Never Bring a Knife to a Gun Fight: Difference between revisions

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* ''[[Mass Effect 3]]'': [[Deadpan Snarker|Garrus]] mentions this trope by name when fighting Phantoms, finding the whole concept silly. As Garrus is a sniper, the amusement is justifiable.
** But God help you if [[One-Hit Kill|get into melee range]]...
** And to be fair to the Phantoms, they also have invisibility field generators. Their odds of ''getting'' to melee range in a gunfight are pretty damn high.
* Both played straight and [[Subverted]] in the [[Assassin's Creed]] series. The firearms of the [[Mooks]] of the early Renaissance period are slow-reloading and only moderately-damaging, and a knife-weilding Ezio can dispatch them in short order. Subverted when it comes to Ezio's hidden gun, where pulling an Indiana Jones is one of the fastest ways to end a fight.