Basic Trope: Rescue equipment is ironically used for violence and/or distraction.
- Straight: Flash Young, in a Brutal Brawl, grabs a fire extinguisher and uses it as an Improvised Weapon.
- Exaggerated: Any rescue equipment can be used as a deadly weapon.
- Downplayed: Flash uses a fire extinguisher as an improvised ram; He is misusing a rescue equipment, and rather violently at that, but he's using it on a locked door that needs breaching.
- Justified: A fire extinguisher can actually be used as a deadly weapon; Either through caving heads in or stuffing the hose down someone's mouth and pulling the trigger, causing them to asphyxiate. Flash was just really damn desperate here in this Brutal Brawl.
- Inverted: Healing Shiv; A Meatgrinder Surgery is done with unorthodox tools (such as pliers or bolt cutters) or even weapons (like combat knives or even guns) in order to save someone's life.
- Subverted: Flash doesn't use the fire extinguisher as a weapon.
- Double Subverted: He uses the fire hose instead.
- Parodied: Ironically, rescue equipment that was clearly intended to help gets a fearsome reputation to hurt.
- Zig-Zagged: Whether or not a rescue equipment is used as a weapon is Depending on the Writer.
- Averted: Rescue Equipment isn't used to hurt people.
- Enforced: It's an action scene in a place that doesn't use much weapons to begin with; Rescue Equipment is just another Improvised Weapon that the combatants can use.
- Lampshaded: "I use an extinguisher to extinguish lives."
- Invoked: Flash needs something big and heavy in order to bash someone's head in. Closest Thing We Got is this here fire extinguisher.
- Exploited: Absolutely nobody expects someone to suddenly hurl a fire extinguisher at their face.
- Defied: People actively choose not to fight with rescue equipment.
- Discussed: ???
- Conversed: ???
- Played for Horror: Flash bashes someone's face in with a fire extinguisher. Repeatedly. The someone is also convicted paedophile Tommy Sharpe.
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