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* The ''VideoGame/{{Bangai-O}}'' games give your ship the ability to fire missiles in all directions. The more under pressure you are, the more (and sometimes BIGGER and more powerful) missiles you can shoot.

* In Season 3 of WesternAnimation/{{Reboot}} after the TimeSkip, Matrix has a gun, named [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin Gun]]. It's able to lock onto a target, at which point a [[LaserSight glowing M]] appears on the target's forehead after which he literally can't miss. When cornered in a bar by rogue Guardians, he puts it in "[[Film/TheLastStarfighter Death Blossom]]" mode: it begins to gimble crazy-fast, and the target-M appears on ''every single sprite in the bar'' besides himself. The Guardians back down.

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* The ''Literature/NewJediOrder'' novel ''Enemy Lines I: Rebel Dream'' has the SSD ''Lusankya'' foul up a hyperjump and emerge ''inside'' a Yuuzhan Vong warfleet. Commander Eldo Davip frantically orders the ship to BeamSpam the vicinity and inflicts some pretty serious damage, killing the Vong commander, even before reinforcments arrive to extricate him.

* Paladins in ''VideoGame/ProjectEternity'' are capable of periodically blasting their immediate vicinity with an eruption of soul energy.

* ''VideoGame/StarTrekOnline'': Step one: Plow a cruiser with lots of beam weaponry into the middle of a furball. Step two: Activate the Tactical bridge officer power "Beam: Fire at Will" and watch as your ship [[BeamSpam spits energy in all directions]. The playerbase considers BFAW essentially mandatory for any beam build: it's this trope in a target-rich environment, and simple beam rapid fire if there's only one target.

->'''Yuri''': You know how some guns have red lasers that indicate where they're aiming? Watch this.\\
'''Marina''': Is it broken? You glowed red and the whole room lit up.\\
'''Yuri''': Exactly.

* ''Film/IronMan2'', in the climactic battle.

* Tequila's [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kacy00P7TKE Spin Attack]] in ''VideoGame/{{Stranglehold}}'' is basically this.

* "VideoGame/DeusExHumanRevolution": The Typhoon augmentation. This military-grade implant spews out a hailstorm of explosive ball-bearings in a 360º radius around the user.

* Every melee class in Guild Wars has a skill that does this - Aura of Holy Might for Dervishes, Hundred Blades for Warriors, and Death Blossom for Assassins. As melee classes are normally designed for single-target damage, these skills allow them to function better in PvE, where they're typically surrounded by large numbers of enemies.

* In ''Webcomic/{{Spacetrawler}}'', one of Yuri's cyborg upgrades apparently lets her do this, though we never see it in action.

* The robot near the end of Men in Black II does this, too. With SMGs, it seems.
* Iron Man II, too, in the climactic battle.

* ''VideoGame/DragonAge: Origins'': A bonus ability possibly gained in the "Warden's Keep" DLC allows the Warden to blast any nearby foes with an upwelling of HighPressureBlood.

* The Death Blossom from ''Film/TheLastStarfighter.''
* The Enterprise does this to flush out a cloaked vessel in ''Film/StarTrekNemesis.''

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* Many ships in ''VideoGame/StarControl'' and its sequels have abilities similar to this. The Chejensu Bloodhome's main weapon is a projectile that explodes into an AoE when you let go of the attack button, and can be spammed into multiple short bursts if an enemy gets too close. The Kor-Ah Maruader has a flame corona as a special attack, and the Pkunk Fury can rapidly spin, sending its attacks in every direction.

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* The Death Blossom from Film/TheLastStarfighter.

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->''"Cannon to right of them,\\
Cannon to left of them,\\
Cannon in front of them\\
Volley'd and thunder'd;"''
-->-- '''Alfred, Lord Tennyson''', ''The Charge of the Light Brigade ''

-->-- ''{{Spacetrawler}}''

For when you absolutely, positively need something DeaderThanDead, there is nothing better than throwing everything but the kitchen sink ([[KitchenSinkIncluded or maybe even it]]) at your target. ThereIsNoKillLikeOverkill, after all.

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* AlwaysAccurateAttack: You'll never miss.
* AtomicHate, for nuclear weapons.
** FantasticNuke, for their fantasy counterpart.
*** UnholyNuke: For Dark-based variants
*** YinYangBomb: For a combination of both
* AttackDrone, in large numbers, often from every direction at once, is a popular choice. The ''{{Gundam}}'' franchise is rife with examples, and literally called an "all-range attack" in-universe.
* BeamSpam, for energy beams. Bonus points if you're using {{Attack Drone}}s.
* DeathFromAbove, for artillery strikes and other methods of raining indiscriminate death.
** ColonyDrop, for when those puny artillery shells just aren't cutting it.
** EarthShatteringKaboom, for when everything on the planet needs to die now.
** KillSat: Have a problem? Use a Satellite to kiss all your problems goodbye.
* DroneDeployer: Always a good idea to have lots of drones with you to attack your enemies.
* HeroicRROD, for when your need to throw everything you have at a target even if it means your life.
* HomingProjectile, for missiles or anything else.
* MacrossMissileMassacre, for masses of missiles.
** ReverseShrapnel, for [[MacrossMissileMassacre Triple M]] [[XMeetsY combined with]] FlechetteStorm (also covers death from all directions).
* MoreDakka, for automatic and semi-automatic ranged weapons (also covers single shot weapons with [[TheGunslinger really fast loaders]] with a [[BottomlessMagazines bottomless ammo source]] and maybe an [[UnorthodoxReload unusual loading style]]).
* RainOfArrows, for a rain of sharp pointy DeathFromAbove (also useful for [[ThreeHundred blotting out the sun]]).
** FlechetteStorm, for a thrown version of the above.
** StormOfBlades, for a rain or swords instead of arrows.
** ItsRainingMen, for when you want to rain down soldiers instead of swords.
*** GoombaStomp, for when the soldiers decide not to slow down.
* SpamAttack, for melee attacks in general.
** RapidFireFisticuffs, for [[MemeticMutation over nine thousand]] fists in your face.
* SpinAttack, for a literal death in all directions.
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For when you absolutely, positively need something DeaderThanDead, there is nothing better than throwing everything but the kitchen sink ([[KitchenSinkIncluded or maybe even it]]) at it. ThereIsNoKillLikeOverkill, after all.