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Sir Isaac Newton's first law of motion: a body in motion will tend to stay in motion, in the same direction and at a constant speed, unless acted upon by an outside force.
So, if one were to fire a projectile at someone, whether it be a bullet, arrow, stone, laser beam, nuclear missile, or what have you... and you happened to miss the target, anything and anyone standing downrange from that target would run a pretty good risk of getting hit themselves. It is for this reason that gun safety is really, really important: you wouldn't want to make a mistake, like say, accidentally shooting Marvin in the face. Sometimes you may actually hit the target... and someone/thing (who you don't intend to hit) who may be in the front of or behind it or (in case of explosives) around it.
This trope covers those moments when a character intends to shoot one thing, but ends up hitting someone or something they were not intending to. Thanks to The Law of Conservation of Detail, any scene featuring this trope is going to be a dramatic moment, as neither the shooters nor the audience expected the stray shots to actually hit anybody, or (in case of explosives) for the blast to hit unintended targets around them or cause more damage to the surroundings than intended.
The No-Harm Requirement is an injunction to avoid Collateral Damage.
This is a Supertrope to Spectator Casualty (in which someone just watching a deadly sport is unintentionally injured) and Deadly Dodging (which weaponizes this trope).
Compare and contrast:
Bad Vibrations: A huge creature is so powerful that they don't even need to touch things to damage them—the earthquakes from their footfalls will do.
Dangerous Backswing: Basically the melee weapon equivalent.
Destructive Savior: Heroes who do collateral damage while saving the day.
Exactly What I Aimed At: when what looks like collateral damage was actually the shooter's target all along.
Imperial Stormtrooper Marksmanship Academy: Mooks tend to be experts at firing with reckless abandon while missing absolutely everything... especially their intended targets.
Shoot the Hostage and Shoot Your Mate: the shooter is fully aware of the intended victim and may choose to take the shot anyway
Taking the Bullet: the victim jumps in front of the projectile on purpose
Trial by Friendly Fire: when they're aware of the possibility of hitting another target, but risks it anyway.
See also Artistic License – Gun Safety, Reckless Gun Usage and the Friendly Fire Index.
As this is a Death Trope, unmarked spoilers abound. Beware.
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Da 5 Bloods: It's revealed that Paul killed Norman because he fired too long when he shot a Vietcong who sneaked up on them.
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Worm: This is an enormous problem with Glory Girl, to the point that she is nicknamed "Collateral Damage Barbie." While she has never been observed injuring a person she didn't intend to harm, her tendency to wreck everything that gets in her way causes enormous problems for the Wards, as it is a nightmare for PR.
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Law & Order: Special Victims Unit: In "Damaged" the guy in the opening is killed by a stray bullet. Once the real conspiracy comes to light, Cabot makes a point to add his murder to the list of charges.
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The Syrena Legacy: In Of Triton, Rayna uses the Gift of Triton to flood the island of Kanton in order to rescue Jagen and Musa, two Syrena who have been taken prisoner by humans. Rachel scatters life jackets around on the water to prevent any humans from drowning. But Rachel is captured by humans and locked in a room with bars. By the time the Syrena realize what happened, she's already drowned.
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At the end of the Adam-12 episode "Log 52: Good Cop - Handle With Care", Reed and Malloy are questioning a couple suspected bank robbers when the pair of journalists that have been hassling them all episode claiming they're a couple of "badge heavy" thugs show up. In the confusion, one of the suspects pulls a gun and fires at the cops. He misses and hits an innocent bystander across the street. The denouement states the victim, a father of three, died of his injuries at the hospital.
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Bones Cold Sniper Jacob Broadsky uses a thermal imaging camera to target Booth, who’s inside the Jeffersonian. He calls Booth to lure him into shooting range but Booth hands the phone to intern Vincent Nigel-Murray so Booth can try and trace the call. Broadsky fires at the person holding the phone and shoots Vincent, killing him. Later, Broadsky refers to Vincent and another woman who was killed so Broadsky could use her house as a sniper’s nest as collateral damage. Booth doesn’t like it at all.
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Fargo: In "The Gift of the Magi", while trying to assassinate Ed Blumquist, Virgil takes a shot at Ed that misses and ends up instead hitting Charlie, knocking him out.
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Eye in the Sky: Played for Drama. The film is a Post-9/11 Terrorism Movie about a British counterterror team and US Air Force Predator drone pilot tracking suspected al-Shabbab militants in Nairobi, Kenya, and realizing a suicide bombing is imminent, which they can stop if they blow up the bomber's safehouse... which is in the middle of a crowded neighborhood and across a wall from a little girl selling bread. After much debate, they go through with the airstrike—and hit the house with a second missile when one of the suspects survives the first one—and the little girl is badly wounded and dies at the hospital.
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Averted in the Miraculous Ladybug story Unmasker Unleased. Unlike most akumatized villains, Unmasker actively avoids getting any civilians involved. When it’s implied that Monarch tells her to attack people to lure out Ladybug and Cat Noir, she outright refuses. The worst she does of her own freewill is break some guy’s cellphone for butting into a private affair.
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Trevor (2020): After Trevor grabs Dr. Clay with a massive hand, Private Young and Private Shelley let loose a spray of bullets at the assailant, accidentally putting a bullet through the doctors brain in the process, although it’s not clear if he was already dead before they started shooting. To their credit, they do tell the rest of the medical team to get down before they pull their triggers, so Dr. Clay was the only potential casualty to come out of it.
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The Days of Reckoning Are Upon Us: When Peggy shoots at the vibranium shield, one of the ricochets hits a technician in the shoulder.
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Return Of The Obra Dinn: One crewman dies when a bullet intended for a monster instead pierces the wooden wall behind it — and the unlucky crewman hiding on the other side.
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Batman: Black and White: In "Monsters in the Closet", the mad scientist tries to kill Batman with a shotgun, but aims wide. The shotgun blast hits the containment unit Batman was examining, letting all the monsters loose.
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The Boys (2019):
Billy Butcher takes his newest companion Hughie Campbell to a meeting of the local chapter of A.C.D.S. (the Association of Collateral Damage Survivors), a support group composed of people who were seriously injured after being "rescued" by a superhero, and who now move about in wheelchairs or have been outfitted with prosthetic limbs. When first recruiting Hughie, he explains that Supes kill hundreds of people per year through collateral damage, but a combination of generous compensation payouts coupled with Non-Disclosure agreements, corporate and political pressure, and people just not wanting to know keeps a lid on most of it.
In the first episode of Season 2, Stan Edgar, the CEO of Vought International, is hammering out an agreement for the deployment of military superheroes. He presents a standard clause where the superheroes are required to make their "best effort" to avoid collateral damage. When the Secretary of Defense demands to know what the acceptable level of collateral damage is, Edgar reports that officially it's zero, but secretly it's 34%.
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Death Is Forever: Easy is shot when Dominic, blinded by the flashbang that Bond built into a lightbulb, fires two shots at random with his pistol.
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Sonic the Hedgehog (2020): Near the film's finale, after Tom insults him, Robotnik retorts by gleefully suggesting that he intends to kill both him and his wife Maddie, referencing this trope in the process:
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In Fallout and Fallout 2, stray projectiles can and will strike anything in their line of sight or blast radius with deadly results, including enemies, allies, and random passers by. Certain types of armor can also deflect bullets, injuring or killing unintended targets even when your aim is true. Stray shots can also provoke hostility from parties formerly uninvolved in the conflict.
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Godzilla, King of the Monsters (1977): When the Champions and S.H.I.E.L.D. confront Godzilla in San Francisco, Hercules hurls a huge chunk of the broken Golden Gate Bridge at Godzilla — and misses. The projectile accidentally brings down a S.H.I.E.L.D. helicarrier instead.
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The Institute: Tim was forced to resign from his previous police job when, during a confrontation with an armed and intoxicated teen, he fired a warning shot, but the bullet ended up knocking down a lamp from the ceiling, which then fell on top of a bystander, seriously injuring the guy.
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The 100: Commander Lexa dies from one of Titus's stray shots.
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Batman: Gotham Knight: The deflector in Field Test turns every bullet fired at Batman into a stray shot that no one has any idea where it's going. When a mobster gets hit, Batman realizes how dangerous ricocheted bullets are and refuses to use the deflector again.
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Mulholland Dr.: A hitman's efforts to make a hit look like suicide are complicated when the gun misfires and hits a woman in the next room over.
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Superwomen of Eva: Emerald Fury: One of the tranquilizer darts that bounce of She-Hulk's body hits Shinji and knocks him out.
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Stories and Tales from Dimension 63: In chapter 21, when Trevor tries to take Loki's rifle, it goes off and the bullet shoots through the floor of Loki's bedroom into the living room below, hitting Lars in the arm.
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The Mexican: The man from whom Jerry picks up the eponymous gun is killed by a falling bullet from people Firing in the Air a Lot elsewhere in the town.
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Soviet Womble: During "Random Arma 3 Bullshittery (part 4)". As Cyanide is gunning down an area in a fighter jet, the rest of Soviet's crew deliver suppressing fire in the same direction, and by sheer bad luck, one stray bullet snipes Cyanide out of the cockpit and causes him to crash.
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Sons of Anarchy mines two arc villains out of the trope. In two separate incidents, a bystander is killed in an incident involving the club, and that person's loved one turns out to be an Outside-Context Villain who swears revenge on the club.
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Schlock Mercenary: In an early strip, during a confused and largely accidental firefight with far too many bullets flying around, the mercenary company's then-doctor stops one (which was actually fired by Sergeant Schlock, who's on the same side). Unfortunately, he stops it with his head. As the doctor turns out to have been something of a Mad Scientist with a complicated past history, this has some plot consequences down the line (even aside from the introduction of a new doctor character).
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Deadnaut: Stray shots cause damage to both the room you're in and the ship overall. Special care must be made when avoiding enemies in red (heavily-damaged) rooms, since once the ship's hull integrity hits zero, it's Game Over for your entire squad.
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War Machine: the Marines wait for the whole movie to engage with the enemy, and when they finally do, they use a rifle mounted grenade launcher to clear a roof. Once one of the marines advances on his own, he manages to shoot all the gunmen, but when he goes to clear the house they had used as a base, he finds that the grenade he shot earlier had also killed a small child inside the building.
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Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy: Prideaux realizes he's in a trap and starts walking way from his contact. A Hungarian agent panics, rushes into the street and fires a warning shot...right into the head of a woman breast-feeding a baby.
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In MAD's 1960 feature "The Mad 'Comic' Opera," Dick Tracy talks a lot about his bad aim, but still shoots at Rex Morgan, M.D. to try to stop him from kidnapping Little Orphan Annie (it makes only slightly more sense in context). He instead shoots through the window behind Rex and hits Dagwood Bumstead, who happened to be walking by. Dagwood gets one song in before dying.
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Jedi Apprentice: While Grelb is being devoured by a local creature, a wild, panicked shot he fires kills Jemba.
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Servants of the Imperium: A lance strike misses the incoming Chaos vessel and strikes the moon the protagonists are investigating. Oops.
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Pirates Vikings and Knights: All Projectiles can ricochet and still hit someone, though pulling it off deliberately is near impossible.
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Big Finish Doctor Who. In "The Sky Man" we see an entire planet fall victim to this trope during the Time War, despite the best efforts of Cole Jarnish to save the inhabitants (which only make things worse). It's suggested that whatever's poisoning them isn't a weapon but the equivalent of 'spent fuel'—expended temporal energy that's been inadvertently dumped on the planet.
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Sin City: In Family Values, the Roaring Rampage of Revenge is to avenge a woman killed by stray bullets from a hitman taking potshots at a stray dog.
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Bad Days: Downplayed. After Wonder Woman deflects bullets with her bracelets, the bullets ricochet into the wall she's next to and nearly hit several policemen, as well as breaking one's coffee cup.
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The Cotton Club: Vincent got his nickname of "Mad Dog" after his cohorts hit several innocent bystanders along with their target.
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Paper Girls: The bullet accidentally fired as Mac and her stepmother struggle for her father's gun hits Erin in the stomach, just to the lower left of her navel.
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Matthew Scudder: Matt left the police force because he accidentally shot a little girl in the line of duty.
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Mass Effect 2: In addition to providing the page quote the planet Klendagon has a giant canyon that seems to have been caused by a stray mass accelerator round 37 million years ago. Cerberus back-traced the shot and found out that the weapon was used to kill a Reaper.
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Pulp Fiction: A disoriented Marsellus fires his pistol into the crowd surrounding Butch's wrecked car and hits a bystander who goes down and screams for the rest of the scene.
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The Unexpectables: Happens when Greckles inadvertently hits Borky with a dart, and when Borky botches a throw with his Javelin of Lightning, almost killing Panic instantly.
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Rebuild World: When a MegaCorp is about to start The Siege of Akira's Home Base in the slums, they specifically bombard the area around the base with Gravity Screw chemicals that slow down bullets to limit the damage to the richer parts of the city to prevent a Neutral No Longer situation. Despite repeating the bombardment to keep up the screen, the working class lower district takes a lot of damage from the battle and gentrification behind the walled part of the city dramatically increases in the aftermath.
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Fallout
In Fallout and Fallout 2, stray projectiles can and will strike anything in their line of sight or blast radius with deadly results, including enemies, allies, and random passers by. Certain types of armor can also deflect bullets, injuring or killing unintended targets even when your aim is true. Stray shots can also provoke hostility from parties formerly uninvolved in the conflict.
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Books of Kings: King Ahab is killed by a stray arrow fired at random.
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Everly: Zelda's client was accidentally shot when few bullets penetrated a plaster wall separating two apartments.
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Life, the Universe and Everything: Arthur Dent meets Agrajag, an extremely angry being who has been reincarnated many times and is apparently cursed to be killed by Arthur in every life (generally through accident or carelessness, but he's convinced Arthur is doing it deliberately). One of his deaths apparently occurred when someone tried to shoot Arthur, he ducked and the bullet hit Agrajag instead, which baffles Arthur since nothing of the sort has ever happened to him. Two books later, the event in question actually happens, and we learn that the shooter was Arthur's daughter, Random.
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Ghost Trick, the chronically killed Lynne has shot at one of the main antagonist while under his mind control so that he could frame her for his "murder". It took two shots, as the first one missed because she was fighting against the mind control.. While the first shot missed it's intended target, it did hit an unintended target no one was aware of... That target being the antagonist's pet cat, whom was whom you have been playing as the whole time.
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Stupid Devil Dog: Andre's and Gerald's spells that miss Saito during their fight hit several homes and kill at least a few people.
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Red vs. Blue: While Felix and Locus are hijacking the Tartarus during the Chorus Trilogy, Stassney accidentally shoots one of his own guys when he tries to defend himself from Felix.
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BattleTech normally assumes that missed shots simply miss and have no other effect. There are three exceptions to this:
If a mech has partial cover, then any shots that would normally hit the location behind the cover hit the cover instead. If this is because a battlemech is standing behind a low hill, this doesn't really matter. If it's because the mech is standing behind a small building, on the other hand, the building takes the hit. This can potentially destroy the building if it takes enough damage.
Weapons that strike entire hexes, like artillery, always hit something. If you miss the target, you roll on the scatter chart to see which direction the shell drifts off-target, then calculate the distance based on how badly you missed by. This could mean that it hits another enemy unit. This could mean that it hits one of your own units. At point-blank range, this could potentially wind up drifting so badly that it lands behind the unit that fired the shell.
There are advanced rules for calculating a missed shot to see what it's chances are of hitting something else that's on the line from the attacking unit to the target. As this adds a lot of extra work, it slows the game down considerably and is therefore not used very often.
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Centipede (1998): It's possible to accidentally shoot and destroy Wee people and buildings. Buildings can typically take a few hits and stay standing, but people go down in one shot.
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One More Day: The event gets kicked off when a hitman sent by The Kingpin tries to shoot Peter Parker. Thanks to his Spider Sense, he's able to push himself and Mary Jane out of the way of the shot, but the bullet ends up hitting Aunt May instead.
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Snatch.: When Avi is trying to shoot the dog with the diamond in him, he ends up accidentally killing Bullet-Tooth Tony.
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The plot is launched when Hitman with a Heart Ah Jeong accidentally grazes a noncombatant nightclub singer with a bullet during a shootout in a bar. She is blinded, which is a source of great regret for Ah Jeong which causes him to insert himself in her life and go to great personal risk to get money to pay for her cornea transplant
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Edge of Tomorrow: During the scene in which Cage trains with Rita in the target range for the first time: If you look closely in the background, you will see soldiers reacting to Cage's gunfire when it ricochets off the floor after he attempts to take down one of the spinning targets.
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The Killer (1989):
The plot is launched when Hitman with a Heart Ah Jeong accidentally grazes a noncombatant nightclub singer with a bullet during a shootout in a bar. She is blinded, which is a source of great regret for Ah Jeong which causes him to insert himself in her life and go to great personal risk to get money to pay for her cornea transplant
Later on in the movie, a shootout between Ah Jeong and some mooks that want to kill him leads to a little girl being shot accidentally. Ah Jeong immediately leaves the battle in order to rescue her and take her to the hospital, leaving a great impression on Inspector Li, who has been shadowing him.
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Dead End Drive-In: The cop fires off a wild shot while dying after being shot by Crabs, and shoots Tommo dead.
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The Stand: Two of Randall Flagg's underlings are sent to kill the Judge when he goes to spy on Flagg. One of Flagg's mooks stays in the car while the other steps forward to shoot the Judge, unfortunately placing himself in his coworker's line of fire. They both try to finish the job simultaneously and the first mook puts a bullet through the second one's neck.
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A Midsummer Night's Dream (Killbles): In one of the tales of Midsummer Night's Kaiju battles, in that the National Guard was firing at a Kaiju, and not only did they not help in the battle, they actively hurt, as one of their missed rounds hit Midsummer Night in the lower spine. This crippled the Jaeger and turned what would have been a Curb-Stomp Battle into a far more drawn-out affair.
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Queen and Country: Tara Chace is ambushed by two goons with guns while unarmed. She rushes one, makes it within hand-to-hand range before he can hit her, and takes him down. After which she discovers that one of his shots hit the other one.
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In Legion of Super-Heroes story arc The Earthwar Saga, Sun Boy shoots a solar blast at one ship of the Resource Raiders pirates. Unfortunately, the ship's shields deflect his shot, which hits Brainiac 5 and Element Lad.
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Kitsune no Ken: Fist of the Fox: This caused a lot of problems in the immediate aftermath and also several years later going into the 365 days, and plays a crucial role in the present-day plot. Jiraiya accidentally triggered a missile launch while having a drunken tryst with the ambassador to a foreign power, and the rocket wound up killing some of their own soldiers, including Gaara's parents. The subsequent effort to cover up the cause of the incident only caused everything to go downhill, culminating in the 365 days.
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In El Goonish Shive, during the first battle with a fire summon, it gets knocked on to a car denting it. Said car turns out to belong to George.
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Gotham Central: When Renee and Crispus encounter the Black Spider, they have already arrested and handcuffed two members of Burnley Town Massive in the room behind them. When the Spider shoots Renee with two machine pistols on full-auto, spraying bullets wildly, the two other suspects and everything in the room with them is also sprayed with gunfire. Afterwards, when Allen shoots the Spider, one of the gang members shot by the Spider claims that it was him, but the ballistics and angle of the shots mean that Allen physically could not have shot him from that position.
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Shaun of the Dead: A zombie in the pub is hit by a stray bullet.
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In the season four finale of Boardwalk Empire, penitent hitman Richard Harrow is talked into doing One Last Job, and shoots Chalky's daughter Maybelle when she strays between him and the target, Narcisse. He's appalled, but takes a bullet in his escape and dies of his wound soon after.
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Mega Man Rock Force: Unlike other games in the classic series, deflected shots can still do damage to enemies. In fact, the intro stage forces you to learn this mechanic in order to proceed.
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The Wire
In season two, when Bodie and his crew have a gun fight over a drug corner with a rival crew, thanks to both crews Gangsta Style A-Team Firing, no one on either side is hit, but one stray bullet hits and kills a young boy who was looking out the window.
In season 4, a man who was about to testify in court is found dead. Carcetti uses the incident to hammer incumbent Mayor Royce in the primaries as an example of the city not taking care of witnesses. After the primary when the case is no longer volatile, Kima investigates and eventually finds out that the bullet that killed the witness was actually a ricocheted stray bullet from someone shooting at bottles for target practice.
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In Face/Off, Castor Troy tried to kill his nemesis Sean Archer with a sniper shot, but the bullet went through Archer's son, killing him and wounding Archer non-fatally. Archer spent the next few years mercilessly hunting Troy down.
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Criminal Minds: In "Minimal Loss" Nancy offers to negotiate with the police on behalf of the cult but is shot by a bullet during the initial botched raid.
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The Dark Tower: During the big gunfight in The Drawing of the Three, a mob henchman who's playing an action movie scene in his head instead of paying attention to the fight doesn't notice when he kills one of his own cohorts in a hail of assault rifle fire.
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Kenshi: The "Precision Shooting" skill determines the probability of a ranged character to accidentally incur into friendly fire when shooting in the midst of melees. Players should be extra careful when managing the equipment of their sharpshooters, and refrain from giving high damage crossbows (Eagle's Cross, Oldworld Bows, etc.) to newbies if they don't want their melee fighters to die from some stray shot hitting them in the back of the neck. The same skill also affects shooting from turrets.
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Warhammer 40,000: Rogue Trader: Friendly fire is very much active here for you and the enemy, but especially among the AI, and sometimes enemies will do more damage to their own party in a turn than you can. Whether that's awkward programming or the result of them being mostly blood-crazed and insane is unclear.
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A Walk Among the Tombstones. Scudder is shown in a flashback scene to have survived a shoot-out with three criminals, for which he was decorated. Later we're shown that a stray bullet he fired killed a young girl, prompting him to resign from the police force. He was drinking at the time so his aim might have been shaky, causing him to give up alcohol as well.
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XCOM 2: Downplayed. Missed shots cannot hit enemy units, which leads to missed shots at targets from ranges where it would be physically impossible to miss to go off in a random direction to avoid the "Missed shots hitting targets for no effect" behavior from the first game. However, missed shots can destroy cover and hit/destroy environmental objects/destructibles. For example, an attack aimed at an ADVENT trooper taking cover behind a destructible (eg. a car) that misses could instead hit the destructible and, if it's a hazard, blow it up, killing the intended target anyway. Unfortunately, this can also happen to your troops as well.
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In Ultimate Admiral: Dreadnoughts, guns are inaccurate enough that it's possible that your (or the enemy's) guns might actually land a devastating hit on a ship that they weren't actually aiming at. The tighter the formation that the target ship is sailing in, the more likely this will happen.
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Casino Royale (2006): A guard at the embassy is shot by his fellow guards as they fire at Bond.
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Stellaris: A not uncommon event during surveys is for your science vessel to take a glancing shot from a stray kinetic weapon.
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X-COM:
In the original series, with the exception of map borders where the shots disappear, all missed projectiles will continue to fly until they hit something: walls, explosive materials, civilians, X-COM operatives, aliens, etc. To-Hit is calculated in two stages; whether your troops hit what they were aiming for, and what takes the hit if they miss. This can result in destroying cover or an alien behind the first one.
XCOM 2: Downplayed. Missed shots cannot hit enemy units, which leads to missed shots at targets from ranges where it would be physically impossible to miss to go off in a random direction to avoid the "Missed shots hitting targets for no effect" behavior from the first game. However, missed shots can destroy cover and hit/destroy environmental objects/destructibles. For example, an attack aimed at an ADVENT trooper taking cover behind a destructible (eg. a car) that misses could instead hit the destructible and, if it's a hazard, blow it up, killing the intended target anyway. Unfortunately, this can also happen to your troops as well.
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BattleTech: At first, missed shots in the base game would never hit anything but the scenery even when there was another 'Mech in the way; they'd just pass through it without any effect... until the Urban Warfare DLC rolled around. Now missed shots will hit world objects including other 'Mechs regardless of affiliation if they're in the projectile's randomly determined path. This can have hilariously destructive consequences on urban battlefields when, for instance, an Awesome misses with its PPCs and instead brings down the downtown high rise behind the target. It also makes it inadvisable to cluster 'Mechs together as shots that miss the intended target are highly likely to hit the one next to it instead.
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Eldraeverse: During the Core War a mass driver accidentally strikes an uncontacted planet. An epilogue entry reveals that the overhead battle had been taken as a favorable sign from the gods by a warmongering native polity and the stray shot happened to wipe out their army. Suggesting that the Eldraic Transcend had been meddling.
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Gundam 0079: The War for Earth: During the final battle, Char will land his Zaku on the White Base's bridge. If the player doesn't respond to the quick time event in time, the Gundam will try to fire at Char and hit the White Base's bridge instead.
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Cogmind: Stray shots that hit reactors can result in large explosions. If they hit an engineer or conveyor, reinforcement squads may get called in. This is a gameplay mechanic that frequently increases the danger in the area.
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1.0
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Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince: Rowle casts a Killing Curse at Remus Lupin, but it misses him and hits Gibbon instead.
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Savior of Demons: King Kold doesn't initially join the fight because he's not only content to watch his son battle the humans, but he's also making sure that any stray ki blasts don't render their ship incapable of flight. Later on, this comes back to bite him (and Frieza by extent) when the attack that kills him also punches a hole in the ship.
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A Dragon in Shining Armour: Anubismon is killed when Examon fires blindly into a cloud of smoke.
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