History Main / PuppetGun

* ''Anime/{{Scryed}}'': One of the villains had an Alter in the shape of a huge, floating gun, which he aimed and fired using a more normal-sized HandCannon.

Compare MotionCaptureMecha for a similar phenomenon of guiding a big thing using a miniature, and TargetSpotter for characters who tell distant allies where to aim their attacks. A FlareGun may be used as this.

* In ''Anime/StarshipGirlYamamotoYohko'', the WaveMotionGun mounted on the titular character's space fighter is fired from a virtual light gun game "gun". This is appropriate considering said character is a GamerGirl to the core and initiates her craft's ignition by inserting a 100 Yen coin.

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* To fire the big gun the titular [[Anime/TheGirlWhoLeaptThroughSpace Girl Who Leapt Through Space]] has to aim a smaller gun.
* ''Anime/HeroicAge'': [[spoiler:When using the [[CoolShip Argonaut's]] [[WaveMotionGun ultimate weapon]], in which the ''ship itself'' transforms into an enormous energy cannon, the ship's resident AI turns into a handgun which the captain must use to aim and fire.]]

* ''Manga/NegimaMagisterNegiMagi'''s [[RobotGirl Chachamaru]]'s [[SuperpowerLottery Artifact]] is a cute little Hello-Kitty-looking handheld thingie that designates a target for a gigantic, also cat-themed KillSat.

* In ComicBook/ThePunisher arc "Countdown", rogue SHIELD agent Stone Cold uses one to aim and launch a series of missiles at his target.

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* In ''Film/ClearAndPresentDanger'', commandoes on the ground frame a Colombian drug lord for a terrorist attack by targeting his pickup so the bomb falls into it before exploding. Taken from the book of the same name, where John Clark personally lases the pickup truck.

* The Ion Painter and Target Painter in ''VideoGame/UnrealTournament2004'' act as spotting devices for an orbital satellite and an airborne bombing run, respectively.
** The GameMod ''VideoGame/BallisticWeapons'' handles this in an odd manner with one of its mounted weapons, the J2329 HAMR - one of its SecondaryFire functions sends out a sort of energy-tracer, only visible through the weapon's aiming mode, that matches the ballistics of the main gun to let you aim more accurately without wasting ammo.

* The Satellite Laser from ''VideoGame/ShadowTheHedgehog'' is similar.
* In ''VideoGame/{{Gunbound}}'', the A-Sate shoots small tracer- lasers that mark the spot where its minuature {{Kill Sat}}s are going to fire. Other vehicles can do similar things with lighting and Thor, ''the'' resident {{Kill Sat}}, which all the other vehicles can ocassionally use but only one is specialized in it.
* By the same token, the Harbinger/Supernova designator of ''VideoGame/RatchetDeadlocked''.
* In ''VideoGame/StarCraft'', Ghosts send laser-guided nuclear strikes.
* [[VideoGame/{{ARMA}} Armed Assault II]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SXWb19aLL60 checked its facts first.]]
* While it's not entirely gun-like, ''VideoGame/TeamFortress2'' has the Engineer's Wrangler, an old-school joystick duct-taped to a pistol grip that lets you aim your Sentry at wherever you are looking and fire it manually.

* Euclid's C-Finder in ''VideoGame/FalloutNewVegas'' looks like a [[{{Zeerust}} cartoony ray-gun]], but it's linked to a solar-powered KillSat called [[WaveMotionGun ARCHIMEDES II]]. It's in the possession of a young child when the game starts. Thankfully, ARCHIMEDES II is unpowered by that time, considering the young child thinks Euclid's C-Finder is what it looks like (a toy) and so has pulled the trigger while playing with his friends. The player can also come into possession of it before knowing what it is, and it will [[LethalJokeItem seem entirely useless until the satellite is brought online]].
* ''VideoGame/ResidentEvil5'' gives the player a pointlessly huge laser designator to use against its largest boss. It's about the size of a rocket launcher. Chris then reuses it in ''VideoGame/MarvelVsCapcom3'' as one of his [[LimitBreak Hyper Combos]].
* Combine gunships and Striders in ''VideoGame/HalfLife2'' are decidedly not PointDefenseless and can use their chin-mounted machine gun to shoot down rockets fired directly at them. The solution LaResistance came up with is a laser-guided missile launcher with which they can steer the missile past the target, then turn it to hit from behind or above.
* In ''VideoGame/SaintsRowTheThird'', you eventually obtain a "gun" that paints a laser designator to rain down missiles from the sky. That being said, the "gun" looks more like a modified police speed radar than anything else...
* ''VideoGame/MassEffect3'' features a boss battle where Shepard, on foot, uses a designator to call down the firepower of an entire battle fleet on a Reaper Destroyer.

* The Network Tap from ''James Bond VideoGame/EverythingOrNothing''. In practice, it's more of an EleventhHourSuperpower: Q has to very hurriedly send it into the field (read: Moscow) and you only get to use it in two out of the last four levels.
* A variation without a gun: Goldeneye's EM Hack in ''VideoGame/GoldeneyeRogueAgent'', which turns enemy turrets and other armaments over to your side.
* ''VideoGame/StarsiegeTribes'' and the sequel feature a laser painter that provides mortar and grenade launcher equipped teammates with the direction and elevation for them to fire at a target as well as allowing missile locks even without a thermal signature or line-of-sight.
* Boris in the ''Yuri's Revenge'' expansion for ''VideoGame/CommandAndConquerRedAlert2'' uses a laser designator to call in airstrikes from several fighter-bombers against buildings. It's much slower than the C4 that the Allies' Tanya and Navy [=SEALs=] use, since you have to wait for the bombers to make their run, then leave the area to reload before he can hit the next building. It also means [[CripplingOverspecialization he's stuck plinking away at enemy tanks with his rifle]] and hoping that the difference in experience is big enough that his [[GradualRegeneration natural health regen]] can outpace the damage the tank does to him, unlike Tanya who can also use her C4 on enemy vehicles (his only upshot is that, as a HeroUnit, he shares her immunity to being simply [[CarFu splattered underneath it]]). However, the tradeoff is that he's much more effective on his own against static defenses like pillboxes and Prism Towers, since he can call the strike on the defensive structure - or, more cripplingly, its power supply - from beyond the range of anything in the game short of France's unique Grand Cannon, versus Tanya or [=SEALs=] requiring support from stronger units to go in and take out static defenses for them.
* A few levels of the old ''VideoGame/DeltaForce'' games let you take along a laser designator to call in artillery strikes, most commonly on objectives such as parked helicopters.

* Kira of ''VideoGame/DirtyBomb'' uses her "Orbital Strike" ability to call in a giant laser from a KillSat. She can even move the beam around, as it persists for a few seconds.
-->'''Kira''': Why won't people just see me for who I am, and not for the colossally destructive weapons satellite I control?
* The Air Raider class from the ''VideoGame/EarthDefenseForce'' series can carry a laser designator to guide missiles launched by their allies. In fact, certain weapons carried by the Fencer class can't be fired at all without that guidance, limiting them to multiplayer matches. Certain air strikes have dedicated designators to mark targets for cruise missiles or a KillSat and are even able to redirect them in flight.

* ''Anime/HeroicAge'': [[spoiler: When using the [[CoolShip Argonaut's]] [[WaveMotionGun ultimate weapon]], in which the ''ship itself'' transforms into an enormous energy cannon, the ship's resident AI turns into a handgun which the captain must use to aim and fire.]]

* In ''WesternAnimation/KimPossible'' DeconstructionFic ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/4506768/1/His-Honor-The-Mayor-Drew-Lipsky His honor, the mayor, Drew Lipsky]]'' the premise is that the cartoon is a VeryLooselyBasedOnATrueStory ShowWithinAShow similar to [[WesternAnimation/TheVentureBrothers The Rusty Venture Show]] and some things are different, one difference is that Gemini's prosthetic hand fires homing beacons for missles he has his minions place wherever he goes since he [[SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome couldn't possibly store that many in the prosthetic itself]], this almost leads to a KarmicDeath when he tries to assassinate Drakken at a party when a ContrivedCoincidence leads to Drakken deflecting his tracker back onto him when the missile fires, fortunately for Gemini he uses surface to surface missiles so [[SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome he manages to jump in a swimming pool to save himself while the missiles explode on the surface.]]

* This is how the protagonist offs the final boss in ''VideoGame/Persona5'', using his model pistol to aim and fire his ultimate Persona [[spoiler: Satanael]]'s ''massive'' gun for a BoomHeadshot.

* ''VideoGame/StarsiegeTribes'' and the sequel feature a laser painter that provides mortar equipped teammates with the direction and elevation for them to fire at a target.

*** Kamen Rider Zolda's [[LimitBreak Final Vent]] is a cross between this and BifurcatedWeapon - connecting his rifle to the mecha-like [[ALoadOfBull Magnugiga]]'s back causes its body to unfold into a giant mass of cannons and missile launchers, [[AlphaStrike firing all of them at once]] when the trigger is pulled.

* In ''WesternAnimation/KimPossible'' DeconstructionFic ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/4506768/1/His-Honor-The-Mayor-Drew-Lipsky His honor, the mayor, Drew Lipsky]]'' the premise is that the cartoon is a VeryLooselyBasedOnATrueStory ShowWithinAShow similar to [[WesternAnimation/TheVentureBrothers The Rusty Venture Show]] and some things are different, one difference is that Gemini's prosthetic hand fires homing beacons for missles he has his minions place wherever he goes since he [[RealityEnsues couldn't possibly store that many in the prosthetic itself]], this almost leads to a KarmicDeath when he tries to assassinate Drakken at a party when a ContrivedCoincidence leads to Drakken deflecting his tracker back onto him when the missle fires, fortunately for Gemini he uses surface to surface missles so [[RealityEnsues he manages to jump in a swimming pool to save himself while the missles explode on the surface.]]