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** ''Macross Plus'' surpasses that: Myung is trapped in an elevator, and two security guards ''spray the inside of the elevator with automatic weapons... '''Not. Hitting. Her. Once.'''''
* ''[[One Piece]]'' tries to avoid this trope by having the navy use swords more often than using guns. Whenever the marines use guns on the Straw Hats, it's only against the stronger members that can easily dodge the bullets or disarm the snipers. If fighting the weaker members, they normally are too close and will be attacked by them or reasonably too far away to hit them.
** Played very straight, however, in the Whole Cake Island Arc where Pudding pulls a revolver on Sanji and tries to shoot him ''while he's carrying her''. Sanji ''does'' have near-superhuman reflexes (the reason her next five shots do no better), but that's hardly an excuse when you are at near point-blank range and take your target by surprise.
* From the second ''[[Naruto]] Shippuuden'' movie, the ninja of the Sky Country have gatling guns that fire kunai. Apparently they're a deadly force, but they just seem to land by peoples' feet more often than not. One of them almost hits Shizune's foot as it just barely misses Tsunade, but she just has to stand there. Then Sai fights several of them in the air and just stands atop his giant bird thinking to himself while a volley of kunai fly over his head. But then, perhaps this also involves the [[Inverse Ninja Law]].
** The first ''Naruto'' film had similar devices, mounted on a train, mow down a crowd of [[Red Shirt]]s charging down a hill dowards it yelling ([[Values Dissonance|It was an honor thing]]). Our heroes are all appropriately cowed.
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