No Jumper podcast host Adam22, born Adam Grandmaison, had a gun pulled on him during a livestream from his Los Angeles store, ONSOMESHIT, on Sunday night (March 17).
In the 1999 movie The Matrix, one of the surviving humans' few effective weapons against the machines are non-nuclear EMP generators mounted on their hovercraft. In the process, the hovercraft's electronics are also temporarily disabled, as is any advanced machinery around, making it a hazardous last-resort weapon.
The intruder, later identified as David Tran, has since been arrested and no one was harmed during the botched robbery. On Monday (March 18), The FADER confirmed with the LAPD that Tran used a movie prop gun and that Tran's since been charged with attempted robbery.
Video of the incident was uploaded onto Grandmaison's social media accounts, and you can see the gun pointed in the podcast host's face as the would-be robber shouts, 'Give me all your fucking money, right now!'
Following a scuffle between Grandmaison, the intruder and an associate of Grandmaison's, Grandmaison told the viewers on his stream that the gunman was knocked out cold. The group later called police and had the man arrested.
Talking to TMZ following the incident, Grandmaison revealed that his team was prepared to retaliate against the intruder.
'That's the thing I'm thankful [about],' he said. 'This guy didn't get killed cause it was really, really close to happening.'
In reaction to finding out the gun was a movie prop, he told The FADER, 'That’s crazy my friends were looking at the gun and they thought it was just old or broken or something.'
'Give a guy a gun, and he's Superman. Give him two, and he's God!'
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Is one gun just not badass enough? Try two!
As far back as the westerns of the 1950s, The Gunslinger has often strapped on two pistols. Double-fisted firing of handguns just looks cool. Especially when the shooter hits two different targets with one noisy, confusing volley. Slow-mo leaping and dodging with Bullet Time effects not required, but helpful. Bonus points if the weapons of choice are fully automatic machine pistols, like Ingram SMGs or Micro-Uzis.
This trope is a standard feature of The Western. Usually the two-gun fighter is just that much better than his opponents, that he can draw two guns in the time it takes them to draw one. In The Old West and The Cavalier Years, carrying two pistols was a practical result of long reload times on muzzle-loaders (although they were never used for suppressive fire like in the trope) as well as percussion revolvers and Single Action Revolvers that were loaded one cartridge at a time. As a matter of fact, real people in these times often wore entire bandoliers of a couple dozen Throw-Away Guns strapped to their body. After break action revolvers and speed-loaders came around, one gun could do all the work.
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In police oriented shows, procedurals and action shows alike, this trope is largely a villain trait. The two-gun fighter is usually a destructive psycho with no regard for collateral damage, particularly Two Uzi Guy. Police characters generally use a proper technique, and fire one handgun with both hands. Also, accuracy of any kind is rather hard to achieve with two guns, especially if you're trying to track two targets at once (which the human brain is not really equipped to do) — and most times, you'll be lucky if you hit anything you're aiming for at all.
In Anime, as in much of Asian action cinema, especially Heroic Bloodshed movies, this trope is one of the primary elements of the art of Gun Fu, and the two-gun fighter in these media is often very skilled, able to pick off multiple targets with pinpoint accuracy and able to use his guns as melee weapons as well as other crazy things one would not normally be able to do with a gun. Sometimes the character has two special guns, with individual names and special properties, hearkening back to the samurai stories about named swords with special enchantments.
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There are several ways to use Guns Akimbo:
Both guns are used for concentrated fire on one target at a time. The shooter either pulls one trigger and then the other in rapid fire succession (commonly called 'Woo Style' for its use by characters in John Woo movies), or pulls both triggers at the same time on a single target. The first variant is most often used with pistols or other non-automatic weapons, while the second variant is usually employed if the shooter is using automatic weapons.
Both guns are used separately on different targets. The shooter either alternates fire between each one as the situation warrants (for example, mowing several guys down with the submachine gun in your main hand, and then putting down another guy with the Hand Cannon in your other hand), or uses them both simultaneously on separate targets. The first variant is most often used when a character has two different guns in hand (which, by the way, also occurs quite often in John Woo movies) or as a more 'realistic' alternative to either of the first two options. The other generally requires Improbable Aiming Skills and/or training in Gun Kata. A variation of the second has the shooter awaiting a coordinated attack and aiming at the different spots he expects the two attackers to enter the room.
The user fires only the gun in one hand until it runs empty, then begins firing the other one. This is the most 'practical' (and therefore least cool) way to use two guns, and is sometimes referred to as a 'New York Reload.' When revolvers were standard-issue weapons for the police, some officers carried two so that they could use them in this manner during a shootout.
Mythbusterstested the viability of this trope in real life in one of their episodes alongside other popular gun tropes. While they initially declared it busted due to the loss of accuracy firing one after the other caused, they later revisited it when fans asked them to think 'logic' instead of 'Hollywood' by firing both guns at once instead of in sequence. This turned out to be somewhat accurate and practical in both type 1 and type 2 situations, getting it relabeled to plausible. Of course, their test did not involve the slightly stressful variable of somebody actively trying to kill them. But shooting guns in that way is a bit more boring, which is why the Hollywood version exists. Going Gangsta Style in either way is a stupid idea though.
God help you if you need to reload, but the wide availability of Bottomless Magazines and the habit of a lot of two-gun fighters to throw away their guns when they run out of bullets usually means it's not a problem. They may also go for an Unorthodox Reload, if they want to show off.
There's a reason why real Navy SEALs, Marines, Green Berets, PJs, SAS, Spetznaz, Polish GROM, ROKSF, and other ridiculously-well-trained badasses who shoot bad guys for a living in the real world DON'T do this. A common saying among them as well as civilian firearm enthusiasts is, 'You'll shoot lots of holes in everything EXCEPT your target, but you'll look cool doing it!'
The logical conclusion is to make the wielder Multi-Armed and Dangerous.
Compare Dual Wielding, Sword and Gun, and Firing One-Handed. A popular way of achieving More Dakka. See also Gun Kata and Gun Fu. Like other fighting styles with multiple weapons, this may be a manifestation of Heroic Ambidexterity.
Incidentally, Don't Try This at Home. On the 'Gross Violations of Gun Safety' scale, it ranks only a little below Gun Twirling. Marvin's face is just fine the way it is, thank you.
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Justified by Briareos Hecatonchires of Appleseed. A heavily modified cyborg, Briareos is the only man to date that's proven able to handle his experimental Hecatonchires operating system that controls his cybernetics. Named for the legendary 100 armed giants of Greek myth, a Hecatonchires equipped cyborg could presumably operate an entire aircraft carrier by himself due to the incredibly advanced processing power it allows them. Briareos generally just settles for dual-wielding machine guns, or even quad-wielding when in his Landmate by holding two normal sized guns in his actual arms and two enormous rifles in the Landmate's.
Aria H Kanzaki of Aria the Scarlet Ammo's nickname, Aria the Quadra refers to her preferred weapons are two pistols and two katanas, both dual wielded. Riko also fights in this style.
Attack on Titan: The Anti-Human Suppression Squad dual wields pistols instead of swords, since their targets are other soldiers.
Kevin McDougall, a member of the Sweeper Alliance in Black Cat, wields two pistols. Although he looks like the most timid and helpless of the group (especially when he was injured by Shiki), he is actually one of the more dangerous and useful sweepers during the attack on the Big Bad's base. Using two guns, he's able to subdue multiple Elite Mooks at once. Mind that these Elite 'Mooks' are actually very hard to kill, much less subdue.
In Black Lagoon, this is why Revy, the main badass of the series, is known as 'Two Hands.' She not only wields two pistols at once, she also performs such feats as gunning down groups of enemies 180 degrees apart and reloading one weapon with her teeth while keeping up fire with the other, acrobatic leaps while firing, and more. Somehow, it works.
The liner notes to one manga volume acknowledge that Rei Hiroe basically went with Rule of Cool.
To make this even less realistic, she does this in one scene with rifles.
Mr. Chang, the head of Roanapur's branch of Sun Yee On, is even better at akimbo than Revy herself, and it's implied that he's the one who taught Revy.
The other main dual-gunners of the series are the maids of the Lovelace family, Roberta and Fabiola; Roberta by dint of her FARC assassin training and being one of the biggest badasses of the entire series, and Fabiola by dint of having been trained by Roberta herself. Fabiola in particular wields two Techno Arms MAG-7s (essentially oversized shotgun pistols) during her first shootout at the Yellow Flag and uses them and a China Lake launcher to completely annihilate her opposition.
In Bleach, Starrk wields two guns when he releases his Resurrección. They fire ceros.
Jo from Burst Angel can dual-wield a pair of Desert Eagles with pinpoint accuracy. Yes, she's just that badass. Made easier by being an Artificial Human created for combat.
The issues with this get lampshaded in Chrome Shelled Regios when Sharnid gets a dual pistol version of his sniper rifle and comments that people who use two guns are either 'extremely stupid, and just do it to look cool, or extremely skilled'. He then claims to be in the former category.
The Lancelot from Code Geass was already a master at Dual Wielding, but when it was upgraded into its Albion form, it started carrying around a rifle in each hand.
In Corpse Princess, Makina's weapon of choice is a pair of MAC-11 machine pistols.
Spike Spiegel of Cowboy Bebop fame occasionally uses two guns akimbo. Appropriately, in a possible subversion of the trope, every time he does this he is unable to kill his opponent fast enough to avoid being shot in return (invariably wounding his left arm and forcing him to continue the fight with just his dominant hand), save for one flashback sequence where we do not even see who he is shooting at.
Kurumi in Date A Live does this with a flintlock pistol and musket. These are part of her time motif (representing the hour and minute hands of a clock, respectively) and can either be fired normally or used to channel her powers.
In an extreme example, in Dead Leaves, Retro (briefly) uses three guns at once. There's also Triple Six and his two BFG 's.
Genkaku from Deadman Wonderland does this... with his double gatling-gun electric guitar.
Done fairly often in Digimon. Deputymon in 02 has this western style, and it gets better in the third movie. Later in Tamers, when we're introduced to Gargomon, he does this with two machine gun hands. Later, Beelzemon pulls this off once in Bullet Time.
Riza, the resident Gunslinger of Fullmetal Alchemist does this on occasion. Havoc too, but he seems to favour the 'New York Reload'.
Motoko Kusanagi in Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex. Normally, Motoko uses a single handgun or rifle, supported with both hands. However, in the episode 'BARRAGE' in the first season, she utilizes a Seburo M-5 handgun in each hand. These are not quite as impractical to wield as they fire low recoil armor-piercing 5.7mm rounds reinforced by her cyborg body and firing software, but the fact that she was fighting an Armed Suit made the attempt almost completely ineffective. After getting her left arm blown off, she single-handedly uses an anti tank rifle to make the pilot inside regret that he ever messed with her.
Onizuka does this in Great Teacher Onizuka...but with a pair of light-guns while he's playing House of the Dead. He winds up getting a better score than anybody else thanks to this.
Used not so exactly in Gundam, where there are any number of Mobile Suits mounting multiple ranged weapons - yes, including the 'normal' sized ones, not just the even more heavily armed siege types - and that's not to mention bits/funnels/DRAGOONs capable of moving independent of the host mecha. Probably one of the most iconic examples is the Freedom from Gundam SEED cleaning house with its twin plasma cannons and twin railguns. In certain cases, the difficulty of aiming may be Handwaved or Justified by advanced targeting systems and Newtype / Coordinator powers.
The Wing Zero can pull this off with its twin buster rifles, which can also combine together to form one massive buster rifle.
TheEndless Waltz Heavyarms pulls it off with two sets of twin-linkedgatling guns.
Add also Gundam SEED C.E. 73 Stargazer: Blu Duel and Strike Noir both use a pair of 'shorty' beam rifles (in other words, beam pistols). Meanwhile, Buster Verde carry two huge beam rifles that can be combine like Wing Zero's buster rifle mentioned above.
Gundam 00 is fairly fond of this one. Both Gundam Dynames and Cherudim Gundam akimbo a pair of beam pistols. Gundam Arios has two double barreled beam rifles (and a pair of beam gatlings mounted in each arm). Not to be trumped, Gundam Virtue and Gundam Seravee are both capable of using two beam bazookas at once. Gundam Zabanya (which succeed Dynames and Cherudim) can not only akimbo two of its 10 Rifle Bits, but also break them down to Pistol Bits for the same purpose.
In Gundam Build Fighters Try, a GM Custom attempts this with two GM Rifles during one of the tournament battles. It gets blasted by a beam rifle and falls over backwards dead.
The main character of Gungrave, Brandon Heat consistently uses two guns (crossed) once he Took a Level in Badass through training with Bear Walken. Fellow hitman Bunji Kugashira and antagonist Brad Wong do as well (the latter using decorative gold and silver revolvers), and all are insanely good shots. When Brandon is resurrected as the deadman called Beyond the Grave, he still dual-wields a pair of even bigger handguns, the Cerberus.
In the Gunsmith Cats manga Rally Vincent manages to thoroughly debunk this technique (along with Gangsta Style) while moonlighting as a firearms instructor: 'It's a throwback to old Westerns.' The first multi-shot handguns were fixed-frame revolvers, which could only be loaded one round at a time (many of them didn't even use cased ammo yet, requiring powder and shot to be hand-loaded in each chamber) via a thumb-operated 'loading gate', and on top of that, unloading the casings was just as much of a hassle: tip the gun upwards, open the loading gate, then pull on a metal ejector rod beneath the barrel to push out each casing. All optimized for lefties, by the way, because handguns at the time were designed for use by cavalry who would be holding a horse's reins or a saber in their right hand. To keep that hassle off the battlefield, shooters would thus carry multiple guns and load them beforehand, fire six rounds from one, then switch. 'They only used them simultaneously in movies.' She then proceeds to compare shot groupings by firing with two guns, then a two-handed grip. The two-handed grip gives her enough accuracy to cut a target in half. And by changing fifteen-round magazines just before she fires the fifteenth round from the first mag, she's able to fire thirty shots in as many seconds! Ironically, this actually gets her fired, since the shooting range owner's business model is cheap range time and selling lots and lots of ammo — teaching them how to shoot accurately means they buy less ammo.
Alucard in Hellsing does this with two humongous pistols, a .454 Casull and a 13mm 'Jackal'. He can get away with it due having immense strength and reflexes because of his vampiric nature.
In another example, Seras Victoria takes this trope up to eleven against Millennium's blimp when it makes its assault on the Hellsing Manor. If oneHarkonnen is overkill, what's two at the same time?
Xanxus, once a Big Bad and now did a Heel–Face Turn in Katekyō Hitman Reborn!, implements a double gun wielding fighting still with two special guns that fire large bursts of his Flame of Rage. Oh, yes, he can really kill.
In Kurohime, the Sidekick Zero uses four guns, and combines this with improbably fast shooting and Improbable Aiming Skills to shoot the guns out of the hands of whatever mooks happen to be around.
Lyrical Nanoha:
Teana Lanster from Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha Strikers does this with a pair of pistols that can becomea pair of energy daggers for Dual Wielding. Justified in that she trained herself in ambidextrous shooting from a young age, and her mentor recognized this as her special skill and organized a custom-made dual Device for her.
Arnage of the Hückebein family from Magical Record Lyrical Nanoha Force uses two BFGs at once. Gatling Goodplus rocket launchers combined in one weapon which she has twice. Both BFGs together forming a Wave Motion Gun.
The eponymous heroine of Madlax does this all the time, wielding a pair of custom SIG P210s into every gunfight. The accuracy issue is irrelevant when you consider that her gun dancing style frequently has her shooting people with her eyes closed while facing in a different direction.
Mahou Sensei Negima!:
Mana Tatsumiya often dual-wields Desert Eagles when fighting in close range. These may or may not be airsoft replicas, however.
Yuuna also dual wields pistols at various points.
Klaus is portrayed with two guns fairly frequently in the art and omake of Maiden Rose but always seems to drop back to just one in actual combat.
In Mazinkaiser SKL, one of the pilots, who specializes in Gun Kata, can pull this off with SKL's ranged mode, turning the unit's chestplate into two pistols. Which he uses to tear up the battlefield.
Subverted when Neon Genesis Evangelion did it with Giant Robots. Asuka starts off her showdown with the 14th Angel firing one rifle, but with a bunch of weapons stacked behind her (probably a 7 Samurai Shout-Out). As she runs out of ammo, she progresses through (giant) machine-guns akimbo to (multi-shot) bazookas-akimbo. Unfortunately for her, it's So Last Season.
Kirika does the 'New York Reload' (empty one gun, then switch to another) version in Noir. Justified, as she's up against an absurd number of mooks and doesn't have time to reload.
In a One Piece flashback, Genzo desperately fires two pistols at Arlong in an attempt to save Bellemere's life, but Kuroobi blocks all his shots and slashes him with a sword.
Later in the manga (and chronologically since it's not a flashback) Nico uses her Dos-fleur to wield four pistols at once.
In the 10th film, during their Big Damn Heroes moment, all the Straw Hats (minus Nami) bring out BFG and use them against Big Bad Shiki's forces. This is the only time we ever see Luffy and Zoro even carry guns. Not to mention how those who hardly fight with weapons, such as Sanji, actually using a weapon.
Scanty of Panty & Stocking with Garterbelt wields two revolvers. She's not terribly accurate, but then, neither is Panty when shooting at her. Note that in order to do this, due to the nature of the weapons, she has to wear two pairs of panties at all times.
Mami in the third episode of Puella Magi Madoka Magica, with an entire arsenal of conjured flintlock rifles, which she wields Gun Kata style.
Soul Eater's Death the Kid does this, holding both guns upside down and pulling the triggers with his pinkies.
Kid is so obsessed with being symmetrical at all times that he literally will not fire unless he is wielding both guns. He is psychologically incapable of not using Guns Akimbo.
In Strike Witches, Gertrude carries two heavy machine guns into battle. Then again, with her magic and Striker Unit, she's strong enough to do it, and her battle tactics seem to revolve around unleashing massive amounts of ammunition at close range to destroy targets.
Vash the Stampede in Trigun (A Cattle Punk setting), on some very rare occasions, uses two weapons at once.
In fact, since his left hand is a gun, and he carries his favored weapon in his right, he's basically dual wielding at all times, even if he doesn't usually use both at once.
And Knives once uses two world-ending beam cannons at once.
In the manga, one we get Wolfwood's best friend/nemesis Livio the Double Fang, who dual-wields paired guns that can shoot forward and backwards simultaneously.
Livio's alter-ego Razlo takes this trope even farther, having a cybernetic arm grafted to his back so that he can triple-wield three massive, six-foot steel cross Punishers.
Wolfwood also gets into this at least once with the pistols hidden inside his own Punisher.
Tres Iqus from Trinity Blood uses two guns at the same time in a style reminiscent of Gun Kata. Said guns are Hand Cannons and he's extremely good at using them (given that he's an android, this probably qualifies as a Justified Trope).
In World TriggerSatori Ken, the Arashiyama-team's sniper, prefers using two Sniper Rifles simultaneously.
Deadlands: Doomtown: 'Gordo' Andrade, and later an action card to let any dude pull it off.
Gordo: Two hands, two guns. It is as God intended it, no?
Yu-Gi-Oh!: The Japanese art for Don Zaloog shows him with a pair of pistols. For censorship reasons, these were changed to a pair of knives, but his fingers are still in trigger positions. And he's still wearing a pair of bandoliers full of bullets...
Interestingly, when he appeared on Yu-Gi-Oh! GX, the guns were restored. Even in the dub.
The Marquis, aka Vol de Gaulle, in Guy Davis' comic uses two gattling gun-like Baroque-carved pistols to fight the 'Devils' that may-or-may-not be plaguing the city, which he uses either akimbo or in combination with his sword.
Dwight from the Sin City story The Big Fat Kill wields two .45s, as does Hartigan at one point in That Yellow Bastard (both featured in the movie, by the way). Also, another Sin City story, Family Values, includes a double-Uzi assassination, which is a deconstruction, as the collateral damage caused by it is why Dwight and Miho go after the guy responsible.
At one point Dwight's .45s results in a Shout-Out to The Shadow.
In Silent Night Marv wields two .45s.
The Punisher uses this trope frequently, as far as back in the cover of the first issue of his first series.
Agent Venom switches back and forth between this trope and the proper way to use a gun.
This is one of Grifter's favorite tactics. He will almost never be seen without a gun in each hand.
Scud the Disposable Assassin came factory-equipped with a pair of full-auto machine pistols, and knew how to use them right.
Scud actually takes it up a notch in one issue, where he wields four guns at once. (Two in each hand, with his trigger fingers going through both guards.)
The Saint of Killers from Preacher almost always used two Walker Colts together. After the job of The Grim Reaper was passed down to him, his new guns were forged from the old Angel of Death's sword, making them perfectly accurate.
And perfectly deadly - they could kill anyone, even entities who were technically immortal. If someone was already technically dead, they could survive, but it still hurt like a son of a bitch.
Garth Ennis has been quoted as saying it was a mistake to have the Saint shoot Cassidy early in the series; it was before he'd figured out what he was writing and there's really nothing and no one that can survive. It's not like those guys he kills later can be defined as biological lifeforms, and honestly, how would you explain that his guns can kill you-know-who but not a little undead vampire?
Hush, a Batman villain, uses two handguns. It's his style.
Two-Face, in keeping with his obsession with duality, is also known to use two guns.
Post-resurrection Jason Todd frequently does this.
Black Mask use double handguns as his signature weapon.
The Battle for the Cowl event has multiple peope dressed up and claiming to be Batman. Jason Todd's 'hat' is being the Batman who dual wields guns.
In Red Robin Pru, a member of the League of Assassins who eventually deflects and joins Tim's information network, always enters fights with a blazing gun in each hand. She is incredibly accurate while doing so as well.
Robin Series: Jaeger is almost always seen with a handgun in each hand while he's 'hunting', to make his kills more cinematic than sniping his prey from afar.
Kang the Conqueror uses a dual minigun that's light enough to fire with one hand, preventing the need to dual wield, but he sometimes holds an additional gun in his offhand, because he can.
Deadpool is frequently depicted using two guns◊. Of course, he also uses two katanas, two sais...I think maybe he really, really likes twos. Then again, he can also kill you with his bare hands. But how many hands does he have? TWO!
Makita, a character from The Red Star, occasionally dual-wields pistols.
Typically characters in the X-Wing Series will stick to one blaster at a time, though some will carry more than one around. Wedge is like this, but in Requiem for a Rogue he escapes and saves his rescue party while not only dual-wielding stolen pistols, but also crossing them◊.
The short Family Ties arc has Corran and Iella◊ pull a Big Damn Heroes moment on three members of Rogue Squadron who were having some trouble with thugs. Corran, like Wedge, even crosses his arms while firing at two different targets. They're part of Corsec - think police - so this is probably all Rule of Cool. It's worth noting that just a page later Corran holsters one blaster to try and make a sniper shot with the other, and when making an attack on more thugs, where they aren't rescuing anyone being held down, no one dual-wields.◊
The Falcon wields a pair of firearms in the Ultimate Marvel universe. A bit of Lampshading goes on when he fails to hit one ofGalactus' heralds, and Misty Knight points out how difficult it is to aim while firing two guns.
Deadshot, a member of the Secret Six and the Suicide Squad, fights using dual wrist-mounted machine guns.
Casanova, Zephyr Quinn and Crazy AwesomeBig Bad Newman Xeno all do this in Matt Fraction's Casanova.
A frequent tactic of Jonah Hex.
Blood and Honor: Vette carries two blasters and is rather proud of her skill with them. Though she typically uses both at once, she does switch to one on occasions when accuracy is important.
Light and Dark The Adventures of Dark Yagami features Gratuitously British Watari doing this with a pair of 'snipper'rifles. In an odd instance that is presumably a case of Rouge Angles of Satin, Dark 'jumped out of a kimbo with guns'.
Zig-Zagged in the Doctor Who fanfic Gemini.Badass Normal Damien tries to dual-wield handguns and misses his shots, while Supervillain Captain June Harper dual-wields high-end assault rifles and makes her shots.
Poké Wars features Dawn wielding twin .45 caliber pistols in Dawn of a New Era. In The Coalescence she wields twin pistols of an unspecified caliber. Justified because she gains Improbable Aiming Skills from the dampener removal.
In Fallout: Equestria - Pink Eyes, there is a griffin mercenary named Henrietta who does this after she obtains her dead father's gun.
In Fractured, a Mass Effect/Star Wars/Borderlandscrossover and its sequel, characters are fond of this trope, usually for More Dakka as the weapons wielded tend to be machine guns. That light things on fire. In Fractured characters do this because they are just that badass. In Origins everyone dual-wielding heavy machine guns has the excuse of mass effect-based weaponry and kinetic stabalizers.
Pacific World War IIUS Navy Shipgirls has Nevada and her twin Single Action Army revolvers.
InTales of a Reset Mind, Nico´s Joy uses two handguns, and she is actually quite good with them!
In the Discworld tales of A.A. Pessimal, the trademark of Assassin Miss Alice Band, herself a Lara CroftExpy, is her use of two pistol crossbows held and deployed in the same manner in which Lara Croft holds her pistols. Alice, a barely-there canonical character, is developed much more in these stories as Assassin, adventuress, Gay Blade and Stealth Archaeologist.
Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children features Yazoo, who gets bonus points for utilizing his Gun Blade, Velvet Nightmare, along with that of his brother Loz. Yes, Gunblades Akimbo.
Older Than Television: This was the signature move of silent movie cowboy hero William S. Hart. He does it in Hell's Hinges (1916), does this when, filled with righteous anger, he charges into the dance hall that doubles as the Big Bad's headquarters. He does it in The Bargain when he robs a crooked casino of the money lost at its roulette table.
This trope is a staple of Heroic Bloodshed films, especially those made by John Woo.
John Woo's first use of Guns Akimbo happened during A Better Tomorrow, where Chow Yun-Fat's most memorable character, Mark Gor, blows away a restaurant full of bad guys to avenge the betrayal that got his friend Ho sent to prison.
In the sequel A Better Tomorrow II, Chow does it again - once during the motel shoot-out and during the siege on the mansion.
Heroes Shed No Tears, which was made prior to A Better Tomorrow but was released soon after ABT's success, also featured this trope and laid the groundwork for his later Heroic Bloodshed movies.
The final showdown of A Better Tomorrow III, a prequel to the first two movies which was directed by Tsui Hark instead of John Woo, had Mark wielding two M-16s in Guns Akimbo mode.
The Killer has Chow do it again during the three main action scenes - the restaraunt massacre, the house shoot-out and the siege on the church. At one point, he wields a submachine gun and a shotgun.
While John Woo didn't direct The Replacement Killers, he did produce the movie, and Chow Yun-Fat was still the star. At one point during the movie, Chow Yun-Fat used at least six Berettas, discarding one pair when he was out of bullets and pulling out another pair to continue kicking ass. In the first Stranglehold trailer, this part of the movie was homaged by Woo himself with Tequila.
In the teahouse shoot-out that opens Hard Boiled, Chow fires two guns while sliding down a bannister.
The Corruptor stands out as one of the few movies where Chow Yun-Fat doesn't rely on Guns Akimbo. The only time he wields two guns is because he already had his backup weapon drawn and only kills one guy this way. He even uses the same service weapon throughout the movie — and he reloads it! Mind, the film is a much more straightforward crime drama compared to many of Yun-Fat's other movies, with only a pinch of Heroic Bloodshed thrown in for flavor.
Castor Troy the Big Bad of Face/Off, whose even wielded a pair of golden .45s during the opening shootout of the movie.
Also appeared in Mission: Impossible II when Ethan Hunt goes Guns Akimbo with a pair of Berettas.
Also used in Broken Arrow (1996) during a gun fight in a copper mine.
Jake (portrayed by Kevin Costner) in Silverado is The Western's style painted in broad strokes. Lightning draws, blind trick shots, and two guns at the same time.
El Mariachi in Desperado, who draws two Rugers from his sleeves in order to blow away an entire bar full of bad guys. Even moreso in the sequel, when he dual wields a sawed off shotgun and a sub-machine gun during a shootout!
The Blade series features this frequently. When Blade isn't killing vampires with his blades, he's usually dual wielding pistols or customized sub-machine guns. Whistler gets in on the act too when rescuing Blade, busting through a wall wielding a pair of MP5s and delivering a Pre Ass Kicking One Liner. In Blade II, aside from Blade, Scud is shown dual wielding a pair of Desert Eagles when investigating a noise outside his van, Nyssa wields a pair of machine pistols, and Reinhardt tops them both by wielding a pair of Berettas with huge blades built into them! In Blade: Trinity, both Abigail Whistler and Hannibal King occasionally dual wield revolvers, Abby's being regular guns and King's being heavily customized versions.
Barney Ross in The Expendables frequently wields a pair of Kimber .45's which he fires and reloads at rapid speeds.
McManus in The Usual Suspects shoots two different people at the same time, with one bullet each from two different guns. During the dock raid, Keaton stealthily keeps his hands in his pockets and then shoots two men at the same time with guns hidden in his jacket.
Russell Crowe's character in The Quick and the Dead does something very similar. With Winchesters.
A fairly early example would be in Where Eagles Dare, when Schaffer guns down countless Naziswith an MP40 in each hand.
Appears a lot in Hot Fuzz. Then again, it's a comedy. For an example of how silly it gets, one character fires two pistols while riding down the street on a motability scooter. Slowly. Then there's the part where Nicholas Angel (briefly) dual-wieldspens. Notably, when Angel's character does fire two pistols at once, he doesn't hit anything until he puts one away and takes an aimed shot with the other gun.
'Ever fired two guns whilst jumping through the air?'
In The Untouchables, George Stone uses two guns during the shoot-out at the train station. Note that, in his introduction, Stone is presented as something of a pistol prodigy.
In both versions of True Grit, Rooster Cogburn takes the reins of his horse between his teeth so he can charge towards the enemy firing a pistol in one hand and a lever action rifle In this instance, he's going for pure intimidation factor and hoping to terrorize some of his numerically superior enemy into fleeing.
The Outlaw Josey Wales: Josey packs no fewer than four cap and ball revolvers about his person and uses them in pairs either mounted or on foot. Having four pistols showed a nod to practicality. Since reloading a cap-and-ball was a bitch, some gunmen would take a few extra pistols to reduce the need to reload in the heat of battle.
In Training Day Alonzo Harris combines this with Gangsta Style.
Subverted in High Noon. Psycho villain Colby rushes into the barn blazing wildly with two guns. The marshal picks him off neatly with one gun.
Used frequently in The Boondock Saints. Il Duce challenges all three saints with a brace of six handguns, firing them in pairs and then tossing each pair aside when empty. The Saints themselves always have a gun in each hand whenever they attack. In the first film they each had a pair of suppressed Beretta 92's, trading them in for custom Desert Eagles in the sequel.
In the opening scene of xXx: State of the Union, this is the easy way to tell who is going to survive the attack on the Elaborate Underground Base... namely, the guy who's dual-wielding semi-automatic weapons while everybody else are toting rifles.
In Equilibrium, John Preston wields dual pistols and is quite literally untouchable by mooks. In an early scene, he jumps into a crossfire and stands calmly (then again, with emotions held under check he can't quite panic or anything) in one place while the opposition fires away with automatic weaponry and fails to hit him. The film attempts to explain this by inventing a fighting style known as Gun Kata, which teaches its practitioners to seek out locations in a fight where there is minimum probability of getting shot at and it's not 'behind cover'). In a later fight, Preston reloads by a mechanism that inserts fresh magazines into the guns from his sleeves.
In Transporter 2The Dragon is a psychotic, scantily-clad chick who dual-wields fully automatic laser-sighted Glocks.
In both the book and film adaptation, Shane, the title gunfighter is a firm believer in carrying one gun as sufficient for his needs and proves it in how quickly he kills a sinister gunfighter who carries two.
Jango Fett in Attack of the Clones, although very briefly during his fight with Obi-Wan.
The Matrix:
Neo dual-wields pistols at several points in the first film, though again his being in the Matrix meant his strength was far higher than humans could normally have. In one sequence, he fires dual silenced 9mm pistols using subsonic ammunition; the relative lack of recoil would make this slightly more plausible than most other forms of Guns Akimbo. He even switches off which one he's aiming down at certain points.
And then there was Mouse, who dual-wielded automatic shotguns when cornered by the police/agents. It was his Moment of Awesome, but it sadly was also right before he was shot.
Trinity, Morpheus, and Seraph all dual-wield during the battle in the Club Hel coatroom.
Bruce Willis' character in Last Man Standing does this throughout the entire film.
Arnold Schwarzenegger's Eraser climaxes with Kruger tearing an oncoming truck to pieces with two of the film's signature railguns firing on full auto. To give an idea of how absurd this is, the rifle-sized weapons (and their distinctive x-ray scopes) are only used in the rest of the film to snipe at targets right through walls.
In the Tomb Raider movie, Lara uses her signature dual pistols (see Video Games examples below), but has a neat reloading mechanism; when she ejects the mags, a rack in her backpack comes out with a new set of mags angled right so she can just sweep her arms behind her to load them.
In The Mummy, it was common for the American characters to dual wield revolvers. However, this was only used in situations where there were an overwhelming number of enemies, negating the need for accuracy. When facing several riders bearing down on him, in fact, Rick O'Connell (the main character, played by Brendan Fraser) empties two revolvers at them...then drops them and draws two more. However, he never fires simultaneously (another possible advantage being that he can more easily cover a wider angle).
Guns Akimbo abound in the questionably-competent Hitman film of the game series, escalating from pistols up to a villain's usage of twin RPDs. This last one was completely good for nothing more than tearing the furniture a new one.
In this amateur film (appropriately, an entry to the Stranglehold Short Film contest), the hero pulls off Guns Akimbo with flintlocks. Lots and lots of flintlocks.
The Ax-Crazy, Redneck, Neo-Nazi Tremor brothers from Smokin' Aces frequently use akimbo weapons. The most notable of these is when the biggest Tremor brother wields a chainsaw in one hand and a DAO-12 revolving shotgun in the other.
The movie Sin City features several characters dual-wielding various weapons.
Taken to a ridiculous extreme in William Shakespeare's Romeo + Juliet. Villain Tybalt dramatically whips off his jackets and slowly pulls out two handguns with the Virgin Mary engraved on them, to shoot at Benvolio during the opening fight at a gas station.
James Bond, unique action hero that he is, almost never uses two guns simultaneously. The only examples is in the film Tomorrow Never Dies, where ends up dual wielding an SMG and his Walther P99 while running through Elliot Carver's base. It looks... a little silly.
Captain Picard's dual-wielding in Star Trek: Nemesis threatens to rival Bond's in terms of the silly factor.
John Harrison AKA Khan Noonien Singh takes this Up to Eleven in Star Trek Into Darkness with two BFGs.
In The Terminator shortly after delivering his famous 'I'll be back.' Catchphrase, the cyborg then rams a car into the police station and then proceeds to massacre the officers with a shotgun and an assault rifle. Justified by the fact that he is a literal killing machine; Improbable Aiming Skills aren't so improbable with a literal grip of steel and a CPU brain.
In The Last of the Mohicans Hawkeye uses two flintlock Kentucky longrifles, and hits both targets, while running, no less.
Subverted by Bryan in Taken, in keeping with the movie's very grounded and pragmatic approach to combat. He acquires two pistols in the climactic gunfight, but instead of going akimbo, he tucks one of them into his waistband and doesn't draw it until after the first gun has been emptied and discarded.
The Crow has two such instances of Guns Akimbo. The first has Eric Draven himself going both-guns-blazing against Top Dollar's entire gang at his boardroom in the movie's biggest shootout, and the second has Eric and Officer Albrecht battling it out against a two-gun-wielding Top Dollar and his Dragon at the church where Sarah was taken.
In Tombstone, Doc Holliday confronts one of the Cowboys (Mooks who wear red bandannas) and pulls a pistol on him. The man says that Holliday is so drunk (which he clearly is) he's probably seeing double. Holliday then pulls out a second pistol with the other hand, points both of them at the guy, and says, 'I have two guns... one for each of ya.' He then proceeds to spin both guns in opposite directions.
In Wyatt Earp, Earp's party is ambushed in a canyon by allies of the Clantons and McLauries. One mook draws down on Wyatt with two pistols and begins firing them with a cocky grin on his face. Wyatt calmly walks over to his horse, grabs a shotgun, approaches the mook and blows him away at POINT BLANK RANGE. The look on the mook's face turns to abject horror as every one of his shots misses wide and Wyatt approaches with his boomstick. It's absolutely priceless.
In the film Grosse Pointe Blank, both hitmen (played by John Cusack and Dan Ackroyd) employ this technique.
Shown fairly realistically in the 1984 cult film Angel, about a teenaged prostitute who is being targeted by a serial killer. In the climax, right when she is about to be murdered by the killer, her friend Kit Carson (played by veteran actor Rory Calhoun) lights the killer up with his twin .45 revolvers. Played straight in that he only shoots one gun at a time, cocks and aims his guns carefully, and does not stop firing until he's sure the man isn't getting back up (but he is very careful not to empty his pistols, just in case). Justified in that Kit is an experienced street performer specializing in showing off his skill with his pistols, and he has decades of experience.
In The Bourne Identity, Jason Bourne does this near the end of the film, when he nails a mook and strips him of his weapon. It doesn't seem like he intends to use it, but then he's 'surprised' by a second gunman, and improvises by firing the second pistol upside-down, with his little finger, because he doesn't have time to readjust. Justified in that he fires at a single target at point blank range, so aiming is not an issue.
There's a scene in Billy Bathgate where mobster Dutch Schultz (Dustin Hoffman) is showing off the pistol skills of his bodyguards Lulu and Irving. Dutch asks Billy which of them is the best. Billy thinks it's Irving, because he aims with a single pistol and therefore is more accurate. But Dutch points out that's mostly useful for when you can set up a hit in advance. Lulu, who blazes away with two .45's, is more useful for circumstances when you need to throw out a lot of lead quickly (e.g. when you're being attacked).
Subverted in The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen. Tom Sawyer, who's otherwise an excellent shot with his Winchester, often attempts to bring down enemies by unloading twin revolvers at them simultaneously. However, he never actually hits anything when he attempts this, and every time he tries it in front of Allen Quatermain, he is berated for 'shooting like a bloody fool'.
Quatermain: Very American. Fire enough bullets and hope to hit the target.
Turns up in a scene in the remake of Dawn of the Dead; the character possibly has an excuse, considering at least one of his legs is broken and he is being frantically dragged through a sewer just ahead of a pursuing swarm of zombies. Unsurprisingly, it doesn't help, and he dies.
Marion from Undead not only uses this technique, but takes it Rule of Cool by at one point throwing the guns (he catches them again, so that doesn't really qualify for Throw-Away Guns) and using the nearest cop's trigger finger, and later doing it while hanging by his spurs from a doorway. Then again, Marion's an Improbable Weapon User.
Ghost Dog from Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai does the alternating-shots version, when infiltrating his boss' Jersey Mafia hideout.
Tropic Thunder Done with two full sized M-16s that were hidden under a cloak until it became clear that an attempt at infiltration had failed and it was time for More Dakka. Concludes with an Ass-Kicking Pose AND a One-Liner. I'm a LEAD FARMER, motherf* cker!
Those guns were full of blanks, though. No one would give actors live ammo.
In The Mechanic (1972), Charles Bronson's character does this.
Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle. Madison Lee fires two goldenDesert Eagle.50 Action Express both simultaneously and Woo Style (they are chambered in .50 Action Express as you can see in a lot of close-ups on the muzzles). Not that there was any recoil distracting her, by the way. Still not enough? There's a Mongolian earlier in the film dual-wielding belt-fed machine guns in full-auto mode.
Will Smith in the film adaptation of I, Robot takes this to the nth degree by pulling both pistols out of his jacket, aiming, firing, and utterly obliterating his target while riding a motorcycle.
In the movie Zombieland, Tallahassee does this with dual pistols.
In Predator when Dillon is getting ready to go try to avenge Mac's death, he is initially carrying a single sub-machine gun. Dutch tosses him a second one which he then wields akimbo.
In Suburban Commando, Shep Ramsey is infiltrating the Big Bad's ship while dual-wielding blasters. He fires them one after another, before switching to another weapon.
In the three Underworld (2003) films, Selene is the only Death Dealer who uses dual automatic pistols in every gunfight. All others prefer assault rifles (not akimbo). Being a vampire, she doesn't care about recoil and is a pretty good shot with both guns. In one scene, she uses the guns on full auto to 'draw' a circle under her and collapse the floor.
In the Resident Evil films, Alice wields almost everything akimbo. Over the course of the series, she wields semi-auto handguns, revolvers, sub-machine guns, and even sawed-off shotguns akimbo (she does have enhanced strength though). Even when forced into melee combat, she swaps over to Dual Wielding fighting batons or kukri knives! A couple of other characters do this as well. In Resident Evil: Apocalypse, Carlos wields a pair of Desert Eagles, LJ wields a pair of gold-plated Desert Eagles, and Jill Valentine uses guns akimbo briefly as well. These are all trumped however by the monstrous Nemesis, who wields a chaingun and rocket launcher akimbo.
In Resident Evil: Retribution Jill Valentine fires two Skorpian machine pistols while Fast-Roping out the back of an Osprey gunship, which should mean she doesn't have a hand free to brake her descent.
One of the robbers in Police Academy 6: City Under Siege wields two guns, although he only uses one at a time and is an amazing shot. In one scene, he is dual-wielding a pistol and an SMG.
The Maiden Heist begins with a Daydream Surprise with Christopher Walken dual-wielding pistols to stop a gang of nefarious art thieves.
True Lies has Arnold dual-wielding a pair of Uzis. It's quite awesome.
God Of Gamblers Return has a moment where akimbo Berettas are reloaded in mid-air! That's that way to subvert the reloading problem!
Jack la Roca, the protagonist from Route 666, is fond of this trope.
Chuck Norris famously wields a pair of Micro Uzis in Invasion USA.
Goodfellas features Tommy 'Two Guns' DeVito, just like the real person, Tommy DeSimone.
Mike Lowrey from Bad Boys.
In Shaft (2000), Shaft, played by Samuel L. Jackson, is shown wielding two guns in a shootout.
In Swordfish, Gabriel dual wields a pair of handguns in the car chase scene when he shoots at the attackers at both his sides.
In Jeremiah Johnson, the titular Mountain Man dual-wields a pair of percussion hunting rifles to thwart an ambush.
The Watch: Jamarcus.
The Baroness from G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra seems fond of this. Although when using ballistic weaponry rather than scifi 'pulse pistols' she realistically fires them two-handed.
Marvel Cinematic Universe
The Falcon uses a pair of Submachine Guns in Captain America: The Winter Soldier. In later appearances, he alternates between this or a gun in one hand and some kind of wrist-mounted blaster.
Avengers: Infinity War has a uniquely bizarre case of this during the battle at Wakanda. Bucky Barnes, on seeing a talking, cybernetically-enhanced raccoon blasting away at the enemy, picks him up with one hand to give him better visibility while firing his own gun one-handed.
Taken to the extreme in The Mask when Stanley draws a whole weapons arsenal including rocket launchers out of Hammerspace with his two hands. Taken to the ridiculous extreme when they all turn out to be BANG Flag Guns. He even manages to twirl them all.
In the film version of Ender's Game, the titular character jumps into the Battle Room, grabs a floating Stun Gun from the enemy army as well as his own and uses them to knock out a number of enemy soldiers. He even does a typical John Woo-style spin with guns pointing in different directions, although, by that point, he's been hit and his suit frozen. Later, Petra does this to take out 12 soldiers of two armies.
Agent Zero, while attacking the Nigerian compound in X-Men Origins: Wolverine.
Perhaps justified in this case that his mutant power appears to be superhuman accuracy.
Bruce Willis does it again in Looper, firing two FN-P90s at once (shooting from the hips, no less) when he takes on the syndicate. It's every bit as ridiculous and awesome as it sounds.
Type 2 is used to practical effect by one of the mooks in The Last Stand to temporarily fend off Frank Martinez and Sarah Torrance.
Assassins: Assassin Miguel Bain frequently dual-wields pistols on his missions.
Being the Aussie equivalent of Old West outlaws, Bushrangers are often portrayed in the movies as skilled gunslingers. Mick Jagger as Ned Kelly uses a pair of Colt revolvers, and Dennis Hopper as Mad Dog Morgan dual wields two shotguns.
In Lock, Stock & Two Smoking Barrels, a mook bursts into the Big Bad's office with two pistols pointed upwards, but it doesn't end well for him because the Big Bad is already pointing a shotgun directly at him.
Mad Max: Fury Road has the Bullet Farmer start shooting akimbo urging brothers Heckler & Koch to sing. This in no way affects his accuracy, since he's blind at that point.
Max Dire from Full Eclipse is in a werewolf action/crime-thriller but he duel wields pistols like he just leaped from a John Woo movie.
'Benny the cop' from Kopps does this repeatedly in his daydreams.
Before he becomes Robocop1987, Murphy engages in a vehicle-to-vehicle gun battle with Boddicker's mooks, during which this trope appears. (Lewis is driving the patrol car while he's firing both their pistols out the passenger window.) Reality Ensues as he only manages to hit one mook, once, non-fatally. Every other shot misses badly. Notably, he doesn't attempt the maneuver at any point in his cybernetic existence, when he could conceivably pull it off thanks to software-enhanced Improbable Aiming Skills.
Riggs and Murtaugh do this during the shootout in the subway in Lethal Weapon 3.
During the shootout that leads to his cryo-imprisonment, Sgt. John Spartan does this with a pair of customized Super Blackhawks in the novelization of Demolition Man. Also plays into his cowboy image, as the Blackhawk is a high-end revolver, where you'd expect an LAPD SWAT officer to be shooting semi-automatic. In the same scene in the film itself, he does carry a pair of Berettas, but only uses them one at a time with the second pistol being a backup when he loses the first one. However, he does briefly use a pair of pistols during the film's climax.
Holtzmann dual wields a pair of proton pistols during the final battle in Ghostbusters (2016), complete with Bond One-Liner.
The final shootout in Xx X Return Of Xander Cage has Adele and Serena going Back-to-Back Badasses and dual-wielding handguns on an army of mooks.
The Black Hole. The security androids on the USS Cygnus not only have a laser in each hand, the lasers themselves are a twin barrel model with one laser above the handle and one below. Fortunately for our heroes they're lousy shots.
In Tall Tale, Pecos Bill carries a pair of Merwin Hulbert revolvers which he usually dual wields. Similarly, Calamity Jane has a pair of Colt revolvers which she exclusively fires in this fashion.
The Revengers: During the Last Stand at the survey camp, Chamaco leaps out of the trench with a revolver in each hand, firing at the Comanche. Done somewhat realistically, as he is alternating which gun he fires, rather than firing both at once.
In Gang of Roses, Chas prefers to fight with a massive Hand Cannon in each hnad. Zhang Li also does it, but only in the final fight where she is massively outnumbered.
Dick Seaton and Marc C. DuQuesne, mortal enemies at all other times, stand side-by-side with guns akimbo in The Skylark of Space, each with a pair of forty-fives loaded with extremely potent ammunition. Lampshaded in the sequel by DuQuesne himself, when he describes to an underling how Seaton has been practising his Gun Fu for a very, very long time. Not just that, but:
'Baby Doll' Loring: You're faster than I am, and that's saying something. You're chain lightning.
DuQuesne: Well, Seaton is at least that much faster than I am. (Description of just how fast follows.)
...so he is probably firing alternately from both pistols, shifting his attention between the two.
In Stephen King's The Gunslinger, Roland Deschain fights with a gun in each hand. He is somehow able to juggle both guns and reload at the same time. However, he loses two fingers at the beginning of The Drawing of the Three,' and is thereafter limited to one gun at a time, except in flashbacks.
Pulled off by a few characters in The Dresden Files such as 'Gentleman' Johnny Marcone and Lara Raith.
The Shadow's signature weapons were a pair of .45 automatics. This carried over to most of the various comic book versions and the 1994 film as well. In the 1980s comics series, set in the present day, he dual-wields Uzis instead.
In the Into the Looking Glass science-fiction series, co-written by John Ringo and Travis S. Taylor, one Marine is very capable of wielding two handguns (and in Power Armor, two cut down .50 cal rifles) at the same time. However it is explicitly stated he only fires one at a time, reloading takes more time, and the character's skill at 'two-gun mojo' is considered unique and extreme even among the other highly-skilled (and more experienced) soldiers.
In the Prince Roger series, co-written by David Weber and John Ringo, Rastar, Prince of Therdan, is a four armed alien who quadruple wields pistols. He is described as being almost unique in his ability to accurately shoot and track multiple targets, though. As the series progresses, he goes from using flintlocks to revolvers, to futuristic pistols.
Discussed in 1632, during the Croats' attack on Grantville, Dan Frost is tempted to do this, but doesn't.
The Black Knight in Matthew Reilly's 'Scarecrow' takes this to the extreme, using two matched Remington shotguns, though he does modify them to have pistol grips.
The Executioner. Mack Bolan uses a silenced Beretta during infiltration and a Hand Cannon for more noisy occasions, but sometimes uses both together when Storming the Castle.
Kill Team One often uses two handguns at a time. 1911s in Rated R, CZP09s and S&W Model 460s in Red Scare.
Richard Joseph Camellion, the title character of the Death Merchant series by Joseph Rosenberger, habitually used two handguns. Originally, he used a pair of Smith & Wesson M19 'Highway Patrolman' .357 Magnum double-action revolvers with 4' barrels, which was reasonable. About a dozen books in, he decided that the .357s didn't have enough stopping power, and upgraded to a pair of 8' barreled .44 AutoMags (!). Camellion had no difficulty firing these hand cannons simultaneously and accurately (in real life, they have more free recoil energy than most .30 caliber rifles), and on several occasions fired at and hit two separate adversaries at the same instant, much like Jake in the movie 'Silverado', except without needing to 'psych himself up' for it first. Camellion referred to this stunt as 'mind-firing', indicating that (a) he was highly trained in small arms (in addition to other sorts of mayhem, hence his nom de guerre), and (b) he had practiced this particular trick a lot.
John Thomas Rourke, title character of the Survivalist series by Jerry Ahern, wears two compact Detonics CombatMaster .45 pistols, in a custom double shoulder holster created by famous holster-maker Lou Alessi.
In Shane, the villainous gun-for-hire Stark Wilson uses two pistols, but the titular character belittles that, saying that one pistol is all a person needs.
In the Honor Harrington novella 'From the Highlands', Jeremy X dual-wields pistols when engaging Scrags in the warrens of old Chicago.
In the novels of J.T. Edson, the ambidextrous Dusty Fog would almost always draw both of his twin Colts at the same time; usually firing both at the same target.
The Exile's Violin: Jacquie always has a pair of revolvers at her side.
In Dashiell Hammett's Red Harvest, Big Nick opens fire on the hero with a pistol in each hand. It's not very effective.
In Ayn Rand's Atlas Shrugged, a man standing on a roof of one of the structures at Rearden Steel, later identified as Francisco d'Anconia is using two handguns in the manner mentioned above, in which he uses each one to shoot at different people in a mob attacking the mill.
Damsels Of Distress: Anya dual-wields a pair of .45 auto-revolvers. Being a wendigo, she has the strength and the coordination to use both effectively.
Wax of Wax and Wayne wields dual revolvers most of the time, and has the Improbable Aiming Skills to get away with it. When a situation requires More Dakka, he usually switches todualshotguns.
In the Discworld, Assassin Miss Alice Band, a Lara CroftExpy, is portrayed as holding - and presumably using - two pistol crossbows in the same manner in which Lara Croft holds her pistols.
In Auction Kings, the muff pistols were designed to be used in this manner. Given that each only held a single shot, it's fairly justified.
In the Doctor Who episode 'The Parting of the Ways', Captain Jack wields two guns to fight off approaching Daleks. Sadly they run out of ammo so he gets out a pistol. Which also runs out of ammo.
Queen Elizabeth the Tenth (or 'Liz X') is the Queen of Starship UK. Who dual-wields laser pistols. Wow. Basically she rules.
Stargate SG-1 once showed Daniel Jackson doing this with his Beretta M92F and an MP5. But for the ultimate extreme, Teal'c was once seen wielding two P-90s (although he only fired one at a time). In fact, other episodes feature Teal'c firing two Jaffa staffs, and even two MP7s simultaneously.
The Daniel Jackson example is something of a subversion as he is still in his 'incompetent archaeologist' phase and does more damage to the walls. Justification: Teal'c is repeatedly shown to be stronger than almost any human could be; he also needed to be covering two hallways simultaneously.
Fabrique Nationale, the manufacturer of the P-90, produced an advertisement video that showed a man firing two P-90s at once on full automatic. This was intended only to demonstrate how the 5.7mm round (unique to the P-90 and Five-seveN pistol) generates very little recoil.
Cameron Mitchell also uses two guns while fighting zombies in the 200th episode. Justified in that this was an Imagine Spot, so practicality isn't exactly what he was going for.
The Stargate Atlantis episode 'The Return Part II' has Teyla wielding not one but two ARG's ( Anti Replicator Guns) in the classic cross-armed casual shoot. Justified-ish considering that they're energy weapons with no recoil.
'Sateda' has Ronon mixing this with copious amounts of Gun Fu. In this case, one of the weapons is his signature Travelerblaster and the other is his native Satedan BFG (designed specifically to kill Wraiths).
Several times in Stargate Atlantis Dr. McKay is shown using dual pistols. Granted he is shown to miss more than he is to hit.
A Wraith does this with two assault rifles. Somewhat averts most of the problems with the trope. Wraiths are much, much physically stronger than humans. He is completely inaccurate, doesn't fire enough shots for reloading to be an issue, and never fires or even raises both guns at the same time. Basically seems to invoke the trope to avoid the need to reload, which he would have if he only had one gun.
Battlestar Galactica. Starbuck wields dual pistols (and on Caprica, dual Scorpion SMG's) on several occasions; the problem with this technique aiming-wise is shown during a terrorist siege, when she accidentally shoots another main character.
Zoe from Firefly blasts off with dual pistols at one point during the rescue of Mal from Bad Boss Niska in 'War Stories.'
And Jayne in the same episode carries an assault rifle in his right hand and a pistol in his left.
Jayne also dual-wields two oversized assault rifles in the first issue of the Better Days comic.
In the penultimate episode of AliasPeyton uses two machine pistols to execute the leaders of Prophet Five.
The one time Homicide: Life on the Street featured someone firing two guns at once, it was a maniac shooting up several police officers in the third-season episode 'The City That Bleeds'.
In 24 Jack Bauer uses dual pistols during his My Name Is Inigo Montoya moment in the season 1 finale.
In Smallville, Lex picks up two revolvers and is prepared to go Guns Akimbo on Green Arrow and Black Canary but Clark zips by to interfere before Lex can do something badass.
Justified use in Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles pilot, where an unnamed Terminator attacks John with dual MP-5s. Justified in the sense that its both a Terminator and a dream sequence.
In In Plain Sight, both the lead character and her partner pull out their backup weapon in order to drive off some assassins coming after the witness they're protecting. Played realistically: the only time anyone manages to hit anyone during that gunfight is using a single gun, and the two guns are used more for suppressive fire than to actually kill anyone.
In the Power Rangers Time Force and Wild Force teamup Jen, the Time Force Pink Ranger and leader of the team, uses two Chrono Blasters to shoot down the Putrids, and as such it is an example of Fanservice
Keeping in mind that the character is using Laser Pistols (opps, I mean Blasters) which have little-to-no recoil (at general fire power mind you) and comes from the future where humans have perfected DNA modification technology, it's not too far a stretch to make it a plausible situation.
Another example involving Jen comes in the episode where she goes on a little revenge kick, complete with slow-motion shots and a jumping split while firing in midair in the John Woo style.
Also with The Power Rangers S.P.D. Red Ranger. the two pistols also form a rifle if needed.
The Zords usually get into this too. In Power Rangers Turbo, the Rescue Megazord's Finishing Move is basically this taken Up to Eleven, as it involves firing simultaneously a giantflamethrower and an equally big gatling gun. The SWAT Megazord in Power Rangers S.P.D. does a more standard version when dealing with multiple opponents.
In Angel, Wesley sometimes uses two guns in the fifth and final season, in the episode 'Lineage'. It only kind of works, but it was pretty Badass.
In the fifth season episode 'Lineage,' we get a This Is Reality incident when Wesley starts shooting his two guns at once, and Fred points out she'd rather have one of them. Then she gets shot.
In the first episode of Star Trek: Enterprise Captain Archer is seen brandishing a phase pistol in each hand during the fight in the snow, having taken one used by an injured crewmember he and the others were escorting to safety.
Bianca'sDepraved Bisexual lover Natalie does this in the TV version of The Dresden Files.
In the first season Buffy episode 'Angel', Darla wields two guns to attack Angel and Buffy.
Day Two of Torchwood: Children of Earth has Gwen jumping out of the back of an ambulance and firing with a gun in each hand.
Gwen also ends up firing two guns after Captain Jack teaches her how to shoot in the first series.
In an episode of NCIS, Ziva uses both her primary weapon and her backup akimbo to take out goons coming in from two separate doors. Then again, she is a Mossad-trained badass. And it's extra badass, because she first calls her boss and makes him listen while she does it.
She also blasts it out this way against a Russian mercenary at a convenience store in the Christmas Episode 'Newborn King.'
McGee ends up taking up Ziva's torch in a later season, where Torres manages to distract two men long enough for McGee to climb a table and pull two guns on them to make them cooperate.
In The Magnificent Seven series JD Dunne - the youngest and least experienced of the group - uses two Colts simultaneously with much success.
In an episode of Psych Lassiter gets into a brief shootout with a robber and blazes away at him with a pair of pistols while the robber returns fire one handed, both of them failing to score a hit. Justified by the fact that Lassiter is Trigger Happy, Properly Paranoid, and Crazy-Prepared so having a pair of guns on him during a birthday party seems perfectly normal for him.
In Deadliest Warrior, one of the Jesse James demonstrators does this with revolvers.
In The Good Guys, Pedro (the second best assassin in the world) is very good at trick shots so he can pull this off. Jack tries to do this but he ends up missing withevery single shotat point blank range. Pedro shrugs and lampshades; 'It's harder than it looks'.
In the fourth season premire of Burn Notice, Michael does this with a pair of Mac-10 machine pistols to intimidate a trio of biker thugs who were terrorizing his client. Michael even points out how he has More Dakka compared to the pistol-wielding bikers.
* Done by the hijackers in s5e10 of Burn Notice in the same manner of a police procedural with the villain starting the hijacking by dual-wielding submachine guns and shooting up into the air. It Makes Sense in Context though, as they are using the guns with the intention of intimidating airport staff and civilians, not winning a gunfight. Also, they quickly switch to just having one gun out after they get all the hostages sitting down, though the leader continues carrying around two.
Eliot in the Leverage episode 'The Big Bang Job,' in a gunfight that puts some entire action movies to shame with its over-the-top cinematics.
Eliot: I don't. [BLAM! BLAM! BLAM!] I never said I couldn't use 'em.
Chalky White does this awesomely on Boardwalk Empire when the guys who lynched one of his associates while really aiming to get Chalky himselfaccidentally reveal themselves.
Chalky: One more thing... (crosses arms under jacket, pulls out two enormous guns and turns around)How'd you know I drive a Packer?
In Kaizoku Sentai Gokaiger, the Gokaigers often exchange their weapons in the middle of battle. This often leads to Gokai Green and Gokai Pink wielding a pair of Gokai Guns. Given they're aliens and their default fighting style is Dual Wielding a sword and gun, this may be justified.
In Reilly, Ace of Spies, when the Cheka is storming the British embassy in Petrograd, Commander Cromie quietly informs Reilly and Hill that he will defend the embassy while they escape, then stands at the top of the stairs with two Colt 1911s, raining fire down on the Bolsheviks until they drag a heavy machine gun into the foyer to finish him off.
General Hospital's Jason Morgan has done this several times in his career, including during an honest-to-god Church Shootout.
Annie, Britta and Shirley in Community episode Modern Warfare. For some reason, none of the other guys do except for Senor Chang, in his role as The Dragon, who pulls out dual gold plated guns after his paintball machine gun runs out.
Subverted in the 1990s version of The Untouchables. The senior member confronts a villain who framed him. The villain tries to resist with twin tommy guns. However, the idiot doesn't realize that given how heavy the gun type is, he can't even keep them level and so doesn't do much more than shoot up the floor in front of him with a lot of noise. For his part, the Untouchable simply shoots the villain with two carefully aimed pistol shots.
Person of Interest:
Root starts doing this in the third season. The fact that she has perfect accuracy while doing the multi-targeting variant is explained by the fact that she has a sentient and borderline omniscient supercomputer doing the aiming for her. She's just pointing the guns where she's told to.
Lionel occasionally dual-wields, with significantly less accuracy. Works reasonably well as suppressing fire, though.
In the Criminal Minds 9th season finale, suspect Justin Mills uses a MAC-10 and an M 1911 A 1 during his Last Villain Stand against the FBI and the local police.
Sherlock: Emelia Ricoletti opens fire on the street wielding a large revolver in each hand in Sherlock Special The Abominable Bride. This later becomes an important clue when it's discovered that she faked her death, by pretending to shoot herself in the mouth with one revolver (which was empty) while firing the other revolver held at her side.
Luke Cage (2016):
Tone, Cottonmouth's main enforcer, uses a pair of Heckler & Koch MP5K submachine guns to shoot up Pops' barbershop during his attempted hit on Chico, a guy who has stolen from Cottonmouth. It's incredibly inefficient and reckless on his part as he only succeeds in riddling the barbershop with bullets (which is considered a neutral territory by the local gangs), he fails to kill his target, and he only succeeds in killing Pop, who caught a stray in the neck. Cottonmouth is furious enough about that last point that he kills Tone by throwing him off the roof of Harlem's Paradise.
Diamondback fires twin Walther PPK pistols in this pose when shooting at Misty Knight in Harlem's Paradise, and later when killing Domingo.
Domingo likes to wield dual Berettas in gunfights.
In Pinball Dreams 2, the table 'Revenge of the Robot Warriors' has a human female holding double BFGs.
When the dimension-hopping antics of Sequinox arc 2 land the girls in a cowboy dimension, Chell gets two revolvers that shoot fireballs.
In Deadlands dual-wielding guns, and even rifles, is possible, but offers severe penalties to hit. However, with proper Edges the player can neutralize such penalties, effectively doubling his/her firepower.
Games Workshop games:
Warhammer 40,000
The Seraphim of the Adepta Sororitas are trained to wield a pair of bolt pistols using an ancient technique to fight their enemies with fluid grace. They can also upgrade their pistols to hand flamers or inferno pistols for extra power.
The Exarchs of some Craftworld Eldar Aspect Shrines, such as the Dire Avengers and Warp Spiders, use their race’s advanced technology to duel-wield weapons that would be two-handed guns for other Eldar.
The Tau can upgrade their Battlesuits with a support system known as a multi-tracker, allowing them to fire a pair of weapons.
The Tyranid bio-weapon known as a spinefists fires great salvos of diamond hard stake-firing pistols coated in neuro-toxin and are generally wielded in pairs by the race’s warrior beasts.
Cypher of the Fallen is renowned for his abilities with his bolt pistol and plasma pistol, weapons he duel-wields with greater skill than any other in the galaxy.
Dark Heresy (and its own spinoff, Rogue Trader), allows the dual-wielding of guns with the right talents. You can also dual-wield rifles, just don't expect to hit very often.
In Inquisitor there is a special rule that can be given to characters called Gunfighter, which does actually enable them to fire two pistol weapons simultaneously. Unless they're ambidextrous, though, it does confer an aiming penalty to the gun being used in the character's off-hand.
Necromunda:
In 1st and 2nd Edition, any model with access to the Shooting Skill chart was able to acquire the 'Gunfighter' skill when they levelled up. This skill allowed the model to fire a pair of pistols at a target. This skill was also one of the common randomly generated skills available for the Bounty Hunter and Underhive Scum hire guns.
In 3rd Edition, all models equipped with a pair of pistols are able to fire them both at a single enemy fighter but suffer a to hit penalty if they do so. The 3rd Edition 'Gunfighter' skill however allows the model to ignore the to hit penalty and target multiple enemies.
In Warhammer, and its sequel Warhammer: Age of Sigmar, models armed with a brace of pistols are able to fire both their weapons at the same target during the same turn.
Mordheim uses the “fire one weapon until empty then fire the other” version of this trope for models armed with multiple pistols, allowing the model to fire every turn and bypass the need to spend a turn reloading. There is however a Shooting Skill called Pistolier that allows a model to fire both weapons at the same time when armed with a brace of pistols. The downside of this ability being that the model once again has to reload his weapons in the next turn.
Averted in Shadowrun - dual-wielding guns is possible, but offers such penalties to hit (splitting of dice pools, penalties for offhand firing, recoil, environmental factors, etc.) that it's just not worth it. Someone with godly skill (a Gunslinger Adept or a tooled-up-to-the-max Street Samurai) might be still effective with such an arrangement, but not as much as just using one firearm at a time.
However, in at least 4th edition the dual-wielding of pistols is both possible and useful, if you are using different guns to make two different shots in two different actions. It keeps recoil from stacking, which would have happened if you used the same gun twice.
Feng Shui, in keeping with Hong Kong action movies, uses this trope fairly frequently. Gun-using characters can use a gun in each hand with no penalties at all, and can blast off on mooks with both guns blazing with little problem. But against named characters, the only way to increase damage when using two guns is to buy up the Both Guns Blazing gun schtick, which doubles the base damage but allows the victim to subtract twice his toughness against it.
Doing this is a very effective way to miss in GURPS. Cinematic characters can buy off the penalties while superhuman ones can buy Extra Attack.
Generally Schmuck Bait even then. Almost no two handguns can beat the damage of a single rifle.
Though a high enough Strength allows you to pull One-Handed Zweihänder with any gun that's not a pump or bolt-action one. A strong enough Super Soldier could even dual wield heavy machineguns.
At least as of fourth edition, everyone can buy Extra Attack.
Though Buying of the penalties (6 points) is cheaper than the Extra Attack (Pistols only) (20 points)
In GURPS Gun-Fu you can buy the ability use two guns at once with no penalty for a single point, and make your guns self-reloading for another.
Every player character in Hong Kong Action Theatre can do this, along with other Guns and Gunplay Tropes, as a matter of style. HKAT's penchant for multiple attacks makes blasting somebody to hell with both guns blazing very, very possible.
Fudge Firefight II, one of the more critically acclaimed articles on the webzine, allows characters with the Double Barreled Badass knack to use two pistols as if they had an automatic weapon. This is among the most mundane knacks in the article.
Largely compliments of stuff like glass dancer, which makes you invulnerable and forces people to shoot at you anyways when you jump through a plate glass window guns blazing.
A recurring character in Exalted, the Nameless Solar, is never seen without twin plasma tongue repeaters.
One of the early spoilers for Shards of the Exalted Dream was a BFG known as a Godcannon. Its minimum strength requirement of 2 means that with a little bit of strength-boosting, you can dual-wield guns with 4-foot barrels and firing chambers the size of a torso
In Iron Kingdoms we have Allisteir Caine, a gun mage Warcaster that is well known among players for his amazing skill with two spellstorm pistols.
Also we have Master Holt, Taryn Di La Rovissi and Pistol Wraiths.
Psionics: The Next Stage in Human Evolution gives us the John Wu Special technique, which allows players to wield two guns at the same time.
The TK Gunslinger talent allows you to hold, fire, and reload extra guns with telekinesis. If you have both, you can wield up to four guns at once.
Ironclaw has the Akimbo Fighter gift (as an improvement of Ambidexterity), which would allow a character to do this, even though the only guns in the setting are wheel-locks.
One of the suggested starting builds in Myriad Song is 'Akimbo Assassin', you fight with two pistols.
Max Steiner from Mutant Chronicles dual-wields machine pistols. He apparently got the idea from a movie he loved as a kid.
Surprise surprise, a very vanilla ('mortal') character can do this in 'New World of Darkness' (look for Gunslinger merit). If he's also Ambidextrous, he can do this very effectively.
In Zombicide, some weapons are considered 'dual' (the pistols, machine pistols and the Sawed-Off Shotguns for guns). If you have two identical dual weapons equipped, you can fire both at the same area for one action. Also, you can pick up the Ambidexterity skill to consider every weapon as a dual weapon. Also, there is one weapon called the Evil Twins, taking only one inventory slot and considered only one weapon, though the eveil twins are two handguns.
In Hc Svnt Dracones a character with at least three dots in Mind:Acuity and two in Ranged Combat can do this. But they have to split up their attack dice between the two guns so they're unlikely to hit much unless using SMGs.
Expatriette from Sentinels of the Multiverse can use her dual handguns namedPride and Prejudice this way.
Advent Rising: Gideon Wyeth can and will dual-wield any and every obtainable weapon in the game... including rocket launchers.
The South Korean version of Alliance of Valiant Arms has two weapons that can be wielded in this fashion; namely the Steyr TMP and a blinged-out version of the Beretta 92FS pistol.
Assassin's Creed games prior to the advent of multiple-shot magazines allow/require the assassin player character in question to carry multiple pistols at once for the 'New York Reload' subtrope. Assassin's Creed: Unity and Assassin's Creed: Syndicate have multiple-shot weapons, and thus defy the trope.
Julien du Casse: I pine for the day when one gun will carry ten shots, and not the other way around.
Even more absurd is Vermilion in the Battle Arena Toshinden games, who holds a Peacemaker handgun in his right hand, and a shotgun in his left.
The titular leading lady in Bayonetta can not only dual-wield, but QUAD-wield with her hands and firing mechanisms on her calves/heels, everything from bladed weapons to pistols to ROCKET LAUNCHERS, and apparently any combination thereof.
In Blockland, 'Guns Akimbo' doesn't even have to be installed separately like many other weapons, it comes with the game, having better accuracy than the normal pistol.
Blood:
In the first game, it is possible to find a 'Guns Akimbo' powerupnote , which makes the protagonist wield two weapons (shotguns, napalm launchers etc) for a short time.
The sequel, Blood II, does away with the powerup, and just lets you dual-wield one-handed guns when you pick another one up. It's something of a mixed bag, as you're robbed of the Secondary Fire, but generally the secondary fire was trying to force some alternate mode that the gun simply wasn't designed for: secondary mode with one pistol is quick and doesn't cost two bullets per shot (since akimbo forces you to fire both guns at the same time), but the lack of fire rate cap and no insistence on holding the gun at an odd angle means it can accomplish about the same at a further range; while the SMGs lose the slower and more precise secondary mode, that mode was still noticeably less accurate than the pistols anyway; the Sawed-Off Shotgun, loses its more powerful double-barreled blast, but since akimbo weapons both fire at the same time anyway, it's closer to 'upgrading' to permanent double-barrel blasts, but at the cost of being unable to fire just one barrel at a time when ammo is scarce. Other than constantly hitting the 'drop weapon' key, the game gives you no way to avoid dual wielding whenever you happen to pick up another gun of the same type, too.+
Rayne in the BloodRayne games does this, and almost nothing but this, at all times. The only exceptions are in the first game (a bolt-action rifle and a rocket launcher); at all other times, she's dual-wielding to her heart's content.
Borderlands 2 has Salvador, the 'Gunzerker', who can do this with any two guns in the game. If you so desired you could easily heft a rocket launcher in one hand and a sniper rifle in the other. Salvador, it should be mentioned, is very strong. This naturally prevents you from aiming down the sights, although several of his skills boost accuracy anyway. Also, his ammo pools regenerate while gunzerking, except for rocket launchers to prevent them from being a total Game-Breaker. One of his random lines while Gunzerking is 'AKIIIIIMBOOOO!'
Note that Salvador has a pair of ammo-things just under his arms that he uses to reload them, and happens to have a low center of gravity, to handle the recoil.
Goliaths are Bandit Giant Mooks, and unless you shoot their helmets off, they dual wield machine gun-type assault rifles.
Bug
Should Bug get too far from the first boss, a giant snail, it would retract into its shell and immediately come out with a cowboy hat and dual pistols (despite having no arms) before firing bullets from said pistols.
Queen Cadavra takes this one Up to Eleven — she's a Giant Spider, so she takes out eightsubmachine guns and strafes the floor with them!
Call of Duty. First available in Big Red One, where gaining eight points in a match allowed a player with the Submachine Gun class to use two 1911s (American team) or P38s (German team). Modern Warfare 2 has the feature return in an expanded role for multiplayer: Akimbo is an 'attachment' for game purposes, allowing you to double up any handgun, machine pistol or submachine gun and certain shotguns. For game balance and due to control limitations they can not use their sights, thus relegating such dual-wielded weapons to close quarters or suppressive fire (although before it was patched, one of the dual-wieldable shotguns, the Winchester 1887, was absurdly effective anyway), and you need the Bling perk's Pro version to use another attachment (which, as above, can't include a sight) at the same time. Modern Warfare 3 uses it the same in multiplayer and even has its how up once in the campaign, where Grinch at one point wields dual Desert Eagles, and fires at two different targets with them. He is the only NPC to dual wield guns, and even the Player Character can't shoot in different directions.
Also featured in Call of Duty: Black Ops. Any pistol, most SMGs and one type of shotgun can be used this way, though secondaries can no longer equip two attachments and the shotgun in question has no other available attachments anyway. Black Ops also features a small handful of Soviet officers in specific situations of the campaign who rush you with twin Makarovs while everyone else is using AKs and shotguns. The first level played as Hudson is also filled with akimbo weapons (you even start with dual CZ-75s); an achievement involves using nothing but those dual-wielded guns for the whole level, to go with the level in general feeling like a John Woo film.
Dual-wielding* has returned in every Call of Duty since then, though as of Black Ops II it's become slightly less ludicrious by, with very few exceptions per game, only allowing the player to use pistols. However, Advanced Warfare also includes a pair of heavier weapons (one SMG, one heavy weapon) that are always played akimbo by default. Infinite Warfare likewise has one weapon that starts as an assault rifle for use at longer ranges, but can be split into two machine pistols for closer ranges by holding the weapon-switch button.
In Call of Juarez both playable characters, Billy and Reverend Ray, can dual wield colts and sawn-off shotguns. The Reverend has even a Concentration Mode, in which he enters Bullet Time and shoots from both revolvers he's got.
When Ray enters Concentration mode, two crosshairs, one for each pistol, appear on both sides of the screen and slowly make their way to the middle. On the way, you can click the left or right mouse button to shoot the corresponding gun at the target behind its crosshair. When both crosshairs meet, the Bullet Time ends, by which time a skilled player will already have massacred an entire line of foes in front of him.
Call of Juarez: The Cartel revels in this, where a good 70% of the arsenal is made up of pistols and revolvers that can all be mixed and matched. One character, Eddie, can also use one-handed SMGs together.
The Munitions power framework in Champions Online has two versions of this for two of its powers. Gunslinger does it Old West style, firing two pistols in alternating faction. Two-Gun Mojo goes true movie akimbo style, firing both at the same time and even holding them out in the arms crossed forward pose.
Thugs Masterminds in City of Villains have this in spades: the Mastermind him/herself uses two pistols, as do the Punk henchmen, while Enforcer henchmen use two Uzis.
The aptly-named Gunslinger enemy in City of Heroes also uses two pistols (with ammunition that can burn or freeze), although they usually fire them one at a time.
Blasters, Defenders, and Corruptors who purchase Going Rogue also have access to a Dual Pistols powerset. It shares it's most basic attacks with the Thug Mastermind (Though performed with John Woo style flair), but eventually goes into physics defying bullet insanity. Like the aforementioned Gunslingers, you can also swap to Incendiary, Cryogenic, and Chemical ammunition.
Tanya Adams. The hero and most powerful unit in Command & Conquer: Red Alert Series, and becoming even more powerful in Red Alert 2 with the ability to place explosives on tanks and ships, and shoot at soldiers without being manually commanded (and more hot with vocals and cinematics portrayed by Kari Wührer), she could kill enemy soldiers with two Colt M1911s fired 'Woo style' long before they were in range with their assault weapons.
In The Darkness you can only use SMGs and pistols by dual-wielding, and the Darkness Guns are a pair of mismatched pistols with similarly mismatched effects. Oddly enough, it actually handles dual-wielding comparatively realistically - it's difficult to hit anything with submachine guns except at very close range if you fire both at once, and when an SMG or pistol runs out of bullets, Jackie tosses it and pulls out another one. How he manages to carry 60 pistols and 30 SMGs without them being even slightly visible is another issue entirely.
Also, in The Darkness II you can still dual-wield handguns (with the Darkness Guns being a power instead of weapons), but the case is that the whole 'carrying an invisible gun safe', is replaced with only being able to hold one/two handguns, a special weapon, and a rifle. The mentioned 'special weapon' is dependant on whether playing story mode or Vendetta: Jackie has his demon heads, and his hitmen have one Darkness imbued weapon.
In the Devil May Cry series, Dante's signature ranged weapons are a pair of pistols named Ebony and Ivory. In fact, they have always been present in all his incarnations, whereas his main sword has not been so consistent. In the second game, Dante can wield Ebony and his shotgun together, but this has not appeared in subsequent games; whether this is because Non-Linear Sequel, where the second takes place later, makes this a demonstration of Dante's sheer power, or because Capcom is practising Canon Discontinuity, is still up for debate.
Trish, Dante's partner, also wields signature twin pistols, named Luce and Ombra. The demon hunter Lady can wield two firearms at once too.
In Devil May Cry 5, If Dante has both the Kalina Ann rocket launcher and it's upgraded version Kalina Ann II he can dual-wield them together.
The Fencers and Heavy Strikers of Earth Defense Force are iconic for two things: one, extremely heavy, cumbersome, but durable exo-skeleton armour, and two, being able to dual-wield heavy weapons. Firing two miniguns at once? No problem.
Maximilian Roivas of Eternal Darkness can find a second flintlock pistol in his mansion to accompany the first one he starts with; of course, given that each gun chambers only one round which must be hand-loaded, double the firearms means double the time spent standing still to reload, which can prove rather fatal when a Horror bearing down on you.
Makoto Sawatari of Eternal Fighter Zero uses a pair of guns to fire a huge barrage of bullets while suspended in mid-air for her 'Ground Strafing' attack. This is possibly a reference to Dante of Devil May Cry, as her guns look just like Ebony and Ivory.
In the Fate/stay night novel prequel Fate/Zero, Servant Berserker (Lancelot) is armed with dual sub machine-guns during the Final Battle, complete with Mana-charged bullets.
Kiritsugu also goes akimbo with a Contender and a Calico sub-machine gun. It's done reasonably: the Calico is mainly for distraction, and he never uses the Contender until necessary.
Final Fantasy X-2 - The Gunner job class gives the characters two guns (fired on the same target); Yuna gets to show this off in the opening cutscene.
The Japan-onlyBefore Crisis Final Fantasy VII features this combat style for one of the playable Turks.
Sazh from Final Fantasy XIII uses this gun style.
The player character of First Encounter Assault Recon has the ability to do this with two pistols, and it's mentioned that he was specially trained to do this because of his enhanced reflexes. Something of note is how they're semi-randomly chosen to shoot with: instead of alternating consistently between guns with every shot like most examples of this trope, you may fire up to four consecutive rounds with one of the pistols, only to fire only one with the other and go back to the first onenote .
Fortnite has the Dual Pistols weapon, which effectively serves as a burst-type weapon. Strangely, you can't just find two Pistols and then fire them together; you have to find a weapon that is explicitly two pistols bundled together. Conversely, you cannot split the Dual Pistols off into two individual Pistols.
Trent, the players character from Freelancer, does this during a non-interactive cutscene: While boarding a space station he is armed with two Frickin Lasers while his less badass companions only get one.
GoldenEye is fond of having both Bond and the bad guys use dual pistols and submachine guns. Xenia Onatopp in her boss fight uses a P90 and a grenade launcher, which you can also do once you defeat her. Jaws wields two M16 rifles at the same time, which you can also do if you kill him. You can even use two grenade or rocket launchers at once, but you'll need to use cheat codes in order to do so.
In NightFire, You can dual-wield automatic pistols, however, this quadruples the reload time.
Using the All weapons cheat gave the player access to two of every weapon, allowing the player to dual wield anything from PP7s to the aforementioned Rocket Launchers. Also, if a player change weapon fast enough, they could dual wield two different weapons at once.
That glitch was especially amusing when you used it to dual wield a Watch Laser and a regular gun. When you used the Watch Laser you saw both of Bond's hands operating it, meaning that the additional gun must have been held with a third arm...
GoldenEye's Spiritual SuccessorPerfect Dark has this as well, just without the ability to wield two of the same two-handed weapons at once.
Upgrade your skill with the standard pistol, one-handed SMGs, or the sawn-off shotgun, and you can two-fist them in Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas. Except for the Desert Eagle pistol.
Dual pistols are also a weapon in Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars.
Grand Theft Auto 2: An equippable variation on the standard pistol.
Halo had dual-wielding in its second and third installments; you can even use two different guns, and fire them separately or in combination. You can only dual-wield guns that can be held in one hand though, like pistols or sub-machine guns, and your left hand must be empty to pistol-whip or use grenades. However, dual-wielding has been removed from the main games since Halo 4, with only the top-down shooters Spartan Assault and Halo: Spartan Strike featuring any dual-wielding.
Lampshaded in an online description of the SMG, which provides a quote from a marine pointing out how only a 'seven-foot-tall walking tank' like the Master Chief could possibly dual-wield submachine guns and still hit anything.
The introduction of the feature in 2 led some folks to joke that 3 would allow players to grow a third arm and triple-wield weapons. Or at least be able to use grenades without dropping the second gun.
Notably, in Halo 3: ODST, the ability to dual-wield two guns is removed. Why? You're playing an Orbital Drop Shock Trooper - a badass, yes, but an ordinary human soldier nonetheless. Who can still rip off and carry turrets. That said, it still doesn't stop Miranda Keyes from dual-wielding in a couple of cutscenes in both 2 and 3, despite being a completely unaugmented ship commander.
In a certain cutscene in Halo: Reach, Noble Six dual-wields an assault rifle and a pistol while aiming at different targets, on opposite sides of them. In a game where the dual-wielding feature was completely taken out. A similar situation happens in Halo 4's Spartan Ops's cutscenes, which show Palmer dual-wielding pistols despite the player not being able to do the same.
It isn't just Super Soldiers who can dual-wield; the Elites, like the Arbiter, can do it too, even in games where the player can't.
Heavy Metal: F.A.K.K. 2 was notable for overlapping with Dual Wielding through Julie's ability to dual wield almost any combination of several different guns, swords and shields at the same time.
In Hellgate: London, anyone who can use firearms can use one-handed ones Guns Akimbo without training. Fire control is independent by default, and can be set to simultaneous fire - you can even combine them with a melee weapon, focus item, or shield - so you can do a variety of things with them - the various techniques opened by this are too diverse for this Wiki to go into.
Throughout the Hitman series, the player is given the option to dual wield the protagonist's signature 'Silverballer' handguns, but this is mostly a gimmick as it decreases accuracy, makes reloading awkward and is somewhat at odds with the games' stealthy nature.
Hitman: Absolution allows the player to dual wield two of whatever pistol 47 finds. Averted with revolvers, which can only be used one at a time.
Hitman: Contracts allows every pistol in the game as well as the Micro-Uzi and the Sawed-Off Shotgun as an unlockable feature for completing missions with a Silent Assassin rating. This can result in a situation where 47 can carry around twenty pistols in his jacket.
Averted in Hitman (2016). The Silverballer is available as an unlockable, but only as a single pistol. Even picking up multiple single pistols only tops off your reserve ammunition.
The House of the Dead: OVERKILL for the Wii includes this as an actual game mode. Just select the Dual Wield option, pick up a second Wii Remote and you're good to go.
Clear a level this way and you get a bunch of bonus images.
Isaac Washington in this game is shown wielding two guns in cutscenes.
Resident Evil: The Umbrella Chronicles has this too, but it's meant to let you play single-character chapters with two players.
In Injustice: Gods Among Us, Deathstroke uses this style of weapon use...for his pistols, because dual automatic rifles would be weird to animate. In the sequel, Mr. Wilson is replaced with DLC character Red Hood, who is less mercenary Gun Nut and more Akimbo Gun Nut.
In Just Cause 2, Rico can do this with any combination of the smaller weapons. This somehow includes revolver-mechanism Grenade Launchers, but hey, Rule of Cool. Yes, that means you can dual-wield grenade-launching revolvers. Or revolvers. Or a revolver and a grenade-launching revolver, and so on.
Con Smith from killer7 is a blind assassin that uses dual Glock 18s, and reloads them with his feet.
Also of note is Mask de Smith, who dual-wields grenade launchers. Possibly justified in that he's a former masked wrestler who suplexes large wooden beams and can drag an 18-wheeler, but... not really.
You can dual-wield the standard pistol (which is, of course, a 9mm Beretta) in Killing Floor: you gain twice the ammo capacity and firing rate, but reloading takes longer and it's really hard to aim effectively. You can also get 'two bloody great handfuls' of the Desert Eagle, Mark 23, .44 Magnum, or flare revolver.
Killing Floor 2 likewise allows for dual-wielding of all handguns but the Medic's pistol. Interestingly, the issue of aiming two guns at once is somewhat fixed, as the Secondary Fire for dual pistols lets you switch between two aim modes: one where each gun is held to the side, and the other where the player character aims down the right-hand gun's sight, while holding the left-hand one lower and simply pointing it in the same general direction.
Kingdom Hearts:
Xigbar from Kingdom Hearts II uses two guns akimbo, although he occasionally combines them to make a sniper rifle.
Braig does this in Kingdom Hearts: Birth by Sleep as well, though in both II and BBS, the Westernized version didn't get guns turning into the rifle.
Sora gains the ability in Kingdom Hearts III.
In Knights of the Old Republic, you need a special skill to use two weapons or else not only will you not have any status bonuses, or even get negative stats on the off-hand weapon, but the main weapon will lose them as well.
Still, max that feat out on Carth, the only character built for this by default, amp up the dex stat, and hand the fellow Cassus Fett's pistol in one hand and Bendak Starkiller's in the other. Consider the path clear of any Mooks while you apply lightsabers to the level boss. Incidentally, Carth also gets around the real-world problems that would normally come with two guns thanks to the heavy implication that he is an untrained Force-Sensitive, which is established throughout the franchise as granting Improbable Aiming Skills.
Croix from La Pucelle Tactics wields two guns, one that does fire-elemental damage and one that does ice. He generally only uses both at once for powerful attacks, though.
In Left 4 Dead you can pick up a second pistol and use both at the same time. There's even an achievement for using only pistols for an entire campaign called 'Akimbo Assassin.'
Funny note, in Spanish the achievement is called 'Billy the Kid.'
Pistols are the only weapons you can wield like this, as all melee weapons (even one-handed ones like the machete and baton) and the Magnum cannot. The latter is justified though, because it's a freaking Desert Eagle.
Lunar Knights has the Ninja for this. Despite its low attack power, its rapid fire ability - upgraded to vulgar levels - makes it one of the best guns in the game.
In MDK2, Max the dog is a robotic pooch that looks like a cross between Snoopy and The Punisher, with four arms. He can fire any four weapons, including shotguns and Gatlings, at the same time.
Marathon is the first video game that allowed the player to use this trope. It's also one of the only ones to use it realistically; when using the pistol, the player must stop firing both guns to reload them one at a time.
Marathon 2 features what may be the only thing cool enough to justify sacrificing the satisfying chunk-chunk-boom rhythm of pump-action shotguns in videogames. The marine cocks his sawed-off lever action by flipping them end over end, like Arnie does in Terminator 2: Judgment Day, which was awesome to begin with. But when you find another one, you get the chance to dual-wield double-barreled shotguns! The issue of recoil management is likely handled by the fact that the character is implied to be a military-grade cyborg, while the issues of reloading twin shotguns (or even one) between shots (they don't have magazines) is handwaved in the manual by Durandal saying they have an exotic reloading mechanism he doesn't think you'd be able to understand. This is so much fun that it could pretty much justify Marathon all by itself.
Max Payne, as a pastiche of John Woo-style action-films, uses paired weapons all the time.
This also employed the Rule of Cool in Max Payne 2, wherein the necessity for reloading during a player-controlled bullet time sequence was handled by Max simply spinning in a circle. Apparently the motion of a dramatic 360 with a flaring leather jacket can actually create filled magazines from air. This 'technique' worked for everything from a pistol, to a shotgun, to an assault rifle, and worked the exact same way for dual-wielded weapons as well.
The Mega Man (Classic) series:
Several Robot Masters who wield dual weapons, mostly the ones that wield explosives (Crashman, Napalmman). Mega Man himself has two Arm Cannons, but only uses one at a time.
Mega Man does break out both busters simultaneously in the non-canon Super Adventure Rockman, where even Wily freaks out that it's going to be too powerful and likely to end catastrophically. Mega Man annihilates Ra Moon anyway and manages to not blow his own arms off.
He is also due to equip both busters for certain attacks in his Super Smash Bros. Brawl debut. The two that we know of so far, Spark Shock and Flame Blast, employ both busters for a more damaging attack, but require the busters to cool down in between attacks.
Mega Man X improves on the original by (in later games) charging both Busters and firing them in succession.
Axl has twin pistols in the Mega Man X games - at least in the cutscenes, official art, and whatnot. You don't control them independently in play. (Note the similarity to Zero's Dual Wielding.) His first appearance does feature a boss weapon that you can dual wield (the model of the guns a shout out to the dual-wielded pistols from Resident Evil – Code: Veronica), and Mega Man X: Command Mission also sees him using two of them.
Model A, his successor in Mega Man ZX Advent, used dual pistols only visible in official art and giga attack animations.
As well, Fefnir from the Zero series and Model F... Though they don't have guns. They have dual arm cannons. BIG arm cannons. And the latter can use the touch screen of the DS to direct the exact path of the shots. Sure, you can't fire both at the same time and they have to stand in place, but being able to cause mass destruction (Which you can't do with regular guns) makes up for it.
The Metal Gear series deserves a special mention for totally, totally avoiding this one, despite the fact that it's usually more than happy to use every other gunplay trope ever. Notably, there's a scene in Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater in which Ocelot presents his dual revolvers to Snake: 'Twelve shots. This time, I've got twelve shots.' He proceeds to use them both - but one at a time, cowboy-style.
Hideo Kojima went on-record in a game magazine, around the release of the first Metal Gear Solid, in a sidebar comparing Snake and Lara Croft; he said he dislikes the two-gun trope and that it stretches believability too far. Yes, this is from a series with a vampire, but it's part of Magic Realism.
Whether this counts as an aversion or subversion is debatable, but since the designers drew attention to it, it maybe a subversion...when the original Metal Gear Solid game was being hyped, the designers, probably because of the game's perspective and resultant comparisons to other Third-Person Shooter games like Tomb Raider, noted that Snake only carries one gun and he uses both hands—because that's how a real badass does it. In one particular interview they were asked who would win, Lara or Snake, and they said, quite aside from training, that because he not only used just one gun but avoided Firing One-Handed, Snake would demolish her.
In one of the cutscenes during the showdown of Metal Gear Solid 4 Meryl and Johnny hold a door against waves of guards to win Snake some time. they are not only both holding a gun in each hand, but also put new magazines into each others gun to speed up reloading, making them shout Dual Guns Akimbo!
Reiji and Xiaomu both Dual-wield in Namco × Capcom: Xiaomu with dual pistols, Reiji with a pistol and shotgun.
Both of them and KOS-MOS repeat their feats in Super Robot Taisen OG Saga: Endless Frontier.
Mii Koryuji from Project X Zone has the ability to switch her rifle into two handguns.
Nitro Family. You think two pistols or Uzis are for kids? Try two shotguns. Or two miniguns. Or, even better, two rocket launchers.
In PAYDAY 2, You can get akimbo versions of most of the pistols and submachine guns that are available to use as primary weapons. They're popular with 'dodge' builds, where highly concealable weapons are a necessity. With an Akimbo weapon and the right skills, a player can clear an entire room of enemies in seconds. Taken to the extreme with the release of the Brother Grimms akimbo Shotguns (which, surprisingly, Overwatch wasn't the intended reference, it was the titular Brother Grimms). Then in Spring Break 2018, they released (almost) all version of SMG and Pistol akimbo. Oh, also akimbo version of Goliath 12G shotgun and The Judge!
The Punisher game takes this to ridiculous extremes, allowing the player to fire 2 M60s, among other things. However, the game is pretty realistic when it comes to reloading for when the Punisher is wielding a pair of big weapons (assault rifles, shotguns, machine guns, etc.), rather than try to reload both weapons at once he just tosses aside the second weapon.
The Dual Vipers/Raptors in Ratchet: Deadlocked serve as his rapid-fire gun.
In Resistance: Fall of Man, it is possible to dual-wield a pair of Chimeran weapons called Reapers, which work like machine pistols. Due to the protagonist's enhanced abilities caused by the Chimera virus, he is actually able to track two separate targets with each individual weapon.
Nohime uses her pistols this way in Sengoku Basara. Magoichi usually uses a single magnum, but she does use this for some of her attacks, with her Limit Break having her toss a bunch of guns up into the air and dual-wielding any that she picks up.
The final boss of Serious Sam: The First Encounter, Ugh-Zan III, dual-wields weapons and later adds two more for a total of FOUR, even though he is so much bigger than Sam it is ridiculous. Sam himself can use two Shofield .45 revolvers at the same time.
The Next Encounter and Serious Sam 2 let you play with two Uzis instead of a tommygun; the latter also lets you combine an Uzi with one of the starting infinite-ammo revolvers.
InSAMnity! 2 takes it to Serial Escalation levels, making you hold two of everything. Although the question is... how do you look in BOTH sniper rifles?
The Last Hope and the VR Updated Re-release of The First Encounter allow you to dual-wield every gun in the arsenal, including the miniguns and rocket launchers. TFE even lets you mix and match guns to your heart's content!
Shadow Warrior features the lead character, Lo Wang (yes, a ninja with a Chinese name...it's that kind of game), using Uzis Guns Akimbo. In the remake, dual-wielding is an upgrade for the uzi.
It might be noted that Lo Wang, in his (inevitably) thick accent, says 'Be proud, Mistah Woo!' sometimes when picking up a second Uzi to use Guns Akimbo.
Skies of Arcadia features Gilder, a party member who can dual-wield his pistols as part of a special attack.
NetHack's bastard cousin Slash EM features firearms. Add the ability to enchant your own weapons, and you end up with some pretty interesting fantasy dungeon-crawling.
Soldier of Fortune II: Double Helix allows Mullins to dual-wield handguns and submachineguns. You can wield different pistols and even a handgun and a submachinegun together, although it's Awesome, but Impractical: doing that requires a key binding all of its own, you're forced to reload as soon as one of the guns runs dry, and the one SMG will be limited to semi-auto fire. It's really only a great pick if you need the Mk.23's tactical light in one of the Blackout Basement levels.
Star Wars: The Old Republic: features Mercenary and Gunslinger character classes gleefully blasting away with two guns at once. Some skills of those classes can only be used while Dual Wielding. The ranged damage companions and some NPC do this as well.
In the John Woo game Stranglehold, Inspector Tequila Yuen (from one of his most famous movies, Hard Boiled) uses dual guns extensively, from Berettas to Desert Eagles to Heckler and Koch MP5K submachine guns. The only time Tequila reloads is when he's gearing up to unleash a Barrage attack; otherwise he just throws the guns away when he's out of bullets and pulls out another gun, like Chow Yun-Fat frequently does in John Woo movies.
A lot of bad guys in Stranglehold use Guns Akimbo as well, such as Jerry Ying at the Chicago History Museum and a good number of mooks during the later stages. This reaches its peak during the final showdown, which has Dapang, Wong's huge bodyguard, backing up his master with dual shotguns.
Handled slightly more realistically in The Suffering, which gives you the option of double-fisting the smaller guns for double the power, but with half the accuracy. This is Lampshaded in the manual, styled as a memo to the prison guards, warning them that even though it may look cool in Hong Kong action movies, its usually a pretty stupid thing to do in real life.
Diddy with his Peanut Popguns and Falco with his laser guns in Super Smash Bros. Brawl. They both use them to Leap and Fire in a Cutscene.
However, only Diddy can actually do this ingame. During his Final Smash, that is.
Moreover, the Diddy example predates Super Smash Bros. Brawl. It first appeared in Donkey Kong 64.
Super Robot Wars
The Real Personal Trooper Type-1 and it's derivatives usually carry two Humongous Mecha-sized pistols. The ART-1 prototype also dual-wields chainsaw tonfas.
Ratsel's Aussenseiter/Daitrombe also uses a pair of Super Robot-sized BFGs to great effect.
The Excellence Cosmodriver and Lightning frames in Super Robot Wars R/Original Generation Gaiden do too.
Target Terror Gold has a 'Justice Mode' option that allows a player to use both of the game's light guns in akimbo mode with one credit.
Wild Dog takes this trope to a ridiculous extreme in the Time Crisis series. He can use a sidearm in his right hand, and his left arm is a machine gun. In Time Crisis 2, he uses them both to attack both players in rapid succession.
In the TimeSplitters series, certain weapons can be dual-wielded, but ONLY if they are taken from a fallen enemy that was dual-wielding them. For example, you can pick up dozens of Tommy guns, but these only act as ammo pickups until you kill an enemy with two Tommy guns, at which point you can dual-wield them to heart's content.
And in co-op play, both weapons are dropped as separate dual wield weapon pickups allowing each player to pick up one if they notice this and the weapons fall far enough from each other.
What guns you can dual-wield can come off as a bit strange, for instance, in the first game you can dual-wield miniguns, and in the third game, you can dual-wield shotguns. Never mind how you load two shotguns at once.
Tomb Raider:
Lara Croft's signature weapon is a pair of akimbo pistols. In the first two titles she used to shoot them with remarkable timing, such that the two shots sounded just like one. In following titles of the series the two shots are slightly offset. She is also noted for automatically aiming both weapons independently in target rich environments.
Lara's rival, Pierre, dual wields magnum pistols against her.
Lara herself can use said magnum pistols later after she plucks them from his cold, dead, hands. They are replaced in the sequel by automatic pistols.
Rounding out her arsenal, Lara can also wield dual Uzi SMGs.
In the reboot, her trademark dual-pistols have been replaced by a bow and arrows. She only uses the one pistol. That is, until the finale, where she takes the Big Bad's pistol off his belt while grappling with him, and then finally uses it and her own one in her signature style to mow him down. That said, it's only a Mythology Gag, and she does not use it again.
Unreal Tournament. Pick up a second Enforcer pistol, use both at once. Even better, you can still use Secondary Fire to increase firing rate by using the two pistols Gangsta Style! Can actually be very effective, as while two Enforcers shoot slower than one Minigun, their bullets are more precise and deal more damage. At any significant distance a player with two enforcers is almost guaranteed to kill one with a minigun. This changes at short range, where the low precision of the minigun is no longer a disadvantage and secondary fire beats absolutely everything in sheer fire rate. The returning version of the Enforcer in Unreal Tournament III can still be used two at once
UT2k3/UT2k4's Enforcer replacement, the assault rifle with grenade launcher, can also be used akimbo. Though it lacks the accuracy advantage the Enforcer had over its respective minigun, it's actually the faster-firing option (since the new minigun's secondary fire slows the fire rate in return for better damage), and their grenade launchers still remain usable when paired up. Akimbo rifles with semi-auto grenade launchers carrying 8 grenades each are the reason you don't want to drop your rifle into a skilled player's hands.
The Ballistic Weapons mod for UT2004 lets you mix and match pistols, submachine guns, and some other small weapons together. Reloading is handled like in Marathon above.
Water Warfare lets you dual-wield both the standard starter pistol and the submachine gun. Doing so offers a rate of fire comparable to the next-fastest weapon (Pistol is like submachine gun, submachine becomes like machine gun), but with the power of the base weapon (faster rate of fire = weaker shots), and, in the pistol's case, the pistol's ridiculous reload rate.
Guns Akimbo is the primary shooting style of Rubi Malone, the protagonist of Wet. When she is in the air or doing a slide, she can target two opponents with both her guns, locking on to an enemy with one gun and then using the second gun to blast other enemies. In addition, she can blast bad guys akimbo-style while running when in Rage Mode.
Wild Arms 3 at least nodded to the implausibility of this by introducing a girl, Virginia, whose unique ability was that she was able to handle two ARMs (guns) at once. As a bit of a subversion, though, she wasn't a powerful physical bruiser character, instead being best suited to handling items and magic.
Dean, from Wild ARMs 5 also uses Guns Akimbo. Well, also Dual Wielding. Or something. No attempt is made to rationalize this.
Wolfenstein 3D bosses are a big fan of this. All of the Grosse Super Soldiers dual-wield Chainguns, as does Hitler after BJ ejects him from his Powered Armor. General Fettgesicht and Barnacle Wilhelm dual-wield a chaingun and a rocket launcher for an even deadlier combo, beaten only by the Totesritter boss who totes a Chaingun on heach hand backed by two rocket-launching Shoulder Cannons.
While Wolf3D didn't allow the player to do this, Return to Castle Wolfenstein adds dual semi-auto pistols. Too bad their ammo is rare and better used on the fully automatic Thompson.
In Wolfenstein: The New Order, you can dual-wield almost every gun, including shotguns and assault rifles. Your only limitation is that you can't wield different guns in each hand. This limitation is removed in Wolfenstein II: The New Colossus, with BJ being able to dual-wield any gun however he wants.
In Quake Champions, this is B.J. Blazkowicz's active ability, dual-wielding any of the game's weapons, with the benefit of either reducing the weapon cooldown between shots or increasing the rate of fire.
In Quake Champions: Doom Edition, B.J. has a 'Kraftsman' ability that lets him wield the two Ubersoldaten weapons, the Laserkraftwerk and the Dieselkraftwerk.
KOS-MOS in Xenosaga can dual-wield gatling cannons each nearly as large as she is. This is a bit more plausible when you consider that she is an android designed to be pretty much the most powerful combat system in the universe, but mostly, it's just OK by way of Rule of Cool.
Jr. from the same game uses dual pistols as his main weapons, but rarely shoots both at once unless it's a Limit Break, or against a large target.
In Evil Genius RTS (making fun of every possible 'spy movie' trope), U.S. Super Agent dual-wields machine guns, easily mowing down entire squads of your mooks.
In the online, third person shooter S4 League, the Sub-Machine Gun weapon is only available in pairs, using the 'both triggers at the same time on one target' method.
Trestkon's dual pistols in The Nameless Mod. However the game takes place in cyberspace where the HUD and Crossheirs are explicitly visible.
Asagi, a recurring character in the Nippon Ichi games has two pistols that she wields Gun Kata style as her main weapons.
Thanks to the double Magichange feature in Disgaea 4, anybody is capable of dual-wielding guns. Guns that are actually monsters, and potentially as big as the character wielding them, no less.
IG-88 in Star Wars: Empire at War: Forces of Corruption uses both a blaster pistol and a blaster RIFLE at the same time.
York Neely, the male main character of Cross Edge, wields a pair of pistols, one larger than the other.
In Crysis, you can dual wield the pistol (though you are wearing a strength-enhancing Nanosuit). Crysis:Warhead takes this even further and lets you dual-wield two small SMGs (though even with the Nanosuit in Strength mode it's hard to hit anything more than 3 meters away.)
A development in the Tales Series, Iria Animi (Tales of Innocence), Legretta the Quick (Tales of the Abyss) and and the Gunman class (Tales of the World) wield twin pistols, Hisui Hearts (Tales of Hearts) uses arm-bow-cannons, Hubert Ozwell (Tales of Graces) uses a blade that can separate into a pair of handguns, and Kurtz (also Tales of Graces) uses sworg-gun-... things.
Date Masamune does this with old-fashioned powder-load pistols in Samurai Warriors (and in the crossover series Warriors Orochi). Fortunately for him, he never has to reload.
Several of Billy Lee Black's deathblows in Xenogears would feature this.
Drake of the 99 Dragons combined the hero's dual pistols with auto-aim. The result was described by X-Play as looking like 'a sub-homicidal semaphore session.'
How do you know the Reaper will do you significant harm in Persona 3 and Persona 4? He dual-wields revolvers with four-foot-long barrels.
In Persona 2: Eternal Punishment Maya dual-wields guns.
Reconstructed in Dystopia. Early concepts of the dual pistols were ridiculously hard to aim, so the current version, called the Smartlock Pistols, allows the user to lock onto either a single target twice, or two targets.
Torn has two pistols in the Jak and Daxter series, and Keira gets two after her Adrenaline Makeover.
Natan's weapon of choice from Shadow Hearts: From the New World, since his fighting style is Gun Fu.
This is how Jack in MadWorld defeats the second boss, Jude the Dude (Video here): He punches Jude in the ass, then takes his guns, blows him away, and then fires them in rapid succession—despite them being only six shot revolvers—firing faster and faster till he blows all of Jude's skin off, leaving only a skeleton, looks away, and then BLOWS JUDE COMPLETELY TO PIECES WITH THE LAST SHOT. It's one the most awesome kills in video-game history. And then there's the deleted finisher for Jude, where Jack rams the guns up Jude's ass, and then forces them deeper in, and then EXPLODES HIS ENTIRE LOWER HALF, SENDING HIS UPPER HALF INTO THE ATMOSPHERE, WHERE IT EXPLODES LIKE A FIREWORK'. Gorn Indeed.
The X-COM games play this fairly realistically. If you use pistols, you don't even lose accuracy (while with rifles and god forbid heavy weapons accuracy dies quickly). In turn based mode, you can only fire one at a time, so the only benefit to Guns Akimbo is in having another gun to fire before having to reload. In X-COM: Apocalypse, which added the realtime mode, however, you could fairly quickly make One-Man Army soldiers, dual wielding disruptor cannons and fully loaded on grenades and mines. While the cannons lost quite a bit of accuracy when dual wielded, their sheer firepower meant anything that stood in your path close enough was fried before they could even pull out their own weapons and anything too far to hit reliably you could outrun (while keeping motion mines in your wake). Very effective, especially in the later game and against other human corporations. Yeah, and you could easily dual wield self tracking rocket launchers. It should be noted though that both the rocket launchers and devastator cannons are recoilless and you only target one enemy at a time, which makes it much easier to pull this off. And yeah, a single soldier with decent strength and accuracy could mow down entire enemy squads and buildings.
Noel Vermillion of BlazBlue wields two guns, Arcus Diabolus Bolverk, although she'll occasionally pull out a single gun or rocket launcher from nowhere to pull off special moves.
Handled with all the camp of a swashbuckler film in the 2004 remake of Sid Meier's Pirates!. Interestingly, the enemy captain reacts the same to being hit with two pistols as with one, implying that the Player Character always misses with one of the pistols. On the other hand, using two deals more damage than one, so this could just mean that he manages to hit the target in the same spot with both guns.
Total Overdose has unlockable dual firing modes for Berettas, Uzis, and sawed-off shotguns. One special attack in particular involves spinning with dual Uzis, shooting everything in 360 degrees.
The Xbox game Brute Force featured Tex, a gunner who had a user-activated Berserker skill. Not only is he stronger, faster, and tougher, but he also goes Guns Akimbo. And since he thinks pistols are for sissies, the two guns put to use are going to be big ones.
In True Crime: Streets of L.A., Nick uses dual pistols as his default weapons and can dual-wield weapons like shotguns and assault rifles in shootout missions. Marcus can also dual wield guns in True Crime: New York City.
Fear Effect uses this trope.
Though he has yet to actually appear in a game, Strife from Darksiders wields a mismatched pair of enormous pistols, in lieu of the bow that Conquest/Pestilence usually carries. War receives one of them, Mercy, a bit into the game.
In the .hack games, there is the advanced form of the character Haseo in which he dual-wields guns (illegal variation of the 'Steam Gunner' class).
In Alpha Protocol submachine guns are always dual-wielded. Oddly enough, this doesn't apply to the pistol.
You can dual-wield both pistols and submachineguns in Resonance of Fate. However, since throwing grenades, using Abnormal Ammo or using healing items requires the character to have a special item in hand and it's not possible to switch equipment mid-battle, it's unwise to put two guns on everyone.
In Borderlands: The Pre-Sequel!, Nisha, being a cowgirl has a late-game skill that lets her use two pistols by duplicating whatever pistol she has currently equipped, though she only uses the one in her main hand when using ironsights. Unlike Salvador's gunzerking, this is a permanent upgrade that's limited to handguns. Claptrap can also potentially 'Funzerk' when using his VaultHunter.exe skill, duplicating the gun he's holding right now and causing him and his allies to fire uncontrollably.
The Area 51First-Person Shooter lets you dual-wield assault rifles and shotguns. Oddly, despite ignoring the recoil issues this would present, it does acknowledge that reloading two weapons simultaneously is clumsy at best and impossible at worst - you can't reload while dual-wielding, and your character simply throws away the second weapon as dead weight when it's empty.
Red Faction II permits dual-wielding of pistols or either flavour of SMG after picking up a second weapon of the same type, and independent triggers permit for Woo-, simultaneous-, or New York Reload-style firing with all of their assorted pros and cons.
Counter-Strike has the Beretta 96G 'Dual Elites'. Being this is an FPS firmly placed on the realistic end of the scale, they're inaccurate, underpowered, extremely slow to reload and their only advantage is being a semiautomatic weapon with 30 rounds — but on the plus side, you're going Guns Akimbo with Beretta 96Gs!
The fact that they can still achieve one-hit kills on a headshot and have no limit to their rate of fire can make them pretty useful in close quarters.
Global Offensive, which sacrifices a little bit of realism in the name of gameplay, made the Berettas actually viable — they now basically function as a cheap semiautomatic submachinegun with a very long reload time. Their accuracy is better, their spread is lower, and they're more accurate while moving.
E.Y.E.: Divine Cybermancy has the BK13 pistols. Fully automatic with 20 round magazines loaded with .45ACP rounds, the guns are very practical because of how lightweight they are. If you're carrying a spare sword, you can also go Sword and Gun with the pistols.
In Immortal Souls, John dual-wields generic revolvers whenever he uses his Guns attack, firing both at the same time. Raven, meanwhile, dual-wields SMGs for her attack.
In Arcana Heart, Petra Johanna Lagerkvist's primary weapons include two handguns.
Later installments of the Contra series include the ability to use two guns at the same time. Mostly in Contra III: The Alien Wars, though.
Metal Slug 4 and beyond gives the player the ability to use two machine guns.
The first Sub Boss in Einhänder, Greif, uses two machine guns as its primary weapons. The Astraea fighter allows the player to use two gunpods simultaneously.
In Intrusion 2 dual pistols can be used, but due to the low damage and ammo capacity they are really only useful as backup weapons, especially later in the game.
Subverted in Live A Live. Characters are fully capable of equipping a weapon to each hand, but in the western chapter Sunset only ever gets his hands on one gun. Fast forward to the final chapter and Sunset finally gets a second weapon. Equip them both, and his attack drops through the floor.
In Granado Espada, this is a possible shooting stance for dual pistols, sacrificing accuracy for high attack speed and damage per second potential. Special mention goes to RNPC Lionel Von Hanen, who wields not two pistols, but a pistol and a rifle.
In Risk of Rain The Commando's 'Suppressive Fire' ability can be used to fire two machine guns and attack enemies in front of and behind the player.
Shadow Man allows for this, giving the player two of every gun except for the main voodoo weapon 'shadow gun'(the PC version lacks the second violator, however). Two shotguns can be used at the same time(As the game came out in 1999 and has simple character models, the shotguns pump themselves even when only one is being used). While the two machine guns the player finds are different guns, they fire the same and use the same ammo. One disadvantage to this, however, is that lesser enemies only drop health items when killed with the shadow gun, and all the boss monsters require the shadow gun to finish them off.
Regina in Dino Crisis 2 can dual-wield submachine guns which each target independently. This is based on the similarly paired guns from Resident Evil – Code: Veronica, like Claire's MP-100s and Chris and Steve's submachine guns.
Sunset Riders has a power-up that gives this effect. Steve and Billy get dual pistols, while Bob and Cormano get dual sawed-off shotguns.
Rise of the Triad uses double pistols as a mainstay in both the original game and the reboot. The cheat code for dual pistols in the original is a Shout-Out to John Woo.
Lord Vincent Godfrey in World of Warcraft with two shotguns even enjoy cursing his own bullets. The success for killing him by a special way is even called 'Bullet time' as a reference to Matrix.
The Boss from the Saints Row series can do this. Initially you had the option of letting him/her go akimbo the second you found another type of the same weapon, but in later games you have tonot only get enough respect to unlock this ability, but also buy it. It's also permanent, so if you decided that you don't like dual-wielding anymore, or are finding that you're using more ammo than you'd like, then tough shit. All that you can do after feeling buyers remorse is to begrudgingly finish the playthrough, load an older save or start over again and vow to never buy the dual wielding abilities again.
Warframe allows for dual-wielding of anything from the humble Lato to the Hand Cannon Lex and Gatling Good Cestra. Dual-version weapons generally sacrifice accuracy and reload speed, but have significantly increased rate of fire. This can either make them useless (the Lato's accuracy is already subpar, using two makes it even worse) or even more lethal (the twin Lex doesn't lose much accuracy, considering the benefits). Oddly, carrying the datamass in your left hand means you get one pistol with a double-size mag and reduced accuracy/reload time. Some weapons - such as the Akstiletto - are only available in dual form at the moment.
As an Easter Egg or bug, the akimbo revolvers will occasionally use a unique aiming stance similar to the one mentioned as being used by 'Wild Bill' Hickock below. This has no impact on their combat performance. Looks pretty cool though.
The Matrix: Path of Neo has this as the default mode when you have to guns of the same type.
Starcraft II has Reapers, jump-pack assisted raiders that fire twin pistols (though both are single shot, fire at the same time and at the same target). Slightly justified in that they're hopped up on God knows how many combat stims.
Mark, one of the playable characters in Hotline Miami 2: Wrong Number, starts every stage with two Uzis and can spread his arms so that he can attack enemies at his side. Similarly, the son of the Mafiya Boss of the first game can start off with two Uzis as well.
In Infernal, Lennox (the protagonist) can do this with pistols. Elena Zubrov goes one up on him by doing it with rocket launchers.
Van Helsing in Code:Realize wields shotguns akimbo, and is shown aiming them one crossed over the other in his 'combat' sprite.
In Nuclear Throne, Steroid's special ability is dual wielding, so he can fire both weapons at the same time. He can also do regular Dual Wielding with two melee weapons or do a Sword and Gun combo, too.
In The Getaway Mark Hammond can do this with the pistols.
In Deadfall Adventures Allan can duel wield that handguns.
The arcade versions of Gunslinger Stratos feature two guns per cabinet, with this trope obviously in play. Both guns can be fastened together to access different weapons, either horizontally or vertically.
In Evolve, the trapper character Jack dual wields pistols. Interestingly, he manages to avoid most of the logical problems with this tactic. The pistols in question are energy weapons, so there isn't any recoil to throw off his aim. He aims them both at the same target, so normal human binocular vison is still effective. And to reload, he holsters the pistols so they can recharge and uses a secondary set of pistols that are basically the same. When those run dry, he switches those out for the original set and repeats the process.
In Overwatch, two characters have dual-guns as their primary weapon. Tracer uses dual rapid-fire blasters, while Reaper dual-wields shotguns.
Saika Magoichi in Sengoku Basara usually had two hand guns on her hands in character arts and she usually goes around shooting with just one of them. Certain special moves, however, makes her shoot with both guns.
Downplayed in Pulp Adventures. A few of the heroes carry two pistols (Pat Savage, the Lone Ranger, the Spider, the Phantom), but their standard ranged attack consists in using a single one. Firing with both gun uses an energy-consuming ability with which the characters quickly shoots several times with both guns.
In Fairy Fencer F, one of your playable characters, Harley, has this specifically as a skill, and it is even called this.
General example: pick a Virtual Reality shooter that uses the HTC Vive or Oculus Rift motion controllers, any of them, and you'll be able to do this more often than not. You've got a controller in each hand, so why not put both hands to use?
Zombie Playground One of the types of weapons you can have your child wield is dual water pistols.
Older Than Radio: One youth in Eugène Delacroix's famous 1830 painting Liberty Leading the People (somewhatNSFW) picturing the July Revolution of the same year.
In Schlock Mercenary, a four-armed alien states that the mercenaries should recruit him because with four arms, he can fire four guns at once. The recruiting officer points out that, with two eyes, he can only track one target at a time.
Thurl: Don't sweat it. I'll put down 'Very enthusiastic,' and 'Seen too many John Woo movies.' You're in.
However in a later comic he is seen quad-wielding pistols to shoot at birds.
Played straight, however, with Sergeant Schlock who, since he is able to grow additional hands as required, will cheerfully dual or triple wield BFGs, then again, Schlock can also reorient his eyes, so this isn't so unrealistic, particularly while he had an extra pairs of eyes.
Parodied in Irregular Webcomic!#35, by combining it with I Know Mortal Kombat.
Played somewhat realistically in Errant Story when Jon uses two weapons in a pinch, with opponents front and back. Both bullets are actually on their targets, but one is jumped over (you heard me right, opponent is later dealt with in hand-to-hand combat) and the other distracts the other opponent (he uses his neigh-unbreakable blade to deflect it) so Sarine can cut him almost in half. The success of the move amazes Jon to no end.
Lt. Dart fires two shotguns at once during the Sluggy Freelance story arc 'KITTEN II.' Not that it does him much good.
8-Bit Theater, but with bows and arrows. And then pushed it to the extreme. Just see for yourself.
Cleo, eponymous heroine of Cleopatra In Spaaace! favours a matched pair of lazer (sic) pistols.
Kore in Goblins is a variant, fighting with 2 Automatic Crossbows.
Invoked by Bughere.
Homestuck's Jake English uses this thanks to his Weapon of Choice, twin M9 Berettas, inherited from his grandmother. In fact, nearly all the handguns he has been seen wielding are paired up for this particular style of gunslinging (dual flintlocks, twin M9s, matched golden guns), to the point that his Strife Specibus is this, formally known as Double Pistolkind (2xpistolkind).
Zokusho Comics character, Serge, uses a pair of guns as his main offensive strategy. When things get hairy he prefers his revolver Lucky 7, which fires magical bullets.
In an El Goonish Shive filler comic, Tedd wields guns that rapid fire roses a la Tuxedo Mask from Sailor Moon.
In The Wolf at Weston Court soldier Nova Petrov threatens a Dwarf bandit with math... and guns.
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The general sign of a badass in Madness Combat is that he uses two guns at once, as shown by Hank, Sanford, Deimos, Jebus, and even some Elite Mooks use it. The ability to do this, and fire at multiple targets at once, is one of the planned features of the upcoming Madness game.
Somewhat rare, but it occurs in Survival of the Fittest. Two examples come from v1, during the same gun battle. Peri Barclay wielded two revolvers, but this proved completely ineffective as he failed to hit anyone. Jacob Starr later did the same with his gun and one that an ally dropped, but he alternated fire between the two guns and it wasn't really to hit anyone as much as it was to force Peri and his ally Steven to keep their heads down, covering the other group's retreat.
Brendan Wallace wields akimbo when he's forced to try and hold off a group of terrorists sent by Danya to eliminate Liz Polanski. He doesn't fire them both at once, however, he barely even fires them at all. He runs. This happens a lot with him.
Moira Quicksilver in The Endless Night is a notorious bounty hunter who carries two matched pistols (lovingly called Righty and Lefty) to deadly effect.
The Crazy X-Box Lady resorts to using two guns at once, after miming a pair of maracas.
A somewhat popular Self-Imposed Challenge on Light Gun Games is to play both sides at once and dual-wield. Some games such as Target: Terror Gold even have a mode that allows you to use both guns with one credit.
The Elsa van Dorst's v5 incarnation from Open Blue isn't just a badass sniper anymore. Now she can fight with a rifle (or musket) in each hand.
Red vs. Blue has Agent North Dakota who does this with sniper rifles. He's accurate enough that he manages to shoot missiles out of the air.
Agent Carolina does this near the end of Season 10 with two Plasma Rifles.
Yosemite Sam of Looney Tunes is a more comedic example.
Being based in part off Yosemite Sam, same goes for the Rich Texan from The Simpsons.
There's a metric buttload of Transformers that do this, but you could probably guess that. Rhinox from Beast Wars is probably the one best known for doing so - with DUAL GATLING GUNS. From the same series, Ravage wields dual guns... and stores them on his hips, Russian crossdraw style. So did the G1 'Triggerbot' Dogfight... but he didn't draw them crossways; he drew them straight and then pulled the triggers with his pinkie fingers. (All the 'Trigger' Transformers - whose gimmick was engines that, by pressing a spring-loaded trigger, became weapons when they transformed into robot mode—also used Guns Akimbo to some degree.) Even some versions of Optimus Prime can do it, most famously the Powermaster version.
Beast Wars Rampage did this on occasion, dual wielding a smaller gun with his Tri-Barreled Cannon (shrunk down slightly to match).
Captain Fordo from Star Wars: Clone Wars and Captain Rex from Star Wars: The Clone Wars prefer to use twin blaster pistols in battle. Sabine Wren from Star Wars Rebels as well.
Panchito has his two gun that he loves to shoot, but this being Disney, he isn't actually allowed to shoot at anyone, so aiming isn't usually a problem.
Shane Gooseman sometimes dual-wields blaster pistols, most prominently in the title animation.
Major Phil Stark in Invasion America invoked this trope a couple of times. Once while trying to find David on Maple Island (humorously used against a stray tree branch that David manipulated to distract him while he escaped), and again at the Glenport Galeria while trying to rescue him from Simon and Sonia.
In Voltron Force, Lance's Voltcoms can form twin pistols. When it's Lance's turn to form Voltron Red Center, his Blazing weapon is a pair of high-powered energy pistols.
Crazy Stunts in Skysurfer Strike Force uses two laser pistols as his primary weapons. Bioborg Replicon can shapeshift his arms into dual missile launchers or guns.
In the season finale of Green Lantern: The Animated Series, Kilowog stays behind to try to slow down the entire Red Lantern armada. By himself. First he created a pair of large machine gun constructs, then later he busted out quad Gatling cannons. He then takes it Up to Eleven by adding a Macross Missile Massacre launcher.
In the CGI short movie Azureus Rising, the protagonist uses a pair of automatic machine pistols, first against a Mook Squad, and then later a single very large and dangerous opponent. Slow-mo leaping and Bullet Time dodging are in full effect.
In the The Venture Bros. episode 'O.S.I. Love You', Sergeant Hatred rushes Molotov Cocktease this way. She stands still, and every shot misses.
In Tuff Puppy Members of T.U.F.F. and D.O.O.M. do this sometimes.
Kaeloo: Mr. Catdoes this quite often. Stumpy does it along with him in the episode 'Let's Play Market Vendors' when the two of them rob a supermarket.
Next time you go to an arcade that offers 2-player shooting games, and the guns can be operated 1-handed (aka reload by shooting the bottom of the screen, not pump action), load quarters into both and see how easy it is to aim and track targets. Now imagine if both guns had actual recoil, let alone the noise.
Subverted by the Finnish Hakkapeliittas in the Thirty Years' War. The Hakkapeliittas were medium cavalrymen who had helmet, breastplate, two pistols and sword. Their tactics were attack the enemy formation in full gallop, shooting one pistol at 20 m distance, second at 10 m distance and then draw sword without reloading the pistols. Comparing to the usual caracole tactics of the date, more akin, to skirmishing, the hakkapeliitta charge was usually devastating, and won several battles for the Swedes.
The name hakkapeliitta comes from their slogan, Hakkaa päälle! (Hack them on!). It is today used by Finnish ice hockey fans.
A possible example of actual use of two guns firing at the same time is 'Macedonian Shooting', practiced by Russian special forces. This evolved as a method of increasing rate of fire, more in order to force the enemy to take cover than to try to accurately hit them, and was generally practiced by NKVD officers issued a pair of revolvers. If you don't believe me see for yourself.
A group of U.S. Army soldiers decided to demonstrate this trope and its dual-inherited Rule of Cool and Awesome, but Impractical qualities on a firing range, with one soldier dual-wielding M249 Squad Automatic Weapons. As they explicitly say in the video, this is very unsafe. Considering the recoil and sheer weight of those guns, the soldier is a sheer badass for even keeping his footing while he fired.
Taken Up to Eleven by this soldier, he dual-wielded two M240 General Purpose Machine Guns, which are even bigger than the M249.
Note that he's forced to take a few steps back while firing. And he carefully braces himself beforehand.
But wait, there is even more insane example: specifically this guy with two .50 cal anti-materiel rifles!
Back in yon olden times when pistols were muzzle-loaded and took several minutes to reload, it was fairly common for cavalry troops and people fighting in close-quarters to carry multiple pistols. And since you only needed one hand to fire a pistol, it was quicker to hold a pistol in each hand. Nowadays this is called a New York Reload.
Many descriptions have the pirate Blackbeard doing this, as he carried a large number of pistols into battle. The purpose was not so much to kill anybody but to scare the defending crew into surrendering - as a successful pirate Blackbeard understood the importance of avoiding unnecessary bloodshed so he cultivated his reputation as a fearsome scourge of the seas.
Wild West Gunfighter 'Wild Bill' Hickock is said to have wielded two 1853 'Navy' Colts at the same time using a distinctive 'crossed wrist' stance. Details are lacking but he probably fired one gun at a time using the back of his other wrist as a support. It's likely he did this to avoid reloading these pre-cartridge 'cap and ball' revolvers because that takes 5-10 minutes per gun.
One technique that came out of the Old West (and is occasionally seen in Western novels) is the 'Border Shift', where a shooter who has a pistol in each hand fires the main-hand gun until it runs dry, and then tosses each gun to the opposite hand, putting the still-loaded gun once again in the main hand. It's essentially a form of New York Reload, with the added fun of juggling loaded weapons. Needless to say, it's incredibly unsafe and extremely difficult to do smoothly.
It might be apropos to mention Morris 'Two Gun' Cohen, an Anglo-Canadian Jewish mercenary who fought for Sun Yat-sen, founder of Nationalist China. As noted on the page, his nickname came from carrying two loaded weapons so he didn't need to immediately reload, while in combat, rather than because he used both simultaneously.
Mock Duck was known for an unusual method of self-defense that combined this trope with Blind Weaponmaster.
19th century Australian outlaw Ned Kelly did this with two revolvers while he and his gang were wearing suits of improvised armor in their famous gunfight against police at the Glenrowan Inn. Apparently known as a rifleman before the shootout, he made the switch because pistols were the only thing he could raise up high enough into his greatly impaired field of vision in order to sight them. This didn't work as well as he hoped, losing the fight and getting arrested, bruised and most likely deafened from the occasional headshot clanging off his armor.
While he and his squad were under ambush in Iraq in 2005, Combat Medic Spc. Jason Mike held off insurgents by dual-wielding an M4 carbine and an M249according to TOW.
John Chivington, a Badass Preacher and outspoken anti-slavery advocate greeted a pro-slavery mob storming his church by whipping out a pair of pistols and announcing that 'By the grace of God and these two revolvers, I will preach here today!' Too bad that he became a genocidal maniac after the Civil War, disgraced for crimes against Native Americans that went past the pale, even by the era's low standards.
Depending on where you are, you may need to dual wield QSZ-92 semi-automatic pistols as part of the Chinese Liberation Army training. However, unless new info disproves this, it is safe to assume it is solely for the purpose of training one handed firing with both your dominant and non-dominant hand. And maybe training for 'Macedonian Shooting' if a soldier is ever in need of suppressive fire and only has two pistols?
Alexander Solonik, nigh-legendary Russian contract killer, although initially known to be clumsy with guns and avoiding their use, is rumored to have been able to do just that during the last of his career. And with 'two guns', we mean 'against two separate targets', not More Dakka.
When the Imperial Japanese Army overran Hong Kong during WW2, the Canadian Brigadier General John K. Lawson radioed his commanders to say he was 'going outside to fight it out' and was last seen exiting his command bunker with a pistol in each hand.
Averted in the (unattributed) old West saying: 'Beware the man with only one gun — he probably knows how to use it!' Since the most common reason to carry two guns in the West was to have a backup on hand if your other gun ran dry, if someone only needed one gun to do his business... well...
By the way, the word 'akimbo' does NOT actually refer to Dual Wielding guns. It means standing with your hands on your hips and elbows pointed outward. You can no more have anything but your arms akimbo than you can flip the bird with your ear.