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A comedy trope: John Doe is wrongly suspected of being a psycho and he ends up with a gun or other weapon in his hands. Then, he tries to explain himself while holding the weapon. As he makes hand gestures, he points it at the mob around him, which recoils in terror.

 

== [[Literature]] ==

* In one of the ''[[Psych]]'' novels, a person of interest in a murder investigation finds a bloody knife in his pocket while giving his statement; he takes the officer interviewing him hostage while claiming that someone is trying to frame him.

* In Polish nove ''Escape from Festung Breslau'' protagonist, German soldier, wants to get a doctors opinion, that he needs vacation, but is morally oposed to simulating disease. His friend manipulates a visit to a particularly strict doctor in a way that leads to this trope and diagnosis of mild breakdown. Scene itself is easily [[Crowning Moment of Funny]].

 

* One episode of ''[[Samantha Who]]?'' is called "The Stalker" and it's about Samantha's attempt to apologize to someone to whom she stalked in her "evil" former personality, but continually makes the situation worse. During the same episode, she tries to bond with her father by going hunting with him. Thus, she ends up explaining to the man she stalked and the crowd that she is not crazy, while pointing a rifle at him and them. [[Hilarity Ensues]].

 

** They were in the outdoor food-court of the local department store, and their small town had recently been struck by a series of bizarre murders. This is not the first (or last) time that Yosuke's lack of common sense gets him into (often hilarious) trouble.

 

* ''[[Schlock Mercenary]]'' had Dr. Bunnigus of all people [http://www.schlockmercenary.com/2015-07-23 talk while brandishing a scalpel]. Though she was talking with Petey immediately before that, he has this effect sometimes.

 

* [[Real Life]] subversion: [http://www.keepandbeararms.com/information/XcIBViewItem.asp?ID=942 U.S. Senator Feinstein sweeps the crowd with the automatic rife, finger on the trigger, high-capacity magazine attached.] While lamenting recklessness of gun manufacturers and preaching for complete gun ban, of course. Her audience does not react.

** So basically, she's trying to keep guns out of the hands of people ''less'' idiotic than she is?

 

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[[Category:Guns and Gunplay Tropes]]

[[Category:Comedy Tropes]]