History Main / BFG

* ''VideoGame/{{Doom}}'' is the TropeNamer, the BFG-9000 appearing in all the games. It stands for "[[BlatantLies Bio-Force Gun]]" in the ''Doom'' movie, and "Big, uh, freakin' gun" in the ''VideoGame/QuakeII'' manual, but the ''Doom'' design document (known among fans as the ''Doom Bible'') specifically names it as "Big [[PrecisionFStrike Fucking]] Gun." For the record, the BFG-9000 is also sometimes called pseudo-formally "Blast Field Generator" or "Blast Field Gun".

** ''Doom 3'', meanwhile, has the Soul Cube, which is the only weapon powerful enough to harm the otherwise totally invincible Cyberdemon and instantly kills any other enemy it hits.

** ''TokusouSentaiDekaranger'' (adapted into ''Series/PowerRangersSPD'') has a HumongousMecha that can [[TransformingMecha transform]] into a BFG so big it takes two or three other HumongousMecha to wield it. (Its usual procedure is carry a MonsterOfTheWeek into orbit, and then use its BFG mode.)

* The ''{{Quake}}'' series has the [=BFG10K=] in ''VideoGame/QuakeII'' and the rapid fire rocket launcher BFG in ''VideoGame/QuakeIIIArena''. In ''VideoGame/QuakeIV'' it was named "Dark Matter Gun", but functioned almost identically to [=Q2=]'s BFG.

Not to be confused with Creator/RoaldDahl's book and character ''Literature/TheBFG'' (Big Friendly Giant), TNA Wrestling's show Bound for Glory, BigFriendlyDog, [[FreudWasRight or another type of gun]].

Now, for what is ''not'' this trope, [[SquarePegRoundTrope since there seems to be some confusion]]:
* The first key criterion is whether the weapon is '''carried''' by the wielder rather than '''physically attached'''. If you've got (for instance) a starship mounting a [[FixedForwardFacingWeapon spinal mass accelerator]] capable of delivering 38 kilotons of energy to its target, that is not a BFG. However, if that same mass accelerator is slung from a BadassNormal's broad shoulders, that ''is'' a BFG. Similarly, a .50 caliber machine gun that is used as intended (mounted on a bipod or swivel mount) doesn't count, but if a normal-sized character uses it like an ordinary rifle it does.
* The second requirement is that the gun be oversized '''compared to the wielder'''. If a gun carried by a HumongousMecha is about the same size relative to the mech as an ordinary gun would be to a normal-sized person, that's not a BFG. But if the gun is almost as big as the mech, you have a genuine BFG.
* Finally, '''long arms only'''. Ridiculously large pistols go on HandCannon, grenade launchers have [[GrenadeLauncher their own trope]], missile launchers usually belong on AntiAir or AntiArmor, and so on and so forth.

* Finally, '''long arms only'''. Ridiculously large pistols go on HandCannon.

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[[caption-width-right:330:Well, at least it's not a ''concealed'' weapon.]]

Just so we're clear, this is not a gun mounted on a vehicle. If you've got (for instance) a starship mounting a mass accelerator capable of delivering 38 kilotons of energy to its target, that is not a BFG. However, if that same mass accelerator is slung from a BadassNormal's broad shoulders, that ''is'' a BFG. Similarly, a .50 caliber machine gun that is used as intended (mounted on a bipod or swivel mount) doesn't count, but if a normal-sized character uses it like an ordinary rifle it does. The key distinction is "carried weapon" versus not.

* Any projectile carried by a [[Film/{{Transformers}} Transformer]] automatically fits this trope due to being wielded by alien robots that on average are 20 feet in height. Although in particular, [[Film/{{Transformers}} Ironhide and Optimus]] fit this quite well. According to the modelers, Ironhide's cannons have more pieces than some of the other Transformers in their ''entirety''. Megatron takes it a step further with the ''enormous'' Fusion Cannon he forms by slamming his hands together in the first movie.

* Overtly in ''Film/IronMan2'', War Machine with his shoulder mounted minigun, but as Tony points out:
-->'''Tony''': You ''have'' a big gun, you're not ''the'' big gun.

* Adam Anders of ''Literature/{{Domina}}'' has a 6-gauge "Saint George" ([[StealthPun as in the dragon slayer]]) shotgun as one of his main weapons. Although that's pretty small compared to everything else on this page, that's basically the biggest shotguns get in real life.
* In ''Literature/{{Daemon}}'', nothing less than a 50-cal rifle will damage the ImmuneToBullets Razorbacks or first [=AutoM8=].
* Guns in ''Literature/TheDresdenFiles'' tend to be pretty reasonable in size, in fact Murphy prominently carries a P90, a weapon specifically designed to be small and portable (to fit with her tiny hands). However, in the short story "The Warrior", a former military sniper uses a Barret M82A2 rifle, possibly one of the largest caliber sniper rifles available (.50BMG, which is only legal for civilian use through a technicality related to how caliber is measured). It's so powerful that it blows through two layers of Harry's magical defenses, and is only stopped by a third layer and DivineIntervention.
* In ''Literature/{{Destroyermen}}: Distant Thunders'', Silva {{MacGyver|ing}}s a "super lizard gun" he affectionately nicknames the "Doom Whomper" out of a salvaged anti-aircraft gun from [[spoiler:HIJMS ''Amagi'']]. It's a flintlock rifle that shoots a quarter-pound slug, which he built to hunt the allosaur variant that is Borneo's top predator in the book series' [[AlternateHistory alternate Earth]]. The recoil from it is enough to knock him over the first and only time he fires it from any posture other than prone. While hunting, he makes a game of seeing how [[OneHitPolyKill many "rhino-pigs" he can kill with one shot]].
* The ''{{Literature/Doom}}'' novels make use of the trope, little surprise given it's an adaptation of the Trope Namer. Fly has no idea what kind of gun it is and calls it "the big freaking gun".

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* ''Series/SonsOfGuns'': The Red Jacket crew converts a tripod-mounted Browning M1919 into a shoulder fired weapon. It's still quite hefty.
* ''Series/StargateSG1'':
** The Jaffa staff weapons are pretty big on their own, but at one point Teal'c wields a dismounted ''anti-ship version'' taken from a Death Glider. And ''one-shots'' an Al'kesh with it. [[BoomHeadshot In the windshield]].
** In the ''SG-1'' episode "Allegiance" O'Neill used a [[http://www.stargatecaps.com/sg1/s6/609/html/6x09_0549.html huge machine gun]].
* In ''Series/StargateContinuum,'' Vala has to be dissuaded from bringing [[http://stargate.wikia.com/wiki/Image:Vlcsnap-3675023.png this]] (the X-699) to [[spoiler: Ba'al's extraction ceremony.]]
* In ''Series/ThePrisoner's'' spy spoof episode "The Girl Who Was Death", the title character Sonia, having failed to kill Number 6 with various elaborate death traps, finally decides on the direct approach, escalating from a machine gun to hand grenades and mortars before finally drawing a bazooka on him.
* ''Series/{{Chuck}}'' has an excellent example of this trope in action during the first episode of the third season, when Casey gets to use his minigun. [[CrowningMomentOfAwesome Gunship battles, explosions and gunfights with terrorists ensue.]]
* ''KamenRiderRyuki'': Kamen Rider Zolda (Kitaoka Shuuichi) wields a gun twice as long as he is tall ([[http://members.fortunecity.com/jillun/ryuuki/zoldagun.jpg picture]]), and two pretty big guns mounted on his shoulders, too. And that's nothing compared to his MacrossMissileMassacre FinishingMove...
* ''KamenRider555'''s Faiz Blaster. That thing was HUGE. Sad its gun form was rarely used.
** Faiz's Final Form Ride in ''KamenRiderDecade'' is the Faiz Blaster. Of course, this time it's human sized due to being the transformation of a person. Dunno if this makes it bigger or smaller than the original, though.
** Then there's ''KamenRiderKabuto'''s Perfect Zecter which was both a BFG and a {{BFS}}.
* ''SuperSentai'', and by extension ''Franchise/PowerRangers'', loves this trope. In some seasons, the Rangers [[AllYourPowersCombined combine their individual weapons]] into a BFG, while others use the "[[FanNickname Team Bazooka]]", a separate weapon to which each Ranger contributes a power cell or ammunition.
** ''TokusouSentaiDekaranger'' (adapted into ''Series/PowerRangersSPD'') has a HumongousMecha that can [[TransformingMecha transform]] into a BFG so big it takes two or three other HumongousMecha to wield it. (Its usual procedure is carry a MonsterOfTheWeek into orbit, and then use its BFG mode.)
** ''MiraiSentaiTimeranger'' (''Series/PowerRangersTimeForce''). The Rangers each have very oversized cannons (to {{Narm}}y effect when they're carried around in a manner that makes them seem like... well, nearly weightless props.) Individually, they're bigger than most team-wielded weapons. And they can combine into an even ''bigger'' one for [[FinishingMove finishing purposes]].
** The (color) Vul from ''ChoushinseiFlashman'' does the same thing the Timerangers do. Unlike the Vortech bazooka, it's a revolving BFG when combined (Rolling Vulcan).
** ''SamuraiSentaiShinkenger'' (''Series/PowerRangersSamurai'') has the Red Ranger transform his {{BFS}} into a BFG for the finisher attack. The "bullets" in this case are discs provided by the other Rangers.
** ''ChourikiSentaiOhranger'' (''Series/PowerRangersZeo'') is the series that popularized the Team Bazooka concept (which first appeared in ''GoseiSentaiDairanger'' with the Super Chi-Power Bazooka, aka ''Series/MightyMorphinPowerRangers''' Power Cannon) with the Ohre Bazooka, which ran on power crystals carried by each team member. ''Series/KaizokuSentaiGokaiger'' lampshades this by having Ohranger's Grand Power allow them to build their own Team Bazooka, the Gokai Galleon Buster.
* ''Series/DoctorWho'':
** [=BFGs=] are the weapon of choice against Daleks in "The Stolen Earth". The one [[spoiler: Rose]] carries looks like it weighs half as much as she does, and [[spoiler: Mickey and Jackie]] wield equally impressive versions. They were first used against the Cybermen in Series 2, though, by the Preachers.
** Jack Harkness, of both ''Series/DoctorWho'' and ''Series/{{Torchwood}}'', has always been fond of them. He used a modified defabricator the size of a minigun in ''Doctor Who'''s "Bad Wolf" and "The Stolen Earth"/"Journey's End". He also constructs an equally beefy weapon in the ''Torchwood'' episode "Something Borrowed".
** The Special Weapons Dalek in the old-Who episode ''Remembrance of the Daleks'' was basically a self-propelled BFG that first blew down a large metal gate before [[CurbStompBattle taking out an entire rival Dalek squad]]. And they say its gun is ''fifty'' times more powerful than the normal Dalek gun. There's a reason the other Daleks called it "the Abomination".
** Though he doesn't actually fire it, Adric uses a cannon that's not only ''taller than him'' but is meant to be ''mounted on a spaceship'' to scare slave traders away from the Doctor and Romana in ''Warriors' Gate''. Yes. You read that right. ''Adric.''
* Harper in the ''{{Sharpe}}'' series of novels and television dramas carries a [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nock_gun Nock Volley Gun]].
* Where would this article be without Jayne of ''{{Firefly}}'', who never left ''Serenity'' without enough firepower to take out a ship? Hey! She has a ''[[ICallItVera name]]'', you know. Vera also probably qualifies on a metafictional level. Out of universe, Vera was created by modifying a [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saiga-12 Saiga-12 combat shotgun]] (already close to a BFG) and, based on a good look at the magazine, loaded with slugs rather than shells.
* One episode of ''Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine'' is based around the crew's attempts to catch a murderer armed with a special sniper rifle that teleports its own bullets.
* In one episode of ''Series/StarTrekVoyager'', the crew is taken to the Q continuum where they fight in the Q Civil War. The weapons look like USA-Civil war era guns, but in normal space they cause supernovas.
* In the ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'' episode "Innocence", the gang has to defeat an enemy called the Judge who "no weapon forged" could kill. However, that declaration was made before Christ, and humanity has much bigger weapons. Buffy decimates him with an AT-4 rocket launcher.
* Although the Cylon Centurions in the new ''[[Series/BattlestarGalacticaReimagined Battlestar Galactica]]'' have built-in automatic weapons, Cylon boarding parties can be seen hand-carrying heavy machine guns in "Razor" and "Daybreak".
* ''Series/TheYoungOnes'': "Vyvyan, where did you get that Howitzer?!" "Found it!"
* A flash-forward in the ''Series/BabylonFive'' episode "Babylon Squared" showed Garibaldi using what appeared to be a {{Gatling|Good}}-style variation on a PPG.
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* Many of the heavy weapons in ''TabletopGame/{{Warhammer 40000}}'' are [=BFGs=]. It is worth noting that normal humans have to mount them on mobile platforms and use them in teams of two -- it's only the [[SuperSoldier superhuman]] {{Space Marine}}s who can use them like traditional [=BFGs=], and even then most of them have to stay still and brace themselves before firing. Of course, there are some BadassNormal humans who can lift said weapons by themselves, and those are realistically seen as abnormal. It is worth elaborating that the ''standard'' Space Marine weapon is a full-auto-capable gun that fires rocket-propelled explosive-tipped "bolt" rounds, each of which is capable of punching through most infantry armor to detonate within the target, or with a blast of sustained fire blast apart lightly-armored vehicles. The bolter's exact recoil is under debate, since it's built with a short barrel and a huge bore; but bolts are shot with a kick charge, and utilize a two-stage launch system for actual delivery.
** Also of note within the Space Marines are Terminators, who use rather heavy armor that permits them to fire normally vehicle-mounted weapons with unhindered accuracy while moving [[FiringOneHanded with one hand.]]
** The [[OurOrcsAreDifferent Ork]] [[SpacePirate Kaptin Badrukk]] has a particularly awesome example - it was taken from an Ogryn (basically an Ogre [[AC: [[InSpace IN SPACE!]]]]) and is loaded with highly unstable plasma cylinders. ''Standing near it'' is a death sentence. Though this is less due to its firepower, and more because it's hotter than Chernobyl. (Badrukk himself wears lead under his kaptin's uniform, making him ''marginally'' less likely to die.)
** The Orks also have Shokk Attack Guns, which teleport a small Goblin through hell into an enemy's insides. Yes, really.
** The Eldar get around the normal problems with this by tacking anti-gravity devices onto their guns, allowing Dark Reapers and Eldar Corsairs to carry some pretty large missile launchers.
** The Orks really are the best example of this, given their almost religious reverence for MoreDakka. The Holy Grail of their Mek-Boys would be a gun big enough to shoot enough dakka to kill everything in the universe at once.
* ''TableTopGame/{{Paranoia}}'' has a couple of 'em:
** Cone rifles, basically bazookas. Ammo ranges from solid slug to high explosive to hallucinogenic gas to tacnuke (information on the blast radius is not available at your security clearance), and is [[BlatantLies always clearly labeled]].
** Plasma generators, only slightly below tacnukes in sheer destructive capacity. They also malfunction relatively often, and some of those malfunctions would cause the entire thing to explode; naturally, it being ''Paranoia'', you couldn't tell which malfunction was which, and neither could the rest of the party. And you had to strap the thing ''on'' to use it; taking it off suddenly (say, to get away from the now-it's-a-bomb strapped to your back) [[HilarityEnsues was not easy]]. Fixing it wasn't easy, either; you have to make one repair roll just to ''turn off the alarm'', another to stop it from exploding, and a third to actually get it to fire again (good luck with that). Oh, and as usual, you have to pay a fine if you let it get damaged.
* ''{{Rifts}}'' has a number of heavy weapons, from railguns to missile launchers, with a perennial favorite being Plasma Cannons. One of the most infamous is the "Boom Gun", the railgun used by the Glitter Boy PoweredArmor, which is so powerful the armor has to ''anchor itself to the ground'' before firing. A different style of Glitter Boy has a gun that can only be used by it because, without its unique stabilization system, any other mecha or vehicle would eventually ''shake itself apart'' with the recoil. Another weapon of note is the ATL-1 laser cannon, which is so powerful it drains an entire energy charge for a single shot. In Russia, the troops of the warlords there are so enamored with [=BFGs=] that they actually designed and used a servo-harness to allow normal humans to carry them around.
* The ''Proteus'' expansion set to the now mostly forgotten ''TableTopGame/{{Netrunner}}'' trading card game paid homage to the concept with the 'Big Frackin' Gun' icebreaker card -- a powerful 'gun' for the Runner player to use in cyberspace to blow away the Corps's virtual sentries, cheap to install but with a hefty activation cost per 'shot'.
* ''{{Traveller}}'' has the PGMP (Plasma Gun, Man-Portable) and the even more OTT FGMP (Fusion Gun, Man-Portable) for when there's NoKillLikeOverkill. Some models can only be used if you're wearing PoweredArmour.
* The Grav Railgun from ''{{GURPS}}: Ultra-Tech'' can be carried by people in a good suit of PoweredArmor and fires with enough force to punch straight through a a tank from five miles away... with more accuracy than a sniper rifle... [[MoreDakka twenty times a second]]... completely without recoil.
* As below in Real Life, ''TabletopGame/CallOfCthulhu'' has the Elephant Gun. [[MisaimedFandom It's used a lot, I hear.]]
* WarhammerFantasy Battles has ogre leadbelchers that wield cannons in a blunderbuss like fashion. Dwarfs and Empire also has their fair ammount of big guns but none rivals the leadbelchers of the ogres. The Hellcannon too. When it was first released, it was able to obliterate not only enemy war engine crews, but also the war engine. A small template dealing as much damage as a cannonball to everything underneath, followed by a larger template of everyone screaming "OMG WE'RE GONNA FRAKKING DIE" and running away. The gun itself could also beat on entire squads without too much aggravation.\\
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All of this pales in comparisson, of course, to the Hell''hammer'' cannon. Only one of these ever appeared in the Fantasy game, and that was Queen Bess (which used the small blast marker of the Chaos Hellcannon mentioned above), and that was a stripped down version. The full version is a monster. One of them is mounted in a tower on Middenhiem Castle, requiring dozens of barrels of gunpowder to prime its shot, which has to be lifted into the gun by an enslaved giant. In ManO'War, a naval spin-off game of Warhammer Fantasy where the Hellhammer first appeared, it was mounted on a specially designed Wargalley. The recoil caused the firing ship to be flung backward ''two ship lengths''. This thing makes the Jaivana cannon look like a children's toy!
* ''{{Exalted}}'' has some of the larger First Age alchemical fire weapons, which were designed to level the field between humans and warstriders. The bigger one in ''Wonders of the Lost Age'' is basically a fire bazooka.
* ''Shards of the Exalted Dream'', has the three-dot Godcannon artifact, which is a bipod rifle with a four-foot barrel and a divinely powered firing chamber the size of a man's torso. What's most awesome is that despite being two-handed it only requires Strength 2 to use, so a character with a strength of 6 or higher (such as a Solar with Increasing Strength Exercise, an Alchemical with Fourth Strength Augmentation, or a Lunar in [[SuperMode Deadly Beastman Transformation]]) can ''[[GunsAkimbo dual-wield]]'' them. Other overgrown firearms include the [[HandCannon shellcaster]] and its friend, the [[MoreDakka warstorm shellcaster]].
* ''TabletopGame/{{Shadowrun}}''.
** Drool at the Thunderstruck Gauss Rifle. Then weep at its prohibitive availability rating.
** And then there's the rest of his family, the assault cannon class. All of them would be considered anti-materiel weapons in RealLife. It's just that there are so many tough targets in ''TabletopGame/{{Shadowrun}}'' (like trolls, drones, cyborgs, dragons, etc.) that you need this kind of firepower at the higher levels.
** Then again, some sniper rifles can do as much (or even more) damage if they are equipped with EX-explosive ammo (which is cheaper than assault cannon rounds), and have a higher rate of fire and a longer range, which puts them squarely in this class.
* ''TabletopGame/EclipsePhase'' has the plasma rifle. It's big, bulky, and needs to cool off for one round every other shot. But deals ''3''d12+''12'' damage per shot. More than a thermobaric grenade or minimissile.
* ''TabletopGame/FengShui'' has a few of these:
** The Helix Ripper, one of the signature arcanowave weapons, which is able to rip apart flesh at the cellular level and passing through inorganic matter without losing coherency, with wounds caused by the thing not being able to be healed normally. The thing weighs close to 20 kg (that's 44-45 pounds) when not plugged into an AI/O port, but when it's plugged in, it weighs a more manageable 6 kg (13 pounds).
** The Buro Hellharrower. This thing is so damned large that it takes a Strength of 11 (either a Big Bruiser, a high-Body Supernatural Creature or somebody with a Robot Arm or other cybernetic or arcanowave enhancement) to be able to use the thing without a vehicle mount, and for this reason, it's primarily issued to abominations, the cyber-demonic {{Super Soldier}}s that the Buro fields against its most dangerous foes.
** The Minigun, Flame Thrower and Missile Launcher hardware schticks, all of which do not have a concealment rating -- they're so effin' huge that trying to hide them is all but impossible, especially given the fact that they're usually mounted on an equally bulky cybernetic body.
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* ''VideoGame/{{Doom}}'' is the TropeNamer, the BFG-9000 appearing in all the games. It stands for "[[BlatantLies Bio-Force Gun]]" in the ''Doom'' movie, and "Big, uh, freakin' gun" in the ''VideoGame/QuakeII'' manual, but the ''Doom'' design document (known among fans as the ''Doom Bible'') specifically names it as "Big [[PrecisionFStrike Fucking]] Gun." For the record, the BFG-9000 is also sometimes called pseudo-formally "Blast Field Generator" or "Blast Field Gun".
* The Eridian Canon in ''VideoGame/{{Borderlands}}'' qualifies, firing a huge energy blast. Its damage is hard to quantify given level scaling weapon drops, but suffice to say, when you're at a level where the most powerful sniper rifle deals 100 damage and most weapons deal in the 10 to 50 range, this thing does around 1200. If only the projectile didn't move at ''glacial'' speeds. Most of your time on Pandora will be spent looking for one of these. There's a BFG for just about every taste: the Redemption rocket launcher, for instance, consumes an entire clip's worth of rockets to launch the equivalent of a small nuclear warhead, and when fired into the middle of an enemy group will result in a very large scorch mark and LudicrousGibs scattered about--and sometimes the bits are still identifiable. Or perhaps the Unforgiven [[RevolversAreJustBetter revolver]] will suffice, which has the absurd killing power of a full-size sniper rifle in a compact handgun frame and does triple damage on a CriticalHit.
* In ''VideoGame/VirtualOn'', Raiden has a warship laser cannon mounted in each shoulder. The lasers are powerful enough to completely destroy lesser Virtuaroids in one shot. As if that was not enough, some versions add a hand-held twin-barreled Flat Launcher that is about the size of the smaller mechs (It should be noted that Raiden's standard hand-held weapon is a ''bazooka''). Jaguarandi uses shoulder cannons very similar to Raiden's, and has two large arm cannons (one long, one short). Then there's Z-Gradt. Z-Gradt has one HUGE deployable MEGA-LASER, with a barrel diameter that's about as large as Raiden. Raiden stands about 18 meters high. Now that's what you call a BFG.
* The ''{{Quake}}'' series has the [=BFG10K=] in ''VideoGame/QuakeII'' and the rapid fire rocket launcher BFG in ''VideoGame/QuakeIIIArena''. In ''VideoGame/QuakeIV'' it was named "Dark Matter Gun", but functioned almost identically to [=Q2=]'s BFG.
* The ''VideoGame/UnrealTournament'' series features the Redeemer, literally a shoulder-mounted nuclear warhead launcher, which can be either dumb-fired or remote-controlled. Launching this puppy in a clearing full of enemies is one of the best ways to get a MONSTER KILL or HOLY SHIT. The "[=ChaosUT=]" mod for UT featured the "BFG 20K", which fired two variations of energy balls - tiny red ones that would home in on other players, or a giant green one a la ''Doom'''s own BFG. Also on the mod scene, a mod for ''Unreal Tournament 2003'' and ''VideoGame/UnrealTournament2004'' took the ''Q3'' BFG to its logical extreme with the "OMFG Gun" -- a 30-round rocket launcher with a fire rate of 30 rounds per second. Oh My Friggin'/Fuckin' God indeed.
* ''VideoGame/{{Crysis}}'' has the TAC Launcher, a thermonuclear grenade launcher. Unfortunately it's an event item in the single player campaign which means you can't even ''use'' it until a certain scene (in the battle before that one, it would've been very useful). But in multiplayer (and you can cheat to get it in single player), it has devastating effects similar to the above Redeemer.
** There is also a hand-held minigun designed for Nanosuit soldiers, a giant portable machinegun based on an alien FreezeRay, and frequent use of three-shot disposible guided missile launchers.
** The expansion pack introduces the PAX Cannon which you can freely use (bonus points for infinite ammo), but you only acquire it some 2 minutes before the end of the game.
** The anti-vehicle turret in ''Warhead'' is also a sight to behold, knocking vehicles around like toys and taking down helicopters with a handful of shots.
* ''Franchise/TombRaider 3'' has the rocket launcher, an extremely powerful weapon collected about halfway through the game. There is a very small amount of ammo for it in the entire game (and that's if you explore almost everything), so the player must use it very, '''very''' wisely. Since most enemies are too weak for the gun to be used on them and only a couple of the bosses are vulnerable to weapons (although it is very effective in those instances), the rocket launcher is TooAwesomeToUse.
* Every game in the ''VideoGame/GrandTheftAuto'' up until [[VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoIV 4]] features at least one of these, which, against all the laws of physics, ''can be fired by the player while standing still''. And yet the player characters are supposed to be average humans.
* Vulcan Raven of ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolid''. His codename is based on the fact that he wields an [[http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/89/Vulcan1.jpg M61 Vulcan gatling gun]]. A normal Vulcan gun is 188 cm in height and weighs 112 kg, and he not only hefts the gun but also its ammunition (but not a power supply): an ammo drum the size of a refrigerator. In ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolid2'', we have Fortune, also known as Lady Luck, who carries a rather large railgun. Her motion actor said that the dummy gun she had to point around was so big and heavy she 'had bruises all over [her] body' from handling it. It was made of wood and cardboard -- one can only imagine the weight of the real thing. To top it off, Colonel Volgin wields a Davy Crockett recoilless launcher in the [[VideoGame/MetalGearSolid3 third game]], even though he only uses it once in a cutscene.
** In ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolid4'', [[spoiler:Snake ''finally'' gets his own hands on one after defeating Crying Wolf, which is the one Fortune has on [=MGS2=] and was given to Wolf by Vamp, which can take down almost anything in one shot.]] Snake can also purchase a Barrett [=M82A2=], a bullpup version of the famous [=M82A1=] anti-material rifle that can take down just about anything. It can kill five to ten lined-up enemies in one shot, it can take down a helicopter in two, and kill Gekko in one, so long as you aim for the neck.
** Johnny also uses one for his [[BigDamnHeroes Big Damn Hero]] moment. For no apparent reason as they are in the middle of boarding a ship and a single bullet from a handgun appears to be completely sufficient to kill the enemies wearing heavy body armor. Hideo Kojima [[AuthorAppeal personally recommends]] the [=M82A1=].
** Johhny is the team's reconiscance and ranged support; he probably has one as part of his standard weapon loadout for a mission...[[RuleOfCool and it looked damn cool.]]
* ''VideoGame/ParasiteEve2'' allows the small-framed heroine, Aya Brea, to pick up a shoulder-mounted railgun in ''NewGamePlus'' -- it's as long as she is tall, made from solid metal, takes several seconds to charge, and the recoil sends her skidding back several feet each time she fires it.
* The [[RareGuns OICW]] from ''EternalDarkness'' is the best gun when it comes to tearing apart EldritchAbomination monsters. Considering that your character in that level has a miniscule ManaMeter, you need it. An earlier level has the Elephant Gun, which can be fired one barrel at a time or both at once. Firing from the hip, or before you take enough time to carefully brace yourself, will result in your character being knocked on his ass by the recoil.
* A full-sized rocket launcher pops up repeatedly in the ''Franchise/ResidentEvil'' series, often used to defeat a particularly indestructible monster towards the end, and later obtained in an "infinite ammo" variant in the NewGamePlus. ''VideoGame/ResidentEvil2'' upped the ante by adding an infinite-ammo Gatling gun to the arsenal.
* ''VideoGame/ResidentEvil4'' was mostly about the {{Hand Cannon}}s, but the bad guys got to have more fun; there was a special enemy type who carried a portable gatling gun in the final stage, while in the castle Leon would occasionally find himself faced with cultists manning totally inexplicable vintage mounted gatlings placed in the middle of rooms for no adequately defined reason. The ''Separate Ways'' campaign in the [=PS2=] and Wii versions went the final step of having Ada shoot up a warship with a series of huge mounted guns.
* ''VideoGame/ResidentEvil5'' ups the ante even further by having four [=BFGs=] exclusive to boss fights: when fighting the El Gigante clone, Chris and Sheva are using a minigun and PK Machine Gun mounted on a Humvee; there's a flamethrower used to fight one particularly tough monster; when fighting [[spoiler: Excella]] you use a [[spoiler:laser satellite tracker similar to the Hammer of Dawn of ''Gears of War'' fame]]; and of course the traditional RPG finisher on [[spoiler: Wesker]] in the final boss fight. And since this is a co-op based game, [[spoiler:Wesker gets TWO rocket launchers to the face. With a quick-time event and everything.]] Since [[ContemporaryCaveman CHRIS BIG]], Chris can also get a handheld minigun as an unlockable reward; it's the same type as wielded in both games by boss enemies, and comes with a [[InterfaceScrew huge, vision-obscuring backpack]].
* The ''VideoGame/RatchetAndClank'' series, where nearly every gun (and there are a lot of them) is at ''least'' half the size of the protagonist. As they [[EvolvingAttack upgrade]], they soon match the name on the firepower scale, too. This didn't stop them from making a BFG so FB, that it actually warranted a ''new acronym'': the '''R'''ip '''Y'''ou a '''N'''ew '''O'''ne. What's more, the RYNO was only the ''first in a series of four guns'' ([[VideoGame/RatchetAndClank2002 RYNO]], [[RatchetAndClankGoingCommando RYNO II]], [[RatchetAndClankUpYourArsenal RYN3O]] / [[EvolvingAttack RYNOCERATOR]], and [[RatchetAndClankFutureToolsOfDestruction RYNO IV/RYNO 4-EVER]]). Mind you, the last one never went past the blueprint stage because it was deemed too powerful. ''This coming from a company that created a portable black hole launcher and [[ColonyDrop Colony Dropping]] handguns''.
** [=RYNOs=] actually got smaller between the first and third games - the [=RY3NO=] is physically smaller than Ratchet (although not by much), while the original...isn't quite so compact.
** The Harbinger/Supernova from ''RatchetDeadlocked''. Apparently Dreadzone, the evil game show the eponymous hero gets kidnapped by, felt that the '''RYNO''' guns were ''too sissy'', and design a gun that calls ''FrickinLaserBeams'' down from space like it's the damn wrath of god, and can be upgraded ''' ''[[UpToEleven 99 TIMES.]]'' '''
** And you have yet to see the [[RatchetAndClankFutureACrackInTime RYNO V]], best described as ''two interlocked gigantic gatling guns along with a huge ass missile launcher in the middle''. The 1812 Overture plays whenever it's fired.
** With enough skill points, you can unlock the gun size modifier cheat. Which makes the already humongous guns ''[[UpToEleven even bigger]].''
** To sum it up: Ratchet is the new god of [[VideoGame/TeamFortress2 Engineers]]. "Use more gun", ''indeed''.
** Also of note, one of the areas in ''Up Your Arsenal'' is called "Nefarious BFG", which fits given how a BFG is the focal point of that area. Also doubles as GettingCrapPastTheRadar!
* {{Subvein}} has several [=BFGs=] for every category of gun, for example, a BFG Machinegun is a Heavy Minigun.
* KOS-MOS in ''VideoGame/{{Xenosaga}}'' wields a number of [=BFGs=], notably a triple-barreled [[GatlingGood tri-gatling gun]] (that's three sets of three barrels ''each'' -- and it's her ''weakest'' special weapon). And she dual wields them. Some would point out that KOS-MOS is, in and of herself, a BFG.
* Chris Stone in ''VideoGame/FreedomFighters'' can wield a [[http://world.guns.ru/machine/mg07-e.htm Kalashnikov PK-74 machinegun]] like a normal assault rifle.
* ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyX2'''s Gippal has a Big Fucking ''Pink'' Gun. With a sawblade on the end.
* ''BreathOfFireIII's'' resident GadgeteerGenius, Momo, uses this as her weapon.
* ''VideoGame/ZoneOfTheEnders 2'' has the Vector Cannon, huge even by the standards of most of its HumongousMecha and forcing the protagonist's SuperPrototype mech Jehuty to actually land before it can be charged and fired.
* ''VideoGame/SeriousSam'' has a minigun almost as long as Sam is tall and a man-portable cannon firing explosive DU cannonballs. The ability of Sam to use either while running and jumping has led to suggestions that he be "upgraded" from BadassNormal to CharlesAtlasSuperpower-user.
** The ''WebAnimation/ZeroPunctuation'' review of ''Serious Sam: BFE'' has Yahtzee initially mistaking the acronym "Before First Encounter" for "Big Fucking/Flipping [[ShoehornedFirstLetter Egun]]".
* The ''VideoGame/{{Turok}}'' series is known for its big bad guns. Some of the more notable examples include the [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin Quad Rocket Launcher]], Fusion Cannon, and Chronoscepter from the first game, the Scorpion Launcher and Nuke from the second game, and the PSG (Personal Singularity Generator) from the third game.
* ''MakaiKingdom'' allows you to equip your forces with Gatling Guns, Bazookas, or Flamethrowers.
* ''VideoGame/CosmicBreak'' has several big guns that fit in this category. The most notable ones are [[GatlingGood Bazooka Gatlings]], Stardust Cannons, [[FrickinLaserBeams Powered Lasers]] and the underused [[MoreDakka Vulcans]]. Ineffective, but worth a mention: There's a Buster Gatling that can be fit on M-sized robots, one of the popular choices being a ''[[SmallGirlBigGun Female who is twice as short as this gun]]''
* Rozalin from ''{{Disgaea 2}}'' utilizes a Gatling gun in one of her special attacks.
* [[ICallItVera Sasha]], the Heavy Weapons Guy's primary gun in ''VideoGame/TeamFortress2'', weighs 150 kg and fires up to 2,400 $200 rounds per minute. It has a sister, Natascha.
** The Soldier has a rocket launcher with multiple shots in a clip - not as big as Sasha, but capable of a lot of damage in a couple of seconds. The Direct Hit, its alternate, is a ''sniping'' rocket launcher. He also has the Cow Mangler 5000, a {{Zeerust}} monstrosity of a laser cannon.
** The Engineer's philosophy is "Use a gun. And if that don't work, [[MoreDakka use more gun.]]" He's a sissy by this page's standards though, because he sets up his combination rocket-launcher/double minigun as a turret.
* ''{{Gauntlet}}: Dark Legacy'''s Archer had a Turbo-attack that, while not strictly speaking a gun, was the biggest, most complicated automatic repeating quadruple crossbow ever seen. And that includes ''Van Helsing!''
* ''Gauntlet: Legends'' did the Archer one better by making her fully-charged special a huge cannon. The narrator's voice [[CallingYourAttacks calling the attack]] actually named it '''B.F.G.'''
* Maya Schrödinger in ''VideoGame/WildArms3'' has a gatling gun [[TrouserSpace hidden up her skirt]]. She wriggles her hips and it just falls out.
* The Super Scope item from ''SuperSmashBros Melee'' and ''Brawl'' can be charged up for quite the shot given the opportunity.
** The Cracker Launcher can be aimed for firecracker shooting fun.
** The Dark Cannons used by the Subspace Emissary bad guys that automatically turns any Smash fighter into a trophy.
** Samus's fully-charged ArmCannon possibly counts, and if not her Final Smash definitely does.
** The magical bow Zelda/Sheik uses for their Light Arrow [[LimitBreak Final Smash]] counts too, between the sheer size of the bow and its effect.
* The agents of ''[[VideoGame/{{Syndicate}} Syndicate Wars]]'' (and to a lesser degree ''Syndicate'') have a whole arsenal of [=BFGs=], including miniguns, pulse lasers, plasma lances, graviton guns and nuclear grenades. They need upgrades to their skeletons to wield them effectively. The Gauss Gun from the original ''Syndicate'' definitely counts. It's a rocket launcher that can fire a rocket, instantly, across half the map and will kill nearly anyone in one hit (or destroy cars, etc). Also tends to set things on fire a lot. [[BagOfSpilling Pity they didn't keep any of these around for the sequel]]...
* ''{{Halo}}''
** The Spartan Laser in ''{{Halo 3}}'' is a huge shoulder-mounted anti-tank [[WaveMotionGun beam weapon]]. One shot can burn straight through three Warthogs lined up back-to-back. Not to mention [[ThereIsNoKillLikeOverkill tanks, enemy dropships]].
** The Fuel Rod Gun fires green, highly explosive energy that can deal very severe damage, has a five round magazine, and can fire pretty freakin' fast for something that powerful.
** Spartans (and Elites) can wield gigantic Tri barreled minigun from the hip. This is a weapon that is about as long as the average UNSC Marine is tall. The Covenant have Plasma Cannons which fit in the same role and are just as effective.
** The "AIE-486H Heavy Machine Gun" (the minigun) only uses 7.62x51mm SLAP(Sabot Light Armor Piercing) ammunition.
** The Plasma Launcher from Halo Reach. Each time you pull the trigger, it shoots 4 plasma grenades that home in on your target.
** Now Halo 4 brings us the Incineration Cannon, a huge Promethean rocket launcher that fires 4 flaming balls of fire at once, which turn into a fountain of explosions and death on impact. The Incineration Cannon does damage to rival the Spartan Laser (a direct hit will destroy a tank; Spartan Lasers usually take two), and unlike that weapon has an absolutely ridiculous kill radius due to its massive splash damage. This is balanced out by the fact it needs to reload after every shot, [[OneHitKill not that you`re likely to need more than one.]]
* ''SuperRobotWars'' has so many [=BFGs=] it's almost impossible to list them all. Some of the most notable are the SRX's HTB cannon, R-Gun ITSELF, Wing Gundam Zero's twin buster rifle, the Huckabein's black hole gun, DX Gundam's Twin satellite cannon, and F-type Evangelon unit 1's N2 launcher, to name a few. The most nefarious of them is the Ideon gun in SRW Alpha 3, which is probably the most powerful gun on this list, as it fries a huge part of the galaxy in front of it. It has huge damage, and the map attack version can annihilate the whole map, AND kill the final boss and his army IN THREE SHOTS. It has infinite energy too.
* Done with a twist in the ''SystemShock'' games. In the first game, the strongest energy weapon is the LG-XX Plasma Rifle, which fires refracting orbs of plasma that leave glowing marks where they ricochet. In the second game, the Fusion Cannon takes the title, taking up 1/3 of your view and firing huge green balls of death. The problem with both weapons? You're more likely to kill yourself than your enemies, especially in cramped quarters, and more conventional weapons prove to be more useful in later stages of the games.
* The ''VideoGame/{{Fallout}}'' series:
** Features a slew of [=BFGs=], even getting their own skill set for use. They range from the mundane Bazooka to laser Gatling guns and plasma rifles. The third instalment has the "Fat Man", described as a tactical (read handheld) nuclear catapult. Since ThereIsNoKillLikeOverKill, there is a unique Fat Man (the '''Experimental MIRV''') that fires ''eight'' mini nukes at once. Can kill anything with one shot, but the 8 mini nukes have a combined cost of over 2000 caps.
** Scratch that. The Broken Steel DLC has the shoulder-mounted Tesla Cannon that can '''one-shot Vertibirds'''. And unlike the Fat Man, it uses microfusion cells as ammo, which are laughably common. Ambushing an Enclave patrol with a sniper rifle can net you a few dozen shots with the Tesla Cannon. Also, the Operation Anchorage DLC rewards you with a Gauss Rifle ''fitted with a sniper scope''. And a knockdown effect for critical hits.
** If you are not above using glitches, enter "player.additem 5DEEE 1" into the console. You'll get what looks like an ordinary missile launcher but it's boom instantly puts the Fat Man to shame. This is the weapon that gets used in one of the game locations where you can call a nuke strike from orbit.
** Aaand, someone was crazy enough to mod a '''FULL-SCALE NUKE''' into a shoulder-mounted launcher, using the Megaton nuke explosion effect. Search around the 'net for "Fat Man Extreme" and brace yourself. YouHaveBeenWarned.
** To make it more crazy people have made machine gun MIRV versions that fire megaton nukes they murder everything.
*** Constructing a full-auto "Gatling Nuke" is considered practically a rite of passage in the modding community.
** ''Mothership Zeta'' introduces the Drone Cannon, and its unique upgrade, the EX-B Drone Cannon.
** The Alien Blaster is a pistol version.
* The indie game ''{{Shadowgrounds}}'' has a few. For one, the minigun can be upgraded to have a shorter spinup time and can be placed on the ground as a sentry. For two, the rocket launcher's alt-fire is a ''dirty bomb''. For three, the lightning gun can fry even the biggest mooks in a second.
* ''ShadowTheHedgehog'' has a few of these, obviously. Most notable is the chain gun, probably the most broken weapon in the game. It gets more ammunition than any other, [[MoreDakka has the best firing rate]] and is one of the more powerful weapons as well. Oh, and he wields it in one hand.
* Seraphim characters in ''VideoGame/{{Sacred}} 2: Fallen Angel'' can learn an ability called [=BeeEffGee=] which summons, well, a [[{{BFG}} BeeEffGee]]. Its strength scales with both the character's level and the [=BeeEffGee=] ability level and is usually more powerful than other weapons you can acquire at the time, but the ability takes up one of your very limited "buff" slots. It's also available in the original.
* ''DevilMayCry'' started out by giving Dante a revolver grenade launcher to play with, along with an energy shooting...thing, which covered his entire forearm. This was only a taste of the silliness that would come along later.
** ''Devil May Cry 2'' had him tool around with a distinctly more excessive Stinger missile launcher instead of the grenade launcher.
** ''3'' really got into the swing of things, throwing Dante a colossal Lahti [=L-39=] anti-tank rifle called Spiral. There's also Lady's BFG, Kalina Ann: a rocket launcher with a rather large bayonet attached. It's about as big as she is, and yet she can not only lift it, but somehow whip it out in time to ''stick the bayonet in a wall'' after being dropped off a tower.
** In ''DevilMayCry 4'', Dante sports the Pandora, a suitcase which can transform, among other things, into a bazooka, a stationary laser turret and a flying craft equipped with roughly twenty rocket launchers, all of which fire at once. Nero, meanwhile, has a carbine-sized HandCannon which can be powered up to fire timed-delayed high explosive bullets.
* [[LargeAndCharge General RAAM]] from ''GearsOfWar'' carries a fucking ''[[GatlingGood troika]]/[[ShotgunsAreJustBetter shotgun]] combo'' for his weapon of choice in the first game!
* ''VideoGame/{{Iji}}'' has several [=BFGs=].
** The MPFB Devastator
** The [[BeamSpam Velocithor]],
** The Plasma Cannon
** The insane [[WaveMotionGun Phantom Hammer]], which is capable of shooting through several kilometers of rock. While they are usually mounted on space ships, the final boss carries one of these.
** The [[NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast Massacre]] is the grand king of [=BFGs=]. How powerful is the Massacre? [[http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/massacreinactionvl5.png This powerful.]]
* The first ''VideoGame/MaxPayne'' game, near the end, gives you a Pancor Jackhammer, which is an fully-automatic shotgun that the PlayerCharacter still fires semi-auto. This is because it can kill any Mook you can see in one shot. The second game replaced it with the actually semi-auto Striker-12, and also had Mona cart around a rather big Romak PSL sniper rifle.
* ''JakAndDaxter'':
** ''JakIIRenegade'' has Mar's gun, a weapon ''the size of a skyscraper''.
** In ''Jak3Wastelander'' there's a gun that actually had to be shrunk so Tess could hold it.
* ''StarCraft'' has a [[http://starcraft.wikia.com/wiki/C-14_rifle gauss rifle]] designed to be fired while wearing PowerArmor. Ghosts are armed with [[http://starcraft.wikia.com/wiki/C-10_rifle C-10 Canister Rifles]], which are basically ''sniper'' shotguns almost as long as they are tall. And no, they don't wear PowerArmor at all.
** And then there's Marauders, assuming you count "dual [[ArmCannon integral]] {{grenade launcher}}s" as "gun".
* ''MarvelVsCapcom''. Say it with me...[[IronMan PROTON CANNON!!!]]
** And in the sequel, [[GameBreaker HYPER VIPER BEAM!!]]
* ''VideoGame/MonsterHunter'' has a couple of different classes of BFG-like weaponry. Heavy Bowguns are technically supposed to be crossbows, except that they're about as long as the wielder is tall, magazine-fed, and capable of launching ''cluster bombs''. In a similar vein, Gunlances are essentially a one-handed gauntlet with a cannon - yes, a human-sized cannon - mounted on it, and a bayonet mounted on ''that''. The Gunlance is actually more of a melee weapon, although it does have some ranged attack capability, but come on - it is what it is. Some of these "Crossbows" get so big they actually fold up into a (still huge) carrying mode when not in use.
* Harman Smith of ''{{Killer7}}'' wields a Barrett M82 anti-material rifle, which he holds aloft from his wheelchair. Keep in mind that such guns weigh about 13kg and are used to destroy lightly armoured targets, but have recoil mechanism that allow it to be fired from the shoulder.
* The Coffin in ''{{Gungrave}}'', which the main character carries strapped to his back, can transform into either a heavy machine gun/gatling gun, a bazooka, or a quad missile launcher. Grave can also smack the bad guys with it as a melee attack.
* Ciel in ''Visualnovel/{{Tsukihime}}'' wields the Seventh Scripture, a harpoon gun that fires holy scriptures designed to prevent reincarnation and also [[CaptainObvious kill things]]. She weighs around 90 pounds, the Scripture weighs around ''130.'' And that's without all the optional bits added on, which can double the weight. Yea, a gun that weighs 250+ pounds carried by a 90 pound girl. It doesn't seem to slow her down much except in ''VideoGame/MeltyBlood'' during a sub boss fight so she's actually still possible to beat.
* ''TheConduit'' has two. The SMAW rocket launcher technically qualifies as a BFG due to its size, while the Carbonizer Mk16 is a big, flashy, high-tech EnergyWeapon that cooks enemies in seconds.
* In LostPlanet, most [[AMechByAnyOtherName VS]] weapons can be used on foot. [[GatlingGood Gatling gun]]? Check. Massive shotgun? Insanely large [[StuffBlowingUp rocket launcher]]? A [[BeamSpam four barreled]] gun that shoots [[{{Roboteching}} homing]] [[FrickinLaserBeams lasers]]? Check, check, and check.
* ''ReturnToCastleWolfenstein'' started out with fairly ordinary weapons, with the strongest being a one-shot Panzerfaust rocket launcher and a [[KillItWithFire Flammenwerfer]]; however, the illusion of sanity is tossed out the window around the time the mutants and zombies start showing up, with the player being given a portable "Venom" minigun and a [[LightningGun Tesla Gun]] in fairly short order.
* The 2009 ''VideoGame/{{Wolfenstein}}'' game has the Leichenfaust 44, a Nazi superweapon powered by extradimensional energies. It fires large globules of said energy that cancel out gravity within their area of effect and reduce enemies to [[StrippedToTheBone piles of scorched bones]]. There's also a Particle Cannon, a Panzerschreck rocket launcher which can be modded to be multi-shot and fire guided missiles, a Flammenwerfer and an newer Tesla Gun; about half of the player's inventory is made of huge, silly and [[AwesomeButPractical highly satisfying]] weapons. At one point the game you encounter a version of the aforementioned Leichenfaust 44 scaled up to the main armament of a giant supertank. [[CrowningMomentOfAwesome They let you play with it]].
* In possibly the [[FantasyGunControl first ever example of a man-portable firearm]] in the series, ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaTwilightPrincess'' introduces us to [[BigDamnHeroes Auru]] and his weapon of choice - a shoulder-fired mini-cannon.
** Despite what many players believe, such a weapon actually did exist, they were called [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hand_cannon hand cannons]] (no not [[HandCannon that]] kind).
* ''{{Uncharted 2}}'' lets Nathan Drake walk around with a GAU-19 .50 calibre rotary gun. It's the most powerful weapon short of explosives, but suffers from accuracy issues and ''weight'' (Drake is reduced to hobbling when carrying it, and also cannot jump, roll or duck). Still a lot of fun to use - especially since it takes a moment or two to wind up before the bullets come roaring forth, so you can imagine the look of horror on the faces of your foes.
* The JohnWoo game ''{{Stranglehold}}'' has two of thse -- the M-249 machine gun for those who prefer MoreDakka, and the Rocket Launcher for those who prefer to [[StuffBlowingUp BLOW THINGS UP]]. Both of them can be used to devastating effect with the Tequila Bomb Barrage attack, and using the latter weapon with Barrage is the best way to take out the helicopter miniboss in the final stage.
* The Contact Beam in ''Franchise/DeadSpace'' is powerful enough to vaporize any non-boss Necromorph with one hit. It's meant to blast through dense rock strata. It's also probably meant to vaporize pirates too.
* Speed Buster's Buster Launcher from ''VideoGame/NoMoreHeroes'', [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MQHbGxZJb3g just look at the thing.]]
* If the Discworld ballista mentioned below qualifies as a BFG, so does the crossbow wielded by Regulus in the game ''VideoGame/{{Demigod}}''. When loaded it's as long as he is tall.
* Numerous areas in ''DotHackGU'' show an absolutely massive cannon in the background, which the [[ShowWithinAShow Game Within A Game's]] backstory says killed the gods of The World. In ''DotHackQuantum'', Shamrock [[spoiler: aka Pi]], [[WaveMotionGun uses it to fire a Data Drain]].
* ''VideoGame/MassEffect2'' gives the player access to an entire ''range'' of BFG-tier guns, known appropriately enough as "Heavy Weapons."
** The Blackstorm Projector, which is quite simply a ''portable black hole cannon.''
** The [[LightningGun Arc Projector]]. First, it ionizes its target with a high-powered laser. Then, it releases an enormous burst of arcing electricity, which travels between targets. The results are impressive. Best of all, the thing has next to no recoil and can be fired by moving.
** The [[FrickinLaserBeams Collector Particle Beam]]. A directed energy weapon that causes targets to burn white hot and then decompose rapidly on screen. Did we mention the insane accuracy and the enormous ammo capacity too?
** The [[FreezeRay M-622 Avalanche]]. There is nothing quite like causing an enemy to freeze, then shattering them with normal gunfire. Also allows the player to revel in VideoGameCrueltyPotential by shouting things like: [[BondOneLiner "Iced that guy," "cool off," and "my, you look shattered."]]
** The Cain. It has more concentrated kaboom than anything else in the game- ''boss attacks included.'' After using this beastie it takes several more missions to scrape together enough ammo to use it again- you can only fire it about once a mission unless you unlock all of the heavy weapon ammo upgrades, plus the hidden bonus ammo upgrade, ''plus'' the extra ammo leg armor piece. The little 'ptoonk!' noise it makes after warming up to fire is as hilarious as the following gigantic explosion is awesome. How powefull is it? On normal difficulty, the only thing that can survive the first hit is the ''final boss''. Everything else is vapor.
** The "normal" weapons also have three [[InfinityPlusOneSword Infinity Plus]] guns: The M-98 Widow Anti-Materiel Rifle. An anti-vehicle SniperRifle, designed to never be used without being braced or for use by heavily reinforced synthetics. Shepard in the second game can use it on the move (thanks to cybernetic enhancements) and primarily [[ThereIsNoKillLikeOverkill against infantry.]] Also worth mentioning is the [[ShotgunsAreJustBetter M-300 Claymore]], an insanely high-powered shotgun designed for Krogan use. The designation is arranged to look like BOOM. Finally, there's the M-26 Revenant LMG, a light machine gun that can rip apart pretty much anything. With accuracy upgrades, it becomes ludicrously powerful - stick any of the ammo upgrades on it and it becomes freakishly good. And the [[LargeAndInCharge Shadow]] [[TheChessmaster Broker]] wields it ''[[BadAss one handed.]]''
** ''VideoGame/MassEffect3'' turns Heavy Weapons into disposable, in-mission pickups, and even adds a few new ones to boot. The Reaper Blackstar is essentially a single-shot, ''very'' rare, scaled-up version of the Blackstorm Projector from 2. The Cain also makes a reappearance, where it kills a Hades Cannon (i.e., a an anti-aircraft gun nearly the size of a Reaper in and of itself) in [[OneHitKill one shot.]]
** Lastly, 3 features a mounted turret that you can use on occasion, and it is exactly as powerful as its size suggests: it rips apart Brutes in 2-3 seconds, and its good rate of fire is only marred by reload time.
** The non-heavy BFGs of the second game make an appearance in 3, but the real holder of the title among non-disposable weapons is the N7 Typhoon. Not only does it weigh so much that even when fully upgraded a Soldier will still suffer from cooldown penalties, it also reduces the carrier to aiming speed even when fired from the hip, and has its own face plate to protect the person firing. In return, it has the highest damage per shot among automatic assault rifles, can fire 100 shots before overheating without any mods, has a considerable fire rate and accuracy, and can even penetrate light cover on its own, which is generally reserved for bolt-action sniper rifles.
* ''VideoGame/StarTrekEliteForce''. Photon Torpedo Rocket Launchers, anyone? The sequel went a little further with the final gun being some kind of Romulan personal nuclear weapon.
* The ''{{Painkiller}}'' series has a handful of awesome guns. There is a gun that fires entire tree trunks and grenades as the secondary fire, and one that shoots shurikens like a machine gun. One of the games STARTS with you using the decapitated head of a wizard that shoots lasers.
* In ''SyphonFilter'', evil French PyroManiac Anton Girdeux wields an enormous flamethrower; the flame tanks are the only weakness of his otherwise invincible armoured suit. He even yells "You need a bigger gun!" if Logan fires at his armour.
* In ''DarkSector'', the space-suited Lasrian [[EliteMook Elite Troopers]] are armed with a "Trooper Gun," a combination of a pneumatic-powered gatling gun and rocket launcher that Hayden needs special armour to even pick up.
* The ''VideoGame/CallOfDuty'' series has a tendency towards letting the player mess around with weapons they'd have trouble carrying alone; bazooka and Panzerschreck rocket launchers, medium machine guns, and the like. The original gets bonus silly points for allowing the player to control an entire 88mm [=FlaK=] 37 anti-tank / anti-aircraft gun solo, the weapon typically requiring a crew of ''ten''; using the [=FlaK=] 30 (normal crew: 8) was only slightly more sensible.
* ''World at War'' features some of the silliest examples the player could actually carry; an M1919 Browning .30 cal machine gun that can be fired from the hip, and a six-foot PTRS-41 anti-tank rifle that a normal soldier would have trouble even ''carrying'' assembled, which can also be fired from the hip. And then there's the 68-pound M2 flamethrower, which the player can carry ''as well as'' the aforementioned M1919. Like the earlier games, it also had the player firing a fixed, crew-served AA gun solo, this time a Japanese Type 96 triple 25mm gun (with a normal crew of 9).
** Don't forget Zombies! The Wunderwaffe DG-2 and the Scavenger MUST apply.
* ''[[VideoGame/ModernWarfare Call of Duty 4]]'' features a sniping mission using a huge mounted Barrett .50 cal anti-tank rifle to take down a target almost a mile away; the gun itself appears in multiplayer useable without the fixed bipod it has in the mission. There's also a shoulder-mounted Javelin anti-tank missile launcher, an M60 light machine gun, and a [[MoreDakka mounted minigun]]. All but the M60 return in the sequel, which was replaced with an [=M240=] and [=MG4=] instead, along with an [=AT4=] anti-tank missile.
* ''VideoGame/CallOfDutyBlackOps'' has the biggest BFG of the series: a killstreak-reward-only, man-portable M134 Minigun [[NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast aptly named the "Death Machine"]]. ''VideoGame/CallOfDutyBlackOps2'' not only has this return as just the "Minigun" in the campaign, but also has a new Death Machine in the .50 BMG GAU-19/A.
* ''FarCry'' featured the terminally huge OICW as a standard rifle, also letting the player mess around with mounted miniguns and carry an M249 SAW and giant repeating rocket launcher; in addition, the "Fat Boy" Trigens got themselves a rocket-launching ArmCannon out of this trope. The sequel kept the SAW and threw in a PK Machine Gun, [=AS50=] anti-material rifle, MGL-140 grenade launcher, LPO-50 flamethrower, Carl Gustav recoilless launcher and a Chinese Type 63 mortar.
* Helghast Heavy Troopers in ''{{Killzone}} 2'' are armed with a giant rotary gun or a LightningGun; either way, the power pack turns out to be their undoing.
* ''VideoGame/MegaManZero 4'':
** Craft has a humongous rifle with a bayonet and WaveMotionGun that can also fire homing missiles (and later MacrossMissileMassacre).
** Fefnir's [[GunsAkimbo Sodom and Gomorrah]] is either this or HandCannon.
** Omega's second form also has one (of ArmCannon variety), mimicking ''VideoGame/MegaManX''.
* Speaking of ''VideoGame/MegaManX'', [[BigBad Sigma]], in a departure from his usual battle style (as a close-range melee fighter in normal form) wields one in ''X7''.
* ''VideoGame/BioShock2'' lets the player character access a series of heavy weapons, including a four-barrelled .50 calibre [[GatlingGood gatling gun]], a high-powered rivet gun, and a ''really'' big grenade launcher. This is especially impressive considering Subject Delta holds even the largest guns single handed.
* In ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyVII: DirgeOfCerberus'', Vincent can arm himself with a Cerberus variant sniper rifle or machine gun with a three-foot barrel. Goes further with TheBrute, an ogre called Azul, who's first seen armed with a portable tank cannon, then with a giant dual gatling gun.
* ''AliensVersusPredator 2'' featured several [=BFGs=], including the Predator's Speargun and Plasmacaster, and for the Marine a laundry list of awesome including a huge three-barrel gatling gun, a giant sniper rifle, a Smartgun, and, oh yeah, a military power loader with a gatling gun, laser, missile launcher and flamethrower.
* In ''ResistanceFallOfMan'', the Titan Chimera are armed with a gunpod taken from a [[SpiderTank Stalker]] mecha, though for some reason it fires huge discharges of fire rather than the usual machine gun. Given it's from the creators of ''VideoGame/RatchetAndClank'', it's no surprise the player gets to mess around with a stack of outlandish weaponry, including a rocket launcher that shoots missiles that can hover while re-aiming themselves and [[RecursiveAmmo fire off smaller missiles]].
* In ''VideoGame/PhantasyStarII'', these are Rudolf "Rudo" Steiner's WeaponOfChoice. His ultimate weapon, the Neishot, causes StuffBlowingUp after SuckingInLines.
* Launchers in ''VideoGame/PhantasyStarOnline'' and ''VideoGame/PhantasyStarOnline2''. Their shots cause explosions that are perfect for destroying mobs of enemies. They became more versatile in the latter game, gaining photon artes that allow them be used as melee weapons or even as a mode of transportation in addition to providing more ways to blow stuff up.
* ''VideoGame/SoldierOfFortune'' has the AwesomeButImpractical Microwave Pulse Gun, whose secondary ChargedAttack causes enemies to inflate and explode like microwaved hot dogs.
* The Evaporating Particle Beam in ''VideoGame/FirstEncounterAssaultRecon'', which [[StrippedToTheBone skeletonizes its victims]].
* ''VideoGame/{{Black}}'' actually ''calls'' the M249 SAW "BFG" in supplementary material.
* The ''VideoGame/{{Battlefield}}'' series tend to let the player go nuts with these; the original games featured controllable ''coastal defence guns'', while later incarnations allowed the player to carry various massive weapons around.
** ''BattlefieldHeroes'' has exaggeratedly huge rocket launchers and machine guns. The Uber Tank Buster, Panzerfist, and Super Cheeser are the most notable examples.
** ''Vietnam'' featured the infamous M60 / LAW kit before it was patched out, turning American troops into Rambo clones armed with a sniper-accurate machine gun and a portable anti-tank missile.
** ''2'' let the player carry light machine guns, missile launchers, the [[RareGuns Pancor Jackhammer]] or an anti-material rifle, among numerous others.
** ''2142'' went to town, letting engineers carry either a missile launcher or giant anti-tank rifle, support troopers an explosive shotgun or heavy machine gun, snipers a 3-round heavy sniper rifle, and allowed assault troops to tool around with a heavy assault rifle based on the BAR that could be fitted with an underbarrel shotgun ''and'' underbarrel semi-automatic grenade launcher. And there was the expansion pack's Goliath, a slow-moving APC which packed a ''giant'' shotgun.
* ''VideoGame/DeusEx'' had a whole class of heavy weapons; there's a single-shot anti-tank missile, multi-shot guided missile launcher, plasma cannon, and a [[KillItWithFire flamethrower]].
** Third game in the series has [[GatlingGood Kaiga M404 Minigun]], fitted with four 5-kg counterweights on the rear end. The rest must weigh at least as much.
* ''VideoGame/Left4Dead2'' has the M60 for the The Passing campaign. It's a huge machine gun that is almost as tall as the survivors and they mention how heavy it is to carry it. It has enough power to instantly kill common infected with just one bullet and it can quickly tear up special infected in a hurry. It only has 150 bullets and you can't refill the gun's ammo so once it's used up, you automatically discard it. The mutation ''Gib Fest'' gives every survivor one of these [[MoreDakka with infinite ammo]].
* In ''VideoGame/ScarfaceTheWorldIsYours'', not only can you use the film-ending M16+ M203, Tony can also fire a SAW while walking and use a four-barrelled missile launcher.
* ''VideoGame/{{X-COM}}:
** The Blaster Launcher from ''UFO Defense'' is essentially a small cannon, firing bombs about the size and shape of a rugby ball. It's the only hand-held weapon capable of punching through the hulls of UFOs and it's very rare that anything survives the explosion (let alone a direct impact). To top it off, the missiles are capable of following up to nine waypoints, making even 180 degree turns with minimal error.
** The Heavies in ''VideoGame/XCOMEnemyUnknown'' favor big, bulky machine guns and their EnergyWeapon equivalents as their primary weapons (in case you're wondering, their secondary is a rocket launcher). The guns visibly have bipods but the Heavies don't bother to use them.
* ''RedFaction'' has the Rocket Launcher. Then there's the FUSION rocket launcher. The blast from this thing is so big that you have no choice but to run like hell immediately after firing it. This game also has geo-mod technology which allows this gun to literally make giant craters in the environment.
** The third game, ''Guerrilla'', has the Thermobaric Rocket Launcher, the most powerful weapon in the game. It produces an explosion large enough to take down the largest structure in the game, a massive bridge spanning an entire canyon, in a couple shots, and can destroy EDF missile pod tanks in one shot as well. It can take down almost any building in one shot if it is detonated inside the building, and its alternate fire just happens to be a detonator. It only has four shots (8 when fully uprgraded), but is so powerful that those few shots are all you'll need.
* ''HalfLife: Opposing Force'' has the Displacer, a gun which looks and functions a lot like the TropeNamer, except it teleports on a direct hit. Its alt-fire teleports the player back and forth between Xen and Earth.
* There is a BFG actually called the BFG in ''VideoGame/AdventureQuest''. However, it is not extraordinarily powerful, but rather, just an ordinary middle-level weapon.
* Every installment in the VideoGame/{{Counter-Strike}} series has the AWP, a sniper rifle that killed anything in one hit, regardless of how much HP or Armor they had. Combined with the Desert Eagle handgun, anybody wielding one was a force to be reckoned with. The weapon was so overpowered that some servers ban the AWP from use altogether, along with the automatic sniper rifles.
* In FreeAllegiance's RPS (Rock Paper Scissors) mod, the player teams can get the BFG weapon - a big badass machinegun with uber firing speed, damage and range (outrange almost everything else). Did i mention it does splash damage and the bullets goes at several kilometer per second too ? 2 or 3 basic fighters equipped with those can torn appart a big capital ship in seconds --- even though they're cheated too.
* One ''VideoGame/{{Marathon}}'' GameMod, ''RED'', has a BFG called the Omega Cannon, which can also be used to RocketJump without damage. Another mod, ''EVIL'', has the Railgun and the Nuclear Mortar Unit.
* The water gun equivalent of this would be the Water Bazooka in ''WaterWarfare.'' Of course, it's just a water gun, so all it does is just... soak people badly.
* WarRock is notable for actually having a realistic .50 machine gun. In addition to being fully automatic with unlimited ammunition, it has sniper rifle accuracy and range, kills players in at most 2 hits and can quickly destroy light vehicles. Luckily they're mostly found on [[GlassCannon lightly armoured vehicles]], which keeps them from being too game breaking.
* The HeavyBarrel, from the 1987 arcade game of the same name. You collected the pieces and, at an appropriate time, e.g., just before you meet a tough-to-kill bad guy on screen, you find the last piece and the machine yells "HEAVY BARREL". Think handheld Wave Motion Gun.
* In ''VideoGame/MetroidOtherM'', Anthony's plasma gun. Nuff' said.
* Imca from ''VideoGame/ValkyriaChroniclesIII'' may be the queen of this trope. Not only does she get a huge missile launcher from the beginning, but it also has the capability to fire at all enemies on the screen in rapid succession. The thing is as big as she is, and overlaps a bit with {{BFS}} in that it has a huge blade down its length. It must weigh a ton, [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-igO8pjxS5M&feature=related but she still manages to swing it around in combat like it's nothing.]]
* ''ShadowsOfTheEmpire'' has the Disruptor, which is similar to ''VideoGame/{{Doom}}'''s BFG 9000, but has a bigger blast radius, which can kill you if you're too close.
* ''{{Strife}}'' features the Mauler, a combination energy super-shotgun and radial plasma bomb launcher. [[DisintegratorRay That disintegrates]].
* ''VideoGame/WillRock'' features the Fireball Thrower (a bazooka), the [[MoreDakka Minigun]] and the [[NukeEm Atomic Gun]].
* ''VideoGame/{{Patapon}} 3'' has Cannogabang uberhero who carries a lasergun, or a cannon many times bigger than himself.
* In [[UFOAfterblank UFO: Afterlight]] the final product of plasma weapon research tree is called the Annihilator and shoots remote controlled ultra-fast ball lightnings which down all but the toughest enemies with one explosion. This weapon breaks the game by making it easy to the point of boring - there is absolutely nothing the enemies can put against it, most of them are vaporised before they can say "Wh-", and remote control feature means a single operative can clear the map from the embark point, unless a really crafty alien somehow sneaks up on him unnoticed (so just bring a second operative on the mission for that case).
* ''VideoGame/{{Rage}}'' by Id Software has not so much a single shot BFG, but a round that can be used by the last weapon in the game, the Authority Pulse Cannon, which in and of itself is a plasma mini-gun. You have to charge the shot, but when you let it fly, anything that is not a big mutant becomes paste. The description claims that it is an unstable form of plasma.
* ''JaggedAlliance 2'' has its share of anti-materiel rifles, usually from RealLife. ''[[GameMod v1.13]]'' adds in even more; special mention goes to the VSSK Vychlop, a ''silenced'' .50-cal anti-materiel rifle.
* ''VideoGame/VandalHearts'' has four characters who can upgrade into the Sniper class. The character art for them as Snipers portrays them as having Big [[Series/BattlestarGalacticaReimagined Frakking]] Bows, including [[http://lparchive.org/Vandal-Hearts/Update%2026/4-PSD3D054.jpg a metal bow as big as the wielder, and a crossbow that looks like a cricket bat with a slingshot attached]], the most amusing is the metal pavise with a mechanical launcher strapped to it, fed by a ''belt of arrows''. When firing, it makes various engine sounds, then shoots... a single arrow. It can be seen [[http://gamersonlyolder.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/vandal-03.png here]], on the bottom left corner.
* The 1993 Amiga classic ''VideoGame/HiredGuns'' has the Disruptor Cannon, little more than a monstrous drum-shaped gun with a small display that just reads "OK". When fired, it actually throws the character back a few spaces (or deals huge damage when the backblast hits the wall behind him or her).
* Canderous Ordo (a.k.a. Mandalore) of the ''VideoGame/KnightsOfTheOldRepublic'' series has a taste for these. The first time you meet him he's carrying what amounts to the blaster equivalent of a .50 caliber machine gun ... as if it was a carbine. Later he mentions his disdain for Echani weapons, calling them "delicate with too little firepower".
* Yes, even ''VideoGame/WorldOfWarcraft'' has one of these, though what counts as this trope changes as new expansions are released. [[http://www.wowhead.com/items=2.3?filter=qu=4:5:6:7;maxrl=90#0-5-2 Here's a by-no-means-exhaustive list.]] Oh, and by the way...[[MemeticMutation hunter weapon.]]
* In ''VectorVendetta'', one of the enemies is [[InvokedTrope called]] BFG. Indeed, while everything else shoots little bullets over the screen, this one uses a HitScan FrickinLaserBeam that bypasses your shield (if you have any). Of course the endgame boss also fires these.
* [[spoiler: Final Strike, the last functioning component of the Great Sacred Treasure, used to finish Hades once and for all]] in ''VideoGame/KidIcarusUprising''.
* In ''VideoGame/KeithCourageInAlphaZones'', the enemy Titan Guard carries an enormous pistol on top of its head.
* The gatling in ''VideoGame/{{Syndicate}}'' (2012) fires 30mm rounds and has BottomlessMagazines. It's so powerful that it can go through otherwise-ImmuneToBullets DeflectorShields.
* [[{{Neptunia}} Uni]] likes to use guns that are considerably larger than herself. Her weapon gets ridiculously huge when she activates [[SuperMode HDD]].
* {{VideoGame/Torchlight II}} has the cannons, which could well be mounted on a warship without looking too out of place, and yet your character can lug them around and fire them without much trouble.
* The protagonist of ''VideoGame/CrystalCaves'' uses a handheld rocket launcher, about half as big as him, to defend himself.
* Tier 3 Weapons in BloodCrusher2 either fall under this category or a light artillery piece. It is possible late in the game to obtain a weapon that actually obscures ''two thirds'' of the player's screen.
* ''Videogame/EYEDivineCybermancy'' has three [=BFGs=] to choose from. The Sulfatum is an extremely powerful handheld [[GatlingGood gatling gun]] which can spew out 500 rounds at a phenomenal rate, and is [[ImprobableAimingSkills impossibly accurate]] when using the Targeting implant. The Spiculum Ovum is a double-barreled rotary grenade launcher which can be fired fully automatic. The Excidium is essentially a nuke cannon - firing it any something within 20 feet of anything (including yourself) will result in an [[OneHitKill instant kill]] - The best part about the Excidium is that it carries [[ThereIsNoKillLikeOverkill five nukes per magazine]]. Several other weapons aren't quite in the BFG territory, but would be physically impossible for a normal human to use - there's a submachine gun with a [[MoreDakka 100 round magazine]] which can empty the entire mag in one second, [[HandCannon anti-tank revolvers]], and [[{{BFS}} exploding katanas]]
* ''VideoGame/{{Oni}}'' has the Wave Motion Cannon. It's really designed as a vehicle-mounted weapon, and Konoko can barely walk while carrying it.
* SystemShock 2's Heavy Weapons class includes a grenade launcher, a fusion cannon, and a [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking stasis field generator]]. The exotic weapons include the Viral proliferator (a shoulder-mounted cannon that fires [[AbnormalAmmo a cloud of viral particles]]) and the Annelid Launcher (Another shoulder-mounted gun that fires [[AbnormalAmmo parasitic worms]]).
* AceCombatTheUnsungWar apparently the Osean Police are fond of this trope as well. On one mission you hear this exchange when facing attack helicopters.
--> Osean Squad Car 1: Hey Charlie 11! What's that thing you got in the back seat?
--> Osean Squad Car 2: That's my anti tank rifle! I brought it with me from home!
* A rare mecha example: Uziel in ''VideoGame/ShogoMobileArmorDivision'' arms his mecha with a gun that's several traffic lanes long and half as tall as the mecha.
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* Joyce Brown's shoulder-fired HammerSpace cannon in ''Webcomic/ItsWalky'', which is even ''called'' a BFG and is over a foot wide at the muzzle. Somewhat {{justified|Trope}} by her superhuman strength. It still has some serious recoil though. At least once she's told to get a smaller, more practical weapon.
* ''Webcomic/GirlGenius'':
** The "[[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20030430 Clenk Gon]]". Possibly seen again wielded by Klaus [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20070119 much later]].
** Agatha's [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20041008 various death rays]] are also good examples.
** A [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20100719 crazy piece of tacticool Zola stole in Lucrezia's lab]]. [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20100721 The next strip]] shows more close-up... and reveals what this thing ''does''.
** [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20120523 Another]] clank gun, on a broken clank. It's used two pages later.
* One of [[TheBeastmaster Ren's]] {{Attack Animal}}s from ''Webcomic/TowerOfGod'' has big damn energy cannon with a firing end and a very point end as well as a petal shield.
* Kore the dwarf paladin from ''{{Goblins}}'' wields a pair of eight-shaft repeating crossbows. [[http://goblinscomic.com/d/20050910.html They]] [[http://goblinscomic.com/d/20050911.html are]] [[http://goblinscomic.com/d/20050912.html quite]] [[http://goblinscomic.com/d/20050913.html devastating]].
* In this ''Webcomic/AMiracleOfScience'' comic: [[http://www.project-apollo.net/mos/mos366.html "And if I say no?" "Gun." "You make a convincing argument."]]
* ''AfterlifeBlues'', by the same authors, features a [[http://www.project-apollo.net/ab/ab137.html railgun]] that at full power is only usable with PoweredArmor (unless you're a full cyborg).
* Frequently shows up in ''{{Narbonic}}'' (usually in the hands of Mell, the evil intern). One reader posts comments keeping up with "Big Freakin' (tm) Gun Count".
* Parodied in ''MegaTokyo'' with a [[http://megatokyo.com/strip/1068 BFWii control]].
** Also in ''MegaTokyo'' is an actual big gun, the [[http://www.megatokyo.com/strip/561 Sony P4216A Killtrunk]].
* Plasma cannons in {{SSDD}} are illegal because they have a tendency to blow up their owners and anyone around them, but that doesn't stop [[SuperSoldier Tessa]] from owning one (guess how sane she is).
* Schlock from ''Webcomic/SchlockMercenary'' uses a BFG-209 Plasma Weapon complete with [[DramaticGunCock Ommmmminous hummmmmmm]] and intimidating barrel glow.
** Schlock also gives us a new euphemism for these: "Wristbreaker."
* ''TheWayOfTheMetagamer'' gives us the aptly-named Rod of Za-Boom.
* ''WebComic/AxeCop'' has Wexter, a [[RuleOfCool tyrannosaurus rex with BFGs for arms.]]
* Captain Martello, from ''MushroomGo'', carries a [[SuperMarioBros Bullet Bill cannon]]. Yes, carries it.
* Subverted in ''Webcomic/SequentialArt'' : Pip "borrows" a few really, really big guns from the denizens living in their basement - only to discover that they have a range of about four centimeters. He even lampshades it.
--> ''Pip:'' Quit looking at me like that! I just grabbed the biggest, most-lethal looking guns I saw! Admit it! They don't ''look'' like short, ''short'' range weapons, ''do'' they?!
* In MS Paint Adventures: ''{{Homestuck}}'', there is a BFG called Ahab's Crosshairs wielded by the pirate Orphaner Dualscar, and later his descendant/ancestor (it's complicated) Eridan Ampora.
** Jade Harley gains Iron Man's Proton Cannon from Marvel vs. Capcom by combining a rifle, her [[CaptainErsatz Iron Lass]] suit, and a proton accelerator.
** Grandpa Harley has the Blunderbuss, which makes a dramatic entry of sorts before releasing fire along with a big '''BLAM''' on its target.
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* ''TechInfantry'' features a wide variety of plasma and other weaponry designed to be carried by heavy-weapons troopers in PoweredArmor. It greatly helps that many of those soldiers inside the armor are Werewolves.
* [[http://www.wetanz.com/holics/index.php?catid=4 Big Fucking Steam Punk Guns!]]
* [[WebVideo/AtopTheFourthWall Linkara]] shows off his third favorite weapon in the Silent Hill Dying Inside review: a minigun he wears on his hand. It shows up in his Doom review and 90's Kid picks it up in the Might Morphin Power Rangers review. HE also has another BFG he got off Cable that was used in the above mentioned Power Rangers review.
* [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t6CXAaI1OAo&feature=recentf This]] video is titled 'Huge Guns'. Frankly, it's a bit of an understatement.
* Used by a multitude of characters in MarvelsRPG, availability never being an issue given the Death Ray weapon available from the shop. Rocket Raccoon got an Item of Power simply named [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin BFG]].
* ''DarwinsSoldiers'' features two notable ones. Gustave Chiumbo, a ''[[TheBigGuy massive]]'' [[FunnyAnimal Nile crocodile]], wields a double barreled 4-gauge shotgun. Clyco's prototype weapon from the second RP counts too.
* The [=XM78=] in {{Noka}}. An anti-materiel rifle designed to annihilate armor plated targets such as tanks, most likely stolen by the heroes, and for what purpose? [[InsaneTrollLogic Noka has no skills with firearms so they let him use it on a panda.]] Yeah. It's [[ComedicSociopathy that]] [[RuleOfFunny kind]] [[SlidingScaleOfSillinessVersusSeriousness of]] story.
* WebVideo/LennyAndShinkosDisneySee as shown in the I,SHINKO short, MickeysChristmasCarol review, and in the Questions and Answers video, Lenny has a large steampunk blunderbuss, that seems to have quite a kickback when being fired.
* In TheSalvationWar, the demons are given modified 30mm RARDEN autocannons as assault rifles, since they are about 20 feet tall.
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* Itchy and Scratchy from ''TheSimpsons'' have a duel where they come up with bigger and bigger guns; eventually Itchy has the good sense to actually shoot instead of getting yet another larger gun from hammerspace(his gun is already the size of planet Earth), and sends scratchy flying into the sun - improbable targeting skills at work, too!
* Roadblock (and his SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute, Heavy Duty) from ''GIJoe''. Roadblock's gun is identified in the original comics as carrying a M2 Browning machine gun, a gun that is usually operated by a squad or vehicle mounted, and weighs up to 120 lbs.
** Sometimes it's depicted as more like the smaller (but still large and normally crew-served) M1919 Browning machine gun. Especially the action figure of him, since it wouldn't be able to stand up while carrying a properly-scaled M2.
* While not completely fitting with this trope (it's more of a WaveMotionGun), the JusticeLeague watchtower has a [[KillSat large laser]] that is quite literally called the [[FunWithAcronyms Binary Fusion Generator]]. This was not unintended by [[WarrenEllis the writers]].
* A lot of Franchise/{{Transformers}} have these.
** The Requiem Blaster from ''[[Anime/TransformersArmada Armada]]'', which changes hands a couple times over the course of the series.
** In ''[[Anime/TransformersRobotsInDisguise Robots In Disguise]]'', Optimus Prime, Ultra Magnus, Hightower, Mega-Octane, and Rollbar had weapons which would qualify as {{BFG}}s. Optimus' was shoulder-mounted, though, and Mega-Octane had both a hand held one and a back-mounted pair of cannons.
** Bumblebee was seen with a gun (more like a Big Fucking Cannon) that was twice as long as he was tall in Dreamwave's "War Within" issue 5, while one of IDW's "Infiltration" issue 4 cover homages that with [[http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Image:Infiltration_4c.jpg a really large caliber gun]].
** Both ''[[Franchise/TransformersGeneration1 Generation 1]]'' and ''[[WesternAnimation/TransformersAnimated Animated]]'' Swindle have a giant gun that can mount on top of their vehicle mode.
** Megatron's [[http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Fusion_cannon fusion cannon]] from ''Generation One'' (and Megatron himself in [[http://tfwiki.net/w2/images2/a/a3/No_mass_shifting_here.jpg at least one scene]]). Once he was upgraded to Galvatron, it became even more powerful - in a couple of the post-Movie episodes, it was used to destroy planets.
** Cliffjumper is famous for pulling guns larger than he is.
** [[http://tfwiki.net/w2/images2/d/d7/Stargatebattles_giant_megatron.jpg This]] may be Megatron's Best F'G moment he's ever had. It's also [[MomentOfAwesome just plain awesome]].
** The ''[[WesternAnimation/TransformersAnimated Animated]]'' Megatron also has a fusion cannon which is almost identical (if not a little bit bigger!) than the original and even ''uses the same sound effect'' (Although slightly modified to sound like a weapon firing). Most impressively, he uses it while DualWielding. Is it any wonder that this guy is considered to be a BadAss?
** Meanwhile the Armada version of Megatron had a waist-mounted cannon which is so powerful it [[http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Image:ArmadaMegs_fallenover.jpg blows him backwards along the ground]]. Of course, most of the other Armada characters have similarly ludicrously powered weapons when they power up with Mini-Cons -- Starscream's first test of his Null-Laser cannons leaves a huge crater.
** The Logical Conclusion to this trope, the Ark, a BFG made from 4 absolutely ''huge'' spaceships being stuck together with the power of creation [[http://transformers.wikia.com/wiki/File:Cybertron_Ark_Homecoming.jpg here it is]]. For comparison, the guy holding it is [[PhysicalGod Primus]] who transforms into a '''''PLANET'''''.
** Rampage's [[FanNickname Hellbelcher]] from ''WesternAnimation/BeastWars''.
** [[FanNickname Another one]] is Rhinox's [[GatlingGood "Chaingun(s) of Doom"]].
** And the ones on the base in this exchange:
--->'''Megatron:''' (walking up to the Maximal Base, when half a dozen turrets come from out of nowhere) Ah! I come in peace!!\\
'''Rhinox, through megaphone:''' (turrets fold away. twice as many turrets, three times as big unfold and point at Megatron) You'll leave in pieces.
* Remember the quad-guns the ''Millenium Falcon'' had? The ones that Han and Luke used to shoot down TIE Fighters in the first ''StarWars'' film? In ''StarWarsCloneWars'', a ARC Trooper ''carries one of those guns mounted on his chest.''
* Almost subverted, but not quite, in the CGI-animated ''ActionMan'', when Coach gives Alex Mann a device called the BSU 10000. Alex thinks that this stands for something more sophisticated than the bazooka-like gun that it looks like at first glance, but Coach fires the gun at a pile of scrap metal (blowing it sky-high) and reveals that it ''really'' stands for "Blow Stuff Up". (Possibly a G-rated version of "Blow Shit Up", considering the show's audience.)
* ''[[WesternAnimation/{{COPS}} C.O.P.S.]]'' featured Mace, who carried a laser bazooka, and uses it in the opening to slice a hole in a reinforced concrete walkway. Also featured Buttons [=McBoomBoom=] who, along with having THE GREATEST NAME IN ALL OF FICTION, kept a pair of [=BFGs=] ''in his chest.''
* Dot's gun in ''{{Reboot}}'''s season 2 finale "Web World Wars." It's bigger than she is.
--> '''Dot''': What do you think? Does it make me look too butch'?
--> '''Mouse''': Hmm, nah.... listen, while I'm working on the codes with Megabyte, well, you'll watch my back won't'cha?
--> '''Dot''': What do you think this is for? <Cocks gun>
* The unofficial ''ReBoot'' Episode Zero (a compilation of every cutscene from the PlayStation videogame) plays this a bit more straight. After Hexadecimal reveals that [[spoiler:Dot is trapped inside one of her mirrors]], Bob [[BerserkButton goes berserk]]. He brutally kicks Megabyte's [[UnusualEuphemism ascii]], then stares right at the mirror-slash-vidwindow above the Tor looking into Hex's lair. His next line, with progressive camera zoon-in on each letter: "Glitch: '''''B.F.G.!'''''". His already big gun turns into the poster child of MoreDakka, then he points it straight up at the mirror, says his CatchPhrase ("StayFrosty."), and blasts the crap out of it. (Watch the epic scene [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R_7NgIobE2I here]], starting at 3:14.) Also lampshaded by Bob, his first request for glitch to form a BFG was actually a big, freaking guitar.
* [[RoyalsWhoActuallyDoSomething The King]] in SymBionicTitan, while fighting with the army on the front lines and already shooting a BFG, runs out of bullets and pulls out an even ''[[TurnedUpToEleven bigger]]'' one.
* On ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'', Pinkie Pie shows off her Party Cannon, which can blast decorations all over a room in one shot to instantly set up a party. [[CrazyPrepared She even hauls it all the way from Ponyville to Canterlot.]]
* In ''[[WesternAnimation/{{Thundercats 2011}} [=ThunderCats (2011)=]]]''
** TheDragon Grune has a huge ''[[CarryABigStick kanabo]]'' MorphWeapon that transforms into an equally huge LightningGun.
** Mercenary slaver the Conquedor has a huge machine gun that [[AbnormalAmmo fires]] adhesive [[StickySituation goo]] and an absurdly long laser rifle he likes to use when tormenting {{Cute Machine|s}} villagers the Ro-Bear Berbils.
** PlayedForLaughs in "Between Brothers" when young Wilykat {{invoke|d trope}}s it by appropriating an enemy's BFG. He staggers under its weight, attempting to aim it at a WalkingTank while enemy troops sneak up behind him. Its recoil is so tremendous he sails backward into them, knocking them out, while his errant shot manages to hit the tank's feet.
* ''GeneratorRex'': one of Rex's forms produces a ridiculously large gun, known as the Slam Cannon. It's about three times as large as its teenage wielder, and on one occasion used ''bowling balls'' for bullets - and they were small compared to its usual mass-of-rubble rounds.
* As with the Avengers example above, Coulson DualWields a pair of BFGs that double as rocket launchers in the ''WesternAnimation/{{Ultimate Spider-Man}}'' episode "Run Pig Run".
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** Spartans (and Elites) can wield gigantic Tri barreled minigun from the hip. This is a weapon that is about as long as the average UNSC Marine is tall.

** Now Halo 4 brings us the Incineration Cannon, a huge Promethean rocket launcher that fires 4 flaming balls of fire at once, which turn into a fountain of explosions and death on impact. The Incineration Cannon does damage to rival the Spartan Laser, and unlike that weapon has an absolutely ridiculous kill radius due to its massive splash damage. This is balanced out by the fact it needs to reload after every shot, [[OneHitKill not that you`re likely to need more than one.]]

See also: BeamSpam, SplashDamage, a MacrossMissileMassacre, SphereOfDestruction, WaveMotionGun, LightningGun, FreezeRay, DeathRay, DisintegratorRay, FrickinLaserBeams and RecursiveAmmo. A BFG will almost certainly yield StuffBlowingUp, and will likely [[MoreDakka possess additional dakka]]. A SwissArmyGun tends to also be a BFG, as does a BiggerStick. Might cause the user to be TriggerHappy. When in the possession of a little girl it probably over laps with SmallGirlBigGun.

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* In TransformersVictory, Deathsaurus has the [[http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Living-Metal-Destroying_Cannon Living-Metal-Destroying Cannon]].

* ''{{Transformers}}'': Fortress Maximus, as the biggest Transformer in G1, carried an appropriately sized up gun, but some Transformers, notably Galvatron and Shockwave, actually transformed into Transformer-sized guns.

* Any projectile carried by a [[Film/{{Transformers}} Transformer]] automatically fits this trope due to being wielded by alien robots that on average are 20 feet in height. Although in particular, [[TransformersFilmSeries Ironhide and Optimus]] fit this quite well. According to the modelers, Ironhide's cannons have more pieces than some of the other Transformers in their ''entirety''. Megatron takes it a step further with the ''enormous'' Fusion Cannon he forms by slamming his hands together in the first movie.

* A lot of {{Transformers}} have these.
** The Requiem Blaster from ''[[TransformersArmada Armada]]'', which changes hands a couple times over the course of the series.

** Both ''[[TransformersGeneration1 Generation 1]]'' and ''[[TransformersAnimated Animated]]'' Swindle have a giant gun that can mount on top of their vehicle mode.

** [[http://tfwiki.net/w2/images2/d/d7/Stargatebattles_giant_megatron.jpg This]] may be Megatron's B'est FG moment he's ever had. It's also [[MomentOfAwesome just plain awesone]].
** The ''[[TransformersAnimated Animated]]'' Megatron also has a fusion cannon which is almost identical (if not a little bit bigger!) than the original and even ''uses the same sound effect'' (Although slightly modified to sound like a weapon firing). Most impressively, he uses it while DualWielding. Is it any wonder that this guy is considered to be a BadAss?

Few people are entirely certain of what "BFG" means. Some have speculated that the meaning of this nebulous acronym may be "Blaster of Frag Grenades", while others have theorized that it stands for "Bazooka of Fantastic Girth." Then there are those few individuals who believe that it could be a "Bomb Firer of Gargantuan size." We don't talk about those people.

Whatever it stands for, all we know is that it is a piece of personal artillery used by an individual and chiefly defined by its, well, its incredible [[ShapedLikeItself bigness]].

* SystemShock 2's Heavy Weapons class includes a grenade launcher, a fusion cannon, and a [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking stasis feild generator]]. The exotic weapons include the Viral proliferator (a shoulder-mounted cannon that fires [[AbnormalAmmo a cloud of viral particles]]) and the Annelid Launcher (Another shoulder-mounted gun that fires [[AbnormalAmmo parasitic worms]]).

A BFG is a piece of personal artillery used by an individual and chiefly defined by its, well, its incredible [[ShapedLikeItself bigness]].

* [[Film/TheLivingDaylights "You've had your eight! Now for my EIGHTY!"]]

* In ''Film/{{Moonwalker}}'', after [[TheAggressiveDrugDealer Frankie Lideo's]] {{mook}}s fail to take down robo-Jackson, Lideo himself jumps into the seat of a WaveMotionGun the size of a building which he somehow operates with ''hand cranks''. This actually blasts Michael's CoolPlane form out of the sky, only for him to DeusExMachina his way back into play just in time to save some children from a random atomising. Precisely why a drug dealer would own such a piece of hardware in the first place is entirely unclear, but then [[WhatDoYouMeanItWasntMadeOnDrugs this is hardly the weirdest thing that happens in the movie]].

* Nothing says "hello" quite like ''Film/BlueThunder'''s [[GatlingGood 20mm rotary cannon]] staring you in the face, as some cops find out in the GunshipRescue scene in the film.

* In ''Animation/TreasureOfSwampCastle'', there is a cannon at the beginning of the movie so big it takes dozens of men to put the cannonball in the barrel.

* In the ''DirtyHarry'' sequel, ''The Enforcer,'' Harry and his partner are given a demonstration of the use of a LAW rocket (Light Anti-Tank Weapon) on a truck. It turns to flame. Later, one of the terrorists has gotten onto a tower, and harry picks up the LAW rocket to use on him, like it's just a larger version of his handgun. Result: there's nothing left of the top of the tower.
** In the final movie of the series, ''The Dead Pool'' Harry finishes off the big bad of the film with a gigantic pneumatic speargun. The recoil almost sends it flying back into Eastwood's face. The first film also had Harry sniping at the Scorpio killer with a Winchester Model 70 chambered in .458 Winchester Magnum.

* ''Franchise/PiratesOfTheCaribbean: At Worlds End'': The first fight scene of the movie has the ''Black Pearl's'' midget crewman come out with a small cannon almost as long as he is tall. He fires it at the EITC mooks and blows himself backwards out of the frame.
* [[HanselAndGretelWitchHunters Hansel's Gun]] and several other toys.
* In ''GIJoeRetaliation'' Roadblock is seen firing an 84 pound M2 .50cal machinegun, from the hip.

* ''{{Duumvirate}}'' is loaded with BFGs. Fusion-powered microwave lasers, ''atomic slugs'', and there's a subplot involving "room eraser" spread weapons.

When the Piecemaker is first used, it uses a ballista bolt. The results were so horrifying (And probably expensive) that they just tied a bunch of bolts together instead. The results were even more horrifying. The scene in ''Discworld/NightWatch'' where it is fired - as a ''warning shot''! - at an assassin is perhaps the most hilarous (and most destructive) scene in all of Discworld. Yes, this even includes the exploding cabbages.\\

-->'''Vimes''': Detritus, you can't fire that off in here! This is an enclosed building!
-->'''Detritus''': Only till I pull dis trigger, sir.

* Another Banks novel, ''Against a Dark Background'' has as a McGuffin the "lazy gun". Among other peculiarities is the fact that it weigh three times as much when it's upside down as when it's right side up. Its effect on its tend to be ... ''humorous'' ..., such as materialising a free-falling ship's anchor directly overhead, or a spear, piece of tsunami, small nuke, or asteroid. When researchers attempted to disassemble one its self-destruction took out a fifth of the city and killed half a million people.
* One of ''TheExecutioner'' novels has Mack Bolan fighting the giant Igor Baibakov, a big and psychopathic ex-Spetsnaz terrorist who uses a Barrett Light Fifty as his weapon of choice. Not only does he use this .50 BMG monster in its primary role as a sniper weapon, but he's so big and powerful that he can use the thing at close range like an ''assault rifle'', which is more justified by his impressive size and strength and the RuleOfScary than anything else.
* Happens in the ''StarWars'' novel ''[[XWingSeries Wraith Squadron]]'', as part of a [[ZanyScheme ludicrously complex plan]] to capture one of Zsinj's corvettes: Gamorrean (think the guys guarding Jabba's palace in ''Return of the Jedi'', but smarter) pilot Piggy uses an X-wing laser cannon as a personal weapon. It blows clean through a floor/ceiling (and [[ThereIsNoKillLikeOverkill the officer above it]]) with one shot. Wedge even [[LampshadeHanging points out]] how implausible the weapon ought to be.
-->'''Wedge''': "A laser cannon is nine meters long, [[YouAreNumberSix Five]]."
-->'''Kell''': "Not the essential components and housing, sir. Strip out all the computerized aiming and synchronization equipment, the diagnostics, the flashback suppressor, I think we could chop it down to a meter and a half, two meters."
** It should be noted that even Piggy, with a Gamorrean's brute strength, had some trouble lifting and aiming the thing.
* In ''PhulesCompany'', one of the sluglike Sinthians tries to shoot a full-auto shotgun... but since said trooper is half the body mass of a human ''and'' riding a HoverBoard at the time, the resulting blast sends him into a rapid spin-- fortunately Phule had the foresight to disable the "full auto" feature beforehand, so no further shots are fired and the surrounding soldiers remain unpunctured.

* A more realistic depiction appears in HarryTurtledove's ''Hitler's War''. A Czech expat fighting for the French scavenges an anti-tank rifle and spends the rest of the book wrecking light armor and blowing people in half.
* "Starworld" by HarryHarrison. One of the Israeli commandoes is firing a handheld .50 calibre recoilless machine gun during the attack on Spaceconcert.
* Franchise/TheHitchhikersGuideToTheGalaxy is not very specific about its size, but the Kill-O-Zap gun is definitely not a gun to be trifled with: "The designer of the gun had clearly not been instructed to beat about the bush. "Make it evil," he'd been told. "Make it totally clear that this gun has a right end and a wrong end. Make it totally clear to anyone standing at the wrong end that things are going badly for them. If that means sticking all sort of spikes and prongs and blackened bits all over it then so be it. This is not a gun for hanging over the fireplace or sticking in the umbrella stand, it is a gun for going out and making people miserable with."
* Literature/MonsterHunterInternational features [[ICallItVera Abomination]], a fully automatic shotgun with attached grenade launcher, which gets a more detailed description than most of the human (or otherwise) characters.

* Guns in the DresdenFiles tend to be pretty reasonable in size, in fact Murphy prominently carries a P90, a weapon specifically designed to be small and portable (to fit with her tiny hands). However, in the short story "The Warrior", a former military sniper uses a Barret M82A2 rifle, possibly one of the largest caliber sniper rifles available (.50BMG, which is only legal for civilian use through a technicality related to how caliber is measured). It's so powerful that it blows through two layers of Harry's magical defenses, and is only stopped by a third layer and DivineIntervention.
* In ''Literature/{{Destroyermen}}: Distant Thunders'', Silva {{MacGyver|ing}}s a "super lizard gun" he affectionately nicknames the "Doom Whomper" out of a salvaged anti-aircraft gun from [[spoiler:HIJMS ''Amagi'']]. It's a flintlock rifle that shoots a quarter-pound slug, which he built to hunt the allosaur variant that is Borneo's top predator in the book series' [[AlternateHistory alternate Earth]]. The recoil from it is enough to knock him over the first and only time he fires it from any posture other than prone. While hunting, he makes a game of seeing how many "rhino-pigs" he can kill with one shot.

* Jaffa staff weapons in ''Series/StargateSG1'' are pretty big on their own, but at one point Teal'c wields a dismounted ''anti-ship version'' taken from a Death Glider. And ''one-shots'' an Al'kesh with it. [[BoomHeadshot In the windshield]].
** In ''StargateContinuum,'' Vala has to be dissuaded from bringing [[http://stargate.wikia.com/wiki/Image:Vlcsnap-3675023.png this]] (the X-699) to [[spoiler: Ba'al's extraction ceremony.]]

* In ''ThePrisoner's'' spy spoof episode "The Girl Who Was Death", the title character Sonia, having failed to kill Number 6 with various elaborate death traps, finally decides on the direct approach, escalating from a machine gun to hand grenades and mortars before finally drawing a bazooka on him.
* ''{{Chuck}}'' has an excellent example of this trope in action during the first episode of the third season, when Casey gets to use his minigun. [[CrowningMomentOfAwesome Gunship battles, explosions and gunfights with terrorists ensue.]]

* In the ''[[Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer Buffy]]'' episode "Innocence", the gang has to defeat an enemy called the Judge who "no weapon forged" could kill. However, that declaration was made before Christ, and humanity has much bigger weapons. Buffy decimates him with an AT-4 rocket launcher.

* [[TheYoungOnes "Vyvyan, where did you get that Howitzer?!" "Found it!"]]

%% Obvious Rule Patch: Or "Big Freaking Gun". Or "Frigging". Or any other word beginning with "f".

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A BFG (short for Big Freaking Gun) is a piece of personal artillery used by an individual and chiefly defined by its, well, its incredible [[ShapedLikeItself bigness]].