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* Deckard's gun from ''[[Blade Runner]]''. Is it a blaster? Naw, but there is nothing like a gun that puts a four foot hole in...well anything.
* Colonel Douglas Mortimer in the [[Western]] ''[[For a Few Dollars More]]'' wields a Buntline Special that may be cumbersome on the draw, but can pack one hell of a punch with deadly accuracy.
* In ''[[Star Wars]]'', Han Solo's pistol is the [[Energy Weapon]] equivalent - a handgun many times larger than holdout hand blasters and with power closer to blaster ''rifles''. It only gets a few shots per power pack, but it only needs to hit once, being able to blow torso-sized chunks out of concrete walls or instantly incinerating Greedo before [[Han Shot First|he could ever fire a single shot.]]
* In ''[[Pirates of the Caribbean]]: At World's End'', the midget pirate is seen firing a very large hand cannon that blasts him back out of the frame when Barbossa's meeting with Sao Feng is interrupted by the East India Trading Company.
* ''[[RoboCop]]'' in his movies and TV series used a huge machine pistol. It was a Beretta 93R with some futuristic doodads including an extended barrel and slide assembly with ostentatious compensator. It spews flames each time it's fired, and has an implausibly large ammunition supply. Overlaps with [[More Dakka]].
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* In ''[[Pulp Fiction]]'', Jules and Vincent get shot at by a guy with a Hand Cannon, but [[Imperial Stormtrooper Marksmanship Academy|every shot misses]]. "Did you see that gun he fired at us? It was bigger than him."
* A [[Western]] example from ''[[True Grit]]'':
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'''Mattie Ross:''' It belonged to my father, he carried it bravely in the war, and I intend to kill Tom Chaney with it if the law fails to do so.<br />
'''Rooster Cogburn:''' Well, this'll sure get the job done if you can find a fence post to rest it on while you take aim.
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** ''[[The Cowboys]]'' had [[John Wayne]] telling the boys he had for cowhands to put their guns in a wagon. Cue the smallest boy extracting the largest gun from his belt.
* The opening scene of ''[[Desperado]]'' has El Mariachi's buddy spin a story of how he cleared a bar with a sawed-off and a de-stocked [[wikipedia:Armsel Striker|Armsel Protecta]] shotgun, which manage to throw your average Mexican about ten feet in the air with one shot:
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* Paul Kersey's friend "Wildey" from ''[[Death Wish 3]]'' is the world's most powerful production semi-automatic. The bullet has as much impact energy at 100 yards as the .44 Magnum has at 1 yard. Unlike most examples here, the .475 Wildey Magnum has a relatively manageable recoil.
* Almost all the major characters in ''[[Harley Davidson and the Marlboro Man]]'' wield a [[Hand Cannon]] at some point in the movie, ranging from .44 Magnum Desert Eagles to .454 Casull Rugers.
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'''Harley:''' "Hey... I learned to shoot using one of these."<br />
'''Marlboro:''' "Which might be why you shoot like shit. Harley, ''nobody'' learns to shoot using a gun that big."
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* In ''[[The Boondock Saints]]: All Saints Day'', the Saints trade in the silenced Berettas from the first film in favor of Desert Eagles.
** In the original movie, the two trade in two .50-caliber Desert Eagles used by two Russian mob dudes who tried to murder them, along with a pager and a money clip, in order to get their hands on their original arsenal.
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* The [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QAIigNcwYLc Particle Magnum] used by Ronon Dex in ''[[Stargate Atlantis]]''. Given that later in the series, Rodney McKay easily beats him to the girl, I'd say he's compensating for something, except that he already had the magnum long before that.
* Josh Randall's "Mare's Leg" in the series ''[[Wanted: Dead or Alive]]'' is a cut down Winchester 1892 Carbine, in a hip holster similar to that of Zoe above.
* Parodied on ''[[SCTV]]'' with "Harry Filth
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== [[Web Comics]] ==
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* ''[[Chicanery]]'' character [[Trigger Happy|Mr. Saturn]] has a "Modified [[Trope Co|DeathCo]] Magnum", several times larger than the main characters and apparently a cross between a [[Revolvers Are Just Better|revolver]] and a [[Blame|GBE.]] Effects range from [[Your Head Asplode|blowing heads apart]] to [[Ludicrous Gibs|explosively atomising people]] and [[Overdrawn At the Blood Bank|coating the surrounding area in blood.]]
* ''[[Narbonic]]'' Antonio Smith the forensic linguist wields such a weapon.
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* The [[wikipedia:Pfeifer Zeliska .600 Nitro Express revolver|Pfeifer Zeliska]] revolver: a gun chambered for the .600 Nitro Express, traditionally an elephant-gun round. It's not a production model, being hand-made indvidually; purchasing one will cost over $16,000 and the .600 Nitro Express rounds alone go for $40 each. (If you don't want that, it can also chamber the .460 Win. Mag. round.) It weighs 13 pounds unloaded and is over 21 inches long in total. Oddly, the sheer weight of the beast is in fact what makes it anywhere near practical as a weapon: the recoil of even a .600 round isn't enough to make something that massive fly around. Also, it's the gun in the page picture.
* There's also a .700 Nitro Express round, currently languishing unloved; it's only a matter of time before a handgun is designed around it.
* The Maadi-Griffin .50 pistol and the Thunder .50 pistol: handguns designed to use the .50 BMG cartridge, one of the most powerful ''rifle'' cartridges in current use. For comparison, the muzzle energy of the .50 BMG round is typically around ten times that of the NATO 5.56mm round used in most modern assault rifles. They are single-shot, but the main practical purpose, apparently, is demonstration of recoil compensation silotions used in heavier weapons.
* Olympic Arms marketed a "pistol" that could fire NATO standard 5.56mm rounds; it bore a passing resemblance to the Mauser C96 and was basically an M16 receiver wedded to a short barrel and a pistol grip. In any realistic sense it was a carbine, however, since it fired a rifle round.
** Kel-Tec also makes a 5.56mm/.223 pistol called the PLR-16, which accepts M16 magazines, although it isn't designed around the AR-15, but rather Kel-Tec's own SU-16 rifle.
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* The Thompson/Center Contender can fire shotgun shells or various full-power rifle rounds. In fact it's so much like a rifle that when outfitted with the optional stock and longer barrels that T/C sells it basically ''is'' a rifle.
* 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
** 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].
* The four-pound Colt Walker and Dragoon models were outrageously oversized to their smaller cousins brought into production a few years later.
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