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* Happened to Lobo, he and a rival bounty hunter traded shots from their oversized machine guns. By the end of the fight, Lobo was little more than a skeleton with more shells than flesh before keeling over.
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* Often [[ShootingSuperman attempted]] by criminals on Franchise/{{Superman}}.
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* A ''Series/SaturdayNightLive'' sketch on the episode where JeremyRenner guest-hosted (involving a three-way MexicanStandoff that went on for ''[[OverlyLongGag way]]'' too long (as in ''several days'')) one of the stand-offers calls it quits at the ending of the sketch, only to get shot repeatedly by the other two. And a few more times as they leave, for good measure.
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* The "Den" segment of the animated film ''WesternAnimation/HeavyMetal'' has the muscular hero overpower Aard's bodyguards and seize an automatic rifle. Den then demands Aard return Katherine to him: "Bring me the girl, or die." Aard blithely chooses death, so Den fires a burst of six shots into him. Aard merely giggles, and completely heals the bullet holes in his chest in seconds.
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* The "Den" segment of Creator/IvanReitman's animated film ''WesternAnimation/HeavyMetal'' has the muscular hero overpower Aard's bodyguards and seize an automatic rifle. Den then demands Aard return Katherine to him: "Bring me the girl, or die." Aard blithely chooses death, so Den fires a burst of six shots into him. Aard merely giggles, and completely heals the bullet holes in his chest in seconds.
* ''{{WesternAnimation/Futurama}}'': The Robot Mafia riddle a robot with laser blasts for not making his loan payments in the "[[Recap/FuturamaS2E13BenderGetsMade Bender Gets Made]]" episode. And then the robot gets up and thanks the Donbot for being so merciful.
* ''{{WesternAnimation/Futurama}}'': The Robot Mafia riddle a robot with laser blasts for not making his loan payments in the "[[Recap/FuturamaS2E13BenderGetsMade Bender Gets Made]]" episode. And then the robot gets up and thanks the Donbot for being so merciful.
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* The "Den" segment of Creator/IvanReitman's animated film ''WesternAnimation/HeavyMetal'' has the muscular hero overpower Aard's bodyguards and seize an automatic rifle. Den then demands Aard return Katherine to him: "Bring me the girl, or die." Aard blithely chooses death, so Den fires a burst of six shots into him. Aard merely giggles, and completely heals the bullet holes in his chest in seconds.
* ''{{WesternAnimation/Futurama}}'':''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'': The Robot Mafia riddle a robot with laser blasts for not making his loan payments in the "[[Recap/FuturamaS2E13BenderGetsMade Bender Gets Made]]" episode. And then the robot gets up and thanks the Donbot for being so merciful.
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* In Creator/{{Capcom}}'s unreleased ''Pinball/{{Kingpin}},'' the Kingpin is killed by being shot full of holes while his face rots away to the skull.
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* A [[NoRangeLikePointBlankRange point-blank use]] of this trope is how AdolfHitler dies in ''Film/IngloriousBasterds''.
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* Marshal Guillaume Brune was killed like this, along with lots of stabbing, to the point that his remains were unrecognisable when he was fished out of the Rhone. [[TheCoronerDothProtestTooMuch The (Royalist) authorities initially filed it away as a suicide.]]
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* Marshal Guillaume Brune was killed like this, this (possibly because the first shooter missed him at point-blank range), along with lots of stabbing, to the point that his remains were unrecognisable when he was fished out of the Rhone. [[TheCoronerDothProtestTooMuch The (Royalist) authorities initially filed it away as a suicide.]]
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* A ''Series/SaturdayNightLive'' sketch on the episode where JeremyRenner guest-hosted (involving a three-way MexicanStandoff that went on for ''[[OvertlyLongGag way]]'' too long (as in ''several days'')) one of the stand-offers calls it quits at the ending of the sketch, only to get shot repeatedly by the other two. And a few more times as they leave, for good measure.
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* A ''Series/SaturdayNightLive'' sketch on the episode where JeremyRenner guest-hosted (involving a three-way MexicanStandoff that went on for ''[[OvertlyLongGag ''[[OverlyLongGag way]]'' too long (as in ''several days'')) one of the stand-offers calls it quits at the ending of the sketch, only to get shot repeatedly by the other two. And a few more times as they leave, for good measure.
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* A ''Series/SaturdayNightLive'' sketch on the episode where JeremyRenner guest-hosted (involving a three-way MexicanStandoff that went on for ''[[OvertlyLongGag way]]'' too long (as in ''several days'')) one of the stand-offers calls it quits at the ending of the sketch, only to get shot repeatedly by the other two. [[KickThemWhenTheyAreDown And a few more times as they leave, for good measure]].
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* Also parodied in the second season finale of ''Series/{{Community}}''. During the paintball war against City College, Troy runs down a hallway, turns a corner, pauses, and says "I had a dream it would end this way." We then see an entire unit of City College stormtroopers who splatter Troy with paintballs.
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* A ''Series/SaturdayNightLive'' sketch on the episode where JeremyRenner guest-hosted (involving a three-way MexicanStandoff that went on for ''[[OvertlyLongGag way]]'' too long (as in ''several days'')) one of the stand-offers calls it quits at the ending of the sketch, only to get shot repeatedly by the other two. [[KickThemWhenTheyAreDown And a few more times as they leave, for good measure]].
* A ''Series/SaturdayNightLive'' sketch on the episode where JeremyRenner guest-hosted (involving a three-way MexicanStandoff that went on for ''[[OvertlyLongGag way]]'' too long (as in ''several days'')) one of the stand-offers calls it quits at the ending of the sketch, only to get shot repeatedly by the other two. [[KickThemWhenTheyAreDown And a few more times as they leave, for good measure]].
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* A RedShirt AD Police trooper gets ''[[{{Gorn}} utterly torn to pieces]]'' by a [[KillerRobot rampaging Boomer's]] auto-cannon in the ''Anime/BubblegumCrisis'' OVA episode "Burn Up".
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* ''Manga/MotherKeeper'', this is sadly the fate of poor Lint after he stbs Graham, Graham shoots him multiple times.
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* This is how Officer Alex J. Murphy meets his end at the hands of the Boddicker gang before being [[WeCanRebuildHim rebuilt]] as ''[[Film/{{Robocop 1987}} Robocop]]''.
** A RedShirt executive gets thoroughly ''[[ThereIsNoKillLikeOverkill annihilated]]'' in this fashion by the auto cannons of the ED-209 in the same film.
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** A RedShirt executive gets thoroughly ''[[ThereIsNoKillLikeOverkill annihilated]]'' in this fashion by the auto cannons of the ED-209 in the same film.
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* On ''Film/LastManStanding'', a group of soldiers of the [[TheIrishMob Doyle gang]] is double-crossed by their hired Mexican [[DirtyCop police goons]] and machine-gunned without mercy within their car for a whole minute. [[AntiHero John Smith]] [[EvenEvilHasStandards finds the massacre gruesome to watch]] and calls it a "bad way to go" in narration.
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-->'''John Smith:''' It was a massacre. Couldn't say I was real sorry...but it was a"bad rough way to go" in narration. check out.
-->'''John Smith:''' It was a massacre. Couldn't say I was real sorry...but it was a
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* Vincent "Mad Dog" Coll, a notorious gangster, was shot full of holes with a Thompson machine gun while he was making a call from a phone booth in a drug store.
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* The so-called [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mozambique_Drill Mozambique Drill]] (two shots to the chest, one to the head) was actually developed by accident by Rhodesian mercenary Mike Rousseau when two pistol shots to the torso failed to bring down an enemy guerrilla. He finished the job with a headshot. His friend Jeff Cooper refined it into an actual technique.
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Acording the No Easy Day biography, Osama was shot twice, and any subsequent shots were a while later by other Seals to make sure he was dead, though he already was on the ground.
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* ''Film/TrainingDay'': [[spoiler: Alonzo]] meets his end thanks to the Russian mob this way.
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* Subverted at the end of ''Film/VForVendetta'', when [[spoiler: V stands and takes a salvo from Creedy and his men to prove that YouCannotKillAnIdea before slaughtering them all. Once they are dead he is revealed to have worn a metal plate that is riddled with bullet holes and shortly thereafter dies.]]
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* Subverted DoubleSubverted at the end of ''Film/VForVendetta'', when [[spoiler: V stands and takes a salvo from Creedy and his men to prove that YouCannotKillAnIdea before slaughtering them all. Once they are dead he is revealed to have worn a metal plate that is riddled with bullet holes and shortly thereafter dies.]]
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* A [[NoRangeLikePointBlankRange point-blank use]] of this trope is how AdolphHitler dies in ''Film/IngloriousBasterds''.
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The gory result of properly-aimed MoreDakka.
When someone or something needs to be killed DeaderThanDead, and their death needs to be particularly brutal (or in some cases, well-deserved), sometimes this problem will be solved by a handful of attackers emptying their guns into the target- in some cases involving larger guns, they may even be shot to pieces.
This trope is usually about quantity, not quality, so in the event that only one person is around to do the job, expect to see them wielding handguns or a machine gun. However, shotguns and the like are often used for [[DramaticGunCock dramatic effect]].
Expect the victim to flail and twitch dramatically (or hilariously) with each new wound. The amount of blood shown is directly dependent on the work's rating or amount of {{Narm}} needed.
SisterTrope to NoHoldsBarredBeatdown and a SubTrope of ThereIsNoKillLikeOverkill. Compare and contrast with RasputinianDeath, which often involves multiple fatal factors, and ShootingSuperman, which is when this is a NoSell.
AlphaStrike is when a military unit does this to a single target as opposed to a person.
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* Attempted by Mustang and Havoc in ''Manga/FullmetalAlchemist'' at the beginning of their confrontation with Lust. Her reaction is [[HealingFactor "It'll take more than that to get me on my knees."]] [[KillItWithFire Mustang responds appropriately.]]
* ''Anime/GhostInTheShellStandAloneComplex'': The death of the second season's BigBad Kazunoto Goda is performed by The Major and Batou unloading two Squad Automatic Weapons onto him at point-blank range ''until he's falling to pieces and his head explodes''.
** It goes without saying that with most of the good ''and'' bad guys of the franchise being cyborgs or using some type of armor, this is often used [[MakeSureHesDead to make damn sure they're dead]].
* ''Manga/DeathNote'': Matt's death: several of Takada's bodyguards unloading unto him [[YouWouldntShootMe right after he tells them that it's in their best interest to keep him alive]]. One bodyguard says later that he was clearly stalling for time.
* ''Manga/RoseOfVersailles'': Oscar is shot dead by a dozen muskets.
* ''Manga/OnePiece'': Blackbeard's pirates shoot Whitebeard 562 times. The other parts of his death are [[RasputinianDeath getting sharp wounds 267 times, getting hit by cannonballs 46 times, a few laser shots, getting frozen mid-battle, and having half his face melted off, on top on being ill and old]].
* ''Anime/PantyAndStockingWithGarterbelt'' has an episode that chronicles the origin of Garterbelt, where he started out as a cocaine kingpin. Rival dealers and his own flunkies burst into his office one day, firing a torrent of bullets at him. Though not explicitly shown, it's implied from his half-disintegrated chair that Garterbelt fared no better.
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* In [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ldGjixoV4xs "The Last Gasp of the Blasted Bugler"]] Gunga Din gets hit by dozens, if not hundreds of bullets while blowing a bugle warning.
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* Often [[ShootingSuperman attempted]] by criminals on Franchise/{{Superman}}.
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* After Major Mitchell from ''Film/IndependenceDay'' realizes that the glass separating his group from the alien psychically attacking the President is ''not'' bulletproof, all available personnel with a sidearm line up to fire on the alien, followed by Mitchell delivering a CoupDeGrace.
* ''Film/BeverlyHillsCop'' uses this trope in the StormingTheCastle scene; after Jenny frees herself from Maitland and dives for cover, Axel and Bogomil take the opportunity to very loudly fire every bullet they have into him.
* ''Film/TrainingDay'': [[spoiler: Alonzo]] meets his end thanks to the Russian mob this way.
* ''Film/TheGodfather'', Sonny at the tollbooth.
* In the opening scene of ''Film/TropicThunder'', Tugg Speedman (playing Sgt. Four-Leaf Tayback) gets shot over and over again while he runs for the helicopter.
* ''Film/IronMan'' has an offscreen example with Yinsen, who runs through the caves firing wildly to buy Tony time to get his suit booted up, only to run into about twenty Ten Rings soldiers pointing machine guns at him. The next time we see him, he's gravely injured.
* Subverted in ''Film/TheMask''. Tyrell, wearing the Mask, is shot repeatedly, only to calmly suck in his gut and fire the bullets out of his mouth.
** A second, comedic example from ''Film/TheMask'': Tyrell's men riddle a bar The Mask (Ipkiss, this time) is hiding behind with bullets. The Mask pops out, says, "Did you miss me?", takes a drink of water and [[InvisibleHoles the water sprays out several holes in his body]], ''LooneyTunes''-style, and The Mask quips, "I guess not!"
* Happens to [[PsychoForHire Mad Dog Coll]] at the end of ''Film/{{Mobsters}}'', with [[ThereIsNoKillLikeOverkill two tommy guns wielded akimbo at point-blank range]] by Charlie Luciano.
* ''Film/TheWildBunch'': At Agua Verde, after Mapache executes their friend Angel right in front of them, Pike's gang responds by gunning down the general on the spot, alongside with his German military advisors. A bloody gunfight ensues between Pike's gang and the Agua Verde garrison, made even more destructive by the [[GatlingGood Gatling gun]] emplacement inside the compound that the outlaws use to cut down Mapache's men. They are eventually overwhelmed by sheer numbers and gunned dead by the soldiers.
* This is how Officer Alex J. Murphy meets his end at the hands of the Boddicker gang in ''Film/{{Robocop1987}}''.
** A RedShirt executive gets thoroughly ''[[ThereIsNoKillLikeOverkill annihilated]]'' in this fashion by the auto cannons of the ED-209 in the same film.
* Subverted at the end of ''Film/VForVendetta'', when [[spoiler: V stands and takes a salvo from Creedy and his men to prove that YouCannotKillAnIdea before slaughtering them all. Once they are dead he is revealed to have worn a metal plate that is riddled with bullet holes and shortly thereafter dies.]]
* The brutal execution scene in ''The St. Valentine's Day Massacre (1967)'', [[http://youtu.be/BJ-gYx7hXZg?t=1m45s here]].
* The same execution was also depicted in the beginning of ''Film/SomeLikeItHot''.
* In ''Film/BackToTheFuture'', the terrorists shoot Doc dozens of times (probably because they were using machine guns.)
* A [[NoRangeLikePointBlankRange point-blank use]] of this trope is how AdolphHitler dies in ''Film/IngloriousBasterds''.
* A DirtyCop ends up machine-gunned to pieces (alongside his patrol car) by ''other'' dirty cops on the ClintEastwood film ''Film/TheGauntlet''. It's not the only example of liberal application of MoreDakka on the film.
* About two dozen Chitauri do this to the Hulk near the end of ''Film/TheAvengers'', nailing him with countless lasers. It makes him mad, but it's the first thing in the film aside from Thor that actually slows him down.
* On ''Film/LastManStanding'', a group of soldiers of the [[TheIrishMob Doyle gang]] is double-crossed by their hired Mexican [[DirtyCop police goons]] and machine-gunned without mercy within their car for a whole minute. [[AntiHero John Smith]] [[EvenEvilHasStandards finds the massacre gruesome to watch]] and calls it a "bad way to go" in narration.
* On ''Film/{{Collateral}}'', we see the beginning of [[PsychoForHire Vincent's]] VillainousBreakdown during the club attack scene, where he empties about half a pistol clip into his target before reloading and giving him a CoupDeGrace with the Mozambique Drill (which he had been using with efficiency throughout the film so far).
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* The ''Series/{{Firefly}}'' episode "War Stories." Jayne, Wash, and Zoë watch Mal struggle with his torturer, but after he assures them that this is ''not'' something he has to do himself, the three respond by, as the script puts it, "filling the Torturer with as many holes as standards and practices will allow."
* ''Series/CSICrimeSceneInvestigation'' featured a VictimOfTheWeek on the episode "Take My Life, Please" that had been shot so many times and with so many different calibers that it was actually possible [[TorsoWithAView to see through him]]. Turned out that he had in life bombed an abortion clinic (with plenty of collateral damage to both objects and people) and had gone off the grid to avoid retaliation, and who had [[TooDumbToLive sneaked into an outdoors shooting range]] unknowingly to sleep for the night. [[AssholeVictim Although the shooters were guilty of trying to hide the evidence, nobody was really sorry for the man]].
* One parody of this trope can be found in an early fifth-season episode of ''Series/TheBigBangTheory'', when Sheldon "sacrifices" himself for his friends in a game of paintball, with the result being a ludicrously slowed-down shot of multiple paintballs striking him in the chest, each impact echoing.
* Also parodied in the second season finale of ''Series/{{Community}}''. During the paintball war against City College, Troy runs down a hallway, turns a corner, pauses, and says "I had a dream it would end this way." We then see an entire unit of City College stormtroopers who splatter Troy with paintballs.
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* This is a given in ShootEmUp games.
* ''VideoGame/MassEffect2'': When Shepard encounters Elnora during Samara's recruitment mission, if you take the interrupt, she tries to pull a gun, at which point the entire party guns her down, repeatedly.
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* A common gag in ''WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes'', where a character is repeatedly shot or run through with multiple sharp objects, resulting in either visible (bloodless) holes or [[InvisibleHoles springing a leak whenever they drink]].
* ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'' has the mob execution of Big Fat Paulie via a drive-by shooting, done [[OverlyLongGag in typical Family Guy style]].
* Parodied in an episode of ''WesternAnimation/TheFairlyOddparents'' where Timmy, Cosmo and Wanda jacked themselves into a video game; Timmy managed to dodge the thrown carrot from the rabbit foes, while all those carrots hit Cosmo; he then yells "Hey look at me! I'm a cheese!" while he's being literally riddled with holes (it just means it's game over for him).
* The "Den" segment of Creator/IvanReitman's animated film ''WesternAnimation/HeavyMetal'' has the muscular hero overpower Aard's bodyguards and seize an automatic rifle. Den then demands Aard return Katherine to him: "Bring me the girl, or die." Aard blithely chooses death, so Den fires a burst of six shots into him. Aard merely giggles, and completely heals the bullet holes in his chest in seconds.
* ''{{WesternAnimation/Futurama}}'': The Robot Mafia riddle a robot with laser blasts for not making his loan payments in the "[[Recap/FuturamaS2E13BenderGetsMade Bender Gets Made]]" episode. And then the robot gets up and thanks the Donbot for being so merciful.
[[AC:RealLife]]
* There were news reports that the Navy SEALS who were on the Bin Laden mission did this to the terrorist mastermind.
* Firing squads invoked this.
* The summary execution of Clyde Barrow and Bonnie Parker by law enforcement agents; their bullet-riddled car is still on display in Las Vegas.
* Dr. Carl Weiss, the assassin of Huey Long, was shot 62 times by Long's bodyguards.
* After killing a Florida deputy and a police dog and wounding another deputy, fugitive Angilo Freeland was killed by 68 shots from police officers. When questioned why the suspect had been shot 68 times, Polk County Sheriff Grady Judd reportedly replied "That's all the bullets we had."
* Vincent "Mad Dog" Coll, a notorious gangster, was shot full of holes with a Thompson machine gun while he was making a call from a phone booth in a drug store.
* Al Brady, considered Public Enemy Number One, and accomplice Carl Schaeffer were killed during an FBI ambush while they were trying to acquire black market weapons for their crimes on [[http://www.fbi.gov/about-us/history/famous-cases/the-brady-gang Oct. 12, 1937 in Bangor, Maine]]. The event was classified as the most violent gun battle in the history of Maine and ended with both criminals receiving concentrated machine gun fire.
* The so-called [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mozambique_Drill Mozambique Drill]] (two shots to the chest, one to the head) was actually developed by accident by Rhodesian mercenary Mike Rousseau when two pistol shots to the torso failed to bring down an enemy guerrilla. He finished the job with a headshot. His friend Jeff Cooper refined it into an actual technique.
When someone or something needs to be killed DeaderThanDead, and their death needs to be particularly brutal (or in some cases, well-deserved), sometimes this problem will be solved by a handful of attackers emptying their guns into the target- in some cases involving larger guns, they may even be shot to pieces.
This trope is usually about quantity, not quality, so in the event that only one person is around to do the job, expect to see them wielding handguns or a machine gun. However, shotguns and the like are often used for [[DramaticGunCock dramatic effect]].
Expect the victim to flail and twitch dramatically (or hilariously) with each new wound. The amount of blood shown is directly dependent on the work's rating or amount of {{Narm}} needed.
SisterTrope to NoHoldsBarredBeatdown and a SubTrope of ThereIsNoKillLikeOverkill. Compare and contrast with RasputinianDeath, which often involves multiple fatal factors, and ShootingSuperman, which is when this is a NoSell.
AlphaStrike is when a military unit does this to a single target as opposed to a person.
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[[AC:{{Anime}} and {{Manga}}]]
* Attempted by Mustang and Havoc in ''Manga/FullmetalAlchemist'' at the beginning of their confrontation with Lust. Her reaction is [[HealingFactor "It'll take more than that to get me on my knees."]] [[KillItWithFire Mustang responds appropriately.]]
* ''Anime/GhostInTheShellStandAloneComplex'': The death of the second season's BigBad Kazunoto Goda is performed by The Major and Batou unloading two Squad Automatic Weapons onto him at point-blank range ''until he's falling to pieces and his head explodes''.
** It goes without saying that with most of the good ''and'' bad guys of the franchise being cyborgs or using some type of armor, this is often used [[MakeSureHesDead to make damn sure they're dead]].
* ''Manga/DeathNote'': Matt's death: several of Takada's bodyguards unloading unto him [[YouWouldntShootMe right after he tells them that it's in their best interest to keep him alive]]. One bodyguard says later that he was clearly stalling for time.
* ''Manga/RoseOfVersailles'': Oscar is shot dead by a dozen muskets.
* ''Manga/OnePiece'': Blackbeard's pirates shoot Whitebeard 562 times. The other parts of his death are [[RasputinianDeath getting sharp wounds 267 times, getting hit by cannonballs 46 times, a few laser shots, getting frozen mid-battle, and having half his face melted off, on top on being ill and old]].
* ''Anime/PantyAndStockingWithGarterbelt'' has an episode that chronicles the origin of Garterbelt, where he started out as a cocaine kingpin. Rival dealers and his own flunkies burst into his office one day, firing a torrent of bullets at him. Though not explicitly shown, it's implied from his half-disintegrated chair that Garterbelt fared no better.
[[AC:{{Comedy}}]]
* In [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ldGjixoV4xs "The Last Gasp of the Blasted Bugler"]] Gunga Din gets hit by dozens, if not hundreds of bullets while blowing a bugle warning.
[[AC:ComicStrips]]
* The mobster villains in ''ComicStrip/DickTracy'' often ended up riddled (with neat round bloodless holes) by tommy gun fire. Although tame by modern standards, it was sometimes criticized as overly violent for a comic strip.
[[AC:ComicBooks]]
* Often [[ShootingSuperman attempted]] by criminals on Franchise/{{Superman}}.
[[AC:{{Film}}]]
* After Major Mitchell from ''Film/IndependenceDay'' realizes that the glass separating his group from the alien psychically attacking the President is ''not'' bulletproof, all available personnel with a sidearm line up to fire on the alien, followed by Mitchell delivering a CoupDeGrace.
* ''Film/BeverlyHillsCop'' uses this trope in the StormingTheCastle scene; after Jenny frees herself from Maitland and dives for cover, Axel and Bogomil take the opportunity to very loudly fire every bullet they have into him.
* ''Film/TrainingDay'': [[spoiler: Alonzo]] meets his end thanks to the Russian mob this way.
* ''Film/TheGodfather'', Sonny at the tollbooth.
* In the opening scene of ''Film/TropicThunder'', Tugg Speedman (playing Sgt. Four-Leaf Tayback) gets shot over and over again while he runs for the helicopter.
* ''Film/IronMan'' has an offscreen example with Yinsen, who runs through the caves firing wildly to buy Tony time to get his suit booted up, only to run into about twenty Ten Rings soldiers pointing machine guns at him. The next time we see him, he's gravely injured.
* Subverted in ''Film/TheMask''. Tyrell, wearing the Mask, is shot repeatedly, only to calmly suck in his gut and fire the bullets out of his mouth.
** A second, comedic example from ''Film/TheMask'': Tyrell's men riddle a bar The Mask (Ipkiss, this time) is hiding behind with bullets. The Mask pops out, says, "Did you miss me?", takes a drink of water and [[InvisibleHoles the water sprays out several holes in his body]], ''LooneyTunes''-style, and The Mask quips, "I guess not!"
* Happens to [[PsychoForHire Mad Dog Coll]] at the end of ''Film/{{Mobsters}}'', with [[ThereIsNoKillLikeOverkill two tommy guns wielded akimbo at point-blank range]] by Charlie Luciano.
* ''Film/TheWildBunch'': At Agua Verde, after Mapache executes their friend Angel right in front of them, Pike's gang responds by gunning down the general on the spot, alongside with his German military advisors. A bloody gunfight ensues between Pike's gang and the Agua Verde garrison, made even more destructive by the [[GatlingGood Gatling gun]] emplacement inside the compound that the outlaws use to cut down Mapache's men. They are eventually overwhelmed by sheer numbers and gunned dead by the soldiers.
* This is how Officer Alex J. Murphy meets his end at the hands of the Boddicker gang in ''Film/{{Robocop1987}}''.
** A RedShirt executive gets thoroughly ''[[ThereIsNoKillLikeOverkill annihilated]]'' in this fashion by the auto cannons of the ED-209 in the same film.
* Subverted at the end of ''Film/VForVendetta'', when [[spoiler: V stands and takes a salvo from Creedy and his men to prove that YouCannotKillAnIdea before slaughtering them all. Once they are dead he is revealed to have worn a metal plate that is riddled with bullet holes and shortly thereafter dies.]]
* The brutal execution scene in ''The St. Valentine's Day Massacre (1967)'', [[http://youtu.be/BJ-gYx7hXZg?t=1m45s here]].
* The same execution was also depicted in the beginning of ''Film/SomeLikeItHot''.
* In ''Film/BackToTheFuture'', the terrorists shoot Doc dozens of times (probably because they were using machine guns.)
* A [[NoRangeLikePointBlankRange point-blank use]] of this trope is how AdolphHitler dies in ''Film/IngloriousBasterds''.
* A DirtyCop ends up machine-gunned to pieces (alongside his patrol car) by ''other'' dirty cops on the ClintEastwood film ''Film/TheGauntlet''. It's not the only example of liberal application of MoreDakka on the film.
* About two dozen Chitauri do this to the Hulk near the end of ''Film/TheAvengers'', nailing him with countless lasers. It makes him mad, but it's the first thing in the film aside from Thor that actually slows him down.
* On ''Film/LastManStanding'', a group of soldiers of the [[TheIrishMob Doyle gang]] is double-crossed by their hired Mexican [[DirtyCop police goons]] and machine-gunned without mercy within their car for a whole minute. [[AntiHero John Smith]] [[EvenEvilHasStandards finds the massacre gruesome to watch]] and calls it a "bad way to go" in narration.
* On ''Film/{{Collateral}}'', we see the beginning of [[PsychoForHire Vincent's]] VillainousBreakdown during the club attack scene, where he empties about half a pistol clip into his target before reloading and giving him a CoupDeGrace with the Mozambique Drill (which he had been using with efficiency throughout the film so far).
[[AC:LiveActionTV]]
* The ''Series/{{Firefly}}'' episode "War Stories." Jayne, Wash, and Zoë watch Mal struggle with his torturer, but after he assures them that this is ''not'' something he has to do himself, the three respond by, as the script puts it, "filling the Torturer with as many holes as standards and practices will allow."
* ''Series/CSICrimeSceneInvestigation'' featured a VictimOfTheWeek on the episode "Take My Life, Please" that had been shot so many times and with so many different calibers that it was actually possible [[TorsoWithAView to see through him]]. Turned out that he had in life bombed an abortion clinic (with plenty of collateral damage to both objects and people) and had gone off the grid to avoid retaliation, and who had [[TooDumbToLive sneaked into an outdoors shooting range]] unknowingly to sleep for the night. [[AssholeVictim Although the shooters were guilty of trying to hide the evidence, nobody was really sorry for the man]].
* One parody of this trope can be found in an early fifth-season episode of ''Series/TheBigBangTheory'', when Sheldon "sacrifices" himself for his friends in a game of paintball, with the result being a ludicrously slowed-down shot of multiple paintballs striking him in the chest, each impact echoing.
* Also parodied in the second season finale of ''Series/{{Community}}''. During the paintball war against City College, Troy runs down a hallway, turns a corner, pauses, and says "I had a dream it would end this way." We then see an entire unit of City College stormtroopers who splatter Troy with paintballs.
[[AC:VideoGames]]
* This is a given in ShootEmUp games.
* ''VideoGame/MassEffect2'': When Shepard encounters Elnora during Samara's recruitment mission, if you take the interrupt, she tries to pull a gun, at which point the entire party guns her down, repeatedly.
[[AC:WesternAnimation]]
* A common gag in ''WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes'', where a character is repeatedly shot or run through with multiple sharp objects, resulting in either visible (bloodless) holes or [[InvisibleHoles springing a leak whenever they drink]].
* ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'' has the mob execution of Big Fat Paulie via a drive-by shooting, done [[OverlyLongGag in typical Family Guy style]].
* Parodied in an episode of ''WesternAnimation/TheFairlyOddparents'' where Timmy, Cosmo and Wanda jacked themselves into a video game; Timmy managed to dodge the thrown carrot from the rabbit foes, while all those carrots hit Cosmo; he then yells "Hey look at me! I'm a cheese!" while he's being literally riddled with holes (it just means it's game over for him).
* The "Den" segment of Creator/IvanReitman's animated film ''WesternAnimation/HeavyMetal'' has the muscular hero overpower Aard's bodyguards and seize an automatic rifle. Den then demands Aard return Katherine to him: "Bring me the girl, or die." Aard blithely chooses death, so Den fires a burst of six shots into him. Aard merely giggles, and completely heals the bullet holes in his chest in seconds.
* ''{{WesternAnimation/Futurama}}'': The Robot Mafia riddle a robot with laser blasts for not making his loan payments in the "[[Recap/FuturamaS2E13BenderGetsMade Bender Gets Made]]" episode. And then the robot gets up and thanks the Donbot for being so merciful.
[[AC:RealLife]]
* There were news reports that the Navy SEALS who were on the Bin Laden mission did this to the terrorist mastermind.
* Firing squads invoked this.
* The summary execution of Clyde Barrow and Bonnie Parker by law enforcement agents; their bullet-riddled car is still on display in Las Vegas.
* Dr. Carl Weiss, the assassin of Huey Long, was shot 62 times by Long's bodyguards.
* After killing a Florida deputy and a police dog and wounding another deputy, fugitive Angilo Freeland was killed by 68 shots from police officers. When questioned why the suspect had been shot 68 times, Polk County Sheriff Grady Judd reportedly replied "That's all the bullets we had."
* Vincent "Mad Dog" Coll, a notorious gangster, was shot full of holes with a Thompson machine gun while he was making a call from a phone booth in a drug store.
* Al Brady, considered Public Enemy Number One, and accomplice Carl Schaeffer were killed during an FBI ambush while they were trying to acquire black market weapons for their crimes on [[http://www.fbi.gov/about-us/history/famous-cases/the-brady-gang Oct. 12, 1937 in Bangor, Maine]]. The event was classified as the most violent gun battle in the history of Maine and ended with both criminals receiving concentrated machine gun fire.
* The so-called [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mozambique_Drill Mozambique Drill]] (two shots to the chest, one to the head) was actually developed by accident by Rhodesian mercenary Mike Rousseau when two pistol shots to the torso failed to bring down an enemy guerrilla. He finished the job with a headshot. His friend Jeff Cooper refined it into an actual technique.
