History Main / FriendlyFireproof

* Averted in space-sim ''{{Starlancer}}'' - while you'd ordinarily have to actually be trying in order to shoot down a friendly, God help you if you catch one of your buddies in the blast when killing one of the game's many, many, MANY torpedoes. Even an obviously accidental teamkill results in a nonstandard gameover complete with firing squad. Some of the more chaotic missions get really hairy because of this.

* In the ''{{LightNovel/Slayers}}'' video game (one of them) 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/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/KisekiSeries Trails Series]], you can cast offensive [[MagicFromTechnology orbal arts]] or offensive crafts without injuring or even giving your teammates any effect whatsoever despite them being in attack range. Casting tornadoes? only the enemies are lifted upwards. Casting freezing or flood water art that targets the whole field? No problem!

** Which is not true especially if you watched this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PF5heewzYa0, proving it's very much playable and playing 2 players in the Rat Race is helpful.

* Averted in ''VideoGame/{{Battletoads}}''. As if the game wasn't hard enough with just one player, in co-operative play it's almost impossible to avoid hurting and inadvertedly killing your partner, making the game practically unplayable in co-op (and very literally {{unwinnable}} near the end too due to a glitch).
** Which is not true especially if you watched this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PF5heewzYa0 , proving it's very much playable and playing 2 players in the Rat Race is helpful.

* In ''VideoGame/EmpireAtWar'' and its Expansion, It is 100% impossible to hurt your own units with anything. Which is a good thing, considering how often units are packed right up against each other. Especially in Space combat, where fighters often fly around capital ships during battle, as said capital ships attempt (and fail) to shoot down the fighters with their turbolasers. It would be quite annoying if these turbolaser shots then damaged your own capital ships.

* Averted in ''VideoGame/SuikodenIII'' - area effect spells hit in the area of effect, and if your friends happen to be standing right next to your target , then that's just too damn bad for them. Spells that are 'Hit All', however, will still only target foes...

* The ''Franchise/DeadSpace'' series uses this to great effect, although it's more noticable in ''VideoGame/DeadSpaceExtraction'' and the second game. In ''Extraction'', you can fire bullets around your allies, but you can never pull the trigger while the crosshairs are over them. The same also applies to the scenes in ''VideoGame/DeadSpace2'' when you interact directly with Ellie and still retain control over Isaac.

*** Thankfully present in ''VideoGame/ResidentEvil5'', where your bullets and those of your partner can't hurt each other. Its still annoying, though, that your partner will gladly stand right behind you and keep shooting you in the back to get at the enemy in front of you.

[[caption-width-right:350:Heavy and Sandvich both passed their Spy Check. [[note]]Unfortunately, this means Sandvich can't be toasted.[[/note]]]]

** S-Craft-wise, two examples belong to [[VideoGame/TheLegendOfHeroesTrailsInTheSky Tita's Satellite Beam]] and [[VideoGame/TheLegendOfHeroesTrailsOfColdSteel Millium's Galactic Cannon]]. Both can be used without visible property damage around them and no allies are harmed in range. As an added bonus, you can still use Tita's S-Craft [[spoiler:in [[{{Bizarrchitecture}} distorted space]]]].

* Averted viciously in ''Podcast/CriticalHit'', are real play ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons'' campaign. In accordance with the ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons'' tabletop game example below, a mage has to be very, very careful with the placement of the spells. Being the BigGuy in the party that consists mostly of arcane casters, Torq ends up being set on fire by allies so often that it becomes a RunningGag. But he is far from the only one to be caught in the area of effect spells cast by allies, and every party members experiences it at least once, some by their own spells. [[SquishyWizard Orem]] eventually took a feat that allows him to invoke FriendlyFireproof by giving his spells a penalty to attack rolls against allies (meaning that allies are less likely to be hit by the spell than enemies are), but, as the party quickly discovered, it does not help when the eponimous critical hit is rolled.

* Many online FPS games, such as ''VideoGame/{{Counter-Strike}}'' and the ''VideoGame/{{Battlefield}}'' series, have a server-controlled friendly fire switch: if the admin turns it on, better be careful not to get in the line of fire of your partners, or you'll get smoked.

* This is not the case in ''ChivalryMedievalWarfare.'' Horizontal swings in a clumped melee is frequently more liable to hit your allies instead, since your enemies can see your swings clearly to block them!

* ZigZagged in ''[[TabletopGame/{{Warhammer40000}} Warhammer 40K]]''; normal shooting cannot hit your own units (the justification being that the units find the right lines of fire to not shoot their comrades). Template weapons such as frag missiles, certain heavy weapons and grenades, on the other hand, can hurt friendly units if they scatter into their ranks.

* The ''VideoGame/DynastyWarriors'' series (and [[VideoGame/SamuraiWarriors spin]][[WarriorsOrochi offs]]) not only have the general meaning of this in spades (you can swing your weapon around freely in a pitched melee and still only hit enemy soldiers, leaving your friendly RedShirts unscathed), it also applies a particularly literal version: Using a Fire Attack to set an area ablaze will generally only harm enemies. So if you just set a base on fire, it'll burn your enemies to a crisp, while you can freely fight amongst the flames without even SWEATING. Of course, it also works the other way around if the AI decides to set something on fire. Interestingly, with fire being so partisan, the only kind of flames that'll indiscriminately hurt BOTH sides are ACCIDENTAL fires... so really, the best way to avoid getting burned is to set the place on fire before anyone ELSE can.

[[caption-width-right:350:Heavy and Sandvich both passed their Spy Check.]]

* Usually played straight throughout the ''Franchise/ShiningSeries'', as big area-of-effect spells only target the opposing party, but there's one aversion in ''VideoGame/ShiningForce'' which is in the player's favor. In Chapter 3, you're tasked with crossing a natural land bridge which is guarded by a machine called the Laser Eye, which periodically fires a large cannon down the bridge. It hits ''everything'' in its path, and the battle starts with several enemy units waiting in its line of fire. That said, you'll have to [[CutTheKnot make use of your flyers]] if you want to cross unscathed, yourself.

* Most games in the ''Franchise/TalesSeries''. As the games in the series are action-{{RPG}}s and the antagonists frequently draw from the same pool of spells as the protagonists, this can make dodging a chore if you're not paying attention, since Abyssion's Meteor Storm looks exactly the same as Genis's Meteor Storm.

* Averted in ''SuikodenIII'' - area effect spells hit in the area of effect, and if your friends happen to be standing right next to your target , then that's just too damn bad for them. Spells that are 'Hit All', however, will still only target foes...

* In ''{{Spore}}'', you cannot kill or even harm any members of your own species in the Cell and Creature stages.

* Averted in ''VideoGame/MagicalBattleArena''. Thankfully in some cases, since this meant that there's a chance that [[MultiMookMelee your enemies might accidentally blow their companions up]] trying to get at you, but be very wary if someone like, say... [[{{LightNovel/Slayers}} Lina]] or [[MagicalGirlLyricalNanoha Nanoha]] is your ally. If you hear the [[KamehameHadoken Dragon Slave]] chant or the words "[[CatchPhrase Zenryoku Zenkai]]", that should be your signal to fly [[SphereOfDestruction far away from their target]].

** ''VideoGame/CallOfDutyWorldAttWar'' plays the trope straight (at least in single player). Especially bad when you can shoot napalm straight through your squad to hit the enemies on the other side... And with one of the Death Cards, you can heal teammates in co-op by shooting them.

* Thankfully present in ''VideoGame/ResidentEvil5'', where your bullets and those of your partner can't hurt each other. Its still annoying, though, that your partner will gladly stand right behind you and keep shooting you in the back to get at the enemy in front of you.
* Completely averted in ''VideoGame/ResidentEvil4'' You can kill your EscortMission package in ONE hit by ANYTHING including one knife swipe. And even the merchant. However the ENEMY can't hurt each other AT ALL, even if the person obviously had stabbed his partner in the back. However people with dynamites can still kill the other ganados, and Jj can also shoot his own military.
** Of course, there is the option to turn on friendly fire. [[SarcasmMode Good times will be had by all.]]

* Averted viciously in ''Podcast/CriticalHit'', are real play DungeonsAndDragons campaign. In accordance with the DungeonsAndDragons tabletop game example below, a mage has to be very, very careful with the placement of the spells. Being the BigGuy in the party that consists mostly of arcane casters, Torq ends up being set on fire by allies so often that it becomes a RunningGag. But he is far from the only one to be caught in the area of effect spells cast by allies, and every party members experiences it at least once, some by their own spells. [[SquishyWizard Orem]] eventually took a feat that allows him to invoke FriendlyFireproof by giving his spells a penalty to attack rolls against allies (meaning that allies are less likely to be hit by the spell than enemies are), but, as the party quickly discovered, it does not help when the eponimous critical hit is rolled.

* ''VideoGame/Vermintide'', which is essentially a Warhammer version of ''VideoGame/Left4Dead'' initially plays this trope straight, then averts it as part of the dramatic gameplay shift between the hard and nightmare difficulty levels, turning on friendly fire for all ranged and area attacks (but not melee attacks).

* Averted in ''MagicalBattleArena''. Thankfully in some cases, since this meant that there's a chance that [[MultiMookMelee your enemies might accidentally blow their companions up]] trying to get at you, but be very wary if someone like, say... [[{{LightNovel/Slayers}} Lina]] or [[MagicalGirlLyricalNanoha Nanoha]] is your ally. If you hear the [[KamehameHadoken Dragon Slave]] chant or the words "[[CatchPhrase Zenryoku Zenkai]]", that should be your signal to fly [[SphereOfDestruction far away from their target]].