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* U.S. soldier James Bumgarner (later actor ''JamesGarner'') was wounded during the Korean War.
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* In AChristmasStory, during Ralphie's daydream where he runs off Black Bart and his minions, he shoots all of them in their asses.
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In RealLife, the buttocks are actually a relatively safe place to get hit (keyword here is "relatively" as any gunshot can kill) - a lot of flesh, but not many blood vessels, and it's not too close to any major organs. Still subject to HollywoodHealing (even if ScarsAreForever).

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In RealLife, the buttocks are actually a relatively safe place to get hit (keyword here is "relatively" as any gunshot can kill) - a lot of flesh, but not many blood vessels, and it's not too close to any major organs. Still subject to HollywoodHealing (even if ScarsAreForever).
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* Happens to Porthos's servant Mousqueton in ''TheThreeMusketeers''. In the sequel ''Twenty Years After'', when he's older and much more dignified, d'Artagnan [[DeadpanSnarker suggests]] that he show the scar to a cowardly younger servant who could use an example of bravery. And in a fight scene some chapters later, Mousqueton is wounded "in the other"

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* Happens to Porthos's servant Mousqueton in ''TheThreeMusketeers''. In the sequel ''Twenty Years After'', when he's older and much more dignified, d'Artagnan [[DeadpanSnarker suggests]] that he show the scar to a cowardly younger servant who could use an example of bravery. And in a fight scene some chapters later, Mousqueton is wounded "in the other"
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* Happens to Porthos's servant Mousqueton in ''TheThreeMusketeers''. In the sequel ''Twenty Years After'', when he's older and much more dignified, d'Artagnan [[DeadpanSnarker suggests]] that he show the scar to a cowardly younger servant who could use an example of bravery. And in a fight scene some chapters later, Mousqueton is wounded "in the other"
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* In one episode of [[MyNameisEarl My Name is Earl,]] Earl tried to make up for #147 on his karma list: "Shot Gwen Waters in the ass with a BB."

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* Used as a joke in {{Good Morning Vietnam}} when Garlick is telling Robin Williams's character about an {{unfunny}} NCO he'll be working with:
-->Garlick: "Plus, I think he got shot in the ass, but I can't confirm that."
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--> '''Rodney McKay''': That sounds painful. Gluteus maximus... Gluteus maximus... Oh my God. That's my ass, isn't it?

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--> '''Rodney McKay''': That sounds painful. [=McKay=]''':''(on Morphine)'' Gluteus maximus... Gluteus maximus... Gluuuteus maaaximus... Oh my God. god! That's my ass, ass isn't it?
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* In ''TheSopranos'' season 6, an aspiring rapper actually ''asks'' Bobby Bacala to shoot him [[OnlyAFleshWound non-fatally]] to increase his street cred. Guess where he's shot...

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--> '''Dr. Carson Becket''': You have an arrow, Rodney, in your gluteus maximus.
--> '''Rodney McKay''': That sounds painful. Gluteus maximus... Gluteus maximus... Oh my God. That's my ass, isn't it?

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* In ''DannyTheChampionOfTheWorld'' Danny's father tells Danny of how keepers like to shoot poachers from behind -- not to kill, but to wound. Danny switches between being amused and horrified at the descriptions:
--> "Many's the night when I was a boy, Danny, I've gone into the kitchen and seen my old dad lying face down on the table and Mum standing over him digging the gunshots pellets out of his backside with a potato-knife. [...] Towards the end, he was so covered in tiny little white scars he looked exactly like it was snowing."\\
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"I don't know why I'm laughing," I said. "It's not funny, it's horrible."\\
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"''Poacher's bottom'' they used to call it," my father said. "And there wasn't a man in the whole village who didn't have a bit of it one way or another. But my dad was the champion ..."
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** The same thing happens to mooks you shoot in the ass in ''GoldenEye''.
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** It's worth mentioning that getting shot in the ass actually drives the plot for the entire game. Though it's BetterThanItSounds

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* In ''[[StarWarsExpandedUniverse The New Rebellion]]'', someone tries to shoot Han but misses, mostly. The blaster bolt grazes his buttocks.
--> Chewie chuckled.
--> "It's not funny, furball. It hurts."
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* The pilot in ''TheMummyReturns'' claims this happens to him every single time he works for O'Connell.

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* The pilot in ''TheMummyReturns'' ''[[TheMummy The Mummy Returns]]'' claims this happens to him he's gotten shot every single time he works for O'Connell.he's worked with O'Connell -Most recently in the ass.
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* ForrestGump gets shot in the butt, and then shows the wound to LBJ.

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* ForrestGump gets shot in the butt, [[strike:butt]] butt''ocks'', and then shows the wound to LBJ.

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* In Sir Thomas Malory's [[KingArthur Morte Darthur]], there's a completely ridiculous moment where Lancelot is accidentally shot in the behind by a woman out hunting. That Malory's narration is completely matter-of-fact throughout just makes it funnier.
-->And ... she put a brode arow in her bowe and shot at the hynde - and so she overshotte the hynde, and so by myssefortune the arow smote Sir Launcelot in the thycke of the buttok [...] And the wounde was passynge sore and unhappyly smytten, for hit was on such a place that he myght nat sytte in no sadyll.

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** An episode of ''FamilyMatters'' featured Carl getting ShotInTheAss, forcing him to share a hospital room with Urkel.

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** * An episode of ''FamilyMatters'' featured Carl getting ShotInTheAss, forcing him to share a hospital room with Urkel.


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* BenitoMussolini was shot in the ass during WorldWarOne.
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* In BirdOnAWire, Mel Gibson takes a bullet to the behind, which makes it necessary for him to visit his veterinarian ex-girlfriend for extraction.
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In RealLife, the buttocks are actually a relatively safe place to get hit - a lot of flesh, but not many blood vessels, and it's not too close to any major organs. Still subject to HollywoodHealing (even if ScarsAreForever).

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* In the ''StargateAtlantis'' episode "Sateda", [=McKay=] gets shot in the rear end with an arrow.
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* HoneyWest is shot in the butt in ''This Girl for Hire''.

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* Happened in ''{{Spaceballs}}'' with a reflected blaster shot.
* In the {{western}} ''That Beautiful Blonde from Bashful Bend,'' the heroine continually shoots at her no-good boyfriend-- only to perpetually hit the ''town judge'' in the butt.




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* When testing the myth that a penny dropped from the top of the Empire State Building would kill anyone it hits, [[MythBusters Jamie]] adapted a staple gun to fire pennies at their terminal velocity. Adam ''volunteered'' for a butt shot. [[spoiler:He wasn't injured, Myth Busted.]]
* In an episode of ''NYPDBlue,'' Andy Sipwics is shot several times by an enemy and left for dead; as a parting-shot, the enemy then shoots him once in each buttock as a final insult. Sipowics lives, but he's forced to sit on an inflatable donut for some time.

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* {{Mercenaries}} 2, your former employer, instead of properly paying you, wants you dead and tries to kill you. You get shot in the ass. The enemy mooks even call you the guy who got shot in the ass.


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* {{Mercenaries}} 2, your former employer, instead of properly paying you, wants you dead and tries to kill you. You get shot in the ass. The enemy mooks even call you the guy who got shot in the ass.
** The theme song from the ads, "Oh No You Didn't", even mentions the incident.
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* A surviving victim of the [[JackTheRipoff Copycat]] Zodiac was shot in the ass.

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* The protagonist of the 51st State is shot in the arse by a [[AlmostLethalWeapons suddenly less dangerous]] high velocity rifle. It appears to be about as [[OnlyAFleshWound damaging as an airgun]], despite having killed a bunch of guys moments before. Even ImprobableAimingSkills couldn't really pull that one off.
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* Happens to a couple of people over the course of {{MASH}}. Including once to Colonel Potter.
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*In ''FullMetalPanic'', there's the instance where Gauron disguised himself as a member of Mithril and made his way to his AS. When Mardukas sent people to stop him, he turned around and opened fire on them. All of them managed to run away safely, except for one poor sap that was crouching in a corner. He, literally, got shot in the ass.

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*In ''FullMetalPanic'', there's the instance where Gauron disguised himself as a member of Mithril and made his way to his AS. When Mardukas sent people to stop him, he turned around and opened fire on them. All of them managed to run away safely, except for one poor sap that was crouching in a corner. He, literally, got shot in the ass.
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**'PlayedForLaughs' example is in Fumoffu: In an episode where the boys are trying to spy on the girls while they are in the hot spring, Kurz is shot in the buttocks with a laser and loses the ability to [[CrowningMomentOfFunny to go on and must leave it to Shinji to protect the male honor.]]

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* In ''BillyMadison'' when Eric threatens the audience at gunpoint when losing the decathlon to Billy, he gets shot in the ass by a man Billy called earlier saving the day.


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* Boris gets shot in the rear more than once in ''RockyAndBullwinkle''.
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*EasyMoney. Just when RodneyDangerfield has given up on his effort to quit drinking/smoking/carousing (in order to inherit ten million dollars), his daughter's estranged husband shows up with a gun, and this happens -- putting Dangerfield in the hospital and saving the inheritance.
*BlazingSaddles: After being in a whole series of gunfights against a bunch of [[TheGunfighterWannabe wannabe gunfighters]], the [[FastestGunInTheWest Waco Kid]] hears a voice from behind him shout "Reach for it, mister!" and turns around with his guns drawn to see his challenger: a six year old with a set of revolvers. At this point Waco goes to throw down his guns and walk away, but the "little bastard shot me in the ass."

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*EasyMoney.* EasyMoney. Just when RodneyDangerfield has given up on his effort to quit drinking/smoking/carousing (in order to inherit ten million dollars), his daughter's estranged husband shows up with a gun, and this happens -- putting Dangerfield in the hospital and saving the inheritance.
*BlazingSaddles: * BlazingSaddles: After being in a whole series of gunfights against a bunch of [[TheGunfighterWannabe wannabe gunfighters]], the [[FastestGunInTheWest Waco Kid]] hears a voice from behind him shout "Reach for it, mister!" and turns around with his guns drawn to see his challenger: a six year old with a set of revolvers. At this point Waco goes to throw down his guns and walk away, but the "little bastard shot me in the ass."



* WhosTheMan" has Samuel Jackson getting shot in the ass, where in the next scene, he tries to get on a plane, but a metal detector prevents him from doing so because the bullet is permanently lodged.

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* WhosTheMan" ''[=~Who's the Man~=]'' has Samuel Jackson getting shot in the ass, where in the next scene, he tries to get on a plane, but a metal detector prevents him from doing so because the bullet is permanently lodged.

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