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* Emilio Estevez' CowboyCop character in ''Loaded Weapon 1'', named Jack ''Colt''. At one point the Police Psychiatrist claims he's "gun happy." [[IResembleThatRemark He points his gun at her]].

* [[TheSimpsons Homer Simpsons]] gets like this [[CompressedVice for one episode]], where he buys a gun to protect the family following a series of riots in Springfield. However, he quickly becomes ludicrously irresponsible with the gun (using it to change the channel and open a beer, among other feats), which drives Marge and the kids away. He goes to the local NRA for support, but they're just as appalled by him as Marge was and kick him out of the organization. The whole episode serves to deliver AnAesop about responsible gun usage.
* [[{{Futurama}} Mom's Friendly Killbots]] will automatically shoot whenever anyone mentions anything resembling gun terminology, like getting howitzer out of "how it serve". They usually shoot the person or Killbot that says the gun term. This is in addition to shooting anything that moves.

->''There's no feeling any greater than to''\\
''shoot first and ask questions later, now I'm''\\
''Trigger Happy, Trigger Happy every day (happy every day)!''
-->--'''WeirdAlYankovic''', ''Trigger Happy''

* Arnage of Huckebein from ''[[MagicalGirlLyricalNanoha Magical Record Lyrical Nanoha Force]]''. Best shown in the chapter that introduced her [[GatlingGood Divider]], where instead of dodging the [[BeamSpam 25 million energy beams]] headed her way like she was ordered to, she decides to [[ShootTheBullet shoot them all down]] instead since that's more her style.

* [[TheBigGuy Forte Stollen]] of the ''GalaxyAngelGameverse''. Her personal CoolShip is equipped with a pair of starfighter-sized [[GatlingGood gatling guns]] and [[MacrossMissileMassacre enough missiles to]] [[SuperDimensionFortressMacross shame your average UN Spacy pilot]]. Heck, the name of this flying death machine is even ''[[GratuitousEnglish Happy Trigger]]''.

* Most Notable in Digimon: [[http://animedesmotivado.files.wordpress.com/2009/08/digimon.jpg?w=470&h=397 Gargomon]], a trigger happy Rambobunny (Dog actually, [[RuleOfFunny but who cares?]] with ''gatling guns'' for hands.

* Loves CoolGuns, RareGuns, {{Hand Cannon}}s, {{BFG}}s, and MoreDakka.

* Revy from ''BlackLagoon'' is the HeroicSociopath version of this trope. When she goes into "[[TranquilFury Whitman Fever]]," though...

* Revy from ''BlackLagoon'' is the HeroicSociopath version of this trope. When she goes into "[[AxCrazy Whitman Fever]]," though...

-> ''"John, I want to tell you something I've never put into words before. I LOVE shooting things... (fires and burns giant plant off of [[LivingShip Moya]]) ...and I'm good at it."

* Minor Decepticon Triggerhappy in ''TransformersGenerationOne'' lives up to his name. Apparently while goofing around at the military academy he accidentally vaporized his entire squad of trainees and his instructor. This earned him an immediate graduation and field promotion. However, some theorize that his crazed affection for heavy automatic weaponry isn't due to pride at this defining moment, but because he happened to bump his head pretty bad in said accident.

* Disney, [[DisneyDeath oddly enough]], LovesThisTrope:

** Trigger from Disney's RobinHood.

* Detective Hammer from ''SledgeHammer''. He does target practice inside his apartment, he talks to his gun, and his reaction to snipers on top of a building is to bring the entire building down with a rocket launcher. That's just in the pilot episode.

** Sousuke meets his match when he encounters the mad policewoman in ''Full Metal Panic? Fumoffu'', who gets into a shootout with Sousuke in his Bonta-kun costume. In a later episode where she hears the gun-toting Bonta-kun is on the loose again, her fellow police officers have to physically restrain her from going beserk with GunsAkimbo FN-P90's.

-> ''"John, I want to tell you something I've never put into words before. I LOVE shooting things... (fires and burns giant plant off of [[LivingShip Moya]]) ...and I'm good at it."

** Sousuke meets his match when he encounters the mad policewoman in ''Full Metal Panic? Fumoffu'', who gets into a shootout with Sousuke in his Bonta-kun costume. In a later episode where she hears the gun-toting Bonta-kun is on the loose again, her fellow police officers have to physically restrain her from going beserk with GunsAkimbo FN-P90's.

** In ''OBrotherWhereArtThou'' Nelson is portrayed as manic-depressive, and he's very trigger-happy when he's feeling good.
-->'''Nelson:''' * while hanging out the door of a moving vehicle* Han' me dat choppah!

-->'''Nelson:''' * firing the Thompson at the cops* Ha ha ha ha! Come and get me, coppers! You flatfooted, lame-brained, soft-ass sonsabitches!

** While she isn't always shooting people, she is depicted as slightly AxCrazy fairly consistently, even when wielding only a taser. [[YourMileageMayVary YMMV.]]

** ''Any'' of the classes can be trigger happy, depending on the player. The Pyro especially has gained the derisive FanNickname of "[[LeeroyJenkins W+M1]]" (the default commands to run and fire one's primary weapon, respectively).

** Well, [[JustifyingEdit to be fair]], it's hard to communicate with someone when your technology, language and biology are completely different. And this is the first time you've encountered that species. Maybe warning shots... Then again, following up that skirmish with the [[NoKillLikeOverkill orbital bombardment]] of the first human planet they could find was probably overboard.

See also the whole family of people who have a little too much fun murdering people, i.e., AxCrazy, ChainsawGood, GatlingGood, KnifeNut...