History Main / SpentShellsShower

* 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.

One way to emphasize MoreDakka, or at least how powerful a weapon, is showing all the bullet casings being ejected out of that gun. Expect this to be [[NoisyGuns noisy]].

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*** Some weapons, like the P90, eject their spent cases downward.

*** Some weapons, like the P90, eject their spent cases downward.

* 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.

* ''Film/TheMatrix'': when Neo saves Morpheus or any other time they use guns.
** Gets taken to extreme in the CGI battle for Zion in ''The Matrix Revolutions''.

* ''{{Wanted}}'': during BulletTime at the end.
* ''TheGodsMustBeCrazy'': when a group of African guerrillas are shooting at a helicopter, one is annoyed by the man next to him, whose submachine gun is throwing its shells into the first's head.

* The behind the scenes for Peter Jackson's [[Film/KingKong King Kong]] show a scene where the actors are practicing the use of their Tommy Guns; one actor is positioned to the right of the other and catches the spent casings in his mouth.
* 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.

* ''MythBusters'': after blowing a fish barrel to hell with a minigun, there's a huge pile of spent shells.

** This trope is why the show switched the team's weapons from MP5s to P90s. When a scene called for the team to stand side to side while firing, the production team realized the side ejecting MP5s would send spent shells into the faces of the actors. So they switched to the P90 which ejects spent casings downward.

* ''BattleGaregga'' has a playable ship whose special weapon is MoreDakka, accompanied by spent shell casings that ''also'' cause massive damage to enemies.

Compare DramaticGunCocking.

* Used realistically in [[Film/{{Dredd}}]], in the scene where Dredd and Anderson have to outrun minigun fire- several members of Ma-Ma's gang are shown shovelling spent cases.

* ''WebVideo/TheHire''. "Ticker" opens with spent shells and bullet impacts raining down on an apparently empty road, before the camera pans up to a strafing helicopter, then down to a car racing ahead of the gunfire.

* ''Webcomic/TheWhiteboard features [[http://www.the-whiteboard.com/autotwb1573.html one]] during a [[ZombieApocalypse zombie outbreak]].

* One ''TurnSignalsOnALandRaider'' strip has a Land Raider crew tricked into firing their [[GatlingGood 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.

* The behind the scenes for Peter Jackson's [[King Kong]] show a scene where the actors are practicing the use of their Tommy Guns; one actor is positioned to the right of the other and catches the spent casings in his mouth.