Improbable Aiming Skills/Web Comics

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Examples of Improbable Aiming Skills in Web Comics include:

  • A comic of 8-Bit Theater had Black Mage and Red Mage discussing on who'd win in a fight: Bullseye and Green Arrow, based on either's Improbable Aiming Skills. RM then said Green Arrow could shoot several arrows precisely at once. BM argued—and was pinned to a tree by such an attack...
  • Parodied in this strip of The Last Days of Foxhound with a shooting contest between Sniper Wolf and Revolver Ocelot.
  • In a recent Better Days strip, the main character manages to shoot two men directly in the head while holding an obese man still with one arm.
    • And using a silenced weapon, may I add, which makes it even more ridiculous.
    • Of course he can.
  • Janet of Gunnerkrigg Court can nail an arrow mid-flight.
    • Several generations prior, Steadman was able to hit a moving target at the bottom of a very deep ravine, in the middle of the night.
  • The Adventures of Dr. McNinja: The Flying Shooting Juan
    • Mitzi's speciality is precisely aimed demolitions. She uses this skill to land a treasure chest on Dark Smoke Puncher, and get the Doc's katana back to him. And she did this before she knew where they were going to be standing.
  • One of the characters of Gone With the Blastwave can headshot a plane pilot with a sniper rifle... at the moment that leads the now-unpiloted plane to crash into an allied tank.

Soldier 1: Hey, it worked.
Soldier 2: .... you've been doing this for too long.