Shrek 2 features crossbows which can be loaded with multiple arrows and fired one by one in a manner similar to a revolver and held like a Tommy Gun.In Scare Tactics, members of the vampire hunting Graveyard Shift tote multi-shot, stake firing crossbows.In Dave Sim's graphic novel Cerebus, The Roach (in his Punisherroach identity) wields two "pearl handled semi-automatic" belt-fed crossbows that shoot explosive-tipped bolts and have a firing rate similar to a machine gun.In one issue of The Mask, The Mask pulled out a repeating crossbow with an ammo belt like a machine gun.In the book, they're even worse, expecially what they do with their sister. Most of that family were not normal humans.A character in Vampire Hunter D: Bloodlust fires quarrels at a rate of roughly seven billion per second out of a hand-loaded crossbow.
It also comes with an underslung grenade launcher.
A character in Afro Samurai has one of these. In Fist of the North Star the apocalypse seems to have wiped out all the bullets but few of the guns, so the guns have naturally been retooled to shoot pointed sticks. It's only seen to hold three, but anytime it's offscreen for an instant, it's fully reloaded when we see it again. When one arrow is fired, the next immediately slides into place. His other ranged weapon is a steampunk gunpowder cannon built into the replacement for his left arm. In Berserk, Guts's primary ranged weapon is a repeating crossbow. The Knight Gundam/ Lacroa version of Gundam Heavyarms weilds a bizarre weapons that's a combination of his traditional Gat' & a crossbow. If it is the latter, the use of magically justified Bottomless Magazines might make the Automatic Crossbow even more powerful.Ĭompare with Multishot when one gets similar results with a regular bow. Others might use Schizo-Tech or magic to accomplish this purposes. The most realistic options use mechanical means to produce repeating bows that are similar to Real Life historical examples. There are several ways this might be accomplished. Not only they add instant awesome, but they allow having More Dakka. So the obvious solution to this dilemma is to give crossbows the ability to shoot an entire magazine of ammunition without having to reload. Sometimes in a work the urge to use some Guns and Gunplay Tropes is just too powerful. However, crossbows tend to take a long time to reload, which can be frustrating for people used to the rapid action of modern gunfights. This is especially true in the fantasy genre, where Fantasy Gun Control is the default. Many works of fiction are set in a time period when firearms are not available, and crossbows are the nearest equivalent. PAGES WILL BE DELETED OTHERWISE IF THEY ARE MISSING BASIC MARKUP.īecause a regular bow really wouldn't be cool enough.Īutomatic Crossbows are crossbows that allow the user to shoot several times before having to reload, just like guns do. DON'T MAKE PAGES MANUALLY UNLESS A TEMPLATE IS BROKEN, AND REPORT IT THAT IS THE CASE. THIS SHOULD BE WORKING NOW, REPORT ANY ISSUES TO Janna2000, SelfCloak or RRabbit42. 
The Trope workshop specific templates can then be removed and it will be regarded as a regular trope page after being moved to the Main namespace. All new trope pages will be made with the "Trope Workshop" found on the "Troper Tools" menu and worked on until they have at least three examples.Pages that don't do this will be subject to deletion, with or without explanation. All new pages should use the preloadable templates feature on the edit page to add the appropriate basic page markup. All images MUST now have proper attribution, those who neglect to assign at least the "fair use" licensing to an image may have it deleted.Failure to do so may result in deletion of contributions and blocks of users who refuse to learn to do so.
#AUTOMATIC CROSSBOW MYTHBUSTERS MANUAL#
Before making a single edit, Tropedia EXPECTS our site policy and manual of style to be followed.
0 kommentar(er)
