BFG9000



The BFG9000 appears as a bulky steel-grey gun which fires large balls of green plasma (40 cells per blast). For general purposes it can be considered the most powerful weapon in the game.

The initials composing the weapon's name stand for "Big Fucking Gun." It officially stands for "Bio Force Gun" in the 2005 movie. In various materials the name has been bowdlerized as "Big Friggin' Gun" or "Big Fancy Gun".

The BFG in other id Software games

 * Doom 64 includes a slightly revamped version of the BFG. Upon being fired, it will make a computerized whirring sound increasing in pitch until the projectile is shot out. When the projectile hits an enemy or wall, it will create a cone-shaped field of damage from its detonation point back to the player, killing or hurting any monsters in its path.
 * Quake II features the BFG 10K. This was the first attempt to rework the BFG mechanics, and set the standard for future BFGs. Rather than the complicated system of firing traces out of the player after the projectile explodes, the traces are fired out of the projectile as it moves, dealing damage-over-time to nearby enemies. The projectile sprites are exactly the same as Doom's. Unlike Doom's BFG, however, a point-blank blast will kill the player as well as their intended target.
 * Quake 3 Arena included a new version of the BFG 10K that works considerably different then its previous incarnations. It fires explosive plasma projectiles at a high rate of fire and has a more streamlined shape.
 * Doom 3 includes a redesigned version, see BFG 9000 (Doom 3). It can be charged up for a more powerful shot, but if charged for too long it will "overload," failing to fire and dealing a large amount of damage to the player. It is otherwise mechanically similar to the Quake II variant.
 * The BFG also appears in Doom RPG, where it is named BFG-9000.
 * Rage includes a weapon called the Authority Pulse Cannon, which normally acts as a sort of energy-based minigun, but also features the ability to fire an alternate ammo type called "BFG Rounds", which do devastating damage to targets within range.
 * The BFG appears in Bethesda Pinball's Doom table as a collectible weapon that is the most powerful of 8 possible weapons. One shot from the BFG instantly annihilates a demon wave, and an extra ball is granted when it is first obtained.

Other appearances and homages
Many subsequent first-person shooters implemented similar weapons, but few were quite as notorious as the BFG9000. In addition, due to its reputation, the BFG has been referenced or parodied in many other places:


 * In the cyberpunk action-RPG, Deus Ex (2000), the Plasma Rifle looks very much like the BFG.
 * The Doom movie features the weapon under the moniker "Bio Force Gun v3.14". It is unknown what 'Bio Force' means.
 * Additionally, the sprites for Skulltag's BFG 10K are modelled after the BFG v3.14 from the Doom Movie.
 * In the hack-and-slash RPG Sacred, one character, the Seraphim, has a combat art called "BeeEffGee".
 * Magic: the Gathering (Unglued expansion) includes The "BFM" (Big Furry Monster).
 * A character in the movie Jason X mentions using a BFG.
 * In the 1994 computer game Jazz Jackrabbit, Jazz's gun is called the "LFG-2000". LFG may stand for 'Large Fucking Gun'.
 * In the RPG Adventure Quest, the "BFG" weapon is an obvious clone of Doom's BFG.
 * The character Bob in ReBoot plays a guitar called a BFG (Big Fancy Guitar).
 * In the game Gauntlet: Dark Legacy, the Archer and Tigress characters have a turbo attack called "BFG", which fires a huge green burst shot forward.
 * In the flash game Defense of Portal 2, there is a weapon called the "BFG-OVER9000".
 * There was originally a quest in the second EverQuest expansion, The Scars of Velious, which resulted in an item called "Breezeboot's Frigid Gnasher", using the image of the BFG9000. The item lore calls it "Model 9000".
 * In the 1999 space simulator FreeSpace 2, the largest red- and green-colored beams in the game are referred to internally as BFRed and BFGreen.
 * In the platform shooter Ratchet & Clank: Up Your Arsenal, there is a level called "The Nefarious BFG" (a reference to both the weapon and to The Notorious B.I.G.).
 * It appears in the PSP game Infected as the BMFG (Big Mother Fucking Gun).
 * In the television series Eureka, the episode "Alienated" referred to a high-tech gun called the "BMFG."
 * The M249 SAW is an unlockable weapon in the FPS game Black, where it is called the "BFG".
 * Version 3 of the tabletop RPG Cyberpunk introduced a new class of lightweight, large-bore, man-portable gyrojet weapons known as Ballistic Flechette Guns (BFGs).
 * Magnum Research, Inc. produces a line of powerful revolvers called the Magnum Research BFR. Officially, this stands for "Big Frame Revolver" or "Biggest, Finest Revolver."
 * Duke Nukem: Zero Hour contains a weapon called the BMF Thunderstrike.
 * In the movie Soldier, a computer screen is briefly displayed which shows that Kurt Russell's character is qualified on the BFG 9000.
 * In the Inspection training mission of MechWarrior 2, one of the boxes has an inspection reading of BFG 9000.
 * Half-Life: Opposing Force featured a nearly identical weapon called the Displacer, which even shared the same explosion sprite. It also allowed the player to teleport themselves to a hidden bonus area (provided they had sufficient ammunition).
 * In Sid Meier's Alien Crossfire, a technology called String Resonance is referenced internally as "BFG9000".
 * Facebook's "Pets" application, in which you control battling rabbits, includes a weapon named the "BFG2000".
 * A weapon called the C.B.F.G. became available in Kingdom of Loathing during Crimbo 2007. This stands for "Crimborg Biomechanical Fragging Gun."
 * The most powerful missile weapon in the game Fury3 is called the BFM (Bion Fury Missile).
 * In Halo 3, the description for part 2 of the mission "The Storm" reads: "Scarab. BFG. End of World," with BFG referring to a large Covenant anti-air cannon.
 * In Halo 2, the easter egg Scarab gun fires a blast similar to the BFG.
 * In Halo Reach, the Multiplayer map "Spire" has an area named BFG.
 * In the flash game Onslaught 2 there exist combos which are called "BFG", which shoot a blast simillar to that of the BFG.
 * The largest size can of Monster Energy Drink, a 32oz-large can, is referred as the "BFC": presumably meaning "Big Fucking Can".
 * In the 1999 video game Recoil, the player's vehicle is known as the BFT or Battle Force (or Big Friggin') Tank.
 * In League of Legends, there is an item called "B.F. Sword". Additionally, its description reads: "When big is just not quite big enough."
 * In the browser-based game Plazma Burst 2, there is a gun called the CS-BNG (also known as gun_bfg in the Map Editor ID's in the game). This weapon also fires a green radiation-based explosive projectile.
 * In Heroes of the Storm, an ultimate ability of the character Sgt. Hammer is the "Blunt Force Gun". Its initials (BFG) and effect (firing a giant devastating missile) is most likely a reference to Doom's BFG9000.
 * In Starbound, one of the Tier 6 weapons that can be found in the game, called "Doomcannon", is a Grenade Launcher and Shotgun hybrid. The weapon uses the original BFG sprite from Doom 1. The description of the gun reads "'...because in the end, Doom is all that counts."
 * In Wolfenstein 2: The New Colossus, there is a weapon named "Ubergewehr". Developed by the Nazis in 1961, the Ubergewehr can obliterate a lot of enemies in a huge explosion of electricity and diesel, in a similar manner to BFG9000.
 * In the FPS Killing Floor, a weapon similar to the BFG called "Husk Fireball Launcher" works in a similar fashion of charged energy balls resulting in an explosion on contact.
 * In the bullet hell game Enter the Gungeon there is a weapon known as the "BSG" or "Big Shooty Gun" which looks and acts like the BFG9000.
 * In the videogame, Risk of Rain 2, there's an activable equipment known as the "Preon Accumulator", it's behavior mimicks the BFG9000 from modern games, with enemy-seeking tendrils that deal massive damage, while the ball of energy itself deals enough damage to one-shot most bosses if used correctly.
 * The Achievement for unlocking such item is [REDACTED ] Probably as a reference to the F in BFG