Darkened Building Shootout: Difference between revisions

 

This type of climax also showed up in quite a few otherwise light-hearted films during the decade.

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** 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.

 

* 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—with a twist: one of the protagonists is blind. {{spoiler|And so is the [[Big Bad]].}}

 

== Literature ==

* [[Lampshade]]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.

 

* All climactic shootings in ''[[Star Trek: Deep Space Nine]]'' that were actually held on the space station. Good thing phasers put out light...

 

== 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.

* 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]].''

 

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