In real life, guns are cool if you're a private detective or a sporting marksmen. But most of the time kids are always shooting themselves or trying to hold up liquor stores or something, and that sucks. In the movies, however, guns are awesome. In science fiction movies, they're even more awesome and make for some amazing prop replicas. Anything goes in the realm of sci-fi firearms and many pieces completely ignore the laws that govern actual projectile-firing weapons. Early examples of the fictional guns are the heat-ray featured in H.G. Wells' War of the Worlds (1898) and several weapons from A.E. von Vogt's short The Weapon Shop (1942), which featured "express rifles" made of "viridescent magnesitic beryllium." Now in 2010, the futuristic weapons we see on screen are probably above and beyond what Wells imagined and as CGI advances, so does the destruction. So wave your rayguns in the air as we look at the cream of the fictional firearms cache.
16) Men in Black's Noisy Cricket
The unassuming "little midgy cricket" given to Jay packs the most punch per inch of all the guns on the list. Perfect for battling one of the many aliens of Manhattan. Available on eBay for 25 bucks.
15) Captain Mal's Pistol
A sleek design allowing for easy access down Badger's throat, Mal's pistol combines a Taurus Model 85 small-frame revolver with the future frontier. Firefly's premier firearm is one any smuggler would love at their side. Its official title: "Moses Brothers Self-Defense Engine Frontier Model B" is kind of cheeky and annoying in true Whedon fashion, but that doesn't take away from the gun's overall sexiness.
14) Han Solo's DL-44 Heavy Blaster
The galaxy's most infamous rogue can't just pack any old blaster. Hell naw. Han's weapon of choice is the DL-44, a blaster famous for being able to penetrate Stormtrooper armor and being outlawed by the Empire for this reason. In real life, the blaster's design is based off the German Mauser C96 pistol, used in World War I by both the Germans and Ottomans. Maybe if their version featured an air cooling vent, power pack, and an enhanced scope, they wouldn't have had their asses handed to them by the Allies. Tough luck, Krauts!
13) The Phaser
Small enough to fit into a user's palm, Star Trek's iconic phaser pistol is one of the handiest of the weapons on this list. It can stun multiple targets or simply "vanish" them, but can also be used as a welding or cutting torch and to heat up material. Great for camping trips on the Rogue Planet! Phasers can also be set to overload; generating enough unreleased energy to destroy objects within a 50-yard radius. I've heard they also work as chick magnets.
12) District 9's Arc Gun
Feel the burn with Arc Gun -- a seriously badass piece of non-human weaponry the Multi-National United will do anything to figure out. This puppy uses a massive charge of electricity to shoot what is essentially a bolt of lightning; heating up the target to the point of molecular expansion. As Wikus discovers through his tragic transformation, the gun works only with an alien hand. A seriously awesome design.
11) The Acme Disintegrator Gun
A favorite firearm of Marvin the Martian, the ACME (A Company that Makes Everything) Disintegrator Gun packed a whallop. Although Marvin was usually at arms with Duck Dodgers, even the nigh-invulnerable Bugs lost his tail to the gun once or twice.
10) Robocop's Auto-9
Officer Alex. J. Murphy's Auto-9 is just the weapon to take on the aggressive, futuristic urban environment... '80s style. This standard-issue Beretta from Hell fires a three-shot burst every time the trigger is pulled and, for effect, spits little flames out the sides when fired. In short: the ED-209 fought the law and the law won.
9) Deckard's Detective Special
Two triggers! One of the most heavily sold gun replicas on eBay is the Detective Special, wielded by Deckard in Blade Runner. Perfect for shooting female replicants in the back! According to several firearms blogs, the Detective Special is based off of the Steyr Mannlicher .222 Model SL action and a Charter Arms .44 Special Police Bulldog revolver. Did you just read "Mannlicher" and "Special Police Bulldog" in the same sentence? You're welcome.
8) Minority Report's Sonic Shotgun
One of the greatest sci-fi films of the '00s also featured a standout gun, if only for a minute. As Tom Cruise is fleeing from imprisonment and his fellow pre-crime fighters, he snatches up one of their sonic shotguns and bucks them down amongst a maze of empty barrels. The scene doesn't last long, but the gun is so damn nice, as is the accompanying sound effect. "Sonic" sound effects are always awesome. The "Sick Stick" featured in the movie is also notable.
7) The Ghostbusters' Proton Pack
Remember in middle school, when you used the urinal and there was some creep next to you who would lean over and piss into yours while saying "Don't cross the streams!" Well I hope he didn't make you hate Ghostbusters or lose love for their awesome Proton Packs. The packs use a particle thrower (or, "Neutron Wand" for purists) connected to a backpack particle accelerator to keep ghouls contained while readying the ghost trap. They work because the positive energy of the proton packs attract the negative energy of the ghosts. Makes perfect sense.
6) Hellboy's Good Samaritan
Handed down from the Torch of Liberty, the Good Samaritan is basically an enormous, Hellboy-sized revolver in design. But the devil is in the details, my friends. The grip is carved from the True Cross; pieces of wood the crucified Christ died on. The gun's steel is forged from a mixture of crucifixes, blessed silver, Irish church bells, and St. Sebastian's pubes. In short: A perfect storm of demon killing shit. (Just kidding about the pubes.)
5) Judge Dredd's Lawgiver
Violence and crime and illegal sugar are an everyday part of life in Mega-City One, so the Judges carry what amounts to an entire arsenal in one convenient gun: the Lawgiver. Each Judge is designated his own Lawgiver, which recognizes the palm print of the user and will only operate for them. If someone other than the designated Judge picks up the gun, it'll explode (comics) or deliver an incapacitating shock (film). The gun can be fired using voice command, has a range of up to three miles, and features six distinct kinds of ammunition: standard, heat seeker, ricochet, incendiary, armor-piercing, and high explosive. Second Amendment indeed. PS: Diane Lane as Judge Hershey should be in everyone's top five sexy women of sci-fi. Boner shorts all around.
4) Zorg's ZF-1 Gun from The Fifth Element
A truly outrageous weapon for a truly outrageous villain: Jean-Baptist Emanuel Zorg. It's best to let Zorg sell this one: "It's light; handle's adjustable for easy carrying; good for righties and lefties; breaks down into four parts; undetectable by X-ray; ideal for quick discreet interventions." Not to mention that the "replay" feature will fire all rounds at the same target no matter what direction the gun's aimed in. This would be great against meth addicts; they're always running in unpredictable zig-zag patterns after stealing my hubcaps.
3) The Golden Gun
From the James Bond book and film The Man With the Golden Gun, this instant kill firearm uses a 23-carat gold expanding bullet which flattens on impact. The gun belonged to Francisco Scaramanga, an assassin who started out as a trick-shot marksman in a traveling circus. But this is the Bond universe, so not only does the Golden Gun fire bullets. Oh no. It can also be used as a cigarette lighter and case, a cuff link, and a pen. The gun was also extremely popular in the Goldeneye game for N64, where it had the ability to force people to hurl their friend's controller across the room, swear, and never talk to them again. Fun Fact: In the film version, Scaramanga is portrayed by Sir Christopher Lee, who is Ian Fleming's stepcousin.
2) The Colt from Supernatural
Created in 1835 for a paranormal hunter by Samuel Colt himself, the Colt comes with only 13 bullets. But that's all a hunter needs because these 13 rounds will kill ANYTHING, even beings normally immune to bullets and mystical murder methods. Dean used the final bullet to off Azazel in the season 2 finale, but white-trash Bobby has since revived the magic of the gun. Probably because the show's writers need an easy out once in awhile. I dunno, I stopped watching it after season 3.
1) Buck Rogers' Atomic Disintegrator
The godfather of the "ray gun," Buck's Atomic Disintegrator has been making kids go "pew pew" for more than 80 years. Its influence can be seen in pretty much every ray gun that followed. Home versions of Buck's iconic sidearm were first introduced by Daisy back in the '30s and featured a flint-strike-sparkler mechanism in the muzzle so kids could realistically fight back the Mongols. In 2007 Go Hero introduced a fancy pants replica for collectors willing to spend $175. Real guns are just ugly hunks of scrap metalcompared to this timeless piece. Long live the king.
How are the Silverballers of Hitman fame not on here?
The "klingons" that you are referring to are actually called iridonians, and the "E.T.'s" you were referring to are called quermians. If you're gonna slam Star Wars, at least have your facts straight. Know thy enemy!
I'm sure it looks very happy when in a shooting match against Han Solo. :p
WHY IS THE POINT OF VIEW GUN NOT ON HERE?!?!
seriously, that gun is just the best :P
He's very awesome, but I sorta assumed that the Saint of Killers could do the same with any old six-shooter he happened to be holding.
i.e. It's him, not his gun, that's special.
WHERE'S VERA?
Where is the dobermann's fucking gun ?
Bobby is NOT white trash!! Bobby is a gosh darned gem.
Agreed. The absence of the M41a Pulse Rifle from Aliens pretty much nullifies the validity of this list.
The phaser also came out first, meaning the Han blaster could also be called a copy. You know, since it came out AFTER.
That's a non-argument...basically the phaser can't match up to the MAAAAAAGIIIC of the force, and a lightsaber (a magic sword if ever there was one) can't be compared to what is essentially a gun. Well, DUH!
The golden gun is WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAYYYY too high. That one should have been #16, for lip service purposes. It's not even the best weapon from the Bond Series. The cigarette rocket launchers from You Only Live Twice?
the top 3 should be
3. ZF-1
2. Tesla Rifle (that's the one that shoots lightning. The Arc gun is basically the same thing as the Sonic Shotgun).
1. Buck Rogers Atomic Disentigrator.
I second this!
Sure, not quite as multi purpose as Star Trek's Phaser but it can still stun, kill, and disintegrate. (Though, they do ignore the disintegration cop out in all but two episodes in ten seasons of SG-1)I know someone else mentioned the Jaffa staff weapons but as Master Bray'tac states, they are "weapons of intimidation, not weapons of war."
And while we're on the topic of Stargate, let's not forget the signature weapon of the Satidan militia. Ronan's gun is one worthy of jealousy.
wow whoever write this thing about Han Solo's DL-44 Heavy Blaster
check some history books about what happened in ww1 and after ww1
how so called allied armada coudnt penetrate the god damn defense of the turks
you jack ass...
ask brits and aussies they have good memories
OMG U DIDN'T PUT A GUN ON THE LIST WTF IS WRONG WITH U. U SHOULD NO EVERY FICTIONAL GUN AND PUT THEM ON THIS LIST IN THE ORDER THAT WOULD MAKE EVERY BODY HAPPY!!!111!!
Seriously though, guys.
How about the gun from No Country For Old Men?
Good list, but I'm with LUKE... The Railgun from Eraser needs recognition.
That isn't the Arc Gun in the clip from district 9
this is enough to enjoy mind relaxation so thank you
Thank you for including the Minority Report one, I've always thought that split-second appearance rocked.
Spoken in true ignorance: "But most of the time kids are always shooting themselves or trying to hold up liquor stores or something, and that sucks."
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Thank you! How the hell is Mal's (seldom used)gun from "Firefly" on here and neither the pulse rifle nor the smart gun get so much as an honorable mention? Oh wait, this is from the person that thinks the ST Phaser is cooler than Han's blaster.. NM
What about the flechette guns or pulse rifles or tri-barrel from the Honor Harrington Novels.
I would have also included the staff weapon from SG-1, or at the very least, the very real, but used in a fictional setting P90's the SG teams carried.
That's what got me about the Hollywood version, the guns looked like iProducts instead of the terrifying looking things described in the book.
The weaps from Avatar are pretty cool.
Check them out here:
http://www.imfdb.org/index.php?title=Avatar
I think han solo's blaster owes as much to the buck rodgers gun as it does to the mauser. Wasn't buck rodgers a huge influence for Lucas since he watched that stuff as a kid? And just look at em, pretty similar if you ask me
I was about to ask the same question! That gun is my personal number one.
You completely missed out on Dr Grordborts infallible aether oscillators!
http://www.wetanz.com/holics/index.php?catid=4
I particularly like the "Unnatural Selector Ray Blunderbuss" and the "Victorious Mongoose".
Can Weta workshop do no wrong?
Yeah, but we're not really interested in having you transfer all that guilt from your basement-dwelling, pederast hobbies onto us, Mr. Gun Nut.
Point. But until the EU, it was something you clutched like a bat and didn't defend well with it. Darth and Luke weren't exactly The Highlander and Toshiro Mifune.
More elegant today than in the 70's, I fear.
Adding to the 'no gun from _?' list, where is Spike Spiegel's Jericho 941? It's possibly the coolest gun from a semi-realistic scifi action series, in part because it is the Mid-East equivalent of Clint Eastwood's magnum, and its owner is like the the transgenic spawn of Clint Eastwood, Shaft, every cool cop from Asian cinema ever, and Bruce Lee. He used it to shoot a man that used a vulture to suicide bomb his enemies. There is little in the West that can top that.
The zat guns of stargate?
No Pulse Rifle or Smart Gun from Aliens? This list fails.
You seem too have entirely missed the point.
Where's the Zen Gun from Barrington J. Bayley's "The Zen Gun"?
Or the Lazy Gun from Iain M. Banks "Against a Dark Background"?
Or the Zap Gun from Philip K. Dick's "The Zap Gun"?
And the Spetsdod's from Steve Perry's Matador series?
Do the Great Weapon's from Steven Brust's Dragaera series count? They may <em>look</em> like swords or knives or daggers, but...
O.o
I wouldn't go that far... I just thought it should've been in the list...
That second picture is from Face/Off.
I also think SledgeHammer's 44 Magnum should be in the top 5.
The show's credits were built around THE GUN (resting no a pillow no less).
He TALKED to The GUN.
Oh, and the Man From Uncle Gun too.
Alan
You left out Megatron?!
No not that Bayformer's bull****.
The one and only Walther P-38
who in robot mode,had a fusion cannon
that fired bolts of energy from a black hole.
Took Ironhide's head clean off with one shot a point blank range. Beat that Jhiaxus!
One of the coolest weapons is the modified TR-116 from the Deep Space Nine episode called Field of Fire. It has a scope that allows it to see through walls (perverific) but the brilliant addition is a micro transporter that beams the fast moving bullet through most anything to a point near the target. Its only limited by the transporter range. Totally deadly.
Sorry but even though I haven't read Blame! it still has the best weapon: the Gravitational Beam Emitter.
From wikipedia, "He is equipped with a Gravitational Beam Emitter (GBE), a petite but powerful weapon capable of creating holes miles long in the Megastructure."
Thats right... MILES LONG... and its this big http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Gravitational_Beam_Emitter_-_Killy_Poses.jpg
what i would like to know is why isn't the Bowel Disruptor from Transmetropolitan in here? you can make a guy shit himself into unconsciousness. and garunteed that theres probably a setting of "shit to death". smelly and dead.
Nice anti-gun statement in the first sentence. Maybe only stupid fucking kids from your gene pool. And the statement "but most of the time", WTF is that supposed to mean? You are a fucking moron. Do some research before you start spewing your misinformation. Thats like me saying all you fucking trekkies and nerds on here arguing about fake guns are all going to go out and ass fuck a 4 year old boy tonight.
Movie? The <i>real</i> Doom was the one that ran on 386s with absolutely amazing graphics (by the standards of the day), and let you shoot stuff with a Big F**king Gun 9000. (I liked the rocket launcher, but you had to be careful not to use it inside :-)
The Needler is more commonly known as a gun from Halo which fires needles that explode inside you. They also track you.
BFG-9000 FTW! Also, any gun held by any Clint Eastwood character.
wait take out death bad counting
Or maybe,God,Jesus,anti-christ,Michael and death
For the record, in Supernatural lucifer said the colt cannot kill 5 things in creation. Himself being one my guess for the other four would be the horsemen
second.
No Holy Shotgun from Constantine? Dragons Breath too! The coolest shotgun evar!
My bad... Imagine my comment reads:
"Your Trekkie guns are insignificant next to the power of the Force."
No M-41A because you can actually purchase one.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=am76xV8Aubk&feature=related
How can you say that one is better or worse? They are made up weapons. Comparing them to each other is like comparing something that doesn't exist to...um...another thing that doesn't exist.
Besides, firearms are weak. Give me Ice-9 any day.
/and it's legal in Britain: http://www.urinalgum.com/?p=695
All your trekkie guns are incomparable to the light saber.
"Not as clumsy or random as a blaster; an elegant weapon for a more civilized age."
No mention of the M-41A Pulse Rifle = List Fail. "10mm caseless, explosive tipped, light armor piercing rounds... why?"
Don't forget the "Homer" rounds. Go ahead - run around the corner - the self-guiding internally propelled round would follow your heat signature (imprinted at firing) till it hit home. Even more devastating when combined with the "ripper" which on hitting your flesh, began shredding you like a crazed garbage disposal from the inside out.
Yeah, I noticed that too. The weapon in question FYI is the "Tesla Rifle"
+1 for Arc thrower. I thought the "lectric gun" was kinda' played out frankly.
+100,000 for Wrist-mounted Dart Launcher. Who doesn't love The Mighty Monarch!?!
Speaking of wrist-mounted weaponry, Where the hell are Boba Fett's Wrist Gauntlets? Those things had a flame-thrower, wrist laser, concussion rockets, grappling launcher, and explosive/tranquiliser dart launcher. It's a goddamn swiss-army knife of weaponry. Then again, technically speaking, if it isn't hand-held, it's not really a "gun" so to speak.
I too was disappointed that the M41 didn't make the cut but cutting one mans opinion to shreds is what the interwebs is for. (Besides pron that is ;)
I would have liked to see the guns from romeo + juliet. Sword, Dagger, and Rapier
The Saint of Killers gun was probably left off the list because it's so rediculously powerful that it becomes uninteresting. There are hundreds of "can kill anything and can't be hurt" fictional weapons out there and all of them suffer from trying too hard to be the "Ultimate weapon" and end up just being stupid. These guns all made the list because they are great at what they do and are inventive but all are imperfect.
The original Doom BFG pwns all others.
M-41a Pulse rifle. You are dead to me Rob Bricken!
No Love for the annihilator 2000?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M2MDDw6wpSU&feature=related
While they were neat, they don't really stand out as fictional firearms. (Don't get me wrong; I watched Farscape religiously back in the day, but the weaponry is sort of standard for the story that it tells.)
It's true that sometimes the weapons just seem to cause aimless explosions and holes that get filled back in come the next episode, which certainly tends to make the viewer wonder to what end does all of the sparkly lights and puffs of smoke serve. Dread is, indeed, a very powerful weapon; it can make a person think twice before doing something. The ominousness of such a weapon is probably the last thing popular science fiction thinks about, however. (Which makes Nation stand out all the more as a pretty damn good creator.) What this weapon essentially does is add morality to it, and that ponderous thing is very hard for creators to embrace, and an audience that is accustomed to lasers flying left and right with abandon might actually sit there and think about their entertainment if the seizure display is switched off. And in that case, it's all over; then you have to actually tell a story. (If George Lucas is any indication, it's very hard for the script writers of Sci-fi to make that leap. Novels, not so much, but shows and movies can often make the best novels into brain popcorn. Like I, Robot.)
No M41 From Aliens? FAIL.
And the chicken gun from Ratchet and Clank.
Listen up, you primitive b*stards.
Indeed. Next to Ash Williams' shotgun. (Shop smart, shop S Mart.) Okay, I might be alone in this, or just obsessed with zombie demon killing power fantasies.
We sometimes have a habit of responding to emotions, not logic. Anyway, Han's blaster is a one-trick pony--all it can do is make a sploosh noise and hit something with a laser bullet. Totally detracts from any versatility you'd expect in a scifi weapon.
Hey - the Disintegrator Gun wasn't Buck's weapon! Buck Rodgers preferred the Rocket Pistol, a self-charging compressed air pistol that shot exploding rocket rounds - or normal slugs, or rocks in case of desperation. The Disintegrator Guns were the traditional weapon of the Mongols... and don't get me started on the Chilean Liquid Air guns!
I would like to nominate the 88 Magnum from Johnny Dangerously. "It shoots through schools."
The phaser looks like something you would give immunizations with. Gay, but good for preventing the pig virus.
What about the Man from U.N.C.L.E. gun? Johnny 7?
Where was the Farscape weapons like the pulse pistol, rifle, or luxan qualta blade?
If you're going to include anime guns, there are none greater than the legendary Cosmo Dragoon from the Leijiverse.
BTW, if you look close, you'll also see ET's in the movie too.
Actually if you look real close, there are Klingons in the Imperial Senate chambers in Star Wars Episode One. So both fantasy-verses have Klingons in common too.
Anyone watch the movie Doom? How about the BFG? That was a gun.
Nothing wimpy about a gun that can disintegrate you.
You gotta be gay just starting a debate over fake weapons anyway.
And what about the Predator's Plasma Caster? The minigun just does not compare.
http://www.moviedeaths.com/predator/blain/
I like Batou's "Standard Issue Big Gun" from Ghost in the Shell. F@ck that spider tank. Would be nice in any personal collection.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d867yvNW4aE
I was thinking of Cobra's psychogun... But since it's lodged inside his left arm, maybe it belongs to another list such as "best artificial limb ever" or something. But Cobra can kill pretty much everything with it. It fires laser rays that can *bend*, dammit.
In the novel, the Golden Gun was a gold-plated Colt 1873 SAA. The movie was completely different. It featured one of the coolest villains, one of the best car stunts ever done (the corkscrew jump), and the lamest Bond, soundtrack and plot.
And while Trek may be lame, the phaser is indeed cool.
Awww.... Logans Run gun - where, WHERE!
To stem the tide of machismo and black powder, I'll call to mind a gun devised for Blake's 7 by Terry Nation (a man who spent a lot of his career deconstructing the traditions of violence). An important subplot of the series featured Imipak, a gun that did not instantly kill its target, but rather rendered the victim forever after subject to instant death at the push of a button connected to the gun, anytime, anywhere in the universe.
That, to me, easily tops the list inasmuch as it revives in sci-fi the dread that firearms ought to inspire, which is often absent.
What? No Sandman gun from Logan's run??
That was the best!
TFOS was also the title of a humorous tabletop RPG, which always stuck out in my memory for having a firearm available that wins as many points for its succinct name as for its simple sci-fi premise: the Boy/Girl Gun.
Would you be referring to the Kill-o-Zap?
http://www.realhhg.com/hhgpage.php?page=kill
Yeah, baby.
I beg to differ. Consider the Space: 1999 stun gun. Based functionally on the phaser, with a range of settings raging from "stun" to "kill" to "utterly ineffective against the monster of the week". Its highly logical horseshoe design, however, makes even the Next Generation phasers look like throbbing phalluses in comparison.
Wow, really?
What?!?! How could Cooper have left out the Spetsdods from Steve Perry's Matador series?
Fuck this blog!
actually that was a side effect of that bullet, not the gun itself. though I agree the caster gun kicks ass!
Riff Raff's ray gun from The Rocky Horror Picture Show should have been included...
>_>
What about "The Speaking Gun" from Simon R Green's 'Nightside' series? It's a living gun created to kill angels and demons that can un-create anything by speaking it's true secret name backwards.
Good list, definitely better than the AskMen one, but I would have added the bayonet pistols from Blade 2 and Dollman's pistol (obscure, I know), also Sick Puppy (again obscure) has a gun that talks.
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