![]() ![]() The line " Only a Flesh Wound" does get used. Bond does this to M in a simulation in Die Another Day.The other mooks hesitate, but when Renard shoots the mook himself, the rest go with it. Another villainous example in The World Is Not Enough when Bond grabs one of Renard's mooks in the sub as a human shield.A villainous example in Tomorrow Never Dies when Bond has taken Elliot Carver's computer guy Gupta hostage, he combines this trope with Outlived Your Usefulness and shoots his own henchman once he's confirmed that he no longer needs the computer's guy immediate help (he can always hire another IT guy later).Later, at Alec's base in Cuba, Bond is taken hostage, and Natalya answers "Go ahead, shoot him. Subverted twice in GoldenEye: When Bond confronts Alec aboard his train, Alec holds Natalya hostage, to which Bond says "Go ahead, shoot her.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. Subverted in the Hyakujuu Sentai Gaoranger film Fire Mountain Howls, GaoGod looks like he's about to do this to GaoKnight to hit Hades Org. #Tv tropes shoot the hostage movieThis scene may in fact have been the inspiration of similar action movie scenes made later. ![]() The movie Hard Boiled has the hostage shoot himself to hit the villain, also allowing Yuen to finish the villain off with a shot to the head.Hansel shoots him in the shoulder, which goes through and injures Muriel. Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters: Muriel uses Ben as a shield and holds a knife to his throat.Then the mooks suddenly get back up seemingly unscathed, and the Big Bad casually asks if they got their bulletproof vests on, to which the mooks enthusiastically nods. True to his role, the Big Bad immediately shoots his own mooks, and then shoots the guards. ![]() A variation in Half Past Dead: When the bad guys take control of Alcatraz, some guards manage to overpower two random mooks and hold them at gunpoint, demanding the Big Bad to release an important hostage.Whitmore: Nobody's worth that much to me. ![]()
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