History Main / FriendlyFireproof

* ''VideoGame/MissionImpossibleKonami'': Your agents are immune to their own tools. Max can stand right on top of his bombs when he detonates them with no ill effect. This is useful if you're surrounded by enemies to clear them away. Grant, likewise, isn't affected by his gas bombs.

** ''VideoGame/Starcraft2'' plays it straight in the co-op mode. Players absolutely cannot hurt each other with their abilities unless they deliberately target them for attack. You can use any special regardless of its AoE, and while it ''may'' be able to harm your ''own'' units (often it doesn't), it absolutely won't harm your ally.

** In ''VideoGame/DragonAgeII'', friendly fire is only activated on the highest difficulty setting. Normally, having a few melee based characters ganging up on a single powerful foe and unload BFS based super-attack is a good strategy, except that now, every blade attack has a small AOE that hugely (as warriors' damage output is now very high) damage ANYONE, especially the BFS, so essentially, your melee characters are going to slaughter themselves. Ironically, mages don't suffer as much from this change, since comparatively few of their spells can do friendly damages.

In ''VideoGame/{{Xenogears}},'' Fei's ultimate Ether - Big Bang - simply sends a gigantic blast through the Earth, cutting a hole through the core and causing it to explode. Cut back to the battlefield and everyone's perfectly fine.

* In ''VideoGame/AngryBirds'', the birds can't hurt each other, either through impacts or special attacks. This can really screw up a shot if you land a fresh bird or the white bird's egg on a stunned bird, so waiting until the bird(s) poof out from where you want to shoot is generally a good idea.

* 'World Of Warships Legends the console version of "VidoeGame/WorldOfWarships" has this including ramming, so don't worry too much if a friendly Yamato slams into you at top speed. Remember, that's "Legends" the console version, not the PC version.

* ''VideoGame/{{Fallout 76}}'' is not pvp focused, and thus doesn't allow players to do all but a [[ScratchDamage tiny amount of damage]] to each other unless both players start shooting at each other, so explosives builds can fire into crowds of friends and enemies alike with nary a concern.

** Like in the previous game, your ranged attacks don't hit allies in ''VideoGame/UnleashTheLight''. They can also be upgraded so that they provide benefits when they hit them, like Lapis's Tidal Wave healing any ally in its path.

* In ''VideoGame/SaveTheLight'', Peridot's allies won't be hurt by her landmines, but they'll still activate them if they run over them. Garnet's [[GroundPunch Quake]] also doesn't hurt allies within range.

* In ''VideoGame/SaveTheLight'', Peridot's allies won't be hurt by her landmines, but they'll still activate them if they run over them.

* In one of the ''{{Literature/Slayers}}'' video games, ''all'' spells can hurt your own party members, so be very careful. Also, big fireball spells or destructive ones will scorch the ground!

* In ''VideoGame/LeagueOfLegends'', no ability or attack in the game can damage anything on the user's side. This is a JustifiedTrope in the lore, however: any set of Champions could end up on the same side, and there are several pairs (such as [[CainAndAbel Kayle and Morgana, Nasus and Renekton,]] [[WorthyOpponent Rengar and Kha'zix]]) who would ignore the team's welfare for the chance to kill each other, so the friendly fireproofing has to be completely airtight. (Several champions can doom their teammates using abilities that create impassable terrain or reposition them without warning or consent, but that's more in the realm of "getting your teammates killed" the "killing your teammates".)

** Among the player characters, melee attacks never strike allies, ranged attacks have friendly fire enabled on higher difficulty settings, and thrown incendiary/explosive barrels (being part of the map rather than character features) always allow friendly fire.

* In one of the ''{{LightNovel/Slayers}}'' video games, ''all'' spells can hurt your own party members, so be very careful. Also, big fireball spells or destructive ones will scorch the ground!

** ''VideoGame/Fallout2'' has many [=NPCs=] capable of using automatic weapons, from [=SMGs=] to automatic shotguns to [[GatlingGood miniguns]]. Every last one of them will fire unhesitatingly into the little cluster of PowerFist -wielding maniacs surrounding you. The game tries to help by allowing you to talk to you allies and tell them when burst fire is acceptable. Options range from "don't use burst fire if I'm in the way" to "Use burst fire even if I'm in the way", and everything in between (that option being "only use burst fire if you're sure you won't hit me"). ''This does absolutely nothing to prolong your life''.

* As does ''VideoGame/MedalOfHonorAirborne'', which is a good thing since your Allied allies have a seemingly suicidal tendency to run right in front of your gun while you're blasting at the enemy.

* ''VideoGame/TheEndTimesVermintide'' and ''VideoGame/VermintideII'' zig-zag the trope:
** Among the player characters, melee attacks never strike allies, ranged attacks have friendly fire enabled on higher difficulty settings, and thrown incendiary/explosive barrels (being part of the map rather than character features) always allow friendly fire.
** Enemy ranged attacks can strike other enemy units. Combined with their [[AttackAttackAttack total disregard for each other's well-being]], this leads to situations where a [[MoreDakka ratling gunner]] or warpfire thrower chews through its own comrades. The sequel grants awards for some such situations, like getting beastman archers to finish off their own minotaur.
* ''VideoGame/Left4Dead'' disables friendly fire only on Easy difficulty and it's only for bullets while everything else still causes some damage. The sequel does the same thing. Friendly fire ramps up with difficulty, to the point that a single stray shot on Expert can down an ally.

* ''[[TabletopGame/WarhammerFantasy Warhammer]] VideoGame/TheEndTimesVermintide'', which is essentially a Warhammer version of ''VideoGame/Left4Dead'' mostly plays this trope straight. Melee attacks can never hit allies, but all ranged and area attacks will start hitting allies on higher difficulties.

* ''VideoGame/{{Doom}}'' is a famous aversion. When two demons' attacks collide, they'll prioritize and attack each other instead of [[PlayerCharacter Doomguy]]. Causing monster infighting is actually encouraged on some levels, especilly the one with both [[DamageSpongeBoss a Spider Mastermind and Cyberdemon]].

* Turning Friendly Fire off in ''Franchise/DragonAge'' utterly breaks the game. The secondary knockdown/flash-freeze effects of spells like Fireball and Cone of Cold still apply, but they deal no damage to your party members or your person, making mages unbeatable. You can even have conversations with party members and [=NPCs=] while ON FIRE. And this is without any snarky commentary or anything. However, the moves which paralyze of freeze an opponent that talks to you when defeated won't let the conversation start until it wears off. Also, AI-controlled ally characters that lack PlotArmor are still not immune to the spell SplashDamage, making large-scale magic attacks impractical for mass combat.

** Apparently, your guns, biotics, tech mines, et cetera, could distinguish between friend and foe. Strangely for a game that usually explains everything, this wasn't even handwaved If you shot something that exploded, however, you could hurt yourself and your allies. It was ''sort of'' handwaved - your shots would bounce off your allies' shields, although this wouldn't have any actual effect on said shields.

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Prevents FriendOrFoe becoming an issue, as well as needing an ArbitraryMinimumRange when shooting near allies. Sometimes implemented as AntiTrollingFeatures. Subtrope of DamageDiscrimination.