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Basic Trope: Character fails gun safety forever and winds up shooting someone.
- Straight: Alice casually points her pistol at Bob while talking to him, then the gun goes off and he gets shot.
- Exaggerated: Alice uses the barrel of her pistol to scratch her nose and blows her nose off.
- Or worse, Alice is way, way, way Too Dumb to Live and attempts to pick her teeth with the trigger.
- Justified: Alice has no idea what a gun is and accidentally shoots someone.
- Subverted: Alice waves her gun around carelessly, it goes off, but then explains that it's just a suction dart gun.
- Double Subverted: Alice got her suction dart pistol mixed up with her real pistol.
- Parodied: Alice carelessly waves around a super soaker. It goes off like a real gun.
- Deconstructed: Alice accidentally fires her pistol, and either shoots or narrowly misses Bob. The mood of the scene emphasizes that this is a very serious problem; it leaves Bob in shock and traumatizes to Alice, and leaves any bystanders either way as well.
- Reconstructed: Alice narrowly misses Bob, who promptly educates her in gun safety.
- Zig Zagged: Alice catches herself pointing her pistol at Bob and hastily corrects herself, explaining that even though it's a suction dart gun, she shouldn't get sloppy. Turns out it's a real gun, which she finds out when she deliberately fires at a target. Bob is standing behind the target.
- Enforced: The film is a comedy, and Alice's ineptitude with guns is a Running Gag.
- Conversed: "I can't believe she's just waving it around like that. Five bucks says she shoots Bob in the face."
"Oh my God, I Just Short Marvin In Th-BLAM!"