Doesn't Like Guns: Difference between revisions

 

[[Con Men Hate Guns]] is a specific subtrope. The opposite trope to the [[Gun Nut]].

 

* Roger Smith from ''[[The Big O]]'', though its not much of a surprise since he's anime Batman.

** Though his reason is because it's not "gentleman"-like. He will use it if pressured, but won't directly attack people.

* [[Martial Pacifist|Kimba]] from ''[[Kimba the White Lion]]'' due to the deaths (including his father) guns cause in his animal kingdom.

* Several characters in ''[[Rurouni Kenshin]]''. At one point, Yahiko snatches a gun away from a mook. The mook panics, but Yahiko throws it away and says, "Like I would really shoot. I'm a swordsman, guns are for sissies!"

 

* [[Batman]]'s hatred of the gun is well known, so much that he, as Bruce Wayne, bars his company from producing military contracts (uh...[[Where Does He Get All Those Wonderful Toys?|huh]]...) and will refuse to use a firearm even if it seems to be the only way out of a deadly situation. This is carried over into [[The DCAU]] as well, possibly best shown in ''[[Batman Beyond]]'' when what finally pushed Batman to retire is that he was [[Batman Grabs a Gun|forced to use a gun]] to threaten a kidnapper who was about to bash in his skull after he had been [[Game-Breaking Injury|crippled by a bad heart during the fight]].

** Technically the military contracts thing isn't true, as we've seen various examples of military-grade hardware produced by WayneTech, from night vision goggles to attack helicopters. Presumably Bruce is fine with it as long as his company isn't manufacturing any weapon systems (those can be sourced from other contractors).

* [[Batgirl|Barbara Gordon]] doesn't like guns, which makes sense since she was shot by [[The Joker]] and was left paralyzed from the waist down. This event remains in her backstory post-Flashpoint and it's left its mark on her as seen in her current series. One of her first attempts to get back into the swing of things as Batgirl (her paralysis was treated with surgery overseas) went poorly when Mirror pulled a gun on her (aiming at the ''exact same spot where the Joker shot her'') and she froze in fear.

 

* [[Star Wars|Obi-Wan Kenobi]] dislikes blasters, considering them synonymous with uncivilized aggression, preferring to use diplomacy and swordsmanship instead. As a [[Call Forward]] to his introduction to the lightsaber from the original trilogy, he discards Grievous' blaster after using it -[[Hypocritical Humor|to save his own life, no less]]- with a dismissive "so uncivilized."

{{quote|'''Rifftrax''' (*aping [[Ewan McGregor]]'s stuffy Obi-wan accent) Sometimes I think these coolies ''don't deserve'' the British Raj.}}

* Captain Nemo in the film version of [[League of Extraordinary Gentlemen]], when told to draw his gun, proudly states "I walk a different path" and proceeds to kick ass with indian martial arts. He does use a pistol in the ending scenes of the film, but only because the enemies he's engaging are above him and out of melee range.

 

* [[Quiller]], from the [[Spy Fiction]] novels by Adam Hall, doesn't like guns for several reasons. They give him away as a spy, they cause overconfidence, and they're noisy. He prefers to rely on his martial arts skills.

** He's occasionally referred contemptuously to gun-carrying adversaries as "gun-dependent," indicating that if you get the gun away from them they're psychologically paralyzed and helpless against you.

* [[Doc Savage]] doesn't normally carry a gun (his reasoning is that anyone who carries a gun comes to depend on it and is thus less effective when disarmed). That doesn't stop him from using one when necessary (with the obligatory [[Improbable Aiming Skills]]).

** It also doesn't stop him from travelling around with an arsenal of automatic weapons and grenades, and hauling them out whenever he's expecting serious resistance. Doc's policy is to not ''routinely'' carry guns, as he feels confident of arranging his everyday self-defense needs without them.<ref>Given that the man is six-feet-six and about 250 lbs. of pure muscle and has approximately nineteen black belts, his confidence is entirely justified.</ref> But if he's preparing to go on an assault vs. a fortified enemy position, he'll bring whatever amount of firepower he thinks the job requires.

* Jay (Popinjay) Ackroyd of ''[[Wild Cards]]'' hates guns. Of course when you can teleport people anywhere just by pointing at them that's not really an issue.

* In ''[[The Saga of Darren Shan]]'', the honor code of vampires and vampanezes forbids them to use guns; they feel that guns are for cowards. The problem is circumvented by hiring regular humans as soldiers.

* Sam Spade from ''[[The Maltese Falcon]]''.

 

* Micheal on ''[[Burn Notice]]'' isn't above using guns, but he doesn't like them: "Don't fight your wars with guns. Guns make you stupid. Fight your wars with duct tape. Duct tape makes you smart".

* In ''[[Doctor Who]]'', The Doctor doesn't like guns. In the vast majority of stories he does not handle guns, even when they are available, and even on the odd occasion that the enemy is not [[Immune to Bullets]]. He does use a variety of super-science methods that usually turn out to be no less lethal. For example, he often uses his sonic screwdriver as a projectile weapon. When he does use a gun, it's usually to show that the [[Godzilla Threshold]] has been crossed or do something besides shoot directly at the enemy. Examples and exceptions include:

* Hershel Green of ''[[The Walking Dead]]'' has stated that he knows how to shoot but really doesn't like to. Despite this though he has considerable aim even in a low light situation with an unfamiliar firearm.

 

* "Saturday Night Special" by Lynyrd Skynyrd.

* Ayria's "The Gun Song".

 

* In ''[[Warhammer Fantasy Battle]]'' fantasy battles Brettonian knights (the characters) can have this as a virtue, it does however transfer to all ranged weapons and not only guns.

** The basic code of conduct for Brettonian knights ban gunpowder weapons, in fact, and none of the knight careers grant proficiency in them. The knightly virtue in question only adds a ban on all ranged weapons on top of it.

* In ''[[In Nomine]]'', the Archangel David hates all ranged weapons (including guns) because he feels they separate a person from the reality of what they're doing. His angels use melee attacks only.

 

* Vergil in ''[[Devil May Cry]]'' thinks [[Guns Are Worthless]] and, in the universe of Devil May Cry, he might just be right: his magical throwable swords do a lot more damage than most of his brother's guns. Still, near the end he picks up one of his brother's pistols, stating that he'll "try things your way for once" as he and Dante pull of a Combination [[Finishing Move]].

** Bear in mind that Dante's pistols, [[Cherry Tapping|while they may take longer]], can kill ''any'' enemy in the game. Including Vergil. They're usually the way to kill things that ''won't'' carry a high risk of you getting swiped by a cheap shot.

* Bayman from ''[[Dead or Alive]]'' is seen with a gun on his hip. The ''[[Fridge Logic]]'' comes when you realize "why doesn't he just shoot them?". However the ''[[Fridge Brilliance]]'' comes later when you realize that a twenty story fall after being knocked through a plate glass window, though a array of neon lights does about the same amount of damage as a few solid punches. Bullets would be a downgrade.

* Justified in ''[[Infamous (video game series)|In Famous]]'' when Cole can't use guns because the ammunition will explode if he touches them. Zeke found the first try to be hilarious.

 

* During the Nanobots arc of ''[[Sluggy Freelance]],'' Dr. Schlock [[Screw This, I'm Outta Here|ran out]] at a critical moment in a rescue mission. Bun-bun dispatched Sam the Vampire (the ''Sampire!'') to retrieve him, and gave him a gun. Sam's response: "Sam doesn't do guns." Bun-Bun made him take it anyway, which was fortunate, as Schlock had decked himself out in crosses and holy water. Sam proceeded to shoot Schlock in the leg, forcing him to give Sam [[Vampire Invitation|permission to enter]].

 

== [[Web Original]] ==

* Knightblade from the ''[[Global Guardians PBEM Universe]]'' not only dislikes guns, he goes out of his way to hunt down gun-traffickers, and tends to permanently cripple criminals who use guns in the commission of a crime. Stone hates them as well, which is ironic because he's a [[Flying Brick]] and just bulletproof as that implies.

 

* In ''[[The Venture Brothers]]''. Brock Samson doesn't seem to be a huge fan of 'em, going so far as to outright refuse to even touch one during his OSI exam. This may be a bit of a subversion though, since he likes knives better because they're more personal and gory.

* After a [[Very Special Episode]] of ''[[Gargoyles]]'' where Broadway almost kills Elisa by accidentally shooting her with her own gun, he can't stand guns and will destroy any he gets his hands on. In an interesting case, his hatred of them stems from his own guilt rather than the weapon itself; Goliath obliquely mentions in the first episode that the gargs obviously don't have problems killing invaders (like the Vikings) if they can't avoid it.

* In ''[[Babar]]'', none of the animals like or use guns (for obvious reasons), including the rhinos.

 

* Actor [[Christopher Walken]] has an intense hatred of handguns, so much that he doesn't even like holding them.

* This is part of why it was hard to get Sigourney Weaver back for ''[[Alien]] 3''. After finishing ''Aliens'', she'd joined Handgun Control, and was ''not'' thrilled with the emphasis on weaponry in the third film script. In the final script, there are no firearms.

* Legendary Hawaiian police officer Chang Apana never carried a gun, but managed to be quite the [[Badass]] anyway.

 

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