History Main / ExtendedDisarming

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* ''Literature/WhateleyUniverse'':
** Ayla 7 ("Ayla and the Great Shoulder Angel Conspiracy"), chapter 5. Ayla has a utility belt with hammerspace arsenal, and was asked to show all his hold-outs. He put in a BIT too many in the simulation computer, and they wanted to verify he had them all. He did. Eventually, he was accused of having more weapons than Franchise/{{Batman}}, and was only missing [[LampshadeHanging the bat-launcher, and the 500 feet of cable]]. Ayla goes with CrimefightingWithCash, and ''bought'' that utility belt specifically for the BiggerOnTheInside feature.
** Jade, meanwhile, decided to play Film/MaryPoppins, with her floor lamp (lit), flowered hat, and full-length mirror!
* A variant in ''Literature/{{Worm}}'' -- when Taylor volunteers herself as a hostage so the heroes she's talking to will listen, we get this:
-->I reached over my shoulder, slowly, and unbuckled my utility compartment. Tattletale grabbed it for me as it came free, and the straps fed out through the rings beneath the shoulder panels. She handed it to me, and I drove away the bugs I'd gathered inside. When they were gone, I sent away the bugs that were nestled in the midst of my hair, beneath each of my other armor panels and the "skirt" of my armor, where it covered the scorched leggings of my costume.\\\
"So many fucking bugs," Clockblocker said. "They have to weigh as much as she does."
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* 21st century airport security checks are often like this. A traveller takes out their laptop, e-book, tablet, phone; then removes from their pockets keys, coins, wallet, passport, e-cigarette; then takes off their coat, jumper, shoes, jewelry, and yet can still somehow sets off the scanner.

A character is told to drop all his weapons, or is frisked. He lays down the [[ShotgunsAreJustBetter shotgun]], takes the [[{{Handguns}} pistol]] or pistols out of their holsters, and drops them onto the ground. Then the gun from the shoulder holster... the smaller concealed pistol in the ankle holster... the extra magazines... the hunting knife from his belt... the combat knife strapped to his leg... [[RuleOfThree the switchblade]]... the tear gas... the butterfly knife... the grenades... the shuriken... the ''[[BladeOnAStick poleaxe]]''... the ''[[StuffBlowingUp bazooka]]''...

* In the Star Wars fanfic ''Fanfic/runningwithlightningfeet'', Padme is revealed over the course of several chapters to keep a blaster, at least two vibroknives, and hairpins sharp enough to be daggers on her person. Fox [[LampshadeHanging lampshades this]].

* A [[https://archiveofourown.org/works/16897596 similarly-titled]] ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyXIII'' fanfic has a variation that shows multiple ''characters'' handing over their weapons (RuleOfFunny lets multiple versions of Lightning and Yeul go through it). Most of them hand them over with just technical details for the poor sap doing the disarming (i.e. ''XIII''!Lightning warning him to keep his [[{{Fingore}} fingers from getting caught]] in her [[TransformingWeapon gunblade]]'s mechanical bits). Some of them try to sneak weapons in discreetly (Serah's bowsword gets through because it's [[RidiculouslyCuteCritter Mog]] at the time). The guy has a detector for people who claim to have no weapons, and ends up scanning three different Yeuls; when a fourth Yeul arrives, he just lets her in. Snow [[GoodOldFisticuffs hands over his gloves]] [[BareFistedMonk just to make a point]].

* In the Series/Babylon5 movie [[Recap/BabylonFiveFilm04ACallToArms A Call to Arms,]] ActionGirl Dureena does this when she's told to remove all her weapons before boarding the station. While she does produce an amusing number of weapons, it's slightly more realistic as they're all small knives that could be reasonably hidden. When she's done, [[SeenItAll Zack Allen]] gives her an amused [[SincerityMode "Thanks."]]

* ''Film/TheBigEasy'': While entering the police station, one of the plainclothes officers [[spoiler: who turns out to be the BigBad]] is asked to remove all his weapons. Various pistols, a shotgun, a truncheon, and finally brass knuckles are removed. The officer in question remarks, "And if that don't work, I spit on 'em."

* ''Film/LastActionHero'': Jack Slater does this at the beginning, holding back a grenade [[spoiler: that actually has a push-knife in it.]]

** In ''Film/TheLordOfTheRingsTheTwoTowers'', Aragorn, Gimli, Legolas, and Gandalf are stopped before being given an audience in the hall of the Rohirrim. Aside from their primary weapons of a sword, an axe, and a bow, they have on them at least half a dozen each of secondary weapons such as small utility axes, daggers, combat knives, and so on. Gandalf only hands over his sword, and in the end ''gets to keep his staff'', quite possibly the most dangerous weapon of them all and the thing Wormtongue wanted taken in the first place -- because he played up the "weak old man" angle to fool the guards. [[note]]Although it's implied the guards knew full well that the staff was magical, and they were just hoping he'd use it to free their king. When the company do make their move, the doorward (Háma) keeps most of the other (good) soldiers out of it. A few of them still attempt to stop Gandalf, but Aragorn, Legolas, and Gimli are able to hold them off [[GoodOldFisticuffs without weapons]]).[[/note]]

* In ''Literature/TheBelgariad'', it's not played up, but mentioned in passing that Silk out of the group takes an especially long time to disarm.

* A particular scene from ''Webcomic/TheWotch'' subverts this trope: agents spend a few panels uselessly combing the depths of a character's coat pockets, then just take the coat.

* ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/14199641/1/Spider-Ninja Spider-Ninja]]'': After agreeing to meet with Nick Fury on behalf of her family, Petra is asked to remove her weapons. Nick seems to relax a little as she reluctantly hands over her kama and web-shooters...then tenses up again when the fourteen-year-old opens her jacket and pulls out half a dozen shurikens and ''four kunai''. She makes it very clear when she's done that she wants them back.

* In ''LightNovel/{{Bakemonogatari}}'', Senjougahara keeps a ridiculous amount of school supplies on her person as weapons, and Araragi makes her drop them all before she can meet his mentor Oshino. Official art shows her holding out her skirt, with the supplies falling from god-knows-where.

* ''LightNovel/FullMetalPanic'':

* ''LightNovel/KinosJourney'', done completely straight with three guns and five knives. Kino pretty much distracted some slavers by the amount of weapons being removed and then still killed them with a remaining weapon. The remaining weapon being a [[CrazyPrepared three-barrelled pistol]] with LaserSight [[CrazyPrepared hidden inside of a fully-functional knife]].

* On ''Series/GetSmart'', when Max and Siegfried meet each other to negotiate, they each agree to lay out their weapons. For every gun Max produces, Siegfried matches it. When Max pulls his switchblade knife, Siegfried says he doesn't have one, so Max pulls a ''second'' switchblade for him to toss in. After the negotiation is complete, the duo sit back down to sort out which weapons belong to who. Max produces a suicide pill, and invites Siegfried to try it ("Go on! [[Understatement They aren't habit forming!]]"). Siegfried indicates a "Suicide Ring", and when Max expresses astonishment and asks how it works, he responds, "Through my wife. If I take it off, she'll kill me." The "forgot about a weapon" angle is done when Max pats Siegfried on the chest in a friendly manner, and Siegfried tells him, "Careful, that's my exploding wallet," before realization sets in and he adds it to the pile.

* ''Film/PiratesOfTheCaribbeanAtWorldsEnd'': Elizabeth Swann undergoes an Extended Disarming. The scene starts with some degree of realism -- sure, she was carrying a lot of guns, but that was standard practice in those days because you got only one shot out of each of them, and [[OfCorsetsSexy female clothing]] of that time period had [[VictoriasSecretCompartment lots of places]] to conceal things. Then she pulls out ''a blunderbuss''. The gun's size along with her gestures while taking it out and Barbossa's confused look lend to some rather disturbing theories as to ''[[AssShove where]]'' exactly she was hiding it.

* ''Literature/{{Discworld}}'': In ''Literature/{{Pyramids}}'', Teppic is depicted in LockAndLoadMontage. Then much later, this dialog occurs:

-->'''Grimes:''' How did you even walk?

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* A cop pulls a little old lady over for a failure to yield, and after looking over her license and registration he asks if she has any contraband in her vehicle. "No, officer, but I do keep some items for self-defense," replies the old woman, popping her trunk, "you're welcome to inspect them." The officer opens the trunk and drops his jaw to find a large cache of shotguns, rifles, and several ammo cans in the trunk. "I have a few more in the glove box," she says, and he comes back around to see a huge revolver and three full-size pistols spilling out of the compartment. "And here's what I have on me," she says, removing two more handguns, a derringer, a switchblade knife, and a big can of pepper spray, laying them all across the dashboard. "Holy ''shit'', lady! What in the world are you afraid of!?" asks the cop. [[NeverMessWithGranny "Not a goddamn thing," replies the old woman.]]
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-->'''Kirkland:''' [[GoodPeopleHaveGoodSex Oh, Eugene]]!

* ''Franchise/StarWars'': In ''Series/TheBookOfBobaFett'' episode "[[Recap/TheBookOfBobaFettS1E5ReturnOfTheMandalorian Return of the Mandalorian]]", Din Djarin must take a commercial space transport. The porter droid forces him to check his weapons before he is allowed to board and he proceeds to fill an entire case with his rather extensive arsenal. He marks a hesitant pause upon dropping the Darksaber, which is an absolutely priceless artifact, but finally puts it in the case too. In an interesting inversion, as soon as Din arrives on Tattooine, he sighs because now he has to put all of his weapons back on.
* ''Series/{{Titans|2018}}''. A variation when the Red Hood announces that he's taking over Gotham to a council of its crime bosses. When one crime boss pulls a gun he gets a BoomHeadshot. The others signal their acceptance by tossing their own guns on the table in surrender.

* While preparing for a dinner party with her old friend and her adopted family, Sasha from ''WesternAnimation/{{Amphibia}}'' is told to leave her sword and hidden daggers. After complaining, she proceeds to pull out a dagger from her ponytail, her gauntlet, and a large pile pouring out from her boot.

* Happens to Chazz Palminteri's character in ''Film/{{Oscar}}''. The pile of weapons removed from his person is so large and varied (including a meathook, a ''morning star,'' and a ''ticking bundle of dynamite'') that it drives Creator/SylvesterStallone's character to say, "It's like disarming Germany." [[note]][[DontExplainTheJoke For those unfamiliar with the joke]], the movie was set during the Prohibition period, at which point Germany was supposedly disarmed following UsefulNotes/WorldWarI. The joke is [[UsefulNotes/WorldWarII we all know how well that turned out...]][[/note]]

** Numbuh 2 also suffers this in "Operation: A.M.I.S.H." when he is forced into hiding in Sector "A", [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin amish country]], much to his [[AnythingButThat extreme displeasure]], and he can't even use one weapon to defend himself if he is found. Took him one hour to hand over all of his weapons to the operatives in charge of the sector.

** Numbuh 2 also suffers this in "Operation: A.M.I.S.H." when he is forced into hiding in Sector "A", [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin amish country]], and he can't even use one weapon to defend himself if he is found. Took him one hour to hand over all of his weapons to the operatives in charge of the sector.

* In a later episode of ''WesternAnimation/CodenameKidsNextDoor'', a CutawayGag shows Numbuh One empties out a pile of weapons over twice as big as him while trying to get through airport security.

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* The ''Manga/RanmaOneHalf'' anime series tends to take Mousse's abilities as a Master of Hidden Weapons well past the logical conclusion. In one filler episode, Ranma, Ryoga, and Mousse have all gotten themselves chained to a steel ball about eight feet in diameter that is actually a [[BigBulkyBomb bomb]]. Ranma and Ryoga are forced to go searching through Mousse's robes to find the key to the chains, and by the time they find it there's a six-foot pile of stuff on the ground.
* ''Anime/ReCutieHoney'': Natsuko has one during her TurnInYourBadge scene. After dumping a cubic meter of weapons on the table, as she's walking out we see her pull out a last pistol (strapped to her thigh) and blatantly tucking it into her shoulder holster. The entire sequence takes about 30 seconds max.

* ComicBook/{{Deadpool}} is famous for pulling out a convenient weapon out of seemingly ''nowhere.'' One time where he actually used this trope (returning a large amount of weapons to other characters), when asked how he carried all of it, he simply stated, "[[{{Squick}} It involves a lot of lubricant.]]"
* In an Italian comic named ''ComicBook/{{Cattivik}}'', the [[IneffectualSympatheticVillain titular character]] is stopped at the airport's metal detector and removes first a metal rasp from his HyperspaceArsenal and then other stuff including a small cannon, several large cannon-balls, an axe, a couple of scimitars and a spiked mace. After all this he reveals to have still one little trinket down there... [[TankGoodness and said trinket is a huge tank!]]

* ''[[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/5843783/1/Disarmament Disarmament,]]'' a Franchise/GIJoe fanfiction. Snake Eyes and Storm Shadow agree to disarm to settle bets on which of them carries the most weaponry ... in exchange for 10% of the winnings.
* A [[https://archiveofourown.org/works/16897596 similarly-titled]] ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyXIII'' fanfic has a variation that shows multiple ''characters'' handing over their weapons (RuleOfFunny lets multiple versions of Lightning and Yeul go through it). Most of them hand them over with just technical details for the poor sap doing the disarming (i.e. ''XIII''!Lightning warning him to keep his [[{{Fingore}} fingers from getting caught]] in her [[TransformingWeapon gunblade]]'s mechanical bits). Some of them try to sneak weapons in discreetly (Serah's bowsword gets through because it's [[RidiculouslyCuteCritter Mog]] at the time). The guy has a detector for people who claim to have no weapons, and ends up scanning three different Yeuls; when a fourth Yeul arrives, he just lets her in. Snow [[GoodOldFisticuffs hands over his gloves]] [[BareFistedMonk just to make a point]].
* In ''Fanfic/TopDog'', this is a staple of the Amazon Hidden Weapons art; Mu Tze does it [[RummageFail looking for a shotgun]] and along the way manages to pull an autorickshaw out of his coat.

* In ''Fanfic/NoGodsOnlyGuns'', a ''VideoGame/{{Borderlands}}''[=/=]''Franchise/MassEffect'' FusionFic, Brick finds himself forced to disarm Tali as she keeps trying to shoot him before he explains he's friendly. He snatches Tali's shotgun, only for her to reach into her [[HyperspaceArsenal Storage Deck Unit]] and pull out a pistol. He grabs that, and she pulls out an assault rifle. He snatches that, and she pulls out a sniper rifle, and when Brick knocks that out of her hands, she pulls a ''rocket launcher''....
* Done just for [[ItAmusedMe kicks]] in ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/8501689/21/The-Havoc-side-of-the-Force The Havoc Side of the Force]]'' when Literature/HarryPotter has to disarm and removes eighteen separate weapons. He had more but stopped there because he felt it'd push the incredulity of things too far.

* The [[http://flyingmoose.org/tolksarc/book/book3_06.htm Tolkien Newsgroups E-text of Lord of the Rings]] has its own take on the disarming scene outside Edoras. The four heroes give up their weapons with no more than minor grumbles, even Gandalf's staff (as the guard points out, "You could take somebody's eye out with that thing"). They leave [[ParodySue Arwen]] on the doorstep handing over her many, many weapons, and by the time they come out she's sitting atop a seven-foot pile of the things. And Gandalf still manages to [[spoiler:smuggle in a concealed mini-staff]]!*
* ''Theatre/AVeryPotterMusical'' has a fairly realistic version of this trope. Draco throws down his wand, his chocolate bar, and then reaches into his sock for his gun. After Umbridge questions him, he reluctantly gives up the gladius he has hidden beyond his back.

* ''Film/VampireInBrooklyn'': when Max, masquerading as an Italian crook, raids an Italian restaurant frequented by a number of gangster bosses, he calls for all weapons to be dropped. The resulting heap includes various blades, guns, brass knuckles, the traditional lead pipe, a bundle of dynamite sticks as well as what looks very much like a machete. Lampshaded by Max: "Hey, there's a lot of f* cking love in this room!"

* ''Film/HollowPoint'': Before entering a villain hideout, ex-DEA agent Max Parrish has to pass through a metal detector at least three times:
-->'''Max''': ''(after his first pass)'' Oh, you want ''more'' than one gun. You said "gun", singular. Should have told me. ''(drops two more guns)''
** After his third pass results in another beep, and all the mooks point their guns at his head, he pulls out a small Walther, seeming to have genuinely forgotten that he was carrying it (''"I haven't used it for a while."'')
* ''[[Film/PoliceAcademy Police Academy 2: Their First Assignment]]'': When Tackleberry and Kirkland are getting undressed for bed--which happened to be [[TheirFirstTime Tackleberry's first time]]--we see the removal of the outer garments, then (from offscreen) the removal of the weapons, about a dozen between them. And even then, they missed one, as one, implied to belong to Tackleberry, [[DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything goes off after the lights go out]]. [[HappilyEverAfter The film ends with them marrying]].
-->'''Kirkland:''' [[GoodPeopleHaveGoodSex Oh, Eugene]]!
* ''Film/TheMask'': A police lieutenant orders the Mask's pockets to be emptied. We cut to another scene. Cut back, and they're ''still'' being emptied... of things like a mousetrap (found in the usual comedic way... ouch.), a smallmouth bass, funny eyeball glasses ("I've never seen those before in my life."), a bazooka ("I have a permit for that.") and a picture of the lieutenant's wife in lingerie, with an invitation to call her on it.

* In ''Film/TheLordOfTheRingsTheTwoTowers'', Aragorn, Gimli, Legolas, and Gandalf are stopped before being given an audience in the hall of the Rohirrim. Aside from their primary weapons of a sword, an axe, and a bow, they have on them at least half a dozen each of secondary weapons such as small utility axes, daggers, combat knives, and so on. Gandalf only hands over his sword, and in the end ''gets to keep his staff'', quite possibly the most dangerous weapon of them all and the thing Wormtongue wanted taken in the first place -- because he played up the "weak old man" angle to fool the guards. [[note]]Although it's implied the guards knew full well that the staff was magical, and they were just hoping he'd use it to free their king. When the company do make their move, the doorward (Háma) keeps most of the other (good) soldiers out of it. A few of them still attempt to stop Gandalf, but Aragorn, Legolas, and Gimli are able to hold them off [[GoodOldFisticuffs without weapons]]).[[/note]]
* A similar scene occurs in ''Film/TheHobbitTheDesolationOfSmaug'' when the dwarves are briefly locked up by the elves. Amongst other things, Fili carries a ''lot'' of knives. To the point where the guards are about to shove him in a cell and ''still'' find another one. Then when they make their escape, Fili produces a weapon they've missed. Inverted for laughs with his brother Kili:
-->'''Kili''' ''[to Tauriel]'' Aren't you going to search me? [[DoubleEntendre I could have anything down my trousers.]]\\

* Happens to Chazz Palminteri's character in ''Theatre/{{Oscar}}''. The pile of weapons removed from his person is so large and varied (including a meathook, a ''morning star,'' and a ''ticking bundle of dynamite'') that it drives Creator/SylvesterStallone's character to say, "It's like disarming Germany." [[note]][[DontExplainTheJoke For those unfamiliar with the joke]], the movie was set during the Prohibition period, at which point Germany was supposedly disarmed following UsefulNotes/WorldWarI. The joke is [[UsefulNotes/WorldWarII we all know how well that turned out...]][[/note]]

* ''Film/PiratesOfTheCaribbeanAtWorldsEnd'': Elizabeth Swann undergoes an Extended Disarming. The scene starts with some degree of realism -- sure, she was carrying a lot of guns, but that was standard practice in those days because you got only one shot out of each of them, and [[OfCorsetsSexy female clothing]] of that time period had [[VictoriasSecretCompartment lots of places]] to conceal things. Then she pulls out ''a blunderbuss''. The gun's size along with her gestures while taking it out and Barbossa's confused look lend to some rather disturbing theories as to ''[[AssShove where]]'' exactly she was hiding it.

* Implied in ''Film/ThankYouForSmoking'': when entering a government building, gun lobbyist (and enthusiast) Bobby Jay Bliss sets off the metal detector and surrenders first one gun, then another. As he's being gone over with a wand, he waves the others on. "You go ahead, this might take awhile."
* In ''Film/{{Sahara|2005}}'', the heroes find it advantageous to disarm. Dirk and Eva drop their [=AKs=], while Al drops his AK, the spare magazines, a brace of pistols and ''their'' magazines, and so on. The first two give Al a look of disbelief and he only responds with a [[DefensiveWhat "What?"]]
* ''Film/InTheLineOfFire'' has a realistic example when two Secret Service Agents (Clint Eastwood and Rene Russo) are getting undressed for sex. We see them drop their guns, badges, handcuffs, extendable batons, radios, etc. When she suddenly has to leave, Eastwood says, "Dammit, now I have to put all that shit back on."

* In ''Film/TheBoysInCompanyC'', the drill sergeant is berating the new inductees who are being drafted to serve in Vietnam. As he comes across one unassuming-looking civilian who is being told to turn over all unauthorized items -- "contraband" --, he picks on him and says, mockingly, "And what have you got?" In response, the man pulls out, and slams on the table, a huge switchblade. Suffice to say the sarge has considerably more respect for him after this.
* ComicBook/TheJoker in the ''Film/TheDarkKnight'' carries a [[PsychoKnifeNut (un)surprising quantity of knives, blades, daggers]] and... [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking vegetable peelers]]. A policeman is seen rooting through the pocket of the Joker's jacket removing all of them, seemingly unable to classify some of the more [[CowTools esoteric]] [[NoodleImplements ones]].
* In the Creator/MichaelMoore film ''Film/BowlingForColumbine'', a clip from a metal detector manufacturer is shown arguing for the institution of a dress code in schools. To demonstrate how casual dress is dangerous, the sequence shows an adolescent boy pulling about half a dozen pistols out of his pockets and waistband, what looks like a MAC-11 submachine gun and its separate mag, and finally a ''shotgun'' that was in his pants. It's not clear how the kid could ''walk'' nonchalantly with a shotgun down the leg of his trousers. In fact, he couldn't; the scene was staged for maximum scare value.
* ''Film/Ultraviolet2006'': The heroine's {{Hammerspace}} arsenal is scanned by a security system, which begins to show two ''very'' long rows of guns. It tries to give a count before finally giving up and saying: "... Many." Notable in that these guns were not actually ''removed'', so she quickly begins to put them to use.
* Parodied in ''Film/BrainDonors'' when Jacques is required to empty his pockets in the police station. As this is an {{homage}} to [[Creator/MarxBrothers Harpo Marx]] and his bottomless pockets, it's less a display of weaponry than an exercise in general surrealism, ending when Jacques pulls out a rubber foot, looks surprised, looks down at his (off-screen) feet, and promptly falls over.
* ''Film/TheBigEasy'': While entering the police station, one of the plainclothes officers [[spoiler: who turns out to be the BigBad]] is asked to remove all his weapons. Various pistols, a shotgun, a truncheon, and finally brass knuckles are removed. The officer in question remarks, "And if that don't work, I spit on 'em."

* Done straight at the start of ''Film/{{Darkman}}'', and yes, they miss the [[HiddenWeapons leg prosthetic/machine gun]].
* Rather than one man with lots of guns, ''Film/{{Riddick}}'' has several people with a few guns. The three antagonists (Riddick and the leaders of two rival BountyHunter teams) have a meet so they can negotiate a way off the planet. As they walk towards each other in SlowMotion, they drop their various rifles and edged weapons to the ground. [[spoiler:Of course Riddick is backed up by his loyal doglike-alien, one mercenary leader has his sniper covering them, while the other has a concealed pistol in an ankle holster.]]
* In ''Film/TheMortalInstrumentsCityOfBones'', Madame Dorothea refuses to let Shadowhunter Jace inside her apartment armed. He drops his sword in her umbrella stand, followed by a knife. Then another sword, another knife, more knives...and ''still'' more knives. When he's "finished" and starts walking towards the door, she raises her eyebrows, points to his boot, and he removes one more large knife to add to the collection.
* In ''Film/HandsUp'', when Jack is finally captured by the Union soldiers at the end, he is divested of a staggering amount of revolvers and derringers.

* ''Literature/{{Discworld}}'': In ''Literature/{{Pyramids}}'' Teppic is depicted in LockAndLoadMontage. Then much later dialog occurs:

* Weirdly enough, one of the ''Literature/MurderousMaths'' books does this:

** Justified (possibly) in that the coats belong to gangsters.
* Creator/TamoraPierce likes to do this with her many knife-wielding characters. The ''Literature/BekaCooper'' books go one better with a protagonist who, after one glance and without looking back, can reel off a complete list of places on his body a new character has knives hidden, even remembering to add that there might be one in his belt buckle if it's a design she doesn't know.

* In Creator/RobertAHeinlein's ''Literature/ThePuppetMasters'' there are several tongue-in-cheek references to the protagonist's ActionGirlfriend being excessively armed.
-->The Secret Service guards gave us the works. An X-Ray went ''beep!'' and I surrendered my [[RayGun heater]]. Mary turned out to be a walking arsenal; the machine gave four beeps and a hicough, though you would have sworn she [[{{Stripperiffic}} couldn't hide a tax receipt]].
** During a later strip-search he mentions that Mary "added considerably to the pile of hardware. I decided she just plain liked guns."

** ''Literature/TheTruceAtBakura'': before the heroes can enter the local council chambers they have to disarm. Han Solo gives up his heavy blaster pistol, but after a quiet cough from Leia, Han glares at her before pulling out his hold-out blaster pistol and several knives.
** In ''The Hutt Gambit'', the second book of the ''[[Literature/TheHanSoloTrilogy Han Solo Trilogy]]'', Boba Fett is forced to disarm, which takes several minutes and produces a large pile of weapons.

* In Literature/HaltingState Jack and Elaine are told to leave their electronic devices outside a secure meeting. Jack "makes a small pyramid" of his, leading Elaine to wonder that he doesn't clank when he walks.

* ''Series/BabylonFive'': Dureena going through customs on [[MadeForTVMovie ''A Call to Arms'']].

* "The Wheels on the Bus" (Season 8, Episode 8) of ''Series/CriminalMinds'' has a non-weaponry version. Garcia asks Rossi how he unplugs, and he tells her to hand over her phone, her tablet, her ''other phone''... and then she hands over her third phone when it promptly rings to alert him there's another.
** Given that Garcia's role on the team is "technology wizard" and some of the honestly terrifying things she's done with computers in one episode or another, anything with an internet connection could conceivably be categorized as a weapon in her hands.
* ''Series/CowboyBebop2021''. In "Darkside Tango", Faye Valentine demonstrates how she took down a notoriously well-armed bounty by dancing the {{tango}} with him, and surreptitiously removing various guns, knives and a knuckle duster--which she then uses to knock him unconscious. Even Spike Spiegel is moved to applaud.

* On ''Series/GetSmart'', when Max and Siegfried meet each other to negotiate, they each agree to lay out their weapons. For every gun Max produces, Siegfried matches it. When Max pulls his switchblade knife, Siegfried says he doesn't have one, so Max pulls a ''second'' switchblade for him to toss in. After the negotiation is complete, the duo sit back down to sort out which weapons belong to who.
** Max produces a suicide pill, and invites Siegfried to try it ("Go on! [[Understatement They aren't habit forming!]]"). Siegfried indicates a "Suicide Ring", and when Max expresses astonishment and asks how it works, he responds, "Through my wife. If I take it off, she'll kill me."
** The "forgot about a weapon" angle is done when Max pats Seigfried on the chest in a friendly manner, and Seigfried tells him, "Careful, that's my exploding wallet," before realisation sets in and he adds it to the pile.
* ''Series/MacGyver1985'':

* In ''Series/OnceUponATime'', Snow White of all people has to do this, for a parley with the Queen. We see her lay an impressive array of weapons, including a few knives and a bow, on the table before fishing one out of [[VictoriasSecretCompartment her shirt]]. Grumpy even tells her to keep that one. but she decides to keep her word.

* ''Franchise/StarWars'': In ''Series/TheBookOfBobaFett'' episode "[[Recap/TheBookOfBobaFettS1E5ReturnOfTheMandalorian Return of the Mandalorian]]", Din Djarin must take commercial space transport. The porter droid forces him to check his weapons before he is allowed to board and he proceeds to fill an entire case with his rather extensive arsenal. He marks a hesitant pause upon dropping the Darksaber, which is an absolutely priceless artifact, but finally puts it in the case too. In an interesting inversion, as soon as Din arrives on Tattooine, he sighs because now he has to put all of his weapons back on.
* ''Series/Titans2018''. A variation when the Red Hood announces that he's taking over Gotham to a council of its crime bosses. When one crime boss pulls a gun he gets a BoomHeadshot. The others signal their acceptance by tossing their own guns on the table in surrender.

* A prestige class from an ''Ambient d20'' sourcebook features the ability to conceal a number of small-sized weapons equal to the character's dexterity modifier "in ways that would not be obvious to onlookers". The flavor text for the class has a woman with this class saving another party member by throwing a number of knives at a monster trying to ambush him. While taking a bath in a lake in nothing but underwear. The rescued character at first wonders where she could have possibly hidden all those knives, but then decides he's just glad she did.

* The Full Metal Nutball in ''TabletopGame/FengShui 2'' can never succeed at a Concealment check, which typically leads to a scene like this. Even if the Nutball says that all of their weapons are gone, they still have an ankle piece. This is mainly for the sake of comedy -- it does not give any benefits to combat.

* Happens in ''VideoGame/HalfLife2'' when Gordon is disarmed by a machine, and the player's usually vast arsenal all pops out of his hammerspace and the player sees just how much they've actually been carrying around.
* ''VideoGame/Fallout2'': One of the {{Optional Sexual Encounter}}s leaves your items scattered over the floor. Unless you stored them all beforehand (by, say, giving them all to party members beforehand), you are going to spend some time picking them up (even large amounts of the same item -- except, thankfully, money -- have to be picked up one at a time). If the player has used an inventory editor to make everything weightless, and is therefore carrying much more stuff than the programmers anticipated he ever could, this can crash the game.

* A ''VideoGame/CrashBandicoot'' ad had Crash being stopped at a metal detector, and unloading a ridiculous amount of weaponry. After seemingly finishing, the metal detector continued to beep. Crash turns around and walks away in disgust... revealing that he forgot to remove his jetpack.
* In ''VideoGame/DragonAgeII'', if you decide to make Isabella your paramour (or just talk her into a quick roll in the hay) you don't get the normal, romantic build-up; the two of you bust through the door to Hawke's room mid-embrace, falling all over each other. You each pull away your base weapons; then some backup weapons ([[GameplayAndStorySegregation which are never used in-game]]); and then another knife; and something else, and then you FINALLY make it into position on the bed... At which point Hawke makes an uncomfortable face, and Isabella removes a blade from between her legs. Of course, at no time do either one of them remove any actual [[RightThroughHisPants clothing]].

* In a different variation, in ''VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoViceCity'' during one mission, Tommy Vercetti must break a prisoner out of the police station. When he goes inside he has to pass through the metal detector, and even though it only actually takes a split second, the player's entire arsenal gets laid out implying how much time Tommy would have needed to unload everything. If the player had one weapon of each slot, this would include; a melee weapon (from a screwdriver to a chainsaw), grenades, a handgun, a shotgun, a submachine gun, an assault rifle, a sniper rifle, and a heavy weapon (flamethrower, machine gun, or rocket launcher).

* Mentioned in ''Webcomic/DMOfTheRings'': "What you have there is an invisible leather TARDIS."
** The above ''Lord of The Rings'' scene is parodied. Gandalf gets away with keeping his "walking stick", but Gimli? "Walking stick. We dwarfs like them heavy. And with pointy bits on top." Aragorn's sword? "Pointy metal walking stick." Legolas' bow and arrows? "Walking stick. And a quiver of little walking sticks."
* In the ''Webcomic/{{Erma}}'' strip "The Night Parade Part 30'', Erma and her Mother's family are getting ready for the titular parade that night. Her identical twin cousins, extremely well known mischief makers, begin hinting at their plans for pranks that night. Their mother, well aware of their antics, orders them to empty their pockets. The girls then proceed to unload a pile of fireworks several times bigger than they are including several bombs and a dragon-shaped cannon.

--> They put weapons on the table.\\
'''Doorkeeper''': All your weapons.\\
[[TriggerHappy Ril]] puts another weapon on the table.\\
'''Doorkeeper''': And the buckle knives.\\
Ril puts them on the table. Doorkeeper just stares. Ril puts another knife on the table. Doorkeeper keeps staring.\\

* In one comic of ''Webcomic/SeventySeas'' Grin has Nikol pinned and is pulling weapons off her, kunai, shuriken, nunchuks, then he finds a [[SchizoTech taser]] and asks [[http://70-seas.com/?p=3962 "Where did you get room for all this junk?"]]
%%* Played straight in [[http://mocpages.com/home.php/24689 Architect of Vonthako's]] mini-comic [[http://mocpages.com/moc.php/198718 here.]]
* One strip of ''Webcomic/ValAndIsaac'' has Val pulling weapons out of [[https://val-and-isaac.tumblr.com/post/183675181862 odd places in her armor]] until Minnow decides to just go on ahead of her.
* Sergeant Schlock of ''Webcomic/SchlockMercenary''. In the beginning of the comic he just wielded a single plasma cannon. But as the years and battles piled up Schlock began carrying more and more weapons until he reached [[https://www.schlockmercenary.com/2012-02-21 this]] point in book 13.
--> '''GUS:''' Sergeant Schlock here seems to be little more than an [[WalkingArmory ambulatory weapon depot.]]

* While preparing for a dinner party with her old friend and her adopted family, Sasha from ''WesternAnimation/{{Amphibia}}'' is told to leave her sword and hidden daggers. After complaining, she proceeds to pull out a dagger from her ponytail, her gauntlet, and a large pile puring out from her boot.

* In the Tex Avery cartoon ''WesternAnimation/WhoKilledWho'', a police detective investigating a murder demands that "the gun" used in the crime be placed on a table. He ends up with a pile of weapons that reach all the way to the ceiling.

* In ''WesternAnimation/GreenLanternTheAnimatedSeries'', the team is stuck on a planet with their rings totally depleted. As they try to evade the Green Lantern-hating locals, a businessman offers them transport in exchange for payment. Hal pulls out his car keys and cell phone, Kilowog pulls out a handful of bugs, and Razer produces an improbably large number of knives and shuriken.
* In the 1987 version of the ''[[WesternAnimation/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles1987 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles]]'', the turtles have surrendered to Shredder and Krang and are ordered to hand over all of their weapons. After handing over their normal weapons of two katanas, two sais, two nunchuks and a bo staff they are taken outside by foot soldiers and supervised in unloading the turtle van. They proceed to unload enough weapons to form a pile half as big as the van is. And bear in mind that internal shots of the van show that everything is stored in compact compartments with lots of internal space for the turtles and several friends to stand up in. Further played with, in that later in the same episode the Turtles get a convenient distraction and they proceed to apparently pull holdout weapons from literally out of their asses.
* ''WesternAnimation/{{Archer}}'': Inverted/parodied in "Placebo Effect". Archer starts a bare-chested LockAndLoadMontage of putting on four guns, three knives, and a grenade -- only for the perspective to pull back and show he was doing ''it in front of'' a guy he was trying to intimidate, having apparently taken off all his gear and his ''clothes'' first.
-->'''Archer:''' I swear to God, I will strip back down and show you all over again!\\
'''Pharmacist:''' Yeah, I get it! You have a lot of guns!
* In a later episode of ''WesternAnimation/CodenameKidsNextDoor'', a CutawayGag shows Numbuh One empties out a pile of weapons over twice as big as him while trying to get through airport security.
* In an episode of ''WesternAnimation/ShadowRaiders'', a group of characters are asked to confiscate their weapons before entering a bar. Pelvus unloads a large arsenal, ending with a voodoo doll of Femur.
* ''WesternAnimation/DefendersOfTheEarth'' has an episode in which the heroes (Flash Gordon, Mandrake the Magician, Mandrake's bodyguard Lothar, and the Phantom) have to disarm when passing a robotic security checkpoint. Lothar disgorges a surprising number of weapons, goes to pass the checkpoint, and is stopped by the robot sentry. Lothar, looking aggrieved, surrenders some throwing knives he had hidden in his vest.

* Related; the Three Barons Renaissance Faire in Anchorage, Alaska (which could probably match any one episode of ''WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender'' for [[JustForFun/TropeOverdosed being in sore need of trope rehab]]) has this as a RunningGag, with Mistress Innocence Widowmaker of the [[OverlyLongGag Merry Fellowship of Fools, Troubadours, and Storytellers, in Association with the Assassin's Right Ruthless Guild Hall, It's a Corporate Thing, You Don't Wanna Hear It]]. She carries an increasingly large number of knives each year -- including one underneath a ''massive'' dragonfly-print dress. Every year, she's told to disarm for whatever game the peasants use to attract people to the fight show, and every year, she pulls knives off her belt, sleeves, ''hair'', and other areas -- before inevitably being called out by her guild master, who "has good information she's got one more". She starts rolling her dress up... [[AvertedTrope And the Magistrate tells her to just keep that one so the show stays within a PG rating]].