Bullet Holes and Revelations: Difference between revisions

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''But just '''who... shot... who??'''''|'''Barry Manilow''', "Copacabana (At the Copa)"}}

 

 

== [[Anime]] ==

* [[Egregious]]ly used in ''[[Saint Seiya]]''. The jarring part is that enemies, or the heroes themselves can go on like nothing happens for a while and then humongous holes or cracks will appear on the downed Saint/General/Spectre's cloth/scales/surplice.

* Not quite this trope, as there was no struggle for a gun, but the ending for ''[[Code Geass]]'' season 1 was kinda like that: {{spoiler|Lelouch}} and {{spoiler|Suzaku}} in a [[Mexican Standoff]], fading screen and sound of gunshot. Viewers are left to guess who shot whom.

** The end of ''Gundam Seed Destiny'' more clearly uses this trope.

* In the Soul Society Arc of ''[[Bleach]]'', [[Badass]] [[Blood Knight|Kenpachi Zaraki]] dares Ichigo to hit him with his [[BFS|Zanpaktou]]. Ichigo raises to strike, the sword comes down, cut to blood falling to the ground, cut back to {{spoiler|[[Made of Iron|Ichigo's hands bleeding while Kenpachi hasn't got a scratch]]}}.

** Inquisitor Heldane manipulates "the pawn" mentally. Plentiful [[Red Herring]]s point to {{spoiler|Rawne}}, but it's not him.

** In ''Straight Silver'', we are told that Muril whirled about, and a knife struck to the heart, but {{spoiler|not until many scenes later do we know that Cuu killed her, and not she Cuu}}.

* Happens in ''[[Star Wars/Allegiance|Allegiance]]''. [[La Rone]] is snidely accused of disobeying orders by an ISB officer who then pulls a blaster on him. [[La Rone]] instinctively wrests it away, the officer pulls out a holdout blaster, there is a "soft flash, a muted blast" - and the officer falls dead. [[Damn You, Muscle Memory!]]. Stormtrooper combat training doesn't cover ISB officers playing threat games.

** Also happens in the ''[[X Wing Series]]''. Corran is rescued from Imperials by an old enemy's lover and then taken to that old enemy, who has her remove his blaster. The enemy levels a blaster at Corran, "the whine of a single blaster shot filled the hangar and the bolt tinted everything with the color of blood", and then the enemy crumples because his lover shot him. She'd gone through a slow [[Heel Face Turn]] that culminated here.

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