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== [[Comic Books]] ==

** In the album ''The Klondike'', [[wikipedia:Soapy Smith|Soapy Smith]] had the habit of doing this. One gag involved Smith trying to shoot a Mountie only for Luke to shoot his gun, causing it to start twirling.

** In the same album, Luke and Waldo like to make an enemy do this at gunpoint. Especially Smith, whose finger eventually swells up to the point of making him unable to shoot.

** The gun safety issue is averted by the fact that Murphy only does that trick after unloading the gun (The first time he does it, he is seen reloading the gun afterwords, the second time, he had just emptied the clip at the firing range).

* The eponymous hero of the ''[[Trinity (film)|Trinity]]'' [[Spaghetti Western]] movies absolutely loves doing this.

* Most famously in the Rooster Cogburn movies, [[John Wayne]] used a Winchester lever-action rifle with an enlarged cocking lever, allowing him to recock by spinning the gun one-handed.

* In an [[Homage]] to the above, [[Arnold Schwarzenegger|the Terminator]] used the same kind of gun in ''[[Terminator]] 2''. The armorer provided a regular Winchester and a modified one; when Arnold grabbed the wrong one to do some flip-cocking, he nearly broke three fingers.

* [[Clint Eastwood]]'s [[Dollars Trilogy|Man With No Name]] does this every time he holsters his weapon. Also a [[Shout-Out]] to this was done at the end of the last ''[[Dirty Harry]]'' film.

* In ''[[Planet Terror]]'', El Wray demonstrates his skills by twirling a pair of revolvers in various ways. Considering that the film is a throwback to 80s Grindhouse action films, it's pretty much [[Justified Trope|justified]].

* Whenever [[The Three Stooges]] find themselves in the old West, expect them to have ... issues with handling their guns this way.

* Used in ''[[Silverado]]'' to establish characters as being skilled with guns.

* ''[[The Office]]'' (US): When Dwight is told that he can't wear a gun in a holster in the office, he twirls the gun and it discharges putting a hole in the floor and deafening Andy in one ear.

* Sammy Davis Jr. could spin two guns while singing. Danny John-Jules references this as an inspiration for the ''Red Dwarf'' example above.

== [[Music]] ==

* Frank Gallop's ''[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d2A9f9nK7bM The Ballad of Irving]'' has the eponymous character meeting his end this way.

* The idle animation for the revolver is this in ''[[Half Life]] 2''.

* Revolver Ocelot of ''[[Metal Gear Solid]]'' does this, seeing as how his weapon of choice is a single action revolver. He does it during his ''entire'' introductory speech in ''[[Metal Gear Solid]]'' game, and in [[Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater|MGS3]] he's seen twirling his original service pistol, and a ''crossbow'' at one point, and then with three pistols at the same time in some crazy [[Up to Eleven]] variant of Russian Roulette. Before his boss battle he does a complicated series of tricks with a revolver in each hand.

** In ''[[Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater]]'', Ocelot uses his twirling guns for a practical purpose: to protect himself from a swarm of hornets. He spins them as they fly at him and they fall down dead.

** Snake can do it also, but only with the Single Action Army revolver, and not to the same impressive extent as Ocelot.

* In ''[[Spyro]] 3''. Certain cowboy-themed enemies spin and flip their weapons... which serves no purpose but to give the player an opportunity to attack.

* One very common enemy (a cowboy themed semi-[[Elite Mook]]) in ''[[Viewtiful Joe]]'' does this, as does recurring Miniboss the Joker.

** Vincent's attack animation with pistol's also contains this. Justified, in that he needs to spin the gun to re-arm the hammer mechanism since his claw like left hand is too bulky. It works fine for handling the pump action on his shotguns however.

** There's also the final flourish in the synchronized marching mini game, where Cloud's sword twirl is recreated with a [[Mook]] rifle.

* Rubi Malone in ''[[Wet]]'' does this all the time, often when going into an arena battle.

* The main character of ''[[Shogo: Mobile Armor Division]]'' does this every time he draws his dual pistols, as well as after reloading them.

* For the sawed-off shotguns in the ''[[Marathon Trilogy|Marathon]]'' series, this is the standard method of reloading. The exact mechanism for this is [[Hand Wave|Handwaved]] as being "too complex for [the player's] mind to understand".

* Fox McCloud does this when finishing up his B special in ''[[Super Smash Bros.]]. Melee'', whether after one or more shots. Don't most blasters lack even a trigger guard (which might be useful)?

* In ''[[Advent Rising]]'', this is how the character reloads his guns. All his guns. Yes, even the ''rocket launchers''.

* Tanya Adam's [[Idle Animation]] in ''[[Command & Conquer]]: Red Alert 2'' has her spinning and juggling her .45 Colt pistols.

* Manosuke Naitou of ''[[Ace Attorney Investigations]] 2'' is a master of this.

* Princess Eruca can be seen doing this in combat in ''[[Radiant Historia]]''.

* Used in Gears of War on two weapons. The first is the Gnasher shotgun where after a non-active reload animation they spin it by the lever. In the active reload however they forgo the flair entirely to get back to shooting faster. The second one is the Boltok revolver in Gears 2 and onward with the weapon specific execution. The character grabs the gun by the barrel, whacks the victim across the back of the skull, then spins it on their finger to return it to shooting position. More forgivable since executions are intended to be [[Awesome but Impractical]].

* In ''[[Tales of Vesperia]]'', Patty Fleur does this before using her Variable Trigger arte. You can delay the attack by making her twirl her pistol longer, which also makes it stronger.

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