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* ''[[The Chronicles of Riddick]]: Escape From Butcher Bay'' also does the DNA-gun thing. Enemy guards actually do drop their assault rifles when killed, but the rifle electrocutes you if you try to pick it up. Guards with pistols and shotguns can be freely liberated of their arms once downed, though.
** In ''Assault on Dark Athena'', the rifles are no longer DNA-encoded, which means when you find a merc you can take his weapon no matter what. However, the most commonly encountered enemy, the Ghost Drones, have their rifles surgically attached to their arms. Semi-averted in that you can use their guns while using their body as a meatshield, but this inhibits your ability to move.
* ''[[Warhammer 40000]]'' has several varieties of this.
** ''[[Warhammer 40000]]: Chaos Gate'' does not let you pick up Chaos Weapons on the grounds that ([[All There in the Manual|to quote the manual]]) "No self-respecting Space Marine would deign to touch a weapon used by a minion of Chaos". (In fairness, canon would insist that the weapon would [[Empathic Weapon|turn against]] the righteous bearer or cause him to [[The Corruption|sprout tentacles or something]] anyway. Chaos-tainted artifacts are the ultimate in non-user-safe.)
** Which is odd, because Logan Grimnar, head of the Space <s>Vikings</s> Wolves is explicitly stated to use a Daemonic axe he looted from the corpse of a chaos champion, and mastered using only his willpower. Guess the rules don't apply to Chapter Masters.
*** The Space Wolves may as well have their motto be "Screw The Rules." Logan was looked upon as out of his damn mind even by his fellow Space Wolves when he decided to do it, before they realized "holy shit it WORKED."
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*** And, at least in human case, it would be pointless anyway, as somebody openly using reverse-engineered alien equipment would piss off either Adeptus Mechanicus or Inquisition, or if less lucky both of 'em.
*** As in using it as an [[Improvised Weapon]] and blasting the enemy before dumping it off a bridge or a cliff or some sort of crushing. But salvaging enemy weapons as your own is pretty difficult for a human for any race. Ork weapons are explained above, Eldar weapons are psychically controlled even for something as simple as a Shuriken Catapult, Tyranid and Necron weapons are pretty self explanatory, this is Tau's way of handwaving why stealing their weapons don't work.
** In ''[[Warhammer 40,000 Roleplay]]'' it may be impossible to use things for several reasons - organizational (for the Imperial people, using xenos toys invites suspicion in heresy, or at very least being disliked by Cult Mechanicus), technical (one of weapon upgrades is "loyalty spirit" - electronic lock, which may be based on voice recognition, derm-print, gene-scan or some lost ancient method, and unless you are an intended user, you'll have to bypass or remove such security measures before using equipment in question), anatomical (if it was not designed for human-sized creatures with two hands, can you even hold it right?), to bizarre (Ork-made gadgets and weapons work reasonably well only for Orks). And, of course, [[Demonic Possession]].
* In the ''[[Splinter Cell]]'' series, Sam Fisher, for whatever reason, can't use the guns of fallen enemies. For ammo and weapons, he must find them laying around by themselves. This becomes ridiculous in the Xbox version of ''Double Agent'', where at one point a choice made earlier in the game can net Sam a pistol carried by a guard... but it is impossible to take the pistols from any other guards!
** This was lampshaded at one point in ''Chaos Theory'', where Sam can find an email yelling at a [[Mook]] for ordering the wrong ammunition, that only Sam can use. By extension somewhat [[Justified Trope|justifying]] the trope, given that all the weapons shown are modeled on real weapons, very few of the enemies would carry ammunition for the weapons Sam uses. Also, no one in their right mind would trade a FN F2000 with suppressor and grenade launcher (specially designed for firing less-lethal rounds) for a terrorist's AK-47.
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