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* ''TabletopGame/BattleTech'' usually averts this trope, but it has shown up a few times. For example, there's the ''Kingfisher'', a 90 ton assault mech that's known for how difficult to kill it is. There are also a number of recon mechs that fall into this, like the Dragonfly, Vixen, and Jackalope, all of which are fairly powerful for their sizes.

** Humpty Dumpty (yes, the one in the nursery rhyme) was originally a cannon in the English Civil War!

Compare MaximumFunChamber, BlackComedy.

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* In ''Anime/MagicalGirlLyricalNanohaAs''.

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* During the battle to retake her home village from Akatsuki in ''Fanfic/SonOfTheSannin'', Fu begins using a felled tree trunk as a TelephonePolearm and ultimately decides to keep it as her personal weapon of choice. She calls it "Arbor-chan".

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* In ''WesternAnimation/OpenSeason'', [=McSqueezy=] blows up a hunter's truck with a bomb improvised from a propane tank. He calls it Mr. Happy.

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* ''WebVideo/CriticalRole'': During the second campaign, Nott develops an improvised explosive in the form of a simple barrel of gunpowder, meant to be thrown at an enemy and then ignited by a flaming arrow of one of Caleb's Fire Bolts. She names it "Fluffernutter".

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* One of the anti-aircraft guns used on US naval ships was a 1.1 inch quad gun nicknamed "The Chicago Piano", as a humorous nod since the the Thompson M1 submachinegun (AKA Tommy-gun). That weapon was also known as the "Chicago Typewriter" for it's chattering report and stereotypical use in [=1920s=] and [=30s=] gang violence in Chicago. Evidently the nickname was chosen to mean "bigger than a Tommy-gun".

** The patron saint of artillery is a woman - St Barbara. More religious gunners in older times used to mount icons of the saint on the guns they served.

** The titular character's magic staff is named "Raising Heart." Kinda tame and cute sounding compared to the other magical devices in the show, like [[BladeOnAStick Bardiche]] or [[DropTheHammer Graf Eisen]]. Said staff is also capable of raining [[BeamSpam pink beams of doom]] and [[WaveMotionGun a beam that could level cities.]]

* One of the anti-aircraft guns used on US naval ships was a 1.1 inch quad gun nicknamed "The Chicago Piano." Prior to that, "Chicago Piano" was a nickname for the Thompson submachine gun, AKA the Tommy-gun.
** Or maybe, since the Tommy-gun is also known as "Chicago typewriter", the nickname was chosen to mean "bigger than a Tommy-gun".
** The British equivalent was called the "Pom-pom", after the noise it made when fired, with four or eight barrels to a turret.

* Speaking of the Vietnam War, there's the famous Bell HU-1 helicopters. Officially known as the "Iroquois" but better known by aviators and the US military as the "Huey".

* ''Film/YouOnlyLiveTwice'': "Little Nellie" is a compact autogyro which travels light but comes armed to the teeth and is fully capable of outflying and outfighting ''four' of S.P.E.C.T.R.E's armed helicopters.

* ''Film/YouOnlyLiveTwice'': Little Nellie, a compact autogyro which travels light but comes armed to the teeth.

** There is a very large medieval bombard known as Mons Meg which is kept at Edinburgh Castle. Mons refers to the location of one of the early testing sites; Wiki/TheOtherWiki is not entirely sure where the name Meg came from.

* The TropeNamer is the "Bouncing Betty". Wiki/TheOtherWiki [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S-mine should bring you up to speed...]]

* ''Azuki'' Nagamitsu ("Red Bean" Nagamitsu) is an AbsurdlySharpBlade that allegedly split in half a red bean that got too close to the cutting edge, hence the name.

** Yet another [[UpToEleven absurdly-huge]] German gun was called Dora.