...it's like TV Tropes, but LINKED DATA!
Dramatic Gun Cock
- 1027 statements
- 197 feature instances
- 238 referencing feature instances
| Dramatic Gun Cock | type |
FeatureClass | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock | label |
Dramatic Gun Cock | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock | page |
DramaticGunCock | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock | comment |
CHK-CHK AKA: The international sound of "You in a whole heap of trouble, son." The dramatic gun cock is employed when a character is up to some interrogation work while holding a gun to someone's head. The subject of the investigation is invited to divulge some critical information. The subject refuses or spouts an insult. Here comes the dramatic gun cock. The interrogator pulls back the hammer of the revolver or pistol, or racks the slide if the pistol has no hammer, then resumes pointing the gun to the subject's head. Usually, this is enough to thoroughly spook the subject into full disclosure. A pump-action shotgun may also be used for this purpose, sometimes with a One-Handed Shotgun Pump, albeit it's overall not as popular as doing it with a handgun — even more rare is racking the bolt of a fully automatic weapon. A bolt-action rifle may have a character dramatically work the bolt. Sci-fi settings with guns that don't use bullets may substitute a charging capacitor's whine, or use a cocking sound anyways. In other situations, the dramatic gun cock serves to announce a character's presence, or (especially when taking place off-camera) to indicate that the tables have turned in some way. This is a *Click* Hello, and often occurs in conjunction with a My Name Is Inigo Montoya moment. The sound effect is often added in by sound editors after filming. This can be especially noticeable when the character onscreen is using a gun that cannot be manually cocked. Examples include the Luger and the Glock. The dramatic gun cock may be accompanied by a Pistol-Whipping. Subtrope of Kinetic Clicking. Can sometimes lead to Guns Do Not Work That Way when a (semi-)automatic gun that has already been shown to be actioned recently is cycled again for emphasis, without a round being ejected. Also compare with Noisy Guns which includes many more mechanical noises from guns too, for no reason. Compare High-Altitude Interrogation, which also relies on getting information through death threats. Has nothing to do with a particularly dramatic Phallic Weapon, but it can overlap. |
|
| Dramatic Gun Cock | fetched |
2024-03-12T14:16:37Z | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock | parsed |
2024-03-12T14:16:37Z | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock | processingComment |
Dropped link to ActionGirlfriend: Not an Item - FEATURE | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock | processingComment |
Dropped link to BigDamnHeroes: Not an Item - FEATURE | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock | processingComment |
Dropped link to DeconstructedTrope: Not an Item - FEATURE | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock | processingComment |
Dropped link to ForgingHephaestus: Not an Item - UNKNOWN | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock | processingComment |
Dropped link to GunTwirling: Not an Item - FEATURE | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock | processingComment |
Dropped link to GunsAkimbo: Not an Item - FEATURE | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock | processingComment |
Dropped link to HandCannon: Not an Item - FEATURE | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock | processingComment |
Dropped link to ImpostorExposingTest: Not an Item - FEATURE | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock | processingComment |
Dropped link to JustBetweenYouAndMe: Not an Item - FEATURE | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock | processingComment |
Dropped link to LimpBizkit: Not an Item - IGNORE | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock | processingComment |
Dropped link to LolaRennt: Not an Item - UNKNOWN | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock | processingComment |
Dropped link to MexicanStandoff: Not an Item - FEATURE | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock | processingComment |
Dropped link to Mutant: Not an Item - UNKNOWN | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock | processingComment |
Dropped link to NoisyGuns: Not an Item - FEATURE | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock | processingComment |
Dropped link to PunkInTheTrunk: Not an Item - FEATURE | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock | processingComment |
Dropped link to SawedOffShotgun: Not an Item - FEATURE | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock | processingComment |
Dropped link to ScaryMovie3: Not an Item - UNKNOWN | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock | processingComment |
Dropped link to Serenity2005: Not an Item - UNKNOWN | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock | processingComment |
Dropped link to SerialKiller: Not an Item - FEATURE | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock | processingComment |
Dropped link to ShotgunsAreJustBetter: Not an Item - FEATURE | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock | processingComment |
Dropped link to SilenceOfTheLambs: Not an Item - UNKNOWN | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock | processingComment |
Dropped link to StarWars: Not an Item - CAT | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock | processingComment |
Dropped link to TheCaptain: Not an Item - FEATURE | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock | processingComment |
Dropped link to TheMegas: Not an Item - IGNORE | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock | processingComment |
Dropped link to TruthInTelevision: Not an Item - CAT | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock | processingComment |
Dropped link to YouWouldntShootMe: Not an Item - FEATURE | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock | processingComment |
Dropped link to justifiedtrope: Not an Item - FEATURE | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock | processingComment |
Dropped link to lampshadehanging: Not an Item - FEATURE | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock | processingComment |
Dropped link to parodiedtrope: Not an Item - FEATURE | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock | processingUnknown |
Mutant | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock | processingUnknown |
LolaRennt | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock | processingUnknown |
ScaryMovie3 | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock | processingUnknown |
Serenity (2005) | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock | processingUnknown |
SilenceOfTheLambs | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock | processingUnknown |
ForgingHephaestus | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock | isPartOf |
DBTropes | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_109f7814 | type |
Dramatic Gun Cock | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_109f7814 | comment |
Sherlock: "The Great Game" pulls one off, beautifully. Shan also does it to John Watson in "The Blind Banker", and it definitely works as a scare tactic. |
|
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_109f7814 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_109f7814 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Sherlock | hasFeature |
Dramatic Gun Cock / int_109f7814 | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_110d4471 | type |
Dramatic Gun Cock | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_110d4471 | comment |
Predator. Blain does this after letting "Ol' Painless" out of the bag, by cranking the multi-barrels left and right (this is pure Rule of Cool—in reality, doing this would most likely fire off any rounds that were already chambered). | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_110d4471 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_110d4471 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Predator | hasFeature |
Dramatic Gun Cock / int_110d4471 | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_1133352a | type |
Dramatic Gun Cock | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_1133352a | comment |
The Terminator franchise: The Terminator: Reese does one after sawing off the stock and barrel of his shotgun. He pumps the shotgun three times: Once when he cuts the barrel off, once when he wakes up from his dream, and once in Tech Noir before he starts blasting. It would seem that he pointlessly ejected two good shells, or he was walking around with it empty and was, ahem, pumping it for fun. Or he had the chamber empty for safety reasons. A good precaution if you have nightmares that make you rack the action of your shotgun. In Tech Noir, right before he attempts to shoot Sarah Connor, the Terminator cocks the pistol. (Since his .45 is a "single-action automatic", meaning the hammer must be cocked in order to fire, this is justified.) Terminator 2: Judgment Day: Sarah Connor does this several times in succession, blasting the T-1000 with a Remington 870 shotgun and interjecting each shot with a forceful, one-armed pump (her other arm was too injured to do it normally). The T-800 itself dramatically flip-cocks his shotgun, a lever-action Winchester Model 1887. Doing so with a factory production gun would result in broken fingers, as the handguard is too narrow—the shotgun in question was custom-altered for the movie, much like the shotgun from The Rifleman. He does this because it's cool, and to fire one-handed on the bike. |
|
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_1133352a | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_1133352a | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Terminator (Franchise) | hasFeature |
Dramatic Gun Cock / int_1133352a | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_12b12556 | type |
Dramatic Gun Cock | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_12b12556 | comment |
In The Bourne Identity, one of the CIA mooks who fights with Jason Bourne in the stairwell has a dubbed Dramatic Gun Cock not once but twice, having no bearing on what he's actually doing with the rifle at the time. The first time, he has just finished ejecting the magazine and the sound is played shortly before he inserts the replacement. The second time, he is raising the rifle as Bourne approaches falling through the air while using the mook's team member as a human shield and crash pillow. At no point on camera do his hands touch the weapon's cocking mechanism. | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_12b12556 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_12b12556 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Bourne Identity | hasFeature |
Dramatic Gun Cock / int_12b12556 | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_1377df | type |
Dramatic Gun Cock | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_1377df | comment |
Terminator 2: Judgment Day: Sarah Connor does this several times in succession, blasting the T-1000 with a Remington 870 shotgun and interjecting each shot with a forceful, one-armed pump (her other arm was too injured to do it normally). The T-800 itself dramatically flip-cocks his shotgun, a lever-action Winchester Model 1887. Doing so with a factory production gun would result in broken fingers, as the handguard is too narrow—the shotgun in question was custom-altered for the movie, much like the shotgun from The Rifleman. He does this because it's cool, and to fire one-handed on the bike. |
|
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_1377df | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_1377df | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Terminator 2: Judgment Day | hasFeature |
Dramatic Gun Cock / int_1377df | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_1510822e | type |
Dramatic Gun Cock | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_1510822e | comment |
Bond gets one of these in GoldenEye after fighting off Xenia. '*click* Take me to Janus.' Possible since this was in a bathhouse or bathroom, where one may not always carry a ready to fire a pistol. This most likely (In-Universe) was done for emphasis by Bond, since the Walther PPK is a double-action semi-automatic, meaning that if a round is in the chamber, it is ready to fire just by pulling the trigger. The only reason to cock it is to ensure an accurate first shot and/or to intimidate the target, both justifiable reasons. | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_1510822e | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_1510822e | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| GoldenEye | hasFeature |
Dramatic Gun Cock / int_1510822e | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_153f674f | type |
Dramatic Gun Cock | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_153f674f | comment |
One storyline on Miami Vice has Crockett suffering partial amnesia. He forgets he's really a cop and falls into his undercover persona of a facilitator of drug deals. While in this state he shoots his partner Tubbs, apparently killing him. Of course Tubbs turns out to have been wearing a Bulletproof Vest. After that Crockett's memory begins to return. Guilt-ridden, he makes his way to the police station. He walks into the squadroom and stops. His fellow officers, believing him to have turned rogue, draw and cock their weapons in succession. CLICK. CLICK. CLICK. CLICK. | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_153f674f | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_153f674f | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Miami Vice | hasFeature |
Dramatic Gun Cock / int_153f674f | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_19b7308b | type |
Dramatic Gun Cock | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_19b7308b | comment |
In Wynncraft, Rymek Luke gives one to the player before they face him, the only character in the game who wields a conventional firearm. | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_19b7308b | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_19b7308b | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Wynncraft (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Dramatic Gun Cock / int_19b7308b | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_1c515044 | type |
Dramatic Gun Cock | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_1c515044 | comment |
The playfield for the "X-ile Zone" table in Obsession Pinball shows the unnamed heroine dramatically holding a large-barrel grenade launcher upright. | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_1c515044 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_1c515044 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| ObsessionPinball | hasFeature |
Dramatic Gun Cock / int_1c515044 | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_1e49b692 | type |
Dramatic Gun Cock | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_1e49b692 | comment |
Used before half the commercial breaks in Sons of Guns when a member of the crew test fires a recently built or repaired gun. | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_1e49b692 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_1e49b692 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Sons of Guns | hasFeature |
Dramatic Gun Cock / int_1e49b692 | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_21ad6ac5 | type |
Dramatic Gun Cock | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_21ad6ac5 | comment |
Cliffhanger: The clack-clack seems to happen every time the villains brandish their assault weapons at Stallone and company. | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_21ad6ac5 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_21ad6ac5 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Cliffhanger | hasFeature |
Dramatic Gun Cock / int_21ad6ac5 | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_2212773a | type |
Dramatic Gun Cock | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_2212773a | comment |
Angel In "Release", when Angelus is about to shoot Faith point-blank with a shotgun, he delivers his little speech, then dramatically pumps the shotgun. Then he does it again. And again. Only once all of the shells have been ejected does Faith kick it away and resume fisticuffs. This is done effectively, and correctly, earlier in the episode when Wesley and Faith are interrogating demons in a Bad Guy Bar. Faith is roughing up one demon who notices another demon sneaking up on Wesley... only for Wes to shoot the second demon in the face with a shotgun. Without Looking. Also done with those pistol crossbows the Fang Gang carry, though it's not quite clear what they're supposed to be cocking. |
|
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_2212773a | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_2212773a | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Angel | hasFeature |
Dramatic Gun Cock / int_2212773a | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_22211d68 | type |
Dramatic Gun Cock | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_22211d68 | comment |
Brennan on Bones once weaponized a gun cock, without an actual gun. A suspect was holding Booth at gunpoint and she came up behind him, a gun cock noise sounded, and she gave a speech about the type of gun it belonged to, which made the suspect stand down. When Booth asked her where she got the gun (she's rather infamously not allowed to have one in the field), she eagerly shows him the sound-effects app she was using. She told him she'd debated a shotgun, but felt that would have been overkill. | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_22211d68 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_22211d68 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Bones | hasFeature |
Dramatic Gun Cock / int_22211d68 | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_2221ecbd | type |
Dramatic Gun Cock | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_2221ecbd | comment |
On CSI: NY, Mac was on the receiving end. A rich guy tazed him, kidnapped him, blindfolded him and drove him to a bad part of town before doing it. He then drove off and left Mac. Naturally, Mac doesn't intimidate that easily. | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_2221ecbd | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_2221ecbd | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| CSI: NY | hasFeature |
Dramatic Gun Cock / int_2221ecbd | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_222c2051 | type |
Dramatic Gun Cock | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_222c2051 | comment |
Chuck John Casey is fond of cocking guns for emphasis. In "Chuck Vs The Suitcase", Chuck and Sarah sneak into the apartment of the Sofia while she's showering and they assume they have the chance to search the apartment while she's busy. But soon after Sarah leaves Chuck alone in her room, he hears the sound of a gun coking behind him and finds that she not only noticed him but she also showers with a gun. When he turns to face her he also finds she doesn't care much for modesty either as she's still naked and dripping wet. Awkward Chuck actually finds her nudity more concerning than her gun as he finds it difficult to Ignore the Fanservice and begs her to Please Put Some Clothes On. Lampshaded by Alexei Volkoff in "Chuck Versus the Leftovers", he admits it's useless, but loves the sound. |
|
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_222c2051 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_222c2051 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Chuck | hasFeature |
Dramatic Gun Cock / int_222c2051 | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_22d87fc9 | type |
Dramatic Gun Cock | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_22d87fc9 | comment |
Kelso does this with a golf club in an episode of That '70s Show before screaming "Burn!" | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_22d87fc9 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_22d87fc9 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| That '70s Show | hasFeature |
Dramatic Gun Cock / int_22d87fc9 | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_261c8d3f | type |
Dramatic Gun Cock | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_261c8d3f | comment |
The Simpsons Parodied in "The Fat and the Furriest": a hunter says something dramatic, and pumps his shotgun, visibly expelling a shell. Cletus the Yokel tries to copy him, and then he and the hunter start bickering about whether his comment added anything, and they keep expelling shells at the end of each sentence! In "Homie the Clown", while threatening Homer and Krusty with a revolver, a Mob boss cocks his gun, scaring Homer. After some patter, he cocks the gun again, eliciting the exact same response. In the DVD Commentary, the writers mention that they thought it was hilarious that a gun gets more frightening the more often you cock it. Upon learning the book to end a zombie curse is in the library, Homer swing-cocks a shotgun in "Treehouse of Horror III". Taken to ridiculous extremes in Marge's story from "Margical History Tour", about the Lewis and Clark expedition. When Sacagawea's party runs across a band of hostile natives, the explorers' weapons all cock their guns dramatically...after which the natives cock their bows and arrows with the same soundbyte. |
|
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_261c8d3f | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_261c8d3f | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Simpsons | hasFeature |
Dramatic Gun Cock / int_261c8d3f | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_2654a385 | type |
Dramatic Gun Cock | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_2654a385 | comment |
Problem Sleuth: DING. | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_2654a385 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_2654a385 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Problem Sleuth (Webcomic) | hasFeature |
Dramatic Gun Cock / int_2654a385 | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_26674ed5 | type |
Dramatic Gun Cock | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_26674ed5 | comment |
Overplayed in Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty. In an attempt to find the location of the C4 bombs along the complex, Raiden interrogates Fat Man. As Fat Man pushes a remote, Raiden cocks his gun and demands an explanation. He does this at least twice more. | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_26674ed5 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_26674ed5 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Dramatic Gun Cock / int_26674ed5 | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_2675c915 | type |
Dramatic Gun Cock | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_2675c915 | comment |
In the Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. episode "Shadows", Dum Dum Dugan gives a Dramatic Gun Cock with his shotgun while intimidating a bunch of HYDRA goons. | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_2675c915 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_2675c915 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. | hasFeature |
Dramatic Gun Cock / int_2675c915 | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_2a893b9b | type |
Dramatic Gun Cock | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_2a893b9b | comment |
Every time you switch guns in Counter-Strike, your character automatically cocks the gun as soon as you equip it. Exceptions are the sniper rifles in earlier games, and the Desert Eagle in Global Offensive. This is a gameplay mechanic: you're vulnerable while your character cocks the gun, and as a result, you should think twice before trying to sidestep your main gun's movement speed penalty by running around with the knife and switching to your gun as soon as you see someone. | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_2a893b9b | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_2a893b9b | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Counter-Strike (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Dramatic Gun Cock / int_2a893b9b | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_2ba1d958 | type |
Dramatic Gun Cock | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_2ba1d958 | comment |
In the original film, there's a moment of incompetence from the SWAT team when our heroes fall into the basement - the SWAT team runs into position and simultaneously cock their guns before opening fire. Seconds later, the SWAT team turns on their laser sights after Apoc throws a smoke grenade. Oddly however, when the first SWAT member realizes that the heroes are in the wetwall and summarily unloads a magazine into it, he does not do a dramatic gun cock. | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_2ba1d958 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_2ba1d958 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Matrix | hasFeature |
Dramatic Gun Cock / int_2ba1d958 | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_2bb4ae0f | type |
Dramatic Gun Cock | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_2bb4ae0f | comment |
Blatantly overused in Heroes, where you know someone is going to cock their gun only after pointing it at someone for ten seconds. The only exception is Noah Bennet. | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_2bb4ae0f | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_2bb4ae0f | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Heroes | hasFeature |
Dramatic Gun Cock / int_2bb4ae0f | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_2bbcacd9 | type |
Dramatic Gun Cock | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_2bbcacd9 | comment |
Looney Tunes: Daffy Duck in "Aqua Duck" as he forces the mouse to give back his gold nugget with his revolver. | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_2bbcacd9 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_2bbcacd9 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Looney Tunes | hasFeature |
Dramatic Gun Cock / int_2bbcacd9 | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_2e88218c | type |
Dramatic Gun Cock | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_2e88218c | comment |
During the opening battle in Red Tails, a waist gunner on a B-17 is shown racking the charging handle on his machine gun at one point. It serves more to show the grim determination of the bomber crews than it does to precede any badassery, given how ineffective their defense proves to be. | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_2e88218c | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_2e88218c | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Red Tails | hasFeature |
Dramatic Gun Cock / int_2e88218c | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_2fe3bf25 | type |
Dramatic Gun Cock | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_2fe3bf25 | comment |
In Tony Scott's Domino, a dramatic conversation between Ed and Choco results in Choco cocking his revolver not once, but TWICE, despite the tension level never dropping to a point where the gun is ever, well, un-cocked. Some revolvers have an intermediate hammer position between fully down and fully cocked (hence "going off half-cocked"); it could be that Choco's revolver is one of those, or it could just be dramatic license. | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_2fe3bf25 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_2fe3bf25 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Domino (2005) | hasFeature |
Dramatic Gun Cock / int_2fe3bf25 | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_2fee008d | type |
Dramatic Gun Cock | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_2fee008d | comment |
Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann: It becomes the trademark sound for Yoko as her rifle has a crazy electronic whine when she cocks it after firing off either an impossible shot, or a hail of blue bolts of death. | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_2fee008d | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_2fee008d | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann | hasFeature |
Dramatic Gun Cock / int_2fee008d | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_30cf38e0 | type |
Dramatic Gun Cock | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_30cf38e0 | comment |
Also parodied in Evil Dead 2, where Ash cocks a type of gun that can't be cocked. | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_30cf38e0 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_30cf38e0 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Evil Dead 2 | hasFeature |
Dramatic Gun Cock / int_30cf38e0 | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_322c2b7c | type |
Dramatic Gun Cock | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_322c2b7c | comment |
When The Hebrew Hammer enters the Kwanzaa Liberation Front's headquarters, the entire KLF points and cocks their guns at him. It takes several seconds. | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_322c2b7c | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_322c2b7c | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Hebrew Hammer | hasFeature |
Dramatic Gun Cock / int_322c2b7c | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_35e05f2a | type |
Dramatic Gun Cock | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_35e05f2a | comment |
RWBY: In volume 8, when Ironwood prepares to nuke Mantle to get the protagonists to cooperate, Marrow is disgusted with it and with his fellow Ace Ops’ complacency. He gives them a harsh “The Reason You Suck� Speech and begins to storm out—but freezes when he hears Ironwood cock his gun behind him. Luckily, Winter saves him. | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_35e05f2a | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_35e05f2a | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| RWBY (Web Animation) | hasFeature |
Dramatic Gun Cock / int_35e05f2a | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_367f632a | type |
Dramatic Gun Cock | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_367f632a | comment |
Dawn of War: The Commissar's Execute ability (which kills a squad member to increase firing speed and instantly restore morale to it and surrounding squads) is heralded by a loud metallic clank before the actual gunshot. | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_367f632a | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_367f632a | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Dawn of War (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Dramatic Gun Cock / int_367f632a | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_3b7e691d | type |
Dramatic Gun Cock | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_3b7e691d | comment |
Aladdin and the King of Thieves: To fend off the Forty Thieves as they ambush Aladdin and Jasmine's wedding, Genie demonstrates the trope with an elephant! | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_3b7e691d | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_3b7e691d | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Aladdin and the King of Thieves | hasFeature |
Dramatic Gun Cock / int_3b7e691d | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_3be31c4 | type |
Dramatic Gun Cock | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_3be31c4 | comment |
Modern Warfare: In the final prologue mission in Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare, Khaled Al-Asad gets quite a badass one right before executing the Arabic president Al-Fulani on national TV. In Modern Warfare 2 and 3, switching to a weapon's under-barrel shotgun attachment is always preceded with pumping it, even if it already has a shell loaded (or, hilariously, if it's empty). Only the player doing so can hear it, though. Likewise, picking up a new weapon for the first time results in your character pulling the handle or whatever back; switching back afterwards just brings it up normally. Also done by General Shepherd at you during a period of Controllable Helplessness at the end of the second game. |
|
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_3be31c4 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_3be31c4 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Modern Warfare (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Dramatic Gun Cock / int_3be31c4 | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_3da12eba | type |
Dramatic Gun Cock | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_3da12eba | comment |
The very last shot of A Quiet Place is Evelyn doing this with a shotgun, as a Bring It moment regarding the aliens about to enter their house. | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_3da12eba | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_3da12eba | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| A Quiet Place | hasFeature |
Dramatic Gun Cock / int_3da12eba | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_3e374b30 | type |
Dramatic Gun Cock | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_3e374b30 | comment |
Happens in The Dark Knight Rises when Selina Kyle is meeting Stryver in the bar. | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_3e374b30 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_3e374b30 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Dark Knight Rises | hasFeature |
Dramatic Gun Cock / int_3e374b30 | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_3e9c95a2 | type |
Dramatic Gun Cock | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_3e9c95a2 | comment |
The television adaptations of the Sharpe books are a bit prone to this. Made even worse by their use of flintlock muskets, pistols and rifles; generally these make only a pronounced "click" when pulled back to half-cock (safe position from which the pan may be primed), followed by another when pulled to full-cock. Trying to get a flintlock to make the characteristic set of three closely-spaced, sharp clicks the series uses is... not easy. | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_3e9c95a2 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_3e9c95a2 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Sharpe | hasFeature |
Dramatic Gun Cock / int_3e9c95a2 | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_3ee3ceda | type |
Dramatic Gun Cock | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_3ee3ceda | comment |
Parodied in The Last Continent, when Ponder Stibbons rolls up his sleeves at a dramatically appropriate moment, which is explicitly described as the magical equivalent of checking the action on a pump-barrel shotgun. | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_3ee3ceda | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_3ee3ceda | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Last Continent | hasFeature |
Dramatic Gun Cock / int_3ee3ceda | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_3f633fb4 | type |
Dramatic Gun Cock | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_3f633fb4 | comment |
Cracked: Deconstructed here. That page links back here. |
|
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_3f633fb4 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_3f633fb4 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Cracked (Website) | hasFeature |
Dramatic Gun Cock / int_3f633fb4 | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_438b63e4 | type |
Dramatic Gun Cock | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_438b63e4 | comment |
Averted in Halo: Reach and subsequent games. Only the first time you draw your weapon, be it a pistol, an assault rifle, or anything in between, does your character cock it. Every subsequent time, or until you drop the weapon and pick it up again, you'll simply heft it to its ready position; the most action you'll take is flipping the safety off if necessary. | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_438b63e4 | featureApplicability |
-1.0 | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_438b63e4 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Halo: Reach (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Dramatic Gun Cock / int_438b63e4 | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_444e73d4 | type |
Dramatic Gun Cock | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_444e73d4 | comment |
Dylan Dog: Dead of Night: Played with *Click* Hello and deconstructed. For Dylan's introduction, an angry husband puts a gun in his face and cocks the hammer...while Dylan is asleep. Waking up, Dylan comments that he cocked it too early, stating that the gun itself ought to be scary enough, and to save cocking for later to escalate the tension. | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_444e73d4 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_444e73d4 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Dylan Dog (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
Dramatic Gun Cock / int_444e73d4 | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_44836236 | type |
Dramatic Gun Cock | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_44836236 | comment |
In the 1980 film adaptation of The Dogs of War, one of the mercenaries is smuggling automatic weapons across the border sealed up in oil drums. To add tension to the Border Crossing, he racks back the slide on a pistol when the customs officers appear to be taking too close an interest in the drums. This is despite the fact that the whole point of sealing them in drums was so customs couldn't find any weapons if the van was searched, so why have an illegal pistol in the first place? | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_44836236 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_44836236 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Dogs of War | hasFeature |
Dramatic Gun Cock / int_44836236 | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_455e3038 | type |
Dramatic Gun Cock | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_455e3038 | comment |
After Bill, the pathetic neighbor on King of the Hill, fails to kill himself, Dale, Hank, and Boomhaur start a suicide watch. Dale's turn involves him sitting on a chair with a shotgun watching Bill all day. | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_455e3038 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_455e3038 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| King of the Hill | hasFeature |
Dramatic Gun Cock / int_455e3038 | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_457b671e | type |
Dramatic Gun Cock | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_457b671e | comment |
Jack Bauer did this on 24; as Lauren Proctor was getting ready to exit the room, Jack cocked his gun and told her he was more dangerous than he seemed because he'd killed two people since midnight last night. | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_457b671e | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_457b671e | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| 24 | hasFeature |
Dramatic Gun Cock / int_457b671e | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_47a280a2 | type |
Dramatic Gun Cock | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_47a280a2 | comment |
Megami no Hanabira: Mai's demon Barbatos is a demonic huntsman with a bolt-action rifle, and chambers a round with a smirk when Mai asks if he's ready to fight. | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_47a280a2 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_47a280a2 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Megami no Hanabira / Fan Fic | hasFeature |
Dramatic Gun Cock / int_47a280a2 | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_4b790c7a | type |
Dramatic Gun Cock | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_4b790c7a | comment |
In Iron Man 2 when Iron Man charges up his one-use laser weapon, the emitters make a sound reminiscent of a shotgun cocking. | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_4b790c7a | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_4b790c7a | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Iron Man 2 | hasFeature |
Dramatic Gun Cock / int_4b790c7a | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_4b790c7b | type |
Dramatic Gun Cock | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_4b790c7b | comment |
In Iron Man 3 a bystander stands behind the Extremis-powered woman fighting Tony Stark and proceeds to give away his position by pumping his shotgun, resulting in her turning around and grabbing it before he can shoot. She then immediately pumps it once more before firing at Stark. She at least has a better excuse than the bystander: She's ex-military. Military personnel are trained to check their weapons before using it in combat. She loses points on account that it's a shotgun, but it can be chalked down as a reflex from training. | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_4b790c7b | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_4b790c7b | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Iron Man 3 | hasFeature |
Dramatic Gun Cock / int_4b790c7b | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_4bbbd789 | type |
Dramatic Gun Cock | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_4bbbd789 | comment |
Metropolis (2001) has Atlas do this while he's responding to Pero's final question before he kills him and begins his revolution. | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_4bbbd789 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_4bbbd789 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Metropolis (2001) | hasFeature |
Dramatic Gun Cock / int_4bbbd789 | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_4bcd81b8 | type |
Dramatic Gun Cock | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_4bcd81b8 | comment |
In Red Hill, Jimmy likes to announce his presence to his victims by pumping the side on his Sawed-Off Shotgun. This usually cues an Oh, Crap! moment as they realize that their time on earth is numbered in minutes, if not seconds. | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_4bcd81b8 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_4bcd81b8 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Red Hill | hasFeature |
Dramatic Gun Cock / int_4bcd81b8 | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_4cc06582 | type |
Dramatic Gun Cock | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_4cc06582 | comment |
Exaggerated to hilarious results in Hot Fuzz, where the townsfolk are all shown to be carrying full automatic weapons which make a cocking sound whenever moved, shaken, or aimed, sometimes multiple times in the same scene. One shotgun cock is filmed from seven different angles (which flash across the screen in less than two seconds). During the charge towards the supermarket, there is, shall we say, an inordinate amount of guns cocking (at least 11 times), with no one actually doing anything that would cock the gun. Played for laughs, but only if you're paying attention. |
|
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_4cc06582 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_4cc06582 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Hot Fuzz | hasFeature |
Dramatic Gun Cock / int_4cc06582 | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_4f46b380 | type |
Dramatic Gun Cock | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_4f46b380 | comment |
X-Men: First Class: This occurs when Erik Lehnsherr asks Charles Xavier to shoot him in the head during their training session. | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_4f46b380 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_4f46b380 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| X-Men: First Class | hasFeature |
Dramatic Gun Cock / int_4f46b380 | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_52fca0e9 | type |
Dramatic Gun Cock | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_52fca0e9 | comment |
Star Trek: Insurrection: Done to badass effect by Data: "Saddle up," (gun cock with a phaser rifle) "lock and load." | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_52fca0e9 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_52fca0e9 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Star Trek: Insurrection | hasFeature |
Dramatic Gun Cock / int_52fca0e9 | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_5307b01d | type |
Dramatic Gun Cock | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_5307b01d | comment |
In the first "Armadeaddon" strip from Penny Arcade, Frank the game store clerk does one just before marching out into the zombie horde. | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_5307b01d | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_5307b01d | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Penny Arcade (Webcomic) | hasFeature |
Dramatic Gun Cock / int_5307b01d | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_53b30902 | type |
Dramatic Gun Cock | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_53b30902 | comment |
In the beginning of Valkyria Chronicles, this is present in Alicia's introductory scene, where she thought Welkin (who was on his way to help his sister, Isara, move to the capital, and stopped to sketch a trio of fish) to be an imperial spy. | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_53b30902 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_53b30902 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Valkyria Chronicles (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Dramatic Gun Cock / int_53b30902 | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_549bc5da | type |
Dramatic Gun Cock | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_549bc5da | comment |
In Max Payne 2: The Fall of Max Payne, right before Vlad kills Alfred Woden, and he and Max both fall through the floor, Max finds a Desert Eagle and cocks it, even though it was being used moments ago. | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_549bc5da | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_549bc5da | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Max Payne 2: The Fall of Max Payne (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Dramatic Gun Cock / int_549bc5da | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_550ba959 | type |
Dramatic Gun Cock | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_550ba959 | comment |
In Modern Warfare 2 and 3, switching to a weapon's under-barrel shotgun attachment is always preceded with pumping it, even if it already has a shell loaded (or, hilariously, if it's empty). Only the player doing so can hear it, though. Likewise, picking up a new weapon for the first time results in your character pulling the handle or whatever back; switching back afterwards just brings it up normally. Also done by General Shepherd at you during a period of Controllable Helplessness at the end of the second game. | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_550ba959 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_550ba959 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Dramatic Gun Cock / int_550ba959 | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_562e8a6e | type |
Dramatic Gun Cock | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_562e8a6e | comment |
Max Payne: In Max Payne 2: The Fall of Max Payne, right before Vlad kills Alfred Woden, and he and Max both fall through the floor, Max finds a Desert Eagle and cocks it, even though it was being used moments ago. Max Payne 3 gets worse. Not only does cutscene Max often rack the slides of guns he was firing moments before, but the animation is the same if he is holding a revolver... which doesn't work that way. |
|
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_562e8a6e | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_562e8a6e | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Max Payne (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Dramatic Gun Cock / int_562e8a6e | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_56f1cd03 | type |
Dramatic Gun Cock | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_56f1cd03 | comment |
In Agatha H. and the Voice of the Castle, it's mentioned that the guns issued to the troops of Baron Wulfenbach have been deliberately designed to make this sound as intimidating as possible. | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_56f1cd03 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_56f1cd03 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Agatha H. and the Voice of the Castle | hasFeature |
Dramatic Gun Cock / int_56f1cd03 | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_57ad0c07 | type |
Dramatic Gun Cock | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_57ad0c07 | comment |
Resident Evil: Even though the Chicago Typewriter in Resident Evil 4 has a Bottomless Magazine and infinite ammo, you can still reload and dramatically cock it for no purpose beyond evoking this trope for Rule of Cool. Leon Kennedy does this in the first chapter of Resident Evil 6, while holding his custom handgun on his zombified friend. In an interesting bit of Showing Their Work, Leon's handgun doesn't actually have a hammer, but the VP70Z (one of the guns it's modeled on) has a notoriously stiff trigger pull, and Leon is actually setting the trigger (his finger can be seen tensing) as the last step he needs to take before firing. |
|
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_57ad0c07 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_57ad0c07 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Resident Evil (Franchise) | hasFeature |
Dramatic Gun Cock / int_57ad0c07 | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_58c5259c | type |
Dramatic Gun Cock | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_58c5259c | comment |
The T-800 itself dramatically flip-cocks his shotgun, a lever-action Winchester Model 1887. Doing so with a factory production gun would result in broken fingers, as the handguard is too narrow—the shotgun in question was custom-altered for the movie, much like the shotgun from The Rifleman. He does this because it's cool, and to fire one-handed on the bike. | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_58c5259c | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_58c5259c | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Rifleman | hasFeature |
Dramatic Gun Cock / int_58c5259c | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_59151283 | type |
Dramatic Gun Cock | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_59151283 | comment |
Metal Gear: This is a game mechanic in Metal Gear Solid. Using the Run-And-Shoot technique, Snake will hold his gun ready to fire while moving around (it's very useful during the battle with Ocelot, amongst other times). However, if he turns around 180 degrees, he does a cinematic-style dramatic gun cock, causing him to stop in his tracks a little (preventing it from being a total Game-Breaker). Overplayed in Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty. In an attempt to find the location of the C4 bombs along the complex, Raiden interrogates Fat Man. As Fat Man pushes a remote, Raiden cocks his gun and demands an explanation. He does this at least twice more. Both justified and subverted in Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater: The first time Major Ocelot racks the slide on his pistol during the Virtuous Mission (before he kills a KGB team), no bullet comes out of the ejector port which gives the idea that Ocelot doesn't chamber a bullet until he's going to shoot someone (presumably so he can avoid shooting himself while spinning it for a full minute). When he's about to shoot Naked Snake, Ocelot reloads and tries to rack the slide before he fires, an uncommon Middle Eastern technique used to ensure there is an unjammed bullet in the chamber. Since he is obviously trying it for the first time, the gun stovepipes on him. Snake later chastises him for trying a technique he had only heard about and never tried before in the middle of a fight. In Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots, whenever Snake (or any other player) reloads a non-pistol gun, he uses the technique demonstrated by Ocelot in MGS3, above, when he ejects the unspent round. |
|
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_59151283 | featureApplicability |
-0.3 | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_59151283 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Metal Gear (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Dramatic Gun Cock / int_59151283 | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_59c97fba | type |
Dramatic Gun Cock | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_59c97fba | comment |
A somewhat downplayed example in We Were Soldiers. A group of North Vietnamese soldiers sneaking through the woods don't realize they are right on top of the American troops they are trying to find until one of the Americans thumbs his rifle from "Safe" to "Auto" with two barely audible clicks. One NVA trooper recognizes that sound, but it's already too late. | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_59c97fba | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_59c97fba | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| We Were Soldiers | hasFeature |
Dramatic Gun Cock / int_59c97fba | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_5a3fd479 | type |
Dramatic Gun Cock | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_5a3fd479 | comment |
Done a bunch of times by the hobo in Hobo With a Shotgun. | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_5a3fd479 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_5a3fd479 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Hobo With a Shotgun | hasFeature |
Dramatic Gun Cock / int_5a3fd479 | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_5ada53ed | type |
Dramatic Gun Cock | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_5ada53ed | comment |
James Bond A variation in On Her Majesty's Secret Service. When Tracy takes Bond's Walther PPK out of its holster and points it at Bond, she flicks off the safety catch with a loud click. Live and Let Die. After exposing Rose Carver as The Mole, Bond pulls back the slide of his PPK next to her face as an Implied Death Threat if she doesn't start talking. Bond gets one of these in GoldenEye after fighting off Xenia. '*click* Take me to Janus.' Possible since this was in a bathhouse or bathroom, where one may not always carry a ready to fire a pistol. This most likely (In-Universe) was done for emphasis by Bond, since the Walther PPK is a double-action semi-automatic, meaning that if a round is in the chamber, it is ready to fire just by pulling the trigger. The only reason to cock it is to ensure an accurate first shot and/or to intimidate the target, both justifiable reasons. Die Another Day: Bond is interrogating Gustav Graves with his Walther P99. Miranda Frost walks up and draws her own Walther P99, which, despite being a hammerless pistol-like Glocks are, makes the hammer-cocking sound. |
|
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_5ada53ed | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_5ada53ed | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| James Bond | hasFeature |
Dramatic Gun Cock / int_5ada53ed | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_5bb406f8 | type |
Dramatic Gun Cock | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_5bb406f8 | comment |
In Caliban's War, Prax tries performing a dramatic gun cock in the middle of a tense standoff because that's what heroes in action films always do — and inadvertently turns the Mexican Standoff into a Blast Out. | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_5bb406f8 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_5bb406f8 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Expanse | hasFeature |
Dramatic Gun Cock / int_5bb406f8 | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_5bfe75e2 | type |
Dramatic Gun Cock | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_5bfe75e2 | comment |
Used in Phone Booth with the twist of the gun (a sniper rifle) being a good deal away from the protagonist and the sound being delivered by telephone. He then goes on to discuss this trope, its apparent flaw, and its psychological justification. He also perpetrates the mistake of cocking his gun twice without firing a round in between (presumably ejecting a live round). Considering the intent was to scare the protagonist straight, ejecting a live round is entirely justifiable. | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_5bfe75e2 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_5bfe75e2 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Phone Booth | hasFeature |
Dramatic Gun Cock / int_5bfe75e2 | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_5c897f4a | type |
Dramatic Gun Cock | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_5c897f4a | comment |
Schlock Mercenary: Can also happen with Energy Weapons, such as Sergeant Schlock's Plasgun and its Ommminous Hummmm. "I like the soothing sounds I get out of this one." At one point Schlock discovers that the manufacturer has phased out his preferred model for a new one that eliminates the lengthy charging time; he rejects it. |
|
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_5c897f4a | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_5c897f4a | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Schlock Mercenary (Webcomic) | hasFeature |
Dramatic Gun Cock / int_5c897f4a | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_5ddae6bd | type |
Dramatic Gun Cock | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_5ddae6bd | comment |
Two of the guards in the opening scene of Death Rides a Horse dramatically cock their lever-action Winchesters before they go out to investigate the noises: although all this would do is eject an unfired shell from the rifle. | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_5ddae6bd | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_5ddae6bd | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Death Rides a Horse | hasFeature |
Dramatic Gun Cock / int_5ddae6bd | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_5e91c7d | type |
Dramatic Gun Cock | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_5e91c7d | comment |
Even though the Chicago Typewriter in Resident Evil 4 has a Bottomless Magazine and infinite ammo, you can still reload and dramatically cock it for no purpose beyond evoking this trope for Rule of Cool. | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_5e91c7d | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_5e91c7d | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Resident Evil 4 (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Dramatic Gun Cock / int_5e91c7d | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_5e91c7f | type |
Dramatic Gun Cock | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_5e91c7f | comment |
Leon Kennedy does this in the first chapter of Resident Evil 6, while holding his custom handgun on his zombified friend. In an interesting bit of Showing Their Work, Leon's handgun doesn't actually have a hammer, but the VP70Z (one of the guns it's modeled on) has a notoriously stiff trigger pull, and Leon is actually setting the trigger (his finger can be seen tensing) as the last step he needs to take before firing. | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_5e91c7f | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_5e91c7f | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Resident Evil 6 (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Dramatic Gun Cock / int_5e91c7f | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_631805af | type |
Dramatic Gun Cock | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_631805af | comment |
In Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots, whenever Snake (or any other player) reloads a non-pistol gun, he uses the technique demonstrated by Ocelot in MGS3, above, when he ejects the unspent round. | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_631805af | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_631805af | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Dramatic Gun Cock / int_631805af | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_65d07453 | type |
Dramatic Gun Cock | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_65d07453 | comment |
Captain America: The First Avenger has a rare post-slug use of this trope when Col. Phillips interrupts a HYDRA goon's attempt at their catchphrase: | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_65d07453 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_65d07453 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Captain America: The First Avenger | hasFeature |
Dramatic Gun Cock / int_65d07453 | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_664b5d51 | type |
Dramatic Gun Cock | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_664b5d51 | comment |
A brief cocking (or at least readying) of a Klingon disruptor is seen in Star Trek III: The Search for Spock, as eight or so of the last remaining crew of the Bird of Prey are sent to take over the USS Enterprise. | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_664b5d51 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_664b5d51 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Star Trek III: The Search for Spock | hasFeature |
Dramatic Gun Cock / int_664b5d51 | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_674f5997 | type |
Dramatic Gun Cock | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_674f5997 | comment |
Averted by Guerrero on Human Target, who shoots a client in the back without any warning at all after selling him info about Chance's first case. Made up for in spades in one scene of another episode, where the entire roomful of armed and unfriendly men cock and re-cock their weapons at every awkward pause in the conversation. | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_674f5997 | featureApplicability |
-1.0 | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_674f5997 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Human Target | hasFeature |
Dramatic Gun Cock / int_674f5997 | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_68cfcc9b | type |
Dramatic Gun Cock | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_68cfcc9b | comment |
Parodied in LEGO The Lord of the Rings where Gimli cocks his axe, which causes a shotgun cocking sound effect to play. | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_68cfcc9b | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_68cfcc9b | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| LEGO The Lord of the Rings (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Dramatic Gun Cock / int_68cfcc9b | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_69f5f841 | type |
Dramatic Gun Cock | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_69f5f841 | comment |
In the final prologue mission in Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare, Khaled Al-Asad gets quite a badass one right before executing the Arabic president Al-Fulani on national TV. | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_69f5f841 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_69f5f841 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Dramatic Gun Cock / int_69f5f841 | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_6c2c4bf3 | type |
Dramatic Gun Cock | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_6c2c4bf3 | comment |
X-Men Film Series: X-Men: Taken to the extreme by Magneto when, after yanking all the cops' guns out of their hands and pointing them at their owners' heads, he cocks every one at once. His younger self repeats this action in X-Men: Days of Future Past, but with the firearms of the Secret Service agents who are assigned to protect President Nixon and his cabinet. X-Men: First Class: This occurs when Erik Lehnsherr asks Charles Xavier to shoot him in the head during their training session. Deadpool (2016): Ajax and Angel Dust enter Weasel's bar and attempt to rough him up for information on Wade. Cue roughly thirty seconds of gun-cocking as every single person in the bar draws on them. Ajax promptly withdraws. |
|
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_6c2c4bf3 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_6c2c4bf3 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| X-Men Film Series | hasFeature |
Dramatic Gun Cock / int_6c2c4bf3 | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_6c3b0503 | type |
Dramatic Gun Cock | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_6c3b0503 | comment |
There's a moment in Sly 2: Band of Thieves when Bently does this, the problem? He does it to an Automatic Crossbow. | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_6c3b0503 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_6c3b0503 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Sly 2: Band Of Thieves (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Dramatic Gun Cock / int_6c3b0503 | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_6c47db4e | type |
Dramatic Gun Cock | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_6c47db4e | comment |
In Dynasty Warriors 7, Guo Huai cocks his hand cannon before he is about to kill Xiahou Ba. | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_6c47db4e | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_6c47db4e | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Dynasty Warriors (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Dramatic Gun Cock / int_6c47db4e | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_6fa2c385 | type |
Dramatic Gun Cock | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_6fa2c385 | comment |
Max Payne 3 gets worse. Not only does cutscene Max often rack the slides of guns he was firing moments before, but the animation is the same if he is holding a revolver... which doesn't work that way. | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_6fa2c385 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_6fa2c385 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Max Payne 3 (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Dramatic Gun Cock / int_6fa2c385 | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_70814599 | type |
Dramatic Gun Cock | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_70814599 | comment |
While not a firearm, Stargate SG-1's version of this trope would be the staff weapon's distinctive "Bzzzt" sound when it is armed, as well as showing arcs of energy along the tip of the weapon. The Goa'uld and their Jaffa love doing this to prisoners before executing them. As with the staff weapons, the 'TEEE-UNG' sound of a zat being activated definitely qualifies. And of course, the 'FWOOOAAAEEE' sound of Ronon's gun powering up in Stargate Atlantis. And, to a lesser extent, Teyla cocking her P90 upon realizing she can't buy more time when she was being forced to execute Sheppard by a not-quite-herself Weir. |
|
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_70814599 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_70814599 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Stargate SG-1 | hasFeature |
Dramatic Gun Cock / int_70814599 | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_74f1eb4c | type |
Dramatic Gun Cock | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_74f1eb4c | comment |
In Sneakers, during Martin's escape near the end, one thug carries a shotgun which he grabs and pumps as soon as he gets it. But he never fires a round, and yet when he finally finds Martin, he pumps the shotgun at him again. Normally this wouldn't be very obvious if you weren't paying attention, but in this case, you can hear the loud CLUNK of the unfired shell hitting the floor. | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_74f1eb4c | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_74f1eb4c | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Sneakers | hasFeature |
Dramatic Gun Cock / int_74f1eb4c | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_755997ac | type |
Dramatic Gun Cock | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_755997ac | comment |
Doom: The beginning of Doom (2016) famously times its heavy metal music to end with the Doom Slayer pumping his combat shotgun. In Doom Eternal, the Doom Slayer tends to pump his shotgun in placement of a verbal threat. When confronted by Hell Priests who lambast him for getting in their way, he simply turns to face them and pumps his shotty, which is enough to scare them away. |
|
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_755997ac | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_755997ac | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Doom (Franchise) | hasFeature |
Dramatic Gun Cock / int_755997ac | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_755b343f | type |
Dramatic Gun Cock | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_755b343f | comment |
Halo: Miranda Keyes gets a great one in Halo 3: Averted in Halo: Reach and subsequent games. Only the first time you draw your weapon, be it a pistol, an assault rifle, or anything in between, does your character cock it. Every subsequent time, or until you drop the weapon and pick it up again, you'll simply heft it to its ready position; the most action you'll take is flipping the safety off if necessary. The M90 Close Assault Weapon System is usually nicknamed the Universal Translator. Why? |
|
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_755b343f | featureApplicability |
-1.0 | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_755b343f | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Halo (Franchise) | hasFeature |
Dramatic Gun Cock / int_755b343f | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_75eb907e | type |
Dramatic Gun Cock | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_75eb907e | comment |
Striking Distance: A cop has just infiltrated a hijacked boat. Upon attacking one of the criminals, he asks how many other men are there. When the man refuses to answer, the cop says, "let me rephrase that," then cocks the shotgun he's holding. Needless to say, the guy talks very quickly after that. | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_75eb907e | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_75eb907e | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Striking Distance | hasFeature |
Dramatic Gun Cock / int_75eb907e | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_7668653a | type |
Dramatic Gun Cock | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_7668653a | comment |
You can cock your gun in battle in Mass Effect 2 whenever you want (to elaborate, the character actually smacks a button on the side or bottom of the gun to eject a heat sink). This also happens frequently in cutscenes. In-universe, most of the weapons Shepard's crew carries are carried in a collapsed state (presumably to make carrying four different weapons considerably less of a pain in the ass then it would otherwise be). Whenever a weapon is brought out, it automatically telescopes to its full length with an appropriate sound effect. |
|
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_7668653a | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_7668653a | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Mass Effect 2 (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Dramatic Gun Cock / int_7668653a | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_76dd1bbb | type |
Dramatic Gun Cock | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_76dd1bbb | comment |
Four Deadly Secrets: In her duel with India, Ruby chambers a round once she stops playing with him, and her opponent barely has time to recognize her scythe is also a gun before he’s out cold. | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_76dd1bbb | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_76dd1bbb | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Four Deadly Secrets / Fan Fic | hasFeature |
Dramatic Gun Cock / int_76dd1bbb | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_774aac31 | type |
Dramatic Gun Cock | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_774aac31 | comment |
Done briefly in District 9, as one of Koobus' mercenaries is pointing out that they were ordered not to use live ammunition in bringing Wikus down after Koobus himself announces that's exactly what they're going to do. And how does our good Colonel respond? While staring blankly and apathetically at his visibly concerned subordinate, no less, with the pistol being held off-camera at the time. He was actually in the process of loading his pistol as the merc spoke, so it's a matter of timing, and on that note it's hardly noticeable. | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_774aac31 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_774aac31 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| District 9 | hasFeature |
Dramatic Gun Cock / int_774aac31 | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_78146d21 | type |
Dramatic Gun Cock | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_78146d21 | comment |
Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest: When Elizabeth threatens Cutler Beckett, she makes a point of pulling the hammer back on her pistol so that he'll know she means business. TWICE. And it's a flintlock. The first film, toward the beginning, had Jack Sparrow cock his gun while threatening Will in the smithy. The badass effect was mitigated by his frustrated "Please move!" and then soundly destroyed when the smith conked him over the head from behind. | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_78146d21 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_78146d21 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest | hasFeature |
Dramatic Gun Cock / int_78146d21 | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_7884e8d1 | type |
Dramatic Gun Cock | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_7884e8d1 | comment |
Pulp Fiction features a dramatic shotgun cock once Butch breaks Marsellus out of the Mason-Dixon pawn shop, immediately before the latter unloads on his rapist with the ultimate Groin Attack. | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_7884e8d1 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_7884e8d1 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Pulp Fiction | hasFeature |
Dramatic Gun Cock / int_7884e8d1 | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_79a548b4 | type |
Dramatic Gun Cock | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_79a548b4 | comment |
In the Forgotten Weapons video on the Semmerling LM4, Ian opens by dramatically cocking the gun by jerking it forwards and backwards in what is arguably the closest pistol equivalent of a classic inertial One-Handed Shotgun Pump. Ian goes on to explain the features of the pistol and that this is possible because the LM4 is not actually a self-loading pistol, but rather is only manually cycled and the slide is only held in place by a detent until it is locked by pressure on the triggernote While the dramatic one-handed cocking action is possible, the intended manner of cocking the gun involves an unorthodox grip that makes the slide serration on the top easily accessible with the user's off-hand thumb and using that to rack the slide forwards and then backwards. However, as a result the space savings of not including a semi-automatic action of any sort, it is the smallest repeating .45 ACP pistol even 40 years after it was produced. | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_79a548b4 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_79a548b4 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Forgotten Weapons (Web Video) | hasFeature |
Dramatic Gun Cock / int_79a548b4 | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_7bd1a82a | type |
Dramatic Gun Cock | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_7bd1a82a | comment |
In Strippedto Kill, Heineman breaks into Roxanne's apartment and is searching the locked closet when he hears the sound of a shotgun slide being pumped him. He turns around and finds Derek pointing a shotgun at him. | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_7bd1a82a | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_7bd1a82a | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Stripped to Kill | hasFeature |
Dramatic Gun Cock / int_7bd1a82a | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_7cc4dc70 | type |
Dramatic Gun Cock | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_7cc4dc70 | comment |
Often accompanies the themes of Konnan, New Jack, Homicide, Nanae Takahashi, The Briscoes, Black Rose, Ivelisse Vélez and Bullet Club, for a sample. | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_7cc4dc70 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_7cc4dc70 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Konnan (Wrestling) | hasFeature |
Dramatic Gun Cock / int_7cc4dc70 | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_7d52225f | type |
Dramatic Gun Cock | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_7d52225f | comment |
A variation in On Her Majesty's Secret Service. When Tracy takes Bond's Walther PPK out of its holster and points it at Bond, she flicks off the safety catch with a loud click. | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_7d52225f | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_7d52225f | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| On Her Majesty's Secret Service | hasFeature |
Dramatic Gun Cock / int_7d52225f | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_7f8a38b6 | type |
Dramatic Gun Cock | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_7f8a38b6 | comment |
Taken to the extreme in Mobile Suit Gundam Wing, where the mere fact of raising a gun makes an audible, intimidating sound. | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_7f8a38b6 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_7f8a38b6 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Mobile Suit Gundam Wing | hasFeature |
Dramatic Gun Cock / int_7f8a38b6 | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_80a922a5 | type |
Dramatic Gun Cock | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_80a922a5 | comment |
In Lethal Weapon 3 the Dramatic Gun Cock is used for interrogation. One of the good guys wants to know where a submachine gun is coming from, and to extract this information from a baddie he proceeds to cock said submachine gun and point it at his head. In the same movie, later on, the two main characters are about to start shooting up the baddies' main hideout. They get their weapons, ready themselves... only to hear a Dramatic Gun Cock from behind them. They start to raise their hands, but it turns out it's another good guy (well—good girl, anyway) who's come to help them and is just scaring them for fun. | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_80a922a5 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_80a922a5 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Lethal Weapon 3 | hasFeature |
Dramatic Gun Cock / int_80a922a5 | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_833ad429 | type |
Dramatic Gun Cock | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_833ad429 | comment |
The protagonist of Daughter for Dessert goes into his diner one morning, and notices footsteps inside. He investigates, following the footsteps into the back alley. Mortelli then announces his presence by cocking his gun, which is pointed at his chest. | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_833ad429 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_833ad429 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Daughter for Dessert (Visual Novel) | hasFeature |
Dramatic Gun Cock / int_833ad429 | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_84377fd8 | type |
Dramatic Gun Cock | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_84377fd8 | comment |
GI Joe The Rise Of Cobra: During the raid on the pit, Duke has the Baroness and Storm Shadow at gunpoint. When the Baroness approaches him, he thumbs back the hammer on his 1911, which means, up to that point, it was incapable of firing. | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_84377fd8 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_84377fd8 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra | hasFeature |
Dramatic Gun Cock / int_84377fd8 | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_84d455d4 | type |
Dramatic Gun Cock | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_84d455d4 | comment |
The Big O: Used by a hostage-taker in the premiere, to get across exactly how imperative it is that Roger Smith hand the phone over to the hostage's father. It works. | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_84d455d4 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_84d455d4 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Big O | hasFeature |
Dramatic Gun Cock / int_84d455d4 | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_8601c91f | type |
Dramatic Gun Cock | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_8601c91f | comment |
The beginning of Doom (2016) famously times its heavy metal music to end with the Doom Slayer pumping his combat shotgun. | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_8601c91f | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_8601c91f | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Doom (2016) (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Dramatic Gun Cock / int_8601c91f | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_86904ab8 | type |
Dramatic Gun Cock | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_86904ab8 | comment |
Iron Man In Iron Man 2 when Iron Man charges up his one-use laser weapon, the emitters make a sound reminiscent of a shotgun cocking. In Iron Man 3 a bystander stands behind the Extremis-powered woman fighting Tony Stark and proceeds to give away his position by pumping his shotgun, resulting in her turning around and grabbing it before he can shoot. She then immediately pumps it once more before firing at Stark. She at least has a better excuse than the bystander: She's ex-military. Military personnel are trained to check their weapons before using it in combat. She loses points on account that it's a shotgun, but it can be chalked down as a reflex from training. |
|
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_86904ab8 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_86904ab8 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| IronMan | hasFeature |
Dramatic Gun Cock / int_86904ab8 | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_89b2502b | type |
Dramatic Gun Cock | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_89b2502b | comment |
In Sudden Impact there's one of these in what seems like every scene/in which Dirty Harry brandishes his gun. | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_89b2502b | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_89b2502b | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Sudden Impact | hasFeature |
Dramatic Gun Cock / int_89b2502b | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_8cb260f7 | type |
Dramatic Gun Cock | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_8cb260f7 | comment |
All Assorted Animorphs AUs: In "What if Elfangor and Loren raised Tobias?", Elfangor loads a gun and points it at Ax because he thinks he's put Tobias in harm's way. In "What if they saved Jake's family?", Tom's Yeerk pulls a Dracon beam out of his pocket when Jake reveals that he knows about the Yeerks, but Marco (in gorilla morph) takes it off him and threatens to shoot Tom if his parents don't get in the car right now. Later, Eva points a gun at Naomi to force her to drink the oatmeal. |
|
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_8cb260f7 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_8cb260f7 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| All Assorted Animorphs AUs (Fanfic) | hasFeature |
Dramatic Gun Cock / int_8cb260f7 | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_8d817ccb | type |
Dramatic Gun Cock | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_8d817ccb | comment |
Locke uses the gun cock to get Ben to reveal information in the Lost episode "Confirmed Dead". Kate uses it in "Not in Portland" to get Aldo to tell her Karl's whereabouts. | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_8d817ccb | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_8d817ccb | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Lost | hasFeature |
Dramatic Gun Cock / int_8d817ccb | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_8fc7d65f | type |
Dramatic Gun Cock | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_8fc7d65f | comment |
Filthy Frank uses this as the basis for a Rap's beat. Needless to say, it's kinda catchy and very NSFW. | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_8fc7d65f | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_8fc7d65f | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Filthy Frank (Web Video) | hasFeature |
Dramatic Gun Cock / int_8fc7d65f | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_9058ad7e | type |
Dramatic Gun Cock | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_9058ad7e | comment |
The Terminator: Reese does one after sawing off the stock and barrel of his shotgun. He pumps the shotgun three times: Once when he cuts the barrel off, once when he wakes up from his dream, and once in Tech Noir before he starts blasting. It would seem that he pointlessly ejected two good shells, or he was walking around with it empty and was, ahem, pumping it for fun. Or he had the chamber empty for safety reasons. A good precaution if you have nightmares that make you rack the action of your shotgun. In Tech Noir, right before he attempts to shoot Sarah Connor, the Terminator cocks the pistol. (Since his .45 is a "single-action automatic", meaning the hammer must be cocked in order to fire, this is justified.) |
|
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_9058ad7e | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_9058ad7e | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Terminator | hasFeature |
Dramatic Gun Cock / int_9058ad7e | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_90b916ba | type |
Dramatic Gun Cock | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_90b916ba | comment |
Happens several times in Batman: The Animated Series. In "Almost Got 'Im", Batman disguised as Killer Croc signals the ambush and a bar full of police officers all cock their guns and point them at the villains. What follows is a ten-second-long pan shot of officers cocking everything from automatics and revolvers to shotguns and Thompson SMGs. | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_90b916ba | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_90b916ba | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Batman: The Animated Series | hasFeature |
Dramatic Gun Cock / int_90b916ba | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_91bfc484 | type |
Dramatic Gun Cock | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_91bfc484 | comment |
In The Road by The father invokes this when a bandit/bloocult holds his son hostage. It's specifically stated he knows he doesn't need to, as his revolver is double action, but he tries to use it for intimidation. | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_91bfc484 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_91bfc484 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Road | hasFeature |
Dramatic Gun Cock / int_91bfc484 | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_95f7f987 | type |
Dramatic Gun Cock | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_95f7f987 | comment |
In Nightwing: Year One, Nightwing stops a group of carjackers, one of whom decides to be cool and dramatically cock his shotgun. Nightwing then mercilessly lampshades this by asking if the crook had seen that on TV, pointing out that he's just ejected a perfectly good round. He then basically leaps on the guy's shoulders, grabs the guy's hand, and forces him to continuously cycle the gun until it's completely empty. There's a reason they call him the Boy Wonder. | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_95f7f987 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_95f7f987 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Nightwing (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
Dramatic Gun Cock / int_95f7f987 | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_9614fa1e | type |
Dramatic Gun Cock | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_9614fa1e | comment |
In Raiders of the Lost Ark, just before Indy enters the temple at the beginning, one of his "partners" (Barranca) pulls a gun. The sound of him cocking the revolver tips Indy off that he's about to get shot in the back. Cue the bullwhip... | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_9614fa1e | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_9614fa1e | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Raiders of the Lost Ark | hasFeature |
Dramatic Gun Cock / int_9614fa1e | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_97907623 | type |
Dramatic Gun Cock | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_97907623 | comment |
Code of Silence: In this Chuck Norris action thriller, two thugs try to rob a bar. Only when they hear a chorus of gun cocks do they realize it's a bar where off-duty cops hang out. | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_97907623 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_97907623 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Code of Silence | hasFeature |
Dramatic Gun Cock / int_97907623 | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_97a70962 | type |
Dramatic Gun Cock | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_97a70962 | comment |
The Professionals: Despite various references to their automatic pistols being carried with "one up the spout", that doesn't stop our heroes racking back the slide in a suitably dramatic manner after drawing them. | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_97a70962 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_97a70962 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Professionals | hasFeature |
Dramatic Gun Cock / int_97a70962 | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_994a18ad | type |
Dramatic Gun Cock | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_994a18ad | comment |
First subverted in Snatch., where one of the robbers of a betting parlor wastes rounds in the gun doing so. And he doesn't even get to use it and has it stolen from him. And even worse, it's the only real gun they had. Later the trope is played straight, when Tommy saves Turkish from a vicious beating (or worse) by pulling a gun on the attacking thugs. When the leader tries to talk him down, Tommy cocks the hammer to show he's serious. Justified as it's a bluff, the gun is either damaged/defective and doesn't work. |
|
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_994a18ad | featureApplicability |
-0.3 | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_994a18ad | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Snatch. | hasFeature |
Dramatic Gun Cock / int_994a18ad | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_9a7088bc | type |
Dramatic Gun Cock | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_9a7088bc | comment |
In the original-series Star Trek episode "A Piece of the Action", a gangster lets Kirk and Spock know they're being covered by cocking his weapon. Spock suggests they lower their weapons because he "just heard the sound of..." which Kirk finishes "...the sound of a machine gun bolt being pulled back." | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_9a7088bc | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_9a7088bc | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Star Trek: The Original Series | hasFeature |
Dramatic Gun Cock / int_9a7088bc | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_9b423dc8 | type |
Dramatic Gun Cock | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_9b423dc8 | comment |
The song "My Gun" by Tove Lo has this as part of the song. | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_9b423dc8 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_9b423dc8 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Tove Lo (Music) | hasFeature |
Dramatic Gun Cock / int_9b423dc8 | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_9d7264f | type |
Dramatic Gun Cock | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_9d7264f | comment |
CSI: Miami did this twice. A whole subplot was built out of this when someone pointed a gun at the back of Calleigh Duquesne's head and cocked it. She spent the rest of the episode listening to gun-cocks until she was able to successfully identify the type of weapon pointed at her. When Horatio Caine had an enemy literally under his foot, he cocked his gun while pointing it at his face and said "your move." |
|
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_9d7264f | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_9d7264f | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| CSI: Miami | hasFeature |
Dramatic Gun Cock / int_9d7264f | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_9dfa8216 | type |
Dramatic Gun Cock | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_9dfa8216 | comment |
Detectives in the Law & Order franchise have been carrying Glock pistols and cocking them since the original series' 1995-96 season. As noted above, these pistols have no external hammer, making the Dramatic Gun Cock impossible. The early-season detectives - Greevey, Cerreta, Briscoe, Logan - carried revolvers and occasionally cocked them as well. In one case the move was actually realistic: Detective Logan was "questioning" a suspect in the murder of his partner, and threatened the man by holding his revolver to the suspect's head and then cocking it manually. Truth in Television: the specific revolver in question, the S&W Model 36, has an external hammer and can be cocked manually, and that click-click right in your ear is as terrifying a sound as exists in this world. It's not at all surprising that the suspect talked. (It's also not at all surprising that the suspect's confession was thrown out of court.) |
|
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_9dfa8216 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_9dfa8216 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Law & Order (Franchise) | hasFeature |
Dramatic Gun Cock / int_9dfa8216 | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_a134c04a | type |
Dramatic Gun Cock | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_a134c04a | comment |
The World of Darkness actually gives you Intimidation bonuses for cocking a pump-action shotgun. Not so for any other type of gun, however, as they aren't nearly scary enough. The 20th Anniversary Edition of Mage: The Ascension even includes a Rote that allows you to draw on the resonance of a cocked gun (or a drawn sword) and channel it into attacking more targets with. |
|
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_a134c04a | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_a134c04a | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The World of Darkness (Tabletop Game) | hasFeature |
Dramatic Gun Cock / int_a134c04a | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_a4420d22 | type |
Dramatic Gun Cock | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_a4420d22 | comment |
The Venture Bros. parodies this in "The Devil's Grip". When surprised by rustling while camping out, Gary picks up a roughly gun-shaped branch as a bluff. Sgt. Hatred is not impressed, and proceeds to enlist Gary's help in rescuing Dr. Venture. | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_a4420d22 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_a4420d22 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Venture Bros. | hasFeature |
Dramatic Gun Cock / int_a4420d22 | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_a49a890c | type |
Dramatic Gun Cock | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_a49a890c | comment |
In Preacher, Frankie gives a nice little demonstration of this trope as he's gunning down Cassidy. The Lee-Enfield Mk.III, as Frankie so joyfully explains, is a favorite piece of his not only because it's very reliable and powerful, but also because the sound of the bolt action doing its thing puts the fear of God in ya real quick: | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_a49a890c | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_a49a890c | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Preacher (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
Dramatic Gun Cock / int_a49a890c | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_a4ae80d6 | type |
Dramatic Gun Cock | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_a4ae80d6 | comment |
In Oddworld, Sligs are armed with shotgun looking devices that fire full-auto from Bottomless Magazines. That said, they have an animation which is three quick gun-cocks — thus, it appears that the only reason they have the bottom part of their weapon is so it can make cocking noises. | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_a4ae80d6 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_a4ae80d6 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Oddworld (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Dramatic Gun Cock / int_a4ae80d6 | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_a535581a | type |
Dramatic Gun Cock | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_a535581a | comment |
Parodied in The Emperor's New Groove, when Kronk's Shoulder Devil does this with his trident. | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_a535581a | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_a535581a | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Emperor's New Groove | hasFeature |
Dramatic Gun Cock / int_a535581a | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_a660fd96 | type |
Dramatic Gun Cock | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_a660fd96 | comment |
Avengers: Endgame has Rocket Raccoon arming his Ray Gun one-handed after released by Giant-Man's hand. | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_a660fd96 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_a660fd96 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Avengers: Endgame | hasFeature |
Dramatic Gun Cock / int_a660fd96 | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_a796bde8 | type |
Dramatic Gun Cock | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_a796bde8 | comment |
This is a game mechanic in Metal Gear Solid. Using the Run-And-Shoot technique, Snake will hold his gun ready to fire while moving around (it's very useful during the battle with Ocelot, amongst other times). However, if he turns around 180 degrees, he does a cinematic-style dramatic gun cock, causing him to stop in his tracks a little (preventing it from being a total Game-Breaker). | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_a796bde8 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_a796bde8 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Metal Gear Solid (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Dramatic Gun Cock / int_a796bde8 | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_a8442db2 | type |
Dramatic Gun Cock | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_a8442db2 | comment |
In The Revenant, Fitzgerald does this to Bridger after grabbing the gun Bridger was threatening him with. Justified in that, as Fitzgerald points out, Bridger hadn't properly readied the weapon in the first place. | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_a8442db2 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_a8442db2 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Revenant | hasFeature |
Dramatic Gun Cock / int_a8442db2 | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_a913877a | type |
Dramatic Gun Cock | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_a913877a | comment |
Project Zomboid will punish this trope if you opt for "Hardcore" reloading. One key ejects or inserts a magazine, while another works the action. Working the action while a round is already chambered will eject unspent rounds to the floor. Better not forget that you're using a semi-automatic pistol and not a pump shotgun. | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_a913877a | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_a913877a | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Project Zomboid (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Dramatic Gun Cock / int_a913877a | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_ab4f6c9 | type |
Dramatic Gun Cock | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_ab4f6c9 | comment |
This happens to Batman in Batman: Mask of the Phantasm when Bullock and his SWAT team corner him on a roof. | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_ab4f6c9 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_ab4f6c9 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Batman: Mask of the Phantasm | hasFeature |
Dramatic Gun Cock / int_ab4f6c9 | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_ac719b97 | type |
Dramatic Gun Cock | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_ac719b97 | comment |
Stargate: A fairly egregious example comes from the movie. During the scene where the commando team is investigating the temple, they cock their guns absolutely every time they hear a noise. Considering this is maybe a ten man team and there are maybe twenty gun-cocks per startling noise, this may be the result of a trigger-happy foley artist. | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_ac719b97 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_ac719b97 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Stargate | hasFeature |
Dramatic Gun Cock / int_ac719b97 | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_ac8b90f5 | type |
Dramatic Gun Cock | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_ac8b90f5 | comment |
The 20th Anniversary Edition of Mage: The Ascension even includes a Rote that allows you to draw on the resonance of a cocked gun (or a drawn sword) and channel it into attacking more targets with. | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_ac8b90f5 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_ac8b90f5 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Mage: The Ascension (Tabletop Game) | hasFeature |
Dramatic Gun Cock / int_ac8b90f5 | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_adb73758 | type |
Dramatic Gun Cock | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_adb73758 | comment |
Joe Dawson does it in Highlander: The Source before opening fire on The Guardian. Rather silly example in the regard that he is using a pump-action shotgun, and ejects an unspent shell. | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_adb73758 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_adb73758 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Highlander: The Source | hasFeature |
Dramatic Gun Cock / int_adb73758 | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_afa1611b | type |
Dramatic Gun Cock | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_afa1611b | comment |
The finale of American Gangster has Richie Roberts (Russell Crowe) do this every single time he runs into someone. This works out to racking a shotgun with 4+1 capacity seven times. | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_afa1611b | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_afa1611b | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| American Gangster | hasFeature |
Dramatic Gun Cock / int_afa1611b | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_b0793848 | type |
Dramatic Gun Cock | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_b0793848 | comment |
Used in both The Boondock Saints films: the McManus brothers hold their pistols to the back of their victim's head, and recite their family prayer before firing, such that the prayer ends like this: "In nomine patris, et filii..." CLICK "...et spiritus sancti." BLAM. | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_b0793848 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_b0793848 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Boondock Saints | hasFeature |
Dramatic Gun Cock / int_b0793848 | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_b11e29d2 | type |
Dramatic Gun Cock | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_b11e29d2 | comment |
Outlaw Star: Gene does this to Harry once. | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_b11e29d2 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_b11e29d2 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Outlaw Star (Manga) | hasFeature |
Dramatic Gun Cock / int_b11e29d2 | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_b24f49ab | type |
Dramatic Gun Cock | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_b24f49ab | comment |
Back to the Future Part II: Happens twice as Marty faces the Biff Tannen of 1985-A: First, after Biff tells Marty about how he got the Gray's Sports Almanac from the old Biff of 2015: Afterwards, as Biff pursues Marty onto the roof of his casino/hotel: |
|
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_b24f49ab | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_b24f49ab | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Back to the Future Part II | hasFeature |
Dramatic Gun Cock / int_b24f49ab | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_b36b5c6a | type |
Dramatic Gun Cock | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_b36b5c6a | comment |
Averted in the Michael Mann movie Heat, where the detectives pull back the slide just enough to verify there's a round in the chamber, a technique known as a Press Check, intended to confirm that a weapon is fully ready to fire. | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_b36b5c6a | featureApplicability |
-1.0 | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_b36b5c6a | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Heat | hasFeature |
Dramatic Gun Cock / int_b36b5c6a | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_b4501394 | type |
Dramatic Gun Cock | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_b4501394 | comment |
Left 4 Dead 2 uses this in its opening cutscene: | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_b4501394 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_b4501394 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Left 4 Dead 2 (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Dramatic Gun Cock / int_b4501394 | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_b78ae0b5 | type |
Dramatic Gun Cock | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_b78ae0b5 | comment |
The Blues Brothers: Around 100 rifles, assault rifles, and other firearms are pointed at the brothers in the climactic scene, and we get to hear a lot of them being cocked. note Interestingly, the first click-click is the brothers getting handcuffed. Were the officers and soldiers going to shoot them while in custody? | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_b78ae0b5 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_b78ae0b5 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Blues Brothers | hasFeature |
Dramatic Gun Cock / int_b78ae0b5 | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_b8d2ac56 | type |
Dramatic Gun Cock | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_b8d2ac56 | comment |
Live and Let Die. After exposing Rose Carver as The Mole, Bond pulls back the slide of his PPK next to her face as an Implied Death Threat if she doesn't start talking. | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_b8d2ac56 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_b8d2ac56 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Live and Let Die | hasFeature |
Dramatic Gun Cock / int_b8d2ac56 | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_ba666650 | type |
Dramatic Gun Cock | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_ba666650 | comment |
Both justified and subverted in Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater: The first time Major Ocelot racks the slide on his pistol during the Virtuous Mission (before he kills a KGB team), no bullet comes out of the ejector port which gives the idea that Ocelot doesn't chamber a bullet until he's going to shoot someone (presumably so he can avoid shooting himself while spinning it for a full minute). When he's about to shoot Naked Snake, Ocelot reloads and tries to rack the slide before he fires, an uncommon Middle Eastern technique used to ensure there is an unjammed bullet in the chamber. Since he is obviously trying it for the first time, the gun stovepipes on him. Snake later chastises him for trying a technique he had only heard about and never tried before in the middle of a fight. |
|
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_ba666650 | featureApplicability |
-0.3 | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_ba666650 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Dramatic Gun Cock / int_ba666650 | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_bac8c243 | type |
Dramatic Gun Cock | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_bac8c243 | comment |
The Mask: The Mask responds to the bad guy's show of force... with his own — at least 28 weapons pulled from behind his back. | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_bac8c243 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_bac8c243 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Mask | hasFeature |
Dramatic Gun Cock / int_bac8c243 | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_bacb3abc | type |
Dramatic Gun Cock | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_bacb3abc | comment |
The Rock: | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_bacb3abc | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_bacb3abc | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Rock | hasFeature |
Dramatic Gun Cock / int_bacb3abc | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_bad6ce79 | type |
Dramatic Gun Cock | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_bad6ce79 | comment |
X-Men: Taken to the extreme by Magneto when, after yanking all the cops' guns out of their hands and pointing them at their owners' heads, he cocks every one at once. His younger self repeats this action in X-Men: Days of Future Past, but with the firearms of the Secret Service agents who are assigned to protect President Nixon and his cabinet. | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_bad6ce79 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_bad6ce79 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| X-Men | hasFeature |
Dramatic Gun Cock / int_bad6ce79 | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_bc3e398b | type |
Dramatic Gun Cock | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_bc3e398b | comment |
Inverted in Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles, where John has to quietly and carefully pump a shotgun while Cromartie is walking around his house. The not-so-dramatic noise nearly reveals to Cromartie where John is hiding. Another time, Cameron is seen simply moving a Glock in a threatening manner, and you hear a loud "click". Note that she never moves her thumb, and even if she did, Glocks are guns which have neither a hammer (striker-fired) nor even a manual safety (the trigger is a "safe-action" design that makes a traditional safety redundant), meaning there is nothing to cock, short of using your other hand to pull the slide back and chamber a new round, thereby either wasting a bullet, or showing that the gun was completely harmless before. |
|
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_bc3e398b | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_bc3e398b | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles | hasFeature |
Dramatic Gun Cock / int_bc3e398b | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_bc848d30 | type |
Dramatic Gun Cock | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_bc848d30 | comment |
SpongeBob SquarePants: When Patrick catches Spongebob stealing his secret box, thinking he's a clam burglar. | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_bc848d30 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_bc848d30 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| SpongeBob SquarePants | hasFeature |
Dramatic Gun Cock / int_bc848d30 | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_bfcfaed0 | type |
Dramatic Gun Cock | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_bfcfaed0 | comment |
In the final scene of Natural Born Killers, a shotgun is pumped multiple times without ejecting a shell. | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_bfcfaed0 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_bfcfaed0 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Natural Born Killers | hasFeature |
Dramatic Gun Cock / int_bfcfaed0 | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_c0d295c4 | type |
Dramatic Gun Cock | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_c0d295c4 | comment |
From the Team Fortress 2 video "Meet the Spy", the Soldier dramatically cocks his shotgun, while claiming that the BLU Spy was the RED Spy all along. Notably, he cocks the gun after shooting the Spy, meaning he doesn't waste a round, and is also ready with his next shot, which is rare enough in fiction that it's actually worth mentioning. Incidentally, the only time this trope is played straight in-game is with the Pyro, who pumps its shotgun every time you pull it out (other classes with the same weapon simply ready it). This gets a bit absurd if you combine the Reserve Shooter and Degreaser, which makes it so Pyro can put away his flamethrower, pull out his shotgun, pump it, and ready it in less than 0.2 seconds. |
|
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_c0d295c4 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_c0d295c4 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Team Fortress 2 (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Dramatic Gun Cock / int_c0d295c4 | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_c3c1f1d2 | type |
Dramatic Gun Cock | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_c3c1f1d2 | comment |
The Matrix Revolutions features one during the Mexican Standoff in Club Hel. | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_c3c1f1d2 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_c3c1f1d2 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Matrix Revolutions | hasFeature |
Dramatic Gun Cock / int_c3c1f1d2 | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_c4076b9e | type |
Dramatic Gun Cock | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_c4076b9e | comment |
Gunslinger Girl: Fiery Redhead cyborg Petra pointedly cocks her submachine gun when someone makes a snide comment about her handler Sandro, whom she is infatuated with. Afterwards Sandro warns her against doing this simply because she is angry. | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_c4076b9e | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_c4076b9e | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Gunslinger Girl (Manga) | hasFeature |
Dramatic Gun Cock / int_c4076b9e | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_c43df4d8 | type |
Dramatic Gun Cock | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_c43df4d8 | comment |
Doctor Who: New-Who is severely overloaded with this trope. Pretty much every time anybody points a gun at anything, there is a dramatic gun cock. If they turn and point at something else, there's another one. It would seem that firearms in the Whoniverse not only have to be manually cocked, but the slightest motion will cause them to uncock without firing and force them to be cocked again. Exceptions are sometimes made for ray guns and other non-standard firearms... although the number of energy weapons that have to be pumped like shotguns is really quite remarkable. "The Stolen Earth"/"Journey's End": The BFGs being wielded by certain characters are pump-action, with the pumps being used for extra emphasis at times. "The End of Time": During a standoff, the Doctor acts particularly indecisive and remarkably careless when deciding who to shoot... and seemingly re-cocks the gun every time he aims it at someone else. While he Doesn't Like Guns and might not know how they work, it's a revolver so that shouldn't even be possible. It gets worse. If you look close, you can see the way he's holding the gun he has the trigger pulled all the way. "The Big Bang": River's nonchalant and very feminine way of setting her ray gun to, presumably, the "terminate with extreme prejudice" setting is an unusual but quite chilling variant of this trope. "Let's Kill Hitler": Rory does this. Against Hitler. Done by Riddell in "Dinosaurs on a Spaceship" as he and Amy prepare to face down the titular dinosaurs. Done later by Nefertiti as she emerges from his tent (presumably post-coitally) for no real reason. |
|
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_c43df4d8 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_c43df4d8 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Doctor Who | hasFeature |
Dramatic Gun Cock / int_c43df4d8 | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_c487221e | type |
Dramatic Gun Cock | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_c487221e | comment |
Men in Black has Edgar replying to the Bug who asked him to put down his shotgun with "You can have my gun *chk chk* when you pry it from my cold dead fingers." The response is "Your proposal is acceptable" and a painful death for Edgar. Elsewhere, at the climax, Jay and Kay carry pump-action weapons. The script even notes, "[Kay] pumps the gun for emphasis." | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_c487221e | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_c487221e | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Men in Black | hasFeature |
Dramatic Gun Cock / int_c487221e | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_c4f964a1 | type |
Dramatic Gun Cock | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_c4f964a1 | comment |
In Billy Madison, Eric does this while aiming his revolver at Billy. | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_c4f964a1 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_c4f964a1 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Billy Madison | hasFeature |
Dramatic Gun Cock / int_c4f964a1 | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_c60c11f4 | type |
Dramatic Gun Cock | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_c60c11f4 | comment |
Characters on Money Heist do this a lot, both protagonists and antagonists alike. | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_c60c11f4 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_c60c11f4 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Money Heist | hasFeature |
Dramatic Gun Cock / int_c60c11f4 | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_c75d67d | type |
Dramatic Gun Cock | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_c75d67d | comment |
Person of Interest: Reese's Batman Gambit has failed. He takes a pump-action shotgun from a bag labeled "Plan B". | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_c75d67d | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_c75d67d | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Person of Interest | hasFeature |
Dramatic Gun Cock / int_c75d67d | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_c95e9d87 | type |
Dramatic Gun Cock | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_c95e9d87 | comment |
Up: Variation — the lever-action rifle in question is fired correctly, but both the camera and character pause considerably when chambering a new round. | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_c95e9d87 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_c95e9d87 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Up | hasFeature |
Dramatic Gun Cock / int_c95e9d87 | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_c97b59d9 | type |
Dramatic Gun Cock | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_c97b59d9 | comment |
Secret Wars (2015): Frank Castle crashes a Villainous End of the World party. | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_c97b59d9 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_c97b59d9 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Secret Wars (2015) (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
Dramatic Gun Cock / int_c97b59d9 | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_c987375d | type |
Dramatic Gun Cock | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_c987375d | comment |
In Secret Warriors, Nick Fury has just told his men that they are going after their former comrades-in-arms. Dum Dum objects: 'But Nick, what will you feel when you shoot a friend!?' Fury answers with cocking his gun and a single word: "Recoil." | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_c987375d | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_c987375d | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Secret Warriors (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
Dramatic Gun Cock / int_c987375d | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_cb6abef3 | type |
Dramatic Gun Cock | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_cb6abef3 | comment |
In The Avengers (2012), the trailer's Establishing Character Moment for Hawkeye (he also has a cameo in Thor), where he cocks his bow. | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_cb6abef3 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_cb6abef3 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Avengers (2012) | hasFeature |
Dramatic Gun Cock / int_cb6abef3 | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_cc474052 | type |
Dramatic Gun Cock | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_cc474052 | comment |
In the Discworld Roleplaying Game, the type of repeating crossbow used in the swashbuckling seaports of the Brown Islands is stated to make a sinister “kerr-chunkâ€� noise when operated — apparently its most important feature. | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_cc474052 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_cc474052 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Discworld Role-Playing Game (Tabletop Game) | hasFeature |
Dramatic Gun Cock / int_cc474052 | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_d109f322 | type |
Dramatic Gun Cock | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_d109f322 | comment |
Every time someone draws a weapon or points it at someone in Andromeda there's a "power-up" sound, presumably the energy weapon equivalent of a gun cock. However, this doesn't seem to be the result of any action on the part of the person holding the gun. | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_d109f322 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_d109f322 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Andromeda | hasFeature |
Dramatic Gun Cock / int_d109f322 | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_d14c3aa1 | type |
Dramatic Gun Cock | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_d14c3aa1 | comment |
Ghostbusters (1984): Done with Energy Weapons in the climax. Having reached the Big Bad, the team confidently stride up to her seat of power and go through their proton packs' startup-sequence slowly and methodically, which includes two versions of the gun cock: the simultaneous, distinctive whine of the particle throwers as they're powered on, and the mechanical extension of the wands at their business end. | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_d14c3aa1 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_d14c3aa1 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Ghostbusters (1984) | hasFeature |
Dramatic Gun Cock / int_d14c3aa1 | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_d328cd69 | type |
Dramatic Gun Cock | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_d328cd69 | comment |
In Dungeon Fighter Online, the Gunner character class cocks his gun every 5 seconds when in town. There are usually at least ten of them. | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_d328cd69 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_d328cd69 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Dungeon Fighter Online (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Dramatic Gun Cock / int_d328cd69 | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_d44bb56 | type |
Dramatic Gun Cock | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_d44bb56 | comment |
In Stagecoach, John Wayne pulls this off with a lever-action rifle. | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_d44bb56 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_d44bb56 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Stagecoach | hasFeature |
Dramatic Gun Cock / int_d44bb56 | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_d46beefd | type |
Dramatic Gun Cock | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_d46beefd | comment |
In the Wild Wild West movie, when West realizes that the President is not who he appears to be, he points a gun to his head: | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_d46beefd | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_d46beefd | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Wild Wild West | hasFeature |
Dramatic Gun Cock / int_d46beefd | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_d54a63c9 | type |
Dramatic Gun Cock | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_d54a63c9 | comment |
The Longest Day: A rare example of one of these after the action: an American paratrooper fumbles around in the dark. He hears something rustling in the bushes, and uses a clicking device provided to GIs to identify friend from foe in the dark. He clicks once, then hears two clicks in return, indicating the reply of a friendly soldier. So then he stands up outside of cover - and gets shot in the gut. Cue a German soldier walking into the frame, working the action on a Mauser rifle: click clack, click clack...note As usual you have to wonder why he was wandering around the battlefield with an unloaded gun in the first place. | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_d54a63c9 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_d54a63c9 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Longest Day | hasFeature |
Dramatic Gun Cock / int_d54a63c9 | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_d68df17d | type |
Dramatic Gun Cock | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_d68df17d | comment |
On Top Gear's Polar Special, James May cocks his shotgun for the camera as he keeps watch while Jeremy Clarkson is enthroned on a portable toilet affixed to their truck's back bumper. Clarkson immediately calls out: "James, are you showing off, or are you actually looking for bears over there? Because I can't run." | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_d68df17d | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_d68df17d | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Top Gear | hasFeature |
Dramatic Gun Cock / int_d68df17d | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_d7626bdd | type |
Dramatic Gun Cock | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_d7626bdd | comment |
Deadpool (2016): Ajax and Angel Dust enter Weasel's bar and attempt to rough him up for information on Wade. Cue roughly thirty seconds of gun-cocking as every single person in the bar draws on them. Ajax promptly withdraws. | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_d7626bdd | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_d7626bdd | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Deadpool (2016) | hasFeature |
Dramatic Gun Cock / int_d7626bdd | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_d7c9f170 | type |
Dramatic Gun Cock | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_d7c9f170 | comment |
The Matrix Reloaded has Morpheus doing this for emphasis before the freeway chase starts. | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_d7c9f170 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_d7c9f170 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Matrix Reloaded | hasFeature |
Dramatic Gun Cock / int_d7c9f170 | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_d969ac61 | type |
Dramatic Gun Cock | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_d969ac61 | comment |
Silent Night, Deadly Night Part 2 Ricky is threatened by a cop who cocks his revolver and says "Yeah, I know how to use this!" he then kills him and steals it. | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_d969ac61 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_d969ac61 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Silent Night, Deadly Night Part 2 | hasFeature |
Dramatic Gun Cock / int_d969ac61 | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_d9c602eb | type |
Dramatic Gun Cock | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_d9c602eb | comment |
South Park: parodied several times in "Lil' Crime Stoppers" when the boys are playing Cop games. Stan makes a dramatic line and to double the drama pumps his shotgun... of course they don't actually have shotguns so Stan just pumps his imaginary one and makes the "Ch-ch" sound himself. And then there's the time Stan cocks a real gun... | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_d9c602eb | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_d9c602eb | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| South Park | hasFeature |
Dramatic Gun Cock / int_d9c602eb | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_da72f901 | type |
Dramatic Gun Cock | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_da72f901 | comment |
Jackie Brown Invoked when Ordell Robbie wants a criminal associate to pop up from his trunk and rack the slide on a shotgun as an Implied Death Threat during an arms deal in case they plan to rip him off. Ordell is in a dark room standing uncomfortably close to the title character, when he hears the sound of a pistol being cocked. |
|
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_da72f901 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_da72f901 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Jackie Brown | hasFeature |
Dramatic Gun Cock / int_da72f901 | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_dab32e3 | type |
Dramatic Gun Cock | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_dab32e3 | comment |
At the end of the introductory highway stage in Mega Man X, the sound of Zero's blaster charging up replaces the click. | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_dab32e3 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_dab32e3 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Mega Man X (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Dramatic Gun Cock / int_dab32e3 | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_dab6270b | type |
Dramatic Gun Cock | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_dab6270b | comment |
Used by Gordie in Stand by Me when defending himself against Ace and his switchblade knife. It would be justified example because the 1911A1 pistol he's using is single action and would need to manually cocked, except that Gordie already fired off a warning shot, so the hammer would've already been cocked back. | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_dab6270b | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_dab6270b | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Stand by Me | hasFeature |
Dramatic Gun Cock / int_dab6270b | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_e293455a | type |
Dramatic Gun Cock | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_e293455a | comment |
Buffy the Vampire Slayer In "Homecoming", Buffy cocks a pump-action rifle for dramatic effect repeatedly. This bites her in the ass when she quickly runs out of ammo. It also makes sense, given that she's almost certainly never used a gun before. In "Touched", there's a Dramatic Gun Cock sound when a homeowner brandishes a shotgun at Buffy. It's a hammerless double-barreled type that should not produce such a sound. |
|
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_e293455a | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_e293455a | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Buffy the Vampire Slayer | hasFeature |
Dramatic Gun Cock / int_e293455a | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_e4732abc | type |
Dramatic Gun Cock | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_e4732abc | comment |
And of course, the 'FWOOOAAAEEE' sound of Ronon's gun powering up in Stargate Atlantis. And, to a lesser extent, Teyla cocking her P90 upon realizing she can't buy more time when she was being forced to execute Sheppard by a not-quite-herself Weir. | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_e4732abc | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_e4732abc | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Stargate Atlantis | hasFeature |
Dramatic Gun Cock / int_e4732abc | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_e7e37776 | type |
Dramatic Gun Cock | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_e7e37776 | comment |
Firefly: Jayne seems to speak almost entirely in dramatic gun cocks. Mal also seems fond of doing it at times, either to make a point (such as in the "Big Damn Heroes" scene in "Safe") or as a way of saying "Cut the bullshit" if someone is trying to con him. It's particularly noticeable in his interactions with Saffron. Played for laughs when Wash cocks a tiny pistol rather dramatically in "War Stories". "Jaynestown": take notice of the sound when "Stitch" Hessian points his shotgun at Mal's face. Seeing as Stitch doesn't pump the action (he's holding the shotgun one-handed) and that model doesn't have an exposed hammer, what exactly is creating the cocking sound? Many of the weapons in Firefly have, in place of a dramatic gun cock, a dramatic electrical whine (regardless of if the weapon appears to be purely conventionally mechanical or not.) In "The Message", Jayne invokes this by racking a shotgun to get a hostage taker to turn towards him, allowing Mal a clean shot without having to Shoot the Hostage. It is notable that he is actually holding two guns at the time and only cocks the second. The interrogation aspect is inverted in Serenity (2005), where Mal is trying to talk down River in Ax-Crazy mode as she has a pistol pointed at his face. |
|
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_e7e37776 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_e7e37776 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Firefly | hasFeature |
Dramatic Gun Cock / int_e7e37776 | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_e831702 | type |
Dramatic Gun Cock | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_e831702 | comment |
Averted in Receiver, as you have a different button for every part of your gun, including cocking the hammer and the slide. Pulling the slide with a bullet in the chamber makes your precious ammo fall to the ground. | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_e831702 | featureApplicability |
-1.0 | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_e831702 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Receiver (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Dramatic Gun Cock / int_e831702 | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_eb049de6 | type |
Dramatic Gun Cock | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_eb049de6 | comment |
Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows. After making Sherlock Holmes toss aside his revolver, Sebastian Moran invites him to take an automatic C96 Mauser pistol and even insert an (anachronistic — they used stripper clips at the time) box magazine. Holmes notes that the latter does make loading easier, but you'd still need to retract the bolt—Moran has his pistol cocked and aimed at Sherlock's head in an instant. | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_eb049de6 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_eb049de6 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows | hasFeature |
Dramatic Gun Cock / int_eb049de6 | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_ecc36299 | type |
Dramatic Gun Cock | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_ecc36299 | comment |
The title screen clip for Shadow the Hedgehog. And then the introductory cutscene has Shadow cocking a submachine gun like it's a shotgun. Even stranger, there are no shotgun-type weapons in the game at all. | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_ecc36299 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_ecc36299 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Shadow the Hedgehog (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Dramatic Gun Cock / int_ecc36299 | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_ede55421 | type |
Dramatic Gun Cock | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_ede55421 | comment |
In Doom Eternal, the Doom Slayer tends to pump his shotgun in placement of a verbal threat. When confronted by Hell Priests who lambast him for getting in their way, he simply turns to face them and pumps his shotty, which is enough to scare them away. | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_ede55421 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_ede55421 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Doom Eternal (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Dramatic Gun Cock / int_ede55421 | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_eef6621b | type |
Dramatic Gun Cock | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_eef6621b | comment |
When Laurence Fishburne's character in Event Horizon acquires a revolver-style bolt gun, he produces not one, but four extremely satisfying gun cocking sounds: He inserts the drum, spins it, snaps the back of the gun shut and then cocks it with a sound more appropriate for a small cannon. | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_eef6621b | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_eef6621b | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Event Horizon | hasFeature |
Dramatic Gun Cock / int_eef6621b | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_eef69f10 | type |
Dramatic Gun Cock | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_eef69f10 | comment |
Sherlock Holmes gives us the description of Colonel Moran assembling and loading his massive air gun, which gives off several sharp clicking and grinding noises in the process. For added drama, there was near pitch darkness in the room, so Watson could only see him in very general details. | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_eef69f10 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_eef69f10 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Sherlock Holmes | hasFeature |
Dramatic Gun Cock / int_eef69f10 | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_efa22b3d | type |
Dramatic Gun Cock | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_efa22b3d | comment |
The Good Hunter: Natsume, unprepared for the Hunter's assault, flees from his abode. It looks like she has lost him, but then... | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_efa22b3d | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_efa22b3d | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Good Hunter (Fanfic) | hasFeature |
Dramatic Gun Cock / int_efa22b3d | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_f0047778 | type |
Dramatic Gun Cock | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_f0047778 | comment |
Justified in Void Dogs, with Cicada's GSMR. The gun fires self-propelled rocket rounds so there's no reason for it to cock, but it has a button that makes ominous, attention-grabbing noises so she can do this and *Click* Hello. | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_f0047778 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_f0047778 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Void Dogs | hasFeature |
Dramatic Gun Cock / int_f0047778 | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_f1c84c54 | type |
Dramatic Gun Cock | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_f1c84c54 | comment |
Discussed in the Jack Reacher novel The Affair, when Reacher, sneaking up on someone, does this to hopefully avoid a gunfight. He mentally compares the advantage (hopefully avoiding violence) with the disadvantage (if it does come to a shoot out, he'll have ejected a perfectly good shell he might end up needing). | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_f1c84c54 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_f1c84c54 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Jack Reacher | hasFeature |
Dramatic Gun Cock / int_f1c84c54 | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_f22e6bb4 | type |
Dramatic Gun Cock | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_f22e6bb4 | comment |
In Black Hawk Down, one of the Rangers is shot and killed while manning the Ma Deuce on the Humvee's roof. A Delta operator takes his place and racks the machine gun's charging handle before he opens fire.note A standard procedure on that weapon, to ensure that the weapon is not jammed before he tries to use it. | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_f22e6bb4 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_f22e6bb4 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Black Hawk Down | hasFeature |
Dramatic Gun Cock / int_f22e6bb4 | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_f4e799ee | type |
Dramatic Gun Cock | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_f4e799ee | comment |
Seems like Fiona does this with a shotgun every other week on Burn Notice. Jesse also does it, thumbing back the hammer on his pistol before not shooting Fiona in the face in "Blind Spot". | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_f4e799ee | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_f4e799ee | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Burn Notice | hasFeature |
Dramatic Gun Cock / int_f4e799ee | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_f53022c6 | type |
Dramatic Gun Cock | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_f53022c6 | comment |
Spending a shot to do this with a shotgun (the "KA-CHINK!" rule) in Feng Shui gets you an extra damage point on your next attack with it. Bonus points for requiring that the player must audibly imitate the sound to get the bonus. | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_f53022c6 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_f53022c6 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Feng Shui (Tabletop Game) | hasFeature |
Dramatic Gun Cock / int_f53022c6 | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_f5c28dbb | type |
Dramatic Gun Cock | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_f5c28dbb | comment |
1632: The first time Scottish soldiers confront future Americans with modern-day shotguns, they see them cock their guns dramatically. Though the Scots are unfamiliar with such weapons and the cocking motion, they immediately realize that these menacing-looking guns are now primed and ready to fire. | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_f5c28dbb | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_f5c28dbb | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| 1632 | hasFeature |
Dramatic Gun Cock / int_f5c28dbb | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_f6a1016f | type |
Dramatic Gun Cock | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_f6a1016f | comment |
The Matrix: This trope appears in all three films in the series: In the original film, there's a moment of incompetence from the SWAT team when our heroes fall into the basement - the SWAT team runs into position and simultaneously cock their guns before opening fire. Seconds later, the SWAT team turns on their laser sights after Apoc throws a smoke grenade. Oddly however, when the first SWAT member realizes that the heroes are in the wetwall and summarily unloads a magazine into it, he does not do a dramatic gun cock. The Matrix Reloaded has Morpheus doing this for emphasis before the freeway chase starts. The Matrix Revolutions features one during the Mexican Standoff in Club Hel. |
|
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_f6a1016f | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_f6a1016f | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Matrix (Franchise) | hasFeature |
Dramatic Gun Cock / int_f6a1016f | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_f702c688 | type |
Dramatic Gun Cock | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_f702c688 | comment |
Phoenix. In "A Dogs Life", the Major Crime squad are deploying in a service (gas) station prior to a police raid. | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_f702c688 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_f702c688 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Phoenix | hasFeature |
Dramatic Gun Cock / int_f702c688 | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_f74b5f80 | type |
Dramatic Gun Cock | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_f74b5f80 | comment |
Human PPGs in Babylon 5 have a very distinctive capacitor charging whine when powering up. Hearing it usually means that some ass is about to be kicked. And much like in other examples, just about anything you do with a PPG makes it do its version of this. In one episode, you hear the sound repeatedly just from Garibaldi removing and re-inserting the cap (as, according to Word of God, he's seriously considering shooting himself). That's the sound PPGs make on the show when the cap is inserted or removed. On at least one occasion, the sound effect is used to clue the audience in on the fact that Sheridan just unloaded his PPG before handing it to a hostile character. |
|
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_f74b5f80 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_f74b5f80 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Babylon 5 | hasFeature |
Dramatic Gun Cock / int_f74b5f80 | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_f76b14b4 | type |
Dramatic Gun Cock | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_f76b14b4 | comment |
Plenty of straight examples in The Quick and the Dead, but subverted when the Lady is working herself up to shoot Herod under the dinner table with a derringer. She cocks her own gun, only to freeze when she hears an answering click. It turns out to be Herod clicking a silver matchbox lid to freak her out. | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_f76b14b4 | featureApplicability |
-0.3 | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_f76b14b4 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Quick and the Dead | hasFeature |
Dramatic Gun Cock / int_f76b14b4 | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_f785a2f9 | type |
Dramatic Gun Cock | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_f785a2f9 | comment |
Team Neighborhood: Played for Laughs in "Pool Fools". When the BLU team tries to intimidate their Engineer into building a swimming pool, the BLU Scout pumps a shotgun concealed inside a Rainbow Dash body pillow. | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_f785a2f9 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_f785a2f9 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Team Neighborhood (Web Animation) | hasFeature |
Dramatic Gun Cock / int_f785a2f9 | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_f942da8 | type |
Dramatic Gun Cock | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_f942da8 | comment |
S.W.O.R.D. (2009): The conflict between dramatic necessity and the practicalities of technology is beautifully lampshaded. | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_f942da8 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_f942da8 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| S.W.O.R.D. (2009) (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
Dramatic Gun Cock / int_f942da8 | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_fd49dcff | type |
Dramatic Gun Cock | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_fd49dcff | comment |
Die Another Day: Bond is interrogating Gustav Graves with his Walther P99. Miranda Frost walks up and draws her own Walther P99, which, despite being a hammerless pistol-like Glocks are, makes the hammer-cocking sound. | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_fd49dcff | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_fd49dcff | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Die Another Day | hasFeature |
Dramatic Gun Cock / int_fd49dcff | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_fe87f11e | type |
Dramatic Gun Cock | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_fe87f11e | comment |
In A Fistful of Dynamite John Mallory issues one of these before blowing away his former friend-turned-informant Sean Nolan with a shotgun. | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_fe87f11e | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_fe87f11e | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| A Fistful of Dynamite | hasFeature |
Dramatic Gun Cock / int_fe87f11e | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_fee93d77 | type |
Dramatic Gun Cock | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_fee93d77 | comment |
Invoked in 13 Tzameti (and the American remake 13). Players in a Deadly Game of Russian Roulette stand in a circle with their guns pointed at the man in front of them. They cock the gun on command, then fire on another signal. | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_fee93d77 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_fee93d77 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| 13 Tzameti | hasFeature |
Dramatic Gun Cock / int_fee93d77 | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_ff2165b | type |
Dramatic Gun Cock | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_ff2165b | comment |
On Cold Case, Serial Killer George Marks is holding Lily hostage. As Scotty threatens to tear him apart should he harm her, George raises his gun to the receiver and cocks it, as "A gentle reminder to mind your manners". | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_ff2165b | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Dramatic Gun Cock / int_ff2165b | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Cold Case | hasFeature |
Dramatic Gun Cock / int_ff2165b |
The following is a list of statements referring to the current page from other pages.
Copyright of DBTropes.org wrapper 2009-2013 DFKI Knowledge Management. Imprint. - Thanks to Bakken&Baeck for hosting. Contact.
Copyright of data TVTropes.org contributors under Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported License.
Copyright of data TVTropes.org contributors under Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported License.