How about we find out how much of this trope is truth in television and how much is just rule of cool.

In the ending of The Odyssey when Odysseus successfully gets an arrow through 12 axes, is that an example of this trope? I've never been clear on whether he shot through the actual axe blades, or rings attached to them, and I can't figure out what the distance was.

Moved the Ramayana example to Multishot.