History Main / RemonstratingWithAGun

* In ''VideoGame/{{Persona 4}}'', Yosuke does a variant of this early in the game. After offering the main character a choice between a long sword and a dagger, Yosuke gets it into his head that he should use both, and tries a few moves. A cop sees him, and moves in to arrest Yosuke. Yosuke tries to explain himself, while still flailing about with his weapons. He and the main character end up being arrested as they decided to do this in the outdoor food-court of the local department store, and their small town had recently been struck by a series of bizarre murders. This is not the first (or last) time that Yosuke's lack of common sense gets him into (often hilarious) trouble.

Compare PointThatSomewhereElse, IJustShotMarvinInTheFace and LetsManhandleTheMurderWeapon. A form of RecklessGunUsage and NotHelpingYourCase.

Compare PointThatSomewhereElse, IJustShotMarvinInTheFace. A form of RecklessGunUsage and NotHelpingYourCase.

* ''Machinima/TheGModIdiotBox'', [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ajw6AsYTW2o episode two]], remakes the ''Film/FallingDown'' scene in Garry's Mod.

* In ''VideoGame/{{Persona 4}}'', Yosuke does a variant of this early in the game. After offering the main character a choice between a long sword and a dagger, Yosuke gets it into his head that he should use both, and tries a few moves. A cop sees him, and moves in to arrest Yosuke. Yosuke tries to explain himself, while still flailing about with his weapons. He and the main character end up being arrested as they decided to do this in the outdoor food-court of the local department store, and their small town [[TooSoon had recently been struck by a series of bizarre murders]]. This is not the first (or last) time that Yosuke's lack of common sense gets him into (often hilarious) trouble.

* ''Literature/{{Discworld}}'': In ''Discworld/LordsAndLadies'', Magrat is explaining the situation to Jason Ogg, all while swinging around an unregarded battle axe.

* Music/TheOffspring song quoted above is actually NotAnExample: it's about an AxCrazy [[DrivesLikeCrazy driver]] with a HairTriggerTemper.

* In the Polish novel ''Escape from Festung Breslau'' the protagonist, a German soldier, wants to get a doctor's opinion that he needs a vacation, but is morally opposed to simulating disease. His friend manipulates a visit to a particularly strict doctor in a way that leads to this trope and a diagnosis of mild breakdown. The scene itself is easily a CrowningMomentOfFunny.

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* The Whammyburger scene in ''Film/FallingDown''. Subverted in that he ''is'' a psycho; Michael Douglas' character uses the opportunity to make a stand against the fifth or sixth trivial thing that has pissed him off that day.

* In ''Film/NorthByNorthwest'', Townsend is surreptitiously stabbed in the back by one of Vandamm's henchmen as he talks with Roger Thornhill at the UN. As he falls foward, Thornhill catches him, and seeing the knife pulls it out of Townsend's back. Only then does the large crowd around them notice what's happened, and the trope is duly invoked.

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* In ''[[Discworld/LordsAndLadies Lords And Ladies]]'', Magrat is explaining the situation to Jason Ogg, all while swinging around an unregarded battle axe.
* In one of the ''Series/{{Psych}}'' novels, a person of interest in a murder investigation finds a bloody knife in his pocket while giving his statement; he takes the officer interviewing him hostage while claiming that someone is trying to frame him.

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* Happens when the mercenaries take over the court in the play ''Money Talks''.

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* In ''VideoGame/{{Persona 4}}'', Yosuke does a variant of this early in the game. After offering the main character a choice between a long sword and a dagger, Yosuke gets it into his head that he should use both, and tries a few moves. A cop sees him, and moves in to arrest Yosuke. Yosuke tries to explain himself, while still flailing about with his weapons. He and the main character end up being arrested as they decided to do this in the outdoor food-court of the local department store, and their small town [[TooSoon had recently been struck by a series of bizarre murders]]. This is not the first (or last) time that Yosuke's lack of common sense gets him into (often hilarious) trouble.
* ''VideoGame/KnightsOfTheOldRepublic'' has an accidental version of this due to the way cutscene motions are programmed, where if characters are equipped with weapons they will wave them around as they talk, which can result in situations like Carth saying he can't trust you while waving a blaster in each hand directly at you.

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* ''Webcomic/TheOrderOfTheStick'': when Roy gets his sword fixed, he waves it around and muses on how he's felt incomplete without it. Cue Durkon yelling "Will you stop waving that thing around?!"

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* ''Machinima/TheGModIdiotBox'', [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ajw6AsYTW2o episode two]], remakes the ''Film/FallingDown'' scene in Garry's Mod.

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* ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'', when Homer was accused of the attempted murder of Mr. Burns. He ends up escaping police custody and [[NotHelpingYourCase holding the still-hospitalized Burns at gunpoint.]]
--> ''Say I never shot you!... Before.''

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Compare IJustShotMarvinInTheFace. A form of RecklessGunUsage and NotHelpingYourCase.

* In Polish nove ''Escape from Festung Breslau'' protagonist, German soldier, wants to get a doctors opinion, that he needs vacation, but is morally oposed to simulating disease. His friend manipulates a visit to a particularly strict doctor in a way that leads to this trope and diagnosis of mild breakdown. Scene itself is easily CrowningMomentOfFunny.

-->-- '''TheOffspring''', "Bad Habit"

A comedy trope: Alice is wrongly suspected of being a psycho and he ends up with a gun or other weapon in her hands. Then, she tries to explain herself while holding the weapon. As she makes hand gestures, she points it at the mob around her, which recoils in terror.

* One particularly narmful interpretation of a certain chain of events in ''Tatarigoroshi-hen'' of ''VisualNovel/HigurashiWhenTheyCry''. Keiichi trying to explain he didn't kill [[spoiler:Rika]] with ''[[AxeCrazy a bloody axe in his hands]]'' is darkly hilarious. Made worse when he [[spoiler:chases after Satako with it, then explains how he killed her uncle and has been losing his mind for several days. THEN he offers to disarm himself. She pushes him off the bridge]]. Doesn't help neither of them was [[SanitySlippage entirely sane]] by that point.

A comedy trope: Alice is wrongly suspected of being a psycho and he ends up with a gun or other weapon in her hands. Then, he tries to explain herself while holding the weapon. As she makes hand gestures, she points it at the mob around her, which recoils in terror.

* Music/TheOffspring song quoted above is actually NotAnExample: it's about an AxCrazy [[RoadRage driver]] with a HairTriggerTemper.

* Music/TheOffspring song quoted above is actually NotAnExample: it's about an AxCrazy [[DrivesLikeCrazy driver]] with a HairTriggerTemper.

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* ''Machinima/TheGModIdiotBox'', [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ajw6AsYTW2o episode two]], remakes the ''Film/FallingDown'' scene in Garry's Mod.

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A comedy trope: John Doe is wrongly suspected of being a psycho and he ends up with a gun or other weapon in his hands. Then, he tries to explain himself while holding the weapon. As he makes hand gestures, he points it at the mob around him, which recoils in terror.

* In one of the ''{{Psych}}'' novels, a person of interest in a murder investigation finds a bloody knife in his pocket while giving his statement; he takes the officer interviewing him hostage while claiming that someone is trying to frame him.

* One episode of ''SamanthaWho?'' is called "The Stalker" and it's about Samantha's attempt to apologize to someone to whom she stalked in her "evil" former personality, but continually makes the situation worse. During the same episode, she tries to bond with her father by going hunting with him. Thus, she ends up explaining to the man she stalked and the crowd that she is not crazy, while pointing a rifle at him and them. HilarityEnsues.

* TheOffspring song quoted above is actually NotAnExample: it's about an AxCrazy [[DrivesLikeCrazy driver]] with a HairTriggerTemper.

* One particularly narmful interpretation of a certain chain of events in ''Tatarigoroshi-hen'' of ''VisualNovel/HigurashiNoNakuKoroNi''. Keiichi trying to explain he didn't kill [[spoiler:Rika]] with ''[[AxeCrazy a bloody axe in his hands]]'' is darkly hilarious. Made worse when he [[spoiler:chases after Satako with it, then explains how he killed her uncle and has been losing his mind for several days. THEN he offers to disarm himself. She pushes him off the bridge]]. Doesn't help neither of them was [[SanitySlippage entirely sane]] by that point.

* One particularly narmful interpretation of a certain chain of events in ''Tatarigoroshi-hen'' of ''HigurashiNoNakuKoroNi''. Keiichi trying to explain he didn't kill [[spoiler:Rika]] with ''[[AxeCrazy a bloody axe in his hands]]'' is darkly hilarious. Made worse when he [[spoiler:chases after Satako with it, then explains how he killed her uncle and has been losing his mind for several days. THEN he offers to disarm himself. She pushes him off the bridge]]. Doesn't help neither of them was [[SanitySlippage entirely sane]] by that point.

* ''TheGmodIdiotBox'', [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ajw6AsYTW2o episode two]], remakes the ''Film/FallingDown'' scene in Garry's Mod.

Compare IJustShotMarvinInTheFace. A form of RecklessGunUsage.

* In ''VideoGame/{{Persona 4}}'', Yosuke does a variant of this early in the game. After offering the main character a choice between a long sword and a dagger, Yosuke gets it into his head that he should use both, and tries a few moves. A cop sees him, and moves in to arrest Yosuke. Yosuke tries to explain himself, while still flailing about with his weapons. He and the main character end up being arrested.
** They were in the outdoor food-court of the local department store, and their small town had recently been struck by a series of bizarre murders. This is not the first (or last) time that Yosuke's lack of common sense gets him into (often hilarious) trouble.