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* Jango Fett does this before holstering his blaster in ''[[Attack of the Clones]]''
* [[Clint Eastwood]]'s [[Dollars Trilogy|Man With No Name]] does this every time he holsters his weapon. Also a [[Shout-Out]] to this was done at the end of the last ''[[Dirty Harry]]'' film.
* In ''[[Planet Terror]]'', El Wray demonstrates his skills by twirling a pair of revolvers in various ways. Considering that the film is a throwback to 80s Grindhouse action films, it's pretty much [[Justified Trope|justified]].
* Buford "[[Berserk Button|Mad Dog]]" Tannen from ''[[Back to The Future]] Part III'' enjoys this little bit of showboating before his climatic [[Showdown At High Noon|Showdown At ]] <s>[[Showdown At High Noon|High Noon]]</s> [[Showdown At High Noon|Eight O'Clock]] with [[Sue Donym|Clint Eastwood]], twirling his revolver forward, then twirling it back to smoothly replace it in its holster.
* Whenever [[The Three Stooges]] find themselves in the old West, expect them to have ... issues with handling their guns this way.
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* ''[[Square One TV]]'' had one segment of [[Show Within a Show|Mathnet]] set in an abandoned Southwest town - one episode began with George Frankly twirling ''his calculator''.
* The one episode on ''[[Red Dwarf]]'' where the crew get trapped in a Western virtual reality game, the Cat does this - with a gun in each hand.
* The (first) Doctor does this in the ''[[Doctor Who]]'' serial ''The Gunfighters''. Steven attempts to copy him and drops the gun.
* Like everything else to do with guns, [[The Adventures of Brisco County Jr|Brisco County Jr.]] is an expert at this.
* ''[[The Office]]'' (US): When Dwight is told that he can't wear a gun in a holster in the office, he twirls the gun and it discharges putting a hole in the floor and deafening Andy in one ear.
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* In ''[[Final Fantasy VII]]'', Vincent's [[Victory Pose]] contains this.
** Vincent's attack animation with pistol's also contains this. Justified, in that he needs to spin the gun to re-arm the hammer mechanism since his claw like left hand is too bulky. It works fine for handling the pump action on his shotguns however.
** There's also the final flourish in the synchronized marching mini game, where Cloud's sword twirl is recreated with a [[Mook]] rifle.
* [[Wild Arms|Rebecca's]] idle animation.
* Rubi Malone in ''[[Wet]]'' does this all the time, often when going into an arena battle.
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** One of these characters is a professional shootist and sharpshooter in a circus and the other is a well-written version of ''the'' classic western hero archetype. The characters actually perform complicated gun-twirling routines (the hero with a single, large colt and the shootist with two smaller revolvers) during these loading "screens", and the routines change as you progress through the game. [[Red Dead Revolvers]], as a result, had arguably the single best and most entertaining load screens in the history of video games.
* For the sawed-off shotguns in the ''[[Marathon Trilogy|Marathon]]'' series, this is the standard method of reloading. The exact mechanism for this is [[Hand Wave|Handwaved]] as being "too complex for [the player's] mind to understand".
* Fox McCloud does this when finishing up his B special in ''[[Super Smash Bros.]]. Melee'', whether after one or more shots. Don't most blasters lack even a trigger guard (which might be useful)?
* One of [[Sly Cooper]]'s ancestors, Tennessee "Kid" Cooper, does this in one of the game series' [[Cutscene|Cutscenes]].
* In ''[[Advent Rising]]'', this is how the character reloads his guns. All his guns. Yes, even the ''rocket launchers''.
* Tanya Adam's [[Idle Animation]] in ''[[Command
* Asagi can occasionally be seen spinning ''both'' her guns before holstering them in ''[[Soul Nomad and The World Eaters]]''.
* Model 1887 shotguns used [[Guns Akimbo|akimbo]] in ''[[Modern Warfare]] 2'' are flip-cocked after each shot.
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