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Pistol Pose
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A very common pose for movie posters and game cover art is to feature the main character posing with a firearm, often a pistol. A pistol is usually used to convey that the character is armed and dangerous and has intent to shoot, but not as overpowering as an assault rifle would be. Sometimes this is done for marketing reasons: a character may be known for their martial arts or other character traits, but if they hold a pistol anywhere in the story it'll be presented in promotional art to make the work look more action-focused and appeal to a broader audience. But since a pistol is small, it's also easier to downplay it visually by holding it to the side. This isn't exclusive to pistols: assault rifles and shotguns are also used for more aggressive characters, but they're more limited in how they can pose and express with them. It is also common to spoof this by having something else being held, like a banana or finger-guns, but still pose with the same serious reverence as with a real firearm. See also: Sean Connery Is About to Shoot You, the more audience-aggressive variant. If there are two characters, it may also be a Back-to-Back Poster. |
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The cover of Bioshock Infinite predominantly features Booker (the player protagonist) slinging a shotgun on his shoulder. The cover art actually triggered a pretty massive debate around its release, with many criticizing the cover as a "dumbing down" of the artistically-challenging prestige established with BioShock (the cover arts of BioShock and BioShock 2 similarly focused on a single character, but evoking much more of their gritty, Art Deco and Diesel Punk style). The official reasoning for the cover is that 1) it already is reflecting of the game's more action-y tone, 2) it was indeed meant to appeal to the Lowest Common Denominator, built on a presumption that those that were already interested in its setting, story, and themes were most likely already going to buy the game anyway, and didn't need an artsier cover to convince them, and 3) it was also meant to appeal to the game's publisher during mid-development, as playing with the intent of broad appeal allowed them to be more forgiving regarding delays and additional budget matters. | |
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Cowboy Bebop: Spike and Faye do this. | |
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James Bond. Actually, there are tons of such poses on promotional material. On the DVD covers, they even added arms with pistols. Sometimes it's pretty obvious. | |
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US editions of The Lost Fleet invariably have someone who's presumably meant to be the protagonist dressed like a Space Marine and doing some kind of heroic pose on the cover. nothing remotely like this event ever happens in the book, and later volumes in the series actually start Leaning on the Fourth Wall to complain about it. | |
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Posters for the Harry Potter films have done with with wands instead of guns. | |
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Lara Croft in most Tomb Raider games is seen holding her pistols on the box art. | |
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Macross Frontier has an in-story war propaganda commercial in which Sheryl Nome gives a pistol pose after she shoots you. | |
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Banksy's famous Pulp Fiction painting near London's Old Street. It depicted the characters of Jules and Vincent in their famous pistol pose, but holding bananas instead of guns... until the council decided it was graffiti, not art, and had it painted over. A version was promptly produced with Jules and Vincent actually holding guns... While wearing banana suits◊. | |
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Doom (2016) also rather infamously had one of these covers, a static image of the Doom Slayer standing with a shotgun and not much else. This was widely slammed for being generic, and was one of the factors that led to initial skepticism that ironically accentuated the almost universal acclaim the game itself received. Even during the leadup to the release, id Software provided an alternate reversible cover — instead a much more ornate, mural-like shot of Doom Slayer in the middle of singlehandedly fighting through a horde of demons — a style which was locked in for Doom Eternal's cover art from the get-go. | |
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Both Nikita and the English-language remake Point of No Return both had movie posters that feature this trope. | |
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Not the standard "hand-on-the-elbow" pistol pose, but the posters for Wanted resulted in protests in the UK because of their glamorizing gun violence. | |
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3:10 to Yuma (2007) featured a variant: the character depicted was holding on to a revolver, but by the chamber, not the handle. | |
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Some of the promotional posters for Serenity show River posing with a pistol which, ironically, is used by Jayne in the movie, though she steals it from him and levels it at the camera in one scene. | |
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The poster for The Untouchables (1987) has the other three Untouchables holding rifles in the back as Kevin Costner is about to shoot you and under a giant Robert De Niro as Evil Overlooker. | |
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The posters in Left 4 Dead 2 mix it up with melee weapons instead of guns. | |
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The poster and DVD art for the film version of Undercover Brother. Star Eddie Griffin complained about this, noting that the character never uses a gun. | |
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Similarly, all the characters in the Team Fortress 2's "Meet the Team" line-up, the Spy in particular. | |
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Although it's not a firearm, some of the Publicity Stills from the new Doctor Who show the Ninth Doctor holding his sonic screwdriver in a similar manner. Although in the right circumstances, it's more useful than a gun. After all, you can only shoot the lock off so many times, and you can't shoot the lock on even once. (Except with Captain Jack's Sonic Disrupter.) | |
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Posters for You Don't Mess with the Zohan have the title character (an Israeli commando who wants to be a hair dresser) brandishing hair dryers. Interestingly, at least one poster shows him with a rifle strapped to his back. | |
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Johnny English: the first film has Rowan Atkinson pointing a gun at the camera. | |
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The Matrix Reloaded had various characters doing so in their promo posters. The page pic is Agent Smith's poster, featuring the film's title across his crotch. | |
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Sakamoto Days has many volume covers and chapter illustrations holding pistols, including the characters who rarely, if ever, use guns. | |
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A-Drei in the ED for Valvrave the Liberator. | |
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Shadow the Hedgehog pulls this off on the box art of his own game, as well as some promotional artwork. | |
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Campaign posters in Left 4 Dead. The posters in Left 4 Dead 2 mix it up with melee weapons instead of guns. Similarly, all the characters in the Team Fortress 2's "Meet the Team" line-up, the Spy in particular. |
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