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* In ''Literature/AdolfHitlerMyPartInHisDownfall'', Creator/SpikeMilligan recalls being in an artillery observation post in the front line just as the Germans launched a tank attack. His unflappable officer relays instructions to the battery, some miles behind the front line, and calls in a barrage. Milligan watches while relaying the aiming corrections until - incredibly - a gun several miles away drops a direct hit on top of one of the tanks, destroying it and causing the others to retreat. He congratulates his officer on his achievement and gets the modest reply
-->Thank you, but it wasn't the one I was aiming at.
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** Birgitte Silverbow takes the trope to its LogicalExtreme: she never misses, period, because she's the embodiment of the ArcherArchetype. She once cuts a path through a citywide riot by shooting everyone in front of them through the eye.

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** Birgitte Silverbow takes the trope to its LogicalExtreme: she never misses, period, because she's the embodiment of the ArcherArchetype.period. She once cuts a path through a citywide riot by shooting everyone in front of them through the eye.
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* ''Literature/ThePerfectRun'': Fortuna kills two people with one shot during the first attack on Rust Town. Likewise, Ryan successfully shoots a matchstick falling in midair. The latter because of literal decades of practice throughout dozens of loops. The former is just because she's just that [[BornLucky lucky]].
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* Aoi from ''Literature/CatPlanetCuties'' manages to stop a sniper bullet aimed at Manami. How? She ''shoots the bullet'' with a disintegrator round before it hits.
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* Deconstructed ([[DeconstructedCharacterArchetype alongside the archetype of]] TheGunslinger) on Creator/JohnSteakley's ''Vampire$'' with the character of Felix. He's got the capacity to kill with any gun he can get his hands on, always shooting unerringly. The deconstruction (and what unnerves Felix so much about his ability to the point he prefers not to use it) is that this capacity to never miss also doesn't has a "stun" mode, so to speak. He can ''never'' shoot to wound, he can ''never'' [[BlastingItOutOfTheirHands shoot a gun out of a man's hands]], he can ''never'' pull off trick shots or fire a warning shot, he can ''never'' ShootTheHostage on "[[OnlyAFleshWound the sweet spot]]"--he will ''always'' shoot to ([[InstantDeathBullet insta-]])kill.

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* Deconstructed ([[DeconstructedCharacterArchetype alongside the archetype of]] TheGunslinger) on Creator/JohnSteakley's ''Vampire$'' with the character of Felix. He's got the capacity to kill with any gun he can get his hands on, always shooting unerringly. The deconstruction (and what unnerves Felix so much about his ability to the point he prefers not to use it) is that this capacity to never miss also doesn't has have a "stun" mode, so to speak. He can ''never'' shoot to wound, he can ''never'' [[BlastingItOutOfTheirHands shoot a gun out of a man's hands]], he can ''never'' pull off trick shots or fire a warning shot, he can ''never'' ShootTheHostage on "[[OnlyAFleshWound the sweet spot]]"--he will ''always'' shoot to ([[InstantDeathBullet insta-]])kill.

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