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One way to emphasize [[More Dakka]], or at least how powerful a weapon, is showing all the bullet casings being ejected out of that gun. Expect this to be [[Noisy Guns|noisy]].
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== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ==
* ''[[
* In ''[[Mobile Suit Victory Gundam
* The intro to ''[[Gungrave]]'' features this in a couple of places.
* Shows up in ''[[Hellsing]]'' at times.
* Shows up in the first episode of ''[[Elfen Lied]]''.
* In the first episode of ''[[Gunslinger Girl]]'', the audience is [[Fetish Fuel|treated]]/[[Squick|subjected]] to a small shower of golden 5.7x28mm shells seemingly originating from the female protagonist's groin.
** Which would be because the P90 ejects its shell casings straight down. Making this screen an example of [[Shown Their Work]].
* The ''[[Area 88]]'' OVA opens with a shot of 20mm shells falling from Shin's F-8E Crusader as he tears up a column of enemy tanks.
* Deliberately [[Averted Trope|averted]] in the original ''[[Appleseed]]'' manga. [[Word of God|Shiro's notes]] indicate that he thought it would [[Rule of Cool|look cool]] if the E-SWAT members weapons sent spent casings flying everywhere, but he felt that would conflict with the professional nature of their missions, and thus their weapons would have attached pouches to catch spent casings and keep their operation neat.
* In ''[[Space Runaway Ideon]],'' someone on the street gets clobbered by a giant shell casing from a [[Humongous Mecha]]-wielded gun.
* The ''[[
== [[Comic Books]] ==
* ''[[Gorsky and Butch]]'' recreate the Matrix helicopter scene. Then it shows a street sweeper on the street below, cussing at the sight of the raining shells.
== [[Film]] ==
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* ''[[Wanted]]'': during [[Bullet Time]] at the end.
* ''[[The Gods Must Be Crazy]]'': when a group of African guerrillas are shooting at a helicopter, one is annoyed by the man next to him, whose submachine gun is throwing its shells into the first's head.
* ''Watchmen'': Nite Owl's ship has a minigun, and a compartment in the floor for catching spent shells.
== [[Live Action TV]] ==▼
* ''[[Myth Busters]]'': after blowing a fish barrel to hell with a minigun, there's a huge pile of spent shells.▼
{{quote| '''Adam''': "I'm no, like, crime scene investigator, but I strongly suspect that someone's been firing a gun in the vicinity of this car."}}▼
** And that time they were trying to shoot an escape hole through a piece of flooring. ▼
* ''[[Sons of Guns (TV)|Sons of Guns]]'' does this from time to time. ▼
* This makes an appearance in the ''[[Stargate SG 1]]'' movie ''Ark of Truth''. During the course of the movie Replicators get unleashed on the ''Odyssey''. A group of airmen guard the entrance to the Asgard so Carter and Marks can find the command to shut the Replicators down. By the time they do, the hall way is covered in spent shells and Replicator blocks.▼
▲* ''[[
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▲* This makes an appearance in the ''[[Stargate SG
== [[Music]] ==
* [[Disturbed]]'s video for
== [[Real Life]] ==▼
* From the book [http://www.amazon.com/Just-Another-Soldier-Year-Ground/dp/0060843675/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1274013900&sr=8-1 Just Another Soldier: A Year on the Ground in Iraq]: ▼
{{quote| ''Sitting in a Humvee while the machine gun on top is tearing a seam into hell is an experience - hot brass and links raining down into the passenger compartment like a Skittles commercial for infantrymen.''}}▼
* The AC-130u Spooky II has a 25X137mm Equalizer Gatling gun. Think about it, a .30 caliber (7.62X51mm) minigun creates a shower of spent casings. Lampshaded by Adam Savage-▼
{{quote| ''I'm no, like, crime scene investigator, but I strongly suspect that someone's been firing a gun in the vicinity of this car.}}▼
** A 25mm shell is many times the size of a .30 cal shell, and it's being fired from a Gatling gun. There have been many stories of crew members having to shovel away spent shells.▼
* Averted with most modern jet aircraft, however, as spent brass could be sucked into the engine and trash it. ▼
** This is known as a "double-ended feed system" - that is, the weapon system returns spent casings/jammed rounds back into the magazine.▼
** Another reason for retaining the spent casings is that it assists in maintaining the center of gravity of the aircraft.▼
== [[Video Games]] ==
* The [[Gatling Good|minigun]] on the Warthog in ''[[Halo]]''.
* The Heavy's minigun(s) in ''[[
* ''[[Ghost Hunter]]'' the Glock can be fired fast enough to cause an obvious fountain of shiny brass shells. Shows off the graphics, but the Glock is the emergency weapon, so it's not a display of [[More Dakka]].
* The Vulcan cannon in the obscure freeware game ''SUAVE''.
* Used as an ''attack'' by the fifth boss in the [[Shoot
* ''[[
* ''[[Max Payne (
* ''[[Cortex Command]]'' has some weapons that eject [[More Dakka|lots of casings]], some weapons that eject [[BFG|very large casings]], and some weapons that eject [[There Is No Kill Like Overkill|lots of very large casings]]. If a character stays in the same position and shoots for long enough, it's entirely possible to make quite large piles of empty shell casings - that you can then ''walk on''.
* ''[[Streets of Rage]]'' final boss is Mr. X, apparently the only guy in the city to have a firearm, and an impressive tommy-gun at that. Killing him sends his corpse to the ground in a hail of casings.
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* ''[[Battle Garegga]]'' has a playable ship whose special weapon is [[More Dakka]], accompanied by spent shell casings that ''also'' cause massive damage to enemies.
== [[Web Comics]] ==
* One ''[[Turn Signals
▲* One ''[[Turn Signals On a Land Raider]]'' strip has a Land Raider crew tricked into firing their [[Gatling God|Assault Cannons]] with the top hatch open. A second later, the crew has been buried by a pile of shell casings that fills the tank.
== [[Web Original]] ==
* ''[[Red vs. Blue]]'' had this as a result of being a ''[[Halo]]'' based [[Machinima]] (the creators claim that [[Word of God|they didn't notice the casing until they actually began filming]]).
* The "Red" Trailer for ''[[RWBY]]'' ends with a shower of spent shells dropping out of the air around Ruby.
== [[Western Animation]] ==
* ''[[
* ''[[Samurai Jack]]'': in "Robo-Samurai vs Mondo Bot", Mondo Bot fires its [[More Dakka|Machine Guns]] at Robo-Samurai.
* ''[[Sym-Bionic Titan]]'': when the H.M.E.R. uses its [[Arm Cannon|arm]] [[Gatling Good|gatling guns]].
▲== [[Real Life]] ==
▲* From the book [http://www.amazon.com/Just-Another-Soldier-Year-Ground/dp/0060843675/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1274013900&sr=8-1 Just Another Soldier: A Year on the Ground in Iraq]:
▲{{quote|
▲* The AC-130u Spooky II has a 25X137mm Equalizer Gatling gun. Think about it, a .30 caliber (7.62X51mm) minigun creates a shower of spent casings. Lampshaded by Adam Savage-
▲{{quote|
▲** A 25mm shell is many times the size of a .30 cal shell, and it's being fired from a Gatling gun. There have been many stories of crew members having to shovel away spent shells.
▲* Averted with most modern jet aircraft, however, as spent brass could be sucked into the engine and trash it.
▲** This is known as a "double-ended feed system" - that is, the weapon system returns spent casings/jammed rounds back into the magazine.
▲** Another reason for retaining the spent casings is that it assists in maintaining the center of gravity of the aircraft.
{{reflist}}
[[Category:Guns and Gunplay Tropes]]
[[Category:Bullet Index]]
[[Category:Spent Shells Shower]]
[[Category:Alliterative Trope Titles]]
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