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* ''[[Yu Yu Hakusho]]'': Kaname Hagiri, codenamed "Sniper", whose territory allows him to throw any object to hit its mark with lethal force.
* Vander Decken in ''[[One Piece]]'' has the devil fruit ability to "mark" a person he's touched so that any object he throws, it will always propel itself to hit the mark, the thrown objects will follow its mark indefinitely until it hits something, however he can only have two people marked at the same time (one for each hand).
* Fiamma of the Right from ''[[
* In [[wikipedia:Lunch Money (game)|Lunch Money]] you can "grab" someone, which by itself does nothing. If they play an "avoid" card, they get out of it, but if they don't have it (or for whatever other reason decide not to play that) your next attack is unblockable.▼
== [[Comic Books]] ==
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== [[Tabletop Games]] ==
* ''[[Dungeons
** 1st Edition ''Deities and Demigods Cyclopedia''.
*** Celtic Mythos: Goibhnie, the god of blacksmithing, makes weapons that never miss. Morrigan has two spears that never miss.
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** 3.X Edition ''Deities and Demigods'': greater deities are treated as always rolling the maximum possible value on attack rolls: i.e. natural twenties every time. In D&D, if you get a natural twenty on an attack roll, you automatically hit, regardless of what your total attack roll actually is. In other words: greater deities always hit. Now throw in the fact that the "maximum roll" rule also applies to damage rolls...
** Some spells simply always hit (Magic Missile is the poster child for this in all editions including the 4th post-errata), and many others will still have at least a ''reduced'' effect on the target even on a nominal miss (successful saving throw in 3.x and earlier).
* [[Fire-Breathing Weapon|Flamethrowers]] in ''[[Warhammer
* In ''[[Warhammer Fantasy Battle]]'', the Blade of Darting Steel causes all attacks made with it to hit automatically. Of course, this is not the same as every attack [[Only a Flesh Wound|wounding]] or penetrating the enemy's armor or magical defenses.
* Possible but very expensive in ''[[GURPS]]''. "No Roll Required" causes the attack succeeds automatically (so long as doing so is logically possible) and "No Active Defense" causes any success to hit automatically. With "Ignores DR" you can just erase the
▲* In the card game ''[[wikipedia:Lunch Money (game)|Lunch Money]]'' you can "grab" someone, which by itself does nothing. If they play an "avoid" card, they get out of it, but if they don't have it (or for whatever other reason decide not to play that) your next attack is unblockable.
== [[Video Games]] ==
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** The move "Vital Throw" is always accurate with the trade-off of having [[Action Initiative|decreased priority]], executing slower than the opponent.
** The "No Guard" ability grants this status to any move its user performs ... [[Hoist by His Own Petard|and any move that gets used against them]].
* ''[[Fire Emblem:
* In some ''[[Final Fantasy]]'' games, magic would always be successful on targets with "Invisible" status—even [[Useless Useful Spell]]s. For [[Final Fantasy VI]] in particular, even [[Contractual Boss Immunity]] could not protect against this, making it a [[Game Breaker]] of a [[Good Bad Bug]].
** Rosa in ''[[Final Fantasy IV]]'' had Aim, which makes her bow and arrow attacks always hit. This was also carried into [[Final Fantasy V|the fifth one]], and could be used with any weapon.
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* In ''[[Breath of Fire IV]]'', Scias's "Shining Blade" is a critical hit that never misses (but can be parried), while the "Target" skill is a half-powered strike that cannot be parried (or miss).
* In some RPG settings, magic ignores accuracy/evade calculations altogether, thus spells will always hit the target.
* In ''[[
* ''[[Super Robot Wars]]'': the "Strike" buff ensures 100% accuracy for the unit that uses it for the next attack or the rest of the turn, depending on the game. "Attune" does the same thing except one unit casts it on another. Though "Alert" can allow you to dodge anyway.
* In many ''[[Roguelike]]s'', beam-like attacks will hit everything in their path, which often includes things like [[Breath Weapon|dragons breathing fire and poisonous gas]].
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* One of the SOS Cards in ''[[Toontown Online]]'' will make all of the other gags used in the same round as it hit. There's also an inversion, another SOS card which causes all of the Cogs' attacks for that round to miss.
* ''[[Battle for Wesnoth]]'' has attacks with the Marksmanship or Magical properties. Such attacks will always have a certain accuracy rating no matter what the target's evasion value is. Very useful for enemies entrenched in terrain favorable to them (like Elves in forest tiles).
* In ''[[Thunder Force]] V'' and ''VI'', there is the [[Game Breaker|Free Range]]. What it does is that it makes a [https://web.archive.org/web/20130527121937/http://darkdiamond.net/wp-content/uploads/2008/07/image-thumb9.png green, wireframe conical shaped area from the character] (that can be aimed), and if ''anything'' steps into the green area, they are fried by an instant-hit laser that never misses. (Even better if your have three [[Attack Drone]]s active, as all three will fire too).
* [[Sonic the Hedgehog|Sonic]]'s homing attack that he has had in all of the 3D games and some of the more recent 2D games.
* [[Mega Man]]
** ''[[Rock Man 4 Minus Infinity]]'' has the [[Final Fantasy VIII|Wish Star Adapter]]. The attack involves Mega Man and Rush attacking various parts of the screen in a lightning-fast pace. The downsides are the low damage and that Mega Man can only use it once.
** Dust Chute from ''[[Rockman 6: Unique Harassment]]'' is a generic screen clearing attack with 10 uses. For each enemy damaged by this attack, Mega Man heals 1 HP.
* ''[[Disgaea 2: Cursed Memories]]'' turned this trope into a character class, the Rifle Demon, commonly called the Baciel. Their attacks always hit, even against characters with high speed or critical HP Ninja (who get insane dodge rates when under 25% HP). ''[[Disgaea 3: Absence of Justice]]'' possibly broke this wide open by turning this trope into an equippable item, the Naive Glasses (due to the fixed "Heat Seeker" specialist inside of it).
* ''[[Soul Nomad and The World Eaters]]'' had this as a room, but, like the Pokemon example up top, it came with the massive drawback of being unable to dodge enemy attacks.
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* ''[[Tales of the Abyss]]'' features "Mystic Cage", [[Black Mage|Jade's]] first Mystic Arte. All enemies, regardless of their position on the battlefield, is encased in a [[Sphere of Destruction|sphere of pure magical energy]], which explodes and damages all of them.
** On a general note, the Mystic Artes throughout the ''[[Tales (series)]]'' are with few exceptions, guaranteed to at least connect with the enemy that's the user's current target. Also, some spells strike the entire battlefield and/or freeze the action when they go off, which makes avoiding damage from them impossible outside of using invincibility or being immune to their element.
* "Certain-hit" attacks in ''[[Monster Girl Quest Paradox]]'' cannot be evaded or reflected. These include all Holy and Dark skills.
* ''[[Master of Magic]]'' has [[Damage Typing|Doom damage]], which skips the steps where the attacker rolls to-Hit for each damage point, then defender rolls to-Block for each Defense point. There are, however, variants. Doom Bolt and Magic Vortex (on direct hit) spells can be stopped by Magic Immunity (as unit ability or from Righteousness spell). Doom Gaze attack hits anything the unit engages ignoring all immunities, but as a gaze it's delivered only in a melee engagement (after any Breath or Thrown attacks, but before Melee and Touch attacks). "Chaos" item power makes a weapon's attack (including Thrown for axes, Ranged Missile for bows and Ranged Magical for wands/staves) automatically hit anything it may target, ignoring all immunities (most of which normally add 50 Defense vs. specific [[Damage Typing|types]]), but also halves attack strength. An unit under Black Sleep spell (which Death wizards spam like there's no tomorrow) adds Doom to all incoming normal damage and direct-damage spells, so that wimpy attackers hit at full strength, victims with Missile Immunity can be hit by archers, and victims with Fire Immunity can be hit by fire bolts! Of course, the spell ''itself'' is just a Death realm curse, so Magic Immunity/Righteousness, Death Immunity and Charmed (or simply high enough Resistance value) protect an unit from being affected in the first place, as usual.
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