Gunpoint

What will the whumpee do? Kneel in surrender? Show fear? Defiance? Counterattack? Actually get shot?
Let's enjoy the moment of that lethal weapon pointed at them, enjoy, and then savor the follow up.
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== Animes ==
== TV Shows ==
50M²
* 1x08: Gölge (Engin Öztürk) fights the hitman inside the shop, and at some point, he is on the ground, on his knees, a gun on his back.
Arrow
* 1x18: Roy Harper (Colton Haynes) is kidnapped, and the bad guy keeps him under gunpoint to try make him follow his "game" in front of the camera.
Carnival Row
*1x08: Rycroft Philostrate (Orlando Bloom) is restrained to a chair, and confronted by a man who thinks he is responsable for the series of murders.
Dark
* 1x10: Jonas Kahnwald (Louis Hofmann) arrives at an unknown time period, and when finally find other people, they put him on his knees, all of them aiming guns at him.
* 2x02: Jonas is locked inside a cage, injured, and the mysterious woman appears with a gun pointing at him.
Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency
* 1x06: Bart finally finds Dirk (Samuel Barnett), and pursues him with a gun. When he has nowhere to run, he begs for his life as Bart tries to shot him.
Hanna
* 1x05: Is an example for Erik Heller (Joel Kinnaman) being surrounded, and kneeling in surrender.
Justified
* 1x02: Raylan Givens (Timothy Olyphant) encounters a couple of fugitives at a convenience store, and under gunpoint, loses his ID, badge, guns, car and hat. The men orders him to put on handcuffs and locks him inside a dark room.
* 1x07: Raylan is taken hostage, Ava's life being threatened, and drives a car with a gun pointed to his head.
Klondike
* Ep 5: Bill Haskell (Richard Madden) finds out who killed his friend and goes to the culprit's cabin. When the person arrives, Bill is overpowered and his weapon, taken and pointed back at him.
Lucifer
* 5x15: Dan Spinoza (Kevin Alejandro), kidnapped, tied up and beaten, doesn't answers the kidnapper's questions, so the man pulls out a gun and point it at Dan's face for a few moments. Dan resists, but we can see the fear.
Rush
* Ep 4: Will Rush (Tom Ellis) has a gun pointed at him for some time, after he is called for a case of a bounty hunter and an escaping criminal... except that both say the other is the actual criminal and both are armed.
Salvation
* 1x05: The car where Liam Cole (Charlie Rowe) is gets ambushed, and the men with guns make him get into their car, kidnapping him.
Sense8
* 1x10: Wolfgang Bogdanow (Max Riemelt) is surrounded by the group from whom he had stolen, and is put on the ground after a few punches. The leader keeps a gun at Wolfgang's temple.
* 1x11: Capheus Onyango (Aml Ameen) is confronted with a "choice", a gun pointed at his head as motivation: kill the man in front of him or die.
Sherlock
* 1x02: John Watson (Martin Freeman), mistaken for Sherlock, is kidnapped alongside his date, and the boss woman puts a gun on his face, demanding information that he does not have.
The Night Shift
* 1x07: TC Callahan (Eoin Macken) and Topher Zia (Ken Leung) are taken hostages inside the radiology room, when an armed man locks them in, demanding answers from their patient.
*2x03: A security guard, upon seeing his daughter coming out of surgery in a coma, takes out his gun ready to shot the young man he holds responsable for her state, but TC gets between them and tries to reason with the man.
Travelers
* 1x12: David Mailer (Patrick Gilmore) has a gun against his head, and is forced to call Marcy to tell her so, as bait.
Whiskey Cavalier
* Ep 1: Will Chase (Scott Foley) figure it out who the FBI traitor is, which puts him on the other side of the traitor's gun, now determined to get rid of all witnesses.
* Ep 9: A mission gone wrong ends up with Will being kidnapped by organ traffickers, and we see him handcuffed inside a car, a gun pointed at him.
== Movies ==
Baywatch
* Matt Brody (Zac Efron) is grabbed by the boss criminal, a gun against his head, while she gives the mandatory bad guy speech.
The Osiris Child (2016) | Science Fiction Volume One
* An unknown man pulls Kane Sommerville (Daniel MacPherson) out of the water (after being ejected from his plane) and keeps a gun pointed at him, demanding answers on why Kane is there. 
== Dramas ==
Sweet Home
* Ep 9: Lee Eun Hyuk (Lee Do Hyun) and Cha Hyun Soo make their move to try and save the group from the criminals, but Lee is flipped to the floor, a boot on his chest and a gun touching his forehead.
== Gallery ==
File:Carnival Row 1x08.gif|"Beg. Beg me for your life. The way she begged you for hers. Beg!" - Absalom Breakspear to Rycroft Philostrate, Carnival Row 1x08