Zip-Line Gun

"Remember when I made you ride the Cyclone on Coney Island?"
"Yeah, and I threw up."
"This isn't payback, is it?"

The Zip-Line Gun is one of Antoine Triplett's grandfather's Howling Commando items.

History[]

Assault on HYDRA Headquarters[]

Zipline 1 — The Howling Commandos preparing to use the Zip-Line

Captain America, Bucky Barnes and Gabe Jones used the Zip-Line Gun to assault the Schnellzug EB912 and capture Arnim Zola. This assault led the Strategic Scientific Reserve to take Zola into custody.^[1]

After Captain America distracted the Red Skull by infiltrating HYDRA headquarters in the Alps, members of the Howling Commandos used Zip-Line Guns to zip-line into the base from the adjacent mountain, storming the base through its window.^[1]

Howling Commando Gear[]

Zipline 3 — Phil Coulson and Melinda May escaping the Cybertek Corporate Headquarters

"Trip was generous enough to offer up some of his granddad's spy tech to help us out."

―Phil Coulson^[src]

Antoine Triplett retrieved his grandfather's Howling Commando Gear and offered it to Phil Coulson as a tactical advantage during the undercover investigation on Cybertek and the missions to come. The Zip-Line Gun was among these items.

Triplett later used his grandfather's Zip-Line Gun to create an escape route for Phil Coulson and Melinda May when they performed an undercover infiltration mission within Cybertek Corporate Headquarters.^[2]

Capabilities[]

Similar to a modern spear-gun, a Zip-Line Gun is a gun-like device that launches a spear-like metal bar with an attached zip-line to set up a zip-line path for transportation. The gun is designed to launch its spear with enough force to embed it in a surface at a variable distance and properly anchor its end of the zip-line. After firing, the zip-line unravels from a spool below the barrel of the gun. The spear and gun ends of the zip-line can then be properly anchored to allow transportation from a higher area to a lower base level or across a large open space.