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* ''LightNovel/TrinityBlood'': When Abel cranks the Crusnik up to 80%, his ''wings'' act as one of these.

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** ''Homeworld 2'': the [[spoiler:''[[LostSuperweapon Sajuuk]]'']] actually ''inverts'' this trope in that the weapon is composed of two angular trenches running across the sides of the entire ship and the vertical fork on the front which is only the muzzle. When the weapon fires, a golden-orange energy stream fills the trenches from the rear to the front; when the stream reaches the fork, anything that happens to be [[ArbitraryMaximumRange less than ten kilometres]] in front of it is [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P-05M3Xt1y8 dead (unit spoiler!)]].

* The wands in ''Anime/LittleWitchAcademia'' are of this design. The spells come out from between the prongs.

* As mentioned on the [[WaveMotionGun Wave Motion Gun page]], Larry Niven's 1985 novel "Ringworld Engineers" presents an early version of this trope in the ''Wunderland Treatymaker,'' a KillSat just short of Death Star class. It fired a parallel pair of beams -- one to suppress the negative charge on sub-atomic particles such as electrons, while the other suppressed the positive charge on particles like protons. Between them they generated an ''incredible'' electrical potential, and in turn enough electrical current to melt and then vaporize rock. The only time it was used on a planet, the result of dragging its beams across the planet's surface resulted in a canyon ''twenty miles across and twelve miles deep'', and nearly two hundred long.

* The {{Stun Gun}}s used in the Battle Room in the film version of ''Film/EndersGame'' look like this.

* In the IDW [[ComicBook/TransformersGeneration1 Generation 1]] continuity, Decepticon leader Megatron was re-built into a new body with an alt-mode of a flying wing, reminiscent of the B2 bomber. In robot mode, the tips of the flying wing joined together to form a double-boomed version of his signature arm-mounted BFG. This feature was replicated in toy form several months later.

* In ''Zoids'', the Berserk Fuhrer's three-pronged "eggbeaters" function this way, as well as opening up to create energy shields or function as blades on their own. Though the Liger Zero X never appeared in animated form, its two-pronged lightning dischargers presumably work similarly.
* In ''Medabots'' Arcbeetle forms one of these weapons with a spike on its head and chest, meant to evoke the horns of a hercules beetle.

* The Monado in ''VideoGame/{{Xenoblade}}'' is a LaserBlade and not a ranged weapon, but otherwise fits this trope, with the physical part of the sword splitting in two to create a projector for the energy component of the blade.

* An unused concept sketch for a {{Transformers}}[=/=]Franchise/GIJoe crossover was of Megatron with an alternated move of a Cobra Helicopter/tank. The vehicle's three rotors formed a ShoulderCannon in robot mode.

** The TieInNovel ''The End Of The Circle'', an ExiledFromContinuity GrandFinale to the unproduced ''Anime/RobotechIITheSentinels'', has the homeworld of the Haydonites transformed into what seemed to be a planetary-scale HumongousMecha. As a [[RedshirtArmy allied fleet]] attempts to attack the planet, [[TheSmartGuy Exedore]] only realizes too late that the "limbs" are the forks of a gigantic Reflex ([[DubNameChange Macross]]) Cannon.

How the energy being charged does not simply disperse into the air is never really touched upon, although, one can expect a HandWave along the lines of [[SelectiveMagnetism a magnet]] [[AWizardDidIt did it.]] Suffice to say, the audience shouldn't even feel compelled to question this logic, because it looks really freaking awesome, [[RuleOfCool to the point where things like reality just aren't very important anymore.]]

* The [[KillSat Artemis]] from ''Anime/MaiHime'' uses this for its main weapon

* Divine Beast Vah Naboris in ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaBreathOfTheWild'' uses this to a lesser extent. The camel-like beast has two ears which rotate up 90 degrees to charge and firing a homing laser (and later, a WaveMotionGun) in the space between and in front of its face.

* Invoked with the design of the Royal Highlander in ''VideoGame/BattleTech'' which features two long, thin, diamond-shaped armor plates surrounding the hardpoints on its right arm, whose default weapon is a [[MagneticWeapons Gauss Rifle]], which is more or less the most powerful ballistic weapon in the game. The Gauss Rifle's actual barrel is a vaguely triangle-shaped, cylinder, however. Downplayed with the other Post-Amaris Civil War Highlander variants who have a pair of [[ScavengerWorld bare mounting rails instead]].

* Haken Browning of ''[[VideoGame/EndlessFrontier Super Robot Wars OG Saga: Endless Frontier]]'' uses the "Longtomb Special", a HandCannon [[PhallicWeapon with an incredibly long barrel]] that, when used during his LimitBreak, splits the barrel open into three prongs to fire FrickinLaserBeams. Notably, the actual barrel of the Longtomb Special remains between the prongs.

** A third one later appears in Anime/DigimonAdventure2020 with MetalGreymon Alteros Mode (named after the instance of this used by Virus MetalGreymon X), which trades MetalGreymon's organic right arm for one of these.

* ''Franchise/{{Digimon}}'' has two of these: Beelzemon's gun opens in such a manner before firing, and the lion head design on Lowemon's chest can do a fairly unusual version of it; the mouth opens, and a sphere of black energy swirls into existence between the jaws. A yellow beam is then fired from deep inside the mouth, through the black sphere, and the enemy is struck with a black-and-yellow blast.