List of appearances of C96 in popular culture

The Mauser C96 is German semi-automatic pistol that has numerous apperances in popular culture.

[edit] Movies & Television

In the Star Wars movies, Han Solo's (Harrison Ford) DL-44 "Blaster," his sidearm, is actually a Mauser C96 with accessories on it to make it appear more futuristic.

The C96 was seen in |From Russia with Love during the scene when Red Grant saves James Bond during the gunfight at the Gypsy camp.

Most of the Turkish army officers in Lawrence of Arabia had Mauser C96 pistols. (In reality, most Turkish officers during World War I might have actually used Smith & Wesson revolvers. One of the Turkish soldiers defending Aqaba does have a revolver, but otherwise this rule holds true.) Since Lawrence of Arabia, almost every First World War movie that takes place in the Middle East has shown Turkish officers being (incorrectly) armed with the C96 (see Gallipoli).

Most movies that take place in China, from around the era of 1911 up to 1949, will nearly always show Chinese soldiers, policemen, gangsters, bandits, or guerillas with a C96. (Examples: Empire of the Sun, Red Sorghum, Farewell My Concubine.)

C96 pistols (along with numerous other guns) are used in Raiders of the Lost Ark during the battle in Marion's tavern in Nepal. Marion herself uses that very pistol to save Indiana Jones.

During Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, the Grail-cult members who go after Jones in the library are brandishing C96's.

One of the villains in the western Joe Kidd was armed with a C96 with a shoulder-stock, which Clint Eastwood's character captures and uses.

A German officer (Imperial Germany) in The Wind and the Lion (1975) wielded a C96 and a saber as Berber horsemen attacked a German-held fort to rescue their imprisoned chieftain (played by Sean Connery).

At the end of Howard Hughes's 1930 film, Hell's Angels, a captured bomber pilot is given a Mauser pistol - and one bullet - and forced to execute his co-pilot with it.

The anarchists in Alfred Hitchcock's first version of The Man Who Knew Too Much (1934) were armed with C96 pistols in the Albert Hall assassination attempt, and then the gun battle against the London police.

The henchman sent out by the villain in Darling Lili (1969) to assassinate Lili (played by Julie Andrews) went armed with a C96.

The Medjais who attack the heroes onboard the ship in The Mummy were all using C96's.

In The Mummy Returns, the chief henchman called "Lock-Nah" does a two-gun shooting with C96 pistols in the battle at the London Museum. Also, the second-most-significant henchman whips out and clicks a C96 during an earlier confrontation.

In the Kerberos series of films created by Mamoru Oshii, the C96 appears as the weapon of choice of many of the characters in the anime movie Jin-Roh, and in the live-action sequels and Stray Dog: Kerberos Panzer Corps, and Red Spectacles.

In the blaxploitation film Detroit 9000 the armed robbers at the fundraiser use what appear to be C96 pistols.

In the opening scene of The Fifth Element, the professor's assistant, Billy, when confronted by the Mondochiwan, pulls a machine-pistol C96 variant.

In the movie The Great Silence, Jean-Louis Trintignant as Silence, a mute gunfighter, uses a C96.

In keeping with actual history, the movie Young Winston, about the early life and experiences of Winston Churchill, has Churchill using a C96 during his military adventures in South Africa.

The character called Helga in Atlantis: The Lost Empire used what resembles a C96 pistol.

The character of Paddy in Peter Kay's Phoenix Nights shoots Max's brother with a C96.

Consul Arjen Rudd uses a C96 pistol to shoot Martin Riggs towards the end of Lethal Weapon 2.

In the movie Mad Max, the character Bubba Zanetti carries a C96, but uses a revolver to shoot Max Rockatansky in the knee.

Mad Max whips out and points a Mauser C96 at a guy's chin, just after firing off his shotgun in Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome.

An exaggerated/oversized C96 pistol is whipped out by a Triad henchman to shoot one of the Kung Fu Hustle heroes, who instantaneously takes the gun apart in the henchman's hand before he can shoot.

An episode of Get Smart has Smart and Seigfried have Show and Tell of various firearms. Max has what he claims is a super pistol. In fact it is a Mauser C96.

Rotton the Wizard from Black Lagoon uses the C96 with an enlarged magazine as his personal sidearm.

In Assault on Precinct 13, the Street Thunder gang member who shoots Kathy and the ice-cream vendor wields a C96 equipped with a suppressor.

In the anime FLCL, a giant Medical Mechanica robot is armed with a scaled-up C96 (along with a number of other antique firearms of colossal size).

In the Adult Swim cartoon Metalocalypse, Dethklok bassist William Murderface keeps a C96 in his limo's glovebox (he refers to it as his "driving gun").

In the game Resident Evil 4, Luis Sera wields the Red 9 variant of the C96, and additional Red 9 guns and accessories are purchasable from the merchants in the game, including the detachable shoulder-stock. The name "Red 9" undoubtedly comes from the practice of labeling C96s that were chambered for the 9X19mm Parabellum round with a large red "9" on both sides of the grip so that troops would not accidentally grab the wrong type of ammunition for it.

In the game Day of Defeat: Source, the German rocket class comes equipt with a fully-automatic C96 (This is actually known as the m712 not a c96) as a secondary weapon.

The C96 is the standard sidearm of the North and South Japanese armies in Ring of Red, possibly in different calibers.

Eva, a character in the video game Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater uses a Chinese version of the C96, its variation has not been clear.

It makes an appearance in the video game Hitman: Blood Money, in the opera mission, where it can be switched with a prop version for the purpose of it being used instead in a rehearsal of an execution scene.

In the manga Hellsing, the SS Captain Hans Günsche carries a C96 with an extended barrel, very prominently hanging from the belt of his uniform.

Comic-book and science-fiction artists and illustrators, such as Jim Steranko, have long enjoyed showing characters wielding a C96 or similar-looking pistols.

During his tenure as artist/scripter on Daredevil, Frank Miller always had Bullseye using a C96 as his gun of choice.

The C96 is the weapon of choice of Mike Grell's bounty hunter, Jon Sable, in the Jon Sable: Freelance comics. Sable uses the rare Chinese version in .45 ACP caliber.

The character(s) of Rose Wylde in the British graphic-novel, The Adventures of Luther Arkwright, wielded the Mauser pistol in two chapters.

The hero Manhunter by Walt Simonson used a C96. The author, Archie Goodwin was persuaded to arm the hero as he liked the graphic look of the Mauser.

Durango, the title character in a Western comic book by Yves Swolfs starts to use a C96 after his hand are shot through so he no longer could operate a Colt revolver.