History Main / SmokingBarrelBlowout

Note: in RealLife this is ''very'' stupid. At best, you're liable to get burnt powder in your eyes. At worst, you could end up killing yourself. Just because the gun went "bang" after all, doesn't mean the bullet came out. This goes double for semi-automatic or automatic firearms, because they can chamber rounds right after firing. If you prefer living, it's best to keep guns pointed well away from your body: particularly your face. Even if you don't particularly love living, keep in mind that "accidentally shot themself" is a phrase commonly found in the bios of [[https://darwinawards.com/ Darwin Award]] winners.

* This '''does''' have a use. But only with blackpowder firearms, particularly rifles. The moisture condensing out of the breath softens blackpowder fouling, makes it easier to clean the gun, and makes repeat shots more consistent. It's still unsafe to do it from the barrel, of course. Modern competition shooters often use a "blow tube" inserted from the chamber end to blow out the barrels of breech-loaders and cartridge guns.

* Inverted in ''Film/{{Deadpool 2016}}''; after capping three mooks with one bullet, Deadpool ''snorts'' the smoke coming from his guns.

* Hit enough people with the secondary fire of the revolver in ''VideoGame/{{Postal}} 2: Paradise Lost'' and the Postal Dude will do this afterwards.
* In ''VideoGame/DevilMayCry 3'' Dante does this after finishing off Nevan with a bullet to the gut.

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* ''ComicBook/StreetFighter'': Po Lin does this after besting Chun Li's time to complete a criminal combating scenario at the police firing range shown here [[https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/S/cmx-images-prod/Item/63817/Previews/6d4f7d4a263b678eb02f2285a864c55f._SX1280_QL80_TTD_.jpg]].

* Naval vessels used compressed air to blow the gunsmoke (or rather combustion gases) off the cannon barrels after firing them. Justified, since the combustion gases contain a lot of carbon monoxide and other toxic substances which could [[DeadlyEuphemism severly impair]] the turret crew.

This is when a (usually successful) gunshot goes off and the shooter blows away the smoke at the tip of the barrel afterward. May be parodied with gun-like objects, such as a FingerGun, or with objects such as blowtorches. Especially common with {{The Gunslinger}}s in {{Western}} movies, as modern ammunition is less smoky.

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* ''ComicBook/TheFurtherAdventuresOfIndianaJones'': In #12, Marion does this after performing a ConvenientlyTimedAttackFromBehind to prevent Indy from getting a throwing knif

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* ''ComicBook/TheFurtherAdventuresOfIndianaJones'': In #12, Marion does this after performing a ConvenientlyTimedAttackFromBehind to prevent Indy from getting a throwing knife in the back.
* ''ComicBook/LuckyLuke'': The titular character of the comic book (as well as the trope page's picture) does this a lot.

* ''Series/StarTrekVoyager''. In "Bride of Chaotica!", Harry Kim does this from his RayGun while playing the WorldOfHam holoprogram ''Film/TheAdventuresOfCaptainProton''.
* ''Series/{{Ekaterina}}'': Catherine does this after mocking a guy with her gun shown here [[https://thumbs.gfycat.com/HideousTameAmericanpainthorse-size_restricted.gif]].

* In ''Film/{{Hick}}'' Luli does this after using her revolver.

* ''Series/Ekaterina'': Catherine does this after mocking a guy with her gun shown here [[https://thumbs.gfycat.com/HideousTameAmericanpainthorse-size_restricted.gif]].

%%* Meadow does this with her wand in ''WesternAnimation/LiteSprites'' after a bit of impressive [[PaintingTheFrostOnWindows color-giving]].

%%* ''Anime/CowboyBebop'': Spike does this after using his pistol in an episode.

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%%* Both used dramatically and parodied in ''Literature/{{Paprika}}''.
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%%* ''VideoGame/{{Unkilled}}'' Sam does this in a trailer: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KSIO3Rg2c3k]].

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%%* WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes:
%%** ''Wild and Woolly Hare'': Bugs Bunny ends a gunshot trick this way, with the bullet [[HatDamage splitting Yosemite Sam's hat down the middle]].
%%** ''WesternAnimation/MexicaliShmoes'': Slowpoke Rodriguez does this after using his gun (which is ''bigger than he is'') to get away from Jose the cat.
%%** ''Rhapsody Rabbit'': Bugs Bunny does this after shooting a rather disruptive audience member who wouldn't stop coughing at his piano concert.

%%* ''WesternAnimation/SpongeBobSquarePants'' does this in the premiere episode, only with a spatula after he saves Mr. Krabs and Squidward from hungry tourists with his expert fry cooking skills, likewise landing him the job at the Krusty Krab.

%%* ''ComicBook/LuckyLuke'': The titular character of the comic book (as well as the trope page's picture) does this a lot.

%%* Fievel does it on ''WesternAnimation/AnAmericanTailFievelGoesWest''. As a clever touch, the smoke looks like a cat about to shoot him.
%%* Basil does this in ''WesternAnimation/TheGreatMouseDetective'' after firing a gun he obtained as part of his most recent case, at Mrs. Judson's pillows.
%%* In ''WesternAnimation/TheLittleMermaidIIReturnToTheSea'' film, [[BigBad Morgana]] does this with ''the'' trident after returning her minion to normal size.
%%* Cora from ''WesternAnimation/RatchetAndClank'' does this after firing her Combuster pistols in a PR demonstration in front of a crowd in Alerro City.
%%* In ''WesternAnimation/{{Rango}}'', Rattlesnake Jake does this with his gun after he makes his entrance by shooting at a sign until it was riddled with bullets.

%%* ''Film/AceVentura'': Done by Ace Ventura in ''When Nature Calls'' with a skunk's ass after using it to spray two poachers with its trademark stink.

%%* Ash does this to his shotgun after shooting a demon that escaped from its holding pit in ''Film/ArmyOfDarkness''.
%%* John [=McClane=] does this at the end of ''Film/DieHard'' when he caps Hans.
%%* ''Film/TankGirl'': Jet Girl does this after she shoots Sergeant Small.
%%* Also done in ''Film/TheMask'', on a cartoon bike horn, after blowing out an obnoxious motorist's windows. ''All of them.''

%%* Done by the one-legged stripper in ''Film/PlanetTerror''. Unusual in that the gun she blows on is an automatic rifle attached to her stump.
%%* Ricky does this in ''Film/SilentNightDeadlyNightPart2'' after the first kill in his [[MemeticMutation Garbage Day]] massacre.
%%* In ''Film/AustinPowersInternationalManOfMystery'', the fembots do this with their TorpedoTits.

%%* In ''Film/HowTheGrinchStoleChristmas'', Martha May Whoivier does this with the cannon-like apparatus she uses to hang lights on her house.

%%* Done by Brass in one of the trope-heavy crime scenarios from Hodges' board game on ''Series/{{CSI}}''.
%%* ''Series/EngineSentaiGoOnger''[=/=]''Series/PowerRangersRPM'': Done with Gunpherd[=/=]Wolf Cruiser when attached to Engine-O[=/=]High Octane Megazord.
%%* ''Series/StarTrekVoyager''. In "Bride of Chaotica!", Harry Kim does this from his RayGun while playing the WorldOfHam holoprogram ''Film/TheAdventuresOfCaptainProton''.

%%* Perdita Ortega of ''TabletopGame/{{Malifaux}}'' has an alternate sculpt where she does this.

%%* In ''VideoGame/TeamFortress2'', the Heavy does this with his FingerGun taunt, and TheEngineer has this as his Pistol and Wrangler taunts.
%%* Vent does this in a comic that was based off of the first ''VideoGame/MegaManZX'' VideoGame.
%%* Sonic the Hedgehog does this with [[spoiler:a magic lamp]] in ''[[VideoGame/SonicStorybookSeries Sonic and the Secret Rings]]'' after [[spoiler: imprisoning Erazor Djinn within it; a flame on the end prompts him to raised it to his face and blow out out like a gun]].
%%* In ''VideoGame/MortalKombatX'', Cassie Cage does this in her non-Fatality finish.
%%* Hit enough people with the secondary fire of the revolver in ''VideoGame/{{Postal}} 2: Paradise Lost'' and the Postal Dude will do this afterwards.
%%* In ''VideoGame/DevilMayCry 3'' Dante does this after finishing off Nevan with a bullet to the gut.

%%* ''VideoGame/SlyCooperThievesInTime'': A rude coyote does this after shooting some targets in a range back in the old west. Why is he rude? Well he's rather chauvinistic towards Carmelita for starters.

%%* ''WebVideo/JonTron'' makes this gesture with his finger after [[ItMakesSenseInContext killing the]] [[VideoGame/ClockTower Scissor Man]] [[ItMakesSenseInContext with a slice of ham and shoving it into an empty holster.]]
%%* ''WebVideo/TheNostalgiaCritic'': Done by the Critic at the beginning of the opening credits starting with the new 2019 opening.

%%* Cedric does this in ''WesternAnimation/SofiaTheFirst: Once Upon a Princess''.
%%* In one episode of ''WesternAnimation/DefendersOfTheEarth'', Flash somehow manages to do this with his RayGun, after destroying a bunch of MechaMooks and commenting that "I should've been a cowboy."
%%* At the climax of an episode of ''WesternAnimation/TheRealGhostbusters'', Venkman nabs the ghosts of the Earp Brothers and Doc Holiday, then does this with one of the ghost traps.

%%* ''WesternAnimation/BatmanTheAnimatedSeries'': Harley Quinn does this in an episode.
%%* ''WesternAnimation/XiaolinShowdown'': in the episode "Night of the Sapphire Dragon", Dojo does this to of all things a bottle of hot sauce he drank from to use to breathe fire to defeat the Sapphire Dragon.
%%* ''WesternAnimation/ThePinkPanther'': A frustrated conductor does this after shooting a rather disruptive audience member who wouldn't stop coughing.
%%* ''WesternAnimation/TuffPuppy'': Dudley does this to his fist after punching Jack Rabbit in the episode "The Wrong Stuff".

* ''Webcomic/StandStillStaySilent'': Sigrun blows out the FingerGun she used to kill the "sheep" that Reynir had brought into rock-paper-scissors game between the two of them.

* ''ComicBook/TheFurtherAdventuresOfIndianaJones: In #12, Marion does this after performing a ConvenientlyTimesAttackFromBehind to prevent Indy from getting a throwing knife in the back.