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* ''VideoGame/ResidentEvil4'', if you're aiming at a Ganados head it'll cover their face with its hands or move out of the way. Justified in this case as they can probably see the laser sight shining into their eye.

** To justify the Wii version, since it uses a pointer crosshair and not a laser sight, the Ganados can probably see you pointing a gun at their face.

* In ''VideoGame/TheElderScrollsVSkyrim'' NPC archers will strafe from side to side to make themselves hard to hit with ranged attacks and NPC mages will ''leap'' to avoid ranged attacks ... sometimes even when you're supposedly hidden from them.

* ''VideoGame/ActionDoom2UrbanBrawl'' does this briefly at the beginning of a sequence where you run across a field, hiding behind hay bales from a sniper hiding in a tree. It's used to notify you about the sniper's presence and position in the first place. After his first shot, though, the game switches back to first-person perspective.

* The Death Egg Robot from ''VideoGame/SonicTheHedgehog2'', seen above, uses this with its jump attack.
* Both of the mecha bosses in the Dark story ''VideoGame/SonicAdventure2'' use this with their laser.

* Some of the Final Smash attacks in ''VideoGame/SuperSmashBros'' (Snake's in ''Brawl'' and Pit's and Bowser's in ''Ultimate'') have the affect of producing a crosshair which the player using the final smash can toggle to aim at the opponent, allowing the intended victim to try to escape. The dragoon also has a crosshair effect once you collect all three parts.

The non VideoGame version is the BondGunBarrel.

* In the SNES game of ''Series/PowerRangers: TheMovie'', Cannon Top (the second level boss) fired missiles that landed on the crosshair that appeared over the rangers, who had to evade them.

* In ''Franchise/SpiderMan'' on GameBoy, when climbing buildings, your spidersense tells you when something's about to fall on you.

* In ''SpiderMan'' on GameBoy, when climbing buildings, your spidersense tells you when something's about to fall on you.

** A bizarre crosshair symbol appears whenever the Force Commander calls in an orbital bombardment (as if the PillarsOfLight appearing weren't a big enough clue).

* ''Franchise/CrashBandicoot'':

* The cannon on the Halberd stage in ''[[VideoGame/SuperSmashBros Super Smash Bros. Brawl]]'' occasionally tracks one of the players with these.

* When the [[ColdSniper Hunter]] in ''[[VideoGame/XCOM2]]'' ''[[DownloadableContent War of the Chosen]]'' prepares to fire his [[AlwaysAccurateAttack Tracking Shot]], a very visible target area appears on the ground around the intended victim(s). Anyone who's still inside the area by the Hunter's next turn ''will'' regret it regardless of cover or how many buildings are between them and the Chosen. Thankfully, the target area is fairly small, so avoiding the shot is both easy to do and means the Hunter just wasted a full turn (although he prefers targeting your own snipers, which prevents them from sniping back after they were forced to move).

* Some bosses in the ''RaySeries'' use these to telegraph attacks such as {{Macross Missile Massacre}}s.

* In ''Hany on the Road'' for the PCEngine, the volcano stage has shadows appearing where lava rocks are about to fall.

* Quadraxis in ''VideoGame/MetroidPrime 2'' has a variant: The target marker appears on Samus' visor. In Morph Ball form, it shows up as a laser.

* The first boss of ''VideoGame/CrashTwinsanity''.

** On that subject, ''Most Valuable Vajra'', Shou's [[{{ThatOneAttack}} ridiculously hard spellcard]] does this. When a circle appears, one of the pairs of lasers is going to move its origin point there! While still rotating. The spellcard is borderline impossible to capture on anything above easy (and even then, it's only capturable on easy because the easy version only has one pair of lasers, not two).

** Sentries controlled with a Wrangler project a team-colored laser beam which is visible not just where it points but also in mid-air [[JustifiedTrope so the Engineer, who doesn't have a Sniper's first person view of the weapon, can tell where exactly the thing is pointing.]]

* In ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyIV'', the [[DemonicSpiders Trap Door]] enemies in the [[ScrappyLevel Sealed Cave]] will track down a party member in one round, then cast ''[[OneHitKill Nth Dimension]]'' (formerly ''Disrupt'') on him or her. Then it will move on to the next party member... While this attack can be reflected, you need good anticipation, because the crosshair and spell are two parts of the same action.

** Cyber-Errol from ''VideoGame/JakIIIWastelander'' also has this attack during one fight. He also has a variant with one missile, which is guided. The crosshair keeps following Jak even after it fires (unlike the MMM attack).