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** An amusing variant appears in ''[[Making Money]]'' when Moist tracks down escaped forger Owlswick Jenkins in his workshop. Terrified of going back to prison, Jenkins threatens to commit suicide by eating a tube of highly toxic paint, but Moist snatches it out of his mouth when he tries.
{{quote|'''Moist:''' Just as I thought. You forgot to take the cap off. [[Lampshade Hanging|It's the kind of mistake amateurs always make!]]}}
** Inverted in ''[[Men
* In one of the stories making up Joe Haldeman's ''All My Sins Remembered'', agent Otto McGavin confronts a bureaucrat who pulls a blaster on him. They're technically on the same side, so McGavin snarls something along the lines of, "Put that stupid thing away before you electrocute yourself. You've got the selector on 'recharge.'" The bureaucrat looks down at the gun (if I remember right, it didn't even '''have''' a 'recharge' setting), and McGavin takes it away from him.
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