Reckless Gun Usage/Playing With

Everything About Fiction You Never Wanted to Know.


Basic Trope: Characters don't use gun safely but don't have a reason to know.

  • Straight: Alice casually points her pistol at Bob while talking to him.
  • Exaggerated: Alice uses the barrel of her pistol to scratch her nose.
    • Or worse, Alice is way, way, way Too Dumb to Live and attempts to pick her teeth with the trigger.
  • Justified: Alice has no idea what a gun is.
    • Alice is drunk, stoned, or just REALLY stupid.
    • Alice thinks she knows more about safe gun handling than she really does.
  • Inverted: Alice tries to shoot Bob, but she leaves the safety on.
  • Subverted: Alice waves her gun around carelessly, but then explains that it's just a suction dart gun.
  • Double Subverted: Alice got her suction dart pistol mixed up with her real pistol.
  • Parodied: Alice carelessly waves around a super soaker. It goes off like a real gun.
  • Deconstructed: Alice shoots Bob in the face because she wasn't using it properly.
  • Reconstructed: Alice narrowly misses Bob, who promptly educates her in gun safety.
  • Zig Zagged: Alice catches herself pointing her pistol at Bob and hastily corrects herself, explaining that even though it's a suction dart gun, she shouldn't get sloppy. Turns out it's a real gun, which she finds out when she deliberately fires at a target. Bob is standing behind the target.
  • Averted: Alice handles her gun in a safe manner.
  • Enforced: The film is a comedy, and Alice's ineptitude with guns is a Running Gag.
  • Lampshaded: "You killed me three times during that sentence. Put down the gun."
  • Invoked: "And this is how not to use a gun."
  • Defied: Alice double-checks that her gun is unloaded before handing it to Bob, and even then warns him not to point it about recklessly.
  • Discussed: "Anyone using their gun as a pointer will not have a gun anymore."
  • Conversed: "I can't believe she's just waving it around like that. Five bucks says she shoots Bob in the face."

Back to Reckless Gun Us- put that the hell down!