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* One episode of 24 involves Jack and a hostile both taking cover behind various interior structures. Jack pops up from behind his railing, and shoots through the pillar his opponent is hiding behind, killing her.

* The {{Buffy}} episode ''Homecoming'' has Buffy trick the pair of assassins hunting her into shooting each other through a wall.

* Averted in [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QyaAuRYNuS0 the shootout]] from ''The International''. One of the guys gets shot through a dresser we was using for cover.

** OMG wallhax!

* Averted ''hard'' in ''[[DieHard Live Free or Die Hard]]'', in which the two main characters are shot at not only through the window, but through the walls. By "walls", I mean the wall forming the outside of the building.

* Averted in ''{{Stargate SG-1}}''. The heroes use C-4 to open a blast door (two blocks, because it's a "blast door"). The people trapped inside overturn a table to hide behind, but a massive spike of door is embedded in it anyway, nearly skewering someone on the other side.

* Averted in ''{{Stargate SG-1}}''. The heroes use C-4 to open a blast door (two blocks, because it's a [[BlastDoor blast door]]). The people trapped inside overturn a table to hide behind, but a massive spike of door is embedded in it anyway, nearly skewering someone on the other side.

* Averted in ''{{Stargate SG-1}}''. The heroes use C-4 to open a blast door (two blocks, because it's a [[blast door]]). The people trapped inside overturn a table to hide behind, but a massive spike of door is embedded in it anyway, nearly skewering someone on the other side.

* In the {{X-COM}} series, most objects or buildings on the battlefield will stop at least one bullet, usually getting blown to bits in the process. Shame the aliens tend to fire on full auto.

* Subverted in one OnePiece movie, where new hero Shuraiya takes cover behind a table during a bar fight, and the bullets punch right through the table beside his head. He then uses the table more as concealment and keeps moving it so they can't tell where he is behind it. Interestingly, since they were firing flintlocks, the heavy oak table probably would have stopped the bullet in real life.

* Averted in an almost identical way in TheMatrix, where Agent Smith fires through a wall to hit the leg of an escaping Morpheus.

* Averted in the {{Discworld}} novel Discworld/MenAtArms, when Vimes is attacked: The Gonne clearly shoots through walls, and Vimes has to outwit its wielder.

* Averted somewhat in [[LethalWeapon Lethal Weapon 4]]. Riggs kills a man who was hiding behind some pipes, [[ImprobableAimingSkills by using another pipe to deflect the bullet]] so the hiding guy stands up from the pain of getting shot.
* Averted in MillersCrossing, when The Dane shoots a thug through the wall.

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** Averted in the sense that ordering your men into flimsy cover is generally a very bad idea; it's relatively poor protection and will fall apart pretty damn fast under heavy fire. Applies to everything once the enemy starts getting [[OhCrap tanks]]
* Somewhat averted in {{Timeshift}} of all things. Some cover will disintegrate under heavy fire, other time enemies will simply lob grenades or run to a better spot to shoot you.

* Annoyingly Averted in {{STALKER}}, most noticeable in the second level of the second game, where you have to run from a mounted machinegun capable of killing you in less than a second. Annoyingly because even through an entire tree, while the bullet trajectory and speed are reduced by a great deal, so much so that you can see them dropping to the ground, the bullets still do the same damage as when they were full speed. Made the area into ThatOneLevel.
* SuperMarioBros 3 has those white blocks. If you duck on them for a few seconds, you can go behind bushes and the like and enemies won't be able to hurt you as long as you're totally concealed. [[DepthPerplexion Yet if part of Mario is poking out, he can get hurt]].
* Averted to the benefit of the player in Left4Dead. You can damage zombies through walls, furniture, and even other zombies.

This trope is powered by the RuleOfVisible; if you can't see it, you can't hit it. Of course, it's true that it's ''harder'' to hit something you can't see, simply because you can't be sure where it is; this trope is about anything opaque being effectively bulletproof. Related to BulletproofHumanShield, with the eponymous HumanShield serving as the Concealment.

This trope is powered by the RuleOfVisible; if you can't see it, you can't hit it. Of course, it's true that it's ''harder'' to hit something you can't see, simply because you can't be sure where it is; this trope is about anything opaque being effectively bulletproof.

This trope is powered by the RuleOfVisible; if you can't see it, you can't hit it.

* ''{{Warhammer40000}}'' has a variation - while fortifications made to absorb attacks provide an excellent 'cover save' protection from ranged attacks, things like really high grass can still provide a lesser one. The rules explicitly say the reason for that is how it would make the victim of a ranged attack harder to target. It gets stranger with other units - [[HumanShield units in front of other units]] provide a small 'cover save' for the units behind them, since they are in the way which makes it harder to hit the one's behind, even if the ranged weapons in question should be capable of annilating the units in the way and then strike the one's behind them (there are no other rules for it, so a successful cover save in this manner would have no chance of harming the units in front of the others. An unsuccessful one would just have the units behind be hit.)

* ''DawnOfWar 2'' has pretty much everything short of the ground providing cover bonuses - some stuff could justifiable be so, like plants that may be really tough due to being fictional. On the other hand, the barrels seem to be rather unlikely.