History Main / ForcedFriendlyFire

* ''WesternAnimation/StarWarsTheCloneWars'': In [[Recap/StarWarsTheCloneWarsS6E7CrisisAtTheHeart "Crisis at the Heart"]], when Padmé Amidala attempts to defend herself from Count Dooku with a blaster, he uses the Force to make her shoot Bec Lawise when the Separatist senator protests Dooku's orders to arrest her.

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* In an episode of ''Series/{{Highlander}}'', Duncan and Richie get caught up in a bank robbery. Richie ends up grabbing a female robber from behind. While struggling, she fires her submachinegun and accidentally hits her partner and lover. It turns out that she's Immortal, and he wasn't. And now she blames Richie for his death and wants his head. Luckily, Duncan knows her and trains Richie to counter her signature move.

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* ''Film/TheDarkKnightSaga'':

** ''VideoGame/CallOfDutyBlackOps'' has an example of this where Woods grabs a bad guys shotgun, shoots some other guys with it and then kills him giving the shotgun to Mason.

** In [[VideoGame/MetalGearSolid4 the fourth game]] a cybernetic variant occurs during Raiden's over the top battle with the Gekko mecha. One of the badass moves he pulls is to leap onto a Gekko's head and force it's [[MoreDakka M2 Browning HMG]] to cut down one of its partner [=IFVs=]. Justified by his augmented robotic strength.
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** In [[VideoGame/MetalGearSolid4 the fourth game]] a cybernetic variant occurs during Raiden's [[CrazyAwesome over the top battle]] with the Gekko mecha. One of the badass moves he pulls is to leap onto a Gekko's head and force it's [[MoreDakka M2 Browning HMG]] to cut down one of it's partner [=IFVs=]. Justified by his augmented robotic strength.

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--> '''Buzz''': Hey, hey, hey! How're you doing that?

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--> Kaufman: [[DirtyCoward Wait! I am just a professional doing a job!]]
--> Bond: [[PreMortemOneLiner Me too.]]

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* ''Videogame/MetalGear'':

** In [[Videogame/MetalGearSolid4 the fourth game]] a cybernetic variant occurs during Raiden's [[CrazyAwesome over the top battle]] with the Gekko mecha. One of the badass moves he pulls is to leap onto a Gekko's head and force it's [[MoreDakka M2 Browning HMG]] to cut down one of it's partner [=IFVs=]. Justified by his augmented robotic strength.

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* A martial arts enthusiast perform joint locks on the adversary while simultaneously aiming and shooting. He might even break their wrist, shoulder, or trigger finger to allow for a tricky shot. He might then take the gun off them when the peripheral threats have been eliminated. Occasionally the gun fires ''because'' of pain compliance, so the joint locks both force the {{mook}}'s arm to both aim and shoot.

* In ''Film/LethalWeapon'', Riggs storms a room full of bad guys to rescue his partner Murtaugh and daughter Rianne. He forces a mook to shoot a buddy with an arm lock then turns the gun back onto the mook and kills him too.
* In ''Film/LiveFreeOrDieHard'', John [=McClane=] uses this trope to kill the Big Bad who is standing behind him, ''shooting through his own shoulder'' in the process. Therefore inverting the HumanShield variant.

* A sufficiently [[BadAss badass character]] takes HumanShield to its logical conclusion. Not only is he using the person's body to defend himself against their friends, he's using their arm to ''attack them'' as well! Usually this is from the standard "stand behind shielding person's back" but a character who's talented enough will contort themselves and their shield so it can work from practically any position.

** In [[Videogame/MetalGearSolid4 the fourth game]] a cybernetic variant occurs during Raiden's [[CrazyAwesome over the top battle]] with the Gekko mecha. One of the BadAss moves he pulls is to leap onto a Gekko's head and force it's [[MoreDakka M2 Browning HMG]] to cut down one of it's partner [=IFVs=]. Justified by his augmented robotic strength.

* In ''Film/LethalWeapon'', (Trope page picture) Riggs storms a room full of bad guys to rescue his partner Murtaugh and daughter Rianne. He forces a mook to shoot a buddy with an arm lock then turns the gun back onto the mook and kills him too.

* In ''Film/LethalWeapon'', Riggs storms a room full of bad guys to rescue his partner Murtaugh and daughter Rianne. He forces a mook to shoot a buddy with an arm lock then turns the gun back onto the mook and kills him too.

* ''VideoGame/CallOfDutyBlackOps'' has an example of this where Woods grabs a bad guys shotgun, shoots some other guys with it and then kills him giving the shotgun to Mason.
* ''VideoGame/CallOfDutyGhosts'' pulls this on the player; the PlayerCharacter takes a gun from the BigBad, who turns it on one of the PlayerCharacter's allies.

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* ''VideoGame/CallofDutyGhosts'' pulls this on the player; the PlayerCharacter takes a gun from the BigBad, who turns it on one of the PlayerCharacter's allies.

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* Marv does this to thwart an attempted ambush in ''SinCity''.

** In the opening scene of''Film/TheMatrix'' several police officers try to arrest Trinity and she attacks them. During the fight she grabs one of them and forces him to use his gun to shoot another officer.

Usually the objective here is to wipe out the adversary's fellow mooks. [[RuleOfCool There's no time to disarm them conventionally]] [[RuleOfDrama and risking exposure to shots.]] Another possibility (contrary to the title of the trope) is eliminating the threat of a weapon by firing all its ammunition. [[DisarmDisassembleDestroy Sometimes in pieces, to be absolutely sure.]] Then the battle can turn into a hand to hand fight.

* In Creator/{{Pixar}}'s first ''Animation/ToyStory'', Sheriff Woody uses Buzz Lightyear as a HumanShield to escape from Sid's room. To repel Sid's hideous toys, Woody presses a button on Buzz's back that activates Buzz's Karate-Chop Action. This works because Sid's toys are actually not hostile to Woody and Buzz.

* In ''Film/LethalWeapon'' Riggs storms a room full of bad guys to rescue his partner Murtaugh and daughter Rianne. He forces a mook to shoot a buddy with an arm lock then turns the gun back onto the mook and kills him too.

** ''Film/TheMatrix''. In the opening scene several police officers try to arrest Trinity and she attacks them. During the fight she grabs one of them and forces him to use his gun to shoot another officer.

** In The Dark Knight Rises, [[ComicBook/{{Catwoman}} Selina Kyle]] uses this on Daggett's mooks in the bar fight, likely to avoid leaving fingerprints, as she is a wanted criminal.

* Played for drama in ''Film/{{Fury}}'' when War Daddy forces Norman to shoot a German POW. He refuses, so War Daddy grips his struggling hand and literally pulls the trigger with Norman's finger.