History Main / BackwardsFiringGun

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** A ''{{Farscape}}'' episode in which Crichton [[AndYouWereThere imagines himself]] in a ''LooneyTunes'' cartoon has him pulling this trick by sliding the sight forwards on D'Argo's shotgun. An angry D'Argo swops the barrel round, only to shoot himself a second time.

** A ''{{Farscape}}'' episode in which Crichton [[AndYouWereThere imagines himself]] in a ''LooneyTunes'' cartoon has him pulling this trick by sliding the sight forwards on a vengeful D'Argo's shotgun. An angry D'Argo swops the barrel round, only to shoot himself a second time.

** A ''{{Farscape}} episode in which Crichton imagines himself in a Looney Tunes cartoon has him pulling this trick by sliding the sight forwards on D'Argo's shotgun. An angry D'Argo swops the barrel round only to shoot himself a second time.

** And in ''Hillbilly Hare'' he does it by turning the barrel of a long rifle round after the trigger has been pulled.

* In the BBC radio drama ''{{Batman}}: The Lazarus Syndrome'', Ra's al Ghul accidentally shoots himself when he grabs a gun from Batman's trophy room, not realising that it is a bobby-trapped weapon rigged to fire backwards.

-->[[SoundOff "They Say That In The Army'']]

* In ''{{Nextwave}}'', Dirk Anger sits atop a giant-sized revolver with the barrel bent backwards pointing at himself and pulls a lever, apparently playing Russian Roulette on a grand scale.

* The French cover of HughLaurie's ''The Gun Seller'' features a gun highly similar to the current page picture.
* The original cover of Jimmy Breslin's novel, ''The Gang Who Couldn't Shoot Straight" had a backwards shooting gun. The barrel was assembled correctly, it just had a 180 degree curve in it.

* In the BBC radio drama ''{{Batman}}: The Lazarus Syndrome'', Ra's al Ghul accidentally shoots himself when he grabs a gun from Batman's trophy room, not realising that it is bobby-trapped weapon rigged to fire backwards.

** And ''Hillbilly Hare'' he does it by turning the barrel of a longrifle round after the trigger has been pulled.

->''They say that in the army''
->''The guns are mighty fine''
->''But when you pull the trigger''
->''The bullets fly behind!''
-->[[SoundOff One possible verse for "They Say That In The Army'']]

* In the 1966 film ''The Silencers'' (part of the MattHelm series starring DeanMartin, a parody of the spy genre), a woman points a trick gun at herself and shoots a guard in front of her.
** Actually, the guard got a hold of the gun, not knowing it was a trick gun, and pointed it at her - as she stoically awaited her fate (she didn't know what it was either) the guard pulled the trigger, shot himself, looked kind of puzzled, and shot himself ''again''.

* In ''BallisticEcksVsSever'' the big bad tricks a lackey into killing himself by giving him a backwards firing pistol, [[SoBadItsHorrible much to the envy of the audience]].

* ''GrimtoothsTraps Too'' contains a reverse-firing "Double Crossbow" as a loot trap.

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* A Franco-Belgian comic book involving a zombie problem features semi-automatic pistols tricked out to fire their sliding barrel backwards, killing the user.

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* ''{{Umineko}}'': Battler suggests this to explain one crime.

* ''GrimtoothsTraps Too'' contains a reverse-firing crossbow as a loot trap.

** In one notable example, Bugs Bunny removes the sight from Wile E. Coyote's rifle so he can't tell which end of the barrel is which.
* A variation occurs at the beginning of the ''{{Futurama}}'' episode "The Deep South." Professor Farnsworth has brought a bottle of "fish pheremone" with him on the fishing trip. However, he ends up holding the spraycan backwards when he tries to bait his hook, and as a result he accidently covers ''himself'' in the stuff. Of course, several fish then jump out of the water and latch onto his face ({{especially Zoidberg}}).

This is a comedy weapon trope.

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In the BBC radio drama ''{{Batman}}: The Lazarus Syndrome'', Ra's al Ghul accidentally shoots himself when he grabs a gun from Batman's trophy room, not realising that it is bobby-trapped weapon rigged to fire backwards.

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