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General Electric M134 with first pattern spade grip mount and crosshair sights. Note the lack of flash supressor and three disked barrel cluster.

The M134 Minigun and variants can be seen in the following films, television series, video games, and anime used by the following actors:

GE M134 Minigun

General Electric M134 - 7.62x51mm

Film

Title	Actor	Character	Notation	Date
X-Men Origins: Wolverine			Mounted on UH-1 helicopter	2009
The Incredible Hulk			Mounted on a helicopter, (continuity error)	2008
The Dark Knight			Used to fire pistol rounds to study how bullets shatter	2008
Death Race			mounted on "The Dreadnought"	2008
Death Race			mounted on "The Monster" 2006 Ford Mustang GT	2008
Transformers			feral transformer	2007
Alone in the Dark			on tripod	2005
Jarhead			UH-1 Huey Gunships	2005
Dreamcatcher			AH-6 Little Bird Helicopter	2003
Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines		T-1 robots		2003
Die Another Day	Rick Yune	Zao	mounted in Jaguar car	2002
We Were Soldiers	Greg Kinnear	Major Bruce 'Snake' Crandall	UH-1H Huey Gunship	2002
Behind Enemy Lines			USMC UH-1 Huey Gunships	2001
The Matrix	Keanu Reeves	Neo	Mounted on a Bell 212 Helicopter	1999
Tomorrow Never Dies			MH-53 Pave Low Helicopter	1997
Last Action Hero			extremely short barrels	1993
Terminator 2: Judgement Day		Future War Resistance Soldier		1991
Fire Birds			AH-1 Cobra Helicopters	1990
RoboCop 2			Main weapon mounted on RoboCop 2/RoboCain unit	1990
Red Scorpion			Soviet "Hind" Helicopter	1989
Rambo III			Soviet "Hind" Helicopter	1988
Predator		Helicopter gunner	UH-1 Huey Helicopter	1987
The Running Man			UH-1 Huey Gunship, stock footage from King Kong	1987
Heartbreak Ridge			USMC UH-1 Huey Gunships	1986
Top Gun			mounted in enemy aircraft (possible substitute for M61]]	1986
Rambo: First Blood Part II		POW	Bell 212 Helicopter	1985
Red Dawn			seen in wreckage	1984
Apocalypse Now		Helicopter gunner	UH-1 Huey Gunship	1979
The Odd Angry Shot			UH-1 Huey Gunship	1979
King Kong			UH-1 Huey Gunship	1976
The Green Berets			AC-47 Gunship	1968

Television

Title	Actor	Character	Notation	Date
Guns
Quantum Leap
Mythbusters			(S5E22; "Shooting Fish in a Barrel")
Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman			Mounted on a test army vehicle(episode "Operation Blackout")
Future Weapons
Weaponology
Ultimate Weapons
Monster Garage			(episode "Doom Buggie")

Anime

Mounted on the Tachikoma Think-Tanks in Ghost in the Shell Stand Alone Complex and Ghost in the Shell S.A.C. 2nd GIG (extremely short barrel set)

Mounted on Jigabachi attack helicopters in Ghost in the Shell S.A.C. 2nd GIG

Mounted on Leona Ozaki's tank Bonaparte in New Dominion Tank Police

Mounted on battleships in The Place Promised in Our Early Days

Attached to VTOL transport vehicles in Flag

Video Games

50 Cent: Blood on the Sand

007: Nightfire (available in multiplayer mode only, and with certain weapon sets)

007: Agent Under Fire

Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2

Battlefield 2

Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter

Door-mounted on a UH-60 Blackhawk in America's Army

Resident Evil 5 seen mounted on the back of a HMMWV.

Battlefield 2: Modern Combat

Left 4 Dead (as the "Minigun", mounted on a monopod, can overheat)

Left 4 Dead 2 (as the "Minigun", mounted on a monopod, can overheat, The Sacrifice DLC map No Mercy only)

Just Cause 2 (mounted and detachable both instances unlimited ammo when detached does cause you to walk slower)

Dillon Aero Minigun

Dillon Aero M134 with flash suppressor - 7.62x51mm. These are new model M134 Miniguns or just updated GE Miniguns which are usually seen with a different spade grip mount that were used during the Vietnam War.

Film

Title	Character	Notation	Date
The A-Team		Mounted on V22 Osprey	2010
Terminator Salvation		Mounted on T-600's right arm; Mounted on Pave Hawk helicopter	2009
The Incredible Hulk	Helicopter gunner	Mounted on a helicopter, used to shoot at The Abomination	2008
Black Hawk Down	MH-60 and AH-6 gunners	mounted on Black Hawk and Little Bird helicopters	2001

Hand Held M134 Minigun

"Ol' Painless" Handheld M134 Minigun with M60 Handguard, as seen in Predator.

Handheld M134 Minigun with 'Chainsaw grip' to handle the recoil force. This variant was seen in Terminator 2: Judgement Day.

Film

Jesse Ventura as Blain and Bill Duke as Sgt. Mac in Predator (fitted with M60-style handguard)

Arnold Schwarzenegger as the Terminator in Terminator 2: Judgement Day

One of the soldiers and Kurt Russell as Sgt. Todd in Soldier (short-barrel commando version)

Best of the Best 3: No Turning Back (short-barrel commando version)

Seen on a gun rack in Tomorrow Never Dies

Heavy Duty in G.I. Joe: Rise of Cobra

A N.E.S.T. soldier in Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (M134DT minigun by Dillion Aero)

A punk in A Man Apart

T-600 Terminators in Terminator Salvation wield gauntlet mounted Miniguns.

Oleg Taktarov as Nikolai in Predators (2010) (substituting for a GShG-7.62 minigun)

Nemesis in Resident Evil: Apocalypse wields a gauntlet mounted Minigun customized with short barrels and an aluminum housing.

Adrian Edmondson as Eddie Hitler on the cover of Bottom Live 2003

Carl Weathers as Roy Brown in Shadow Warriors: Assault on Devil's Island

Lee Majors as himself in Scrooged (fitted with M60-style handguard)