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* 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 ''[[Black Rock Shooter]]'' TV anime absolutely ''relishes'' on this.
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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.
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* ''[[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]]'' 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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== [[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.
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* The Heavy's minigun(s) in ''[[Team Fortress 2]]'' notably ejects shells ''out of a solid plane of the model''.
* ''[[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'Em Up]] game ''[[Nineteen Forty Two|19XX]]''. After firing out its rapid machine cannon weapon, it ejects out the shells forward, ''at your character''! [[One-Hit-Point Wonder|You will die if you get hit by them]], but thankfully, they are destructible. (Starts at 4:13 [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6SIcc87PEsk here])
* ''[[Starcraft II]]'': When {{spoiler|Valerian Mengsk invades Char}} General Warfield is desperately holding a position against the Zerg and this trope is used to show exactly how many different kinds of fucked he and his men are, since with all the [[More Dakka|dakka]] they are generating it isn't doing a damn thing against the Zerg.
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