Con Air - When Nicolas Cage's character stumbles on a betrayal plot, he tells a would-be gunman that if he fires his weapon, others would hear the shot come and investigate.The Boondock Saints have silencers that make a small "fwip" sound, though they are mainly used to keep others from discovering their activities, not for the element of surprise.Most noticeable when Kabakov interrogates Muzi. At several points in the film version of Black Sunday, characters use silenced revolvers.In The A-Team, an incompetent CIA agent attempts to clumsily put one on his gun while his target complains about him calling it a "European silencer" when it is in fact called a suppressor.If anything the sound of the silenced guns is more like a "pew" than a "bang" and it's still fairly loud. Averted in Noir, which took actual audio from the guns used and doesn't completely diminish the sound when a silencer is fitted.Hirano hands Saya an MP5, warning her that even with a suppressor, any shots will still be audible enough to be heard by them.
Subverted in Gunsmith Cats: Burst when Misty customizes a Python revolver to accept a suppressor, only to be chewed out by Rally because, with the weapon being a revolver, the suppressor has no effect.And the Welrod is one of quietest firearms ever made. Rather excusable, as the gun in question was the extremely rare Welrod, not something the range they used could have rented them. Used straight in the anime, as a rare exception to otherwise showing their work with recordings of the exact weapons shown.Considering someone a floor away from the party but literally an arm's length away from the gun completely failed to notice it, it would still have to be pretty damn quiet. In one case, the murderer covered up the sound of gunfire by firing the silenced gun at the same time as party poppers were being set off for a party.Played completely straight when a silencer (and a scarf covering the muzzle flash) lets Pisco fire a gun in a crowded room to bring down a chandelier on his victim without drawing any attention to himself.The effect is more like a quiet buzzsaw than the usual fwip. In the same arc a special forces group ambush cartel members with silenced M4 rifles.Subverted in that we don't actually hear the sound so can't judge how well it worked. In Black Lagoon during a flashback to Revy's childhood she's shown killing a man eventually revealed to be her own father using a pillow to suppress the sound.See also Pillow Silencer, when pillows are used in this fashion. Please see Useful Notes On Silencers for more on how they actually do work. In addition, they're still not exactly silent, sounding like a loud cough. "Real" silencers as used by governmental agencies do indeed muffle the sound of a gunshot to the same degree as seen in films and television, but these are custom designed weapons rather than aftermarket add-ons.
However, some revolvers like the Nagant Model 1895 can be suppressed because they are designed to seal the cylinder gap when firing. Spotting a silenced revolver is almost always a definite sign that the work is not gunning for realism. Take note of how suppressors affect your gun in most video games. The idea of the Hollywood Silencer is so prevalent that real silencers were commercially rebranded as "suppressors" in the 1970s to cash in on Hand Cannon owners who wanted Rule of Cool but might become litigious when their "silenced" pistol still made an ear-shattering kaboom.Īdditionally, for silencers to work properly, the bullets must travel at a subsonic speed, which can make them less accurate or deadly. It's the Rule of Cool: the smooth assassin can make his hit, then melt into the night with nary a sound. This sound is an example of The Coconut Effect.īasically, silencers control the discharge of gases that occur when a bullet is fired, which produce much of the sound. A black cylinder that screws to the end of any gun, from tiny pistol to massive rifle, and reduces the bang to a soft " fwip" that nobody will hear.
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