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See also [[Deadly Dodging]], [[Boomerang Comeback]], [[Pinball Projectile]], and [[Shoot the Rope]]. Also, it's [[Tempting Fate|bad juju to assume someone missed because they didn't hit you, specifically.]] Contrast [[Stab the Scorpion]]. If the shooter aimed at his victim, expecting him to miss in order to do a chain reaction; than it overlaps with [[Batman Gambit]].
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== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ==
* In ''[[The Law of Ueki]]'', the villain thinks a shot has missed and mocks the hero for not doing what he thought necessary, before the effect ends in the villain getting crushed beneath a tree. In another episode, an opponent believes he expertly dodged Ueki's attack, only to find that Ueki had struck his targets (his pockets) precisely.
* ''[[JoJo's Bizarre Adventure]]'' features this multiple times. Doppio {{spoiler|pretending to throw a pair of scalpels at Risotto, but he actually threw them to make the good guys help him}}, Buccirati {{spoiler|attacking King Crimson, yet when he misses he claims he was aiming at a pillar all along}}, all of Joseph's various rope-tricks etc.
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* Vash the Stampede, from ''[[Trigun]]'', pretty much lives and breathes this trope—although he tends to make it look like [[Accidental Aiming Skills]], and those who only know of his reputation ''think'' (incorrectly) that he's all [[Improbable Aiming Skills]] and [[Instant Death Bullet]].
** Well, he ''does'' have utterly improbable aiming skills—choice is his use of thrown pebbles to knock bullets askew and render shots nonfatal at a quickdraw tournament, as well as opening the back of his revolver to ''throw'' the bullets out of it and concuss an opponent—he just doesn't use them for [[Instant Death Bullet]]. When he ''does'' [[Technical Pacifist|flirt with]] the intention to [[Break the Cutie|shoot]] [[Break The Stoic|someone]] to [[Teach Him Anger|death]], his instinct seems to be to put the barrel of the gun against their head to prevent any mistakes. And yell.
* A variation of this happens often in ''[[Yu-Gi-Oh!]]
* Happens twice in the third Ichigo/Grimmjow fight in ''[[Bleach]]'' {{spoiler|Grimmjow was aiming for Orihime both times knowing that Ichigo would protect her.}} Needless to say, it worked pretty well.
** Also used in the Hitsugaya/Gin fight during the Soul Society Arc. Though Hitsugaya dodges Gin's sword, which can extend itself to stab from a distance, he discovers that the unconscious Hinamori is directly in the sword's path.
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** During the match between Ojou with Sena out due to an injury and Yukimitsu is called as a replacement. The White Knights send Shin to score a touchdown and no one can stop him. With three seconds left, Yukimitsu instead of trying to hold Shin back, ''pushes Shin into the endzone''. It was revealed that {{spoiler|Ojou's plan was to score ''right when time ran out'', leaving Deimon no time to catch up. Yukimitsu realized this and ''saved'' Deimon by giving them one second they needed for a comeback. [[Crowning Moment of Awesome|And they did]].}} As Shin said, "Even though you're an enemy, that's... magnificent."
== [[Comic Books]] ==▼
== Card Games ==▼
* Variation: In the storyline of the ''[[Deadlands]]'' CCG ''Doomtown'', the climactic battle sees Austin Stoker face down the manitou [[Big Bad|Knicknevin]] with the Holy Wheel Gun (modified by [[Mad Science]] to work especially well against monstrous creatures in general) - but he doesn't shoot Knicknevin, he shoots {{spoiler|an undead [[Abraham Lincoln]]. With the same bullet that killed him the first time. This results in ''another'' manitou (who reanimated Lincoln intending to wreak its own havoc, but badly underestimated the man's willpower) gaining control for the first time in years, and promptly tearing Knicknevin to shreds for being a glory hound}}.▼
▲== Comic Books ==
* [[Spider-Man (Comic Book)|Spider-Man]] likes to shoot his webbing past an opponent, wait until the bad guy gloats, and then yank on the webline - inevitably pulling something large and heavy into/on top of the baddie. (In one instance, he suggests that the taunter should see ''[[Batman Returns]]''. Seriously.)
* In one ''[[Usagi Yojimbo]]'' scene, Usagi is annoyed at a band of ruffians causing a ruckus at the inn he's staying at. When the ruffians' leader refuse to back down, Usagi draws his sword and unleash a series of strikes... and the leader is at first stunned, then realize he's unharmed. He scoffs at Usagi's bad aim... until his gang point out the various flies, neatly bisected or trisected, lying on the ground. They back off very quickly.
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* One issue of ''[[The Warlord]]'' had Machiste throw a knife at an evil wizard. It passed over the villain's shoulder and stuck into a wall -- and then it turned out good wizard Mongo had [[Shapeshifting|transformed]] [[Action Girl|Mariah]] into the knife just long enough to put her close behind the bad guy this way.
== [[Film]] ==▼
▲== Film ==
* In the ''[[Wild Wild West (film)|Wild Wild West]]'' film:
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* In ''[[Batman Returns]]'', Batman launches a grapnel at a foe who has Selina Kyle at stungun-point. The clown taunts him for missing, just before Batman pulls the wall down upon him.
** In ''[[The Dark Knight]]'', when Batman misses the Joker's truck during the chase scene, the Joker mocks him "He missed!" only to have the truck flipped over; the aim was to tripwire the truck.
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'''Alan:''' It's not you I'm ''aiming'' at. * shoots one last rock and hits the trapdoor release* }}
== [[Literature]] ==▼
▲== Literature ==
* A rare villain example in ''[[Artemis Fowl]] the Arctic Incident'': the protagonists are surprised when enemy fire appears to miss them, until they realize there is now an avalanche bearing down on them. They had ducked under an ice sheet to avoid the enemy fire, so the goblins couldn't get a shot in. To solve this, they decided to just shoot the ice sheet. Although, [[Our Goblins Are Wickeder|considering how stupid they are]], they ''might'' have been [[Accidental Aiming Skills|aiming at them]].
** Also used again in the next book: "It was a testament to the goblin's stupidity that he could be trapped in a melting vehicle in a lockdown with an LEP officer firing at him and still think he had the upper hand."
* In the ''[[Discworld]]'' novel ''[[
** Notable in that she delivers the obligatory "what I was aiming for" line when her opponent is [[Deader Than Disco|in no condition to understand]].
* Played for laughs in ''[[The Pushcart War]]''. After the pushcart vendors use their pea shooters to take out the tires of the large trucks, they listen to a news report which details the outcome. The report includes a woman claiming to have been hit by one of the pea shooters. Maxie asks the group "Who missed?" One vendor admits he intentionally "shot" the woman for making fun of his products.
* In Mike Lee's ''[[Warhammer Fantasy Battle]]'' Time Of Legends book ''Nagash The Sorcerer'', Nagash himself pulls this in his fight against {{spoiler|the Druchii sorceress}}, crushing {{spoiler|her}} beneath a big statue.
* In ''[[The Heroes of Olympus|The Lost Hero]]'', Leo sends a bolt of fire over a Cyclops's head. She barely has time to be smug about it before it becomes clear what Leo was aiming at: a chain that was suspending an engine block directly over her head. ''Squish.''
* ''[[Dresden Files]]'': Done with a vampire's knife throw when
== [[Live-Action TV]] ==
* This happens twice in ''[[Red Dwarf]]'':
** In "White Hole", Lister fires a shot to knock a planet into a white hole but misses... only to hit another planet, which collides with another planet, which plugs the hole. He then claims this was a "trick shot".
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* In one episode of ''[[Psych]]'', Shawn shows off his shooting skills to a female cop; she thinks he's missed the target completely, until she gets a closer look and sees that every shot he fired hit ''exactly where hers had''.
* In one episode of ''[[Farscape]]'', Chiana confronts someone who'd murdered an old friend of hers. He claims she can't bring herself to shoot him because of their past together, but she shoots an acid-filled pustule on the wall that sprays all over him and leaves him to die.
* Plays a key part of the climax of the [[Disney+]] [[Marvel Cinematic Universe]] TV series ''[[WandaVision]]'': During Wanda's aerial battle with {{spoiler|Agnes/Agatha}} in episode nine, she appears to be throwing eldritch bolts wildly, missing {{spoiler|Agnes/Agatha}} as often as she hits her... until it turns out {{spoiler|she's been inscribing runes on the inside of the Hex to deprive her opponent of her ability to use magic}}.
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▲* Variation: In the storyline of the ''[[Deadlands]]'' CCG ''Doomtown'', the climactic battle sees Austin Stoker face down the manitou [[Big Bad|Knicknevin]] with the Holy Wheel Gun (modified by [[Mad Science]] to work especially well against monstrous creatures in general) - but he doesn't shoot Knicknevin, he shoots {{spoiler|an undead [[Abraham Lincoln]]. With the same bullet that killed him the first time. This results in ''another'' manitou (who reanimated Lincoln intending to wreak its own havoc, but badly underestimated the man's willpower) gaining control for the first time in years, and promptly tearing Knicknevin to shreds for being a glory hound}}.
* Players can do it themselves in games with [[Exploding Barrels]].
* In ''[[SaGa Frontier]]'', the "Trickshot" gun skill, when used with only one gun. The character fires directly above the enemy, and shortly after, rocks cascade down.
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* ''[[Razing Storm]]'': When you defeat the Spider Tank, those missiles it fires are ''not'' running on faulty aiming devices. Remember, you are standing on a suspended platform. A platform that is suspended over a ''great'' height... Long story short, ''shoot the missiles.''
== [[Web Comics]] ==
* In ''[[The Adventures of Dr. McNinja]]'', The Great Flying Shooting Juan's trick shot is [https://web.archive.org/web/20090204102853/http://drmcninja.com/page.php?pageNum=8&issue=10 a ridiculously over-the-top example].
* ''[[Girl Genius]]'' pulls this trope off with a [http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20060901 thrown sword].
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'''Kobayashi:''' DAMMIT! And I've been practicing, too! }}
* Played straight in ''[[Dominic Deegan]]'', [https://web.archive.org/web/20140509111608/http://www.dominic-deegan.com/view.php?date=2010-08-19 except that no guns were used.]
* Page [https://web.archive.org/web/20130617151119/http://romanticallyapocalyptic.com/45 45] of ''[[Romantically Apocalyptic]]''.
* At least in [[Bob and George]], [http://bobandgeorge.com/archives/011108c Roll never misses.]
* ''[[Buck Godot: Zap Gun for Hire]]'' has [https://web.archive.org/web/20150428205531/http://www.airshipentertainment.com/buckcomic.php?date=20070222 this] grand finale to a bar fight.
== [[Western Animation]] ==▼
▲== Western Animation ==
* Parodied in ''[[Chilly Beach]]'', after Dale takes a shot at the net, he declares: "He shoots, he!...." and, after many ricochets, the puck inevitably just goes up into the sky, causing him to finish with "... just misses the cloud he was aiming for."
* In one ''[[Bugs Bunny]]'' cartoon, Bugs brags to Yosemite Sam that he can perform a complicated trick shot that will part Sam's hair right down the middle. After he fires, Sam says, "You missed!" A second later, his hat splits apart, revealing a perfect part on his hair.
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