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{{quote|'''90s Kid:''' "And one of them has the greatest superpower of all, [[Big Word Shout|GUUUUUUNS]]!"
|''[[Atop the Fourth Wall]]''}}
For various reasons, [[Doesn't Like Guns]] is a common thing with comic book style superheroes and supervillains (whether it's ethics, style, or something else). Even before the comics code was written, it was rare to see heroes with guns. Then some heroes who broke this rule caught on, and soon more and more heroes and villains began using guns. This soon became closely associated with the [[Nineties Anti-Hero]], and therefore also [[Discredited Trope|fell out of favor]] when that trope did.
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Compare [[The Gunslinger]], [[Girls with Guns]], [[Heroes Prefer Swords]].
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* The earliest comics featuring [[Batman]] had him using guns. This got retconned moderately quickly once writers realized that having Batman kill all of his adversaries in one issue meant that he'd have no one to fight later and they'd have to rack their brains thinking up new ones too often. Once he started hanging around with Robin and it was revealed his parents had been killed by a gunman, it went away entirely.
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** And now they have just introduced the Beam Rifle powerset.
* Why [[Badass Normal]] [[Strawberry Death Cake|Jessica]] is so [[Badass]].
* [[Captain America (comics)|Captain America]]'s original incarnation had him using guns in addition to his famous shield, since he was a [[Super Soldier]] fighting the Nazis during [[World War II]]. [[Captain America: The First Avenger|His movie]] also aims in this direction (
** [[Bucky]] also used a gun when he took up the identity of Cap.
** Steve has started packing heat again as Commander Steve Rogers, Head of S.H.I.E.L.D.
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* Shadehawk, the protagonist of ''[[Antihero for Hire]]''.
* ''Son Of A Gun'' ("Superhero #1") by [[KMFDM]]. Iit's hard to tell what he uses, but it involves massive explosions.
* [[Spawn]] seems able to pull ''any'' sort of weapon, ancient or modern, from the [[Hammerspace]] of his cloak, and has pulled guns from it from time to time.
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[[Category:Guns and Gunplay Tropes]]
[[Category:Superhero Tropes]]
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