History Main / MacrossMissileMassacre

* In ''VideoGame/GhostRecon: Shadow Wars'', the Commando class (Duke in the story mode) can have a shoulder-mounted missile launcher which shoots multiple missiles at the chosen target.

* The ''VideoGame/Unreal'' series has always featured a rocket launcher that can send off several rockets at once, whether focused at one point or scattered in a horizontal line for maximum area-of-effect. In ''VideoGame/{{Unreal|I}}'' and ''VideoGame/UnrealTournament'', said launcher could store up to ''six''; later games pulled it down to three. Invariably, keep the crosshairs on your target for more than one second and you'll have a MissileLockOn.

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* Spells from ''Franchise/LyricalNanoha'', such as Axel Shooter and Plasma Lancer, invokes this image, only using balls or blades of energy. A straighter example can also be found in the [[MechaMooks Type-2 Gadget Drones]] of the third season, which launches salvos of small missiles as one of its attacks.
** In ''Nanoha'', if any character (particularly shown: Fate and Chrono) using an attack with "... Shift", you can expect massive missile rain.
** We thought Fate had reached the epitome of this with Photon Lancer, Phalanx Shift. Then Reinforce turned it against her: Photon Lancer, ''Genocide'' Shift.
** Reinforce (the original Reinforce, mind you) also used [[FlechetteStorm a similar move called Bloody Dagger]]. It probably can be used by Hayate, too.

* In ''Manga/NegimaMagisterNegiMagi'', the ''Sagitta Magica'' spell is a common attack spell that launches anywhere from one to a hundred and ninety-three homing elemental blasts at a target, making it a '''4'''M(Macross ''[[ProjectileSpell Magic]]'' [[ProjectileSpell Missile]] Massacre). [[RidiculouslyHumanRobots Chachamaru]] did this at the end of the first anime adaptation using a pactio power.
** In the recent manga chapters, Negi uses 1,001(!) Sagitta Magica("Sagitta Magica-Series Lucis!") on Fate. Fate comments that even though the spell Negi used was a basic attack spell, he's developed it so much that it was no different from a large scale war magic.
*** It's likely he can fire even more than that, in fact; considering the level Negi has reached by the end of the manga, he may be able to fire tens of thousands, were he to go all-out in a single spell. [[spoiler:Now multiply that by however strong the enemy is if Negi used tactics similar to those he fought Jack Rakan with.]]

* In ''VideoGame/PillarsOfEternity'' Minoletta was an expert at this as most of her spells involve a barrage of magic missiles. This culminates in ''Videogame/PillarsOfEternityIIDeadfire'' where her final spell, appropriately called Minoletta's Missile Salvo, is a magical M3 (M4?) concentrated in a small area.

* The Dark Magician class in ''VideoGame/{{Rappelz}}'' gets a spell called "Darkness Arrow" that is more accurately described as a Macross Missile Massacre of shadow-element magic.

* The ''Franchise/{{Unreal}}'' series has always featured a rocket launcher that can send off several rockets at once, whether focused at one point or scattered in a horizontal line for maximum area-of-effect. In ''VideoGame/{{Unreal|I}}'' and ''VideoGame/UnrealTournament'', said launcher could store up to ''six''; later games pulled it down to three. Invariably, keep the crosshairs on your target for more than one second and you'll have a MissileLockOn.

** ''[[Series/KamenRiderFaiz Kamen Rider 555]]'': The super-charged bike of Kamen Rider Kaixa has a mecha mode that can fire one of these.

--> ''How 'bout those rocket pods?''

** The American base defense is the Patriot missile launcher, which fires a salvo of four missiles at it target. Admittedly not very impressive, except that it transmits the target's location to nearby turrets, causing them to launch their own missiles at it, resulting in this trope.

* Surprisingly, this is OlderThanSteam: The historical Korean [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hwacha hwacha]] -- which can be best described as a SchizoTech Katyusha -- also functioned in much the same way, a 15-16th century saturation artillery piece capable of firing up to 100 steel-tipped rockets or 200 singijeon (effectively fire arrows). Therefore although there are hints of a Chinese version, it's likely that this trope was [[Webcomic/HetaliaAxisPowers invented in Korea]].

* In ''Film/TopGunMaverick'', Dagger Squadron is forced to evade a swarm launched from unmanned SAMs during the strike mission. [[spoiler: Maverick and Rooster are shot down.]]

* ''WesternAnimation/DespicableMe'' does this... a lot. The most notable -- and probably the only real example that truly fits this trope -- is when Gru, in his plane is pursuing Vector in his own plane to reclaim the ShrinkRay the latter just stole from the former. He attempts to attack Vector by firing a ''lot'' of missiles that are released from platfroms on the plane's sides ''[[BiggerOnTheInside that take up way more space than the plane itself]]''. Vector, however, responds by releasing flares to avoid being hit by any of the missiles, and then used the aforementioned shrink ray to reduce Gru's plane into the size of a children's ride-in car.

** And in ''[[VideoGame/CommandAndConquerRedAlert3 Red Alert 3]]'', we have the Rocket Angels, who do this whenever they're not using their [[WhipItGood paralyzing whip]].

* ''Anime/{{Pokemon}}'': In Johto's "The Big Balloon Blow-Up," the Team Rocket trio fires miniature missiles at a chasing Noctowl and Pikachu. At least six rounds of at least six missiles in two small rocket launchers were fired in the episode, and the launchers couldn't possibly hold more than one round.

* ''VideoGame/ShadowHearts: From the New World'' gives us Ricardo's "Fated Day's End". He plays a few notes, [[FlungClothing throws his hat]], swings his [[SwissArmyWeapon guitar]] onto his shoulder and releases about twenty missiles, which rain down on the enemy.

* The ''Parabellum'' lets off one of these in Episode 23 of ''LightNovel/BodaciousSpacePirates'' against the ''Grand Cross''. [[spoiler:It shows that its shields are less effective against physical bombardment and several pirate ships use these to destroy a ''Grand Cross'' during the final battle.]]

* ''LightNovel/CrestOfTheStars'' and its sequels made their battleships purely missile platforms that take Macross Missile Massacre to the absolutely ridiculous extent (the majority of the mass of ships multiple kilometers long consists solely of thousand and thousands of missiles). The sheer weight of fire ''ONE'' battleship could deliver would put ''Literature/HonorHarrington'' to shame.

* In the ''LightNovel/HaruhiSuzumiya'' anime, Kyon does this with a bunch of fireworks from his bike, proving that even he is willing to do something stupidly dangerous for the sake of a ShoutOut. It is also a reference of how Itano created this trope in the first place; see the first example filed under Real Life.

* In the backstory of ''LightNovel/InfiniteStratos'', the nuclear weapons of the world's superpowers were hacked and launched at Japan. White Knight, the first [[PoweredArmor IS]], destroyed all of them single-handidly. It is all but stated outright that [[spoiler:the inventor of the IS set up both the missiles and the White Knight to make the IS look good]].

* ''LightNovel/RebuildWorld'':

** The BattleButler Lattice uses his flying set of PoweredArmor to launch one of these at Akira who is pursuing his master’s truck via bike. The barrage of missiles has RecursiveAmmo splitting into multiple warheads. Alpha uses the AbnormalAmmo of Akira’s sword that functions by holding in place liquid metal with force fields, to make a shield dome around Akira and his bike.
** In another RecursiveAmmo barrage, thirty mobile artillery platforms launch one of these at the slums around Akira’s HomeBase at the start of the main phase of TheSiege, but with TrickBomb warheads that spread OminousFog that jam sensors but also has the GravityScrew effect of slowing bullets to help prevent CollateralDamage that might make Kugamayama City NeutralNoLonger.

** Its descendants the 9K51 (or BM-21) "Grad" ("Hail") [[note]](see [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p-lGwyySrwY on YouTube]], [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/9K51_Grad in wikipedia]])[[/note]] and the BM-30 "Smerch" ("Tornado") [[note]](see [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F5zCzPzCiCE on YouTube]], see [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BM-30 in wikipedia]])[[/note]] -- the first can fire 720 missiles at once when packed in a battalion of 18 launchers, while the second can fire a missile every 3 seconds or so. Ammunition varies from regular HE and [=HEAT=] rounds to ''mines''. Of course, during the UsefulNotes/ColdWar many USSR allies got these as well. There's also a close-range (up to 6km) TOS-1 "Buratino" [[note]](see [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ane4jB35Hs on YouTube]])[[/note]] (russian "Pinocchio") is a 30-round MLRS mounted on the [[TankGoodness T-72 tank chassis]]. It's not just a regular house-sized rocket launcher, but a flamethrower system with incendiary or ''thermobaric'' warheads with a devastating area of effect. Also, unlike similar vehicles, it can launch rockets in pairs.

** The German {{R4M}} rocket was intended as a way to destroy a B-17/B-24-sized target in one salvo. One 55-millimeter rocket may not have been much, but shotgun 24 of them at once and you've got something going.

** Episode "Gateway Shuffle", in which a baddie [[spoiler:fires a giant missile full of a biological payload which the goodies attempt to intercept, which then splits into three missiles. They destroy all but one and are about to blow up the last when it splits into ''thousands'' more missiles]].
** Episode "Honky Tonk Women". The criminal boss's ship fires one of these at Faye's fleeing ship.

** The Yeoman's nothing. Check out the mighty [[http://www.camospecs.com/Miniature.asp?ID=4858 Kraken 3]]. No other mech epitomizes the Macross Missile Massacre to the same extent -- this mech mounts ''8'' LRM 15 pods. That means it has 8 different launchers that each fire 15 missiles, giving it the capacity to launch a staggering 120 missiles simultaneously.

** This was explained in later flufftext in that Age of War-era missile systems (the ubiquitous long- and short-range missiles of the game) didn't have warheads so much as ''explosive structure'', which also justifies the ammunition explosion rules. The evolution of ''[=BattleTech=]'' flufftext also described that the MMM-only launchers came about because electronic countermeasures were just too good for individual missiles to penetrate: for the same mass, a single hard-hitting missile would almost inevitably be jammed, spoofed, blinded, or otherwise overcome but a salvo had a pretty good chance of enough making it through to have an impact. Though with the new Thunderbolt-series missiles making a comeback in BT as big, nasty, single-hit missiles, the pendulum may be swinging more back towards the middle as well.

* ''WesternAnimation/DespicableMe'' does this... a lot. The most notable -- and probably the only real example that truly fits this trope -- is where Gru, in his plane is pursuing Vector in his own plane to reclaim the ShrinkRay the latter just stole from the former. He attempts to attack Vector by firing a ''lot'' of missiles that are released from platfroms on the plane's sides ''[[BiggerOnTheInside that take up way more space than the plane itself]]''. Vector, however, responds by releasing flares to avoid being hit by any of the missiles, and then used the aforementioned shrink ray to reduce Gru's plane into the size of a children's ride-in car.

* ''WesternAnimation/DespicableMe'' does this... a lot. The most notable -- and probably the only real example that fits THIS trope -- is where Gru, in his spaceship, is trying to steal back the shrink ray he just stole. One of his Minions hits this trigger, laughing maniacally, and two panels snap out from the sides of the ship ''[[BiggerOnTheInside that take up way more space than the ship itself]]''. Vector responds by sending out these little drones that intercept the missile's heat-seeking technology. Then he shrinks Gru's ship to the size of a child's ride-in car.

** The enemy also tries this on you. You have two helicopter mooks that also fires missiles often, a shield-protected jet fighter that also fires missiles at a decent rate, and an RPG-firing pickup truck. As for bosses, 13 out of 19 also does this, such as [[KillerGorilla Kommie Kong's]] [[RecursiveAmmo exploding rockets]], and the [[FinalBoss Secret Weapon's]] combination of regular missiles and armored missiles in the final phase.

* ''VideoGame/{{Heavy Weapon}}'' has the homing missiles and the rocket PowerUps for your tank. The former targets airborne mooks and deals a quite good amount of damage, while the latter is like the former but deals a less damage and without a targeting system. You can upgrade both weapons to 3 levels to unleash a missile rampage!

** The enemy also tries this on you. You have two helicopter mooks that also fires missiles often, a shield-protected jet fighter that also fires missiles at a decent rate, and an RPG-firing pickup truck. As for bosses, 13 out of 19 also does this, such as [[KillerGorilla Kommie Kong's]] [[Recursive Ammo exploding rockets]], and the [[FinalBoss Secret Weapon's]] combination of regular missiles and armored missiles in the final phase.

** This was explained in later flufftext in that Age of War-era missile systems (the ubiquitous long- and short-range missiles of the game) didn't have warheads so much as ''explosive structure'', which also justifies the ammunition explosion rules. The evolution of ''[=BattleTech=]'' flufftext also described that the MMM-only launchers came about because electronic countermeasures were just too good for individual missiles to penetrate: for the same mass, a single hard-hitting missile would almost inevitably be jammed, spoofed, blinded, or otherwise overcome but a salvo had a pretty good chance of enough making it through to have an impact.

* In Season 10 of Machinima/RedVsBlue, after [[spoiler: Tex breaks in the Freelancer ship with the help of York]], South attacks her with a huge barrage of missiles. [[spoiler: Tex]], unarmed, manages to dodge a few of them before South unleashes a massive wave which she can't evade[[spoiler: ...at which point [[HeelFaceTurn North shows up]] and shoots down [[HellYesMoment every single rocket]] [[GunsAkimbo with dual wielded sniper rifles ]].]]

A HighSpeedMissileDodge is usually an effective counter. A slightly more proactive solution is to launch your own missiles or, if you have the option of MoreDakka, shooting them down. Trying to [[MisguidedMissile lead them away and crashing into an enemy]] is usually reserved for {{Ace Pilot}}s. Can often be rendered into a WorfBarrage. Missiles may engage in {{Roboteching}} (which should not be confused with MacrossMissileMassacre, even though ''Macross'' is part of ''Robotech'').