I Just Shot Marvin in the Face/Playing With

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Basic Trope: Character fails gun safety forever and winds up shooting someone.

  • Straight: Alice casually points her pistol at Bob while talking to him, then the gun goes off and he gets shot.
  • Exaggerated: Alice uses the barrel of her pistol to scratch her nose and blows her nose off.
    • Or worse, Alice is way, way, way Too Dumb to Live and attempts to pick her teeth with the trigger.
  • Justified: Alice has no idea what a gun is and accidentally shoots someone.
  • Subverted: Alice waves her gun around carelessly, it goes off, but then explains that it's just a suction dart gun.
  • Double Subverted: Alice got her suction dart pistol mixed up with her real pistol.
  • Parodied: Alice carelessly waves around a super soaker. It goes off like a real gun.
  • Deconstructed: Alice accidentally fires her pistol, and either shoots or narrowly misses Bob. The mood of the scene emphasizes that this is a very serious problem; it leaves Bob in shock and traumatizes to Alice, and leaves any bystanders either way as well.
  • Reconstructed: Alice narrowly misses Bob, who promptly educates her in gun safety.
  • Zig Zagged: Alice catches herself pointing her pistol at Bob and hastily corrects herself, explaining that even though it's a suction dart gun, she shouldn't get sloppy. Turns out it's a real gun, which she finds out when she deliberately fires at a target. Bob is standing behind the target.
  • Enforced: The film is a comedy, and Alice's ineptitude with guns is a Running Gag.
  • Conversed: "I can't believe she's just waving it around like that. Five bucks says she shoots Bob in the face."

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