History Main / BayonetYa

** ''[[Manga/MobileSuitGundamSEEDAstray Gundam SEED X Astray]]'' has the Hyperion Gundam, which can ''[[ThrowingYourSwordAlwaysWorks fire]]'' its beam bayonet.

* ''VideoGame/Battlefield1'' gives the option of mounting bayonets for rifles, shotguns, and submachine guns. When equipped, the player can perform a charge to either instantly kill an enemy (including [[BulletSponge Elite Classes]]or quickly cross open ground to new cover, in exchange for increasing the time it takes to fire from sprint and recover from recoil.

* ''VideoGame/Battlefield1'' gives the option of mounting bayonets for rifles, shotguns, and submachine guns. When equipped, the player can perform a charge to either quickly impale an enemy or cross open ground to new cover.

** This proud tradition is held in ''VideoGame/AssassinsCreedIIILiberation'' and ''VideoGame/AssassinsCreedIVBlackFlag''; both Aveline de Grandpre and Edward Kenway (as well as Adéwale, in ''Freedom Cry'',) are perfectly capable of picking up an unattended musket (or [[BallisticDiscount making a musket unattended]], or relieving a still-living enemy of their musket using their bare hands,) and using the bayonet as a vicious melee weapon.

* ''[[VideoGame/CallOfDuty World At War]]'': You could get a bayonet attachment for the bolt-action rifles, the M1 Garand, the M1897 shotgun, and the Type 99. It gave you a much longer melee range, at the expense of a longer melee recovery time.

* In the UsefulNotes/SecondSinoJapaneseWar and UsefulNotes/WorldWarTwo, the [[UsefulNotes/KatanasOfTheRisingSun army and navy]] of ImperialJapan not only followed the standard practice of having a bayonet for every rifle, they were also one of the last hold-outs in the use of sword bayonets instead of switching to the knife type (perhaps because their involvement in UsefulNotes/WorldWarI didn't include trench warfare). Moreover, they took the unusual but not unique step of putting bayonets on their submachine guns, and the ''entirely'' unique step of putting bayonets on ''light machine guns''. Needless to say, this could hardly be less practical (an LMG is way too heavy and bulky to effectively thrust like a spear), but it reflected the general obsession with blades and melee combat that resulted from the Japanese ultra-nationalists' attempt to revive samurai culture.

* Seen occasionally in ''{{Sharpe}}''. The elite Rifles use longer bayonets for their weapons, which [[InsistentTerminology must be referred]] to when deployed as "fix swords!" rather than "fix bayonets!" as for the musket-wielding regulars[[note]]The Baker rifle was shorter than the standard-issue British muskets of the time. Rifle units were issued longer sword bayonets so that the length of their weapons matched that of regular infantry muskets so that the two different units could work together in formations[[/note]].

* ''Series/BandofBrothers'' features a badass bayonet charge across a field in Holland. Bull Randleman also duels a German soldier with his bayonet (in reality he was involved in two bayonet duels during the war).

* Famously used in UsefulNotes/TheAmericanCivilWar by the 20th Maine Volunteer Infantry under Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain. During the battle of Gettysburg, Chamberlain's troops were suffering heavy casualties and running out of ammo, and he knew they would be unable to defend their vital position on Little Round Top against the approaching Confederate army. So, in a complete {{Badass}} move, he ordered a bayonet charge, which even at the time was considered an old-school textbook maneuver, but which Chamberlain realized could be used as a simultaneous frontal attack and flanking maneuver. The Confederates were utterly cowed and the 20th Maine [[MomentOfAwesome won the day]]. Chamberlain himself received a Medal of Honor for it.

** The Russian Field Marshal [[{{Badass}} Alexander]] [[AFatherToHisMen Suvorov]] said, to paraphrase, that the bullet is a fool and the bayonet is wise. He never lost a single battle in his entire military career. It worked well during Suvorov's time, when many armies were primarily composed of infantry drilled to march in formation and fire massed volleys, and little else. When the Napoleonic Wars came about however, this attitude had to be shaken off, as it was virtually suicidal in the face of Napoleon's comprehensively-trained soldiers and combined arms tactics.

** The Russian Field Marshal [[{{Badass}} Alexander]] [[AFatherToHisMen Suvorov]] said, to paraphrase, that the bullet is a fool and the bayonet is wise. He never lost a single battle in his entire military career. It worked well during Suvorov's time, when many armies were primarily composed of infantry drilled only to march in formation and fire massed volleys. When the Napoleonic Wars came about however, this attitude had to be shaken off, as it was virtually suicidal in the face of Napoleon's comprehensively-trained soldiers and combined arms tactics.

** The Russian Field Marshal [[{{Badass}} Alexander]] [[AFatherToHisMen Suvorov]] said, to paraphrase, that the bullet is a fool and the bayonet is wise. He never lost a single battle in his entire military career. It worked well during Suvorov's time, when many armies were primarily composed of infantry drilled to march in formation and fire massed volleys. When the Napoleonic Wars came about however, this attitude had to be shaken off, as it was virtually suicidal in the face of Napoleon's comprehensively-trained soldiers and combined arms tactics.

** The Russian Field Marshal [[{{Badass}} Alexander]] [[AFatherToHisMen Suvorov]] said, to paraphrase, that the bullet is a fool and the bayonet is wise. He never lost a single battle in his entire military career. It worked well during Suvorov's time, when many armies were primarily composed of infantry drilled to march in formation and fire massed volleys. When the Napoleonic Wars came about however, this attitude had to be shaken off, as it was virtually suicidal in the face of Napoleon's comprehensively-trained, combined arms tactics.

** The Russian Field Marshal [[{{Badass}} Alexander]] [[AFatherToHisMen Suvorov]] said, to paraphrase, that the bullet is a fool and the bayonet is wise. He never lost a single battle in his entire military career.
*** That is because smoothbore muskets of the era were wildly inaccurate even at close distances, while bayonets are... well, {{squick}}!
*** Russian tactical doctrine has long placed a high importance on the bayonet. During World War II, you'd never hear a Soviet officer saying the Russian equivalent of "fix bayonets"...because the bayonets were ''always'' fixed. The Red Army didn't even issue scabbards for their bayonets, because the place to store them was on the rifle's muzzle, and they were also big fans of the permanently-attached folding bayonet. It was the same for the Imperial Russian Army of World War I. It wasn't until the introduction of assault rifles (in the form of the AK-47) that the bayonet ceased to have a primary role Russian/Soviet doctrine. Indeed, in its initial form the AK-47 didn't ''have'' a bayonet, though this was quickly realized to be a mistake and a bayonet was promptly designed for it.

** The silver bayonet (the "straight silver") is one of the symbols of the [[GauntsGhosts Tanith First]] Imperial Guard regiment. Imperial Guard's standard-issue lasguns are regularly depicted with bayonets fixed in the tabletop though actual gameplay statistics make it rare for the PunyEarthling Guardsmen having to use them actually win against their usually exotically physically-capable alien opponents - the Tanith First in particular frequently fight against other (more or less) bog-standard human beings serving Chaos when the odds of this are much less likely for the Imperial Guard in the tabletop.

* ''Machinima/RedVsBlue'' took the Brute Shot from ''VideoGame/{{HALO}}'' and made it the signature weapon of one of its scariest villains, The Meta.

* Various [[HumongousMecha mobile suits]] from the ''Franchise/{{Gundam}}'' metaseries use bayonets, sometimes solid and sometimes [[EnergyWeapons beam]], and occasionally removable to serve as an extra melee weapon. Some MS (such as the [[Anime/MobileSuitZetaGundam Zeta Gundam]]) can generate a beam blade from the barrel of their rifles, saving on space. A unique example is the Gundam [=GP01=] from ''[[Anime/MobileSuitGundam0083StardustMemory Gundam 0083]]'', which has a beam rifle with a "beam jitte", essentially just a small beam blade generator mounted beneath the barrel, allowing it to block enemy beam sabers without having to draw its own.

** Despite this, several melee units in the game can be more effective than musketeers, if they can get close without being battered down by volleys, that is. The Indian Gurkhas with their [[KukrisAreKool kukri]] swords can easily cut up a squad of professional musketeers... though that may be because they are [[NepaliWithNastyKnives Gurkhas]].

** ''VideoGame/Halo5Guardians'[='s=] Warzone allows you to attach energy bayonets to your basic loadout weapons.

* ''VideoGame/{{Halo}}'': the Brute Shot, Spiker, and Mauler.
** In ''VideoGame/{{Halo 2}}'', the reverse-end bayonet on the Brute Shot was the second best weapon at dismembering Flood forms and the second best melee weapon in multiplayer right behind the [[LaserBlade Energy Sword]]. Comes with the added bonus of not running out of charges.

* In the latter half of the nineteenth century, almost every army in Europe expected to carry an assault to the enemy with a bayonet charge. Even as tactics were modified (skirmish formations and fire-and-maneuver rushes) when breech-loading rifles were widely issued, it was almost universally accepted that only a bayonet charge could carry the soldiers onto the enemy's defenses. The Boer War, (to a lesser extent) the Russo-Japanese War, and World War I discredited these tactics when they proved less effective against defenders armed with smokeless powder weapons and barbed wire.

** In ''VideoGame/{{Borderlands 2}}'', ''any'' gun can have a blade attached, even rocket launchers and sniper rifles, and they all add 50% damage to your melee. The game doesn't feature a lengthened melee animation like its predecessor either, so if you wanna go happy stabbity-stab with a knifed pistol or shotgun or bazooka, or get caught with your bladed sniper out by a PersonalSpaceInvader, you know what to do.

* ''{{BIONICLE}}'': Kopaka Nuva's Blizzard Blade in his AdaptiveArmor form. When attached to his [[FrickinLaserBeams Midak Skyblaster]], he can simultaneously shoot [[LightEmUp Light]] and [[AnIcePerson Ice]].