History Main / PointThatSomewhereElse

* In ''Disney/RobinHood'', the Sheriff of Nottingham asks his henchman, Trigger, not to point his crossbow at him. Trigger assures him that the safety is on. Of course, right as he says that, he pats the crossbow, accidentally setting it off.

** In the novel ''Discworld/MenAtArms'', Sgt. Detritus (a troll) takes a siege bow (i.e. it basically fires telephone poles with blunt points on them to smash castle walls) and points it at the quartermaster in charge of the Ankh-Morpork armory. Corporal Carrot gently points the huge weapon towards the floor while persuading the man to let the Watch borrow some weapons. Naturally, the quartermaster gladly agrees, although he has a hard time getting the words out -- the first word he thinks is "FIRE!"

* Happens in ''Webcomic/TowerOfGod'' along with an inverted BareHandedBladeBlock, when Androssi just gentlely pushes Serena's hand aside with a non-chalant "Let's end the damage to this cultural heritage right here."

* When Literature/AbleTeam first arrive in Sri Lanka, Carl Lyons gets annoyed when a lackadaisical soldier keeps pointing an AK47 with the safety catch off in his direction. As the soldier prefers to debate the issue rather than put the weapon on safe, Carl loses his temper, disarms the soldier and the rifle, then hangs the rifle up by the sling out of his reach.

* When Literature/AbleTeam first arrive in Sri Lanka, Carl Lyons gets annoyed when a lackadaisical soldier keeps pointing an AK47 with the safety catch off in his direction. As the soldier prefers to debate the issue rather than put the weapon on safe, Carl loses his temper, disarms the soldier and hangs the AK up by the sling out of his reach.

* ''WebAnimation/InanimateInsanity'': [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ayHy91TVX1c In episode 13 of season 2]], Test tube brings out her [[BFG Tranquilizing Tracking Dart Blaster]]. Baseball's first reaction is to tell her to stop pointing it at him.

--> '''Alistor''': ''[chuckling, while lightly pushing the tip of the spear aside]'' De-hehe-ar, [[IfIWantedYouDead if I wanted to hurt anyone here]], '''''[[NightmareFace I would have done so already]]'''''.

* In ''Literature/GenerationKill'', IntrepidReporter Evan Wright is given an M4 by Corporal Ray Person, who can't fire it because he's driving. While Wright never actually fires the gun, when he hands it back, he does so barrel first, which both terrifies and then irritates Person. Wright notes wryly that he was not asked to shoot ever again. (This did not make it into the HBO series)

-->-- '''[[ComicBook/{{Hawkeye}} Clint Barton]]''' nonchalantly reacts to a knife at his face, ''Film/CaptainAmericaCivilWar''

* ''Webcomic/TheOrderOfTheStick'', [[http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0722.html strip #722: "Block and Tackle."]] During Elan's first encounter with General Tarquin, the latter bends Elan's [[RoyalRapier silver rapier]] away from his face with the tip of a finger.

* ''Film/MenInBlack''. When Agent J ([[ArtisticLicenseGunSafety who really ought to know better]]) points the Noisy Cricket (Itty-bitty pistol with power and recoil of a gun 50x its size) at Agent K, K immediately pushes it away so it isn't pointed at him.

* In ''Film/HoubaOnTheTrailOfTheMarsupilami'', this is done by a parrot (with its talon) when a bandido puts a machete under its throat, holding the bird hostage for its master to comply.

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[[caption-width-right:350:[-Don't mess with the Noisy Cricket.-] ]]

* In Archie Comics' Sonic the Hedgehog #237, the Felidae Emissary does this when threatened with a spear.

* In the less common villainous usage of this, Chauvelin to Sir Percy Blakeney in the 1934 film, ''Film/{{The Scarlet Pimpernel|1934}}''. ([[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DQXtf8r549c Things turn a bit ugly for Sir Percy after that.]])

May be related to BarehandedBladeBlock. Better than a FingerInABarrel. Not to be confused with ArtisticLicenseGunSafety or IJustShotMarvinInTheFace, although the people listed under those tropes ''should'' Point That Somewhere Else.

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* In ''Disney/RobinHood'', the Sheriff of Nottingham asks his henchman, Trigger not to point his crossbow at him. Trigger assures him that the safety is on. Of course, right as he says that, he pats the crossbow, accidentally setting it off.

* In ''Film/SurLaPisteDuMarsupilami'', this is done by a parrot (with its talon) when a bandido puts a machete under its throat, holding the bird hostage for its master to comply.

* In the ''Literature/{{Discworld}}'' novel ''Discworld/MenAtArms'', Sgt. Detritus (a troll) takes a siege bow (i.e. it basically fires telephone poles with blunt points on them to smash castle walls) and points it at the quartermaster in charge of the Ankh-Morpork armory. Corporal Carrot gently points the huge weapon towards the floor while persuading the man to let the Watch borrow some weapons. Naturally, the quartermaster gladly agrees, although he has a hard time getting the words out -- the first word he thinks is "FIRE!"
** This becomes a bit of a running gag when Detritus points the later-refitted siege bow at pretty much anything else, with him either having it redirected or ordered to point it away or put it away. The "Piecemaker," as it is later dubbed, fires large bundles of arrows that disintegrate under the stress to form a rapidly-expanding cloud of deadly wood fragments, taking out anyone or anything that happens to be standing in that general direction, so when coupled with Detritus's shaky grasp of the concept of a safety catch it tends to make his superiors quite jumpy when the Piecemaker is pointed at anything they don't want to see completely leveled.

* WesternAnimation/BugsBunny often does this in his encounters with Elmer Fudd. In ''WesternAnimation/RabbitFire'', he and WesternAnimation/DaffyDuck move the rifle back and forth between the two during the RabbitSeasonDuckSeason routine.

* ''WesternAnimation/TheAdventuresOfJimmyNeutron'': Done in the episode "Win, Lose and Kaboom" when April points her bug's sharp tongue at Jimmy and orders him surrender. He then says "Never!" and hits the tongue away.

-->'''[[ComicBook/{{Hawkeye}} Clint Barton]]''' nonchalantly reacts to a knife at his face, ''Film/CaptainAmericaCivilWar''

* TropeNamer: In ''Film/ReturnOfTheJedi'', Han Solo says this to a spear-wielding Ewok.

* In ''Film/SurLaPisteDuMarsupilami'', this is done by a parrot (with its talon) when a bandido put a machete under its throat, holding the bird hostage for its master to comply.

--> ''I pass the M-4 back to Person. I hand it to him barrel first, with a round in the chamber and the safety off, causing him to rethink his policy of arming the reporter.''

-->'''BJ:''' (''gently pushes the screwdriver down'') Careful, that could be loaded.

* VideoGame/RatchetAndClankFutureACrackInTime A Terachnoid does this to Ratchet when he raises his wrench at him. He then says "If you intend to manhandle me, I'll have you know I'm a level 10 wizard with melee ability." Ratchet then proceded to push his chair causing him to crash. "That hurt my pride, and my solar plexus."

* In [[http://exterminatusnow.co.uk/2010-07-03/comic/voiding-your-warranty/monopolytheism/ this]] strip of ''Webcomic/ExterminatusNow'' the team is getting ready to go into a secret base that's been taken over by demons. As they're getting ready to go in the civilian expert they have to escort keeps pointing his gun somewhere he shouldn't be with his finger on the trigger. Although it is understandable since the scientist hasn't had ANY kind of weapons training like the protagonists one wonders why they would even bother giving him a gun.

* Done in WesternAnimation/TheAdventuresOfJimmyNeutron in the episode "Win, Lose and Kaboom" when April pointed her bug's sharp tongue at Jimmy and ordered him surrender. He then said "Never!" and hit the tongue away.

* ''Webcomic/TheOrderOfTheStick'', [[http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0722.html strip #722: "Block and Tackle"]]. During Elan's first encounter with General Tarquin, the latter bends Elan's [[RoyalRapier silver rapier]] away from his face with the tip of a finger.

* In ''iterature/GenerationKill'', IntrepidReporter Evan Wright is given an M4 by Corporal Ray Person, who can't fire it because he's driving. While Wright never actually fires the gun, when he hands it back, he does so barrel first, which both terrifies and then irritates Person. Wright notes wryly that he was not asked to shoot ever again. (This did not make it into the HBO series)