History Main / SwordAndGun

** And any instance when X gets a showdown with Zero in MegaManX. Zero shoots twice with his [[ArmCannon Z-Buster]], which he follows up with a SwordBeam just milliseconds later.

* ''CallOfDuty: ModernWarfare 2'' has the "Tactical Knife" attachment, which increases the speed you can perform melee attacks at while you're holding a gun with it. This can be attached to ''any'' one-handed secondary weapon, be it a pistol, machine pistol, or even a SawedOffShotgun.
** Wildly incorrect. The only weapons can that can equip the Tactical Knife attachment are of the category "Handguns". Specifically, the USP .45, .44 Magnum, M9, and Desert Eagle.

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* In ''[=~Assassin's Creed~=]: Brotherhood'' Ezio can use both a one-handed sword or bludgeon and his hidden gun together in combat, unlike in ''2'' where they were separate. A variant is using a Short Blade together with throwing knives. WordOfGod [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BPqL2QEWnkY has also revealed]] that Swiss Guards will pack both a pistol and a sword.

* ''EndlessFrontier: SuperRobotWars OG Gaiden''. The main character has a sword attached to a machine gun, as well as a second gun. ''NamcoXCapcom'' import Reiji has ''two'' swords and ''two'' guns. In all cases, there will be lots of juggling of weapons.

Compare BowAndSwordInAccord, which substitutes guns for a different kind of projectile weapon. Not to be confused with ''GunXSword'', which is also something cool.

* In ''[=~Assassin's Creed~=]: Brotherhood'' Ezio can use both a melee weapon and his hidden gun together in combat, unlike in ''2'' where they were separate.

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* During the American Civil War, this was actually very common. Officers, whether actually in the cavalry or not, had the trappings of cavalry due to military history stretching back to the concept of knighthood. As such, while the rank and file had rifles with bayonets, officers were outfitted with revolvers and sabres. To see a cinematic example of how this can be both effective and awesome in the context of warfare that sits at the transition between pitched battles on open fields and WWI trenches, see ''{{Glory}}''.
** The first revolvers were designed to be held in the left hand, specifically with the cavalry in mind, who would have held their swords in the right.
** US Army pistol holsters from that era are all designed to be worn on the right for a cross-draw using the left hand.
* Not surprising considering how many songs mention it, but highwaymen often carried both sword and pistol.
* The French elite warriors, the musketeers were skilled with both muskets and rapiers. It is somewhat humorous that they are now famous for their swordwork, when at the time it was their guns that made them famous (hence they're called musketeers and not rapierteers.)
** Would YOU want to be known as a member of group called the "rapieteers?"
** They were famous for their swordmanship even back in the day. Muskets were something to open the battle with - after that the chances were that you had to rely on your sword for the rest of the fight. The muskets just happened to be more iconic at the time than rapiers that were carried by just about any officer or nobleman.
* During WW2 there was a British soldier by the name of Lieutenant Colonel John Malcolm Thorpe Fleming "Mad Jack" Churchill. He was notable for being a total [[http://www.badassoftheweek.com/churchill.html badass]] who not only carried a pistol and [[http://www.badassoftheweek.com/churchill4.jpg claybeg]] into battle, but also a longbow. When asked about his bizarre choice of weapons, Mad Jack replied "In my opinion, sir, any officer who goes into action without his sword is improperly dressed". On one night he took 42 German prisoners, and captured a Mortar position single handedly, using only his broadsword. He often went into battle playing the bagpipes despite in NO WAY being Scottish.

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Somewhat [[JustifiedTrope justified]] in historical settings since old-fashioned pistols were almost entirely single-shot and inaccurate enough to make it essentially pointless to use both hands. And once you'd "had your shot" a single-shot pistol became nothing more than an elaborate club or a tool for parrying blades until you got the thirty-plus second respite required to reload. Most folk being fairly GenreSavvy would often carry a whole brace of guns as a result so that they had could have more than just one shot.

* It seems to be quite popular in Gundam00. Such as when [[spoiler: when Alejandro's mobile suit exited its mobile armor he carried two guns only to toss it away and draw a beam sword.]] Also two Trinities, Graham, Exia, and Dynames near the end of season 1.

** They were famous for their swordmanship even back in the day. Muskets were something to open the battle with - after that the chances were that you had to rely on your sword for the rest of the fight. The muskets just happened to be more iconic at the time than rapiers that were carried by just about any officer or nobleman.

* Mordecai in Borderlands His close range weapon is a sword. may possibly apply to brick as well just change sword to pipe.

* Comicbook/{{Blade}}

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* ''DevilMayCry'' does this with [[BadassAbnormal Nero]] in the fourth game, who wields the sword Red Queen in his left hand, and switches his double-barreled [[RevolversAreJustBetter revolver]] [[ReallyBigGun Blue Rose]] over to the other (when he's not using the [[RedRightHand Devil Bringer]] to grapple and make enemies [[MortalKombat "GET OVER HERE!"]]) to perform charged shots, in contrast to Dante's GunsAkimbo style.

** [[http://img215.imageshack.us/img215/7960/knifegun.jpg Knife + Gun = Knifegun]].

* Nobunaga of ''SengokuBasara'' does this with a SawnOffShotgun.

* In ''Oniblade'' / ''X-Blades'', this is taken even further. Ayumi wields the gun ''and'' the sword with single hand: she's using a gunblade, which is basically a shortsword with revolver welded into it, and she's carrying ''two''

* [[SmugSnake Date]] [[EyepatchOfPower Masamune]] of the [[SamuraiWarriors Koei]] [[WarriorsOrochi merchandise]] fights with an ''[[MoreDakka automatic]]'' flintlock pistol and a rapier or with [[GunsAkimbo two automatic flintlocks]], depending on the move he makes. Before that, he was a [[DualWielding dual wielder]].

Somewhat [[JustifiedTrope justified]] in historical settings since old-fashioned pistols were almost entirely single-shot and inaccurate enough to make it essentially pointless to use both hands. And once you'd "had your shot" a single-shot pistol became nothing more than an elaborate club or a tool for parrying blades until you got the four or five minutes respite required to reload. Most folk being fairly GenreSavvy would often carry a whole brace of guns as a result so that they had could have more than just one shot.

** Would YOU want to be known as a member of group called the "rapieteers?"

* In ''Anno 1701'', in the third installment of the {{Anno}} series, the militia men wield a pistol and a sabre each (strange thing though, that that those pistols are able to fire after every second sabre thrust - so once every three seconds... in 1701!!)