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[[File:finger-gun mr-bean 9965.jpg|link=Mr. Bean|frame|Look out! He's got... a finger?]]

 

 

 

You've seen this before. A person imitates a gun with his hand. May be used for a [[Brandishment Bluff]], when they pretend to have a real gun.

In more comedic series, the gun will [[This Banana Is Armed|actually fire something]], resulting in a [[Finger-Poke of Doom]].

 

 

See also [[Giving Someone the Pointer Finger]]. '''Actual guns built into the fingers belong under [[Finger Firearms]]'''.

 

{{examples}}

* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qNuRQmvykwk This] inexplicably banned [[Xbox 360]] commercial takes this trope and turns it [[Up to Eleven]].

 

* Recurring motif with Spike from ''[[Cowboy Bebop]]''. In fact, {{spoiler|it's the last thing he does in the TV series.}}

* One of the Contractors in episode 23 of ''[[Darker than Black]]'' is shown to have this as her power. She uses it to send a rubber band ''through a car'' and precisely go through a man's skull.

* ''[[Bakemonogatari]]'': Meme Oshino does this once, putting his fingers to his head in the shape of a gun.

 

 

 

* ''[[Crank]]'' doubly subverts the "it actually fires" aspect: {{spoiler|Chev Chelios breaks the standoff by miming shooting one of the henchmen, who proceeds to fall over dead with a bullet in his head. It's later revealed to be a shot from some other people who are also enemies of the [[Big Bad]].}}

** It receives a callback in ''Crank 2'', with a man who Chev Chelios was interrogating at finger-point suddenly develops a bullet wound to the head. Chev then examines his finger with some surprise, as though it were an actual gun.

* The 2007 ''[[Transformers (film)|Transformers]]'' movie has an Autobot/Decepticon battle taking place over a crowded freeway. Cut to a car with two boys in it, pretending to shoot at the car next to them. Then the car they are aiming at explodes, followed promptly by two 30 foot tall giant robots engaged in a running gun battle charging by. [[Fridge Horror|Try not to guess whether the car they were pretending to shoot at actually held two more friends who were pretending to shoot back.]]

* In ''[[Chronicle]]'' Andrew uses his telekineses to knock down a hoodlum, punctuating it by pointing his finger and firing.

 

* Jay 'Popinjay' Ackroyd in the ''[[Wild Cards]]'' series has the power to teleport other people or objects (but not himself). Normally, for his power to work he use his hand as a Finger Gun and 'shoot' at his target.

* A rather cute exchange between Tycho and Wedge involves one of these in ''[[Legacy of the Force]]''.

 

* Used in a demonstration for an episode of ''[[CSI]]''.

* Nice twist on ''[[How I Met Your Mother]]'': Robin finger-shoots herself in the head, and Barney next to her wipes her imaginary brains off his face.

* Liddy, the crooked cop in the fifth season of ''[[Dexter]]'', aims his finger at a random kid in one scene just for the hell of it.

* ''[[The Adventures of Superman]]'' had Superman (in Clark Kent mode) jab his finger into the back of a mobster, who assumed Clark had pulled a gun on him. He actually said to the crook that it might be just his finger, and the gangster replied, "I know steel when I feel it." Of course, Superman would be able to shove his finger completely through a human's torso, so even as a finger it's potentially lethal....

* In a first season episode of ''[[Cougar Town]]'', Jules uses a finger gun on her head and uses her other hand to mimic the other side of her head getting blown off. In season two, finger gun "suicides" (and murder-suicides) become rather common. Then there's the "truth guns"...

 

== [[Music]] ==

* Similar to the [[Xbox 360]] commercial mentioned above, this forms the climactic battle in the video for "Country Song" by [[Seether]] (in a western setting with the band dressed as cowboys). After his band-mate is shot down, the lead-singer does a brief [[Skyward Scream]] before pulling out an invisible [[Gatling Good|Gatling gun]], mowing down everybody left before being abducted by aliens. {{spoiler|The video takes place in the imagination of a little boy, and everybody involved are merely toys}}.

 

== [[New Media]] ==

* When the Nostalgia Critic, Linkara and Spoony teamed up for their ''Alone in the Dark'' review Spoony had to resort to this because he didn't have a signature gun like those the two others had.

* [[Yu-Gi-Oh!: The Abridged Series|Yu-Gi-Oh the Abridged Series]] makes fun of the fact that guns were edited out and as a result it looks like characters are waving finger guns. "Don't move, or we'll shoot you with our invisible guns!"

** Later Yami Bakura kills Zombie Boy with an invisible gun by pointing his finger.

* In a [[Rooster Teeth]] short showing "bloopers" of previous shots, one such blooper has one of the guys doing this to a co-worker, and accidentally shooting him with live ammunition. The first guy ''[[Artistic License Gun Safety|then turns it on himself]]'', [[What an Idiot!|with the same results]].

* [[Whateley Universe]] example: the supervillain Pointer has telekinetic powers, and prefers to blast people with a Finger Gun style. In "Ayla and the Birthday Brawl" he manages to take out nearly half of Team Kimba.

* In the fourth ''[[Asdfmovie]]'' the kid mugs the mugger using his finger guns. The mugger lampshades that it doesn't make any sense.

 

== [[Video Games]] ==

* [[The Smart Guy|Gabe Cunningham]] of ''[[Trauma Team]]'' does this, most likely as a [[Shout-Out]] to ''[[Cowboy Bebop]]''.

* Beating ''[[Dead Space 2]]'''s [[Harder Than Hard|Hardcore mode]] earns the "Hand Cannon." [[Nerf Arm|It is a red foam finger]]. The primary fire is "bang bang," and the secondary is "pew pew pew." The weapon's description is "Real space. Real terror. Real foam." When Isaac points and fires, he [[Saying Sound Effects Out Loud|actually says "bang bang" and "pew pew."]] The [[Exactly What It Says on the Tin|Hand Cannon]] [[Lethal Joke Item|obliterates Necromorphs quite nicely]].

 

 

== [[Western Animation]] ==