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Given the number of parodies and subversions listed below, this is obviously a [[Dead Horse Trope]] nowadays.
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== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ==
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== [[Film]] ==
* Pick a [[The Western|Western]], any Western.
** It was even done in the [[Older Than They Think|first]] movie western, ''[[
** ''[[Pale Rider]]''. The corrupt marshalls led by Stockburn force one of the pan miners to do this, until he reaches for his own gun and they can 'legally' shoot him.
* Subversion: In the gangster flick ''[[Goodfellas]]'', Tommy actually shoots the bartender, Spider in the foot as he's doing the Bullet Dance.
* Similarly, the conclusion of Spike Lee's film ''[[Bamboozled]]'', {{spoiler|where the gangsta rapper Mau-Maus force Manray to tapdance one last time before shooting him.}} Spike Lee uses footage from the scene in "Bugs Bunny Rides Again" to contrast with the tragedy of the scene.
* In ''[[Back to The Future|Back To The Future Part III]]'', Mad Dog Tannen fires a gun at Marty's feet while ordering him to "dance". Spoofed as Marty turns it into a full-fledged moonwalk, jumping on a loose board to launch a spittoon for a finale.
* An alternate version can be seen in ''[[Hero (
* In ''[[Inspector Gadget (
== [[Live Action TV]] ==
* [[Playing
* The never-getting-hit part was subverted in ''[[Band of Brothers]]'', where Lt. Winters got hurt in the shin by a ricochet shot from the floor and had to have the shrapnel removed.
* Parodied on an Australian sketch comedy program where a gunslinger makes an old prospector bullet dance, only for it to be revealed as an audition for ''[[So You Think You Can Dance]]?''.
* The ''[[
* ''[[Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries]]'': In "Murder Under the Mistletoe", the killer does this to Phryne; shooting at her feet in order to make her dance in keeping with his [[Theme Serial Killer|Twelve Days of Christmas theme]].
== Music ==
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== [[Video Games]] ==
* Video game parody: In ''[[Devil May Cry]] 3'', Dante, the hero, attempts to shoot the villainous Jester in the feet; Jester breaks into the Charleston as he dodges the bullets.
* In ''[[
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* Used by [[Ninja Pirate Zombie Robot|cowboy robot gunslingers]] in ''[[
== [[Web Animation]] ==
* Lampshaded in a sing-song voice and subsequently subverted in the 'Spanish Class' episode of ''[https://web.archive.org/web/20120311100430/http://www.atom.com/channel/channel_stickman_exodus/ Stickman Exodus]''.
== [[Western Animation]] ==
* One of the most famous subversions was in the [[Bugs Bunny/Characters|Bugs Bunny]] [[Looney Tunes|cartoon]] "Bugs Bunny Rides Again", where Yosemite Sam fires at Bugs' feet and orders him to "Dance!"
* Variation: In an episode of ''[[
* Parodied on ''[[The Simpsons (
* In the ''[[Dilbert (
* Parodied in ''[[Kim Possible]]'', in the episode where Ron is obsessed with the boy band "Oh Boyz". He gets out of a cage and dodges ''heat seeking lasers''
* Sindbad, played by Bluto, does this to a captured Olive Oyl in ''[[Popeye the Sailor Meets Sindbad
* Bruce Wayne in a rather embarassing scene from his three-part DCAU teamup with Superman in "World's Finest."
== Other ==
* Done in the [[Firesign Theater]] skit
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