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He strolls into danger at a leisurely pace... and strapped to his back are enough weapons to make the U.S. military jealous. He doesn't even seem to have some [[Bag of Holding|magical satchel that he can just dump his weapons into for storage.]] [[Reality Ensues|Surely the weight must be doing a number on his back, right?]]
But no worries. The character is bona-fide [[Badass]], [[Improbable Use of a Weapon|so they manage to pull it off]]. [[One-Man Army|They]] ''[[One-Man Army|are]]'' [[Vagrant Story|the reinforcements]], and they've taken the necessary precautions for the upcoming fight; hauling as many weapons as they possibly can. You can bet your sorry behind that they're gonna use 'em all too. They are often [[Multi Melee Master
Compare [[More Dakka]], which is most likely the result when the character is packing heat. If so, expect them to be wearing quite a few [[Badass Bandolier
Generally goes hand-in-hand with a [[Wall of Weapons]].
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* [[Older Than You Think|And before that]], ''[[Mobile Suit Gundam Wing]]'s'' '''[[Meaningful Name|Heavyarms]]'''. [http://www.gundamofficial.com/www_ac/gw/mecha/mecha_gundam_heavy.html Its original configuration] and its [[Mid-Season Upgrade]] (the Heavyarms Kai) weren't ''too'' [[Egregious]], with only a [[Gatling Good|gatling gun]]-[[Luckily, My Shield Will Protect Me|shield]] combo on its left arm and [[Knife Nut|an army knife]] [[Blade Below the Shoulder|on its right]] (the rest of the missiles, vulcans, and cannons were stored inside Heavyarms; during Heero's duel with [[The Rival|Zechs]], Trowa also outfitted the left arm with a [[Laser Blade|beam saber]]), ''[[The Movie|Endless Waltz]]'''s redesign gives the Gundam ''[[Dual-Wielding|two]]'' Double Barrel Beam Gatlings and adds several more missile packs on its legs. Couple this with Trowa's acrobatic prowess as a circus performer transferring over to his Gundam and most of Trowa's defeats can be attributed to [[The Plot Demanded This Index|the plot alone]].
** [[Beyond the Impossible|And if you think that's ridiculous]], [[All There in the Manual|a guidebook for the series]] called ''[http://gundam.wikia.com/wiki/New_Mobile_Report_Gundam_Wing_Perfect_Album_Bom-Bom_Comic New Mobile Report Gundam Wing Perfect Album]'' features what-if designs based off of the original five Gundams. [http://gundam.wikia.com/wiki/XXXG-01DB_Gundam_Crazy_Beast Gundam Crazy Beast] (Deathscythe) and [http://gundam.wikia.com/wiki/Gundam_Sky-High_Arms Gundam Sky-High Arms] (Heavyarms) are pretty decked out, but [http://gundam.wikia.com/wiki/Gundam_Super-Armed_Tank Gundam Super-Armed Tank] (another Heavyarms variant) is what happens when you put Heavyarms and [[Mobile Suit Gundam|Guntank]] in a blender and set it to "'''[[There Is No Kill Like Overkill|OVERKILL]]'''".
* To a much smaller extent, ''[[Mobile Suit Gundam 00]]''. When fully equipped, the Exia has two [[BFG
* In ''[[Trigun]]'', Nicholas Wolfwood carries around an arsenal of weapons in [[Creepy Cool Crosses|a giant metal cross]].
** Then there's Meryl Stryfe, who normally walks around with a cape that conceals [[Gatling Good|50 single-shot derringers]].
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== [[Live Action TV]] ==
* A few incarnations of the [http://powerrangers.wikia.com/wiki/Battlizer Battlizer] (a [[Mid-Season Upgrade]] [[Super Mode]] exclusively for the Red Ranger) from ''[[Power Rangers]]'' could qualify.
== [[Tabletop Games]] ==
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* ''[[Warhammer 40000]]'', as if the image for the [[More Dakka]] page wasn't a good [[Memetic Mutation|enuff]] illustration.
* ''[[Mega Man 5]]'' introduces us to [http://megaman.wikia.com/wiki/Napalm_Man Napalm Man], who is essentially a human-sized tank. [http://megaman.wikia.com/wiki/Mars Mars] from ''Mega Man V'' (the [[Game Boy]] ''Rockman World'' series) would appear to be an [[Expy]] of him, albeit not ''quite'' as armed.
** In ''[[Mega Man X Command Mission]]'', X's [[Super Mode|Ultimate]] [[Infinity+1 Sword|Armor]] is--''[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yGO10ER9Nws by far]''
* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=grBA4clVjDw The intro] for ''Neo [[Contra]]'' showed one of the protagonists putting bullets into ammo clips, then panning out to reveal he is surrounded by stacks of ''hundreds'' of clips.
* Jason in ''Rise of the Argonauts''. Even the [http://img217.imageshack.us/img217/233/argonautsw.jpg box art] makes no effort to hide that he carts around a sword, spear, mace, and shield ''everywhere''.
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* Geralt of ''[[The Witcher]]'' has no less than ''five'' weapon slots. One for a steel sword (used on mundane creatures), one for a silver sword (used on supernatural creatures), one for a torch, axe, or mace, one for a dagger and smaller hand axes, and one for bombs. Only one weapon for each slot may be carried at a time, and all of them are stowed visibly somewhere on Geralt's body.
** In the sequel, he just uses a steel sword, silver sword, throwing daggers and bombs however.
* [[Robot Girl|KOS-MOS]] of ''[[Xenosaga]]'' half-subverts this trope. Aside from her ability to [[Shapeshifter Weapon|transmute her arms into various weapons]], she can utilize the [[Teleporters and Transporters|U.M.N. Transportation Gate]] to summon [[BFG
* In the first ''[[Mass Effect]]'', every member of your party would carry a handgun, a shotgun, an assault-rifle and a sniper-rifle on them at all times (regardless of whether they had the actual talents for them). They're all "collapsible", but they still wind up with their backs utterly covered in guns. In [[Mass Effect 2|the sequel]], this has been dialed down
** In one of the conversations before the Eden Prime mission, Shepard can describe Nihlus as "carrying enough weapons to kill an entire squad". [[Hypocritical Humor|He doesn't have more guns than Shepard]], but he doesn't have ''fewer'', either.
* Parodied in the opening of ''[[Total Overdose]]''. Ram sorts through weapons in the back of a truck, then kicks in the gates of a mobster's compound with ''every one of them'' bundled in his arms, and dynamite clenched in his teeth.
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