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Cold Sniper
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If you find The Stoic deployed by the military in the field and killing your dudes while remaining undetected, he or she may be this: the cold, silent, camouflaged hunter with a scope, a rifle, a very good eye and near-zero emotions, who can shoot you in the face from a mile away and not lose a wink of sleep over it. A trope commonly applied to a lot of snipers, mostly the loners, what with loners being eerie. Prevalent due to the allure and popularity of the idea of a lone, stealthy, emotionless, and mysterious "lone wolf" prowling invisible in the nights of the jungle, in search of prey. May also overlap with a Hunter of Monsters. While overlaps with Psycho for Hire and Sociopathic Soldier are possible, they are very rare due to the stereotype that sociopaths are less on the emotionless and more on the totally bonkers side. Among the Four-Temperament Ensemble expect these characters to be Melancholic or especially Phlegmatic. Both temperaments are renowned for their patience, and keeping focus on the task at hand. Choleric and Sanguine generally lose their cool quickly, which can easily happen whenever they miss their targets. Something even the most skilled snipers, have to deal with eventually. Subtrope of Weapon-Based Characterization. Sister Trope to Smart People Shoot. Aloof Archer is the mood simile in medieval and fantasy settings, and may or may not overlap with Master Archer. Likely to find work as a Professional Killer. A common subversion is the Friendly Sniper, who is not only much more personable but also usually saner (and is more likely to be depicted as a good guy). To tell them apart, check out if the character is portrayed as evil or eerie/sinister — or at least it is shown that those aspects of the job have an adverse and/or dehumanizing impact on their psyche. |
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Discussed in the John Rain series. Former Marine sniper Dox is good at what he does but was shunned by some in the Marines because his jovial, outgoing personality didn't fit their idea of how a sniper should act. | |
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Sherlock: Sebastian Moran, in contrast to John. | |
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Sniper Assassin series: Shawn Davidson is an extremely aloof assassin, and an excellent shot with a ranged weapon. | |
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Sola di Ryuvia from Sunrider is a quiet and unemotional Ryder pilot whose weapon of choice is a mecha-scale sniper rifle that can hit an enemy from any distance with near-perfect accuracy, especially when she goes into her Super Mode. | |
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The Boy on the Bridge: The missions two snipers, Foss and McQueen are both fairly reserved and methodically efficient while gunning down zombies, and are fairly distant from the civilian scientists they escort, although McQueen has some Hidden Depths and Foss gradually undergoes a case of Defrosting the Ice Queen. | |
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The sniper from the film The Caller is a sadistically cold example of this trope. | |
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No One Lives Forever casts the player in the role of female agent Cate Archer who, on her first mission, is tasked with sniper duty, and shoots down multiple targets without batting an eyelash. It's a possible parody of the trope, however, as the game is intended to be a parody of 1960s spy movies. | |
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Area 88: In one episode of the TV anime, a sniper terrorizes the entire base. He's never seen from anything beyond his own first-person perspective, and never says anything, at any point. Cold's a good word for it. | |
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Bleach: While Quincies are primarily long-distance fighters to begin with, Lille Barro has the power to shoot through anything between himself and his designated target, penetrating any substance. To that end, whereas other Quincies use bows and arrows, he uses a modified sniper rifle and picks off his opponents from a much greater distance than other Quincies. True to this trope, he keeps his cool much better than most of his Hot-Blooded comrades, even when an enemy gets within melee range. When sent to deal with the invading Soul Reapers, he opts to conceal himself atop city buildings and pick them off one by one instead of confronting them head-on. This cold pragmatism successfully incapacitates almost all of the lieutenants and forces the Captain Commander to play his hand. | |
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An interesting variant is shown in Kingdom Hearts II, with Organization XIII's gunslinger Xigbar, who can merge his two guns into a sniper rifle to take aim at Sora from a (relatively) safe distance. While he's far from cold at first glance, being rather cheerful and talkative in fact, it's all just an act as Nobodies are incapable of actual emotion. While that's later disproven, he's still a willing participant in Xehanort's schemes and utterly self-serving who leave him to his own ends after Xehanort is defeated. | |
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Jagged Alliance 2 has two noteworthy ones. Reaper is a creepy Blood Knight fatalist, while Shadow simply never talks above a whisper, always keeping as quiet as possible. Shadow also is the only character in the game that has a permanent camouflage, perfect for his profession. | |
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Fire Emblem: Shinon from Fire Emblem: Path of Radiance and Fire Emblem: Radiant Dawn is the bow-wielding variant of this trope. Even in the end, when the character roll call comes up and every unit congratulates you for winning the war, he calls you a "snot-nosed whelp". Fire Emblem: Three Houses: Shamir Nevrand has the Sniper class when she first joins you and is one of the most aloof characters in the game. At least one of her Supports (with Alois) delves into her psyche and explores the emotional toll that her mercenary career has taken on her. Bernadetta von Varley shuts herself away in her room at all times, but otherwise subverts the trope in that she's a Shrinking Violet with severe childhood trauma who will run away screaming if you look at her the wrong way, and only wants to be a sniper so she can fight from a safe distance. |
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Somewhat subverted with Seeley Booth in Bones. He was a sniper and it's implied he was a very good one but he doesn't really enjoy talking about it and went into the FBI to save as many people as he had killed. Might be played straight later in season 6. Some spoilers mention a sniper killing people. The cold sniper in Season 6 turns out to be a former mentor of Seeley. The sniper himself points out that Seeley certainly isn't a cold sniper: as he sees it, Seeley's weakness is that he refuses to pull the trigger if there's any question about the target's guilt. Booth does come perilously close in season 10, though. After being framed for murder by the FBI and seeing Sweets killed, he breaks out his sniper rifle and is ready to go kill the guys himself until Brennan talks sense into him. |
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John Casey on Chuck is a Cold Sniper beginning to defrost. How bad-ass of a sniper is he? He once took down about a dozen mooks converging on his exposed position at close range (he had a fallen tree for cover) while protecting an injured Sarah Walker, every one of them were one shot, one kill. And then to one-up that, in a later episode he cleared a room of bad guys in an office building from a rooftop across the street. Doesn't sound that impressive? The blinds were closed, and his only visual on the targets was the hidden camera fit in the eyeglasses worn by his partner trapped in the room. He then wiped them out without looking through his scope and relying solely on the visual feed through a computer. All but one were clean one-shot kills, and the last was only because the target was trying to use his partner as a human shield. | |
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Jack Ryan: Inverted completely in Tom Clancy's early novels, most particularly The Cardinal of the Kremlin, which features the rescue of a kidnapped Army scientist from Russian spies by an FBI Hostage Rescue Team. The training and mentality of the FBI snipers is thoroughly explored, up to and including the emotional trauma that results from shooting another human being in cold blood. In a Continuity Nod, the same team shows up in The Sum of All Fears. Clancy plays the trope much straighter in later novels, possibly a result of Protection from Editors. Without Remorse has John Clark coldly assassinating drug dealers, including a memorable final shootout (to be fair, he's usually nice when he ain't killing drug dealers or on black ops); Rainbow Six has at least two snipers as part of a Badass Army counterterrorist team formed from the elite of their nations' respective military forces who are generally professional (with one notable exception where one of them shoots a terrorist in the liver so he would die as slowly and painfully as possible after he killed a wheelchair-bound ten-year-old girl on live TV earlier); and The Bear and the Dragon features an old Russian sniper who comes out of retirement to kill some Chinese officers. |
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Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain: Lastly, we have Quiet. She is very attractive and wears the bare minimum of clothing. For the most part, she definitely fits the trope, but she eventually warms up to Snake as the story progresses, bonus points as well for being featured in one of the game's most difficult boss battles. On a meta note, you yourself can play Venom Snake/Big Boss this way, what with the multiple available sniper rifles available to develop, and the relative in-game freedom of either using tranq snipers to simply put your enemies to sleep, or using high-powered ones to cave their heads in (and, if you're good enough, destroy vehicles/choppers too). |
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The Hunter: Martin takes a sniper rifle with him on his hunts for the tiger, and is a reserved man taking a morally ambiguous job. The hunter who is sent to replace him plays the trope even straighter, as he’s willing to threaten humans and lacks the qualms Martin develops about the hunt. | |
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Cloud 9 of Avengers: The Initiative is jittery, compassionate, and easily shaken, in an almost complete inversion of this trope... but she becomes a straight example later on as she is forced to be more violent more often. | |
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In the Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. episode "Making Friends and Influencing People", May is training Skye on using a sniper rifle, and stresses the importance of remaining calm and control, even giving Skye a FitBit to measure her heart rate while shooting. At the end of the episode, Skye shoots the Villain of the Week with the sniper rifle, (possibly) her first kill and her pulse doesn't raise one bit. | |
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Private Skittles in Tankmen, and it's implied that this is since Skittles has a reputation for doing poorly in close combat. | |
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It is possible to become this in Apex Legends by playing as Ash or Wraith and using a sniper rifle. Caustic and Revenant make very convincing examples as well. One can even protect his blind spots, with gas canisters while the other could snipe from hard to reach angles. | |
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Werner Waltz from Six Chances is this to such a degree that he's earned the moniker "Kaltes Auge" ("Cold Eye"). | |
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Crossed: In Wish You Were Here, Elisa, the survivor colony's best sniper, is a relatively heroic character, but she's hotheaded, humorless, and a borderline Blood Knight. | |
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In John Foley's wartime memoir Mailed Fist, there is the German sniper who ignored the fact that all an infantry officer's body was in view so that he could focus on the challenge of the tank commander who was only showing his head above the cupola. The German still managed to inflict a flesh wound before tank fire destroyed his hide. | |
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In Sniper Elite III, he breaches this trope when his comrade Brauer gets blown up by a Tiger tank. | |
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Lasko from the Paladin of Shadows series is one of these. In one book, his response to having his spotter shot in the face right next to him is to target the enemy sniper and shoot him while mentally considering the time and effort it will take to train another spotter. He is also ridiculously skilled at his job. | |
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Tarkin's Fist: EZ-6758, a stormtrooper under the command of Sergeant SF-4738, serves as Third Platoon's sniper during the Empire-Earth War and racks up a high kill count during the platoon's time on the American front. | |
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Fullmetal Alchemist: Simultaneously Justified and Subverted by Riza Hawkeye. She's the resident stoic, and expert sniper. When her old friend Roy Mustang is reunited with her after she saves his life during the war, Mustang notices that she has acquired the eyes of a killer. However, it's shown that her stoicism is a reaction against the horror of war. When Kimblee taunts her with the intent of getting her to admit to loving the moment of killing, she can't admit that and is horrified. The reality is that under the stoic exterior, Riza is actually an extremely warm-hearted character. She even mentions how guns detach one from the act of killing. Though, as a sniper, it's the exact opposite of detachment. She later explains to Ed that while a rank and file soldier can get away with firing wildly at the enemy hoping they hit something, Hawkeye sees as a sniper every person she shoots at, and whoever she shoots at dies. |
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The Fighting Seabees: Japanese snipers frequently sport Slasher Smiles while gunning down heroes. | |
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Zer0 from Borderlands 2 is a Blood Knight who cares most about finding worthy opponents to defeat. | |
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G.I. Joe: Lowlight in the comic books is always there to make the little blue dots stop moving. His COBRA counterpart Black Out also qualifies, though he has a sadistic streak and an extremely sour disposition. His motivation comes from being turned down by G.I. Joe due to some red flags popping up in his psychological evaluation. |
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In The Sniper, Eddie Miller calmly and dispassionately dispatches his targets. However, when he is not on a rooftop with his carbine, he is a emotional wreck. | |
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Trigun: Caine the Longshot is a prime example of this trope, having without a doubt, the longest sniper rifle ever conceived by anyone's imagination. While some of the other Guns occasionally display emotions, Caine doesn't — he doesn't even speak. When he is found by Vash, he calmly draws his backup piece and shoots himself. | |
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The titular Jackal from The Day of the Jackal. Forsyth repeatedly mentions that the emotions he displays on his face never reach his eyes, and his frostiness intimidates the underworld members he gets his supplies from. Arguably one of the most "classical" examples. Once flaws start showing up in his plan, however, he gets emotional and careless, going into Villainous Breakdown. | |
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Hornets' Nest: Partisan leader Scarpi is a skilled rifle shot who ruthlessly snipes one of his own men for talking under torture. | |
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In Attack on Titan, a flashback reveals that Bertolt Hoover was this early on in his training. Marley chose him to become a Warrior because of his skill as a sniper, and trained him to become the nation's Fantastic Nuke by carrying out precise, stealth-based attacks on key targets using the Colossal Titan. He isn't cold or unfriendly, so much as soft-spoken and a follower that is very good at detaching himself long enough to do whatever is asked of him. Beneath his stoic mask, he's a traumatized mess that hates himself and suffers nightmares about the people he's hurt. | |
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Assassination Classroom: Ryunosuke Chiba and Rinka Hayami are the most stoic and serious students in Class E, and they stand out as the class's best marksmen (the former for long-range shots and the latter for moving targets). | |
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Sir Francis T. Woolridge aka "Duke" of the Commandos series. | |
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Jared Kincaid in The Dresden Files, an honorable mercenary gunman (he doesn't skip out on a contract; on the other hand, it is implied that he does horrible things to people who don't pay up) with Improbable Aiming Skills. This is the key to Harry working out that he isn't entirely human. He is seen using a very powerful sniper rifle to blow the heads off multiple demons. He also uses what is probably the same gun to kill Harry on Harry's orders as part of a (failed) The Plan against Mab. | |
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The antagonist of Two-Minute Warning is one particularly creeping and frightening example. The only time he shows an emotion is when he is wounded and cornered by the police at the end and he screams in rage. | |
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Averted with the Sniper in Monday Night Combat, who is a complete and utter loon. Since he's a response and gag to the Sniper from Team Fortress 2, it's Rule of Funny. | |
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In the Discworld-themed fanfic The Price of Flight, combat pilot Kiiki Pekisaalen believes in going higher than any other combat air witch, waiting up there for long enough, ideally putting the sun behind her and any perceived target - and then, wham. | |
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Snow Crash: Hiro instantly pegs a mafia tough as a sniper due to the man's detached and calm personality. The sniper proves to be very mellow and generally sits by himself, contentedly reading a paperback novel when he's not picking people off. | |
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Nack from Prison Island Break talked about his job as a professional assassin as if it was a day job. | |
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Sentinels of the Multiverse: Parse does her long-distance killing with arrows rather than bullets, but she otherwise fits the character archetype, using her Awesomeness by Analysis skills to spot weaknesses and then putting arrows into them. She's one of the few heroes with reliable access to irreducible damage, representing her ability to punch through armour by hitting the weak points, and personality-wise she's an extremely cold and calculating character whose introduction to Sentinel Comics was her straight-up murdering Spite (not that anyone particularly mourned him). | |
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FBI: Most Wanted: In "Invisible", Lt. Weitzen is highly decorated sniper famous for his ability to become 'invisible'. When he snaps, he chooses his victims to send a message, but dispatches them in a totally dispassionate way. | |
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Sev from Star Wars: Republic Commando. This cloned special-ops soldier revels in this trope, making such remarks as "Nothing better than a jungle hunt... hiding in the bush, putting a plasma bolt through a hostile's cranium... makes me feel alive." This remark was made in response to Scorch complaining how the jungle in question is giving him creeps. After that, he quickly changed his opinion to Sev giving him creeps. | |
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Inverted in Sturmtruppen: the resident sniper becomes so obsessed with scoring kills that he starts to shoot other soldiers and officers until the Sergeant is forced to behead him with a machete. | |
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Finland in Scandinavia and the World, as seen here. He shot a key out of Aland's hand when Aland tried to break into his house...from Switzerland. This is a reference to the famous Real Life Finnish sniper Simo Häyhä. | |
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In the Star Wars: The Clone Wars episode "Hostage Crisis", a group of bounty hunters led by Cad Bane take over the Galactic Senate building. One of them, Aurra Sing, first takes out most of the Senate guards outside with a long-range sniper rifle from a nearby building. In "Duchess of Mandalore", a Mandalorian warrior is assigned to assassinate the Duchess Satine on Coruscant and stalks her in the lower levels of the city-planet. He misses her the first time but manages to kill an informant giving her important information. The Clone Wars spin-off Star Wars: The Bad Batch gives us Crosshair, who is a lethally gifted sniper and colder than Hoth could ever be. |
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Valkyria Chronicles: Marina Wulfstan, one of the recruitable snipers, isn't quite evil, but very anti-social — to the extent that she gets a stat bonus for not having any friendly troops nearby. She does seem to have a weakness for cute animals though. Conversely, Cezary is more similar to a Jerkass Sniper than entirely "Cold". |
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In Death: Willow Mackie from Apprentice in Death combines this with Teens Are Monsters and Troubling Unchildlike Behavior. | |
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Green Lantern: Bedovian from Sinestro Corps War is a Sinestro Corps member who had been numbed of all emotions after centuries of isolation and can snipe targets from three space sectors away. His shell also acts as an armor. John Stewart, the badass former Marine turned architect turned Green Lantern, beats Bedovian at his own game by using his ring to construct a sniper rifle and firing back — presumably non-lethally, since Green Lantern Rings can't kill anyone (at the time). Nevertheless, Bedovian is still active and proving he's the best sniper out of any Corps. How, you ask? Well, Kyle and Munk wrap Dove up in a Green bullet, which Bedovian promptly shoots out of his construct rifle, then she is energized by the light of six corps, and she goes straight through the BLACK LANTERN ANTI-MONITOR'S head! That crustacean is HARD-CORE! | |
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Countershade, AKA No. 8, from Mighty No. 9, holes himself deep within the United States' Capitol building. Once Beck makes his way in, Countershade relentlessly shoots at Beck without saying a word, using his bullets' ricocheting abilities to be able to catch Beck no matter where he might be in the building, Beck dodging only due to Countershade's laser sight showing where the shots will go. He only starts talking once Beck reaches his room, though he still has a more subdued, quieter way of speaking than any of his comrades. | |
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Dead Man's Gun: Ruthless Bounty Hunter John Pike's Establishing Character Moment in "Death Warrant" is him setting up on a hilltop, adjusting the sights on his buffalo rifle, and then using it to pick off the man driving a wagon along the road far below. He then rides down to the body, ignores the justified attacks and accusations of the man's widow, loads the body onto his horse, and rides off without a backwards glance. | |
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The Lost Regiment: Minor regiment member Patrick Butler is a rude, unsentimental, tobacco-chewing man who relishes the chance to shoot officers no matter what side they're on, but he is put to good use killing enemy leaders. | |
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Metal Gear subverts this trope a lot. Sniper Wolf in Metal Gear Solid tends to get obsessed with her targets and would not think about anything else until she killed them. At the same time, she's by far the nicest member of Foxhound and became friends with Otacon before they took over the base and the staff as hostages. He claims that she was always very nice to him and defends her as a good person because she just adores dogs and wolves. The End in Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater, who is over a hundred years old and just wants to spar off against Naked Snake in a climactic sniper duel before he kicks the bucket. He has an almost symbiotic relationship with his surroundings, and can also go for ages without drinking or eating. He's nourished by sunlight instead. And he's a surprisingly fast runner for a 100-year-old man. Justified in the sense that he allegedly invented sniping. Again, he's the least unsympathetic member of the team, in large part because he only uses tranquilizer rounds when fighting Snake, and when he does knock Snake out, just sticks him in a shed and waits for him to wake up to resume the battle. All he wants from that confrontation is the best fight he can have before his death. And there's Crying Wolf in Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots. Naturally, her name is meant to be a Call-Back to Sniper Wolf, to the point that they use similar tactics and is fought in the same area, a snowfield. She's anything but a cold sniper, constantly being tormented by the memories of her past and apparently unable to ever stop crying. For more than the last 10 years. Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain: Lastly, we have Quiet. She is very attractive and wears the bare minimum of clothing. For the most part, she definitely fits the trope, but she eventually warms up to Snake as the story progresses, bonus points as well for being featured in one of the game's most difficult boss battles. On a meta note, you yourself can play Venom Snake/Big Boss this way, what with the multiple available sniper rifles available to develop, and the relative in-game freedom of either using tranq snipers to simply put your enemies to sleep, or using high-powered ones to cave their heads in (and, if you're good enough, destroy vehicles/choppers too). |
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Craig Boone of Fallout: New Vegas, a companion character who takes this trope to Game-Breaker levels. | |
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Iron Kingdoms: Warmachine and Hordes each have their own cold snipers. Kell Balioch is a mercenary assassin who asks no questions and gives no quarter, while the Khadoran Empire employs squads of emotionally detached snipers called Widowmakers. Grim Angus is an ex-bounty hunter who decided to leave his old life to help his old kinsmen. He was once feared for his preference to take more bounties in dead than alive with his long-ranged rifle, Headhunter. Now he is just feared for never leaving anyone alive. A subversion comes in the form of Kara Sloan, who only acts cold around her troops out of guilt over the fact that she's in a relationship with one of her junior officers. |
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Wolf Creek has its antagonist. Once you realize he's not so friendly, Mick Taylor (not the Rolling Stone) proves that guns can be just as scary as knives. That goes double for the sequel. In the opening scene, he manages Cold and Friendly Sniper at the same time. | |
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Phone Booth's sniper does have feelings — but not exactly the expected ones. He has no problems killing a random pimp to provoke his target and a perfectly innocent pizza guy to avoid suspicion. | |
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SAPR: Ciel is just as calculating and efficient as she is in canon RWBY, but here she's also totting a seven-foot-long anti-materiel rifle. | |
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Black Butler: When her glasses come off, Mey-rin goes from a clumsy Meganekko to a sniper easily capable of blowing your brains out. And with her extreme farsightedness, she needs only the iron sights to snipe. | |
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Kid Colt (2009): The main antagonist is Bounty Hunter Sherman Wilks, who's a very accurate shot when he's using a rifle and sight at long range. He's also a cool headed tactician, a Noble Confederate Soldier whose word is his bond. He only gets to show off his sniper skills during his first clash with Colt, though, as the plot then forces them into closer quarters. | |
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Little Sure Shot of Sgt. Rock's Easy Company is an antisocial Native American who tends to eschew teamwork in favor of working alone. | |
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Cross Ange The Knight Of Hilda: Among the Wildpack, Vulture, the team's sniper, is definitely the coldest and most ruthless member, always having an aloof and pragmatic attitude, though he still counts as a heroic example. During Ange's rescue, he laments not being allowed to take a shot at Julio as they were specifically ordered to only attack armed combatants and not to kill unless absolutely necessary. | |
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Ghost in the Shell: Saito, although he's more 'professional' than 'psychotic' and appears to be no less mentally healthy than the rest of Section 9. He also doubles as The Quiet One, though he is occasionally sarcastic and openly breaks out in laughter in one of the novels. Granted, he's laughing at how pathetic someone is, so it doesn't really earn him any points towards Friendly Sniper. He even has an episode for his own in which he tells about the only time someone managed to get past him and made him scared for his life. In the end, however, it seems quite likely that he just made it all up with a completely straight face, just to show someone how unbelievably good he is at bluffing... or did he? | |
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And there's Crying Wolf in Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots. Naturally, her name is meant to be a Call-Back to Sniper Wolf, to the point that they use similar tactics and is fought in the same area, a snowfield. She's anything but a cold sniper, constantly being tormented by the memories of her past and apparently unable to ever stop crying. For more than the last 10 years. | |
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Monster Musume: Averted by Manako. While on the job, she's a formidable shot thanks to her big eye, but she's not cold, though she's not a Friendly Sniper, either. Her everyday personality is that of an insecure, fragile, extremely shy young woman. | |
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Choujin Sensen: Baron Saijou has been a killer since he was 18, recalling how his first kill was in Vietnam, and then followed by Somalia, Iraq, and Afghanistan. | |
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During The Punisher: Born, his company take down a female sniper who is plainly inspired by the one from Full Metal Jacket, thus being a subversion. | |
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Aurelia from Borderlands: The Pre-Sequel! is more of an Egomaniac Hunter, but she's a literal example of this trope: she's great with sniper rifles and has an entire skill tree dedicated to Cryo damage. | |
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Super Robot Wars: Latooni Subota in Super Robot Wars: Original Generation. She goes through a lot of Character Development to become better-adjusted and more outgoing, so naturally, in the sequel, she's lost all her sniping-specific skills (though she's still pretty good at it) and gets a melee-focused Ace Custom. Calvina Coulange from Super Robot Wars Judgment is a variation. She specializes in swift long-range skills, but instead of emotionless, she's an aloof, unfriendly Broken Bird prone to anger outbursts due to mental trauma and often breaks protocol in a single-minded hunt for revenge. Like Latooni, she gets better via Character Development, but unlike Latooni, she's still keeping her sniping skills and only so much discarding the unpleasant aspects of her personality, she's still aloof. |
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Widowmaker in Overwatch is not only a figurative example but also a literal one, as her body was modified to slow her blood circulation to extreme levels, resulting in her having purple skin. | |
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Sin City: Hell and Back has a sniper assassin going after the main character. The man is very calm and collected, although apparently unbalanced, considering that he had just killed a woman simply so he could use her apartment as a stakeout. Miho also counts as a bow and arrow Cold Sniper. Being The Voiceless, she never changes her blank expression, and her aiming skills are second to none. |
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One cutscene in Sniper Elite V2, he inquires about Dr. Schweiger's injuries after taking fire from a German Assault Squad when he was defecting to the Allies in a more concerned manner than his stoic disposition throughout the course of the game. Despite sounding a little more panicked, Fairburne was concerned about him because of his information about the Nazi's V2 project. | |
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JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Stone Ocean: Johngalli A is a blind sniper who gets around his disability with a tiny satellite Stand that lets him detect air movements, granting him Improbable Aiming Skills on top of it. He can also use his Stand to ricochet bullets off of Revolver Ocelot-style. Also earlier, in Part 4, there is Bug-Eaten, a rat with a Stand that shoots darts infused with flesh-melting poison. By the time Jotaro and Josuke identify it and track it down, Bug-Eaten has become this trope, finding high ground and taking cover, aiming the darts at the boys down below with the Stand's scope while taking every precaution to avoid giving away its location. Using these skills, Bug-Eaten has eliminated every rival rat in the area, as well as some nearby humans. Bug-Eaten has good enough aim and prediction skills that it can repeatedly hit Jotaro even with his time-stopping abilities. And with Bug-Eaten being a rat, it doesn't care one bit about anyone or anything but itself and is completely comfortable killing anything in its way. The only emotion it displays is a combination of anger and fear when Josuke attempts to snipe back and barely misses, enraging it enough to aim its crosshairs at Josuke instead of Jotaro. |
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Shinon from Fire Emblem: Path of Radiance and Fire Emblem: Radiant Dawn is the bow-wielding variant of this trope. Even in the end, when the character roll call comes up and every unit congratulates you for winning the war, he calls you a "snot-nosed whelp". | |
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The two-man Sniper squads of GDI in Command & Conquer: Tiberium Wars are sane, but quite professional, putting them in this category.However, if one man on the sniper team is killed, when you click on the unit, the voice will sound more strained and panicky. | |
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Avatar: The Last Airbender: It's made clear that a firebender specializing in combustion is essentially a human cannon. Now fast-forward to Book 3 of Sequel Series The Legend of Korra, and pair the above with P'Li's ruthless, standoffish demeanor and uncanny aim. The Yu-Yan Archers from the first season count as well. Always silent, unfazed by pressure, with legendary accuracy and extremely effective. They only use bows and arrows instead of rifles. |
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Aria the Scarlet Ammo: Reki, who is completely unperturbed by her acts. Further emphasised at one point when the protagonist muses to himself over rumours that she had once engaged in black ops for an organisation with a Thou Shalt Not Kill policy. | |
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Borderlands: Zer0 from Borderlands 2 is a Blood Knight who cares most about finding worthy opponents to defeat. Aurelia from Borderlands: The Pre-Sequel! is more of an Egomaniac Hunter, but she's a literal example of this trope: she's great with sniper rifles and has an entire skill tree dedicated to Cryo damage. |
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The protagonist of Rogue Male believes that his only motive in stalking a dictator with his rifle was the pleasure of the hunt. he was kidding himself | |
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Nintendo Wars: Gage/Trak from Advance Wars: Days of Ruin, although technically an army commander, is an artillery specialist and is commonly depicted with a sniper rifle. His Japanese/European Leitmotif is even called "Ice Warrior". While he is a prime example of The Stoic, he appears otherwise sane — his professionalism just leaves him more cynically slanted than the rest of team good. | |
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Myn Donos from the X-Wing Series seems like this at first. However, this has less to do with him being the Wraith sniper and more to do with him having some serious emotional issues stemming from having a squadron under his command obliterated. Still, after he gets Character Development and starts to get over those issues, he's still generally the most reserved Wraith. Also, while he sniped three people out of the blue in his sniping career, he felt uneasy about not giving his enemies a fair fight or any warning, so he transferred to the starfighter corps and did well enough to be put in charge of a brand-new squadron. When they died he blamed himself and became cold — so he was a poor Cold Sniper when he was a sniper, a better one as a pilot-sniper, and then he defrosted. Most of the time, given his reputation and his behavior, you would think Wes Janson is a Friendly Sniper. But when he's killing people, whether in the cockpit or with his sidearm (it's not special—but every sidearm he has becomes a Sniper Pistol), he goes cold and emotionless. At least, if you're lucky and he's not angry. |
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Doom: The Doom Slayer himself can become this in Doom (2016) with the Heavy Assault Rifle's Tactical Scope mod. Of course, since his targets are all demons, they shouldn't garner much sympathy. There's also the Precision Bolt, a mod for the Gauss Cannon which makes it an actual sniper cannon. The Tactical Scope returns as the Precision Bolt in Doom Eternal, and the Heavy Assault Rifle is now the Heavy Cannon. As its name implies, it shoots more slowly but also more powerfully. |
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Halo: Linda-058 is known as the foremost sniper specialist of the Spartan-IIs, with Improbable Aiming Skills taken up a notch, and has been since about the age of twelve. She takes sniping as a challenge, even being shown to shoot pilots out of Banshees while hanging upside down by a single cord wrapped around her foot. And that was a day after she had been brought Back from the Dead. Once she gets into position, her mind enters a Zen-Buddhist state and her kills are reported in an icy-cold voice. She works better without a spotter, and fits the lone wolf description better than any other Spartan, with a very detached and quiet personality. Several of her fellow Spartans have noted that she makes sniping an art. Spartan-III Jun-A266 of Noble Team normally comes across as a Friendly Sniper in Halo: Reach, as he has quite the mouth on him. However, he's at heart a loner, with his psychiatrist expressing concern that he has "an unhealthy emotional detachment in regards to the consequences of his actions"; Noble's commanding officer Colonel Holland considers this assessment to be faulty, and Jun has had to be treated for PTSD before. That said, one of his quotes is "I kill the enemy, but do not hate them". |
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Thane Krios from Mass Effect 2 was trained to be a sniper who killed for the greater good. He is rather personable and spiritualistic, if a bit quiet, when not on the job. Of the other sniper rifle users in the game, Garrus is a Friendly Sniper (but oftentimes plays this trope straight whenever he becomes overzealous and showcasing his pragmatic side, particularly in his loyalty mission), Zaeed is a borderline Psycho for Hire, Ashley is an energetic Cool Big Sis but prefers her assault rifle, and Legion is a robot and can't be judged by human or organic standards. | |
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Fallout: Craig Boone of Fallout: New Vegas, a companion character who takes this trope to Game-Breaker levels. Also, Bitter-Root and Betsy from First Recon. To be fair, they all three have their reasons. Boone was at the massacre of Bitter Springs, and reluctantly picked off his share of innocent women, children, elderly, and sick Khans, as well as mercy killing his wife when she was sold to the Legion as a slave, when there was nothing else he could do. Bitter-Root was at Bitter Springs when he was younger, and, despite him feeling that the Khans had it coming, is still obviously haunted by it, and Betsy was raped by Cook-Cook of the Fiends. |
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Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha StrikerS: Subverted by Dieci. She's introduced as a sniper as emotionless as some of her cyborg sisters, but she's later revealed to be not as cold as she appeared, having second thoughts about their goals when she sees the six-year-old Vivio in pain from being used to activate the Saint's Cradle, and showing hesitation when shooting down Nanoha as she arrives to rescue her daughter. | |
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Chicago P.D.: Subverted with Halstead. Despite serving in this capacity with the military and now the Chicago police, he is very feeling. He simply knows it's the only way. | |
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The Chem.IMN from Mutant Chronicles. Cybernetic assassins with long-range rifles and chemical weapons who get dropped from orbit and look like the Terminator. Uh huh, THAT one. | |
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The snipers from Dirty Bomb are generally a lot less hammy than the other mercs, which isn't saying that much considering everyone is really hammy. This isn't to say they're like that for no reason. Vassili is being hunted by the government because of a failed political assassination, Red Eye is taking mercenary work because he was refused pension, and Aimee watched her idol die in front of her before finding out she was supposed to be killed instead. | |
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Strix from Paladins is an old sniper who is stoic, distant, and doesn't talk much. He is also the mentor to Kinessa who, unlike him, is a Friendly Sniper. | |
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Batman: The mercenary Gunhawk doesn't care who his target is. The only person he shows any affection to is his spotter and girlfriend Bunny. Gotham City SWAT cop Billy Pettit (better-remembered for his role in Batman: No Man's Land) is introduced in a three-part story that he spends trying to take out the mutant Man-Bat with a sniper rifle. Pettit seems to care more about making the kill (and finding out just what Man-Bat is) than ending the crime spree, tries to shoot Man-Bat while he's carrying an innocent woman who could fall to her death if Man-Bat dies, and spends a lot of time yelling at his spotter. |
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Latooni Subota in Super Robot Wars: Original Generation. She goes through a lot of Character Development to become better-adjusted and more outgoing, so naturally, in the sequel, she's lost all her sniping-specific skills (though she's still pretty good at it) and gets a melee-focused Ace Custom. | |
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In ABC Warriors, there is Joe Pineapples, a robot who is a strong contender for both the universe's greatest sniper and coolest dude, achieved by being cold-hearted even by the standards of a robot. He's described as being a robot acting like a human acting like a robot. | |
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Better Call Saul: There is a heavy implication that Mike Ehrmantraut was a Marine Sniper during The Vietnam War. In the series itself, he puts his skills to good use in a complicated scheme to bust Hector Salamanca's men, involving putting a bullet directly through a shoe hanging from a power line. | |
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In Star Wars: The Old Republic, the Imperial Agent can specialize as a Sniper who stays in the back and deal massive damage to enemies and can be played as a Consummate Professional who gets the job done no matter what they need to do. | |
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In The Journeyman Project, Mercury, one of Elliot Sinclair's robots, is sent back in time to be this to his rival, Enrique Castillo during the conference on alien contact. Naturally, you have to stop Castillo from being killed. Subverted with Elliot Sinclair himself, who is more of a paranoid sniper than cold. | |
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Calvina Coulange from Super Robot Wars Judgment is a variation. She specializes in swift long-range skills, but instead of emotionless, she's an aloof, unfriendly Broken Bird prone to anger outbursts due to mental trauma and often breaks protocol in a single-minded hunt for revenge. Like Latooni, she gets better via Character Development, but unlike Latooni, she's still keeping her sniping skills and only so much discarding the unpleasant aspects of her personality, she's still aloof. | |
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Jayt in Wars of the Realm. The only difference is that his weapon of choice is the throwing knife rather than the sniper rifle. | |
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Shoot to Kill: In the opening hostage standoff, Stantin is accompanied by an FBI sniper who is very grim and focused on his job (although he never fires his gun due to concern for the hostage's life). | |
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The Doom Slayer himself can become this in Doom (2016) with the Heavy Assault Rifle's Tactical Scope mod. Of course, since his targets are all demons, they shouldn't garner much sympathy. There's also the Precision Bolt, a mod for the Gauss Cannon which makes it an actual sniper cannon. | |
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Bob Lee Swagger in Shooter showed no remorse over anyone or anything he ever shot at, not even innocent cans of soup. He has plenty of emotions; he simply does not regret killing people. He was rather attached to his dog though. | |
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Played with in Full Metal Jacket, when the drill instructor exalts the marksmanship of two murderers, Charles Whitman and Lee Harvey Oswald, who were both Marines. The trope is ultimately subverted when a VC sniper turns out to be a teenage girl using a basic assault rifle without even a scope fitted. | |
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Golgo 13: The titular character is one of the coldest in the business. So cold, the temperature of the room goes down when he walks in. | |
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Rizzoli & Isles: The killer in "Bite Out of Crime". Korsak even mentions that snipers prefer to work alone when Frankie suggests he might have a partner. | |
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Hitman: Agent 47 is a stoic, detached man with a frosty demeanor, and while his main weapons are his Silverballers and fiber wire, he's also an excellent sniper and has multiple sniping kills to his name. | |
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Damsels of Distress: Tsubaki the tengu definitely qualifies for this trope. She is cold, callous, stoic, and a crack shot with her bolt-action sniper rifle. | |
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Averted/played straight (depending on your interpretation) on an episode of NCIS, when Ari kills Kate with a perfectly aimed shot between the eyes. As he lowers the rifle, he simply says "Sorry, Caitlin" Gibbs is/was this too (he was a sniper in the Gulf War and he still has the ability), and Ziva is capable of being one too. Both, however, are much nicer, more caring, and at least in Ziva's case, more personable. A Villain of the Week was an aspiring sniper who was rejected from the Marines because he showed signs of sociopathy. Gibbs grudgingly admits that he was one of the best and most resourceful snipers he had seen. |
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Jade Face of Xenoblade Chronicles 1 is this all over. He prefers using his laser weapon more than other Faces seem to, especially at long distances. In fact, the first boss fight against him starts with a Corridor Cubbyhole Run because he's shooting at you from so far away. As for the "Cold" part, all of his emotions and memories were stripped from him when he was turned into a Face against his will. He used to be Friendly Sniper Gadolt. | |
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In The Transformers (IDW), Perceptor becomes one after a brush with death convinces him that he needs to be more combat effective. He adds multiple upgrades to himself that give him superior targeting and weapon stability, then snipes the vulnerable spots on Monstructor. | |
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Ernest Cobb from Alcatraz is one who uses his abilities for random killings. | |
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Harridans, an alien race from Xenonauts, are the epitome of this trope: they are genius marksmen, but also completely oblivious to not only morality but seemingly even reality itself. | |
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Tom Bishop in Spy Game (before he becomes a spy). | |
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Please Don't Tell My Parents I'm a Supervillain: While one of his Judgment's high profile victims (Deadly Flame) is killed with a pistol, both Please Don't Tell My Parents I'm a Giant Monster and the short story "Summer of Lob" say Judgment is notorious for shooting people from a distance with a rifle. | |
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Sniper: Thomas Beckett is the stoic loner type. He's shunned on the base he's stationed at both for being a sniper among regular soldiers, and for being rather notorious for losing partners in the field. | |
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Daredevil (2015): Benjamin "Dex" Poindexter is an FBI SWAT sniper. His natural talent as a sharpshooter makes him the perfect candidate for Wilson Fisk to groom into an assassin. | |
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Trace from Metroid Prime: Hunters serves this role among the hunters. His Imperialist can zoom in on targets, has the longest range in the game, and kills in one shot if it hits the target right. Personality-wise, he's an assassin who doesn't give a damn about empathy or allies. | |
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An episode of CSI: Miami had the typical cold emotionless sniper serial killer. So cold that the investigator didn't care what his reason was when the sniper asked if he wanted to know. Thanks a lot, Horatio. | |
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One Piece: Van Auger, a member of Blackbeard's crew, is extremely cold and obsessed with fate, armed with a sniper rifle, and is able to pick off seagulls from a distance that the island isn't even visible from. Completely inverted with the main sniper of the series, Usopp, who is a loud, Cowardly Lion fighting with a slingshot and usually a hammer. His secret identity, Sogeking, however, is portrayed as a cool-headed hero who officially declared war on the world government without so much as a split second of hesitation... but in battle, he's usually just as cowardly. Jean Ango is a sniper with the typical distant attitude and lack of words to say but a highly unusual method: Because he also has amazing swiftness, he's able to pickpocket weapons off of nearby fighters and uses them against his targets. If it's a close-range weapon, like swords or maces, he will throw them with blinding speed and accuracy. He is said to be one of the most skilled bounty hunters in the world, able to regularly turn in criminals with nine-digit bounties and operates in the New World, the most dangerous region of the planet, whereas most other bounty hunters operate elsewhere, where the criminals are substantially weaker and thus their bounties smaller. Vander Decken IX is another odd case, not fitting cleanly into either the "Cold" archetype in that he's energetic and loud; nor the "Friendly" archetype in that he's a nasty, evil individual, but he does have the pragmatism and lack of empathy to fit this trope. Like the example above, he is also not an ordinary sniper; having the power of the Target-Target Fruit, he can cause anything in midair propelled through his own energy to home in on his targets, giving him uncanny accuracy for someone who doesn't even bother to aim. Charlotte Katakuri, one of Big Mom's Sweet Generals, prefers to fight at long distance by flicking jelly beans at his targets. He is good enough to send those beans right through people's heads at a distance too far for even skilled bystanders like Capone Bege to notice. |
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Female Agents: Louise. She is introduced methodically killing several German soldiers as one and later tries to kill Heindrich this way too. | |
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Gaunt's Ghosts: Quickly subverted with Larkin once it's revealed that he's twitchy and occasionally suffers from fits. He's also extremely paranoid and possibly a bit of a coward. Nevertheless, he's so far managed to pull through and get the job done, albeit once he needed the help of a possibly fantasized Imperial Angel not to run away. While Larkin may be a couple of lasrounds short of a full clip, the Ghosts have plenty of other snipers. Interestingly, most of them seem to come with the influx of female Vervunhivers after Necropolis. Saul, the Blood Pact sniper from Sabbat Martyr is this trope played straight. As a member of the Blood Pact, he is very much a Card-Carrying Villain, but his pride in his skill means he prefers focused, clean kills rather than maniacal brutality. Saul does fall into Honor Before Reason at one point when he does reckon he can kill St Sabbat with his shot — but he would have to fire through Brin Milo to do it, which wouldn't be "clean". Moving to re-sight costs him his target and his head. Vindicare assassins are the epitome of cold snipers, enhanced with a few extra handy organs and cybernetic implants and trained to be emotionless so as to be maximally effective killers. |
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In Jarhead Swoff is drifting into this trope, and repeatedly references his need for 'the red mist'. | |
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Inteleon in Pokémon combines this trope with Tuxedo and Martini due to its calm and collected demeanor and a color pattern resembling a tuxedo. Whereas other Water-type Pokémon shoot large amounts of water at their foes, this lizard prefers to use its fingertips to shoot small but extremely precise blasts of water. This trope is taken further when it Gigantamaxes, upon which it can use the move G-Max Hydrosnipe, in which it uses its extremely long tail as a makeshift perch and generates a rifle-shaped blob of water attached to a fingertip from which it can pick off targets from above. In addition, Inteleon is the only Pokémon to aim for the targets' heads rather than their centers. | |
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Eagle of Reverse: 1999 is a mage who has sniper-based spells, marking enemies and shooting them with intense blasts of magical energy like a sniper shot. She's also very serious, curt, and acts like an adult career military serviceman, rather than the preteen Boy Scouts hopeful she is. | |
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NUMB3RS: In most of his appearances, Agent Ian Edgerton is the embodiment of this idea. Occasionally his lighter side shows, as in the finale, but not often. In an almost Batmanesque manner, he appears to value justice over law. | |
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Joe Pickett: Jimmy Sollis from Breaking Point likes to portray himself as this. A competition long-distance shooter, he joins McLanahan's manhunt simply because he wants to have the opportunity to shoot a man, and Farkus notes that he and McLanahan discuss killing a man as if they were talking about hunting an elk. His reserve breaks down quickly when they are captured by their intended target, however. | |
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Sniper Wolf in Metal Gear Solid tends to get obsessed with her targets and would not think about anything else until she killed them. At the same time, she's by far the nicest member of Foxhound and became friends with Otacon before they took over the base and the staff as hostages. He claims that she was always very nice to him and defends her as a good person because she just adores dogs and wolves. | |
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StarCraft: Ghosts are psionics trained as assassins, and their iconic weapon is a type of sniper rifle known as the canister rifle. Those trained under Arcturus Mengsk's reign of the Dominion underwent a memory wipe as part of their graduation ceremony, which erases their personality and render them cold, efficient killers for the regime. The most notable example is November Annabella "Nova" Terra of StarCraft II: Nova Covert Ops. | |
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The Matrix: Path of Neo has one or two of these, most particularly the one on the factory level. | |
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No More Heroes III: Sniping Lee is capable of killing his enemies with his highly advanced rifle from any distance, and plans to kill Travis his way without even fighting him directly... and then gets killed by one of Travis' supporters. | |
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Mystery Road: The climax features three characters who display shades of this in different ways (notably it's the only long-distance shooting scene in the film). Pete, The Hot-Blooded dragon is ruthlessly firing at cops while letting himself show a little hate, and jumpiness when shots hit near him. Creepy Good Johnno sits out in the open, smoking a cigarette while firing at Pete (and other henchmen) with a sense of detached calmness even as some of Pete’s bullets strike closer and closer to him, while his enemy zeroes in. Cowboy Cop Jay, while clearly disturbed by any death he does see across the movie, is willing to show a little righteous anger as he fires at Pete. |
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Game of Thrones: Ygritte goes into this mode in Season 4, remaining cold and focused with no qualms about shooting unarmed peasants. In "The Watchers on the Wall" she even argues she's killed more peasants than the Obviously Evil Cannibal Clan leader Styr. While Ramsay is only seen wielding a bow a few times, he's at his coldest and calmest while using it. He finally uses it again in "Battle of the Bastards", where he plays a "game" with Rickon, telling him to run to his brother Jon while he fires at him. As Jon and Rickon rush toward each other, Ramsay deliberately misses Rickon multiple times. As Jon is just about to save Rickon, Ramsay finally kills Rickon when he's mere feet from Jon. Later in the episode, after Ramsay has lost the battle, he "reconsiders" Jon's offer to duel one-on-one. Instead of using a sword though, his idea of a duel is trying to snipe Jon from a distance with his bow. His coolness finally begins to defrost as Jon manages to advance, deflect all of his arrows with a shield, and get close enough to smash his face in. |
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Joe Kidd: One of Harlan's gunfighters, Mingo, is an expert with a scoped rifle and guns down revolutionaries with cold detachment. | |
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Madlax: Limelda Jorg starts off as a professional sniper, but gradually descends into the Psycho Lesbian zone due to her bitter rivalry with the show's eponymous lead (who is also a formidable sniper but in no way a cold one). | |
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Saving Private Ryan has Daniel Jackson, who is a mix of this and Friendly Sniper. He believes that he is God's agent of justice, praying as he fires and sleeping like a baby every night. On the other hand, he socializes pretty well with the rest of the squad. | |
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Super Sentai: The Blue Rangers, either Red Oni, Blue Oni or The Lancer, is often the Cold Sniper. Dekaranger's Hoji is THE personification, being blue, obnoxiously cool and collected, and the team's resident sniper. Paralleled by Tsubasa, Souta and Gunpei. None of the above are particularly emotionless or sociopathic, though. The best Sentai example is Cyclops, one of the Ten Infershia Gods, who spends two episodes shooting at the team from the comfort of a pocket dimension. Once Tsubasa finds his own way there, the two have a very satisfying snipe-off, with Legend MagiYellow one-shotting him. Unlike most examples, Cyclops has a nasty temper, but whenever it flares up his eye starts flashing in warning and he composes himself by stroking his chin. |
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The End in Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater, who is over a hundred years old and just wants to spar off against Naked Snake in a climactic sniper duel before he kicks the bucket. He has an almost symbiotic relationship with his surroundings, and can also go for ages without drinking or eating. He's nourished by sunlight instead. And he's a surprisingly fast runner for a 100-year-old man. Justified in the sense that he allegedly invented sniping. Again, he's the least unsympathetic member of the team, in large part because he only uses tranquilizer rounds when fighting Snake, and when he does knock Snake out, just sticks him in a shed and waits for him to wake up to resume the battle. All he wants from that confrontation is the best fight he can have before his death. | |
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Lieutenant (JG) K'lak of Bait and Switch isn't exactly unfriendly, but he does have a very dour demeanor. | |
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Suicide Squad operative Deadshot claims not to care if anyone lives or dies, including himself. | |
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The Killer: The protagonist kills a lot of his targets with a sniper rifle; he notes that he would probably have made a good army sniper if he didn't hate following orders. | |
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Warhammer 40,000: The Vindicare are born and raised to fulfill this trope. According to the fluff, their entire vocabulary consists only of words needed in the field. They are molded from childhood to kill without thought or feeling. While many 40K armies sport snipers (and the Vindicare are the best), some mention must go to the Space Marine version — specialized Scouts. This doesn't sound too impressive until you realize that Scouts are teenagers who have yet to be promoted (and augmented) into full genetically-modified warrior-monks, but have already passed the trials... which tend to be extremely lethal. Necron Deathmarks were formal assassins employed by the ancient necrontyr dynasties, and millennia later they continue to fulfill their purpose as emotionless skeleton robots. They are so named because they "mark" their intended targets with ethereal green halos, which allow the Deathmarks to unerringly track their prey for miles via the signal. Special mention must go to their weapons, which are specifically keyed to fry their victims' brains while leaving the body unharmed. By ancient law, the Necron Overlords are absolutely forbidden from employing Deathmarks against each other or honorable enemies... However, this provision does not extend to those enemies the Necrons consider "dishonourable", and since no other intelligent race could hope to grasp the intricacies of Necron war etiquette, Deathmarks see frequent use against aliens. |
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Downplayed by Marie of Splatoon's Squid Sisters. She isn't evil, or even unfriendly, but her use of a Charger matches her personality as the more reserved, cool-headed member of the duo. | |
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Mr. Mick Mundy — a.k.a. The Sniper — from Team Fortress 2 flip-flops between being this and a Friendly Sniper. Normally, he'll cheerily taunt opponents after scoring a kill and take pride in being a "professional with standards". When he's scoped in, however, his entire demeanour changes; to the point where he'll venomously growl his previously upbeat taunts while shooting his opponents dead. | |
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The Punisher: During one of Frank Castle's tours of Vietnam, he served as a counter-sniper, and occasionally puts those skills to use during his vigilante career. To say he's not emotional is an understatement. During The Punisher: Born, his company take down a female sniper who is plainly inspired by the one from Full Metal Jacket, thus being a subversion. |
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This Bites!: Domino, the Vice Head Jailer of Impel Down, gets this treatment in this fic; she's no powerhouse like her fellow executives, so she focuses on stealth and psychological torture. Her contribution to stopping the big jailbreak in the end is shooting Luffy from the rafters...with a poisoned crossbow, the better to actually damage the Rubber Man. It only slows him down, but then, that was the intention. | |
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Zig-zagged in Conqueror's Blade. Janissaries are described by their attribute page as "Patient Snipers," but are no less cold (and no more sniper) than the average musketeer. A better fit for this trope are the Matchlock Ashigaru, who have more sniper-like gameplay and feature appropriately cool voice lines: | |
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In Child of the Storm, the Winter Soldier shows no emotion about his kills. Mind, he's The Voiceless and doesn't show emotion about anything. He's also confirmed as the man who killed Kennedy. The Cold part changes as we get more and more of a look inside his head and his brainwashing begins to wear off - though even post Heel–Face Turn, he's a quiet and collected individual who'll take a killshot without blinking. |
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The Marksman: Jim is a good man but usually gruff and distant to others. A veteran Marine scout sniper who had served in Vietnam, he's still quite good at sniping (thus the film's title) and shows his skills during the film multiple times while fighting dangerous cartel members. | |
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Monster: Zig-zagged when Nina asks for advice from a sniper. He tells her that in order to kill someone she had to "forget the taste of sugar": the man in question retired specifically because he found himself empathizing with one of his targets (namely he started wondering how the man's coffee must be tasting because he'd poured so much sugar in it) and found that he couldn't be a sniper anymore because of it. | |
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Richard Harrow from Boardwalk Empire, a World War I veteran with a horrible facial injury, befriended by Jimmy Darmody. Proficient with all kinds of firearms and an excellent marksman. At first he comes across as a likeable, kind-hearted fellow (his physical appearance notwithstanding) but then all of a sudden there's this little bit of dialogue between him and Jimmy as they discuss how to get rid of the d'Alessio brothers: His coldblooded nature is shown in his first episode when he kills a guy as his first job for Jimmy. He does not know the target and he only met Jimmy a few days earlier. He wasn't even a criminal up to that point. Jimmy simply offered him a chance to do what he is good at. After making that shot he packs up his rifle without showing any emotion. Over the course of the series, Richard undergoes a lot of Character Development and regains his humanity, turning into a deconstruction of the Hitman with a Heart. |
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Act of Valor: Weimy, who's completely silent except to confirm kills during a mission. | |
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No More Heroes: Speed Buster uses a Wave-Motion Gun in this way. It's extremely flashy, but with a weapon like that, she didn't become the #3-ranked assassin for nothing. Travis Touchdown is the only person who does not die from her first hit due to catching on to what she can do, and she is an inconspicuous bag lady who disguises her laser cannon as a shopping cart when not in combat. | |
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This is also referenced in Secret Warriors issue No. 4 where Nick Fury is asked what he'll feel about killing former SHIELD agents who transferred to HAMMER in part because they have to take care of their families. As he pulls back the bolt on a sniper rifle he says "Recoil." | |
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JAG: In "High Ground"; when a promise by his former CO not be deployed to Bosnia is reversed by the new Colonel; Gunnery Sergeant Ray Crockett shots the rear mirror of the Colonel’s car when moving at 1 000 yards distance, as a warning before he takes off to the hills. But he's also at the same time a Friendly Sniper because he felt he was unjustly treated and never meant to harm anyone. |
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Hunter × Hunter: Ikalgo appears to be this at first, shooting fleas out of his Sniper Rifle embedded into his arm from a tall cliff. He calmly analyzes the three-dimensional space around his target in the form of a grid, determines the exact coordinates of that target, takes aim, and shoots. He reveals his true personality as a Friendly Sniper once Killua saves his life, however. That said, Ikalgo can revert back to being a very collected individual if the situation requires it. The Ortho Siblings are another subversion, but in a different way: They do have the psychopathy and killing intent standard for this trope, and their ability from the victim's perspective, in which dart-like fish impale the victim's body from out of nowhere, comes across like that of a sniper. The subversion is how the powers actually work—the brother of the duo isn't actually "shooting" the fish as much as the fish materialize right next to the victim at a high speed then penetrates them immediately; the sister provides the beacon attached to the victim from which the fish materialize next to. One of these victims is Killua, who has Super-Speed but is unable to dodge those fish; he realizes they're not actually being shot from a long distance because of that. |
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The Wall (2017) has an Iraqi sniper whose MO is to let the coalition forces radio for backup and take them out as well. | |
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Criminal Minds had Philip Dowd, a sniper also called a "Long Distance Serial Killer". He started off in the military, but was discharged dishonorably, then kicked out of the police, and finally became a doctor who sniped people and then saved them later. He used an M4 with .223 caliber rounds (which fragment on impact), shooting from the back of his van equipped with a retractable license plate. | |
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Pleasantly averted in the Sharpe series, about a team of, ahem, sharp-shooters during the Napoleonic Wars, who are mostly treated as affable, fun-loving guys. The best shot in the regiment, Dan Hagman, is a cheery old poacher from Oop North who loves to sing. | |
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Erwin König in Enemy at the Gates the ruthless sniper who duels Russian hero Vasily Zaytsev. The film was loosely based on the real-life Zaytsev's memoirs (mixed with Soviet propaganda), which are now considered apocryphal. | |
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Snake from Ice Station. It also helps that he's The Mole. | |
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No More Heroes 2: Desperate Struggle: Margaret Moonlight uses more ordinary weaponry (and is incapable of one-shotting Travis, unlike Speed Buster), but she has the ability to teleport, thus allowing her to aim at Travis and whittle his health down and warp elsewhere if he ever gets too close for comfort. | |
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Irving in Phantomarine, at least at first. He seems pretty emotional when it comes to food. | |
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In Project Ignition, there's Kroitchov, BFF's current top sniper. He's dark, somber, and does not care who or what he shoots. He hardly says anything, either in his NEXT or not. Curiously, he's a former Silent Avalanche pilot, trained for NEXT piloting during the course of For Answer and is the catalyst for the 72AN project (which is simply to retrain surviving Silent Avalanche Snipers into NEXT pilots). Contrasting him is Aerilynn, who's full-on Friendly Sniper. | |
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One of the antagonists in the Gligarman sidestory of Pokémon Reset Bloodlines is a professional hitman called the Pride Sniper, who was hired to kill an important Johto politician. He quickly establishes himself as a dire threat not only in the use of firearms, but also in planning ahead and is more than a match for the titular hero in melee combat despite Gligarman using an exosuit that increases his physical strength. | |
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Cold Sniper | |
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The Clone Wars spin-off Star Wars: The Bad Batch gives us Crosshair, who is a lethally gifted sniper and colder than Hoth could ever be. | |
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Subverted frequently in the Canadian-made police series, Flashpoint, beginning in its very first episode which follows the aftermath (emotionally and professionally) when a police sniper is forced to kill a man. The series continues to subvert it by establishing that use of deadly force in this fashion is considered a failure, and by a sympathetic female character as one of the snipers (played by the actress who used to play Pink Ranger in Power Rangers, yet). However, the trope is slightly supported by having one police sniper character being a seasoned war veteran with no qualms about pulling the trigger. Even that character is hardly cold. He does have the military history, but from the beginning, he's clear that he sought out SRU because he wanted to save lives instead of taking them. And he's just as devastated as the rest of the team when they have to kill someone, especially when it's his finger on the trigger. |
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Fire Emblem: Three Houses: Shamir Nevrand has the Sniper class when she first joins you and is one of the most aloof characters in the game. At least one of her Supports (with Alois) delves into her psyche and explores the emotional toll that her mercenary career has taken on her. Bernadetta von Varley shuts herself away in her room at all times, but otherwise subverts the trope in that she's a Shrinking Violet with severe childhood trauma who will run away screaming if you look at her the wrong way, and only wants to be a sniper so she can fight from a safe distance. |
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Honoo no Alpen Rose: Tarantula a.k.a. Lundi's brother Jean Jacques Cortot. He works for Count George de Germont, who is associated with Those Wacky Nazis. However, after the Count orders him to kill General Guisan, he refuses to work with the Count and almost shoots him to death after he finds out of his plan. | |
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Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Faith after her Face–Heel Turn. | |
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Major Crimes: The team chase a cold sniper (with his loner status being continually highlighted) in the episode "Long Shot". | |
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Gotham City SWAT cop Billy Pettit (better-remembered for his role in Batman: No Man's Land) is introduced in a three-part story that he spends trying to take out the mutant Man-Bat with a sniper rifle. Pettit seems to care more about making the kill (and finding out just what Man-Bat is) than ending the crime spree, tries to shoot Man-Bat while he's carrying an innocent woman who could fall to her death if Man-Bat dies, and spends a lot of time yelling at his spotter. | |
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GURPS Tactical Shooting goes over gun fighting styles just as Martial Arts covers martial art styles. It lists Callous (you are merciless, if not cruel) and Loner (you hate being in close proximity to other people) as typical disadvantages for the Sharpshooter style. | |
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Negima! Magister Negi Magi: Mana Tatsumiya is a slightly lighter version of this; she never actually kills anyone (maybe), but she's entirely unapologetic about using ammo that paralyzes people for days, even if it's the guy that she has a crush on. | |
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Maxim Sorel, a sniper from the Valhallan 301st in the first Ciaphas Cain novel, ends up stabbing a man to death simply "because he didn't see any reason not to". Following the court-martial for the above infraction, he is sentenced to death by taking on a suicide mission alongside the protagonist. In a subversion, he not only saves the protagonist's life but is one of two convicts who do not go rogue or are subverted by the enemy, despite (or perhaps, given that this is 40k, due to his) being an obvious sociopath. | |
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Maya, the team's sniper, in Shadow Watch is notably quieter and more laconic than the other team members. | |
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Subverted in The Sandbaggers. Sandbagger three starts to crack after being forced to kill Sandbagger two in an early episode. | |
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Valorant has Sova, a coolheaded Russian hunter with little regards for his prey. He is a Friendly Sniper to his allies, however. | |
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Also earlier, in Part 4, there is Bug-Eaten, a rat with a Stand that shoots darts infused with flesh-melting poison. By the time Jotaro and Josuke identify it and track it down, Bug-Eaten has become this trope, finding high ground and taking cover, aiming the darts at the boys down below with the Stand's scope while taking every precaution to avoid giving away its location. Using these skills, Bug-Eaten has eliminated every rival rat in the area, as well as some nearby humans. Bug-Eaten has good enough aim and prediction skills that it can repeatedly hit Jotaro even with his time-stopping abilities. And with Bug-Eaten being a rat, it doesn't care one bit about anyone or anything but itself and is completely comfortable killing anything in its way. The only emotion it displays is a combination of anger and fear when Josuke attempts to snipe back and barely misses, enraging it enough to aim its crosshairs at Josuke instead of Jotaro. | |
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The canon NPC Stanley Chang in Unknown Armiesnote he's in the Lawyers, Guns and Money sourcebook is a painfully shy, timid man; the only time other people don't make him nervous is when he's looking at them through his scope from a good distance away. In the opening fiction of the Weep sourcebook, one of his "co-workers" recounts one time where Chang backshot a pregnant woman without so much as blinking. |
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Sword Art Online: Sinon is known as "The Ice Sniper" in Gun Gale Online, and she generally does act fairly stoically in battle. Part of this is justified by GGO's game mechanics, in which a player's accuracy increases the slower their heartbeat, so she deliberately keeps herself icy calm when sniping to maximize effectiveness. Out of battle, though, Sinon is much warmer in personality, at least around her friends, and especially once she starts making some progress on her psychological hangups. | |
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Sgt. Reznov of Call of Duty: World at War is implied to have been a cold sniper before you meet him in the aftermath of a massacre. Due to a hand injury, he can't aim his Mosin-Nagant anymore, so he gives it to you. As the Soviet campaign progresses, Reznov becomes more Ax-Crazy. | |
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The Tactical Scope returns as the Precision Bolt in Doom Eternal, and the Heavy Assault Rifle is now the Heavy Cannon. As its name implies, it shoots more slowly but also more powerfully. | |
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The Kill Point features one working for a SWAT team. He also fancies himself something of a Warrior Poet. | |
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The sniper trio from Dead Rising subvert this, as Roger comes across as one of these to the core, but in their short appearance, one of his sons instead seems potentially Hot-Blooded and the other like a Shrinking Violet. | |
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All three main characters on Burn Notice are capable of this, with either Sam or Fiona usually taking on the role while Michael shows off his hand-to-hand or undercover skills. | |
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1632: Julie Sims: Cheerleader, county champion shooter, and aspiring biathlon candidate turned sniper. She has piled up kill totals well into three figures without any apparent emotional affect. By comparison, she cried like a baby when she shot her first deer. But as she says, "That deer hadn't done anything to anyone". Near the end, some of Gustav's Finnish troopers run into her at the end of a long sniping streak, believe she is an incarnation of the goddess Loviatar "Maiden of Pain", and give her a WIDE berth. Mentioned in the training by Dr. James Nichols, who trained as a Marine sniper. When asked about it, there is a whole conversation Julie has with her spotter where they discuss the reasons why they are so cold: if these guys win, they'll rape us, so we kill them. |
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In Cissnei's Path, a Final Fantasy VII fanfic, Tseng during the events of Costa del Sol. He put a sniper round through Crimson (Cissnei) without a second thought and was aiming for her head. The only reason it hit her in her abdomen and wasn't instantly fatal was that she was warned, and he was still prepared to follow through with a second shot to ensure the kill, if not due to outside intervention. | |
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Sabotage (2014) features the married sniper team of James "Monster" Murray and wife Lizzy. | |
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Zero from X-Men Origins: Wolverine. He even cracks a smile after he had just murdered two innocent people and watched their barn blow up. | |
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You play as one in the Project I.G.I. series, an ex-SAS Operative sent on covert missions, and an expert sniper who mows down enemies without batting an eye. | |
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Lupin III: Daisuke Jigen is a sardonic Deadpan Snarker outside of battle, but during missions, he's entirely goal-focused and silent like a snake. He spends half of Lupin III: Episode 0: First Contact being a cold sniper, trying to kill Lupin. When both are prisoners of the main villain, Lupin's latest way to humiliate their captor is forcing Jigen to try and stifle a laugh before cracking up. | |
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YuYu Hakusho offers an interesting twist with the villain Kaname "Sniper" Hagiri. Per se, he doesn't actually use a real sniper rifle (he does use a pistol), but he can flick objects (marbles, dice, a tank truck filled with fuel) with insane force and accuracy. Moreover, his "territory" lets him imprint enemies with bulls-eyes that attract anything he throws with deathly speed. That said, personality-wise he fits the bill of this trope quite well — out of all the Sensui Seven, he's the least emotional and crazy, and fights purely methodically. (Though he can also be Not So Stoic, and after Itsuki he is the most unfalteringly loyal to their leader Sensui.) | |
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Harry and the Shipgirls has Delilah Naomi de Breuil, a Tsukumogami of a revolver. As said revolver contains Muramasa steel, she has a Superpowered Evil Side that turns her into a Heroic Sociopath. Oh, did I mention that she has a massive amount of guns that she has purchased, and is hands down one of the best snipers in the entire setting? | |
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Justified has Deputy US Marshall Tim Gutterson, a sniper who was with the Rangers in Afghanistan. He is a very friendly guy who likes to joke around but when he aims his sniper rifle at someone he is deadly calm and has no qualms about pulling the trigger. His boss is even concerned that Tim might like killing too much. However, it is strongly implied that Tim is suffering from PTSD and might be an alcoholic as a result of having to kill so many people. | |
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Full Metal Panic! introduces one in the person of Wilhelm Casper, who trained Kurz and is now a member of the villain organization called Amalgam. The ending of Approaching Nick of Time reveals that after Casper chose to take a kill-shot which also critically injured an uninvolved eight-year-old girl, Kurz made up his mind that he didn't want to be a "real sniper" if it meant becoming a monster like Casper, and thereafter seems to have exerted himself to be a Friendly Sniper instead. | |
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Subverted in the Tommy and Tuppence adventure N or M? by Mrs. Sprot, a normally timid lady who pulls off a near-impossible headshot on a kidnapper to save her daughter Betty from being thrown over a cliff; she immediately breaks down in tears while embracing her child afterward. Double subver; Mrs. Sprot was acting. She's a spy and trained shot, and took out the kidnapper to prevent anyone from finding out that the poor woman was Betty's real mom, trying to take her daughter back from Mrs. Sprot. | |
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