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== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ==
* The Buster Gundam from ''Mobile Suit [[Gundam Seed]]'' is of a particularly interesting note because it features this except with two guns. Individually, both guns have a separate function. The gun on the right is a railgun while the gun on the left is a [[Energy Weapons|beam rifle]]. The two guns can be docked with one another by plugging the barrel of one into the butt end of the other, which will power up the gun in front. The railgun's powered up form is an anti-armor shotgun, while the beam rifle's is a high-energy, long-range beam sniper rifle.
** 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.
* Daisuke's gun from [[Heat Guy J]] may count. The gun itself only has one particularly notable feature, a retractable hook at the bottom of the grip used for close combat. However, it can use a variety of ammo, including standard bullets, {{spoiler|presumably}} a silver bullet, explosive Red Tab bullets and electric Blue Tab bullets that stun those they hit.
* A one-shot character in ''[[Kirby of the Stars]]'' wields a machine gun/sword/flamethrower.
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== [[Fan Fiction]] ==
* In the ''[[Mass Effect]]/[[Command and& Conquer]]'' crossover ''[[Renegade (fanfic)|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.
 
== [[Film]] ==
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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]] ==
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** And then the ''[[Deathwatch (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]].
 
== [[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]]'''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.
* 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 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.
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