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Bullet Sparks
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In the world of fiction, when bullets hit a surface, they ricochet with sparks. When such bullets hit a container of anything remotely like gasoline, this has predictable results. In real life, bullets almost never spark, for various reasons. This is a Trope Examined by the MythBusters. Detailed here. Compare with Sword Sparks. When adding examples, please only post subversions, when it's done realistically or when it's exaggerated. Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_1'); })Exceptions |
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The fan film Grayson has this with the Joker shooting a sub-machine gun at Robin holding a thick metal plate to deflect the bullets. The effect was achieved by setting off firecrackers attached to the plate. | |
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During the jail break in the opening of The Goonies, Francis Fratelli dumps gasoline in a ring around the local jail. When the cops attempt to pursue, Francis shoots the gasoline to create a big ring of flame to cover the escape. | |
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Played straight to the point of exaggeration in First Encounter Assault Recon. Any shot fired at a metal surface will produce a fireworks-class shower of sparks, and some go flying emitting more sparks, as if the bullet just spawned in a burning magnesium strip. | |
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The movie version of Ghost in the Shell was very good about this. The animators said in the Making Of featurette that they experimented with shooting different substances to get reactions. This shows in the scene where a long line of bullets are shot into a concrete wall, making no sparks at all - but huge spider-web pits. Better yet, it showed a stream of bullets chewing through a pillar of reinforced concrete, generating only a shower of debris - until they started hitting the metallic rods in the core of the pillar, producing a shower of sparks in one of the few situations where it's actually somewhat realistic. |
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Hong Kong movie The Bodyguard From Beijing goes to extremes with this: in the final shootout, bullets make sparks when they hit...a sofa. | |
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The famous Government Lobby shootout from The Matrix, is a Shout-Out to both Ghost in the Shell (see above) and John Woo movies that feature scenery getting ripped apart by gunfire. | |
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The Last of the Mohicans averts this: the few times that bullets are actually shown hitting something (usually a stone cliff face) the only indication of it is a puff of dust and rock debris. Perhaps sparks wouldn't have felt 18th century-ish? | |
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In the movie Tank Girl, while the Water & Power goons are raiding the complex, they have bullets that spark while shooting sand. | |
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Iron Man has a likely unintentional exaggeration, in that one of the bullet-spark pyrotechnics on the first Iron Man suit can visibly be seen sparking for several seconds after the bullet allegedly struck. The sparks come from the area just below the Arc Reactor during one of the shots of him tanking a wall of gunfire at the cave mouth. | |
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Bullet sparks are seen when Jimmy kills the publican inside the hotel in Red Hill. Even odder, Jimmy is using a shotgun, so these sparks are being generated by buckshot. | |
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Very, VERY exaggerated in Puella Magi Madoka Magica the Movie: Rebellion during Mami and Homura's gun battle. It's a wonder they didn't light the city on fire. | |
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Shooting a wall in Resident Evil: Revelations will always result in sparks. | |
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Happens in Team Fortress 2, when you shoot a metal surface. The same thing happens when you use melee weapons. However, for some reason hitting a wall with a melee weapon will cause sparks and leave a bullet hole - said melee weapons can include baseball bats, whisky bottles, or even boxing gloves. | |
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Machine-gunning Jaffa in Stargate SG-1 tends to make their armor spark rather spectacularly. Granted, we have no idea what metals the armor is made of, so it might be justified. | |
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Halo as a franchise likes its bullet holes or insane ricochets, but it is also more than happy to make bullet impacts against a wall or target into a spark. The only exceptions tended to be organic materials such as dirt, plants, and the odd rock, but even those would often throw more sparks than they rightly should. Concrete throws out a lot more bullet sparks than its composition should suggest—Halo: Combat Evolved is quite bad about this in particular. This is all for the sake of the player, especially in multiplayer—it lets them know, within some reason, if their shots are hitting or missing, since shields glow when hit, and other players or enemies flinch and their armor sparks when shot. | |
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The Jean-Claude Van Damme film Hard Target featured bullets that sparked... when hitting trees. | |
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The Mythbusters tested this myth and proved that it wouldn't work, though they did manage to replicate the visual effect by firing paintballs filled with fireworks. | |
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Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 uses this as part of a game mechanic - weapons equipped with the "FMJ" attachment, which allows them to penetrate thicker surfaces, make obvious spark-showers when shot at walls and whatnot as a visual indication that they have the attachment. | |
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The Thief and the Cobbler: Not an actual gun bullet, but a nail slung at an unrealistic speed ricochets with visible sparks, as the start of a Rube Goldberg Device. | |
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In Rise of the Triad, shooting immovable objects (such as stone columns) with a bullet weapon will produce a spark with every bullet. Taken to its logical extreme when you fire a machine gun (a weapon with unlimited ammo, as with all other bullet weapons in the game) at a column and get a shower of sparks. | |
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The shooting-gas-tanks-make-them-explode extension is verbally deconstructed by Michael Westen's voice-over in an episode of Burn Notice. | |
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Mission: Impossible: Copious bullet sparks are kicked during the Railing Kill in The Teaser of "The pawn". Judging from the position of the sparks, it looks like none of the bullets could actually have hit the victim. | |
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