History Main / GatlingGood

The Gatling gun is likely to function as a significantly more powerful version of a regular machine gun, requiring hulking mountains of muscle to move them, or some kind of vehicle, plane or boat mount. If one gets used, you can expect it to give a nice steady buzz as it spews a constant stream of death.

Modern super-fast Gatling guns actually make a strange, deafening buzzing sound in the bass register (5,000 tiny explosions per minute equals 83.3Hz, similar to the sound of a very large truck engine). Some of them, like the Phalanx anti-missile cannon, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cgpQBZF2sZQ sound even weirder,]][[note]] best equivalents are an electric lawnmower/trimmer or a high-yield fan [[/note]] because they start at a lower rate of fire and then spin up to a higher one in distinct steps (in such designs they do not actually begin spinning the barrels until it fires the first shot and they require a moment to come up to speed), giving two or more separate "notes". Instead of a DramaticGunCock, the sign that a Gatling is preparing to fire tends to be the sound of it spinning up unless we're talking about Russian designs that historically tend to be autonomously driven and pneumatically cocked, so only start to spin ''after'' the first shot was fired.

* [[UsefulNotes/NazisWithGnarlyWeapons Germany]] was experimenting with multi-barrelled rotating-barrel weapons, intended to be deployed for anti-aircraft use. While some feasible working prototypes had been created by 1945, including one capable of being carried and used by one man, further development and actual combat use was timed out by the end of the war in May 1945.

** Minor villain Gattling wears a battle suit with twin Gatling-style machine guns mounted on each forearm. Yes, he was created in [[UsefulNotes/TheDarkAgeOfComicBooks the 1990s]].

* ''Deep Rising'' had the highly fictional M1-L1 Triple-Pulse Rifle, which is a high tech assault rifle with 5 barrels and [[BottomlessMagazines 1000 rounds]] of bullets to work with. Unfortunately the mercenaries using these are up against a [[KrakeAndLeviathan Kraken-like]] {{Kaiju}}.

* ''Deep Rising'' had the highly fictional M1-L1 Triple-Pulse Rifle, which is a high tech assault rifle with 5 barrels and [[BottomlessMagazines 1000 rounds]] of bullets to work with. Unfortunately the mercenaries using these are up against a {{Kraken}}-like {{Kaiju}}.

** Minor villain Gattling wears a battle suit with twin Gatling-style machine guns mounted on each forearm. Yes, he a was created in [[UsefulNotes/TheDarkAgeOfComicBooks the 1990s]].

** In ''ComicBook/JonahHex2005'', Hex kills a train-robbing outlaw who had alluded capture from him for over a decade with Gatling gun at point blank range.

* Jonah uses a small, man-portable Gatling gun at several points during ''Film/JonahHex''.

* Novic from ''Manhwa/{{Priest}}'' carries around a Gatling gun. He doesn't seem to have any trouble firing it from the hip.

* ComicBook/RocketRaccoon's preferred weapon in the recent ''ComicBook/AnnihilationConquest'' miniseries and new ''ComicBook/GuardiansOfTheGalaxy'' ongoing is a Gatling gun bigger than he is. Opinions are divided on whether to call it proof of [[SuperStrength super-Procyon strength]] on Rocket's part or chalk it up to RuleOfCool.
* In ''ComicBook/TheAvengers'', during the faux Vampire War, the heavily armed and armored Shadow Colonel (actually Xarus, a son of Dracula) carried around a large minigun that chewed through vampires and even posed a threat to a number of the Avengers.
* The ''Comicbook/{{Doom}}'' comic has Doomguy abandoning his highly-respected shotgun for this piece of ordnance.

* The ''Knightquest'' segment of ''ComicBook/{{Knightfall}}'' would see Azrael's final Batsuit upgrade, trading the cape for wings, come about due to Gunhawk firing a minigun at him.

* Minor Franchise/MarvelUniverse villain Gattling wears a battle suit with twin Gatling-style machine guns mounted on each forearm. Yes, he's a villain created in the '90s.
* ComicBook/ThePunisher foe Rapido has a Gatling ArmCannon.
* Comicbook/WarMachine typically [[ShoulderCannon carries one of these on his left shoulder]]. With his current ability to integrate external technology into his armor, he can (and often does) add more.

* In ''ComicBook/JonahHex2005'', Hex kills a train-robbing outlaw who had alluded capture from him for over a decade with Gatling gun at point blank range.

* ''Tabletopgame/{{GURPS}}'':
** ''High-Tech'' and some associated books (covering Victorian-through-to-modern weapons) have details for historical and real-world Gatling guns, including the Minigun. Carrying most of them is almost impossible for most characters [[AwesomeButImpractical because they are too heavy.]] However, in a nod to cinema, there is a technically man-portable version, with proper grips, batteries, and an ammo backpack. It still requires very high strength and runs out of ammo very quickly.

** Ultratech has Gatling versions of just about every firearms type it covers which are at the low end of the high power weapons but have four times the rate of fire and about twice as many shots.

* Minor MarvelUniverse villain Gattling wears a battle suit with twin Gatling-style machine guns mounted on each forearm. Yes, he's a villain created in the '90s.

* Spoofed in ''Film/CarryOnUpTheKhyber''. PVT Widdle and Sgt Maj [=MacNutt=] turn a hand-cranked Gatling-type on the horde of rampaging Burpers, only for it to play music instead. They open the drum magazine [[RuleOfFunny to discover a gramophone record]].

** ''Film/Batman1989'', where the Batwing had twin Gatling guns, used to [[ATeamFiring completely fail to hit]] ComicBook/TheJoker.
** ''Film/BatmanReturns'' had an organ grinder with a minigun in his organ, which he used in the Red Triangle's terror campaign at the tree lighting ceremony.
** The first car chase in ''Film/BatmanForever'': The Batmobile is chased by a pair of '50 Buick Roadmasters, each with two miniguns mounted on the hood. Not that they ever reach real Gatling fire rates, let alone do any halfway realistic damage to anything.

* The [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A_x_qktLEO0 Tippmann]] Gatling Gun is chambered for [=.22LR=], a relatively small and low-powered round. It's honestly more of a range toy than a real weapon, and is legally not an automatic weapon since it is hand-cranked.

* All robots seem to have rotary guns in the ''Film/{{Transformers}}'' movie. Including ones made from mobile phones. In the first movie, you also see the famous A-10 firing its GAU-8 Avenger at Scorponok. This was a rare moment of pyrotechnic understatement for Michael Bay. A burst from an Avenger gun is less of a line of pew-pews as seen in the movie, and more like God throwing a fistful of bullets with all his might.

* [[RuleOfCool Just for the sake of coolness]], the Fenix [=TK45=] flashlight was [[https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcT6UADh-fImgZ_tBTk8mj2Bl_Y7oURj-8m_ZQ&usqp=CAU styled after a tri-barreled Gatling, with three separate bezels with their own emitters standing in for the barrels.]] It even "rotates" in a fashion: if it's turned on in the lowest output mode, only one of the three bezels lights up, and they cycle between themselves as the torch is turned off then on again.