Juggling Loaded Guns: Difference between revisions

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Not to be confused with [[Cartoon Juggling]], though actually juggling loaded guns in any cartoon (or [[Real Life]], for that matter), is probably just as bad an example as any of these following examples.

 

== Anime and Manga ==

* ''[[Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann]]'': When Kamina is first given a gun he pretends to know how to use it, even though he ''doesn't know what it actually is''. At first he uses it as a ''hammer'', and after narrowly missing shooting himself in the gonads he proceeds to hold it ''upside down''. Well, he already held it upside down when using it as a hammer; but of course, it was pointing towards him then.

* ''[[Asobi ni Iku yo!|Asobi Ni Iku Yo]]'': has one of the haremettes opening fire on the main character on full auto with a machinegun for the crime of having accidentally seen her naked.

** It should be noted that said haremette ran outside stark naked to HELP the main character she subsequently shot at.

* ''[[Panty & Stocking with Garterbelt|Panty and Stocking With Garterbelt]]'': Panty's gun stops working, so she turns it around, peers into the barrel, and ''pulls the trigger several times.'' Possibly justified because her gun uses magic bullets that only kill the [[Monster of the Week|Monsters Of The Week]], but {{spoiler|Stocking's similar magic swords work just fine against her at the very end of the series}}.

 

* ''[[The A-Team (film)|The a Team]]'': When two CIA agents attempt to off Pike in the back of the car and lampshaded by the target himself. In fact, Pike begs Lynch not to let that guy shoot him because that'd just be embarrassing. The agent to his left seemed to suck at gun safety and was stupidly putting a <s>silencer</s> suppressor on his pistol. He then proceeds to aim it at Pike such that it'll more likely kill the agent on the right than the target. Pike overpowers him and hands his gun to the agent on the right, hoping that this one isn't as much of a complete imbecile. Sadly, that agent then answers his cellphone, while also pressing the gun to his face. Not to mention that all this was happening in a moving vehicle.

* ''[[Monsters vs. Aliens]]'': B.O.B. is given a plasma gun by a clone, and the gun goes off in his hands and hits said clone. Later, Dr. Cockroach grabs the gun away, claiming that it should be in the hands of someone capable... and then the gun goes off in his hands and shoots another clone.

 

== Literature ==

 

== [[Live Action Television]] ==

{{quote|'''Frank:''' ''Colonel, Margaret is missing!!''

'''Col. Potter:''' ''So, naturally you shot Captain Hunnicutt.'' }}

** His best part was when he tried to shoot a Wraith, and hit the magazine release instead...

** Probably has something to do with the heavily lampshaded routine of Rodney being the one to always find the solutions to things, he hasn't had time to seek out proper instruction. The fact that everyone else on the team seems fairly competent means that they may not even do the standard equipment and safety check.

* ''[[Buffy the Vampire Slayer]]'': episode "End of Days", it is implied that Willow and Tara's cat, Miss Kitty Fantastico, met her demise in a tragic crossbow accident.

{{quote|'''Dawn:''' Xander, my crossbow is not out here. I told you, I don't leave crossbows around all willy-nilly. Not since that time with Miss Kitty Fantastico.}}

* ''[[The Three Stooges]]'': short "Disorder in the Court" introduces a gun as evidence. Curly is told to try to pull the incredibly rusty trigger, after being told "[[Tempting Fate|Never fear, it's not loaded.]] After one harmless click, he then accidentally shoots off the prosecutor's toupee when his finger gets stuck in the trigger guard.

** ''Any'' time the Stooges or someone around them insisted a gun wasn't loaded, it was. In "Even as I.O.U." Curly gives a baby a pacifier. When Moe sees that it's a revolver, he reaches in to get it, but is stopped by Larry, who warns that the kid might pull the trigger. Curly insists it isn't loaded, and seeks to prove it...by cocking the hammer and thoughtlessly discharging it in an enclosed space. Pretty much every rule of gun safety is blithely disregarded.

* ''[[My Name Is Earl]]'': Chubby carries a loaded pistol and an identical looking water pistol filled with vodka that he uses to freshen patrons drinks (and occasionally squirts directly into mouth). He is shown shooting at least one patron's glass and (between episodes) the inevitable happens and he shoots himself in the head.

* ''[[Modern Family]]'': When the families go to a dude ranch, the guys try skeet shooting, and Mitchell sends the others diving for cover when he absent-mindedly turns towards them while holding his rifle.

* ''[[Lego Star Wars]] II'': After being handed the lightsaber Luke turns it on and Obi-Wan ducks out of the way. Luke then swings it a few times and inadvertently beheads C3PO.

* ''[[Earthworm Jim (video game)|Earthworm Jim]]'': Two of his idle animations are to twirl his blaster on his finger, throw it in the air, catch it and holster it. The aversion is done successfully, with no harm done. In the second (straight) version he catches it wrong, and it blasts him in the face. (Unfortunately, his [[Your Head Asplode|head does not asplode]].) A third idle animation splits the difference — after Jim tosses the gun in the air, it lands on his head, but doesn't go off.

 

 

== Web Comics ==

* ''[[Questionable Content]]'': [http://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=529 Marten doesn't observe] ''taser'' safety and accidentally electrocutes himself. Of course, he ''was'' drunk.

* ''[[El Goonish Shive]]'': Sarah is scared of [[Shapeshifting]] and holds a grudge against Tedd after his "just ''[http://www.egscomics.com/?date=2005-12-02 joking around]''" with supposedly "not charged" [[Transformation Ray]].

* ''[[Lackadaisy]]'': [http://www.lackadaisycats.com/exhibit.php?exhibitid=19 In a background extra strip], Rocky shoots himself in the ear when [[Reckless Gun Usage|waving around his pistol]], giving him the hole in the ear seen in the regular strip.

* Brilliantly subverted in [http://wapsisquare.com/comic/all-safe/ this] ''[[Wapsi Square]]'' strip. Monica makes absolutely sure her vintage revolver is unloaded, and then manages to knock herself out with it.

* ''[[Schlock Mercenary]]'' had the eponymous amorph [http://www.schlockmercenary.com/2009-05-17 literally juggling] his plasma guns... lacking safety switches and powerful enough that he need only one to use as a makeshift [[Jet Pack]].

 

 

** Bennett the Sage takes this to the extreme in the two-year anniversary special ''[[Kickassia]]'' where, as Surgeon General of Kickassia, he determines that Uzis make you unkillable, on the grounds that [[You Fail Logic Forever|he's holding one, and he isn't dead]]. He's later seen wiping tears away ''with the barrel of the Uzi.''

* ''[[Girlchan in Paradise]]'', "It's out of bullets, anyway!" "Then that means I can do this!" (''[[Too Dumb to Live|BANG]]'')

* ''[http://idiotswithguns.blogspot.com/ Idiots with Guns]'' blog, dedicated to the people who for some reason think Hollywood style gun handling makes them look "cool", as opposed to irresponsible and/or stupid.

 

 

== Western Animation ==

{{quote|'''Lisa''': ... No offense, mom, but that ''was'' pretty cool.}}

** In ''[[The Simpsons Movie]]'', Chief Wiggum can't carry enough donuts, so he stacks them on the barrel of his gun, [[What an Idiot!|and]] [[Big Eater|then]] [[Artistic License Gun Safety|eats]] [[Idiot Ball|them]] [[Donut Mess with a Cop|straight]] [[Don't Try This At Home|off]] [[Too Dumb to Live|it]]. The gun goes off while he's between bites, blowing a hole through his hat. He says "Whoa, that was a close one!" and [[The Ditz|continues]] [[Refuge in Audacity|eating]]. Another episode, showing film of him when he was younger at a firing range, has him looking down the barrel after his gun stops and getting yelled at by his instructor ("What did I say about pointsy-twardsies?"). He then gives the instructor a back massage with the gun and it goes off and shoots the cameraman. He's later shown to have gotten the position of Chief by giving the Mayor a back massage with his gun. Another episode showed Wiggum cleaning his ears with the barrel of his gun, and yet another showed him firing at his TV after forgetting where he left the remote. It was in his gun holster.

'''Cornfed:''' "Careful, son, I don't think the safety is on."

'''Duckman:''' Before that! }}

** In the two-part whodunnit in which Debbie dies, it turns out she accidentally shot herself while trying to climb back into the dumpster she was hiding in ([[It Makes Sense in Context|she was planning to shoot Buck]]) while struggling to carry fast food and a shotgun at the same time.

* ''[[Family Guy]]'' also does this; in an episode where Peter becomes the town sheriff, [[Shoot the Hostage|he aims at a thug holding his son hostage and pulls the trigger]]. After the gun fails to fire, [[Too Dumb to Live|he then examines the jam by looking down the barrel.]] Rather than being [[I Just Shot Marvin in the Face|hit and killed by a bullet from his pistol]], he is instead punished with [[Running Gag|a raccoon to the face]].

 

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