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[[Exactly What It Says on the Tin]] - a character takes a bullet to the hindquarters. The ultimate in [[Amusing Injuries]] which, as well as being [[Only a Flesh Wound]], is an assisted [[Literal Ass-Kicking]] by a bullet to the buttocks. Or an arrow. Or a bolt of lightning. Or anything. Usually [[Played for Laughs]] because, seriously, a bullet to the ass?

 

 

If you happen to deliver one of these, a "[[As the Good Book Says...|turn the other cheek]]" one-liner is always good form.

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== Anime and Manga ==

* ''[[Full Metal Panic!]]'':

** ''Full Metal Panic? Fumoffu'': The trope is [[Played for Laughs]]. The boys are trying to spy on the girls while they are in the hot spring, Kurz is shot in the buttocks with a laser and loses the ability to [[Crowning Moment of Funny|to go on]] and must leave it to Shinji to protect the male honor.

* ''[[Mad Bull 34]]'': Happens to Sleepy during a gunfight, just when he mentions how it's [[Tempting Fate|fortunate that he's wearing a bulletproof vest]].

* Happens to Amata in ''[[Aquarion Evol]]'' a few times to stop him from floating/his emotions getting out of control.

 

 

== Film ==

{{quote|'''{{spoiler|Doctor}}''': It looks like trauma to the gluteus maximas.

'''{{spoiler|Dangerfield}}''': Ha, your wrong Doc, he shot me in the ass!! }}

* ''Cradle To The Grave'', Anthony Anderson congratulates someone for shooting a Helicopter in the rear via "YEAH! YOU SHOT HIM IN THE ASS!!!"

* In ''[[Mystery Men]]'', the Spleen (whose superpower is farting) gets shot in the ass. He does a "systems check" afterward to make sure it hasn't affected his abilities.

* In the movie ''New In Town'' one of the main characters gets shot in the rear when a gun goes off by accident while they are hunting crows.

* In the old Russian movie ''The Caucasian Prisoner'', when the main villain tries to escape from his house by the window, but is shot it the behind and falls to the ground. The shooter reveals he shot him with... salt. Cut to the court room where the man's hearing is in process. While everybody sits down, the man remains standing with a straight face, until someone points out he can't sit down and giggles.

* The protagonist of the ''51st State'' is shot in the arse by a [[Almost-Lethal Weapons|suddenly less dangerous]] high velocity rifle. It appears to be about as [[Only a Flesh Wound|damaging as an airgun]], despite having killed a bunch of guys moments before. Even [[Improbable Aiming Skills]] couldn't really pull that one off.

* ''[[Spaceballs]]'': Princess Vespa shoots a trooper in the arse.

* In ''[[Bird On a Wire]]'', Mel Gibson takes a bullet to the behind, which makes it necessary for him to visit his veterinarian ex-girlfriend for extraction.

* Used as a joke in ''[[Good Morning Vietnam]]'' when Garlick is telling Robin Williams's character about a [[Comically Serious]] NCO he'll be working with:

== Literature ==

* In the ''[[Sherlock Holmes]]'' stories, Dr. Watson says in some stories that he was shot in the arm, and in others that he was shot in the leg. One of the sillier [[Epileptic Trees|fan theories]] to explain the discrepancy is that he was really shot in the behind and was too embarrassed to say so.

* In Carl Hiassen's ''Skinny Dipping''.

* Honey West is shot in the butt in ''This Girl for Hire''.

{{quote|Chewie chuckled.

"It's not funny, furball. It hurts." }}

{{quote|"Many's the night when I was a boy, Danny, I've gone into the kitchen and seen my old dad lying face down on the table and Mum standing over him digging the gunshots pellets out of his backside with a potato-knife. [...] Towards the end, he was so covered in tiny little white scars he looked exactly like it was snowing."

 

== Live Action TV ==

* ''[[All in The Family]]'': Archie has shrapnel in his "kiester" from [[WW 2]].

* [[ECW]] wrestler New Jack told a story of being stabbed in the ass, and the knife was left there for quite some time.

* In the ''[[Law and Order Special Victims Unit]]'' episode "Raw", after {{spoiler|the courtroom is shot up by Neo-Nazis, Munch}} tells {{spoiler|Tutuola}} he suffered this trope.

{{quote|'''Penkala''': Yeah, kind of an Easy Company tradition, getting shot in the ass.}}

** Not to mention Perconte in "Breaking Point".

* ''[[NCIS]]'': Gibbs inflicts on a poacher. It's strongly implied it's on purpose.

* ''[[NCIS: Los Angeles]]'': Deeks presumes this happened to Kensi when she won't tell him where she was shot.

* In an episode of ''[[NYPD Blue]],'' Andy Sipwics is shot several times by an enemy and left for dead; as a parting-shot, the enemy then shoots him once in each buttock as a final insult. Sipowics lives, but he's forced to sit on an inflatable donut for some time.

* In the ''[[Stargate Atlantis]]'' episode "Sateda", McKay gets shot in the rear end with an arrow, in a [[Crowning Moment of Funny|CMoF]].

** "How'd ya like a bite o' ''this'' green apple, America?"

* Jim from ''[[According to Jim]]'' got shot in the backside by an arrow fired by a TURKEY.

* In an episode of ''[[Cheers]]'', Sam shoots himself in the butt with a pistol he took off an enraged husband. The situation spirals out of control when he attmpts to explain the injury by claiming he got shot in an attempted hold-up.

* ''[[Buffy]]'' accidentally shoots Giles in the butt with a tranquilizer gun in the episode "Beauty and the Beasts."

'''Max''': So did they. }}

* In the second episode of ''[[The Finder]]'', ''Bullets'', Walter is searching for a decades-old missing bullet which can clear a death row inmate, a former cop convicted of killing another cop. Walter ends up shooting {{spoiler|a corrupt former internal affairs officer}} in the ass. The reason? {{spoiler|The internal affairs officer was the real killer, but the wrongly convicted officer had gotten a shot off when the murdered officer was gunned down. That shot had ended up in the internal affairs officer's buttocks, and had never been removed, causing him to sit uncomfortably. And so, Walter 'finds' the bullet by shooting the man in the same cheek, so that when the new bullet is dug out, the old one will be as well.}}

* During one of Tim Conway's "Old Man" sketches on ''[[The Carol Burnett Show]]'' the Old Man is an old west sheriff who's "quick" draw ricochets several times [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TP6yDJEPDKA&t=7m35s before hitting him in the rump].

* [[Grey's Anatomy]]: "[[It Makes Sense in Context|You shot Dad in the ass]], '''[[Crowning Moment of Funny|are you happy now?!]]'''"

 

== Newspaper Comics ==

* In [[The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim]], the owner of the "Drunken Huntsman" explains the name of his shop as coming from an incident when he and his brother had gone hunting after consuming "a bit too much mead." When they separated, his brother, in his inebriated state, mistook him for a deer...and shot him in the "rump" with an arrow.

** At least it wasn't [[Memetic Mutation|his knee]].

 

== Web Original ==

'''Leela:''' Okay. ''(And she does.)'' }}

* Daffy Duck has his tail feathers blown off more than once, a la the above picture.

 

== Real Life ==

* A surviving victim of the [[Jack the Ripoff|Copycat]] Zodiac was shot in the ass.

* Sometimes doctors have to administer a vaccine in the buttocks area, i.e. give you a [[Incredibly Lame Pun|shot in the ass]].

** So was George Patton during one of the 1918 offensives, after he fell off the tank he was riding on.

* U.S. soldier James Bumgarner (later actor James Garner) was wounded during the Korean War.

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