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Sometimes used as an end to an apparent [[Brandishment Bluff]].
 
Can be done with a [[Finger Gun]], especially if the user has [[Finger Firearms]]. Compare [[Lethal Joke Item]] and [[My Little Panzer]].
 
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== [[Comic Books]] ==
* Detective Richard [[Fell]] was [[Genre Savvy]] enough to recognize that the [[Ax Crazy]] guy putting razors into grocery produce was probably dangerous with a banana in his hand.
{{quote| '''Fell''': "So I shot him. He was armed, after all. With death bananas."}}
* In a ''[[Pink Panther]]'' comic, Pink Panther threatens the villain with his pointer finger. The villain laughs... [[Finger Gun|and Pink Panther somehow manages to fire from his finger]].
 
== Radio[[Film]] ==▼
 
* In the ''[[Babar: The Movie]] movie'', when Baber, Celeste, &and Zephir's attempt to impersonate a rhino [[Totem Pole Trench]] -style with the aid of a cape and a banana doesn't work out, Zephir quickly finds another use for the latter:▼
== Films - Animation ==
{{quote| '''Zephir:''' Stand back!<br />▼
▲* In the [[Babar]] movie, when Baber, Celeste, & Zephir's attempt to impersonate a rhino [[Totem Pole Trench]] style with the aid of a cape and a banana doesn't work out, Zephir quickly finds another use for the latter:
'''Retaxas:''' Watch out! He's got a banana!<br />▼
▲{{quote| Zephir: Stand back!<br />
'''Zephir:''' And I'm not afraid to use it! *squirts it in Retaxas' face, temporarily blinding him and letting Babar snatch his sword* }}▼
▲Retaxas: Watch out! He's got a banana!<br />
* Played for drama in ''[[Chronicle (Film)|Chronicle]]'' where Andrew points a [[Finger Gun]] at a local gang member and uses his [[Mind Over Matter|telekinesis]] to knock him down.▼
▲Zephir: And I'm not afraid to use it! *squirts it in Retaxas' face, temporarily blinding him and letting Babar snatch his sword* }}
* Used in the ''[[Hancock]]'' when Hancock uses a candy bar to disable a would-be robber. ▼
 
 
== Films - Live Action ==
▲* Played for drama in ''[[Chronicle (Film)|Chronicle]]'' where Andrew points a [[Finger Gun]] at a local gang member and uses his [[Mind Over Matter|telekinesis]] to knock him down.
▲* Used in the ''[[Hancock]]'' when Hancock uses a candy bar to disable a would-be robber.
 
 
== [[Literature]] ==
* Subverted (or ''something'') in the [[Discworld]] novel ''[[Discworld (Literature)/Sourcery|Sourcery]]''. Rincewind is desparatedesperate enough to attack [[A God Am I|Living God]] and [[Reality Warper]] Coin with…with... a half-brick in a sock. Not that it actually works or anything, but Coin is so fascinated by the concept (half-bricks in socks don't ever really occur to you when you have limitless magic at your disposal) that he spares Rincewind.
 
== [[Live -Action TV]] ==▼
 
* ''[[Get Smart (TV)|Get Smart]]'' - Maxwell Smart had a .22 calibre [[Finger Gun]]. Fires two shots.▼
▲== [[Live Action TV]] ==
▲* ''[[Get Smart (TV)|Get Smart]]'' - Maxwell Smart had a .22 calibre [[Finger Gun]]. Fires two shots.
** Inverted when KAOS abducts Smart, with his escaping being part of their plan. At one point Smart raises a finger to a KAOS guy who throws up his hands, as if Smart had a finger gun. Smart insists it's just a finger and shows the KAOS guy, who gives up and leaves. Alone in his cell, Smart mutters to himself "Come ''on'', Smart. Use that fantastic ''brain'' of yours!"
* ''[[Doctor Who (TV)|Doctor Who]]'' - "Pssh, what could a screwdriver do?" is a pretty common reaction at first. But did we mention it's ''sonic''?
* One ''[[The Muppet Show|Muppet Show]]'' sketch featured Fozzie as an Old West-style criminal whose entire arsenal consisted of fruits and vegetables.
{{quote| I-I'm sorry, I didn't know the pickles were loaded!}}
* A literal example in a duel segment of ''[[Turkey Television]]''. When choosing their pistols, one of the duelists is forced to take a banana. The real pistol jams, but the banana fires a lethal blast and kills the other duelist.
* Zig-zagged in a ''[[Monty Python's Flying Circus]]'' sketch with a police sergeant teaching his charges how to defend themselves against anyone armed with fresh fruit. He uses a gun, a 16-ton weight, and a tiger.
** What about a pointed stick?
** Pointed sticks?
*** Shut up!
 
== [[Radio]] ==
 
* ''[[The Goon Show]]'' - "You fool, you can't shoot me with a banana, it's-" Bang! Bang! "... swine ... it was ... loaded!" *''thump"''▼
▲== Radio ==
▲* ''[[The Goon Show]]'' - "You fool, you can't shoot me with a banana, it's-" Bang! Bang! "... swine ... it was ... loaded!" *thump"
** In another episode, Seagoon is told that Moriarty killed himself by pointing his finger at his head, and saying "bang".
{{quote| '''Seagoon:''' That’s ridiculous. ''[Laughs]'' How can a man shoot himself by pointing his finger at his head like this and going -<br />
''[Gunshot, body falls]''<br />
'''Undertaker:''' Mine, I think. }}
 
 
== [[Video Games]] ==
* In the ''[[Time Splitters]]'' series, there is a tendency to give the player a massive abundance of powerful weapons from destructive to plain [[Game Breaker]] and BFG, however in every installment they include the weapon "Brick", which may sound stupid at first, but has a tendency to do a massive amount of damage.
* In the ''[[Worms (Video Game)|Worms]] Armageddon'' game when it was introduced and every version since then has included a series of very very silly weapons, however the sillier it is the more dangerous. When a worm pulls out a banana, expect at least a member of your team to die if not all of your team and maybe some of your enemies... and probably the worm who threw it too.
* ''[[Plants vs. Zombies (Video Game)|Plants vs. Zombies]]'' is based on the premise that you defend your home during a [[Zombie Apocalypse]] with assorted [[Edible Ammunition|vegetables, fruits, mushrooms and other plants]] that can do massive damage to endless hordes of invading zombies.
* The Heavy in ''[[Team Fortress 2 (Video Game)|Team Fortress 2]]'' has a taunt where he points a [[Finger Gun]] and "fires" it at someone. If you happen to be in its line of fire, ''it's a one-hit kill''.
** [[Improbable Aiming Skills|Not that it's easy!]]
* In ''[[Soul Calibur]]'' [[Ghost Pirate]] Cerevantes normally uses a pistol gun thingy, but his [[Nerf Arm|Joke Weapon]] is a wooden toy sword… which can still use the bullet firing moves.
* The 1993 Amiga game ''Hired Guns'' by DMA Design had a banana as the most powerful explosive weapon in the game as a joke item, similar to ''Worms''.
* In ''[[Maple Story]]'', well, how weird do you want it? Available weapons have included huge flowers, umbrellas, shish-kebab skewers, surfboards, and possibly even actual bananas. If an object is shaped like the weapon it's supposed to emulate (and sometimes even if it isn't) the characters in this game can use it as such. There are also costume skins you can get from the Cash Shop and Events that can make any weapon look like this.
 
 
== [[Web Comics]] ==
* ''[[Stage Select]]'' is the trope namer for this [https://web.archive.org/web/20110828024514/http://www.stage-select.com/comic.php?archive=0059 page] and this [https://web.archive.org/web/20110828022504/http://www.stage-select.com/comic.php?archive=0085 page].
 
 
== [[Web Original]] ==
* A ''[[Team Fortress 2 (Video Game)|Team Fortress 2]]'' [[Machinima]] where the Heavy invents a Sandvich gun [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d7q3_NWcH_M proves surprisingly effective].
 
 
== [[Western Animation]] ==
* Often used in ''[[Looney Tunes]]'' shorts.
** "The Unmentionables": [[Bugs Bunny]] threatens mobster Rocky with a carrot. Rocky laughs it off, until the carrot fires in his face. Unfortunately, it won't fire again.
{{quote| '''Bugs''': "That's the trouble with carrots: they're only good once."}}
:* In an Old West themed short, Bugs threatens another outlaw with what appears to be a pop-gun. The guy laughs and pulls the cork from it, and again, it fires in his face.
*:* "Drip-Along Daffy": Nasty Canasta is felled by a tiny wind-up soldier… whose rifle packs a mighty wallop.
* ''[[Bounty Hamster]]'' - "Hah! You didn't think that banana was loaded!"
* In an episode of ''[[Filmation's Ghostbusters]]'', the heroes have to get past Fangster and Long John, who are guarding a room. Tracy takes out a cute wind-up toy tank and sets it towards the two henchmen. They look at it, and then burst out laughing... Then it fires a [[Freeze Ray]], freezing them sold. Unfortunately, it only freezes them for seven seconds, so the heroes have to run past them quickly
 
* Literal example in one ''[[Super Friends]]'' episode, where the Hall of Justice was invaded by some nasty members of [[Team Pet| Gleek's]] species who use [[Ray Gun]]s shaped like bananas. The funniest part of the episode comes at the end after the villains were apprehended, when Gleek tries to eat one - with rather ''explosive'' results.
* In a third season episode of ''[[Amphibia (TV series)|Amphibia]]'', Anne manages to take down ''five'' of Mr. X's underlings with a ''toy lightsaber''. Bought in the toy section of a Costco [[Expy]]. {{spoiler|Still, as the climax of the episode shows, Anne might be the equivalent of an actual Jedi...}}
 
== [[Real Life]] ==
* The[https://boingboing.net/2017/01/09/weird-sixfinger-toy-from-the-1.html 6th fingerSixfinger], which is a toy that shoot darts.
 
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