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{{quote|'''[[The Brigadier|Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart]]''': Jenkins?
'''Jenkins''': Sir!
'''Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart''': Chap with wings, there. [[Trope Namer|Five rounds rapid.]]
|''[[Doctor Who]]'', "[[Doctor Who/Recap/S8/E05 The Daemons|The Daemons]]"}}
It appears most good guys are [[Genre Blind]]. When [[Redshirt Army|military personnel]] or the [[Lemming Cops|police]] encounter the [[Monster of the Week]], they invariably attack it with small arms fire. Unfortunately, this never works. The monster is always [[Immune to Bullets]]. This gives our heroes an opportunity to save the day with some [[Applied Phlebotinum]].
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Compare with [[Shooting Superman]].
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== Anime and Manga ==
* Both played straight and averted in the manga ''[[Parasyte]]''. The creatures are tough enough to completely ignore bullets, but that doesn't stop a few police from opening fire and getting butchered. The main character takes them on by knowing their weaknesses, though, and {{spoiler|the government soon learns their weaknesses and kills them off by the dozens with high-powered shotgun ammunition. Quickly [[Double Subverted]] by introducing a super-parasite that ignores THAT ammunition and massacres an entire platoon.}}
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** Even more so when they fire on Logia-type Devil Fruit Eaters, who are known to be {{spoiler|[[Immune to Bullets|invulnerable to conventional weaponry]] as even the Marine's own ''ADMIRALS'' employ this type of Devil Fruit}}.
* Subverted in ''[[Those Who Hunt Elves]]''. Our heroes are summoned to defeat the dragon because they have a tank. Dragons don't stand up very well to ammunition designed to take out other tanks and fortifications.
== Comic Books ==
* In [[Preacher (Comic Book)|''Preacher'']], Starr attempts this against [[Immune to Bullets|The Saint of Killers]], several times. It does not go well, ever, but Starr refuses to learn his lesson and just keeps upping the ante; {{spoiler|After waves of the Grail's elite troops have fallen without even slowing the Saint down, Starr commandeers a ''Tank Battalion'', getting them all killed in the process. When ''that'' fails, Starr orders a [[Nuke'Em|Nuclear Bomb]] dropped. In the heart of the mushroom cloud, the Saint looks around, spits contemptuously, and growls [[Badass Boast|"Not Enough Gun."]]}}
== Fan Works ==
* Averted in the '[https://tthfanfic.org/Series-461 Compelled - The Buffy/Angelverse Reshaped]'' series by "Hotpoint" -- most demons are perfectly vulnerable to guns, even if some take multiple shots to bring down. And an entire cadre of the activated slayers become outright ''soldiers'', trading off between firearms and melee weapons with ease and calling themselves the "gunslayers". Finally, the Trope Namer is deliberately invoked in chapter 17 of the third story, ''[https://tthfanfic.org/Story-11984/Hotpoint+Compelled+to+Play+with+Destiny.htm Compelled to Play With Destiny]'' when, in a battle in Pylea, Wesley puckishly orders one of the Slayer snipers to take out a flying dragon with a sniper rifle that is actually closer to a small artillery piece (and has a five-found magazine):
{{quote|[A] random thought crossed his mind and despite the gravity of the situation he couldn’t help but grin. ‘Rika’ he said. ‘Chap with wings, five rounds rapid’ he ordered.}}
== Film ==
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