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Where's My Gun?

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22 feature instances
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Where's My Gun?	comment	So you're a soldier, lying in the middle of your base with nothing to do. Your tasks for the day are done, and you lay down to take a nap... when suddenly the enemy decides to attack, and throws the place into absolute chaos. Making matters worse... where's your gun? This trope has come to pass, and it is a massive Oh, Crap! to any poor unfortunate soldier or policeman that has it happen to them. This trope basically occurs any time a character has to spend time looking for his weapon (and possibly getting killed in the process) when he should be doing something a bit more useful, like ya know, fighting. Sometimes however, it plays out because the gun in question is special to him, and he refuses to use anything else, even when there's piles of usable rifles at his feet. Doesn't necessarily have to be a firearm, any time a character loses a weapon of any sort can certainly count here. A Properly Paranoid character trying to defy this trope will often keep a weapon under their pillow and/or feel like they Can't Bathe Without a Weapon. See also Left Your Lifesaver Behind.
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Where's My Gun? / int_432e5c6f	comment	Stone Ocean: Emporio verbs this as he desperately looks for a handgun in his possessions as Pucci is approaching him, then remembers that he dropped it in the ocean while Jolyne was saving him.
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Where's My Gun? / int_6a7e6314	comment	Thor: Ragnarok: Thor spends most of the movie weaponless after his hammer gets smashed and has his entire fighting style thrown out the window. He instintucally tries to summon the hammer with no effect, relies on a sword and shield before throwing them away to use fisticuffs, and even briefly uses a laser gun before dropping the clunky thing. In the end, he learns to rely on his own power rather than a bunch of tools.
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Where's My Gun? / int_6ee41bb6	comment	Tomb Raider: Anniversary has Lara suspended in a trance when she gets all three pieces of the MacGuffin together and is shown a vision of the past that shows how Atlantis collapsed. When she returns to reality, Natla steals the artifact. Lara reaches for her guns, only to be confused when she sees that her guns are mysteriously gone before she gets restrained by Kold. Natla's goons show that they were the ones that stole her weapons.
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Where's My Gun? / int_755b343f	comment	Halo: For being a cybernetic super soldier, the Master Chief seems to never have an available weapon on hand whenever trouble starts at the beginning of most of his games. He usually gets one within about five minutes of the player being handed control, but still, hasn't anyone thought to have at least a set of emergency pistols in the cryo rooms?
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Where's My Gun? / int_76c01b30	comment	V for Vendetta: Almond the Dirty Cop and Domestic Abuser likes to scare his wife by threatening her with his (empty) gun. It bites him in the ass when he rushes out to confront V without loading it.
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Where's My Gun? / int_84d7c4de	comment	Private Snafu: Happens several times to Snafu as a result of his general ineptitude. In "Fighting Tools", he has trouble finding his rifle, and the machine gun and howitzer are located a stupidly long way from his tent (although given everything else he has done to his weapons, not knowing their whereabouts is the least of his problems). In "Gas", it is his gas mask that he can't locate.
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Where's My Gun? / int_9068877a	comment	Sarge from Red vs. Blue is a serious offender here. While all of the other characters can and do switch weapons, sometimes on the fly, Sarge is the only one in the entire series that refuses to go anywhere without his Shotgun. Although the one time he didn't have it, when he could've used it he was acting as bait for Agent Washington (justified as Wash made him surrender it), most other characters would've picked up another weapon later instead of trying to swipe it back from Wash.
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Where's My Gun? / int_9b1b6065	comment	Mario + Rabbids Kingdom Battle: In the Donkey Kong Adventure DLC, When Beep-0 and Rabbid Peach first arrive on DK Island, they find themselves surrounded by hostile Rabbids. Rabbid Peach casually goes for her Blaster, but finds it is nowhere to be seen - cue a Cutaway Gag showing she left it at Peach's Castle as a makeshift campfire for s'mores. Fortunately, when Donkey Kong and Rabbid Cranky Kong arrive to save them, the latter gives Rabbid Peach a new Blaster - this justifies why she uses different Blasters and Sentries as opposed to the main game.
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Where's My Gun? / int_9d37e993	comment	Edge of Tomorrow. Cage's weaponry is built into his Powered Armor, but in his first battle before he gets stuck in a "Groundhog Day" Loop, he spends much of it stumbling around the battlefield trying to deactivate the safeties.
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Where's My Gun? / int_a3748187	comment	Golden Wind: After suddenly losing consciousness at Rome's coliseum, Mista wakes up and tries to find his pistol before noticing that he swapped bodies with Trish.
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Where's My Gun? / int_aba3570e	comment	Watch Girls Play: During the playthrough of The Forest, Renae loses her weapon right in the middle of a fight.
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Where's My Gun? / int_b0028436	comment	JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Golden Wind: After suddenly losing consciousness at Rome's coliseum, Mista wakes up and tries to find his pistol before noticing that he swapped bodies with Trish. Stone Ocean: Emporio verbs this as he desperately looks for a handgun in his possessions as Pucci is approaching him, then remembers that he dropped it in the ocean while Jolyne was saving him.
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Where's My Gun? / int_b9bcf7c2	comment	Clegg: When confronted by a Giant Mook, Harry reaches first under one armpit and then the other before remembering that he left his gun at home that morning.
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Where's My Gun? / int_bcadd7cb	comment	Warhammer 40,000: Imperial Guardsmen face severe punishment for not having their weapon with them, meaning they even take them into the latrines.
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Where's My Gun? / int_c6245086	comment	After the prologue of ''Crysis 2, Alcatraz wakes up alone in a New York undergoing a three-sided war. Prophet did at least have the courtesy to leave Alcatraz the pistol he killed himself with... but didn't leave any ammo for it, forcing the player to sneak for a while before they can actually find bullets to shoot with.
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Where's My Gun? / int_c81bb075	comment	Van Helsing has a scene early in the film where Prince Velcan used himself as bait to lure out a werewolf. It worked, but in the ensuing chaos that followed, he lost his pistol. While the villagers shoot at the trapped werewolf, he begins screaming at them to find his gun. Justified in this case as his gun is loaded with silver bullets, and is therefore, the only thing that can kill a werewolf. He eventually does find it, and manages to kill the werewolf in question, however he gets knocked off a cliff for his efforts, and later becomes a werewolf.
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Where's My Gun? / int_c8a7a335	comment	The two CIA agents at the start of Act of Valor certainly could qualify. None of them even bother with making sure they have a weapon at the ready when the one answers the door. Sure, they might have been only expecting food delivery, but that still doesn't excuse them from not being ready for things to go sour quickly.
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Where's My Gun? / int_d3b72b58	comment	Happens in Enemy at the Gates to the last soldier that Zaytsev shoots in his introductory badass moment. Once he realizes that Zaytsev is there, and has killed 4 of his comrades, he quickly realizes that his rifle is not within arms reach, and tries to go for it... only to have Zaytsev introduce his skull to a 7.62mm bullet before he can get more then three feet from his starting position. Zaytsev does it himself just before this scene, due to a shortage of rifles he and many other soldiers sent into the attack have to wait until a man carrying a rifle gets shot, so they can pick up their rifle and use it.
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Where's My Gun? / int_d62bbf7a	comment	In Assassin's Creed II, Bartolomeo practically tears his house apart to find.... his Claymore "Bianca". All the while Ezio was busy cutting down their enemies just outside.
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Where's My Gun? / int_d78202cf	comment	In Halo 4: Forward Unto Dawn, the cadets find themselves scrambling to get weapons and live ammo in the face of a Covenant invasion. Making matters worse is that the storage locker for the weapons and ammo is password protected, and the system is malfunctioning. Clearly no one in the UNSC ever thought to use a simple key and padlock system, which can at least be smashed off in an emergency... like when genocidal aliens are invading.
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Where's My Gun? / int_e9e265b6	comment	In Fire Emblem: Awakening, Vaike loses his axe prior to his first battle. Fortunately, Miriel soon arrives with it, leading to the tutorial on how to trade items between units.
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Where's My Gun? / int_ffbcb90e	comment	In Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom, Indy is confronted by a massive Thuggee swordsman and cockily reaches for his revolver (in a Call-Forward to the famous scene in Raiders of the Lost Ark). However, his smile vanishes when his hand pats his empty holster and he remembers that he lost his pistol in the beginning of the film.
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The following is a list of statements referring to the current page from other pages.

Where's My Gun?	processingCategory2	Guns and Gunplay Tropes
Act of Valor / int_1b72be3	type	Where's My Gun?
Enemy at the Gates / int_1b72be3	type	Where's My Gun?
Halo 4: Forward Unto Dawn / int_1b72be3	type	Where's My Gun?
Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom / int_1b72be3	type	Where's My Gun?
The Man in the Iron Mask (1939) / int_1b72be3	type	Where's My Gun?
Thor: Ragnarok / int_1b72be3	type	Where's My Gun?
Van Helsing / int_1b72be3	type	Where's My Gun?
Halo (Franchise) / int_1b72be3	type	Where's My Gun?
Ghost Adventures / int_1b72be3	type	Where's My Gun?
Assassin's Creed II (Video Game) / int_1b72be3	type	Where's My Gun?
Tomb Raider: Anniversary (Video Game) / int_1b72be3	type	Where's My Gun?
Private Snafu / int_1b72be3	type	Where's My Gun?

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