History Main / FriendlyFireproof

*** ''VideoGame/{{Fallout 3}}'' and ''VideoGame/FalloutNewVegas'' both have friendly fire turned on, the later has a feat that makes you less likely to hit your allies. Non-essential NPC's, however, can accidentally be hit and will subsequently turn hostile along with their allies.

* Completely and often infuriatingly averted in ''DeadRising''; your attacks can and will hurt the [[EscortMission Survivors in your group]]. Combine this with the game's [[ArtificialStupidity Infamous AI]] and you have a recipe for disaster.

*** In ''DeadRising2'' most attacks won't be a survivor deadly as the first one.

** One fun thing to do is set up three computers vs you and turn on [[FriendlyFireIndex Friendly Fire]]. Most of the time, all you have to do is stay out of range and watch as HilarityEnsues.

** ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyTacticsA2'' has the Scholar, basically an Illusionist without FriendlyFireproof mechanics. Fortunately, the right equipment setup can negate the damage on part of your own party members or even [[HealingShiv turn it into healing]].

* In ''VideoGame/StarFox Assault'', your wing men are immune to your own blasts. This wouldn't necessarily be a problem, but when they fly into your line of fire and being taking the shots meant for the enemy (and they will), chances are you'll want to hurl your controller through the screen.
** The other games in the series, however, make it possible to hurt your wingmen (but a few supportive characters are immune) -- Peppy, in particular, would answer with an angry "Knock it off, Fox!!!". As little help as they tended to be, they still had to be alive by the end of the mission if you wanted to score a medal in VideoGame/StarFox ''64''.

* In ''{{Westworld}}'', the guns are fitted with a module that prevents you from using them on other human beings; only the androids can be shot.

* Averted in S.W.A.T4, where not only can you shoot and kill allies, it only takes one or two bullets to kill anything. Not checking your aim can result in killing a civilian or an enemy who's surrendered, killing your squadmates, or (in worst cases) your squadmate shooting you in the back of the head.

* It's standard in almost every MultiplayerOnlineBattleArena that your character's spells will ignore your allies, though it's possible to force your attacks to hit allied [[RedShirtArmy creeps]] or structures, which actually does have a purpose[[note]]Killing them yourself denies your opponent the gold and experience bonuses of landing the killing blow themselves[[/note]].

* In ''VideoGame/SuperSmashBros'', you won't harm your partner if you hit him during team battles. You can turn this option off, though.

* Done in all the Mario RPGs, your own/your allies powerful attacks will only ever do anything to your opponents, not the party. Especially amusing in VideoGame/MarioAndLuigiDreamTeam, where the Luiginary Typhoon can literally suck up Mario like an enemy but does nothing to his HP.

Prevents FriendOrFoe becoming an issue. Subtrope of DamageDiscrimination.

*** With the weapons in the Engineer update, the Engineer can control his sentry and fire rockets with secondary fire. This allows the engineer to rocket jump and access places that only Demomen and Soldiers could rocket/sticky jump to.

* Some of the area-effect "[=MAP=]" attacks in the ''SuperRobotWars'' series will target everyone in the line of fire, friend or foe, some won't. If you're lucky, the game will have a way to let you know which one it is ''before'' you let loose with it.

* ''The HouseOfTheDead III'' has occasional "rescue your partner from zombies" scenarios. Shooting your partner has no effect, so feel free to open fire on or extremely close to them if it'll save them[[hottip:*:or rather, the potential life bonus and bonus room if you (and the 2nd player if any) haven't failed any rescue scenarios yet; your partner cannot take damage or die from a failed rescue]] from a zombie within critical proximity.

* It's standard in almost every MultiplayerOnlineBattleArena that your character's spells will ignore your allies, though it's possible to force your attacks to hit allied [[RedShirtArmy creeps]] or structures, which actually does have a purpose[[hottip:*:Killing them yourself denies your opponent the gold and experience bonuses of landing the killing blow themselves]].

* ''VideoGame/MassEffect'' abused this trope quite thoroughly. Apparently, your guns, biotics, tech mines, et cetera, could distinguish between friend and foe. Strangely for a game that usually explains everything, this wasn't even handwaved If you shot something that exploded, however, you could hurt yourself and your allies.
** It was ''sort of'' handwaved - your shots would bounce off your allies' shields, although this wouldn't have any actual effect on said shields.
*** Fortunately, it works both ways. THEIR shots bounce off YOUR shields as well without doing any damage. As you're the perpetual pointman unless you specifically order them ahead, and they will in fact try to shoot an enemy behind you, this is a good thing. Except, of course, that the shield impacts DO bounce your aim around, making sniping basically impossible while your allies are shooting you.

* Annoyingly absent in ''VideoGame/TheElderScrollsIVOblivion'' where three accidental hits will turn allies into enemies, usually because they keep getting in the way.
** However, you can "yield" to them and if their disposition to you is high enough they will back off.
*** However, AI characters cannot yield to each other, and even AIs in the same faction will fight each other to the death if they hit each other 3 times. Some players take advantage of this by crafting a spell or bow of Command Humanoid up to Level 25, to make the enemies take each other out while you laugh and point from the shadows.

* It is 100% impossible to hurt your own units with anything in ''Star Wars: Empire at War'' and its Expansion. Which is a good thing, considering how often units are packed right up against each other. Especially in Space combat, where fighters often fly around capital ships during battle, as said capital ships attempt (and fail) to shoot down the fighters with their turbolasers. It would be quite annoying if these turbolaser shots then damaged your own capital ships.

* In {{Terraria}}'s PVP mode, players on the same team can't hurt each other, also players who have PVP turned off can't be harmed by other players.However, this only applies to melee weapons and bullets (both physical and magical), but not to environmental damage, that will damage any players (including the one who triggered it) regardless of their status.Oh, and explosives of any kind, rolling boulders and arrow turrets are treated as environmental damage.

* ''{{Brigandine}}'' has this for its "geno" area-of-effect spells (Geno-Frost, Geno-Flame), and the slightly wider but slightly weaker "Holy Word". You don't have to fear harming your allies, and the enemy needs to be a bit more cautious when placing all its troops around you. However, the game also includes several area-of-effect spells that ''do'' harm your allies - and, while a few of the stronger tank-type heroes have the a-o-e spells, they're mostly found on weaker heroes who shouldn't be toe-to-toe with the enemy, making the spell's range a little less impressive.

** Averted in ''VideoGame/{{Borderlands 2}}'' with Krieg, who has a skill that actually makes him susceptible to friendly fire. This goes with skills that buff him as he takes damage, and more levels in the skill that enables him to take friendly fire reduce the damage taken more and more.

** Averted in ''VideoGame/{{Borderlands 2}}'' with Krieg, who has a skill that actually makes him susceptible to friendly fire.