Revolver-carrying luddites in fiction

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One of my favorite things to see in a movie or book is the trope of the guy who's been around for years, seen-it-all, and chooses to keep carrying a revolver (or other old-fashioned gun) when everyone around him has switched to semiautos (or other modern gun). Just for fun, let's make a definitive list of popular fiction featuring this trope.

I'll start out with Morgan Freeman as the intellectual Detective Somerset who carries a S&W M15 in "Seven":
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Another on is Togusa from "Ghost in the Shell", who still carries a Mateba revolver in an age of full human cyborg-ification:
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What else can we come up with?
 
A Luddite would have been carrying a rock or a club, pretty sure revolvers have a few more mechanical parts.......... :)
 
Dirk pitt and his bowen. Some other character in fiction packs a webley...can't remember off hand


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Not only carrying a revolver in the age of selfloaders but Hollywood has always had the sidekick carry a longer barreled revolver than the star. Roy Rogers had 4 3/4" SAA while George Hays weilded a 7 1/2" version. Only in the very early westerns did the good guy carry a long barreled revolver.
 
Snake Plisken carrying a SCOPED S&W 4" Model 66 in the futuristic "Escape from New York."
 
Just a little reality check here. After working through the time period as a police officer when most departments made the transition from revolvers to semi-autos, AND having been quite into semi-autos and pushing that change, I have to admit that there is also the great perception of being better off, with any new or more modern gear. I had a customized Colt 1911 Government at the time, with the necessary mods. I can clearly see that having the latest and greatest has a "cool" factor, and even has an influence on the criminal element, as they check those things out, and fear a cop that looks like he is together, has good equipment, and appears to know how to use it. All that said, the revolver doesn't really give up that much in a real gunfight. Few down and dirty, fight-or-die shootouts, be they police or civilian defensive shoots, would be lost to a well employed revolver and won by some semi-auto. In a real fight, revolver or auto matters little. Honestly, do you think Jerry Miculek or Bob Munden (or countless cops "from the day" that knew how to use their revolvers) would be at a big disadvantage in a firefight with a revolver?
 
"I had a customized Colt 1911 Government at the time, with the necessary mods. I can clearly see that having the latest and greatest has a "cool" factor,..."

The 1911 can be called a lot of things, but "the latest and greatest" for a 100 year old design has got to be a stretch.
 
"with the necessary mods". Sure, the 1911's been around, but it didn't become "cool" until it had a trigger job, better sights, maybe an enhanced safety (I'm a lefty and need the ambi), etc. It became late and great when it got some facelifts, and endorsed by Jeff Cooper. Then we all jumped the bandwagon........
 
Danny Glover in Lethal Weapon.

Many of the NYPD Blue cops carried revolvers. Kim Delany (Det. Russel) carried a Colt Detective Special.
 
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