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Arsenal Firearms AF2011-A1

Everything is better when you put more barrels on it. It's like adding more bacon.

Description, Killing Floor 2

Top: Standard Model; Bottom: Dueller Prismatic model

The Arsenal Firearms AF2011-A1 (with Standard, Dueller, and Dueller Prismatic variants) is an Italian double-barreled semi-automatic handgun. It is a derivative of the M1911 pistol, and is, in simple terms, two side-by-side M1911 pistols merged into a single body. Much of the mechanisms either come in pairs or have been welded together into a double-sized one. The magazine is similarly two side-by-side M1911 magazines held together by their base.

Due to that complexity, Rule of Cool is the only reason this weapon exists, as it's redundant with a standard 1911 or similar, apart from the dubiously-practical expenditure of two rounds at a time. Ballistically, it also suffers from somewhat reduced accuracy, as two .45 ACP rounds traveling side by side will have wildly differing ballistics due to their turbulence and wakes interacting with each other, possibly pushing them slightly off their trajectories and changing the impact points from shot to shot. In addition, the need for proprietary magazines (albeit with the ability to convert standard 1911 mags of the appropriate length by simply linking them via a removable butt plate), the increased recoil from two .45 ACP rounds firing at once, and the sheer size of the gun from essentially welding two 1911s together, has limited its popularity.

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Film

• In the James Bond film Spectre, Mr. Hinx (Dave Bautista) carries an AF2011 Dueller Prismatic, which he uses during the road/plane chase. Possibly its first appearance in film.
• Apppears in Resident Evil: The Final Chapter as Christian uses two skull-painted AF2011 Dueller Prismatics as his main firearms. Alice and Razor are also seen wielding them at one point.
• Weasel brandishes one in Deadpool 2.

Live-Action TV

• In the Gotham episode "Heroes Rise: All Will Be Judged", Gordon can be seen loading one, though it never gets used.

Web Video

• Ian from Forgotten Weapons reviews it.

Video Games

• It is one of the weapons added in the Infinite Onslaught update for Killing Floor 2, meant for the Gunslinger perk. Owing to its ridiculous size for a 1911-based pistol, it uses the same animations as the Desert Eagle. Just like every other handgun in the game, it can also be dual-wielded.
• Appears as a usable weapon in Counter-Strike Online 2, possibly its first appearance in any media.

Auto Mag/AMT Automag

"Well, this is the .44 Magnum Auto Mag, and it holds a 300 grain cartridge. And if properly used, it can remove the fingerprints."

—Harry Callahan, Sudden Impact

The .44 Auto Mag was the first semi-automatic pistol to use a cartridge as heavy as .44 Magnum (.44 AMP, Auto Magnum Pistol). It went through several different manufacturers, the first of which was the Auto Mag Corporation (AMC). It was never a real money-maker thanks to flawed production and business decisions. Namely, production was rushed and it was massively underpriced in an attempt to convince investors that the pistol was a hot seller. The idea failed spectacularly, with investors unconvinced, AMP losing more than $1,000 per unit on each sale, and the entire design team walking out in protest. The fact that it was the only pistol on Earth that took its particular caliber of ammunition also did not help, since commercially-loaded ammunition was rare and the only other way to get the correct caliber was to modify cases for other ammunition (.308 or .30-06) and reload by hand.

AMC later rebranded itself as Arcadia Machine and Tool, or AMT, and continued to manufacture pistols. Their newer designs look more like enlarged M1911s than the original Auto Mag, hence identified by the term Automag instead of Auto Mag. The new Automag series consisted of the II in .22 Magnum, the III in .30 Carbine and 9mm Winchester Magnum, the IV in .45 WinMag and 10mm Auto, and the V in .50 Action Express, but all production ceased in 2001, a few years after AMT's own bankruptcy, although there was another attempt to bring the pistol back to market.

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Anime and Manga

• Mizuho Inada was issued one in the manga version of Battle Royale, then it fell into the hands of Kazuo Kiriyama.
• Shows up in City Hunter in the hands of two different one-time villains. The first is an amateur who uses it as his regular handgun, but the second is implied to have brought that only because his regular pistol (chambered for an unspecified .38 cartridge) had little effect on Umibozu, and by chance the Automag was the first powerful pistol he got his hands on.
  • The anime provides a third character, Geruma, who uses it in a duel with Ryo. While its power is acknowledged, both Ryo and Geruma admit it's a bad choice for their duel due its long barrel making it slow to draw... only for Geruma to out-draw Ryo anyway. Ryo still wins thanks to his ability to Shoot the Bullet, after which he shoots Geruma while he's still freaking out over Ryo's stunt.
• Nicolas Wong uses an Automag as his main weapon in Psycho-Pass: The Movie.
• Yuri Honjou from Tenkuu Shinpan uses this as her second firearm of choice after a silenced Beretta 92FS.

Film

• Sudden Impact: The Mafia sent a hit squad after Inspector Callahan, so he decided he needed more firepower. The producers had such a hard time getting it that they had to contact the original designer, who had enough spare parts to assemble two in his basement. Rumor has it, during the climactic scene at a pier, a diver had to be kept on stand-by because Eastwood got frustrated with constant jams that ruined takes and routinely threw it into the water. The attempt to invoke The Red Stapler effect with the gun and revive production, like how the series did with the Smith & Wesson Model 29 revolver, failed.
• Used by Burt Reynolds in Malone.
• Beverly Hills Cop II featured the Auto Mag and its spent cartridge cases as a plot device to locate the Alphabet Bandit.

Literature

• It's Mack Bolan's signature weapon, "Big Thunder", in the early parts of The Executioner novel series, when he wanted a hand weapon with greater intimidation factor and range than his Beretta Brigadier. As a weapons expert, Bolan would have no problems handloading his rounds.
• The Automag III with reloaded .30 shells was the weapon of choice for Hanse Fletcher in C.R. Jahn's Underground 1988.

Video Games

• In Jagged Alliance 2, rescuing two tourists stranded in Arulco during the conflict will have the husband send you a pair of Automags modded for 7.62mm NATO, both nicknamed "Big Bertha". The gun pops up again in Back in Action with the same modifications. In v1.13, the unofficial patch for the second game, they're modded for the even bigger .50 Beowulf rounds. Additionally, Bobby Ray can sell the Auto Mag IV (.45 Winchester Magnum) and the Auto Mag V (.50AE).
• The Auto Mag is featured in Grand Theft Auto IV: The Ballad of Gay Tony. While at first it's more justified since you get it from an obviously wealthy club manager, it starts popping up everywhere later.
• The Auto Mag is the chosen sidearm of Blake Dexter's psychopathic henchman, Wade, in Hitman: Absolution.
• The Auto Mag is the Hand Cannon of Resident Evil 7: Biohazard, known in-game as the M44 Magnum.
• The Auto Mag appears in Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain only as a base for the "WU Silent Pistol". Functionally it's different, it mainly fires anaesthetic rounds to put enemy soldiers to sleep and it isn't even semi-auto (has to be cocked each shot).
• Nomad and Kaid, the GIGR operators of Rainbow Six Siege, carry Automags equipped with telescopic sights as their sidearms.
• The Auto Mag, dubbed "AM44", is available in Parasite Eve's New Game Plus found on the 11th-20th floors of the Chrysler Building.

Webcomics

• Michael Stuart of Paradigm Shift uses one of these.

Beretta 92

"I feel the Beretta is a great character. It's so strong and elegant. The other guns look dumb to me. Also the good thing I like — how many bullets can it fire? Seventeen bullets? You can fire 17 bullets^note At the time of this interview in 1997, this was an inaccurate statement as the 92 only had a 15-round standard capacity. Thirteen years later in 2010, Beretta began offering the 92A1 model with 17-round magazines in order to compete with the Glock 17. When you continue firing it's like...the drumbeat. Like music."

— John Woo

In production since 1972, the Beretta 92 series of pistols is one of the most popular semi-automatic pistol designs in the world.

Chambered in 9x19mm and fed by a 15-round magazine, the Beretta 92 is easily identified by its enlarged ejection port and open slide (like almost every Beretta pistol in the last century, most of the slide is cut away to expose the barrel). The 92 is a descendant of the single stack Beretta M1951, and can be considered a modern-day variant of the Walther P38, as it uses the P38's locking block as opposed to a Browning-style tilting barrel; this allows for a lighter slide (or half of a slide, in Beretta's case), and the barrel is restricted to back-and-forth motion, helping accuracy. It has been continually updated throughout its lifespan, with its latest model as of 2019 being the 92X Performance, a heavily modified and customized version meant for high-end pistol competition. There are also various licensed clones, the most notable of which is the Brazilian Taurus PT92 and PT99^note other than the latter having adjustable sights, they are identical to each other. (they are clones of the first model of the 92, and feature a 1911-style frame safety as opposed to a slide-mounted decocker safety) which show up in fiction rather often. Beretta themselves later released a variant chambered in .40 S&W as the Beretta 96 and one in 9x21 IMI as the Beretta 98. The gun has had multiple claims to fame:

1. It's very common in film and television for a variety of reasons: because it was and continues to be a common police service weapon worldwide, because Beretta paid lots of money to make sure that many action movie heroes of the 1980s carried one, because the Beretta 92 is simple to convert to blank cartridges, and because it simply looks cool.
2. It's John Woo's favorite gun (he claims all others are ugly), and is seen frequently in his films.
3. In said films, it is frequently seen Guns Akimbo, with a number of homages thereby (reviewed further down).
4. It's also known as the M9 thanks to being the standard service pistol for the Yanks with Tanks from its adoption in 1986 until its replacement starting in 2017.

The gun is occasionally looked upon poorly by military users and firearm enthusiasts due to being bulkier than the Colt 1911 (despite one of the requirements for the XM9 competition being a slimmer pistol to accommodate the generally smaller hands of female soldiers), generally poor performance in dirty conditions, at least in part due to a government-mandated "sand-resistant" coating on the magazines that was the exact opposite of "resistant", and the 9x19mm's supposed lack of stopping power compared to the larger .45 ACP, which the American military had been (and still is) rather attached to for almost a century when the M9 was adopted. It has also, in the past, had feeding-reliability issues with the aforementioned faulty magazines (which were not made by Mec-Gar, Beretta's magazine contractor, for cost reasons) and an early production flaw where poorly heat-treated slides would break in half (or shear off a poorly-forged locking block) and then fly clean off the frames after firing several hundreds of rounds fewer than they were rated to last through, most infamous when the Navy SEALs were training with earlier versions of the weapon (these injuries, including at least one SEAL who lost an eye to a broken Beretta slide, were common enough that they came up with a saying, “You ain’t a SEAL until you’ve eaten Italian steel”; despite rumors, however, nobody was ever actually killed by parts of their Beretta throwing themselves at the user). While the Beretta 92's usage by police and civilians hasn't seen these reliability problems and Beretta's engineers themselves worked to fix many of these early issues (including a requirement that cartridges for the M9 be procured and checked against original dimensional specs and powder loading specs to avoid exploding pistols, after the US Air Force discovered that the US Army Ordnance Corps deliberately issued overcharged cartridges to make the M9 break in order to discredit Beretta), the mixed reputation of the Beretta in U.S. military service caused many U.S. police and security agencies to pass it on in favor of handguns with less gun-cultural controversy. However, this bad reputation was exactly what the US Army Ordnance Corps wanted in the first place, given that they couldn't find a true American weapon to replace the M9.

As of January 2017, the M9 was officially declared obsolete in favor of the SIG Sauer P320, which will see service as the full-size M17 and compact M18. While it was ultimately not adopted, the M9A3 and M9A4 variants have been widely praised across the board for a significant number of improvements, with a base capacity of 17 rounds, a built-in Picatinny rail, a thinner vertical grip, a red dot mount, and sand-resistant magazines. As of September 7, 2021, the final M9 batch manufactured for the U.S. military was shipped out.

• in Arknights, this is Sniper Jessica's weapon of choice.
• The weapon of choice of Revy, of the anime Black Lagoon, who wields two of them. Her version, the Sword Cutlass, has an extended barrel and slide, stainless finish and is further pimped-out with ivory grips with skull-and-crossbones medallions.
• The classic Doom pistol is based off of a Beretta 92-based water gun painted black, though it's not quite as apparent with how the actual sprites turned out. Interestingly (and hilariously), the same sprite with parts of the sides cut off stands in for a WWII German-issue pistol in one of the console ports of Wolfenstein 3-D as well. Even in the reboot, the pistol strongly resembles a futuristic Beretta.
• Mack Bolan (The Executioner) used a silenced Beretta Brigadier, an early civilian model. He later updates to the 93R.
• Metal Gear has this as Snake's weapon in the MSX games. In Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty and Metal Gear Solid: The Twin Snakes, he gets a suppressed one modified to fire tranquilizer rounds as a Mythology Gag.
• Any work that depicts the modern US military up to 2017 accurately will feature this weapon. Ones that do include:
  • Stargate Command and the Atlantis Expedition.
  • Battle: Los Angeles, starring the USMC and Aaron Eckhart.
• When Chow Yun-fat uses a gun (or two) in a John Woo movie, chances are it will be this gun. Examples include Mark Gor from A Better Tomorrow, Ah Jong from The Killer (1989), and Tequila Yuen from Hard Boiled (these are actually Taurus weapons) and Stranglehold.
• Counter-Strike features a pair of them as sidearms. Early games used 92G Elite IIs, supposedly chambered in .40 S&W, though Global Offensive replaced them with Inox 92FSes with wooden grips.
• Neo's first pair of Throw-Away Guns in the lobby shootout in The Matrix are a pair of Beretta 92s. The Matrix Reloaded has Trinity swap out the 84FS she used in the first film for a compact 92FS, and then she gets a second one in The Matrix R Evolutions. The guards in Club Hell in the latter film also make use of various full-size 92FS variants, with Trinity again grabbing an Inox Brigadier off of one of them to threaten the Merovingian with.
• Max Payne also favors these as his pistol of choice. He's quite fond of wielding two at a time. During his stint in Brazil in the third game, he equips the Taurus PT92 instead, which is the Brazilian-licensed clone of the Beretta 92.
• John McClane in Die Hard. He upgrades to the SIG P220R in the fourth movie, though.
• Available in the Jagged Alliance series. It's the second-best handgun in the first game, and a good benchmark handgun in the second.
• Many Montagues and Capulets in William Shakespeare's Romeo + Juliet use heavily customized Beretta 92s and Taurus PT92s and 99s, the most-customized all named after the bladed weapons used in the original play, such as Benvolio's "Sword 9mm Series S◊" (PT99 with extended barrel and slide), Tybalt's "Rapier 9mm Series R◊" (two PT99s with extended barrels and guide rods, compensators, and quick-detach mounts for red dot sights), and Mercutio's "Dagger 9mm◊" (PT99 with several cutouts showing the inner details).
• Martin Riggs used one in the Lethal Weapon series, upgraded with Crimson Trace grips in the fourth film. Its depiction in that series is credited for further popularizing the firearm.
  • In the fourth movie, Wah Sing Ku disassembles Riggs' Beretta... while Riggs is holding it and trying to shoot him (which is physically possible with a Beretta due to its design, so it's not just Hollywood trickery, but definitely Awesome, but Impractical).
• Kane used one of these to kill Seth in the original Command & Conquer: Tiberian Dawn.
• The Beretta 92's single-stack predecessor, the M1951, is wielded by a thug then briefly used by Tony Montana to kill several thugs in Scarface (1983), with a suppressed M1951 used by Manny to kill Hector's henchwoman.
• The Beretta is the S.T.A.R.S. team's sidearm of choice. The Samurai Edge, developed by a local gunsmith for the team (used by Rebecca and Jill in the original, and everyone in the Director's Cut and Zero), is a heavily modified 92FS Brigadier; the GameCube REmake also includes a "Samurai Edge" variant of the .40 S&W Beretta 96 used by Barry alongside his Colt Python, with an extended compensator and magazine that makes it resemble RoboCop's Auto-9.
  • Standard issue sidearm of the Bioterrorism Security Assessment Alliance field agents in Resident Evil 5 and Resident Evil: Revelations. Chris, Sheva, Jill, et al. will always draw their Beretta 92s in cutscenes. The 93R is also available in the former game, as is the "Samurai Edge" version of the 96 when playing as Barry in the "Mercenaries Reunion" DLC.
  • A replica of Wesker's specific version of the Samurai Edge shows up in Resident Evil 7: Biohazard in two forms, a standard "Albert-01" anti-B.O.W. handgun that's used for the final boss fight, and with New Game Plus a weaker "Albert-01R". Compared to his gun, the frame and barrel are the same color as the slide, and it's also fitted with a compensator similar to that on Barry's 96FS from the REmake and an octagonal suppressor ahead of that.
  • The Samurai Edge also shows up in the 2019 remake of Resident Evil 2 in several forms. One without a S.T.A.R.S. medallion in the grips and infinite reserve ammunition is a New Game Plus reward for clearing either scenario with an S-rank, while Pre-Order Bonuses turned regular DLC add three more based on Chris, Jill and Wesker's specific guns, each with slightly different stats - Wesker's deals slightly increased damage, Chris' allows for focusing more quickly, and Jill's can be drawn more quickly.
  • It returns for Resident Evil 3's 2020 remake as well. Jill, as expected, briefly has one at the start of the game, but loses it when the Nemesis attacks her in her apartment and is forced to pilfer a Glock off a dead policeman to defend herself for the game proper. The standard model from RE2, now with a S.T.A.R.S. emblem re-added to the grips, is once again available as a reward for clearing the game, where it has slightly superior stats to the Glock, but can't be upgraded.
• Preston in Equilibrium uses two Beretta 92FS pistols modified with drop-in auto sears and lengthened barrels and frames. The non-firing props also had a frame-mounted M16-style fire selector. Contrary to popular belief, he did not use 93Rs; the movie guns had slide-mounted safeties, while the 93R safety is frame-mounted. Similar converted 92s were used in Underworld (2003) and Judge Dredd.
• Hunter (1984). In seasons 5 through 7, Rick Hunter used a Beretta 92F/FS.
• Both the Beretta and Taurus varieties are used in The Crow (1994). Notably, the bad guys and Eric carry Tauruses, and the cops carry Berettas.
• Used by Conrad Marburg in Alpha Protocol. You can get his pistol too, but it's Guide Dang It! hard.
• Reinhard in Blade II carries one with a huge choppa and some smaller bits bolted on.
• Used by Homura Akemi in Puella Magi Madoka Magica to fill Kyubey full of holes.
• The 92FS version shows up in Seven Sixty Two High Calibre. It's a decent, all-around handgun, but unlike superior weapons (like the USP) it has magazines very easily available and cheap.
• The Thompson Sisters' weapon forms in Soul Eater are a pair of 92FS Inox pistols.
• Call of Duty
  • The first two Modern Warfare games feature the 92SB filling in as the M9; it's still in the third game, though not available in multiplayer and only able to be grabbed from dead allies in one or two missions if they're killed after emptying their rifle and choosing to pull their sidearm rather than ducking into cover to reload. The second also features a 92SB converted to burst-fire to stand in for the 93R, where it's infamous for being one of the best sidearms in the game (hitting with a full burst with the Stopping Power perk to increase the damage your shots deal is a guaranteed kill, no matter how far away the target is).
  • Call of Duty: Ghosts features an M9A1 with an unusable top rail and Laser Sight.
  • With its third season of DLC updates, Call of Duty: Modern Warfare (2019) got the M9A3 with the Taurus' frame-mounted safety as the "Renetti". Several unique attachments, including a burst-fire trigger, can turn it into an approximation of the 93R as well.
  • The Renetti returns for Call of Duty: Modern Warfare III, this time primarily based on the older 92FS with an underbarrel rail most closely resembling those on the Taurus. This time it fires in bursts by default, and full-auto is available with the "JAK Ferocity Carbine Kit".
• Inspector Richard carries a Beretta 92FS Inox as his sidearm in Kiss of the Dragon.
• Appears as the "B9-S" in PAYDAY: The Heist, where it's your starting pistol. It features night sights, a Hollywood Silencer and can be upgraded with a recoil compensator.
  • Reappears in PAYDAY 2, now with the full name "Bernetti 9" (presumably, the "S" stood for "silenced" or "suppressed"). It has a very high base concealment, so attaching a silencer to it isn't a bad idea. As of the update that added the Fugitive skill tree, it's also possible to use two at a time as a primary weapon.
• Frank Castle carries a pair of Beretta 92FS Inoxes throughout Punisher: War Zone.
• Surprisingly rare in Cowboy Bebop, given the John Woo influence; the only notable appearance is Spike using one with a stainless barrel alongside his Jericho 941 in the fifth episode.
• The handgun in both Silent Hill 2 and 3 is a Beretta Centurion, a short version of the 92, only carrying 10 rounds per mag in both games. The latter game gives it wooden grips and allows a suppressor to be attached.
• Emergency weapon left to Sharon "Heather Mason" Da Silva in Silent Hill: Revelation 3D.
• Jake English's weapons of choice are a pair of Beretta M9s in Homestuck.
• Dr. Lucien Sanchez carries two of them around the hospital, most prominently in the scene where he shoots an iron. His pistol comes to life in his own hands, so he throws it down, stamps on it, then draws another Beretta and uses it to shoot the first one.
• NCIS: Los Angeles: LAPD detective Marty Deeks has one as his service weapon (which is eventually replaced by a S&W 9544). He claims the manual safety once saved him during a gun snatch by a junkie.
• Shows up with a certain frequency in Gunslinger Girl, but not nearly enough for a series featuring an assassination team sponsored by the Italian government.
• Aya Brea of Parasite Eve can be seen wielding a Beretta 92 in some artwork. Wayne will give you a 92FS after the precinct is attacked; it had belonged to Torres, who died in the attack. It can potentially be and is a popular candidate to be used as the ultimate gun due to being the only weapon in the game with the max 10 slots available, but it requires tremendous stats tweaking. M9s can also be found throughout the game, such as one dropped by the boss called Sheeva in the precinct.
• A lot of characters in Irish productions, particularly those featuring criminal gangs, tend to use Berettas, including Jimmy Bennett in Fatal Deviation, Jerry Lynch in Inter Mission, Francis Sheehy-Skeffington in The Guard and various characters in Love/Hate.
• The PT92 shows up as the basic pistol in Grand Theft Auto V. It's for the most part incorrectly referred to as a .45 ACP weapon.
• Shows up as a unique weapon in S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Shadow of Chernobyl, under the name "Martha", only available if you let a Duty member captured by bandits die. It's the strongest 9x19mm handgun in the game, but has such piss-poor durability to the point that it can start jamming within three reloads. Clear Sky and Call of Pripyat make it more available and raise its durability rating as well, though it is still one of the least reliable handguns in the game; its most distinct advantage is that there's no muzzle climb when firing it, so it's easy to land several good shots in rapid succession.
• Walker, Texas Ranger had Walker carry a Taurus PT92 as his main sidearm. Not that he ever really needed it.
• Spaced. Mike carries a pair of them when the protagonists break into an animal testing lab to rescue Colin. In the opening episode of series 2, he wields a pink one when confronting The Men in Black who are looking for Daisy at the pub, who promptly disarm him. It's a Literal Metaphor, as he tells Tim two minutes earlier that he's "off to point the pink pistol at the porcelain firing range", subverting the Unusual Euphemism that implies.
• The M9 is the default sidearm of Captain Martin Walker and used by many of the Damned 33rd in Spec Ops: The Line. Lugo and Adams also carry suppressed M9s that they will use when stealth is required. That Walker draws out a Desert Eagle instead of the M9 when he's by himself may raise your eyebrow, and it should.
• Puerto Rican crime boss Domingo Colon carries a pair of 92FS throughout Luke Cage (2016).
• Sin City has a couple of them. The Yellow Bastard carries one and Wallace has one left over from his Navy SEAL days.
• Demolition Man. John Spartan uses two of them in the Action Prologue, though not together, rather having the second pistol as a backup when he loses his first one. After thawing out in 2032, he gets hold of an Inox version, which he uses for most of the film. After losing that, he acquires another Beretta along with a revolver from Edgar Friendly to use in the final battle with Phoenix.
• The military use these in Man of Steel, most notably when Colonel Hardy uses one in a defiant last stand against Faora during the battle of Smallville.
• A common 9mm pistol in the first two Hitman games, with a suppressed variant available. In Hitman 2: Silent Assassin, the suppressed version is available from the beginning of the game.
• The starting handgun in Killing Floor is an M9A1 with an underbarrel weaponlight, referred to as the "9mm Tactical". As per John Woo, it can be paired up for double the fire rate and capacity, but minus the ability to actually look down the sights. Killing Floor 2 features the weapon again as simply the "9mm Pistol", this time a hybrid of various 92 models (92G slide and non-projecting barrel on a 92FS frame with the A1's underbarrel rail and an Inox finish), once again able to be used two at a time as of the "Incinerate 'n Detonate" update.
• A Beretta 92FS has a memorable role in Kingsman: The Secret Service in the famous church brawl, where Harry disarms a churchgoer of one and uses it against his attackers. When it runs dry, he rips the slide off to stab an opponent in the eye before embedding the frame in the same guy's neck.
• The M9 and M9A1 versions appear in The Division as usable weapons, the former as the default starting weapon, the latter as a random drop, called the "Officer's M9 A1", which is fitted with wood grips, an extended magazine to give it a 20-shot capacity, and a talent that lets you deal doubled damage to enemies who are below 30% health.
• The most common pistol in No More Room In Hell and decent overall, holding only two fewer rounds than the Glock. The high capacity is offset by the 9mm caliber's inability to One-Hit Kill an adult zombie unless focused.
• The Avenger in Unturned seems to be based off the Beretta 96. It's a common sight in Military spots, has a nice 13-round magazine and can take Military barrel accessories (extended barrel, suppressor and flash-hider muzzle), with the bad side of being chambered for Military low-caliber ammunition, which is harder to find than Civilian ammo and makes the Avenger compete with the Military assault rifles, limiting its usefulness.
• The M9 and its variants seem to be the standard-issue sidearm of the SCP Foundation, appearing in multiple articles.
• In the final act of JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Golden Wind, Guido Mista grabs a Beretta 92 from a cop to replace his suddenly broken revolver to incapacitate Chariot Requiem.
• The M9 is a 3-star handgun in Girls' Frontline. A ritzy girl who fusses over her appearance and popularity, apparently as a reference to the weapon's ubiquity both in real life and media. She has a rivalry with both M1911 (who doesn't reciprocate) and SIG P226 (who does).
• In Darwin's Game, Kaname's main weapon throughout is a Beretta 92FS.
• The M9A1 is the U.S. sidearm in Squad, with only squad leaders having upgraded to the SIG Sauer M17 so far.
• The last of the three standard handguns in the Director's Cut version of Afraid of Monsters. It's the balanced option between the P228 and Glock, having a slightly higher capacity than the former while doing more damage than the latter.
• Saints Row:
  • Appears as the "VICE 9" in Saints Row, as one of the basic pistols. It's the cheapest option and fires faster than the Glock to make up for the fact that it's by far the weakest gun in the game, not even killing in a single headshot.
  • Saints Row 2 replaced the in-game model with the earlier Beretta Cheetah, but the original model still shows up in multiple cutscenes, most notably the opening to "Visiting Hours" where Ronin assassins use one with a suppressor to kill some of the hospital staff while searching for Johnny Gat.

Beretta Cheetah

"Dodge this."

— Trinity, The Matrix

Acting as the "little brother" to the above-mentioned Beretta 92, the Cheetah series comprises the model numbers 80-89, and is frequently compared to the Walther PP/PPK as the best metal-framed compact pistol ever made. Chambered for the .32 ACP, .380 ACP, and .22 Long Rifle rounds, the Cheetah provides a well-balanced offering of both concealability and firepower (with the most popular model, the 84, holding 13 rounds of .380, more than double that of the PPK). In addition, earlier models possessed a frame-mounted manual safety, allowing for the popular "cocked-and-locked" style carry made famous by the 1911 and Browning Hi-Power. Later models, designated the F and the FS series, have replaced this with a combination safety and decocker similar to the one seen on the Beretta 92.

The Cheetah series was enormously popular in the 80s, as it represented one of the best combinations of features available in a semi-automatic pistol at the time. Relatively speaking, it was light, concealable, and reliable, sidestepping the reliability issues associated with the 92 by virtue of being advertised as a civilian concealed-carry weapon, not as a primary military sidearm. Nowadays, it has lost some of its popularity as improvements in firearms design and manufacturing allowed for the manufacture of cheaper, higher-caliber compact pistols. That said, the gun is still popular with collectors, as the fit and finish of the weapon is still consistently praised.

In January 2023, Beretta revealed a new modernized model of this pistol was in production, the 80X, which features a Picatinny rail, a slide cut for an optics mount, and forward slide serrations.

• The Model 81 is Tony Montana's pistol of choice in Scarface (1983), with Oliver Stone noting that he felt the pistol was integral to Tony's character.
• The Model 84 is Trinity's main sidearm in The Matrix, notably being used in the famous scene where she shoots an Agent at point-blank range. Originally, the script called for her to carry Beretta 92s like Neo's, but Carrie-Anne Moss's smaller frame meant the more compact 84s looked better; in the next two films she does switch it out for compact versions of the 92.
• Paul Kersey uses an 84 to slay several punks in Death Wish II.
• A nickel 84 is carried by the female mercenary in Alien vs. Predator, though it doesn't do her much good.
• Various models are used extensively by Jinx in Die Another Day, both with and without a suppressor.
• The Model 82FS is Cate Archer's signature weapon in No One Lives Forever 2: A Spy In H.A.R.M.'s Way, called the McAllister Handgun, and is sometimes equipped with a suppressor. It is anachronistic for time period the game is set in. It returns in Contract J.A.C.K. as the .32 Handgun, but is only usable through cheats despite its ammo appearing throughout the game.
• Carried by Santino as his sidearm in the climax of John Wick: Chapter 2. Another Cheetah is also used by one of the Bowery King's spies to dispatch two guards.
• A Beretta Cheetah is used to fatally shoot Archie Andrews in the penultimate issue of Life With Archie: The Married Life.
• The Model 84F is Aya Brea's starting handgun in Parasite Eve. Its compact size (for 1997) makes sense for her to be carrying as the game starts with her on a date at the opera in an evening gown.
• Saints Row:
  • In Saints Row 2, the 84F takes over as the "VICE 9", replacing the full-size Beretta 92 used in the first game (though every other cutscene still has characters using the original model).
  • The "Saint of All Saints" statue in the Saints' headquarters in that game, and the copies of it in all the Planet Saints stores in The Third, also pose with a pair of them, appropriate given the statue's existence is a Shout-Out to the above Scarface.
• Tony Soprano uses an 85 BB on several occasions in The Sopranos, befitting his Italian heritage.

Beretta Px4 Storm

State of the art semi-automatic pistol designed for customization. Holds a 10-round magazine capacity.

— Description, Splinter Cell: Blacklist

Introduced in 2004, the Beretta Px4 Storm is the latest of Beretta's line of handguns. It borrows elements from Beretta's existing handgun designs, including the 8000 series' rotating barrel action (necessitating a fully enclosed slide), and the 92's safety and trigger, but is otherwise built with many modern pistol concepts, including an underbarrel accessory rail, modular trigger group, changeable backstraps, and being made from polymer, similar to the Glock.

The Px4 comes in several different models with different trigger groups, along with compact and subcompact versions. It is currently chambered in either 9x19mm, .40 S&W or .45 ACP.

• The eponymous main character of Canaan uses the Type G variant of the Storm (SA/DA variant with decocker only, no manual safety).
• Alex Murphy (before becoming RoboCop) and his partner Jack carry Beretta Px4s as their primary weapon in RoboCop (2014).
• The main character's weapon in Colombiana is a Px4.
• Appears in The Cabin in the Woods as the standard sidearm for facility guards.
• Dominic Cobb's primary weapon in Inception.
• The standard and subcompact variants both appear in the reboot of The A-Team.
• After losing his primary weapon, John McClane takes a Px4 off one of his opponents, and uses it for the second half of Live Free or Die Hard.
• The subcompact variant is Detective Christian Walker's primary weapon in Powers.
• The starting handgun in Watch_Dogs. Despite using the full-size Px4 model, it has a 10-round magazine capacity, which is more consistent with the subcompact variant (short of it being in .45, which it doesn't seem to be). This may be justified by Chicago's Real Life gun laws, which forbids semi-auto pistols with magazine capacities greater than 10 rounds.
• Appears as the default handgun in Splinter Cell: Blacklist, where it also appears as the sidearm of US Military soldiers in the Detention Facility level.
• Also appears in Resident Evil 5 Mercenaries mode as the handgun that Jill Valentine uses in her BSAA costume.
• Whenever Ian has to appear as a police officer, Smosh arms him with a Px4. For comedic purposes, he never needs to reload.
• Appears as a usable weapon in The Division and its sequel, both in its standard form in 9mm and the Special Duty version with a slightly extended barrel in .45.
• Appears in the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 versions of Ghost Recon: Advanced Warfighter 2, as a usable sidearm for the player and always equipped in your teammate's holsters. It always fits extended magazines to give it a 20-round capacity, and can also fit a suppressor.

Borchardt C93

The C93 was the first mass-produced semi-automatic pistol. The design of its toggle lock mechanism served as the precursor for the now legendary P08.

—Description, Battlefield 1

The very first mass-produced semi-automatic pistol, this weapon was designed by Hugo Borchardt and used the same toggle lock system that would later be used by the Luger. In fact, Georg Luger was Borchardt's assistant and modified the design of the C93 and scaled it down to create the Luger. The weapon was considered by the American and Swiss militaries, but they found that while it was accurate and fired rapidly, it was heavy, poorly balanced, had too much recoil, its grip was unergonomic and it was too expensive. Allegedly, when Hugo Borchardt was asked to modify the design to address the issues of the C93, he was insulted by the request and refused to make any changes, believing it to be perfect as-is, hence the job came down to Georg Luger instead.

In addition to its design influencing the Luger, its 7.65mm cartridge was the basis for several automatic pistol cartridges, including the .30 Luger and the 9mm Parabellum. While being the first mass-produced semi-auto pistol, the total number of C93s produced is relatively low compared to those that come after it due to the weapon's technical issues, with about 3,000 total manufactured between two companies.

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Anime and Manga

• Steamboy. Alfred Svenson uses one to shoot Ray's grandfather.
• Golden Kamuy has a C93 as Lt. Tsurumi's main sidearm.

Film

• Russian film Planet of Storms (aka Planeta Bur / Планета бурь). Engineer Allan Kern carries one.

Video Games

• Red Dead Redemption under the generic "Semi-Auto Pistol" name. Dutch carries one and John can make use of one. It returns for the prequel, though not as Dutch's weapon.
• The Order: 1886 as the C-78 Autoloading Pistol. Its appearance is anachronistic, but fitting given the game's Schizo Tech nature.
• Battlefield 1 has the C93 as a potential sidearm, unlocked when Rank 10 is reached with the Support Class. Naturally, considering the setting, this gun is joined by its successor, the P08.
• A 5-star Tactical Doll in Girls' Frontline. An attention-seeker who loves bugs , going as far as to scatter pollen on her clothes to attract them, with her kit based about attack buffs (represented by butterflies) that she can give to her allies. Fitting her German origins, she wears a gray uniform matching those worn by WW1-era German soldiers and a tiny Pickelhaube.
• Hot Dogs, Horseshoes, and Hand Grenades features the Borchardt pistol in all its antique glory.

Bren Ten

Kern: New Bren 10's pretty nice, eh, Burnett?
Crockett: It's all right.

—Miami Vice

In the late 1970s, American designers Thomas Dornaus and Michael Dixon sought to build a semi-automatic pistol to bridge the gap between existing semi-automatics and revolvers. At the time, semi-autos were usually chambered in smaller, less powerful rounds, while revolvers were then as now limited by their small cartridge capacities and slow reloading. Dornaus and Dixon started the development process in late 1979, and sought advice from a number of firearms experts. They soon found that iconic firearms instructor Jeff Cooper was already working on a similar concept, and the three then went into business as Dornaus & Dixon.

The pistol itself was loosely based on the famed CZ 75, but heavily modified to enable it to handle more powerful rounds than most semi-autos of the day used. The original prototype was chambered in .45 ACP, but Cooper insisted that the production gun be chambered in what he called the .40 Special — a cartridge of the same length as the .45 ACP, but of .40 caliber, or 10mm. The cartridge would soon be renamed the 10mm Auto, and Cooper renamed the pistol the Bren Ten. This would be the first gun chambered for that cartridge. While most of the production run was chambered in 10mm, some models were chambered in .45 ACP, and a factory .45 conversion kit was available for the 10mm models.

The company took orders for the new gun starting in 1982, with the first production guns being shipped in 1983. However, the Bren Ten had many quality control problems, most notably its magazines, with some pistols shipping with missing or inoperable magazines. Another issue was its high price; it retailed for $500 (equivalent to over $1200 in 2021). The company produced only about 1,500 pistols before going belly-up in 1986, and several later attempts to resurrect the design failed, resulting in the short-lived "Bren Ten Curse" - one company, Peregrine Industries, fell victim to a savings and loan crisis and went bust before they could sell a single pistol.

The main legacy of the Bren Ten is its cartridge. The FBI adopted the 10mm Auto as its primary cartridge in 1989, but soon concluded it generated too much recoil for most agents and police officers, and that pistols chambered for it were too large for individuals with small hands. They then went to Smith & Wesson and asked them to develop a reduced-velocity version; S&W realized that they could reduce the length of the cartridge so that it would fit in medium-frame 9mm handguns while meeting the FBI's performance needs. S&W teamed with Winchester to produce a shortened version of the 10mm Auto that became the .40 S&W, which the FBI soon adopted; it has been one of the most popular law enforcement and self-defense rounds ever since, though not without some controversy early in its life, thanks to several early designs for the cartridge simply being .40 barrels stuck onto existing 9mm frames, resulting in a few exploding from overpressure. As for the 10mm Auto itself, the FBI still issues it to its Hostage Rescue Team and SWAT teams, and it remains modestly popular for self-defense and more so for hunting, and in fact has seen something of a resurgence in the modern day for its ability to reach noticeably higher velocities than other pistol bullets. Notably, it's one of the few rimless semi-automatic cartridges that's legal for hunting deer in many US states.

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Film

• John Practice uses a two-tone "Peregrine Falcon" variant to hold up Slater in Last Action Hero.

Live-Action TV

• The Bren Ten was one of the pistols Sonny Crockett carried in the first two seasons of Miami Vice, and much of its rise and fall is visible within that show: many of its sales were driven by its appearance in his hands, but as production shortfalls and its notoriously bad quality control drove Dornaus & Dixon to bankruptcy, Crockett switched to the decidedly less-rare S&W Model 645 in the third season and Model 4506 for the fifth, due to the production refusing to use guns that were not in active production.

Video Games

• The Bren Ten appears in Girls' Frontline as a 2-star handgun. In reference to the so-called Bren Ten Curse, she's worried that her adoption will lead to the bankruptcy of Griffin & Kryuger and the Commander.

Browning Hi-Power

"Is that a British Army Browning L9A1 in your pocket, or are you just pleased to see me?"

— Jim Moriarty, Sherlock

A 9mm pistol originally designed by John Browning for Belgian arms company Fabrique Nationale, and finished after his death by FN designer Dieudonne Saive, this pistol was first released in 1935, and has seen continuous service since then.

In the 1920s, France began looking to adopt a new service pistol, requiring, among other things, it to have a magazine disconnect device, external hammer, positive manual safety, a range of at least 50 meters, and a magazine capacity of at least 10 rounds. Browning designed a locked-breech pistol, incorporating Dieudonne Saive's invention of the double-stack magazine, giving it an unprecedented 13 rounds of 9x19mm ammunition in the magazine. After the M1911's patents expired in 1928, Saive, who had taken over development of the weapon after Browning's death, incorporated a number of the 1911's features into the weapon, colloquially known as the BHP, P-35, BAP (Browning Automatic Pistol), and the "King of Nines." France ultimately chose not to adopt the weapon, but Belgium did.

The weapon would go on to be used by both sides in WWII^note Canada issued Hi-Powers manufactured locally by Inglis as the Pistol, No.2, which gained sufficient popularity with the British that they officially adopted it after the war. After Belgium fell, the Germans seized FN's Herstal plant and picked up its Hi-Power as the Pistole 1935, which was primarily adopted by the Luftwaffe but also frequently seen in army and SS hands. Nationalist China also secured 40,000 Inglis Hi-Powers before the contract ended in 1945., most NATO and nonaligned nations during the Cold War, and still widely used today, and is one of the most common firearms outside of the United States (where the 1911 is still king).

The single action Browning HP can be seen as a successor to the 1911, to which it is very similar in design. The bar cam short recoil action pioneered in the Hi-Power was designed to get around the patent on the toggle-link design of the 1911 (which Browning had sold to Colt), and has since become more common than the original 1911 design. The Hi-Power also inherited the 1911's indestructibility—it always works. Due to the magazine disconnect attached to the trigger bar,^note A relic of the original French military requirement. The disconnect was retained because the Belgian military wanted to make sure magazines didn't drop free on their own when released, and conveniently enough the existing magazine disconnect design already did this. While modern shooters consider it a very good thing for magazines to cleanly drop free when released, so as to enable faster reloading, the Belgian generals at the time were more worried about their troops simply throwing away empty magazines and thus requiring a constant purchase of replacement mags. the trigger pull is often very tough for a single action pistol; many users often say "screw the warranty" and remove it. Most Hi-Powers built during the Nazi occupation of Belgium lack the magazine disconnect (a cost-cutting measure rather than an an attempt to improve the trigger pull), while the ones made in Canada by Inglis for the Allies retained it. Decades later FN designed a new magazine disconnect for use in a specialized competition version of the Hi-Power that didn't adversely affect trigger pull, but it was deemed too expensive for inclusion in the standard models. Like the 1911, it's old enough that clones can legally be made without the permission of FN/Browning, and many are. Some are exact copies, while others try to "improve" the original Browning/Saive design with varying degrees of success.

As time went on, the Hi-Power started to find itself outclassed and outperformed by handguns that were lighter, cheaper, and had bigger magazine capacities. The death knell for the Hi-Power truly came when the British military moved to abandon the platform and switched to Glocks in 2013. With its biggest user base gone, the Hi-Power slowly saw its fortunes decline and sales drop, and rumors abounded in 2017 in the firearms community that the gun had been discontinued. These rumors were finally confirmed in January 2018 when the Browning Arms Company updated its website to show that the Hi-Power was indeed discontinued after 82 years of production.

While the Canadian Armed Forces still use the Hi-Power as their primary service pistol, they rely on a massive stockpile of pistols from John Inglis Co. to get replacement parts. The reason for the stockpile was that the National Revolutionary Army of the Republic of China had also used the pistol, and ordered a massive number, only for that order to fall through due to their poor logistics and obvious reasons. As such, Canada ended up with both the Hi-Powers they ordered from Inglis and the Chinese order, put a bunch of them in grease for long term storage, and just take some out when they need some parts. Inglis went on to become an appliance manufacturer, completely leaving the military manufacturing field in 1962, before being bought out by Whirlpool, so the replacement parts are just as old as the pistols themselves. This hasn't worked out very well in the long run, as the average Canadian Hi-Power is now 75 years old, many from the first production run, and several of them have had very bad reliability issues because of their age. There was one case in 2017 where the Canadian Army took 20 Hi-Powers to the Armed Forces Skill At Arms shooting competition in North Little Rock, Arkansas in the States; during the initial warmup, 15 of them jammed so badly they couldn't safely be used for the rest of the competition. The CAF wanted to replace them for years, but couldn't for the longest time, taking them until 2022 to decide on a replacement, and the replacement process wouldn't begin until mid-2023^note The reasons why they couldn't were because the government wouldn't give them the money to do so, and the CAF has an extremely slow procurement process that often results in leadership changing before the process can actually finish, resulting in the new leadership having to start the whole process over, which ironically has lead to it costing far more than it should. To give you an idea of how bad it is, in 2016, the Canadian Department of National Defence estimated that they wouldn't be able to replace the Hi-Power until 2026, and the program to do so will cost at least $50 million CDN. In 2011, when the British Army decided to replace the Hi-Power with the Glock 17 (as detailed above), it took them two years and cost them the equivalent of $15 million CDN. In case you are wondering, they decided on the SIG Sauer P320 Nevertheless, the Hi-Power remains in use with many Third World militaries around the world, and is currently still being license-produced by Ishapore Arms in India.

The end of the Hi-Power later turned out to be short-lived: 3 years after its supposed demise, Turkish manufacturer Girsan announced the release of the MC P35 in September 2021, a Hi-Power clone that almost perfectly stays true to the original design other than increasing the capacity of the gun from 13 to 15 rounds. A mere month later, American manufacturer Springfield Armory also announced their SA-35, another largely faithful clone of the gun that also harkens back to its earlier incarnations but removes the much-maligned magazine disconnect safety. Finally, at SHOT Show 2022, FN America revealed its own revival in the form of the "High Power," although seasoned users of the original design have noted this particular gun has not much in common with John Browning's masterpiece other than a cursory visual similarity.

• Indiana Jones uses one in a bar shootout in Raiders of the Lost Ark.^*He was originally intended to carry a 1911 for at least this scene; the producers went with a Hi-Power since 9mm blanks at the time were more reliable. He's later seen with an anachronistic Inglis Hi-Power aboard the Bantu Wind.
• Vodka from Case Closed uses this as his personal sidearm.
• In Casino Royale (2006), James Bond grabs one from a Madagascar diplomat during the Le Parkour chase scene.
  • Alec Trevelyan's sidearms in GoldenEye are both upgrades based on the Hi-Power, primarily the upgraded BDM, but in the opening at Arkhangelsk he's also seen with the BDA in one scene (presumably meant to use it more often for that part, since it was the only one of the two that actually existed in 1986 when that opening is set).
• The main characters of The Usual Suspects. In the audio commentary, the filmmakers point out how another type of gun turns into a Browning Hi-Power in between cuts.
• Axel Foley in Beverly Hills Cop.
• Batou in Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex carries a fictional .45 ACP version of the Browning BDA, an upgraded Hi-Power which competed with the above Beretta 92 to replace the M1911 in US military use, which is called the "M-7" in technical drawings. Beyond the .45 conversion, it differs from the real gun mostly in a slightly shortened slide.
• Resident Evil:
  • In Resident Evil 2, it's the starting weapon for Claire Redfield and Ada Wong, presumably the standard handgun of the RPD as Claire gets hers from the glove compartment of a cop car, and the opening of Resident Evil 3: Nemesis has regular cops using them as well before they're overwhelmed by zombies. It's still in the 2019 remake as the "JMB Hp3"; it's not a starting weapon anymore (Claire gets an S&W Model 60 and Ada a Mauser HSc), though it is available as an upgrade in Claire's scenario, dealing better base damage than her starting revolver with a much higher magazine capacity (especially with extended magazines) and a Laser Sight, though it can't take the High-Powered Ammo.
  • It also sees a brief appearance in the opening of Code Veronica, where Claire continues using it during her infiltration of Umbrella's Paris office, before it's confiscated by security and she switches to a Beretta 93R for the actual game.
  • Resident Evil: Outbreak File #2 also features it as the "Handgun HP", replacing the Beretta as the standard handgun used in the "Desperate Times" scenario; it's slightly stronger, especially at range (since damage doesn't fall off with this gun), but it holds less ammo per magazine.
• Lara Croft's dual pistols in the original Core Design created Tomb Raider games seemed to be modeled on the Browning HP.
• Doctor Who. Wielded by The Brigadier, and the standard sidearm for every UNIT Soldier until it was replaced by the SIG P226. It made a comeback in the episode "Cold War". Oddly enough, its appearance in the episode was a case of Improperly Placed Firearms, as the sailors should really have been carrying a Makarov PM.
• Anita Blake's favorite weapon.
• In Burning Water by Mercedes Lackey, Mark Valdez equips Diana Tregarde with a Browning 9mm.
• Common weapon in Fallout: New Vegas, simply called 9mm Pistol. Benny carries a unique variant with engravings and decorated grips, called "Maria".
• 7.62 High Calibre has these, though they're fairly rare, and usually outclassed by the time they show up.
• In L.A. Noire Jack Kelso uses one as his sidearm. One of the DLC suits allows Cole to use one in place of his 1911. The only difference between the two guns is magazine capacity.
• Finally makes its Call of Duty debut in Call of Duty: Black Ops II, where it appears in the '80s flashback missions. It's used quite prominently by Mason and Woods in two early cutscenes, and can be selected for any mission on the loadout screen. Its stats are essentially a copy-paste of the FNP-45 available in the future levels and multiplayer, including an incorrect 10-round magazine (only .40 S&W HPs were designed to carry a maximum of ten rounds, but the cartridge didn't even exist in The '80s, nevermind HPs chambered for it - though that would be suitable for a sequel to the Anachronism Stew-laden Black Ops) that is increased to the correct 13 rounds with the "Extended Clip" attachment.
• The Hi-Power is Jonah's primary sidearm in Jormungand.
• The Hi-Power shows up in the hands of Mac in Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull. It's fitted with some modifications that weren't available on the gun until a decade or two later, though the hammer (a ring hammer rather than a spur) is correct for a Hi-Power from The '50s.
• Used by Murdock in The A-Team., and in the series as well.
• In Red Dawn (2012), it's used by four of the good guys.
• Mounted on a wheelchair in Johnny English Reborn.
• A chrome version◊ is used by Rick in Season 1 of The Walking Dead (2010).
• The main sidearm of many characters in Ultimate Force.
• The Browning Hi-Power Practical◊ is used by Clive in Rush Hour.
• Tintin occasionally carries one when a handgun is needed, and uses a Hi-Power to shoot down a plane in The Adventures of Tintin (2011).
• Deciding he needs More Dakka in a corrupt police department where his backup might be 'late' or even hostile, Serpico gets one as a backup to his NYPD revolver.
• Sees some use in all the normal endings of Cry of Fear; in most variations Simon commits suicide with it, and in the best one he uses it to kill the manifestation of his suicidal thoughts... which still translates to ventilating some cops in the real world.
• Shows up as the "HPSS-1m" in the S.T.A.L.K.E.R. series. It was Dummied Out from the first game, and is surprisingly powerful; later games feature it regularly, where other pistols of its caliber are better but it serves as a nice early upgrade from the Makarov and Fort-12.
• Rally once spent an entire chapter of Gunsmith Cats fine-tuning a Browning for Becky, during which she admits that while she loves her CZ-75, she has to admit that the Hi-Power was so well designed that it hasn't had a single major change since it came out in 1935.
• Ray Velcoro carries one in the second season of True Detective.
• Commandant Quinlan uses one as a Ranged Emergency Weapon towards the end of The Siege of Jadotville when his FN FAL runs dry. He only seems to have one magazine for it, as it shares ammunition with the Carl Gustav submachine guns used by his NCOs, where the 9mm rounds are put to better use.
• In Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice, General Amajagh uses one to hold Lois Lane hostage at gunpoint.
• Frank Farmer carries one as his weapon in The Bodyguard
• Carried by Captain James Conrad in a shoulder holster in Kong: Skull Island.
• Appears in Mafia III as the Elling 9mm, with less recoil and a higher capacity than the M1911A1 or the Smith & Wesson Model 39.
• Mad Max: Fury Road has Max obtaining a Hi-Power at the Green Place and using it as his sidearm for the rest of the film, firing it at Slit during the final chase.
• The Hi-Power shows up in Day of Infamy as the British army's sidearm, their automatic option over the Webley revolver. In contrast to the American army's choice of a .45 handgun or a .45 revolver, it holds more than double the capacity, but it's also noticeably weaker.
• The Hi-Power is available as the standard sidearm for the Australian forces in Rising Storm 2: Vietnam, including an adjustable rear sight.
• The standard Pistol in the first two Turok games, especially the first, bears a noticeable resemblance to the Hi-Power.
• Appears under the "HP-35" name as a 5-star Handgun in Girls' Frontline. Befitting the "King of Nines" nickname, she's normally rather sophisticated, though in battle she becomes much more ruthless. She also enjoys riding bikes, but isn't very good at it.
• The Nintendo 64 port of Duke Nukem 3D replaces the vaguely-Glock-shaped handgun with what appears to be a Hi-Power (going by the design and placement of the slide release◊) that's fitted with a Laser Sight. Other than looks it's identical in function to the PC version's Glock, including reloads with every twelve bullets.
• The Hi-Power is the sidearm of both the Canadian Army and the Middle Eastern Alliance in Squad.

Colt M1911 and derivatives

"Whoever did this is a professional. No question - this thing could shoot a one-hole at 25 yards in a machine rest."

— Big Boss praising his custom 1911, Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater

A weapon over a century old, the M1911 is a single-action semi-automatic pistol chambered in .45 ACP; it is iconic in gun culture and widely seen as one of the best handguns ever designed.

The M1911 was the result of legendary firearms designer John Browning's continued research in trying to make his original Colt M1900 a good service weapon AND a good commercial weapon for civilian sales. The original M1900 had two barrel pivot links (one at the muzzle and one near the chamber), an open-ended slide (so that the barrel could pivot at both ends), a safety catch integrated with the rear iron sight (a bad idea for frontline service), and a heel-style magazine release. The original cartridge was the hotly-loaded .38 ACP, which had to be dialed down after several pistols literally exploded from over-pressured barrels. The later .45 ACP was developed because smaller rounds had trouble one-shot-stopping frenzied or determined opponents (this was a case where the older .45 Colt revolver round proved better than the newer but weak, inaccurate, and unreliable .38 Long Colt). Browning's development by 1910 eventually eliminated the muzzle pivot link, installed a barrel bushing to support the barrel's muzzle end (and also to prevent mud from getting into the slide), proper safety catches, and moved the magazine release from the heel to the thumb-button next to the trigger guard.

At around the same time, the US military was looking to adopt a semi-automatic service pistol. Colt's 1910 prototype entrant pistol beat out all other competitors, and after one more change, was adopted in 1911. It would serve as the United States Armed Forces' service pistol from World War I until The '80s, when it was replaced by the Beretta M9, except for the United States Marine Corps, which simply updated to the Colt M45, an upgraded variant of the M1911. While most of the USMC joined the rest of the USAF in adopting the SIG Sauer M17/M18, as of 2019 Force Recon still continues to use the M45A1, an updated version of the M45.

Other users included Argentina, Bangladesh, Bolivia, Brazil, Canada, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, the Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Greece, Japan, Mexico, the Philippines, Spain, South Korea, South Vietnam, Taiwan, Thailand and Turkey (with many building their own versions). The UK also supplied Colt M1911A1s to their special forces soldiers and pilots during WWII. It remains a popular weapon today with special forces units, law enforcement, and civilians.

The M1911 has since been copied by nearly every gun manufacturer worth its salt. Due to its age, any firearms manufacturer can make an exact copy of the M1911, without permission from or royalty payments to Colt. And they do. Not to mention various "improvements", a few of which even offer legitimate advantages. Dozens of variants exist, manufactured by companies like Kimber, Smith & Wesson, Para Ordnance and Remington, and it is a common starting point for custom pistols. The pistol's looks are also recognizable enough that if a semiautomatic handgun is seen in a comic book, it tends to look like an M1911.

A major reason for the M1911's popularity in the US was because the modern pistol technique, originally taught by Colonel Jeff Cooper, favored the M1911 - Cooper was one of the gun's most devout users, and many chose to follow his example.^note This isn't necessarily bad, mind you - Jeff Cooper was one of the most well-regarded experts in history regarding the use of pistols in combat. The "condition codes" that have been frequently adapted for a handgun's state of being loaded and ready were originally created in reference to the M1911 as well. The Assault Weapons Ban of 1994 also saw a resurgence in the weapon's popularity - the logic was that if you were limited to 10-round magazines, you might as well get something that's going to make each shot count.

The 1911 is a single-action semiautomatic^note Meaning it can only fire when the hammer is fully cocked. Unlike a single-action revolver, it doesn't need to be manually cocked between shots, as the hammer is cocked each time the slide cycles. It is actually designed to be carried in "Condition One:" loaded, chambered, cocked, with the safety engaged utilizing Browning's tilting-barrel short-recoil system (which has become the standard for most semiauto pistols, including Glock) and feeding from a single-stack magazine.^note Double-stack 1911s are made by Para Ordnance, among others It also has multiple redundant safeties: a thumb safety switch which completely locks the action when engaged, a half-cock notch on the hammer^note some 1911s have two such notches which can stop it if triggered accidentally, a grip safety that disconnects the trigger when released,^note Sometimes pinned in place on some custom guns. The grip safety is a point of contention among the gun's detractors, but its supposed drawbacks are often exaggerated and a retention spring that keeps the firing pin from resting on (or even near) the primer of the chambered round. The single-action trigger is very crisp and light, making it easy to shoot accurately, especially for new shooters who tend to improperly engage the trigger. A huge market exist for after-market parts and custom tuning. Triggers, hammers, grip panels, grip safeties, slides, sights—hell, it is fairly easy (and legal) to simply buy a whatever loose parts you like and assemble your own Frankengun from scratch.^note Actual results may vary, depending on how well random parts from different manufacturers play together, unless your gunsmithing skills are sufficient to do your own hand-fitting. Any 1911 parts built according to MilSpec guidelines will drop right in and function just fine (a 1942 test had pistols from four different manufacturers completely disassembled, all parts placed in one box, the box was shaken thoroughly, and four guns were assembled from the mixed-up parts and torture-tested; they all passed), but not all manufacturers make their stuff according to MilSpec.

In addition to the standard .45, 1911s are also in various other chamberings, like the .38 Super and the aforementioned 9mm. Compact models sometimes come in .380, and a few high-end builders offer 10mm and .50 GI.

As a side note, Hollywood productions up until the late 1980s tend to use the Star Model B, a Spanish 9x19mm clone, or 1911s chambered in 9mm as a stand-in for actual .45 1911s due to a lack of reliable .45 ACP blanks. While modern .45 blanks are largely reliable, some films and television productions still use 9mm variants as stand-ins.

• This weapon is shown in most WWII movies and video games, since it was the standard-issue US sidearm at the time. As a historical footnote, M1911s manufactured under license in Norway from 1916 onwards continued to be produced for the German occupation forces during WWII, being designated Pistole 657(n). In other words, even Those Wacky Nazis used this to a certain extent.
• Very frequently depicted being waved around (and often fired) with the hammer down, though occasionally this is to set up a Dramatic Gun Cock.

Anime & Manga

• An M1911 is Avilio Bruno's preferred weapon in 91 Days.
• Assassination Classroom. The standard anti-sensei sidearms of Class 3-E's students are modeled after an M1911.
• Roberta of Black Lagoon primarily uses a pair of South American-made Sistema Colt Modelo 1927 pistols. The Special Forces unit in the OVA can also be seen using the M1911 as a side-arm; their leader, Major Caxton, appears to have a pearl grip on his.
• Nadie in El Cazador de la Bruja.
• Inspector Zenigata, from Lupin III carries a Colt .45 for his weapon of choice.
• Shows up in Sailor Moon. Unbelievably enough, the wielder is Chibiusa (thankfully, it was a fake).
• In That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime: This is the personal side-arm of Major General Farraga of the Eastern Empire. Unlike many guns in the Eastern Empire, which were recreated from Otherworlder knowledge, Farraga's Colt Government 1911 is a genuine article brought over by an Otherworlder, which Farraga acquired and cherishes so much he never misses a day of maintenance.

Comic Books

• An M1911 is often, though not always, shown as the gun used by Joe Chill to kill Thomas and Martha Wayne.
• The M1911 itself is very common in the mainstream Marvel universe, with practically all the common criminals in NYC using them to perform bank robberies, shoot at the hero or mug victims in alleys.^note  Real-life statistics indicate that most street criminals use whatever guns are cheaply available from black market dealers, which means the 1911 is relatively rare (though not unheard of) on the wrong side of the law. This wasn’t always the case, of course.
  • One of the signature weapons and favored sidearms of The Punisher, fitting for a Vietnam veteran.
  • In The Punisher MAX, he happily does target practice with his favorite M1911A1 in Central Park, heaping praise on the gun.
• The Shadow wielded a pair of these.
• Very popular in Sin City. Dwight and Manute are fond of carrying them in pairs and Marv named his "Gladys".
• The Comedian from Watchmen uses one to unsuccessfully attempt to defend himself before being tossed out the window of his apartment and during his stint in Vietnam to kill his pregnant girlfriend. In the film, he owns a pair of custom 1911s that were implied to be a gift from Richard Nixon.

Film

• Hannibal Smith's weapon in The A-Team is an updated custom variant. In the Action Prologue, he removes the firing pin from it, which he uses as a lockpick to undo his handcuffs. He then simply shoves it into the back of the slide, which wouldn't actually be possible unless it was already missing one or two other important parts.
• In Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice, a Colt M1911A1 is the gun used to kill Thomas and Martha Wayne. Batman himself carries and uses a blued Colt MK IV Series 80 with faux ivory grips during the Knightmare sequence (but unfortunately has far more bad guys than bullets). Outside of the dream sequence, this version of Batman is notable for not being afraid to put holes in bad guys.
• One of Captain America's two weapons of choice in Captain America: The First Avenger, the other being his vibranium shield.
• Castor Troy's guns of choice in Face/Off - gold-plated, fitted with custom grips and carried in a special double holster. As it's a John Woo movie, he uses them Guns Akimbo.
• Gen. Joe Coulton owns one in G.I. Joe: Retaliation, as seen in the Lock-and-Load Montage. Moreso, as Roadblock points out, the same gun owned by Gen. Patton (Coulton explains that Patton's family gave it to him). Coulton then gives it to Road Block "for when he meets Cobra Commander again."
• Lt. Vincent Hanna's sidearm in Heat is a Series 80 M1991A1 Colt Officer's ACP with ivory grips.
• In Bruges. Harry buys one from Yuri after dismissing an Uzi, referring to the M1911A1 he selects as "a normal gun for a normal person". He loads it with "dum-dums", even though he says he knows he shouldn't. They end up overpenetrating when he shoots Ray and blowing the head off Jimmy. Because Jimmy is a dwarf dressed in a school uniform, Harry thinks that he has killed a child and kills himself out of shame over it.
• John Wick: Chapter 2 has John being given a Kimber Warrior by the Bowery King for his attack on the Continental. During the final battle, several henchmen also use M1911s. Its sequel, John Wick: Chapter 3 – Parabellum, features a STI 2011 customized by TTI during another assault on the Continental, only Wick is defending it this time. Notably, the 2011 is specifically referred to be chambered for 9mm "Major" loads, which surpasses standard +P.
• Used by Marlow in Kong: Skull Island as his sidearm. Notably, he draws it in the beginning to try and shoot Gunpei, but misses every shot as his opponent stares in amazement. When we see him in the film's present, he still has it, although he prefers to use his shin-gunto sword. Several of Packard's men carry these as well, though they remain in their holsters in favor of their M16A1s.
• Dual-wielded by John Smith in Last Man Standing, as well as Hickey. Funnily enough, the 1911 is depicted as a Hand Cannon when it's in Smith's hands, able to send its targets flying through windows with a few shots.
• In Letters from Iwo Jima, General Kuribayashi, the Japanese commander of the defense of the island carries a very nice custom M1911 with ivory grips, leading his soldiers to believe that he took it from a dead American. Turns out he received it as a going-away gift from a group of American officers who he was friends with before the war began.

  A hundred years and four wars old, and those for the United States alone. Its replacement proved its worth by immediately going wrong. Seven in the magazine and one in the chamber. Half the capacity of modern handguns - but eight fat forty-fives, with twice the impact, half the recoil of nine-millimeter rounds. All you have to do is put them where you want them.

• Vincent and Jules in Pulp Fiction both carry 1911s. Jules carries a Star 9mm (which has a long history of being used as a film stand-in for the 1911, since it's easier to adapt for blanks), and Vincent carries an Auto-Ordinance in the original .45 ACP.
• In the The Punisher (2004), Frank Castle is seen dual wielding Colt Customs made by his father.
• Red (2010) has Frank Moses carry one as his weapon. Being older yet still useful, it's a fitting choice for him.
• Sam from Ronin (1998) favours an M1991A1, a modernized version. Spence discusses his weapon, noting that Sam's .45 is an old gun. Sam tells him that it's served his country well.
• Steven Seagal uses them in a number of his movies, most notably Under Siege, Hard to Kill and On Deadly Ground. This even extends to Real Life, as he carries a custom 1911 as part of his deputy sherriff's duties, or at least on Steven Seagal: Lawman.
• Baby Doll wields a 1911 and a katana throughout the stylized action sequences of Sucker Punch.
• The Terminator Franchise:
  • In The Terminator, the eponymous character uses an AMT Hardballer with 7" slide and large laser sight on top.
  • In Terminator 2: Judgment Day, the Terminator takes a "Coltonics" (Colt Series 70 slide mounted on the frame of a Detonics Score Master; this specific one was further modified with Pachmayr grips, an ambidextrous safety lever, and a conversion to 9mm to use more reliable blanks) from one of the bikers in the opening Bar Brawl, and Sarah makes ironic use of a custom longslide 1911 when she goes to kill Dyson. Interestingly, rather then going for a longslide 1911 from the outset, the prop used the slide from a compact Detonics Combat Master and added a barrel extension.^note Also, doubly ironic, the prop was originally built in 1984 for the Tom Selleck film Runaway, which was poised to become the big Hollywood hit of that year, if not for being upstaged by a B-movie from a then-unknown director - aka the original The Terminator. A security guard at a mental hospital also makes very brief use of a nickel-plated and pearl-gripped 1911 before the Terminator shoots out his kneecaps and takes ammo from him.
• An anachronistic nickel-plated M1911A1 is used by Cal toward the end of Titanic (1997). While the basic 1911 existed at the time, the civilian version had only been available for about a month and the A1 didn't exist until 1926.
• The favored weapon of Sgt. Major Plumley in We Were Soldiers.
• At the end of The World Is Not Enough, Bond uses one to kill Elektra King. She tries to persuade him not to shoot, telling him that he'll miss her. One headshot later, he retorts with "I never miss."
• An M1911A1 is featured prominently in a scene from X-Men: First Class in which Magneto asks Xavier to shoot him in the head, as he can stop the bullet before it hits him.

Literature

• Able Team series by Dick Stivers. Not having faith in 9mm, Carl Lyons used a Colt M1911 extensively customised to give it the same qualities as the Beretta 93Rs wielded by his partners.
• A staple of the Destroyermen series. 1911s from USS Walker's small arms locker frequently ride the belts of Captain Matt Reddy, Gunner's Mate Dennis Silva, and Sergeant Pete Alden, all of whom get plenty of use out them. A few are given to high-ranking Lemurian commanders as well, with Lord Rolak especially prizing his. Eventually the Baalkpan Armory starts making them, and they become the standard-issue sidearm of the Grand Alliance.
• The private eye narrator in the Doctor Who New Adventures novel Blood Harvest uses one. "Some people say the old 1911 Model Army Colt Automatic is big and clumsy and noisy, and I guess it is. But hit a man anywhere with the slug from a .45 and he'll go down and stay down." This gets a Meaningful Echo near the end of the novel when he finds that even a vampire will be severely inconvenienced by the slug from a .45.
• Honor Harrington in the Honorverse series of books by David Weber uses a 1911 variant. The books take place 2,000 years in the future, and the standard firearms are pocket-sized rapid-fire mass drivers (called Pulsers) that can turn unarmored targets into hamburger meat ^*Against armored opponents, it mostly only gets their attention. She was introduced to the old-fashioned weapon by her uncle, who was an active member of the Society of Creative Anachronisms. The weapon, and her familiarity with it, has come in very handy from time to time, though she normally uses modern weaponry, including a Pulser concealed in her prosthetic arm.
• James Bond:
  • Bond wields one in From A View To A Kill, where he's nearly killed in a stakeout because he kept the safety catch on by accident.
  • In Trigger Mortis, Bond uses a Remington 1911 when he arrives in the United States.
• Kämpfer: Akane Mishima is an M1911 wielder, although hers has some odd variations to it.
• Preferred 'rod' of private eye Mike Hammer, a World War II veteran. Stacy Keach used one in the 1980s TV series (unlike some other screen adaptations of Mickey Spillane's character) which he called "Betsy".
• The M1911A1 is the primary weapon of 1st Lieutenant Jimmy Cross in The Things They Carried, described as weighing 2.9 pounds fully loaded. He also gives it to whoever gets selected for "tunnel rat" duty, although unlike actual tunnel rats, his men don't seem to have much problem with the gun's infamously bright muzzle flash and loud muzzle blast in the dark, underground labyrinths they crawl into.

Live-Action TV

• Longmire: Sheriff Walt Longmire of Absaroka County, Wyoming carries a well-used 1911A1 as his preferred sidearm. His only customization is a set of really awesome-looking elk antler grips.
• Magnum, P.I. carried one as his weapon, which is probably a holdover from his service in the Navy. As above, this also extends to real life, as Tom Selleck is an avid 1911 shooter and uses them in a lot of his movies and shows (his role as the title character of the Jesse Stone adaptations even switched the character's weapon from a .38 revolver to a 1911 based on Selleck's preference).
  • The 2018 reboot updates Magnum's sidearm from a classic 1911 to the far more modern STI Costa Carry Comp.
• Marvel Cinematic Universe:
  • In Daredevil, Frank uses various M1911 variants as his sidearm, including a plain Colt M1911A1 and a Para 1911 G.I. Expert.

Video Games

• One of the most persistent weapons in the Battlefield series, present in almost every game except for Battlefield 2 and Battlefield 2142.
• Possibly the mascot weapon of the Call of Duty series, as in some form or another it appeared in every game before Ghosts.
  • Available in the WWII-set games as the standard sidearm of the American forces and, in the original game before its expansion, the British as well. Call of Duty 2: Big Red One notably allows players who make 8 points in a match to use two of them at once.
  • The Modern Warfare trilogy upgrades to a modern model from Springfield Armory (a Custom Professional slide mounted to a Loaded frame), where it's Captain Price's preferred sidearm and appears in several key scenes: in Call of Duty 4, Price slides it over to Soap so he can finish off Zakhaev, in Modern Warfare 2 Soap returns it to Price immediately after meeting him again in the gulag, and in Modern Warfare 3 Price sets it over Soap's chest after he bleeds out.
  • Also available in almost all of the Call of Duty: Black Ops games, though it's only really noteworthy in Zombies mode, where Pack-a-Punching one turns it into "Mustang & Sally", a pair of 1911s that fire grenades.
  • Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare added one with an update in late 2015, by default with synthetic grips and an olive drab finish, though the classic blued metal with wood grips is available with the "Single Stack" variant.
  • A Kimber Custom TLE/RL II shows up in Call of Duty: Modern Warfare (2019), used by Alex in a handful of missions and given as the default sidearm in several co-op missions. An STI Staccato P in 9x19mm returns for Modern Warfare II, added with Season 5 Reloaded.
• Issued to the Commandos from Men Of Courage onwards, though the box art of the original game had the Green Beret wield a Smith & Wesson produced variant. Strike Force had the Green Beret wield one as well.
• Contagion features a 1911 as a starter gun alongside the SIG Pro. The base damage makes it nice for PvP, the .45 ACP ammo boxes for it give more ammo than 9mm, and unlike the revolver it shares a caliber with, the 1911 can mount a much-needed flashlight. Its downside is the low ammo capacity.
• Also available in Day of Infamy for all American classes, fitting the classic 7+1 capacity. Like the Insurgent's version in the above, it uses the original model's longer trigger, but is otherwise purely a WWII-issue 1911A1.
• Devil May Cry's Ebony and Ivory, and their earlier equivalents Luce and Ombra, are custom 1911s; the main alterations being wooden wrap-around grips, gold-plated controls, a left-hand ejection port on Ebony for use in Dante's left hand, and enormous ported compensators.
• The standard 1911, M45A1, and MEU(SOC) variants are available for use in The Division.
• In Duke Nukem Forever, a 1911 with three dot sights is the standard sidearm of the Earth Defence Force, and is sometimes used Guns Akimbo by armed Pigcops. Duke himself owns an engraved gold-plated version, which nets the player an achievement for carrying it with them for the entire game.
• Appears in Fallout: New Vegas DLC Honest Hearts due to the presence of Mormons (John Browning's faith). They're referred to as the .45 Auto pistol in-game, and can be upgraded with a suppressor and a heavy-duty slide^note upgraded ironsights were a planned third modification, but in the released game they're on by default, with only Follows-Chalk's unobtainable version using the "normal" sights. In addition, Joshua Graham carries an Ace Custom Colt Officer's ACP known as "A Light Shining In Darkness" that the player gains at the end of the campaign.
• A Spanish clone, the Star Model P (distinct from the more famous Model B in that it's still chambered for the original .45 ACP), is available as the first sidearm in Far Cry 2. Far Cry 3 and 4 switch to a Kimber Warrior, available both in its standard form (the first gun purchased in 3 which can't be modified, available a little later in 4 and able to accept night sights or an extended magazine), as well as a Signature variant as the "Shadow" in 3 (available after liberating 17 outposts) or the "Sandman" in 4 (as a free pre-order bonus), which mounts a suppressor, extended magazine and reflex sight. Far Cry 5 replaces that with a Smith & Wesson SW1911, which comes with a nice two-tone finish by default and can be customised with a variety of sights and suppressors. There are also a number of versions with fancy finishes available as DLC. Far Cry 6 has a 1911 variant with a longer barrel that can, like all of the game's guns, accept a number of accessories and mods.
• Vincent Valentine carries a 1911 called the "Quicksilver" as his starting weapon.
  • In Final Fantasy VII Remake, President Shinra has a gold-plated pistol heavily modeled after a 1911 with a hinged trigger.
• An M1911A1 with a railed frame can be found in a locked weapons box in Ghost Recon Wildlands. It can be later modified to use 15-round extended magazines, laser modules and a suppressor.
• An extremely common 2-star handgun in Girls' Frontline, and likely one of the first units a new Commander will recruit to their ranks. She is part of Thompson's squad in the story, and holds a rivalry with M9. Upgrading her all the way to MOD 3 grants her exclusive use of XM261 ratshot ammunition. True to her US origins, she wears a stars-and-stripes necktie and later stockings.
• The first gun acquired in Half-Life: Alyx is a 1911-style pistol with a compensator and an increased 10-round capacity, which can be upgraded throughout the game until it heavily resembles the custom handgun Alyx used in Half-Life 2.
• Quite a few times in Grand Theft Auto.
  • The standard pistol in Grand Theft Auto III, Vice City, and San Andreas is a 1911, with a silenced variant available in the latter game.
  • The Heavy Pistol added to Grand Theft Auto V in The Business Update is a custom 1911 variant. It holds an 18 round magazine as standard and in the next gen versions of the game, it has a useable reflex sight. It packs a decent punch.
• Hitman: Agent 47's handguns of choice are a pair of customizable 1911 clone AMT Hardballers, which he calls Silverballers. In the fourth game of the series, Blood Money, two major antagonists also have their own different high-quality custom M1911s. In Hitman (2016), 47 instead carries a modern tactical 1911 called the ICA19, but the Silverballer is available as an unlockable bonus weapon. In Hitman 2, counting all the expansions (including the legacy pack and its GOTY DLC), there are 7 different versions, consisting of the standard ICA19 and its Black Lilly equivalent (basically the same gun with a set of Pachmayr grips and 47's signature logo), the Silverballer and its Mark II version (The same gun with a red "2" stamped on it), the full auto version of the ICA19 and its silenced version, and finally the Striker, a long barreled Hand Cannon version that can penetrate multiple targets per shot. Hitman 3 adds even more variants, mostly with cosmetic differences.
• Usable in Insurgency for both sides in some form, the Security team getting the MEU(SOC) variation and the Insurgents getting a custom 1911A1 with an extended threaded barrel, the MEU(SOC)'s sights, a ring hammer, smooth wood grips and the original 1911's longer trigger.
• Killing Floor 2 added the 1911 with the "Return of the Patriarch" update as a weapon meant for the new Gunslinger perk. By default it features a nickel finish with ornate engravings along the slide and pearl grips, and like most other pistols can be used Guns Akimbo.
• In L.A. Noire, Cole Phelps carries one as his sidearm for the majority of the game.
• The pistols in the first Left 4 Dead are fictional copies of the M1911, the text on the model attributing them to "Finleyville Armory". They're modified with stuff like extended thumb safeties, cut outs in the triggers, the ring hammer from the compact Colt Commander, and an underbarrel flashlight on the ones the player starts with (ones that can be found in the levels to pair up don't have the light).
• Appears in Mafia III as the Masterson Semi-Auto. A silenced version can also be used by Lincoln, although it is less accurate than the silenced .22 pistol. A black silenced Masterson with gold engravings and pearl grips called the Silentium can be obtained via the Judge, Jury and Executioner Weapons Pack DLC.
• Magicka's PvP update added the Reservoir Wizard character, armed with an M1911A1 with infinite ammo.
• EVA gives a customized M1911 to Big Boss (then Naked Snake) at the outset of Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater. He then falls in love with it (if you contact Sigint, he talks about fifteen different modifications made to the weapon), as seen here. The custom 1911 was actually modeled from an airsoft gun. Snake started with a basic GI model at the outset of the mission, but The Boss pulled a Disarm, Disassemble, Destroy on it within the first few minutes of his arrival.
  • Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots features no less than five different 1911 variants. Old Snake is given an updated M1911 copy, the Springfield Operator, with a Laser Sight built into the guide rod as one of his first weapons. The PMCs in the game also use an M1911 clone, the Sig Sauer GSR, which in gameplay terms trades the ability to take a suppressor for an extra round in the magazine. It is also possible to enter a code and receive the original MGS3 M1911. The Thor .45-70 is a single shot pistol built from 1911 parts, chambered in .45-70 Government and is Liquid Ocelot's weapon (apparently, since he only actually uses it one time). Finally, completing the game once unlocks the "Race Gun", a similar Strayer Voigt Infinity chambered for 9x23mm Winchester rounds with a reduced charge that's just about enough to cycle the gun, allowing for Ocelot-style ricochet shots at the expense of stopping power.
  • Metal Gear Solid: Portable Ops has them, inexplicably carried by Soviet soldiers and by FOX operatives. Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker allows the player to develop one early into the game and specs for the Metal Gear Solid 3 custom variant are available too.
• In No More Room In Hell, the 1911 is a solid weapon. It's light and powerful, capable of one-headshotting any kind of zombie even without focusing, and being a pistol, it allows a survivor to dual-wield it with a flashlight; as a downside, the .45 ACP ammo is somewhat heavy and adds up. It's ideal for scouting a new area or dealing with a moderate-sized horde too close for focused aiming with lesser guns to take down comfortably.
• In Parasite Eve, an M1911A1 can be found very early on in the sewers under Carnegie Hall. An A2 variant can be found in Chinatown, and later on the fictional A4 and A5 variants are also available in the Chrysler Building on a New Game Plus playthrough. As a bit of humorous trivia, the game was released in 1998, while the M1911A2 wasn't developed until 2004, so it did some minor predicting of the future.
• In PAYDAY: The Heist it appears as the "Crosskill .45", featuring night sights and can be upgraded with a recoil compensator. PAYDAY 2 features it again as just the "Crosskill" with even more modifications, with its unique options including a compensated or lengthened slide and barrel, unique grip panels, and extended magazines (including a "Magazine with Ameritude!" in one DLC pack that more than doubles its capacity). As of the Locke & Load event in 2017, the Colt Defender is also available as the "Crosskill Guard", a much weaker but higher-capacity and more concealable option.
• In Perfect Dark, Joanna's signature Falcon 2 pistol is a Colt Double Eagle (a multi-caliber version of the 1911 re-designed to fire in double action) with a metallic appearance and a Laser Sight. It can also be fitted with a scope for extra accuracy, and used two at a time for More Dakka.
• A nickel-plated version of the SW1911 appears in the video game adaptation of Quantum of Solace. As with most of the rest of the guns, it's renamed in reference to a prior Bond film, called the "CR1911". It holds only about half as many bullets as Bond's trusty P99, but it hits slightly harder in turn, and as the most common handgun (the only weapon in the game that can show up in every level) ammo is abundant.
• Receiver was originally built around simulating an M1911A1 as realistically as possible; it's one of three weapons available to the player.
• Resident Evil:
  • Resident Evil 3: Nemesis features the similar STI Eagle 6.0. Jill can put one together by grabbing the parts off of the eponymous Nemesis by defeating him twice in non-mandatory fights, and Carlos starts with one in The Mercenaries. It's fitted with a scope, which grants it a higher chance of critical hits to instantly kill zombies, and the reload outside the menu is extremely quick, but it can't take the enhanced ammo you can build in the main game.
  • Billy's starting handgun in Resident Evil 0 is a 1911 derivative rechambered in 9mm, fitted with a custom ergonomic wooden grip and a slide that is mostly cut away like on Rebecca's more standard Beretta. Like the Eagle before, it can be modified with a scope to give it a higher chance of critical hits.
  • Kevin Ryman's personal item in Resident Evil: Outbreak is a 1911. Unlike every other instance in the series, it's noted to be firing different ammo than the more standard 9mm handguns. Ammo is much more rare as a result (even without having to fight with teammates over who gets to use it, since it's unique to Kevin's gun), but in turn his 1911 is noticeably more powerful.
  • Resident Evil 4 references Terminator by featuring a 1911 with a bulky top-mounted Laser Sight. It's renamed the "Killer7", after another Capcom game that featured the same weapon (albeit with a scope instead of a laser), and fires .45 Magnum rounds shared with the "Broken Butterfly" revolver.
  • Parker's starting handgun in Resident Evil: Revelations is a Colt Government Model, coming in both the default all-nickel and DLC for the HD ports including "Parker's Government", fitted with wooden grips and an engraved black slide.
  • A 1911 with a pivoting double-action trigger is the first gun found in Resident Evil 7: Biohazard, as the "M19"..
  • The M19 returns for the 2019 remake of Resident Evil 2 as Leon's B-scenario exclusive handgun. It's stronger than the Matilda, and ammo is plentiful since all standard pistol ammo pickups are converted to its ammo in the B-scenario, but its recoil takes time to adjust to (since, in homage to the animations Leon got when wearing his special costumes in the original game, he holds it Gangsta Style, so it pushes more to the left than straight upwards) and it has a lower capacity of 7 shots and no ability to upgrade it.
• The standard issue sidearm for the US forces in Rising Storm. In contrast to the Nambu Type 14 used by the Japanese, this pistol is noted for being able to kill reliably.
  • Appears in Rising Storm 2: Vietnam as the standard sidearm for US and South Vietnamese forces.
• The A1 variant is the most common model of handgun in Soldier of Fortune II: Double Helix. Christian extremists in Colombia, Russian terrorists, American hospital guards, you name it, literally every NPC that has access to a pistol has a 1911. The only exceptions are the Shop's operatives like John Mullins and Madeline Taylor, who can use the objectively better H&K Mk. 23. You can pick one in the inventory selection at the start of most missions, though it's a waste, since it holds 5 rounds less than the 23 and can't accept any kind of attachment.
• Available in the S.T.A.L.K.E.R. games as the "Kora-919". Stronger than the starting 9x18mm pistols by virtue of its heavier bullets, with sub-par accuracy, but is one of the most durable NATO weapons in the game. Exactly how good it is varies between games.
• Lara Croft carries a pair of stainless Colt Commanders (an M1911A1 with a slightly shorter barrel and a ring hammer) in Tomb Raider: Anniversary. Curiously, it's marked as being chambered in .357 - the .357 SIG being an all-but-unheard of chambering for 1911 models.
• The Colt Defender, a shrunken-down M1911 made for concealed carry, appears in Uncharted from the second game onward as Nathan Drake's weapon, replacing the Makarov he used in the original. The fourth game finally adds a full-size M1911 complete with an accessory rail.
• Shows up in Unturned as the 1911 (after being called the Oakbear, and later renamed Colt). It only holds 7 rounds per mag with no high-capacity option and deals low player damage, but it's extremely accurate when aimed, cheap on scrap metal to repair and powerful against zombies.
• One of the worst weapons available in 7.62 High Calibre: the single stack magazine gives it a very low capacity (only the revolvers are worse) and it's not especially powerful despite the .45 ACP round. It's available from the beginning of the game and best replaced as soon as possible.

Real Life

• In Real Life, this was R. Lee Ermey's favorite handgun, which he discussed in his The History Channel show Lock 'n Load, although he admits the Beretta 92 has its place among modern firearm choices, and has an endorsement deal with Glock.
• Winston Churchill carried an M1911 for personal protection (and was actually proficient with it), and so did his bodyguard, Detective Inspector Walter Thompson.

Western Animation

• A fairly common weapon that appears in the hands of various people in Archer. Ray carries a pair with ornate engravings on the slides. Archer himself uses one in a Shout-Out to Magnum, P.I.'s famous "Did you see the sunrise this morning?" scene and as his weapon in Archer Dreamland.
• Carried by freakin' Donald Duck in the early stories of Paperinik, his superhero/antihero alter ego in some Italian stories. It isn't known if it's really Donald's gun or he found it with the stuff of Fantomius (the Gentleman Thief whose journal inspired him to become an antihero. As Paperinik, Donald used his tools in the first story, with Gyro providing the first non-Fantomius tool only in the second story), but he quickly switched to futuristic ray guns (or toy guns, or even chocolate guns, for when he feels like humiliating someone) even before the start of Paperinik New Adventures.

Colt Model 1903 Pocket Hammerless

Another pistol design that was created by legendary gunsmith John Browning, the Colt Model 1903 was designed and manufactured in the year 1903. Despite the name referring to it as "hammerless", the hammer for the pistol is internal, rather than external. Earlier pistols were chambered in the .32 ACP cartridge while later models were refitted for .380 ACP. The pistol was popular with many sections of the U.S. military as a general officers' sidearm, the most famous users being Eisenhower and Patton, as well as many police forces serving in the interwar period. It also saw use with many gangsters during the 1920s and 30s, including, and not limited to, Al Capone, Bonnie Parker of the Bonnie and Clyde duo, and John Dillinger. It was a favored weapon for gangsters and bank robbers its low price, short reload time and ease of concealment, at least compared to the Tommy gun that media loved to portray gangsters with.

Browning also designed the FN 1903, which had a near-identical design with the exception of a longer barrel and using the 9x20mm Browning Long cartridge. The FN 1903 was one of the inspirations for Fedor Tokarev's TT pistols, especially in looks-the TT can be said to be a larger and heavier version of the FN M1903.

• Both the Colt 1903 and the FN 1903 are sidearms the player can acquire in Battlefield 1.
• Taiko of Desert Punk carries a Model 1903 alongside her Glock.
• As mentioned above, John Dillinger used a Model 1903 Hammerless. It shows up in Public Enemies.
• The FN 1903, known ingame as the Hi-Power Pistol is given to John Marsten in Red Dead Redemption by Edgar Ross. He points it at John, barrel first, before John takes it.
• A frequent sidearm of Humphrey Bogart, in classics such as Casablanca and The Big Sleep. In several instances, he was supposed to carry a .45, but Bogart's short stature meant the smaller 1903 looked better in his hands.
• Who Framed Roger Rabbit features a gold plated version owned by R.K. Maroon. After Maroon is murdered, Eddie takes it and later casts it aside in favour of his old cartoon revolver. Roger takes it after this and uses it to threaten Judge Doom until he's hit with a pile of bricks.
• Sgt. Jerry Wooters' sidearm in Gangster Squad is a Model 1903 with a blued finish and ivory grips.
• Used by Eddie Valentine and his Mooks in The Rocketeer.
• In Johnny Dangerously, Roman Troy Moronie uses a nickel plated Colt 1903.
• Rick Blaine in Casablanca carries a Colt 1903 .32 ACP, as opposed to the M1911 he's shown holding in promotional posters.
• A heavily-engraved 1903 is the sidearm of Winston in John Wick: Chapter 3 – Parabellum, and is most notably used to knock Wick off the roof of the Continental.

COP 357 Derringer

Designed as a backup weapon that could fire the same rounds as a police officer's .357 Magnum service revolver (the name "COP" stands for "Compact Off-duty Police"), though its heavy weight (relative to its compact size), even heavier trigger pull and substantial recoil turned out to be a problem. Nevertheless, the COP's four muzzles make it a distinctively menacing weapon for the silver screen.

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Anime & Manga

• Standard carry gun of Lumiere, in the anime Kiddy Grade.
• Nina uses one during the neo-Nazi arc in Monster.
• Shows up in City Hunter as Reika's gun, but only when she's not in the police (the one time we see her in her cop days she carried the M60 service revolver).

Film

• This is the gun Leon shoots Holden with in the opening scene of Blade Runner^note The one used in Blade Runner was modified to fire from two barrels at once, so as to produce a more impressive muzzle flash., likely inspiring its use in the other sci-fi shows mentioned below.
• The Matrix Reloaded. Persephone uses this on one of the Merovingian's mooks.
• The Big Bad tries to pull one of these out of his coat pocket at the end of Bad Boys (1995) in an attempt to finish off the protagonists when their backs are turned. Unfortunately for him, Will Smith is quicker on the draw.
• War (2007). Daddy's Little Villain Kira draws one on a Yakuza goon while holding her knife on another, but doesn't use either of them.
• A COP 357 is one of the many weapons carried by the Winter Soldier in Captain America: The Winter Soldier.
• One is found and used by Jenko and Schmidt during the car chase in 21 Jump Street.

Live-Action TV

• Battlestar Galactica. Under the fiction model name of 'Stallion', this was a civilian gun used by various criminal types (such as Tom Zarek's men), and by Romo Lampkin to threaten Lee Adama in "Sine Qua Non".
• Stargate SG-1. A night-guard on an alien planet uses one to menace our heroes in "Bad Guys".

Literature

• KGB agent Natalia Tiemerovna uses a COP at one stage in The Survivalist action-adventure novels by Jerry Ahern. John Rourke also has one among his impressive armoury.

Video Games

• The COP's distinctive four-barreled design appears in Team Fortress 2 as the basis for the Shortstop, an alternative primary weapon that can be found or created for the Scout class. Unlike the COP, it appears to fire ratshot or snakeshot, as each pull of the trigger fires a four-pellet spread. The Shortstop is also much larger than the COP.
• Hitman (2016) features a concealable 5mm pistol based on the COP. It only has one barrel, but is silent, has a five round magazine and cannot be reloaded. It also can't be detected during a patdown, making it extremely useful for smuggling into a restricted area.
• Hot Dogs, Horseshoes, and Hand Grenades features the COP, complete with all 4 barrels of .357.

CZ 75

"As far as I'm concerned, the CZ 75 is the pinnacle of semiautomatic handgun evolution."

— Rally Vincent, Gunsmith Cats

Top: CZ 75B; Bottom:CZ 75 Automatic

A semi-automatic pistol created by the Czech state arms factory (later privatized as Česká zbrojovka a.s. Uherský Brod), the CZ 75 was one of the more highly praised of the "Wonder Nines;" even famed M1911 advocate Colonel Jeff Cooper grudgingly admitted that if you absolutely had to have a 9x19mm handgun, it might as well be this one, and based his Bren Ten design on the weapon. Praised for its appearance (vaguely reminiscent of the M1911 and particularly its 9mm cousin, the Browning Hi-Power), grip, and accuracy, and noted for being subject to a truly ridiculous string of abuse during CZ's trials.

Unlike most semiautomatic pistols, the slide assembly actually rides inside of the frame, which CZ claims allows the weapon large tolerances for dirt and oil while maintaining good accuracy. Some dispute whether this configuration really improves anything (apart from looking cool and distinctive), but nobody denies that the CZ 75 works, and works very well. In addition and unlike most double-action automatics, the base model's safety is not a decocker model, allowing 1911-style "cocked and locked" carry. Single-action and double-action-decocker variants are also readily available. A number of clone manufacturers exist, aided by the fact that CZ used a secret patent (allowed in Czechoslovakia but not recognized by many other countries), and CZ itself has released new polymer and steel-framed tactical variants. Due to its high praise at a period in which East-West relations were not very warm, the original "short rail" and "pre-B" models were at a premium price point, commanding up to a thousand dollars apiece in 1980s dollars. Since large-scale importation of CZ pistols began in 1993, prices have subsided to the "normal" range for imported service pistols. A variant with an ambidexterous safety and slidelock is designated as the CZ 85 (with the current version being the CZ 85B). Starting with the CZ 75 SP-01 model, many currently manufactured CZ 75s include the left-handed safety lever, the CZ 85 designation having been retired.

Another popular variant is the "CZ 75 Automatic" mostly for it's peculiar placement of a spare magazine which can be mounted in front of the trigger guard for use as a foregrip.

The CZ 75 was originally chambered in 9x19mm, with later variants adding 9x21mm IMI, .40 S&W, and .45 ACP, depending on the model.

• Rally Vincent from Gunsmith Cats carries one of these; in the manga, a long speech is dedicated to praising the original model and explaining the difference between it and the later versions.
• Gendo Ikari from Neon Genesis Evangelion (although actually finding this borders on a Freeze-Frame Bonus).
• Sonny Crockett's original carry gun from Miami Vice, the Bren Ten, was a beefed-up clone firing the powerful 10mm Auto cartridge. Also a rare gun, as poor quality control, worse marketing, problems with the round itself, and Crockett switching to a Smith & Wesson after season 2 caused the Bren Ten, despite being a rather good design, to be a flop. Repeated attempts by other companies (the original manufacturer went out of business) to revive Bren Ten have fizzled out, said companies either going bankrupt before selling a single pistol or giving up the plan in favor of more lucrative military and police contracts.
• Gates, the crazed villain from Full Metal Panic: The Second Raid.
• Rico from Gunslinger Girl carries an early model.
• Appears in Call of Duty: Black Ops, in spite of the game taking place several years before its introduction. Special Agent Hudson uses two of them as his sidearms in Kowloon, and it's carried by both allied CIA and enemy Spetsnaz units, with Mason even taking one out of the holster of a Viet Cong soldier in one sequence. The rarer (and even more anachronistic) full-auto variant is also available in the Kowloon mission and as an attachment in multiplayer.
• A .40 S&W version is added in the Blue Sun mod for 7.62 High Caliber as a mid-game handgun, with excellent fit and finish compared to prior pistols.
• An update to Counter-Strike: Global Offensive added a CZ 75 Automatic as an optional replacement for the Five-seven (for counter-terrorists) or TEC-9 (for terrorists). It gets a single magazine worth of reserve ammo, with that extra magazine mounted as a foregrip and switched to on a reload, making this the only gun in the game with more than one reloading animation (reloading before emptying the first mag makes further reloads follow the same pattern as the other handguns).
• A CZ-75 is among the 9mm handguns you obtain in Resident Evil: Gun Survivor. Its relatively weak power is offset by the fact that it has a true semi-auto fire rate, to the point that a quick-thumbed or turbo controller-using player can employ it like a submachine gun.
• The CZ 75 Automatic appears in Grand Theft Auto IV: The Lost and Damned. The player receives it at the beginning of "Bad Cop Drop."
• Girls' Frontline features not one, not two, but four CZ-75 variants as of this writing: the original CZ-75, the Chinese Norinco NZ-75 clone, the 10mm Bren Ten, and the British JSL Spitfire. Despite their wildly different personalities and appearance, the story still treats them as close relatives, if not outright sisters.
• PAYDAY 2 gets a CZ AccuShadow 2 given the full-auto treatment with the Federales Weapon Pack DLC.
• In the manga adaptation of 86 EIGHTY-SIX, Shin's 9mm pistol is depicted as the pre-B CZ-75 model with an oval shaped safety switch and a spur hammer.

Derringers

Red Kelly: Is that a Derringer?
Meatpacker: It sure is.
Red Kelly: I thought that was a lady's gun!
Meatpacker: Well, now, and ain't I a lady's man?

— Silverfin

The original concealed gun, as designed specifically to be concealed, and which gave birth to an entire family of single shot concealed firearms in the late 19th century. Based on the pocket-pistol work of Henry Deringer in the late 1840s, the classic Derringer was the Remington Model 95.^note Funnily enough, the original Philadelphia Deringer of 1825 (which happens to be the model used to assassinate Abraham Lincoln) wouldn't be recognized as a three-R Derringer today, as it was a single-shot black powder pistol with a wooden stock. It appeared in 1866 and combined a then-modern metallic .41 rimfire cartridge, small size, concealability, an over-and-under barrel alongside a very simple action with few moving parts.

A favorite of The Wild West gamblers and card crooks to use if a brawl at the card table ensued, it gained an unsavory reputation as an outlaw and assassin weapon. There are reports from those time of the horrible wounds it made, since it lacked the velocity of normal handgun rounds and did not exit the body afterwards, leaving the victim to slowly die a Cruel and Unusual Death from organ failure or infection.

Due to its concealability and nearly nonexistent recoil, Derringers were also used as a last-resort, self-defense weapon by the prostitutes and saloon girls of the time, carried in a drawstring purse or garter belt. They also tend to be overrepresented in Western fiction - they weren't quite as popular in reality as Hollywood would have you think.

• Ambrose carries one in Rango.
• Appears in Call of Juarez: Bound in Blood, where it's called the "Lady Gun."
• Jonah Hex (2010): Used by Jonah Hex, Quentin Turnbull and Patrick O' Flynn.
• Lord Rathbone carries one in Shanghai Knights.
• Colonel Douglas Mortimer wields one in For a Few Dollars More.
• Wielded by Jonathan in The Mummy.
• A Chiappa Double Eagle is available in the GameCube remake of Resident Evil as the "self-defense gun". Counter to the usual stereotypes, it is incredibly powerful^note even more powerful than the .357 Python Magnum, killing anything short of a boss with one bullet... but that's all you get for it, since the previous owner shot his friend with it and there's no more ammo for it anywhere in the game.
• In The Simpsons' retelling of Tom Sawyer, Tom and Huckleberry Finn get an entire steamboat full of people to begin shooting each other with them. The results are... less then impressive.
  Bart as Tom: These Derringers are powerfully weak.
  • Barney in "Who Shot Mr. Burns? Part One" turns out to carry one. Apparently because it gives him an "inflated sense of self-esteem."
• Fujiko Mine uses one on an occasion in Lupin III vs. Detective Conan: The Movie.
• Miss Pauling can be seen using one◊ in the Team Fortress 2 movie Expiration Date.
• The Guard. Gerry recovers one from an IRA weapons stash and keeps it stashed down his pants, using it to kill O'Leary.
• Police Quest 1: In Pursuit of the Death Angel. In the original game, Sonny has to go undercover as a pimp and is issued one in lieu of his service revolver that's concealed in a tricked out pimp cane.
• Brothel Madam Maeve Millay carries a concealed Remington 1866 Derringer in Westworld.
• John Carter uses one near the end of his eponymous film.
• Fio Vanetti has one in 91 Days.
• Granblue Fantasy features it as a Fire-element weapon, usable by classes that focus on guns and daggers like the Thief. Given the Medieval Stasis setting, it's possibly the newest firearm to show up in the game outside of crossovers.
• In the third season of Castle, Captain Montgomery packs a two-shot Bond Arms Snake Slayer IV derringer as a backup gun to his Model 19 revolver.
• In Batman Returns Selina Kyle wears an American Derringer Model 1 in her garterbelt when she attends a party, with the intent of assassinating Max Shreck with it.
• The Frye sliblings of Assassin's Creed Syndicate receive a Colt 2nd Model Derringer in one of the earliest missions. This is a bit anachronistic as the Colt 2nd Model would not be produced until 1870.
• In Back to the Future Part III Buford "Mad Dog" Tannen menaces Doc Brown with an Iver Johnson Eclipse Derringer.
• The titular character of Wild Billcarries a Williamson Derringer in his left vest pocket.
• The Continental's doctor in John Wick: Chapter 3 – Parabellum hands one to John, asking John to shoot him (in non-lethal areas) to make it look like he was robbed, since John had been excommunicated in the previous film. John obliges.
• In the 2023 South Korean revenge thriller Ballerina, when Ok-ju gets in touch with one of her old arms dealer contacts to get guns to destroy Choi and his sex trafficking gang, one of the guns he provides her with is a derringer. She scoffs at it and derisively asks if it's supposed to be a toy, but the dealer tells her it could really help her out in a pinch. And lo and behold, during the final battle, it indeed turns out to be the last weapon she has available after she is incapacitated and uses it to shoot Choi in both kneecaps.

FN Five-Seven

The FIVE-SEVEN offers an integrated suppressor, improved accuracy and effective stopping power.

— Description, Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell

The FN Five-seven (advertised as "Five-seveN") is a handgun designed by Fabrique Nationale in response to a NATO tender for a personal-defense weapon. It is intended as a companion to FN's P90, and like the P90, is chambered in 5.7x28mm.

The Five-seven is mostly made from polymer, with metal functioning parts, making it quite light for a handgun. It sports a high magazine capacity of 20 rounds, with 30 round aftermarket magazines available, and 10 round magazines in locations where the laws dictate bullet capacity limits.

Although it is praised for its accuracy, durability and low recoil, it initially did not gain widespread use in either the law enforcement / military or civilian market, mainly due to the limited sources of ammunition (and the ammo initially being expensive compared to more conventional pistol rounds) and the stigma associated with the small PDW round.

The pistol has also acquired a significant hatedom from gun control advocates, due to the 5.7mm round's supposed armor-piercing abilities,^note "Armor piercing" is a legal description, not a functional description, and only pertains to pistol rounds containing a steel core; the SS190 round, which does have a steel core, is only available to military and police agencies, along with its supposed use by criminals for that reason, particularly the 2009 Fort Hood shooting. So far however, the pistol has survived two attempts by gun control advocates to ban it, and it's becoming increasingly popular with civilian shooters in the US, as well as being adopted by numerous military/police units and security forces worldwide. In any case, the 5.7mm round's storied armor-piercing capability is rather diminished in a pistol anyway.^note The 5.7mm penetrates very well when used in a P90 submachine gun, whose longer barrel allows it to reach a significantly higher velocity than that of the pistol.

Literature

• The FN Five-SeveN is the weapon of choice for both the human and angel protagonists of Wars of the Realm. Justified for the angels—both angels and demons have very fast reaction time which lets them dodge and parry bullets, but the Five-SeveN's muzzle velocity means that dodging its rounds isn't easy. For the humans, it's more about Rule of Cool.

Video Games

• A Counter-Terrorist only^note Except for in Global Offensive, where it was purchasable by either side until a January 2013 patch weapon in Counter-Strike. Originally, it was considered underpowered and overpriced by most of the players, though its accuracy made it popular for Cherry Tapping via headshots. That and it was one of the few small arms (alongside the Desert Eagle) that would punch through armor easily. It became much more popular with Global Offensive, when it became cheaper and more powerful. Previously a headshot wouldn't be a One-Hit Kill against someone even if they had no helmet, now it is even if they do. Combined with the reduced accuracy and increased price of the Desert Eagle, it is now considered one of the best pistols in the game.
• Rainbow Six 3: Raven Shield adds a version of the Five-seven with an external hammer (the real gun is striker-fired) as the "AP Army". The modern Mk 2 variant returns for Siege, as the "5.7 USG", in use with the FBI operatives as their higher-capacity but lower-power alternative to the M45 MEUSOC.
• Seen throughout the Splinter Cell franchise as one of Sam Fisher's signature weapons and favorite sidearm, almost always with a suppressor and an underbarrel device (a Laser Sight in Pandora Tomorrow, then the Optically Channeled Potentiator in Chaos Theory and Double Agent). Even after Sam has left Third Echelon in Conviction, it's still essentially the game's mascot weapon, being the only pistol capable of storing up to four Mark & Execute points.
• Syphon Filter: The Omega Strain
• Canaan, tactical version, Alphard's weapon.
• Snake's standard handgun in Metal Gear: Ghost Babel, and can be purchased or stolen from Haven Troopers in Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots.
• In Battlestar Galactica (2003), this was the standard-issue sidearm for the Colonial military from season 2 onwards. It was slightly modified with a microgrenade launcher on the accessory rail.
• Shows up in UFO Aftermath as a findable weapon. Very effective at penetrating armor, not so much against anything else. Not to mention the very low range.
• The Samael pistol in Alpha Protocol is modeled after the Five-seven.
• Leon S. Kennedy in Resident Evil 4 can purchase a Five-seven from the merchant under the name Punisher. This also explains why the gun has the ability to penetrate through enemies. It's the first alternative handgun to the starting "Silver Ghost", and Leon can get it for free by shooting various medallions past the first Merchant in the game, ten getting him the gun and all fifteen giving it a free upgrade; at its full upgrade, it's the weakest of the handguns (considering armor-piercing ability and stopping power are essentially a sliding scale in reality), but has the exclusive ability to shoot through five enemies at once.
• Available in 7.62 High Calibre as a very high-end (read: expensive) handgun. It has the largest semi-automatic mag of any handgun, high potential damage, and a very good accuracy rating. The only thing it doesn't have going for it is that the associated silencer/suppressor cannot be used on any other weapon, is rare, and very expensive when found.
• Call of Duty
  • It appears in Modern Warfare 3, essentially taking over the role formerly filled by the Beretta 92SB in previous games, and is used by practically every faction at one point or another. Its magazine capacity in-game is reduced from the proper 20 to 15 in singleplayer and 16 in multi, probably for balancing reasons.
  • Call of Duty: Black Ops II once again features the Five-seven as the default sidearm in multiplayer, this time with the proper 20-round capacity (except when dual-wielded in Zombies mode). It deals the same damage as the FNP-45, but has its damage start to drop off at a much shorter range (in return for a slower drop-off to its minimum damage) to balance its doubled magazine capacity and slightly faster fire rate.
• Henrietta's standard carry in Gunslinger Girl (sharing ammunition with her iconic P90).
• Kirito purchases one of these during the Phantom Bullet arc of Sword Art Online, though he doesn't use it often, instead preferring to rely on his Laser Blade. However, the Five-seveN becomes crucial in the arc's climax when he empties the magazine on Death Gun at near point-blank range while he is activating his active camouflage, and the single bullet that hits disrupts Death Gun's cloaking field.
  • In Sword Art Online Alternative: Gun Gale Online, the Five-seveN is also the sidearm of minor character Clarence, who uses the gun mainly because it takes the same ammo as her AR-57 rifle.
• Available in Battlefield 4 as the "FN57", the sixth sidearm unlocked by scoring 28,000 points with sidearms, its small armor-piercing ammo giving it the highest capacity but the lowest damage in the class (tied with the earlier QSZ-92). It was originally cut from Battlefield Hardline, but then was readded for free alongside the release of the "Robbery" DLC.
• PAYDAY 2 added it with the 2017 Spring Break event as the "5/7 AP". Powerful on par with the Hand Cannons, and able to pierce all sorts of armor, while also being incredibly concealable, but in return it has a reduced capacity of 15 rounds per magazine with only two spares in reserve, alongside so-so accuracy, a rather slow reload, and a very low chance of acquiring ammo from pickups dropped by enemies.
• A very sought-after handgun in Girls' Frontline, as her ability to increase fire rate and critical hit chance synergizes very well with Rifle teams. In the story proper, she's the second-in-command of the FN Squad who often bickers with FN FAL.
• Ghost Recon features it in several games as the "5.7 USG". Future Soldier fits it with an extended 30-round magazine that for some reason only holds 18 (presumably to balance it out with Bodark's GSh-18), while Wildlands and Breakpoint give it the correct 20-round magazine model and capacity. The latter's "Deep State" DLC also includes an "SC IS HDG", based on the weapon of the same name from Splinter Cell: Blacklist, with a slightly reduced capacity but higher power and a large integrated suppressor.

FN FNP/FNX

The 4-five is a polymer-based semi-automatic pistol named for using .45 ammunition. The reliability and accuracy are the most appraised features of this weapon. This weapon is favored by firing drill competitors because of an eleven round magazine and the available collimator sight.

— Description, ARMA III

Top: FNP-45, Bottom: FNX-45

Introduced in 2006, the FN FNP is the latest of FN's handguns.

Constructed primarily from polymer, the weapon features ambidextrous decocking levers and magazine releases, and, like many pistols of the polymer age, an underbarrel accessory rail. FN claims that the FNP is the only polymer pistol on the current market with fully replaceable frame rails, allowing the weapon to be easily rebuilt.

Later on, the weapon was redesigned and rebranded as the FNX, with several improved features; as of 2011 the FNP is no longer in production in favor of the FNX. It also serves as the basis for the FNS striker-fired pistol, and in turn its derivatives in the full-size FN 509 and subcompact 503.

The FNP comes chambered in 9x19mm, .357 SIG, .40 S&W, and .45 ACP, while the FNX comes in 9x19mm, .40 S&W, and .45 ACP, dubbed the FNX-9, 40, or 45 based on caliber. The FNX-45 also comes in Tactical variants, with a threaded barrel and a mounting base on the slide for attaching a reflex sight. The FNX-45 also holds a whopping 15 rounds of .45 ACP, more than any other flush-fitting magazine for a combat pistol, and over double the original capacity of the 1911.

• The FNP-45 appears as a usable weapon in Counter-Strike Online.
• In G.I. Joe: Retaliation, Snake Eyes, Cobra ninjas and Vipers, and various other characters make use of the FNX-9 variant, while Firefly uses two FNX-45s.
• The FNP-45 and its Tactical variant appear as usable weapons in The Division.
• S.H.I.E.L.D. agent Sharon Carter uses an FNX-45 Tactical variant with a mounted reflex sight in Captain America: The Winter Soldier. Brock Rumlow at one point steals it and uses it until it runs dry.
• The FNP-45 appears as a usable weapon in ARMA III, known as the "4-five .45". It is classified as a "heavy" pistol, allowing it to mount a sight on the slide alongside an underbarrel flashlight and a suppressor, though it has lesser effective range and a lower capacity than the 9mm P99.
• GIGN operators and recruits use the FNP-9 (called the "P9" in-game) in Rainbow Six Siege as a higher-capacity and faster-firing but lower-damaging alternative to the S&W 586 revolver.
• The FNX-45 and 45 Tactical variants are usable in State of Decay.
• The FNP-45 Tactical appears as a usable weapon in DayZ.
• The FNX-45 Tactical appears in Contract Wars.
• In the Ghost Recon series, the standard variant of the FNP-45 appears in Ghost Recon: Phantoms, while the FNX-45 appears as the starting handgun for the Ghosts in Future Soldier (the Tactical model as the 45T) and in Wildlands (the original as the P45T).
• The 45 Tactical appears as a usable weapon in Call of Duty: Black Ops II, as the "Tac-45". It has half the capacity of the Five-Seven (10 standard, 13 with Extended Clip) and a lower fire rate considering its heavier cartridge, but it deals its full damage at four times the range the Five-Seven does, allowing it to act as a quick close-range substitute for the semi-auto battle rifles.
• FNP-9 is a two-star T-Doll in Girls' Frontline, who talks as if she's an Idol Singer, referring to her fans frequently and claiming to be taking center stage when added to an echelon.

FN Model 1910 and similar

With a total of 35 million casualties, there is little doubt that the First World War was one of the costliest conflicts in history - and it was all started by just two well-placed 7.65mm (.32 ACP) rounds^note Princip's gun was actually chambered in .380 ACP from a John Browning-designed auto pistol.

— The Deadliest Handgun in History? Guns and Ammo

Top: FN Model 1910, Bottom: FN Model 1922

1910 saw the introduction of yet another John Browning pistol design. The Model 1910 was an attempt to make some improvements on his first success, the Model 1900, with an appearance similar the FN Model 1903. One of the major changes was to have the operating spring coiled around the barrel, which became the standard with later pistols such as the PPK and Makarov. It had a "triple safety" with a grip safety, magazine safety and a lever safety, and could be modified to fire either .32 or .380 ACP by only swapping out the barrel. Browning had the gun manufactured for the European market exclusively through Belgium's Fabrique Nationale when Colt, the US developer of his designs, decided they weren't interested in it.

The most noticeable variant of this pistol is the FN Model 1922, introduced shortly after World War I, which was similar in mechanics but was given a longer barrel and a slightly larger magazine for military and police use. America wouldn't get the chance to see the Model 1910 until 1955, as the Browning Model 1955. Imports of the Model 1955 were stopped due to the Gun Control Act of 1968, leading to a legally compliant version being designed and revealed in 1971, which was based on the Model 1922 with target sights and a thumbrest.

The pistol was very popular in Europe in the civilian and military markets; and was sold in places like France, Finland, the Netherlands, and even Japan.^note Japanese officers often preferred to buy European pistols over the domestic Type 14 Nambu and the infamous Type 94. In fact, the Japanese created the rare Hamada Pistol based on this gun, chambered in the .32 ACP cartridge, and later 8x22mm Nambu for the Mark II. The Germans also made use of the Model 1922 pistol after occupying Belgium during World War II. It wouldn't be until 1983 (roughly over seventy years from its introduction) that all production ceased. The simplistic design also allowed several copycat pistols to be made across Europe from multiple manufacturers, such as the Astra 700 Special, MAB Model D, and the afromentioned Hamada.

Historical Note: An M1910 in .380 ACP was the pistol used to start World War I. It was used by Gavrilo Princip to assassinate Archduke Franz Ferdinand in Sarajevo of June 1914.^note Newspaper illustrations at the time often erroneously showed Princip firing a Model 1900. Having been told the assassin used a "Browning pistol", many of the illustrators drew what was at the time the more famous model. At least one newspaper even showed Princip shooting the Archduke with a revolver, even though "Browning" had already become synonymous with "semi-auto handgun" in Europe. The same model was also used for the assassinations of American Congressman Huey Long and French President Paul Doumer.

• While the pistol may be scarce in American media, the pistol is more common in European works. As mentioned above, FN made the pistol exclusively in Europe while Colt turned it down.
• James Bond used this pistol to assassinate Professor Dent after "he's had his six" in Dr. No. It is worth to note that the props department was unable to find a suppressor for Bond's PPK, so they had to use a Model 1910 with a fake suppressor that simply slid into the barrel instead. They were able to find an appropriate suppressor for the PPK in time for From Russia with Love.
• A pistol heavily modeled after this one pops up sometimes in Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood, most commonly used by Lt. Riza Hawkeye.
• Cole can find a Model 1922 dumped in a bin after being used in a murder in L.A. Noire when he's still a patrolman. In universe, it's considered a rare gun, as it wasn't available for purchase in the United States in 1947 and might be someone's war trophy. As a result, the gun's owner is fairly easy to track down.
• A suppressed Model 1910 was the murderer's weapon of choice in the Case Closed movie Captured in Her Eyes.
• Grand Theft Auto V's "I'm Not A Hipster" update adds a Model 1922 as the Vintage Pistol as part of its retro ironic arsenal.
• Saya Takagi's mother, Yuriko keeps a Model 1910 in her leg holster at all times in High School Of The Dead. Its silhouette is also seen in the opening credits.
• One of the many pistols Inspector Aki Natsuko has in Re: Cutie Honey. Although she tosses it aside when she runs out of ammo.
• It pops up in The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles episode "The Phantom Train of Doom". First with Fredrick Selous, then with Indy to hold Paul at gunpoint.
• Belgian officers have this pistol as their sidearm for the Battlefield 1918 mod.
• The French Police officers in Catch Me If You Can were armed with the Model 1910.
• Robert De Niro's character used a Model 1910 to assassinate a gangster in Once Upon a Time in America.
• In Lupin III, it's noted that the Model 1910 is Fujiko Mine's favored weapon.

FP-45 Liberator

Snake: Why'd you go to all the trouble of making [the EZ Gun] look like a Liberator?
Sigint: 'Cause it looks cool, man. Why d'you think?''

—Sigint, Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater

A resistance weapon developed during World War II, this American disposable pistol was dropped into France, China, and Greece to be found and used by partisan forces and civilians as a Ranged Emergency Weapon. Described as "a great weapon with which to obtain another weapon", the intention was for a rebel fighter to get up close to an occupying soldier and use it to take him out and obtain his weapon.

The Liberator was incredibly cheap and quick to manufacture; it was said that it took longer to reload than it did to assemble. Chambered in .45 ACP, it had an unrifled barrel, making its range pitiful. With the complicated, slow reloading process and poor range and accuracy, a member of La Résistance who hoped to kill a Nazi sentry would have to fire from right near the intended target. The British military rationale for producing and planning to widely distribute the gun was to weaken enemy soldier morale: they knew occupying soldiers would find some of the guns before partisans could and figure out what was going on, but there would be so many they'd never know for sure that they got all of them, and any random person they passed on the street could have one in their pocket, ready to shoot them in the back in an isolated alley.

While this gun was certainly produced in higher numbers than many others, with roughly a million examples produced in the span of just two months, it didn't see much use in the war as much of the military high command was skeptical about the practicality of dropping large numbers of Liberators into Europe and Britain outright refused to airdrop them due to the logistical impracticality of doing so. After they were rejected by the military, half of the weapons were sent to the OSS who didn't see much practicality in the guns either and usually preferred to equip their operatives with better weapons. A few examples saw use in Greece and the Pacific theater, most notably the Philippines where the guns would continue to be used by police officers as an issued weapon after the war. Most of the guns were destroyed by the OSS and British military after the war without ever seeing use, making any surviving examples sought after collectibles.

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Live Action TV

• R. Lee Ermey fires one at a melon on Mail Call.
• One customer brings on in on Cajun Pawn Stars, having won it in a poker game. The gun turns out to be worth a lot more than he expected.

Video Games

• The EZ Gun from Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater is based on the Liberator. It fires tranquiliser rounds, is silent, has Bottomless Magazines, and boosts Snake's camo index to 80% when equipped. It's unlockable by either playing the Very Easy difficulty or by obtaining every single edible item in the game. Snake asks SIGINT why he bothered to base it on the Liberator, to which SIGINT notes that Liberators look cool.
  • The EZ Gun returns in Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker, though as a variety of support weapons. There are versions that fire rounds that restore life and psyche as well as fire and supply support markers.
• Battlefield V features the Liberator as the last unlockable sidearm at Rank 19. It is extremely powerful, but only holds one shot before needing to be reloaded and has a lengthy reload.

Web Video

• Ian McCollum and Karl Kasarda take a reproduction out to fire at a target here. It proves to be exactly as unwieldy and inaccurate as described; they repeatedly miss at less than 10 yards despite the reproduction having a rifled barrel, reloads take several seconds even as they get used to the method, and the small size and poor ergonomics means the bolt keeps biting the webbing of their hands.

Glock series

"Between your faith and my Glock 9mm, I take my Glock."

— Jericho Cane, End of Days

A semi-automatic polymer handgun designed by Austrian engineer Gaston Glock, known as the "plastic" or "Tupperware" gun. Though the concept of a polymer-framed handgun dated back to 1970 with Heckler & Koch's rather futuristic VP70 machine pistol, the Glock series were the first to truly popularize the idea. The first Glock arrived on the scene in 1982 as a full size 9mm service pistol and the company's 17th patent (hence the "17" moniker; the 17-round capacity was pure serendipity), and shocked the world when it, as Glock's first attempt at a handgun after a career of making shower curtains, entrenching tools and field knives, beat out well-established gunmaker Steyr's GB pistol for the Austrian Army contract. It has since gotten variants for almost all "service pistol" automatic calibers, and even has one proprietary cartridge to its name in the .45 GAP, which is designed to mimic the .45 ACP's performance with a shorter and stronger case to fit in the same frames as their 9mm and .40 S&W models.

The Glock has become a standard service sidearm for many government agencies (the FBI, DEA, many police departments around the world, as well as many security forces and militaries around the world, starting with the Austrian Army that it was originally developed for) due to being the Boring, but Practical handgun; its ruggedness^*there are videos of Glocks being immersed in seawater for over a week, frozen in ice, dropped out of planes, run over with vehicles, and thrown into ovens until the polymer frame starts melting, and every time they continue working without any noticeable decrease in accuracy or function, competitive price^*retailing from as little as $450 to as much as $800 for the larger models - by comparison, other high-end European pistols often start at $800, simple operation^*it notably lacks a thumb or grip safety, meaning that if a round is chambered, when it is drawn all that is needed for it to fire is to pull the trigger, minimal amount of moving parts^*Glocks have a total of only 34 parts, built-in safety features^*despite the lack of the aforementioned safeties, Glocks have a trigger safety and multiple internal safeties; it will not go off unless the trigger is properly pulled, and the vast selection of variants and aftermarket accessories all make it very appealing to the civilian, security, and military markets alike.

Aggressive marketing by Glock GmbH didn't hurt either; most police departments simply traded in their revolvers or older automatics for Glocks on a one-for-one basis. In 2016, the U.S. Navy stunned the gun world when it announced that the Navy SEALs would be adopting the Glock 19 as their duty sidearm and start transitioning away from the SIG P226 Mark 25. Glock also competed in the US Army's Modular Handgun System trials in 2017 to replace the aging Beretta 92, entering the Glock 19X, which drew attention for being one of Glock's first "hybrid" models, incorporating a compact Glock 19-length slide and barrel to a full-size Glock 17 frame, which was later sold to the public with little modification^*the MHS version had a manual thumb safety stipulated by the contest rules, which was removed from the civilian version when the SIG P320 won the MHS contract with a cheaper price and more modularity.

Contrary to scaremongering, the gun is not "plastic" in any sense; a Glock is 80% metal by weight — including metal strips within the frame for structural strength, another metal plate on the dust cover for the serial number, a full metal frame within the magazine (not to mention the ammunition itself), and the slide and just about everything in or on it — and shows up quite nicely on an airport metal detector.

In total, there are over 30 basic Glock models (defined by a combination of caliber and frame size, plus the Glock 18 select-fire machine pistol, which is more or less identical in caliber and size to the Glock 17 but gets a different model number for being select-fire and having some models of Glock 18 being able to fire fully automatic) and five "generations" (defined by various refinements to the design). Available calibers include 9x19mm, .40 S&W, .45 ACP, .357 SIG, 10mm Auto, .380 ACP, .45 GAP, and .22 LR. Size variants include full-size, compact, subcompact, slimline, competition and longslide; as of 2017 there are also a few models that combine one slide size with the next-largest frame size, like the aforementioned 19X and 45 (compact barrels on full-size frames) and the slimline 43X (subcompact barrel on a compact frame).

The Glock also spurred the development of similar polymer striker-fired pistols, with competition really starting to ramp up in The New '10s, with almost every other major gun manufacturer rolling out their own "Glock killer," as this rather tongue-in-cheek video from SHOT Show 2017 details.

• Trivia: The sheer ubiquity of the Glock has even begun spreading into the world of submachine guns - several modern designs like the KRISS Vector are specifically designed to load from Glock magazines, owing to Glocks (and magazines for them in varied capacities) already being available in basically every pistol cartridge in production today. This has been something of a mixed bag, however, sometimes causing reliability issues;^note The gist of it is that Glock magazines hold bullets in dual columns that converge into a single column shortly before reaching the top of the magazine to feed into the weapon; this is easier to design a weapon for, since it only needs to pick up a bullet from the same spot with every cycle, and works well for smaller magazines with sub-20 capacities as are most commonly used in handguns, but extending it into higher capacities as would be most useful for a submachine gun affects the reliability. in particular, KRISS' attempts at extended magazines for the .45 ACP models resulted in magazines that were advertised for a long time as having a "25+" capacity, because the actual maximum capacity (up to 30) before it would cause feeding issues was entirely up to your luck with the build quality of the individual magazine.
• Despite popular demand, Glock has never seriously branched out and applied their successful design to other types of firearms. Though there have been rumblings throughout the years, Glock has never so much as hinted at releasing a carbine, rifle, or shotgun model; their entire lineup of firearm offerings has been handguns ever since the company's inception^note besides handguns, Glock also only branched out to make military knives and even entrenching shovels. A rifle, the GR-115F, was confirmed in late 2022 as part of British military trials to possibly replace the SA80, though all available info makes it appear to simply be a relatively standard AR-15 derivative with existing aftermarket furniture attached.
• To this day, the exact chemical composition of Glock's signature polymer (known only as Polymer 2) is a closely guarded secret, to the point it's considered the firearms industry's equivalent of the Coke recipe; only the founder Gaston Glock knew the entire formula^note it's all but certain he made arrangements for someone else to know the formula before his death in 2023 - he was 94, after all, and already had an attempt made on his life back in 1999 and while there is intense speculation on what exactly comprises the famous polymer blend that Glock is known for, the company has remained famously tight-lipped on the matter. All that is known is that it is a specialized type of glass-filled nylon reinforced with metal inserts that is extremely durable and heat-resistant.
• As a rule, this has replaced the Beretta 92 as the gun you'll see in the hands of a modern FBI agent or member of the NYPD (IE: something like 80% of modern mysteries shows). Truth in Television of course, as it is easier to handle than the Beretta and less likely to foul in non-ideal conditions.
  • In movies and television, the pistol will almost always be the 9x19mm Glock 17 or 19, even if the agency in question uses a Glock 21 (.45) or 22 (.40 S&W). Larger calibers are more difficult to adapt to blank fire, making the 9mm blank standard in Hollywood for nearly any gun that has a 9mm look-alike available.

Anime & Manga

• The Glock 17 is the standard-issue sidearm for the United Earth military in Aldnoah.Zero.
• Eda of Black Lagoon uses a Glock 17L, a longslide version of the 17.
• Cowboy Bebop - Faye Valentine carries a Glock 30 (.45 ACP, a subcompact version of the full-sized Glock 21) as her most common weapon.
• Inori uses a pair of Glock 17s in Guilty Crown.
• King of Thorn: Peter Stevens draws a 3rd Generation Glock 17 with a tan frame from the security room helping Ron Portman and Marco Owen defend against the monsters. Ivan Coral Vega attempts to use a hidden Glock 17 to commit suicide. It is also the sidearm of the Venus Gate Corporation and is seen in the hands and holsters of the security officers and New York City police.
• Standard-issue sidearm for ZAFT officers and pilots in Mobile Suit Gundam SEED.
• One member of Team PM4 in Sword Art Online Alternative: Gun Gale Online uses a .45 ACP Glock 21 with a 25-round extended magazine.

Film

• Bullet Train: Ladybug is given a Glock 17 customized by Taran Tactical Innovations to use during his mission. He does not take the gun, however, given his dislike for violence and wishing to get the job done without causing any deaths. In one of his flashbacks, Lemon is seen using a regular Glock 17 with a gold slide.
• The Joker's weapon of choice in The Dark Knight is a full-auto-converted Glock 17 with a stainless slide, which had its firing sound mixed with that of a minigun in editing to sound more intimidating. Several other characters use more traditional semi-auto Glocks, including one of the Joker's henchmen in the bank heist ("Grumpy", who uses it to kill the one who actually breaks into the vault as part of the Joker's plan) and several of Gotham City's policemen.
  • Not only is the X-ray defeating carbon fiber pistol the mob witness pulls on Harvey Dent inspired by the fearmongering about Glocks, the actual prop is based on a Glock 26 frame.
• DC Extended Universe:
  • In Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice, Gotham PD officers use Glock 19s, while Superman's troops in Bruce's "Knightmare" use Glock 17s.
  • In Suicide Squad (2016), Deadshot uses a heavily customised Glock 17, and two Glock 18s. He also threatens Batman with a Glock 30 during a flashback. The Squad's leader, Rick Flag, also uses a Glock 17, as do the Navy Seals accompanying the Squad on their mission. This carries into the semi-sequel/reboot The Suicide Squad, before he carries a new sidearm in the form of the Glock 45 in Corto Maltese, given to him by fellow team member Bloodsport.
  • Birds of Prey (2020): The Huntress carries a 5th Generation Glock 19 as her sidearm in addition to her crossbow. Mary Elizabeth Winstead, the actress who played her, would use another 5th Generation Glock 19 in Kate, a film widely considered by many to be a Spiritual Successor to the Huntress's Death by Origin Story.
• Die Hard 2 talks about a non-existent "Glock 7" model, supposedly made of porcelain and designed to get through airport scanners. This may not be the origin of the myth about "plastic handguns," but it certainly helped propagate it, to the point that the US Congress actually passed a law banning such guns. Yes, they banned something that didn't exist at the time (a functional 3D printed gun that was 99% plastic was developed in the 2010s, causing Congress to revise the law to say that all commercially available guns must have a certain weight of metal in them, that is distributed across the frame so that the buyer can't just remove it after purchasing the weapon).
  John: That guy pulled a Glock 7 on me, you know what that is? It's a porcelain gun, made in Germany. It doesn't show up on your airport X-ray machines, and it costs more than what you make in a month!^note Compared to the actual Glock series, every one of his statements is wrong. The assassin in question pulled a Glock 17, which is a polymer handgun made in Austria, and which is one of the more affordable firearm options available.
• The Lawgiver in Dredd is built around a Glock.
• Multiple Glock variants are used by Jericho Cane in End of Days.
• Tyler Rake carries a Glock 17 as his sidearm in Extraction. He upgrades to a Glock 21 customized by Agency Arms in the sequel. In the latter film, his partner, Nik Khan, carries a 5th Generation Glock 19 also customized by Agency Arms.
• The Fast and the Furious:
  • Furious 7: Brian O'Conner packs a Glock 23 with an OD-green fame in preparation for the final battle.
  • The Fate of the Furious: Luke Hobbs carries a Glock 17 customized with the Taran Tactical Innovations Combat Package during the final battle in the Russian naval base. After the final battle, he is gifted with a Glock 41 MOS that is also customized with the Taran Tactical Innovations Combat Package.
• Faster: Killer carries a Glock 21 with a custom carbon-fiber pattern and extended slide release on the frame as his main weapon. This particular model is the same one seen in Savages.
• G.I. Joe: Retaliation: The Glock 21 becomes the standard sidearm of the G.I. Joe unit. It is carried by many members including Duke, Lady Jaye, Flint, and most notably Roadblock, whose primary Glock 21 model is built with parts of the KRISS Vector submachine gun.
• Gunpowder Milkshake: Sam carries a Glock 19 as one of her sidearms, used most notably during the fight at the doctor's office.
• The Glock 17 with a stainless slide is one of the main weapons used by the title character of Harry Brown.
• Several show up in the John Wick franchise:
  • In John Wick, they are mostly in the hands of Viggo Tasarov and his henchmen (mostly 17s and some 19s, Viggo himself and his son using a Salient Arms International version), while Wick retrieves a Glock 26 from his weapons stash as a backup to his preferred P30.
  • In John Wick: Chapter 2, John gets two more versions from the Sommelier: a Glock 34 and 26 which he uses to devastating effect in the catacombs battle, both of which were customized by Taran Tactical Innovations.
  • Several more variants appear in John Wick: Chapter 3 – Parabellum, primarily used by people in Casablanca and guards at the New York Continental, with Wick and Sofia both taking a few as well; particularly, this film is the first on-screen appearance of the Glock 19X (a new Glock 19-sized barrel and slide on a fifth-generation Glock 17 frame, based on Glock's entry in the XM17 MHS competition).
• Mad Max: Fury Road. Furiosa keeps a Glock 17 concealed inside a skull on the outside of her war rig. Both she and Max make use of it throughout the film.
• Marvel Cinematic Universe:
  • On the film side, many agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. carry the Glock 17 as their standard sidearm before transitioning to the Smith & Wesson M&P on the television side.
  • Black Widow's weapons of choice in all her appearances are a pair of Glock 26s. In Avengers: Endgame and her self-titled solo film, she switches between these and the Glock 43; her adoptive sister and fellow Black Widow Yelena Belova mainly carries the Glock 26s.
  • Maria Hill carries a Glock 19 in The Avengers (2012) and Captain America: The Winter Soldier. In Avengers: Age of Ultron, she trades her compact Glock 19 for a full-size Glock 17, using it to shoot an Ultron Sentry during the final battle.
  • The Winter Soldier dual-wields a Glock 19 with a SIG-Sauer P226R during the final battle in Captain America: The Winter Soldier. In its sequel, Captain America: Civil War, he briefly wields a Glock 17 during the fight at the Joint Counter Terrorist Centre Building, most notably when he shoots at point-blank rage at Tony Stark, who blocks the shot with a mini-Iron Man gauntlet.
• Several appear in Mr. & Mrs. Smith (2005), particularly Jane using a Glock 19 across most of the film. In the final shootout, both John and Jane carry full-auto-converted Glocks with extended magazines, Jane with a single all-black version and John carrying a pair of two-tone ones, one of which was later used more famously in The Dark Knight above.
• Resident Evil Film Series:
  • Resident Evil: Apocalypse: A Glock 17 is seen carried by the officers of Raccoon City.
  • Resident Evil: Extinction: Claire Redfield carries a Glock 17 in Las Vegas.
  • Resident Evil: Retribution: Ada Wong carries a Glock 17 with a rail-mounted weaponlight as her sidearm, which Alice uses at one point.
• In Strange Days, Lenny Nero has one left over from his cop days stashed underneath his bed. When he suddenly has to fish it out to face a home intruder, he neglects to realize that he forgot the magazine and has to creep back and find it.
• The Guard. Gerry takes a Glock 19, a Kalashnikov and a Derringer from a stash of guns owned by the IRA before giving them back to them. He prominently makes use of the Glock during the final shootout.
• In U.S. Marshals, Marshal Samuel Gerard tells DSS Special Agent John Royce to "Get yourself a Glock and lose that nickel-plated sissy pistol." It becomes a major plot point later in the movie. It's also eye-rollingly blatant that the movie is shilling for Glock pretty hard.
• In V for Vendetta all the police and some of the Fingermen use Glock 17s.

Literature

• The vigilante in Dance Of The Butterfly has a 9mm Glock 19 as sidearm of choice.
• Captain Zuccho uses an unknown model of Glock in Incompetence. He's rather fond of firing it into the pavement whenever someone asks him to calm down.
• Diana Tregarde wields one in the short story "Satanic, Versus." It's covered in plastic, the better for people to assume it's a prop or a toy.

Live-Action TV

• Hank in Breaking Bad carries a Glock 22 as his standard sidearm in the DEA. He notes that its .40 calibre rounds pack more of a punch than 9mm.
• Castle: Kate Beckett uses a Glock as her standard sidearm. She starts off with a Glock 17 and switches to the compact Glock 19 late in the first season, which carries on for the rest of the series. Other Glocks show up regularly in the hands of NYPD officers, including Ryan and Esposito.
• Two Heisei Restoration Army terrorists in Crisis (2017) use Glock 19s to assassinate Assemblyman Hamao in broad daylight in front of a reporter gaggle in episode 3. The show explicitly identifies the exact model of pistol when the SIT team wonders exactly how the perpetrators got such weapons, given how notoriously strict Japan's anti-gun laws are.
• The Fixer. John Mercer's carry gun (he uses different weapons for his hits).
• The majority of the main (police) characters from the Law & Order franchise wield them, with Glocks 17, 19, and 23 being the most frequent. Truth in Television as the NYPD seems to favor the gun.
• Love/Hate: "The Glock 17: Weapon of choice for the NYPD, the US Air Force and bad fuckers the world over."
• Fusco's service weapon in Person of Interest is a Glock 19.
• The sidearm of Ray Donovan is a regular Glock 21 in the first two seasons before he changes to a Glock 21SF from Season 3 onward.
• In series VIII of Red Dwarf crewmembers and Canaries are issued Glock 17s with some extra piece mounted underneath the barrel. Kryten prominently uses one in "Cassandra", which constantly jams, to demonstrate that the main characters can't die Because Destiny Says So. In "Back To Earth", the Creator carries one with a flashlight and suppressor.
• One of James Reece's sidearms from The Terminal List is a Glock 19 customized by Taran Tactical Innovations. He also carries a Glock 43X, which he gives to Katie Buranek, who uses it throughout the rest of the season.

Video Games

• One of three standard pistols available in the Director's Cut version of the Half-Life mod Afraid of Monsters, with the lowest power of the three but competing with the highest capacity. Its Spiritual Successor Cry of Fear likewise features a Glock 17 (misidentified as the 19) as the most common handgun, and probably the most versatile (most common ammo type, good capacity without a forced burst-fire, and it's the only one that can mount an underbarrel flashlight).
• The Rittergruppen pistol in Alpha Protocol is modeled after a Glock.
• In Arknights, Liskarm uses an unidentified Glock variant as her main weapon, paired with a ballistic shield. This makes her the first Defender (until the crossover with Rainbow Six Siege gave us Blitz) that can attack enemies at range. Her partner, Franka, also carries a two-tone compact Glock variant, but she never uses it in actual gameplay. Later on, Jessica the Liberated would trade in her Beretta 92 for what appears to be a TTI-customized Glock variant.
• Ashes 2063: The 9mm autoloader is a rusty dirty Glock 19, going by the magazine capacity of 15+1 rounds. It doesn't deal as much damage as the .45 revolver (owing to its ammo, light bullets) and is also less accurate, but it fires and reloads faster and is more ammo-efficient than the Machine Pistol. In Afterglow you can upgrade it twice: first, by cleaning up the parts and adding a ramshackle Laser Sight^note earning it the humorous title "tacticool autoloader", making the autoloader exactly as accurate as the revolver; the second upgrade, in a show of realism, has Scav add an auto-sear to the slide, making it capable of firing 3-round bursts with extra damage per bullet^note a pit fiend dies in five shots in regular fire, while one single 3-round burst will kill one, guaranteed as a Secondary Fire.
• Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 has a Glock 17 modified to fire full-auto as a common sidearm for Task Force 141 and a somewhat-early unlock in multiplayer. A Glock 21 returns for Call of Duty: Modern Warfare (2019) as the X16, with barrel attachments available to make it look (though not function) like the select-fire Glock 18 or the long-slide Glock 34. It later returns in Call of Duty: Modern Warfare II using the Glock 17 MOS as the X12.
• The starting pistol for the Terrorist team in Counter-Strike,^*the Global Offensive version, notably, making use of the model from Left 4 Dead 2 in which it can fire in both semi-auto and burst-fire modes with a 20-round capacity.
• Duke Nukem owns what appears to be a Glock with more rounded edges and an unused Laser Sight in Duke Nukem 3D. It fires about 450 RPM cyclic, and has to be reloaded every time the ammo counter reaches a multiple of 12.
• Lazarus Jones carries a Glock 17 as his standard sidearm in Ghost Hunter.
• The Glock 17 appears as a 3-star handgun in Girls' Frontline. Dual-wielding aside, her costume is patterned after a police uniform, echoing the Glock's use by various police forces worldwide.
• The Glock 17 shows up in Grand Theft Auto: Liberty City Stories and Grand Theft Auto IV as the basic pistol. It also shows a few times during cutscenes in San Andreas, presumably having meant to be the standard pistol in gameplay but replaced with the same 1911 the prior two games used.
• This is the standard sidearm in Half-Life and the expansion packs Opposing Force and Blue Shift. However it was replaced with the Beretta 92F with the High Definition pack that came with Blue Shift.
• Available in Hitman: Contracts, mostly carried by cops. Completing "The Seafood Massacre" with a Silent Assassin rating unlocks dual Glocks for 47 to use.
• Insurgency: Sandstorm had the Glock 17 as one of the handguns available for the Security side (as the M005) during its beta test, but it was removed from the final game due to legal threats from Glock^note Which is why many modern video games do not feature Glock pistols anymore despite their ubiquity in reality - Glock's legal department frowns on virtual recreations of its firearms as copyright infringement, especially when games give them the A.K.A.-47 treatment. The first content update for the game added a Suspiciously Similar Substitute in the form of the PF940, a do-it-yourself parts kit based on the Glock frame.
• Available in Jagged Alliance 2, where the Glock 17 is comparable to the Beretta 92F, and the Glock 18 is comparable to the Beretta 93R.
• Killer7's Con Smith of the Smith Syndicate uses two Glock 23s, fired sideways (though not in the usual way).
• A custom Glock 26 with a lengthened slide and an extended magazine can be wielded together with a SIG P226 by the characters in Left 4 Dead 2.
• No More Room In Hell's Glock is essentially a rarer Beretta 92 with two more rounds in the magazine: reliable with common ammo, but lacking the firepower to one-headshot an adult zombie unless focused (aimed while not moving for at least 3 seconds).
• PAYDAY 2 has multiple Glock variants: in addition to a returning Glock 18, there's a Glock 17 as the "Chimano 88", the first sidearm the player has access to and the standard sidearm of the DCPD; the Glock 22C, with a flared magazine well and a "Long Slide" option that turns it into the Glock 35, is the "Chimano Custom" added as a community weapon alongside Update #25; and the Glock 26, added alongside Update #40 as part of the crossover with John Wick, as the "Chimano Compact".
• Parasite Eve: The Glock 19 could be acquired in the Soho gun store in Day 3. The Glock 23 is dropped by the Day 4 Boss. The Glock 22 is found in the museum during Day 5. The Glock 20 is found on the 41st-50th floors of the Chrysler Building during New Game Plus.
• The first major content update for Receiver added, among other things, a Glock 17 modified to allow fully-automatic fire.
• Resident Evil:
  • Chris Redfield starts with a Glock 17 in Resident Evil – Code: Veronica.
  • The Glock 17 is the second handgun obtained in Resident Evil 7: Biohazard, called the G17. This is not a case of A.K.A.-47 as that is a commonly used nickname for it in the gun community. For gameplay reasons, it only holds 10 rounds rather than the more common real-life capacity of 17.
  • Resident Evil 2 (Remake) has William Birkin using a Glock 19 to defend himself when USS commandos come to retrieve the G-Virus, though he's quickly gunned down before he has a chance to use it. His wife takes the gun from him and uses it across the rest of the game.
  • Likewise, the Glock 19 is the handgun used by Jill in the majority of Resident Evil 3 (Remake) after she loses her "Samurai Edge" Beretta, called the G19. Unlike the RE7 example, this one has an accurate 15-round magazine capacity, which can be upgraded to an extended 33-round magazine. It can also be equipped with a red dot sight for easier aiming and a "moderator" over the muzzle to tighten the spread somewhat.
• The Glock 21 appears in the first two Saints Row games, though it's called the "NR4" here.
• The Glock 22 appears in Sniper: Path of Vengeance, as the secondary weapon held by cops in some levels.
• The fourth generation Glock 17 is the British Army sidearm in Squad, identified as its "L131A1" designation.
• Syphon Filter has A.K.A.-47's of the Glock 17 and 18; the former is generically described as a 9mm Pistol, the latter uses the abbreviated name G18.
• As expected, available in 7.62 High Calibre as a good mid-range 9mm with a high magazine capacity. The Blue Sun mod adds the Glock 19 compact variant and the Glock 22 in the more powerful .40 S&W.

Real Life

• Lee Paige, the only one in the room professional enough to handle the Glock forty.
• The Glock pistol was immortalized by gangsta rappers in The '90s, to the point where "Glock" is still a common euphemism for "handgun", and radio stations go out of their way to bleep the word out. Which of course runs the risk of making listeners think something else is getting bleeped.
• An infamous wrestling angle in 1996 saw Brian Pillman pointing a Glock 17C on "Stone Cold" Steve Austin.

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