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* Requisite pose for many UsefulNotes/WorldWarII or UsefulNotes/TheVietnamWar action-adventure novels where the cover features the protagonist armed with a belt-fed medium machine gun. If they were [[SightedGunsAreLowTech holding the weapon at the hip]], the novel just looked like a ''Franchise/{{Rambo}}'' rip-off. Having it resting on the shoulder accompanied by {{permastubble}} and a [[ShellShockedVeteran war-weary expression]] made the hero look authentically badass.
** The front cover of Guy Sajer's memoir ''The Forgotten Soldier'' shows a Wehrmacht soldier in exactly this pose with an [=MG34.=]

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* Requisite pose for many UsefulNotes/WorldWarII or UsefulNotes/TheVietnamWar action-adventure novels where the cover features the protagonist armed with a belt-fed medium machine gun.gun (e.g. the front cover of Guy Sajer's memoir ''The Forgotten Soldier'' shows a Wehrmacht soldier in exactly this pose with an [=MG34.=]). If they were [[SightedGunsAreLowTech holding the weapon at the hip]], the novel just looked like a ''Franchise/{{Rambo}}'' rip-off. Having it resting on the shoulder accompanied by {{permastubble}} and a [[ShellShockedVeteran war-weary expression]] made the hero look authentically badass.
** The front cover of Guy Sajer's memoir ''The Forgotten Soldier'' shows a Wehrmacht soldier in exactly this pose with an [=MG34.=]
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* ''VideoGame/ConquerorsBlade'': the Nodachi hero class uses the giant Japanese nodachi, which (for both practical purposes and RuleOfCool) the hero holds over his shoulder while he's not swinging it.

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