Pillow Pistol: Difference between revisions

 

Compare [[Hidden Supplies]], [[Can't Bathe Without a Weapon]]. Not to be confused with [[Victoria's Secret Compartment]].

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== Anime and Manga ==

* 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 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.

 

== Comic Books ==

* Michael Tree, the heroine of the ''[[Ms. Tree]]'' comics, makes a habit of doing this. Given the number of times someone has broken into her bedroom in the middle of the night planning to kill her, it seems a sensible precaution.

 

* In the ''[[Mass Effect]]/[[F.E.A.R.]]'' crossover ''[[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 ==

* Midway through ''[[Miller'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]]'' sleeps with his service pistol.

 

== Literature ==

* 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 [[Robert E. Howard]]'s "[[Man Eaters of Zamboula|Shadows in Zamboula]]"

{{quote|''Conan grunted and tossed his naked broadsword on the couch.

* In ''I Am American And So Can You'', [[Stephen Colbert]] recommends sleeping with a gun under the pillow and blasting away at anything that wakes you up. [[Footnote Fever|Footnotes and sidebars strongly discourage it.]]

 

* Burt with his .50 Desert Eagle in ''[[Tremors]] The Series'', in the episode: "A Little Paranoia Among Friends."

* ''[[The Last Enemy]]''

* ''[[Babylon 5]]'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.

 

 

== Real Life ==

** There was a similar story in the news last year sometime about a German man who got shot because the gun kept under his pillow accidentally discharged.

* At least one [[Darwin Award]] winner managed to shoot himself with his Pillow Pistol when startled awake.

 

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[[Category:Guns and Gunplay Tropes]]

[[Category:Sleep and Wakefulness Tropes]]

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