Unusual Weapon Mounting: Difference between revisions

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Sometimes simply holding a weapon just isn't cool enough. Some characters just have to have weapons in the most unexpected places, like on their shoulder, on their head, or even ''inside'' a limb. Maybe they just have [[More Dakka|so much dakka]] that they can't fit any more weapons in conventional places. Or maybe they're just weird.

 

 

* Hyakkimaru from ''[[Dororo]]'' has a cannon that fires ''upwards'' out of his lower leg

* Nearly every given [[Gundam]] will have a small pair of vulcan cannons mounted in its head as a backup weapon. At least one from ''[[G Gundam]]'' (the Tequila/Spike Gundam) has about ''ten''.

** Gundam Heavyarms had Gatlings and missile launchers almost everywhere BUT the crotch.

** The Freedom Gundam from ''[[Gundam Seed]]'' has two hip-mounted cannons, and two stored in its ''wings'' (the latter of which are sadly replaced by a [[Chest Blaster]] in its upgrade).

*** Also from [[Gundam Seed]] were the ever-popular Mouth Cannons, which [[Incredibly Lame Pun|spat]] freaking huge particle beams.

** Look. [[Gundam]] and all its incarnations are basically just trying to [[Up to Eleven|one up]] each other and see who can get the [[More Dakka|most Dakka]] on their suits. You have [[Mecha]] with Vulcan's in their feet, Guns for ''fingers,'' or hidden in their palms, often times has some mounted on their wrists or forearm (Including swords/whips/etc), on the chest/collar/abdomen/hip/and yes...'''crotch.''' The back of the mech is literally the catch-all location to put any shiny gadget or huge gun you can think of, wings are especially popular. If that weren't enough, most mechs also carry some more guns/swords concealed inside the giant shield they're carrying (If the shield itself is not a weapon in its own right) ''or inside'' the mech itself! ''Added to that,'' sometimes they even carry [[Attack Drone]](s)

* Albert Heinrich, a.k.a. Cyborg 004 from ''[[Cyborg 009]]''. Amongst the many weapons hidden in his body are missiles he can launch from his knees.

* Ray from ''[[Gun X Sword]]'' has a gun in the heel of his boot. However, he doesn't try to shoot people with it; he fires it by stomping into the ground, which summons his mecha Volcain.

* Tanaka-san from ''[[Mahou Sensei Negima]]'' has a clothes-destroying laser in his mouth. But he's a robot (T-ANK-Alpha3, "Tanaka-san").

* The crotch gun appears in ''[[Super Dimension Fortress Macross]]'': for some unexplained reason, the titular ship fires a spaceship-sized one in the battle against Bodolza.

* The Hannibal military labors from ''[[Patlabor]]'' have a 20mm rotary crotch cannon as their main armament.

 

** [http://img198.imageshack.us/i/772471sc002ebab6super.jpg/ And again!]

** Certainly brings a new meaning to the term "cock-punch".

* [[War Machine (Comic Book)|War Machine]]. [[Capcom vs. Whatever|Here's my Sunday best!]]

 

 

* ''[[Austin Powers]]'' is the orignating example for Machine Gun Jumblies.

** Those kinds of things actually exist. One was made for a Nazi officer's uniform. It was a small caliber affair with only two barrels, one shot each.

** [http://www.neatorama.com/2009/12/08/belt-buckle-gun/ Here it is], came in .22 or .32 and held four rounds.

** The crotch gun also showed up in ''[[Desperado]]'', though it didn't get used.

* ''[[Planet Terror]]'', one of the two movies making up ''[[Grindhouse]]'', has Cherry Darling replacing her right leg with an ''M-16 assault rifle'' after it gets eaten by a zombie. She later replaces that with a ''[[More Dakka|minigun]]''.

* Leonard in ''[[Leonard Part 6]]'' has underarm rockets. These are not the most ridiculous of his weapons.

 

* ''[[The Diamond Age]]'' has skull guns. Guess where they're fired from.

* In Sergey Lukyanenko's ''[[Stars Are Cold Toys]]'' duology, the rat-like Alari have short and weak front appendages. As such, they go into battle with back-mounted guns. Then again, their role in the Conclave is that of space fighters, not ground combatants.

* The [[Super Soldier|Cobra warriors]] in [[Timothy Zahn]]'s ''[[The Cobra Trilogy|Cobra]]'' novels are armed with antipersonnel lasers in their little fingers (which double as arcthrowers and are eventually upgraded to also function as a stun weapon) and also have an anti-armour laser in their leg. It fires ''through the heel''. They have to go through a fair amount of special training to use it effectively.

 

* Of course, some ''[[Power Rangers]]'' and ''[[Super Sentai]]'' mecha have these, most notably the Thunderstorm Megazord from ''[[Power Rangers Ninja Storm]]''.

 

** The Mackie, the very first Battlemech, has a cannon on its ''crotch''

** The Atlas has an Autocanon/20 mounted on the hip, and a 6 shot short range missile launcher mounted on the leg.

** Let's not forget the [[Humongous Mecha|Titans]], bipedal war machines standing between 30 and several hundred feet tall, which tend to put weapons everywhere they can fit. The Ork version, Gargants, do that too, and also put weapons where they ''don't'' fit, like on top of OTHER weapons.

 

 

* ''[[No More Heroes]]''' Destroyman has a crotch-mounted laser, earpiece lasers, and of course, "machine gun jumblies"

* ''[[Bayonetta]]'' has guns in her stiletto heels, and she can mount other weapons there as well.

* ''[[Mechwarrior]] 2'' allowed you to customize and choose where to locate the weapons and equipment for your mech. Although the arms and left/right torso had the most space for this, nothing stopped you from putting guns on your mech's legs, head, or center torso. More canonically, many mechs have shoulder mounts or other unusual configurations.

** Putting guns in the legs was actually recommended, on the grounds of them being more armored and less likely to draw fire from the AI.

** He would've got one too, if he'd survived a little longer.

** The Shifter mod, which aims to generally improve the game, actually has the skull-gun as an upgrade the player can use (though there's no real reason to, [[Awesome but Impractical|seen how ordinary guns are abundant, damage a lot more and don't drain all your energy in four shots]]).

* One type of enemy in ''[[God Hand]]'' is a [[Fat Bastard]] with a cannon on his back who has to prone to fire it.

 

 

* In the ''[[Transformers]]'' franchise, pretty much every single plausible (and a few impractical) location on a Transformer's body has contained a weapon.

* Also, ''[[Megas XLR]]'' has tons of guns ''everywhere'', so there should be at least few in unusual locations.

* The Scotsman in ''[[Samurai Jack]]'' has one leg replaced by a machine gun. He's pretty nifty with it and never loses his balance when shooting.

* As was stated in the theme song, ''[[Secret Squirrel]]'' had a cannon built into his hat.

 

 

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