Abnormal Ammo / Live-Action Films

• Blade Trilogy explores this in all three installments of the franchise. "Daylight flare" bullets that expose vampires to a momentary deadly flash are especially prominent.
• Bugsy Malone: All the gangs are developing machine guns that throw cream pies.
• The Bullet Vanishes/The Phantom Bullet has a detective trying to find who is commiting a series of murders in 1930s Shanghai with bullets that disappear from the bullet holes. Like the two films above, a bullet made of ice is theorized at one point and tested but firing it out of a pistol is proven to not work because the explosion of the primer melts it instantly and the detectives heard gunshots themselves at some points (making the second alternative to launching the bullet - a crossbow - not fit with the crime scene). The peasants, as a result, think that the murders are being committed with "phantom bullets" and it's a curse. It turns out that the criminal commiting the murders is doing so with custom rounds that are made of bone, which splinters in many pieces and mixes up with the other bone shards caused by the bullet wrecking the skeleton.
• City Hunter: The Cupid's Perfume: In the final fight, Poncho uses a leaf blower to shoot... live ducklings at mooks. In slo-mo. With a long close-up on the poor flying duckling.
• In Conan the Barbarian (1982), Thulsa Doom uses a snake as an arrow. Apparently he heard of a "bow and arrow" and thought it meant "bow and adder", or perhaps boa and arrow. Valeria falls victim to the snake arrow in question, and the Princess very nearly suffers the same fate near the end of the Battle of the Mounds.
• The Crow (1994): Eric Draven blows up Gideon's pawnshop by spilling gasoline all through it and firing a blast from a shotgun he'd stuffed with dozens of pawned/stolen rings (although it did have a normal charge in it as well).
• District 9: The "pig cannon." According to the director, there actually are random pig carcasses lying around South African slums, so the Powered Armor using one as ammo for its gravity gun isn't so weird. Actually... it is pretty weird, but Rule of Cool applies.
• Elysium:
  • One of the weapons that Max uses is a modified AKM that uses airbursting explosive ammunition, each round as powerful as modern-day 40mm grenades. This literally makes this weapon into an full-automatic fire-capable grenade launcher.
  • There's also the remote-triggered explosive shotgun slug, which packed enough explosive power to disable a ship engine. And then we have Kruger's explosive shuriken.
• Ernest Goes to Camp: The climax pits Ernest and his campers against the Krader Mining crew using slews of improvised weapons: a canoe catapult which fires an exploding toilet and parachute equipped snapping turtles, rocket powered exploding camp lanterns, and the "Liver-Loaf Lunch Arranger" a bizarre auto-cooker that fires its meals which include such unappetizing fare as "graham cracker bouillabaisse" out the bazooka-like end at high velocity.
• eXistenZ: One of the weapons featured is a bone gun that fires human teeth — using chunks of jawbone as cartridges.
• In G.I. Joe: Retaliation — its trailer, no less — we are treated to a motorcycle that is made of ROCKETS. Which are immediately fired into a building after said bike is ramped into the air and its rider leaps to safety.
• Hellboy:
  • In Hellboy (2004) the titular character's revolver shoots at least two oddball rounds: one drips a glowing fluid from the wound to make a monster easier to follow, the other is a clear canister containing holy water and bits of silver, wolfsbane, white oak, garlic, and other substances hated by supernatural beings.
  • Hellboy (2019):
    • When Alice threatens Hellboy with a shotgun during their first (conscious) encounter, she claims to have loaded it with shells made from angel bones. Judging by Hellboy's face, this is not only entirely possible, but would actually be dangerous to him.
    • Daimio commissions a special weapon for the sole purpose of killing Hellboy. The result is a single massive bullet that contains, among other exotic ingredients, parts of the silver coins Judas received for betraying Jesus.
• In Hobo with a Shotgun, one of the members of the Plague, Grinder, carries a spear gun that fires a short spear up into the ceiling, pulling along a short rope tied around any of their unfortunate victims' necks that quickly strangles them to death, essentially being a "gallows gun".
• Hot Shots! Part Deux:
  • Topper runs out of arrows after missing about fifteen times due to his oblivious target just happening to bend over, take a side-step, etc, at exactly the right time. So Topper fires a chicken at him instead.
  • The same movie also features a gun that bops someone on the head with a hammer from close range, and another that springs out a punching fist.
  • When a certain character finds herself weaponless, she finds a box of ammo. So what does she do? She grabs a handful of bullets and throws them at the bad guys, taking them all out.
• In Kill Bill Vol 2, Budd proactively cancels the Bride's attack on him by knocking her on her back with a blast of rock salt to the chest from a double-barreled shotgun. This is a real-world option for less-lethal fire, but mostly at close range.
• In Killer Klowns from Outer Space, the Love Interest is attacked by a Klown who blasts her with popcorn. When she gets home safely and takes a shower, the popcorn kernels come to life and grow into worm-like Klown larvae, which attack her when she's leaving the bathroom.
• In The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King, in the battle for Minas Tirith the trebuchets in Minas Tirith hurl broken-off chunks of the city's buildings, a metre or more across, at the attacking Orcs. The Orcs have their own catapults, and they hurl the severed heads of the defenders of Osgiliath into the city to demoralise the defending Men.
• Lost in Alaska: During the battle to stall Stillman and his henchmen, George improvises a slingshot and starts flinging fish at the attackers.
• The Matrix Revolutions features a giant, full auto, deconstructor robot gun.
• Monty Python and the Holy Grail: The evil French fling several things at the English knights. Including a cow and the large wooden rabbit the English constructed in an attempt to "Trojan horse" their way inside.
• Most Wanted introduces the concept of a bullet made of ice, the idea being that the round will melt in the target and be completely untraceable. It led to a slew of people asking if such a thing was even possible, until the Mythbusters proved otherwise. This even gets lampshaded by the protagonist. "Ice bullets? What's next, Tooty-Fruity flavor?"
• In Never Grow Old, Patrick goes after Dutch wielding a blunderbuss loaded with a mixture of coffin nails and two silver dollars.
• During a shootout in News of the World (2020), Captain Kidd runs out of revolver bullets and has only a shotgun loaded with birdshot left. Johanna has the idea to reload the shells with dimes, which prove devastatingly effective.
• Sorceress Irendri, the villainess of Once Upon a Warrior; befitting her appearance as a snake-themed sorceress, she can fire hundreds ofliving, flying, poisonous snakes from her hands, which she used to chase down the heroes fleeing from her rampage.
• Pirates of the Caribbean:
  • The battle between the Black Pearl and the Interceptor in The Curse of the Black Pearl occurs after a chase in which the crew of the Interceptor, desperate for more speed, threw almost everything they had overboard ... including most of the cannon shot. They are reduced to loading up, in the words of Will Turner, "anything! Everything! Anything we have left!", including cutlery, into the cannons as makeshift ammunition. This is Truth in Television, to a degree. Scrap metal and chains were often used as anti-personnel cannon loads, and indeed, had they not been fighting undead pirates it might have worked.
  • At World's End has Pintel and Ragetti using Jack the undead monkey as an impromptu cannonball to fire at the Flying Dutchman during the climactic battle in the middle of a maelstrom.
• In Resident Evil: Afterlife, Alice kills zombies with a shotgun that fires quarters.
• Runaway features a gun that fires small heat-seeking missiles at a speed slightly slower than an athletic man can run. Presumably its designer believed in giving targets a sporting chance.
• In Sharknado 3: Oh Hell No!, Nova puts mascara tubes in her shotgun.
• The Smurfs: The Smurfs make use of golf balls, bowling balls, needle-laden fruit, and lipstick when forced to fight Gargamel near the end of the film.
• A Sound of Thunder has the protagonists using futuristic rifles that used frozen water rounds (the sound, muzzle flash and the fact the rounds can break a concrete block implies they are some kind of rail gun) to hunt dinosaurs and eventually protect themselves as all hell breaks loose because of stepping on the Butterfly of Doom. The fact that it's ice that will dissolve eventually technically takes care of a detail on the original story (that the hunting company actually dug through the remains of the T. Rex to take out the bullets and leave no evidence of their hunt behind that could disrupt history).
• Star Wars: The Last Jedi: Small alien gambler Dobbu Scay of the Canto Bight casino inserts coins into BB-8, thinking he's a slot machine, and BB-8 later shoots them at a guard in jail when said guard tries to prevent DJ's escape, which is enough of a distraction for DJ to knock the guard out.
• In The Sword and the Sorcerer (1982), the hero wields a triple-bladed sword with blades that can be launched at enemies like rockets.
• In Tomorrow Never Dies, the villain has buzzsaw torpedoes which can not only cut through the hulls of other ships, but can be guided through said ships and travel upward if necessary.
• Underworld (2003): In order to overcome each other's resistances to damage, the vampires use silver bullets (later filled with liquid silver nitrate due to the werewolves pulling them out too quickly), while the werewolves load their guns with bullets that contain an irradiated fluid — irradiated with ultraviolet light.
• Who Framed Roger Rabbit: Eddie Valiant's toon gun fires bullets... semi-intelligent cartoon bullets that can talk, chase down criminals, and apparently return to their case independently. One even carries a large tomahawk. Unfortunately, almost all of them (save the one with the tomahawk) were too stupid to figure out which way the bad guy went. In the English version, they're known simply as "Dum-Dums". In the Italian dub, they are called "mezze cartucce", an Italian phrase used to say "idiots", but with the literal meaning of "half cartridges".
• xXx gives Vin Diesel a modified revolver that shoots interchangeable rounds, ranging from knockout capsules complete with fake blood to some kind of surveillance bug. This actually backfires on him late in the film; because he's got the gun loaded with non-standard rounds, he ends up pointlessly firing a radio transmitter bullet when he's trying to retaliate against the mooks armed with good old-fashioned machine guns. He then switches to an explosive bullet for a better distraction.
• In Young Guns II, Billy the Kid kills a sheriff with a shotgun filled with eighteen dimes (nine in each barrel) used as slugs. "Best dollar-eighty I ever spent!" This particular event is inspired by something the real Billy the Kid did once when cornered without normal ammo.

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