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* ''Series/{{CSINY}}'':
** In "Stealing Home," a killer is identified because they weren't used to the recoil of the revolver they used, and left a nice long scrape of knuckle skin on the brick wall they were shooting from behind, as well as a nick on the top of the gun's frame where it hit the attractive concrete handrail at the top.
** Averted by Lindsay in "Stuck on You" where Mac has her fire a crossbow since she's the same size as one of the suspects. In spite of being a country girl from Montana, she's never fired one before and is excited to try. She handles it very well and wants to keep on doing it.

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''Series/{{CSINY}}'': In "Stealing Home," "[[Recap/CSINYS02E22 Stealing Home]]," a killer is identified because they weren't used to the recoil of the revolver they used, and left a nice long scrape of knuckle skin on the brick wall they were shooting from behind, as well as a nick on the top of the gun's frame where it hit the attractive concrete handrail at the top.
** Averted by Lindsay in "Stuck on You" where Mac has her fire a crossbow since she's the same size as one of the suspects. In spite of being a country girl from Montana, she's never fired one before and is excited to try. She handles it very well and wants to keep on doing it.
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High-velocity [[MagneticWeapon Magnetic Weapons]] are [[JustifiedTrope going to have significantly less recoil for their size]] (as kinetic energy scales to the square of velocity but momentum and thus recoil only scales linearly), but any [[BigFuckingGun sufficiently powerful]] or [[MoreDakka rapid firing]] weapons would go back to this trope.

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High-velocity [[MagneticWeapon Magnetic Weapons]] MagneticWeapons are [[JustifiedTrope going to have significantly less recoil for their size]] (as kinetic energy scales to the square of velocity but momentum and thus recoil only scales linearly), but any [[BigFuckingGun sufficiently powerful]] or [[MoreDakka rapid firing]] weapons would go back to this trope.
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* ''Film/TrueLies'', when Creator/JamieLeeCurtis' character attempts to fire a MAC-10 at the terrorists -- and completely loses control of the weapon due to its recoil, sending it tumbling down a flight of stairs, [[ShurFineGuns firing by itself all the way down]]. Not only that, she actually killed a bunch of people in the process.

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* ''Film/TrueLies'', when Creator/JamieLeeCurtis' character Helen attempts to fire a MAC-10 at the terrorists -- and completely loses control of the weapon due to its recoil, sending it tumbling down a flight of stairs, [[ShurFineGuns firing by itself all the way down]]. Not only that, she actually killed a bunch of people in the process.
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** Despite how quickly he fires subsequent shots, the recoil is enough to make [[VideoGame/StarFox Fox']] Blaster point 90 degrees upwards. Falco's, on the other hand, has very little recoil, though he does [[RuleOfCool cross his arms and hold it sideways]]. Wolf's has very little recoil. They're all energy weapons, however, and should have none.

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** Despite how quickly he fires subsequent shots, the recoil is enough to make [[VideoGame/StarFox [[Franchise/StarFox Fox']] Blaster point 90 degrees upwards. Falco's, on the other hand, has very little recoil, though he does [[RuleOfCool cross his arms and hold it sideways]]. Wolf's has very little recoil. They're all energy weapons, however, and should have none.
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* ''Film/MenInBlack'' has an absurdly tiny gun called the Noisy Cricket. When Agent J fires it, the recoil tosses him into a car several parking spots behind his firing position. In [[WesternAnimation/MenInBlack the animated series]], J gets [[HollywoodSilencer a silencer of sorts]] that reduces the recoil.

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* ''Film/MenInBlack'' has an absurdly tiny gun called the Noisy Cricket. When Agent J fires it, the recoil tosses him into a car several parking spots behind his firing position. In [[WesternAnimation/MenInBlack [[WesternAnimation/MenInBlackTheSeries the animated series]], J gets [[HollywoodSilencer a silencer of sorts]] that reduces the recoil.

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