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** In Hellsing's [[Hellsing (anime)|anime]], the [[Big Bad]] [[Looks Like Orlok|Incognito]] wields an Arms Cor 40 mm, which is a Grenade launcher; and the grenades contain [[Abnormal Ammo|vampire-killing spines of death]] with, as Alucard puts it, [[Hermetic Magic|Sorcery from the Dark Continent]]. This gun is actually chained to his arm.[[Body Horror|He can also produce it from his arm at will, and reloads it by vomiting green slime into it]].
** Although not quite as impressive as the above examples, Luke Valentine uses a cut-down M1 Garand - a rifle firing rounds slightly bigger than the standard 7.62mm.
* [[Human Aliens|Human alien]] Vash the Stampede in ''[[Trigun]]''. His sidearm is a [https://web.archive.org/web/20130708112424/http://www.kitsune.addr.com/Firearms/Revolvers/Mateba_Model_6.jpg Mateba Model 6 Unica] semi-auto revolver (chambered in .45 Long Colt, a slightly shorter predecessor of the .454 Casull round), but it contains a piece of [[Applied Phlebotinum]] that allows it to merge with his arm and become the [[Arm Cannon|Angel Arm]], a [[Wave Motion Gun|beam weapon]] of [[Sphere of Destruction|monstrous destructive power]]. His [[Evil Twin]] Knives (who designed and built the gun in question) has an identical example (which can also form the Angel Arm), except his is black while Vash's is silver ("Blue" and "Nickel" respectively in gun-talk)
** Wolfwood wields a huge cross that doubles as a gun after a point in the series. Also in the Anime there's Chapel the Evergreen who has a similar one but splits into two. However, it is "just" a [[BFG]], ''not'' a Hand Cannon, as it is not a handgun.
* In the anime [[OVA]] ''[[Angel Cop]]'', one character totes around a gigantic gun that's actually intended for use by a character in a strength-augmenting suit of armor. She's warned that firing it too often will eventually destroy every muscle in her arms.
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** The Hand Cannon in question was a customised Desert Eagle, presented as the soviet [http://www.imfdb.org/index.php/Red_Heat#.22Podbyrin_9.2mm_Pistol.22 "Podbyrin 9.2 mm"]. Arnold's character describes it as "the most powerful handgun in the world".
* The '89 ''[[Batman (film)|Batman]]'' movie has [[The Joker]] pulling out a revolver with a ''telescopic'' 36-inch barrel... out of his pants... which he uses to shoot down the Batwing in ''one shot''. Make of that what you will.
** Speaking of the Joker, we also have [https://web.archive.org/web/20070106185259/http://www.vacuumboy9.com/tlh/3p9.jpg this charming little panel from The Long Halloween.] (the final one illustrates the page)
* In the Prohibition-era gangster parody ''[[Johnny Dangerously]]'', Danny Vermin shows off his .88 Magnum. "It shoots through ''schools''."
* In ''[[Charlie's Angels|Charlie's Angels : Full Throttle]]'', the [[Big Bad]] (Played by Demi Moore) uses [[Guns Akimbo|two]] [[Bling Bling Bang|golden]] Desert Eagles.
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* During an episode of his series Lock and Load, R. Lee Ermey showed why standard shooting positions are standard. While test firing a .44 Magnum, he was nearly knocked to he floor by the recoil. He then was shown saying he didn't want to shoot it again. This being the same person who had picked up and fired a crew served machine gun in his arms to prove it could be done. Hand cannon indeed.
* The current record-holder (according to the manufacturer) for most powerful ''production'' (see the Pfeifer Zeliska, above) hand-cannon is the Smith & Wesson Model 500, a 5-shot revolver with an 8-3/8" barrel (15 inches long in total) that weighs six pounds ''empty''. In a demonstration on Spike TV's ''[[Manswers]]'', the .357 Magnum blew a chunk out of a watermelon; the .44 Magnum took off the lower three-quarters; and the Model 500 ''exploded'' it. Due to a compensator on the barrel, however, its recoil is actually less than the .44 Magnum - though that's not saying much.
** For the purpose of illustrating scale, [http://www.nodakoutdoors.com/forums/userpix/8724_DSCF3008_1.jpg here's a picture of one with a 20 dollar bill]{{Dead link}}.
* The four-pound Colt Walker and Dragoon models were outrageously oversized to their smaller cousins brought into production a few years later.
** The popular story is that the Colt Walker and the later Dragoon were designed so that once ammo had been spent, the gun would still be useful to [[Pistol-Whipping|club people and horses]] while wielded one-handed (the other hand on your horse reins.
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* Any [[LEGO]] handgun. The revolver, which is the smallest, is the size of a minifig's arm.
* The [[Sawn Off Shotgun|sawn-off]] ''[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rNFsUvh078I Mosin-Nagant]''. As in, a ''[https://web.archive.org/web/20070929122422/http://world.guns.ru/rifle/rfl03-e.htm powerful 7,62x54mm rifle]'' cut down to pistol size.
* This [https://web.archive.org/web/20120126080110/http://www.derringer.de/new68.htm 20mm (.79 caliber) Derringer]. And a 30mm derringer is in planning according to the site. Since 20mm is considered to be the point where you start calling it an "autocannon" rather than a "machine gun", those literally ''are'' "hand cannons".
* The Taurus Judge, a 5-shot .45 Colt revolver that just happens to have a cylinder long enough to let it fire .410-gauge shotgun shells.
** A later variant is the larger and longer Taurus Raging Judge, which can load the more powerful.454 Casull rounds as well as the .45 Colt and .410.
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