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* Many modern air-combat simulators, particularly those set during WWII, will show spent shell casings being discarded from the plane where applicable. This is particularly the case for fighters with wing-mounted weaponry.
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* A gorgeous artsy example in ''Film/{{Avalon}}'', from a tank.

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* %%* A gorgeous artsy example in ''Film/{{Avalon}}'', ''Film/Avalon2001'', from a tank.
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* ''Anime/RebuildOfEvangelion'': Unit 01 fires an [[{{BFG}} Eva-sized]] {{Gatling g|ood}}un at Shamshel, raining spent cartridges on the street below, one of which flattens a car.

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* ''Anime/RebuildOfEvangelion'': Unit 01 fires an [[{{BFG}} Eva-sized]] {{Gatling g|ood}}un at Shamshel, raining spent cartridges on the street below, below. Just one of which flattens the cartridges is big enough to flatten a car.
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* ''Anime/RebuildOfEvangelion'': Unit 01 fires an Eva-sized {{Gatling g|ood}}un at Shamshel, raining spent cartridges on the street below, one of which flattens a car.

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* ''Anime/RebuildOfEvangelion'': Unit 01 fires an Eva-sized [[{{BFG}} Eva-sized]] {{Gatling g|ood}}un at Shamshel, raining spent cartridges on the street below, one of which flattens a car.
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* The ''Anime/BlackRockShooter'' TV anime absolutely ''relishes'' in this. When the Gatling guns come out, except them to basically vomit spent shells in every direction, leaving huge piles littered around the ground that are often bigger than the combatants and their firearms combined.

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* The ''Anime/BlackRockShooter'' TV anime absolutely ''relishes'' in this. When the Gatling gatling guns come out, except expect them to basically vomit spent shells in every direction, leaving huge piles littered around the ground that are often bigger than the combatants and their firearms combined.
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* In the first episode of ''Manga/GunslingerGirl'', the audience is [[{{Fanservice}} treated]] / [[{{Squick}} subjected]] to a small shower of golden [=5.7x28mm=] shells seemingly originating from the female protagonist's groin.

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* In Henrietta goes on a killing rampage in the first episode opening scene of ''Manga/GunslingerGirl'', littering the audience is [[{{Fanservice}} treated]] / [[{{Squick}} subjected]] to a small shower of golden floor with [=5.7x28mm=] shells seemingly originating from shell casings, including a closeup shot of them hitting the female protagonist's groin.floor between her [[ChildrenForcedToKill schoolgirl white socks and little black shoes]]. Later it becomes a plot point when she slips on a spent casing in the Killing House and is told to use a brass catcher in future.
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* The second season of the ''LightNovel/SwordArtOnline'' anime has a minigun surrounding its wielder in spent shells, with the added effect that - because of the way [=VRMMORPGs=] handle broken items like spent ammunition - the shells quickly shatter into light.

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* The second season of the ''LightNovel/SwordArtOnline'' ''Literature/SwordArtOnline'' anime has a minigun surrounding its wielder in spent shells, with the added effect that - because of the way [=VRMMORPGs=] handle broken items like spent ammunition - the shells quickly shatter into light.
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*** Many bullpup weapons are quite reconfigurable, so a leftie can change the side of the gun from which shells eject. The Steyr Aug has this feature, for example. The British Army's SA80 bullpups like the L85 and L86, on the other hand, do ''not'' have this feature and, as a result, must be exclusively fired right-handed, even if the user is left-handed; along with the extensive reliability issues that dogged early models, this has contributed to making the L85 and its ilk deeply unloved among their users.

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*** Many bullpup weapons are quite reconfigurable, so a leftie can change the side of the gun from which shells eject. The Steyr Aug has this feature, for example. The British Army's SA80 [=SA80=] bullpups like the L85 and L86, on the other hand, do ''not'' have this feature and, as a result, must be exclusively fired right-handed, even if the user is left-handed; along with the extensive reliability issues that dogged early models, this has contributed to making the L85 and its ilk deeply unloved among their users.
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*** Many bullpup weapons are quite reconfigurable, so a leftie can change the side of the gun from which shells eject. The Steyr Aug has this feature, for example.

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*** Many bullpup weapons are quite reconfigurable, so a leftie can change the side of the gun from which shells eject. The Steyr Aug has this feature, for example. The British Army's SA80 bullpups like the L85 and L86, on the other hand, do ''not'' have this feature and, as a result, must be exclusively fired right-handed, even if the user is left-handed; along with the extensive reliability issues that dogged early models, this has contributed to making the L85 and its ilk deeply unloved among their users.
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* ''Film/PacificRimUprising'': Bracer Phoenix's machine guns leave cartridges the size of cars.
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* ''TabletopGame/BattleTech'': Artwork for any mech firing autocannons or machine guns will almost always show spent shell casings being ejected from the weapon. The [[https://www.sarna.net/wiki/File:Bane_RGilClan_v17.png Kraken]] is very commonly given this treatment: with five autocannons in each arm it's MoreDakka incarnate!
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* This can be considered a liability if a gun ejects shells ''too'' energetically. For one thing, the flying brass can catch sunlight and give away your position to the enemy if you were firing from concealment. For this reason, many sniper rifles are bolt-action, so that the shell casings can be carefully collected after each shot.

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* This can be considered a liability if a gun ejects shells ''too'' energetically. For one thing, the flying brass can catch sunlight and give away your position to the enemy if you were firing from concealment. For this reason, many sniper rifles are bolt-action, so that the marksman can decide when to reload, and so shell casings can be carefully collected after each shot.
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* ''Machinima/RedVsBlue'' had this as a result of being a ''Franchise/{{Halo}}'' based {{machinima}} (the creators claim that [[WordOfGod they didn't notice the casing until they actually began filming]]).

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* ''Machinima/RedVsBlue'' ''WebAnimation/RedVsBlue'' had this as a result of being a ''Franchise/{{Halo}}'' based {{machinima}} (the creators claim that [[WordOfGod they didn't notice the casing until they actually began filming]]).
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* Averted for many modern fighter jet guns. Foreign object damage (acronym-ized as FOD) is a serious risk for these aircraft all the way to their manufacturing origins. To prevent spent casings from getting sucked into the jet engine intakes, they are often recycled back into the magazine space now vacated by the ammo expenditure.
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** Shows up in ''Film/TheArkOfTruth''. During the course of the movie Replicators get unleashed on the ''Odyssey''. A group of airmen guard the entrance to the Asgard Computer Core 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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** Shows up in ''Film/TheArkOfTruth''.''Film/StargateTheArkOfTruth''. During the course of the movie Replicators get unleashed on the ''Odyssey''. A group of airmen guard the entrance to the Asgard Computer Core 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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* The ''Anime/BlackRockShooter'' TV anime absolutely ''relishes'' in this.

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* The ''Anime/BlackRockShooter'' TV anime absolutely ''relishes'' in this. When the Gatling guns come out, except them to basically vomit spent shells in every direction, leaving huge piles littered around the ground that are often bigger than the combatants and their firearms combined.
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Compare DramaticGunCock. When combined with BottomlessMagazines, may raise the FridgeLogic of where all that ammunition [[{{Hammerspace}} was]] ''before'' it was fired...

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Compare DramaticGunCock. Contrast CartridgesInFlight, for when the shells are fired out along with the bullet in precisely the way real-life ones don't. When combined with BottomlessMagazines, may raise the FridgeLogic of where all that ammunition [[{{Hammerspace}} was]] ''before'' it was fired...
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* ''Anime/RebuildOfEvangelion'': Unit 01 fires an Eva-sized {{Gatling g|ood}}un at Shamshel, raining spent cartridges on the street below, one of which flattens a car.

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* ''Anime/RebuildOfEvangelion'': Unit 01 fires an Eva-sized {{Gatling g|ood}}un at Shamshel, raining Deliberately {{averted|Trope}} in the original ''Manga/{{Appleseed}}'' manga. [[WordOfGod Shiro's notes]] indicate that he thought it would [[RuleOfCool look cool]] if the E-SWAT members weapons sent spent cartridges on casings flying everywhere, but he felt that would conflict with the street below, one professional nature of which flattens their missions, and thus their weapons would have attached pouches to catch spent casings and keep their operation neat.
* The ''Manga/Area88'' OVA opens with
a car.shot of 20mm shells falling from Shin's F-8E Crusader as he tears up a column of enemy tanks.
* The ''Anime/BlackRockShooter'' TV anime absolutely ''relishes'' in this.
* Shows up in the first episode of ''Manga/ElfenLied''.



* In the first episode of ''Manga/GunslingerGirl'', the audience is [[{{Fanservice}} treated]] / [[{{Squick}} subjected]] to a small shower of golden [=5.7x28mm=] shells seemingly originating from the female protagonist's groin.



* Shows up in the first episode of ''Manga/ElfenLied''.
* In the first episode of ''Manga/GunslingerGirl'', the audience is [[{{Fanservice}} treated]] / [[{{Squick}} subjected]] to a small shower of golden [=5.7x28mm=] shells seemingly originating from the female protagonist's groin.
* The ''Manga/Area88'' 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}} in the original ''Manga/{{Appleseed}}'' manga. [[WordOfGod Shiro's notes]] indicate that he thought it would [[RuleOfCool 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 ''Anime/SpaceRunawayIdeon,'' someone on the street gets clobbered by a giant shell casing from a HumongousMecha-wielded gun.
* The ''Anime/BlackRockShooter'' TV anime absolutely ''relishes'' in this.



* ''Anime/RebuildOfEvangelion'': Unit 01 fires an Eva-sized {{Gatling g|ood}}un at Shamshel, raining spent cartridges on the street below, one of which flattens a car.



* In ''Anime/SpaceRunawayIdeon,'' someone on the street gets clobbered by a giant shell casing from a HumongousMecha-wielded gun.



* These have been included in too many action shots of ComicBook/ThePunisher to list, both on covers of comic books and inside them.



* These have been included in too many action shots of ComicBook/ThePunisher to list, both on covers of comic books and inside them.



* ''Film/HotShotsPartDeux'' had that scene where the hero became nearly buried in his spent shells. PlayedForLaughs, of course.
* ''Franchise/TheMatrix'' franchise:
** ''Film/TheMatrix'': The most obvious example is when Neo saves Morpheus, complete with [[GatlingGood Gatling Goodness]], but almost any other time they use guns you can expect some showcasing of spent, um, casings.
*** During the lobby shootout there's a SlowMotion shot of spend casings raining down from the hem of Neo's BadassLongcoat -- [[ImproperlyPlacedFirearms except they're rifle casings]], not pistol casings as would be fired from the Scorpion submachine guns he's firing GunsAkimbo.
** ''Film/TheMatrixRevolutions'': Gets taken to extreme in the CGI battle for Zion.

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* ''Film/HotShotsPartDeux'' had that scene where the hero became nearly buried in his spent shells. PlayedForLaughs, of course.
* ''Franchise/TheMatrix'' franchise:
** ''Film/TheMatrix'': The most obvious
A gorgeous artsy example is when Neo saves Morpheus, complete with [[GatlingGood Gatling Goodness]], but almost any other time they use guns you can expect some showcasing of spent, um, casings.
*** During the lobby shootout there's a SlowMotion shot of spend casings raining down
in ''Film/{{Avalon}}'', from the hem of Neo's BadassLongcoat -- [[ImproperlyPlacedFirearms except they're rifle casings]], not pistol casings as would be fired from the Scorpion submachine guns he's firing GunsAkimbo.
** ''Film/TheMatrixRevolutions'': Gets taken to extreme in the CGI battle for Zion.
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* ''Film/{{Wanted}}'': during BulletTime at the end.

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* ''Film/{{Wanted}}'': Used realistically in ''[[Film/{{Dredd}} Dredd 3D]]'', in the scene where Dredd and Anderson have to outrun minigun fire- several members of Ma-Ma's gang are shown shovelling spent cases.
* ''Film/DarkBlueWorld'' (2001). Casings are seen ejected from the Spitfires
during BulletTime at the end.mid-air battles. According to the DVDCommentary the director made a point of including this, having owned toy Spitfires as a boy and noting the ejector ports.



* ''Film/{{Watchmen}}'': Nite Owl's ship has a minigun, and a floor compartment with pop-up chute for catching spent casings.
* In ''Film/TrueLies'', [[BigBad Salim Abu Aziz]] rakes a public restroom's stalls with dakka from a sub-machine gun, littering the floor with spent casings.
* In ''Film/{{Restrepo}}'', one soldier operating a mounted machine gun had the misfortune of a spent shell (which are really damn hot) falling ''[[AgonyOfTheFeet into his shoe]].''
* In ''Film/{{Waterworld}}'', a Smoker operating a Maxon Mount four-machine gun chassis in the atoll assault scene showers the boat it is mounted on and his crew with hundreds of .50 calibre brass shells. The crew is also seen shoveling up the spent casings into buckets, presumably because the metal casings were very scarce in a post-deluge world and would be reseated with new powder and bullets after the battle.
* A gorgeous artsy example in ''Film/{{Avalon}}'', from a tank.

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* ''Film/{{Watchmen}}'': Nite Owl's ship has a minigun, and a floor compartment with pop-up chute for catching ''Film/HotShotsPartDeux'' had that scene where the hero became nearly buried in his spent casings.
* In ''Film/TrueLies'', [[BigBad Salim Abu Aziz]] rakes a public restroom's stalls with dakka from a sub-machine gun, littering the floor with spent casings.
* In ''Film/{{Restrepo}}'', one soldier operating a mounted machine gun had the misfortune of a spent shell (which are really damn hot) falling ''[[AgonyOfTheFeet into his shoe]].''
* In ''Film/{{Waterworld}}'', a Smoker operating a Maxon Mount four-machine gun chassis in the atoll assault scene showers the boat it is mounted on and his crew with hundreds of .50 calibre brass
shells. The crew is also seen shoveling up the spent casings into buckets, presumably because the metal casings were very scarce in a post-deluge world and would be reseated with new powder and bullets after the battle.
* A gorgeous artsy example in ''Film/{{Avalon}}'', from a tank.
PlayedForLaughs, of course.



* Used realistically in ''[[Film/{{Dredd}} Dredd 3D]]'', in the scene where Dredd and Anderson have to outrun minigun fire- several members of Ma-Ma's gang are shown shovelling spent cases.
* ''Dark Blue World'' (2001). Casings are seen ejected from the Spitfires during the mid-air battles. According to the DVDCommentary the director made a point of including this, having owned toy Spitfires as a boy and noting the ejector ports.
* Seen in ''Film/SuicideSquad2016'' when the SEAL team opens up with automatic weapons on the advancing horde of zombies. There is a close-up on the spent casings raining down around their feet.

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* Used realistically in ''[[Film/{{Dredd}} Dredd 3D]]'', in the scene where Dredd and Anderson have to outrun minigun fire- several members of Ma-Ma's gang are shown shovelling spent cases.
* ''Dark Blue World'' (2001). Casings are seen ejected from the Spitfires during the mid-air battles. According to the DVDCommentary the director made a point of including this, having owned toy Spitfires as a boy and noting the ejector ports.
* Seen in ''Film/SuicideSquad2016''
''Franchise/TheMatrix'' franchise:
** ''Film/TheMatrix'': The most obvious example is
when the SEAL team opens up Neo saves Morpheus, complete with automatic weapons on [[GatlingGood Gatling Goodness]], but almost any other time they use guns you can expect some showcasing of spent, um, casings.
*** During
the advancing horde lobby shootout there's a SlowMotion shot of zombies. There is a close-up on the spent spend casings raining down around their feet.from the hem of Neo's BadassLongcoat -- [[ImproperlyPlacedFirearms except they're rifle casings]], not pistol casings as would be fired from the Scorpion submachine guns he's firing GunsAkimbo.
** ''Film/TheMatrixRevolutions'': Gets taken to extreme in the CGI battle for Zion.



* In ''Film/{{Restrepo}}'', one soldier operating a mounted machine gun had the misfortune of a spent shell (which are really damn hot) falling ''[[AgonyOfTheFeet into his shoe]].''
* Seen in ''Film/SuicideSquad2016'' when the SEAL team opens up with automatic weapons on the advancing horde of zombies. There is a close-up on the spent casings raining down around their feet.
* In ''Film/TrueLies'', [[BigBad Salim Abu Aziz]] rakes a public restroom's stalls with dakka from a sub-machine gun, littering the floor with spent casings.
* ''Film/{{Wanted}}'': during BulletTime at the end.
* ''Film/{{Watchmen}}'': Nite Owl's ship has a minigun, and a floor compartment with pop-up chute for catching spent casings.
* In ''Film/{{Waterworld}}'', a Smoker operating a Maxon Mount four-machine gun chassis in the atoll assault scene showers the boat it is mounted on and his crew with hundreds of .50 calibre brass shells. The crew is also seen shoveling up the spent casings into buckets, presumably because the metal casings were very scarce in a post-deluge world and would be reseated with new powder and bullets after the battle.



* ''Series/TheManFromUncle''. In "The Mad Mad Tea Party Affair", a THRUSH agent empties his gun at some UNCLE agents, and a bunch of casings get thrown from off-camera in an apparent attempt to invoke this trope. Presumably the idea was the ejected casings had hit the wall and fallen back into view.



* ''Series/TheManFromUncle''. In "The Mad Mad Tea Party Affair", a THRUSH agent empties his gun at some UNCLE agents, and a bunch of casings get thrown from off-camera in an apparent attempt to invoke this trope. Presumably the idea was the ejected casings had hit the wall and fallen back into view.



* The [[GatlingGood minigun]] on the Warthog in ''Franchise/{{Halo}}''. The developer even pointed out that the shells would not stick to the surface but actualy bounce around based on the terrain. They showed this off by placing a Warthog on a hill and fired the gun with the shells realisticly rolling down the hill.
* The Heavy's minigun(s) in ''VideoGame/TeamFortress2'' notably ejects shells ''out of a solid plane of the model''.
* ''VideoGame/GhostHunter'': 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 MoreDakka.
* The Vulcan cannon in the freeware game ''SUAVE''.

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* The [[GatlingGood minigun]] on Many modern air-combat simulators, particularly those set during WWII, will show spent shell casings being discarded from the Warthog in ''Franchise/{{Halo}}''. The developer even pointed out that the shells would not stick to the surface but actualy bounce around based on the terrain. They showed this off by placing a Warthog on a hill and fired the gun with the shells realisticly rolling down the hill.
* The Heavy's minigun(s) in ''VideoGame/TeamFortress2'' notably ejects shells ''out of a solid
plane of where applicable. This is particularly the model''.
* ''VideoGame/GhostHunter'': 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 MoreDakka.
* The Vulcan cannon in the freeware game ''SUAVE''.
case for fighters with wing-mounted weaponry.



* ''VideoGame/StarcraftII'': 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 dire a situation he and his men are in. They're up to their ankles in spent shells, but even with all that [[MoreDakka dakka]] they are still about to be overun with Zerg.
** Also inverted when Raynor guns down a hydralisk Zerg in one shot with his heavy penetration rifle. The shell is big enough that it embeds itself in the ground with a thunk when it ejects, like the Ring in ''Film/TheLordOfTheRings'' films when Bilbo finally lets go and drops it to the floor.
* ''VideoGame/MaxPayne'': The Ingrams empty their 50 round magazines in about 1.5 seconds, at most, pouring brass onto the ground. And you can fire two at a time.

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* ''VideoGame/StarcraftII'': When [[spoiler:Valerian Mengsk invades Char]] General Warfield ''VideoGame/BattleGaregga'' has a playable ship whose special weapon is desperately holding a position against the Zerg and this trope is used to show exactly how dire a situation he and his men are in. They're up to their ankles in MoreDakka, accompanied by spent shells, but even with all that [[MoreDakka dakka]] they are still about to be overun with Zerg.
** Also inverted when Raynor guns down a hydralisk Zerg in one shot with his heavy penetration rifle. The
shell is big enough casings that it embeds itself in ''also'' cause massive damage to enemies.
* ''VideoGame/BattleManiaDaiginjou'' has a row of bullet holes spreading across
the ground with title screen, followed by over a thunk when it ejects, like the Ring in ''Film/TheLordOfTheRings'' films when Bilbo finally lets go and drops it to the floor.
* ''VideoGame/MaxPayne'': The Ingrams empty their 50 round magazines in about 1.5 seconds, at most, pouring brass
dozen casings falling onto the ground. And you can fire two at a time.it.



* ''VideoGame/StreetsOfRage''[='s=] FinalBoss is Mr. X, apparently the only guy in the city to have a firearm, and an impressive Tommy gun at that. Killing him sends his corpse to the ground in a hail of casings.

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* ''VideoGame/StreetsOfRage''[='s=] FinalBoss is Mr. X, apparently ''VideoGame/{{Downwell}}'' has an upgrade that lets you weaponize this by heating up the only guy bullet casings so they damage enemies.
* ''VideoGame/Fallout4'' features this extensively. Every single ballistic weapon visually ejects casings appropriate to the caliber it is chambered for. These casings then drop to the ground, bounce and roll physically correct and make metallic noises while they're at it. Although the game has a rather low limit of how many casings it displays and how long they linger, mods are available to extend these numbers almost indefinitely. Nothing like mowing down a hostile outpost from an elevated position with a [[GatlingGood minigun]] and finding yourself ankle-deep in a shiny brass carpet sparkling
in the city light of the sunset. And they say romance is dead.
* ''VideoGame/GhostHunter'': the Glock can be fired fast enough
to have a firearm, and cause an impressive Tommy gun at that. Killing him sends his corpse obvious fountain of shiny brass shells. Shows off the graphics, but the Glock is the emergency weapon, so it's not a display of MoreDakka.
* The [[GatlingGood minigun]] on the Warthog in ''Franchise/{{Halo}}''. The developer even pointed out that the shells would not stick
to the ground surface but actualy bounce around based on the terrain. They showed this off by placing a Warthog on a hill and fired the gun with the shells realisticly rolling down the hill.
* ''VideoGame/LeagueOfLegends'' champion Jinx,
in her promotional video, literally ''bathes'' in spent minigun shells while more continue to shower down onto her. In a hail of casings.less literal fashion, her custom-made, hot-pink minigun ''Pow-Pow!'' spits spent casings by the bucketload.



* ''VideoGame/Fallout4'' features this extensively. Every single ballistic weapon visually ejects casings appropriate to the caliber it is chambered for. These casings then drop to the ground, bounce and roll physically correct and make metallic noises while they're at it. Although the game has a rather low limit of how many casings it displays and how long they linger, mods are available to extend these numbers almost indefinitely. Nothing like mowing down a hostile outpost from an elevated position with a [[GatlingGood minigun]] and finding yourself ankle-deep in a shiny brass carpet sparkling in the light of the sunset. And they say romance is dead.
* ''VideoGame/BattleGaregga'' has a playable ship whose special weapon is MoreDakka, accompanied by spent shell casings that ''also'' cause massive damage to enemies.
* In ''VideoGame/MechWarrior 4'', your 'Mech will eject spent autocannon casing after every salvo. If you're using [[MoreDakka multiple autocannons]] or the [[GatlingGood Rotary models]] in particular, expect a cascade of brass behind your 'Mech with every pull of the trigger.
* ''VideoGame/LeagueOfLegends'' champion Jinx, in her promotional video, literally ''bathes'' in spent minigun shells while more continue to shower down onto her. In a less literal fashion, her custom-made, hot-pink minigun ''Pow-Pow!'' spits spent casings by the bucketload.
* Several ''VideoGame/SuperRobotWars'' games feature this during attack animations for units that use shell-firing weapons. ''Anime/{{Macross}}'' [[TransformingMecha Valkyrie]] units do this, ejecting a shower of spent gunpod brass in strafing runs or when blazing away with all weapons. Oddly, the strafing run animation suggests that the spent shells follow gravity, but all other animations treat them as weightless in zero-G. On the other hand, the [[AceCustom Alt Eisen]] has its Revolver Stake, which is fired by a cylinder of shells in its arm. One of its attacks involves completely emptying the weapon into an enemy's face, then opening the cylinder and ejecting all six empty shells on the ground around it in a noisy spray.



* Many modern air-combat simulators, particularly those set during WWII, will show spent shell casings being discarded from the plane where applicable. This is particularly the case for fighters with wing-mounted weaponry.
* ''Battle Mania Daiginjou'' has a row of bullet holes spreading across the title screen, followed by over a dozen casings falling onto it.
* ''VideoGame/{{Overwatch}}'': Bastion's "Bullet Rain" intro showers the camera in spent shells before zooming out to show his minigun firing away.
* ''VideoGame/{{Downwell}}'' has an upgrade that lets you weaponize this by heating up the bullet casings so they damage enemies.

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* Many modern air-combat simulators, particularly those set during WWII, will show spent shell casings being discarded from the plane where applicable. This is particularly the case for fighters with wing-mounted weaponry.
* ''Battle Mania Daiginjou'' has a row of bullet holes spreading across the title screen, followed by over a dozen casings falling
''VideoGame/MaxPayne'': The Ingrams empty their 50 round magazines in about 1.5 seconds, at most, pouring brass onto it.
* ''VideoGame/{{Overwatch}}'': Bastion's "Bullet Rain" intro showers
the camera in spent shells before zooming out to show his minigun firing away.
* ''VideoGame/{{Downwell}}'' has an upgrade that lets
ground. And you weaponize this by heating up the bullet casings so they damage enemies.can fire two at a time.



* In ''VideoGame/MechWarrior 4'', your 'Mech will eject spent autocannon casing after every salvo. If you're using [[MoreDakka multiple autocannons]] or the [[GatlingGood Rotary models]] in particular, expect a cascade of brass behind your 'Mech with every pull of the trigger.
* ''VideoGame/{{Overwatch}}'': Bastion's "Bullet Rain" intro showers the camera in spent shells before zooming out to show his minigun firing away.
* ''VideoGame/StarcraftII'': 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 dire a situation he and his men are in. They're up to their ankles in spent shells, but even with all that [[MoreDakka dakka]] they are still about to be overun with Zerg.
** Also inverted when Raynor guns down a hydralisk Zerg in one shot with his heavy penetration rifle. The shell is big enough that it embeds itself in the ground with a thunk when it ejects, like the Ring in ''Film/TheLordOfTheRings'' films when Bilbo finally lets go and drops it to the floor.
* ''VideoGame/StreetsOfRage''[='s=] FinalBoss is Mr. X, apparently the only guy in the city to have a firearm, and an impressive Tommy gun at that. Killing him sends his corpse to the ground in a hail of casings.
* The Vulcan cannon in the freeware game ''VideoGame/{{SUAVE}}''.
* Several ''VideoGame/SuperRobotWars'' games feature this during attack animations for units that use shell-firing weapons. ''Anime/{{Macross}}'' [[TransformingMecha Valkyrie]] units do this, ejecting a shower of spent gunpod brass in strafing runs or when blazing away with all weapons. Oddly, the strafing run animation suggests that the spent shells follow gravity, but all other animations treat them as weightless in zero-G. On the other hand, the [[AceCustom Alt Eisen]] has its Revolver Stake, which is fired by a cylinder of shells in its arm. One of its attacks involves completely emptying the weapon into an enemy's face, then opening the cylinder and ejecting all six empty shells on the ground around it in a noisy spray.
* The Heavy's minigun(s) in ''VideoGame/TeamFortress2'' notably ejects shells ''out of a solid plane of the model''.



* ''Machinima/RedVsBlue'' had this as a result of being a ''Franchise/{{Halo}}'' based {{machinima}} (the creators claim that [[WordOfGod they didn't notice the casing until they actually began filming]]).



* ''Machinima/RedVsBlue'' had this as a result of being a ''Franchise/{{Halo}}'' based {{machinima}} (the creators claim that [[WordOfGod they didn't notice the casing until they actually began filming]]).



* ''WesternAnimation/BatmanTheAnimatedSeries'': In "Robin's Reckoning", a paranoid gangster empties his Thompson into the ceiling of his hideout when he hears a noise, covering the floor and his feet in spent casings.



* ''WesternAnimation/BatmanTheAnimatedSeries'': In "Robin's Reckoning", a paranoid gangster empties his Thompson into the ceiling of his hideout when he hears a noise, covering the floor and his feet in spent casings.
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* Brianna Diggers' "Lay-Z-Boy [[DoomyDoomsOfDoom of Doom]]" in ''ComicBook/GoldDigger'' carries a pair of Gatling guns for its main armament. Unfortunately, Bri' failed to realize until after she started shooting that she'd placed the ejection ports so that all that hot brass ended up in her ''lap''...

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* Brianna Diggers' "Lay-Z-Boy [[DoomyDoomsOfDoom of Doom]]" in ''ComicBook/GoldDigger'' carries a pair of Gatling guns armrest-mounted [[GatlingGood miniguns]] for its main armament. Unfortunately, Bri' failed to realize until after she started shooting that she'd placed the ejection ports so that all that hot brass ended up in her ''lap''...
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* Happens repeatedly in various ''Franchise/{{Gundam}}'' anime, which is bad news for any innocent bystanders, considering the shells are typically a) the size of oil drums and b) falling from several stories up.

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* Happens repeatedly in various ''Franchise/{{Gundam}}'' anime, which is bad news for any innocent bystanders, considering the shells are typically a) the size of oil drums two-liter soda bottles and b) falling from several stories up.
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-> ''"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."''

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-> ''"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 Advertising/{{Skittles}} commercial for infantrymen."''
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* Some miniatures in ''TabletopGame/{{Warhammer 40000}}'', such as the [[http://images.dakkadakka.com/gallery/2009/8/24/49579_md-Big%20Shoota%20Boyz,%20Blood%20Axe,%20Orks,%20Warhammer%2040,000,%20Work%20In%20Progress.jpg Ork boy with big shoota]], depict spent cartridges leaving the gun quickly and falling in a heap below.

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* Some miniatures in ''TabletopGame/{{Warhammer 40000}}'', such as the [[http://images.dakkadakka.com/gallery/2009/8/24/49579_md-Big%20Shoota%20Boyz,%20Blood%20Axe,%20Orks,%20Warhammer%2040,000,%20Work%20In%20Progress.jpg Ork boy with big shoota]], shoota,]] depict spent cartridges leaving the gun quickly and falling in a heap below.



* Used as an ''attack'' by the fifth boss in the ShootEmUp game ''[[VideoGame/NineteenFortyTwo 19XX]]''. After firing out its rapid machine cannon weapon, it ejects out the shells forward, ''at your character''! [[OneHitPointWonder You will die if you get hit by them]], but thankfully, they are destructible. (Starts at 4:13 [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6SIcc87PEsk here]])

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* Used as an ''attack'' by the fifth boss in the ShootEmUp game ''[[VideoGame/NineteenFortyTwo 19XX]]''. After firing out its rapid machine cannon weapon, it ejects out the shells forward, ''at your character''! [[OneHitPointWonder You will die if you get hit by them]], but thankfully, they are destructible. (Starts at 4:13 [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6SIcc87PEsk here]])(Starts at 4:13 here.)]]
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* ''Film/TheOldGuard'' opens with spent casings and an empty magazine falling to the floor, then the camera pans across the protagonists lying dead on the floor, riddled full of bulletholes. It then cuts back to a day or so earlier, showing who they are and how they got there.
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In scenarios involving HumongousMecha, the falling bullet casings from said mecha's guns can present a danger to whoever and whatever is unlucky enough to be under them.

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In scenarios involving HumongousMecha, the falling bullet casings from said mecha's guns can be large enough to present a danger to whoever and whatever is unlucky enough to be under them.
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* These have been included in too many action shots of ThePunisher to list, both on covers of comic books and inside them.

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* These have been included in too many action shots of ThePunisher ComicBook/ThePunisher to list, both on covers of comic books and inside them.

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