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{{trope}}
Typically the
Often a new trainee will be shown using these, perhaps learning a lesson about being more cautious. If it is used for training, it's entirely possible that a near identical scene will happen later.
If the characters are using one, but the audience isn't told beforehand, it can be a case of [[Danger Room Cold Open]].
In the United States the FBI calls their shooting gallery "Hogan's Alley", which became the name of a Shooting Gallery-styled video game. The generic term for a military or law enforcement shooting gallery is
Sometimes part of a training [[Montages|Montage]].
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== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ==
* Subaru and Teana goes through one of these on the first episode of ''[[Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha]] StrikerS'' for their [[Random Power Ranking|B-Rank]] qualifying mage exam.
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== [[Film]] ==
* Scaramanga's funhouse in ''[[The Man
** In ''[[From Russia
*** Or they do as in ''[[Dark Angel]]''; grab a convicted criminal, gives him a gun and say "If you get past the fence you are a free man. Good Luck!"
* The ''[[Men in Black (
* Used in the Dirty Harry movie ''[[Magnum Force]]''. Harry loses the police shooting contest because he "accidentally" shoots a "good guy" target... a police officer.
** Which is an important plot point, because he has figured out by then that the serial killers murdering criminals around town are actually cops. Cops he knows. Also, after the contest he used one of the suspected cops' weapons, missing one shot that he sneaks back for later to gather as evidence.
** And before that he goes to the training range, where he meets the group of vigilante officers while they are training.
* ''[[Police Academy]]'' has a subversion of this. The cadets are all taken to the academy shooting range, and walk though the course one by one... until Tacklebury, who is gun-crazy, goes off on his own and starts shooting every target. I can't convey the scene, but it's funny.
** If memory serves, at least one target is subjected to [[Pistol
* Used in ''[[Starship Troopers]]'' - where the aftermath of a mistake while using live rounds on the hazard course leaves one soldier dead and his commanding officer stripped of rank and
* In the first ''[[
* ''[[Dear Wendy]]'' features a secret underground shooting gallery.
* ''[[
== Literature ==
* In ''[[Rivers of London]]'' the Folly has one for trainee wizards to practice their fireball skills in. As a mark of just how long it has been since it was put use, all the target silhouettes are still shaped like [[WW 2]] Nazis.
* In the [[
== [[Live
* The ''[[MacGyver]]'' episode "Halloween Knights" featured a shooting gallery called "Death Row" used by [[Murder, Inc.]] organisation H.I.T. to test new recruits.
* ''[[The New Avengers]]'' episode "Target!" features the agency's shooting gallery being used to assassinate agents.
* When [[Sledge Hammer!]] goes through one of these, he just shoots everyone, with no negative effects other than annoying [[Da Chief]]. This is in the same scene that introduces the "loudener" on his gun.
* Used for dramatic effect in the "Kill Straker!" episode of ''[[UFO]]''. Colonel Foster has been [[Manchurian Agent|given a subliminal command]] to kill Commander Straker. Straker needs to be absolutely sure the command has been erased, so he orders the guards to lock them in the target range, then proceeds to take pot shots at Foster [[Kill Me Now or Forever Stay Your Hand|in order to provoke him]]. Afterwards when Foster protests that Straker was trying to kill him, Straker [[Improbable Aiming Skills|shoots out a row of tiny targets from the hip]] and says "I could have killed you at any time."
* ''[[Dark Angel]]''
* ''[[Battlestar Galactica
* ''[[The X
* ''[[The Kenny Everett Video Cassette]]''. In a spoof of the TV series ''[[SWAT]]'', [[Kenny Everett]] shoots a pop-up target on a Hogan's Alley range and is congratulated by his fellow officers on his great shooting. After they leave we see a man holding a target stagger out from behind the wall and fall down dead.
* ''Hunter''. An episode where Hunter and Dee Dee were investigating a mad sniper shooting women had them going to an army range, where they naturally encounter both the standard [[Red Herring]] suspect, who shoots all targets innocent or guilty [[Trigger Happy|with great enthusiasm]], and his older sergeant who's the real killer. At the end Hunter chases the killer onto the range and activates the targets. The killer reacts to the first couple of targets, so when Hunter appears his reactions are lax enough that he gets shot.
* One of the ''[[Top Gear]]'' American specials has the guys at one. Amusingly all the targets are shaped like the Stig.
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** ''Point Blank''
** ''Quick & Crash''
*** Also, older video games predating [[First
** ''Carnival'' ([[Sega]], 1980) is a fixed vertical shooter a la [[Space Invaders]], but the principal is the same: the gameplay is based on the traditional shooting galleries seen at carnivals and midways.<ref>Just be sure you shoot the ducks as soon as possible. They'll eat your bullets, and you get a [[Game Over]] if you run out.</ref>
* An unexpected [[Genre Shift]] in ''[[Shadow Hearts]]: Covenant'' sees you controlling the Mutant Ape Ouka as she runs through one of these. In this case the "civilians" are cutouts of Sergeant Kato, and he's less than thrilled if you shoot one.
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* ''[[Perfect Dark]]'' has one in the Carrington Institute. You can also use the railgun, which fires through walls, allowing you to shoot out lights and stuff in the building's offices upstairs. You can also use a floating block to wedge the door open and take the weapons out to play around the rest of the base.
* ''[[Halo]] 3'''s multiplayer map "The Pit" takes place on one of these.
* Somewhat jarringly used in ''[[Dead Space (
* Used as the opening levels in some ''[[Call of Duty]]'' games:
** ''Call Of Duty 2'' - takes place from the perspective of a newly drafted Russian infantryman who's never fired a rifle before. He and others in his unit shoot bottles and plates for target practice, then throw potatoes into windows for grenade training. "Grenades are more valuable than you'll ever be!" Immediately after that, [[This Is Not a Drill|a German armored car enters the area and the player must take it out]].
** ''Call Of Duty 4'' - starts with a new S.A.S. members first day in Captain Price's unit. He starts off by shooting some targets at a shooting range, then manuevers through a killhouse based on the opening of the first level. The game recommends a difficulty level based on how well you do in the killhouse.
*** ''[[Modern Warfare]] 2'' does the same thing.
* Fittingly, there's two of these at the carnival in ''[[Bully (
* There's one in ''[[Parasite Eve 2]]''.
* Some ''Zelda'' games have one, like ''[[The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time
* ''[[Half Life]] Blue Shift'' had one at the beginning of the game when you are issued your weapon.
* ''[[Police Quest]] 2'' has one where you need hearing protection and use it to adjust your gun's sights.
* A [[Humongous Mecha]]-scale version of this trope appears in a mission in ''[[Mechwarrior]] 3''. An enemy training course is left on in one of the mission areas, and it's very possible to walk your lance into it without realizing it, then start shooting when you realize you're surrounded by 'enemy contacts.'
* In ''[[Sin]]'', there are four shooting galleries. However, the skeet range uses an inaccurate shotgun, and the ''Hogan's Alley'' style shooting range used a slow-firing weapon when you needed to hit three targets quickly.
* In ''[[Left 4 Dead 2]]'''s Dark Carnival campaign, you can stop to participate in a shooting gallery whose prize is a lawn gnome; carring the gnome through the end of the campaign nets you an achievement.
* ''[[Hitman]] 2: Silent Assassin'' has a shooting gallery on the base level.
== [[Western Animation]] ==
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