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* From TeamFortress2, Heavy's Sasha and Natascha, which are two mini-guns. Though it's averted with his other big guns: the [[TheAmericanCivilWar Brass Beast]], the [[PokerNightAtTheInventory Iron Curtain]], and the [[DamnItFeelsGoodToBeAGangster Tomislav]].

* Arguably, the Heavy's Sasha and Natascha, two ''mini-guns'', from TeamFortress2. Though it's completely averted with his ''other'' big guns: the [[TheAmericanCivilWar Brass Beast]], the [[PokerNightAtTheInventory Iron Curtain]], and the [[DamnItFeelsGoodToBeAGangster Tomislav]].

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* ''Film/SherlockHolmes: A Game of Shadows:'' When Moriarty's troops can't hit Holmes, Watson, and Sim with their regular guns and mortars, they pull out the absurdly large cannon named Little Hansel.

* ''Film/SherlockHolmes:'' When Moriarty's troops can't hit Holmes, Watson, and Sim with their regular guns and mortars, they pull out the absurdly large cannon named Little Hansel.

* One of the anti-aircraft guns used on US naval ships was a 75 caliber gun nicknamed "The Chicago Piano." Prior to that, "Chicago Piano" was a nickname for the Thomson Submachine gun.

* ''Film/SherlockHolmes:'' When Moriarty's troops can't hit Holmes, Watson, and Sim with their regular guns, they pull out the absurdly large cannon named Little Hansel.

* ''EndersGame'': I give you the Molecular Detachment Device, capable quite literally of destroying whole planets. Also known as the Little Doctor or Doctor Device, for M.D. Device. [[DudeNotFunny It was a joke, apparently]].

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** It actually is [[OlderThanDirt Older Than Gunpowder]]: during the [[TheCrusades siege of Acre]], King Phillip II of France famously nicknamed one of his two trebuchets "Bad Neighbor". (The other one was "[[NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast God's Own Sling]]"; the opposing Muslim army had its counterpart, "Bad Kinsman").

* ''MenInBlack'''s Noisy Cricket, which doesn't look very nasty until it's fired.

** It actually is [[OlderThanDirt Older Than Gunpowder]]: during the [[TheCrusades siege of Acre]], King Phillip II famously nicknamed one of his two trebuchets "Bad Neighbor". (The other one was "[[NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast God's Own Sling]]".)

** YourMileageMayVary. Broken Butterfly sounds like AGoodNameForARockBand or [[KatanasAreJustBetter Japanese Sword]].

** Big Bertha, the famous rail-cannon. Sounds more like an overweight opera-singer (soon to be hilariously dropped on the head of an unfortunate cartoon animal) than a cannon capable of firing shells the size of a Volkswagen Bug. (Okay, maybe that was hyperbole, but still...)
*** .....great, now you made me imagine a large cannon that shoots over weight opera singers at people....

*** [[FreudWasRight And not THAT organ.]]

** Right here. Thank David Attenborough!
** Only the most adorable animal on earth.
*** And then they tend to give them even cuter nicknames. Go to a german Tanker and ask for "Leo" or his "Devine Big-Maschine" (Göttliches Großgerät), he´ll know what you mean. Or the Flakvest, abbreviatevly called SpliSchu (for Splitterschutz, Fragmentprotection), which sounds very cute when pronounced. The Theme of naming combat Vehicles after Animals carried over from the Wehrmacht, or aren´t you familiar with the Tiger, Panther and MAUS?

* ''DevilMayCry 3'''s " Kalina Ann" rocket launcher.

* The American CivilWar brings us Pumpkin-Slingers (rifles with unusually heavy bullets), Donkey-Kickers (rifles that had a ''lot'' of recoil), and wormcastles and tacks (biscuits that are stale to the point of being harder than rocks).
** Nowadays, we call that "[[{{Discworld}} Dwarf Bread]]".
*** Or ''[[LordOfTheRings cram]].''

* ''EndersGame'': I give you the Molecular Disintegrator Device, capable quite literally of destroying whole planets. Also known as the Little Doctor or Doctor Device, for M.D. Device. [[DudeNotFunny It was a joke, apparently]].

** Two huge German Krupp K5 railroad guns which were used to defend against the Allied landing at Anzio, Italy in 1944 were nicknamed by their crews ''Leopold'' and ''Robert'', which are men's names and only slightly cutesy...but the Allied soldiers who were taking fire from the guns called them ''Anzio Express'' and ''Anzio Annie''.
** Subverted with the most (in)famous WorldWarII German tank, the ''Panzerkampfwagon VI'' aka the ''Tiger''.