History Main / AbnormalAmmo

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*** The Condiment King uses guns that shoot, well, condiments like ketchup and mustard. Pretty silly, [[NotSoHarmlessVillain until he uses hot sauce based guns and spice powder to blind people and burn their throats]].

*** Darkseid's mook Cyberpak can detach the fleshy bumps growing all over his forearms and using them like exploding projectiles (which he calls flesh grenades).

* ''ComicBook/FiftyTwo'': A later issue has Will Magnus using bullets that are miniaturized versions of his Metal Men.

*** ComicBook/TheJoker has a BANGFlagGun. for all your DoubleSubversion needs. Pull the trigger once, it sends out a "BANG!" flag. Pull it again, and it fires the flag (which has a pointed tip) into the victim. He once pulled out a gun that had a "CLICK!" flag in it, so that he could declare, "Damn! Misfire!"

*** One Darkseid's soldier is armed with twin arm cannons which shoot flaming skulls.

** ComicBook/{{Deadpool}} has an inflatable sheep gun -- a gun that fires inflatable sheep, not an inflatable gun that fires normal sheep.

** ''ComicBook/ThePunisher'' has a gun that shoots swords.

* In ''WebAnimation/ObjectOverload'', there is a cannon that fires [[AnimateInanimateObject libing objects]] called the "Contestant Cannon." Although, it did shoot a cannonball in "Branching Out."

** During the Freelancer Saga, Agent Carolina's unit has to retrieve an artefact from a enemy building. While she and Agent Washington are pinned down by a flame-throwing enemy, Washington grabs one of the experimental weapons in the room to fire it, only to discover that the ammunition bounces all over the walls like a ping-pong ball and ends up exploding somewhere down a corridor it bounced down. Wash is absolutely incensed that anyone would ever want to design something as ridiculously useless as bouncing ammo.

** And "[[http://nodwick.humor.gamespy.com/gamespyarchive/index.php?date=2005-08-16 Swordslinger]]"
* ''Webcomic/MetroidThirdDerivative'' has some. Some notable ones include the [[KineticWeaponsAreJustBetter Kinetic Beam]] which only does damage should it's target collide with something else, the Phase Beam which has mysterious space-time properties, and [[NukeEm Mega Missiles]] that nuke entire rooms (including the user too).
* From ''Webcomic/{{Narbonic}}'': "He's shooting exploding flaming poison cannonballs!" %% ?

* The ''Videogame/WorldOfWarcraft'' parody strip ''Webcomic/FlintlockesGuideToAzeroth'' uses this as a running gag. To make matters worse, most of the ammo is alive at least until the time of firing. He killed someone in one hit using a supersonic woodchuck.
** An upgraded version of "tha Chuckshot", known as the "remote backstab", involves firing Lowping, the party's rogue, at the target. After impacting, and presumably totaling anyone who gets in the way, the rogue will backstab any survivors. It works.

** The minor Franchise/{{Batman}} villain the Condiment King uses guns that shoot, well, condiments like ketchup and mustard. Pretty silly, [[NotSoHarmlessVillain until he uses hot sauce based guns and spice powder to blind people and burn their throats]].
** ComicBook/TheJoker has a BANGFlagGun, for all your DoubleSubversion needs. Pull the trigger once, it sends out a "BANG!" flag. Pull it again, and it fires the flag (which has a pointed tip) into the victim. He once pulled out a gun that had a "CLICK!" flag in it, so that he could declare, "Damn! Misfire!"

** ''Comicbook/FantasticFour'': [[AtrociousAlias Paste Pot Pete]] had a gun that shot quick-setting glue. Which would have been cooler if he didn't need to carry around a bucket in the other hand filled with his ammo. His attempt to change his name to the Trapster after designing a self-contained glue gun has been undermined by people [[OnceDoneNeverForgotten who won't let him live down]] [[ButtMonkey his earlier lameness.]]

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* The recoilless rifle with a nuclear warhead known as the [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Davy_Crockett_%28nuclear_device%29 M28 or M29 Davy Crockett Weapon System]], it fired the M388 Cartridge which contained a W54 warhead with a 10-20 ton variable yield. While this seems like a cool-looking idea, the Davy Crockett had it's share of problems: poor accuracy from the smooth bore of the gun, limited range of 1.25 mi(2km) for the M28 and 2.5 mi(4 km) for the M29, and the fact that there was no safety on the warhead itself; when the bomb, code-named "Little Feller I/II", was launched it had to explode. The weapon was, in a sense, glorified artillery and never designed for direct combat, just to hold off the enemy forces until NATO forces could mobilize into the area.
* During the nuclear test sequence ''Upshot-Knothole'' in 1953, test ''Grable'' fired an 11-inch nuclear warhead from a specially constructed artillery piece known as "Atomic Annie." This is fairly unconventional in itself, but more so if it's noted that the W9 warhead used was of similar construction to the "[[UsefulNotes/TypesOfNuclearWeapons gun-type]]" "Little Boy" bomb dropped on Hiroshima. This therefore marks perhaps the only time in history that [[RecursiveAmmo a gun has been fired out of a gun]]. The design of "Little Boy" featured a core of barely sub-critical reaction mass, with an additional radioactive slug stored separately with a gunpowder charge. At a certain altitude the gunpowder would be detonated, propelling the slug into the main core, causing it to reach critical mass and explode. Thus, the ''Grable'' test featured ''a bomb, set off by a gun, fired from another gun''.
* Aside from the rather specialised Atomic Annie piece (and its lesser-known [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2A3_Kondensator_2P Soviet counterpart]]), if one were to look-up a list of American, Soviet/Russian, NATO, and probably even Chinese artillery pieces post-1965 and pick any tube (as in a gun or howitzer, not rocket) piece of 150mm or more on that list, there is a 99% chance that artillery piece had tactical nuclear artillery shells designed for it. Even the US's [[CoolBoat Iowa-Class Battleships]] ''main 16-inch guns'' received nuclear artillery shells.
* Langrage. It is basically charging a muzzle-loaded cannon with iron and steel junk, pieces of chain, pebbles and anything shootable and shooting it against a charging enemy. The range would be less than that of a regular cannonball, but it could make horrendous damage at close range. Usually langrage was the last measure against an oncoming enemy, and if it did fail to stop the enemy, the gunners would spike the cannons and flee.
** Similar to Langrage but less improvised, you had Grapeshot and Canister. Grapeshot was a collection of relatively smaller shot bundled together, and Canister was a [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin a canister]] typically loaded with buckshot. Both are devastating when used at close range against softer targets (canister is still in use today with tanks and artillery)
* During UsefulNotes/TheVietnamWar, the crew of the USS ''Midway'' (CVA-41) found a very creative way to dispose of a [[https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/2a/A-1H_Skyraider_of_VA-25_with_toilet_bomb_on_USS_Midway_%28CVA-41%29_in_October_1965_%28NNAM.1996.253.2381%29.jpg malfunctioning toilet]].
* Corpses have often been used as catapult ammo. In fact, the Black Plague is thought to have originated in 1346, when the Mongols launched bubonic plague-infected corpses over the walls of Crimean city of Kaffa (now Feodosia) that was besieged. Six years earlier at Thun l'Eveque, decomposing animals were used as ammo. The last known incident of using plague corpses for biological warfare occurred in 1710, when Russian forces attacked the Swedes by flinging plague-infected corpses over the city walls of Reval (these days called Tallinn).
* In 204 B.C, Hannibal of Carthage had clay pots filled with venomous snakes and instructed his soldiers to throw the pots onto the decks of Pergamene ships. This was used as a ''Series/HorribleHistories'' segment. Specifically, ''[[Film/SnakesOnAPlane Snakes on a Ship]]'', complete with the line "I want these [[UnusualEuphemism Carthaginian]] snakes off this Carthaginian ship!"
* Some of the older types of cannonballs include grapeshot, exploding cannonballs, and chainshot, which was ''two cannonballs chained together'', usually used to destroy sailing masts or sails themselves. Or just fire a big wad of chain out of a cannon. It will tear a man to pieces.
* An early hobby for many tinkerers is designing such weapons. Probably the most common one is the potato gun. Followed by the marshmallow gun, a more contemporary example.
* And then there are the famous demonstrations/competitions of the physics of catapults and trebuchets, where people use them to fling watermelons, pianos, cars, and sometimes people.
* [[SufferTheSlings Slings and slingshots]]. Seeds, pebbles, coins, ball bearings, screw nuts, bone pieces -- anything that can fit on the pouch goes.
* Also not meant to be lethal -- a Japanese company sells air guns that shoot teddy bears with parachutes. For weddings, apparently.
* The famed [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dragon%27s_breath_(ammunition) Dragon's Breath shotgun round]] fires a gout of flame about 20 feet. It's "common knowledge" they damage your gun but this is actually a myth - they make it quite dirty, as can be expected from turning a regular gun into a quick flamethrower, but anything that could outright ''damage'' a gun's barrel wouldn't be safe to fire once, never mind repeatedly. They also don't have enough energy to cycle a gun thus require pump-action. Its a basically a small firework crammed inside a shotgun, but still not something you'd want to be on the receiving end of.
* For one particularly crazy example, the Taser XREP, which is miniaturized taser fitted within 12 gauge shell for long distance wireless delivery of electric shocks.
* Large-bore shotguns are sometimes loaded with rolls of coins. Makes a big, ''big'' hole at close range. Supposedly, during Stepan Razin's rebellion one of their supply squads reported about being caught by tzar's troops and having to "buy off". And clarified that they quickly ran out of bullets, but still had lots of coins... and powder.
* Uruguay gained its independence from the Spanish by, in one battle, firing rock-hard balls of Edam cheese out of its cannons at enemy ships after its ships had ran out of normal ammo.
* Used at many a sporting event: the infamous T-shirt cannon.
* The [[http://world.guns.ru/handguns/hg140-e.htm SPP-1]] pistol and the [[http://world.guns.ru/assault/as69-e.htm APS]] underwater assault ''smoothbore'' are specially designed underwater weapons with their own underwater ammunition -- long and slim bullets. Yeah, it's a real [[VideoGame/{{Quake}} nailgun]]. The more modern [[http://world.guns.ru/assault/as100-e.htm ADS]] uses both standard issue ammo for the AK-74 (in the air) and a new underwater cartridge that ''looks'' like the same 5.45x39 -- but its bullet continues all the way to the bottom of the casing.
* Before WWII, the US fielded battleships fitted with special cannons to launch seaplanes as spotter aircraft. (The aircraft rode a sort of sled pushed by the explosive charge, so it isn't quite as cool as it might have sounded there.)
* Not a weapon meant for people, but one of the ways they test jet engines, windows, and various other parts of the plane for durability against bird strike hazards is to use a specially designed cannon that fires ''whole chickens''. [[Series/{{Mythbusters}} It's important to remember to defrost them first, though]].
* The [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gyrojet Gyrojet]] line of weapons. Designed and built in the 1960s, they fired gyroscopically-stabilized 13mm rockets [[http://www.handgunsoftheworld.com/gyrojet.html looking much like normal cartridges]]. Gyrojets were supposed to be very accurate, near-recoilless, near-silent armor piercing weapons able to even work underwater like a 13mm ''torpedo''. The system [[CoolButInefficient didn't see widespread use]] due to reliability problems (the rockets' pinhole-sized jet nozzles were small enough to easily get plugged up and not strong enough to clean themselves) and consequences of the low muzzle speed -- that is, less accuracy than expected and [[ArbitraryMinimumRange being weaker than some slingshots at point blank range]] (you could allegedly prevent a round from exiting the barrel just by placing your hand over the muzzle). Although the rockets had very low exit velocity, because they continued to accelerate they ''could'' achieve supersonic speeds - but only after 20 meters or so of acceleration, by which point they were very unlikely to retain any sort of accuracy. They are considered collectors' items today and can cost as much as $1,000 per round to shoot because of the rarity of the remaining ammo.
* For more incredibly weird weapons, see [[http://www.cracked.com/article_15983_10-most-bizarre-military-experiments.html this list]] from ''Website/{{Cracked}}''.
* During the siege of Pelusium in 525 BC, the Persian general Cambyses was known for hurling live cats over the walls of the Egyptian fort to demoralize the defenders (to whom the cats were sacred). He also instructed his men to drive cats before the army, and tie cats to their shields to further deter the Egyptians. He was not a nice person.
* An early ancestor of the machine gun called a Puckle Gun (named for its inventor) fired both round ammo and special square bullets for use against non-Christians--at this time, mainly Ottoman Turkish soldiers. The square bullets were supposedly more painful, intended to [[InsaneTrollLogic "convince the Turks of the benefits of Christian civilization"]] (according to the patent); the few Puckle Guns that were actually manufactured were most likely never fired in anger, so it's unknown what the Turks would have thought of it.
* The U.S. Air Force once tried to make a "Gay Bomb". The idea was to load it full of sex pheromones and neutralise enemy forces by making them make love, not war.
** The same think-tank project also came up with a number of other odd bombs. They ranged from stink bombs designed to paralyze the enemy with the stink, to [[BeeBeeGun bombs loaded with pheromones to attract swarms of bees,]] [[CrazyPrepared the project suggesting hives being placed in the planned battle area beforehand]].
* Double A batteries make for a very dangerous projectile.
* At a high school, a physics class once used leftover fetal pigs as ammo for their potato cannons. Another physics class shot squash, tennis balls, hard boiled eggs, and someone's backpack across the school playing field. The cleanup wasn't fun though...
* Somewhere in the UK there is a man with a carrot cannon. He takes it to schools.
* To test windows and wall material against hurricanes and tornados throwing stuff around, there is a gun which shoots lumber at them.
* For an example that overlaps with BlingBlingBang, bullets made out of white gold and tipped with diamonds. [[http://most-expensive.net/bullets See for yourself.]] Unfortunately, these cannot actually be fired.
* There are toy guns that are tiny hand-held catapults that fling little plastic figurines, like monkeys, rubber chickens, and pirates.
** But [[http://www.uberreview.com/2006/05/teddy-bear-gun.htm/ this]] is definitely the cutest version - a Teddy Bear Gun.
* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F10WwQH3BUA Then, there's this.]] It's an anti-tank rocket that uses White Phosphorus instead of explosives to get the job done. It appears to rely on infiltrating through whatever chinks there are in the Nuclear-Biological-Chemical protection and causing "sympathetic detonation" of ammo.
* Musketoons and blunderbusses, the flintlock predecessor of shotguns, have been known to fire anything one can shove down their large barrel.
* A refinement to the use of chemical weapons during UsefulNotes/WorldWarI involved putting the chemical agents into artillery shells to be fired at enemy lines, which had the advantage of being [[HoistByHisOwnPetard far less likely to blow into allied trenches]] though it can with the drawback most gases would require a ''lot'' of shells to be released in an area to be appreciably lethal (except Mustard gas, which turned out to be an excellent choice of agent to put in an artillery shell). These did not explode like regular high-explosive shells and probably claimed a number of wrongly-relieved lives that assumed these shells were dud rounds. The British and Germans both even developed dedicated (and cheap) tube projectors that would be prepared and placed en masse to fling chemical agent canisters into enemy trenches named the Livens projector and gaswurfminen respectively.
* Firearms were so named because they used to shoot fire. And pebbles.
** ''Arrows'' made to be fired from guns were found in some archaeological sites dating from TheLateMiddleAges. They had brass fletchings that wouldn't be burned off by the muzzle flame, and long "tails" designed to fit snugly into the barrel of the gun.
* The Chinese were fairly creative with their cannons. In addition to cannonballs and mortars, they also liked to shoot pots filled with excrement. They were called shit bombs.
* UsefulNotes/WorldWarII:
** A number of strange bombs, rockets and munitions were designed for a variety of reasons with a varying degree of effectiveness. A drum-shaped bomb was developed by the British to bust dams by skipping along the water. The Americans tested bombs that delivered bats equipped with timed napalm charges. The Japanese used human-piloted rockets and torpedoes and the Germans developed cannons designed to "fire" gusts of wind to knock down bombers (Only the dam busting bomb was put into service and worked as planned). And those are the ones that got off the drawing board.
** Arguably the American "Tiny Tim" rocket: A 500lb semi-armor piercing naval shell with a rocket motor strapped to it.
** In the early battles, the Germans devised a strange round for their standard anti-tank rifle (a rifle of sufficient calibre to fire a large projectile that would penetrate what in this period was very thin tank armour). Attached to the armour-piercing payload bullet was a small disc of solid material, which under the heat of being fired and the friction of passage through the air, would sublimate into a measured quantity of tear gas. This was intended to incapacitate the driver or crewman, should he not have been wounded by the AP round. The problem was that the round could only carry a small amount of teargas and, always assuming the gas had not been burnt off by the bullet's passage through the air, that carried by a single strike was so small as to go undetected. As this weapon was also thought to contravene Geneva Convention regulations on use of battlefield poison gas, it was very quickly withdrawn.
* The [[UsefulNotes/KatanasOfTheRisingSun Imperial Japanese Navy]], once they realized the danger posed to even the mightiest surface combatants by aircraft, developed their ''san-shiki'' round, also called the "beehive". Fired from a capital ship's main battery, the shells detonated at a pre-set altitude, releasing shrapnel and incendiary charges. The design was intended create a "cone of flame and shrapnel", but the shells were never all that reliable, firing them damaged the gun barrels, and the blast of firing the heavy guns sometimes injured the exposed crew members of anti-aircraft guns.
** [[http://www.firequest.com/exotic-shotgun-ammo.html In general, shotguns are one of the most common medium for exotic ammo due to it's large caliber.]]
* When Key West separated from the U.S. to form the Conch Republic, they attacked Coast Guard ships by throwing stale bread and conch fritters at them. This "battle" is reenacted each year.
* By having its warhead located outside the barrel, RPG-7 ammo can be customized to anything imaginable. Officially it comes in four flavors: HEAT[[labelnote:*]]High-Explosive Anti-Tank a.k.a shaped charge.[[/labelnote]], tandem HEAT[[labelnote:*]]two-staged HEAT shells designed to defeat modern tanks, with a reputation of breaching even the armor of the Abrams & Challenger tanks, which is reputed to be nigh-invulnerable.[[/labelnote]], thermobaric[[labelnote:*]]low-density explosive fuel which sucks up oxygen from the surrounding air, causing explosions more massive than conventional explosives weight-per-weight, particularly devastating in confined space like bunkers & caves.[[/labelnote]], & fragmentation[[labelnote:*]]basically a giant frag grenade.[[/labelnote]]. Let's not get started with a myriad of homemade rounds created elsewhere.
* Performance art group (for lack of a better term) Survival Research Laboratories' shows frequently involve guns that fire plate-glass, 2x4s, beer cans filled with plaster, or fluorescent light tubes. The guns are variously mounted on or fired at rickety robots, ''usually'' not the audience.
* Website/YouTube channel [[https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCNEZ7cqaZzYLeyWfTkelkEA Taofledermaus]] has a series of videos called "You make it, we shoot it", where they receive all sorts of bizarre shotgun slugs from viewers and attempt to shoot them. They've attempted some rather exotic rounds, like the taffy slugs, brass slugs made from doorknobs, "expanding" saboted slugs made from spring-loaded door hinges, pykrete slugs (pykrete being ''ice'' and wood fibres mixed into a durable composite), gallium slugs, jelly slugs made from reconstituted gummy bears, glass slugs, and a wax-and-sand 'quartz' slug. They have also experimented with using doll arms as slugs and LEGO minifigure heads as bullets. Their favorite form of abnormal ammo is the wax slug, which can be made at home by mixing melted wax with birdshot. The result is a slug that shatters when it hits a target while transferring all of the energy of a normal slug into the target, thus minimizing the amount of penetration and maximizing the stopping power, and is surprisingly accurate.
* Another Website/YouTube channel, [[https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCBvc7pmUp9wiZIFOXEp1sCg Demolition Ranch]], brings us shotguns loaded with [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j6N3v2UvtxQ drill bits]]. Given that the drill bits are too long to fit in the shells, each shell is loaded directly into the barrel (this requires removing the barrel to load the shell and reattaching it to the shotgun).
* [[http://nerf.wikia.com/wiki/Nitro The Nerf Nitro series.]] They fire foam cars. One of them is even full-auto, magazine fed.
* ''Creator/FPSRussia'' once did a test-firing of various homemade shotgun shells, including nails and an arrow.
* The U.S Military has developed a variant of the AGM-114 Hellfire air-to-ground missile with the apparent designation of [=AGM-114RX9=], known colloquially as the "Ninja Bomb" and the "flying Ginsu" due to its peculiar modification. In lieu of an explosive warhead, the [=RX9=] instead deploys six pop-out blades akin to sword blades moments before impact, using speed of impact to cut soft targets to shreds. Although much of the weapon's design isn't widely known, it's theorized that the gruesome munition is used as a precision strike weapon to kill high-value targets whilst also minimizing collateral damage. So far, the weapon has been reportedly used to kill several high-ranking members of Al-Qaeda-affiliated terrorist organizations in Syria and Libya, although the exact number of times this munition has been used have not been confirmed.
* Allen Pan of ''[[https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCVS89U86PwqzNkK2qYNbk5A Sufficiently Advanced]]'' has invented a [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pa6BlJlrL-k mask launcher]], a gun that shoots face masks onto people who refuse to wear them during the 2020 coronavirus pandemic.
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* A promotional image for ''WesternAnimation/TheAdventuresOfSamAndMaxFreelancePolice'' featured the "rat-gat", [[http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-yDsBGn2S7aQ/UCbBaHrD4NI/AAAAAAAAAPw/a_tsPl-esOw/s1600/SM_RatGat.jpg a car-mounted gatling gun that fires rats.]]
* ''WesternAnimation/BatmanTheBraveAndTheBold'': In "Joker: The Vile and the Villainous", the Joker uses a gun that fires bullets that turn into boxing gloves.
* ''WesternAnimation/CampLakebottom'': In "Big Top Terror", Doofus the Clown has a cannon that fires rubber chickens.
* In the ''WesternAnimation/CampLazlo'' episode "Mascot Madness", Edward's mascot the Duke of Lice has a lice cannon that shoots... Well, you figure it out.
* ''WesternAnimation/CodenameKidsNextDoor'' features weapons that shoot anything from melted cheese to live hamsters. Well, anything except actual bullets. It is a kids show, after all.
** [[WesternAnimation/TheGrimAdventuresOfBillyAndMandy Mandy]] complains about this during the ''Grim Adventures of the KND'' crossover, as her new [[HumongousMecha M.A.N.D.R.O.B.O.T.]] is equipped with mustard instead of lasers; turns out the KND scientists were [[MundaneUtility using the lasers to slice bratwurst instead]].
* In ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'', Mayor Adam West has a cat launcher, which is just a crossbow that shoots live cats rather than bolts.
* In the TV ''[[WesternAnimation/JoeOrioloFelixTheCat Felix the Cat]]'' cartoon "Detective Thinking Hat", Felix uses a toy gun when he becomes a Junior G Man, which uses Soda Pop, Grape Juice and Water as ammunition. It's able to use real bullets, too.
* ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'''s "Godfellas" has Leela accidentally using Bender as a torpedo. In "Fun on a Bun", an army of cavemen takes out Zapp Brannigan's ship by catapulting a ''saber-toothed cat'' through the window.
* The pie-zooka from ''WesternAnimation/{{Gargoyles}}''. Vinnie called it [[Series/WelcomeBackKotter Mr. Kotter]].
* ''WesternAnimation/GeneratorRex'': Rex's Slam Cannon build grabs rubble and shoots that. In one episode, a fight in a bowling alley featured him treating the Pack to a brief bombardment of bowling balls. He also used it to shoot WesternAnimation/{{Ben|10}} in their crossover.
* The CG short film ''WesternAnimation/AGentlemansDuel'' features, as the last-resort weapon deployed by the French and English [[SteamPunk steam-powered]] [[GoodOldFisticuffs boxing]] [[HumongousMecha giant robots]], a howitzer that fires an angry French poodle named Fifi.
* One ''Franchise/GIJoe'' episode had the Joe team convert their vehicle and personal weapons to fire apples, using the vitamins in them to fight a giant germ.
* Hoss Delgado in ''WesternAnimation/TheGrimAdventuresOfBillyAndMandy'' can turn his bionic hand into a crossbow that shoots {{chainsaw|Good}}s.
* ''WesternAnimation/InvaderZim'':
** A gigantic, one-shot muffin cannon.
** A devastating ''sandwich'' shot from [=GIR's=] head.
** Dib's elaborate water balloon launcher, which is outdone by [[spoiler: Zim's satellite water balloon launcher, which fires Earth's supply of water into Dib's enormous head]].
* An episode of ''WesternAnimation/JimmyTwoShoes'' had a gun that shot some small, unknown creatures.
* ''WesternAnimation/{{Kaeloo}}'': Apart from the usual missiles, [[AxCrazy Mr. Cat]] uses his bazooka to launch a variety of objects such as books, sheep, paper balls, [[BreadEggsMilkSquick and people who were dumb enough to mess with him.]]
* The ''WesternAnimation/{{Madagascar}}'' short film ''The Madagascar Penguins in a Christmas Caper" used the penguin Rico as a gun, firing the contents of a bowl of peppermint candies at KillerRabbit (or in this case, poodle) Mr. Chew.
* ''WesternAnimation/TheMarvelousMisadventuresOfFlapjack'' features a villain with a mechanical whale submarine, whose cannon fires ''juvenile delinquents.'' Somewhat akin to the three rarest varieties of Castor Shell in ''Manga/OutlawStar'', because the juvenile delinquents also served as its power source (well, they shovelled the coal, anyway).
* In one episode of ''WesternAnimation/MenInBlackTheSeries'' an alien uses a gun that shoots lava on K, fortunately he cools it off with his FreezeRay in time, but that requires J to break him loose of a pile of solid rock with the [[HandCannon Noisy Cricket]].
* The title heroes of ''WesternAnimation/MightyDucksTheAnimatedSeries'' fire weapons loaded with exploding... ''pucks''.
* ''WesternAnimation/{{Motorcity}}'':
** It features a gigantic blinged-out tank more akin to a land-going battleship, owned by the insanely wealthy car collector known as the Duke of Detroit. Its monstrous gold-plated main guns fire over-sized stretch limousines as ammunition. Each cannon has its own magazine of luxury cars to blast forth, thus perhaps demonstrating the ultimate in [[BlingBlingBang weaponized excess]].
** From an ImagineSpot in the cold open of one episode:
--->'''Kane:''' I have a gun that shoots ''a snake!''
* [[FunPersonified Pinkie Pie]] from ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'' has a Party Cannon. Yes, ''a gun that shoots ''' parties''''' (more specifically, party supplies, which explains how she's able to set up parties so quickly). The Season 2 finale, "A Canterlot Wedding", shows it still functions as a weapon of the less-than-lethal variety.
* In ''WesternAnimation/TheProblemSolverz'' episode "Fauxboro", Alfe and Roba construct a Gatling gun that fires root beer.
* On ''WesternAnimation/TheRenAndStimpyShow'' Stimpy is reading the story of "[[FracturedFairyTale Robin Hoek.]]" He can't remember what Robin fired in the air with his bow but thinks it was a melon. Ren shoots a melon in the air which splatters all over him. He then believes it was a chicken, which Ren is prepared for as he is wearing a helmet this time. At the last moment, Stimpy surmises it was a moose.
* In the Creator/HannaBarbera cartoon ''WesternAnimation/RicochetRabbitAndDroopALongCoyote'', the title character had an arsenal of trick bullets, each one unique.
* In the ''WesternAnimation/RockosModernLife'' episode "Sailing the Seven ZZZ's" Mr. Bighead thinks he is a pirate while {{sleepwalking}}. He uses his laundry machine as a cannon and fires several items including a TV set, a toaster, and a blender.
* ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'':
** An accidental version when Homer joins the Navy Reserve in "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS9E19SimpsonTide Simpson Tide]]". Through his general incompetence Homer ends up firing their captain out of a torpedo tube, which then hits another sub. The men on the other sub remark that "We've been hit by an officer!" When ordered to return fire, the men are about to grab their officer who stops his men and says "Not me, a torpedo!"
** Another instance is when Homer signs up for the Army in "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS18E5GIAnnoyedGrunt G.I. (Annoyed Grunt)]]". He is assigned to be the leader of the enemy in war games. While the Army uses live ammo, Homer's army has bubbles for ammo, because the whole exercise is just an excuse for the CO to murder recruits he doesn't like.
** The make-up gun Homer invented in "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS10E2TheWizardOfEvergreenTerrace The Wizard of Evergreen Terrace]]". "Homer, you've got it set on 'whore!'"
** As Joan of Arc in "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS13E14TalesFromThePublicDomain Tales from the Public Domain]]", Lisa suggested the French army use bigger soldiers in their catapults, or better yet, rocks. The soldier who was about to be fired doesn't know how to feel.
* In ''WesternAnimation/{{Slugterra}}'', people shoot tiny cute creatures called slugs. When the slugs reach 100mph they change into their true form and have some unique effect before quickly reverting back to slug form. They're Mons as bullets.
* ''WesternAnimation/TheSpectacularSpiderMan'' has been featuring progressively more bizarre ammo.
** Tombstone's minions use full-auto machine guns that fire metal slugs which sprout tiny spikes all over in mid-air.
** [[spoiler:Comicbook/SilverSable]] fires giant staples out of a never-named [[StealthPun staple gun]]
** Spidey gets to fight a massive battle across NYC's rooftops against [[spoiler:the Green Goblin and his HyperspaceArsenal, some pumpkin-bomb-launchers camouflaged as watertowers, and hordes of pumpkin-masked Mooks wielding bazookas that fire large metal slugs sprouting tiny spikes all over in mid-air]].
* ''WesternAnimation/SpongeBobSquarePants'':
** A WhatIf episode in which Plankton and Mr. Krabs trade places has [=SpongeBob=] shooting a clothes cannon at a naked Krabs.
** Another episode has [=SpongeBob=] behind the controls of a ''dishwasher turret'', one so powerful that [=SpongeBob=] resorts to [[StuffBlowingUp crossing the streams]] in order to clean a stubborn stain from a plate, and ends up ''destroying the Krusty Krab in the process.'' If [[FridgeLogic you're wondering how beams of soap, water, and steel wool]] can cause any sort of explosion, [[RuleOfFunny don't]].
** [=SpongeBob=] himself ingests cleaners/soap bubbles and chews up bars of soap for use in battle. He's also an efficient snowball cannon.
* ''WesternAnimation/SWATKats'' has [[ThisIsADrill drill missiles]]. And claw missiles. And [[KillItWithFire burning missiles]]. And net missiles. And [[ChainsawGood chainsaw missiles]] and oilslick missiles and [[ShockAndAwe Tesla coil missiles]] and ''motorcycle'' missiles and ''jetski'' missiles and, very occasionally, actual blow-you-up-on-impact missiles. [[HyperspaceArsenal All contained in the body of a single jet fighter.]] And don't even get us started on the [[GatlingGood Gatling gun that fires balls of cement]].
** In one episode, a cauldron of boiling soup is attached to the Turbokat.
*** "Bride of the Pastmaster", when they're stuck in the Dark Ages, they rig a giant mace as ammunition.
** In "Chaos in Crystal", they also hooked up the rebuilt mining device to the Turbokat's arsenal, to use it to fix Rex Shard.
* ''WesternAnimation/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles2012'': The Shellraiser, the Turtles' WeaponizedCar[=/=]SignatureTeamTransport, has launchers that fire manhole covers and balls of compressed garbage.
* In the ''WesternAnimation/Thundercats2011'' episode "Berbils", the mercenary slaver Conquedor wields a {{BFG}} that fires giant, brightly-colored globs of [[StickySituation adhesive goo]] to stop attacks, while his {{Cute Machine|s}} victims the [[BearyFriendly Ro-Bear]] Berbils later retaliate by building a [[CoveredInGunge green slime]] dispensing turret gun in defense of their village.
* ''WesternAnimation/TheTick'':
** A superheroine has a rocket launcher that fires ''groups of poodles''.
** Another episode features George Washington Carver constructing a cannon that shoots out streams of Peanut Butter.
--->'''The Human Bullet:''' Fire me, Boy!
** Yet Another episode has the Tick face a cannon that fires sharks.
* ''WesternAnimation/TheVentureBrothers'': The Monarch's costume includes wrist-mounted launchers that typically fire tranquilizer darts--but not when he's in prison, of course. When a jailbreak goes awry, in desperation he shoots pursuing guards with his new jury-rigged launchers, which he has loaded with random substances, including his minuscule cellmate, Tiny Joseph.
-->'''Guard 1:''' What is this, Liquid Plumber?\\
'''Guard 2:''' This is that orange powder we use when someone throws up.\\
'''Guard 3:''' I got hit with a tiny little man.
* The Black Raven from ''WesternAnimation/{{Wakfu}}'' fires ''eggs that hatch into mini ravens''.
* ''WesternAnimation/WildWestCowboysOfMooMesa'' had guns that fired tiny sheriff badges, cactus spines, vegetables, spider webs, chunks of dirt, and everything else except actual bullets.
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[[folder:Tabletop Games]]
* ''Tabletopgame/BattleTech'' is full of this trope, at both the personal and the mech scale. For starters, there's the Needle pistol, which uses solid blocks of plastic as ammo. It rips off bits of plastic and fires them as a horrifically effective anti-personnel bullet (utterly useless against body armor, though). There's also the Radium Rifle, a sniper rifle that fires radioactive bullets for when you'd rather assassinate someone slowly from radiation poisoning than from gunshot wounds. On the mech level side of equipment, there's all sorts of stuff: Inferno short-range missiles which use [[KillItWithFire napalm-on-crack]] to roast the pilot alive in the cockpit and set off [[MadeOfExplodium ammunition explosions]] from sheer heat, Thunder long-range-missiles which scatter mines over the target area. And those are some of the more normal examples. It gets really wild when you include things like Fluid Guns, which can spray a target with paint, oil, or acid, or the iNARC, which fires projectiles that magnetically stick to a mech and can cause such effects as acting as a [[TargetSpotter homing beacon for allied missiles]] or a jammer that the screws up the target's sensors... Yeah, the game has a lot of options when it comes to ammo.
* ''TabletopGame/ChangelingTheDreaming'' encourages this kind of creativity when coming up with dream weapons. Still, it is pretty common to simply find a steam powered cannon firing burning coals from its own firebox. Airsoft guns firing cold iron [=BBs=] are especially lethal.
* ''TabletopGame/{{Chronopia}}'' has a number of odd and enchanted munitions for the various armies, but the winner are the Sons of Kronos with their Ceremony of Cursing. This lets them make a metallic shot with a piece of bone from their enemies in it. The effects of this Cursed Shot varies depending on the bone used and the enemy targeted, for example a bone of a dwarf will make the shot explode into metallic fragments for an area attack and against a dwarven unit -- it can knock them down.
* ''TabletopGame/Cyberpunk2020'' has its fair share of exotic ammo like flechettes and gyrojets, but perhaps the most glaring example is the ammo for the Malorian Arms Sliver Gun and the Tsunami Arms Ramjet Rifle -- both from the ''Blackhand's Street Weapons 2020'' supplement. The first weapon has a spinning flywheel in the gun to shave slivers of plastic and fire those out at high speed. The second takes the idea of the gyrojet, but exaggerates it by making the ammo an 8.5mm ramjet engine flying at hypersonic speed.
* ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons'':
** ''TabletopGame/ForgottenRealms'': [[TheMagocracy Netheril]], being a {{Magitek}} empire, devised the netherpelter (a telekinetic gun) with imprisoning, expansive (as in ''Enlarge''), decay-inducing, fireball, water jet lashing, and whirlwind (for grounding fliers) pellets as "standard" ammo, though it propels mundane darts and pellets just as well.
*** ''TabletopGame/{{Ravenloft}}'': In a flavor-text encounter from a supplement, an ally of the Weathermay-Foxgrove twins scores a glancing shot on an unidentified monster with an arrow tipped with multiple needles, each of a different substance. After the skirmish, the twins re-claim the arrow and check which needle is bloodied, thus learning the creature's KryptoniteFactor.
** ''TabletopGame/{{Spelljammer}}'' has an accelerator, a magical breachloading cannon that sucks anything placed in the ammo cup and hurls it with enough exit speed to damage ships' hulls. Grabbing the cup in such a way that some fingers happen to be inside is not recommended. Any and all living "ammo" dies in process -- even amorphous fungal mold or slime. Its way of power supply sucks, however.
** Perhaps the most disturbing ammunition in ''D&D'': arrows with ''screaming heads'' on them that distract spellcasters.
** [[HealingShiv Healing arrows]]: These arrows are meant to be fired at your own side in combat, allowing them to keep fighting. They usually heal more than they do in damage. (They double as DepletedPhlebotinumShells against the undead, thanks to ReviveKillsZombie.)
** A very old joke floating around D&D circles are paradox-tipped arrows. An enclosure holds a portable hole (literally a hole that you can carry around and store stuff in) in front of a small bag of holding (a bag that's bigger on the inside) and, upon impact, the hole is inserted into the bag which causes ''everything'' within a 10-foot-radius sphere from the bag to be displaced to another plane.
* ''TabletopGame/{{Exalted}}'':
** Sidereal Exalted have a charm that lets them fire anything smaller than their arm as an arrow, including shouts -- the latter is used as an odd communication technique. They also have a charm that transforms arrows into various things such as wheat, life-force, glass, and boulders. In the right combo, this can allow a Sidereal to fire a barrage of flaming squirrels, or something else even more ludicrous. The game [[RuleOfCool rewards]] this.
** There's a shoulder-mounted cannon that fires giant pearls covered in magical napalm.
** There's a weapon which fires solid gold bullets, and propels them towards their targets using the power of the tiny, tiny shrines inside the barrel.
** ''Shards of the Exalted Dream'' gives Sidereal Firearms the most abnormal ammo of all: ''nothing''. They can kill you without needing to load their gun... or even to ''have'' a gun... with Holistic Bullet Methodology.
* ''TabletopGame/{{GURPS}}'': There are special rules for making items that use exotic ammo. There's a joke saying a baby wearing a lobster costume in a bucket can be a PC, a weapon, or ammo. Turns out, it's not a joke.
* ''TabletopGame/{{Hol}}: Human Occupied Landfill'' had a flaming gerbil cannon.
* ''TabletopGame/HunterTheVigil'': [[TheMenInBlack Task Force Valkyrie]] has multiple ammunitions to deal with the various supernaturals, but the ''Etheric Rounds'' are arguably their crowning achievement in engineering. These are bullets that when shot, phase through into the SpiritWorld, thus allowing it to harm insubstantial and intangible creatures.
* All the odd ammo that can be fitted on a Judge's Lawgiver are available in the tabletop game version of ''ComicBook/JudgeDredd''.
* ''TabletopGame/MagicTheGathering'' is loaded (no pun--okay, okay, pun intended) with cards that shoot or throw odd things. (Most of these cards are at least partly red, the color of chaos, bloodlust, randomness, and some kinds of madness.) Aside from the [[BeeBeeGun Hornet Cannon]], there are:
** [[http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?multiverseid=233197 Acorn Catapult]].
** [[http://ww2.wizards.com/gatherer/CardDetails.aspx?&id=50338 Akki Coalflinger]]
** [[http://ww2.wizards.com/gatherer/CardDetails.aspx?id=15214 Bloodshot Cyclops]] (whom, the flavor text notes, goblins call "[[PunnyName Chuck]]").
** [[http://ww2.wizards.com/gatherer/CardDetails.aspx?&id=130686 Bloodshot Trainee]].
** [[http://ww2.wizards.com/gatherer/CardDetails.aspx?&id=140217 Brion Stoutarm]]
** The [[http://ww2.wizards.com/gatherer/CardDetails.aspx?&id=19680 Catapult Master]] has to be shooting something that's more than a big rock; the ''[[http://ww2.wizards.com/gatherer/CardDetails.aspx?&id=129808 Wrath of God]]'' doesn't kill creatures [[DeaderThanDead so thoroughly as he does]].
** [[http://ww2.wizards.com/gatherer/CardDetails.aspx?&id=29755 Chainflinger]]
** [[http://ww2.wizards.com/gatherer/CardDetails.aspx?&id=26837 Deadapult]]
** [[http://ww2.wizards.com/gatherer/CardDetails.aspx?&id=40197 Doom Cannon]] (it seems to shoot a laser...but the fuel for that laser is a living being)
** [[http://ww2.wizards.com/gatherer/CardDetails.aspx?&id=29862 Ember Shot]]
** [[http://ww2.wizards.com/gatherer/CardDetails.aspx?&id=5151 Fling]]
** [[http://ww2.wizards.com/gatherer/CardDetails.aspx?&id=45467 Fodder Cannon]]
** [[http://ww2.wizards.com/gatherer/CardDetails.aspx?&id=146447 Fodder Launch]]
** [[http://ww2.wizards.com/gatherer/CardDetails.aspx?&id=4821 Goblin Bombardment]]
** [[http://ww2.wizards.com/gatherer/CardDetails.aspx?&id=228959 Goblin Fireslinger]]
** [[http://ww2.wizards.com/gatherer/CardDetails.aspx?id=25659 Grapeshot Catapult]]
** [[http://ww2.wizards.com/gatherer/CardDetails.aspx?&id=74636 Ishi-Ishi, Akki Crackshot]]
** [[http://ww2.wizards.com/gatherer/CardDetails.aspx?&id=4618 Mogg Cannon]]
** [[http://ww2.wizards.com/gatherer/CardDetails.aspx?&id=42039 Needleshot Gourna]]
** [[http://ww2.wizards.com/gatherer/CardDetails.aspx?id=2422 Skull Catapult]]
** [[http://ww2.wizards.com/gatherer/CardDetails.aspx?&id=46103 Spikeshot Goblin]]
** [[http://ww2.wizards.com/gatherer/CardDetails.aspx?name=Steam%20Catapult Steam Catapult]]
** [[http://ww2.wizards.com/gatherer/CardDetails.aspx?id=4090 Stone Giant]]
** [[http://ww2.wizards.com/gatherer/CardDetails.aspx?&id=927 Stone-Throwing Devils]]
** [[http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?multiverseid=370467 Tar Pitcher]]
* In the ''TabletopGame/MutantChronicles'' universe, the Dark Legion uses things like small, rapidly-multiplying, flesh-eating maggots encased in bullet shells, or bullets treated with a highly infectious disease. The Nazgaroth heavy machinegun fires special bullets that each have a small rune branded onto them to increase their power. If a human soldier is hit with one of those, he will be influenced by the dark symmetry in one way or the other (if he survives). The Megacorporations with their Cartel, especially the elite [[DoomTroops Doom Troopers]], love to use ammo filled with plasma for an explosive effect.
* An image in the free ''TabletopGame/{{Nobilis}}'' release "The Story Of Treasure" has a desperate fellow named Mercutio attempting to weaponise an Anchor (someone tied to him with mystical bonds) with a so-called "Sleeping-Beauty-a-Pult".
* ''TabletopGame/{{Rifts}}'': There are special rules for making items that use exotic ammo. There's a joke saying a baby wearing a lobster costume in a bucket can be a PC, a weapon, or ammo. Turns out, it's not a joke.
* ''TabletopGame/RocketAge'' features Radium laced flame thrower fuel, which apparently burns hotter, more efficiently and ''explodes'' into an even larger fireball. Did we mention it's also radioactive? The Jovians also make use of plastic spitting splinter guns and cannons, to make up for their lack of metal.
* ''TabletopGame/{{Scion}}'' has Knacks that let you pick up far more than you should, as well as Knacks that give you immense throwing ability. With Epic Strength 10, Strength 5, and the right knacks, you can throw anything in the world. The game notes that at a certain point (say, throwing the ''U.S.S. Ronald Reagan''), damage becomes narrative rather than dice-based.
* In the ''Franchise/StarshipTroopers'' RPG, there are several weapons that do this, including grenades that can be filled with chemical agents and missile launchers that shoot rockets that unleash walls of fire.
* ''TabletopGame/Warhammer40000'': While basic bullets, explosive bullets and laser beams are the most common kind of things you'll see flying around a battlefield, many forces have access to much wielder things:
** Space Marine Sternguard Veterans carry special-issue ammunition for their Bolters. They can pack Hellfire bolts carrying acid that melts flesh on contact, Vengeance Rounds that use "unstable flux core technology" to take out PoweredArmor users, Kraken Pattern Penetrator Rounds that have a significantly longer range than normal bolts, and Dragonfire rounds that hit enemies through cover as if it weren't even there.
** The armory of the Adeptus Mechanicus includes things like the [[ShockAndAwe Galvanic Rifle]] and the [[ILoveNuclearPower Radium Carbine]] as standard infantry weapons for the Skitarii. They do use more ordinary fare like bolters and stubbers, but the majority of their arsenal fires unique ammunition.
** The larger [[GiantMecha Titans]] can be equipped with some interesting weaponry. Quake cannons fire shells imbued with the death cries of shattered planets, and some Emperor Titans carry ballistic missiles that open {{Hell Gate}}s where they hit. The one known Castigator Titan had a cannon that fired daemons, although that was likely due to its Chaos corruption.
** Chaos had some nasty shit in their arsenal such as the Lord of Skulls daemon engine which had a gun that shot scalding blood that would soak through the joints of armour and boil the victim inside. Other Chaos units had weapons which shot diseased bile or magically flaming shells etc.
** The [[SpaceElves Eldar]] carry rifles that fire molecular-edged shuriken and nets made of RazorFloss as basic equipment. Their more exotic gear includes guns that fire miniature black holes.
** [[TheFairFolk Dark Eldar]] have guns that fire screaming wires that make anyone they hit explode, guns that fire poisonous glass shards, and guns that fire the captured souls of [[ColdBloodedTorture tortured]] psychics.
** [[HordeOfAlienLocusts Tyranids]] use biological guns which use muscle impulses to fire killer beetles, killer maggots, acid crystals, floating spores or ''exploding tumours''.
** [[SpaceOrcs Orks]] have a notoriously improvisational approach to their technology, and any impressive weapon is typically a unique custom piece; they also tend to think that weapons should be as dramatic and impressive as possible. Consequently, this trope tends to crop up fairly regularly.
*** Shokk Attack Guns fire tiny goblins through hyperspace, which are driven insane by the experience and materialize in a berserk frenzy somewhere within their target's body.
*** An artillery piece fires bubbles made from unstable force fields, which produce completely random results -- some will hit like a backhanded slap, some will crush steel.
*** Orks also make extensive use of squigs, carnivorous hopping fungus monsters, as live ammo for a variety of launchers and catapults. The ammo comes in bite-your-face-off, toxic and explosive varieties, because that's squigs for you; more exotic kinds include pots filled with aggressive alien bees, squigs that bellow at ear-busting volumes, and "the truly revolting -- and panic-inducing -- bowel-torrent squigs".
** [[SkeleBot9000 The Necrons]] use guns that strip off your armour, skin, flesh and organs layer by layer.
** Plague Marines have the {{Shrunken Head}}s of the victims of Papa Nurgle's Plague as a type of grenade. We assume it's the nausea effect that makes them so effective.
** One option for the Khorne worshippers, the skullhurler, is a gun shaped like a big skull that shoots smaller skulls. As in, literal skulls.
** There are grenades that open a portal to hell, grenades that stop time, anti-magic grenades (which are made from the Emperor's waste products), EMP grenades, hallucinogenic gas grenades, and grenades which unleash a virulent virus.
* ''TabletopGame/{{Warhammer}}'':
** The Doom Diver is a giant slingshot that launches Goblins, most of whom volunteer for the jon. An Orc army featured in ''Magazine/WhiteDwarf'' also has a stone thrower rebuilt as a Squig Thrower; a squig-firing cannon would later appear in the Storm of Chaos event.
** The halfling half-joking army list includes a soup pot catapult.
** The Tomb Kings have the Screaming Skull Catapult, which launches, well, screaming skulls.
** The Hellcannon, heavy artillery used by the Warriors of Chaos, loads living beings as ammunition and then fires their ''souls''.
** Ogres don't tend to have a lot of anything (at least, not a lot of identical things). This includes bullets and cannonballs, so they just make due with anything on hand; a few spoons, a fork or two, a rock, and that gnoblar on your shoulder. The Gnoblar Scraplauncher uses a similar mixture, launching assorted gear taken from other races which is too small for ogres and too big for gnoblars, and has the Killing Blow special rule to represent the chance of a random sword, looted off a battlefield, landing blade first.
** The [[YouDirtyRat Skaven]] sometimes use ammo made of Warpstone -- the solidified stuff of pure Chaos, which mutates anyone it touches.
** ''TabletopGame/BloodBowl'' has Throw Team Mate, which allows [[FastballSpecial larger players to throw small ones in place of the ball.]]
* In the ''TabletopGame/{{Zombicide}}'' expansion Toxic City Mall, you can find the "Small Change" item, which means a [[MoneyToBurn lot of coins]]. They increase the damage dealt by a SawedOffShotgun to 2. But after a ZombieApocalypse, what else is money good for?
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[[folder:Live-Action TV]]
* ''Series/TheATeam'' once built a couple of cannons that shot cabbages at the bad guys. Yes, ''cabbages''.
* ''Series/{{Bones}}'':
** While pursuing a bad guy, Brennan and Booth are stunned by the bomb the perp dropped. You know how bombs sometimes have nails and such attached to them to increase damage? [[spoiler:This one had human teeth.]]
** In the episode "The Shot in the Dark", [[spoiler: a stalker at the Jeffersonian shot Brennan in the chest. While she was recovering from the gunshot, the Squints were stymied at the lack of either a bullet or an exit wound. Hodgins considered the ice bullet theory, but recognized that ice bullets would vaporize in a conventional gun due to the heat of igniting gunpowder, and since ice is less dense than lead they wouldn't do that much damage anyway. He later suggested the theory that Brennan's would-be killer used a high-powered air-brush as his 'gun', and froze human blood inside a container of liquid nitrogen to produce the bullets; since blood plasma is denser than water, the frozen blood would make an effective bullet, and melt seemingly without a trace. The fact that Brennan at one point suffered complications from receiving the wrong bloodtype, although hospital records confirmed she received the correct type, also pointed to a blood bullet. Brennan was able to prove Hodgins' theory by undergoing exploratory surgery that allowed the doctors to retrieve traces of the blood bullet that nicked her ribs]].
* ''Series/{{Bottom}}'': Spudgun was named for his ability to fire potatoes out of a certain part of his anatomy.
-->'''Richie:''' Why do they call you Spudgun?\\
'''Spudgun:''' Give me a potato and I'll show you why.\\
'''Eddie:''' No-no, you don't want to see that Rich!\\
'''Richie:''' And why do they call you Hedgehog?\\
'''Dave Hedgehog:''' Give me a hedgehog and I'll show you why!
* ''Series/{{CSI}}'': One episode has a killer make a bullet out of frozen ground beef.
* ''Series/DadsArmy'': In one episode, the Walmington-on-Sea Platoon fails to complete a task set by a training instructor and the following morning find themselves with the prospect of repelling a simulated attack without the training shells they were supposed to acquire in the previous excercise, Private Fraser has an epiphany and points out the artillery piece they have with them is a smooth-bore weapon and can fire practically anything, Sergeant Wilson adds they just need something hard but not lethal, Captain Mainwaring starts to say they don't have anything hard but not lethal but remembers there's several hundred onions in the back of Jone's van. The Training Instructor gives them full marks for ingenuity.
* ''Series/TheDayOfTheTriffids1981'' includes an anti-Triffid gun that fires little spinning sawblades at the Triffid's slender stems.
* ''Series/DoctorWho'':
** Shotguns loaded with rock-salt are used in "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS15E3ImageOfTheFendahl Image of the Fendahl]]". This happens to be TruthInTelevision, rock-salt is sometimes loaded into shotguns to cause pain but little damage. In this case, though, the ammo is used because the salt is a lethal poison to the Fendahleen. The Doctor also surmises that this fact is the source of the belief that salt is a powerful defense against black magic.
** In "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS33E1AsylumOfTheDaleks Asylum of the Daleks]]", the Daleks fire the Doctor at the eponymous asylum from space, assuming a PersonOfMassDestruction like him will inevitably wreck the facility once there.
* In ''Series/EngineSentaiGoonger'' a MonsterOfTheWeek manages to pull a GrandTheftMe on the team's Red Ranger; they manage to reclaim his body by loading his soul into the team's BFG and firing it (represented by an image of his head surrounded by flames) at his body, which forcibly ejects the monster.
* ''Series/{{Farscape}}'': The wormhole weapons can shoot a) black holes that grow geometrically or b) wormholes that can then shoot chunks of plasma-hot star at a target. If you include the ''Peacekeeper Wars'' TV movie, you get to see both occur in the course of the series. While it isn't immediately obvious, what the wormhole weapon did was connect two points in space - a sun and an enemy ship. That's where the plasma came from and that's why it's so cumbersome to use.
* ''Series/GameOfThrones'':
** Anguy briefly commissions Gendry to forge bodkin points for piercing plate, though the stated effective range of 200 yards is quite excessive.
** At the end of "Breaker of Chains", Daenerys' catapults fire barrels full of broken slave collars over the walls to encourage the slaves inside to revolt.
* ''Series/GetSmart''. A KAOS assassin posing as a vampire used a gun that fires twin ice bullets, leaving the distinctive VampireBitesSuck mark, but no evidence of any weapon.
* ''Series/JAKQDengekitai'': The final episode features the heroes launching a missile that turns into a rat in midair.
* ''Series/JonathanCreek'': In "The Letters of Septimus Noone", Ridley proposes a solution to the crime that involves the victim being shot with a crossbow bolt made of frozen blood. He's wrong, especially as his theory also involves the victim lying on the floor doing stretching exercises in her underwear when she was shot.
* ''Series/JunkyardWars'': Anytime the series has its teams build weapons of any sort you can count on at least one of them scrounging up something odd to cram down their barrel -- like the balls off iron bedposts, cement-filled spray paint cans, or pieces of rebar -- not always with fireable success. Other times they would specifically task the teams with designing machines to "fire" large objects - a washing machine catapult, or "car curling".
* ''Series/LegendsOfTomorrow'': In [[Recap/LegendsOfTomorrowS2E6OutlawCountry "Outlaw Country"]], Quentin Turnball uses [[{{Unobtanium}} dwarf star alloy]] bullets, ammo that explodes into blue flames, and can even penetrate [[Comicbook/CommanderSteel Nate's]] bulletproof skin.
* In ''Series/{{Mash}}'', Col. Potter, who has having a crisis of confidence in his surgical skills, has a meltdown when a visiting officer is giving a presentation of dealing with wounds created by the Chinese using white phosphorus ammunition.
* ''Series/{{Monk}}'': In "Mr. Monk and the TV Star," there is a ''Series/{{CSI}}'' parody called ''Crime Lab: SF''. When Monk, Sharona, Stottlemeyer and Disher walk into the dubbing studio to arrest star/executive producer Brad Terry for murder, he's in the middle of doing dubbing work for an episode in which a killer covers his tracks with bullets made of frozen blood.
* ''The Series/MythBusters'':
** They have made air cannons that have shot the following: conventional cannonballs, baseballs, chickens (frozen and thawed), straws and twigs, piano wire, Kevlar-wrapped steak, a net, styrofoam cups full of liquid, and a whole host of other strange items. There was also the section of sewer-type pipe they modified to shoot Buster, their much-abused crash test dummy, with a blast of high explosives. The ice, gelatin, and frozen meat bullets mentioned elsewhere in this trope were all tested and all were busted. They also modified a rifle to fire a penny--this time, it ''was'' potentially lethal.
** Also, inspired by the ''Franchise/PiratesOfTheCaribbean'' example, they loaded up a whole variety of odd ammo into a US Civil War era cannon to test their effectiveness. Examples included bottles of rum, wooden legs, silverware, steak knives, nails, lengths of chain, and ''cheese'', with varying levels of effectiveness.
** Cigarette butts shoved into the barrel of a shotgun, which proved to be potentially lethal at close range. (Unsmoked cigarettes were less useful, and almost resulted in a false Busted.) Additionally, those were supermarket cigarettes; the myth in question involved a couple of hillbillies, so they probably smoked roll-your-owns -- no lightweight filter, more mass, more impact force... you get the point.
** Or the Korean Hwacha. A salvo of arrows. Arrows propelled 500 yards by gunpowder rockets. That then exploded when they land.
** Or the bowling ball fired from a modified gas cylinder, using match heads as propellant.
** Soda. It started with styro cup with ice, cup with soda, soda and ice, slushy, and culminated w/Jamie's shoulder-mounted [[PunnyName pop-gun]].
** Not strictly ''ammo'', but in a late 2009 episode, they built a cannon out of ''duct tape''. That fired a five-pound iron ball several hundred feet. They've also built and tested both a wood cannon and a leather cannon.
** They have crafted cannonballs from ice. As opposed to the aforementioned ice bullet myth, where the bullets simply melted, they successfully fired these things out of a genuine cannon with enough force to blow off their target dummy's arm with a just a glancing hit.
** In the same episode they fired an intact ping-pong ball at Mach 1.4. The impact itself was not lethal, but the cannon left one ''hell'' of a pneumatic trauma injury.
** Finally, they created a hook cannon for a Batmobile high-speed turn myth.
* ''Series/OddSquad'' often resorts to this kind of ammo when agents need to defeat villains, due to its kid-friendly nature. Some examples include Olive, Oscar, Otto and Orson knocking out a large group of villains with ice cream in "Undercover Olive" and Evil Teddy's teddy bear minions attacking two agents-in-training with, what else, teddy bears in "Assistant's Creed", among many others.
* ''Series/RizzoliAndIsles'': In "Knockout", the killer uses bullets made out of dental gypsum and bone fragments that break up inside the body of the victim, leaving no bullet for a ballistics match.
* ''Radio/RoyalCanadianAirFarce'': "Chicken Cannon: Target of the Week", originally a dig at pitiful mid-nineties Canadian military budgets, has a cannon used to fire upon pictures of whomever the show's writers thought were deserving of a little public humiliation. The traditional projectile of a rubber chicken was often supplemented with "custom" ammo suited to the situation at hand (e.g., sawdust for someone involved in the softwood lumber dispute, or Eggos for a politician who was perceived to waffle. And sometimes Jell-O for the hell of it -- or, more accurately, because [[CatchPhrase there's always room for Jell-O]].)
* In ''Series/{{Smallville}}'', one villain of the week used Kryptonite bullets to shoot Clark Kent, nearly killing the future Man of Steel.
* ''Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine'': Played with in "Field of Fire", in which a series of murders on the station are tied to a ballistic weapon that fired a physical projectile, which, in an era when all firearms are directed energy weapons such as phasers and disruptors, is highly unusual. All the more still when said ballistic weapon uses [[WeaponizedTeleportation a microtransporter to teleport the projectiles right in front of the killer's victims]].
* ''Series/{{Supernatural}}'': The Winchester brothers use shotguns loaded with rock salt for ghost-dispersal.
* ''Series/TopGearUK'' once used a gun that fired cars. The kind you drive. In the episode, they fired a selection of old cars into a quarry. At a colossal dartboard. [[spoiler:Richard Hammond won. By crushing a caravan with a flying Volvo.]]
* ''Series/TopGearUS'' had Adam create an anti-moron car (a [=1990s=] Impala) armed with a variety of abnormal weaponry. Tanner tried tailgating ([[AcceptableTargets in a BMW, of course]]) him, only for Adam to fire the ''squid cannon'', showering Tanner's car in hundreds of dead squid. The Impala was also kitted out with a series of paint guns.
* ''Series/TrueBlood'': Jason uses a wooden bullet to dispatch StalkerWithACrush Franklin.
* ''Series/UltraSeven'' has the eponymous alien [[spoiler:shrink down to about an inch high, run into the barrel of Ultra Garrison officer Furuhashi's BFG, then fly out the business end when Furuhashi fired the next shot]], all to destroy robot kaijuu Crazygon.
* ''Series/XPlay'': Parodied when auxiliary character "Johnny Extreme" proposes a video game idea that involves rocket launchers that shoot chainsaws that explode.
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Compare ImprobableAimingSkills, where the ammunition does something unusual, but isn't ''made'' of anything unusual, and ImprovisedWeapon and ImprobableWeaponUser, where the weapon is unusual, but may not be a gun.

May overlap with ImpossiblyCoolWeapon (where the weapon is exotic, not the ammo).

[[folder:Literature]]
* ''Literature/TenSixtySixAndAllThat'' explains that one advantage of the [[UsefulNotes/EnglishCivilWar Roundheads]] having perfectly round heads was that, "if any man lost his head in action, it could be used as a cannon-ball by the artillery (which was done at the Siege of Worcester)."
* ''Literature/TwentyThousandLeaguesUnderTheSea'': [[TheCaptain Captain Nemo]] equips his underwater hunting parties with air-rifles that fire electrically-charged glass bullets.
%%* ''Literature/AgainstADarkBackground'': The Lazy Gun never destroys its target the same way twice, and seems to have a warped sense of humor.
* Creator/ChinaMieville:
** ''Literature/BasLagCycle'': A race of {{Cactus Pe|rson}}ople known as the cactacae, while they can be punctured by bullets, crossbow bolts, arrows and the like, have a complete lack of internal organs that makes such weapons next-to-useless. They're also enormous, extremely strong, and covered with spines, which makes close-range weapons like blades or clubs viable but generally a bad idea. A sort of crossbow called a "rivebow" was invented to get around this problem. It fires huge whirling chakris that can sever the heads and limbs of humans and cactacae alike, but rivebows are [[AwesomeButImpractical so heavy and unwieldy that usually only other cactacae carry them]].
** ''Literature/UnLunDun'': Deeba acquires the [=UnGun=], which fires [[spoiler:larger amounts of whatever you put in it. It, among other things, fires hair and ants]]. This is WAY more badass than it sounds and then it [[spoiler:fires nothing...uh, well, more like "unfires," acting like a vacuum to suck up the Smog]].
* ''Literature/DrThorndyke'': In "The Aluminium Dagger", the specially-made titular weapon was shot out of a Chassepot rifle to create one of the most far-fetched locked-room murder mysteries yet.
* In ''Literature/TheChroniclesOfAmber'', the only substance that can be used as a propellant for firearms in Amber is jeweller's rouge.
* In ''Literature/DanceoftheButterfly'', enhanced ammunition is used by [[spoiler:Hunters]] to harm [[spoiler:supernatural creatures]]. The bullets come with a tracer-like amber coloring when fired to illustrate their special nature.
* ''Literature/DarkFuture'': Explosive rounds are remarkably widespread in everything from pistols up. [=GenTech=] manufacture a special version of napalm that genetically bonds to skin on contact and continues to burn ''underwater and inside of people''. They also make smart bullets, referred to in-universe as 'smugslugs,' that can track human heartbeats.
* ''Literature/DeceptionPoint'': The evil Delta Force soldiers carry guns that can make ammo from nearly anything you jam in the barrel, from ice to sand.
* ''Literature/TheDemonPrinces'' puts in the hands of its protagonist a device that fires "slivers of explosive glass" and either another device or the same device with different loadings/settings, which discharges very fine needles that cause intense and prolonged itching.
* ''Literature/{{Discworld}}'': [[AllTrollsAreDifferent Detritus the Troll]] uses a converted siege crossbow loaded with a bundle of regular crossbow bolts. The firing speed is high enough that the ammo generally shatters and then bursts into flame (or vice-versa) ending up in a supersonic flaming ball of wooden shards, which is why it's called "the Piecemaker". The Watch typically has Detritus pull it out when they need a door blown off its hinges and collateral damage isn't a concern.
* ''Literature/TheDresdenFiles'': After seeing gun-for-hire Kincaid use dragon's breath shotgun rounds -- a real-life form of magnesium-based incendiary shotgun shell that produces an effect similar to a very short-term flamethrower -- Harry does a little research and finds that shotguns can shoot all kinds of interesting things. He settles on the fireball shell -- which doesn't exist; he's probably referring to the flare shell, which does and is similar -- for himself.
* ''Literature/DungeonCrawlerCarl'' receives a loot box from a benefactor, containing a xistera extension customised to throw [[spoiler:decapitated love doll heads]]. He immediately puts it to use.
* ''Literature/FelixCastor'': {{Justified|Trope}}. People are often up against the undead, and so make ammo with extra silver tippings, or from rosary beads or [[ItMakesSenseInContext ground up bits of first communion photos]].
* Creator/FredSaberhagen:
** In ''The Holmes-Dracula File'', the Count made a point of congratulating Holmes for thinking to use wooden bullets. This one is a fairly common strain of Abnormal Ammo. It's the secret weapon used to tip the balance of power between warring vampire factions in the film ''Sundown: The Vampire In Retreat'', while the vampire-hunter squad in the excellent TV series ''Series/Ultraviolet1998'' use a high-tech, hardened-carbon variant.
** In another Saberhagen vampire book a contemporary police officer improvises a wooden projectile by sticking an ordinary wooden pencil into the barrel of his revolver.
* ''Goblins of the Film/{{Labyrinth}}'', a tie-in book, mentions a goblin tradition that the first shot of each battle should be harmless but unpleasant and shows a goblin clearly attempting to crap into a cannon barrel. It also has a kind of wine that requires the sharpened cork to be fired like a cannonball, leading to considerable casualties, especially since the wine itself is deadly poisonous.
* ''Literature/JohnCarterOfMars'' has breakable glass bullets, filled with a powder that explodes in sunlight. The {{Literary Agent|Hypothesis}} translates the Martian term for the powder as radium, but is stated that it's because it's what he expects from it anyway.
* ''Literature/{{Krabat}}'': Golden bullets are the only ones that can kill magic users. At one point, a golden button is used as a bullet.
* ''Literature/KingdomOfJackals'': Bullets are made of ''glass'', not metal, because their propellant is explosive ''tree sap'' rather than gunpowder. In Nature, such sap is produced by boom-barrel trees to launch their seeds for miles; in firearms, the two sap components are contained in rear chambers of each cartridge, separated by a thin partition that's shattered by the trigger-mechanism to make them mix and explode. Disadvantages to this system are that 1) multi-shot weapons tend to blow up in wielders' hands because shock waves from a first shot can rupture the adjacent cartridges, and 2) misfired rounds ejected to clear one's weapon become inadvertent land mines, ready to blow your foot off if you accidentally step on them.
* ''Literature/KnownSpace'': Agents of [[FunWithAcronyms ARM]] generally use guns that shoot crystallized doses of fast acting sedative. How or why this is better than tranquilizer dart guns is unknown. Probably it's better because the ammo is smaller and lighter. A dart gun has to shoot not only the tranquilizer, but also the syringe that delivers it; a "mercy pistol" only has to shoot the tranquilizer itself.
* In ''Literature/LogansRun'', the Sandman cops carry The Gun, which is a 6-shot revolver where each round is different. Among its payloads are a regular bullet, an expanding net, and a heat-seeking bullet. Oddly enough, they don't seem to carry backup rounds...
* In ''Literature/TheLordOfTheRings'', the forces of {{Mordor}} used catapults to launch the severed heads of their defeated enemies over the walls of Minas Tirith, mostly to mock and demoralize opponents.
* ''Literature/MistbornTheOriginalTrilogy'': Mistings prefer to use their pseudo-magnetic powers to launch coins at enemies -- and to achieve NotQuiteFlight by firing them into the ground and pushing off to shoot themselves into the air. This gives them some aspect of inconspicuousness, as carrying a coinpouch is hardly suspicious; plus, coins are the most common metal thing of suitable size and weight to use for ammunition, since the local EvilOverlord has suppressed the development of firearms. By the time of ''Literature/WaxAndWayne'', society has rediscovered firearms and regular bullets are back in vogue. Also in ''Wax and Wayne'', Wax (himself a Coinshot Misting) wears a vest with mostly wooden buttons and one steel button as an EmergencyWeapon.
* ''Literature/{{Nightside}}'': The Speaking Gun fires lethal ''words''... specifically, the Words of ''God'', inverted. Whatever God created, the Gun can unmake by speaking the Word of Creation that brought it into being, backwards.
* ''Literature/TheOrderOfOddFish'': The Apology Gun shoots... well, apologies. However, they can range from extremely sincere to lethally sarcastic.
* Creator/PoulAnderson: At least one short story involves tranquilizer darts that, if they hit a wall or armor instead of flesh, would break open -- and then the drug inside would instantly volatize into tranquilizer ''gas''.
* ''Literature/PrinceRoger'' has "bead rifles", which use mass driver technology to propel glass beads at hypersonic speeds. The energy release at impact is ''very'' destructive. Glass beads are cheap, easy to make, extremely hard, and tend to shatter on impact so you don't need to worry about over-penetration. A mass driver will presumably let you fire them without breaking. Even more exotic is tightly coiled net made of monomolecular filaments that expand upon firing. They make mincemeat out of unarmored targets.
* ''Literature/RickBrant'': In ''The Pirates of Shan,'' Zircon fires tacks out of a cannon at the eponymous villains. Later, Chahda sprinkles the leftover tacks on the deck of their ship to injure any pirates who try to sneak aboard at night.
* ''Literature/{{Sharpe}}'': In ''Sharpe's Revenge'', Sharpe is severely outnumbered (as usual) but does have a chest of gold coins, which he fires at the approaching enemy. This is not to kill them, but to get them scattering to pick the coins up so he can escape.
* ''Literature/SigmaForce'': In ''The Seventh Plague'', Kowalski uses an experimental gun called a 'Piezer' that is described as a sawed-off shotgun... that fires electrified crystals, delivering a powerful shock to anyone and anything it hits.
* ''Literature/SirHenryMerrivale'': ''The Plague Court Murders'' involves a murder where the victim was shot by a bullet carved from [[spoiler:rock salt that dissolved in his body, leaving no trace]].
* "Some Knowledge of the Knife", a Creator/JTEdson short story, us a murder mystery in which the assassination weapon is an oddly-balanced knife fired from a large-bore "wall gun".
* ''Literature/StarCarrier'': H'rulka ships carry guns that fire what amounts to a miniature black hole at their targets. The weapon can easily one-shot smaller Confederation vessels at longer range than most of them can return fire from.
* ''Franchise/StarWarsLegends'': Every ranged Yuuzhan Vong weapon fits this description, from the living ship that fires miniature black holes to a living snake/staff/whip weapon that spits venom.
* In ''Film/TheStrongMan'', the audience watching Harry Langdon's strong man act turns into a rioting mob. Langdon throws the weights and barbells from the strong man act into the cannon meant for the HumanCannonball finale, and fires at the crowd. He also uses a barrel of liquor as ammo.
* In ''The Thackery T. Lambshead Cabinet of Curiosities'', the Bear Gun is mentioned at the very end. It shoots bears. Read that again. Tiny bears are used as the ammunition, which expand at some point after leaving the barrel. On the same page as the Bear Gun is the "Coffin Torpedo", which is [[AluminumChristmasTrees based off a real life device to prevent desecration of one's coffin.]] However, instead of powder and shot, this coffin torpedo is implied to employ a [[NuclearOption nuclear device]].
* ''Literature/ThoseWhoWalkInDarkness'': Soledad goes so far as to design her own ammo for fighting {{Mutants}}, with an average of one AchillesHeel exploited per ammo type. A few of the many examples include phosphorus bullets to fight [[PlayingWithFire pyrokinetics]], bullets coated with contact poison for foes that are Nigh Invulnerable ''homing bullets'' for use against enemies with SuperSpeed, and exploding bullets for virtually anything.
* ''TabletopGame/Warhammer40000'':
** ''Literature/SoulDrinkers'': One weapon is a daemon bound into a gun that fires its own daemonic spawn at enemies.
** ''Literature/ThousandSons'': In ''The Tale of Ctesias'', the titular sorcerer owns a bolt pistol whose rounds contain vials of liquefied daemon essence instead of the usual explosive charge. Firing one causes the vial to shatter, unleashing the daemon trapped inside and allowing it to attack the first thing it sees.
* ''Literature/{{Valhalla}}'' by Ari Bach features robotic knife insects, microwave weapons and gatling shotguns, and mentions drill-shot, flesh eating bacteria injectors, grinding needle disks, deep-tissue spaz-razors, chainsaw launchers and many even more bizarre weapons.
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[[folder:Films -- Live-Action]]
* ''Film/BladeTrilogy'' explores this in all three installments of the franchise. "Daylight flare" bullets that expose vampires to a momentary deadly flash are especially prominent.
* ''Film/BugsyMalone'': All the gangs are developing machine guns that throw cream pies.
* ''The Bullet Vanishes''/''The Phantom Bullet'' has a detective trying to find who is commiting a series of murders in 1930s Shanghai with bullets that disappear from the bullet holes. Like the two films above, a bullet made of ice is theorized at one point and tested but firing it out of a pistol is proven to not work because the explosion of the primer melts it instantly and the detectives heard ''gunshots'' themselves at some points (making the second alternative to launching the bullet - a crossbow - not fit with the crime scene). The peasants, as a result, think that the murders are being committed with "phantom bullets" and it's a curse. [[spoiler:It turns out that the criminal commiting the murders is doing so with custom rounds that are made of bone, which splinters in many pieces and mixes up with the other bone shards caused by the bullet wrecking the skeleton.]]
* ''Film/CityHunterTheCupidsPerfume'': In the final fight, Poncho uses a leaf blower to shoot... live ducklings at mooks. In slo-mo. With a long close-up on the poor flying duckling.
* In ''Film/ConanTheBarbarian1982'', Thulsa Doom uses a snake as an arrow. Apparently he heard of a "bow and arrow" and thought it meant "bow and ''adder''", or perhaps boa and arrow. [[spoiler:Valeria falls victim to the snake arrow in question, and the Princess very nearly suffers the same fate near the end of the Battle of the Mounds.]]
* ''Film/TheCrow'': Eric Draven blows up Gideon's pawnshop by spilling gasoline all through it and firing a blast from a shotgun he'd stuffed with dozens of pawned/stolen rings (although it did have a normal charge in it as well).
* ''Film/District9'': The "pig cannon." According to the director, there actually are random pig carcasses lying around South African slums, so [[spoiler:the PoweredArmor using one as ammo for its gravity gun isn't so weird]]. Actually... it is pretty weird, but RuleOfCool applies.
* ''Film/{{Elysium}}'':
** One of the weapons that Max uses is a modified AKM that uses airbursting explosive ammunition, each round as powerful as modern-day 40mm grenades. This literally makes this weapon into an full-automatic fire-capable grenade launcher.
** There's also the remote-triggered explosive shotgun slug, which packed enough explosive power to disable a ship engine. And then we have Kruger's explosive shuriken.
* ''Film/ErnestGoesToCamp'': The climax pits Ernest and his campers against the Krader Mining crew using slews of improvised weapons: a canoe catapult which fires an exploding toilet and parachute equipped snapping turtles, rocket powered exploding camp lanterns, and the "Liver-Loaf Lunch Arranger" a bizarre auto-cooker that fires its meals which include such unappetizing fare as "graham cracker bouillabaisse" out the bazooka-like end at high velocity.
* ''Film/eXistenZ'': One of the weapons featured is a bone gun that fires ''human teeth'' -- using chunks of jawbone as cartridges.
* In ''Film/GIJoeRetaliation'' -- its ''trailer'', no less -- we are treated to a motorcycle that is made of ROCKETS. Which are immediately fired into a building after said bike is ramped into the air and its rider leaps to safety.
* ''Franchise/{{Hellboy}}'':
** In ''Film/Hellboy2004'' the titular character's revolver shoots at least two oddball rounds: one drips a glowing fluid from the wound to make a monster easier to follow, the other is a clear canister containing holy water and bits of silver, wolfsbane, white oak, garlic, and other substances hated by supernatural beings.
** ''Film/Hellboy2019'':
*** When Alice threatens Hellboy with a shotgun during their first (conscious) encounter, she claims to have loaded it with shells made from ''angel bones''. [[OhCrap Judging by Hellboy's face]], this is not only entirely possible, but would actually be dangerous to him.
*** [[spoiler:Daimio]] commissions a special weapon for the sole purpose of killing Hellboy. The result is a single massive bullet that contains, among other exotic ingredients, parts of the silver coins Judas received for betraying Jesus.
* In ''Film/HoboWithAShotgun'', one of the members of the Plague, Grinder, carries a spear gun that fires a short spear up into the ceiling, pulling along a short rope tied around any of their unfortunate victims' necks that quickly strangles them to death, essentially being a "gallows gun".
* ''Film/HotShotsPartDeux'':
** Topper runs out of arrows after missing about fifteen times due to [[CoincidentalDodge his oblivious target just happening to bend over]], take a side-step, etc, at exactly the right time. So Topper [[CluckingFunny fires a chicken]] at him instead.
** The same movie also features a gun that bops someone on the head with a hammer from close range, and another that springs out a punching fist.
** When a certain character finds herself weaponless, she finds a box of ammo. So what does she do? She grabs a handful of bullets and throws them at the bad guys, taking them all out.
* In ''Film/KillBillVol2'', Budd proactively cancels the Bride's attack on him by knocking her on her back with a blast of rock salt to the chest from a double-barreled shotgun. [[http://www.theboxotruth.com/docs/bot33.htm This is a real-world option for less-lethal fire, but mostly at close range]].
* In ''Film/KillerKlownsFromOuterSpace'', the {{Love Interest|s}} is attacked by a Klown who blasts her with ''popcorn''. When she gets home safely and takes a shower, the popcorn kernels come to life and grow into worm-like Klown larvae, which attack her when she's leaving the bathroom.
* In ''Film/TheLordOfTheRingsTheReturnOfTheKing'', in the battle for Minas Tirith the trebuchets in Minas Tirith hurl ''broken-off chunks of the city's buildings'', a metre or more across, at the attacking Orcs. The Orcs have their own catapults, and they hurl the severed heads of the defenders of Osgiliath into the city to demoralise the defending Men.
* ''Film/TheMatrixRevolutions'' features a giant, full auto, deconstructor robot gun.
* ''Film/MontyPythonAndTheHolyGrail'': The evil French fling several things at the English knights. Including a cow and the large wooden rabbit the English constructed in an attempt to "Trojan horse" their way inside.
* ''Film/MostWanted'' introduces the concept of a bullet made of ice, the idea being that the round will melt in the target and be completely untraceable. It led to a slew of people asking if such a thing was even possible, until the ''Series/{{Mythbusters}}'' proved otherwise. This even gets lampshaded by the protagonist. "[[DeadpanSnarker Ice bullets? What's next, Tooty-Fruity flavor?]]"
* During a shootout in ''Film/NewsOfTheWorld2020'', Captain Kidd runs out of revolver bullets and has only a shotgun loaded with birdshot left. Johanna has the idea to reload the shells with dimes, which prove devastatingly effective.
* Sorceress Irendri, the villainess of ''Film/OnceUponAWarrior''; befitting her appearance as a snake-themed sorceress, she can fire hundreds of''living'', flying, poisonous snakes from her hands, which she used to chase down the heroes fleeing from her rampage.
* ''Franchise/PiratesOfTheCaribbean'':
** The battle between the ''Black Pearl'' and the ''Interceptor'' in ''[[Film/PiratesOfTheCaribbeanTheCurseOfTheBlackPearl The Curse of the Black Pearl]]'' occurs after a chase in which the crew of the ''Interceptor'', desperate for more speed, threw almost everything they had overboard ... including most of the cannon shot. They are reduced to loading up, in the words of Will Turner, "anything! Everything! Anything we have left!", including cutlery, into the cannons as makeshift ammunition. This is TruthInTelevision, to a degree. Scrap metal and chains were often used as anti-personnel cannon loads, and indeed, had they not been fighting ''undead'' pirates it might have worked.
** ''[[Film/PiratesOfTheCaribbeanAtWorldsEnd At World's End]]'' has Pintel and Ragetti using Jack the undead monkey as an impromptu cannonball to fire at the ''Flying Dutchman'' during the climactic battle in the middle of a maelstrom.
* In ''Film/ResidentEvilAfterlife'', Alice kills zombies with a shotgun that fires quarters.
* ''Film/{{Runaway}}'' features a gun that fires small heat-seeking missiles at a speed slightly slower than an athletic man can run. Presumably its designer believed in giving targets a sporting chance.
* In ''Film/Sharknado3OhHellNo'', Nova puts mascara tubes in her shotgun.
* ''Film/TheSmurfs'': The Smurfs make use of golf balls, bowling balls, needle-laden fruit, and lipstick when forced to fight Gargamel near the end of the film.
* ''Film/ASoundOfThunder'' has the protagonists using futuristic rifles that used frozen water rounds (the sound, muzzle flash and the fact the rounds can break a concrete block implies they are some kind of rail gun) to hunt dinosaurs and eventually protect themselves as all hell breaks loose because of stepping on the ButterflyOfDoom. The fact that it's ice that will dissolve eventually technically takes care of a detail on the original story (that the hunting company actually dug through the remains of the ''T. Rex'' to take out the bullets and leave no evidence of their hunt behind that could disrupt history).
* In ''Film/TheSwordAndTheSorcerer'' (1982), the hero wields a triple-bladed sword with blades that can be launched at enemies like rockets.
* In ''Film/TomorrowNeverDies'', the villain has buzzsaw torpedoes which can not only cut through the hulls of other ships, but can be guided through said ships and travel upward if necessary.
* ''Film/Underworld2003'': In order to overcome each other's resistances to damage, the vampires use silver bullets (later filled with liquid silver nitrate due to the werewolves pulling them out too quickly), while the werewolves load their guns with bullets that contain an irradiated fluid -- irradiated with ''ultraviolet light''.
* ''Film/WhoFramedRogerRabbit'': Eddie Valiant's toon gun fires bullets... semi-intelligent cartoon bullets that can talk, chase down criminals, and apparently return to their case independently. One even carries a large tomahawk. Unfortunately, almost all of them (save the one with the tomahawk) were too stupid to figure out which way the bad guy went. In the English version, they're known simply as "[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Expanding_bullet Dum-Dums]]". In the Italian dub, they are called "mezze cartucce", an Italian phrase used to say "idiots", but with the literal meaning of "half cartridges".
* ''Film/XXx'' gives Creator/VinDiesel a modified revolver that shoots interchangeable rounds, ranging from knockout capsules complete with fake blood to some kind of surveillance bug. This actually backfires on him late in the film; because he's got the gun loaded with non-standard rounds, he ends up pointlessly firing a radio transmitter bullet when he's trying to retaliate against the mooks armed with good old-fashioned machine guns. He then switches to an explosive bullet for a better distraction.
* In ''Film/YoungGunsII'', UsefulNotes/BillyTheKid kills a sheriff with a shotgun filled with eighteen dimes (nine in each barrel) used as slugs. "Best dollar-eighty I ever spent!" This particular event is inspired by something the real Billy the Kid did once when cornered without normal ammo.
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[[folder:Anime & Manga]]
* ''Manga/{{Bleach}}'':
** Ishida's fight with Cirucci Sanderwicci finishes when he fires an arrow made of a [[ChainsawGood chainsaw]] [[LaserBlade lightsaber]].
** Riruka's gun fires miniaturized objects that enlarge in midair.
** A gun wielding quincy fires bullets of reishi that look like the quincy cross and can set fire to people.
%%** Coyote Starrk's guns fire ceros.%%Which are?
* ''Anime/BloodPlus'': Kai has a gun that fires delayed exploding bullets, with the last bullet of each magazine triggering the others to explode simultaneously. This is used to overcome the [[OurVampiresAreDifferent Chiropterans]]' substantial HealingFactor. It can still only slow them down.
* In ''Franchise/{{Digimon}}'', the Garbagemon wield bazookas that fire faeces at their targets.
* ''Manga/EtCetera'' is about a girl with a gun that shoots the essence of the animals in the Chinese Zodiac. The gun is powered by rubbing the barrel against any item that is made from the animal represented in the zodiac -- including a bikini made from Tiger skin.
* ''Manga/Eyeshield21'': During the "[[TrainingFromHell Tower of Hell]]" chapter, Hiruma uses bullets that are actually pellets full of desiccant powder, designed to make the ice being carried by the candidates for a spot on the Devil Bats melt faster.
* ''Anime/FinalFantasyUnlimited'' character Kaze is a summoner, who uses a device called a Magun and a magical substance called Soil [[spoiler:which is [[PoweredByAForsakenChild effectively the life energy of people who have died]]]] to summon monsters. His gun essentially ''fires summons''.
* In ''Manga/FistOfTheNorthStar'', there is a technique in the Nanto martial arts that involves launching the practitioner out of a cannon while they hold a sword.
* ''Anime/{{FLCL}}'': Canti's gun uses Naota himself as ammo, albeit rolled into a flying, glowing red ball.
%%* ''Anime/GaoGaiGar'': Mic Sounders the 13th can fire a [=GaoFighGar=] with Goldion Hammer.%%Which is what?
* ''Anime/GhostInTheShellStandAloneComplex'':
** An assassin used a unique weapon against her wealthy target: a shotgun, [[ArmCannon built into her forearm]], that fires rolls of ''coins''.
** In the episode "Testation", a rampant SpiderTank -- which had dodged or neutralized everything else thrown at it -- gets stopped by a gun that fires canisters of some kind of quick-hardening glue. Gumming up the tank's legs being the only means of stopping it, short of using weaponry too powerful for use in an urban area.
** Togusa used a tracer bullet loaded into his Mateba Autorevolver to tag a fleeing car.
* ''Anime/HeatGuyJ'': Perhaps as compensation for only ever being issued six bullets, Daisuke is usually provided with one devastatingly explosive "Red Cap" round.
* ''Manga/{{Hellsing}}'':
** Alucard's first gun fires 13mm explosive steel/silver alloy rounds (the silver is also melted from the cross of a cathedral), Victoria's Harkonnen fires 30mm armor-piercing depleted uranium/silver alloy or incendiary shells, and the Jackal fires explosive shells encased in Macedonian silver with mercury tips.
--->'''Alucard:''' It's perfection, Walter.
** In the last episode of the anime he manages to pull off firing actual melted silver from a cross with his half wrecked gun. He manages it because he is Alucard.
* ''Manga/HunterXHunter'': Ikalgo uses an airsoft sniper rifle to fire huge fleas (which somehow survived the brutal impact) to make the victims bleed to death due to their bites preventing coagulation.
* ''Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventure'':
** Mista from [[Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventureGoldenWind Part 5]] has a colony Stand called Sex Pistols. He uses ordinary bullets, but his Stands (named [[FourIsDeath "1", "2", "3", "5", "6" and "7"]]) can fly and deviate the trajectories of bullets (with kicks), making it possible to Mista to hit targets beyond a corner, to say one. At least one time some of them ride a bullet to reach the target faster, although they never strike him on their own.
** [[Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventureDiamondIsUnbreakable Part 4]] has Yoshikage Kira combining the power of his Killer Queen stand and that of Stray Cat's to create ''invisible shots of air that explode''.
** [[Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventureSteelBallRun Part 7]] has Johnny Joestar shoot his ''own fingernails'' via his Stand, Tusk.
* ''Anime/KillLaKill'': Taken to its extreme. Name it, and it's almost certain that it will be weaponized at some point.
** Tsumugu's weapons of choice are ''sewing'' machine guns. They fire acupuncture needles that can disrupt Life Fibers, or cure the ills of people.
** Being a MerchantCity, the Osakan students use money as their ammunition.
** There's also the Disciplinary Committee's ''iron clad'' rulebook, capable of destroying a tank when thrown at it.
* ''Manga/{{Kurohime}}'' takes this trope outside to shoot it in the head.... with a DRAGON
* ''Anime/Macross7''[='s=] Nekki Basara pilots a robot that shoots speaker pods (thoughtfully loaded with glue so the target won't be killed by cockpit depressurization) and sings to his aggressors, hoping to make them give up fighting. He also keeps in reserve a scaled up cannon larger than his own machine for use on battleships.
* ''Anime/MagicalGirlLyricalNanohaStrikers'': Teana has Cross Mirage, a pair of handguns that shoot magic. From the same franchise, there are Cartridges, which are condensed magic in what looks like a firearm shell, but these are not actually shot, just exploded to supercharge a Device.
* ''Manga/MagicKaito'': Kaitou KID has a gun that shoots cards.
* ''LightNovel/HaruhiSuzumiya'': In ''The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya'', Haruhi subconsciously modified model guns into firing pressurized water balls with unimaginably explosive firepower. Dual [[WaterGunsAndBalloons squirt guns]] turned dual mini water-grenade launchers/pistols.
* ''Anime/MobileFighterGGundam'': Late in the show, Chibodee and George are facing off against one of the [[BigBad Devil Gundam]]'s [[FourIsDeath Four Kings]] when they start running low on their respective ammo (Gundam Maxter's revolver bullets and Gundam Rose's {{Attack Drone}}s). They decide to pull off a DeathOrGloryAttack, George running interference while Chibodee uses the last Attack Drone ''as'' a bullet and aims for their opponent's cockpit.
* ''Manga/NegimaMagisterNegiMagi'' has {{Magitek}} bullets able to alter space-time at the point of impact. They were used to send people three hours into the future, but it's implied they can also displace the target to a nearby location. Negi used magic blast guns and strip laser beams.
* ''Manga/OnePiece'':
** Mr. 5 loads his revolver with his BREATH. However, his devil fruit power let him make any part of his body explode, breath included. How he was able to tell where his breath bullet was after fired, we'll never know.
** Usopp uses pachinko balls for his slingshot Kabuto and whatever he could get his hands on prior to that (Rotten eggs, Tabasco balls, small rocks...). After the TimeSkip, he uses Pop Greens, insta-growing plant seeds.
** Katakuri is particularly fond of jelly beans, so he shoots people with them. He doesn't even need a gun--he just flicks them, and they'll rocket right through people's heads.
* ''Anime/OutlawStar'' had 'Caster Shells' -- [[{{Magitek}} magic in a bullet.]] Special mention goes to [[FourIsDeath Number 4]] shells, which fire miniature black holes. Their effect on Gene's unfortunate enemies produces some of the more frightening scenes of the series. What they do to Gene when firing them isn't exactly pretty either.
* ''Manga/Reborn2004'':
** Reborn is an [[NinjaPirateZombieRobot adorable baby mafioso]] who has a gun that, if shot in the head by it, you die. And then come back to life, in your underwear, for five minutes, with the ability to complete your life's ambition. If you complete said ambition, you get to continue living. If not, you perish. Again.
** Xanxus and Gokudera also have guns that fire Dying Will Flames (although Gokudera's is more of an ArmCannon). Xanxus uses his own Flames of Wrath as ammo, while Gokudera loads his gun with dynamite.
* ''LightNovel/RebuildWorld'': Akira eventually gets a sword that works by pouring out liquid metal into a force-field to customize its shape to fit the situation, to make up for his previous sword ending up a WreckedWeapon; with this sword, each blade is meant to be disposable. Akira’s VirtualSidekick Alpha reprogrammed it at one point to form a barrier around Akira and his CoolBike to survive a MacrossMissileMassacre.
* ''Manga/RosarioPlusVampire'': Tsurara Shirayuki uses ice bullets to [[ColdSniper snipe]] people. They melt, leaving no evidence.
* ''Manga/ShamanKing'': X-Laws have guns that fire regular bullets that are used as mediums to summon their ''angel spirits''. HumongousMecha [[NinjaPirateZombieRobot ghost angels]], no less.
* ''Anime/SonicX'': The Sonic Power Cannon fires the title character as its ammo. Shadow is also fired from it twice (once by himself as an attempt by Tails to save Cosmo from being killed by him, and the second time is when Shadow willingly goes into the canon with Sonic and he accepts the help, knowing that they both may not survive the attack on Dark Oak).
* ''Manga/SoulEater'' has Death the Kid and his twin guns, the [[VoluntaryShapeshifting Thompson Sisters]], who can fire condensed bursts of Kid's own ''soul'' at enemies.
* ''Manga/TegamiBachiLetterBee'' has the titular Letter Bees (postmen with special training to fight enormous monsters) tote around a special kind of gun that shoots a fragment of their "Heart", something equivalent to their life force in this series. They're important because Letter Bees drag letters around a dark, miserable world where 70% of the land is crawling with giant almost-invincible monsters in order to do their jobs...
* ''Manga/YuYuHakusho'':
** The main character Yusuke Urameshi and his Rei/Spirit Gun.
** The character Sniper has the ability to embed his spirit energy into any object and fire it with the velocity of a bullet, generally making said objects much stronger in the process. Ammunition used includes: pencil erasers, dice, marbles, blades of grass, rocks, an absurd amount of knives, and '''[[CarFu A GODDAMN TRUCK]]'''. However, when he's done screwing around [[SubvertedTrope he just]] [[NoNonsenseNemesis opts for a gun]]. The gun had a particular function: the truck was loaded with fuel (why Yusuke had not destroyed it yet), and the bullet blew it up in Yusuke's face.
* ''Anime/ZoidsChaoticCentury'': In the finale, TheHero and his HumongousMecha are fired out of a cannon of a truly massive HumongousMecha at the BigBad and his HumongousMecha, giving a literal meaning to the term "Live Ammunition".
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* In ''[[VideoGame/AchievementUnlocked Achievement Unlocked 3]]'', the hamster gun launches hamsters that can be set on fire.
* In ''VideoGame/TheAdventuresOfLomax'', there are cowboys in TheWildWest world who shoot bullets. What is abnormal about them is that the bullets are apparently alive, and walk around on their own for a few moments after landing before they explode.
* In ''VideoGame/AgeOfEmpires'', there is a Cheat that makes catapults shoot humans and cows
* ''VideoGame/AloneInTheDark3'': You will find an empty shotgun. Acquiring the ammo for it (and ''realizing'' the item is meant to be ammunition) is a GuideDangIt moment: it shoots '''gold coins'''.
** The zombie holding said gold coins supposedly can only be killed by a golden bullet, either by the gold coins mentioned above or a single golden Winchester bullet found elsewhere.
* ''VideoGame/HotTinRoofTheCatThatWoreAFedora'': Jones uses a Webley Mark 2/3 because it fires a variety of non-lethal ammunition. It starts off with Thud rounds (good for breaking boxes) and progresses to Bubble rounds, a grappling hook, and more.
* ''VideoGame/AnarchyOnline'' starts you off with a weapon with infinite ammo. This is handwaved as being a gun which fires tiny nanotech-created replicas of itself.
* The VideoGame/AngryBirds use ''themselves'' as ammo against the pigs. They even come in different varieties, including an ''exploding'' bird.
* ''VideoGame/ArmedAndDangerous'' revels in this trope -- aside from conventional bullets and explosives your arsenal also includes:
** The Land [[ThreateningShark Shark]] Gun fires a baby shark into the ground which homes in on the nearest enemy before bursting out fully-grown and devouring them whole.
** The Knockout Bomb a wearable boxing glove that flings enemies towards you, allowing you to deliver a MegatonPunch.
** The Topsy Turvy Bomb is a device that [[GravityScrew flips the entire world upside down]] and back again, with [[NotTheFallThatKillsYou predictable results]].
** The Black Hole In A Box.
* ''VideoGame/AtlasReactor'': Dr. Finn's gun can shoot flying, mutated electric eels that stick to their target.
* ''VideoGame/{{Awesomenauts}}'': When [[TheDitz Derpl Zork]] was asked by his employees at Zork Industries what they should arm his combat walker with, he drooled and said "I wuv cats". They wound up with the [[CatAPult holo-cat cannon]], a gun that shoots cats made of HardLight.
* A wild magic surge in ''Videogame/BaldursGateII'' could result in [[Film/MontyPythonAndTheHolyGrail a cow dropping on the target]]. Also in the game was Jan Jansen's Flasher Master Bruiser Mates, used (naturally) with Jan Jansen's impeccably stylish Flasher Master Bruiser crossbow. They were stun bombs, but they looked like skulls.
* One of the first moves learned in ''VideoGame/BanjoKazooie'' is how to launch blue eggs out of Kazooie's mouth.
** There's Mr Patch from the sequel, whose main attack is to spit exploding beach balls at you.
** Kazooie's egg-shooting ability is taken to a ridiculous extreme in the sequel, in which, in addition to the standard blue eggs, you get fire, grenade, ice, and "clockwork kazooie" eggs. The same game's multiplayer mode adds proximity eggs, which latch onto walls and explode whenever someone gets close enough.
* The Angelic Rifle in ''VideoGame/{{Baroque}}'' shoots [[spoiler:tiny winged babies that are living, sentient incarnations of pain]].
* ''VideoGame/Battlefield2142'' has a gun that shoots ''C4''.
* In ''VideoGame/TheBindingOfIsaac'', the eponymous Isaac starts off with shooting his own tears at the monsters he fights. Through various items and upgrades, he can shoot blood, teeth, urine, flies, chocolate milk, ''exploding'' vomit, and more.
* ''VideoGame/BioShock1'' has several:
** The Chemical Thrower, a gun that fires [[FireIceLightning liquid nitrogen and electric gel, along with the standard napalm]]. The liquid nitrogen is used to freeze things without destroying them; this is useful for hacking turrets, since they can't shoot at you while you try to hack them. The electric gel turns the Chemical Thrower into a [[ShockAndAwe lightning gun]], which is perfect for taking down Big Daddies.
** The Insect Swarm plasmid, which lets you ''[[BeeBeeGun fire bees]] from your hand''.
** The shotgun, which in the beginning is just a normal pump-action, can be loaded with electric or [[StuffBlowingUp explosive]] rounds.
** The crossbow can fire "trap bolts" that deploy an electrified trip-wire trap.
* The ''VideoGame/{{Blood}}'' series has the Life Leech, a staff with a one-eyed skull that launches magic fire at enemies, sucking the life out of them and healing the player. In the first game, its [[CastFromHitPoints intended ammunition]] was trapped souls.
* The Hunter in ''VideoGame/{{Bloodborne}}'' uses bullets made of quicksilver, aka mercury. Of course, this makes little sense, since quicksilver is liquid in room temperature, but the quicksilver bullets used in game are apparently mixed with blood to make a solid substance. They can also be used to power arcane spells.
* ''VideoGame/BloodCrusher2'' has numerous randomized ammunition options, from standard bullets to ninja stars and hordes of pissed off {{bee|BeeGun}}s.
* ''VideoGame/BloodstainedRitualOfTheNight'': Through alchemy, Miriam can use ammo ranging from the mundane, such as the soft-point bullets, to the supernatural, including elemental ammo and bullets made from diamonds.
* The Gun Del Sol/Solar Gun from ''VideoGame/{{Boktai}}'' shoots solar energy in some solid form -- there's bullets, grenades, and seeker missiles, but the Dragoon is a solar-powered ''[[KillItWithFire flamethrower]]''! Yes, a Solar Gun that kills enemies with sunfire.
** The later ''VideoGame/MegaManBattleNetwork'' games include Gun Del Sol Battle Chips as part of a crossover with ''Boktai'', even mimicking the GBA games' gimmick by increasing their power while jacked-in in an outside area. It's at least slightly more plausible given that all combat is done within the Internet.
** The Solar Gun also appears as an EasterEgg gag weapon in ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolid4GunsOfThePatriots''.
* The ''VideoGame/{{Borderlands}}'' series: Multiple:
** The first game, ''VideoGame/Borderlands1'', has relatively tame guns that simply shoot giant globs of acid; as Marcus puts it in a sales pitch, "Is shooting bullets just not cool enough for you? Then get a Maliwan [brand weapon] and light some people on fire!" Then there's the "Carnage" line of shotguns, whose weapon text proclaims, "Holy crap! It shoots rockets!" Again, this is a ''shotgun''. Eridian Weapons are also often esoteric when it comes to ammo -- some shoot huge balls of lightning, others fire bouncing acid spheres.
** ''VideoGame/Borderlands2'':
*** The Torgue Corporation switches to strictly-explosive ammunition. Which means ''every'' Torgue-brand firearm uses some form of self-propelling Gyrojet round, even their shotguns.
*** The spiritual successors to the first game's Carnage shotguns -- rocket-firing assault rifles. Vladof, Bandit, and Torgue rocket rifles all fire the same rockets; The Dahl versions are mundane grenade launchers, but the Jakobs versions fire small ''cannonballs''.
*** A later addition to the game was the Carnage shotgun -- a rare Pearlescent weapon that's much more powerful than its counterparts in the first game.
*** E-Tech weapons use Eridian technology to turn bullets into what can only be described as "stuff that ain't bullets." What exactly that "stuff" is depends on the weapon type, and sometimes the manufacturer -- E-Tech pistols fire spikes that stick in a target and shatter after a few seconds, for instance. Shotguns (save for the example below) fire giant globs of (presumably) acid, fire, electricity or slag.
*** In the ''Tiny Tina's Assault on Dragon Keep'' DLC, there's the SWORDSPLOSION!!! E-tech shotgun, which fires ''[[MadeofExplodium exploding swords]]''. Except saying just that would be a gross oversimplification: each primary sword is like a MIRV grenade, as in when it hits and explodes it showers the area with child projectiles (which are also swords) that explode as well. The Casual variant[[note]]characterized by the vertical foregrip[[/note]], which adds two more primary swords with no drawbacks, is a carpet-bomber capable of cleaning out a room full of mooks before the user has to reload.
** The whole of Maliwan counts. Even their non-E-tech guns seem to distill normal bullets into elemental plasma, and their magazines look more like battery packs. Also, their pistols always consume 2 rounds per shot just like E-tech ones.
* In ''VideoGame/BrawlStars'', there is a superhero robot that shoots energy drink, a zombie teenager that uses a spray can, a skeleton that fights with music, a bartender bot that throws bottles, an old man that shoots snowballs, a woman that shoots scraps, an ice cream robot that throws ice cream, a cactus that throws explosive spiked balls and a penguin that throws suitcases.
* VideoGame/{{Bulletstorm}} has a gun that shoots explosive bolas (the [[EpicFlail Flailgun]]) , and another that shoots rocket-propelled [[ThisIsADrill drillbits]] (the Penetrator). The sniper rifle fires tiny guided missiles.
* ''VideoGame/CallOfDutyAdvancedWarfare'' includes a bunch of futuristic weapons that fire unusual stuff-- highlights include a pump-action shotgun that fires sonic pulses, an anti-tank launcher that shoots a glob of molten metal, and a sniper rifle that fires a two-stage explosive charge (the first shot is a tracker, and the second round makes it explode if it hits nearby).
* ''VideoGame/CaveStory'' has the bubble gun (surprisingly powerful), and a throwing knife whose [[EvolvingAttack fully-leveled form]] launches ''a knife-wielding ghost'' (very powerful!). There's also the highest-level form of the Nemesis gun, which actually gets weaker as you level it up; it shoots rubber ducks.
** One of the bosses, Monster X, shoots fish at you. Or rather, homing missiles shaped like fish (complete with eyes).
* In ''VideoGame/ChampionsOfNorrath'', one boss you fight can shoot [[OurSoulsAreDifferent souls]] from his bow like arrows.
* In ''VideoGame/CommandAndConquerTiberianSun'', GDI Grenadiers throw bouncing explosive frisbees instead of normal grenades. ''VideoGame/CommandAndConquerTiberiumWars'' gives them more oval-shaped grenades which can lock onto and guide themselves to far-away targets, particularly ones holed up in abandoned buildings -- one Grenadier getting close enough is all you need to clear the entire building and place your own soldiers in it.
* ''VideoGame/CommandAndConquerRedAlert3'', [[SillinessSwitch among the rest of its weird and wild arsenal]], has the Soviet APC that can only deploy the soldiers within it by launching them out of a cannon on its back. Much fun can be derived from [[DeathFromAbove bombarding]] the enemy with [[BearsAreBadNews bears. Armoured War Bears]].
* One weapon in the "VideoGame/{{Contra}}bobo" stage of ''VideoGame/AbobosBigAdventure'' is a gun that shoots VideoGame/{{Lemmings}}. Not real lemmings, by the way: the green-haired, bipedal critters from the eponymous game: if they hit an enemy, they bounce off and walk around for a while before exploding.
* There is a bonus weapon in ''VideoGame/{{Crimsonland}}'' called Splitter Gun. It shots a single bullet that, upon hit, splits into two bullets that spread squarely. The splitting can repeat unlimitedly until all the bullets miss. Bonus points to abnormality for the chance that subsidiary bullets will hit ''you''. Impractical, in fact, but awesome. More "conventional" examples are Rocket minigun and Gauss shotgun.
** Though it's not a weapon per se, but through an inventive capitalization on in-game mechanics you can form a ''reload-powered multi-lateral plasma gun''. First, there is an otherwise poor Sonic gun. Frankly, it qualifies itself (it shoots sound waves), but right now we're more interested in its near-instant reloading. Then, there is a perk called "Angry reloader" that makes you shoot small plasma balls in four directions every time you reload. You combine both, hold the reload button and voil?four endless orthogonal bursts of plasma. Once again, not especially effective, but cool.
* ''VideoGame/{{Crusader}}'' gains a couple of guns that qualify in its second installment. The crystallizer shoots a weird cartridge that inhibits its targets' molecules; since motion is heat, the shot is described as being comparable to "several minutes' exposure to absolute zero". The result is a statue in an agonized pose, which you can then shatter. The liquifier shoots a classified catalytic compound which breaks down molecular bonds, reducing the target to a puddle of its base elements. There's a neat, brownish, human-shaped cloud when it hits a target, and then all that's left behind is a splotch of green goo.
* ''VideoGame/CryingSuns'': The Debris Catapult battleship weapon flings asteroids at a targeted area. The asteroids inflict no damage, but they ''do'' create asteroid fields which slow (and provide cover to) any squadrons passing through them.
* ''VideoGame/{{Cuphead}}'': Judging by the fact that the different types of weapons you can buy come in bottles, it seems that Cuphead and Mugman shoot moonshine at their enemies. Further, the first super attack has them firing the contents of their cups as [[WaveMotionGun giant lasers]] -- and WordOfGod has stated that the cups contain their ''souls''.
* The SMG in ''VideoGame/DeusExInvisibleWar'' has an alt-fire which launches flash grenades. By contrast, the Widowmaker SMG (every weapon has a special variant) has an alt-fire which launches spiderbots. Spiderbots are far from deadly, until your enemy is surrounded by twenty or so.
* From ''VideoGame/DeadRising2'' onwards, there are the home-made combination weapons. The ranged combination weapons have oddities that shot things like gems, parasols, flaming spitballs and etc.
* ''Franchise/DonkeyKong ([[VideoGame/DonkeyKongCountry Country]])'':
** [[BigBad Kaptain K. Rool]] in ''VideoGame/DonkeyKongCountry2DiddysKongQuest'' uses a blunderbuss that fires cannonballs with retractable spikes, ''barrels'' (containing cannonballs) and blobs of gas [[StatusInflictionAttack inflicting various]] [[InterfaceScrew effects]]. The projectiles also sometimes ''bounce'' or get blown about as if the air is being let out of them like balloons.
** In ''VideoGame/DonkeyKong64'' there's the coconut gun, it fires in spurts! (If he shoots ya, it's gonna hurt!) Also, Diddy uses popguns that fires peanuts (these are also used in ''VideoGame/SuperSmashBros'' and ''VideoGame/DonkeyKongCountryReturns''), Tiny has a crossbow that launches barbed feathers, Lanky spits grapes out of a blowpipe, and Chunky has a gun that fires pineapples. Funky shoots K. Rool with a rocket propelled boot, and Krusha gets in on the act with a gun that fires exploding oranges.
** ''VideoGame/DonkeyKongCountryTropicalFreeze'' sees Dixie Kong firing gumballs (a CallBack to her IdleAnimation in ''VideoGame/DonkeyKongCountry2DiddysKongQuest'') and Cranky Kong firing ''false teeth''.
* ''VideoGame/Doom3: Resurrection of Evil'' has a weapon like the gravity gun from ''Half-Life 2'', commonly called the Grabber. The main difference is that the Grabber in ''Doom'' has a limit to how long it can hold something, and it can pick up organic matter non-lethally.
* ''VideoGame/DragonAgeII'''s Mark of the Assassin DLC has a villain named Duke Prosper as its BigBad. He is also the final boss fight; he uses an automatic crossbow that can shoot either arrows or a strange green goo. The strange green goo does no damage by itself...but as the cutscene just before the boss fights demonstrates on the poor, unfortunate [[spoiler: Salit]], Prosper also has a pet wyvern named Leopold that has been trained to relentlessly chase and attack-to-kill anyone Propser has first shot with this green goo. When he uses it in battle, he will either shoot one of Hawke's companions with it, so Leopold will chase that companion leaving itself open to an attack from Hawke, or more frequently Prosper will shoot Hawke with the goo, making it necessary for Hawke to spend his/her time running from Leopold until the goo wears off.
* In ''VideoGame/DragonQuestHeroesRocketSlime'', the mechas can shoot anything from missiles, to swords, to holy water, to statues, and [=NPCs=] and enemies. In fact, any item you collect in the game can be used as ammo.
** The most awesome thing to load into the cannon, YOURSELF!
* ''VideoGame/DrawnToLife'' has a gun that shoots snowballs for the first world. For the second world, it's tinkered with so that it shoots exploding acorns.
** In the third world, it shoots ''starfish''. '''Homing starfish.'''
** In the second game, you can make the ammo WHATEVER YOU WANT IT TO BE.
* ''VideoGame/DukeNukemManhattanProject'' has an unlockable lightning gun that kills every regular enemy in {{one hit|Kill}} and never runs out of ammo.
* Bile Demons and Giants in ''VideoGame/DungeonKeeper 2'' have a special ability called Dwarf Chucking.
* Can be modded into ''VideoGame/DwarfFortress'' quite easily, since the game can support up to three different types of arrow, crossbow bolt and (presumably) blowdart ''each''. Anything can be thrown in adventure mode. One rather famous story is how a player ''decapitated what is essentially a living statue of liberty with a rabbit.''
** Minecarts that stop suddenly will also forcefully eject their contents in the direction of travel. Inventive players have used this fact coupled with inventive track layouts to produce everything from garbage disposal machines to multi-barrel fully-automatic self-reloading cannons that fire anything that fits into a minecart at invaders. Things that fit into a minecart include dwarves, weapons, stacks of several hundred coins, [[IncendiaryExponent !!]]kittens[[IncendiaryExponent !!]], extremely heavy rocks, items of furniture and magma.
* The ''VideoGame/EarthwormJim'' games have a bubble gun as a [[JokeItem Joke Weapon]], but a far less harmless weapon is the homing missile, which launches tiny rocket-propelled houses.
** ''Earthworm Jim 3D'' has you shoot peas from a giant pea pod, a chicken that has you shoot [[EdibleAmmunition eggs]], and even a mushroom gun that shoots out leprechauns!
* In ''VideoGame/EvilDeadRegeneration'', Ash has the ability to turn into "Deadite Ash". In this form his "boomstick" fires energy bolts. He also constructs a harpoon gun that can attach to his right arm in place of the classic chainsaw, and what can only be described as a rocket launcher shotgun.
* The ''VideoGame/{{Fallout}}'' series of games has several:
** ''VideoGame/Fallout2'' has the Solar Scorcher, a solar-powered gun. You can only reload it outdoors during daytime.
** ''VideoGame/{{Fallout Tactics|BrotherhoodOfSteel}}'' has a water gun. You think it's a joke weapon...until you come across jars of acid.
** ''VideoGame/Fallout3'':
*** The Fat Man, a catapult which launches a mini nuke at its target, abnormal in the sense that the ammo is so heavy that if you fire it parallel to the ground (instead of at an angle), the nuke will go a very short distance and catch you in its blast radius. Clever characters can track down the Experimental MIRV version which shoots 8 mini nukes at once in a random scattershot pattern.
*** There's also several of the weapons [[MacGyvering crafted out of random junk]] once you have blueprints for them, like the Railway Rifle (a gun that shoots railway spikes and makes train noises when you fire it), the Dart Gun (a crossbow which shoots dartboard darts coated in radscorpion venom), and Rock-it Launcher (a repurposed vacuum cleaner that can fire any trash the player can find). You haven't lived until you kill a Super Mutant by launching a [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fbvBihpZ_Do teddy bear]] at them and [[BloodyHilarious blowing every limb off their body]].
** ''VideoGame/FalloutNewVegas'' adds on with actual abnormal ammo types, particularly 12-gauge "coin shot" shells which are loaded not with lead, but with [[MoneyToBurn legion denari]]). Especially {{iron|y}}ic if you use it to [[BoomHeadshot render unto Caesar what is his]].
*** The ''Dead Money'' DLC introduces the holorifle, a version of the grenade launcher which fires a cluster of [[HardLight high-energy holograms]] at the target.
*** Another odd weapon is the bottlecap mine, a landmine made out of bottlecaps, cherry bombs, and a lunchbox with sensor module to track nearby targets. Crimson Caravan Company regional manager Alice [=McLafferty=] makes note of "idiots" using caps in explosives, and this is what she's talking about.
** ''VideoGame/Fallout4'' features the Syringer, a rifle that fires syringes full of toxic chemicals that cause various debuffs; the Junk Jet, a spiritual successor to the Rock-It launcher from Fallout 3 that fires just about anything you can think of; and the Cryolator, a pseudo-FreezeRay that sprays the enemy with cryogenic chemicals and can also be modded to fire chunks of ice. The {{D|ownloadableContent}}LCs add some LethalJokeWeapon types, such as a Fatman that's been modified to fire bowling balls, a paddle-ball that electrocutes targets, and a squirt gun that fires weaponized Nuka-Cola Quantum that explodes for massive damage.
* Seen in every ''Franchise/FinalFantasy'' game featuring modern technology.
** ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyVI'', ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyVII'', and ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyTactics'' have guns that fire ''spells''. FFVII has the HandWave of it being a [[AppliedPhlebotinum Mako]] Gun, and VI had them exclusively as part of a magitech mecha.
** ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyTactics'' had the Blaze Gun, which fired ice spells rather than fire, and the Glacier Gun, which fired fire spells rather than ice. Maybe they are named for the things they ''destroy''.
** There is also the Blast Gun, which shoots lightning spells.
** ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyTacticsAdvance'' similarly has magic handguns, including the Peacemaker, a revolver that fires ''charm'' shots.
** ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyTacticsA2'' has cannons, used by two classes. The Flintlock class mostly uses it to shoot ''his allies'' to create various effects such as [[HealingShiv regen]] or mana restoration. The Cannoneer is more offensive, but can also shoot allies with [[HealingShiv Potion Shells]] and Ether Shells.
** ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyVIII'' also featured Irvine's Shot Limit. You had your regular ammunition, along with Shotgun or Fast Ammo, but then there's Flame Ammo, AP Ammo, Dark Ammo, and [[{{BFG}} Pulse Ammo]]. Rinoa uses a crossbow that shoots chakrams. But the real insanity is her LimitBreak, in which she stuffs her dog onto the crossbow and shoots it at the enemy. The dog explodes, then runs back to his mistress.
** The Gun-Mages in ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyX2'' are blue mages that use guns to shoot abilities learned from enemies. Shots vary from generic-fireballs to "1000 Needles" to pillars of holy energy. They can even shoot bullets that heal their whole party (White Wind).
** ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyXII'' features various bullets and arrows that somehow carry with them elemental damage, and several carry status effects as well. They're also completely infinite, unless you sell them, then they're Gone Forever.
** Several of the games have the "[[CastFromMoney Coin Toss]]" ability, which can be devastatingly powerful with enough money on hand.
* Based on Garry's original description of the request forum on the Facepunch Studios forums, somebody made a scripted weapon for ''VideoGame/GarrysMod'' of an AK-47 that shoots '''''rainbow colored babies''''' that can swarm any target and you can eat for 10 health. Yes.
** In response, someone else made a version that can also shoot sawblades, and another someone else went the extra mile with ''a baby SWEP that '''shoots AK-47's'''''. Yes indeed.
** There's tons of these for Garry's Mod, when you come to think of it. There is a "Scavenger Cannon" that can suck up 20 props at once and launch them in any order the player wants similar to ''VideoGame/{{Fallout 3}}'''s Rock-It Launcher.
** The "Shrekzooka," which fires out flying WesternAnimation/{{Shrek}}s. That explode. And shout "WHAT ARE YOU DOING IN MY SWAMP?"
* An optional quest in ''VideoGame/GearsOfWar 3'' lets you get your hands on the Cluckshot, a rocket launcher that shoots ''exploding chickens''.
* ''VideoGame/{{Doom}}'' mod ''VideoGame/{{GMOTA}}'' has the Wrath Cannon. This weapon can shoot rockets containing angry skeletal ghosts. If you detonated your rockets in midair, ghosts will spawn from inside and smack nearby enemies.
* ''VideoGame/GodOfWarI'':
** The Minotaur Boss, a heavily armored behemoth that you have to stun before resorting to twisted means to execute it: You run back to a platform and ''fire a flaming log/stake at it'', cracking the armor and eventually ''nailing it to the door it emerged from''.
** In order to get to an objective, you have to risk life and limb plowing through Undead Mooks and platforming to wind up the Atlas statue, which then ''throws the Earth'' it bears down the hallway and through the wall that impede your progress.
* ''VideoGame/HalfLife'' spinoff ''VideoGame/GunmanChronicles'' has a gun that shoots a variable amount of acid, basic and neutral liquid in form of globs. The amount of the three liquids is user-selectable, resulting in different effects and different ammo consumption. The bad thing is that such a user interface is obviously very fiddly, so players tend to set the gun to its most destructive setting (full acid, full base, half neutral) and leave it at that; the good thing is that, in contrast to other such weird guns (such as, say, the aforementioned biorifle from ''Unreal'') smart players actually use the chemical gun.
** The mod ''Rocket Crowbar'' changed the shotgun to fire screaming scientists who flew towards the target and exploded on contact.
* ''Videogame/HalfLife1'' also has a "[[BeeBeeGun bee launcher]]".
** ''VideoGame/HalfLife2'' has the gravity gun, which picks up and launches anything and everything that isn't nailed to the ground, so it can be called an everything launcher. Once it gets supercharged, it can pick up plenty of things which ''are'' nailed to the ground, walls, and balls of energy from anti-gravity energy columns. Even ''[[GrievousHarmWithABody enemies]]'' become ammunition when the gravity gun is supercharged. And that's saying nothing about the sawblades, explosive barrels, cars...
** The ''Half-Life 2'' version of the crossbow shoots pieces of rebar heated up by electricity. [[ArtisticLicensePhysics Precisely how they fly with no horizontal inaccuracy and only arrow drop to account for without an aerodynamic tip or any sort of fletching, or how they get heated up until they glow with just a small old battery for a power source, or how heating it up like that only makes it embed itself into walls and through people rather than turning it into a particularly hot noodle, are anyone's guess]].
** The Pulse Rifle's secondary fire launches balls of dark energy that cause targets hit to float upward and disappear into the aether. Same effect from the Combine Hunter's exploding flechettes in ''Episode Two''.
* ''VideoGame/{{Halo}}'': The UNSC weapon's are standard bullets and rockets, and most of the Covenant's weapons are plasma. However, the Covenant also have weapons that shoot needles of crystals that in addition to penetration damage, will ''explode'' once enough of them (usually [[ArcNumber 7]]) hit the target. ''VideoGame/Halo4'' introduces Forerunner weapons which shoot ''HardLight''.
* ''VideoGame/HellgateLondon'' has guns that shoot bees, exploding lightning balls, and horrible clouds of green plague gas.
* ''VideoGame/HellSign'' offers ammunition for all but the most basic guns in Incendiary, Silver Nitrate and UV flavors.
* The Cyclops in ''VideoGame/HeroesOfMightAndMagic V'' will throw goblins at the enemy army if it can grab them.
** On the subject of ''Might and Magic'', ''Might and Magic VI'' has a unique weapon, Artemis, which is a longbow that shoots lightning bolts. It also has the "of Carnage" enchantment, which only applies to bows, and makes them shoot arrows that explode.
** Also, Liches from the ''Heroes of Might and Magic'' games throw clouds. Of death.
*** And Magogs from ''Heroes of Might and Magic III'' throw fireballs.
* In ''VideoGame/HyperPrincessPitch'', bricks are your basic ammunition. Your other weapons are a rainbow blaster and an ice ray.
* In ''VideoGame/HyruleTotalWar'' the Sheikah can field Shadow Cannons, loaded with [[CastingAShadow dark energy]].
* In ''VideoGame/EvilGenius2'' One scheme involves your minions stealing a gun that fires birds (called the "chicken gun").
* In ''VideoGame/{{Iji}}'' it is possible, through the use of [[RocketJump prolonged self-abuse]], to find a Banana Gun. And it's the only human-made weapon in the whole game.
* ''VideoGame/IndianaJonesAndTheInfernalMachine'': When a cheat code is entered, your bazooka fires flying rubber chickens... They also play tropical music as they pass by you.
* In ''Videogame/JablessAdventure'', your only weapon is the Hurricane Pistol, which fires a concentrated air blast.
* ''VideoGame/JimmyNeutronVsJimmyNegatron'' has a water balloon launcher, [[ItMakesSenseInContext a food slingshot for use on a rocket ship, and an aptly-named burp-launching burpzooka]].
* ''[[VideoGame/KaoTheKangaroo Kao The Kangaroo: Round 2]]'' has vehicles that fire giant pinecones.
* In ''VideoGame/KidIcarusUprising'', some of Pit's odder weapons can fire things like bouncing pawprints, jumbled chunks of skyscraper, crescent moons or Comedy and Tragedy Masks.
* ''VideoGame/KingdomOfLoathing'': Pastamancers can cast spells that pelt enemies with ex-girlfriends (which deal [[KillItWithIce ice damage]]), pin-ups, [[CreepyChild creepy kids,]] ''nudity itself'', and even something that's censored out.
* One of the best (if not ''the'' best) ranged weapons in ''VideoGame/LandsOfLore: The Throne of Chaos'' is the Crossbow "Valkyrie", which shoots fireballs.
* ''VideoGame/LeagueOfLegends'' has the usual ricochet bullets, homing bullets, bola nets and giant knives. Urgot's Butcher skin shoots ''homing chainsaws''.
* ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfSpyro'': The Apes' cannons can shoot metal bullets as well as rock spikes, icy jets, electrical surges and, during the first flight level, other apes.
* ''Franchise/TheLegendOfZelda'':
** In the original ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaI'', Link uses Rupees as arrows.
** ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaLinksAwakening'' lets you use exploding arrows by equipping bombs and arrows and pressing A+B at the same time. In later games, this is present as an actual mechanic with [[TrickArrow bomb arrows]].
** There's a number of enchanted arrow types throughout the series which let you shoot [[PlayingWithFire fire]], [[AnIcePerson ice]] and [[HolyHandGrenade divine light]] from your bow.
* The ''VideoGame/LEGOPiratesOfTheCaribbean'' game has a scene where the Spanish fire a pig from a cannon [[spoiler: to destroy the Fountain of Youth]]. Since this is a LEGO game and everything is smashable, this is more successful than the film example of firing a monkey.
* ''VideoGame/LittleBigPlanet'': The Paintinator fires paint pellets, which doesn't do much other than splatter surfaces in colourful splatters unless there's a paint sensor connected to an action on the object. The Creatinator fires an object of your choice from water to fire to bombs to cheese; the possibilities are endless. The same can be said for emitters which can be used to set up turrets and other weaponry.
* One of the attacks one can learn for Bazookas in ''VideoGame/MakaiKingdom'' involves stuffing your opponent down the barrel and firing them out.
* ''Franchise/MassEffect: due to all small arms being high tech coilguns with microfabricators inside of them (the same tech that everyone uses with omni-tools), being able to fire practically any kind of ammunition is usually as simple as changing the settings and inserting a bit of raw material (using said omni-tool).
** ''VideoGame/MassEffect1'' makes use of a variety of upgradable ammunition types, including incendiary, radioactive, cryo, proton, explosive, hammerhead, armor-piercing, anti-personnel, snowblind, sledgehammer. The most useful ones are [[BoringButPractical anti-personnel and armor-piercing (anti-synthethic)]]. You can also use proton rounds, which completely change your gun into a particle beam weapon that bypasses shielding ([[KineticWeaponsAreJustBetter they still do less damage than the other options, though]]).
** ''VideoGame/MassEffect2'' keeps most of those and adds others, such as Jack's loyalty power: ''biotic'' ammo. Mini gravity wells. Some of the heavy weapon options are pretty weird too: they include a gun which [[FreezeRay shoots giant blobs of freezing liquid]], an electrolaser ([[ShockAndAwe shoots lightning]]), and a ''mini black hole cannon''.
** ''VideoGame/MassEffect3'' continues the trend. We knew about [[http://masseffect.wikia.com/wiki/Falcon_Assault_Rifle two]] [[http://masseffect.wikia.com/wiki/Chakram_Launcher weapons]] that made use of this trope before the game was even released. We can now add a krogan shotgun that shoots spikes designed to make enemies bleed out and a geth sniper rifle that fires ferrofluid.
** Also in the third game, Joker comes up with a solution to the Reaper problem after successfully [[SummonBiggerFish using a thresher maw in a fight]].
--->'''Joker:''' Now all we need is a gun that fires Thresher Maws!\\
''({{beat}})''\\
''(another beat)''\\
'''[[TheComicallySerious Shepard]]:''' [[RunningGag That was a joke.]]\\
'''EDI:''' I apologise. I was [[LiteralMinded contemplating]].
** The use of microfabricators in the guns makes them ridiculously modular in general. The M-37 Falcon, for example, has been seen used in many different configurations including [[http://masseffect.wikia.com/wiki/Falcon_Assault_Rifle grenade launcher]], [[https://masseffect.fandom.com/wiki/Equipment_(Mass_Effect:_Infiltrator)#M-37_Falcon assault rifle, and shotgun]], with no indication that this is abnormal. In all games, you can make the same guns that fire 'regular' bullets switch to firing [[https://masseffect.fandom.com/wiki/Carnage rockets]], [[https://masseffect.fandom.com/wiki/Proximity_Mine mines]], [[https://masseffect.fandom.com/wiki/Flak_Cannon grenades]], and so on just by [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CPNZjqS-zBs changing firing modes]].
* ''VideoGame/MegaManClassic'', [[PowerCopying amongst all the abilities he's gained]], has scissors, snakes, [[GreenThumb flowers]], and {{bee|BeeGun}}s amongst the weirder ones.
* Speaking of ''VideoGame/MetalGear''...
** The Tanegashima looks like your ordinary, everyday 16th-century musket. Until you shoot it and a tornado comes out.
** [=MGS4=] has grenades and tranquilizer rounds that make people get irrationally emotional before going unconscious.
** ''VideoGame/MetalGearAcid'''s [[RareGuns XM8]] causes random status effects to people you shoot with it, up to and including [[IncendiaryExponent setting them on fire.]]
** In ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolidPeaceWalker'', the top tier Carl Gustav upgrade exchanges its explosive warheads for sleep gas and a Fulton balloon, allowing [=MSF=] operatives to point and shoot potential new recruits off the battlefield.
* ''VideoGame/MetalSlug'':
** While the first game had normal weapons for the most part ([[MemeticMutation Rocket Lawnchairs]] notwithstanding) from 2 onwards things got weird.
** The Drop Shot, which fires a bouncing explosive blob,
** Iron Lizard, a smiling exploding robotic car (or bomb-on-legs in Fat mode),
** Super Grenade, which is a rocket propelled grenade,8
** Thunder Gun, Emperor Palpatine-style insta-kill arc lighning,
** The helper character gets pretty standard weaponry (Hyaktaro's Ryu rip-off notwithstanding), except for the unused Glen Achilles, who apparently fires spinning, exploding Heavy Machine Guns.
* ''VideoGame/MetalWolfChaos'' has the shark gun. And the Baseball sniper rifle, exploding bouncing football grenade launcher, Party Cracker shotgun, soap bubble flamethrower, and the homing dragon railgun.
* ''{{Videogame/Metro 2033}}'''s Volt Driver (AKA Hellbreath) and Tihar fire ball bearings instead of bullets; the former employing [[MagneticWeapons magnetic rails]], and the latter with compressed air. Both have to manually be charged/pumped up or the damage per shot will drop after a few rounds. And since [[PracticalCurrency pre-war military ammo is used as currency]], regular rifles literally shoot money.
* The ''Franchise/{{Metroid}}'' series has the following: a gun that shoots superheated magma grenades (Magmaul), supercooled plasma (Judicator), killer [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neutrino neutrinos]] (Shock Coil), [[NukeEm miniature nuclear weapons]] (Battlehammer), holy planet energy (Light beam) and a ''miniature star'' (Sunburst), anti-energy (Dark beam) and a ''portal to hell'' (Darkburst), matter-antimatter (Annihilator beam) and the ''sound barrier'' (Sonic Boom, which ''tears a hole in the fabric of the universe''), sentient goo in energy form (any phazon weapon) and the Stacked beam, which contains [[FireIceLightning the plasma, ice, and wave beams at the same time in a six foot wall]].
** And if we count glitches, there's also the Murder Beam, which is best described as a wall of solid PAIN AND SUFFERING.
* ''VideoGame/{{Minecraft}}'' lets you uses dispensers as turrets. While they can "fire" out anything you stuff into them, most of it just falls down harmlessly. Though you can have them fire arrows, [[KillItWithFire incendiary ammunition]], potions of all kinds (including [[HealingShiv healing ones]]), snowballs, and [[EdibleAmmunition eggs]]. Eggs which may spawn baby chicken upon hitting the ground. Most of these can also be thrown by hand.
* Gunner weapons (particularly Bowguns) in ''VideoGame/MonsterHunter'' can shoot a wide variety of ammunition, from boring Pellets to [[ArmorPiercingAttack Pierce Shot]]. Keep in mind that said bullet types can be crafted with anything from berries to live fish. There's multiple [[ElementalWeapon elemental ammo types]], {{poison|edWeapons}}, [[InstantSedation sleep]] and even [[TheParalyzer paralyzing]] bullets and also ammunition that {{heal|ingShiv}}s or [[StatusBuff buffs]] your friends in multiplayer. Good Gunners can be [[CrazyPrepared ready for every situation if they carry enough ammo types]].
* In ''VideoGame/MuppetMonsterAdventure'', the Ballistic Chicken Launcher fires, well, [[CluckingFunny chickens]].
* The [[OurAngelsAreDifferent Lightspeaker]] in ''[[VideoGame/NexusWar Nexus Clash]]'' gets the Verdant Sling, a weapon that can be loaded with any and all plants and growing things. Shooting daisies, lilies and ''mushrooms'' at the enemy is far more effective than it sounds.
* In ''VideoGame/NoMoreHeroes2DesperateStruggle'', Million Gunman has a gun that shoots tightly packed wads of cash.
--> '''Fuck you, I shoot money!'''
** In the original ''VideoGame/NoMoreHeroes'', Bad Girl hits her ammo at you with her baseball bat. Her ammo? [[FastballSpecial Gimps.]] Yes, ''GIMPS.''
* In ''VideoGame/OddworldStrangersWrath'', the main character has a crossbow that shoots a variety of wildlife, including: enemy-taunting chipmunks, giant armored pillbugs, exploding bats, and little bitey alien things perhaps best described as rabid carnivorous [[Franchise/StarTrek tribbles]].
* In ''VideoGame/{{Okami}}'', you can shoot your {{N|onPlayerCharacter}}PC [[FastballSpecial man-turned-wolf companion Oki]] in the battle against the twin clockwork owls.
* In ''VideoGame/{{Oni}}'', some of the more advanced weapons included a sniper railgun that fired slugs of frozen mercury, and an energy weapon that fired a grenade, which released a LifeEnergy absorbing psychic entity, that would move from target to target until it was done feeding, including attacking the player if it was fired carelessly. Each of those took the same generic ammo clips as the other projectile and energy weapons.
* ''VideoGame/{{Painkiller}}'' has the Electrodriver, which does indeed fire shurikens and lightning. There's also the stakegun, which shoots "sharpened telephone poles".
** The fanmade sequel Overdose includes a number of these, to its detriment. Some examples include a crossbow that shoots skulls, a shotgun that shoots (fragments of) skulls, and a '''knife''' that '''shoots ''more SKULLS'''''.
* Barik and Buck from ''VideoGame/{{Paladins}}'' use shotguns that shoot shards of crystals for buckshot.
* In ''VideoGame/PaperMarioTheThousandYearDoor'', Magnus von Grapple 2.0 has an attack that sucks up the audience and then fires them like a machine gun. To make matters worse, this is one of the strongest attacks in the game if you don't guard correctly.
* ''Videogame/PlanescapeTorment'' features a few strange projectiles for Nodrom -- Rule of Three bolts with spring-loaded pyramidal heads, Bolts of Wincing which look like bladed U's (the name comes from what observers do when the bolts go in...or are pulled out), and bolts with sponge-heads (the sponges are full of acid).
* All variants of the All-Star zombie in ''VideoGame/PlantsVsZombiesGardenWarfare'' fire some kind of sporting equipment or merchandise[[note]]Wrestling Star's action figures[[/note]] out of their {{BFG}}s, with the exception of Moto-X Star's, [[DishingOutDirt which just blasts dirt]].
* ''VideoGame/PocketTanks'' is an extreme example of this trope. Tanks there can shoot: *deep breath* ...dirt, pop corn, rubber, bees, roman candles, sawblades...FLEAS!...star dust, water, tornadoes, coal, fireflies, glue, chalks and so on.
* ''VideoGame/{{Portal}}'' has a gun that fires interlinked ''portals''. Firing directly at a turret won't even nudge it, but there are numerous ways to use the portals around the turrets to disable them. Speaking of the turrets, they don't shoot ordinary bullets. They shoot the ''entire'' bullet (that's 65% more bullet!).
* ''VideoGame/Prey2006'''s alien world is chock full of annoying crab-like three-legged things. They don't really do anything other than walk around... and explode, vigorously, should you tear off their legs. Or you can stuff them into a pneumatic launcher, giving the local equivalent of a grenade launcher. Talk about [[{{Pun}} live grenades]].
** The acid gun, a shotgun that sprays acid instead of pellets, and launches an acid-filled tube with the secondary fire.
* ''VideoGame/PuzzleQuest: Challenge Of The Warlords'' has the Gobshooter enemy -- a catapult that uses goblins as ammo (Destroying [[UnpredictableResults a random gem]] on the board for 20x effect). The funny thing is that the Hurl Goblin attack is ''[[PowerCopying learnable!]]''
* In ''VideoGame/{{Quackshot}}'', Donald's arsenal consists of a plunger gun, exploding bubblegum bubbles, and a powerful scattershot popcorn. The villains' ammunition includes tomatoes, toxic gunk, and beehives.
* ''VideoGame/{{Quake}}'':
** In the [[VideoGame/QuakeI first]] and [[VideoGame/QuakeIV fourth]] installments, one of the more common weapons the player must master is a [[NailEm nail gun]]. In ''IV'', upgrades make the nails {{robotech|ing}} to a target if you use the scope.
** The [[{{BFG}} Dark Matter Gun]] is fed dark matter cores. It fires a tiny moving black hole that can be seen in the gun's receiver.
* ''Franchise/RatchetAndClank'': Amongst the weapons included in the games we have guns that will [[BalefulPolymorph turn any enemy into various farmyard animals]], a land shark gun, a gun that fires heat-seeking servings of vindaloo curry, a mine that spits out bees, and the suck cannon, a weapon which sucks up your enemies and fires them as ammo. There is also a gun that shoots black holes, and grenades that turn into little robots that themselves have guns. Finally, we have the gun that fires tornadoes, complete with lightning storms, wrist weapons that launched sentient and powerful blobs of slime, and capping it all off with a bomb that makes any enemy -- from wandering creatures to NPC's to bosses -- start dancing to disco music, each one having a distinct dance.
* In 7'VideoGame/RedAlert3Paradox'', the Mediterranean Syndicate's standard weapons fire Gyrojets, little finless rockets that accelerate as they fly, doing more damage the farther away they hit. They're based on an actual weapon described below, and the numerous flaws listed are the reason why they never made it to mass production in RealLife.
* ''VideoGame/RedDeadRedemptionUndeadNightmare'' introduces the [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blunderbuss Blunderbuss]], which [[HonestJohnsDealership Nigel West Dickens]] gives to you stating that you could stuff it with anything to kill zombies with as [[BlatantLies it has been the choice weapon of zombie hunters for many years]]. John stuffs it with ''zombie parts'' (as in, fingers and ribs and such) as projectiles. It makes zombies [[MadeOfExplodium blow up REAL good]].
* In ''VideoGame/RedneckRampage'' you find dynamite, a generic tossed explosive. Later, you upgrade it to a rocket launcher by finding a crossbow. ''Then'' you find a chicken... strap the chicken to an arrow, jam dynamite up the egg-hole, and now you have a chicken-guided missile launcher complete with 'b-gawk!' sound effects and drifting feathers. Also, while not exactly abnormal ''ammo'', you kill a big alien and take its gun... which is cyber-grafted to its arm. You fire it by yanking on dangling tendons.
* ''VideoGame/ResonanceOfFate'' features FireIceLightning, and Poison bullets and grenades. We're not touching the grenade called "Dog Droppings" with a ten foot pole.
* ''VideoGame/RevolutionX'', the SpiritualSuccessor to Creator/MidwayGames' ''Terminator 2 -- The Arcade Game'', had the player armed with a machine gun... as well as a launcher that fired ''exploding CD's''. As a powerup, the player could also upgrade to '''''Laserdiscs!'''''
* Special Shells from ''VideoGame/RingOfRed'' are largely conservative as this trope goes. HEAT (High Explosive Anti-Tank) shells, teflon-coated rounds, "White Phosphorus" (a bit of BlindIdiotTranslation, it's really tear-gas) shells, incendiary, shrapnel. The wierdest is "Incendiary Shrapnel," which just hits both squads of support troops in the vanguard with flame damage.
* ''VideoGame/RiseOfLegends'' has a number of these, especially from the SteamPunk "Vinci" factions. Standouts are the Doge Cannon and Doomcannon, both of which can fire a poison gas, shrapnel, or explosive shell; or the ability of certain heroes to fire flare rockets that turn into so-called "Holdout Towers".
* ''VideoGame/Rockman4MinusInfinity'' has the Spark. Manbow. Normally, it is just Mega Man creating a lightbulb with his to shock his foes at point-blank range. Release the fire button and it becomes a projectile.
** ''VideoGame/Rockman2DeuxExMachina'' has Metal Man's weapon, which fires ''[[BrownNote musical notes]]''.
* ''VideoGame/RuneScape'' has a number of these, many of which use living creatures in some way or another. It's a good thing there's no PETA in ''[=RuneScape=]''...
** The Fixed Device shoots dyed toads.
** Salamanders use up tar mixed with various herbs as the ammo for them to shoot flames out. Yes, you hold the salamanders in your hands.
** Crystal bows "use" no ammo. They weaken as you use them because you're essentially firing little bits of ''the bow itself'' at things.
** Chinchompas are small, [[MadeOfExplodium highly explosive animals]]. You throw them at people. They may not be shot out of anything, but they are fun to watch.
** With the oddball aura active, the dwarven multicannon would fire squids, beers or [[RunningGag cabbages]] instead of cannonballs.
* ''VideoGame/SailorZombie'': The PlayerCharacter's gun fires bullets that cure zombies of TheVirus.
* In ''VideoGame/SaintsRowTheThird'', the Boss can upgrade some of his/her weapons to fire incendiary or explosive ammo. There are also a number of DLC weapons such as the Octopus Launcher, which shoots ocotpi that mind-control your enemies into attacking one another before self-destructing, the Genki Manapult, a truck that sucks up pedestrians and shoots them out of a cannon on the back, and a shotgun that fires chum in order to entice a killer sewer-dwelling shark to burst out of the ground and attack your opponents.
** [[VideoGame/SaintsRowIV Its sequel]] only serves to up the ante; bizarre weapons include black hole launchers, alien guns that make targets have [[BigHeadMode giant heads]], a plunger gun, a weapon that fires ''alien abductions'', and of course, a gun that shoots {{dubstep}}.
* This trope features very heavily in the ending of ''VideoGame/SakuraWars 3''.
* ''VideoGame/ScorchedEarth'' features a type of shell that explodes in a 100-300 feet sphere (well, circle, it's a 2D game) of ''dirt''. Apparently dirt is very compressible. It also features three different families of dirt-destroying weapons -- which work better than one would think, because tanks aren't known for gently gliding down when a massive circle of soil has just been removed from right under their threads (unless the player has thought in advance and bought parachutes. Let's just say this game has a ''lot'' of gadgets available to buy).
* In ''VideoGame/{{Scribblenauts}}'' and ''Super Scribblenauts'', there's a gun that fires ExplodingBarrels.
** In ''Super Scribblenauts'', you can also modify guns with adjectives to make the bullets very strange. These range from useful and destructive (flaming bullets to KillItWithFire) to straightforwardly ridiculous (a "pretty gun" will shoot bullets with tiny little tiaras).
* With ''VideoGame/SecondLife'' having tons of user created stuff, there are certainly guns out there that shoot weird stuff. There's a gun that shoots more than 15 [[VideoGame/MarioKart Red Shells]] that seek out other avatars nearby and makes a big firework-like explosion upon impact. Then there's another gun that shoots [[Franchise/SuperMarioBros Stars]] by the truckload and all of them have the starman theme playing at the same time, which sounds freaky when the sound gets distorted due to how fast they fly when shot out. Also Watermelon Rifles, Cat Cannons, Heart Crossbows, and a dildo gun.
* One of the bonus guns obtained in ''VideoGame/ShadowTheHedgehog'' is the Omochao gun, which, just like you would think, fires the [[AnnoyingVideoGameHelper Omochao]] from ''VideoGame/SonicAdventure2: Battle''.
* A cheat code in ''ShadowWarrior'' transforms the shots from your missile launcher into bunnies. KillerRabbit indeed.
** One of the weapons consists in the severed head of an enemy. Lo Wang sticks his fingers inside the skull and twitches them around inside the brain, causing the head to emit various types of flaming ammo.
* ''VideoGame/ShellshockLive'' ''runs on this trope''. You have cats, guppies, frogs, shots that create a snake-like explosion, shots that rise the ground, etc. And all of these are fired from tanks.
* ''Franchise/ShinMegamiTensei'' used to feature special ammo for your guns that could [[StatusInflictionAttack put your enemies to sleep, poison them or charm them.]]
* [[HammerSpace Despite not visibly holding any weapons,]] the snail protagonist of ''VideoGame/{{Snailiad}}'' manages to use a pea shooter, a [[PrecisionGuidedBoomerang boomerang]], and a ''[[EverythingsBetterWithRainbows rainbow gun.]]''
* ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'' for UsefulNotes/{{Nintendo 64}} has...{{yellow snow}}balls. The most powerful weapon is a cow launcher. There are grenades that look like Terence and Philip dolls; they fart to explode. The game's equivalent to a sniper rifle is a chicken that shoots eggs. You even aim it through a little notch in its tail feathers!
* Part of the premise of the ''VideoGame/{{Splatoon}}'' series is that you use various weapons (from your standard variety of guns, to re-purposed [[ImprobableWeaponUser washing machines, garden hoses, paintbrushes and even buckets]]) that utilize ink as ammo... said ink also doubling as your [[{{Squick}} character's body fluid]].
* ''VideoGame/SplinterCell'': Sam Fisher's [[CoolGuns/AssaultRifles heavily modified FN F2000]] has an underslung GrenadeLauncher that can shoot tear gas grenades, dense rubber rings [[TapOnTheHead with knockout capabilities]], [[StaticStunGun sticky stun gun-like projectiles]], and [[SpyCam small remote-controlled cameras with various capabilities]], [[TapOnTheHead including knockout potential]] if fired at a person's head.
* ''Franchise/StarWars: [[VideoGame/DarkForcesSaga Dark Forces 2: Jedi Knight]]'' used a similar idea: The alternate fire on the rocket launcher made the spider-shaped rockets grab onto objects and wait for a few seconds before going off. Instead of just blowing up the enemy, you got to see them run around with an exploding spider-bomb on them. So, so much more fun.
* Green-colored guns in ''VideoGame/StickFight'' shoot large snakes which attack the closest player.
* ''Videogame/SunlessSea'': One of the guns you can purchase is called the Icarus in Black, and is possibly the most damaging thing you can fire, at least when facing sea monsters. However, it has extremely expensive ammo in the form of very angry and very suicidal monster-hunters that want to die a glorious death, and ''nothing else''. And yes, they're fired out like a cannon. It bears mentioning that this thing was manufactured in the [[WorldOfChaos Iron Republic]], where there is no law, not even the laws of physics, that can get in the way of such a thing being made.
* The weapons of ''VideoGame/SunsetOverdrive'' can fire bowling balls, vinyl records, and fireworks, among other things.
* ''VideoGame/SuperMarioRPG'' has Geno's Star Gun, which happens to shoot little stars.
* ''Franchise/SuperMarioBros'' has been doing this for a very long time with the Bullet Bill as well as the Bob-bombs.
* Pfeil III's "Sword Launcher" in ''VideoGame/SuperRobotWarsOriginalGeneration: Dark Prison'', which launches the swords on the "Gunstar Blader"
* ''[[VideoGame/SystemShock System Shock 2]]'' had the 'Exotic' weapons class, ranged weapons from which were reloaded with annelids -- AKA ''worms''. The Viral Proliferator shot [[BeeBeeGun clouds of flying, stinging worms]], whilst the Annelid Launcher shot a homing rocket. Made of worms. One of the game's audio logs describes the last weapon quite well: ''[[https://www.systemshock.org/shocklogs/sound/LOG0619.mp3 "... here's the thing. It's made of worms... it evens fires worms... but it stings like you wouldn't believe."]]''
* This is standard for any wielder of firearms in the ''VideoGame/TalesSeries''. Hubert's [[ImpossiblyCoolWeapon sword-gun-bow thing]] in ''VideoGame/TalesOfGraces'' appears to shoot magic. You have your classic elemental bullets, exploding bullets -- and then bullets which can create gravity wells, bullets which turn into giant ghostly beast heads, and...bullets?...which create a [[ShockAndAwe showering cage of electricity.]] What. Even.
* The Medic's Syringe Gun from ''VideoGame/TeamFortress2'' The alternate Blutsauger shoots syringes that restore the medic's health when they hit an enemy.
** [[ToiletHumour Jarate]] (one of the Sniper's weapons) is a [[UnusualEuphemism thrown jar]] that splashes on impact. The Sniper also has the Sydney Sleeper, a dart rifle that shoots Jarate darts, for when you feel like pissing on someone's parade but don't feel like getting close.
** There's also Mad Milk, a bottle of [[strike:milk]] [[UnusualEuphemism non-milk substance]] you can throw at the enemy that converts a portion of damage done to the affected enemy into health for the attacker.
** Some servers also allow custom particle effects, so you can have your guns shoot whatever you can find a skin for.
** The Engineer has the [[VideoGame/DeusExHumanRevolution promotional Widowmaker shotgun]], which uses his supply of metal for ammo and ''regains metal'' for every bit of damage he deals with it.
* The UsefulNotes/PlayStation game ''VideoGame/{{Terracon}}'' features the "Genergy Gun". In combat it's a fairly ordinary energy weapon. The gimmick is that the game also features coloured wireframe "meshes", which turn into solid objects and functional devices when shot with enough Genergy.
* ''VideoGame/{{Terraria}}'' brings the Sandgun, which as the name suggests, fires blocks of sand. It can be used as a direct fire weapon or to block off areas with sand. If you have any form of ammo reduction, it also works well as [[MundaneUtility an infinite sand generator]] since you'll end up with more sand than you started with, and the excess can then be turned into glass.
** There's a few other strange ammo types. Once you reach Hardmode, you can craft cursed flame rounds and crystal fragmentation bullets. Crossbow users, meanwhile, have the Holy Arrows, which ''drop stars'' on whatever they hit.
** Certain weapons in the game use one specific ammo type that isn't used for anything else. The Flamethrower, for instance, is fueled by slime gel (which is flammable enough to be used for torches), the Snowball Cannon only shoots snowballs, the Star Cannon fires [[StarPower Fallen Stars]], and the Piranha Gun shoots a live homing piranha. One of the most exotic, however, is the Bunny Cannon, which exclusively shoots ''bunnies with dynamite strapped to them''.
* ''VideoGame/ToejamAndEarl'' has you using tomatoes as your primary attack. The first sequel has bottles. No, they don't break on enemies and hurt them; they open and suck enemies in, rather like the ghost trap in ''Franchise/{{Ghostbusters}}''.
* ''VideoGame/{{Tribes}}'' features the Spinfusor, which shoots ''[[DeadlyDisc exploding frisbees of death]]''. Functionally, it's a dumbfire Rocket Launcher on the StandardListOfFPSGuns, but its distinctive design is iconic of the series.
** ''Tribes: Ascend'' gives you a "Blue Plate Special" award if you kill someone in mid-air with a spinfusor disc.
* In ''Franchise/TouhouProject'', [[EverythingTryingToKillYou practically anything that moves]] is deadly: magic bullets, knives, stars, paper charms, Yin-Yang orbs, rocks, roses, hearts, anchors, coins, and [[SlowLaser laser beams]] (linear and twirly).
* The ''VideoGame/{{Turok}}'' series has the bore-gun which fires nanobots of some type which slice apart the enemy into bite-sized chunks.
** ''Turok 2'' has the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8CaiXVbFZXI Cerebral Bore]]. It fires... well, a bore that locks onto an enemy's brainwaves in order to track them, then drills into their skull shortly before [[YourHeadASplode exploding]]. (Predictably, it's kind of messy.)
* ''VideoGame/{{Tyrian}}'' had several "hidden" ships you could play through a "super arcade mode" by using a cheat code. The Ninja Stealth ship had several ninja-themed weapons, including poison bombs (against other ''ships''?), "starburst" (a weapon that threw starshaped chunks of hot metal out ''sideways'' from your ship -- usable as a secondary weapon in the normal game, not much good as a primary), and shuriken, which when fully-upgraded resulted in a massive forward field of shuriken shot from the front of your ship. Taking the cake, though, had to be the Foodship Nine Supercarrot, which used entirely food-related weapons, from a banana gun that threw out a tree's worth of explosive bananas per second, a secondary banana bomb launcher, a hotdog-with-optional-mustard-spread, and an orange... thingy... that created a whirling circle of oranges.
** In a similar vein, ''VideoGame/RType Final'' has [[GottaCatchEmAll 101 ships]], so odds are some of them are going to be freaky. Indeed, among the highlights, one [[WaveMotionGun Wave Cannon]] fires ''natural disasters'', one is fueled by ThePowerOfLove, and similar to the above example, one ship is packing a flamethrower [[FridgeLogic for use in ship-to-ship combat]] where a standard WaveMotionGun works far better (speaking of bad ideas, there's the line of ships that jam a giant metal rod into the enemy...once again, InAWorld rife with WaveMotionGun technology).
* The ''VideoGame/{{Unreal}}'' series has mostly-conventional StandardFPSGuns, impact hammer aside, but the more interesting ones play the trope straight.
** A staple is the GES Bio Rifle, a gun that shoots toxic sludge that remains from Tarydium refinement. Very damaging but short-ranged, as the projectiles have low launch velocity and are subject to gravity. It can be fired directly at an enemy or at the map surfaces to lay down explosive poisonous traps.
** The Stinger in [[VideoGame/UnrealI the first game]] fires shards of Tarydium crystals. Primary fire works as a low-tier machine gun with slow projectiles at a low cyclic rate, and AlternateFire shoots five at once in a cheap imitation of a shotgun; fortunately, damage per shot makes it fairly efficient and Tarydium shards are more plentiful than most other ammo types. Justified in that it was first designed as a mining tool, not a combat weapon. ''VideoGame/UnrealTournamentIII'' re-tools the Stinger into the Stinger [[GatlingGood Minigun]], with a {{hitscan}} primary fire and SecondaryFire (similar to the original Stinger's primary, a volley of slow shards) being pinpoint accurate and quite powerful, enough to [[PinnedToTheWall pin corpses to the scenery]].
** ''VideoGame/UnrealIITheAwakening'' has two:
*** Isaak wires up a gun that shoots spiders. Primary fire covers a target in spiders, which doesn't kill them very quickly but does make them run around screaming "Aaaaaaagh get them off meeeeeeee!". For this reason it may well be the second-most fun weapon in the game. Secondary fire shoots a glob of biomass that turns into a big spider when you hit it with the primary fire; the spider then follows you and attacks your enemies.
*** Then there's the Tosc BFG that shoots miniature black holes. It's a OneHitKill to anything caught up in the projectile's hitbox.
** The entire ''Unreal'' series is very friendly to weird weaponry, thanks to the way the engine works. Open up the editor, find a projectile-launching weapon, substitute the class name of the bullet with that of most other entities in the game world, and... voila, a Stinger that fires rockets, or ASMD blast-balls, or grenades. Or ''[[RuleOfFunny alien rabbits]]''.
* In ''VideoGame/{{Vangers}}'' there is a basic machinegun that makes ammo out of dirt and water. Also a gun that shoots money.
* ''VideoGame/WarCraftIII'' has the Undead Meat Wagon, a catapult that launches corpses. Notice that this is not as far-fetched as it seems; there are ''[[TruthInTelevision real instances]]'' of armies stuffing their catapults with corpses, as you can see in the appropriate section below. (Indeed, you can even upgrade the meat wagons so the corpses they throw spread disease.) The Night Elf Glaive Thrower from the same game is a siege weapon that throws blades so sharp at such high speed they can cut down trees.
* One of the hidden weapons that could be earned in the Arcade FirstPersonShooter ''WarFinalAssault'' was a barrel that fired a monkey with a bomb strapped to its back.
* Among the things the TrueFinalBoss fires at you in ''VideoGame/WhenTailsGetsBored'' include Sonic and Amy dolls.
* ''VideoGame/{{Wizardry}} 8'' features the gadgeteer class. This class comes with a unique rifle, whose choice of potential ammo expands as you level up. It starts able to only fire rocks and pellets, later gaining the ability to shoot daggers, arrows, axes, swords, lightsabers, grenade-like potions...
* ''VideoGame/TheWonderful101'' has the eponymous heroes group together to turn into various firearms and then fire themselves from those weapons.
* Many of the games in ''VideoGame/WorldOfMana'' series had a system of [[HumanCannonball cannons]], located all around the world, that fired main characters very, ''very'' high in order to transport them elsewhere. Needless to say, there wasn't any fall damage, so it was way superior to walking through half the world to player's next destination.
* In the Cataclysm expansion for ''VideoGame/WorldOfWarcraft'', one of the goblin quests in the Twilight Highlands requires you to shoot an antiaircraft gun that's been loaded with anything the goblins could find lying around -- old shoes, inflatable pool ponies, you name it. As with all pieces of goblin technology, this improvised ammo still manages to explode on contact with its target.
** The ''Wrath Of The Lich King'' expansion brought out the Isle Of Conquest [[PlayerVersusPlayer PvP]] battleground which had (among many fun vehicles) Glaive Throwers (which fired big spinny things of doom) and quite small, unassuming catapults...that fired THEIR OWN DRIVER (as a way to get troops inside the enemy fortress before breaking the gates).
** Another ''Cataclysm'' quest involves attacking an enemy-held war zeppelin. By being ''shot out of a cannon'' at it! When asked why, if he has a cannon, he doesn't just shoot cannonballs at them, the quest giver replies, "No way! They'll see that coming..."
** There's also the Flintlocke's Woodchucker gun attachment, which periodically shoots a "random rabid critter" at your target, in homage to ''Flintlocke's Guide To Azeroth''.
--> "'slike a wee angry bullet wit' teeth, son."
* ''VideoGame/{{Worms}}'' has [[BaaBomb sheep]] and homing pigeons being fired from bazookas, the Priceless Ming Vase, the Banana Bomb, the HolyHandGrenade, and the Old Lady (among the most powerful non-super weapons in the game) as well as the Super Sheep, which is a flying sheep (with a red cape!) which you guide into its target. The ''super'' weapons include the "Concrete Donkey", the Super Banana Bomb, and the Flaming Sheep Strike. Let's just put it this way: The more unlikely the weapon, the more powerful it's probably going to be. ''Worms Forts: Under Siege'' has, among other things, a minigun that fires hamsters, a trebuchet that launches a moose and a mortar that fires a bishop.
* ''VideoGame/XCom Interceptor'' features mostly normal weapons: you start with lasers and missiles, upgrade to more powerful lasers and missiles, eventually get plasma weapons, and then develop the psi-beam, which is a laser that shoots ''mind-control beams''.
* ''VideoGame/{{Xenogears}}'': Citan built the Buntline, a Gear that can {{transform|ingMecha}} into a giant gun. Its ammo? Its own ''cockpit'', pilot and all.
* The [[WaveMotionGun Point Singularity Projector]] in the ''Videogame/{{X}}-Universe'' games fires what are essentially naked singularities at enemy ships.
** The Fragmentation Bomb Launcher shoots a ball full of fletchettes, which explode in proximity to other ships. CoolButInefficient due to a bug.
** The Cluster Flak Array and Flak Artillery Array shoot a flak shell which bursts, spewing out [[RecursiveAmmo more flak in all directions]].
** In a player-only example, you can [[ColonyDrop build stations INSIDE enemy ships, instantly destroying them]].
** InUniverse, the Mass Driver can be considered as one, as they are good old railguns that fire [[ArmorPiercingAttack shield-piercing]] metal bullets, as opposed to the usual energy or plasma bolts.
* ''VideoGame/YesYourGrace'': If the refugee peasants aren't taken in during the first week of the final siege, the enemy will later find use of their heads as catapult ammo.
* ''VideoGame/ZombiesAteMyNeighbors''. You start with a squirt gun full of holy water that can kill zombies. You also can attack with: tomatoes, popsicles, silverware, dishware, six packs of soda (That explode like grenades), footballs, fire extinguishers, weed trimmers and an alien ray gun that fires bubbles. The only "normal" weapon you obtain is the bazooka.
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* ''Anime/MagicalGirlLyricalNanohaStrikerS'': Teana has Cross Mirage, a pair of handguns that shoot magic. From the same franchise, there are Cartridges, which are condensed magic in what looks like a firearm shell, but these are not actually shot, just exploded to supercharge a Device.

** ''[[VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaLinksAwakening Link's Awakening]]'' lets you use exploding arrows by equipping bombs and arrows and pressing A+B at the same time...
** ...which ''[[VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaTwilightPrincess Twilight Princess]]'' changed from a secret to an actual mechanic with [[TrickArrow Bomb Arrows]].
** There's also a number of enchanted arrow types throughout the series which let you shoot [[PlayingWithFire fire]], [[AnIcePerson ice]] and [[HolyHandGrenade divine light]] from your bow.

* ''Webcomic/{{Chicanery}}'''s [[VideoGame/EarthBound Jeff]] [[GadgeteerGenius develops "ludicrously deadly" bullets in his spare time.]]

** In ''The Holmes-Dracula File'', the Count made a point of congratulating Holmes for thinking to use wooden bullets. This one is a fairly common strain of Abnormal Ammo. It's the secret weapon used to tip the balance of power between warring vampire factions in the film ''Sundown: The Vampire In Retreat'', while the vampire-hunter squad in the excellent TV series ''Series/{{Ultraviolet}}'' use a high-tech, hardened-carbon variant.

** [[BigBad Kaptain K. Rool]] in ''VideoGame/DonkeyKongCountry2DiddysKongQuest'' uses a blunderbuss that fires cannonballs with retractable spikes, ''barrels'' (containing cannonballs) and blobs of gas inflicting [[StatusEffects various]] [[InterfaceScrew effects]]. The projectiles also sometimes ''bounce'' or get blown about as if the air is being let out of them like balloons.

* ''Franchise/ShinMegamiTensei'' used to feature special ammo for your guns that could [[StatusEffects put your enemies to sleep, poison them or charm them.]]

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''Oddworld: Stranger's Wrath''features this as the main combat style. The Stranger fires living creatures with various traits out of a crossbow, in order to bag bounties. This includes:
* A trash-talking squirrel that attracts enemies,
* Exploding bats,
* Fuzzy creatures with massive teeth,
* Electrical fireflies,
* Wasps that essentially function as a minigun.

* ''VideoGame/{{Oddworld: Stranger's Wrath}}''features this as the main combat style. The Stranger fires living creatures with various traits out of a crossbow, in order to bag bounties. This includes:
A trash-talking squirrel that attracts enemies,
Exploding bats,
Fuzzy creatures with massive teeth,
Electrical fireflies,
as well as wasps that essentially function as a minigun.

* In ''VideoGame/RedAlert3Paradox'', the Mediterranean Syndicate's standard weapons fire Gyrojets, little finless rockets that accelerate as they fly, doing more damage the farther away they hit. They're based on an actual weapon described below, and the numerous flaws listed are the reason why they never made it to mass production in RealLife.

** Mista from [[Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventureVentoAureo Part 5]] has a colony Stand called Sex Pistols. He uses ordinary bullets, but his Stands (named [[FourIsDeath "1", "2", "3", "5", "6" and "7"]]) can fly and deviate the trajectories of bullets (with kicks), making it possible to Mista to hit targets beyond a corner, to say one. At least one time some of them ride a bullet to reach the target faster, although they never strike him on their own.