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Law of Inverse Recoil

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Law of Inverse Recoil	comment	The recoil of a real-life projectile weapon on television is inversely related to the recoil it has in real life. Firearms depicted in films and television seldom (if ever) demonstrate realistic recoil action (ironically, it is usually more realistic in comedies or when used for comedic effect, e.g., the weapon smacking the shooter in the face or flying out of their hand as they lose their grip). The practical reason for this is because blank-firing prop guns have no projectile, meaning very little mass is pushed out of the barrel, hence minimal recoil (Newton's third law) — it is not true that they have none, however, or they would not even be able to cycle their own action. No matter what type of small arms are used in fiction — even fully automatic, high-caliber ordnance and heavy-gauge shotguns — the shooter will not so much as flinch. This often leads to nasty surprises for first-time shooters who expect that the 10-gauge shotgun or .454 Casull revolver they rented at the range will have no discernible "kick", when both actually sport recoil powerful enough to bruise the shoulder or sprain the wrist — possibly even fly back and smack the unprepared shooter in the face. Naturally, this makes Guns Akimbo with automatic weapons wholly impractical in real life (of course, impractical never stopped anyone in pursuit of cool). On the flip side, real shoulder-fired rocket launchers have very little to no recoil: they are open at the back and make use of Newton's third law of motion, which states that for every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction (rocket power relies on this law of physics), imparting no momentum ("recoil") on the shooter (sometimes, it is augmented with counterbalancing weighted objects expelled backwards). There is some recoil, originating from either friction between projectile and tube, compressed-air expulsion system, or anything else needed to throw several pounds several feet forward. In fact, they're alternatively called recoilless rifles for this lack of recoil. Grenade launchers, meanwhile, use the same propulsion method as normal firearms, yet their much larger mass is accompanied by much lower speed, giving recoil similar to a regular rifle or shotgun. Yet, when used by a fictitious character, both of these somehow pack enough force to violently push back the wielder. Presumably, this is due to the erroneous belief that anything that destructive has to have a powerful kick. See Missing Backblast and Blown Across the Room for related misconceptions. The trick to this trope is finding any film or TV show that doesn't do this. Subversions are much more common outside of live action simply because there are no actors around forgetting to simulate recoil as they fire blanks. Many films also opt to add muzzle flashes in digitally, which can invoke this trope as guns can now be depicted firing when they were never originally intended to during filming. Video games tend to be more realistic in regards to firearms, but explosive "launching" weapons still pack monstrously unrealistic recoil (on the other hand, player characters tend to not be blown to smithereens for using such weapons indoors or with their back to a wall, something suicidal with most recoilless weapons). In some video games, you can even use recoil for extra propulsion. Interestingly, this trope does make slightly more sense when combined with Missing Backblast. If all that pressurized gas isn't coming out the back of the weapon to create backblast, then as per Newton's Third Law it's going to create a hell of a lot of recoil. Fridge Brilliance? High-velocity Magnetic Weapons are going to have significantly less recoil for their size (as kinetic energy scales to the square of velocity but momentum and thus recoil only scales linearly), but any sufficiently powerful or rapid firing weapons would go back to this trope. The other side of Blown Across the Room. See also Steel Ear Drums for another ignored part of guns being fired.
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Law of Inverse Recoil / int_135e90ef	comment	In Cell when one of the protagonists is fatally injured by hit-and-run hooligans. Another character had picked up an AKS-47 assault rifle from a gun enthusiast's house, but when he fires 'Sir Speedy' it empties most of the bullets into the air.
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Law of Inverse Recoil / int_14461185	comment	In Mobile Suit Gundam: The 08th MS Team, during his fight with Packard, Shiro attempts to shoot Packard with every single gun on his Gundam at once. While it makes a very impressive show of firepower, the combined kick of all the automatic weapons going off at once means none of the shots come even remotely close to hitting their target. Packard doesn't even bother dodging; as a more experienced soldier, he knew exactly how that stunt would turn out.
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Law of Inverse Recoil / int_1449a8e8	comment	During the production of Dirty Harry, Clint Eastwood spent time firing a real .44 Magnum revolver so he could accurately portray its recoil. In the sequel Callahan states that he uses a .44 Special load to minimize the recoil (which would mean he's no longer firing "the most powerful handgun in the world" though still powerful enough to "to blow your head clean off").
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Law of Inverse Recoil / int_169f043b	comment	Justified in StarCraft. Terran Powered Armor compensates for recoil automatically (see Literature, above).
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Law of Inverse Recoil / int_1a1a594f	comment	Battlefield 2 doesn't have a proper recoil system, but attempts to emulate one with some of the most exaggerated random spread in any shooter. Try firing a machine gun while standing and be amazed as bullets leave the barrel at 70-degree angles.
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Law of Inverse Recoil / int_1ab9ad1d	comment	In Killzone, all the standard rifles, pistols, and grenade launchers have realistic amounts of recoil, the rocket launchers have no recoil at all (which would make the Helghast launcher a bit of a game breaker in multiplayer if ammo wasn't almost nonexistent for it) and the really big guns, the chain gun and squad cannon (an anti-materiel repeater) have such high recoil (excluding the alt fire for the chain gun) and are so bulky that they require a steadycam-esque harness in order to be even wielded effectively.
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Law of Inverse Recoil / int_1ac6ad40	comment	Averted in Hitman: Blood Money, all guns have recoil. His trusted .45 Silverballers can even be upgraded to full-automatic, and are then harder to control...add the "Akimbo" upgrade and say your good bye to your accuracy.
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Law of Inverse Recoil / int_1b407a1a	comment	In the Soviet film Come and See a German soldier armed with a flamethrower is seen being thrown back slightly every time he fires. This is Truth in Television - flamethrowers use very high pressure gasses to propel the fuel, and spray several pounds of fuel a second.
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Law of Inverse Recoil / int_1ed9811d	comment	In the PS2 remake of the original Wild ARMs, Rudy Roughknight displays this trope. While he's the youngest member of the cast, he uses a large Hand Cannon (with some magical properties) called an ARM◊ as his main weapon, and despite his small frame, he wields it with one hand.note The only time he grips the gun with both hands is for his ultimate attack. However, this unusual strength is actually a plot point instead of a case of Muscles Are Meaningless as it's later revealed that Rudy isn't human, but an artificial construct (called a "Holmcross" in game, though it's probably meant to be "Homunculus") that were, quite literally, built to wield such weapons.
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Law of Inverse Recoil / int_1f76648	comment	Done correctly in A Certain Magical Index: Mikoto's railgun is the obvious example. Due to the way she creates the magnetic rails literally out of thin air using her power, there's nothing for the "gun" to recoil against; the energy from the shot merely blasts back against the air, which has the benefit of causing a nice big Dramatic Wind. Mugino's "Meltdowner" (basically a giant plasma beam) is not described in as much detail as Mikoto's railgun, but it is perfectly possible for a plasma weapon to fire with effectively no recoil. It is also possible to use it as a plasma rocket if necessary; she uses this to survive a fall at one point. Actually averted in the case of Seike, a member of Scavenger. She actually sustains massive recoil from the gun she fires, which she takes advantage of by reducing the friction below her feet to zero to propel her at high speed.
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Law of Inverse Recoil / int_2221ecbd	comment	CSI: NY: In "Stealing Home," a killer is identified because they weren't used to the recoil of the revolver they used, and left a nice long scrape of knuckle skin on the brick wall they were shooting from behind, as well as a nick on the top of the gun's frame where it hit the attractive concrete handrail at the top. Averted by Lindsay in "Stuck on You" where Mac has her fire a crossbow since she's the same size as one of the suspects. In spite of being a country girl from Montana, she's never fired one before and is excited to try. She handles it very well and wants to keep on doing it.
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Law of Inverse Recoil / int_22c28cbe	comment	In Un Lun Dun when Deeba first fires the unGun she falls over because of the recoil. She gets better at firing it later on, though.
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Law of Inverse Recoil / int_22e860f4	comment	An episode of Psych has Det. Lassiter training a rookie detective who happens to be completely insane. When he takes her to the firing range, he comments that she isn't bracing herself properly to fire his gun, but she shrugs him off. The recoil from the gun blows it out of her hands.
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Law of Inverse Recoil / int_24cfe1ef	comment	The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles: Almost echoing a scene from Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, one episode has Young Indy in a hot air balloon with Remy and a captured German officer being chased by a squadron of fighter planes. Indy tries to fend them off with a machine gun, oblivious to warnings that the gun will "walk up" if he doesn't brace properly, and sure enough, the recoil sends the barrel pointing upwards and punching several nasty holes in the balloon. ("That is walking up.")
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Law of Inverse Recoil / int_261c8d3f	comment	The Simpsons, When Bart and Lisa are shipped off to a military school, the instructor gives them submachine guns when they train on the firing range ("As you've transferred here from a public school, you should already have experience with smaller arms"). Whereas Bart does quite well, Lisa's gun gets stuck on autofire, the uncontrollable recoil pushing her every which way — including up off the ground when the gun is pointing downward. Bart does quite well because he isn't given an SMG, but a multiple grenade launcher, a weapon with limited recoil (though how he adjusted for the grenade arc is another matter, especially the shot that destroyed Skinner's car when it was a several hour car ride away. Additionally, Lisa was given an M16 pattern assault rifle, and a full sized one at that, thus her difficulty controlling an extremely unwieldy weapon for an eight year old girl with, as shown in a later episode, the physique of a gymnast (small, with the weight of her head off-setting her balance point to her torso rather than her lower body, meaning a much higher center of gravity than most of the recruits, especially Bart who has always had a gut reminiscent of Homer's (though no way near as flanderised, ironically, excluding the episodes when he was rendered obese via snack foods.)
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Law of Inverse Recoil / int_2a893b9b	comment	Counter-Strike was an early First-Person Shooter built around the concept of using realistic recoil to force players into using single shots and short bursts rather than spraying full-auto. Recoil causes any automatic weapon to become so inaccurate that holding down the trigger is only useful at extreme close range. However, there was — and still is — a catch: the recoil pattern is not random, which means it is possible to compensate them manually with a well-measured mouse gesture, and being able to compensate them is considered to be one of the things that separate casual players from professional e-sportsmen.
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Law of Inverse Recoil / int_2bbcacd9	comment	Looney Tunes: The recoil from Yosemite Sam's six-shooters is strong enough to make him airborne when firing downward. Seen in a number of Porky Pig shorts; one example comes from Porky's Phoney Express, where Porky is fighting Indians on horseback, and every time he fires his gun, he's knocked offscreen until the seemingly elastic reins pull him back into his saddle. This also happened in Porky's Duck Hunt, when Porky fires his shotgun rapidly into the air and creates a deep trench underneath him. Whenever Wile E Coyote tries to fire a cannon, it's more than likely that the cannon will take off in reverse (with poor Wile E. in tow) while the cannonball remains in place.
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Law of Inverse Recoil / int_2d3598f9	comment	LEGO Batman avoids this, as several firearms cause recoil, and shooting things from a small ledge is not recommended. Whether the developers did this to be realistic or simply add more Fake Difficulty is up to the individual. This is probably done for stylistic reasons. LEGO Star Wars has blasters kick upwards or back from recoil. The recoil from a blaster, which is a plasma weapon, would logically be imperceptible.
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Law of Inverse Recoil / int_2ee19785	comment	Averted in Aeon Entelechy Evangelion, where Shinji while piloting Unit-01 tries to use a High-Velocity Assault Rifle one handed (the other hand was busted) and fail. Being written by the physics student helps.
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Law of Inverse Recoil / int_2f0f9cc3	comment	S4 League has the Gauss Rifle, one of the more powerful automatic weapons. Firing it continuously causes your aim to move slightly upwards, making less effective at long range. However, it's subverted if you only fire one or two shots at a time, in which case your shots won't fire the wrong way, making the Gauss Rifle a mild case of Difficult, but Awesome.
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Law of Inverse Recoil / int_2fce14ae	comment	In Marion G. Harmon's Wearing the Cape novel Bite Me: Big Easy Nights, the gun shop owner clearly expects Jacky to be bit by this when she insists on firing her gun posed like an old-style duelist. She demonstrates her superstrength can handle it.
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Law of Inverse Recoil / int_30595603	comment	In Desert Punk, Kanta's preteen sidekick Kosuna complains almost literally that her small pistol is not cool enough to match her self-persona. Kanta then takes her to an arms dealer, who first forces her to go dig holes for several hours before allowing her to try out an assault rifle. While she exhibits accuracy that astonishes Kanta and the arms dealer, she brings the gun back admitting that firing it is physically punishing for a girl her size and that she'd be completely ineffective in combat with it.
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Law of Inverse Recoil / int_32235825	comment	Beverly Hills Cop II has Billy firing a LAW rocket while holding it loosely in front of himself sideways as he reads the directions. "Extend here. Press here." click-Whoosh! It is correctly shown with very little recoil.
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Law of Inverse Recoil / int_331e009	comment	In the second game, Salvador, "The Gunzerker," has the ability to go Guns Akimbo with any two weapons the player desires, be it machine guns, shotguns, pistols, sniper rifles, or rocket launchers. Naturally, the stout and solid fella has no issues with recoil, though seeing as he's spent most of his life abusing steroids, it's probably justified.
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Law of Inverse Recoil / int_3583b777	comment	In Eternal Darkness, recoil is usually shown with at least some realism, with all shotguns and rifles having some recoil, and the Holland & Holland elephant gun literally knocking the character to the floor if they don't take a moment to brace themselves (doing so still causes the character to take a long step back).
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Law of Inverse Recoil / int_359b115d	comment	Kamen Rider Zero-One has the Attache Shotgun, which has recoil that tends to mess with its users. Its main wielder, Kamen Rider Vulcan, often compensates by switching to his Mighty Glacier form and using the extra strength to help keep control.
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Law of Inverse Recoil / int_36984148	comment	There's a non-fiction book in which it's pointed out that Rambo should have two spontaneously-dislocating shoulders due to the abuse they've taken from firing machine guns akimbo (he'd be deaf too, but that's another trope entirely). The fact that Rambo never used Guns Akimbo in any of the films should not detract from the author's point.
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Law of Inverse Recoil / int_39f6a46c	comment	Diamonds Are Forever. During the attack on the oilrig, some SPECTRE mooks see James Bond and go to shoot him. Bond has his hands full so tells the Bond Girl to pick up a discarded submachine gun and shoot them. Fortunately a helicopter gunship happens to blow up the mooks with a rocket, because when she fires the recoil from the submachine gun knocks her over the side.
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Law of Inverse Recoil / int_3b7abee2	comment	In the Half-Life series the .357 Magnum revolver has ridiculous recoil and the RPG has very little. Then there's the M249 from Opposing Force, which will visibly push you backwards as it fires.
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Law of Inverse Recoil / int_4142730f	comment	Pointedly averted in the book Patriot Games Jack Ryan gets his hands on one of the terrorist's submachine guns and fires on them. Before firing he remembers his military training and aims with his target in the upper right part of the sight to account for the recoil and make sure that subsequent rounds will still be on target.
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Law of Inverse Recoil / int_41cc1c3a	comment	Particularly averted in Halo 3: ODST, where automatic and semi-automatic weapons have very noticeable recoil. For example, rapidly pulling the trigger on a pistol will result in significant muzzle climb, while slowing the rate of fire down will result in much more fire control. This is justified in the story by the player characters not being augmented and power armor-wearing super soldiers, but elite unaugmented soldiers.
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Law of Inverse Recoil / int_427c8ba0	comment	Pineapple Express: It gets hilariously averted at one point in climax when Saul is about to deliver the coup de grace to the female officer, shouting "Fuck the Po-Leece!" before emptying the clip... Only for the recoil to kick the rifle up to the ceiling after the first round in slow motion.
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Law of Inverse Recoil / int_43a9c333	comment	In the climax of the Cowboy Bebop episode "Heavy Metal Queen", Spike fires his pistol several times in space, using the recoil to push himself back towards the spaceship to avoid being blown to smithereens. Lacking friction, each shot adds to his speed, which helps explain his rapid movement. Still, it looks like a massive recoil. According to IMFDB, Spike uses a Jericho 941 R chambered in 9x19mm. Assuming a +p+ load, that's a 7.45g projectile at 435m/s. Spike weighs, say, 80kg. Each round fired will accelerate Spike by (7.45g * 435m/s)/80,000g = 0.0405m/s. A full 15 rounds would give him a velocity of 0.6075m/s. Taking into account propellant gases at an alpha of 1.75 (no atmosphere), he should end up at just over 1m/s, or a relaxed walking pace. The bigger problem of that scene is that he held his breath while unprotected in space. He should have instead expelled all the air from his lungs. At least he had the presence of mind to put earplugs in to keep his eardrums from exploding.
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Law of Inverse Recoil / int_44127c7c	comment	Power Rangers: Season two of the original Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers had the Power Cannon, a giant bazooka which had recoil enough to make all six Rangers stumble back. In Power Rangers Wild Force, this became something of a plot point with the Megazords. The first time the Wild Force Megazord used the Bear Blaster, it recoiled noticeably and the energy blasts went wild (though they still hit the target). It was later revealed that the Bear Brothers were too powerful for the Lion Zord to handle and greatly injured him. The next episodes were then spent finding the Soul Bird (to heal the Lion Zord) and the much stronger Mighty Glacier Gorilla Zord to replace the Jack of All Stats Lion Zord in controlling the Bear Zords and forming the Kongazord (itself a Mighty Glacier compared to the Jack of All Stats Wild Force Megazord). The Dual Crusher from GoGo Sentai Boukenger / Drill Blaster from Power Rangers Operation Overdrive knocks the user flat (and that's for morphed Rangers; it could be worse for someone untransformed). A special armored vest had to be developed to disperse the energies.
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Law of Inverse Recoil / int_463cfe3a	comment	Despite how quickly he fires subsequent shots, the recoil is enough to make Fox' Blaster point 90 degrees upwards. Falco's, on the other hand, has very little recoil, though he does cross his arms and hold it sideways. Wolf's has very little recoil. They're all energy weapons, however, and should have none.
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Law of Inverse Recoil / int_4be3aedd	comment	Season two of the original Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers had the Power Cannon, a giant bazooka which had recoil enough to make all six Rangers stumble back.
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Law of Inverse Recoil / int_4c095a1f	comment	In an episode of The Transformers, "Heavy Metal War", Wheeljack tries his new "shock blast cannon", a shoulder-mounted bazooka-like weapon, out on an incoming Megatron - only to knock himself to the floor with the quip, "That's a shock, alright..." Kind of a justification, as Wheeljack built the thing himself, and as a Mad Scientist, it probably wouldn't be the first time he'd forgotten to take into account something as simple as recoil.
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Law of Inverse Recoil / int_4d1ba412	comment	The Adventures of Dr. McNinja: This strip subverts the trope with Gordito, a child, experiencing large blowback. Also, note the Alt Text. This strip has Dr. McNinja, hanging from a rope, shoot a gun with no apparent recoil. However, the alt text states that the part where he swings and spins around from the recoil was cut out.
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Law of Inverse Recoil / int_4e153baf	comment	Avoided in Red Orchestra, where all guns have realistic recoil â€“ line up every shot with your rifle, or you'll be pumping enough lead in the ceiling to make the room a radiation shelter. An unfortunate side effect of this in the first game is that the game does not make much distinction between the recoil of the full sized bolt-action or semi-auto rifles and that of the submachine guns, firing much smaller bullets but at five hundred to one thousand bullets per minute as the only handheld full-auto weapons in the game, making those SMGs completely impossible to control and nearly unusable in any capacity. Heroes of Stalingrad fixed this.
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Law of Inverse Recoil / int_5293b208	comment	In Kamen Rider Ex-Aid, Weak, but Skilled Ride Player Nico borrows the Gashacon Magnum from an ally. The Finishing Move leaves her on the ground, several feet from where she started.
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Law of Inverse Recoil / int_535daaf5	comment	In Toy Soldiers when teenaged preppy Wil Wheaton picks up a full-auto AK and tries to blast the villains with it; about two bullets go in the right direction, the rest of the magazine goes into the ceiling. And he obviously would like to make the gun stop but can't.
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Law of Inverse Recoil / int_554ceb27	comment	High Heels and Low Lifes: When Shannon, who has obviously never fired a gun before, attempts to shoot an automatic rifle, the recoil causes the barrel to rise uncontrollably, so that she not only completely misses her targets but by the end of the burst she is shooting the roof. And when she fires the underbarrel grenade launcher, the recoil knocks her backwards into a hedge.
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Law of Inverse Recoil / int_57ad0c07	comment	All of the Resident Evil titles have featured appropriate recoil for small arms and especially shotguns, but pointedly not for rocket and grenade launchers, which kick hardest of all. Resident Evil 5 was the first to introduce muzzle climb on fully automatic weapons, which is realistic, but a good example of why its absence is usually considered an Acceptable Break from Reality. Rocket Launchers still have a little more kick than they should from part 4 onward, but it's been toned down considerably. Resident Evil (Remake) even notably has different levels of recoil depending on whether you're playing as Chris or Jill. Chris, being a veteran marksman, is able to fire the shotgun from the hip and fire the powerful .357 magnum under control, while Jill who is far less experienced with firearms can only fire the shotgun from the shoulder and stumbles back slightly every time she fires the magnum. This also makes a noticeable difference in gameplay as Chris's superior control over recoil lets him fire his weapons faster and with more accuracy, which somewhat helps close the gap between him and Jill in the original game.
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Law of Inverse Recoil / int_5ada53ed	comment	It seems to be present in James Bond fan film Diamond's Cut, although guns are fired too rarely to be really sure. However, one could consider the armsâ€™ dealer missing Bond with his pistol at point-blank range as either an aversion of this or plain Imperial Stormtrooper Marksmanship Academy at work.
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Law of Inverse Recoil / int_5b95bc94	comment	The tank cannon in Grand Theft Auto III causes the vehicle to roll backward slightly if it is stationary when you fire. It's possible, when driving forwards, to rotate the cannon and fire repeatedly behind you, using it as a makeshift booster and accelerating the tank to huge speeds. It is even possible to use the tank's recoil to make the tank fly: turn it around, start firing while driving, go up an incline while constantly firing.
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Law of Inverse Recoil / int_5bddbfbd	comment	The bazooka in Zombies Ate My Neighbors. Hoo boy.
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Law of Inverse Recoil / int_5c897f4a	comment	Done correctly in Schlock Mercenary: Plasma weapons fire a turbulent beam of energy, with cavitation and eddies which virtually eliminate recoil. On the other hand, it also has the ability to magnetically couple the beam to the weapon in rocket mode. This doesn't so much give it recoil as turn it into a very small vehicle with a very dangerous wake. Gauss weapons use a mag-pulse to propel projectiles at just under the speed of sound, and are advertised as recoiless. It's eventually pointed out that "recoiless" is not the same as "zero recoil," and a much-diminished Schlock briefly uses one to fly around in a large cup.
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Law of Inverse Recoil / int_5d419e0b	comment	In Ride Along, Ben gets taken to a shooting range to test his shooting skills, and fails repeatedly to hit the target at all with a pistol. He then demands a shotgun, but when he fires it, the recoil knocks him backwards off his feet into a large litter bin.
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Law of Inverse Recoil / int_5e3832b5	comment	In Cave Story, a fully-powered-up machine gun has enough recoil to enable you to fly by pointing it downward or crash down by pointing upwards, but there's no recoil in left or right.
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Law of Inverse Recoil / int_6196490	comment	Ghost in the Shell: Batou's anti-tank rifle ("Your standard issue big gun") features a realistic recoil dampener (a device to temporarily store the kinetic energy and then slowly dissipate it, converting the sudden "kick" into more manageable "sliding" action). In the movie version, most characters are cyborgs, but a mook must brace himself before firing hypervelocity armour-piercing bullets from a submachine gun. Said armour-piercing bullets effectively ruin the gun's accuracy (and the gun itself), leaving him open to summary beatdown shortly afterwards.
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Law of Inverse Recoil / int_627ec0c0	comment	During the climax of The Next Frontier, Bob finds himself firing a sub-machine gun for the first time. Unprepared for the recoil, as he's only had minimal training with firearms and none with a fully automatic weapon, he ends up reflexively holding down the trigger and wastes about a third of a magazine. He learns quickly.
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Law of Inverse Recoil / int_68ff28ca	comment	In Silent Hill 3 Heather's wrists jerk from the recoil of her initial handgun, and she's thrown completely off-balance from shooting the shotgun. Curiously, the submachine gun's recoil doesn't faze her at all, despite it using the same ammunition as her handgun in real life.
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Law of Inverse Recoil / int_690590d3	comment	In Princess Mononoke, a village woman takes a shot at Ashitaka with a newly designed (and still relatively primitive) musket. The recoil blows her off her feet and through the crowd of people standing behind her. Eboshi uses the same musket before and after this with much less recoil, although she is much more skilled in combat.
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Law of Inverse Recoil / int_6bcd58c7	comment	Sin City monologues sometimes refer to the sensation of recoil but it's minimal.
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Law of Inverse Recoil / int_6e1d5f36	comment	Farscape John Crichton uses a pulse rifle to propel himself from one spaceship to another in one episode. Whether an energy weapon would produce enough recoil to do this is another question entirely. In the Farscape-verse, pulse rifles are actually projectile weapons that fire highly energized pulses of a refined explosive oil (oh, you know what I mean). Guns have been shown to malfunction, sending the pulse a few inches before it nose-dives and makes a hole in the floor.
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Law of Inverse Recoil / int_6ef684b9	comment	Seen in a number of Porky Pig shorts; one example comes from Porky's Phoney Express, where Porky is fighting Indians on horseback, and every time he fires his gun, he's knocked offscreen until the seemingly elastic reins pull him back into his saddle.
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Law of Inverse Recoil / int_70814599	comment	Stargate SG-1: While Teal'c does do Guns Akimbo, he is a truly exceptional individual from a race of bred warriors. The rest of the cast hold their guns with both hands, even when firing pistols. In the P90's case, this isn't exactly a bad idea, as its recoil is almost negligible. The first season finale, where Daniel Jackson of all people actually goes Guns Akimbo with an M9 in one hand and an MP5 in the other. He winds up doing more damage to the walls than anything else. In "Children of the Gods", they correctly portray a rocket launcher as having next to no recoil.
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Law of Inverse Recoil / int_73a9c933	comment	Although recoil is generally not addressed, in an episode of The Walking Dead, Carol complains of a sore shoulder due to not being used to the recoil of a rifle she was using.
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Law of Inverse Recoil / int_73b4d4c1	comment	In one Call of Cthulhu sourcebook it is stated that while firing both barrels of a large calibre elephant gun might just save your life, it will break your shoulder even so.
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Law of Inverse Recoil / int_73b74949	comment	Usually played straight in Borderlands, but Midget Shotgunners subvert it to humorous effect. When they shoot at you they frequently get knocked flat on their backs. Averted with the Unforgiven, the most powerful revolver in the game, which has recoil just shy of smacking the shooter in the face. In the second game, Salvador, "The Gunzerker," has the ability to go Guns Akimbo with any two weapons the player desires, be it machine guns, shotguns, pistols, sniper rifles, or rocket launchers. Naturally, the stout and solid fella has no issues with recoil, though seeing as he's spent most of his life abusing steroids, it's probably justified. Starting with Borderlands 2, Hyperion guns have literal inverse recoil — they have a "recoil-powered stabilizer" that actually makes the gun more accurate as you keep firing it.
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Law of Inverse Recoil / int_755b343f	comment	In Halo, firing a gun will cause it to move on your screen (even back during the original Halo: Combat Evolved), but in the early games this generally had little-to-no effect on gameplay, since the reticle itself would remain essentially stationary (even if you're firing an assault rifle at full auto); this is sort of justified by Master Chief being a Spartan Super-Soldier with superhuman strength and and half-ton armor. Later games made recoil much more of a gameplay factor, particularly with automatics; for example, the Halo 5: Guardians assault rifle actually has pretty significant muzzle climb. One notable aversion even in the earlier games is the SMG, whose Halo 2 incarnation had particularly insane muzzle climb at full auto. Particularly averted in Halo 3: ODST, where automatic and semi-automatic weapons have very noticeable recoil. For example, rapidly pulling the trigger on a pistol will result in significant muzzle climb, while slowing the rate of fire down will result in much more fire control. This is justified in the story by the player characters not being augmented and power armor-wearing super soldiers, but elite unaugmented soldiers.
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Law of Inverse Recoil / int_7565a23b	comment	Using any assault or battle rifle in Killing Floor when not playing as a Commando (a class that has a recoil reduction bonus) will tilt your aim a good thirty degrees upwards after even a moderate burst. Same for the Sharpshooter's weapons, particularly the M14 EBR and especially the M99.
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Law of Inverse Recoil / int_7668653a	comment	To the point that a major selling point for the Locust SMG in Mass Effect 2 is how insignificant the recoil is.
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Law of Inverse Recoil / int_7832b74c	comment	In Steven Universe, Peridot re-engineers an injector into a cannon capable of firing a boulder of 1 meter diameter well past observable range, and this trope is fully used while she demonstrates it. Then when it comes time to fire it at a target, she gets arrested by the Newton's Third Law Police and she flies right into into the cliff behind her, Ã la Carnivorous vulgaris.
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Law of Inverse Recoil / int_7988cb68	comment	Mass Effect averts this quite reasonably; high-powered shotguns and sniper rifles have a lot of recoil, and automatic weapons have higher recoil depending on how long the trigger is held down. To the point that a major selling point for the Locust SMG in Mass Effect 2 is how insignificant the recoil is. Other weapons are described as made for more durable races, like the Claymore or Widow. The tooltips describe how the weapons were remanufactured specifically to avoid breaking the arm of a human wielder.
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Law of Inverse Recoil / int_79a548b4	comment	Forgotten Weapons has discussed this multiple times when getting to take guns out to the range. The PPSh-14 was surprisingly controllable in full-auto, because its hefty weight for an SMG absorbs much of the recoil, and its extremely high rate of fire gives it a recoil impulse that feels like one continuous push, which is easier to compensate for than a series of smaller but distinct pushes. The Ultimax pioneered a "constant recoil" principle which is designed to ensure the bolt never actually impacts the rear of the receiver during the recoil process, which eliminates enough recoil that despite its lighter weight compared to other machine guns it's very easy to fire accurately in full-auto. In comparison, after experience with other .308 battle rifles like the G3 and FAL, Ian figured the M14 shouldn't be as difficult to control in full-auto as the stories all suggested. Turns out, because of its semi-pistol grip putting the bore axis well above the stock's contact point with your shoulder, it really does kick as hard as the stories said. The AVS-36. On the one hand, its muzzle brake is actually very well-designed, eliminating much of the actual upward kick that would make it hard to keep on-target. On the other, it's still kicking pretty hard, just backwards into the shooter; it's less difficult to keep on target than it is difficult to shoot comfortably, and he still comes to the conclusion that, like the M14, it "has no business being select-fire".
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Law of Inverse Recoil / int_79be9055	comment	Under the Bridge has an interesting aversion: The "Gray Mouse" invented a weapon which she calls "Darned Nearly Recoilless Rifle". It uses .22 rimfire ammo (which, on rodents' scale, amounts to artillery), it is held like a bazooka, and "darned nearly recoilless" means that the remaining recoil would still knock the operator over.
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Law of Inverse Recoil / int_7ac38ec4	comment	In Rebuild World, the firearms that Akira handles are large, loud, and heavy. Because of this, the recoil throws his aim off at the beginning because of how unused to it he is. Alpha also has to warn him against trying to go Guns Akimbo, as the recoil would throw his aim off at best and tear his arms off at worst because of how scrawny he is. This is also why any hunter worth their salt will wear augmented suits to help them handle the recoil more easily and allow them to wield more powerful weapons without injuring themselves.
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Law of Inverse Recoil / int_7d5e43b0	comment	The Goodies. Played straight for slapstick comedy in the Pirate Post Office episode. Graeme tries to fire a shotgun from a boat and the recoil knocks him over the side.
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Law of Inverse Recoil / int_7db5e90f	comment	Lucky Luke has a grandpa in a wheelchair who shoots a shotgun several times in the book. The recoil always sends him rolling backwards into the nearest pond or something.
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Law of Inverse Recoil / int_7de8951a	comment	The Traveller science-fiction RPG has man-portable energy weapons (the game's BFG) that can only be fired while wearing a suit of Powered Armor that automatically locks your body into one of several safe firing positions.
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Law of Inverse Recoil / int_7f9dbbcc	comment	In Far Cry 2 the PKM without the accuracy upgrade has so much recoil that you'd get better range with a shotgun. The real PKM fires slowly enough that even a moderately-long burst could be kept on target with less effort than the player in this game needs.
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Law of Inverse Recoil / int_803beb04	comment	In Earthworm Jim, where at one point when you're hanging from a pully, the only way to move forward is to shoot in the opposite direction.
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Law of Inverse Recoil / int_817b1a43	comment	Played straight in many arcade light-gun shooter games, but averted in a few games (such as Time Crisis) that have devices in the guns that produce some blowback. Then again, played straight in Time Crisis 3 and onwards when the same amount of blowback occurs with each usable weapon - be it handgun, machine gun, or shotgun (or if the mechanism breaks and the cheapskate arcade owner won't fix it, or if you turn off recoil in Time Crisis 4's hidden options screens).
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Law of Inverse Recoil / int_819c32d2	comment	Miller's Crossing: When a gangster with a tommy gun is fatally shot, his Dead Man's Trigger Finger causes the gun to fire full auto and swing wildly from the recoil, spraying rounds into both the floor and ceiling.
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Law of Inverse Recoil / int_81f5d35d	comment	Kamen Rider:
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Law of Inverse Recoil / int_831b0d1	comment	One Commander McBragg story from Tennessee Tuxedo and His Tales pretty much defies this Trope. The Commander's story involves him testing a new rifle with an incredibly powerful recoil, one which knocks him dozens of feet backwards no matter how he tries to brace himself, and even sends him crashing through a natural cave wall when he tries to brace himself that way. (Ironically, when he falls into a deep pit with walls too smooth to climb, he uses the gun's recoil to escape, shooting downward and propelling him up and out.)
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Law of Inverse Recoil / int_83cbe2ab	comment	Whenever Wile E Coyote tries to fire a cannon, it's more than likely that the cannon will take off in reverse (with poor Wile E. in tow) while the cannonball remains in place.
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Law of Inverse Recoil / int_84d5de7e	comment	In The Drawing of the Three, by Stephen King, a gunman quickly loses control of his heavy automatic weapon while trying to shoot Eddie because he does not expect such a huge recoil. Lampshaded by the narrator's going into some detail about the absurdity of the trope. As King points out, unless the hitman gets Eddie with the first few shots he will probably miss entirely as recoil spins him slowly around, and this is exactly what happens. However, this stands in some contrast to reality, as evidenced here.
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Law of Inverse Recoil / int_86c3beca	comment	In Girl Genius, when three Jaegermonsters attempt to fire a Clank gun, which the sound effects indicate is meant to act like a machine gun; the one holding the weapon from behind is realistically enough slammed into the wall behind him. Of course, Jagers being Jagers, the one who did the firing recovered in short order with nothing more than a broken nose ("Oooh! Lemme see!"). Klaus, on the other hand, has no trouble at all shooting one all by himself. Possibly a different model of same gun. The one in the first example is so big it takes all three of the Jaegers to hold it up. While Klaus is so massive that he's very nearly as large as his own Clanks, the gun appears to be slightly smaller than it ought to (although it's otherwise identical, right down to the detailing).
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Law of Inverse Recoil / int_89daf5f5	comment	Sue Thomas: F.B.Eye: Averted when a semi-trained sniper killer was identified by a black left eye. They were able to figure out that he was only an amateur copycat (and not the expert killer they were tracking) as he put his face too close to the scope and got smacked in the eye by the recoil, a mistake that real snipers would never make.
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Law of Inverse Recoil / int_8eda89ef	comment	Darker than Black: Suou in the second season shoots PTRD antitank rifle from the hip like it's a pop gun, regardless of it being larger than she is, extremely heavy, and having a really mean recoil even despite its huge muzzle brake. Justified by the gun being not real but manifested through her super powers. When her twin brother Shion shoots it, he uses a real rifle with all its drawbacks accounted for.
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Law of Inverse Recoil / int_8f04d767	comment	In Battlefield: Bad Company none of the weapons have discernible muzzle climb in-game (ie. the aim doesn't change). However, if you watch the gun when fired from the shoulder without using the sights, it kicks very aggressively in the shoulder. This is particularly noticeable on the automatic weapons like assault rifles, SMGs and machine guns. Bad Company 2, however, seems to have fixed the climb issue, so one must be a tad more careful when aiming any automatic weapon. It's particularly noticeable on guns like the MG3, which fires so freakin' fast that you shouldn't expect to hit much of anything unless you're firing in bursts.
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Law of Inverse Recoil / int_903a9871	comment	Dark Heresy doesn't go into specifics about how much recoil there is but firing a single shot gives a small bonus to your shooting roll; firing on semi-automatic reduces or negates the bonus, and firing at full automatic either negates the bonus or instills a penalty (the different lines use slightly different mechanics). Similarly, there's one weapon literally called the Hand Cannon: it's so large and has such recoil that you need to wield it two-handed or suffer a penalty as if it were a rifle. And of course, mostly due to this trope, there is an item called a Recoil Glove that lets you fire two-handed ranged weapons (and the Hand Cannon) single-handedly without penalty.
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Law of Inverse Recoil / int_9045b1b7	comment	In World War Z, early on when a doctor is combating a zombie in his clinic during the early stages of the outbreak, he aims a Desert Eagle pistol at the zombie's chest; however, because he wasn't expecting the high recoil, the shot ended up in the zombie's head, which ended up saving his life.
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Law of Inverse Recoil / int_91e45f5	comment	In the 3rd case of Apollo Justice: Ace Attorney, the fact that the murder weapon was a .45-caliber revolver is a high point of contention, as the feeling is that it could only be used by someone with a large enough frame to take its recoil. It doesn't prevent the idiots from accusing a blind, frail 14-year old boy in the first place, mind.
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Law of Inverse Recoil / int_93221cce	comment	Kamen Rider OOO: The Birth Buster used by Kamen Rider Birth actually has a huge recoil, enough to knock an unprepared person flat on their butt. Like any weapon in Real Life, it evidentially takes practice to use it untransformed (and according to its user, even transformed), as while Date (the primary user) has no problems with it, Goto gets thrown off his feet the first time he tries due to not having the proper knowledge of its use.
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Law of Inverse Recoil / int_935a39be	comment	Super Smash Bros. Brawl: Diddy Kong gets recoil from his Peanut Popgun when he shoots it. He also gets more recoil the more he charges it before firing it. Lucas' PK Fire has enough recoil to be considered a possible recovery technique when fired in the opposite direction. Samus' charge beam also has a bigger recoil the more charged it is. Her missiles don't have nearly as much, though. Despite how quickly he fires subsequent shots, the recoil is enough to make Fox' Blaster point 90 degrees upwards. Falco's, on the other hand, has very little recoil, though he does cross his arms and hold it sideways. Wolf's has very little recoil. They're all energy weapons, however, and should have none. The laser gun item has the most recoil of all, even though it too fires nothing but energy, every character has to hold it with both hands and it still almost hits them in the face every time they fire. The Super Scope, however, has very little recoil and can fire rapidly, and only a little more when a shot is charged. It still only shoots light, however. Averted with the Cracker Launcher. As with real life rocket launchers, the recoil is insignificantly low, and you have to look real closely to see characters twitch with each shot slightly. This allows the use of rapidly firing it.
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Law of Inverse Recoil / int_957b2f4	comment	Race for the Yankee Zephyr. The Damsel Scrappy is told to fire a captured AR-10 battle rifle in the air while the hero sneaks in to rescue her father, but she's unbalanced by the recoil and shoots up the villains instead. This is a Rule of Funny example as she's standing on a cliff above the villain's campsite, and the recoil is portrayed as pulling the muzzle down rather than pushing it up as would happen in real life.
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Law of Inverse Recoil / int_9853ddab	comment	During a gun battle in The Adventures of Pluto Nash, Dina picks up an automatic pistol, but ends up shooting in all directions due to recoil, but she took out most of the mooks until stopped by Bruno the robot which he takes care of the rest with his guns.
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Law of Inverse Recoil / int_99bab75a	comment	In the final chapter of Macross Plus, when struggling against Sharon Apple and other threats, Myung has the common sense to arm herself with the submachine gun of a fallen guard (by itself, quite a rare occurrence) but wastes almost the entire magazine when she tries to use it in full-auto, being overcome by recoil and spraying bullets everywhere. She gets a few shots in the right direction, however...
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Law of Inverse Recoil / int_99c003af	comment	The Boondocks: In the first episode, "The Garden Party", Ed Wuncler III asks Riley (an 8-year old) to shoot him with his SPAS-12 combat shotgun to prove his bullet-proof armor works. Riley gladly obliges, and while the armor works, the force of the shot knocks Ed over and out a second-story window, while the recoil causes Riley to fall over and suffer an injured wrist.
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Law of Inverse Recoil / int_9aab78d7	comment	The protagonist of The Axe hurts his shoulder when trying to shoot a handgun one-handed. Repeatedly.
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Law of Inverse Recoil / int_9d7264f	comment	CSI: Miami A criminal is identified by the characteristic injuries he received from the recoil when he fired a rocket launcher. This is strange in and itself, since a rocket launcher doesn't have that big recoil. An ordinary rifle or shotgun kicks more. In another episode, a guy ends up fricasseeing himself by firing a bazooka from inside an extremely enclosed area. In "Deep Freeze," relative newcomer Natalia dislocates her shoulder after doing some shooting practice with a shotgun.
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Law of Inverse Recoil / int_9da04de7	comment	Played straight most of the time in The A-Team, but there is one notable aversion when they use recoil to maneuver a parachuting tank (long story).
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Law of Inverse Recoil / int_a32b6a64	comment	In an episode of The West Wing, CJ Cregg's temporarily-assigned Secret Service agent takes her to a firing range. She aims, pulls the trigger... and falls on her ass. It's pretty hilarious, especially if you already know a bit about handguns. Doubly so for anyone who watches NCIS, as her agent is the same actor who plays Leroy Jethro Gibbs, a Marine corps-trained sniper. Apparently Mark Harmon's characters are very good shots. They even go the extra distance and get the sound of the guns firing correct. Toby also falls on his ass in a later episode while skeet shooting.
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Law of Inverse Recoil / int_a4516177	comment	In Oni the ballistic weapons all have fairly realistic recoil (the energy weapons, on the other hand, have none...). The SCRAM Cannon, Superball gun, and grenade launcher function on the Wave Motion Cannon have little to no recoil. Go full-auto without compensation on the pistol or SMG, and you'll likely wind up shooting the ceiling.
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Law of Inverse Recoil / int_a49a890c	comment	Preacher: The undersized, weedy, egotistical villain Odin "Meatman" Quincannon has a suitably oversized weapon (a sodding great magnum — not compensating for anything of course). When he tries to shoot it one-handed, it breaks his arm. A very young Tulip is carefully taught about guns; a powerful handgun sends her slamming back into a deep snowdrift.
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Law of Inverse Recoil / int_a4ae80d6	comment	Oddworld: Abe's Exodus: A Slig's submachine gun has some recoil, and this is actually a troubling aspect in the game where you have to possess a Slig in order to kill around 50+ Slogs in order to progress, but you have to watch where the Slig is being pushed back, because there's an electrical fence right behind him, and touching those things is instant death.
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Law of Inverse Recoil / int_a4c15c8a	comment	This also happened in Porky's Duck Hunt, when Porky fires his shotgun rapidly into the air and creates a deep trench underneath him.
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Law of Inverse Recoil / int_a5e0780a	comment	In The Walking Dead: Season Two, Pete, a man who knows how to handle more heavy-duty guns than the simple pistol Clementine, an eleven year old at this point, is used to, tells her to be careful around something like a hunting rifle because it would "knock her on her ass." She eventually does pick up a hunting rifle during a crisis, never having handled one before, and when she fires, it does indeed literally send her falling backwards onto the ground.
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Law of Inverse Recoil / int_a6f6433c	comment	In Jak and Daxter, Jak's BFG actually does jerk back after firing. However, that doesn't stop him from running around and shooting everything in sight with a machine gun.
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Law of Inverse Recoil / int_aedc983a	comment	In Wing Commander, starfighter cannons have no recoil whether they are energy or projectile based, with one exception: the fission cannons on the Dragon have enough recoil to send your ship backwards if it's at zero throttle.
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Law of Inverse Recoil / int_b3d18990	comment	In spite of being a largely comedic zombie film, Return of the Living Dead Part II includes a scene where the Kid Hero tries to blow away a brain eater with a revolver, only for the recoil to knock him on his ass and somehow knock the gun under a desk.
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Law of Inverse Recoil / int_b6abc580	comment	Fallout: Equestria - Empty Quiver: Wholly averted with War Crime, the pony-portable full-auto sniper rifle chambered for the massive .50 MG round. The first time Night Strike fires it, she promptly receives a lesson in just what 'kicks like an apple farmer' means. Arguably played straight when it comes to Thumper's 40mm slug and other shotgun-type ammunition, however; there is some noticeable recoil, but for the size of the shell being fired it's hardly what one would expect - that is to say, Night Strike doesn't wind up snapping her neck every time she fires one of them from it.
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Law of Inverse Recoil / int_ba666650	comment	In Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater the RPG-7 has minor recoil, allowing Snake all the time he needs to fix another grenade to the end of the weapon and fire again before his target can react. There's also a scene where a character holds their gun gangsta style so that the recoil will drive their aim in a horizontal sweep with minimal effort on their part. It's mentioned later in a radio conversation that it's a Chinese technique.
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Law of Inverse Recoil / int_bb1b8e8c	comment	Also averted in Critical Role. Percy's BFG, Bad News, has extremely powerful recoil. He tries to fire it from a narrow platform in Episode 11, and Matt makes him roll a save to see whether or not he's knocked off. Perhaps less realistically, he uses the kickback to launch himself off the ground and into a dead sprint in Episode 22 - but hey, it's D&D, Rule of Cool.
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Law of Inverse Recoil / int_bbc9028b	comment	Averted in New York Magician; Michel mentions at least once that firing his Desert Eagle, despite his extensive training with it, has still made his wrist hurt.
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Law of Inverse Recoil / int_bcadd7cb	comment	Warhammer 40,000 goes out of its way to avoid this, in a setting that normally has a total disregard for such details: Imperial Guard rocket launchers are stated to have no recoil when used properly, and a bolter in the hands of a non-Super-Soldier has been known to break bones.
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Law of Inverse Recoil / int_bcb32dc6	comment	In Shadowrun recoil penalties are applied any time a player wants to shoot more than one bullet in a turn.
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Law of Inverse Recoil / int_bd41836e	comment	Justified in the StarCraft I novelization Liberty's Crusade. Jim Raynor teaches protagonist Michael Liberty (a reporter) how to shoot a Marine Gauss rifle while wearing Powered Armor. Mike aims, then stops and asks Raynor how to handle the recoil. Raynor is impressed that he thought to ask, a couple redshirts pass credits around, and Raynor explains that the suit compensates automatically.
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Law of Inverse Recoil / int_c01a7c9e	comment	All guns in Spelunky push the player back a few pixels, which can easily drop one off the edge on the slippy ice surface.
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Law of Inverse Recoil / int_c03c2b44	comment	In Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End, the midget member of Jack's crew charges out of a cellar wielding what looks to be a cannon over his arm. He shoots it and is blown right back into the cellar.
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Law of Inverse Recoil / int_c0d295c4	comment	Team Fortress 2: The Scout's Force-A-Nature unlockable shotgun takes knockback to its illogical extreme. It has so much recoil that a single shot can send ol' Scoutsy flying into the air.
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Law of Inverse Recoil / int_c137e301	comment	In Power Rangers Wild Force, this became something of a plot point with the Megazords. The first time the Wild Force Megazord used the Bear Blaster, it recoiled noticeably and the energy blasts went wild (though they still hit the target). It was later revealed that the Bear Brothers were too powerful for the Lion Zord to handle and greatly injured him. The next episodes were then spent finding the Soul Bird (to heal the Lion Zord) and the much stronger Mighty Glacier Gorilla Zord to replace the Jack of All Stats Lion Zord in controlling the Bear Zords and forming the Kongazord (itself a Mighty Glacier compared to the Jack of All Stats Wild Force Megazord).
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Law of Inverse Recoil / int_c4076b9e	comment	In Gunslinger Girl, all the weapons have realistic recoil, including handguns. The only reason that the girls can handle even large weapons, despite their own small size, is that they are cybernetically enhanced.
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Law of Inverse Recoil / int_c487221e	comment	Men in Black has an absurdly tiny gun called the Noisy Cricket. When Agent J fires it, the recoil tosses him into a car several parking spots behind his firing position. In the animated series, J gets a silencer of sorts that reduces the recoil.
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Law of Inverse Recoil / int_c4a1d59e	comment	Avoided in the Call of Duty games. The rocket launchers have zero recoil, the cannon on the first game's tank will actually make you move back a couple feet and all guns have as realistic recoil as possible. A notable and severe exception is the M240B in Modern Warfare 2 - it's a 7.62mm medium machine gun that weighs 27 pounds empty. The recoil is severe to the point that the ideal firing position is from a tripod, and if the gunner doesn't have enough time he makes do with the built-in bipod. In the game, however, it has the least recoil of all the machine guns and can be fired easily from the shoulder - and as such, it is also the weakest of the game's machine guns, despite firing the largest bullet among them. The worst part is that they could have done that realistically by using the Mk. 48, a much lighter and smaller version that can be fired from the shoulder. It still has a hefty kick, though.
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Law of Inverse Recoil / int_c4f53914	comment	Ad Astra. Even firing an energy weapon is shown to produce enough recoil to throw off the shooter when he's in zero gravity.
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Law of Inverse Recoil / int_cbb26f89	comment	The Beast of War averts this with the tank cannons. Whereas most films would show just smoke and flame spitting out the barrel, in this film they used modified blanks that shot water equal to the weight of an actual round, creating a realistic recoil.
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Law of Inverse Recoil / int_cbe3e313	comment	True Lies, when Helen attempts to fire a MAC-10 at the terrorists — and completely loses control of the weapon due to its recoil, sending it tumbling down a flight of stairs, firing by itself all the way down. Not only that, she actually killed a bunch of people in the process.
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Law of Inverse Recoil / int_ce5f145e	comment	Dragon Ball: In Goku's first tournament, Jackie Chun is knocked out of the ring, but he manages to get himself back into the ring before he touches the ground with the recoil from a Kamehameha. Goku learns from this, and at the next tournament, pulls off a similar trick to defeat Tien while he's busy taunting him about how he can fly and block his Kamehameha. And at the tournament after that, he uses a Kamehameha out of his feet to propel himself.
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Law of Inverse Recoil / int_cf6917ab	comment	The blunderbuss in American McGee's Alice has a powerful recoil that knocks Alice backwards on her rump whenever she uses it, making it dangerous to use near ledges and cliffs.
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Law of Inverse Recoil / int_cf6f9a97	comment	City Hunter represents recoil correctly, with first time shooters failing miserably (and sometimes getting blown across the room) due the recoil of shooting a .357 Magnum revolver. The only times it looks played straight is when it's Justified by the shooter being either Ryo or Mick Angel (who have trained extensively enough to handle the recoil of a .357 Magnum of even a .44 Magnum Desert Eagle one-handed) or Umibozu (who is gigantic and strong enough to casually bend metal, so firing a machine gun is easy for him).
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Law of Inverse Recoil / int_d1710608	comment	In Sharpe, the recoil of muskets bruising people's shoulders is repeatedly mentioned, and in particular the seven-volley Nock gun has such a powerful recoil that only exceptionally tall, bulky and strong men like Sergeant Harper can safely fire it. Which was Truth in Television. Also more briefly covered in the TV adaptation.
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Law of Inverse Recoil / int_d37e7711	comment	In True Grit, 14 year-old Mattie discovers the effects of recoil at the most inopportune time and place.
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Law of Inverse Recoil / int_d4d2054b	comment	In Big Trouble in Little China, Jack attempts to fire a fully-automatic submachine gun, but ends up spraying bullets in every direction, only taking out a bad guy by accident.
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Law of Inverse Recoil / int_d5166b43	comment	One notable aversion even in the earlier games is the SMG, whose Halo 2 incarnation had particularly insane muzzle climb at full auto.
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Law of Inverse Recoil / int_d79407e3	comment	Blame!: In the manga, not only does Killy's graviton beam emitter pistol produce recoil, but on the first occasion when he turned it up to full power the recoil was enough to break his arm.
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Law of Inverse Recoil / int_dab32c0	comment	A fully charged shot in Mega Man 5 and IV is powerful enough to push the player back by a few pixels. In Mega Man 9, similar to the Earthworm Jim example, there are some zero-gravity sections in which the normally-negligible recoil from your Arm Cannon becomes your only means of controlling your movement. In the Mega Man X series, you can see X being pushed slightly back with each shot in the first three games, but it's the same no matter what's being shot, whether it's a small plasma pellet, a huge energy blast or actual solid objects. It's also only noticeable when standing still and shooting. The upgraded normal shots in Mega Man X2 and Mega Man X3 have no noticeable recoil, X actually moves his arms forward in a punching motion. This is the same with Zero. After the first 3, X suddenly has enough recoil from fully charged shots to push his arms over his head, despite that not being the case before, and Zero gets recoil from firing any shot.
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Law of Inverse Recoil / int_dab32c4	comment	In Mega Man 9, similar to the Earthworm Jim example, there are some zero-gravity sections in which the normally-negligible recoil from your Arm Cannon becomes your only means of controlling your movement.
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Law of Inverse Recoil / int_dab32e3	comment	In the Mega Man X series, you can see X being pushed slightly back with each shot in the first three games, but it's the same no matter what's being shot, whether it's a small plasma pellet, a huge energy blast or actual solid objects. It's also only noticeable when standing still and shooting. The upgraded normal shots in Mega Man X2 and Mega Man X3 have no noticeable recoil, X actually moves his arms forward in a punching motion. This is the same with Zero. After the first 3, X suddenly has enough recoil from fully charged shots to push his arms over his head, despite that not being the case before, and Zero gets recoil from firing any shot.
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Law of Inverse Recoil / int_df32efd1	comment	The Dual Crusher from GoGo Sentai Boukenger / Drill Blaster from Power Rangers Operation Overdrive knocks the user flat (and that's for morphed Rangers; it could be worse for someone untransformed). A special armored vest had to be developed to disperse the energies.
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Law of Inverse Recoil / int_e5c5bc22	type	Law of Inverse Recoil
Law of Inverse Recoil / int_e5c5bc22	comment	GURPS, in its relentless pursuit of accuracy, avoids this at every turn and even tries to establish realistic recoil of weapons that don't exist.
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Law of Inverse Recoil / int_e5d47ff8	comment	Quite averted in the ARMA series. Various guns have different amounts of recoil modified by whether you are standing, crouching, lying prone or bracing the weapon and while rocket and missile launchers don't have recoil, they do sport an almost lethal backblast zone behind them and definitely should not be fired at too steep an angle or with your back to a wall.
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Law of Inverse Recoil / int_e66a25a9	comment	In the Rifts RPG, the Glitter Boy boom gun (the BFG of all BFGs) requires the wearer of the armour to engage foot anchors and backpack thrusters to absorb the massive recoil.
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Law of Inverse Recoil / int_e67a7d6c	comment	Negima! Magister Negi Magi: Negi uses the recoil from a magic arrow to avoid a blast by his father during their fight in the Mahora Budokai.
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Law of Inverse Recoil / int_e6c59cc4	comment	Quake II's machine gun features a stint of muzzle climb as you hold down the trigger that stabilizes after one or two seconds of continuous fire. It's usually a good idea to aim slightly below where you want the bullets to go and let the muzzle climb rake your aim up to your targetnote this is called "walking the burst" and is commonly used with real-life machine guns where the operator will start firing and then use the bullet impacts as a reference point to adjust his aim. The weapon's muzzle climb is absent in multiplayer.
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Law of Inverse Recoil / int_e735e9e0	comment	Dead Winter, here. Note the Unsound Effect.
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Law of Inverse Recoil / int_e91e57f0	comment	Redneck Rampage is an interesting case. It's among the first — if not the very first — First-Person Shooter to have severe recoil and muzzle climb from an automatic weapon, namely the AK-style "huntin'" rifle. If you don't let go of the trigger, you'll end up shooting the ceiling in no time even if your target is an Alien Hulk at point-blank range; controlled bursts are mandatory when using the rifle. The .454 Casull revolver, the shotgun, and the Alien Teat Gun will push Leonard backwards a little with each shot, as does the "huntin'" rifle in addition to the muzzle climb. Very plausible considering Leonard's comically gangly.
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Law of Inverse Recoil / int_ebffc81f	comment	Justified in Mage: The Awakening; if a Mage has knowledge of the force arcanum, they can enchant a weapon to disperse the opposite reaction of the forces, completely removing any recoil from the gun.
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Law of Inverse Recoil / int_ed2a7866	comment	Sword Art Online: Averted in the real-world segments; backstory for Phantom Bullet involves an elementary-age Shino Asada playing Badass Bystander against an attempted bank robber. When she takes his gun and fires it at him, the recoil realistically sends the gun reeling back over her head.
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Law of Inverse Recoil / int_f0a86c12	comment	In an episode of How I Met Your Mother, Robin takes Marshall to a shooting range to help him get over Lily leaving him for the summer. He picks up the gun, shoots it, and it recoils to smack him right in the face, knocking him on his ass.
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Law of Inverse Recoil / int_f1853fcd	comment	Cannon God Exaxxion: The manga features guns so powerful that they're just as likely to kill somebody standing several feet behind as well as in front of them unless you're wearing a suit of Powered Armor. This is often a source of dramatic tension, as the main character is trying to be as heroic as possible in a world far into the cynical end of the Sliding Scale of Idealism Versus Cynicism & accidentally vaporizing innocent bystanders isn't exactly the sort of thing heroes do.
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Law of Inverse Recoil / int_f2438694	comment	Recoil is portrayed fairly realistically in Revenge. In particular, the first time Jen fires Dimi's Mossberg 590 shotgun, she is completely unprepared for the recoil and it knocks her flat on her ass. The shot goes wild and wings Stan in the shoulder, rather than hitting him in the head. (It should be noted that Dimi, the Fat Bastard she took it off, was much heavier than the slight Jen.)
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Law of Inverse Recoil / int_f412ce55	comment	The AVRiL from Unreal Tournament 2004 and Unreal Tournament III pushes the player back several feet, potentially knocking them off a platform. Oddly, the Redeemer, an even larger nuclear cruise missile launcher, and the normal Rocket Launcher, which even post-nerfs can still load and launch three rockets at a time, have minimum recoil.
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Law of Inverse Recoil / int_f5641b57	comment	Rocket Girls: In episode 2, the protagonist, a lightly built teenage girl, is given a gun and told to practice firing on a shooting range. She doesn't expect the recoil and falls over backwards.
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Law of Inverse Recoil / int_f849875f	comment	Subverted in It's Walky!: "Get a smaller gun, Joyce."◊
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Law of Inverse Recoil / int_f8705c18	comment	Seras Victoria in Hellsing notes after becoming a vampire that she barely feels the kick on a huge gun, demonstrating her new super strength. She later gets an even bigger gun and can fire it with ease. Although when she uses a huge (even by her standards) anti-aircraft gun, she still needs to have it brace itself against the ground to account for the fact that she lacks the sheer mass to avoid being knocked over by the recoil (The gun weighs several times more than she does - when unloaded).
Law of Inverse Recoil / int_f8705c18	featureApplicability	1.0
Law of Inverse Recoil / int_f8705c18	featureConfidence	1.0
Hellsing (Manga)	hasFeature	Law of Inverse Recoil / int_f8705c18
Law of Inverse Recoil / int_fbf4ce43	type	Law of Inverse Recoil
Law of Inverse Recoil / int_fbf4ce43	comment	Batman: Under the Red Hood averts this when Red Hood fires the rocket launcher at Black Mask's office. There is no recoil, but the backdraft of a recoil-less rocket launcher is correctly shown, and he is sensibly firing from an open rooftop with nothing to his back.
Law of Inverse Recoil / int_fbf4ce43	featureApplicability	1.0
Law of Inverse Recoil / int_fbf4ce43	featureConfidence	1.0
Batman: Under the Red Hood	hasFeature	Law of Inverse Recoil / int_fbf4ce43
Law of Inverse Recoil / int_fcf34eec	type	Law of Inverse Recoil
Law of Inverse Recoil / int_fcf34eec	comment	In Full Metal Panic!, the Laevatein (the Mid-Season Upgrade to the Arbalest) is equipped with a giant gun called a demolition cannon; when in its Howitzer Mode, the recoil is so great that the Laevatein will be knocked off its feet unless the physics-defying Lambda Driver is active.
Law of Inverse Recoil / int_fcf34eec	featureApplicability	1.0
Law of Inverse Recoil / int_fcf34eec	featureConfidence	1.0
Full Metal Panic!	hasFeature	Law of Inverse Recoil / int_fcf34eec
Law of Inverse Recoil / int_fe5f9efb	type	Law of Inverse Recoil
Law of Inverse Recoil / int_fe5f9efb	comment	A somewhat questionable aversion occurs in Quatermass II when an astronaut fires a submachine gun on an asteroid, and the recoil knocks him off the low gravity surface and out into space.
Law of Inverse Recoil / int_fe5f9efb	featureApplicability	-1.0
Law of Inverse Recoil / int_fe5f9efb	featureConfidence	1.0
Quatermass (Franchise)	hasFeature	Law of Inverse Recoil / int_fe5f9efb

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Law of Inverse Recoil	processingCategory2	Guns Do Not Work That Way
Law of Inverse Recoil	processingCategory2	Laws and Formulas
Law of Inverse Recoil	processingCategory2	Omnipresent Tropes
Brave Command Dagwon / int_2941069e	type	Law of Inverse Recoil
Cowboy Bebop / int_2941069e	type	Law of Inverse Recoil
Patlabor: The Movie / int_2941069e	type	Law of Inverse Recoil
Daisy Kutter (Comic Book) / int_2941069e	type	Law of Inverse Recoil
Hotline Miami: Wildlife (Comic Book) / int_2941069e	type	Law of Inverse Recoil
Preacher (Comic Book) / int_2941069e	type	Law of Inverse Recoil
Aeon Entelechy Evangelion / Fan Fic / int_2941069e	type	Law of Inverse Recoil
BlueSky	seeAlso	Law of Inverse Recoil
Blue Sky (Fanfic) / int_2941069e	type	Law of Inverse Recoil
Blue Sky (Waffles) (Fanfic) / int_2941069e	type	Law of Inverse Recoil
Digimon Xros Wars AU 02 (Fanfic) / int_2941069e	type	Law of Inverse Recoil
Fallout: Equestria - Empty Quiver (Fanfic) / int_2941069e	type	Law of Inverse Recoil
A Serious Shock! Yes Madam! / int_2941069e	type	Law of Inverse Recoil
Ad Astra / int_2941069e	type	Law of Inverse Recoil
Beverly Hills Cop II / int_2941069e	type	Law of Inverse Recoil
Big Trouble in Little China / int_2941069e	type	Law of Inverse Recoil
Diamonds Are Forever / int_2941069e	type	Law of Inverse Recoil
Everly / int_2941069e	type	Law of Inverse Recoil
High Heels and Low Lifes / int_2941069e	type	Law of Inverse Recoil
I, Robot / int_2941069e	type	Law of Inverse Recoil
Independence Day / int_2941069e	type	Law of Inverse Recoil
Last Action Hero / int_2941069e	type	Law of Inverse Recoil
Men in Black / int_2941069e	type	Law of Inverse Recoil
Police Academy / int_2941069e	type	Law of Inverse Recoil
Revenge (2017) / int_2941069e	type	Law of Inverse Recoil
Safe (2012) / int_2941069e	type	Law of Inverse Recoil
Shoot 'Em Up / int_2941069e	type	Law of Inverse Recoil
Snatch. / int_2941069e	type	Law of Inverse Recoil
The Axe / int_2941069e	type	Law of Inverse Recoil
The Rundown / int_2941069e	type	Law of Inverse Recoil
The Way of the Gun / int_2941069e	type	Law of Inverse Recoil
Toy Soldiers / int_2941069e	type	Law of Inverse Recoil
True Grit / int_2941069e	type	Law of Inverse Recoil
True Lies / int_2941069e	type	Law of Inverse Recoil
X (2022) / int_2941069e	type	Law of Inverse Recoil
Zombieland / int_2941069e	type	Law of Inverse Recoil
Quatermass (Franchise) / int_2941069e	type	Law of Inverse Recoil
Rebuild World / int_2941069e	type	Law of Inverse Recoil
Cell / int_2941069e	type	Law of Inverse Recoil
Hoka / int_2941069e	type	Law of Inverse Recoil
Rebuild World / int_2941069e	type	Law of Inverse Recoil
The Drawing of the Three / int_2941069e	type	Law of Inverse Recoil
The Familiar of Zero / int_2941069e	type	Law of Inverse Recoil
Wearing the Cape / int_2941069e	type	Law of Inverse Recoil
DarkerThanBlackTwinsOfTheMeteor	seeAlso	Law of Inverse Recoil
LostPlanet	seeAlso	Law of Inverse Recoil
Phartman	seeAlso	Law of Inverse Recoil
Rule of Cool	seeAlso	Law of Inverse Recoil
Blame (Manga) / int_2941069e	type	Law of Inverse Recoil
Nobunagun (Manga) / int_2941069e	type	Law of Inverse Recoil
Midlands RP (Roleplay) / int_2941069e	type	Law of Inverse Recoil
Kamen Rider OOO / int_2941069e	type	Law of Inverse Recoil
Kidou Keiji Jiban / int_2941069e	type	Law of Inverse Recoil
Kikaider / int_2941069e	type	Law of Inverse Recoil
Power Rangers Operation Overdrive / int_2941069e	type	Law of Inverse Recoil
Sue Thomas: F.B.Eye / int_2941069e	type	Law of Inverse Recoil
Tokkei Winspector / int_2941069e	type	Law of Inverse Recoil
Action 52 Owns (Video Game) / int_2941069e	type	Law of Inverse Recoil
Alter A.I.L.A. (Video Game) / int_2941069e	type	Law of Inverse Recoil
Brutal Doom (Video Game) / int_2941069e	type	Law of Inverse Recoil
Eternal Darkness (Video Game) / int_2941069e	type	Law of Inverse Recoil
Iji (Video Game) / int_2941069e	type	Law of Inverse Recoil
IL-2 Sturmovik (Video Game) / int_2941069e	type	Law of Inverse Recoil
Insurgency: Sandstorm (Video Game) / int_2941069e	type	Law of Inverse Recoil
Jak 3 (Video Game) / int_2941069e	type	Law of Inverse Recoil
Jak and Daxter (Video Game) / int_2941069e	type	Law of Inverse Recoil
Jak II: Renegade (Video Game) / int_2941069e	type	Law of Inverse Recoil
Mega Man IV (Video Game) / int_2941069e	type	Law of Inverse Recoil
Portal (Video Game) / int_2941069e	type	Law of Inverse Recoil
Red Orchestra (Video Game) / int_2941069e	type	Law of Inverse Recoil
Resident Evil 4 (Remake) (Video Game) / int_2941069e	type	Law of Inverse Recoil
Super Smash Bros. Brawl (Video Game) / int_2941069e	type	Law of Inverse Recoil
Valkyria Chronicles (Video Game) / int_2941069e	type	Law of Inverse Recoil
Wasteland 2 (Video Game) / int_2941069e	type	Law of Inverse Recoil
Wild ARMs (Video Game) / int_2941069e	type	Law of Inverse Recoil
Wing Commander (Video Game) / int_2941069e	type	Law of Inverse Recoil
Diamond's Cut (Web Video) / int_2941069e	type	Law of Inverse Recoil
Forgotten Weapons (Web Video) / int_2941069e	type	Law of Inverse Recoil
Danger Zone One (Webcomic) / int_2941069e	type	Law of Inverse Recoil
Dead Winter (Webcomic) / int_2941069e	type	Law of Inverse Recoil
Beep, Beep / int_2941069e	type	Law of Inverse Recoil
Gee Whiz-z-z-z-z-z-z / int_2941069e	type	Law of Inverse Recoil
Hullabaloo / int_2941069e	type	Law of Inverse Recoil
The Legend of Zelda (1989) / int_2941069e	type	Law of Inverse Recoil
The Triplets of Belleville / int_2941069e	type	Law of Inverse Recoil
lawofinverserecoil	sameAs	Law of Inverse Recoil

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