Bullet Hell

Bullet Hell
Reimu and Marisa (Touhou Project) dodging Remilia's attack.
Power/Ability to:	Fire a barrage of projectiles/objects.

"A curtain of death raining from the sky. So many bullets at a time your eyes can't keep up."

― Remiehneppo (Overlord)

"Plus, to add insult to injury, in most Japanese shooters I've seen, they also like to put you through what's called "bullet hell." "Bullet hell" is when they throw so many shots on the screen to try and kill you in one hit; they're basically just trolling you to try to get you to die and stop playing."

― Ross Scott/Accursed Farms on most games made from Japan. (Ross's Game Dungeon: Tyrian)

The power to release multiple ranged attacks. Sub-power of Projectile Attacks. Technique of Ammunition Generation and Projectile Enhancement.

Also Called

• Autocannon Effect
• Barrage of Light
• Beam Spam
• Bullet Barrage/Hail/Storm
• Curtain of Death
• Dakka/More Dakka
• Danmaku (Bullet Curtain/Curtain Fire)
• Fusillade
• Gatling Blast/Gun Effect
• Machine Gun Effect
• Maniac Shooting
• Minigun Blast/Effect
• Missile Massacre
• Rapid Beam/Blast/Fire

Capabilities

The user can summon a stream of endless waves (ranging from hundreds to thousands to millions) of objects like blades, bullets, energy blasts, etc., around their target to bombard them from all sides with no hope of escape. Users most likely have a complex strategy and pattern to confuse their opponent and limit their movement.

Applications

• Bullet Generation
• Bullet Projection
• Multi-Ball Projection
• Multi-Beam Emission
• Multi-Strike Projection
• Smiting

Variations

• Blade Projection
• Scatter Shot
• Super Speed Combat Archery

Associations

• Arcing Blasts
• Attack Powers
• Bullet Manipulation
• Elemental Manipulation
• Energy Manipulation
• Enhanced Accuracy
• Enhanced Gunmanship
• Enhanced Speed
• Explosive Hell
• Gun Manipulation
• Magic
• Multi-Shot
• Omnidirectional Energy Waves
• Smiting
• Sword Manipulation
• Weapon Proficiency

Limitations

• Bulletproof Durability is a perfect counter.
• Users of Absolute Defense, Intangibility and Invulnerability cannot be harmed by the projectiles, assuming they can maintain such defense longer than the barrage.
• Users of Telekinesis and Vector Manipulation can change the direction of thrown objects away from them, assuming they can focus on every projectile.
• Users of Absolute Speed can dodge all of the projectiles.
• User may have difficulty, if not impossibility, in controlling the trajectory of attacks.
• User may be affected if at close range.
• Though difficult, it is possible to dodge the projectiles.
• Continuous firing can result in rapid exhaustion of energy or ammunition, unless user has high reserves, if not Infinite Supply.

Known Users

See Also: Macross Missile Massacre, Beam Spam and Magic Missile Storm.

Anime/Manga/Manhwa

• Hajime Nagumo (Arifureta Sekai Saikyou)
• Uryū Ishida (Bleach); via "Licht Regen"
• Coyote Starrk (Bleach); via "Cero Metralleta"
• Yhwach (Bleach)
• Archangel Gabriel (A Certain Magical Index)
• Gun Devil (Chainsaw Man)
• Kurumi Tokisaki (Date A Live); via Temporal Duplication
• BeelStarmon (Digimon); via "Hurricane Screw Shot"
• Gundramon (Digimon); via "Gewaltschwärmer"
• Various Characters (Dragon Ball series)
  • Frieza; via "Death Bullet" and "Emperor's Death Beam"
  • Super Buu; via "Human Extinction Attack"
• Atalanta (Fate/Apocrypha)
• Acnologia (Fairy Tail); via Eternal Flare
• Erza Scarlet (Fairy Tail)
• Future Rogue (Fairy Tail)
• Wall Eehto (Fairy Tail)
• Brain/Zero (Fairy Tail)
• Kenshirō (Fist of the North Star)
• Wang In (Gosuverse)
• Gurren Lagann (Gurren Lagann)
• Mermaid (The Haunted House/Shinbi Apartment)
• The Steel Witch (Hero Killer)
• Victoria (Hero Killer)
• Milen Kula (Hero Killer)
• Padrius Encilion/Bishop (Hero Killer)
• Ihwa, the Hero Killer (Hero Killer)
• Jintae Yang (Hero Killer)
• The Master of the Glassblade (Hero Killer)
• Ito Kagawa (Infinite Leveling: Murim)
• Inuyasha (InuYasha)
• Sesshōmaru (InuYasha)
• Kumoko/Shiraori (Kumo Desu ga, Nani ka?/So I'm a Spider, So What?)
• Jiraiya (Naruto)
• Naruto Uzumaki (Naruto)
• Sasuke Uchiha (Naruto)
• Obito Uchiha (Naruto); via the Ten-Tails
• Tenten (Naruto)
• Momoshiki Ōtsutsuki (Naruto)
• Dot Barrett (Mashle: Magic and Muscles)
• Ryoh Grantz (Mashle: Magic and Muscles)
• Ryōgi (Boruto: Naruto Next Generations)
• Urashiki Ōtsutsuki (Boruto: Naruto Next Generations)
• Fire Tank Pirates (One Piece)
• Issho/Fujitora (One Piece)
• Arceus (Pokémon)
• Jenna Shirai (Pick Me Up!)
• Mami Tomoe (Puella Magi Madoka Magica)
• Sailor Venus (Sailor Moon)
• Hecate (Shakugan No Shana)
• Fumina Konoe (Shakugan no Shana)
• Cure March (Smile Pretty Cure)
• Hoshizora Miyuki/Cure Happy (Smile Pretty Cure)
• Fanatio (Sword Art Online); via Heaven Piercing Sword
• Ryuhwan (Witch Hunter)
• Tasha Godspell (Witch Hunter)
• TM-1 Launcher Spider (Yu-Gi-Oh!)
• Genkai (Yu Yu Hakusho)
• Younger Toguro (Yu Yu Hakusho)
• Yusuke Urameshi (Yu Yu Hakusho)

Video Games

• Asura (Asura's Wrath)
• Yasha (Asura's Wrath)
• Nu-13 (BlazBlue)
• Mu-12 (BlazBlue)
• Lambda-11 (BlazBlue)
• Monkey Ace (Bloons Tower Defense); via "Sky Shredder" Upgrade
• The Breeder (Call of Duty: Ghost)
• Norris (Chrono Cross)
• Kallamar (Cult of the Lamb); via his Globus cruciger
• Narinder/ The One Who Waits (Cult of the Lamb)
• Inkwell Isle Bosses (Cuphead)
• Darkners (Deltarune)
• Vergil (Devil May Cry)
• Rakanoth (Diablo)
• The Lich (Enter the Gungeon)
• Barret Wallace (Final Fantasy VII)
• Delsin Rowe (Infamous: Second Son)
• Bosses (Just Shapes and Beats)
• Xemnas (Kingdom Hearts)
• Master Xehanort (Kingdom Hearts)
• Braig/Xigbar (Kingdom Hearts)
• Cyber-Akuma (Marvel Super Heroes vs. Street Fighter)
• Colonel Yevgeny Borisovitch Volgin (Metal Gear)
• Clint (Mobile Legends Bang Bang)
• Granger (Mobile Legends Bang Bang)
• Ryu (Ninja Gaiden)
• Gabriel Reyes/Reaper (Overwatch)
• Users (Roblox); via creating a large quantity of projectiles by either using a large amount of gear at once, or singular gears that can create a barrage of projectiles
• Shadow the Hedgehog (Sonic The Hedgehog)
• Rein Weissritter (Super Robot Wars)
• Vanguards (Titanfall); via the Expedition loadout
• Almost everyone (Touhou Project)
• Various Characters (TYPE-MOON)
  • Atalanta; via Phoebus Catastrophe
  • Francis Drake
  • Gilgamesh; via Gate of Babylon
  • Ishtar
  • Medea
  • Shirou Emiya/EMIYA; via Unlimited Blade Works
  • Suzuka Gozen; via Heavenly Demon Rain
• Monsters (Undertale)

Cartoons

• Destiny (Infinity Nado)
• Destructor (Futurama)
• Phoenix-Person (Rick & Morty)
• The Blind Archers (Samurai Jack)
• Kavaxas (Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 2012)

Comics

• Joanna Wise (Buffy the Vampire Slayer Season 11)
• John Doe (unORDINARY)

Web Original

• SCP-001 - S. D. Locke's Proposal - When Day Breaks (SCP Foundation)
• SCP-2117 - Solidarity, Stolen (SCP Foundation)
• SCP-3396 - The Empyrean Parasite (SCP Foundation)
• Monica Pinkston (SCP Foundation)

Known Objects

• Metzelei (Arifureta Sekai Saikyou)
• Divine Beasts (The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild)
• XXXG-01H Gundam Heavyarms (Mobile Suit Gundam Wing)
• MMS-01 Serpent (Mobile Suit Gundam Wing)
• Heaven Piercing Sword (Sword Art Online); via Release Recollection
• Nailguns (Ultrakill)
  • Overheat Nailgun
• Ancient Drone Weapons (Stargate)

Gallery

Anime/Manga/Manhwa

Hajime Nagumo (Arifureta Sekai Saikyou) wielding his Metzelei, a technomagical gatling gun that can rapidly fire twelve thousand bullets per minute to decimate entire armies.

Coyote Starrk (Bleach) using Cero Metralleta to fire massive waves of energy bullets, making it hard to avoid.

Kaname Tōsen (Bleach) using Suzumushi Nishiki: Benihikō to generates hundreds of blades, raining them down to cause heavy damage.

Uryū Ishida (Bleach) using Licht Regen to fire a devastating volley of innumerable arrows down on his target.

Yhwach (Bleach) firing a massive barrage of spiritual blasts to obliterate Yamamoto's corpse.

Misha Kreutzev (A Certain Magical Index) can unleash Command Sweep after using Magic Circles in the sky, turning each star in the sky into tens of millions of arrows of fire that rains down at the enemy.

The One Being Sought (Code:Breaker) using "Deep Presser" to fire off a large number of spatial blasts.

Kurumi Tokisaki (Date A Live) can use the guns of her time clones to volley fire at her enemies.

Gundramon's (Digimon) Gewaltschwärmer causes it to fire all its guns in all directions.

Cell Max (Dragon Ball Series) unleashing numerous energy beams from every portion of his body.

Frieza (Dragon Ball series) using the Crazy Finger Beam to project rapid-fire energy blasts, too fast for Piccolo to react or avoid...

...and the Barrage Death Beam to project rapid-fire Death Beams.

Gotenks (Dragon Ball series) using Continuous Die-Die Missiles to launch an intense barrage of ki bullets, enough to shatter Earth.

Kid Buu (Dragon Ball series) using his Massacre of the Billions and Millions of Bountiful Mini Bitty Maliciously Baneful Majin Buus, a combination of regenerative replication and rapid ki bullets.

Son Goku (Dragon Ball series) using the Continuous Kamehameha to fire multiple rapid fire Kamehameha Waves.

Vegeta (Dragon Ball series) uses the Continuous Energy Bullet attack so often that Goku once explicitly called the move his technique...

...Rapid Fire...

Super Buu (Dragon Ball series) using his Human Extinction Attack, firing a massive barrage of ki bullets to wipe out the majority of Earth's population.

Acnologia (Fairy Tail) casting Eternal Flare firing starry lights in the sky which rains down in a massive radius with destructive force enough to destroy numerous towns.

Wall Eehto (Fairy Tail) firing numerous magic bullets that cover a large area at a rapid firing rate.

Kenshiro (Fist of the North Star) uses Tenkai Senretsu Shō to project a large barrage of Tōki spheres.

Mermaid (The Haunted House/Shinbi Apartment)

Jintae Yang (Hero Killer) using Crashing Wave of the Living Blade to create multiple randomized angles of blade extensions.

Ihwa, the Hero Killer (Hero Killer) using Glass Baptism to create a hailstorm of lenses to fire multi-directional lasers...

...uses Crashing Wave of the Living Blade to create a barrage of multiple randomized angles of blade extensions...

Inuyasha (InuYasha) firing burst of Adamant splinters with the Adamant Barrage...

...and unleashing the Meidō Zangetsuha as a barrage of dimensional blades that tear apart enemies and banish them into the netherworld.

When Sesshōmaru (InuYasha) first acquired Tōkijin, he developed a Kenatsu that fires barrage of demonic energy needles.

Jiraiya (Naruto) using Sage Art: Hair Needle Barrage to fire his hardened hair in a massive barrage of needles.

Sasuke Uchiha (Naruto) using Chidori Senbon to fire a barrage of electrical needle bullets for piercing damage.

Naruto Uzumaki (Naruto) using Sage Art: Massive Rasengan Barrage to rain down a barrage of multiple Senjutsu-enhanced Rasengan, powerful enough to stun even Kurama/Nine-Tails.

Obito Uchiha (Naruto) channeling Wood Release: Cutting Technique through the Ten-Tails to fire devastating and impossible to dodge attacks.

Tenten (Naruto) rapidly summoning her weapons from her scroll.

Ryōgi (Boruto: Naruto Next Generations) using Ice Release: Ten Thousand Ice Petals to launch a heavy barrage of steel-piercing ice bullets.

By swinging his rod, Urashiki Otsutsuki (Boruto: Naruto Next Generations) uses Amenosubaruboshinomikoto that can launch a large barrage of chakra hooks at his enemies.

Admiral Fujitora (One Piece) can levitate massive amount of rubble and rain them down to sink an entire fleet of battleships.

Borsalino/Kizaru (One Piece) raining his Yasakani no Magatama, a barrage of destructive photon bullets causing massive devastation.

Capone Bege (One Piece) houses numerous artillery such as cannons in his dimensional fortress which can be volley fired at the enemies.

Sakazuki (One Piece) raining his Ryusei Kazan, a barrage of magma fist bullets, causing massive and widespread damage.

Sailor Venus (Sailor Moon) firing numerous Crescent Beams simultaneously.

Hecate (Shakugan no Shana) using Aster an Unrestricted Spell which releases a rain of bright Power of Existence forming a large swarm of powerful energy blasts whose blinding speed, and ability to track down, she effectively uses it with her Treasure Tool Trigon.

Hoshizora Miyuki/Cure Happy (Smile Pretty Cure) unleashing a massive rain of multiple light beams with her Happy Shower Shining attack.

Tasha Godspell (Witch Hunter) unloading his Dimensional Gallery to create a battlefield of raining bullets.

TM-1 Launcher Spider (Yu-Gi-Oh!) firing a large barrage of missiles onto a single target accurately.

Yusuke Urameshi (Yu Yu Hakusho) using the Spirit Shotgun to scatter his Spirit Gun bullet into a barrage of bullets.

Younger Toguro (Yu Yu Hakusho) flipping his finger rapidly to launch a barrage of vacuum bullets at Yusuke.

Cartoons/Comics

Joanna Wise (Buffy the Vampire Slayer Season 11) using the Rain of Death spell to fire off numerous magical bullets.

Destructor (Futurama) firing an arm-installed Gatling gun, letting loose a barrage of bullets.

Blind Archers (Samurai Jack)

Kavaxas (Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 2012) unleashing a barrage of laser beams from every fingertip.

John Doe (unORDINARY)

Video Games

Rakanoth (Diablo) can fire off a volley of energy blades.

Delsin Rowe (Infamous: Second Son) using Radiant Sweep to unleash a barrage of neon energy bolts.

Xemnas (Kingdom Hearts) surrounds his enemies with a massive amount of Ethereal Blades for his ultimate attack.

Xigbar (Kingdom Hearts) can shoot multiple bullets, even summon them out of nowhere to catch an enemy by surprise.

Cyber-Akuma (Marvel Super Heroes vs. Street Fighter) using Tenma Gozanku to unleash a barrage of Hadokens upon his opponent.

Ryu (Ninja Gaiden) when he cast the Wind Blade Ninpo at full power can create a storm of air blades that decimate his enemies.

Gabriel Reyes/Reaper's (Overwatch ) ultimate is Death Blossom to empties both Hellfire Shotguns at breakneck speed, dealing massive damage to all nearby enemies.

Arceus (Pokémon) unleashing his Judgement attack.

Clownpiece (Touhou Project) firing multiple lasers and stars.

Atalanta’s (TYPE-MOON) Phoebus Catastrophe attacks the target with a rain of light arrows empowered by both Artemis and Apollo.

The Nailguns (Ultrakill) usually fire nails at high speed, especially when it comes to their Overheat variant, which fires a less accurate, superheated barrage of nails, the duration of which is proportionate to how full the overheat meter currently is.

Videos

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