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note EVAR. Never enuff DAKKA!

Cracked, " , " 5 Weapons Myths You Probably Believe (Thanks to Movies) "The theory goes like this: You pull the trigger on a machine gun until the whole world turns into blood, and it is awesome. You can't argue with that; that's science."

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More Dakka is the art of solving problems by unloading as many rounds of ammunition at them as possible.

While Improbable Aiming Skills are all very well and good, sometimes you just need to throw a wall of bullets at the target — perhaps your foe can Dodge the Bullet, or you're up against a whole army of Mooks at once. Modern automatic weapons can achieve the rates of fire required for more dakka all by themselves, but using a whole bunch of slower-firing guns works too. More Dakka can even work against targets where conventional attacks are normally ineffective — even if each shot only does Scratch Damage, it will succumb to a Death of a Thousand Cuts eventually. After all, There Is No Kill Like Overkill... or so we are lead to believe. Occasionally, the only point of a seemingly overwhelming and gratuitous show of force is to hammer home the point that the Monster of the Week simply cannot be defeated through ordinary means. Aim is also a factor: large volumes of fire accomplish surprisingly little in the case of A-Team Firing or if the shooters are graduates of the Imperial Stormtrooper Marksmanship Academy.

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Gatling Good is a common way of achieving More Dakka, and you can expect to see gratuitous camera shots devoted to torrents of shell casings produced by the volume of fire. If you're strong enough, you always have an option of taking a heavier weapon off its mount. On a more restrained scale, The Gunslinger may specialize in squeezing More Dakka out of seemingly ordinary firearms with Guns Akimbo, which can also be downright terrifying.

May result in a Multiple Gunshot Death. See Macross Missile Massacre, which is basically this except with missiles, and Bullet Hell, which is the Logical Extreme version of this trope in video games. If dealing with energy weapons (IE: weapons powered by electrical/plasma/etc instead of bullets), its counterpart is Beam Spam. Contrast Improbable Aiming Skills, when a character uses amazing accuracy instead of volume of fire. Also contrast Ammunition Conservation, when a character shows restraint regarding how much ammunition they use. Not to Be Confused with baka, as there certainly IS such a thing as too much baka. Also not to be confused with Dhaka.

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Related to When All You Have Is a Hammer..., More Dakka is a Sub-Trope of Spam Attack, but with bullets. The name comes from Warhammer 40,000, where it is the Ork onomatopoeia for machine gun firing, and their general term for rapid fire capacity: "dakka-dakka-dakka-dakka...". Inverse of Ammunition Conservation, where the priority is to utilize the absolute least dakka necessary.

AN' DERE AIN'T NO SUCH FING AS ENUFF DAKKA, YA GROT! Enuff'z more than ya got an' less than too much an' there ain't no such fing as too much dakka. Say dere is, and me Squiggoff'z eatin' tonight!Translation It is widely accepted that the theoretical state of "too much dakka" is physically impossible. This implies that the state of "enough dakka" is equally impossible, as adding any more to "enough" creates "too much". Therefore, there is always room for More Dakka and to say otherwise is simply offensive to logic. If you proceed to do so anyway, I will feed you to my Squiggoth.

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Films — Animation

One scene of Batman: Year One shows Batman ducking into the shadows. Afterward, the police squad who happen to be chasing him simply open up with their assault rifles, and keep firing at the same spot for ten seconds. One wonders who trained these police.

The Korean animated movie Aachi and Ssipak cannot go a single fight scene without a ridiculous number of bullets flying in every direction, even if there are only two unarmed targets.

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Literature

Live-Action TV

Pinballs

In Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines, weapons are collected by repeatedly shooting the center ramp, which provide various bonuses and increases the Assault award. Furthermore, the player must collect multiple RPGs to reach the Wizard Mode.

This trope is the main premise of the aptly-named Firepower

Done in Mr. Game's Mac Attack — the backbox and playfield art is covered in large-bore cannons, while the player's Attack Base has eight gun barrels visible, and that's before counting the two pinball-launching cannons on the cabinet.

Operation: Thunder is all about waging a nonstop aerial assault against the enemy, unleashing a barrage of missiles and blowing up large chunks of mountainous terrain.

Recorded Comedy

On ''Monty Python's Previous Record," Miss Anne Elk's prattling about her theory about dinosaurs irritates the presenter so much that he shoots her. After a beat, Miss Elk apparently is still alive, so the presenter employs a machine gun to finish the job.

Roleplay

Used frequently Destroy the Godmodder by the technology-based players. Thanks to the Alchemy system in DTG2, ridiculously over-the-top guns can became signature weapons. Pionoplayer's Ultimatum is the 'king' of all More Dakka weapons.



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RWBY: The weapons of both robots, such as the Atlesian Knights (who fire a hail of bullets from their fingertips) and people, are capable of overkill where firing ammo is concerned. Huntsmen often have weapons that look traditional or old-fashioned, such as axes, maces, hammers, javelins, blades, etc. However, most of them are made out of modern technology and will transform into various types of firearms. Examples include Ruby's scythe which is also a high-impact sniper rifle or Nora's war-hammer, which is also a grenade launcher. The fashionable Coco's handbag transforms into a rotary cannon, and Dr. Oobleck's thermos flash transforms into a flame-thrower. The exceptions seem to be Jaune and the Malachite sisters. Jaune's weapon is a sword and collapsible shield that either function as a traditional sword and shield or can combine into a dual-edged sword. The sisters rely on claw weapons and bladed heels. Random Fan: Is there going to be any weapon that does not somehow have a gun in it?

Kerry Shawcross: Why would you want that? : Is there going to be any weapon that does not somehow have a gun in it?: Why would you want that?

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To have enough dakka would be just below having too much dakka, and you can't have too much dakka, therefore you can't have enough dakka. Because then there would be too much dakka. Except there's no such thing as too much dakka.

And that's still not enuff dakka.