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== [[Anime]] == |
== [[Anime]] == |
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* ''[[Sora no Woto]]'''s first OVA features this at the climax of a [[What Do You Mean It's Not Awesome?|water-gun war between two factions in the Clocktower Fortress]]. Because everyone is dead drunk by this point, the reveal is accompanied by much unnecessary overacting on Rio's part. |
* ''[[Sora no Woto]]'''s first OVA features this at the climax of a [[What Do You Mean It's Not Awesome?|water-gun war between two factions in the Clocktower Fortress]]. Because everyone is dead drunk by this point, the reveal is accompanied by much unnecessary overacting on Rio's part. |
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* [[Egregious]]ly used in ''[[Saint Seiya]]''. The jarring part is that enemies, or the heroes themselves can go on like nothing happens for a while and then humongous holes or cracks will appear on the downed Saint/General/Spectre's cloth/scales/surplice. |
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* Not quite this trope, as there was no struggle for a gun, but the ending for ''[[Code Geass]]'' season 1 was kinda like that: {{spoiler|Lelouch}} and {{spoiler|Suzaku}} in a [[Mexican Standoff]], fading screen and sound of gunshot. Viewers are left to guess who shot whom. |
* Not quite this trope, as there was no struggle for a gun, but the ending for ''[[Code Geass]]'' season 1 was kinda like that: {{spoiler|Lelouch}} and {{spoiler|Suzaku}} in a [[Mexican Standoff]], fading screen and sound of gunshot. Viewers are left to guess who shot whom. |
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* At one point in ''[[Gundam Seed]]'', both Kira and Athrun go into SEED mode and blow each other's mecha up, leaving the audience wondering who survived that at all. {{spoiler|It turns out, they both survive but Kira [[Took a Level In Badass]] and Athrun starts towards a [[Heel Face Turn]].}} |
* At one point in ''[[Gundam Seed]]'', both Kira and Athrun go into SEED mode and blow each other's mecha up, leaving the audience wondering who survived that at all. {{spoiler|It turns out, they both survive but Kira [[Took a Level In Badass]] and Athrun starts towards a [[Heel Face Turn]].}} |
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* [[Dan Abnett]]'s [[Gaunt's Ghosts]] novel ''First & Only'' has two instances of it: |
* [[Dan Abnett]]'s [[Gaunt's Ghosts]] novel ''First & Only'' has two instances of it: |
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** When the Ghosts' raid into the Patricians' quarters is caught, Caffran is knocked down, his foe turns his gun toward him, and "the shotgun fired." |
** When the Ghosts' raid into the Patricians' quarters is caught, Caffran is knocked down, his foe turns his gun toward him, and "the shotgun fired." |
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** Inquisitor Heldane manipulates "the pawn" mentally. Plentiful [[Red Herring |
** Inquisitor Heldane manipulates "the pawn" mentally. Plentiful [[Red Herring]]s point to {{spoiler|Rawne}}, but it's not him. |
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** In ''Straight Silver'', we are told that Muril whirled about, and a knife struck to the heart, but {{spoiler|not until many scenes later do we know that Cuu killed her, and not she Cuu}}. |
** In ''Straight Silver'', we are told that Muril whirled about, and a knife struck to the heart, but {{spoiler|not until many scenes later do we know that Cuu killed her, and not she Cuu}}. |
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* In [[Ben Counter]]'s [[Warhammer 40000]] [[Horus Heresy]] novel ''Galaxy In Flames'', when {{spoiler|Cassar}} learns that {{spoiler|Turnet}} knew of, and supported, {{spoiler|the treacherous attack on their own forces}}, they draw their guns and fire. {{spoiler|Cut to another scene. After it, we learn they both missed.}} |
* In [[Ben Counter]]'s [[Warhammer 40000]] [[Horus Heresy]] novel ''Galaxy In Flames'', when {{spoiler|Cassar}} learns that {{spoiler|Turnet}} knew of, and supported, {{spoiler|the treacherous attack on their own forces}}, they draw their guns and fire. {{spoiler|Cut to another scene. After it, we learn they both missed.}} |
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