History Main / BFG

* ''{{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!''

** The Requiem Blaster from ''[[Anime/TransformersArmada Armada]]'', which changes hands a couple times over the course of the series.

* ''VideoGame/MarvelVsCapcom''. Say it with me...[[IronMan PROTON CANNON!!!]]

* 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.]]

** 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 ''Film/StarTrekIntoDarkness'' John Harrison wields one ''in one hand'' against the Klingons; not only does he take out two patrol ships with it, [[{{Badass}} he also uses it as a melee weapon]].

* ''MarvelVsCapcom''. Say it with me...[[IronMan PROTON CANNON!!!]]

* ''Film/{{Elysium}}'':
** 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.
** 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''

* Howard the Duck recently used a gun actually named the BFG when going zombie-hunting across the multiverse.

* [[LockAndLoadMontage Piling up plasma cannons and other big guns]] in [[TheCulture Iain M. Banks's]] ''Use of Weapons'', 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".

* One of ''Literature/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.

* The Annihilator 2000 in ''BeverlyHillsCop III'', which is not only a highly powerful rail gun, but includes such additional features as -- and none of these are exaggerations -- a cell phone, radio, CD player, and ''microwave oven.''

* In the [[TheWestern western]] ''{{Appaloosa}}'', Viggo Mortensen's character carries a mammoth 8-gauge shotgun around with him at all times. The gun weighed 11 lbs and was 50 inches long. In the behind the scenes footage, the filmmakers described it as a punt gun, mounted to the sides of riverbarges and fired into large flocks of birds. In reality, 8-gauge shotguns would be considered ''too small'' to be a punt gun.

* Near the end of ''BlackHawkDown'' some militia show up with an SPG-9 recoilless rifle, which they menace some US soldiers with; a group duly take control of it, use it and then disable it.

* As [[http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/c/c2/Dogs_of_war_ver2.jpg the poster]] makes clear, the real star of ''FilmTheDogsOfWar'' is a giant 18 round grenade launcher; the supporting cast includes some guy named ChristopherWalken. [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manville_gun It really exists]], though it fires shotgun shells rather than grenades.

** In ''FilmLockStockAndTwoSmokingBarrels'', 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.

* In ''[[WesternAnimation/{{Thundercats 2011}} [=ThunderCats (2011)=]]]''

** 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.

* ''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]].

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* While there is no specific BFG in the movie, ''[[http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0105459/ Split Second]]'' might have been the first to refer to them as such. "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.
* There's at least one older example - ''WesternAnimation/FritzTheCat'' picks up a cop's sidearm and yells "Whoa! This is a Big Fucking Gun!" He then fires it a couple of times [[IJustShotMarvinInTheFace at random around the apartment]], but considering everyone in the room is either stoned or in the middle of an orgy, not much is made of this.

** To make it more crazy people have made machine gun MIRV versions that fire megaton nukes they murder everything.

* In ''VideoGame/MetroidOtherM'', Anthony's plasma gun. Nuff' said.

* The [[http://world.guns.ru/machine/minigun-e.htm M134 Minigun]] carried by Jesse "The Body" Ventura's character in the movie ''Film/{{Predator}}'', 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.

* 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 '''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.

* ''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 T2, 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.

* Early on in ''FilmKindergartenCop'', Creator/ArnoldSchwarzenegger wields a shotgun of unearthly power, able to blow (among other things) an entire sofa clean in half.

* Early on in ''KindergartenCop'', ArnoldSchwarzenegger wields a shotgun of unearthly power, able to blow (among other things) an entire sofa clean in half.

** In ''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 ''{{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.

* As [[http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/c/c2/Dogs_of_war_ver2.jpg the poster]] makes clear, the real star of ''TheDogsOfWar'' is a giant 18 round grenade launcher; the supporting cast includes some guy named ChristopherWalken. [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manville_gun It really exists]], though it fires shotgun shells rather than grenades.

*** Another prototype EnergyWeapon, the [[LamePun Hi-NRG]] Plasma Lance. It was suggested that the weapon itself may be a ShoutOut to ''Quake'', which featured a plasma rifle with a similar design. Reinforced by the fact that the description for the weapon mentions that it sometimes completely vaporizes targets, which it does not actually do in ''Human Revolution'', but did ''very'' often in ''Quake''.