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* One particularly [[narm]]ful [[Your Mileage May Vary|interpretation]] of a certain chain of events in ''Tatarigoroshi-hen'' of ''[[Higurashi no Naku Koro ni]]''. Keiichi trying to explain he didn't kill {{spoiler|Rika}} with ''[[Axe Crazy|a bloody axe in his hands]]'' is hilarious.
** Of course, neither of them was [[Sanity Slippage|entirely sane]] by that point, so...
** {{spoiler|Not only is he carrying the axe, he chases after Satako with it, then explains how he killed her uncle and has been losing his mind for several days.
== [[Fan Works]] ==
* Ruby gets scolded for casually gesturing with a loaded Crescent Rose in rifle configuration while on a Terran firing range in the first story of the ''[[RWBY]]'' fic series ''[[Emergence]]''. Justified in that Remnans with activated Auras are [[Nigh Invulnerability|nigh invulnerable]] to bullets and it simply ''doesn't occur to them''.
== [[Film]] ==
* The Whammyburger scene in ''[[Falling Down]]''. Of course, Michael Douglas' character uses the opportunity to make a stand against the fifth or sixth thing that has pissed him off that day.
* The movie ''[[Edmond]]'' has a sick subversion. During his mid-life crisis, Edmond breaks up with his wife and goes on a nightlong quest for redemption. He picks up a waitress at a bar and sleeps with her. Earlier in the night, he purchased a knife from a pawn shop, for protection, and uses the knife to stab a pimp who tried to rob him. Edmond is in the waitress' apartment, raving and ranting about... whatever. All the while, he's waving the knife around to emphasize his point. To make a long story short, he ends up brutally stabbing her to death in a fit of rage.
* ''[[Weird Science (film)|Weird Science]]'': Although not a psycho, Gary does this trope just after driving away the gang of mutant bikers from his party, gesturing casually with his rather large revolver as he talks to Wyatt and scaring the hell out of the party guests in doing so. Justified in that, due to an earlier event involving that gun, he thought it was just a water pistol (this time, it wasn't, as he and a chandelier learned the hard way).
* In ''[[North by Northwest]]'', Townsend is surreptitiously stabbed in the back by one of Vandamm's henchmen as he talks with Roger Thornhill at the UN. As he falls foward, Thornhill catches him, and seeing the knife pulls it out of Townsend's back. Only then does the large crowd around them notice what's happened, and the trope is duly invoked.
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* One episode of ''[[Samantha Who]]?'' is called "The Stalker" and it's about Samantha's attempt to apologize to someone to whom she stalked in her "evil" former personality, but continually makes the situation worse. During the same episode, she tries to bond with her father by going hunting with him. Thus, she ends up explaining to the man she stalked and the crowd that she is not crazy, while pointing a rifle at him and them. [[Hilarity Ensues]].
== [[Music]] ==
* [[The Offspring]] song quoted above is actually [[Not an Example]]: it's about an [[Ax Crazy]] [[Drives Like Crazy|driver]] with a [[Hair-Trigger Temper]].
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== [[Western Animation]] ==
* ''[[The Simpsons (animation)|The Simpsons]]'', when Homer was accused of the attempted murder of Mr. Burns.
{{quote|''Say I never shot you!... Before.'' }}
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