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7->''"Might I sugest agin, a skul-gun for my head. Yesterday in Batery Park, some scum we all know pushes smack for NSF gets jumpy and draws. I take 2 .22's, 1 in flesh, 1 in augs, befor I can get out that dam asalt gun. If I could kil just by thought, it would be beter. Is it my job to be a human target-practis backstop?"''
8-->-- '''Gunther Hermann's spelling-error filled email''', ''VideoGame/DeusEx''
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10Sometimes simply holding a weapon just isn't cool enough. Some characters just have to have weapons in the most unexpected places, like on their shoulder, on their head, or even ''inside'' a limb. Maybe they just have [[MoreDakka so much dakka]] that they can't fit any more weapons in conventional places. Or maybe they're just weird.
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12They may be:
13* ArmCannon: Ranged weapons mounted at the arm (whether on it or inside it)
14* ArmedLegs: Reinforced legs or melee weapon mounted on the legs
15* BladeBelowTheShoulder: Melee weapon (blade) mounted at the arm.
16* ButtCannon: Ranged weapons fired from the butt. Usually PlayedForLaughs.
17* ChestBlaster: Ranged weapons mounted at the chest area.
18* [[PhallicWeapon Crotch Weapon]]: Either a melee weapon (usually a blade or a stake) or a gun attached to the crotch. Even better if they're both. Tend to be PlayedForLaughs.
19* Elbow Weapon: A variant of arm weapons above, these are attached to the elbow. Likely to make your hands free.
20* FingerFirearms: guns inside fingers, whether as a concealed weapon or just for MoreDakka.
21* Hair Weapon: A rather rare one, where you can attach weapons (usually heavy, smashy ones) to your hair. Even if you don't have PrehensileHair, your hair is a potentially good whip, just waiting for something attached to it.
22* [[WeaponizedHeadgear Head Weapon]]: Weapons attached to the head, whether a cannon or a melee weapon (helping a lot with [[UseYourHead headbutting]]).
23* Hip Cannon: Gives a new meaning to "firing from the hip". Note: putting a sheathed blade at your hip is not at all unusual.
24* LegCannon: Ranged weapons mounted at the leg (whether at the thigh, the knee, lower leg, or the foot)
25* Mouth Cannon: Cannons put inside your mouth. Gives an impression of a BreathWeapon. How they work despite being inside a mouth is usually not addressed, though may be hand-waved with robotic characters. Compare CutlassBetweenTheTeeth.
26* Shell Cannon: Makes your high-defense creature a veritable tank.
27* ShoulderCannon: Ranged weapons mounted at the shoulder.
28* Stomach Blaster: Ranged weapons mounted on the stomach area.
29* [[BewareMyStingerTail Tail Weapon]]: Despite what you may think, the tail is a limb too, so why not putting a weapon at it? Especially if they're [[PrehensileTail prehensile]] enough, but it's not necessary. Note: some tail weapons are natural and thus not at all unusual.
30* Tentacle Weapon: What makes CombatTentacles even more deadly is to attach weapons to it. Blades and other sharp things are popular, but ranged weapons aren't far behind.
31* TorpedoTits: variant of Chest Blaster above, done for females. Usually PlayedForLaughs.
32* Wing Weapon: if you are a WingedHumanoid, or an actual winged creature, attaching weapons to your wings can be a help to your actual hands, or a necessary substitute if you don't have hands. Note: weapons attached to ''plane'' wings are not at all unusual. (Mecha wings are another story, however.)
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34Compare {{Natural Weapon}}s for when they're already part of the wielder, HandyFeet for doing things with your feet (including wielding a weapon) when they normally would require your hands, and BackpackCannon for weapons mounted in/from a backpack (i.e behind your back). See PhallicWeapon if the weapon's placement is suggestive.
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42* The title character of ''Manga/ZeroZeroNineOne'' has machine guns built into her ''breasts''. One has to wonder how she reloads.
43* ''Manga/AstroBoy'' has machine guns in his ''butt''. That's not just a crass joke tacked onto [[WesternAnimation/AstroBoy the 2009 CGI movie]]; it dates back to the original manga.
44* ''Manga/BlackLagoon'': In "Roberta's Blood Trail", Roberta is captured by one of her former terrorist comrades. [[InterplayOfSexAndViolence She pretends to be sexually excited]] and unbuttons her belt, only to gut-shoot him with a buckle gun. (Those kinds of things actually exist; one was made for a Nazi officer's uniform.)
45* In ''Manga/Brave10'', Oukatsu has a [[StockNinjaWeaponry kunai-like razor blade]] in her tongue.
46* Boomers in ''Anime/BubblegumCrisis'' usually have a powerful laser lens assembly in their mouths. Many also have {{Chest Blaster}}s, and at least one model of Superboomer had laser lenses pretty much all over its body.
47* ''Manga/Cyborg009'': Amongst the many weapons hidden in Albert Heinrich a.k.a. Cyborg 004's body are missiles he can launch from his knees.
48* ''Franchise/FullmetalAlchemist'':
49** In [[Manga/FullmetalAlchemist the manga]], minor character Paninya has a one-shot gun in one of her legs. The barrel comes out of her kneecap.
50** When [[spoiler:Archer]] from [[Anime/FullmetalAlchemist2003 the 2003 anime version]] comes back as a cyborg, he has a machine-gun in his mouth.
51* ''Literature/FullMetalPanic'''s third season opener had the bad guys using Arm Slaves whose standard-issue automatic rifle is supplemented by a crotch chaingun turret...
52* ''Manga/{{Gamaran}}'': Kotaro's secret weapon, the Mitsuboshi (Orion's Belt), has three long weighted chains connected to an armlet with a sickle-blade attached to it. Partially subverted since he mostly uses the chains of the weapon to attack and restrain his opponents.
53* ''Anime/GhostInTheShellStandAloneComplex'': One cyborg has a heavy machinegun in her ''elbow''.
54* Ray from ''Anime/GunXSword'' has a gun in the heel of his boot. However, he doesn't try to shoot people with it; he fires it by stomping into the ground, which summons his mecha Volcain.
55* ''Franchise/{{Gundam}}'':
56** Nearly every given Gundam will have a small pair of vulcan cannons mounted in its head as a backup weapon. At least one from ''[[Anime/MobileFighterGGundam G Gundam]]'' (the Tequila/Spike Gundam) has about ''ten''.
57** ''Anime/MobileSuitGundamWing'': Gundam Heavyarms had Gatlings and missile launchers almost everywhere BUT the crotch.
58** ''Anime/MobileSuitGundamSEED'':
59*** The Freedom Gundam has two hip-mounted cannons, and two stored in its ''wings'' (the latter of which are sadly replaced by a ChestBlaster in its upgrade).
60*** Strike Freedom's two wings turns into eight flying instruments of MoreDakka; giving it two Beam rifles, two hip-mounted railguns, a chest cannon, and eight remote-controlled beam launchers. As well as the swords mounted on the hip-mounted railguns and the Vulcans in its head.
61*** Also, the ever-popular Mouth Cannons, which spat freaking huge particle beams.
62** ''Gundam'' and all its incarnations are basically just trying to one up each other and see who can get the [[MoreDakka most Dakka]] on their suits. You have {{Mecha}} with Vulcan's in their feet, Guns for ''fingers,'' or hidden in their palms, oftentimes has some mounted on their wrists or forearm (Including swords/whips/etc), on the chest/collar/abdomen/hip/and yes...'''crotch.''' The back of the mech is literally the catch-all location to put any shiny gadget or huge gun you can think of, wings are especially popular. If that weren't enough, most mechs also carry some more guns/swords concealed inside the giant shield they're carrying (If the shield itself is not a weapon in its own right) ''or inside'' the mech itself! ''Added to that,'' sometimes they even carry AttackDrone(s)
63** ''Anime/MobileSuitGundam00'': There's also the chin/nose-mounted machinegun of the Anf (literally, nose in Arabic).
64* Stroheim from ''Manga/JojosBizarreAdventureBattleTendency'' has a machine gun in his stomach after he is made a cyborg.
65* The ''Mazinger'' series:
66** ''Anime/MazingerZ'':
67*** Mazinger-Z. [[EyeBeams Its optical sensors shot laser beams]], its grid-covered mouth launched gusts of corrosive wind, its horns shot a double FreezeRay, [[ChestBlaster its chest shot heat waves]], its fingers and belly shot missiles...
68*** Then you have Aphrodite-A introduced the TorpedoTits trope into HumongousMecha shows...
69*** Dr. Hell is infamous for fitting any sort of weapons on any place of the body of his [[{{Robeast}} Mechanical Beasts]]. Examples include Zaila (whose fingers fired missiles and whose horns were really drills), Brighton-J2 (those horns on its head? They are missiles), the ninja siblings Blazas S1 and S2 (missile launchers located on their shoulders and stomach), Solaris-S1 (its belt shoots a solar beam), Kajimofu-T7 (its palms shot beams and it had a missile launcher above its head), Gumbina-M5 (CombatTentacles instead of eyes)...
70** ''Anime/GreatMazinger'': Great Mazinger's crotch is a missile launcher. Venus-A had TorpedoTits, EyeBeams, and FingerFirearms.
71** ''Anime/UFORoboGrendizer'': Grendizer's horns can unleash electrical discharges, its backhands shoot laser rays, blades are stored into its shoulders that can be merged to form a double-headed scythe...
72** ''Manga/NewMazinger'': Mazinger had clusters of missiles stored on every place of its body. And every place means ''every place'' (including shoulders, chest, crotch...).
73* Tanaka-san from ''Manga/NegimaMagisterNegiMagi'' has a clothes-destroying laser in his mouth. He's a robot (T-ANK-Alpha 3, "Tanaka-san").
74* ''Manga/OnePiece'':
75** The shark Fishman Hody Jones' technique Kirisame ("Slashing Shark") has him attaching a blade to his dorsal fin and then slashes around his enemy with it.
76** Franky, as a {{Cyborg}}, is made up of unusual weapon mountings. He can fire nails/flames from his mouth, has razor-sharp projectile sideburns, cannons in his shoulders, a machine gun that fires explosive pellets and a mortar shell firing system in his left forearm, a gun in his left hand that fires from his index finger, a wind cannon fired by connecting both hands, and even a wind propulsion system in his buttocks that allow him to launch himself like a rocket. Post-TimeSkip, he has added rockets into his shoulders and a powerful laser beam into his hands.
77* The Hannibal military labors from ''Franchise/{{Patlabor}}'' have a 20mm rotary cannon on their rather pronounced chins as their main armament.
78* The final spaceship of the Comet Empire in ''Anime/SpaceBattleshipYamato'' has turrets mounted atop turrets mounted atop other turrets.
79* The crotch gun appears in ''Anime/SuperDimensionFortressMacross'': for some unexplained reason, the titular ship fires a spaceship-sized one in the battle against Bodolza.
80* ''Anime/{{Symphogear}}'': Shirabe's gear specializes in buzz saws, most often attached to her armor-plated GirlishPigtails.
81* Vash's Angel Arm from ''Manga/{{Trigun}}'' is literally his arm, morphing into [[{{BFG}} a huge-ass cannon]] that blows a hole on the ''moon''.
82* ''Manga/UshioAndTora'': The rogue Azafuse Guren was bestowed three Spirit Blades (Swords made specifically to slay monsters) by Hakumen no Mono. Despite being humanoid, he doesn't physically hold the swords in his hand, but has them reshaped in three double-ended katana blades (and blades only) embedded in his muzzle. They act like part of his body, so he doesn't cut himself when he talks or pokes his tongue out and can change length and angle to strike.
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86* From the ''Webcomic/GirlGenius'' spin-off card game, [[http://www.boardgamegeek.com/image/285117 General Cannonhat and his Amazing Cannon Hat,]] complete with CoolButInefficient earplugs.
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90* Big Guy from ''ComicBook/TheBigGuyAndRustyTheBoyRobot'' has [[MoreDakka a ridiculous amount of missiles and machine guns]] mounted in his arms, which can break open at the elbow to reveal the weapons inside
91* ''ComicBook/BlackCanary'''s EvilCounterpart White Canary has a blade/spike mounted on the end of her [[BraidsOfAction long braid]].
92* The [[http://www.headinjurytheater.com/article59.htm Codpiece]] from ''ComicBook/DoomPatrol'', who once provided the page image, certainly brings a new meaning to the term "cock-punch". As one can expect in a DadaComic, this character is not merely a FunnyBackgroundEvent. The Codpiece is a walking embodiment of CompensatingForSomething: a VillainOfTheWeek whose TeenyWeenie issues led him to PhallicWeapon-based supervillainy.
93%%* ComicBook/WarMachine. [[VideoGame/CapcomVs Here's my Sunday best!]]
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97* ''Fanfic/ThirtyHs'' opens with Dobby [[note]]Yes, [[Franchise/HarryPotter that Dobby]][[/note]] using a weapon called a "groinsaw" to kill an astronaut. Between the name and the fact that it is stated to "roar", it is presumably some sort of [[ChainsawGood chainsaw]] attached to the weilder's crotch. [[CrackFic It's that kind of story]].
98* The ''Fanfic/FalloutEquestria'' universe has "battle saddles": rifles, submachine guns, shotguns, and even rocket launchers and magical beam or bolt weapons (the FO:E equivalent of lasers and plasma) that rest on a pony's back like a saddle and are fired with a mouth trigger. Their ability to hit anything beyond several feet away is HandWaved by the claim that they contain [[MagiTek magical targeting talismans.]]
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102* ''Film/AustinPowers'' is the originating example for Machine Gun Jumblies.
103* One character in ''Film/FromDuskTillDawn'' has a flip-up six-shooter mounted on his crotch.
104** The crotch gun also showed up in ''Film/{{Desperado}}'', though it didn't get used.
105** It also showed up in ''Film/MacheteKills'', Paired with Machine Gun Bra
106* ''Film/PlanetTerror'', one of the two movies making up ''Film/{{Grindhouse}}'', has Cherry Darling replacing her right leg with an ''M-16 assault rifle'' after it gets eaten by a zombie. She later replaces that with a ''[[MoreDakka minigun]]''.
107** Note that ''Planet Terror'', ''[=Desperado=]'' and ''From Dusk Till Dawn'' are all films by Creator/RobertRodriguez. He seems to love this trope.
108* Franchise/{{Predator}}s use shoulder-mounted weapons.
109* Leonard in ''Film/{{Leonard Part 6}}'' has underarm rockets. These are not the most ridiculous of his weapons.
110* ''Film/SpaceTruckers'' featured unstoppable killer robots with an odd combination of head and gun.
111* Rattlesnake Jake of ''WesternAnimation/{{Rango}}'' is a literal rattlesnake with a ''machine gun on his tail in place of a rattle.'' He's even cooler and more evil than he sounds.
112* The film ''[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jules_Verne%27s_Rocket_to_the_Moon Jules Verne's Rocket To The Moon]]'' features Germany testing helmet-mounted cannons for their armies... [[AwesomeButImpractical that have such immense recoil that it tosses the shooter on his ass and]] ''[[AwesomeButImpractical embeds the helmet on his head]]''. It is part of the underlying theme of [[{{Steampunk}} the Victorian era's attempts to advance science and progress]] and the [[EpicFail Epic Fails]] that ensued.
113* The film version of ''Film/TheLordOfTheRingsTheReturnOfTheKing'' features [[WarElephants Oliphaunts]] with blades attached to their long tusks. They swath large amounts of enemies in a single swing.
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117* ''Literature/TheDiamondAge'' has skull guns. Guess where they're fired from.
118* In Sergey Lukyanenko's ''Literature/TheStarsAreColdToys'' duology, the rat-like Alari have short and weak front appendages. As such, they go into battle with back-mounted guns. Then again, their role in the Conclave is that of space fighters, not ground combatants.
119* The [[SuperSoldier Cobra warriors]] in Creator/TimothyZahn's ''Literature/TheCobraTrilogy'' are armed with antipersonnel lasers in their little fingers (which double as arcthrowers and are eventually upgraded to also function as a stun weapon) and also have an anti-armour laser in their leg. It fires ''through the heel''. They have to go through a fair amount of special training to use it effectively.
120* In Philip Jose Farmer's ''Literature/WorldOfTiers'' series, one character eventually turns out to have an arm weapon. A laser hidden ''inside'' one arm.
121* In ''Creator/RogerZelazny'''s ''Isle of the Dead'', the protagonist has a laser weapon surgically implanted in his middle finger which is triggered by...
122* ''Literature/NESGodzillaCreepypasta'' has "Not-Baragon", an enemy that looks like a bizarre bipedal elephant skeleton... who can attack with a machinegun that [[FreudWasRight comes out of its crotch]].
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126* Of course, some ''Franchise/PowerRangers'' and ''Franchise/SuperSentai'' mecha have these, most notably the Thunderstorm Megazord from ''Series/PowerRangersNinjaStorm''.
127** ''Series/ResshaSentaiToQger'' had the infamous [[https://i1.wp.com/gspcdn.sfo2.digitaloceanspaces.com/allfiction/uploads/2014/03/tqg03_header.jpg?resize=759%2C500&ssl=1 "train boner,"]] where one of the CombiningMecha components partially untransformed to be used as a battering ram -- and it ended up extending from the mecha's crotch. The fact that it was [[QuirkyWork the kind of series to include such things]] is probably the major reason it wasn't adapted for ''Power Rangers''.
128* The Cybermen seen in the ''Series/DoctorWho'' story "[[{{Recap/DoctorWhoS12E5RevengeOfTheCybermen}} Revenge of the Cybermen]]" uniquely have guns mounted in their heads, in the "third eye" position.
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132* The HumongousMecha of the ''TabletopGame/BattleTech'' universe commonly mount missile launchers and other weapons on their shoulders. Head-mounted guns are rare, due to the majority of head space being taken up by the cockpit.
133** The Mackie, the very first Battlemech, has a cannon on its ''crotch''
134** The Flea light mech has a chin-mounted flamer. Being a ChickenWalker, it can look rather... disquieting when viewed from a bad angle. [[http://www.sarna.net/wiki/File:CCG_Unlimited_Flea.jpg Behold.]]
135** The Atlas has an Autocanon/20 mounted on the hip, and a 6-shot short-range missile launcher mounted on the leg.
136** The [[http://www.sarna.net/wiki/Hauptmann Hauptmann]] has a laser mounted in it's "mouth", positioned in such a way as to look like the 'mech is smoking a cigar. Even better, it's traversable (the mouth is its traverse slot, much like those in turretless tank destroyers), so it can roll its 'cigar' back and forth in its 'mouth' for maximum macho points.
137** Some mechs such as the Cataphract have lasers mounted on their backs, this is to discourage any attacker from attacking it from behind, and can be useful to deter pursuers when running away. Though it means the mech has fewer guns to fire forward.
138* The Perseus mounts a quartet of lasers on its thighs, while the Viking has a quartet of machine guns attached to its knees.
139* Shoulder-mounted weapons are occasionally seen in ''TabletopGame/{{Warhammer 40000}}''. There is also at least one unit with helmet-mounted lasers and Commissar Yarrick has a laser weapon in his bionic eye.
140** Let's not forget the [[HumongousMecha Titans]], bipedal war machines standing between 30 and several hundred feet tall, which tend to put weapons everywhere they can fit. The Ork version, Gargants, do that too and also put weapons where they ''don't'' fit, like on top of OTHER weapons.
141** Also, there's the Tau Broadside Battlesuits, which can fire either their arm-mounted missile pods or their shoulder-mounted [[RailGun railguns]]... Or vice-versa on the mounting, if you get creative with a hobby knife.
142** And now you have Space Marine Centurions, who have arm-mounted primary weapons, and secondary weapons, usually Hurricane Bolters, mounted on the sides of the chestpiece of the huge and unwieldy armour they're wearing over their regular PowerArmor. Which means they basically have armpit-mounted MoreDakka.
143** Eldar Aspect Warriors put their weapons where it fits the theme of the aspect. Striking Scorpions have helmet-mounted guns that resemble an arachnid's mandibles, on a Swooping Hawk you can see leg-mounted downward-firing grenade launchers... so on and so forth.
144** Orks will just generally mount guns wherever one fits, most notably the Stompa's belly-gun and the armpit gun on the Deff Dredd.
145* ''TabletopGame/WarhammerAgeOfSigmar'': Brokk Grungsson apparently thought giving his PowerArmor a gigantic ornamental mustache and ''mounting a gun on each side of it'' was a swell idea.
146* ''TabletopGame/{{Munchkin}}'' has in one expansion the Shooty Hat, which is a hat with a miniature cannon on it.
147* ''TabletopGame/{{Shadowrun}}'' has cyberhands or cyberarms that contain guns of different sorts. The game also featured cyberguns that can be mounted in the mouth or the eye. Though not strictly a weapon in and of itself, a targeting laser could also be mounted in the eye. There were also cybernetic weapon and equipment mounts that could be attached to your shoulder or back. Monofiliment whip users sometimes stored the weapon in their cyberarm and used the last joint on their artificial finger as the tip weight, not unlike ''JohnnyMnemonic''
148** ''[[TabletopGame/{{Cyberpunk}} Cyberpunk 2020]]'' had the same gear / addons.
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152* ''Toys/MachineRobo: Mugenbine''. It's a continuation of the line known in the US as ''[[WesternAnimation/ChallengeOfTheGoBots GoBots]]'', except now, instead of transforming, the toys separate into their composite pieces--animal parts, drills, gun turrets, jet wings--to be combined as desired. It can get [[https://encrypted-tbn2.google.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcTDujkHITyZNT2YPdRUDXMiYCBUchYtLS6xSeOv1RdttjPh21v1wg pretty ridiculous]]...
153* The ''Toys/TransformersWarForCybertron'' toyline featured toys that had 5mm ports mounted all over their bodies to allow for maximum combination potential when it came to mounting weapons on the action figures: shoulders, forearms, legs, and in some cases even the feet were capable of being equipped.
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157* ''VideoGame/{{Extrapower}}'': The Clay Kid line of robots fire their projectiles through a cannon in their mouths.
158* ''VideoGame/NoMoreHeroes''' Destroyman has a crotch-mounted laser, earpiece lasers, and of course, "machine gun jumblies"
159* Near the end of ''VideoGame/{{Disgaea 3|AbsenceOfJustice}}'' Mao threatens to convert Sapphire to [[ShoutOut fire missiles]] [[Anime/MazingerZ out of her boobs]].
160* ''VideoGame/{{Bayonetta}}'' has guns in her stiletto heels, and she can mount other weapons there as well.
161* ''VideoGame/BravelySecond'': The Charioteer class can learn "Triple Wield," which allows a character to wield a weapon on their head, and "Quad Wield" to equip a weapon in the body slot.
162* ''VideoGame/{{Mechwarrior}} 2'' allowed you to customize and choose where to locate the weapons and equipment for your mech. Although the arms and left/right torso had the most space for this, nothing stopped you from putting guns on your mech's legs, head, or center torso. More canonically, many mechs have shoulder mounts or other unusual configurations.
163** Putting guns in the legs was actually recommended, on the grounds of them being more armored and less likely to draw fire from the AI.
164*** Not to mention losing your 'Mechs legs more or less meant automatically failing the current mission, so losing the weapon was largely unconsequental. Exactly how you're supposed to be aiming your ''[[{{BFG}} PPC]] (left leg)'' is a question [[MST3KMantra best left unanswered]], though...
165*** Another viable strategy: using all the hardware space in your 'Mech's arms for ''ammo'', since live ammo in the Mechwarrior games reacts ...[[StuffBlowingUp badly]]... to incoming fire or overheating. Storing the ammo in the arms means an ammo explosion won't wreck your 'Mech's torso, the part containing all kinds of important stuff like the powerplant (which itselfs [[MadeOfExplodium reacts explosively]] to damage...)
166** One especially memorable example is the Flea light mech, which bears a passing resemblance to an AT-ST walker. Its default armament configuration includes a flamethrower mounted in the "lower torso"... right between the upper leg joints. It looks... exactly how you'd expect it to look.
167* Gunther Hermann of ''VideoGame/DeusEx'' wants a "skul-gun".
168** He would've got one too, if he'd survived a little longer.
169** The Shifter mod, which aims to generally improve the game, actually has the skull-gun as an upgrade the player can use (though there's no real reason to, [[AwesomeButImpractical seen how ordinary guns are abundant, damage a lot more and don't drain all your energy in four shots]]).
170* The Huckebein family of mecha in ''VideoGame/SuperRobotWars'', being Franchise/{{Gundam}} {{Exp|y}}ies, also have the same head guns.
171* ''[[http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/428930 CannonCrotch]]''. ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin.
172* One type of enemy in ''VideoGame/GodHand'' is a FatBastard with a cannon on his back who has to prone to fire it.
173* ''VideoGame/RedneckRampage'' had weapons you could pick up from alien strippers. Both a physical weapon, with the machine guns from the 'nipples', and a psychological weapon, a skinny male redneck wearing a purple chrome bra...
174* ''VideoGame/MegaManAndBass'' has Ground Man, who has drills for shoulders (and treads for legs).
175* Armored Armadillo from ''VideoGame/MegaManX'' has an energy cannon ''[[http://images.wikia.com/megaman/images/7/76/X1_armored_armadillo2.jpg inside his head]]''.
176** Rainy Turtloid of ''X6'' can fire missiles out of his large shell. In a variant, aside from shooting projectiles, Crystal Snail of ''X2'' also uses his shell as a jet booster.
177** Wheel Gator of ''X2'' can fire buzzsaw wheels from his shoulders. Bubble Crab of the same game can project laser crab pincers from his shoulders. Tunnel Rhino of ''X3'' has ''drills'' on his shoulders (that he can launch), and Frost Walrus of ''X4'' similarly can fire freezing gas from his shoulders (and his removable tusks).
178** Launch Octopus also fires missiles from his tentacles (and shoulders). His brother Squid Adler from ''X5'' fires electricity from his.
179** Sting Chameleon of the first game and Neon Tiger of ''X3'' fire light shots from laser-emitters attached to their tails. Izzy Glow of ''X5'', being a firefly, takes it further. In a variant, Cyber Peacock of ''X4'' can create HardLight blades from his peacock tail.
180** Snipe Anteator from ''X7'' and Bamboo Pandamonium of ''X8'' sport homing missile launcher and grenade lobber on their backs, respectively.
181** The intro boss Eregion from ''X4'' can fire electric blasts from a cannon in its mouth. Sigma also gains a huge mouth cannon in his Wolf Sigma form in the first game, "Sigma Head" form in ''X5'', and his OneWingedAngel in ''X6''.
182* ''VideoGame/{{Pokemon}}'': Blastoise has water cannons mounted in its shell.
183* ''VideoGame/SenranKagura'': Mirai summons weapons from under her dress, including an anti-material rifle [[PhallicWeapon which looks exactly like what you'd expect]].
184* In ''VideoGame/{{Genji}}'', [[EvilSorcerer Kuyo]]'s only weapon is a sharp dagger attached to the tip of her long hair. She notably uses it like a stinger to attack the player during the Kamui phase.
185* ''VideoGame/TheSunAtNight'': Laika is an [[IntelligentGerbil alien dog]] who wears a suit with a blaster on her back.
186* ''VideoGame/GodOfWarII'', the [[{{Mooks}} Fates Sentries]] and Guardians have curved, multi-jagged blades attached to their upper arms. Not that they help them much...
187* Though never actually shown on-screen, elcor warriors in the ''Franchise/MassEffect'' franchise are mentioned to carry heavy artillery into battle on their shoulders. Since elcor are built like gorilla-elephant hybrids with very limited dexterity in their massive arms (which they primarily use for walking), this is pretty much their only option when forced into battle. Target prioritization, aiming, reloading and ammo selection are handled by sophisticated [=VIs=] installed in the weapons, leaving plodding towards the enemy lines the only thing elcor warriors have to do and earning them the moniker of "living tanks".
188* ''VideoGame/CrueltySquad'' has the Skullgun implant, which is literally a gun implanted in the wielder's skull. They have to scoop out a bit of brain matter to make it fit properly.
189* ''VideoGame/{{Rengoku}}'': One of the more commonly seen weapons are a cannon in the chest or a giant pistol as the head.
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193* ''Webcomic/SchlockMercenary'':
194** [[spoiler:nano-transformed Army-Of-One Kevyn]] has a gun ''in-between the lobes of his brain''.
195** More mundanely, Legs's gun is built into her helmet (since her species lacks hands).
196* In ''Webcomic/MassEffect3Generations'', Tali gains twin helmet lasers, just appearing there with no explanation. Given that her helmet is naturally quite thin and that Mass Effect weapons are known for generating a lot of heat, it’s a wonder her face doesn't get melted off.
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200* In the ''Franchise/{{Transformers}}'' franchise, pretty much every single plausible (and a few impractical) location on a Transformer's body has contained a weapon.
201* Also, ''WesternAnimation/MegasXLR'' has tons of guns ''everywhere'', so there should be at least few in unusual locations.
202* The Scotsman in ''WesternAnimation/SamuraiJack'' has one leg replaced by a machine gun. He's pretty nifty with it and never loses his balance when shooting.
203* As was stated in the theme song, ''WesternAnimation/SecretSquirrel'' had a cannon built into his hat.
204* ''WesternAnimation/BigGuyAndRustyTheBoyRobot'': Big guy has arms that swing up and reveal a large number of weapons that stick out of his elbows/armpits.
205* [[LampshadeHanging Lampshaded]] by Raphael in ''[[WesternAnimation/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles1987 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (1987)]]'' when they were fighting against [[SkeleBot9000 Destructor X]] who fired cannons from its kneecaps, followed by a shot from its nose cannon. Later, Destructor X revealed its massive ChestBlaster.
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209* [[http://gizmodo.com/gadgets/also-blocks-glare/head-mounted-gun-patent-blows-minds-literally-287222.php Actual patent]] [[https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/guyinventions_helmetgun.jpg for a helmet gun.]]
210* The [=SEPECAT=] [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SEPECAT_Jaguar Jaguar]] ground-attack fighter-jet. While it has the standard ground-attack weapons loadout mountable on underwing hardpoints, it plays this trope straight in its air-to-air armament which consists of a pair of '''over'''wing hardpoints to which either [=AIM=]-9 [=Sidewinder=] or Matra R550 Magic heat-seeking short-range air-to-air missiles can be mounted.
211* The Vought [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vought_F-8_Crusader#Specifications_(F-8E) F-8 Crusader]] made use of a Y-shaped pylon attached to the side of the fuselage to carry its own Sidewinder missiles.
212* In [=WW2=], anti-tank gunners came up with what was thought to be an unusual but remarkably effective[[note]]and cheap[[/note]] expedient. Why bother towing your anti-tank gun and taking valuable time to dismount, unhitch, traverse and load it (in the face of enemy fire). German, British, and Russian anti-tank gunners, independently of each other, chose to cut out the middleman and have their guns mounted directly on the back of what had previously been its prime mover (the lorry that towed it). Now all that was necessary was to turn the whole lorry to bring the gun to bear. Additional armour for crew protection could be mounted on the lorry. At first the guns were tied or chained down to the cargo-bed, but later refinements saw the weapon permanently welded into a fixed mounting. In the wide-open spaces of the Western Desert or Russia, the portée gun system became a desirable and effective part of mobile warfare. Britain found it extended the service life of the two-pounder, a weapon whose wheeled carriage was disappointingly fragile and could break beyond repair in Egypt and Libya. Portée guns went out of favour when the war moved into more settled semi-urban areas such as Italy and France.
213* Not to be outdone by mankind, nature gives us the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fontanellar_gun fontanellar gun]], a literal ''face gun'' that some species of termites have. They're basically real-life tiny snifits that shoot poisonous adhesives from their schnoz at predators.
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