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Convenient Misfire
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Guns, like any machines, are prone to malfunctions; the most common, and thus the most likely to pop up in fiction, are jams and misfires. However, since there's no good reason for a gun to jam in the middle of a straightforward firefight, expect any errors to come during a crucial moment. You can also think of it this way: does this gunshot have the power to end the plotline? If yes, and if the plot isn't at its actual end, it's fairly likely that it won't go off quite right. Of course, when real guns jam or misfire, it's fairly easy to fix (depending on the gun and the era, of course). That said, if it comes down to timing, a misfire or jam may make or break a gunfight. It's also much more common in period pieces, as modern weapons are much more reliable than, say, 19th century revolvers. May overlap with Reliably Unreliable Guns. Similar to My Car Hates Me. While the title of this trope is misfire-specific, do note that it applies to any type of failure to work on the gun's part. |
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In the Gate fanfic Here We Go Again!, the titular tank engages the flame dragon and manages to wound it. The killing blow is denied when the tank encounters a bad shell and the crew has no time to remedy the issue before the dragon mounts their vehicle, damaging it as well as knocking the crew senseless. Luckily, Itami's squad comes to their rescue in the nick of time. | |
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Infamous (2020): During a convenience store robbery, Arielle is wounded when the clerk grabs a shotgun from under the counter and fires a shot that hits her in the shoulder. She is only saved when the gun misfires as he attempts to take a second shot. | |
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In Frankenstein Island, the machine gun Curtis has been using to destroy the zombies (and would have been able to end the final fight with a single burst) jams just as the Frankenstein Monster and the guard zombies smash through the door into the lab. | |
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Subverted in Danganronpa 3: The End of Hope's Peak High School. Nagito Komaeda, the Ultimate Lucky Student, is about to fire upon series antagonist Junko Enoshima. However, his luck is literally canceled out by Izuru Kamukura, whom has every talent including luck, meaning his gun inevitably fails to fire. | |
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During the showdown in Gunless, Jack's gun fails to fire, thereby thwarting Sean's attempt to commit suicide by gunfight. Entirely justified as Sean and Jack discuss what has gone wrong: it was already finicky due to conversion from percussion caps to cartridges; it had been severely damaged; and has undergone a rushed repair job. | |
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In Fargo Lester sets a trap for Lorne. Lester's first shot misses and the second misfires. He is able to clear the gun quickly but it is just enough time for Lorne to get away. It was a high quality gun but it was stored in a basement for most of a year so the misfire could have been caused by any number of things. | |
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Man on Fire features this when the main character attempts suicide, but the gun misfires. He takes it as a sign and gives up on the idea. | |
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In Back to the Future, Marty is saved repeatedly from being shot by Libyans because their rifles keep jamming. | |
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In Les Misérables, policeman Javert is standing facing Thenardier, who is holding a gun. Javert tells him not to shoot, since the gun will misfire. Thenardier shoots at point blank range and the gun, predictably, doesn't go off. | |
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How to Rob a Bank: When Jason accidentally barges into the middle of the Bank Robbery, Roger jams his gun in Jason's face and pulls the trigger, only for the gun to jam. This becomes a Running Gag, and Roger is constantly disassembling and reassembling his gun over the course of the movie as he tries to work out why it keeps jamming. | |
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Operation Daybreak. An SOE assassin steps out in front of the car carrying Reinhard Heydrich and pulls the trigger on his Sten submachine gun, only for it to jam. This scene was Truth in Television; Heydrich would have survived if his driver had sped off, but instead the driver pursued the gunman who'd thrown down the Sten and fled, leaving Heydrich to be fatally wounded by a bomb thrown by a second SOE agent. Apparently the jam was caused by the weapon being packed in straw, which got into the weapon (not that the Sten gun was particularly reliable anyway). | |
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Unforgiven. William Munny enters the saloon where Little Bill Daggett and his deputies are celebrating the death of Ned Logan. He confronts Little Bill and prepares to kill him for torturing Ned Logan to death. Justified as before the scene Munny was out in the pouring rain for an extended period. Older firearms cartridges were much more easily ruined by exposure to water than modern day ammunition. This is especially true of then-era shotgun shells due to the nature of their design versus a rifle or pistol cartridge. |
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Jack Ryan is able to prevent the assassination of the Prince of Wales in Patriot Games because one of the ULA terrorists jammed his AK-74 rifle. Instead, Ryan and the terrorist shoot at each other with pistols. Ryan kills the terrorist, while the terrorist only manages to shoot him in the shoulder. Discussed and justified later: the terrorist had taped two rifle magazines end-to-end, which made a jam upon switching the magazines more likely. | |
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Father of a Soldier: Giorgi returns to pick up a wounded Arkady, only to find a German soldier standing over Arkady and shooting him many times with a submachine gun. Giorgi screams in rage, the German turns, and his submachine gun jams. He's trying to un-jam it when Giorgi bounds forward, rips it out of his hands, and beats him to death with it. | |
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The Mexican revolves around this. | |
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Young Sherlock Holmes: When Sherlock attempts to shoot Gilfilan in Red Leech, the rifle jams. Justified as the two of them had been wrestling for control of the gun on a muddy riverbank, and Gilfilian comments that the rifle has a delicate mechanism and is susceptible to grit. | |
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In The Dark Knight, District Attorney Harvey Dent is questioning a mafia witness who starts changing his story on the stand. When Dent approaches him, the goon pulls out a hidden gun and it misfires in Harvey's face, leading to the page quote. | |
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This is later alluded to in Mad Max: Fury Road when Max attempts to blow off Nux's arm to free his own bonds. | |
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Harlock: Space Pirate. The first couple of shots by the Jovian Accelerator miss because it hasn't been fired for a hundred years. Which is just as well as they are trying to destroy the Earth, though one of the misses blasts a big chunk off the Moon. | |
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Aversion: in The Way of the Gun, Longbaugh's shot gun jams in the middle of the shootout. Instead of editing around it Benecio del Toro clears the jam and keeps firing. | |
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Galaxy Quest: After one of Sarris' soldiers shoots Quellek, the soldier's weapon malfunctions, giving Alexander Dane an opening to make good on his promise that Quellek would be avenged. | |
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A scene in Schindler's List in which a Nazi officer attempts to execute Itzhak Stern, but his pistol misfires. He calls over another soldier to execute Stern as the terrified man tries to explain himself, but that pistol misfires as well. The officer then pistol-whips Stern in frustration and stalks off, leaving him alive. Due to the nature of the story, this was probably based on a real incident. | |
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In Knights of the Dinner Table, Bob accuses Brian who is GMing of doing this to save BA's and Sarah's characters when Bob's character's gun misfires during a gunfight in a Cattlepunk game. Brian points out that the character's gun is a cheap revolver that's just been submerged in a horse trough. | |
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In 6 Days, one S.A.S soldier tries to fire his sub-machine gun at a terrorist trying to set the Iranian Embassy on fire, but his MP5 suddenly jams. The terrorist fires his own gun and misses, but the S.A.S soldier resorts to whipping out his sidearm and returns the favor. | |
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In Prison Break, a Defector from Decadence has his gun jam on him when he tries to blow his brains out. He tells his sister that the only other time that ever happened was in his army training. Ironically, his Drill Sergeant told him that if that ever happened for real, he'd be dead. | |
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This is a recurring trope in the Mad Max film series. In The Road Warrior, Max's sawed-off shotgun misfires as he drives the tanker through Lord Humungus' gang. This is later alluded to in Mad Max: Fury Road when Max attempts to blow off Nux's arm to free his own bonds. |
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Averted in Get Shorty. Ronnie is not intimidated when Bones points a gun at him because he states the model is notorious for always jamming at the wrong times. Bones promptly shoots him four times rapidly. | |
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Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets plays with this at the beginning of the climax with Ron's wand of all things. Professor Lockhart tries to use Ron's wand to wipe Ron & Harry's memories, completely unaware that the wand is damaged. It backfires, and wipes his memories instead. | |
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Daredevil (2015): In "Rabbit in a Snowstorm", John Healy goes to a bowling alley for a hit. After taking out his target's bodyguards, he pulls a gun on the target. As he raises the gun, the show cuts to the previous day, when he bought the gun from Turk Barrett, who assures him that the gun will not jam. Cut back to the hit-in-progress, and of course, the gun jams, turning the hit into a savage brawl that culminates in Healy having to bash his target's head in with a bowling ball. | |
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The Sicilian: When police officer Corporal Canio Silvestro fires his pistol directly at the Robin Hood style bandit Salvatore Guiliano's head, it jams. The incident helps cement Guilaino's reputation and Guiliano takes it as proof of the righteousness of his cause and spares Silvestro. | |
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In CSI: Miami, Speedle's nearly killed when his weapon jams from lack of cleaning. He doesn't learn his lesson and gets Killed Off for Real when it jams again. | |
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The Three Musketeers (1948): A sniper tries to take out our heroes, but the flintlock of his gun fizzles out. | |
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Tintin's life is saved by this several times, including one with a cannon. | |
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Endeavour: The episode "Prey". When hunting an escaped maneating tiger (It Makes Sense in Context) Lord Mortmaigne suffers a repeated misfire with his shotgun as the tiger steadily advances on him down the narrow corridor of the maze. | |
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In Black Sails a drunk Charles Vane is accosted by some men he has previously wronged. One of them pulls out a pistol and shoots Vane point blank in the head. The pistol misfires. Vane does not give him a chance to try again and beats the would-be-shooter to death with his bare hands. The series takes place in the early 1700s so it is not unusual for a flintlock pistol to misfire. | |
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In Two Hands, Pando fails to execute Jimmy because the mook the gun belongs to put it through the wash. Jimmy manages to escape while Pando goes to get another gun. | |
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Call of Duty: Black Ops, in the Khe Sanh mission, has Woods almost getting killed but for the player's intervention when his gun jams right before he kills an NVA soldier. He tries fixing it by whacking it a few times. Also, in the multiplayer, to prevent people from using modded controllers, the semiautomatic rifles will jam if fired too fast. |
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NCIS: New Orleans: In "Second Line", LaSalle is saved from getting shot when a crook accidentally squeezes the trigger and the gun dry fires. It seems the crook had neglected to chamber a round. | |
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In Full Metal Panic!: The Second Raid, Xia Yu Lan's gun jams while she's trying to kill Kaname. She quickly and methodically clears the jam and resumes firing, averting some other tropes associated with gun jams, but the momentary reprieve saves Kaname's life. | |
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In the climactic battle of Sheep's Clothing, Doc is emptying his repeating rifle into master vampire Alexandre Russeau and generally keeping him from rallying any meaningful counterattack—until Doc's gun jams. His moment of inattention allows Russeau to recover and close the distance, nearly killing Doc. | |
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