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-->'''Johnny 5:''' Colt .45 Semi-automatic.
-->[crushes the gun and gives the villain a DeathGlare]
-->'''Johnny 5:''' ''Play-doh''.

* One of the first fights in ''Film/Interceptor2022'' has J.J. and a GiantMook fighting over her [=M17=] pistol. The mook is gripping it by the barrel, so she detaches the frame from the slide and uses it to [[EyeScream stab him in the eye]].
* ''Film/KingsmanTheSecretService''. Towards the end of the church melee, Harry Hart gets hold of a Beretta 92F and--having emptied the magazine--detaches the frame from the slide and uses them to stab someone in the neck.

* ''Film/{{Logan}}''. Wolverine snatches a shotgun off a rancher and butt-strokes him with it, then ''breaks it in half''. The man Wolverine is protecting has no idea he's a mutant, so is just as startled and confused as the villains, asking if Wolverine has military training.
* ''Film/AvengersAgeOfUltron''. Quicksilver uses his superspeed to snatch a pistol from ArmsDealer Ulysses Klaue and instantly unload and disassemble it, lining the parts and rounds neatly up on the table next to him. Klaue is surprised but quickly regains his cool.

* ''Film/KingsmanTheSecretService'' incorporates the "Beretta disassembly" (Beretta 92F pistols are extremely convenient to take down in one motion) into the church scene - with the hero then [[spoiler:proceeding to stab people with both the slide and the frame. Repeatedly.]]

* One of the first fights in ''Film/Interceptor2022'' has J.J. and a GiantMook fighting over an [=M17=] pistol, which ends with the mook taking the slide off and J.J. [[EyeScream gouging out his eye with the frame]].

* In ''Film/LethalWeapon4'', Creator/JetLi's character, a vicious Triad crimelord named Wah Sing Ku, escapes a MexicanStandoff this way, disassembling Riggs' Beretta in a move that marked him as a supreme badass.
** Although freeze-framing through the sequence can reveal that the Beretta in question is halfway prepared for disassembly, the Forgotten Weapons [=YouTube=] channel has [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lzEctvL0vrg tested this]] and found that it's not ''as'' hard to do from cold as you might imagine. It is pointed out that this would be a supremely foolish thing to attempt in real life because there is no way that you are faster than the gunman's trigger finger moving a quarter-inch...

* At the start of ''Film/SteelRain'', the protagonist Eom is apparently selling stolen drugs to a black-market dealer in North Korea, only to be arrested by a policeman. As he's a former North Korean intelligence operative, Eom deftly removes the pistol from the cop's hands and unloads it, while explaining that he's actually selling his own prescription drugs.

** In the film version of this book, Hagrid bends the barrel straight up toward the ceiling. Vernon is still able to fire without the gun blowing up in his face.

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* In ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolid3SnakeEater'', The Boss does this to Snake at least twice in cutscenes, destroying his sidearms in the process. She does it to Ocelot once, but then gives him back the parts she removed rather than throwing them away. She also uses it as a tactic in the final fight if she manages to knock you onto the ground while you're holding a weapon. For gameplay reasons, this just means The Boss will scatter your intact weapon and its ammo around the battlefield, forcing you to scramble and retrieve them; it's also an incentive to use CQC on her rather than trying to shoot her.

** Although freeze-framing through the sequence can reveal that the Beretta in question is half-way prepared for disassembly, the Forgotten Weapons [=YouTube=] channel has [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lzEctvL0vrg tested this]] and found that it's not ''as'' hard to do from cold as you might imagine. It is pointed out that this would be a supremely foolish thing to attempt in real life, because there is no way that you are faster than the gunman's trigger finger moving a quarter-inch...

--> '''Johnny 5:''' Colt .45 Semi-automatic.
--> [crushes the gun and gives the villain a DeathGlare]
--> '''Johnny 5:''' ''Play-doh''.

* ''Film/AvengersAgeOfUltron''. Quicksilver uses his superspeed to snatch a pistol from ArmsDealer Ulysses Klaue and instantly unload and disassemble it, lining the parts and rounds neatly up on the table next to him. Klaue is surprised, but quickly regains his cool.

* ''Series/CowboyBebop2021''. In the ActionPrologue of "Cowboy Gospel" there's a variation where Spike Spiegel hits the magazine release button of his opponent's rifle during a fight.

* One episode of ''Series/CriminalMinds'' has JJ eject her opponent's magazine and pull off the slide in one fluid motion, preempting a gun fight and allowing a prolonged hand-to-hand DesignatedGirlFight.

** Terebithia disarms the "Queen of Dawn" off hand without even giving away to those around them that [[spoiler:Zola]] had just tried to shoot Agatha and then "accidentally" snaps her small delicate gun in two.

* ''Literature/ArtemisFowl: The Eternity Code'': Juliet removes an important part of a mook's gun as he brandishes it, making it only possibly useful as a hammer.