Tropescilloscope: Reckless Gun Usage

A character unfamiliar with gun safety does something unsafe with a firearm. (read more at tvtropes.org)

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Guy Playing Gertrude Wounded Gazelle Gambit Noodle Incident Genre Savvy Unresolved Sexual Tension Affably Evil Redshirt Army Action Girl Crazy-Prepared Sudden Sequel Death Syndrome Honor Before Reason Up to Eleven As You Know An Arm and a Leg Big Damn Heroes Only Sane Man Homage Redemption Equals Death Mistaken for Gay Reality Ensues Shower Scene You Have Got to Be Kidding Me! Suspiciously Similar Substitute Only One Name Ghost Fiction Male Gaze Dirty Old Man Extreme Doormat Destination Defenestration Here We Go Again! Informed Ability Vomit Indiscretion Shot Ragtag Bunch of Misfits Drugs Are Bad The Bad Guy Wins My Greatest Failure Funny Background Event Love at First Sight Colour-Coded for Your Convenience aka: Color Coded For Your Convenience Slap-Slap-Kiss Evil Brit Beware the Nice Ones Central Theme The Voiceless Curb-Stomp Battle Refuge in Audacity Jerk with a Heart of Gold Superhero Ominous Latin Chanting The Oner Bond Villain Stupidity Break the Cutie Jack Bauer Interrogation Technique Four-Temperament Ensemble Action Genre Covers Always Lie Adaptational Heroism Pre-Asskicking One-Liner Undying Loyalty Would Hurt a Child Real Life Last-Name Basis Cool Old Lady Really Gets Around Adapted Out In the Back Hollywood Law Corrupt Corporate Executive Mexican Standoff Match Cut Dirty Cop Needs Wiki Magic Love Retcon More Dakka Silence Is Golden Anachronism Stew Rousing Speech Breaking the Fourth Wall Shoot the Shaggy Dog Big Applesauce A Minor Kidroduction Death by Adaptation Novelization Hong Kong Films Auto Erotica Cool Shades Despair Event Horizon Say My Name Broken Bird The Great Depression Casting Gag Slashed Throat Facial Horror Brick Joke The End... Or Is It? Make It Look Like an Accident Let's Get Dangerous! Fan Disservice Fake Shemp Hate Sink Shipper on Deck Badass Longcoat Mythology Gag Ass Shove Distracted by the Sexy Genre Throwback Horror Doesn't Settle for Simple Tuesday Karma Houdini Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass The X of Y Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds Danny Peary Cult Movies List Meaningful Background Event Madness Mantra Agony of the Feet Imperial Stormtrooper Marksmanship Academy Villain Protagonist Easily Forgiven Author Avatar Stalker with a Crush Shell-Shocked Veteran Take a Third Option Dual Wielding An Axe to Grind Spell My Name with an "S" Anguished Declaration of Love I Did What I Had to Do The Atoner Sexy Discretion Shot Why Don't You Just Shoot Him? Screw the Rules, I'm Doing What's Right! Determinator aka: The Determinator Even Evil Has Standards Daylight Horror Took a Level in Badass Aww, Look! They Really Do Love Each Other Horror Films Sequel Escalation Get Out! Award-Bait Song Disney Villain Death Hero Antagonist Pimped-Out Dress Early Installment Weirdness folderlabel Apocalypse How Double Entendre Leave the Camera Running Adaptation Name Change Air-Vent Passageway The Hero Dies Rape as Drama Bring My Brown Pants Blood from the Mouth Zombie Stories Broken Aesop Lighter and Softer Not So Stoic Adaptation Expansion Rasputinian Death Break the Haughty Setting Update Death Seeker Pragmatic Villainy Bad Boss Badass Normal Fantasy Films Trailers Always Spoil Black Comedy Rape B-Movie Worthy Opponent Blonde, Brunette, Redhead Wham Shot Re-Cut Stealth Hi/Bye Bar Brawl Woman Scorned Cluster F-Bomb Left the Background Music On Scare Chord Deliberate Values Dissonance After the End The Un-Favourite aka: The Un Favorite Pun aka: Incredibly Lame Pun Bloodless Carnage Sacrificial Lion As Himself Totally Radical Evil Counterpart All There in the Manual Badass in a Nice Suit Rule of Funny "Awesome McCool" Name Babies Ever After I Need a Freaking Drink Light Is Not Good Authority Equals Asskicking The Dog Bites Back Heel–Face Turn Creator Cameo Screw the Rules, I Have Money! Not Even Bothering with the Accent The Faceless Sassy Black Woman Film Noir Index Decoy Protagonist Fantastic Racism Stuff Blowing Up French Films Nice Guy There Is No Kill Like Overkill Anachronic Order Bullying a Dragon War Is Hell Why Did It Have to Be Snakes? Adult Fear Kill It with Fire Expy Artistic License – Military Double-Meaning Title La Résistance All There in the Script Mighty Whitey Ambiguous Disorder The Un-Reveal Reality Is Unrealistic Not Using the "Z" Word My God, What Have I Done? Chase Scene Earn Your Happy Ending Action Film, Quiet Drama Scene Beard of Evil Dark Is Not Evil Hair of Gold, Heart of Gold Villain with Good Publicity Improbable Infant Survival aka: Infant Immortality Bowdlerise He Who Fights Monsters Heroic BSoD Interrupted Suicide Final Girl Fourth Date Marriage Kubrick Stare Canon Foreigner Mind Screw Black Comedy Line-of-Sight Name Hollywood Darkness You Have Outlived Your Usefulness Time Skip A Date with Rosie Palms Parental Substitute Chiaroscuro Plot Hole Arc Words Evil-Detecting Dog Determinator Russian Films Red Shirt Beauty Is Never Tarnished Leaning on the Fourth Wall Getting Crap Past the Radar Names to Run Away from Really Fast The Stoic Brutal Honesty Chekhov's Gunman Maybe Ever After Shout-Out Never Found the Body Vampire Fiction Attempted Rape Documentary Tap on the Head Red Oni, Blue Oni Obstructive Bureaucrat The '50s Fainting Amusing Injuries Soft Glass Red Eyes, Take Warning Parental Incest Camp Gay Chekhov's Gun Children Are Innocent The Hero Five-Man Band Your Head A-Splode timeperiod Evil Is Petty Romantic False Lead Hell Is That Noise Bad "Bad Acting" Wham Line Neck Snap Foreshadowing Toplessness from the Back Hair-Trigger Temper Victoria's Secret Compartment Butt-Monkey For the Evulz Stepford Smiler Have a Gay Old Time Alas, Poor Villain Running Gag Artistic License – Geography Older Than They Look Rated M for Manly Diabolus ex Machina Skewed Priorities Armor-Piercing Question Real Life Writes the Plot All for Nothing Adaptation Dye-Job Contrived Coincidence Faking the Dead Crucified Hero Shot Scary Black Man Rule of Cool True Companions Drives Like Crazy Dying Moment of Awesome Slasher Movie Meet Cute Loophole Abuse Red Herring Cat Fight Crapsack World Defrosting Ice Queen Male Frontal Nudity Knight Templar Big "NO!" Made of Iron Closed Circle Spanner in the Works Defiant to the End This Is Gonna Suck Bland-Name Product Freudian Excuse Amoral Attorney Adaptational Attractiveness Fate Worse than Death Kick the Dog Death Glare Cruel and Unusual Death Works Set in World War II Actor Allusion Serial Killer Deliberately Monochrome Adaptational Badass Rewatch Bonus Nice Hat Super Strength Rule of Three 20 Minutes into the Future Affectionate Parody Bolivian Army Ending Historical Villain Upgrade Nice Job Fixing It, Villain! Bunny-Ears Lawyer Dirty Coward Never Trust a Trailer aka: Trailers Always Lie Hypocritical Humor All Men Are Perverts Dies Wide Open Offscreen Teleportation Bitch in Sheep's Clothing Those Wacky Nazis Mercy Kill Due to the Dead Sadistic Choice Sequel Hook Driven to Suicide Unusual Euphemism Dumb Blonde Insane Troll Logic Vitriolic Best Buds Straight Gay The Reveal Hoist by His Own Petard Eye Scream The Smart Guy Brother–Sister Incest Punny Name Brainless Beauty Humiliation Conga Pretty in Mink Improvised Weapon Thriller Screw This, I'm Outta Here! Not So Different Face Death with Dignity Dramatic Irony Gilligan Cut Retired Badass Translation Convention Better to Die than Be Killed Fire-Forged Friends Meaningful Echo Framing Device Moment Killer Adults Are Useless Mood Whiplash "Where Are They Now?" Epilogue Dark Reprise A God Am I Smoking Is Cool Loads and Loads of Characters Sanity Slippage The Remake The Quiet One Pet the Dog Gorn Disney Death Together in Death Call-Forward Paper-Thin Disguise Fanservice Hooker with a Heart of Gold The Dragon Demonic Possession Film Noir Posthumous Character One-Word Title Only Known by Their Nickname Evil Is Hammy Developing Doomed Characters Overprotective Dad Fanservice Extra Not So Above It All "Shaggy Dog" Story The Starscream Obviously Evil As Long as It Sounds Foreign Storming the Castle World of Ham Comically Missing the Point The Sociopath Vomit Discretion Shot Training Montage Camera Abuse Silent Movie Oh, Crap! Disappeared Dad In Name Only Sci-Fi Horror Age Lift The Dreaded Our Zombies Are Different Dramedy Mad Scientist The Musical The Casanova Made of Explodium Famous Last Words N-Word Privileges Stock Footage Ambiguous Ending Villain Song Villain Opening Scene Eiffel Tower Effect Demoted to Extra Foregone Conclusion Jump Scare Conspicuous CG Sports Stories Aside Glance Tagline Those Two Guys Even Bad Men Love Their Mamas Nice Job Breaking It, Hero! Chekhov's Skill Betty and Veronica Good Is Not Nice The Stoner Imagine Spot Dressing as the Enemy Rule of Symbolism Artistic License – History The Vamp Once More, with Clarity! Kill 'em All The '90s Epic Movie Broken Pedestal British Films Index of Film Westerns The Chessmaster Sir Swears-a-Lot Meaningful Name Laughing Mad Animated Credits Opening Karmic Death Sole Survivor Foil No-Sell Never My Fault Romantic Comedy Music Stories Dutch Angle BFG Would Hit a Girl Evil Plan The Big Guy Historical-Domain Character Cloudcuckoolander Politically Incorrect Villain May–December Romance Christmas Movies Index Department of Redundancy Department Well-Intentioned Extremist Belligerent Sexual Tension Coming-of-Age Story Even Evil Has Loved Ones Men Are the Expendable Gender Establishing Character Moment Offscreen Moment of Awesome A.I. Is a Crapshoot Catapult Nightmare Title Drop Historical Hero Upgrade Unusually Uninteresting Sight Blatant Lies Psychopathic Manchild Man on Fire Morality Pet Ugly Guy, Hot Wife Public Domain Feature Films Spiritual Successor Slasher Smile The Load The Chick Too Dumb to Live Greater-Scope Villain Composite Character Manic Pixie Dream Girl No Name Given Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane Henpecked Husband Accidental Misnaming And Starring Put on a Bus Gender Flip Gone Horribly Right Pragmatic Adaptation Sliding Scale of Idealism vs. Cynicism Shown Their Work Peek-a-Boo Corpse Adaptation Distillation Insistent Terminology Spiteful Spit "The Reason You Suck" Speech Domestic Abuse Wrong Genre Savvy Gainax Ending Artistic License – Gun Safety The Bully Car Fu Protagonist Title Bi the Way Fiery Redhead Book-Ends My Beloved Smother An Aesop Country Matters Improbable Weapon User Australian Movies Author Appeal Damsel in Distress Serious Business How We Got Here Drill Sergeant Nasty Room Full of Crazy Fatal Family Photo Happily Married Yandere Missing Mom Freeze-Frame Bonus Groin Attack Reckless Gun Usage Deconstruction Punctuated! For! Emphasis! Badass Boast Heroic Sacrifice Eyepatch of Power Half the Man He Used to Be Took a Level in Jerkass The Alleged Car Horror Comedy Artistic License – Physics Sir Not-Appearing-in-This-Trailer Token Minority Nothing Is Scarier Impaled with Extreme Prejudice Television Movie Index Suddenly SHOUTING! Big Fancy House Ooh, Me Accent's Slipping The '70s The Ditz Cool Old Guy Arranged Marriage You Killed My Father The Smurfette Principle Guns Akimbo Did Not Get the Girl Friend to All Children Abhorrent Admirer Unreliable Narrator Dwindling Party Bait-and-Switch Bittersweet Ending Beta Couple The Film of the Book Animal Title Index Scenery Gorn All Just a Dream Faux Affably Evil Asshole Victim Bury Your Gays Badass Bookworm Only a Flesh Wound Police are Useless Lampshade Hanging Exact Words Naïve Newcomer Awesome, but Impractical Bilingual Bonus Same Language Dub Black and Gray Morality Failed a Spot Check The Lancer Big Brother Instinct Intergenerational Friendship The '60s Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep" Artistic License – Biology Shut Up, Hannibal! Leitmotif Deadpan Snarker Does This Remind You of Anything? Green-Eyed Monster Mama Bear Dark Action Girl Batman Gambit Large Ham Reasonable Authority Figure What You Are in the Dark Tranquil Fury Kick the Son of a Bitch Annoying Younger Sibling Random Events Plot Hidden Depths Heroes Want Redheads Bond One-Liner Implacable Man Cain and Abel Immune to Bullets Knife Nut Body Horror Never Trust a Trailer Market-Based Title Jitter Cam Twist Ending O.O.C. Is Serious Business Non-Indicative Name Fingore I'm a Humanitarian Anti-Villain Costume Porn Grey and Gray Morality Unwitting Instigator of Doom The Ghost Show Within a Show Alpha Bitch Outrun the Fireball Product Placement German Films Toilet Humour aka: Toilet Humor Biopic Wicked Cultured Laser-Guided Karma Precision F-Strike Hope Spot The Alcoholic Deal with the Devil Not Quite Dead Gratuitous English Alliterative Name Video Credits Becoming the Mask Pretty Little Headshots Very Loosely Based on a True Story Tempting Fate Dramatic Gun Cock Call-Back Vacation Films All Girls Want Bad Boys Black Best Friend Death by Irony Chuck Cunningham Syndrome Smug Snake Riddle for the Ages The Cameo Chewing the Scenery Fish out of Water Soundtrack Dissonance Dogged Nice Guy Blackmail Mr. Exposition MacGuffin It's All About Me Fat Bastard It Can Think Anti-Hero Heel Realization Berserk Button Retirony Ironic Echo Frame-Up Not What It Looks Like Bloodier and Gorier Narrator Ascended Extra Genre Shift Accidental Murder Antagonist Title Eagleland Extremely Short Timespan Villainous Breakdown Deus ex Machina Big Eater Off with His Head! The Cavalry Parental Neglect He Knows Too Much Ms. Fanservice Malevolent Masked Men Recap / RiffTrax aka: Riff Trax Movies What the Hell, Hero? Star-Crossed Lovers Logo Joke Bound and Gagged You Have Failed Me Manly Tears Rich Bitch Mystery and Detective Films A Father to His Men And I Must Scream Downer Ending Empathic Environment Red Right Hand Race Against the Clock Disguised in Drag Insult Backfire Bavarian Fire Drill Enemy Mine Reality Has No Subtitles Flipping the Bird Monumental Damage Ripped from the Headlines Every Car Is a Pinto The Brute Grievous Bottley Harm The Stinger Film Series Recycled IN SPACE! Badass Grandpa Punch-Clock Villain Bare Your Midriff Martial Arts Movie Your Cheating Heart Death of a Child Mundane Made Awesome Jerk Jock One Steve Limit Unspoken Plan Guarantee Mugging the Monster Creepy Child Animal Motifs No Good Deed Goes Unpunished Adaptational Villainy Death by Sex Jerkass Pre-Mortem One-Liner Naked People Are Funny Face–Heel Turn Woman in White Taking the Bullet Cassandra Truth Gold Digger Funny Foreigner No Celebrities Were Harmed Obfuscating Stupidity In Medias Res Idiot Ball Eldritch Abomination Mooks Italian Films Arch-Enemy Back from the Dead Artistic License – Law She's Got Legs Irony Curse Cut Short Bloody Hilarious Intrepid Reporter Didn't Think This Through Almost Kiss Action Survivor '80s Hair Adorkable Pyrrhic Victory Psychological Thriller Evil Sounds Deep I Want My Beloved to Be Happy From Bad to Worse Gory Discretion Shot Does Not Like Shoes Cold-Blooded Torture Darker and Edgier Historical In-Joke Manchild Captain Ersatz Pay Evil unto Evil Ax-Crazy Lock and Load Montage Action Prologue Evil Laugh No-Holds-Barred Beatdown Important Haircut It Will Never Catch On Japanese Films It's Personal Stylistic Suck Early-Bird Cameo Depraved Bisexual No OSHA Compliance Killed Mid-Sentence And the Adventure Continues Expository Hairstyle Change Papa Wolf Poor Communication Kills Psycho for Hire Cool Guns She Cleans Up Nicely Bottomless Magazines Continuity Nod Whole Plot Reference Captain Obvious Off-into-the-Distance Ending Major Injury Underreaction Cool Car Calling the Old Man Out Screw the Money, I Have Rules! Police Brutality Heterosexual Life-Partners Parental Abandonment The '80s Be Careful What You Wish For Motor Mouth Shirtless Scene Villain Ball Stealth Pun Rape Is a Special Kind of Evil Abusive Parents Drowning My Sorrows Science Fiction Films Taking You with Me Improbable Aiming Skills Cowboy Cop Combat Pragmatist Roger Ebert: Great Movies List Dissonant Serenity Married to the Job As the Good Book Says... Crazy Jealous Guy Our Vampires Are Different Everyone Has Standards For Want of a Nail Suspiciously Specific Denial Flashback The Mafia Hero of Another Story The Place From Nobody to Nightmare Dull Surprise Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking Kids Are Cruel Spared by the Adaptation Roaring Rampage of Revenge NO INDOOR VOICE Card-Carrying Villain Aluminum Christmas Trees Dark and Troubled Past Hypocrite Ungrateful Bastard Sealed Evil in a Can Small Name, Big Ego Credits Gag One-Man Army I Have Your Wife Instant Death Bullet Humans Are Bastards What Happened to the Mouse? Revenge Blood Knight Creative Closing Credits Manipulative Bastard Self-Deprecation Properly Paranoid Sinister Minister Love Triangle Scenery Porn Military and Warfare Films Darkest Hour Black Dude Dies First Truth in Television Only in It for the Money Eureka Moment