History Main / GatlingGood

** Franchise/SuperSentai's ''Series/TokusouSentaiDekaranger'' has [=DekaMachine=] Patrol Gyror, with Gatling guns under its wings. Years later, in ''Series/KaizokuSentaiGokaiger'', the Gokaigers are able to summon a modified of the Patrol Striker, which has Gatling guns in its wheels; these guns are used in Deka [=GokaiOh=]'s finisher.

* Aging in the 2002 arc of ''LightNovel/{{Baccano}}'' has a modified mini-gun that she wields one-handed in combination with an over-sized Gurkha Knife in her other hand, much to the shock of her associates. To be fair, they often compare her to the Terminator.
* ''Anime/BatmanNinja'': The Joker has a massive Gatling gun mounted on his ship which he uses to sink Batman's ninja ship.

-->-- '''The Heavy,''' ''[[SupplementalMaterial/TeamFortress2 Meet the Heavy]]''

* ''LightNovel/RebuildWorld'': The protagonist Akira eventually gets a M421 Minigun to use combined with his anti-material rifle, assault rifle, or grenade launcher in GunsAkimbo. It’s only possible to wield it at all due to the RequiredSecondaryPowers of having PoweredArmor for its boosted strength. Akira most notably uses this for a RecoilBoost to WallRun, when attacking the Sarenthal Building. Eventually when Akira gets a CoolBike with remote weapon mounts, he puts it on there and has his VirtualSidekick Alpha use it to shoot down missiles. Eventually Akira moves on to using a BifurcatedWeapon line of rifles starting with the SSB Rifle able to fire at the same rate; using two of those makes Akira run out of ammo real quick, causing him to buy an APC to store reserves.

* [[TheHero Max]] from ''Webcomic/MaxComix'' is shown to be able to summon a Gatling gun in Chapter 9 "Caos en Dragonmouth", as seen [[https://imgur.com/a/Pv4P4 here]].

In RealLife, rotary cannons are mounted in military planes (such as the ground attack A-10, better knownas the "Warthog"), the AC-130 plane, and on ships in Close-In Weapons Systems (CWIS). Some helicopters have miniguns. According to {{Website/Cracked}} ([[https://www.atf.gov/regulations-rulings/rulings/atf-rulings/atf-ruling-2004-5.html and the ATF]]), owning one of these things is [[http://www.cracked.com/article_17016_7-items-you-wont-believe-are-actually-legal_p2.html perfectly legal]] [[UsefulNotes/AmericanGunPolitics in the United States]] due to a GrandfatherClause. [[AwesomeButImpractical It's merely prohibitively expensive.]]

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 mount. If one gets used, you can expect it to give a nice steady buzz as it spews a constant stream of death.

According to {{Website/Cracked}} ([[https://www.atf.gov/regulations-rulings/rulings/atf-rulings/atf-ruling-2004-5.html and the ATF]]), owning one of these things is [[http://www.cracked.com/article_17016_7-items-you-wont-believe-are-actually-legal_p2.html perfectly legal]] [[UsefulNotes/AmericanGunPolitics in the United States]] due to a GrandfatherClause. [[AwesomeButImpractical It's merely prohibitively expensive.]]

* ''Film/AManCalledSledge'': There is a Gatling gun mounted on the wagon transporting the gold, and one on the guard tower in the centre of the prison. Sledge's men seize control of the one in te prison and use it against the guards during the mass breakout.

* ''Fanfic/TheNewAdventuresOfInvaderZim'': The WeaponOfChoice used by [[BombThrowingAnarchists Nyx]] is a minigun which fires plasma.

* ''Fanfic/ThisBites'': For the BigBadassBattleSequence at the end of Strong World, Merry takes a gatling as her WeaponOfChoice, and keeps it afterwards. Deconstructed somewhat, however, by the fact that it's pointed out just how much ammo the thing eats up and how expensive it is to keep buying more, so she has to use it sparingly.

* ComicBook/RocketRacoon'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.

* Rocket Racoon's preferred weapon in the recent ''Annihilation: Conquest'' miniseries and new ''ComicBook/{{Guardians of the Galaxy}}'' 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.

* A man with a Gatling gun killed several powerful villains (in fact, practically ''every villain besides himself'') early on in ''Manga/RurouniKenshin''. It was an era-appropriate early model, operated with a hand crank (although this was slightly undermined by the ammo belt; hand-cranked models invariably used a gravity-feed hopper). In the anime, he was stopped when it jammed after one of the villains stuck a poison dart in the ammo belt; in the manga, he simply ran out of bullets after mowing everyone down.

* A man with a Gatling gun killed several powerful villains (in fact, practically ''every villain besides himself'') early on in ''Anime/RurouniKenshin''. It was an era-appropriate early model, operated with a hand crank (although this was slightly undermined by the ammo belt; hand-cranked models invariably used a gravity-feed hopper). In the anime, he was stopped when it jammed after one of the villains stuck a poison dart in the ammo belt; in the manga, he simply ran out of bullets after mowing everyone down.

* The GAU-8 Avenger, a gun so [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:GAU-8_meets_VW_Type_1.jpg enormous]] that the [[RealLife/CoolPlane A-10 Thunderbolt II]] was built around it, rather than building the gun into the A-10. It fires seventy 30mm depleted uranium rounds per second, each capable of penetrating 69mm of armor at 500m. The gun can expend its entire magazine of 1,200 rounds in 17 seconds, and at maximum fire rate, the recoil force is a significant fraction of the engines' thrust. The gun has to fire from the barrel at the 9 o'clock position, as firing from the traditional 12 o'clock position would push the plane to the side and throw off aim. While not enough to [[RecoilBoost stall the airplane or fly it backward]], each burst slows it down enough to help the pilot correct his aim.

* In ''Script/AHDotComTheSeries'', Dave Howery's Canada-Destroying Mechs have Gatling gun arms, and enemy captain Ward has also been known to use a Gatling version of the standard plasma rifles (purely for RuleOfCool).

** Rhinox of ''WesternAnimation/BeastWars'' had ''[[GunsAkimbo one for each hand]]'', and they're [[FanNickname often called]] "The Chainguns Of Doom".

* The GAU-8 Avenger, a gun so [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:GAU-8_meets_VW_Type_1.jpg enormous]] that the [[RealLife/CoolPlane A-10 Thunderbolt II]] ([[FanNickname AKA]] "Tank-Killer" or "Warthog") was built around it, rather than building the gun into the A-10. It fires seventy 30mm depleted uranium rounds per second, each capable of penetrating 69mm of armor at 500m. The gun can expend its entire magazine of 1,200 rounds in 17 seconds, and at maximum fire rate, the recoil force is a significant fraction of the engines' thrust. The gun has to fire from the barrel at the 9 o'clock position, as firing from the traditional 12 o'clock position would push the plane to the side and throw off aim. While not enough to [[RecoilBoost stall the airplane or fly it backward]], each burst slows it down enough to help the pilot correct his aim.

* [[MultiRangedMaster Chris Yukine's]] default weapons in ''Anime/SenkiZesshouSymphogear'' are a pair of laser crossbows, but she much prefers to [[MorphWeapon change]] them into a pair of Gatling guns named "Billion Maiden". They have two rotating barrels apiece, are each roughly her size, and pack enough raw firepower to mow down hordes of [[TheHeartless Noise]].

* Wrestling/TheRock gets to wield one in [[Film/TheFastAndTheFurious Furious 7]].

* [[RuleOfCool Just for the sake of coolness]], the Fenix [=TK45=] flashlight was [[http://www.laymanslights.venturous.org/blog/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/TK45-1.jpg 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.

* "Reason" of ''Literature/SnowCrash'' ("I told you they'd listen to Reason") is a ridiculously powerful rotary rail gun that fires small fragments of depleted uranium. To drive the point home, at a certain point in the story the main character gets in a gunfight with [[spoiler:two Phalanx CIWS carrier-mounted 20mm Vulcan guns]]. Reason wins.

* ''Series/TheMagician'': In "The Illusion of the Deadly Playthings", a WickedToymaker sends a warning to his intended victim by firing off a vintage hand-cranked Gatling gun in his weapon collection via remote control.