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{{trope}}
[[File:Le croissant du ange 8530.png|link=No More Heroes 2: Desperate Struggle|frame|Half-scythe, half-rifle, all awesome.]]
It's two, two, ''two'' weapons in one!
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== Anime and Manga ==
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== Tabletop Games ==
* ''[[Warhammer
** The Kroot Rifle, a heavy musket-like gun that features downward-pointing blades under both the barrel and the stock, for double-weapon hacking.
** Custodian Spears, signature weapons of the Emperor's personal bodyguards. They are power [[Blade on a Stick|glaive]] with a gun built into the head. Exactly what the weapon is depends on who's in charge of the canon at the time, but they tend to vary between [[BFG|bolters (fully automatic rocket-propelled grenade launchers)]] and [[Frickin' Laser Beams|miniaturised las''cannons'']], although all artwork favours the former.
** The Ork Tankhammer. It can be adequately summarized as a ''rocket on a stick''.
** Combi-weapons, essentially two weapons combined into one, with the user able to fire either separately, or together if it's two of the same gun. The Ork race, in particular, is fond of simply strapping two guns together with tape. Sadly, combi-weapons aren't quite as useful as some of the other examples here—combi-weapon generally is a bog-standard weapon plus one-shot special weapon.
* ''[[Dungeons and Dragons]]:'' The Dwarven Urgrosh, a spear on one end and axe on the other.▼
** ''[[Warhammer 40,000 Roleplay]]'' series have even more. There are weapons with integrated bayonets, including unusual variants - e.g. Persecutor combat shotgun made for the Arbitrators has retractable shock-prod. It also introduced new combined weapons: "Puritan-14" - ugly auto-pistol with integrated shotgun (single-shot, has range only by half longer than sawn-off and uses [[Hand Cannon]] two handed rule) made for Arbites and hit squads. "Spectre" - autogun (assault rifle using caseless rounds) with 3 selectable magazines (20 shots each, but hey, there are 3 of them) and integrated shotgun (this one has full shotgun range and holding 4 shells) - of course, it's as heavy as a proper combat shotgun (which can fire semi-auto bursts), more than twice as expensive and its rifle part has slightly worse range than run-of-the-mill autoguns. Chimera Pistol Sword - boarding sword merged with a somewhat stripped down pistol (one-shot version, since there's a blade where its magazine was). The Omnissian Rod - a religious staff that can be used as a fancy power axe or Phased Plasma Rifle. Fire Lance and Flame Hammer have torches heating up the business end that can be expended as single-shot flamer instead.
** ''[[Dragonlance]]'' Kender weapons tend to provide several attack forms, tool or other utility function and a musical instrument (at least chime or bullroar). Hoopak: rod with a sling and spike at its ends acting as a shortspear, alpenstock, staff, sling staff and slingshot. Chapak: axe with prongs on the back side used as beaked prying bar or, again, slingshot arms, with haft hollowed to use as a blowgun or flute. Hachak: a poleaxe with a spike and hammer/beak on the other end, with shaft midsection detachable and hollowed to store a few darts. Battak: studded club with a spearhead at the end, useable as a sort-of-sling when the spike is removed from its slot. Bollik: bola/flail belt. Polpak: staff with a detachable short sword on the end, saw-toothed on one side. Sithak: shoulder-yoke that's weaponized by attaching blades at both ends and can be strung as a recurved bow shaft. Whippik: whip with a loop at the end making it ready to use as a dart launcher, noose or fishing pole.
** In ''[[Forgotten Realms]]'' tapal is the traditional weapon of choice for Tritons, and occasionally used by others who learned from them. It's a crystalline piece curved almost into hook - with edge on the outside and sharpened ends, the main handle on the inside of the curving part and secondary close to the middle. It can be wielded much like a tonfa with the long blade fitting along the forearm and beyond almost to the shoulder (for close quarters, what's with all the tentacled and big-mouthed things down there), as a streamlined "wing" sticking out (for swim-by cuts) balanced by the short blade or reversed long blade forward and steadied with the second handle (for reach). Thus the short arm serves as a dagger, long arm as a saber or short spear. There are also two-handed greater tapals, L shaped with the ''shorter'' blade almost to the shoulder and second handle in the middle of longer (so it's handled more like a scythe <ref>this makes somewhat more sense than [[Star Trek|Bat'leth]] in that it has two long cutting blades and is used underwater, where leverage matters more and speed less</ref>), but rare as versatility is the whole point of using a tapal, and for fighting larger opponents there's their ''other'' weapon of choice - [[Prongs of Poseidon|old good trident]] with its superior reach.
* [[Exalted]] has quite a few of these in canon, though many of them have only one attack mode anyway. The [[Blade on a Stick|Daikalbar]] is a polearm with an ungodly mess of slashy and stabby bits on both sides, though it essentially has only one combat mode with them. The Chain Daiklave, meanwhile, is actually not a [[Chainsaw Good|chainsaw]] (that's a chainklave); it's a short daiklave attached to a dire chain that can be used as a sword, a dire chain, or a [[Epic Flail|sword on a chain]].
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** There is also a syringe blade that injects poison on contact.
* Cervantes of ''[[Soul Series|Soul Calibur]]'' fame is known for [[Dual-Wielding|dual wielding]] two swords with a pistol built into the hilt of the smaller blade.
* ''[[
** It also is a Mix-and-Match Weapon in a different, more straight sense. Silver sickles by themselves are used as a focus for casting a certain spell, one that causes select scenery objects to produce items. The rods themselves are used for a different spell, used to hold juvenile vampyres in place. The Ivandis Flail can do both.
* As each weapon in ''[[Perfect Dark]]'' has a secondary fire mode, a few of them fit this trope, but probably the coolest is the Dragon, an assault rifle that just happens to have a proximity mine built in.
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== Web Original ==
* In [[Monty Oum]]'s ''[[Dead Fantasy|Dead Fantasy II]]'', Rinoa has a ''[[Final Fantasy VIII]]''-style gunblade called Vanishing Star. There's a good shot of it [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ryH1TB4gEUY here, starting at 12:15]. And an even better one [https://web.archive.org/web/20120419144427/http://montyoum.deviantart.com/art/Vanishing-Star-76440470 here].
* ''[[Homestar Runner]]'': Dangeresque's Nunchuck-gun.
* From ''[[Things Mr. Welch Is No Longer Allowed to Do In An RPG]]'':
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* ''[[Chaos Fighters]]'' has quite a lot of them: sword lances (sometimes ''double ended''), blade guns (which the blades attached onto the barrels, axe halberd, pole shield and blade wands.
* ''[[Atop the Fourth Wall]]'' - Linkara is a big fan of swords (or axes) that can also be guns. Since quite a few [[Sixth Ranger]]s wield them he gets to gush a lot. He does note, however, that what he likes are weapons that transform into other weapons; weapons that are two things at the same time <ref>he cites [[Final Fantasy VIII|gunblades]] as an example</ref> are silly.
* Most of the
** Mr. Welch (above) would be extremely envious of ''[[RWBY]]'''s version of Son Goku, whose quarterstaff breaks apart into a pair of nunchucks—which are themselves each made up of a pair of flintlock-like pistols capable of semiautomatic fire.
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== Western Animation ==
* Starling from ''[[Storm Hawks]]'' wields some form of [https://web.archive.org/web/20150519025403/http://stormhawks.ytv.com/uploads/StarlingA2.jpg lightsaber-chucks], although the cutting abilities are only used once, to escape from some manacles.
== Real Life ==
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* There were a lot of swords etc. with built-in pistols at one point. They almost all turned out to be horrifically inefficient—use it as a sword, and it's badly unbalanced, use it as a pistol and you've got this long, heavy weight throwing off your aim. Eventually they were made more or less obsolete by the introduction of the bayonet. There were also full-sized pistols with hatchet blades attached to the barrel, or in at least one case, the butt.
** An odd inversion of this turned up in recent years, in the form of combat knives with a derringer concealed in the handle. Hopelessly inaccurate beyond a couple of yards but probably quite effective for catching your opponent unawares.
* A fairly common trend for [[Blade on a Stick|polearms]] - after all, once you have a big stick and one head, adding another incurs a relatively minor increase in weight, but may double functionality. Hence lots of weapons like bill-guisarme, bec de corbin, lucerne hammer, etc.
** Halberds are spear-axes.
** The gizong - a 6-foot wooden pole with a hook for dismounting cavalry, a 3-foot blade, and a smaller blade poking out to the side so you could swing it. It was outlawed by the Catholic Church for being ''[[Completely Missing the Point|too violent for war.]]''
* Early handguns were so difficult to reload that many came with ornate and heavy butts so that they could be [[Pistol-Whipping|reversed and used as a club]] after being fired.
* Brass-knuckles with blades really exist and are called trench spikes. They were invented for the vicious, hand-to-hand close combat of World War I.
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* [[Whip Sword]]s, like the chain whip and Indian [[wikipedia:Urumi|Urumi]], though they usually lack the cutting power of a sword or the reach of a whip.
* Many modern militaries issue assault rifles that can be modified by the addition of an underbarrel grenade launcher, shotgun, etc.
* Shotgun/rifle hybrids, while uncommon, are built and used.
** The [http://world.guns.ru/shotgun/rus/tp-2-e.html TP-82 aka TOZ-82] - a gun developed specifically for survival kits. It featured 2 smoothbore 32 gauge barrels (shot and flare rounds) and a rifled 5.45x39mm barrel. [[Bifurcated Weapon|The buttstock was a detachable sheathed machete]]. It was issued to Soviet and Russian cosmonauts (and some Air Forces pilots) from 1982 to 2006 - at which point the available ammunition ran out of expiry date and rather than restarting production, the weapon was replaced with a regular semi-automatic pistol.
* The [[wikipedia:XM29 OICW|Objective Individual Combat Weapon]] project. 5.56mm assault rifle and 20mm grenade launcher sharing the same body, optics and targeting computer. It was deemed [[Awesome but Impractical]], mostly due to weight.
** The [[South Koreans With Marines|South Koreans]] have already created their own version, the K11, which entered service in 2010.
* The US Marine Corps developed a powerful portable machine gun called the Stinger by salvaging a Browning M1919, adding the buttstock and trigger from a M1 Garand and the bipod from a Baretta Automatic Rifle.
* The LeMat grapeshot revolver, from the US Civil War. Designed by a doctor from New Orleans, it's a 9-shot, .40 caliber revolver (which is [[More Dakka]] by revolver standards), with its cylinder rotating around a single 16-gauge shotgun barrel. The "business end" of the firing-hammer has a hinge, allowing it to be swung into the appropriate position for its two barrels. It was very popular with Confederate cavalrymen, and also proved moderately successful after the war, in France. The French version was redesigned for cartridge ammo rather than ball-and-shot.
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