Basic Trope: Building and taking apart a weapon as needed.
- Straight: A rifle that comes in multiple parts, and needs to be assembled for use.
- Exaggerated: A rifle that can be disassembled down to individual base parts with ease.
- Downplayed: A rifle that only needs one additional assembly part, like the scope or stock.
- Justified: The rifle would be way too bulky for carriage if it wasn't able to be taken apart.
- Inverted: A rifle that needs to be taken apart in order to be used.
- Subverted: A rifle that can work fine whether it's fully assembled or not.
- Double Subverted: ...but the rifle needs to be fully assembled for maximum potential.
- Parodied:
- A character has an entire Lock-and-Load Montage just for putting on a scope.
- Bob puts the gun together seemingly perfectly until he pulls the trigger, and then it falls apart on his hands.
- The weapon Bob assembles is not realistically supposed to work at all if disassembled or reassembled the way Bob just did (such as a very normal-looking katana that Bob reassembled by screwing together the three parts of the sheath's length like it was a pool cue and then pulled the blade out).
- Zig-Zagged: A rifle that has multiple modes of fire based on how many parts it has.
- Averted: A rifle that can't be disassembled.
- Enforced: The rifle needs to be able to be assembled for a Lock-and-Load Montage.
- Lampshaded: "Why does this rifle need to come in so many pieces?"
- Invoked: ???
- Exploited: ???
- Defied: The hero's weaponsmith friend is very much against the Scaramanga Special-style weapons and hands him a regular, solid firearm (of whatever caliber is needed, including laughably tiny).
- Discussed: ???
- Conversed: ???
- Played For Laughs:
- Bob got the gun but lost the manual. When he tries to improvise, the resulting pile of modern art cannot be considered a "firearm" at all and is only a "weapon" because Bob clobbers a goon with it.
- Bob spends five hours putting together a weapon allegedly classified to be reassembled within thirty seconds without even needing to look at it.
- Bob puts together the gun seemingly perfectly… except for the part where he forgot the bullets.
- Bob is forced to call his weapons supplier's customer assistance or mutter his way through an overly complicated instructions booklet, just like your average IKEA customer.
- The disassembled weapon is inside of a bag, musical instrument case or other type of carrying method that inevitably gets misplaced and the weapon's new owner is puzzled about the parts, assembles them out of curiosity and is shocked when it turns out to be a gun while Bob is having a much less pleasant time with the other bag's contents.
- Played For Drama:
- Bob needs to reassemble the gun while he is under fire and every second he is not shooting back he is risking the bad guys either running away or filling him with lead.
- Bob has to assemble the gun to commit an assassination while he is pretending to be doing something normal and once he is done, he cannot just put the gun apart again within seconds and must figure out how to dispose of it before his friends discover his secret life and force him to silence them.
- The mission goes to hell because Bob did not do the assembly right.
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