History Main / ImprobableAimingSkills

* In Videogame/{{Overwatch}} animated short "Reunion", [=McCree=] demonstrates absurd aiming skills during the gunfight, including taking out someone while [[OffhandBackhand not even looking in their direction]] and then, at the end, putting bullets through multiple grenades he'd tossed at one time toward his opponents.

** "[[Recap/PhineasAndFerbAintNoKiddieRide Ain't No Kiddie Ride]]": Ferb, as Candace is falling into a canyon on a [[ItMakesSenseInContext coin-powered rocket]] when she run's out of quarters. Ferb casually does "The Robot" for a couple of tourists, who give him a quarter. Then he proceeds to slingshot the coin straight into the slot and save his sister's life.
** In both "[[Recap/PhineasAndFerbMeaplessInSeattle Meapless in Seattle]]" and "[[Recap/PhineasAndFerbLastDayOfSummer Last Day of Summer]]", Candace saves the day by throwing a small object at some sort of target.

** [[MeaningfulName Crosshair]] from the "Bad Batch" arc (and [[WesternAnimation/StarWarsTheBadBatch its subsequent spinoff]]) is the best sniper in both the Republic and Imperial armies. He can even use mirrors to reflect his blaster bolts to hit targets that would otherwise be out of his line-of-sight.

* ''WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes'': In "WesternAnimation/WildAndWoollyHare", WesternAnimation/BugsBunny brags to WesternAnimation/YosemiteSam that he can ricochet a shot all over the saloon until it parts Sam's hair right down the middle. He fires, and the bullet does indeed carom where Bugs said it would, but it seems to have missed Sam... until Sam's hat splits open, revealing a perfect part through his hair. Bugs Bunny also does a trick shot with a glowing rivet (who needs guns) in "Homeless Hare".

* ''Toys/{{Bionicle}}'' classifies this as an actual superpower, with the [[MaskOfPower Kanohi Sanok, the Mask of Accuracy]], giving the wearer the ability to turn any object into a projectile that will always hit its target. Many characters have Improbable Aiming Skills without the help of a mask, however - in fact, the one known bearer of a Sanok finds himself rarely using it because his unparalleled Kolhii skills as a Matoran already make him a crack shot as a Toa.

--> '''Crosshairs''': Hey, it worked.\\
'''Pyro''': .... you've been doing this for too long.

* Averted with all character that use firearms in ''Webcomic/{{Homestuck}}'', two of them simply use MoreDakka and huge guns, while Jade has never really been in a [[TeleportSpam fair fight to begin with.]]

* During one of the Website/YouTube channel Outside Xbox's videos of dishonoured, Mike pulls off a headshot on his (moving) target from a building on the other side of a town square, using a flintlock pistol.

* ''WebAnimation/RedVsBlue'':
** {{Inverted|Trope}} with Church in season 6. He unloads his entire magazine at someone less than three feet away... and misses every single shot.
** Played straight in the flashback segments with Agent North Dakota, the Freelancers' sniping specialist, and justified with the assistance of his AI. He makes many impressive or outright impossible shots, culminating in the feat of dual-wielding sniper rifles and rapid-fire shooting several in-flight anti-personnel missiles out of the air milliseconds before they would've hit Tex.

** Played straight in the flashback segments with Agent North Dakota, the Freelancers' sniping specialist. He makes several impressive shots, culminating in dual-wielding sniper rifles and rapid-fire shooting several in-flight anti-personnel missiles out of the air milliseconds before they would've hit Tex.

* Jason Teller of ''[[WebOriginal/AcademyOfSuperheroes ASH]]'' has very low-level telekinesis and a superhuman grasp of angles, resulting in this.

Warning shots might take the form of a KnifeOutline or WilliamTelling.

* ImprobableAimingSkills/RealLife

* ''WesternAnimation/StarWarsCloneWars'': The ARC Troopers possess impressive powers of accuracy, almost every shot blasts a droid's head off and a single trooper takes out a Trade Federation armored tank in less than 5 seconds by running up the side of it, blasting the top off, shooting several shots from the inside of the machine and running like hell.

* ''TabletopGame/TheWitcherRolePlayingGame'': A skill tree for archers allows PCs to pull off shots that are unheard of in real life using a bow or crossbow, such as a skill that allows firing two arrows at once or firing a shot at twice the effective range of the weapon without penalties (with the furthest firing bow, this would make the maximum range 700 meters. For comparison, the furthest recorded archery shot in real life is 330 meters).

* ''Literature/TheBible'' records Israel's war against their own Tribe of Benjamin. Within it, we get a description of some very talented Benjamites: "Among all this people were seven hundred select men who were left-handed; every one could [[SufferTheSlings sling a stone]] at a hair's breadth and not miss." (Judges 20:13 NKJV) Though we aren't given a description of the distance across which the stone would have to fly, it's safe to assume that it would be a distance short enough for the travelling stone to kill a man, and also long enough to be an effective talent against an incoming army.

** To hear Admiral Zhao tell it, the Yuyan Archers can pin to a tree from a hundred paces away -- ''without killing it''. Though this was most likely hyperbole, they are able to [[KnifeOutline pin Aang to a log by his shirt]] and nail the Blue Spirit ([[spoiler:a disguised Zuko]]) in the head, from a great distance in the middle of the night.

Almost always used by TheGunslinger (or, in fantasy settings, a MasterArcher). Contrast with ATeamFiring, MoreDakka (which emphasizes quantity over quality, but is sometimes used with this trope), and the ImperialStormtrooperMarksmanshipAcademy. May be used to ShootTheRope. When the computer AI pulls this off, it's TheComputerIsACheatingBastard. See also AlwaysAccurateAttack, GunFu.

* ''Webcomic/FeyWinds'' gives us [[http://kitsune.rydia.net/comic/page.php?id=240 this one]]: Four ricochets for a possession gem dangerously close to her brain.

* ''Machinima/RedVsBlue'':

** Played straight in the flashback segments with Agent North Dakota, the Freelancers' sniping specialist. He makes several impressive shots, culminating in [[UpToEleven dual-wielding sniper rifles and rapid-fire shooting several in-flight anti-personnel missiles out of the air milliseconds before they would've hit Tex]].

%%* ''WesternAnimation/TheLegendOfZelda'': This is just one of Link's repertoire of improbable skills.%%ZCE

* ''TabletopGame/Pathfinder'': The Ricochet Shot Deed and Circuitous Shot feats allow the user to ricochet their ranged attacks off of terrain to hit targets that would normally have cover from their shots. There's also the Redirected Shot Deed feat that allows a character to redirect an ally's ranged attack to help them hit their target... by ''shooting the ally's own projectile to change its trajectory.''

** ''TabletopGame/{{Warhammer}}'': The Tileans are already notable for their skill with the crossbow, but the Marksmen of Miragliano are truly something special. Being able to put a bolt through the center of a coin from 300 paces is considered the bare minimum of skill needed to get into the regiment to begin with, and constant training afterwards results in some of the most ludicrously accurate long-range marksmen in the Old World.

The melee version is LudicrousMeleeAccuracy. Opposite to AmusinglyAwfulAim.

The melee version is LudicrousMeleeAccuracy.

** To hear Admiral Zhao tell it, the Yuyan Archers can pin to a tree from a hundred paces away -- ''without killing it''. Though this was most likely hyperbole, they are able to [[KnifeOutline pin Aang to a log by his shirt]] and nail the Blue Spirit ([[spoiler:a disguised Zuko]]), from a great distance in the middle of the night.