History Main / TrenchCoatWarfare

* Ever wondered why the trenchcoat is called a ''trench''coat? Because they were first produced for British officers in WorldWarOne. These greatcoats were, in fact, tailored exactly for this trope's sake (other than keeping the wearer warm and dry in the trenches). You could stuff the pockets and fit the belt with hand grenades, maps and casings, ammo cartridges, swords, walking sticks, and much more. Plus, the coat made it easier to shoulder rifles and similar things.

* In the [[{{TheAuthority}} Jenny Sparks: Secret History of the Authority]] miniseries, Midnighter opens his coat to reveal nearly a dozen [[ImprovisedWeapon sharp objects]]. When he joined the Authority, he upgraded to a [[HyperspaceArsenal tesseract coat]] that holds any number of weapons imaginable and weighs close to 70 kilograms.

* And in another case, one character accuses Riff of bad intentions towards another character by asking if he had A weapon beneath his trench coat. Kiki the ferret jumps out from the coat replying that it wasn't just one gun, it was an arsenal.

* ''TheBoondockSaints'' features Il Duce, who reveals six pistols under his coat just before the firefight with the title characters.

* ''{{Machete}}'' carries a ludicrous number of knives in his trenchcoat.

* The Merchant's introduction in ''ResidentEvil4'' - he can carry as much stuff within his coat as he can sell to Leon, and it shows.

Compare with HyperspaceArsenal and CoatFullOfContraband. Often overlaps with ThrowAwayGuns. Will likely precede an OhCrap moment.

* Pierrot Le Fou from ''CowboyBebop''.

* In one episode of ''{{Anime/Pokemon}}'', a doctor opens his lab coat to reveal an arsenal of scalpels, syringes, and other instruments of medical pain as he tells Team Rocket exactly why it would be unwise for them to try to steal the Pokemon that have been temporarily been placed under his care.

* In TheSlayers TRY, Jillas, a comic relief AntiVillain and a parody of TheGunslinger, demonstrates this trope with a cloak.

* The most famous example of this is Neo in the first ''TheMatrix'' movie.

* In a variation: EvilChancellor Magon during the 'Stormbringer' arc of ''SluggyFreelance''. Seeing as it's the middle ages, he doesn't have any guns or trenchcoats - he does, however, have several daggers lining the inside of his cloak. All the easier to to indulge in his ChronicBackstabbingDisorder. (Though he prefers the term 'Morally Challenged'.)

Compare with HyperspaceArsenal, YouWannaBuyAWatch. Often overlaps with ThrowAwayGuns. Will likely precede an OhCrap moment.

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Compare with HyperspaceArsenal. Often overlaps with ThrowAwayGuns. Will likely precede an OhCrap moment.

* In one episode of ''{{Pokemon}}'', a doctor opens his lab coat to reveal an arsenal of scalpels, syringes, and other instruments of medical pain as he tells Team Rocket exactly why it would be unwise for them to try to steal the Pokemon that have been temporarily been placed under his care.

* Sayaka from ''PuellaMagiMadokaMagica'' does this with her cape to create swords, which she then [[ThrowingYourSwordAlwaysWorks throws]]. Mami does this with her MagicSkirt [[PantyShot (no, it doesn't look like how you think it goes)]].
* In ''ReadOrDie'', Yomiko Readman's coat is filled with newspapers, magazines, paperbacks, and other forms of reading material. While most of the time this is due to her being an obsessive bibliomaniac, her powers as a PaperMaster allow her to wreak a lot of havoc with all that reading material if she has to.

* In EpicBattleFantasy 3, the Gunslinger enemies and their sword-based variant essentially ARE trench coats with robotic heads. The coats don't open, although just because it'd require an explanation on how hammerspace works - {{BFG}}s or {{BFS}}s still emerge from the coats regularly.

* Variant in the animated show ''COPS''. The villainous Buttons McBoomBoom opens his coat to reveal machine guns hidden ''inside his chest.''

* Variant in ''CastleOfCagliostro'': Lupin, shortly after ripping off the false beard, mustache, and glasses from his disguise as the archbishop, is about to be rushed by the Count. He then dramatically throws open the robe to reveal dozens of lit fireworks, all of which launch and begin going off, causing chaos and confusion. Jigen and Goemon (used to Lupin's talents for causing mayhem) take advantage of it to go on the attack , Jigen opening fire on the Count's assassins with a World War II anti-tank rifle and Goemon cutting their armor open with his super-sharp sword. Zenigata [[StormingTheCastle storms the castle]] with several Interpol troopers and they get into a fight with the royal guard.

* Miki Sayaka from ''PuellaMagiMadokaMagica'' does this to create swords, which she then [[ThrowingYourSwordAlwaysWorks throws]]. [[spoiler:Her [[MentorOccupationalHazard dead]] mentor]] does this with her MagicSkirt [[PantyShot (no, it doesn't look like how you think it goes)]].

* Miki Sayaka from ''PuellaMagiMadokaMagica'' does this to create swords, which she then [[ThrowingYourSwordAlwaysWorks throws]]. Her [[spoiler:[[MentorOccupationalHazard dead]]]] mentor does this with her MagicSkirt [[PantyShot (no, it doesn't look like how you think it goes)]].

* Miki Sayaka (given name: Sayaka) from ''PuellaMagiMadokaMagica'' does this to create swords, which she then [[ThrowingYourSwordAlwaysWorks throws]]. Her [[spoiler:[[MentorOccupationalHazard dead]]]] mentor does this with MagicSkirt [[PantyShot (no, it doesn't look like how you think it goes)]].

* Variant in ''CastleOfCagliostro'': Lupin, shortly after ripping off the false beard, mustache, and glasses from his disguise as the archbishop, is about to be rushed by the Count. He then dramatically throws open the robe to reveal [[dozens of lit fireworks]], all of which launch and begin going off, causing chaos and confusion. Jigen and Goemon (used to Lupin's talents for causing mayhem) take advantage of it to go on the attack , Jigen opening fire on the Count's assassins with a World War II anti-tank rifle and Goemon cutting their armor open with his super-sharp sword. Zenigata [[StormingTheCastle storms the castle]] with several Interpol troopers and they get into a fight with the royal guard.

* Pierrot Le Fou from ''CowboyBebop''.

* Meryl Strife from ''{{Trigun}}'' did this to an extreme, with dozens of one-shot derringer pistols lining her cloak, which she'd [[ThrowAwayGuns go through quite rapidly in a gunfight]].

* Variant in ''CastleOfCagliostro'': Lupin, shortly after ripping off the false beard, mustache, and glasses from his disguise as the archbishop, is about to be rushed by the Count. He then dramatically throws open the robe to reveal [[dozens of lit fireworks]], all of which launch and begin going off, causing chaos and confusion. Jigen and Goemon (used to Lupin's talents for causing mayhem) take advantage of it to go on the attack , Jigen opening fire on the Count's assassins with a World War II anti-tank rifle and Goemon cutting their armor open with his super-sharp sword. Zenigata [[StormingTheCastle storms the castle]] with several Interpol troopers and they get into a fight with the royal guard.
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