For sheer coolness I have to +1 this one.
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Also quite like this for old-fashioned bloody-mindedness in a hight tech future.
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Others that spring to mind.
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And when I was a kid I could ignore the pure shiteness of this film because I wanted a Glaive.
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slainte 😳 rob
Samaritan
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and Big Baby
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Deunan and Briarios using Landmates bullpup rifles in [i]Appleseed[/i]
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Seburo M5
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M5 being used by Major Kusenagi, [i]Ghost In The Shell SAC[/i]
Bone gun?
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Seburo C-26A Bullpup assault rifle, [i]Ghost In The Shell SAC[/i].
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Chewie's bowcaster
What about the rifle from Starship troopers?
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Does anyone remember Runaway from 1984? bullets that go round corners!
(And RC-car bomb things)
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And it wasn't the only thing hand held either 🙂
good call horatio that gun in runaway was ace
The Zat gun from stargate is great.
I love the look and the sound it makes is great.
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Ronon's gun from Atlantis is great too.
Does anyone remember Runaway from 1984? bullets that go round corners!
yep, great film (in it's time)!
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I think it's tough to beat an assault rifle with a chainsaw bayonet!
Edit- any of the weapons in this image are also suitably awesome.
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Stormtrooper Blaster
Did that ever actually hit anything?
portlyone and pleaderwilliams stole my ideas, the revolver from Firefly and the impulse guns from Eraser are sick.
Even though it's only fired twice, the sniper rifle from District 9..
Although not sure if it counts as hand held, looks to be about two meters long and like it could take out a tank.
Both the sword and the pistol that Babydoll used in Sucker Punch. Awesome combo (if that counts as sci-fi).
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Rorschach's grappling gun was pretty cool in Watchmen.
As are the Desert Eagles used by the Agents in the Matrix (although again, not particularly sci-fi).
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And the gravity hammer from Halo. So OTT it's just got to be awesome.
eXisteNz rules.
This is cool also.
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There is only one weapon to be considered here.
The Point of View Gun.
...the gun was created by Deep Thought prior to its long pondering of the Answer to Life, the Universe, and Everything. When used on someone, it will cause them to see things from the point of view of the person firing the gun (the Guide says that it "conveniently, does precisely as its name suggests"). According to the Guide, though the gun was designed by Deep Thought, it was commissioned by the Intergalactic Consortium of Angry Housewives(/stwers), who were tired of ending every argument with their husbands with the phrase: "You just don't get it, do you?"
Shoot me Zooey.
Ceebug - Member
Lazygun from 'Look To Windward' by Iain M Banks
[geek mode]Of course you mean Lazygun from 'Against a dark background' by Iain M Banks[/geek mode]
Not the most predictable of weapons but if you need to destroy a planet...
Obviously if you build a gigantic fighting robot, instead of fitting it with guns you build a gigantic revolver with bullets the size of coke bottles.
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Well, I think kingdom of the crystal skull took Indiana Jones into sci-fi so I'm going to say the bull whip. Not as sophisticated or effective as a light sabre but cool as a polar bears dangly bits.
thos guns with rockets and nets and stuff on from the fifth element are cool
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Who needs a gun?
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Who throws a shoe?
terrible film, but I really do fancy one of those 'sick sticks' from Minority Report. No need for death and destruction when you can just turn your enemy into a puke machine instantaneously.
saddos 😉
Does "sci-fi" include games? Final Fantasy's gunblades were always pretty funky.
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Lightsaber, swords beat guns everytime
where's that 2nd one from cougar? (even by sf/rpg standards it looks a bit silly)
stormtrooper blaster is useless, accuracy is pish.
did GoW pinch the chainsaw bayonet of WH? (don't know anything about WH)
Does Romeo and juliet count as sci-fi?
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Metal Storm from the [url= http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Axis_of_Time ]Axis of Time[/url] trilogy. Has the disadvantage of being real.
Guns and sabres 🙄 .
All you need is one of these
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Just tell them they can fly, and hope they aren't wearing sunglasses.
where's that 2nd one from cougar? (even by sf/rpg standards it looks a bit silly)
It's Lightning's foldy-sword thing from FF13. It's probably got some special name like 'Tiger Doomblade' or such, but I don't remember what.
LOL sad but LOVE this thread 😆
1. Lightsaber
2. Lazy Gun
3. Pulse rifle/smart gun from Aliens
4. FrintArms HandCannon
Although I think that everything after the first two would be pretty useless.
[b]Love some of these.[/b]
Some of the weapons are nothing without their owners.
Cases in point:
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There's some pretty cool stuff in the Takeshi Kovacs books (Richard Morgan, start at Altered Carbon, ace stuff, can't wait for them to make the film).
But to stretch "hand held" i'm going to go for one (anyone, pick one) of Kovacs' military combat "sleeves"*
*customised bodies people are downloaded into
Some of the weapons in District 9 were awesome.
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The war with the Sov Bloc in Judge Dredd had a stub gun, cuts through anything when fired but overheated and blew up in the hands of the firer.
Was it the lazy gun or the stupid gun in Against a Dark Background? Ian M. Banks likes his ultimate weapons.
ah I played vii-x then kinda lost interest, 11 was mmo (which I don't do) and 12 was mleh, so much so I didn't bother finishing it(!)It's Lightning's foldy-sword thing from FF13
13 good then?
Don't know if i missed it but...
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