History Main / GunStruggle

->''"He had strength, and she had none''\\
''And yet we both reached for the gun..."''

* ''Franchise/IndianaJones''

* ''Film/Interceptor2022''. J.J. and a GiantMook are fighting over her [=M17=] pistol. The mook is gripping it by the barrel, so she detaches the frame from the slide and uses it to [[EyeScream stab him in the eye]].

** ''Film/{{Goldeneye}}'': The climatic close combat clash in the antenna cradle between Bond and the BigBad had them struggling to get a hold of the one pistol between them to hold the other off.

-->'''Dr. Kaufman:''' Wait! I'm just a professional doing a job.\\

** ''Film/{{Casino Royale|2006}}'': As Bond is too busy trying to suffocate Steven Obano with two hands, the latter attempts to retrieve his silenced gun. Vesper Lynd comes in and bashes Obano's hand on the floor till he looses his grip on the gun. A shot is then fired without hitting anyone and Bond kills Obano.

* ''Film/TheMonsterMaker'' ends with Dr. Markoff and the now hideously disfigured Lawrence wrestling for possession of Markoff's. The scene then cuts to outside the room, where Bob, Patricia and Maxine hear a shot. [[spoiler:It is Markoff who dies]].
* TV movies, ''The Perfect Tennant'' as well as the ''The Perfect Wife'', has this near the end.

* In ''Film/TheTerminator'' Kyle Reese does this to a pursuing cop in the early in the movie after stealing a homeless guy's pants.

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* This is what a murder suspect claims to have happened in ''Manga/CaseClosed'', but Two Mix accidentally overheard ''two'' gunshots (meaning that the murderer shot his victim, then put the gun into the victim's hand and fired again so that the victim would test positive for gun-shot residue).

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* In the 1951 remake of ''The Racket'', the villain kills a policeman after a gun struggle, leaving some ambiguity as to whether he meant to fire the shot. In [[Film/TheRacket the 1927 original]], he just pulls his gun and shoots the cop InTheBack. Note the difference between pre- and -post [[UsefulNotes/TheHaysCode Production Code]] standards.

* ''Film/BetterLuckTomorrow'': When the gang double-crosses Steve just before the robbery, there's a struggle for a gun and it goes off. The usual outcome of this is subverted- [[spoiler: no one was injured by the shot, but Ben comes in and attacks Steve with a baseball bat, ending the standoff.]]
* ''Film/AssaultOnAQueen'': Eric pulls a gun on Mark when he orders Tony to torpedo the cutter. Rosa jumps Eric and knocks his gun arm aside which allows Mark to tackle him. Eric and Mark struggle over the gun, which results in [[spoiler:Tony]] getting shot.
* ''Film/{{Starkweather}}'': Charlie holds a shotgun on a mechanic and forces him to fix the jammed emergency brake on the car he is trying to steal. When Charlie is distracted by a passing police car, the mechanic grabs the gun and starts trying to wrench it out of Charlie's hands. He eventually succeeds and Charlie is forced to flee.
* ''Film/Asylum1972Horror'': In "The Weird Tailor", Smith attempts to take the suit off Bruno at gunpoint. Bruno throws the package at him and attempts to wrestle the gun off him, which ends with Smith being shot.
* In ''Film/FortyFive'', Big Al comes home and finds Reilly comforting Kat and pulls a gun. Reilly and Big Al fight over the gun which eventually goes off and wounds Kat.
* In the Spanish thriller ''La sombra de la ley'' (aka ''Gun City''), TheDragon of a local crime boss attacks the protagonist [[DangerTakesABackseat from the backseat]] as he's driving down a country lane. The car stalls as the protagonist draws his gun and the camera circles round the car repeatedly as they engage in a desperate struggle over the weapon until one of them gets shot.
* ''Film/{{Stiletto}}'' ends with Raina leaving both Virgil and Beck lying wounded on the floor with a gun in-between them. Both of them look at the gun, and then each other, and then both dive for the gun. [[AmbiguousEnding The screen goes black and there is a moment's silence, followed by a single gunshot.]]
* ''Film/TheBigNight'': After confronting Judge, George decides he cannot shoot him because Judge believes his own story. As George drops the gun and turns to leave, Judge grabs it and turns it on him. The two struggle and the gun goes off, wounding Judge.

%%* Happens in ''Literature/ATaleOfTwoCities'', between [[spoiler:Miss Pross and Madame Defarge]] near the end.
%%* The knife variation wraps up the TrialByCombat in ''[[Literature/BrotherCadfael One Corpse Too Many]]''.

* One of the infamous season finales of ''Series/TheOC'' had this happening to [[SoundtrackDissonance a breakup song by]] Music/ImogenHeap.
** ''Series/SaturdayNightLive'' and the internet promptly had a field day by parodying it with "Dear Sister", where everyone involved gets shot multiple times.
* In the school shooting episode of ''Series/DegrassiTheNextGeneration'', this happened between Rick and Sean.
* This occurred in the three-way free-for-all fight between Conan O'Brien, [[Series/TheColbertReport Stephen Colbert]], and [[Series/TheDailyShow Jon Stewart]] on Conan's show. An outtake shows that somehow, ''all three of them'' were accidentally shot as a result of the struggle... but Stephen recovers quickly enough to grab the gun for himself.
* Happens at the climax of the second episode of ''Series/WildBoys''.
* [[DiscussedTrope Discussed]] in an episode of ''Series/{{NCIS}}''. After wrapping up a case involving this trope, Ziva comments on how after a GunStruggle takes place, nobody ever admits to actually shooting the other person; the gun always somehow just "goes off" on its own.
* ''Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries''. In "The Naked Time", a RedShirt has been infected by a disease that loosens his inhibitions, falls into depression and tries to stab himself with a kitchen knife. Sulu and Riley try to wrestle it off him, only he gets stabbed anyway and later dies on the operating table. More importantly the body contact means that Sulu and Riley have been infected, and they go on to infect others.

* In ''Series/{{Riverdale}}'' "Shadow Of A Doubt" Archie tackles Reggie when Reggie tries to shoot Fangs and the two of them struggle to get control of Reggie's gun. While someone is shot it's implied it ''wasn't'' Reggie's gun that did the shooting, and confirmed in the next episode.

* PlayedForLaughs in ''Series/{{MASH}}''. Hawkeye breaks up an argument between a Turkish patient and his commanding officer, who is convinced the man shot himself in the foot in order to get taken off the front lines (surprisingly, the soldier ''didn't'' shoot himself, which is a switch from when it normally comes up). When the argument escalates, the officer pulls out his pistol and is preparing to shoot the patient then and there for cowardice. Hawkeye and Winchester hustle the officer out of the tent, we hear a struggle and a shot. After a tense pause, Hawkeye and Winchester carry the limping officer back into the tent, saying, "Now, see, ''that's'' what a self-inflicted gunshot wound looks like..."

* In the 2001 mini-series adaptation of ''Series/{{The Lost World|2001}}'', this is how the conflict with ObstructiveZealot Rev. Theo Kerr (Creator/PeterFalk) concludes. When Prof. Summerlee has had enough of him trying to stop their expedition, even at gunpoint, they end up struggling and a bullet mortally wounds the reverend.
* ''Series/LukeCage2016'': This is how Misty Knight's corrupt partner Rafael Scarfe gets fatally shot. He has a remote meeting with Cottonmouth and tries to shake him down for money that he knows Cottonmouth doesn't have. Cottonmouth abruptly punches him in the face. Scarfe grabs his gun from the holster, and the two men struggle over the gun until it is dropped. Cottonmouth then throws Scarfe aside, picks up Scarfe's gun, and empties it in his direction, managing to hit him a few times in the chest.

* One happens during the season 1 finale of ''Series/{{Manifest}}'' between Michaela's ex Jared and a potential LoveInterest named Zeke just as Michaela walks in. The result isn't revealed until the season 2 opener: Michaela is the one who's been shot. Zeke runs away, while Jared (an NYPD detective) calls for an ambulance and for an APB on Zeke. It's touch-and-go, but Michaela makes it, although she makes it clear that she blames Jared for her being shot much more than Zeke.
* ''Series/{{Treadstone}}''. John Bentley encounters another CIA agent who thinks he's turned traitor. They end up wrestling over a gun until the other agent gets shot, but not before he attaches a TrackingDevice to Bentley's collar with his dying grasp.
* ''Series/MiraiSentaiTimeranger'': One happens in the final episode between Ayase and [[spoiler:Captain Ryuuya]], when the latter fails to convince the former to give up. It mostly happens offscreen, as the shot is heard by the other Timerangers and when they reach the scene, [[spoiler:Ryuuya]] ended up being fatally wounded in the struggle, dying shortly after.
* Parodied by one episode of ''Series/That70sShow'' [[https://youtu.be/JqinrSN7ZUA?si=htCmarmZ__B3ENQe&t=156 during a sequence spoofing]] ''Film/ReeferMadness'' -- Eric and Hyde struggle over the gun Hyde's pulled on Donna, the gun goes off firing towards the back of the living room; somehow, it hits Donna and causes her to die dramatically.

* In the song ''Copacabana'', Tony (Lola's love interest) starts a struggle with Rico when Rico starts going too far with Lola. Tony clearly loses this struggle ("There was blood and a single gunshot but just who shot who?") and Lola drops into a deep depression for the rest of her life (or at least 30 years).
* Rob Cantor's "Music/{{Shia LaBeouf|Live}}" has a knife struggle. When Shia [=LaBeouf=] goes after you brandishing a knife, and you wrestle it from him before stabbing him in the kidney.

* The ''Radio/LuxRadioTheatre'' adaptation of ''Film/AFreeSoul'' has Ace, Jan's husband, driven by jealousy to confront Jan's old boyfriend Dwight, who is trying to win Jan back. Dwight pulls a gun, there's a struggle, and Dwight is killed. This was a complete reversal of the movie's plot, in which Dwight kills Ace instead (and which doesn't include a GunStruggle, as Dwight does it deliberately).

* In ''VideoGame/{{Haze}}'' with a well timed button press you can disarm a Mantel soldier and shoot him with his own weapon.
* In ''VideoGame/TheWalkingDead'' this happens when Danny St. John is about to shoot Lee Everett but he grabs the gun and they wrestle with it. He doesn't quite disarm him but stalls him long enough for Lilly to come out and attack him, trapping him in the bear trap.
* In the original ''VideoGame/MirrorsEdge'' you can disarm soldiers when the weapon is highlighted in red and you press the right button.

* ''VideoGame/CallOfDutyGhosts'' has you kill your first enemy in a brief struggle in which the two of you are spinning around in zero-gravity.
* ''VideoGame/TombRaider2013'': The first time Lara kills a person is when she disarms and shoots a member of the Solarii.
* ''VideoGame/MaxPayne'' 2 has this pulled on the same guy twice in quick succession: The first attempt fails, but it distracts the gunman long enough for Max to successfully disarm him, only to be interrupted by the floor collapsing.
* In ''VideoGame/ResidentEvil2'', Ada Wong and Annette Birkin struggle for control over a gun after the latter confronts Ada in the Treatment Plant. This results in Annette falling over a railing into the treatment pool, and a rather sarcastic "Too Bad" from Ada.
* ''VideoGame/{{Mercenaries}} 2: World In Flames'' has one tank-capture animation where the player character is about to drop a grenade into the tank's hatch but one of the crewmen pops out with a pistol. After a brief struggle, the player character will pull back, at which point the crewmen will try to shoot them [[PineappleSurprise with the grenade]]. The player character will then shoot the crewman, causing him to drop the grenade into the tank.
* A [[SubvertedTrope subversion]] in the Legendary-difficulty extended ending to ''VideoGame/HaloCombatEvolved''. Johnson and an Elite are seen fighting over an assault rifle, until they notice the ''Pillar of Autumn'' beginning to self-destruct behind them. Knowing they're both about to die anyway, they give up the fight and embrace instead.

* The ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'' episode "The List" has one between Wendy and Bebe. The gun accidently goes off but neither is shot. [[spoiler: The stray bullet hits Kenny while eating his dinner, killing him instantly.]]

* Sinon's backstory in the third story arc of ''LightNovel/SwordArtOnline'' is that she killed a bank robber after jumping him and struggling for his gun. [[LittleMissBadass When she was 11 years old.]] [[SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome She's severely traumatized by the event.]]

* ''Film/{{Asylum}}'': In "The Weird Tailor", Smith attempts to take the suit off Bruno at gunpoint. Bruno throws the package at him and attempts to wrestle the gun off him, which ends with Smith being shot.

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* In ''film/ReadyOrNot2019'', Grace and Charity wrestle for control of charity's revolver after Charity shoots [[spoiler:Daniel]]. Grace ends up with control of the gun and tries to shoot Charity, only to suffer DramaticAmmoDepletion--all of the bullets having being fired during the struggle--so she settles for [[PistolWhipping bashing the other woman in the face with the butt]].