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[[File:goldengun2.jpg|link=James Bond|frame|No wonder he charges a million a shot.]]
What do you get when you combine [[IKEA Weaponry]] with your [[Shoe Phone]]? A really bad hotfoot. Also, a
Reality check: any weapon based on the principle of the gun is going to contain chemical explosives, and any good security checkpoint will test for those. Want to look smart? Base it on gas pressure, springs, or a tiny crossbow, and have it rely on poison rather than impact.
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* ''Darksaber'', one of the [[Star Wars Expanded Universe]] novels, has an Imperial warlord attempt to [[Taking You with Me|kill Admiral Daala]] with a knife after [[Board to Death|she poisoned an entire gathering of other such warlords with neurotoxic gas]]. Impressive, not only for having the knife be made up of several of his "decorative" medals, but for him having the presence of mind to ''immediately start assembling it as soon as he realizes he, and everyone but Daala and her assistant, have been gassed''. She even gives him an appreciative look of respect as he approaches. He manages to make it to within a single step of her, but by that point it is too late.
* The Jackal's gun from the original novel and first film of ''[[The Day of the Jackal]]'' was built into and assembled from parts of the {{spoiler|crutch that formed part of his disguise as a war veteran}}, which he used to get close enough to, and {{spoiler|try to assassinate General de Gaulle}}. The later film remake just had a big machine gun built into the back of an estate car.
* The ''[[Doctor Who]]'' [[Eighth Doctor Adventures]] novel ''Demontage'' featured, as part of its [[James Bond]] pastiche, an assassin disguised as a wineglass salesman, whose sample glasses could be transformed into a knife and a single-shot
* The [[Gordon R. Dickson]] SF story ''Hilifter'' (1963) has this pre-Scaramanga pistol: "Whistling a little mournfully, he began to make the next best use of his pile of property. He unscrewed the nib and cap of his long, gold fountain pen, took out the ink cartridge, and laid the tube remaining aside. He removed his belt, and the buckle from the belt. The buckle, it appeared, clipped on to the fountain pen tube in somewhat the manner of a pistol grip. He reached in his mouth, removed a bridge covering from the second premolar to the second molar, and combined this with a small metal throwaway dispenser of the sort designed to contain antacid tablets. The two together had a remarkable resemblance to the magazine and miniaturized trigger assembly of a small handgun; and when he attached them to the buckle-fountain-pen-tube combination the resemblance became so marked as to be practically inarguable."
* Frederick Forsyth thriller novel ''The Fourth Protocol'' (1984) features a ''Nuclear Bomb'' fitting this trope. Components are either concealed in or disguised as everyday items (including a rubber ball and a transistor radio, as shown in the film version) as they are smuggled in.
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* In the ''[[Justice League Unlimited]]'' episode "Task Force X", Deadshot carries a ceramic pistol whose parts were carried in candy bar wrappers.
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