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{{quote|'''Zeus:''' You call in that code right now or I'll blow your sick ass into the next world.<br />
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The inverse sometimes shows up in movies where a gun ''is'' fired with the safety on, presumably to keep actors from death by blank. This annoys gun nuts; the appropriate special effects hide the phenomenon from other viewers.
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== Anime and Manga ==
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== Film ==
* A particularly egregious example is in ''[[Die Hard (Film)|Die Hard]] 3''. Hero John McClane ([[Bruce Willis (Creator)]]) gives his reluctant ally Zeus ([[Samuel L Jackson]]) a submachine gun lifted from a fallen mook to defend himself as they search the bad guys' boat, even giving him a short primer on how to use the gun. Zeus later comes upon [[Big Bad]] Simon Gruber (Jeremy Irons) and holds him at gunpoint; Simon takes the gun away, casually notes (of course) he's got the safety on, flips off the safety and shoots him.
* In the beginning of ''[[The Fifth Element]]'', Korben is confronted by a crazed robber with a rather nasty-looking gun. Korben informs him that the safety's on, but is even helpful enough to point it out to him and give him a chance to flip the switch. Cue the subversion, as the poor dumb criminal has just ''de''activated the gun, and Corben pulls his own weapon on him and takes it.
** It helps that the guy is obviously a drug addict in desperate need of a fix. His hands were visibly shaking, as Korben immediately noticed.
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** Although laser weapons would need safeties for the same reason conventional firearms have them.
** The same applies to Stan in an episode of ''[[Lexx]]''.
* In an episode of ''[[Battlestar Galactica Reimagined (TV)|Battlestar Galactica Reimagined]]'', Centurions have boarded the ship. [[Non
* ''[[Castle]]'': The murderer is cornered by Beckett while holding Castle hostage at gunpoint. After uncovering the murderer's motive, Castle knocks him down and wrests the gun from him. Beckett tells him he could have been killed, and Castle replies that the safety was on the whole time.
{{quote| '''Beckett''': Y'know, you could've told me.<br />
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* Subverted on ''[[Lost]]'': while playing inside woman in a bank robbery, Kate ''pretends'' not to know the safety is on, and then how to take it off. Another variant is Rousseau removing the firing pin from Robert's rifle, which has the bonus of letting her find out if he was really going to shoot her (he was.)
* In the second episode of ''[[The Walking Dead]]'', [[Meet Cute|Andrea threatens to shoot Rick]] for bringing a hoarde of "walkers" to their location. Later, he advises her to take the safety off next time, and even gives her a quick lesson in handling a gun.
* An interesting subversion happens in an episode of ''[[
{{quote| '''Hanson''': The safety's on the left, man. You ought to take it off if you want to threaten somebody.<br />
'''Ronnie''': The safety don't work, man. Never did. }}
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* The mugger who keeps pestering you in ''[[Deja Vu]]'' repeatedly forgets to take the safety off, meaning you can score a punch to the nose and make him scurry off. The first few times, anyway...
** This is particularly strange, because the mugger in ''[[Deja Vu]]'' is clearly threatening you with a revolver, which would lack a safety.
* An inversion happens in the original ''[[Max Payne (Video Game)|Max Payne]]'', when Max runs into [[Femme Fatale|Mona Sax]], her signature [[Small Girl, Big Gun|Desert Eagle]] aimed [[Mexican Standoff|point-blank into his face]]. He returns the favor with his own Beretta, [[Gunpoint Banter|uttering]]: "Your safety's off, [[Evil Twin]]. You could hurt somebody with that gun of yours."
* Subverted in ''[[Brass Restoration]]'': Ryo invokes this against {{spoiler|the bookstore owner}}, who then fires without hesitation. Turns out that that was exactly what Ryo was expecting--the question about the safety was to provoke him into firing. "...You can avoid a bullet if you know when it's fired."
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