Tropescilloscope: Improbable Aiming Skills

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

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Roger Ebert: Great Movies List Ironic Echo Hollywood Law Too Dumb to Live Posthumous Character No Name Given Documentary Fanservice Action Survivor Chekhov's Gunman Worthy Opponent Artistic License – History Anachronic Order Not Using the "Z" Word Ass Shove Dutch Angle Implacable Man Small Name, Big Ego Red Herring For the Evulz Biopic Impaled with Extreme Prejudice Your Cheating Heart Fantastic Racism Daddy's Girl Animal Title Index Black and Gray Morality Hero of Another Story As Long as It Sounds Foreign The Ghost Car Fu Unusual Euphemism Bound and Gagged Becoming the Mask Why Did It Have to Be Snakes? Made of Iron Unresolved Sexual Tension Take That! 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Epilogue Offscreen Moment of Awesome Drugs Are Bad Evil Counterpart Mr. Fanservice All Girls Want Bad Boys In Medias Res Serial Killer Villain Ball Real Life Good Is Not Nice Hair-Trigger Temper Madness Mantra Never My Fault Line-of-Sight Name Armor-Piercing Question Australian Movies The Chessmaster Light Is Not Good Works Set in World War II Adaptational Heroism I Need a Freaking Drink Ascended Extra timeperiod An Axe to Grind Have a Gay Old Time Hoist by His Own Petard Chase Scene It's All About Me An Aesop Book-Ends Downer Ending Auto Erotica Bare Your Midriff Anti-Villain Foreshadowing No Ending The Starscream Setting Update Punny Name Canon Foreigner Off with His Head! Double-Meaning Title Random Events Plot Everyone Has Standards Anachronism Stew Only Sane Man Stealth Pun Award-Bait Song The Stoic The '90s Gainax Ending Evil Is Hammy Based on a True Story Dual Wielding Amoral Attorney Crazy Jealous Guy Malevolent Masked Men You Have Got to Be Kidding Me! 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Scenery Porn Ragtag Bunch of Misfits Hope Spot Same Language Dub Body Horror Faux Affably Evil Reality Ensues Deal with the Devil Insult Backfire Defiant to the End Funny Foreigner Pyrrhic Victory Canadian Movies Men Are the Expendable Gender Bowdlerise Mind Screw Danny Peary Cult Movies List Historical Hero Upgrade Animal Motifs Chiaroscuro You Have Failed Me Big Damn Heroes Make It Look Like an Accident Rule of Cool Eiffel Tower Effect BFG Shipper on Deck Toplessness from the Back The Big Guy Darker and Edgier Funny Background Event Catapult Nightmare Leitmotif Italian Films The Lost Lenore Offscreen Teleportation Take a Third Option Pre-Asskicking One-Liner Mythology Gag Manly Tears Military and Warfare Films Bloodier and Gorier The Oner The End... Or Is It? Sci-Fi Horror A Father to His Men Totally Radical Every Car Is a Pinto Crazy-Prepared Evil Plan Laughing Mad Punctuated! For! Emphasis! 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