History Main / ShootEverythingThatMoves

* The rules in the Instructions section of the original ''VideoGame/JazzJackrabbit'' are "[[VideoGame/SonicTheHedgehog Run like the wind]]", "If it moves, shoot it" and "If it doesn't move, take it!".

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* ''TabletopGame/{{Warhammer 40000}}'' :

* What happens when you call in the Rabbit team in ''VideoGame/LobotomyCorporation''. It causes an entire department to immediately lock down, trapping everyone inside it, and send in mercenaries that start firing at everything within said department, no matter whether it's an employee, a clerk or a breaching Abnormality.

--> '''[[spoiler:Adams]]''': So, how we gonna do this?
--> '''[[spoiler:Walker]]''': Kill everything that fuckin' moves.
--> '''[[spoiler:Adams]]''': Sounds like a plan.

Not to be confused with AnythingThatMoves, though with [[ILoveTheDead some people]], you never know...

* In the first Gulf War, maps were divided into grid squares called killzones, and patrolled by allied aircraft, with orders to engage any military target. This led to friendly fire due to lack of information sharing between service branches and countries, the most well known instance being when an American A-10 destroyed two British IFVs, killing 9 soldiers.

* In ''Literature/MailedFist'', tank commander John Foley describes an engagement in Holland where he had to lead his three tanks down a forest road by night, knowing the woods to either side were full of Germans with [[CoolGuns/RocketsMissilesAndGrenadeLaunchers Panzerfausts]]. He detailed his machine-gunners to continually fire into the forest to either side and his drivers to go flat out. None of his tanks were hit, and in the morning there were quite a lot of dead Germans with anti-tank rockets they had not had a chance to fire.

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* ''Lethal Weapon''
** In ''Film/LethalWeapon2,'' Riggs tells Murtaugh the plan for rescuing Leo.
-->'''Murtaugh:''' What's the plan?
-->'''Riggs:''' Wait for my signal, then just go in and shoot those fuckers.
** And in the [[Film/LethalWeapon original movie]] -- Murtaugh has been deriding Rigg's gun-happy approach until the bad guys kidnap his daughter.
-->'''Riggs:''' We do this my way. You shoot, you shoot to kill. Get as many as you can. Just don't miss.

* In ''WebAnimation/TheThwomps'', Mario want to squeeze ''everyone'', much to Luigis annoyance.

* Mentioned a few times in the ''Literature/VorkosiganSaga'' as a viable combat tactic when using [[TheParalyzer stunners]] since it reduces friendly fire mistakes from potentially lethal to merely annoying; it's also extremely useful for hostage situations. ''Unless'', that is, someone has a heart condition, or the hostage takers have rigged some kind of dead-man switch as a precaution against exactly this tactic, or a stunned target goes over a railing...

* The developer commentary in ''VideoGame/Left4Dead'' uses the phrase several times... [[SubvertedTrope chiefly when describing how certain Special Infected were designed to make players avert the trope.]]

* Mentioned a few times in the ''Literature/VorkosiganSaga'' as a viable combat tactic when using [[StunGuns stunners]] since it reduces friendly fire mistakes from potentially lethal to merely annoying; it's also extremely useful for hostage situations. ''Unless'', that is, someone has a heart condition, or the hostage takers have rigged some kind of dead-man switch as a precaution against exactly this tactic, or a stunned target goes over a railing...

* In the first Gulf War, maps were divided into grid squares called killzones, and patrolled by allied aircraft, with orders to engage any military target. This led to friendly fire due to lack of information sharing between service branches and countries, the most well known instance being when an American A-10 destroyed two British IFV's, killing 9 solders.

* A quick primer in [[TabletopGame/{{Warhammer 40000}} Ork]] [[MoreDakka target-identification]] [[ATeamFiring procedures]]:

"Listen karefully and I'll explain 'ow we do things 'ere in ComicBook/DeffSkwadron... You shoot at it an' you miss, it's one of ourz. You hit it an' you shoot it down, then it must be one of theirs. Dead simple, see?"\\

** [[MoreDakka This is the main strategy of any Ork army.]]

And when something moves, you [[PainfulRhyme shoot]].

* The rules in the Instructions section of the original ''VideoGame/JazzJackrabbit'' are "[[Franchise/SonicTheHedgehog Run like the wind]]", "If it moves, shoot it" and "If it doesn't move, take it!".

* ''99 Luftballons''/''99 Red Balloons'' by Music/Nena has WorldWarIII happen over a misunderstanding caused by [[SillyReasonForWar helium balloons]], with both sides either being [[GeneralRipper too hysterical]] or [[ColonelKilgore trigger-happy]] to double-check the facts.

* ''99 Luftballons''/''99 Red Balloons'' by Music/Nena has WorldWarIII happen over a misunderstanding caused by [[SillyReasonForWar helium balloons]], with both sides either being [[GeneralRipper too hysterical]) or [[ColonelKilgore trigger-happy]] to double-check the facts.

* ''99 Luftballons''/''99 Red Balloons'' by Music/Nena has an entire war happen due to military hysteria over [[SillyReasonForWar helium balloons]], with neither side stopping to double-check or think things over.

* ''99 Luftballons''/''99 Red Balloons'' by Music/Nena has an entire war happen due to military hysteria over [[SillyReasonForWhat helium balloons]], with neither side stopping to double-check or think things over.