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Simply put, it's a gun that can do a whole bunch of stuff depending on the situation. Like a Swiss Army knife, with just a flip of the wrist it can be a rocket launcher, shotgun, machine gun, grenade launcher, or [[Ninja Pirate Zombie Robot|chainsaw rocket catapult]]. This gun seems to be whatever you need, when you need it, just as long as it's some kind of projectile weapon. Don't even begin to mention the obvious [[Awesome but Impractical|design flaws]], because this weapon is powered by [[Rule of Cool]], with a little bit of [[Hyperspace Arsenal]] thrown in.

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.

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.

== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ==

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== [[Live Action TV]] ==

* ''[[~~Blakes~~ Seven (TV)|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.

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

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** And then the ''[[Deathwatch (Tabletop Game)|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.

* 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]].

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

== [[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.

* ''[[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.

* ''[[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 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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** 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!

* [[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.

* ''[[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]].