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== Anime & Manga ==
* [[Hellsing|Rip Van Winkle's]] bullets go around in zig-zags until they hit their target, giving them a level of precision that shames homing missiles.
* Both Train Heartnet and Saya Minatsuki of ''[[Black Cat (Mangamanga)|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).
* ''[[Umineko no Naku Koro Nini]]'' - The Seven Stakes of Purgatory are shown as part spike, part homicidal guided missile, and part this.
** 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.
* In ''[[Ranma One Half]]'' the detachable [[Rings of Death|blade ring]] of the [[Blade Onon a Stick|Kinjakan]] is ''meant'' to be used like this. When Ranma steals it from the Phoenix people and tries to use it acts like a [[Hyper-Destructive Bouncing Ball]], and a Phoenix woman tells him that it takes years of training to use the weapon properly. Then Ranma immediately uses it a ''second'' time, the ring bounces exactly where he wants it to go, and Ranma gives a smug smirk.
 
 
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== Films -- Animation ==
* 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 (Animation)|The Thief and Thethe 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...]]
 
 
== Films -- Live Action ==
* In ''[[Tron (Film)|Tron]]'' and its sequel ''[[Tron Legacy (Film)|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]]''
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== Literature ==
* This was also in ''[[Discworld (Literature)/Pyramids|Pyramids]]'' by [[Terry Pratchett]]: a young assassin decides to flunk his exam when he finds out that it will end with killing a live target. He misses the target intentionally, but the arrow ricochets a few times in this manner and ends up hitting the target anyway. The examiner misunderstands and thinks that he was just showing off, and lets him pass. (And, to round up a happy ending, the victim turns out to have been a fake too.)
* In another Pratchett novel, ''[[Discworld (Literature)/Reaper Man|Reaper Man]]'', Bill Door is ''very'' good at pool, but realises that when it comes to a friendly game at the pub, you get more friends by losing entertainingly, and uses his skill to set up shots that "accidentally" send the cue ball flying off the table and ricocheting around the room before landing harmlessly in somebody's pint mug.
* And of course, there are the trick shots Archchancellor Ridcully sets up on his pool table. Being a [[Discworld]] wizard, his "trick shots" involve bouncing the cue ball off of passing seagulls, the back of the Bursar's head (''last Tuesday'', no less!), and possibly even itself.
* 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.
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* [[Xena: Warrior Princess|Xena]]'s chakram, which bounces off rocks, pillars, and [[Mooks]]' heads before [[Precision-Guided Boomerang|returning to her hand]].
** 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 (TV)|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.
* Tested by the ''[[Myth Busters]]'' with firearms. For the record, bullets lose a lot of energy when they ricochet. The "three ricochets and kills the firer" myth they were working on was solidly Busted.
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== Video Games ==
* The Reflective Shot powerup in ''[[Gauntlet (1985 video game)]]'' games allows players to do this.
* [[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 ''[[War CraftWarcraft]] III''.
* ''[[Perfect Dark]]'''s grenades are rather humdrum until the secondary mode, "Proximity Pinball," is activated -- after which they start bouncing throughout the level until an enemy gets close enough to set off the proximity trigger. Multiplayer matches including them taught players to dread that innocent little "boing" sound...
* ''[[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]].
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* Revolver Ocelot in the ''[[Metal Gear Solid]]'' series can bounce bullets off the wall to hit the player around corners.
* In ''[[Project Eden]]'' you can use the disc launcher to kill enemies around corners. It looks similar to a certain [[Tron|movie]].
* And speaking of ''[[Tron (Film)|Tron]]'', the game ''[[Tron Two Point Oh (Video Game)|Tron 2.0]]'' gives you the legendary Disc as your primary weapon. Bouncing shots off the floor or walls is one of the best ways to control them over longer distances.
* In ''[[Half-Life 2 (Video Game)|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 (Video Game)|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.
* In ''[[Space Quest]] IV'', if you die by entering the hatchway of the patrol ship instead of the landing gear, you get this message, ''"The young shuttle pilot, his seat suddenly humidified by your surprise entry, fires his pulseray. The shot just misses you and then bounces off the reflective surfaces of the cabin... eventually managing to fatally perforate you. Just as you fade from the living organism club you think, in amazement, 'So that's what my spleen looks like!'"''
* The Marksman in ''[[Hellgate London]]'' can learn to bounce shots off the environment with 100% effectiveness, and ricochet between multiple targets.
* Your main gun in ''[[Dgeneration (Video Game)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.
* [[Super Mario Bros.|Mario]]'s [[Fireballs]] in the ''[[Super Smash Bros]]'' series bounce off walls and floors.
** Before that, Mario's Superballs in ''[[Super Mario Land (Video Game)|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.
* In ''[[Xexyz]]'', the 45B Ball weapon fires balls that bounce at 45-degree angles.
* [[Unreal]]'s and [[Unreal Tournament]]'s Ripper fires ricocheting discs cabable of decapitating everyone if they hit the neck, and the Flak Cannon is a [[BFG]]-sized shotgun which fires red-hot ricocheting shrapnel.
* One of the bots in ''[[Shatterhand (Video Game)|Shatterhand]]''.
* In [[Wii Play|Wii Play's]] subgame Tank, you can shoot bullets that ricochet on walls twice. Not only that, but a some of the enemies' shots can also ricoshet off walls.
* ''[[Wipeout (Video Game)|Wipeout]]'''s non locked-on missile and shuriken (The latter is eliminator mode only).
* Ricochet Bombs in the ''[[Twisted Metal]]'' series.
** In earlier incarnations (Pre ''Twisted Metal:Black'') the bombs would last forever until hitting a vehicle, and each undetonated bounce would increase the power of the overall bomb. [[Hilarity Ensues|With the unlimited ammo cheat...]].
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== Web Comics ==
* Vallant, of ''[[Teh Gladiators]]'', takes [[Accidental Aiming Skills]] to a new level of insanity when his shots ricochet around the Arena like buzzing flies until they finally hit something -- never what he was aiming at but always something that helps Teh Gladiators win.
* The lucky shot variety is subverted in [http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0436.html this strip] of ''[[The Order of the Stick (Webcomic)|Order of the Stick]]''.
 
 
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