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Frequently seen in cartoons (static or animated), this is when a character spits a stream of small objects in such a way that the result looks like machine gun fire.
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=== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ===
* ''[[Bleach]]'': when Toshiro Hitsugaya and Momo are children, "Little Shiro" does this to Momo with watermelon seeds.
* ''[[One Piece]]'' character Chu/Chew uses this with bursts of water.
* ''[[Sailor Moon]]'': Sailor Chibi Moon's [[What Kind of Lame Power Is Heart, Anyway?|(useless)]] Pink Sugar Heart Attack.
* ''[[Digimon Savers]]'': Lalamon's "Nuts Shoot" attack (dubbed as "Seed Blast").
* In an anime-only episode of ''[[Ranma ½
** And in the manga, the family is given a small plant meant to punish [[Youkai|Oni]] by detecting their angry faces. At first, it spits out a small spray of seeds hard enough to sting. As it gets frustrated with the Saotomes and the Tendos, it moves on to destructive barrages of armor-piercing spitting.
* In ''[[Slayers]]'' some Monsters can continuously spray lots of weak glowing bolts that resemble tracers from a bundle of machineguns. To a lesser degree, Scatter Brid spell that fires swarms of tiny ball lightnings.
=== [[Film]] ===
* When ''[[Dumbo]]'' has his flying down, he strafes elephants who've mistreated him, spraying them with peanuts.
* Winnie the Pooh does this with bees.
* Hugo the gargoyle does this with rock shards in the Disney version of ''[[The Hunchback of Notre Dame (Disney film)|The Hunchback of Notre Dame]]''.
* Unusual live-action instance: [["Weird Al" Yankovic|Weird Al Yankovic]] in ''[[UHF (film)|UHF]]'' (during a parody of ''[[Rambo]]'').
* For a given value of "seed"... Shep the elephant shooting coconuts out of his trunk in ''[[George of the Jungle (film)|George of the Jungle]]''.
=== [[Tabletop RPG]] ===
* Mongoose Publishing's ''[[Strontium Dog]]'' RPG. The mutant power Missiles allows a mutant to fill his mouth with objects and spit them at opponents to do damage. If the mutant uses seeds or gravel a minor amount of damage is done.
=== [[Video Games]] ===
* The Bullet Seed move in ''[[Pokémon]]'', from where the [[Trope Namers|trope takes its name]]. It's a multi-attack, grass-type move that hits the opponent several times in a row using seeds. It was very weak in the games (though multiple hits makes it much more powerful when [[Elemental Rock-Paper-Scissors]] gives you an advantage, and in ''[[Pokémon Black and White]]'' it became far more usable), but was actually usable in the anime when Ash's Treecko learned it (Ash helped tutor Treecko by chewing on watermelon and spitting out the seeds in a similar fashion). Also, it's a very useful move in the ''Mystery Dungeon'' games, where it's a ranged attack that can hit multiple enemies at once and base power doesn't exist.
** It's also one of Ivysaur's moves in ''[[Super Smash Bros.]] Brawl'' and can rack up a considerable amount of damage if you can catch your opponents in it for a few seconds while they are in mid-jump.
** Fun fact: Bullet Seed's original name in Japanese was "Seed Machine Gun".
* Yoshi can spit seeds repeatedly in ''[[
* The latter member of the ''[[Banjo-Kazooie]]'' pair can do this with a variety of eggs, as well as "lay" them to the rear and, in ''Banjo-Tooie'', use a crosshairs and enter an [[FPS]]-style mode in select areas.
* ''[[Chrono Cross]]'' has Neofio, with a move Pop Pop Pop
* The entire premise of the game ''[[Plants vs. Zombies]]'', although more specifically the Pea Shooter and its offshoots (the Snow Pea, the Repeater, the Threepeater, the Split Pea, and the Gatling Pea).
== [[Western Animation]] ==▼
▲=== [[Western Animation]] ===
* [[Older Than Television|Anytime a cartoon character eats a watermelon, expect this trope to play out.]]
* Tucker in ''[[My Life as a Teenage Robot]]'', while eating/choking on a slice of watermelon.
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* Frequently seen in [[Classic Disney Shorts|old Disney cartoons]], particularly with watermelon seeds.
* In the Daffy Duck short ''Muscle Tussle'' Daffy faces a rival for his gal's affections. At one point his rival bites a chain, chews, and spits out a buch of nails. Not to be outdone Daffy bites a chain, chews, and spits out his teeth.
* ''Tundro'', a ten-legged, four-horned rhino on the Hanna-Barbera production, ''Herculoids'', shoots molten balls out of one of his horns.
* ''[[Bounty Hamster]]''. Casey is unimpressed when Marion fires a stream of cucumbers at her attacker.
* In one episode of ''[[Futurama]]'' an army of Lucy Liu robots spit out popcorn at Fry and company in this manner.
* In ''[[The Penguins of Madagascar]]'' episode "Popcorn Panic," Rico does this with popcorn kernels to (literally) shoot out the lights.
* In ''[[SpongeBob SquarePants]]'' when Patrick deflects the snowballs Spongebob fires at him ''using his uvula!'' (thing at the back of the mouth)
* In ''[[Hero: 108]]'' the Air Force eats a mouthful of grapes each time they want to be able to spit the seeds out like a machine gun as a weapon for dogfighting.
* [[
* In the ''[[Batman: The Brave And The Bold|Batman the Brave And The Bold]]'' episode "Terror on Dinosaur Island!" [[Plastic Man]] does this with pieces of Grodd's loot when the need arises, which he hoped to keep for himself.
* One of ''[[Popeye]]'' the Sailor's favorite techniques, usually involving nails, tacks, rivets, or other small metal objects.
* In the animated ''[[Teen Titans (animation)|Teen Titans]]'', a child metahuman [[Extreme Omnivore]] named Teether can chew up and spit even metal with gunlike force.
** Similarly, Gatling from ''[[World of Quest]]'' has this as his signature... well, pretty much only attack.
* In ''[[Thundercats 2011]]'' [[Lilliputians|Lilliputian]] [[Plant People]] the Petalars employ bullet ''pollen'' due to their deminutive size, aiding their friends the Thundercats against [[Scarily Competent Tracker]] pursuers.
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=== [[Film]] ===
* ''[[The Mask (film)|The Mask]]'' villain Dorian Tyrell uses this to return the favor when he's shot repeatedly, killing his boss, Niko.
** What's odd is that he turns handgun bullets into semi-automatic rifle rounds.
*** The mask is possessed by a trickster god, so its wearer can naturally make use of 'toon physics', where odd is normal (notice how the bullets come out of his boss' gun as complete cartridges, as always happened in the old cartoons).
* In an action-movie-parody section of [["Weird Al"
* In [[Walt Disney]]'s ''[[Bedknobs and Broomsticks]]'', an animated suit of armor responds to being shot by a Nazi by spitting the bullets back at him out of its helmet.
=== [[Tabletop RPG]] ===
* Mongoose Publishing's ''[[Strontium Dog]]'' RPG. The mutant power Missiles allows a mutant to fill his mouth with objects and spit them at opponents to do damage. If the mutant uses bullets, a serious amount of damage is done.
=== [[Western Animation]] ===
* In two [[Looney Tunes]] short, Daffy Duck accidentally swallows some gun powder and buckshot, turning him into a living machine gun for desperate Porky Pig to use.
* In ''[[Bully for Bugs]]'', the bull [[Bugs Bunny/Characters|Bugs Bunny]] is fighting accidentally swallows a gun (which gets stuck inside its tail) and finds that he can shoot bullets out of his horns. He goes after Bugs until he runs out of ammo, so he swallows a whole box of elephant gun shells ({{spoiler|and exploding rounds, at that!}}), fires... and gets [[Non Fatal Explosion|blowed up]] real good!
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