In Popular Culture
In the Touhou Project, Remilia Scarlet's spear is known as Gungnir.
In the Yu-Gi-Oh Trading Card Game, the spear is represented as a Trap Card.
In the Senki ZesshÅ Symphogear, the character Kanade Amo owns a spear Gungnir, that would have to deal with Noise.
The Halo Series has an armor variant named Gungnir, and was built in conjunction with the WAV M6 G/GNR (known most famously as the 'Spartan Laser'). The identification of the Spartan Laser itself is a play on the name 'Gungnir'.
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