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[[File:Zorg-1_1496.jpg|link=The Fifth Element|rightframe|Order yours ''now!'']]
 
Simply put, it's a gun that can do a whole bunch of stuff depending on the situation. Like a Swiss Army knife, with just a flip of the wrist it can be a rocket launcher, shotgun, machine gun, grenade launcher, or [[Ninja Pirate Zombie Robot|chainsaw rocket catapult]]. This gun seems to be whatever you need, when you need it, just as long as it's some kind of projectile weapon. Don't even begin to mention the obvious [[Awesome but Impractical|design flaws]], because this weapon is powered by [[Rule of Cool]], with a little bit of [[Hyperspace Arsenal]] thrown in.
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== [[Film]] ==
* Zorg on ''[[The Fifth Element]]'' has developed one, and gives a very helpful [[James Bond|Q Speech]] on its features, in this quote:
{{quote| ''[[Gun Porn|Voila, the ZF-1]]. It's light; handle's adjustable for easy carrying, [[Right -Handed Left -Handed Guns|good for righties and lefties]]; [[IKEA Weaponry|breaks down into four parts]], undetectable by X-ray, ideal for quick discreet interventions. A word on firepower. Titanium recharger, [[Bottomless Magazines|3000-round clip]] with bursts of [[Five Rounds Rapid|3]] to [[More Dakka|300]], and with the replay button (another Zorg invention) it's even easier. One shot... ''(shoots training dummy)'' ...and Replay [[Roboteching|sends every following shot to the same location]]. ''(demonstrates by spraying bullets at the Mangalore warriors; the bullets arc back to the training dummy)'' And to finish the job, all the Zorg oldies but goldies. [[BFG|Rocket launcher]]... [[Automatic Crossbows|arrow launcher]] [[Trick Arrow|(with exploding or poisonous gas heads)]], very practical... our famous net launcher... [[Kill It With Fire|the always-efficient flamethrower]], my favorite... and for the grand finale, the all-new '[[Kill It With Ice|Ice-cube System]]'''.}}
** And the unmentioned last feature, [[Schmuck Bait|self-destruct]].
* In ''[[Beverly Hills Cop]] III'', Serge's "Survival Boutique" sells [[Trope 2000|the Annihilator 2000]], a combination minigun, microwave oven, rocket launcher, portable TV, flamethrower, beverage cooler...
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== [[Live Action TV]] ==
* ''[[Blake's Seven (TV)|Blakes Seven]]'' featured some of these for the last season when they started going more overtly [[Cyberpunk]]. Quite how one makes a relatively small handgun fire [[Frickin' Laser Beams]], [[Stun Guns|unspecified less-lethals]], [[Kinetic Weapons Are Just Better|"old-fashioned percussion bullets"]] and [[Informed Ability|a bunch of other stuff they never get around to using]] ''just by swapping magazines'' was glossed over.
* ''[[Saturday Night Live]]'' had a fake commercial for a Swiss Army Gun, complete with giant ivory toothpick and corkscrew.
* ''[[Level Up (TV)|Level Up]]'': Wyatt's Blast-A-Ton is gigantic swiss army gun with lots of ammo and many types of ammo.
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** Accolade's earlier TPS/FPS ''[[Eradicator]]'' also outfitted all three characters with Swiss Army Guns. In both games, to use the extra gun modes, you just collect the required ammo scattered throughout the levels-no need to collect prerequisite guns first!
* [[Jazz Jackrabbit (Video Game)|Jazz Jackrabbit]]'s long blue gun, the LFG-2000 Blaster, is designed to be compatible with most types of ammunition, conventional or otherwise. This includes plasma rounds, rubber bullets, freezing rounds, small homing missiles, large exploding rockets, flamethrower fuel, pepper spray, electric charges, even standard TNT.
* ''[[Hard Reset]]'' has not one but ''two'' [[Swiss Army Gun|Swiss Army Guns]]. One of them acts as a [[More Dakka|chaingun]]/[[Gatling Good|gatling]] [[Jack of All Stats|assault rifle]], a [[Short -Range Shotgun]], a [[Grenade Launcher]], a [[Stuff Blowing Up|rocket/missile launcher]] and a minelayer. The other shoots bolts of energy, [[Lightning Gun|a stream of energy]], [[Buffy-Speak|zappy electrical field grenade things]], a high-power pinpoint-accurate sniper mode with shots that penetrate walls, and explosive [[Energy Ball|energy bolts]] that 'phase' through cover to find your target. Oh, and each mode has a [[Secondary Fire]] too.
* In ''[[Perfect Dark]]'', nearly every weapon in the game has a secondary function, some of which are quite unique. Eg. the Laptop Gun (SMG and automatic sentry), Dragon (assault rifle and proximity mine), K7 Avenger (assault rifle and threat detector), RCP-120 (SMG and cloaking device), etc.
* In [[The Old Republic]] the Republic Trooper class (no matter the Advanced Class choice) has this as a weapon. It can fire regular shots, an "explosive round", fire mortars, lay down a close AOE Ion Pulse, and can [[Healing Shiv|heal teammates]].
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