Firing
Launch
Launch noun - A rising from a surface at the start of a flight (as of a rocket).
Both words in one sentence
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The Eightball Gun, in a similar vein, can launch missiles as grenades by firing them without engaging the rocket motors.
Source: Video Game / Unreal I -
Screaming Warrior: Kane gets some mileage out of this trope in the launch trailer, which features him firing a machine gun at an attack chopper whilst bellowing from the bottom of his diaphragm.
Source: Video Game / Kane and Lynch -
In the adaptation, it's capable of firing a lightning attack and launch a Macross Missile Massacre, forcing Bayonetta to summon something big just to get rid of it.
Source: Anime / Bayonetta: Bloody Fate
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