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''And chairs were smashed in two]]<br />
''There was [[First Blood|blood]] and a [[Instant Death Bullet|single gunshot]]<br />
''But just '''who... shot... who??'''''|'''Barry Manilow''', "Copacabana (At the Copa)"}}
[[Gun Struggle|Two characters are struggling for a gun.]] There's brawling, rolling, clenching... Suddenly they both stop with identical looks of shock on their faces after the gun goes off, and the viewer is left to ponder for several seconds which one of the characters was shot, usually with a headfake in the direction of it not being the character who was actually injured. It can be fatal, or not. It can also be a knife or other small weapon. Extra points if it occurs right before a commercial break which leaves you hanging.
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Trope name is a play on the title of a [[Muse (Music)|Muse]] album, ''Black Holes and Revelations''.
Compare [[Bait and Switch Gunshot]]. See also [[Framed for Heroism]]. The [[Single
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