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This is also the mechanic that enables [[Playing Tennis With the Boss]]. Sometimes it can also provide a renewable source of health or ammo pickups, especially in extended [[Boss Battle|Boss Battles]] (where it may overlap with [[Boss Arena Recovery]]).
Contrast [[Shoot the Bullet]], in which this is an extraordinary ([[Moment of Awesome]]/[[Cutscene Power to the Max]]) feat instead of a normal gameplay mechanic. In simulators, the harder it is to shoot a missile, the more efficient tend to be other countermeasures. [[Painfully-Slow Projectile|Painfully Slow Projectiles]] or [[Bullet Time]] are usually the reason this is possible.
Homing missiles and grenades are the most common candidates for this.
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* The rocks the Tank throws in ''[[Left 4 Dead]]'' can be shot down by gunfire, but it requires precise aim and a good amount of bullets to shoot a thrown rock slab out.
* In ''[[Battlestar Galactica Online]]'', you can destroy missiles. Normal bullets are no-go though. Strikes usually are relegated to this role in big battles, where the presence of Escorts makes it hard for them to get any useful licks in.
* In ''[[Super Mario World]]'', you can destroy certain projectiles (like the fireballs and bones enemies throw) with the cape spin, which is useful if you've got nowhere to run.
* In ''[[Elite]]'' series this can be done - but how likely, depends a lot on the player's skill, ship and missile type.
* In ''[[Vega Strike]]'' missiles (but not "bolt" type gun projectiles) can be tracked with radar (there's even automatic warning for missile locks) and shot. Anti-capship types have noticeable level of armoring, but lesser missiles pop from a single hit with almost anything. Only capships and subcapships have proper turrets, but there are also autotracking mounts. Most beam weapons do it easily - this may be the main reason to buy rapid-fire lasers at all - and Ionburster, despite modest range and rate of fire, also hits anything it can in one simulation frame and uses cheap near-[[Bottomless Magazines]]. There's even an anti-missile missile that tracks only other munitions and delivers a weak, but wide blast.
== Non-videogame examples ==
* In ''[[Star Wars]]'', Jedi are able to deflect lasers by hitting them with a lightsaber.
* In ''[[The Lord of the Rings (film)|Lord of the Rings]]'', Boromir defects some of the arrows with his sword.
* ''[[Sinfest]]'',
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