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Marked Bullet
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We all know that guns are cool, and we all know that customized guns are even cooler. But what really puts the icing on the cake is a Marked Bullet to go with that fancy AMT Silverballer that you're dying to use. A lot of vengeance seeking protagonists tend to use these types of theatrical bullets, usually to make a point that they have a bullet with their enemy's name on it, and it's reserved just for them. A common variation is a missile or bomb with a message or image painted on its surface, which generally has less impact on the projectile's ballistics. Favored by The Gunslinger, And is usually used with Gun Fu, and Gun Kata. Also used with Bullet Time. Compare Designated Bullet. Truth in Television for bombs in WWII. Aircrews painted messages on some bombs. Examples |
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In His Dark Materials a witch does this, marking an arrow to use when she takes her revenge on Mrs Coulter. She never gets to use it, but her breaking the arrow is taken as a sign she is POSITIVE the target is dead. | |
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In Something Wicked This Way Comes, this is used to kill the witch, via Charles Halloway carving a "smile" on the bullet as she's weakened by positive emotions. | |
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Two rival Puerto Rican gangs in CSI: NY's episode "Sangre por Sangre" carve their gangs' initials onto their bullets as a way of taking credit for their kills. | |
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Castle featured a serial killer who carved letters into the bullets he used to kill his victims. They spelled out a message to the detective assigned to the case. | |
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The Simpsons. Spoofed in "Bart the General". | |
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In RWBY, the grenades fired from Nora's hammer/grenade launcher Magnhild are all marked with a heart shape. | |
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The Hawaii Five-0 episode "Hookman" has a variant: the sniper inscribes the name of the intended victim on the cartridge, then leaves the spent cartridge at the place he shot from for the police to find. | |
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In Resident Evil (2002), one of the gun shells that are falling in slow motion says "Umbrella Corp". In Resident Evil: Apocalypse, the Umbrella logo was seen on the back of the slug itself. Both were probably to show just how big and diverse of a company Umbrella was. | |
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Parodied in Ernest in the Army. Ernest had heard the euphemism about a bullet with your name on it and failed to realize it's not literal. He has one of these with his own name on it that he carries around with him, in the belief that it means he can't be shot. | |
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Bridget Jones, of all people, gets a named bullet in the mail in the second book. | |
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Supernatural A particularly brutal example occurs when Sam and Dean are facing off against an unimaginably powerful demon named Abaddon. They shoot her in the head with a bullet that has a Devil's Trap carved on it. This doesn't kill her, but it renders her unable to move or leave her host, and to finally stop her they cut apart her body and bury her in cement. The cartridge cases of the revolver which can kill almost any supernatural being are numbered as Samuel Colt only made 13 of them, creating dramatic tension as the Winchesters use them up one by one. |
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In Batman: Gotham Knight Deadshot leaves initialed bullets as a calling card. | |
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The Lone Ranger: The Silver Bullet was, itself, the mark and signature of the Lone Ranger, who not only used them to magically aid his marksmanship but would leave one, in cartridge, to indicate he had been about incognito. | |
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A sidequest on Kashyyyk in Knights of the Old Republic involves finding a Wookiee gone missing in the Shadowlands. You find what's left of him, some marked casings from a bowcaster (Wookiee hunting weapon), and a slaver's contract. The Wookiee village judge you show them to is quickly able to determine who shot the guy. Showing them what else you found on the corpse can change the outcome. | |
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A mod exists for Fallout: New Vegas called "A Bullet With Benny's Name On It." This mod allows you to take "your trophy bullet" (i.e. the one Benny put in the Courier's head in the intro cutscene) and recast it as a special 9mm round (that optionally does increased damage) which, if you drop it and look at the world model, does indeed have Benny's name on it. Get your hands on Benny's custom 9mm handgun, Maria, for extra payback. | |
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In the Iron Kingdoms setting, the Gun Mages are a group of people who have a knack for channeling magic through their guns. Etching mystical runes into the bullets is one technique, making them Depleted Phlebotinum Shells as well. | |
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Captain Vor from Warframe taunts you with "This one has your name on it!" as he pulls out his gun. | |
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In The Last Jedi, one of the Resistance's bombs has "HAN SAYS HI" written on it. The visual dictionary shows another that reads "HI SNOKE". | |
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The Man with the Golden Gun: Bond is sent a golden bullet with the number "007" on it, which leads him and MI-6 to believe that the eponymous assassin has marked him for death. He hasn't; Scaramanga's abused lover sent the bullet in the hope that Bond would kill Scaramanga. | |
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Captain America: The First Avenger: The Valkyrie has manned cruise missiles with their designated targets of New York and Chicago painted on their nosecones. | |
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Marvel Cinematic Universe: Iron Man opens with the protagonist, engineering genius and Arms Dealer Tony Stark, being caught in an ambush in Afghanistan. A delayed-action shell lands in front of him, giving Stark enough time to see the Stark Industries logo painted on the side before it explodes. It takes him half the movie to find out why he was fired on with his own ordnance. The Starscream in his own corporation paid his ambushers with Stark Industries weapons in exchange for killing his boss, so it was literally a shell with his name on it. The scene gets a Call-Back in Avengers: Age of Ultron when Wanda and Pietro Maximoff explain why It's Personal for them. Captain America: The First Avenger: The Valkyrie has manned cruise missiles with their designated targets of New York and Chicago painted on their nosecones. |
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For his X-Ray attack in Mortal Kombat X, Erron Black fires a bullet that has his opponent's name etched onto it. It ricochets twice inside his opponent's body before exiting, breaking bones along the way. There are some Easter Eggs: the bullet will be labeled "Me" if he uses his X-Ray attack in a Mirror Match, and "Ugly Mofo" when used against Predator. | |
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In The Messenger: The Story of Joan of Arc, Gilles de Rais (Vincent Cassel) writes "Hello" on a cannonball that is shot into an English fort. | |
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Gauss Rifle slugs in MechWarrior Living Legends have a skull painted on their tip. The tendency for Gauss Rifles to kill pilots through the cockpit canopy means that it'll often be the last thing you see. | |
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On Life, Charlie is shot, and when he recovers he asks for the remains of the bullet taken out of him. He then melts it down and molds it into another bullet, and shoots the man who shot him. | |
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One episode of Smallville had Deadshot carving the names of several targets into his bullets. One of the targets was Clark, but it turns out he was tagging him with radiation so the Suicide Squad could trace him. | |
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Deadshot in Batman: Arkham City uses custom rounds with his moniker on them. It's one of several mistakes that eventually lead the Dark Knight straight to him. However, Deadshot somewhat sensibly applied his moniker to his rounds' casings rather than to the bullets themselves. | |
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Halo: The shotgun shells in the first game, if you zoomed in, had hippos on them. In Halo 3 and Halo: Reach, if you watch a saved film and freeze it, you can see the bullet casings in mid-air. On the back of each of them are the words "Chief EG-X". |
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The Replacement Killers: In this Heroic Bloodshed film, Chow Yun-Fat's character uses a bullet that has the Chinese/Japanese character for 'Death' on its shell casing to kill one of the major bad guys. He sets one down in front of the target as a way to say "Hi. I'm here to shoot you now." Seems sort of counterproductive for a hitman to telegraph his intentions like that, but, hey.note One could also consider that it is a bit redundant. You could mark a bullet with "Macaroni cheese" but it still means death. | |
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Mass Effect: Invoked by the turian military, according to Garrus. Of course, since the bullets are microscopic chunks of ammo carved off an "ammo block", no message would be visible. The message (the shooter's name) is carved onto the entire block, instead. It's specifically stated to be a symbolic gesture, of "owning your kills". | |
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The shotgun shells in the first game, if you zoomed in, had hippos on them. | |
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The Bullet Bills from the Super Mario Bros. series games have angry eyes on them. Or are they actual faces? | |
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Iron Man opens with the protagonist, engineering genius and Arms Dealer Tony Stark, being caught in an ambush in Afghanistan. A delayed-action shell lands in front of him, giving Stark enough time to see the Stark Industries logo painted on the side before it explodes. It takes him half the movie to find out why he was fired on with his own ordnance. The Starscream in his own corporation paid his ambushers with Stark Industries weapons in exchange for killing his boss, so it was literally a shell with his name on it. | |
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In Monsters vs. Aliens, one of the missiles fired at the robot probe is signed "E.T. Go Home!" | |
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In Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine, you can see cannon shells with "Mercy is a sign of weakness" written on the back of the casing. | |
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In The Patriot (2000), Benjamin Martin has melted down several of his dead son Thomas's painted lead figurines into bullets when he starts fighting against the British. At the final battle, he pulls out the last painted bullet and uses it to shoot Colonel Tavington, the man who killed his son. It doesn't do the job. | |
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During the rejection scene of the first episode in City Hunters, the missile and activation button are both labeled "I'm Seeing Someone Else". | |
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ReBoot: In the fourth season, Matrix has one with Daemon's name on it. Daemon stops it midair, then gingerly holds it between two fingers and lets it explode, not harming her in the slightest. | |
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In the Septimus Heap series, there is a magical significance to a named bullet, and sooner or later it will always find its target. The catch, as one assassin finds out, is that this doesn't necessarily mean the target will be shot with it. The way the bullet is named is important too. If the bullet was named 'I.P.', nothing stops it from killing Iona Pot (aka Alice Nettles) instead of the Infant Princess. | |
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WANTED: In the trailer, Angelina Jolie is shown firing a bullet that says "Good Bye" written on it. Which was more a message to Wesley than to the ones that it hit. In fact, in the same film, there is an invoked aversion to the trope, with a character whose bullets had a break-away outer casing to prevent the gun from leaving any identifying marks at all on them. When one of these bullets fails to separate from the casing it ends up playing the trope straight by making the bullet even easier to trace than a normal one would be. | |
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In Spinnerette, superheroine Mecha Maid has missiles with things like "Mine is bigger!", and "From MM with <3!" written on them. | |
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Fate/Grand Order: Calamity Jane's bullets are labeled "Bad Luck". | |
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One Peabody's Improbable History short features a character who signed bullets with his own name. Naturally, when he tries to shoot someone else, the bullet curves back to hit him. | |
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If the Emperor Had a Text-to-Speech Device's second "Bro Trip 40,000" episode provides us with a world-shattering Cyclonic Torpedo painted over with a cheery "Please Die :D" | |
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Marked Bullet | |
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In From Dusk Till Dawn, when they figure out they're fighting vampires, they decide to draw crosses on their bullets (see "Holy bullets" in the real life section below). | |
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In Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater, Ocelot has one for Snake (no, not like that). It's a blank. | |
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Warhammer 40,000 Orks like to decorate their "rokkits" (rockets) with checkerboard patterns or shark Nose Art. Some especially potent bolt rounds used by Space Marines have blessings inscribed on them. |
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Parodied in Blackadder Goes Forth, in which Baldrick carves his own name on a bullet, the reasoning being that since "there's a bullet out there with your name on it", he is assured that it won't hit him if he owns said bullet. | |
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An episode of CSI revolves around the murder of a man suffering from Hypertrichosis (aka "Werewolf syndrome"), a condition that causes excessive body hair. To make matters even more bizarre, the guy was shot with a silver bullet. It turns out the guy wasn't murdered due to being confused with a werewolf but because he was engaged to the killer's sister who feared their children would inherit the condition. Why did the guy go through all the trouble of forging a silver bullet with the added risk of the police finding him as it indeed happened? "Seemed appropriate." | |
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CSI | hasFeature |
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In Brotherhood of the Wolf, Jean-François de Morangias (Vincent Cassel) uses Silver Bullets to "sign" his shots. | |
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Beast Wars: Scorponok had missiles with the Maximals' logo painted on. Unfortunately, this confused viewers as Transformers usually put their own team's logo on equipment (even weapons) rather than the logo of the team that's going to be shot with them, so the idea was dropped. | |
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The scene gets a Call-Back in Avengers: Age of Ultron when Wanda and Pietro Maximoff explain why It's Personal for them. | |
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Call-Back | hasFeature |
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X-Calibre: During "Age of Apocalypse", Nightcrawler marked the bullets for his gun with X's (hence the name of the series). | |
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Excalibur | hasFeature |
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The trailer for Brink! gives us a grenade with jah lick them with thunder. | |
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In Halo 3 and Halo: Reach, if you watch a saved film and freeze it, you can see the bullet casings in mid-air. On the back of each of them are the words "Chief EG-X". | |
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Nocturne (1999): The opening cutscene showed The Stranger carving crosses into the tips of his bullets, the practical reason no doubt being that this would make a difference against some of the monsters he hunts. | |
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In Deadpool, the titular character is on his way to a gunfight only to realize he forgot most of his ammo at home. He decides he'll have to make do with the 12 rounds he did bring, telling the audience "Let's count 'em down!" In a subversion that solves the ballistics issue, each bullet has a number from 1-12 stamped on the bottom of the casing, several of which are shown to the audience as they get used. More of a fourth wall break than anything, but it seems to at least be a partial parody of this trope. | |
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Dr. Strangelove: The bombs in the bomb bay of Maj. T.J. "King" Kong's B-52 had "Hi There!" (this is the one Kong rode to his death on) and "Dear John" scrawled on them. | |
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In A Bullet for the General, a high-profile assassin uses golden bullets for his intended targets so he can claim the kill. | |
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Ultramarines features not a marked bullet but a marked casing instead. An Ultramarine is seen carving "Kill the Heretic" into one of his bolt rounds and later during a firefight as dozens of rounds are pouring out of his heavy bolter we get a slow-motion shot of his carved shell ejecting. | |
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Train in Black Cat has grenades painted with a cat face. | |
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Aubrey-Maturin: In O'Brien's series, reference is made to a Royal Navy tradition of the period to mark cannon balls POSTPAID. Why? Because stopping the Royal Mail was a capital offense. | |
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In Unreal Tournament 2004, it has Swallow This written instead. | |
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The Feng Shui supplement "Friends of the Dragon" has rules for these kinds of bullets due to this trope's inclusion in The Replacement Killers and basically fitting the Heroic Bloodshed genre like a glove. | |
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The eponymous Priest (2011) carves crosses into the tips of bullets intended to be used against vampires. This may just be symbolic, as there are no indications that the vampires in the film are vulnerable to religious iconography. (What it would conceivably do is turn an ordinary bullet into an expanding dum-dum, causing more damage to the target and being less likely to come out the other side.) | |
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Unreal Tournament: Flak shells have a smile face painted on the front. The Redeemer has Adios written on the side. In Unreal Tournament 2004, it has Swallow This written instead. |
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Nickelback's "Side Of A Bullet" mentions one of these, unless they were just using the "bullet with your name on it" metaphor. | |
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