Improbable Aiming Skills in comic books.
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- 100 Bullets: While all The Minutemen wield handguns with deadly accuracy; Minuteman Willie Tymes never misses. His fellow agents gave him a nickname "My first shot is my last."
- ABC Warriors: Joe Pineapples is the greatest sniper in the universe. He can hit targets from across the galaxy.
- Disney Ducks Comic Universe: In a Donald Duck classic, one of the nephews manages to deflect Donald's golf ball into a hole-in-one by rapidly firing several shots at it. With a toy airgun. Which he just happened to bring with him. To the golf course.
- East of West: Both Death and The Ranger are impossibly good shots. The latter once managed to snipe his target from a couple mountain ranges away, to which the former retaliated by shooting him in the shoulder from the exact same range. And that was with a revolver.
- ElfQuest: The Archer Strongbow never misses, to the point that when he does it's an obvious sign that he's in a bad way psychologically. And shortly after recovering from that, he gets the ability to hit a target without even seeing it, though he's assumed to owe that to magical help.
- The Fox Hunt: Shinji, while lying face-down during a bank robbery, manages to throw off his shoe with such precision that it flies over his head and the head of the distracted bank robber and lands right on top of said robber's gun, giving Shinji enough time to undress into his Ghost Fox costume to boot.
- Invincible: Best Tiger, a new member of Image Comics' Guardians of the Globe, is by a wide margin the greatest marksman to ever live. Which is why he wears a blindfold so his work will remain challenging. He is introduced using a single bullet to take out several dozen men via ricochet; he intentionally inflicted superficial yet disabling wounds so the bullet would be able to keep up its momentum.
- The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen: Allan Quartermain gained access to the League of Extraordinary Gentlemen mostly by virtue of his Improbable Aiming Skills. At least he's got the good grace to use a rifle. The film version did, at least; in the comic, Allan is considered valuable for his experience in adventuring more than anything else, and his signature weapon is an elephant gun and, later, a custom-made double-barreled shotgun — firearms that are very hard to miss with. In the film, he also manages to teach Tom Sawyer to shoot just as accurately, which proves useful in taking out the Big Bad. Interestingly, the film also shows that Quartermain's vision isn't what it used to be. He needs glasses, but can still shoot just as precisely.
- Lucky Luke: Lucky Luke is the quintessential Wild West example in European comics. Please note that Lucky Luke is a parody, so his skills are meant to be impossibly amazing, just like the bad guys are meant to be impossibly stupid.
- He can shoot off the firing pin of a derringer tinier than a pinky — and do so (visibly) faster than his shadow.
- At another point, he goes into a saloon and shoots seemingly random holes into a roll of waxed paper. Then he puts the roll and a coin into the player piano... which proceeds to play Chopin's "Funeral March"
. - O.K. Corral has the Earp brothers show off their skills by shooting a candle on a fence some distance away. Luke reveals himself by shooting the wick. Later he shoots a thrown revolver's trigger in midair so it shoots another target.
- There are other occasions of improbable aiming in the comics — in one instance, two Dalton brothers shoot two bullets at each other that collide with each other half-way between them.
- Pistol Pete, a one-shot villain in Going Up the Mississippi, can hit the trigger of another gun hanging from the ceiling, which then shoots an apple on Pete's own head. Fortunately for Luke, he cannot count and Luke easily tricks him in wasting all his bullets on trick shots.
- Phil Defer, the main antagonist from the eponymous episode, can fire his guns accurately while making a handstand, and quick enough to catch himself afterwards. He actually is smart enough for Counting Bullets, but Luke surprises him with a special gun that holds one additional bullet.
- Preacher: The Saint of Killers has magical (they were made from the sword of the Angel of Death) revolvers that cannot miss, never run out of bullets, never jam, never inflict anything less than a fatal wound, and can be drawn faster than the eye can see. Given that he's also completely invulnerable, getting on his bad side (or, for that matter, getting close to him) is not recommended. In the final issue he kills God with his guns.
- Robyn Hood: Like all comic book archers, Robyn Hood possesses these skills. In her case there is a magical element to her skill, but she is shown repeatedly Splitting the Arrow without her magical bow.
- Rough Riders: Jack Johnson is briefly able to keep a swarm of alien insects at bay by boxing it.
- Sin City: In the story Hell and Back, a sniper has a rifle with telescopic sights mounted on a tripod. He misses, the good guy, Wallace, returns fire, across a street, into a darkened building with a short-barreled revolver. His bullet goes down the telescopic sight and through the snipers eye into his brain.
- Both Sin City and The Badger have featured a character throwing an object with such accuracy that it plugs the barrel of an enemy's gun. What wouldn't a darts player give to be able to throw like that?
- Daredevil has also done the plugging-a-gun (and surely Bullseye too). Frank Miller really likes these feats, doesn't he?
- Sonic the Comic:
- Amy Rose uses a crossbow and in issue #44 fires an arrow from a moving plane at a tiny little button that destroys an entire bridge.
- Sonic also deserves some mention. While free-falling from the Death Egg II, Sonic steals a EggRobo's laser gun manages to fire one laser shot and perfectly hit the EggRobo carrying the Master Emerald (which is also moving and is about the size of a large boulder).
- Tex Willer: Tex Willer is usually shown as a realistically good shot in addition to the Fastest Gun in the West. Then in one occasion he used his Winchester to shoot a sniper from the limit of said sniper's Sharps. Justified by the fact he knew what he was doing, and applied the real-life technique of aiming at a point over the sniper counting for the bullet drop to put the shot on target (an extremely difficult shot, as Tex stated while he calculated the path).
- Thorgal: Kris de Valnor is reputed as a deadly archer and proves it many times through the series. However, Thorgal himself can top her feats when pressed. In one instance he won a Duel to the Death by firing two arrows at once. One of them hit the villain while the other collided with his crossbow bolt in mid-air.
- Usagi Yojimbo:
- In an early episode, the hero is attacked by a ruffian who is so dirty that flies swarm around him. That is, before the attack. A second's worth of flashing steel later all the flies are lying on the floor, split in half. Except for the last one that's been filleted.
- In the "Samurai" story arc, Usagi recalls his training with Katsuichi-Sensei; they encountered a group of bandits, one of whom grabbed Usagi and stuck a persimmon seed to his nose, daring Katsuichi to draw his sword and slice the seed in half, or else the bandit would cut Usagi's throat. Katsuichi draws his sword and slashes too fast to be seen - killing the bandit leader and causing the rest to flee in terror. Walking home, Usagi jokes that his teacher may be the greatest swordsman in all of Japan, even if he can't slice a persimmon seed. Then he remembers that the seed is still stuck to his nose. In an eyeblink, Katsuichi draws his sword and slices the seed cleanly in half, without breaking the skin of his student's nose.
- In another issue at a carnival, samurai Usagi cannot hit a target while Rich Bitch turned Defrosting Ice Queen Kiku gets a bull's eye on her first try. She explains that she "just aimed everywhere except the target."
- The Walking Dead: While most characters have remarkable skill at headshotting zombies, Andrea's marksmanship is acknowledged and lampshaded In-Universe as being absurdly good. Whether she's fighting zombies or other humans she's virtually never shown landing anything but perfect headshots. The most impressive part is that Andrea never even fired a gun before the Zombie Apocalypse.Andrea: I'm really good with a gun. Very good. It's kind of ridiculous.
- Wanted: The Killer, who is clearly a Captain Ersatz of Bullseye and Deadshot, is so great a shot that he decides to pack it in the first time he misses a target from less than a half-mile away. His son, Wesley, inherits the power, which allows him to shoot flies out of midair, deflect bullets with a knife, and shoot people between the eyes without looking at them.
- W.I.T.C.H.: Will Vandom was always rather good at hitting targets with her powers. Then the last issue of the comic book gave her the ability to see everywhere in the universe... And, upon noticing a girl flirting with her boyfriend she nailed her with a piece of cake from another dimension, qualifying for this trope.
