History Main / GunKata

'''Long Range:''' As opposed to the much more famous BulletTime dodging popularized by ''Film/TheMatrix'', the first form consists of TheGunslinger dodging bullets by assuming a set of [[AssKickingPose predefined body positions]], which are theoretically supposed to reduce their body area exposed to enemy fire to the smallest amount statistically possible, all while raining lead upon the [[FacelessGoons enemy]] with their GunsAkimbo [[OffhandBackhand without even aiming at them]]. In his next film, ''Film/{{Ultraviolet}}'', Wimmer further expanded the technique by allowing an unarmed ActionGirl to assume such positions among the multiple enemies so that they ''[[DeadlyDodging shoot each other]]'' instead.

* Violet Song jat Shariff in ''Film/{{Ultraviolet}}'' (2006) uses a similar style, though it is never given a name. The movements in this film are more fluid and dance-like than those used in ''Film/{{Equilibrium}}'', which is how Wimmer would have originally preferred.

** ... has another, lesser-known style called "Golden Exhalation Style" which supports both variations of Gun Kata: defenses against incoming fire, and close-quarters combat with firearms. To be a bit annoying, Righteous Devil Style is more of a western shoot-out and duel at high noon style, and while Golden Exhalation Style does facilitate defending with your gun, it also focuses a lot on long range fire and careful aiming. For real Gun Kata, check out the homebrewed [[http://wiki.white-wolf.com/exalted/index.php?title=Hellfire_Ballet_Style Hellfire Ballet Style]].

-->-- '''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O4mS_3hWwtk Vice-Counsel DuPont]]''', ''Film/{{Equilibrium}}''

* In the 2017 Korean film ''Steel Rain'' the short range version happens in the hospital scene, as two intelligence agents try to shoot each other while fighting hand-to-hand.

* ''VideoGame/{{Bayonetta}}'' mixes this with BulletTime but even without it she's still dancing around attacks.

* Ares Firefight in ''TabletopGame/{{Shadowrun}}'' was developped specifically to mimic those types of movies. To quote the book: "In 2068, Ares Macrotechnology unveiled a completely new martial arts form based on the popular image of a gunfighter whirling through a melee with a pistol in each hand, shooting as much as punching and kicking. The product found its market in eager young gunslingers raised on a steady diet of trideo action flicks."

* The ''WebAnimation/DeathBattle'' episode "[[VideoGame/DevilMayCry Dante]] vs. VideoGame/{{Bayonetta}}" has a short sequence of short range gun kata that doesn't really leads anywhere as both combatants are too agile to take any bullets (despite Bayonetta having ''four'' guns), and they have to switch to their mystic powers and swords to really make a difference.

* ''Film/AngelsAndDemons'', of all films, actually had a short, fairly realistic version. About 3/4ths of the way through the film, the assassin ambushes the inspector at close range. The assassin shoves a gun at the inspector's face, and he slaps it away just as it fires. The inspector then tries to shoot the assassin in the face, and the assassin slaps his gun away just as it fires. [[spoiler: Then the assassin pulls a knife and kills the inspector]].
* El Mariachi in ''Film/{{Desperado}}'' seems to demonstrate a sort of primitive form of Gun Kata during the fight scene in the bar. Flamenco dancing with pistols included.

* Some characters in ''Film/GIJoeRetaliation'', including Road Block and Snake Eyes.
* A less flashy version in the sequel to ''{{Film/Taken}}'', where after a MexicanStandoff, TheHero and TheDragon end up intertwining their arms and emptying their guns. They then have an epic hand to hand duel to the death.
* ''Film/CloudAtlas'': Hae-Joo Chang is pretty well trained in this, judging how easily he defeats multiple {{Mooks}}.
* In the 2017 Korean film ''Steel Rain'' the short range version happens in the hospital scene, as two intelligence agents try to shoot each other while fighting hand-to-hand.

* In ''Series/{{Sanctuary}}'' Pilot Episode "Sanctuary for All", the [[BigBad villain from the past]], John Druitt, demonstrates something similar to the second form of Gun Kata in his close-range gun face-off against Ashley, [[BrattyTeenageDaughter daughter]] of Helen Magus ([[spoiler:and his own]]), making her miss all her shots by knocking her aim off with martial arts.

* In ''Series/TheMandalorian'', the bounty hunter droid IG-11 uses a shooting style that is rigid, precise, rapid and deliberate, which can't be said of all droids in the ''Franchise/StarWars'' verse. Stylistically it looks very much like Gun Kata. Even more so than the human variant as IG-11 can rotate its eyes 360 degrees independent of its head, and likewise rotate its head independent of its torso, and its torso independent of its legs... which would be difficult for a human Gun Kata practitioner to pull off.

* ''TabletopGame/HeroSystem'' adds Zen Riflery (aka "Gun Fu" or "Woojutsu") as a fictional martial art in, ''The Ultimate Martial Artist.''

* "Way of the Pistol" from ''TabletopGame/{{GURPS}}'': High Tech not only includes awesome handgun skills but also intimate knowledge of how pistols work, allowing tricks like taking apart the enemy's weapon in the middle of a fight.

* ''TabletopGame/DungeonsTheDragoning'' has several Gun Kata styles, designed for different weapon types and situations. Clay Pigeon is for more showy tricks like BlastingItOutOfTheirHands and knocking people down, Tin Star and Point Blank are more close range and physical, allowing the use of gunplay at close range or when heavily injured, Crisis Zone is the physical incarnation of MoreDakka, Elemental Gearbolt uses [[OlderIsBetter Primitive Weapons]] in place of guns, but eventually has potential to OneHitKill enemies, and Silent Scope is for the ColdSniper types, giving bonuses for taking your time with each shot.

* ''[[http://www.moddb.com/mods/hall-of-mirrors Hall of Mirrors]]'' is an ''Equilibrium'' mod for ''VideoGame/MaxPayne 2'' that introduces the movie's famous Gun Kata into the gameplay, replacing normal Berettas with "Grammaton Sidearms" complete with the impossibly cool muzzle flashes.

* In ''VideoGame/WildArms5'', before the second to final boss fight in the game Dean pulls off this while warming up with the final bad guy. The bad guy uses a "sword" but it still counts.

* ''VideoGame/CityOfHeroes'' players were begging for this for years. Dual Pistols are in the game now, and many of the power's animations resemble Gun Kata. You can also switch between types of ammo strategically, depending on whether you'd rather slow, debuff or heap extra damage on your foes.
* Noel Vermillion from ''VideoGame/BlazBlue'' uses a fighting style that is an homage to ''Equilibrium'', which was stated during the ''[=BlazBlue=] x VideoGame/GuiltyGear'' panel at AX 2009. This is most obvious during her Astral Heat, which goes through the kata seen practiced in the movie, including the finishing pose holding the backs of the guns towards one another.

* In the ''VideoGame/ChampionsOnline'' {{MMORPG}}, numerous Munitions: Pistols attack invoke this. In fact, Lead Tempest and Bullet Ballet's animations are almost taken straight from ''Film/{{Equilibrium}}''.
* In ''VideoGame/SecondLife'', "Gun Kata" is explicitly possible with the [[https://www.xstreetsl.com/modules.php?name=Marketplace&file=item&ItemID=203046 Sin Wicked Cleric]] or [[https://www.xstreetsl.com/modules.php?name=Marketplace&file=item&ItemID=128900 Sinistar]] pistols, based on ''Film/{{Equilibrium}}''.
* In ''VideoGame/{{Gungrave}}'', the main character Beyond The Grave uses the full range of gun-kata from ''Equilibrium'' (and some of ''Film/{{Desperado}}'' thrown in for good measure). Grave will stand in one spot, spinning, jumping and ducking while firing [[GunsAkimbo two]] [[HandCannon 15mm handguns]]. This is called the bullet dance (or Burst Mode), which allows Grave to fire 360 degrees. One odd fact is that the use of the recoil of the guns to spin him from side to side in mid-air. He also uses the weapons in his coffin, a large variety of machine guns, rocket launchers, missile launchers and cannon in a gun kata combination. Also, the pose made in ''Equilibrium'' where one gun is pointed up, the other down to form a cross, is one of the signature pose for the game. In the sequel, one of Grave's final Special Attacks/Demolition Shots is "Executioner's Blood", which is the standard burst but at least [[ThereIsNoKillLikeOverkill five times greater in power]], complete with [[RepeatCut multiple view angles]] and a [[AssKickingPose vanity pause]]. The game also borrows from guns in a coffin, as Grave is technically an undead hero. Unfortunately, the [[Anime/{{Gungrave}} anime adaptation]] removed most of the gun kata, focusing more heavily on Brandon's ''Film/TheGodfather''-esque pre-undead life.
* ''VideoGame/{{DRL}}'' has a trait named Gun Kata. It lets you fire pistols for free after dodging and reloads them when you kill something. Combined with the traits needed to get it (GunsAkimbo and dodging capabilities), Doomguy can end up putting out some serious amounts of lead while dancing around fireballs. The spiritual successor ''VideoGame/JupiterHell'' also has this trait, however there's no reloading after kill component, and you'll automatically fire at 2 enemies while moving. Focus fire on single target with both pistol while moving is only possible at trait level 3.
* ''VideoGame/QuakeIIIArena'' had something akin to a Gun Kata when two players in close combat picked up the railgun. Both would zoom around each other, trying to avoid the other's shots and hit his rival. The railguns had a 5 second cooldown and a near instant kill upon hitting a target, so duels could very easily resemble this trope.

* ''VideoGame/{{Bayonetta}}'' mixes this with BulletTime but even without it she's still dancing around attacks.
* TheGunslinger class in ''VideoGame/RagnarokOnline'' has a rendition of ''Film/{{Equilibrium}}'''s dark room scene as one of the skills for handguns. Among lots of other stuff with other kinds of weapons.
* Learning how to play BulletHell games is almost akin to this art. Since the projectiles are slow enough and typically shoot in a defined pattern, in order to score hits you have to set yourself up not only to manipulate where the enemy shoots and thus, give you a favorable formation of the pattern to dodge, but at the same time you need to be in a position to shoot the enemy back. And in fact, by rote memorization (playing the game a bunch of times), this is really the only way of surviving long enough when a up against thousands of bullets at once.
* Coyote Starrk in the [=PS3=] game ''Bleach: Soul Resurreccion'' uses Gun Kata as his basic attack style.
* The ''VideoGame/StarControl'' series becomes this trope when playing with skilled opponents. The ships in these games can only point in one of 16 evenly-spaced cardinal directions. But if your opponent is sitting out of reach of all of your possible lines of fire, you can't hit him.

* Linkle in ''VideoGame/HyruleWarriors Legends'' uses this with dual [[AutomaticCrossbows crossbows]] as her fighting style, with many stances being extremely reminiscent of the ones seen in ''Film/{{Equilibrium}}''.
* Experienced deathmatch players in fast-paced first-person shooters since ''VideoGame/{{Doom}}'' are known to score kills without even looking by shooting into hiding places favored by novice players. Gun Kata form 1, indeed.
* This is essentially what the indie game ''VideoGame/{{Superhot}}'' revolves around. By standing still in the game, time also stops, allowing the player to judge the trajectory of incoming fire, position themselves accordingly, and fire back without getting shot.
* The Imp in ''[[VideoGame/PlantsVsZombiesGardenWarfare Plants vs. Zombies: Garden Warfare 2]]'' can perform the Impkata, which has him firing while spinning in a circle.
* Yahtzee Croshaw of ''WebAnimation/ZeroPunctuation'' fame created a 2D, top-down shooter/tower-defense game inspired by the idea of gun kata, called ''Hogpocalypse Sow'' as part of his self-imposed "12 games in 12 months" challenge. It involves a man with two differently coloured guns, who has to rapidly rotate his body in order to shoot advancing pigs, colour-coded to only be affected by one of the two specific guns.

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* In ''Anime/{{Madlax}}'' (2004), the titular ActionGirl uses Gun Kata-like technique in the final episode during the ChurchShootout. [[spoiler:Although she not so much ''dodges'' bullets, as is [[ImmuneToBullets unaffected by them]]...]]
** In most of her fights, it's not so much a kata as it is a dance - with the dance steps somehow taking her where the bullets aren't. She does this with ''her eyes closed''.

* Father Tres Iquis' infamous scene in episode 2 ("Witch Hunt") of ''LightNovel/TrinityBlood'' (2005) almost exactly emulates the opening shoot-out in ''Equilibrium''. This comes complete with gun flare lighting and BloodstainedGlassWindows, although it may be [[JustifiedTrope Justified]] in that Father Tres is an android.

* Revy and Mr. Chang's gunplay style in ''Manga/BlackLagoon'' (2006) is very similar to the Gun Kata, although they apparently do aim their guns.
** At least one episode in 2nd Barrage has Revy doing a perfect imitation of a [[Film/{{Equilibrium}} Grammaton Cleric]] while standing in the open surrounded by mooks with guns, down to body, arm and hand movements. Severe Badassery ensued.

* Briareos does this all the time in ''Anime/AppleseedExMachina'' -- a [[TookALevelInBadass vast improvement in coolness]] since the first movie. And for bonus points it was produced by none other than Creator/JohnWoo, making this his first use of Gun Kata.
* In the second season of ''Anime/MobileSuitGundam00'', Lockon uses a technique very similar to Gun Kata for his GunsAkimbo-slinging HumongousMecha. In ''[[Anime/Gundam00AWakeningOfTheTrailblazer A Wakening Of The Trailblazer]]'', he does this in conjunction with dozens of [[AttackDrone Attack Drones]] for all-out [[BeamSpam Beam Spamming]] mayhem. [[JustifiedTrope Justified]] in that the HumongousMecha is not only likely to possess the auto-targeting systems to allow for this, including targeting sensors mounted on the guns themselves, but is also co-piloted by a state-of-the-art A.I. which has been explicitly shown to take partial or total control of the Gundam's systems while the pilot concentrates on one task.
* Mana Tatsumiya of ''Manga/NegimaMagisterNegiMagi'' has been seen using Gun Kata from time to time.
* Spike from ''Anime/CowboyBebop'' uses Gun Kata when fighting [[spoiler:his nemesis Vicious, most evident in the finale where he parries Vicious's sword with his gun.]]
* In the ''Anime/MazinkaiserSKL'' OAV series, the eponymous [[SuperRobotGenre Super Robot]] uses this technique. (Along with a healthy dose of GunFu) It [[ShoutOut even acknowledges it]] by striking a pose directly from ''[[TropeNamer Equilibrium]]'' before absolutely slaughtering Kiba's men. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F7bhhjFASuk Check it out yourself]].
* ''Anime/PantyAndStockingWithGarterbelt'', episode 6 features a brief scene wherein Panty gets into a GunsAkimbo gun kata duel with Scanty, her evil counterpart.
* The Butei in ''LightNovel/AriaTheScarletAmmo'' utilize Gun Kata as a martial art called "Arukata", in which they use the premise that both combatants are wearing bulletproof vests.
* In episode 8 of ''Manga/HeavensLostProperty'', Sugata and Mikako have a gun kata fight with ''cork guns''. They run out of ammo and switch to hand-to-hand combat.
* Zombina from ''Manga/MonsterMusume'' is a student who [[HotBlooded couldn't care less]] about the "avoid getting shot" part, for [[DeadToBeginWith fairly]] [[ImmuneToBullets obvious]] [[RuleOfCool reasons.]]
* While [[MultiRangedMaster Chris Yukine]] from ''Anime/SenkiZesshouSymphogear'' mostly specializes in [[MoreDakka dakka]] and [[MacrossMissileMassacre missiles]], we get to see her doing some {{guns akimbo}} Gun Kata action in the second season, G.
** Hilariously lampshaded in the OVA {{omake}} that takes place between S1 and G, where [[TheMovieBuff Genjuro]] lends her a DVD of Equilibrium, and she immediately gets hyped to learn how use guns in CQC like in the movie.
* Death the Kid from ''Manga/SoulEater'' uses a fictional form of gun kata called the Stance of Sin. Kid carries his pistols with a ReverseGrip (using his pinkies to pull the triggers) and uses the pistols like tonfas to club and shoot simultaneously.
* Machiko Noma from ''Anime/HighSchoolFleet'' pulls this off with a pair of water pistols of all things.
* ''LightNovel/TheAsteriskWar'': Saya Sasamiya combines gunplay with bits of [[FantasticFightingStyle Amagiri Shinmei Style]] martial arts, often using the gun as a defensive melee weapon while it charges up to fire.
* ''Manga/BungoStrayDogs'': [[spoiler: Sakunosuke Oda and André Gide's climatic duel is very much a Gun Kata fight with both combining their [[{{Seers}} precognitive powers]] with gun fighting.]]

* The films of Kurt Wimmer make heavy use of this trope.
** The TropeNamer is the style of gunplay used by the Grammaton Clerics in the movie ''Film/{{Equilibrium}}'' (2002). The style was choreographed by a Karate expert, and you can see the Clerics often adopt very Karate-like stances while practicing or fighting.
** Violet Song jat Shariff in ''Film/{{Ultraviolet}}'' (2006) uses a similar style, though it is never given a name. The movements in this film are more fluid and dance-like than those used in ''Film/{{Equilibrium}}'', which is how Wimmer would have originally preferred.

* ''Film/{{Wanted}}'' has the hero running through a crowd of mooks, emptying guns into them, [[ThrowAwayGuns throwing away the empties]] and picking up new ones from the mooks he's shot, all without breaking stride.

* Zombina from ''Manga/DailyLifeWithMonsterGirl'' is a student who [[HotBlooded couldn't care less]] about the "avoid getting shot" part, for [[DeadToBeginWith fairly]] [[ImmuneToBullets obvious]] [[RuleOfCool reasons.]]

* ''Videogame/{{DRL}}'' has a trait named Gun Kata. It lets you fire pistols for free after dodging and reloads them when you kill something. Combined with the traits needed to get it (GunsAkimbo and dodging capabilities), Doomguy can end up putting out some serious amounts of lead while dancing around fireballs. The spiritual successor ''VideoGame/JupiterHell'' also has this trait, however there's no reloading after kill component, and you'll automatically fire at 2 enemies while moving. Focus fire on single target with both pistol while moving is only possible at trait level 3.

* ''Videogame/{{Bayonetta}}'' mixes this with BulletTime but even without it she's still dancing around attacks.

* Mana Tatsumiya of ''Anime/MahouSenseiNegima'' has been seen using Gun Kata from time to time.

* In ''Series/TheMandalorian'', the bounty hunter droid IG-11 uses a shooting style that is rigid, precise, rapid and deliberate; which can’t be said of all Droids in the Star Wars verse. Stylistically it looks very much like Gun Kata. Even more so than the human variant as IG-11 can rotate its ‘eyes’ 360 degrees independent of its ‘head’ and like wise rotate it’s ‘head’ independent of its ‘torso’ and its ‘torso’ independent of its ‘legs’ ...which would be difficult for a human Gun Kata practitioner to pull off.

* ''[[http://www.moddb.com/mods/hall-of-mirrors Hall of Mirrors]]'' is an ''Equilibrium'' mod for ''VideoGame/MaxPayne2'' that introduces the movie's famous Gun Kata into the gameplay, replacing normal Berettas with "Grammaton Sidearms" complete with the impossibly cool muzzle flashes.
* Lady and Dante in the [[CutscenePowerToTheMax cutscenes]] for ''VideoGame/DevilMayCry3DantesAwakening''. Also, Dante's fighting style "[[TheGunslinger Gunslinger]]" has several moves resembling Gun Kata. A early cutscene in ''VideoGame/DevilMayCry4'' also involves Dante and Nero putting Gun Kata maneuvers through their paces against each other.

* Reiji and Xiaomu, main characters of ''VideoGame/NamcoXCapcom'' have a combo attack called "Juu no Kata" (Which translates to "Gun Kata"). In their second appearance in ''VideoGame/SuperRobotWars OG Saga: VideoGame/EndlessFrontier'' their finishing poses parody ''Equilibrium'' and ''Ultraviolet'' respectively.

* In ''VideoGame/{{Gungrave}}'', the main character Beyond The Grave uses the full range of gun-kata from ''Equilibrium'' (and some of ''Film/{{Desperado}}'' thrown in for good measure). . Grave will stand in one spot, spinning, jumping and ducking while firing [[GunsAkimbo two]] [[HandCannon 15mm handguns]]. This is called the bullet dance (or Burst Mode), which allows Grave to fire 360 degrees. One odd fact is that the use of the recoil of the guns to spin him from side to side in mid-air. He also uses the weapons in his coffin, a large variety of machine guns, rocket launchers, missile launchers and cannon in a gun kata combination. Also, the pose made in ''Equilibrium'' where one gun is pointed up, the other down to form a cross, is one of the signature pose for the game. In the sequel, one of Grave's final Special Attacks/Demolition Shots is "Executioner's Blood", which is the standard burst but at least [[ThereIsNoKillLikeOverkill five times greater in power]], complete with [[RepeatCut multiple view angles]] and a [[AssKickingPose vanity pause]]. The game also borrows from guns in a coffin, as Grave is technically an undead hero. Unfortunately, the [[Anime/{{Gungrave}} anime adaptation]] removed most of the gun kata, focusing on the 'Godfather' plot instead.

* Zombina from ''Manga/DailyLifeWithMonsterGirl'' is a student who could [[HotBlooded care much less]] about the "avoid getting shot" part, for [[DeadToBeginWith fairly]] [[ImmuneToBullets obvious]] [[RuleOfCool reasons.]]

** Hilariously lampshaded in the OVA {{omake}} that takes place between S1 and G, where [[TeamDad Gen]][[TheMovieBuff juro]] lends her a DVD of Equilibrium, and she immediately gets hyped to learn how use guns in CQC like in the movie.

* In The Mandalorian the bounty hunter droid IG-11 uses a shooting style that is rigid, precise, rapid and deliberate; which can’t be said of all Droids in the Star Wars verse. Stylistically it looks very much like Gun Kata. Even more so than the human variant as IG-11 can rotate its ‘eyes’ 360 degrees independent of its ‘head’ and like wise rotate it’s ‘head’ independent of its ‘torso’ and its ‘torso’ independent of its ‘legs’ ...which would be difficult for a human Gun Kata practitioner to pull off.

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'''[[ShortRangeLongRangeWeapon Short Range:]]''' Another form of Gun Kata depicted in ''Equilibrium'', though never explicitly named, involves dueling with a single opponent at a very close range, with both duelists wielding guns and trying to point them at each other and pull the trigger, while constantly knocking off the enemy's aim (since a fired shot cannot be blocked or parried as in unarmed combat or [[SwordFight fencing]], except under [[ParryingBullets exceptional circumstances]]). It is essentially the Wing Chun "Sticky Hands" technique, but with guns. Wimmer's commentary on the DVD notes that this different form is actually [[ThrowItIn the result]] of a recurring problem during filming; they ran out of time and money to do what they originally planned and would not explain the original idea, as he intended to use it in a later movie (it's possible the final fight in ''Ultraviolet'' is the result.) Both forms were reproduced in later works, especially in anime.

->''"The gun katas. Through analysis of thousands of recorded gunfights, the Cleric has determined that the geometric distribution of antagonists in any gun battle is a statistically predictable element. The gun kata treats the gun as a total weapon, each fluid position representing a maximum kill zone, inflicting maximum damage on the maximum number of opponents while keeping the defender clear of the statistically traditional trajectories of return fire. By the rote mastery of this art, your firing efficiency will rise by no less than 120%. The difference of a 63% increase to lethal proficiency makes the master of the gun katas an adversary not to be taken lightly."''

* ''Videogame/DoomTheRoguelike'' has a trait named Gun Kata. It lets you fire pistols for free after dodging and reloads them when you kill something. Combined with the traits needed to get it (GunsAkimbo and dodging capabilities), Doomguy can end up putting out some serious amounts of lead while dancing around fireballs. The spiritual successor ''VideoGame/JupiterHell'' also has this trait, however there's no reloading after kill component, and you'll automatically fire at 2 enemies while moving. Focus fire on single target with both pistol while moving is only possible at trait level 3.

* ''Videogame/DoomTheRoguelike'' has a trait named Gun Kata. It lets you fire pistols for free after dodging and reloads them when you kill something. Combined with the traits needed to get it (GunsAkimbo and dodging capabilities), Doomguy can end up putting out some serious amounts of lead while dancing around fireballs.

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* Yahtzee Croshaw of ''WebVideo/ZeroPunctuation'' fame created a 2D, top-down shooter/tower-defense game inspired by the idea of gun kata, called ''Hogpocalypse Sow'' as part of his self-imposed "12 games in 12 months" challenge. It involves a man with two differently coloured guns, who has to rapidly rotate his body in order to shoot advancing pigs, colour-coded to only be affected by one of the two specific guns.

* ''TabletopGame/TenraBanshoZERO'' has the Black Wing Gun Style, a gun combat style fokused on going GunsAkimbo, starts of BoringbutPractical with adding 1 to damage and end with players able to parry ranged attacks with there own bullets.

* In TabletopGame/{{Warhammer40000}}, the background material for the [[AmazonBrigade Adepta Sororitas]] Seraphim indicates that they fight with the short ranged version of this trope. Fighting with their [[GunsAkimbo twinned pistols]] as easily as other warriors wield a blade, Seraphim use them to parry their opponents’ weapons before delivering a point-blank shot to a vital region.

* In ''VideoGame/{{Gungrave}}'', the main character Beyond The Grave uses the full range of gun-kata from ''Equilibrium'' (and some of ''Film/{{Desperado}}'' thrown in for good measure). . Grave will stand in one spot, spinning, jumping and ducking while firing [[GunsAkimbo two]] [[HandCannon 15mm handguns]]. This is called the bullet dance (or Burst Mode), which allows Grave to fire 360 degrees. One odd fact is that the use of the recoil of the guns to spin him from side to side in mid-air. He also uses the weapons in his coffin, a large variety of machine guns, rocket launchers, missile launchers and cannon in a gun kata combination. Also, the pose made in ''Equilibrium'' where one gun is pointed up, the other down to form a cross, is one of the signature pose for the game. In the sequel, one of Grave's final Special Attacks/Demolition Shots is "Executioner's Blood", which is the standard burst but at least [[ThereIsNoKillLikeOverkill five times greater in power]], complete with [[RepeatCut multiple view angles]] and a [[AssKickingPose vanity pause]]. The game also borrows from guns in a coffin, as Grave is technically an undead hero. Unfortunately, the animation removed most of the gun kata, focusing on the 'Godfather' plot instead.

* In the ''[[VideoGame/{{Champions}} Champions Online]]'' {{MMORPG}}, numerous Munitions: Pistols attack invoke this. In fact, Lead Tempest and Bullet Ballet's animations are almost taken straight from ''Film/{{Equilibrium}}''.

* The Gunner class in ''VideoGame/PhantasyStarOnline2'' utilizes twin machineguns and incorporates this and BulletTime into some of its attacking animations.

'''[[ShortRangeLongRangeWeapon Short Range:]]''' Another form of Gun Kata depicted in ''Equilibrium'', though never explicitly named, involves dueling with a single opponent at a very close range, with both duelists wielding guns and trying to point them at each other and pull the trigger, while constantly knocking off the enemy's aim (since a fired shot cannot be blocked or parried as in unarmed combat Or [[SwordFight fencing]], except under [[ParryingBullets exceptional circumstances]]). It is essentially the Wing Chun "Sticky Hands" technique, but with guns. Wimmer's commentary on the DVD notes that this different form is actually [[ThrowItIn the result]] of a recurring problem during filming; they ran out of time and money to do what they originally planned and would not explain the original idea, as he intended to use it in a later movie (it's possible the final fight in ''Ultraviolet'' is the result.) Both forms were reproduced in later works, especially in anime.

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