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* [[Oda Nobunaga]] in ''[[Sengoku Basara]]'' uses one in conjunction with a longsword as part of a [[Sword and Gun]] combo.
* ''[[Deus Ex]]'' featured a sawed-off shotgun, which fired slowly but was slightly more powerful and took up less inventory space than the automatic shotgun. The way the game handled weapon skills also allowed you to completely avoid the "shorter barrels = shorter range" effect; indeed, if you got to Master level, all the pellets would hit in the same spot - making the sawed-off shotgun the ultimate precision rifle from hell.
* A similar weapon appears in the prequel ''[[Deus Ex: Human Revolution|Deus Ex Human Revolution]]'' as well, as a pre-order bonus. It has excellent stopping power against most enemies, but its reach is predictably ridiculous and only has two shots. The weapon skills finally making sense, it's also impossible to use it in a precise way. Its greatest advantage is how little space it takes in the inventory compared to every other non-handgun.
* A sawed-off double-barreled shotgun makes a rather surprising appearance in ''[[Call of Duty]]: World At War'', as a one-time pickup in campaign mode (found in an abandoned insane asylum of all places) and as a variation of the standard double-barreled shotgun in multiplayer.
** The same shotgun returned in ''[[Modern Warfare]]'' ''2'', with the added bonus of allowing the player to [[Guns Akimbo|carry two at once]] (that is, of course, if [[Awesome but Impractical|accuracy]] doesn't concern you much...).
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* The Near-Sighted Assassin from ''[[Ghost Trick]]'' uses one. Lynne even comments on how he's probably just trying to enforce the [[Rule of Cool]] by doing so.
* Gallows, the [[Big Guy]] (well, even if he looks like one, in fact he's more a [[Black Magician Girl|Black Magician Amerindian]]) from ''[[Wild Arms 3]]'' uses one, though he's the ''worst'' attacker of the party, the weapon itself is the ''weakest'' ARM of the game (stats-wise, his ARM is just ''awful''), and his aim is ''terrible''. On the other hand, when he manages to land a critical hit, prepare yourself [[For Massive Damage]].
* ''[[Jagged Alliance]] 2'' features the pump-action [[wikipedia:File:My Serbu.jpg|Serbu Super-Shorty]], which comes factory-manufactured as a super-sized handgun. The description [[Invoked Trope|invokes the trope]] by noting that it saves time-consuming hacksaw work. They are usually regarded as [[Awesome but Impractical]] as backup weapons since smaller, lighter handguns like the FN Five-SeveN are much faster to draw and fire, and most players instead load them with a clip of [[Shoot Out the Lock|lockbuster rounds]] as an instant lockpick.
* ''[[Payday: The Heist]]'' features the [[wikipedia:File:My Serbu.jpg|Serbu Super-Shorty]] [[AKA-47|as the Locomotive 12G.]] Compared to the game's other shotgun, it has paltry range but a very fast fire rate, and it's puny magazine size (four shells) can be upgraded by two.
* The ''[[Twisted Metal]]'' reboot has this as a sidearm and a bigger one as a weapon pickup. The former is near useless when not used in [[I Just Shot Marvin in the Face|extreme close range]] and can either unload both shells at once [[For Massive Damage]] or just one shell and use the other when appropriate. Did I mention that you have [[Bottomless Magazines|unlimited ammo]] for it? On the other, there's [[Boring but Practical|nothing special for the latter]], except being a lot stronger obviously. Both weapons are potentially among the strongest weapons in the game.
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* ''[[The Simpsons (animation)|The Simpsons]]'' has a few instances where a character weilds a sawed-off shotgun.
** In the episode where Mr. Burns is trying to kill Grandpa to get the Hellfish Bonanza, an assassin bursts into the retirement home spraying machine gun bullets everywhere. A nurse retaliates with this weapon.
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** When Mr. Burns takes on Bart as his heir, Homer tries to get him back. In a deleted scene, shown on a clip show special, instead of releasing the hounds (or the bees, or the hounds with bees in their mouths so when the bark they shoot bees at you) Burns chooses to release the Robotic Richard Simmons. It chases off Homer, but continues to antagonize Mr. Burns. Smithers attempts to take it out with a sawed-off shotgun blast to the face, but it reforms ''a la'' [[Terminator]] T-1000.
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