"If you was to put me and this here sniper rifle anywhere up to and including one mile of Adolf Hitler, with a clear line sight, sir — pack your bags, fellas, the war's over."
— Private Daniel Jackson, Saving Private Ryan
The sniper. Master of stealth and deadly accuracy, the ninja of long - range gunpowder weaponry. These tropes are associated with snipers.
Types of snipers:
What a sniper uses:
- Improbable Aiming Skills
- Sniper Rifle
- Target Spotter (common in real life, very rare in fiction)
What happens when snipers go to work:
- Assassination Attempt
- Blasting It Out of Their Hands
- Boom, Headshot!
- Conspicuously Public Assassination
- Guns Do Not Work That Way
- Instant Death Bullet
- One-Hit Kill
- Pink Mist
- Pretty Little Headshots
- Scope Snipe
- Shoot the Hostage Taker
- Sniper Duel
- Sniper Scope Glint
- Sniping the Cockpit
- William Telling