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*** Gundam Heavyarms Custom from the OVA ''[[Anime/MobileSuitGundamWingEndlessWaltz Endless Waltz]]'' carries TWIN dual beam Gatling guns as its primary weapon and FOUR Gatling guns in its chest.[[labelnote:*]][[https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/ew_heavyarms_350_3802.jpg as seen here]][[/labelnote]] This version of Heavyarms lacks any melee weapon unlike its appearance in the TV series.

*** Gundam Heavyarms Custom from the OVA ''[[Anime/MobileSuitGundamWingEndlessWaltz Endless Waltz]]'' carries TWIN dual beam Gatling guns as its primary weapon and FOUR Gatling guns in its chest[[labelnote:*]][[https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/ew_heavyarms_350_3802.jpg as seen here]][[/labelnote]]. This version of Heavyarms lacks any melee weapon unlike its appearance in the TV series.

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*** The Blood Angels get in on the action somewhat with the addition of their chapter-specific Baal Predator, which exchanges the Predator's main gun for a twin-linked [[GatlingGood Assault Cannons]].

*** The Dark Angels specialize in sheer volume of fire. A five-man command squad, accompanied by one of the Chapter's Librarians, can carry the Banner of Devastation, a banner so glorious and zeal-inspiring that it encourages our men to fire their Boltguns (the aforementioned 19mm automatic grenade launchers) twice as fast as anyone else; the Librarian can further allow a specified unit to do so and re-roll misses. Thus, with a ten-man squad next to the Command Squad, that amounts to sixty shots from fifteen men. Given the minimum requirement for an army is two sets of "troops", that would be another ten-man squad, for a total of 100 shots, with likely forty of those re-rolling if missed. Park a Land Raider Crusader next to them and it fires twenty-four shots from its Hurricane Bolters and a further four from the cannon on top.

* And yet the ED-209 absolutely pales compared to the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ckTmbLjc6eI berserk rampage]] of Robocain in ''Film/Robocop2'', in which thousands of rounds are exchanged.

[[caption-width-right:330:''Never'' enuff DAKKA![[note]] '''[[http://lgliang.deviantart.com/art/Dakka-Lad-178511060 EVAR.]]'''[[/note]]]]

** ''WesternAnimation/BeastWars'' has Rhinox and his [[FanNickname Chainguns of Doom]].

** The Tau, look at the other races of the 40k'verse, shake their heads with a sense of disappointment and sadness over their foe's refusal to join them, then begins the shooting phase with at least 8+ marker lights (laser designators, which Imperium of Man have taken to calling Valkyrie's Marks). This simply is the precursor to the oncoming storm that begins with squads firing twin barrel plasma projecting "Pulse Rifles" and Ion based weaponry, before it ramps up with a [[MacrossMissileMassacre enormous barrage of guided missiles]] that would have any Macross fan nodding with approval. It concludes then with Railguns that can punch clean through a Leman Russ tanks, and turns the unfortunate crew inside into [[ChunkySalsaRule unrecognizable pink paste]].

* ''TabletopGame/{{Warhammer}}'': While the fantasy setting never quite reaches the level of its offspring IN SPACE, the Empire and Dwarf armies feature "Helblaster Volley Guns" and "Organ Guns" respectively, medieval gatling guns apparently inspired by some of da Vinci's sketches capable of decimating the most heavily armoured units. The Skaven, however, skip straight to an all but modern version, referred to as the [[{{Pun}} Ratling Gun]]. It has an unfortunate habit of blowing up, however. When most armies' artillery misfires, a bad roll will result in loss of the artillery piece and its crew. When Skaven artillery misfires, it tends to result in the loss of the gun, it's crew, and everything in a fifty meter radius.

* This trope is the bread and butter of [[MultiRangedMaster Chris Yukine]] from ''Anime/SenkiZesshouSymphogear''. Her preferred [[MorphWeapon Armed Gear]] configuration is ''Billion Maiden'', a set of {{Gatling|Good}} GunsAkimbo each roughly her size, and [[ThereIsNoKillLikeOverkill it only gets better from there]].

* In ''Film/{{Ultraviolet}}'', the heroine uses extradimensional space/folding technology to almost achieve enuff dakka.

* In ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'' episode "The Cartridge Family" (which generally pokes fun at America's gun culture — ''both'' sides of, no less) we see an NRA meeting where Moe explains how "with a few minor adjustments you can turn a regular gun into ''five guns''!". None of them are automatic, though. Moe has his regular shotgun in the centre, with four others around the barrel of said shotgun, held in place by pieces of metal. There are four strings that run from the shotgun's trigger to the four other guns. Moe ''really'' doesn't like people staying in the bar too late.

* Toward the end of season four of ''WesternAnimation/TeenTitans'', the Titans are defending the tower [[spoiler:and Raven]] from a [[spoiler:resurrected Slade and his]] flaming demonic army from hell, and as a finishing blow Cyborg brings out a version of his Sonic Canon that seems to be bigger than he is and proceeds to wipe out the entire army, which the Titans together had been unable to beat until then, in one shot (which also drains all of the electricity from Titans Tower and most of Cyborg's own battery). (Well, he ''almost'' wipes the army out...)

** In another episode, Piper convinces a band of scavengers to help her, and they do so by building a new ship out of whatever they can find — the end result is a couple of engines and mostly weapons bolted together.

* In all versions of ''Franchise/GhostInTheShell'', Section 9 and other gun-using entities frequently use lots of automatic fire. Both the Major and Batou often use submachine guns or assault rifles on full-auto, and the Tachikoma {{Spider Tank}}s are mounted with tri-barreled Gatling guns. Heavy automatic fire is usually needed due to fighting armored or cyborg opponents. All the bullets flying also makes it harder for the faster enemies to avoid being hit.
* In one episode of ''Anime/CodeGeass R2'', Cornelia straps an arsenal of guns onto a hijacked Knightmare Frame to destroy the Siegfried.
* The Millennium Earl in ''Manga/DGrayMan'' will sometimes send hordes of low-level Akuma after the heroes. Since each Akuma is a living ([[TheHeartless sort of]]) machine gun, this naturally results in More Dakka.

* Karen in ''VisualNovel/SoulLink'' loves to use as much as dakka as possible. Near the end, most of the enemies she's fighting having a HealingFactor working in their favor, but enough dakka will finish them off, so she can fare well.
* Although absent from the anime, the ''Manga/{{Trigun}}'' manga features a certain group who are Masters of Dakka. This is demonstrated when their premier fighter Livio the Double Fang is introduced, whose dual Punishers can shoot forwards, backwards, left, and right at the same time. There's so much dakka in the fight between [[spoiler:him and Nicholas]] that you can barely see what's happening.
** To its credit, the anime ''does'' open with that scene of a gang of outlaws shooting (half)a saloon to pieces with nothing but assault rifle fire.
* In ''Manga/YozakuraQuartet'', Kotoha Isone is a girl that can [[GreenLanternRing summon anything by emphasizing the name of the object]]. Being a gun nut with a focus on German UsefulNotes/{{W|orldWarII}}W2 hardware, this leads to her using anything from machine guns to Flak 88 anti-aircraft cannons..

* This is done many times in ''Manga/{{Hellsing}}''. Alucard wields pistols that can apparently fire [[BottomlessMagazines more than their own weight in bullets without reloading.]]
** Taken to the extreme with Seras and her [[Franchise/{{Dune}} Harkonnen II]], a pair of 30mm cannons weighing over 500 kilos each. While they're only semi-automatic weapons and should avert the trope, Seras can pull the trigger fast enough to make the trope apply, something she does to great effect against [[spoiler: a Nazi airship sent to attack Hellsing HQ]].
* "Target" Kevin's ''twelve'' barreled shotgun in ''Manga/GunBlazeWest''. The protagonists later find that he has several more twelve barrelled shotguns and ''dual wields them'' to ''demolish a building''.
* Chao of ''Manga/NegimaMagisterNegiMagi'' uses magic to fire a wall of bullets at her opponent without a gun. Haruna apparently followed this philosophy when designing Sayo's robot body. Then later on, she makes a gatling gun for Sayo.
* ''Anime/{{FLCL}}'' Episode 5 takes this to extreme levels, starting off with a simple duel with toy guns (and one real sniper weapon), then taking it into a duel with actual guns between Haruko and Amarao (backed up by dozens of agents), and culminating in the creation of a HumongousMecha [[spoiler:hand, with a hand on the end of each finger, and a different type of gun in each of these hands]]. Even the episode's Japanese name, Bura-bure (in the English dub, it was called Brittle Bullet) is onomatopoeic of gunfire.
* Cisqua from ''Manga/ElementalGelade'' is armed with tons of artillery, including missile launchers and machine guns, and usually relies on ridiculous rapid-fire to fight.
* Nearly all of the characters in ''Manga/BlackLagoon'' are fans of this trope, but the [[ChurchMilitant Church of Violence]] takes this to a new level.
* Briareos from ''Manga/{{Appleseed}}'' engages a swarm of drones while wielding two large guns in his landmate's hands as well as a third, more conventionally-sized rifle in his own hands. The point of the Hecatonchires chassis is to be able to simultaneously juggle multiple weapon systems engaged with multiple targets at once.
* ''Manga/RurouniKenshin'' uses this when Kanryuu, an illegal arms/drugs dealer decides to bring a machine gun to a swordfight. Kenshin can barely outrun the hail of bullets, but Aoshi gets his kneecaps shot and has to watch his loyal minions make a HeroicSacrifice to buy Kenshin enough time to get his sword back.
* ''[[Anime/SCryed s-CRY-ed]]'' has Hannish Lightning, at least in the manga, whose Alter is a gun. Then lots of guns. Then when he hits top rank, his entire BODY is guns. Attached to guns. Quite possibly firing guns which shoot you as they hurtle towards you. As Asuka Tachibana commented, "I've got the balls, Akira's got the rod, and Hannish ain't shooting blanks!"
* One episode of ''Manga/CityHunter'' has Kaori causing destruction and mayhem in a storage complex over an orphanage. With [[SmallGirlBigGun Big Guns]], Grenades, and Rocket Launchers. Never mind that [[ATeamFiring she missed all the bad guys]].
* Hoshimura Makina in ''Manga/CorpsePrincess'' totes around a brace of MAC-11/9mm machine pistols.
* Arnage of Huckebein from ''Manga/MagicalRecordLyricalNanohaForce''. In the first battle we see her in, she was targeted by approximately [[BeamSpam twenty five million energy bullets]]. She responded by activating her Divider, which comprised of [[GatlingGood a pair of gatling guns strapped together]] and a multiple rocket launcher. She then proceeded to [[ShootTheBullet counter the entire]] BeamSpam barrage with a combination of this and MacrossMissileMassacre.
** Reinforce did this earlier ''Anime/MagicalGirlLyricalNanohaAs'' when she [[UpToEleven upgraded]] Fate's Photon Lancer to Photon Lancer ''Genocide Shift''.
* The "multiple-fire rifle" from ''Manga/LoneWolfAndCub'' definitely counts. Since the setting is in the Edo period, the other gunsmiths aren't able to make more than matchlock rifles with [[BlingBlingBang excessive decoration]], one character pushes gun technology by making a man-portable volley gun. It's a BFG with several barrels that fire at once, creating a shotgun-like spread weapon. The main character makes use of the gun several times, each time to devastating effect.

* Aureolus Izzard from ''LightNovel/ACertainMagicalIndex'' uses his RealityWarper powers to make his gun turn into dozens of gun barrels and unleashes BulletHell on Touma.
* The ''Anime/BlackRockShooter'' winter 2011-2012 anime is an excuse to show off how much dakka a girl can pack.
* ''Manga/FullMetalAlchemist'': This is Basque Grand, the Ironblood Alchemist's entire schtick--he summons an arsenal of primitive cannons, flying chains, and other weapons, and blasts away until the target is no longer moving.
* ''Anime/PuellaMagiMadokaMagica'':
** Homura Akemi fights using regular guns. Thanks to her magical powers (namely, a [[spoiler:HyperspaceArsenal hidden in her sleeve]] and [[spoiler:[[TimeStandsStill time]] [[TimeMaster control]]]] to a small extent), she can drown her enemies in bullets, [[MacrossMissileMassacre rockets]] [[ThrowDownTheBomblet or explosives]] in the bat of an eye.
** Mami Tomoe has been shown to achieve overwhelming amounts of bullet curtains while using her magic, which is quite a feat on itself, considering she uses single-shot muskets as her weapon of choice.
** Naturally, when these two fight in ''Anime/PuellaMagiMadokaMagicaTheMovieRebellion'' (while time is stopped, no less), it results in a spectacular display with bullets flying in just about every possible direction resulting in what can best be described as a starburst of dakka. Once time resumes, the destruction caused by bullets alone leaves the area looking like something out of the London blitz.
** Homura's LimitBreak in the game Magia Record is her first firing a few normal bullets, then throwing grenades, stopping time, and then letting them all loose, resulting in much damage.
** In the season finale of the anime adaptation of ''Magia Record'', [[spoiler:Holy Mami summons a massive swarm of hundreds of muskets. The resulting barrage is so massive that it shreds everything in its path and even Yachiyo's StormOfBlades attacks can't keep up]]. Yachiyo and Iroha likely wouldn't have survived if [[spoiler:Sayaka]] hadn't joined the battle.
* ''Manga/BungoStrayDogs'': Chuuya Nakahara uses this trope in a somewhat unusual manner as he doesn't use a gun but does use bullets. He utilizes his GravityMaster powers to rain these hundreds of bullets down on enemies at one point, similarly to the Mami example mentioned above.
* ''Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion'': This is pretty much the first method Tokyo-3 and Shinji use to try and kill an Angel. [[GunsAreWorthless It never works.]] Shinji never learned his lesson as he doesn't even hesitate to try shooting an Angel first. Lampshaded by Ritsuko when Tokyo-3 bombards Ramiel with bullets and [[MacrossMissileMassacre missiles]], commenting on how the authorities won't be happy until every last bullet is used and that it's a waste of the taxpayers' money.

* This trope is the bread and butter of [[MultiRangedMaster Chris Yukine]] from ''Anime/SenkiZesshouSymphogear''. Her preferred [[MorphWeapon Armed Gear]] configuration is ''Billion Maiden'', a set of {{Gatling|Good}} GunsAkimbo each roughly her size, and [[ThereIsNoKillLikeOverkill it only gets better from there]].
* ''Manga/NectarOfDharani'': Gatling guns have just recently been invented, so TheEmpire has chainguns capable of firing forty rounds every ten seconds. Note that in the real world, our best machine guns can fire anywhere from three hundred to a thousand rounds every ten seconds.
* Seen when the hero Death Gatling from ''Webcomic/OnePunchMan'' uses his ultimate attack, Death Shower when fighting Garou (season 2 in the anime).

While ImprobableAimingSkills are all very well and good, sometimes you just need to throw a wall of bullets at the target -- perhaps your foe can DodgeTheBullet, or you're up against a whole army of {{Mooks}} at once. Modern automatic weapons can achieve the rates of fire required for more dakka all by themselves, but using a whole bunch of slower-firing guns works too. More Dakka can even work against targets where conventional attacks are [[FiveRoundsRapid normally ineffective]] -- even if each shot only does ScratchDamage, it will succumb to a DeathOfAThousandCuts eventually. After all, ThereIsNoKillLikeOverkill... or so we are led to believe. Occasionally, the only point of a seemingly overwhelming and gratuitous show of force is to hammer home the point that the MonsterOfTheWeek [[TheWorfBarrage simply cannot be defeated through ordinary means]]. Aim is also a factor: large volumes of fire accomplish surprisingly little in the case of ATeamFiring or if the shooters are graduates of the ImperialStormtrooperMarksmanshipAcademy. And sometimes, the guns in question are [[BFG really, really big.]]

While ImprobableAimingSkills are all very well and good, sometimes you just need to throw a wall of bullets at the target -- perhaps your foe can DodgeTheBullet, or you're up against a whole army of {{Mooks}} at once. Modern automatic weapons can achieve the rates of fire required for more dakka all by themselves, but using a whole bunch of slower-firing guns works too. More Dakka can even work against targets where conventional attacks are [[FiveRoundsRapid normally ineffective]] -- even if each shot only does ScratchDamage, it will succumb to a DeathOfAThousandCuts eventually. After all, ThereIsNoKillLikeOverkill... or so we are led to believe. Occasionally, the only point of a seemingly overwhelming and gratuitous show of force is to hammer home the point that the MonsterOfTheWeek [[TheWorfBarrage simply cannot be defeated through ordinary means]]. Aim is also a factor: large volumes of fire accomplish surprisingly little in the case of ATeamFiring or if the shooters are graduates of the ImperialStormtrooperMarksmanshipAcademy.

* Jago tries this on Lind during the ''Ah! My Goddess'' fic "Ah! Archfall!", using an Iowa Class battleship, which as it turned out was distraction for an orbital strike. All it does is piss her off.

[[TabletopGame/Warhammer40000 AN' DERE AIN'T NO SUCH FING AS ENUFF DAKKA, YA GROT! Enuff'z more than ya got an' less than too much an' there ain't no such fing as too much dakka. Say dere is, and me Squiggoff'z eatin' tonight!]][[labelnote:Translation]]It is widely accepted that the theoretical state of "too much dakka" is physically impossible. This implies that the state of "enough dakka" is equally impossible, as adding any more to "enough" creates "too much". Therefore, there is ''always'' room for More Dakka and to say otherwise [[InsaneTrollLogic is simply offensive to logic]]. [[TemptingFate If you proceed to do so anyway]], I will feed you to my Squiggoth.[[/labelnote]]

And that's ''still'' not enuff dakka.[[labelnote:*]]To have enough dakka would be just below having too much dakka, and you can't have too much dakka, therefore you can't have enough dakka. Because then there would be too much dakka. Except there's no such thing as too much dakka.[[/labelnote]]

While ImprobableAimingSkills are all very well and good, sometimes you just need to throw a wall of bullets at the target -- perhaps your foe can DodgeTheBullet, or you're up against a whole army of {{Mooks}} at once. Modern automatic weapons can achieve the rates of fire required for more dakka all by themselves, but using a whole bunch of slower-firing guns works too. More Dakka can even work against targets where conventional attacks are [[FiveRoundsRapid normally ineffective]] -- even if each shot only does ScratchDamage, it will succumb to a DeathOfAThousandCuts eventually. After all, ThereIsNoKillLikeOverkill... or so we are lead to believe. Occasionally, the only point of a seemingly overwhelming and gratuitous show of force is to hammer home the point that the MonsterOfTheWeek [[TheWorfBarrage simply cannot be defeated through ordinary means]]. Aim is also a factor: large volumes of fire accomplish surprisingly little in the case of ATeamFiring or if the shooters are graduates of the ImperialStormtrooperMarksmanshipAcademy.

GatlingGood is a common way of achieving More Dakka, and you can expect to see [[SpentShellsShower gratuitous camera shots devoted to torrents of shell casings]] produced by the volume of fire. If you're strong enough, you always have an option of [[RemovableTurretGun taking a heavier weapon off its mount]]. On a more restrained scale, TheGunslinger may specialize in squeezing More Dakka out of seemingly ordinary firearms with GunsAkimbo, which can also be downright terrifying.

** During the "Comicbook/WelcomeBackFrank" storyline, Frank stalks an Arizona hitman hired to kill him. He notes the man is a [[TheGunslinger Gunslinger]] who outdrew three out of four state troopers, and dodged the bullet of the fourth. Frank guns him down with a Uzi, noting that dodging a bullet doesn't mean you can dodge ''thirty'' of them.

* ''Film/StarTrek2009'': The ''Enterprise'' has a more dakka than its [[Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries original series]] counterpart, in the form of lots of fast-firing point defense turrets, which complement the [[BeamSpam multiple phaser banks]] and [[MacrossMissileMassacre rapid-firing photon torpedo launchers]] nicely.

* In ''Film/StarTrekIntoDarkness'', Harrison doesn't skimp on bullets when he wants to kill something.