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To pull this off intentionally means you're either [[The Gunslinger]] or [[The Archer]]; pulling it off accidentally makes you [[Born Lucky|incredibly lucky]]. This is often a characteristic of the [[Precision-Guided Boomerang]], though returning to the wielder is not necessary. You may find one in a [[Trick Shot Puzzle]].

 

 

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* Those commercials with Larry Bird and Michael Jordan back in the day. [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_oACRt-Qp-s "Off the floor, off the scoreboard, off the wall, nothing but net."]

 

* Both Train Heartnet and Saya Minatsuki of ''[[Black Cat (manga)|Black Cat]]'' are able to do this with a technique known as the Reflect Shot.

* Mana Tatsumiya of ''[[Mahou Sensei Negima]]!'' does this in the intentional variety to gain advantage over the Mahora defenses (having [[Instant Kill]] proximity bullets helps).

** And all [[Fan Service]].

* [[Pokémon Special]]: Gold always carries a billard cue with him and frequently uses it to launch his Pokeballs to a tactically advantageous postion, often ricocheting them off of surfaces to get there.

 

* Cyclops of the [[X-Men (Comic Book)|X-Men]] has repeatedly demonstrated the ability to cause his optic blasts to ricochet or reflect off of objects in a trajectory to his liking. He's reflected a single blast off of over a dozen objects before. How the objects [[Selectively-Lethal Weapon|aren't simply destroyed from the force]] is never explained, but it's one of his niftiest tricks.

** Predicting ricochets is an intuitive secondary power of his. If you play pool against him, play for fun, not money.

* [[Judge Dredd]]'s gun has special "ricochet ammo" for this purpose.

* [[Daredevil|Bullseye]] can do this with [[Improbable Weapon User|ANYTHING]].

* [[Wonder Woman]] has been known to do this with her tiara.

* [[Green Arrow]] does this with arrows.

* [[Nightwing]] has done this with his eskrima sticks, having it hit a couple mooks then return to him, even though they're not meant to be thrown in the first place.

 

 

* In Disney's ''[[Robin Hood (Disney film)|Robin Hood]]'', Robin pulls this off by shooting an arrow that had gone off course with another arrow, correcting the tragectory of the first arrow and sending it straight into the bullseye, Robin Hooding the one that was already in there.

* In ''[[The Thief and the Cobbler]]'', the titular Cobbler Tack sends a tack ricocheting during the final battle. It eventually hits [[Evil Chancellor]] Zig-Zag's horse, who launches Zig-zag off its back, which causes his sword to cut a rope, [[Rube Goldberg Device|which activates a catapult...]]

* In ''[[Tron]]'' and its sequel ''[[Tron: Legacy]]'', the [[Deadly Disc|Identity Discs]] behave like this.

* ''[[House of Flying Daggers]]''

* An epic one (it even gets a replay) in the Thai movie ''[[Tears Of The Black Tiger]]''

 

* One of the novels in ''[[The History of the Galaxy]]'' series mentions that there is special software installed to do exactly that with the [[Real Robots]] when the enemy is hiding. Why an explosive projectile blows up only when hitting a target instead of a rock is not explained. Presumably, they're smart bullets or something.

 

** Exaggerated in an episode featuring a [[Groundhog Day Loop]]. To break the loop, Xena had to (among other things) stop a young noblewoman from committing suicide with a vial of poison. However, the distance from where Xena wakes up every morning to where the girl does the deed is too far to reach in the time allowed, in addition to stopping everything else going wrong that day. So she spends at least one day ignoring everything else to take measurements, angles, and distances. So that when she wakes up again, the first thing she does is go outside, gauge the wind, and throw her chakram across, through, above and between several city blocks in order to be exactly where the poison vial will be when it gets there, as well as putting a stop to everything else along the way. And it returns to her hand afterwards.

* Seen in ''[[Red Dwarf]]''. In the famous "Gunmen of the Apocalypse'' episode set in a computer-simulated Western town, The Cat pulls off non-lethal trick shots in this manner.

* [[Doctor Who|The Doctor]] pulled this off at one point. He threw a cricket ball, and it bounced around all over the place. Admittedly the effect bordered on a Rube Goldberg device instead of this trope, but it probably still counts. Not only that, but he did it while his Time Lord mind was entirely suppressed and he believed that he was human.

* Pretty much the only possible way [[Buffy the Vampire Slayer|Warren Mears could've hit Tara Maclay]] with that stray shot.

 

* This can be taken as a cinematic skill or special power in ''[[GURPS]]''.

** Plus the frisbee grenades from ''Ultra-Tech''.

* In ''[[Exalted]]'', you can get a Charm that does this. Some weapons don't even need a Charm.

 

* In the Inika arc from ''[[Bionicle]]'', Toa Hewkii gained a Mask of Accuracy. One of the things he did with it was shoot a pebble he created (being the Toa of Stone) and ricochet it off a dozen surfaces before hitting his intended target in the back. [[Crowning Moment of Awesome]], indeed.

 

* [[Moon Knight]]'s [[Limit Break|X-Treme attack]] in ''[[Marvel Ultimate Alliance]]'' takes this [[Up to Eleven]]. Basically, it's this trope combined with [[More Dakka]], turning the whole screen into a bouncing, ricocheting [[Bullet Hell]] for the enemies. Pretty much an [[Game Breaker|instant boss-killer]] too, especially if it's used in an enclosed room.

* Happens with projectiles with the Missile(Bounce) attribute in ''[[Warcraft]] III''.

* ''[[Descent]]'''s Phoenix Cannon ricochets twice off surfaces. A skilled player can use it to shoot robots around corridors. A less skilled player is likely to try to use it to open a door (which works fine for other weapons) and get his own shots bounced back in his face for a [[Epic Fail|highly embarrassing death]].

* ''[[Jak and Daxter]]'', specifically ''Jak 3'''s Reflexor gun. That thing will bounce off anything, forever, and if you spam the screen with bullets its a veritable party of yellow lines. And if you buy the upgrade to make it bounce off things more... hoo boy. Then again, the ''Jak and Daxter'' series doesn't seem to pay attention to reality much anyway.

* In ''[[Half-Life 2]]'', the Energy Ball ammo for the pulse rifle (and the energy globes in the Citadel) will ricochet until they hit a target.

* Jr. from ''[[Xenosaga]]'' has a few of these attacks. One of his "normal" attacks in the first game involves flipping a coin and shooting it, hitting an enemy with the ricochet. One of his special attacks, however, involves throwing a handful of coins at the enemies and firing a single bullet, bouncing it off all the coins in order to hit multiple enemies.

* Your main gun in ''[[D/Generation|Dgeneration]]'' can bounce off up to three walls.

* The aptly-named Ricochet Stone subweapon that appears in a few games of the ''[[Castlevania]]'' series.

** There's an enemy in ''[[Castlevania: Portrait of Ruin]]'' that uses a rifle that shoots ricocheting bullets.

* GDI Grenadiers throw Disc Grenades in Tiberian Sun, which bounce a few times before detonating.

** Before that, Mario's Superballs in ''[[Super Mario Land]]'' did the same.

* In [[Devil May Cry|Devil May Cry 3]], main character Dante in a cutscene hurls a pool table into the air, then shoots the white ball. This causes the white ball to rebound off ''every single other ball'', which then [[Rule of Cool|hit and kill]] a [[Mook]] each.

* The original Atari home system came with a game simply called "Tank", where two players control tanks that fire missiles at each other. On some levels the missiles bounce, and intricate trick shots are possible.

 

** That was an accident, and it ricocheted ''nine'' times before hitting the Meta in the foot. Hardly an ideal shot, even if he meant to do it, though it ''did'' prove to be helpful...by providing the heroes with a trail of blood to follow.

** It doesn't count anyway. He didn't call it first.

* ''[[Haloid]]'' has this as <s>one</s> two of its many (many) [[Crowning Moments Of Awesome]].

 

 

* Happens in the ''[[Justice League Unlimited]]'' episode "Flash and Substance": Batman fires a flare into the air, seemingly aiming for Mirror Master, but it ricochets off various objects before falling into a mirror. Mirror Master jeers, "You missed me!", not realizing {{spoiler|Batman launched it in the mirror so the Flash, trapped in a mirror dimension, could find his way back and kick butt}}.

* On ''[[Phineas and Ferb]]'', Isabella does this in a foosball match, after saying that the next shot would go in.

 

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