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* In the 1949 FilmSerial ''Film/KingOfTheRocketMen'', the villains steal an experimental aerial torpedo [[NoOshaCompliance which for some reason is being transported fully fueled on a launching ramp]]. During the subsequent fight with Rocket Man, the torpedo gets accidentally launched towards a nearby city. Rocket Man chases after it using his JetPack and blows it up with his RayGun, but the explosion stuns him and the [[{{Cliffhanger}} chapter ends with Rocket Man falling to his death!]] He survives of course, and the incident establishes him as a hero in the public eye.

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* In the 1949 FilmSerial ''Film/KingOfTheRocketMen'', the villains steal an experimental aerial torpedo [[NoOshaCompliance which for some reason is being transported fully fueled on a launching ramp]]. During the subsequent fight with Rocket Man, the torpedo gets accidentally launched towards a nearby city. Rocket Man chases after it using his (as yet untested) JetPack and blows it up with his RayGun, but the explosion stuns him and the [[{{Cliffhanger}} chapter ends with Rocket Man falling to his death!]] He survives of course, and the incident establishes him as a hero in the public eye.
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* In the 1949 FilmSerial ''Film/KingOfTheRocketMen'', the villains steal an experimental aerial torpedo [[NoOshaCompliance which for some reason is being transported fully fueled on a launching ramp]]. During the subsequent fight with Rocket Man, the torpedo gets accidentally launched towards a nearby city. Rocket Man chases after it using is JetPack and blows it up with his RayGun, but the explosion stuns him and the [[{{Cliffhanger}} chapter ends with Rocket Man falling to his death!]] He survives, of course, and the incident establishes him as a hero in the public eye.

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* In the 1949 FilmSerial ''Film/KingOfTheRocketMen'', the villains steal an experimental aerial torpedo [[NoOshaCompliance which for some reason is being transported fully fueled on a launching ramp]]. During the subsequent fight with Rocket Man, the torpedo gets accidentally launched towards a nearby city. Rocket Man chases after it using is his JetPack and blows it up with his RayGun, but the explosion stuns him and the [[{{Cliffhanger}} chapter ends with Rocket Man falling to his death!]] He survives, survives of course, and the incident establishes him as a hero in the public eye.
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* In the 1949 FilmSerial ''Film/KingOfTheRocketMen'', the villains steal an experimental aerial torpedo [[NoOshaCompliance which for some reason is being transported fully fueled on a launching ramp]]. During the subsequent fight with Rocket Man, the torpedo gets accidentally launched towards a nearby city. Rocket Man chases after it using is JetPack and blows it up with his RayGun, but the explosion stuns him and the [[{{Cliffhanger]] chapter ends with Rocket Man falling to his death!]] He survives, of course, and the incident establishes him as a hero in the public eye.

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* In the 1949 FilmSerial ''Film/KingOfTheRocketMen'', the villains steal an experimental aerial torpedo [[NoOshaCompliance which for some reason is being transported fully fueled on a launching ramp]]. During the subsequent fight with Rocket Man, the torpedo gets accidentally launched towards a nearby city. Rocket Man chases after it using is JetPack and blows it up with his RayGun, but the explosion stuns him and the [[{{Cliffhanger]] [[{{Cliffhanger}} chapter ends with Rocket Man falling to his death!]] He survives, of course, and the incident establishes him as a hero in the public eye.
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* In the 1949 FilmSerial ''Film/KingOfTheRocketMen'', the villains steal an experimental aerial torpedo [[NoOshaCompliance which for some reason is being transported fully fueled on a launching ramp]]. During the subsequent fight with Rocket Man, the torpedo gets accidentally launched towards a nearby city. Rocket Man chases after it using is JetPack and blows it up with his RayGun, but the explosion stuns him and the [[{{Cliffhanger]] chapter ends with Rocket Man falling to his death!]] He survives, of course, and the incident establishes him as a hero in the public eye.
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* ''VideoGame/{{ULTRAKILL}}'': Rockets fired by Guttertanks and [[spoiler:Big Johninator]] can be redirected back at them or any other enemy with magnets from the Attractor Nailgun/Sawblade Launcher or by freezing them with V1's own rocket launcher with the Freezeframe attachment and [[RocketRide jumping on the static rocket and riding it, which lets you turn them]].
* ''VideoGame/{{Noita}}'': If you get covered with [[ForcedTransformation Polymorphine]], any and all homing spells you fired recognize your changed form as an enemy like any other. [[YetAnotherStupidDeath Back to Mines!]]
* ''VideoGame/SupremeCommander'': Cybran Loyalist siege bots have an unique passive ability of rocket redirection which turns any tactical[[labelnote:*]]ie. they don't get to parry nukes[[/labelnote]] rocket projectiles that hit them back where they came from. Unfortunately, not much of a help as UEF Titans, their direct counterparts, had their rocket launchers removed before the game released and there's only a handful of units that do fire rockets.
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* ''Series/TheGoodies''. In "Clown Virus", the US military launch a target seeking rocket at the Goodies, who run for their lives into an outhouse being used by US soldiers, causing them to flee and the missile to blow them up instead.
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*** The [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_14_torpedo American Mark 14 Torpedo]] was notorious for running in circles, among other serious problems. There is only one confirmed case of a circular run sinking the submarine that launched it (the legendary USS ''Tang''), but there are several of circular-running torpedoes that either passed over a frantically crash-diving submarine or went off close by thanks to their deeply-problematic magnetic influence detonator. Even when they ran straight, [=Mk14s=] often ran too deep, failed to explode, or exploded prematurely, doing no damage to the enemy but loudly announcing the presence of an American submarine to any destroyer within 25 miles.

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*** The [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_14_torpedo American Mark 14 Torpedo]] was notorious for running in circles, among other serious problems. There is only one confirmed case of a circular run sinking the submarine that launched it (the legendary USS ''Tang''), but there are several of circular-running torpedoes that either passed over a frantically crash-diving submarine or went off close by thanks to their deeply-problematic magnetic influence detonator. Even when they ran straight, [=Mk14s=] often ran too deep, failed to explode, or exploded prematurely, doing no damage to the enemy but loudly announcing the presence of an American submarine to any destroyer within 25 miles. The Mark 14 was [[DisasterDominoes so many disasters packed into a single weapon]] that it years to work out everything that was wrong with it. While the Bureau of Ordnance [[ObstructiveBureaucrat stubbornly refused to admit anything was wrong at all, and tried to forbid submarine captains from making any modifications or "wasting" torpedoes on testing to find the problems]].



* Japanese pilot Sakio Komatsu earned himself a place in both Japanese and US history books when he intercepted one of six Mark 14 torpedoes fired by USS ''Albacore'' at his carrier, the ''Taihou'', with his own aircraft. He might not have gotten credit for it except for the fact that several hundred people saw it happen; it wasn't until about 1950 that US interrogators were actually satisfied it was true. This would turn out to be a ShaggyDogStory anyway. Of the 5 remaining torpedoes, 4 missed, and the last one hit the carrier and ruptured a tank of aviation-grade gasoline for the carrier's aircraft. The fumes from the gasoline later ignited and the resultant explosion sunk the carrier.

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* Japanese pilot Sakio Komatsu earned himself a place in both Japanese and US history books when he intercepted one of six Mark 14 torpedoes fired by USS ''Albacore'' at his carrier, the ''Taihou'', with his own aircraft. He might not have gotten credit for it except for the fact that several hundred people saw it happen; it wasn't until about 1950 that US interrogators were actually satisfied it was true. This would turn out to be a ShaggyDogStory anyway. Of the 5 remaining torpedoes, 4 missed, and the last one hit the carrier and ruptured a tank of aviation-grade gasoline for the carrier's aircraft. The fumes from the gasoline later ignited (due to catastrophically bad decisions in damage control) and the resultant explosion sunk the carrier.
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* ''Film/Interceptor1992''

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* ''Film/Interceptor1992''The hero pulls this at the end of ''Film/Interceptor1992'' to shoot down the bad guy's stealth fighter, despite being unarmed.
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* ''Film/Interceptor1992''
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* The hero of ''Film/{{Interceptor}}'' pulls this at the end to shoot down the bad guy's stealth fighter, despite being unarmed.
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* ''Film/Prey2022'': After Taabe knocks the Predator's helmet off, its attempts to shoot him with its homing arrows are thwarted because the helmet's laser guidance system is pointed at a tree. [[spoiler: Naru sees this and uses it to kill the Predator in the climax by stealing its helmet and luring the Predator into a trap where it is forced to fire a homing arrow, not realizing that its helmet has been placed so that the arrow will target it]].

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