History Main / AmusinglyAwfulAim

* Creator/RonWhite recounted a news story where police officers returned fire against a gunman, and failed to hit him despite putting over a hundred rounds into the van directly behind the suspect:
-->'''Ron:''' "...[[SarcasmMode Nice shootin',]] [[WesternAnimation/ElmerFudd Elmer]] '''[[WesternAnimation/ElmerFudd Fudd]]'''."

-->'''Ron:''' "...[[SarcasmMode Nice shootin]], [[WesternAnimation/ElmerFudd Elmer]] '''[[WesternAnimation/ElmerFudd Fudd]]'''."

-->'''Ron:''' "...[[SarcasmMode Nice shootin, [[WesternAnimation/ElmerFudd Elmer]] '''[[WesternAnimation/ElmerFudd Fudd]]'''."

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-->'''Ron:''' "...[[SarcasmMode Nice shootin, [[WesternAnimaton/ElmerFudd Elmer]] '''[[WesternAnimaton/ElmerFudd Fudd]]'''."

->''"What a terrible shot."''
->''"Oh well, it's my programming."''

* In VideoGame/HenryStickmin Henry himself can't seem to hit the broad side of a barn to save his life. A lot of the fails of him missing his shots are hysterically funny because of how improbable they are. Best exemplified when he misses four shots with a 95% hit rate! The game even snarks at the hit rate after the fail!

* ''Franchise/TheDCU'': There's a minor villain called Mr. Terrible, who is an EvilCounterpart to Mr. Terrific. While Mr. Terrific represents the pinnacle of human perfection and is incredibly skilled at any activity you can imagine, Mr. Terrible is the exact opposite. Everything he tries to do turns out bad. Case in point: In one issue of ''Villains United'', he attempts to kill someone by throwing a knife at them. He was aiming for the head -- it hit them in the leg.

** One story has the titular hero training a wannabe crimefighter, who's such a lousy shot that even standing directly behind him is not a guarantee of safety.

--> '''Shining Armor:''' This wasn't to say I can't hit the broad side of a barn. The problem was, I can and I did. And our archery range was three miles from the farm I hit.

* In the climax of ''WesternAnimation/ShrekTheThird'', [[spoiler:Prince Charming rushes to stab Shrek and gloats as he winces in pain from the strike...only it turns out that [[EpicFail he completely missed and his sword ended up under his armpit without any injury whatsoever]].]]

* ''AudioPlay/LeDonjonDeNaheulbeuk'': [[TheDitz The Elf]]'s ineptitude with her bow is a constant RunningGag of the series. While she may hit ''something'' with her arrows, it is very rarely something she was aiming at. One time, she accidentally shoots [[StandardizedLeader the Ranger]]'s leg and he assumes the troll they were fighting was what shot him, even though the troll didn't have a bow. In another instance, she shoots one of the dwarves the party was rescuing from a squad of orcs; at least they can blame the orcs on this one, thanks to the Enchantress [[BeQuietNudge silencing the Elf in time]].

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'': As a cyclops with awful depth perception, Leela's aim with projectiles is sometimes played for laughs. In "A Leela of Her Own," she becomes a famous blernsball player [[BileFascination because she's such a godawful pitcher]], constantly hitting the batters in the head.

** The Divine Spirit turned Pseudo-Servant Tezcatlipoca might have developed a love for modern firearms, but he absolutely sucks at hitting what he's aiming for. In his First Ascension, for one of his attacks he unloads an entire clip from his gun at a target only to hit them just ''once'' before he rushes them and strikes with the axe part of his weapon. In-story, he manages to shoot someone in the heart when he was aiming for their head, and then ''deliberately'' aims for their heart so that his next shot nails them in the head.

* ''WebAnimation/RedVsBlue'': Church's aim is so terrible that he can't even hit a stationary target. One instance from season 6, episode 15 has him somehow empty an entire pistol clip at a guard standing two feet away and miss every single shot. [[spoiler:Possibly justified, as Church is actually an AI based on a man who was not considered skilled enough to join the frontlines of the UNSC.]]

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'': [[SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome As a cyclops with awful depth perception, Leela's aim with projectiles is sometimes played for laughs]]. In "A Leela of Her Own," she becomes a famous blernsball player [[BileFascination because she's such a godawful pitcher]], constantly hitting the batters in the head.

* ''Franchise/ArchieComics'': Some issues have a joke about how Veronica's aim in snowball fights is so lousy that she hits everybody except her target. The comic usually ends with her throwing at somebody completely different, hitting their intended target.

* In the ''Literature/PrinceRoger'' series, Erkum Pol can ''usually'' hit what he shoots at if it's within five meters. Beyond that, he not only can't hit anything, but is unable to admit to his poor marksmanship. For [[HilarityEnsues extra hilarity]] Pol is big for a Mardukian (who normally stand 3 meters tall) and he prefers to shoot a {{BFG}} of the sort normally intended as a vehicle-mounted weapon.

* ''Manga/Reborn2004'': Bianci is an accomplished hitman whose [[MasterPoisoner poisoning skills]] earned her the [[RedBaron title]] of "The Poisonous Scorpion". On the other hand, her aim with any kind of firearm is horrendous, to the point it's almost a RunningGag. In chapter 13 Bianchi is trying to gun down Adult Lambo and Reborn remarks that the bullets could end up flying anywhere. This is in sharp contrast to her brother, who fights by throwing explosives at people with a surprising level of skill, accuracy and strategy.

* ''Manga/StrikeWitches:'' Milasha had to quit being a witch due to how awful her aim is. This is demonstrated in a flashback where she manages to paint around a stationary target board with an automatic rifle without landing a single shott on the target itself.

* ''Literature/HarryPotterAndTheGobletOfFire''

* ''VideoGame/StarWarsTheOldRepublic'': A cutscene in the Imperial Agent storyline on Taris has a scientist that [[PlayerCharacter Cipher Nine]] is looking for take several blaster shots at them at about ten paces. She misses every single one--by her own admission she barely knows which end of the gun to hold--but as a FunnyBackgroundEvent, [[AccidentalAimingSkills one shot blows apart a droid on the other side of the room]], of the same type Cipher Nine was fighting to reach her only minutes earlier.

* ''Webcomic/LeagueOfSuperRedundantHeroes'': [[http://superredundant.com/?comic=117-team-practice Buckaress's aim is impossibly bad]].
** [[http://superredundant.com/?comic=445-childhood-trauma Turns out that she has]] a FreudianExcuse [[TomboyAndGirlyGirl when it comes to throwing well]].

* ''Anime/NarutoTheMovieRoadToNinja'': Tenten is a weapons specialist whose fighting style involves pelting her enemies with [[FlechetteStorm a storm of kunais]]. Her MirrorUniverse counterpart, on the other hand, is implied to be so inept she has somehow managed to throw a kunai at ''herself'', with other characters noticing she is covered in scars and commenting how common it is for her to injure herself by accident.
* ''[[Manga/Reborn2004 Reborn!]]'': Bianci is an accomplished hitman whose [[MasterPoisoner poisoning skills]] earned her the [[RedBaron title]] of "The Poisonous Scorpion". On the other hand, her aim with any kind of firearm is horrendous, to the point it's almost a RunningGag. In chapter 13 Bianchi is trying to gun down Adult Lambo and Reborn remarks that the bullets could end up flying anywhere. This is in sharp contrast to her brother, who fights by throwing explosives at people with a surprising level of skill, accuracy and strategy.

* In ''Anime/GirlsUndPanzer'', Momo Kawashima, treasurer of the student council, serves as the gunner in Turtle Team's tank, since Anzu Kadotani, the StudentCouncilPresident and commander of the tank, [[BrilliantButLazy can't be bothered to do it]]. Momo thus ends up missing virtually every shot she tries to take, no matter the distance(for example, she ends up shooting between St. Gloriana's four remaining tanks at point blank range), prompting vice-president Yuzu Koyama to quip, "Momo-chan, you missed." Eventually, Anzu replaces Momo, with much better results.

* ''Franchise/TheDCU'': There's a minor villain called Mr. Terrible, who is an EvilCounterpart to Mr. Terrific. While Mr. Terrific represents the pinnacle of human perfection and is incredibly skilled at any activity you can imagine, Mr. Terrible is the exact opposite. Everything he tries to do turns out bad. Case in point: In one issue of ''Villains United'', he attempts to kill someone by throwing a knife at them. He was aiming for the head -- it hit them in the leg.

* ''Film/WeirdTheAlYankovicStory'' has a scene in which [[spoiler:Madonna]] repeatedly attempts to shoot Al with a gun at close range but is incapable of making a bullet go anywhere near him. Meanwhile, Al slowly walks away, acting as though he's completely unaware of the bullets being fired.

* One of the examples for the sarcastic wit of the philosopher Diogenes of Sinope given in ''Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers'' by Diogenes Laertius relates that Diogenes, watching the practicing of a lousy archer, sat down right next to the archer's target "so he would not get hit".

* ''ComicStrip/FoxTrot'': The baseball coach wants to move his car so Peter doesn't hit it with the ball again. The coach drives it right into center field.

* ''ComicStrip/CalvinAndHobbes'': One strip has Calvin throw a flurry of snowballs at Susie, none of which make contact. Susie mocks him, saying he couldn't hit the ground if it wasn't for gravity.