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Averted in a first-series episode of Life, when a hostage taker in a bank is shot by a police marksman: you hear the shattering of a glass window first, followed by a reverberating distant report. The sound of a gunshot series#
This episode is noteworthy as being the first in the series to examine the serious consequences of war (and in a much less heavy-handed way than would be commonplace in later years).
A noted early episode of M*A*S*H called "Sometimes You Hear The Bullet" has an old friend of Hawkeye writing a book from the soldier's perspective, which he will call "You Never Hear the Bullet." When he later is shot and the bullet turns out not an Instant Death one, he tells Hawkeye with some irony, "I heard the bullet," and then dies, leaving Hawkeye shattered. The clue is in a conversation Tony and Bobby have earlier that season, where Bobby explains that bullets travel so fast that if it's a headshot, your brain can't even register the sound of the gun having been fired before you're dead. One interpretation of the ending is that Tony Soprano was killed in reprisal for killing another mob boss previously, and the screen immediately cuts to black because he died. Averted in the final episode of The Sopranos. Winters gets winged in the leg by a random shot that has no sound effect associated with it. Leave it to the ultra-realistic Band of Brothers to avert another gunfire trope. Everybody in the restaurant looks around in confusion for a beat before we see the victim with a hole in his face, and then the hole in the window, and Harrow a block away. The first indication of the shot is the sound of the bullet shattering a water pitcher. Nicely averted in an early episode of Boardwalk Empire, in which Richard Harrow snipes one of Jimmy's enemies while dining. 
And in season 5's "Bag Man," when Mike is using his sniper rifle to pick off the cartel hitmen trying to steal Lalo's bail money from Jimmy, there's a delay between the shots hitting their targets and the echo of the shot. Also seen in the season 4 finale "Winner" when Mike kills Werner, where there's a delay between the muzzle flash of Mike's gun and the gunshot sound.
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In the season 2 finale, "Klick," when Mike is watching the Twins kill the truck driver through his sniper scope, there's a long delay between the shot and Mike hearing the bullet.
Also averted in Better Call Saul when we see shootings from a distance. Throughout the rest of the scene, there's a delay between the bullets landing and the gunshot. He first snipes one guy in the head, the man falling dead before the gunshot sound reaches Gus's men. Averted in Breaking Bad in "Bug" when Gaff carries out a sniper attack on Gus Fring's men to send a message to Gus for the cartel. As two characters said in Black Hawk Down: In reality you do hear bullets "whiz by" when they pass nearby, even if the sound of the actual gunshot hasn't reached you yet. Also, despite this trope's name, hearing the bullet traveling through the air and hearing the report of the gun that fired it are two different things. This has been frequently used in Bollywood and various Otherwood productions, to a point where many grow up thinking bullets ricochet when just fired from guns. In particularly bad examples, the gunshot will be accompanied by a ricochet sound, even when there is nothing for the bullet to ricochet off of. In most movies, the sound heard by the person being shot at is more like the sound the person firing the weapon should hear. Quigley had watched for hours, waiting until three guys stood in a row, so he could pull it off. At one point you see three mooks drop dead, and then you hear the gunshot. Averted in the 1972 Clint Eastwood film Joe Kidd: when Kidd and a band of Mexican revolutionaries come under fire at extreme range by a sniper using a scoped buffalo rifle the sequence is shown in proper order (muzzle smoke - bullet sound - gunshot) reflecting the relative speeds (light, bullet, sound) involved.
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