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Heckler & Koch HK45

The Heckler & Koch HK45 is a .45 ACP pistol, designed by Heckler & Koch for the US Military's Joint Combat Pistol program to replace the M9. The program was ultimately suspended, but Heckler & Koch sold the weapon on the commercial market.

The HK45 was designed as an improvement over Heckler & Koch's previous USP, but also incorporates features from the P2000 for better ergonomics. Notably, it has an extended, ambidextrous slide release, and a smaller grip with finger grooves that sits lower in the user's hand, though this sadly means it carries less in a magazine than its USP predecessor, 10+1 of .45 ACP versus 12+1 in the USP. Like many pistols of its era, it also features an underbarrel accessory rail and interchangeable backstraps.

Variants include the compact HK45C, the HK45T Tactical (and a compact variant, the Compact Tactical) with a threaded barrel and tritium sights. The full-size variant is fed by 10-round magazines, while the compact variant can be fed with 8 or 10-round magazines.

• Eli carries an HK45 as his primary weapon in The Book of Eli. In the real world, the gun was new at the time of the film's release, and had to be sanded down to look "aged" for the film's post-apocalyptic setting.
• The HK45 appears as a usable weapon in Ghost Recon: Advanced Warfighter 2. Based on the fact that it is fed by 12-round magazines and that its in-game weight stat is much higher than expected, it was probably meant to be a Heckler & Koch Mark 23, reskinned to look like an HK45. It is also usable in Ghost Recon: Phantoms.
• The HK45C variant is usable in Medal of Honor: Warfighter.
• The HK45C variant appears in Battlefield 4, where it is called the "Compact 45", where it is the last pistol unlocked in multiplayer. It is also usable in Battlefield Hardline, this time as the first handgun for the Enforcer class, and it's also used several times in the campaign.
• Grant Ward replaces his Five-seven with an HK45T in Season 3 of Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D..
• Isabelle carries a custom compensated HK45C in Predators
• Used by a Badass Bystander to take on the crew in Baby Driver.
• M's sidearm in Sword Art Online Alternative: Gun Gale Online.
• The HK45 is a 3-star handgun in Girls' Frontline. Like FNP9 above, she behaves like an Idol Singer, loves dancing and treats mission prep as "rehearsals".
• Saju carries an HK45 in Extraction.

Heckler & Koch Mark 23

A large-caliber combat pistol developed at the behest of U.S. Special Operations Command. The "Mk" designation indicates that the development project was a Navy initiative. It has the 45-caliber size and "cock-and-lock" design favored by U.S. soldiers and comes with a high-performance laser aiming module and specially developed suppressor. Holds 12 rounds. Proved indispensable to Snake during his infiltration of Shadow Moses in 2005. Maintains its high stopping power from medium range and has a slightly larger magazine capacity than other weapons of the same caliber.

—Description, Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots

If you believe fiction, this is the gun for badass spies and special operatives; a big, blocky, serious-looking weapon, it's often seen on Tom Clancy covers being brandished by an "Operator." The Mark 23 was originally developed for US SOCOM special forces, and is basically a giant USP chambered in .45 ACP with a heavier slide^note the Mark 23 is, in fact, based on prototypes for the USP, which were later slimmed down and (initially) rechambered for .40 S&W. Note that the SOCOM version of the Mark 23 has "USSOCOM" engraved on the slide, while a civilian Mark 23 does not.

While the Mark 23 isn't rare in the sense of low manufacture, it's another case, like the Desert Eagle, of being seen far more often than it should be. SOCOMs might have been procured for use, but the special forces operators hated them; although the pistol was very accurate and reliable in extreme environments, it was also excessively large and heavy (a loaded Mark 23 with the full SOCOM kit weighs as much as an empty MP5 and is over a foot long) and the ergonomics were terrible. It's a bad sign when your gun gets nicknamed "the world's only crew-served pistol". This excess was largely due to its role as an 'offensive' handgun - a primary weapon used in place of a rifle or submachine gun, rather than a secondary or fallback handgun to complement a long gun.

Most SOCOM Mark 23s spent peaceful careers sitting in storage racks while less accurate and durable but more sensibly-proportioned sidearms were used instead. Military production was just under 2,000 units total, while the civilian version was discontinued in July 2010. Although a failure, the Mark 23's best traits were carried on into the tremendously successful USP; in particular, the USP Tactical, a variant with a slightly-extended, threaded barrel, does just about everything the Mark 23 does at half the weight and in three different calibers.

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Anime & Manga

• Lehm from Jormungand uses a Mk. 23 as his primary sidearm. He is rather large and burly, which might explain how he handles the weight so well.
• As if it weren't massive enough already, Eva Unit 02 uses one scaled up for use by a 40 meter-tall (maybe) biomech.

Films — Live-Action

• The Navy SEALs led by Bruce Willis in Tears of the Sun carry the Mk. 23 (excluding Doc, who carries a P226 instead).
• John Connor wields one in Terminator Salvation.

Live-Action TV

• Used in Supernatural by three characters: Gordon, Future!Dean, and Sam, when he didn't have his soul. Seems to be a motif of it being used by dark characters.
• Mike uses it quite a few times in Breaking Bad, generally in situations requiring its massive suppressor and where concealing a weapon is definitely not a priority.
• Battlestar Galactica (2003): Sam Anders is seem wielding one of these while leading the Anti-Cylon resistance on Caprica during the second season.

Video Games

• In the Metal Gear series, this is one of Solid Snake's signature weapons. He starts using it in the original Metal Gear Solid game, replacing the Beretta 92 he used in the first two games, and gives Raiden another one in Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty. It can be found again in Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots in the same spot as in the original. In both the first and second game the weapon's size and weight is acknowledged, by Nastasha and Snake respectively, but both Hand Wave it, saying it "shouldn't be a problem for you". Word of God says part of the reason they chose the SOCOM was because it was hard to handle and really big. Hard to handle makes Snake look cooler for being able to use it while still taking full advantage of its capabilities; really big made it easier to render recognizably with the graphical capabilities of the PS1.
• The Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six video games feature the Mark 23 Mod 0 in every installment, with the exception of Lockdown and Siege, typically as a higher-caliber but slightly-lower-capacity version of the more sensible USP40.
• SWAT 3 likewise features the Mark 23 as a higher capacity, silenced alternative to the default M1911.
• Hayden Tenno in darkSector starts out with a Mark 23 (with "Mark 24 Cal 45 auto" on the slide), called the "Tekna 9mm", and can later upgrade it into a larger machine-pistol variation called the "Tekna Burst".
• In Soldier of Fortune 2, Mullins can pick a Mark 23 with one of three Gun Accessories at the start of a mission: a Hollywood Silencer, a Laser Sight, or an Infinite Flashlight. It's objectively better than the 1911 A1 that everyone else uses because of those accessories and the higher mag capacity, and the tactical light is often a better choice for navigating dark areas than the Thermal/Night-Vision Goggles – in one non-combat level, you get an empty Mark 23 with a light attached to go through a Blackout Basement. The Idle Animation shows Mullins twirling it around his finger, a stunningly bad idea with a 17-inch long weapon of any sort, more so with a 5-pound gun that has a 4.8-pound single-action trigger pull.
• Shows up in Delta Force 2, as the default sidearm to replace the 1911 from the original game, available with a suppressor; the devs, interestingly, chose not to model the weapon with its distinctive underbarrel LAM. It returns for Land Warrior, Task Force Dagger, and Xtreme, this time with the LAM present but unusable.
• Added to Killing Floor during a summer event. Like the other pistols, it can be used Guns Akimbo. It has more power than most other pistols, competing with the Desert Eagle while having a higher capacity, but its reload is among the slowest of the semi-auto pistols to compensate.
• A 4-star Tactical Doll in Girls' Frontline. She is depicted as a possessive USA-themed catgirl for some reason. As the real-life weapon was marketed as an offensive pistol, her kit entirely revolves around firepower. She passively buffs the raw damage of other dolls, and she can take it even higher with her active skill. Even her personality can be considered aggressive, constantly flirting with the Commander and making a fuss when another girl appears to get close to them.
• Daniel Cross carries one in the present day sections of Assassin's Creed III. Desmond divests him of it during the final assault on Abstergo and the player can make use of it.
• Appears as the standard handgun in Trepang2. Its modifications include either the suppressor or a USP Match barrel weight, its blocky prototype laser, and alternate slides that give it the ability to fire in three-round bursts (a chromed slide) or fully automatic (a cerakoted slide).
• The Mark 23 appears in Hot Dogs, Horseshoes, and Hand Grenades, as do the suppressor and propritary laser module. It also appears as the only pistol in the Take and Hold character 'Flaccid Steak'.
• The Mark 23 is available in Parasite Eve's New Game Plus found on the 21st-30th floors of the Chrysler Building.

Heckler & Koch P30

Introduced in 2006, the Heckler & Koch P30 borrows many elements from Heckler & Koch's previous P2000 and USP handguns, with improved ergonomics. Like many pistols of the early 21st century, it is fully ambidextrous and customizable, with multiple trigger groups available. It is popular with both military and civilian operators.

Variants include the P30L, with a longer slide, the P30SK subcompact variant, and the S, LS, and SKS versions, with optional manual safeties. It is chambered in either 9x19mm or .40 S&W.

• John Wick uses a customized compensated P30L as his primary weapon throughout the first film. It's also seen briefly in the second film when he buries his old arsenal.
• Michael carries a P30 as his sidearm in Burn Notice, beginning in Season 4.
• Maggie Chan uses a P30 in The Expendables 2. Gunnar later also uses one in The Expendables 3.
• Jack Bauer carries a P30, occasionally suppressed, in 24: Live Another Day.
• Richmond Valentine uses a P30 to apparently kill Galahad in Kingsman: The Secret Service.
• In the Marvel Cinematic Universe, Hawkeye carries a P30 as a backup weapon.
• The P30L is added to PAYDAY 2 as part of the John Wick Weapon Pack, where it is called the "Schäfer & Gewehr Master", or "Contractor". It has low ammo and its damage is nothing spectacular, but it is reasonably accurate, dual-wieldable, and has good concealment.
• Available as a 4-star handgun in Girls' Frontline, where she's described as quick to anger and holding long grudges, even against rocks she trips on.

Heckler & Koch P7

Officially designated the Polizei Selbstlade-Pistole (Police self-loading pistol), the Heckler & Koch P7 is a German semi-automatic handgun, designed in 1976 following the Munich massacre and first introduced in 1979. Recognizable for its slim profile and low barrel axis, the P7 contains a number of innovations to improve its performance and ergonomics. The most notable of these innovations is its gas-delayed blowback system, which uses gas pressure from the gun firing to slow the rearward movement of the slide until the bullet has left the barrel. This eliminates the need for a slide locking mechanism, making the weapon simpler and easier to manufacture. The P7's barrel is also fixed directly to the frame, which allows for high accuracy, as there is no tilting or lateral movement to degrade accuracy.

Another notable feature of the P7 is its lack of a manual safety. Instead, it features a safety/cocking lever built into the pistol's grip. Squeezing this lever primes the weapon, which must be held to keep the weapon cocked (designed in such a way that requires 15 pounds of force to prime the weapon, then only 2 pounds to keep it in place). Only then can the trigger be pulled, and as long as the lever remains held, the pistol can be fired normally. These features allow the P7 to be quickly fired in a time of crisis, while at the same time making it safe to carry with a round chambered.

The P7's features make it easy to conceal, reliable, and accurate, though not without a trade off; the weapon is noted to be quite expensive, and the action also has a tendency to heat the gun up quickly.

The original P7 was chambered in 9x19mm Parabellum, fed from an 8-round single-stack magazine. The P7M8, introduced in 1982, features several improvements, like a larger trigger guard, a plastic heat shield to alleviate the heating issue, and an ambidextrous grip-mounted magazine release (the original P7 had a heel-mounted release), while the later P7M13 features a 13-round double-stack magazine. Other variants were also made, including the P7M10 in .40 S&W and the P7K3 in .32 ACP, .380 ACP, and .22 LR.

• A P7 is used by Dr. Kaufman in Tomorrow Never Dies in an attempt to kill Bond. Thanks to one of his gadgets, Bond manages to turn the tables and kill Kaufman with his own weapon.
• A couple appear in the Smiths' arsenal in Mr. & Mrs. Smith (2005).
• Hans Gruber's primary weapon in Die Hard.
• In the final scene of Hard Boiled, Johnny Wong attempts to hold Alan hostage with a P7M13.
• In Iron Man 3, the Mandarin uses a P7 to pretend to execute a hostage.
• During the skyscraper standoff in True Lies, Faisil pulls out a P7 hidden inside his video camera, and uses it to kill several Crimson Jihad terrorists.
• One with a nickel finish is pulled by Colonel Sharp aboard the space shuttle in Armageddon (1998).
  "What are you doing with a gun in space?"
• Jack Reacher utilizes the .40 caliber model, the P7M10, in the novel Echo Burning, noting it as a top-of-the-line concealed-carry pistol.
• One of the official weapon packs included with later releases of SWAT 3 includes the P7M8 as a usable sidearm.
• Of all places, it shows up in Granblue Fantasy as one of the weapons available from the Case Closed crossover event, where it's referred to simply as the "Compact Automatic Pistol".
• Added to PAYDAY 2 as part of Crimefest 2018, where it is known as the "M13".
• A suppressed P7 is the gun favored by Lalo Salamanca in the final season of Better Call Saul, where he uses it to murder Howard Hamlin and takes off the suppressor for his fatal confrontation with Gus.
• Peter Burrell, the government assassin sent to kill Simon in Mercury Rising, uses a P7M8 to kill Simon's parents. However, the notion of a gun being cool works against him because the P7's price is noted to be out of the family's spending power, making the crime look suspicious.

Heckler & Koch P9

The Heckler & Koch P9 is a German semi-automatic pistol, manufactured by Heckler & Koch and first introduced in 1969.

A fairly conventional pistol, it is constructed from polymer, with a concealed hammer. Notably, it utilized a roller-delayed blowback action (a variant of the same action used in Heckler & Koch's G3 and MP5), and had polygonal rifling (which would be used on most of the company's later pistols). It was chambered in 9x19mm, .45 ACP, and 7.65x21mm, fed by either 9 or 7-round single-stack magazines. Like most European pistols of the time, it has a heel-mounted magazine release. Its sights are fairly large, as it was designed to use a large suppressor (which had its own sight mounted on it, to compensate for the fact that it covered the gun's front sight when fitted).

The weapon came in three variants: the single-action P9, which was quickly discontinued, the double-action P9S, the most-produced model, and the competition-focused P9S Target.

When it entered service, however, the German government was in the act of adopting a large number of other pistols, which led to the P9 being overshadowed. A number of police forces in Europe adopted, it, but its largest-profile user was the U.S. Navy SEALs, where it was usually used with a suppressor. It was also rather popular on the civilian market.

• It appears to be the standard police sidearm for the Detroit Police Department in RoboCop (1987).
• One is used by Sean Miller and later Jack Ryan in Patriot Games.
• Harry Tasker steals one from a terrorist and uses it for a while in True Lies.
• Two are used by Viktor Rostavili in Red Heat.
• Appears multiple times in the first season of MacGyver (1985).
• Also appears frequently in The A-Team, used by both the team and random thugs.
• A suppressed P9S is Rick Masters' main weapon in To Live and Die in L.A..
• The "Burkov" pistol in Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain is based heavily on the P9S, with some elements of the Makarov mixed in.

Heckler & Koch USP

H&K's above average performer excels in damage, capacity and range.

— USP Match Description, Madness: Project Nexus

First introduced in 1993, the USP is a German handgun, adopted by the German army as the P8, the German police as the P10 (Compact version), and various special forces groups as the P12 (Tactical version). It was developed at around the same time as the larger Mark 23^note Prototypes for the USP were used as the basis for the Mark 23, which were then slimmed down a tad and rechambered for .40 S&W to create the final USP..

The USP comes in several different variants. The Compact, as its name implies, is a scaled-down model for concealed carry. The Tactical (.40 and .45) and SD (9mm) variants feature a slightly longer threaded barrel, raised adjustable sights, and a match trigger. The Compact Tactical essentially combines the features of the Tactical with the size of the Compact. The Expert variant is designed for competition use, featuring most of the features of the Tactical (sans threaded barrel), along with an extended slide and extended "Jet Funnel" magazine well for non-.45 versions.

The Match variant (arguably one of the most famous and sought after USP variants) is similar to the Expert, but does not sport an extended slide, substituting it for a match barrel weight (not a compensator as some sources have said), extended barrel (the second longest available at 6.01 inches, longer than the Expert's 5.19-inch) adjustable match-grade trigger and adjustable target sights (and also has the distinction of being the only USP variant to have been discontinued by H&K due to poor sales and buyers preferring the Expert and Elite variants for competition/target shooting); used examples in good condition can go for upwards of $4000 today.

The Elite variant combines the best features of the Expert, Match, and Tactical, with a distinctive extended slide and 6.19-inch barrel.

The weapon was originally designed for the .40 S&W cartridge, followed shortly by 9x19mm and .45 ACP variants (each is superficially identical, save for the USP45 being visibly larger). The Compact variant is also available in .357 SIG, with aftermarket barrels available to convert the USP40 to .357. As seems to be H&K's trademark, most of their later pistols are directly derived from the USP both mechanically and superficially, though interestingly most of these later derivatives seem to be based on the USP Compact specifically - many of them can even take the same magazines as the USP Compact and not the full-size versions.

The pistol is legendary for its reliability; during its development, Heckler and Koch subjected it to rigorous tests, all of which it passed with flying colors. It was frozen to -42 Celsius (-43 Fahrenheit), then fired. It was then heated to 67 Celsius (152 Fahrenheit) and fired again. One notable test had a bullet be deliberately lodged in the barrel, and then another bullet fired to clear the obstruction. The barrel only bulged slightly (most guns would explode in response), and a subsequent shot grouping test showed little degradation in accuracy.

• The USP Tactical, with a suppressor that could be attached and removed at will, was the starting weapon of Counter-Terrorist players in the Counter-Strike series until Global Offensive changed it to a P2000. A later patch to Global Offensive would let you replace the P2000 with a USP that comes with a removable silencer; besides the quieter firing sound they are identical except the USP had less recoil in exchange for less reserve ammunition.
• In Lara Croft: Tomb Raider, Lara's pistols of choice are a pair of the Match variant of the USP. In some of the later games and the reboot movie, the USP Match makes appearances as a Mythology Gag.
• The pistol Gordon Freeman and the Metrocops use in Half-Life 2 is a USP Match. Unlike the above, this pistol has abysmal accuracy at range; Gordon at least has the excuse that he insists on Firing One-Handed going by the animations, but there's no such excuse for the Metrocops.
• SCP: Secret Laboratory: The USP was introduced in the game's first weapon overhaul (v6.0.0). It was renamed the COM-18 and given a new model in the second gun overhaul, Parabellum (v11.0.0), before getting a new model based on a different H&K gun (the P30) in the Mimicry update (v12.0.0). Both versions had a barrel attachment based on the USP Match (the Heavy Barrel for the USP, the Extended Barrel for the COM-18), and in both cases, they served as a more powerful, but more difficult to acquire, handgun.
• Silas in The Da Vinci Code. In the book it was a .45, but in the movie it is the 9mm version, probably because 9mm blanks are cheaper than .45 ones.
• Spycraft's designers figured this weapon should be the most 'expensive' (per its requisitioning system) among auto handguns, on par with the .44s. Then again, the USP series (much like everything H&K puts out) are horribly overpriced in real life, too.
• 24: Jack Bauer uses the Compact variant with a stainless slide, replacing his P228 from the first two seasons.
• Neil McCauley carries a USP early on in Heat but switches to a SIG Sauer P220 towards the end of the film.
• The Obeya FBW pistol in All Points Bulletin is clearly based on the USP.
• The AT-14 and ACM46 pistols in F.E.A.R. and its sequel are USPs with a different name; the former is mostly based on the .40 S&W version (though with the capacity of the 9mm version, and textures from the .45 ACP one), the latter is purely the 9mm version with rails bolted on and a second set of ironsights on those rails to make up for the standard ones being blocked.
• Misato carries a USP as her sidearm in Neon Genesis Evangelion.
• A common pistol in the Modern Warfare series. The first game seemed to want it to be the Mark 23, however, as the USP in that game fits the Mark 23's laser aiming module (not possible in real life due to the difference in size). Modern Warfare 3 mostly keeps the model from the second game for singleplayer, while switching it out for a USP Tactical in multi and Survival.
• The USP shows up in both normal and tactical variants in 7.62mm High Calibre. The difference being that the tactical version is threaded to accept a suppressor. It's a perfectly good pistol for mid and late game fighting, thanks to the relatively large magazine and good accuracy.
• In the tanker chapter of Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty, Snake acquires one chambered in 9mm (a rare move for a video game, as most of them go for the the .45 version, or more rarely the .40 S&W one) from Olga Gurlukovich and uses it until he is captured late into the plant chapter and even then, may still have it, as even when he is captured, he is still carrying a pistol in his hip holster.
• This is one of the guns The Joker is seen wielding in Batman: Arkham Asylum, particularly during the last of the Scarecrow's hallucinations, where he uses it to execute Batman.
• A common pistol in Sleeping Dogs (2012). Unlike most examples, both the 9mm and .45 ACP versions show up in the game.
• USPs can be found in the Chrysler Building in Parasite Eve. A P8 variant can be found in Central Park. A USP Tactical named "USP-TU" can be acquired if you give 300 Junks to Wayne and trust him on making you a random gun.
• PAYDAY 2's Interceptor .45 is, appropriately enough, a .45 USP Tactical (though incorrectly fitted with a Jet-Funnel mag-well extension, which was never made for the .45 version). Mods can be added to turn it into a USP Match or USP Expert.
• Every game in the Rainbow Six series offers the .40 S&W version as a sidearm for players, with the Mark 23 as a .45 ACP alternative. The original game offers the .45 version instead of a Mark 23; though it's likely supposed to be one (named as such on the menus), it uses the exact same model as the USP40. Siege finally drops the Mark 23 in favor of all USP variants, the USP45 Tactical with the capacity of the 9mm version as the GSG-9's "P12", and the USP40 making its return in Compact form with Operation Velvet Shell as the sidearm for the GEO operators.
• Executive Decision. Grant wields one when he attempts to find the terrorist with the remote for the bomb. It's equipped with a fake Knight's Armament suppressor and a large, blocky flashlight, which makes it clear that the filmmakers were trying to pass it off as a Mark 23, which wasn't available to anyone outside of USSOCOM at the time the film was made. Incidentally, Grant's actor would go on to be the first to wield an actual Mark 23 on-screen in Soldier two years later.
• A common pistol in Hitman: Blood Money, where it's called the "SLP40". It's the .40 S&W version and is available in both standard and silenced variants. It's carried by most armed NPCs, including the Marines in the White House.
  • Kane & Lynch: Dead Men from the same developers likewise features a USP40, using the same name and model from Blood Money, as the first (and by far the most common) of two available handguns.
  • A USP Custom Sport (a regular USP with the taller adjustable sights also used with the Tactical version, rarer - or at least less well-known - than the Tactical because it was never sold in America) fitted with an underbarrel light shows up in the 2007 film as well, used by Interpol agent Jenkins.
• The USP Compact in .45 is available in all three S.T.A.L.K.E.R. games as the "UDP Compact". It competes with the other .45 pistols with the fastest rate of fire, very light weight, and, in Call of Pripyat, the highest unmodified capacity and a full-auto upgrade, but in return it has a noticeable tendency to jam.
• Shaw in Person of Interest carries an USP Compact throughout most of the series.
• In Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice, it's the sidearm used by Anatoli Knyazev and the rest of Lex's Mooks.
• A USP Compact is Wesley Gibson's favored weapon in Wanted.
• Used by Danny Archer as a sidearm in Blood Diamond. The weapon is notable in that it is the Compact variant, but possesses an exposed hammer (which the standard USP Compact does not). This either suggests that it is an aftermarket modification, or the German Army variant known as the P10. Col. Coetzee and his mercenaries likewise use the full-size USP as a sidearm.
• The USP Compact is a fairly common 2-star handgun in Girls' Frontline. She's presented as a Shrinking Violet who doesn't like when people (other than the Commander, at least) pay too much attention to her.
  • HK416 carries the P8 variant as a sidearm, which she prominently uses against M16A1 in the manga.
• Several show up in the Resident Evil games.
  • The P8 variant shows up in Resident Evil 5 as a standard sidearm of the BSAA, with just about everyone in the group having one in a thigh holster - even Sheva is shown with one in gameplay that transforms into whatever she actually has on her once she draws it. The player can purchase it after completing Chapter 2-3, where it acts as this game's version of the Five-Seven-derived "Punisher" from RE4, able to penetrate through up to five enemies at its highest upgrade.
  • Claire can obtain a USP Compact, labeled as the German police's P10, in Chapter 3 of Resident Evil: Revelations 2, acting as an upgrade over her starting Makarov.
  • HUNK carries a USP9 in the Resident Evil 2 (Remake)'s version of the "The 4th Survivor" mode, renamed the "MUP".
  • It's also available in Resident Evil 3 (Remake), available as a standard weapon in the "Resistance" multiplayer mode, and one with infinite reserve ammunition available as a postgame reward bought through the bonus shop.
  • Resident Evil 4 (Remake) remodels Leon's custom "Silver Ghost", a mixture of the USP with the S&W Sigma and Ruger P85, into the "SG-09 R", a much more obvious USP with a compensator giving it a similar profile to the Match variant.
• The SIT team in Crisis (2017) carry USPs as their main sidearm.
• The USP45 shows up in a few James Bond games:
  • Blood Stone features one with a lengthened barrel and frame and an underbarrel light as the standard handgun for most mooks; Bond can only use it on one occasion where he doesn't already have a pistol of some variety, and can otherwise only use it as a source of ammo for his P99.
  • GoldenEye (2010) uses it as the "Hawksman M5A", where it can be modified with an underbarrel laser or a suppressor. In the Wii version it always has the laser attached, but it can't actually be used unless you have the relevant attachment.
• Nick Mason's sidearm in Urban Chaos: Riot Response appears to be a hybrid of a USP and a first generation Steyr M9. It is a Punch-Packing Pistol that will serve the player well even into the endgame phase. In its Mk. 3 form, it gains a low magnification sight, automatic fire, and 60-round magazines (seriously).

High Standard HDM

"You won't want to use those guns you are carrying. They make far too much noise."

—Manon Batiste before handing Lt. Powell a silenced Hi-Standard, Medal of Honor: Allied Assault

An American semi-automatic pistol with an integral silencer, used most famously by the OSS during World War II. Derived from High Standard's HD pistol, the weapon was first demonstrated to President Franklin D. Roosevelt by head of the Office of Strategic Services "Wild Bill" Donovan in order to gain approval. The demonstration, which involved firing 10 live rounds around the US president, in essence, showed that the pistol was a Real Life case of a Hollywood Silencer, as Roosevelt never even realized that the gun was being fired around him until Donovan told him. 2,600 weapons were produced, and, following the conclusion of the war, continued to see service with the US military and CIA well into the early Cold War.

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Video Games

• A common sight in early Medal of Honor games, due to the main characters being members of the OSS.
  • In Medal of Honor: Allied Assault and the Breakthrough expansion, the weapon is used thrice by Powell when working behind enemy lines, and by Baker when infiltrating an Axis freighter carrying important enemy documents. Unrealistically for its .22 caliber, it is shot-for-shot the most powerful pistol in the game, but also the slowest due to having to manually rack the slide after every shot.
  • It appears in several missions in Medal of Honor: Frontline, identified in-game as simply the "Silenced Pistol" and misidentified in the manual as the the completely unrelated Webley & Scott M1905. Contrasting to Allied Assault, it's only about as powerful as your other sidearm options, but it's not noticeably slower than they are either.
• A Downloadable Content weapon in Sniper Elite III, Sniper Elite 4, and Sniper Elite 5. Compared to the Welrod, it has a higher rate of fire and capacity, at the cost of some accuracy at mid range. Despite this, however, it is still ineffective in a firefight due to its relatively low stopping power.
• Appears in Mafia III as one of Lincoln's available pistols. Compared to the other pistols in-game, this one encourages a stealthy approach during missions, thanks to the integrated silencer.

Howdah pistols

"Lancaster pistols are made with either 2 or 4 barrels; they possess the following advantages over the revolver....Having no projecting parts they are safer; they shoot truer than the revolver, owing to there being no escape of gas between cylinder and barrel; for the same reason they may be supported on the left arm when firing, which cannot be done with safety with a revolver; they cannot jam; and lastly the mechanism, being well protected, is little, if at all, affected by sand, wet or dirt. These pistols were carried in Sudan by officers of the Royal Irish and others who all speak very highly of them."

—Major Herbert Kitchener, after the first Sudan campaign

Howdah pistols were large-caliber, multi-barreled firearms. They were usually carried by Great White Hunters and British Army officers as a sidearm in the colonies, to be fired as a last resort weapon against tigers or lions. Their name comes from the howdah, a carriage platform carried on the back of elephants, which the British were particularly fond of hunting from.

One notable Howdah design was the Lancaster pistol. Designed by Charles Lancaster, it made good use of the patented "Lancaster Oval Bore": instead of conventional cut spiral rifling, it had a slight ovalization of the bore on a spiral track, which was nearly impossible to foul by firing the smoky black powder of the time. It was able to fire large revolver cartridges, from .38 S&W to .455 Webley. The Lancaster pistol didn't suffer from gas leaks unlike revolvers, as there was no gap between the chamber and barrel. It also fired faster than standard-issue Adams revolvers, especially when fitted with a Tranter revolver's double-trigger.

The pistols' immense stopping power was also helpful against charging Zulus. Modern ammunition at the time tended to go straight through charging warriors, who would keep on going until they were incapacitated. However, the Lancaster pistol's heavy bullets would lodge in its targets' bodies and stop them, if not killing them outright. During the early 1880s British-Egyptian campaign in Sudan, Major (future Field Marshal and Lord) Kitchener spoke highly of the Lancaster pistols carried by officers, as being far superior in accuracy and reliability to revolvers. It continued to see use as a frontline weapon until World War I, when it was superseded by cheaper revolvers and automatics in more reasonable calibers.

Film

• In The Ghost and the Darkness, both Patterson and Remington make use of a Howdah pistol as a Ranged Emergency Weapon.
• Lord Coward in Sherlock Holmes (2009) tries to shoot Sherlock with one.
• One shows up on General Ripper's gun wall.

Literature

• Tim is given a "four shot" that fits the description of a Howdah Pistol in the story within a story within a story in The Wind Through the Keyhole by his teacher to complement his father's axe on his quest. It's described as being a foot long and is quite effective the one time he fires it. After the events of the story, Tim apparently carried it for the next ten years before becoming a gunslinger and upgrading to a revolver.

Video Games

• Appears in Battlefield 1 as the Howdah Pistol.
• The Duelist Revolver in The Order: 1886 is based on the Lancaster, albeit with two barrels and a cylinder.
• The Lancaster appears as a usable weapon in Assassin's Creed Syndicate.
• The two-barreled version appears in the loading screen of the mission "Omerta" as a stand in for the Lupara for Mafia: The City of Lost Heaven.
• Available in Hard West. It falls under the same category as derringers, which means that, unlike with other weapon categories, any character armed with it can shoot and perform another action afterwards, including firing again.

Web Original

• Ian from Forgotten Weapons reviews it.

HS Produkt HS2000/Springfield Armory XD

The LEO pistol is a semi-automatic pistol that is polymer-framed and striker-fired. It is used by both the Croatian military and law enforcement. So you can consider using a police pistol to break the law as a form of bizarre poetic justice. At the very least, if the cops find any shells laying on the ground after a heist they will first be on the lookout for a renegade Croatian cop, so you can rest a little easier.^note This statement is rather nonsensical as shells from an XD look just the same as those as those from any other pistol of the same caliber and the XD is used by American police departments too. This is also ignoring that the game does have a "renegade Croatian cop" in the playable roster.

— Description, PAYDAY 2

The HS2000 is a Croatian semi-automatic pistol, first introduced in 1999 for law enforcement and military use. Since 2002, it has been sold and licensed in the United States by Springfield Armory as the X-Treme Duty, or XD.

The pistol has seen some international success as a competitor to the ubiquitous Glock. Like the Glock, the XD is made from polymer, and is striker-fired, with a grip safety. It is available in 9x19mm, .357 SIG, .40 S&W, .45 ACP, and .45 GAP in full size, compact, and subcompact sizes. An updated version, the XD(M), has also achieved popularity, boasting several ergonomic improvements and a 19 round magazine in 9mm.

In May 2017, Springfield released the XD-E, a subcompact, single-stack model with an external hammer that allows for double/single-action firing. XD purists lament the removal of the grip safety on this model.

• Used prominently by Chev Chelios in Crank
• Used by Goodkat in Lucky Number Slevin.
• The .45 version appears in Miami Vice in the hands of detective Gina Calabrese.
• The President uses one in White House Down.
• Kate has an XD-45 in the Charlie's Angels revival series.
• The 9mm match version, both full-size and compact, feature in State of Decay.
• Featured as Rentaro Satomi's duty pistol of choice in Black Bullet.
• The "Blacktail" in Resident Evil 4 is an XD with the grips of an FN FNP, and the all-around best non-bonus 9mm pistol in the game. When fully upgraded, it has the highest capacity, fastest rate of fire and reload speed, and second-highest firepower and accuracy (beaten out only by the Red 9), which is offset by it being available only a fair bit later than the others and costing the most to fully upgrade. It's also Ada Wong's pistol in both the Mercenaries Mode and her single-player campaign.
• Like many other guns on this list, appears in PAYDAY 2, added with the Bomb Heists DLC (fittingly made by a Croatian studio, Lion Game Lion), as the LEO. It boasts the 19-round magazine capacity of the 9mm version, but for some reason, the slide markings indicate it is chambered in .40 S&W, and even more bizarrely, the ejection port markings indicate it's chambered in .45 ACP.
• Jenko and Schmidt use them in 21 Jump Street and its sequel.
• These are the pistols we see Pitohui use most frequently in Sword Art Online Alternative: Gun Gale Online, a pair of XD(M)s in .40 S&W.
• HS2000 is a 5-star handgun in Girls' Frontline.

IMI/IWI Jericho 941

The Jericho 941 is a semi-automatic single/double action handgun, first introduced in 1990. It was developed by Israel Military Industries^note (IMI, later re-named to Israeli Weapon Industries (IWI), with assistance and parts from Tanfoglio, an Italian company known for building clones of the Czech CZ 75 pistol. As such, the Jericho 941 is also a clone of the CZ 75; in fact, some CZ 75 magazines are compatible with the Jericho, and vice versa.^note However, not all magazines are universally compatible, and some may require modification to work properly.

The weapon was imported to the United States by several companies, including Mossberg as the "Uzi Eagle", and Magnum Research as the "Baby Eagle" or "Desert Eagle Pistol" (despite the name, it has nothing to do with the Desert Eagle beyond being made by the same company and having a vaguely similar barrel).

The Jericho is available in both steel and polymer frames, and comes in three different sizes: full-size, semi-compact, and compact. It can be chambered in 9x19mm Parabellum, .40 S&W, .45 ACP (semi-compact version only), and .41 Action Express. Current manufacture versions come with an accessory rail.

• Spike Spiegel from Cowboy Bebop uses a Jericho as his primary weapon. His is slightly different from normal, using the guide rod from the .41 AE version^note in real life the 9mm versions use a blued rod with a lighter spring, while the .41 AE ones have a stainless rod with a heavier spring; note that real Jericho owners often actually do use the 9mm version with an aftermarket guide rod/spring based on that for the .41 AE one to decrease recoil and custom grips with a Laser Sight (that we never see him actually use^note some viewers have suggested the laser isn't visible to the normal human eye and Spike's artificial eye has infrared capabilities, to justify why he seems to generally be more accurate than anybody else) mounted on the side of the frame.
• Batou in the original Ghost in the Shell films carries a semi-fictional "Jericho 942", a hypothetical variant of the gun upchambered for the cosmetically-similar Desert Eagle's .50 Action Express.
• Nicholas Angel carries a Jericho 941 among many other weapons in the climax of Hot Fuzz, dual wielding it with a Beretta.
• The Jericho 941 was added to PAYDAY 2 with the Point Break 2015 tie-in DLC. Per one of its import names, it is called the "Baby Deagle" in-game. Attachments exist to turn it into Spike Spiegel's Jericho, as well.
• The Big Bad of Live Free or Die Hard, Thomas Gabriel, uses a stainless Jericho. When he tries to threaten McClane with it, McClane forces him to shoot himself through his wound.
• Both Gettler and Mr. White use Jerichos in Casino Royale (2006), the former with a two-tone slide to go with his two-tone shades.
• Giselle's first appearance in Fast Five has her drawing a Jericho on Roman. Fitting, as her actress is Israeli.
• Many Jerichos appear in Wanted, used by the thugs, and later, by Wesley after killing them.
• A Jericho 941 is Mr. Kurama's sidearm in Full Metal Panic!: Invisible Victory.
• Georgia Sykes uses a Jerico in Smokin' Aces.
• Jericho is a 4-star handgun in Girls' Frontline. A strict, no-nonsense woman who acts as a disciplinarian to other dolls (and even the Commander). She is Negev's mentor and a good friend of X95 before her untimely demise.

IMI/MRI Desert Eagle

As expensive as it is powerful, the Desert Eagle is an iconic pistol that is difficult to master but surprisingly accurate at long range.

—Description, Counter-Strike: Global Offensive

The Hollywood Hand Cannon. ^note  From top to bottom: the original Desert Eagle Mark I model (.357 Magnum), Mark VII (.44 Magnum), Mark XIX (.50 AE)

This Israeli Hand Cannon is among the most powerful production semi-automatic pistols out there. Designed and marketed by Minnesota-based company Magnum Research, Inc., and manufactured by contractor Israel Military Industries until 2009 (when production was moved to MRI's Pillager, MN facility). It is chambered in .357 Magnum, .440 Cor-bon, .41 Magnum, .44 Magnum, and .50 Action Express, and can easily be swapped between each caliber. It is fed by 9 (.357 Magnum), 8 (.41/.44 Magnum) or 7-round magazines (.50 AE and .440 Cor-bon). Magnum Research also offers it in a wide variety of finishes, ranging from standard chrome to gold to titanium/gold tiger stripes, and a model with an elongated, 10-inch barrel. Unlike most other handguns, it is gas-operated, using a rotating-bolt mechanism and direct gas impingement operation usually found on rifles, allowing it to fire much larger rounds than standard blowback handguns. They weigh about four and a half pounds unloaded, almost twice as much as a comparable pistol.

The Desert Eagle is essentially a rifle in pistol form, and a very temperamental weapon with a well-established reputation as a jam-o-matic. It stops working at the slightest hint of dirt, and its gas-operated mechanism sucks up dirt like a vacuum cleaner. It has horrid recoil and even worse aim. Its ergonomics are unfriendly to left-handed shooters; it is not ambidextrous save for the safety lever (which itself is mounted high up on the slide, making it awkward to actuate for some shooters with shorter fingers), and its slide release and magazine catch are only on the left side of the gun for right-handed shooters. There is no means to convert or add a lefty slide release or magazine catch. Moreover, its bulky grip and excessive weight make it difficult to shoot and very impractical to carry for anyone not built like Arnold Schwarzenegger or Dolph Lundgren, and it often suffers misfeeds when chambered in rimmed .357 and .44 Magnum cartridges (which is why rimmed rounds are generally used by revolvers while rimless ammo is predominant for automatics). It is also one of the more expensive handguns on the market, going for about US$1500 for the base model^note  and about $2500 for the .50AE variant. For the same price, you could get a really nice custom 1911 or SIG (or a couple of regular ones) or a Glock with so many high-end aftermarket upgrades it practically shoots itself). Adding to that, .50 Action Express ammunition is incredibly expensive (as of 2023, $3 per round is considered cheap for a standard full metal jacket (FMJ) target load). As a result, the "Deagle" is little more than a range toy for people with more money than sense (and possibly other deficiencies).

Despite all this, the Desert Eagle is the weapon of choice for media badasses across the spectrum, sometimes even being depicted as a standard issue military sidearm. An example of a gun that is actually not that hard to come across in the wild where firearms themselves are widely available (any big enough gun store is likely to have one or two in stock), but it's nevertheless a vastly more popular weapon in fiction than it is in reality.

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Anime & Manga

• The Dirty Harry-esque main character of the manga Rose Hip Zero wields an Eagle one-handed. The size, recoil, and rarity of this gun are brought up in the manga, though, and his ability to fire the thing with one hand is noted as being quite a feat.
• The elderly one-eyed Sister Yolanda of the Church of Violence from Black Lagoon uses a gold-plated one of these one-handed during the Bloodstained Glass Windows shootout from the Greenback Jane arc. She uses it to blow up one of the bad guys' cars with one shot.
• Ghost in the Shell usually keeps it very realistic regarding guns. So when in one episode of Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex, a quiet helicopter pilot is obsessed with his fantasies of pulling a Taxi Driver, it fits his character perfectly that he owns a Desert Eagle, as the cops don't consider him a real threat and are sure that he'll never go through with it.
• In the Soul Eater manga, Death the Kid's Super Mode has his handguns transforming into .42^note Instead of 44, as 42 is a recurring number with the character as it sounds like "to die" in Japanese caliber 'Death Eagles'.
• In Haruhi Suzumiya episode 1, we find the local Moe Blob Mikuru wielding the 10-inch barrel version, akimbo. Made particularly egregious by the fact that, again, you see two of them, in the far-less-common 10-inch model - though, these are airsoft replicas, made by a rather popular Japanese airsoft company (and, unsurprisingly, liked by otaku).
• In Witch Hunter, the main character Tasha's strongest magic gun is a .44 Desert Eagle that has enough recoil to break his arm.
• In Puella Magi Madoka Magica, Homura initially uses a Desert Eagle as her primary sidearm which is more reasonable than most examples since she has stolen thousands of weapons of all sizes from the American military and Yakuza. By the time of the series proper, she seems to prefer a Beretta for handgun purposes.
• Mana Tatsumiya of Negima! Magister Negi Magi dual-wields Desert Eagles. In a bit of subversion, they (or at least the ones she uses the most) are airsoft replicas.
• Bando on Elfen Lied uses a customized Desert Eagle. Makes more sense than usual as the Diclonius he fights can deflect conventional ammo and he has a cybernetic arm (due to Lucy removing his original arm).
• The Dragon of one arc of Gunsmith Cats wields one with a fourteen inch barrel. It's treated as an Infinity +1 Gun, capable of penetrating a muscle-car's steel roll cage (Rally's Shelby Cobra, to be specific. It also hits her and is stopped by a collapsible rifle stored in her jacket - but still breaks several ribs) but not two inches of bulletproof glass windshield (though it still blinds the car, as planned).
• A .44 Magnum Desert Eagle shows up in City Hunter, in the hands of the extremely capable Hitman with a Heart Mick Angel. Given the author is usually very good at properly placing the guns, he probably did it on purpose to both show Mick's showoff personality and his ability to shoot a .44 Magnum one-handed with near-perfect accuracy.
• In Resident Evil: Vendetta, series-running badass Leon S. Kennedy very appropriately appears at the finale armed with one to use against the Arias-Diego Tyrant.

Comic Books

• A particularly egregious offender is the Immortal Iron Fist one shot Orson Randal and The Green Mist of Death. This story takes place sometime around the 1920s, before the Desert Eagle was even invented and likely before anyone involved in its design was born.
• Deadpool's preferred handguns are a pair of Desert Eagles and because it's Deadpool practicality isn't really kept in mind.
• In the first issue of Immortal Hulk, biker gang leader: Joe. Arms himself with a deagle when going out to face the Hulk. Whom was giving him and his gang full-on Mook Horror Show, the only time he ever uses it is against a poor crackhead whom wanted to warn him of the Hulk by calling it "the devil", although Joe dismisses those claims due to being well.. a crackhead, with a Pistol Whip.

Films — Live-Action

• RoboCop:
  • Shows up in the original RoboCop; normal ones are used, but there's also a special one with a large barrel extension that can take a suppressor. This was originally supposed to be Robocop's gun, but when the suit was finished it became clear the weapon looked like a toy in his hand and the even larger Auto-9 was built based on a Beretta 93R.
  • Shows up again in RoboCop 2 used by Hob to shoot Murphy. Doesn't affect him physically, but he hesitates at being shot by a child. In the opening scene, one crook takes one from a gun store that he's looting, noting that he really likes it.
  • The Rehabs in RoboCop 3 use them as their standard sidearm.
• Arnold Schwarzenegger uses them a lot, no doubt because it's big enough to look impressive even in his large hands. He's used them in Commando, Eraser and Last Action Hero, and used a weapon (a fictional Hand Cannon called the "Podbyrin 9.2mm") that was a very ironic combination of a Desert Eagle and Walther P38 in Red Heat^note The irony being that the Desert Eagle is an Israeli-made gun, while the P38 was at one time a Nazi Germany sidearm; extra irony in that he's playing a Soviet cop in this film, who even decades after the war probably would avoid using a Nazi weapon just out of spite.
• Standard-issue for Agents of The Matrix. They're strong enough to fire Desert Eagles one-handed, and the magazine capacity is increased to 12 or 13. Well, at least they don't have Bottomless Magazines, even though there's really no reason (other than stylish reloading) such things couldn't be programmed into the eponymous Lotus-Eater Machine.
• Bullet Tooth Tony and his "Desert Eagle point five-oh" in Snatch., of course.
  The fact that you have Replica written down the sides of your guns, (closeup of the word Replica along the barrel) and the fact that I have Desert Eagle Point Five-Oh written down the side of mine, (close up of Desert Eagle along the barrel) should precipitate your balls into shrinking, along with your presence. Now... fuck off.
  • Justified in that Bullet Tooth Tony is clearly not and never has been a military man, and so likely selected that gun because it fired huge rounds and looked cool. As per the quote above, it is useful for getting people to back down should the need arise.
• In Frank Goddamn Miller's film version of Will Eisner's The Spirit, The Octopus not only goes Guns Akimbo with the Desert Eagle, but he later wields a double-barreled version of it.
• In The Boondock Saints II: All Saints Day, the McManus twins trade in their suppressed Beretta 92 pistols for some custom made Desert Eagles. And those silenced Berettas were acquired by trading in the Desert Eagles wielded by two Russian mob dudes who tried to murder them near the beginning of the original movie.
• A few appear in the Charlie's Angels (2000) movies. Including one carved from a piece of soap by Bosley with his bare teeth.
• L.J. in Resident Evil: Apocalypse has a pair of gold-plated .44 Magnum Mark XIX Desert Eagles. Too bad he's useless in a fight.
• Dan Forester gets a *Click* Hello from his estranged father with one in The Tomorrow War. When the old man says that it "gets the job done," Dan (who favors a much more practical 1911) replies, "Yeah, if the job is letting everyone know how tiny your dick is."
• Borat is shown a gold-plated one when he asks a gun shop owner for a recommendation for a weapon with which to kill Jews. Since he's not a US citizen, he can't legally buy it, so he buys a grizzly bear instead.
• What appears to be a double-barreled version of this gun (which even can have its two barrels swivel sway from each other to target individual targets, and in reality a Beretta with Desert Eagle-style prop slides) is used by Chudnofsky in The Green Hornet.

Literature

• Vigilante Man and One-Man Army Mack Bolan has replaced his .44 AutoMag (an even rarer gun) with a .44 Desert Eagle.
• Thomas Raith of The Dresden Files tends to use a Desert Eagle along with either a US Army Cavalry Sabre or a Kukri. He can afford it because Vampires Are Rich.
  • Warden Carlos Ramirez also wields one. No word on how he could afford it, though.
• Scarecrow tends to use one as his sidearm, despite being a Recon Marine.

Live-Action TV

• Jayne has one that River wields in the Firefly episode "Out of Gas". ...Five hundred years in the future. River also gets her hands on assumedly the same one in the episode "Objects in Space" (which she mistakes for a branch).
• Shows up in an episode of CSI, and one of the immediate conclusions by one of the cast members is that the shooter must've been Compensating for Something.
• In the final season of The Shield, when Vic resigns from the LAPD he naturally has to turn in his service pistol, and from that point on uses his personal gun. As he says: ".357 Desert Eagle, cross-draw."
• Used by Jon Sable in the 1980s TV series Sable.
• In an episode of Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, Benson is talking to a slightly-unhinged stalker at a gun range, where the stalker girl is firing a chrome-finished .50AE Desert Eagle. Benson notes that the gun is "a little hardcore", and then further notes that the 14 round mag the woman is using is illegal in New York City.
• Will shoots one brought in by a friend in Sons of Guns.
• Shadow, a 2019 South African series, has the vigilante title character using one as his weapon. A criminal he confronts in the pilot lampshades how you don't see many of them these days.

Manhua

• In School Shock, Liu Li's usual sidearm is a Desert Eagle. The size and recoil are no problem for her to handle as she is a nanomachine enhanced supersoldier.

Tabletop Games

• Chambered with the .50 Action Express, the Desert Eagle is the most powerful and expensive semi-automatic pistol in GURPS: High-Tech, but is the hardest to use and has one of the smallest magazines.
• It's perhaps the most powerful pistol on the gun list in Feng Shui, and has the highest capacity.
• One of the stock characters in one of the Vampire: The Masquerade clanbooks is a lawyer whose equipment includes an "IMI .50 Desert Eagle (never fired)".

Video Games

• It appears as the most powerful pistol in many First Person Shooters and Third Person Shooters; it's very unlikely to appear with its real name, and often has enough accuracy and power to be used as an ersatz sniper rifle. In first person shooters especially, this is partly because the gun is blocky and angular, and thus easy to make in 3D. Games are also very likely to give it incorrect capacities given whichever version they modeled it after, most commonly giving it the usual 7-round capacity but modeling it after a version that didn't come in .50 AE, or outright naming it as a fifty-caliber weapon but giving it eight shots like the .44 version.
• Counter-Strike. For Valve's attempts at nerfing it, it's still the best handgun in the game.
  • They finally succeeded in Global Offensive, the damage is still there, but the recoil requires very slow and accurate firing.
• Ballistic Weapons has three pistols based on the Desert Eagle. One is a gun company's recreation of the Desert Eagle (in the vein of gun companies recreating old and popular designs in the past, such as perfect copies of Tommy guns and MP40s), and the other two are semi-modernized (in the game's universe) ones.
• Battlefield 4 adds it with a blued finish in the Dragon's Teeth DLC as the DEagle 44, unlocked with the "Recoil Kinetics" assignment (making 20 headshot kills with the Mateba), with the compensator attachment giving it a unique factory IWI muzzle break. It returns in Battlefield Hardline as the Bald Eagle, this time with a chrome finish and chambered in .50 Action Express, unlocked for both teams' Enforcer class by completing Enforcer Assignment 2, with VIPs in Crosshair getting a gold-plated one. In Season 5 of Battlefield 2042, it is added as the BFP .50 (short for Big Frame Pistol).
• Max Payne features it as a stronger but lower-capacity (though still higher than reality, with 12 rounds in the first and 10 in the second and third) alternate to the Beretta. At least Max holds the gun with both hands in the first game, as it really has a mean kick. In the others, however, he dual-wields them with ease. It's also the preferred handgun for Mona Sax, and she can dual-wield them as well in the second game.
• It shows up occasionally in the modern-day Call of Duty games.
  • Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare features it, primarily in multiplayer, where you get a chrome one for ranking up to a high enough level and a gold-plated one for reaching the final rank, Commander (level 55); it's the most popular sidearm primarily because it's the only one to deal more damage, though this comes with the lowest capacity among the pistols (7 shots), higher recoil and a slightly slower reload. Only two of them appear in the single-player mode: one is used by a mook in "Crew Expendable" to ambush you if you get too far from the squad in the first cargo compartment, and the other owned by the Big Bad, which he lends to Al-Asad to execute President Al-Fulani and later uses to kill Gaz and the other wounded members of Bravo Team at the very end.
  • Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 has it as well, a two-tone model with an unusable Laser Sight and misaligned sights. It's still available in multiplayer, where it's now possible to use them Guns Akimbo, which isn't very useful but is cool as hell.
  • It's in Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 as well, a blued version with more rounded edges, the top of the slide lowered down slightly, and no safety lever on the right side; its damage is very slightly decreased (to the order of only five less points of damage past past its maximum drop-off distance) in return for holding one more shot per magazine like the .44 version. Yuri usually starts with one in the campaign, and Captain Price also takes up one as his new sidearm of choice after being disavowed from Task Force 141, replacing his old M1911. Oddly, during the mission "Bag and Drag" after a flashbang is thrown, the character of Volk is shown spraying automatic fire from a Desert Eagle, probably due to a placeholder use that was never replaced.
  • A more properly-proportioned one, visually similar to the CoD4 model, returns for the 2019 reboot, here renamed the ".50 GS" and with several more modifications than the earlier appearances, including longer barrels, scopes, and extended magazines.
  • Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War features a mostly Desert Eagle-inspired gun as the "Hand Cannon" available in the level "Desperate Measures", used while searching for intel on sleeper agents, and later added as a scorestreak for multiplayer, where it's misidentified as a revolver. It's fitted with a large scope-shaped Laser Sight with backup ironsights on top of it, doesn't have any safety levers, and, as typical for the Black Ops subseries, is anachronistic for the time period, the real weapon still having been in the prototype phase in 1981.
  • The .50 GS returns again in Modern Warfare II, this time the gun has Picatinny rails on the top and bottom of the barrel. The Season 3 Reloaded updates included a full-auto variant of the .50 GS as the "GS Magna".
• Quite prevalent in the Grand Theft Auto series:
  • The Desert Eagle is Lance Vance's weapon in Grand Theft Auto: Vice City. Diaz uses one to Shoot the Television in a cutscene as well. It was intended that the player could use it as well, but was Dummied Out, probably in favor of the Python revolver.
  • Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas: It's a rare pickup in most cities, can be purchased after a few missions in Las Venturas, and if CJ sprays all 100 gang tags in Los Santos, a few Grove Street homies will wield it. It's hideously expensive and gives very little ammo per pickup or purchase, but then again, there's the Ammu-Nation shooting range bug. Strangely, after Carl reaches Gangster proficiency, its firepower increases; it's the only gun in the game that has that effect.
  • The gun also shows up (as the "Combat Pistol") in Grand Theft Auto IV. It's not as much of a Hand Cannon this time around — it's clearly based on the less-powerful .357 Magnum version, and takes three shots to take down an enemy. With the above-mentioned AMT AutoMag added in the Ballad of Gay Tony DLC, it's also no longer the most powerful handgun.
  • The Desert Eagle shows up again in Grand Theft Auto V. Despite being labeled the ".50 Pistol", it has the ammo capacity of the .357 Magnum variant. While a shot to the body won't kill an enemy instantly, they will be downed and eventually bleed to death. For the 7th-gen versions of the game, this, the Bullpup Shotgun, and the Hammer were bonuses for pre-ordering the Special or Collector's editions.
• One of the mascot weapons of the Far Cry series, showing up in every game since the beginning, where it was the "Falcon 357" in the original game and the "Jungle Falcon" in its console spinoffs. In Far Cry 2 it's the "Eagle .50" and has "Deagle .50AE Pistol" engraved on the slide. Far Cry 3 and Far Cry 4 continue the tradition by offering it as the D50 as the final pistol to be unlocked. Initially absent from Far Cry 5, but a later patch added it in due to popular demand. Also available in Far Cry 6, for the first time in the series under its actual name of "Desert Eagle".
• The .357 Magnum version is common in Jagged Alliance 2. The .44 Magnum and .50 Action Express versions are added in the unofficial v1.13 patch, and buying ammo for the gun from the arms-dealing website mocks you for carrying around such an impractical, heavy, and huge handgun instead of a rifle.
• The "Heavy Pistol" in City of Heroes is based on this.
• EA's James Bond video games use this jarringly; despite its ridiculously expensive nature, it's often the standard sidearm for mooks in a few of the games. Even odder, said mooks usually use the "under 50 dollars on the black market" AK-47 as their primary weapon.
  • In The World Is Not Enough, the .44 version appeared as the Raptor Magnum or IAC Defender, depending on platform.
  • NightFire features the .357 and .50 versions, again as the "Raptor Magnum".
  • Appears in Everything or Nothing as one of the few available pistols.
• Usable in Soldier of Fortune as the "Silver Talon." Yields a messy result with headshots.
• Appears in the S.T.A.L.K.E.R. games as the "Black Kite" firing .45 ACP (there is no Desert Eagle variant chambered for that). More bizarrely, in Shadow of Chernobyl, there's a unique version called the Big Ben, which fires 9x39mm SP or PAB sniper and assault rifle rounds, far beyond even the .50AE.
• Replacement for the Colt Python in Half-Life: Opposing Force, used by both "Otis" security guards and HECU Engineers. And you, of course - it's powerful and accurate (moreso with the toggle-able Laser Sight), and ammo is more available than in the base game (though it's still not everywhere). It also holds 9 bullets at once because it's the .357 version.
• Added in the Rainbow Six games starting with Rogue Spear, as the most powerful handgun available until the Vegas games, where it's only the second most powerful (the most powerful happens to be a revolver that isn't used for anything besides hunting really large game like elephants). Notable in that most games in the series that feature it include both the usual .50 version, as well as the slightly-weaker but higher-capacity .357 version, and even allow it to be suppressed. Siege introduces the Desert Eagle (under the D-50 name) for both Navy SEAL Operators, Blackbeard and Valkyrie. Its high damage and fast semi-automatic rate of fire is matched with low magazine capacity and high recoil, which makes this an extremely tough but rewarding gun to use.
• A variant turns up in Left 4 Dead 2, called the Desert Cobra^note 1337 Weapon Industries .50 Desert Cobra, $1999.99 at Whittaker's Gun Store, Only 2000 Made; it's got power on par with the sniper rifles, but hampered by heavy recoil and a low magazine capacity, making it poor against hordes. It's a consistent One-Hit Kill on the regular zombies no matter where it hits (very important in Realism mode, where even those sniper rifles are as effective as harsh language outside of headshots), you don't lose any accuracy or fire rate when incapacitated like with the regular handguns, and it's worth it just to hear Nick sput out an excited "Niiiice" when he picks one up.
• Surprisingly easy to get in 7.62 High Caliber, with a minor rebel in an early mission carrying a .44 one.
• In Just Cause 2, the most basic peashooter is a Deagle with a more angled grip and increased capacity (12 shots by default, 24 at max upgrades); some cutscenes where it's fired have it eject rifle cartridges, and Rico is able to pair it up with any other one-handed weapon.
• Same as above, Postal 2 features it, named at gun stores as the "Old Faithful combat pistol", as the basic handgun. The only one, in fact, until later mods and updates added alternatives; in the current versions it's the middle ground Boring, but Practical option for the pistols, killing people in two or three shots and being by far the easiest to acquire ammo for (since it's still the only pistol NPCs use), with better accuracy than the Glock and more common ammo than the Python, but not having the benefits of a Secondary Fire mode like the Glock's fire selector or the Python's execution bar. It's also back for Postal 4: No Regerts, once again as the basic handgun and once again as the Boring, but Practical option with a secondary fire that solely consists of aiming down the sights.
• The heavy pistol in All Points Bulletin is clearly modeled after the Desert Eagle.
• Meryl Silverburgh in the Metal Gear series uses a Desert Eagle as her signature weapon. In Metal Gear Solid, Snake points out to her that she could have picked something more sensible from the armory,^note Although not really, since she reveals her choice was either that or the Mark 23 Snake ended up with, which is similarly bulky and impractical in real life to which she defiantly replies that she used them since she was a little girl, affirming her role as a Hot-Blooded youngster who wants to be a hero, as opposed to Snake being a remorseful veteran. By Metal Gear Solid 4 she carries two (one with a long barrel and scope), and is now a veteran badass who's actually very good with them. It's used prominently in the same cutscene when Johnny rescues her with a .50 BMG anti-materiel sniper rifle while in close quarters. Snake himself can use the standard version by purchasing it from Drebin or stolen from Dwarf Gekko in Act 4, and the scoped version by either obtaining the Fox emblem (complete the game in under six hours with no kills, alerts, deaths or used healing items on file) or entering a cheat code.
• Contract J.A.C.K. has a Mark XIX in .357 (going by its 9-round capacity), despite its setting around 1967, more than ten years before the Desert Eagle even existed and another ten before the Mark XIX hit the scene.
• Leon Scott Kennedy can pick up a .50 AE version of the gun with custom wooden grips and a two-tone finish in Resident Evil 2, and can upgrade it to the long-barrel version near the end of the game. He begins the novelization with the long barrel one. It also appears in the remake, similar in appearance and characteristics to the original version save for its finish (the two-tone finish it originally had saved for when the long barrel is attached).
  • Also appears in 5, 6, Revelations, and ORC, under the name "Lightning Hawk".
• Dead Frontier has one of these under the name "Desert Fox" as the second most powerful and difficult to use handgun.
• Shows up as a weapon Jackie can get his hands on in the video game adaptation of The Darkness. Its ubiquity in films and games and the like is also mocked at one point - when you're in a Mafia safehouse, you can listen to a guy gleefully describing to one of his buddies a scene from an action movie he had just seen; in it, the hero uses two Deagles to shoot up a room full of mooks. The guy's friend says that that sounds like the stupidest movie ever.
• Appears in several Fallout games as a fairly common early-game weapon that is not all that powerful. The "N99" 10mm pistol in Fallout 3 and Fallout: New Vegas also looks to be somewhat inspired by the Deagle, particularly in the design of the slide.
• Scarface: The World Is Yours. Advertised as a one hit kill. Very effective.
• In the obscure rail-shooter Endgame, the .50 AE version of the Desert Eagle is Jade's main weapon.
• Appears in Saints Row and Saints Row 2 as the "GDHC^note Goddamn Hand Cannon .50", holding as many bullets as the real-world .44 version and used solely by FBI agents. Once the player grabs one in SR2, s/he can naturally dual-wield them.
  • A gold-plated variant of the GDHC .50 can be unlocked in the first game by clearing the Airport Hitman list. This variant combines the damage of the .44 Shepherd, the ROF of the NR4, and 15-round magazines for a piece that will serve you well for the remainder of the game.
  • The ".45 Shepherd" in Saints Row: The Third and the default ".45 Fletcher" skin for the Heavy Pistol in Saints Row IV also seem to be heavily based on the Desert Eagle, the latter moreso.
• All of the gangsters you face in the first levels of Splinter Cell: Conviction carry these as their standard sidearm, and Sam can make use of it. Interestingly, the PMC mooks you face later in the game tend to carry more believable pistols such as the USP45 or M9, showing that they're actual professionals and not just gangsters trying to look tough.
  • One showed up Chaos Theory as Douglas Shetland's sidearm of choice. Double Agent had Moss carry one in a chest holster as well. Most of its appearances in the franchise are as bad guy guns.
• Appears as the "Hand Cannon" in Killing Floor, as a much stronger but lower-capacity alternative to the standard 9mm pistol. In earlier versions of the game, Sharpshooters at the highest level spawned with two of them; and, as of the 2013 summer event, you can now buy gold-plated, tiger-striped versions. It reappears in Killing Floor 2 as the Gunslinger's tier 3 weapon, mostly unchanged except for the capacity reduced to the .50 AE version's proper 7 shots and a KF2 logo on the grips.
• Combat Arms features 4 variants of the Desert Eagle: the standard Desert Eagle, Desert Eagle Black, Desert Eagle Special Edition (similar to the standard except features a black slide and an engraving on the side), and the Desert Eagle Gold (a gold Deagle with a two-tone tiger stripe pattern).
• The SOP38 handgun in Serious Sam 3: BFE is a Desert Eagle only in looks; it's quite different under the hood. It's chambered in .45 ACP (or a .44 SOP, going by the slide lettering), and holds 10 rounds that can be fired about as fast as the user can pull the trigger. It works as an improved version of the Schofield revolvers from the classic games, having about the same fire rate as the dual-wielded revolvers with only slightly less ammo and a faster reload (about equal as reloading a single revolver), but the player has to use the sights (whereupon Sam walks a little slower) to negate its natural spread.
• Captain Martin Walker of Spec Ops: The Line starts with a Desert Eagle in sections where he loses all his prior weapons. Notably, this only occurs in scenes where he's by himself. In other scenes when he's with his teammates, his sidearm (drawn out of the same holster) is the realistic Beretta M9. Considering Konrad's rant about Walker having delusions of being a fantasy action hero, this makes it an odd case of invoking this trope intentionally.
• Ebony and Ivory in DmC: Devil May Cry are based from this gun, with stylized grips twisting into sharp points, scrollwork engravings at the bore of each pistol, and each also sports a ring hammer.
• The standard pistol skin in Champions Online appears to be based on the Desert Eagle, only with a longer barrel. Expect pistol-packing NPCs (soldiers, cops, even street gang Mooks) to be armed either with these, or with laser pistols. Probably justified, in a world with so many superhumans.
• Appears in all of the Hitman games, barring Hitman: Absolution and Hitman (2016), in the hands of various Mooks. Hitman: Contracts has a gold plated version and, like all other pistols in the game, can be wielded Guns Akimbo if you can find them. Early concept art shows that a pair of them were originally going to be 47's signature pistols before they settled on the Silverballers.
• A Desert Eagle, labeled in-game as "DE50AE7", is available in Parasite Eve. Give Wayne 300 Junk and ask him for a pistol.
• In Time Crisis 5, both new Player Characters use two-toned Desert Eagles with muzzle brakes as their main handgun.
• A Mark XIX is the "Deagle" in PAYDAY 2, somehow managing to cram ten rounds into its basic magazine (the .357 magazine holds at most nine) and with unique mod options such as various compensators, a lengthened barrel, an extended magazine, and as of the Gage Mod Courier DLC a scope mount to attach on top of the existing scope mount to allow the use of the same sights that assault rifles get. As of the release of the Fugitive skill tree, it's now possible to dual-wield Deagles.
• In Persona, it's one of the handguns available to be obtained and used by Maki and Ayase (known simply as the Eagle in the original PS1 English translation). It's the most powerful real-life handgun in the game; everything above it is fictional.
• Persona 5: One of the Protagonist's equippable handguns is a "Sand hawk", which has the appearance of a Desert Eagle with a chrome finish. It's used in the climax where Joker performs a headshot on the Final Boss with it.
• In Dies Irae, Shirou Yusa's have the Desert Eagle as his weapon of choice. Unfortunately, against the overpowered individuals he ends up facing off against, it rarely end up all that useful beyond simply providing a distraction. This changes after he manages to steal Rusalka's relic, allowing the bullets fired from it to be magically enhanced.
• A 5-star Tactical Doll in Girls' Frontline. A tiny girl carrying and shooting the .50 AE version one-handed, her kit is attack-focused, bypassing shields and inflicting extra damage to the enemies with the most HP present on the map. Befitting the gun's name, her design and coloration evoke a bald eagle. Her past profession as an actress references the Desert Eagle's ubiquity in pop culture.
• In Sleeping Dogs (2012), Winston Chu uses a gold-plated Desert Eagle as his personal sidearm when he wants to be intimidating. After he dies at his wedding, Wei uses the very same Desert Eagle briefly at the Bam Bam nightclub when Big Smile Lee's enforcer appears and demands Winston's share of the profits for their North Point operations.
• Duke Nukem has used Desert Eagles in three games: Duke Nukem: Manhattan Project (renamed the Golden Eagle), where it shows up in the opening cutscene when he takes out a Pig Cop with a single blast from one, Duke Nukem Advance as Duke's standard pistol with only ten shots, terrible trigger response and piss-poor damage (and an upgraded Golden variant that's stupidly rare), and again in Duke Nukem: Time To Kill as the basic pistol; a few notable game mods for Duke Nukem 3D have given him one as well, most notably Alien Armageddon.
• The Mark VII shows up several times in Uncharted, under the "Desert 5" moniker, frequently as the weapon for one character or another.
  • Eddie Raja in Uncharted: Drake's Fortune uses a custom version with gold plating and ivory grips. Drake can get his hands on a nickel- or chrome-plated version as well, where it's the strongest of the handguns.
  • Harry Flynn carries one as his personal weapon in Uncharted 2: Among Thieves, which seems to fit his image of a Small Name, Big Ego Smug Snake. For comparison, his boss carries a simple Beretta 92FS.
  • It's available in Uncharted: Golden Abyss as well, particularly as Jason Dante's sidearm for the first half of the game.
  • After a no-show in Uncharted 4: A Thief's End, it returned in the spinoff Uncharted: The Lost Legacy, this time with a boosted 10-round capacity.
• Two variants appear in SYNTHETIK as starting pistols. The "Desert Eagle .50" is exclusive to Commando classes (Raider and Heavy Gunner), dealing incredible damage with each shot, but with massive recoil and stability penalty. It also gains an infinitely-stacking damage buffs with every headshot. The "Titanium Eagle" is an all-class pistol available through the Arena Supporter pack DLC or referring four other players to the game. It deals slightly less damage than it's Commando counterpart, but shares the stacking headshot damage boost with an additional perk of resetting its recoil on headshots.
• Shows up in Jupiter Hell as the .44 Deagle. It uses .44 ammunition, and rivals the 7.62 Sidearm as the most powerful semiautomatic pistol of the game.
• Hot Dogs, Horseshoes, and Hand Grenades boasts 3 versions of the iconic hand cannon, available in .357 Magnum, .44 Magnum, and the classic .50 Action Express.

Web Original

• Burt from We're Alive has Shirley, a silver-plated Desert Eagle that once belonged to his wife that he keeps with him as a reminder of her. Apparently both Burt and his wife were big on the competition circuit, so having such a weapon could be justified as a flashy show piece. But once the Zombie Apocalypse begins, Burt still relies on Shirley as his weapon.
• In the Whateley Universe, this is the preferred weapon of the second Nightgaunt, who gets very upset when one gets destroyed (he aimed it at Lancer's eye at point-blank range, and the blowback from Lancer's PK field wrecked the barrel). Since he usually strikes from ambush, often in the manner described above, he isn't too worried about the cost of ammunition (he hardly uses any, and when he does, it almost always hits the target for a kill). The fact that he does have to take time to aim it and brace his arms is a minor plot point in Alya and the Birthday Brawl, as it gives Vamp time to grab his power gems off of his belt and escape.

Western Animation

• Barry from Archer has a nickel finished Desert Eagle Mk VII, which he talks TO, not with. He also has a subscription to Desert Eagle Magazine. Lana uses one on occasion, which fits her Johnny Bench-ian, steam-shovelly, Truckasaurus hands. President Calderon of San Marcos prefers it as his sidearm of choice, but never bothers to reload it, instead having an underling hand him a fresh pistol whenever he runs dry.

Luger pistol

"Si vis pacem, para bellum." ^note Latin for "If you seek peace, prepare for war."

— Publius Flavius Vegetius Renatus, Epitoma rei militaris, a Roman military textbook

The Pistole Parabellum, better known as the Luger (after designer Georg Luger; while the pistol was originally called "Luger" by American collectors, the terminology filtered back across the Atlantic and Europeans are now just as likely to call it a Luger as a Parabellum) is one of the most recognizable pistols in history. Used by the Germans in both World Wars, this 7.65mm or 9x19mm (both originally designed for the Luger) pistol has a distinctive grip and long barrel, and is renowned for its sleek and menacing look. If Those Wacky Nazis appear, their officers are probably carrying this as their sidearm. A large number were collected by Allied soldiers as trophies in World War II and this means they are still somewhat common today.

The Luger uses a toggle-lock action, which uses a jointed arm to cycle the bolt as opposed to a slide integrated with the bolt. The quickly-cycling bolt toggle and tight sealing of the assembly made the Luger a reliable weapon, even in the mud of the trenches^note as one was dunked into a wheelbarrow of thick, sandy mud and expended two full magazines of ammunition without jamming once afterwards. The action, however, requires high-pressure ammunition to function reliably; low-pressure rounds fail to generate enough power to cycle. With the bolt cycling so quickly, the magazine follower spring must also be very stiff to force a cartridge into the feed path before the toggle slams back into battery (this also accounts for the steeply raked magazine and pistol grip). Its barrel is fixed directly to the upper receiver, giving it excellent accuracy compared to the Browning-style tilting barrel.

Ultimately, the P08's intricate machine-work proved to be expensive to manufacture, and the degree of hand-fitting meant that parts couldn't be swapped between damaged or salvaged guns without an expert gunsmith (and even when spare parts were available as after-market products, they still needed a great deal of hand-fitting), while the exposed toggle-lock was prone to corrosion, especially at sea, making it a poor combat pistol for troops who tended to neglect cleaning their weapons. As such, it was gradually phased out in favor of the simpler, less costly Walther P38, with some limited production of the Luger continuing into 1945.

The most distinctive variants are the "Navy" model with a six-inch barrel and two-position rear sight, and the "Artillery" model, with an 8-inch barrel, 8-position rear sight, and optional stock and 32-round "Snail drum" magazine^note which proved far more prone to jamming than standard magazines. A .45 ACP version (designed for the U.S. Army pistol tests that eventually led to the M1911) is among the rarest of guns; only two were created, with one possibly being destroyed during the test as it was never returned to DWM afterwards.^note The Army actually chose the .45 Luger as one of the three finalists in the testing, alongside the Savage M1907 and what became the Colt M1911, and asked for another 200 to be built, but DWM (at the time the sole maker of the Luger) had just received a huge German contract and decided creating an actual production line for .45 Lugers (the first two had been fully hand-built) without any actual guarantee of adoption, especially given America's tendency to heavily favor indigenous designs over foreign ones for tests like these, just wasn't worth it.

At least twice during the original production run, the DWM factory produced a few Luger-action carbines for hunting small game. The first production run (Model 1902) had been a Model 1900 Luger with an 11.75-inch barrel, built only in 7.65mm caliber and sighted to 300m. Both Kaiser Wilhelm II and US President Theodore Roosevelt owned such guns. Right after World War I came the Model 1920 carbine, in both 7.65mm and 9mm calibers. Usually with an 11.75-inch barrel, a few custom examples were built with 14- or 16.5-inch barrels up until the end of the 1920s.

• Practically any work featuring the German military during both world wars will have the Luger show up multiple times. Due to the Luger's association with the Nazis, any character using it tends to be a villain, although there are exceptions to this rule.
• George Orwell carried a Luger as a sidearm during his police service in Burma during the 1920s.
• Band of Brothers. Cpl. Hoobler repeatedly expresses his desire to get hold of one, at one stage running out under fire to search a dead German soldier. When he finally does get hold of a Luger, it accidentally discharges and kills him.
• In Hellboy (2004), Karl Ruprecht Kroenen uses one with uncanny accuracy against attacking Allied soldiers.
• In The Land That Time Forgot, British naval officer Bradley rather memorably uses a long-barreled artillery model Luger to kill an Allosaurus (!).
• The basis for the Lawgiver pistol in the Judge Dredd comics.
• From the play Bullshot Crummond.
  Otto: "Not zo fast -- zis is a Luger!"
  Professor Fenton: "That means you're Hun! You're both Huns!"
• Wielded by farmer Bean in Fantastic Mr. Fox.
• Even Illinois Nazis use it.
• Fritz Stanford in Black Lagoon's Nazi arc uses a custom one of these called the Eisenreich Luger Special, chambered for .454 Casull (utterly impractical in Real Life since the .454 is twice the length of a 9mm Parabellum, leading to a huge grip which would only fit in a bear's paw) and designed to be a Hand Cannon. He never gets to use it because he shoots off at the mouth way too much to boast about how he's the only one in the world strong enough to handle it, giving Revy all the time in the world to reload her Beretta and put him down like a mad dog. She then points out that giant hand cannons are pointless, because ordinary sized guns kill just fine.
• One of the alien mooks in Bad Taste use one.
• Talia uses one in Batman: Under the Red Hood.
• In a typically Anvilicious episode of All in the Family about the effectiveness of homeowners using guns as deterrents, Archie ends up going behind his family's back and purchases one from an army buddy. They aren't happy about it.
• In Captain America: The First Avenger, The Red Skull uses the Cosmic Cube to turn his pistol into an Energy Weapon.
• One of the many famous quotes in The Twelve Chairs references it by name.
• In various Sam & Max: Freelance Police works, Max has a very stylized Luger as a weapon. This same weapon, called the "Lugermorph,^note A pun on "lagomorph", the taxonomic order rabbits belong to which Max is often identified as." is available in Team Fortress 2 as a reskin for the Scout and Engineer's pistol.
• Gai in Guilty Crown uses a P08. This is especially notable because the show takes place in 2039. And he still takes out an Endlave with it - German engineering at its finest.
• Used by Adolf Hitler in Epic Rap Battles of History to shoot the fucking Rancor that was going to eat him and to blow Boba Fett off the screen in his third battle against Darth Vader. Older Is Better indeed.
• In Skullgirls, Parasoul and her Badass Army, the Black Egrets, use this pistol to fit with their Nazi imagery.
• Appears in Parasite Eve 2, able to be purchased after investigating a broken one in a weapons rack. Weakest of the pistols, but due to how the game calculates critical hits, it has a somewhat Magikarp Power. It becomes much more useful if you go back to the broken one and pick up the drum magazine for it, which increases its ammo capacity up to 32 rounds.
• Ace Rimmer makes use of one in Red Dwarf episode "Stoke Me A Clipper" that he takes from a Nazi. He's able to shoot the chains off a woman awaiting a firing squad with it.
• Emile Dufraisne carries one in version one of Splinter Cell: Double Agent which he uses to execute prisoners and those who have failed him. Sam is given it with a single round with which to execute Cole Yeagher and later to choose whether to kill Jamie Washington or Lambert.
• Cutey Honey: One of two handguns carried by the various incarnations of Panther Claw Mooks, the other being the extremely unlikely Nambu Type 14.
• Two Luger variants appear in the Nazi chapters of BloodRayne, the first being a standard Luger and the second being an "Artillery" model with the stock and snail drum mag.
• A cartel guard has one in his holster in Goldfinger.
• James Bond used these very frequently as a standard "bad guy" gun:
  • Moonraker has Sir Hugo Drax and Willy Krebs carry these as their sidearms, fitting for ex-Nazis planning to nuke London. It's very possible these were their service pistols.
  • Red Grant makes reference to having one in From Russia with Love, but mentions that it's "too heavy" for wetwork on the train. Of course, since he's impersonating an MI6 ally, it's unknown whether or not he does have a Luger, or if it's just another lie he came up with.
  • During the climax of Goldfinger, Bond obtains a fully loaded Luger from an unconscious guard and dual-wields it along with Goldfinger's .25 Colt 1908 Vest Pocket when he hijacks the plane.
  • For Your Eyes Only: A motorcycle courier is assassinated with one in From A View To A Kill and Columbo's men carry them in Risico. Good Guns, Bad Guns is subverted in the case of Columbo's men - they're pirates, but not actually evil and fighting against a powerful heroin smuggler.
• Caballistics, Inc.. Solomon Ravne carries one as his weapon. He's had it for decades, ever since he was with the Ghostapo during World War II.
• Carlson owns one in Of Mice and Men. He uses it once to kill Candy's ancient dog. It comes up again later when George takes it to kill Lennie at the end.
• Appears in Battlefield 1 as a sidearm, holding 8 rounds.
• Several appearances in the Wolfenstein series.
  • It's the pistol in Wolfenstein 3-D.^note At least, the original version and the "Mac family" of ports (Macintosh, SNES and 3DO) go with this; the manual claims it's a P38, which the Jaguar port went with (modifying the sprites of Doom's Beretta-esque pistol into something resembling the P38), while the addon mission packs for Spear of Destiny went with a PPK. The first episode justifies it as BJ having shanked a prison guard and taken it from him.
  • It returns as the standard German pistol in Return to Castle Wolfenstein, where it's weaker than the 1911 and can't be paired up, but can attach a silencer and has much more readily-available ammo.
  • It makes sporadic appearances during cutscenes in the 2009 Wolfenstein; the player can only use it in multiplayer.
  • Wolfenstein: The New Order's prologue and nightmare sequence, and The Old Blood, feature it with a slightly-boosted capacity of 10 rounds as the "Handgun 1946", where once again it can be silenced. The New Order proper also makes use of a futurized version called the "Handgun 1960", best resembling a mishmash of the Luger and the Auto-9 with a 20-round capacity and modes of either three-round bursts or suppressed semi-auto shots. BJ normally gets access to black versions, while also getting a permanently-silenced, all-white one without the burst-fire mode for the moon level.
  • The New Colossus has it return in a slightly modified form as simply the "Pistole", this time with a halved capacity of 10 shots and no burst-fire, though able to take more modifications, the suppressor of old going along with an extended magazine to give it back its twenty-shot capacity and a toggle-able "Magnum" upgrade to make it more powerful at the cost of being louder (even with the suppressor) and with more recoil.
• The A180 blaster pistol in Rogue One is built off a Luger P08, and is wielded by Jyn Erso as her primary weapon.
• A Luger is the favored weapon of Captain Vidal in Pan's Labyrinth, who uses it to execute several Maquis throughout the film.
• The sidearm of General Ludendorff in Wonder Woman (2017). He uses it to shoot a German captain that suggests holding off an attack, and later crushes it when Dr. Poison tests her strengthening gas on him. He also attempts to shoot Diana with it, but she reflects the bullet back and shatters the gun.
• Plenty show up in Michael Collins in the hands of IRA assassins.
• Being an easily recognizable handgun, the Luger shows up in the Marvel Universe plenty of times, usually in the hands of villains or their mooks. Notably, a suppressed Luger was the sidearm of The Punisher in his very first appearance, while Hitman used one to threaten Jonah Jameson.
• PAYDAY 2 features one with the "Aldstone's Heritage" update, the first unlockable WWII firearm in a sequence of side jobs, unlocked for killing ten enemies with punch-daggers added with the event. It's strangely depicted as one of the most powerful handguns in the game, dealing damage on par with the .357 and .44 Magnum revolvers, though owing to its age it doesn't get very many options for attachments (a reinforced barrel to increase accuracy, a shortened one to increase concealment, or different grip panels that... do nothing, alongside a modern red dot sight other pistols can get) and with low stability between shots, probably owing to the characters' insistence on Firing One-Handed.
• In Peacemaker (2022), the White Dragon, an unrepentant white supremacist, is shot by his own son Peacemaker with a Luger formerly held by one of his Neo-Nazi underlings. The irony is not subtle.
• Available to the Wehrmacht in Day of Infamy as a sidearm for the officer and machine gunner classes.
• Wolfgang Schreiber from Dies Irae wields one of these alongside a Mauser C96. And thanks to his magic, both have infinite ammo and abnormal rates of fire.
• Alvin H. York of Sergeant York, carries one instead of an M1911, due to the difficulty in using blanks in a .45 ACP. This is handwaved by having a scene of York liberating it from a dead German. Cooper, having met the real York, initially refused to shoot the scene with a Luger; he relented when promised that the Luger was used due to time constraints and it would be reshot with the M1911 (which it never was).
• A pair of ornately-engraved and gold-plated 7.65mm Lugers show up in Resident Evil – Code: Veronica, part of a display that is also linked to a trap, the doors closing and denying exit to the room if they're taken. Claire never gets to use them, as Steve grabs them before she can find a way to circumvent the trap, refuses to hand them over unless Claire finds him something automatic as a trade, and once she finds a pair of MAC-11s to trade, he's already used up all the ammo taking out a zombie. Steve can also use them in the Battle Game mode, where they get infinite ammunition and the hidden ability to pull off headshots on zombies by manually aiming.
• Available in No One Lives Forever as the "Braun 9mm Parabellum", as a later-game alternative to the standard P38. Compared to the P38, it can take a suppressor just like it and gets the same incorrect 10-round capacity, but it fires and reloads more slowly and is slightly louder (letting guards hear you shoot their buddies from slightly further away), in return for being able to use cyanide-tipped 9mm bullets alongside the regular, dum-dum and incendiary bullets the P38 can use.
• The Luger appears in King Kong (2005) and its corresponding video game. In the film, Captain Englehorn uses an Artillery Luger to kill a native that was just about to bash Carl Denham's head in whilst the game has the standard model as Jack's first available weapon.
• Appears in Fear & Hunger: Termina as the Lugr Pistol, being the game's weakest and most available firearm.