History ImprobableAimingSkills / ComicBooks

* 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."
* [[ColdSniper Joe Pineapples]] of ''Comicbook/ABCWarriors'' is the greatest sniper in the universe. He can hit targets from ''across the galaxy''.
* 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.
* ''[=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.
* Both Death and The Ranger from ''ComicBook/EastOfWest'' are impossibly good shots. The latter once managed to snipe his target from a couple ''mountain ranges'' away, to which the former retaliated by shooting him in the shoulder from the exact same range. And that was with a ''revolver''.
* 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.
* 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.
* 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.
* 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/LuckyLuke'' is the quintessential [[TheWildWest Wild West]] example in European comics. 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.

* 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.]]
* 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.
* 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.]]''

** Comicbook/{{Daredevil}} has also done the plugging-a-gun (and surely Bullseye too). Creator/FrankMiller really likes these feats, doesn't he?

* ''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]]).
* 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.

* 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.

* 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.
* 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.

* Both Death and The Ranger from ''ComicBook/EastOfWest'' are impossibly good shots. The former once managed to snipe his target from a couple ''mountain ranges'' away, to which the latter retaliated by shooting him in the shoulder from the exact same range. And that was with a ''revolver''.

* 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.

!!Franchise/TheDCU
* ComicBook/{{Artemis}} can do some pretty neat things with a bow and arrow. In ''ComicBook/{{Wonder Woman|1987}}'': "ComicBook/TheContest" (her introductory arc) alone she [[SplittingTheArrow split an arrow]], nonchalantly loosed an arrow into a gun barrel in the middle of fight against enhanced foes, and [[PinnedToTheWall pined a man to the wall]] [[KnifeOutline using his suit without harming him]].
* 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.]]
* 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.)
* 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.
* 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.
* 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.
* Franchise/GreenLantern: 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).
* 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/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.
* Thanks to her telescopic vision, Comicbook/{{Supergirl}} has literal super-aim. In a Silver Age comic she hits her target from ''space''.
* ComicBook/SteveTrevor is a crack shot with his service weapon, and has been shooting chains off of imprisoned allies and similar feats since the early days of ''ComicBook/WonderWoman1942''.
* 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".
* 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.

!!Franchise/MarvelUniverse
* Comicbook/{{Blade}} is pretty damn handy with, you guessed it, 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.
* 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.
** Interestingly enough, Daredevil points out that one of the main reasons he is able to survive so long with such an enemy is that when somebody "never misses" it becomes easier to predict their shots and where to block or guard when mixed with his own senses.
* 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.)
* 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.
* 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.
* 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.
* 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!
* 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.
* 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''.
* ''ComicBook/TheUltimates''
** 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.
** Black Widow also has this power, as she's a {{Cyborg}}.
* 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.
* ComicBook/{{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.
* 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]].

* 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.

* ''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.

* ComicBook/{{Artemis}} can do some pretty neat things with a bow and arrow. In ''ComicBook/{{Wonder Woman|1987}}'': "ComicBook/TheContest" (her introductory arc) alone she split an arrow, nonchalantly loosed an arrow into a gun barrel in the middle of fight enhanced foes, and [[PinnedToTheWall pined a man to the wall]] [[KnifeOutline using his suit without harming him]].

* 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.]]

* 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.