History Main / UnusualWeaponMounting

* The [[http://www.headinjurytheater.com/article59.htm Codpiece]] from ''ComicBook/DoomPatrol'', who once provided the page image, certainly brings a new meaning to the term "cock-punch". As one can expect in a DadaComic, this character is not merely a FunnyBackgroundEvent. The Codpiece is a walking embodiment of ItMakesJustAsMuchSenseInContext: a VillainOfTheWeek whose TeenyWeenie issues led him to PhallicWeapon-based supervillainy.

* ''Anime/SenkiZesshouSymphogear'': Shirabe’s gear specializes in buzz saws, most often attached to her armor-plated GirlishPigtails.

* Big Guy from ''ComicBook/TheBigGuyAndRustyTheBoyRobot'' has [[MoreDakka a ridiculous amount of missiles and machine guns]] mounted in ''its armpits!''

** ''Gundam'' and all its incarnations are basically just trying to [[UpToEleven one up]] each other and see who can get the [[MoreDakka most Dakka]] on their suits. You have {{Mecha}} with Vulcan's in their feet, Guns for ''fingers,'' or hidden in their palms, oftentimes has some mounted on their wrists or forearm (Including swords/whips/etc), on the chest/collar/abdomen/hip/and yes...'''crotch.''' The back of the mech is literally the catch-all location to put any shiny gadget or huge gun you can think of, wings are especially popular. If that weren't enough, most mechs also carry some more guns/swords concealed inside the giant shield they're carrying (If the shield itself is not a weapon in its own right) ''or inside'' the mech itself! ''Added to that,'' sometimes they even carry AttackDrone(s)

* the [=SEPECAT=] [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SEPECAT_Jaguar Jaguar]] ground-attack fighter-jet. While it has the standard ground-attack weapons loadout mountable on underwing hardpoints, it plays this trope straight in its air-to-air armament which consists of a pair of '''over'''wing hardpoints to which either [=AIM=]-9 [=Sidewinder=] or Matra R550 Magic heat-seeking short-range air-to-air missiles can be mounted.

* ''{{Franchise/Extrapower}}'': The Clay Kid line of robots fire their projectiles through a cannon in their mouths.

* In ''VideoGame/{{Genji}}'', [[EvilSorcerer Kuyo]]'s only weapon is a sharp dagger attached to the tip of her RapunzelHair. She notably uses it like a stinger to attack the player during the Kamui phase.

* The [[http://www.headinjurytheater.com/article59.htm Codpiece]] from ''ComicBook/DoomPatrol'', who provides the current page image, certainly brings a new meaning to the term "cock-punch". As one can expect in a DadaComic, this character is not merely a FunnyBackgroundEvent. The Codpiece is a walking embodiment of ItMakesJustAsMuchSenseInContext: a VillainOfTheWeek whose TeenyWeenie issues led him to PhallicWeapon-based supervillainy.

%%* [[Fanfic/ThirtyHs GROINSAWS]].

* Stroheim from ''Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventureBattleTendency'' has a machine gun in his stomach.

* ''TabletopGame/WarhammerAgeOfSigmar'': Brokk Grungsson apparently thought giving his PowerArmor a gigantic [[BadassMustache ornamental mustache]] and ''mounting a gun on each side of it'' was a swell idea.

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* Stroheim from ''Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventure'' has a machine gun in his stomach.

* ''Manga/BlackLagoon''. In "Roberta's Blood Trail" Roberta is captured by one of her former terrorist comrades. [[InterplayOfSexAndViolence She pretends to be sexually excited]] and unbuttons her belt, only to gutshoot him with a buckle gun. Those kinds of things actually exist. One was made for a Nazi officer's uniform. [[http://www.neatorama.com/2009/12/08/belt-buckle-gun/ Here it is]], came in .22 or .32 and held four rounds.

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* ''Anime/GhostInTheShellStandAloneComplex'':
** One cyborg had a heavy machinegun in her ''elbow''.
** A blink-and-you-miss-it shot had a cannon unfolding from a battle cyborg's groin.

** ''Gundam'' and all its incarnations are basically just trying to [[UpToEleven one up]] each other and see who can get the [[MoreDakka most Dakka]] on their suits. You have {{Mecha}} with Vulcan's in their feet, Guns for ''fingers,'' or hidden in their palms, often times has some mounted on their wrists or forearm (Including swords/whips/etc), on the chest/collar/abdomen/hip/and yes...'''crotch.''' The back of the mech is literally the catch-all location to put any shiny gadget or huge gun you can think of, wings are especially popular. If that weren't enough, most mechs also carry some more guns/swords concealed inside the giant shield they're carrying (If the shield itself is not a weapon in its own right) ''or inside'' the mech itself! ''Added to that,'' sometimes they even carry AttackDrone(s)

* Hyakkimaru from ''Manga/{{Dororo}}'' has a cannon that fires ''upwards'' out of his lower leg.

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[-[[caption-width-right:300:"[[VideoGame/BlazBlue I've been thinking about maybe installing it on your chest... or your-]] [[SoundEffectBleep GIGANTIC]] [[MemeticMutation TAGER!!!"]]]]-]

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* Tanaka-san from ''Manga/MahouSenseiNegima'' has a clothes-destroying laser in his mouth. But he's a robot (T-ANK-Alpha3, "Tanaka-san").

* Big Guy from ''Comicbook/TheBigGuyAndRustyTheBoyRobot'' has [[MoreDakka a ridiculous amount of missiles and machine guns]] mounted in ''its armpits!''
* The [[http://www.headinjurytheater.com/article59.htm Codpiece]] from ''Comicbook/DoomPatrol'', who provides the current page image, certainly brings a new meaning to the term "cock-punch". As one can expect in a DadaComic, this character is not merely a FunnyBackgroundEvent. The Codpiece is a walking embodiment of ItMakesJustAsMuchSenseInContext: a VillainOfTheWeek whose TeenyWeenie issues led him to PhallicWeapon-based supervillainy.
%%* Comicbook/WarMachine. [[VideoGame/CapcomVs Here's my Sunday best!]]

%%* [[FanFic/ThirtyHs GROINSAWS]].

* ''Videogame/NoMoreHeroes''' Destroyman has a crotch-mounted laser, earpiece lasers, and of course, "machine gun jumblies"

*** Not to mention losing your 'Mechs legs more or less meant automatically failing the current mission, so losing the weapon was largely unconsequental. Exactly how you're supposed to be aiming your ''[[{{BFG}} PPC]] (left leg)'' is a question [[{{MST3KMantra}} best left unanswered]], though...
*** Another viable strategy: using all the hardware space in your 'Mech's arms for ''ammo'', since live ammo in the Mechwarrior games reacts ...[[{{StuffBlowingUp}} badly]]... to incoming fire or overheating. Storing the ammo in the arms means an ammo explosion won't wreck your 'Mech's torso, the part containing all kinds of important stuff like the powerplant (which itselfs [[{{MadeOfExplodium}} reacts explosively]] to damage...)

* ''Videogame/MegaManAndBass'' has Ground Man, who has drills for shoulders (and treads for legs).

* ''Videogame/{{Pokemon}}'': Blastoise has water cannons mounted in its shell.
* ''Videogame/SenranKagura'': Mirai summons weapons from under her dress, including an anti-material rifle [[PhallicWeapon which looks exactly like what you'd expect]].

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** A [[GettingCrapPastTheRadar blink-and-you-miss-it shot]] had a cannon unfolding from a battle cyborg's groin.

* the [=SEPECAT=] [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SEPECAT_Jaguar Jaguar]] ground-attack fighter-jet. While it has the standard ground-attack weapons loadout mountable on underwing hardpoints, it plays this trope straight in its air-to-air armament which consists of a pair of '''over'''wing hardpoints to which either [=AIM=]-9 [=SideWinder=] or Matra R550 Magic heat-seeking short-range air-to-air missiles can be mounted.

* ArmCannon: Ranged weapons mounted at the arm (whether on it, or inside it)
* ArmedLegs: Reinforced legs, or melee weapon mounted on the legs

** ''Anime/MobileSuitGundam00'': There's also the chin/nose mounted machinegun of the Anf (literally, nose in Arabic).

*** Dr. Hell was infamous by fitting any sort of weapons on any place of the body of his [[{{Robeast}} Mechanical Beasts]]. Examples include Zaila (whose fingers fired missiles and whose horns were really drills), Brighton-J2 (those horns on its head? They are missiles), the ninja siblings Blazas S1 and S2 (missile launchers located on their shoulders and stomache), Solaris-S1 (its belt shoots a solar beam), Kajimofu-T7 (its palms shot beams and it had a missile launcher above its head), Gumbina-M5 (CombatTentacles instead of eyes)...
** ''Anime/GreatMazinger'': Great Mazinger's crotch is a missile launcher. Venus-A had TorpedoTits, EyeBeams and FingerFirearms.
** ''Anime/UFORoboGrendizer'': Grendizer's horns can unleash electrical discharges, its backhands shoots laser rays, blades are stored into its shoulders that can be merged to form a double-headed scythe...

* ''Manga/{{Gamaran}}'', Kotaro's secret weapon, the Mitsuboshi (Orion's Belt) has three long weighted chains connected to an armlet with a sickle blade attached to it. Partially subverted since he mostly uses the chains of the weapon to attack and restrain his opponents.

* The [[http://www.headinjurytheater.com/article59.htm Codpiece]] from ''Comicbook/DoomPatrol'', who provides the current page image, certainly brings a new meaning to the term "cock-punch". As one can expect in a DadaComic, this character is not merely a FunnyBackgroundEvent. The Codpiece is a walking embodyment of ItMakesJustAsMuchSenseInContext: a VillainOfTheWeek whose TeenyWeenie issues led him to PhallicWeapon-based supervillainy.

* Franchise/{{Predator}}s use shoulder mounted weapons.

* ''Film/SpaceTruckers'' featured unstoppable killer robots with a odd combination of head and gun.

** The Flea light mech has a chin mounted flamer. Being a ChickenWalker, it can look rather... disquieting when viewed from a bad angle. [[http://www.sarna.net/wiki/File:CCG_Unlimited_Flea.jpg Behold.]]
** The Atlas has an Autocanon/20 mounted on the hip, and a 6 shot short range missile launcher mounted on the leg.

** Let's not forget the [[HumongousMecha Titans]], bipedal war machines standing between 30 and several hundred feet tall, which tend to put weapons everywhere they can fit. The Ork version, Gargants, do that too, and also put weapons where they ''don't'' fit, like on top of OTHER weapons.

* ''VideoGame/RedneckRampage'' had weapon you could pick up from alien strippers. Both a physical weapon, with the machine guns from the 'nipples', and a psychologial weapon, a skinny male redneck wearing a purple chrome bra...

** More mundanely, Legs's gun is build into her helmet (since her species lacks hands).

* In [=WW2=], anti-tank gunners came up with what was thought to be an unusual but remarkably effective[[note]]and cheap[[/note]] expedient. Why bother towing your anti-tank gun and taking valuable time to dismount, unhitch, traverse and load it (in the face of enemy fire). German, British and Russian anti-tank gunners, independently of each other, chose to cut out the middleman and have their guns mounted directly on the back of what had previously been its prime mover (the lorry that towed it). Now all that was necessary was to turn the whole lorry to bring the gun to bear. Additional armour for crew protection could be mounted on the lorry. At first the guns were tied or chained down to the cargo-bed, but later refinements saw the weapon permanently welded into a fixed mounting. In the wide-open spaces of the Western Desert or Russia, the portée gun system became a desirable and effective part of mobile warfare. Britain found it extended the service life of the two-pounder, a weapon whose wheeled carriage was dissappointingly fragile and could break beyond repair in Egypt and Libya. Portée guns went out of favour when the war moved into more settled semi-urban areas such as Italy and France.
* Not to be outdone by mankind, nature gives us the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fontanellar_gun fontanellar gun]], a literal ''face gun'' that some species of termites have. They're basically real-life tiny snifits that shoot poisonous adhesives from their shnoz at predators.

** [[http://img198.imageshack.us/i/772471sc002ebab6super.jpg/ And again!]]
* Comicbook/WarMachine. [[VideoGame/CapcomVs Here's my Sunday best!]]

Compare {{Natural Weapon}}s for when they're already part of the wielder, HandyFeet for doing things with your feet (including wielding a weapon) when they normally would require your hands, and BackpackCannon for weapons mounted in/from a backpack (i.e behind your back).

* [[LampshadeHanging Lampshaded]] by Raphael in [[WesternAnimation/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles1987 TMNT 1987]] when they were fighting against [[SkeleBot9000 Destructor-X]] who fired cannons from its kneecaps, followed by a nose cannon. Later, Destructor-X revealed its massive ChestBlaster.