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Accidental Aiming Skills

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Accidental Aiming Skills	comment	We've all seen people hit impossible targets at great lengths under unbelievable circumstances. But occasionally, a hero will make a seemingly impossible shot, be congratulated on his awesomeness, and admit that he was aiming for something else entirely. Often used to subvert an awesome moment into a funny one. May be the result of the Pinball Projectile. Common when something needs to be hit by a character with legendarily lousy aim. Contrast Exactly What I Aimed At (although that trope may sometimes be an example of this one covered up with a hasty excuse).
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Accidental Aiming Skills / int_1367f42a	comment	Done a couple of times in Wyrm; the other characters compliment Ragnar on his good aim only for him to admit each time that he was aiming at something else entirely.
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Accidental Aiming Skills / int_1cc09117	comment	Bleach Tousen and Shinji have a brief battle, and Tousen congratulates him for dodging an attack. Shinji turns his head to show a small cut above his eye and notes that Tousen had actually hit him. Tousen replies that he'd been trying to cut Shinji's head off from the eyes up, so that little scratch counts as a miss. It should be noted that Tousen is blind. A badly poisoned Uryuu is able to take out the majority of Mayuri's body and his entire bankai in a single hit. Mayuri has no choice but to use phlebotinum to flee the fight. Nemu, Mayuri's lieutenant, ends up giving him the antidote for the poison in return for the fact that he spared the captain's life by not aiming for his head (judging by the injuries Uryuu's attack inflicted on Mayuri, a hit to the head would have killed him instantly). Uryuu corrects her by saying he hadn't spared Mayuri's life, he had truly intended to kill him.
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Accidental Aiming Skills / int_1fc7499e	comment	In Reaper Man, Death can hit anything he aims at the first try, but uses this ability to pretend he has Accidental Aiming Skills after he realizes that people resent people who are too good at something. He even ponders the implications of this, he manages some utterly improbably bad shots "by mistake" that would require far more skill than "good" shots, but no one notices.
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Accidental Aiming Skills / int_202462bc	comment	In Alphas Dr. Rosen shoots an enemy at close range in the head, firing through his cheek. Later Bill tells him that he should have shot at the center mass, especially as an inexperienced shooter and Rosen admits that he was trying to.
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Accidental Aiming Skills / int_2126592a	comment	Momo from Girls und Panzer is a chronically terrible shot, to the point where Turtle Team is only able to rack up kills when Anzu takes over for the gun. She finally manages her first kill in Der Film when her shot veers way off target, that being Darjeeling's Churchill, and instead hits Rosehip's Crusader trying to make a Dynamic Entry.
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Accidental Aiming Skills / int_261c8d3f	comment	The Simpsons In "Duffless", Nelson uses a BB gun to puncture Martin's hot air balloon at a science fair, causing it to collapse on him. It turns out that wasn't his intention though, as he remarks "Dang, I was aiming for his head!". In the "Bart the Mother", Bart is given a gun to shoot at a robin and tries to intentionally miss... only to be congratulated on compensating for the crooked sight and making a perfect kill.
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Accidental Aiming Skills / int_275b6e73	comment	In F Troop, Captain Wilton Parmenter is notorious for his inability to hit a target. Instead, he wins gunfights by accidentally making ludicrously complicated trick shots, followed by his men pretending they were deliberate. "Scourge of the West" Parmenter's gained quite the reputation as a sharpshooter.
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Accidental Aiming Skills / int_2890dc8c	comment	Halo: A Fistful of Arrows: Jun-A266, Noble Team's sniper, aims for a car's driver, but hits the tire instead, causing it to plunge off a bridge. The rebel leader they were after still lives and is caught, but to him, it's his greatest failure.
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Accidental Aiming Skills / int_28f53f0c	comment	Doraemon: The Records of Nobita, Spaceblazer: Nobita's new friend, Ropporu, tries demonstrating the effectiveness of his father's compact-sized pocket pistol to Nobita by aiming at a tree and firing, and effectively snaps said tree into half with a single shot. As Doraemon and Nobita cheers over Ropporu's skill, Ropporu sheepishly admits he's actually aiming for another tree, roughly a meter to the left.
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Accidental Aiming Skills / int_2ba48a26	comment	In an episode of Castle, Rick Castle shoots a gun out of a serial killer's hand. When Beckett compliments his aim, Castle replies that he was aiming for his head (a reference to Firefly).
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Accidental Aiming Skills / int_2cef2efc	comment	Comin' Round the Mountain: The first time he gets his hands on a rifle, Wilbert accidentally shoots a Winfield's rifle in two.
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Accidental Aiming Skills / int_304d4028	comment	Spirou & Fantasio: In one story, one of the characters (a circus-trained knife-throwing bear with permanent hiccups — long story) throws a knife so it cuts off a rope holding several empty oil drums in place, and they roll downhill to knock out a guard. Spirou tells his trainer it was an amazing throw, but the trainer replies that he told the bear to aim for the guard directly.
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Accidental Aiming Skills / int_32235825	comment	In the final shootout scene of Beverly Hills Cop II, Cloudcuckoolander cop Rosewood manages to take out a truck that is fleeing the scene with the bad guy's load of illicit armaments by shooting it with a LAW anti-tank rocket that he is holding in his lap and reading the instructions to out loud.
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Accidental Aiming Skills / int_35af2104	comment	Sam Vimes's own brief experience with this trope in The Fifth Elephant when he shoots a bandit (who is holding his wife hostage) in the head with a small, concealable crossbow. He later reveals that he was aiming for the man's shoulder. Another character mentions that a particular crossbow "tends to pull a little to the left." Not that that would have helped.
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Accidental Aiming Skills / int_364144a3	comment	In a Season 2 episode of Sledge Hammer! a drugged-up Sledge is complimented by his captain for disabling the criminal and says "I was aiming for his head."
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Accidental Aiming Skills / int_39f6a46c	comment	In Diamonds Are Forever, some mooks come into a hotel room where James Bond is meeting with a woman, grab the woman, and toss her out through the glass doors of the balcony of a high-rise hotel. Lampshaded by Bond, who notes that it was a fantastic shot as she falls dead center into the pool about 100 feet below. The astonished head mook says, "I didn't know there was a pool there!"
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Accidental Aiming Skills / int_3a10cbfe	comment	Commando: Cindy holds a four-barreled rocket launcher backward and manages to nail a phone booth dead on.
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Accidental Aiming Skills / int_3b34143f	comment	In the Harry Potter series, Ron is praised for beautifully stopping a Quaffle from hitting a Quidditch goal with some kind of airborne barrel roll... except he later reveals that was a complete accident, and Ron himself believes that he's a horrible Keeper. He kicks the Quaffle (not that Quaffles really matter, but whatever) while dangling from his broom. In truth, he'd fallen off and was climbing back onto his broom - the ball happened to fly into his foot.
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Accidental Aiming Skills / int_3be307d1	comment	Mihoshi of Tenchi Muyo! does this a lot, or at least enough fans associate her with this.
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Accidental Aiming Skills / int_3d22c14b	comment	Gundam 00: CB that cannot carry out armed intervention 2nd has Lockon Stratos (Lyle Dylandy) shown to have extremely lousy aiming skill with an accuracy of 8%. When he turns his guns onto Setsuna though, he starts hitting A-Laws with extreme accidental accuracy.
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Accidental Aiming Skills / int_3df8cd25	comment	In the pilot episode of Sons Of Thunder, it's made clear that the main character is ridiculously skilled in the martial arts... except he can't aim a throwing star worth a damn. So when he's facing off against the Villain of the Week and nails him in the gun hand with a throwing star, both the audience and his partner are suitably impressed (and surprised). However, when he's congratulated on his improved accuracy he states, "I was aiming for his throat".
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Accidental Aiming Skills / int_455e3038	comment	In an episode of King of the Hill, Dale sees his father hold his wife's hand, remembers the time he kissed her on their wedding day, and throws a knife off-screen, emphatically impaling it into the head of a mannequin right next to his dad in what is actually a pretty dramatic and intimidating moment for Dale. He then threatens, "Get away from my wife, or next time I'll aim for the mannequin and hit you!"
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Accidental Aiming Skills / int_468bebb0	comment	Discworld In Pyramids the main character can't work up the will to actually shoot someone for his Assassin's Guild test and decides to fail with style, by firing away from the victim. The arrow bounces off a nail (and a few other things) before embedding itself in the (dummy) victim. The exam proctor passes him but marks down that Teppic was showing off. In Reaper Man, Death can hit anything he aims at the first try, but uses this ability to pretend he has Accidental Aiming Skills after he realizes that people resent people who are too good at something. He even ponders the implications of this, he manages some utterly improbably bad shots "by mistake" that would require far more skill than "good" shots, but no one notices. Sam Vimes's own brief experience with this trope in The Fifth Elephant when he shoots a bandit (who is holding his wife hostage) in the head with a small, concealable crossbow. He later reveals that he was aiming for the man's shoulder. Another character mentions that a particular crossbow "tends to pull a little to the left." Not that that would have helped. Vimes and others within the series also have a tendency to make cracks about this trope, often warning the current antagonist about rookies; "You never know where it might hit..."
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Accidental Aiming Skills / int_475972f0	comment	Y: The Last Man Hero shattering Toyota's sword with a bullet, and admits she was aiming for the head when complimented on it. (She was heavily tranqed up on painkillers at the time). In an earlier issue, she was riding with the Daughters of the Amazon who were chasing a woman riding on a bike. Hero fires an arrow that hits the woman's leg and causes her to spill. Victoria compliments her on this, but Hero sadly mutters she was aiming for the tire. This doesn't help with her depression over killing another woman.
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Accidental Aiming Skills / int_482af690	comment	In A Kingdom Divided Vinyl Scratch after becoming an airship gunner. During her first flight, she somehow manages to injure Cloud Kicker while aiming at Star Hunter.
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Accidental Aiming Skills / int_482ba098	comment	In PandoraHearts, we get a variant of this: When Oz is kidnapped by the Baskervilles, Elliot and Leo come to rescue him. Toward the end of the ensuing battle, Leo fires his gun at Lottie and manages to skim her arm and cause enough of a distraction for them to escape. Directly afterwards, he reveals that he is genuinely surprised that he actually managed to hit her, as, according to Elliot, he's "hopeless with guns and swords."
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Accidental Aiming Skills / int_4a059a74	comment	The Mandalorian: In "The Tragedy", Boba Fett targets one of the two fleeing Imperial transports with his rocket launcher, and sure enough his rocket hits one of the transports, which then crashes into the other one below it and sends both plummeting back to the ground. When Din commends him on the shot, Boba replies "I was aiming for the other one."
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Accidental Aiming Skills / int_4a11fc06	comment	In the 2013 version of The Lone Ranger, he starts off as a City Mouse who Doesn't Like Guns. When facing a couple of armed mooks, he tries to fire a warning shot, and the resulting Pinball Projectile lands a heavy beam on their heads, killing them. Their friend runs away, convinced that he's a crack shot.
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Accidental Aiming Skills / int_4a8a8f85	comment	World of Warships: A major contributor to Torpedo kills, primarily caused when a ship comes sailing around an island only to discover torpedoes now less than 3 seconds from impact intended for an entirely different target.
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Accidental Aiming Skills / int_4c4e08ca	comment	In a sketch from The Benny Hill Show, a firing squad, of which Benny is the commander, is to execute a pretty girl in a bra-like top and short skirt. She wants a blindfold, but Benny's handkerchief is too small. So he takes off her top and ties it around her eyes. The men, looking at the now topless girl let their aims wander to always follow Benny. Then they shoot.
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Accidental Aiming Skills / int_503d5009	comment	Ayakashi Triangle: When Haya has trouble practicing shuriken throwing, Ponosuke tries to show her up. He throws a kunai in entirely the wrong direction, but it still manages to hit Shadow Mei square in the head. Fortunately, her Battle Aura destroys the weapon on contact, but she still almost kills them over it.
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Accidental Aiming Skills / int_54d3bf05	comment	In The Slow Mo Guys episode "Cannon Firing In Slow Motion", Dan manages to hit one of their GoPro cameras dead center without even trying. He nailed it so hard, there was nothing left but flattened chunks of plastic; not even the memory card could be salvaged. One of the slow-mo shots is of his reaction as caught by the Phantom. More recently, he's started to become scarily accurate with swords, managing to slice several high-speed arrows in half, and using a saber to take the cork out of a bottle of champagne while he was trying to break it.
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Accidental Aiming Skills / int_5737c1c3	comment	On Instinct a woman is shot at night from a building across the street so the investigators start looking for experienced marksmen who could make that kind of shot. However, they then realize that they had the scenario wrong. They are looking for a complete amateur who was trying to scare the victim and was aiming a few meters away from her. The bullet hit a steel plate on a telephone post and ricocheted into the victim.
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Accidental Aiming Skills / int_58cc5b9c	comment	Dead Man's Gun: In "The Impostor", Leo reluctantly draws the gun and fires at at a fleeing bank robber. Despite not even looking where he is aiming, he hits the man at the far end of the street on a galloping horse. Of course, the gun itself may have had something to do with it.
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Accidental Aiming Skills / int_5aab0b44	comment	Coroner Creek: During the shootout in the freight station, Kate picks up Ernie's dropped gun. Obviously never having fired a gun in her life, she closes her eyes and turns her head away when she pulls the trigger. Her shot misses Stu, but hits a block-and-tackle which breaks and drops a load of tack on top of him, knocking him to the floor.
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Accidental Aiming Skills / int_5b0b10de	comment	In the Pilot episode of The Magnificent Seven, Ezra pulls this twice; first in a saloon where he uses a mirror to perform a gun version of an Offhand Backhand to wound an attacker, and again in the climax with a cannon. After Ezra shoots a man from a mirror's reflection. And later:
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Accidental Aiming Skills / int_5bbc566a	comment	In Warbears Mission 2, throwing the rock at the target mook will cause Agent Kla to complain "I was trying to hit myself and play dead!"
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Accidental Aiming Skills / int_5e3f6639	comment	SÅ�suke Sagara uses this trope during Full Metal Panic? Fumoffu. After firing a grenade at his opponent, which is subsequently dodged, the grenade lodges itself into a pillar and explodes. Debris lands on and disables the opponent, who then praises SÅ�suke for analyzing both his position after the dodge and calculating the trajectory of the debris. SÅ�suke then denies the action and states that he accidentally fired a live round instead of a practice one.
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Accidental Aiming Skills / int_5ffa1979	comment	Parodied in Scott The Woz. Scott throws his Sega Classic box of Sonic the Hedgehog and it "accidentally" (as in, through a series of Jump Cuts) plunges into his toilet, which Scott chalks up to luck. He later throws the game cartridge, which ends up landing right on the cartridge slot of his Sega Genesis that he inexplicably had set up inside his bathroom.
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Accidental Aiming Skills / int_6059ad6b	comment	One xkcd strip had NASA succeed in having a probe on Jupiter orbit within one second of scheduled time... despite probe being aimed to Saturn orbit.
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Accidental Aiming Skills / int_60afc2a8	comment	At one point in Concerned, Gordon Frohman is pinned down by three Civil Protection officers who believe him to be a rebel. Fed up with being victimized, Gordon lashes out and blind fires three rounds out from cover, and kills all three officers by accident.
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Accidental Aiming Skills / int_64bf8c90	comment	In Harlem Nights, Quick (Eddie Murphy) is pinned down in an alley by a trio of gangsters (led by Arsenio Hall). Out of desperation, he fires off three quick shots to try and back the gangsters off. When he doesn't hear any return fire, he looks up from behind his cover and discovers he'd nailed all three men.
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Accidental Aiming Skills / int_68237790	comment	Pathfinder Second edition has the Unexpected Sharpshooter archetype, which is themed around this trope. The best fits are the "I Meant to Do That" and "Chain Reaction" feats, the former of which allowing the character to make a missed shot end up accidentally impeding a foe indirectly and the latter allowing the character to set off a wildly improbably chain of events that creates significant challenges for their enemies across a wide area while leaving everyone else alone. Though it is also suggested that the player can instead flavor their Unexpected Sharpshooter to actually have Improbable Aiming Skills and just be Obfuscating Stupidity.
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Accidental Aiming Skills / int_6d5d0e13	comment	Treasure Planet: Dr. Doppler (who doesn't seem to have any gun experience) nervously pulls the trigger and it hits a metal chandelier, which falls and breaks open the shaft the pirates are standing on, sending them plummeting thousands of meters below.
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Accidental Aiming Skills / int_6e6e72b6	comment	Crossing Lines Season 1 Episode 7 Animals — Carl Hickman shoots the gun out of suspect's hand. Tommy says "That was pretty impressive, shot the gun right out of his hand" Hickman replies "Yeah, well I was aiming for his head. I told you I'm not left-handed." (Hickman's right hand was injured and he can not use it.)
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Accidental Aiming Skills / int_755b343f	comment	Gameplay example only. In Halo, sniper/beam rifle shots will deflect off surfaces, even multiple times, if the angle of incidence is large enough; some videos show that that the angle can even be around 35 degrees and still work. And yes, this has resulted in some players accidentally killing multiple people with a single sniper shot. This mostly comes into play in games from Halo 3 onward, where sniper shots will ricochet off pretty much every type of surface, but even Halo: Combat Evolved and Halo 2 has a few surface types that will deflect sniper shots.
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Accidental Aiming Skills / int_75e988	comment	Summer Days and Evening Flames: Gilda needs to disable an escaping criminal kidnapper with a crossbow from his compatriot, despite never having wielded on in her life. She disables him, alright.
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Accidental Aiming Skills / int_77a1d66e	comment	Holmes on the Range: In 'World's Greatest Sleuth Big Red shoots the gun out of a bad guys hand, but later whispers to Old Red that he was aiming for his head.
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Accidental Aiming Skills / int_7c6f5e19	comment	In an episode of The Red Green Show after trying and failing to destroy a lamp with a number of ranged weapons, a frustrated Mike flings a 2x4 and finally destroys it.
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Accidental Aiming Skills / int_7d8c61a2	comment	Star Wars: The Old Republic: A cutscene in the Imperial Agent storyline on Taris has a scientist that Cipher Nine is looking for take several blaster pistol shots at them at about ten paces. She misses every single one—by her own admission she barely knows which end of the gun to hold—but as a Funny Background Event, one shot blows apart a droid on the other side of the room, of the same type Cipher Nine was fighting to reach her only minutes earlier.
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Accidental Aiming Skills / int_7db5e90f	comment	A character like this appeared in one episode of Lucky Luke. He ended accidentally defeating a famous villain. By firing in the opposite direction. His aiming skills were so hilariously poor, at one point, he attempted to commit suicide by putting the gun to his head - and missed.
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Accidental Aiming Skills / int_7dc973ed	comment	On the team's first combat mission in gen:LOCK, Cammie comes up against a squad of Union infantry and their Spider Tank. Still squeamish about shooting people, she aims her mech's pistol at the tank... only for her shot to ricochet and knock down a massive antenna tower, which takes out the entire squad.
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Accidental Aiming Skills / int_7dd72e8d	comment	Seven Ways from Sundown: When Seven is first given a revolver, Henessey tells him to aim at a gong hanging on a tree. His first shot hits the gong by ricocheting off a rock, and Henessey comments "That's doin' it the hard way". Every other shot misses not only the gong but the tree.
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Accidental Aiming Skills / int_7dd9fe24	comment	Kip in The Black Prism fires a flintlock at a musketeer at the bow of a ship, only to snipe the captain off the wheel at the stern. Bonus points as his reply when asked is "Aiming?"
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Accidental Aiming Skills / int_7f2f5e71	comment	In The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess (2016), during the battle against Argorok, Shad tries to throw Link the fallen Master Sword. It bounces off a metal grate and hits an Aeralfos in the chest.
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Accidental Aiming Skills / int_8529459f	comment	El Chavo del ocho is legendary for this. Invariably, he hits Mr. Barriga when he arrives to the vecindad to collect the rent.
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Accidental Aiming Skills / int_86772227	comment	In Knights of the Dinner Table, Bob's dad displays accidental aiming skills during his first (and only) game of Cattlepunk.
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Accidental Aiming Skills / int_869e463a	comment	In Disney's short film Paperman, the male protagonist ("George," name unstated) throws countless paper airplanes at the window of a neighboring skyscraper across the street, attempting to catch a girl's attention. He doesn't succeed but manages some pretty impressive shots in the process, such as a waste bin in the same room as the girl, and the open window directly below the window he is aiming for.
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Accidental Aiming Skills / int_86b52b7b	comment	In I, Robot, the doctor managed to kill two robots next to the hero with her eyes closed and firing full auto. She is severely admonished by the hero afterwards to never close her eyes when shooting again.
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Accidental Aiming Skills / int_892d522c	comment	In Geronimo: An American Legend, the title character manages to shatter a jar of whiskey just as an opponent is taking a drink from several hundred yards away. When he's commended for a good shot, Geronimo unabashedly admits, "Not so good. I was aiming for his head."
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Accidental Aiming Skills / int_8a344f1	comment	In the Sniper Elite series, it's entirely possible to miss a shot and wind up hitting another enemy by accident - or even better, an explosive. This is more likely on higher difficulties, where wind and gravity must be accounted for - ignoring the wind could have you aiming for an enemy and hitting his partner beside him, for instance.
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Accidental Aiming Skills / int_8e436fcf	comment	Nichols: In "Nichols", Ruth shoots Mitch in the arm with her derringer. When Nichols says he is surprised she didn't shoot Ketcham, Ruth replies "Who do think I was aiming at?".
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Accidental Aiming Skills / int_8f6d81a3	comment	The Pink Panther cartoon from the '90s (where the panther spoke) had the eponymous panther playing a cowboy for an episode. All throughout the episode, he'd catch something useful with his lasso that allowed him to pull cool tricks that helped him outâ€¦ only every single time, he'd comment that he was actually aiming for something more conventional, such as the villains.
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Accidental Aiming Skills / int_9068877a	comment	This is the only way that Church from Red vs. Blue can hit a target. At one point, he fires a sniper shot, misses badly, sets off a series of ricochets, and only then hits his intended target. To further add insult to injury, that same ricocheted shot only manages to hit the ankle of the target as he's walking away. Adding further insult to that, Church is then told that it only counts if you call it.
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Accidental Aiming Skills / int_93aab187	comment	In Jaga Jazzist's "Airborne" music video, the protagonist is completely unaware that he's being pursued by a gun-wielding assassin. Just as the gunman is about the fire at him, he opens a champagne bottle. The cork flies off and hits the assassin's head, knocking him out.
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Accidental Aiming Skills / int_93f7f3ba	comment	In Commander Kitty, while aiming for a skyfly, CK puts a torpedo right into the exhaust port of a Triple-I space station.
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Accidental Aiming Skills / int_95207070	comment	De Cape et de Crocs: The pirate Captain shoots the rope Armand was dangling from, then comments to one of his subordinates who compliments him on the shot that he was actually aiming for Armand.
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Accidental Aiming Skills / int_98744614	comment	In Brave, thanks to Fergus startling him at just the right time, Wee Dingwall is the only suitor whose arrow hits a bulls-eye in the archery competition.
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Accidental Aiming Skills / int_9888e7c2	comment	In Dan Vs. "Technology", Dan throws a hatchet at a brainwashed Elise trying to kill him, and he breaks the Mind-Control Device headband without hurting her. His comment afterward makes it clear to the audience that he was aiming to kill.
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Accidental Aiming Skills / int_99172553	comment	The Outlaws IS Coming!: Although most of Ken Cabot's fantastic shots were actually secretly performed by Annie Oakley, during the final Showdown at High Noon against the assembled outlaws one of Ken's wild shots knocks a fire bucket off a balcony that lands on Johnny Ringo's head and knocks him out.
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Accidental Aiming Skills / int_994e32db	comment	It helps Rango convince the people of Dirt that he killed seven people with one bullet when he accidentally kills a giant hawk with one. He'd been meaning to hit the candy shoelace tied to his foot that the hawk was pulling on.
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Accidental Aiming Skills / int_9a68db3c	comment	If there is a trope that perfectly describes Vallant from Teh Gladiators, it's this one. Entire Arena matches have been won on the strength of his Pinball Projectile. A raid group was defeated because he accidentally hit the tank with Tranquilizing Shot. He is a living example of why you don't hand a gun to a complete idiot.
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Accidental Aiming Skills / int_9abd3cc2	comment	In Exiern, Peonie strikes Alicia with an arrow in the ribs from horseback, a fair distance away.
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Accidental Aiming Skills / int_9e2f90f4	comment	During an early episode of One Piece, while testing out the Going Merry's cannon, Usopp (known more for his Improbable Aiming Skills than his Accidental) manages to nail a far away rock formation sticking out of the ocean. He's actually surprised he managed to hit it, though that's primarily because he's never actually aimed a cannon before in his life.
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Accidental Aiming Skills / int_a0ff9e30	comment	In Pyramids the main character can't work up the will to actually shoot someone for his Assassin's Guild test and decides to fail with style, by firing away from the victim. The arrow bounces off a nail (and a few other things) before embedding itself in the (dummy) victim. The exam proctor passes him but marks down that Teppic was showing off.
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Accidental Aiming Skills / int_a309575c	comment	In Jonathan Creek, Jonathan flicks a playing card into the face of a man holding a gun to Madeline, stunning him.
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Accidental Aiming Skills / int_a3eca95	comment	Jake Spoon of Lonesome Dove gets a reputation as a deadly marksman after shooting a bandit in the throat at an extremely long-range, but the shot was really just a lucky fluke. This trope also bites him, as he is introduced while on the run from the law after firing a buffalo rifle during a bar fight, which completely failed to hit Spoon's antagonist and instead went through the wall and killed the mayor of the town, who was walking down the opposite side of the street.
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Accidental Aiming Skills / int_a5d35fda	comment	In The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers, the Uruk-hai army gathers in front of Helm's Deep in the dark of a rainy night and the orcs begin drumming their spears on the ground in anticipation of battle. Suddenly an arrow flies from the wall and strikes one unlucky orc in the throat, and he falls dead. Aragorn, who had given orders not to fire yet, yells to hold fire in Elvish, as he assumes that one of the superhumanly-accurate elf archers had made that amazing shot. Then he sees that the archer was a bearded old man who lost his grip on the arrow and got first blood entirely by accident.
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Accidental Aiming Skills / int_a80e7cdb	comment	Mr. Monk Goes to the Firehouse: Disher shoots the killer's gun out of his hand, then admits he was aiming for his chest.
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Accidental Aiming Skills / int_aa5b1ac8	comment	In the third Brotherband book, Lydia brings down an escaping prisoner by sending an atlatl dart between his legs, causing him to trip. When Thorn congratulates her on the incredible shot, she admits she meant to send the dart into his leg.
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Accidental Aiming Skills / int_ab42c63a	comment	In Get Smart, a villain launches an explosive table tennis ball into a room where the heroes are being kept. Maxwell Smart uses his paddle to hit it into a slot to the next room, whereupon it explodes and presumably kills the villain. Impressed, the chief of Control asks Max how he did it. Max says he was aiming for a window a way from the slot. Only afterward does he realize how incompetent he now sounds.
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Accidental Aiming Skills / int_ac067cfe	comment	Probably picked up from Douglas Fairbanks, Jr.'s Sinbad the Sailor, in which Melik claims to have arrow'd the steersman of a following warship, "By aiming at everyone else but the steersman."
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Accidental Aiming Skills / int_ae285944	comment	Robin Hood: Men in Tights. Ahchoo saves Robin from being hanged by shooting through the rope with an arrow. After receiving congratulations from Robin, Ahchoo replies "To tell you the truth, I was aiming for the hangman."
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Accidental Aiming Skills / int_af566418	comment	Ben 10: Ultimate Alien: In "Hit 'Em Where They Live", Ben (in the form of Rath) takes down Rojo by destroying her flying bike with a well-aimed piece of debris, leading this exchange:
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Accidental Aiming Skills / int_b084b0e3	comment	Also seen in The Golden Voyage of Sinbad where-in the mostly useless comic relief stuns everybody by felling a threatening Bad Guy with a crossbow. Afterward admitting he did it by aiming "at everything else"!
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Accidental Aiming Skills / int_b634ed2c	comment	5 Card Stud has Dean Martin try to impress another guy with his aiming skills, shoots at a windmill. 5 shots, we hear 4 "pings" as they hit the blades. Robert Mitchum is impressed that he got 4 out of 5; Guy 1 says he was aiming between the blades and only got 1.
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Accidental Aiming Skills / int_b712435c	comment	In an episode of Leverage, Hardison steals an unconscious Mook's gun and fires a shot into the hood of the bad guys' car, causing smoke to start rolling out. The following exchange occurs:
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Accidental Aiming Skills / int_b8b251cc	comment	There was a Shoe strip where the main character hits a golf ball past a seemingly impossible to get past tree. When asked how he did it, his answer was something along the lines of "I aimed for the tree."
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Accidental Aiming Skills / int_bf5984d	comment	The main character of Hollow Chocolate Bunnies of the Apocalypse threatens a cannibalistic farmer by shooting his ear off. He aimed for the man's knee, but the ear's better motivation.
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Accidental Aiming Skills / int_c0d295c4	comment	Team Fortress 2: During "Meet the Sniper", we get a POV of Sniper deliberately aiming at Heavy's head and taking him out in one hit. Less deliberate is how the bullet continues through and hits a bottle being held by Demoman while he's drinking it, shattering glass all over Demo's face, causing him to panic and blindly fire several grenades before he stumbles off his canopy and onto several explosives below. Based on Sniper's surprised little "Oh...", he really wasn't expecting all that. In game, Sniper has an achievement for delivering a One-Hit Kill on a fully invisible Spy, which is almost bound to happen entirely by complete luck.
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Accidental Aiming Skills / int_c1734371	comment	In Heroes Wanted, Santi knows his aim is lousy, so he aims for a point on the hostage, which lets him miss and take out the hostage-taker instead.
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Accidental Aiming Skills / int_c1aca30b	comment	In Bobwhite, young Lewis has a near-supernatural ability to shoot animals without trying.
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Accidental Aiming Skills / int_c4a1d59e	comment	Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2. See this. Welcome to war, soldier. Beware of random flying knives.
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Accidental Aiming Skills / int_c54c7a06	comment	In AdventureQuest Worlds, in the Dwarfhold Boss fight cutscene, the Hero picks up Vath's sword of dragon control and throws it Vath, which hits the Dragon Amulet and shatters it. However, the Hero clarifies that he was actually aiming for Vath and not the amulet.
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Accidental Aiming Skills / int_c67be877	comment	The long and illustrious, and undeserved, reputation of Flashman in the series of novels started when he was trapped into a duel. He arranged for the pistol of his opponent to be loaded without a ball (bullet), while his was. Then he aimed away from his opponent and hit the top off a whiskey bottle. He had only intended to miss his opponent. However, this incident was interpreted as Flashman intending to show that he was an expert marksman by intentionally shooting the whiskey bottle, and missing his opponent.
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Accidental Aiming Skills / int_c6cb6d0d	comment	From The Magnificent Seven (1960) movie: Most of the time this trope is invoked, they are directly referencing this scene. Especially if it is a Western movie.
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Accidental Aiming Skills / int_c6f7e804	comment	In the Blake's 7 episode "Orac", Avon saves Blake's life by shooting out The Dragon Travis' gun hand from a considerable distance. When Blake compliments him on the shot, Avon bitterly replies that "I was aiming for his head". Rumour has it that this was an ad-lib by Paul Darrow, who's rather fond of Westerns and couldn't resist the Shout-Out.
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Accidental Aiming Skills / int_cac23d96	comment	In V.I.P., Vallery Irons took off her headband and threw it. The instant chakram knocked out four enemies with head blows despite them wearing helmets. Since she'd just a figurehead, she was surprised it worked.
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Accidental Aiming Skills / int_cbd33399	comment	The Worst Shots in the West has Tim and Tom using this to kill a hundred men bandit gang. Without noticing.
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Accidental Aiming Skills / int_cbe3e313	comment	True Lies; automatic weapon fired once, dropped down a staircase, firing randomly with every bounce. And it wipes out the bad guys.
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Accidental Aiming Skills / int_cccefdf1	comment	Stroker and Hoop: Hoop is afraid of killing people, so he always aims right over their heads; this didn't work out so well for him when he fought some ninjas and one of them jumped high in the air. The titular duo was once forced to drop their guns by a drug lord and his wife who had them outgunned. When their guns hit the ground, they went off, killing the drug lord and his wife instantly. Stroker angrily lampshaded that they don't have nearly that kind of accuracy when they actually try.
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Accidental Aiming Skills / int_ccf2f4fc	comment	In The Legend of Total Drama Island, the dodgeball match has a couple of examples: Played for drama when Lindsay scores the first kill of the match, hitting Bridgette despite aiming for the nearby D.J. Played for laughs when the last ball of Tyler's wild fusillade comes hurtling straight for Leshawna's head. Tyler was actually trying to hit Cody, who was halfway across the court.
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Accidental Aiming Skills / int_ccf875f7	comment	On one episode of Criminal Minds, while in a hostage crisis, Spencer Reid shoots the crook and mass murderer dead center of the forehead. Not only was he said to have failed his firearms qualification at the start of the episode, he claimed he'd been aiming for the guy's knee. At a distance of about six feet, that's a spectacularly bad shot. Given that it was established in the same scene that if Reid didn't kill him in one shot, they were probably all going to die (the words "Better be a headshot" were uttered) this was probably a joke on the character's part. It still, however, fulfills the trope.
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Accidental Aiming Skills / int_cf6f9a97	comment	City Hunter has Kaori, whose aim is so bad she never hits the target unless with this. In Bloody Mary's introduction arc, Kaori tried to fire a bazooka at the hideout of the enemy, but was holding it backwards and hit the enemies who were about to ambush her, and when Ryo and Umibozu show up they notice that all her following bazooka shots were out of target just enough to only knock out the enemies. Justified with the handgun, as Ryo had the iron sight of her gun misaligned so she would never kill anyone. Not so justified with the bazooka...
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Accidental Aiming Skills / int_d31cdea	comment	In The Hunger Games, Katniss threw a knife at a wall and it landed in the seam between two panels making her, in her words, "seem a lot better than she was" at knife throwing.
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Accidental Aiming Skills / int_d47fbd8f	comment	X-Factor (2006): In Issue #8, Siryn fires a "Sonic Lance" at a gunman's hand to disarm him. When Spider-Man congratulates her on her aim, she admits she was actually aiming for his head. Considering the Sonic Lance destroyed the gun and broke the man's hand, one gets the feeling she wasn't all that concerned about killing the guy.
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Accidental Aiming Skills / int_d5e9cf36	comment	One Let's Player of XCOM 2 managed to win Avenger Defense in 2 turns thanks to a missed Overwatch shot from a turret destroying an environmental explosive near the disruptor.
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Accidental Aiming Skills / int_d5f03f8d	comment	The AI players in the Worms franchise are notorious for making astoundingly stupid shots, failing to take into account things like intervening obstacles, bouncing of weapons, and the presence of their own teammates in the line of fire. Occasionally these will result in some hilariously spectacular shots, wiping out half the worms in the level or killing their entire team. Human players have been known to pull off some of these as well. Unless they decide to use a grenade. Then they can bounce it off more than eight different walls and the fuse burns out just as the 'nade hits the player.
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Accidental Aiming Skills / int_d616724d	comment	Happens now and then in League of Legends, especially champions with a long-range "skill shot" attack such as Ashe or Ziggs.
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Accidental Aiming Skills / int_d9c602eb	comment	Butters from South Park, no matter how hard he tries to aim somewhere else, will always make a perfect shot to his opponent's dick every time he fires a gun. Shooting a man in the dick is also one of the very few actions that Cartman finds morally reprehensible.
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Accidental Aiming Skills / int_dda72858	comment	The Iron Giant: Hogarth tosses a penny across his home to distract his mom from the titular giant's hand while trying to escape. It hits a cupboard that then falls, breaking numerous kitchen appliances.
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Accidental Aiming Skills / int_debddf2f	comment	Ghost Town (1988): After Kate's bomb takes out most of the gang, Devlin and one of his henchmen emerge from the flames. Langley spins round and fires with the sheriff's gun, plugging the henchman square in the middle of the forehead. As he and Kate dive for cover from Devlin's return fire, this exchange occurs (possibly a joke given the accuracy Langley has displayed previously):
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Accidental Aiming Skills / int_e26b012e	comment	This is the entire point of The Shakiest Gun in the West, starring Don Knotts as the subsequent gunslinger.
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Accidental Aiming Skills / int_e2b0d34e	comment	Rustlers' Rhapsody: Rex O'Herlahan is always Blasting It Out of Their Hands. But in the climactic showdown:
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Accidental Aiming Skills / int_e5d5d23c	comment	In the original Doom games, picking up a "partial invisibility" item had a chance of giving this to your enemies. What it does is add up to 20 degrees to the spread of every enemy's attack, which is good against bullet-firing enemies but very bad against fireball- and rocket-shooting ones; veteran players will find themselves dodging into the projectile at the worst of times.
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Accidental Aiming Skills / int_e64341c8	comment	The Gunfight at Dodge City: Joked about after Bat wounds one of the cowboys who was trying to shoot up the town and hands him over to Doc Tremaine to treated and jailed:
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Accidental Aiming Skills / int_e694aadb	comment	Ciaphas Cain (HERO OF THE - ah, what's the use) managed a headshot while aiming for the chest. Well, if you're going to duck when being shot at... Jurgen managed an inversion once- while aiming for a ginormous fuel hundreds of meters away, a take a shot or two, grunting that he missed, but the third one is on the mark, causing a cataclysmic explosion. When Cain congratulates him on hitting the tank, Jurgen reveals that he'd hit the tank every time- he was aiming for the release valve.
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Accidental Aiming Skills / int_ea7635f4	comment	Alien: Resurrection contains a scene where Sigourney Weaver makes a behind-the-back basketball shot. She couldn't get it in previous takes, so the director planned to fake it with special effects, but on her last attempt, she actually pulled it off!
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Accidental Aiming Skills / int_eb76340f	comment	Happened a few times on Third Watch with different cops.
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Accidental Aiming Skills / int_eb9e3429	comment	In The Mummy Returns, Rick's son Alex is kidnapped and gets on the bad side of Lock-Nah by asking him repeatedly "are we there yet?" during a long train ride. To shut him up, Lock-Nah pulls out a knife and quickly stabs it into the table between Alex's fingers. When congratulated for his 'perfect aim' Lock-Nah replies "What are you talking about? I missed."
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Accidental Aiming Skills / int_ec253e2b	comment	Invoked in Furmentation when Xodin goes off the beat up the demons. "Yes, but now I'm a coward with unpredictable disastrous magical discharges".
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Accidental Aiming Skills / int_ef96a6c7	comment	In Vanas Heritage Ylvie, misses her target â€“ the chest of a Shor-Warrior â€“ and kills him instantly by accidentally hitting his brain stem instead.
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Accidental Aiming Skills / int_efa49b17	comment	Done in an episode of The Mentalist, where Jane is partnered with Hightower instead of Lisbon (who is injured). Jane is grabbed by the episode's killer and held as a human shield. Hightower comes out of a rock and starts shooting, unloading most of the clip without hitting anything with the last bullet hitting the bad guy in the leg. She finished him off with several shots to the chest, when he tries to shoot her. When Jane commends her aim, she replies that she was aiming for the head.
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Accidental Aiming Skills / int_f425a19c	comment	In Bored to Death: "I wasn't aiming for the boss." "What?" "Never mind."
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Accidental Aiming Skills / int_f4b0cbe2	comment	In the third Ranger's Apprentice book, Halt tries to pass off his Improbable Aiming Skills as this to Deparnieux by saying the arrow that skewered the glove Deparnieux was about to slap Horace with to challenge him to a duel was actually aimed at Deparnieux's throat. Deparnieux doesn't buy it.
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Accidental Aiming Skills / int_f655ed11	comment	Frasier: Attending a basketball game with Martin, Niles wins a draw to attempt a free-throw for a prize, and by sheer luck throws a perfect three-point shot. The next day, "Half-Court Crane" is hailed as a local hero, and Martin is thrilled to finally have a son he can be proud of athletically (plus his favorite sports bar gives him free beer now), and Niles lets all the adulation go to his head, much to Frasier's annoyance. After a full episode of Niles refusing to admit the shot was a fluke, Frasier publicly challenges him to a shootout and Niles accepts - and hours later, neither brother has made a single basket. As the episode ends, it's clear that "Half-Court Crane's" fifteen minutes are up (and Martin has to pay for his beer again).
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Accidental Aiming Skills / int_f67aead0	comment	When Johnny Carson's version of The Tonight Show still featured some of the more circus-style variety acts. An old black-and-white clip that was featured in many a "best of Johnny Carson" collection features Ed Ames throwing tomahawks at a wooden plank with a drawn-on outline of a man. One of those axes nails the target right in the crotch, with the handle pointing up. Made even funnier because the intent stated at the beginning of the bit was that Ames was just warming up and that after he did so Carson would be standing in front of the target.
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Accidental Aiming Skills / int_fe108f64	comment	In The Reluctant Widow by Georgette Heyer, Nicky regrets having missed a housebreaker:
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Accidental Aiming Skills / int_febb8460	comment	The title heroine of NausicaÃ¤ of the Valley of the Wind finds herself in a besieged city, halfway through the manga. As enemy soldiers approach, she intends to fire a shot across the field to startle their mounts and force them back to their encampment —she does have Improbable Aiming Skills, after all. But, as luck would have it, she misses, and instead kills one of the soldiers with a flawless shot. This traumatizes her so severely she goes into Heroic BSoD for quite a while afterwards.
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