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This isn't merely the surprise one might feel at the report of the weapons when fired, this is an emotional reaction; a gut-punch to someone witnessing the funeral. This is TruthInTelevision; it is common for members of the deceased's family to flinch away in horror at the sound of the guns, especially if the deceased was killed in combat action. The flinch is used narratively to either a) highlight the difference between the civilians who are unused to gunfire as opposed to the honored dead and their [[TheStoic stoic]] brothers in arms, who regularly endured it, and b) to add drama by alluding to the juxtaposition of honoring the sacrifice of the dead and their loved ones in a way that is traumatically similar to how they died. Alternatively, if done by a ShellShockedVeteran, they may be having a flashback.
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This isn't merely the surprise one might feel at the report of the weapons when fired, this is an emotional reaction; a gut-punch gut punch to someone witnessing the funeral. This is TruthInTelevision; it is common for members of the deceased's family to flinch away in horror at the sound of the guns, especially if the deceased was killed in combat action. The flinch is used narratively to either a) highlight the difference between the civilians who are unused to gunfire as opposed to the honored dead and their [[TheStoic stoic]] brothers in arms, who regularly endured it, and b) to add drama by alluding to the juxtaposition of honoring the sacrifice of the dead and their loved ones in a way that is traumatically similar to how they died. Alternatively, if done by a ShellShockedVeteran, they may be having a flashback.
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* "Fanfic/TheOnlyWayToGo": At the Starfleet funeral of her wife Sobaru, Tiana Lanstar flinches and flashes on the battle aboard the USS ''Wolfram'' in which Sobaru died. [[Fanfic/BaitAndSwitchSTO Kanril Eleya]], standing behind Tia, sees this and put a hand on Tia's shoulder to comfort her.
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* "Fanfic/TheOnlyWayToGo": At the Starfleet funeral of her wife Sobaru, Tiana Lanstar flinches and flashes on the battle aboard the USS ''Wolfram'' in which Sobaru died. [[Fanfic/BaitAndSwitchSTO Kanril Eleya]], standing behind Tia, sees this and put puts a hand on Tia's shoulder to comfort her.
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* In ''Series/TheWestWing'', during the episode "[[Recap/TheWestWingS01E10InExcelsisDeo In Excelsis Deo]]", Toby Ziegler flinches in disgust at the sound of the gun salute given during the funeral of the homeless veteran.
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* In ''Series/TheWestWing'', during the episode "[[Recap/TheWestWingS01E10InExcelsisDeo In Excelsis Deo]]", Toby Ziegler flinches in disgust flinches, startled, at the sound of the gun salute given during the funeral of the homeless veteran.
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* In ''Film/TheDeparted'', one of the ways we can tell that one character is a hard-hearted sociopath is that he's the only person who doesn't flinch at the sound of the guns at the police funeral.
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* In ''Film/TheDeparted'', one of the ways we can tell that one character Colin Sullivan is a hard-hearted sociopath is that he's the only person who doesn't flinch at the sound of the guns at the police Costigan's funeral.
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* Lt. Gordon flinches during the three-volley salute scene in ''Film/TheDarkKnight''. Commissioner Loeb had been assassinated by the Joker and Gordon knew he would strike again, likely at the funeral, so his flinching is justified. [[spoiler:Especially since Joker ends up trying to kill him during said salute a few seconds later]].
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* Lt. Gordon flinches during the three-volley salute scene at Commissioner Loeb's funeral in ''Film/TheDarkKnight''. Commissioner Loeb had been assassinated by In this case, Gordon is on high alert since the Joker has announced with a preemptive obituary in the paper that he'll be assassinating the Mayor at the funeral. As it turns out, the Joker and some of his goons ''are'' the honor guard, and Gordon knew he would strike again, likely at has only a split second to tackle the funeral, so his flinching is justified. [[spoiler:Especially since Mayor to the ground before the Joker ends up trying to kill him during said salute a few seconds later]]. and co. turn their guns on their target.
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A funeral is being held for a heroic member of the military (any branch of the military will do), the various intelligence services, or one of the law enforcement forces (particularly the [[NewYorkCityCops NYPD]]). During the funeral, there is a salute using rifles, fired three times each. The camera lingers on one character who emotionally flinches in pain, fear, and distress at the sound of the guns.
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A funeral is being held for a heroic member of the military (any branch of the military will do), the various intelligence services, or one of the law enforcement forces (particularly the [[NewYorkCityCops [[UsefulNotes/NewYorkCityCops NYPD]]). During the funeral, there is a salute using rifles, fired three times each. The camera lingers on one character who emotionally flinches in pain, fear, and distress at the sound of the guns.
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Subtrope of DueToTheDead. If it's a [[PlayedForLaughs comedy]], expect some paranoid[=/=][[ShellShockedVeteran shell-shocked]] character to return fire.
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Subtrope of DueToTheDead.DueToTheDead and TwentyOneGunSalute. If it's a [[PlayedForLaughs comedy]], expect some paranoid[=/=][[ShellShockedVeteran shell-shocked]] character to return fire.
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* In ''Series/TheWestWing'', during the episode "In Excelsius Deus", Toby Ziegler flinches in disgust at the sound of the gun salute given during the funeral of the homeless veteran.
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* In ''Series/TheWestWing'', during the episode "In Excelsius Deus", "[[Recap/TheWestWingS01E10InExcelsisDeo In Excelsis Deo]]", Toby Ziegler flinches in disgust at the sound of the gun salute given during the funeral of the homeless veteran.
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* In ''Film/StreetKings'', this is used to show how Keanu Reeves is beginning to lose the cold hard veneer he had as the leader of a squad of vice cops after his partner is brutally murdered.
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* In ''Film/StreetKings'', this is used to show how Keanu Reeves Tom Ludlow is beginning to lose the cold hard veneer he had as the leader of a squad of vice cops after his partner is brutally murdered.
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->''"Master Chief Kinlo barked, 'Aim!' Five Type 3 phaser rifles rose over the casket. 'Fire!' Light and sound rent the sky, and Tia flinched. The smell of burning plastic and flesh filled her nostrils."''
-->-- "Fanfic/TheOnlyWayToGo"
A funeral is being held for a heroic member of the military (any branch of the military will do), the various intelligence services, or one of the law enforcement forces (particularly the [[NewYorkCityCops NYPD]]). During the funeral, there is a salute using rifles, fired three times each. The camera lingers on one character who emotionally flinches in pain, fear, and distress at the sound of the guns.
This isn't merely the surprise one might feel at the report of the weapons when fired, this is an emotional reaction; a gut-punch to someone witnessing the funeral. This is TruthInTelevision; it is common for members of the deceased's family to flinch away in horror at the sound of the guns, especially if the deceased was killed in combat action. The flinch is used narratively to either a) highlight the difference between the civilians who are unused to gunfire as opposed to the honored dead and their [[TheStoic stoic]] brothers in arms, who regularly endured it, and b) to add drama by alluding to the juxtaposition of honoring the sacrifice of the dead and their loved ones in a way that is traumatically similar to how they died. Alternatively, if done by a ShellShockedVeteran, they may be having a flashback.
On realism: Note that the technical term for the salute at military funerals is ''not'' a [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/21-gun_salute 21-gun salute]], [[ArtisticLicenseMilitary as is often said]], but rather a [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three-volley_salute three-volley salute]]. A 21-gun salute is performed with an artillery battery rather than riflemen, and in the United States only [[OurPresidentsAreDifferent current or former presidents]] rate this honor. The actual number of riflemen varies from three to nineteen based on rank of the deceased.
Subtrope of DueToTheDead. If it's a [[PlayedForLaughs comedy]], expect some paranoid[=/=][[ShellShockedVeteran shell-shocked]] character to return fire.
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* In ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w5Dc2At5_AE The Life]]'', a commercial for ''VideoGame/Halo3ODST'', a funeral is held for a deceased [[ItsRainingMen Orbital Drop Shock Trooper]]. One of his relatives, Tarkov, flinches at the three-volley salute, but the next scene shows him enlisting for the [=ODSTs=].
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* "Fanfic/TheOnlyWayToGo": At the Starfleet funeral of her wife Sobaru, Tiana Lanstar flinches and flashes on the battle aboard the USS ''Wolfram'' in which Sobaru died. [[Fanfic/BaitAndSwitchSTO Kanril Eleya]], standing behind Tia, sees this and put a hand on Tia's shoulder to comfort her.
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* In ''Film/TheDeparted'', one of the ways we can tell that one character is a hard-hearted sociopath is that he's the only person who doesn't flinch at the sound of the guns at the police funeral.
* In ''Film/StreetKings'', this is used to show how Keanu Reeves is beginning to lose the cold hard veneer he had as the leader of a squad of vice cops after his partner is brutally murdered.
* Lt. Gordon flinches during the three-volley salute scene in ''Film/TheDarkKnight''. Commissioner Loeb had been assassinated by the Joker and Gordon knew he would strike again, likely at the funeral, so his flinching is justified. [[spoiler:Especially since Joker ends up trying to kill him during said salute a few seconds later]].
* {{Parodied}} in ''Film/HotShots'' during [[MeaningfulName Dead]] [[RedShirt Meat's]] funeral. While his widow does the (understandable) flinching from hearing the salute, [[InsaneAdmiral Admiral]] [[CloudCuckoolander Benson]] all of a sudden thinks that the funeral is under attack and retaliates in kind with his sidearm and some ''grenades'' he carried just in case... while "protecting" the tearful, freaking-out widow.
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* In ''Series/TheWestWing'', during the episode "In Excelsius Deus", Toby Ziegler flinches in disgust at the sound of the gun salute given during the funeral of the homeless veteran.
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* In the video for the Music/BradPaisley/Music/AllisonKrauss duet "Whiskey Lullaby", the man who drank himself to death is a war hero, and when he dies gets a funeral with full military honors, including a three-volley salute. The woman who drove him to drink himself to death by her infidelity visibly flinches when the rifles fire.
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* Poet Creator/WaltWhitman, who attended the funeral of Abraham Lincoln, described his "painful reaction" to the sound of the rifle salute that took place at the deceased president's burial in one of his diaries.
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-->-- "Fanfic/TheOnlyWayToGo"
A funeral is being held for a heroic member of the military (any branch of the military will do), the various intelligence services, or one of the law enforcement forces (particularly the [[NewYorkCityCops NYPD]]). During the funeral, there is a salute using rifles, fired three times each. The camera lingers on one character who emotionally flinches in pain, fear, and distress at the sound of the guns.
This isn't merely the surprise one might feel at the report of the weapons when fired, this is an emotional reaction; a gut-punch to someone witnessing the funeral. This is TruthInTelevision; it is common for members of the deceased's family to flinch away in horror at the sound of the guns, especially if the deceased was killed in combat action. The flinch is used narratively to either a) highlight the difference between the civilians who are unused to gunfire as opposed to the honored dead and their [[TheStoic stoic]] brothers in arms, who regularly endured it, and b) to add drama by alluding to the juxtaposition of honoring the sacrifice of the dead and their loved ones in a way that is traumatically similar to how they died. Alternatively, if done by a ShellShockedVeteran, they may be having a flashback.
On realism: Note that the technical term for the salute at military funerals is ''not'' a [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/21-gun_salute 21-gun salute]], [[ArtisticLicenseMilitary as is often said]], but rather a [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three-volley_salute three-volley salute]]. A 21-gun salute is performed with an artillery battery rather than riflemen, and in the United States only [[OurPresidentsAreDifferent current or former presidents]] rate this honor. The actual number of riflemen varies from three to nineteen based on rank of the deceased.
Subtrope of DueToTheDead. If it's a [[PlayedForLaughs comedy]], expect some paranoid[=/=][[ShellShockedVeteran shell-shocked]] character to return fire.
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* In ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w5Dc2At5_AE The Life]]'', a commercial for ''VideoGame/Halo3ODST'', a funeral is held for a deceased [[ItsRainingMen Orbital Drop Shock Trooper]]. One of his relatives, Tarkov, flinches at the three-volley salute, but the next scene shows him enlisting for the [=ODSTs=].
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* "Fanfic/TheOnlyWayToGo": At the Starfleet funeral of her wife Sobaru, Tiana Lanstar flinches and flashes on the battle aboard the USS ''Wolfram'' in which Sobaru died. [[Fanfic/BaitAndSwitchSTO Kanril Eleya]], standing behind Tia, sees this and put a hand on Tia's shoulder to comfort her.
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* In ''Film/TheDeparted'', one of the ways we can tell that one character is a hard-hearted sociopath is that he's the only person who doesn't flinch at the sound of the guns at the police funeral.
* In ''Film/StreetKings'', this is used to show how Keanu Reeves is beginning to lose the cold hard veneer he had as the leader of a squad of vice cops after his partner is brutally murdered.
* Lt. Gordon flinches during the three-volley salute scene in ''Film/TheDarkKnight''. Commissioner Loeb had been assassinated by the Joker and Gordon knew he would strike again, likely at the funeral, so his flinching is justified. [[spoiler:Especially since Joker ends up trying to kill him during said salute a few seconds later]].
* {{Parodied}} in ''Film/HotShots'' during [[MeaningfulName Dead]] [[RedShirt Meat's]] funeral. While his widow does the (understandable) flinching from hearing the salute, [[InsaneAdmiral Admiral]] [[CloudCuckoolander Benson]] all of a sudden thinks that the funeral is under attack and retaliates in kind with his sidearm and some ''grenades'' he carried just in case... while "protecting" the tearful, freaking-out widow.
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[[folder:Live-Action TV]]
* In ''Series/TheWestWing'', during the episode "In Excelsius Deus", Toby Ziegler flinches in disgust at the sound of the gun salute given during the funeral of the homeless veteran.
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[[folder:Music]]
* In the video for the Music/BradPaisley/Music/AllisonKrauss duet "Whiskey Lullaby", the man who drank himself to death is a war hero, and when he dies gets a funeral with full military honors, including a three-volley salute. The woman who drove him to drink himself to death by her infidelity visibly flinches when the rifles fire.
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[[folder:Real Life]]
* Poet Creator/WaltWhitman, who attended the funeral of Abraham Lincoln, described his "painful reaction" to the sound of the rifle salute that took place at the deceased president's burial in one of his diaries.
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