History Main / ScaramangaSpecial

* The Rider Gears from ''Series/KamenRiderFaiz''. A cell phone serves as both a gun and a TransformationTrinket, a digital camera turns into a PowerFist, the handle on a motorcycle becomes the hilt for a LaserBlade, and a laser pointer shoots out an energy drill for the [[FinishingMove Rider Kick]]. Kamen Rider Delta has the TransformationTrinket, gun, and energy drill-shooter all combined into a single unit made out of a voice-activated cell phone and a miniature camcorder.

* In the early 1960's, Mattel jumped on the James Bond craze with a toy line called "Agent Zero M" [[https://www.samstoybox.com/toys/AgentZeroM.html]]. These included a transistor radio, movie camera, still camera, and switchblade -- none of which really worked, but could all turn into cap guns. (The camera was called "Snap-Shot". Awesome.)

* In the ''Series/BabylonFive'' episode "Midnight on the Firing Line", Londo had one of these disguised component weapons which he assembled to kill G'Kar. Garibaldi finds out and convinces him not to go through with it. Furthermore, Garibaldi warns him that he will search the ambassador's quarters for weapons and you don't doubt that he would be able to spot the parts assembly of the gun if he found the pieces.

* Dr. Bashir used one in the ''Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine'' episode "Our Man Bashir." No surprise, given that the episode was a homage to over-the-top action hero [[Film/OurManFlint Derek Flint]], and to some extent James Bond.
* In the ''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration'' episode "Heart of Glory", the Klingons Korris and Konmel were able to break out of the Enterprise brig by assembling a kit-form disruptor from their belts and other parts of their uniforms. It's only good for a few shots, after which Korris picks up one of the [[RedShirt dead guard's]] phasers.

* Creator/RobertAHeinlein's ''Literature/TheCatWhoWalksThroughWalls'' has the storyteller, Richard, carrying a cane that has a secret knife blade which can be released to use as a long dagger.

* Dr. Bashir used one in the ''Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine'' episode "Our Man Bashir." No surprise, given that the episode was a homage to James Bond.

* ''Film/{{eXistenZ}}'': The "[[OrganicTechnology gristle gun]]" is assembled from the bones in an AlienLunch and fires teeth.

* The Film/JamesBond film ''Film/TheManWithTheGoldenGun'' is the TropeNamer and TropeMaker. Scaramanga has a gun that can be assembled from a pen, a cigarette case, a lighter, and a cuff link, all gold-plated. This allows him to carry his weapon of choice on commercial flights. It was custom made by an underground gunsmith and fires gold bullets in a non-standard caliber that he wears in his belt buckle. The material allows him to carry it through metal detectors and airport security. He's mastered the process to a degree he doesn't even need to be looking at it--at one point he discreetly assembles the weapon while staring down Bond without the latter even noticing. In [[Literature/TheManWithTheGoldenGun the novel]] that the film was based on, he just uses a gold-plated [[CoolGuns/{{Revolvers}} Colt Single Action Army.]]

* In ''VideoGame/MassEffect3'', the M-358 Talon is used as one of these by Cerberus, whose operatives smuggle the components to the Citadel to use in assassinations.

What do you get when you combine IKEAWeaponry with your ShoePhone? A really bad hotfoot. Also, a Scaramanga Special, a.k.a. [[Film/TheManWithTheGoldenGun the infamous Golden Gun]]. A custom weapon that is designed such that it can pass for a collection of mundane items when taken apart. A device like this is a step above a concealed weapon, as it is intended to pass even a full security screening and frisking.

If you're using firearms, the weapon itself is just a platform made of inert metal. Getting the ammunition -- which will certainly contain chemical explosives -- past effective security will be key. Ammunition is generally easy to come by unless you're going to a totalitarian society, so plan accordingly.

* The juvenile drug dealer Hob's submachine gun in ''Film/RoboCop2''. [[http://www.imfdb.org/wiki/UC-M21 the gun is real]].

* Duke Togo, a.k.a. ''Manga/Golgo13'' has been known to use one of these on rare occasions, usually when dealing with particularly paranoid individuals. In Episode 34, he carries out an assassination with a gun created by combining a fountain-pen and several pieces that he had cast on the spot, using a building-model as containers and a specially-prepared bulletproof vest for the material -- and just for added kicks, the soft alloy could be dissolved in a conveniently-placed bucket of hot soup. Thus, he took this trope a step farther than the rest of the examples, by assembling and disassembling his gun on the MOLECULAR level...

* In ''Film/InTheLineOfFire'', Mitch Leary smuggles a gun made out of plastic to a dinner speech by the president. The only metal parts are the two bullets that he hides in a rabbit's foot keychain and two barrels disguised as a pen and pencil set. He trains himself to put it together without looking too, so he can appear even more non-threatening as he assembles it under the table. In an interesting twist, in real life, the ATF had the actual (fully functional) weapon destroyed, because it violated the Undetectable Firearms Act (this law is why the modern Liberator pistol contains a 3-ounce chunk of metal that serves no actual function). The prop one was left intact, and IIRC is on display.

* Duke Togo, a.k.a. Manga/Golgo13 has been known to use one of these on rare occasions, usually when dealing with particularly paranoid individuals. In Episode 34, he carries out an assassination with a gun created by combining a fountain-pen and several pieces that he had cast on the spot, using a building-model as containers and a specially-prepared bulletproof vest for the material -- and just for added kicks, the soft alloy could be dissolved in a conveniently-placed bucket of hot soup. Thus, he took this trope a step farther than the rest of the examples, by assembling and disassembling his gun on the MOLECULAR level...

* In a MickeyMouse story Goofy had gotten his leg twisted and he was using a crutch he happened to have lying around which had belonged to a relative of his. At one point the crutch gets accidentally broken, and as Mickey is putting it back together he notices that there are bullets in the top support, and he accidentally assembles it into its "rifle" configuration.

* The Film/JamesBond film ''Film/TheManWithTheGoldenGun'' is the TropeNamer and TropeMaker. Scaramanga has a gun that can be assembled from a pen, a cigarette case, a lighter, and a cuff link, all gold-plated. This allows him to carry his weapon of choice on commercial flights. It was custom made by an underground gunsmith and fires gold bullets in a non-standard caliber that he wears in his belt buckle. The material allows him to carry it through metal detectors and airport security. He's mastered the process to a degree he doesn't even need to be looking at it--at one point he discreetly assembles the weapon while staring down Bond without the latter even noticing. In [[Literature/TheManWithTheGoldenGun the novel]] that the film was based on, he just uses a gold-plated [[CoolGuns/{{Revolvers}} Colt Single Action Army.]]
* In ''Film/InTheLineOfFire'', Mitch Leary smuggles a gun made out of plastic to a dinner speech by the president. The only metal parts are the two bullets that he hides in a rabbit's foot keychain and two barrels disguised as a pen and pencil set. He trains himself to put it together without looking too, so he can appear even more non-threatening as he assembles it under the table. In an interesting twist, in real life, the ATF had the actual (fully functional) weapon destroyed, because it violated the Undetectable Firearms Act (this law is why the modern Liberator pistol contains a 3-ounce chunk of metal that serves no actual function). The prop one was left intact, and IIRC is on display.
* ''Film/{{eXistenZ}}'': The "[[OrganicTechnology gristle gun]]" is assembled from the bones in an AlienLunch and fires teeth.

* The first assassination done by Carlos in ''C.A.T. Squad'' is with a rifle that is built from various innocent items that reside in a toolbox; including a spray can, a flashlight, and a clamp.

* The Creator/FrederickForsyth thriller novel ''The Fourth Protocol'' (1984) features a ''Nuclear Bomb'' fitting this trope. Components are either concealed in or disguised as everyday items (including a rubber ball and a transistor radio, as shown in the film version) as they are smuggled in.

* ''Literature/ChakonaSpace'': In one chapter of the "Flight of the Star Phoenix" sub-series, a group of hijackers pulls this off in conjunction with slow chargers for the energy pistol's power cells to further avoid detection by the ship's crew.

* In the ''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration'' episode "Heart of Glory", the Klingons Korris and Konmel were able to break out of the Enterprise brig by assembling a kit-form disruptor from their belts and other parts of their uniforms. It's only good for a few shots, after which Korris picks up one of the [[RedShirt dead guard's]] phasers.
* Dr. Bashir used one in the ''Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine'' episode "Our Man Bashir." No surprise, given that the episode was a homage to James Bond.

* Two appear in ''[[Series/{{CSINY}} CSI: NY]]''. One perp fashions a gun out of a steering wheel lock; another from various items including a souvenir ink pen.

* Parodied in an episode of ''Series/AngieTribeca'', where a sniper struggles to put together a rifle he bought from OKEA (an IKEA parody). When he finally assembles the gun, he forgot to put in the trigger. Since his target is about to leave the building, the sniper resorts to knocking on the office door and bludgeoning the guy with a heavy pipe.

* ''TabletopGame/BattleTech'' has a few instances of weapons reassembled from their disguise as innocuous items. One particularly creative example in the canon had a belt, a hairbrush, and a suitcase convert into a katana. It used the hairbrush handle for the grip, the belt buckle for the handguard, the length of the belt for the sheath, and a specially cut and sharpened piece of metal hidden as the bottom of the suitcase for the blade.
* FASA's ''Franchise/StarTrek: The Roleplaying Game'' supplement ''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration First Year Sourcebook''. The Klingons have a concealable disruptor that can be broken down into pieces that look like parts of a warrior's uniform (belt buckle, boot tips, buttons, etc.). The pieces can be re-assembled into a complete operational weapon in less than three minutes.

* The juvenile drug dealer Hob's submachine gun in ''Film/RoboCop2''. [[http://www.imfdb.org/wiki/UC-M21 the gun is real]].
* ''Film/JudgeDredd'', the movie, has a small picture holder box that, if you pull it sideways, becomes a small gun. It's smuggled inside a maximum-security prison.

* ''Film/{{Desperado}}'': the main character calls his two buddies who also wear black and carry guitar cases, but their cases don't contain guns, they ''are'' guns: a machinegun and a rocket launcher.
* In ''Film/LicenceToKill'', Film/JamesBond receives a signature gun from Q disguised as a camera.

* The ''Series/DeadliestWarrior'' episode "KGB vs CIA" was made of this, showcasing an exploding cigar, an exploding film roll, a shoe knife, a suitcase gun, and a camera gun.

* In Creator/MichaelPalin travelogue ''Himalaya'', Palin visits the town of Darra, where gun manufacturing is the big industry. He goes to a gunsmith's shop and, while examining the merchandise, makes a joke about a Film/JamesBond-style pen gun. The gunsmith promptly shows him ''an actual pen gun'', which can fire a .22-caliber round and also can be used as a functional pen.

* Though it doesn't appear in the game proper, the manual for ''VideoGame/{{Crusader}}: No Regret'' mentioned a nanotech pistol that could turn into a functioning cell phone and back. In the game, this was used to turn furniture into hostile mechs.
* The final case in VisualNovel/PhoenixWrightAceAttorneyDualDestinies features a small-caliber [[spoiler: lighter gun, which is very significant in deducing the identity of the killer as an undercover spy.]]

* The Film/JamesBond film ''Film/TheManWithTheGoldenGun'' is the TropeNamer and TropeMaker. Scaramanga has a gun that can be assembled from a pen, a cigarette case, a lighter, and a cuff link, all gold-plated. This allows him to carry his weapon of choice on commercial flights. It was custom made by an underground gunsmith and fires gold bullets in a non-standard caliber that he wears in his belt buckle. The material allows him to carry it through metal detectors and airport security. He's so adept with it that he doesn't even need to be looking at it--at one point he discreetly assembles the weapon while staring Bond straight in the eye without the latter even noticing. In [[Literature/TheManWithTheGoldenGun the novel]] that the film was based on, he just uses a gold-plated [[CoolGuns/{{Revolvers}} Colt Single Action Army.]]

* The Film/JamesBond film ''Film/TheManWithTheGoldenGun'' is the TropeNamer and TropeMaker. Scaramanga has a gun that can be assembled from a pen, a cigarette case, a lighter, and a cuff link, all gold-plated. This allows him to carry his weapon of choice on commercial flights. It was custom made by an underground gunsmith and fires gold bullets in a non-standard caliber that he wears in his belt buckle. The material allows him to carry it through metal detectors and airport security. He's so adept with it that he doesn't even need to be looking it--at one point he discreetly assembles the weapon while staring Bond straight in the eye without the latter even noticing. In [[Literature/TheManWithTheGoldenGun the novel]] that the film was based on, he just uses a gold-plated [[CoolGuns/{{Revolvers}} Colt Single Action Army.]]

* The Film/JamesBond film ''Film/TheManWithTheGoldenGun'' is the TropeNamer and TropeMaker. Scaramanga has a gun that can be assembled from a pen, a cigarette case, a lighter, and a cuff link, all gold-plated. This allows him to carry his weapon of choice on commercial flights. It was custom made by an underground gunsmith and fires gold bullets in a non-standard caliber that he wears in his belt buckle. The material allows him to carry it through metal detectors and airport security. In [[Literature/TheManWithTheGoldenGun the novel]] that the film was based on, he just uses a gold-plated [[CoolGuns/{{Revolvers}} Colt Single Action Army.]]

* Film/JamesBond:
* ''Film/TheManWithTheGoldenGun'' is the TropeNamer and TropeMaker. Scaramanga has a gun that can be assembled from a pen, a cigarette case, a lighter, and a cuff link, all gold-plated. This allows him to carry his weapon of choice on commercial flights. It was custom made by an underground gunsmith and fires gold bullets in a non-standard caliber that he wears in his belt buckle. The material allows him to carry it through metal detectors and airport security. In [[Literature/TheManWithTheGoldenGun the novel]] that the film was based on, he just uses a gold-plated [[CoolGuns/{{Revolvers}} Colt Single Action Army.]]
** In ''Film/LicenceToKill'', Bond receives a signature gun from Q disguised as a camera.

* The ''Film/JamesBond'' movie ''Film/TheManWithTheGoldenGun'' is the TropeNamer and TropeMaker. Scaramanga has a gun that can be assembled from a pen, a cigarette case, a lighter, and a cuff link, all gold-plated. This allows him to carry his weapon of choice on commercial flights. It was custom made by an underground gunsmith and fires gold bullets in a non-standard caliber that he wears in his belt buckle. The material allows him to carry it through metal detectors and airport security. In [[Literature/TheManWithTheGoldenGun the novel]] that the film was based on, he just uses a gold-plated [[CoolGuns/{{Revolvers}} Colt Single Action Army.]]

* ''TabletopGame/{{Shadowrun}}'' Ka•Ge magazine Volume 1 Issue 12. The Century 220ZX is a 9mm light pistol that disassembles into a cigarette case, a pen, a lighter, a ring, and either a brooch or a cufflink. It can be assembled in under 10 seconds.

What do you get when you combine IKEAWeaponry with your ShoePhone? A really bad hotfoot. Also, a Scaramanga Special, a.k.a. [[Film/TheManWithTheGoldenGun the infamous Golden Gun]]. A custom weapon which is designed such that it can pass for a collection of mundane items when taken apart. A device like this is a step above a concealed weapon, as it is intended to pass even a full security screening and frisking.

Differs from ImprovisedWeapon: these are things used as weapons which may or may not normally be used in that fashion.

* Duke Togo, a.k.a. Manga/Golgo13, has been known to use one of these on rare occasions, usually when dealing with particularly paranoid individuals. In Episode 34, he carries out an assassination with a gun created by combining a fountain-pen and several pieces that he had cast on the spot, using a building-model as containers and a specially-prepared bulletproof vest for the material -- and just for added kicks, the soft alloy could be dissolved in a conveniently-placed bucket of hot soup. Thus, he took this trope a step farther than the rest of the examples, by assembling and disassembling his gun on the MOLECULAR level...

* In ''Literature/{{Discworld}}'' fic ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/8774066/14/There-s-nothing-like-a-fresh-pair-of-eyes-is-there Fresh Pair of Eyes]]'' by Creator/AAPessimal, a student Assassin with an oddly familiar name scores a rare victory over her teachers with a prohibited bow -- used to fire an attached explosive Device. The students were utterly prohibited from bringing anything more lethal than a pocket-knife on a field trip. But Natasha Romanoff smuggles in a bow plus arrows. She gets away with it as all a casual observer will see are the struts, frame and ties of as perfectly-normal seeming rucksack. Disassembled and rebuilt, they become a small collapsible bow. Plus arrows. Granted, Natasha gets the Vimes Run as punishment. But it's worth it for having got one over Miss Band and Miss Smith-Rhodes.

* The ''Film/JamesBond'' movie ''Film/TheManWithTheGoldenGun'' is the TropeNamer and TropeMaker. Scaramanga has a gun which can be assembled from a pen, a cigarette case, a lighter and a cuff link, all gold-plated. This allows him to carry his weapon of choice on commercial flights. It was custom made by an underground gunsmith, and fires gold bullets in a non-standard caliber that he wears in his belt buckle. The material allows him to carry it through metal detectors and airport security. In [[Literature/TheManWithTheGoldenGun the novel]] that the film was based on, he just uses a gold-plated [[CoolGuns/{{Revolvers}} Colt Single Action Army.]]
* In ''Film/InTheLineOfFire'', Mitch Leary smuggles a gun made out of plastic to a dinner speech by the president. The only metal parts are the two bullets that he hides in a rabbit's foot keychain and two barrels disguised as a pen and pencil set. He trains himself to put it together without looking too, so he can appear even more non-threatening as he assembles it under the table. In an interesting twist, in real life, the ATF had the actual (fully functional) weapon destroyed, because it violated the Undetectable Firearms Act (this law is why the modern Liberator pistol contains a 3 ounce chunk of metal that serves no actual function). The prop one was left intact, and IIRC is on display.

* In ''Film/{{Vu}}'', the ProfessionalKiller Johnny Pollack had an umbrella convertible into a gun (the handle turns into the butt stock), with attached scope and suppressor. [[http://www.imfdb.org/wiki/File:Deja_Vu_1988-Pollack_weapon-5.jpg Until it got bent.]]
* The first assassination done by Carlos in ''C.A.T. Squad'' is with a rifle that is built from a various innocent items that reside in a toolbox; including a spray can, a flashlight and a clamp.

* ''[[Literature/TheCallistaTrilogy Darksaber]]'', one of the ''Franchise/StarWarsLegends'' novels, has an Imperial warlord attempt to [[TakingYouWithMe kill Admiral Daala]] with a knife after [[BoardToDeath she poisoned an entire gathering of other such warlords with neurotoxic gas]]. Impressive, not only for having the knife be made up of several of his "decorative" medals, but for him having the presence of mind to ''immediately start assembling it as soon as he realizes he, and everyone but Daala and her assistant, have been gassed''. She even gives him an appreciative look of respect as he approaches. He manages to make it to within a single step of her, but by that point it is too late.

* The Creator/GordonRDickson SF story ''Hilifter'' (1963) has this pre-Scaramanga pistol: "Whistling a little mournfully, he began to make the next best use of his pile of property. He unscrewed the nib and cap of his long, gold fountain pen, took out the ink cartridge, and laid the tube remaining aside. He removed his belt, and the buckle from the belt. The buckle, it appeared, clipped on to the fountain pen tube in somewhat the manner of a pistol grip. He reached in his mouth, removed a bridge covering from the second premolar to the second molar, and combined this with a small metal throwaway dispenser of the sort designed to contain antacid tablets. The two together had a remarkable resemblance to the magazine and miniaturized trigger assembly of a small handgun; and when he attached them to the buckle-fountain-pen-tube combination the resemblance became so marked as to be practically inarguable."

** The first book has this in reverse: non-functional decorative plastic guns (used as a stand-in for the real ones which are a mark of status for a certain species)[[note]]Real weaponry is generally prohibited in passenger accessable areas, but the race uses various actual weapons as status 'badges'.[[/note]] are disassembled and revealed to hide the pieces for highly effective melee weapons.

* ''TabletopGame/{{Shadowrun}}'' Ka•Ge magazine Volume 1 Issue 12. The Century 220ZX is a 9mm light pistol that disassembles into a cigarette case, a pen, a lighter, a ring and either a brooch or a cufflink. It can be assembled in under 10 seconds.
* ''TabletopGame/BattleTech'' has a few instances of weapons reassembled from their disguise as innocuous items. One particularly creative example in the canon had a belt, a hair brush, and a suitcase convert into a katana. It used the hair brush handle for the grip, the belt buckle for the handguard, the length of the belt for the sheath, and a specially cut and sharpened piece of metal hidden as the bottom of the suitcase for the blade.
* FASA's ''Franchise/StarTrek: The Roleplaying Game'' supplement ''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration First Year Sourcebook''. The Klingons have a concealable disruptor that can be broken down into pieces that look like parts of a warrior's uniform (belt buckle, boot tips, buttons etc.). The pieces can be re-assembled into a complete operational weapon in less than three minutes.

* Liege Fablulo of the ''Webcomic/{{Insecticomics}}'' is actually a sentient version of this. By himself he's a fluffy dancer with no common sense at all, but when combined with his Mini-Cons he becomes a cold killer.

* ''Film/JudgeDredd'', the movie, has a small picture holder box that, if you pull it sideways, becomes a small gun. It's smuggled inside a maximum security prison.

* Creator/RobertAHeinlein's ''Literature/TheCatWhoWalksThroughWalls'' has the storyteller, Richard, carrying a cane that has a secret knifeblade which can be released to use as a long dagger.

* The ''Series/DeadliestWarrior'' episode "KGB vs CIA" was made of this, showcasing an exploding cigar, an exploding film roll, a shoe knife, a suitcase gun and a camera gun.

* Bulgarian dissident writer Georgi Markov was assassinated while in exile in London when someone (most likely an agent of the Bulgarian SecretPolice) shot a metal pellet fillet with [[PerfectPoison Ricin]] into him, possibly with an ''[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georgi_Markov#Assassination umbrella]]''. To this day, "Bulgarian umbrellas" are something of a running joke in political and intelligence circles.

* This is part of the rationale behind the use of [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Binary_chemical_weapon binary chemical weapons]], one prominent example will be the [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Novichok_agent Novichok]] series of nerve agents, which had as one of their goals to be undetectable and able to bypass NATO inspections; one strategy to achieve this was to have the agent be produced as the mix or reaction of two materials "legal" under the Chemical Weapons Treaty, and combining them just before use.

* The ''Film/JamesBond'' movie ''Film/TheManWithTheGoldenGun'' is the TropeNamer and TropeMaker. Scaramanga has a gun which can be assembled from a pen, a cigarette case, a lighter and a cuff link, all made of gold. This allows him to carry his weapon of choice on commercial flights. It was custom made by an underground gunsmith, and fires gold bullets in a non-standard caliber. The material allows him to carry it through metal detectors and airport security. In [[Literature/TheManWithTheGoldenGun the novel]] that the film was based on, he just uses a gold-plated [[CoolGuns/{{Revolvers}} Colt Single Action Army.]]