History Main / SpentShellsShower

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

* 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 this]] and [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l_W1TWS0KTc this]].

* 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]].

* ''GorskyAndButch'' recreate the Matrix helicopter scene. Then it shows a street sweeper on the street below, cussing at the sight of the raining shells.

** 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.

* 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.

* ''CortexCommand'' has some weapons that eject [[MoreDakka lots of casings]], some weapons that eject [[{{BFG}} very large casings]], and some weapons that eject [[ThereIsNoKillLikeOverkill lots of very large casings]]. If a character stays in the same position and shoots for long enough, it's entirely possible to make quite large piles of empty shell casings - that you can then ''walk on''.
* ''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.

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* ''Film/RebuildOfEvangelion'': Unit 01 fires an Eva-sized [[GatlingGood gatling gun]] at Shamshel, raining spent cartridges on the street below, one of which flattens a car.

* ''Dark Blue World'' (2001). Casing 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.

* ''Dark Blue World'' (2001). Casing are seen ejected from the Spitfires during the mid-air battles. According to the DVDCommentary, the director made a point of including this scene, having owned toy Spitfires as a boy and noting the ejector ports.

* ''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 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.
** Also inverted when Raynor guns down a certain hydralisk. You only see one shell drop, and it's that one shot that brings the hydra down. The shell is big enough that it embeds itself in the ground with a thunk, like nothing so much as the Ring in the ''Main/LordOfTheRings'' films when Bilbo finally lets go and drops it to the floor.

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* Shows up in ''{{Hellsing}}'' at times.

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

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

** 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.]] Many modern military uniforms include a velcro tab on the underside of the collar so that you can turn it into a mandarin collar to protect yourself from this occupational hazard.

* The behind the scenes for Peter Jackson's ''Film/KingKong'' 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.

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

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

* The ''{{Area 88}}'' OVA opens with a shot of 20mm shells falling from Shin's F-8E Crusader as he tears up a column of enemy tanks.

* ''[[HotShots Hot Shots! Part Deux]]'' had that scene where the hero became nearly buried in his spent shells. PlayedForLaughs, of course.

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* ''SamuraiJack'': in "Robo-Samurai vs Mondo Bot", Mondo Bot fires its [[MoreDakka Machine Guns]] at Robo-Samurai.
* ''{{Sym-Bionic Titan}}'': when the H.M.E.R. uses its [[ArmCannon arm]] [[GatlingGood gatling guns]].

* ''VideoGames/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.

* ''VideoGames/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.

* ''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.