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=== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ===
* ''[[Trigun]]'' -- Vash the Stampede's gun visually resembles the Mateba, though it's otherwise a regular break-open, double-action revolver.
* One of the episodes of ''[[
* Togusa's weapon of choice in all of the ''[[Ghost in the Shell]]'' series. His Mateba isn't a real world production model, but a combination of two different Mateba variants. There's also a chance that his is actually a traditional DA revolver, as the Major comments on how he refuses to carry an automatic.
** The Mateba Autorevolver's immediate predecessor was the [http://matebafan.com/2006m.html Mateba 2006M], a visually very similar (and even rarer) revolver that's a conventional double-action revolver but has the same 6-o-clock barrel configuration. It's like that this, rather than the Unica 6 Autorevolver, is the kind that Togusa uses.
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* Shows up in ''[[UFO: After Blank|UFO Aftermath]]'' as one of the best shotguns. However, by the time you get it, you probably have better projectile, laser and plasma weapons, and the very short range of the shotgun is a huge drawback when you start fighting Reticulans.
* ''[[Jagged Alliance]]''. Dr. Clifford Highball (no, that's actually his name) uses one in V 1.13, and it has a good range for a shotgun.
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20150628100431/http://fallout.wikia.com/wiki/Neostead_Combat_SG Appeared] in ''[[Fallout]] Tactics'', but without magazine selector and for some reason as full-auto.
* ''[[Soldier of Fortune]]: Payback''
* ''[[Ghost Recon]]: Phantoms''
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== Thompson Submachine Gun (Pre-World War II) ==
While the "Tommy Gun" or "Chicago Typewriter" is a firearm recognizable by anyone who knows what side the bullets come out of and an iconic part prohibition era crime, the Thompson Submachine Gun was actually a massive failure: Its high cost (half a new car) and weight (over 10 pounds) ensured that by 1929, over 10 years after its invention in 1918, it had sold just 10,300 units and Auto-Ordnance was over 2 million in debt (in 1928 dollars). The few gangsters that owned Tommy Guns had stolen theirs from police and, then as today, the most popular firearms among criminals were small and concealable pistols. Despite this failure it looked and sounded quite impressive on the silver screen and a movie company could easily afford to buy one that [[Prop Recycling|could be reused in dozens of movies]]. The Thompson would lose its rare gun status in [[World War II]] and reach production of 2 million (plus an unknown number of Chinese copies), but this salvation would be short lived as many cheaper and lighter alternatives were developed during the war and the 1934 National Firearms Act effectively banned it from civilians ownership.
=== [[Film]] ===
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* ''[[High Sierra]]''
* ''[[The Untouchables]]''
* ''[[Dick Tracy (film)|Dick Tracy]]''
== Armsel Streetsweeper (and Striker/Protecta) ==
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== Walker Colt ==
=== [[Comic Books]] ===
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* [[The Outlaw Josey Wales|Josey Wales]] carries a pair of them (along with two more smaller pistols).
* Mentioned in ''[[Unforgiven]]''. Part of the real story of the death of "Two Gun" Corcoran mentions that he carried one of these weapons and it exploded on him, allowing English Bob to finish him off.
=== [[Literature]] ===
* In ''[[The Dark Tower]]'' series, Roland's guns are not of earthly design, being his world's equivalent of the mythical Excalibur, but they seem to be similar to a .45 or .45 Long Colt, seeing as it can use the ammunition for that type of revolver. They are described as long-barreled and heavy, made of blue-colored steel, and have sandlewood grips. Residents of his world know of these guns, and recognize the user as a "gunslinger", a peacekeeper and diplomat of his world's society.
=== Video Games ===
* ''[[Call of Juarez]]: Bound In Blood'' gives one to Ray as one of his starting weapons.
== Walther WA 2000 ==
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