Tropescilloscope: Improbable Aiming Skills

A demonstration of ludicrous accuracy with ranged weapons. (read more at tvtropes.org)

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More Tropes Creator Cameo Plot Hole Pragmatic Villainy Australian Movies Eldritch Abomination Married to the Job Aside Glance Gone Horribly Right Drill Sergeant Nasty Nice Job Breaking It, Hero! It Can Think It's Personal Damsel in Distress Apocalypse How Madness Mantra Camera Abuse Captain Ersatz Corpsing Unspoken Plan Guarantee Even Bad Men Love Their Mamas Playing Gertrude Badass Bookworm Narrator Suddenly SHOUTING! Only Known by Their Nickname Reasonable Authority Figure The Faceless German Films Sliding Scale of Idealism vs. Cynicism Jerkass Has a Point Dramedy Coming-of-Age Story Irony Works Set in World War II Not Using the "Z" Word Serious Business Sequel Escalation Frame-Up The '80s The Bully Determinator aka: The Determinator Evil vs. Evil Evil Is Hammy Drowning My Sorrows Same Language Dub Off-into-the-Distance Ending Malevolent Masked Men Double-Meaning Title Dull Surprise Ascended Extra Sacrificial Lion Adaptation Dye-Job Small Name, Big Ego Parental Abandonment Deliberately Monochrome Fiery Redhead Exact Words Wham Line Names to Run Away from Really Fast Zombie Stories Your Head A-Splode Pet the Dog Naïve Newcomer Sir Not-Appearing-in-This-Trailer Sudden Sequel Death Syndrome Groin Attack Silent Movie Woman Scorned Dying Moment of Awesome Soundtrack Dissonance All Men Are Perverts The Chick Loads and Loads of Characters Say My Name Mr. Fanservice Impaled with Extreme Prejudice Disproportionate Retribution The '60s Only a Flesh Wound Serial Killer Kubrick Stare "Well Done, Son!" Guy Throwing Your Sword Always Works Rich Bitch Take a Third Option Villain Protagonist Blackmail Beard of Evil Gainax Ending Batman Gambit Body Horror Meaningful Name Adaptation Expansion Hero of Another Story Left the Background Music On Dramatic Irony Not So Above It All You Have Failed Me Heroes Want Redheads Peek-a-Boo Corpse Silence Is Golden Love Triangle Anti-Hero Logo Joke Light Is Not Good Didn't Think This Through Historical-Domain Character Covers Always Lie Romantic Comedy Idiot Ball Imperial Stormtrooper Marksmanship Academy Chase Scene Wicked Cultured Daylight Horror Cowboy Cop Unresolved Sexual Tension Gory Discretion Shot Ironic Echo "Awesome McCool" Name Author Avatar Expository Hairstyle Change Race Against the Clock Bald of Evil Cool Guns Heroic Sacrifice In Medias Res Ragtag Bunch of Misfits Mr. Exposition Dutch Angle Mythology Gag Cloudcuckoolander Dwindling Party Mind Screw Catch-Phrase Accidental Misnaming Improbable Infant Survival aka: Infant Immortality Lighter and Softer Kids Are Cruel Villain with Good Publicity Hate Sink The Load The Musical Department of Redundancy Department The End... Or Is It? Red Right Hand Improbable Weapon User Parental Neglect Cool Old Guy Faux Affably Evil Chewing the Scenery Word of God Character Development Stalker with a Crush Make It Look Like an Accident Our Vampires Are Different Anyone Can Die Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds Disguised in Drag Bloody Hilarious Vomit Indiscretion Shot Scenery Gorn Actor Allusion Genre Shift Ax-Crazy Foil Domestic Abuse You Have Outlived Your Usefulness Pretty Little Headshots Beta Couple O.O.C. Is Serious Business Adaptation Distillation Mystery and Detective Films Anachronic Order The Place Arch-Enemy Comically Missing the Point Action Prologue From Bad to Worse Line-of-Sight Name Fat Bastard The Alleged Car Cool Shades Costume Porn Film Noir Tempting Fate Kill 'em All The Ghost Would Hurt a Child Stock Footage Antagonist Title Artistic License – History Blonde, Brunette, Redhead The Lancer Obstructive Bureaucrat Crucified Hero Shot Scenery Porn Establishing Character Moment Improvised Weapon Crazy-Prepared Jack Bauer Interrogation Technique Documentary Break the Cutie Nothing Is Scarier Lock and Load Montage Protagonist Title Fire-Forged Friends Visual Pun The Hero Dies Biopic Crapsack World Outrun the Fireball Cool Car Important Haircut Friend to All Children Big-Bad Ensemble Evil Laugh Disappeared Dad And I Must Scream Ominous Latin Chanting No Celebrities Were Harmed Too Dumb to Live Badass Boast Grievous Bottley Harm Christmas Movies Index Sinister Minister Easily Forgiven Wrong Genre Savvy A Minor Kidroduction Running Gag Slasher Smile Five-Man Band Getting Crap Past the Radar Karma Houdini Together in Death Pretty in Mink No Good Deed Goes Unpunished Get Out! All There in the Manual Toilet Humour aka: Toilet Humor Failed a Spot Check Woman in White Rape as Drama Precision F-Strike A God Am I Femme Fatale Stealth Pun Deal with the Devil The Dreaded Slasher Movie Call-Back Fantastic Racism Hair-Trigger Temper Needs Wiki Magic Love There Is No Kill Like Overkill Take That! Market-Based Title Betty and Veronica The Remake N-Word Privileges Revenge For the Evulz Almost Kiss Italian Films Dark Reprise Eye Scream I Just Shot Marvin in the Face Bloodless Carnage Nice Job Fixing It, Villain! The Mole Daddy's Girl Does Not Like Shoes Reality Ensues Guns Akimbo And Starring MacGuffin Decoy Protagonist Alpha Bitch Adult Fear Bland-Name Product Fish out of Water Put on a Bus Dirty Old Man Despair Event Horizon The Power of Love Closed Circle Death by Sex Big Brother Instinct Reality Has No Subtitles No-Sell timeperiod Storming the Castle Manic Pixie Dream Girl Ooh, Me Accent's Slipping What Happened to the Mouse? One-Man Army And the Adventure Continues One Steve Limit Not So Stoic Mooks As the Good Book Says... After the End Those Two Bad Guys Music Stories Defrosting Ice Queen What the Hell, Hero? Video Credits Belligerent Sexual Tension Big "NO!" Fate Worse than Death Call-Forward Accidental Murder Your Cheating Heart Pay Evil unto Evil Blatant Lies Stealth Hi/Bye Male Gaze Maybe Ever After Hypocrite The Reveal Beauty Is Never Tarnished Bilingual Bonus No Antagonist Film Noir Index Defiant to the End Freeze-Frame Bonus She's Got Legs Brick Joke Toplessness from the Back Actually Pretty Funny Intergenerational Friendship Foreshadowing Fun with Acronyms Screw the Money, I Have Rules! Fan Disservice Green-Eyed Monster Auto Erotica Man on Fire Insistent Terminology Retired Badass Honor Before Reason The Stinger A.I. Is a Crapshoot Jump Scare Redshirt Army Soft Glass Aluminum Christmas Trees Kick the Dog The Big Guy Author Appeal Translation Convention Well-Intentioned Extremist Rewatch Bonus Tagline Ambiguous Ending From Nobody to Nightmare Advertised Extra Armor-Piercing Question Arc Words Rule of Funny Becoming the Mask My Greatest Failure In the Back Shell-Shocked Veteran Be Careful What You Wish For Horror Films Ungrateful Bastard Rape Is a Special Kind of Evil Eyepatch of Power Mercy Kill The Voiceless Cain and Abel No OSHA Compliance Last-Name Basis Drives Like Crazy Gorn Random Events Plot Hero Antagonist The Un-Reveal The Quiet One Combat Pragmatist Sole Survivor Even Evil Has Standards Handicapped Badass Death Seeker Face Death with Dignity Spanner in the Works Love at First Sight Death by Irony French Films Token Minority Thriller Shirtless Scene Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking Dark Action Girl Driven to Suicide Adaptation Name Change Politically Incorrect Villain Wham Shot Black Dude Dies First Dissonant Serenity Extremely Short Timespan Broken Aesop Death by Adaptation Once More, with Clarity! Disney Villain Death Sir Swears-a-Lot Anguished Declaration of Love Faking the Dead Leitmotif The Stoner The '70s Cruel and Unusual Death Cluster F-Bomb Screw the Rules, I Have Money! All for Nothing Title Drop Psychopathic Manchild Empathic Environment An Arm and a Leg Horror Doesn't Settle for Simple Tuesday Recycled IN SPACE! Darker and Edgier Composite Character Heterosexual Life-Partners Half the Man He Used to Be Kick the Son of a Bitch Bound and Gagged Red Shirt One-Word Title Truth in Television Vacation Films Fainting Superhero Plucky Comic Relief All There in the Script Tranquil Fury Reality Is Unrealistic Anachronism Stew Sequel Hook Casting Gag Informed Ability Gratuitous English I Have Your Wife Scare Chord Why Don't You Just Shoot Him? Mad Scientist Hypocritical Humor She Cleans Up Nicely Agony of the Feet Killed Mid-Sentence Cool Old Lady Adaptational Heroism Villain Ball Grey and Gray Morality Setting Update Authority Equals Asskicking Big Applesauce Film Series Totally Radical Sci-Fi Horror What You Are in the Dark The Chessmaster Took a Level in Jerkass Aww, Look! They Really Do Love Each Other Mistaken for Gay Heel Realization Dropped a Bridge on Him Central Theme Novelization Ugly Guy, Hot Wife Anti-Villain For Want of a Nail Broken Pedestal Match Cut Skewed Priorities This Is Gonna Suck Here We Go Again! Military and Warfare Films Mexican Standoff Super Strength Everyone Has Standards Made of Iron Artistic License – Law As You Know Fantasy Films Spiteful Spit Ms. Fanservice Drugs Are Bad Evil Sounds Deep Product Placement An Axe to Grind Screw the Rules, I'm Doing What's Right! Asshole Victim Hidden Depths Not So Different Monumental Damage Television Movie Index Rule of Cool Evil Counterpart Vomit Discretion Shot Big Bad Victoria's Secret Compartment Expy Male Frontal Nudity Chekhov's Gun "Where Are They Now?" Epilogue Homage Red Herring Meet Cute Real Life Adults Are Useless Distracted by the Sexy Early-Bird Cameo Men Are the Expendable Gender Guile Hero The Dog Bites Back Spared by the Adaptation Moment Killer Creepy Child Neck Snap Parental Incest Rule of Three Vitriolic Best Buds Based on a True Story Historical Hero Upgrade The Stoic Spell My Name with an "S" Action Survivor Berserk Button Unusually Uninteresting Sight Children Are Innocent War Is Hell Nice Hat The Mafia The Ditz Improbable Aiming Skills The Cameo Morality Pet The Un-Favourite aka: The Un Favorite Laser-Guided Karma The X of Y Punch-Clock Villain The Casanova Never Trust a Trailer aka: Trailers Always Lie Shown Their Work Hope Spot Early Installment Weirdness Villainous Breakdown Unusual Euphemism Eiffel Tower Effect Jitter Cam Sadistic Choice British Films Time Skip Sanity Slippage Pre-Asskicking One-Liner Mundane Made Awesome Manchild Slashed Throat Wounded Gazelle Gambit Facial Horror BFG Immune to Bullets Evil Cannot Comprehend Good Ripped from the Headlines Contrived Coincidence Did Not Get the Girl Villain Opening Scene Framing Device Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane Black Comedy Epic Movie Badass Grandpa Hoist by His Own Petard Sassy Black Woman Mama Bear Fourth Date Marriage Cold-Blooded Torture B-Movie Hong Kong Films A Father to His Men Wretched Hive Public Domain Feature Films Dark and Troubled Past Enemy Mine Gold Digger I'm a Humanitarian Affectionate Parody Adapted Out Bolivian Army Ending Hair of Gold, Heart of Gold Dressing as the Enemy Four-Temperament Ensemble The Ace La Résistance Mugging the Monster Epic Fail Eagleland Brutal Honesty You Have Got to Be Kidding Me! Country Matters Imagine Spot Affably Evil The Great Depression Blood Knight Missing Mom Red Oni, Blue Oni Red Eyes, Take Warning Obfuscating Stupidity Bittersweet Ending Police are Useless Big Bad Duumvirate Age Lift The Dragon Sports Stories Up to Eleven Chiaroscuro As Long as It Sounds Foreign Bitch in Sheep's Clothing Took a Level in Badass Offscreen Teleportation Death Glare Trailers Always Spoil Dirty Cop Black Best Friend Off with His Head! World of Ham NO INDOOR VOICE Properly Paranoid Naked People Are Funny Villain Song Dirty Coward folderlabel Jerkass The '90s Ass Shove Never My Fault Motor Mouth Determinator Shout-Out Roaring Rampage of Revenge Room Full of Crazy Disney Death Historical Villain Upgrade In Name Only Creative Closing Credits Happily Married Vampire Fiction Beware the Nice Ones Historical In-Joke Break the Haughty Not Even Bothering with the Accent Stepford Smiler The Lost Lenore Camp Gay Bond Villain Stupidity Noodle Incident Card-Carrying Villain Really Gets Around Refuge in Audacity Bi the Way Back from the Dead Rated M for Manly Show Within a Show Mood Whiplash Unreliable Narrator Alliterative Name Straight Gay Animal Motifs Brother–Sister Incest Every Car Is a Pinto Boom, Headshot! Catapult Nightmare Dumb Blonde Insane Troll Logic Overprotective Dad Evil Plan Romantic False Lead Bottomless Magazines Adaptational Attractiveness Russian Films Papa Wolf Breaking the Fourth Wall Blood from the Mouth Deconstruction Brainless Beauty Adaptational Villainy Gilligan Cut Artistic License – Gun Safety Adorkable Dual Wielding He Knows Too Much Dies Wide Open Non-Indicative Name Stylistic Suck Self-Deprecation Awesome, but Impractical The Bad Guy Wins The Sociopath Japanese Films The Vamp Intrepid Reporter Would Hit a Girl The Film of the Book Even Evil Has Loved Ones The Alcoholic Those Wacky Nazis Canon Foreigner Deliberate Values Dissonance Big Damn Heroes Chekhov's Gunman Henpecked Husband Bait-and-Switch Retcon Death of a Child Gender Flip Bond One-Liner Curse Cut Short Shut Up, Hannibal! Science Fiction Films True Companions Martial Arts Movie Dramatic Gun Cock Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep" Better to Die than Be Killed The Starscream Manipulative Bastard Those Two Guys Black and Gray Morality Older Than They Look Alas, Poor Villain Leaning on the Fourth Wall Pre-Mortem One-Liner Neck Lift Demoted to Extra Stuff Blowing Up Fanservice Extra He Who Fights Monsters Hollywood Darkness Foregone Conclusion Punny Name Animated Credits Opening Let's Get Dangerous! Big Fancy House Unwitting Instigator of Doom Flipping the Bird An Aesop Double Entendre Made of Explodium Obviously Evil You Killed My Father Spiritual Successor The Smurfette Principle No-Holds-Barred Beatdown Slap-Slap-Kiss Arranged Marriage Heel–Face Turn Developing Doomed Characters Taking You with Me '80s Hair Chuck Cunningham Syndrome Destination Defenestration Conspicuous CG Heroic BSoD Implacable Man Bury Your Gays Colour-Coded for Your Convenience aka: Color Coded For Your Convenience Parental Substitute Bad Boss Due to the Dead Training Montage It Will Never Catch On Retirony Re-Cut Horror Comedy Twist Ending More Dakka Yandere Tap on the Head Rule of Symbolism Face–Heel Turn Karmic Death Bavarian Fire Drill Adaptational Badass Pimped-Out Dress Corrupt Corporate Executive Fingore No Name Given Depraved Bisexual Overly Long Gag 20 Minutes into the Future Annoying Younger Sibling Cat Scare Screw This, I'm Outta Here! Crazy Jealous Guy Roger Ebert: Great Movies List The Smart Guy Fake Shemp Amusing Injuries Credits Gag Canadian Movies All Girls Want Bad Boys Poor Communication Kills Knife Nut Cat Fight Humans Are Bastards Recap / RiffTrax aka: Riff Trax Movies Book-Ends Meaningful Echo Suspiciously Specific Denial Humiliation Conga All Just a Dream My God, What Have I Done? Continuity Nod Shoot the Shaggy Dog Interrupted Suicide Fatal Flaw The Atoner Pragmatic Adaptation Funny Background Event Evil-Detecting Dog Have a Gay Old Time Butt-Monkey Evil Is Petty Kill It with Fire Girl-on-Girl Is Hot Our Zombies Are Different Pun aka: Incredibly Lame Pun Sexy Discretion Shot Funny Foreigner Instant Death Bullet Abhorrent Admirer Final Girl Deus ex Machina Evil Brit Eureka Moment Insult Backfire Rousing Speech Genre Throwback Deadpan Snarker Mighty Whitey Action Girl Diabolus ex Machina Bare Your Midriff Artistic License – Geography Calling the Old Man Out I Did What I Had to Do Leave the Camera Running Bullying a Dragon Knight Templar My Beloved Smother Sealed Evil in a Can Big Eater Redemption Equals Death Loophole Abuse Manly Tears Dark Is Not Evil I Want My Beloved to Be Happy Flashback Very Loosely Based on a True Story Scary Black Man Darkest Hour Reckless Gun Usage Ghost Fiction Paper-Thin Disguise Bunny-Ears Lawyer Major Injury Underreaction Not What It Looks Like Index of Film Westerns Bad "Bad Acting" Why Did It Have to Be Snakes? Ambiguously Gay Exactly What It Says on the Tin Only in It for the Money Rasputinian Death Psycho for Hire Celebrity Paradox Riddle for the Ages Undying Loyalty Bring My Brown Pants Only One Name Attempted Rape Posthumous Character Curb-Stomp Battle Action Genre Amoral Attorney Jerk with a Heart of Gold Laughing Mad Offscreen Moment of Awesome Greater-Scope Villain Ship Tease Psychological Thriller Real Life Writes the Plot Artistic License – Biology Oh, Crap! Bowdlerise Artistic License – Military It's All About Me Worthy Opponent Lampshade Hanging Ambiguous Disorder Famous Last Words Artistic License – Physics Air-Vent Passageway Broken Bird Earn Your Happy Ending Fanservice Danny Peary Cult Movies List Hooker with a Heart of Gold The Cavalry Good Is Not Nice Smug Snake Suspiciously Similar Substitute The '50s Freudian Excuse Dogged Nice Guy Award-Bait Song Babies Ever After Only Sane Man Star-Crossed Lovers As Himself The Oner Jerk Jock The Hero Punctuated! For! Emphasis! Large Ham Car Fu Does This Remind You of Anything? Demonic Possession Action Film, Quiet Drama Scene Pyrrhic Victory Shower Scene Captain Obvious "Shaggy Dog" Story Meaningful Background Event Police Brutality Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass No Ending Never Trust a Trailer "The Reason You Suck" Speech Chekhov's Skill Hollywood Law Genre Savvy I Need a Freaking Drink Bloodier and Gorier Whole Plot Reference Shipper on Deck How We Got Here The Brute A Date with Rosie Palms Extreme Doormat Hell Is That Noise May–December Romance Badass Normal Fatal Family Photo Badass Longcoat Taking the Bullet Downer Ending Abusive Parents Animal Title Index Nice Guy Badass in a Nice Suit Cassandra Truth Smoking Is Cool Bar Brawl Race Lift Never Found the Body Black Comedy Rape Not Quite Dead