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'''Simon Gruber:''' Well, if that's what you gotta do.
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'''Simon Gruber:''' (calmly takes gun, releases safety) You've got to take the safety catch off. (Shoots Zeus in the leg) See, that works.
|''[[Die Hard]] III''}}
If guns are featured in a movie, and someone inexperienced takes to using one (the [[Damsel in Distress]] or similar character), there's a good chance of this phrase being uttered. There are three versions:
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* An interesting variant of this crossing with [[It Works Better with Bullets]] appears in ''[[Detective Conan]]'' {{spoiler|Fake Shinichi}} is holding the rest of the cast at gun point when Shinichi calmly points out the gun is empty, dropping the bullets from his hands. {{spoiler|Fake shinichi}} checks and discovers its a lie, but its too late as it already gave Shinichi time to disarm him.
** {{spoiler|Jodie}} successfully puts the gun's safety lever on during an episode about a bus-jacking. The other guy found out too late.
== Comic Books ==
* In ''[[Batman|Batman: No Man's Land]]'', in an interlude called "The punk and the nomad", a punk threatens to shoot a guy for batteries. But the nomad points out that there's no way the gun's loaded, not because he knows, but because if the punk had a bullet, it would be worth more than the batteries. The nomad walks away unharmed.
* Done hilariously in an old ''[[G.I. Joe]]'' comic, where Snake Eyes' old master, pretending to be a simple chef, deals with an attempted robbery by a young teenager. First he points out that the safety is on in the boy's gun, and when the boy takes it off, he grabs the gun's slide, pops out the bullet from the chamber, drops the clip off, and then offers to buy the empty gun from him for $100, dropping it in a crate full of empty pistols!
== Film ==
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* At [[The Climax]] of the [[Tom Clancy]] Ryanverse novel ''Patriot Games'', after the [[Big Bad]] is taken into custody, one of the Marines that joined Ryan on the would-be escape ship points out that if John had really wanted to kill the terrorist, he'd have had the safety off. As a part of the "Green Machine" legacy himself, Ryan would be more than familiar with the safety of the pistol he was holding.
* In [[Artemis Fowl]] Book 3, Juliet disarms a hitman's pistol without him realizing it. After he threatens her with the useless weapon, she taunts him with the slide she removed from the weapon, then knocks him unconcious.
* ''[[Discworld]]'':
** An amusing variant appears in ''[[
{{quote|'''Moist:''' Just as I thought. You forgot to take the cap off. [[Lampshade Hanging|It's the kind of mistake amateurs always make!]]}}
** Inverted in ''[[
* In one of the stories making up Joe Haldeman's ''All My Sins Remembered'', agent Otto McGavin confronts a bureaucrat who pulls a blaster on him. They're technically on the same side, so McGavin snarls something along the lines of, "Put that stupid thing away before you electrocute yourself. You've got the selector on 'recharge.'" The bureaucrat looks down at the gun (if I remember right, it didn't even '''have''' a 'recharge' setting), and McGavin takes it away from him.
▲== Live Action TV ==
* Appears back in 1966 in the ''[[The Wild Wild West (TV series)|The Wild Wild West]]'' episode "Night of the Deadly Bubble", where the female professor thinks West is an intruder, but West knows she won't shoot him because the safety's on.
* Not really a gun, but in ''[[Doctor Who]]'' [[Magnificent Bastard|The Master]] scuppers a plan to hold him at laser-screwdriver-point by setting it so [[Loyal Phlebotinum|it only works for him]]. He is then able to steal it back and [[Kick the Dog|nick the protagonist's mother with it.]]
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** Although laser weapons would need safeties for the same reason conventional firearms have them.
** The same applies to Stan in an episode of ''[[Lexx]]''.
* In an episode of
* ''[[Castle]]'': The murderer is cornered by Beckett while holding Castle hostage at gunpoint. After uncovering the murderer's motive, Castle knocks him down and wrests the gun from him. Beckett tells him he could have been killed, and Castle replies that the safety was on the whole time.
{{quote|'''Beckett''': Y'know, you could've told me.
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* A variation happened in one episode of ''[[Adam-12]]''. Malloy chases a guy armed with a shotgun over a hill, only to find the shotgun leveled at him. Then the guy gives up. Turned out he left the safety on and pulled the trigger so hard it ''broke''.
* The reason Stella wasn't shot by Frankie in ''[[CSI: NY]]'' 'All Access'. Frankie didn't know enough about guns to take the safety off.
== Video Games ==
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* An inversion happens in the original ''[[Max Payne (series)|Max Payne]]'', when Max runs into [[Femme Fatale|Mona Sax]], her signature [[Small Girl, Big Gun|Desert Eagle]] aimed [[Mexican Standoff|point-blank into his face]]. He returns the favor with his own Beretta, [[Gunpoint Banter|uttering]]: "Your safety's off, [[Evil Twin]]. You could hurt somebody with that gun of yours."
* Subverted in ''[[Brass Restoration]]'': Ryo invokes this against {{spoiler|the bookstore owner}}, who then fires without hesitation. Turns out that that was exactly what Ryo was expecting—the question about the safety was to provoke him into firing. "...You can avoid a bullet if you know when it's fired."
== Web Comics ==
* Subverted in ''[[Schlock Mercenary]]'', during the Tough's first encounter with Doyt Gyo and Haban, where their weapons failed to work. When Kevyn points out that all Haban did was use [[Tractor Beam|field-effectors]] to jam the safeties on all the guns, Tagon curtly points out that their mil-spec weapons didn't ''have'' safeties. "Oh. Well, they do now." "That's not subtle, that's showing off!"
== Western Animation ==
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** ''[[Brick Joke|Three seasons later]]'', Captain Sunshine appears on the show, still believing the Monarch is invulnerable.
* An episode of ''[[Men in Black (animation)|Men in Black]]: The Series'' had a variation; J grabs an alien weapon he's unfamiliar with and points what he thinks is the business end at his attacker. The alien identifies the gun and informs him that he's pointing it the wrong way; J assumes the alien is trying to bluff him and fires anyway. Sure enough, a beam shoots out of what appeared to be the scope and just misses J's head, and the alien smugly comments that he was just trying to help.
== Real Life ==
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