Misguided Missile: Difference between revisions

The [[Ace Pilot]] either has the skills to blow it up or a plan (well, [[Indy Ploy|more like on the spot improvising]]) to destroy or escape from the missile. Usually by [[High-Speed Missile Dodge|deftly dodging]] [[Wronski Feint|and making it hit a cliff or asteroid]], just plain letting it hit his plane but using an [[Ejection Seat]] beforehand, or best of all, leading it back to the launcher! If he's being chased by the [[Macross Missile Massacre]], then expect his new target to go "[[Oh Crap]]".

This can very easily turn into a [[Heroic Sacrifice]] if he can't destroy or evade it, or worse ram an enemy target to make sure both he and the missile hit it. Compare [[Grenade Tag]].

* The ''[[Black Lagoon]]'' crew divert heat seeking missiles with a flare, before [[Crazy Awesome|lauching their boat in the air and taking the attacking helicopter down with a torpedo]].

* In ''[[Yu Yu Hakusho]]'', Yusuke escapes several explosive homing shuriken by accidentally misguiding them in this way.

{{quote|'''Sarris:''' You fool! You failed to realize that, with your armor gone, my ship will tear through yours like tissue paper.

'''Jason Nesmith:''' And what you fail to realize is my ship... is dragging mines! }}

* ''[[The Iron Giant]]'' is a partial example - {{spoiler|the titular giant}} ''was'' the target, and he just escaped from the town to save ''it''. [[Tear Jerker|He had no plan or intention to save himself.]]

* ''Payday'', the movie version of ''[[Der Clown]]'', shows [[Ace Pilot|Dobbs]] as he sends a heat-seeking surface-to-air missile chasing his helicopter back into the SAM which is so glowing hot that it must emit more heat than the helicopter's gas turbines.

* It's possible to do this with the boss Duon's missiles in [[Super Smash Brothers]]: Brawl.

* [[The Legend of Zelda Oracle of Ages]] uses an interesting variant of this trope: the boss of the 7th dungeon is vulnerable only to its own projectile attacks. However, rather than luring them back to it (they aren't homing projectiles), you have to use the Long Hook to swap places with the big jellyfish and put it into the path of its own attack.

* The entire first section of the [[Bonus Boss|Doomsday Zone boss fight]] in [[Sonic the Hedgehog|Sonic & Knuckles/Sonic 3 & Knuckles]] consists of you doing this to Robotnik's ship with the homing missiles he fires at you.

* This is how you defeat Megaleg in [[Super Mario Galaxy]], by blowing out the [[Humongous Mecha]] with it's own Bullet Bills.

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