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15->''"Give a guy a gun, and he's Franchise/{{Superman}}. Give him two, and he's God!"''
16-->-- '''Superintendent Pang''', ''Film/HardBoiled'', about Tequila Yuen
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21Is one gun just not badass enough? Try two!
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23As far back as the Westerns of the [[TheFifties 1950s]], TheGunslinger has often strapped on two pistols. Double-fisted firing of handguns [[RuleOfCool just looks cool]]. Especially when the shooter hits two different targets with one noisy, confusing volley. [[LeapAndFire Slow-mo leaping]] and dodging with BulletTime effects not required, but helpful. Bonus points if the weapons of choice are fully automatic machine pistols, like Ingram [=SMG=]s or Micro-Uzis, and/or are held GangstaStyle.
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25This trope is a standard feature of TheWestern. Usually the two-gun fighter is just that much better than his opponents, that he can draw two guns in the time it takes them to draw one. In [[TheWildWest The Old West]] and TheCavalierYears, carrying two pistols was a practical result of long reload times. Combing this trope with ThrowAwayGuns meant some people carried several guns strapped to their body to keep up a steady rate of fire.
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27In police oriented shows, [[PoliceProcedural procedurals]] and action media alike, this trope is largely a villain trait. The two-gun fighter is usually a destructive psycho with no regard for collateral damage, particularly [[MoreDakka Two Uzi Guy]]. Police characters and other heroes will usually be contrasted by using proper technique with a single gun, showing their discipline and concern for safety.
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29In stylized action media, especially HeroicBloodshed movies and {{Anime}}, this trope is one of the primary elements of the art of GunFu. The two-gun fighter in these media is often very skilled, has HeroicAmbidexterity, can pick off multiple targets with [[ImprobableAimingSkills pinpoint accuracy]], use his guns as [[PistolWhipping melee weapons]] and maybe do other crazy things one would not normally be able to do with a gun.
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31The style of shooting varies wildly with the user. A guns akimbo shooter might concentrate rapid fire on a single target at a time, simply doubling his output of bullets on the target by using two guns. He might instead track multiple targets at the same time, aiming in different directions or even behind his back. If he has automatic weapons, he may spray both guns wildly to saturate the area with lead. Overlapping with ThrowAwayGuns, the character might simply draw a second weapon with his off-hand when his primary weapon runs out to save time in reloading, the classic "New York Reload."
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33The logical conclusion is to make the wielder MultiArmedAndDangerous.
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35As one might expect, real life attempts at executing this go very differently. While it's absolutely possible (and has been demonstrated) to concentrate your fire on one target with two guns, tracking multiple targets at the same time is nigh impossible. The latter has been tried and tested exhaustively (including by Series/MythBusters), and the consensus is that a human being cannot accurately track and shoot two targets in two different locations at the same time - though that doesn't necessarily dispel the [[RuleofCool Rule of Cool]] factor surrounding this trope. And said character ''might not be'' an ordinary human being.
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37Compare DualWielding, SwordAndGun, and FiringOneHanded. A popular way of achieving MoreDakka. See also GunKata and GunFu. Like other fighting styles with multiple weapons, this may be a manifestation of HeroicAmbidexterity.
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39Not to be confused with the [[Film/GunsAkimbo 2019 film]] of the same name, which prominently {{invoke|dTrope}}s this by bolting a pistol to each of a very unlucky Creator/DanielRadcliffe's hands.
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50* Justified by Briareos Hecatonchires of ''Manga/{{Appleseed}}''. A heavily modified cyborg, Briareos is the only man to date that's proven able to handle his experimental Hecatonchires operating system that controls his cybernetics. Named for the legendary 100 armed giants of Greek myth, a Hecatonchires equipped cyborg could presumably operate an entire aircraft carrier by himself due to the incredibly advanced processing power it allows them. Briareos generally just settles for dual-wielding machine guns, or even quad-wielding when in his Landmate by holding two normal sized guns in his actual arms and two enormous rifles in the Landmate's.
51* Aria H Kanzaki of ''Literature/AriaTheScarletAmmo'''s nickname, Aria the Quadra refers to her preferred weapons are two pistols and two katanas, both dual wielded. [[spoiler:Riko also fights in this style.]]
52* ''Manga/AttackOnTitan'': [[spoiler:The Anti-Human Suppression Squad dual wields pistols instead of swords, since their targets are other soldiers]].
53* [[spoiler:Mey-Rin]] from ''Manga/BlackButler'' first showcased her weapon proficiency and ImprobableAimingSkills in the Book of Circus Arc by dual-wielding bolt-action rifles with relative ease, and then [[DiscardAndDraw picking up another pair in rapid succession.]] [[spoiler:Noa's Ark Circus members Peter and Wendy found out about this the hard way, the latter by way of a BoomHeadshot OneHitKill.]]
54* Kevin [=McDougall=], a member of the Sweeper Alliance in ''Manga/BlackCat'', wields two pistols. Although he looks like the most timid and helpless of the group (especially when he was injured by Shiki), he is actually one of the more dangerous and useful sweepers during the attack on the BigBad's base. Using two guns, he's able to subdue multiple EliteMooks at once. Mind that these Elite "Mooks" are actually very hard to kill, much less subdue.
55* In ''Manga/BlackLagoon'', this is why Revy, the main badass of the series, is known as "Two Hands." She not only wields two pistols at once, she also performs such feats as gunning down groups of enemies 180 degrees apart and reloading one weapon with her teeth while keeping up fire with the other, acrobatic leaps while firing, and more. [[RuleOfCool Somehow, it works.]]
56** The liner notes to one manga volume acknowledge that Rei Hiroe basically went with RuleOfCool.
57** To make this even less realistic, she does this in one scene ''[[RuleOfCool with rifles.]]''
58** Mr. Chang, the head of Roanapur's branch of [[TheTriadsAndTheTongs Sun Yee On]], is even better at akimbo than Revy herself, and it's implied that he's the one who ''taught'' Revy.
59** The other main dual-gunners of the series are the maids of the Lovelace family, Roberta and Fabiola; Roberta by dint of her FARC assassin training and being one of the biggest badasses of the entire series, and Fabiola by dint of having been trained by Roberta herself. Fabiola in particular wields two Techno Arms MAG-7s (essentially oversized shotgun pistols) during her first shootout at the Yellow Flag and uses them and a China Lake launcher to completely annihilate her opposition.
60* In ''Manga/{{Bleach}}'', [[spoiler:Starrk]] wields two guns when he releases his Resurrección. They fire ''ceros''.
61* Jo from ''Anime/BurstAngel'' can dual-wield ''a pair of Desert Eagles'' with pinpoint accuracy. Yes, she's just that badass. [[spoiler:Made easier by being an ArtificialHuman created for combat.]]
62* In ''Manga/CityHunter'', Umibozu can do this with a ''[[MoreDakka M-60 machine gun]] and a bazooka''. {{Justified|Trope}} due him being just that big, and even then [[LetsGetDangerous he only does it when he's going all-out against multiple opponents]].
63* The issues with this get lampshaded in ''Literature/ChromeShelledRegios'' when Sharnid gets a dual pistol version of his sniper rifle and comments that people who use two guns are either "extremely stupid, and just do it to look cool, or extremely skilled". He then claims to be in the former category.
64* The Lancelot from ''Anime/CodeGeass'' was already a master at DualWielding, but when it was upgraded into its Albion form, it started carrying around a rifle in each hand.
65* In ''Manga/CorpsePrincess'', Makina's weapon of choice is a pair of MAC-11 machine pistols.
66* Spike Spiegel of ''Anime/CowboyBebop'' fame occasionally uses two guns akimbo. Appropriately, in a possible subversion of the trope, every time he does this he is unable to kill his opponent fast enough to avoid being shot in return (invariably wounding his left arm and forcing him to continue the fight with just his dominant hand), save for one flashback sequence where we do not even see who he is shooting at.
67* Kurumi in ''Literature/DateALive'' does this with a flintlock pistol and musket. These are part of her time motif (representing the hour and minute hands of a clock, respectively) and can either be fired normally or used to channel her powers.
68* In an extreme example, in ''Anime/DeadLeaves'', Retro (briefly) uses ''three'' guns at once. There's also Triple Six and his two BFG 's.
69* Genkaku from ''Manga/DeadmanWonderland'' does this... with his ''[[ImpossiblyCoolWeapon double gatling-gun electric guitar]]''.
70* Done fairly often in ''Franchise/{{Digimon}}''. Deputymon in ''[[Anime/DigimonAdventure02 02]]'' has this western style, and it gets better in the third movie. Later in ''[[Anime/DigimonTamers Tamers]]'', when we're introduced to Gargomon, he does this with two machine gun hands. Later, Beelzemon pulls this off once in BulletTime.
71* Riza, the resident {{Gunslinger}} of ''Manga/FullmetalAlchemist'' does this on occasion. Havoc too, but he seems to favour the "New York Reload".
72* Motoko Kusanagi in ''Anime/GhostInTheShellStandAloneComplex''. Normally, Motoko uses a single handgun or rifle, supported with both hands. However, in the episode "BARRAGE" in the first season, she utilizes a Seburo M-5 handgun in each hand. These are not quite as impractical to wield as they fire low recoil armor-piercing 5.7mm rounds reinforced by her cyborg body and firing software, but the fact that she was fighting an [[PoweredArmor Armed Suit]] made the attempt almost completely ineffective. After getting her left arm blown off, she single-handedly uses an anti tank rifle to make the pilot inside regret that he ever messed with her.
73* Onizuka does this in ''Manga/GreatTeacherOnizuka''...but with a pair of light-guns while he's playing ''VideoGame/HouseOfTheDead''. He winds up getting a better score than anybody else thanks to this.
74* Used not so exactly in ''Franchise/{{Gundam}}'', where there are any number of [[HumongousMecha Mobile Suits]] mounting multiple ranged weapons - yes, including the "normal" sized ones, not just the even more heavily armed siege types - and that's not to mention bits/funnels/[=DRAGOONs=] capable of moving independent of the host mecha. Probably one of the most iconic examples is the Freedom from ''[[Anime/MobileSuitGundamSeed Gundam SEED]]'' cleaning house with its twin plasma cannons and twin railguns. In certain cases, the difficulty of aiming may be {{Handwave}}d or {{Justified|Trope}} by advanced targeting systems and [[PsychicPowers Newtype]] / [[DesignerBabies Coordinator]] powers.
75** [[Anime/MobileSuitGundamWing The Wing Zero]] can pull this off with its twin buster rifles, which can also combine together to form one massive buster rifle.
76** In ''Endless Waltz'', the Heavyarms pulls it off with [[MoreDakka two sets of twin-linked]] [[GatlingGood gatling guns]].
77** Add also ''Gundam SEED C.E. 73 Stargazer'': Blu Duel and Strike Noir both use a pair of "shorty" beam rifles (in other words, beam pistols). Meanwhile, Buster Verde carry two huge beam rifles that can be combine like Wing Zero's buster rifle mentioned above.
78** ''[[Anime/MobileSuitGundam00 Gundam 00]]'' is fairly fond of this one. Both Gundam Dynames and Cherudim Gundam akimbo a pair of beam pistols. Gundam Arios has two double barreled beam rifles (and a pair of beam gatlings mounted in each arm). Not to be trumped, Gundam Virtue and Gundam Seravee are both capable of using two beam bazookas at once. Gundam Zabanya (which succeed Dynames and Cherudim) can not only akimbo two of its 10 Rifle Bits, but also break them down to Pistol Bits for the same purpose.
79** In ''Anime/GundamBuildFightersTry'', a GM Custom attempts this with two GM Rifles during one of the tournament battles. It gets blasted by a beam rifle and falls over backwards dead.
80** The Gundam Gusion Rebake Full City of ''Anime/MobileSuitGundamIronBloodedOrphans'' takes this to the most extreme seen in the franchise. When two arms with one rifle each isn't enough, why not have ''four'' arms?
81* The main character of ''VideoGame/{{Gungrave}}'', Brandon Heat consistently uses two guns (crossed) once he TookALevelInBadass through training with Bear Walken. Fellow hitman Bunji Kugashira and antagonist Brad Wong do as well (the latter using decorative gold and silver revolvers), and all are insanely good shots. When Brandon is resurrected as the deadman called Beyond the Grave, he still dual-wields a pair of even ''[[HandCannon bigger]]'' handguns, the Cerberus.
82* In the ''Manga/GunsmithCats'' manga Rally Vincent manages to thoroughly debunk this technique (along with GangstaStyle) while moonlighting as a firearms instructor: "It's a throwback to old Westerns." The first multi-shot handguns were fixed-frame revolvers, which could only be loaded one round at a time (many of them didn't even use cased ammo yet, requiring powder and shot to be hand-loaded in each chamber) via a thumb-operated "loading gate", and on top of that, unloading the casings was just as much of a hassle: tip the gun upwards, open the loading gate, then pull on a metal ejector rod beneath the barrel to push out each casing. All optimized for lefties, by the way, because handguns at the time were designed for use by cavalry who would be holding a horse's reins or a saber in their right hand. To keep that hassle off the battlefield, shooters would thus carry multiple guns and load them beforehand, fire six rounds from one, then switch. "They only used them simultaneously [[RealityIsUnrealistic in movies.]]" She then proceeds to compare shot groupings by firing with two guns, then a two-handed grip. The two-handed grip gives her enough accuracy to ''cut a target in half.'' And by changing fifteen-round magazines just before she fires the fifteenth round from the first mag, she's able to fire ''thirty shots in as many seconds!'' Ironically, this actually gets her fired, since the shooting range owner's business model is cheap range time and selling lots and lots of ammo -- teaching them how to shoot accurately means they buy less ammo.
83* Alucard in ''Manga/{{Hellsing}}'' does this with [[HandCannon two humongous pistols, a .454 Casull and a 13mm "Jackal"]]. He can get away with it due having immense strength and reflexes because of his vampiric nature.
84** In another example, Seras Victoria takes this trope up to eleven against Millennium's blimp when it makes its assault on the Hellsing Manor. If ''one'' [[{{BFG}} Harkonnen]] is overkill, what's ''two at the same time''?
85*** The two guns being ''fully-automatic, belt-fed, 30 mm anti-tank cannons''!
86* In ''Manga/{{Kurohime}}'', the {{Sidekick}} Zero uses ''four'' guns, and combines this with improbably fast shooting and ImprobableAimingSkills to shoot the guns out of the hands of whatever {{mooks}} happen to be around.
87* ''Franchise/LyricalNanoha'':
88** Teana Lanster from ''Anime/MagicalGirlLyricalNanohaStrikers'' does this with a pair of pistols [[SwissArmyWeapon that can become]] [[LaserBlade a pair of energy daggers]] for DualWielding. Justified in that she trained herself in ambidextrous shooting from a young age, and her mentor recognized this as her special skill and organized a custom-made dual Device for her.
89** Arnage of the Hückebein family from ''Manga/MagicalRecordLyricalNanohaForce'' uses two {{BFG}}s at once. GatlingGood ''plus'' rocket launchers combined in one weapon which she has twice. Both {{BFG}}s together forming a WaveMotionGun.
90* The eponymous heroine of ''Anime/{{Madlax}}'' does this all the time, wielding a pair of custom SIG P210s into every gunfight. The accuracy issue is irrelevant when you consider that her [[GunKata gun dancing]] style frequently has her [[ImprobableAimingSkills shooting people with her eyes closed while facing in a different direction]].
91* Klaus is portrayed with two guns fairly frequently in the art and omake of ''Manga/MaidenRose'' but always seems to drop back to just one in actual combat.
92* In ''Anime/MazinkaiserSKL'', one of the pilots, who specializes in GunKata, can pull this off with SKL's ranged mode, turning the unit's chestplate into two pistols. Which he uses to tear up the battlefield.
93* ''Manga/NegimaMagisterNegiMagi'':
94** Mana Tatsumiya often dual-wields Desert Eagles when fighting in close range. These may or may not be airsoft replicas, however.
95** Yuuna also dual wields pistols at various points.
96* Subverted when ''Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion'' did it with Giant Robots. Asuka starts off her showdown with the 14th Angel firing one rifle, but with a bunch of weapons stacked behind her (probably a 7 Samurai ShoutOut). As she runs out of ammo, she progresses through (giant) machine-guns akimbo to (multi-shot) bazookas-akimbo. Unfortunately for her, it's SoLastSeason.
97* Kirika does the "New York Reload" (empty one gun, then switch to another) version in ''Anime/{{Noir}}''. Justified, as she's up against an absurd number of mooks and doesn't have time to reload.
98* In a ''Manga/OnePiece'' flashback, Genzo desperately fires two pistols at Arlong in an attempt to save Bellemere's life, but Kuroobi blocks all his shots and slashes him with a sword.
99** Later in the manga (and chronologically since it's not a flashback) Nico uses her Dos-fleur to wield four pistols at once.
100** In [[Anime/OnePieceFilmStrongWorld the 10th film]], during their BigDamnHeroes moment, all the Straw Hats (minus Nami) bring out {{BFG}} and use them against BigBad Shiki's forces. This is the only time we ever see Luffy and Zoro even carry guns. Not to mention how those who hardly fight with weapons, such as Sanji, actually using a weapon.
101* Scanty of ''Anime/PantyAndStockingWithGarterbelt'' wields two revolvers. She's not terribly accurate, but then, neither is Panty when shooting at her. Note that in order to do this, due to the nature of the weapons, she has to wear two pairs of panties at all times.
102* Mami in the third episode of ''Anime/PuellaMagiMadokaMagica'', with an entire arsenal of conjured flintlock rifles, which she wields GunKata style.
103* Xanxus, once a BigBad and now did a HeelFaceTurn in ''Manga/Reborn2004'', implements a double gun wielding fighting still with two special guns that fire large bursts of his Flame of Rage. Oh, yes, he can really kill.
104* ''Literature/RebuildWorld'': {{Deconstructed|Trope}}. Akira has an ImagineSpot about using two assault rifles. Alpha sees this via their {{Telepathy}} and scolds Akira that he'd need the extra strength that PoweredArmor provides as RequiredSecondaryPowers or else this would break his arms. After he gets some, Akira makes this standard, using some combination of assault rifle, anti-tank rifle, GrenadeLauncher, or [[GatlingGood minigun]]. However, at one point, due to a new set of armor Akira bought being down for reprogramming mid-battle, Akira ends up using two rifles without the strength required and it mangles his arms so bad that even his {{Nanomachine|s}} HealingPotion doesn't stop the pain.
105* ''Manga/SoulEater'''s Death the Kid does this, holding both guns upside down and [[GangstaStyle pulling the triggers with his pinkies.]] Kid is so obsessed with [[ObsessivelyOrganized being symmetrical at all times]] that he literally [[JustifiedTrope will not fire]] unless he is wielding both guns. He is psychologically incapable of not using Guns Akimbo.
106* In ''Anime/StrikeWitches'', Gertrude carries two heavy machine guns into battle. Then again, with her magic and Striker Unit, she's strong enough to do it, and her battle tactics seem to revolve around unleashing massive amounts of ammunition at close range to destroy targets.
107* ''Manga/SuccubusAndHitman'': The signature weapons of the titular hitman, gifted to him by the titular succubus.
108* Vash the Stampede in ''Manga/{{Trigun}}'' (A CattlePunk setting), on some very rare occasions, uses two weapons at once.
109** In fact, since his left hand ''is'' a gun, and he carries his favored weapon in his right, he's basically dual wielding at all times, even if he doesn't usually use both at once.
110** And Knives once uses two world-ending [[ArmCannon beam cannons]] at once.
111** In the manga, one we get Wolfwood's best friend/nemesis Livio the Double Fang, who dual-wields paired guns that can shoot forward and backwards simultaneously.
112*** Livio's alter-ego Razlo takes this trope even farther, having a cybernetic arm grafted to his back so that he can triple-wield three massive, six-foot steel cross Punishers.
113*** Wolfwood also gets into this at least once with the pistols hidden inside his own Punisher.
114* Tres Iqus from ''Literature/TrinityBlood'' uses two guns at the same time in a style reminiscent of GunKata. Said guns are {{Hand Cannon}}s and he's extremely good at using them (given that he's an android, this probably qualifies as a JustifiedTrope).
115* In ''Manga/WorldTrigger'' [[FriendlySniper Satori Ken]], the Arashiyama-team's sniper, prefers using two {{Sniper Rifle}}s simultaneously.
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119* OlderThanRadio: One youth in Eugène Delacroix's famous 1830 {{painting|s}} ''Art/LibertyLeadingThePeople'' is dual-wielding pistols.
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123* In ''Animation/PleasantGoatAndBigBigWolf: Joys of Seasons'' episode 24, when Sparky initially appears to demonstrate his skills with paintball guns, he wields two paintball guns and shoots with both of them at the same time.
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127* ''TabletopGame/DeadlandsDoomtown'': "Gordo" Andrade, and later an action card to let any dude pull it off.
128-->'''Gordo:''' Two hands, two guns. It is as God intended it, no?
129* ''TabletopGame/YuGiOh'': The Japanese art for Don Zaloog shows him with a pair of pistols. [[ScrewedByTheNetwork For censorship reasons]], these [[DualWielding were changed to a pair of knives]], but his fingers are still in trigger positions. And he's still wearing a pair of bandoliers full of bullets...
130** Interestingly, when he appeared on ''Anime/YuGiOhGX'', the guns were restored. Even in the dub.
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134* [[ComicBook/{{Venom}} Agent Venom]] switches back and forth between this trope and the proper way to use a gun.
135* ''ComicBook/TheAvengers'': Kang the Conqueror uses a dual minigun that's light enough to fire with one hand, preventing the need to dual wield, but he sometimes holds an additional gun in his offhand, because he can.
136* Hush, a Franchise/{{Batman}} villain, uses two handguns. It's his style.
137** ComicBook/TwoFace, in keeping with his obsession with duality, is also known to use two guns, [[VideoGame/BatmanArkhamCity bitch]].
138** Post-resurrection Jason Todd frequently does this.
139** Black Mask use double handguns as his signature weapon.
140* The ''[[BatFamilyCrossover Battle for the Cowl]]'' event has multiple people dressed up and claiming to be Batman. Jason Todd's "hat" is being the Batman who dual wields guns.
141* In ''ComicBook/CombatKellyAndHisDeadlyDozen'', PsychoPartyMember 'Ace' Hamilton would sometimes charge into combat wielding a submachine gun in each hand.
142* ComicBook/{{Deadpool}} is frequently depicted [[http://www.mcnabbstudios.com/whats_new/topps_cards/deadpool_final.jpg using two guns]]. Of course, he also uses two katanas, two sais...I think maybe he really, really likes twos. Then again, he can also kill you with his bare hands. But how many hands does he have? TWO!
143* ComicBook/{{Deadshot}}, a member of the ComicBook/SecretSix and the Comicbook/SuicideSquad, fights using dual wrist-mounted machine guns.
144* ComicBook/TheFalcon wields a pair of firearms in the ComicBook/UltimateMarvel universe. A bit of [[{{Lampshaded}} Lampshading]] goes on when he fails to hit [[Comicbook/SilverSurfer one of]] ComicBook/{{Galactus}}' heralds, and Misty Knight points out how difficult it is to aim while firing two guns.
145* A frequent tactic of ''ComicBook/JonahHex''.
146* ''ComicBook/KidColt2009'': At the very start of the series, one of the men ambushing Colt during breakfast charges into the saloon with a pistol in each hand. He's almost immediately shot dead, and nobody else tries this approach during the series.
147* ''ComicBook/TheMarquis'', aka Vol de Gaulle, in Guy Davis' comic uses two [[ImpossiblyCoolWeapon gattling gun-like Baroque-carved pistols]] to fight the "Devils" that may-or-may-not be plaguing the city, which he uses either akimbo or [[SwordAndGun in combination with his sword.]]
148* Casanova, Zephyr Quinn and BigBad Newman Xeno all do this in ''[[ComicBook/{{Casanova}} Matt Fraction's Casanova]]''.
149* ''Comicbook/TheMightyThor'': When Skurge the Executioner made his LastStand at Gjallerbru against the army of the dead, he wielded two M-16 assault rifles.
150* The Saint of Killers from ''ComicBook/{{Preacher}}'' almost always used two Walker Colts together. After the job of TheGrimReaper was passed down to him, his new guns were forged from the old Angel of Death's sword, making them perfectly accurate.
151** And perfectly deadly - they could kill anyone, even entities who were technically immortal. If someone was already technically dead, they could survive, but it still hurt like a son of a bitch.
152*** Garth Ennis has been quoted as saying it was a mistake to have the Saint shoot Cassidy early in the series; it was before he'd figured out what he was writing and there's really nothing and no one that can survive. It's not like those guys he kills later can be defined as biological lifeforms, and honestly, how would you explain that his guns can kill ''you-know-who'' but not a little undead vampire?
153* Comicbook/ThePunisher uses this trope frequently, as far as back in the cover of the first issue of [[Comicbook/ThePunisherCircleOfBlood his first series]].
154* In ''ComicBook/RedRobin'' Pru, a member of the League of Assassins who eventually deflects and joins Tim's information network, always enters fights with a blazing gun in each hand. She is incredibly accurate while doing so as well.
155* Makita, a character from ''ComicBook/TheRedStar'', occasionally dual-wields pistols.
156* ''ComicBook/{{Robin|1993}}'': Jaeger is almost always seen with a handgun in each hand while he's "[[HuntingTheMostDangerousGame hunting]]", to make his kills more cinematic than sniping his prey from afar.
157* ''ComicBook/ScudTheDisposableAssassin'' came factory-equipped with a pair of full-auto machine pistols, and knew how to use them right.
158** In one issue, Scud wields ''four guns at once''. (Two in each hand, with his trigger fingers going through both guards.)
159* Dwight from the ''ComicBook/SinCity'' story ''The Big Fat Kill'' wields two .45s, as does Hartigan at one point in ''That Yellow Bastard'' (both featured in the movie, by the way). Also, another ''Sin City'' story, ''Family Values'', includes a double-Uzi assassination, [[spoiler:which is a deconstruction, as the collateral damage caused by it is why Dwight and Miho go after the guy responsible.]]
160** At one point Dwight's .45s results in a ShoutOut to ComicBook/TheShadow.
161* ''ComicBook/TwistedDark'': In the story "Paranoia", when [[spoiler:a bunch of robbers break into his house at the end]], [[TheProtagonist Keith Conatser]] grabs two guns and wields one in each hand.
162** In ''Silent Night'' Marv wields two .45s.
163* ''ComicBook/TheUltimates'': Monica Chang favors wielding two pistols.
164* ''ComicBook/WildCATSWildStorm'': This is one of Grifter's favorite tactics. He will almost ''never'' be seen without a gun in each hand.
165* ''Franchise/WonderWoman'' [[ComicBook/WonderWoman1942 Vol 1]]: Capt. Storm dispatched the crew members who helped him bury his loot, and therefore knew its location, by shooting them with two pistols simultaneously.
166* ''ComicBook/XWingRogueSquadron'':
167** Typically characters will stick to one blaster at a time, though some will carry more than one around. Wedge is like this, but in ''Requiem for a Rogue'' he escapes and saves his rescue party while not only dual-wielding stolen pistols, but also [[http://img168.imageshack.us/img168/2293/blz21.jpg crossing them]].
168** The short ''Family Ties'' arc has [[http://img188.imageshack.us/img188/709/blz03x.jpg Corran and Iella]] pull a BigDamnHeroes moment on three members of Rogue Squadron who were having some trouble with thugs. Corran, like Wedge, even crosses his arms while firing at two different targets. They're part of Corsec - think police - so this is probably all RuleOfCool. It's worth noting that just a page later Corran holsters one blaster to try and make a sniper shot with the other, and when making an attack on more thugs, where they ''aren't'' rescuing anyone being held down, [[http://img35.imageshack.us/img35/3103/blz13.jpg no one dual-wields.]]
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171[[folder:FanWorks]]
172* ''Fanfic/BloodAndHonor'': Vette carries two blasters and is rather proud of her skill with them. Though she typically uses both at once, she does switch to one on occasions when accuracy is important.
173* In the ''Franchise/{{Discworld}}'' tales of Creator/AAPessimal, the trademark of Assassin Miss Alice Band, herself a [[Franchise/TombRaider Lara Croft]] {{Expy}}, is her use of two pistol crossbows held and deployed in the same manner in which Lara Croft holds her pistols. Alice, a barely-there canonical character, is developed much more in these stories as Assassin, adventuress, [=GayBlade=] and Stealth Archaeologist.
174* In ''Fanfic/FalloutEquestriaPinkEyes'', there is a griffin mercenary named Henrietta who does this after she obtains her [[TragicKeepsake dead father's gun]].
175* In ''Fanfic/{{Fractured|SovereignGFC}}'', a ''Franchise/MassEffect''[=/=]''Franchise/StarWars''[[spoiler:[=/=]''[=Borderlands=]'']] [[MassiveMultiplayerCrossover crossover]] and its sequel, ''Fanfic/{{Origins}}'', characters are fond of this trope, usually for MoreDakka as the weapons wielded tend to be machine guns. [[KillItWithFire That light things on fire]]. In ''Fractured'' characters do this because they are just that badass. In ''Origins'' everyone dual-wielding heavy machine guns has the excuse of [[AppliedPhlebotinum mass effect-based weaponry]] and kinetic stabalizers.
176* [[ZigZaggedTrope Zig-Zagged]] in the ''Series/DoctorWho'' fanfic ''Fanfic/{{Gemini}}.'' BadassNormal Damien ''tries'' to dual-wield handguns [[SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome and misses his shots,]] while {{Supervillain}} Captain June Harper dual-wields high-end assault rifles and makes her shots.
177* ''Fanfic/LightAndDarkTheAdventuresOfDarkYagami'' features [[UsefulNotes/BritishEnglish Gratuitously British]] Watari doing this with a pair of [[RougeAnglesOfSatin "snipper"]] rifles. In an odd instance that is presumably a case of RougeAnglesOfSatin, Dark "jumped out of a kimbo with guns".
178* ''Fanfic/PacificWorldWarIIUSNavyShipgirls'' has ''Nevada'' and her twin Single Action Army revolvers.
179* ''Fanfic/PokeWars'' features [[Anime/PokemonTheSeriesDiamondAndPearl Dawn]] wielding twin .45 caliber pistols in ''Dawn of a New Era''. In ''The Coalescence'' she wields twin pistols of an unspecified caliber. [[JustifiedTrope Justified]] because [[spoiler:she gains ImprobableAimingSkills from the [[PowerLimiter dampener]] removal]].
180* ''Fanfic/TheSecretReturnOfAlexMack'': Sergeant Carlson is strong enough to use an [=M240G=] and an M32 at the same time. Possibly justified since he's firing on a group charging at him, and an M32 fires grenades, so precision is not essential.
181* In ''Fanfic/TalesOfAResetMind'', Nico´s Joy uses two handguns, and she is actually quite good with them!
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184[[folder:Films -- Animated]]
185* The titular hero, erm, AntiHero of ''WesternAnimation/{{Boogie}}'' favours using dual pistols in various shootouts.
186* In the CGI short movie ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=agk2svo7svI&hd=1 Azureus Rising]]'', the protagonist uses a pair of automatic machine pistols, first against a [[CannonFodder Mook Squad]], and then later a single very large and [[GiantMook dangerous opponent]]. [[LeapAndFire Slow-mo leaping]] and BulletTime dodging are in full effect.
187* The titular assassin from CGI short film ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KJvzuJvDHlI The Box Assassin]]'' is known for inexplicably popping out from boxes to kill people, but if he was known for two things the second would be having a silenced pistol in each hand while doing the first.
188* ''Anime/FinalFantasyVIIAdventChildren'' features [[LongHairedPrettyBoy Yaz]][[WhiteHairBlackHeart oo]], who gets bonus points for utilizing his GunBlade, Velvet Nightmare, along with that of his brother Loz. Yes, ''Gunblades Akimbo''.
189* ''WesternAnimation/TheThreeCaballeros'': Panchito has his two guns that he loves to shoot, but this being Disney, he isn't actually allowed to shoot ''at'' anyone, so aiming isn't usually a problem.
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192[[folder:Films -- Live-Action]]
193!!Creators
194* OlderThanTelevision: This was the signature move of silent movie cowboy hero William S. Hart. He does it in ''Film/HellsHinges'' (1916), does this when, filled with righteous anger, he charges into the dance hall that doubles as the BigBad's headquarters. He does it in ''Film/TheBargain'' when he robs a crooked casino of the money lost at its roulette table.
195* This trope is a staple of HeroicBloodshed films, especially those made by Creator/JohnWoo, who was inspired by his love of westerns.
196** John Woo's first use of Guns Akimbo happened during ''Film/ABetterTomorrow'', where Chow Yun-Fat's most memorable character, Mark Gor, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q6YwAxGuZVc blows away a restaurant full of bad guys]] to avenge the betrayal that got his friend Ho sent to prison.
197** In the sequel ''A Better Tomorrow II'', Chow does it again - once during the motel shoot-out and during the siege on the mansion.
198** ''Film/HeroesShedNoTears'', which was made prior to ''A Better Tomorrow'' but was released soon after ABT's success, also featured this trope and laid the groundwork for his later Heroic Bloodshed movies.
199** The final showdown of ''Film/ABetterTomorrow III'', a prequel to the first two movies which was directed by Tsui Hark instead of John Woo, had Mark wielding two ''M-16s'' in Guns Akimbo mode.
200** ''Film/TheKiller1989'' has Chow do it again during the three main action scenes - the restaurant massacre, the house shoot-out and the siege on the church. At one point, he wields a submachine gun and a shotgun.
201** ''Film/CityWar'', a film starring Chow but ''not'' directed by Woo, had Chow alternating between an Uzi and dual pistols in the final shootout.
202** While John Woo didn't direct ''Film/TheReplacementKillers'', he did produce the movie, and Chow Yun-Fat was still the star. At one point during the movie, Chow Yun-Fat used at least six Berettas, discarding one pair when he was out of bullets and pulling out another pair to continue kicking ass. In the first ''VideoGame/{{Stranglehold}}'' trailer, this part of the movie was homaged by Woo himself with Tequila.
203** In the teahouse shoot-out that opens ''Film/HardBoiled'', Chow fires two guns while sliding down a bannister.
204** ''Film/TheCorruptor'' stands out as one of the few movies where Chow Yun-Fat doesn't rely on Guns Akimbo. The only time he wields two guns is because he already had his backup weapon drawn and only kills one guy this way. He even uses the same service weapon throughout the movie -- ''and'' he reloads it! Mind, the film is a much more straightforward crime drama compared to many of Yun-Fat's other movies, with only a pinch of HeroicBloodshed thrown in for flavor.
205** Castor Troy the BigBad of ''Film/FaceOff'', whose even wielded [[BlingBlingBang a pair of golden .45s]] during the opening shootout of the movie.
206** Also appeared in ''Film/MissionImpossibleII'' when Ethan Hunt goes Guns Akimbo with a pair of Berettas.
207** Also used in ''Film/BrokenArrow1996'' during a gun fight in a copper mine.
208
209!!Individual films
210* In [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qdkrFBaXabg this]] amateur film (appropriately, an entry to the Stranglehold Short Film contest), the hero pulls off Guns Akimbo with flintlocks. Lots and lots of flintlocks.
211* Shown fairly realistically in the cult film ''Film/Angel1984'', about a teenaged prostitute who is being targeted by a serial killer. In the climax, right when she is about to be murdered by the killer, her friend Kit Carson (played by veteran actor Rory Calhoun) lights the killer up with his twin .45 revolvers. Played straight in that he only shoots one gun at a time, cocks and aims his guns carefully, and does not stop firing until he's ''sure'' the man isn't getting back up (but he is very careful not to empty his pistols, just in case). Justified in that Kit is an experienced street performer specializing in showing off his skill with his pistols, and he has ''decades'' of experience.
212* ''Film/{{Assassins}}'': Assassin Miguel Bain frequently dual-wields pistols on his missions.
213* ''Film/TheAssignment2016'': Frank wields guns in both hands multiple times during the film.
214* Jango Fett in ''Film/AttackOfTheClones'', although very briefly during his fight with Obi-Wan.
215* [[Creator/WillSmith Mike Lowrey]] from ''Film/BadBoys1995''.
216* ''Film/BallisticKiss'' is an ''arthouse'' HeroicBloodshed film starring Creator/DonnieYen as a ProfessionalHitman, and he gets to use dual pistols in several shootouts.
217* There's a scene in ''Film/BillyBathgate'' where mobster Dutch Schultz (Creator/DustinHoffman) is showing off the pistol skills of his bodyguards Lulu and Irving. Dutch asks Billy which of them is the best. Billy thinks it's Irving, because he aims with a single pistol and therefore is more accurate. But Dutch points out that's mostly useful for when you can set up a hit in advance. Lulu, who blazes away with two .45's, is more useful for circumstances when you need to throw out a lot of lead quickly (e.g. when you're being attacked).
218* ''Film/TheBlackHole''. The security androids on the ''USS Cygnus'' not only have a laser in each hand, the lasers themselves are a twin barrel model with one laser above the handle and one below. Fortunately for our heroes [[ImperialStormtrooperMarksmanshipAcademy they're lousy shots]].
219* The ''Film/{{Blade}}'' series features this frequently. When Blade isn't killing vampires with his blades, he's usually dual wielding pistols or customized sub-machine guns. Whistler gets in on the act too when rescuing Blade, busting through a wall wielding a pair of [=MP5s=] and delivering a PreAssKickingOneLiner. In ''Film/BladeII'', aside from Blade, Scud is shown dual wielding a pair of Desert Eagles when investigating a noise outside his van, Nyssa wields a pair of machine pistols, and Reinhardt tops them both by wielding a pair of [[MixAndMatchWeapon Berettas with huge blades built into them]]! In ''Film/BladeTrinity'', both Abigail Whistler and Hannibal King occasionally dual wield revolvers, Abby's being regular guns and King's being heavily customized versions.
220* Used frequently in ''Film/TheBoondockSaints''. Il Duce challenges all three saints with a brace of six handguns, firing them in pairs and then [[ThrowAwayGuns tossing each pair aside]] when empty. The Saints themselves always have a gun in each hand whenever they attack. In the first film they each had a pair of suppressed Beretta 92's, trading them in for custom Desert Eagles in the sequel.
221* In ''Film/TheBourneIdentity'', Jason Bourne does this near the end of the film, when he nails a mook and strips him of his weapon. It doesn't seem like he intends to use it, but [[spoiler:then he's "surprised" by a second gunman, and improvises by firing the second pistol upside-down, with his little finger, because he doesn't have time to readjust.]] Justified in that he fires at a single target at point blank range, so aiming is not an issue.
222* ''Film/BuryMeHigh'': Ngyuen uses dual M16 machine guns in the final shootout.
223* ''Film/TheButcher'': The titular Butcher uses dual Berettas during his shootouts. [[BlingBlingBang Gold-plated Berettas, to be precise]].
224* ''Film/CharliesAngelsFullThrottle''. [[VillainSue Madison Lee]] fires two [[BlingBlingBang golden]] Desert Eagle [[HandCannon .50 Action Express]] both simultaneously and Woo Style (they are chambered in .50 Action Express as you can see in a lot of close-ups on the muzzles). [[LawOfInverseRecoil Not that there was any recoil distracting her, by the way.]] Still not enough? There's a Mongolian earlier in the film dual-wielding [[MoreDakka belt-fed machine guns in full-auto mode]].
225* ''Film/CherryFalls'': After the fall fails to do the killer in, Deputy Mina comes to the rescue with two handguns.
226* It's not a John Woo film, but ''Film/CityWar'' does have Chow Yun-fat in it, and in the final shootout he alternates between an Uzi and twin Berettas.
227* ''Film/TheCrow'' has two such instances of Guns Akimbo. The first has Eric Draven himself going both-guns-blazing against Top Dollar's entire gang at his boardroom in the movie's biggest shootout, and the second has Eric and Officer Albrecht battling it out against a two-gun-wielding Top Dollar and his [[TheDragon Dragon]] at the church where Sarah was taken.
228* Commander Rocafuerte tries to fight ''Film/CruzDiablo'' this way but hilariously fails.
229* Turns up in a scene in the remake of ''[[Film/DawnOfTheDead2004 Dawn of the Dead]]''; the character possibly has an excuse, considering at least one of his legs is broken and he is being frantically dragged through a sewer just ahead of a pursuing swarm of zombies. [[spoiler:Unsurprisingly, it doesn't help, and he dies.]]
230* During the shootout that leads to his cryo-imprisonment, Sgt. John Spartan does this with a pair of customized Super Blackhawks in the novelization of ''Film/DemolitionMan''. Also plays into his cowboy image, as the Blackhawk is a high-end ''revolver,'' where you'd expect an LAPD SWAT officer to be shooting semi-automatic. In the same scene in the film itself, he does carry a pair of Berettas, but only uses them one at a time with the second pistol being a backup when he loses the first one. However, he does briefly use a pair of pistols during the film's climax.
231* El Mariachi in ''Film/{{Desperado}}'', who draws two Rugers from his sleeves in order to blow away an entire bar full of bad guys. Even moreso in the sequel, when he dual wields a sawed off shotgun and a sub-machine gun during a shootout!
232* In the film version of ''Film/EndersGame'', the titular character jumps into the Battle Room, grabs a floating stun gun from the enemy army as well as his own and uses them to knock out a number of enemy soldiers. He even does a typical Creator/JohnWoo-style spin with guns pointing in different directions, although, by that point, he's been hit and his suit frozen. Later, [[ActionGirl Petra]] does this to take out 12 soldiers of two armies.
233* In ''Film/{{Equilibrium}}'', John Preston wields dual pistols and is quite literally untouchable by mooks. In an early scene, he jumps into a crossfire and stands calmly (then again, with emotions held under check he can't quite panic or anything) in one place while the opposition fires away with automatic weaponry and fails to hit him. The film [[JustifiedTrope attempts to explain this]] by inventing a fighting style known as GunKata, which teaches its practitioners to seek out locations in a fight where there is minimum probability of getting shot at and it's not "behind cover"). In a later fight, Preston reloads by a mechanism that inserts fresh magazines into the guns from his sleeves.
234* Creator/ArnoldSchwarzenegger's ''Film/{{Eraser}}'' climaxes with Kruger tearing an oncoming truck to pieces with two of the film's signature railguns firing on full auto. To give an idea of how absurd this is, the rifle-sized weapons (and their distinctive x-ray scopes) are only used in the rest of the film to snipe at targets ''right through walls''.
235* ''Film/EnterTheEagles'' have Martin using dual pistols in his shootouts, notably when forcing villains Hussein and Karloff to back down, both at once.
236** Michael Wong, who plays Martin, does the same thing in ''Film/TheBloodRules'' two years later, during a shootout against police officers.
237* Barney Ross in ''Film/TheExpendables'' frequently wields a pair of Kimber .45's which he fires and reloads at rapid speeds.
238** In ''''Film/TheExpendables3'', Yin-yang uses twin Berettas which allows him to take down multiple enemies, but only in a Deleted Scene.
239* Max Dire from ''Film/FullEclipse'' is in a werewolf action/crime-thriller but he duel wields pistols like he just leaped from a Creator/JohnWoo movie.
240* ''Film/TheGameChanger'', being a GenreThrowback to old-school HeroicBloodshed cinema, has it's protagonist, Jie, kicking ass using twin pistols, using them to take names in multiple shootouts. At the end of the movie [[spoiler: when Zi-hao raids Boss Tang's mansion, he use twin pistols as well, apparently in memory of the deceased Jie]].
241* In ''Film/GangOfRoses'', Chas prefers to fight with a massive HandCannon in each hand. Zhang Li also does it, but only in the final fight where she is massively outnumbered.
242* Holtzmann dual wields a pair of proton pistols during the final battle in ''Film/Ghostbusters2016'', complete with BondOneLiner.
243* Ghost Dog from ''Film/GhostDogTheWayOfTheSamurai'' does the alternating-shots version, when infiltrating his boss' Jersey Mafia hideout.
244* Multiple times during ''Film/GhostTown1988'', Devlin enters the fray with a revolver in each hand, blazing away indiscriminately. Of course, in these situations he is generally more concerned with creating mayhem than accuracy
245* The Baroness from ''Film/GIJoeTheRiseOfCobra'' seems fond of this. Although when using ballistic weaponry rather than scifi "pulse pistols" she realistically fires them two-handed.
246* ''Film/GodOfGamblersReturn'' has a moment where akimbo Berettas are reloaded in mid-air! That's that way to subvert the reloading problem!
247* ''Film/{{Goodfellas}}'' features Tommy "[[MeaningfulName Two Guns]]" [=DeVito=], [[TruthInTelevision just like the real person, Tommy DeSimone]].
248* In the film ''Film/GrossePointeBlank'', both hitmen (played by John Cusack and Dan Ackroyd) employ this technique.
249* EnforcedTrope in ''Film/GunsAkimbo'', in which the main character has [[BodyHorror both hands bolted to pistols]] so he can't drop them and then forced to join a DeadlyGame. Of course, this causes problems for mundane tasks like getting dressed, going to the bathroom or opening doors.
250* In ''Film/GunsGirlsAndGambling'', The Blonde, The Cowboy and Little Person Elvis all like to wield a pistol in each hand in combat. The Blonde and The Cowboy are devastating shooting like this; Little Person Elvis less so.
251* ''Film/Hero1997'' has Takeshi Kaneshiro using dual Mausers in the final shootout, which he carries at least nine in his BadassLongcoat.
252* ''Film/AHeroNeverDies'': Being director Johnnie To's attempt to emulate John Woo, the final battle had its protagonist Jack shooting up a nightclub full of enemies in this manner.
253* ''Film/HighNoon'': Psycho villain Colby rushes into the barn blazing wildly with two guns. The marshal picks him off neatly with one gun.
254* ''Film/{{Hitman}}'': The main character uses his trademark twin pistols, and many other characters use twin weapons as well, up to a villain's usage of twin [[{{BFG}} RPDs]].
255* Appears a lot in ''Film/HotFuzz''. Then again, it's a comedy. For an example of how silly it gets, one character fires two pistols while riding down the street on a motability scooter. Slowly. Then there's the part where Nicholas Angel (briefly) [[DualWielding dual-wields]] ''pens''. Notably, when Angel's character ''does'' fire two pistols at once, he doesn't hit anything until he puts one away and takes an aimed shot with the other gun.
256-->"Ever fired two guns whilst jumping through the air?"
257* In ''Film/TheImmortals'', several of thieves wind up wielding a a gun in each hand during the running firefight through the nightclub. Most notable is Billy, who has a large revolver in each hand while staging a rear guard action for the rest of the crew.
258* Chuck Norris famously wields a pair of Micro Uzis in ''[[Film/InvasionUSA1985 Invasion USA]]''.
259* Will Smith in the film adaptation of ''Film/IRobot'' takes this to the nth degree by pulling both pistols out of his jacket, aiming, firing, and utterly obliterating his target while riding a motorcycle.
260* Film/JamesBond, unique action hero that he is, almost ''never'' uses two guns simultaneously. The only example is in the film ''Film/TomorrowNeverDies'', where ends up dual wielding an SMG and his Walther P99 while running through Elliot Carver's base. It looks... a little silly.
261* In ''Film/JeremiahJohnson'', the titular MountainMan dual-wields a pair of percussion hunting rifles to thwart an ambush.
262* Seen in ''Film/{{Kate}}'' during the StormingTheCastle finale, where the protagonist dual-wields handguns.
263* ''Film/KillerAngels'' and its sequel, ''Devil Hunters'', have characters dual-wield firearms in numerous shootouts. The second movie memorably have Michael Chan using twin pistols to kill a dozen mobsters [[spoiler: before finally getting shot and killed]].
264* "Benny the cop" from ''Film/{{Kopps}}'' does this repeatedly in his daydreams.
265* Creator/BruceWillis' character in ''Film/LastManStanding'' does this throughout the entire film.
266* In ''Film/TheLastOfTheMohicans'' Hawkeye shoots two flintlock Kentucky longrifles and hits both targets, while running, no less.
267* In ''Film/TheLastRitesOfRansomPride'', The Dwarf carries a pair of [[SawnOffshotgun double-barreled sawed-off shotguns]] that he wields Guns Akimbo.
268* Type 2 is used to practical effect by one of the mooks in ''Film/TheLastStand'' to temporarily fend off Frank Martinez and Sarah Torrance.
269* The final mansion gunfight from ''Film/LegacyOfRage'' has the hero Brandon and his bespectacled sidekick using dual pistols, Uzis, or a combination of both. It allows them to kill a mansion full of mooks within minutes.
270* Subverted in ''Film/TheLeagueOfExtraordinaryGentlemen''. Tom Sawyer, who's otherwise an excellent shot with his Winchester, often attempts to bring down enemies by unloading twin revolvers at them simultaneously. However, he never actually hits anything when he attempts this, and every time he tries it in front of Allen Quatermain, he is berated for "shooting like a bloody fool".
271--> '''Quatermain:''' Very American. Fire enough bullets and hope to hit the target.
272* ''Film/LeftForDead'': Clem has a fondness for fighting with a pistol in each hand, firing both at the same target.
273* Riggs and Murtaugh do this during the shootout in the subway in ''Film/LethalWeapon3''.
274* In ''Film/LockStockAndTwoSmokingBarrels'', a mook bursts into the BigBad's office with two pistols pointed upwards, but it doesn't end well for him because the BigBad is already pointing a shotgun directly at him.
275* ''Film/LoneHero'': Bill, in his role as town marshal in the Wild West, does this while shooting it out against the trio of bank robbers. In the climax, John does it for real in his running gunfight against the biker gang; wielding a Colt SAA in each hand.
276* Bruce Willis does this in ''Film/{{Looper}}'', firing ''two FN-P90s'' at once (shooting from the hips, no less) when he takes on the syndicate. It's every bit as ridiculous and awesome as it sounds.
277* Dennis Hopper as ''Film/MadDogMorgan'' dual wields two shotguns.
278* ''Film/MadMaxFuryRoad'' has the Bullet Farmer start shooting akimbo urging brothers Heckler & Koch to sing. This in no way affects his accuracy, since he's blind at that point.
279* ''Film/TheMaidenHeist'' begins with a DaydreamSurprise with Creator/ChristopherWalken dual-wielding pistols to stop a gang of nefarious art thieves.
280* ''Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse''
281** ComicBook/TheFalcon uses a pair of submachine guns in ''Film/CaptainAmericaTheWinterSoldier''. In later appearances, he alternates between this or a gun in one hand and some kind of wrist-mounted blaster.
282** ''Film/AvengersInfinityWar'' has a uniquely bizarre case of this during the battle at Wakanda. Bucky Barnes, on seeing a [[ComicBook/RocketRaccoon talking, cybernetically-enhanced raccoon]] blasting away at the enemy, picks him up with one hand to give him better visibility while firing his own gun one-handed.
283** In ''Film/ThorRagnarok'', Skurge dual wields ''M-16 assault rifles'' [[spoiler:fighting against Hela's undead soldiers to keep them from boarding the ship evacuating the Asgardians.]]
284* Taken to the extreme in ''Film/TheMask'' when Stanley draws a whole weapons arsenal including rocket launchers out of {{Hammerspace}} with his two hands. Taken to the ''ridiculous'' extreme when they all turn out to be BANGFlagGun[=s=]. He even manages to [[GunTwirling twirl]] them all.
285* ''Film/TheMatrix'':
286** Neo dual-wields pistols at several points in the first film, though again his being in the Matrix meant his strength was far higher than humans could normally have. In one sequence, he fires dual silenced 9mm pistols using subsonic ammunition; the relative lack of recoil would make this ''slightly'' more plausible than most other forms of Guns Akimbo. He even switches off which one he's aiming down at certain points.
287** Mouse dual-wields automatic shotguns in a LastStand when cornered by the police/agents, using custom designs that are apparently meant for this since part of the weapon wraps around the user's forearm.
288** Trinity, Morpheus, and Seraph all dual-wield during the battle in the Club Hel coatroom.
289* In ''Film/TheMechanic1972'', Creator/CharlesBronson's character does this.
290* In ''Film/{{Mercenaries}}'', Raven usually wields an automatic in each hand. In the motor pool, she quick draws both of them and simultaneously shoots the men sitting either side of her; without looking at either one of them.
291* In ''Film/{{The Mummy|1999}}'', it was common for the American characters to dual wield revolvers. However, this was only used in situations where there were an overwhelming number of enemies, negating the need for accuracy. When facing several riders bearing down on him, in fact, Rick O'Connell (the main character, played by Brendan Fraser) empties two revolvers at them...then drops them and draws two more. However, he never fires simultaneously (another possible advantage being that he can more easily cover a wider angle).
292* ''Film/NedKelly1970'': Mick Jagger as Ned Kelly uses a pair of Colt revolvers
293* ''Film/NiteTalesTheMovie'': In "Karma", Dice bursts into the bank wielding a gun in each hand and immediately starts using them.
294* ''Film/TheOutlawJoseyWales'': Josey packs no fewer than four cap and ball revolvers about his person and uses them in pairs either mounted or on foot. Having four pistols showed a nod to practicality - since reloading a cap-and-ball was a bitch, some gunmen would [[WalkingArsenal take a few extra pistols]] to reduce the need to reload in the heat of battle.
295* The title character of ''Film/{{Pistolera}}'' wields a pistol in each hand during many of her gunfights.
296* One of the robbers in ''Film/PoliceAcademy6CityUnderSiege'' wields two guns, although he only uses one at a time and is an amazing shot. In one scene, he is dual-wielding a pistol and an [=SMG=].
297* In ''Film/{{Predator}}'' when Dillon is getting ready to go try to avenge Mac's death, he is initially carrying a single sub-machine gun. Dutch tosses him a second one which he then wields akimbo.
298* In ''Film/TheProfessional'', Leon uses two pistols when attacking the ESU officers sent by Stansfield to kill him and Mathilda.
299* Several characters in ''Film/TheQuickAndTheDead'', notably [[BigBad Herod]] and trickshooter 'Ace' Hanlon. In the climax of the movie, Cort does this with ''Winchesters''.
300* ''Film/ResidentEvilFilmSeries'':
301** Alice wields almost everything akimbo. Over the course of the series, she wields semi-auto handguns, revolvers, sub-machine guns, and even sawed-off shotguns akimbo (she does have enhanced strength though). Even when forced into melee combat, she swaps over to DualWielding fighting batons or kukri knives!
302** In ''Film/ResidentEvilApocalypse'', Carlos wields a pair of Desert Eagles, LJ wields a pair of gold-plated Desert Eagles, and Jill Valentine uses guns akimbo briefly as well. These are all trumped however by the monstrous Nemesis, who wields a chaingun and rocket launcher akimbo.
303** In ''Film/ResidentEvilRetribution'' Jill Valentine fires two Skorpion machine pistols while FastRoping out the back of an Osprey gunship, which leaves one wondering how she manages to brake her descent.
304* ''Film/TheRevengers'': During the LastStand at the survey camp, Chamaco leaps out of the trench with a revolver in each hand, firing at the Comanche. Done somewhat realistically, as he is alternating which gun he fires, rather than firing both at once.
305* Before he becomes ''Film/RoboCop1987'', Murphy engages in a vehicle-to-vehicle gun battle with Boddicker's mooks, during which this trope appears. (Lewis is driving the patrol car while he's firing both their pistols out the passenger window.) SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome occurs as he only manages to hit one mook, once, non-fatally. Every other shot misses badly. Notably, he ''doesn't'' attempt the maneuver at any point in his cybernetic existence, when he could conceivably pull it off thanks to software-enhanced ImprobableAimingSkills.
306* Jack la Roca, the protagonist from ''Film/{{Route 666}}'', is fond of this trope.
307* In the 2000 version of ''Film/{{Shaft|2000}}'', Shaft, played by Creator/SamuelLJackson, is shown wielding two guns in a shootout.
308* In ''Film/{{Shane}}'', the eponymous gunfighter is a firm believer in carrying one gun as sufficient for his needs and proves it in how quickly he kills a sinister gunfighter who carries two.
309* Jake (portrayed by Kevin Costner) in ''Film/{{Silverado}}'' is TheWestern's style painted in broad strokes. Lightning draws, blind trick shots, and two guns at the same time.
310* In ''Film/SilverLode'', Ballard briefly uses this for holding a large number of people at gunpoint at close range at the same time. He tucks one of them away when he makes a run for it, only using one gun at a time while firing.
311* The movie ''Film/SinCity'' features several characters dual-wielding various weapons, the msot prominent example being Dwight [=McCarthy=], who like in the comics dual-wields .45s.
312* The AxCrazy, Redneck, Neo-Nazi Tremor brothers from ''Film/SmokinAces'' frequently use akimbo weapons. The most notable of these is when the biggest Tremor brother wields a chainsaw in one hand and a DAO-12 revolving shotgun in the other.
313* Tobias Beckett of ''Film/{{Solo}}: A Franchise/StarWars Story'' is introduced wielding two blasters during the Battle of Mimban.
314* John Harrison [[spoiler:[=AKA=] Khan Noonien Singh]] in ''Film/StarTrekIntoDarkness'' with two {{BFG}}s.
315* Captain Picard's dual-wielding in ''Film/StarTrekNemesis'' threatens to rival Bond's in terms of the silly factor.
316* ''Film/{{Stranglehold}}'' has Jerry Trimble kicking ass and taking names using dual pistols.
317* In ''Film/SuburbanCommando'', Shep Ramsey is infiltrating the BigBad's ship while dual-wielding blasters. He fires them one after another, before switching to another weapon.
318* In ''Film/{{Swordfish}}'', Gabriel dual wields a pair of handguns in the car chase scene when he shoots at the attackers at both his sides.
319* In ''Film/TheTerminator'' shortly after delivering his famous "I'll be back." catchphrase, the cyborg then [[CarFu rams a car into the police station]] and then proceeds to massacre the officers with a shotgun and an assault rifle. Justified by the fact that he is a literal killing machine; ImprobableAimingSkills aren't so improbable with a literal grip of steel and a CPU brain.
320* Subverted by Bryan in ''Film/{{Taken}}'', in keeping with the movie's very [[TheCombatPragmatist grounded and pragmatic approach to combat]]. He acquires two pistols in the climactic gunfight, but instead of going akimbo, he tucks one of them into his waistband and doesn't draw it until after the first gun has been emptied and discarded.
321* In ''Film/TallTale'', Pecos Bill carries a pair of Merwin Hulbert revolvers which he usually dual wields. Similarly, Calamity Jane has a pair of Colt revolvers which she exclusively fires in this fashion.
322* Parodied in ''Film/TaxiDriver'' in a shot where the protagonist draws his .44 Magnum in his right hand and his snubnose revolver in his left. The barrel of the former is longer than the entirety of the latter.
323* In the ''[[Film/LaraCroftTombRaider Tomb Raider]]'' movie, Lara uses her signature dual pistols (see Video Games examples below), but has a neat reloading mechanism; when she ejects the mags, a rack in her backpack comes out with a new set of mags angled right so she can just sweep her arms behind her to load them.
324* In ''Film/{{Tombstone}}'', Doc Holliday confronts one of the Cowboys ({{Mook}}s who wear red bandannas) and pulls a pistol on him. The man says that Holliday is so drunk (which he clearly is) he's probably seeing double. Holliday then pulls out a second pistol with the other hand, points both of them at the guy, and says, "I have two guns... one for each of ya." He then proceeds to spin both guns in ''opposite'' directions.
325* ''Film/TrainingDay'': Because of the more realistic setting and action portrayed in the film, the fact that Alonzo Harris, a cop, advances on a group of people shooting at him while firing two pistols, one of which [[GangstaStyle is sideways]], reveals late in the film that he's AxCrazy.
326* In ''[[Film/TheTransporter Transporter 2]]'', TheDragon is a psychotic, scantily clad chick who dual-wields [[GunPorn fully automatic laser-sighted Glocks]].
327* ''Film/TropicThunder'' Done with two full sized M-16s that were hidden under a cloak until it became clear that an attempt at infiltration had failed and it was time for MoreDakka. Concludes with an AssKickingPose AND a OneLiner. I'm a LEAD FARMER, motherfucker!
328** Those guns were full of blanks, though. No one would give actors live ammo.
329* In both versions of ''Film/TrueGrit'', Rooster Cogburn takes the reins of his horse between his teeth so he can charge towards the enemy firing a pistol in one hand and a ''lever action rifle'' In this instance, he's going for pure intimidation factor and hoping to terrorize some of his numerically superior enemy into fleeing.
330* ''Film/TrueLies'' has Arnold dual-wielding a pair of Uzis. It's quite awesome.
331* Marion from ''Film/{{Undead}}'' not only uses this technique, but takes it RuleOfCool by at one point throwing the guns (he catches them again, so that doesn't really qualify for ThrowAwayGuns) and using the nearest cop's trigger finger, and later doing it while hanging by his spurs from a doorway. Then again, Marion's an ImprobableWeaponUser.
332* Casey Ryback in ''Film/UnderSiege'' akimboes heavy weapons in more than one shootout, including the massive firefight in the bowels of a ship where he uses an Uzi and a Heckler & Koch simultaneously.
333* In the three ''Film/Underworld2003'' films, [[ActionGirl Selene]] is the only Death Dealer who uses dual automatic pistols in every gunfight. All others prefer assault rifles (not akimbo). Being a [[OurVampiresAreDifferent vampire]], she doesn't care about recoil and is a pretty good shot with both guns. In one scene, she uses the guns on full auto to "draw" a circle under her and collapse the floor.
334* In ''Film/TheUntouchables1987'', George Stone uses two guns during the shoot-out at the train station. Note that, in his introduction, Stone is presented as something of a pistol prodigy.
335* [=McManus=] in ''Film/TheUsualSuspects'' shoots two different people at the same time, with one bullet each from two different guns. During the dock raid, Keaton stealthily keeps his hands in his pockets and then shoots two men at the same time with guns hidden in his jacket.
336* In ''Film/VanHelsing'', Van Helsing pulls both his pistols just as Hyde throws him across the belltower: firing them in unison at the monster.
337* ''Film/VioletAndDaisy'': Violet shoots this way frequently.
338%%* ''Film/TheWatch2012'': Jamarcus.
339* A fairly early example would be in ''Film/WhereEaglesDare'', when Schaffer guns down countless Nazis ''with an [=MP40=] in each hand''.
340* Taken to a ridiculous extreme in ''Film/WilliamShakespearesRomeoAndJuliet''. Villain Tybalt dramatically whips off his jackets and slowly pulls out two handguns with the Virgin Mary engraved on them, to shoot at Benvolio during the opening fight at a gas station.
341* In ''Film/WyattEarp'', Earp's party is ambushed in a canyon by allies of the Clantons and [=McLauries=]. One mook draws down on Wyatt with two pistols and begins firing them with a cocky grin on his face. Wyatt ''calmly walks over to his horse, grabs a shotgun, approaches the mook and blows him away at POINT BLANK RANGE.'' The look on the mook's face turns to abject horror as every one of his shots misses wide and Wyatt approaches with his boomstick. It's absolutely priceless.
342* Agent Zero, while attacking the Nigerian compound in ''Film/XMenOriginsWolverine''. Perhaps justified in this case that his mutant power appears to be [[ImprobableAimingSkills superhuman accuracy]].
343* The final shootout in ''Film/XxXReturnOfXanderCage'' has [[ActionGirl Adele and Serena]] going BackToBackBadasses and dual-wielding handguns on an army of mooks.
344* In the opening scene of ''Film/XXxStateOfTheUnion'', this is the easy way to tell who is going to survive the attack on the ElaborateUndergroundBase... namely, the guy who's dual-wielding semi-automatic weapons while everybody else are toting rifles.
345* ''Film/ZeroTolerance'': The hero played by Robert Patrick uses double pistols in every one of his shootouts. One gunfight that spills into the streets of Las Vegas had him using a pistol-shotgun combo.
346* In the movie ''Film/{{Zombieland}}'', Tallahassee does this with dual pistols.
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350* Discussed in ''Literature/SixteenThirtyTwo'', during the Croats' attack on Grantville, Dan Frost is tempted to do this, but doesn't.
351* In Creator/AynRand's ''Literature/AtlasShrugged'', a man standing on a roof of one of the structures at Rearden Steel, later identified as [[spoiler:Francisco d'Anconia]] is using two handguns in the manner mentioned above, in which he uses each one to shoot at different people in a mob attacking the mill.
352* The [[FastestGunInTheWest eponymous hero]] of the ''Catsfoot'' novels is a QuickDraw [[TheGunslinger gunfigh-]] sorry, ''[[InsistentTerminology trail scout]]'' who always draws and fires both weapons at once in case of a misfire or malfunction in one (which would be deadly in a [[ShowdownAtHighNoon duel]]).
353* ''Literature/DamselsOfDistress'': Anya dual-wields a pair of .45 auto-revolvers. Being a wendigo, she has the strength and the coordination to use both effectively.
354* Richard Joseph Camellion, the title character of the ''Literature/DeathMerchant'' series by Joseph Rosenberger, habitually used two handguns. Originally, he used a pair of Smith & Wesson M19 "Highway Patrolman" .357 Magnum double-action revolvers with 4" barrels, which was reasonable. About a dozen books in, he decided that the .357s didn't have enough stopping power, and upgraded to a pair of 8" barreled .44 [=AutoMags=] (!). Camellion had no difficulty firing these hand cannons simultaneously and accurately (in real life, they have more free recoil energy than most .30 caliber rifles), and on several occasions fired at and hit two separate adversaries at the same instant, much like Jake in the movie "Silverado", except without needing to "psych himself up" for it first. Camellion referred to this stunt as "mind-firing", indicating that (a) he was highly trained in small arms (in addition to other sorts of mayhem, hence his nom de guerre), and (b) he had practiced this particular trick a lot.
355* In the ''Franchise/{{Discworld}}'', Assassin Miss Alice Band, a [[Franchise/TombRaider Lara Croft]] {{Expy}}, is portrayed as holding - and presumably using - two pistol crossbows in the same manner in which Lara Croft holds her pistols.
356* Pulled off by a few characters in ''Literature/TheDresdenFiles'' such as "Gentleman" Johnny Marcone and Lara Raith.
357* In the novels of Creator/JTEdson, the ambidextrous Dusty Fog would almost always draw both of his twin Colts at the same time; usually firing both at the same target.
358* ''Literature/TheExecutioner''. Mack Bolan uses a silenced Beretta during infiltration and a HandCannon for more noisy occasions, but sometimes uses both together when StormingTheCastle.
359* ''Literature/TheExilesViolin'': Jacquie always has a pair of revolvers at her side.
360* In Creator/StephenKing's ''Literature/TheGunslinger'', Roland Deschain fights with a gun in each hand. He is somehow able to juggle both guns and reload at the same time. [[spoiler:However, he loses two fingers at the beginning of ''Literature/TheDrawingOfTheThree''," and is thereafter limited to one gun at a time, except in flashbacks.]]
361* In the Literature/HonorHarrington novella "From the Highlands", Jeremy X dual-wields pistols when engaging Scrags in the warrens of old UsefulNotes/{{Chicago}}.
362* In the ''Literature/IntoTheLookingGlass'' science-fiction series, co-written by Creator/JohnRingo and Creator/TravisSTaylor, one Marine is very capable of wielding two handguns (and in PowerArmor, two cut down .50 cal ''rifles'') at the same time. However it is explicitly stated he only fires one at a time, reloading takes more time, and the character's skill at "two-gun mojo" is considered unique and extreme even among the other highly-skilled (and more experienced) soldiers.
363* ''{{Literature/ThePostmodernAdventuresOfKillTeamOne}}'': Kill Team One often uses two handguns at a time. 1911s in ''Literature/RatedR2014'', [=CZP09s=] and S&W Model 460s in ''Red Scare.''
364* In the ''Literature/PrinceRoger'' series, co-written by Creator/DavidWeber and Creator/JohnRingo, Rastar, Prince of Therdan, is a four armed alien who ''quadruple'' wields pistols. He is described as being almost unique in his ability to accurately shoot and track multiple targets, though. As the series progresses, he goes from using flintlocks to revolvers, to futuristic pistols.
365* In Creator/DashiellHammett's ''Literature/RedHarvest'', Big Nick opens fire on the hero with a pistol in each hand. It's not very effective.
366* The Black Knight in Creator/MatthewReilly's ''Scarecrow'' takes this to the extreme, using two matched Remington shotguns, though he does modify them to have pistol grips.
367* Literature/TheShadow's signature weapons were a pair of .45 automatics. This carried over to most of the various comic book versions and the [[Film/TheShadow 1994 film]] as well. In the 1980s comics series, set in the present day, he dual-wields Uzis instead.
368* In ''Literature/{{Shane}}'', the villainous gun-for-hire Stark Wilson uses two pistols, but the eponymous character belittles that, saying that one pistol is all a person needs.
369* Dick Seaton and Marc C. [=DuQuesne=], mortal enemies at all other times, stand side-by-side with guns akimbo in ''[[Literature/SkylarkSeries The Skylark of Space]]'', each with a pair of forty-fives loaded with extremely potent ammunition. Lampshaded in the sequel ''by [=DuQuesne=] himself'', when he describes to an underling how Seaton has been practising his GunFu for a very, very long time. Not just that, but:
370--> '''[=DuQuesne=]:''' You know I am handy with a gun myself?
371--> ''''Baby Doll' Loring:''' You're faster than I am, and that's saying something. You're chain lightning.
372--> '''[=DuQuesne=]:''' Well, Seaton is at least that much faster than I am. (Description of just how fast follows.)
373::...so he is probably firing ''alternately'' from both pistols, shifting his attention between the two.
374* John Thomas Rourke, title character of the ''Survivalist'' series by Jerry Ahern, wears two compact Detonics [=CombatMaster=] .45 pistols, in a custom double shoulder holster created by famous holster-maker Lou Alessi.
375* ''Literature/WarsOfTheRealm'': In the climactic fight with the gang in ''Cloak of the Light'', protagonist Drew Carter dual-wields [[GunsOfFiction/HandgunsAToG FN Five-SeveNs]] which he stole from federal agents.
376* [[HeartbrokenBadass Wax]] of ''Literature/WaxAndWayne'' wields dual [[RevolversAreJustBetter revolvers]] most of the time, and has the ImprobableAimingSkills to get away with it. When a situation requires MoreDakka, he usually switches to [[ShotgunsAreJustBetter dual]] ''[[ShotgunsAreJustBetter shotguns]]''.
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380* In ''Series/TwentyFour'' Jack Bauer uses dual pistols during his MyNameIsInigoMontoya moment in the season 1 finale.
381* In the penultimate episode of ''Series/{{Alias}}'' [[spoiler:Peyton uses two machine pistols to execute the leaders of Prophet Five]].
382* ''Series/{{Angel}}''. Wesley sometimes uses two guns in the fifth and final season, but there's a ThisIsReality moment in the fifth season episode "[[Recap/AngelS05E07Lineage Lineage]]" when Wesley starts doing this trope instead of handing one of the guns to Fred, as she sardonically notes [[spoiler:right before getting shot.]]
383* In ''Series/AuctionKings'', the muff pistols were designed to be used in this manner. Given that each only held a single shot, it's fairly justified.
384* ''Series/{{Battlestar Galactica|2003}}''. Starbuck wields dual pistols (and on Caprica, dual Scorpion SMG's) on several occasions; the problem with this technique aiming-wise is shown during a terrorist siege, when she accidentally shoots another main character.
385* Chalky White does this awesomely on ''Series/BoardwalkEmpire'' when the guys [[spoiler:who lynched one of his associates while really aiming to get Chalky himself]] [[SayingTooMuch accidentally reveal themselves]].
386-->'''Chalky:''' One more thing... ''(crosses arms under jacket, pulls out two enormous guns and turns around)'' [[INeverSaidItWasPoison How'd you know I drive a Packer?]]
387* In the first season ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'' episode "Angel", Darla wields two guns to attack Angel and Buffy.
388* ''Series/BurnNotice'':
389** In the fourth season premiere, Michael does this with a pair of Mac-10 machine pistols to intimidate a trio of [[AllBikersAreHellsAngels biker thugs]] who were terrorizing his client. Michael even points out how he has MoreDakka compared to the pistol-wielding bikers.
390** Done by the hijackers in s5e10 in the same manner of a police procedural with the villain starting the hijacking by dual-wielding submachine guns and shooting up into the air. ItMakesSenseInContext though, as they are using the guns with the intention of intimidating airport staff and civilians, not winning a gunfight. Also, they quickly switch to just having one gun out after they get all the hostages sitting down, though the leader continues carrying around two.
391* Annie, Britta and Shirley in ''Series/{{Community}}'' episode [[Recap/CommunityS1E23ModernWarfare "Modern Warfare"]]. For some reason, none of the other guys do except for Señor Chang, in his role as TheDragon, who pulls out dual gold-plated guns after his paintball machine gun runs out.
392* In the ''Series/CriminalMinds'' 9th season finale, suspect Justin Mills uses a MAC-10 and an [=M1911A1=] during his LastVillainStand against the FBI and the local police.
393* In ''Series/DeadliestWarrior'', one of the Jesse James demonstrators does this with revolvers.
394* ''Series/DoctorWho'':
395** [[Recap/DoctorWhoS27E13ThePartingOfTheWays "The Parting of the Ways"]]: Captain Jack wields two guns to fight off approaching Daleks. Sadly they run out of ammo so he gets out a pistol. Which also runs out of ammo.
396** [[Recap/DoctorWhoS31E2TheBeastBelow "The Beast Below"]]: Queen Elizabeth the Tenth (or "Liz X") is the Queen of Starship UK. Who dual-wields laser pistols. Wow. Basically she rules.
397* [[LesbianVampire Bianca's]] DepravedBisexual lover Natalie does this in the TV version of ''Series/TheDresdenFiles''.
398* Zoe from ''Series/{{Firefly}}'' blasts off with dual pistols at one point during the rescue of Mal from BadBoss Niska in "War Stories".
399** And Jayne in the same episode carries an assault rifle in his right hand and a pistol in his left.
400** Jayne also dual-wields two oversized assault rifles in the first issue of the ''Better Days'' comic.
401* ''Series/GeneralHospital'''s Jason Morgan has done this several times in his career, including during an honest-to-god ChurchShootout.
402* In ''Series/TheGoodGuys'', Pedro ([[ProfessionalKiller the second best assassin in the world]]) is very good at trick shots so he can pull this off. [[ByTheBookCop Jack]] tries to do this but he ends up [[SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome missing with]] [[ATeamFiring every single shot]] ''[[EpicFail at point blank range]]''. Pedro shrugs and lampshades; "It's harder than it looks".
403* The one time ''Series/HomicideLifeOnTheStreet'' featured someone firing two guns at once, it was a maniac shooting up several police officers in the third-season episode "The City That Bleeds".
404* ''Series/InPlainSight'': In "Lola", the lead character and her partner pull out their backup weapon in order to drive off some assassins coming after the witness they're protecting. Played realistically: the only time anyone manages to hit anyone during that gunfight is using a single gun, and the two guns are used more for suppressive fire than to actually kill anyone.
405* In ''Series/KaizokuSentaiGokaiger'', the Gokaigers often exchange their weapons in the middle of battle. This often leads to Gokai Green and Gokai Pink wielding a pair of Gokai Guns. Given they're aliens and their default fighting style is DualWielding a sword and gun, this may be justified.
406* Eliot in the ''Series/{{Leverage}}'' episode "The Big Bang Job", in a gunfight that puts some entire action movies to shame with its over-the-top cinematics.
407-->'''Mook:''' You said you didn't like guns.\
408'''Eliot:''' I don't. [BLAM! BLAM! BLAM!] I never said I couldn't use 'em.
409* ''Series/LukeCage2016'':
410** Tone, Cottonmouth's main enforcer, uses a pair of Heckler & Koch [=MP5K=] submachine guns to shoot up Pops' barbershop during his attempted hit on Chico, a guy who has stolen from Cottonmouth. It's incredibly inefficient and reckless on his part as he only succeeds in riddling the barbershop with bullets (which is considered a neutral territory by the local gangs), he fails to kill his target, and he only succeeds in killing Pop, who caught a stray in the neck. Cottonmouth is furious enough about that last point that [[DestinationDefenestration he kills Tone by throwing him off the roof of Harlem's Paradise]].
411** Diamondback fires twin Walther PPK pistols in this pose when shooting at Misty Knight in Harlem's Paradise, and later when killing Domingo.
412** Domingo likes to wield dual Berettas in gunfights.
413* In ''Series/TheMagnificentSeven'' series JD Dunne - the youngest and least experienced of the group - uses two Colts simultaneously with much success.
414* ''Series/TheMandalorian''
415** Justified with the [[KillerRobot IG-11 droid]], as it is built so it can both [[AbnormalLimbRotationRange shoot and aim in two different directions at the same time]]. The title character has the occasional DualWielding moment, but this is only when the situation requires it.
416** In "The Prisoner", former Imperial sharpshooter Mayfield not only uses two pistols, he has a robotic arm that can fire a third pistol. This makes his sharpshooting an InformedAttribute, as he just blasts his opponents with MoreDakka.
417* In an episode of ''Series/{{NCIS}}'', Ziva uses both her primary weapon and her backup akimbo to take out goons coming in from two separate doors. Then again, she is a [[BadassIsraeli Mossad-trained badass]]. And it's extra badass, because she first calls her boss and ''makes him listen'' while she does it.
418** She also blasts it out this way against a Russian mercenary at a convenience store in the ChristmasEpisode "Newborn King."
419** [=McGee=] ends up taking up Ziva's torch in a later season, where Torres manages to distract two men long enough for [=McGee=] to climb a table and pull two guns on them to make them cooperate.
420* ''Series/PersonOfInterest'':
421** Root starts doing this in the third season. The fact that she has perfect accuracy while doing the multi-targeting variant is explained by the fact that she has a sentient and borderline omniscient supercomputer doing the aiming for her. She's just pointing the guns where she's told to.
422** When Root asks for two guns from Sameen Shaw, the latter disparages this as "Kinda lame". On seeing Root use them to take down a carload of gunmen, she changes this to [[AmazonChaser "Kinda hot"]].
423** Lionel occasionally dual-wields, with significantly less accuracy. Works reasonably well as suppressing fire, though.
424* ''Franchise/PowerRangers'':
425** In the ''Series/PowerRangersTimeForce'' and Wild Force teamup Jen, the Time Force Pink Ranger and leader of the team, uses two Chrono Blasters to shoot down the [[{{Mooks}} Putrids]], and as such it is an example of {{Fanservice}}
426** Keeping in mind that the character is using Laser Pistols (oops, we mean Blasters) which have little-to-no recoil (at general fire power mind you) and comes from the future where humans have perfected DNA modification technology, it's not too far a stretch to make it a plausible situation.
427** Another example involving Jen comes in the episode where she goes on a little [[RoaringRampageOfRevenge revenge kick]], complete with slow-motion shots and a jumping split while firing in midair in the John Woo style.
428** Also with The ''Series/PowerRangersSPD'' Red Ranger. the two pistols also form a rifle if needed.
429** The [[HumongousMecha Zords]] usually get into this too. In ''Series/PowerRangersTurbo'', the Rescue Megazord's FinishingMove involves firing simultaneously a [[{{BFG}} giant]] [[PlayingWithFire flamethrower]] and an equally big [[GatlingGood gatling gun]]. The SWAT Megazord in ''Series/PowerRangersSPD'' does a more standard version when dealing with multiple opponents.
430* In an episode of ''Series/{{Psych}}'' Lassiter gets into a brief shootout with a robber and blazes away at him with a pair of pistols while the robber returns fire [[FiringOneHanded one handed]], [[ATeamFiring both of them failing to score a hit]]. Justified by the fact that Lassiter is TriggerHappy, ProperlyParanoid, and CrazyPrepared so having a pair of guns on him during a birthday party seems perfectly normal for him.
431* In ''Series/ReillyAceOfSpies'', when the Cheka is storming the British embassy in Petrograd, Commander Cromie [[StiffUpperLip quietly informs Reilly and Hill that he will defend the embassy while they escape]], then stands at the top of the stairs with two Colt 1911s, raining fire down on the Bolsheviks until they drag a heavy machine gun into the foyer to finish him off.
432* ''Series/{{Sherlock}}'': Emelia Ricoletti opens fire on the street wielding a large revolver in each hand in [[Recap/SherlockSpecialTheAbominableBride "The Abominable Bride"]]. This later becomes an important clue [[spoiler:when it's discovered that she faked her death, by pretending to shoot herself in the mouth with one revolver (which was empty) while firing the other revolver held at her side.]]
433* In ''Series/{{Smallville}}'', Lex picks up two revolvers and is prepared to go Guns Akimbo on Green Arrow and Black Canary but Clark zips by to interfere before Lex can do something badass.
434* ''Franchise/{{Stargate|Verse}}'':
435** ''Series/StargateSG1'' once showed Daniel Jackson doing this with his Beretta [=M92F=] and an [=MP5=]. But for the ultimate extreme, Teal'c was once seen wielding two ''P-90s'' (although he only fired one at a time). In fact, other episodes feature Teal'c firing two Jaffa staffs, and even two [=MP7s=] simultaneously.
436** The Daniel Jackson example is something of a subversion as he is still in his "incompetent archaeologist" phase and does more damage to the walls. Justification: Teal'c is repeatedly shown to be stronger than almost any human could be; he also needed to be covering two hallways simultaneously.
437** Fabrique Nationale, the manufacturer of the P-90, produced an advertisement video that showed a man firing two P-90s at once on full automatic. This was intended only to demonstrate how the 5.7mm round (unique to the P-90 and Five-seveN pistol) generates very little recoil.
438** Cameron Mitchell also uses two guns while fighting zombies in the 200th episode. Justified in that this was an ImagineSpot, so practicality isn't exactly [[RuleOfCool what he was going for]].
439** The ''Series/StargateAtlantis'' episode "The Return Part II" has Teyla wielding not one but two ARG's ( Anti Replicator Guns) in the classic cross-armed casual shoot. Justified-ish considering that they're energy weapons with no recoil.
440** "Sateda" has Ronon mixing this with copious amounts of GunFu. In this case, one of the weapons is his signature [[SpacePeople Traveler]] [[RayGun blaster]] and the other is his native Satedan {{BFG}} (designed specifically to kill [[OurVampiresAreDifferent Wraiths]]).
441** Several times in ''Series/StargateAtlantis'' Dr. [=McKay=] is shown using dual pistols. Granted he is shown to miss more than he is to hit.
442** A Wraith does this with two assault rifles. Somewhat averts most of the problems with the trope. Wraiths are much, much physically stronger than humans. He is completely inaccurate, doesn't fire enough shots for reloading to be an issue, and never fires or even raises both guns at the same time. Basically seems to invoke the trope to avoid the need to reload, which he would have if he only had one gun.
443* In the first episode of ''Series/StarTrekEnterprise'' Captain Archer is seen brandishing a phase pistol in each hand during the fight in the snow, having taken one used by an injured crewmember he and the others were escorting to safety.
444* ''Series/StarTrekPicard'':
445** In "Stardust City Rag", Elnor grabs two phaser pistols and points them at Bjayzl's female bodyguards, and later, Seven of Nine shoots Bjayzl and her goons with a pair of phaser rifles.
446** In "Broken Pieces", Narissa exterminates the xBs by shooting them with two disruptors.
447* Justified use in ''Series/TerminatorTheSarahConnorChronicles'' pilot, where an unnamed Terminator attacks John with dual [=MP-5s=]. Justified in the sense that it's both a Terminator ''and'' a dream sequence.
448* Day Two of ''Series/{{Torchwood}}: [[Series/TorchwoodChildrenOfEarth Children of Earth]]'' has Gwen jumping out of the back of an ambulance and firing with a gun in each hand.
449** Gwen also ends up firing two guns after Captain Jack teaches her how to shoot in the first series.
450* Subverted in the 1990s version of ''Series/TheUntouchables''. The senior member confronts a villain who framed him. The villain tries to resist with twin tommy guns. However, the idiot doesn't realize that given how heavy the gun type is, he can't even keep them level and so doesn't do much more than shoot up the floor in front of him with a lot of noise. For his part, the Untouchable simply shoots the villain with two carefully aimed pistol shots.
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454* In ''VideoGame/PinballDreams 2'', the table "Revenge of the Robot Warriors" has a human female holding double [=BFGs=].
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458* When the dimension-hopping antics of ''Podcast/{{Sequinox}}'' arc 2 land the girls in a cowboy dimension, Chell gets two revolvers that shoot fireballs.
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462* The first Airfix release of "US Marines" - ie, generic [=WW2=] American infantry soldier figures for wargaming - included a commanding officer figure suspiciously reminiscent of a Creator/JohnWayne whose sole equipment appeared to be a pistol in each hand.
463* In ''TabletopGame/{{Deadlands}}'' dual-wielding guns, and even rifles, is possible, but offers severe penalties to hit. However, with proper Edges the player can neutralize such penalties, effectively doubling his/her firepower.
464* A recurring character in ''TabletopGame/{{Exalted}}'', the Nameless Solar, is never seen without twin plasma tongue repeaters.
465** One of the early spoilers for ''Shards of the Exalted Dream'' was a {{BFG}} known as a Godcannon. Its minimum strength requirement of 2 means that with a little bit of strength-boosting, you can dual-wield guns with 4-foot barrels and firing chambers the size of a torso.
466* ''TabletopGame/FengShui'', in keeping with Hong Kong action movies, uses this trope fairly frequently. Gun-using characters can use a gun in each hand with no penalties at all, and can blast off on mooks with both guns blazing with little problem. But against named characters, the only way to increase damage when using two guns is to buy up the Both Guns Blazing gun schtick, which doubles the base damage but allows the victim to subtract twice his toughness against it.
467* ''UsefulNotes/{{Fudge}} Firefight II'', one of the more critically acclaimed articles on the webzine, allows characters with the Double Barreled Badass knack to use two pistols as if they had an automatic weapon. This is among the most mundane knacks in the article.
468** Largely compliments of stuff like glass dancer, which makes you invulnerable and forces people to shoot at you anyways when you jump through a plate glass window guns blazing.
469* Creator/GamesWorkshop games:
470** ''TabletopGame/Warhammer40000''
471*** The Seraphim of the Adepta Sororitas are trained to wield a pair of bolt pistols using an [[GunKata ancient technique]] to fight their enemies with fluid grace. They can also upgrade their pistols to hand flamers or inferno pistols for extra power.
472*** The Exarchs of some Craftworld Eldar Aspect Shrines, such as the Dire Avengers and Warp Spiders, use their race’s advanced technology to duel-wield weapons that would be two-handed guns for other Eldar.
473*** The Tau can upgrade their Battlesuits with a support system known as a multi-tracker, allowing them to fire a pair of weapons.
474*** The Tyranid bio-weapon known as a spinefists fires great salvos of diamond hard stake-firing pistols coated in neuro-toxin and are generally wielded in pairs by the race’s warrior beasts.
475*** Cypher of the Fallen is renowned for his abilities with his bolt pistol and plasma pistol, weapons he duel-wields with greater skill than any other in the galaxy.
476*** Introduced in the game's eighth edition, Space Marine Inceptors, a heavily-armoured [[JetPack flying]] infantry unit, fight using a pair of either assault bolters or plasma exterminators, essentially one-handed versions of the Imperium's ubiquitous [[MoreDakka heavy bolters]] and {{plasma cannon}} respectively.
477*** ''[[TabletopGame/Warhammer40000KillTeam Kill Team: Nachmund]]'' introduced [[SpacePirates Voidscarred Corsairs]], who have the option of equipping one of their squad members - known as a Starstorm Duelist - with both a basic shuriken pistol and a tank-destroying fusion pistol. The Inquisitorial Agents team from ''Kill Team: Ashes of Faith'' can also field a Pistolier, who can either skulk behind cover with a Conceal order and pick enemies off with a single scoped autopistol, or "go loud" and combine that autopistol with a much harder-hitting plasma pistol.
478** ''TabletopGame/DarkHeresy'' (and its own spinoff, ''TabletopGame/RogueTrader''), allows the dual-wielding of guns with the right talents. You can also dual-wield rifles, just don't expect to hit very often.
479** In ''TabletopGame/{{Inquisitor}}'' there is a special rule that can be given to characters called Gunfighter, which does actually enable them to fire two pistol weapons simultaneously. Unless they're ambidextrous, though, it does confer an aiming penalty to the gun being used in the character's off-hand.
480** ''TabletopGame/{{Necromunda}}'':
481*** In 1st and 2nd Edition, any model with access to the Shooting Skill chart was able to acquire the 'Gunfighter' skill when they levelled up. This skill allowed the model to fire a pair of pistols at a target. This skill was also one of the common randomly generated skills available for the BountyHunter and Underhive Scum hire guns.
482*** In 3rd Edition, all models equipped with a pair of pistols are able to fire them both at a single enemy fighter but suffer a to hit penalty if they do so. The 3rd Edition 'Gunfighter' skill however allows the model to ignore the to hit penalty and target multiple enemies.
483** In ''TabletopGame/{{Warhammer}}'', and its sequel ''TabletopGame/WarhammerAgeOfSigmar'', models armed with a brace of pistols are able to fire both their weapons at the same target during the same turn.
484** ''TabletopGame/{{Mordheim}}'' uses the “fire one weapon until empty then fire the other” version of this trope for models armed with multiple pistols, allowing the model to fire every turn and bypass the need to spend a turn reloading. There is however a Shooting Skill called Pistolier that allows a model to fire both weapons at the same time when armed with a brace of pistols. The downside of this ability being that the model once again has to reload his weapons in the next turn.
485* Doing this is a very effective way to miss in ''TabletopGame/{{GURPS}}''. Cinematic characters can buy off the penalties while superhuman ones can buy Extra Attack.
486** Generally SchmuckBait even then. Almost no two handguns can beat the damage of a single rifle.
487*** [[SerialEscalation Though a high enough Strength]] allows you to pull OneHandedZweihander with any gun that's not a pump or bolt-action one. A strong enough SuperSoldier could even dual wield [[MoreDakka heavy machine guns]].
488** At least as of fourth edition, ''everyone'' can buy Extra Attack.
489*** Though Buying of the penalties (6 points) is cheaper than the Extra Attack (Pistols only) (20 points)
490*** In ''GURPS Gun-Fu'' you can buy the ability use two guns at once with no penalty for a single point, and make your guns self-reloading for another.
491* In ''TabletopGame/HcSvntDracones'' a character with at least three dots in Mind:Acuity and two in Ranged Combat can do this. But they have to split up their attack dice between the two guns so they're unlikely to hit much unless using [=SMGs=].
492* Every player character in ''TabletopGame/HongKongActionTheatre'' can do this, along with other GunsAndGunplayTropes, as a matter of style. HKAT's penchant for multiple attacks makes blasting somebody to hell with both guns blazing very, very possible.
493* ''TabletopGame/{{Ironclaw}}'' has the Akimbo Fighter gift (as an improvement of [[DualWielding Ambidexterity]]), which would allow a character to do this, even though the only guns in the setting are wheel-locks.
494* In ''TabletopGame/IronKingdoms'' we have Allisteir Caine, a gun mage Warcaster that is well known among players for his amazing skill with two spellstorm pistols.
495** Also we have Master Holt, Taryn Di La Rovissi and Pistol Wraiths.
496* Max Steiner from ''TabletopGame/MutantChronicles'' dual-wields machine pistols. He apparently got the idea from a movie he loved as a kid.
497* One of the suggested starting builds in ''TabletopGame/MyriadSong'' is "Akimbo Assassin", you fight with two pistols.
498* Surprise surprise, a very vanilla ('mortal') character can do this in 'TabletopGame/NewWorldOfDarkness' (look for Gunslinger merit). If he's also Ambidextrous, he can do this ''very'' effectively.
499* ''TabletopGame/PsionicsTheNextStageInHumanEvolution'' gives us the John Wu Special technique, which allows players to wield two guns at the same time.
500** The TK Gunslinger talent allows you to hold, fire, and reload extra guns with telekinesis. If you have both, you can wield up to four guns at once.
501* [[VigilanteMan Expatriette]] from ''TabletopGame/SentinelsOfTheMultiverse'' can use her dual handguns [[ICallItVera named]] ''Literature/PrideAndPrejudice'' this way.
502* Averted in ''TabletopGame/{{Shadowrun}}'' - dual-wielding guns is possible, but offers such penalties to hit (splitting of dice pools, penalties for offhand firing, recoil, environmental factors, etc.) that it's just not worth it. Someone with godly skill (a Gunslinger Adept or a tooled-up-to-the-max Street Samurai) might be still effective with such an arrangement, but not as much as just using one firearm at a time.
503** However, in at least 4th edition the dual-wielding of pistols is both possible and useful, if you are using different guns to make two different shots in two different actions. It keeps recoil from stacking, which would have happened if you used the same gun twice.
504* In ''TabletopGame/{{Zombicide}}'', some weapons are considered "dual" (the pistols, machine pistols and the SawedOffShotguns for guns). If you have two identical dual weapons equipped, you can fire both at the same area for one action. Also, you can pick up the Ambidexterity skill to consider every weapon as a dual weapon. Also, there is one weapon called the Evil Twins, taking only one inventory slot and considered only one weapon, though the evil twins are two handguns.
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508* ''[[Webcomic/EightBitTheater 8-Bit Theater]]'', but with ''bows and arrows''. And then pushed it to the extreme. [[http://www.nuklearpower.com/2009/01/27/episode-1087-exalted-feat/ Just see for yourself]].
509* Invoked by ''Webcomic/{{Bug|Martini}}'' [[http://www.bugcomic.com/comics/action-movies/ here.]]
510-->"Ack! What amazing peripheral vision!"
511* Cleo, eponymous heroine of ''Webcomic/CleopatraInSpaaace!'' favours a matched pair of lazer (sic) pistols.
512* In an ''Webcomic/ElGoonishShive'' filler comic, Tedd wields guns that rapid fire roses a la Tuxedo Mask from ''Manga/SailorMoon''.
513* Played somewhat realistically in ''Webcomic/ErrantStory'' when [[http://errantstory.com/comic.php?date=2006-10-30 Jon uses two weapons]] in a pinch, with opponents front and back. Both bullets are actually on their targets, but one is jumped over (you heard me right, opponent is later dealt with in hand-to-hand combat) and the other distracts the other opponent (he uses his neigh-unbreakable blade to deflect it) so Sarine can cut him almost in half. The success of the move [[http://errantstory.com/comic.php?date=2006-11-03 amazes Jon to no end]].
514* ''Webcomic/GirlGenius'': Flashbacks to the Heterodyne Boys fighting the Other show them back to back with Barry firing a massing DeathRay and Bill simultaneously using a smaller one in each hand.
515* Kore in ''Webcomic/{{Goblins}}'' is a variant, fighting with 2 AutomaticCrossbows.
516* ''Webcomic/{{Homestuck}}'''s Jake English uses this thanks to his weapon of choice, twin M9 Berettas, inherited from his grandmother. In fact, nearly all the handguns he has been seen wielding are paired up for this particular style of gunslinging (dual flintlocks, twin M9s, matched golden guns), to the point that his Strife Specibus is this, formally known as Double Pistolkind (2xpistolkind).
517* Parodied in ''Webcomic/IrregularWebcomic'' [[http://www.irregularwebcomic.net/35.html #35]], by combining it with IKnowMortalKombat.
518* In ''Webcomic/SchlockMercenary'', a four-armed alien states that the mercenaries should recruit him because with four arms, he can fire four guns at once. The recruiting officer points out that, with two eyes, he can only track one target at a time.
519-->'''Thurl:''' Don't sweat it. I'll put down 'Very enthusiastic,' and 'Seen too many Creator/JohnWoo movies.' You're in.
520** However in a [[http://www.schlockmercenary.com/2003-06-23 later comic]] he is seen quad-wielding pistols to shoot at birds.
521--->"Pull!"
522** Played straight, however, with Sergeant Schlock who, since he is able to grow additional hands as required, will cheerfully dual or triple wield {{BFG}}s; then again, Schlock can also reorient his eyes, so this isn't so unrealistic, particularly while he had an extra pair of eyes. When it came to dual-wielding his 20 kg PlasmaCannon, though, [[https://www.schlockmercenary.com/2007-05-22 the officers had some objections.]]
523--->'''Elf:''' Sergeant, when you fire your plasgun in ''one'' direction, the only safe place for friendlies is ''behind'' you. And that's giving the word "safe" a real workout. If I give you ''two'' plasguns, and you fire in multiple directions, the only safe place to the rest of us would be ''inside'' you.\
524'''Schlock:''' [[ExtremeOmnivore I promise not to chew.]]\
525'''Elf:''' I'm still gonna have to say no.
526* Lt. Dart fires two ''shotguns'' at once during the ''Webcomic/SluggyFreelance'' story arc "KITTEN II." [[http://www.sluggy.com/daily.php?date=021207 Not that it does him much good.]]
527* In ''Webcomic/TheWolfAtWestonCourt'' soldier [[OurFairiesAreDifferent Nova Petrov]] threatens a [[TheHighwayman Dwarf bandit]] with math... and guns.
528* ''Webcomic/ZokushoComics'' character, [[BloodKnight Serge]], uses a pair of guns as his main offensive strategy. When things get hairy he prefers his revolver Lucky 7, which fires magical bullets.
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532* The [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b9CK37sqoz0 Crazy X-Box Lady]] resorts to using two guns at once, after miming a pair of maracas.
533* Moira Quicksilver in ''Podcast/TheEndlessNight'' is a notorious bounty hunter who carries two matched pistols (lovingly called Righty and Lefty) to deadly effect.
534* ''WebVideo/ForgottenWeapons:'' In [[https://youtu.be/Fn6LyFxlogE this video]], the presenter dual-wields two fully automatic pistols (at about three minutes).
535--> '''Ian:''' I didn't hit nothing, I hit everything! Probably not the target though.
536* The general sign of a badass in ''WebAnimation/MadnessCombat'' is that he uses two guns at once, as shown by Hank, Sanford, Deimos, Jebus, and even some EliteMooks use it. The ability to do this, and fire at multiple targets at once, is one of the planned features of the upcoming Madness game.
537* Somewhat rare, but it occurs in ''Roleplay/SurvivalOfTheFittest''. Two examples come from v1, during the same gun battle. Peri Barclay wielded two revolvers, but this proved completely ineffective as he failed to hit anyone. Jacob Starr later did the same with his gun and one that an ally dropped, but he alternated fire between the two guns and it wasn't really to hit anyone as much as it was to force Peri and his ally Steven to keep their heads down, covering the other group's retreat.
538** Brendan Wallace wields akimbo when he's forced to try and hold off a group of terrorists sent by Danya to eliminate Liz Polanski. He doesn't fire them both at once, however, he barely even fires them at all. [[CowardlyLion He runs. This happens a lot with him.]]
539* A somewhat popular SelfImposedChallenge on {{Light Gun Game}}s is to play both sides at once and dual-wield. Some games such as ''Target: Terror Gold'' even have a mode that allows you to use both guns with one credit.
540* The Elsa van Dorst's v5 incarnation from ''Roleplay/OpenBlue'' isn't just a badass sniper anymore. Now she can fight with a rifle (or musket) in each hand.
541* ''WebAnimation/RedVsBlue'' has [[FriendlySniper Agent North Dakota]] who does this with ''sniper rifles''. [[ImprobableAimingSkills He's accurate enough that he manages to shoot missiles out of the air.]]
542** [[TheLeader Agent Carolina]] does this near the end of Season 10 with two Plasma Rifles.
543* ''WebVideo/MittenSquad'': The [[https://i.ytimg.com/vi/v3lnrpCzuxU/maxresdefault.jpg thumbnail]] for [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v3lnrpCzuxU Can You Beat Fallout: New Vegas With Only 1 Life?]] shows the Vault Boy wielding two pistols.
544* This becomes the player's main loadout in [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MD-ZX1Fv3N4 How to "Gun Only"]] ''VideoGame/{{Bloodborne}}'', with the [[HandCannon Repeater Pistol]] in one hand and the [[VideoGame/FinalFantasyVIII gunblade]] [[MixAndMatchWeapon Reiterpallasch]] in the other. Perhaps worth noting is that the Reiterpallasch's existence is what makes this style of wielding feasible, as guns are sidearms specifically assigned to the left hand while weapons that you're supposed to use as your main offense are on the right, so you can't just wield 2 guns at the same time normally.
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548* ''WesternAnimation/AdventuresOfTheGalaxyRangers'': Shane Gooseman sometimes dual-wields blaster pistols, most prominently in the title animation.
549* ''WesternAnimation/AroundTheWorldWithWillyFog'': Rigodon demonstrates a talent for dual-wielding guns in the episodes where Fog and his companions are travelling across America.
550* ''WesternAnimation/TheFairlyOddParents'': Timmy briefly uses two guns (Cosmo and Wanda, naturally) when playing a video game.
551* In the season finale of ''WesternAnimation/GreenLanternTheAnimatedSeries'', Kilowog stays behind to try to slow down the entire Red Lantern armada. By [[YouShallNotPass himself]]. First he created a pair of large machine gun constructs, then later he busted out '''quad Gatling cannons'''. He ''then'' adds a MacrossMissileMassacre launcher.
552* Major Phil Stark in ''WesternAnimation/InvasionAmerica'' invoked this trope a couple of times. Once while trying to find David on Maple Island (humorously used against a stray tree branch that David manipulated to distract him while he escaped), and again at the Glenport Galeria while trying to rescue him from [[CreepyTwins Simon and Sonia]].
553* ''WesternAnimation/{{Kaeloo}}'': Mr. Cat does this quite often. Stumpy does it along with him in the episode "Let's Play Market Vendors" when the two of them rob a supermarket.
554%%* Yosemite Sam of ''WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes'' is a more comedic example.
555%%* Being based in part off Yosemite Sam, same goes for the Rich Texan from ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons''.
556* Crazy Stunts in ''WesternAnimation/SkysurferStrikeForce'' uses two laser pistols as his primary weapons. Bioborg Replicon can shapeshift his arms into dual missile launchers or guns.
557* ''Franchise/StarWars'' animated series often have a penchant for characters who do this:
558** Among clone troopers who do this on a regular basis, we have Captain Fordo from ''WesternAnimation/StarWarsCloneWars'' (now part of ''[[Franchise/StarWarsLegends Legends]]'' after the ContinuityReboot) and Captain Rex from ''WesternAnimation/StarWarsTheCloneWars''. Actually, ''The Clone Wars'' has a ''lot'' of clones who do this, for a few reasons: ''any'' clone officer who wears [[ManInAKilt kama]] also carries twin blaster pistols (and that includes Rex). This also includes the ARC troopers. In fact, [[spoiler:Fives]] dual-wielding two DC-15 blaster rifles during the defence of Rishi Station in [[Recap/StarWarsTheCloneWarsS1E5Rookies "Rookies"]] {{foreshadow|ing}}s his later promotion to ARC trooper.
559** Even [[BatmanGrabsAGun Anakin Skywalker]] gets in on the fun in [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6RgQ8TC5xws deleted scenes]] from ''WesternAnimation/StarWarsTheCloneWars'', with the Force granting him ImprobableAimingSkills to boot.
560** This is also extremely common among [[ProudWarriorRaceGuy Mandalorians]]. Sabine Wren from ''WesternAnimation/StarWarsRebels'' is one of the most prominent examples of this.
561** Agent Tierny from ''WesternAnimation/StarWarsResistance'' is also fond of this.
562* There's a metric buttload of ''Franchise/{{Transformers}}'' that do this, but you could probably guess that. Rhinox from ''Beast Wars'' is probably the one best known for doing so - with DUAL GATLING GUNS. From the same series, Ravage wields dual guns... and stores them on his hips, Russian crossdraw style. So did the G1 "Triggerbot" Dogfight... but he didn't draw them crossways; he drew them straight and then pulled the triggers with his pinkie fingers. (All the "Trigger" Transformers - whose gimmick was engines that, by pressing a spring-loaded trigger, became weapons when they transformed into robot mode--also used Guns Akimbo to some degree.) Even some versions of Optimus Prime can do it, most famously the [[http://www.ntfa.net/universe/english/index.php?act=view&char=Optimus_Prime_PM Powermaster version]].
563** Beast Wars Rampage did this on occasion, dual wielding a smaller gun with his Tri-Barreled Cannon (shrunk down slightly to match).
564* In ''WesternAnimation/TuffPuppy'' Members of T.U.F.F. and D.O.O.M. do this sometimes.
565* ''WesternAnimation/TheVentureBros'': In the episode "O.S.I. Love You", Sergeant Hatred rushes Molotov Cocktease this way. She stands still, and every shot misses.
566* In ''WesternAnimation/VoltronForce'', [[TheLancer Lance's]] Voltcoms can form twin pistols. When it's Lance's turn to form Voltron Red Center, his Blazing weapon is a pair of high-powered energy pistols.
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570* Whenever you go to an arcade that offers 2-player shooting games, and the guns can be operated single-handedly (reload ammo by aiming off-screen and pulling the triggers, not pump action)[[note]]Bonus points though if you can operate the pumps one-handed![[/note]], insert coins, press START for both players... and see how easy it is to aim and track targets. Now imagine if both guns had ''actual recoil'', let alone the noise.
571* Subverted by the Finnish Hakkapeliittas in the UsefulNotes/ThirtyYearsWar. The Hakkapeliittas were medium cavalrymen who had helmet, breastplate, two pistols and sword. Their tactics were [[AttackAttackAttack attack the enemy formation in full gallop]], shooting one pistol at 20 m distance, second at 10 m distance and then draw sword ''without reloading the pistols''. Comparing to the usual caracole tactics of the date, more akin, to skirmishing, the hakkapeliitta charge was usually devastating, and won several battles for the Swedes.
572** The name ''hakkapeliitta'' comes from their slogan, ''[[BattleCry Hakkaa päälle]]''! (Hack them on!). It is today used by Finnish ice hockey fans.
573* A possible example of actual use of two guns firing at the same time is "Macedonian Shooting", practiced by Russian special forces. This evolved as a method of [[MoreDakka increasing rate of fire]], more in order to force the enemy to take cover than to try to accurately hit them, and was generally practiced by NKVD officers issued a pair of revolvers. If you don't believe me [[http://forums.specialistsmod.net/viewtopic.php?f=14&t=24311 see for yourself.]]
574* A group of U.S. Army soldiers decided to demonstrate this trope and its dual-inherited RuleOfCool and AwesomeButImpractical qualities on a firing range, with one soldier ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gCra4qOrjFw dual-wielding M249 Squad Automatic Weapons]]''. As they explicitly say in the video, this is very unsafe. Considering the recoil and sheer weight of those guns, the soldier is a sheer badass for ''even keeping his footing'' while he fired.
575** He '''''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ti8rRTQOgZA dual-wielded two M240 General Purpose Machine Guns]]''''', which are ''even bigger'' than the M249.
576** Note that he's forced to take a few steps back while firing. And he carefully braces himself beforehand.
577*** But wait, there is even more insane example: specifically this guy with '''''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7F_Pay7MErw two .50 cal anti-materiel rifles!]]'''''
578* Back in yon olden times when pistols were muzzle-loaded and took several minutes to reload, it was fairly common for cavalry troops and people fighting in close-quarters to carry multiple pistols. And since you only needed one hand to fire a pistol, it was quicker to hold a pistol in each hand. Nowadays this is called a [[PoliceBrutality New York]] Reload.
579** Many descriptions have the pirate Blackbeard doing this, as he carried a large number of pistols into battle. The purpose was not so much to kill anybody but to scare the defending crew into surrendering - as a successful pirate Blackbeard understood the importance of avoiding unnecessary bloodshed so he cultivated his reputation as a fearsome scourge of the seas.
580** Wild West Gunfighter "Wild Bill" Hickock is said to have wielded two 1853 'Navy' Colts at the same time using a distinctive "crossed wrist" stance. Details are lacking but he probably fired one gun at a time using the back of his other wrist as a support. It's likely he did this to avoid reloading these pre-cartridge 'cap and ball' revolvers because that takes 5-10 minutes per gun.
581** One technique that came out of the Old West (and is occasionally seen in Western novels) is the "Border Shift", where a shooter who has a pistol in each hand fires the main-hand gun until it runs dry, and then tosses each gun to the opposite hand, putting the still-loaded gun once again in the main hand. It's essentially a form of New York Reload, with the added fun of juggling loaded weapons. Needless to say, it's incredibly unsafe and extremely difficult to do smoothly.
582* It might be apropos to mention [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morris_Cohen_(adventurer) Morris "Two Gun" Cohen]], an Anglo-Canadian Jewish mercenary who fought for Dr. Sun Yat-sen, the founder of modern China. As noted on the page, his nickname came from carrying two loaded .45 semiautomatic pistols so he didn't need to immediately reload while in combat, rather than because he used both simultaneously.
583* [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sai_Wing_Mock Mock Duck]] was known for an unusual method of self-defense that combined this trope with BlindWeaponmaster.
584* 19th century Australian outlaw Ned Kelly did this with two revolvers while he and his gang were wearing suits of improvised armor in their famous gunfight against police at the Glenrowan Inn. Apparently known as a rifleman before the shootout, he made the switch because pistols were the only thing he could raise up high enough into his greatly impaired field of vision in order to sight them. This didn't work as well as he hoped, losing the fight and getting arrested, bruised and most likely deafened from the occasional headshot clanging off his armor.
585* While he and his squad were under ambush in Iraq in 2005, CombatMedic Spc. Jason Mike held off insurgents by dual-wielding [[http://www.stripes.com/news/heroes-2006-bullets-pinging-all-over-the-place-1.50135 an M4 carbine and an M249]] [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leigh_Ann_Hester according to TOW]].
586* John Chivington, a BadassPreacher and outspoken anti-slavery advocate greeted a pro-slavery mob storming his church by whipping out a pair of pistols and announcing that "By the grace of God and these two revolvers, I ''will'' preach here today!" Too bad that he became a genocidal maniac after the Civil War, disgraced for crimes against Native Americans that went past the pale, even by the era's low standards.
587* Depending on where you are, you may need to dual wield QSZ-92 semi-automatic pistols as part of the Chinese Liberation Army training. However, unless new info disproves this, it is safe to assume it is solely for the purpose of training one handed firing with both your dominant and non-dominant hand. And maybe training for "Macedonian Shooting" if a soldier is ever in need of suppressive fire and only has two pistols?
588* Alexander Solonik, nigh-legendary Russian contract killer, although initially known to be clumsy with guns and avoiding their use, is rumored to have been able to do just that during the last of his career. And with "two guns", we mean "against two separate targets", not MoreDakka.
589* When the Imperial Japanese Army overran Hong Kong during [=WW2=], the Canadian Brigadier General John K. Lawson radioed his commanders to say he was "going outside to fight it out" and was last seen exiting his command bunker with a pistol in each hand.
590* Averted in the (unattributed) old West saying: "Beware the man with only one gun -- he probably knows how to use it!" Since the most common reason to carry two guns in the West was to have a backup on hand if your other gun ran dry, if someone only ''needed'' one gun to do his business... well...
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594By the way, the word "akimbo" does NOT actually refer to DualWielding guns. It means [[DynamicAkimbo standing with your hands on your hips and elbows pointed outward]]. [[TheBigListOfBooboosAndBlunders You can no more have anything but your arms akimbo than you can flip the bird with your ear.]]

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