History Main / BANGFlagGun

* How about a [[http://www.patrol-log.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/Bang-bang-umbrella.jpg Gunbrella?]] (Sadly, they seem to be out of production now.)

* Haunter in the original ''Anime/{{Pokemon}}'' series had one in the episode "Haunter vs. Kadabra", as part of his array of practical jokes.

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* The ''WesternAnimation/BumpInTheNight'' episode "Journey to the Center of the Lungfish" has Captain Jetlag fire a cannon that Mr. Bumpy, Squishington and Molly Coddle that only produces a "Bang" flag.

* The first chapter of ''Manga/MagicKaito'' has the titular character using a variant with a flag that says "[[{{Tsundere}} Aoko]] wears [[PantyShot white panties]]." Aoko is not amused.

* ''ComicStrip/TheFarSide'' had one cartoon featuring aliens with a ray gun equivalent of this trope, with "ZZZ!" written on the flag.

* In ''WesternAnimation/TheNewMrPeabodyAndShermanShow'', Sherman does this with a ''tank'' to deliver an envelope to Mr. Peabody.

* Played with in ''Series/SaturdayNightLive'', during the cold open of the Bruce Dern episode from Season 8 (regarded as one of the best episodes of the entire Dick Ebersol era, mainly due to the "Buckwheat gets shot" storyline). When Gary Kroeger laments of his lack of screen time on the show at that point, he eventually escalates to "starting the show with a bang" by pointing a(n obviously fake) gun to his head. As he says the show's opening catchphrase "Live from New York...", he fires the gun, with the flag completing the phrase ("...It's Saturday Night!").

In the [[{{Bowdlerise}} censored version]], a second pull of the trigger results in [[DeadlyGas a cloud of Joker gas]] while the later use is replaced with [[spoiler: Joker being pushed into an experimental lab, slipping on the water and glass, and [[HighVoltageDeath electrocuting himself]] while trying to get up.]] Because apparently that's ''"better"''.

* Played for [* At the end of the ComicStrip/{{Popeye}} short ''Tar with a Star'', Wild Bill Bluto runs out of bullets to fire at Sheriff Popeye, and all that comes out his his pistols are flags reading "THAT'S ALL, BROTHER" and "SAME HERE".[BlackComedy pitch-black laughs]] in the notorious ''WesternAnimation/RenAndStimpyAdultPartyCartoon'' episode "Ren Seeks Help." As a child, Ren tortures an innocent frog just enough for it to be in excruciating pain, but refuses to kill it so it can suffer ''even more''. The frog appears at the end and picks up Mr. Horse's gun, puts it in his mouth and impales himself with the "BANG!" flag inside it.

* Music/TearsForFears: In the "Head over Heels" music video, Roland Orzabal has a toy gun which shoots out the message "Bang?" to his LoveInterest.

* Used in the music video for Music/TearsForFears' "Head Over Heels."

* Chapter 284 of ''Manga/FoodWars'' has a variation: in the first stage of the Blue, the chefs have to prepare a dish that satisfies an senile old man, a retired soldier. After rejecting a few dishes without even tasting them, he finally tries one, and pulls out a revolver on the chef... only to fire a rain of country flags (including the USA, the United Kingdom, Japan, Brazil, Canada) and shout "PASSED!"
* The first chapter of ''Manga/MagicKaito'' has the titular character using a variant with a flag that says "[[{{Tsundere}} Aoko]] wears [[PantyShot white panties]]." Aoko is not amused.

* On a ''ComicBook/{{Deadpool}}'' [[http://img10.deviantart.net/9a53/i/2010/128/1/f/deadpool_cover_no__26_by_devilpig.jpg cover]] by Dave Johnson, Deadpool [[SeanConneryIsAboutToShootYou points an autoloader at the reader]] with a pointed "Bang!" flag coming out of it. In the background, a number of FacelessGoons lie on the floor, Bang flags embedded in their heads.

* ''ComicBook/TheInvisibles'': Used to kill one of the {{Big Bad}}s in a variant of YourMindMakesItReal.

* ''ComicBook/HarleyQuinn'' emulated the Joker with her own BANG! flag, but with a twist. While fighting [[spoiler:a traitorous henchwoman]], Harley shoots the wall with a stick that rolls out a flag reading "BOOM!". Her enemy mocks Harley, saying she got the word wrong since it should read "BANG!". Turns out she got it right, because ''just'' then the cap on the stick pops away showing it was a stick of ''dynamite''. "BOOM!" indeed.

* ''ComicStrip/TheFarSide'' had one cartoon featuring aliens with a ray gun equivalent of this trope, with "ZZZ!" written on the flag.
* Exaggerated in a ''ComicStrip/BeetleBailey'' strip where Beetle and Killer fire a "Bang!" flag ''cannon'' to mess with [[GeneralFailure General Halftrack]].

* ''Film/TheMask'' scares off some {{mooks}} with [[ThereIsNoKillLikeOverkill two handfuls of guns]] (all of which turn out to be of these type), while doing a ''Film/DirtyHarry'' impersonation to boot.

* In ''Film/TheCannonballRun'', Roger Moore's character pulls one (that looks like a Walther PPK) on his mother.

* In ''Film/BillAndTedsBogusJourney'', De Nomolos tries to shoot Bill and Ted with a futuristic energy weapon that instead produces a flag saying "WYLD STALLYNS RULES."

* ''Film/ProblemChild'': While chasing down Marty and Junior at the circus, Ben fires at the former with (what he doesn't know to be) one. ...Like a circus would keep the ''real'' thing around where someone can find it.
* ''Film/MaxManus''. Max appears to be brandishing a pistol, but it's then shown to be an air pistol that shoots sucker darts. This is RuleOfSymbolism in the early days of LaResistance when Max and his colleagues are portrayed as amateurish youngsters who are still inexperienced in what will turn out to be a ruthless underground war.
* ''Film/ThoroughlyModernMillie'' At the end, Mrs. Meers tries to shoot the protagonists. Her gun turns out to be one of these, with the 'BANG' in a wonton font, no less.
* ''Film/DriveHeSaid'': When Gabriel's guerrilla theater troupe hijacks a basketball game to protest UsefulNotes/TheVietnamWar, one member puts a gun to an Asian woman's head, which fires out an American flag.

* A "BANG!" flag ''shotgun'' appears in a music video made by Rachel in ''Series/{{Glee}}''.
* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yra66Od9OM0 An invention exchange]] in ''Series/MysteryScienceTheater3000'' has this trope combined with BiggerStick. The BANG gun leads to the BANG uzi, BANG knife, BANG harpoon gun, BANG nun-chucks, and finally BANG dynamite.

* It appears in at least one episode of ''Series/TheMonkees''.
* Turns up in ''Series/MightyMorphinPowerRangers'': In the episode "Wild West Part 1", Bulk and Skull's ancestors attempt to rob a stagecoach, even firing on the "White Stranger" when he arrives to assist... only for their revolvers to turn out to be trick ones.
* ''Series/ILoveLucy'' features one in its fourth episode, "Lucy Thinks Ricky Is Trying to Murder Her". Ricky is preparing stuff for one of his shows and one of the items is a "Bang" flag gun that Lucy thinks is a real gun, finally culminating in Ricky "shooting" Lucy, showing her that it is a prop.
* One episode of ''Series/HogansHeroes'' has the guys sabotage a flak battery and topped it off with BANG flags when the Nazis try to bring down the Allied planes.

* An episode of ''Series/ElChapulinColorado'' uses a variation with a TimeBomb instead. During the second half of the episode, Chapulin, (who is in small size) tries to carry the bomb to the window to dispose of it. He manages to reach the window but with only 5 seconds left, and he's ready for the explosion... only for a small "PUM" flag to pop out of it, and the episode ends.
* In keeping with his comedy-themed MO, supervillain the Comedian carries one in ''Series/TheAmazingExtraordinaryFriends''.
* ''Series/{{Supernatural}}''. In "Hunteri Heroici", the Mystery of the Week involves ToonPhysics. Dean tries to shoot the villain responsible, only for this trope to occur. Then the effect wears off, but the villain draws his own gun [[OhCrap which is now working properly...]]

* ''Series/DueSouth'' has a flag gun appear in the episode ''Flashback''.

* Used in the music video for Music/TearsForFears' "Head Over Heels."
* Music/LadyGaga does this in the video clip "Judas", with a lipstick instead of the flag.

* Used in ''VideoGame/DayOfTheTentacle'' by a suicidal hotel guest who puts it to his head and pulls the trigger. [[InOneEarOutTheOther The flag comes shooting harmlessly out his ear]], causing him to lament "I can't even do THIS right." Could be horrific under the right circumstances, but it's all PlayedForLaughs.
* ''VideoGame/LegoBatman'':
** Joker again: in the final cutscene, Joker's thrown into jail again and looks ready to shoot himself in despair before we find it's one of these joke guns.
** In ''Lego Batman 3: Beyond Gotham'', the Joker uses a BANG! Flag ''Missile'' in the Legion of Doom's raid on the Watchtower.

* ''VideoGame/{{Plok}}'' gets one in his game in the form of the cowboy powerup outfit, found exactly once. As could be expected, it's largely useless, having a pitifully short range and a very slow firing rate. The primary reason the powerup is where it is in the first place is virtue of the fact that collecting any powerup outfit restores Plok's limbs if they're currently on a hanger somewhere else.
* One type of enemy uses these in one of the stages in ''VideoGame/WorldOfIllusion''. They do, however, cause real damage.

* An episode of ''WesternAnimation/TeenTitans'' has Cyborg turned into a bear. He thinks his sonic cannon is usable, but it turns out to be this.
-->'''Cyborg:''' "Bang"? (''looks up and sees he's about to be crushed'') Oh dang...

* In the ''WesternAnimation/DextersLaboratory'' episode "The Laughing", Dexter uses one when he turns into a were-clown.
* In the WesternAnimation/DonaldDuck cartoon ''WesternAnimation/DuckPimples'', a man fires a gun at Donald, with a red, white and blue flag coming out. For Don the shot is as real as everything else.
* ''WesternAnimation/PennZeroPartTimeHero'':
** In the episode "Chuckle City", which takes place in a [[PlanetOfHats clown world]], a police car goes off a cliff and, [[EveryCarIsAPinto instead of exploding]], deploys a flag that says "BOOM!"
** In "Chuckle City 500", the race for mayor begins with the retiring mayor firing one of these, which extends to reveal multiple messages, the last of which has a miniature clown standing on it shooting a flag that says "GO".
---> Wait for it → Psyche! → [[OverlyLongGag Annoyed Yet?]] → [[LampshadeHanging I would be]] → LOL
* An extreme version appears in ''WesternAnimation/TheFairlyOddParents'' episode "Just the Two of Us"; [[{{Yandere}} Trixie]] pilots an Army helicopter and tries to fire a missile at Timmy, but out comes a large flag reading "Missiles sold separately".
* In ''WesternAnimation/TheNewMrPeabodyAndShermanShow'', Sherman does this with a ''tank'' to deliver an envelope to Mr. Peabody.
* In ''WesternAnimation/TheMask'' for most of the time it’s played straight as The Mask does fire them though only after he tricks his enemies since he adopts the code of no killing but in episode "Sister Mask" averted as while possessed by the Sister Mask [[spoiler: a fake created by Dr. Pretorius]], he is forced to invade a military base. At one point, he transforms into a Rambo-type character and fires a big machine-gun into the air. More than a little dismayed that his gun is firing real bullets, he looks at it guiltily and says, "I thought I'd loaded it with the little 'bang' flags."

* Played for [[BlackComedy pitch-black laughs]] in the notorious ''WesternAnimation/RenAndStimpyAdultPartyCartoon'' episode "Ren Seeks Help." As a child, Ren tortures an innocent frog just enough for it to be in excruciating pain, but refuses to kill it so it can suffer ''even more''. The frog appears at the end and picks up Mr. Horse's gun, puts it in his mouth and impales himself with the "BANG!" flag inside it.
* At the end of the ComicStrip/{{Popeye}} short ''Tar with a Star'', Wild Bill Bluto runs out of bullets to fire at Sheriff Popeye, and all that comes out his his pistols are flags reading "THAT'S ALL, BROTHER" and "SAME HERE".

* ''WesternAnimation/PennZeroPartTimeHero'': In the episode "Chuckle City 500", which takes place in a [[PlanetOfHats clown world]], the race for mayor begins with the retiring mayor firing one of these, which extends to reveal multiple messages, the last of which has a miniature clown standing on it shooting a flag that says "GO". Later in the episode, a police car goes off a cliff and, [[EveryCarIsAPinto instead of exploding]], deploys a flag that says "BOOM!"
--> Wait for it → Psyche! → [[OverlyLongGag Annoyed Yet?]] → [[LampshadeHanging I would be]] → LOL

* In an episode of ''WesternAnimation/PennZeroPartTimeHero'' that takes place in a [[PlanetOfHats clown world]], the race for mayor begins with the retiring mayor firing one of these, which extends to reveal multiple messages, the last of which has a miniature clown standing on it shooting a flag that says "GO".

** One comic has him [[http://img3.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20110524174103/marvel_dc/images/0/0d/Joker_0117.jpg using the "BANG!" Flag Gun to kill a henchman.]] First the flag pops out, causing the henchman to think the Joker is playing a prank on him. Then the flag gets fired like a speargun, killing the henchman.

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** Joker again: in the final cutscene, Joker's thrown into jail again and looks ready to shoot himself in despair before we find it's one of these joke guns. (You read that right: [[GettingCrapPastTheRadar Joker put a gun to his head in a LEGO game.]])

* Averted in ''WesternAnimation/TheMask'' episode "Sister Mask." While possessed by the Sister Mask [[spoiler: a fake created by Dr. Pretorius]], Stanley is forced to invade a military base. At one point, he transforms into a Rambo-type character and fires a big machine-gun into the air. More than a little dismayed that his gun is firing real bullets, he looks at it guiltily and says, "I thought I'd loaded it with the little 'bang' flags."

The title [[FunWithAcronyms is a take on]] {{BFG}}.