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Motoko: What the hell did you use?
Batou: Your standard-issue Big Gun.
Batou: Your standard-issue Big Gun.
Comic Books
My cause is just... my will is strong... and my gun is very, very large.
— Doomguy as he picks up the Trope Namer, Doom
Yelena: I wanted the BIG gun...
Gun store clerk: No offense, miss, but that weapon would've broken your back the first time you fired it.
Yelena: Because I'm a girl?
Clerk: No. Because it's designed for use by people with two backup spines.
Gun store clerk: No offense, miss, but that weapon would've broken your back the first time you fired it.
Yelena: Because I'm a girl?
Clerk: No. Because it's designed for use by people with two backup spines.
Fan Works
Captain Kanril Eleya: Tess, what the phekk is that?
Commander Tesjha Phohl: (matter-of-factly) Phased polaron minigun.
Eleya: Don't remember requisitioning that.
Tess: Bought it from a Ferengi trader while we were at DS9. He supposedly got it from the Dosi.
Eleya: You really think we’ll need that SAW?
Commander Birail Riyannis: Says the woman carrying a grenade launcher.
Commander Tesjha Phohl: (matter-of-factly) Phased polaron minigun.
Eleya: Don't remember requisitioning that.
Tess: Bought it from a Ferengi trader while we were at DS9. He supposedly got it from the Dosi.
Eleya: You really think we’ll need that SAW?
Commander Birail Riyannis: Says the woman carrying a grenade launcher.
Then Kal'Reegar came around the corner opposite the Scrin, having gained half his body-weight in gun.
— Renegade
Get that bitch a cannon. Bitches LOVE cannons!
— Alucard, Hellsing Ultimate Abridged
Oh fuck, that's an anti-tank rifle. (Beat) OH FUCK, THAT'S AN ANTI-TANK RIFLE!!
— Jan Valentine, Hellsing Ultimate Abridged, upon seeing the Harkonnen in action.
In his other hand a German-built Bigfukken rifle blazed mightily, its ejected cartridges smashing entire houses to kindling.
Film — Live-Action
Alright you primitive screwheads, listen up! You see this? This... is my BOOMSTICK! The twelve-gauge double-barreled Remington. S-Mart's top of the line. You can find this in the sporting goods department. That's right, this sweet baby was made in Grand Rapids, Michigan. Retails for about a hundred and nine, ninety five. It's got a walnut stock, cobalt blue steel, and a hair trigger. That's right. Shop smart. Shop S-Mart. You got that?!
— Ash Williams, Army of Darkness
No matter what anyone tells you, Bane, it really is the size of your gun that counts.
— Mr. Freeze. Batman & Robin
Now that's a hell of a gun.
— Guard Splattered Across Wall, Hot Shots! Part Deux
Herman Gluck: He said stay away! Stay away or he'll toss out two dead bodies!
Cop: Who said this? Who?
Herman Gluck: Who? Who? I don't know who! The one with the big fucking gun, that's who!
Cop: Who said this? Who?
Herman Gluck: Who? Who? I don't know who! The one with the big fucking gun, that's who!
Clarence Boddicker: Cobra Assault Cannon, state of the art bang bang!
Emil: I LIKE IT!
Emil: I LIKE IT!
— RoboCop
Say "Hello" to my little friend!
— Tony Montana, Scarface
Sol: What's that?
Vinnie: This is a shotgun, Sol.
Sol: It's a fucking anti-aircraft gun, Vincent!
Vinnie: Yeah. I want to raise pulses, don't I?
Sol: You'll raise ''hell'', never mind pulses!
Vinnie: This is a shotgun, Sol.
Sol: It's a fucking anti-aircraft gun, Vincent!
Vinnie: Yeah. I want to raise pulses, don't I?
Sol: You'll raise ''hell'', never mind pulses!
— Snatch.
Policeman: The kid's inside now. He's got a big gun.
Detective: And a small future.
Detective: And a small future.
"Look, Sammy, I'm not a very good shot... but the Samaritan here uses really big bullets."
Armourer: A-3, high-powered, semiautomatic.
Durkin: Something bigger.
Armourer: What? Does the Chief know you're down here?
Armourer: What the hell's he on?
Stone: Chocolate.
Armourer: Chocolate?
Durkin: (examining Wall of Weapons) Arwen grenade launcher...Calico high-capacity 9mm helical mag...SA80. Too fucking small! (takes a six-barreled shotgun down from the wall) Wow!
Armourer: No! That's an assault shotgun, fully automatic.
Durkin: Yeah!
Armourer: Listen, that fires 650 rounds a minute. (sees Stone taking one for himself) What do you need two for? What-the-fuck is this thing you're after—a Sherman tank? (Stone picks up a grenade that starts flashing red and beeping ominously) No, that's a Megatron flash grenade! You could clear the jungle with one of these things!
Live-Action TV
Twelfth Doctor: (after being fired on) Must be my friend.
First Doctor: Why do you call him your friend?
Twelfth Doctor: He's got a great big gun. Are you suggesting I insult him?
First Doctor: Why do you call him your friend?
Twelfth Doctor: He's got a great big gun. Are you suggesting I insult him?
— Doctor Who, "Twice Upon A Time"
Jamie: The M1 Garand has 150 grainsnote , this [.50 cal] has 600 grains.
Adam: This will kill you, this kills you and everyone else in the room!
Adam: This will kill you, this kills you and everyone else in the room!
— MythBusters, "Bulletproof Water"
"The 'B' stands for big, the 'G' stands for gun, and you can fill in the rest."
—High Score, on the trope namer.
Tabletop Games
I have travelled far and seen much. Yet nothing warms my heart so much as the sight of a gun so massive that its fury makes the very world tremble.
— Captain Darnath Lysander, Warhammer 40,000
If there is any one weapon that defines the the Imperium, it is the bolter. No other weapon combines high technology levels with such deliberate brutality, and no race would consider making it but mankind.
The biggest problems with a BFG involve recoil, weight and ammunition. The Thunderhead sequence X14 A solves two of these difficulties and minimizes the third. Thus, this nasty SOB has become one of the most popular heavy-duty weapons in the Technocracy, a blessing for phallically-impaired enforcers of every convention.
— Mage: The Ascension - The Technomancer's Toolbox
Video Games
"It ain't a gun if it don't weigh at least one hundred pounds!"
—The Gunner, Deep Rock Galactic
Try not to die when firing this beast.
— Warning label on the side of the Gauss Cannon, Doom (2016)
Danger. All Personnel evacuate to Mars surface. The Slayer has control of the BFG. Repeat: The Slayer has the BFG.
TIME TO COMPENSAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAATE!
Holy crap. That... is a big-ass gun.
— Brick, upon realizing the BNK-3R is packing one of these, Borderlands 2
We have the big guns!
— Chinese Tank Hunter, Command & Conquer: Generals
Oh daddy! Look at the size of that thing!
That's what she said!!!
I wonder if we can even carry that gun?
That's what she said!!!
I wonder if we can even carry that gun?
— Deadpool
No one could stand in my way. I had a mission. I had a goal. I had a really big gun.
— The Vault Dweller's memoirs, from the Fallout 2 manual
Have you seen what one of those anti-materiel rifles can do to a deathclaw?
— Gun Runner Guard, Fallout: New Vegas
The bigger the gun, the harder they fall!
— Crew Chief, ModNation Racers
We want this weapon to be like the 4th of July.
— Brian Allgeier, describing the RYNO V
of Ratchet & Clank Future: A Crack in Time
of Ratchet & Clank Future: A Crack in TimeBig problems need big heroes - with even bigger guns!
— Back PAL cover of Ratchet & Clank Future: A Crack in Time
I am Heavy Weapons Guy... and THIS is my weapon. She weighs one hundred fifty kilograms and fires two-hundred-dollar, custom-tooled cartridges at ten thousand rounds per minute. It costs four hundred thousand dollars to fire this weapon... for twelve seconds.
Web Original
I wouldn't recommend shooting at me, because your gun goes 'pew pew' but my fucking gun goes- BBBBRRRRRRRR!
Wow; that is about thirty pounds of gun!
— Kevin Murphy, the Rifftrax of Raiders of the Lost Ark
"I think Cable should be holding a BIG gun on this cover."
Well yeah he usually is.
"Pffffft, no, I mean a REALLY big gun."
wait how big
"Well something like this"
draws an artistic representation of excess
Liefeld you genius, you’ve done it again.
Well yeah he usually is.
"Pffffft, no, I mean a REALLY big gun."
wait how big
"Well something like this"
draws an artistic representation of excess
Liefeld you genius, you’ve done it again.
29. I cannot have any gun that requires me to continue the damage code on back.
112. If the gun can't fit through the x-ray machine, it doesn't go on the plane.
192. If the gun is best fired using the artillery skill, my character is not allowed to have it.
217. If the weapon is capable of staking vampires hiding behind engine blocks, I can't have it.
589. If my gun on a scale of 1-10 is a 7, it's vetoed if that's the Richter scale.
1144. I cannot have any gun that lets me kill the villain without being in at least an adjacent county.
1587. There is no way the Iteration X mage is going to make it through airport security.
1666. If it takes more than five minutes for the debris to stop falling, I need to pick a smaller gun.
2003. Any gun who's damage is best described in scientific notation is vetoed.
2067. Can't have a gun that can inflict lethal damage with just the bullet's windshear.
112. If the gun can't fit through the x-ray machine, it doesn't go on the plane.
192. If the gun is best fired using the artillery skill, my character is not allowed to have it.
217. If the weapon is capable of staking vampires hiding behind engine blocks, I can't have it.
589. If my gun on a scale of 1-10 is a 7, it's vetoed if that's the Richter scale.
1144. I cannot have any gun that lets me kill the villain without being in at least an adjacent county.
1587. There is no way the Iteration X mage is going to make it through airport security.
1666. If it takes more than five minutes for the debris to stop falling, I need to pick a smaller gun.
2003. Any gun who's damage is best described in scientific notation is vetoed.
2067. Can't have a gun that can inflict lethal damage with just the bullet's windshear.
Webcomics
MINE. Get your own wrist-breaker, Kerchak.
— Schlock, Schlock Mercenary
Sergeant: Captain, with all due respect, what's to like? Standing around being targets for bogies we're not allowed to kill?
Kerchak: Sergeant, I've seen the mercenary-issue goober guns.note They're big. Non-regulation big, even.
Sergeant: Oh?
Kerchak: (grinning) On cold nights you can fill the barrel with hot water and have yourself a bath.
Kerchak: Sergeant, I've seen the mercenary-issue goober guns.note They're big. Non-regulation big, even.
Sergeant: Oh?
Kerchak: (grinning) On cold nights you can fill the barrel with hot water and have yourself a bath.
Speaking of which, you should now confiscate Lieutenant Piebald's pistol. It can shoot a hole in the world.
The GAU-8 Avenger fires up to sixty one-pound bullets a second. It produces almost five tons of recoil force, which is crazy considering that it's mounted in a type of plane (the A-10 "Warthog") whose two engines produce only four tons of thrust each. If you put two of them in one aircraft, and fired both guns forward while opening up the throttle, the guns would win and you’d accelerate backward.
To put it another way: If I mounted a GAU-8 on my car, put the car in neutral, and started firing backward from a standstill, I would be breaking the interstate speed limit in less than three seconds.
To put it another way: If I mounted a GAU-8 on my car, put the car in neutral, and started firing backward from a standstill, I would be breaking the interstate speed limit in less than three seconds.
Western Animation
Big whoop. I'm spooning a Barrett .50 Cal. I could kill a building.
— Sterling Archer, Archer
