Fighting
Shootout
Shootout noun - A fight involving shooting small arms with the intent to kill or frighten.
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- In Halo 3, after fighting through hordes of heavily-armed aliens and bringing down not one, but TWO galaxy-threatening Big Bads, the final fight is an anticlimactic shootout against 343 Guilty Spark.
Source: Anti-Climax Boss - John Reese in the Grand Finale of Person of Interest, fighting off hordes of Samaritan's men in a shootout and being fatally wounded before the cruise missile strikes.
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After R told Koko that he was a CIA plant during the shootout in downtown Prague, he dies fighting off Hex's attempt to assassinate Jonah.
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