Flare Gun: Difference between revisions

* ''[[Hawaii Five-O]]'' episode "Death's Name Is SAM": A terrorist group tries to use a heat-seeking missile to shoot down a jetliner. McGarret has police officers fire off flares at the landing field to distract the missile and save the jet.

* [[24|Jack Bauer]] once shot a guy with a flare gun.

** ''iStart A Fan War'' had a character catch a flare that had been shot at him but didn't go off, only for it to explode in his hands.

* ''[[Buffy the Vampire Slayer]]''. In "The Initiative" Xander gives Buffy a flare pistol to signal for help if she needs it when she goes to fight Spike. It turns out to be [[Chekhov's Gun|just what she needs]] when a team of Initiative soldiers attack Willow in a dorm corridor; Buffy fires the flare, [[Sensory Overload|overloading their night vision goggles]].