Flare Gun: Difference between revisions

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{{quote|"''I just shot a guy with a flare gun!!!''"

 

An emergency tool used to signal rescuers to your location, the '''Flare Gun''' is a must should you get lost or in need of assistance.

 

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== [[Comic Books]] ==

* In the first ''[[Gargoyles]]'' series, Hudson shot Demona with a flare gun while she was making her escape. Amusingly enough, he credits ''[[From Russia with Love]]'' for the inspiration to do that. Seems he's a [[Sean Connery]] fan.

* On ''[[Wings (TV series)|Wings]]'', after the gang crash lands in the water on the way to Boston for Helen's Big Break as a professional cellist, when the cello bobs up from underwater, Helen uses the flare gun's one charge to shoot and sink her cello.

* ''[[Hawaii Five-O]]'' episode "Death's Name Is SAM": A terrorist group tries to use a heat-seeking missile to shoot down a jetliner. McGarret has police officers fire off flares at the landing field to distract the missile and save the jet.

* ''[[iCarly]]'' has Spencer fire a flare gun at a door and Lewbert fire ''two'' flare guns at the ceiling when he saw his ex for no apparent reason

** ''iStart A Fan War'' had a character catch a flare that had been shot at him but didn't go off, only for it to explode in his hands.

* On an episode of ''[[Night Court]]'', Dan had to remove someone's appendix due to his incompetence with a flare gun. (Loooooong story there.)

 

* The ''[[Shadowrun]]'' supplement ''Street Samurai Catalog'' had the Micro Flare, a penlight sized flare gun that could double as a weapon in an emergency.

* ''Dark Conspiracy'' supplement ''Darktek''. The flare gun can fire signal and illumination flares and in an emergency can be used as a weapon doing burn damage.

* ''[[Warhammer 40,000 Roleplay]]'' series, naturally, have those too. "Calixian Infantryman’s Emergency Signalling Device Mk II"; it can be used as a weapon, and by statistics is reliable, but rather pathetic (except the chance to set the target on fire). Then there's "Spitfire" rocket pistol from Volg Hive, "a crudely modified Lucifer pattern launcher" used by the locals to defend against particularly aggressive wildlife - it does deal explosive damage, but explodes itself if jams and is generally underwhelming as a weapon: the launcher itself is fairly cheap, but modified flares aren't, and it may set the target on fire only on [[Critical Hit]] when it's likely to be dead or dying anyway; at the same price one can just as easily buy a heavy autopistol or some decent shotgun - both do comparable damage per hit <ref>possibly more with dumdums or AP bullets (depending on the target), either of which is still cheaper by half</ref>, have greater effective range, larger magazines and nice extra perks.

 

== [[Video Games]] ==