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The villains ride off into the distance after terrorizing the locals. As they do, they fire off their revolvers into the air. Can also happen as they approach. This activity is still around, except now the shooters use automatic rifles and stand still (or ride on the back of a Toyota Hilux). Real-life stock footage of Muslim extremists and South American/African revolutionaries, or generally happy people doing just this will often show up in news stories (for example after the capture of Saddam Hussein). It's sometimes referred to as "happy fire". An increasingly common gag is to have the character waste most or all of their ammo in a manic fit of in air firing. Remember: what goes up, must come down. Disregarding air resistance, a bullet fired straight up comes down at the exact same speed as it was when the bullet came out of the chamber. Thus far, few people have ever been shown being injured by a stray bullet from this display, which could impact the ground or injure/kill someone at about 200 MPH a fair distance away (this works out to a little under 300 feet per second; slow by ballistic standards, but fast enough to do damage if it lands in the wrong place). (The MythBusters have investigated the inherent possibilities, though...) Shotguns are far safer in this regard and more tolerated by the authorities when fired in celebration by hunters, as the energy of birdshot pellets, which are very small and very low-mass, disperses quickly and beyond a few dozens of yards they are mostly harmless. As usual, The Other Wiki has more details than you could ever reasonably ask. Can overlap with Shouting Shooter. Compare Stab the Sky, A-Team Firing. Examples where the person doing the shooting is trying to accomplish something specific, like quell a Powder Keg Crowd or intimidate people, may fit better under "Shut Up!" Gunshot. |
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In Sherlock, this is his preferred method of calling the police. | |
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Kamille Bidan in Mobile Suit Zeta Gundam does this in the penultimate episode with the titular mech. Understandable, seeing how someone he cared about had just died, along with having to kill someone he didn't even like. | |
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Southern good ol' boys celebrate a wedding by firing their six-shooters in the air in Hitman: Blood Money. This can be used to mask the sound of a gunshot 47 fires at his target. | |
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A group of drunken cowboys do this, shooting out the streetlights on the way, during the opening credits of the pilot movie of Barbary Coast. | |
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Parodied and subverted in The Naked Gun 33â…“. | |
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Cannon: In "Devil's Playground", a petty crook is so excited when he gets his hands on a sub-machine gun that he immediately fires several bursts into the air. | |
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Parodied in The Simpsons, where recurrer Rich Texan (name and occupation) does this constantly. In at least one episode, he has been court-ordered to fire only blanks after one of his stray bullets hit a Texas ranger, and he comments that it just doesn't feel the same. According to one episode, he believes that this trope is the reason firearms exist at all. In another episode, he claimed to have OCD, and that most of his mannerisms, including this trope, are how it manifests Referenced in another episode, where a soccer commentator asks the audience not to fire guns into the air should their team win, because "the bullets will come down... and kill my sister." Yet another episode had Homer trying to drum up business for Barney's Bowl-A-Rama by firing off a shotgun and shouting "BOWLING HERE!" |
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MythBusters showed that this happens as long as the rifle/pistol is not pointing perfectly straight up into the air - on the fluke chance that it is, the bullet will just drift. Of course, the ability of your average celebratory shooter managing this is not all that high. Warning: Science content! A bullet fired straight up, or very nearly so, will expend all of its momentum in gaining altitude, less a little bit lost to air resistance. It will then fall back down, its velocity limited by air resistance. A bullet fired at an angle, however, even a steep one, will still have a very high velocity when it comes back down. This is why they awarded the trope when they tested with all three conclusions — Busted, because they couldn't replicate it in the lab; Plausible, because people don't naturally shoot straight up; and Confirmed, because of the many, many verified reports of injuries and fatalities from hospitals all over the world of bullets shot into the air and still coming down with enough force to seriously injure or kill. | |
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Horrible Histories: Wyatt Earp and Billy the Kid do this repeatedly in one of the Cliff Whiteley sketches. Cliff is not happy about the damage to his ceiling. | |
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Looney Tunes: Yosemite Sam would shoot up in the air, and every other which way, including down to the ground, which would lift him up with each shot. He's barred from doing so in The Looney Tunes Show due to the grounded setting's gun control laws, but goes nuts with glee with a starting pistol for a footrace. | |
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Rambo does this occasionally, most notably in Rambo: First Blood Part II when he shoots up Murdock's computers at the end. | |
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In Idiocracy, the President, to get Congress's attention, lets loose with a machine gun into the ceiling of the House chamber. | |
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Parodied in Arrested Development, where every time someone fires into the air, it hits a person or animal. | |
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In The Dark Knight Rises, when Gordon and his cops are being sent out onto the ice, and are walking slowly, one of the mercenaries fires his automatic into the air to make them move faster. In the shootout with Captain Jones's men, a couple of mercenaries are seen firing weapons into the air at the start. During the stock exchange robbery, the robbers fire their weapons at the trading screens when they enter. When Bane declares that they are leaving, one mercenary fires multiple bursts into the ceiling with his submachine gun while ordering the hostages to stand up. |
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Australian comedy show Fast Forward had a skit The Saddams Family, with Saddam Hussein's family firing their guns in the air instead of The Addams Family finger snaps. | |
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One of the weapon skills of the Machinist job from Final Fantasy XIV is Lead Shot. When using it, the Player Character will fire straight up in the air, and the shot will somehow fall on the targeted enemy a second later to apply a Damage Over Time effect. The Machinist job quest chain also features Joye, a simple hyur girl that undergoes a hair and personality transformation whenever she has to use her gun. The transformation is preceded by a ton of cursing and shots in the air on her part. |
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As the quote above would indicate, Hot Fuzz Lampshades the use of this by a single character (as a reference to Point Break (1991)), then later in the film directly parodies it. | |
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The Mexican had a bullet from one of these parties come down and kill someone, leaving the lead in a bit of a predicament. | |
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Dead Man's Gun: The first crime Leo Sunshine has to deal with as marshal of Apache Springs is a bunch of drunken cowhands shooting up the main street. | |
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Yellowstone: John Dutton fires into the air once to scare away some crazily unconscious tourists who were watching a bear from about twenty yards up, and next, to check that if he had fired in one spot, the shell casings from the rifle would have landed right next to him, he fired a couple more times into the air. Part of this is justified by the fact that he was doing this in one of the least densely populated places in the United States, but still, every time he did this, there were people with him who could have been hit. | |
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Deconstructed in Reno 911!. The Iraqi police officers that the Reno Sheriff's Department is training have a habit of firing their guns in the air in celebration. The deputies respond to this by telling them to run since the lead's probably going to be coming back down soon. | |
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Parodied in 21 Jump Street. During the big hotel shootout, while Jenko uses his gun competently, Schimdt fires into the air until his gun is empty. Schimdt excitedly asks how many bad guys he killed, and Jenko answers, "All your shots went into the ceiling!" | |
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A segment in Mind of Mencia where Mencia attempts to teach gang-bangers to shoot other gang-bangers ends in this, with all the gang-bangers killed by falling bullets and Mencia having ducked under a car, telling viewers that what goes up must come down. | |
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Mad Max: Fury Road. Rictus Erectus fires his drum-fed RPD machine gun in the air in fury after one of the pregnant Wives is accidentally killed, despite living in a Scavenger World where bullets are a scarce resource. | |
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In Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3, during the mission "Back on the Grid", a group of militiamen douse a civilian in gasoline and set him ablaze (unless you stop them in time). One of them fires his gun into the air as the civilian is being dragged to his place of execution. | |
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Hondo Ohnaka's Not-So-Big-Score Hondo's subordinate Dagu Flask has a habit of shooting holes in the ceiling while celebrating good news. | |
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In Black Patch, Flytrap and Holman do this when the stagger out of the saloon drunk. Marshal Clay Morgan comes up behind them and makes them drop their guns before they can draw on each other. Flytrap tries to use this as excuse to push the marshal into a duel, but Clay just arrests them for being drunk and disorderly and makes them spend the night in the cells. | |
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Happens during the level "The Coup" in Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare, where a platoon of Al-Asad's soldiers fire their guns into the air in celebration at the sight of the captured president Al-Fulani being brought to his execution. | |
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John McClane does this in Die Hard in order to get the civilians off the roof of the building. Unfortunately for him, the gung-ho FBI agents in a helicopter think he's firing at ''them'' and shoot back. |
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A very early episode (#3, in fact) of Stargate SG-1 has SG-1 trade a handgun for Carter's freedom from a barbaric chieftain. He celebrates this wondrous new acquisition by repeatedly firing it into the air... While the team make a hasty exit before he gets his first lesson in magazine capacity. The Free Jaffa also do this on at least one occasion. | |
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Parodied in The Colbert Report when Stephen celebrates Chicago lifting a 3 decade long ban on handguns by firing Sweetness into the air and having Jimmy drop the balloons... which were all popped by the bullets. | |
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Better Call Saul: When Lalo arrives at his villa, one of the guards grabs the side of the car for a ride-along while firing his gun in the air in celebration of his boss's return. | |
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Whenever the Golden Path rebels in Far Cry 4 are victorious against a Royal Army patrol or manage to fight off a wild animal, the survivors will celebrate their victory by repeatedly emptying their AK-47s into the air, going through magazine after magazine. This celebtration will last until either the player moves away far enough for the game to despawn the rebels, or - in case the player hangs around - the constant gunfire attracts another Royal Army patrol, or another wild animal decides to have them for lunch. What's a bit absurd about those celebrations is not only that weapons and ammo are supposedly rather scarce and not that easy to come by for the rebels, but that they'll celebrate even when they got wiped out almost completely. A lone survivor will happily keep firing into the air and proclaim his combat prowess and manliness while vultures are turning his former comrades into a nice in-between meal. | |
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Happens in the 2008 Iron Man movie. The doctor that we get introduced to picks up an assault rifle and runs around shooting the ceiling (and not the baddies) with it. I guess he takes his "Do no harm" oath very seriously. |
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When Gwenpool tries to demonstrate that this trope in a comic is harmless, the shots hit a flock of birds who proceed to fall on a pursuing police car's windshield, which crashes. | |
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Featured in an article in The Onion "Kentucky, Iraq Vie For World Shooting-Into-The-Air Supremacy". | |
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In The Over-the-Hill Gang Rides Again, the first crime the Baltimore Kid stops as town marshal is a group of rowdy cowhands who are riding through the town firing into the air. | |
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A fun scene, from ¡Three Amigos!: the Amigos themselves are doing this, riding around the banditos and firing their (blank-loaded) revolvers in the air. The bad guys are amused, and fire one round. Straight into Steve Martin. And how not to fire in the air: later in the film, they are instructed to fire in the air once each to summon a spirit. Lucky Day and Ned Nederlander both fire into the air. Dusty Bottoms's shot is more horizontal. Straight into the Invisible Swordsman they were summoning. |
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On M*A*S*H Hawkeye and Col. Potter are pinned down in a foxhole by enemy fire. Hawkeye, being a doctor, refuses to shoot back, so Potter orders him to do this instead as an attempt to scare them off. | |
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ERod of The Blockbuster Buster has been injured due to someone firing their gun in the air. He describes his experience here. | |
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Unhappy variant in Army Men: Sarge's War, with Sarge doing this Guns Akimbo with machine guns after realizing Everybody's Dead, Dave. | |
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Parodied in the film adaptation of Postal. A group of Taliban terrorists are getting pumped for their mission and start firing their AK-47s in the air... inside a van. | |
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In Dragon Ball Super, after Zamasu coverts the entire Earth into a barren wasteland after killing every human on the planet, Future Mai goes into a grief-stricken rage and fires her shotgun at the sky while screaming in denial at what has transpired. | |
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The Hitman with a Heart protagonist of the Heroic Bloodshed film, A Killer's Blues, eventually found the courage to propose to his girlfriend after 17 years of courtship. When the girlfriend express her concerns that he's a hitman and killer by profession, he then fires his pistol repeatedly in the air, emptying it's contents, and threw the gun into the nearby beach where he's proposing. | |
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Hal and Otto do this in an episode of Malcolm in the Middle, and Otto manages to get hit in the rear as the bullets come back down. | |
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Justified on an episode of CSI: Miami where Horatio and Delko find bank robbers firing multiple rounds in the air. After taking the robbers down, the two remark on how odd it was for these men to be wasting so much ammo. They realize the firing was all a distraction to cover the real theft happening in an office a couple of floors above. | |
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At the end of Jarhead, after not getting to use their guns once for the entire movie, every single character begins firing their weapons into the air when they hear that they are going back home. | |
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In the HBO mini-series Generation Kill, one episode has Iraqi civilians, rebels and/or military defectors firing AKs (actually Norinco Type-56s) into the air after the local Republican Guard pulls out of a nearby town. The observing Marine Force Recon members note to themselves and their higher ups that it is celebratory gunfire and not a sign of open hostility to the US Marines' presence. | |
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Futurama: Bender does this in the episode "Where no Fan has Gone Before", where they are pitted in a fight to the death. While Fry and Leela come up with plans to create primitive weapons out of caterpillars and rocks, Bender claims "...And we can use this gun to shoot them!" before demonstrating the trope, and using up all of the bullets that would have been very useful later on. Zapp Brannigan invokes the trope when drafting the entire population of Earth to fight off the Omicronian invasion in "When Aliens Attack." |
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Parodied in Shanghai Noon when a sheriff fires into the air to stop a bar brawl. A large amount of plaster then lands on the head of the deputy standing next to him. | |
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Several times in Wrong is Right. The marine guards at the Hagreb embassy do this to drive back a crowd of rioters, the terrorists at Rafeeq's training camp do this for the media cameras, and it also happens at Senator Mallory's political rally in Texas. | |
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In Transformers: Age of Extinction, Hound the Autobot military truck fires off several rounds when Optimus rejoins the Autobots after some time missing in action. Later in the movie, he runs out of ammo. Probably should have restrained himself. | |
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Zombieland. Tallahassee is so exuberant at finding a bag full of illicit automatic weapons (after his own lever-action has been stolen) he fires a Heckler & Koch MP7 in the air. | |
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When the Frog realizes the protagonists are onto him in Red 2, he pulls an Uzi out of his handbag and sprays bullets into the ceiling, causing the café to empty out and allowing him to slip away in the chaos. | |
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In Cryptonomicon, Company 2702 does this with a heavy machine gun to kill Italian troops that are pinned down, but outside of line of sight due to a slight hill. They even do the math to figure out what angle to aim it at, and how long they'll have to do it to saturate the target area with no fewer than one bullet per square foot. | |
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Orks in Warhammer 40,000 do this constantly. For many of them it's the only reason they even own a gun, since they prefer to close in with crude melee weapons. | |
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In the Left Behind book Armageddon, during the Global Community army's assault on Jerusalem and Petra, Nicolae Carpathia orders a ceasefire surrender to the Jewish rebels in Jerusalem or else they will be destroyed. Buck Williams, Tsion Ben-Judah, and the Jewish rebels respond in this fashion to tell Carpathia what he can go do with his ultimatum. | |
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In one Beetle Bailey, Sarge fires into the air to get the company's attention, only to have a dead bird land on his head in the next frame. | |
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Batman (1989) had some of the Joker's goons firing into the air during a chase for no particular reason other than show that they are manic enough to be worthy of their boss. | |
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Call of Duty Happens during the level "The Coup" in Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare, where a platoon of Al-Asad's soldiers fire their guns into the air in celebration at the sight of the captured president Al-Fulani being brought to his execution. In Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3, during the mission "Back on the Grid", a group of militiamen douse a civilian in gasoline and set him ablaze (unless you stop them in time). One of them fires his gun into the air as the civilian is being dragged to his place of execution. |
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Our Man Flint Does Not Like Guns, but he takes a gun off a mook who tries to kill him and on discovering his partner has left a bomb to finish him off, wraps a towel around his head and starts firing the gun in the air while shouting in mock Arabic so everyone in the room flees. | |
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After the score tally at the end of each level in Total Carnage, the player cheers and fires his gun up into the air. In 2-player mode, the player with the higher score will be doing this while the other stands in the background frustrated. | |
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CSI: In one a man killed a woman miles away while doing some target practice. When the man says that it was an accident, the CSI notes "Well, that's why it's illegal to shoot guns within city limits, Genius!" By the way, this was based on a real case in 1948. | |
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Shawn Waits of Survival of the Fittest v3 does this in a currently ongoing thread, though in his case it was unintentional; the recoil of the sub-machine gun caused it to walk up until he was shooting in the air instead of at his opponent, and he was distracted by being shot through the cheek, missing every shot. In an unfortunate Real Life variation on this, an 8-year-old boy shot himself with a micro-uzi thanks to recoil. |
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Ghost In The Shell Standalone Complex. In a rare lack of professionalism, Batou fires his assault rifle into the air in frustration after the Laughing Man "steals his eyes" (hacks into Batou's brain causing TLM to apparently 'vanish' from sight). | |
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The Mexican bandits in the western comedy The Great Bank Robbery are an arch-typical example of this. | |
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Baccano!: A ceremony of joining The Mafia is concluded with a shot into air, inside the building. Isaac and his girl were hiding in the roofspace, peeking through the oh-so-convenient round holes in the floor. | |
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The Car: Road to Revenge: When Talen announces the bounty on the car, the chip and the girl, the assembled street scum of the city show their pleasure by firing fully automatic weapons into the air. Given they are inside a warehouse at the time, it's a wonder no one was killed. | |
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The Dark Hours: The inner-city custom of firing guns into the air at midnight on New Year's is used by the killer to disguise his gunshot murdering Javier Raffa. | |
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In the Dragon Half anime, the cybernetically-enhanced Damaramu demonstrates his Chest Blaster and machine gun arm, with cutaways to a roast chicken and a flaming space shuttle falling out of the sky. He later "regrets" having "used up all the rounds showing off". | |
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Referenced in Diary of a Wimpy Kid, when Greg tells us about his first swim meet; he didn't do so well because the referee fired a gun to start the meet, and Greg was more concerned about where the bullet might land than anything else. He only learned that the ref fired a blank later. | |
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Also subverted in Big Trouble in Little China; right before the big battle scene, Jack fires into the air (or rather, into the ceiling), and is knocked out by falling debris. | |
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Miss Fortune from League of Legends does this with her "Make It Rain" ability. As the name suggests, the bullets do come down, damaging and slowing any enemy they hit. Gangplank can do this as well. "Cannon Barrage", his ultimate, fires a flare up in the air to call down a rain of cannonballs on a specific area on the map. It used to be that he could also do this to buff nearby allied champions with "Raise Morale", but this ability was removed after his rework on July of 2015. |
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Brockie and his cronies do this when they shoot up the town after shooting Marshal Chisolm in Forty Guns. | |
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McNeil's men do this while stampeding the cattle as part of their efforts to drive the farmers of their land in Terror in a Texas Town. | |
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No Time to Die. In the forest scene, James Bond fires his pistol in the air repeatedly to draw his pursuers in his direction and away from where he's hidden Madeleine Swann and her daughter. | |
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Subverted on Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Careful where you shoot, you might get flayed. People have actually managed to work out the angle at which that bullet was going, and have concluded that either the bullet teleported in order to fulfill Joss Whedon's "Kill someone off if the plot slows down" dictum, or Tara's chest spontaneously exploded. |
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At the start of Nevada Smith (1966), the title character is asked by three men for directions to his parents' farm. He tells them, then has an Oh, Crap! moment when they ride off hollering in joy and firing their pistols in the air. By the time he gets back, his parents have been murdered, setting him on his Roaring Rampage of Revenge. | |
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In Freedom Planet, General Serpentine can use an attack where he fires his dual blasters into the air (ala Fighting Fefnir), and then the laser beams rain down from the sky on the battlefield. Not only there is little room to dodge the attack, but if a character gets caught in the laser barrage above Serpentine himself, they will continuously take damage, losing a lot of health in the process. | |
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The Gunfight at Dodge City: One of the issues in Dodge City is the 'Saturday night shoot-ups', when drunken cowhands ride through the town firing their guns into the air after the saloons close. | |
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Family Guy. New Texas native Brian fires his free gun into the air a lot, accidentally killing the Super Devil. | |
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Final Fantasy XIII: During their trip through Palumpolum, Snow and Hope happen upon a group of civilians lined up to be relocated (or Purged) by PSICOM, and the line happens to go through their current path, meaning that if they try to force their way through, the civilians will be put in the line of fire. In an initially uncharacteristic move, Snow grabs a machinegun and fires into the ceiling, shouting that he's a l'Cie and that he'll kill them all. This causes the civilians to back off and PSICOM to filter through the crowd to them. It's characteristic of him after all when you realize that if he tried to help them in typical fashion, their chances of being Purged would have skyrocketed. Try explaining that to the townsfolk they just saved. Or to Hope, for that matter. | |
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Guacamelee!: Flame Face typically does this while laughing, a common occurrence for him. Twice in the game he winds up completely emptying his revolvers because of his air-firing habits, preventing him from shooting Juan. In his boss battle he had the foresight to bring a stockpile of ammo for himself. | |
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At the end of The Milagro Beanfield War, the celebrating farmers all fire their rifles in the air. | |
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Angry Joe did this all throughout the second invasion of Molossia in Kickassia. Word of God says he did it in case Molossia had an air force. | |
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In the Star Trek: The Next Generation pilot, Q puts Humanity on Trial, with humanity being represented by the Enterprise's command staff, in a recreation of a post-World War III "court of facts" where lawyers are banned and attempts to explain facts in a different light are severely punished. Guards are dosed-up on drugs and are armed with fistguns that they use to maintain order via this trope (while inside a courtroom). | |
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