History Main / BFG

* Franchise/{{Gundam}}:
** A number of Mobile Suits throughout the saga carried bazooka-style rocket launchers for anti-ship work(and weren’t adverse to using them on each other), but one of the first truly oversized guns was the Mega Bazooka launcher used by the Hyaku-Shiki in ‘’Anime/MobileSuitZetaGundam’’. It was so big, the mech didn’t actually carry it. Instead, it was ‘’launched’’ from the carrier to the machine’s general location.

* In ''Manga/TheRedRangerBecomesAnAdventurerInAnotherWorld'', the Victory Kizuna Buster is a massive cannon as large as Tougo is. It runs on [[ThePowerOfFriendship the power of the bonds of the wielders]] and can only be used at full power when its users put aside their differences and work toward a single goal, generating a V-shaped laser that causes a huge explosion on impact.

* ''Film/SplitSecond'': "We need to get bigger guns. BIG Fucking GUNS!" These were the "Combat Shotguns" they checked out from the police armory- in actuality a pair of [[GatlingGood miniguns]] that used shotgun shells instead of bullets.

* In ''Film/{{Jumanji}},'' [[EgomaniacHunter Van Pelt]] emerges armed with a huge lever-action elephant gun powerful enough to decimate a police cruiser all by itself. When he finds he can't get [[RealityEnsues any more ammo at the local gun store he is faced with a waiting period and forms to fill out for a replacement weapon.]] Undeterred, he offers a [[ScrewTheRulesIHaveMoney handful of gold coins]] to the owner and gets a super-advanced silenced semi-automatic shotgun even bigger than the elephant gun seconds later.

* ''TabletopGame/TalesOfTheFloatingVagabond'': Guns in the top of the size scale qualify, being called the "Don't Point That At My Plenet" scale.

Although the BFG could be thought of as [[CompensatingForSomething compensating for the aversion of the latter]].

Although the {{BFG}} could be thought of as [[CompensatingForSomething compensating for the aversion of the latter]].

A Big Freaking Gun is a piece of personal artillery used by an individual and chiefly defined by, well, [[BiggerIsBetter its incredible bigness]].

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

* 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'.
* ''TabletopGame/{{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 ''TabletopGame/{{GURPS}}: Ultra-Tech'' can be carried by people in a good suit of PoweredArmor and fires with enough force to punch straight through 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.]]
* ''TabletopGame/{{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/EclipsePhase'' has the plasma rifle. It's big, bulky, and needs to cool off for one round every other shot when in vacuum. But deals ''3''d12+''20'' damage per shot with an option to double it. 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.
* ''TabletopGame/HcSvntDracones'' has "large" weapons, such as heavy machine guns, that require herculean strength (or the [[OurCentaursAreDifferent 'taur]] morphism) to use without a tripod, and then there's LAN (Lift Assist Required) weapons, which you're simply not going to be able to use without PoweredArmor or two consecutive Muscular Enhancements. Most notably the V-801 Mag Lance (depicted [[http://hcsvntdracones-game.tumblr.com/post/95314811138/you-asked-for-it-actually-you-asked-for-a-wide here]] with Omni-Frame lift assist), which costs more than a small spaceship and does 1,000 damage with each shot, and the shell keeps going until it's done that much.
* ''TabletopGame/SentinelsOfTheMultiverse'' and its sequel, notably Bunker's Omni-Cannon; it acts as a [[ChargedAttack Charged Attack]] in the original card game, capable of dealing huge amounts of damage by placing cards under it each turn, then discarding them all for a massive blow. In Sentinel Tactics, Omni-Cannon is not a BFG, it is THE BFG, being arguably the hardest power in the game to activate, but using 10 dice for its base damage, compared to the maximum of six that any other attack had in the original set. In both cases, the cannon is almost as big as the rest of his suit is.
* In ''TabletopGame/RocketAge'' Elephant guns and Venusian trade muskets both count, but the prize goes to the Thunder Lizard gun, a RAY weapon essentially designed to put down a ''T-Rex''.
* In ''TabletopGame/{{Dust}}'' ordinary infantry soldiers can carry heavy machineguns or magazine-fed semi-automatic bazookas.
* The double hackbut and the culverin in ''TabletopGame/{{Pathfinder}}'' are the two heaviest firearms available, and the highest damaging ones, in the classic and scatter category respectively. Both need a stand to be used correctly or the user suffers a -4 penalty to attack rolls and is knocked prone by the recoil, any waist-high obstacle is enough for the culverin, the double hackbut comes with its wheeled carriage.
* In Mayfair Games' ''Underground'', you play a SuperSoldier as drawn by [[WesternAnimation/AeonFlux Peter Chung]] brainwashed into thinking their a superhero a la ''ComicBook/MarshalLaw''. As such you can carry some very big guns, with the biggest being a 75mm cannon. In this game, the 30mm Urban Nightmare is just a [[HandCannon larger than normal pistol]].

* The guns in Apophis Consortium's ''Obisidian: Age of Judgement'' are all typically big in order to deal with demons and cyborg freaks, with weapons being designated from Levels 1 - 4 (Level 1 street legal, Level 2 "standard" assault rifle, Level 3 ridiculously over-sized assault rifles or small vehicular weapons, Level 4 anti-vehicle weapons). Of special note are the unique weapons of the Wasteland Military Federation - the Faustian Sniper Weapon System which is a 300lb sniper rifle that fires hyper-velocity armor-piercing sabot rounds, the Spectre 20mm Vulcan Gun Drone which is a automated turret with two 20 vulcan cannons capable of gunning down mountain-sized demons, the Exciter Launcher which fires a thermo-nuclear warhead and the Conflaguration Cannon which fires a super-heated magnesium round to disintegrate most enemies it hits.
* ''TabletopGame/{{Battletech}}'' has a number of weapons designed for use in heavy 'mechs and vehicles, which become this when carried by lighter 'mechs. The crowning example is the [=UM-R60L=] ''Urbanmech'' variant: At 30 tons of weight, half of it is taken up by a massive 14-ton Autocannon/20, a gigantic short-range gun intended for assault 'mechs, and a ton of ammunition. Coming straight behind the [=UM-R60L=] is the 35-ton BZK-F3 ''Hollander'', which carries a massive 15-ton Gauss Rifle built into its torso. The ''Hollander'' is prone to DeathByFallingOver simply due to the massive recoil on its weapon.

* 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.

* 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.

* ''Webcomic/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).

* Parodied in ''Webcomic/MegaTokyo'' with a [[http://megatokyo.com/strip/1068 BFWii control]]. Also in ''Webcomic/MegaTokyo'' is an actual big gun, the [[http://www.megatokyo.com/strip/561 Sony P4216A Killtrunk]].
* Plasma cannons in Webcomic/{{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).

* ''Webcomic/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 ''Webcomic/MushroomGo'', carries a [[Franchise/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.

* In MS Paint Adventures: ''Webcomic/{{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.

* An unsuccessful medieval version in ''WebComic/SluggyFreelance'', chapter "Anima": While the two are in a medieval-style alternative dimension, Torg asks Riff to make him a hand crossbow. He gets one that's so big that eventually they just admit it's a ballista and mount it on a cart.

* ''Roleplay/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.

* In ''Literature/TheSalvationWar'', the demons are given modified 30mm RARDEN autocannons as assault rifles, since they are about 20 feet tall.
* The aptly-named Bad News from ''WebVideo/CriticalRole''. Since this is a D&D campaign, it's unclear exactly how big Bad News is, but the kickback is powerful enough that it nearly knocks Percy off his feet whenever he uses it. He has to wield it two-handed, and it has been known to reduce enemy heads to PinkMist.

* ''WebAnimation/{{Dreamscape}}'': Nik carries around a large, futuristic, light-blue rifle.

* 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!

* Remember the quad-guns the ''Millenium Falcon'' had? The ones that Han and Luke used to shoot down TIE Fighters in the first ''Franchise/StarWars'' film? In ''WesternAnimation/StarWarsCloneWars'', an ARC Trooper ''carries one of those guns mounted on his chest.''
* Almost subverted, but not quite, in the CGI-animated ''WesternAnimation/ActionMan2000'', 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/COPSAnimatedSeries'' featured Mace, who carried a laser bazooka, and uses it in the TitleSequence to slice a hole in a reinforced concrete walkway. Also featured Buttons [=McBoomBoom=], a {{Cyborg}} gangster who, along with having the greatest name in all of fiction, kept a pair of [=BFGs=] ''in his chest.''
* Dot's gun in ''WesternAnimation/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 ''WesternAnimation/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 zoom-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 [[https://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 ''WesternAnimation/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--or blow changelings to Kingdom Come. [[CrazyPrepared She never leaves home without it and has hauled it from Ponyville to Canterlot and the Crystal Empire.]]
* ''WesternAnimation/ThunderCats2011''
** 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.
* ''WesternAnimation/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.

* Capri Chilton from ''{{WesternAnimation/Motorcity}}'' has one.
* Parodied with [[ButtMonkey X the Eliminator's]] death ray in ''WesternAnimation/HarveyBirdmanAttorneyAtLaw'': it's big, but it's also attached to just as big a console that's horrifically unwieldy and hard to get around, which, coupled with the fact that it's still run on 60's technology, makes it impractical as a weapon, though that doesn't stop X from trying. (And no, it doesn't even qualify for AwesomeButImpractical, that's how impractical it is.)
* ''WesternAnimation/MiraculousLadybug'': PlayedForLaughs in the episode "Malediktator," when Ladybug's [[SwissArmySuperpower Lucky Charm]] summons an actual weapon for the first time--a '''massive''' gun bigger than she is. Both Ladybug and Queen Bee are gobsmacked, but it turns out all she needed was the laser pointer.

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->''"My cause is just... my will is strong... and my gun is very, very large."''
-->-- '''Doomguy''', from ''the ComicBook/{{Doom}} comic'', after picking up the TropeNamer.

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* A number of weapons from ''Anime/GhostInTheShellStandAloneComplex'' qualify.
** Saito uses a sniper rifle, Batou uses a Minigun, Ishikawa uses a bazooka filled with Anti-[[SpiderTank Tank]] Adhesive Countermeasure ammo, Borma uses a bazooka, and Motoko herself uses a .50 caliber anti-tank rifle... with only one arm. Of course, considering that they are all enhanced with prosthetics to various extents, it makes some sense that they can wield these weapons. Togusa, the only non-cyborg, just uses a Mateba autorevolver. In the original movie, Batou also uses a man-portable HEAT SPIW (High-Explosive Anti-Tank Special-Purpose Individual Weapon), which he affectionately calls "your standard-issue Big Gun".
** In one issue of the manga Togusa (in that version a cyborg like the rest of them) uses a 50-cal anti-tank rifle.
* In at least one occasion on the classic cyberpunk anime ''Anime/BubblegumCrisis'', (entirely human) police officer Leon [=McNichol=] makes use of a massive anti-mecha gun that appears to be some sort of miniaturized cannon. Again seen in the episode "Red Eyes" when Linna is equipped with a prototype motoslave connected to a huge cannon capable of not only reaching but vaporizing a KillSat ''in orbit''. And somewhat humorously presented in ''Revenge Road'' where the ADP has to deal with a rampaging super-car that seems to have taken on a digital mind of its own. Their response is to drag out a ''decommissioned tank'' so as to have a gun capable of stopping it.
* The weapon of choice for the Capital Police in ''Anime/JinRohTheWolfBrigade'' is a hand-held version of the MG-42 heavy machine gun from WWII. In real life, this weapon weighed well over 11 kg and was only accurate with a tripod, and was normally used by a team of two to four men. However, in the movie, they take steps to make the use of a man-portable one seem more realistic, such as an added foregrip and a shoulder-mounted compartment that holds the ammo-belt. The weight-balance problem was more than likely evened out by the heavy armor they wore. Plus, they always seemed to use them at ranges of only 10-15 feet from the target, and at such a close range, accuracy problems for a heavy machine gun become essentially non-existent, since the spray fire is going to kill ''everything''.
** This is adapted later on in ''Film/IllangTheWolfBrigade''.
* In ''Manga/{{Hellsing}}'', Seras Victoria, a recently-turned vampire, uses a 30mm cannon that weighs 120 pounds unloaded. Her strength enables her to wield it like a mundane personal rifle, much to the shock of the human troops. And this is one of the ''smaller'' guns in the series. She later upgraded to an even ''[[UpToEleven bigger]]'' cannon. It had two 30mm auto cannons, could fire grenades, and had the ability to take down armored vehicles at four kilometers[[note]] granted, she thinks nothing of hitting targets that far away with an ordinary assault rifle at that point[[/note]]. She DUAL-WIELDS a pair of these when facing down Zorin's zeppelin, and uses them to bring it down.
** It reaches its peak when in the manga and OVA's climax she pulls out and fires an ''Eighty-Eight'' [[note]]For those of you confused, an Eighty-Eight is none other than the 88mm Flak 18/36/37/41, a German anti-aircraft gun that could penetrate ''straight through'' any tank of its time.[[/note]] in order to [[spoiler:blow through the reinforced glass shield protecting the Major, which not even the other aforementioned [=BFGs=] could pierce through]].
** Her sire Alucard wields a pair of {{Hand Cannon}}s.
* Natsuki Kruger in ''Anime/MyOtome'' is a proud wielder of a BFG from HammerSpace (literal, in-story HammerSpace, accessed via AppliedPhlebotinum). It is at least 1.5 times as long as she is tall, if not longer.
* Miyu from the ''Manga/MyOtome'' manga has a tri-barrelled triple [[GatlingGood gatling]] that is almost certainly a ''VideoGame/{{Xenosaga}}'' ShoutOut. Unfortunately, the enemies she attempts to use it on have DeflectorShields...

* ''Manga/{{Trigun}}'' thrives on this trope. Wolfwood wields the [[CreepyCoolCrosses Cross Punisher]], which actually contains a machine gun, a missile launcher, and (in the anime) between six and eight normal-sized guns. Knowing that Wolfwood's Punisher is slightly taller than him and that Wolfwood is about 1.85m, the weapon must weigh at the very least 100 kilos, which makes it a more than honourable BFG (and Wolfie one honourable badass). Millie Thompson carries a stun gun that looks like a portable Gatling gun, can fire projectiles with enough force to knock over a truck, [[{{Hammerspace}} and fits neatly inside her overcoat without a bulge]]. Chapel the Evergreen (Wolfwood's mentor in the anime) carries a Punisher that can split down its length to form a pair of machine guns. Caine the Longshot, another Gung-Ho Gun in the anime, has a sniper rifle with a barrel that is several ''yards'' long. He shoots at Vash and Wolfwood from far outside of town until Vash uses his ImprobableAimingSkills to blow the rifle to pieces. And then, the most [=BFGing=] [=BFG=] of all [=BFGs=]: Vash and Knives' angel arms. When fired at low power, they blast away whole cities. When fired at full power, they ''carve giant craters in the moon''.
* ''Franchise/LyricalNanoha'':
** Traditional MagicalGirl shows usually have the heroine wielding a cute little magic wand. Nanoha's weapon of choice, on the other hand, is a long magical staff [[SwissArmyWeapon that turns into]] a BFG capable of firing WaveMotionGun-class blasts of energy.
** Also, Number {{Cyborg}} Dieci, whose weapon is called Enormous Cannon, which is [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin just what it sounds like]].
** Come ''Manga/MagicalRecordLyricalNanohaForce'', Nanoha now wields a true BFG, with her device acting as one of her [[AttackDrone Blaster bits]].
** From the same manga above gives us Arnage of Hückebein. What makes it absurd is that she wields not one, but [[SerialEscalation TWO [=BFGs=] in the form of Gatling guns and missile launchers]].
* Bolt Crank's affectation for comedically over-sized armaments of all shapes and sizes amounts to half the appeal of ''Manga/EatMan''.
* Sakuya of ''Manga/KoiKoi7'' can call forth any gun at any time, and has a preference for [=BFGs=].
* Hitomi Landsknecht from ''Anime/{{ICE}}'' wields one, with a gorgeous SteamPunk design.
* ''Manga/NegimaMagisterNegiMagi'':
** [[RobotGirl Chachamaru]] at one point wields a gun as long as she is tall. It's powerful enough [[spoiler:to temporarily contain an uber-powerful demon.]]
** [[TheGunslinger Mana]] LOVES the BFG: she does GunsAkimbo with Desert Eagles, and when she was hired to prevent love confessions in a determinated area she did it by shooting her targets with a tranquillizer-loaded, 14 kg anti-materiel rifle (laying down with a tripod though, like one would expect). At one point, she even uses an anti-tank machine gun to fight demons. She has mentioned at least once that some of her guns are airsoft replicas.

* ''Anime/TengenToppaGurrenLagann'': Yoko's enormous [[MagneticWeapons coilgun]]-sniper rifle. The gun is about as long as she is tall (mainly because of the barrel, which is fairly ridiculous on its own, the rest of the gun itself is actually fairly reasonably-sized considering its purpose, that, and it's a [[KineticWeaponsAreJustBetter railgun]] that can accept any ammunition that can fit into the barrel, even ''arrows''), and is capable of taking down HumongousMecha, occasionally in ''one shot''. Turned UpToEleven in the final episode [[spoiler:where Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann, the mecha that jumps on galaxies like stepping stones gets one of its own. Sized appropriately of course.]]
* ''Anime/SCryed'': George Tatsunami's Alter, Big Magnum, is, [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin as its name would suggest]], a Big Fucking Revolver that shoots Big Fucking Bullets.
* ''Manga/TheLawOfUeki'': Any one-star or above Celestial being, most notably Robert and [[spoiler:Ueki]] has a weapon called Kurogane, which turns their arm into a giant, 6-foot cannon that completely overshadows the user in size.
* Though not actually that big, Lady Eboshi's gun in ''Anime/PrincessMononoke'' is the prototype of a BFG especially designed to be [[SmallGirlBigGun used by women]]. It's a shoulder-fired matchlock musket which fires shot well over an inch in diameter and has a ''really'' big muzzle flash. With it Eboshi [[spoiler:mortally wounds]] two very powerful forest spirits and decapitates [[spoiler:The Great Forest Spirit]] [[BoomHeadshot with a single shot]].
--> '''Eboshi:''' Now watch closely, everyone. I'm going to show you how to kill a god.

* In ''Anime/TransformersVictory'', Deathsaurus has the [[http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Living-Metal-Destroying_Cannon Living-Metal-Destroying Cannon]].
* At one point in ''Manga/PokemonAdventures'', Lt. Surge has a bazooka. What makes it awesome is its ammo...which are ''[[AbnormalAmmo Voltorb]] and [[MadeOfExplodium Electrode]]''. Seriously.
* Several people in ''Manga/OnePiece'' are armed with oversized guns or even cannon. For example, Tilestone, Zanbei, and Absalom. Also slightly parodied with one marine officer who wielded a really huge ''portable'' bazooka.
* In ''Manga/SoulEater'', Death the Kid wields ''two'' of these when using Death Cannon, which are somehow merged with his arms. They're usually normal-looking [[EquippableAlly pistols]].
* Hiromi in ''Anime/{{Patlabor}}'' has a tendency to end up packing an enormous anti-labor rifle in the movies; in the first, it's shown being fired at a police patrol car, [[BlownAcrossTheRoom throwing it about fifty feet into the air trailing debris]]. The one he uses in the second movie forces him backwards with every shot even though he's braced ''and'' using a bipod, and is powered enough to go straight through the head of a [[SpiderTank Extor]].
* ''Anime/BakuganBattleBrawlers'' has recently unveiled Battle Gear, which contains several things that qualify as BFG's, but the current granddaddy of them all is [[http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2507/4554053077_80c694e262.jpg Zukanator]](Yes, the little guy on the lower right is and in a figurative sense one was TheDragon). Practically big enough to be a WaveMotionGun, it turns your Bakugan into a living KillSat. However, it fits the BFG category because it is carried by the hero and can't blow a spaceship in two. [[spoiler:It can blow a pretty sizable hole clean through one, though.]]
* Guts' ArmCannon in ''Manga/{{Berserk}}'', which is exactly what it sounds like -- a small-sized gunpowder cannon built as a replacement for his left arm, which he typically unloads on demons at ''point-blank range''.
* ''Manga/DGrayMan'': [[spoiler: Allen Walker's anti-Akuma weapon can go into this form, first seen at the "Ghost of Martel" arc.]]
* ''Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion'' has the Positron Sniper Rifle, a prototype firearm that is slightly longer than the [[HumongousMecha EVAs]] are tall and that uses ''the entire power grid of Japan'' as its power source.
* In ''Manga/TheRedRangerBecomesAnAdventurerInAnotherWorld'', the Victory Kizuna Buster is a massive cannon as large as Tougo is. It runs on [[ThePowerOfFriendship the power of the bonds of the wielders]] and can only be used at full power when its users put aside their differences and work toward a single goal, generating a V-shaped laser that causes a huge explosion on impact.
* Gray from ''Manga/FairyTail'' once made one of these out of ice.
** Bisca, who is a [[TheGunslinger firearms specialist]] also has a few to her disposal.
* ''Anime/FinalFantasyUnlimited'' has Kaze wielding the Magun, which through the use of Soil Charges can summon giant monsters for just about any occasion, including a monster that is literally a God.
* In the second season of ''Anime/DarkerThanBlack'', Suou can manifest a PTRD 14.5mm anti-tank rifle with her contractor ability. We see its effects on the human body in one episode. It is ''not'' pretty.
* Mami Tomoe from ''Anime/PuellaMagiMadokaMagica'' wields conjured matchlock rifles as her WeaponOfChoice, and her [[FinishingMove Tiro Finale]] gun is ''huge''. Taken UpToEleven in ''Anime/PuellaMagiMadokaMagicaTheMovieRebellion'', where she uses a [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Railway_gun railway gun]] which upgrades her Tiro Finale into a FantasticNuke.
* The Carbon-Freeze cannon and Gekko's Moonclub, which doubles as a Bazooka, in ''Manga/{{Yaiba}}''.
* Most characters in ''Manga/BlackLagoon'' favor {{Hand Cannon}}s, but during the "Baile de la Muerte" arc, Roberta, who in this arc is in full-on AxCrazy mode, starts sniping at the Grey Wolf unit with a Barrett M82 anti-materiel rifle, a .50 caliber ''beast'' of a weapon that is normally used on a bipod in a prone position. When some FARC soldiers show up behind her, she swings it around and blasts them ''one-handed''.
* Takeo from ''Manga/{{Noblesse}}'' uses a gun that is as tall as him, and he's one of the tallest characters in the series!
* ''Manga/YozakuraQuartet'': Kotoha's Acht.
* Several ''Franchise/{{Digimon}}'' embody this trope, most notably Beelzemon, in both his blast mode and Xros Wars incarnation.

* ''Franchise/BlackRockShooter'' wields the Rock Cannon, which is possibly longer than she is tall, and definitely as heavy. And it can get [[MoreDakka much]], ''[[ShapeShifterWeapon much]]'' [[WaveMotionGun bigger]]...
** As of [[Anime/BlackRockShooter the anime]], BRS isn't the only one with one of these. Chariot's, um... chariot has a BFG built in that shoots ''giant explosive macarons'', no less. There's also Strength[[spoiler:/Yuu]]'s Ogre Arms, which have blasters in the fingers and can become a pair of Gatling guns. However, the most ridiculous has to be [[spoiler:Insane Black Rock Shooter's Insane Cannon Lance]]. It's ''at least'' twice as large as the Rock Cannon, doubles as a {{BFS}}, and the amount of shots it can dish out is just plain unfair, even by this show's standards.
** From [[VideoGame/BlackRockShooter the game]], we have [[spoiler:White Rock Shooter]], who, in addition to having a [[spoiler:Rock Cannon]] nearly identical to BRS's, has the Grateful Sun Ray, which is comparable in size to a ''tank'', and fires a slow-moving, self-dividing ball of energy that hurts. '''A lot'''.
** The above examples don't even account for all the as-of-yet unused characters. There's Black★Matagi's gunblade, Underworld Vulcan's rotary cannon, Maid Gunner's sniper rifle, Demon Cannon User's, well, [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin cannon]]... geez, huke really likes [[SmallGirlBigGun small girls with big guns]]...
* In ''Anime/GaikingLegendOfDaikuMaryu'', the Serpent Buster aircraft can [[CombiningMecha combine]] with the titular HumongousMecha, attaching to its arm and turning into a cannon, to form Buster Gaiking.
* In ''Manga/{{Nobunagun}}'', the main character Shio uses a giant minigun that fires ammo bigger than her torso.

* A lot of them in ''Manga/CityHunter'': Ryo uses a Colt Python .357 Magnum; Kaori uses her brother's own Colt Python, but also makes use of Gatling gun, bazooka, grenades and giant hammers; Umibozu has a S&W Model 29 (the original .44 Magnum revolver), even if he usually fires a machine gun or a bazooka; Miki, being Umibozu's partner, has a tendency to draw the less ridiculously big guns in his closet, who are still quite big for anyone else's standards...
* ''Manga/CellsAtWorkBaby'': Immunoglobulin G ([=IgG=]), an antibody the baby obtains from the mother, is portrayed as a ''massive'' mounted artillery that effortlessly tears through an entire group of dangerous ''S. aureus'' bacteria. It's so big, it looks more like a vehicle than a weapon at first.

* In the ''ComicBook/{{Transmetropolitan}}'' series, Yelena Rossini briefly picks up one of these at a gun shop. She is acutely disappointed when she is not allowed to take it home and asks whether it's because of her sex, but it turns out that the weapon is "designed for people with two backup spines."
* The [[RareGuns GAU Avengers]] used by the trolls (and Shiro) in ''[[Literature/TheAdventuresOfSamuraiCat Samurai Cat in the Real World]]''.

* In ''ComicBook/SupermanAtEarthsEnd'', Superman uses a comically oversized gun (it's twice his size!) to kill [[YouClonedHitler twin clones of Hitler]].
* In ''ComicBook/{{Supergirl}}''/''ComicBook/{{Batgirl}}'' story ''ComicBook/ElseworldsFinestSupergirlAndBatgirl'', Batgirl has a gun which looks like a miniature rocket launcher.

* Sabretooth's shortlived partner Birdy was quite fond of guns which her tiny frame would normally find impossible to lift.

* ''ComicBook/BlueBeetle'': The third Blue Beetle (Jaime Reyes) has a scarab that specializes in these. We never get to see him use most of them because they're all lethal and for Jaime, killing's a big no-no. But seriously. One has theological implications. Just think about that.
* In ''ComicBook/{{Daredevil}}'', drugged-up SuperSoldier Nuke wields a freaking beast of a firearm affectionately called [[ICallItVera Betsy]] after his beloved childhood babysitter. Betsy is titanic in size and power and even sports a kill counter so Nuke's handlers can monitor his results.
* [[ComicBook/LastManStanding Gabriel]] sports one, and it looks remarkably similar to a [[TabletopGame/{{Warhammer 40000}} Bolter]].
* ''ComicBook/{{Empowered}}'' has [=ThugBoy=]'s 50-cal SniperRifle, although it gets destroyed during a fight. And the B.F.Gunnaz who are named after this trope.

* Howard the Duck recently used a gun actually named the BFG when going zombie-hunting across the multiverse.
* The comic adaptation shipped in at least one special edition of ''VideoGame/{{Doom}}'' had the SpaceMarine call the BFG 9000 "the Holy Grail of Firepower" and had it found on top of a plinth like a relic.
* In the ''Franchise/SpiderMan'' storyline ''Revenge of the Sinister Six'', the Sinister Six run around with massive weapons after stealing them from HYDRA. Spidey ''attempts'' to match them with backpack-mounted web cannons, but after that disastrous usage, he dumps it.
* ''ComicBook/AllNewUltimates'': One of the watchdogs had one for using against the reinforcement cops, but work just as well against superheroes.

* PlayedForLaughs and a little Deconstructed in ''ComicBook/AlanFord'': the killer for hire "Bazooka" Joe is an average scrawny man who uses a large bazooka as his weapon of choice when it comes to assassination. It's incredibly deadly, but since he insists on training daily to not lose his edge he ends up spending all the money he gains in ammo.

* ''Film/{{Predator}}'': The [[http://world.guns.ru/machine/minigun-e.htm M134 Minigun]] carried by Jesse "The Body" Ventura's character in the movie, lovingly nicknamed "Old Painless." Ventura commented the weapon was like trying to fire a chainsaw.
* ''Film/{{Predators}}'' also gets a minigun, which Stans actually calls a "big ''fucking'' gun" when he was ranting about how everyone else (except for Edwin) has guns while he only has a shiv.
* The {{Franchise/Terminator}} ''smiles'' over the same minigun in ''Film/Terminator2JudgmentDay'', with the grip arrangement the only thing altered; [[KidHero John Connor]] notes, "Oh, yeah. It's definitely you." On set, Schwarzenegger was the only person who could physically carry the minigun by himself, and the studio actually had to dial back the minigun's blistering fire rate or else the recoil would have ''physically pushed Schwarzenegger back'' if he tried to fire it for more than a short burst.
* First subverted, and later used straight, in ''Film/MenInBlack'', when Agent J (Creator/WillSmith) asks for a really powerful gun, and Agent K (Creator/TommyLeeJones) gives him the Noisy Cricket -- a tiny, fragile-looking gun which turns out to be incredibly powerful and has enough recoil to knock J '''[[BlownAcrossTheRoom across the room]]'''. Towards the end, however, they both get some ''really'' big guns. In the [[AnimatedAdaptation Animated Series]], J eventually acquires a suppressor for the Noisy Cricket that reduces the recoil to where he can fire it without bowling himself over each time. This is also indicative of Agent J's status as perpetual rookie. The official supplemental information indicates the weapon has adjustable power settings that Agent J never found out about in the animated series. In the second film, J decides to have a little payback by giving K the gun while the Latter is amnesic. Unlike J, K handles the weapon better than J does.
** The supplemental information also makes clear that new agents are intentionally given the Noisy Cricket dialled UpToEleven to teach them about not seeing things as they once did.
* Bandied about with wanton abandon in ''Film/RaisingArizona'', by the evil biker Leonard Smalls and an assorted rogue's gallery of convenience-store clerks.
* The ''Film/{{Hitman}}'' film of the game series has this when Udre Belicoff goes GunsAkimbo with two [=RPDs=].
* Played completely straight in ''Film/TheMatrix'': Mouse, the wimpiest member of the team, similarly attempts to go GunsAkimbo with two drum-fed fully automatic shotguns. Sadly his attempt to provide MoreDakka does not result in any deaths at all except his own. Although the film has "lots of guns", they're mostly the type that can be concealed under a BadassLongcoat. Except for when Neo fires on the Agents holding Morpheus with a helicopter-mounted [[GatlingGood Minigun]]. (How Neo avoided cutting Morpheus to shreds when one of the Agents was ''standing behind him'' was [[FridgeLogic not mentioned]].)
* Early on in ''Film/KindergartenCop'', Creator/ArnoldSchwarzenegger wields a shotgun of unearthly power, able to blow (among other things) an entire sofa clean in half.
* Nearly all the Prawn weapons in ''Film/DistrictNine'' count as BFG's. One of their weapons is a LightningGun that kills people by making them explode. Another one [[BlownAcrossTheRoom can blow people through walls]], yet another one is a machine gun which can [[YourHeadASplode blow your head off]]. The most impressive one, though, is seen in the intro. It fires a grenade, which explodes in a big, black mushroom cloud that's surrounded by lightning bolts. All of these guns can be carried by a man. Koobus' men employ the man-made Mechem NTW-20 (a South-African anti-tank rifle), which is capable of taking down [[spoiler:the Prawns' mini-mech]].
* Ditto for most of the weapons in ''Film/{{Elysium}}''. Creator/NeillBlomkamp seems to love this trope.
** One of the weapons for the Civil Cooperation Bureau, who supplies the weaponry for the Elysium Defense Forces, is known as the Cousar Crowe Rifle. It's classified as an anti-material rifle, weights 40kg, and fires a .22 non-explosive round at extremely high-velocity. In order to utilize it, the operator has to wear an Exosuit, for not only recoil management reasons, but to provide the damn thing with additional power.
** Then we have its upgraded version, the Sky Sweeper, which gives the rifle the ability to serve as a man-portable air defense system and adds 15kg to the base rifle. It uses a smart surface-to-air grenade round with megaton+ explosive yields with a 400,000 km range -- enough to hit Earth while standing on the moon.
** Then there's the [=ChemRail=], which is a man-portable ''railgun'' system. It ''doesn't'' get nerfed by the movie, and gives the middle finger to concealment, cover, the laws of physics, and the (presumably reinforced for security reasons) walls of the armory before disintegrating a Mook.
** Importantly, the [=ChemRail=] is a very real concept design. It very much does exactly what it is shown doing. At 50+% of the speed of light, things like Concealment, Cover, Steel walls, and the Coriolis Effect (which would make most firearms on Elysium fire in peculiar arcs, like a nosedive into the firer's foot) simply cease to apply. Think .30 caliber nailgun with Electromagnetic assist.
** Kruger uses man-portable quad AA missile launcher, whose missiles are capable of intercepting (from behind, no less) spaceships traveling at 1.7 times escape velocity. The missile itself is going about ''45 times'' escape velocity, or 518 kilometers ''per second''

* Hellboy's latest weapon, "Big Baby" from ''Film/HellboyIITheGoldenArmy'', is a modified shotgun with an [[RuleOfCool insanely large]] six-shooter attachment. Deleted scenes reveal that the gun's gigantic cartridges have bottles drawn on the sides, with the message, "Suck on this" written on the shells.
-->'''Hellboy:''' ''You woke up "the baby!"''
* ''Film/{{Rambo|IV}}'' is big on this one. The fourth movie has a fifty-cal Browning M2 machine gun, typically used as an anti-aircraft weapon, used against infantry. Due to the movie's ''very'' LudicrousGibs nature, the results are pretty much what you'd expect - heads blow up like overripe melons, torsos are split in the middle, limbs are torn off, and blood rains everywhere[[note]]The best/worst part is, this is ''[[ShownTheirWork exactly]]'' what a .50 caliber machine gun will do to a human body[[/note]]. The big gun allows the good guys to win the fight - Rambo uses it to kill more baddies than the whole rebel army does with ordinary small arms.
* [[GeneralRipper General Jack D. Ripper]] in ''Film/DrStrangelove'' kept an [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M1919_Browning_machine_gun M1919A4 machine gun]] in his ''golf bag!''
* Creator/GuyRitchie likes to turn [=BFGs=] against their owners:
** In ''Film/LockStockAndTwoSmokingBarrels'', one of Dog's bandits brings a Bren light machine gun to hold up the pot growers. The gun is so loud that Dog threatens to kill him if he fires it again. Ultimately a girl grabs the gun and unloads the thing on Dog's crew. In slow-motion, the shells hitting the ground sound like oil drums.
** In ''Film/{{Snatch}}'', Vinnie brings a giant semi-auto shotgun to hold up a bookie. Sol remarks, "It's a fucking anti-aircraft gun!" Vinnie uses it to blow a hole in the wall and force the girl at the counter to lower the protective shield, but she ultimately ''snatches'' it and fires on the thieves before making her exit.
* The ''Film/{{Doom}}'' movie, where it's lampshaded by being called the "Bio-Force Gun." Of course, when The Rock's character gazes in awe at it before acquiring it, he says to himself, "Big... Fucking... Gun..."
* ''Film/SplitSecond'': "We need to get bigger guns. BIG Fucking GUNS!" These were the "Combat Shotguns" they checked out from the police armory- in actuality a pair of [[GatlingGood miniguns]] that used shotgun shells instead of bullets.
* The Annihilator 2000 in ''Film/BeverlyHillsCopIII'', which is not only a highly powerful machine gun/grenade launcher combo, but includes such additional features as -- and none of these are exaggerations -- a cell phone, radio, CD player, and ''microwave oven.''
* ''Tremors'' movies:
** In ''Film/{{Tremors}}'', the "Elephant Gun" used in the Rec Room. In reality, an 8 gauge side-by-side shotgun. Probably fired roughly a 2-ounce slug of hardened lead, if it was loaded for elephant. (Why wouldn't it be? [[CrazyPrepared You never know]] when you will face a war elephant.)
** In ''Film/Tremors2Aftershocks'', there's the Grizzly Big Boar, a single-shot .50 caliber rifle. Unfortunately, it was [[NiceJobBreakingItHero a bit too big]].
** ''Film/Tremors4TheLegendBegins'' goes that extra mile, featuring an 8-foot 4-inch, 94-pound punt gun with a two-inch ("A" Gauge) barrel: a RealLife giant boat-mounted shotgun, once used for the commercial hunting of whole ''flocks'' of ducks. It was actually a prop built for the film using a triple-loaded 12-gauge inside to produce a muzzle flash; the barrel's inside was sprayed with [=WD40=] prior to shooting to add more smoke. This is because apparently there are very few functional punt guns left in America today.

* In ''Film/{{Eraser}}'', Arnold (who else?) wields two railguns which can see through walls and fire bullets at near-lightspeed; he mostly fires them from the hip like machine guns. An enemy ColdSniper also uses one for most of the movie.
* ''Film/{{Transformers}}'': Megatron forms an enormous Fusion Cannon by slamming his hands together.
* In ''Film/RoboCop1987'' the bad guys get hold of some "Cobra assault cannons"[[note]] [[AKA47 Barrett M82s]] with a futuristic scope [[/note]] in order to take down the otherwise bulletproof cyborg hero. One of them test-fires one of the guns, blows up a car with one shot, and declares "I ''like'' it!"
* In ''Film/SupermanReturns'', one of the early {{Mooks}} that Superman faces is a bank robber with a tripod-mounted minigun with which he holds off the cops most spectacularly. Needless to say, his attempts to [[ShootingSuperman use it on Superman]] result in [[HilarityEnsues hilarity]].
* In the 1997 film, ''Film/TheJackal'', Creator/BruceWillis's character (The Jackal, who else?), has a custom-built BFG that he has to keep in the back of a car, controlling it remotely via a laptop. To test it, he [[spoiler: blows off Jack Black's hand with a single shot.]]
* ''Film/FourRooms'': "The Wrong Man" segment... someone with a large caliber handgun receives a phone call from another room in the hotel.
-->'''Sigfried''': "No needles here, kid. Just a '''big fucking gun'''."

* From ''Film/TheLivingDaylights'': After Bond empties his PPK's magazine at the BigBad, who was hiding behind facial body armor, the bad guy says "You've had your eight! Now have my EIGHTY!" Shortly afterwards, he proceeds to unload his assault rifle's magazine on full-auto in Bond's general direction.
* The Zorg ZF-1 in ''Film/TheFifthElement'' is a rather large "pod weapon system" [[SwissArmyGun with a laundry list of handy functions]] including seeking bullets, a flamethrower and a rocket launcher. Just don't forget to ask about the [[DontTouchItYouIdiot little red button.]]
* At the end of ''Film/Scarface1983'', Tony Montana famously pulls out an [=M16A1=] fitted with an M203. A common misunderstanding is that this gun was his "little friend;" actually, he was talking about the 40mm grenade he was firing. There was nothing little about the weapon.

* At the climax of ''Film/TheSpirit'', both Mortgenstern and [[Creator/SamuelLJackson The Octopus]] wield huge guns.
* ''Film/JudgeDredd'': For part of the second half of the film, Dredd ends up using [[spoiler:Fargo]]'s really huge shotgun.
* In ''Film/{{Jumanji}},'' [[EgomaniacHunter Van Pelt]] emerges armed with a huge lever-action elephant gun powerful enough to decimate a police cruiser all by itself. When he finds he can't get [[RealityEnsues any more ammo at the local gun store he is faced with a waiting period and forms to fill out for a replacement weapon.]] Undeterred, he offers a [[ScrewTheRulesIHaveMoney handful of gold coins]] to the owner and gets a super-advanced silenced semi-automatic shotgun even bigger than the elephant gun seconds later.
* ''Film/{{The Avengers|2012}}'':
** Coulson grabs a very large and untested gun made from the remains of [[ImportedAlienPhlebotinum the Destroyer]]. Then he shoots Loki with it.
--->'''Coulson:''' So that's what it does.
** Coulson gets to wield it against a bunch of cyborg super-soldiers in the Season One finale of ''Series/AgentsOfSHIELD''.
---> '''Coulson:''' [[CallBack I know what it does.]]
** Fitz uses it (now [[ICallItVera nicknamed "The Bambino"]]) in the episode [[Recap/AgentsOfSHIELDS2E12WhoYouReallyAre "Who You Really Are"]] against a Kree warrior.
* ''Film/DirtyHarry'' had Harry sniping at the Scorpio killer with a Winchester Model 70 chambered in .458 Winchester Magnum.
* In ''Film/StarTrekFirstContact'', Worf takes a REALLY BIG gun, shouts [[VerbThis "Assimilate this!"]], and blasts a group of Borg into oblivion.
* In ''Film/HanselAndGretelWitchHunters'', Hansel's Gun and several other toys.
* In ''Film/GIJoeRetaliation'' Roadblock is seen firing an 84 pound M2 .50cal machinegun, from the hip.
* In ''Film/StarTrekIntoDarkness'' John Harrison wields a huge Gatling phaser ''in one hand'' against the Klingons, [[GunsAkimbo with a normal-sized phaser rifle in the other]]. Not only does he take out two birds of prey with it, but he also uses it as a melee weapon. Justified: [[spoiler:He's really Khan Noonien Singh, a [[BioAugmentation genetically enhanced human]] with a greatly upgraded physique and hand-eye coordination.]]
* ''Film/TheLoneRanger'': Red's ivory leg gun.
* In ''Film/XMenDaysOfFuturePast'', Bishop wields one which he charges with his powers. On closer inspection, it appears to be ''connected to his circulatory system''.

* In ''Film/SuicideSquad2016'', Johnny Frost uses a helicopter-mounted Minigun to keep the ComicBook/SuicideSquad pinned down during [[spoiler: [[Comicbook/TheJoker the Joker's]] GunshipRescue of ComicBook/HarleyQuinn.]]

* ''Film/DenOfThieves'': When Merriman is stuck in the traffic jam and sees the deputies advancing on him from behind, he pulls out a SAW from the back of the truck and sets it up on the bonnet. The deputies are taking completely by surprise when he fires through his own vehicle to attack them, killing one of them in the first volley of shots.
* In ''Film/{{Dobermann}}'', Nat the Gypsy uses a FN Minimi Paratrooper with an M203 Grenade Launcher (which is squad automatic weapon, or SAW, for those playing along at home) to blast her way into the bank.

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

* Creator/NealStephenson's novel ''Literature/SnowCrash'' features "Reason,", a Gatling gun firing depleted-uranium slivers at incredibly high velocities. It's a little hard to move around because its nuclear power supply, utilizing radiothermal isotopes, uses an outboard heat-disperser that drops into the ocean. [[PostMortemOneLiner "See, I told you they'd listen to Reason."]]
* Neal Stephenson also features a Vickers machine gun in the World War II timeline of ''Literature/{{Cryptonomicon}}'', which is less futuristic than Reason because of the lower-tech setting, but noteworthy because of the (characteristic) pages-long description of its badassery.
* [[LockAndLoadMontage Piling up plasma cannons and other big guns]] in [[Creator/IainBanks Iain M. Banks]]'s ''Literature/UseOfWeapons'', Cheradinine Zakalwe says he'll need "FYT" weapons for a mission. His Culture handler says she doesn't recognise the term; it stands for "Fuck You Too".
* Another Banks novel, ''Against a Dark Background,'' has as a MacGuffin the "lazy gun". Among other peculiarities is the fact that it weighs three times as much when it's upside down as when it's right side up. Its effect on its targets tends 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 the [[Literature/TheExecutioner Executioner]] 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 ''Franchise/{{Star Wars|Legends}}'' novel ''[[Literature/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."

* The later Creator/DaleBrown books give users of the Tin Man PoweredArmor - and later still the [[ImpossiblyGracefulGiant CIDs]] - the ability to wield railguns.
* A more realistic depiction appears in Creator/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.
* ''Literature/{{Starworld}}'' by Creator/HarryHarrison. One of the Israeli commandos 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.
* Desmond Bagley's thriller ''The Tightrope Men'' features a punt gun: an extremely large shotgun generally 4 gauge and bigger, which were mounted to the sides of river barges and used to fire into large flocks of waterfowl to harvest many birds with a single discharge. One of the protagonists recognises it for what it is, and they actually use it in the appropriate way, blasting a mook with birdshot. One character remarks, "What weapon did you have on that punt? A bloody flamethrower?"
* Ferik Jurgen, aide of Literature/CiaphasCain ('''HERO OF THE IMPERIUM''') normally carries a melta, a squad support anti-tank weapon, as his personal weapon. [[ThereIsNoKillLikeOverkill And frequently uses it against unarmored infantry.]]
* In ''{{Literature/Malevil}}'', [[spoiler: Vilmain]] has a bazooka. Hardly the most massive weapon on this page, it is by the far the heaviest weapon in post-World War III rural France, were the only other weapons are hunting rifles and shotguns. While not powerful enough to really ''damage'' the protagonist's castle, feet-thick stone being greater than a few inches of steel, it's more than enough to destroy the gates and kill the defenders behind their fortifications.
* 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".

* In Creator/StephenHunt's SteamPunk ''Kingdom of Jackals'' series, various [[MechanicalLifeforms Steammen]] use large steam-powered cannons in battle. One character, an outcast former Steamman Knight in ''Secrets of the Fire Sea'', uses his BFG to hunt [[EverythingsBetterWithDinosaurs dinosaur-like monsters]].
* In Creator/JRRTolkien's ''Literature/FarmerGilesOfHam'', the title character has a blunderbuss. JRRT quotes the Oxford English Dictionary that it has been displaced in all 'civilized' countries, but that as Farmer Giles' country hadn't been civilized yet, it was the only gun around, and rare at that.
* ''Literature/DamselsOfDistress": Clementine utilizes a huge machine gun known as the Dragon's Breath that was designed to be used by infantrymen with the air of a tripod. Being a centaur, Clementine constructed an apparatus to secure the gun on back of the equine part of her body. Having four legs helps to brace herself and absorb the recoil.
* In ''Literature/{{Roadwork}}'', Dawes buys two heavy-caliber weapons early in the story, a .44 Magnum pistol and a .460 Weatherby rifle. The rifle (described by its seller as "a freaking anti-tank gun") has enough recoil to make his shoulder ache when he test-fires it, and both weapons do quite a number on the police cars that arrive on the morning of his eviction.
* ''Literature/BloodMeridian'': When the freebooters' camp is ambushed, the attackers rush into Judge Holden's tent to find him [[CoitusInterruptus naked]] and holding a Howitzer cannon. He levels the cannon and casually lights the fuse with his cigar.
* In ''Literature/TheGeneralSeries'', the [[ProudWarriorRace Skinners']] preferred personal weapons are always mentioned with emphasis on their size: two meters long, firing 15mm slugs, and capable of downing a sauroid or removing your head at a thousand meters.
* From Osprey Adventures, Mark Latham's ''Bug Hunts'' offers a curiously downplayed example. The background is based on ''Franchise/StarshipTroopers'' and ''Film/{{Aliens}}'', yet the standard gun is actually smaller than what we had up to the mid-1980s (it's a lightweight carbine that uses 4.7mm caseless rounds, it's only able to take down giant bugs because it uses [[AbnormalAmmo high-energy plasma shells]] and carries a lot of ammo). Even the smartgun analogue is downplayed, the SI-66X Heavy Auto-carbine is 6.6mm and greatly truncated with a lightweight casing. It's rather telling, that one heavy weapon is the Combi-carbine which is just the standard gun with either a flamer or a shotgun built in. The book plays it straight with the KT-E4 Man-portable Railgun and SI-242 "Devastator" Emplaced Rotary Cannon, which is a 4-barrelled Gatling gun that shoots 12mm plasma rounds.
* In the ''Literature/{{Gatling}}'' novels, Gatling totes a Light Maxim Gun that has been modified to allow him to fire it from the hip.
* ''Literature/CradleSeries'': Launchers are a {{Magitek}} weapon that puts a Striker technique inside an object, basically making it a simple magical gun. They're not particularly popular, but Fisher Gesha discovers ways to have different techniques resonate and enhance each other, creating weapons capable of damaging enemies far above their power level. And of course, all the extra magic and bindings need a lot of space, resulting in massive magical cannons bigger than the person using them.
* Zigzagged in late 2010s, cyberpunk series [=SINless=] by K.C. Alexander - the first book ''Necrotech'', the main character Riko laments her missing gun, the Mantis Industries Valiant 14 an assault rifle that uses 12mm rounds. Only 50 of these were made as a collaboration betwen Mantis (who never made weapons before) and rival [=TaberTek=]. These guns outclassed anything in their respective category, but never made it to large scale protection as [=TaberTek=] went bankrupt in a corporation war. Riko further upgraded it with laser sight and a heat baffler. While the Valiant 14 had the [[MoreDakka rate of fire]] and stopping power of a heavy machine gun, it's easily compact enough to fit in a carrying harness, making the gun about the size of a carbine instead of something much bigger.
* Creator/AlanDeanFoster has used this trope at least twice: in his ''Mad Amos'' short stories, the titular character's weapon of choice is a large caliber [=LeMat=], a Civil War era revolver with a built-in short-barrel shotgun, and in the ''Literature/HumanxCommonwealth'' novel ''The End of the Matter,'' Skua September uses a "Mark Twenty" blaster, designed to be vehicle- or tripod-mounted, as a hand weapon.
* ''Literature/TheEmperorsGift'': Inquisitor Jarlsdottyr's wields a custom Mk.Vb Godwyn pattern boltgun, a weapon designed for the more than 8-feet tall [[SuperSoldier Space Marines]] that is out of proportion, even for a tall woman such as the Inquisitor.

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* Natsuki Kruger in ''Anime/MaiOtome'' is a proud wielder of a BFG from HammerSpace (literal, in-story HammerSpace, accessed via AppliedPhlebotinum). It is at least 1.5 times as long as she is tall, if not longer.
* Miyu from the ''Manga/MaiOtome'' manga has a tri-barrelled triple [[GatlingGood gatling]] that is almost certainly a ''VideoGame/{{Xenosaga}}'' ShoutOut. Unfortunately, the enemies she attempts to use it on have DeflectorShields...

* ''Manga/MahouSenseiNegima'':

* ''Manga/{{Bleach}}''

* Guts' ArmCannon in ''{{Manga/Berserk}}'', which is exactly what it sounds like -- a small-sized gunpowder cannon built as a replacement for his left arm, which he typically unloads on demons at ''point-blank range''.

* In the second season of Anime/DarkerThanBlack, Suou can manifest a PTRD 14.5mm anti-tank rifle with her contractor ability. We see its effects on the human body in one episode. It is ''not'' pretty.

* ''Franchise/{{Black Rock Shooter}}'' wields the Rock Cannon, which is possibly longer than she is tall, and definitely as heavy. And it can get [[MoreDakka much]], ''[[ShapeShifterWeapon much]]'' [[WaveMotionGun bigger]]...

* In ''Comicbook/{{Supergirl}}''/''Comicbook/{{Batgirl}}'' story ''ComicBook/ElseworldsFinestSupergirlAndBatgirl'', Batgirl has a gun which looks like a miniature rocket launcher.
* In the first arc of Wildstorm's ''ComicBook/{{Gen 13}}'', the newly gen-active Fairchild picks up a massive laser/rifle type weapon she obtained from one of the fallen I/O ops to brandish in her fight to save her new comrades....though it seemed to be more of just a chance to see a hot spandex-wearing redhead brandish a gun considering she was now about 6'5 and superhumanly strong regardless.

* ''Comicbook/IncredibleHulk'':

* The main guns on the H.A.T.E. Aeromarine in Comicbook/{{Nextwave}}:

* ''Comicbook/BlueBeetle'': The third Blue Beetle (Jaime Reyes) has a scarab that specializes in these. We never get to see him use most of them because they're all lethal and for Jaime, killing's a big no-no. But seriously. One has theological implications. Just think about that.
* In ''Comicbook/{{Daredevil}}'', drugged-up SuperSoldier Nuke wields a freaking beast of a firearm affectionately called [[ICallItVera Betsy]] after his beloved childhood babysitter. Betsy is titanic in size and power and even sports a kill counter so Nuke's handlers can monitor his results.

* ''Comicbook/{{Empowered}}'' has [=ThugBoy=]'s 50-cal SniperRifle, although it gets destroyed during a fight. And the B.F.Gunnaz who are named after this trope.

* The comic adaptation shipped in at least one special edition of ''Videogame/{{Doom}}'' had the SpaceMarine call the BFG 9000 "the Holy Grail of Firepower" and had it found on top of a plinth like a relic.

* ''Manga/CellsAtWorkBaby'': Immunoglobulin G ([=IgG=]), an antibody the baby obtains from the mother, is portrayed as a ''massive'' mounted artillery that effortlessly tears through an entire group of dangerous ''S. aureus'' bacteria. It's so big, it looks more like a vehicle than a weapon at first.

** ''TabletopGame/{{Warhammer 40000}}'':

* ''TableTopGame/{{Paranoia}}'' has a couple of 'em:

* ''{{TabletopGame/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. Consequently, roughly half the guns in the Warlords of Russia World Book weigh around a hundred pounds or more.

* ''WebComic/AxeCop'' has Wexter, a [[RuleOfCool tyrannosaurus rex with [=BFGs=] for arms.]]

* In ''{{Webcomic/tinyraygun}}'', the Geckoid species' culture and industry pretty much revolve around producing and owning these. Of course, all that industrialization resulted in oxygen masks becoming their second-largest industry...

** The [[http://nerf.wikia.com/wiki/Vulcan_EBF-25 Vulcan]] is a fully automatic tripod-mounted belt-fed blaster that looks like an HK MG-4, firing the smaller Elite Darts. It is, no joke, a ''Light LMG.'' Its smaller brother, the [[http://nerf.wikia.com/wiki/Stampede_ECS Stampede]], is an automatic magazine-fed blaster, closer to an M249 SAW.

** The supplemental information also makes clear that new agents are intentionally given the Noisy Cricket dialed UpToEleven to teach them about not seeing things as they once did.

* ''[[FanFic/SovereignGFCOrigins Origins]]'', a ''Franchise/MassEffect''[=/=]''Franchise/StarWars''[[spoiler:[=/=]''[=Borderlands=]''[=/=]''[=Halo=]'']] MassiveMultiplayerCrossover, has two that stand out. First is a [[GatlingGood Gatling gun]] made out of ''Widow sniper rifles''. It only has three barrels, but it shreds virtually anything and has a special super-sized heatsink to keep up a high rate of fire. The other is essentially portable artillery useable by a character due to having a mechanical arm. Even then, he has to brace in a stationary position in order to fire it.

** In "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS24E4 Dragonfire]]", Kane's men gear up with some in preparation for the "ANT hunt".

* Mami Tomoe from ''Anime/PuellaMagiMadokaMagica'' wields conjured matchlock rifles as her WeaponOfChoice, and her [[FinishingMove Tiro Finale]] gun is ''huge''.

** There are also a few EnergyWeapon here and there. A model in one sourcebook has an availability rating of "Good Luck With That".

** There are also a few FrickinLaserBeams here and there. A model in one sourcebook has an availability rating of "Good Luck With That".