History Main / MetalDetectorCheckpoint

->''I wasn't carrying a piece--in the Supreme Court, they use metal detectors at the entrance because some [[ScrewTheRulesIHaveConnections politically wired judge]] complained about the dangerous radicals who might invade his courtroom and shoot it out with the guards. This happens in the Supreme Court about every other century, but you can't be too careful. On the other hand, right across the street in the Family Court, the average litigant carries some kind of weapon and violence is an everyday thing, but there's no metal detectors. [[BigRottenApple That's New York.]]''

--->'''Front desk officer:''' Expect a big ping, brother.\\
'''Rev-9:''' [[ExactWords My whole body's a weapon.]]\\

* In ''Series/TerminatorTheSarahConnorChronicles'' when John & Cameron go to their new school after traveling from 1997 to 2007, they encounter in-school metal detectors for the first time. Cameron (being a Terminator) naturally sets off the detector. John says that she's his sister and she has a metal plate in her head from a childhood injury, a story helped by Cameron's UncannyValley nature. They lucked out when the security officer only scanned her head with his hand scanner, instead of scanning elsewhere.

->''I wasn't carrying a piece--in the Supreme Court, they use metal detectors at the entrance because some politically wired judge complained about the dangerous radicals who might invade his courtroom and shoot it out with the guards. This happens in the Supreme Court about every other century, but you can't be too careful. On the other hand, right across the street in the Family Court, the average litigant carries some kind of weapon and violence is an everyday thing, but there's no metal detectors. That's New York.''

* ''WesternAnimation/PhineasAndFerb'': implied when Major Monogram mentions having a lot of metals in him by Dr Doofenshmirtz. It is unclear was Monogram {{Metaphorgotten}} or serious.

* You have to avoid these in the airport from ''VideoGame/SplinterCellPandoraTomorrow'''s final level, because Sam Fisher carries lots of metal gadgets and weapons. Naturally, they set off an alarm if you pass through them.
** One or two make appearances in ''[[VideoGame/SplinterCellConviction Conviction]]'' and ''[[VideoGame/SplinterCellBlacklist Blacklist]]'' they are always avoidable, usually by jumping over a counter right next to them making them largely pointless and more just traps for the unobservant.

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* ''Webcomic/{{Sinfest}}'' has [[http://www.sinfest.net/archive_page.php?comicID=4018 Thought Detector Checkpoint]]. In hell.

->''I wasn't carrying a piece--in the Supreme Court, they use metal detectors at the entrance because some [[ScrewTheRulesIHaveConnections politically wired]] judge complained about the dangerous radicals who might invade his courtroom and shoot it out with the guards. This happens in the Supreme Court about every other century, but you can't be too careful. On the other hand, right across the street in the Family Court, the average litigant carries some kind of weapon and violence is an everyday thing, but there's no metal detectors. [[TheBigRottenApple That's New York.]]''

* One level in ''VideoGame/DeadToRights'' has two {{Mooks}} standing on the other side of a metal detector. Given [[WalkingArmory the usual number of firearms on Jack Slate's person]], walking through the metal detector will alert the guards—provided you haven't killed them already. [[spoiler:While you're in the next room over, the metal detector will go off several times in a row, [[FiveSecondForeshadowing a subtle clue]] that a ''very'' deadly ambush is waiting for you when you return into the metal detector room.]]

* One level in ''VideoGame/DeadToRights'' has two {{Mooks}} standing on the other side of a metal detector. Given [[WalkingArmory the usual number of firearms on Jack Slate's person]], walking through the metal detector will alert the guards—provided you haven't killed them already. [[spoiler:While you're in the next room over, the metal detector will go off several times in a row, a subtle clue that a ''very'' deadly ambush is waiting for you when you return into the metal detector room.]]

* ''WesternAnimation/JusticeLeagueUnlimited''. Task Force X are sent to infiltrate the Watchtower. Deadshot has a ceramic pistol that won't set off the metal detector, but Captain Boomerang gives everyone a heart attack because he's carrying 75 cents in change.

* In ''VideoGame/MassEffect2'' you have to pass through one to enter the Citadel since you're using a civilian dock rather than a military one. However, since you're Commander Shepard, you're allowed to walk right on through while carrying enough firepower to take out an army.

->''I wasn't carrying a piece--in the Supreme Court, they use metal detectors at the entrance because some politically wired judge complained about the dangerous radicals who might invade his courtroom and shoot it out with the guards. This happens in the Supreme Court about every other century, but you can't be too careful. On the other hand, right across the street in the Family Court, the average litigant carries some kind of weapon and violence is an everyday thing, but there's no metal detectors. [[TheBigRottenApple That's New York.]]''

* In ''Franchise/WallaceAndGromit: WesternAnimation/AMatterOfLoafAndDeath'' Gromit installs one of these (based on a design in "Electronic Surveillance for Dogs") to catch out Piella's murderous intentions toward Wallace. [[spoiler:The machine works but fails to convince Wallace.]]

->''I wasn't carrying a piece--in the Supreme Court, they use metal detectors at the entrance because some politically wired judge complained about the dangerous radicals who might invade his courtroom and shoot it out with the guards. This happens in the Supreme Court about every other century, but you can't be too careful. On the other hand, right across the street in the Family Court, the average litigant carries some kind of weapon and violence is an everyday thing, but there's no metal detectors. That's New York.''

* ''Film/TheAssassinationOfRichardNixon''. The eponymous assassin decides to [[SuicideAttack hijack a plane and crash it into the White House]]. He tries to smuggle a pistol through the metal detector, but on seeing anyone who sets off the detector is taken aside and searched, just draws the gun and charges through. Things quickly go FromBadToWorse from there.

* ''Film/DieHard2''. The villains are carrying "Glock 7" pistols, supposedly an expensive German firearm made of porcelain that can't be picked up on the airport's metal detectors. This is an UrbanLegend of the time -- the Glock is a relatively inexpensive ''Austrian'' firearm with a plastic frame but enough metal components to set off a detector.

* ''Film/DieHard'': Somehow, a Glock 7 [[GunsDoNotWorkThatWay doesn't show up on your airport metal detectors]]. Justified in the first one, the audience doesn't see him carry the gun into the airport, they just see him on the plane with one, since he is a police officer. Under certain circumstances (possibly under even more circumstances back in the 80s) on and off duty police officers may carry weapons on a plane, though usually they have to leave them with the pilot.

* ''/Film/TotalRecall1990''. A futuristic X-Ray scanner renders the subject as a full-body skeleton while they walk through it, enabling the large number of pedestrians entering an apartment block to be scanned without slowing them down. Later when Quaid tries to run through the scanner carrying a firearm, it sets off a RedAlert and the gun is rendered as a pulsating red object, drawing every security guard in the area.

* ''The Assassination of Richard Nixon'' (2004). The eponymous assassin decides to hijack a plane and crash it into the White House. He tries to smuggle a pistol through the metal detector, but on seeing anyone who sets off the detector is taken aside and searched, just draws the gun and charges through.

* In ''Film/AFishCalledWanda'' Kevin Kline's character gets a gun past an airport metal detector by tossing it around the outside as he passes through. Riiiiight...