Huntsman

Huntsman is a gun that fires shotgun blasts of 6 bullets. Reloading swings the axe, destroying bullets and knocking back enemies in a short range. Curse is increased by 1 while this gun is held.

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• Peculiarly, the Huntsman is a part of the FULLAUTO gun class despite not being remotely fully automatic. This is probably to classify it with other weapons that delete bullets on reload, such as Excaliber and Fightsabre . Because the Huntsman is not SHOTGUN type despite being a shotgun, it does not benefit from the Shotgun Affinity synergy.

• The fact that the weapon increases Curse while being carried stems from the Gungeon rejecting non-bullet based weapons.

• Executioners wield this weapon.

• The Huntsman appears to be a Regular Shotgun with an axe blade attached to the underside of the barrel. Statistically, The Huntsman is weaker overall, with a slightly worse magazine size, damage, and fire rate.

• The Huntsman is a reference to the game Bloodborne where there is a transforming weapon called "Hunter Axe". This is further supported by the fact that the Huntsman has a synergy with the Trick Gun (another item with multiple Bloodborne references) called insight, the key item in Bloodborne that allows hunters to perceive the "Great Ones" who are the primary antagonists of the game.

• The tagline "Axes Of Evil" is a play on words in reference to a speech by George W. Bush where he referred to foreign governments allegedly aiding terrorists as belonging to an Axis of Evil.

• The The Red Hood synergy is an allusion to the fairy tale "Little Red Riding Hood," where a young girl who has never been taught not to talk to strangers is attacked by a wolf and is rescued by a lumberjack (or a hunter in some versions).

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