Basic Trope: A shotgun in fiction has a shorter, but more effective range than it would in real life
- Straight: The shotgun weapon in Call of Tro-py does a lot of damage to targets within 5-10 metres, but anything outside that range will only receive Scratch Damage.
- Exaggerated: Call of Tro-py's shotgun reduces any target within 5-10 metres to bloody dust, but the pellets disappear completely outside that range.
- Downplayed:
- Call of Tro-py's shotgun has about a third of the range it would in real life but it is still more than most.
- Against armored combatants at a distance Call of Tro-py's shotgun does a bit more than a pistol. Unarmored target suffer its full force at any distance.
- Justified:
- It's a Sawn-Off Shotgun.
- The shotgun lets out an energy burst that disintegrates anything it touches, but soon dissipates harmlessly.
- Inverted: Call of Tro-py's shotgun does a lot of damage to long-range targets but near targets will only receive Scratch Damage.
- Subverted: Call of Tro-py's shotgun can have its range upgraded...
- The shotgun does little damage at a distance - it turns out that is because the rounds are birdshot. Switching to buckshot or slugs gives more realistic ranges.
- Double Subverted:...but so can all the other weapons, so the shotgun still has a shorter range than every other weapon.
- Parodied: Shotguns are shown being out ranged by spears used as melee weapons.
- Zig Zagged: The first shotgun plays this straight - until you get the choke upgrade. The sawed off shotgun takes it to an extreme, meanwhile the hunting shotgun displays realistic range, and the futuristic 5H0T magnetic shotgun has a better range than many sniper rifles.
- Averted:
- Call of Tro-py's shotgun functions the same as a real life one.
- Call of Tro-py doesn't have any weapons that resemble a shotgun.
- Enforced: The makers of Call of Tro-py don't want to unbalance the game's weapons.
- Lampshaded:
- "Who made this piece of crap?"
- "Get closer to them! Your range is the shortest of us!"
- Invoked: The designers of the shotgun wanted something for close quarter combat that has plenty of stopping power but won't be a risk to those down-range.
- Exploited: Smarter enemies use sensory and mobility technologies to avoid being ambushed and remain out of range, making them functionally immune to shotgun damage.
- Defied: A character deliberately loads slugs into the weapon so they don't have to deal with the abysmal range.
- Discussed: ???
- Conversed: "Again? Oh, come on, sell that junk already and buy a sniper rifle!"
- Implied: Shotguns are only seen causing kills at close distances.
- Deconstructed: In the cutscene, we see Big Bad escaping, while the other character tries to stop him with a shotgun. The pellets do not even hit the target, thus leading the character to blame his weapon.
- Reconstructed: Later, this character corners the villain and proceeds to shoot him in the head with the blamed shotgun. The villain's head blows into pieces; now he is sure not to escape anymore.
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