A character has just gotten a new gun and checks himself out in the mirror. What does he do? Nine times out of ten, he starts talking to his reflection, quoting Robert De Niro's famous monologue from Taxi Driver. He doesn't even need a real gun - if he just wants to feel Badass there's always the trusty Finger Gun.
Of course, when De Niro did it, it was 10 times cooler. He also had a retractable [...] [tvtropes.org]