History Main / Boomstick

* ''Series/PowerRangersZeo'' (and the source series, ''Series/ChorikiSentaiOhranger'') had the Gold/King Ranger's Golden Power Staff/King Stick, a battle staff that could draw energy into the sphere atop it, then fire spheres of energy at a target..
* ''Series/PowerRangersLostGalaxy'' (and the source series, ''Series/SeijuuSentaiGingaman'') had the Quasar Launchers, extending cudgels that could compress into bazooka weapons.

** The eldar have fire-pikes, long staffs that shoot superheated... something, but they're crazy effective against tanks because of the heat.

* In ''Film/ArmyOfDarkness'', Ash refers to his gun as a "Boom Stick", which according to this trope's definition, it is not. He is however talking to people from the middle ages, so to them, it would be seen as something magical and possibly... As a boomstick.

* Any staff in the ''{{Heretic}}'' and ''VideoGame/{{Hexen}}'' series of games is a Boom Stick, due to the fact that those games are FPS.

* In ''SaintsRow'' and its sequel, one of the most powerful weapons is the 'Pimp Cane' which is... well, a stick. With a built-in shotgun, which is obscenely powerful, capable of blowing up a car with two blasts or so. At impressive range, even...
* The Guardian class had these in ''TabulaRasa''; it was their class weapon capable of dealing considerable damage in hand to hand combat as well as firing type-specific ranged attacks. Electrical staves fired ball lightning, Incendiary staves fired... well, fireballs, and so on. You get the idea.
* Sort of inverted in ''Civilization IV'': while archers would draw short swords to fight in melee combat, longbowmen just smacked people around with their longbows, staff-style.

* Staves and wands in ''GuildWars'' often have properties that enhance spellcasting, but on their own, they just fire unguided magic projectiles. Like all other weapons in the game, you don't need training to use them, but they're much less effective if you don't have the proper attributes.

* In ''Anime/MagicalGirlLyricalNanoha'' and its [[Anime/MagicalGirlLyricalNanohaAs sequel]] [[Anime/MagicalGirlLyricalNanohaStrikerS series]], Raising Heart and company become increasingly gun-like over time, even getting clips, cartridges, and a trigger in TheMovie.
** As the page image shows, this is actually the standard weapon used by Enforcers. However, few of their weapons ever become as gun-like as [[SpellMyNameWithAnS Raging/Raising]] Heart. Storm Raider, the usual device of the character in the picture, has a combat mode that looks more like a Dragunov SVD than a magic weapon, Teana's Phantom Mirage is either a single or a pair of sci-fi looking pistols and Runessa's Silver Dagger is an actual firearm with an Armed Intelligence mounted on it.

* ''TheBattleForWesnoth'' features Dwarves, who use [[FantasyGunControl thundersticks]]. The sprites show something like flintlock muskets, but the portrait for the Thunderer/Thunderguard has a hand cannon, as described in RealLife below.

** As the page image shows, this is actually the standard weapon used by Enforcers. However, none of their weapons ever become as gun-like as [[SpellMyNameWithAnS Raging/Raising]] Heart.

* ''Series/PowerRangersLostGalaxy'' (and the source series, ''Series/SeijuSentaiGingaman'') had the Quasar Launchers, extending cudgels that could compress into bazooka weapons.

** In Ultra-tech stun wands are available as a police weapon.

* ''Series/Earth2'''s native aliens, Terrians, wield special staffs that allow them to channel lightning-like energy bursts or magnify sunlight into a powerful light source.

The Boom Stick is the high-tech (or magical) variant of the Simple Staff. This is a gun shaped like a staff, that fires projectiles (or more often, energy blasts). If of the magical variety, it could also be a "focus" for the user's magic power, making it easier to fire magic bolts, though the user is still perfectly capable of using just his hands. Often the idea is that they give a certain regal flair to their users, and is handy to use in melee if needed. Of course, such weapons would be unwieldy and hard to aim. What differentiates the Boom Stick from the MagicWand is that the Boom Stick is not necessarily magical in nature, and even if it is, it has little other use in performing magic than for shooting people. If it is capable of regular spells that instead is a MagicStaff.

* TruthInTelevision, the ancestor of the modern gun was the hand cannon (or hand gonne) which was basically a tiny cannon affixed to the end of a staff. It usually featured a hook that you could use to hook onto whatever you were hiding behind; a necessity, thanks to the recoil.

* Elie, from ''RaveMaster'' uses a weapon like this. When handed a staff she starts using it as if it's one of these too.

* ''VideoGame/{{Bloodborne}}'' has the [[MorphingWeapom Rifle Spear]], a ''literal'' [[ShotgunsAreJustBetter Boom]] [[BladeOnAStick Stick]].

* ''VideoGame/{{Bloodborne}}'' has the [[MorphWeapom Rifle Spear]], a ''literal'' [[ShotgunsAreJustBetter Boom]] [[BladeOnAStick Stick]].

* ''VideoGame/{{Bloodborne}}'' has the [[ShotgunsAreJustBetter Rifle Spear]], a ''literal'' Boom Stick.

* In the ''DarknessSeries'', the FantasyCounterpartAppliance of guns is the 'stick', a sort of mass-produced magic wand or wizard's staff used by infantry that fires energy blasts (but they can be attenuated by heavy rain).

* ''VideoGame/Bloodborne'' has the [[ShotgunsAreJustBetter Rifle Spear]], a ''literal'' Boom Stick.

* ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyIX'': The [[http://oyster.ignimgs.com/wordpress/write.ign.com/74314/2012/01/TigerRacket.png Racket-type weapons]], for [[WhiteMage Dagger and Eiko]], which allow them to (literally) fling a ball of energy at the enemy. These are quite useful, as they allow the normally weak mage-characters to deal somewhat decent amounts of damage (due to these weapons drawing on their ''Magic'' stat, rather than their Strength stat).

* One of the [[SwissArmyWeapon many]] functions of Krystal's staff in VideoGame/StarFoxAdventures, though considering you can't move while using it you get the feeling Fox would have preferred his blaster.

* Boomsticks appear in ''[[MagiNation Magi-Nation]]'', as seen [[http://bluefurok.com/NDimages/cald_boomstick.jpg here]].

* The Red Suited {{Mook}}s of ''KimPossible'' carry similar energy crackling staffs on occasion, both serve more as intimidation that any functional purpose.

* In the episode of ''SamuraiJack'' "Jack and the Spartans," the Spartans carry what appear to be ordinary spears... which actually carry rocket propelled grenades in the tip.

* ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyIX'': The [[http://oyster.ignimgs.com/wordpress/write.ign.com/74314/2012/01/TigerRacket.png Racket-type weapons]], for [[WhiteMage Dagger and Eiko]], which allow them to (literally) fling a ball of energy at the enemy. These are quite useful, as they allow the normally weak mage-characters to deal somewhat decent amounts of damage (due to these weapons drawing on their ''Magic'' stat, rather than their Strength stat).