Missing Backblast: Difference between revisions

* Averted in ''[[Mobile Suit Gundam]]'' when a civilian helping to fire malfunctioning missiles from an aircraft doesn't realize she needs to get out of the way after setting them off and is blown out of the plane.

* Averted in ''[[Katekyo Hitman Reborn]]'' when Tsuna finds that firing his [[Kamehame Hadoken|X-Burner]] without firing a blast of equal force backwards at the right angle produces a very violent recoil.

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== [[Film]] ==

* Averted in ''[[The Enforcer]]''. There is a military demonstration of a LAW rocket, and rookie Inspector Moore is trying to see what it does by standing behind the shooter. [[Dirty Harry]] grabs her by the collar and pulls her back in time; afterwards there is a huge scorch mark on the berm ''where she would have been in the way'', behind the shooter who did not experience any recoil effect.

* ''[[True Lies]]'' had a brief moment of realism when one of the terrorists fires a Stinger shoulder-fired anti-air missile from a moving panel truck, causing the terrorist behind him to fly out of the front windshield thanks to the backblast.

* Averted in ''[[Red Dawn]]''. One scene featured a Wolverine's hat being knocked off when he fired an RPG-7. In the final battle two of the American guerillas fire their RPG-7's at the command trailer used by a [[Big Bad|Soviet general]]. An enemy soldier who comes round the corner behind them at that precise moment falls to the ground screaming as he's been scorched by the backblast.

* Mostly averted in ''[[Austin Powers]] The Spy Who Shagged Me''. An M9 Bazooka used in the film has a very large, bright backblast, though no injuries or property damages seem to result from it, despite being indoors.

* Averted in ''[[The Dark Knight]]''. When the Joker fires an RPG from the trailer of a semi, you can see that his henchmen are out of the way and the door on the other side of it is open. In fact, if you watch closely, it seems to have been opened ''first''.

== [[Literature]] ==

* According to the History Channel's ''[http://www.history.com/minisites/shootout/ Shootout!]'', a U.S. combat advisor was knocked off his feet and thrown through the air by the backblast of a heavy RPG.

* In an episode of ''[[Bugs]]'', a bad guy is killed by standing on the "right" end of a timed missile launching ramp.

* In an episode of ''[[Miami Vice]]'', a criminal is seen visibly reacting to recoil from a stinger missile. However, the backblast can be seen from it, and the others present have already moved a safe distance away in preparation for it.

* ''[[Buffy the Vampire Slayer]]'': In the second season episode ''Innocence'', Buffy uses a shoulder-fired rocket launcher to great effect, and hilarity. She experiences no recoil, which is not surprising, physics be damned, given her super-strength. But notably, she fires from a position where there is nobody or no thing behind her to be fried by the rocket's ignition.

== [[Video Games]] ==

* Averted in [[Tom Clancy]]'s ''[[Ghost Recon]]'' wherein the backblast can kill friendlies directly behind the soldier who fires an anti-tank weapon. However, the backblast physics in the game doesn't seem to take into account walls since said weapon is still safe enough to fire from enclosed areas.

* Similarly averted in ''[[Jagged Alliance]] 2''. Don't stand behind the dude with the LAW if you value your face.

* Also averted in the ''[[Combat Mission]]'' series. While the backblast-to-friendly-face never happens (firstly because each little soldier is an abstraction for a full squad spread over a large area, and secondly because they are representing trained soldiers, not ''morons''), firing a bazooka or panzerschreck from inside a building is a good way to pin down your own troops (the British PIAT is immune to this, as per [[Real Life]]). Note that the game's tactical AI knows better than to do it - it'll only happen through direct player prompt

** Amusingly, these weapons also have a substantial chance of setting the building on fire. An urban panzerschreck nest is, by necessity, temporary.

* The rocket launcher in ''[[Half Life]]'' uses compressed air to to launch the rocket a safe distance away before the propellant ignites, averting this trope.

** While it averts the backblast problem the RPG is still dangerous in confined spaces, the initial launch will make the rocket jump up a foot or so, if you don't have enough height clearance - Boom.

** Though that only happens when the building the rocket infantry are occupying is attacked by other infantry, resulting in the rocket guys trying to kill them with their rocket launchers.

* While not in the normal game, the modding community for [[Operation Flashpoint]] has created a realism modification that adds backblast to all recoilless RPG weapons. (Along with a whole host of other realistic features)

* Though absent from the actual ''[[Call of Duty]]'' games, backblast is brought up once in the bonus "Soap's Journal" from the Hardened edition of ''[[Modern Warfare]] 3'' - in the entry from the fourth game's Azerbaijan missions, Soap writes that if not for how the [[wikipedia:FGM-148 Javelin|FGM-148 Javelin]] works, he could have accidentally burnt off [[Porn Stache|Price's famed mustache]].

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