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== [[Fan Fiction]] ==
* In the ''[[Mass Effect]]/[[Command and Conquer]]'' crossover ''[[Renegade (
== [[Film]] ==
* Zorg on ''[[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|3]] to [[More Dakka|300]], 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
** And the unmentioned last feature, [[Schmuck Bait|self-destruct]].
* In ''[[Beverly Hills Cop]] III'', Serge's "Survival Boutique" sells [[Trope 2000|the Annihilator 2000]], a combination minigun, microwave oven, rocket launcher, portable TV, flamethrower, beverage cooler...
* [[XXX
== [[Literature]] ==
* Possibly the [[Ur Example]] would be the dial-a-gun or "dallygun" from [[
* The rifle used by CDF troops in [[John Scalzi]]'s ''[[Old Mans 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 ''[[
* Colonel Fedmahn Kassad's FORCE-issue rifle in the ''[[Hyperion Cantos]]'' includes fletchette grenades, laser beams, and several other weapons in one package.
* The "soft weapon" from [[Larry Niven]]'s short story of the same name is a spy weapon from the defunct Slaver Empire. It's a communicator, laser, energy-absorber, ballistic weapon, monosword, and has a total conversion setting. It's also a little ''too'' smart.
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* ''[[Blake's Seven|Blakes Seven]]'' 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.
* ''[[Saturday Night Live]]'' had a fake commercial for a Swiss Army Gun, complete with giant ivory toothpick and corkscrew.
* ''[[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.
== [[Tabletop Games]] ==
* You think the standard [[Space Marine]] in Warhammer40000 is scary with his automatic-explosive-armor-piercing-round firing "Bolter", don't you? Say hello then to the ''Sternguard Veteran'', whose guns can switch between '''multiple''' specialized bolter ammunition types depending on the situation, be they incendiary-fireball-explosive, scalding-gas-explosive, supersonic-velocity, extra-armor-piercing or scariest of all, ''poisonous-acid-filled'' bolts.
** And then the ''[[Deathwatch (
* In ''[[Paranoia]]'', cone rifles and some other guns take multiple types of ammo (armor-piercing, hallucinogenic gas, etc.) with the same size shells, which are [[Sarcasm Mode|never ever mislabeled]].
** And some of those mislabeled cone shells ''definitely'' wouldn't have a chance of being [[Nuke'Em|tactical nuclear devices]].
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== [[Video Games]] ==
* Samus's [[Arm Cannon]] from ''[[Metroid]]'' certainly qualifies. It has been, among other things, a rocket launcher, grappling hook, freeze beam, shotgun laser, heat ray, and a recharge plug. The list just keeps growing with more games.
* ''[[
* 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 SICW in ''[[Classified The Sentinel Crisis]]'' is a transforming machine gun/sniper rifle/shotgun/grenade launcher/gatling gun/rocket launcher. It's supposed to be man-portable, although the person carrying it ''is'' wearing powered armor.
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* The eponymous weapon from the Assault Rifle powerset in ''[[City of Heroes]]'' seems to do everything but dispense mixed drinks.
* ''[[Star Wars]]: [[Republic Commando]]'' cuts down the amount of equipment the characters have to carry by making the primary weapon modular, capable of swapping between automatic, sniper and grenade modes depending on which quick-change barrel assembly is currently attatched.
* The obscure Accolade game ''[[Redline
** Accolade's earlier TPS/FPS ''[[Eradicator]]'' also outfitted all three characters with Swiss Army Guns. In both games, to use the extra gun modes, you just collect the required ammo scattered throughout the levels-no need to collect prerequisite guns first!
* [[
* ''[[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 ''[[Perfect Dark]]'', nearly every weapon in the game has a secondary function, some of which are quite unique. Eg. the Laptop Gun (SMG and automatic sentry), Dragon (assault rifle and proximity mine), K7 Avenger (assault rifle and threat detector), RCP-120 (SMG and cloaking device), etc.
* In [[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]].
* The "Rifle" powerset for blasters in ''[[
== [[Western Animation]] ==
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