SBC Cannon
Sam's 'Seriously Big Cannon', the series' signature heavy weapon.
The SBC Cannon, or simply the Cannon, is a weapon of the Serious Sam series that has appeared in almost every game since The First Encounter. Apart from the Serious Bomb, the C-4 Demolition Charge and the Mini-Nuke, it is the most powerful weapon in the series, and like the XM214-A Minigun it is one of Sam's signature weapons.
Quick Facts
- Type
- Portable artillery weapon
- Ammo
- Uranium-filled cannonballs
- Used by
- Sam Stone
- First appearance
- Serious Sam: The First Encounter
Facts from the source article.
Background
SBC stands for 'Seriously Big Cannon'. In the games' lore it was reverse-engineered by Professor Gottlieb Kiesel from technomagical ordnance captured from Mental's forces, and it fires heavy uranium-filled cannonballs at high speed that smash through several enemies in a row. The longer the fire key is held, the farther and harder the cannonball flies; after about two seconds a fully charged ball is fired, and medium or fully charged balls are shown in flames. An uncharged ball mows down rows of weak enemies, while a fully charged one can kill a tough opponent in a single shot. In Serious Sam 2 the cannon carries the text 'Paynekiller' on its right side, a reference to both the Painkiller and Max Payne series of games. The top-down shooter Enter the Gungeon has a weapon called the Serious Cannon, a direct reference to this weapon.
Source
Text adapted from SBC Cannon on the Serious Sam Wiki (Fandom, CC BY-SA 3.0). Page history: contributors. Codexery summarised the page, and this entry is shared under the same licence.
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