Shoot Out the Lock: Difference between revisions

Not to be confused with [[Thrown Out the Airlock|getting shot out of an airlock.]]

 

 

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

* The weasels use a machine gun to shoot a hole around the lock on Eddie's door to open it in ''[[Who Framed Roger Rabbit]]''.

* In ''[[No Country for Old Men]],'' the villain (chillingly well-played by Javier Bardem) shoots off locks, but with an air gun that drives a metal spike through the lock and launches it into the next room. As cool as this is, it is sadly [http://www.intuitor.com/moviephysics/NoCountry.htm impossible].

* Subverted in the film adaptation of Phillip K. Dick's ''Paycheck''. The hero and his girlfriend have sealed themselves inside a room, and she is about to smash the control panel for the door when he stops her and lets her know that will only keep them from opening the door from ''their'' side, not the bad guys.

* Played straight at the end of ''[[The Mask of Zorro]]''.

== [[Western Animation]] ==

* Played with in an episode of ''[[Family Guy]]'', when Peter rescues Lois from Mel Gibson. Mel proceeds to brandish a gun, which he uses to blast open the lock of a safe, inside which a slightly bigger gun lay.

* Used often in ''[[Archer]]''... and subverted just as much, as Archer tries shooting out steel locks on bulletproof doors, often resulting in painful ricochets.