History Main / SpentShellsShower

** also happens in GundamF91 Movie during the colony takeover part when a woman is also struck in the head by such a shell from one of the colony defense force units while trying to evacuate with her child.

** And that time they were trying to shoot an escape hole through a piece of flooring.

* Disturbed's video for 'Indestructible' features footage of this, presumably from a Gatling gun.

* The AC-130u Spooky II has a 25X137mm Equalizer Gatling gun. Think about it, a .30 caliber (7.62X51mm) minigun creates a shower of spent casings. Lampshaded by Adam Savage-
--> ''I'm no, like, crime scene investigator, but I strongly suspect that someone's been firing a gun in the vicinity of this car.
** A 25mm shell is many times the size of a .30 cal shell, and it's being fired from a Gatling gun. There have been many stories of crew members having to shovel away spent shells.
* Averted with most modern jet aircraft, however, as spent brass could be sucked into the engine and trash it.
** This is known as a "double-ended feed system" - that is, the weapon system returns spent casings/jammed rounds back into the magazine.
** Another reason for retaining the spent casings is that it assists in maintaining the center of gravity of the aircraft.

* ''StreetsOfRage'' final boss 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.

** Also played straight in the case of the machine guns on some vehicle/vehicle sized enemies - the Viper gunship, YMIR mech and geth Prime all have spent casings. These are apparently lots of heatsinks being rapidly ejected, as heavy weapons load multiple sinks with each reloard.

* One ''TurnSignalsOnALandRaider'' strip has a Land Raider crew tricked into firing their [[GatlingGod Assault Cannons]] with the top hatch open. A second later, the crew has been buried by a pile of shell casings that fills the tank.

* This makes an appearance in the StargateSG1 movie ''Ark of Truth''. During the course of the movie Replicators get unleashed on the ''Odyssey''. A group of airmen guard the entrance to the Asgard 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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** Also TruthInTelevision. A fresh hot shell casing down your collar burns [[ShapedLikeItself pretty much like you'd expect a hot piece of metal falling down your shirt would]]

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* ''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.

* ''BeastWars'': Rhinox makes a pretty epic pile of spent shells at his feet while trying to cover Rattrap and Dinobot (who are, of course, fighting) to get in the base.

* The Heavy's minigun(s) in ''TeamFortress2'' notably ejects shells ''out of a solid plane of the model''.

* In ''VictoryGundam'' there's a scene in which a civilian, caught in a battle between two mechs, is killed when a mecha-sized empty casing (coming with several others from a mecha-sized machine gun) falls on her head.

* ''SonsOfGuns'' does this from time to time.

** And that time they were trying to shoot an escape hole through a piece of flooring.

** Which would be because the P90 ejects its shell casings straight down. Making this sceen an example of ShownTheirWork.

* Used as an ''attack'' by the fifth boss in the ShootEmUp game ''[[{{Ptitlep2s5y6yg}} 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 [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6SIcc87PEsk here]])

* In MassEffect2, the limiting factor on the guns' ammunition isn't the ammunition itself but the heat sinks that allow them to keep firing without melting. Whenever Shepard reloads he ejects a spent heat sink that looks remarkably like a red-hot shell casing.