History Main / ImprobableAimingSKills

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* A number of competition and professional shooters, over a number of decades, have performed incredible feats of gunplay. These include:
** going from a standing rest position to drawing and firing a killing headshot in 0.26 timed seconds -- and being even faster than that, being able to throw a handful of ''eight'' clay pigeons behind them and promptly shoot all of them in the air with a shotgun,
** setting up two targets and using a sword in between and in front of them to cut the bullet and strike both targets accurately,
** being able to fire sixty rounds from ten revolvers and put every shot into a four inch circle in 17 seconds, picking up and putting down each revolver in succession,
** firing eight rounds from a revolver in 1.00 timed seconds (480rpm, matching a machinegun's rate of fire!) with all rounds hitting the target,
** and many, many more.
* It should also be pointed out that these shooters practice daily, going through tens of thousands of rounds of ammunition per year, and are the absolute top masters of their respective field at an Olympic level of skill. Look up folks like [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r7HN7THecwg Bob Munden]] (who was probably the best in this category), Ed Cantrell, Elmer Keith, Jerry Miculek, or Rob Leatham for starts... or, for that matter, Annie Oakley.
** The Discovery Channel series ''Time Warp'' aired an episode titled "Sharpshooter", which featured (among others) super-slow motion photography of a professional rifle shot shooting at and hitting an ordinary playing card ''edge on''!
* The true “fastest gun in the west” may have been [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Eaton U.S. Marshal Frank Eaton, aka “Pistol Pete”]]. He was believed to have a faster draw than Buffalo Bill, and could toss a coin in the air, draw his .45 Colt, and shoot it before it hit the ground. The phrase “hotter than Pete’s pistol” was a common saying in the mid-western United States around the turn of the century, and by the time he retired, he had eleven notches on his gun.
* [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ed_McGivern Ed McGivern]] was the living embodiment of this trope. In addition to five shots at five yards into a silver dollar in 45/100ths of a second (with a stock DA revolver), he could shoot six hand-thrown clays, centerpunch washers, fire revolvers akimbo at separate targets with equal effectiveness, and score hits at 600 yards (again, with a stock revolver). In one chapter of his book, he says (paraphrased), "anyone can do this. I pulled it off by standing in a field in Montana and burning up 30,000 rounds to master this one trick (shooting aerial targets)."
* Getting away from handguns and shotguns, the most notable [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Longest_recorded_sniper_kills sniper shots]]: the current record is 3,450 metres by an unnamed Joint Task Force 2 (Canadian special forces) sniper in Syria.
** UsefulNotes/SimoHayha. He is a special example because he did all of his work ''without a scope''. Yeah. The greatest sniper in history killed 546 Soviet soldiers using only ''iron sights''. He may not have matched other snipers in sheer range, but you have got to respect a sniper so skilled he hunted with only a pair of very fine-tuned bits of metal telling him where his shots were going to go. The Russians were flat fucking ''terrified'' of him by the end of the Winter War; they called him the [[RedBaron White Death]] for a reason.
*** He was eventually presented with a higher-quality rifle, but removed the scope because 1. the shine off the lens could give away his position to enemy snipers and 2. he didn't need it, as noted above.
** Rifleman Thomas Plunket. In 1809, using a black powder rifle over an open sight, he shot a French general dead at a range of 500 meters. Then he shot the first man to come to the general's aid, just to prove it wasn't a lucky shot.
** [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_%22Billy%22_Dixon Billy Dixon.]] He and a group of Bison hunters were defending the settlement of Adobe Walls from Comanches. Dixon, armed with a Sharps rifle, knocked a Comanche off his horse at a surveyed range of 1,538 yards ''without a scope''.
*** Even as Billy Dixon was (most possibly) one of the best long-range riflemen in the entire world, he did not give much credit to his shot and did not attempt to duplicate it.
** Military snipers in general. US Army snipers average one ''confirmed'' kill for every 1.78 bullets fired. Add in the ''probable'' kills, and the accuracy goes up to one kill for every 1.32 bullets fired.
** [[http://www.nydailynews.com/news/world/2010/05/03/2010-05-03_british_sniper_craig_harrison_the_silent_assassin_breaks_record_kills_target_fro.html Craig Harrison]] not only hit a target over 8,000 feet away with a rifle designed to have an effective distance of 5,000 feet, but decided that wasn't badass enough and did it ''twice.''
*** Not reported in that link is that with his third shot, Corporal Harrison ''disabled the machine gun'' his targets were using. As they say in America, three up, three down.
** An unknown Australian commando (there were two people shooting simultaneously at a single target and it isn't very clear who out of the two made the shot) hit an enemy commander from a GPS-confirmed distance of 2815 meters/3079 yards, which is more than 9000 feet away.
** It should be noted that modern military snipers use computers to calculate bullet drop and wind effects and secondary spotters to feed them distance and wind information before taking their shots; making the shooter mostly a steady hand on the trigger. Vietnam era and earlier snipers often forewent spotters--as noted, 1 man, 1 gun, and real skill, though one must also remember that in modern settings both the sniper and the spotters are often trained to do it the old-fashioned way with physical or memorized bullet drop tables, just in case the electronic gear gets disabled.
* In 2005 in Ar Ramadi, Iraq, a patrol was on a rooftop in the eastern part of the city scouting out sniper positions. A member of the patrol was killed by a terrorist sniper from the city hospital, over half a mile away. An impressive enough shot, but the Army sniper, SSG James Gilliland, with the patrol was better. Within seconds of the shot, he turned, acquired the terrorist's position, and returned fire, killing him with one shot. A within-seconds snap-shot kill at over 1,000 meters. Not to mention he somehow found the spot the bad guy was firing from amongst the many windows of the hospital.
** He even made [[Wiki/{{Wikipedia}} The Other Wiki]] [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Longest_recorded_sniper_kills as the 7th longest sniper kill in history]] and, more interestingly, the longest sniper kill made with 7.62mm ammunition, a fairly "typical" round rather than the .50 caliber anti-materiel round or one specially designed for extreme range sniping like the .338 Lapua Magnum.
* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ff4XuPtAOUk SWAT officer Mike Plumb shoots a gun out of a suicidal man's hand]]--without hurting the man (please ignore the voiceover; the narrator has no idea what's going on). Not that [[BlastingItOutOfTheirHands shooting guns out of a person's hand]] can't be done, but it's just too AwesomeButImpractical to use. This particular shot occurred at about 60 yards, which is extremely close range for a sniper rifle, though the size of the revolver being shot at means it wasn't exactly easy at that range either.
* During an eight hour battle between US Marines and Taliban fighters, a Marine marksman single handedly thwarted a company-sized enemy RPG and machinegun ambush by reportedly killing 20 enemy fighters with his devastatingly accurate precision fire. What makes his actions even more impressive is that he didn't miss a shot, despite the enemies' rounds [[ImperialStormtrooperMarksmanshipAcademy impacting within a foot]] of his fighting position.
* The memoir ''Sniper One'' tells of the exploits of a UK sniper platoon in Al-Amarah, one of the most dangerous and least-known battlefield cities in the Iraq War. They have a number of feats such as these.
* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ieWrWLjii0 The Beanshooter Man,]] who performs this trope with a slingshot of all things.
* In the 17th century [[RenaissanceMan the kickass]] [[NinjaPirateZombieRobot soldier/scientist/artist/bucaneer]] [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prince_Rupert_of_the_Rhine Prince Rupert of the Rhine]] shot a hole through a weathervane from 200 yards using a flintlock pistol. When his uncle King Charles I, who was watching, claimed it was a fluke, Prince Rupert did it again. The weathervane was still in place, with its two musket holes, 200 years later.
* In the vein of Simo Häyhä above, in WWI a brigade American Marines engaged a German division at Belleau Wood, sniping targets at up to 800 yards (which is far enough you don't hear the rifle's report before the bullet) with iron sights. The fire was so devastating the German commanders thought the Americans had machine guns.
** A similar feat has been attributed to a British rifle platoon at a bridge in 1914. The British trained specifically for this pre-war with the [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mad_minute "Mad Minute"]] training exercise in which riflemen had to put at least 15 aimed shots into a 12" target 300 yards away within 60 seconds -- with a ''bolt-action'' rifle. And many riflemen could average over 30. To illustrate how impressive this is, the United States Marine Corps trains for between ten and twelve aimed shots per minute with semi-automatic fire and thirty-round magazines. British soldiers would have to fire ten shots, manually cycling the action after each shot, reload, and do the same thing, reload after the next five shots, and so on to get thirty rounds within a minute.
* Otto Carius, one of the best tank commanders of [=WW2=], had this to say: "My gunner, Unteroffizier Kramer, can take credit for a deed that was probably unparalleled on the Eastern Front. That is, he succeeded in shooting down a Russian fighter with a tank cannon ... Kramer, upset by the unrelenting nuisance of these guys, elevated his cannon along the approach route. I talked him in. He took a chance and pulled the trigger. On the second attempt, he hit one of the ‘bees’ in its wing. The Russian crashed behind us."
** An un-named American anti-tank gun crew (90mm) repeated the feat during the Battle of the Bulge, knocking down a German fighter that made the error of flying in a straight line across the gunner's line of sight.
* The first M26 Pershing tank to be knocked out was done in by a shot through the hole for the coaxial machine gun.
* Hans-Joachim Marseille, the most accurate fighter pilot in history; until his death from hitting the aircraft he was bailing out of, he expended an average of 15 rounds of ammunition per plane he shot down. On 1 September 1942, he took off in his Bf109, shooting down three Kittyhawk fighters out of ten attacking a Ju-87 formation, and on his way back to base he was attacked by a group of Spitfires, shooting down six. When reloading the plane, his armorer discovered that Marseille had expended only 20 cannon rounds and 60 machine-gun rounds to shoot down all nine aircraft.
** This is a slightly unfair way to measure aiming skill, however, as the Bf109 armament included a pair of 20 mm cannons, while the early war Spitfires it was facing of with were equipped with 8 .30 caliber machine guns (which are practically pea shooters in air-to-air terms). One 20 mm shell did a ''lot'' more damage than ten .30 caliber bullets.
*** It is not unfair when you compare it to the ammunition used by other pilots flying the same type of aircraft. Also, the Bf 109-F and Bf 109- G airplanes which Marseille flew in North Africa only had one cannon, which fired through the hollow axis of the propeller. As the two machine guns were mounted on top of the engine, the projectiles from the three guns hit very close to each other. The guns of a Spitfire were mounted in the wings, which made more for a kind of scatter-gun effect.
*** But while talking about Spitfires, Canadian pilot George Beurling became legendary flying out of Malta for his obscene skills in deflection and long-range shooting. Initially considered a braggart when he was flying out of England because his gun camera didn't record the hits he claimed he was making, it was later realized that he was so good at calculating trajectories of bullets and enemy planes that he'd fire ''before'' the aircraft came in view of the camera. Once he reached Malta, he had his mechanics remove tracer rounds from his ammunition because he didn't ''need'' them to know where his rounds were going (and so the enemy didn't know they were being shot at), and made the longest recorded kill with a Spitfire, taking down another plane at 800 yards.
* René Fonck, the most successful Allied air ace of World War I, had a confirmed count of 75 victories. An engineer by profession, Fonck [[BadassBookworm applied the mathematical skills of his former vocation to make extremely accurate deflection shots]]; he rarely required more than a single burst of machine gun fire to down his targets. While flying the SPAD XII, a single-seat aircraft armed with [[{{BFG}} a 37mm cannon]] that had [[AwesomeButImpractical to be manually reloaded after each shot]], he managed to claim 11 aircraft destroyed. His skills were only matched [[FrenchJerk by his boasting]], a quality which even his (few) close friends commented on.
* 20-year old [[UsefulNotes/NazisWithGnarlyWeapons SS-Sturmmann Fritz Christen]], 3rd Waffen-SS Division ''Totenkopf'', had been left the lone survivor of his 50mm AT gun battery by a Soviet counter-attack with tanks and infantry during the battle for Luzhno on September 24, 1941. [[OneManArmy He manned his gun for 3 days, fighting with his submachinegun when attacked by infantry, crawling among leftover guns to drag ammo boxes for his weapons, and firing at Soviet tanks when they approached]]. When his comrades found him on September 27, they counted 13 destroyed tanks[[note]]first 6 of the 13 tanks had already been hit the previous day, September 23, by the entire 5-man gun crew, Christen included[[/note]] and about 100 dead Soviet troopers. It brought him the Knight's Cross from the hand of [[UsefulNotes/AdolfHitler the Führer himself]], promotion to Oberscharführer, and ten years in a Soviet gulag after the war. [[MadeOfIron He survived]] to die from natural causes aged 74.
** The best part of it? His gun's optical equipment had been destroyed in the initial attack. He [[UpToEleven aimed through the barrel]] before pushing the shell inside and closing the breech.
*** Pvt Vilho Rättö, Finnish Army, earned his Mannerheim Cross (highest Finnish military decoration) by destroying six Soviet tanks single-handedly with a captured anti-tank gun in the same manner.
* ''Dersu Uzala'' Arseniev is about one native friend whom he met while exploring Far East. The protagonist shoots so ridiculously well, [[RealityIsUnrealistic done in a fiction, this would make eyebrows rise, but it's a memoir]]. A typical example: two of his men on rest tried to shoot a duck, missed, it flied a bit away and this somehow turned into sport, until it was at least 300 steps away by the author's estimation. Enters giggling drunk Dersu. "Your shot well. Now my want chase duck." He raises the gun and fires almost without aiming. The bullet hits water, its splash ''showers'' the bird. It squeaks in panic and flies farther. Next shot -- another close hit. Now most of them have to use binoculars. One tried to compete and shot. The ricochet made the bird dive for a moment, but that's all. Dersu aims carefully -- yet another very close hit. The duck flies away for good.
* [[http://www.badassoftheweek.com/york.htm The Soldier]] [[http://acacia.pair.com/Acacia.Vignettes/The.Diary.of.Alvin.York.html#October%208th%201918 Corporal]] [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alvin_York Alvin]] [[ImplacableMan York.]] When his unit was spotted by a German machine gun company and his entire squad either had been cut down or had fled to cover except him, he stood and took the concentrated fire of [[MoreDakka thirty-two German machine guns and over 100 German riflemen]] [[NighInvulnerability without receiving so much as a scratch on him.]] But this trope comes into play for his offensive capability: With only his Enfield bolt-action rifle and Colt .45 pistol, he shot 28 Germans and forced them to surrender to him alone - and according to all accounts, he didn't miss [[BoomHeadshot one single shot.]]
-->'''York:''' I [[FunetikAksent jes]] couldn't miss a German's head or body at that distance. And I didn't. [[BadassBoast Besides, it weren't no time to miss nohow.]]
-->'''Official report of the battle:''' The American [York] fired all of the rifle ammunition clips on the front of his belt and then three complete clips from his automatic pistol. [[RetiredBadass In days past he won many a turkey shoot in the Tennessee mountains,]] and it is believed that he wasted no ammunition on this day.
** York's aim was so spectacular, when a group of six German soldiers fixed bayonets and charged him, York took out his pistol and shot them all back to front, so the ones in front would not know their fellows were dying until too late. Again, without missing a shot. York believed that [[DivineIntervention God protected and guided him]]; given what he accomplished, it doesn't seem entirely unreasonable.
* Finnish Army Corporal Olaf Lagus, son of General Ruben Lagus, was a Sturmgeschutz III gunner in the Continuation War just assigned to combat duty. He shot a total of four rounds in the war (before he was wounded in action and hospitalized), and ''each round destroyed a Soviet T-34''. His efficiency was full 100%.
* Finnish Air Force Lieutenant Antti Tani destroyed a Soviet Ilyushin Il-2 Shturmovik - a heavily armoured ground attack plane dubbed as "flying tank" in 1944 ''with just one round'' before the guns on his Messerschmitt Bf 190G jammed.
* A famous example on the reverse side of this: Union General John Sedgwick, at the start of the Battle of Spotsylvania Courthouse in July 1864, complained as his staff and artillery ducked for cover from snipers about 1000 yards away, "They couldn't hit an elephant at this distance." Seconds later, he was killed by a bullet just below his left eye. And thus, the SedgwickSpeech was born.
** In his defense, the shooter was closer than "they" were.
* [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jimmy_Launders Lieutenant James Launders DSO* DSC*]] commanding His Majesty's Submarine ''Venturer'' sank the ''U-864'' while both submarines were submerged. Launders decided to do this after tracking ''U-864'' for several hours, using only hydrophones, with the target zig-zagging the entire time, and got tired of waiting for it to surface. Launders had to work out a three-dimensional firing solution ''on paper'' (because the analog targeting computers of the time only calculated in two dimensions) that had to predict exactly where the German would be when the torpedoes got there, while his own sub was also moving [[FixedForwardFacingWeapon (to aim a torpedo, you have to maneuver to point the entire submarine at the target).]] This was literally considered BeyondTheImpossible and there had never been any training or procedures worked out beforehand, much less any actual attempt to pull it off. In a manner of speaking, Launders has everybody else on this list beat, because at least they could see what they were shooting at!
** Despite what you'd think [[HotSubOnSubAction seeing it in movies and TV]], this remains the ''only'' time one submerged submarine has ever torpedoed another in combat.
* The world record for benchrest shooting (custom guns firing custom bullets) is a 1.2cm group of five shots at 300 yards, an area a fraction the size of a AA battery.
* [[http://www.cracked.com/article_19750_the-5-most-impossible-sniper-shots-ever-made.html Cracked.com has a list of the five most impossible sniper shots ever made]], and several of the above-mentioned persons are on it. One commenter remarked that [[Series/{{Firefly}} "They killed them with math."]]
* Trick shooters make it a point of devising the most ridiculously impossible shots they can think of and mastering them for their public performances.
** Lars Andersen, a Danish archer (Amongst other things), released a [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BEG-ly9tQGk video]] of him performing such feats as: [[ShootTheBullet Shoot The Arrow]]; hitting a less-than-coin-sized target in freefall after throwing it into the air himself, jumping, grabbing an arrow from the environment, loading his bow, and firing while in midair and moving to successfully hit a target before landing; and performing a ''jumping'' CatchAndReturn. Though do remember that all of these trickshots were done in controlled environments.[[note]]While said video does contain claims which would probably fall under ArtisticLicenseHistory, the factual content or lack thereof does not detract from the sheer impressive nature of the shots he does make.[[/note]]
* Finnish conscripts are trained to get 10 rounds out of 10 to hit on target diameter 10 cm at 150 m with assault rifle on iron sights. The bullseye corresponds to a life-size human face, and it is printed on the target as well. Successfully scoring the three shooting qualification tests will grant a three days' leave. Those conscripts who are trained to become snipers or sharpshooters must be able to do the same at 300 m on assault rifle with iron sights.
** 10 cm at 150 m equals 2.29 arc minutes or 0.667 milliradians. At 300 m it is 1.24 arc minutes or 0.333 milliradians. The weapon used is the standard Finnish Army assault rifle, RK-62, which itself is an AK-47 clone. The bullets used are the standard 7.62x39 mm stock ammunition.
* The All Blacks have improbable aiming, and especially catching skills as shown [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ubBXDFtynC0 here]].
* In a more general sense, humans are this compared to many other animals. Our ability to throw accurately, and with a modest bit of practice, hit moving targets, is something we take for granted but few creatures can do anything like it. And, now that there are few things left that will try to eat us, we use it most often to play ''games''.
** This isn't just a coincidence. The Human body, especially at the waist and shoulder, is designed like a living catapult. Superior flexibility at the shoulder allows for a greater range of motion, and special tendons and ligaments are pulled taut like rubber bands, storing elastic energy. During a throw, the shoulder rotates at a speed of ''9000 degrees per second''. And it's not the shoulder alone. Other similar adaptations in the waist allows it to add to the explosive burst of motion involved in throwing an object.
* On the other hand, the human eye is in fact very poor at judging distances compared to many in the animal kingdom, making certain animals this compared to humans. Many species use projectiles with frightening accuracy, and they do it quickly and instinctively unlike humans who must learn and train to be accurate. Examples include: Frogs, Salamanders and others, which fire their tongues at lightning speeds to catch prey; Archer Fish, which use jets of water to knock insects off plants and out of the air; certain blind Termites which fire sticky fluid accurately over many centimeters; Pistol Shrimp, which fire bubbles to stun larger fish using enough force to break glass. Humans are more the relatively PowerfulButInaccurate (and Long-ranged) artillery piece of the Animal Kingdom suited to taking down ''larger'' prey with a barrage of heavy, long-range projectiles, not the precise capture of ''smaller'' prey like aforementioned animals.
* Legend has it that some country boys the US conscripted during the Great War, accustomed to hunting game, could knock German hand grenades out of the air with their shotguns. According to the Other Wiki's page on the M97 trenchgun, some historical documents seem to show that skilled trap shooters were posted along trenches with these weapons to deflect grenades with shotgun fire. Series/MythBusters has demonstrated that blasting grenades out of the air in this manner is doable with some practice, and is also effective at neutralizing the grenade completely through scattering the grenade's main explosive charge.
* Although he may not be an example of "real life" to many people, Robin Hood is said in tales to have had improbable aiming skills. For example, having the ability to fire an arrow at a bullseye, then to fire a second arrow at the ''exact'' same spot resulting in ''the second arrow splitting the first arrow into pieces''...At over 100 meters away. Anyone who's tried their hand at archery can tell you how difficult it is to even fire an arrow straight.
** In RealLife, hitting an arrow already stuck on target is called either "robinhooding" or "telescoping". It ''does'' happen, but it is ''extremely'' difficult to attain intentionally. It invariably leads into destruction of the nock of the first arrow. Splitting a wooden arrow, however, is impossible as the wood will split along the grain: splitting a bamboo arrow ''is'' perfectly possible.
* American militiamen during the UsefulNotes/SevenYearsWar, UsefulNotes/TheAmericanRevolution and the UsefulNotes/WarOf1812 were legendary for the accuracy of their Kentucky longrifles, with some feats of marksmanship measured at ranges of over 250 yards. One story of the latter conflict tells of British officers directing an assault on an American fortification from well outside the range of even the American marksmen, only for one lone American shooter standing atop the battlements to headshot one officer after another ''anyway''.
* Music/{{Kiesza}}. [[https://i-d.vice.com/en_gb/article/kiesza-from-ballet-to-boats-to-bullets-to-writing-big-hits No, really.]]
* Adil Benrlitom (AKA [=ScreaM=], well, not be confused with the film's name.), a professional ''CS:GO'' player. He is so ridiculously accurate to the point of has amazing headshot rate in that game. (He did the highest headshot rate around 75% in 2013.)
** Still not convinced enough? Just watch [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CNkKIR2AMKE this]].
* [[UsefulNotes/NationalBasketballAssociation NBA]]: [[BashBrothers "The Splash Brothers"]] Steph [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CVtLgRE6NPo Curry]] and Klay [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vn6LVM-kyU0 Thompson]] of the Golden State Warriors are Basketball examples of this trope.
** To a lesser extent, the rest of the Golden State Warriors also have their moments, particularly Draymond Green, Andre Iguodala, and the newly-acquired Kevin Durant.
* SAS (and presumably other special forces) soldiers train extensively to achieve this. In one former trooper's autobiography, he writes about how his party trick was to teddy bear roll about on the floor, firing handgun rounds through ''the same hole'' of a target as he did so.
* There's always that one in a billion chance that someone will [[http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/weird/ct-police-bullet-lands-in-gun-barrel-20160714-story.html shoot a bullet straight down the barrel of their opponent's handgun]].
* [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/W._D._M._Bell W. D. M. Bell]] was perhaps the most successful elephant hunter of all time (his fastidious notes documenting 1011 kills which [[HarsherInHindsight probably did a lot to put African elephants in their current situation]]) and did so entirely by relying on his extraordinary skill with a rifle. His favorite method of taking down elephants was to fire diagonally from behind the elephant through the ear into the brain with a small caliber rifle.[[note]]Mostly the .275 Rigby a cartridge that is now considered too small to be legal for hunting big game.[[/note]] During UsefulNotes/WorldWarI he became a pilot and managed to shoot down a German plane with a single shot on account of the machinegun jamming immediately.
** He was also known for trick shooting in his spare time. Sniping fish as they jumped out of the water and small birds in the air.
%%* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YnBvfVJu8-U&feature=related This guy]].
* In another vehicle example, [[UsefulNotes/WorldWarII during the Battle of the Surigao Straight]] the battleship USS ''West Virginia'' achieved hits on her Japanese opponent ''Yamashiro'' with her first salvo. This is impressive enough on its own, but the battleship achieved this ''at night'', at a range of 22,600 yards, which is almost ''thirteen miles away''. Needless to say, the aging Japanese battleship didn't last long.
* Speaking of warships, the infamous ''Bismarck'' sank the battlecruiser HMS ''Hood'' [[GlassCannon (basically a battleship with cruiser's speed and armor]] with a 15-inch shell plunging in from over 7.8 nautical miles away (over 15 kilometres). This all happened in less than ten minutes into the battle.
** And it was HMS ''Hood'' which opened the battle - at 24,200 m. [[https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/60/090102_PoW_gunnery_plot.png Here]] is the gunnery plotting diagram of HMS ''Prince of Wales''.
** In a related vein, three battlecrusiers - HMS ''Indefatigable'', HMS ''Queen Mary'', HMS ''[[TemptingFate Invincible]]'' - were lost at Jutland. The first two were lost in ''less than half an hour'' of each other at close range.
** Flashing back, during the Battle of Tsushima, four Russian battleships were sunk in less than a few minutes of each other.
*** Funnily enough, the Russians actually did manage to get a few hits in during the battle - compare this to the first and only time they had target practice. At that time, the skiff they used as a target didn't end up getting hit at all.
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* ''Series/{{Angel}}'': Downplayed with Fred, but her shooting skills were enough that she was able to shoot Angel ''through'' Jasmine. She's also been pretty handy with a crossbow in other appearances, but this takes the cake.
* Paul from ''Series/AuctionKings'' doesn't make any impossible shots, but he's fairly skilled for someone with no professional training.
* Arguably one of the best examples was Rita Repulsa. In the original series of ''Series/MightyMorphinPowerRangers'', she would do her MakeMyMonsterGrow by [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BUelB-OSneY&feature=related throwing her wand.]] Thanks to the miracle of StockFootage, it would land in the exact same spot, every single time. Oh, and did we mention that she was throwing it from the ''moon?''
* While somewhat low on the scale of actual improbability, the pilot episode of ''The Punisher'' has Frank executing a long-range sniper kill on a target in Juarez, Mexico. What makes this remarkable is that ''he fired the bullet from El Paso''; on the other side of the US/Mexican border.
* ''Series/GameOfThrones'':
** The show gives us Anguy of the Brotherhood Without Banners, who "convinces" another character to come along with him with this demonstration.
---> '''Anguy:''' Here's the thing, fat boy. ''[launches an arrow straight into the air]'' When I'm done talking, that arrow is falling down on your fat head. So I advise you move, because I'm done talking.
---> ''[Hot Pie hastily steps aside. An instant later, the arrow hits the ground exactly where he'd been standing.]''
** Arya's EstablishingCharacterMoment is hitting an archery butt from twice the range of her brother Bran.
** After Edmure misses his first two shots, his uncle Blackfish takes over igniting Lord Hoster's funeral boat and even though its almost out of sight he's so confident he doesn't even wait to see the arrow land.
** Tormund claims he's seen Ygritte split a rabbit's eyeball with an arrow at 200 yards.
** In "Breaker of Chains", Daario kills a charging horse by throwing a knife into its eye from about twenty feet, tossing the rider into decapitation range.
** Ramsay during "Battle of the Bastards" seems to be deliberately missing Rickon as the boy runs toward his brother Jon and Jon races forward to save him. Then Ramsay hits Rickon from halfway across the battlefield, just before Jon can reach him, all as part of his plan.
* From ''Series/TwentyFour'', Jack Bauer... [[MemeticBadass because he's Jack Bauer]].
* [[BlastingItOutOfTheirHands Shooting the gun out of Bad Guy's hand]] was a routine shot in the kiddie TV Westerns of the 1950s. The title character in ''Annie Oakley'' never shot anyone in any other way. It made her even nicer as a heroine.
* In the ''Series/RedDwarf'' episode "White Hole" Lister displays Improbable Aiming Skills when it comes to driving a planet into a white hole by stimulating a solar flare. While this sounds like a mindbogglingly complex procedure, it's basically the same as playing pool. Apparently. (He was even able to make it a trick shot!)
** Note that the actor who played him, Craig Charles, also has them, as he actually did make the pool shot.
** Improbable Aiming Skills are spoofed when the crew enters a Western VR environment in "Gunmen of the Apocalypse". Both the Cat (as The Riviera Kid, gunfighter) and Lister (as Brett Riverboat, knife-thrower) were able to do things that were clearly completely impossible... until the special skills were erased from the databank.
* In ''Series/{{Lost}}'', Locke is scarily accurate with throwing knives, in one early episode planting a knife in a chair right next to Sawyer's head, from a good 15 feet away, just to make a point.
** Jack is also a good enough shot to [[ShootTheRope shoot a rope]], despite having no discernible experience with weapons.
** The Others are also excellent shots, the anti-stormtroopers.
** The mercenaries on the freighter in season 4 know their jobs (and guns) well, as shown in "The Shape of Things to Come" when they fire three instant death shots in a row. Then again, when the group turns their collective attention from [[RedShirt extras]] to Sawyer immediately afterward, they start to fail.
* Parodied/Subverted in the first episode of ''Series/{{Buffy|TheVampireSlayer}}'' season 3. While trying to take down a vampire without the Slayer's help, Oz, Willow and Xander get beaten and the vampire starts running away. Oz stands dramatically with stake in hand, the music swells and he throws the stake only to have it clatter harmlessly off a nearby gravestone. He sighs and says "That never really works."
* In ''Series/TheManFromUNCLE'' episode "The Never Never Affair", Napoleon Solo demonstrates ''extremely'' Improbable Aiming Skills when, bound to a chair, forced to hold a pistol with his hands tied behind his back pointing the pistol behind him, and while ''having to look into a mirror to see his target'', he nonetheless warns a THRUSH agent that any attempt to detonate an explosive booby trap in the face of other U.N.C.L.E. agents arriving at the scene would result in Solo shooting the THRUSH agent. The THRUSH baddie pooh poohs Solo's threat, and makes for the detonator, only to be shot by Solo. Solo then [[LampshadeHanging hangs a lampshade]] on it by looking surprised and muttering, "Well how about that!" when he sees the THRUSH agent go down.
* Several episodes of ''Series/MythBusters'' had segments addressing splitting arrows with other arrows at range. They handily busted it, twice. Sure its possible and damage an arrow, but a complete Robin Hood style split can't happen.
* In ''Series/{{Brimstone}}'', Detective Ezekiel Stone has no problem shooting out the eyes of the escaped souls.
** {{Justified|Trope}} in that in ''Brimstone'', a soul escaped from hell gains supernatural powers related to the individual's history and/or mental condition. As a former cop, it's entirely conceivable that superhuman shooting accuracy is Stone's power (though this is never stated outright, as the series [[ScrewedByTheNetwork didn't last long enough to make a point of it]].)
** In one episode, he gets infected with a supernatural disease that affects his balance and eyes. He still manages to hit the escapee in the eye.
* ''Series/{{Firefly}}'' runs rampant with this. A lot of shots are pulled from the hip, but nonetheless hit targets quite precisely; Zoe even manages to shoot a man's gun out of his hands from a good fifty meters off in "Safe," and Mal's quick-draw shots are legendary.
** Zoe's shot is even more remarkable given that she does it as soon as the man draws the gun - ''from another man's holster''.
** Also, River killing three of Niska's men with one shot each, while her eyes are closed, and the bad guys are hiding behind cover...Jayne's disbelief is understandable. So is his line, "She killed them with math, what else could it be?", heavy on the sarcasm. Being a subject of a SuperSoldier project, she only took a one-second look, memorized their positions, and shot them by ''[[LudicrousPrecision remembering where they were and working out the math of how to angle the gun]]''.
** Also, one particular NoodleIncident: Jayne once hit a man in the neck at five hundred yards, with a ''bent scope''.
** Early in ''Film/{{Serenity}}'', Jayne gets hit with a harpoon fired by Reavers, and Mal shoots the rope to free him. But it takes him three tries.
*** Interestingly, it only serves to reaffirm what we know of Mal's skills. The first two times, he aims and fails to hit the rope. The third time, he's almost hit by a shot from the Reavers, and then fires at the rope without aiming, hitting it. So, yes, he's better off shooting from the hip than trying to hit something.
* ''Series/{{Castle}}'' uses ''[[Film/TheMagnificentSeven1960 The Magnificent Seven]]'' version of this mentioned above in the episode "Boom!", while managing a ShoutOut to ''Series/{{Firefly}}'' at the same time.
-->'''Beckett:''' Hell of a shot, Castle.\\
'''Castle:''' I was aiming for his head.
** Also in the episode "Home is where the Heart Stops", Rick Castle, in order to win access to jewelry photos"
-->'''Beckett:''' If you put any of the next three in the 10-ring and I will give you the files...\\
'''Castle:''' Yeah?\\
'''Beckett:''' Yeah.
---> ''Castle rips off 3 rapid-fire shots, taking out the X with a perfect cloverleaf.''
-->'''Castle:''' You're a very good teacher.
** The pilot shows him to be a crack shot at a gun range, although it is believable that in RealLife he would have trouble properly aiming at someone who is about to kill his {{Love Interest|s}}. Adrenalin would also be a major factor.
** Averted in an episode involving an apparent duel with antique musketball pistols. The supposed murder weapon is tested at the gun range... and it ''never'' hits its target, even when its stabilized to reduce recoil and has a laser sight added. The only target it hits is the one in another lane, completely by accident. This results in the detectives deciding that this couldn't be the murder weapon. In fact, the "murderer" reveals that the whole duel was done deliberately to satisfy honor, knowing that there wasn't a snowball's chance in Hell that either of them would be hurt. The real murderer fired a musketball from a modern weapon.
* Franchise/TheLoneRanger used this to avoid ever having to kill an opponent.
* ''Series/DoctorWho'':
** The Tenth Doctor...
*** ...Threw a cricket ball that *deep breath* knocked over some scaffolding that fell on a plank that launched a brick that knocked over a barrel that stopped a pram and saved the baby from the falling piano ("Human Nature").
*** ...Disabled a Sontaran in "The Sontaran Stratagem" by hitting a tennis ball with a racket so that it ricochets around the room until it strikes the Sontaran's probic vent, in the back of its head.
*** ...Shot a tiny diamond with a pistol from across a large room in "The End Of Time". Particularly improbable and/or impressive given [[DoesntLikeGuns the Doctor's aversion to guns.]]
** The Fifth Doctor once shot out a dungeon door's padlock with a flintlock pistol.
---> '''Tegan''': You missed!
---> '''Doctor''': I never miss (nor had he).
** The Fourth Doctor's companion, Leela, kills a Sontaran by throwing a knife into its very small probic vent from across a room in the serial ''The Invasion of Time''. Earlier, a Time Lord had told her that a Sontaran could theoretically be killed that way, but of course, no one could throw a knife with such accuracy. Leela then throws hers at something equally small, hitting it perfectly.
--> '''Leela''': Why not?
** Leela shoots the dragon's eye with remarkable accuracy in "The Talons of Weng-Chiang", given that she was unfamiliar with the type of weapon used. However, she does take a few shots before she hits, which makes sense as we never see her using a handgun prior to the episode.
** In "The Face of Evil" the Doctor passes the test of the horda, shooting a descending rope with a crossbow. Most of the time he's not even concentrating on the rope, then he abruptly turns around and shoots. It turns out he learned his archery skills from William Tell.
** Sergeant Benton once hit a rooftop windvane across the village green and the Brig shot a man off a prison wall at about the same distance.
** An archer in "The Time Warrior" managed to shoot the [[AnAxeToGrind axe]] [[BlastingItOutOfTheirHands out of a man's hand]] [[JustInTime just as he was about to]] bring it down on the Third Doctor.
*** The same archer later shoots the Sontaron in the probic vent from across the room. May not be as impressive as his previous shot, but you can tell he's had some serious archery training.
** River Song also displays some remarkable aiming skills, at one point, blindly spinning in a circle as she fires her handgun, and managing to kill all the enemies in the room - despite there being plenty of objects for them to take cover behind. It should be noted, however, that she did have training in being an assassin, so there is some reason for this.
*** She follows up by shooting one of these enemies, without looking, when it pops up behind her. The reason this is particularly significant is these creatures are "memory-proof", meaning you don't remember anything about them if you're not looking at them. Meaning River {{Offhand Backhand}}ed a monster she could not possibly have even known was there.
** Sarah Jane displays a very mild example of this trope in "The Pyramids Of Mars". She's a newspaper reporter, and a companion to the Doctor, so there's no evidence she's ever used a gun before, but she still manages a slightly difficult shot on the first try. She does mention that she had some experience with guns due to an uncle, though this was the only mention of the event.
** The 12th Doctor takes the Robin-Hood-Arrow-Split UpToEleven in the season 8 episode ''Robot of Sherwood''. Robin splits the Sheriff's arrow, then the Doctor splits his arrow, and the pair proceed to split several more of each others arrows in turn until the Doctor gets sick of it - "Well, this is just getting silly" - and blows up the target with his Sonic Screwdriver. [[spoiler:He confesses later in the episode that he planted homing chips in his arrows before hand, subverting the trope for himself while proving Robin Hood's legendary skill even more.]]
* Series/TheComicStripPresents spoofed this in ''Detectives on the Edge of a Nervous Breakdown''. A detective from the gun-toting cop shows of TheSeventies shoots at a Nineties-era suspect at a hundred yards and misses, because reality has now taken over the genre.
* ''Series/{{Charmed|1998}}'' has a few instances of this, but many may be justified by the fact that they're witches. However, in the eighth season, Billie manages to throw a potion bottle in the partially-open mouth of a demon, while she's lying on her side after being thrown to the ground, about ten minutes after being beaten up by said demon. Since she doesn't seem to use her powers and is pretty much just winging it, this likely qualifies.
* Olivia Dunham from ''Series/{{Fringe}}'' almost constantly shoots people right between the eyes, regardless of how quickly they're moving, whether they're inside a car, or even if she just picks up her gun and fires (seemingly) at random. Interestingly, when she is in the AlternateUniverse, and Walternate implants Fauxlivia's memories in her head, she suddenly becomes a crack shot and claims she normally sucks. Apparently, memories equal hand-eye coordination.
* ''Series/{{Torchwood}}'''s Captain Jack Harkness uses this trope to establish his pure awesomeness at the beginning of series 2.
** There's also a few instances where Gwen pulls this off, namely shooting at a car repeatedly without changing stance and then running off when the driver realizes she's been shooting at the wheels and they've gone flat in ''Children of Earth''.
*** Interestingly, a Season 1 episode has Jack teach Gwen how to handle a gun, as she has never done it before. When Jack incredulously reminds her that she's a cop, Gwen replies that she's a PC, and Police Constables aren't issued guns.
* In the pilot episode of ''Series/{{Psych}}'' Shawn Spencer displays this ability at the police shooting range where after watching a female officer slowly and carefully fire a number of shots he rapidly fires the same number of shots at the same target with each of his bulletholes overlapping one of hers.
** Near the end of "Shawn Takes A Shot In The Dark" Shawn manages to shoot out the engine of a moving vehicle with just four shots. While laying on the hood of another moving vehicle. Both of which are moving at high speeds. While he's injured from being shot himself.
*** These are actually kind of Justifiable seeing as how Henry has trained him with every cop skill possible. It's not totally implausible that Henry would have started him at the gun range as soon as he could safely hold a gun and would have taught him how to shoot accurately in almost any situation.
** Juliet O'Hara shoots a machete wielding crazy, in the HAND, during a windstorm at night with limited visibility while he was attacking Shawn. "Tuesday the 17th"
* In addition to making awesome (but plausible) shots with a sniper rifle, Gibbs and his ''Series/{{NCIS}}'' team are routinely capable of shooting bad guys in the forehead with a handgun -- even from behind a hostage (but [=DiNozzo=] did shoot off the hostage's ear in that instance), from the trunk of a car, or while running at full speed.
** Tony misses sometimes, but usually he always bull's eyes whatever he is aiming at with whatever is at hand. Examples include the knife when Ziva is trying to teach them knife throwing skills, the straw paper war, [=McGee=]'s food.
* Hotch on ''Series/CriminalMinds'' is acclaimed, in-universe, as the BAU's best shot. He rarely misses, and once, while traveling in a moving SUV, shot an [=UnSub=] off of a moving freight train. The quality of JJ Jareau's shooting talent has a smaller sample size, but she *did* once shoot a guy between the eyes, from across a room, through a plate glass door. (Through the FBI seal, no less.)
** However, there is debate over whether Reid's headshot of Phillip Dowd at the end of "LDSK" subverts this trope or plays it straight. The episode's subplot had revolved around Reid's lack of shooting acumen; however, when he gets a chance during the climactic hostage situation, he plugs Dowd between the eyes. The veracity of the following statement is dubious.
-->'''Hotch''': Nice shot.
-->'''Reid''': Actually, I was aiming for his leg.
** Morgan, Prentiss and Elle are also pretty good shots in their own right. Elle, for her part, once got an [=UnSub=] to talk just by aiming her gun at his groin.
* Averted in a late 3rd season ''Series/BurnNotice'' episode "Good Intentions". The bad guy has Fiona at gunpoint a long distance off, and Michael draws his weapon, only to be talked out of it by Sam, who points out he'll never hit his target at that distance with a pistol.
** Of course, Sam himself was capable of drawing a ''martini glass'' on a target at maximum range with a handgun.
--->'''Sam:''' Did you notice the little olive?
** Both Fiona and Jesse are pretty good with a sniper rifle. Jesse is able to shoot through Michael and kill the guy behind him, while only wounding Michael. Fiona makes a kill shot from afar ''while standing up''.
*** In a darker turn of events one of Team Westen's enemies displayed this when he killed [[spoiler: Anson and Michael's brother with the same bullet]]. When Michael interrogates this assassin he reveals that he was over a mile away looking at his target through the scope of a 50. caliber sniper rifle. At a distance like that a sniper would have to adjust his rifle to the left or the right to adjust for the direction of the wind so the bullet doesn't go off target, adjust for the rotation of the Earth, and raise his scope above the target by dozens of feet to account for bullet drop. The assassin actually mentions that he felt rather proud of himself for even managing to make a shot like that at all. Given who he killed though Michael is not at all amused.
** Sam and Jesse think the former has this in "Forget Me Not" when he manages to hit a bad guy in a window with covering fire while shooting blind. {{Subverted|Trope}}, in that Michael made the shot with a sniper rifle from inside a car behind them. Fi picks up on this right away, though she doesn't see Michael for herself.
* ''Series/{{Smallville}}'':
** ComicBook/GreenArrow is an impressive shot, able to shoot a specific country on a globe or into the opening of a soda can. Clark Kent also hardly ever misses, whether he throws a football, basketball, bowling ball, knife, can, anything. He even ''shoots a bullet out of the air'' with his heat vision. It is implied that his talent comes from his powers, as in one episode where he was BroughtDownToNormal, he found that he now sucked at basketball. Heat vision is also hard to miss when you are faster than the speeding bullet and all you need to do is look directly at your target...
** ComicBook/BlackCanary with her throwing knives.
** Deadshot, naturally. He once shot two officers simultaneously, with the bullets curving past either side of Chloe's face.
* Played jarringly straight on an episode of ''Series/WhiteCollar'', when Agent Peter Burke uncannily shoots the radio out of a mook's hand, with no damage to anything or anyone but the radio.
** It is, sort of, a RunningGag on the show that Burke often exhibits abilities that impress everyone, even [[LovableRogue Neal]], such as when he charms a BlackWidow with a tango, while Neal and his partner are shouting in his ear to abort. These abilities usually come with no warning.
** Neal has also exhibited impressive aiming skills. Most notably when he shot Keller. The bullet went ''through'' the leg of Peter's pants and never touched his leg.
--> '''Peter:''' How'd you make that shot?
--> '''Neal:''' Long story.
* In ''Series/ThirdWatch'', Davis assumes Sully is practicing this trope when Sully [[BlastingItOutOfTheirHands shoots the gun out of a crazed gunman's hand.]] Promptly subverted when Sully answers his admiration with, "Yeah, but I was aiming for his head."
* ''Series/{{Misfits}}''. The mysterious Super Hoodie is able to throw a paper airplane across Southmere Lake with enough accuracy to twat Kelly in the eye. [[spoiler: After Super Hoodie's identity is revealed, Simon demonstrates that he is beginning to develop his superhuman aim by throwing a peanut in the mouth of the allergic Villain of the Week's mouth, all while being strangled.]]
* [[GeniusBruiser Eliot Spencer]] in ''Series/{{Leverage}}'' DoesntLikeGuns. However, in one episode, the team is ambushed by a group of armed {{Mooks}} in a warehouse. In order to let the others escape, he grabs [[GunsAkimbo two guns]] and proceeds to distract the enemy. This distraction involves moving quickly through the warehouse in a hail of bullets, while picking off Mooks with well-placed shots. One memorable scene involves him ''sliding'' on his knees in a puddle, while making precision shots. Apparently, just because someone DoesntLikeGuns, doesn't mean he can't use them.
* In ''Series/NewsRadio'', Dave puts on a knife-throwing act for a talent show as "Throwgali". He impresses his co-workers beforehand by turning off a light switch fifty feet away by throwing a knife, and then turning it back on again by throwing a knife even though the room is now dark. There is another knife thrower in the talent show called "Throwdini". He and Dave salute each other, saying, "To the sharp arts!"
* ''Series/{{Alphas}}'':
** This is Hicks' special power. He can analyze the environment and then make the perfect shot. In the pilot he kills a man in a windowless room with a sniper rifle by shooting though a grate, down a ventilation shaft and then clipping a second grate in such a way that the bullet tumbles just enough to hit the target sitting under it. Later on when faced with a hostage taker he ricochets a bullet off a sign so it hits the bad guy in the back since it is the only shot he can take without hitting the hostage. Later accomplishments include shooting the hinges off a door using two pistols GunsAkimbo from across a street, and [[BlastingItOutOfTheirHands blasting a tiny box knife out of the hands]] of an enemy with SuperSpeed from across a room. He can also use his power for throwing objects and to execute incredible feats of acrobatics. (On top of having this as a superpower, Hicks is also a trained military sniper, so the odds of him missing any kind of shot with a gun are pretty low.)
** Also of note is Marcus from one of the first episodes. His power is a more extreme version of Hicks' (which has more psychological side effects than Hicks' does). In the first few minutes of the episode, he flicks a quarter and hits it on the precise spot on a bar that would cause it to fall and set such a chain of events moving that he would be able to escape the ambulance he was in. His aim is ''so'' naturally perfect that he can't understand how other people can do things accidentally and not see the repercussions.
* ''Series/TheXFiles'': Mulder and Scully, although the former had a tendency to drop his gun for RuleOfDrama in early seasons.
* ''Series/OnceUponATime'':
** While playing darts, the Sheriff/[[spoiler:The Huntsman]] hits the bullseye three times in a row, then throws the fourth dart at the door right next to [[TheHero Emma's]] head. When Emma points out [[WhatTheHellHero that he could have hit her]], he claims that he never misses.
** Prince Charming has also exhibited this, saving Literature/{{Snow White|AndTheSevenDwarfs}} by hitting a guard on a galloping horse from a relatively long distance. In another episode he intercepts an arrow midflight with a sword.
** Merida is so good with a bow that she manages to shoot three arrows in one single shot.
* In an episode of ''Series/ArcticAir'' a drug trafficker and a hitman are both killed during the same night by long range rifle shots. The difficulty of the shots is magnified by the fact that it happened during a major snowstorm with heavy winds. The police suspect that the criminal group the men were working for hired a sniper to kill them. It turns out that [[spoiler: the shooter was a young Native kid whose life was threatened by the criminals. His grandfather was a legendary hunter and marksman and he taught the kid everything he knew. Nobody suspected him since he never had a chance to demonstrate his skill since he left his village and came south to work for the airline]].
* In the first episode of ''Series/{{Sherlock}}'', we are introduced to [[BadassAdorable John's]] aiming skills when he [[spoiler: shoots the cabbie through two windows in the head and just over Sherlock's shoulder, one handed]]. Wow. Sherlock should be ''lucky'' that he had [[BigBrotherInstinct John have his back.]] Gosh knows where he'd be without him. [[NightmareFuel Probably dead already.]] ''Yikes.''
** John seemed to deduce that his [[ArchEnemy counterpart]] [[TheDragon Sebastian Moran]] could've shot Sherlock. Uh, yeah. We know what happens [[BewareTheNiceOnes if you screw with his friend.]] It's ''not'' pretty, [[GoodIsNotSoft let alone survivable.]]
** In episode 5, John is the one who manages to [[spoiler: shoot the hound]]. Keep in mind that [[FriendOnTheForce Lestrade]] misses three times. Which is ironic, since Sherlock did say in the pilot that the shooter could've been anyone.
** [[BadassAdorable Mary]] seems to be a darn good shot as well. [[BewareTheNiceOnes Messing with this chick is a BAD IDEA.]]
* ''Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine'': When Bashir was revealed to have been genetically engineered all along, among the many other MartyStu abilities he was immediately given were Improbable Aiming Skills, the most ridiculous of which was him walking out of a bar with his back turned towards the dart board (and at an angle because the door wasn't perfectly aligned with the dartboard), tossing the dart over his shoulder without looking and still perfectly hitting the bullseye.
** A season earlier, Bashir managed to clip Garak in the neck so that while the shot was close enough that it looked like he'd been trying to kill him, it was OnlyAFleshWound. You may argue that Cardassian necks are different from humans (and they are), but he still shot a decent-sized chunk out of someone's neck ''without hitting anything vital''. [=YMMV=] whether or not this was foreshadowing.
* In ''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration'' on the rare occasions she fired a phaser in anger, Beverly always hit her target the first, giving rise to the FanNickname "One-Shot Crusher".
* Jim Ellison in ''Series/TheSentinel'' can shoot guns out of people's hands (by having the bullet enter the other gun's ''barrel'') and hit a perp on a helicopter from another helicopter far away... with a standard-issue police 9mm. This is {{handwave}}d by him having all 5 of his senses be "hyperactive". Somehow, perfect vision translates into perfect hand-eye coordination, especially since it also somehow stabilizes a bullet fired from a handgun over long distances. When another cop (who isn't in on the secret) asks how the hell Jim can do that, Jim simply answers that he eats a lot of carrots. Then there's the episode of Jim facing off against a Russian sniper.
* In the ''Series/{{JAG}}'' episode "High Ground": Gunnery Sergeant Ray Crockett shots the rear mirror of a moving car at 1 000 yards distance.
* ''Series/PersonOfInterest''. John Reese is a very good marksman, but then he needs to be if he's going to keep {{Kneecapping}} people. His DistaffCounterpart Sameen Shaw also has this ability, but she tends to chafe at Team Machine's ThouShaltNotKill policy -- one scene has her proud of hitting a man in the arm through a wall, only for him to [[BlackComedy die by falling out the window]]. Root gains the extreme version courtesy of [[ArtificialIntelligence The Machine]] calculating every shot, even the ability to [[OffhandBackhand hit targets she can't even see]].
* ''Series/{{Arrow}}'', being based on ComicBook/GreenArrow, naturally has this. At one point he faces off against Deadshot, who actually averts this trope as his bullets are laced with a poison so deadly it doesn't matter where on someone's body he hits for him to kill them. Ollie takes cover behind a wall in the final confrontation. Deadshot starts shooting the cover (possibly averting ConcealmentEqualsCover), so Oliver draws in arrow, pops out of cover, lets the shot fly and quickly ducks back in. After not hearing anything, he glances out and sees Deadshot on the floor, [[NotQuiteDead "dead"]] with the arrow clean in his [[EyeScream aiming lens]].
** At another point, [[SympatheticInspectorAntagonist Detective Lance]] has the drop on Arrow, slowly inching closer with his gun drawn. Arrow has no weapons at the ready. Then he suddenly lashes his arm out, and the gun flies out of Lance's hand, pinned to the wall behind him by a throwing dart.
** Other members of the Queen family also display this ability:
*** Moira is one of the very few people in the entire show who has actually managed to hit the Vigilante when shooting him with a gun.
*** Thea knocks a mook unconscious by hitting him on the back of the head with a bottle thrown from at least 20 feet away. She even lampshades it.
--->'''Roy:''' Where'd you learn to do that?\\
'''Thea:''' I guess I have wicked aim.
* ''Series/TheWalkingDead'' follows standard zombie story protocol of the main characters usually scoring perfect headshots at the first attempt. The season 2 finale really pushes it though, with characters managing to nail several walkers while leaning out of the windows moving cars, in the dark.
* Averted spectacularly in an episode of ''Series/TheWestWing''. A group of white supremacists open fire with the intention of killing [[spoiler:Charlie Young, because he's a black man dating a white woman who also happens to be the president's daughter]]. They miss their target (who is out in the open and in plain sight) and instead they hit [[spoiler:the President of the United States as well as the deputy chief of staff, who was at least fifteen meters away and up a flight of stairs]].
* ''Series/HoratioHornblower'':
** "The Even Chance": Captain Pellew shoots one DirtyCoward who was cheating in a duel and tried to stab his opponent InTheBack with a dagger. In real life, the musket might not be even effective for such a distant range, or he could have easily killed anyone who stood in the group. His aiming skills are lampshaded though.
--->'''Master Bowles''': [[LampshadeHanging Exceptionally fine shot!]] If I may say so, sir.
--->'''Captain Pellew''': [[OneLinerNameOneLiner You may, Mr Bowles. You may]].
** "Retribution": BadassAdorable Lieutenant Archie Kennedy guns down a Spanish soldier with a single shot from a flintlock pistol. It's a really huge distance between those two. What a badass!
* ''Series/WizardsOfWaverlyPlace'': Justin is a crack shot with an alien blaster he picks up off the ground. Could also cross over with InformedAbility.
* Granny on ''Series/TheBeverlyHillbillies''. In an episode where she's gotten angry with Mr. Drysdale for whatever reason, he shows up to try to arrange a truce. She shoots his hat clean off his head from the end of the driveway. Afterward, when he tells Jed "She shot at me!" Jed calmly replies, "Naw, she shot at your ''hat''. If she ever commences to takin' shots at you, you'd be castin' a polka-dot shadow!" In another episode, he reveals that the whole family is like that, saying of Jethro, "I'm the only one that can outshoot him. Except for Granny and Ellie May."
** On another episode, Jed is made a vice president at the bank so he can shoot in a skeet-shooting competition against a rival company. He does flawlessly in practice. Then Granny does just as good with a rifle. Then Ellie Mae does the same ''with a slingshot''.
* On ''Series/TheDukesOfHazzard'', Daisy was being tested for a job with the sheriff's office. She was given 5 bullets and told to hit the target as best she could. After firing all five rounds, she was told that she hit the bulls-eye once and missed four times. When checked, it was ''one hole but five bullets.''
* ''Series/TheMusketeers'' constantly has the characters pull off ridiculously accurate shots with smooth-bore weapons. Often this is at distance, but there's a glaring example where a character shoots a villain who is holding another character as a human shield, in complete confidence of not hitting the hostage.
* On ''Series/{{Turn}}'' Benjamin Tallmadge fires a flintlock pistol while galloping on horseback and hits his target in the chest from a fair distance. Robert Rogers, a good marksman himself, is really impressed despite the fact that it was Rogers's friend who got hit by Tallmadge's shot.
* ''Series/ModernFamily'', after having suggested that Gloria was a very good shot, finally confirmed it in TheStinger for "The Day Alex Left for College" in the seventh season: Having apparently gotten her husband out of a family event neither of them wanted to attend by accidentally shooting him in the foot, she tells the interviewer in a ConfessionCam sequence to watch the sippy cup on a nearby table as she gets up and walks away. When she does, she whips the pistol around behind her back and knocks the cup off the table without even looking.
* In the ''Series/WalkerTexasRanger'' episode "The Prodigal Son," a crime boss named Mancini becomes one of the few villains to hit Cordell Walker (one of the first, too, if not ''the'' first), which is in itself quite an achievement, but Mancini managed to do it with a handgun firing out of the window of a helicopter in flight from about twenty feet in the air. On his first try!
* ''Series/TheGrandTour'': During a challenge at a SimulatedUrbanCombatArea, Clarkson manages to take out a distant sniper with a handgun. His celebration is short-lived when immediately after his co-presenter May electrocutes himself and they have to start things over.
* Agent Dale Cooper in ''Series/TwinPeaks''. He fires six shots at the range, leaving four bullet holes on the target.
-->'''Cooper:''' I put four through the eyes and two through the nostrils.
* ''Series/{{Voyagers}}'': Despite limited experience with a bow, Bogg manages to shoot an arrow in half.
* ''Series/WynonnaEarp'' had already deviated slightly from reality by depicting Doc Holliday as a supreme marksman, but its season 2 finale hit this trope when he managed to -- deliberately -- shoot a magic bullet that had just been fired from another gun with such precision that it split neatly in two ''and each half hit one of the two bad guys menacing the heroes''.
* As in the comics, in ''Series/Daredevil2015'', Benjamin "Dex" Poindexter (Bullseye) can turn almost anything into a deadly projectile, and never misses his target. In fact, his StartOfDarkness is when he kills his baseball coach with a perfectly aimed baseball to the head.
* In ''Series/IronFist2017'', at the end of Season Two, Danny Rand is able to use the Iron Fist [[spoiler:on a pair of pistols to shoot bullets out of the air ''after'' they've been fired]].

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* OlderThanFeudalism: Odysseus shoots an arrow through the handle rings of twelve axes in ''Literature/TheOdyssey''.
* ''Literature/TheBible'' records Israel's war against their own Tribe of Benjamin. Within it, we get a description of some very talented Benjamites: "Among all this people were seven hundred select men who were left-handed; every one could [[SufferTheSlings sling a stone]] at a hair's breadth and not miss." (Judges 20:13 NKJV) Though we aren't given a description of the distance across which the stone would have to fly, it's safe to assume that it would be a distance short enough for the travelling stone to kill a man, and also long enough to be an effective talent against an incoming army.
** [[Literature/BooksOfSamuel David]] himself also deserves a mention, during the famous battle of DavidVersusGoliath, he sniped down Goliath with a sling, this is akin to [[BoomHeadshot pulling out a pistol and sniping down someone's head from a distance]].
* Classic examples include Myth/WilliamTell and Myth/RobinHood. [[Literature/TheLeatherstockingTales Natty Bumppo]] was probably the first character to do this with guns, or at least to do it with guns and get ''famous''. Creator/MarkTwain ridiculed Bumppo's sharp-shooting in "Literature/FenimoreCoopersLiteraryOffences."
* Legolas in ''Literature/TheLordOfTheRings'': though not as evident as in the film, he's never depicted as missing his target.
* In the ''Literature/SherlockHolmes'' story "The Copper Beeches," Watson shoots a vicious dog in the head -- while said dog's teeth are still buried in the throat of the man it was attacking, without taking the man's head off too. Being Watson, he doesn't mention what an incredibly difficult shot this must have been at any range.
* In the novel ''[[Literature/TheDraka Drakon]]'', Gwen Ingolfsson intentionally shoots a running man in the knee, at long range, on the first shot, with a [[http://world.guns.ru/smg/usa/calico-e.html notoriously inaccurate and ungainly "handgun"]] ''that she's never even seen before'' as she's just arrived from an [[AlternateHistory different universe]]. Yes, she's a genetically-engineered superwoman, but that incredibly loud explosion was the WillingSuspensionOfDisbelief undergoing spontaneous combustion. The same author's ''Dies the Fire'' series features a number of improbably good archers, though at least all of them are explicitly described as practicing constantly and having been at it since childhood.
* Comes up in the ''Literature/{{Discworld}}'' novels several times:
** Parodied in the novel ''Discworld/{{Pyramids}}''. The main character is on his final exam for his Assassination class and decides he can't kill the person sleeping in the bed, even if it means his teachers may kill him for disobeying. So he defiantly shoots his crossbow at the wall, and it happens to ricochet off several surfaces and into what turns out to be a dummy. He passes the final exam, but his instructor chides him for using showy, over-the-top methods in his assassination.
** Parodied again and deconstructed in ''Discworld/GuardsGuards'' wherein Colon's claims to amazing feats of archery lead to his friends talking him into trying to shoot at a dragon's AchillesHeel while wearing a blindfold, standing on his head, and so on, in an attempt to get the shot to be ''exactly'' a MillionToOneChance... because million-to-one chances always work out, right? It turns out he doesn't even hit the broad side of the dragon.
** Lampshaded in ''Discworld/ReaperMan'' when [[TheGrimReaper Death]] [[ObfuscatingStupidity uses his unerring dart skills to play "badly"]] and hit a bystander behind him. He addresses the fact that, logically, it is a lot harder to intentionally miss the board and have the dart end up hitting a bystander ''behind'' him than to get a bulls-eye.
** Jason Ogg used one of Binky's old horseshoes (the thing) to play horseshoes (the game), and never missed.
*** Somewhat justified in the fact that Binky is [[spoiler:the legendary [[TheGrimReaper Pale Horse]]]]. When you play a game with horseshoes from [[spoiler:Death]]'s horse, you have to expect some strange things. [[spoiler: Later, one of these horseshoes is called ''the iron that goes everywhere'' and the fact it won't miss if thrown is rather important to the Elf being threatened with it.]]
** In ''Discworld/{{Snuff}}'', Sam Vimes's butler Willikins manages to hit a woman's broom from in the middle of a mob, without injuring the woman herself. It's noted that the crossbow used is so accurate and easy to use that the model is illegal and most of the production run was destroyed.
* In ''Literature/HaloFirstStrike'', Master Chief is getting help in a battle from Linda, another SuperSoldier like him, who's armed with a sniper rifle. During the course of the fight, Linda makes a number of difficult shots, often shooting enemy pilots right out of their fliers while in flight (and in at least one case, using a ricochet to do it) [[note]]In ''Franchise/{{Halo}}'' games from ''VideoGame/HaloReach'' onward, the player themselves can do this[[/note]]. When Chief finally grabs a flier of his own to go pick her up, he finds her hanging from a cord, and realizes she's been doing all that shooting ''one-handed''. Her shooting skills are helped by the fact that she wears PoweredArmor that responds to thoughts, not muscle movement.
* Literature/HonorHarrington puts 4 rounds into a guy, straight up the center, within centimeters of each other, before he even falls down, ''from the hip'', before raising the gun and putting a fifth one between his eyes. From 40 meters away (over 120 feet, to us Americans not in the military). Over the span of about three seconds. Justified in that she practiced intensely for the duel for ''weeks''. The second duel however, is this trope to a "T" - she was wounded, had rolled on the ground and ''STILL'' managed to make the shots that obliterated her opponent's heart.
** Victor Cachat versus the Scrag kidnappers and their allies in ''From The Highlands''. Granted, simulator training in the Honorverse is highly effective, but Cachat is a just-graduated agent using two days' worth of simulator time (that could not, by its nature, simulate the exact positions and reactions of his opponents). He didn't manage a clean sweep of all the bad guys, but didn't leave much for the Audubon Ballroom (who were ''supposed'' to do all the shooting) to clean up.
* From [[Creator/GamesWorkshop the Black Library]]:
** The ''Literature/GauntsGhosts'' novel ''Honour Guard'' includes a passage where the character Lijah Cuu effortlessly shoots tiny critters that even the eponymous regiment's marksman Larkin would hesitate about going after. Unfortunately, he's also the regiment's AxCrazy...
** ''Literature/CiaphasCain'':
*** In ''For the Emperor'' Amberley Vail accuses Cain of "showing off" when he scores a headshot with his laspistol at range. He shrugs it off by saying he was going for a torso shot and the target ducked. However a footnote reveals that Cain ''is'', in fact, uncannily accurate at long range with his sidearm. He attributes it to his [[ArtificialLimbs augmetic fingers]], but nobody else with augmetics has that level of skill.
*** DoubleSubversion in ''The Emperor's Finest''. Cain has Jurgen [[ShootTheFuelTank take a shot at a fuel tank]] on a vehicle. It takes him a few tries, then Cain finds out that due to the way he worded the order, his LiteralMinded aide had been aiming for, and ''hit'', the much smaller release valve.
* Subverted in ''Literature/{{Flashman}}'' by Creator/{{George MacDonald Fraser}}, where the title character participates in a duel; because Flashman has rigged his opponent's gun, the opponent misses, and Flashman decides he will not shoot his opponent, instead firing a harmless shot aimed well off to one side... which ends up blasting the top off of a bottle of alcohol some distance away. Everyone takes this as proof of incredible marksmanship, giving his reputation a major boost.
* ''Literature/{{Sharpe}}'': Sharpe has this a few times. Hagman, a former poacher, is an amazing shot, and proves it repeatedly by shooting Frenchmen at just the right moment. The only time he misses is the first time you see him... because he's trying to shoot a rabbit at 200 meters with a blackpowder rifle, without aiming. And he still ''almost'' hits.
* When he's not recovering from torture, Stephen Maturin of Patrick O'Brian's ''Literature/AubreyMaturin'' series is a crack shot with a pistol, much to the shock of a few people around him. His first display of this skill involves shooting the pips off a two of spades from 20 yards on a ship deck at sea.
* ''Franchise/TheDarkTower'':
** In Creator/StephenKing's series (whose first novel just happens to be called ''Literature/TheGunslinger''), Roland of Gilead is the embodiment of this trope, with improbable aiming skills demonstrated any time he draws (which is generally done [[QuickDraw at lightning speed]]). In fact, Roland is so adept at reloading his revolver he describes it as his "..fingers doing their reloading trick," as if they aren't even under his control.
** The other three main characters (Eddie, Susannah, and eventually Jake) all may qualify -- Eddie manages to pull off an impressive display of gunslinging with no significant experience...in the buff[[spoiler:...just after traveling from another dimension]]. Granted, may have had something to do with his BerserkButton being pressed.
* The villain too can have these skills, as seen in Creator/IanFleming's ''Literature/{{Goldfinger}}''.
-->"I have never needed more than one .25-calibre bullet to kill. I shoot at the right eye, Mr Bond. And I never miss."
* Considering everyone was forced to read this book in high school, people should be familiar with the "Deadest Shot in Maycomb County" [[Literature/ToKillAMockingbird Atticus Finch]].
* ''Literature/TheExecutioner''. ColdSniper and VigilanteMan Mack Bolan uses his marksman skills to psych out his Mafia enemies, on one occasion shooting [[CallingCard a perfect cross]] through drawn drapes while talking to a man inside the targeted room on the telephone. Another trick when sniping at long-range is to predict where the target is going to run to once his comrades start dying and fire a bullet into that space. Subverted on one occasion when Bolan realises he's missed because the man is actually ''crawling'' away, using a [[IdiotBall flimsy plastic sunning board for cover]]. As Bolan is firing a [[{{BFG}} .460 Magnum rifle]] this does him no good at all.
* Yasmini in Creator/SMStirling's ''Literature/ThePeshawarLancers'' has [[PsychicPowers precognition]] which tells her the precise direction to point her gun and the exact moment to squeeze the trigger. She's got her eyes closed as she does.
* Katniss Everdeen in ''Literature/TheHungerGames''. She spent years hunting with a bow and arrow, and in the second book [[spoiler: during training for the second Hunger Games,]] she hits five birds tossed into the air at once, before they hit the ground. The other [[spoiler: Victor-tributes]] are noticeably stunned into silence, and several of them request her as an [[spoiler: ally]] that evening.
* ''Literature/TheLegendOfDrizzt'':
** In ''[[Literature/TheDarkElfTrilogy Sojourn]]'' Drizzt befriends Moochie, an old, blind ranger who teaches him the trade. Among Moochie's tricks is to have his owl companion fly near a target and hoot, so that Moochie knows where to [[RhymesOnADime shoot]]. He never misses.
** Catti-Brie. She doesn't do anything very spectacular, but as soon as she happens to find a magic bow, the others can count on her sniping anyone from any distance, even though [[SuddenlyAlwaysKnewThat we've never seen her so much as practice shooting]].
* Franchise/StarWarsLegends:
** Imperial Stormtroopers as written by Creator/TimothyZahn, he of the WhiteAndGreyMorality where Imperials actually get to be competent. Most clearly seen in ''Literature/StarWarsAllegiance''. HumanShield? Not a problem for a stormtrooper who's trained as a sniper. Just shoot past the hostage's ear.
** ComicBook/XWingSeries:
*** In ''The Bacta War'' Iella Wessiri scores a headshot with a blaster pistol at range. Her companion hangs a lampshade on it; she explains her sight shoots high; she was aiming for the torso.
*** Wes Janson's [[TheGunslinger skill with sidearms]] means that any blaster pistol he carries becomes a SniperPistol.
*** In ''Wraith Squadron'', Myn Donos can hit targets smaller than a person from kilometers away with his laser rifle. He's the unit's sniper.
* In the StandardFantasySetting inversion of ''Literature/VillainsByNecessity'', Samalander, the last assassin, always hits ''something'' with a thrown knife, even if it's not his intended target. Misses will even ricochet implausibly and hit something, even if it's [[BlessedWithSuck Sam himself]].
* Eddie Drood, hero of Simon R Green's Literature/SecretHistories, has a magical gun specifically designed to allow him to do this. The Colt Repeater never runs out of bullets and will automatically hit what you want it to hit as long as you point it in the right general direction. Unfortunately, not everything he meets is vulnerable to bullets.
* ''Literature/TheDresdenFiles'':
** Kincaid displays this kind of accuracy, firing off dozens of shots with perfect accuracy while dodging wildly, but Harry claims that Kincaid can't be human because of his ability; all humans sometimes miss. Kincaid denies this, indicating that he's [[BadassNormal just that good]]. [[spoiler: He's lying through his teeth. He's centuries old, and apparently [[HalfHumanHybrid half-demon.]]]]
** Johnny Marcone, ''Literature/FoolMoon''. Hangs upside-down, tied up, slowly spinning, throws a knife at and hits/cuts the rope tied to a tree so Murphy, Harry, and the Alphas can get out of the pit and beat loup-garou butt. Did we mention this was at night? Unlike Kincaid, he is, as far as everyone knows, a fully human BadassNormal.
* ''Literature/SwordOfTruth'': Richard Cypher develops this ability around the second book, apparently a sign of his magical powers becoming evident.
* In ''Literature/{{Shogun}}'', the samurai Buntaro nails a gatepost that is ''behind him'' with an arrow fired from ''inside a house''. (Admittedly the walls were only paper, but still...) Not only does he hit the gatepost several times, the arrows are stated to all go through THE SAME HOLE in the ricepaper walls. He's also been drinking heavily.
* Raj Whitehall from ''Literature/TheGeneral'' owes his Improbable Aiming Skills to the computer he's telepathically linked to. The sequel novels that take place on other planets have the same for their telepathically-linked to computer protagonists, although the degree to which this comes up in the story varies.
* ''Literature/{{Percy Jackson|and the Olympians}}'' pulls off an incredible shot nailing a monster through all three hearts with one arrow, all the more incredible because he is the worst archer at Camp Half-Blood. This is because he prayed to Apollo and Artemis to improve his shot. [[spoiler: We later find out it actually was Hera who helped his shot.]]
** A better example would be the children of Apollo or the Hunters of Artemis, who shoot projectiles straight out of the air.[[spoiler: Neither of which require the direct assistance of the Goddess-Queen Hera.]]
* In ''Literature/PrinceCaspian'', Susan demonstrates her skill as an archer in a contest by piercing an apple at such a distance that her opponent, another excellent archer, claims it looks like a cherry, not an apple. Justified in that while she's good at archery, she's also using a magic bow, given to her by Father Christmas.
* In ''Literature/TheWheelOfTime'' this is [[PlanetOfHats the hat]] the Two Rivers, and as close to justified as this trope can be: if you regularly practiced with a bow since you were old enough to hold one, and were taught bowyery and fletchery from the same age, you'd be a damned good shot too. One of the main characters almost ends up in a fight with his foreign wife when she jokingly asks him if all of his people are as skilled as he is, and he honestly answers that no, the older men are much better. On the other hand, Birgitte takes the trope BeyondTheImpossible: she never misses, period, because she's the embodiment of the ArcherArchetype.
* In ''Literature/CodexAlera'', [[GreenThumb woodcrafters]] are incredibly accurate and powerful archers, able to thread arrows between inch-wide gaps in Legion shieldwalls and accurately put arrows into the crewmen of enemy ships moving at full speed on rough seas at three hundred yards. [[note]] By comparison, three hundred yards is the maximum arcing range for a composite longbow intended to be fired in massed volleys to harass the enemy. Woodcrafters are ''sniping'' people with near-horizontal shots at that range.[[/note]]
* In ''[[Literature/JackReacher One Shot]]'' the hero realizes that the Improbable Aiming Skills of a sniper are really too improbable. The guy was only an average sniper in his army days and had only sporadically practiced in the years since. He was cheating by shooting his practice targets from short range and then claiming that he did so from 600 yards. In turn another shooter who had below average scores on the shooting range was really an amazing sniper. He 'cheated' by not actually aiming at the bulls-eye but another spot on the target. He always hit what he aimed at but no one else realized that. Both men only used the shooting range when nobody was around to witness their deceptions.
* Wax, in ''Literature/TheAlloyOfLaw'', fires a bullet from inside a time slowing field, waits to see how it deflects when leaving the field, then fires another bullet with a bit of extra velocity from his telekinetic Steelpushing powers right as Wayne drops the time slowing field, and has the two bullets collide ''in mid-air'', ricocheting off each other in order to hit a man who was hiding behind a human shield directly in the head. He also [[BlastingItOutOfTheirHands shoots people's guns out of their hands]] several times over the course of the first book alone (his opponents HealingFactor meant that it was more effective than trying to kill him). Even his standard gunfighting is remarkable, as his Twinborn powers allow him to launch himself through the air, regularly making shots in-mid air with no apparent difficulty.
** Flashbacks have shown that despite his competence at the time of the books, he wasn't a particularly great shot at first. Although much of what he does is still wildly improbable, the implication seems to be the his years in the Roughs involved a great deal of practice with both his firearms and Metallic abilities.
* Every member of the Ranger Corps from ''Literature/RangersApprentice'' can fire off five arrows and have a sixth at full draw before an enemy could draw their sword. Halt has managed on two occasions to ''imagine'' where a target will be, fire without fully seeing where it is, and hit it dead on both times. From the day they start their apprenticeships to the day they retire, Rangers practice their aim whenever they get a moment, meaning that they're expert marksmen in months and uncanny shots in a year. The Temuji are just as good or even better than the Rangers.
** Overall, the trope is generally played realistically-in addition to the incredible hours of practice they put in, they also take into account things like wind and visibility when taking their shots. At one point, Will is firing an easy kill shot, but it hits the man in the thigh because he'd forgotten he was using a different kind of bow.
* In the ''Literature/{{Brotherband}}'' series by the same author, Lydia has more or less the same skill with her dart-throwing atlatl that Rangers do with their bows. This is justified by her starting out as a huntress before she joined the brotherband, and a huntress who can't aim well is one who ends up hungry. At one point, though, it's subverted-she makes a fantastic throw between a running man's legs, tripping him...then sheepishly admits she'd aimed for his knee.
* Ayla from the ''Literature/EarthsChildren'' series once hit four clods of dirt thrown in the air with her sling before any touched the ground, and in general has better aim than anyone else in the series.
* [[ColdSniper Lasko]] from the Literature/PaladinOfShadows books. In ''Unto the Breach'' he turns a Chechen commander into PinkMist from almost three kilometers away. In ''A Deeper Blue'' he goes four-shots-four-{{Kneecap|ping}}s-four-seconds from a helicopter, then destroys the gun one of the terrorists attempts to reach for.
* There aren't too many of these in ''Literature/{{Animorphs}}'' as the heroes use their morphing ability to fight close-range while the villains mostly attend the ImperialStormtrooperMarksmanshipAcademy. However, ''The Arrival'' subverts this very nicely with two characters: Aloth-Attamil-Gahar and Arbat-Elivat-Estoni. Aloth's a top Andalite sniper noted for scoring the highest target impact rate in the history of their military academy while Arbat is a BadassBookworm and TheManBehindTheMan of Unit 0.
* Subverted in ''Chasm City'', a ''Literature/RevelationSpaceSeries'' novel - legendary marksman Tanner attempts a trick shot which hits two friendlies, killing one, and misses the intended target entirely.
* Played a couple ways in the ''Literature/MatadorSeries'' by Steve Perry.
** The primary weapon of the Matadors is a spetsdöd, a pneumatic dart-thrower attached to the back of one's hand and with an effective range of about thirty meters. The Matadors rarely miss, and their celebration upon graduation from Matador Villa consists of the graduates throwing a handful of empty spetsdöd cartridges into the air for the audience to shoot.
** {{Invoked|Trope}} in ''The Man Who Never Missed'':
*** The book takes its name from the legend intentionally cultivated by Emile Khadaji, who ''is'' a near-perfect shot with a spetsdöd, but would replace the few misses he did make with darts from a hidden supply so that it ''looked'' like he never missed at all. He snarked to a Confed officer in ''The Machiavelli Interface'' that "the man who only missed a few times" isn't as inspiring.[[labelnote:*]]He was trying to create a legend of one man standing up to the Confed and making them look impotent, in order to create a focal point for a revolution.[[/labelnote]]
*** In the [[FramingDevice framed narrative]] that takes up most of the book, the man who taught Khadaji to use a spetsdöd told him that you're only as accurate as you try to be. As an example, he used a target of a woman with a gun and asked Khadaji what he was aiming at: Torso? Left nipple?
* The Lucky Duck in ''Literature/CallahansCrosstimeSaloon'' demonstrates ''literally'' improbable aiming skills with darts in his first appearance. The second dart goes straight into the hole in the back of the first. Then the third into the second. He throws the fourth left-handed, with the same result. He drop-kicks the fifth - not only does it go into the fourth, but it also knocks the drooping chain of darts up to horizontal. Then he turns around and throws the sixth directly at a bystander. Needless to say, it ends up completing the chain after an unlikely series of ricochets. It isn't skill; just the sort of thing that [[CoincidenceMagnet happens around him all the time]].
** A one-shot character in another of the short stories displays similar abilities; with a halfassed attempt with poor form, his darts always hit exactly what he aims at...and mysteriously everyone ''else's'' darts miss, up to and including missing the dartboard entirely. (This would be the equivalent of the Harlem Globetrotters suddenly losing all their games 0-200; the dartboard's line has been moved to 50 feet from the board because the local players are so good, they had to be handicapped to make it entertaining.) [[spoiler:Turns out he's got psychic powers, and can make the board 'want' his darts. He's caught when someone notices that he's been drinking all night but never bought another drink, he was making his glass 'want' booze. When someone asks him how it works [[CentipedesDilemma and he thinks about it for the first time]], the darts all jump off the board and would have nailed him in the head if he hadn't been wearing a big floppy hat.]]
* Lu, a SpacePolice officer in ''Literature/TheRedVixenAdventures'' manages to ShootTheHostageTaker while hanging upside down from a hole cut in an auditorium roof.
* Karyl of ''Literature/TheDinosaurLords'' is almost supernaturally skilled with bow and throwing darts. The man never misses, at least not in any meaningful way - at one point, he throws a dart at a man fifty metres away and bemoans that he missed the butt-crack by maybe an inch.
* In Creator/TheBrothersGrimm story "How Six Men Went Far In the World", one of the six is a hunter who boasts he can shoot the left eye off a fly from two miles away. He's certainly able to shoot a horse-skull out from under the head of a sleeping man in order to wake him.
* Deconstructed ([[DeconstructedCharacterArchetype alongside the archetype of]] TheGunslinger) on Creator/JohnSteakley's ''Vampire$'' with the character of Felix. He's got the capacity to kill with any gun he can get his hands on, always shooting unerringly. The deconstruction (and what unnerves Felix so much about his ability to the point he prefers not to use it) is that this capacity to never miss also doesn't has a "stun" mode, so to speak. He can ''never'' shoot to wound, he can ''never'' [[BlastingItOutOfTheirHands shoot a gun out of a man's hands]], he can ''never'' pull off trick shots or fire a warning shot, he can ''never'' ShootTheHostage on "[[OnlyAFleshWound the sweet spot]]"--he will ''always'' shoot to ([[InstantDeathBullet insta-]])kill.
* In ''Literature/{{Victoria}}'', the elite ''Jaeger'' commandos of the Confederation supposedly have both discipline and this in sufficient measure that they can train realistic skirmishes by ''shooting close to each other'' with live ammunition without unacceptable losses. Though this may just have been a joke by Chief of Staff Rumford, we never actually see anything like it in action.
* ''Literature/MartinFierro'': This is a NarrativePoem about Martin Fierro, a {{Gaucho}} who is PressGanged into {{Conscription}} trying to SettlingTheFrontier. At song III, he describes the Indians as {{Badass Native}}s who can kill any enemy with [[BladeOnAStick polearms]] and the [[SufferTheSlings boleadoras]].
* In Maryrose Wood's novel ''The Long-Lost Home'', Lady Constance (in bed from having just given birth) hurls a bonbon across the room into the one good eye of the man threatening her babies.
* The ''Literature/ImperialRadch'' trilogy: "Ancillary" {{Wetware Bod|y}}ies controlled by a spaceship [[ArtificialIntelligence AI]] can aim and fire with superhuman speed and accuracy thanks to their enhancements. Breq's CurbStompBattle against a group of assailants gives away the fact that she's not actually human.
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* ''WesternAnimation/KuboAndTheTwoStrings'': Beetle proves he can be a valuable asset to the team by performing the Robin Hood arrow split several times in succession, and claims it was the first time he'd used a bow [[spoiler: at least since losing his memory to a curse]].
* Joked with in ''Disney/TreasurePlanet'', where Dr. Doppler (who doesn't appear to have held a gun before) manages to shoot and hit his mark exactly.
-->'''Captain Amelia:''' Did you actually aim for that?\\
'''Dr. Doppler:''' You know, actually, I did.
* In Disney's ''Disney/RobinHood'', Robin splits his opponent's arrow. With an arrow he deflected mid-flight with a second shot (after his first was interfered with). With both the deflected and the deflecting arrow being improvised bits of stick half-broken in the middle. And a bow made of a green stick and pieces of skin. And standing on stilts with a giant fake beak strapped to his face. While singing the Chinese National Anthem backwards (actually this last part is not true).
* In ''WesternAnimation/{{Brave}}'', Merida hits perfect bullseyes every time, not only splitting one of her opponents' arrow, but going ''straight through the target''.
* ''Disney/{{Frozen}}'' has a villain who can shoot a small chain holding up a chandelier high up using a crossbow that is ''being held by someone else'', and the aiming was done in just a split second.
* ''Disney/{{Zootopia}}'': One of the BigBad's minions was able to shoot an otter through the open window of a moving vehicle at night, and later was able to shoot a black jaguar standing in a darkened room, through a partially open window, also a night.

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* ''Film/MysteryMen'':
** The Blue Raja can hit pretty much anything with a fork.
** Also the Spleen demonstrates his keen sharpshooting. If you want to know what he uses for ammo, just [[{{Gasshole}} pull his finger]].
* Pretty much any Hollywood depiction of Myth/RobinHood, ever.
** Robin was no doubt relatively handy with a bow, but in reality you can't shoot a hangman's rope with a longbow and wooden arrows from 50 metres away on demand (no, nor can they split an arrow every single time, sorry). The longbow was fearsome as a weapon of war because of its range and armour-penetration, not its accuracy -- for that, the English had ''tens of thousands'' of peasants shooting at ''armies'' of Frenchmen.
** It's not just Hollywood: several of the ballads have Robin performing feats such as splitting willow wands in two or shooting a fleeing man at a distance of a mile while on a RoaringRampageOfRevenge. He is also depicted as having the ability to fire an arrow at a bullseye, then to fire a second arrow at the exact same spot resulting in the second arrow splitting the first arrow into pieces...At over 500 meters away. Such a thing has been performed by a few people nowadays but only at close range. Anyone who's tried their hand at archery can tell you how difficult it is to even fire an arrow straight, and how improbable it would be to even fire an arrow over 50 meters, let alone 500 meters, or a mile.
** Parodied in ''Film/RobinHoodMenInTights'' when Robin fires six arrows to pin a mook to a tree by his clothing.
* Yancey Cravat in ''Film/{{Cimarron}}'' puts a scare in a bad guy by drawing his pistol and, while firing from the hip, grazing the bad guy's ear. Later, he draws and fires from the hip again and kills that bad guy from the other end of a large church tent, while among a crowd of people.
* ''Franchise/StarWars'':
** Padmé and Leia both apparently never miss their target. Of course, Leia has the Force working for her. Her mom? AuthorityEqualsAsskicking.
** As noted on the ImperialStormtrooperMarksmanshipAcademy page the protagonists display such a level of technical competency (or luck) that most {{mooks}} look completely incompetent by comparison, even though they often aren't.
* ''Franchise/StarTrek'':
** In ''Film/StarTrekInsurrection'', the crew need to shoot down small and fast flying drones that are teleporting the Baku. They almost never miss. Phasers being directed-energy weapons and thus effectively HitScan probably helps.
** Other places in the Star Trek canon have mentions of Federation phaser rifles having various targeting assistance features, such as stabilizers, scanners, and other features (which tend to make them unreliable in extended field service, but are damn sweet for short ops like this one). All that technological aid in hitting the target makes you wonder how they ever miss.
** Referenced in [[Film/StarTrek2009 the reboot]] when Scotty compares the concept of transwarp beaming (i.e. transporting to a starship moving at warp) to "trying to hit a bullet with another bullet, whilst wearing a blindfold, riding a horse." [[spoiler:And Prime!Spock pulls it off, using the equations Scotty developed in the prime timeline.]]
* Legolas also demonstrates a truly astounding aim with his longbow in ''Film/TheLordOfTheRings'' -- of course, improbable skill with a bow is a feature commonly credited to elves in most fantasy settings, and since they usually [[WeAreAsMayflies live for a long time, with aging not being (much of) a problem]], it usually makes some sense. In both the movies and in the novels Elves have [[SuperSenses spectacular vision]]: at one point, Legolas apparently has no problem spotting a band of Uruk-Hai which are out of eyeshot for Aragorn (and the viewer).
** The couple of times he's shown pulling a multishot on screen, it's at point blank range against a large target (presumably because a larger beast needs a larger wound).
** Subverted during the Helm's Deep siege when he inexplicably fails to kill one lousy Uruk torch-bearer ''twice'', both times hitting his shoulders. The Uruk [[MadeOfIron kept running.]]
** This is taken to even greater extremes in ''Film/TheHobbit''. In the second film, one elf is seen shooting another arrow fired by an orc ''right out of the air''
*** In one instance, Legolas resorts to [[ThrowingYourSwordAlwaysWorks throwing a sword]] when he runs out of arrows.
* Ridiculously fast and accurate shooting was one of the standard features of Spaghetti Westerns and one of the things that distinguished them from standard American films. Ironically, Creator/ClintEastwood's ability to QuickDraw a handgun, shoot, and kill any number of men in any fight without missing a shot -- or being hit in return -- was seen by some critics as making his films ''more realistic'' (that is, gritty and rugged) than the plausible shooting skills of a Creator/JohnWayne, Creator/GlennFord, Creator/JimmyStewart, or Randolph Scott film.
** This was subverted in ''Film/{{Unforgiven}}'', where Gene Hackman's character explains that a true gunman must sacrifice speed for accuracy. In the end, Eastwood's character wins only by shooting carefully at close range.
** Speaking of John Wayne, in his final film he specifically disavows this trope, noting that he owes his reputation as a shootist to an unflinching readiness to kill his opponent, not fancy quickdraw skills or even accuracy.
** Parodied in ''Film/BlazingSaddles'', when The Waco Kid shoots the guns out of the hands about ten {{Mooks}} in two seconds.
* In ''Film/{{Hitman}}'', the film of the game series, Agent 47 scores an impressive streak of headshots with his pistols during the hotel escape scene.
* Used heavily in ''Film/{{Shooter}}'', especially the helicopter scene. There are snipers good enough to find a target, adjust for wind and drop, and fire in less than a couple seconds, but there aren't any live ones that would try to hit the rotary blade on a helicopter.
** He was aiming for the engine/motor housing for the rotary blade, a pronounced feature on most heavy helicopters, and after several shots he hit it. It still boarders on improbable but it's closer to reality than the scenario described above.
* ''Film/ShootEmUp'' is basically an entire film dedicated to this trope.
* The {{Blaxploitation}} film ''Film/ThreeTheHardWay'' has the heroes with glorified cap pistols defeating the {{Mooks}} who have fully automatic machine guns.
* ''Film/DawnOfTheDead2004'' offers a borderline example with the character of Andy, who proves to be very accurate with zombie-killing headshots. Of course, the man ''owns a gun store'', and is shooting from the safety of his roof using a high-powered rifle with a scope. And there's the fact that there are so many zombies, it's like trying to drain the ocean with a teaspoon... Averted in the original movie, where the two SWAT guys are accurate shooters whereas the civilian helicopter pilot is inaccurate and panicky, until he has time to practise under the tutelage of one of the SWAT men.
* Subverted in ''Film/ShaunOfTheDead'', where the gang has to team up in order to reliably use a rifle "that actually works". [[spoiler:The scene plays out exactly like the earlier one when Shaun and Ed are playing ''VideoGame/TimeSplitters2'' at home.]] Their aim does improve, though.
* In ''Film/LandOfTheDead'', Charlie, the mildly-retarded sidekick, has a "good eye," as he puts it. He can shoot a dwarf in the head behind cover from across a room in the middle of a riot. And he nails a zombie in the face by firing inches past a teammate's head, though he does complain that it was a little off-center. When offered an automatic weapon that can fire 14 rounds per second, he just says "I don't normally need that many."
* ''Film/TheBourneSeries'':
** ''Film/TheBourneSupremacy'' features an instantly-fatal shot against a human target at around 200 meters. The target is not only moving away, she's inside a car travelling at about 20 mph, the shot is through traffic and the sniper hits on ''his first shot'' from a ''standing position''.
** In ''Film/TheBourneLegacy'', Cross' skills surpass the aforementioned shot. When he's up against a Predator drone about half a kilometer away, he manages to down it with nothing but a rifle. The drone's operators are rather shocked when they're told that the man they're trying to take out is only armed with a high-powered rifle. Of course, ''legacy'' makes it clear that Bounre and the rest of the Treadstone agents, along with the other projects' agents, are explicitly enhanced both physically and mentally via retroviral engineering.
* The Creator/ArnoldSchwarzenegger movie ''Film/TrueLies'' is full of this trope and enemies who attended the ImperialStormtrooperMarksmanshipAcademy as well. One scene in particular stands out: Arnold's character is escaping down a snow covered hill by sliding down it on his back and using a pistol to take out pursuing enemies on skis, at night; the aforementioned enemy marksmanship can be seen here as well.
** ''Film/{{Commando}}'' had a scene when Arnie's storming the villain's mansion and is picking off henchmen with seemingly no effort.
*** Parodied when ''WebVideo/TheNostalgiaCritic'' reviewed the movie. When covering the aforementioned scene, the Critic demonstrates how this trope is in effect when he joins in with his gun, and continues killing henchmen no matter how random the shots he makes are, even when he's just flailing the gun around wildly. It finally culminates in the Critic putting the gun against his ''own head'', pulls the trigger... and kills another henchman.
* In ''Film/HouseOfFlyingDaggers'' Jin fires off four arrows in quick succession at the four soldiers attacking Xiao Mei. Not only does each of them hit the target, said target is a spot where the arrow will stick in their clothes without hurting them since the whole thing is a setup for him to earn Xiao Mei's trust. They also all manage to impact at about the same time, which is pretty unlikely. In this movie, anyone who throws the flying daggers never misses the mark. They even went through the trouble of using ''Wanted'' style improbable physics.
* ''Film/{{Wanted}}''. ''Improbable Aiming Skills: TheMovie.'' How bad? ''Throwing a curveball with bullets,'' shooting the wings off of insects, shooting down an enemy's bullet ''intentionally,'' and on and on. Bullets fired from guns don't need to go in straight lines. With a flick of the wrist, an assassin can get a bullet to swerve around an obstacle and hit a target directly behind said obstacle. Yes, that means they can shoot around corners without relying on ricochets to change the trajectory. The most JustForFun/{{egregious}} example, hands-down, comes in the climax. A member of the Fraternity (a secret society of assassins that decides who to kill by studying textiles) has [[spoiler: decided that the abilities wielded by the assassins are too dangerous in the hands of mortals. This rebellious member fires a single bullet that travels around the room in a circular path, killing most of the remaining members, and comes back around, hitting the person who fired the bullet]]. RuleOfCool and all that.
** In the original comic series, Wesley is an impossibly good shot beyond any rational measure (it's a superpower). In the first comic he is forced to shoot the wings off of flies, in the end he does so by closing his eyes and shooting wildly around the room. Needless to say he succeeds. His father is also murdered by an unseen gunman who shoots him from "two cities away". Like the movie the plot of the comics is based entirely on RuleOfCool.
** It's just because Timur Bekmambetov does what he wants. (If you're curious, he directed the movies ''Literature/NightWatch'' and ''Day Watch'', both of which were also largely founded on Rule of Cool.)
** This is taken to its logical extreme in the comic. Wesley and his father are ''literally perfect'' shots; [[spoiler: at the end of comic, Wesley's father forces him to execute him, because a few weeks ago he missed a target (with a pistol) at about ''half a mile,'' chalking it up to old age. He can't imagine being less than the absolute best]].
* In ''Film/SupportYourLocalSheriff'' James Garner is asked to demonstrate his gun handling skills and manages to both subvert and play the trope straight. He begins by tossing a washer into the air and shooting at it with his pistol, then claiming the bullet went through the hole. The skeptical townsfolk ask him to repeat the stunt, although for the second shot a piece of tape is applied to the washer. Guess where the second bullet goes?
-->"(gulp) I hope you didn't take no offense at anything we may have said earlier.."
** Later on he drives a nail into a board by ''shooting it''.
* Inverted in the ''Film/IronMan1'' movie, where a mook in a tank picks off Film/IronMan while he's engaged in a dogfight. The mooks with firearms are also pretty sharp, if only to [[FiveRoundsRapid demonstrate the imperviousness]] of Iron Man's phlebotinum suit.
** Inverted in the other direction as well. Iron Man relies on a super efficient targeting system to headshot multiple badguys holding {{Human Shield}}s rather than just eyeing it.
** Played straight in ''Film/IronMan3'' with Rhodey nailing some difficult targets using just a pistol, such as a distant light and some cables.
* Played straight in ''Film/Terminator2JudgmentDay,'' in which Arnie manages to hold off an entire army of cops... with a minigun... without even injuring one. His kill counter even has a ''decimal place'' that shows 0. After all, John Connor told him not to kill anyone.
** This was ironic, since in the original ''Film/TheTerminator'' Arnie seemed to have ''flunked'' from the Imperial Stormtrooper Shooting Academy; he needed a target-pistol with laser-sighting, just to hit someone at point-blank range; and he took out an entire bar-full of other people with his Uzi while missing his intended target, since his aim was so ''bad''. Of course it was a different timeline, so perhaps the Terminators became more accurate; but still he was exactly the same Terminator to all other appearances.
* Averted in the original ''Film/RoboCop1987''. Robo can pull off all kinds of amazing feats of ballistics, including neutering a would-be rapist by ''shooting through his victim's skirt'', but it's all programming -- the original Murphy couldn't shoot for beans, and after a [[RestrainingBolt Directive 4]] malfunction takes his targeting systems offline, neither can Robo.
** In [[Film/RoboCop3 the third movie]], [=RoboCop=] shoots the gun out of a villain's hands -- then continues to shoot it, and it bounces in the air for a few seconds [[SpecialEffectFailure almost as if it were attached to a string]].
** In [[Series/RoboCopTheSeries the TV series]], he has a habit of using ricochets to hit people.
* Spoofed in the comedy ''Film/{{Bullshot}}'' (1983). "By rapidly calculating the pigeon's angle of elevation in the reflection of your monocle, then subtracting the refractive index of its lens, I positioned myself at a complementary access... and fired. It was no challenge at all."
* Quigley from ''Film/QuigleyDownUnder'' is on the verge. His rifle shots are just this side of impossible, but doable for a highly-trained marksman with a custom-built rifle (which Quigley is).
* ''Film/KissKissBangBang'': In the climactic car-chase/shoot-out (which involves a coffin containing the body of the victim, a delivery truck, and an overpass), Harry, the coffin, and a revolver go skidding over the bridge: the coffin snags on the railings, partially open with the victim' hand hanging out; Harry manages to grab the corpse's hand and save himself, and then, with the other hand, plucks the gun out of midair and ''shoots the big bad right in the heart''.
* ''Film/LastOfTheMohicans'' does this near the end of the final battle. Hawkeye [[spoiler:charges into a small group of the enemy, shooting two Kentucky rifles simultaneously ''from the hip'' -- and hitting a separate enemy with each shot]].
** Earlier, he made some highly accurate long-range shots on ''running'' Hurons, when [[spoiler:protecting the messenger]]. But of course, he is [[EverythingSoundsSexierInFrench the]] [[DoubleEntendre "Longue Carabine"]].
* Creator/HumphreyBogart reminds how ''flippin' awesome'' it is to be an American in the WWII film ''Film/Sahara1943'', where a German aircraft does two flybys of our heroes, and [[ImperialStormtrooperMarksmanshipAcademy is unable to hit the broad side of a tank in the middle of the desert]], while Bogie, on the other hand, can shoot a single plane down, despite it flying at high speeds at a great distance, with just one shot of his sidearm. Wow.
* ComicBook/TheJoker in Creator/TimBurton's ''Film/Batman1989'' hits the speeding Batwing...with a handgun with a 3 foot long barrel. In a similar vein, Batman manages to ''[[ThouShaltNotKill completely miss]]'' the Joker while strafing him with twin mounted machine guns earlier in the scene.
* The Grammaton Clerics in ''Film/{{Equilibrium}}'' are masters of GunKata­­, which the film states is in part a mathematical system for determining aiming angles with the highest probability to hit. Cleric Preston displays this repeatedly, usually taking out a half-dozen or more opponents with robotic precision.
* In the [[InNameOnly movie version]] of ''Film/IRobot'', Bridget Moynahan shoots a robot attacking Will Smith ''with her eyes closed''. He's less than happy when he finds out... but, "it worked, didn't it?" Not to mention Will Smith pulling out [[GunsAkimbo two guns]] and hitting his targets ''while jumping off the back of a moving motorcycle.''
* ''Film/EnemyAtTheGates'': The [[ColdSniper Nazi major]] in particular has some insane skills, including the ability to ''shoot through a piece of string'' the hero is trying to use to retrieve his out-of-reach rifle. Also at another point, a few Russians are jumping a hole in a run down building. When one soldier is in mid-air the sniper ''nails him right in the head!'' Not only is the shot impossible, but the sniper wouldn't be dumb enough to even attempt it!
* Subverted in ''Film/InglouriousBasterds''. One lone Jewish girl escapes the Nazi soldiers who kill her family and starts running towards the hills. Colonel Hans Landa sees her, and aims a small pistol at her. He carefully takes aim, even though by then she's much too far away for him to hit, and just before she runs over the hills and out of sight, he yells BANG!, and puts away his gun.
--> "Au revoir, Shoshana!"
* ''[=McQ=]''. At the beginning of the movie the [[Creator/JohnWayne title character]] shoots a hitman fleeing from him at an impressive distance with a six-inch magnum revolver, much to the awe of a witness. However this crack shooting is not carried on in other scenes, where admittedly he's being shot back at. However when [=McQ=] gets his hands on an [[CoolGuns Ingram MAC-10]], the question of accuracy [[MoreDakka becomes moot]].
* ''Film/TheBoondockSaints'': Immediately after the DynamicEntry into the Russian mobsters' hotel room, the SiblingTeam happens to get caught up in some rope, and then draw weapons and outfire nine mobsters. Of course, they do this all while dual wielding 9mm pistols, upside down, and spinning, after having a good eight foot drop. And they don't miss. {{Lampshade|Hanging}}d, multiple times, afterwards.
* In ''Film/{{Dragonheart}}'', Brother Gilbert finds out that he is naturally a perfect shot with a bow and arrow. This puts him directly into a moral conflict as he's a priest and abhors killing, but the villagers need to be protected from the evil soldiers. He eventually gets around this by using non-lethal shots and triggering traps.
--> '''Gilbert of Glockenspur''': [''shoots a man in the rear end''] Turn the other cheek, brother.
* In the second grade Marc Dacascos movie, ''DNA'', the movie's climax involves the main character diving off a cliff [[SoftWater into the water]], holding a small rocket launcher, turning around mid-air and blowing the monster to pieces with one single shot. Granted, it was from point-blank range, but considering the circumstances, it's still pretty impressive.
* Relentlessly spoofed in the ''Film/AustinPowers'' movies. There are some scenes where Austin fires around two or three shots, resulting in around 20 bad guys falling down dead at once.
* In ''Film/{{Tombstone}}'', despite most of the fight scenes featuring close range shooting [[ImperialStormtrooperMarksmanshipAcademy still resulting in misses,]] [[ATeamFiring on both sides,]] Wyatt Earp manages a shot to the throat while both are on horseback, Wyatt leaning off his saddle and shooting from under the horse's neck. This is achieved with a single bullet from a pistol that in an earlier scene required six shots to hit one of the Cowboy's once.
* In ''Film/CrocodileDundee'', Mick Dundee can hit just about anything he wants precisely. Shown by his knife throw against one of the punk kids and later killing off a security camera feed with a ''stone''.
** The knife was a bit risky, but he lined up the stone for several seconds before throwing it. Unusually good, but not magically so.
** Sue Charlton in the climax of the second film, shooting dead a drug lord from some distance away, on the first shot, when she's probably never touch a gun in her life.
*** In fact, she uses a rifle in the first movie, firing a shot at Mick's feet to show him that she knows how to use it, and isn't afraid to do so.
** At the end of the first movie, the limousine driver downing a crook with an improvised boomerang
** He threw a can of food at a purse thief from a full NYC block away, and conked him on the head. On a single try. In a VERY heavily crowded sidewalk. And the thief was zig-zaggily running away at top speed. After throwing the first can, he never even thought about throwing a second can as he knew one would be enough. Cue applause.
* In one of his movies, Creator/CharlieChaplin throws a rock after a fleeing badguy and knocks off his hat from three blocks away.
* In ''Film/KingKong2005'', Jimmy, who has never handled a gun before, manages to shoot several huge wetas off of Jack, who is moving. With a Tommygun. And he didn't kill Jack either. The characters didn't look nearly shocked enough.
* Subverted in ''Film/{{Orphan}}'' by the end of the movie when [[spoiler:Max picks up a gun that Kate had dropped earlier and aims it at Esther, but ends up shooting the ice they're standing on instead]].
* Subverted in ''Film/StarskyAndHutch'' when Hutch is held at gunpoint Starsky offers to take a shot at his captor with Hutch's permission. Despite the fact that Hutch vehemently refuses to give permission, Starsky spins around and takes the shot but misses wildly and hits their boss instead.
* Seso in ''Film/PrinceOfPersiaTheSandsOfTime''. His Hashashin counterpart with a wrist-mounted launcher also counts.
* Parodied in ''Film/TopSecret'' with ScaryBlackMan Chocolate Mousse, who at one point manages the extraordinary feat of firing a machine gun at full-auto into a melee and hitting ''only the bad guys''.
* Parodied in ''Film/HotShotsPartDeux'', with Topper throwing ''a grenade right into the mouth'' of a Mook, and some Mooks carrying ''marksmanship targets'' over different parts of their body, and the Robin-Hooded chicken and [[ParodiedTrope ...]]
* ''Franchise/FridayThe13th'': Jason Voorhees tends to prefer melee weapons, but give him a crossbow or something like that, and [[EyeScream prepare to be called "Snake"]] the rest of your life. In ''Film/FreddyVsJason'', he actually throws his machete through a guy's chest as he's running away from him (and it somehow travels completely straight, like a Peyton Manning bullet pass, even though it's almost, if not completely, impossible to throw a blade like a football). All in all, it must suck to know you basically got sniped by a literally-retarded zombie.
* Duncan by the end of ''Film/MysteryTeam''.
* Peggy Carter in ''Film/CaptainAmericaTheFirstAvenger'' makes some amazing shots. One of them is putting a bullet through the head of a Nazi driving in a car ''at least a block away''. Also Cap himself and his ludicrous ricochet shots with the shield. [[SequelEscalation Done even better]] in [[Film/CaptainAmericaTheWinterSoldier the sequel]], which also adds the Winter Soldier and his near-magical knack for sniping well-concealed people accurately--in one case through a brick wall--as well as Black Widow, who shoots the Soldier accurately (though doesn't manage to injure him) based on his shadow.
* In the 1954 ''DaveyCrockettOnTheMississippi'' Crockett subverts this. Crockett is challenged to a trick shooting contest in a tavern. Crockett walks around, carefully lining up pans and pictures and other objects, then takes a shot with 'Becky' his famous long rifle over his back with a mirror. It ''does'' bounce around until he apparently catches the bullet with his ''teeth''. He later reveals he had the bullet in his mouth the whole time and wasn't really worried about the ricochets.
* ''Film/TheFifthElement'': Major Dallas displays exceptional aim when taking out sundry Mangalores on the flying hotel, starting with a triple headshot from across the auditorium, proceeding on to take out at least seven bad guys with a single burst of full-auto, without harming any civilians, and finishing up with a [[WilliamTelling William Tell]] style headshot of the lead mangalore, over the head of one of the hostages. To be fair though, he actually appeared to have to aim that last one. And his gun didn't even have a [[BizarreAndImprobableBallistics replay option]].
* ''Film/RobotJox'': {{Subverted|Trope}}: Tex, a retired Jock, is famous for a match where he defeated a technologically far superior Russian opponent with a shot that precisely hit a weak spot he had no way of knowing about. When asked about this, he dismissed it as being pure blind luck. [[note]] It is later revealed that he ''did'' aim for that spot: The Russians bought him off and arranged for him to win that fight to give him credibility.[[/note]]
* In ''Film/{{The Avengers|2012}}'', Hawkeye [[OffhandBackhand doesn't need to look at what he's shooting at,]] hitting flying Chitauri troops while eyeing up something else entirely. He also perfectly arcs an explosive arrow into one of the Helicarrier's rotors...from the ''opposite side'' of the Helicarrier. PlayedForLaughs in ''Film/CaptainAmericaCivilWar'', in which he complains that his flawless aim makes golf really boring.
* Christie in ''Film/AlienResurrection'' has a knack for ricochets... and spectacularly fails to hit an alien climbing towards him in a straight line.
* In the Creator/DisneyChannel Original Movie ''Film/TheLuckOfTheIrish'', Kyle is a popular teenager mostly due to his incredible knack at basketball. He never misses the basket even if it's a deflection shot with his fist as he's flying through the air. It turns out he's incredibly lucky due to the fact that he's a [[HalfHumanHybrid half-leprechaun]] and wears the family's lucky coin on his neck. After his coin is swiped by one of the BigBad's {{Mooks}}, he finds out that he absolutely sucks at basketball... and then he gets better at it by the end without the coin.
** He also hits a sliotar (ball used in hurling) with the hurley as if he's playing baseball and manages to knock the sliotar into the opposite goal. However, he's wearing the lucky coin during this, so it's justified.
* The 1931 Academy Award winner ''Cimmaron'', being a Western, has a lot of this. The hero frequently shoots his enemies ''from the hip'' and never, ever misses.
* ''Franchise/GIJoe'' films:
** ''Film/GIJoeTheRiseOfCobra'': Quite literally as Scarlett's crossbow has the ability to take video of her opponent, and from that image is able to select where she wants the target to be hit, so that no matter what she aims at, it will hit that exact spot on the target. She doesn't even have to aim in the right direction; they're rocket-powered arrows!
** In ''Film/GIJoeRetaliation'', Snake Eyes can shoot thrown shuriken with an uzi without missing a shuriken or hitting the thrower, despite the fact that they're in a straight hallway and Storm Shadow is at best four meters away.
* Sebastian Moran in ''Film/SherlockHolmesAGameOfShadows'' is called one of Europe's six best marksmen, and makes good on that description. For example, the Meinhart assassination took place at 650 yards, with a 7-8 mph side wind. He also manages to graze a moving man at about 100 yards with an unfamiliar rifle, while at a dead sprint, and kill another at 150 with an open wound in his gut. Watson too. He was able to shoot a CANNON at his counterpart and it [[MemeticBadass saved Holmes's hide.]]
* In ''Film/NowYouSeeMe'', when cornered by Rhodes, Jack Wilder fights him off first by flinging burning flash paper at him and, when that doesn't work, throwing playing cards.
* In ''Film/SukiyakiWesternDjango'' the leader of the Whites hits the leader of the Reds in the torso several times from well beyond the effective range of his revolver. He does it by shooting it well into the wind (he's firing at almost a right angle to direct line of sight) so that the bullets will arc back.
* In ''Film/{{Elysium}}'', one of Carlyle's bodyguard droids throws a grenade almost carelessly to the side and still lands it under one of the cars Max's crew use.
* ''Film/JamesBond'':
** Francisco Scaramanga, the BigBad of ''Film/TheManWithTheGoldenGun'' has his iconic Golden Gun chambered in a caliber of 4.2mm. A caliber that small (.165) has no stopping power to speak of unless you hit a vital point guaranteed to be an instant kill, which he ''always'' does.
** Doctor Kaufmann, a ProfessionalKiller in ''Film/TomorrowNeverDies'' claims to possess this, boasting that he could shoot James Bond from the other end of the room and make the bullet wound look like Bond had committed suicide. Bond outwits and kills him before he has a chance to demonstrate his technique. Kaufmann claims that his experience as a professor of forensic medicine is how he is able to make a far-away shot look like suicide. How that helps his hand-eye coordination is unclear, although, presumably, he could add powder burns after the fact.
** In ''Film/{{Spectre}}'', during the final battle, [[spoiler: Bond manages to shoot down and destroy Blofeld's helicopter with only a few shots of his Walther PPK from a few hundred meters away, at night time from a moving boat]].
* In ''Film/TinCup'', Roy has a knack for this; when he's on, he can hit shots that even the best pros think are impossible. Of course, they think that way for a reason, and [[RealityEnsues Roy has learned the hard way in the past that low-percentage shots tend to fail more often than not.]]
* ''Film/XMenFilmSeries'':
** It's amazing how Cyclops shoots precisely through such a small visor.
** Agent Zero's main power in ''Film/XMenOriginsWolverine''.
** In ''Film/TheWolverine'', Narada hits several running Yakuza at incredible distances during the ChaseScene.
** In ''Film/Deadpool2016'', Wade Wilson ends up [[RunningGag forgetting his ammo bag]]. During the bridge shootout, he only has twelve rounds, six in each pistol, and he tells the enemy mooks that some of them "will have to share." He makes good on this, delivering multiple headshots, including two while flipping through the air, another blind and shooting between his legs, two more OffhandBackhand shots where he's not even looking at his targets, and to top it all off, he scores a triple headshot on the last three mooks. In fact, the only time he misses is when he's shooting at one enemy who is riding a motorcycle, who is actually [[spoiler: Ajax]], and the missed shots are {{Foreshadowing}} that [[spoiler: he has enhanced reflexes that let him dodge bullets]].
* In ''Film/TheHungerGamesMockingjayPart1'', Gale and Katniss [[spoiler:shoot down two Capitol bombers with nothing more than bows and arrows]]. Possibly justified in that the bombers are flying at extremely low altitude and are making a second strafing run effectively head-on. That is, they don't have to lead the bombers as much in order to actually hit them. When they did hit, they used [[StuffBlowingUp the red arrows]].
* ''Film/AmericanUltra'' doesn't have too many outlandish moments of gunplay, save for one that was ''featured in the promotional trailer'': lead hero Mike Howell hurls a frying pan into the air, fires at it from below, causing it to reflect and hit someone who was standing behind him. Basically shooting perpendicular. "Oh... the old... frying pan-bullet trick..."
* ''Film/{{Blackhat}}:'' Hathaway is very handy with a pistol for a hacker who has spent the last few years in jail. The film is silent on his previous firearms experience, but even if he was a shooter, he would have missed a lot of range time.
* In ''Film/JackReacher'', the fact that such aiming skills are so improbable is ''a key plot point'' - all of the amazing complications super-snipers overcome are things real snipers are trained to ''avoid''. Reacher's investigation of a former Army sniper's shooting spree reveals that he wasn't skilled enough to make the shots, but was skilled enough ''not'' to fire from such a difficult position.[[note]]In the parking garage, the shooter had the sun in his eyes, and his targets were moving left and right. But a nearby highway bridge was an obvious alternate position where the sun would have been behind him, with his targets straight ahead, single file - one where he could have made the shots without leaving his van, meaning no shell casings would have been left for the police to find, he wouldn't have been caught on camera, and he could have just driven away with no-one the wiser. Thus, the parking garage was chosen to leave an OrgyOfEvidence, not due to practicality.[[/note]]
* Robin Hood of ''Film/RobinHoodCzwartaStrzala'' [[WilliamTelling shoots an apple]] off his own head.
* ''Franchise/PiratesOfTheCaribbean'':
** Norrington shoots a rope to drop Elizabeth into the ocean and stop her coming back into mortal danger. He does this from at least thirty feet away, with an 18th-century pistol, in the dark, and he gets it on the first try.
** This trait is Jack Sparrow's specialty. While his sword fighting skills are mediocre at best, he's a monster when a gun is put in his hand. Able to shoot men straight through the heart if he wants.
* ''Film/BringMeTheHeadOfTheMachineGunWoman'': The Machine Gun Woman displays some incredible aiming skills through the course of the movie. At one point, she casually shoots someone who is behind without turning around: she just points the gun behind her and fires without looking.
* ''Film/RedHill'': At one point Jimmy performs a BoomHeadshot on Earl. Earl is on top of a building, behind cover, 50 to 100 metres behind Jimmy, who is on horseback, firing a handgun, in the dark. It takes one bullet to take out Earl.
* ''Film/BeverlyHillsCopIII'' treats us to a masterful display of marksmanship as a character bulls-eyes a gunman in a theme park skyride gondola (with a shot grouping smaller than two feet) at a range of at least 100 feet with at least a dozen rounds - using a 4.5" barreled MP 5K firing on full automatic without stock or bracing.
* ''Film/SevenWaysFromSundown'': Seven is a remarkable shot with a rifle, but Flood is truly extraordinary. In the opening scene, he kills someone with a single shot, despite firing with a handgun, behind him, from the back of a galloping horse, from more than 20 metres, in the dark.
* In TheStinger from ''Film/Aquaman2018'', [[spoiler:Black Manta]] sits up in an improvised hospital bed, in a ConspiracyTheorist's room, having fought the hero ''and'' spent an undisclosed amount of time unconscious on a raft, with one eye covered in bandages, and immediately flings a knife into the middle of a StringTheory wall and hits a question-mark silhouette of Aquaman. If he'd had aim like that during the actual ''fight'', the movie could have been considerably shorter.
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* Averted in the {{Fanfic/Uplifted}} series. The accuracy of weapons is shown with a surprising degree of realism. Someone's clearly done their research.
* In Part Two of the notorious fanfic ''Anime/SailorMoon: [[Creator/DavidGonterman American Kitsune]]'', protagonist [[AuthorAvatar Davey Crockett]] manages to shoot and obliterate a throne on the Moon from the Earth with what amounts to an automatic, double-barreled sawed-off shotgun fired at a soda can thrown into the air. As if that weren't enough, the character sitting in said throne is left completely unharmed. The countless questions this raises, such as how Davey can tell where the moon throne is in the first place, are never brought up or answered.
* In the ''Manga/DeathNote'' fanfic ''Fanfic/LightAndDarkTheAdventuresOfDarkYagami'', Dark buys a sniper rifle with which to assassinate Near, and aims at him from the top of the "Eyfal Tower". The implication is that he could have killed Near with a single bullet and didn't need to buy a box... if Near hadn't used a '''Nerf gun''' to shoot out Dark's bullets and scope. Later, in what might be due to a typographical error, Dark manages to kill 1000000 (one million) Stormtroopers with 100000 (one hundred thousand) bullets, which requires killing on average, ten people with a single bullet, and only misses once.
* And then there's ''WebAnimation/{{Haloid}}''. The Spartan soldier in that video is simply put, an insane marksman with just about ANYTHING. Ricochets from sniper fire hitting moving targets and ricocheting off of OTHER moving targets, insane levels of accuracy with rapid-fire weapons at a full run, THREE TON VEHICLES, SHOTGUN FU. Seriously. It's like watching every action movie hero's specialty with a weapon crammed into a can of complete fuckwin.
* ''FanFic/TiberiumWars'' has a deliberate TakeThat directed at the official novelization, where a character gets a [[BoomHeadshot headshot]] on a target a hundred meters away with a pistol... except unlike in the official book, the one making this headshot is [[ColonelBadass Colonel Nick "Havoc" Parker]].
** Later on, a Nod Commando disarms a thrown grenade by ''shooting the fuse off it'' with her laser pistol. Admittedly, she's a cybernetic killing machine that has hyper-advanced technology crammed into her body, but ''damn''.
** Lieutenant Fullerton, a GDI Commando, twists this around. With some careful setup using an air vent, a remote camera, and his helmet computer, he's able to calculate the precise angles to fire through a wall to kill every Nod soldier in the next room with his railgun.
* In the Fanfic/PokeWars 'verse, Dawn (yes, ''[[NaiveEverygirl that]]'' [[Anime/{{Pokemon}} Dawn]]) becomes an amazing sharpshooter after her [[spoiler:dampeners are disabled]]. Her key highlights:
** In ''The Coalescence'' she lands "[[BoomHeadshot headshots]]" from a pistol on a swarm of Cloyster. Their "head" (actually the black pearl) is small relative to their body, they are leaping up and their shells are open only for a short time. ''She doesn't miss a single shot.''
** In ''Dawn of a New Era'' she kills three Fearow, one after the other, with [[BoomHeadshot headshots]]... from '''three''' kilometers away.
** In ''The Pokémon They Carried'', it is implied that all the snipers defending Groudon's Wall can easily make two kilometer shots. Dawn is the best of them all.
* In ''Fanfic/ChildOfTheStorm'', Clint is widely acknowledged as being the best shot in the Nine Realms, matched only by [[WarriorPrince Prince]] [[AuthorityEqualsAsskicking Faradei]] [[OurElvesAreBetter of Alfheim]], the real life Legolas. To take one example, while showboating he casually fires a shot that [[SugarWiki/FunnyMoments bounces off three pillars and snatches Volstagg's sandwich out of his hands before embedding in the wall. And then it exploded. Taking the sandwich with it]]. A JustifiedTrope due to the fact that [[spoiler:Clint is Minerva [=McGonagall=]'s illegitimate grandson by Bucky Barnes and his magical talent manifested in slightly enhanced reflexes and eyesight, much like Ultimate Hawkeye, but with a few extras]].
** [[spoiler: The Winter Solder]]. If he shoots at you, you're probably dead.
* Jun-A266 in ''Webcomic/HaloAFistfulOfArrows'' gets some pretty good shots, like sniping an abductor holding a hostage from a helicopter. But he's also shown struggling to snipe a Hunter, and one improbable shot turns out to have been a GoneHorriblyRight for him.
* Averted in [[FanFic/MassFoundations Mass Foundation: Redemption in the Stars]]. In the first chapter, [[VideoGame/FalloutNewVegas Courier]] Ethan Sunderland has only a decent chance of hitting the flamethrower gas tank at medium range with the VATS targeting system.
* Inverted in ''Fanfic/PonyPOVSeries'' with Shining Armor. His aiming skills are indeed improbable... improbably '''''BAD'''''.
* ''FanFic/ASmallCrime'': Kit can throw a card in the air and then shoot it (with her crossbow) right in the middle before it even hits.
* First Sargent Benjy in ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/9993496/6/The-Hell-er-Nator-II-Ghosting-the-Machine The Hell-er-Nator II: Ghosting the Machine]]'' explains that she's so good with her [[BratsWithSlingshots wrist rocket]] by practicing with it daily for almost four years. She practices hitting moving targets by shooting dragonflies, wasps, and hornets out of the air.
* ''Fanfic/{{Ferris}}'': The main feature of the alien Infiltrators, which are this fic's Thin Men. And that's before one gets [[spoiler:plasma sniper rifles]].
* Fanfic/WingsToFly: Lucrezia Noin gets a few seconds of a glimpse at an enemy mobile suit before it moves into cover behind a row of buildings. She lines up on a matching pair of windows in one of the buildings and times her shot to blow off the enemy MS' lower leg.
* In ''FanFic/SonicXDarkChaos'' Episode 61, Espio manages to throw an explosive shuriken at a pursuing Jewish cruiser. Not only does he manage to actually hit it in zero-gravity, he gets a direct hit on the ship's ammo magazine and immediately blows it into scrap. Even Espio himself is surprised he made the shot.
** Tsali demonstrates this numerous times with both his Chaos powers and his wrist-mounted weaponry. Justified, since he's a very advanced battle android and has been fighting a war by himself for thirty years.
* Korsan in ''FanFic/ThePiratePegasus'' can shoot a bullseye from across a room with a custom-made crossbow twice, with the second bolt actually ''[[Main/SplittingTheArrow piercing]]'' the first.
* Several characters possess this in ''FanFic/BrokenBow,'' but it's entirely justified, since the ones who do are the Hunters of Artemis, who are blessed with this as a power and have had centuries of experience to boot; Apollo and Artemis, the twin archer gods; and their children. Well, Artemis' ''child.''
* In ''Fanfic/MyHuntsmanAcademia'', Panchito "Pistoles" Rojo manages to aim at Izuku from ''underneath'' the docks just from the glow One For All: Full Cowl gave off, cutting a hole in concrete with his [[HandCannon revolvers]] to make Izuku fall through. The kicker is that he did this while the docks were full of containers packed with volatile Dust, doing so without hitting any of them or anything else in the chaotic firefight above.
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* ComicBook/{{Bullseye|MarvelComics}}, the PsychoForHire ProfessionalKiller who serves as the ArchNemesis to Comicbook/{{Daredevil}}, who mixes this with a physics-defying ability to propel projectiles to turn a variety of mundane household objects into {{Improvised Weapon}}s. Among the objects Bullseye has used to kill people: paperclips, [[DeathDealer playing cards]], golf balls, orange pits, [[ThePenIsMightier a ballpoint pen]], a toothpick, a salted peanut, and one of his own teeth. He rarely stoops so low as to use an actual gun.
** Taking it UpToEleven, one comic has him saying that the prison he's in has him on stool softeners and a liquid diet for fear that if he has a solid BM, he'll weaponize ''that''. And he would, too.
** Putting this through SerialEscalation to make an awesome moment is a two-part mini-series called ''Bullseye: Perfect Game''. The series revolves around the fact that Bullseye is so bored, he takes an entire year off to kill one guy in the most spectacular fashion possible. The target is a baseball player, so Bullseye becomes a pitcher. When their teams face off, Bullseye creates a [[TitleDrop perfect game]], by clipping his own team beforehand (in ways ranging from throwing a speck of dirt into an eye to cause an infection to killing someone with a thrown battery) and striking out every batter so the score is 0 to 0 in the last inning, with his target about to strike out. Too bad the umpire called the last pitch a ball.
** In ''Sinister Spider-Man'', Bullseye uses a yapping dog to the eye to distract Venom. Even more amazingly, the dog lived afterwards.
* Franchise/GreenLantern Lanterns: Bedovian, a Yellow Lantern and John Stewart, a Green Lantern. The two of them are capable of [[ColdSniper sniping]] each other from ''three space sectors away''. Just to give you an idea of how big a sector is, the entire universe is divided into 3600 sectors by the Green Lantern Corps. A conservative estimate would put the size of a sector in the several hundreds of thousands of lightyears.
** Stewart and Bedovian weren't necessarily hundreds of thousands of light years away from each other in that instance. The space sectors into which the universe is divided are wedges, with each wedge narrowing as one approaches Oa, the center of the universe. Thus, the closer one gets to Oa, the less distance one has to travel to cross any three sectors. At the time of the sniping incident, Stewart was on or very close to Oa and, if Bedovian was also fairly close to Oa, they may have been shooting across three sectors without being all that far from each other (while not ''quite'' as incredible, the distance would still be pretty impressive).
* While all The Minutemen from ''ComicBook/OneHundredBullets'' wield handguns with deadly accuracy; Minuteman [[spoiler:Willie Tymes]] never misses. His fellow agents gave him a nickname "My first shot is my last."
* ''ComicBook/LuckyLuke'' is the quintessential [[TheWildWest Wild West]] example. He can shoot off the firing pin of a derringer tinier than a pinky -- and do so faster than his shadow. At another point, he goes into a saloon and shoots seemingly random holes into a roll of waxed paper. Then he puts the roll and a coin into the player piano... which proceeds to play [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hgw_RD_1_5I Chopin's "Funeral March"]] There are other occasions of improbable aiming in the comics -- in one instance, two Dalton brothers shoot two bullets at each other that collide ''with each other'' half-way between them. Please note that ''Lucky Luke'' is a parody, so his skills are meant to be impossibly amazing, just like the bad guys are meant to be impossibly stupid.
* From both Franchise/TheDCU and Franchise/MarvelUniverse, [[CharlesAtlasSuperpower self-trained]] superhero archers ComicBook/GreenArrow and ComicBook/{{Hawkeye}}, and their families of characters, can ''ricochet'' arrows off walls and into targets. And that's not even getting into [[TrickArrow "boxing glove arrows", "bomb arrows", "net arrows" or "cat arrows"]] (don't ask). They have, at times, been depicted as so implausibly good, some people [[EpilepticTrees theorize]] that they actually have psychokinesis and are simply using it to show off by making it look like they're the world's greatest archers. The fact that the artists and writers of their titles usually don't do very much research into how archers actually even ''hold'' their bows drives it home for a lot of people.
** In ''Comicbook/BatmanTheDarkKnightReturns'', Green Arrow has lost an arm and still manages to be a crackshot. Green Arrow once lost ''both'' arms (he got better) and still managed to pull off a shot by bracing the bow with his feet and pulling the arrow back with his teeth.
* In the ComicBook/UltimateMarvel universe, Comicbook/{{Hawkeye}} is an expert marksman who chooses to use a bow because of the challenge. He was shown to be deadly with anything he could throw, even killing a room full of armed guards while strapped down to a chair ''by flicking his fingernails.'' (He did mention at some point that it was not only practise, but that his vision was artificially enhanced.) At one point he runs out of arrows and starts shooting piece of rebar at people. It's such typical behavior that no one even mentions it.
** The main universe Hawkeye, in the Hawkeye and ComicBook/{{Mockingbird}} series, fired three Pym Particle arrows - arrows whose heads were capsules filled with ''dozens'' of toothpick-sized arrows that were treated with the chemical Ant-Man uses to get bigger/smaller. When they deployed and expanded, the thugs they were facing got to [[Film/ThreeHundred fight in the shade]]. Every single one was taken down non-fatally. Hawkeye simply said he never hits what he wasn't aiming for. [[RuleOfCool This was during a motorcycle chase.]]
** Not to mention in the alternate future ''ComicBook/OldManLogan'', where Hawkeye is blind, yet just as good, managing to get three gangsters in the mouth with three arrows just by listening to where they are.
* In the ''Comicbook/SinCity'' story ''Hell and Back'', a sniper has a rifle with telescopic sights mounted on a tripod. He misses, the good guy, Wallace, returns fire, across a street, into a darkened building with a short-barreled revolver. His bullet goes ''[[ScopeSnipe down the telescopic sight and through the snipers eye into his brain.]]''
** Both ''Sin City'' and ''ComicBook/TheBadger'' have featured a character throwing an object with such accuracy that it plugs the barrel of an enemy's gun. What wouldn't a darts player give to be able to throw like that?
** Comicbook/{{Daredevil}} has also done the plugging-a-gun (and surely Bullseye too). Creator/FrankMiller really likes these feats, doesn't he?
* Allan Quartermain gained access to ''Comicbook/TheLeagueOfExtraordinaryGentlemen'' mostly by virtue of his Improbable Aiming Skills. At least he's got the good grace to use a ''rifle''. [[Film/TheLeagueOfExtraordinaryGentlemen The film]] version did, at least; in the comic, Allan is considered valuable for his experience in adventuring more than anything else, and his signature weapon is an elephant gun and, later, a custom-made double-barreled shotgun -- firearms that are ''very'' hard to miss with. In the film, he also manages to teach [[Literature/TheAdventuresOfTomSawyer Tom Sawyer]] to shoot just as accurately, which proves useful in taking out the BigBad. Interestingly, the film also shows that Quartermain's vision isn't what it used to be. He needs glasses, but can still shoot just as precisely.
* Comicbook/{{Blade}} is pretty damn handy with, you guessed it [[CaptainObvious blades.]] Tossing his daggers down the barrel of guns or pinning people to walls by their clothes is a breeze. When sneaking up on a vampire about to bite a woman, Blade threw a stake that knocked the vampire's teeth clean out of his mouth! And Blade claims he can amputate insects with his knives.
* The Saint of Killers from ''Comicbook/{{Preacher}}'' has magical (they were made from the sword of the Angel of Death) revolvers that cannot miss, never run out of bullets, never jam, never inflict anything less than a fatal wound, and can be drawn faster than the eye can see. Given that he's also [[NighInvulnerability completely invulnerable]], getting on his bad side (or, for that matter, getting close to him) is [[TheJuggernaut not recommended]]. [[spoiler:In the final issue he ''kills God'' with his guns]]
* ComicBook/{{Deadshot}}, a gun-wielding assassin and sometimes AntiHero from Franchise/TheDCU, has a long-standing reputation for never missing his shot (unless he happens to be [[PlotArmor aiming at Batman]]). In a ''ComicBook/SuicideSquad'' miniseries, he took out six targets scattered around a room ''while blindfolded''. Not only this, but he has ricocheted his bullets off poles, while turned around, and hit each target with perfect accuracy.
** Earlier in the same series, he failed to shoot a target in the bullseye while blindfolded...because Captain Boomerang Jr. had hit all his bullets in mid-air, using bent paperclips. (Admittedly using SuperSpeed, but still.). In ''[[ComicBook/BatmanAndTheOutsiders The Outsiders]]'', while in a prison riot, Captain Boomerang Jr. had grabbed and thrown something, bouncing it off the walls, to hit and knock out a fellow prisoner.
** One of the only times Deadshot ''did'' miss, it was in his youth, a tree branch he was standing on snapped under him, and what should have been a disarming shot became a kill shot. [[spoiler:The person he unintentionally killed was his beloved older brother.]]
* Franchise/{{Superman}}, in one comic, pretends to be a villain named the [[SuperDickery Golden Dart]], kidnaps Lois Lane, and throws darts at her. His Improbable Aiming Skills allow him to keep himself from hitting Lois, instead missing her by "scant inches".
* Thanks to her telescopic vision, Comicbook/{{Supergirl}} has literal super-aim. In a Silver Age comic she hits her target from ''space''.
* Kid Twist, a particularly slimy individual from Creator/JossWhedon's run on ''ComicBook/{{Runaways}}'', has this as a power: once he sets eyes on a target, he never misses. This includes casually firing his gun behind him, and having the bullet ''turn corners''.
* In an early issue of ''Comicbook/CableAndDeadpool'', while Wade (Comicbook/{{Deadpool}}) is casually conversing with Nate (ComicBook/{{Cable}}) about how he no longer feels the urge to kill, he rolls a pebble around between his fingers. When Nate's not looking, he lets it fly and nails a dragonfly so that the pebble knocks the body dead-center, leaving the wings on either side. (Really.)
* The Archer Strongbow of ''ComicBook/ElfQuest'' '''never''' misses, to the point that when he does it's an obvious sign that he's in a bad way psychologically. And shortly after recovering from that, he gets the ability to hit a target without even ''seeing'' it, though he's assumed to owe that to magical help.
* Since ComicBook/{{Cyclops}} of the ''ComicBook/XMen'' is using EyeBeams, you'd expect him to have very little trouble hitting whatever he can see. That doesn't explain his ability to pull off such shots as precision-stunning Professor X after ricocheting the beam around three corners or destroying six fast-moving targets, at least two of them behind him, with a single shot. [[WordOfGod It's been officially stated]] that Cyclops's mutant ability includes an intuitive knowledge of how to ricochet his own optic blasts. In old comics, this was attributed to his spending most of his training time in the Danger Room practicing how to pull off ricochets and other trick shots with his eyebeam. It even joked that he's one hell of a pool player. The ''X-Men Noir'' series recasts him as an ace gunman, thus having him play out a more typical version of this trope. Not only that, but he's an ''actual'' Cyclops, sporting a possibly blind, possibly glass left eye.
* Kris de Valnor from ''Comicbook/{{Thorgal}}'' is reputed as a deadly archer and proves it many times through the series. However, Thorgal himself can top her feats when pressed. In one instance he won a DuelToTheDeath by firing two arrows at once. One of them hit the villain while the other collided with his crossbow bolt in mid-air.
* Arrowette of ''ComicBook/YoungJustice'', who is probably not a member of the Comicbook/GreenArrow Clan, was once shown having a conversation with her mother (the [[LegacyCharacter first Arrowette]]) while playing darts. The camera pans back to show a line of darts driven into each other point to tail, Myth/RobinHood style, from the first, dead center on the target. The ladies decide they really need to find a different game to compete with.
* In a WesternAnimation/DonaldDuck classic, one of the nephews manages to deflect Donald's golf ball into a hole-in-one by rapidly firing several shots at it. With a toy airgun. Which he just happened to bring with him. To the golf course.
* Franchise/{{Wolverine}} has demonstrated this by first throwing a dart, and hitting a perfect bullseye, turning away from the dartboard and sitting down at a table, throwing his remaining two darts behind his shoulder, where they both managed to hit the bullseye as well. When challenged to get 3 bullseyes again, he stood up and stacked the darts on each other. He has also thrown a katana with his left hand (he's right handed) at an attacking stuka plane, hit the pilot in his side, causing him to crash and burn. He has said that he can put six shots through a quarter, and still have change left for a gum machine.
* And, of course, there's Comicbook/CaptainAmerica's ability in throwing his shield to [[PinballProjectile hit multiple targets by means of ricocheting]], and [[BoomerangComeback still come back to his grasp]]. Though, in early issues of the Avengers, the "coming back" part was explained by little magnets on the shield and on his gloves. This was later retconned into simply being the product of lots and lots of practice; when John Walker was brought in to replace him as Captain America, it took weeks of training with the ComicBook/{{Taskmaster}} for him to even be able to throw it reliably; he ''never'' figured out how to get it to ricochet or hit multiple targets or come back to him after being thrown. [[ComicBook/IronMan Tony Stark]] later noted how embarrassed he was for bragging about the magnets he'd put on Cap's shield, and how Steve was enough of a gentleman to never say a word about it. The only other person who could match Steve's ability with the shield ''including'' the ricocheting is Hawkeye.
* The [[ComicBook/FiftyTwo Great Ten's]] Celestial Archer is capable of freaking ridiculous feats with this. He can shoot out the sun and hit a target on the other side of the world. In his defense, his bow is a weapon of the gods and thus is inherently capable of doing that kind of thing.
* In his first appearance in the pages of ''Franchise/{{J|usticeLeagueOfAmerica}}LA'', the villain Prometheus fired a bullet at Catwoman from one of his gauntlet-guns. The ComicBook/{{Huntress}} shot the bullet out of midair with a crossbow bolt. This is a woman who, when introduced, was just a schoolteacher who worked out a lot.
* In ''ComicBook/{{Wanted}}'', the Killer, who is clearly a CaptainErsatz of Bullseye and Deadshot, is so great a shot that he decides to pack it in the first time he misses a target from less than a half-mile away. His son, Wesley, inherits the power, which allows him to shoot flies out of midair, deflect bullets with a knife, and shoot people between the eyes without looking at them.
* ''Comicbook/UsagiYojimbo'':
** In an early episode, the hero is attacked by a ruffian who is so dirty that flies swarm around him. That is, before the attack. A second's worth of flashing steel later all the flies are lying on the floor, split in half. Except for the last one that's been filleted.
** In another issue at a carnival, samurai Usagi cannot hit a target while RichBitch turned DefrostingIceQueen Kiku gets a bull's eye on her first try. She explains that she "just aimed everywhere except the target."
* Jeremy from ''ComicStrip/{{Zits}}'' once gets really, really, lucky in a story arc involving him making a twice-in-a-lifetime, back-handed-courtlong-backwards-eyes-closed shot in a game of HORSE with his friend, Hector. Of course, the jury's out at the end of the story on whether the shot counts if the ball goes through their ''neighbor's'' driveway's hoop instead of their own...
* ''ComicStrip/{{Foxtrot}}'':
** Subverted when Peter throws a baseball and hits a can on a post, dislodging the mouse inside. Cut to Peter talking to Jason in catcher getup about how that would be impressive if he was aiming for it.
** Lampshaded in another, as Jason fires a water balloon from a slingshot. It travels quite a distance (including over desert and icebergs) before falling. Cut to Jason aiming again at Paige [[EpicFail five feet in front of him]] complaining about how hard it is to aim.
* Former Comicbook/GreenArrow sidekick Roy Harper, [[IHaveManyNames aka Speedy aka Arsenal aka Red Arrow aka Arsenal again]], boasts that he never misses -- boasts that he can back up. During the ''Rise of Arsenal'' storyline, Roy, in a fit of rage, stricken with grief, addled with drugs, and handicapped by his unfamiliar cybernetic arm, breaks his bow, throws it at a bullseye -- ''and hits it dead center''. Even when doped up, handicapped, and mentally unbalanced, he never misses. Note that right before this he ''had'' missed every actual shot he took with the bow. The point at the time was to recast Roy back into his non-archer gun/knife nut phase. Or to show that he was so messed up he was overthinking his shots.
* Resident ActionGirl Dani Moonstar of the ComicBook/NewMutants, with her arm broken, uses her one good hand and her FOOT to shoot her tormentor in the throat with an arrow.
* Oxbow from ''Marvel: The Lost Generation'' is capable of hitting his target every time - including the time he went to the moon, where it took him exactly one arrow to get accustomed to the different gravity!
* Best Tiger, a new member of Creator/ImageComics' Guardians of the Globe, is by a wide margin the greatest marksman to ever live. Which is why he wears a blindfold so his work will remain challenging. He is introduced using a single bullet to take out several dozen men via ricochet; he intentionally inflicted superficial yet disabling wounds so the bullet would be able to keep up its momentum.
* ''[=DV8=]'' once contended with a mercenary calling himself Dirge. When Dirge first met Frostbite, he bragged that he once shot nine teeth out of a man's head in nine different shots without hurting him otherwise. The tenth shot killed him, but it wasn't Dirge's fault the guy couldn't keep still.
* ''ComicBook/SonicTheComic'':
** Amy Rose uses a crossbow and in issue #44 fires an arrow from a moving plane at a tiny little button that destroys an entire bridge.
** Sonic also deserves some mention. While free-falling from the Death Egg II, Sonic steals a [=EggRobo=]'s laser gun manages to fire one laser shot and perfectly hit the [=EggRobo=] carrying the Master Emerald (which is also moving and is about the size of a large boulder).
* There's an {{Elseworlds}} comic in which Franchise/TheFlash (Wally West) has lost his legs. His contribution to battles is now as a gunslinger, since he has all the time in the world to aim every shot. (For some inexplicable reason he's shown using ordinary handguns. He could probably aim every shot with a machinegun on full-auto.)
* While most characters in ComicBook/TheWalkingDead have remarkable skill at headshotting zombies, Andrea's marksmanship is acknowledged and {{lampshade|Hanging}}d In-Universe as being absurdly good. Whether she's fighting zombies or other humans she's virtually never shown landing anything but perfect headshots. The most impressive part is that Andrea never even fired a gun before the ZombieApocalypse.
-->''Andrea: I'm really good with a gun. ''Very'' good. It's kind of ridiculous.''
* [[ColdSniper Joe Pineapples]] of ''Comicbook/ABCWarriors'' is the greatest sniper in the universe. He can hit targets from ''across the galaxy''.
* Domino, a [[AntiHero not-too-picky mercenary]] who ended up joining up with ComicBook/{{Cable}} in ''ComicBook/XForce'' takes this trope literally. Her mutant power is to subconsciously alter probability in her favor, so if there's a trillion-to-one chance of her making a shot, she's going to make the shot. Any time she misses is due to an outside force affecting the bullet after it's fired, or her target being [[DodgeTheBullet just that fast]].
* Comicbook/{{Daredevil}} himself gets in on the action when he hurls his Billy clubs, often [[PinballProjectile taking down multiple mooks and hitting a switch on the wall]] with one throw. He's even better with arrows and guns, which have the extra advantage of being ''designed'' as ranged weapons.
* In ''Comicbook/EastOfWest'' the Ranger using his sniper rifle can snipe someone from about couple of mountain ranges away with great accuracy. The protagonist can shoot through same distance with even better accuracy by using only his revolver.
* In ''ComicBook/TheFoxHunt'', Shinji, while lying face-down during a bank robbery, manages to throw off his shoe with such precision that it flies over his head and the head of the distracted bank robber and lands right on top of said robber's gun, giving Shinji enough time to undress into his Ghost Fox costume to boot.
* ComicBook/TexWiller is usually shown as a realistically good shot in addition to the FastestGunInTheWest. Then in one occasion he used his Winchester to shoot a sniper from the limit of said sniper's ''Sharps''. {{Justified|Trope}} by the fact he knew what he was doing, and [[RealityIsUnrealistic applied the real-life technique of aiming at a point over the sniper counting for the bullet drop to put the shot on target]] (an extremely difficult shot, [[LampshadeHanging as Tex stated while he calculated the path]]).
* Will Vandom of ''ComicBook/{{WITCH}}'' was always rather good at hitting targets with her powers. Then the last issue of the comic book gave her [[SuperSenses the ability to see everywhere in the universe]]... And, upon noticing a girl flirting with her boyfriend she nailed her with a piece of cake ''from another dimension'', qualifying for this trope.
* In ''[[ComicBook/RobinSeries Robin Vol 1]]'' Tim manages to cork the gun barrel of Dorrance's right hand man by throwing a screw into it from a couple of floors up which caused the gun to backfire somehow.
* Like all comic book archers, ComicBook/RobynHood possesses these skills. In her case there is a magical element to her skill, but she is shown repeatedly SplittingTheArrow without her magical bow.
* In ''ComicBook/RoughRiders'', Jack Johnson is briefly able to keep a swarm of alien insects at bay by boxing it.
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* ''Manga/InuYasha'':
** Kikyo performs several impressive feats of marksmanship with her arrows, a skill that isn't passed on to Kagome at first, but by the end of the series Kagome is able to shoot moving targets while keeping herself balanced on Inuyasha's back, hit tiny shards of the sacred jewel hidden within a enemy's body with pin-point accuracy, and eventually [[spoiler: shoot a target even if a person or wall is in the way, without the arrow hitting that person or wall]].
** Sango also fits into this category seeing as she's able to hit a mark with her enormous boomerang with incredible accuracy, even when it is on the rebound.
* In ''Manga/BladeOfTheImmortal'', Habaki has a pistol-wielding marksman who manages to save Habaki's daughter/subordinate from death by arrows, by shooting all 10-20 of them out of the air. Made even more improbable, by the fact that they were flintlock pistols.
* ''Anime/UruseiYatsura'': While an odd example, Ataru Moroboshi usually uses a {{frying pan|OfDoom}} to block [[BrattyHalfPint Jariten's]] fire breath and to hit him away, usually a few blocks. In one episode, Jariten's mother visits, and he tries to get a carnation for her, only to be delayed by many bizarre circumstances that you get used to when watching this show. In an act that might be considered kindness, Ataru hits Jariten with the frying pan, who goes flying...right into his mother's lap. Please note that Ten's mother was at least a mile away, which makes Ataru more or less as accurate as a sniper...with a frying pan.
* ''Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventure'':
** Hol Horse's Stand basically grants him Improbable Aiming Skills, as he can control where the bullet goes ''after'' he's fired it. And yet he never manages to hit anyone [[spoiler:(that wasn't retconned back to life)]] with said homing bullets.
** Even further along the timeline is Guido Mista, whose Sex Pistols Stand kicks the bullets he fires out of a gun. If he doesn't feed them first they won't work and also will sometimes beat each other up.
* In ''Anime/JuraTripper'', Tiger shoots a saddle latch, causing it to rip and release the saddle. From a flying dinosaur.
* Mana Tatsumiya in ''Manga/MahouSenseiNegima'' could ricochet her bullets and hit her targets with a sniper rifle, even when she ''couldn't see the target'' and was firing impact-fused bullets which should have detonated instead of bouncing. Similarly Gandolfini, one of the mage-teachers, was capable of [[ShootTheBullet intercepting an incoming bullet and hitting it head-on with one of his own]].
* ''Anime/MazingerZ'': One of the Dr. Hell's Mechanical Beasts (Jenova M9) could shoot down anything as far as one hundred kilometres away. [[TheDragon Baron]] Ashura decided to try out its aim -by shooting down a passenger plane.
* ''Manga/{{Trigun}}'':
** The king of Improbable Marksmanship, however, is probably Vash the Stampede. Capable of putting a bullet down the barrel of a sniper's {{BFG}} from a kilometer or so away. Earlier in the series, he attends a quick-draw contest, and is able to ensure that every hit is non-lethal by ''flicking pebbles at the bullets in-flight and altering their course.'' In the same contest, he tries to get out of the qualifying round by intentionally missing the targets; he fails. Missing, that is.
-->'''Vash:''' Eh... oops. I hit them all...
** An even better example from the manga is when he stops the explosion of at least a dozen sticks of dynamite a bad guy threw at once by shooting the wicks off. ''Before they hit the ground.'' Please note that he's using a six-shot revolver to do this.
** Vash has the closest thing to an adequate justification for this kind of ability: He's been practicing, daily, with the same gun, for [[OlderThanTheyLook nigh-on 150 years]].
** Nicholas D. Wolfwood is also quite good, especially for [[spoiler: a [[YoungerThanTheyLook teenager]]]], but he naturally pales against Vash.
* ''Manga/{{Grenadier}}'':
** Rushuna Tendo, the main character, is also a peace-loving, gun toting [[MsFanservice blonde]] in a red jacket. At one point, she stopped a massive barrage of bullets by firing a single bullet, that caused a chain reaction where each bullet deflected the next bullet down the line until the final bullet destroyed the machine gun firing said bullets.
** In the final battle in the series, in which Rushuna faces off against her EvilCounterpart, 80% of the bullets they fired would hit each other exactly between them. In one case, rapid-fired while jumping away from each other.
** The improbable aiming with these two starts well before a shot is even fired: to load their guns, they [[UnorthodoxReload literally thrust their chests in the direction that allows the bullets stored in their cleavage to leap right into the loading chambers]].
** The very first time you see Rushuna use her gun, she picks off a sniper from about a mile away. With a revolver. Firing it across her body at waist height. ''And'' she makes sure it's not a lethal shot.
* ''Manga/BlackCat'':
** Train pulls many stunts similar to Vash, including shooting down both barrels of a DualWielding opponent and shooting other people's bullets out of the air (after a few seconds talking about how [[TalkingisaFreeAction their shots would be ineffective anyway]]). Maybe most improbable is when he shoots a can off a stump, then shoots it five more times while in the air, aiming at the same spot where he shot it the first time. He only hits three, gets annoyed, and is later spotted next to a pile of similar cans having wasted a lot of bullets. One can only assume he got it right at some point. He complains that he's "losing his touch" and that he needs to practice, something he apparently hadn't done in a while.
* ''Manga/{{Hellsing}}'':
** The vampire leads are extremely good (though not infallible) shots due to a sort of "third eye" superpower they have. Even more impressive is the manga's Rip van Winkle, whose magical rifle fires bullets that change course mid-flight to such a degree that they can hit multiple targets and blow up helicopters. Meanwhile, Seras manages to snipe two dozen missiles fired at Hellsing manor from four kilometers away and does it so fast, they all explode almost simultaneously.
** The fully human Integra Hellsing (in the first TV series at least) is shown as capable of shooting the ''exact'' same spot on a target repeatedly (creating a single hole in it) and rapidly shooting the shape of a cross into the face of a vampire (take into account the gun's recoil and the fact that the vampire would stagger back after each shot).
* Amazing shooting skills are a key characteristic of the female assassins in the anime ''Anime/{{Noir}}''. Among other things, one of the characters--on two separate occasions--is capable of shooting the blade off a knife being swung at her partner. She does this with a handgun at up to fifty feet away.
* ''Manga/GunsmithCats'' revolves around high-octane gunning and driving around the streets of Chicago -- and the main character's trademarked ability to shoot her opponents' '''trigger finger''' off at a generous distance. (Hence her nickname, "Thumb-Snap Rally".) Her skills aren't ''Grenadier'' level bullshit, but they come close.
* ''Anime/YuGiOh'':
** Seto Kaiba on more than one occasion knocks something out of someone's hand with a ''piece of cardboard''.
** Before him, there was the Agent S5, who used poker cards as projectiles.
* ''Anime/YuGiOhGX'' takes this further with Austin O'Brien, whose Duel Disk doubles a gun. He's more than capable of hitting a target several hundred feet away. For whatever reason, the cards tend to explode upon impact.
* ''Manga/OnePiece'' being a WorldOfBadass, top snipers are commonly capable of pulling this off.
** Among the top contenders for main character Usopp's CMOA is when he hits the main antagonist of an arc with a rubber-band slingshot, while standing on the top of a tower several miles away while there is hurricane force wind, with perfect precision. [[LampshadeHanging The Marines present note that their guns aren't even capable of shooting that far, let alone successfully aim at that distance.]] He tops himself in the Dressrosa arc, when he snipes someone in a castle through multiple windows from ''the other side of the island.'' And since the target was far beyond the standard range of his slingshot, Usopp had to account for the very non-standard trajectory from ''two'' different timed-activation boosters attached to the projectile.
** Usopp also once shot a ball from his slingshot through a crown on a weathervane chicken that essentially across most of a city. He initially didn't see it because ''it was so far away''.
** There are two other characters connected to Usopp, who, at least at the time of their introduction, actually outclassed Usopp in Improbable Aiming Skills. These are Yasopp, Usopp's father, who has claimed to be able to hit an ant between its eyes. The other is Van Auger, Usopp's obvious EvilCounterpart, who has demonstrated lethal accuracy from so far away the main characters can't even see the island he's shooting from. It is unclear whether or not Usopp has surpassed either yet, though it seems almost inevitable that he ultimately will. Van Auger shouldn't be surprising, as his clothes, gun, and aiming ability all seem to be taken directly from Creator/TerryGilliam's ''Film/TheAdventuresOfBaronMunchausen''.
** And now we have the Mark Mark fruit, who allows the user [[spoiler: (the fishman pirate Vander Decken IX)]] to turn whoever he touches into a target, so that any item he toss will chase him down forever and hit him, unless there is an unavoidable or faster-moving object in the way.
** Also Gill Bastard in ''Manga/OnePieceWanted''.
** Kizaru has shown himself to be a pretty accurate marksman too, shooting Luffy's seastone key in half from an incredibly long distance.
** [[AGodAmI Eneru]] is able to use his Rumble Rumble Fruit powers to strike people and objects from miles away using Mantra to sense where they are.
** [[BlobMonster Trebol]] can fling bits of sticky substance, that he secretes, with enough power to punch a hole through a wall. Once he used this trick to shoot a fly, and hit it directly between the eyes.
* In ''Manga/FullmetalAlchemist'', Riza Hawkeye's idea of disciplining a puppy is to empty a pistol's magazine around it, without even grazing the puppy.
* ''Manga/{{Berserk}}'': The archer Apostle Irvine, whose demonic powers include supernatural accuracy, is able to shoot [[{{Multishot}} five or ten arrows from his bow with each loose]] and have every single one hit an opponent's head simultaneously, all from a position about a kilometer away. Most enemies are decapitated by the force of his arrows, but on one occasion he shoots ''both of a guy's eyeballs out the side of his head with one arrow'', and shoots out another guys ''eardrums''!
* ''Manga/RanmaOneHalf'':
** Though normally she's OvershadowedByAwesome, sometimes to the point of being a DamselInDistress (though, to be fair, her fiance [[ArrogantKungFuGuy Ranma Saotome]] gets the same treatment too, sometimes actually [[GenderBender being]] a damsel), [[{{Tsundere}} Akane Tendo]] nevertheless is repeatedly shown to have amazing skill with thrown or projectile weapons. In one of the earliest stories, she manages to accurately shoot an arrow laden with a bag containing about a ''kilo'' of catnip, and repeatedly manages to nail just about anyone she pleases with thrown weapons, no matter [[ImprovisedWeapon what she's actually throwing]]. One notable example is when Hikaru Gosunkugi tries to ruin Ranma's reputation by dressing up in costume and harassing Furinkan Girls, only to pull this on Akane, who promptly attacks him and, when he outruns her, throws an apple at him. It ''bends around a corner'', practically at a 90 degree angle, and hits him hard enough to knock him head over heels.
** Ranma also exhibits some improbable aiming skills, as he was once able to flick a stub-sized pencil from across the classroom, ''while jumping'', and stick it point-first into the hole of the fifty-yen coin in his teacher's hand. He was also able to jam a polearm weapon ''perfectly'' into the key-like slot on a statue, while falling from several hundred feet in the air.
* In ''VisualNovel/HigurashiWhenTheyCry Kai'', Kasai manages to snipe out all four tires of a van (think of the angles!) in under 7 seconds from a great distance. This apparently requires no resighting, reloading, or any movement on the part of the shooter.
* In ''Manga/RoseOfVersailles'', Oscar is a legend with a sword, so when someone challenges her to a pistol duel, everyone thinks that she's screwed. However, one {{Retcon}} later, she's also been practicing with guns her whole life. Who knew?
* ''LightNovel/FullMetalPanic'':
** Kurz Weber is apparently one of the most naturally talented marksmen in the world, and generally handles sniping duties for his unit. This includes, at one point, making a shot from the back of a moving truck that goes straight into a HumongousMecha's machinegun, disabling the weapon -- using an ordinary sniper rifle. His personal best? A 1,620 yard kill-shot at heart, at night, during a storm, [[spoiler:while dying of massive physical trauma including a broken back]]. At the time the novel in which this happened was written, the world record was 2,500 yards, with a considerably more powerful rifle, in considerably more ideal conditions (good lighting, no crosswind...).
** Compared to Kurz, Sousuke's marksmanship is merely normal, but he still nails a watermelon from something like fifty paces, blindfolded, during a game of [[SmashingWatermelons crack-the-watermelon]] in ''Anime/FullMetalPanicFumoffu''. ''With a shotgun.''
** And then there was Shinji, he hit several turrets while running so he could be able to look at the girls bathing. [[spoiler: He lands on Sousuke's crotch.]]
* The Major from ''Franchise/GhostInTheShell'' once shot a fleeing perp ''in the ankle, as he was landing from a jump, at what could have been no less than a hundred meters''. Justified somewhat with the Major being a full cyborg capable of acting with literally mechanical precision and has targeting software capable of calculating all aspects of the shot.
* In the ''Anime/GhostInTheShellStandAloneComplex 2nd GIG'' episode "Poker Face", the Major and Saito face off. It becomes a game of IKnowYouKnowIKnow when [[spoiler: Saito is viewing the skills of The Major and realizes she does not have the software for midrange sniping skills. He attempts to shoot her before she can download the software. The Major had been fooling Saito into thinking that she couldn't shoot down his bullets midflight the whole time and shoots him in the eye]]. [[MindScrew Maybe]].
* ''Franchise/LyricalNanoha'':
** Vice managed to snipe the head of a [[{{Cyborg}} Combat Cyborg]] who was attacking an ally, with said ally being in the way of his line of sight, through a building window, from a moving helicopter that couldn't be seen from said building. And he did this while said cyborg had previously been playing possum, so he only had a split second to react and perform the shot.
** {{Subverted|Trope}} in a flashback by the same character. A gunman is [[HumanShield holding a little girl hostage]]. (Even worse? Said little girl is Vice's ''sister'', Laguna.) He takes the shot [[spoiler: and hits her in [[EyeScream the EYE!!!]] The guilt from this caused him to quit his job as a sniper and become a helicopter pilot. The girl visits him later in the series while he is hospitalized and she appears to have a glass eye]].
** Near the beginning of ''A's'', Nanoha, while training, uses a guided magical bullet to hit a juice can 100 times in midair, and is slightly disappointed when the can doesn't fall into the trash bin after the final strike.
** In ''Manga/MagicalRecordLyricalNanohaForce'', Teana pops both rear tires of a speeding car in less than a second... with a gun that is decidedly non-magical... while standing on the back of a speeding motorcycle... which is steered by Erio on SuperSpeed.
* ''Manga/{{Golgo 13}}'': To say it simply, Duke Togo is ''the greatest sniper in the world.''
* Franchise/{{Gundam}} series:
** Lockon Stratos from ''Anime/MobileSuitGundam00'' is recruited for the PMC Celestial Being because of his ability to, with the aid of his Dynames Gundam, shoot a satellite out of orbit ''from the ground'', not to mention during the siege on the Ptolemaios, the Gundam was not calibrated and he ignored Haro's request to tune the gun and instead programmed it to manually target or else he would have been inactive for a good 10 minutes. That and he also has skill with a real life sniper rifle.
** A less noticed example would be Lady Une of ''Anime/MobileSuitGundamWing''. She managed a headshot with a standard hand gun, while the target was in free-fall and she was in the airplane she had thrown the target out of 8 seconds prior. ''Wing'' also has Trowa Barton, pilot of Gundam Heavyarms. In TheMovie alone, we see him [[ShootTheBullet shooting missiles out of the air]] and fighting hundreds of opponents [[NonLethalKO without a single fatality]]. Nothing impressive for your standard ColdSniper, right? Well, Trowa does all this with '''{{Gatling|Good}}s'''. On top of that, in one episode we see that Heavyarms' control system ''doesn't'' auto-compensate for the added weight of the Gatlings, meaning there's incredible resistance on the control sticks[[note]]Heero attempts to move the arm when he's forced to use the Heavyarms in a duel, but it barely budges and he re-opens a wound inflicted earlier[[/note]]; on the plus side, this also means that the Heavyarms gains a massive boost in speed and maneuverability when the Gatlings run out of ammo and Trowa drops them.
** ''Anime/MobileSuitGundamSeed'': Kira Yamato once he gets the Freedom Gundam. Granted, he is using a targeting computer for aid, but nonetheless, he frequently fires five beams at once, which disable (''not'' destroy) five different mobile suits per volley. He's even better in ''Anime/MobileSuitGundamSeedDestiny'', where he's got [[BeamSpam even more beams]] and often fires from strange angles (such as being upside down). Not to mention that he repeats those incredibly precise shots very rapidly, sometimes non-lethally disabling everyone else on the battlefield. You could maybe chalk this up to his being a Coordinator... except that no other Coordinator in the series even comes close to that level of marksmanship.
** This could be due to his being claimed to be the ultimate Coordinator by Rau Le Creuset towards the end of ''Anime/MobileSuitGundamSeed''.
* In ''Manga/SamuraiDeeperKyo'', Basara, who is a member of the Junishinsho, is able to fire countless arrows at incredible speed, and almost never miss, even when he is aiming at such tiny points like eyes or in peoples' mouths. And as if that weren't badass enough, his specialty is firing his arrows in the air so that they will come down around him at the exact moment his enemies close in for the attack. It's implied that Basara is such a strategic genius that he can predict when his enemy will close in, but it seems more like a supernatural ability than anything else.
* In the manga ''Manga/GunBlazeWest'', "Target" Kevin is a sharpshooter... with a double-barrelled sawed-off shotgun. Yeah. He's also got a ''twelve'' barrelled number for special occasions, but still seems to think of himself as an ace marksman even though it would take more effort ''not'' to hit something with that monster.
* Parodied in ''Manga/NininGaShinobuden'', where a squad of Ninja pin all of Miyabi's rogue summoning scrolls to the wall with shuriken. Then they all start expressing their surprise, as none of them had ever used a shuriken before.
* Almost everyone in ''Manga/AngelHeart'' and ''Manga/CityHunter'' is a crack shot:
** The most egregious example is Umibozu, who retain his aiming skill ''[[HandicappedBadAss even after got blinded]]''. Really. Even Ryo's ability to shoot a rifle's barrel, a belt and the buttons of a shirt from ''one kilometer away'' pales compared to that...
** Played straight with Ryo. Inverted with Kaori, who can't shoot straight. This was done on purpose by Ryo to make sure she never kills anyone.
** Justified for Keibu Fumakuchi, a Corrupt Cop capable of shooting a woman-sized target at about 1 km: he's an Olympic shooting champion, meaning he has both the skills and the training to do just that (it's a difficult shot for him, but he can pull it), to the point he's considered the best sniper in the world.
** In the same arc, Ryo proved himself superior to Fumakuchi by shooting the barrel of his rifle at the same distance. Fumakuchi told himself that nobody could pull that shot and it had been a fluke, only for Ryo to do it again, following with Fumakuchi's belt and the buttons of his shirt, and concluding with calling the Olympic Games a contest between amateur (and they are, in fact) and bragging being the best professional sniper in the world, superior to any Olympic champion.
** In one story arc, a one-shot character succeeded in hitting the bullseye multiple times in spite of using Kaori's gun. Note that not even Ryo can hit anywhere near the target with that gun...
* ''Franchise/LupinIII'' has two such marksmen, Jigen and Lupin.
** In ''Anime/LupinIIISevenDaysRhapsody'', they take turns shooting each other's bullets out of midair.
** In ''Anime/LupinIIIDeadOrAlive'', Lupin demonstrates this skill during the climax by throwing a knife accurately enough to hit the primer of a bullet, which fired the bullet at General Headhunter's head.
** As for Jigen, in addition to his ''incredibly'' QuickDraw, he has consistently demonstrated accuracy skills that allow him to ShootTheBullet. He can also hit targets accurately using his revolver while having his back turned to them by using a shaving mirror to aim.
* ''Manga/{{Naruto}}'':
** While training, Itachi leaps into the air and, while upside-down, hits eight targets with his kunai, and strikes two of them in midair in such a way to divert their course to hit two targets behind a rock, while still getting those two to their targets. In an early episode, Zabuza throws some shuriken at Naruto, but Haku, who is standing between the two and off to the side, out of the way of the shuriken's flight path, throws needles at them and knocks them out of the air.
** Apparently Tenten has this ability, however, this never stops anyone from just blocking or deflecting her ninja tools.
** Though constantly OvershadowedByAwesome, Ino in her fight against Sakura in the Chunin Exam Prelims snatched a kunai out of the air then threw it back so that it collided perfectly with the tip of another oncoming kunai.
* ''Anime/{{Madlax}}'', who can kill anyone not protected by PlotArmor with a single shot regardless or whether or not she's running, jumping, or hanging upside down. Half the time she doesn't even aim. Half the time she ''doesn't even have her eyes open''. And yes, these overlap, resulting in scenes where she literally ''dances'' through fully-automatic weapons fire with her eyes closed and picking off her attackers one by one while facing a different direction.
* Taken up to major proportions in ''Anime/TengenToppaGurrenLagann'', which has Yoko in the Final Episode when she snipes the [[spoiler:Anti-Spiral's Homeworld]]. Note that although it seemed like an easy hit, take into account that the fight had the Grand Zamboa and Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann moving faster than the speed of light. And Yoko STILL manages to hit her target even through a ''[[BeamSpam hail of laser fire]]'' while her target was moving at the speed of light.
* ''Manga/{{Eyeshield 21}}'':
** Although his excess of guns is usually just for intimidation (and laughs), Hiruma has insanely good aim when it counts with his guns or a football. The Kid, too, although he's descended from Olympic champion marksmen.
** Pretty much all the quarterbacks, as expected of them, have great aiming skills, with the biggest exception being (probably) Homer from the NASA Aliens/Shuttles, who has a super long, super huge pass, but has little control on where it lands and so he relies heavily on his receiver, Watt.
* In ''Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion'', throwing a fifty-meter long lance into low Earth orbit in order to hit an Angel barely a few hundred meters across dead on? It doesn't matter if the thrower was a semi-organic HumongousMecha with a trio of supercomputers doing ballistic calculations, that sort of thing is a bit much for your average person. Apparently, Rei can do it.
* ''LightNovel/OokamiSan''[='=]s Ryoshi can shoot marble-sized balls with a slingshot with remarkable accuracy. He shot a moving baseball out of the way, for crying out loud!
* Revy from ''Manga/BlackLagoon'' not only hits practically every time, but it seems like every {{mook|s}} she shoots dies instantly or is at least incapacitated. The secret is she shoots both her guns at once at the same target (usually) putting down a withering barrage of fire and hitting said target multiple times. Even when executing a badly wounded mook she pumps five bullets into him - which says something about Revy I guess.
* In ''LightNovel/AriaTheScarletAmmo'', Reki, whose signature quote is "I am a single bullet. It has no heart. Therefore, it does not think. It just flies straight towards its target", shoots the unilluminated clamp holding a bomb to the shadowed underside of a speeding bus off... from a distance of at least 200 meters... from inside a pace matching helicopter (think of the down draft on the bullet), through the siderails of the bridge that are flashing past several times a second... thus forcing the bomb to not only detach from the bus but bounce off the bridge to detonate harmless in the water. She is said to be able to shoot anything within a 2km radius without missing.
* In ''Anime/DigimonTamers'', Henry [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NJcKZ_JBQNA combines this]] with [[MundaneMadeAwesome his usual posing]]. One card, three targets, and the card game wasn't even his forte in the first place.
* Natsuki from ''Anime/MaiHime'' shoots several ''FlechetteStorm magical darts'' out of the air with dual pistols.
* ''Anime/{{Canaan}}'': In the first episode, Canaan takes out several enemies at long-range with a pistol.
* In ''Manga/DeathNote'', when [[spoiler: in the last episode Matsuda manages to accurately shoot a pen out of Light's hand as he tries to write down Near's name on a hidden piece of Death Note]]. He pulls it off even better in the movie version: [[spoiler:he shoots Light's watch off his wrist (note that this still broke Light's wrist and he was bleeding pretty badly from it)]]. The movie foreshadows his skill somewhat by offhandedly mentioning that he's a sharpshooter.
* [[BadassNormal Genjyo Sanzo]] from ''Manga/{{Saiyuki}}'' for sure. He has not only shot a single playing piece off a floating table when both of them were whirling around in a torrential maelstrom, he once shot a poison seed out of Gojyo's heart with such pinpoint aim that it destroyed the seed ''without killing Gojyo''.
* ''Manga/FutureDiary'':
** Yuno is scarily good with a handgun as well as any bladed [[GirlWithPsychoWeapon Psycho Weapons]] she gets her hands on. Best exemplified when she took down a police SWAT team by shooting them all in the neck, thereby avoiding their bulletproof vests and helmets.
** There's also Yukiteru and his darts, which he uses [[ImprobableWeaponUser as weapons]] against other diary owners.
* ''Manga/{{Bleach}}'': The entire [[ArcherArchetype Quincy]] clan are trope, most notably Ryuuken. He restores his son Uryuu's drained powers by shooting an arrow through a chakra point 19mm to the right of the sino-atrial node of the boy's heart without damaging the tissue around it. Uryuu wasn't standing still for this, either, ''he was trying to dodge''. Although a gifted surgeon familiar with the human body, Ryuuken needed NervesOfSteel to perform unanaesthetised heart surgery on his dodging offspring with a giant flaming energy arrow.
* Ryo Saeba in ''Manga/CityHunter'' is quite the crack shot. The first shot he ever fired? Right in the ear of a fighting boxer with a [[{{BFG}} .500 Nitro Express elephant gun]]. He makes many other difficult shots with his [[CoolGun Colt Python .357 Magnum]] during the series, but the best evidence of his skill came when he used a sniper rifle to shoot a rifle's barrel, a belt, a tie and the buttons of a shirt from ''about a kilometer away'' (the guy with the rifle and clothing shots could only [[LampshadeHanging whimper those shots should have been impossible]]. Being capable of shooting a person from a km away himself, he knew what he was talking about).
* Juzo Naniwa in ''Anime/CombattlerV'' pulls off some truly ridiculous shots. At one point, he throws a pistol into the air, runs out from behind cover and proceeds to not only shoot the trigger of said pistol, causing it to fire at a small mind control device attached to another character's neck without harming them but then shoot the airborne device. Both of these shots are taken while he's still falling from jumping over a shot from the mind controlled character's ray gun.
* In the ''Anime/ScienceNinjaTeamGatchaman'' episode "The Bird Missile of Bitterness", Koji is assigned to perform an assassination for Galactor. He's got his rifle pointed at the target, while riding his bike up the stairs of the arena and steering with his feet. Joe ''shoots out the scope'' on the rifle. From a considerable distance away.
* In ''Manga/FairyTail'', Gray manages to shoot Racer with an arrow from a mile away.
* The main character of ''LightNovel/LordMarksmanAndVanadis'', Tigre, will hit his target no matter what. Even if he's just using a flimsy bow after only practicing with it with two shots, or aiming at someone over 300 meters away, or ''[[ShootTheBullet shooting an arrow that was already fired]]'' from 400 meters away ''on horseback''.
* ''Manga/DetectiveConan'':
** Vermouth, despite being injured, manages to shoot out the gas tank of a car with a small handgun while driving another car and looking in her rear-view mirror. As Akai remarks, she's very good. (Akai himself is no slouch, either, able to ScopeSnipe Gin from several buildings away, but he was only able to pull that off by setting a trap.)
** One of the movies involves a sniper making plenty of fairly improbable shots, but the most egregious one is when the sniper shoots somebody on a very far away moving train while the laser aim is pointed on him, which would only be possible if the bullet moved at the same speed as the laser, as in the speed of light.
* ''Manga/TsubasaReservoirChronicle'''s Kurogane may also fit into this as he shows himself to be capable of very unlikely feats of precision...exactly once. In [[CrapsackWorld Acid Tokyo]] he uses a stone to knock ''a crossbow bolt'' out of the air. And acts like it was nothing out of the ordinary. Comes with being a badass {{Ninja}} apparently.
* Although the main cast packs two snipers, the most ridiculous case of this in ''Manga/{{Jormungand}}'' is pulled by {{Child Soldier|s}} Jonah, who deflects a rocket launcher shot with a grenade. Repeat, an explosive projectile moving at just under the speed of sound with a ''grenade!''
* The snipers in ''Manga/WorldTrigger'' can pull all feats that their real life counterpart can do and more. Top snipers can shoot weapons off enemies hands and shoot bullets mid air. With sufficient map information, they can also shoot targets through buildings, line of sight be damned.
** Justified in series as trion bullets are not affected by wind, so it's easier for them to pin point long distance shots. Also, sniper position has the highest requirement for graduation and as a result, most sniper trainees will never graduate. Snipers that manage to graduate have skill scores well beyond graduates from other positions.
* ''Manga/DakaraMiyokoDesu'': Miyoko's father-in-law can spit a watermelon seed at a fly.
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* ''Series/{{Charmed}}'' has a few instances of this, but many may be justified by the fact that they're witches. However, in the eighth season, Billie manages to throw a potion bottle in the partially-open mouth of a demon, while she's lying on her side after being thrown to the ground, about ten minutes after being beaten up by said demon. Since she doesn't seem to use her powers and is pretty much just winging it, this likely qualifies.

** ''TabletopGame/Warhammer40000Killteam'': Weapon specialists from the 2016 game and Sniper specialists from the 2018 version can take a number of skills that increase the effectiveness of their ranged attacks above that of their fellow warriors, enabling them to fire accurately beyond the usual effective range of their weapon, hit the most vulnerable part of an enemy with pinpoint accuracy or pick out targets in cover as if they were standing in the open.

** The vampire leads are extremely good (though not infallible) shots due to a sort of "third eye" superpower they have. Even more impressive is the manga's Rip van Winkle, whose magical rifle fires bullets that change course mid-flight to such a degree that they can hit multiple targets and blow up helicopters.

** Johnny Marcone, ''Literature/FoolMoon''. Hangs upside-down, tied up, slowly spinning, throws a knife at and hits/cuts the rope tied to a tree so Murphy, Harry, and the Alphas can get out of the pit and beat loup-garou butt. Did we mention this was at night?

* Wax, in ''Literature/TheAlloyOfLaw'', fires a bullet from inside a time slowing field, waits to see how it deflects when leaving the field, then fires another bullet (right when Wayne drops the time slowing field), and has the two bullets collide ''in mid-air'', ricocheting off each other in order to hit a man who was hiding behind a human shield directly in the head. Even without help, Wax never seems to have trouble [[BlastingItOutOfTheirHands shooting people's guns out of their hands]]. Wax has preformed so many remarkable feats of marksmanship that his standard gunfighting often goes unnoticed. His Twinborn powers allow him to launch himself through the air, and he regularly makes shots in-mid air with no apparent difficulty.

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* Unlike Mulder, Scully of ''Series/TheXFiles'' very rarely misses what she's aiming at. Mulder {{lampshade|Hanging}}s this after she's shot ''him'', to prevent him [[PercussivePrevention killing someone else]].

* ComicBook/TheJoker in Creator/TimBurton's Film/{{Batman}} hits the speeding Batwing...with a handgun with a 3 foot long barrel. In a similar vein, Batman manages to ''[[ThouShaltNotKill completely miss]]'' the Joker while strafing him with twin mounted machine guns earlier in the scene.

* Wax, in ''Literature/TheAlloyOfLaw'', is such a good shot that he's able to fire one bullet, then fire another bullet, and have the two bullets collide ''in mid-air'', ricocheting off each other in order to hit a man who was hiding behind a human shield. In that example, he ''did'' have some help from Wayne slowing down time, giving him a moment or two to calculate his shot. But even without that help, Wax never seems to have trouble [[BlastingItOutOfTheirHands shooting people's guns out of their hands]].

* Bullseye, the PsychoForHire ProfessionalKiller who serves as the ArchNemesis to Comicbook/{{Daredevil}}, who mixes this with a physics-defying ability to propel projectiles to turn a variety of mundane household objects into {{Improvised Weapon}}s. Among the objects Bullseye has used to kill people: paperclips, [[DeathDealer playing cards]], golf balls, orange pits, [[ThePenIsMightier a ballpoint pen]], a toothpick, a salted peanut, and one of his own teeth. He rarely stoops so low as to use an actual gun.

* ComicBook/{{Deadshot}}, a gun-wielding assassin and sometimes {{Antihero}} from Franchise/TheDCU, has a long-standing reputation for never missing his shot (unless he happens to be [[PlotArmor aiming at Batman]]). In a ''ComicBook/SuicideSquad'' miniseries, he took out six targets scattered around a room ''while blindfolded''. Not only this, but he has ricocheted his bullets off poles, while turned around, and hit each target with perfect accuracy.

* ''Franchise/TheDarkTower''

* In ''Series/TheManFromUncle'' episode "The Never Never Affair", Napoleon Solo demonstrates ''extremely'' Improbable Aiming Skills when, bound to a chair, forced to hold a pistol with his hands tied behind his back pointing the pistol behind him, and while ''having to look into a mirror to see his target'', he nonetheless warns a THRUSH agent that any attempt to detonate an explosive booby trap in the face of other U.N.C.L.E. agents arriving at the scene would result in Solo shooting the THRUSH agent. The THRUSH baddie pooh poohs Solo's threat, and makes for the detonator, only to be shot by Solo. Solo then [[LampshadeHanging hangs a lampshade]] on it by looking surprised and muttering, "Well how about that!" when he sees the THRUSH agent go down.

* ''Series/{{Charmed}}'' has a few instances of this, but many may be justified by the fact that they're witches. However, in the eighth season, Billie manages to throw a potion bottle in the partially-open mouth of a demon, while she's lying on her side after being thrown to the ground, about ten minutes after being beaten up by said demon. Since she doesn't seem to use her powers and is pretty much just winging it, I have to call it this trope.

* Jim Ellison in ''Series/TheSentinel'' can shoot guns out of people's hands (by having the bullet enter the other gun's ''barrel'') and hit a perp on a helicopter from another helicopter far away... with a standard-issue police 9mm. This is {{Hand Wave}}d by him having all 5 of his senses be "hyperactive". Somehow, perfect vision translates into perfect hand-eye coordination, especially since it also somehow stabilizes a bullet fired from a handgun over long distances. When another cop (who isn't in on the secret) asks how the hell Jim can do that, Jim simply answers that he eats a lot of carrots. Then there's the episode of Jim facing off against a Russian sniper.

* In ''Series/IronFist2017'', at the end of Season Two, Danny Rand is able to use the Iron Fist [[spoiler:on a pair of pistols to shoot bullets out of the air ''after'' they've been fired.]]

** Adding your own aim-bot is universally considered cheating. In {{Overwatch}}, the game provides Soldier 76 an aim-bot for a few seconds when he activates his ultimate; that's no more cheating than Bastion's tank mode or Reaper's Death Blossom.

* Batman in ''VideoGame/BatmanArkhamAsylum''. In melee combat Batman always hits -- often with multiple batarangs -- his targets if he's facing towards them. But then, hey, he's Batman.
** ''VideoGame/BatmanArkhamCity'' has a side-quest featuring Deadshot, who manages to kill one of his targets by ricocheting the bullet of a metal shutter first. Batman also comes to the conclusion in his investigations that he killed a target by firing THROUGH a water tower.
*** The boss fight against him results in an instant kill if he so much as glances at you. You have to wait 'til he faces the other direction entirely to sneak up on him.

* A PlayerCharacter that has unlocked the Machinist class in ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyXIV'' can display truly absurds amount of skill on a regular, 2-second [[{{Cooldown}} Global Cooldown]] basis, courtesy of the game's overly complex animations. Such feats include shooting straight up in the air and having the bullet strike the target regardless of its position (Lead Shot), shooting accurately after a jumping spin (Clean Shot), lobbing a grenade and shooting it in midair ([[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin Grenado Shot]]) and throwing a bunch of electrically charged panels at an enemy, which then expand in a circle around them and catch one of your shots, ricocheting it a few times and hitting all the enemies in the area (Ricochet). Admittedly, there is some magic involved, since a Machinist's special HammerSpace is explicitly said to be powered by a person's innate thunder-aspected magic abilities.

** also, in the second gun minigame with jade, (and the one in act 5 with the imp) you can shoot anywhere, but jade always aims at a specific spot, like the eye. (or in bec's case, wherever the eye WOULD be.) she would probably to a really good job if not for all the teleporting.

* Real World Examples: A number of competition and professional shooters, over a number of decades, have performed incredible feats of gunplay. These include:

* ''Franchise/DevilMayCry'':

* ''Manga/GunsmithCats'' revolves around high-octane gunning and driving around the streets of Chicago -- and the main character's trademarked ability to shoot her opponents' '''trigger finger''' off at a generous distance. (Hence her nickname, "Thumb-Snap Rally".) Her skills aren't ''Grenadier'' level bullshit, but they come close;
** She's hit an oncoming RPG dead-center to detonate it before it reached her.
** She's put a hole clean through a target's hand from a neighbouring rooftop (although that was with a precision sniper rifle).
** She's on more than one occasion she has fired her gun in order to hit someone with the ''ejected bullet casings'' -- in the '''eyes.'''
** Oh, and she's obviously skilled enough to go around BlastingItOutOfTheirHands, but rarely does it; the one time she did so, her license had been suspended and she didn't want the cops to find someone(even a maniac who fired full-auto rifles on the highway) she'd shot. That case also demonstrated why she does it so rarely; a bullet ''[[RealityIsUnrealistic doesn't]]'' carry enough kinetic energy to send a gun flying out of a strong man's grip, so she had to hit the gun ''multiple times'' -- and the psycho managed to snatch it out of the air with his ''other'' hand. Where other shooters would shoot guns out of people's hands, she regularly shoots off the weapon's ''hammer'', or even its ''safety.''
** One particularly notable incident occurred when her aiming skills were ''[[WorfHadTheFlu off]]'' due to cracked ribs and a broken arm in a cast -- her ''dominant'' arm. She just plain missed -- multiple times -- and had tried to reload by sticking her pistol in her armpit behind the cast, only for her target to reload his SawnOffShotgun and prepare to blow her away. So she ''dropped'' the magazine, let it fall on her foot, whereupon she kicked it back into place and shot her assailant (who was understandably dumbstruck at the maneuver).

* ''Manga/{{Golgo 13}}'':
** In the movie ''The Professional'', he killed a man by aiming ''through'' the skyscraper between them. Not enough for you? The pinnacle of improbable aim comes from the chapter "Hollywood Cinderella", where he aimed at a target ''by watching them on TV''. He could probably shoot you from another continent given the right gun.
** In "Room 909", the second episode of the 2009 anime, the cops manage to get all the evidence they needed to incriminate him: they found him in the only hotel room the shot could be taken from, they found the custom precision rifle he used in the dust chute, they found the shell casing from the high-powered bullet(which a patrolman picked up ''when it was still warm'', perfectly matching it to the time of death), etc. For all purposes, he was caught. Then... they did the math on the shot:\\
500 meters away (''five football fields''), through a two-foot gap between buildings (less than the length of ''an adult arm''), at sundown with the sun shining on the window so the glare would render it all but ''opaque'', with the wind blowing perpendicular to the line of fire requiring the shot to be ''off-center''. Oh, and he put that {{Pretty Little Headshot|s}} right between the targets' ''eyes.''\\
Final assessment; the shot was ''statistically impossible.'' They had to let him go, because a trial would be a waste of time; despite the reams of evidence, no jury on Earth would believe a human being could make that shot, especially one that ''[[RefugeInAudacity remained at the "scene of the crime" for a full day afterwards]].'' And he chose the room in advance solely to take advantage of this; in order to convict him, people would first have to be convinced that Improbable Aiming Skills of his caliber are even ''possible''. The head inspector even comments "To prove that he's guilty, you'd have to prove there's a monster amongst us with the skills of a god."
** Interestingly Golgo 13's signature weapon is an M-16 assault rifle instead of the usual purpose-built sniper rifle. People tend to forget that an assault rifle is still a rifle.
** Another episode of the anime has him contracted to sever ''a single violin string'' in the middle of a concert, without damaging either the violin player or the violin.

** Referenced in [[Film/StarTrek the reboot]] when Scotty compares the concept of transwarp beaming (i.e. transporting to a starship moving at warp) to "trying to hit a bullet with another bullet, whilst wearing a blindfold, riding a horse." [[spoiler:And Prime!Spock pulls it off, using the equations Scotty developed in the prime timeline.]]

* ''Manga/GunsmithCats'' revolves around high-octane gunning and driving around the streets of Chicago -- and the main character's trademarked ability to shoot her opponents' '''trigger finger''' off at a generous distance. (Hence her nickname, "Thumb-Snap Rally".) She's also hit an oncoming RPG dead-center to detonate it before it reached her, put a hole clean through a target's hand from a neighbouring rooftop (although that wasn't with a handgun) and on more than one occasion has fired her gun in order to hit someone with the ''ejected bullet casings''. Once when asked at gunpoint to disarm, she let her magazine fall on her foot, whereupon she kicked it back into place and shot her assailant (who was understandably dumbstruck at the maneuver).

* ''Anime/GunsmithCats'' revolves around high-octane gunning and driving around the streets of Chicago -- and the main character's trademarked ability to shoot her opponents' '''trigger finger''' off at a generous distance. (Hence her nickname, "Thumb-Snap Rally".) She's also hit an oncoming RPG dead-center to detonate it before it reached her, put a hole clean through a target's hand from a neighbouring rooftop (although that wasn't with a handgun) and on more than one occasion has fired her gun in order to hit someone with the ''ejected bullet casings''. Once when asked at gunpoint to disarm, she let her magazine fall on her foot, whereupon she kicked it back into place and shot her assailant (who was understandably dumbstruck at the maneuver).