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* In an episode of ''Series/{{CSINY}}'', one VictimOfTheWeek was accidentally killed by a blank-firing gun going off point-blank in his chest. The murderer -- a down-on-his-luck actor that was humiliated by the victim -- makes clear as he confesses that he didn't think a blank could do that.
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* ''Series/{{CSI}}'': In an episode of ''Series/{{CSINY}}'', "Malice in Wonderland", one VictimOfTheWeek was of a group of WeddingSmashers robbers makes the mistake of firing a blank-loaded gun point blank into the groom's chest, propelling a button from the man's suit into his body and killing him.
* ''Series/{{CSINY}}'': The first victim in "[[Recap/CSINYS02E15 Fare Game]]" is accidentally killed by a blank-firing gungoing off being shot point-blank in at his chest. The murderer -- a down-on-his-luck actor that was humiliated by the victim -- makes clear as he confesses that he didn't think a blank could do that.
* ''Series/{{CSINY}}'': The first victim in "[[Recap/CSINYS02E15 Fare Game]]" is accidentally killed by a blank-firing gun
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* In the ''Series/{{CSI}}'' episode "Malice in Wonderland", one of a group of WeddingSmashers robbers makes the mistake of firing a blank-loaded gun point blank into the groom's chest, propelling a button from the man's suit into his body and killing him.
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* This is how Creator/BrandonLee was killed while filming ''Film/TheCrow''. A prop tech not certified as an armorer had to come up with inert "dummy" rounds on short notice and simply removed the gunpowder (but not the primers) from six cartridges and reseated the bullets. The primer from one went off and propelled the bullet slightly down the barrel, creating what's known as a "squib load". The weapon was also not inspected between takes, and when a later scene (the scene where Funboy shot Eric Draven) required a blank to be fired, the blank propelled the bullet the rest of the way down the barrel with near the force of a live round, which struck and killed Brandon.
* This was how model and actor Jon-Erik Hexum accidentally killed himself while messing around with a prop gun on a TV show set -- he fired a blank into the side of his head at point-blank range and the blast from the explosion fractured his skull and drove a piece of it into his brain.
* This was how model and actor Jon-Erik Hexum accidentally killed himself while messing around with a prop gun on a TV show set -- he fired a blank into the side of his head at point-blank range and the blast from the explosion fractured his skull and drove a piece of it into his brain.
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* This is how Creator/BrandonLee was killed while filming ''Film/TheCrow''.''Film/TheCrow1994''. A prop tech not certified as an armorer had to come up with inert "dummy" rounds on short notice and simply removed the gunpowder (but not the primers) from six cartridges and reseated the bullets. The primer from one went off and propelled the bullet slightly down the barrel, creating what's known as a "squib load". The weapon was also not inspected between takes, and when a later scene (the scene where Funboy shot Eric Draven) required a blank to be fired, the blank propelled the bullet the rest of the way down the barrel with near the force of a live round, which struck and killed Brandon.
* This was how model and actor Jon-Erik Hexum accidentally killed himself while messing around with a prop gun on a TV showset -- he set--he fired a blank into the side of his head at point-blank range and the blast from the explosion fractured his skull and drove a piece of it into his brain.
* This was how model and actor Jon-Erik Hexum accidentally killed himself while messing around with a prop gun on a TV show
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* In ''VideoGame/UntilDawn'', Chris is at one point forced into a SadisticChoice of shooting either himself or his crush Ashley after they're both abducted by a StockSlasher. Regardless of what he does, the gun is later revealed to be loaded with blanks, leaving himself and Ashley unscathed. The "shoot yourself" choice is especially egregious since Chris is shown putting the gun to his neck.
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* In ''VideoGame/UntilDawn'', Chris is at one point forced into a SadisticChoice of shooting either himself or his crush Ashley after they're both abducted by a StockSlasher. Regardless of what he does, the gun is later revealed to be loaded with blanks, leaving himself and Ashley unscathed. The "shoot yourself" choice is especially egregious since Chris is shown putting the gun to his neck.
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* In ''Film/DieHard2'', a key element of the terrorist plot is to make the authorities think that Major Grant's antiterrorist team is a legitimate US Army outfit, instead of in league with the terrorists (who are rogue US soldiers). They exchange a volley of fire against each other, and [=McClane=] manages to get ahold of one of the submachine guns used and some clips, but becomes puzzled when his rounds later don't kill any of the terrorists. Not only did an experienced cop not notice the lack of recoil, but simply switching between live and blank clips (denoted by colored red and blue tape) wouldn't work because the said recoil of the blanks would be inadequate to cycle the actions.
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* Averted in ''Film/DasExperiment''. Two characters get severely wounded by a gun loaded with blanks that was fired in close proximity to them.
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* At the climax of Warren Manzi's ''[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perfect_Crime_(play) Perfect Crime]]'', the protagonist, having been DrivenToSuicide, grabs a cop's gun and shoots herself in the head at point-blank range... only for the cop to reveal that he'd expected her to try something and had swapped the bullets for blanks, and she ends up with nothing more than a muzzle burn on her temple for her trouble. In reality, shooting herself in the head at that range even with a blank would have almost certainly been lethal. (Ironically, the fallacy of this trope would be something the ''crew'' of this show would have to be ''very'' aware of, as blank-firing guns are used at other points in the show, so they would need to keep extremely tight safety measures to ensure that there'd be no chance of a blank-loaded gun making it onto the stage for that scene.)
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* At the climax of Warren Manzi's ''[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perfect_Crime_(play) Perfect Crime]]'', the protagonist, having been DrivenToSuicide, grabs a cop's gun and shoots herself in the head at point-blank range... only for the cop to reveal that he'd expected her to try something and had swapped the bullets for blanks, and she ends up with nothing more than a muzzle burn on her temple for her trouble. In reality, shooting herself in the head at that range even with a blank would have almost certainly been lethal. (Ironically, the fallacy of this trope would be something the ''crew'' of this show would have to be ''very'' aware of, as blank-firing guns are used at other points in the show, so they would need to keep extremely tight safety measures to ensure that there'd be no chance of a blank-loaded the gun making it onto the stage for used in that scene.scene is completely unloaded and can't be mixed up with a loaded one.)
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* At the climax of Warren Manzi's ''[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perfect_Crime_(play) Perfect Crime]]'', the protagonist, having been DrivenToSuicide, grabs a cop's gun and shoots herself in the head at point-blank range... only for the cop to reveal that he'd expected her to try something and had swapped the bullets for blanks, and she ends up with nothing more than a muzzle burn on her temple for her trouble. In reality, shooting herself in the head at that range even with a blank would have almost certainly been lethal. (Ironically, the fallacy of this trope would be something the ''crew'' of this show would have to be ''very'' aware of, as blank-firing guns are used at other points in the show, so they would need to keep extremely tight safety measures to ensure that the gun used in that scene is completely unloaded.)
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* At the climax of Warren Manzi's ''[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perfect_Crime_(play) Perfect Crime]]'', the protagonist, having been DrivenToSuicide, grabs a cop's gun and shoots herself in the head at point-blank range... only for the cop to reveal that he'd expected her to try something and had swapped the bullets for blanks, and she ends up with nothing more than a muzzle burn on her temple for her trouble. In reality, shooting herself in the head at that range even with a blank would have almost certainly been lethal. (Ironically, the fallacy of this trope would be something the ''crew'' of this show would have to be ''very'' aware of, as blank-firing guns are used at other points in the show, so they would need to keep extremely tight safety measures to ensure that there'd be no chance of a blank-loaded gun making it onto the gun used in stage for that scene is completely unloaded.scene.)
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* At the climax of Warren Manzi's ''[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perfect_Crime_(play) Perfect Crime]]'', the protagonist, having been DrivenToSuicide, grabs a cop's gun and shoots herself in the head at point-blank range... only for the cop to reveal that he'd expected her to try something and had swapped the bullets for blanks, and she ends up with nothing more than a muzzle burn for her trouble. In reality, shooting herself in the head at that range even with a blank would have almost certainly been lethal. (Ironically, the fallacy of this trope would be something the ''crew'' of this show would have to be ''very'' aware of, as blank-firing guns are used at other points in the show, so they would need to keep extremely tight safety measures to ensure that the gun used in that scene is completely unloaded.)
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* At the climax of Warren Manzi's ''[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perfect_Crime_(play) Perfect Crime]]'', the protagonist, having been DrivenToSuicide, grabs a cop's gun and shoots herself in the head at point-blank range... only for the cop to reveal that he'd expected her to try something and had swapped the bullets for blanks, and she ends up with nothing more than a muzzle burn on her temple for her trouble. In reality, shooting herself in the head at that range even with a blank would have almost certainly been lethal. (Ironically, the fallacy of this trope would be something the ''crew'' of this show would have to be ''very'' aware of, as blank-firing guns are used at other points in the show, so they would need to keep extremely tight safety measures to ensure that the gun used in that scene is completely unloaded.)
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* At the climax of Warren Manzi's ''[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perfect_Crime_(play) Perfect Crime]]'', the protagonist grabs a cop's gun and shoots herself in the head at point-blank range... only for the cop to reveal that he'd expected her to try something and had swapped the bullets for blanks, and she ends up with nothing more than a muzzle burn for her trouble. In reality, shooting herself in the head at that range even with a blank would have almost certainly been lethal. (Ironically, the fallacy of this trope would be something the ''crew'' of this show would have to be ''very'' aware of, as blank-firing guns are used at other points in the show, so they would need to keep extremely tight safety measures to ensure that the gun used in that scene is completely unloaded.)
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* At the climax of Warren Manzi's ''[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perfect_Crime_(play) Perfect Crime]]'', the protagonist protagonist, having been DrivenToSuicide, grabs a cop's gun and shoots herself in the head at point-blank range... only for the cop to reveal that he'd expected her to try something and had swapped the bullets for blanks, and she ends up with nothing more than a muzzle burn for her trouble. In reality, shooting herself in the head at that range even with a blank would have almost certainly been lethal. (Ironically, the fallacy of this trope would be something the ''crew'' of this show would have to be ''very'' aware of, as blank-firing guns are used at other points in the show, so they would need to keep extremely tight safety measures to ensure that the gun used in that scene is completely unloaded.)
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* At the climax of Warren Manzi's ''[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perfect_Crime_(play) Perfect Crime]]'', the protagonist grabs a cop's gun and shoots herself in the head at point-blank range... only for the cop to reveal that he'd expected her to try something and had swapped the bullets for blanks, and she ends up with nothing more than a muzzle burn for her trouble. In reality, shooting herself in the head at that range even with a blank would have almost certainly been lethal. (Ironically, the fallacy of this trope would be something the ''crew'' of this show would have to be ''very'' aware of, as blank-firing guns are used at other points in the show, so they would need to keep extremely tight safety measures to ensure that there was no chance of a loaded gun -- even loaded with blanks -- being used in that scene.)
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* At the climax of Warren Manzi's ''[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perfect_Crime_(play) Perfect Crime]]'', the protagonist grabs a cop's gun and shoots herself in the head at point-blank range... only for the cop to reveal that he'd expected her to try something and had swapped the bullets for blanks, and she ends up with nothing more than a muzzle burn for her trouble. In reality, shooting herself in the head at that range even with a blank would have almost certainly been lethal. (Ironically, the fallacy of this trope would be something the ''crew'' of this show would have to be ''very'' aware of, as blank-firing guns are used at other points in the show, so they would need to keep extremely tight safety measures to ensure that there was no chance of a loaded the gun -- even loaded with blanks -- being used in that scene.scene is completely unloaded.)
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* In an episode of ''Series/LawAndOrder'', a murder scene from a [[ShowWithinAShow web series within the show]] results in the actor dying for real, on camera. The detectives spend a while fruitlessly investigating who could have swapped out the blanks for real bullets. Then they find out from the coroner that there was no bullet; the victim was killed by a blank fired too close.
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* In Deconstructed in an episode of ''Series/LawAndOrder'', ''Series/LawAndOrderCriminalIntent'', when a murder scene from a [[ShowWithinAShow web series within the show]] results in the actor dying for real, on camera. The detectives spend a while fruitlessly investigating who could have swapped out the blanks for real bullets. Then they find out from the coroner that there was no bullet; the victim was killed by a blank fired too close.
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* At the climax of Warren Manzi's ''[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perfect_Crime_(play) Perfect Crime]]'', the protagonist grabs a cop's gun and shoots herself in the head at point-blank range... only for the cop to reveal that he'd expected her to try something and had swapped the bullets for blanks, and she ends up with nothing more than a muzzle burn for her trouble. In reality, shooting herself in the head at that range even with a blank would have almost certainly been lethal. (Ironically, the fallacy of this trope would be something the ''crew'' of this show would have to be ''very'' aware of, as blank-firing guns are used at other points in the show, so they would need to keep extremely tight safety measures to ensure that there was no chance of a loaded gun -- even loaded with blanks -- being used in that scene.)
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* At the climax of Warren Manzi's ''[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perfect_Crime_(play) Perfect Crime]]'', the protagonist grabs a cop's gun and shoots herself in the head at point-blank range... only for the cop to reveal that he'd expected her to try something and had swapped the bullets for blanks, and she ends up with nothing more than a muzzle burn for her trouble. In reality, shooting herself in the head at that range even with a blank would have almost certainly been lethal. (Ironically, the fallacy of this trope would be something the ''crew'' of this show would have to be ''very'' aware of, as blank-firing guns are used at other points in the show, so they would need to keep extremely tight safety measures to ensure that there was no chance of a loaded gun -- even loaded with blanks -- being used in that scene.)
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* A supplement for ''TabletopGame/VampireTheMasquerade'', including ridiculously more weapons than most Chronicles would probably use, also included rules for blanks. They were harmless beyond a fairly short range... but just as deadly as a real gunshot inside that range.
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* A supplement for ''TabletopGame/VampireTheMasquerade'', including ridiculously more weapons than most Chronicles would probably use, also included rules for blanks. They were harmless beyond a fairly short range... but just as deadly as a real gunshot inside that range.
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In RealLife, blanks are not so harmless, and mishandling them can (and has) resulted in the deaths of actors. A bullet is propelled by igniting pressurized gunpowder, creating a small, controlled explosion that forces it out through the barrel. Blank cartridges don't contain a bullet, but take a guess [[StuffBlowingUp which part of the process is still intact]]. At close range, the high pressure and extremely hot gases generated from the explosion can fracture bones, severely burn soft tissue and drive parts of brass casings and paper/plastic wadding into the flesh.
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In RealLife, blanks are not so harmless, and mishandling them can (and has) resulted in the deaths of actors. A bullet is propelled by igniting pressurized gunpowder, creating a small, controlled explosion that forces it out through the barrel. Blank cartridges don't contain a bullet, bullet but take a guess [[StuffBlowingUp which part of the process is still intact]]. At close range, the high pressure and extremely hot gases generated from the explosion can fracture bones, severely burn soft tissue tissue, and drive parts of brass casings and paper/plastic wadding into the flesh.
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* In ''Film/DogSoldiers'', the heroes' squad is in the werewolf-plagued woods because they are in a field exercise and all of their long guns are showcased to be loaded with blanks because they are fit with blank-firing adaptations (specialized muzzle brakes to help disperse the flash and redirect gas to help with cycling). The moment they figure out that they are in a real threat situation [[spoiler:by finding an SAS team that has been totally slaughtered]], they ditch the blank guns and scavenge proper equipment.
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* In ''Film/DogSoldiers'', the heroes' squad is in the werewolf-plagued woods because they are in a field exercise and all of their long guns are showcased to be loaded with blanks because they are fit fitted with blank-firing adaptations (specialized muzzle brakes to help disperse the flash and redirect gas to help with cycling). The moment they figure out that they are in a real threat situation [[spoiler:by finding an a SAS team that has been totally slaughtered]], they ditch the blank guns and scavenge proper equipment.
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* Averted in the solution of the LockedRoomMystery in the Literature/SirHenryMerrivale novel ''The Ten Teacups'' aka ''The Peacock-Feather Murders''. [[spoiler:The victim is found shot dead in a locked room, and is believed to have been shot at very close range due to the powder-burn on the back of his head. It is eventually revealed that the killer "accidentally" shot him with a blank cartridge the previous day (which the victim covered up believing that the killer was his friend and it was a genuine accident), and then sniped him exactly in the middle of the pre-existing powder burn through the window of the room.]]
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* Averted in the solution of the LockedRoomMystery in the Literature/SirHenryMerrivale novel ''The Ten Teacups'' aka ''The Peacock-Feather Murders''. [[spoiler:The victim is found shot dead in a locked room, and is believed to have been shot at very close range due to the powder-burn powder burn on the back of his head. It is eventually revealed that the killer "accidentally" shot him with a blank cartridge the previous day (which the victim covered up believing that the killer was his friend and it was a genuine accident), and then sniped him exactly in the middle of the pre-existing powder burn through the window of the room.]]
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* This was how the model and actor Jon-Erik Hexum accidentally killed himself while messing around with a prop gun on a TV show set -- he fired a blank into the side of his head at point-blank range and the blast from the explosion fractured his skull and drove a piece of it into his brain.
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* This was how the model and actor Jon-Erik Hexum accidentally killed himself while messing around with a prop gun on a TV show set -- he fired a blank into the side of his head at point-blank range and the blast from the explosion fractured his skull and drove a piece of it into his brain.
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* In ''Film/DogSoldiers'', the heroes' SAS team is in the werewolf-plagued woods because they are in a field exercise and all of their long guns are showcased to be loaded with blanks because they are fit with blank-firing adaptations (specialized muzzle brakes to help disperse the flash and redirect gas to help with cycling). The moment they figure out that they are in a real threat situation [[spoiler:by finding another SAS team that has been totally slaughtered]], they ditch the blank guns and scavenge proper equipment.
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* In ''Film/DogSoldiers'', the heroes' SAS team squad is in the werewolf-plagued woods because they are in a field exercise and all of their long guns are showcased to be loaded with blanks because they are fit with blank-firing adaptations (specialized muzzle brakes to help disperse the flash and redirect gas to help with cycling). The moment they figure out that they are in a real threat situation [[spoiler:by finding another an SAS team that has been totally slaughtered]], they ditch the blank guns and scavenge proper equipment.
