The villain would challenge rich men to Russian roulette, after both men playing had made out a will leaving everything to the victor. The gun had an extra safety that wasn't visible when playing, so the villain could never lose. Batman won despite the gun being full. This particular game of Russian Roulette involved adding a bullet to the gun each time the two men lived.
Two-Face, in the storyline that reveals his revised origin in The New 52 , plays this once every so often, the decision to do so spurred by his coin landing good side up. He seemingly kills himself this way at the end of the story. It's later revealed that he survived of course but the bullet is lodged in his brain, making him even more erratic. Daredevil , "Roulette," takes place in Bullseye's hospital room, with Daredevil performing the Roulette for both of them while he tells Bullseye about a kid who admired him, saw him at his darkest , and then jumped the slope.
The best bit? The gun isn't loaded. The Doctor Who Titan comic introduces the game of Rassilon's Roulette, which is exactly the same, only played with a "time gun". Every time you pull the trigger you have one chance in six of not just being killed, but Ret-Gone.
Pirate Girl Esmeralda Vasquez punishes one of her crew who was caught stealing by holding up her revolver and telling him there is one cartridge in the cylinder. She will spin the cylinder, then give him the gun to aim at his head and pull the trigger.
If the hammer falls on an empty chamber, he can go free. She does this, and he blows his brains out. She then breaks open the revolver and empties six shells on to the deck.
Esmeralda: The lesson is this! No one steals from Esmeralda! Jailer: And here I thought it was impossible to cheat at this game!
Comic Strips. A Pogo comic book-style story, probably created as supplementary material for a book collection, features the cast as Russian scientists working for the Soviet space program. In the opening scene they are playing Russian Roulette. Churchy gets the bullet, but survives because he "missed". A case of Too Dumb to Die , perhaps? In Frozen Turtles , when Raphael is interrogating an assassin who just tried to kill Elsa, he gets the man to talk by threatening to play a variation of this after another member of the assassin's order is killed and Raphael retrieves the other assassin's poisons, taunting his prisoner with the idea that he can't predict if he's giving the other man something that will just knock him out for a few minutes or something that will kill him painfully over the next few hours.
A much safer and slightly more humiliating version is played in the second Halloween Unspectacular with five potions and a bottle of dyed water. Hilarity Ensues. She's forced to play Russian Roulette, and barely survives due to the gun jamming on the sixth pull of the trigger. At that point, several Gatling guns open fire on Miura, killing her.
Miura, as well as Fukuda , exploits a loophole in the game, by not pointing the gun at her head. Films — Animation. In the animated Lucky Luke movie La Ballade des Dalton , a retired poker cheater who has become a preacher is on the Dalton's killing list. He insists on ending his life with a last game, which turns to be the Russian roulette, and shoots himself in the head.
Of course, being a compulsive cheater, he loaded the gun with a blank. Films — Live-Action. Thirteen Tzameti features an underground game in which desperate men are recruited to play a modified version of Russian Roulette while rich gangsters bet on who survives, like a horse race. The players arrange themselves in a circle and hold their revolvers up to the head of the man in front of them. When a light bulb turns on, they all fire.
There was a American remake called The climax of the 90s film featured this. In the film, Samuel L. Jackson is a substitute teacher at an Inner City School who gets into a dangerous feud with a gang leader. At their final confrontation the gang forces him to play a game of Russian Roulette, referencing the famous Deer Hunter scene.
They're unnerved when Jackson begins taking multiple turns without flinching, even giving them a "The Reason You Suck" Speech as he does. At one point the gang leader begins cracking under the weight of the speech and hesitates to pick up the gun when it's his turn, so Jackson's character volunteers to take the gangster's turn Since Jackson took his turn and the bullet that would have killed him, the gang leader decides he has to take one more turn now When one of them realizes he's the loser, he shoots his wife instead, to spare her from an apparent worse fate.
The Spanish comedy film Airbag has a scene with a Russian omelette. Five people bringing 15 million pesetas each, five omelettes, four of them made with poison mushrooms, one of them with regular ones. The one left alive walks away with all the money, except the small percentage given to the organisers. It was a scam, though. The organisers thought nobody would be as stupid as to actually follow with that setup.
Arizona Dream : Axel has entered Grace's room with a gun, with the apparent intention to shoot her in the head. Not only does Grace dare him to go through with it and mock him for losing his nerve, but she turns it around on him by challenging him to a game, after setting up the bullet in the chamber.
And not only does he go through with it, but they both survive and then end up kissing and rolling on the floor. Weirdest seduction ever. The protagonist challenges his army superior, who'd been sent to their remote Peruvian village after he killed a fellow officer in a game of Russian Roulette over a woman. In the end they're down to the last chamber, which they know contains the bullet — the man holding the gun has to either back down in disgrace or blow his brains out.
He is unable to pull the trigger. Earlier, the MacManus brothers use this to determine whether or not to let a bad guy go. At the start of the Russian film Burnt by the Sun the protagonist a secret policemen who's been ordered to arrest a Soviet military hero and his wife — a former Love Interest does this with a seven-shot Nagant revolver.
He survives, and so carries out his order, killing himself at the end of the movie via the more reliable method of slitting his wrists while in the bathtub. The Deer Hunter has perhaps the most famous example. Some American soldiers in the Vietnam war are captured and forced to play Russian Roulette at gunpoint for their captors' amusement and to bet on the outcome.
Steven panics and turns his gun away from himself, which saves his life as the gun goes off, only to be brutalized by their captors. When Mike and Nick keep surviving, their captors add more bullets to their guns, until the two have enough to suddenly shoot all their captors and escape. Nick becomes traumatized by his experiences in the war and begins playing Russian Roulette in seedy places for money.
It eventually gets him killed. Scenes in other films featuring Russian Roulette being played by men wearing red headbands are parodies of this film, such as Meet the Feebles , and is the obvious inspiration for the page image. Bollywood movie Dhoom 2 has a sexually charged one where Mr A Hrithik Roshan forces Sunheri Aishwarya Rai to play after finding out that she had betrayed him. Only it turned out to be False Roulette and ended in one hell of a kiss.
An alternate ending to Die Hard with a Vengeance includes John McClane playing a variant of Russian roulette with Simon Gruber using a Chinese rocket launcher without the sights so no way of telling which end is the muzzle. He asks Simon a series of questions with them turning the launcher to face the other each time and eventually asks a question that Simon gets wrong. Turns out that the answer to the question is that he forgot to bring a flak jacket, which is what McClane is wearing and this would have protected Simon from the blast of the rocket, and the rocket fires on Simon, killing him instantly.
After watching the first click, Lance demands to be the second to play saying that the woman always goes first. He clicks the weapon five times and looks oddly at the pistol to imply that the weapon is empty Eastern Condors : While imprisoned in the P. Camp , the squad are forced to play Russian roulette by their captors. Forcing him to pick a hand to see how many bullets go in the gun he ends up with one , and then pick another hand to see how many shots are fired he gets five.
The girls then take turns pointing the gun at his head and pulling the trigger. He survives all five shots. They then shoot him anyway. The movie Intacto , which has a premise of luck as a real and transferable property, has two very lucky people playing a form of Russian Roulette. They play with one chamber empty.
In Judas Kiss , Ruben plays Russian roulette to alleviate his boredom. And because he's not right in the head. Kiss Kiss Bang Bang has Harry use the game to intimidate a perp into talking. Unfortunately, Harry rashly decides to chance it and pull the trigger to frighten the perp even more, trusting in probability that it will be an empty chamber. He kills the perp. Confidential has the game used to intimidate a perp into talking.
Life of the Party has Michael tossing away five of the bullets and then pulling the trigger of the gun while it's pointed at his friends and himself. The sixth pull has the gun up against his head Live parodies Reality TV by having an American TV executive use this as part of the ultimate ratings winning game show where ordinary people literally gamble their lives for a huge cash prize.
Malcolm X features Malcolm playing it with a couple of other hoodlums to determine who would be the leader of their group. In a later scene he admits to a friend that he palmed the bullet so the gun was unloaded. There's a variation in The Masque of the Red Death involving daggers: Prince Prospero sets out five daggers on a table, one of which is covered in a poison that will kill in seconds.
Francesca's father and boyfriend are forced to take turns cutting themselves with each dagger until one of them dies. Francesca's father tries stabbing the prince with the last dagger, but Prospero kills him with a sword before he can make contact. The boyfriend, meanwhile, is forced back into the village where the Red Death is. Davis that they play Russian Roulette when she returns home from school. Miss Brooks had jumped to the conclusion that Mr.
Boynton had bought the house across the street preparatory to giving her a proposal of marriage. Instead, Mr. Boynton had bought the house so his lonely mother could live with him and wasn't proposing marriage.
Fortunately, Mrs. Davis fixes matters behind scenes, inviting the elder Mrs. Boynton to be her new boarder. Boynton gives her approval to Miss Brooks, leaving a happy Miss Brooks to rush to the zoo to meet Mr.
There, after eight years of radio, four years on television, and one theatrical grand finale not to mention a comic book adaption thereof , Mr. Boynton proposes. Boynton and Mrs. Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides has a variant; six pistols, four unloaded, two loaded and Jack is ordered to shoot his love interest with them. He argues with Blackbeard over whether the game is False Roulette. When he's convinced that it's real, he takes another other option and jumps off a nearby cliff.
The Professional. In Sholay , Gabbar punishes three subordinates who fail to claim "tribute" from a village by forcing them to play a version of this. He takes a revolver, fires three shots in the air, and then spins the chamber.
He aims and pulls the trigger once at each of the three. Each time, it clicks empty. Gabbar starts laughing, and then shoots all three of the men in quick succession.
On the Russian front during WW2, the protagonist discovers a group of Axis soldiers playing roulette and betting on the outcome. One soldier is unable to pull the trigger and flees the scene while booed by the others, even though it was revealed his chamber was loaded. In Ingmar Bergman 's Smiles of a Summer Night , Count Malcolm challenges Fredrik to one of these, arguing that it's the only form of lethal combat where Fredrik would stand a chance against him.
The gun is only loaded with soot. In Sonatine , Murakawa plays a forced game with two reluctant Yakuza underlings. When it comes to Murakawa's turn on the final chamber, he just smiles and begins to pull the trigger. It turns out to be empty. Truth or Dare : After catching Jonesy spying, Justin plans to shoot him.
When Luke begs for his life, Justin twists the cylinder on his revolver and hands it to Luke. Luke is to fire and Jonesy, and if the gun does not go off, Jonesy gets to live. Or Luke could could fire at him, but if the gun does not go off, he will not get a second shot.
Luke fires at Jonsey, and Jonsey dies. Truth or Dare has this played as one of the dares. Predictably, the last time is a live bullet. Parodied in the original Unfaithfully Yours. Alfred: Have you ever heard of Russian Roulette? Daphne De Carter: Why, certainly. I used to play it all the time with my father. Alfred: I doubt that you played Russian Roulette all the time with your father! Daphne De Carter: Oh, I most certainly did. You play it with two decks of cards, and Alfred: That's Russian Bank.
Russian Roulette's a very different amusement which I can only wish your father had played continuously before he had you! Fighting Fantasy : In the book The Citadel of Chaos , the player can at one point play Russian Roulette with daggers : the player stabs himself with a dagger picked at random from a set of six, with 5 being "trick daggers" whose blade retracts into the hilt and a real dagger.
And the prize is an item that is virtually required to finish the book. City of Thieves features another version, with pills: five harmless, one poisonous. The reward is simply a respectable amount of gold. There's a joke about an explorer in Darkest Africa who explains the game to a local chieftain. The chieftain tells him they have a similar game: you're presented with six beautiful women to spend the night with As the title would suggest, the game appears twice in Russian Roulette , the prequel to the Alex Rider series that tells the life story of Yassen Gregorovich.
Yassen plays the game twice in Vladimir Sharkovsky's office: once with one bullet, the second time with one empty chamber. Not really a spoiler - he survives both. In Kim Newman 's Dark Future novel Krokodil Tears , the main character plays Russian Roulette with a cowboy, with two bullets in the gun instead of the usual one.
But it is possible to enjoy the thrill of this game without the risk of death or permanent brain injury. For example, there are several different drinking games, based on the principles of the Russian roulette. And then there are some simple online flash games, designed to emulate the experience. If you want a physical penalty for losing the game, you should look into one of the electric shock Russian roulette games. Additional comments optional. You can offer your link to a page which is relevant to the topic of this post.
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While nobody knows the exact date and origin of Russian roulette, some say it was first used by sadistic guards in Russian prisons in the 19th century. They would force prisoners to play Russian roulette with each other.
Naturally, they would place bets on the outcome. There are 2 basic versions of Russian roulette: beginner and hard core. The poor punters would spin the chamber, place the gun to the temple, and pull the trigger. If there is only a click and no BANG, the gun is passed to the next person, who spins it again.
In the hard core version, there is no spinning between rounds. Somebody is definitely going to die within 6 pulls of the trigger. The probability of death increases with every round. Technically, the game could go on indefinitely. The spinning motion of the chamber and the single bullet were reminiscent of the rotating action and single ball used in casino roulette.
Just as the French roulette wheel underwent changes over time, resulting in different versions, so did Russian roulette. If you think the no-spin version of Russian roulette is hard core, think again.
The Chechens came up with their own version during the Chechen Wars in Russia: Chechen roulette , aka Caucasian roulette. Think of this version of the polar opposite of Russian roulette. Chechen terrorists apparently forced their prisoners to play the game. Needless to say, it did not take very long to find a loser or 5 in Chechen roulette. Whatever version was played, somebody always died.
But a revolver is the only type of pistol used in Russian roulette. The spinning chamber is the only way to get odds in the game. If somebody placed an automatic pistol like a. Other sudden death versions of Russian roulette: using machine guns or shotguns instead of a revolver. Players of these versions would receive a posthumous Darwin Award. Who would have thought Russian roulette would be such a pop culture hit?
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