History Main / ChestBlaster

** Mongul at one time shot lasers out of his chest (though he seems to have dropped those in favor of ComboPllatterPowers)

** Mongul at one time shot lasers out of his chest (though he seems to have dropped those in favor of a GreenLanternRing)

* While most characters in the franchise are not robotic or cybernetic, the nature of [[KiManipulation ki powers]] in {{Franchise/DragonBall}} allows them to do this anyway, although it's employed less often than blasts from the hands or eyes. Garlic Jr. once used such an attack that the dub referred to as a [[IncrediblyLamePun "Belly Plant"]].

* In Part 2 of ''Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventure'', after Stroheim becomes a cyborg, he uses a machine gun mounted in his stomach. Which for some reason requires him to take an amazingly flamboyant pose when he fires it.

One of the great signature SuperRobot weapons, after the RocketPunch. The Chest Blaster is a heavy weapon, ranging from {{BFG}} to WaveMotionGun in power, built into the chest of a HumongousMecha. Usually requiring little more than an AssKickingPose and a [[CallingYourAttacks vocal command]] to activate.

A SuperTrope to TorpedoTits. Compare BreathWeapon, EyeBeams, PsiBlast and ShoulderCannon. Not to be confused with ChestBurster.

* In ''Manga/TalesOfWeddingRings'', Amber the {{Magitek}} RobotGirl has a diamond-shaped depression in her chest which can fire powerful laser beams.

* Torso-mounted weapons are commonplace in ''TabletopGame/BattleTech''. Arm-mounted ones enjoy an accuracy bonus and wider firing arcs for obvious reasons (though not as ''much'' wider as one might think since the torso itself can be twisted sideways to some extent), but the side torsos in particular have more free room to actually install equipment in. No mech does it to quite the same extent as the [[http://www.sarna.net/wiki/File:Fafnir_FMLA.jpg Fafnir]], which mounts *two* 18 ton Heavy Gauss Rifles, one on each side of its chest.

* The original [[Franchise/{{Godzilla}} Mechagodzilla]] from ''Film/GodzillaVsMechagodzilla'' was able to fire an electric current from its chest. [[Film/GodzillaAgainstMechagodzilla The Millenium series Mechagodzilla]], Kiryu, had an [[FreezeRay Absolute Zero Cannon]] in his. In ''[[Film/GodzillaTokyoSOS Tokyo SOS]]'' it was replaced by three Hyper Maser guns. [[Film/GodzillaVsSpacegodzilla MOGUERA]] has its strongest energy weapon, the Plasma Maser, mounted in its chest behind protective doors.

* Film/{{Gamera}}, Friend to All Children and [[DestructiveSaviour long-time benefactor to the construction industry]], has been known to fire a plasma beam from his chest on occasion. Since he flies by retracting into his shell and projecting plasma from at least five other orifices, this means that about the only place you can't be plasma'd by Gamera if he's pissed off at you is by being glued to the back of his shell.

* ''VideoGame/ChronoTrigger'' has, in the next-to-last battle against Lavos, the "Doors of Doom" attack. Most people refer to them as [[FanNickname "Titty Lasers" or "Nipple Beams"]].

* Optimus Primal from ''WesternAnimation/BeastWars'' had a weapon like this in two of his many bodies. His "Optimal Optimus" form was equipped with a pair of huge, laser-sight equipped cannons that dramatically unfurled from his chest, while his technorganic body from ''Beast Machines'' fired energy... shuriken... thingies from a slot-like opening.

* The heroes of Pale Force (played by Jim Gaffigan and Conan O'Brien) have nipple beams as one of their attacks.

* Unicron of ''Anime/TransformersArmada'' has a minicon-powered cannon in the chest of his Supreme toy. Presumably he has the same cannon in the show. Does he use it to cook the planets he is about to eat? A few others have smaller guns on their chests.
** In the ''Energon'' show, it creates a suction-vortex-thing that causes planets to break up and be sucked in, rather than him actually physically chewing and swallowing planets with his mouth (which was less {{Narm}}ful in TheEighties.) Similar idea to ''Revenge of the Fallen'' Devastator's Vortex Grinder, only waaaaaay bigger.
** Other notable Transformers examples include the [[Film/{{Transformers}} 2007 movie line's]] Wreckage, Generation 1's Fortress Maximus and all designs derived from him, and both the [[Franchise/TransformersGeneration1 original]] and ''WesternAnimation/TransformersAnimated'' versions of Warpath, who both have an entire tank turret for a torso. A more obscure but extremely literal example would be the little-known Action Master Treadshot...whose design was based on a transforming robot toy who had the barrel and cylinder of a revolver sticking out of his chest.

* Post-mutation Waspinator from ''WesternAnimation/TransformersAnimated'' fires his sting-beams from the, uh, vestigial arms hanging off of his robot mode chest.
** And Swindle has a retractable [[GatlingGood gatling gun]] in his stomach among his many armaments.
** The [[ComicBookAdaptation comics]] and [[MerchandiseDriven toyline]] also gave us Wreckage, Swindle, Camshaft, and their gut-guns.

A SuperTrope to TorpedoTits. Compare BreathWeapon, EyeBeams and PsiBlast. Not to be confused with ChestBurster.

* In ''Franchise/{{Digimon}}''; we get [[Anime/DigimonAdventure MetalGreymon's Giga Blaster]] and [[Anime/DigimonAdventure2020 Giga Storm]], [[Anime/DigimonAdventure02 Imperialdramon Fighter Mode's]] Giga Crusher, and [[Anime/DigimonTamers WarGrowlmon's]] Atomic Blaster, [[Anime/DigimonFusion Shoutmon X3's]] Three Victorize, [[Anime/DigimonUniverseApplimonsters Globemon's Glanz Gazer]], and that's just from the lead characters' Digimon. It's a pretty common type of attack.

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* The title character in ''WesternAnimation/TheIronGiant'' has one of these (in addition to [[WalkingArmory half a dozen other built- in weapons)]] that shoots [[EnergyBall Energy Balls]] powerful enough to vaporize a destroyer fleet. Fortunately he's convinced not to just in the nick of time.
* In ''WesternAnimation/TheSpongebobSquarepantsMovie'', in order to get Spongebob, Patrick and King Neptune's Crown to Bikini Bottom in time, Creator/DavidHasselhoff uses his pecs to launch them down like a cannon, complete with a disembodied voice treating the event like a rocket lifting off.

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** In [[{{Film/TheAvengers2012}} The Avengers]], after [[spoiler: getting supercharged by a lightning bolt from Thor, he uses it in conjuction with a double repulsor attack to blast Thor in retaliation]].

* In ''Film/XMenFirstClass'', Havok’s suit is designed to focus his energy and discharge it from a device in his chest. By ''Film/XMenDaysOfFuturePast'', he no longer needs the suit. ''Film/XMenApocalypse'' has it [[spoiler:causing his death, as when he tries to strike Apocalypse it ends up destroying a generator, an explosion that levels the X-Mansion.]]

** Gipsy Danger's chest-mounted nuclear vortex turbine vents the contents of its dual core nuclear reactor. This may or may not be intended as a weapon, but there's no doubting its effectiveness as one. [[spoiler: Also doubles as an emergency thruster, useful for say slowing suborbital re-entry.]]
** Cherno Alpha's nuclear tower looking head has two turbines under it, on CA's shoulders, that can spray incendiary fuel to roast enemies.

** [[Recap/DoctorWho2007CSVoyageOfTheDamned "Voyage of the Damned"]]: {{Cyborg}} [[spoiler:Bannakaffalatta]] has an {{EMP}} unit installed in his chest, which he uses to take out several of the robot angels pursuing everyone at the cost of [[HeroicSacrifice his own life]].

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* In ''Franchise/{{Digimon}}''; we get [[Anime/DigimonAdventure MetalGreymon's]] Giga Blaster and Andromon's Gatling Missile, [[Anime/DigimonAdventure02 Imperialdramon Fighter Mode's]] Giga Crusher, and [[Anime/DigimonTamers WarGrowlmon's]] Atomic Blaster, and probably others.

* As a ShoutOut to ''Xenosaga'', ''VideoGame/{{Xenoblade}}'' has [[spoiler:Fiora's]] Final Cross art, which is almost identical in appearance, and likewise performed by a [[spoiler:RobotGirl]]

* In ''Film/XMenFirstClass'', Havok’s suit is designed to focus his energy and discharge it from a device in his chest. By ''Film/XMenDaysOfFuturePast'', he no longer needs the suit. ''Film/XMenApocalypse'' has it [[spoiler:causing his death, as destroying Cerebro with his beams also ignites some combustibles in the X-Mansion's underground.]]

* In ''Film/XMenFirstClass'', Havok’s suit is designed to focus his energy and discharge it from a device in his chest. By ''Film/XMenDaysOfFuturePast'', he no longer needs the suit.

* ''[[WesternAnimation/COPSAnimatedSeries C.O.P.S.]]'' featured Buttons [=McBoomBoom=], a {{cyborg}} gangster who concealed a pair of machine guns in his chest. He could not conceal the fact that he has ''the greatest name in all of fiction.''

* ''[[WesternAnimation/{{COPS}} C.O.P.S.]]'' featured Buttons [=McBoomBoom=], who concealed a pair of machine guns in his chest. He could not conceal the fact that he has ''the greatest name in all of fiction.''

** Torso weapons also have the advantage that the torso (or the central piece anyway) is usually [[SubsystemDamage the last piece of a 'mech to go]] before the 'mech is put out of action (barring lucky shots to the head or legs). [[ImplacableMan So-called "zombie 'mechs"]] commonly mount energy weapons in their center torso, allowing them to keep firing even as they're reduced to nothing but a torso on legs.