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Throw-Away Guns

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Throw-Away Guns	comment	The habit of characters in action shows to simply throw away guns when they run out of ammunition during a gunfight. Even the poorest of combatants will dispose of a gun by dumping it as soon as it goes dry. The logic seems to be that it is more important to maintain a steady rate of fire than it is to conserve resources such as weapons. The characters tend to be a Walking Armory as justification, it's easier to switch to a new weapon than carry more ammo for any individual gun. Of course, the gun will also get tossed away if it happens to jam, because in Hollywood there's no way to fix that. This trope is to be expected when the weapons a character is using only have a single shot and/or take quite a long time to reload (such as crossbows, flintlock pistols and revolvers), especially in Period Pieces set in eras that came before the invention of automatic and semi-automatic weapons that can be reloaded much faster. In real life this trope is sometimes called the New York Reload, and was once a common tactic with policemen, who would carry two revolvers to compensate for the limited number of shots and slow reload of their main service weapon. May overlap with Trenchcoat Warfare for additional awesome. Compare and contrast Throwing Your Gun at the Enemy, where the purpose is as a last-ditch attack. For melee weapons counterpart, see Detachable Blades.
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Throw-Away Guns / int_1331990c	comment	Puella Magi Madoka Magica: Both Homura and Mami fight by magically summoning a massive amount of guns, firing them and throwing them away. More justified with Mami who only conjures single-shot rifles. Oddly enough, Homura is shown stealing ammo but is never seen reloading her guns in the series.
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Throw-Away Guns / int_18c16684	comment	Used in John Wick: Chapter 2 as the basis for an entire action setpiece. Wick is up against an army of mooks with nothing but a single pistol with seven bullets, so he harvests new weapons from each fallen enemy as he proceeds.
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Throw-Away Guns / int_1d61d9e3	comment	During the shootout in the rail yard in Dick Tracy vs. Cueball, Cueball throws his gun away when it runs out of bullets.
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Throw-Away Guns / int_20336460	comment	Jagged Alliance 2 averts this one in theory, as it's possible to have your characters try and clear the jam, but it's surprisingly difficult to do so and each failed attempt costs Action Points.note Presumably this is because only really serious malfunctions are actually represented in-game, and simple misfires or failures-to-extract that can be cleared just by manually working the action are abstracted. In practice, you're usually better off switching to another weapon until the end of combat and patching it up afterwards. Reloading also takes more Action Points than just drawing your sidearm instead, but limited inventory space and the shortage of truly ambidextrous mercs make going the full Heroic Bloodshed route Awesome, but Impractical.
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Throw-Away Guns / int_2221ecbd	comment	CSI: NY: Done by a perp in "Civilized Lies". He fires two shots at the cops, finds his gun empty and then discards it before trying to flee... and running straight into a third cop.
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Throw-Away Guns / int_2232f584	comment	In The Shadow pulps, the Shadow is terrible about tossing away his automatics whenever they're empty. One reviewer speculated that the hundreds of empty handguns left by the vigilante might be the cause of New York's gun problem.
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Throw-Away Guns / int_225c51e0	comment	The Naked Gun goes even further than its TV predecessor, Police Squad!. When someone runs out of ammo during a shoot-out, they toss their empty handgun at the opponent. Police and baddies keep emptying their guns at the same time...
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Throw-Away Guns / int_28688dda	comment	The guns in BloodRayne just offer another variation for killing, and are discarded by Rayne as soon as they're empty, or when other guns are picked up.
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Throw-Away Guns / int_2a43dd91	comment	In the Uncharted franchise, Nathan Drake can only carry one pistol and one long gun. Whenever he swaps weapons, he simply dumps the previous one on the ground.
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Throw-Away Guns / int_2b113e02	comment	The Mummy: In the opening battle at Hamunaptra, O'Connell fires Guns Akimbo at a number of bad guys. He runs out of bullets... then drops the pistols, draws two more from their holsters, and keeps firing. The French service revolvers he was using were loaded via a gate at the back of the cylinder, like a Colt Single Action Army revolver, requiring much more time to reload than even modern revolvers.
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Throw-Away Guns / int_2ba1d958	comment	Used a few times in The Matrix, since the dozens of guns abandoned were conjured up from computer code, and vanish without a trace when the programmed reality is "reformatted". Neo and Trinity plan on doing this during their raid on the government lobby to rescue Morpheus, since they correctly figured there would be no time to reload.
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Throw-Away Guns / int_2e1df124	comment	Calhoun does this in Wreck-It Ralph. She probably has no means to replenish her ammo inside Sugar Rush anyway.
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Throw-Away Guns / int_30940081	comment	Averted in Grand Theft Auto V, where the player characters store the empty guns back. It makes sense, as weapon customization is a significant part of the game's gunplay and throwing away a blinged-up and/or fully accessorized firearm would be pointless and a waste of money, both in- and out-of-universe.
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Throw-Away Guns / int_331e009	comment	Tediore guns in Borderlands 2 are thrown away rather than reloaded, with a fresh version of the same gun digistructed into your hands afterwards; the tossed gun will explode on impact with something living or after a short while, so you can throw them at enemies for added damage. They deal more damage depending on how much ammo was left in the magazine, with the tradeoff that the remaining ammo is used up, unlike other manufacturers's guns where reloading puts them back in reserve.
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Throw-Away Guns / int_3441793	comment	The Last of the Mohicans: Hawkeye and Chingachgook stage an extended two-man assault on a group of Huron. Because all of their weapons are single-shot, Hawkeye and Chingachgook repeatedly drop their empty muskets and pick up the loaded muskets of the Huron they'd just shot.
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Throw-Away Guns / int_3638bab7	comment	In the opening of The Shadow, gangster Duke, unnerved by the Evil Laugh of the title character, blasts away in all directions with his snubnose revolver, then tosses it aside to grab a Thompson submachine gun with drum magazine from his car.
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Throw-Away Guns / int_390627ba	comment	The final shootout of Hero (1997) have Takeshi Kaneshiro carrying what appears to be nine Mausers, strapped to his legs, holders, and trench coat, which he uses two at a time, discarding a Mauser everytime it's spent of ammunition before grabbing another one. He also had a machine-gun attached on his shin, but that's the last weapon he used in the film.
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Throw-Away Guns / int_3a10cbfe	comment	Justified in the final battle of Commando, as John Matrix annihilates the Big Bad's army he just tosses his guns aside as they run dry. This is because he stole the guns and doesn't expect to keep them and that he really can just pick up more guns from the slain.
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Throw-Away Guns / int_3bce4381	comment	Meryl Strife of Trigun does this to an extreme, with dozens of one-shot derringer pistols lining her cloak, which she'd go through quite rapidly in a gunfight. On occasion, Wolfwood was also shown using a large supply of pistols taken from the crossbar of his Cross Punisher, tossing each away when they ran out to grab a new one. Comically, after a barrage of derringer shots, Milly is seen picking up all of Meryl's discarded guns.
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Throw-Away Guns / int_4139b0e7	comment	Unforgiven: Clyde carries three guns because he only has one hand, which makes reloading impossible for him. "I just don't wanna get killed for lack of shootin' back."
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Throw-Away Guns / int_41b0198a	comment	The Dresden Files has Kincaid, who claims to be a perfectly normal hired mercenarynote he's actually — probably — half-demon; at least, he's written up that way in the RPG who's just very, very good at his job. In Death Masks, he produces a golf-bag full of double-barreled shotguns which he discards after firing one shell through each barrel, because the rounds are Dragon's Breath rounds, which fire a 20 foot plume of flame. He explains that this is hot enough to melt the barrel, so he can't shoot more than one through any given shotgun or else they'd explode. This is why those rounds aren't used very much in real life.
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Throw-Away Guns / int_454d0351	comment	Heavy Gear has the compact but convenient folding rifle known as the Deployable Pack Gun. It comprises of little more than a barrel and receiver on a hinge, a pistol grip, and an internally carried ammo supply...often with no ability to reload it in the field, as opposed to its clip- or magazine-fed ballistic cousins. As a result, some pilots just carry one with them for extra firepower in a pinch, expend the rounds carried in its internal ammo storage, then toss the entire gun once it runs dry to save weight mid-battle. This has led some pilots to call it the Disposable Pack Gun.
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Throw-Away Guns / int_49fe4440	comment	The notoriously bad Drake of the 99 Dragons has "master assassin" Drake reload his akimbo handguns... by throwing away the guns and pulling out another pair from Hammerspace. And since he doesn't wear gloves, this results in him leaving guns with his fingerprints on them wherever he goes.
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Throw-Away Guns / int_4bc2a434	comment	Subverted in Red (2010) when Victoria is exchanging fire with the Secret Service. Every time she runs out of ammo, she calmly exchanges her MP5K for another held by her colleague, who reloads for her while she's emptying that weapon.
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Throw-Away Guns / int_4c2da4b8	comment	MADNESS: Project Nexus 2 rarely features weapons with additional magazines. Often, you'll burn through your spares in one or two rooms, and then have to discard your gun and find another weapon. This being a game based on the Madness Combat universe, discarded weapons are plentiful and varied. The game actually has a specific input for Throwing Your Gun at the Enemy and doing so is as lethal as a bullet, meaning that you can empty a pistol into one Mook, beat another to death with the empty gun, then hurl the broken remains of the gun into a third grunt with enough force to cave in his face.
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Throw-Away Guns / int_4ce969a9	comment	Marathon has the alien weapon, which is new to humanity. You can't even tell how much ammo you have, let alone reload.
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Throw-Away Guns / int_4d1ba412	comment	The Adventures of Dr. McNinja: When the title doctor confronts Franz Rayner, Rayner opens the battle by firing a full magazine at the Doc. When the Doc dodges all the bullets, he throws the gun — as a distraction, considering the next panel is the Doc getting punched in the face. A variant occurs here — after King Radical's chainsaw is jammed by the doctor's broken sword, he tosses the chainsaw at the doctor. The Alt Text for that comic states "Every weapon must be thrown once it has exhausted its initial usefulness."
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Throw-Away Guns / int_52ecf952	comment	A Reason to Live, a Reason to Die!: After Maj. Ward surrenders to him, Col. Pembroke pulls the trigger on his revolver, only to have the hammer fall on an empty chamber. With a resigned expression on his face, Pembroke tosses the empty gun aside. And stabs Ward with the sabre he had just surrendered to Pembroke.
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Throw-Away Guns / int_53a73ca0	comment	Star Wars: The Clone Wars: In "Legacy of Terror", bringing up the rear during the escape from the catacombs beneath the Progate Temple while being pursued by undead Geonosians, Commander Cody eventually discards his blaster by throwing it at the zombies because he needs both his hands free to climb up the exit shaft.
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Throw-Away Guns / int_5425ce75	comment	Done in the 3D Grand Theft Auto games. As long as you have at least 1 bullet left, you keep the gun, but once you have no ammo you throw it away. This causes some annoyance if you want to fetch more ammo for it from similar weapons dropped by enemies, though most of the time ammo is too plentiful for this to be a problem. Done to full extent in Grand Theft Auto IV, where whenever ammo for a weapon in particular fully goes out, Niko dumps it straight on the ground and pulls out a different one. Averted in Grand Theft Auto V, where the player characters store the empty guns back. It makes sense, as weapon customization is a significant part of the game's gunplay and throwing away a blinged-up and/or fully accessorized firearm would be pointless and a waste of money, both in- and out-of-universe.
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Throw-Away Guns / int_5461b43	comment	In Agents of Mayhem, Kingpin discards his current gun and teleports a new one to his hand instead of reloading. He also tosses his gun away whenever he gets into a car.
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Throw-Away Guns / int_565b68d5	comment	Hitman: Codename 47: Players have to resort to this in the levels where the use of guns, submachine guns and assault rifles is required and they bought no ammo beforehand or found no ammo in the level (guns taken from dead enemies have only one magazine), particularly those who choose to start just with a knife. Submachine guns can be piled up indefinitely in 47's inventory to that effect, unlike assault rifles. The sequel, Hitman 2: Silent Assassin, instead turned every gun 47 grabbed into new ammo if he happened to have one such gun in his inventory.
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Throw-Away Guns / int_582e9c49	comment	In Dead to Rights, protagonist Jack apparently dislikes reloading guns. He can max out his ammo by picking up more of the same gun, but instead of putting in a new magazine, in true Hong Kong action style, he'll throw away his guns and pull out two new ones. If he's using a two-handed weapon like a shotgun or a submachine gun, he'll reload that, however. This is at least partially justified, however, as every enemy in the game will eventually shoot at him, and it's presumably easier for him to just throw away his gun and pick up another. Or violently disarm some guy and kill him with his own gun.
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Throw-Away Guns / int_58f28be1	comment	Justified in The Godfather. Michael Corleone is given an untraceable, unfingerprintable revolver and is told to just drop it next to the dead bodies. The reasoning is that, if Michael is caught at the scene, the mafia will be able to "fix" any eyewitnesses so that Michael can say he was just at the scene. However, there's nothing they can do if the murder weapon is found in his pocket.
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Throw-Away Guns / int_591aa39f	comment	In the Metal Slug series of games your character ditches special weapons when the clip empties, reverting to your starting pistol.
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Throw-Away Guns / int_631805af	comment	Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots has this happen in cutscenes during Act 1. Snake starts the game with an AK-102 assault rifle, but while testing it it jams to the point of completely locking up, so he drops it just before gameplay starts. You can easily pick up another one, but in the cutscene after the Gekko are introduced he'll empty it into one that chases him and then drop it as well. It's not until after he evades them long enough for them to lose interest and leave that he picks up a third AK that he keeps with him for the rest of the game.
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Throw-Away Guns / int_64c04824	comment	In Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag, Edward Kenway does this with his pistols in the cinematic trailers. Justified by the type of pistol (single-shot muzzle-loaders), so it's easier to just toss them. It's impossible to actually do this in-game, however, since you can't discard any of your pistols. It is, however, possible to throw away any of the muskets he can pick up. Other player characters in Assassin's Creed can also ditch muskets that they pick up, starting with Connor in the game prior to Black Flag. If it counts, in earlier games it was possible for Ezio to pick up and use enemy weapons like spears that he can't normally keep on-hand and then drop them after the fight.
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Throw-Away Guns / int_6668182a	comment	When running from Big Nick at the end of Den of Thieves, Merriman throws away his assault rifle. Justified as the rifle is out of ammo, and Merriman is looking to disencumber himself to make it easier to escape.
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Throw-Away Guns / int_69f5f841	comment	Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare has an example of this if you use cheats - when you're supposed to shoot Zakhaev at the very end, he will attempt to shoot back at you with his Desert Eagle. If you use god mode to survive his shots, after he fires seven times he'll drop the gun and pull out another one. Modern Warfare 3 also has a proper variation in a cutscene, where Grinch drops his rifle to pull out a pair of Deagles during his team's Last Stand because there's simply too many enemies and too much going on for him to reload properly.
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Throw-Away Guns / int_6bbde1c8	comment	Reaper in Overwatch "reloads" by dropping his guns and pulling another identical pair out of his trench coat. There is also D.Va's MEKA suits, which are treated as disposable and contain a Self-Destruct Mechanism for offensive use. A new suit can be called down fairly quickly to replace the prior as each gets destroyed.
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Throw-Away Guns / int_6e1d5f36	comment	Farscape. Crichton throws away his second pulse pistol after it too shortly runs out of oil (bullets) in the group's escape from the Peacekeepers on Arnessk. Happens a few other times too. A running gag is that any pulse pistol Crichton uses other than the one he keeps and maintains as his sidearm, which he calls "Winonna", will always jam or run out of oil during a fight, causing him to toss it and complain that Winonna is the only pistol he ever comes across that he can rely on.
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Throw-Away Guns / int_6ecaff2e	comment	In Scribblenauts, any weapon you create will have 1 to 5 shots, after which Maxwell will throw them to the ground... where they then turn into a puff of smoke.
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Throw-Away Guns / int_6fa2c385	comment	Downplayed in Max Payne 3, where Max's loadout is limited to two handguns and one long gun. While the handguns get shoulder holsters for him to stash them in when he's not using them, the long gun is simply held onto by its foregrip when he's not using it and temporarily held under his arm while reloading a pistol; thus, going Guns Akimbo with pistols requires him to drop whatever long gun he currently has.
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Throw-Away Guns / int_71ac4d48	comment	Just Cause 2 plays with this trope a bit in its basic mechanics. When a gun runs out of ammo, if there are no other guns of the same type lying around, it is easier to pick up one of the other types of guns, which drops your current gun. Similarly, there is never ammo for any of the DLC special weapons, so once you are out of ammo, you either have to call in a weapon drop for it again, or toss it for something else in the area. The irony of tossing weapons comes in the form of the "mounted gun" which can be unmounted and carried around. It is "heavy" so you cannot run or jump while wielding it, but it has infinite ammo and can destroy anything you fire it at. The only reason not to have it all the time is that you can't bring it with you... so you might as well drop it when moving on.
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Throw-Away Guns / int_72350c3a	comment	Done justifiably by Buster Kilrain in Gettysburg. His wounded arm makes it difficult for him to reload a rifle, so he goes up and down the line, grabbing rifles from the fallen. He checks each rifle to see if it's loaded; if it is, he fires it, then drops it and looks for a new one.
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Throw-Away Guns / int_747d9a6f	comment	Alex Mercer from [PROTOTYPE] doesn't bother holding onto reloads for the guns he pilfers from the military, tossing the firearms away instead.
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Throw-Away Guns / int_755b343f	comment	In the Halo series, most Covenant energy weapons run from a power cell which humanity does not know how to recharge or replace. This leads to swapping guns with your dead enemies as a necessity, even sifting through the bodies to find the one with the most charge left. The same applies whenever you play as a Covenant Elite. In Halo Infinite, you can pull out your reserve weapon more quickly by dropping your current weapon than by switching. This can be done to quickly draw a backup weapon after your first weapon runs out of ammo, or to quickly bring out a precision weapon for a headshot after stripping your opponent's shields with your first weapon. The game gives you a medal ("Hold This") for killing another player with your remaining weapon soon after dropping your first weapon.
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Throw-Away Guns / int_76686539	comment	One cutscene in Mass Effect has Saren tossing aside his assault rifle and approaching to attempt to strangle Shepard. Other than that one scene, though, nobody ever drops a gun in the entire saga. The inventory mechanics require you to have one of every type of gun you can use (in the second game) or one of every type (even if you can't use it, in the first game) equipped.
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Throw-Away Guns / int_7668653b	comment	Mass Effect 3 makes heavy weapons into pickups placed on the map rather than something Shepard carries on his/her back as in Mass Effect 2. The heavy weapon replaces your equipped one until its ammo is expended, then Shepard drops it and goes back to the previous weapon.
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Throw-Away Guns / int_77a899a	comment	Denied by Things Mr. Welch Is No Longer Allowed to Do in an RPG:
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Throw-Away Guns / int_780bfe03	comment	In Halo Infinite, you can pull out your reserve weapon more quickly by dropping your current weapon than by switching. This can be done to quickly draw a backup weapon after your first weapon runs out of ammo, or to quickly bring out a precision weapon for a headshot after stripping your opponent's shields with your first weapon. The game gives you a medal ("Hold This") for killing another player with your remaining weapon soon after dropping your first weapon.
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Throw-Away Guns / int_7988cb68	comment	Mass Effect: One cutscene in Mass Effect has Saren tossing aside his assault rifle and approaching to attempt to strangle Shepard. Other than that one scene, though, nobody ever drops a gun in the entire saga. The inventory mechanics require you to have one of every type of gun you can use (in the second game) or one of every type (even if you can't use it, in the first game) equipped. Mass Effect 3 makes heavy weapons into pickups placed on the map rather than something Shepard carries on his/her back as in Mass Effect 2. The heavy weapon replaces your equipped one until its ammo is expended, then Shepard drops it and goes back to the previous weapon.
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Throw-Away Guns / int_7aaecd48	comment	Apache: During his final confrontation with the Army, Massai empties his Peacemaker at a group of scouts, then throws the empty gun at them, and launches himself at the group. Justified because Massai is a Death Seeker at this point and isn't expecting to survive the confrontation.
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Throw-Away Guns / int_7aefccf3	comment	In Hotline Miami, the player is incapable of reloading guns. As a result, this is very common.
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Throw-Away Guns / int_7b2ca7a2	comment	Bayonetta goes through a casket full of guns in a single cutscene, apparently just because she felt like it: while they can't channel her magic as effectively as Rodin's handiwork, she's still able to give the final pair infinite ammo. This is arguably a partial justification for Cutscene Power to the Max; ruining the guns allows far more powerful shots which quickly pulp angels, versus the scaled-down magic bullets she shoots in gameplay at a "safe" level.
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Throw-Away Guns / int_7cf17151	comment	Staff Sgt Nantz in Battle: Los Angeles runs out of ammunition for his assault rifle while chasing retreating aliens and reflexively lets go, draws his pistol and keeps on firing. He still retains the weapon though, as the sling was correctly used to carry it.
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Throw-Away Guns / int_7e86f5f5	comment	Warhammer Fantasy Battle has a Regiment of Renown (a mercenary unit) of Dwarf death seeker pirates. They have a special rule, "Festooned with pistols", allowing them to use pistols in each turn of combat.
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Throw-Away Guns / int_7f8a38b6	comment	Mobile Suit Gundam Wing has the Wing Gundam and Gundam Heavyarms, both of whose main guns (the buster rifle and beam Gatling respectively) have no means of being reloaded and occasionally get ditched in order to reduce weight. The Heavyarms in particular gets a massive speed boost. When Heero has to use Heavyarms during his duel with Zechs, Trowa installs a hidden beam saber in the left arm in place of the small combat knife it normally carries, which was revealed when the Gatling was jettisoned.
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Throw-Away Guns / int_83d41855	comment	Elisa in Gargoyles is lucky she's a detective who (as is often the case in the U.S.) is allowed to use her own personal firearm and not a standard issue one supplied by the department. Otherwise, she'd have to awkwardly explain the loss/destruction of at least three of them to angry superiors in the NYPD over the course of the show.
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Throw-Away Guns / int_846beec3	comment	Barnett of Vandread does this to at least five different weapons of the course of an episode, since she does have to keep firing constantly, or risk being overrun. However, as the end of the episode she gets very cheesed off that she can't recover the weapons, since they're incredibly rare in this time period.
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Throw-Away Guns / int_8954c942	comment	Golgo 13 does this on occasion, mainly because if he gets rid of the gun he just used to kill somebody (in a way that the gun can't be found later), there's one less piece of evidence that can be used to prove he was the killer. And given that he charges seven figure fees for his services, he can afford to discard his old guns and buy new ones (with his preferred rifle only costing in the low four digits in reality) whenever he wants to.
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Throw-Away Guns / int_8ac4e993	comment	Gundam: In the original Mobile Suit Gundam, beam weapons can only be recharged by the larger fusion reactors on ships, not mobile suits. Amuro has a tendency to toss away the beam rifle when it expended its ammo, probably because the Gundam lacks any apparent place to holster the weapon. From Mobile Suit Zeta Gundam onward, smaller, magazine-style energy packs for the beam rifles are introduced allowing them to be reloaded on the fly & this trope becomes much less prevalent. Mobile Suit Gundam 0080: War in the Pocket features the Kämpfer, an assault-type mobile suit and the very definition of Glass Cannon. In order to keep its overall weight down, it carries a pair each of shotguns, bazookas, and rocket-propelled warheads, all of which are discarded after use; once these are expended, all it has left are its beam sabers and head vulcans. Mobile Suit Gundam Wing has the Wing Gundam and Gundam Heavyarms, both of whose main guns (the buster rifle and beam Gatling respectively) have no means of being reloaded and occasionally get ditched in order to reduce weight. The Heavyarms in particular gets a massive speed boost. When Heero has to use Heavyarms during his duel with Zechs, Trowa installs a hidden beam saber in the left arm in place of the small combat knife it normally carries, which was revealed when the Gatling was jettisoned.
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Throw-Away Guns / int_8c264362	comment	In Skyfall, Bond uses an Anderson Wheeler double rifle for most of the attack on the eponymous estate, but upon running out of ammunition promptly discards the weapon. His contentious relationship with his parents may be part of his reasoning. He also discards his service weapon, a Walther PPK, in the opening scene of the movie, despite having time to reholster it, as seen here. This is especially irresponsible as the weapon's serial number is most likely registered to him through MI6.
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Throw-Away Guns / int_8fc0298d	comment	The Area 51 (FPS) and The Darkness use this in one of the circumstances where it's actually a realistic response — when using Guns Akimbo. Reloading two weapons at once is clumsy at best and impossible at worst, so the empty weapon really is just dead weight (though the realism of guns akimbo in the first place is specious at best). Although, in The Darkness, Jackie keeps hold of one pair of pistols, the custom ones that were given to him at the start of the game as a birthday present. They're always the last pair of guns he pulls out, so he must hang on to them and reload them at some point.
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Throw-Away Guns / int_904473bf	comment	Possibly parodied in the original The Blob (1958), when a four-year-old boy "shoots" the Blob Monster repeatedly with a cap pistol and then throws the toy gun away. Presumably he'd seen this trope in action on Superman shorts and cowboy flicks.
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Throw-Away Guns / int_9058ad7e	comment	Justified in the final chase in The Terminator, as the Terminator is on a motorbike and can't just reload like he's done on every previous occasion.
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Throw-Away Guns / int_90e2f673	comment	BattleTech has a few examples of this. For one, quite a few battle armor suit designs carry disposable missile launchers (one-shot models or with a small number of reloads) that are generally jettisoned after use to no longer slow down the trooper(s); indeed, normally jump-capable Inner Sphere battle armors equipped with those are generally prohibited from jumping until the missiles are expended or the launchers ditched. Optional rules expand this to disposable packs for other weapon types and also introduce explicitly handheld weapons for BattleMechs, which allow a 'Mech to carry weapons it normally doesn't have installed but also usually encumber it and block some to all of its 'standard' weapons fire; these can be dropped and picked up again as the occasion demands.
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Throw-Away Guns / int_92cbd099	comment	Characters in Xenophobe can only carry one gun, so discarding your gun for a better one is important. Oddly though, you want to remember where your old gun was because guns have a tendency to explode when dropped and you might want to go back for your old one. In some versions you also get points for dropping your gun, which can lead to repeatedly dropping many guns until they explode!
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Throw-Away Guns / int_9431bab8	comment	Played with on Sleepy Hollow. Abby gives Ichabod Crane one of her guns and after firing one shot he drops the gun. She pick the gun back up and angrily asks why he did something so stupid. Crane is from 1781 and no one has explained to him that modern firearms are capable of firing multiple shots without reloading. After firing what he thought was his only shot, he dropped the gun to look for something more substantial to use as a melee weapon.
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Throw-Away Guns / int_9525e74d	comment	Hank in Madness Combat tends to go through guns and ammo at an amazing rate. This never holds him up too badly, though, since he resupplies himself from slain Mooks. For some reason, he prefers to take the least-sensible weapons available - given one dead mook with an axe and another with a never-fired AK-47, he'll take the axe.
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Throw-Away Guns / int_9535dfe4	comment	Played straight, then lampshaded, then inverted in Grosse Pointe Blank — Martin Blank and rival hitman Grocer end up in a Mexican Standoff across a kitchen counter, only to find that they're both empty. They toss their guns away, and Grocer pulls out a fresh one while teasing Blank when it's apparent that he's all out — "So, what are you gonna do? You gonna THROW that gun at me? How 'bout this? How 'bout I sell you a piece for a hundred Gs?" Grocer tosses a loaded gun past Blank's cover and jumps out to shoot him only for Blank to smash his head with a nearby television and electrocute him.
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Throw-Away Guns / int_970312db	comment	Jurassic Park: Trespasser explains its non-reloadable as the heroine having a broken left arm. How she is able to fire an assault rifle on full auto one-handed, especially with any semblance of accuracy, is not.
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Throw-Away Guns / int_9cb4ee77	comment	The zombie horror/comedy Undead hangs a giant neon lampshade on this. The badass never reloads, instead whipping out a fresh pair of pistols after every barrage, to the point of ridiculousness. This goes unmentioned until he spends several minutes naked, finds new clothing in a thrift store, and at the first sight of zombies, whips two Desert Eagles out of Hammerspace, prompting another character to ask, "Where've you been keeping them, then?"
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Throw-Away Guns / int_9d533f3b	comment	Mag Isa: Eman and Kyle both ran out of ammo as they engaged in a firefight. When they did, they just threw out those guns (at least Eman did) and proceeded to knife fight.
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Throw-Away Guns / int_9f6c32a9	comment	In Wanted, Wesley does this, during his major assault on the bad guy headquarters. Why reload your gun when you can take the guns from your dead enemies?
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Throw-Away Guns / int_a2ce06ce	comment	Severed Steel is a first person shooter with an one armed protagonist, and with that, constantly swapping weapons off the enemies (dead or alive, as you can hijack side-arms out of living mooks) is a neccessity to make up for not being able to reload the guns.
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Throw-Away Guns / int_a4420d22	comment	The Venture Bros.: In "Escape to the House of Mummies, Part II", a mook throws his empty gun at Brock and is admonished by a fellow mook who tells him "I have more bullets, ya know. You gotta stop doing that." The first one admits he knows he shouldn't, but he can't help it because it looks so cool.
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Throw-Away Guns / int_a4822fe	comment	Luna Himiki from Vanguard Princess is a character with eight different stances that change where and how she fires her twin laser pistols. Whenever she gets out of her firing stance, she tosses away her guns and whips out two new ones. Even if you didn't fire a single shot out of them.
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Throw-Away Guns / int_a4ff8e01	comment	Oda Nobunaga in Fate/Grand Order loves More Dakka, but since she uses slow reloading single-shot muskets, she makes up for it with lots and lots of guns.
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Throw-Away Guns / int_a86b7660	comment	Due South: Once they cross over into Canadian territorial waters, Ray tosses his gun to Fraser because he is a much better shot.
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Throw-Away Guns / int_ab399a19	comment	During the prison break at the start of More Dead Than Alive, one of the gang members empties his revolver at the prison guards, and then casually tosses it aside as he draws another.
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Throw-Away Guns / int_b0183e04	comment	In the second episode of Garth Marenghis Darkplace, Animate Inanimate Objects start attacking everyone, and Sanchez pulls out his gun and shoots the floating objects down. Then his gun tries to wrench itself around to shoot him, so he throws it to the ground, stomps on it, pulls out a second pistol, and starts shooting the first gun with it. Then he throws the second gun at one of the floating objects, and it spins around in midflight to chase after him.
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Throw-Away Guns / int_b0793848	comment	In The Boondock Saints, Il Duce challenges all three saints to a firefight while wearing a waistcoat with six handguns. Each time a pair of handguns runs out of ammo he just drops them and pulls out another pair. The cops investigating after the fact reasonably assume that it had to be at least six guys with guns.
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Throw-Away Guns / int_ba366aa8	comment	In Syphon Filter: The Omega Strain the player can choose what firearms to bring on a mission. Unless they choose guns with the same type of ammunition as the enemies they encounter, this trope can happen when the player runs out of ammo and has to discard their weapon and scoop up an enemy's.
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Throw-Away Guns / int_ba75bc6c	comment	Posse has a scene where the two combatants advance slowly in a Showdown at High Noon, throwing their guns away as they empty them.
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Throw-Away Guns / int_bcadd7cb	comment	Seriously averted in Warhammer 40,000. No Guardsman would ever throw away their weapon unless it was too damaged to be usable. This is because Guard regulations state that losing one's weapon is a crime, potentially (and usually) punishable by summary execution. This is largely due to the rifle (and sometimes just the ammunition) being far more valuable than the guardsman who wields it. As a result of this, Guardsmen tend to take their rifles everywhere. Space Marines will only discard their weapon if they're killed, as they treat every bit of their equipment as a holy relic, to be treasured and preserved. Adeptus Mechanicus takes this one step further, sacrificing entire legions of troops to retrieve weapons that other people discarded centuries ago. Usually because the weapons in question can not be reproduced and are better than current weapons, or sometime just because they value a piece of common place technology more than human lives. The World Eaters believe a weapon destroyed or lost in battle brings bad luck, leading to this trope (and a lot of waste). Despite this, Khârn's chainaxe Gorechild was made from the remains of his primarch Angron's axe, when he destroyed its teeth by hacking his way out of a collapsed building.
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Throw-Away Guns / int_be245531	comment	In Gotham Central, Detective Romy Chandler blames Batman for the death of her partner, Detective Nate Patton. When she and her new partner stumble upon Batman interrogating the Penguin, she draws her gun and fires. Batman survives, but he takes her gun and vanishes from the room. Surprisingly Realistic Outcome as the fact that a police officer has lost her gun, after shooting Batman on top of everything, becomes a matter of great concern for her and the police department at large, especially when another detective slips and accidentally mentions the theft to their captain. Thankfully, before it can spin too far out of control Robin returns the gun, passing along the message that Chandler should not shoot Batman again.
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Throw-Away Guns / int_c0d295c4	comment	Team Fortress 2 has a Throw Away Weak Turret Gun. The Combat Mini-Sentry is a Fun Size version of the standard Sentry Gun that is unable to be upgraded. It also costs more metal to reload an empty Mini-Sentry than to just destroy the extant gun and build a new one. Once heavily damaged or emptied of ammo, it is always better off destroyed or left as a decoy than tended to and reloaded, unlike the standard Sentry Gun. Seeing as how Sentries are effectively the primary weapon for The Engineer, this means that he is therefore constantly throwing down, then throwing away scores of small automated guns. Mann vs. Machine mode has an upgrade that allows the Engineer to build a disposable sentry gun, which is for all intents and purposes a combat mini-sentry, separately from their regular sentry gun, so it is very well possible to be throwing down and then discarding mini-sentries in-between properly maintaining a regular sentry.
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Throw-Away Guns / int_c1b3bc6b	comment	Nick Kang in True Crime: Streets of LA can fire all Guns Akimbo, but throws them away at the drop of a hat; when entering a car, when entering a building, when attempting to holster. He always returns to his issue sidearms, which are also wielded akimbo, have unlimited ammo, and can get upgraded to deadly enough power to make the other guns superfluous.
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Throw-Away Guns / int_c72021c5	comment	In Deus Ex there is a small disposable plasma gun called the PS20. Intended as a stealth gun with its small profile, the size of the gun limits it to a single shot, although for some reason you can only carry one at a time and, due to a bug with patch 1.12fm that broke the damage of plasma weapons, even a headshot at point-blank range won't kill someone. There's also a much larger variation with the Light Antitank Weapon, which has the same limit of one shot and only one in your inventory, though it's much more powerful (and also takes up much more space) since, as the name suggests, it's meant to be used against armor rather than people.
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Throw-Away Guns / int_c888bc69	comment	While only seen once in Strapped it's implied that this is a common practice. One of the people purchasing a gun on the streets refers to it as a "burner" suggesting it can be disposed of after it's used.
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Throw-Away Guns / int_cbe7f8d0	comment	Tremors: When a giant man-eating Sand Worm breaks into the basement of the Crazy Survivalist and his wife, they seize one firearm after another from their Wall of Weapons and blast away at the creature, which is only a few feet away — sometimes reloading, but other times tossing the gun aside and grabbing a more powerful weapon. At all other times in the movie the two show proper weapons handling; this case is justified in that they are right in their own basement, so they can just retrieve the guns after they've killed the worm. And they were trying to find a gun that would work on the worm: once they noticed that a pistol or shotgun wasn't injuring it, there was no point in reloading that particular gun when they could simply switch to something with better penetration.
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Throw-Away Guns / int_ccce56f6	comment	One Finger Death Punch has throw-away bows; once you use up your arrows, your character drops the bow and keeps fighting, even though it could theoretically be used as a melee weapon. The game, however, is modeled after wuxia movies, and using bows as melee weapons violates most of the genre's style rules.
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Throw-Away Guns / int_cec99ed9	comment	Safehold: Justified during the attack on the Convent of Saint Agtha in By Heresies Distressed, since Safeholdian firearms are single-shot at that point in the timeline. Sharleyan is given an armload of weapons, and after each shot tosses it to one of her reloaders and grabs a replacement.
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Throw-Away Guns / int_d3b72b58	comment	Contrary to portrayals in movies such as Enemy at the Gates, the Soviets at the Battle of Stalingrad did not have weapon shortages. Quite the opposite, in fact: while weapons were plentiful, ammunition was scarce, sometimes a mere 5 rounds per soldier. Once this ammunition was expended, it was not uncommon for the rifle to be abandoned.
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Throw-Away Guns / int_d4c98d63	comment	In the cinematic trailer to Brink!, a Resistance heavy empties an assault rifle and just lets it fall out of his hand before reaching for a shotgun stuck to his back.
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Throw-Away Guns / int_d72572ba	comment	Condemned: Criminal Origins takes it one notch further: it's an FPS that doesn't have a reload key. Even though you may wind up with one gun with 4 bullets in it in your inventory and another one with 3 on the ground, there is no way to top the first off with the ammo from the second (especially weird considering you can take the magazine out to visually note how many more bullets are in it, but you can't take those magazines out to slap them into another gun). You can keep ahold of the gun to use as a club once it's empty, but they're hardly effective at the role, dealing the least damage and breaking after a dozen or so hits. Thus, the CSI protagonist mostly relies on braining people with 2x4s, rebars, and lead pipes. The sequel allows you to reload your current gun with the ammunition from a weapon on the ground and in safes, or from one in your holster after the point in the game where you unlock that.
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Throw-Away Guns / int_d76723b5	comment	In Ultraviolet (2006), Violet has hundreds of weapons stored in high-tech Hammerspace, so she just drops empties.
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Throw-Away Guns / int_dd0bdfc	comment	Cemetery Gates: After firing two shots from his shotgun at Precious to no obvious effect, Dr. Belmont then inexplicably throws the shotgun at the monster.
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Throw-Away Guns / int_df76da7e	comment	In Mirror's Edge, using a gun is not really the best way to play. Runners, like the player character Faith, use their agility and acrobatics to fend off attack. When carrying a gun, Faith's agility is hampered, depending on the gun size and handedness. A pistol retains your use of both hands (to climb and vault) but mildly hampers your acceleration and jump. Anything larger than that, like a rifle, does kill your ability to jump and vault and wallrun, and your max running speed is completely nuked. An M249 machine gun is the worst - you're forced to walk and you jump like a Goomba, if at all.
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Throw-Away Guns / int_dfc9fe1d	comment	Mobile Suit Gundam 0080: War in the Pocket features the Kämpfer, an assault-type mobile suit and the very definition of Glass Cannon. In order to keep its overall weight down, it carries a pair each of shotguns, bazookas, and rocket-propelled warheads, all of which are discarded after use; once these are expended, all it has left are its beam sabers and head vulcans.
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Throw-Away Guns / int_e1073116	comment	Parodied in the 1985 comedy/adventure film adaptation of King Solomon's Mines. The female character throws a gun at the villain; he shouts: "Thank you!" and uses it to blast away at her.
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Throw-Away Guns / int_e1ec0e62	comment	Done to full extent in Grand Theft Auto IV, where whenever ammo for a weapon in particular fully goes out, Niko dumps it straight on the ground and pulls out a different one.
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Throw-Away Guns / int_e356cbe8	comment	Shoot 'Em Up. Clive Owen's character does this while carrying a baby or during a mid-air shootout — all other times he reloads.
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Throw-Away Guns / int_e37dfa1f	comment	The full-round reloading time in Hong Kong Action Theatre seems designed to encourage this among players, since many Hong Kong action characters will dump their guns once they're out of bullets and either draw or grab new ones to continue the gunfight or turn the situation into a kung fu battle.
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Throw-Away Guns / int_e3876b26	comment	In Digimon Frontier, MagnaGarurumon throws his BFG when its out of ammo to bring out its lightsabers.
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Throw-Away Guns / int_e5d94391	comment	Played straight and subverted in MDK2 with Max the four armed dog throwing away most of this weapons once he runs out of ammo, luckily there is always a good supply of guns lying around. Subverted as Max has four weak guns with unlimited ammo which never leaves his hands, unless he dies.
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Throw-Away Guns / int_e7e37776	comment	In the Firefly episode "War Stories", Zoe tells Wash "Six shots, then just drop it" as she hands him a revolver. Her husband is inexperienced with firearms, so it would probably make more sense than teaching him use a speed loader in the short time they have.
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Throw-Away Guns / int_e89f120b	comment	In the original Mobile Suit Gundam, beam weapons can only be recharged by the larger fusion reactors on ships, not mobile suits. Amuro has a tendency to toss away the beam rifle when it expended its ammo, probably because the Gundam lacks any apparent place to holster the weapon. From Mobile Suit Zeta Gundam onward, smaller, magazine-style energy packs for the beam rifles are introduced allowing them to be reloaded on the fly & this trope becomes much less prevalent.
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Throw-Away Guns / int_ecc94716	comment	This also happens and is justified in one mission near the end of Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare. Mitchell's prosthetic arm has been broken, so the player cannot reload or throw grenades, and must throw away a gun after emptying its magazine.
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Throw-Away Guns / int_f0a86c12	comment	Lampshaded in an episode of How I Met Your Mother, Robin goes to a shooting range to cool off after breaking up with Barney. She is shown violently shooting at her target and once out of bullets, she actually throws the gun.
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Throw-Away Guns / int_f17c3b1d	comment	The few firearms available in the Dead Rising games are discarded when the fairly generous ammo runs out. Fortunately, you can fill your inventory with guns so the fun doesn't have to stop when your current gun does.
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Throw-Away Guns / int_f7d93e4a	comment	Other player characters in Assassin's Creed can also ditch muskets that they pick up, starting with Connor in the game prior to Black Flag. If it counts, in earlier games it was possible for Ezio to pick up and use enemy weapons like spears that he can't normally keep on-hand and then drop them after the fight.
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Throw-Away Guns / int_f81ef90f	comment	Jason Bourne in The Bourne Series frequently breaks apart and discards weapons he's used, including the hunting shotgun in the first film and the handgun in the third film's Waterloo Station fight, presumably to prevent people using them against him and/or delay forensics (though unless he were to make particular efforts to throw the parts away separately, this should only delay it by half an hour or so).
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Throw-Away Guns / int_fd49a48d	comment	In Final Fight Streetwise, whenever Kyle runs out of ammo for a firearm, he discards it. Other characters are shown reloading them.
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Throw-Away Guns / int_fe85bfc8	comment	You can do this with any gun-type items in the Super Smash Bros. games, and in fact have to once they're empty since there's no way to reload (and they will, notably, immediately disappear on contact with the ground when thrown after being emptied, whereas a still-full gun can be tossed several times). Some of them are even more effective when thrown, considering the primary means of defeating opponents is throwing them off the stage; blasts from the laser gun only stop an enemy in their tracks and throw them up maybe a few inches, but the damage quickly adds up to let you send them flying really far once it runs out and you clonk them with the gun itself.
Throw-Away Guns / int_fe85bfc8	featureApplicability	1.0
Throw-Away Guns / int_fe85bfc8	featureConfidence	1.0
Super Smash Bros. (Video Game)	hasFeature	Throw-Away Guns / int_fe85bfc8

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Throw-Away Guns	processingCategory2	Guns and Gunplay Tropes
Treasure Island (1988) (Animation) / int_225b682	type	Throw-Away Guns
Cowboy Bebop / int_225b682	type	Throw-Away Guns
Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex / int_fe4b5262	type	Throw-Away Guns
Mobile Suit Gundam 0080: War in the Pocket / int_225b682	type	Throw-Away Guns
RahXephon / int_225b682	type	Throw-Away Guns
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Gotham Central (Comic Book) / int_225b682	type	Throw-Away Guns
Ratchet & Clank (2010) (Comic Book) / int_225b682	type	Throw-Away Guns
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Wreck-It Ralph / Disney / int_225b682	type	Throw-Away Guns
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Path of the King (Fanfic) / int_225b682	type	Throw-Away Guns
There Was Once an Avenger From Krypton (Fanfic) / int_225b682	type	Throw-Away Guns
The Matrix / int_225b682	type	Throw-Away Guns
Atomic Blonde / int_225b682	type	Throw-Away Guns
Babylon A.D. / int_225b682	type	Throw-Away Guns
Big Jake / int_225b682	type	Throw-Away Guns
Commando / int_225b682	type	Throw-Away Guns
Commando (1985) / int_225b682	type	Throw-Away Guns
Crank / int_225b682	type	Throw-Away Guns
Desperate Journey / int_225b682	type	Throw-Away Guns
Die Hard 2 / int_225b682	type	Throw-Away Guns
Dunkirk / int_225b682	type	Throw-Away Guns
Everly / int_225b682	type	Throw-Away Guns
Forever Evil (1987) / int_225b682	type	Throw-Away Guns
Fury (2014) / int_225b682	type	Throw-Away Guns
Gettysburg / int_225b682	type	Throw-Away Guns
Grosse Pointe Blank / int_225b682	type	Throw-Away Guns
Harley Davidson and the Marlboro Man / int_225b682	type	Throw-Away Guns
John Wick: Chapter 2 / int_225b682	type	Throw-Away Guns
Journey into Fear / int_225b682	type	Throw-Away Guns
Posse / int_225b682	type	Throw-Away Guns
Punisher: War Zone / int_225b682	type	Throw-Away Guns
Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows / int_225b682	type	Throw-Away Guns
Skyfall / int_225b682	type	Throw-Away Guns
Spy / int_225b682	type	Throw-Away Guns
The Book of Eli / int_fe4b5262	type	Throw-Away Guns
The Boondock Saints / int_225b682	type	Throw-Away Guns
The Emperor of Paris / int_225b682	type	Throw-Away Guns
The Expendables / int_225b682	type	Throw-Away Guns
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The Old Guard / int_225b682	type	Throw-Away Guns
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The Replacement Killers / int_225b682	type	Throw-Away Guns
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Thor: Ragnarok / int_225b682	type	Throw-Away Guns
True Lies / int_fe4b5262	type	Throw-Away Guns
Ultraviolet (2006) / int_225b682	type	Throw-Away Guns
Underworld (2003) / int_225b682	type	Throw-Away Guns
Unforgiven / int_225b682	type	Throw-Away Guns
Van Helsinki / int_225b682	type	Throw-Away Guns
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King Solomon's Mines / int_225b682	type	Throw-Away Guns
Mediochre Q Seth Series / int_fe4b5262	type	Throw-Away Guns
On Stranger Tides / int_225b682	type	Throw-Away Guns
Parker / int_225b682	type	Throw-Away Guns
Safehold / int_225b682	type	Throw-Away Guns
Stray Cat Strut / int_fe4b5262	type	Throw-Away Guns
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Unorthodox Reload / int_225b682	type	Throw-Away Guns
Black Lagoon (Manga) / int_225b682	type	Throw-Away Guns
Golgo 13 (Manga) / int_225b682	type	Throw-Away Guns
Darwin's Soldiers (Roleplay) / int_225b682	type	Throw-Away Guns
Falling Skies / int_225b682	type	Throw-Away Guns
Love/Hate / int_225b682	type	Throw-Away Guns
Sleepy Hollow / int_fe4b5262	type	Throw-Away Guns
Hong Kong Action Theatre (Tabletop Game) / int_225b682	type	Throw-Away Guns
Iron Kingdoms (Tabletop Game) / int_225b682	type	Throw-Away Guns
America's Army (Video Game) / int_225b682	type	Throw-Away Guns
Apex Legends (Video Game) / int_225b682	type	Throw-Away Guns
Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag (Video Game) / int_225b682	type	Throw-Away Guns
Battlefield 4 (Video Game) / int_225b682	type	Throw-Away Guns
Battlefield V (Video Game) / int_225b682	type	Throw-Away Guns
BloodRayne (Video Game) / int_fe4b5262	type	Throw-Away Guns
Blue Archive (Video Game) / int_225b682	type	Throw-Away Guns
Chroma Squad (Video Game) / int_225b682	type	Throw-Away Guns
Condemned: Criminal Origins (Video Game) / int_225b682	type	Throw-Away Guns
Counter-Strike (Video Game) / int_225b682	type	Throw-Away Guns
Counter-Strike Online (Video Game) / int_225b682	type	Throw-Away Guns
Crysis (Video Game) / int_fe4b5262	type	Throw-Away Guns
Dead Rising (Video Game) / int_fe4b5262	type	Throw-Away Guns
Dead to Rights (Video Game) / int_fe4b5262	type	Throw-Away Guns
Despicable Bear (Video Game) / int_225b682	type	Throw-Away Guns
Drake of the 99 Dragons (Video Game) / int_225b682	type	Throw-Away Guns
Fights in Tight Spaces (Video Game) / int_225b682	type	Throw-Away Guns
Growl (Video Game) / int_225b682	type	Throw-Away Guns
Gundam Vs Series (Video Game) / int_225b682	type	Throw-Away Guns
Halo Infinite (Video Game) / int_225b682	type	Throw-Away Guns
Helldivers (Video Game) / int_225b682	type	Throw-Away Guns
Hotline Miami (Video Game) / int_225b682	type	Throw-Away Guns
Jagged Alliance (Video Game) / int_fe4b5262	type	Throw-Away Guns
Jurassic Park: Trespasser (Video Game) / int_fe4b5262	type	Throw-Away Guns
MDK2 (Video Game) / int_225b682	type	Throw-Away Guns
MADNESS: Project Nexus 2 (Video Game) / int_fe4b5262	type	Throw-Away Guns
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Marvel: Avengers Alliance (Video Game) / int_225b682	type	Throw-Away Guns
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Mirror's Edge (Video Game) / int_225b682	type	Throw-Away Guns
Modern Warfare (Video Game) / int_225b682	type	Throw-Away Guns
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Project Downfall (Video Game) / int_225b682	type	Throw-Away Guns
Ruiner (Video Game) / int_225b682	type	Throw-Away Guns
Saints Row: The Third (Video Game) / int_225b682	type	Throw-Away Guns
Severed Steel (Video Game) / int_225b682	type	Throw-Away Guns
Stick Fight (Video Game) / int_225b682	type	Throw-Away Guns
Strafe (Video Game) / int_225b682	type	Throw-Away Guns
Stranglehold (Video Game) / int_225b682	type	Throw-Away Guns
Streets of Rage Remake (Video Game) / int_225b682	type	Throw-Away Guns
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The Darkness (Video Game) / int_225b682	type	Throw-Away Guns
The Punisher (THQ) (Video Game) / int_fe4b5262	type	Throw-Away Guns
Thing-Thing (Video Game) / int_225b682	type	Throw-Away Guns
True Crime: Streets of LA (Video Game) / int_fe4b5262	type	Throw-Away Guns
Uncharted (Video Game) / int_225b682	type	Throw-Away Guns
Urban Terror (Video Game) / int_225b682	type	Throw-Away Guns
Wolf Team (Video Game) / int_225b682	type	Throw-Away Guns
[PROTOTYPE] / Videogame / int_225b682	type	Throw-Away Guns
Syndicate / Videogame / int_225b682	type	Throw-Away Guns
Astartes (Web Animation) / int_225b682	type	Throw-Away Guns
Ethereal Snake (Web Animation) / int_fe4b5262	type	Throw-Away Guns
Red vs. Blue: The Project Freelancer Saga (Web Animation) / int_225b682	type	Throw-Away Guns
StarCrafts (Web Animation) / int_225b682	type	Throw-Away Guns
Forgotten Weapons (Web Video) / int_225b682	type	Throw-Away Guns
Darths & Droids (Webcomic) / int_225b682	type	Throw-Away Guns
MAG-ISA (Webcomic) / int_225b682	type	Throw-Away Guns
Beware the Batman / int_225b682	type	Throw-Away Guns
Wonder Woman (2009) / int_225b682	type	Throw-Away Guns
Wreck-It Ralph / int_225b682	type	Throw-Away Guns
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