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{{quote|''That silver could have fed my entire village for a year.''|'''[[The Lone Ranger|Tonto]]''', ''[[Robot Chicken]]''}}
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** The same punchline is used in ''[[My Best Friend Is a Vampire]]''.
* In ''[[Brotherhood of the Wolf]]'', Jean-François de Morangias uses a one-handed musket and silver bullets as his signature weapon.
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* In ''[[Project Metalbeast]]'', Silver Bullets can kill werewolves but this particular one happens to be cybernatically enhanced, so it requires a silver tipped bazooka shell to kill it.
* Silver is good against werewolves ''and'' vampires in ''[[Van Helsing]]'', with silver bullets and stakes being employed against both.
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* In some epic folk songs about Bulgarian rebel leader Delyo, he is described as invulnerable to normal weapons, driving his enemies to cast a silver bullet in order to murder him.
* "Silverstrike" by Ablazer
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* During the 18th century hunt for the Beast Of Gévaudan, Jean Chastel reportedly loaded his gun with silver bullets. However, in this case the bullets were not 'special' because they were made of silver, but because the silver was obtained from a blessed medallion of the Virgin Mary (the creature was thought to be demonic in nature).
* Silver has a density of 10.5 grams per cubic centimeter. Lead has a density of 11.3 g/cm<sup>3</sup>. In the ballistics game, higher density means better performance, which is why bullets are still made out of lead. (Uranium, it should be noted, has a density of 19 g/cm<sup>3</sup>, which is one of reasons why anti-armor rounds are made of the stuff.)
* [http://www.patriciabriggs.com/books/silver/silverbullets.shtml Book author's husband researches making silver bullets]. It's not as straight-forward as casting bullets from lead. Silver melts at 1761 °F (versus 621 °F for lead), this makes just melting it a problem for home-made bullets. And silver has a different coefficient of expansion, and the hardness difference means the bullet has to be crafted more precisely. And silver jewelry and coins are made with silver alloys that are harder still. The bottom line is that silver bullets aren't something even someone who home loads can make in a hurry, from materials at hand; they take planning and preparation.
* During the 17th Century, many people believed that only a silver bullet could kill a king.
* Count Jan Potocki, a Polish [[Gentleman Adventurer]] and author of ''The Manuscript Found In Saragossa'', allegedly killed himself with a silver bullet made from the knob of his mother's suger bowl and blessed by the castle priest.
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