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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]].
A sister-trope, [[Hyper-Destructive Bouncing Ball]], describes instances when an item ricochets, causing random damage. That is not this trope; this always has a definite target. However, both tropes are [[Artistic License Physics]] at its finest. Ballistic projectiles lose energy when ricocheting (the same reason a bouncing ball never goes as high as its first bounce), meaning the last target hit by the projectile should take far less damage than the first.
Compare [[Reflecting Laser]].
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== Comics ==
* [[Captain America (comics)]]'s shield. Due to its unique construction and ''lots'' of practice, for the most part - others who have stepped into the role, like John Walker, never really got the hang of it like the original did.
* 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.
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* [[Judge Dredd]]'s gun has special "ricochet ammo" for this purpose.
* [[Daredevil|Bullseye]] can do this with [[Improbable Weapon User|ANYTHING]].
* [[Daredevil]] himself can do it with his billy club on occasion. Most [[Egregious|egregiously]] in one of [[Kevin Smith]]'s issues, where Daredevil throws it through a glass window where, instead of shattering the window completely, it just leaves a small hole, approximately 1.5 inches in diameter. Then it bounces around, knocking out the [[Mooks]] and returning through the ''exact same hole''.
* [[Wonder Woman]] has been known to do this with her tiara.
* [[Green Arrow]] does this with arrows.
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* ''[[House of Flying Daggers]]''
* An epic one (it even gets a replay) in the Thai movie ''[[Tears Of The Black Tiger]]''
* This is ''[[Happy Gilmore]]'' specialty after being trained to use it to his advantage. In his final match against Shooter, a lookout tower gets in the way of the final hole thanks to a flunkie Shooter hired to ruin Happy's shot. Instead of putting around it and going into sudden death. Happy studies the structure and decides to beat Shooter then and there by hitting the ball so that it ricochets and hits a chute where it rolls perfectly into the hole.
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* 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.
* Pretty much the only possible way [[Buffy the Vampire Slayer|Warren Mears could've hit Tara Maclay]] with that stray shot.
* In ''[[VIP|V.I.P.]]'', Vallery Irons tried imitating Xena with her headband. Four enemies knocked out [[Armor Is Useless|despite wearing a helmet]]. At least she [[Accidental Aiming Skills|was impressed]].
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== Toys ==
* 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.
* Cue sports (such as Billiards) calls successful attempts of a pinball projectile to be trick shots. One variation, three-cushion billiards, requires this because a scoring point is awarded by hitting an object ball and three cushions before the second object ball.
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* 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.
* 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 ''[[D/Generation|Dgeneration]]'' can bounce off up to three walls.
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** 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]]'' 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.
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