History Main / SpentShellsShower

* Seen in ''Film/SuicideSquad'' 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.

* ''Anime/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.

* 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 terrian. They showed this off by placing a Warthog on a hill and fired the gun with the shells realisticly rolling down the hill.

* The ''VideoGame/MassEffect3'' Groundside Resistance Pack [=DLC=] includes, among others, the [[GameBreaker N7 Typhoon]] light machine gun. This {{BFG}} is not only obscenely powerful and comes with several goodies like in-built penetration, increased damage resistance while aiming and the largest clip size out of any weapon in the game - it's also the only infantry weapon in the entire trilogy to invoke this trope. The justification seems to be the same as the heavy machine guns' mentioned above, given how the spent "casings" look an awful lot like many, many, [[RuleOfThree many]] tiny thermal clips. The Typhoon still ejects a glowing standard heat sink during reloading, though. And for some reason, the casing shower effect disappears the moment the shooter activates a special ammo type.

*** During the lobby shootout there's a shot of spend casings raining down from the hem of Neo's BadassLongcoat -- [[ArtisticLicenseFirearms except that they're rifle casings]], not pistol casings as would be fired from the Skorpian submachine guns he's firing GunsAkimbo.

Compare DramaticGunCock. When combined with InfiniteAmmo, may raise the FridgeLogic of where all that ammunition [[{{Hammerspace}} was]] ''before'' it was fired...

* Classic photographs from both world wars show artillery pieces, especially after the prolonged bombardments of the Western Front, surrounded by heaped spent brass shell casings that are taller than the guns

( ''WesternAnimation/SuicideSquadHellToPay'': When Whale's men open up on the Squad with fully automatic weapons on board the train, a rain of spent casings is shown hitting the floor around their feet.

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** 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 the ''Main/LordOfTheRings'' films when Bilbo finally lets go and drops it to the floor.

** 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. Some female gun enthusiasts on YouTube have also confessed to re-evaluating their cleavage limits after such occurences.

* ''Series/StargateSG1'':

* 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 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.

* In ''VideoGame/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.

* 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 sevewral stories up.

* In ''Anime/MobileSuitVictoryGundam'', 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.

** In "Gundam: The Origin," Amuro gets too close to a Zaku while trying to evacuate the colony, and has to run from a shower of 140mm shells.

* A gorgeous artsy example in ''Avalon'', from a tank.

* ''Film/DarkBlueWorld'' (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.

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

Compare DramaticGunCock.

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

* In the first episode of ''Manga/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.
* The ''Manga/{{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.

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

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

** ''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.

* Simultaneously averted and played straight with Russian machine guns, like Maxim M1910 (a Russian licensed variant) and its successor, the PK\PKM general purpose machine gun. On one hand, both of them use non-disintegrating belts (no small, snaggy links falling out; old belts were cloth, modern are metallic, come in 50-round strips and are multiple-use). On the other hand, PKM ejects its brass with unusual gusto, capable of injuring unprotected skin, and hurls the cases to the left - an unusual direction for Western users.

* ''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.

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

* The intro to ''GunGrave'' features this in a couple of places.