History Main / BadassBandolier

* The ''chokha'' is a traditional coat for [[UsefulNotes/TheCaucasus Caucasians]] (UsefulNotes/{{Georgia|Caucasus}}ns, Chechens etc) and UsefulNotes/{{Cossacks}} from South-West UsefulNotes/{{Russia}} (Kuban and Terek in particular) with the cartridge loops built into it (originally for powder cartridges).

** Then-''Major'' Ocelot didn't start out wearing one in ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolid3'', since he was using a magazine-fed pistol at the start, but after Naked Snake suggests his technique is more suited to revolvers, the Major starts wearing one to go with his Single Action Army pistols.

Bandoliers are belts that hold ammunition for CoolGuns, grenades, or just weapons in general (or even mundane items). They also give off [[RuleOfCool coolness and badassery]] when worn.

* The ''chokha'' is a traditional coat for [[UsefulNotes/TheCaucasus Caucasians]] (UsefulNotes/{{Georgia|Caucasus}}ns, Chechens etc) and UsefulNotes/{{Cossacks}} from Southern UsefulNotes/{{Russia}} (Kuban and Terek in particular) with the cartridge loops built into it (originally for powder cartridges).

In Wild West settings, {{Bandito}}s will stereotypically be wearing them, in emulation of Pancho Villa.

* The ''chokha'' is a traditional coat of the [[UsefulNotes/TheCaucasus Caucasians]] and UsefulNotes/{{Cossacks}} from Southern UsefulNotes/{{Russia}} (Kuban and Terek in particular) with the cartridge loops built into it (originally for powder cartridges).

* This trope was actually common during the Yugoslav Wars, as seen on several video footages from that time.
* The ''chokha'' is a traditional coat of the [[UsefulNotes/TheCaucasus Caucasians]] and UsefulNotes/{{Cossacks}} from Southern UsefulNotes/{{Russia}} with the cartridge loops built into it (originally for powder cartridges).

* The ''chokha'' is a traditional coat of the Caucasians with the cartridge loops built into it.

* The Steam version of ''VideoGame/MondayNightCombat'' participated in a costume crossover deal with ''VideoGame/TeamFortress2''.Gamers who bought MNC before February 1st got a bunch of crossover gear the characters could wear. The Gunner's gear was the Heavy's bandolier.

* ''VideoGame/{{Prototype2}}'' protagonist James Heller wears one full of shotgun shells before his ViralTransformation. Strange, considering that he never uses a shotgun (preferring a giant knife instead) and there aren't shotguns in the game to begin with.

* ''Film/LoneHero'': During his LockAndLoad sequence as he arms up in preparation for facing the Iron Bandits, John straps a pair of bandoleers across his chest, filled with cartridges for his Colt Peacemakers. And, unusually for this trope, he is actually seen reloading his pistols from the bandoleers during the course of the fight.

* Wearing two bandoliers of bullets in an "X" across the body became Pancho Villa's trademark.
* Bandoliers are [[http://hoboken411.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/12/mexican-bandolier-hoboken-2.jpg somewhat iconic]] for Mexican fighters in general.

* Likewise in ''Film/TheLastStand'' when someone fires a FlarePistol at a mook with a bandolier of grenades.
* This backfires (literally) in the Australian film ''Film/TheLighthorsemen'' (1987) when a Turkish bullet strikes an ammunition pouch on the bandolier worn across the chest of a Light Horse soldier, causing all the other pouches to spontaneously detonate.

* In the non-fiction [=WW2=] story ''The Greatest Escape'', an Australian POW makes to contact with the Slovakian partisans to arrange the escape of his colleagues, and describes them as looking like something out of ''Theater/TheMaidOfTheMountains''. They realise what he's talking about on encountering the partisans, all of whom are weighed down with bandoliers of ammunition and explosives as they don't have a supply train to carry them.

** Jackson Lake wears one made of Cyberman "info stamps" in [[Recap/DoctorWhoS30E14TheNextDoctor "The Next Doctor"]].
** The War Doctor is depicted wearing one of these, but [[DoesntLikeGuns rather than using it to carry ammunition]] it only holds his sonic screwdriver. [[Recap/DoctorWho50thPrequelTheNightOfTheDoctor "The Night of the Doctor"]] reveals before being worn by the War Doctor, the bandolier [[TragicKeepsake belonged]] to a prospective companion, who upon discovering the Eighth Doctor was a [[TheDreaded Time Lord]] elected to die [[TakeMyHand rather than be saved]].

* The Bullet Farmer from ''Film/MadMaxFuryRoad'' wears an outfit comprised of nothing ''but'' bandoliers filled with rounds, in a conspicuous display of his wealth in the ScavengerWorld. Must be [[ImpracticallyFancyOutfit rather hot in the desert though]].

* Agent Blue [[spoiler: (Agent Florida/Butch Flowers)]] of Project Freelancer sports one in ''Machinima/RedVsBlue''.

** Darktan, the head of the Trap Squad in ''Literature/TheAmazingMauriceAndHisEducatedRodents'', wears bandoliers to store his trap-disarming tools. This is one of two exceptions to the rule that rats don't wear clothes, the other being Sardines' NiceHat.

* The Good Hunter from ''Fanfic/TheNightUnfurls'' has a bandolier of throwing knives that hangs over his left shoulder. Goes on to show that he is [[GeniusBruiser capable]] of prioritising stealth over [[WhenAllYouHaveIsAHammer "chop-chop-chop"]] [[CombatPragmatist if necessary]].

* In ''Film/CaptainAmericaTheFirstAvenger'', ComicBook/HowlingCommandos machine-gunner Gabe Jones - who used a 30 pound (plus ammo) Browning M1919 medium machine gun as his main weapon, solo, even while running through the woods under a volley of mortars - is seen with a single bandolier wrapped around him. ComicBook/CaptainAmerica himself is seen sporting the Pancho Villa version in a propaganda movie, despite him using a drum-magazine Tommy gun. Justified in that these are just props and the in-universe filmmakers probably didn't care.

* ''Film/StTrinians'' (2009): a FunnyBackgroundEvent has the girls being checked by [[MetalDetectorCheckpoint metal detector]] as they arrive for the first day of school; one of them is wearing crossed machine-gun belts under her jacket.

* As ComicBook/RedRobin, Tim traded in most of the bulky pouches from his utility belt as [[ComicBook/RobinSeries Robin]] for a set of bandoliers with compressed canisters on them to carry around his gear. At least those elements of his gear that ''can'' be compressed.

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