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This type of climax also showed up in quite a few otherwise light-hearted films during the decade.
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'''Examples''':
 
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== Anime and Manga ==▼
 
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* The manga version of ''[[Chrono Crusade]]'' has a shootout in a darkened warehouse that's similar to this, although it has two variations--first, it's the ''heroes'' that get chased into the building by the villains, not the other way around. Second, Rosette realizes that their enemies are using the darkness as a psychological attack, and shoots at a spilled puddle of some flammable liquid, causing the building to set on fire. This gives them more light at the climax of the fight, but also increases the danger and splits the group up into pairs. (Also, it takes place in the ''middle'' of the series, not the end.)▼
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▲== Anime and Manga ==
▲* The manga version of ''[[Chrono Crusade]]'' has a shootout in a darkened warehouse that's similar to this, although it has two variations--firstvariations—first, it's the ''heroes'' that get chased into the building by the villains, not the other way around. Second, Rosette realizes that their enemies are using the darkness as a psychological attack, and shoots at a spilled puddle of some flammable liquid, causing the building to set on fire. This gives them more light at the climax of the fight, but also increases the danger and splits the group up into pairs. (Also, it takes place in the ''middle'' of the series, not the end.)
* Used in an episode of ''[[Noir (anime)|Noir]]'', where the girls find themselves the targets.
** But Kirika gives them an advantage by putting ''popcorn'' on the floor. She's so uncannily good that she can tell from the sound of it being broken where the Mooks are and shoot them accurately.
 
== Comic BookBooks ==
 
* The hero of the ''[[Sin City]]'' story ''Hell And Back'' gets involved in a shootout that spans two buildings. In one dark building is a sniper with a night-vision scope. In the pitch-black apartment across the alley, is our protagonist Wallace, who has no night-vision and only goes off the glint of the sniper's rifle to tell where his foe is hiding. {{spoiler|The gunfight ends in a [[Scope Snipe]].}}
 
== Film ==
 
* Used in ''[[Kick-Ass (film)|Kick Ass]]'' when Big Daddy is being held in a warehouse and his daughter [[Little Miss Badass|Hit-Girl]] goes in to rescue him wearing night-vision goggles, {{spoiler|[[You Are Too Late|but is too late to save him.]] }}
* ''See No Evil, Hear No Evil'': A shootout in dark building -- withbuilding—with a twist: one of the protagonists is blind. {{spoiler|And so is the [[Big Bad]].}}
* In ''[[Blade Runner]]'': Deckard's final showdown with Batty occurs in a dark, dank, building (actually the famous [[wikipedia:Bradbury Building|Bradbury Building]] in Los Angeles).
* Used in ''[[On Deadly Ground]]''; the oil rig fits once Forrest Taft cuts its power. The methods of killing turn quite creative there...
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== Literature ==
* [[Lampshade|Lampshaded]]d in ''[[Artemis Fowl]]: The Arctic Incident'', where LEP officers are drilled never to enter an unsecured building in a firefight without backup. ''Never.'' So guess what [[Cowboy Cop|Holly]] proceeds to do when she's chasing down a smuggler. In her defense, it worked.▼
 
== Live -Action TelevisionTV ==▼
▲* [[Lampshade|Lampshaded]] in ''[[Artemis Fowl]]: The Arctic Incident'', where LEP officers are drilled never to enter an unsecured building in a firefight without backup. ''Never.'' So guess what [[Cowboy Cop|Holly]] proceeds to do when she's chasing down a smuggler. In her defense, it worked.
 
▲== Live Action Television ==
 
* All climactic shootings in ''[[Star Trek: Deep Space Nine]]'' that were actually held on the space station. Good thing phasers put out light...
 
== Real Life ==▼
 
 
* Pat Garret vs Billy the Kid▼
 
== Video Games ==
 
 
* ''[[Time Crisis]]'' features one of these halfway through the second stage.
* ''[[Point Blank (video game)|Point Blank]]'' has one as a challenge - which proves quite challenging as you can only see when ''you'' fire (your targets are cardboard cutouts) and there are civilian targets too.
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* The beginning and end of Level 1-3 in ''[[Perfect Dark]]''.
* ''[[Doom (series)|Doom 3]]'' is full of these, such as the level where you escort a scientist with a lantern through pitch-black corridors. ''[[Quake 4]]'' to a lesser extent.
 
 
== Web Comics ==
 
* Agent Jerry shooting at Molly and Galatea in the peanut butter factory at night in "There But For the Grace" in ''[[The Inexplicable Adventures of Bob]].''
 
▲== Real Life ==
▲* Pat Garret vs Billy the Kid
 
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