History VideoGame / GunsGoreAndCannoli

* CoolGuns: Plenty of them are available beyond common sense! Sawed-off shotguns, Tommy Guns, all of the golden oldies from the Gangster era. Military issue weapons can also be stolen from the US Army (and from the Nazis in the sequel).

* HeroAntagonist: The US Army in both games, as they only want to stop the zombies and later take down the Nazi regime. During the events of the first, they're there to prevent the spread of the ZombieApocalypse to the rest of the United States, killing anything and everything still moving to ensure that the country is safe from invasion. In the second, they're guarding the now-quarantined ruins of Thugtown, again to prevent the zombies from spreading to other parts of the country.

* AdaptationalVillainy: Frankie the Fly, oh so much. In ''WebAnimation/HellbentForWhiskey'', while he still ends up betraying the Bellicios, he was merely acting on orders from the Constelli Crime Family to destroy the Bellucios' brewery. Here, [[spoiler:he purposefully infects almost everyone in Thugtown with zombie poison-laced alcohol, backstabs both the Bonnitos and the Bellucios (even personally murdering Don Bellucio via headshot), and attempts to steal Don Bellucio's entire fortune for himself. And, after that EvilPlan is foiled, he decides to ''sell out his own country'' [[PiggybackingOnHitler by working closely with the Nazis]], amassing a massive fortune from providing them with the zombie poison formula and wonderweapons research. And even after that, he decides to plan on eventually TakingOverTheWorld, by unleashing the ZombieApocalypse on the Allies and eventually replacing Hitler as the new Nazi leader.]]

* VillainsWantMercy: [[spoiler:Frankie, in both games. As befitting his cowardly nature, he begs Vinnie to spare his life after the final battle. Both times,Vinnie doesn't show any mercy and wisely throws him to his doom (which is an actual death the second time around)]].

* WhamShot: As Vinnie ventures deeper into the Thugtown Quarantine Zone in ''2'', [[spoiler:he finds out that there are German soldiers and officers in full battle gear operating on US soil. Not only that, but the same Mafia goons that he's been encountering are in cahoots with them, and part of the mysterious Dark Don Syndicate.]]

* BitchInSheepsClothing:[[spoiler:Frankie seems like a nice, meek fellow, but is actually a spiteful psychopath who starts a zombie apocalypse to get back at the local mafia families for not giving him enough "respect."]]

--->'''Dark Don:'''' "Ever heard of the Wehrmacht? We've got about a ZILLION soldiers! NAZIS, TAKE HIM!!"

* ChronicBackstabbingDisorder: [[spoiler:Frankie definitely suffers from this disorder. His victims have been: Vinnie, the mob bosses,the scientist who created the zombie plague,the Nazis in the sequel... ''nobody'' is safe from this guy!]]

In March 2018 a sequel, ''Guns, Gore & Cannoli 2'' was released. It takes place 15 years later in 1944 and features a temporarily-retired Vinnie getting caught up in a globe-spanning conspiracy involving more mafiosos, more zombies, and ThoseWackyNazis.

''Guns, Gore & Cannoli'' is a 2015 RunAndGun game by Rogueside Games, based on the animated short film ''WebAnimation/HellbentForWhiskey''. Welcome to Thugtown, a [[TheRoaringTwenties Prohibition-era city]] run by the mafia and plagued with zombies. You control Vinnie Cannoli, a mob enforcer sent to find Frankie "The Fly," a small-time wise guy who went missing during the outbreak.

* {{BFG}}: One of the weapons you can get in the first game is a [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maxim_gun Maxim Gun]], more specifically the German MG-08/15. In the second game, you can commandeer unmanned heavy flak guns. This requires grabbing up a flak shell and using the action button to load it into the cannon breech.

* {{Hypocrite}}: [[spoiler:In the first game, Frankie, being a World War I veteran, makes big of how he served the US Armed Forces as a pilot, being a patriot and all. Come the events of the sequel, however, this is shown to be a farce, with Frankie (under the alias of the Dark Don) actively collaborating with the Nazis in fighting against the United States.]]

* AdaptationalBadass: Vinnie Cannoli is much more capable in these games than he was in ''WebAnimation/HellbentForWhiskey''. For one, he ends up taking down hundreds, if not thousands of zombies alone (including [[RodentsOfUnusualSize a giant mutant rat]]), rather than a few dozen with help from Paulie like in the animated film. He then goes on to fight the US Army ''plus'' both the Bonnino and Bellucio Gangs, and survives all his encounters with them. And that's not getting into what happens in ''2'', [[spoiler:with Vinnie revealed to be outright [[TheImmune immune to the zombie poison]], and going on to fight in Europe, help the Allies secure Omaha Beach, wipe out battalions of Nazi soldiers, and even take down a [[StupidJetpackHitler Nazi wonderweapons operation]].]]

* AdaptationalBadass: Vinnie Cannoli is much more capable in these games than he was in ''WebAnimation/HellbeltForWhiskey''. For one, he ends up taking down hundreds, if not thousands of zombies alone (including [[RodentsOfUnusualSize a giant mutant rat]]), rather than a few dozen with help from Paulie like in the animated film. He then goes on to fight the US Army ''plus'' both the Bonnino and Bellucio Gangs, and survives all his encounters with them. And that's not getting into what happens in ''2'', [[spoiler:with Vinnie revealed to be outright [[TheImmune immune to the zombie poison]], and going on to fight in Europe, help the Allies secure Omaha Beach, wipe out battalions of Nazi soldiers, and even take down a [[StupidJetpackHitler Nazi wonderweapons operation]].]]

* CoolVsAwesome: Gangsters vs. Zombies. The sequel is Gangsters vs. Zombies vs. [[StupidJetpackHitler Stupid Jetpack Zombie-Making Hitler.]]

** Vinnie ends up storming an ElaborateUndergroundBase alone located deep in German territory late in the story, which turns out to contain [[StupidJetpackHitler Nazi wonderweapons technology and experiments]], complete with the BigBad (revealing himself to be a RogueSoldier and desiring to overthrow Hitler) using an advanced flying machine to complete his EvilPlan. [[Film/CaptainAmericaTheFirstAvenger Sound familiar]]?

* LesCollaborateurs: [[spoiler:As it turns out, the enemy gangsters, who are American given their accents, pursuing Vinnie since the start of the game are part of the Dark Don's personal syndicate, and are working closely with the Nazis, who are enemies of the United States, in both transporting the zombie poison to Germany and attempting to kill or capture Vinnie. Later in the game, Vinnie himself finds out that his friend and pilot Joe Barista is one of them too, having received a huge payment by the Dark Don to sell Vinnie out.]]

* RoswellThatEndsWell: One of the final jokes of the second game has [[spoiler:Vinnie crashing the UFO Nazi wonder-weapon the Dark Don was using to try to get rid of Vinnie in Roswell; [[AllohistoricalAllusion a good ten years or so before the real Roswell Incident]].]]

** Once Vinnie is deep in the Thugtown Quarantine Zone, the remains of several Opel Blitz trucks, a vehicle used by the Wehrmacht, make an appearance. What's more, German weapons like the Flammenwerfer 35 and Mauser [=C96=] are made available as weapon pickups. [[spoiler:The final Thugtown level then shows us that the Dark Don Syndicate are, in fact, working with the Nazis, who themselves are shown to be operating on US soil to transport barrels of zombie poison back to Germany.]]

* AdaptationalVillainy: Frankie the Fly, oh so much. In ''WebAnimation/HellbentForWhiskey'', while he still ends up betraying the Bellicios, he was merely acting on orders from the Constelli Crime Family to destroy the Bellucios' brewery. Here, [[spoiler:purposefully infects almost everyone in Thugtown with zombie poison-laced alcohol, backstabs both the Bonnitos and the Bellucios (even personally murdering Don Bellucio via headshot), and attempts to steal Don Bellucio's entire fortune for himself. And, after that EvilPlan is foiled, he decides to ''sell out his own country'' [[PiggybackingOnHitler by working closely with the Nazis]], amassing a massive fortune from providing them with the zombie poison formula and wonderweapons research. And even after that, he decides to plan on eventually TakingOverTheWorld, by unleashing the ZombieApocalypse on the Allies and eventually replacing Hitler as the new Nazi leader.]]