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* Commercials for Weatherby ammunition would show a lock penetrated, but not completely destroyed, by a rifle cartridge.▼
* For years, the Master Lock company ran TV commercials during the [[Super Bowl]] where they would shoot one of their own padlocks with a gun to demonstrate its durability. This is an interesting application of [[Reality Is Unrealistic]], because its effectiveness is based on viewers' expectations that a lock will break when fired at. (This commercial is referenced in the [[Stephen King]]-as-Richard-Bachman novella "[[Rage (novel)|Rage]]", when the narrator/protagonist puts his locker padlock in his shirt pocket, where it later saves him from a sharpshooter [[Pocket Protector|bullet in the heart]]. The narrator mentions later viewing that commercial, with adverse emotional effects.)▼
== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ==
* Gets played with in the first episode of ''[[Gosick]]''. We see a maid shooting at a locked door, ostensibly to free her master, who is locked inside. Turns out that the maid is killing the master via a shot to the eye ''through the keyhole'' while the master was peeking through the hole.
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* In one of the ''[[War Picture Library]]'' comics, the heroes are freeing a captured British spy from prison, and one suggests shooting out the lock. The spy responds: "You've been watching too many cowboy movies; the ricochets would kill us all." (As the prison has stone walls and a steel door).
* ''[[Bookhunter]]'''s opening scene shows a SWAT team using a shotgun with "shocklock rounds". In the preliminary briefing, Agent Bay points out that the hallway's layout prevents them from using a ram.
▲== [[Commercials]] ==
▲* Commercials for Weatherby ammunition would show a lock penetrated, but not completely destroyed, by a rifle cartridge.
▲* For years, the Master Lock company ran TV commercials during the [[Super Bowl]] where they would shoot one of their own padlocks with a gun to demonstrate its durability. This is an interesting application of [[Reality Is Unrealistic]], because its effectiveness is based on viewers' expectations that a lock will break when fired at. (This commercial is referenced in the [[Stephen King]]-as-Richard-Bachman novella "[[Rage (novel)|Rage]]", when the narrator/protagonist puts his locker padlock in his shirt pocket, where it later saves him from a sharpshooter [[Pocket Protector|bullet in the heart]]. The narrator mentions later viewing that commercial, with adverse emotional effects.)
== [[Film]] ==
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* In another Clancy work, ''[[Clear and Present Danger]]'', the character doesn't even bother aiming at the lock. Instead, he fires five rounds from his revolver to separate the lock from the door and then opens it, "just like in the movies"—an unusual way of invoking the trope, since most movies don't bother with shoot-cutting the lock.
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* The above-mentioned ''[[MythBusters]]'' episode, where they determined that the average handgun would not destroy a lock, and that doing so with higher-powered guns was not particularly safe.
* Called out by ''[[MacGyver]]'' in "The Wish Child", where Mac, being a [[Technical Pacifist]], explains that shooting a lock won't work. Instead, he empties powder from a cartridge into the lock, then clubs the shell casing with the gun to blow up the lock from the inside.
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