History Main / ConcealmentEqualsCover

* ''Series/{{CSI}}'':
** AvertedTrope in one episode; a little girl is [[MurphysBullet killed by a stray bullet]] from a drive-by, despite being inside her (brick) house sleeping on the bed.
** And then another episode, Catherine Willows is hiding in the shipping container being shot at by one shooter from outside. Bullets penetrate the container with no problem, clueing her to shooter's position and allowing her to return fire killing him.

* Justified in one issue of ''Manga/AngelHeart'', where the villains tried to shoot inside the Cat's Eye cafe through the windows to no effect: the owners being Umibozu and Miki, the windows were in bulletproof glass.

** First played straight in a reasonable fashion than Averted in ''Film/LethalWeapon3'': Murtaugh was about to be crushed by one of the main villains driving a bulldozer. He shoots at the bulldozer with his standard 9mm handgun, but none of the bullets go through. Murtaugh then gives one of the villain a KarmicDeath by shooting through a bulldozer using the same armour-piercing bullets he'd sold to Murtaugh's son's friend who he was forced to kill.
*** From the same: Murtaugh killed the friend of his son by shooting through his cover; and the villains killed a young cop by shooting him through both the oil drums he was hiding behind ''and'' his bullet proof vest.

* Creator/DannyGlover's character in ''Film/Predator2'' gets it. Knowing perfectly well his car door doesn't provide cover, he hangs ballistic vests over it before [[ItMakesSenseInContext driving his car into the mass of bad guys shooting at him while leaning out of the driver's seat to avail himself of the vests' cover.]]

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* ''VideoGame/{{Fallout}}'' series.

* In the 2023 film ''The Collective'', the protagonist takes cover behind a park bench, which in fact stops a bullet headed for his face (resulting in a pinprick sized mark on the bench itself). Then again, a minute before that he uses a tiny trash can for concealment as he lines up a shot, about 20 yards away from a bunch of bad guys looking directly at him, so the law's of physics do not necessarily apply in this universe.

* The Chinese movie "Rescue Jedi" has a climactic shootout in a... reed field. With the reeds acting as completely bulltproof cover, the bad guys unable to walk or shoot through them.

** AvertedTrope in one episode; a little girl is killed by a stray bullet from a drive-by, despite being inside her (brick) house sleeping on the bed.

This can be considered an [[AcceptableBreaksFromReality Acceptable Break From Reality]] in {{video game}}s with cover systems, since it would be frustrating to get into what appeared to be cover only to find the enemy could still hit you just fine. Players tend to only object when things no reasonable person would try to hide behind like ordinary glass or picket fences are still totally bulletproof, or the cover system is inconsistent and unclear to use. It tends to be more of a problem when ''enemies'' can take cover in places that blatantly aren't cover, such as being protected from a hand grenade by hiding behind a rack of magazines or handrail.

* Cover: Stops the projectiles(typically bullets) in question.

** Played for laughs when Creator/TomArnold's character takes cover behind a lamp post against automatic fire; every bullet hits the post. Even he can't believe it (though it's perfectly plausible: an iron light post is more than enough to stop an AKS74U bullet, and the deduction of silhouette it provided against automatic fire is pretty substantial; moreover, the only parts that COULD be hit would be the agent's belly fat and butt fat).

* {{Subverted}} and PlayedForDrama in ''WebAnimation/{{Lackadaisy}}'', when trapped GetawayDriver Ivy suffers a comical EscapeRouteSurprise and slams a side door in rival gangster Nico's face, and things take a sudden dark turn when he doesn't hesitate to put two new bullet holes right where she was ''just'' standing. She's fast enough to bolt away just before they make impact and he kicks the door open.

* Concealment: You can't see through it. Walls, garbage cans, car doors, BulletproofHumanShield, etc.
* Cover: Stops bullets (and other projectile objects). Some concealment objects ''may'' stop bullets, depending on the object and the bullet. Others will not. Most examples of Cover are also examples of Concealment, but not all (bulletproof glass, for example, is designed to provide Cover without also providing Concealment).

* {{Subverted}} and PlayedForDrama in ''WebAnimation/{{Lackadaisy}}'', when trapped GetawayDriver Ivy suffers a comical EscapeRouteSurprise and slams a side door in rival gangster Nico's face, things take a sudden dark turn when he doesn't hesitate to put two new bullet holes right where she was ''just'' standing. She's fast enough to bolt away just before they make impact and he kicks the door open.

* {{Subverted}} and PlayedForDrama in ''WebAnimation/{{Lackadaisy}}'', when trapped GetawayDriver Ivy suffers a comical EscapeRouteSurprise and slams a side door in rival gangster Nico's face, things take a sudden dark turn when he doesn't hesitate to put two new bullet holes right where she was ''just'' standing. She fast enough to bolt away just before they make impact and he kicks the door open.

* {{Lampshade|Hanging}}d in ''LightNovel/AriaTheScarletAmmo'', where Aria and Kinji take shelter from a storm of bullets inside a wooden vaulting box… which Aria quickly reveals to be bulletproof.

* {{Discussed|Trope}} in an extra episode of ''LightNovel/FullMetalPanic'' where Melissa Mao and Tessa hold a mock [[HumongousMecha Arm Slave]] battle. Mao [[IDontKnowMortalKombat gets tripped up]] because she tries to fire paint rounds through a small tree, and she complains that ''real'' guns would go straight through such a thing. Of course, then Tessa's return fire strikes the edge of the cliff Mao is sheltering on and it gets snarkily pointed out to her that real rounds would have gone through that and trashed her Arm Slave too.

* ''Manga/GunslingerGirl''. A victim manages to hide behind a table from a burst of FN P90 high-velocity armor-piercing bullets.'

* Subverted in ''LightNovel/SwordArtOnline''; the VRMMOFPS ''Gun Gale Online'' has its environments designed with '''cover''', which tends to detail things like [[RuinsForRuinsSake stone structures]] and abandoned {{steampunk}} cities. Even then, heavy weapons guys like Behemoth and his [[GatlingGood minigun]] are able to shoot straight ''through'' cover, even of that sort.

* In ''VideoGame/WarThunder'' Ground Forces, this trope is mostly averted - bushes and walls might be useful for concealing your tank, but most AP or APHE shells (being a few to a few dozen kilograms of steel moving at over twice the speed of sound) go through them without even noticing, and also through things like trees or lamp posts. Played straight with HE, HESH and HEAT shells (which all have a very sensitive fuze that can be set off even by firing through a bush or a fence), as well as non-destructible scenery objects such as destroyed tanks or buildings, which are perfectly bulletproof.

* Played straight throughout all of ''VideoGame/Borderlands2'', but particularly notable in regards to [[BonusBoss Terramorphous The Invincible]], who is fought in a wide open arena with various outcroppings of rocks that will be destroyed over the course of the fight. There's literally nowhere you can hide for cover, except for one tiny little rock located near the exit of the arena. A player can duck behind this and Terramorphous can't shoot you, even though it clearly knows you're there and literally sees you behind it because it towers over you. If you play as Axton or Gaige, you can deploy your sentry turret or Deathtrap robot to whittle down the boss for you. Time consuming, but doable.

The trope also applies to buildings, however. A bullet will generally be expected to manage 12 inches of penetration in ballistic gel to be considered a useful defense load, and this will generally allow it to penetrate any interior walls of an [[WeAllLiveInAmerica average American home]]. Even special frangible rounds are only designed to be stopped by the heavier brick exterior walls so they don't exit the building and hit random passers by.

* Averted in ''VideoGame/{{Crysis}}'', in the same manner as the VideoGame/SilentStorm examples above.

** The game has pretty much everything short of the ground providing cover bonuses--some stuff could justifiably be so, like plants that may be really tough due to being fictional. On the other hand, the barrels seem to be rather unlikely. Presumably, it uses the same justification as [[TabletopGame/{{Warhammer 40000}} the original tabletop]] mentioned above.