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Arms Fair
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Basically, a market for military items, ranging from crates of automatic weapons and rocket launchers to tanks, helicopter gunships, and fighter jets along with other tools for starting and finishing small wars, such as bombs and missiles. Nonlethal military gear is also sold, such as communications gear, bulletproof vests, and naval navigation systems. Coming in two forms: Legal: Organised by a government, big corporation or trade organization and taking place in a conference centre. Attracts buyers, weapon manufacturers, and peace protestors. Manufacturers set up exhibitions to demonstrate their products' capabilities and there are also keynote addresses from top defence officials and military leaders. Defense officials and leaders from many countries come to sign multimillion dollar contracts for weapons systems. Illegal Black Market: Criminal Conventions by crime gangs or terrorist groups, located in an isolated field or hangar. Attracts criminal, terrorist and mercenary customers. Authorities such as police and intelligence agencies are on the lookout for these illegal bazaars; for this reason, the locations are isolated and secret. While it has obviously occurred in fiction, having a Hood Ornament Hottie in skimpy camo bikini holding a large machine gun sounds too much like self-parody for any real company to actually do it, regardless of what occurs at E3. Science Fair is a more subtle and general version of this, while Mad Science Fair plays down the subtlety. In Real Life, there are legal civilian gun markets, also called "arms fairs", where gun dealers sell hunting rifles and shotguns, but this is not this trope. |
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Chuck has "Weap Con," of which Casey was an enthusiastic attendant every year. | |
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Steamboy is set at a grand exhibition in Victorian London of the Empire's best science and technology, with an emphasis on its philanthropic benefits for mankind. However, arms manufacturers inevitably set up shop as well, and the O'Hara Foundation intends to use Steam Castle as a giant advertisement to foreign governments for its advanced armaments. | |
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In An Instinct for War, At the Fair is set in one of the Association of the U.S. Army's trade shows. | |
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Lord of War has had several – all illegal. And with Russian military–themed women dancing on tanks. The one with the Russian military–themed women was implied to be legit, or as legit as you can get with an arms sale held by corrupt elements of the post-Soviet military hosted by a laissez-faire Middle Eastern state. | |
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In War Dogs two low-level wannabe arms dealers attend a massive (real-world,legal) arms fair. | |
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Robin (1993): Ulysses Armstrong, otherwise known as "the General", first meets Ali Ben Khadir, the young leader of a country bordering Qurac, at an arms fair. The two become friends and Ali gives Armstrong some influence on his military, until he realizes just how violent and blood thirsty his new friend is. | |
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The plot of Deal of the Century revolves around one. | |
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The 2010 GoldenEye remake features a level taking place at an arms fair as an expanded version of the original's Frigate level. | |
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One appears in Street Fighter being run by M. Bison. Chun-Li ends up rigging a truck full of explosives to crash into the main tent, but Bison and everyone else manage to escape. | |
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Babylon A.D. opens with Vin Diesel striding through a rain-drenched arms market in Eastern Europe to complain about a pistol he bought for only $20 that misfired on him. | |
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A short for Mobile Suit Gundam SEED Astray shows Lowe and the gang at a fair on Earth and getting in trouble after he buys the head of a BuCue containing sensitive military information. | |
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The first The Punisher Summer Special opens with Frank visiting one, and coincidentally meeting an old Vietnam War acquaitance there. Said acquaitance turns out to be a villain of the story. | |
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The Eighth Doctor Adventures novel Interference, is partly set at an arms fair where Sarah Jane Smith is undercover writing an expose. | |
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Airwolf had mini-ones. | |
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In Virtua Cop, there is a level called Arms Black Market where you have to take down an illegal arms fair going on at a shipping port. | |
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Black Hawk Down features extensive sequences showing off that the entire city Mogadishu qualifies as an arms fair, despite being under the control of a ruthless warlord who will kill people trying to get the food supplies sent by various aid groups. | |
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