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== Literature ==
 
* In ''[[The Dark Tower (Literature)/The Drawing of the Three|The Drawing of the Three]],'' by [[Stephen King]], a gunman quickly loses control of his heavy automatic weapon while trying to shoot Eddie because he does not expect such a huge recoil. Lampshaded by the narrator's [[Lampshade Hanging|going into some detail]] about the absurdity of the trope. As King points out, unless the hitman gets Eddie with the first few shots he will probably miss entirely as recoil spins him slowly around, and this is exactly what happens. However, this stands in some contrast to reality, as evidenced [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xBZWCHWqwGc&feature=related here].
** In ''Cell'' when one of the protagonists {{spoiler|is fatally injured by hit-and-run hooligans}}. Another character had picked up an AKS-47 assault rifle from a gun enthusiast's house, but when he fires 'Sir Speedy' it empties most of the bullets into the air.
* There's a non-fiction book in which it's pointed out that ''[[Rambo]]'' should have two spontaneously-dislocating shoulders due to the abuse they've taken from firing machine guns akimbo (he'd be deaf too, but that's [[Steel Ear Drums|another trope entirely]]). The fact that [[Rambo]] [[Did Not Do the Research|never used Guns Akimbo in any of the films]] doesn't detract from the author's point.
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