List of fictional pulse rifles
Pulse rifle and pulse pistol are often used to mean a raygun. The terms refer to various science fiction weapons:
- M41A "Pulse Rifle", an assault rifle in the motion picture Aliens that uses 10 mm caseless ammunition and is fitted with a pump-action grenade launcher. In the film's original script, however, it was described as a plasma weapon.[1][2]
- The pulse rifle and pulse pistol are the primary weapons used by the United Earth Oceans Organization and others on the television series seaQuest DSV [3]
- The Overwatch Standard Issue Pulse Rifle is an assault rifle-esque directed-energy weapon in the game Half-Life 2 [4]
- The Adept pulse rifle from the D.A.S.H. Project universe is a combined plasma/kinetic weapon that electromagnetically energizes and accelerates charged projectiles (commonly referred to by soldiers as brights) that deliver an intense electrical charge and explosion to the target.
- In the fictional Warhammer 40,000 universe, the pulse rifle, carbine, and pistol are standard infantry weapons for the Tau race [5][6]
- The pulse rifle and pulse pistol are the primary weapons used by the Peacekeepers and others on the television show Farscape [7][8]
- The pulse rifle is a weapon in the Blade Runner video game
- Pulse rifle is a weapon used by the geth in the Mass Effect video game; it is a further (and exotic) development of "mass accelerator" weapons used by other races.
- The M16 Mk. II Pulse Rifle is used by both the Global Defence Initiative and the Brotherhood of Nod's Light Infantry in Command & Conquer: Tiberian Sun.
- In the EA game Dead Space the "SWS-Motorized Pulse Rifle" is a military-grade (the only true weapon in the whole game) rifle with high ammo capacity (up to 175 rounds per clip) and a very high rate of fire, but inferior at dismemberment - the crucial in-game tactical tool. It is a kinetic weapon, and Dead Space 2 it has a grenade launcher mode.
- In the Unreal universe, the Pulse Gun, later known as the Link Gun, is a plasma rifle of unknown origin that shoots plasma blasts, and also features a secondary firing mode, releasing a steady arc of plasma, similar to those released inside a Plasma Ball, but green in color, taking twice the ammunition per second, and inflicting half the damage.
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