History Main / TheGunSlinger

** If you're a tech/combat class, your main gun is the sniper rifle, letting you pull of some Alan Quatermain Type A shots.

** As far as supporting characters go, Garrus is a mix of Type A and Type D (during his EstablishingCharacterMoment he headshots a hostage-holding thug without harming the hostage, and [[CrowningMomentOfAwesome without looking]]), Legion and Thane are Type A, and most everyone in the second game can pull off some amount of Type B due to submachine guns as the standard weapon.

* A. '''[[ImprobableAimingSkills The Trick Shot]]:''' Can shoot the wings off the back of a fly while hanging upside down and having to ricochet off a wall or two. Will occasionally interact with surroundings using same pistol.
* B. '''[[MoreDakka The Vaporizer]]:''' Who cares if one bullet misses when some of the 2,000 rounds will inevitably hit? And explode? This version relies on {{BFG}}s and [[{{Warhammer 40000}} lots and lots of dakka]].
* C. '''[[GunFu The Woo]]:''' Tends to be an expert with BulletTime and GunFu, with an emphasis on [[{{Handguns}} pistols]], very close combat, and [[SuperSpeed the ability to move faster than a million different pieces of supersonic lead]]. Alternatively, a master of GunKata. The version most likely to use [[GunsAkimbo two guns at once.]]
* D. '''The QuickDraw:''' There's a hole in your head where that thought of squaring up against this guy used to be. And what shots others happen to sneak are ''[[ShootTheBullet intercepted mid-flight]]''.

* Daisuke Jigen from ''Manga/LupinIII'' is an expert shot who uses a custom .357 Magnum revolver to be Type A, C, and D. Because of his strength in an array of guns which include at times rocket launcher and sniper rifle (which he ''shoots from the waist'' in Anime/TheCastleOfCagliostro), he also is Type B.
** Lupin and Zenigata don't fall far behind, often falling under the Type C or D categories (although in the movies it's a running gag for Lupin's gun to get wrecked before he can fire).

* Franchise/{{Batman}} foe Deadshot is a villainous example of Type A.

* Saica Magoichi from ''SengokuBasara'', being basically a WalkingArmoury, can fulfil most of the above roles, but is closest to Type B. She commonly carries around a magnum, a shotgun, a tommy gun and a heat-seeking rocket launcher (detonation charges or air support optional) and uses a combination of them to blow her enemies to bits.

* A villanious example can be found in Hol Horse from ''JojosBizarreAdventure''; a Type A, thanks to the fact that his Stand, the Emperor, is a revolver that lets him control the trajectory of its bullets.
** Another example from the JoJoVerse is [[AffablyEvil Ringo]] [[PunchClockVillain Roadagain,]] a semi-villainous example. He's a very solid type-D. He has some Type A in him, but that's a subtle subversion. He knows the most accurate distance for just about any revolver out there and he never fires one step outside of that range, which is why he never misses.

* ''PiratesOfTheCaribbean'' Jack Sparrow is a type A. [[TheMusketeer Most of the fighting he does is melee,]] but when he takes up a gun it's always to do a single shot which ''needs'' to count. To wit, he fires a gun once per film in each of the first three films [[hottip:*:Shooting Barbossa just as Will breaks the curse in the first, shooting an powder barrel in the second, shooting Davy jones' chest out of his hands in the third]].

* ''{{Robocop}}'', although before his [[WeCanRebuildHim cyborgification]] he was a fairly poor shot who [[GunTwirling twirled his pistol]] to impress his son. Afterwards though, he gained ImprobableAimingSkills and a HandCannon, as well as being ImmuneToBullets. And continued to twirl his pistol.

* ''KamenRider'' has one for each season. Rarely two gunslingers. Usually, the rider has a weapon that can change into a gun.
** [[KamenRiderKuuga Kuuga's Pegasus Form]].
** [[KamenRiderAgito G3]].
** [[KamenRiderRyuki Zolda]]. [[KamenRiderDragonKnight And Western counterpart Torque]].
** [[KamenRiderFaiz Every rider is a gunslinger, their phones can change into a gun. But Delta is the show's Gunslinger]].
** [[KamenRiderBlade Garren]].
** [[KamenRiderHibiki Ibuki]].
** [[KamenRiderKabuto Drake, Kabuto has a gun that can also change into either a kunai or an axe]].
** [[KamenRiderDenO Den-o's Gun Form]].
** [[KamenRiderKiva Kiva's Bassha Form, and to an extent, Ixa]].
** [[KamenRiderDecade Diend. Decade has his Ridebooker.]]
** [[KamenRiderDouble Double's Trigger Form. Also Skull.]]
** [[KamenRiderOOO Birth]].

* The Titular Character in "Film/{{DjangoUnchained}}" qualifies as a D with hints of B during the bounty hunting montage.

** Zoe might be the character known for accuracy, but Jayne seems to be even better at it than she is when he's trying. Most notably, he's the only member of the crew to ever use a sniper rifle: in the first episode, where he shoots the hat off his target, apparently without actually injuring him.
*** Actually, as the man teeters over and never takes part in the ensuing firefight, it's more likely a case of [[PrettyLittleHeadshots Pretty Little Headshots]]

* [[PlayerCharacter Commander Shepard]] of the ''MassEffect'' series falls into '''every''' category if you play as the Soldier Class; [[BulletTime Adrenaline Rush]] allows Shepard to hit nearly any point of an enemies body (Type A), [[MoreDakka The Revenant]] has an insanely large ammo clip and will completely obliterate anything in it's path (Type B), Shepard, as previously stated has Adrenaline Rush which slows down time to a crawl allowing for completely domination in CQC (Type C), which will also allow Shepard to kill enemies before they're even aware of his/her presence.

->''I do not kill with my gun. He who kills with his gun has forgotten the face of his father. I kill with my heart.''

* The ''Iron Kingdoms'' gun mage is a gunslinger with magic; a sorcerer who uses his or her specially made rune-engraved firearm (typically pistol/s, but a few can use rifles) as a focus for spellcasting. They can imbue their bullets with spells, allowing them to pull off all sorts of trick shots and effects. They exist as Cygnaran and Mercenary models in the wargame and as a playable class in the RPG. A signature character gun mage, Allister Caine, is also adept at teleportation magic.

* Kid Twist from ''{{Runaways}}'' is the total epitome of A and D.

* In ''Literature/WarOfTheDreaming'', Pendrake (an expy/homage of TheShadow) is a type A and C.

* This {{trope}} is the claim to fame for {{Pico}} of Website/{{Newgrounds}}.

* Comicbook/{{Batman}} foe Deadshot is a villainous example of Type A.

* Sharon Stone's character Ellen in ''TheQuickAndTheDead''.

* Holly Short and Vinyaya in Literature/ArtemisFowl. The latter requested for elecftric runs during a goblin rebellion despite not having to fight due to her desk job position. But the same desk job position gives her a lot of power. She didn't miss.

* Genjyo Sanzo from ''{{Saiyuki}}'' is definitely A, being able to [[spoiler: shoot a seed implanted next to Gojyo's heart by Chin Yiso without hitting the heart]]. In ''Reload'', he also managed to hit [[spoiler: Ukoku]] with a pistol 3 times the size of his weapon of choice...which he had never fired before, not even once...while suffering from multiple broken bones.

* Rubi, the main character of ''{{Wet}}'' dual-wields all of her guns.