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* Averted in ''[[Noir]]'', which took actual audio from the guns used and doesn't completely diminish the sound when a silencer is fitted. If anything the sound of the silenced guns is more like a "pew" than a "bang" and it's still fairly loud.
* Averted in an episode of ''[[Detective Conan]]'' where, when confronted by Conan under the stands, the episode's culprit knows that a silencer does not completely mask a gun's noise, but he's in a crowded stadium where everyone around is watching a football match so he can still shoot without attracting unwanted attention.
* ''[[Gunslinger Girl]]'' - In this firearms-heavy anime and manga series, one of the characters, Henrietta carries a [
* Averted in [[Highschool of the Dead]]. Hirano hands Saya an MP5, warning her that even with a suppressor, any shots will still be audible enought to be heard by [[Not Using the Z Word|them]].
* In ''[[Black Lagoon (Anime)|Black Lagoon]]'' during a flashback to Revy's [[Dark and Troubled Past|childhood]] she's shown killing a man using a pillow to suppress the sound. Subverted in that we don't actually hear the sound so can't judge how well it worked.
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* The ''[[Hitman]]'' series tends to play this straight, with optional silencers on pistols, rifles and submachine guns turning the noise into the usual 'thwip' without degrading weapon performance- though you can use less effective silencers that only limit the sound instead of removing it.
** ''Blood Money'' offers accessorizing 47's custom guns with a "Type 1" silencer, which works best with whatever low-velocity ammo is offered for the gun (and even then, is noisy), or the "Type 2," which had full Hollywood effectiveness even for "Magnum" ammo.
** ''Silent Assassin'' had five suppressed weapons, each with a suitably [[AKA
** Hitman's Russian [[World War Two]] cousin ''Death to Spies'' features silenced Nagant revolvers extensively, all of them producing a muffled sound similar to "fwip", but reasonably loud. It ''can'' alert nearby guards, especially on higher difficulty settings. Silenced rifles in the game are generally more guilty of this trope. For the silenced Nagant revolver, take a look at the [[Real Life]] section.
* ''[[Far Cry|Far Cry 2]]'' has the Dart Rifle. The Sniper Rifle thwipping puts enemies on alert without revealing your exact location, unless the round goes whizzing past someone's head, in which case they will immediately find you, the Silenced MP5 is only slightly quieter than without silencer, however the same basic detection rules as with the Dart Rifle seem to apply. The Silenced Makarov 6P9 is complete with thwip, and has same rules for stealth.
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* Ukrainian video game ''[[STALKER]]'' has the famous VSS ''Vintorez'' sniper rifle and AS ''Val'' assault rifle that use special subsonic cartridges and a highly effective integral suppressor -- it gives a report similar to BB-gun as well as metallic ''clank'' from the action. Another Ukranian video game, ''[[Metro 2033]]'' from 4A Games features a successor of the ''Vintorez'' and ''Val'' - the ''VSK-94'' silenced sniper rifle.
** ''[[Metro 2033]]'' also has the option to buy suppressed versions of standard weapons, and these behave more or less realistically. They don't outright give away the character's presence the way an unsuppressed weapon would, but nearby foes will notice the noise and start actively looking for the player if they were previously idle or patrolling.
* While the silenced pistol in ''[[Command and Conquer]]: Renegade'' has a Hollywood-style fwipping sound, it does not prevent enemies from noticing you, mostly due to [[The All
* ''[[Fallout New Vegas]]'' plays this trope straight with one exception---the Anti-Materiel Rifle variant added in the Gun Runners Arsenal DLC can be suppressed (essentially) but not silenced. Since, after all, it is a .50-caliber sniper rifle which is referred to as a cannon by more than one NPC. The effect is distance-based, as in firing it in someone's ear is quite different from firing it at the limit of the draw distance.
* Some video games, likely due to [[Did Not Do the Research|not enough attention paid]], actually invert this - ''[[Half-Life (Video Game)|Half-Life]]'' and ''[[Far Cry]]'', for instance, both feature an integrally suppressed MP5 which neither sounds like or is treated as though it is suppressed.
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* This trope may have sent some people to prison since there have been cases of killers convicted by trace evidence of improvised silencers they wrongly assumed they needed -- possibly by exposure to too many movies. Real hitmen do not often use silencers.
* There are a couple of revolver designs that have a sealed cylinder. The most famous is the Nagant M1895 (see [http://world.guns.ru/handguns/double-action-revolvers/be/nagant-mle-195-e.html guns.ru] and [
** The other secret to the weapon's silence is that the bullets are subsonic, only going at ~.8 times the speed of sound. Therefore the bullets don't produce a sonic boom, which are quite noisy, when it leaves the barrel.
* There are special bullets that make about the same amount of noise as a BB gun, but are only available in 22 caliber. They're legal because few people would actually attempt to kill someone with a .22 -- most people think that any rifle less than 30 caliber, pistol less than .44, or shotgun less than 16 gauge is [[Little Useless Gun|as lethal as a BB gun]] (to be clear, this is not true; .22 can indeed kill you).
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** They've made ''silenced 12.7mm [read: .50] [http://world.guns.ru/sniper/large-caliber-sniper-rifles/rus/vks-vssk-vychlop-e.html anti-materiel rifles.]''
** And let's not forget the [http://world.guns.ru/grenade/rus/bs-1-tishina-e.html "Tishina" (en. "Silence")] ''noiseless 30mm grenade launcher''.
* Then there's the [
* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aX-99a1JCc4&NR=1&feature=fvwp The M32 MGL] almost makes the trope [[Truth in Television]]. Imagine a hollywood silenced gun. Now take away the "fwip" noise. Now imagine the gun firing 40mm grenades.
** It is so silent because it doesn't fire the grenades very fast for a weapon (76m/s, 249ft/s). The MGL depends on the explosives of the grenade to do the damage, rather than sheer kinetic energy like a bullet uses. And no silencer on Earth or anywhere else can silence the Boom.
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