I have likely seen the following hostage scenario a thousand times during my life of movie and TV viewing: I call it the DYGOISS, (pronounced die guys) which stands for "drop your gun or I'll shoot scenario". A bad guy has a gun to the head of a loved one, and is partially hidden behind her so the good guy has to make a dicey head shot, or drop his weapon.
And the Good Guy disarms. Every time. He lays his gun down on the floor and even slides it over to the villain... and somehow it all works out for the best...in the make-believe world of Hollywood. Oh the good guy may have to suffer a non-lethal wound, like Arnold in Kindergarten Cop, but he still manages to defeat the evildoer and survive and heal and get the girl and live happily ever after.
