History Main / MultipleGunshotDeath

* Dr. Carl Weiss, the assassin of Senator Huey Long of Lousiana, was shot 62 times by Long's bodyguards after he shot Long. The bullet holes from where he was shot still remain in the Lousiana Capital building in Baton Rouge.
* After killing a Florida deputy and a police dog and wounding another deputy, fugitive Angilo Freeland was killed by 68 shots from police officers. When questioned why the suspect had been shot 68 times, Polk County Sheriff Grady Judd reportedly replied [[BondOneLiner "That's all the bullets we had."]]

* Happened to SelfDemonstrating/{{Lobo}}, he and a rival bounty hunter traded shots from their oversized machine guns. By the end of the fight, Lobo was reduced to almost a skeleton with more shells in him than flesh, before keeling over.

* A RedShirt AD Police trooper gets ''[[{{Gorn}} utterly torn to pieces]]'' by a [[KillerRobot rampaging Boomer's]] auto-cannon in the ''Anime/BubblegumCrisis'' OVA episode "Burn Up".

* ''Series/BlakesSeven'': The BolivianArmyEnding of the series has many characters shot repeatedly, the most [[{{Gorn}} graphic of them all being]] that of [[spoiler:Roj Blake himself. Gareth Edwards wanted Blake to end up DeaderThanDead in order to get out of playing him again (after a long while of him being PutOnABus), and the special effects crew coordinated with him to deliver the most blood-splatteringly brutal shooting scene that the censors would let them get away with]].

* ''Manga/DeathNote'': [[spoiler: Matt's death: several of Takada's bodyguards unload unto him [[YouWouldntShootMe right after he tells them that it's in their best interest to keep him alive]]. One bodyguard says later that he was clearly stalling for time.]]
** This is how [[spoiler: Light would have died]] if [[spoiler: Ryuk hadn't written his name in his notebook to bring the whole tragic affair to a close. Matsuda [[RageBreakingPoint snaps]] after Light finally reveals himself as Kira, and when Matsuda [[ImprobableAimingSkills shoots Light's pen out his hand]] to stop him from quickly writing down Near's name, Light tries to use Matsuda's admiration for Light's dead father to goad him into killing everyone else in the room so his death wasn't in vain. Matsuda doesn't fall for it and [[UnstoppableRage shoots Light four more times]] when he tries to write Near's name in his own blood. Ryuk wouldn't have even had the opportunity to write Light's name if the rest of the squad hadn't grabbed Matsuda to keep him from [[BewareTheNiceOnes putting his last bullet between Light's eyes.]] He fires, but the shot misses by mere inches.]]
* ''Manga/TheRoseOfVersailles'': Oscar is shot dead by a dozen muskets.

* ''Manga/MotherKeeper'', this is sadly the fate of poor Lint, after he stabs Graham, Graham shoots him multiple times.
* A RedShirt AD Police trooper gets ''[[{{Gorn}} utterly torn to pieces]]'' by a [[KillerRobot rampaging Boomer's]] auto-cannon in the ''Anime/BubblegumCrisis'' OVA episode "Burn Up".
* ''Manga/{{Bokurano}}''
** Tanaka takes multiple bullets in the chest while in a gunfight with the men who'd killed Diet Member Komoda. She dies of her wounds not long afterward.
** Koyemshi gets shot multiple times by Yoko Machi. Being a robot, the first few shots damage his machinery, but only the last one finishes him off.
* This is par for the course in ''Anime/JinRohTheWolfBrigade'', where the standard-issue weapon for the Kerberos police unit is the [=MG42=]. The best example in the film is Henmi's death near the end, when Fuse blasts him to pieces, even when it's clear the former died in the first four or five shots.
* Sherlock unloads his entire revolver into Milverton's back in ''Manga/MoriartyThePatriot''.

* Often [[ShootingSuperman attempted]] by criminals on Franchise/{{Superman}}.

* In ''Magazine/{{MAD}}'', the head of a firing squad tells one particularly despicable criminal that he's so hated, that he'll be buried where he falls. He then explains that since the family of everyone the criminal wronged will be shooting him (the panel shows out to see an entire crowd of people training their guns on him), that he'll be too full of lead to be buried anywhere else.

* ''WesternAnimation/AllDogsGoToHeaven'': Carface tries to kill Charlie with a drive-by shooting and using a ''laser machine gun''. Unfortunately for Carface, recently-resurrected Charlie can only die (again) if the clock that showcases his life stops... which is something Charlie didn't knew either, until he got back up from being shot.

* After Major Mitchell from ''Film/IndependenceDay'' realizes that the glass separating his group from the alien psychically attacking the President is ''not'' bulletproof, all available personnel with a sidearm line up to fire on the alien, followed by Mitchell delivering a DoubleTap CoupDeGrace.

* ''Film/TrainingDay'': Alonzo meets his end this way when the Russian mob comes to kill him.

* In the opening scene of ''Film/TropicThunder'', Tugg Speedman (playing Sgt. Four-Leaf Tayback) gets shot over and over again while he runs for the helicopter.

* ''Film/TheWildBunch'': At Agua Verde, after Mapache executes their friend Angel right in front of them, Pike's gang responds by gunning down the general on the spot, alongside with his German military advisors. A bloody gunfight ensues between Pike's gang and the Agua Verde garrison, made even more destructive by the [[GatlingGood Gatling gun]] emplacement inside the compound that the outlaws use to cut down Mapache's men. They are eventually overwhelmed by sheer numbers and gunned dead by the soldiers.

* DoubleSubverted at the end of ''Film/VForVendetta'', when V stands and takes a salvo from Creedy and his men to prove that YouCannotKillAnIdea before slaughtering them all. Once they are dead he is revealed to have worn a metal plate that is riddled with bullet holes and shortly thereafter dies.

* The same execution was also depicted in the beginning of ''Film/SomeLikeItHot''.
* In ''Film/BackToTheFuture'', the terrorists shoot Doc dozens of times (probably because they were using machine guns.)
* A [[NoRangeLikePointBlankRange point-blank use]] of this trope is how UsefulNotes/AdolfHitler dies in ''Film/IngloriousBasterds''.
* A DirtyCop ends up machine-gunned to pieces (alongside his patrol car) by ''other'' dirty cops on the Creator/ClintEastwood film ''Film/TheGauntlet''. It's not the only example of liberal application of MoreDakka on the film.
* About two dozen Chitauri do this to the Hulk near the end of ''Film/{{The Avengers|2012}}'', nailing him with countless lasers. It makes him mad, but it's the first thing in the film aside from Thor that actually slows him down.
* In ''Film/AvengersAgeOfUltron'', this fate befalls [[spoiler: Quicksilver]], who dies protecting Hawkeye and a little kid from bullets from the Quinjet that Ultron controlled.
* On ''Film/LastManStanding'', a group of soldiers of the [[TheIrishMob Doyle gang]] is double-crossed by their hired Mexican [[DirtyCop police goons]] and machine-gunned without mercy within their car for a whole minute. [[AntiHero John Smith]] [[EvenEvilHasStandards finds the massacre gruesome to watch]].
-->'''John Smith:''' It was a massacre. Couldn't say I was real sorry... but it was a rough way to check out.
** Also how the Doyle shooters kill any members of the Strozzi gang that didn't burned to death when Slim's Roadhouse was set on fire--Giorgio getting the worst on-screen example.
** The first gangster Smith kills is shot seven to nine times with his GunsAkimbo and BlownAcrossTheRoom onto the street outside.
* On ''Film/{{Collateral}}'', we see the beginning of [[PsychoForHire Vincent's]] VillainousBreakdown during the club attack scene, where he empties about half a pistol magazine into his target before reloading and giving him a CoupDeGrace with the Mozambique Drill (which he had been using with efficiency throughout the film so far).
* ''Film/PublicEnemies'': The deaths of many of the gangsters, more true to the textbook definition of this Trope being the one of Pretty Boy Floyd (who is shot by Purvis until he falls and stops shooting-most tellingly, in RealLife he was shot repeatedly by ''two'' agents and [[TakingYouWithMe he managed to injure them fatally]] [[LastBreathBullet with his own dying gunfire]]) and in a slightly more subdued example, the death of Dillinger himself.
* ''Film/ButchCassidyAndTheSundanceKid'': Although we don't get to see it on-screen, the [[TropeMaker original]] BolivianArmyEnding implies that Butch and Sundance were gunned down by three or four squads of Bolivian Army riflemen.
* In ''Film/KeyLargo'', [[spoiler:Frank has to shoot Rocco]], who is attempting all the while with his last strength to raise his gun and shoot Frank, three times before he finally stays down.
* ''Film/TheNakedGun'': Subverted for laughs in the opening of the first film. All the gangsters on the boat unload their guns on Nordberg, but not only does he fail to die from it, he subsequently [[ButtMonkey suffers a torrent of abuse]] so prolongued that even the gangsters look a bit stunned at it.
* ''Film/TheParty'': The first scene of the film is the filming of an InUniverse remake of ''Film/GungaDin'', and Hrundi V. Bakshi (as Din) is ''supposed'' to die this way. He completely ruins the shot when, ''even after every single extra with a gun is shooting at him and knocking him down out of sheer annoyance'', he ''still'' refuses to stay down and stop playing.
* ''Film/BonnieAndClyde'': The titular OutlawCouple buys it this way at the hands of a police ambush; the two are shot more than 100 times each as the shootout lasts 25 seconds. Even an apple Clyde was eating (when the shootout began) appears to be blown apart as he tries to make his escape.
** Various remakes are similar to the 1967 original – number of shots, the bodies violently flailing about, etc. – except that both remain inside the car; the original had Bonnie seated inside the car but falling partially out when she went limp, while Clyde was gunned down while trying to escape and falls in front of the car.
* ''Film/TheHighwaymen'' culminates with the same multiple-gun death of Bonnie and Clyde, albeit from the perspective of the policemen who put together the ambush.
* The means of death of every single version of ''Film/KingKong'' that has died on-screen so far. The [[Film/KingKong1976 1976]] version bears special mention because Kong gets mercilessly [[BloodierAndGorier shredded]] by the [[GatlingGood miniguns]] of multiple helicopter gunships for three whole minutes, [[OverdrawnAtTheBloodBank giving one of the rooftops of the World Trade Center a massive coat of red]].
* Boromir's death in ''Film/TheLordOfTheRingsTheFellowshipOfTheRing'' is the medieval equivalent; he's shot three times by a gigantic Uruk-Hai captain with gigantic arrows from a gigantic bow, even though one would have easily killed him. The differences are played realistically since bullets and arrows mess up their targets differently; the trauma settles in slowly and the arrows don't go clean through him, but the wounds still put Boromir beyond medical help. The captain was planning on [[FourIsDeath topping things off with a headshot]], but Aragorn stepped in.

* ''Film/EscapeFromNewYork'': The President gets even with the Duke of New York terrorizing him for the last couple of days by emptying an M-16 into him and screaming the BadassBoast the Duke forced him to say at gunpoint as an IronicEcho.
-->'''President:''' (just fired a long rifle burst on the Duke, dropping him on top of a car, chuckles) You are the Duke of New York! You're the Duke! (rifle burst) You're the Duke! (rifle burst) But, you ain't number one!

* ''Film/{{Sleepers}}''. John and Tommy encounter Nokes, one of the men that molested them in reform school. Unfortunately for him they're now adult gangsters who shoot Nokes [[KickTheSonOfABitch multiple times in the arms and legs]] before the CoupDeGrace. However in the book this is inverted, with Nokes killed immediately by a BoomHeadshot and the further shots just being the 'signature' of their gangland hits.
* ''Film/HomeAlone'': A RunningGag throughout the first two movies of the series is Kevin watching gangster films ("Angels with Filthy Souls" and "Angels with Even Filthier Souls"), both of which have a gangster called Johnny that kills someone (another gangster that is asking him for money in the first one, a two-timing girlfriend on the second one) by shooting them with a Tommy Gun for a minute straight (the girlfriend gets it worse -- Johnny shoots her, then gives her a BondOneLiner, then shoots her ''again'', says a ''second'' BondOneLiner, and shoots off one last round, probably having emptied the Tommy Gun's ''entire ammo drum'' on her). Kevin [[ChekhovsGun makes use of these scenes]] to scare someone later in the film.

* ''Series/InTheHeatOfTheNight'': In the Season 2 finale "Missing," a police officer is sent undercover to Sparta to investigate the deaths of several civil rights leaders by a white supremacist group. The officer, Tom Dugan (played by Joe Don Baker, who temporarily replaced series star Carroll O'Connor during the latter's absence) is lured to a secluded area on a false tip that he will find the main suspect there. The last vision of life Dugan sees is two men in pig masks, who proceed to shoot the officer more than 20 times before the scene abruptly ends; it is strongly implied he is shot dozens of more times after the cut-to-black.
* The ''Series/{{Firefly}}'' episode "War Stories." Jayne, Wash, and Zoë watch Mal struggle with his torturer, but after he assures them that this is ''not'' something he has to do himself, the three respond by, as the script puts it, "filling the Torturer with as many holes as standards and practices will allow."
* ''Series/CSICrimeSceneInvestigation'' featured a VictimOfTheWeek on the episode "Take My Life, Please" that had been shot so many times and with so many different calibers that it was actually possible [[TorsoWithAView to see through him]]. Turned out that he had in life bombed an abortion clinic (with plenty of collateral damage to both objects and people) and had gone off the grid to avoid retaliation, and who had [[TooDumbToLive sneaked into an outdoors shooting range]] unknowingly to sleep for the night. [[AssholeVictim Although the shooters were guilty of trying to hide the evidence, nobody was really sorry for the man]].
** Happens again when a bomber ([[KickTheSonOfABitch played by Justin Bieber]]) gets shot so many times that the viewer can be sure he is dead. It doubles as RuleOfFunny to see him get shot like that, though.
*** This scene became so popular that [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PAK3RTDzaQY extended versions of it]] [[MemeticMutation went memetic]].

* In the ''{{Series/Supernatural}}'' season 2 finale, Sam kills Jake by shooting him...a lot.
* ''Series/BlakesSeven'': The BolivianArmyEnding of the series has many characters shot repeatedly, the most [[{{Gorn}} graphic of them all being]] that of [[spoiler:Roj Blake himself. Gareth Edwards wanted Blake to end up DeaderThanDead in order to get out of playing him again (after a long while of him being PutOnABus), and the special effects crew coordinated with him to deliver the most blood-splatteringly brutal shooting scene that the censors would let them get away with]].

* At the end of Season 13 of ''Series/{{NCIS}}'', [[spoiler:Trent Kort]] meets his end this way, courtesy of the entirety of Team Gibbs, for his role in the death of [[spoiler:Ziva]].

* ''VideoGame/MortalKombatX'': [[TheGunslinger Erron Black's]] Six-Shooter Fatality fires an entire magazine into his opponent, leaving [[TorsoWithAView gaping wounds]] in their torso and head.
* At the end of ''VideoGame/HuntDownTheFreeman'', Mitchell chases down [[spoiler:Adam]], and stops him by shooting him in the leg with a revolver. Mitchell then fires four more shots into the target's abdomen before finishing him off with a headshot.
* Late in ''VisualNovel/PlumbersDontWearTies'', the male narrator shows up to reclaim his position as narrator from his female replacement (don't ask), and wields a toy gun. He then guns her down, with gunshots appearing all over the screen (often nowhere near the woman's body), taking her down with a burst of gunfire, then continuing to fire at her as she lays on the ground.

* A common gag in ''WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes'', where a character is repeatedly shot or run through with multiple sharp objects, resulting in either visible (bloodless) holes or [[InvisibleHoles springing a leak whenever they drink]].

* ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'':
** "Saturdays Of Thunder": At a video store, Homer – wanting to rent a video to watch with the kids, in an effort to become a better father – watches the movie ''[=McBain=]'' on the overhead video monitors. The scene playing at the time is the title character enjoying a drink with his one-time mentor, Special Agent Dexter Skoey. In an attempt to ambush [=McBain=], Skoey happens to be in the line of gunfire and is shot more than a dozen times by one of Senator Mendoza's mooks. As Skoey lies bleeding to death and gasping last words, the mook makes a clean getaway and [=McBain=] swears revenge.
** "You Only Move Twice": Homer, an employee at a nuclear plant that is actually the front for a worldwide terrorist organization named Globex, run by a man named Hank Scorpio, is asked to tackle a "loafer" at the plant, which Homer does. Homer does not know that the man he took down was James Bont, who was trying to infiltrate and stop Scorpio from a plot to take over the United States by extreme force. Homer walks back to his work station, not seeing Globex guards surround Bont and unload their submachine guns point blank. It can be implied that Bont was blown to bits.
** "All's Fair In Oven War": The toll booth scene from ''Film/TheGodfather'', complete with James Caan reprising his role, is parodied. This time, Cletus and a bunch of Cletus variants gun down Caan ... upset because he was dating Brandine. "That's it! Next time, I fly!" moans Caan as he gasps for his last breath.
* Parodied in an episode of ''WesternAnimation/TheFairlyOddparents'' where Timmy, Cosmo and Wanda jacked themselves into a video game; Timmy managed to dodge the thrown carrot from the rabbit foes, while all those carrots hit Cosmo; he then yells "Hey look at me! I'm a cheese!" while he's being literally riddled with holes (it just means it's game over for him).

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** This is how [[spoiler: Light would have died]] if [[spoiler: Ryuk hadn't written his name in his notebook to bring the whole tragic affair to a close. Matsuda [[RageBreakingPoint snaps]] after Light finally reveals himself as Kira, and when Matsuda [[ImprobableAimingSkills shoots Light's pen out his hand]] to stop him from quickly writing down Near's name, Light tries to use Matsuda's admiration for Light's dead father to goad him into killing everyone else in the room so his death wasn't in vain. Matsuda doesn't fall for it and [[UnstoppableRage shoots Light four more times]] when he tries to write Near's name one more time. Ryuk wouldn't have even had the oppurtunity to write Light's name if the rest of the squad hadn't grabbed Matsuda to keep him from [[BewareTheNiceOnes putting his last bullet between Light's eyes.]] He fires, but the shot misses by mere inches.]]

** This is how [[spoiler: Light would have died]] if [[spoiler: hadn't written his name in his notebook to bring the whole tragic affair to a close. Matsuda [[RageBreakingPoint snaps]] after Light finally reveals himself as Kira, and when Matsuda [[ImprobableAimingSkills shoots Light's pen out his hand]] to stop him from quickly writing down Near's name, Light tries to use Matsuda's admiration for Light's dead father to goad him into killing everyone else in the room so his death wasn't in vain. Matsuda doesn't fall for it and [[UnstoppableRage shoots Light four more times]] when he tries to write Near's name one more time. Ryuk wouldn't have even had the oppurtunity to write Light's name if the rest of the squad hadn't grabbed Matsuda to keep him from [[BewareTheNiceOnes putting his last bullet between Light's eyes.]] He fires, but the shot misses by mere inches.]]

* ''Manga/DeathNote'': [[spoiler: Matt's]] death: [[spoiler" several of Takada's bodyguards unload unto him [[YouWouldntShootMe right after he tells them that it's in their best interest to keep him alive]]. One bodyguard says later that he was clearly stalling for time.]]

* ''Manga/DeathNote'': Matt's death: several of Takada's bodyguards unloading unto him [[YouWouldntShootMe right after he tells them that it's in their best interest to keep him alive]]. One bodyguard says later that he was clearly stalling for time.

** "You Only Move Twice": Homer, an employee at a nuclear plant that is actually the front for a worldwide terrorist organization named Globex, run by a man named Hank Scorpio, is asked to tackle a "loafer" at the plant, which Homer does. Homer does not know that the man he took down was James Bont, who was trying to infiltrate and stop Scorpio from a plot to take over the United States by extreme force. Homer walks back to his work station, not seeing Globex
Homer tackles Mr. Bont at Scorpio's command, thinking he is a "loafer". As Homer walks away, Globex guards surround Bont and unload their submachine guns point blank. It can be implied that Bont was blown to bits.

* ''VideoGame/{{Yakuza 2}}''; [[spoiler: Just as [[GreaterScopeVillain Takashira]] is about to execute Kaoru, [[NobleDemon Ryuji]] recovers his pistol and puts nearly two dozen bullets into the other man before finishing him off with a headshot.]]

* Firing squads invoked this.

* Dr. Carl Weiss, the assassin of Senator Huey Long of Lousiana, was shot 62 times by Long's bodyguards after he shot Long. The bulletholes from where he was shot still remain in the Lousiana Capital building in Baton Rouge.

* Al Brady (considered at the time Public Enemy Number One) and accomplice Carl Schaeffer were killed during an FBI ambush while they were trying to acquire black market weapons for their crimes on [[http://www.fbi.gov/about-us/history/famous-cases/the-brady-gang Oct. 12, 1937 in Bangor, Maine]]. The event was classified as the most violent gun battle in the history of Maine and ended with both criminals receiving concentrated machine gun fire.

* The wounded anti-government terrorist who tried to escort Takashi from the government at the beginning of ''Manga/{{AKIRA}}'' is viciously swiss-cheesed by the militaristic riot police, taking so much concentrated fire that '''bloody chunks of flesh''' can even be seen flying off his corpse.

* ''Film/Zoolander2'': One of the first scenes of the movie involves Creator/JustinBieber getting shot repeatedly with an Uzi in a fashion that resembles one of ''Film/TheGodfather'' films (and yet he survives long enough to post the video he was recording before getting shot on You Tube).

* On ''Film/{{Collateral}}'', we see the beginning of [[PsychoForHire Vincent's]] VillainousBreakdown during the club attack scene, where he empties about half a pistol clip into his target before reloading and giving him a CoupDeGrace with the Mozambique Drill (which he had been using with efficiency throughout the film so far).

* Most police forces have a doctrine that says that if shooting a suspect is necessary, don't stop firing until the target seizes to be a threat. Depending on the circumstances behind a shootout, this trope can often end up happening as a result. Especially, when a shooting involves multiple officers.

* Near the end ''VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoIV'', Niko encounters, Darko Brevic, his former squadmate from the Yugoslav army who betrayed his squad for money. If the player chooses to execute Darko, Niko will shoot him twelve times-once for every squadmate that died due to Darko's betrayal.

* ''Manga/OnePiece'': Blackbeard's pirates shoot Whitebeard simultaneous to finally kill him, which gave him a total of 562 gunshot wounds. The other parts of his death are [[RasputinianDeath getting sharp wounds 267 times, getting hit by cannonballs 46 times, a few laser shots, getting frozen mid-battle, and having half his face melted off, on top on being ill and old]].

* ''Literature/TheAlloyOfLaw'': When the StarterVillain Miles "Hundredlives" Dagouter is executed, it takes the firing squad multiple volleys to [[HealingFactorBurnout overload his healing factor]], all while he screams apocalyptic threats at the audience. The display disturbs everyone present.

* After killing a Florida deputy and a police dog and wounding another deputy, fugitive Angilo Freeland was killed by 68 shots from police officers. When questioned why the suspect had been shot 68 times, Polk County Sheriff Grady Judd reportedly replied "That's all the bullets we had."

* Boromir's death in ''Film/TheLordOfTheRings'' is the medieval equivalent; he's shot three times by a gigantic Uruk-Hai captain with gigantic arrows from a gigantic bow, even though one would have easily killed him. The differences are played realistically since bullets and arrows mess up their targets differently; the trauma settles in slowly and the arrows don't go clean through him, but the wounds still put Boromir beyond medical help. The captain was planning on [[FourIsDeath topping things off with a headshot]], but Aragorn stepped in.

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* ''Manga/RoseOfVersailles'': Oscar is shot dead by a dozen muskets.

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--->'''Bender''': [[OnlyAFleshWound They just shot us and buried us a few times as a warning.]]\\
'''Fanny''': Bender was ''so'' brave! [[RefugeInAudacity He never stopped making out with me the whole time they were shooting at us]].

* ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'': The toll booth scene from ''Film/TheGodfather'', complete with James Caan reprising his role, is parodied in the episode "All's Fair In Oven War." This time, Cletus and a bunch of Cletus variants gun down Caan ... upset because he was dating Brandine. "That's it! Next time, I fly!" moans Caan as he gasps for his last breath.

* ''Film/BonnieAndClyde'': The titular OutlawCouple buys it this way at the hands of a police ambush.