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So you've got a hero. He's a really good hero, and [[Heroic Vow|he has rules]] (heroes often do, after all). Let's say, hypothetically, that one of those rules is that [[Doesn't Like Guns|he'll never use a gun]]. [[Death by Origin Story|Maybe his parents were brutally murdered in front of him with one, spurring him into heroism in the first place.]] Whatever. The guy doesn't use guns.
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Batman's Got a Gun.
Can, and often does, overlap with [[Let's Get Dangerous]], [[Big Damn Heroes]], [[
Happens most frequently to the [[Retired Badass]], [[Knight in Shining Armor]], or [[Invincible Hero]], often during a [[What You Are in the Dark]] moment.
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== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ==▼
▲== [[Anime and Manga]] ==
* ''[[Trigun]]'': Vash uses guns all the time. However, as a master of [[Improbable Aiming Skills]], he uses it solely for trick shots, and when in serious trouble, will at most shoot a person somewhere where they'll heal. He doesn't believe in a situation where you can't save everyone. However, {{spoiler|at one point, he is given a true no win scenario, where the villain sets up a situation that will result in the death of his friends, unless the villain is killed (he has... issues). After much hesitation, Vash kills him. He [[Heroic BSOD|doesn't take it well]]. Bear in mind that this was merely [[The Dragon]] he killed, and getting himself shot was the whole point.}}
* Miria in ''[[Claymore]]'' breaks her one rule of never killing fellow Claymores during her battle against {{spoiler|Hysteria the Elegant}}, as that was the only way to end the fight before {{spoiler|a recently Awakened Cassandra}} killed all her allies.
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* An aversion in the final issue of Richard Dragon's series. He's sworn off killing, and SPECIFICALLY sworn off using the deadly Leopard Blow, but resolves to kill one final time (specifically, to kill his love interest/arch enemy Lady Shiva) to save the life of a young boy. During the climactic battle with Shiva, {{spoiler|he has her set up for the blow, and attempts to deliver it, but is tackled away by her ninjas and killed shortly thereafter.}}
** It is worth mentioning that large parts of this series have been [[Canon Discontinuity|booted from canon]].
* [[Captain America (comics)|Captain America]], who, being [[The Cape (trope)|The Cape]], embodies values like [[Thou Shalt Not Kill]] has found himself forced to kill his enemies sometimes:
** He had to decapitate Baron Blood because it was the only way to stop a vampire. Cap was crying when doing it.
** To save innoccent lives, he killed an ULTIMATUM agent. The memory still haunted him when he faced ULTIMATUM again.
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== Film ==
* In''[[ High Noon]]'', Amy Fowler (Grace Kelly), a devout Quaker, comes to the rescue of her new husband Will Kane (Gary Cooper) when she {{spoiler| shoots one of his enemies from behind, violating her pacifist beliefs in order to save Will's life}}.
* In ''[[Things to Do in Denver When You're Dead]]'', protagonist Jimmy the Saint spends the last twenty minutes or so of the movie doing all the things he spent the whole movie trying to avoid doing.
* In ''[[Wizards]]'', [[Actual Pacifist]] wizard Avatar confronts his [[Cain and Abel|evil brother]] Blackwolf, {{spoiler|and rather than engage him in a [[Wizard Duel]], simply pulls out a gun and shoots him dead.}}
* In ''[[The Rundown]],'' the Rock's character refuses to pick up a gun the entire movie, maintaining that "bad things happen" when he does. When he gets into a tight spot in the end, he does end up using
* In ''[[Unforgiven]]'', William Munny avoids drinking because his wife "cured" him of such vices before she died. When Little Bill kills Ned, Munny finishes the Kid's bottle of whiskey and goes on a [[Roaring Rampage of Revenge]].
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** The Eleventh Doctor takes a soldier's pistol in the climax of "The Time of Angels." However, he only uses it to {{spoiler|destroy a Gravity Globe and engineer an escape from the Weeping Angels.}}
* ''[[Leverage]]'': Elliot Spencer does not like guns. He never said he couldn't use them.
* ''[[White Collar]]'''s [[Con Men Hate Guns|Neal]] snaps in this manner when he has a chance to encounter and kill the man who {{spoiler|he believes}} killed {{spoiler|[[Love Interest|Kate]]}}. All of his friends are so worried about him being in this state that when [[Conspiracy Theorist|Mozzie]] finds out he's got a gun, [[
* [[Buffy the Vampire Slayer]] [[Doesn't Like Guns]]. She thinks they're not helpful, she has terrible aim with them and has a vested interest in not involving gunplay, not the least being one of her best friends and secret
== [[Music]] ==
* In the ''[[Ultimate Showdown of Ultimate Destiny (song)|Ultimate Showdown of Ultimate Destiny]]'', Batman stole [[Indiana Jones]]' gun, and he shot, and he missed. Then [[Jackie Chan]] deflected it with his fist.
== [[Video Games]] ==
* Faith from ''[[Mirror's
* Played with in ''[[Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots]]'', with Snake's rule not to use CQC (added to the series in ''[[Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater]]'', a prequel, so presumably Snake knew it since before ''[[Metal Gear
* Played brilliantly straight in ''[[Devil May Cry]] 3''. [[Red Oni, Blue Oni|Dante and Virgil]] are twins who are the sons of the demon Sparda. Dante chose to fight against demons, despite being half-demon himself, while Virgil joined them. Dante uses his pistols, Ebony and Ivory, and his [[
* Sort of in ''[[Mass Effect 2]]'', in the [[Tear Jerker|Overlord DLC]]. Paragon!Shepard isn't completely averse to violence, but tends to keep it as a last resort. Later in the mission, there is a paragon interrupt to pistol whip a [[Complete Monster]] because of his [[Moral Event Horizon]], not in self-defence. And it's [[Moment of Awesome (Sugar Wiki)|awesome]].
== [[Western Animation]] ==
* ''[[Batman Beyond]]'' is kicked off when an aged, ailing Batman suffers a heart attack at the worst possible
* The ''[[Justice League Unlimited]]'' episode "Dead Reckoning" has [[Deadman (Comic Book)|Deadman]] possess Batman and kill Devil Ray with a nearby gun in order to save [[Wonder Woman]]. Batman is visibly disgusted with it.
** Deadman [[Heroic BSOD|doesn't react too well either]].
** Another episode has an [[Alternate History]] version of Batman grab a gun from a fellow resistance fighter. Of course, his parents weren't killed by a lone gunman right in front of him, but killed by Hugo Savage's soldiers storming Wayne Manor.
* ''[[Batman: The
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