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* [[Real Life]]: on ''[[MythBusters]]'', shooting an escape hole in the floor or shooting out a lock proved possible but far, far more difficult than using the proper tools - a boltcutter and circular saw, and required fairly impressive firepower.
** SWAT and Special Forces personnel called upon to breach a door are trained to shoot at the hinges instead of the lock as they tend to be flimsier, but even then, without specialised ammunition they're normally better off with a sledgehammer or crowbar.
* Carlos Hathcock, a famed Marine Corps sniper (one of his famous achievements being a [[Scope Snipe]]), once used a ''.50 machinegun'' [https://web.archive.org/web/20120508055027/http://www.bobtuley.com/50bmg914.jpg modified and mounted with a scope] as an improvised sniper rifle. He set the record for the longest combat kill at 2,286 meters, a feat not surpassed until the Afghanistan war, in which dedicated sniper rifles firing the same .50 caliber round were employed. This counts as a trope example since the M2 was not designed for precision sniping, it doesn't even have a semi-automatic mode. It's just that the rate of fire is low enough (relative to most smaller machine guns, that is) that a careful user can fire off a single round by very quickly pulling and releasing the trigger.
** His successor is [http://www.badassoftheweek.com/harrison.html Corporal of Horse Craig Harrison], who ''took down three separate targets'' with ''a single bullet to each'' with an L115A3 sniper rifle from 8120 feet away, or ''3200 feet beyond the rifle's effective range''.
* The IMI Galil had a bottle opener built into it's bipod because of problems with conscript soldiers using magazines of other rifles as improvised bottle openers, damaging the magazine lips in the process.
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* ''[[Predator]]'' and the ''[[Grand Theft Auto]]'' games both feature vehicle-mounted—and electric-powered—miniguns being carried and fired by individual humans on foot, with no extension cord visible anywhere.
* In ''[[God Hand]]'' you can get the tremendously useful rocket launcher... which you use with the same animation as every other weapon and use it to beat someones head in. After you've fired it's single payload of course.
* [[Handwaved]]ed with the [[Rule of Cool]] in ''[[Dead Rising]] 2'', where the player can use machine-gun wheelchairs , pitchfork-shotguns, and chainsaw-paddles [https://web.archive.org/web/20100508071557/http://screenshots.teamxbox.com/screen/92287/Dead-Rising-2/ to mow down the undead].
* One of [[Gears of War]] 2's bosses, Skorge, uses a [[Chainsaw Good|chainsaw staff]] to saw a tank in two.
* [[Samurai Warriors]] has Hanzo, who swings the scythe-part of his kusarigama and Shingen Takeda, whose warfan can be used for slicing people. Nagamasa using [[Slice-and-Dice Swordsmanship]] with his ''lance'' may count as well.
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