I am reminded of the 90’s Batman cartoon, I think it was ‘I almost had him’ where the various Batman villains lament and tell tales of how they almost killed Batman once. Turns out one of them was Batman in disguise trying to get critical info. When he reveals this they all pull out guns, but then every patron in the bar pulls out a gun pointing at the villains - they were all Gotham’s police force.
Err… were we/was I supposed to nominate this concept on the YKTTW page first, and let people vote to launch it, rather than just going ahead and adding it? :o
Yeah, but it’s still there so they must have liked it. I did the same thing; one is still there but the other was disappeared rather quickly.
“Everyone is Armed” is so boring.
My vote is for “And Then There Were Guns”
And new features are getting added to it, so I guess it indeed is liked. Thanks again everyone, I couldn’t have done it without you!
Does this count (starting at about 2.15)?
I seem to remember this exact scene happening in Robocop 3 (although I’ve not seen it in many years, and am in no rush to go back and check). I think someone tries to hold up a cop diner, and is suddenly covered in laser spots. Ring any bells with anyone?
There’s a scene in The President’s Analyst where Dr. Schaefer (James Coburn) is out for dinner with his girlfriend and tells her that he thinks that he is being followed by spies everywhere and worries that he is becoming paranoid. He suddenly announces that he is going to find out, jumps up, yells “I’ve been shot!” and falls to the floor.
A few seconds later he looks up to see that everyone in the restaurant has pulled a gun and pointed it at someone else (including his girlfriend), at which point he yells “Ah ha! I’m not going paranoid!”
(It then turns out to be a dream, but still a funny scene.)
I don’t remember it being everybody in the restaurant; rather, it was everybody in Belloq’s party, which was rather to be expected. And I also think that Jones knew they’d all be armed; he just didn’t care. He thought he’d just gotten Marian killed, remember? He walked into that place to die.
ETA: And of course, it also happens in the first part of the “Who Shot Mr. Burns?” storyline on The Simpsons, when every adult in town but Marge and possibly the Mayor is packing heat at the town meeting. It’s why Marge disbelieves that they’ll ever find the shooter; everyone has a motive.
A doughnut shop, and there’s a link to a Youtube clip of it on the page.
Just wanted to thank everyone again for their suggestions and their help starting the page. I still visit it from time to time and people continue to add suggestions to it so it’s evidently considered worthy.
“Everyone Is Armed” trope page going strong, with new entries still being added. I would like to solicit an image to be added to the page: something like the following, although that one isn’t ideal:
I heard a “dumb criminal” story once where they decided to rob a bank. On a lunch hour. Opposite the police house. On payday. They got as far as saying “This is a stic-” before the rest of the sentence was drowned in the thunderous noise of slides being racked.
I think the cliche is someone tries to stick up a bar, but it turns out the bar is the local “cop bar”. Then there’s the Discworld “Watch” series. In one, Lance Constable Carrot breaks up a fight in a dwarf bar using his charisma and, not exactly the same thing, but in a later novel in the “Watch” series, 2 miscreants take Angua as a hostage. Vimes said something about attempted suicide.
How about these?
It’s hard to get a good picture that fits within the limits that Tropes can accept (250x350 pixels) and conveys well that there’s a crowd and they’re all armed.
Would Star Wars count? It seems everyone has some kind of weapon there. (Usually a blaster)
Correction: the image can be any height, but a maximum width of 350 pixels.
Tropes has it’s own image suggestion forum-
-but I haven’t quite figured out how it’s organized.
The ideal picture should feature a heterogeneous group (not all cowboys in a saloon for instance), and should look like a random crowd, not people who know each other and are purposely gathered.
Recently thought to check back there and there’s a LOT of new stuff, so evidently this was indeed a worthy trope! Thanks again to all contributors.