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== Film - Live Action ==
* ''[[Star Wars]]'' is the Trope Inspirer. The Imperial Stormtroopers are notorious, even among casual ''Star Wars'' fans, for their inability to hit the heroes, particularly in ''[[A New Hope]]'' or ''[[Return of the Jedi]]''. In the prequel trilogy, the standard battle droids are arguably even worse than the Stormtroopers, while, oddly enough, the Clone Troopers (predecessors of the Stormtroopers) tend to be much better shots than the Stormtroopers. A lot of ink has been spilled on this subject, both in official [[Expanded Universe]] publications and by fans and critics, either [[Lampshade Hanging|lampshading]] or attempting to rationalize this shoddy marksmanship. [[Imperial Stormtrooper Marksmanship Academy/Analysis|Click here for a more detailed analysis of the issue.]]
** In ''[[A New Hope]]'' at least, they may have had an excuse; seeing as Tarkin ''wanted'' the heroes to escape after putting a tracking device on their ship, it's likely they were ordered not to kill them and were missing on purpose.
** Also, from the special edition, [[Han Shot First|Greedo misses Han while he is sitting from across a tiny TABLE]]. They tried to fix it later by having Han dodge it, which raises all kinds of other issues.
* Eric Kriegler from the [[James Bond (film)|James Bond]] film ''[[For Your Eyes Only (film)|For Your Eyes Only]]''. An Olympic biathalon competitor, who gets the drop on 007 with a rifle, and ''still'' can't hit him.
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