Jo from Burst Angel uses two revolvers, though usually only one at a time, and through her Improbable Aiming Skills it's shown to be good enough to take out most anything. Presumably because smaller bullets hardly even count as an annoyance to Chiropterans, but David's revolver doesn't do much better. David from Blood+ wields a revolver as his Weapon of Choice. Revy derides Chaka for being a poser for using one for show more than effectiveness, and uses a pair of custom Beretta semiautomatics herself. Chaka (the asshole from the Yakuza arc) also uses one. Dutch from Black Lagoon has one (though he's also used a shotgun as well). Train Heartnet from Black Cat goes with this trope. even when in the middle of a military formation where everybody else has assault rifles. Hades from Appleseed uses an implausibly large six-shooter as his sidearm. Russian Roulette and False Roulette follow soon after. The titular character in Akagi asks for one from the Yakuza, supposedly for self-protection. Justice in Afro Samurai dual-wields a set of revolvers. This is particularly evident in videogames, where the revolver will always outclass a semi-auto shot-for-shot: after all, if the revolver didn't have that advantage, then it would be totally useless. An easy demonstration is that while the revolver is the Hand Cannon to a regular semi-auto pistol in most media productions, one shouldn't expect to see a semi-auto pistol as the Hand Cannon to a regular revolver. 454 Casull, for example, was the most powerful revolver available to civilians for many years, yet doesn't even have "Magnum" in its name (despite still technically being one to the. note "Magnum" does not mean "really powerful " it refers to a longer (and yes, inherently more powerful) cartridge version of an existing caliber. An enduring legacy of Dirty Harry is that it's often assumed that every powerful revolver is a Magnum. 
50AE Desert Eagle, much to the annoyance of gun enthusiasts. One could argue this is where revolvers first picked up their mystique, though Dirty Harry is probably responsible for popularising Magnum-loaded revolvers as the Hand Cannon of choice this has faded a little in recent years, with the first choice for movie hero personal artillery more likely to be a. That doesn't stop it from being cool, though. But this is because revolvers were the only repeating handguns at that time in history, not because of any cool factor. In Westerns, cowboys and outlaws are seen with revolvers.
If a character is The Gunslinger, chances are it's a revolver he'll be slingin'. In video games, they may be the most accurate, most powerful, and rarest of all handguns. In fiction, revolvers are often shown to be better than any other handgun. However, there is one gun that we can all agree is cool: the revolver.
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