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== [[Comic Books]] ==
* In one ''[[Lucky Luke]]'' album, one guy tries
** 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.
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** 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.
* An almost-[[Throw It In]] moment in ''[[The Mexican]]'' has Brad Pitt's character drop his gun when he tries to do it. (He actually ''did'' do it by accident on set, but that wasn't the take they used in the
* 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.
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* [[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]].
* Buford "[[Berserk Button|Mad Dog]]" Tannen from ''[[Back to The Future]] Part III'' enjoys this little bit of showboating before his climatic [[Showdown At High Noon|Showdown At
* 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.
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* 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 ''The Twin Snakes'' remake, Ocelot twirls his weapon with his off hand {{spoiler|after his other hand gets sliced off by the Ninja.}} However, he ends up dropping the
** 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.
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* 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)?
* One of [[Sly Cooper]]'s ancestors, Tennessee "Kid" Cooper, does this in one of the game series' [[Cutscene
* 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.
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