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Put Down Your Gun and Step Away

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Put Down Your Gun and Step Away	comment	Classic variant of the Hostage Situation. The villain has a hostage in his grasp, and a gun pointed at said hostage's head. The hero(es) barge in with guns out. Villain tells the heroes to get rid of their guns or the hostage gets it. ("Kick them towards him." "Put them down and step away." etc.) The heroes will do exactly that, and it's usually only a stroke of luck that saves them from the villain just plugging them right then and there, or worse, killing the hostage anyway. That or a case of Bond Villain Stupidity. It's implied that karmically this is the right thing to do, though, so that stroke of luck will happen nearly every time as a "reward." Even trained police and military will do this, which goes against every rule and all logic in real life in regards to this situation. In fact, there was an episode of COPS where we see the trainer emphatically tell the police officers to never take their gun off for a hostage taker. A possible reason why this works in fiction is that Evil Is Cool in there. In Real Life, criminals are far more cowardly and most definitely not cool. On the other hand, hitting an object as small as a person's head at more than a few paces with a handgun is really difficult, so it's more of a case of psychological pressure on a cowardly criminal that makes this trope far from Truth in Television, but that could be said of most cases of defensive firearm use. The main problem with the situation is that the hostage taker, barring the occasional ones who are willing to give their life, doesn't want to shoot the hostage much more than the heroes do. If they were to kill the hostage because the heroes refused to drop the guns, there is suddenly nothing to keep the heroes from using said guns. However, the characters almost never think this through. This is usually not Truth in Television: real-life police and military forces train their people to never put down their guns in a hostage situation, because if you do you'll just end up with a dead hostage and a dead hero. This trope is mixed with Shoot the Hostage or Shoot the Hostage Taker to show either that a character is edgy and a possible Anti-Hero, or that they're Just That Good. Compare Hostage for MacGuffin.
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Put Down Your Gun and Step Away / int_101bfcd7	comment	Subverted in Sengoku Basara's anime when Mitsuhide attempts to use Mori Ranmaru as a Human Shield against Kojyuurou, counting on that his attacker, being one of the heroes, Wouldn't Hurt a Child. Kojyuuro's reply is that, child or no, Ranmaru is still a servant of Nobunaga who has killed lots of people and is therefore fair game. Then he charges.
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Put Down Your Gun and Step Away / int_10555b70	comment	In WinBack, The Dragon does this to Jean-Luc, while holding Lisa hostage as well. Then Jake busts in, but senselessly gets himself killed.
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Put Down Your Gun and Step Away / int_1449a8e8	comment	The Scorpio Killer in Dirty Harry grabs a boy as a hostage; Callahan responds by shooting him in the shoulder (the boy escapes unscathed) and delivering his "Do I feel lucky? Well, do ya', punk?" line before finally taking him out.
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Put Down Your Gun and Step Away / int_153f674f	comment	Subverted in the Miami Vice episode, The Glades. A little girl is taken hostage by a Mook as Sonny Crockett rounds a corner, pistol aimed.
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Put Down Your Gun and Step Away / int_1556da65	comment	PokÃ©mon Detective Pikachu has a variation that is Played for Laughs.
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Put Down Your Gun and Step Away / int_17fa5f0a	comment	In part 1 of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Harry and Ron are dueling with Draco and Narcissa, but Bellatrix Lestrange gets them to drop their wands by putting a knife to Hermione's throat. She's crazy enough that she probably would have done it, too.
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Put Down Your Gun and Step Away / int_182e496	comment	Parodied and invoked by Loaded Weapon 1: The scene ends with both hostage and villain telling Luger to drop his gun, as he becomes stricken with a flashback upon holding the weapon and starts acting erratically.
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Put Down Your Gun and Step Away / int_1bd6e69b	comment	In one issue of Fell, a perp draws a gun on Fell during an interrogation and threatens to kill him if the cops don't let him walk. Fell immediately points out that, now that he's threatened an officer in the middle of a police station full of armed cops, the only thing keeping the perp alive is him not pulling the trigger. After some Verbal Judo, the perp attempts to commit suicide, but Fell stops him.
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Put Down Your Gun and Step Away / int_1cc09117	comment	A variant subversion in Bleach. Byakuya Kuchiki is fighting an Arrancar who can control others. The Arrancar controls Rukia, Byakuya's adopted little sister, and threatens to get her to cut her own throat, unless Byakuya drops his sword. Byakuya does so... then hits Rukia with a binding spell. Then drops his sword in an entirely different way.
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Put Down Your Gun and Step Away / int_222a8847	comment	In the first movie, RoboCop aims between the hostage's legs and shoots the bad guy's crotch.
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Put Down Your Gun and Step Away / int_225c51e0	comment	Subverted in The Naked Gun. When the Big Bad takes Lt. Frank's love interest hostage and orders Frank to drop his weapon, Frank refuses to comply, says "two can play at that game!" and grabs a random civilian woman from the crowd to use as his hostage.
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Put Down Your Gun and Step Away / int_22fa3992	comment	One episode of The Expanse has Bobbie attempting to escape a hostile ship, with only a single airlock between her and her Powered Armor. However, an electrician has been ordered to stand guard at the door with his finger on the control panel; if he takes it off, all airlocks will go into lockdown. He tries telling her to step away lest he trap her, but she points out that if he does lock the ship down, there's nothing stopping her from killing him, and he probably doesn't have that much loyalty to his superiors, anyway. After a bit of thought, the electrician lets her pass and even asks if she can rough him up a bit and stuff him in a locker to make it look like she forced him.
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Put Down Your Gun and Step Away / int_23d67c89	comment	In The Hobbit, the trolls use Bilbo to make the dwarves surrender.
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Put Down Your Gun and Step Away / int_247422c7	comment	In Honor Harrington: Honor Among Enemies, a warlord/hostage taker insists Harrington meets with them without her or her guards carrying weapons. She agrees, and calmly goes through their weapons scanners...which only scan for contemporary, powered weapons. Her many-centuries "obsolete" and antique .45 automatic is, however, undetected in her briefcase.
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Put Down Your Gun and Step Away / int_2a43dd91	comment	The Uncharted games feature about a dozen of these, but one that really stands out is actually a subversion. In the second game, after having this pulled on him so many times, Nate finally tries to do this himself, taking one of Lazarevic's men hostage. He forgot that his adversary was pure evil, though, and the attempt fails after Lazarevic shoots the hostage himself.
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Put Down Your Gun and Step Away / int_2e5afaef	comment	Subverted in The Good Guys with the episode "Don't Tase Me Bro". The antagonist takes Dan hostage so Jack slowly puts his gun down before whipping out a Taser and shocking both Dan and the antagonist into submission.
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Put Down Your Gun and Step Away / int_305faa76	comment	Played with in Spacetrawler. Qwahntoo has Pierrot hostage, and threatens to kill him if his friends, Emily and Gurf, don't hand over their ship. (He doesn't even ask them to put their guns down—instead he just points out that he's impervious to their lasers.) Emily, however, knows exactly what's up: "I don't believe in threats like yours. Because if we give in, you'll just cut his head off anyway... then kill us as well." So she shoots Qwahntoo anyway. It doesn't kill him, but it does blast him backwards, knocking Pierrot out of his clutches.
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Put Down Your Gun and Step Away / int_3150705c	comment	In Season 2 of Graceland, when the task force headed by Corrupt Cop Sid Markham go to bust the human smuggling/prostitution ring they had previously been protecting, (and kill every single member of the ring so they can't reveal the complicity of the task force) there's a standoff when one of the gangsters uses one of the women as a Human Shield, complete with him being crouched behind her so that only a couple inches of his head is exposed. The cop acts as if he's going to drop his gun, then does a kind of Quick Draw move and hits the guy perfectly. His would be Human Shield is (understandably) completely freaked out, both due to having a dead guy's brains all over her and the knowledge of exactly how perfect the shot had to be to avoid killing her too.
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Put Down Your Gun and Step Away / int_325475	comment	This was also done in the movie Resident Evil: Apocalypse with Alice in place of Claire, in a tacked-on scene that replicates part of the game's intro.
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Put Down Your Gun and Step Away / int_326c82c5	comment	Also subverted in NCIS: Los Angeles when Kensi is held at gunpoint by a rogue CIA officer, who doesn't get to finish his threat before Deeks drills him through the forehead.
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Put Down Your Gun and Step Away / int_343a862	comment	In Star Trek: The Lost Era: Well of Souls, a violent criminal demands Captain Rachel Garrett and her ship's doctor toss their weapons aside. His hostage is Garrett's young son, so she does so. The doctor hesitates (no doubt knowing you don't comply with this sort of demand), but then follows the captain's lead.
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Put Down Your Gun and Step Away / int_36151c14	comment	Subverted in the Hawaii Five-0/NCIS: Los Angeles crossover. Dracul Comescu's bodyguard takes a bystander hostage and orders Chin Ho to do this. Chin delays just long enough for Kono to line up a shot from her sniper perch.
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Put Down Your Gun and Step Away / int_3729373e	comment	In the opening chapter of Detroit: Become Human, Connor can bring a pistol with him when going to negotiate with Daniel, an android-turned hostage taker. Acting on a hunch, Daniel will ask Connor whether he's armed. If Connor tells the truth, Daniel orders him to throw away the gun or else he shoots; he will comply, which slightly relieves Daniel's stress and increases the probability of a successful negotiation.
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Put Down Your Gun and Step Away / int_383c39a5	comment	Subverted in With This Ring when Holly Robinson tries to hold a painting hostage to let her escape, but it turns out Paul doesn't care.
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Put Down Your Gun and Step Away / int_3b08dfc9	comment	Averted and potentially Lampshaded in Pillars of Eternity. Early on in the game, the caravan the Watcher is traveling with is ambushed by Glanfathan tribesman. The Watcher confronts the lead raider, who has a blade to the throat of another caravan member and tells them to put down their weapons or his hostage dies. There's a long list of potential responses, one of them being to point out that the Glanfathans clearly intend to kill the entire caravan, so there's no incentive to make it easy for them. The leader repeats his demand, but it's clear he's already effectively conceded the point.
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Put Down Your Gun and Step Away / int_3d8baf12	comment	In RoboCop 2, the title character orders his partner to put her gun away to stall for time and lull the hostage taker into complacency. He then holds his gun off to the side and shoots the bad guy in the head with a carom shot.
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Put Down Your Gun and Step Away / int_40e44a7a	comment	Judge Dredd. Rico to Judge Dredd, when Rico's robot has Judge Hershey by the neck.
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Put Down Your Gun and Step Away / int_41963414	comment	The War Against the Chtorr. A malfunctioning Spider Tank robot orders McCarthy to do this (unfortunately it's stuck in a programming loop and won't go to the next stage of verifying his identity). McCarthy does so, then remote-triggers the rockets in his backpack to provide a distraction while he makes a run for the bigger rocket launcher in his jeep.
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Put Down Your Gun and Step Away / int_41b0198a	comment	This happens in The Dresden Files novel Grave Peril, albeit with a sword instead of a gun. Harry even points out how dumb it is to comply, but given that the hostage was Michael's pregnant wife, it's understandable that he wasn't thinking logically.
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Put Down Your Gun and Step Away / int_43576f5	comment	Supernatural: In the episode "All Hell Breaks Loose, Part Two" (S02, Ep 22), Jake insists the others put down their weapons or he will make Ellen shoot herself in the head. At one point, Sam comes across a monster that threatens to kill a girl unless he puts his gun down. Sam, being soulless at this point, it a tad more... pragmatic than usual and immediately subverts the trope by shooting the girl. "There goes your leverage," indeed.
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Put Down Your Gun and Step Away / int_43a9c333	comment	Cowboy Bebop: Subverted in "Ballad of Fallen Angels". A mook has a gun pressed to Faye's head and demands Spike drop his. Without hesitation, Spike shoots the hostage taker cleanly between the eyes and the whole scene quickly devolves into a Blast Out. Also subverted in Cowboy Bebop: Knockin' on Heaven's Door: A mook caught robbing a convenience store holds his gun up to an elderly woman customer. Spike just reminds the mook that, as a bounty hunter, Spike is paid for catching criminals rather than saving innocents, so the woman's life is worthless to him. This pisses off both the criminal (who points his gun at Spike instead of the hostage) and the woman (whose thrashings allow her to slip free), conveniently giving Spike a clear shot at the bad guy.
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Put Down Your Gun and Step Away / int_457b671e	comment	Certainly seen at least once on 24 if not more often.
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Put Down Your Gun and Step Away / int_49ff762	comment	In the Torchwood episode "Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang", Ianto is struggling to decide what to do when an alien blowfish has a hostage when a shot is heard, as Jack has shot it from behind.
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Put Down Your Gun and Step Away / int_4b790c79	comment	Iron Man subverts this. Stark is facing a group of terrorists who have taken human hostages, and he apparently can't hit them with his arm repulsors without harming the civilians. Not at once, at least. Instead, he targets each individual terrorist and shoots them with precision shoulder-mounted shots simultaneously.
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Put Down Your Gun and Step Away / int_4bcd7167	comment	A slight variation is played for laughs in Red Heat. There's no hostage as such, but Danko and Ridzik themselves are held at gunpoint by the Big Bad and ordered to hand over their guns. Ridzik averts the trope for a second in a Truth in Television moment, saying "a Chicago cop never relinquishes his weapon", only to hand it over a fraction of a second after the Big Bad cocks his gun.
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Put Down Your Gun and Step Away / int_4cc06582	comment	Subverted twice in Hot Fuzz: Holding Danny and an injured Nicholas at gunpoint, Dr. Hatcher tells Danny to "Drop 'em." Danny complies, but his shotgun goes off when it hits the ground, blowing half of Hatcher's foot off. And then again at the very end, when Danny's father holds Danny at gunpoint and says the same to Nicholas, who calls his bluff.
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Put Down Your Gun and Step Away / int_4d5b6107	comment	Subverted in The Usual Suspects. When rivals take Keyser Soze's family hostage and use them as human shields, Soze simply kills his family, then kills the hostage takers.
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Put Down Your Gun and Step Away / int_4f49ab8e	comment	48 Hrs.: Played straight at the beginning where Jack giving up his gun gets one cop killed and lets the bad guys get away. That's why he doesn't make the same mistake at the end of the movie. Averted later when the Big Bad holds Reggie hostage at gunpoint, he orders Jack to drop his weapon. Reggie insists that Jack shoots him. Which he does. After which Reggie berates Jack for nearly killing him. And in the sequel, Another 48 Hours, Reggie tells Jack, "Why don't you just shoot me yourself?" which Jack does (not in the head, though). Then Jack shoots the villain. The look on the villain's face in between the 2 shots is priceless.
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Put Down Your Gun and Step Away / int_51455a02	comment	A non-gun example occurs in the anime Claymore, Clare throws away her sword to save Raki when he's held hostage by a yoma. When it attacks, impaling her through the stomach, she grabs it and drags it along with her down the hill — ending up, quite deliberately, right next to her discarded sword. She dispatches the yoma in seconds. Afterwards, she claims that she only threw away the sword to fool the yoma and keep it from escaping. While she certainly was trying to trick the yoma into doing exactly what it did, it's easy enough to guess that she was also unwilling to let the thing kill Raki.
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Put Down Your Gun and Step Away / int_5261d625	comment	Samurai Champloo: Mugen convinces the hostage-taker that he simply doesn't care about Fuu, and charges. The baddie throws Fuu off to the side and runs away. Given Mugen's personality, he may not have been bluffing. Mugen does it again when two rival Yakuza factions are facing each other down, and he shows up to settle a mostly unrelated grudge against one side of the fight. One boss asks Mugen if he cares what happens to the other boss's son. "Not really."
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Put Down Your Gun and Step Away / int_5436bd4	comment	The Sweeney. In "Nightmare", a couple of renegade ex-IRA have got hold of an experimental laser sighted rifle. Regan and Carter tell them to put down the rifle slowly which they do, making sure it's pointed in their direction. Then they turn on the battery pack activating the laser which shines into Regan's eyes, temporarily blinding him.
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Put Down Your Gun and Step Away / int_5908ee91	comment	A pair of Thalmor soldiers pull this in The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim during the quest "Diplomatic Immunity", using the guy who got you into the embassy as a hostage. Most players find this a great time to Just Shoot Them.
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Put Down Your Gun and Step Away / int_5db577ba	comment	About midway through The Dark Knight, while Bats and Gordon are busy elsewhere, the Joker manages to take Detective Stephens, a "20 year man", hostage. Stephens urges the other cops to just shoot, because it's his fault for getting taken captive by the Joker. They don't.
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Put Down Your Gun and Step Away / int_5e3f6639	comment	Full Metal Panic? Fumoffu: Subverted in one episode when Sousuke initially relents upon being confronted by a gang of hostage takers and produces an implausibly large pile of weapons from nowhere - and then reveals that he is holding the gang leader's little brother hostage and will kill him if the bad guys try anything with their hostage. He then tops it off with listing the name of every last one of the other gang members and the one thing they hold most dear - and all the horrible "accidents" that could occur to them. The gang backs off. At which point the trope is Double Subverted as the little brother had been bribed by Sousuke to play along and was never in any danger. In a later episode he tries this again by holding an old woman hostage to escape his class. Kaname simply knocks him out before he even has a chance to finish his threat and after he's tied up they carry him off to finish their paintings.
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Put Down Your Gun and Step Away / int_60156176	comment	In the Vorkosigan Saga novel The Vor Game, Miles Vorkosigan finds a different solution:
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Put Down Your Gun and Step Away / int_610a694a	comment	Played unfortunately straight in the Ruby/Sapphire arc of PokÃ©mon Adventures. Wallace's PokÃ©mon are fighting Maxie's and Archie's until the two reveal that they have his love interest, Winona, who is being strangled by a Tentacruel. Wallace returns his PokÃ©mon to their PokÃ©balls and the buttons are swiftly melted off so he can no longer fight. He then gets brutally thrashed (not his PokÃ©mon, HIM).
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Put Down Your Gun and Step Away / int_69977d0c	comment	The first few missions of the Silent Scope games end with this kind of situations. The point, however, is that since you're a sniper, you have to sort your way around the hostage's head and aim for the taker's head.
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Put Down Your Gun and Step Away / int_6a9bec1c	comment	Shounen Kininden Tsumuji has Tsumuji forced to drop his shuriken weapon to protect his friend Peach, but then gets immediately knocked out after doing so.
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Put Down Your Gun and Step Away / int_6dd8677c	comment	Subverted, partially played straight in the GDI ending of Command & Conquer: Tiberian Sun. Michael McNeil charges into the Temple of Nod to find Kane with a knife to Umagon's neck and a gun pointed at him. She says "Kill him! Forget about me!", which makes sense because Kane is soon to slip away (with the ICBM launchers destroyed, the world-altering tiberian missile could be intercepted by the space station Philadelphia by this point) and probably find another way to destroy the space station and launch his missile. McNeil keeps his pistol trained on Kane at all times, allowing a brief Hannibal Lecture, when a luckly-timed bomb detonation nearby gives Umagon the distraction she needs to escape Kane's clutches.
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Put Down Your Gun and Step Away / int_6e17a0d1	comment	Subverted in Die Hard. Hans Gruber has his gun to the head of John McClane's wife Holly. He orders McClane to put down his machine pistol and McClane does so. Little does Hans know that McClane has a pistol taped to his back...
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Put Down Your Gun and Step Away / int_6e1d5f36	comment	Farscape: In one episode, Crichton does this to hold off two mooks, using his finger for a gun and himself for the hostage in a parody of the famous scene from Blazing Saddles. A more serious example in another episode. Scorpius holds Crichton at gunpoint, forcing Moya's crew to drop their guns. Then Crichton's brief Love Interest, a Sebacean engineer, to show up with a gun pointed at Scorpius. Laughing, Crichton tells her to shoot Scorpy and be done with it. She hesitates, though, allowing Scorpius to shoot her. So much for the rescue.
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Put Down Your Gun and Step Away / int_6f1bcb62	comment	Fire Emblem: Path of Radiance plays this straight for once... and does a great job of showing one of the reasons you never do it in real life, as the hostage taker immediately turns to kill one of the hostages now that they can't stop him, and is only prevented from doing so by the timely appearance of reinforcements. To be fair, the leader of the rescuers KNEW that reinforcements were on the way, and she only put down her weapon to keep the hostage taker distracted. A similar event happens in the sequel, Radiant Dawn. La RÃ©sistance drops their weapons and halts their liberation efforts when bad guys threaten the villagers. Lucky the leader of the resistance is a seer, and knows this will result in a Heelâ€“Face Turn. Sure enough, some of the enemy troops rescue the villagers and the fight continues. Averted in Fire Emblem: The Sacred Stones. When one of the villains has a young girl, he tells Eirika to hand over her braclet (which she does, since she did not know of it's significance). But when they were told to drop their weapons, Seth says that dropping their weapons "Would be tantamount to suicide".
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Put Down Your Gun and Step Away / int_70814599	comment	Stargate SG-1 has this in the first season finale. The good guys hold Skaara hostage with a weapon that needs two shots to kill him. The baddies outnumber them and have a clear shot on Teal'c. Obviously, O'Neil puts down the gun as his good-guy duty despite there being nothing hindering the Jaffa and their Goa'uld master from killing them right there (considering there are a few seasons beyond the first, they obviously didn't, but...).
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Put Down Your Gun and Step Away / int_7460586f	comment	Parodied in the Archer pilot when The Mole takes Malory hostage and Archer responds to this... by taking Lana, his fellow agent, as a hostage ("classic misdirection"). The mole replies that it isn't a game and that he will kill Archer's mother, "Just picture her lying there dead in the streetâ€¦", at which point Lana points out in disgust that she feels Archer's erection poking her back. The mole is so upset and horrified that he lets Malory go and is brutally gunned down as he's about to deliver a What the Hell, Hero? to Archer on the subject.
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Put Down Your Gun and Step Away / int_74a12cd5	comment	It is a very common situation at the climaxes in Inspector Rex. The captor threatens the inspectors to kill the victim if they do not put down their pistols in the floor and move said weapons away from them. More often than not Rex catches the captors from behind.
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Put Down Your Gun and Step Away / int_74cdc7b	comment	Parodied in the Wonder Pets! episode Save the Skunk. Ollie the Bunny is a little overzealous about saving an animal, and picks up a toad that obviously doesn't need saving. After Linny informs him that the toad is not who they are there to help, Ming-Ming tells Ollie, 'Put down the toad and step slowly away from the rock.'
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Put Down Your Gun and Step Away / int_757cde98	comment	Banana no Nana: the hostage taker was trying to get an edge on the girl who defeated her; said girl's ability is manipulating bananas. Which leads to this line.
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Put Down Your Gun and Step Away / int_76023832	comment	A subversion in S.W.A.T. (2003). In the opening bank robbery, a robber takes a customer hostage and demands that the hero and his partner drop their weapons. The hero's partner simply shoots the hostage, then the hostage taker. Instead of props being given all around, the hostage ends up suing the city, and the hero's partner ends up fired and becoming the Rival Turned Evil.
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Put Down Your Gun and Step Away / int_76686539	comment	In Mass Effect, a mook takes a hostage. Garrus goes and shoots the merc in the head, saving the hostage, he's just that good. The player can either compliment Garrus on his aim or criticize him for his recklessness.
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Put Down Your Gun and Step Away / int_7668653a	comment	In Mass Effect 2, Kolyat tries this on Shepard, unaware that Shepard cares more about him than the hostage. Indeed, if Shepard ends up needing to shoot someone, (s)he can fatally Shoot the Hostage while (s)he will only wound Kolyat. Alternatively, a Paragon interrupt has Shepard shoot the lamp to startle the inexperienced Kolyat, and then move in fast and punch him.
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Put Down Your Gun and Step Away / int_7988cb68	comment	Mass Effect: In Mass Effect, a mook takes a hostage. Garrus goes and shoots the merc in the head, saving the hostage, he's just that good. The player can either compliment Garrus on his aim or criticize him for his recklessness. In Mass Effect 2, Kolyat tries this on Shepard, unaware that Shepard cares more about him than the hostage. Indeed, if Shepard ends up needing to shoot someone, (s)he can fatally Shoot the Hostage while (s)he will only wound Kolyat. Alternatively, a Paragon interrupt has Shepard shoot the lamp to startle the inexperienced Kolyat, and then move in fast and punch him. Done again in the Lair of the Shadow Broker DLC, you're given the option to drop all your heat sinks and kick them over or shoot the hostage in the arm. Or, if your Paragon or Renegade are high enough, simply telling the hostage taker that you're comfortable shooting the hostage to get to her via Badass Boast. In Mass Effect: Andromeda, the villain of Vetra's loyalty mission tries holding Vetra's little sister hostage like this. Ryder and their team comply, and then the villain brings out a grenade... which takes so long to go off, Vetra's sister can get to cover, and the team recover their weapons, leaving the villain utterly screwed.
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Put Down Your Gun and Step Away / int_79e85fc7	comment	Used in "Love Hurts" on The Following
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Put Down Your Gun and Step Away / int_7a641db3	comment	Eury pulls this in Immortal Rain. Dora Folk takes Ayla hostage, and tells Eury to drop his gun. Eury throws his gun in the air, turns around, and then reaches behind his back to grab his falling gun and shoot Folk.
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Put Down Your Gun and Step Away / int_7f9dbbcf	comment	A catchphrase of Joseph Seed to the protagonist in Far Cry 5:
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Put Down Your Gun and Step Away / int_81692f99	comment	Star Trek: In Memory Prime, a villain makes Kirk toss his phaser aside. Kirk does, but we're told he never left anything to chance if he could control itâ€”he had actually practiced throwing a phaser so that it was in just the right spot that he could dive and grab it again. But the villain then fries the phaser with his own weapon, so it doesn't work out. In Star Trek: The Lost Era: Well of Souls, a violent criminal demands Captain Rachel Garrett and her ship's doctor toss their weapons aside. His hostage is Garrett's young son, so she does so. The doctor hesitates (no doubt knowing you don't comply with this sort of demand), but then follows the captain's lead. In Imzadi, a Sindareen raider has taken Deanna hostage and makes Riker drop his phaser. Riker complies, and then tells the raider that he brought a fully-armed team of Space Marines as backup. Once the raider is distracted by a bit of movement in his peripheral vision, Riker attacks him so that Deanna can escape. (It later turns out that Riker was bluffing — he was using remote-controlled drones to simulate the presence of hidden troops.)
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Put Down Your Gun and Step Away / int_819e9a86	comment	Played totally straight in Eraser, by which we mean the bad guy has the girl hostage and tells Arnie to drop his weapon. He does...and is promptly shot several times. Of course, being Arnie, the bullets miss every vital organ.
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Put Down Your Gun and Step Away / int_84809b33	comment	Sometimes crooks in L.A. Noire take bystanders hostage. Rather than throw your gun away (which they might tell you to in a cutscene before the minigame begins) you're expected to shoot them before they decide to kill their hostage anyway (plus there's a few action sequences where a gang takes groups of hostages, where it's basically the same as any other firefight, except you have to avoid shooting the hostages).
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Put Down Your Gun and Step Away / int_869c1356	comment	In Bad Boys (1995), the liquor store clerk holds both Mike Lowrey and Marcus Burnett at gunpoint for mistaking them for robbers. The two then hold him at gunpoint in order to have him drop his gun.
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Put Down Your Gun and Step Away / int_898a1932	comment	Journey to Chaos: Here's an inverted version of the trope; Nolien, the hero in this situation, uses the "Bonnie" of an Outlaw Couple as leverage on her partner to take off his Mage Killer armor. All three of them know that Nolien doesn't want to kill her, but it's not a chance her partner is willing to take. While Nolien is focused on him, his hostage escapes from his grasp.
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Put Down Your Gun and Step Away / int_89dc23fe	comment	Urban Chaos: Riot Response has many criminals taking hostages, but they don't bother with threats: they just shoot you - and the hostage if you get too close (instant Game Over, of course). You block their bullets with an unbreakable shield, to their utter inability to adapt to this strategy, then when they reload... they get a bullet to their head. And then they survive. And move to another location with the hostage. Sometimes they throw a grenade instead of reloading, designed to throw you off. It's cool the first time or two you do it, by the 20th time you do the exact same procedure (with a checkpoint a mile way), you'll wish they had played this straighter.
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Put Down Your Gun and Step Away / int_8a339030	comment	Indiana Jones: Inverted in Raiders of the Lost Ark, with Indy being the one holding a RPG launcher on the Nazi convoy aiming right at the Ark of the Covenant, and Belloq calling his bluff to blow up the Ark of the Covenant (with the Nazis present strongly objecting). He knows Indy well enough that a man of his archeological integrity cannot destroy something as priceless to history as the Ark. Played straight as a whistle in Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade. Colonel Vogel is holding Dr. Elsa Schneider at gunpoint and tells Indiana "Put down the gun or the Fraulein dies." Henry Jones (Indy's father) warns Indiana that she's a Nazi, but Indy doesn't believe him. Indy puts down the gun and is captured. Dr. Schneider then takes Henry Jones' notebook from Indy and tells him "I'm sorry, but you should have listened to your father," thus admitting that she is a Nazi. Subverted in Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull. Held captive by Russians, Indy manages to get his hands on an assault rifle and points it at Irina, telling all the mooks to lower their weapons. At first, they comply. But then one of them grins and points his pistol at Indy again... followed by every other Russian doing the same.
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Put Down Your Gun and Step Away / int_8a95e28c	comment	This is the gameplay mechanic that the Reservoir Dogs video game is based off of: civilians can be taken hostage, and police officers can be convinced to drop their weapons if you threaten the hostage or beat them. The more elite a police officer is (security guards to average cops to SWAT teams) the more threatening you have to do to get them to cooperate. All characters also have a special 'finisher' move that they can use on a hostage to cause all cops in visual range to lower their weapons in fear and disgust. (Playing as Mr. White involves him taking out a razor for this moment. So... yeah.) Cops will sometimes just decide to shoot you if you have made a habit of killing people though.
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Put Down Your Gun and Step Away / int_8b71d932	comment	Parodied in Â¡Three Amigos! One of the Amigos takes the Big Bad hostage and orders his henchmen to drop their weapons. Immediately, dozens of stone-cold killers throw down their pistols... and so does one of his allies.
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Put Down Your Gun and Step Away / int_8d817ccb	comment	The Others make Jack, Sawyer, and Locke do this in the Lost episode "The Hunting Party." It's partly because they're holding Kate, but also because the Losties are vastly outnumbered, and the Others are excellent shots.
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Put Down Your Gun and Step Away / int_8d81bb26	comment	NCIS: Subverted in the episode "Child's Play". A man is holding a young girl hostage and demanding that the team "back off" or he'll shoot her. The team refuses to, and Gibbs calls to Ziva to see if she has the shot. The hostage taker claims that she'll miss. Gibbs glibly asks the girl, who has been playing through war scenarios as a tactical advisor in a military program, what the odds are of Ziva missing. She calculates various variables and comes up with 97.6%. Gibbs orders Ziva to take the shot. Ziva nails the hostage taker in the forehead. Also in the episode where the mole at NCIS is dealt with. One of the agents is taken hostage, and the hostage taker orders Gibbs to drop his gun. Gibbs is shot in the hand, but is able to shoot through the agent, who told him to.
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Put Down Your Gun and Step Away / int_8db36f7	comment	RoboCop series: In the first movie, RoboCop aims between the hostage's legs and shoots the bad guy's crotch. In RoboCop 2, the title character orders his partner to put her gun away to stall for time and lull the hostage taker into complacency. He then holds his gun off to the side and shoots the bad guy in the head with a carom shot.
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Put Down Your Gun and Step Away / int_8dfbdff2	comment	One episode of Law & Order had a criminal grab a hostage in a train station, only for one of the cops to come from behind and put a gun to his head.
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Put Down Your Gun and Step Away / int_8e402581	comment	Also subverted in Cowboy Bebop: Knockin' on Heaven's Door: A mook caught robbing a convenience store holds his gun up to an elderly woman customer. Spike just reminds the mook that, as a bounty hunter, Spike is paid for catching criminals rather than saving innocents, so the woman's life is worthless to him. This pisses off both the criminal (who points his gun at Spike instead of the hostage) and the woman (whose thrashings allow her to slip free), conveniently giving Spike a clear shot at the bad guy.
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Put Down Your Gun and Step Away / int_959f1374	comment	A chapter of Naruto has Danzo taking Karin as hostage. Subverted when Sasuke fires an infused Chidori anyways, right through Karin and into Danzo.
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Put Down Your Gun and Step Away / int_9614fa1e	comment	Inverted in Raiders of the Lost Ark, with Indy being the one holding a RPG launcher on the Nazi convoy aiming right at the Ark of the Covenant, and Belloq calling his bluff to blow up the Ark of the Covenant (with the Nazis present strongly objecting). He knows Indy well enough that a man of his archeological integrity cannot destroy something as priceless to history as the Ark.
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Put Down Your Gun and Step Away / int_9853ddab	comment	Subverted in The Adventures of Pluto Nash, when the protagonist tries this on a posse of Mooks trying to kill him over some sort of conspiracy about turning the Moon into a massive gambling den or something. (It Makes Sense in Context. Almost.)
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Put Down Your Gun and Step Away / int_98e2fba4	comment	In the Spetznaz vs Green Beret episode of Deadliest Warrior, the section detailing the Spetznaz ballistic knife has a Russian taken prisoner, and the hostage taker demands that another Spetznaz do this. The second Spetnaz pretends to comply and acts like he'll put down his gun, then shoots the blade from his knife at the hostage taker.
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Put Down Your Gun and Step Away / int_9a67b688	comment	Subverted in the anime Case Closed. During the clock mansion case, the villain captures Ran and threatens her with a deadly weapon. Kogoro and Conan quickly shout that this is a poor idea on the villain's part, immediately before Ran knocks him out with her karate.
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Put Down Your Gun and Step Away / int_9dab421d	comment	In Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl, Will Turner does this to himself, and it works, because he's the only son of Bootstrap Bill Turner, and without his blood, the pirates can't lift their curse. Of course, it only works after he reveals his name. Before he does that, Barbossa seems bemused at why he should care that some kid offs himself.
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Put Down Your Gun and Step Away / int_9e003c9	comment	In the opening cutscene in Resident Evil â€“ Code: Veronica, Claire suddenly finds herself cornered by an entire squad of enemy soldiers, so she puts her hands up and drops her gun... then catches it in mid-air and shoots the explosive barrels behind them. This was also done in the movie Resident Evil: Apocalypse with Alice in place of Claire, in a tacked-on scene that replicates part of the game's intro.
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Put Down Your Gun and Step Away / int_a04b0ca3	comment	Subverted by Tintin, who had this to say about being told to drop his gun: "So you can shoot us down like rabbits? No, we're keeping (our guns)!"
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Put Down Your Gun and Step Away / int_a2bd35cf	comment	In Angel Cop, the titular character flatly states she's keeping the gun no matter what, and later affirms that if the hostage-taker had shot the hostage, it would have been his fault, not hers.
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Put Down Your Gun and Step Away / int_a346e791	comment	In the NUMB3RS episode "Jacked", the team refuses to do so during the final standoff, by which point they've realized the hijackers are bluffing. The hostages are afraid to leave after seeing another hostage killed, but it was actually all staged. Once the remaining hostages see the "dead" hostage alive and well, they stop listening to the hijackers.
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Put Down Your Gun and Step Away / int_a6bbf758	comment	Subverted in all the first episode incarnations of Hellsing. When Seras is taken hostage by a vampire, Alucard simply shoots through her, killing them both. He then turns Seras into a vampire to save her.
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Put Down Your Gun and Step Away / int_b0107fe	comment	In Blue Force, there is a scene where you and you partner are investigating a criminal on a house boat. Once you break in you are faced with the bad guy and asked to put down your weapons. After some hesitation your partner does, and if you follow suit you both get shot (duh).
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Put Down Your Gun and Step Away / int_b1cbc51	comment	In The Untouchables (1987), at the end of the shoot-out in the train station, a bad guy threatens to kill his hostage. Eliot Ness puts his gun away, but promptly tells partner George Stone to kill him, which he does with a bullet between the eyes. It was established in Stone's first scene that he is one of the best shots in the police department.
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Put Down Your Gun and Step Away / int_b29621f3	comment	Feet of Clay: Three hapless thieves try to rob a bar, only to find out that this particular bar is where all the police officers drink. When the coppers pull weapons on them, the thieves grab a woman sitting nearby as a hostage and make it clear that unless the police put their swords away and let the thieves leave, the hostage gets it. Unfortunately for the thieves, their hostage happens to be Constable Angua, the Watchâ€™s resident werewolf. The police quite happily comply with the thieves' instructions and put their swords away, and the rest of the scene consists of the coppers making awkward small talk while Angua terrorises her attempted hostage-takers by herself in the background.
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Put Down Your Gun and Step Away / int_b6d60e4	comment	In The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, a villain grabs Mina Harker and holds a knife to her neck. The rest of the League reluctantly puts down/away their guns so he won't hurt her. However, Mina is more powerful than she seems. She handily wrestles the villain into submission, bites his neck and drains his blood. It turns out she's a vampire. Poor villain!
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Put Down Your Gun and Step Away / int_b9cdc91d	comment	A variation occurs in Dredd. Ma-Ma threatens Dredd and Anderson with an explosive detonator and orders Dredd to put his gun down, as killing her would detonate enough explosives to take out Peach Trees. Dredd shoots her and tosses her out a window anyway, realizing that it will put her dead man signal out of range before it goes off.
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Put Down Your Gun and Step Away / int_baa0410d	comment	Subverted in the beginning of Speed. But since the bad guy is loaded to the gills with explosives, Jack can't exactly shoot himâ€¦ so he shoots the hostage in the leg instead. It works; no casualties. The bad guy gets wiser at the end of the movie, though.
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Put Down Your Gun and Step Away / int_baa79d8d	comment	Averted in Taken. The hostage taker holding the hero's daughter at knifepoint doesn't even get to finish his line before being shot in the head. Which is precisely what a Combat Pragmatist should do â€” take the shot when the hostage-taker drops his guard slightly to talk.
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Put Down Your Gun and Step Away / int_bc3e398b	comment	Much "fun" is had with this in Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles. When a criminal mastermind takes John Connor hostage and threatens to shoot him, Derek Reese responds by taking the criminal's little girl hostage with the implied threat that he will shoot her. But whoops!, turns out she's not the criminal's kid, and he couldn't care less. So Derek simply shoots him in the head. The thing that is consistent across the entire Terminator universe is that Terminators do not take hostages, they just shoot.
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Put Down Your Gun and Step Away / int_bd54ba07	comment	In Blazing Saddles, Sheriff Bart, to the people of Rock Ridge after taking himself hostage. The townspeople end up dropping their guns.
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Put Down Your Gun and Step Away / int_bdb0a080	comment	Double subversion in the opening of Last Action Hero. The (literally) Ax-Crazy serial killer takes Schwarzenegger's son hostage and orders him to drop his weapon. Schwarzenegger drops his gun (or rather, his arsenal)... and also drops a frag grenade at the villain's feet. The villain, knowing that Schwarzenegger isn't crazy enough to frag his own son, figures the grenade is a fake and orders the kid to pick it up. Turns out the grenade is really a trick knife, which the kid uses to stab the villain. Unfortunately, the kid still dies, as the falling bad guy manages to drag the kid with him.
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Put Down Your Gun and Step Away / int_be492827	comment	In the manga of Metroid Prime 2: Echoes, the first chapter has Space Pirates attacking a freighter. Samus arrives and kills them all, but the last Pirate takes an old man and a young boy hostage. The Pirate demands that Samus lower her weapon. She refuses. The old man then chimes in and yells at her to do the same, saying that she's endangering their lives. Samus still refuses◊, and calmly explains to the hostages that if she does lower her weapon, the Pirate will kill them anyway. The Pirate then ends up throwing his hostages at Samus, intending to use his scythe blade to kill all three at once, but in an example of perfect timing, Samus grabs the boy and throws him further up and simultaneously jumps off of the old man, knocking him to the ground. The Pirate's swing misses everyone, and Samus shoots him in midair and catches the boy before the Pirate's corpse even hits the ground.
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Put Down Your Gun and Step Away / int_c3c1f1d2	comment	The Matrix Revolutions features a Lampshade Hanging version, where Bane/Smith, holding Trinity as a hostage, explains to Trinity that, while the best thing for Neo would be to just fry them both with his plasma gun, instead he's going to do exactly what the trope prescribes. He then taunts Neo by saying he is bound to Put Down His Gun And Step Away, which he does.
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Put Down Your Gun and Step Away / int_c4076b9e	comment	Gunslinger Girl. When the Hilshire/Triela fratello storm a Padania safehouse, Triela finds Pinocchio and Franco and tells them at shotgun-point to drop their weapons. Pinocchio tosses his knife to one side of the room, while Franco tosses his gun to the opposite side...then they both dive in those directions, forcing Triela to divide her aim between two different targets. Meanwhile Hilshire is confronting Franca, who pretends to hand over her gun only to drop it. When Hilshire's attention is momentarily diverted by the falling gun, she uses her raised hand to shove down Hilshire's gun hand, causing his pistol to have a stoppage.
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Put Down Your Gun and Step Away / int_c436d57e	comment	Cyberjack: In the opening, the villain Nassim does the usual version of forcing the hero Nick to lower his gun before shooting both his hostage and Nick.
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Put Down Your Gun and Step Away / int_c43df4d8	comment	Doctor Who: Eighth Doctor, in a very Doctorish move, escapes from a cop by stealing the guy's gun and holding himself hostage.
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Put Down Your Gun and Step Away / int_c487221e	comment	Averted in Men in Black, during the confrontation in the morgue. While holding Laurel hostage, the Bug orders Agents J and K to "Put your weapons down!" Without missing a beat, Agent K responds "Never gonna happen, insect." K knows that the stakes are much greater than the life of a single human. If the Bug escapes with the galaxy, the planet is doomed, so Laurel is dead either way.
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Put Down Your Gun and Step Away / int_c686bb8	comment	Averted in Fire Emblem: The Sacred Stones. When one of the villains has a young girl, he tells Eirika to hand over her braclet (which she does, since she did not know of it's significance). But when they were told to drop their weapons, Seth says that dropping their weapons "Would be tantamount to suicide".
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Put Down Your Gun and Step Away / int_c73f511c	comment	Boardwalk Empire: During Richard Harrow's assault on the brothel in the season three finale, one of Gyp Rosetti's henchmen tries this as he holds Richard's surrogate son Tommy at gunpoint. Richard slowly crouches down and sets his rifle on the floor—and then angles it upwards and shoots the guy through the eye, at which point Tommy runs into his arms for a hug.
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Put Down Your Gun and Step Away / int_ca2e0d18	comment	In Face/Off, Castor Troy (under the guise of his arch-nemesis Special Agent Sean Archer) is facing off against Archer (under the guise of Castor Troy). Then Archer's rebellious teenage daughter walks in. Castor grabs her and holds her at gunpoint. Unfortunately for him, she uses a butterfly knife to stab him in the thigh, precisely how he himself taught her a few days before.
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Put Down Your Gun and Step Away / int_cc7ca605	comment	Averted in Navy Seals (1990). When Dale is confronted by a hostage-holding terrorist on a ship, he motions as if he is going to place his MP-5 on the ground, but in the middle of the motion, he pulls the trigger, scoring a headshot and killing him instantly.
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Put Down Your Gun and Step Away / int_ccdecf55	comment	Subverted in New Dominion Tank Police. In the opening of the first episode, Leona and Al corner a crook in a bar when he takes the owner hostage. Leona informs the crook that the hostage is his only protection and if he kills him, she'll open fire on him. She gives him to the count of ten to surrender or be shot at by her tank. The criminal takes the wise choice and surrenders only, to be outright ignored by Leona. Hilarity Ensues.
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Put Down Your Gun and Step Away / int_ccf875f7	comment	Subverted in Criminal Minds when Gideon confronts The Tommy Killer. The killer has his gun pointed at his intended victim and says he'll kill her if Gideon doesn't put his gun down. Gideon counters by pointing out that if the killer hurts the victim, he'll kill him and tell the whole world that the killer was just a lowlife burglar. (This was to play on the killer's need for recognition. If Gideon killed him and claimed that he was a burglar, he would never get famous for his murders.) Played tragically straight in another episode where the serial killer (played by Tim Curry) tells the cop working with the BCU to put down his gun and despite knowing the serial killer's obsessions wouldn't let him kill the young hostage he's taken puts his gun down anyway and is immediately shot and killed.
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Put Down Your Gun and Step Away / int_cf23ee17	comment	Subverted in the film Billy Jack. Evil deputy (Kenneth Tobey) is holding a school girl hostage in a Kent State-like situation. He tells Billy (Tom Laughlin) to drop his rifle or he'll shoot the girl. Billy tells him to go ahead and shoot her. Deputy says, "You'd kill her? Just like that?" Billy shakes his head and says, "You'll kill her. And then I'll kill you. Just like that."
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Put Down Your Gun and Step Away / int_cf6f9a97	comment	The final chapter of City Hunter has a rather unusual take. The villain has a dozen Mooks and orders Ryo to show himself and surrender his gun or he'd kill Kaori, both knowing that Ryo's gun, being a revolver, has only six shots so he couldn't kill the mooks. Ryo does that... And pulls two RPG-7s whose grenades have been emptied of explosive and shoots six mooks with those while they're still shocked and terrified at the sudden reversal and in a convenient line, before recovering his gun and finishing the ones still standing.
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Put Down Your Gun and Step Away / int_d531b6f7	comment	Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow. One of Dr. Totenkopf's Mooks tries this on Joe in the Tibetan uranium mine, and it works!
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Put Down Your Gun and Step Away / int_d5ac3d6a	comment	In SWAT 4 at least this happens sometimes, though there is no button to drop your own weapon, and as a police officer that would be a stupid move anyway. It's entirely possible to shoot the suspect, but that is risky. And, of course, if you have to shoot the suspect, you didn't do something right (it's always possible to get every suspect to surrender). Just screw that and use only non-lethal weaponry. If the suspect is fleeing, he won't get far, if he takes to long to drop his gun, just shoot him just in case, and even if you hit a civilian, that's no problem!
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Put Down Your Gun and Step Away / int_d7629946	comment	In the pilot episode of Breakout Kings the US Marshals corner the escaped convict only to find out that he is wired a little girl to a bomb and is holding the detonator. The senior agent orders his partner to lower his gun and when he does the senior partner shoots the criminal in the arm which causes him to drop the detonator.
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Put Down Your Gun and Step Away / int_d7943b1b	comment	In Kathryn Lasky's Guardians of Ga'Hoole series, Striga is holding Bell hostage and tells the fighters to drop their weapons. She forgot about a fighting style called danyar that doesn't need weapons.
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Put Down Your Gun and Step Away / int_d7aab7c1	comment	Subverted in Sailor Moon, where Sailor Mars is told to stop her attack with a fire bow, but manages to accurately shoot the enemy with her "Mars Flame Sniper" ability without hurting the hostage, Sailor Neptune.
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Put Down Your Gun and Step Away / int_d7c9f170	comment	The Matrix Reloaded. When one of the albino twins has a razor to Trinity's neck, he tells Morpheus to put down his sword. Morpheus responds with a Boom, Headshot!, forcing the twin to desolidify long enough for Trinity to escape.
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Put Down Your Gun and Step Away / int_d9c602eb	comment	In the South Park episode Wing, the boys try to get money starting a talent agency though their first client Token switches to a legitimate agency. Their second client, is Tuong Lu Kim's wife. At the same time, the Chinese Mafia attempts to get their payment back for smuggling her into the country. The boys thinks the talent agency took another client and confront the mafia. When the leader threatens to kill her if they advance any further, Cartman points out that he is bluffing because she would be of no use dead. Stan resolves everything with the "I've learned something today..." speech.
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Put Down Your Gun and Step Away / int_dc3e6901	comment	The Negotiator: Danny does this with a whole room full of cops at the start of his hostage incident. A desk covered with guns and handcuffs illustrates how well it worked. Justified in that Danny is a crack shot (which he demonstrates by intentionally missing one cop who tries to line up a shot from a high walkway) and that he is standing in a doorway and cannot be flanked.
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Put Down Your Gun and Step Away / int_dd172a11	comment	A variation appears in Riding Bean, where Rally faces a hostage situation where the villain orders her to throw her gun to him. She resolves the situation by doing some sleight of hand that allows to her to throw only the magazine and takes advantage of his distraction at the trick to use her gun's chambered round to shoot him.
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Put Down Your Gun and Step Away / int_de9a7807	comment	Usually defied throughout Flashpoint. The SRU team usually doesn't put down their guns when told to by the subject; at most, whoever's negotiating (usually Greg) will holster their weapon, while other SRU officers continue to cover them and the subject. There have been two exceptions to this ("Haunting the Barn" and "Custody"), but in both cases the subjects were not actively threatening civilians, and both Ed and Greg were immediately called out for doing this. Subverted in an episode where the hostage was a cop (although the roles are somewhat muddy; he may have been the hostage, but he's more a villain than his opponent, who was just trying to stop him from beating up his wife). He obeyed the order, but carefully left himself close enough to the gun that when the hostage taker reached for it, he was able to grab her arm and disarm her.
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Put Down Your Gun and Step Away / int_df7fa951	comment	A reverse occurs in Casino Royale (2006), where Bond has the hostage in the embassy and is surrounded by guards with guns. He calmly gives up his gun and returns the hostage. Of course, he's still got an ace in the holeâ€¦ Namely that Bond didn't give up his gun, but the gun he took off the bad guy he's holding hostage.
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Put Down Your Gun and Step Away / int_dfee4401	comment	Played straight on an episode of Unforgettable when the father of the Body of the Week takes an officer hostage at gunpoint. In the police station. He orders Nina to do this; she complies.
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Put Down Your Gun and Step Away / int_e125e86e	comment	The Expendables 2. The Big Bad has the newest member of the crew in a Hostage for MacGuffin scenario, and demands that the heroes hand over their weapons and the MacGuffin or they kill him. They do, and Vilain kills him anyway just to be a dick. Saving The New Guy was never really an option. They put their guns down because they were completely surrounded and outgunned.
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Put Down Your Gun and Step Away / int_e356cbe8	comment	Shoot 'Em Up. Smith rigs several automatic weapons in a gun warehouse to fire when he yanks on a cord attached to the trigger. He wipes out the mooks sent after him via this method, only to have a Click Hello from one he missed. The mook tells him to throw down his gun, so Smith does so...onto the last cord. Cue Camera Abuse.
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Put Down Your Gun and Step Away / int_e7e37776	comment	Subverted in the 'Just That Good' sense in the Firefly pilot episode "Serenity". Dobson is holding a gun to River's head and trying to convince Simon to come quietly. Mal walks up the gangplank and shoots the Fed through an eye without missing a beat, or even breaking stride.
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Put Down Your Gun and Step Away / int_e9091a5c	comment	A subversion happens in the Miami Vice film. A white supremacist takes a hostage, and is being aimed at by a female cop with an assault rifle. The bad guy says "You pull the trigger, and I kill her!" Then the cop tells him a bullet can reach a speed of 500 meters per second, which gives him absolutely no time to pull the trigger. Since he refuses to believe that, the woman shoots him in the head.
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Put Down Your Gun and Step Away / int_eb3f3551	comment	In Mass Effect: Andromeda, the villain of Vetra's loyalty mission tries holding Vetra's little sister hostage like this. Ryder and their team comply, and then the villain brings out a grenade... which takes so long to go off, Vetra's sister can get to cover, and the team recover their weapons, leaving the villain utterly screwed.
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Put Down Your Gun and Step Away / int_edaa765e	comment	Played straight as a whistle in Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade. Colonel Vogel is holding Dr. Elsa Schneider at gunpoint and tells Indiana "Put down the gun or the Fraulein dies." Henry Jones (Indy's father) warns Indiana that she's a Nazi, but Indy doesn't believe him. Indy puts down the gun and is captured. Dr. Schneider then takes Henry Jones' notebook from Indy and tells him "I'm sorry, but you should have listened to your father," thus admitting that she is a Nazi.
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Put Down Your Gun and Step Away / int_eef5470a	comment	Subverted in Rurouni Kenshin, during the manga's version of the Raijuta arc. Raijuta, having just been beaten by Kenshin, grabs Yahiko and threatens to kill him if Kenshin comes any closer; an unafraid Yahiko flatly points out what the end result will be.
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Put Down Your Gun and Step Away / int_f16adb7	comment	Subverted in Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull. Held captive by Russians, Indy manages to get his hands on an assault rifle and points it at Irina, telling all the mooks to lower their weapons. At first, they comply. But then one of them grins and points his pistol at Indy again... followed by every other Russian doing the same.
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Put Down Your Gun and Step Away / int_f6a1016f	comment	The Matrix series has several. The Matrix Reloaded. When one of the albino twins has a razor to Trinity's neck, he tells Morpheus to put down his sword. Morpheus responds with a Boom, Headshot!, forcing the twin to desolidify long enough for Trinity to escape. The Matrix Revolutions features a Lampshade Hanging version, where Bane/Smith, holding Trinity as a hostage, explains to Trinity that, while the best thing for Neo would be to just fry them both with his plasma gun, instead he's going to do exactly what the trope prescribes. He then taunts Neo by saying he is bound to Put Down His Gun And Step Away, which he does.
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