Law of Inverse Recoil: Difference between revisions

** In the movie version, most characters are cyborgs, but a mook must brace himself before firing hypervelocity armour-piercing bullets from a submachine gun. Said armour-piercing bullets [[Imperial Stormtrooper Marksmanship Academy|effectively ruin the gun's accuracy]] ([[Explosive Overclocking|and the gun itself]]), leaving him open to summary beatdown shortly afterwards.

* ''[[Rocket Girls]]'' In episode 2, the protagonist, a lightly built teenage girl, is given a gun and told to practice firing on a shooting range. She doesn't expect the recoil and falls over backwards.

* Played with in ''Teki wa Kaizoku''; the main character jerks his wrists whenever he fires his laser gun like it's recoiling even though laser weapons shouldn't, but immediately after we first see him fire it he's called on that and he admits that pretending his gun recoils is just a hobby of his. Sure enough, if you pay attention in future fight scenes he keeps doing it but nobody else does.

* In ''[[Zero no Tsukaima (Light Novel)|Zero no Tsukaima]]'', when [[Instant Expert|Saito]] successfully uses the 'Staff of Destruction' {{spoiler|(really a rocket launcher that wound up in their world after a soldier from Earth had been transported there)}} without any recoil.

* In ''[[Desert Punk (Manga)|Desert Punk]]'', Kanta's preteen sidekick Kosuna complains almost literally that her small pistol is not cool enough to match her self-persona. Kanta then takes her to an arms dealer, who first forces her to go dig holes for several hours before allowing her to try out an assault rifle. While she exhibits accuracy that astonishes Kanta and the arms dealer, she brings the gun back admitting that firing it is physically punishing for a girl her size and that she'd be completely ineffective in combat with it.

* The manga adaptation of James P. Hogan's novel ''The Two Faces of Tomorrow'' has a scene where a [[Space Marine]] floating outside the space station in a spacesuit fires a particle beam rifle. Small thrusters on his jetpack fire to counter the weapon's recoil.

 

* A sequence in the [[DC Comics]] [[Miniseries]] ''[[Green Lantern|Guy Gardner]] Reborn'', parodying [[Marvel Comics|Marvel]]'s [[The Punisher]], has the title character burst into a room with [[Guns Akimbo]], and rapidly lose control of them, injuring himself.

** The undersized, weedy, egotistical villain Odin "Meatman" Quincannon has a suitably oversized weapon (a sodding great magnum -- not compensating for anything of course). When he tries to shoot it one-handed, it breaks his arm.

** A very young Tulip is carefully taught about guns; a powerful handgun sends her slamming back into a deep snowdrift.

* ''[[Batman Under the Red Hood]]'' averts this when Red Hood fires the rocket launcher at Black Mask's office. There is no recoil, but the backdraft of a recoil-less rocket launcher is correctly shown, and he is sensibly firing from an open rooftop with nothing to his back.

* ''[[Beverly Hills Cop]] II'' has Billy firing a LAWS rocket while holding it loosely in front of himself sideways as he reads the directions. "Extend here. Press here." click-Whoosh! It is correctly shown with very little recoil.

* ''[[Race for The Yankee Zephyr]]''. The [[Damsel Scrappy]] is told to fire a captured AR-10 battle rifle in the air [[We Need a Distraction|while the hero sneaks in to rescue her father]], but she's unbalanced by the recoil and shoots up the villains instead. This is a [[Rule of Funny]] example as she's standing on a cliff above the villain's campsite, and the recoil is portrayed as pulling the muzzle down rather than pushing it up as would happen in real life.

 

** While Teal'c does do [[Guns Akimbo]], he is a [[Badass|truly exceptional individual]] from a [[Proud Warrior Race Guy|race]] of [[Super Soldier|bred warriors]]. The rest of the cast hold their guns with both hands, even when firing pistols.

** In the P90's case, this isn't exactly a bad idea, as its recoil is [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f76wGxg3fzw almost negligible].

* In an episode of ''[[How I Met Your Mother]]'', Robin takes Marshall to a shooting range to help him get over Lily leaving him for the summer. He picks up the gun, shoots it, and it recoils to smack him right in the face, knocking him on his ass.

* ''[[Farscape (TV)|Farscape]]''

* In the ''[[Rifts]]'' RPG, the [[Powered Armor|Glitter Boy]] boom gun (the [[BFG]] of all [[BFG|BFGs]]) requires the wearer of the armour to engage foot anchors and backpack thrusters to absorb the massive recoil.

* ''[[GURPS]]'', in its relentless pursuit of accuracy, avoids this at every turn and even tries to establish realistic recoil of weapons that don't exist.

* The ''[[Traveller]]'' science-fiction RPG has man-portable energy weapons (the game's [[BFG]]) that can only be fired while wearing a suit of ''[[Powered Armor]]'' that automatically locks your body into one of several safe firing positions.

* Justified in ''[[Mage: The Awakening (Tabletop Game)|Mage: The Awakening]]''; if a Mage has knowledge of the force arcanum, they can enchant a weapon to disperse the opposite reaction of the forces, completely removing any recoil from the gun.

* In the ''[[Halo]]'' series, automatic rifles, submachine guns, and even a semi-automatic shotgun capable of sending a charging Flood zombie flying two feet backwards if hit at close range produce no recoil whatsoever, to the point that you can fire them while in mid-air and not alter your trajectory whatsoever. Admittedly, though, the Master Chief does have superhuman strength and his armor is said to weigh half a ton, so perhaps it's more realistic than it seems. That, of course, brings up the question of why you can't [[Goomba Stomp|kill people by jumping on them]].

** The mass of his armor shouldn't have anything to do with it, those are the SAME guns that are used by the regular infantry, the amount of recoil they should produce should render them inoperable by someone less powerful than MC.

** Averted in ''Halo 3: ODST'', where automatic and semi-automatic weapons have much more noticeable recoil. For example, rapidly pulling the trigger on a pistol will result in significant muzzle climb, while slowing the rate of fire down will result in much more fire control. This is justified in the story by the [[Player Character|player characters]] not being [[Hollywood Cyborg|augmented]] and [[Powered Armor|power armor]]-wearing [[Super Soldier|super soldiers]], but elite unaugmented soldiers.

* Avoided in the ''[[Call of Duty]]'' games. The rocket launchers have zero recoil, the cannon on the first game's tank will actually make you move back a couple feet and all guns have as realistic recoil as possible. A notable and severe exception is the M240B in [[Modern Warfare]] 2 - it's a 7.62mm heavy machine gun that weighs 27 pounds empty. The recoil is severe to the point that the ideal firing position is from a tripod, and if the gunner doesn't have enough time he makes do with the built-in bipod. In the game, however, it has the ''least'' recoil of all the machine guns and can be fired easily from the shoulder. The worst part is that they could have done that realistically by using the Mk. 48, a much lighter and smaller version that ''can'' be fired from the shoulder. It still has a heft kick, though.