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| 18 | ->''"And you can all hide behind your desks now!\ |
| 19 | And you can cry, 'teacher come help me'!\ |
| 20 | Through you all, my aim is true!"'' |
| 21 | -->-- '''Music/TheOffspring''', "Hammerhead" |
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| 23 | A student brings a weapon to school. They may not necessarily use it against anybody, but even then you can expect somebody's parents to panic about what could have happened. This plot will rarely last longer than a single VerySpecialEpisode and can focus on the incident, the following consequences, or a mix of each. |
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| 25 | Outside of characters designed to be antagonists, the person who brings the weapon is rarely a member of the core cast, since that would force the writers to either justify it in the audience's mind and/or [[StatusQuoIsGod come up with some way]] for them to [[KarmaHoudini get off scot-free]]. Unnamed background characters who attempt this are fair game for being caught and sent off to juvie, though. If they ''are'' a main character, expect for them to be gone from the show [[PutOnABus for a long time]]. |
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| 27 | Unfortunately, [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/School_shooting this often tends to be]] TruthInTelevision, as school shooting tragedies such as UsefulNotes/{{Columbine}} have proven -- otherwise, schools wouldn't have metal detectors and X-ray scanners, and teachers wouldn't be issued Kevlar vests and, in some US states, allowed to bring guns of their own. Of course, the real life portion of this is OlderThanTheyThink; the UsefulNotes/{{Columbine}} incident in 1999 was simply one of a handful of shootings that earned national attention. In his book ''Brain Droppings'', Creator/GeorgeCarlin refers to schoolyard deaths back in his childhood. |
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| 29 | See Also: GunsInChurch, SchoolIsMurder. Compare GoingPostal. Like AxCrazy, this doesn't necessarily involve an axe, it could be a gun or a knife, or hell, even more exotic weapons such as a [[Manga/SaitamaChainsawShoujo chainsaw]]. Common target of the SpreeKiller. |
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| 31 | !!Examples: |
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| 33 | [[folder:Advertising]] |
| 34 | * The ''Film/{{Evan}}'' PSA ends with a student arriving at the yearbook pick-up with a gun, followed by a OnceMoreWithClarity flashback displaying all the warning signs that he was planning a school shooting that weren't noticed until he went ahead with it. |
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| 37 | [[folder:Anime & Manga]] |
| 38 | * ''Anime/AngelBeats'', almost everyone with a name carries a weapon in school at some point (a school in the afterlife, but still). |
| 39 | * In ''Manga/{{Aphorism}}'', which takes place in a high school, most of the cast has some form of weapon...that they use to fight against the various monstrous things trying to kill them during the "God's Blight"s. The weapons are stored as characters somewhere on their bodies when not in use. For example: |
| 40 | ** [[HeirToTheDojo Hirasawa Aira]] has a katana. [[WhipSword Chisato]] has two. |
| 41 | ** Tatsumi [[DualWielding dual-wields]] halberds. |
| 42 | ** Hokuto has a huge spear, complementing his twin, Nanto's, shield. |
| 43 | ** Noa uses a bow. |
| 44 | ** Rokudou uses swords, either a {{BFS}} (as Inner!Rokudou) or two longsword-like objects. |
| 45 | * In ''Manga/ArmedGirlsMachiavellism'': |
| 46 | ** The Private Aiichi Symbiosis Academy allows its female students to carry blunt weapons (most have folding sticks, but the assistants to the Five Supreme Swords are more varied), and the [[AbsurdlyPowerfulStudentCouncil Five Supreme Swords]] carry actual swords. This is the result of the school being originally [[OneGenderSchool reserved for girls]], and when it became co-ed the female students were so scared of [[AllMenArePerverts what they expected the boys to do them]] they demanded, and obtained, to carry weapons for defense and the student council turning into a vigilante group for the more extreme cases, and by the time of the series there's exactly ''one'' girl, Kirukiru Amou, who doesn't carry a weapon... Because [[RazorSharpHand her hands are more than enough]]. |
| 47 | ** At Hokkai, Aiichi's twin school, everyone carries weapons. It doesn't do them any good when Amou is transferred there while the [[AbsurdlyPowerfulStudentCouncil Six King Swords]] are away. |
| 48 | * The eponymous ''Manga/AssassinationClassroom'' students use guns and knives on a daily basis to kill their teacher. The weapons used are harmless to humans, and the teacher is a SuperSpeed creature who intends to [[EarthShatteringKaboom blow up the Earth]] a year after [[DetonationMoon making the Moon a permanent crescent]]. As this teacher's only class is located in a satellite building very isolated from the rest of the school (and whose students stay in that campus region during the school day), it's entirely reasonable that only those students, the principal, and the specific teachers using that building know the weapons exist. |
| 49 | * ''Manga/AyakashiTriangle'': Soga and Matsuri are exorcist ninja who are shown to conceal kunai and shuriken in their school uniform--on top of wearing {{Transformation Trinket}}s that arm them further in their battle suit. They presumably have permission from the principal, who knows of their duties. |
| 50 | * In ''Anime/BloodC'', Saya brought her katana to school and no one including her teacher noticed it. Tadayoshi told her to bring it with her in case an Elder Bairns appear. Then in episode 8, she brought it again and they started to notice it. |
| 51 | * ''Manga/ChainsawMan'': The [[CreatureHunterOrganization Devil Hunter Club]] at Four East High, which doubles as an AbsurdlyPowerfulStudentCouncil, bring weapons to school, though they're only shown carrying them in emergencies. [[FantasyGunControl Though guns are inaccessible to them as to most of the world]], their armaments included swords, spiked knuckle dusters, and a crossbow. Considering the world-wide frequency of [[OurDemonsAreDifferent devil attacks]], [[CrapsackWorld this is depressingly necessary]]. |
| 52 | * Hiruma from ''Manga/Eyeshield21'' regularly brings guns to school, and gets away with it because [[{{Blackmail}} he has dirt on the principal]] (and [[ExaggeratedTrope probably half of Japan]], by the look of things). |
| 53 | * ''Anime/FullMetalPanicFumoffu'' has Sousuke engage in this a lot as a source of humor, much like he does in [[Literature/FullMetalPanic the original series]]. In the final episode, Sōsuke orders a biowarfare agent from a military company and they send it to the school instead of his home address (to his credit, Sōsuke isn't happy and calls to complain). Then one of his classmates opens the thermos, exposing the entire school. Thankfully, after all the "We're gonna die!" drama, it turns out that the agent just [[TheNudifier dissolves synthetic clothing]], but that's still not enough to spare Sōsuke from his classmates' wrath. |
| 54 | * [[{{Yandere}} Yuno Gasai]], of ''Manga/FutureDiary'', has no problem carrying a multitude of weapons with her wherever she goes, including knives, boxcutters, axes, needles...basically anything sharp she can carry around with her. [[AxCrazy You would not believe the body count she's accumulated over the course of the series.]] Keep in mind that she's a middle-school-age girl [[LoveMakesYouCrazy doing it all out of love]]. |
| 55 | * ''Anime/GabrielDropOut'' with Satanichia's gun she bought in Hell's online store. In this case, this is downplayed, since the gun is actually non-lethal, and all a shot can do is make its target laugh uncontrollably for ten minutes. [[HoistByHisOwnPetard It did not go as Satanichia planned]]. |
| 56 | * ''Manga/KillMeBaby'': |
| 57 | ** Sonya regularly brings knives to school, and sometimes uses them on Yasuna. It's justified since she's an assassin and needs to have her weapons ready at all times in case she needs to kill someone, or a rival assassin [[AssassinOutclassin targets her while she's attending school.]] |
| 58 | ** [[{{Ninja}} Agiri]] brings shurikens to school, as well as other gadgets like a bomb disguised as a fake hand. She casually mentions to Yasuna that she also has weapons like machine guns and rocket launchers in her arsenal. |
| 59 | ** Yasuna brings a water pistol to school in one skit, and nunchucks in another. |
| 60 | * At the beginning of ''Anime/MyHime'', one of Haruka's complaints against Mai was that she brought a sword to school. It was actually Mikoto's. |
| 61 | * ''Manga/NegimaMagisterNegiMagi'': |
| 62 | ** Mana Tatsumiya is frequently seen with a gun of some sort in class, at least in the anime. It's never treated as odd and all she ever does with it is sit cleaning it or occasionally aim it at people to scare them. It's unlikely she actually brings ammo to class since you'd not want to try to clean a loaded gun. In the manga, she hides the guns better, although Setsuna carries a sword around literally ''all'' the time. Justified as both Mana and Setsuna are on the school's payroll, protecting it from malignant magical entities. |
| 63 | ** Setsuna hides hers in a long bag, so most people just assumes she has a shinai or bokutō used for Kendo practice. Mana, on the other hand, is on the Biathlon Club, so most people assume that the one visible gun is the airsoft rifle she uses there... And it's actually true, most of the time. |
| 64 | * Parodied in ''Manga/{{Nichijou}}'' by Misato, the "gundere" who [[HyperspaceArsenal yanks military-grade firearms out of nowhere]] whenever she gets angry, i.e. at least once per appearance. Usually, she fires them at a certain classmate, [[{{Tsundere}} who she has a crush on]]. No one reacts to the sight of such weapons and anyone hit by them receives AmusingInjuries, at worst, so whether they're real or [[MrImagination all in her head]] [[{{Absurdism}} isn't entirely clear]]. |
| 65 | * ''Manga/RanmaOneHalf'': Kuno usually only carries a ''[[WoodenKatanasAreEvenBetter bokken]]'' around school, which is technically sports equipment (even if he gets into fights with it). However, one arc involves him winning a wish-granting (metal) sword, which he carries into class without comment. |
| 66 | * The story of ''Manga/SaitamaChainsawShoujo'' centers around the main character bringing her chainsaw to school... and using it on ''everybody''. |
| 67 | * Spoofed in ''Manga/UruseiYatsura'': Ataru shoots a movie about delinquent students and shows fairly realistic ways they could hide weapons in their clothes... Then one of Lum's devices brings the movie characters into reality, and one of them pulls an axe from ''behind his sunglasses'' and the two girls ''fire missiles from under their skirts''. |
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| 70 | [[folder:Asian Animation]] |
| 71 | * ''Animation/HappyHeroes'': Deconstructed in Season 5 episode 22, where Careless S. uses his weapons in Superstar School. While it's true that he uses them to fight villains, Careless S., being... well, ''careless'', often ends up destroying parts of the school building by accident in using his guns and whatnot. Headmaster Tele acts accordingly and confiscates Careless S.'s weapons... not that it stops Careless from hiding weapons throughout the school. |
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| 74 | [[folder:Comic Books]] |
| 75 | * A gun being brought into Tim Drake's (a.k.a Robin's) school drives the plot of the 1993 one-shot ''Franchise/{{Batman}}: Seduction of the Gun''. It was also the subject of a storyline in the regular ''ComicBook/{{Robin|1993}}'' title. |
| 76 | * Creator/WarrenEllis wrote a story for ''ComicBook/{{Hellblazer}}'' called "Shoot" that suggested that the systemic problems of society contributed to the don't-care-if-they-live-or-die attitude of some school shooters... and their victims. It was scheduled to run after the Columbine shooting and pulled [[DistancedFromCurrentEvents for obvious reasons]]; Ellis quit the title rather than make changes to the story the higher-ups demanded. It was finally published in its original form as a part of a ''Hellblazer'' anthology in 2014. |
| 77 | -->'''John Constantine''': ''(reviewing a videotape of the shooting)'' He's drawn the gun. And none of these kids are running away. ''I'' see kids in a schoolyard in some dead-end hole of a town in some asshole county in some crumbling state with no education and no hope and no future and they're waiting. They're just standing there. |
| 78 | * In the 2000s ''ComicBook/SpiderMan'' arc "Skin Deep", we see an incident from Peter's schooldays where a kid who got picked on even worse than him brought a knife to school for self-defence. When a teacher found it, Peter took the heat for him, claiming that it was his uncle's knife and he wanted to sharpen it in shop class as a "surprise". The present-day Peter, narrating, notes that the only reason he wasn't expelled was that the idea of a giant nerd like him wanting to knife someone was unbelievable. |
| 79 | -->"It was, you understand, a different world then." |
| 80 | * ''ComicBook/{{Transmetropolitan}}'' has a scene where Channon explains to Yelena that the first time she used a particular model of gun was to stop a classmate from raping a friend. While they were on the school bus. When Yelena meekly says that they checked for guns at her private school, Channon says, "So did mine. To make sure we had them." |
| 81 | * In ''ComicBook/UltimateSpiderMan2000'', NewTransferStudent Gwen Stacy sees Peter getting bullied and threatens the tormentors with a knife. She gets in deep trouble with the school for this, though she's soon allowed back in class after making an apology (it helps that her dad's a police captain). When her dad starts chewing her out for it, she shoots back that he never even bothered to ask her if she had justification. |
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| 84 | [[folder:Comic Strips]] |
| 85 | * Dogbert from ''ComicStrip/{{Dilbert}}'' once worked as a substitute teacher in a public school, resulting in the line "Eugene! Release those hostages or I shall be forced to fling this chalk eraser at your head!" |
| 86 | * Linus van Pelt from ''Franchise/{{Peanuts}}'' provides a weird example with his trademark SecurityBlanket. He takes it with him to school, to which Charlie Brown asks him if other kids find it weird. Upon whipping a nickel away with the force of a real whip, Linus points out that they don't say much about him having his blanket with him. |
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| 89 | [[folder:Fan Works]] |
| 90 | * ''Fanfic/AllForLuz'': On the 3rd day of the MassSuperEmpoweringEvent, a boy with a Quirk to continuously gain kinetic energy blew up his whole high school out of the ground in an unprovoked attack. The explosion killed 100s of people in the process and he was gunned down by the police for this. |
| 91 | * This ''Manga/DestinyOfTheShrineMaiden'' [[https://mandygirl78.deviantart.com/gallery/43523846/Doujin-More-Dangerous-Than-the-Orochi doujin]] discusses this trope [[RealLifeWritesThePlot in light of]] the 2012 Sandy Hook School shooting. |
| 92 | * In the ''Literature/{{Discworld}}'' fanfics by Creator/AAPessimal, the Assassins' Guild School, an institution where pupils are ''expected'' to bring weaponry, is expanded from its portrayal in canon. Pupils of different ethnicities, and indeed, species, may carry culturally approved weapons if these are an accepted part of everyday dress. A Dwarf pupil is allowed to take her axe into class, and a Zulu pupil is permitted an assegai of regulation length. At all other times, approved weapons, and only approved weapons, are to be kept securely in a School-issue armoire in their dorm. These are regularly inspected to ensure ''only'' approved weapons are kept in there. A typical dorm inspection [[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/12321109/36/Gap-Year-Adventures happens here]] |
| 93 | * ''Fanfic/DoingItRightThisTime'': Asuka obtained three handguns for Shinji, Rei and herself. They carried them everywhere, including school, hidden in their outfits or handbags. Their guardian Misato did like not it, but Asuka argued that they needed extra protection, and if they could be trusted with a giant robot then they could be trusted with a gun. |
| 94 | * A number of ''Literature/HarryPotter'' fanfics posit that ''every single student and teacher at any magic school is actually armed'' due their magic wands. Considering that, with proper training, a wand can cause small explosions, cut and bludgeon things and people, and even make them drop dead and aside for the illegal Killing Curse they're actually taught those at school, they may have a point. |
| 95 | * ''Fanfic/TheKeyToASuccessfulInterview'': Early on in the story, a news report mentions that a JSDF base was broken in and an A-10 "Thunderbolt II" (a plane normally used for tank-hunting) was stolen. Turns out, it was stolen by Shampoo, who took the fighter's [[{{BFG}} 30mm cannon]] and uses it later to ''demolish Furinkan High with gunfire'' (the cafeteria because that's where her target was, the rest of the building because she literally thought "what the hell"), trying to kill Akane and giving absolutely zero shits about any people caught in the crossfire (although, miraculously, there were no fatalities). Later on the story, she becomes part of Ranma's group saying that DefeatMeansFriendship, but considering that she pulled off one of the most devastating InUniverse school shootings in Japanese history and is running around [[KarmaHoudini free and unpunished by the law]], it's [[MoralEventHorizon quite]] [[InUniverse understandable]] that all other characters remain quite wary of her. |
| 96 | * In ''Fanfic/MasterPotterOfKamarTaj'', Harry brings Dragonfang - a sentient sword carved from the tooth of an interdimensional dragon - to school. When it is confiscated, Harry makes the argument that wands are equally as dangerous. |
| 97 | --> '''Harry:''' Sir, Dragonfang has been with me for over two years, and I've formed a bond with it. It's the only tie I have to home while I'm here. Please, I don't use it, it's just to have, like a paperweight in the shape of a gun.\ |
| 98 | '''Dumbledore:''' I'm sorry Harry, but it's a very dangerous weapon. It's not that I don't trust you, it's that I'm worried another student will be hurt by it like Mr. Weasley was when he found it.\ |
| 99 | '''Harry:''' Dangerous? The spells we fire from our wands can kill people, and you won't let me have a dagger?! |
| 100 | * A literal example occurs in the ''Webcomic/HetaliaAxisPowers'' fan fiction ''Fanfic/{{Outcast}}''. Administrators of the St. Hetalia Academy for Boys actually allow student Denmark to bring his giant heirloom battleaxe to school -- provided it's securely bolted to the wall of his dorm room and only ever used as a decoration. Of course, those precautions mean nothing when Denmark flies into a berserker rage and rips the bolts out of the wall when he [[spoiler:tries to kill Sweden]]. |
| 101 | * ''Fanfic/ShinjiAndWarhammer40k'': Kensuke kept several dozens of bolter guns stored in his school's attic per Shinji's instructions in case his schoolmates needed to defend themselves. Although it sounds like a spectacularly bad idea, Shinji's foresight saved his schoolmates lives when Matarael's spawn invaded the city. |
| 102 | %%* [[https://archiveofourown.org/works/17662505 This]] ''WesternAnimation/StevenUniverse'' fanfiction has White Diamond rescuing Steven and Connie from a school shooting, and the [[https://archiveofourown.org/works/17673728 follow-up story]] deals with the aftermath. |
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| 105 | [[folder:Film -- Live-Action]] |
| 106 | * ''Film/Angel1984'': Responding to Ric's accusations that Molly is a prostitute, Miss Allen searches her locker and finds the small automatic she purchased planning to hunt down the SerialKiller. |
| 107 | * ''Film/AprilShowers'', written and directed by a survivor of the school massacre and loosely based on it. |
| 108 | * The protagonist of ''Film/TheBasketballDiaries'' has a dream where he sees himself wearing a trenchcoat and bringing a shotgun to shoot up most of his class, while his friends cheer him on. |
| 109 | * In ''Film/{{Boot Camp|2008}}'', Danny is sent to Camp Serenity for planning a school shooting, although he claims this was just a persona he created to freak his parents. |
| 110 | * In ''Film/TheBreakfastClub'', Brian is in detention for bringing a gun to school, presumably [[DrivenToSuicide to kill himself]] because he didn't want to face [[EducationMama his parents']] reactions to him failing shop class. The school found out he'd brought it when it went off in his locker. However, [[spoiler:it was a flare gun, not an actual gun, which is part of the reason it went off prematurely]]. Brian is in detention not because of what he brought, but because the gun damaged the school's lockers when it went off. |
| 111 | * The MadeForTVMovie ''Film/DetentionTheSiegeAtJohnsonHigh'' (aka ''Hostage High'' and ''Target for Rage''), a loose dramatization of the 1992 Lindhurst High School shooting. A high school dropout returns to his alma mater to kill the history teacher he blames for him flunking out, and winds up taking over sixty students and faculty hostage. |
| 112 | * ''Film/DoraAndTheLostCityOfGold'': Dora packs survival gear, such as flares and a large knife. |
| 113 | * ''Film/DuckTheCarbineHighMassacre'' was the ExploitationFilm version, released just six months after the massacre. Notably, the filmmakers were involved in a real-life version of this trope, having brought real guns onto a high school campus in order to shoot their movie -- which got them arrested, a fact that they [[NoSuchThingAsBadPublicity proudly boasted about]] on the film's poster ("the controversial film that landed its filmmakers in jail!"). |
| 114 | * Gus Van Sant's ''Film/Elephant2003'' is one of the more famous examples, a SliceOfLife story following several high school students whose normal day is violently interrupted when two boys, possibly influenced (or not) by a mix of [[MurderSimulators violent video games]], [[ThoseWackyNazis neo-Nazism]], [[TheBully bullying]], and more, show up to start killing people. |
| 115 | * ''Film/TheFaculty'' has Zeke pulling a gun on the principal, who he and his friends suspect to be controlled by the alien PuppeteerParasite, in the gym and forcing her to snort his homemade drug (which dehydrates and kills the parasites) or else he'll shoot her. She refuses and threatens to have him expelled, [[spoiler:which is [[TooDumbToLive not the wisest thing to say]] to somebody who is holding a gun to your head. That said, she ''was'' possessed, which lets her get right back up until the other protagonists dump a ton of Zeke's powdered drug all over her face, killing her for good.]] One of the rare instances where the kid with the gun is portrayed as the unambiguous hero, and a clear sign that the film was [[UnintentionalPeriodPiece released four months before Columbine]]. |
| 116 | * ''Film/TheFallout'' deals with the emotional aftermath of a school shooting, which is shown offscreen in the first act. |
| 117 | * ''Film/TheGirlFromMonday'': Students are now ''required'' to have guns in school, in self-defense. |
| 118 | * In ''Film/{{Heathers}}'', J.D. brings a revolver (loaded with blanks) to school and "shoots" two kids in the cafeteria. It gets PlayedForLaughs. Not to mention he wears a trench coat for the entire movie. Yeah... [[ValuesDissonance kind of says something about when the film was made]]. Of course, it also says something about its [[BlackComedy genre]]. |
| 119 | * PlayedForLaughs in ''Film/NotAnotherTeenMovie'', in which Jake - in an effort to woo Janey - starts singing "[[{{Music/Aerosmith}} Janey's Got a Gun]]", which everyone else takes literally. Including school security. |
| 120 | * In ''Film/{{Parenthood}}'', Kevin is at the top of a tower shooting at everyone in sight with an assault rifle in [[Creator/SteveMartin Gil]]'s second FlashForward to Kevin's college graduation. |
| 121 | * ''Film/RunHideFight'', which can be summed up as "''Film/DieHard'' [[DieHardOnAnX during a school shooting]]" and is loosely based on various real-life massacres. A group of kids led by a sociopathic AttentionWhore start massacring their classmates and take the rest hostage, livestreaming it all so that they can become famous. |
| 122 | * The original ending for ''Film/{{Saved}}'' called for [[AlphaBitch Hilary]] [[HolierThanThou Faye]] to [[VillainousBreakdown snap]], grab a rifle, and [[PromWrecker shoot up her prom]] after [[spoiler:she got expelled]]. A scene earlier in the film of Hilary at a gun range was originally meant to foreshadow the ending. |
| 123 | * In ''Film/{{Storm}}'', made in 1987, Booker threatens a fellow student ''at gunpoint'', and none of the witnesses so much as tell a teacher. [[spoiler:The gun was a water pistol loaded with ketchup, as the film predates the law requiring toy guns to look fake.]] A major plot point involves two main characters sneaking up and shooting each other with dart pistols every day. |
| 124 | * The CruelTwistEnding of ''Film/TheWave2008'' occurs when Tim, the class's [[LonersAreFreaks loner desperately seeking friends]], has a FreakOut when his teacher reveals what [[ANaziByAnyOtherName the Wave movement truly is]] and pulls out a gun because how dare he destroy the only thing that allowed Tim to connect with the rest of the class. [[spoiler:The teacher is able to talk down Tim from shooting anybody else, but Tim [[DrivenToSuicide blows his brains out]] and the teacher [[FelonyMurder is arrested as a result]].]] |
| 125 | * ''Film/ZeroDay'' is a [[FoundFootageFilms found-footage]] take on the shooting, inspired by the video diaries that the Columbine killers kept. |
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| 128 | [[folder:Literature]] |
| 129 | * ''Literature/Afterglow2015'': Literally. One of Josie's classmates, [[spoiler:under the effects of 2015E's power]] attacks people with an axe at the Overton homecoming dance. |
| 130 | * In one of the ''Literature/AlexRider'' books, the TeenSuperspy protagonist has one of his gadgets -- an [[ShoePhone explosive device disguised as a pen]] -- left over after one of his missions and decides to take it to school with him, mostly because he figures his SecretKeeper best friend will get a kick out of seeing it, but he also semi-jokingly considers setting it off outside the teacher's lounge. It turns out to be an important ChekhovsGun when he's kidnapped by the BigBad before he can get to school. |
| 131 | * ''Literature/{{Circleverse}}'': A rare version where the main character is caught with it in ''Literature/CircleOfMagic'' book one, ''Sandry's Book''. The (recently) ex-StreetUrchin Briar Moss is having a lot of trouble adjusting to his new school dormitory. When the other boys pick a fight with him, the fact that he pulls knives on them in self-defence means he's the one who gets kicked out. |
| 132 | -->"Whatever else, I want ''him'' out of here," the man holding Briar snapped. He shook the boy hard. "Knives have no place in a boys' dormitory!"\ |
| 133 | "Depends on the dormitory," muttered Briar. |
| 134 | * In the ''Literature/{{Discworld}}'', The Assassins' Guild School subverts this trope somewhat, in that pupils are actually ''expected'' to bring weapons to school. It is mandatory, given what the school teaches. The Approved Equipment List issued to parents right at the start stipulates what is needed. However, fearsome rules govern who can carry what according to age and status, and pupils are expected to keep their hardware safely locked up outside lessons. In certain extraordinary circumstances, a pupil might be permitted to carry an otherwise unapproved weapon; it is accepted that Dwarf pupils may carry an axe for Cultural reasons. |
| 135 | * ''Literature/EmpireFalls'': John Voss the creepy kid, who is revealed to have dumped his grandma's body in the woods, comes back to school and shoots four people, three fatally. |
| 136 | * ''Literature/FullMetalPanic'': |
| 137 | ** A large amount of the comedy in the series is derived from Sōsuke's possession and use of weapons in inappropriate situations due to his military background and paranoia. Since he's a bodyguard for someone who actually does have people trying to kill or capture her, and is undercover as a high school student, this naturally occurs a lot at the school itself. What is more funny (or disturbing) is that the few times someone (especially Kaname) has brought to attention the fact he's bringing military-grade firepower to a Japanese school (which makes it illegal twice or even thrice over) nobody else gives a damn and even take Sagara's explanations (yes, he destroyed school property, but he had to be sure that there was no way some kind of assassination method could happen) at face value (it is heavily implied that MITHRIL is bribing the hell out of the school, however). |
| 138 | ** Sōsuke tries to bring his automatic sidearm to school on the first day, in public, without any attempt to hide it at all. The teacher doing the bag check assumes it's a model, confiscating the thing and letting him off with a stern warning. |
| 139 | ** He also has no problem dealing with some tampering with his shoe locker (that turned out to be a girl putting a typical "I love you, sempai!" kind of letter inside) by ''blowing up the whole damn shoe locker row with C-4'' (he thought that the tamperer had left a booby-trap bomb behind, you see). He "meets" the girl afterwards by staking out the meeting point with a sniper rifle. |
| 140 | * In ''Literature/TheLivingDead'', Greer's younger brother Conan, after seeing the beginnings of the ZombieApocalypse in the trailer park, brings his rifle to their high school and begins shooting former classmates and people who bullied him. |
| 141 | * In ''Literature/{{Pygmy}}'', the TeenSuperspy VillainProtagonist takes down a fellow student who shoots up the Roleplay/ModelUnitedNations meeting. The fallout from this incident, with Pygmy becoming a hero in the media and at school, [[spoiler:causes him to start doubting his mission to destroy America]]. |
| 142 | * The protagonist of ''Literature/Rage1977'' first carries a pipe wrench to school before upgrading to a handgun. |
| 143 | * ''Literature/RaiseSomeHell'': Justified, as it's a school for defending the world against demons. [[spoiler:Even though this ends up being a lie perpetrated by Lucifer/Satan to get people to send their souls to Hell]] |
| 144 | * ''Literature/SheIsTheOne'': A gun is found in Jack's high school locker. It's pretty quickly proven to not be his, but it's still far more than he was prepared to deal with when he walked into school that morning. |
| 145 | * In ''Literature/Spellbinder1996'', Randy, Blaise's PsychoExBoyfriend from her previous school, turns up to Lake Mead High's Homecoming Dance armed with a straight razor. He cuts himself on the cheeks and threatens people with it, slashing one boy on the arm when he tries to talk him down. Eric and some teachers are able to tackle and disarm Randy (with some help from Thea using mild mind control on him) before anyone is seriously hurt, though it understandably causes the dance to end early. |
| 146 | * The title university in ''Literature/TalesOfMU'' has a weapons policy - that is to say, weapons are ''mandatory''. It ''is'' a WizardingSchool in a DungeonPunk setting, and life on campus can get pretty dangerous. |
| 147 | * ''Literature/ThisIsWhereItEnds'': The whole plot of the book is about a boy who brings a gun to school, locks most of the student body in the auditorium, and starts killing them. |
| 148 | * The climax of ''Literature/WeNeedToTalkAboutKevin'' involves Kevin (by now firmly established as TheSociopath) pulling a Columbine-style massacre at his school using bow and arrows. The reason why he went through all of the trouble of becoming an expert with this weapon is that he wanted to make it absolutely clear for everybody who discussed the massacre afterwards that there was one reason and ''one'' reason only for what he did: because they ''pissed him off''. |
| 149 | * ''Literature/WingsOfFire'': The plot of ''Moon Rising'' involves a dragonet setting off a bomb in the history class of Jade Mountain Academy, and the protagonists trying to determine who was responsible. |
| 150 | [[/folder]] |
| 151 | |
| 152 | [[folder:Live-Action TV]] |
| 153 | * ''Series/TheFortyFourHundred'': In "Suffer the Children", Heather Tobey, a teacher at Van Buren Junior High School who disappeared in 1974, has the ability to unlock the artistic potential in her students. Her attempts to bring out the talents of Greg Venner, a boy with low self-esteem due to his bullying father Frank, are unsuccessful. Greg then takes a gun to school and tries to force Heather to use her ability on him so that he will not become a failure like his father. However, she is once again unable to do so since he does not have any hidden artistic or musical talent. Frank manages to talk Greg out of using the gun. |
| 154 | * ''Series/ThirteenReasonsWhy'': The Season 1 finale ends on a cliffhanger showing that Tyler has bought illegal guns and has made a hitlist of the students. [[spoiler:One season of continuous abuse later, he actually goes through with it - Clay ends up having to dissuade him from opening fire.]] |
| 155 | * ''Series/SeventhHeaven'': |
| 156 | ** In a benign version of this trope, the episode ''See You in September'' has Simon getting suspended from school for one day because his mother packed a knife with his lunch so that he could cut his chicken. |
| 157 | ** Another usage of this trope, more along the lines of VerySpecialEpisode, was when Simon discovered that one of his classmates planned on bringing a gun to school. The friend later claimed that he was kidding, but Simon nonetheless wrote a paper on the event, which he recited to the class, while at the same time said classmate opened his locker in front of a large number of people, including Simon's parents, revealing that he had, indeed, brought a gun into the school. |
| 158 | * ''Series/Accused2023'': Scott fears that his son is planning to shoot up his school in "Scott's Story". [[spoiler:It turns out he does, along with an accomplice, killing several students and taking others hostage before [[MurderSuicide killing himself]].]] |
| 159 | * Tate Langdon, one of the ghosts in ''Series/AmericanHorrorStoryMurderHouse'', carried out a pre-Columbine school shooting at his high school before being killed by police. |
| 160 | * A rare non-student example occurs in the very first episode of ''Series/BostonPublic'', when teacher Harry Senate arrives in class openly carrying a handgun, and even fires it off at a wall, all to try and bring his extremely rowdy class in line. To say that everyone is freaked out is an understatement, with the parents and Principal Harper absolutely (and understandably) enraged by his actions, leading to Harry almost losing his job. The incident even gets humorously referenced by the students during their charity show, which features a student dressed as Harry shooting someone in the head. |
| 161 | * ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'': |
| 162 | ** In "[[Recap/BuffyTheVampireSlayerS3E18Earshot Earshot]]", when Buffy gained the ability to read thoughts and discovered that someone was planning to kill everyone in the school. Cue Jonathan who is up on the abandoned clocktower putting together a high powered rifle [[spoiler:to shoot himself with. Buffy stops him and he goes into therapy (whether he gets better is a matter of opinion, although he stops being suicidal). It turns out the would-be mass murderer is the Evil Lunch Lady who is planning to poison the jelly]]. |
| 163 | ** Inverted in the first 3 seasons; school (the library, to be exact) was where most of Giles' weapons were kept. And there was even a fire axe in one of the hallways, which Buffy used a couple of times against monsters. |
| 164 | * ''Series/Danger5''. PlayedForLaughs in the episode "Johnny Hitler", where Danger 5 go undercover on a school campus. Jackson is about to shoot the BigBad when the principal confiscates his pistol and gives him detention. |
| 165 | * An episode of ''Series/TheDeadZone'' revolved around John Smith having a psychic vision of a future shooting, and community spiraling out of control in a self-induced panic. The only gun to actually make it on campus is the one held by the security guard, with tragic results. |
| 166 | * A two-part episode of ''Series/DegrassiTheNextGeneration'' has Rick, pushed past the brink, bringing a gun to school. The incident ends with [[spoiler:Rick dying and Jimmy confined to a wheelchair]]. |
| 167 | * ''Series/FamilyMatters'' when Laura brings a gun to school for protection after she is threatened by Toni for testifying against her in a trial. [[spoiler:Laura does not use her gun. However, Toni shoots her best friend Josie. Urkel, Laura, and the gang start a gun exchange program and Urkel does a rap about how bad guns are. At the end of the episode, the cast (out of character) comes together and does a PublicServiceAnnouncement about ending gun violence. ]] |
| 168 | * In ''Series/{{Fargo}}'', Lester does this as part of his plan to [[FrameUp frame his brother]]. He plants a gun in his nephew Gordo's backpack. When the gun is discovered at school, this causes the police to search the house, finding the evidence Lester planted. |
| 169 | * ''Series/FBIMostWanted'': In "[[Recap/FBIMostWantedS01E03 Hairtrigger]]", Doug Timmons is a survivor of a school shooting who plans to take revenge on those he believes failed by staging a mass shooting at a government building. |
| 170 | * The ''Series/{{Flashpoint}}'' episode "Perfect Storm" deals with a teenager bringing a gun to school to take revenge on his tormentors. |
| 171 | * One episode of the ''Series/TheGeorgeLopezShow'' had a student bring a gun to Max's school. The incident occurred offscreen, with the episode instead focusing on the psychological effects that the experience had on Max. |
| 172 | * This makes up the "Guns" half of the "Guns & Gossip" episode of ''Series/MySoCalledLife''. Rickie's cousin brings a gun to school and it accidentally goes off. Brian gets a lot of unwanted attention (good and bad) because he's thought to be an eyewitness. |
| 173 | * An episode of ''Series/OneTreeHill'' has a character bring a gun to school. He ends up dead by the end of it, as does [[spoiler:Keith Scott at the hands of his brother Dan]], which was made to look like the shooter did it. |
| 174 | * ''Radio/OurMissBrooks'': An unusual example from "Swap Week". The high school students are bartering a wide variety of odds and ends, encouraged by a new student named Larry Clayson. At one point, the principal, Mr. Conklin, traded for a shotgun and is practicing aiming it when Harriet (Mr. Conklin's daughter) walks into the room. She jokes "Oh, you got me!". Later, Mr. Conklin trades the shotgun to Walter Denton for a partial interest in his jalopy. Walter is seen carrying the gun across the Cafeteria. The episode first aired December 11, 1953, and is now a glaring example of ValuesDissonance. |
| 175 | * ''Series/TheOuterLimits1995'': |
| 176 | ** In the episode "Abduction", five high school kids are abducted by an alien. They eventually find out that the alien chose them because one of them brought a gun to school and was planning to shoot the other four. |
| 177 | ** {{Exaggerated|Trope}} in "Final Exam"; the antagonist brought a ''nuclear bomb'' to school. |
| 178 | * Happens on ''Series/{{Smallville}}'', where [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qg1z-SlHGOs Lana tries to kill Chloe with an axe]] (and actually doesn't completely [[KarmaHoudini escape punishment]], since the brawl got both of them suspended -- [[spoiler:she is under mind control, though]]). Also the {{Trope Namer|s}}. Of course, while going crazy and attempting to kill classmates is a big thing in most schools, for [[WeirdnessMagnet Smallville High]] it's... [[ButForMeItWasTuesday Tuesday.]] And in fairness, she didn't ''bring'' it to school; they crashed into an "in case of fire" box in the struggle and she just started using the fire axe from there. |
| 179 | * ''Series/MacGyver1985'': Exaggerated in the episode "Hell Week": a genius university student, despairing at having lost the titular competition[[note]]because the JerkJock cheated[[/note]] and thus [[WellDoneSonGuy disappointed his academic hard-ass father even more]], decides to commit suicide by using all of the gear in the college's well-equipped lab to build a bomb that [=MacGyver=] deems impossible to defuse in time[[note]]he still manages, but that's after [[GodzillaThreshold truly running out of other options with one minute remaining]][[/note]] ''[[WorseWithContext and]]'' will take out the university's nuclear physics lab as collateral damage if it explodes, so Mac and said father [[NitroExpress try to roll the bomb to the building's basement so it won't cause Three Mile Island II]]. |
| 180 | * One episode of ''Series/SouthOfNowhere'' has Spencer and Ashley skipping school while the others are forced into a day-long lockdown when a girl brings in a gun. |
| 181 | * ''Series/SWAT2017'': In "[[Recap/SWATS02E11School School]]" Hondo and the team are forced to revisit the past school shooting that they answered six years ago as they hunt down the copycat who is trying to re-enact another shooting with a higher body count. |
| 182 | * ''Series/WaterlooRoad'': The series 4 opener, in particular, saw the arrival of The Kelly Family (aka the family from hell) getting enrolled at Waterloo Road. However [[spoiler:Earl Kelly]] has a [[spoiler:gun]] in his hand. However, his younger son [[spoiler:Denzil Kelly]] has the [[spoiler:gun]] which eventually turned into a serious situation after a note was found at the door by Melissa Ryan that a [[spoiler:gun]] is in the school. |
| 183 | * The trailer for ''Series/{{Wednesday}}'' reveals that Wednesday Addams got expelled from her last school by doing this with an extremely unusual weapon: a swarm of {{piranha|Problem}} that she dumped into the pool during the swim team's practice as [[BullyHunter revenge for them bullying her brother Pugsley]]. At least one member of the swim team, Dalton, wound up [[GroinAttack emasculated]] by them. |
| 184 | * ''Series/TheWire'' has a dramatic moment in Mr. Pryzbylewski's middle school classroom when a disturbed girl, fed up with teasing, abruptly stands up, whips out a box cutter, and cuts two deep slashes into another girl's face. What ''really'' bothers Mr. Pryzbylewski is that after the heat of the moment, none of his other inner-city students seems to be at all traumatized. In fact, it's routine for them to bring weapons to school, although they generally conceal them somewhere outside rather than smuggle them into the building. |
| 185 | [[/folder]] |
| 186 | |
| 187 | [[folder:Music]] |
| 188 | * Technically didn't bring a gun to school, but initiated a sniper attack on a school from her house across the street: [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cleveland_Elementary_School_shooting_(San_Diego) Brenda Ann Spencer]], whose shooting spree inspired the Boomtown Rats' [[LyricalDissonance piano-based ballad]] "I Don't Like Mondays". The song title was her actual reason given. |
| 189 | * PlayedForLaughs in "The Homecoming Queen's Got a Gun!" by Creator/JulieBrown. |
| 190 | * "Sick of It All" by Music/TheDistillers: |
| 191 | --> I went to school today with an Uzi\ |
| 192 | There's this kid, he teased me\ |
| 193 | So I shot him in the face |
| 194 | * Generally thought to be the subject of Music/FosterThePeople's "Pumped Up Kicks," another massive case of LyricalDissonance. The only unclear thing is if the narrator is actually shooting others or if it is all in his head. The perspective change from third-person to first-person also adds to the ambiguity. |
| 195 | * Music/{{Megadeth}}'s "Have Cool, Will Travel" is both about school shootings and the inevitable ensuing media blowout: |
| 196 | --> Mamas pack their lunches, kiddies pack their guns\ |
| 197 | Wishing it will go away, but nothing's getting done\ |
| 198 | A shot heard 'round the world, when a mother's baby dies\ |
| 199 | We the people point our fingers, blame and wonder why |
| 200 | * "I.G.W.T." by Derek Minor feat. Thi'sl |
| 201 | --> High schools got armed guards |
| 202 | --> 'Cause teenagers bear arms |
| 203 | --> And they'd crack your head |
| 204 | --> Put that video on Worldstar |
| 205 | --> That boy you callin' a nerd? |
| 206 | --> Got a bomb off in his backpack |
| 207 | --> [[RoaringRampageofRevenge Plannin' to get revenge]] |
| 208 | --> [[DisproportionateRetribution Leave a crater where his class at]] |
| 209 | * "Teenagers" by Music/MyChemicalRomance |
| 210 | -->[[AlphaBitch The boys and girls in the clique]]\ |
| 211 | [[EmbarrassingNickname The awful names that they stick]]\ |
| 212 | You're never gonna fit in much, kid\ |
| 213 | But if you're troubled and hurt\ |
| 214 | What you've got under your shirt\ |
| 215 | [[RoaringRampageOfRevenge Will make them pay for the things that they did]]! |
| 216 | * "The Kinslayer" by Music/{{Nightwish|Band}} is directly about the Columbine shooting. It features dialogs from the actual events. |
| 217 | --> Facing this unbearable fear like meeting an old friend |
| 218 | --> Time to die, poor mates, You made me what I am! |
| 219 | * Music/KellyRowland's "Stole" is about the lead up to and aftermath of such a shooting: |
| 220 | --> He's not invisible anymore\ |
| 221 | With [[{{Handguns}} his father's 9]] and a broken fuse\ |
| 222 | Since he walked through that classroom door\ |
| 223 | He's all over primetime news |
| 224 | * The TomatoSurprise in Music/TheOffspring's "Hammerhead" shows the song is about one of those. |
| 225 | * Music/PearlJam song "Jeremy" is about this. Lead singer Eddie Vedder has said in interviews that this song was about two separate, real-life incidents, one from his Middle School (who went on a shooting spree in a classroom) and another from a newspaper article (about a boy named Jeremy who shot himself in front of his class). The music video for the song clarifies this further. |
| 226 | * In Wheatus' "Teenage Dirtbag": |
| 227 | --> Her boyfriend's a dick\ |
| 228 | He brings a gun to school |
| 229 | [[/folder]] |
| 230 | |
| 231 | [[folder:Music Videos]] |
| 232 | * In the video for Music/{{Aerosmith}}'s "Livin' On the Edge", a high school kid gets into a fight with another guy in the cafeteria and reaches into his backpack and it looks like he is going to take out a handgun he brought, [[SubvertedTrope but instead he takes out a sandwich]]. |
| 233 | [[/folder]] |
| 234 | |
| 235 | [[folder:Podcasts]] |
| 236 | * Accidentally occurs in the second episode of ''Podcast/InterstitialActualPlay'' when the party realizes that they've brought all of their weapons (including Edith's tranquilizer gun, which looks exactly like a real gun) to [[Film/HighSchoolMusical East High]]. |
| 237 | [[/folder]] |
| 238 | |
| 239 | [[folder:Stand-Up Comedy]] |
| 240 | * Creator/JeffFoxworthy talks about this briefly in his "Seek and Destroy" routine (in which he describes how things have changed since his day, when they used to take ''frogs'' to school... and a drive-by shooting meant [[{{Mooning}} somebody had their rear end hanging out a car window]]), when he mentions being shocked by a news program about how kids are bringing guns to school. |
| 241 | [[/folder]] |
| 242 | |
| 243 | [[folder:Theatre]] |
| 244 | * In ''Theatre/CesareIlCreatoreCheHaDistrutto'', Cesare, Miguel, and Draghignazzo all carry daggers in class. Well, it ''is'' the fifteenth century. |
| 245 | * In ''Theatre/PunkRock'', there is [[spoiler:the terrifying penultimate scene, when William shoots three of his classmates]]. This is alluded to in the scene before the attack, with the line "don't come into school" being uttered. |
| 246 | [[/folder]] |
| 247 | |
| 248 | [[folder:Video Games]] |
| 249 | * ''VideoGame/DoItForMe'': [[spoiler:The story turns out to be about a school massacre. The VillainProtagonist has been using his knife to kill innocent school-goers at the behest of his AxCrazy girlfriend]]. |
| 250 | * Max from ''VideoGame/LifeIsStrange'' discovers her TimeTravel powers after classmate Nathan Prescott pulls a gun on a girl in a school bathroom. Since her only evidence is hearsay, the teachers don't take her claims seriously until [[spoiler:a student he bullied tries to kill herself]]. The fact that the Prescotts are incredibly wealthy [[spoiler:and Nathan's in cahoots with one of the teachers]] helps too, of course. |
| 251 | * In the ''VideoGame/{{Mana Khemia|Alchemists of Al Revis}}'' series, ''everybody'' brings weapons to school, as the monster-infested dungeons are part of the school grounds. Using alchemy to create new weapons is a basic homework assignment as far as they're concerned. |
| 252 | * ''VideoGame/MorimiyaMiddleSchoolShooting'' is about, [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin as the title bluntly states]], a shooting at Morimiya Middle School. [[VillainProtagonist And you're the school shooter]]. |
| 253 | * ''Franchise/{{Persona}}'': |
| 254 | ** ''VideoGame/Persona1'': |
| 255 | *** Masao "Mark" Inaba actually brought an axe at school. It's not clear ''why'' Mark has an axe with him, but it's implied that he breaks into boarded-up buildings for his graffiti art. |
| 256 | *** Former delinquent Yukino Mayuzumi is carrying around razors as an improvised weapon. |
| 257 | *** [[PreviousPlayerCharacterCameo Tamaki Uchida]] brought her old rapier at school which she gives to the protagonist. It's not clear why she brought an actual weapon either, but [[VideoGame/ShinMegamiTenseiIf her previous adventure probably made her paranoid.]] |
| 258 | ** ''VideoGame/Persona2'': The party does go to school with weapons in hand, but's that's not actually a habit for them; they are looking for members of the Masked Circle who happen to be at school. |
| 259 | ** ''VideoGame/Persona4'': The characters are hiding weapons under their clothes during school so they can head straight to the TV World afterwards without having to go home and pick them up. |
| 260 | ** Subverted in ''VideoGame/Persona5''. The characters are carrying hyper realistic model weapons with them to use in the Metaverse, because the Shadows there ''think'' they're actual guns, and since that world runs on ClapYourHandsIfYouBelieve, they can actually fire. |
| 261 | * The [[VillainProtagonist protagonist]] of ''VideoGame/YandereSimulator'' can use a variety of weapons at school to kill and injure her fellow classmates, in particular [[MurderTheHypotenuse her romantic rivals]]. However, most of these weapons are ''already'' at school as tools for certain club members to use (a knife in the cooking club, axes and saws in the gardening club, etc.). If students see her carrying a weapon (except for a few like scissors), they will be suspicious and her reputation will decrease unless she is a member of the club the weapon is associated with. |
| 262 | [[/folder]] |
| 263 | |
| 264 | [[folder:Visual Novels]] |
| 265 | * ''VisualNovel/ClassOf09'': We never get to ''see'' the weapon in question, but [[spoiler:Jeffrey brings a gun to school and shoots it up in one of its endings and in the animated short]]. |
| 266 | * ''VisualNovel/HigurashiWhenTheyCry'': |
| 267 | ** In the [=Tsumigoroshi/Atonement=] arc, [[spoiler:Ryuugu Rena brings a large billhook to school and rigs up an improvised explosive device for the purpose of holding the entire student body hostage. She did this to force the cooperation of the police because they weren't taking her seriously when she tried telling them about an alien conspiracy to massacre the entire town]]. Seeing as up to that point the school had always been a safe haven from the gruesome events of the series, this is particularly shocking. |
| 268 | ** Throughout the series, Mion carries her gun to school and it isn't questioned at all. Turns out it's just an airsoft pistol. Would you [[MafiaPrincess question her]] anyway? |
| 269 | ** Subverted during the first arc, where Keiichi looks for a weapon he can carry around school without raising questions. He settles on [[BatterUp a baseball bat]]. |
| 270 | * In ''VisualNovel/KatawaShoujo'', Shizune's father Jigoro carries his katana everywhere he goes - which includes his daughter's school. Downplayed, in that [[UnusuallyUninterestingSight nobody seems to mind]] and it might just be a result of not having a separate, katana-less sprite. |
| 271 | * H-game ''Heartwork: Symphony of Destruction'' begins with the main character accidentally taking the bag of a contract killer and finding himself in possession of a handgun. In one of the story paths, he takes the gun to school, and everything goes downhill from there. |
| 272 | [[/folder]] |
| 273 | |
| 274 | [[folder:Web Comics]] |
| 275 | * ''Webcomic/KillroyAndTina'' has a student try to shoot his teacher. Tina saves the day with a discreet BulletCatch (the students think it's a misfire) and the kid... goes to jail and becomes an AxCrazy StalkerWithACrush. If the series hadn't been [[OrphanedSeries Orphaned]], it might have even gone somewhere. |
| 276 | * ''Webcomic/{{Marilith}}'': Marilith and Kimiko are contracted to kill a pedophile teacher in Kimiko's old school... and right before they spring to action, three students produce firearms and begin shooting indiscriminately. |
| 277 | * In ''Webcomic/MitadakeSaga'', the Boy with Sunglasses is carrying an axe as a weapon. [[spoiler:Apparently, he was working with the teacher to uncover Kira's identity, and realized just what it meant when the school went under lockdown.]] |
| 278 | * Subverted in ''Webcomic/MSFHigh'': Because nobody can die for real, it's quite common for people to get into fights with bombs in the hallway. Rainer, in fact, first dies when he stops talking with a monologue-length bomb. It's explored more in the forum RP, where the general rule is "Please at least CHALLENGE the guy first!" |
| 279 | [[/folder]] |
| 280 | |
| 281 | [[folder:Web Original]] |
| 282 | * Inspired by the Columbine Shootings, this is how Platform/{{Newgrounds}}' {{mascot}}, VideoGame/{{Pico}}, got his start. A bunch of {{Goth}}s started a massacre one day, so Pico grabbed an AK-47, reclaimed his school, and hasn't looked back since. An official AlternateUniverse has him talk them out of it before the worst can happen. |
| 283 | * ''Literature/PlayerTwoStart'' has two major incidents revolving around gun violence at school: |
| 284 | ** The first is, of course, UsefulNotes/{{Columbine}}. However, with Polly Klaas's survival, she encourages Dylan Klebold to [[HeelFaceTurn refuse to participate]]. Eric Harris attempts it alone, and fails miserably: he only manages to kill his ex Caitlyn before shooting himself. |
| 285 | ** The second, more bigger incident, is the Valentine's Day Massacre. After one slight too many, [[spoiler:[[Webcomic/{{Sonichu}} Christine Chandler]]]] goes on a mass murder spree, shooting 21 people dead (including Creator/ShondaRhimes) before turning the gun upon themselves. The Valentine's Day Massacre results in huge ramifications within society, leading to [[MoralGuardians Jack Thompson]] getting his foot in the door against [[MurderSimulators violent video games]] and prejudice being directed against autistic (and eventually transgender as well) people. |
| 286 | [[/folder]] |
| 287 | |
| 288 | [[folder:Western Animation]] |
| 289 | * The WesternAnimation/{{Classic Disney Short|s}} from TheFifties "Teachers Are People", where a kid is asked to empty his pockets, the contents of which include guns, crossbows, even a live grenade. |
| 290 | * PlayedForLaughs in an early episode of ''WesternAnimation/{{Duckman}}'' when he goes to visit Ajax's high school, which has put up metal detectors to catch students trying to smuggle in weapons. It doesn't work too well since literally every student walking into the building is openly armed to the teeth with everything from rifles to ''rocket launchers'', and the detector doesn't go off until Duckman tries to walk through with a metal lunchbox, which is immediately confiscated and shot to pieces by security. A later episode shows that the urban decay of the school has been mostly cleaned up... thanks to the school now being sponsored by Smith And Wesson. |
| 291 | * ''WesternAnimation/IfAnythingHappensILoveYou'': PlayedForDrama. The cartoon is about a couple with a broken marriage; it is revealed that their daughter was killed in a school shooting. |
| 292 | * In ''WesternAnimation/JohnnyTest'', the titular character brings nunchucks to school to beat the school bully. They get confiscated by the principal. |
| 293 | * In ''WesternAnimation/KingOfTheHill'', Hank becomes the substitute shop teacher. Because the school is low on money, he encourages students to bring tools from home. Bobby is caught with a saw and suspended. |
| 294 | -->'''Hank:''' Using a saw as a weapon makes about as much sense as using a pistol to cut a two by four. Which is how my dad made my treehouse. And cleaned it. |
| 295 | * In the episode of ''WesternAnimation/MyLifeAsATeenageRobot'' about [[RobotGirl Jenny]] going to school for the first time, she [[TelescopingRobot opens herself up]] to show [[DoAnythingRobot the many different devices inside of her]] and the principal points out she could get in trouble for bringing weapons to school. Brad convinces him to let it go on the condition that Jenny keeps them all disabled when she's on school grounds. Despite this, plenty of other episodes have her drawing weapons in school without consequence. |
| 296 | * ''WesternAnimation/TheOwlHouse'' opens up with [[Characters/TheOwlHouseLuzNoceda Luz Noceda]] having been sent to the principal's office for having brought in live snakes and a large firework rocket [[{{Cloudcuckoolander}} to spice up her book report]]. |
| 297 | * ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'': |
| 298 | ** PlayedForLaughs when Principal Skinner says on the morning announcements "I trust you all remembered to bring in your implements of destruction." Every child in the class reaches into their desks and pulls out axes, hammers, baseball bats, and so on; Bart has a {{BFG}} and is dressed like Franchise/{{Rambo}}, and Nelson has a [[KillItWithFire flamethrower]]. Skinner then gives the order to "Trash this dump!" Cut to all the children cheerfully destroying the school. It was AllJustADream for Bart, a very happy dream. |
| 299 | ** When Bart is sent to a military boarding school, the first thing he's given at a firing range is a grenade launcher. |
| 300 | --->''Since you've already attended public school, [[InvokedTrope we're assuming you've already had experience with small arms]].'' [[note]] It should be noted that this particular episode first aired almost two years before the Columbine High School Massacre in 1999.[[/note]] |
| 301 | ** When Bart is made Hall Monitor, Skinner rewards him with an item of his choice from the seized property locker. Apparently, at some point, someone had brought a ''crossbow'' into Springfield Elementary. |
| 302 | * {{Exaggerated|Trope}} (like many things) in the ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'' episode "Dead Kids", which features a total of four school shootings happening over the course of one episode -- three of those happening ''in the same school''. And a couple of subsequent episodes open up with them. |
| 303 | * A ''WesternAnimation/StaticShock'' episode had a kid not only bring a gun to school but accidentally shoot the main character's best friend, Richie, in the leg after he gets tackled by the bullies he ''wanted'' to shoot. It's fairly {{Anvilicious}} in that Richie then yells about how painful it is and that it's not cool or fun like it seems on TV. Although it's fair to say that getting shot is pretty painful and considerably uncool. |
| 304 | [[/folder]] |
| 305 | |
| 306 | [[folder:Real Life]] |
| 307 | * An instructional video about school dress codes [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AudGd7-QkN8 attempts to show]] that baggy jeans and a large T-shirt could hide weapons but quickly becomes ridiculous as it is clear that a person hiding [[HyperspaceArsenal several handguns, what appears to be a Cobray [=MAC=]-11]] machine pistol[[labelnote:note]]A slightly smaller version of the more famous [=MAC=]-10 submachine gun[[/labelnote]] [[ShotgunsAreJustBetter and a full-length pump-action shotgun]] in their clothes as demonstrated would barely be able to walk. |
| 308 | * Bringing guns to school used to be fairly common in some parts of the USA. They'd be put in a locker so that students could hunt on their way home. Of course, that began to change in the 1990s with several high-profile school shootings. |
| 309 | ** On one occasion in TheSeventies, when a Delaware high school received bomb threats (that were later determined to be pranks) [[https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/armed-students-delaware-high-school-1973/ students took their guns and stood guard outside to protect their classmates.]] |
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