Shot in the Ass: Difference between revisions

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== Anime and Manga ==

** In ''Full Metal Panic!'', Gauron disguised himself as a member of Mithril and made his way to his Arm Slave (Mecha). When Mardukas sent people to stop him, he turned around and opened fire on them. All of them managed to run away safely, except for one poor sap that was crouching in a corner. He, literally, got shot in the ass.

** ''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 ==

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

* At the end of the first shootout of ''[[Bad Boys|Bad Boys II]]'', Mike, who was using two guns, accidentally shot his partner Marcus in the ass while trying to get the last KKK guy who had gotten the drop on him.

* ''[[Shrek]]'' gets an arrow in his ass in the first film. Fiona forcefully yanks it out, much to his discomfort.

* ''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 [[Pink Panther]] Strikes Again''. While Clouseau is in England he accidentally causes a shotgun to shoot a Scotland Yard official in the behind. A later scene shows the official having the shotgun pellets painfully removed.

* In ''[[Training Day]]'', towards the end {{spoiler|Jake is holding Alonzo at gunpoint after he survives Alonzo's betrayal. Alonzo, not believing Jake will shoot him, calmly and slowly turns his back to pick up the gun that he's dropped, and Jake shoots him in the ass as more or less a warning shot}}.

'''{{spoiler|Jake}}''': Yeah, and the next one ''will'' kill you. }}

* A Scottish pikeman gets this treatment in ''[[Braveheart]]''. Turns out mooning the English archers wasn't such a good idea after all. (As well as being one of many of the [[You Fail History Forever|violations of historical fact depicted in that film]].)

* In ''[[Billy Madison]]'' when Eric threatens the audience at gunpoint when losing the decathlon to Billy, he gets shot in the ass by a man Billy called earlier, saving the day.

* 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.

* 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:

* In ''[[A Christmas Story]]'', during Ralphie's daydream where he runs off Black Bart and his minions, he shoots all of them in their asses.

* Not bullets, but in the movie version of ''Captain Correlli's Mandolin'', Mandras gets hit in the ass by rocks shot from a cannon. Leads to a funny moment with John Hurt as the village doctor.

* In ''[[Jumpin Jack Flash]]'' Terry Dolittle ([[Whoopi Goldberg]]'s character) gets shot with a tranquilizer by the bad guys in one scene.

* The premise of the film ''Protocol'' is that the main character saves a visiting Arab emir this way.

* In ''[[Dragonheart]]'', with an arrow however instead of bullets as this was set during the medieval era; Brother Gilbert shoots one of the [[Big Bad|evil king's]] men in the ass; he even says [[Incredibly Lame Pun|"Turn the other cheek, brother".]]

* One of the sheriff's men got shot in the ass in ''[[Black Christmas]]'' when he went on one old man's property.

* This often happened to ''[[The Three Stooges]]'', who reacted to it in about the same way a cartoon character would.

* In the movie ''Gotcha!'', after fighting a battle on his college campus against KGB agents armed with only a tranquilizer gun, Anthony Edwards shoots a blond college student in her ass with a dart.

* Two from ''[[Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back]]'' one only threatened:

'''Sheriff''': One rectal breach comin' up. }}

** And one much later that is successful, by a monkey no less:

'''Justice''': You're not paralyzed. It was just a tranquilizer. }}

 

== 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''.

* In Sir Thomas Malory's ''[[King Arthur|Morte Darthur]]'', there's a completely ridiculous moment where Lancelot is accidentally shot in the behind by a woman out hunting. That Malory's narration is completely matter-of-fact throughout just makes it funnier.

* In ''[[The New Rebellion]]'', someone tries to shoot Han but misses, mostly. The blaster bolt grazes his buttocks.

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

"''Poacher's bottom'' they used to call it," my father said. "And there wasn't a man in the whole village who didn't have a bit of it one way or another. But my dad was the champion ..." }}

* Michel, Flick's French Resistance husband in Ken Follett's book ''Jackdaws'' gets shot in the buttocks in the first chapter and is embarrassed every time Flick tells anyone.

* In ''Flash For Freedom!'', [[Flashman]] is shot in the ass by slave hunters while crossing the Ohio river with a fugitive slave (and accidentally inspiring ''Uncle Tom's Cabin.'') Most of Flashman's battle scars happen to be in the rear, for [[Dirty Coward|logical reasons]].

* [[City of Thieves]], where it's not played for laughs.

 

 

== 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.

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

* Discussed in ''[[The Wire]]'' while Omar's in court testifying against Bird.

'''Omar''': We had a disagreement. Mike-Mike thought he should keep that cocaine he was slinging, and the money he was making from slinging it. I thought otherwise. }}

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

* 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]].

'''Rodney McKay''' ''(on Morphine)'': Gluteus maximus... Gluuuteus maaaximus... Oh my god! That's my ass isn't it? }}

* In ''[[The Sopranos]]'' season 6, an aspiring rapper actually ''asks'' Bobby Bacala to shoot him [[Only a Flesh Wound|non-fatally]] to increase his street cred. Guess where he's shot...

** "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."

** Jenny Calendar also shoots him either in or very near the rear end with a crossbow bolt in "Ted".

* In ''[[Chuck]]'' Versus the Frosted Tips, we see an ego-inflated Morgan (who has the [[Applied Phlebotinum|Intersect]] in his head) getting tranquilized in the ass, right after Chuck pulls down his pants for a distraction.

'''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].

 

== Newspaper Comics ==

** It's worth mentioning that getting shot in the ass actually drives the plot for the entire game.

* If you managed to land a shot on an enemy's buttocks in ''[[Perfect Dark]]'', [[The Dev Team Thinks of Everything|they'd do this awesome little hop and stagger about awkwardly for a few seconds]].

* In ''[[Kingdom of Loathing]]'', the creators gave a unique [http://kol.coldfront.net/thekolwiki/index.php/Arse-shooting_crossbow arse-shooting crossbow] to a player. Strangely, the "[http://kol.coldfront.net/thekolwiki/index.php/Shot_in_the_Arse Shot in the Arse]" effect it bestows is beneficial. It even comes complete with a ''[[Braveheart]]'' reference:

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

 

== Web Original ==

* Boris gets shot in the rear more than once in ''[[Rocky and Bullwinkle]]''.

* In ''[[Futurama]]'', when the Planet Express crew goes on a fishing expedition, Leela brings out a harpoon. Bender scoffs:

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

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

 

== Real Life ==

* In the Behind-the-Scenes for [[Shaun of the Dead]], Nick Frost gets [[Overly Long Gag|a shot in the ass]]. By shot, we mean a syringe, which, according to him, was for the cold. There's even footage and everything.

* In ''[[To Hell and Back]]'' the [[Real Life]] story of Medal of Honor recipient Audie Murphy, Audie's friend asks him where he got shot.

'''Audie''': [pause, then laughs] "You know where it came out!" }}

* 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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