History Main / MarkedBullet

* ''WesternAnimation/ReBoot'': In the fourth season, Matrix has one with Daemon's name on it. [[spoiler:Somewhat nicely subverted, though; Daemon just stops the bullet with a wave of her hand]].

* On German U-boats, torpedoes would be immensely covered in grease when loaded into the tubes. The crew would often write messages in the grease before loading them.

* Jimmy Doolittle [[http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/2/2c/Doolittle_LtCol_i02457.jpg put a Japanese medal]] on one of the bombs that would be dropped in his famous raid. Many American soldiers had received medals from the Japanese government for their service in WWI, and after Pearl the majority sent those medals to the Air Force with the instructions "return to sender."

* ''[[Literature/LastOfTheMohicans Hawkeye and the Last of the Mohicans]]''. Hawkeye is nearly executed when one of his own marked bullets is fired at a British officer he had an ongoing rivalry with. It turns out to have been stolen before the battle by another colonist.

* ''Film/IronMan'' opens with the protagonist, engineering genius and ArmsDealer Tony Stark, being caught in an ambush in Afghanistan. A delayed-action shell lands in front of him, giving Stark enough time to see the ''Stark Industries'' logo painted on the side [[HoistByHisOwnPetard before it explodes]]. It takes him half the movie to find out why he was fired on by his own ordinance. [[spoiler:TheStarscream in his own corporation paid his ambushers with Stark Industries weapons in exchange for killing his boss, so it's [[DesignatedBullet literally a shell with his name on it]].]] The scene gets a ShoutOut in ''Film/AvengersAgeOfUltron'' when [[ComicBook/ScarletWitch Wanda]] and [[ComicBook/{{Quicksilver}} Pietro]] Maximoff explain why ItsPersonal for them.

* ''Film/IronMan'' opens with the protagonist, engineering genius and ArmsDealer Tony Stark, being caught in an ambush in Afghanistan. A delayed-action shell lands in front of him, giving Stark enough time to see the ''Stark Industries'' logo painted on the side. [[spoiler:It's a DesignatedBullet too, as TheStarscream in his own corporation paid his ambushers with Stark Industries weapons in exchange for killing his boss.]] The scene gets a ShoutOut in ''Film/AvengersAgeOfUltron'' when [[ComicBook/ScarletWitch Wanda]] and [[ComicBook/{{Quicksilver}} Pietro]] Maximoff explain why ItsPersonal for them.

* Joe Strummer of The Clash ''wept'' when he learned the phrase "Rock the Casbah" was being written on bombs in the first Gulf War.

* Parodied in ''Film/ErnestInTheArmy''. Ernest had heard the euphemism about a bullet with your name on it and failed to realize it's not literal. He has one of these with his own name on it that he carries around with him, in the belief that it means he can't be can't be shot.

* In ''Literature/HisDarkMaterials'' a witch does this, marking an arrow to use when she takes her revenge on Mrs Coulter. She never gets to use hit, but her breaking the arrow is taken a sign she is POSITIVE the target is dead.
* In the ''Literature/SeptimusHeap'' series, there is a magical significance to a named bullet, and sooner or later it will always find its target. [[spoiler: The catch, as one assassin finds out, is that this doesn't necessarily mean the target will be shot with it.]] The way the bullet is named is important too. [[spoiler: If the bullet was named 'I.P.', nothing stops it from killing Iona Pot (aka Alice Nettles) instead of the Infant Princess]]

* "Holy" bullets were actually used by witch hunters and similar sorts of for a short time. This typically involved carving a cross onto a [[SilverBullet silver musket ball]]. The result (when tested in modern times) was that the weapons became even more inaccurate than usual.

* ''Film/TheManWithTheGoldenGun'': Bond is sent a golden bullet with the number "007" on it, which leads him and MI-6 to believe that the eponymous assassin has marked him for death. [[spoiler:He hasn't; it was a call for help from Scaramanga's lover.]]

* In ''ABulletForTheGeneral'', a high-profile assassin uses golden bullets for his intended targets so he can claim the kill.

* In ''Wecomic/{{Spinnerette}}'', superheroine [[PoweredArmor Mecha Maid]] has missiles with things like "Mine is bigger!", and "From MM with <3!" written in them.

* OlderThanFeudalism: Archaeologists have found ancient Greek sling shots with "ΔΕΞΑΙ" ("take that") written on them. The ones on TheOtherWiki are dated to the 4th century BC.

* Parodied by the Spectre's StopPokingMe lines in ''{{Starcraft}} II'': after evidently missing with several "bullets with your name on them", he stops to consider:

* In the ''IronKingdoms'' setting, the Gun Mages are a group of people who have a knack for channeling magic through their guns. Etching mystical runes into the bullets is one technique, making them DepletedPhlebotinumShells as well.

* In HisDarkMaterials a witch does this, marking an arrow to use when she takes her revenge on Mrs Coulter. She never gets to use hit, but her breaking the arrow is taken a sign she is POSITIVE the target is dead.

* In the 2009 short film ''.303'', a British paratrooper carves his name on a .303 rifle round, but the round gets dropped and picked up by a fellow paratrooper. Later that paratrooper is down to OneBulletLeft, so uses it to kill a German sniper who has him pinned down. [[spoiler:Then he discovers he's actually shot the paratrooper who originally carved the round, after he came up behind and shot the German sniper. So it was a SelfFulfillingProphecy!]]

* "Hollywood the Cracked" by {{Coheed and Cambria}} states "She's got a bullet with your name on it, no doubt she's a mental case".

* ''Franchise/{{Halo}}'' series.

** In ''VideoGame/{{Halo 3}}'', if you watch a saved film and freeze it, you can see the bullet casings in mid-air. On the back of each of them is the word [[spoiler:"Chief".]]

* In the 2009 short film ''.303'', a British paratrooper carves his name on a cartridge, but the round gets dropped and picked up by a fellow paratrooper. Later that paratrooper is down to OneBulletLeft, so uses it to kill a German sniper who has him pinned down. [[spoiler:Then he discovers he's actually shot the paratrooper who originally carved the round, after he came up behind and shot the German sniper. So it was a SelfFulfillingProphecy!]]

* In the 2009 short film ''.303'', a British paratrooper carves own his name on a cartridge, but the round gets dropped and picked up by a fellow paratrooper. Later that paratrooper is down to OneBulletLeft, so uses it to kill a German sniper who has him pinned down. [[spoiler:Then he discovers he's actually shot the paratrooper who originally carved the round, after he came up behind and shot the German sniper. So it was a SelfFulfillingProphecy!]]

* In the 2009 short film ''.303'', a British paratrooper carves own his name on a cartridge, but the round gets dropped and picked up by a fellow paratrooper. Later that paratrooper is down to OneBulletLeft, so uses it to kill a German sniper who has him pinned down. Then he discovers he's actually shot the paratrooper who originally carved the round, after he came up behind and shot the German sniper. So it was a SelfFulfillingProphecy!]]