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{{quote|"''Tell me [[James Bond (Filmfilm)|James Bond]], do you still sleep with a gun under your pillow?''"|'''Paris Carver''', ''[[Tomorrow Never Dies (Film)|Tomorrow Never Dies]]''}}
 
Worried about hostile burglars? Haven't got a skimpy nightdress? Try the Pillow Pistol!
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* A particularly interesting example is in the manga version of ''[[Gunsmith Cats]]''. Rally Vincent has been hospitalized and complains that the pillow isn't comfortable. Upon receiving a pistol to hide under it, she sighs and falls asleep... so deeply that her partner is able to [[Face Doodling|draw on her face]], and later a would-be assassin has plenty of time to kill her... but she wakes instantly when he tries to get the gun out from under her pillow.
* Momochi Zabuza from ''[[Naruto]]'' had a kunai under his pillow.
* In the ''[[Black Butler (Manga)|Black Butler]]'' manga Ciel has a pistol under his pillow. Once when Sebastian wakes him Ciel points the gun at him due to a nightmare he had just had. He lowers the gun when he realizes it's just Sebastian.
 
 
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== Fanfiction ==
* In the ''[[Mass Effect]]/[[FEARF.E.A.R.]]'' crossover ''[[Harbinger (Fanfic)|Harbinger]]'', Commander Shepard's intense, growing paranoia (fostered by equal parts of living in a [[Cosmic Horror Story]] and a history of fighting out-of-control psychics) leads to him sleeping with a pistol under his pillow. Ashley notes that he uses the pistol because once she and Shepard started sharing a bunk, there wasn't enough room for the two of them and the ''shotgun''.
 
 
== Film ==
* [[James Bond (Filmfilm)|James Bond]], and it was even used against him in ''[[Die Another Day (Film)|Die Another Day]]''.
* In Disney's ''[[Pinocchio (Disney film)|Pinocchio]]'', Gepetto, of all people, keeps a loaded flintlock pistol under his pillow.
* Towards the end of the movie ''[[Carlitos Way]]'', crooked lawyer Kleinfeld has been put in the hospital by a mob assault, and is sleeping with a revolver under his pillow. Carlito comments on the stupidity of this because, especially in the hospital bed, there's no way Kleinfeld will be able to reach it and aim in time when someone comes for him.
** Later on, he does manage to draw it in time, but {{spoiler|Carlito unloaded it. Bye bye, Counselor.}}
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* In [[The Film of the Book]] ''[[Prince Caspian]]'' the queen has essentially a Pillow Crossbow.
* This trope is played with in one of the ''[[Tomb Raider]]'' movies. The male lead goes to put his gun under his pillow, apparently the bed was already taken by Lara as there was already a pair of pistols under the pillow.
* Midway through ''[[MillersMiller's Crossing]]'', a gang of [[Mooks]] storms former-mook-turned-mob-boss Leo O'Bannion's house in the middle of the night as part of an attempted coup. The first two get taken out with one of these. For the others, [[More Dakka|he's got a Tommy gun in his wardrobe]]. [[Improbable Aiming Skills|And damn if he ain't still an artist when using it, too]].
* Riggs in ''[[Lethal Weapon (Film)|Lethal Weapon]]'' sleeps with his service pistol.
 
 
== Literature ==
* Levi Kroll from the ''[[Alex Rider (Literature)|Alex Rider]]'' series deserves a special mention on this one:
{{quote| "For over twenty years he had slept with a loaded nine millimeter FN-pistol under under his pillow. And then, one night, [[Shur Fine Guns|it has fired]]. [...] An eyepatch covered the empty eyehole where the left eye had been."}}
* ''The Little Drummer Girl'' (a John Le Carre novel) a Palestinian terrorist comments that it's quicker to have the weapon by the side of the bed.
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* In the ''[[Metal Gear Solid]]'' [[Novelization]], Snake has a gun close to his bed when he was forcibly dragged to the mission - and interlude at Master Miller's house reveals the latter has guns concealed in ''every'' room in his house.
* In ''Chronicles of a Death Foretold,'' it is mentioned that Santiago's father once kept a loaded gun in his pillow, until one day it blew a hole in the wall when the maid was changing the bed. He still has an unloaded gun in his pillow, though.
* In [[Terry Pratchett]]'s ''[[Discworld (Literature)/Mort|Mort]]'' Princess Keli, expecting an assasssin, slept with a knife under her pillow. Upon being woken in the night by a suspicious total lack of the noise of anyone moving around the room, she found that it had slipped behind the headboard.
* In [[Robert E. Howard]]'s "[[ShadowsMan inEaters Zamboulaof (Literature)Zamboula|Shadows in Zamboula]]"
{{quote| ''Conan grunted and tossed his naked broadsword on the couch.<br />
“Your bolts and bars are strong; but I always sleep with steel by my side.”'' }}
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== Live Action TV ==
* Burt with his .50 Desert Eagle in ''[[Tremors]] The Series'', in the episode: "A Little Paranoia Among Friends."
* ''[[The Last Enemy (TV)|The Last Enemy]]''
* ''[[Burn Notice]]'': Michael and Fiona, after a bout of [[Destructo-Nookie]], wake up to a knock on the door. They glance at each other, then simultaneously pull their guns out from under the pillows and look around for enemies.
* Sarah does this in ''[[The Sarah Connor Chronicles]]''. [[Crazy Prepared|She also keeps a shotgun behind the wallpaper, and lines the easy chair with Kevlar]].
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* [[Sledge Hammer]] doesn't keep [[I Call It Vera|Gun]] under his pillow. Gun has it's own very fancy pillow beside Sledge's.
* ''[[NCIS]]'': Kate tells Gibbs that she sleeps with one. His reaction "Good Girl".
* ''[[Babylon Five5]]'s'' Security Chief Garibaldi pulls his PPG out from under his pillow in one episode when he's woken up by suspicious noises from his shower.
 
 
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== Web Comics ==
* In ''[[The Adventures of Dr. McNinja (Webcomic)|The Adventures of Dr. McNinja]]'', the good doctor breaks into Mayor Chuck Goodrich's bedroom, thinking him to be elsewhere, only to be confronted by Chuck in bed, pointing a gun at him. A later flashback has another character breaking into Chuck's bedroom and Chuck vowing to buy a gun to go under his pillow if he survives the encounter.
* In ''[[Sinfest]]'', [http://www.sinfest.net/archive_page.php?comicID=3590 Seymour has one.]
 
 
== Western Animation ==
* Stan Smith of ''[[American Dad (Animation)|American Dad]]'' has a small shotgun inside his pillow.
{{quote| '''Stan:''' Ah pillow gun. 200 thread count, *[[Dramatic Gun Cock|pumps the shotgun]]* 200 dead count.}}
 
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