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== Anime & Manga ==
* ''[[Lyrical Nanoha|Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha]]''
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** In ''[[Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha StrikerS]]'', Fate can split the [[BFS|Zamber Form]] of Bardiche into two normal-sized [[Energy Weapons|energy swords]] and merge them back to its original [[Humongous Mecha]] splitting size while in the heat of battle.
*** Also in ''StrikerS'', Teana Lanstar's gun can become two guns or two energy daggers.
▲** And in ''[[Nanoha As|Nanoha A's]]'', Signum's sword can be combined with its sheath to become a [[The Archer|bow]].
** Touma from ''[[Magical Chronicle Lyrical Nanoha Force|Force]]'' has a gunsword - like a revolver with a blade taped under it. He could still probably shoot with it.
* ''[[Gundam]]''
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* The more mundane and realistic bayonet attached to a gun counts for this trope too - it's a knife attached to a gun. Traditionally, this turned the gun into a spear; today, the knife is often just used as a knife as well as a spear.
** Tragically averted by very early versions, which fitted ''into'' the barrel and so rendered the gun part totally useless.
*** Plug bayonets were used when formations had closed to one-on-one contact, or when the user ran out of bullets. remember, we're talking
*** A sword bayonet turns the rifle effectively into a halberd - good only not for thrusting attacks, but also for blows and slashes. Before the modern medicine very few of those who had been attacked with a rifle equipped with a sword bayonet were able to survive alive
** Related innovations placed axe heads on the barrel.
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** The [[South Koreans With Marines|South Koreans]] have already created their own version, the K11, which entered service in 2010.
* The sarissa, a gigantic 20-foot pike used by the Macedonian phalanx under Alexander the Great, was able to split apart for transport. Theoretically the two ten-foot sections could have been used as weapons, one with the spear head and the other using the weighted end that kept the sarissa level. If it ever was used this way, however, history has not recorded it.
** Well, one historian has interpreted the remains of metal tube-like things as being for joining the two
* Then there's the good old halberd. Spear for the long range stabbing, a hook to pull knights off their horses, a metal spike on the butt end to break through the knights armor, and then an axe head for all other situations.
* Another example from ol' mundane reality is the current vogue for putting a grenade launcher under the barrel of a rifle. There are also ways to put a stripped
* Nerf:
** One type of Nerf Dart Tag blaster pistol (called the Crossfire or Strikefire, depending on which set it's in) was designed with this in mind; while nearly every single Dart Tag or N-Strike blaster has a sight rail for attaching accessories like sights, scopes, lights, and the like, the Crossfire/Strikefire instead has a clip that attaches to those sight rails, allowing it to be combined with other blasters.
** The Nerf Titan ASV-1 has a similar concept: part of
** The more modern Longshot, known as the [[Nerf Brand]] [[Sniper Rifle]], is also capable of seperating into two guns.
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