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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
This doesn't have to be just projectile firearms. Lasers will do as long as they are used more like firearms than [[Ray Gun
'''Note:''' To count, a character has to meet two requirements:
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# The guns have to be one of the prominent "powers" of the character, ''not'' one of the character's lesser-used weapons.
Compare [[The Gunslinger]], [[Girls
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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.
** In modern continuities, this gets a [[Call Back]] every so often, usually under the guise of a "[[Year One]]" story or a alternate universe. The main timeline Batman has used a gun against another sentient being with aggressive intent only ''once'': in [[Final Crisis]], after Darkseid has become such a threat that [[Godzilla Threshold|everything is on the table.]] And even that might have been retconned with the recent semi-reboot of the DCU.
* [[The Punisher]]. This is what tends to make him stand out among the pack, as a gun-toting vigilante who fights like a soldier contrasted with a world of spandex-clad weirdos.
** Not so much in the MAX series, which lacks superheroes.
* Cable of ''[[X
* Bishop of the [[X-Men]], as a cop from future not unlike that of [[Judge Dredd]], used guns when he first arrived, and an ongoing [[Character Development]] plotline for him was learning to tone it down and not use lethal force. He also had the power to shoot energy rays, but used guns frequently as his power depended on external sources of energy to redirect.
** One version of his guns actually channeled his own powers.
* [[The Nineties|90s Kid]] of ''[[
* All versions of [[DC Comics]]' The Vigilante, except the original singing cowboy from ''[[Seven Soldiers]]''.
** Actually the singing cowboy version did pack a pair of six shooters, but was very much a fan of [[Blasting It Out of Their Hands]].
* Also from [[DC Comics]] is [[Wild Dog]], who looks like he ''should'' be a parody of the trope, but sadly isn't.
** Max Allan Collins noted in ''Amazing Heroes'' #119 that he created Wild Dog as a sort of modern update of [[Zorro]], [[The Green Hornet]], and [[The Shadow]], who all predated Superman and Zatara, and Collins carefully distinguished between a costumed hero and a metahuman hero. Collins did not intend Wild Dog as "super".
* Ballistic, one of the "New Bloods" from DC's ''Bloodlines'' event.
* Several of the characters in ''[[Watchmen]]'', notably The Comedian.
* Big Shot from ''[[The Tick (animation)]]'' is a parody of this. He would lug around [[BFG
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* [[Hitman (Comic Book)|Hitman]]. His powers are telepathy, X-ray vision, and lots of guns — not necessarily in that order.
* The members of the gang "The Disco Boys", who use a Disco theme, in ''[[Mystery Men]]'' get ragged on by the heroes for their superpower being guns:
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'''Mr. Furious:''' What? Guns? That's your power, you shoot guns?
'''The Blue Raja:''' There's no theme at all here.
'''Mr. Furious:''' Weak.
'''The Blue Raja:''' At best. }}
* ''[[The Phantom (
* ''[[City of Heroes]]'' has the [[Guns Akimbo|Dual Pistols]] and Assault Rifle powersets for ranged archetypes (blaster, corruptor, defender). Also, Thugs masterminds lead a group of gun-wielding henchmen and have their own pistol attacks.
** The Masterminds also have the Mercenary powerset, which works like Thugs, but with assault rifles.
** Robotics Masterminds get a Pulse Rifle which straddles the line between this trope and [[Frickin' Laser Beams]]
** 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:
** [[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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* Big Daddy and Hit Girl from ''[[Kick-Ass]]''. Of course in the comic Big Daddy is not technically a superhero - just a psycho with lots of guns.
* While most [[Power Rangers]] teams have sidearms of some kind, it's the more officially-sanctioned ones that make extensive use of them, like the [[Space Police]] [[Power Rangers SPD|SPD]] and [[Time Police]] [[Power Rangers Time Force|Time Force]]. The [[Power Rangers Lightspeed Rescue|Lightspeed Rescue]] team in particular has a reputation for favoring their blasters.
* ''[[
* The Scarlet Spectre of ''[[Freedom City]]'''s Time of Vengeance campaign, is a B-Level vigilante who, lacking superpowers or [[Crimefighting
* This is of the most obvious ways ''[[The Twelve]]'', a random group of [[Fish Out of Temporal Water]] from the last days of World War II, illustrate the [[Values Dissonance]] between their time and ours. A full half of them carry guns, from the [[Badass Normal
* The Crimson Avenger in [[The DCU]]. Both the original in his [[Coat, Hat, Mask]] phase and the [[Nineties Anti
* The [[DC Comics]] [[Elseworlds]] story ''[[Superman: At
* Akemi Homura from ''[[Puella Magi Madoka Magica]]'' is a [[Magical Girl]] Packing Heat. No, that [[More Dakka|arsenal]] she carries doesn't come from her Magical Girl powers: she ''stole it from the [[Yakuza]] and the military''.
** Mami also who uses Flintlock rifles, but these are magical.
* Death The Kid from ''[[Soul Eater]] ''has Liz and Patty, who transform into guns.
* Captain Smiley in ''[[Comic Jumper]]'' uses his [[Guns Akimbo]] as his primary method of attack.
* Tombstone from ''[[Freedom Force]]'' has a pair of magical guns as his primary weapons. They fire bolts of electricity to symbolize his death by electrocution in the electric chair.
* Grifter of the [[Wild CATS]] and [[Wildstorm]] Universe, although sometimes possessing psychic powers, usually favoured [[Guns Akimbo]], switching between his [[Ray Gun|VADs]] and a variety of mundane pistols.
* In season one of [[Who Wants to Be
* ''[[Moon Knight]]'' has on ocasion used weapons. But then again, he is a former mercenary and soldier (And in the Ultimate Universe, a former Navy Seal), and is known to be a dark subversion of [[Thou Shall Not Kill]], so its not exactly out of place. Its also one of the characteristics that seperate him from [[Alternate Company Equivalent|that other]] [[Batman
* [[Savage Dragon]] has superhuman aim that allows him to [[Blasting It Out of Their Hands|shoot without killing]], although he has done so when pressed.
* Eldritch of the [[Whateley Universe]]. The fact that she is [[Nigh Invulnerable]] and has magical abilities doesn't stop her from packing heat. In the Team Tactics course at [[Super
** In fact, Bladedancer asks Eldritch for gun training. No one expects the Chinese martial arts nut with the magic sword to also be packing an automatic.
* [[The Shadow]] is either a superhero or a proto-superhero depending on who you ask, but he wields a pair of automatics.
* Orson Randall, the former [[Immortal Iron Fist]], uses a pair of handguns, for which Danny Rand, the incumbent, gives him grief. "So you learned your kung-fu from Lei Kung and ''Smith & Wesson''?"
* One of [[Iron Man]] armors, the Variable Threat Response Battle Suit (A.K.A. [[Exactly What It Says
** This carries over into [[Iron Man (
* 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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