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* The military police in ''[[The Big O]]'' arrive just before Roger and Big O every time a giant monster or robot attacks Paradigm City and fire a massive barrage that does absolutely nothing. But they have to try each time, or else they'd have to admit they need his help.

* In the [[Gundam]] metaseries, essentially every universe has some form of tanks, MLRS, and other modern artillery weapons. They are '''never''' useful against [[Humongous Mecha|mobile suits]] unless a [[Nominal Importance|named character]] is at the controls. One such example comes in ''Gundam SEED CE73 Stargazer'' where [[Retired Badass]] Edmond Du Clos takes down a GINN with a tank (though he dies in the process).

** In a sense, Gundam has another example with vulcans/CIWS. About half the mobile suits ever made have them, but all they're good for are missile defense and occasional lucky shots to enemy cameras, and even then they aren't used all that often.

*** Vulcans ''are'' extremely useful as anti-personnel weapons (Amuro used them that way a couple of times). Of course, they are rarely used that way since showing the hero pulping enemy soldiers with vulcans would look ''really'' bad, and might raise the show's rating too high (though ''Stargazer'' does show Alliance mobile suits using foot-mounted CIWS for exactly this, complete with graphic detail).

* Averted in the Internet novel ''[[The Salvation War]]'' where human weaponry proves devastatingly effective and it's the demons who are stuck with the pathetically outmoded and virtually useless weapons. Every time the demons try one of their "classic" weapons, it fails miserably and the humans hit back with something unimaginably more lethal. For instance demonic lightning bolts are countered by massed salvoes from multiple-launch rocket batteries, brimstone is countered by Sarin nerve gas. Though early on humanity does find out that standard 5.56mm isn't very good at stopping demons and has to adapt to using larger calibres.

* Averted in the web RP, ''Insane Cafe: The Curse of the Haunted Hotel''. When the characters have to fight a huge demon, they use everything from small arms to Molotov cocktails to anti-tank rockets. And it works.

 

 

== Western Animation ==

* Captain Fanzone's attempting approach to fighting Professor Sumdac's roach monster in the pilot episode of ''[[Transformers Animated]]''. When bullets don't work, he tries rockets. The monster just absorbs them. Luckily, they are soon saved by alien shipwreck survivors -- the Autobots.