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Subtrope of [[Swiss Army Weapon]]. Often also a [[BFG]]. Compare to [[Do -Anything Robot]], for its even less realistic equivalent. The key difference between this trope and the [[Do -Anything Robot]] is that the Swiss Army Gun generally has some kind of limit or some set number of forms. [[Gun Accessories]] are a common method of creating such a weapon.

** A later model, the Verde Buster, mounts the cannons on the shoulders so that they can both be used. However, the docking arms used to mount those guns are given shotguns which have sword blades that unfold out of them.

* A one-shot character in ''[[Kirby: ofRight theBack Starsat Ya!]]'' wields a machine gun/sword/flamethrower.

{{quote| '''Judge Dredd''': Lawgiver 2, 25 round sidearm with mission variable, voice programed ammunition,... Signal Flare!<br />

'''Gun''': Flare. vrrrrr<br />

== [[Fan FictionWorks]] ==

* In the ''[[Mass Effect]]/[[Command and& Conquer]]'' crossover ''[[Renegade (Fanficfanfic)|Renegade]]'', the Global Defense Initiative has developed "Shapeshifter" weapons using mass effect technology, which consist of infantry rifles that feature various heavy weapon add-ons. This is following GDI's [[More Dakka|standard]] [[BFG|design]] [[Bigger Is Better|logic]] when applied to the lighter, collapsible weapons that can be created using mass effect technology; after all, if they can make their guns ''smaller'' and fold out into full-sized weapons, then they can fit multiple weapons into the same space and weight that a conventional gunpowder weapon possesses.

* Emmanuel Zorg onin ''[[The Fifth Element]]'' has developed one, and gives a very helpful [[James Bond|Q Speech]] on its features, in this quote:

{{quote| ''[[Gun Porn|Voila, the ZF-1]]. It's light; handle's adjustable for easy carrying, [[Right -Handed Left -Handed Guns|good for righties and lefties]]; [[IKEA Weaponry|breaks down into four parts]], undetectable by X-ray, ideal for quick discreet interventions. A word on firepower. Titanium recharger, [[Bottomless Magazines|3000-round clip]] with bursts of [[Five Rounds Rapid|3three]] to [[More Dakka|300three hundred]], and with the replay button (another Zorg invention) it's even easier. One shot... ''(shoots training dummy)'' ...and Replay [[Roboteching|sends every following shot to the same location]]. ''(demonstrates by spraying bullets at the Mangalore warriors; the bullets arc back to the training dummy)'' And to finish the job, all the Zorg oldies but goldies. [[BFG|Rocket launcher]]... [[Automatic Crossbows|arrow launcher]] [[Trick Arrow|(with exploding or poisonous gas heads)]], very practical... our famous net launcher... [[Kill It Withwith Fire|the always-efficient flamethrower]], my favorite... and for the grand finale, the all-new '[[Kill It Withwith Ice|Ice-cube System]]'''.}}

* [[XXX (Film)|Xander Cage's]] .44 Magnum isn't quite a [[Swiss Army Gun]], but given the sheer variety of ammo he gets to work with -- includingwith—including distance listening device, tranq with blood splatter, and incendiary, among others -- itothers—it counts.

* Possibly the [[Ur Example]] would be the dial-a-gun or "dallygun" from [[Gordon R Dickson|Gordon R. Dickson]]'s SF war novel ''[[Childe Cycle|Tactics of Mistake]]''. It wasn't very practical for the harsh combat environment, as dirt could jam it and it required that lots of different ammunition and spare parts be available, but the protagonist used it once to great effect. Sadly it was described briefly and played little role in the story, preventing this from being the [[Trope Maker]].

* The rifle used by CDF troops in [[John Scalzi]]'s ''[[Old MansMan's War]]''. It can shoot bullets, grenades, flames, microwaves, rockets... Even better, one can customize to fire, say, a blast of flame followed by a grenade. The "ammunition" is a block of nano-machines which assemble into the correct type of ammunition upon firing.

* The Memory Sword in ''[[The Dark Side of the Sun (Literature)|The Dark Side of the Sun]]'' by [[Terry Pratchett (Creator)|Terry Pratchett]] can become a wide variety of weapons, from swords to molecular strippers to projectile guns that make ice bullets by freezing atmospheric moisture.

== [[Live -Action TV]] ==

* ''[[Blakes Seven (TV)|BlakesBlake's Seven7]]'' featured some of these for the last season when they started going more overtly [[Cyberpunk]]. Quite how one makes a relatively small handgun fire [[Frickin' Laser Beams]], [[Stun Guns|unspecified less-lethals]], [[Kinetic Weapons Are Just Better|"old-fashioned percussion bullets"]] and [[Informed Ability|a bunch of other stuff they never get around to using]] ''just by swapping magazines'' was glossed over.

* ''[[Level Up (TV series)|Level Up]]'': Wyatt's Blast-A-Ton is gigantic swiss army gun with lots of ammo and many types of ammo.

** And then the ''[[Deathwatch (Tabletop Gamegame)|Deathwatch]]'' go one better, bringing bolts that disrupt the power of psionic entities (like Chaos Sorcerors) and bolts that ''create miniature black holes'' to the table... amongst many others.

** And some of those mislabeled cone shells ''definitely'' wouldn't have a chance of being [[Nuke 'Em|tactical nuclear devices]].

* ''[[Iji (Video Game)|Iji]]'''s personal favorite nanoweapon, a Tasen Gen2 Preloader, can form everything from a simple shotgun to a spray fire energy weapon to a giant laser to a repulsor to a [[Nuke 'Em|nuke]]. Perhaps noteworthy in that the player must [[Hollywood Hacking|trick]] the Swiss Army Gun into being able to utilize many of the more unusual configurations.

* The Morph Gun in the second ''[[Jak and Daxter]]'' game starts out as a shotgun, but gets mods that not only increase its normal stats, but also turn it into a single-shot rifle, a machinegun, and a BFG. The third game adds a [[Reflecting Laser]], a Ground-wave generator, a [[Lightning Gun]], an Anti-Gravity generator, a Grenade Launcher, a Drone Launcher, a Homing Needle Gun, and a Pocket Nuke.

* The canceled ''[[Command and& Conquer|Tiberium]]'' FPS would have included a transforming weapon as part of its basic design. Wielded solely by the player, the "GD-10" served as a basic assault rifle, grenade launcher, missile launcher, and ''personal ion cannon''.

* The obscure Accolade game ''[[Redline Gang(1999 Warfarevideo 2066game)]]'' features such a weapon wielded by the protagonist. Besides the standard assault rifle mode, it can also become a [[Chainsaw Good|buzzsaw]] (with optional nitro upgrade that makes you fly around for a limited time), a rocket launcher, an EMP device (handy for those vehicles!), a shotgun, a grenade launcher, an alien goo shooter, a sniper rifle, and a [[Hit Scan]] type plasma beam weapon.

* [[Jazz Jackrabbit (Video Game)|Jazz Jackrabbit]]'s long blue gun, the LFG-2000 Blaster, is designed to be compatible with most types of ammunition, conventional or otherwise. This includes plasma rounds, rubber bullets, freezing rounds, small homing missiles, large exploding rockets, flamethrower fuel, pepper spray, electric charges, even standard TNT.

* ''[[Hard Reset]]'' has not one but ''two'' [[Swiss Army Gun|Swiss Army Guns]]. One of them acts as a [[More Dakka|chaingun]]/[[Gatling Good|gatling]] [[Jack of All Stats|assault rifle]], a [[Short -Range Shotgun]], a [[Grenade Launcher]], a [[Stuff Blowing Up|rocket/missile launcher]] and a minelayer. The other shoots bolts of energy, [[Lightning Gun|a stream of energy]], [[Buffy -Speak|zappy electrical field grenade things]], a high-power pinpoint-accurate sniper mode with shots that penetrate walls, and explosive [[Energy Ball|energy bolts]] that 'phase' through cover to find your target. Oh, and each mode has a [[Secondary Fire]] too.

* In ''[[Star Wars: The Old Republic]]'' the Republic Trooper class (no matter the Advanced Class choice) has this as a weapon. It can fire regular shots, an "explosive round", fire mortars, lay down a close AOE Ion Pulse, and can [[Healing Shiv|heal teammates]].

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