r/TopCharacterTropes • u/Werewolf_Knight • Jul 08 '26
Powers (Hilarious Trope) That's not how this gun works!
EDIT: Just so you know, I might have been wrong about the 3rd example!
- The Simpsons (Season 30, Episode 9) - The character is holding a revolver (which is normally charged by putting the bullets inside the cylinder) and charging it by putting a magazine in the grip like a Glock. Please note that this was done intentionally to make fun of how guns are portrayed unrealistically in movies;
- Shadow the Hedgehog video game - In one of the trailers, Shadow is holding what I think was an M4A1 and, in this shot, he is arming it by pulling the handguard like a shotgun. The handguard is only for protecting the shooter from the heat generated by the barrel.
- Stranger Things (Season 5, Episode 8) - During the fight with the Mindflayer, Nancy is loading an M4A1-5, and, after she inserts a magazine, she is pushing the carrying handle to arm it like a shotgun. That's not what a carrying handle is for, obviously.
I want to mention that I know there's another popular example with a silencer for a shotgun or something, but I am not familiar with it. Also, I tried my best to identify each gun, so please correct me if I was wrong about any of them.
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u/grumpykruppy Jul 08 '26
For those who are gonna read this and assume it's saying Bethesda is using AI to design guns, it's not - Bethesda has been making good, old-fashioned, improbable, unrealistic, questionable, and downright nonsensical human-crafted gun designs since long before AI was a thing.
They're marginally better with their sci-fi ones, but if it fires actual bullets there's a 70% chance it's nonsense. If it's meant to be an IRL gun it's almost guaranteed to be nonsense.
Why? Who even knows.