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No matter how badass your [[Cool Tank]], [[Cool Plane]], or [[Humongous Mecha]] may be, its crew is still often made up of flesh-and-blood human beings who, once you get past the vehicle's armor plating, are just as vulnerable to damage as any other. Enemies who have armor-piercing weaponry may come to realize that they can stop your rampaging murder machines with just a few well-placed rounds to the cockpit. In the same manner that [[Boom Headshot|a well-placed shot to the head]] can instantly kill a human being, an attack that deliberately targets and kills the pilot can stop a vehicle without having to exert the time, energy, and resources to reduce it to scrap metal.
 
This is common in newer [[First -Person Shooter]] games, where killing the pilot or other crew can take the vehicle or some of its weapons out of action until those stations can be manned again. Sometimes, especially if the vehicle itself has a [[Crew of One]], it can also be used so that the opposing force can [[Gundamjack|hijack the vehicle]] and turn it against its owners.
 
[[Disposable Pilot]] often overlaps with this.
 
{{examples|Examples}}
== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ==
* Inverted in ''[[Gundam Seed]]'': the [[Technical Pacifist]] Kira eventually trains himself to render any [[Humongous Mecha]] inoperable without any damage to the cockpit.
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== Comics ==
* [[Implacable Man|The Saint Of Killers]] from ''[[Preacher (Comic Book)]]'' pulls off several of these against a tank battalion. Of course, his magic guns (which were forged by [[Satan]] himself from [[The Grim Reaper|the Angel of Death's]] sword) are guaranteed to never miss and always inflict fatal wounds no matter who or what they're aimed at, so really all he has to do is point, fire, and somehow someone is going to die. Whether it's by [[Scope Snipe|going through the tank's periscope]], hitting and blowing up a round in the tank's gun, or simply by penetrating the armor, it's immaterial.
 
== [[Film]] ==
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* Shooting the pilots is noted to be an effective tactic against Ork flyers in the [[Ciaphas Cain]] novel ''The Last Ditch''.
* Tycho Celchu's trademark in the [[X Wing Series]] is doing this with full-sized starfighter guns.
* In [[Harry Turtledove]]'s ''[[WorldWorldwar War(Literature)]]'' series, aliens invade in the middle of [[World War II]]. While the Lizards have technology and vehicles far superior to WWII era tanks and planes, they're still vulnerable to things like a tank commander getting his head blown off when he sticks his head out of the hatch.
 
== [[Live Action TV]] ==
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