History Main / GunStruggle

-->''[[BlatantLies And yet we both reached for the gun]]''\\

''For the gun.''\\

* In ''BobAndGeorge'', [[http://www.bobandgeorge.com/archives/000426c Dr. Light tries to take Protoman's gun away. It doesn't end well for him.]]

* [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20100716 What's better than two characters struggling over a gun?]]

* Done in a FreddieWong video "Whose gun is it anyway?" [[spoiler:They simultaneously shoot each other.]]

-- '''Roxie Hart''', ''{{Chicago}}''

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* The quote comes from ''{{Chicago}}'', but it's not what actually happened. It's just what Billy Flynn (Roxie's SmugSnake lawyer) wants the jury to believe happened.

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* This happens between [[JamesBond 007]] and a mid-level villain in ''TomorrowNeverDies''. Eventually, Bond gets control and points the gun at the villain's head, resulting in this exchange:

* An interesting variation occurs in ''RaidersOfTheLostArk'' when Indy and the mook he's struggling with briefly cooperate to shoot another mook that Todt just ordered to "Shoot them both."

* ''DieHard'', only they're fighting over the gun, and the issue is to see whose neck gets snapped when they roll down the stairs...

* This occurred in the three-way free-for-all fight between Conan O'Brien, [[TheColbertReport Stephen Colbert]], and [[TheDailyShow Jon Stewart]] on Conan's show. An outtake shows that somehow, ''all three of them'' were accidentally shot as a result of the struggle... but Stephen recovers quickly enough to grab the gun for himself.

* Done in a FreddieWong video "Whose gun is it anyway?"

* Done in a [[http://www.youtube.com/user/freddiew Freddiew]] video "Whose gun is it anyway?"

* [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20100716 What's better than two characters struggeling over a gun?]]

Variations apply: sometimes the gunshot is a FalseGunshot. Sometimes it comes from a third character watching the struggle. Sometimes it's non-fatal. Sometimes [[BulletHolesAndRevelations it's not immediately obvious which of the two was shot]]. But a gun will ''always'' [[ChekhovsGun go off]]. Because that's [[RuleOfDrama dramatic]].

* This marks the point where things [[ItGotWorse start to go bad]] in ''TheCrazies'' (1978). The mayor of the town and his sheriff has arrived at the headquarters the military have set up, and start protesting their actions in rounding up all the townspeople. Colonel Peckham orders his men to go through the town confiscating all weapons -- starting with the police who the Mayor orders to resist. There's a tense but silent struggle with each side trying to get the others' firearms, culminating in a gunshot which reveals that the town sheriff has been killed.

** Happens on several occasions, as Tintin wasn't supposed to [[ThouShaltNotKill kill anybody]].

* This marks the point where things [[ItGotWorse start to go bad]] in ''TheCrazies'' (1978). The mayor of the town and his sheriffs have arrived at the headquarters the military have set up, and start protesting their actions in rounding up all the townspeople. Colonel Peckham orders his men to go through the town confiscating all weapons -- starting with the police who naturally resist. There's a tense but silent struggle with each side trying to get the others firearms, culminating in a gunshot which reveals that the town sheriff has been killed.

* This marks the point where things [[ItGotWorse start to go bad]] in ''TheCrazies''. The mayor of the town and his sheriffs have arrived at the headquarters the military have set up, and start protesting their actions in rounding up all the townspeople. Colonel Peckham orders his men to go through the town confiscating all weapons -- starting with the police who naturally resist. There's a tense but silent struggle with each side trying to get the others firearms, culminating in a gunshot which reveals that the town sheriff has been killed.

* An interesting variation occurs in RaidersOfTheLostArk when Indy and the mook he's struggling with briefly cooperate to shoot another mook that Todt just ordered to "Shoot them both."

* Happens in ATaleOfTwoCities, between [[spoiler:Miss Pross and Madame Defarge]] near the end.

* This troper is embarrassed to admit she knows this, but that totally happened with Rick on ''DegrassiTheNextGeneration''.

* The ''{{SouthPark}}'' episode "The List" has one between Wendy and Bebe. The gun accidently goes off but neither is shot. [[spoiler: The stray bullet hits Kenney while eating his dinner, killing him instantly.]]