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The armed victim has the killer in her gunsights and at her mercy (it's usually a woman in these situations), but the killer knows they have nothing to fear. The victim is either unable or unwilling to use her weapon as the killer walks up to her and plucks the gun out of her hands, leaving her a tearful heap begging for her life. Often involves Break Them by Talking. If she had captured him beforehand or otherwise cornered him but doesn't shoot, then it's a Hannibal Lecture. Compare You Wouldn't Shoot Me, where the targeted character calls the gunman's bluff, and Distract and Disarm, where the targeted character distracts the gunman in hopes of being able to snatch the gun. Can combine with It Works Better with Bullets, where the unarmed character has no fear because he already knows the weapon is harmless. |
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Parodied in Loaded Weapon 1 when a character seizes up and — rather than merely trembling — begins to convulse in an exaggerated manner, wagging his pistol in every direction. Said character, by the way, is played by Samuel L. Jackson. | |
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In Jack Reacher, the namesake protagonist is attacked by a pair of bumbling criminals inside a narrow bathroom and hallway. After dispatching them, a third criminal points a gun to his head. The protagonist calmly turns around and informs the criminal that he should shoot now. Naturally, the criminal is quickly disarmed immediately after. | |
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Occurs in the Angel pilot "City of", except the gun wouldn't have stopped the vampiric villain... not that the victim knows that. | |
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Wendy Patrakas falls victim to this in Drive (2007). She's assigned to shoot Ivy to stay in the race. However, street smart Ivy easily disarms the Ohio housewife. After seeing what Ivy's capable of, Wendy tells her "I think maybe I should've shot you." | |
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Svidrigailov and Dounia in Crime and Punishment. Dounia has a defensive failure in front of Svidrigailov while Svidrigailov attempts to disarm her, laughing at her and taunting her to kill him. She doesn't, of course. | |
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In Jingo, eccentric inventor Leonard of Quirm has captured Sgt. Colon and Corporal Nobby using a firework missile and a rifle mechanism he invented. He then stops, hands the pieces of his weapon to his captives and proceeds to redesign it on the spot. The two ex-captives simply fire the incredibly inaccurate weapon. | |
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Happens a couple of times in the Metal Gear series: In Metal Gear Solid, Meryl points her rifle at Snake, and Snake taunts her about not being able to pull the trigger. Snake even points out that she hadn't even taken the safety off. Near the beginning of Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater, Ocelot points his revolver at Naked Snake. Snake responds by calmly stating, "You don't have what it takes to kill me." An enraged Ocelot pulls the trigger, only to discover that Snake was speaking literally, and his gun is empty. Whoops. There are implications that Ocelot intended for this to happen all along. It's hard to maintain an image of being a Russian soldier if you refuse to shoot an American spy, after all. Emptying your weapon beforehand is a nice third option. |
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Crichton's love interest Aeryn in Farscape falls victim to this. Scorpius holds Crichton hostage. Then Aeryn confidently walks in with a pulse rifle. Crichton laughs and tells her to shoot Scorpius. She then hesitates, and Scorpius calmly shoots her instead. | |
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In an early episode of Stargate SG-1, Samantha Carter has an ex-lover at gunpoint as he has been suffering delusions of grandeur. He even tells her to shoot him, but she still cannot. | |
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Happens in Grim Fandango when Meche threatens Domino with a Sprouter. | |
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Outlaws: When he was a young boy, the hero was in this situation, holding the gun, trying to save his father, but failed. At the end of the game, he is one staring down the barrel, but is saved by his daughter. | |
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Mobile Suit Gundam SEED: Flay Allster gets her hands on a gun and points it at Rau le Creuset after being captured by ZAFT. Le Creuset isn't worried though, and proceeds to outline the reasons Flay won't shoot him: she's on a ZAFT ship, and if she shot him, she would immediately be arrested and likely killed for it, he is the closest thing to an ally she has aboard the ship, and she is obviously not a trained killer despite her uniform, so he doubts she has it in her to actually pull the trigger. He also off-handedly asks whether she even checked that the gun was loaded. Flay breaks down and the gun is taken from her without resistance. | |
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In The Sound of Music, Rolf becomes a Nazi soldier, but proves unable to kill Captain Von Trapp: Partially subverted, as this was probably intended as a (stern) compliment but provokes Rolf to call the other Nazis in the area. |
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Played with Lost: Kate is in a bank during an armed robbery. After a skirmish, she ends up holding a gun on the ringleader, but the safety is on. As the other hostages call out to shoot the bad guy, she yells, "I don't know how to use a gun!" The bad guy takes the gun back and drags her into another room, ostensibly to beat her up. That's when we learn that Kate masterminded the bank robbery, is playing the inside woman, and most definitely knows how to use a gun. | |
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Variant in Tarzan: Tarzan doesn't fire the rifle because he can't figure out how to make it fire. At the end he does know how to fire it, but chooses not to so he won't be like Clayton. | |
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A version appears in Uncharted 3: Drake's Deception, where Drake points a gun at Sully, Drake's father figure, whom Drake had recently seen gunned down and killed, reappears and looking unharmed. Sully plucks the gun out of Drake's hand, and flicks him on the nose, telling him never to do it again. | |
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In Planetes, Hachimaki is outraged upon finding Hakim sabotaging the Von Braun mission and trains an armor-piercing anchor gun on him. Hakim is utterly unfazed; he knows Hachimaki won't shoot, as he "doesn't have the eyes of a killer." He then delivers a devastating Break Them by Talking speech to Hachi, steadily walking towards him. The lecture climaxes as Hakim walks past Hachi, who remains standing perfectly still, and barely has time to scream at his betrayer's back before a bomb goes off. | |
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The Ref: Gus gets distracted, leading to the son of his two hostages grabbing his gun and demanding that Gus untie his parents or he'll shoot. However, Gus knows the kid's not a killer, and starts moving towards the kid. When the phone rings and momentarily distracts the son, Gus simply takes the gun back. | |
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Occurs in One Piece when Usopp's childhood friend Kaya draws a flintlock from her cloak and points it at her traitorous butler, who is the main villain of the arc. The butler recounts seemingly happy memories with her, takes away the gun, and dismisses all of those times as "endured" and "humiliating". | |
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8mm: Tom Welles has the director of a snuff film tied to a support bar in the building the film was made at, has his gun trained on him... but can't bring himself to fire, even as the director taunts him (to the point of licking the gun). The hero then steps outside, calls the mother of the snuff film's victim, and begs for permission to kill the man. He gets it. Five seconds later, he pistol-whips the director to death. | |
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A rare good-guy/good-guy example occurs in Independence Day, as Major Steven Hiller is climbing into a helicopter to go look for his girlfriend: | |
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The Host (2006): The heroes are not afraid to shoot. They're just (mostly) shitty shots. Add to that one of the characters, a national bronze-medallist in archery, has a nasty habit of hesitating before taking a shot, and you know the monster has nothing to worry about. Hence why it charges the main characters at every available opportunity. | |
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In Metal Gear Solid, Meryl points her rifle at Snake, and Snake taunts her about not being able to pull the trigger. Snake even points out that she hadn't even taken the safety off. | |
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A friendly-on-friendly version happens in an early chapter of Terra when Grey meets Rick MacFarlane, the latter of whom had just parachuted to safety after his and Alex's Space Fighter was shot down. Rick pulls a gun on Grey but it's abundantly clear to the latter that the former is a Non-Action Guy who's never actually had to use his gun in combat before. Grey easily disarms him, then gives the gun back handle-first to prove he's not an enemy. | |
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In The School Nurse Files, Eun young points her pistol at Mckenzie, but he snatches it from her hand and pokes her with it. | |
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A small but memorable scene in one issue of Perry Rhodan has Pyon Arzachena, perpetually down on his luck interstellar prospector, threaten the former galactic conqueror Hotrenor-Taak with his own weapon because he suspects the latter of being merely an impostor whom he wants to unmask. Turns into a Not With the Safety On, You Won't moment when Hotrenor-Taak calmly walks over and retrieves his gun — which only works when held by its owner. | |
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Near the beginning of Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater, Ocelot points his revolver at Naked Snake. Snake responds by calmly stating, "You don't have what it takes to kill me." An enraged Ocelot pulls the trigger, only to discover that Snake was speaking literally, and his gun is empty. Whoops. There are implications that Ocelot intended for this to happen all along. It's hard to maintain an image of being a Russian soldier if you refuse to shoot an American spy, after all. Emptying your weapon beforehand is a nice third option. | |
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In Vibes, when Nick has the Big Bad held at bay with an M-16: | |
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The Rock: Just after Goodspeed and Mason's Navy SEAL teammates are all drawn into a trap and killed, Goodspeed tries to stop Mason from leaving Alcatraz Island by pulling his pistol on him. Mason replies that Goodspeed doesn't have what it takes to kill him, and also remarking "Besides, the safety's on", before grabbing the gun away. | |
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One of the few tropes played straight in Last Action Hero, when Danny repeatedly has villains at his mercy but can't pull the trigger. Understandable, since he's a scared kid, and we wouldn't want him to become a killer anyway. | |
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Doctor Who: In "The Happiness Patrol", the Doctor completely breaks two guards by saying "Do it, then. Look me in the eye. Pull the trigger. End my life." This is such a memetic Seventh Doctor scene that in the Doctor Who New Adventures, Benny jokes that his epitaph will be "When I said 'Look me in the eye and pull that trigger...'" Inverted in one episode. The Doctor is holding a man at gunpoint. He, being the Doctor, handles it differently when the man starts getting nervous... In another episode, a scared kid genius has the Doctor at gunpoint. The Doctor just sighs and simply takes the gun barrel, complaining about humans and guns. Lampshaded in another episode. Martha has an enemy at gunpoint who says she doesn't have the nerve to fire — she replies that nervous people with guns are not a safe combination, and asks him if he wants to risk it. Played straight in "Utopia" when Chantho won't shoot Professor Yana even though it's pretty clear at that point that he's become the Master. In "The Doctor's Daughter", the Doctor makes a point that even if he has the villain at gunpoint, he would never shoot. In "Cold Blood", Amy threatens Restac with a gun to release the hostages. The Silurian immediately grabs the gun from her. In "The Doctor, The Widow and the Wardrobe", the titular widow manages to trick a group of soldiers and turn a gun on them. The Leader tells her that he doesn't believe she'll shoot. Then she informs them that her children are missing. He takes her much more seriously after that. |
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Monster: Tenma has Johan at gunpoint but hesitates. The latter calmly approaches the former in a way that suggests this trope... then he just stands there, points at his own forehead, and smiles. | |
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Oddly featured in Nation when Daphne points a gun at Mau. She seems so scared of it that he tries to take it from her to relieve her concern. She does actually fire it, but fortunately the powder had got wet, and he thought she was giving him a tool for lighting fires with. So easily could have been Poor Communication Kills. | |
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In Die Hard with a Vengeance, Zeus is holding up the entire bad guy parade with a gun and does try to pull the trigger, only to get an ineffectual click. Big Bad Simon Gruber then walks up to him, promptly explains that he forgot to turn the safety off, then shoots him in the leg and captures him. | |
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Subverted in the Rurouni Kenshin anime. Misao and a minor character, a young boy whose brother is taken hostage during one of Shishio's schemes, are attempting to sneak into the villain hideout and capture a nearby guard, with the boy holding him at swordpoint. The guard assumes it's a bluff and points out to the boy that it's harder to kill someone than an innocent would realize... rather severely underestimating just how desperate and angry the boy is. Misao barely manages to prevent him from killing the guard, who becomes instantly cooperative. | |
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Subverted in The River Wild. Gail has Wade at gunpoint but decides to spare him and fires the revolver's last bullet into the air, so he orders Terry to kill her family while he kills her. It turns out that there were two bullets left, and she kills him with the last one. | |
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