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The silver bullet is a common form of Depleted Phlebotinum Shells. It's often called for when supernatural creatures are around for whom silver is an Achilles' Heel. Throughout mythology and subsequent fiction, silver has been a common ward against evil. Silver, especially if blessed, has been thought to ward off or harm certain supernatural beings (including vampires) since the Middle Ages. The use of silver bullets to kill werewolves has become popular only since it was invented by Curt Siodmak, the writer of The Wolf Man (1941).note However, in the 1933 novel The Werewolf of Paris by Guy Endore, someone does use a silver bullet on Bertrand Caillet (though it does not slay him, only landing in the leg). For the details on the practicality of making and using silver ammunition, see the Analysis sub-page. A Sub-Trope of Silver Has Mystic Powers and Depleted Phlebotinum Shells. See also Weapon of X-Slaying for slightly more metaphorical silver bullets. Can also be considered an aversion of Fantasy Gun Control. |
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In the Thursday Next novels, silver bullets are used against vampires and werewolves. | |
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Parodied by one The Far Side strip where a man futilely blasts away at a werewolf with bullets "Guaranteed to be pure silver" by a salesman who happened to wear the same tie as the werewolf. | |
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Death to the French: The French soldiers whom Dodd is facing mold silver bullets. They believe Dodd is a supernatural entity and can be defeated only with the use of silver bullets. In the book, the bullets have better performance than the traditional lead ball ammo. | |
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In Seven Stars, the villainous Bennett Mountmain shoots Geneviève in the chest with a silver bullet. He apparently misses the heart, and she survives, but it's several decades before she fully recovers. | |
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In Project: Metalbeast, silver bullets can kill werewolves but this particular one happens to be cybernetically enhanced, so it requires a silver-tipped bazooka shell to kill it. | |
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Enter the Gungeon has the unlockable passive item Silver Bullets. It makes all of your projectiles cause massive damage to the Jammed, regular enemies that have been corrupted by a curse. They also take many more shots before they die and they deal double damage. Great when you start accumulating Curse during a run, since the higher it is, the bigger the chance an enemy spawns as Jammed. As a small bonus, silver bullets also deal a little more damage to bosses. | |
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MythBusters, based on a suggestion related to The Lone Ranger, tested the effectiveness of a silver bullet compared to a standard lead bullet. Since silver warps and shrinks when it cools, the resulting deformation made the bullet's flight path erratic, making for poor accuracy. They didn't test it on an actual werewolf or other supernatural creature, however. They also didn't test whether shotgun shells would get better results. Additionally, during the same test, silver bullets were discovered to have less penetrative power than typical lead rounds. This led to the conclusion that the Lone Ranger used silver bullets because they were much less likely to result in a lethal shot. |
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In Blood & Chocolate silver forms a powerful acid when it blends with werewolf blood, if it gets into the bloodstream it means a painful death. After Aiden finds out that Vivian is a werewolf he melts down his pentacle necklace into bullets, he shoots her but the pack's healer gets it out before she dies. | |
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Bloodborne uses the "vial of mercury" version, with a twist: it has to be cut with the blood of someone sick with Paleblood as well to have any effect. The hunter's "Bloodtinge" skill determines how much damage this actually does. | |
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In NetHack items made from silver deal bonus damage against vampires, lycanthropes, shades, and demons. This includes silver weapons (silver saber, silver spears, etc.), ammunition (silver arrows), and even items which just happen to be made out of silver (silver rings and wands. Fighting bare-handed without gloves while wearing a silver ring will apply silver damage). | |
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Port Charles vampires were weak to silver bullets. Caleb didn't die from one but was badly wounded by it. | |
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Leon Ragnarson of Vampirocracy, being a good Hunter, of course has silver bullets for dealing with werewolves. He also has gold bullets, which have a similar effect on vampires. | |
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In The Astounding Wolf-Man, an assassin explains that even if the story about Silver Bullets wasn't true, silver bullets should at least hurt as much as regular ones. As it turns out, there are a few elements harmful to werewolves, but Silver is the most commonly known one. | |
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What kind of remake would The Wolfman (2010) be if it didn't have at least one silver bullet? And unlike the original, the silver bullet is actually fired into a werewolf's body! Though it's said that for this to work properly, the shooter has to be a loved one of the werewolf. Sir John Talbot has his Indian manservant keep a chest of silver shotgun shells in case he loses control of his lycanthropy. When his son steals a couple of shells and tries to shoot him, Sir John reveals that he removed the powder from the cartridges years ago. |
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Modesty Blaise: The villagers use one to slay what they think is the vampire in "The Vampire of Malvescu". | |
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Mentioned offhandedly by the Crowe twins in A Wolf in the Soul. They were just joking around, not knowing there really was a werewolf out there. | |
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In Frank and Ernest, Tonto tells the Lone Ranger that he oversold it and everyone thinks silver bullets are the solution to everything. | |
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In Hakuouki, silver counteracts the Healing Factor of the furies, something the Shinsengumi discover when their enemies start using silver bullets against them. | |
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The Silver Shot ammo type in Pirates of the Caribbean Online deals increased damage against Undead enemies. It's particularly weak against living enemies, though... | |
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Wallace and Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit: The wererabbit supposedly is vulnerable to gold bullets (24 "carrot" gold) instead of silver bullets. It is unclear if this is correct or not because none of the gold bullets fired at it manage to hit. | |
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The Dresden Files's second book Fool Moon had a type of werewolf that had the traditional silver weakness. The catch is that it had to be Inherited silver. Luckily, Murphy had some silver earrings she inherited from her grandmother, which she had melted down and made into bullets. With the small caliber — she only has equipment to make .22 bullets — it doesn't kill the monster, but it does stop it in its tracks and make it reconsider its options. Fortunately, Harry figures out in the nick of time that a werewolf-killing projectile has to be inherited silver, but not necessarily an inherited silver bullet. | |
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SCP Foundation: This is the only way to kill the shadow creatures in SCP-1983. And you have to be praying as you fire the bullet. | |
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In Supernatural, the Winchester Boys often use silver bullets, most commonly against shapeshifters. Characters cutting themselves with silver knives has become a common shorthand for "it's really me, not a shapeshifter" after they come back from something they shouldn't have. | |
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The sequel Howling II: Stirba: Werewolf Bitch subverts the trope and reveals that while silver bullets work just fine against (relatively) young werewolves like the group in the first movie, with ancients like Stirba, they merely incapacitate the target for a while. The real metal of choice is titanium. | |
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Silver is confirmed to be dangerous to werewolves on the Discworld. Along with fire, it is one of the few weaknesses they have. | |
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In American Horror Story: Coven, silver bullets are said to be the only things guaranteed to kill witches. Not that they can't die otherwise, but some witches have the ability to come back from the dead. | |
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Silvered weapons feature in Anno Dracula as one of the few guaranteed ways to harm a vampire. These include silver bullets; in one of the books' many Shout Outs they're called "the Reid design". World War One causes a massive demand for silver bullets and bayonets, with the civilian population called on to donate their silver jewelry to be melted down for the war effort. | |
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In The Emperor Jones, Jones boasts that only a silver bullet can kill him. | |
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In Brian Lumley's Necroscope books silver is deadly to vampires, and the historical use of silver as a backing for mirrors is considered to be the origin of the whole vampires afraid of mirrors in folklore. | |
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Juan of the Dead: While trying to figure out how to kill a reanimated neighbor, Lázaro suggests that they try shooting it with a silver bullet. Juan points out that they do not have a gun or any silver. | |
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The Howling: In The Howling (1981), silver bullets are the only kind that can permanently kill werewolves; regular bullets will incapacitate them, but they'll eventually recover. Chris gets his hands on a pre-made order of silver bullets and uses them to kill some members of the local werewolf colony and holds the others at gunpoint, forcing them into a barn he and Karen set alight to wipe them out though they don't get all of them. The werewolves initially don't take him seriously until they realise he does have genuine silver bullets. The sequel Howling II: Stirba: Werewolf Bitch subverts the trope and reveals that while silver bullets work just fine against (relatively) young werewolves like the group in the first movie, with ancients like Stirba, they merely incapacitate the target for a while. The real metal of choice is titanium. |
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Bakuten Shoot Beyblade: The first season features Team WHO during the Europe arc. They and their bit-beasts are themed after classic Universal horror monsters and they carry the same common weaknesses said monsters have. The BBA Team was coincidently watching a horror movie where the heroes were using a cross and a silver candle holder to fight a vampire and a werewolf, inspiring them to use the same strategy to fight back against their assailants. Rei in particular throws a silver coin on his Bit Chip, coating Driger in silver in the process to defeat the werewolf bit-beast. | |
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In The Beast Must Die, Tom reveals to Pavel that her has had silver bullets made to hunt the werewolf. Exactly why he had the cases made of silver as well as the bullets is anyone's guess. | |
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Subverted in a Wolverine annual that had Wolverine and Deadpool teamed up against a werewolf. After figuring out adamantium doesn't work, Wolverine grabs Deadpool's swords and hacks away. That doesn't work either. | |
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Zombies Ate My Neighbors trades out bullets for silverware for use against werewolves, which immediately kills them. | |
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In the Solomon Kane comic book story "The Silver Beast of Tonkertown" (not based on one of Howard's original stories), Kane melts down an inn's silverware to create a silver pistol ball which he uses to slay a werewolf that is terrorising the town. | |
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In Monty, Moondog gets turned into a werewolf but is "killed" when the beer he drinks turns out to be a Coors Light Silver Bullet (rather than the Coors Extra Gold he ordered.) | |
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In the Night Watch (Series), Anton sometimes carries a pistol filled with explosive silver bullets, which are deadly against werewolves and low-level Dark mages. They aren't likely to kill vampires but still hurt like a son-of-a-bitch. | |
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In Fright Night (2011), Amy tries using silver bullets against Jerry, who seems more amused than injured as he pulls the bullets out of his shoulder, chiding her: "Werewolves." She then throws a cupful of holy water in his face, responding in kind: "Vampires." | |
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In World's Finest #214, western-themed hero the Vigilante uses a silver bullet to save Superman from a werewolf. | |
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InCryptid: The only thing that can kill a border imp is a silver blade or bullet. Good thing both Jonathan and Frances carry those. | |
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The Man with the Golden Gun has the eponymous villain equipped with a golden gun (assembled from ordinary-looking parts) which is then loaded with custom-caliber, gold bullets engraved with the name of their targets. Downplayed because the bullets have no supernatural powers — Scaramanga really is that good. | |
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Silver Bullet is a 1985 film adaptation of Stephen King's Cycle of the Werewolf. It uses the bullet in same the way the book did. (see below) | |
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Pathfinder keeps the "alchemical silver" thing from D&D, but it's only really used at the lowest levels. Once you can afford it, mithral weapons bypass DR/Silver just as well, without the damage penalty. And weapons with a +3 or better enhancement bypass DR as though they were both silver and cold iron, regardless of actual material. | |
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In Silent Hill 4, silver bullets are the fastest way to down a ghost, and without it, it becomes nearly impossible to pass the water prison the second time around... There are only three of them in the game (with the third being notoriously out of the way to get), so they are best saved for the Water Prison and Building World ghosts. | |
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Grrl Power: During the mannequin soldiers attack on the Twilight Council Maxima takes apart a grenade mid-flight and reveals it contained, among other things, silver buckshot. | |
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The Talisman features a weaponized silver coin used against Sunlight's son because in The Territories he is a horrible monster and thus vulnerable to silver. Of course, its effectiveness as the only weapon that can kill werewolves is averted, as regular bullets are enough to kill Wolf. |
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Alvin and the Chipmunks Meet the Wolfman: When Alvin and Simon ask Madame Raya on how to cure Theodore's lycanthropy, she suggests shooting him with a silver bullet. Lawrence Talbot in the movie carries a cane with a silver handle shaped like a wolf. He later reveals to Dave that the handle was formed from the silver bullets fired by angry villagers into his grandfather, heavily implied to be the original Wolfman. |
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Dungeons & Dragons: Starting in early editions of the game, the only mundane weapons that could hit a number of monsters are those made of silver. The monsters include not just the usual lycanthropes (e.g. werewolves) but also devils, night hags, and many undead (such as ghosts, wights, and wraiths). To prevent silver weapons being a Game-Breaker, the Dungeon Master's Guide says that he DM should impress upon the players that fighting with swords made of such a soft metal all the time is a bad idea... In real life, silver is harder than bronze but much softer than steel. In terms of durability, therefore, silver would be somewhere between the two. In an iron-age setting against heavy armor (like plate), a silver piercing weapon like a short sword or dagger would stay effective longer than a silver slashing weapon like a long sword. In Dungeons & Dragons 3rd Edition, the silver that worked against supernatural beings wasn't actually silver but "alchemical silver", i.e. a normal steel weapon plated with silver. The softness was also codified as a slight damage penalty to slashing and piercing weapons. So if you want a silvered weapon, a mace or hammer is usually a better choice than a sword. Alternatively, you could use the much more expensive mithral, which counts as silver for the purposes of damage reduction and doesn't incur the damage penalty, as well as weighing less. |
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West of Loathing has silver bullets made by melting down silver items at the Silversmith's Cottage. They do double gun damage against skeletons and demons. There is also a silver pistol that always fires these. | |
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Vow of Nudity: In D&D, many demons and devils are resistant or immune to nonmagical weapons that aren't coated in silver. This comes into play when Haara gets trapped in the abyssal realm, where Fiora's silver dagger becomes her primary weapon of choice. | |
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The World of Darkness: Werewolf: The Apocalypse: Silver does aggravated damage to werewolves regardless of what shape it takes, and the Garou have no remorse about exploiting this when fighting each other. The only limiter is that wielding silver blunts a werewolf's magical effectiveness. Werewolf: The Forsaken has silver weapons of any kind do aggravated damage to Uratha once the silver touches blood. While using silver on other werewolves would be expedient, it's also a sin against the code of werewolf ethics. Still, the Uratha have a step up on their cousins, the Pure, who apparently can't even touch silver without it messing them up something fierce. |
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Dwarf Fortress allows weapons and ammo to be crafted out of silver. It is the worst material available for any type of edged weapons. Since it treats all weapons as a completely rigid item, it does make for very effective war hammers and maces. | |
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In Berserk, silver possesses protective properties against astral creatures, such as Trolls. Farnese and Casca wear shirts made out of silver mail for this reason, and the former has a silver knife to fight them off. | |
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In Dies Irae Shirou decides to make use of silver bullets to deal with Wilhelm who gains vampiric traits when he releases his true power and is normally Immune to Bullets. Sadly it doesn't work out. Not cause they weren't effective, but because Wilhelm was simply far too quick on the uptake and was able to tell that Shirou had changed the ammo. | |
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Diogenes Club series: In "Sorcerer Conjurer Wizard Witch", General Lord Hector Tarr insists the agents under his command go armed with silver bullets when dealing with the Friendly Neighborhood Vampire, Geneviève, in case she turns out to be not so friendly. Charles Beauregard asks if silver bullets aren't for werewolves, and Captain Gallant informs him that in field tests the bullets have been demonstrated to stop "vampires, zombies, your common shapeshifters, ghouls, sundry revenants, and some of the more physical species of ghost" — not to mention ordinary people. In Seven Stars, the villainous Bennett Mountmain shoots Geneviève in the chest with a silver bullet. He apparently misses the heart, and she survives, but it's several decades before she fully recovers. |
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In Chrono Crusade, Rosette's gun has three types of special bullets: Sacreds, which are hollow and filled with holy water, the more powerful Gospel, which are rune-engraved silver bullets, and Spirits, which were discontinued after one chapter after the demonic-energy filled bullets proved to be worse than useless. | |
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Warhammer Fantasy Battle: Witch Hunters load their pistols with thrice-blessed silver bullets that burst into flame on contact with evil magic. They sometimes use this as a quick-and-dirty way of telling if a subject is tainted by Chaos: if they burst into flame, they're evidently in league with the Ruinous Powers; if they don't, then their innocence is proved through their clean death. | |
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The Hunters Guild: Red Hood has a realistic take on this trope. Silver does indeed have a use against werewolves like the usual legends say as it prevents them from regenerating, but as the actual precious metal isn't very dense, it isn't a very effective weapon against werewolves' hide and flesh (which are much tougher than humans, hence why they're a threat). Thus, Hunters instead use the heavier wolfonium in their anti-werewolf weapons. | |
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In the Moran & Moriarty story The Hound of the D'Urbervilles, there is talk of a supernatural dog, called Red Shuck. Part of the beast's legend implies it may be a werewolf, so Moriarty gives his gun, Moran, a box of silver bullets to use. The wolves (six in total) are totally mundane, and Moran never so much as fires a single silver shot. | |
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RuneScape has several kinds of silver weapons. The sword Silverlight, or its upgraded form Darklight, are required to kill the demons Delrith and Agrith Naar. It is also one of the only two things that can disable a tormented demon's fire shield. Silverlight and Darklight are also extra effective against other demons. Undead trees can only be damaged with a mithril hatchet with a silver edge made from a holy symbol. The silver dagger called Wolfbane prevents werewolves from transforming if you fight them while wielding it, but it has no effect on werewolves that are already transformed. Ghasts require a blessed silver sickle to kill them, although you don't need to actually fight them with the sickle. The blessed silver sickle is used to cast a spell that allows you to gather items that are used to fill a magic pouch that makes ghasts visible and able to be damaged. Vampyre juvenates cannot be harmed by anything except silver or blisterwood weapons, but you cannot kill them without a Rod of Ivandus, which is an enchanted staff made of a silver alloy that has the power to restrain vampyres and a Guthix balance potion, which has silver dust as an ingredient. This potion will either kill the vampyre, turn them back into a human, or turn them into an angry vampyre, otherwise they will turn into mist and escape. Elite vampyres, known as Vyrewatch, lose the ability to escape by turning into mist and are not affected as much by the Guthix balance potion, but are immune to all silver weapons except for the Ivandus flail, which is an upgraded version of the Rod of Ivandus, made by combining it with a blessed silver sickle attached to it with a chain. This is because vyrewatch have mind-reading powers, which the flail counters by being unpredictable. Blisterwood weapons are the only other thing that can harm them. Feral vampyres, angry vampyres, vampyre juveniles, and other vampyres outside of Morytania can be killed without silver weapons. Silver crossbow bolts also exist but do not have any special use besides being able to harm, but not kill, vampyre juvenates like all other silver weapons. They are the only type of crossbow bolt that the player makes by casting them instead of making them on an anvil. |
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In Romasanta: The Werewolf Hunt, Antonio attempts to shoot Romasanta with a silver bullet, but Barbara spins and takes the bullet herself. | |
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Silver bullets are the go-to weapon for killing werewolves in Monster Hunter (PC). A single shot will suffice. You'll need three shots for killing King Mook werewolves, though, and for some reason the silver bullets wouldn't work on vampires, only stunning them for a few seconds. | |
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Werewolf: The Apocalypse: Silver does aggravated damage to werewolves regardless of what shape it takes, and the Garou have no remorse about exploiting this when fighting each other. The only limiter is that wielding silver blunts a werewolf's magical effectiveness. | |
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In Ahriman: Exile, the titular Villain Protagonist Evil Sorcerer gets shot in the chest with a consecrated silver bolt round. This presents a problem, as his sorcerous powers can’t remove the resulting shrapnel and some of the shards are too deep for more conventional surgery to reach, meaning that it’s only a matter of time before they reach his heart and kill him. | |
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There's a similar exchange in My Best Friend is a Vampire, between Professor McCarthy, a self-proclaimed vampire hunter, and Modoc, a centuries-old vampire who is completely unaffected by being shot. | |
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One page of Peter Is the Wolf explains the problems with silver bullets. | |
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Tony on NCIS once (facetiously) speculated that his boss, Gibbs, can only be killed by a silver bullet like a werewolf. He then subverted this trope, by concluding that even silver would be insufficient for Gibbs. | |
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BattleTech: The "Silver Bullet" Gauss rifle is named after this motif. Rather than silver (which isn't particularly magnetic and wouldn't do much against 31st-century armor in any event), this variant on the standard Gauss rifle fires special pre-fragmented ammunition that, while lacking the concentrated punch of the original, creates a hail of shrapnel that improves its chances of causing at least one critical hit especially against already-damaged targets and makes it an excellent anti-aircraft and anti-vehicle weapon in general. | |
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Kill Six Billion Demons features Puresilver, a magical substance that was formed from the breath of a now long-since-dead god. Because Atum cannot flow through Puresilver, bullets and needles made out of the stuff can harm angels and devils, who are otherwise Immune to Bullets (and very resistant to most other kinds of harm). | |
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In Scare Tactics (DC Comics), the werewolf clan the Ketchums load their shotguns with silver buckshot when they ambush their runaway member Fang. | |
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In the novel Digital Knight, Jason Wood makes some silver bullets first to fight a vampire (which didn't work) and then a werewolf (which did). He ran out of silver bullets while fighting the werewolf king, and was forced to improvise with several buckets of silver chloride taken from an x-ray development room. | |
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Hilariously, in the MST3K fodder movie Werewolf (1996), after spending over 10 minutes going on and on about how the skeleton they discovered isn't of "your white man's movie monster werewolf", but a traditional Native American skinwalker, when one of the characters turns into one he's quickly killed with a silver bullet. | |
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Case Closed: Conan and Shuichi Akai are both called "Silver Bullet" by the Black Organization, particularly by Vermouth, a metaphor to describe how dangerous they are to the Black Organization. The term was also first dropped during a case where a murderer was wearing a werewolf costume and he was identified by the cocktail named "Silver Bullet". This case happened parallel to the incident where Vermouth was confronted by Conan and she would start calling him by said nickname since then. In The Scarlet Bullet, sniper Shuichi Akai uses a specially made silver bullet to shoot along the tracks of the 'Japanese Bullet' linear train: not for any supernatural properties, but because silver will not be affected by the high-density magnets used in the maglev tracks. |
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The Elemental Masters series is largely Urban Fantasy with a corresponding blend of mundane and magical threats. In Reserved for the Cat, a female character employed as a maid carries a firearm loaded with silver, blessed lead, and iron bullets, which she teaches the protagonist to use. Most of Rosamund's ammo in Blood Red is silver, as are her knives and boar spear. But she does specialize in killing werewolves... |
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The Elder Scrolls: Throughout the series, certain supernatural enemies such as ghosts and wraiths can only be harmed by weapons of silver quality (or greater), or by enchanted weapons. Items of greater than silver quality tend to have their own supernatural properties which justify their ability to harm these types of beings. (For example, Dwemer/Dwarven equipment was created and made to last using Reality Warping processes; Ebony equipment is made from the petrified blood of a dead god; Daedric equipment is made from Ebony which has been imbued with the souls of lesser Daedra, etc.) Werewolves and other were-creatures are specifically vulnerable to silver, taking more damage from silver weapons. The werewolf-hunting Silver Hand in Skyrim always wield such weapons. |
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Fate/Zero: Kiritsugu Emiya's Origin Bullets can be compared to silver bullets, as they are specifically designed to kill mages. Those who survive being shot by an Origin Bullet will be left crippled and are unable to use magic ever again thanks to their destroyed magic circuit. The Origin Bullet becomes more effective the more potent the target is in magic. The number of Origin Bullets however is relatively sparse, as they are made out of Kiritsugu's own rib, thus he cannot simply reproduce new Origin Bullets whenever he wants. | |
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Doctor Strange foe Silver Dagger not only wields his namesake knives as weapons but also commands a group of zealot commandos armed with automatic weapons loaded with silver bullets. Doc nearly lost his own life to a silver bullet, fired from the very pistol with which Hitler committed suicide. The shooter was a Muggle, but he theorized (correctly) that the combination of the two was enough bad mojo to get through Strange's magical protections. |
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In the Hellsing anime, Alucard uses silver bullets from melted down crosses against other vampires; after a while, he is given a new gun which uses mercury ("quicksilver") bullets. Since mercury has about the same density as lead but is a liquid, the effect it has upon striking a body is quite horrific (it practically explodes). In the final volume, Seras kills the Millennium werewolf known as The Captain with a silver tooth (which was implied to have been taken from the skull of a concentration camp victim fifty-odd years earlier). In real life, shooting mercury out of a gun would be very illegal due to it being more poisonous than lead and more difficult to clean up. You can however try using rounds made of gallium, which has properties very similar to mercury but isn't as toxic, though the damage they do will not be as spectacular since gallium isn't nearly as dense. |
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In the Kolchak: The Night Stalker episode "The Werewolf", Kolchak improvises silver buckshot by melting down the silver buttons of a ship captain's uniform. The captain is not impressed. | |
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Parodied in one episode of Dilbert. Dogbert's been hired as a consultant to flush the "little people" (who are in fact ex-employees who were downsized, literally and figuratively, and subsequently became a colony of hippies living within the floor and getting high off of dry-erase markers) out of Dilbert's office. Dogbert claims the only thing that can kill them is a silver bullet. An employee points out the bullets he gave them are just regular bullets with silver spray paint, and another points out his "silver" bullet needs more paint (leading to Dogbert spraying paint into the guy's face). | |
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In an episode of Eerie, Indiana, a werewolf is shot with a silver bullet — in the foot. It instantly cures him of his lycanthropy, but he must then be rushed to the hospital to treat his gunshot wound.note Ironically, despite almost definitely being intended simply as a softer alternative to death, this is actually closer to the traditional folklore, where almost any anti-werewolf measure was intended for curing them, not killing them. | |
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Werewolf: The Forsaken has silver weapons of any kind do aggravated damage to Uratha once the silver touches blood. While using silver on other werewolves would be expedient, it's also a sin against the code of werewolf ethics. Still, the Uratha have a step up on their cousins, the Pure, who apparently can't even touch silver without it messing them up something fierce. | |
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In The Legend of Zelda and The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past, Ganon can only be properly slain with a silver arrow. They are replaced by the more explicitly magic Light Arrows from the next games on. | |
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In Dungeons & Dragons 3rd Edition, the silver that worked against supernatural beings wasn't actually silver but "alchemical silver", i.e. a normal steel weapon plated with silver. The softness was also codified as a slight damage penalty to slashing and piercing weapons. So if you want a silvered weapon, a mace or hammer is usually a better choice than a sword. Alternatively, you could use the much more expensive mithral, which counts as silver for the purposes of damage reduction and doesn't incur the damage penalty, as well as weighing less. | |
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And Shine Heaven Now, much like the manga it's primarily based on, makes use of silver bullets when vampire hunting. And in a pinch, the silver filling of a tooth taken from a Holocaust victim will do. | |
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In "Sorcerer Conjurer Wizard Witch", General Lord Hector Tarr insists the agents under his command go armed with silver bullets when dealing with the Friendly Neighborhood Vampire, Geneviève, in case she turns out to be not so friendly. Charles Beauregard asks if silver bullets aren't for werewolves, and Captain Gallant informs him that in field tests the bullets have been demonstrated to stop "vampires, zombies, your common shapeshifters, ghouls, sundry revenants, and some of the more physical species of ghost" — not to mention ordinary people. | |
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Robot Chicken: Spoofed in one sketch. While playing a pen-and-paper RPG, one player offers an... alternative... to the silver bullet to kill a werewolf. Even after reducing it to a puddle of viscera with a rotary gun, mopping that up into a bucket and lighting it on fire, snorting the ashes, then crapping it out, where it gets processed through a sewer system, the game master stubbornly insists that the werewolf is still alive through all of that, it has to be a silver bullet. The impracticality is likewise lampshaded in the sketch the page quote comes from, where The Lone Ranger is challenged as to whether silver bullets are as good at actually being shot as regular bullets. The Ranger replies by shooting a can on the ground so much it flies up in the air higher than any of them are tall, hitting it with every single bullet... then after a short pause, Tonto embarrasses them all by interjecting with "that silver could have fed my entire tribe for a year". |
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The Disney film instead justifies the silver because Tonto is superstitious and believes the villain is a Wendigo. He probably isn't. | |
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Turns out vampires in Granblue Fantasy are weak to these, as shown in Veight's second Fate Episode. | |
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Warhammer 40,000: Psycannon bolts are rare variants of standard bolt roundsnote .75 calibre explosive shells designed to detonate once they have penetrated a target used by the daemon hunters of the Imperium. As well as being inscribed with runes of banishment and charged with psychic energy, psycannon bolts are tipped with silver to further enhance their effectiveness against daemons | |
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The Wizard of Id. The wizard's Awful Wedded Wife demands something silver for their silver wedding anniversary. Cue the wizard arguing with the Lone Ranger, "Look, one lousy bullet's not going to break you!" | |
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In Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter, President Lincoln, aware that vampire troops are fighting for the Confederacy, orders all the silver in the country to be melted down and turned into silver bullets and cannonballs. | |
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In Codex Equus, Werebeasts are vulnerable to silver. However, Alpha Werebeasts are resistant, and thus mundane silver only hurts a lot and they require specially enchanted silver to kill. Divine Werebeasts are resistant to that and mundane silver can't harm them due to gods being resistant to anything without Primordial Quintessence in it, so they need divinely infused and specially enchanted silver to kill. | |
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Hellboy (2004): Silver shavings are among the ingredients listed by Hellboy for the all-purpose paranormal monster-killing bullets he uses for the Samaritan revolver. | |
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An issue of Planetary had a The Lone Ranger expy who used silver bullets to kill the criminals who wanted the silver mine he owned. In an interesting twist, it's revealed that he tipped every bullet with mercury, a byproduct of silver mining. So, even if a shot was non-fatal, which many of them were, the victim would still die of mercury poisoning. | |
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In Operation Chaos, automatic weapons can be used against were-creatures, by making "every tenth round argent". | |
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In the Doctor Who episode "Battlefield", the Brigadier needs to know if the UNIT armory includes silver bullets. It does and he uses them to destroy the Monster of the Week. | |
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Daemon Summoner, being a game with vampires and werewolves in it, have these as weapons. There's even a stage where you escape an asylum, unarmed, only to be chased by the werewolf assigned by the vampires to guard your cell; you spend the stage evading said werewolf while trying to locate where a revolver filled with silver bullets is hidden, and when you eventually find it you then get to gun down said werewolf. | |
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Underworld (2003): Vampires are currently using traditional silver bullets against Lycans, but as the war escalates they upgrade to bullets that release liquid silver nitrate into the bloodstream, killing them faster. In the prequel, they used swords and arrows either made or coated in silver. By the time of Awakening, silver grenades and aerosol have been invented. The Lycans used some sort of UV tracer round against vampires, that cooked them from the inside. |
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Silver is good against werewolves and vampires in Van Helsing, with silver bullets and stakes being employed against both. | |
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In Empath: The Luckiest Smurf, Duncan McSmurf carries around a silver dart that he could fling really fast at a were-Smurf if necessary. This is revealed in the story "The Night Of The Weresmurf" where Brainy is being transformed into a were-Smurf. | |
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CSI: In "Werewolves", the Victim of the Week is a man suffering from hypertrichosis (an abnormal amount of hair growth over the body) who is shot dead with a silver bullet. | |
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In Brotherhood of the Wolf, Jean-François de Morangias uses a specially modified one-handed musket loaded with silver bullets as his signature weapon, for no apparent reason other than to show off. It's certainly not because he thinks the Beast of Gévaudan is a werewolf... And he really, really should have known better than to murder someone with them, especially after showing the victim's best friend the bullets a few days earlier. | |
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Valheim: Silver weapons like Frostner and the Silver Sword deal Spirit damage in addition to the regular damage. While most enemies aren't that affected, it essentially functions like poison against undead, dealing huge damage both upfront and over time to them. Werewolves are similarly affected. | |
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In the Silver John vignette "You Know the Tale of Hoph" by Manly Wade Wellman, John uses a silver bullet to slay the Hoph. Silver, not necessarily in bullet form, is generally effective against evil creatures elsewhere in the stories. | |
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In Monster Hunter International, everyone uses silver in bullets, because it's the only thing that kills some type of monsters and generally has a stronger effect on many others. Theories why this is so are many, but no one knows for sure. The exact method depends: pure silver is crap as a bullet, so many Hunters use a modified Corbon Pow'RBall design. Originally a hollowpoint intended to mimic the reliable FMJ shape by pressing in a plastic bead that would crush and let it expand on impact, they replaced that ball with silver. The US government agencies use a different design for their rifle ammunition. The justification: they don't need much silver, so the ball is enough. In the case of monsters that don't require any silver to kill, well, they still shot it with hollowpoints. |
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In the Blade Trilogy, Blade employs silver stakes as part of his vast vampire-killing arsenal. Downplayed slightly with his guns in that Blade himself mentions that the bullets aren't silver. He uses hollow point rounds filled with a mixture of silver nitrate and essence of garlic. | |
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Nocturne (1999) gives the Stranger these for taking on werewolves. He can also find mercury bullets to use on demons and "Aqua Vampira" bullets for vampires. Of course, any type of bullets can be used to kill any type of monster, but using the proper ammunition kills them much more quickly. | |
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In The Monster Squad, one of the protagonists crafts silver bullets but neglects to bring a gun. Rudy, the oldest of the Squad, eventually has to use a gun from a fallen cop to deliver the fatal bullet to the Wolf Man. He most likely seats them into .38 cartridges with the intention of grabbing a dropped service revolver, as there are going to be plenty of those to go around once the cops show up. He belongs to a club formed around dealing with monsters, after all. | |
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Ivan Isaacs of Priest uses silver bullets against zombies. Priest zombies are immune to the traditional headshot unless the head is completely destroyed, but silver bullets will kill them regardless of where they hit. | |
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The Matrix Reloaded establishes that stories about werewolves, vampires, and UFOs are based on now-defunct programs trying to escape deletion. The Merovingian employs several of these programs as muscle. | |
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Teen Wolf: Stiles thought that Derek got shot by one, which caused Derek to call Stiles an idiot. Werewolves in Teen Wolf aren't especially susceptible to silver, but rather their bane is the Argent family (Argent being French for silver). It's eventually revealed that Beast of Gevaudan required very specific methods to kill it, including a silver spear-tip. |
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d20 Modern: In the Urban Arcana setting, one of the numerous new bullets available (and the only type that can't be bought but must be crafted) are silver bullets. They are perfect against lycanthropes. | |
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In The Breed (2001), vampires are sensitive to both silver and sunlight. Thus, cops expecting to deal with vampires carry not only silver bullets but also silver handcuffs and silver hand grenades. | |
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Anita Blake uses silver bullets. Vampires and werebeasts can be harmed by normal bullets but silver negates their healing abilities. Anita also starts carrying iron bullets after encountering Fae, who are immune to bullets unless they are Cold Iron. | |
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Cain the werewolf hunter in Buffy the Vampire Slayer makes his own custom silver bullets for use in plying his trade. Fyarl demons are particularly vulnerable to silver and will die immediately after being stabbed with it. In "A New Man" Buffy grabs a silver letter opener to kill one, but it turns out to be a fake. Which is a good thing, as the fyarl demon was actually Giles. |
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Touhou: The Ninja Maid Sakuya wields silver knives; rather than fighting vampires, however, she works for them. This fact helps fuel the Epileptic Tree that she was a Vampire Hunter who came to Scarlet Devil Mansion to slay Remilia but ended up getting hired by her instead. | |
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The protagonist of Fiends of the Eastern Front made a whole belt of silver bullets to combine this trope with More Dakka to take on Constanta and his minions. | |
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The impracticality is likewise lampshaded in the sketch the page quote comes from, where The Lone Ranger is challenged as to whether silver bullets are as good at actually being shot as regular bullets. The Ranger replies by shooting a can on the ground so much it flies up in the air higher than any of them are tall, hitting it with every single bullet... then after a short pause, Tonto embarrasses them all by interjecting with "that silver could have fed my entire tribe for a year". | |
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In Carl Maria von Weber's opera Der Freischütz, Max unknowingly makes a Deal with the Devil to win a sharpshooting contest. He forges seven silver bullets; six will strike their target unerringly, but the seventh is foretold to strike the one Max cares about the most. | |
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GURPS: Silver bullets are hard to male but have no negative effect on range or damage, against werewolves they do multiplied damage. High-Tech points out one potential problem: because they are relatively soft silver bullets can mess up rifled firearms. Notably, this is wrong. Silver is harder than lead, but also less dense. It has also been discovered that a silver bullet will shrink while cooling, and thus a silver bullet cast in a regular bullet mold comes out smaller than the intended size. Also, silver does not "mushroom" in the barrel as much as lead does. Thus, the bullet does not form a proper seal against the grooves of the barrel, allowing much of the gas to escape around the bullet, and the bullet does not get as much spin imparted to it. As a result, a silver bullet has a shorter range and less stopping power (except against werewolves, of course) when compared to a lead bullet. | |
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Rifts: A rule of thumb is that, "if Mini-missiles won't work, try silver." Silver is useful not only against werebeasts, but also vampires (damages, and a silver stake works just as good as a wooden one) and most other Undead, demons, and some gods. One country in South America actually issues silver-plated swords to its Humongous Mecha because they're at war with a kingdom of vampires. | |
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To defeat the creature only referred to as IT, the Losers Club decide to trap It in Its werewolf form and slay It with a silver bullet. As none of them know how to use a gun, they do the next best thing and make silver balls and use a slingshot. While they don't kill It, they definitely leave It badly wounded. However, the book reveals later that it was not the silver slug, but rather the children's belief in its killing power, that made it work. | |
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In Love at First Bite, Dr. Rosenberg tries to kill Dracula with silver bullets. Dracula then informs him he's thinking of werewolves. There's a similar exchange in My Best Friend is a Vampire, between Professor McCarthy, a self-proclaimed vampire hunter, and Modoc, a centuries-old vampire who is completely unaffected by being shot. |
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In Spec Ops: The Line, one of the mementos is a set of hand-loading equipment next to some silver jewelry. The Big Bad waxes rhapsodic for a bit about how his men are now monsters that can only be killed with silver, before acknowledging the fact that there are loads of now-useless jewelry around Dubai and very little ammunition to be found, making silver bullets a necessity. | |
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Werewolf: The Apocalypse — Earthblood: Silver ammunition is a major tool in Endron's arsenal against the werewolves. Silver-loaded weapons glow white in Cahal's Penumbra Vision, and damage dealt by them heals much more slowly than regular damage. | |
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Terraria: Subverted; you can buy or craft Silver Bullets, but they don't do any extra damage against Werewolves or undead enemies. | |
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Dr. Terror's House of Horrors: In "Werewolf", Dawson melts down a silver crucifix (which had itself had been made from the silver sword used to slay the werewolf 200 years earlier) and casts six silver bullets to slay the werewolf. | |
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AMC Squad: Silver bullets exist, but only for weapons chambered in .45 ACP rounds. They are very effective against supernatural enemies such as Losts and Sorcerers, who are otherwise immune to regular attacks, but the bullets are uncommon in missions with supernatural threats. The player can also research silver bullets back at the AMC Base so they can equip the agents with them, and some special weapons come equipped with silver rounds in case the player cannot find .45 silver rounds out on the field. | |
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The Witcher: Like the book series that the games are based on, silver is especially effective against monsters. Geralt carries a silver sword for dealing with them alongside a steel one for humans, though as he puts it, "both are for monsters." In terms of a more literal example of an actual bullet, the crossbow bolts he fires are silver-tipped. | |
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In Fighting Fantasy series, silver weapons are often employed to harm or kill werewolves, undead, and vampires. Memorable examples include Dead of Night (you're monster-hunting templar who starts the game with a silver crucifix), Vault of the Vampire (you can use a silver-plated stake to kill the Count for good), Magehunter (where a silver bullet is Mencius' sole weakness, via Boom, Headshot!) and finally Howl of the Werewolf (where you have to collect a series of silver daggers and you can be killed by a hunter armed with actual silver bullets) | |
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In Sheep's Clothing, half-skinwalker gunslinger Wolf Cowrie is stabbed with a silver dagger and the point broken off in him. While it isn't immediately fatal, it cripples him badly and likely would have killed him had a local doctor not been able to get the piece out. | |
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In The Chronicles of Amber, gunpowder doesn't work in Amber. In The Guns of Avalon, Corwin has discovered another substance which will work like gunpowder there. He also uses silver bullets because he figures it can't hurt. And Caine uses silver-headed arrows to shoot Brand during the final battle. It doesn't pay to take chances with that family. | |
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