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Modern superfast Gatling guns actually make a strange, deafening buzzing sound in the bass register (5000 rounds per minute equals 83.3Hz). Some of them, like the Phalanx anti-missile cannon, [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cgpQBZF2sZQ sound even weirder,] because they start at a lower rate of fire and then spin up to a higher one in distinct steps (in such designs they do not actually begin spinning the barrels until it fires the first shot and they require a moment to come up to speed), giving two or more separate "notes". Instead of a [[Dramatic Gun Cock]], the sign that a Gatling is preparing to fire tends to be the sound of it spinning up.
 
A popular form of the [[BFG]] in fiction, and both a fictional and real-world way of achieving [[More Dakka]] via [[EverythingsEverything's Better With Spinning]]. It may be present even if [[Energy Weapons]] are abundant in the setting, as [[Kinetic Weapons Are Just Better]]. See also [[Bang Bang BANG]].
 
According to [[Cracked]], owning one of these things is [http://www.cracked.com/article_17016_7-items-you-wont-believe-are-actually-legal_p2.html perfectly legal].
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== Anime & Manga ==
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* In episode 21 of ''[[Zettai Karen Children (Manga)|Zettai Karen Children]]'' when Oboro Kashiwagi the otherwise ordinary secretary lays eyes on a life sized doll of herself, her response is to whip a ''minigun'' out of nowhere and shoot it to dust.
* ''[[Appleseed (Manga)|Appleseed]]'' has large tanks that have stupidly large six-barreled rotary cannons in place of the main gun. And the monstrous mobile gun platforms have ''four'' of the same. Each.
* Chao's robot army in ''[[Mahou Sensei Negima (Manga)|Mahou Sensei Negima]]'' used these against Mahora's mage army. They were loaded with bullets that could send the victim into a future in which they'd already lost without any possible defense aside from dodging as a functional [[One -Hit Kill]].
* In ''[[One Piece (Manga)|One Piece]]'', new character "Blood Splatterer" Coriboo is seen wielding a hand-held crank-operated one. Probably how he got the nickname.
** His brother Caribou also carries one inside of him.
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* During a car scene in ''[[Last Action Hero]]'' a door on a van suddenly opens, and a goon steps out with a mounted short-barreled minigun and proceeds to fire it at Arnie's car. Which, of course, remains untouched, but the premise of the movie means this actually makes sense.
* The first car chase in ''[[Batman Forever (Film)|Batman Forever]]'': The Batmobile is chased by a pair of '50 Buick Roadmasters, each with two miniguns mounted on the hood. Not that they ever reach real Gatling fire rates, let alone do any halfway realistic damage to anything.
** The 1989 ''[[Batman (Film)|Batman]]'', where the Batwing had twin Gatling guns, used to [[A -Team Firing|completely fail to hit]] [[The Joker]].
* ''[[The Dark Knight Saga]]''. Bruce Wayne conducts a ballistics test using Gatling guns. Since they only fire ''a single round at a time'' there is absolutely no reason to have them other than [[Rule of Cool]] and [[Screw the Rules, I Have Money]] - which entirely fit Wayne's persona.
* ''The War Wagon'' (1967). Western starring [[John Wayne]] and [[Kirk Douglas]], who plan to rob an armoured stagecoach (owned by a villainous [[Land Baron]]) that is armed with a turret-mounted Gatling gun. Since the wagon effectively amounted to a horse-drawn tank the [[Invulnerable Horses]] trope had to be in full effect as well.
* The 1983 movie ''[[Blue Thunder]]'' features a modified Aérospatiale SA-341G Gazelle helicopter with a 20mm Gatling cannon mounted in a turret attached to the nose. This cannon has such a high rate of fire that, during the movie, it is used to [[Awesome Moments|saw a police cruiser in half]] to [[Gunship Rescue|facilitate the escape]] of the hero's girlfriend. To provide sufficient drama, the {{spoiler|turret gets disabled by a surprise attack to set up the [[Final Battle]]}}.
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== [[Video Games]] ==
* The Terran Republic in ''[[Planet Side]]'' have a ''handheld'' [[BFG]] gatling gun. It has a crazy rate of fire, ammo size, and damage per second. Unforunately, it's useless past 50m. Some of the Terran vehicles also have miniguns, but they're bigger and fire more slowly.
* The pioneers of [[First -Person Shooter|First Person Shooters]], ''[[Wolfenstein 3D (Video Game)|Wolfenstein 3D]]'' and ''[[Doom]]'', used these, the former as the player character's most powerful weapon, and the latter as his default automatic weapon. It's also used by bosses, Hans/Gretel Grosse and [[Stupid Jetpack Hitler|Hitler]] in the former, and Spider Mastermind in the latter. It's become a standard weapon in First Person Shooter games since.
** ''[[Return to Castle Wolfenstein]]'' has a Gatling-like gun, the Venom, that charges for a bit before opening fire. And if an enemy (except [[Demonic Spiders|the really strong ones]]) takes too many bullets, it explodes into [[Ludicrous Gibs]].
* ''[[Quake II]]'' features the "chaingun", a gatling gun which is one of few examples of this trope played straight in games. It has very high damage output and ''tremendous'' rate of fire, high enough to literally mince most enemies in a blink of an eye and deplete all player's bullets within few seconds of continuous firing.
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* Though all the [[Unreal]] games have a minigun in one form or another, the Ballistic Weapons mod of ''[[Unreal Tournament 2004 (Video Game)|Unreal Tournament 2004]]'' adds a realistic minigun with variable rate of fire: it can fire single shots, 900 RPM, 1800 RPM or 3600 RPM. A short burst can tear the target in two but it has a beastly recoil when firing at full auto. It even has a tripod mount which can be deployed to become a stationary turret with no recoil - quite useful in team games. Oh, and it has enough ammo to score at least 50 frags if you conserve it.
** Speaking of ''Unreal'', the Pulse Gun in ''[[Unreal Tournament (Video Game)|Unreal Tournament]]'' goes with this as well, having six barrels that rotate at a high rate whenever it's fired.
* ''[[Command and Conquer]]'' makes fair use of these. The [[First -Person Shooter]] ''Renegade'' had mini-Gatling armed foot soldier for both GDI and Nod, with a few more scattered here or there on various weapons. In ''Red Alert 2: Yuri's Revenge'' Gatlings became their own weapon, and fired a steady stream of bullets that sped up the longer the gun fired on a single target (or another nearby). These were later given to the Chinese in ''Generals''. One of the chinese subfactions in ''Zero Hour'' gives them to the standard infantry, making them incredibly powerful.
** ''Tiberium Wars'' continues the proud tradition of gatling weapons, now in the hands of the Forgotten mercenaries. GDI also had gatling weapons mounted on the Hammerhead gunship in the ''Kane's Wrath'' expansion.
* ''[[Grand Theft Auto]]'' occasionally features the absurd hand-held minigun.
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* In ''[[Rise of Legends]]'', the Vinci hero Lenora rides a flying machine with a massive Gatling gun mounted on the bottom. Of course, it's not nearly effective as it should be.
* ''[[Just Cause (Video Game)|Just Cause 2]]'' has turret-mounted miniguns placed around most military bases. The player can actually pull them off and use them like a normal gun, but with some disadvantages--slower movement, no jumping or acrobatics, and no switching weapons. These are worth it, though, as just about any enemy will fall to a minigun in less than a second, and is quite capable of destroying hundred-meter radio masts in less than five.
* Subverted in ''[[Escape Velocity]]'', where the mass driver, described as "the modern-day equivalent of the ancient gatling gun," has only an average rate of fire and its shots travel far slower than the standard [[Frickin' Laser Beams]], which also have the advantage of being primary weapons.
** ''[[Escape Velocity]]:Nova'''s chaingun follows the trope straight, however, with a fire rate (while firing, as it fires in bursts of 20) of 1800 rounds per minute (the maximum allowed by the game per gun). Additionally, it has a longer range and tends to deal more damage than medium-range blasters (and can out-damage the heavy blasters).
* In the game ''[[Syndicate (Video Game)|Syndicate]]'', your remote-controlled cyborg agents will end up carting these around as their primary weapon after a while. In fact, because of ammo issues, they'll be carrying several. [[Hyperspace Arsenal|Each]].
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* In the ''[[Chip 'n Dale Rescue Rangers (Animation)|Chip 'n Dale Rescue Rangers]]'' episode "Le Purrfect Crime", Dale gets one which uses expresso beans.
* ''[[Batman the Brave And The Bold]]'': In "Mitefall!" the steam-powered cyborg assassin John Wilkes Booth has twin gatling guns.
* In the Season 2 Finale of ''[[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic (Animation)|My Little Pony Friendship Is Magic]]'', Twilight Sparkle demonstrates her ability to use magic lasers. Pinkie Pie being [[Cloudcuckoolander|Pinkie Pie]], she picks up Twilight and uses her tail as the trigger to fire off a ''[http://i.neoseeker.com/mgv/574321-Liege/321/86/vbha1_display.gif unicorn magic gatling gun.]''
 
 
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