Selective Historical Armoury: Difference between revisions

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The opposite of [[Rare Guns]]: In these cases, it is weapons that should be abundant in the setting that are conspicuous by their absence. Compare with [[Anachronism Stew]], [[Video Game Historical Revisionism]], [[Improperly Placed Firearms]] and [[Weapons Kitchen Sink]].

== General ==

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== Film ==

* The 2006 film ''[[Flyboys]]'', set in [[World War One|WWI]], featured the Fokker Dr.I triplane exclusively as the fighter plane of the German air army when it was in fact not terribly common. More [[TV Tropes Wiki Drinking Game|egregiously]] nearly every one is painted bright red, when the only pilot to use an all-red scheme was Manfred von Richthofen (hence 'The [[Red Baron]]'), and even partial red paintjobs were generally a trademark of Richthofen's ''[[Badass Crew|Jasta 2.]]''

* The 2006 film ''[[Flyboys]]'', set in [[World War One|WWI]], featured the Fokker Dr.I triplane exclusively as the fighter plane of the German air army when it was in fact not terribly common. More [[All The Tropes Wiki Drinking Game|egregiously]] nearly every one is painted bright red, when the only pilot to use an all-red scheme was Manfred von Richthofen (hence 'The [[Red Baron]]'), and even partial red paintjobs were generally a trademark of Richthofen's ''[[Badass Crew|Jasta 2.]]''

** Also, several of the French and other Allied planes shown are anachronistic, because they were either non-existent or phased out during the events of that movie (it's supposed to be set in 1916).

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** An almost identical plot appears in Harry Harrison's short story ''[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Rebel_in_Time A Rebel in Time]'', written nearly a decade earlier. The only major difference is the weapon being smuggled - a WWII British Sten - which would arguably be an even better choice, since due to its famous simplicity, it could easily be manufactured even with basic 19th century industry (pretty much at a village smithy).

== WWII [[First Person Shooter|First Person Shooters]] ==

== WWII [[First-Person Shooter|First Person Shooters]] ==

* World War II games in general often forget to include the M3 "Grease Gun" when it comes to American forces after 1943. Created as a cheaper replacement for the popular M1 Thompson submachine gun, it saw widespread use for many American units in Europe around late 1944. Despite this many games will either leave it out because the designers feel it's too similar to the M1 Thompson, or will make it an incredibly rare gun that will only be seen a few times in the game. (As seen in ''Brothers in Arms: Hell's Highway'' and ''Call of Duty 2'').

** Games that feature British player characters seldom offer them the Thompson either, despite it seeing quite a bit of service alongside the more common - [[Shur Fine Guns|if persnickety]] - Sten.

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== Other [[First Person Shooter|First Person Shooters]] ==

== Other [[First-Person Shooter|First Person Shooters]] ==

* This trope example is unbelievably averted, of all places, in ''[[Fallout 2]]''. Mobsters in New Reno usually carry either Tommy Guns or Grease Guns, and only those two weapons use (quite heavy) .45 caliber bullets. There's even a blurb about how these guns ended up in National Guard armories after the Army switched to better weapons in its information screen.

* ''[[Battlefield Bad Company (Video Game)|Battlefield Bad Company]]'' makes this a natural part of weapon choice, and the sequel did it even MORE delibrately! A player could use the M1 Garand rifle, M1911 pistol and Thompson submachinegun, all explicitly having the label "WWII" in front of the gun's name when the message showing a kill with it and the weapon that did it.