Tropescilloscope: Reckless Gun Usage

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

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