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[[RealityIsUnrealistic This actually does work]], mildly though, with a noise reduction around 20%[[note]]according to [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TrdLpbflXyQ this]] experiment[[/note]]. A pillow has many surfaces within it (the stuffing) that help absorb and diffuse sound, which is the same concept as a normal suppressor. The reason why the results are not that impressive is that escaping gasses can exit through the gap between the cylinder and the barrel, taking the noise along.
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Executing someone with a handgun can be a noisy and messy undertaking. But there is a solution: the pillow silencer. Cover the victim's face with a pillowcase and pull the trigger. Not only will this method help to muffle the sound, it also keeps the blood splatter in check.
[[RealityIsUnrealistic Yes this actually does work]]. A pillow has many surfaces within it (the stuffing) that help absorb and diffuse sound, which is the same concept as a normal suppressor.
When depicted on screen, this trope also allows for the dramatic depiction of a person's death without too much concern about showing excessive gore.
Related to HollywoodSilencer, when the effect is much beyond what an actual noise suppressor can do. Also, using a pillow or anything else on a revolver is patently useless, since escaping gasses can exit through the gap between the cylinder and the barrel, taking the noise along.
Compare VorpalPillow when a pillow is used to suffocate the victim. See PillowPistol when someone sleeps with a weapon under their pillow.
[[RealityIsUnrealistic Yes this actually does work]]. A pillow has many surfaces within it (the stuffing) that help absorb and diffuse sound, which is the same concept as a normal suppressor.
When depicted on screen, this trope also allows for the dramatic depiction of a person's death without too much concern about showing excessive gore.
Related to HollywoodSilencer, when the effect is much beyond what an actual noise suppressor can do. Also, using a pillow or anything else on a revolver is patently useless, since escaping gasses can exit through the gap between the cylinder and the barrel, taking the noise along.
Compare VorpalPillow when a pillow is used to suffocate the victim. See PillowPistol when someone sleeps with a weapon under their pillow.
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Executing someone with a handgun can be a noisy and messy undertaking. But there is a solution: the pillow silencer. Cover the victim's face with a pillowcase and pull the trigger. Not only will this method help to muffle the sound, it also keeps the blood splatter in check.
check which helps to prevent excessive on-screen gore.
[[RealityIsUnrealisticYes this This actually does work]].work]], mildly though, with a noise reduction around 20%[[note]]according to [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TrdLpbflXyQ this]] experiment[[/note]]. A pillow has many surfaces within it (the stuffing) that help absorb and diffuse sound, which is the same concept as a normal suppressor. \n\nWhen depicted on screen, this trope also allows for The reason why the dramatic depiction of a person's death without too much concern about showing excessive gore.
results are not that impressive is that escaping gasses can exit through the gap between the cylinder and the barrel, taking the noise along.
Related to HollywoodSilencer, when the effect is much beyond what an actual noise suppressor can do.Also, using a pillow or anything else on a revolver is patently useless, since escaping gasses can exit through the gap between the cylinder and the barrel, taking the noise along.
Compare VorpalPillow when a pillow is used to suffocate the victim. See PillowPistol when someone sleeps with a weapon under their pillow.
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Executing someone with a handgun can be a noisy and messy undertaking. But there is a solution: the pillow silencer. Cover the victim's face with a pillowcase and pull the trigger. Not only will this method help to muffle the sound, it also keeps the blood splatter in check.
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* At least one VictimOfTheWeek has died this way on ''Series/{{NCIS}}''. Possibly more.
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* A single mission in ''VideoGame/HitmanContracts'' allows performing this. The level takes place in an old Scottish mansion whose owners participate in HuntingTheMostDangerousGame, and are planning a hunt for the next day.
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Executing someone with a handgun can be a noisy and messy undertaking. But there is a solution: the pillow silencer. Cover the victim's face with a pillow case pillowcase and pull the trigger. Not only will this method help to muffle the sound, it also keeps the blood splatter in check. [[RealityIsUnrealistic Yes this actually does work]]. A pillow has many surfaces within it (the stuffing) that help absorb and diffuse sound, which is the same concept as a normal suppressor.
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* TheVillain of ''Series/{{Columbo}}'' episode "[[Recap/ColumboS04E04 Troubled Waters]]" was being blackmailed by an old flame while on a sea cruise with his heiress wife. When the chanteuse declared that she was going to be a ShippingTorpedo during her performance, the villain shot her using a pistol and one of her dressing room's throw pillows. Of course, nobody heard this gunshot; only the bullethole and some stray feathers made any indication that the pillow served this purpose.
* In ''Series/InsideNo9'' episode [[Recap/InsideNo9S1E2AQuietNightIn "A Quiet Night In"]], an enraged husband [[spoiler:kills his TrophyWife when she rejects his kiss]]. He grabs a gun, places a cushion on her face and pull the trigger. Watch the scene [[https://youtu.be/j4B4DffB9iQ?t=1614 here]].
* ''Series/LawAndOrderSpecialVictimsUnit'' episode "Ghost" has the criminal of the week named Ghost attempt to kill a six year old boy by shooting him through a pillow.
* In ''Series/InsideNo9'' episode [[Recap/InsideNo9S1E2AQuietNightIn "A Quiet Night In"]], an enraged husband [[spoiler:kills his TrophyWife when she rejects his kiss]]. He grabs a gun, places a cushion on her face and pull the trigger. Watch the scene [[https://youtu.be/j4B4DffB9iQ?t=1614 here]].
* ''Series/LawAndOrderSpecialVictimsUnit'' episode "Ghost" has the criminal of the week named Ghost attempt to kill a six year old boy by shooting him through a pillow.
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* TheVillain of ''Series/{{Columbo}}'' episode "[[Recap/ColumboS04E04 Troubled Waters]]" was being blackmailed by an old flame while on a sea cruise with his heiress wife. When the chanteuse declared that she was going to be a ShippingTorpedo during her performance, the villain shot her using a pistol and one of her dressing room's throw pillows. Of course, nobody heard this gunshot; only the bullethole bullet hole and some stray feathers made any indication that the pillow served this purpose.
* In ''Series/InsideNo9'' episode [[Recap/InsideNo9S1E2AQuietNightIn "A Quiet Night In"]], an enraged husband [[spoiler:kills his TrophyWife when she rejects his kiss]]. He grabs a gun, places a cushion on her face andpull pulls the trigger. Watch the scene [[https://youtu.be/j4B4DffB9iQ?t=1614 here]].
* ''Series/LawAndOrderSpecialVictimsUnit'' episode "Ghost" has the criminal of the week named Ghost attempt to kill asix year old six-year-old boy by shooting him through a pillow.
* In ''Series/InsideNo9'' episode [[Recap/InsideNo9S1E2AQuietNightIn "A Quiet Night In"]], an enraged husband [[spoiler:kills his TrophyWife when she rejects his kiss]]. He grabs a gun, places a cushion on her face and
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Related to HollywoodSilencer, when the effect is much beyond what an actual noise suppressor can do. Also, using a pillow or anything else on a revolver is patently useless, since escaping gasses can exit through the gap between the carousel cylinder and the barrel, taking the noise along.
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Executing someone with a handgun can be a noisy and messy undertaking. But there is a solution: the pillow silencer. Cover the victim's face with a pillow case and pull the trigger. Not only will this method help to muffle the sound, it also keeps the blood splatter in check.
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* TheVillain ''Series/{{Columbo}}'' episode "[[Recap/ColumboS04E04 Troubled Waters]]" was being blackmailed by an old flame while on a sea cruise with his heiress wife. When the chanteuse declared that she was going to be a ShippingTorpedo during her performance, the villain shot her using a pistol and one of her dressing room's throw pillows. Of course, nobody heard this gunshot; only the bullethole and some stray feathers made any indication that the pillow served this purpose.
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* TheVillain of ''Series/{{Columbo}}'' episode "[[Recap/ColumboS04E04 Troubled Waters]]" was being blackmailed by an old flame while on a sea cruise with his heiress wife. When the chanteuse declared that she was going to be a ShippingTorpedo during her performance, the villain shot her using a pistol and one of her dressing room's throw pillows. Of course, nobody heard this gunshot; only the bullethole and some stray feathers made any indication that the pillow served this purpose.
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* TheVillain of one ''Series/{{Columbo}}'' episode was being blackmailed by an old flame while on a sea cruise with his heiress wife. When the chanteuse declared that she was going to be a ShippingTorpedo during her performance, the villain shot her using a pistol and one of her dressing room's throw pillows. Of course, nobody heard this gunshot; only the bullethole and some stray feathers made any indication that the pillow served this purpose.
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* TheVillain of one ''Series/{{Columbo}}'' episode "[[Recap/ColumboS04E04 Troubled Waters]]" was being blackmailed by an old flame while on a sea cruise with his heiress wife. When the chanteuse declared that she was going to be a ShippingTorpedo during her performance, the villain shot her using a pistol and one of her dressing room's throw pillows. Of course, nobody heard this gunshot; only the bullethole and some stray feathers made any indication that the pillow served this purpose.
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* In ''Blood Alley'', Capt. Wilder uses one of these to muffle the sound of shooting out a door lock.
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* In ''Blood Alley'', Alley'' (1955), Capt. Wilder (John Wayne) uses one of these to muffle the sound of shooting out a door lock.lock when Chinese troops are searching the village. He needs to get back to his room to hide an escape map.
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* Dillinger combines this with a MercyKill when the FBI start to close in on the Dillinger gang and one of the gangsters shoots a fellow gangster who was already badly wounded from an earlier shootout.
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* While quietly clearing the motel of Walkers in ''VideoGame/TheWalkingDead'', Lee and Carley work together to take out one of them in this fashion.
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* In ''Series/TheWire'' Christ Partlow uses this during an interrogation.''
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* In ''Series/TheWire'' Christ When looking Old Face Andre, Chris Partlow uses this during an interrogation.'' and Snoop encounter his mother. Chris puts a pillow on her face and fires. However, he doesn't kill her and it was more of a fear tactic.
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* The big bad of ''Film/TidalWaveNoEscape'' uses it to murder a witness [[SickbedSlaying in the hospital]].
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* In ''Film/{{Haywire}}'', spy-on-the-run Mallory executes an enemy in this fashion.
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* In ''Series/InsideNo9'' episode "A Quiet Night In", an enraged husband [[spoiler:kills his TrophyWife when she rejects his kiss]]. He grabs a gun, places a cushion on her face and pull the trigger. Watch the scene [[https://youtu.be/j4B4DffB9iQ?t=1614 here]].
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* In ''Series/InsideNo9'' episode [[Recap/InsideNo9S1E2AQuietNightIn "A Quiet Night In", In"]], an enraged husband [[spoiler:kills his TrophyWife when she rejects his kiss]]. He grabs a gun, places a cushion on her face and pull the trigger. Watch the scene [[https://youtu.be/j4B4DffB9iQ?t=1614 here]].
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Executing someone with a handgun can be a noisy and messy undertaking. But there is a solution: the pillow silencer. Cover the victim's face with a pillow case and pull the trigger. Not only will this method help to muffle the sound, it also keeps the blood splatter in check.
Related to HollywoodSilencer, when the effect is much beyond what an actual noise suppressor can do. Also, using a pillow or anything else on a revolver is patently useless, since escaping gasses can exit through the gap between the carousel and the barrel, taking the noise along.
Compare VorpalPillow when a pillow is used to suffocate the victim. See PillowPistol when someone sleeps with a weapon under their pillow.
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* Played UpToEleven in ''Film/SpyHard'', wherein a mime [[http://www.imfdb.org/images/thumb/1/15/SpyHard_M2HB_01.jpg/600px-SpyHard_M2HB_01.jpg gets shot]] with a ''.50 Browning machine gun'' silenced in this fashion on the pre-credits sequence.
* VillainProtagonist Porter from ''Film/{{Payback}}'' executes his TokenMotivationalNemesis Val Resnick in this manner. A small couch pillow [[HollywoodSilencer apparently makes a perfect silencer]] for Porter's [[HandCannon enormous revolver]].
* In ''Film/TheGoodTheBadAndTheUgly'', Angel Eyes begins to suffocate Baker under a pillow, then shoots through the pillow and kills him.
* In ''The Lady in Red'' (1979), Polly fires her Colt into a pillow while performing a MercyKill.
* In ''Film/CookiesFortune'', Cookie lies down in bed and shoots herself through a pillow.
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* TheVillain of one ''Series/{{Columbo}}'' episode was being blackmailed by an old flame while on a sea cruise with his heiress wife. When the chanteuse declared that she was going to be a ShippingTorpedo during her performance, the villain shot her using a pistol and one of her dressing room's throw pillows. Of course, nobody heard this gunshot; only the bullethole and some stray feathers made any indication that the pillow served this purpose.
* In ''Series/InsideNo9'' episode "A Quiet Night In", an enraged husband [[spoiler:kills his TrophyWife when she rejects his kiss]]. He grabs a gun, places a cushion on her face and pull the trigger. Watch the scene [[https://youtu.be/j4B4DffB9iQ?t=1614 here]].
* ''Series/LawAndOrderSpecialVictimsUnit'' episode "Ghost" has the criminal of the week named Ghost attempt to kill a six year old boy by shooting him through a pillow.
* In ''Series/SonsOfAnarchy'' episode "Old Bones", Clay holds the pistol on Lowell while contemplating using a pillow as an improvised suppressor.
* In ''Series/TrainingDay'' episode "Wages of Sin", Jeff takes out one of Chief Wade's men in a public area by using a pillow to muffle the gunshot.
* In ''Series/TwinPeaks: The Return'' episode 2, [[spoiler:Evil Cooper]] murders a girl this way when he finds out she tried to double-cross him with her partner. First he [[TapOnTheHead knocks her unconscious]] and then places a pillow on her face and reaches with his revolver underneath to shoot her in the temple. Watch it [[https://youtu.be/onHwhQNZojQ?t=2691 here]] (gory).
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* During the TimeSkip cutscene in ''VideoGame/WolfensteinTheNewOrder'', a Nazi stormtrooper executes BJ's fellow patient at the sanatorium by putting a pillow onto his face and shooting him through it. It's unclear why he even bothers with it, though, since the sanatorium is being officially purged, anyway.
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Executing someone with a handgun can be a noisy and messy undertaking. But there is a solution: the pillow silencer. Cover the victim's face with a pillow case and pull the trigger. Not only will this method help to muffle the sound, it also keeps the blood splatter in check.
Related to HollywoodSilencer, when the effect is much beyond what an actual noise suppressor can do. Also, using a pillow or anything else on a revolver is patently useless, since escaping gasses can exit through the gap between the carousel and the barrel, taking the noise along.
Compare VorpalPillow when a pillow is used to suffocate the victim. See PillowPistol when someone sleeps with a weapon under their pillow.
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* Played UpToEleven in ''Film/SpyHard'', wherein a mime [[http://www.imfdb.org/images/thumb/1/15/SpyHard_M2HB_01.jpg/600px-SpyHard_M2HB_01.jpg gets shot]] with a ''.50 Browning machine gun'' silenced in this fashion on the pre-credits sequence.
* VillainProtagonist Porter from ''Film/{{Payback}}'' executes his TokenMotivationalNemesis Val Resnick in this manner. A small couch pillow [[HollywoodSilencer apparently makes a perfect silencer]] for Porter's [[HandCannon enormous revolver]].
* In ''Film/TheGoodTheBadAndTheUgly'', Angel Eyes begins to suffocate Baker under a pillow, then shoots through the pillow and kills him.
* In ''The Lady in Red'' (1979), Polly fires her Colt into a pillow while performing a MercyKill.
* In ''Film/CookiesFortune'', Cookie lies down in bed and shoots herself through a pillow.
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* TheVillain of one ''Series/{{Columbo}}'' episode was being blackmailed by an old flame while on a sea cruise with his heiress wife. When the chanteuse declared that she was going to be a ShippingTorpedo during her performance, the villain shot her using a pistol and one of her dressing room's throw pillows. Of course, nobody heard this gunshot; only the bullethole and some stray feathers made any indication that the pillow served this purpose.
* In ''Series/InsideNo9'' episode "A Quiet Night In", an enraged husband [[spoiler:kills his TrophyWife when she rejects his kiss]]. He grabs a gun, places a cushion on her face and pull the trigger. Watch the scene [[https://youtu.be/j4B4DffB9iQ?t=1614 here]].
* ''Series/LawAndOrderSpecialVictimsUnit'' episode "Ghost" has the criminal of the week named Ghost attempt to kill a six year old boy by shooting him through a pillow.
* In ''Series/SonsOfAnarchy'' episode "Old Bones", Clay holds the pistol on Lowell while contemplating using a pillow as an improvised suppressor.
* In ''Series/TrainingDay'' episode "Wages of Sin", Jeff takes out one of Chief Wade's men in a public area by using a pillow to muffle the gunshot.
* In ''Series/TwinPeaks: The Return'' episode 2, [[spoiler:Evil Cooper]] murders a girl this way when he finds out she tried to double-cross him with her partner. First he [[TapOnTheHead knocks her unconscious]] and then places a pillow on her face and reaches with his revolver underneath to shoot her in the temple. Watch it [[https://youtu.be/onHwhQNZojQ?t=2691 here]] (gory).
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* During the TimeSkip cutscene in ''VideoGame/WolfensteinTheNewOrder'', a Nazi stormtrooper executes BJ's fellow patient at the sanatorium by putting a pillow onto his face and shooting him through it. It's unclear why he even bothers with it, though, since the sanatorium is being officially purged, anyway.
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