History Main / ShootTheHostage

* In one of the final episodes of WesternAnimation/TheLegendOfKorra, the heroes [[spoiler:manage to capture Bataar Jr, fiance of Kuvira, the season's BigBad, and try to use him to convince her to give up on conquering Republic City. Kuvira tells Bataar over the radio "I love you" before turning the arm-mounted cannon on her mile-high mecha on the warehouse where he's being held and firing]].

** Earlier during the Chunin exam, Ino takes possesion of Kin and claim to her partners Dosu and Zaku that if they kill her, Kin would die with her. Ino has to undo her jutsu when the two makes clear they don't care.

-->"There is no such thing as a hostage, only a shield you will shoot through. If you are taken captive, you will notify the guard before you pass him."

-->"There is no such thing as a hostage, only a shield you will shoot through. If you are taken captive you will notify the guard before you pass him."

* Variant in one of the ''Literature/StarTrekNewFrontiers'' books, in which maverick captain Mackenzie Calhoun takes [[UnwinnableTrainingSimulation The Kobayashi Maru]] test. His response to the no-win scenario in which your ship must face an unbeatable number of Klingon warships in order to rescue a civilian ship... is to destroy the civilian ship. Calhoun reasoned that either the ''Maru's'' crew was already dead, or they would be Klingon prisoners after he lost the hopeless fight, an idea to which [[FateWorseThanDeath death would be preferable]].

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* Variant in one of the StarTrekExpandedUniverse books, in which maverick captain Mackenzie Calhoun takes [[UnwinnableTrainingSimulation The Kobayashi Maru]] test, and his response to the no-win scenario in which your ship must face an unbeatable number of Klingon warships in order to rescue a civilian ship... is to destroy the civilian ship.

* In TheHanSoloTrilogy of the ''Star Wars'' EU, Han attracts the attention of local authorities on Coruscant when trying to access a bank account that had been flagged. He takes a bank manager hostage in order to escape. The Stormtroopers' response? Shoot the bank manager.

* StarWarsExpandedUniverse: In the first book of the ''Literature/LegacyOfTheForce'' series, a terrorist is holding a room full of people hostage. He wears an explosive belt, and has strapped one of the hostages to himself to act as an HumanShield. [[GodModeSue Jacen Solo]] arrives to the scene and pretends to negotiate with the terrorist. He then turns to the unfortunate HumanShield, gently asks what his name is, appears to try calming the frightened man... then he says "I'm sorry" and ''activates the explosives himself.'' When [[WhatTheHellHero called out for it]], Jacen just replies that [[IDidWhatIHadToDo the only way he could save the other hostages and neutralize the terrorist was to let that single man die]].

-->'''Dinobot:''' (holding Tarantulas) Do not fire, Megatron! I have a hostage!
-->'''Megatron:''' Why, so you do. ''*Fires*''

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->'''Jack:''' Shoot the hostage.\\

* ''Manga/OnePiece'': The [=CP9=] Agent Rob Lucci's backstory includes him being sent to deal with pirates that had take 500 of a country's soldiers hostage. As Lucci is a OneManArmy, he could have immediately beaten all the pirates himself, with few of the soldiers dying. Instead, he lets the pirates catch him so he'll be taken to the hostages. Once there, he kills them all himself, reasoning that those soldiers failed to protect their country [[YouHaveFailedMe and thus were worthless.]] ''Then'' he kills all the pirates.

* ''Manga/OnePiece'': The CP9 Agent Rob Lucci's backstory includes him killing five hundred members of a country's army when they are captured by pirates so they can't be used as bargaining chips. He THEN go on to kill the pirates, which he could have done first, only causing some of the soldiers to die instead of all of them.
** His reasoning is that if they allowed themselves to be captured, then their lives are worthless.

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* ''{{Hellsing}}'': Alucard shoots a villain ''through'' the hostage, Seras. Then turns the dying Seras into a vampire with her permission. The amount of permission varies between the first anime, the OVA and the manga.

* [[Literature/VorkosiganSaga Miles Vorkosigan]] once ''threatened'' to shoot the hostage, in order to turn a hostage situation around, and make it the hostage taker's problem. [[hottip:* :The hostage was his ''emperor''. It really threw their opponent off balance, Gregor picked up immediately and played his part beautifully.]]

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** In the OVA and manga he just asks her if she's a virgin. When she screams "Yes!" he takes the shot (In the Hellsing universe, vampires can only be made by drinking the blood of a virgin member of the opposite sex), ''then'' offers to turn her while she's dying.

* In {{Naruto}}, [[spoiler: "revenge fueled bender" version which cements Sasuke as an AntiVillain. When Danzo takes Karin hostage, Sasuke shoots a Chidori blade through both of them, hitting Danzo in the heart. Sasuke then [[KickTheDog tells her if she's getting taken hostage, that makes her nothing but a burden]]]].
** Earlier during the Chuning exam, Ino takes possesion of Kin and claim to her partners Dosu and Zaku that if they kill her, Kin would die with her. Ino has to undo her jutsu when the two makes clear they don't care.
* In ''SwordOfTheStranger'', when the Chinese learn that the daimyo has kidnapped one of their own to find out what they're up to, they kidnap the daimyo. When the daimyo's general and his samurai attack, the Chinese use the daimyo as a hostage, thinking this will dissuade the samurai army. However, the daimyo's general is a DragonAscendant, who surprises the Chinese by ordering an archer to shoot the daimyo before opening battle.

* {{One Piece}} The CP9 Agent Rob Lucci's backstory includes him killing five hundred members of a country's army when they are captured by pirates so they can't be used as bargaining chips. He THEN go on to kill the pirates, which he could have done first, only causing some of the soldiers to die instead of all of them.

* The TieInNovel ''Series/{{Monk}}'' novel ''Mr. Monk and the Blue Flu'' has one. The tempered detective Mad Jack Wyatt threatens to shoot through Monk after Charlie Herrin tries to use Monk as a human shield. Afterwards, Monk congratulates him on his "bluff", but he wasn't bluffing -- he always shoots the hostage.

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* The TropeNamer comes from the above quote from ''Film/{{Speed}}'', obviously. Shortly after that conversation, the situation describes happens, with Harry as the hostage. Jack, true to his word (and at Harry's insistence), [[OnlyAFleshWound shoots him in the leg]], much to the hostage-taker's surprise (Harry's too, as he didn't think Jack would ''actually do it''). The villain learns from his experiences in their next confrontation and straps explosives to Jack's love interest, while holding a Dead-Mans Switch, making this tactic unusable.
** The incident is also realistic in that Harry, despite only being shot in the leg, has to walk with a cane for at least a few months (if not permanently) after the incident, and is relegated to desk work during that time. [[spoiler:He does manage to get back up and participate in a raid on the villain's house, but gets himself blown up for his trouble.]]
** Also, Harry mentions that a few inches the wrong way and the shot would've killed him.
* At the climax of 2007's ''Film/LiveFreeOrDieHard'', [[spoiler:[=McClane=] is ''himself'' the hostage he shoots to kill the movie's BigBad, firing through his own shoulder to get the villain in the heart. He had already been shot in the shoulder once, and the BigBad was holding the gun to the wound at the time to torture him.]]
* The movie ''Hard-Boiled'' [[spoiler:has the hostage shoot himself to hit the villain, also allowing Yuen to finish the villain off with a shot to the head. This scene may in fact have been the inspiration of similar action movie scenes made later.]]
* In ''AnotherFortyHours'', Eddie Murphy is taken hostage, and with his characteristically big mouth, asks the cop to "Just shoot me!" Which he then does. He doesn't even bother aiming for the legs.
* In ''WesternAnimation/SharkTale'', Oscar attempts to fake this when the Sharks kidnap his girlfriend by having his "dolphin" partner pretend to eat her right on the spot (he grabs her in his mouth, but doesn't swallow) on his order to show that he didn't care. [[spoiler:Fails, as the "dolphin" is a vegetarian shark who is repulsed by the simple taste of fish. He spits her out along with the contents of his various lunches.]]
* From the 1994 film of ''TheShadow'', a villainous variant:
-->'''Opium Farmer:''' ''(having just taken Ying Ko's accountant hostage)'' Even your men are not marksman enough to shoot around him!\\
'''Ying Ko:''' You're right. ''(to the accountant)'' Wu, you're a wonderful friend. You're like a father to me.\\
'''Accountant:''' Thank you, Ying Ko.\\
'''Ying Ko:''' ''(to his marksmen)'' Shoot ''through'' him.
* Happens during the end of the film ''TheNegotiator'', in which Kevin Spacey shoots Sam Jackson. It's OnlyAFleshWound (as was intended by the shooter), but the villain thinks he's dead...which allows him to drop his guard when Spacey says he wants in on the take. Jackson's character's police radio is on, though, turning it into an EngineeredPublicConfession.
* In ''TheUsualSuspects'', according to Verbal, Keyser Soze once saw his raped wife and children held at knifepoint by Hungarian gangsters. They kill one kid to let him know they're not fooling around. He kills the other kid, and his wife, and all but one Hungarian, to let them know that he isn't either.
** And then he kills the gangsters' families, and their friends, and all their business partners, to let everyone know that he is absolutely apeshit crazy.
*** That's such crap. Everyone knows Keyser Soze is a myth, just a spook story that criminals tell their kids at night.
* Subverted in the first ''Film/RoboCop'' movie, where the cyborg's first patrol ends in him shooting through the skirt of the attempted rape victim to hit the knife-wielding thug behind her right on his groin.
* Another villainous example: In ''Film/TomorrowNeverDies'' when Bond has taken the BigBad's [[EvilGenius computer guy]] hostage, the villain combines this trope with [[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness Outlived Your Usefulness]] and shoots his own henchman.
** In ''Film/CasinoRoyale'', Bond doesn't do this, but definitely indicates a willingness to do so, as he believes that the hostage is a traitor.
-->'''Bad guy:''' I'll kill her!
-->'''Bond:''' Allow me. [firefight begins]
** Film/JamesBond does this to M in a [[UnwinnableTrainingSimulation simulation]] in ''Film/DieAnotherDay''. The line "OnlyAFleshWound" does get used. And, as Q is played by John Cleese, it probably qualifies as a ShoutOut / ActorAllusion.
* In TheFilmOfTheSeries ''Series/{{SWAT}}'', one of the protagonists solves the hostage problem by shooting the hostage taker ''through'' the hostage's shoulder. Predictably, this does not sit well with his hierarchy (or the hostage, for that matter).
** Although, most of the repercussions have to do with the protagonist and his partner (mostly the latter) defying orders, resulting in the situation in the first place.
* In the opening montage of ''{{Soldier}}'', Kurt Russell's character, an emotionless super-soldier, shoot a civilian to hit the enemy target behind in a shooting range. Later in combat, he shoots a civilian dead being used as a human shield by the enemy.
* The ending of TheDeathsOfIanStone. [[spoiler: Medea tries to save herself by using Jenny as a shield, but Ian runs them both through, then hits the ResetButton and reunites with Jenny.]]
* Subverted in the ''HyakujuuSentaiGaoranger'' film ''Fire Mountain Howls'', [=GaoGod=] looks like he's about to do this to [=GaoKnight=] to hit Hades Org. Despite everyone, even the Gaoranger, assuming he's trying to do this, being a God, he bends the arrow around [=GaoKnight's=] head through Hades Org's.
* In both versions of ThreeTenToYuma, the plot gets started by Ben Wade's gang robbing a wagon (a stagecoach in the original, while it is an armed carriage in the remake). After overtaking the wagon, one man attempts to hold a member of the gang hostage, only for Wade to shoot the outlaw and then the hostage-taker.
* In ''Film/NightOfTheComet'', the protagonists are captured by a gang of quasi-zombified stockboys. One of the girls grabs on of them as a human shield, and the leader casually shoots his own man, for no reason other than to show how little he cared.
* In the second ''Film/CrocodileDundee'' movie, the drug lords are trying to find Mick in the bush, so they kidnap Walter both as leverage and as a tracker. Mic shoots Walter in the ear after the drug lord threatens to kill Walter if Mick doesn't come out. It saves Walter's life in the long run as the drug lord thinks Mic doesn't want them to have Walter to track him.
** Of course, Walter is utterly useless in the bush and has to rely on Mick secretly giving him pointers. He's pretty good with a rifle, though.
* In ''{{Taken 2}}'', Bryan tries to use a mook as a shield. His fellow mook guns him down without hesitation before continuing after Bryan.
* The titular character in ''TheAdventuresOfPlutoNash'' is lured into a trap by the BigBad's {{Mook}}s, so he grabs one of them as a BulletproofHumanShield. It doesn't work.
--> '''Pluto Nash:''' You have to shoot around your boy!
--> '''Kelp:''' It's easier to shoot ''though'' him! (''maniacal laughter'')
* Done by Lady Jaye in ''Film/GIJoeRetaliation'' to [[spoiler:save the President who was held at gunpoint]].
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* In {{Fringe}} episode "Entrada" Peter shot hostage held by Fauxlivia. That's because he figured out (s)he was a shape-shifter.
* Variant: the ''{{Lost}}'' episode "Enter 77". Kate and Sayid are holding Mrs. Klugh, who responds by ''ordering Mikhail to shoot her dead'', which he does.
* In ''StargateAtlantis'', Genii commander Colya, after being forced to abandon Atlantis, takes Weir hostage and tries to goad Sheppard into shooting them both. Unfortunately for him, the Atlantis team has much more accurate guns, and Sheppard calmly puts a bullet right through Colya's shoulder.
* ''Series/StarTrekEnterprise'': During a shoot-out on a [[PlanetOfHats Wild West planet]], T'Pol gets a six-shooter put to her head. Reed shrugs, shoots her, then the hostage taker while he's still gaping at Reed's apparently ruthless action. His phase pistol is [[StunGuns set on stun]].
* At the end of the first season of ''[[Series/TwentyFour 24]]'' when the BigBad staying at an accomplice's house Jack Bauer takes the daughter of the host hostage and demand that everyone [[PutDownYourGunAndStepAway drop their guns]]. [[spoiler:Victor Drazen]] merely smiles and shoots her. Her father is understandably upset about this, but at this point [[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness he has outlived his usefulness]].
* Bryce did it when Chuck was being held hostage on ''{{Chuck}}''. He did make sure Chuck was wearing a BulletProofVest first, though... by asking him in Klingon.
* ''{{NCIS}}''. [[spoiler: Agent Lee got Gibbs to shoot through her to take out the Weatherman]].
* In the first episode of ''{{Demons}}'', the protagonist is instructed to shoot his ([[ShesNotMyGirlfriend not]]) girlfriend with magic ammunition, which he is told will only bruise her at worst, but will disintegrate the monster holding her captive. He complies, and after that, she's pissed at how little hesitation it took for him to shoot.
* ''TheEqualizer''. Robert [=McCall=] is holding a gun to the head of a DoubleAgent, and offers to swap him for one of his men being held prisoner by a KGB cell. The head of the cell replies, "Let me explain the ground rules" and shoots the double agent dead. Caught without his human shield, [=McCall=] is then taken prisoner too.
* In the Australian mini-series of ''For the Term of His Natural Life'' an attempt by convicts to escape ends with a sergeant being held hostage, facing a small cannon aimed by his fellow marines. The sergeant orders them to light the fuse and kill them all. Realising he's not bluffing, the convicts are forced to surrender.
* From ''{{Spooks}}'', where [[spoiler: Ros Myers shoots through fellow officer Jo to kill a terrorist. Jo dies too.]]
* Played with in a particularly nasty fashion on ''RizzoliAndIsles''. Since it's the {{Cliffhanger}} season finale, spoilered: [[spoiler: Jane herself is the hostage. She is determined not to let her CorruptCop captor escape. She grabs his gun and ''shoots through herself'' to kill him.]] Black screen, end credits. To be continued.
* The leader of a gang of [[TheMafiya Russian gangsters]] intimates that he'd do it on an episode of ''Series/{{Leverage}}'' after Eliot uses one of his men as a human shield:
-->'''Hardison:''' You going to shoot through your man?
-->'''Russian Gangster:''' To be honest with you, I never liked him anyway.
* Season 6 of ''Series/{{Supernatural}}'' reveals that soulless Sam once shot a woman being used as a HumanShield by a monster he was hunting. Once she falls over dead, he then kills the monster.
* Inverted in the ''Series/{{Charmed}}'' episode "Which Prue Is It, Anyway?", when [[ItMakesSenseInContext Prue's duplicate]] tries to make the warlock of the week surrender his weapon by holding his ally hostage. He instead kills his ally before killing the Prue duplicate.
** Invoked by Piper in "The Day the Magic Died." She's in labor, a demon has a knife to her throat, and Phoebe is reluctant to vanquish him. Piper, desperate to save her baby, begins to tell Phoebe to forget about her and vanquish him to save the baby, or as Piper so delicately put it, "Phoebe, if you love me, you will send this crazy bastard straight to hell!"
* In Season 4 of ''BurnNotice'' at the end of the midseason cliffhanger Micheal goes to confront Barrett. He is being held hostage by one of Barrett's men and Jesse shoots through Micheal to kill the man. The shot and following car crash put Micheal in the hospital. He is suffering from his injuries for several episodes of season 4.5.
** Sam and Fi think, at first, that Jesse deliberately shot Michael, as he has recently found out that Michael is the one who accidentally got him burned. It's possible it ''may'' have been a little of that.
* There was a variation in ''Series/{{Angel}}'' in which Kate Lockley ''staked'' the hostage. She angled the stake upwards and rammed it through Angel's stomach so as to be fatal to Angel's captor while merely very painful to Angel. Angel didn't realise she was taking care not to kill him.
-->'''Angel''': You missed.
-->'''Kate Lockley''': No I didn't.
* In season 4 of ''Series/{{Justified}}'' Constable Bob Sweeney ends up stabbing a hostage in the foot with his knife which surprised everyone so much that Raylan was able to disarm the hostage taker. It is unclear whether this was on purpose or whether he stabbed the wrong foot since Bob just suffered a GroinAttack and was not seeing straight. This was a deliberate ShoutOut to ''Film/{{Speed}}'' since series executive producer Graham Yost was also the screenwriter for ''Speed''.
* A totally horrible example comes in ''Series/LawAndOrder'' when an escaped convict holds a classroom full of students before anything can be done, he shoots all of the hostages in the room. His reason "Why not".
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* In ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyTactics'', the first plot twist, and Delita's StartOfDarkness, includes a [[LaResistance resistance]] knight using kidnapped "noble" (shows what he knows!) Teta as a human shield at an abandoned fortress. Algus, under order of Ramza's KnightTemplar brother Zalbag, shoots ''Teta'' first, and then puts another arrow into the knight when he's frozen in disbelief. This gets Delita mad enough to want to kill him, and a ClimaxBoss battle ensues. She dies instantly, but the kidnapper actually survives, holed up in the arsenal, until after the battle where he ignites the powder stashes and blows the whole place to bits.
** This is actually [[{{Foreshadowing}} telegraphed beforehand]], as Algus openly states his displeasure for [[{{Muggles}} anyone not of noble blood]] right before Ramza kicks him off the team.
* Several missions in the ''VideoGame/SilentScope'' arcades end with you shooting the last foe while he's holding a hostage. If you hit the hostage, you fail the mission. Or the game.
** ''VideoGame/OperationWolf'''s sequel, ''Operation Thunderbolt'', did this one too.
* ''Goldeneye 64''. A valid way of solving the hostage situation on the train level. Shoot Natalya in the leg and she lurches forward and down in pain, leaving the general open to a lead surprise.
** Alternatively, you could just side-step enough so that she isn't in your way. The hostage-take doesn't react in the slightest.
* ''SakuraTaisen III'' has a slightly odd example where the "hostage" is a painting (a very thinly-veiled {{Expy}} of the Mona Lisa). [[BoxedCrook Lobelia's]] response? Use her [[PlayingWithFire pyrokinesis]] to destroy the painting, which turns out to be a forgery. When asked how she knew it was a fake? [[HowDidYouKnowIDidnt She didn't.]]
* During Thane's loyalty quest in ''VideoGame/MassEffect2'', his son, Kolyat, takes a turian politician hostage. If don't use the Paragon QuickTimeEvent, you have two choices: shoot Kolyat (nonfatally) or shoot the hostage (fatally). Your possible justifications for the latter are that you kept Kolyat from doing it (the whole point of the quest) or that the hostage deserved it - we see earlier that he has a pretty drastic anti-human bias and was threatening shopkeepers.
-->'''Kolyat:''' All of you, back off! I'll kill him!
-->'''Shepard:''' No, you won't. ''(kills the hostage)''
-->'''Kolyat:''' OhMyGods...
-->'''Shepard:''' [[BondOneLiner Hostages only work when your enemy cares if they live.]]
** The DLC mission ''Lair of the Shadow Broker'' has a moment when an enemy takes a hostage and makes her talk, making her confess that she has a son, she wants to live and see him again, she doesn't want to die. If you don't have a sufficient Paragon or Renegade score to talk your way out of it (in either of those paths, you can [[BadassBoast list off some of your more terrifying achievements]] and ask if the enemy ''really'' thinks you can't kill one innocent for the greater good) you can still choose to shoot the woman nonfatally.
* ''VideoGame/MassEffect3'' does it again when you confront [[spoiler: Miranda's father]], who's holding [[spoiler: her sister Oriana]] hostage. If you can't / don't use the Charm / Intimidate options (different ways of saying "You let her go, you walk"), you get a Renegade Interrupt to shoot his hostage in the leg, giving you or [[spoiler: Miranda]] the chance to finish him off.
* Zoran Lazarevic, the BigBad of ''{{Uncharted}} 2: Among Thieves'' does this without hesitation, after giving an impassioned speech comparing himself to such "great men" as Hitler, Stalin, Genghis Khan and Pol Pott, saying that "they had the will to do what other men would not."
* ''KaneAndLynch''. Lynch does this during one of his [[AxCrazy psychotic episodes]] and is genuinely distressed when Kane returns. It doesn't help that things go downhill from there as a result.
* ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolid'': Psycho Mantis holds Meryl hostage by forcing her to hold a gun to her own head. One of the ways to stop her from committing suicide would be to throw a stun grenade, knocking her cold. Another way to prevent this is to ''punch Meryl to the point of unconsciousness''. In Twin Snakes, the remake, you can also shoot her with the tranquilizer gun.
** The situation repeats itself in 4, this time with Screaming Mantis and Meryl (Again).
** Then there is the variation with Raiden in 4 where Vamp grabs him from behind and he uses his sword to stab himself and nail Vamp through his own gut.
* In ''VideoGame/MetalGearRisingRevengeance'' a MadScientist is holding a young boy at gunpoint while gassing a bunch of kids to death. The boy tells Raiden to [[KillUsBoth kill them both]] and Raiden, in a moment of [[AxCrazy ax craziness]], complies and ''cleaves both of them in half.'' The boy survives and gets a cybernetic shoulder and arm, but still...
* The Courier is asked to do this in a side quest of ''VideoGame/FalloutNewVegas'', because the NCR troops outside Legion-captured Nelson refuse to attack as long as it would risk their comrades who are crucified in the town square. It's very possible to TakeAThirdOption by killing all the Legionaries and then letting down the hostages, which amazes the questgiver and gets you loyalty points with one of your possible companions.
* Can be done optionally in the ''ModernWarfare 3'' mission "Stronghold"; one of Makarov's men grabs a Czech POW and tries to take him hostage, but there's absolutely no penalty if Yuri (the player) decides to simply shoot through the prisoner to kill the thug. Captain Price even quips, "He never would have made it anyway...".
* The ultimate goal of every [[PoweredArmor battlearmor]] player in ''[[Videogame/MechWarrior MechWarrior Living Legends]]'' is to [[PersonalSpaceInvader jump onto an enemy]] [[HumongousMecha battlemech]] and bait his buddies into shooting the annoying battlearmor, before dodging away and letting the shots hit the mech. Bonus points if his buddies fire [[DeathFromAbove Arrow IV missiles]], [[MacrossMissileMassacre medium-range missiles]], or a [[LightningGun particle projector cannon]] at the armor, killing the hostage mech via [[SplashDamage splash damage]].
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'''Jack:''' Shoot the hostage.\\

->'''Harry:''' Alright, pop quiz: The airport. Gunman with one hostage, he's using her for cover, he's almost to the plane. You're a hundred feet away.\\
'''Jack:''' ...\\
'''Harry:''' Jack?\\
'''Jack:''' [[{{Foreshadowing}} Shoot the hostage]].\\

* In the first novel of TheDarkTower series, ''TheGunslinger'', Sheb uses Roland's lover, Allie as a shield and hostage. Roland kills her out of pure instinct; his trained hands react quicker than his mind. [[TheDogShotFirst Changed]] in the revised edition.