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In Real Life, there are four components to an ammunition round: a casing, an explosive primer, the propellant, and the projectile bullet. Only the last of these is expected to leave the barrel through the muzzle. The other components either burn up (as with the propellant, which provides the force to hurl the bullet down the barrel) or are removed from the chamber to make room for the next round (as with the casing itself and the primer at the bottom of it). Some guns retain the spent casing in a rotating cylinder, others rely on a manually operated mechanism to eject it, and semi- and fully-automatic firearms use the recoil or pressure from firing to eject the casing themselves. There are also guns with "caseless ammunition", which use a solid propellant that doesn't need a metal casing to hold it. Some works of fiction, particularly illustrations, will show the entire cartridge in flight during Bullet Time - casing, primer, and all. This could be a simple error, but it could also be a case of The Coconut Effect; fiction shows whole rounds in flight because that's what audiences expect to see and because a realistic bullet would be less recognizable. Sub-Trope of Guns Do Not Work That Way. Examples |
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Superman: Birthright features a scene where Superman watches bullets fly towards him. The artist was sure to include dimpled primers and manufacturer's stamps on the bottom of the projectiles. Those go on the bottom of the cartridge, not the bullet itself. | |
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Shown in El ChapulÃn Colorado. One episode revolved around our clumsy hero wearing a wig made of Samson's actual hair. This not only gave him nigh invulnerability, but when one of the bad guys fired a bullet he caught it with his teeth. As in caught the entire bullet, casing, prime and all. The thing looked pristine. | |
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In the Treehouse of Horror episode segment "Homer³", Chief Wiggum fires his pistol into the third dimension. The bullets appear in 3d, casing and all, before being sucked into the black hole. | |
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The posters for the first two The Naked Gun films show Frank Drebin standing atop a round in flight (two in the sequel). The third film's poster has him shooting a bullet through both feet at once (it's ricocheting), again with the cartridge on. It's clearly intentional, being a parody series. | |
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The opening for JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Phantom Blood shows the police firing upon Dio. The camera pans around the bullets and show the primer and casing despite being fired just seconds before. | |
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Averted in Enter the Gungeon, in the construction of the Bullet That Can Kill The Past (which the player needs to use in conjunction with the Gun That Can Kill The Past in order to get the best ending of the character they're using). As detailed in the description of this trope, four components are required to form this bullet: Prime Primer, Arcane Gunpowder (i.e., the propellant), Planar Lead, and Obsidian Shell Casing. | |
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The Simpsons In the Treehouse of Horror episode segment "Homer³", Chief Wiggum fires his pistol into the third dimension. The bullets appear in 3d, casing and all, before being sucked into the black hole. In "Who Shot Mr Burns", the bullet they remove from Mr Burns is an unfired cartridge. |
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An unusual example on an episode of Gotham: When searching for Victor Fries, Jim Gordon encounters several frozen police officers, one of whom fired on Victor, only to have the bullet frozen inches from the barrel. Gordon proceeds to pluck the fired round from the ice surrounding it, revealing that it is a full cartridge rather than a fired bullet. | |
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Batgirl: Deathwish depicts a character shooting a complete cartridge (bullet and casing combined) out the barrel of a rifle. The casing had a neck and rim, which make this even more daft. | |
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In Who Framed Roger Rabbit this is justified due to the bullets being sentient, sapient and self-propelling. Cartoon logic at its finest. | |
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A cover of Wizard Magazine featured Wolverine covered in bullet wounds... except the bullets were sticking out of him, and were obviously the entire munition, complete with indentation from firing pin. | |
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Averted in Fallout 3 and Fallout: New Vegas, where guns will eject casings as they're fired (and in the latter, you can even retain some of them to craft new bullets whenever you have spare gunpowder, primers and lead). However, Fallout 2 plays it straight in one peculiar instance. If you take Marcus to the doctor in Vault City, he'll remove a massive amount of munitions that have ended up lodged in Marcus' thick hide over the years, and give it to you. It is all received as intact and usable. Apparently, Marcus walked around with several pounds of bullets and a few unexploded grenades stuck in his back. | |
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The opening title sequence of Danganronpa: Trigger Happy Havoc kicks off with a whole cartridge—the case of which bears a reflection Monokuma's face— flying past the camera and slamming into a silhouette lineup of the Ultimate students. This might be excused by Rule of Symbolism, since having the whole cartridge attached makes it look more like the Truth Bullets used in gameplay, and the case provides a more convenient canvas for the image than the bullet by itself. | |
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Super Mario Bros.: Bullet Bills (based off artillery shells in design) fly with their casings intact. Later games show some sort of booster on their back end when visible, suggesting they're more like rockets or gyrojets than regular bullets. | |
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At least one episode of the 1970s Wonder Woman series had Lynda Carter intercept a howitzer round in mid-flight — casing and all. | |
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Star Trek: Lower Decks: In "Room for Growth", T'Ana and Shaxs are playing a gangster sim on the holodeck. When Shaxs freezes the program, all the bullets have their casings. | |
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The Lone Ranger inverts the trope in his Dynamite comics incarnation, where he is often seen handling or loading his trademark silver bullets—but just the bullets. Without a casing, primer, or propellant, how a piece of inert metal leaves the gun is not explained.note If the Lone Ranger was never shown actually loading cartidgeless bullets into the back of the revolver cylinder, then muzzle-loading revolvers would be a logical justification, albeit not one likely to occur to readers unfamiliar with the history of firearms. Unlike modern breech-loading firearms, muzzle-loader munitions did not combine bullet, propellant and primer into a single unit; each had to be loaded separately. Muzzle-loading revolvers remained in common use until the late 1860s, which is roughly the period when most Lone Ranger adventures are set. | |
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In an episode of Saturday Night Live hosted by Christopher Reeve, Richard Donner (played by Jim Belushi) puts finalists to play Superman through a ludicrous audition that involves, among other things, perform an actual Bullet Catch with their teeth. The candidate who successfully does it spits out a bullet that's still in its casing. | |
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The Mask: Tyrell spits bullets that his body absorbed after being shot, to kill his Bad Boss Niko. Given that the eponymous mask's explicit power is to grant Toon Physics to its wearer, it's an extremely rare instance of this being a Justified Trope. | |
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Team Fortress 2: Each round for the Demoman's grenade launcher uses some kind of chemical propellant, given that it's got a muzzle flash, but the projectile that flies out is exactly the same as the projectile that's loaded—in fact, the back of each one displays a dimpled primer even before they're loaded, nor are any casings ever ejected. Although this is averted in the icon for the "Artful Dodger" Scout achievement, which only shows bullets mid-flight, it flubs it with the later "Hipshot" Sniper achievement image that clearly shows intact rimmed cartridges being fired. |
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While it's hard to say given there may be weird things about Cybertronian technology going on, Transformers: Generation 2 had a cover where Optimus Prime appears to have caught a few rounds with his face and head. As in, the entire cartridge, rim, primer, and all, sticking out of his face◊. | |
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In Digimon Tamers, the Arrow Cam on Beelzemon's gun always show full cartridges. | |
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Family Guy had this with an anthropomorphized round being shot up into the air. The tip is grey, implying the lead bullet, but the body is brass with a circle for the primer at the bottom. | |
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Early on in Dragon Ball Z, Raditz catches an entire rifle bullet (casing and all), fired from a farmer's shotgun. | |
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Averted in Sword Art Online during the Phantom Bullet arc. It specifically goes to show several bullets in flight sans casing, and even shows the comparative calibers correctly (Sinon's .50 BMG versus the .338 Lapua Magnum round from Death Gun in the scope snipe). | |
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The icons for the "Deep Impact" and "Double Tap" perks in Call of Duty: World at War show the entire cartridge in flight, rather than just the bullet as in their icons in the previous game. This continues for the "Hardened" perk's icon in Call of Duty: Black Ops. | |
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Implied with the description for the Minigun in Unreal Tournament 2004, where its Secondary Fire (slower fire rate, but with explosive rounds that deal doubled damage) is noted as because the weapon is capable of firing both caseless and cased rounds; apparently Epic misunderstood the difference between the two in reality (e.g. the M16's 5.56x45mm round is more powerful than the G11's caseless 4.7x33mm in reality, but that's not because 5.56mm somehow blows up when it hits something). | |
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Averted in Bite the Bullet. In a bit of frontier dentistry, Gene Hackman removes the projectile and ignites the gun powder so they can use the casing as a makeshift cap. The film's title is slightly inaccurate, but Bite The Casing isn't as cool. | |
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A very confusing example in FLCL: After Haruko uses a shaving razor to deflect a barrage of Amarao's pistol fire, we see several cartridges on the ground splitting in half after a delay. It's not clear if they were meant to be bullets (which Haruko cut) or shell casings (which would be laying on the floor together). In the same scene, when Haruko is weaving between gunfire in Bullet Time, the projectiles are accurately drawn as just bullets. | |
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