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* While he doesn't use a gun, in episode 12 of ''[[11eyes]]'', Kakeru, having foresaw a [[Downer Ending]] in episode 11 had he of taken certain steps against Liselotte, instead threatens to commit suicide, which would also kill off the [[Big Bad]]'s former lover. Luckily for him the gambit worked, which allowed the remaining heroes to take her down.

* Ouka stops Kyouka from commiting [[Grand Theft Me]] on him in ''[[Kyouran Kazoku Nikki]]'' using this method.

* In ''[[School Shock]]'', the Hao Xuan pulls this off with a mecha to help Liu Li escape.

 

* Played with in an issue of the John Byrne's ''[[Superman]]'' reboot: Superman gets to hear about a vigilante called Batman and goes to Gotham City to capture him. Batman holds him off by revealing that somewhere in the city is a man with a bomb strapped to him, and Batman is wearing a device that will automatically detonate the bomb if Superman comes too close. Superman agrees to keep his distance and watch Batman in action, they wind up working together to bring down the villain of the week, and at the end of the issue Superman admits that Batman's not as lawless as he'd heard, and he'd probably be willing to let Batman continue operating if it weren't for that strapping-bombs-to-innocent-civilians thing. At this, Batman explains (what neither Superman nor the audience had known up to this point) that the man with the bomb strapped to him was actually Batman himself.

** It's played with even more 20 years later. During ''[[Infinite Crisis]]'', Kal-L, the Golden Age Superman, gets to relive Kal-El's life from his eyes. During this point, Batman tells Superman about the bomb and is shocked. Moments later, he calls his bluff, gets rid of the bomb on him and the two become friends.

* In ''[[Star Wars Legacy]]'', Cade Skywalker is being visited by the ghost of his ancestor, Luke, who wants him to stop wasting his life taking drugs, smuggling, and bounty hunting and instead [[The Messiah|embrace his family's legacy]]. Cade pulls a blaster, which Luke points out isn't going to hurt him since he's long dead. So Cade points it at himself.

 

 

* ''[[Blazing Saddles]]''. See the above picture. "Back off or this nigger gets it!" What makes this especially [[Crowning Moment of Funny|funny]] and [[Crowning Moment of Awesome|awesome]] is that the townspeople who were about to ''lynch'' him moments before are suddenly saying things like "Won't someone help that poor man?".

{{quote|'''Bart:''' Ooh, baby, you are ''so'' talented -- and they are so ''dumb!''}}

* [[Tom Cruise]]'s character does this in ''[[Knight and Day]]'' just to cause a scene and make a local fireman a hero. "Nobody move or I kill myself and then I kill her!"

* In the French movie ''RRRrrrr!!!'', the leader of the Cheveux Sales (the Dirty Hairs) takes himself hostage in order to force the Cheveux Propres (the Clean Hairs) to give his tribe the secret of shampoo. When the Cheveux Propres utterly ignore his demands as expected, he actually [[Too Dumb to Live|follows through with his threat to kill the hostage.]] Yes, it's ''that'' kind of movie.

 

== Jokes ==

* A blonde finds out her husband has been fooling around on her, so she busts in on him and his mistress with a gun that she points at her own head. The husband screams "Honey, don't do it!" The blonde yells. "Shut up! You're next!"

 

* Dona Lolita, the heroine of the original ''[[Zorro]]'' novel, does this with a dagger, forcing the Alcalde's guards to let her escape.

* In Chris Hiemerdinger's ''Feathered Serpent'', part 2, Melody threatens to kill herself if King Jacob kills a few of his men (who made a mess up) seeing as he needs her alive to convince her uncle to help him, he agrees. Granted, she doesn't have a gun, she uses a knife.

{{quote|'''Depa:''' "Only Mace Windu would think of taking ''himself'' hostage."

'''Mace:''' "I was the only one available." }}

 

* The Doctor, in the 1996 ''[[Doctor Who]]'' TV Movie. While YMMV on the rest of the movie's quality, it was one of the moments that really helped cement [[The Nth Doctor|Eight]] as being ''the'' Doctor.

* An old ''[[Saturday Night Live]]'' skit spoofing ''[[Lethal Weapon]]'' had [[Mel Gibson]] stick a gun in his own mouth whenever one of his requests was denied. It even worked over the radio.

* In the final episode of ''[[Torchwood: Miracle Day]]'', {{spoiler|Jack and Rex (the latter having had a full body transfusion of Jack's blood), pull this on the Three Families and their [[Mooks]] when in the Blessing -- the Families can't shoot them, because if they do, their (well, Jack's) blood will be absorbed by the Blessing and undo the Miracle, restoring death to the world. The Family members present try to create a [[Sadistic Choice]] to stop them, but they go through with it anyway.}}

 

 

* Played for drama in ''[[Mass Effect]]''. The Colonist's background mission, "I Remember Me", has Shepard trying to talk down a deranged, suicidal girl who'd escaped from some batarian slavers.

* Also in ''[[Call of Duty]]'''s first ''Modern Warfare''.

* Just like in ''[[Pirates of the Caribbean]]'', Will threatens to kill himself in ''[[Kingdom Hearts]] [[Kingdom Hearts II|II]]'' unless Barbossa let Elizabeth (plus Sora, Donald, and Goofy) go free.

 

* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ty62YzGryU4 Malk.]

* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0XfBoBgqtO4 MAKE ME A SANDWICH!]

 

* In the ''[[Tom and Jerry]]'' short ''The Missing Mouse'', Tom hears news of an escaped white lab mouse who has swallowed a powerful explosive. Jerry, who has been painted white when shoe polish falls on him, pretends to be the mouse, trying to hurt himself and forcing Tom to stop him. Eventually, Tom figures it out, and that's when the ''real'' lab mouse appears...

* A similar situation occurs in the [[Looney Tunes]] short ''The Unexpected Pest''. Sylvester keeps a mouse around to chase every once in a while and keep his mistress from kicking him out. The mouse eventually figures out that Sylvester needs him alive to keep his happy home, and has the poor puddy tat scrambling to keep the mouse from hurting himself.

 

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