|Honor Harrington]]'' novella ''From the Highlands'', Jeremy X dual-wields pistols when engaging Scrags in the warrens of old [[The Windy City|Chicago]].

* In the novels of [[JTJ. T. Edson]], the amidexterous Dusty Fog would almost always draw both of his twin Colts at the same time; usually firing both at the same target.

== Live -Action TV ==

* In the ''[[Doctor Who (TV)|Doctor Who]]'' episode "The Parting of the Ways", Captain Jack wields two guns to fight off approaching Daleks. Sadly they run out of ammo so he gets out a pistol. Which also runs out of ammo.

* ''[[Stargate SG-1 (TV)|Stargate SG-1]]'' once showed Daniel Jackson doing this with his Beretta M92F and an MP5. But for the ultimate extreme, Teal'c was once seen wielding two ''P-90s'' (although he only fired one at a time). In fact, other episodes feature Teal'c firing two Jaffa staffs, and even two MP7s simultaneously.

** Cameron Mitchell also uses two guns while fighting zombies in the 200th episode. Justified in that this was an [[Imagine Spot]], so practicality isn't exactly what he was going for.

** The ''[[Stargate Atlantis (TV)|Stargate Atlantis]]'' episode "The Return Part II" has Teyla wielding not one but two ARG's ( Anti Replicator Guns) in the classic cross-armed casual shoot.

** Several times in ''[[Stargate Atlantis (TV)|Stargate Atlantis]]'' Dr. McKay is shown using dual pistols. Granted he is shown to miss more than he is to hit.

* Zoe from ''[[Firefly (TV)|Firefly]]'' blasts off with dual pistols at one point during the rescue of Mal from [[Bad Boss]] Niska in "War Stories."

* In the penultimate episode of ''[[Alias (TV series)|Alias]]'' {{spoiler|Peyton uses two machine pistols to execute the leaders of Prophet Five}}.

* The one time ''[[Homicide: Life On the Street (TV)|Homicide Life Onon the Street]]'' featured someone firing two guns at once, it was a maniac shooting up several police officers in the third-season episode "The City That Bleeds".

* In ''[[Twenty Four (TV)24|Twenty Four]]'' Jack Bauer uses dual pistols during his [[My Name Is Inigo Montoya]] moment in the season 1 finale.

* In ''[[Smallville (TV)|Smallville]]'', Lex picks up two revolvers and is prepared to go [[Guns Akimbo]] on Green Arrow and Black Canary but Clark zips by to interfere before Lex can do something badass.

* In ''[[Angel (TV)|Angel]]'', Wesley sometimes uses two guns in the fifth and final season, in the episode "Lineage". It only kind of works, but it was pretty Badass.

* In the first episode of ''[[Star Trek: Enterprise]]'' Captain Archer is seen brandishing a phase pistol in each hand during the fight in the snow, having taken one used by an injured crewmember he and the others were escorting to safety.

* [[Lesbian Vampire|Bianca's]] [[Depraved Bisexual]] lover Natalie does this in the TV version of ''[[The Dresden Files]]''.

* Day Two of ''[[Torchwood (TV)|Torchwood]]: Children of Earth'' has Gwen jumping out of the back of an ambulance and firing with a gun in each hand.

* In an episode of ''[[NCIS (TV)|NCIS]]'', Ziva uses both her primary weapon and her backup akimbo to take out goons coming in from two separate doors. Then again, she is a [[Badass Israeli|Mossad-trained badass]]. And it's extra badass, because she first calls her boss and ''makes him listen'' while she does it.

* In ''[[The Magnificent Seven (TV series)|The Magnificent Seven]]'' series JD Dunne - the youngest and least experienced of the group - uses two Colts simultaneously with much success.

* In an episode of ''[[Psych (TV)|Psych]]'' Lassiter gets into a brief shootout with a robber and blazes away at him with a pair of pistols while the robber returns fire [[Firing One -Handed|one handed]], [[A -Team Firing|both of them failing to score a hit]]. Justified by the fact that Lassiter is [[Trigger Happy]], [[Properly Paranoid]], and [[Crazy Prepared]] so having a pair of guns on him during a birthday party seems perfectly normal for him.

* In ''[[The Good Guys (TV)|The Good Guys]]'', Pedro ([[Career Killers|the second best assassin in the world]]) is very good at trick shots so he can pull this off. [[By the -The-Book Cop|Jack]] tries to do this but he ends up [[Reality Ensues|missing with]] [[A -Team Firing|every single shot]] ''[[Epic Fail|at point blank range]]''. Pedro shrugs and lampshades; "It's harder than it looks".

* In the fourth season premire of ''[[Burn Notice (TV)|Burn Notice]]'', Michael does this with a pair of [[Cool Guns|Mac-10 machine pistols]] to intimidate a trio of [[All Bikers Are Hells Angels|biker thugs]] who were terrorizing his client. Michael even points out how he has [[More Dakka]] compared to the pistol-wielding bikers.

* Eliot in the ''[[Leverage (TV)|Leverage]]'' episode "The Big Bang Job," in a gunfight that puts some entire action movies to shame with its over-the-top cinematics.

{{quote| '''Mook:''' You said you didn't like guns.<br />

{{quote| '''Chalky:''' One more thing... ''(crosses arms under jacket, pulls out two enormous guns and turns around)'' [[I Never Said It Was Poison|How'd you know I drive a Packer?]]}}

* In ''[[Kaizoku Sentai Gokaiger (TV)|Kaizoku Sentai Gokaiger]]'', the Gokaigers often exchange their weapons in the middle of battle. This often leads to Gokai Green and Gokai Pink wielding a pair of Gokai Guns. Given they're aliens and their default fighting style is [[Dual -Wielding]] a sword and gun, this may be justified.

* Annie, Britta and Shirley in ''[[Community (TV)|Community]]'' episode [[Community (TV)/Recap/S1 /E23 Modern Warfare|Modern Warfare]]. For some reason, none of the other guys do except for Senor Chang, in his role as [[The Dragon]], who pulls out dual gold plated guns after his paintball machine gun runs out.

* ''[[Warhammer 4000040,000]]'''s Sisters of Battle Seraphim are trained to dual-wield Bolt pistols. Battlesuited Tau warriors are able to dual fire with a suitable upgrade. And many Eldar Exarchs (such as those of the Dire Avengers or Warp Spiders) are able to dual-wield what would normally be two-handed guns for other Eldar.

* ''[[Feng Shui (Tabletop Game)|Feng Shui]]'', in keeping with Hong Kong action movies, uses this trope fairly frequently. Gun-using characters can use a gun in each hand with no penalties at all, and can blast off on mooks with both guns blazing with little problem. But against named characters, the only way to increase damage when using two guns is to buy up the Both Guns Blazing gun schtick, which doubles the base damage but allows the victim to subtract twice his toughness against it.

*** Though Buying of the penalties (6 points) is cheaper than the Extra Attack (Pistols only) (20 points)

* Every player character in ''[[Hong Kong Action Theatre (Tabletop Game)|Hong Kong Action Theatre]]'' can do this, along with other [[Guns and Gunplay Tropes]], as a matter of style. HKAT's penchant for multiple attacks makes blasting somebody to hell with both guns blazing very, very possible.

* [[Big Bad|Queen Cadavra]] from ''[[Bug (Video Game)|Bug!]]!'' takes this one [[Up to Eleven]] - she's a [[Giant Spider]], so she takes out ''eight'' [[More Dakka|submachine guns]] and strafes the floor with them!

* The South Korean version of ''[[Alliance of Valiant Arms (Video Game)|Alliance of Valiant Arms]]'' has two weapons that can be wielded in this fashion; namely the Steyr TMP and a [[Bling Bling Bang|blinged-out]] version of the Beretta 92FS pistol.

* ''[[Unreal Tournament (Video Game)|Unreal Tournament]]''. Pick up a second Enforcer pistol, use both at once. Can actually be very effective, as while two Enforcers shoot slower than one Minigun, their bullets are more precise and deal more damage. At any significant distance a player with two enforcers is almost guaranteed to kill one with a minigun. This changes at short range, where the low precision of the minigun is no longer a disadvantage. Even better, use altfire to increase firing rate by using dual pistols [[Gangsta Style]]!

* ''[[Wolfenstein 3D (Video Game)|Wolfenstein 3D]]'' and its sequel ''Spear of Destiny'' had enemies that wielded a weapon in each hand. In the case of the mutants, that meant three machine guns. In the case of the boss enemy Übermutant, this meant four knives, ''plus a chest-embedded chaingun.'' Several other bosses - including 'Hans' in the first episode - dual-wield ''chainguns''... Hitler, of course, wields ''four'' miniguns at once. [[Stupid Jetpack Hitler|He's just that evil]].

* Upgrade your skill with the standard pistol, one-handed SMGs, or the sawn-off shotgun, and you can two-fist them in ''[[Grand Theft Auto San Andreas (Video Game)|Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas]]''. Except for the Desert Eagle pistol.

* ''[[GoldenGoldenEye Eye007 (1997 (Videovideo Gamegame)|GoldenEye]]'' is fond of having both Bond and the bad guys use dual pistols and submachine guns. Xenia Onatopp uses an FN-P90 (called an [[AKA -47|RC-P90]] in the game) and a grenade launcher, which you can also do once you defeat her. Jaws wields two M-16 rifles at the same time, which you can also do if you kill him. You can even use two grenade or rocket launchers at once, but you'll need to use cheat codes in order to do so.

** Notably, in ''[[Halo 3: ODST]]'', the ability to duel-wield two guns is removed. Why? You're playing an Orbital Drop Shock Trooper - a [[Badass]], yes, but an ordinary human soldier nonetheless. Who can still rip off and carry turrets.

** In a certain cutscene in ''[[Halo: Reach]]'', Noble Six dual-wields an assault rifle and a pistol while aiming at different targets, on opposite sides of them. If only you could do that in game.

* In the ''[[Devil May Cry]]'' series, Dante's signature ranged weapons are a pair of pistols named Ebony and Ivory. In fact, they have always been present in all his incarnations, whereas his main sword has not been so consistent. In the second game, Dante can wield Ebony and his shotgun together, but this has not appeared in subsequent games; whether this is because [[Non -Linear Sequel]], where the second is the chronologically last, makes this a demonstration of Dante's sheer power, or because Capcom is practising [[Canon Dis ContinuityDiscontinuity]], is still up for debate.

* As for ''Nitro Family''. You think two pistols or Uzis are for kids? [[Dodge This|Try two shotguns.]] [[What Do You Mean ItsIt's Not Awesome?|Or two miniguns.]] [[Ludicrous Gibs|Or, even better, two rocket launchers.]]

* ''[[Max Payne (Video Gameseries)|Max Payne]]'', as a pastiche of John Woo-style action-films, uses paired weapons all the time.

* ''[[Tomb Raider]]'': [[Third -Person Seductress|Lara Croft]]'s signature weapon is a pair of akimbo pistols. In the first two titles she used to shoot them with remarkable timing, such that the two shots sounded just like one. In following titles of the series the two shots are slightly offset. She is also noted for automatically aiming both weapons independently in target rich environments.

* ''[[The Punisher (Video2005 Gamevideo game)|The Punisher]]'' game takes this to ridiculous extremes, allowing the player to fire 2 ''M60s'', among other things. However, the game is pretty realistic when it comes to reloading for when the Punisher is wielding a pair of big weapons (assault rifles, shotguns, machine guns, etc.), rather than try to reload both weapons at once he just tosses aside the second weapon.

* In ''[[MDK 2MDK2]]'', Max the dog is a robotic pooch that looks like a cross between Snoopy and The Punisher, with [[Multi -Armed and Dangerous|four arms]]. He can fire any four weapons, including shotguns and Gatlings, at the same time.

* ''[[Boktai (Video Game)|Lunar Knights]]'' has the Ninja for this. Despite its low attack power, its rapid fire ability - upgraded to vulgar levels - makes it one of the best guns in the game.

** ''The Next Encounter'' lets you play with two Uzis instead of a tommygun. [[What Do You Mean ItsIt's Not Awesome?|Isn't it cool?]]

* In ''007 [[James Bond 007: Nightfire]]'', You can duel wield automatic pistols, however, this quadruples the reload time.

* Axl has twin pistols in the ''[[Mega Man X (Video Game)|Mega Man X]]'' games - at least in the cutscenes, official art, and whatnot. You don't control them independently in play. (Note the similarity to Zero's [[Dual -Wielding]].) His first appearance ''does'' feature a boss weapon that you can dual wield (the model of the guns a shout out to the duel wielded pistols from ''[[Resident Evil]]: Code Veronica''), and ''[[Mega Man X Command Mission (Video Game)|Mega Man X Command Mission]]'' also sees him using two of them.

** Model A, his successor in ''[[Mega Man ZX (Video Game)|Mega Man ZX]] Advent'', used dual pistols only visible in official art and giga attack animations.

* The ''[[Mega Man (Videovideo Gamegame)|Mega Man]]'' classic series has several who wield dual weapons, mostly the ones that [[Mad Bomber|wield explosives]] (Crashman, Napalmman). Mega Man himself has two [[Arm Cannon|Arm Cannons]]s, but only uses one at a time. [[Mega Man X (Video Game)|Mega Man X]] improves on him by (in later games) charging both Busters and firing them in succession.

** And in co-op play, both weapons are dropped as separate dual wield weapon pickups allowing each player to pick up one if they notice this and the weapons fall far enough from each other.

* ''[[Heavy Metal (Animationanimation)|Heavy Metal: F.A.K.K. 2]]'' was notable for overlapping with [[Dual -Wielding]] through Julie's ability to dual wield almost any combination of several different guns, swords and shields at the same time.

* The ''[[Metal Gear]]'' series deserves a special mention for totally, totally avoiding this one, despite the fact that it's usually more than happy to use every other gunplay trope ever. Notably, there's a scene in ''[[Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater|MGS3]]'' in which Ocelot presents his dual revolvers to Snake: "Twelve shots. This time, I've got twelve shots." He proceeds to use them both - but one at a time, cowboy-style.

** Whether this counts as an aversion or subversion is debatable, but since the designers drew attention to it, it maybe a subversion...when the original ''Metal Gear Solid'' game was being hyped, the designers, probably because of the game's perspective and resultant comparisons to other [[Third -Person Shooter]] games like ''[[Tomb Raider]]'', noted that Snake only carries one gun and he uses both hands--becausehands—because that's how a ''real'' [[Badass]] does it. In one particular interview they were asked who would win, Lara or Snake, and they said, quite aside from training, that because he not only used just one gun but avoided [[Firing One -Handed]], Snake would demolish her.

* The Dual Vipers/Raptors in ''[[Ratchet and Clank|Ratchet: Deadlocked]] serve as his rapid-fire gun.

* ''[[Wild Arms (Video Game)|Wild ArmsARMs]] 3'' at least nodded to the implausibility of this by introducing a girl, Virginia, whose unique ability was that she was able to handle two ARMs (guns) at once. As a bit of a subversion, though, she wasn't a powerful physical bruiser character, instead being best suited to handling items and magic.

** Dean, from ''[[Wild Arms 5 (Video Game)|Wild ArmsARMs 5]]'' also uses [[Guns Akimbo]]. Well, also [[Dual -Wielding]]. Or something. No attempt is made to rationalize this.

** Blasters, Defenders, and Corruptors who purchase Going Rogue also have access to a Dual Pistols powerset. It shares it's most basic attacks with the Thug Mastermind (Though performed with [[John Woo]] style flair), but eventually goes into physics defying bullet insanity. Like the aforementioned Gunslingers, you can also swap to Incendiary, Cryogenic, and Chemical ammunition.

* In ''[[Hellgate :London]]'', anyone who can use firearms can use one-handed ones Guns Akimbo without training. Fire control is independent by default, and can be set to simultaneous fire - you can even combine them with a melee weapon, focus item, or shield - so you can do a variety of things with them - the various techniques opened by this are too diverse for this Wiki to go into.

* The Real Personal Trooper Type-1 and it's derivatives in ''[[Super Robot Wars]]'' usually carry two [[Humongous Mecha]]-sized pistols. The ART-1 prototype also dual-wields [[Chainsaw Good|chainsaw tonfas]].

** Ratsel's <s>Aus</s> <s>Ausser</s> <s>Aussenei</s> Daitrombe also uses a pair of [[Super Robot]]-sized [[BFG|BFGs]]s to great effect.

* KOS-MOS in ''[[Xenosaga (Video Game)|Xenosaga]]'' can dual-wield gatling cannons each nearly as large as she is. This is a bit more plausible when you consider that she is an android designed to be pretty much the most powerful combat system in the universe, but mostly, it's just OK by way of [[Rule of Cool]].

* Reiji and Xiaomu both Dual-wield in ''[[Namco X Capcom (Video Game)|Namco X Capcom]]'': Xiaomu with dual pistols, Reiji with a pistol and shotgun.

** Both of them and KOS-MOS repeat their feats in ''[[Endless Frontier|Super Robot Taisen OG Saga: Endless Frontier]]''.

* In the [[John Woo]] game ''[[Stranglehold]]'', Inspector Tequila Yuen (from one of his most famous movies, ''Hard-Boiled'') uses dual guns extensively, from Berettas to Desert Eagles to Heckler and Koch MP5K submachine guns. The only time Tequila [[Bottomless Magazines|reloads]] is when he's gearing up to unleash a Barrage attack; otherwise he just [[Throw -Away Guns|throws the guns away]] when he's out of bullets and pulls out another gun, like Chow Yun-Fat frequently does in John Woo movies.

** A lot of bad guys in Stranglehold use [[Guns Akimbo]] as well, such as {{spoiler|Jerry Ying}} at the Chicago History Museum and a good number of mooks during the later stages. This reaches its peak during the final showdown, which has Dapang, Wong's huge bodyguard, backing up his master with dual ''shotguns''.

* ''[[Shadow Warrior]]'' features the lead character, Lo Wang (yes, a ninja with a Chinese name...it's that kind of game), using Uzis [[Guns Akimbo]].

** It might be noted that Lo Wang, in his (inevitably) thick accent, says 'Be proud, Mistah Woo!' sometimes when picking up a second Uzi to use [[Guns Akimbo]].

* Diddy with his Peanut Popguns and Falco with his laser guns in ''[[Super Smash Bros.]] Brawl''. They both use them to [[Leap and Fire]] in a Cutscene.

* Tanya Adams. The hero and most powerful unit in ''[[Command and& Conquer]]: Red Alert'', and becoming even more powerful in ''Red Alert 2'' with the ability to place explosives on tanks and ships, and shoot at soldiers without being manually commanded (and more hot with vocals and cinematics portrayed by Kari Wuhrer), she could kill enemy soldiers with two Colt M1911s fired "Woo style" long before they were in range with their assault weapons.

* Con Smith from the game ''[[Killer 7Killer7]]'' is a blind assassin that uses dual Glock 18s, and [[Unorthodox Reload|reloads them with his feet.]]

* In the ''[[Fate/stay Stay Nightnight]]'' novel prequel ''[[Fate /Zero]]'', Servant Berserker ({{spoiler|Lancelot}}) is armed with dual sub machine-guns during the [[Final Battle]], complete with [[Mana]]-charged bullets.

** Kiritsugu also goes akimbo with a Contender and a Calico sub-machine gun. It's done reasonably: the Calico is mainly for [[Guns Are Worthless|distraction]], and he never uses the Contender until necessary.

* Trent, the players character from ''[[Freelancer]]'', does this during a non-interactive cutscene: While boarding a space station he is armed with two [[Frickin' Laser Beams|Frickin Lasers]] while his less [[Badass]] companions only get one.

* The light gun arcade game ''[[Target: Terror]] Gold'' has a "Justice Mode" option that allows a player to use both of the game's light guns in akimbo mode with one credit.

* ''[[Nethack]]'' features [[Dual -Wielding]]. [[Nethack]]'s bastard cousin Slash'EM features firearms. Add the ability to enchant your own weapons, and you end up with some pretty interesting fantasy dungeon-crawling.

** Still, max that feat out on Carth, amp up the dex stat, and hand the fellow Cassus Fett's pistol in one hand and Bendak Starkiller's in the other. Consider the path clear of any [[Mooks]] while you apply lightsabers to the level boss.

* ''[[Skies of Arcadia (Video Game)|Skies of Arcadia]]'' features Gilder, a party member who can duel-wield his pistols as part of a special attack.

* In ''[[Evil Genius (Videovideo Gamegame)|Evil Genius]]'' RTS (making fun of every possible "spy movie" trope), U.S. Super Agent dual-wields machine guns, easily mowing down entire squads of your mooks.

* In the online, third person shooter ''[[S 4S4 League]]'', the Sub-Machine Gun weapon is only available in pairs, using the 'both triggers at the same time on one target' method.

** Thanks to the double Magichange feature in ''[[Disgaea 4: a Promise Unforgotten (Video Game)|Disgaea 4 aA Promise Unforgotten]]'', anybody is capable of dual-wielding guns. Guns that are [[Equippable Ally|actually monsters]], and [[BFG|potentially as big as the character wielding them]], [[Crazy Awesome|no less]].

* York Neely, the male main character of ''[[Cross Edge (Video Game)|Cross Edge]]'', wields a pair of pistols, one [[Hand Cannon|larger than the other]].

* In ''[[Crysis (Video Gameseries)|Crysis]]'', you can dual wield the pistol (though you are wearing a strength-enhancing Nanosuit). ''Crysis:Warhead'' takes this even further and lets you dual-wield two small SMGs (though even with the Nanosuit in Strength mode it's hard to hit anything more than 3 meters away.)

** When Ray enters Concentration mode, two crosshairs, one for each pistol, appear on both sides of the screen and slowly make their way to the middle. On the way, you can click the left or right mouse button to shoot the corresponding gun at the target behind its crosshair. When both crosshairs meet, the [[Bullet Time]] ends, by which time a skilled player will already have massacred an entire line of foes in front of him.

* A recent development in the ''[[Tales Series(series)|Tales of]]'' series, Iria Animi (''[[Tales of Innocence (Video Game)|Tales of Innocence]]''), Legretta the Quick (''[[Tales of the Abyss (Video Game)|Tales of the Abyss]]'') and and the [[Job System|Gunman class]] (''[[Video Game/Tales Of The World|Tales Of The World]]'') wield twin pistols, Hisui Hearts (''[[Tales of Hearts (Video Game)|Tales of Hearts]]'') uses arm-bow-cannons, Hubert Ozwell (''[[Tales of Graces (Video Game)|Tales of Graces]]'') uses a blade that can separate into a pair of handguns, and Kurtz (''[[Tales of Graces (Video Game)|Tales of Graces]]'') uses sworg-gun-... things.

*** You can also dual-wield some shotguns. Anyways, aside from the obvious [[More Dakka]] involved, it really cuts down on your accuracy; whether or not it's [[Awesome but Impractical]] or just [[Crazy Awesome]] enough to work depends on an individual's skill.

** Also featured in ''[[Call of Duty: Black Ops (Video Game)|Call of Duty Black Ops]]''. Any pistol, most [[SM Gs]]SMGs and one type of shotgun can be used this way, though secondaries can no longer equip two attachments and the shotgun in question has no other available attachments anyway.

* Rayne in the [[Blood RayneBloodRayne]] games does this, and almost nothing but this, at all times. The only exceptions are in the first game(a bolt-action rifle and a rocket launcher); at all other times, she's dual-wielding to her heart's content.

* ''[[Final Fantasy X -2]]'' - The Gunner job class gives the characters two guns (fired on the same target); Yuna gets to show this off in the opening [[Cutscene Power to Thethe Max|cutscene]].

** Sazh from ''[[Final Fantasy XIII (Video Game)|Final Fantasy XIII]]'' uses this gun style.

* Several of Billy Lee Black's deathblows in ''[[Xenogears (Video Game)|Xenogears]]'' would feature this.

* The absolutely horrible game ''[[Drake of the 99 Dragons]]'' combined the hero's dual pistols with auto-aim. The result was described by [[X -Play]] as looking like "a sub-homicidal semaphore session."

* [[Guns Akimbo]] is the primary shooting style of Rubi Malone, the protagonist of ''[[Wet]]''. When she is in the air or doing a slide, she can target two opponents with both her guns, locking on to an enemy with one gun and then using the second gun to blast other enemies. In addition, she can blast bad guys akimbo-style while running when in Rage Mode.

* Reconstructed in ''[[Dystopia (Videovideo Gamegame)|Dystopia]]''. Early concepts of the dual pistols were ridiculously hard to aim, so the current version, called the Smartlock Pistols, allows the user to lock onto either a single target twice, or two targets.

* You can dual-wield the standard pistol ([[John Woo|Which is of course, a 9mm Beretta]]) in ''[[Killing Floor (Video Game)|Killing Floor]]'': you gain twice the ammo capacity and firing rate, but reloading takes longer and it's really hard to aim effectively. You can also get "two bloody great handfuls" of the [[Hand Cannon]], an obvious [[Rare Guns|Desert Eagle]], as well as the .44 Magnum.

* This is how Jack in ''[[Mad WorldMadWorld]]'' defeats the second boss, Juse the Dude [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4nj_AXb7VvY (Video here)]: He punches Juse in the ass, then takes his guns, blows him away, and then fires them in rapid succession--[[Bottomless Magazines|despite them being only six shot revolvers]]--firing—firing faster and faster till he ''blows all of Jude's skin off, leaving only a skeleton'', looks away, and then ''[[There Is No Kill Like Overkill|BLOWS JUDE COMPLETELY TO PIECES WITH THE LAST SHOT.]]'' It's one the most awesome kills in video-game history. And then there's the [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x0TJAjevIjw deleted finisher for Jude], where Jack ''rams the guns up Judes ass, and then forces them deeper in, and then ''EXPLODES HIS ENTIRE LOWER HALF, SENDING HIS UPPER HALF INTO THE ATMOSPHERE, WHERE IT EXPLODES LIKE A FIREWORK''. Gorn Indeed.

* The [[X-COM]] games play this fairly realistically. If you use pistols, you don't even lose accuracy (while with rifles and god forbid heavy weapons accuracy dies quickly). In turn based mode, you can only fire one at a time, so the only benefit to [[Guns Akimbo]] is in having another gun to fire before having to reload. In X-COM: Apocalypse, which added the realtime mode, however, you could fairly quickly make [[One -Man Army]] soldiers, dual wielding disruptor cannons and fully loaded on grenades and mines. While the cannons lost quite a bit of accuracy when dual wielded, their sheer firepower meant anything that stood in your path close enough was fried before they could even pull out their own weapons and anything too far to hit reliably you could outrun (while keeping motion mines in your wake). Very effective, especially in the later game and against other human corporations. Yeah, and you could easily dual wield self tracking rocket launchers. It should be noted though that both the rocket launchers and devastator cannons are recoilless and you only target one enemy at a time, which makes it much easier to pull this off. And yeah, a single soldier with decent strength and accuracy could mow down entire enemy squads and buildings.

* Noel Vermillion of [[Blaz BlueBlazBlue]] wields two guns, Arcus Diabolus Bolverk, although she'll occasionally [[Hammerspace|pull out a single gun or rocket launcher from nowhere]] to pull off special moves.

* In ''[[Just Cause (Videovideo Gamegame)|Just Cause]] 2'', Rico can do this with any combination of the smaller weapons. This somehow includes revolver-mechanism [[Grenade Launcher|Grenade Launchers]]s, but hey, [[Rule of Cool]]. Yes, that means you can dual-wield grenade-launching revolvers. Or revolvers. Or a revolver and a grenade-launching revolver, and so on.

* Handled with all the camp of a swashbuckler film in the 2004 remake of [[Sid MeiersMeier's Pirates!]].

* Mexican action film pastiche and Robert Rodriguez tribute ''[[Total Overdose]]'' has unlockable dual firing modes for Berettas, Uzis, and sawed-off shotguns. One special attack in particular involves [[EverythingsEverything's Better Withwith Spinning|spinning]] with dual Uzis, shooting everything in 360 degrees.

* In ''[[True Crime: Streets of LA]]'', Nick uses dual pistols as his default weapons and can duel wield weapons like shotguns and assault rifles in shootout missions. Marcus can also dual wield guns in ''[[True Crime: New York City]]''.

* Though he has yet to actually appear in a game, Strife from ''[[Darksiders (Video Game)|Darksiders]]'' wields a mismatched pair of enormous pistols, in lieu of the bow that Conquest/Pestilence usually carries. War receives one of them, Mercy, a bit into the game.

* The protagonist Max from ''[[Dark Cloud (Video Game)|Dark Cloud]] 2'' wields a melee weapon (a wrench, a hammer, a golf club, or a frozen tuna) in his right hand, and a projectile weapon (a pistol, some variety of machine gun/gatling gun, or a ray gun) in his left.

* In the ''[[.hack (Franchise)|.hack]]'' games, there is the advanced form of the character Haseo in which he dual-wields guns (illegal variation of the "Steam Gunner" class).

* [[Borderlands 2 (Video Game)|Borderlands 2]] has Salvador, the 'Gunzerker', who specializes in dual-wielding ''any'' firearms of any kind. Dual-Wielding pistols or submachine guns is to be expected, but then you can graduate into dual-wielding ''[[Up to Eleven|Rocket Launchers]]''!

* In ''[[The Darkness (Videovideo Gamegame)|The Darkness]]'' you can ''only'' use SMGs and pistols by dual-wielding, and the Darkness Guns are a pair of mismatched pistols with similarly mismatched effects. Oddly enough, it actually handles dual-wielding comparatively realistically - it's difficult to hit anything with submachine guns except at very close range if you fire both at once, and when an SMG or pistol runs out of bullets, Jackie [[Throw -Away Guns|tosses it]] and pulls out another one. How he manages to carry [[Hyperspace Arsenal|60 pistols and 30 SMGs without them being even slightly visible]] is another issue entirely.

* The ''[[Area 51 (Video1995 Gamevideo game)|Area 51]]'' [[First -Person Shooter]] lets you dual-wield assault rifles and shotguns. Oddly, despite ignoring the recoil issues this would present, it '''does''' acknowledge that reloading two weapons simultaneously is clumsy at best and impossible at worst - you can't reload while dual-wielding, and your character simply throws away the second weapon as dead weight when it's empty.

* ''[[Counter -Strike]]'' has the Beretta 96G "Dual Elites". Being this [[Fackler Scale of FPS Realism|an FPS firmly placed on the realistic end of the scale]], they're inaccurate, underpowered, extremely slow to reload and their only advantage is being a semiautomatic weapon with 30 rounds -- butrounds—but you can't deny running around firing them is very fun!

* ''[[EYEE.Y.E.: Divine Cybermancy]]'' has the BK13 pistols. Fully automatic with 20 round magazines loaded with .45ACP rounds, the guns are [[Awesome Yet Practical]] because of how lightweight they are. If you're carrying a spare sword, you can also go [[Sword and Gun]] with the pistols.

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* In ''[[Schlock Mercenary (Webcomic)|Schlock Mercenary]]'', a four-armed alien states that the mercenaries should recruit him because with four arms, he can fire four guns at once. The recruiting officer points out that, with two eyes, he can only track one target at a time.

{{quote| '''Thurl''': Don't sweat it. I'll put down 'Very enthusiastic,' and 'Seen too many [[John Woo]] movies.' You're in.}}

** Played straight, however, with Sergeant Schlock who, since he is able to grow additional hands as required, will cheerfully dual or triple wield [[BFG|BFGs]]s, then again, Schlock can also reorient his eyes, so this isn't so unrealistic, particularly while he had an extra pairs of eyes.

* Played somewhat realistically in ''[[Errant Story]]'' when [https://web.archive.org/web/20081208044116/http://errantstory.com/comic.php?date=2006-10-30 Jon uses two weapons] in a pinch, with opponents front and back. Both bullets are actually on their targets, but one is jumped over (you heard me right, opponent is later dealt with in hand-to-hand combat) and the other distracts the other opponent (he uses his neigh-unbreakable blade to deflect it) so Sarine can cut him almost in half. The success of the move [https://web.archive.org/web/20080329172658/http://www.errantstory.com/comic.php?date=2006-11-03 amazes Jon to no end].

* Lt. Dart fires two ''shotguns'' at once during the ''[[Sluggy Freelance]]'' story arc "KITTEN II." [https://web.archive.org/web/20150910083533/http://www.sluggy.com/daily.php?date=021207 Not that it does him much good.]

* ''[[Eight Bit Theater (Webcomic)|8-Bit Theater]]'', but with ''bows and arrows''. And then pushed it to [[Crowning Moment of Funny|the extreme]]. [http://www.nuklearpower.com/2009/01/27/episode-1087-exalted-feat/ Just see for yourself].

* Invoked by ''[[Bug (Webcomic)Martini|Bug]]'' [https://web.archive.org/web/20130516071145/http://www.bugcomic.com/comics/action-movies/ here.]

{{quote| "Ack! What amazing peripheral vision!"}}

* Moira Quicksilver in ''[[The Endless Night]]'' is a notorious bounty hunter who carries two matched pistols (lovingly called Righty and Lefty) to deadly effect.

* A somewhat popular [[Self -Imposed Challenge]] on [[Light Gun Game|Light Gun Games]]s is to play both sides at once and dual-wield. Some games such as ''Target: Terror Gold'' even have a mode that allows you to use both guns with one credit.

* Being based in part off Yosemite Sam, same goes for the Rich Texan from ''[[The Simpsons (Animationanimation)|The Simpsons]]''.

* There's a metric buttload of ''[[Transformers]]'' that do this, but you could probably guess that. Rhinox from ''Beast Wars'' is probably the one best known for doing so - with DUAL GATLING GUNS. From the same series, Ravage wields dual guns... and stores them on his hips, Russian crossdraw style. So did the G1 "Triggerbot" Dogfight... but he didn't draw them crossways; he drew them straight and then pulled the triggers with his pinkie fingers. (All the "Trigger" Transformers - whose gimmick was engines that, by pressing a spring-loaded trigger, became weapons when they transformed into robot mode--alsomode—also used [[Guns Akimbo]] to some degree.) Even some versions of Optimus Prime can do it, most famously the [http://www.ntfa.net/universe/english/index.php?act=view&char=Optimus_Prime_PM Powermaster version].

* Captain Fordo from ''[[Star Wars: Clone Wars]]'' and Captain Rex from ''[[Star Wars: theThe Clone Wars]]'' prefer to use twin blaster pistols in battle.

* [[Adventures of the Galaxy Rangers (Animation)|Shane Gooseman]] sometimes dual-wields blaster pistols, most prominently in the title animation.

* A possible example of actual use of two guns firing at the same time is "Macedonian Shooting", practiced by Russian special forces. This evolved as a method of [[More Dakka|increasing rate of fire]], more in order to force the enemy to take cover than to try to accurately hit them, and was generally practiced by NKVD officers issued a pair of revolvers. If you don't believe me [https://web.archive.org/web/20160629175140/http://forums.specialistsmod.net/viewtopic.php?f=14&t=24311 see for yourself.]

* A group of U.S.Army Soldiers decided to demonstrate [[Guns Akimbo]] and its dual-inherited [[Rule of Cool]] and [[Awesome but Impractical]] qualities on a firing range, with one Soldier '''''[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gCra4qOrjFw dual-wielding M-249 Squad Automatic Weapons]'''''. As they explicitly say in the video, this is very unsafe. Considering the recoil and sheer weight of those guns, the Soldier is a sheer [[Badass]] for ''even keeping his footing'' while he fired.

** Wild West Gunfighter "Wild Bill" Hickock is said to have wielded two 1853 'Navy' Colts at the same time using a distinctive "crossed wrist" stance. Details are lacking but he probably fired one gun at a time using the back of his other wrist as a support. It's likely he did this to avoid reloading these pre-cartridge 'cap and ball' revolvers because that takes 5-105–10 minutes per gun.

* It might be apropos to mention [http://en.[wikipedia.org/wiki/Morris_Cohen_:Morris Cohen (adventurer) |Morris "Two Gun" Cohen]], an Anglo-Canadian Jewish mercenary who fought for Sun Yat-sen, founder of Nationalist China. As noted on the page, his nickname came from carrying two loaded weapons so he didn't need to immediately reload, while in combat, rather than because he used both simultaneously.

* [http://en.[wikipedia.org/wiki/Sai_Wing_Mock:Sai Wing Mock|Mock Duck]] was known for an unusual method of self-defense that combined this trope with [[Blind Swordsman]].

* While he and his squad were under ambush in Iraq in 2005, [[Combat Medic]] Spc. Jason Mike held off insurgents by dual-wielding [http://www.stripes.com/news/heroes-2006-bullets-pinging-all-over-the-place-1.50135 two machine guns], an M4 carbine and an M249 [http://en.[wikipedia.org/wiki/Leigh_Ann_Hester:Leigh Ann Hester|according to TOW]].

* This trope is made [[Older Than Radio]] by one youth in Eugène Delacroix's famous 1830 painting [http://en.[wikipedia.org/wiki/Liberty_Leading_the_People:Liberty Leading the People|Liberty Leading the People]] ([[Nipple -and -Dimed|somewhat]] [[NSFW]]) picturing the July Revolution of the same year.

By the way, the word "akimbo" [[Did Not Do the Research|does NOT actually refer to]] [[Dual -Wielding]] [[Did Not Do the Research|guns]]. It means standing with your hands on your hips and elbows pointed outward. [[The Big List of Booboos and Blunders|You can no more have anything but your arms akimbo than you can flip the bird with your ear.]]

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