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** At least they paid lip service to the reality by having him almost empty his clip with direct hits to the tank while his internal monologue hoped for one to spark.
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*** Indeed, the plane with the worst reputation I know of for catching fire when hit was the Zero, Japan's famous WWII fighter. To save weight, the designers forwent the self-sealing fuel tanks that many other warplanes had, making it quite vulnerable to incendiary rounds.
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* A viable tactic in ''Mass effect 2'' while facing Blood Pack Pyros. Shoot the (rather obvious) tank with a lower damage weapon and will light then explode. Shoot it with a high powered weapon such as the Widow sniper rifle and it explodes immediately.
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** Jet fuel is way ''less'' flammable than regular piston-engine fuel. It's more akin to diesel than gasoline.
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* The preferred way for many fire departments to deal with acetylene tanks (and some other compressed gas cylinders) in a fire is in fact to shoot them to ''keep them'' from exploding. Shooting them lets the gas out in a semi-controlled manner, and the released gas can be burned off instead of collecting and possibly causing an explosion. Furthermore, if the tank isn't already surrounded by fire, FD manuals state that you need to ''keep'' shooting at the gas cloud - with tracer rounds - after you've already put a hole in the tank to ignite the gas.
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* Of course the fuel tank doesn't have to explode to kill the occupants of a vehicle. A tank full of holes isn't a tank. A vehicle with no fuel is a dead vehicle. (Excluding heavy tanks which can be a bunker if it ever ran out of fuel.)
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*** To be fair, the building was on fire.
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* In the train level in ''StarFox 64'', shooting a fuel car will detonate all adjacent train cars.
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* In the Corean Chronicles story ''Alector's Choice'', Mykel detonates a barrel of oil being dropped on a battering ram with a bullet. Subverted in that he had to use magic powers to actually make the barrel explode. His superior (Who didn't know about the magic) later told him that he was extremely lucky: The odds of actually starting a fire with a bullet are low to the point of virtual impossibility.
* In the Corean Chronicles story ''Alector's Choice'', Mykel detonates a barrel of oil being dropped on a battering ram with a bullet. Subverted in that he had to use magic powers to actually make the barrel explode. His superior (Who didn't know about the magic) later told him that he was extremely lucky: The odds of actually starting a fire with a bullet are low to the point of virtual impossibility.
** They also tested the 'explode a gas cylinder with a bullet' variant, and failed completely. They had to detonate explosives under the cylinder to make the gas catch fire.
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* This was the fate of one of Vecchio's Buick Rivieras in ''DueSouth''.
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** ''{{Mythbusters}}'' proved that the handgun round wouldn't even penetrate the tank, let alone blow it up.
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* Done in {{Inception}}, in the infamous [[HoYay "Dream a little bigger"]] scene. Of course, it was justified in that [[spoiler: it was in a dream]] (oh yeah and that could've been an explosive Eames shot but who really cares).
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* Done in {{Inception}}, ''{{Inception}}'', in the infamous [[HoYay "Dream a little bigger"]] scene. Of course, it was justified in that [[spoiler: it was in a dream]] (oh yeah and that could've been an explosive Eames shot but who really cares).
* ''[[UnreliableNarrator Might]]'' have happened in ''AmericanPsycho''; even Patrick seems bewildered at the explosion.
* ''[[UnreliableNarrator Might]]'' have happened in ''AmericanPsycho''; even Patrick seems bewildered at the explosion.
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* Done in {{Inception}}, in the infamous [[HoYay "Dream a little bigger"]] scene. Of course, it was justified in that [[spoiler: it was in a dream]] (oh yeah and that could've been an explosive Eames shot but who really cares).
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* Quite possibly justified in [[XMen X-Men]]. To quote Cyclops:
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* Garth Ennis' rebooted ''Punisher'' series had Frank blowing up a car with nothing more than a few handgun bullets.
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** He also does this at the end of QuantumOfSolace with a hydrogen tank.
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* Averted in [[http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/ptitlevmngga4bce7b It's Always Sunny In Philadelphia]] when Mac and Charlie attempt to fake their deaths to avoid Charlie's father. They decide to stage a car crash, and destroy the car so that the Police will think their bodies were incinerated in the explosion. First they attempt to blow it up with an Mk 2 Hand Grenade, however the frag grenade fails to do any major damage. Next they attempt to blow it up by shooting it with a pistol, which doesn't have any effect at all.
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* Averted in [[http://tvtropes.''[[http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/ptitlevmngga4bce7b It's Always Sunny In Philadelphia]] Philadelphia]]'' when Mac and Charlie attempt to fake their deaths to avoid Charlie's father. They decide to stage a car crash, and destroy the car so that the Police will think their bodies were incinerated in the explosion. First they attempt to blow it up with an Mk 2 Hand Grenade, however the frag grenade fails to do any major damage. Next they attempt to blow it up by shooting it with a pistol, which doesn't have any effect at all.
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* The Red Alert series of CommandAndConquer has missions which feature explosive fuel barrels that are often conveniently placed next to key targets.
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* Averted in [[http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/ptitlevmngga4bce7b It's Always Sunny In Philadelphia]] when Mac and Charlie attempt to fake their deaths to avoid Charlie's father. They decide to stage a car crash, and destroy the car so that the Police will think their bodies were incinerated in the explosion. First they attempt to blow it up with an Mk 2 Hand Grenade, however the frag grenade fails to do any major damage. Next they attempt to blow it up by shooting it with a pistol, which doesn't have any effect at all.
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* ''SinCity'' had a scene in which the Old Town girls opened fire on a cop car with machine guns. Eventually, it blew up, implying this trope.
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** A gas tank does explode after a crash in ''Terminator 2'', but that's only because a live wire sparked next to the leaking fuel.
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* [[RogueWarrior Richard Marcinko]] maintains that it can be done, using special tracer ammunition, but in real life it's more effective if there is something in the vehicle that can spark and blow the fuel tank that way, much like the trick in {{Terminator}} 2.
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* Most definitely TruthInTelevision, if not for your average gun, nor your average fuel tank. Various military forces often utilize incendiary rounds for the purpose of setting fuel reserves alight, while various vehicles can be surprisingly easy to set aflame, either due to [[EveryCarIsAPinto bad design]], or a design necessity, such as the highly flammable fuel used by jet aircraft. A hit to a fuel tank with an incendiary, or occasionally even a high explosive round tends to lead to quite the fireworks display--the heat of the blaze is often enough to send ammunition off as well, completely wrecking aforementioned vehicle and usually killing everyone inside.
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** This often has he side effect of setting the tank on fire which, with the current patch, will randomly damage modules, injure crew members and possibly cook the ammo.
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** This often has he side effect of setting the tank on fire which, with the current patch, will randomly damage modules, injure crew members and possibly cook the ammo.
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** This often has he side effect of setting the tank on fire which, with the current patch, will randomly damage modules, injure crew members and possibly cook the ammo.
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* Shooting another tank's fuel tank in ''WorldOfTanks'' won't make it explode, unless your gun was actually enough to kill it, but if the enemy doesn' die from it, it will immobilize it until its crew can fix it.
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* In ''MafiaII'', shooting the fuel caps causes cars to explode reliably after 2 shots with any weapon. Shooting right next to the fuel cap, or into the fuel tank from any other angle has no effect.
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** Hell it was averted a few minutes earlier when Morpheus' Cadillac was shot about 1500 times from all directions during the car chase, which must have hit the fuel tank at least once, and nothing happens to it.
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** Of course, a Ghost's "gas" is pressurized hot plasma.
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** Of course, a Ghost's "gas" is pressurized [[DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment hot plasma.plasma]].
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* Fully justified however in ''Lone Wolf [=McQuade=]'', as the opening scene has ChuckNorris loading his sniper rifle from an ammunition case of 7.62mm Armor-Piecing Incendiary rounds.
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* Fully justified however in ''Lone Wolf [=McQuade=]'', as the opening scene has ChuckNorris loading his sniper rifle from an ammunition case of 7.62mm Armor-Piecing Armor-Piercing Incendiary rounds.
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* [[{{Uncharted}} Uncharted 2: Among Thieves]] has a few sequences where Nathan shoots propane tanks in order to cause explosions, one instance where he's hurling them at the enemy and shooting them in the air was a big pain to [[NolanNorth the voice actor]] who was performing the motion capture and voice acting at the same time. He had to repeatedly hurl an empty propane tank across the studio.
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* [[{{Uncharted}} ''[[{{Uncharted}} Uncharted 2: Among Thieves]] Thieves]]'' has a few sequences where Nathan shoots propane tanks in order to cause explosions, one explosions. One instance where he's hurling them at the enemy and shooting them in the air was a big pain to [[NolanNorth the voice actor]] for NolanNorth who was performing the motion capture and voice acting at the same time. He had to repeatedly hurl an empty propane tank tank, which isn't exactly light weight, across the studio.
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* In one episode of ''[[HogansHeroes Hogan's Heroes]]'' Carter attempted to shoot a German fuel truck with a flaming arrow as it passed by the camp. [[spoiler: He shot the arrow into the wall beside the window instead. Newkirk took the bow from him and did it properly.]]
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* [[{{Uncharted}} Uncharted 2: Among Thieves]] has a few sequences where Nathan shoots propane tanks in order to cause explosions, one instance where he's hurling them at the enemy and shooting them in the air was a big pain to [[NolanNorth the voice actor]] who was performing the motion capture and voice acting at the same time. He had to repeatedly hurl an empty propane tank across the studio.
