Pants-Positive Safety: Difference between revisions

 

== Comic Books ==

* Similar to the ''[[Leverage]]'' example below: In ''[[Blacksad]]: Arctic Nation'', some thugs try to intimidate the title character in a grocery store. As the leader gets up in his face, Blacksad grabs the gun the guy is keeping tucked in his belt and holds it there. Rather than get a bullet in the gut, the thug calls his goons off.

* Seen {{spoiler|why this is a bad idea}} in a [[Batman]] comic [http://i733.photobucket.com/albums/ww336/SpawnofHastur/BatmanWillMakeYouShootYourselfInThe.jpg?t=1247022233 right here.]

 

== Film ==

* ''[[Scary Movie]] 4'' has a character put the gun in his pants, and it fires ("RIGHT TESTICLE!"). It fires again ("LEFT TESTICLE!"), [[Overly Long Gag|and again and again and again]].

* Turkish points this out to Tommy in the movie ''[[Snatch]]'':

 

== Literature ==

* ''[[Harry Potter]]'' gets yelled at by Mad-Eye Moody for storing his wand in the back pocket of his jeans.

{{quote|'''Mad-Eye Moody:''' "Better wizards than you have lost buttocks, you know!"

* John D. MacDonald's recurring character [[Travis Mc Gee]] mentions in one book that he actually has a pair of pants with a spring-release holster hidden in the right front pocket.

* [[The Dresden Files|Harry Dresden]] once had to warn Billy the werewolf that keeping a gun in your pants pocket is a good way to sing soprano.

* In the ''[[Riftwar Cycle]]'' novel ''Silverthorn'', Jimmy stores a looted dagger this way, and ends up with a nasty gut wound later on because of it.

* In ''[[Myth Adventures|Another Fine Myth]]'', when Skeeve is cornered by muggers at the Bazaar, he reaches for the knife tucked into his belt, and it slips down the back of his pants. Luckily, he's still got his magic and his new pet dragon to even the odds.

* Lampshaded in ''[[The Godfather]]'' when Michael Corleone asks to go to the toilet in the middle of his meeting with Sollozzo. [[Corrupt Cop]] McCluskey is immediately suspicious and does a pat-down of Michael's groin to see if he's got a gun hidden there. There ''is'' a gun, but it's been hidden in the toilet.

 

* Multiple characters on ''[[Lost]]'' keep guns tucked into the back of their waistlines, including Jack, who has no in-story excuse for knowing how to use a gun.

* In the ''[[Star Trek: The Original Series]]'', some of the later seasons had characters with phasers tucked into their pants instead of attached to an equipment belt (first season) or the outside of their waistband (later). William Shatner remarked in a book that this had been to show the characters getting accustomed to the weapons.

 

== Tabletop Games ==

 

== Video Games ==

* In ''[[Red Dead Redemption]]'' Irish walks around with his gun in the front of his pants, pointing directly at his crotch. {{spoiler|It is later revealed in the last news paper that Irish died by a self inflicted gun shot wound while drunk. One can only guess where he shot himself}}.

* Similarly, Takaya in ''[[Persona 3]]'' keeps his revolver slung in his belt, pointed right at his crotch. Which makes little sense, as guns are illegal in Japan, and you'd think someone would notice whenever he's not walking around in the [[Dark World|Dark Hour]].

 

== Web Original ==

* In ''[[Pay Me, Bug!]]'', the protagonist does this during his escape from {{spoiler|the hospital on Tyrelos Station}}. He didn't have the chance to steal the holster when he stole the gun, so there's really no place else to put it.

 

== Western Animation ==

* Lamilton carries his grandmother's gun in the front of his pants waistband on ''[[The Boondocks]]'', but he manages not to shot himself (or anyone else he doesn't intend to).

* ''[[The Simpsons (animation)|The Simpsons]]'': In "Sex, Pies and Idiot Scrapes", Homer becomes a bounty hunter and starts carrying a taser, which he shoves down the front of his pants because it looks cool. The results are predictable.

 

== Real Life ==

* [http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2011994648_accident31m.html This article.] Try not to snicker at the description of the incident as an "accidental discharge".

* NFL player Plaxico Burress famously shot himself (almost, but ''not quite'', in the nads) after storing his (''unregistered!'') gun in the waistband of his sweatpants. It slipped down his pants leg and he accidentally pulled the trigger when trying to catch it. He was in a crowded nightclub and he didn't notice he'd shot himself until he could feel the blood a few minutes after. So to recap: a man rich enough to have other people carry his gun, with a contract suggesting he ''should'', shoots himself as his gun falls down the elastic waistband of the pants he wore to a nightclub. Immediate action is not taken due to the minimal attention being paid to said gun.

 

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