Event Horizon: Doctor Weir threatens other characters with a nail gun designed to bolt hull patches on.The (at that point unseen) killer tries to kill the protagonist and the girl he's with by turning up the air pressure on a nail gun that's been left in the prop room of the university's theatre, loading in a 'magazine'-like container full of nails and opening up on them like it's a machine gun. During their final confrontation on a constriction site high atop a skyscraper, the Big Bad Strack uses a rivet gun in his battle with Darkman, he succeeds in riveting Darkman's hand to a girder.In Cliffhanger, Gabe ( Sylvester Stallone) uses a spike-gun to shoot a bad guy, but it's at close range, and it's pressed against a sheet of ice so it might work.James Bond ( Daniel Craig) uses a nail gun for self defense against Gettler in Casino Royale (2006).

A rat and a woman are killed with a nail gun in The Carpenter, while a man is shot in the eyes with a staple gun.A character is tortured with a nail gun in Bunnyman.Of course, this is some kind of time loop or flashback, and Mike was actually firing nails at the Boogeyman. Mike then inexplicably grabs a nail gun and starts shooting at Tim. Boogeyman 2005: At one point, Tim finds Mike in his home, looking at him in shock.

Used correctly in Bloodsucking Pharaohs in Pittsburgh with a close-up attack, pinning a protagonist's hands to the wall one by one at contact range.

Arachnophobia: Ross kills a spider with a nail gun, albeit one meant to patch holes in starships.

They aren't very good weapons: their range is quite short and their penetration is so poor that it takes near a dozen nails just to incapacitate one mook.

Psycho-Pass: Real guns have been replaced with the Dominator, so the best thing Makishima's gang can use are nail guns.

Franky in One Piece can spit nails in a gatling-like fashion from his mouth.

However, once they get back up they actually feel better than they did before. Rather than carpentry nails, it fires acupuncture needles that make people incapable of using Goku uniforms and enough can prevent them from moving at all.

Tsumugu of Kill la Kill uses a nail gun with very, very Bottomless Magazines.

Where one of the protagonists uses a nail gun to eliminate two of the hitmen. He also makes a Lethal Weapon 2 reference. He even consistently headshots the infected with it too.

Near the beginning of Highschool of the Dead, Kohta modifies a nail gun into an improvised rifle, by making a makeshift stock with what seems to be rulers, an eraser and a lot of tape.

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