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6[[caption-width-right:300: No, Creator/SeanConnery! I'm your pal, Sean! Don't do it! I'm your pal, see?]]
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8->''"December 1, 1903: Edwin Porter's ''The Great Train Robbery'' debuts. The plot: a wisecracking former cop fights train-jackers at 15 mph. Thrilling audiences with its pioneering realism and papier-mache trains, the final scene -- in which the villain turns and fires his gun directly into the camera -- was said to have so terrified the audience that they would often shriek in terror, screaming out '[[Film/DieHard Yippie ky yay, motherfucker!]]' as one.''"
9-->-- ''Literature/MoreInformationThanYouRequire''
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11When a character points a weapon at the camera so it looks like they're about to attack the audience with it. Creator/SeanConnery is not actually required; this just happens in a number of posters for his movies, as well as in several ''Bond'' film posters, most notably for ''Film/NeverSayNeverAgain''.
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13The more aggressive SisterTrope of PistolPose, this trope is frequently used on movie posters, DVD/VHS cases, and book covers. The star of the work is pointing a gun directly at the audience. It's that simple.
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15Note that while this usually involves guns, other weapons and even fists can also be used. The "Characters/{{Superman|TheCharacter}} Is About To Punch You!" variant, in particular, is quite common on comic book covers. And certain movies.
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17This trope is often used in movies themselves as well, although the {{M|oralGuardians}}PAA prohibits its usage in green-band (all ages) trailers. If the character actually attacks the audience, it's TheFourthWallWillNotProtectYou.
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19See also SecondPersonAttack, PistolPose, StabTheSky. Often overlaps with FloatingHeadSyndrome. SwordPointing is a variation. When the character at the ending side of the gun is actually shot and dies, the camera switches to a FirstPersonDyingPerspective. Not to be confused with BondGunBarrel (which, nonetheless, often features this trope, sometimes literally). Posing for a photo like this [[TruthinTelevision in real life]], if it's a real gun, and if a person is holding the camera, is a rather serious breach of UsefulNotes/GunSafety rules. So DontTryThisAtHome.
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21!!Cover/poster/promotional examples:
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25[[folder:Advertising]]
26* An [[AnimateInanimateObject anthropomorphic bottle]] of [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cc5FTyX6AjM Listerine]] is punching you.
27* The kids in the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6hpzX_Jo2ig Storm Water Guns commercial]] are about to leave you soaking wet!
28* {{Uncle Sam|WantsYou}} is '''[[http://www.sonofthesouth.net/uncle-sam/images/uncle-sam.jpg about to stick his finger in your eye!]]'''
29* Irish politician (at the time of the photo, Minister for Defense), [[http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_1lP85RYcbBU/SPrI_OpS3xI/AAAAAAAAAHQ/fAQCSHlvxjc/s400/Willie+O%27Dea+%2B+gun+L.jpg Willie O'Dea]] is about to shoot you!
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32[[folder:Anime & Manga]]
33* Not a cover or a poster, but pretty much par for the course for this series's promotional art: ''Anime/{{Noir}}'' - [[http://lesbicanarias.es/wp-content/uploads/2008/01/noir-kirika-mireille.gif Kirika and Mireille]] Are About To Shoot...Well, [[PersonOfMassDestruction Everybody]]!
34* ''Anime/CowboyBebop'': [[http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m8zff5s8rf1qaum41o1_1280.jpg Spike Spiegel]] is about to shoot you. (Or more accurately, slightly to the side of you). He does this a LOT more in the [[http://i269.photobucket.com/albums/jj63/Onlyseashells/snapshotcowboybebop.jpg movie]], and series. And [[http://www.gamespot.com/ps2/action/cowboybebop/images/0/8/ game]].
35* ''Anime/FullmetalAlchemist2003'': Riza Hawkeye is about to shoot you (in the Ready Steady Go opening sequence).
36* ''Manga/{{Monster}}'': [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Monster.JPG Johan Is About To Shoot You!]]
37* ''Manga/MaidenRose'': [[https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/klausvonwolfstadtisabouttoshootyourfoot.jpg Klaus von Wolfstadt is about to shoot your foot.]]
38* A [[http://www.zerochan.net/526445 promotional image]] for ''Anime/LupinIIIDeadOrAlive'' features Lupin about to shoot you.
39* A volume cover of the ''Manga/PokemonAdventures'' manga has Emerald about to shoot you.
40* Pretty much most of [[Literature/AriaTheScarletAmmo Aria H. Kanzaki]] promotional images.
41* Both theatrical ''{{Manga/Kochikame}}'' movies. Ryotsu is pointing his gun towards you in the [[http://www.jmshop.net/img/kochikame.jpg first]] and pointing towards the side in the [[http://media.otakuzone.com/store/anime/9/3179/T125350839097e6ba70fc093b4ce912d769ede1ceeba8.jpg second]].
42* ''Anime/BlackRockShooter'' [[http://archive.today/CK2iJ is about to shoot you with that huge cannon of hers.]]
43* ''Manga/OnePiece'': [[http://onepiece.wikia.com/wiki/File:FUNimation_Season_4_Voyage_4_DVD_Cover.png Nico Robin]] is about to shoot you with FOUR guns.
44* ''Manga/{{Nichijou}}'': [[http://konachan.com/post/show/102801 Misato Tachibana is about to shoot you]].
45* ''Manga/FistOfTheNorthStar'': You think, Kenshiro is about to shoot you? He won't need to, 'cause YouAreAlreadyDead.
46* ''Anime/SoundOfTheSky'': [[http://imgur.com/F3iEGnO Second Lieutenant Filicia Heidemann is about to shoot you]], [[TooDumbToLive if you're gonna be so fucking brainless]] [[MamaBear to lay a hand on her subordinates or people under her care]].
47* ''VideoGame/GunfighterTheLegendOfJesseJames'': Jesse James is about the shoot the player in the first game's cover.
48* ''{{VideoGame/Gungrave}}'': [[http://imgur.com/ABlOrPF Brendon is about to shoot you with]] [[DualWielding two guns]].
49* ''Manga/YuruYuri'': [[http://imgur.com/NE3oSht Himawari is about to shoot you with window cleaning detergent]].
50* ''Manga/TriageX'': [[https://fbcdn-sphotos-g-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-xat1/v/t1.0-9/s720x720/11150197_707959462648148_4825586817681790712_n.jpg?oh=4399644403762da8b07db721242c32fa&oe=55D8971A&__gda__=1440459878_a1b708546dd08bdc698e17422f9a73a5 Mikoto is about to shoot you]].
51* ''Manga/{{Jormungand}}'': [[http://imgur.com/APSBUnh Lehm]] and [[http://imgur.com/czD16XE Jonah]] are about to shoot you.
52* ''Anime/{{Argevollen}}'': [[http://imgur.com/9ytc6mg Toshikazu Cayenne is about to shoot you]].
53* ''Anime/CrossAnge'': [[http://i.imgur.com/gqT562x.jpg Ange's about to]] [[http://imgur.com/AmNOZe3 shoot you.]]
54* ''Anime/CaptainEarth'': [[https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/5/51/CaptainEarthDVD.jpg Daichi is about to shoot your right ear]], GangstaStyle.
55* The final shot of ''Anime/AldnoahZero'''s first opening sequence is [[HairOfGoldHeartOfGold Princess Asseylum]] about to shoot you, looking heartbroken but determined.
56* One of the {{eyecatch}}es for the Japanese version of ''Anime/DigimonFrontier'' has [[KidAppealCharacter Chakmon]] doing this with his snowball cannon.
57** The uncensored version of ''Anime/DigimonAdventure'' has [[AxCrazy Puppetmon]] doing this with an actual revolver on no less than two occasions.
58* An eyecatch for ''Anime/LupinIIIPart5'' has Lupin attempt to pull this off. During the first arc, [[SubvertedTrope it instead blows back in his face]], but in the arcs after he successfully does it and causes a screen shatter effect.
59* ''Manga/AngelicLayer'' has one of the official artworks features Misaki Suzuhara with her angel Hikaru in her left shoulder is about to throw a fist on you. However, a non-scary version of that artwork was also made except Hikaru is not in her left shoulder.
60* ''Literature/AmagiBrilliantPark'': One of the advertisement posters for the Blu-Ray had Isuzu standing [[BathtubScene in a bathtub]] while clutching a ModestyTowel against her body in one hand and pointing [[CantBatheWithoutAWeapon her musket]] Steinberger at the viewer with the other.
61* The [[https://twitter.com/EUREKA_HI_EVO/status/1424928491129253888 main poster visual]] for ''[[Anime/EurekaSevenHiEvolution Eureka: Eureka Seven Hi-Evolution.]]'' shows Eureka carrying Iris in one arm with a gun pointed to the camera in her other hand.
62* Volume 10 of ''Manga/ChainsawMan'' has Makima pointing a FingerGun at the reader. Therein, she establishes [[HandBlast this is a real attack, and much more powerful than a handgun]].
63* In one [[https://trigun.fandom.com/wiki/Trigun_Stampede/Gallery?file=Trigun_Stampede_Key_Visual_1.png promotional image]] for ''Anime/TrigunStampede'', Vash is about to shoot you and/or fall directly onto you from overhead. In the cover art for Volume 3 of the Blu-Ray release, Knives is about to stab you.
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66[[folder:Art & Print Media]]
67* Creator/AndyWarhol made a series of compositions from an image of Music/ElvisPresley pointing a gun at the camera. The image is believed to have been taken from a still or promotional image for the 1960 Western film ''Flaming Star'', in which Presley starred.
68* The print [[http://www.metmuseum.org/collection/the-collection-online/search/387968 "The archer and the milkmaid"]] after Jacques de Gheyn II, ca. 1610, demonstrates that this trope is OlderThanSteam. Not only is the subject pointing his crossbow directly at the viewer as an adoring milkmaid hangs on his arm, but the artist [[{{Pun}} milks]] the image for all the sexual double entendre that it's worth.
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71[[folder:Asian Animation]]
72* ''Maiquan & Keke'': Maiquan [[https://p3-bk.byteimg.com/tos-cn-i-mlhdmxsy5m/591b38c14eda446ca0e5d52728a7d062~tplv-mlhdmxsy5m-q75:0:0.image is about to shoot you. (With a slingshot)]]
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75[[folder:Comic Books]]
76* ''ComicBook/AllOutAvengers'': The final issue ends with Captain America [[spoiler:[[TheFourthWallWillNotProtectYou confronting the narrator]], the unseen [[Characters/MarvelComicsCosmicEntities Beyonder]]]]. As it's presented from [[spoiler:the Beyonder]]'s perspective, that means he's jabbing a fist and pointing a finger directly at the reader.
77* As mentioned above, Comicbook/{{Superman}} [[http://superdickery.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=category&layout=blog&id=28&Itemid=45&limitstart=113 is about to punch you]] is common. The image on our EyeBeams page is "Superman is about to [[http://images.wikia.com/superman/images/4/4f/Superman_Heat_Vision.jpg burn your feet down]]".
78* [[Website/IMockery Protoclown's]] [[http://www.i-mockery.com/comics/longbox3/ Tales from the Longbox article "Comic Cover Clichés"]] features examples of this trope, calling it "the Bum-Rush".
79* ''ComicBook/JLA1997'': The cover of issue 118 features this via [[Characters/{{Zatanna}} Annataz]] [[SdrawkcabName si tuoba]] [[MemoryWipingCrew ot epiw ruoy dnim!]] [[http://imgur.com/WzgK1CH TEGROF!]]
80* The ComicBook/BirdsOfPrey [[https://comicvine.gamespot.com/a/uploads/scale_small/8/83050/1577601-blood_and_circuits.jpg are ready to attack you.]] That is what Characters/BlackCanary [[SuperScream has to say]].
81* The ComicBook/GreenArrow [[http://imgur.com/8ohyNdn is about to shoot you.]] With an arrow.
82* ''ComicBook/JudgeDredd'': Dredd's arch-nemesis Judge Death [[http://comicsalliance.com/files/2015/05/DJ02.jpg is about to bring you true justice]].
83* ''ComicBook/TheScorpion'' [[http://img.bd-sanctuary.com/bds/big/le-scorpion-bd-volume-3-simple-3245.gif is about to shoot you with a crossbow]].
84* ''ComicBook/{{Thorgal}}: the Barbarian'' [[https://static.fnac-static.com/multimedia/Images/FR/NR/11/05/8c/9176337/1507-1/tsp20180228120450/Thorgal-volume-19-The-barbarian.jpg is about to shoot you]].
85* ''ComicBook/TheUltimates'': Hawkeye, in the Cover of Ultimates #9, is about to shoot his arrow in direction to the reader.
86* ''ComicBook/{{Vampirella}}'': The cover of the "Hollywood Horror" TPB. [[DistractedByTheSexy Oh, you didn't notice the crossbow, right?]]
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89[[folder:Films -- Animated]]
90* ''WesternAnimation/{{Brave}}'': The first released image was of [[http://www.geekforcefive.com/images/uploads/pixar-brave_610.jpg Merida aiming a bow right at the camera]]. She does the same against a bear in the trailer.
91* At the end of the ''WesternAnimation/FrozenII'' teaser trailer, Princess Anna is About to Slash at You With Kristoff's Sword.
92* ''WesternAnimation/RiseOfTheGuardians'': [[https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/1416/8662/products/Rise_Of_The_Guardians_2012_original_film_art_2000x.jpg?v=1551798623 Jack is freezing the person to your right]].
93* ''WesternAnimation/TitanAE'': In the theatrical poster, Cale and Akima are holding hands running towards you away from the Drej mothership sideways [[https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/91Es09JKlbL._AC_SL1500_.jpg as Cale fires a laser over your left shoulder]]. While on the DVD cover, Cale is [[https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/91bp2sMLPXL._SL1500_.jpg going to high-five you]] (showing the map to the ''Titan'' vessel) as he and a now unarmed Akima still run towards you sideways away from the Drej mothership holding hands.
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96[[folder:Films -- Live-Action]]
97* Many movies or other works featuring cars tend to do this with the cars themselves in a different fashion. For example, an Aston Martin One-77 is about to [[http://www.atari.com/sites/default/files/tdu2%20pcdvd_5.jpg run you over]]!
98* In France, it happened with some action films of Creator/JeanPaulBelmondo, such as ''L'Alpagueur'' and ''Film/LeProfessionnel''.
99* ''Film/TenToMidnight'' (1983): Creator/CharlesBronson [[http://www.impawards.com/1983/posters/ten_to_midnight_ver2.jpg is about to shoot you!]]
100* ''Film/TheAdventuresOfSharkboyAndLavagirl'': [[https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/theadventuresofsharkboyandlavagirlin3d_132.jpg Taylor Lautner Is About To Punch The Person On Your Left,]] While Taylor Dooley Shoots Lava At The Person To Your Right!
101* ''Film/AnimalHouse:'' The Deltas [[http://www.rirocks.net/images/Animal%20House%20finger%20shot.jpg are flipping you off.]]
102* ''Assault with a Deadly Weapon'' (1976): ''[[https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/AssaultWADeadlyWeapon.jpg PC Skullface]]'' is about to shoot you!
103* ''Asian Cop: High Voltage'': Creator/DonnieYen is going to punch you, and he even [[https://allouttabubblegum.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/71B04FB9-7D20-4DE6-8F76-A927CD0026A6.jpeg broke the camera's lens]] in the process!
104* ''Film/BadBoys1995'': [[http://www.miamibeach411.com/ee/images/uploads/bad-boys-movie-poster.jpg Will Smith Is About To Shoot You (Martin Lawrence Is Thinking About It)!]] Posters for ''Film/BadBoysII'' tend to reverse their poses.
105* ''Film/BadGirls'': [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bad_Girls_(1994_film)#/media/File:Bad_girls.jpg Madeline Stowe, Mary Stuart Masterson, and Drew Barrymore are about to shoot you. Andie MacDowell is not.]] (Although Drew's aim seems to be slightly off.)
106* ''[[http://www.horroria.com/i/nposters/00/10/1021-W3.jpg The Bad Lieutenant]]'': Creator/HarveyKeitel Is About To Shoot You!
107* ''Film/BangkokDangerous'': Creator/NicolasCage [[FamilyFriendlyFirearms ISN'T]] [[http://i.imgur.com/7e6FC.jpg about to shoot you!]]
108* ''WesternAnimation/{{Beowulf|2007}}'': Creator/RayWinstone [[http://www.davidbordwell.net/blog/wp-content/uploads/beowulf-poster.jpg is about to slit your throat!]]
109* ''Black Friday'': [[https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/blackfridayvhs.jpg Gary Daniels is about to chop your head like a watermelon!]]
110* ''[[http://sobnation.files.wordpress.com/2007/10/boiling_point_jpg.jpg Boiling Point]]'': Creator/WesleySnipes Is About To Shoot The Person Standing Next To You!
111* ''Film/TheBoondockSaints'': [[https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/boondock_saints.jpg Sean Patrick Flannery and Norman Reedus are about to shoot you in the balls!]]
112* Twice in ''Film/TheBourneSeries'' Matt Damon is About to Shoot [[https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/M/MV5BYTIyMDFmMmItMWQzYy00MjBiLTg2M2UtM2JiNDRhOWE4NjBhXkEyXkFqcGdeQXVyNjU0OTQ0OTY@._V1_UY1200_CR90,0,630,1200_AL_.jpg The Person]] [[https://assets.voxcinemas.com/posters/P_HO00003958.jpg to Your Left]].
113* ''Film/TheBraveOne'': Creator/JodieFoster is about to... prove that looks can kill?
114* ''Film/{{Carved}}'': Kuchisake-Onna.'' Crap! Kuchisake-onna [[http://lh6.ggpht.com/_gleQigTXFQc/SVafe_0MEmI/AAAAAAAAAr0/C4oad8Mm51c/smw%201.jpg is going to cut you with her giant scissors!]]
115* ''Film/{{Charade}}'': Creator/CaryGrant [[https://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/NFYAAOSwd9tgh-Hg/s-l500.jpg is about to shoot you]] while Creator/AudreyHepburn clings on to him and looks by.
116* ''Film/TheChroniclesOfNarnia: [[http://imgur.com/HhCHXg1 Prince Caspian]]'': Ben Barnes Is About To Impale You On Three Feet of Tempered Steel!
117* ''Film/CityOfGod'': [[http://nohaybanda.files.wordpress.com/2009/05/cidade.jpg Many]] [[https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/city-of-god.jpg Drugdealers]] Are About To Shoot You!
118* ''Film/TheDarkKnight'': Characters/{{Batman|TheCharacter}} is going to [[http://doctorheadly.files.wordpress.com/2008/07/the-dark-knight-2-1280.jpg land a Batpod on you!]]
119* ''Film/DeadMan'': [[http://www.impawards.com/1996/posters/dead_man_ver2.jpg Johnny Depp is about to shoot you!]]
120* ''Deadly Outbreak'': [[http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/71Y0GD48RGL._SS500_.gif Jeff Speakman]] is about to shoot you!
121* ''Film/DeathWish'': Creator/CharlesBronson [[http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/f/f0/Death_wish_movie_poster.jpg is about]] [[http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/4/4c/Death_Wish_II.jpg to]] [[http://www.moviegoods.com/Assets/product_images/1020/248429.1020.A.jpg shoot you!]]
122* ''Film/DirtyHarry'', both the [[http://100grana.files.wordpress.com/2008/03/dirtyharry.gif original]] and [[http://impawards.com/1973/posters/magnum_force_ver1.jpg its sequel]] ''Film/MagnumForce'': Creator/ClintEastwood Is About To Shoot You With [[HandCannon The Most Powerful Handgun In The World]].
123* Sergio Leone's Film/DollarsTrilogy:
124** ''Film/AFistfulOfDollars'': [[https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/91ABOatZcNL.jpg Clint Eastwood's going to shoot the guy above you. Or maybe he's just preparing to shoot you.]]
125** ''Film/ForAFewDollarsMore'': [[https://web.archive.org/web/20140213172657/https://theactionelite.com/site/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/tumblr_lq6ufjj6Oz1qjt2pno1_500.jpg Clint Eastwood's imitating his pose in the poster from the first film. Meanwhile, Lee van Cleef is holding his gun sideways and preparing to shoot the guy to your right.]]
126** ''Film/TheGoodTheBadAndTheUgly'': [[http://cdn2.bigcommerce.com/server5000/yshlhd/products/5686/images/90829/full.thegoodthebadandtheugly-3sh-20023__96772.1425076647.1280.1280.jpg?c=2 Lee van Cleef's now aiming for the person on your left, while Eli Wallach is about to whack you on the head with a rifle butt. Meanwhile, Clint Eastwood is lighting a cannon aimed backwards so that the recoil of the gun can launch itself towards you.]]
127* ''Film/{{Doom}}'' movie: {{Inverted|Trope}} -- [[http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/5/58/Doom_movie_poster.jpg YOU are shooting at an Imp!]]
128* ''Film/DontBeAMenaceToSouthCentralWhileDrinkingYourJuiceInTheHood'': Creator/MarlonWayans [[https://iv1.lisimg.com/image/5587137/740full-don%27t-be-a-menace-to-south-central-while-drinking-your-juice-in-the-hood-poster.jpg Is About To Smoke The Person Over Your Right Shoulder]] With A Comically Large ForcedPerspective Gun! On The DVD Cover, He's About To Shoot Them With A...[[https://i.pinimg.com/originals/f2/89/33/f289333c5bc14f85fd00e858b9e0a903.jpg Super Soaker?]]
129* ''Film/DragonsForever'' has an anniversary poster where Creator/JackieChan, Creator/SammoHung AND Creator/YuenBiao is [[https://cps-static.rovicorp.com/2/Open/Miramax_2277/Program/1239393/_derived_jpg_q90_310x470_m0/Dragons-Forever-2a18cc812.jpg going to shoot you!]]... also a case of CoversAlwaysLie, the movie in question is a kung fu flick where none of the characters uses firearms (Sammo does show off a machine-gun at one point, but doesn't fire it).
130* ''Film/EdgeOfDarkness2010'': Creator/MelGibson [[https://web.archive.org/web/20150318160536/http://www.viz4u.net/v3/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/Edge-of-Darkness.jpg is about to shoot you]].
131* ''Film/TheExpendables'': The logo is about to shoot/stab absolutely everything beneath, to the left, and to the right of itself.
132** ''Film/TheExpendables'' has Creator/SylvesterStallone [[http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/e/ed/The_Expendables_2_poster.jpg about to shoot you!]]
133* ''Film/EyeForAnEye'': [[https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/5/5b/Eye_for_an_Eye_%281996_film%29_poster.jpg Sally Field is about to shoot you.]]
134* ''Gawa Na ang Bala Na Papatay sa Iyo'': Creator/FernandoPoeJr and Fernando Poe, Jr. alone is [[https://pinoymovieseries.com/movies/gawa-na-ang-bala-na-papatay-sa-iyo/ about to shoot you over the title.]]
135* ''Film/GhostbustersII'': [[https://www.trailers.tube/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/Ghostbusters-II-movie-poster-480x711.jpg The Ghostbusters are about to shoot you!]] In [[Film/{{Ghostbusters2016}} the 2016 movie]], [[http://cdn.traileraddict.com/content/columbia-pictures/ghostbusters-2016.jpg Melissa McCarthy threatens the same in her poster]].
136* ''Go Goa Gone'': Indian badass Saif Ali Khan is [[https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2436516/mediaviewer/rm3240316160/ about to shoot the audience]] through [[TorsoWithAView a zombie's torso-hole]].
137* ''Film/{{Hanna}}'': Creator/SaoirseRonan [[http://impawards.com/2011/posters/hanna.jpg Is About To Bow-And-Arrow Your Ass At Point-Blank!]]
138* ''Film/HarryPotterAndTheOrderOfThePhoenix'': Creator/DanielRadcliffe, Creator/EmmaWatson and Creator/RupertGrint (and Creator/MatthewLewis in the background) [[http://www.impawards.com/2007/harry_potter_and_the_order_of_the_phoenix_ver10.html Are About To Turn You Into A Toad!]]
139** [[http://www.impawards.com/2007/harry_potter_and_the_order_of_the_phoenix_xlg.html Ralph Fiennes (Believe It Or Not)]] Is About To Crush Your Head In His Hand!
140** ''Film/HarryPotterAndTheHalfBloodPrince'': [[http://www.imdb.com/media/rm282560512/tt0417741 Daniel Radcliffe is about to curse you while Micheal Gambon, Rupert Grint, and Emma Watson glare in your general direction.]]
141* ''Film/HotShotsPartDeux'': Creator/CharlieSheen Is About To Shoot You With ''A Chicken''!
142* 2003 ''Film/{{Hulk}}'' [[http://www.impawards.com/2003/posters/hulk_xxlg.jpg Smash You!]]
143* ''Film/TheHungerGames'': Creator/JenniferLawrence is about to [[http://thr1.pgmcdn.net/sites/default/files/imagecache/blog_post_349_width/2012/01/new_hunger_games_poster.jpg shoot an arrow at the person to your left!]] And she [[http://www.imdb.com/media/rm755621632/tt1951264?ref_=tt_ov_i is doing it again]] in the sequel!
144* ''Franchise/IndianaJones'':
145** ''Film/RaidersOfTheLostArk:'' Creator/HarrisonFord is about to [[https://web.archive.org/web/20140604173707/http://ultimatereviews.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/IndianaJones.jpg smack you with his bullwhip!]]
146** ''Film/IndianaJonesAndTheTempleOfDoom'': [[https://sc-events.s3.amazonaws.com/4178068/main.jpg Harrison Ford Is Squinting At A Very Bright Object On Your Left!]]
147** ''Film/IndianaJonesAndTheLastCrusade'': Harrison Ford, that is, [[ActingForTwo the one riding a horse]], is about to shoot you!
148* ''Film/IpMan:'' Donnie Yen [[http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-_wO33-aOOTc/TddJVLUkbVI/AAAAAAAAAAQ/WinFPUG_k2I/s1600/2008_ipman_poster_cn.jpg is going]] [[http://media.seattleweekly.com/5872236.79.jpg to kick your ass.]]
149* ''[[https://web.archive.org/web/20060701182735/http://www.moviesonline.ca/movie-gallery/albums/userpics/poster_iron_man.jpg Iron Man]]'': [[Film/IronMan1 Tony Stark]] Is About To Blast/Punch You [[MemeticMutation IN A CAVE! WITH A BOX OF SCRAPS!!!]]
150** [[https://web.archive.org/web/20071006065721/http://caffeine-headache.net/blog3/CCIronManPoster.jpg AGAIN!!!]]
151* ''Film/JackieBrown'': Creator/PamGrier [[http://www.cinemasterpieces.com/jackiebrownadvnm.jpg Is About To Shoot You]]!
152* Film/JamesBond is about to shoot you in several movie posters:
153** ''Film/ForYourEyesOnly'' shows [[http://rentmovie.com/movie-posters/for-your-eyes-only.jpg Roger Moore about to shoot you]].
154** Curiously, Sean Connery's James Bond didn't try to shoot you until ''Film/NeverSayNeverAgain'' -- at least in some of [[http://vignette4.wikia.nocookie.net/jamesbond/images/e/ea/Never-say-never-again.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20111110062608 the film's many variant posters]], one of which illustrates our page on the movie.
155** ''Film/TheLivingDaylights'', in [[http://koxtawarez.no.sapo.pt/images/007/TheLivingDaylights.jpg two]] [[http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/b/b0/007TLDposter.jpg/220px-007TLDposter.jpg posters]] .
156** ''Film/LicenceToKill'': Creator/TimothyDalton is about to shoot you in the [[https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/licencetokill.jpeg U.S. one-sheet]]. In the black-and-red teaser poster (which uses the WorkingTitle ''Licence Revoked''), he's going to shoot the person next to you.
157** In the U.S. one-sheet for ''Film/GoldenEye'', [[https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/goldeneye_brosnan_shooting.jpg Pierce Brosnan is definitely about to shoot you]]. He was actually so much about to shoot you in this advance poster that, according to the book ''James Bond: 50 Years of Movie Posters'', the poster was rejected in the UK and several other territories!
158*** In the [[http://www.impawards.com/1995/posters/goldeneye_ver1_xxlg.jpg teaser poster]], Brosnan is close enough to shoot you to make look into the gun barrel.
159** ''Film/DieAnotherDay'': [[http://www.originalprop.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2008/04/die-another-day-x425.jpg Pierce Brosnan and Halle Berry]] Are About To Shoot The Guy To Your Left.
160* ''Film/{{Jo}}'': Creator/LouisDeFunes did it with a revolver on the poster of this 1971 BlackComedy film.
161* ''Film/JohnWick'' does one better, with the title laid in the center of the poster so the barrel of the gun forms the 'O' in "John" while the head and body of Keanu Reeves is slightly out of focus in the background.
162** For ''Film/JohnWickChapter2'', an inversion appears as the poster has ''everyone'' about to shoot Keanu Reeves.
163* ''Film/TheJungleBook2016'': Watch this video-promo [[SchmuckBait long enough]], and you'll find [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G1cVbfyFdf0 Kaa Is About To Eat You]].
164* ''Film/TheKiller2023'': Creator/MichaelFassbender is about to shoot you.
165* ''Film/TheLovedOnes'': The film's promotional poster features Lola pointing a power drill at the viewer.
166* ''[[http://www.imdb.com/media/rm422613504/tt0425210 Lucky Number Slevin]]'': Josh Hartnett and Creator/BruceWillis are about to shoot the people standing to either side of you!
167* ''Film/ManBitesDog'': [[http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51CK0TMRJML._SL500_AA280_.jpg Benoit Poelvoorde]] is About To Shoot You! (The [[http://mooviemart.ie/Catalogue/Image_Files/ManBitesDog.jpg original poster]] ''looks'' like an example of this trope at first glance, but turns out to be a bit [[BlackComedy more]] [[BloodyHilarious gruesome]].)
168* ''Film/MarathonMan'': [[http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41ZBY09ECFL.jpg Dustin Hoffman]] Is About To Shoot You!
169* Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse:
170** ''Film/{{The Avengers|2012}}'': [[http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-ll3OSHFzPoA/T4N4HG3qAJI/AAAAAAAAACk/GxndWlrmxeo/s1600/Avengers-assemble-poster.jpg With]] or [[http://pre02.deviantart.net/a3ee/th/pre/i/2012/126/9/8/the_avengers_poster_by_creativeorange-d4yrg5d.jpg without]] his helmet, Creator/RobertDowneyJr is about to nuke the person to your right! And Cap is throwing his shield at them. Oh, and [[Creator/SamuelLJackson Samuel "Mozafucka" L. Jackson]] is more commonly about to shoot your left ear ([[http://www.filmsfix.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/The-Avengers-poster-Nick-Fury-1.jpg he might miss]]).
171** ''Film/AvengersAgeOfUltron'': [[https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/cfc8e250283b66ce32747198f9648608.jpg The Avengers]] are about to [[Characters/MCUTonyStark shoot]][[Characters/MCUBruceBanner smash]][[Characters/MCUThorOdinson whack]][[Characters/MCUClintBarton arrow]][[Characters/MCUNatashaRomanoff punch]] the person to your left (Quicksilver and Scarlet Witch are possibly targeting the person on the right).
172** ''Film/{{Guardians of the Galaxy|2014}}'': Creator/ZoeSaldana [[https://wallpapers.com/images/featured/guardians-of-the-galaxy-5paov6a8eku13ugb.webp is about to stab you]], while Rocket Raccoon is shooting the person to your left ([[https://pbs.twimg.com/media/C5zvWHuXMAE6Wj2.jpg your right]] in the case of [[Film/GuardiansOfTheGalaxyVol2 the sequel]]).
173* In both print and TV ads for ''Film/MenInBlack'', J and K ''really do'' [[EasyAmnesia neuralize the audience]] to make them forget they've already seen the film, then [[BreakingTheFourthWall urge them to go see it]].
174* ''Film/MyBloodyValentine3D'': [[VideoGame/TeamFortress2 The Pyro]] is about to pick-axe you to death.
175* ''Film/TheNakedGun'': Creator/LeslieNielsen [[https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/naked_gun.jpg Is About To Shoot That Person To Your Right]].
176* ''Film/{{Nighthawks}}'': [[https://allouttabubblegum.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/Nighthawks-1981.jpg Who's trying to shoot the audience]] - Creator/RutgerHauer, or Creator/SylvesterStallone?
177* ''Film/NoEscape1994'': Creator/RayLiotta is about [[https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/no_escape_poster_01.jpg to shoot you]].
178* ''No Way Back'': Creator/RussellCrowe is about to [[https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/Nowayback_5099.jpg shoot you!]] -- GangstaStyle!
179* ''Parole Violators'': [[https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/paroleviolatorsposter.jpg Sean Donahue]] is about to shoot you, and he has a rifle just in case!
180* ''Film/PatriotGames'': OhCrap! Creator/HarrisonFord is about to [[http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/518CFC9BZHL._SS500_.jpg shoot you again]]!
181* ''Film/PearlHarbor'': [[http://fontmeme.com/images/Pearl-Harbor-Poster.jpg A Japanese Warplane]] Is About To Drop A Torpedo On You(r Ship)!
182* ''Film/PitchBlack'': Creator/VinDiesel [[http://www.impawards.com/2000/pitch_black_ver4.html Is About To Shoot The Person To Your Right!]]
183* Averted with ''Film/PointOfNoReturn'' as Creator/BridgetFonda Isn't About To Shoot You,...[[http://www.impawards.com/1993/posters/point_of_no_return_xxlg.jpg But She Is Visibly Armed And Gives You The Most Tense 'Don't F**k With Me'-Dirty Look That Says "You Better Leave Before I Put A Round In You."!]]
184* [[Film/PunisherWarZone The Punisher]] [[http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/c/cf/Punisherwarzoneteaser.jpg is in a war zone and about to shoot you]].
185* ''Film/ProjectGutenberg'': Creator/ChowYunFat is ''already'' [[https://www.imdb.com/title/tt7183578/mediaviewer/rm3416080896/?ref_=tt_ov_i shooting at you]].
186* ''Film/RamboIV'': Creator/SylvesterStallone Is [[http://www.siegelproductions.ca/filmfanatics/images/rambo-poster-1.jpg About To Shoot You]] [-WITH A BOW AND ARROW]!
187* ''Film/{{Repossessed}}'': In [[ActorAllusion a direct reference]] to ''The Naked Gun'', Creator/LeslieNielsen [[https://i.pinimg.com/originals/fd/7e/99/fd7e99c35d34f352be1b3a54b4b0e20a.jpg Is About To Exorcize You]].
188* ''Film/ResidentEvilAfterlife'': Creator/MillaJovovich isn't wasting any time; [[https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/resident-evil-afterlife-poster-milla-jovovich-01-405x600_419.jpg she's already shooting you!]]
189* ''Film/Revenge2017'': Or in this case, Matilda Lutz Is About To Ruin Your Day With a Pimped-Out Shotgun.
190* ''Film/{{Robin Hood|2010}}'': ([[http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/8/8e/Robin_Hood_2010_poster.jpg 2010 film]]): Creator/RussellCrowe Is About To Shoot Your Left Ear With a REGULAR Arrow!
191* ''Film/RobinHoodMenInTights'': [[http://blogs.venturacountystar.com/dennert/archives/robin_hood_men_in_tights.jpg Cary Elwes]] Is About To Shoot The Person Standing Next To You With ''[[MultiShot Six Arrows!]]''
192* ''Film/{{Robin Hood|PrinceOfThieves}}: [[http://capezza.net/dvd_list/images/2345f.jpg Prince Of Thieves]]'': Creator/KevinCostner Is About To Shoot The Person Next To You With a FLAMING Arrow!
193* ''Film/TheRock'': Creator/SeanConnery [[TropeNamers Is About To...well, you know]]. [[MisplacedNamesPoster Or is it Nicolas Cage?]] [[note]]The mock-up poster was used in a Website/SomethingAwful Photoshop Phriday feature.[[/note]]
194* ''Film/Safe2012'': Creator/JasonStatham is about to [[https://m.media-amazon.com/images/M/MV5BMTcxNDI0NzUxMF5BMl5BanBnXkFtZTcwOTIzMjkyNw@@._V1_.jpg shoot you]] [[GroinAttack in the balls]].
195* ''Film/ShootEmUp'': [[http://imgur.com/zoYFVEg Clive Owen Is About To Shoot (Over) You!]]
196* ''Film/SinCity'': Creator/BenicioDelToro is about to shoot the person to your left [[http://www.movieposterdb.com/posters/08_09/2005/401792/l_401792_f03f7b88.jpg while]] Creator/BruceWillis is about to shoot your left foot!
197* ''Film/{{Spellbound}}'': Dr. Murchison is About to Shoot You!
198* ''Film/SpiderManTrilogy'': ([[https://web.archive.org/web/20100115224305/http://moviechopshop.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/07/Spiderman-Poster-USA.jpg first]] and [[http://www.starstore.com/acatalog/Spiderman_2_destiny_L.jpg second]] movie): Spider-Man Is About To [[HowDoIShotWeb Shoot Web]] at You!
199* ''Franchise/StarWars'':
200** ''Film/ReturnOfTheJedi'' -- Creator/HarrisonFord [[http://www.starstore.com/acatalog/Star_Wars-return_L-01.jpg Is Shooting You First]]!
201** ''Film/ANewHope'': Creator/MarkHamill [[http://kspark.kaist.ac.kr/Star%20Wars/Star%20Wars.files/StarWars%20poster.jpg Is About To Shoot You]]!
202** ''TabletopGame/StarWarsSagaEdition'': [[http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/c/c6/Star_Wars_Saga_Edition_Cover.JPG Darth Vader Is Force-Choking You!]] Also an ''[[Film/RevengeOfTheSith Episode III]]'' [[http://www.myfreewallpapers.net/starwars/pages/episode-iii-rise-lord-vader.shtml poster.]]
203* ''Film/{{Stiletto}}'': Creator/StanaKatic [[https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1027747/mediaviewer/rm1274041600/ is about to shoot you]] GunsAkimbo.
204* ''[[http://www.imdb.com/media/rm398826752/tt0105477 Stop Or My Mom Will Shoot]]'': [[Series/TheGoldenGirls Estelle Getty]] [[NeverMessWithGranny Is About To Shoot You!]]
205* ''Film/TenDeadMen'': [[https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0854679/mediaviewer/rm1592694016?ref_=tt_pv_md_6 Brendan Carr is about to shoot you (and you are kneeling, judging from the angle)!]]
206* ''Ultimate Force'': UFC Fighter [[https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/CroCopUF.jpg Mirko Cro-Cop]] is about to shoot you!
207* ''Film/TheUntouchables1987'': As shown on the page image, Creator/KevinCostner is about to shoot you while Sean Connery watches! Since the 2010 Blu-ray reissue, Ness's gun is [[https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/81NDWuGKJrL._SY550_.jpg replaced]] by a police badge, presumably to underscore that he isn't an AntiHero.
208* ''Film/WilliamShakespearesRomeoAndJuliet'': [[http://s1.favim.com/orig/21/boy-gun-gun-pointed-at-face-leonardo-dicaprio-romeo-Favim.com-206876.jpg Leonardo DiCaprio is about to shoot you.]] ([[https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/236x/bb/18/8a/bb188aaf3b30e7c5b1443343fdf5720a.jpg alternate pic]])
209** Or rather, [[https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/236x/d7/20/65/d720657e746218801d849a4aacbe356f.jpg Leonardo DiCaprio is about to shoot the guy to the left of you]].
210** [[http://www.menswearstyle.co.uk/content/blogs/blog_ln_1372.jpg The Montague Gang is about to shoot you.]]
211* ''Film/{{Yojimbo}}'': [[https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/Yojimbo_2082.jpg Toshiro Mifune's going to cut your head off.]]
212* ''[[http://www.firstshowing.net/img/zohan-poster2-med.jpg You Don't Mess With The Zohan]]'': Creator/AdamSandler Is About To... Dry Your Hair [[BetweenMyLegs Between His Legs]]!
213* ''Film/{{Zardoz}}'': [[https://scifihorrorfantasy.files.wordpress.com/2014/02/imagesca01233o.jpg On the German poster]], Sean Connery himself is, indeed, about to shoot you. With four revolvers.
214** Appropriately enough, early in the film he even points the gun at the camera and shoots at the viewer!
215[[/folder]]
216
217[[folder:Literature]]
218* ''Literature/FateOfTheJedi: [[http://images.wikia.com/starwars/images/3/32/Vortex_cover.jpg Vortex]]'': Han Solo is About to Shoot You!
219* One of the more popular covers for ''{{Literature/Musashi}}'' has him duel-wielding swords at you.
220* ''Literature/MenAtArms'': The Ankh-Morpork City Watch are About to Stab You!
221[[/folder]]
222
223[[folder:Live-Action TV]]
224* ''Series/StargateAtlantis'': [[http://www.lovefilm.com/lovefilm/images/products/5/89625-large.jpg Joe Flanigan Is About to Shoot You (But Really Should Look Behind Him)!]]
225* ''Series/{{House}} M.D.'': [[http://orbis-web.com/ebay/house-23_large.jpg The entire cast is about to defibrillate you.]]
226** [[DrJerk Or spill hot coffee on you]].
227* ''Series/{{Scrubs}}'': [[http://www.exo.net/~ronh/DVD/images/large/B00005JNEQ.01._SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg J.D. is about to force-feed you some really awful-looking medicine!]] Also, they're all about to give you a shot, among other things!
228* ''Series/TheThickOfIt'': [[http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51Tv6B5b99L._SS500_.jpg Malcolm Tucker is about to bollock you, and he has backup!]]
229* ''Series/MythBusters'': [[http://i15.photobucket.com/albums/a389/omg_dragonfly/mythbusters.jpg Adam]] is about to shoot you with a [[BambooTechnology crossbow made out of newspaper]]!
230* ''Series/InspectorRex'': In a brochure for ''Rex: Special Unit'', there is [[ShouldersUpNudity a shoulders-up image]] of a shirtless Marco Terzani [[http://www.betafilm.com/media/files/pdf/Rex_Special_Unit_brochure_web.pdf pointing with his pistol]].
231* ''Series/DoctorWho'': [[http://ghostradio.files.wordpress.com/2009/05/a2df6f7801e6848f62f67a2e88cff.jpg The Tenth Doctor is about to sonic your face!]]
232** Sylvester [=McCoy=] [[http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/5/55/Sky_Pirates.jpg is about to whack you with a question-mark umbrella while grinning like a nutcase!]]
233* ''Series/BreakingBad'': [[http://collider.com/wp-content/uploads/breaking-bad-season-4-image-1.jpg Walt and Jesse]] are about to melt you!
234* Averted for actual commercials, however (in the US at least). FCC regulations state you can never point a gun directly at the camera in a television commercial.
235* ''Franchise/KamenRider'''s SignatureMove is a DivingKick, so a recurring promotional shot is of the hero(es) about to Rider Kick your face.
236* The title sequence for the third series of ''Series/RobinOfSherwood'' had a shot of Jason Connery aiming an arrow at the camera, in contrast with the first two series' side-on shot of Michael Praed firing an arrow. This may have been an in-joke relating to Jason Connery being the son of Sean.
237* [[{{Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries}} Spock's]] about to [[http://www.trekcore.com/specials/albums/rare/article2/startrek_cereal.jpg vaporize you for breakfast!]]
238* ''Series/{{The Walking Dead|2010}}'', Season 7 Blu-Ray: [[https://www.amazon.com/Walking-Dead-Season-Blu-ray/dp/B06Y2HVFZV Negan and Lucille Are About to Bash Your Brains In.]]
239* The opening credits for the later seasons of ''Series/{{Highlander}}'' end on a Duncan [=MacLeod=] Is About To Decapitate You shot.
240* ''Film/AChristmasCarol1999'' (1999 TV movie): Creator/PatrickStewart [[https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/christmascarol99.PNG is about to whack you with his walking stick]], something which almost happens in-story, too.
241[[/folder]]
242
243[[folder:Music]]
244* Music/{{NWA}}
245** On the cover of Music/StraightOuttaCompton, Music/EazyE [[http://planetill.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/straight-outta-compton.jpg is about to shoot you]]. And maybe he had already. To add insult to injury, from the perspective it's clear that Music/DrDre is [[GroinAttack standing on your crotch.]]
246** The cover for their final album [=Niggaz4life=]/[[SdrawkcabName Efil4zaggin]] makes it appear that Eazy-E's ghostis about to grab you.
247* Music/SavingAbel's ''Bringing Down the Giant'': Some kid is about to slingshot a rock at you.
248* The cover of several Music/{{Stereolab}} releases feature a grinning cartoon man in a collared shirt, with [[FingerFirearms a gun barrel where his finger should be]], and he's pointing his [[VisualPun handgun]] directly at the audience. On most of these (the [=EPs=] ''Super 45'', ''Super Electric'', and ''Stunning Debut Album''; and the compilations ''Switched On'' and ''Refried Ectoplasm [Switched On Volume 2]'') he's just pointing the gun. But on the cover of the album ''Peng!'' he's actually firing at the audience.
249* The liner notes for Music/{{Suffocation}}'s SelfTitledAlbum include Frank Mullen pointing a shotgun at the camera.
250[[/folder]]
251
252[[folder:Pinballs]]
253* Creator/{{Stern}}'s ''Pinball/{{Ali}}'' pinball demonstrates UsefulNotes/MuhammadAli Is About To Poke You on its playfield.
254* In Creator/DataEast's ''Pinball/{{The Simpsons|DataEast}}'' pinball, Bart Simpson Is About To Shoot You (with his slingshot).
255[[/folder]]
256
257[[folder:Pro Wrestling]]
258* ''Wrestling/{{WWE}} Armageddon 2008'': Wrestling/ChrisJericho [[http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/a/ae/29777_Arm08_300x450.jpg Is About To Nuke You!]]
259* Wrestling/TheUndertaker [[http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/3/3f/1998JudgmentDay.jpg Is About To Grab You!]]
260* Wrestling/BigShow [[http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/1/1f/Armageddon04.jpg Is About To Crush You Under His Boot!]]
261[[/folder]]
262
263[[folder:Sports]]
264* Real life example: occasionally in pro sports, an athlete or a ball will [[CameraAbuse collide with a camera or cameraman]]. There is some pretty crazy footage from Major League Baseball of foul balls that have shattered the camera lens.
265[[/folder]]
266
267[[folder:Tabletop Games]]
268* A ''TabletopGame/{{Deathwatch}}'' [[https://web.archive.org/web/20100305110109/http://www.fantasyflightgames.com/edge_minisite_sec.asp?eidm=108&esem=2 Space Marine has just shot you]]. [[{{BFG}} And depending on who you are and what armor you're wearing/what vehicle you're in, possibly also the battle tank behind you. And the person behind that battle tank.]] [[OverlyLongGag And the wall behind that person.]]
269** ...And that person behind that person... it's a really big gun, okay. He's a SpaceMarine.
270** The TabletopGame/RogueTrader sourcebook, ''Hostile Acquisitions'' does this with it's cover-art using the Iconic Rogue Trader, Sarvus Trask.
271[[/folder]]
272
273[[folder:Video Games]]
274* Many games featuring cars tend to do this with the cars themselves in a different fashion. For example, an Aston Martin One-77 is about to [[https://web.archive.org/web/20160206185601/http://www.atari.com/sites/default/files/tdu2%20pcdvd_5.jpg run you over]]!
275* ''VideoGame/AceCombat04ShatteredSkies'': [[https://vignette4.wikia.nocookie.net/acecombat/images/4/49/AC04_box_art.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20170125141159 Mobius 1 is about is to launch a missile at you!]]
276* ''VideoGame/AceCombat5TheUnsungWar'': [[https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/2/2c/Ac5box.jpg Blaze is launching a missile at you!]]
277* ''VideoGame/AceCombat6FiresOfLiberation'': [[https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/1/16/Ace_Combat_6_Fires_of_Liberation_Game_Cover.jpg The whole Emmerian Air Force is about to launch missiles at you (starting with Garuda 1)!]]
278* ''VideoGame/BioShockInfinite'': Booker [=DeWitt=] [[http://discoinferno84.deviantart.com/art/Booker-DeWitt-Is-About-To-Shoot-You-399864616 is about to shoot!]]
279* ''VideoGame/DangerGirl'': Abbey Chase us shooting you on the game's cover, poster, title screen and the second level's loading screen.
280* ''[[VideoGame/{{Darius}} Dariusburst: Chronicle Saviours]]'': [[FinalBoss Gigantic Bite]] is about to take a bite out of the Silver Hawk.
281* ''VideoGame/{{Hellforces}}'' sees Steven Geist about to shoot the player.
282* Computer game ''VideoGame/HiddenAgenda1988'' challenged you to assume the presidency of a troubled BananaRepublic. The opening animation showed an assassin aiming his gun, ending on a freezeframe of him about to shoot the camera.
283* ''VideoGame/GunfighterTheLegendOfJesseJames'' has Jesse shooting you in the first game.
284* ''VideoGame/MagicalGirlLyricalNanohaAsPortable: The Battle of Aces'': [[http://www.play-asia.com/paOS-01-49-en-70-3iiv.html Nanoha Takamachi is about to befriend you!]] And Vita will stab you with the pointy thing on top of Graf Eisen!
285* ''VideoGame/EuropaUniversalis'' on the fourth installment, a musketeer with questionable aim may be about to shoot you
286* ''Franchise/{{Pokemon}}'':
287** Blastoise [[http://archives.bulbagarden.net/media/upload/4/42/009Blastoise_RG.png is about to]] [[MakingASplash drown you]]!
288** In the ''TabletopGame/{{Pokemon}} Dragons Exalted'' TCG expansion, [[http://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/Magmortar_(Dragons_Exalted_21) Magmortar's card]] was redesigned outside of Japan, presumably to avoid impressing kids, looking like it just forced its way in and shot someone behind the camera. The connection to guns were reduced in the replaced art, though one of its eyes is hidden in shadow, all whilst cocking its Arm-cannon like a gun.
289** ''[[VideoGame/PokemonDiamondAndPearl Pokémon]] [[http://pokefan2000.files.wordpress.com/2009/02/pokemon-platinum-english-game-cover-box-art.jpg Platinum Version]]'': Giratina Origin Forme Is About To [[NightmareFuel Get You!!]]
290*** The Spear Pillar scene has Giratina lunge at the screen as it attacks Cyrus for denouncing it. Many a player jumped. Giratina also menaces you in the intro video.
291*** Magmortar has its cannon pointed at the player in its basic sprite, and its animation acts like it fired a shot. Flint's Magmortar gets bonus points for having a Flame Seal on its Poke Ball laid over-top of its cannon, making it seem like it ''actually fired a shot''.
292** ''VideoGame/{{Pokemon|GoldAndSilver}} [[http://image.com.com/gamespot/images/bigboxshots/0/446340_43971_front.jpg Silver Version]]'': Lugia is about to eat you!
293* ''VideoGame/DragonBallZBudokai 3'': [[http://static.gamespot.com/uploads/scale_medium/mig/5/4/4/3/2215443-box_dbzb3.png Goku]] is about to punch you in the face!
294** ''VideoGame/DragonBallZBudokaiTenkaichi'': [[https://web.archive.org/web/20060420051148/http://ps2.guias-trucos-juegos.com/wp-images/Dragon-ball-z-budokai-tenkaichi.jpg Goku, Piccolo, Vegeta and the main villains]] are ''all'' about to fire ki blasts at you!
295** ''Manga/DragonBall Z: Budokai Tenkaichi 2'':Goku and Vegeta are about to fire ki blasts at you again! And the other Z-Fighters are going to attack everyone around you!
296** ''Manga/DragonBall Z:Budokai Tenkaichi 3'': [[https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/dragonball/images/3/37/DBZ_Tenkaichi_3_Cover_2.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20131128201900 Goku]] is about to blast you again! And theirs are about to attack everyone around you a second time!
297* ''VideoGame/StarFoxAssault'': [[http://www.file-extensions.org/imgs/app-picture/3952/star-fox-assault.jpg Fox McCloud Is About To Shoot You]]!
298* ''[[http://image.com.com/gamespot/images/bigboxshots/2/914282_front.jpg Orphen: Scion of Sorcery]]'': Orphen Is About To Zap You!
299* ''VideoGame/MarioParty'':
300** ''VideoGame/MarioParty2'': [[https://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/emcAAOSw4KJkYDRQ/s-l1600.jpg Cowboy Mario]] is about to shoot you [[WebVideo/YuGiOhTheAbridgedSeries with his invisible gun]]!
301** ''VideoGame/MarioParty7'': [[https://www.mobygames.com/images/covers/l/513090-mario-party-7-gamecube-manual.jpg Mario is about to stomp on your head and squash you flat like a Goomba!]]
302* ''Franchise/{{Metroid}}'':
303** ''VideoGame/MetroidPrimeHunters'': [[http://media.gamerevolution.com/images/boxshots/metroid-prime-hunters.jpg Samus Aran Is About To Shoot You!]]
304** Taken to the extreme in ''VideoGame/MetroidPrimeTrilogy'': [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jKMKLH5pX7Y Your face is jammed up Samus Aran's arm cannon!]] Also in the boxart: The logo is what's keeping Samus from shooting you. And also, when you start up one of the games: Samus Aran is about to shoot you, but instead decides to shoot over to her left!
305** ''VideoGame/MetroidDread'': The [[https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/raven_beak_4.png official artwork]] depicting [[BigBad Raven Beak]] has him aiming a partially-charged ArmCannon at the viewer.
306* ''Manga/{{Naruto}}'': ''[[http://images.saiyanisland.com/images/1/1_Naruto_Clash_of_Ninja_Revolution_2_Box_Art.jpg Clash of Ninja Revolution 2]]'': Naruto Uzumaki is about to punch you.
307** ''[[http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/61LjAoDlfqL._SL500_AA280_.jpg Naruto Shippuden: Clash of Ninja Revolution 3]]'': Naruto Uzumaki is about to punch you again.
308* ''[[http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/6/63/Redneckrampage.jpg Redneck Rampage]]'': A Dirty, Ugly Redneck Is About To Shoot You!
309* ''VideoGame/CallOfDuty 4: VideoGame/ModernWarfare'': [[https://web.archive.org/web/20130622122711/http://img381.imageshack.us/img381/9069/93921286928front.jpg Sgt. Jackson is about to shoot you!]]
310** ''Call of Duty: World at War'': [[https://web.archive.org/web/20130702053953/https://www.imfdb.org/images/2/20/CallofDutyWorldatWarJacket.jpg Pvt. Miller is shooting at you!]]
311* In [[https://web.archive.org/web/20171018032449/https://www.retromags.com/screenshots/monthly_2017_08/5999a84e21471_covergamepronov2004.thumb.jpg.950858aed62816d0118f6f637d7ac773.jpg this]] picture used as a ''Magazine/GamePro'' Magazine cover: [[Franchise/{{Halo}} Master Chief]] is about to shoot you while [[Franchise/{{Metroid}} Samus]] and a [[VideoGame/KillZone Helgast Soldier]] watch.
312* The cover of ''VideoGame/MassEffect2'': Miranda and Thane are about to shoot you and the person next to you, while Shepard glares you both to death.
313* ''VideoGame/DeusExInvisibleWar'': [[http://i11.photobucket.com/albums/a172/Starwave27/selltrade/dwiw.jpg Alex Denton]] is about to shoot you! In the chest!
314* ''VideoGame/DirgeOfCerberus: -VideoGame/FinalFantasyVII-'': [[http://images.wikia.com/finalfantasy/images/2/2b/VinDirgeLoop.jpg Vincent Valentine is about to shoot you, the guy beside you and the guy behind you!]]
315* ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyXII'': [[http://s178.photobucket.com/albums/w252/carlemb/?action=view¤t=BalthierAsheandFran.jpg&newest=1 Balthier Is About To Shoot You!]] (While riding on a sky motorcycle with two beautiful women no less)
316* ''VideoGame/{{Outcast}}'': [[http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/e/e3/Outcastbox.jpg/250px-Outcastbox.jpg Cutter Slade]] is about to shoot you!
317* ''VideoGame/CastlevaniaI'': Inverted: [[http://castlevania.wikia.com/wiki/File:Castlevania_NES_box_art.jpg Simon Belmont is about to storm Dracula's castle while the vampire count himself leers down at you!]]
318** ''VideoGame/CastlevaniaIISimonsQuest'': [[http://castlevania.wikia.com/wiki/File:Castlevania_II_-_Simon%27s_Quest_(gamebox).jpg Simon Belmont is about to whip you!]]
319** ''VideoGame/CastlevaniaIIIDraculasCurse'' Japanese cover: [[http://castlevania.wikia.com/wiki/File:Cv3_jp_box.jpg Trevor Belmont is about to whip you!]]
320** ''VideoGame/SuperCastlevaniaIV'' Japanese cover: [[http://castlevania.wikia.com/wiki/File:Supercastlevaniaiv_japanbox.jpg Simon Belmont is about to whip you again!]]
321** ''VideoGame/CastlevaniaIIBelmontsRevenge'' Japanese cover: [[http://castlevania.wikia.com/wiki/File:Castlevania_II_-_Belmnts_Revenge_(japan_cover).jpg Christopher Belmont is about to whip you!]]
322** ''VideoGame/CastlevaniaCircleOfTheMoon'': [[http://castlevania.wikia.com/wiki/File:Cotm-na.jpg Nathan Graves is about to whip you!]]
323** ''VideoGame/CastlevaniaLamentOfInnocence'' European cover: [[http://castlevania.wikia.com/wiki/File:Castlevania_Lament_of_Innocence_Europe_cover.jpg Leon Belmont is about to whip you]] [[{{Narm}} AND THE NIGHT!]]
324* The NATO soldier from ''VideoGame/OperationFlashpoint'' [[http://www.mobygames.com/images/covers/large/1021493838-00.jpg is menacingly aiming at you from point-blank range... and about to shoot you with an M16 !]]
325* ''VideoGame/BlazBlue'' European cover: [[http://www.gamesetwatch.com/100112-blazblue-2.jpg Noel Vermillion is about to shoot you!]]
326* ''VideoGame/MegaMan1'' US cover: Mega Man ''would'' be about to [[http://upload.inven.co.kr/upload/2011/12/30/bbs/i2712211993.png shoot you]] -- [[OffModel if his arthritis weren't flaring up so bad he can't move his wrist, and his cataracts weren't keeping him from seeing you in the first place]].
327** Opening to ''VideoGame/MegaManX5'': Mega Man X is about to blast you with a [[ChargedAttack Charge Shot!]] [[JustForFun/RecycledInSpace In Space]]!
328** The original is ''also'' firing a charge shot at you at the end of the AttractMode trailer in ''Videogame/MegaManIV'' (for Game Boy)
329* ''VideoGame/RedDeadRedemption'': [[http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/a/a7/Red_Dead_Redemption.jpg John Marston is about to blow your hand off.]]
330* ''VideoGame/RedDeadRedemption2'': [[https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/4/44/Red_Dead_Redemption_II.jpg Arthur Morgan is about to hit you in the left side of your shoulder!]]
331* ''VideoGame/RyseSonOfRome'': [[https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/256px-ryse_box_art_2802.jpg Marius Vitus is about to stab you.]]
332* ''VideoGame/GhostbustersTheVideoGame''. [[http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/7/74/Ghostbusters_videogame_front2.jpg Peter Venkman is about to trap you while Egon and Winston shoot people floating in the air next to you!]]
333* ''VideoGame/XCOMApocalypse'': [[http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_L1znXUxJaOw/R4yHlhwoHII/AAAAAAAAB6Q/xBDftdyRCIE/s320/X-Com%2B-%2BApocalypse_2.png An X-Com Agent]] [[ImperialStormtrooperMarksmanshipAcademy is about to shoot another X-Com agent who isn't standing anywhere near you!]]
334* ''VideoGame/SilentHill3'': [[http://images2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20080201045649/silent/images/9/90/SH3_qualite_3.jpg Heather Mason]] is about to shoot you! [[http://images3.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20080201045739/silent/images/4/48/SH3_qualite_4.jpg And hit you with a pipe!]] [[http://images3.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20080201045831/silent/images/d/dd/SH3_qualite_5.jpg And shine a flashlight in your eye!]]
335* ''VideoGame/SuperSmashBros'':
336** ''VideoGame/SuperSmashBrosForNintendo3DSAndWiiU'': [[https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/metroid/images/5/5c/SSB4U_boxart.png/revision/latest?cb=20140707013903 Pikachu is about to shock you with its electric-based attacks, while Mario is shooting a fireball at the person on your left, and Link is about to slash his sword at the person on your right!]]
337** ''VideoGame/SuperSmashBrosUltimate'': [[https://static.bhphoto.com/images/images2000x2000/1533139532_1419200.jpg Mario is VERY angry and is about to punch you in the face AND squash your head in with his foot, while all the other characters floating in the air alongside him are about to attack the people beside you!]]
338* This may be a stretch, but whatever. ''[=SF20=]: The Art of Franchise/StreetFighter'': [[http://www.udonentertainment.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2009/07/sf20_cover.jpg Ryu is about to counterpunch you!]]
339** More traditionally, one constant in the introductions for the various versions of ''Super VideoGame/StreetFighterII'' is that [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AofkHV22P04 Ryu is about to Hadoken you]].
340* Japanese cover for the Platform/PlayStation cover of ''VideoGame/TheKingOfFighters96'': [[https://web.archive.org/web/20160305042020/http://castleofcollectibles.com/torture/sony/ps/pskof96best.jpg Yagami is about to burn you!]]
341* ''VideoGame/TrueCrimeStreetsOfLA'' and ''VideoGame/TrueCrimeNewYorkCity'': [[http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/6/62/True_Crime_-_Streets_of_LA_coverart.jpg Nick Kang]] and [[http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/5/5f/True_Crime_-_New_York_City_Coverart.jpg Marcus Reed]] are about to shoot you.
342* ''VideoGame/BloodIITheChosen'': [[http://img1.picload.org/image/laidar/art_promo-b2.jpg Caleb]] has ''already'' shot you!
343* ''Ultimate VideoGame/MarvelVsCapcom3'': [[http://x.annihil.us/u/prod/marvel/i/mg/6/50/4e25fe443341f/detail.jpg Hawkeye is about to arrow you.]]
344* Many of the campaign posters in ''VideoGame/Left4Dead'' use this trope. [[http://images3.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20081114202209/left4dead/images/0/03/Blood_Harvest.jpg Bill, Louis, Zoey, and Francis are about to shoot the zombies behind you.]] [[http://images1.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20091013013307/left4dead/images/c/cd/HardRain.jpg Nick is about to do the same.]]
345* Lara Croft has ''[[http://i14.photobucket.com/albums/a309/justgrec/Tomb%20Raider/BoxArt-TombRaider3.jpg already shot you]]'' in ''VideoGame/TombRaiderIII''.
346* ''VideoGame/TalesOfTheAbyss'': [[http://pics.mobygames.com/images/covers/large/1177779311-00.jpg Luke Fon Fabre is about to slice you.]]
347* VideoGame/{{Asura|sWrath}} is about [[https://web.archive.org/web/20130627114843/http://www.framestatic.com/wp-content/uploads/wppa/1118.jpg to punch your face inside out.]] And/or [[https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/91ugzlJNTKL._AC_SL1500_.jpg scream at you.]]
348* The NES ports of ''VideoGame/IndianaJonesAndTheLastCrusade'': In both covers, [[http://image.com.com/gamespot/images/bigboxshots/5/587355_46931_front.jpg Indy is shooting]] [[http://pics.mobygames.com/images/covers/large/1288902207-00.jpg at you on horseback!]]
349* ''VisualNovel/{{Snatcher}}'' [[http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-vUX0N_guWdI/TdVM3OU0eOI/AAAAAAAAAUI/yHj0lDk6DR4/s1600/snatcher.jpg Gillian Seed is about to shoot you!]]
350* ''VisualNovel/{{Policenauts}}'' Platform/SegaSaturn cover art: [[http://www.genkivideogames.com/images/t9510gfront.jpg Jonathan Ingram and Tony Redwood are about to shoot you!]]
351* ''VideoGame/CrossEdge'': [[http://image.gamespotcdn.net/gamespot/images/box/1/9/4/946194_116213_front.jpg York Neely is about to shoot you!]]
352* ''VideoGame/NamcoXCapcom'' OST: [[http://www.game-ost.com/static/covers_soundtracks/c/CPCA-10118_front.jpg Reiji Arisu is about to shoot you!]]
353* Several ''VideoGame/TimeCrisis'' games:
354** ''Time Crisis 3'' European cover art: [[http://image.gamespotcdn.net/gamespot/images/box/3/8/8/569388_53117_front.jpg Alan Dunaway already shot you!]]
355** ''Time Crisis 4'': [[http://image.gamespotcdn.net/gamespot/images/box/7/5/8/938758_85905_front.jpg Captain Rush is about to shoot you!]]
356** ''Time Crisis: [[GaidenGame Crisis Zone]]'': [[http://www.geeksetconline.com/pdshoppro/images/timecrisiszoneps2.jpg Claude McGarren is about to shoot you!]]
357** ''Time Crisis: VideoGame/RazingStorm'': [[http://image.gamespotcdn.net/gamespot/images/box/8/8/0/997880_172091_front.jpg Casey and King are already shooting you!]]
358* Several ''VideoGame/{{Contra}}'' games:
359** The original: [[http://image.gamespotcdn.net/gamespot/images/box/3/9/9/563399_29009_front.jpg Bill Rizer is already shooting you!]]
360** ''VideoGame/SuperC'': [[http://image.gamespotcdn.net/gamespot/images/box/4/6/3/563463_49625_front.jpg Bill Rizer and Lance Bean are shooting you!]]
361** ''VideoGame/NeoContra'': [[http://image.gamespotcdn.net/gamespot/images/box/5/5/8/919558_59996_front.jpg Bill Rizer is about to shoot you while Jaguar is about to shoot AND stab you!]]
362** ''VideoGame/Contra4'' [[http://image.gamespotcdn.net/gamespot/images/box/4/6/1/941461_91532_front.jpg Bill Rizer is shooting you again!]]
363* ''VideoGame/MetalSlug'':
364** ''3'': [[http://image.gamespotcdn.net/gamespot/images/box/9/4/0/562940_86390_front.jpg Eri Kasamoto is about to shoot you!]]
365** ''6'': [[http://image.gamespotcdn.net/gamespot/images/box/3/7/4/933374_76227_front.jpg Marco Rossi is about to shoot you!]]
366* ''VideoGame/LethalEnforcers'': [[http://www.emuparadise.me/Sega%20CD/Box%20Scans/Lethal%20Enforcers%20%28U%29%20%28Front%29.jpg A bad guy is about to shoot you while a hijacker is already shooting you!]]
367** The second game: [[http://media.gamestats.com/gg/image/object/005/005608/LETHAL_ENFORCERS_SEGACD_BOX_FRONT.jpg Three cowboys are about to shoot you!]]
368* ''VideoGame/{{Dishonored}}'': [[http://i.imgur.com/owrIX.jpg Corvo Attano is about to stab you!]]
369* ''VideoGame/OperationWolf'': [[http://image.gamespotcdn.net/gamespot/images/box/4/9/8/587498_54855_front.jpg A soldier is already shooting you!]]
370** The sequel ''Operation Thunderbolt'': [[http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/4/4c/Operation_Thunderbolt_%28video_game%29_titlescreen.jpg A soldier is about to shoot you! (Japanese arcade flyer)]]
371* ''VideoGame/KlonoaDoorToPhantomile'': [[http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/2/25/Klonoa_playstation_front.jpg Klonoa is about to fire his ring at you!]]
372* ''[[VideoGame/ResidentEvilGunSurvivor Resident Evil: Dead Aim]]'': [[http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/a/a5/Residentevildeadaim.jpg/250px-Residentevildeadaim.jpg Bruce MacGivern is about to shoot you while Fong Ling watches!]]
373* Before it went FreeToPlay, ''VideoGame/StarTrekOnline's'' box art featured a nameless white male human Starfleet captain pointing a phaser in roughly the direction of the guy standing next to the viewer. He got dubbed "Handsome Phaser Guy".
374* ''VideoGame/{{Thief 2014}}'': [[https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/thief2014_7958.jpg Garrett Is About To Steal Something From You]]
375* The [[https://d1y0oqfyli6x95.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/2014-08-22_11.11.17.png promotional image]] for ''VideoGame/{{Minecraft}}'' version 1.8 shows "Alex?", the DistaffCounterpart of "Steve?" introduced in this version, aiming her bow at the camera.
376* ''[[VideoGame/AdvancedVariableGeo Advanced V.G. 2]]'': [[http://img.gamefaqs.net/box/5/9/8/36598_front.jpg Yuka and Tamao are about to punch you!]]
377* ''VideoGame/KirbyTripleDeluxe'': Franchise/{{Kirby}} [[https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/1/1d/Kirbytstest.jpg Is about to eat you.]]
378* ''[[VideoGame/SyphonFilter Syphon Filter: Dark Mirror]]'': [[https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/0/08/PSP-SyphonFilterDarkMirrorUSversion-FrontCover.jpg Gabe Logan is shooting to your left.]]
379* ''[[VideoGame/MechWarrior MechWarrior 4: Black Knight]]'': A [[http://i.imgur.com/WhadaDT.jpg Black Knight is about to shoot you]]! In the console spinoff ''Videogame/MechAssault 1'', a [[http://i.imgur.com/QC4kMKj.png Cougar is in the process of shooting you]]!
380* ''VideoGame/INinja'': [[https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/5/53/I-Ninja.jpg Ninja is tossing his shuriken at you]]!
381* ''Franchise/{{Halo}}'': Master Chief is about to shoot you! Most prominent with the first game in the series, ''VideoGame/HaloCombatEvolved'', where Chief is pointing the barrel of his assault rifle right at you on the cover. Other covers in the series typically have Chief posed with a weapon, but without pointing it directly at the viewer.
382* ''VideoGame/MortalKombat11'': [[https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DwkeHvnWwAA93HE.jpg:large Scorpion is about to make you]] ''GET OVER HERE!''
383* ''Franchise/LiloAndStitch'' video games:
384** [[VideoGame/LiloAndStitchGameBoyAdvance Game Boy Advance]] game: Experiment 626 is about to destroy you and [[TheFourthWallWillNotProtectYou he will tear through the game's cover and the]] Platform/GameBoyAdvance [[TheFourthWallWillNotProtectYou platform-identifying label to do so]]. Oh, and he's showing you that the game has clips from [[WesternAnimation/LiloAndStitch the movie]].
385** ''VideoGame/LiloAndStitchTroubleInParadise'' (North American Windows cover): Experiment 626 is about to destroy you and [[ExtremeOmnivore eat the]] [[TheFourthWallWillNotProtectYou game's cover]] along the way.
386** ''VideoGame/LiloAndStitch2HamstervielHavoc''
387*** American and European cover: Experiment 626 is firing his [[PlasmaCannon plasma blasters]] at something to your left while [[Characters/LiloAndStitchExperiments Richter (X-513) and Spooky (X-300)]] look on in the background. ([[https://media.gamestats.com/gg/image/object/683/683384/liloandstitch2_usbox.jpg A variant of the American cover]] shows that Stitch/X-626 is firing at [[TheFourthWallWillNotProtectYou the GBA label itself]]. He must have issues with that particular label.)
388*** [[https://web.archive.org/web/20190430204638/https://gamefaqs.akamaized.net/box/7/8/9/60789_front.jpg Japanese cover:]] Stitch is about to shoot inches to your left with a plasma blaster as his "cousins" mess around.
389* ''VideoGame/DemonsCrest'': [[https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/2/21/Demonscrest_us.jpg Firebrand]] is about to do [[DemonicSpiders what his species is known for]] to you.
390* ''Videogame/DarkForces'': A Stormtrooper is shooting you! (while the guy next to him is being shot at)
391[[/folder]]
392
393[[folder:Visual Novels]]
394* The cover of ''VisualNovel/RoseGunsDays'' Season 1 is like this… although Leo [[FingerGun isn't holding a gun]].
395* Several posters for the ''Franchise/AceAttorney'' series center around the main protagonist(s) for that particular game directing [[GivingSomeoneThePointerFinger their signature pose]] toward the audience.
396[[/folder]]
397
398[[folder:Web]]
399* @/TheAdvertisementServer [[http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y287/Ronkaperplexous/AboutToShootYou.png is about to shoot you!]]
400* Used for humorous effect on the cosplay/talk show/thing ''WebVideo/DemyxTime'', where Vexen is using his mind-ray to make everyone forget about the body-switching incident - ItMakesSenseInContext. The episode ends with him repeating 'NOBODY MUST REMEMBER!' and shooting it into the camera.
401* Lord Kitchener needs [[http://www.sterlingtimes.org/kitchener.jpg YOU]] to get a poke in the eye!
402* ''WebAnimation/HappyTreeFriends'': Flippy is [[http://www.zerochan.net/651141 about to shoot you]]... assuming you haven't [[KillItWithFire burned to death]] already.
403* ''Webcomic/{{Spinnerette}}'': [[https://www.spinnyverse.com/comic/06-21-2013 Mecha Maid is about to shoot a rocket at you!]]
404[[/folder]]
405
406[[folder:Western Animation]]
407* ''WesternAnimation/BeastWars'':
408** Dinobot and Rattrap [[SecondPersonAttack punch the camera (which is looking through Tarantulus' POV)]]. Complete with seeing double and falling over after it's done.
409** Megatron [[EvilGloating delivers his "I won" speech]] [[spoiler:at the end of The Agenda Part 3]] [[TheFourthWallWillNotProtectYou directly to the viewer]] in spite of it being a speech for the Maximals.
410* ''WesternAnimation/TheLegendOfKorra'': [[http://bryankonietzko.tumblr.com/post/47589614388/here-is-the-cover-art-for-the-legend-of-korra-book#_=_ Avatar Korra]] is about to punch...one or two centimeters to the left of your head. Her friend Asami, however, really is about to electrocute you right in the face.
411* [[ExaggeratedTrope Up to Eleven]] with Amor, "announcer" of the films of the German "Erotic [[note]] read: pornographic [[/note]] Animation" series. He ''does'' shoot at you, often wisecracking jokes like "This arrow is for he who never fapped". (FourthWall protects you, though.)
412[[/folder]]
413
414!!In-story examples:
415[[folder:Anime & Manga]]
416* Alucard from ''Manga/{{Hellsing}}'' constantly makes it appear that he is aiming for the viewer's eyes.
417* ''Manga/ChronoCrusade'' example (spoilers!): Joshua Christopher Is About To Shoot You!
418** Actually, there's three separate panels in ''Chrono Crusade'' that show Joshua pointing a gun out of the frame and towards the reader. [[RuleOfCool And it looks badass every time]].
419* ''Anime/MegaManNTWarrior'': Rockman.EXE shoots his [[ArmCannon Rockbuster]] at the camera in the Japanese version opening, and several times in the show.
420* The Episode 12 EyeCatch of ''Anime/MagicalGirlLyricalNanohaAs'', which was a "Nanoha And Fate Are About To Shoot And Impale You" shot.
421* Chapter 5/Episode 2 of ''Manga/ElfenLied'' has Lucy, who is wielding an automatic machine gun from a man she just killed. [[ComicallyMissingThePoint No, you should have been very afraid]] ''[[NightmareFuel WAY BEFORE THAT.]]''
422* Death The Kid from ''Manga/SoulEater'' has a few [[{{Pun}} shots]] in the show or the merchandise in which he is pointing [[MorphWeapon Liz and Patti]] at the camera; a particularly famous shot is [[http://littledailyprophet.files.wordpress.com/2008/05/soul-eater-03_death-the-kidavi_001167042.jpg one from his debut episode]]; he was actually supposed to be pointing at a very asymmetrical pharaoh.
423* Credits of ''Anime/GunXSword'' - Wendy Garret is about to shoot you with [[OneBulletLeft her single remaining bullet]].
424* The opening to ''Literature/SwordArtOnline II'' - Death Gun is about to shoot you!
425* In the 3rd episode of ''Anime/DigimonTamers'', the rambo bunny with two gatling guns for hands (Gargomon) isn't about to shoot you... in the dub. In the original, he almost did.
426* In ''Anime/MacrossFrontier'', Sheryl Nome is about to shoot you. Sheryl uses this trope in her war propaganda commercial "Galactic Fairy takes up arms for her homeland!"
427* The opening to ''Manga/JojosBizarreAdventureStardustCrusaders'': Star Platinum is about to beat the stuffing out of you!
428** Again, in the second half of the series: Star Platinum is going to pummel you some mor-'''''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K1ZvXxVPZjM ZA WARUDO!!!]]'''''
429* Spoileriffic example from ''Anime/PuellaMagiMadokaMagica'', episode 10: [[spoiler:[[http://img836.imageshack.us/img836/5981/mamiisabouttoshootyou.jpg Mami Tomoe is about to shoot you while crying]]]].
430* [[http://imgur.com/LLMoH60 A tank in]] ''Manga/FullmetalAlchemist'' is about to shoot you.
431* The ending credits sequence of ''Manga/BlackLagoon'' concludes with Revy whipping out a shotgun and pointing it at the camera.
432* Meg does this [[http://vignette1.wikia.nocookie.net/p__/images/d/db/Red_Meg.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20130530062020&path-prefix=protagonist at the end of the final episode]] of ''Anime/BurstAngel''.
433* ''Anime/SailorMoonCrystal'': [[http://sailormoonnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/sailor_moon_crystal_season_2_trailer_chibiusa_with_a_gun.jpg Chibiusa is about to shoot you]].
434* The opening to Manga/{{Boruto}}. Boruto Uzumaki Is Going To Punch You!
435* ''Franchise/LupinIII'': ''Anime/TheMysteryOfMamo'': Inspector Zenigata is about to shoot you (and the main title screen).
436* ''Anime/CodeGeass'': [[http://imgur.com/pQeunka Suzaku is about to shoot your right ear]].
437* ''Manga/{{Akira}}'': [[http://imgur.com/b2f0YW6 Kaneda is about to shoot you]].
438* ''Anime/PuellaMagiMadokaMagica'': [[http://imgur.com/88NSmoF Mami is about to shoot you]] ([[BilingualBonus to all German-speakers]]: [[JustForFun/IThoughtItMeant NOT related to]] Film/StopOrMyMomWillShoot)[[note]]"Stop! Oder meine '''Mami''' schießt!" is the German title of ''Film/StopOrMyMomWillShoot''[[/note]].
439* ''Manga/BlackLagoon'': Revy's gonna [[http://imgur.com/NanSipW first shoot your right ear]], then [[http://imgur.com/2zoIVI7 finish you off]] and [[http://imgur.com/ey9TrYd lets Dutch in on the game]].
440* ''Manga/LuckyStar'': Konata's [[http://imgur.com/ow65FO4 gonna put eye drops in your eyes]].
441[[/folder]]
442
443[[folder:Comic Books]]
444* ''ComicBook/MortadeloYFilemon'': Parodied in "¡A las armas!". The agents have been tasked with testing a bazooka that fires automatically when placed in horizontal position. When they leave their apartment, the weapon accidentally hits the lintel of the door and leans down. Meanwhile on the outside, a bystander is looking at a movie advert that depicts the main character in the "about to shoot you" pose:
445-->'''Bystander:''' What agressiveness in that face! You could say he's about to start shooting and...
446-->''[Big boom. The wall has a massive hole where the advert was, while the bystander is stunned and not only has an AshFace, but [[ExaggeratedTrope his upper body is completely covered in ashes]].]''
447-->'''Bystander:''' Th-they should ban such realistic adverts...
448[[/folder]]
449
450[[folder:Films -- Animation]]
451* ''[[WesternAnimation/Nimona2023 Nimona]]'' prominently features a giant statue of Gloreth, which depicts her sword outstretched to the city. A shot in the finale shows the statue's sword pointed to the camera, [[spoiler:right when the titular charater is in her OneWingedAngel form and is about to commit suicide by impaling the sword to her heart.]]
452[[/folder]]
453
454[[folder:Films -- Live-Action]]
455* ''Film/TheDayThatShookTheWorld'': The very first scene of the movie is a pistol pointing directly at the camera and firing. It's the assassins, taking target practice at a poster of Franz Ferdinand.
456* In the openings of most ''Film/JamesBond'' movies, via the famous BondGunBarrel sequence (where the Trope Namer was technically the second one to shoot at the audience, as the first three movies had stuntman Bob Simmons as a FakeShemp):
457** Each of the Eon productions before ''Film/QuantumOfSolace'' included a variation on the sequence.
458** Originally, ''Film/NeverSayNeverAgain'' and ''Film/CasinoRoyale1967'' were intended to open with gunbarrels - the latter featuring a pop-gun wielding David Niven. These were removed before release.
459** The 2006 version of ''Film/CasinoRoyale2006'' was the first to actually incorporate the gunbarrel sequence into the plotline, with the audience being treated to the POV of a mook as he is shot by Bond.
460** The 1974 French knock-off ''From Hong Kong With Love'' opens with Bond attempting to shoot you... but his gun is empty. The camera shoots back, and kills him!
461* ''Film/{{The Great Train Robbery|1903}}'' (1903) ends with a bank robber pointing a pistol at the camera and firing. It's the {{Trope Maker|s}} and ''very'' likely the UrExample. Supposedly some people ducked or ran out of the theater, which is almost certainly nonsense, as even in 1903 moviegoers knew that real gunmen were three-dimensional and make sound.
462* ''Film/GoodFellas'' ended with Joe Pesci shooting at the audience in an homage to ''The Great Train Robbery''.
463* ''Film/CityOfGod'' makes [[http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-_NVFUIS-4cw/T_xyYctHPJI/AAAAAAAABWY/fh2jvVhscBc/s1600/cidade+de+deus+dadinho.jpg very memorable usage]] of this trope.
464* The trailer for ''Film/{{Watchmen}}'' originally had an assassin pointing a gun at the camera in one scene. After being told by the MPAA that it would need to be removed in order to get a green band, director Creator/ZackSnyder [[Film/ETTheExtraTerrestrial digitally altered it into a walkie-talkie]].
465* ''Film/TheProposition'': Danny Huston, Guy Pearce, and Creator/RayWinstone are all going to shoot you. Or maybe someone just behind you and to your left.
466* The movie version of ''Patriot Games'' does this during the scene where [[PsychoForHire Sean Miller]] (Creator/SeanBean) executes Dennis Cooley.
467* ''Film/{{Zardoz}}'' has Creator/SeanConnery shooting at the camera, in a red nappy.
468* ''Film/TheKiller1989'' does this a lot, most famously the scene where Chow Yun-Fat takes out his target at the restaurant during the first major shootout of the movie.
469** Not to mention the vision that Jenny has of Ah Jong firing directly at the camera, with a sea of blood behind him.
470* In ''Film/{{Serenity}}'', both Mal and River point their guns at the camera at different times, and at the end of the movie, River is glaring directly at the camera after [[spoiler:slaughtering an entire army of Reavers]], looking for all the world like she's about to take those bloodstained blades in her hands to the audience next.
471* ''Film/TheBigLebowski'': John Goodman is going to shoot you [[http://letsbeard.com/z.jpg unless you mark it zero!]]
472** Also, one of Maude's henchmen punches you out.
473* When performing the theme song to ''WesternAnimation/TheThreeCaballeros'', Panchito points one of his guns at the camera and it sings the lyric "and we'll stay so".
474* The second shootout (the one not dictated by Steve Buscemi) of ''Film/{{Desperado}}'' features Creator/AntonioBanderas firing two full clips into the camera, and in the extras Creator/RobertRodriguez points out that the force of the blanks and the closeness of the pistols knocked off the flash dampener.
475* In ''Film/HouseOf1000Corpses'' Bill Moseley is going to shoot you! (Pause for about thirty seconds.)
476* ''Film/OnceUponATimeInTheWest'': Frank's first KickTheDog moment, which abruptly cuts to a train's whistle.
477* Film/TheThreeStooges even got in on the act during two shorts that were attempts at 3-d, 'Spooks!' and 'Pardon My Backfire'. [[http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/2/25/Sppooks.jpg Moe Howard Is About To Poke Your Eyes!]]
478* Happens in-character in ''Film/BackToTheFuturePartII'', when Marty encounters a holographic The Shark Is About To Eat You! advert for ''Jaws [[RidiculousFutureSequelisation 19]]''.
479* Near the end of ''Film/{{The Avengers|2012}}'' [[spoiler:Loki finds himself confronted by the Avengers]], leading to a TeamShot combined with Jeremy Renner Is About To Shoot You With A Bow And Arrow.
480* PlayedForLaughs in ''Film/CaptainMarvel2019'', in which the first human figure Carol Danvers spots after crashing to Earth in the middle of a Blockbuster is a ''Film/TrueLies'' promotional standee of Creator/ArnoldSchwarzenegger. As the standee is depicted in the manner of this trope and Carol doesn't immediately realize it's cardboard, she shoots it ''back'' with a proton blast.
481* In ''Film/GrossePointeBlank'', John Cusack shoots you. At point blank, naturally.
482* The Film/MenInBlack (especially K) will occasionally [[LaserGuidedAmnesia neuralize]] you. Also happens at the end of [[Ride/MenInBlackAlienAttack the theme park ride]].
483* TheStinger for ''Film/AmericanGangster'' is Creator/DenzelWashington shooting you.
484* The TV spot for ''Film/DjangoUnchained'' has Jamie Foxx shooting you at near-point blank.
485* ''Film/TheThing2011'' ends with Lars firing his rifle toward the audience, in a CallForward to the beginning of [[Film/TheThing1982 the original movie]], in which the Norwegians were trying to kill the husky-alien before it reached the American camp.
486* Several times in ''Film/AFistfulOfDollars'', with Ramon Rojo. Most significantly in shots like [[http://cdn5.movieclips.com/mgm/a/a-fistful-of-dollars-1964/0383812_4548_MC_Tx304.jpg this]], [[https://torkofthetown.files.wordpress.com/2012/06/ramon-rifle.jpg this]],[[https://dissectingtheframe.files.wordpress.com/2013/06/vlcsnap-2013-06-29-14h14m21s15.png this]], and [[https://torkofthetown.files.wordpress.com/2012/06/ramon-gatling.jpg this]].
487* In the 1945 ''Film/{{Dillinger|1945}}'', John Dillinger does this during a TimePassesMontage of various bank robberies.
488* During a battle scene in ''Film/MetalstormTheDestructionOfJaredSyn'', a character fires his EnergyWeapon at the camera, causing blue light to almost fill the screen for a moment.
489[[/folder]]
490
491[[folder:Literature]]
492* ''Literature/NineteenEightyFour'':
493-->A new poster had suddenly appeared all over London. It had no caption, and represented simply the monstrous figure of a [[HordesFromTheEast Eurasian soldier]], three or four meters high, striding forward with expressionless Mongolian face and enormous boots, a submachine gun pointed from the hip. From whatever angle you looked at the poster, the muzzle of the gun, magnified by the foreshortening, seemed to be pointed straight at you.
494* In ''Literature/GhostStory'', there's a graffiti painting on the shutter of Ragged Angel Investigations that depicts a portly, balding angel holding a doughnut in one hand and aiming a shotgun straight toward the viewer in the other.
495[[/folder]]
496
497[[folder:Live-Action TV]]
498* Chris Elliott is about to shoot you in his domestic sitcom/cop drama mashup ''Action Family'' where he guns down his teenage daughter's scuzzy boyfriend - not that he's guilty of Chris's partner's death, he's just conveniently there for the wrap-up/happy ending.
499* In the ''Series/{{Firefly}}'' episode "Heart of Gold," Mal levels his pistol dramatically at the camera, and then gets startled by Inara and lets out a very undramatic "Bwa!" of surprise.
500* ''Series/Gladiators2024'': The opening credits [[IntroductoryOpeningCredits show the Gladiators]] in various action poses, some of which are directly aimed at the audience. Viper's about to elbow the viewer in the face, Fire [[PlayingWithFire throws a small fireball at the screen]] and Apollo offers viewers a 'BringIt' gesture.
501* ''Series/{{Glee}}'': [[http://images4.fanpop.com/image/forum/74000/74516_1297122945840_full.jpg The entire cast]] is about to [[CoveredInGunge slushie you]]!
502* The title sequence of ''Series/KitchenNightmares'' ends with Creator/GordonRamsay throwing a chef's knife at the camera.
503* In the ''Series/MidnightCaller'' episode "Blood Red," a murder is shown from the victim's perspective, with the villain shooting the camera.
504* This camera angle (fist coming at the camera) used to be quite common in 1970s TV, for example in an episode of ''Series/TheRockfordFiles'' in which a thug knocks Jim Rockford out in this manner.
505* The opening of ''Series/SledgeHammer'' ends with Sledge saying "Trust me, [[BlatantLies I know what I'm doing]]" and shooting the screen.
506* ''Franchise/StarWars'': In ''Series/ObiWanKenobi'' "[[Recap.ObiWanKenobiPartIII Part III]]", since we're viewing the scene through RoboCam, when Obi-Wan decides to shoot the imperial probe droid he fires straight at the camera.
507* A {{Ninja}} throws a shuriken at the screen, which forms into part of the ''Series/DeadliestWarrior'' title.
508* The final shot in the BolivianArmyEnding (for him) of ''Series/BlakesSeven'' is of Avon levelling his gun at the camera. A Federation trooper also fires on the audience during the TitleSequence.
509* ''Series/XenaWarriorPrincess'': When thugs interrupt Xena's [[OutdoorBathPeeping bathing]], you get a point-of-view shot of her punching you in the face.
510[[/folder]]
511
512[[folder:Music Videos]]
513* Creator/WillSmith's ''Film/MenInBlack'' music video ends with Will [[LaserGuidedAmnesia neuralyzing the viewers]], [[ApologeticAttacker apologizing beforehand]].
514[[/folder]]
515
516[[folder:Print Media]]
517* The ''Magazine/{{MAD}}'' parody of ''Series/{{Gunsmoke}}'' had the gunslingers from the opening sequence [[TheFourthWallWillNotProtectYou shooting from the hip and killing TV viewers]], demonstrating how "realistic" the show was.
518* The cover of the March 1998 issue of ''[=GEAR=] Magazine'' is Creator/DarylHannah pointing a gun at the camera.
519[[/folder]]
520
521[[folder:Puppet Shows]]
522* ''Series/CaptainScarletAndTheMysterons'': The opening sequence of this marionette series features the title character shooting towards the screen.
523[[/folder]]
524
525[[folder:Theatre]]
526* In the finale of ''Theatre/{{Assassins}}'', the assassins all draw their guns, walk to the foot of the stage, and fire on the audience.
527[[/folder]]
528
529[[folder:Video Games]]
530* ''VideoGame/{{Metal Gear Solid 2|SonsOfLiberty}}'' has Solidus Snake pointing his P90 directly at the camera.
531* ''VideoGame/NinjaGaiden'': Ryu Hayabusa is about to hack you into bits. In the arcade game, [[http://images.wikia.com/ninjagaiden/images/b/b7/Ryu_jump.jpg he destroys the screen.]]
532* ''Franchise/StreetFighter'':
533** ''Super Street Fighter II'' - Ryu is about to Hadouken you.
534*** He does this in ''Super Puzzle Fighter II Turbo'' as well.
535** ''VideoGame/StreetFighterAlpha 2'' - Ryu and Ken are about to Hadouken you.
536** In the Japanese commercials for the SFC port of ''Street Fighter II Turbo'':
537*** Guile is about to Sonic Boom you.
538*** Chun-Li is about to Kikouken you.
539* Some victory poses from ''VideoGame/MarvelVsCapcom3'' employ this. For instance:
540** [[Comicbook/FantasticFour Super-Skrull]] is gonna stomp on your face!
541** [[Franchise/ResidentEvil Wesker]] is gonna choke the life out of you!
542** [[Franchise/ResidentEvil Jill]] is gonna stab you!
543** [[Characters/MarvelComicsDeadpool Deadpool]] is gonna [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking shake you while telling you how much you suck]]!
544* Dante actually ''does'' kick the camera in the intro to ''VideoGame/{{Devil May Cry 3|DantesAwakening}}''. And an early trailer for ''VideoGame/DevilMayCry4'' consists of nothing but him unleashing a complete unholy beatdown on the camera.
545* One character's ending in ''[[VideoGame/{{Tekken}} Tekken Tag Tournament]]'' shows him delivering a beating to the camera. [[spoiler:At the end, the camera arcs around to reveal he's beaten Heihachi and Kazuya Mishama senseless.]]
546* ''Franchise/MegaMan'':
547** The cover for ''VideoGame/MegaManBattleNetwork 5'' Double Team DS does this with both Rockman.EXE and Protoman.EXE.
548** ''VideoGame/MegaManAndBass'' opens up with the titular characters shooting [[BigBad King's]] Emblem. Then they emerge from the bottom of the screen, {{arm cannon}}s smoking hot, and Bass is about to shoot you! Mega Man is waiting his turn.
549** Before all of these, ''IV'' for the Platform/GameBoy had its intro finish with Mega Man demonstrating his charged shot, straight towards the camera.
550** Also the intro of ''8''.
551** And for the intro of ''The Power Battle''.
552** In [[WesternAnimation/MegaManRubySpears the cartoon]], Mega Man [[PowerCopying now has your power]], and is about to blast you with it!
553* In the ending of ''VideoGame/SuperMetroid'', Samus will shoot the screen (and then, depending on how fast you competed the game, just give you a thumbs up, flip open her helmet, or show off what she looks like under her suit.
554* ''VideoGame/TeamFortress2'': [[http://www.teamfortress.com/sniper.htm Meet the Sniper]]: The Sniper has a plan to kill you.
555* ''VideoGame/FalloutNewVegas'': The first thing your character actually sees in the game? Benny is about to shoot you. The second thing? He does.
556* The intro movie of ''VideoGame/ParasiteEve2'' ends with the main character Aya Brea doing a quick-draw and pointing her gun at the [=player/watcher=]. [[spoiler:In the context of the actual game itself, she's pointing it at an army of EliteMooks.]]
557* In ''VideoGame/SengokuBasara'', Nobunaga's VictoryPose has him shooting the camera with his SawedOffShotgun.
558* ''War of Angels'' (character selection): Your own friggin' fighter is about to [[http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v177/wontolla/stabyou.jpg stab you!]]
559* ''VideoGame/SakuraWars'' often features images of the Imperial Assault Troupe's resident firearms expert Maria Tachibana pointing her gun at the camera, including the opening sequence of [[VideoGame/SakuraWars1996 the original 1996 game]].
560* One scene in the opening movie of the original ''VideoGame/TimeCrisis'' shows Richard Miller pointing his gun at the viewer...and shooting it.
561* ''VideoGame/XCom: Terror From the Deep'': The illustration for the Gillman entry in the [=UFOPaedia=] shows a Gillman pointing what looks like a Sonic-Blasta Rifle at the screen.
562* ''VideoGame/ResidentEvil5'':
563** ''Lost In Nightmares'': [[http://dualshockers.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/resident-evil-5-alternative-edition-dlc.jpg Chris and Jill are about to fuck your shit up.]]
564** ''Desperate Escape'': [[http://elder-geek.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/de1.jpg Jill and Josh are shooting the guys to your right.]]
565* ''VideoGame/GodOfWarIII'': You get to watch as Kratos [[EyeScream gouge your eyes out.]] (You're really watching from Poseidon's point of view as he gets the shit beat out of him, but the effect is there.)
566* Evander Holyfield's "Real Deal" Boxing: He punches you several times on the title screen.
567* Occurs at the climax of ''VideoGame/SpecOpsTheLine''. [[spoiler:Take a close look at the angle Konrad's holding the gun in the event that you shoot him- he's not pointing it at Walker, he's pointing it at ''YOU''.]]
568* Every boss cinematic in ''VideoGame/SakuraSamurai'' ends with them pointing their weapon directly at the camera.
569* The title screen for the controversial game ''{{VideoGame/Hatred}}'' has the VillainProtagonist about to shoot you.
570* [[http://i.imgur.com/JUgBJZo.jpg Mii Koryuji]] in the opening for ''VideoGame/ProjectXZone'', complete with a ''Film/DirtyHarry'' style gunshot effect.
571* ''VideoGame/RedDeadRedemption2'': In the style of ''[=RDR1=]'', [[spoiler:[[https://pbs.twimg.com/media/F0s25e1WcCYY583?format=jpg&name=4096x4096 John Marston is about to shoot you. All over again.]]]]
572* ''VideoGame/DejaVu1985'': The mugger points his gun straight at you to show that he means business.
573* ''VideoGame/TheNewOrderLastDaysofEurope'': The event for a Yagoda-led unification of the Far East has an NKVD executioner pointing his pistol straight at you.
574* ''VideoGame/{{Xenonauts}}'': A Reaper has burst through its holding tank and is about to stab you in its live captive research report. And the stab [[FaceFullOfAlienWingWong is the least of your problems.]]
575[[/folder]]
576
577[[folder:Visual Novels]]
578* Chapter 16 of ''VisualNovel/DaughterForDessert'' ends with Mortelli's gun pointed in the audience's face. He's lured the protagonist into the back alley to interrogate him, since he's figured out who broke into his office.
579* Jonathan Ingram [[http://www.mobygames.com/game/sega-saturn/policenauts/screenshots/gameShotId,76943/ does this at the end]] of the LockAndLoadMontage at the beginning of the final act of ''VisualNovel/{{Policenauts}}''.
580[[/folder]]
581
582[[folder:Webcomics]]
583* In ''Webcomic/DanAndMabsFurryAdventures'', [[http://www.missmab.com/Comics/Vol_1336.php Jyrras is about to shoot you.]]
584* In ''Webcomic/{{Endtown}}'', [[http://www.gocomics.com/endtown/2012/07/02 Flask is about to shoot you.]]
585* In ''Webcomic/TwentyFirstCenturyFox'', [[http://techfox.comicgenesis.com/d/20140505.html Dr. Cavor is roundhouse-kicking you.]]
586* In ''Webcomic/VerloreGeleentheid'', [[http://verlore.thewebcomic.com/comics/2011818/wow-so-confuse/ Louwrens is about to shoot you.]]
587* In ''Webcomic/{{Nightmarish}}'', [[https://nightmarish-adventures.tumblr.com/post/172498705781/normally-i-dont-allow-nsfwmarish-on-this-blog Hyde is about to shoot you. And they're wearing a cute bunny suit!]]
588[[/folder]]
589
590[[folder:Web Videos]]
591* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bKgf5PaBzyg John McAfee is about to shoot you.]]
592* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IjF_BUR4AfI Doug Walker is punching you while repeating, "It's not funny!"]]
593[[/folder]]
594
595[[folder:Western Animation]]
596* In ''WesternAnimation/BatmanTheAnimatedSeries'', Mr. Freeze fires his freeze gun directly at you. In the commentary, the directors are surprised they got away with it -- they wouldn't have been able to with a regular gun, in case some kid decided to try it.
597* In the TitleSequence of ''WesternAnimation/HeManAndTheMastersOfTheUniverse1983'', He-Man punches you. Then Man-of-Arms shoots you, then Orko blasts you with a magic spell. These guys really don't like you.
598* Similarly, in the ''WesternAnimation/SheRaPrincessOfPower'' TitleSequence, Hordak shoots you.
599* One ''WesternAnimation/RockyAndBullwinkle'' storyline has a [[TheDeepSouth Southern Gentleman]] from the "[[UsefulNotes/TheAmericanCivilWar League of Confederate Correctors]]" who couldn't stand anyone even mentioning the word "Civil". During a football game that somehow mutated into a re-enactment of a battle from the War Between The States, the narrator describes Bullwinkle "swivel-hipping his way to the goal --"
600-->'''Gentleman:''' Dagnabbit, you said "civil!" (Bang!)\
601'''Narrator:''' Excuse me, "war-between-the-states"-hipping his way to the goal!
602* ''WesternAnimation/TheTransformers'': In the season 3 TitleSequence, Galvatron points his cannon straight at the viewer.
603* In the ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'' episode [[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS4E26TwilightsKingdomPart2 "Twilight's Kingdom Part 2"]], when Twilight sees Tirek through a telescope, it looks like he's about to blast the audience with fiery magic.
604* Played straight in ''WesternAnimation/ThePinkPanther'' cartoon short "Pinkfinger". The panther, playing the role of a detective, tries to gather information about various spies throughout the city. In one scene, the panther, strapped to a floating balloon, incidentally takes a picture of a spy who points a gun right directly at the camera in the photograph, and then proceeds to fire a bullet at the panther's balloon, sending him falling down to the streets below.
605* One of the two openings of ''WesternAnimation/TheDickTracyShow'' has Tracy riding shotgun in a patrol car as he takes his gun out of his holster and aims it at the camera. He fires three shots and with each is a gun barrel perspective of the show's villains in groups of three.
606* After demonstrating his Malice Mist in ''WesternAnimation/PJSparkles'', the Cloak aims it at the camera and covers the screen in evil smoke.
607* The opening sequence of ''WesternAnimation/{{Rugrats}}'' ends with Tommy Pickles squirting milk at the camera.
608* An Old West-themed ''Franchise/{{Popeye}}'' cartoon from 1949 has Bluto firing a gun at all directions including straight at the camera (complete with bullet flying '''''directly at the viewer''''').
609* The TitleSequence of ''WesternAnimation/AdventuresOfTheGalaxyRangers'' shows team leader Zachary Foxx firing his ArmCannon directly at the camera.
610[[/folder]]

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