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Silver bullets are actually only to kill vampires. The expression most people are looking for is "magic bullet".
by rusbus 12y ago
Silver bullets are actually only to kill vampires. The expression most people are looking for is "magic bullet".
- mpdehaan2 12y agoWerewolves. For vampires you usually want to stake them through the heart. Mixing those up is a good way to get a vampire or werewolf to laugh at you. Source: I asked a werewolf one time while he was drinking a Pina Colada at Trader Vic's
- poloniculmov 12y agoSilver will harm vampires, but it will not be a one-shot kill. http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/SilverHasMysticPowers http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/SilverHasMysticPo...
- zerocrates 12y agoThe figurative usage of "silver bullet" isn't necessarily as old as "magic bullet," but it goes back at least to the 1950s. Plus, "magic bullet" usually has a medical connotation owing to the early use of the term by Paul Ehrlich. More importantly, though their range of effectiveness seems to have expanded over the years, silver bullets are traditionally used against werewolves, not vampires.
- twic 12y agoAren't magic bullets only good for killing US Presidents? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Single-bullet_theory http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Single-bullet_theory