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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?
In [[Real Life]], any gunshot can kill, especially if left alone long enough to get horribly infected. But those who get buttshot are ''relatively''
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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== Film ==
* ''[[Forrest Gump]]'': Forrest gets shot in the butt''ocks'' in Vietnam, and then shows the wound to [[Lyndon B. Johnson|LBJ]]. LBJ
* ''[[Easy Money]]''. Just when Rodney Dangerfield has given up on his effort to quit drinking/smoking/carousing (in order to inherit ten million dollars), his daughter's estranged husband shows up with a gun, and this
{{quote|'''{{spoiler|Doctor}}''': It looks like trauma to the gluteus maximas.
'''{{spoiler|Dangerfield}}''': Ha, your wrong Doc, he shot me in the ass!! }}
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* ''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.
* The pilot in ''[[The Mummy Trilogy|The Mummy Returns]]'' claims he's gotten shot every time he's worked with O'
* 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.
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* 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 the [[Western]] ''That Beautiful Blonde from Bashful Bend,'' the heroine continually shoots at her no-good
* 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:
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{{quote|Chewie chuckled.
"It's not funny, furball. It hurts." }}
* In ''[[Danny, the Champion of the World]]'' Danny's father tells Danny of how keepers like to shoot poachers from
{{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."
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== Live Action TV ==
* ''[[All in The Family]]'': Archie has shrapnel in his "kiester" from [[WW 2]].
* An episode of ''[[Family Matters]]'' featured Carl getting
* [[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.
* ''[[Band of Brothers]]'': This happens to two characters. Popeye Winn is shot in "Day of Days". Buck Compton is shot in "Replacements"
{{quote|'''Penkala''': Yeah, kind of an Easy Company tradition, getting shot in the ass.}}
** Not to mention Perconte in "Breaking Point".
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** "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.
* Kelly from ''[[Married... with Children]]'' was practicing her archery in one episode and shot a "bird" this
* 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."
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