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Little Useless Gun
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A character treats a small firearm, or another character armed with a small gun, with contempt. The firearm will likely be physically small and will probably fire small-caliber ammunition, which is considered by some fiream users to be weak. There is a common perception that any round smaller than a .38 Special is essentially a joke bullet unable to do any real damage. The truth is that Guns Do Not Work That Way. Guns, by definition, are weapons that are designed to kill. Just about any gun made today can inflict a mortal wound in one shot, though a small-caliber bullet probably won't kill you quickly. Even the oft-mocked .22 Short can tear deep enough into a human body to tear major veins and arteries, and if the bullet reaches the throat or vital organs the damage will be severe. Even pneumatic weapons firing small pellets at low speed, like airsoft guns or BB guns, can inflict lethal injuries if they hit someone in a critical area such as the temple or the heart. This is exactly why airsoft events have very strictly enforced safety rules about minimum engagement distances and protective equipment. It's also why it's both frequently forbidden and a bad idea to use frozen paintballs. The idea that small-caliber and/or low-powered weapons are useless in combat probably comes from the somewhat vague notion of "stopping power" and that Bigger Is Better in this regard.*And the notion of "bigger" meaning "better" itself likely goes back to the pre-repeating days of firearms; early firearms shot with a much lower muzzle velocity and required manually reloading the projectile and the propellant with every shot. As a result, projectile diameters tended to be in the .50 to .70 caliber range to provide the best stopping power at those velocities, so that the target would be downed or incapacitated in a single shot, and anything below .30 caliber was considered useless for any sort of lethal effect. When smokeless powder and repeating firearms became popular, bullets could be fired with higher muzzle velocities and multiple times within a short span, thereby making it possible to have a smaller projectile with the same stopping power as a larger one. Even wounds that are fatal will generally not result in an Instant Death Bullet, and it is not unknown for a target to keep going after having been shot, sometimes not even noticing. So the theory goes that larger caliber weapons are more likely to ensure that a target will actually stop in fewer shots. The other side of the argument is that most of the "evidence" for stopping power is almost purely anecdotal and no scientific mechanism for its function has been confirmed. Furthermore, many comparatively smaller guns can have twice the rounds (or more) per magazine versus a massive Hand Cannon as well as far less recoil and weight, and so are "more likely" to be accurate. While size certainly does matter in ballistics, the debate mostly centers around weapons of the same type (pistols vs pistols, rifle vs rifles), not a Derringer next to a .50 BMG sniper rifle, thus the differences are comparatively small. On the other hand, small-caliber firearms, such as .22 rimfire "Purse Guns", are ineffective against most forms of ballistic armor, which will stop a small caliber round flat. Literally, the bullet will flatten to the width of a coin, or thereabouts. Higher caliber pistols like the .45 and 9mm are more likely to get through lighter armors but aren't guaranteed to do so, while rifle rounds like the 5.56 require modern heavy-duty armor to have any chance of stopping them. Even then, some bruises or even broken bones will result from the force of the shot. Some have even mentioned this as an advantage that non-penetrative shots have over penetrative ones—a bullet that pierces the vest but in a (relatively) nonvital area might be ignored for the moment, but it's a lot harder to attack someone if you're gasping for air from broken ribs caused by a bullet smashing your chestplate in. On the other other hand, there's also the issue of "Over-penetration"— when a bullet goes straight through a target. The result is that (1) you wind up hitting things you didn't intend to (like innocent bystanders), and (2) you wind up preventing the bullet from transferring all of its energy to the intended target. Since you can't exactly subject live humans to rigorously controlled lethal testing, it's doubtful this debate will end any time soon. Often popular as a Hidden Weapon stored in Victoria's Secret Compartment. It is also occasionally seen as the so-called "holdout pistol", a common stereotypical weapon for the Lovable Rogue or The Gambler. Both are often characterized as preferring a perceived low powered purely defensive weapon to avoid lethal force.note Even in reality, pistols (as opposed to dedicated assault weapons such as rifles) are more often used defensively as a distraction in order to discourage serious pursuit, allowing the user to escape relatively unchallenged. Also, a rifleman generally needs to stop moving in order to take any meaningful aim, a sure way to increase the probability of being hit even by desperate defensive fire. For the opposite end of the spectrum, see Hand Cannon and BFG, with Punch-Packing Pistol in-between. In shooter games, a Little Useless Gun tends to be a Ranged Emergency Weapon. |
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In Kiss Kiss Bang Bang, Gay Perry has a tiny Derringer that he refers to as his "faggot gun," because "it's only good for a couple of shots and then you gotta drop it for something better". Given the film's penchant for subversion, the little gun ends up being quite lethal. | |
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Inverted in the production of RoboCop. Originally, like every other action hero of The '80s, RoboCop was supposed to carry a Desert Eagle. However, once the actual suit for the eponymous character was finished, it turned out that the Desert Eagle - even with an extended barrel to take a suppressor - still looked like a toy in RoboCop's hands. The solution ended up being to take a regular 9mm gun - a Beretta 93R - and size it up with a barrel and compensator almost double the length of the normal barrel and noticeably taller sights. | |
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El Camino: Jesse is forced to go into the final confrontation with .22 LR and .32 S&W Short pistols stolen from his parents, while his two adversaries are respectively carrying .45 ACP and 9x19 mm handguns (both of which also hold more rounds than his equivalents).note In terms of kinetic energy: both .22 LR and .32 S&W Short are at 150-180 joules for most loads, while the 9mm and .45 ACP loads both average around 500 joules. One of them scoffs at Jesse's sad armament. It ends up not mattering much because Jesse is able to trick one of them and shoot him before he can draw his weapon, after which he takes it and uses it to kill the other. | |
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In The Enforcer, when asked why he carries a Hand Cannon, Harry explains that he's seen shots from a .38 bounce off a car windshield, something shots from his .44 Magnum have never done. | |
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Plan 7 of 9 from Outer Space. Captain Proton isn't impressed when Demonica offers him the 0.09mm Nano-Uzi, a weapon so small he can barely see it. Demonica insists the ammo makes it the exact opposite of this trope, however: | |
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The Terror. During The Mutiny Captain Crozier shoots Manson with a derringer hidden in his pocket, to little effect. When Dr Goodsir examines Manson, he reports the bullets barely penetrated the heavy clothes he was wearing against the cold. It turns out Goodsir is lying, and Manson slowly dies of his injuries. | |
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Torch of Freedom: The Kettridge Model A-3 is seen as one of these. When a mercenary asks a crime boss to sell him one, the boss wonders if the merc is really good enough to get kill-shots out of a Kettridge, or if he's a fake who doesn't want to carry a "man-sized gun" (the merc in question is a disguised Victor Cachat, and Option One is the correct answer). | |
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Given the sheer range of firearms available for use in Enter the Gungeon, there would naturally be a few duds in the mix; in fact, every gun is coded with a 'Class' variable that determines how likely you are to find another one of its type as loot, and one such class is 'SHITTY'. Each of the player characters' starting weapons are classed this way, and never run out of ammo. Others can be found such as the Peashooter, 38 Special, Derringer, and Dueling Pistol, each of which do have limited ammo and are individually weak, but may be powered up in various ways if you're fortunate enough to happen on a gun or item that synergises with them. | |
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CalebCity: "How garbage pistols were in the 18th century" shows two men trying to have a duel- emphasis on trying. They miss their first shots, have to get powder for a second round, and when they do hit each other, the bullets don't even draw blood. | |
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James Bond; Because Dr. No was the first film of the franchise, we never see the Beretta .25 that Bond uses in the novels; as in the book, Bond is forced to give it up for his now-iconic Walther PPK. The film ironically gets it backwards due to an inability to secure the right prop weapons; in that scene, Bond is instead turning in a Beretta 1934 in .380 ACP, which M continues to disparage as he proceeds to force Bond to use a Walther PP in the same caliber, which the dialogue insists is actually the lower-caliber PPK in .32 ACP. The film provides a second justification in any case; the Beretta had jammed on Bond on a recent mission and he was wounded as a result. The 4.2mm handgun used by The Man with the Golden Gun should be this, but since it's only used by Scaramanga, who has Improbable Aiming Skills, every shot is an instant one-hit kill (ironically, in the original novel, Scaramanga uses a Hand Cannon which an MI6 psychiatric report suggests is because he's Compensating for Something). Bond-based video games frequently include Scaramanga's golden gun and a similar gold-plated variation of whichever Walther pistol Bond swears by as a Mythology Gag, and they're always an instant kill, regardless of who's using it, or sometimes even what is being shot with it. In Licence to Kill, when Bond meets up with Pam Bouvier, she asks him if he's armed. He shows her his PPK, which she derides. She shows him her sawed off Mossberg 500 and tells him to just stay down if trouble happens. Ironically, Pam herself uses various .25 Berettas later in the movie, one of which she lends to Bond. Bond's PPK is in general a Punch-Packing Pistol, but The Living Daylights provides an exception. When Bond confronts Brad Whittaker, Whittaker is armed with an assault rifle with a face shield. When Bond dumps his entire magazine ineffectively into said shield, Whittaker quips "You've had your eight, now I'll have my eighty". Fortunately for Bond, his explosive keychain is able to do the job more effectively. |
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The Simpsons: There's an episode where they were parodying Huck Finn and Tom Sawyer; they get involved in a barroom shootout and proceed to sit there calmly while derringer bullets bounce off the furniture, the glasses holding their beer, and their skin and eyes. Another, showing a scene from McBain portrayed his superior attempting to get him to surrender his Hand Cannon for something smaller. McBain asks how he is supposed to avenge his partner with a pea shooter. When the chief tells him he is supposed to do things by the book, he shoots it, quipping "Bye, book". |
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Battlefield 1 has the Kolibri Pistol (see the Real Life section below). It's so small that the Player Character has to hold it with only their thumb and forefinger. Also, it takes about four headshots to kill someone. However, it can be a deadly combination while shooting explosives placed on top of a blimp. | |
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In James Bond (Dynamite), it's a Running Gag that everyone gives Bond a hard time over his Walther, calling it everything from "funny little gun" to "almost the same size as [this three-inch pocket knife]" to "prostitute's shooting instrument." Writer Warren Ellis noted in an interview that this is based on firearms expert Geoffrey Boothroyd, the basis for the Q character of the films, writing to Ian Fleming on several occasions objecting to the Walther PPK (and earlier the Beretta 418) being "a lady's gun". If that sounds familiar, this also inspired a scene in the film version of Dr. No discussed under Film — Live Action. | |
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In In Bruges, Ray steals a Smith & Wesson Model 60 from Eirik and shoots him in the eye with a blank round. When Ken comes to kill him and prevents his suicide, he compares weapons with him, lamenting that he has "a bloody girl's gun". | |
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Parodied in the Looney Tunes short "Drip-Along Daffy", where burly outlaw Nasty Canasta is felled by a wind-up toy soldier whose tiny rifle packs a surprising amount of heat. Had Canasta not picked it up and raised it at face level to laugh at it, he might have gotten off easy. | |
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The Ladies Gun, a Remington 1886 Derringer, is the weakest gun in the entire Call of Juarez series. It has poor range and does barely any damage. | |
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In Desert Punk, Kosuna shoots one goon coming at her several times with her small handgun and he barely even flinches. Although she learns a ridiculously huge gun wouldn't be best either, Kanta does end up getting her a more powerful sub-machine gun by the end. | |
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The SNS Pistol from Grand Theft Auto V actually does roughly the same amount of damage as the starting 9MM pistol, but has very poor accuracy and a small magazine. | |
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Death on the Nile (2022): As in the novel, Jacqueline de Bellefort shows Poirot her .22 caliber pistol (here a heavily engraved Sharps four barrel pepperbox of mid 1850s vintage) and describes it as "practically a toy". Poirot later ruefully echos this comment as he examines the gun after it has been used to murder Linnet Doyle. | |
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In Borderlands almost every repeater pistol certainly fits this, doing pitiful damage compared to your average revolver, which the wiki refers to as "a hybrid of pistols and sniper rifles". Repeaters that deal good damage are very rare and often unique. | |
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Turned on its head in Borderlands 2. Revolvers were merged with repeater pistols into a single "pistol" class that is halfway between both in all aspects. Every pistol is a Punch-Packing Pistol that outdamages any assault rifle of the same brand per shot. | |
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In Crimson Land, the player starts with a semiautomatic pistol without especially good firepower, fire rate, reloading speed, or clip size. Generally, every other weapon is better than it, with some exceptions (e.g. the blowtorch, which only has a range of a few feet), so the player is generally better off taking a weapon from the first monster they kill. | |
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In an episode of Sledge Hammer!, the hero's iconic Hand Cannon is taken away from him, and he's forced to carry a pistol that is so tiny that he holds it in two fingers to shoot and it's so underpowered, the tiny bullets don't go anywhere near the target. They fall right in front of Sledge like shiny confetti. | |
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Trigun: Meryl Strife gets some mockery over her weapon of choice, the derringer, both because of its two-shot capacity and its low penetration. She overcomes the former problem by carrying several dozen at a time. The justification for her choice of weapon seems to be that, in accordance with this trope, it's treated as a nonlethal weapon due to its small caliber. Thus, she can use it with impunity and not worry about deaths or serious collateral damage (which is a reasonable concern for an insurance representative). Her partner Millie uses the opposite approach, a huge multi-barreled stun gun whose slugs spread out in to a cross pattern to reduce stopping power. This would similarly be potentially lethal in real life — given she knocks a truck over with two shots from it at one point, it would tend to cause a lot of broken bones at least — but in the work, it just harmlessly knocks people over. |
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Discussed in Sword Art Online; while Kirito is weapons shopping in Gun Gale Online, the gun Sinon recommends for him has a smaller caliber than a considerably cheaper gun. Sinon starts to lecture him on penetrative power versus stopping power, but Kirito is quickly distracted by a photon sword. He ends up going with the sword and using a pistol as a sidearm, the latter of which comes in handy during the climax. Spin-Off series Sword Art Online Alternative: Gun Gale Online shows that despite the realistic treatment of GGO's guns, it still runs on RPG mechanics at its core, and pistols do not get the best showing. If you miss a specifically lethal shot, it comes down to the recipient's HP level vs. the weapon's damage output; Pitohui is shown firing at someone's center mass with a pistol until it's empty and failing to deplete their HP. In the second Squad Jam, Pitohui complains about how weak pistols are after a player survives about a dozen shots from a pistol. However, Squad Jan 4 has a rule specifically designed to avert this, saying that at certain times, the pistol will be one of the only usable weapons. Specifically, pistols are only usable inside the mall where the climax takes place. |
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Doraemon: The Record of Nobita : Spaceblazer has Ropporu's family heirloom, a pocket-sized gun belonging to his late father, which despite it's size can blow a tree into half by hitting the trunk. Nobita actually comments on how small and harmless looking it seems before Ropporu decides to demonstrate its power. | |
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The Dresden Files: Defied in Turn Coat. Morgan tries to shoot Molly with a .22. When Harry arrives, Murphy says that such a small-caliber gun might have meant Morgan was only shooting to wound, since it would've been hard to kill anyone with it. Harry immediately shoots this down because Morgan would never shoot a suspected warlock to wound, and points out the only reason Morgan used such a small gun is that it was all he had. In Fool Moon, the loup-garou can only be harmed by inherited silver. Murphy has some jewelry that qualifies, and the equipment to cast it into Silver Bullets, but only for her .22 target pistol rather than her service weapon, to Harry's annoyance. Since the loup-garou also has a Healing Factor, she only manages to slow it down a bit, until it gets into point-blank range—just after she empties her mag. |
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James Bond originally carried a Beretta 418 (.25 calibre) before switching to his signature Walther PPK. Behind the scenes, the change happened after one Geoffrey Boothroyd—for whom the character who would become Q would be named—wrote to Fleming objecting to the use of the Beretta and, after some back-and-forth, suggested the Walther. Calibre size is not the only reason he has to turn it in, at least, as his Beretta had jammed on him and he was wounded as a result (in the preceding book, From Russia with Love, it became stuck in a holster when Bond attached a suppressor to it, allowing him to be stabbed with a poisoned knife; this was not included in the film version, as the chronology was changed between films, what with Dr. No being the first one adapted). Incidentally, Bond does carry a long-barreled M1911 in his glovebox, should he ever need a Hand Cannon. | |
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The Island (1980): When Maynard is attacked by a pirate on his fishing boat, he unloads multiple shots from his son's target pistol into the pirate. The pirate isn't even slowed down and knocks Maynard out. Only when he wakes up does Maynard learn that the pirate had subsequently died of his wounds. | |
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Wings of Rebellion: Minerva (aka Sae) has a very tiny revolver, smaller than a toy, but it's just as effective as the guns of the others. Morgana thinks that it's small on purpose to trick enemies into thinking it's weak. | |
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In The Man from Colorado, Owen shoots Del In the Back with a small holdout pistol when Del is attempting to flee town with Caroline and Doc. Because of the gun's small calibre and the range at which Owen shoots, Del survives and is back on his feet in a day or so, but the wound is still enough to hamper him in the final confrontation. | |
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Strike Witches: In Brave Witches, Hikari carries around a tiny FP-45 Liberator pistol as a good luck charm, as it isn't of much practical use in combat. It is what ultimately kills the Big Bad for the season. In the second season of the original Strike Witches, Mio's worsening condition is demonstrated by having her magical shield, expected to take full-on Beam Spam from the Neuroi, fail to deflect more than one bullet from a simple pistol. |
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Subverted in Sonic the Hedgehog 2 (2022): Rachel threatens Commander Walters in one scene with a tiny laser pistol made by Tails. The thing is so tiny that it would look dinky if Tails was using it, let alone Rachel who has a good extra pair of feet of height, and she was easily carrying it inside of her bra. When Walters asks if that is even a real gun, Rachel shoots it at her wedding cake, which explodes. Walters immediately surrenders. | |
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Knights of the Old Republic I and II gave enemies health based on the Dungeons & Dragons-based Star Wars d20 RPG, which meant that the pitiful damage done by hold-out blasters and even the blaster pistol would wind up useless very, very quickly. In the first game, lightsabers and force powers overshadowed blasters so much that non-Jedi party members had little role in combat, becoming obsolete almost the instant you left the starting planet. In the second game, a modified Hand Cannon or BFG could be viable, but it required spending multiple points on gimmicky Force powers (such as the ability to deflect blaster fire with your hands) and abilities (such as a penalty reduction for shooting enemies who are in melee range) to make up for inherent disadvantages that lightsabers (or even regular melee weapons) don't have, and even with all of these would still be suboptimal. | |
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The Resident Evil series rarely features small-bore weapons, but they invert this whenever they do appear, instead frequently saving its ire for anything full-auto. The Calico M100-P guns you can find in Code: Veronica are large handguns chambered in the comparably tiny .22LR, and can do slightly more damage per shot than the basic 9mm handgun (admittedly, you are usually hitting the enemy with two bullets at a time). Meanwhile, the Derringer you can find in the 2002 REmake has only one unfired .22WMR round, but it can kill any regular enemy with its single shot. | |
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Fallout: New Vegas has only two weapons that use .22LR ammunition; a silenced .22 pistol and a silenced .22 SMG. They both have free silencers and high critical chance but do such low damage you'd be better off smacking your foe with a bit of pipe. Literally: these guns have base damage of 9 and 10 - a BB Gun has a base of 4, a lead pipe has a base of 22, and the high-end automatic weapons are in the 30s or 40s. The 9mm pistol doesn't fare much better, with a base of 16. However, the complete silence of the .22 makes it great for assassinations, since if you can find a dark corner to hide in you can kill a target in the middle of a crowded room without anyone noticing, and the combination of high critical rate, double crit damage, high accuracy, and low AP cost means that you can take down an unarmored target with headshots almost as easily as with your big hand-cannons. Not to mention that it's the only gun that you can take in places where weapons are forbidden without a high sneak skill, meaning unless you deliberately pour most of your skill points in the first part of the game into stealth, it's going to be your only easily-usable ranged option if you decide to cause trouble in any of the Strip's casinos. There is even an achievement you get for scoring a killing blow on a deathclaw, one of the toughest predators in the wasteland, with the .22 pistol. The .22 SMG, meanwhile, makes itself more useful by playing to the intended strengths of a low-damage weapon, by negating it with a high rate of fire and a very large pan magazine; it can deal with most low DT enemies through Death of a Thousand Cuts. The downside here is that .22LR ammo is rather scarce, since very few enemies carry it, it can't be built at a reloading bench without mods, and vendors rarely have more (though what they do have is dirt-cheap). 9mm ammo in comparison is much more common, as are other 9mm pistols you'll need to repair yours for most of the game. Benny makes a reference to this if you manage to talk to him in private once you catch up to him - he asks upfront how you're still alive after he shot you in the face, and if you tell him you're just that hard to kill, he jokes that it "serves me right for using a 9mm". |
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Now apply this logic to Apex Legends, but with a 3 round magazine. Ladies and gentlemen, behold: the Mozambique. | |
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Averted with the Judge revolver in Phantom Forces, due to the fact that the game doesn't impose Short-Range Shotgun, as it would otherwise result in the above entry, besides the fact that it's the same weapon as in Black Ops II. Played straight, however, with both the Zip 22 and the M231. The Zip 22 is your average, low damage 22 LR pistol, which is basically the modern rendition of the Kolibri. The M231 is the complete opposite: so opposite it loops back around the spectrum and ends up being useless again, featuring a fire rate of over 1000, which wouldn't be so bad if the recoil wasn't terrible. So terrible, in fact, that you literally have to aim at the ground so the recoil can kick up and actually hit your enemy, besides the fact that there aren't any iron sights. The fact that the stock is just a cylinder explains it: firing the weapon while braced against your shoulder in real life would more than likely result in extreme pain, which is why it's mounted in real life. |
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Scaled up to vehicle size in The Pentagon Wars. The first Bradley prototype sports but a single M2 machine gun. For comparison, the same weapon when not hooked up to an armored vehicle is the standard definition of a BFG. One of the reviewing Generals openly mocks it before ordering a turret-mounted cannon and missiles added on. Then deconstructed: | |
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The Next Frontier: The only kind of sidearm the Kerbals can carry onboard their spacecraft, which by their very nature tend to have lots of critically important and rather fragile equipment behind the bulkheads and overhead. Unfortunately, firearms and ammunition that won't punch holes in important bits of spaceship aren't much good against even lightweight body armour. | |
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Mad Max: Fury Road. Furiosa tells Toast the Knowing to inventory their ammunition. She says they've only got four rounds for their Sniper Rifle, then dangles a handmade .22 single-shot from her fingers, saying "but we can squirt off this little pinky here a grand total of 29 times." | |
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The 4.2mm handgun used by The Man with the Golden Gun should be this, but since it's only used by Scaramanga, who has Improbable Aiming Skills, every shot is an instant one-hit kill (ironically, in the original novel, Scaramanga uses a Hand Cannon which an MI6 psychiatric report suggests is because he's Compensating for Something). Bond-based video games frequently include Scaramanga's golden gun and a similar gold-plated variation of whichever Walther pistol Bond swears by as a Mythology Gag, and they're always an instant kill, regardless of who's using it, or sometimes even what is being shot with it. | |
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In Master Keaton, a cop tells a suicidal man not to shoot himself in the head with a .22, because it's more likely to leave him an invalid than to kill him. | |
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Borderlands: The Pre-Sequel! has Miss Moxxi's Probe, a unique pistol that does minimal damage and has such low life drain values that it is practically worthless for restoring HP. This is by design: the Probe's real purpose is pissing off some otherwise peaceful kraggons so they can open a path for you. It's not a weapon for actual combat. | |
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The pistol in the first game is not any better: with worse accuracy than the rifle and less than half the power, the only redeeming quality the pistol has is that you can put it in your belt inventory... or you can replace it with a couple grenades for the same cost. | |
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Sin City: In the comic A Dame To Kill For, the main character, Dwight, is shot up pretty badly by the title character, a Femme Fatale to the last. As Marv is hauling him to Old Town, he comments: "...Here I am jabbering with you leaking all over the place. You're damn lucky all that dame had was a .32 — we wouldn't even be having this conversation if she'd used a real gun on you. Even so, getting shot in the face isn't high on my list of how to have a good time." The femme fatale herself notes that she's not a great shot, adding to this trope. And later, when Dwight changes his faces and comes back to confront her, all he's able to conceal up his sleeve is "a crummy little .25", all six rounds of which are nowhere near enough to stop Manute (the bullets were used against his Made of Iron body rather than his head). It seems carrying anything smaller than a .45 Automatic or a .357 Magnum is a good way to lose a gunfight in Sin City (unless you're Wallace), as many of its denizens are, if not simply Made of Iron, at least Immune to Bullets. |
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Fallout 3: the .32 pistol and the Chinese pistol have the dubious distinction of being outclassed before you can even find them. Both weapons deal less damage than the standard 10mm pistol you're given in the final introductory mission - the .32 pistol might conceivably come in handy in a pinch should stronger weapons degrade too much or run out of ammo, and you don't having a hunting rifle handy, but the Chinese pistol uses the same ammo as the 10mm and does less than half its damage with it. If you're a bad enough shot that its ability to fire more than twice as many shots before breaking might be a valuable advantage, overall you'd be better off just finding a melee weapon instead. | |
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Subverted in Black Lagoon. While Fritz Stanford is bragging about the enormous handgun he plans to use to kill Revy, a custom-built gold-plated Luger chambered for .454 Casull, she's loading her regular handgun, a custom-built 9mm Beretta, and shoots him before he can finish speaking. Before she finishes him off, she tells him that "if you can hit your target, pretty much any gun will do the trick." Later on, Balalaika is negotiating with some Yakuza and demands they let her examine the bodyguard's gun. Then she insists he also hand over his backup gun and she begins to mock him for having such a little weapon. However, she then opens fire and kills the two men with that gun, stating that perhaps it wasn't so useless after all. |
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Defied in Turn Coat. Morgan tries to shoot Molly with a .22. When Harry arrives, Murphy says that such a small-caliber gun might have meant Morgan was only shooting to wound, since it would've been hard to kill anyone with it. Harry immediately shoots this down because Morgan would never shoot a suspected warlock to wound, and points out the only reason Morgan used such a small gun is that it was all he had. | |
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Akumetsu: The eponymous character states that .22 slugs aren't good at doing a lot of damage. Later despite several bodyguards' successful shots to various parts of his body, he powers through to kill one of his targets. | |
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Farscape. Played with in "Scratch 'N Sniff" when our heroes have to Storm the Castle and the only weapons they have are their usual pulse pistols. The woman with them is not impressed. | |
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Call of Duty: Black Ops II manages this with a revolver, of all things, with the Executioner. Based on an unproduced 28-gauge version of the Taurus Judge shotgun-revolver, it's presumably intended to combine the upsides of a pistol (such as quick times to draw and aim, less slowed movement when aiming, etc) with the extreme power and pellet spread of a shotgun. This does increase its power to even more extremes, enough so that it's the only pistol in the game that can kill a man in a single shot, but the problem here is that shotguns are basically melee weapons in the Call of Duty series - a one-shot kill requires you to be close enough to the target that you could just as well use your knife instead and achieve the same result, and being even a few inches further will require the entire five-round cylinder to kill someone. Plus, this also means it's not possible to cherry-tap people from beyond about a foot like you could with the other pistols, either, because like the full-size shotguns, the pellets disappear at their maximum range, which in this case is about 12 meters. Now apply this logic to Apex Legends, but with a 3 round magazine. Ladies and gentlemen, behold: the Mozambique. |
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In The Gentlemen, Matthew gives Mickey a gold-plated derringer as a peace offering. Mickey gives it to his wife Ros. When Ros eventually pulls it on Dry-Eyes when he invades her office, he is incredulous that it is even a gun. Ros demonstrates how effective it can be by killing his two bodyguards with single shot through each of their foreheads. Unfortunately for her, it only has two shots. | |
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Borderlands In Borderlands almost every repeater pistol certainly fits this, doing pitiful damage compared to your average revolver, which the wiki refers to as "a hybrid of pistols and sniper rifles". Repeaters that deal good damage are very rare and often unique. Turned on its head in Borderlands 2. Revolvers were merged with repeater pistols into a single "pistol" class that is halfway between both in all aspects. Every pistol is a Punch-Packing Pistol that outdamages any assault rifle of the same brand per shot. Borderlands: The Pre-Sequel! has Miss Moxxi's Probe, a unique pistol that does minimal damage and has such low life drain values that it is practically worthless for restoring HP. This is by design: the Probe's real purpose is pissing off some otherwise peaceful kraggons so they can open a path for you. It's not a weapon for actual combat. |
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In Lady in Cement, The Brute Grossin laughs when Tony Rome pulls a .38 on him: telling Rome that .38 isn't going to stop him. However, he backs down when a mook enters with a .45. | |
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Archer carries a Walther PPK in .32 ACP, much like James Bond. He thinks it's more than good enough, commenting once that anything that can survive all 7+1 shots from it is "probably a dragon", but he gets mocked for it from time to time. It actually winds up being the single most effective firearm in the series, not necessarily because of its capabilities but because Archer himself is a crack shot with it. His teammates, who all sport much bigger guns, are graduates of the Imperial Stormtrooper Marksmanship Academy. | |
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Subverted in Kill Decision. The smaller drones can only mount low-calibre weapons, but at close range and in enough numbers, that's enough. Indeed, several characters are badly hurt from them. | |
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The Zombie Survival Guide states that because a .22 bullet doesn't have as much penetrative power as other ammo, a headshot is likely to result in the bullet bouncing around inside the skull rather than punching through the back, doing lots of damage to the brain even if the initial shot might not have been a kill. This, it should be noted, is a common and widely held belief about .22 ammo that is totally wrong. .223 rifle rounds will do extra damage by tumbling end-over-end upon striking a soft target, but that's not the same thing as claiming that a .22 round will continuously ricochet around inside someone's noggin like a pinball because they definitely don't do that in real life. A .22 LR or Short round is more likely than most to stay in a skull rather than punching all the way through after a headshot, but that's simply because the bullet has less energy than a more powerful round would, and thus it takes less resistance to get it to stop moving entirely.note The Guide still recommends .22 ammunition weapons for several other reasons, namely because they're great for packing light, comparatively easy to operate, and available at almost any gun store. Oddly, however, the author then goes on to recommend avoiding .223 ammo and guns, stating that they're not powerful enough to do damage to Zombie brains. This is in the face of the fact that the .223 is the same caliber as .22, but faster, meaning it packs more stopping power than the diminutive rounds on top of the mentioned tumbling that would reduce zombie brains to pink and grey paste. One almost has to wonder if the author did some preliminary research on calibers and then mixed up .22 and .223. | |
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In Hotline Miami, any gun that's not a shotgun is this against the Fat Bastard mooks - they take time to bleed out when shot by non-shotguns, which in tight confines is usually more than enough time for them to close in on Jacket and punch out his blood. | |
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In Fool Moon, the loup-garou can only be harmed by inherited silver. Murphy has some jewelry that qualifies, and the equipment to cast it into Silver Bullets, but only for her .22 target pistol rather than her service weapon, to Harry's annoyance. Since the loup-garou also has a Healing Factor, she only manages to slow it down a bit, until it gets into point-blank range—just after she empties her mag. | |
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Gamblers in Lucky Luke tend to have a derringer since it's easier to pull out of their sleeves or hat than a Colt, but they rarely have any success with it (of course, when Luke is present, they often don't get the chance to fire it in the first place). Luke's problem when he uses one is less the firepower and more the capacity and reliability. And then there is this ridiculously miniature gun a gambler drops into Luke's hand when they are threatened by a highwayman. Luke fires... and does no damage? Nope. The mini bullet corks the barrel of the enemy's gun, and it promptly explodes on firing. | |
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In Mr. & Mrs. Smith (2005), when getting guns from a stash, Mr. Smith grabs a large, long-barreled .45 automatic, then hands Mrs. Smith a noticeably smaller .38 revolver. She complains over being given the "girl gun". | |
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While not exactly "little", the Klobb from GoldenEye is infamous for being the weakest and least-accurate firearm in the game – it's the only gun in the game that requires two headshots to kill someone. It's so weak that even in the customizable 007 difficulty mode, it's the only weapon in the game that cannot be made to kill someone in one hit - whether you set enemy damage to the maximum so that all enemy shots kill you in one hit, or enemy health to 0% so that they die instantly from any damage whatsoever, the Klobb will still need two shots. | |
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Jacqueline's pearl-handed pistol from Death on the Nile is referred to several times as "a toy," but it's also made clear that it's a lethal weapon, and Jackie (or someone else) is perfectly capable of killing someone with it. | |
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Inverted by Taxi Driver. Travis buys four guns, one .44 Magnum revolver and three smaller pistols. The guy selling him the guns tells him that the .44 is Awesome, but Impractical and, indeed, Travis only manages to use it to blow a man's hand off, while his actual kills are made with the smaller guns. | |
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In Licence to Kill, when Bond meets up with Pam Bouvier, she asks him if he's armed. He shows her his PPK, which she derides. She shows him her sawed off Mossberg 500 and tells him to just stay down if trouble happens. Ironically, Pam herself uses various .25 Berettas later in the movie, one of which she lends to Bond. | |
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Lackadaisy: When the pig farmers attack the Lackadaisy gang is unarmed save for a small "pea shooter" stashed in Mitzi's garter, thanks to Mordecai looting the armory on his way out. However, Freckle still manages to kill one of their assailants with it, and immediately trades up for his victim's Tommy gun. In the animated pilot Freckle runs out of ammo for his Chicago typewriter and is reduced to using a tiny gun that was wedged between the car seats to fend off Marigold's enforcers, Mordecai simply takes cover and counts his shots and waits for him to run out before moving in. |
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A semi-frequent appearance in the Hitman series: Hitman 2: Silent Assassin has the Makarov and .22 pistols, both of which have little stopping power. The .22 is just about the only gun in any of the games that doesn't always kill with a single headshot — you can perforate a man's brain with this gun and it will just make him mad. Hitman: Contracts has the SG220, a pistol with a seven-round magazine and almost no stopping power. It is, however, very quiet. The World of Assassination Trilogy zig-zags this with the Custom 5mm pistol. Whilst its poor stopping power and nonreloadable five-round magazine make it a poor choice for an outright firefight, its integral suppressor and ability to pass through frisks undetected make it highly useful for assassinating targets. |
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An episode of M*A*S*H focused on negotiating a prisoner exchange with the Chinese. One condition of the exchange was that the Americans had to come unarmed, but Margaret gave Frank a tiny pistol (a Colt M1908 Vest Pocket) to carry in case he needed it. When the Chinese realized that the agreement had been broken they were ready to call the whole thing off, but when they actually saw the pistol in question they laughed it off as a joke ("it comes in a box of Crackerjacks," Hawkeye deadpans). This is slightly justified since the Chinese soldiers are heavily armed with automatic weapons. | |
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Hitman 2: Silent Assassin has the Makarov and .22 pistols, both of which have little stopping power. The .22 is just about the only gun in any of the games that doesn't always kill with a single headshot — you can perforate a man's brain with this gun and it will just make him mad. | |
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Black Saddle: In "Client: Dawes", Maggie Dawes pulls a derringer on Clay, only to have Clay contemptuously slap it out of her hand. | |
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The World of Assassination Trilogy zig-zags this with the Custom 5mm pistol. Whilst its poor stopping power and nonreloadable five-round magazine make it a poor choice for an outright firefight, its integral suppressor and ability to pass through frisks undetected make it highly useful for assassinating targets. | |
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Discussed in Get Shorty: When Ray Bones threatens Ronnie with his little gun (an AMT Backup), Ronnie (who was sent by a corrupt film producer and probably has more experience seeing gangster films than actually killing people) calls it "the Fiat of guns", expecting it to not work. Ray kills him with four bullets to his chest. | |
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BattleTech's tabletop RPG spinoff Mechwarrior has this. The hold-out pistol is a bit of a joke, with a pathetic range of 10 meters, and can be out-damaged by a basic small crossbow that's even cheaper than the pistol and yet reaches 50 meters. The much more expensive Mydron Auto-Pistol actually reaches 60 meters, but does no more damage than the standard pistol, made up for slightly by its larger magazine size and ability to fire (not very accurately) in bursts. The needler gun and hold-out needler, while even weaker in terms of raw damage potential, avert this trope by being ruled as completely going through normal armor and dealing their damage directly to the target, something the aforementioned pistols cannot do. The fact that needler shots are also fluffed as being incredibly difficult wounds to treat and heal can also be a problem for anyone attempting life-saving procedures, helping steer these weapons out of the 'useless' category. The same can be said of the hold-out flamer pistol. The initial damage is hardly anything speak of, but the fact that you are now on fire kind of makes up for any shortcomings—no forms of standard infantry armor provide protection against being burned to death. | |
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In the first Police Academy film, the cadets are issued standard police revolvers. Tackleberry picks his up with a hugely disappointed look on his face. Cut to the next scene where he uses his Hand Cannon (a gift from his mother, no less) to obliterate targets on the firing range. | |
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Invoked in Back to the Future Part III, where Buford "Mad Dog" Tannen threatens Doc with a derringer specifically because it will make his death slow and painful, mentioning a guy who took two days to die of his wounds. It's implied he shot him in the belly to cause a death from infection and poor medical treatment. It's also implied that this was how Doc was originally murdered by Buford, since he and Marty both assumed Doc would be shot in the back and killed on September 7th, but was actually shot two days prior and took that long to die from the wound. | |
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The main villain of Hard Boiled, Johnny Wong, mocks the police's .38 special revolvers for this trope. Ironically Johnny is killed by Tequila at the end of the movie with a well-placed shot to the eye using the very weapon Johnny mocked. | |
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Bullet Tooth Tony in Snatch. is shown in a flashback to have been shot by an Asian gangster wielding a small pistol. After six shots, the gangster realises that Tony isn't dead and Tony just bum rushes him with a sword. Later, Tony is killed when Avi accidentally shoots him with his own Desert Eagle, showing that it just takes a bigger gun to do the job. | |
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Daredevil (2015). Averted when Frank Castle appreciates the .380 pistol that Karen Page is armed with, saying that some people buy a Hand Cannon, realize they "kick like a mule" and so become afraid to use it. Castle himself favors a .45 automatic but he's a large well-muscled man, so what he appreciates is that Karen's pistol has been chosen for practicality rather than appearance. | |
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Discussed in The Irishman. Frank Sheeran has to pick a couple of guns for a hit. He rejects the .22 calibre as too light, but also the .45 because you can hear it a couple of blocks away, which risks drawing the attention of police. | |
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Subverted in The Guard. When Gerry is given a tipoff from a young boy about a stash of weapons, he discovers that the boy has taken a Derringer from the stash. Gerry keeps it for himself, along with a Glock and a Kalashnikov. Later, when O'Leary pays him a visit, he has been Crazy-Prepared enough to keep the Derringer stashed in his pants and uses it to kill O'Leary. It takes O'Leary some time to die, but even when he's still alive, the puny round is enough to keep him from returning fire. | |
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Hitman: Contracts has the SG220, a pistol with a seven-round magazine and almost no stopping power. It is, however, very quiet. | |
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8mm. Underground filmmaker Velvet isn't impressed when an accomplice threatens him with a .32 automatic but dies after being shot in the neck, complaining that his death should be more dramatic. | |
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No More Room In Hell features the .22LR as the most lightweight ammo type in the game, with the drawback that it doesn't kill adult zombies (zombie kids drop in one bullet) in one headshot unless you focusnote aim while standing still for two or three seconds or have "Realism" enabled. Not that it's saying much, as the same goes for the general-purpose 9mm Parabellum. | |
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Because Dr. No was the first film of the franchise, we never see the Beretta .25 that Bond uses in the novels; as in the book, Bond is forced to give it up for his now-iconic Walther PPK. | |
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Early in Ballistic Kiss, Cat uses a pocket-sized pistol hidden in his sleeve to take down some mooks. The same weapon shows up at the end of the opening shootout, with Cat holding the dinky gun to his target's head while taunting him. | |
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Hanna. While Marissa's Walther PP in .32ACP usually is enough to put down most people she's up against, it proves mostly ineffective against Hanna in the final confrontation. A bullet to the hip barely inconveniences Hanna more than being knocked on her ass for a few seconds and barely affecting her mobility. Although, being a genetically engineered Super-Soldier might have something to do with it. | |
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A common belief held by the Orks of Warhammer 40,000, who follow the rules of Bigger Is Better and named More Dakka. | |
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Shadowrun. In some versions, light and holdout pistols do Light damage, which, as you might guess, isn't much. It takes a decent amount of skill and additional aiming gear for the damage of a single hit to scale up into something significant. There is one exception, though: Stick N Shock rounds are, as the name suggests, taser bullets that deal nonlethal damage and it's the same amount of damage whether fired out of a sniper rifle or a holdout pistol. That means that light and holdout pistols are extremely efficient for using such rounds. There are also Capsule Rounds, which can be filled with a liquid payload. DMSO, anyone? |
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The Punisher: Discussed by Frank Castle in one of Eliot Brown's Punisher's Arsenal comics, where he mentions the practicality of the size for concealed-carry guns to use while undercover — OK, sure, a .22 Winchester Magnum isn't a big round, but a derringer chambered for it literally fits in his wallet, and the size of the round doesn't matter when you're going for a point-blank headshot. Frank has killed several men with the aforementioned round throughout the comic doing exactly that, at least once by drawing the gun when the other guy was standing over him monologuing. | |
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In Sealab 2021, Captain Murphy gives a baby a real, loaded pistol as part of a Feast of Alvis pageant. When the baby's mother complains, he tells her to relax, it's only a .22, couldn't hurt a flea. | |
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In Men in Black, the "Noisy Cricket" is the size of a small, cheap water pistol, and it's dismissed as "completely useless". It's capable of blowing a hole through a completely sealed door and sending the user flying the opposite direction. The funny thing is that it functionally is near-useless, but for the exact opposite reason of what it looks like it would be. Background materials suggest that the Noisy Cricket's standard function is significantly toned down from what is seen; it's meant to be a holdout gun. It's given in an overpowered state to rookie agents as an object lesson... or a form of hazing. In Men in Black II, Agent K in his neuralized state is given one that does not have the comical level of overcharging, and in the animated series J receives a silencer for his (which is at least twice as long as the actual gun it's screwed to), which reduces the power of each shot but also allows him to fire it without bowling himself over. | |
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Downplayed in 11/22/63. Jake's weapon of choice is a .38 Police Special, a snubnose revolver. He chooses it because it's simple, lightweight, and easily concealable. Stopping power is not the issue, however, as while he uses it to great effect to kill Harry Dunning's father, it proves useless against Lee Harvey Oswald, as its short barrel impedes its accuracy during their confrontation in the Book Depository (it is repeatedly noted that the gun is only effective up to fifteen yards). Because Jake misses, Oswald is able to use his own rifle to kill Sadie instead of Kennedy. | |
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X-COM: Terror from the Deep will start players with dart and harpoon-based weapons, among other things. The dart pistol is weak to the point of uselessness. It does so little damage that Aquatoids, the weakest starting enemies, will take at least three direct hits to bring them down, whereas the harpoon rifle will often drop an Aquatoid where it stands after just one shot. For the price of the dart pistol and a single clip of 12 darts, you might as well buy three grenades and actually kill some of the aliens instead. | |
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Deus Ex: The PS20 is an energy weapon example. A one-shot plasma derringer that you're inexplicably restricted from carrying more than one of, it can't even one-shot basic mooks from point-blank range with a headshot, defeating its purpose entirely. In early versions of the game, it actually did a more-than-respectable 40 damage (about equivalent to two shells through the assault shotgun if you're close enough that every pellet hits), but then something broke with both of the plasma weapons in the update that added multiplayer, making them both deal such low damage per projectile that the only things that deal less damage than them are melee weapons, if you don't have any training in them. The assault rifle is an odd example, playing perfectly to the stereotype of "faster fire rate = weaker damage per-shot", with it dealing a base of 3 damage per-bullet, compared to the basic 10mm pistol doing 14 damage or so. Barring its 20mm grenade launcher, it only outdamages the pistol through volume of fire, each trigger pull letting off five bullets for 15 damage in total, the downside being that the ammo doesn't go nearly as far for the same damage. This is especially jarring since it's firing 7.62x51mm, which realistically should be in the same power class as the .30-06 used by the sniper rifle. The Stealth Pistol is another example, dealing damage on par with the bugged PS20 and poorer accuracy in return for an integrated silencer and a larger unmodified capacity than the normal pistol, though it's not nearly as bad since you get ten shots and then a reload rather than just one and then tossing the weapon entirely. |
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Played with in Strapped. Most of the guns bought, sold, carried, and seen are Saturday Night Special-types in .22, .25, and .32 calibers, however the ones actually used for killing are in large calibers and frame sizes. | |
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At the end of Die Hard with a Vengeance, McClane asks for a gun and is given a tiny revolver of which he is extremely disdainful, especially since the guy he's up against is toting an M60 machine gun. Subverted in that he manages to take out the helicopter attacking him with it by shooting some overhead power lines. | |
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The Wire: Omar sends Renaldo in Old Face Andre's shop with a small revolver as a distraction, so Omar can sneak in with his Hand Cannon capable of shooting through the plexiglass. | |
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Delta Force: While gearing up in Delta Force: Land Warrior, you might come across a weird little pepperbox-like gun called the P-11. The game would have you believe that the 7.62mm steel darts it fires are frighteningly lethal. They're really not. Even in the most realistic settings, you will need at least two shots to put down a target, and this is inside its criminally short effective range. Outside that, you might as well not bother. Its major selling point is the fact that it can be fired underwater, but this borders on utter irrelevance because of just how few missions involve water, let alone shooting people in the water. The original game played with this trope with its choice of two sidearms. The .22 pistol is arguably a superior choice to the 1911 since both pistols do the same damage due to enemies being One Hit Point Wonders and the .22 has a larger magazine and an integral suppressor. On the other hand, pistols are only a Ranged Emergency Weapon due to short range, small magazine size, and low number of spare magazines. |
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In Big Trouble in Little China, Jack, Wang, and Eddie loot a shotgun, a submachinegun, and a snub-nose revolver from some mooks. The unwanted revolver is passed around until Eddie gets stuck with it. | |
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The M7 caseless submachine gun in Halo 2 is mechanically almost a direct copy of the MA5B assault rifle from the first game, which means it has an enormous mag size but poor accuracy and horrible damage against anything more threatening than a Grunt. Part of the issue seems to have been due to the addition of Guns Akimbo for this game — the SMG is clearly designed to be used together with another gun, e.g. stripping away shields with a plasma weapon and then perforating the meaty bits underneath with a wall of lead, so it's absolutely worthless when used on its own. | |
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Phantom Doctrine: Zizagged by the "French DAO" starter pistol, which is the smallest and weakest gun in the game, but can still perform one hit kills if you're sneaky. This does require a proficiency perk in the weapon to fit a suppressor, though. | |
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In the episode "High School Nudical" in Panty & Stocking with Garterbelt, the ghost of the week steals Panty's... well, panties, which prevented her from summoning her gun to kill him off. She starts grabbing the underwear of all the boys in school, transforming all of them into guns to see what she can get. All of them are puny, worthless, and useless little guns fitting the same general size and shape as the trope image. A great amount of visual innuendo makes it quite clear the guns' sizes were directly proportionate to the size of the boys' dicks... When she grabs Brief's underwear, she's rewarded with a shotgun that blows the ghost away in one hit, but is only good for that one shot. | |
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The Henry Stickmin game Completing the Mission at one point gives you a choice between three weapons on one pathnote Relentless Bounty Hunter/Ghost Inmate: A Big Swordnote Cloud's Buster sword, an underbarrel grenade launcher, and a "pew pew gun"note the NES Zapper, the last of which invokes this trope. Subverted; the first two choices turn out to be impractical, with the Big Sword too heavy to wield properly, and the grenade launcher breaches the hull, sucking Henry and his foes into space. The "pew pew gun", meanwhile, turns out to be surprisingly powerful, and thus allows Henry to tear through the mooks blocking his escape. | |
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In GURPS, the .22 Short round has almost no chance of killing someone unless you shoot them a dozen times (or hit them in the Eye, Skull, or Vitals), although an incredibly lucky shot could be dangerous. Of course, with the bleeding rules, it is possible to die from sheer blood loss...though that takes some time. | |
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The pistol in Doom sounds like a pop gun and does about as much damage. The only reason you ever use it is to kill a shotgun trooper and get ahold of a better weapon. Especially because the chaingun makes it completely obsolete - it runs off the same ammo, does the same amount of damage, but has a far higher fire rate. Most user made maps give you a shotgun straight away so you don't have to bother with the lowly pistol at all. | |
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X-COM X-COM: Terror from the Deep will start players with dart and harpoon-based weapons, among other things. The dart pistol is weak to the point of uselessness. It does so little damage that Aquatoids, the weakest starting enemies, will take at least three direct hits to bring them down, whereas the harpoon rifle will often drop an Aquatoid where it stands after just one shot. For the price of the dart pistol and a single clip of 12 darts, you might as well buy three grenades and actually kill some of the aliens instead. The pistol in the first game is not any better: with worse accuracy than the rifle and less than half the power, the only redeeming quality the pistol has is that you can put it in your belt inventory... or you can replace it with a couple grenades for the same cost. Note that this doesn't apply to the advanced weapons you can get: the laser pistol in the first game is more accurate than a basic rifle and almost as powerful, and the plasma pistol is more accurate and more powerful than the laser rifle. In the second game, the Gauss pistol has better ammo capacity and damage than the Jet Harpoon, plus the addition of auto fire, and the Sonic Pistol, while it loses the auto-fire capability, does almost as much damage as the Torpedo Launcher, and is only beaten for accuracy by the Sonic Blasta-Riflenote The Sonic Cannon has slightly worse inherent accuracy and utility than the Blasta-Rifle due to several factors. |
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Bond's PP7 in NightFire is this, being his Emergency Weapon with low damage and a tiny magazine. Thankfully, it can be suppressed, making it ideal for stealth kills (although the first level that encourages stealth also has plenty of suppressed assault rifles in its stealth stages). The golden upgrade helps negate the low damage. The next pistol upgrade flat-out replaces it with the more modern, powerful, and higher-capacity P2K, which is definitely the preferred signature firearm. And that gets a golden upgrade too. | |
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The first gun you find in System Shock will likely be the Dart Pistol, which fires weak darts or tranquilizer rounds; neither is very powerful, and they become outright useless the second you start meeting enemies with armor thicker than a sheet of paper. Even the very first weapon you find (a lead pipe) does considerably more damage, so it's not really worth bothering with at all. The remake does away with it entirely in favor of giving you the minipistol sooner, but it likewise becomes obsolete after the first couple of floors, particularly once the Skorpion becomes available; it does slightly less damage per shot (despite using the same ammo) but has a much higher fire rate and magazine size. | |
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In an issue of Jon Sable, Freelance, a woman threatens Sable with a small .22 caliber pistol. He's more disdainful of the weapon than afraid, and threatens that if she shoots him with it, he will take it off her and stick it someplace very uncomfortable. | |
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Discussed by Hank Schrader in Breaking Bad. He considers 9mm rounds to be underpowered, even the +P+ variant, noting that his service weapon is much more effective firing .40 S&W rounds. | |
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Subverted in Indivisible. The Brahmastra (you may remember it from the "Mythology and Religion" tab under Fantastic Nuke) is depicted as a wee little ray gun zapper with four focusing tines. It's used to go toe-to-toe with Khali, the Hindu version of the Rough Beast. | |
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Prey (2017): Since the game takes place on a space station, the pistol commonly found throughout the game is low-caliber and suppressed, to minimize the chance of one of its projectiles causing a hull breach. The downside of this is that it does minimal damage unless you go for headshots or upgrade it with weapon kits. | |
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In Tremors 4: The Legend Begins an Eastern dandy shows up in a Nevada mining town and prefers to use one of these, even when confronted with giant burrowing worm-monsters. It's an additional joke in that the man's previously-seen descendant is a rifle-toting survivalist. | |
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Miss Meadows: Totally inverted; the .25 caliber semi-auto that Miss Meadows carries is utterly lethal in her hands. | |
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In Men in Black: The Series, the opening sequence ends with Jay drawing the Noisy Cricket out of his jacket and Kay (who pulled out what looks like a shotgun) giving it a skeptical side-eye. Though K's side-eye has less to do with underestimating the Cricket and more about how J could bungle using it... | |
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