Firing One-Handed: Difference between revisions

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{{trope}}{{cleanup|This page is basically a mix of "using guns the right way" -- which is [[People Sit on Chairs]] territory -- and "using guns unrealistically", and the examples of each have blended into each other. Per discussion on the talk page, it needs to be rewritten (preferably by someone familiar with gun use) to toss out the realistic/proper usage and focus entirely on unrealistic/cinematic gun usage.}}

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=== Film ===

* The T-800 from ''[[Terminator (franchise)|Terminator 2: Judgement Day]]'' does this multiple times due to being a super-strong robot. Examples include in the canal chase sequence (where he shoots and cocks a shotgun one-handed) and his firing of a grenade launcher at Cyberdyne Systems (to disable multiple police cars).

* None of the many Desert Eagles in the ''[[Charlie's Angels]]'' movies is ever fired two-handed. And yes, this does require the [[Rule of Cool]] to keep those [[Hand Cannon]]s from ripping people's wrists off like they would usually do in [[Real Life]].

* All the characters in ''[[The Matrix]]'' fire all manner of weapons one-handed, sometimes while performing various acrobatics, including one character who at one point dual-wields a pair of drum-fed automatic shotguns. This is all possible because it's happening in the Matrix, where the characters can bend the laws of physics.

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* Plenty of people use sawed-off shotguns in ''[[Umineko no Naku Koro ni]]'', but [[Hot Chick in a Badass Suit|Kyrie]] is the only one to wield it one-handed, which makes quite a sharp contrast among them. You can really tell that under her [[Cool Big Sis]] personality, she's not to be trifled with.

* In ''[[X-COM (Video Game)|X-COM]]'', weapons that do not automatically take up both hand slots can be fired one-handed, but if the other hand is not empty, accuracy drops ([http://ufopaedia.org/index.php?title=Accuracy_formula to 80% base]). Of course, accuracy is penalized for critical wounds on both arms if both are involved (by 10%, thus with more than 1 wounds to the off hand, may as well fire one-handed). The character models, however, will always show your characters firing them one-handed.

* '''[[Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas]]''' allows CJ to eventually fire TWO sawed-off shotguns in each hand as if they were oversized pistols. Realistically, they wouldn't have very much accuracy and would turn his wrists into powdered bone in very short order.

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