History Main / SuperheroPackingHeat

* The earliest comics featuring {{Batman}} had him using guns. This got retconned moderately quickly once writers realized that having Batman kill all of his adversaries in one issue meant that he'd have no one to fight later and they'd have to rack their brains thinking up new ones too often.

** Bucky also used a gun when he took up the identity of Cap.

* ''MoonKnight'' has on ocasion used weapons. But then again, he is a former mercenary and soldier (And in the Ultimate Universe, a former Navy Seal), and is known to be a dark subversion of ThouShallNotKill, so its not exactly out of place. Its also one of the characteristics that seperate him from [[AlternateCompanyEquivelent that other]] [[ComicBook/Batman Knight.]]

** Guns that shoot blood?
*** No, his blood is made of guns.
*** But so is the rest of him, you might as call him ManGun.

* Several of the characters in ''{{Watchmen}}'', such as The Comedian and Rorschach.

For various reasons, DoesntLikeGuns is a common thing with comic book style superheroes and supervillains (whether it's ethics, style, or something else). Even before the comics code it was rare. Then some heroes who broke this rule caught on, and soon more and more heroes and villains began using guns. This soon became closely associated with the NinetiesAntiHero, and therefore also [[DiscreditedTrope fell out of favor]] when that trope did.

* The Comedian from ''{{Watchmen}}'', [[PsychoForHire if you can really call him a hero]].
** At the end of the comic, [[spoiler:his daughter]] Laurie expresses the desire to start carrying a gun.
*** Rather justified in that, in their world of only [[NoPlansNoPrototypeNoBackup one super-powered individual]], guns carry a lot more weight. She even saved her comrades by invoking WhyDontYouJustShootHim against the villain they were confronting [[spoiler:who also happened to be the one guy who can ''catch a bullet''. Whoops]].

* Akemi Homura from ''PuellaMagiMadokaMagica'' is a MagicalGirl Packing Heat. No, that [[MoreDakka arsenal]] she carries doesn't come from her Magical Girl powers: she ''stole them from the {{Yakuza}}''.

*** Rather justified in that, in their world of only [[NoPlansNoPrototypeNoBackup two super-powered individuals]], guns carry a lot more weight. She even saved her comrades by invoking WhyDontYouJustShootHim against the villain they were confronting [[spoiler:who also happened to be the one guy who can ''catch a bullet''. Whoops]].

*** Rather justified in that, in their world of only [[NoPlansNoPrototypeNoBackup one super-powered individual]], guns carry a lot more weight. She even saved her comrades by invoking WhyDontYouJustShootHim against the villain they were confronting [[spoiler:who also happened to be the one guy who can ''catch a bullet''. Whoops]].

* The {{Spider-Man}} from Marvel's "Noir" dimension carries a revolver, and does not hesitate to use it to shoot and kill his opponents. This proves slightly jarring when playing ''SpiderManShatteredDimensions'', as the game completely ignores it.

* Akemi Homura from ''PuellaMagiMadokaMagica'' is a MagicalGirl Packing Heat. No, that arsenal she carries doesn't come from her Magical Girl powers.

* The execrable DCComics {{Elseworlds}} story ''SupermanAtEarthsEnd'' had a mostly-depowered Superman take up a [[BeyondTheImpossible ludicrously]] [[{{BFG}} oversized gun]] in order to fight [[StupidJetpackHitler twin clones of Hitler]]. Then it went on to include an [[BrokenAesop anti-guns]] message at the end.

* The Crimson Avenger in TheDCU.

* The execrable DCComics {{Elseworlds}} story ''SupermanAtEarthsEnd'' had a mostly-depowered Superman take up a ludicrously oversized gun in order to fight [[StupidJetpackHitler twin clones of Hitler]]. Then it went on to include an [[BrokenAesop anti-guns]] message at the end.

* Bishop of the X-Men, as a cop from future not unlike that of JudgeDredd, used guns when he first arrived, and an ongoing CharacterDevelopment plotline for him was learning to tone it down and not use lethal force. He also had the power to shoot energy rays, but used guns frequently as his power depended on external sources of energy to redirect.

* Also from DC is Wild Dog, who looks like he ''should'' be a parody of the trope, but sadly isn't.
** Max Allan Collins noted in Amazing Heroes #119 that he created Wild Dog as a sort of modern update of Zorro, the Green Hornet, and the Shadow, who all predated Superman and Zatara, and Collins carefully distinguished between a costumed hero and a metahuman hero. Collins did not intend Wild Dog as "super".

* ChampionsOnline contains the Munitions powerset. This includes everything from dual pistols as the lowest level attack (and several higher level ones), through submachineguns, shotguns, assault rifles, a minigun, a rocket launcher, and more.

* This is of the most obvious ways ''The Twelve'', a random group of FishOutOfTemporalWater from the last days of World War II, illustrate the ValuesDissonance between their time and ours. A full half of them carry guns, from the {{Badass Normal}}s like Mr. E, the Witness, the Laughing Mask, and the Phantom Reporter, to FlyingBrick Captain Wonder and powerful psychic Mastermind Excello.

** Justified, since after he shoots the Vulture, Aunt May chews him out for murdering someone like an animal. After that, he doesn't kill Goblin, Sandman, Crime Master, or Doctor Octopus.
*** Goblin was the only one he actually tried to spare, though.

** Steve has started packing heat again as Captain Steve Rogers.

*** Rather justified in that, in their world of only [[NoPlansNoPrototypeNoBackup one super-powered individual]], guns carry a lot more weight. She even saved her comrades by invoking WhyDontYouJustShootHim [[spoiler:against the one guy who can ''catch a bullet'']].