Remonstrating with a Gun: Difference between revisions

A comedy trope: John Doe is wrongly suspected of being a psycho and he ends up with a gun or other weapon in his hands. Then, he tries to explain himself while holding the weapon. As he makes hand gestures, he points it at the mob around him, which recoils in terror.

 

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== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ==

** 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. THEN he offers to disarm himself. And she pushes him off the bridge anyway.}}

* 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.

 

== [[Literature]] ==

* In one of the ''[[Psych]]'' novels, a person of interest in a murder investigation finds a bloody knife in his pocket while giving his statement; he takes the officer interviewing him hostage while claiming that someone is trying to frame him.

* In Polish nove ''Escape from Festung Breslau'' protagonist, German soldier, wants to get a doctors opinion, that he needs vacation, but is morally oposed to simulating disease. His friend manipulates a visit to a particularly strict doctor in a way that leads to this trope and diagnosis of mild breakdown. Scene itself is easily [[Crowning Moment of Funny]].

 

== [[Web Original]] ==

 

== [[Western Animation]] ==