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Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_1'); })In real life, bullets are little lumps of lead that fly through the air at great speed and generally put holes in whatever they hit. On TV, bullets are made from Applied Phlebotinum and rarely penetrate objects like couches or overturned dinner tables, unless the plot dictates otherwise. TV bullets have several other remarkable characteristics. Bizarre and Improbable Ballistics. Those are the bullets that can pull all sorts of stunts while mid-flight. Sometimes intentional for the sake of convenience, while other times it might be just a result of poor editing or research. Blasting It Out of Their Hands. While having a gun shot out of your hand in real life would render it inoperable (both the hand and the gun), in a movie you will be able to pick it back up and keep firing. There's little chance of the bullet bouncing off the gun and ruining the gunman's day. Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_2'); })Bulletproof Human Shield and Concealment Equals Cover. When bullets fail to penetrate through things that really shouldn't stop them — such as people, drywall, car doors and, most egregiously, wooden surfaces. Cartridges in Flight. A bullet is the business end of a cartridge, whose other components include a metal case, either brass or steel, filled with gunpowder, and a primer. When the gun fires, the bullet exits this happy arrangement and leaves the case behind. To make room for a new cartridge, that case must be either ejected (automatically in gas/recoil-operated firearms, manually in pump/bolt/lever/break-action firearms), or physically moved away from the barrel (revolvers and similar weapons). Most American movies get this part right, and in mystery stories brass cases may furnish important clues for the detective if the killer leaves them behind. But some films show the entire cartridge, brass case and all, flying through the air toward the target! This gaffe is understandably more common in films from countries where private gun ownership is rare, e.g. China and India. Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_3'); })Disappearing Bullets. When someone is shot in the head in a movie, the bullet will vanish on exiting their skull, leaving the wall behind them perfectly undamaged — though in sore need of a good wipe down. Pretty Little Headshots. The bullet will leave a bloody but small hole in the victim's head, if it doesn't completely vaporize it. Alternatively, a machine gun will riddle a person with bullets, but his surroundings will remain unscathed, suggesting the bullets somehow curved in the air to hit only him, possibly to curb property damage. Good bullets. Other times the reverse is true — the entire landscape will be shot to pieces, including areas that a bullet could only hit by traveling through the target, but the person being shot at is left untouched. Bad bullets. |
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Terminator 2: Judgment Day. As John and the T-800 escort Sarah out of the asylum, a law enforcement officer drives up in his cruiser; Sarah proceeds to carjack him, firing a round through the windshield (not aimed at the officer) to show she means business. The bullet goes through the glass, and then disappears- the seats and rear window are unharmed. This might be a gaff of a different kind. The creators may have believed that police cars habitually use bulletproof glass. They don't, but Hollywood might assume they do. If it did have bulletproof glass, the bullet might've ended up somewhere on the dashboard or bouncing around harmlessly in the cab. | |
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RoboCop (2014) makes the false assumption that a bigger caliber always equals a more powerful gun. .50 caliber Desert Eagles are used like they somehow are significantly more powerful than regular assault rifles (in reality, they are not). | |
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In the opening dream sequence of Ali G Indahouse: The Movie, Ali G is missed by a posse of gun-toting LA gangbangers, whose bullets form the outline of his body (including an excessively large organ). | |
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The Matrix: In an emulation of John Woo, the lobby shootout in is famous for the collateral damage it did to the environment. The pillars themselves were designed to look like apple cores. | |
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Scarlet Spider vol. 2 has a scene with three bullets close together in the air, inches apart, fired in succession from a pistol. Even with superhuman reflexes, it should be impossible to pull the trigger fast enough to make this happen. | |
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In Half-Life 2, bullets (from the player's weapons, at least) seem to be unable to hurt plot-relevant characters or innocent civilians. And, of course, a round damaging something (an enemy, a crate, whatever) would generally not penetrate to whatever was behind it unless it was explosive. (Not that one round matters much to the Combine.) Hunter flechettes, however, had an annoying tendency to stick to objects and then detonate, which would hit anyone trying to hide behind too-thin cover. |
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These made an appearance in Brian de Palma's Scarface, when Tony shoots an assassin to keep him from blowing up a car containing their target's wife and kids; blood and brain matter appear on the window behind the assassin, but the glass stays perfectly intact. | |
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Judge Dredd. The Double Whammy round, which is two rounds fired at once. How it works is anyone's guess. | |
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Pineapple Express has the main character witness a murder: mobster is shot at practically point blank range by two assailants. He also happens to be pressed against a window, which suffers nothing more than a serious mess because of it. | |
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In Cowboy Bebop's first episode, "Asteroid Blues", a woman shoots her boyfriend in the head at point-blank range in their spaceship, splattering blood all over the passenger window. The window itself, however, isn't even scratched; however, it is a spaceship window that must be tough enough to stand up to orbital debris and micrometeorites. It isn't until the police open fire with their heavier ship-mounted machine guns that the glass shatters, and yet only the ship itself is noticeably affected by said barrage — the woman's corpse is somehow perfectly intact, save for the hole in her dress from earlier being slightly larger and actively spilling out the vials of Red Eye she had been faking pregnancy with. | |
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In the opening scene of Iron Man, a soldier is shot and killed as he exits a Humvee. The pellets penetrate the side of the vehicle yet don't harm Tony Stark, who is sitting at the other side. | |
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Used in The Usual Suspects pretty much whenever anyone dies. It is however a story in universe. | |
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In the movie Who Framed Roger Rabbit? this is parodied by Eddie Valiant pulling out a cartoon gun, with cartoon "bullets" that are alive, that he's able to talk to. After he shoots them, they go a distance then stop, trying to figure out which way to go. They make a 90 degree turn, the wrong way. Valiant remarks, "Dum dums." | |
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Spoofed in Top Secret!. One of the Resistance fighters runs into a room where his comrades and the East Germans are locked in hand-to-hand combat with each other. He fires several burst-fire blasts from his machine gun. The East Germans all fall down dead, while his comrades are unharmed. "Nice shootin', Tex!" | |
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In Die Hard 2, the soldiers and mooks exchange fire with blanks and then switch to live ammo to fire on McClane. The guns used in the movie need an obvious blank firing attachment on the end of the barrel to enable them to fire blanks, or extensive modification which will destroy the gun if it's then used to fire a live round. Either way, when firing blanks, the barrel is physically blocked so that the gases will keep the weapon operating, but that blockage is a very dangerous thing when live rounds are fired through it. | |
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Resident Evil 2 has a scene in which a protagonist's gun is shot out of her hand, and after a short Cat Fight with her attacker, she recovers it (we know she didn't take the attacker's gun, because the attacker still has it later in the game). True to form, it still works like a charm. | |
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Blue Thunder has a heroic policeman as the protagonist, so it would be bad karma to show him killing his fellow cops, who are merely innocent dupes of the villains. Therefore, although he faces a variety of opponents, from ordinary police cars to helicopters to F-16 fighter aircraft and blasts them all to shreds with his helicopter's 20-mm rotary cannon, he somehow doesn't injure a single person until the final showdown with the Big Bad. | |
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Mad Max: Fury Road has a subversion when Furiosa balances a sniper rifle on Max's shoulder and lets off a few rounds. As in, the firing mechanism for a large-bore rifle was next to Max's ear and he shows no lingering effects. Considering the attention to detail in the rest of the movie's firearm use, this stands out as unusual. | |
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In Fallout 3, during VATS bullets can burst skulls, sever limbs, sever heads, and send the opponent flying across the landscape in beautiful slow motion, but they can't damage stationary scenery beyond bloodstains and cosmetic pock marks. It is perfectly viable to dodge gatling fire behind a broken plaster wall or wooden door, and you can even hide behind a dead tree or lamp post that is narrower than you - as long as you can't make eye contact, they won't fire. Grenades and missiles are the only observed exception. If you've taken the Bloody Mess perk, your bullets patently defy common sense: shoot a guy in the head and his legs might fall off. However, in a rare display of sense, Blasting It Out of Their Hands does damage weapons. |
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Black Lagoon: Revy and Roberta both get their guns shot out of their hands by snipers and yet Revy's gun at least is perfectly usable later on, and neither of them have injured hands from it. | |
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The "unshattered glass" version of the trope shows up in Die Hard, when Takagi is executed. | |
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In The Vampire Diaries, a gun that fires little tiny stakes may sound really neat, but the writers seems to be unaware of the fact that guns work by slamming a firing pin into a metal case filled with a combustible material, creating a small explosion enclosed and focused by the chamber and barrel. This explosion is strong enough to deform a hunk of lead and force it into the rifling. Even if the bullets are just wood-tipped or are fired from an airgun, one section of the Geneva Convention agreement specifically bans the use of wooden bullets, because of the fact that they shatter on impact and cause horrific injuries, meaning it wouldn't be a neat stake through the heart. | |
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The 'Call of Cthulhu introductory adventure "Dead Man Stomp" opens with the PCs sitting at a table in a speakeasy with a man who gets shot in the head, and the text directly calls for one player to sustain mild mental trauma as blood from the victim's gaping exit wound splatters over him or her. Why they don't sustain physical trauma from the bullet that caused the exit wound is not mentioned. | |
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Taken to ridiculous levels in Borderlands, where bullets can paint the wall behind an enemy's skull a delicious crimson color with minimal effort or even splatter their entire body if powerful enough, but can't penetrate rusty sheet metal walls. | |
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Pulp Fiction: One of the major plot points involves the "bad bullets" version of this trope, where a man empties a high-caliber revolver at Jules and Vincent (at almost point blank range), but completely misses them. After killing him, Jules and Vincent examine the bullet holes in the wall, which the camera could not see until they stepped back, suggesting that the bullets should have passed through them. Although this incident is considered freakish and miraculous by the pair. As in, one of them actually thinks it was divine intervention. There's a continuity error in this scene as well - looking closely at the previous scene shows the bullet holes in the wall before the gunman starts shooting. note Thus suggesting an alternate explanation of the scene: The gun was loaded with blanks. A rather extreme example of the "unshattered glass" version of this trope makes an appearance immediately afterward, when Vincent accidentally and inexplicably shoots Marvin in the face while they are both inside the car. Bits of brains and skull are strewn all over the backseat, not to mention blood everywhere, but the window remains intact. Another continuity error is when they show the scene at the beginning, Jules fires all the bullets in his gun and the slide is locked back. When they show it again at the end, Jules is not out of bullets and shoots the last guy. |
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Exception: In a flashback in Wizard and Glass, Roland's father shoots a gun out of his hand, pretty much destroying it. This scene is made more dramatic by the fact that in the books, guns are incredibly rare and valuable, and possessing a pair is a sign that Roland has become a man. | |
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By the end of Mr. & Mrs. Smith (2005), both of Brangelina's bulletproof vests are covered in bullet marks, but somehow no bullets hit their heads, arms or legs. Possibly somewhat justified, as they were fighting operatives who would presumably have been trained to aim for the center of mass. | |
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A more extreme example comes from an earlier book in the series, The Drawing of the Three, where Roland attempts to merely shoot the gun out of an enemy's hand — and through sheer chance causes the gun to actually explode, blowing off the goon's hand and a sizable chunk of his face as well. And if having his face blown off wasn't bad enough, he staggers around blindly falls down and gets eaten alive by giant, evil, talking lobsters on the beach of a parallel world having just been transported there from New York. Considering the gun was shot out of his hand because Roland was unsure if they needed him alive or not, you could say things did not go to plan. | |
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Spoofed in Team America: World Police when Lisa enters the Bad-Guy Bar wielding a Gatling gun, and somehow manages to machine-gun every terrorist while leaving all the innocent bystanders intact. | |
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From Full Metal Jacket. Pvt. Pyle shoots Gy Sgt. Hartman with an M-14 rifle (a full-sized, powerful battle rifle) which does nothing to the bathroom wall behind Hartman even though the bullet would have passed straight through him at that range. Pyle then sits on a toilet, puts the muzzle of the weapon in his mouth and pulls the trigger spraying the wall behind him with blood. In real life, Pyle's head would have been virtually obliterated and the wall behind him pulverized, between the supersonic shock wave from the round's passing and the propellant gases. Quite a major malfunction, when one thinks about it. | |
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In Monk, in one episode Monk and Stottlemyer discover a single 7.62mm*39 shell casing and immediately deduce that the shooter was using an AK-pattern rifle, that the ammunition is military-grade, and Stottlemeyer orders an investigation into a Russian connection as their first lead. Too bad the 7.62mm*39 cartridge is actually extremely common, used in many popular and legal rifles in America (even in California with their tough gun laws, it's a popular hunting cartridge), and you can buy that type of ammunition at any Wal-Mart. | |
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Played in various ways in The Fifth Element. Zorg demonstrated a "replay" feature on his custom machine gun that actually makes its subsequent shots home in on the target of the first hit, regardless of which direction the gun is actually aimed (much to the surprise, then applause of the prospective buyers). Police fire ricochets off of Korben's cab early on, and Zorg successfully wounds Leeloo through a ceiling ventilation duct. | |
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In the Dollhouse episode "Spy in the House of Love", DeWitt gets shot, with the bullet grazing the side of her abdomen. Blood splatters the window behind her, but the bullet itself mysteriously vanishes before it breaks the glass. | |
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Snatch. has this played straight. When demonstrating that the replica 22 caliber pistols do indeed work, Sol fires one inside a 4-door sedan. Every window is blown out by the percussion, even though no bullet is actually fired (the replicas only fire blanks). The trio in the car then fall out of the damaged vehicle deafened and spend the rest of the movie asking people to speak louder (from lingering effects of this), which is the actual result of firing any weapon in a confined space. | |
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In Gravitation K-san fires three shots with a sniper rifle at the wall, which the protagonists are standing next to (he isn't aiming for them, though). Three holes appear in the wall, but not a scratch is seen on the window panel between K-san and the wall. | |
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Wanted pulls more than its fair share of Bizarre and Improbable Ballistics, including bullets that curve in midair, but the most ludicrous is a multi-stage bullet, which is fired from long range, somehow discards the first stage halfway through flight for...some reason, and then lands with pinpoint accuracy on a firing arc that makes zero sense. | |
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City Hunter: Ryo Saeba (Jackie Chan's character) shoots off the Big Bad's gun from his hand, juggles it in mid-air with his Improbable Aiming Skills, only for it to fall right back down to the hands of his opponent. Hilarity Ensues after the bad guy catches the gun and tries to shoot Ryo, only to find out that the trigger is missing. | |
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Parodied in one of the promotional videos for Portal 2, specifically the one advertising turrets. "Plus, we fire the whole bullet. That's 65% more bullet per bullet." A close-up schematic shows the turrets actually flinging cartridges forward using springs! The ones in the game do seem to actually fire them, at least going by the muzzle flashes. | |
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Gigli has the Big Bad get his brains blown out and smeared all over the aquarium behind him, though the fish tank itself remained curiously unshattered. And somehow, his brains end up inside the fish tank. Amazingly, it's the least idiotic part of the whole movie. | |
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In Ronin, The Mole meets with his contact in The Mafiya to sell him the MacGuffin. When the contact pulls a gun from his Trouser Space and tries to pull a double cross, the mole knocks the gun out of his hand and points his own gun at him. Cut to an exterior shot of the window of the car being painted with blood spatter, but not breaking or shattering. | |
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On Get Shorty two police officers lampshade this as they investigate a supposed suicide. The victim supposedly first shot himself accidentally in the leg and then killed himself with a bullet to the head. They discuss the fact that given the angles the bullets entered the body at, the victim would have to have been a contortionist to have fired the shots himself. | |
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Team Fortress 2's "Meet the Spy" video. When the BLU Soldier takes out the BLU Spy at close range with his shotgun, only blood spatters on the glass window behind the Spy. | |
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BattleTech inverts the real life mechanics of large calibers of projectiles being more accurate at range; instead, the smallest class of Autocannon, the 6 ton AC/2, has significantly more range than the 14 ton AC/20. Justified by the writers, as they didn't want BattleMech combat to turn into a sniper duel with mutual one-hit-kills that the larger weapons would enable. | |
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The Dark Tower: Exception: In a flashback in Wizard and Glass, Roland's father shoots a gun out of his hand, pretty much destroying it. This scene is made more dramatic by the fact that in the books, guns are incredibly rare and valuable, and possessing a pair is a sign that Roland has become a man. A more extreme example comes from an earlier book in the series, The Drawing of the Three, where Roland attempts to merely shoot the gun out of an enemy's hand — and through sheer chance causes the gun to actually explode, blowing off the goon's hand and a sizable chunk of his face as well. And if having his face blown off wasn't bad enough, he staggers around blindly falls down and gets eaten alive by giant, evil, talking lobsters on the beach of a parallel world having just been transported there from New York. Considering the gun was shot out of his hand because Roland was unsure if they needed him alive or not, you could say things did not go to plan. |
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The Monster Squad features Rudy, the oldest and most badass of the title group of kids, using a silver bullet to kill the Wolfman. What pushes it into this territory is that the bullet in question was not fitted with a cartridge prior to its use, but yet is still somehow capable of being fired from the police-issue revolver that Rudy used in the scene. | |
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True Blood also features weapons using wooden bullets as ammo, first used by religious anti-vampire fundamentalists, then by regular people as vampire deterrent and later by the army. | |
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The death of Tara in Buffy the Vampire Slayer. As shocking and tragic as it is, there's still a certain amount of Fridge Logic as far as how Warren was able to accidentally shoot her in back, from the side. Unless it was a REALLY improbable ricochet. | |
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Family Guy: Joe once shot a bird right in front of Peter without the bullet going through (though this was probably intentional). And they once went paintballing with actual guns... inside the house. Despite mysteriously impermanent excessive property damage, only one person was shot. Joe once shot Brian with a bullet from a shotgun. |
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In one scene of Hellboy II: The Golden Army, our protagonist shoots a tooth fairy with his massive handgun which fires massive bullets. Somehow the bullet doesn't carry on and hit anyone in the large crowd a few feet behind the fairy. The bullets are literally so big that you would be able to see it fall to the ground if it stopped when it hit the fairy. It must have just disappeared. | |
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Babylon 5: It is briefly mentioned that the special-effect powered "PPG" weapons fire plasma rounds so that they won't accidentally breach the hull. In universe, that's a good idea because they're on a space station (and shooting holes in it is a good way to end up breathing vacuum). It just happens to have the real world benefit of not having to worry about scenery damage as much, although more powerful PPGs are shown to penetrate thinner materials like those used for air ducts. | |
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Inception: Bullets fired at Yusuf's van will shatter one side of the windows, but not the other. The body of van itself is virtually bulletproof. Then again, it is a dream. | |
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