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* In a Season 2 episode of ''[[Sledge Hammer]]'' a drugged-up Sledge is complimented by his captain for disabling the criminal, and says "I was aiming for his head."
* On one episode of ''[[Criminal Minds (TV)|Criminal Minds]]'', while in a hostage crisis, Spencer Reid shoots the crook and mass murderer dead center of the forehead. Not only was he said to have failed his firearms qualification at the start of the episode, he claimed he'd been aiming for the guy's knee. At a distance of about six feet, that's a spectacularly bad shot. Given that it was established in the same scene that if Reid didn't kill him in one shot, they were probably all going to die (the words "Better be a head shot" were uttered) this was probably a joke on the character's part. It still, however, fulfills the trope.
* In one episode of ''[[Blake's Seven
* In ''[[F Troop]]'', Captain Wilton Parmenter is notorious for his inability to hit a target. Instead, he wins gunfights by accidentally making ludicrously complicated trick shots, followed by his men pretending they were deliberate. [[Accidental Hero|"Scourge of the West"]] Parmenter's gained quite the reputation as a sharpshooter.
* In an episode of ''[[Castle (TV)|Castle]]'', Rick Castle shoots a gun out of a serial killer's hand. When Beckett says that it was a "hell of a shot" Castle replies that he was aiming for his head (a reference to ''[[Firefly (TV)|Firefly]]'', above).
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'''Jelly''': I was aiming for his leg. }}
* Done in an episode of ''[[The Mentalist]]'', where Jane is partnered with Hightower instead of Lisbon (who is injured). Jane is grabbed by the episode's killer and held as a human shield. Hightower comes out of a rock and starts shooting, unloading most of the clip without hitting anything with the last bullet hitting the bad guy in the leg. She finished him off with several shots to the chest, when he tries to shoot her. When Jane commends her aim, she replies that she was aiming for the head.
* In ''[[
* Decidedly ''not'' played for laughs in an episode of ''[[Spartacus (TV)|Spartacus: Vengeance]]''. Mira shoots someone right through the throat, in the rain, through a crowd of people. Her archery teacher congratulates her on the brilliant shot, only for Mira to tearfully admit she was trying to non-fatally wound her target.
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** Unless they decide to use a grenade. Then they can bounce it of more than eight different walls and the fuse burns out just as the 'nade hits the player.
* ''[[Call of Duty]]: Modern Warfare 2''. See [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZKIOifaCT5A&feature=related this]. Welcome to war, soldier. Beware of random flying knives.
* In the old [[Text Parser]] [[Adventure Game]] ''Hugo 2: Whuddonit'', one of the items you [[Kleptomaniac Hero|collect]] is a handgun. Whatever you try to use it on, you get the message "Sheesh, you missed." However, during a sequence when you mysteriously teleport into an episode of ''[[
* Gameplay example only. In ''[[Halo Reach]]'', the sniper rifle rounds will deflect off surfaces, even multiple times, if the angle of incidence is large enough. Some videos show that that the angle can even be around 35 degrees and still work.
* ''[[Team Fortress 2 (Video Game)|Team Fortress 2]]'' has a Sniper achievement for delivering a [[One-Hit Kill]] to a fully invisible Spy, which is almost bound to be complete luck.
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