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I do not shoot with my hand. He who shoots with his hand has forgotten the face of his father. I shoot with my mind.

I do not kill with my gun. He who kills with his gun has forgotten the face of his father. I kill with my heart." The Gunslinger's Creed, The Dark Tower "I do not aim with my hand. He who aims with his hand has forgotten the face of his father. I aim with my eye.I do not shoot with my hand. He who shoots with his hand has forgotten the face of his father. I shoot with my mind.I do not kill with my gun. He who kills with his gun has forgotten the face of his father. I kill with my heart."

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The hero that Guns and Gunplay Tropes are for.

It should be noted that for a while, guns and bullets were considered vulgar. Point, fire, they drop dead. This is so mundane that monsters and heroes who were cool enough became Immune to Bullets. After all, if it were that easy, the police would be able to deal with it.

However, certain genres have put the "cool" back into guns. It's all about style, so expect a lot of flourishes that wouldn't work in real life, such as using Guns Akimbo.

The Gunslinger is this hero. They might be from The Western, Film Noir, Heroic Bloodshed or just plain scenery-destroying action flicks. A wandering gunslinger is often The Drifter, one specifically out to do good is also the Knight Errant. But overall for some reason, alongside the Cowboy, gunslingers have also become a cultural image of American people and American warrior culture abroad.

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The Gunslinger comes in a few styles:

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The Young Gun is a Gunslinger in infancy. You get double bonus points if your gunslinger is a girl. Also expect Marked Bullets to be used. Particularly skilled gunslingers may name their weapons — whatever that implies. Gunslingers who obsess over their weapons or tend to collect them are probably Gun Nuts.

For the eponymous Stephen King hero who epitomizes the trope, see The Gunslinger. For the Beverly Garland/Roger Corman film (and MST3K episode), see Gunslinger. Also has nothing to do with mechanical arms.

Compare Superhero Packing Heat, Samurai Cowboy. For a character with similar traits who uses longer ranged weapons, see the Cold Sniper and Friendly Sniper.

Their Sword Counterpart would be Master Swordsman; while a Master Archer might perform a similar function in societies predating guns. A Smoking Barrel Blowout usually finishes off a successful shot. Sometimes involved in a Showdown at High Noon.

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Anime & Manga

Comic Books

Comic Strips

In Rick O'Shay, gunslinger Hipshot Percussion is a major supporting character. Several storylines feature his reputation as one of the best shots in the West.

Fan Works

Charlotte "Charlie" Duncan of Sapphire Eleanor Rose Suzette De Mont Vs Canon is never seen without her BFG.

In Fallout: Equestria, most of Little Pip's party counts. Calamity is a solid Trick Shot, pulling off kill shots while performing complex aerial maneuvers, being the team's dedicated sniper with the BFG Spitfire's Thunder, and being skilled in magical energy weapons. Steelhooves is The Vaporizer taken Up to Eleven! His go-to weapons are a missile launcher and GRENADE MACHINEGUN! While his raw firepower is a great asset to his friends, it's also frequently an inconvenience as he leaves little to scavenge from. Little Pip herself is something of a Woo. Her telekinesis allows her to wield multiple weapons at once (not always guns even), makes frequent use of S.A.T.S to invoke Bullet Time, and her weapon of choice is a scoped revolver.

In Poké Wars, Dawn is mostly a Trick Shot but has some Woo tendencies. Her supernatural accuracy places her in the Trick Shot category but her penchant for using dual pistols at close range places her in The Woo category.

In Child of the Storm the Winter Soldier falls into Trick Shot and Quick Draw with a touch of The Woo - he's capable of moving fast enough to turn and shoot a master assassin who has snuck up behind him and is holding a gun to his head before the other man can even shoot. The Trick Shot is also sort of inevitable since his grandson is Clint Barton .

. Bad Future Crusaders: Apple Bloom is mostly a Quick Draw. Having grown up in a country more technologically advanced than Equestria (and fought in a civil war), she is very proficient with her hoofgun.

In the Discworld of A.A. Pessimal, the fast draw of pistol crossbows - left-handed, right-handed or both together - is an Assassin skill, taught by Miss Alice Band. The very Ankh-Morporkian Nice Guy Tim Bellamy is sent out to be a Guild field agent in the Semi-United States of Aceria. One day he is challenged in a saloon by a local hard guy, who figures the tenderloin with the faggoty accent will be an easy pushover. Tim is sore that the girl he was unsuccessfully in love with is getting off with somebody else, and he is getting pissed in both senses of the word. He then demonstrates the Assassin fast draw. And brings a new skill to the Wild Widdershins of Aceria in the process.

Films — Animation

Rattlesnake Jake in Rango is a combination of type B and D, and Rango claims to be a type A, and on one occasion, is one due to dumb luck

Films — Live-Action

Literature

Live-Action TV

Music

A man actually named The Gunslinger was a member of The Protomen.

Pinballs

Heavily featured in Cactus Canyon, with multiple game modes — "Quick Draw", "Gun Fight", and "Showdown Multiball" — devoted to this trope.

Podcasts

The bounty hunter Moira Quicksilver in The Endless Night, also a distinct example of Guns Akimbo with her two pistols Righty and Lefty.

Radio

Roleplay

Clint Wayne and Angel Eyes in Dino Attack RPG are a duo of gunslingers. The former is shown to be a Quick Draw, while the latter is another... with a rifle. Atton Rand openly admitted that Clint Eastwood and Lee Van Cleef's performances in Sergio Leone's Spaghetti Westerns were a major influence for both.

Tabletop Games

Video Games

Web Animation

Red vs. Blue has many. Freelancer Agent Carolina is The Woo, combining her Dance Battler moves with light one-handed guns (such as a Magnum or a pair of Plasma Rifles). Agent Texas is the same. Agent South Dakota as well. Agent Wyoming is a Trick Shot. Agent North Dakota is the epitome of Trick Shot, at one point shooting a swarm of missiles out of the air with a pair of Sniper Rifles, firing ridiculously quickly. Agent Washington is a Trick Shot. He's not only extremely proficient with his Battle Rifle, but once destroyed a Hornet by shooting the controls while it was trying to dodge, while he was in free fall.

In RWBY, most characters carry outrageous transforming weapons which serve as both firearms and melee weapons, but some really put an emphasis on the gunslinging side of things. Emerald has a pair of large revolvers which she is an unnervingly good shot with, and she has a tendency to twirl them like she's in a western. Coco is the resident Vaporizer, toting a huge gatling gun which can mow down swarms of weak enemies or steadily wear down a tougher one. Ironwood carries a powerful pistol which he uses to make incredible trick shots, such as firing over his shoulder and nailing an opponent behind him without even looking. He's also highly proficient in Gun Fu and capable of lethal Pistol-Whipping.

This trope is the claim to fame for Pico of Newgrounds. Most often, he's a Vaporizer, preferring an AK-47 or a brace of Uzis to blast his opposition.

Web Comics

Web Original

Whateley Universe: Hive looks like a 17-year-old blonde. Shoots like a 50-year-old master sniper. Or Eldritch, looks like a young woman, shoots like a psychotic heavy-weapons range instructor; Generator might qualify too depending on your definition of 'girl', Loophole is quite proficient with her .45 handgun, and Bladedancer is secretly training with guns to surprise her opponents, while Bunker specializes in explosive ordinance (Girl With Bazooka)... considering the setting and the fact that training is readily available it's not uncommon to come across a girl that packs a gun or at least is proficient with one.

The Armada Marines of Damsels and Dirigibles, an AlternateHistory.com production, and a lot of the other female characters.

Simon Heller, a character in The Unwaking setting from The Wanderer's Library, is a Gun Marshal. What that entails is not exactly explained, but seems to involve an empathic connection with all guns.

Web Videos

Neogicians from Noob combine this with The Engineer and add a Bio-Augmentation extra for those that play in the technologically advanced faction.

From Critical Role, we have Percy, resident Gadgeteer Genius and long-range fighter par excellence. Though to even build a pistol in the first place he needed some help

Mahu: In "Frozen Flame", prince Arius is quite skilled in the use of his musket.

Western Animation

Real Life