'''Basic Trope''': The characters, no matter how much firepower or ammunition they have, are incapable of hitting targets.
* '''Straight''': AliceAndBob are {{hired guns}} attempting to shoot out Steve, the BigBad of the episode, but can't seem to shoot him with their carbines.
* '''Exaggerated''':
** Bob and Alice have with them, [[ThereIsNoKillLikeOverkill an army of trained soldiers dual-wielding chainguns]], as well as 15,000 tanks and jet fighters, as well as [[KillSat laser-firing satellites]]. All of them are fired at the same time, but when the smoke clears, it is revealed that the army has hit everywhere except for where Steve is standing.
** Nobody cares that they are under heavy fire, because nobody ever gets shot in this world.
* '''Downplayed''': Alice and Bob occasionally hit Steve, but usually miss.
** Targets with cover essentially need it entirely destroyed by gunfire to be hit.
* '''Justified''':
** Bob and Alice's guns are highly inaccurate, even with a scope. Alternately, Steve may move fast enough so that Alice and Bob can't aim quick enough to fire.
** Alice and Bob were given orders that ThouShaltNotKill.
** Alice and Bob are untrained and rely on MoreDakka alone to take their targets down.
** High-stress environments do wonders in reducing one's marksmanship.
** Bod and Alice were toying with him.
* '''Inverted''':
** Alice and Bob have {{Improbable Aiming Skills}}.
** Steve is a top-notch graduate from the ImperialStormtrooperMarksmanshipAcademy, and yet he never hits Alice or Bob.
** Alice and Bob repeatedly try to miss their targets on purpose, but they instead manage to shoot them fatally every time.
* '''Subverted''':
** It looks like Alice and Bob are missing their targets, but they're actually [[ExactlyWhatIAimedAt aiming to cause a fire, avalanche or other disaster]] that will be far more deadly to Steve.
** Alice appears to be missing but she is actually providing suppressive fire while Bob flanks around - their goal was to capture Steve in the first place.
* '''Double Subverted''': It turns out they missed the target they were ''actually'' aiming for, as well.
* '''Parodied''': Alice manages to miss every shot when [[EpicFail pointing a gun at her own head and firing full auto]].
* '''Zig Zagged''': Bob and Alice's skills with guns vary.
* '''Averted''': Alice and Bob are competent with guns.
* '''Enforced''': The show's producers go ''Series/TheATeam'' route; being aware that youths are among the watchers of it, the producers decide to [[BloodlessCarnage have Alice and Bob purposefully miss Steve]], setting up for a bigger clash later on in the episode.
* '''Lampshaded''': "We never seem to hit our targets with these guns, do we Alice?"
* '''Invoked''': The man who hired Alice and Bob is TheMole, and gave them guns with dodgy sights and hair-triggers.
* '''Exploited''': Steve knows how terrible Alice and Bob are at marksmanship, and uses the opportunity to line up his own shot.
* '''Defied''':
** Rather than firing full auto and relying on BottomlessMagazines, Alice and Bob find cover, pick specific targets and aim carefully.
** After a few misfired shots, Bob and Alice both attach scopes onto their carbines, allowing them to fire with more precision.
* '''Discussed''': "Yes! We shot Steve! And to think, everyone thought we'd just keep missing."
* '''Conversed''': "You ever notice how the good guys on television rarely hit their targets? Maybe guns aren't for them..."
* '''Deconstructed''':
** Hitting everywhere but Steve results in severe collateral damage.
** The shooting takes place in a very crowded area, and many civilians are wounded or killed as a result of their disgraceful marksmanship.
* '''Reconstructed:''' ...Which leads them to travel to a school about firearms, using their poor marksmanship skills usefully, allowing them to show students the dangers of bad accuracy, though their own accuracy is still pretty bad.
* '''Played For Laughs''':
** Alice and Bob's sheer inaccuracy with the weapons results in them losing their titles.
** Everything ''but'' Steve is shot, and he walks by the ravaged landscape completely unharmed.
* '''Played For Drama''': Everybody's accuracy is bad; many bystanders end up severely wounded and large objects are destroyed.
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Go back to ATeamFiring? Ha! [[SedgwickSpeech You couldn't hit this link at point blank]] [[KilledMidSentence *BANG*]]
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