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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.
** 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.
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* ''[[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]].
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* The Scarlet Spectre of ''[[Freedom City]]'''s Time of Vengeance campaign, is a B-Level vigilante who, lacking superpowers or [[Crimefighting With Cash|much money]], fought crime with her father's .45 pistol.
* 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|Badass Normals]] like Mr. E, the Witness, the Laughing Mask, and the Phantom Reporter, to [[Flying Brick]] Captain Wonder and powerful psychic Mastermind Excello.
* The Crimson Avenger in [[The DCU]]. Both the original in his [[Coat, Hat, Mask]] phase and the [[Nineties Anti Hero]] successor. The legacy character takes this further, claiming that the original CA's chest emblem during his superhero days wasn't a sun - it was a bullet hole.
* The [[DC Comics]] [[Elseworlds]] story ''[[Superman At Earths End]]'' had a mostly-depowered Superman take up a [[BFG|ludicrously oversized gun]] in order to fight [[Stupid Jetpack Hitler|twin clones of]] [[You Cloned Hitler|Hitler]]. Then it went on to include an [[Broken Aesop|anti-guns]] message at the end.
* 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''.
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