History Main / SpentShellsShower

* ''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 many different kinds of fucked he and his men are, since with all the [[MoreDakka dakka]] they are generating it isn't doing a damn thing against the Zerg.

* ''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.

* There are many cases during daylight bombing raids in World War II that a bomber machine gun turret's ejected cartridges rained down upon the windscreens of bombers below and behind it. In a tightly packed formation, this would occasionally present a problem when the impact of the 50 caliber cartridges would start to shatter the windscreens due to the speed and sheer number of which were falling.

* This makes an appearance in the ''Series/StargateSG1'' movie ''Film/TheArkOfTruth''. 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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* 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.''
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* ''WebVideo/EpicMealTime'': Sort of: FPSRussia dribbles bullets out of his mouth at the end of "Russian Meal Time".

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* ''BlackHawkDown'': when a helo's minigun is being fired above a soldier on the ground. One (hot) shell actually falls down the soldier's shirt, burning him a bit. Which makes it a Deconstruction.

* ''Watchmen'': Nite Owl's ship has a minigun, and a compartment in the floor for catching spent shells.
* In ''TrueLies'', [[BigBad Salim Abu Aziz]] rakes a public restroom's stalls with dakka from a sub-machine gun, littering the floor with spent casings.

-> ''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.''

* From the book [[http://www.amazon.com/Just-Another-Soldier-Year-Ground/dp/0060843675/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1274013900&sr=8-1 Just Another Soldier: A Year on the Ground in Iraq]]:
--> ''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.''

* The ''BlackRockShooter'' TV anime absolutely ''relishes'' on this.

* The {{AC-130U}} "Spooky II" has a 25x137mm Equalizer Gatling gun with a top firing rate of over four thousand rounds per minute. The spent shells are longer than the width of your hand. There have been many stories of crew members shoveling those shells.

** 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.]]

* This makes an appearance in the ''Series/{{Stargate SG-1}}'' 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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* From the book [[http://www.amazon.com/Just-Another-Soldier-Year-Ground/dp/0060843675/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1274013900&sr=8-1 Just Another Soldier: A Year on the Ground in Iraq]]:
--> ''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.''
* The {{AC-130U}} "Spooky II" has a 25x137mm Equalizer Gatling gun with a top firing rate of over four thousand rounds per minute. The spent shells are longer than the width of your hand. There have been many stories of crew members shoveling those shells.
* Averted with modern jet aircraft that use a double-ended feed system, returning spent casings/jammed rounds back into the magazine, maintaining the aircraft's center of gravity, and preventing the engines from sucking in spent brass.
* Naval cannons would count, since some videos of them show shells after shells piled on the deck while firing salvos, except these are large cannons that fire more or less, around 100mm shells, some examples include [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IqWhOQw7_TY&feature=BFa&list=FLaWcjctrnC2L5FNWk41pKlQ this]] and [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l_W1TWS0KTc&feature=BFa&list=FLaWcjctrnC2L5FNWk41pKlQ this]].
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* In ''[[Anime/MobileSuitVictoryGundam Victory Gundam]]'' 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.

** 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.

** 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.

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

* Deliberately [[AvertedTrope averted]] in the original ''{{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.

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* ''TheMatrix'': when Neo saves Morpheus or any other time they use guns.

* ''Watchmen'': Nite Owl's ship has a minigun, and a compartment in the floor for catching spent shells.

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** And the time Kari cut down a tree with a minigun.
* ''Series/SonsOfGuns'' does this from time to time.
* 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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* From the book [[http://www.amazon.com/Just-Another-Soldier-Year-Ground/dp/0060843675/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1274013900&sr=8-1 Just Another Soldier: A Year on the Ground in Iraq]]:

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* The [[GatlingGood minigun]] on the Warthog in ''{{Halo}}''.

* The Vulcan cannon in the obscure freeware game ''SUAVE''.

* 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.

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* ''RedVsBlue'' had this as a result of being a ''{{Halo}}'' based {{machinima}} (the creators claim that [[WordOfGod they didn't notice the casing until they actually began filming]]).
* ''EpicMealTime'': Sort of: FPSRussia dribbles bullets out of his mouth at the end of "Russian Meal Time".

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