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Misguided Missile
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A guided missile has been launched at an orphanage or one of the protagonists' planes, usually once it's been damaged and left limping along with no anti-missile defenses. Those onboard can't escape and get a nice, long look at their oncoming doom as they say their prayers... till the Ace Pilot flies his plane in front of the missile, making it switch targets and leading it away. The Ace Pilot either has the skills to blow it up or a plan (well, more like on the spot improvising) to destroy or escape from the missile. Usually by deftly dodging and making it hit a cliff or asteroid, just plain letting it hit his plane but using an Ejection Seat beforehand, or best of all, leading it back to the launcher! If he's being chased by the Macross Missile Massacre, then expect his new target to go "Oh, Crap!" Needless to say, the missile will not have any Friend Or Foe recognition software to tell it to either dodge the ally plane or not explode. This can very easily turn into a Heroic Sacrifice if he can't destroy or evade it, or worse ram an enemy target to make sure both he and the missile hit it. Compare Grenade Tag. |
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Prey (2022): After Taabe knocks the Predator's helmet off, its attempts to shoot him with its homing arrows are thwarted because the helmet's laser guidance system is pointed at a tree. Naru sees this and uses it to kill the Predator in the climax by stealing its helmet and luring the Predator into a trap where it is forced to fire a homing arrow, not realizing that its helmet has been placed so that the arrow will target it. | |
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And for the giant robot Megahammer in Super Mario Galaxy 2, where you have to eat its own Bullet Bills with Yoshi and shoot them back at certain points on the robot. | |
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In Area 88, Shin does this when he is bounced by a pair of MiGs while in an unarmed Phantom. | |
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ULTRAKILL: Rockets fired by Guttertanks and Big Johninator can be redirected back at them or any other enemy with magnets from the Attractor Nailgun/Sawblade Launcher or by freezing them with V1's own rocket launcher with the Freezeframe attachment and jumping on the static rocket and riding it, which lets you turn them. | |
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In TaleSpin, Baloo takes on an army of pandas in a fleet of hot air balloons armed with crude heat-seeking missiles by cramming his airplane full of ice cream (he had received large quantities of ice cream prior in the episode), causing the missiles to seek out the hot air in the pandas' balloons instead of the plane. This strategy, of course, meant he had to force the pandas to surrender or retreat before the ice cream melted. | |
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Arrow. In the Season One finale, Fyers has his mercenaries launch a missile at a commercial airliner as part of his Evil Plan. Shado is able to reprogram the guidance system to send the missile back to its point of origin, killing everyone in the mercenary camp who isn't protected by Plot Armor. | |
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In the prequel series Star Trek: Enterprise, the newly-launched NX-01 Enterprise tests out its torpedoes. The first torpedo doesn't even hit the target asteroid; the second one glances off it and heads back towards Enterprise, forcing the Tactical Officer to detonate it before it hits. Given the number of hostile alien species we know our heroes will encounter, it's not a good start. | |
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In Ori and the Will of the Wisps the homing missiles launched by the lotus-like plants in Lima Pools and Windswept Wastes can be redirected with Bash to destroy barriers. Corrupted Kwolok's underwater homing projectiles can also be used against him. | |
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In The Dark Knight Rises, Batman manages to trick one of the missiles launched by one of the stolen Tumblers into blowing up one of the others after leading it on a long chase in the Bat. | |
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Mara Jade in ''Destiny's Way'' fighting some Yuuzhan Vong in a submarine pulls off a High Speed Torpedo Dodge then guides the torpedo right back at them. | |
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In Air Force One, a Red Shirt F-15 pilot deliberately flies into a missile to save the heroes. Which makes the Red Shirt a jet fighter pilot secret service agent, taking one for the President. |
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Cowboy Bebop: In the episode "Honky Tonk Woman", Fae uses a jamming device to divert a missile that's been fired at her Space Plane back to the ship that launched it. | |
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Like it was outlined below in Real Life section, this can happen in Cold Waters if you lose your torpedo wire, especially if you set your torpedo search pattern to circular and you lost the wire at close range to the torpedo. However, it's possible to pull this on the enemy, by firing MOSS down the enemy bearing and draw away a torpedo that's chasing you, which would likely for them to home into said enemy after the torpedo course-correct from failing to hit the MOSS. Or, if you're close and ballsy enough, use your own submarine as a bait. | |
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Charles does this in The Princess and the Pilot when up against a patrol of Amatsukami airships. | |
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Pulled off by Topper in the finale of Hot Shots! | |
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In the Star Wars: The Clone Wars (not to be confused with the above series) episode "Cat and Mouse", Anakin defeats Separatist Admiral Trench - who has a history of taking out cloaked starships by having missiles lock onto their magnetic signature — by provoking the Admiral into firing another round of missiles at his unusually small stealth ship, redistributes the ship's power for maximum engine speed and luring the missiles right into the command bridge of Trench's dreadnought while its shields are still recharging and defenseless. As Anakin's ship speeds right towards the bridge, Trench figures out too late exactly what he's trying to do and tries to get the shield back up in vain. | |
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In Donkey Kong Country 3: Dixie Kong's Double Trouble!, one of the steps to beating Barbos' Barrier is redirecting seashell-shaped missiles to hit the Lurchins blocking her. | |
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Undertale: Halfway through the fight with the Mad Dummy, he fires the mini dummy minions he was using to attack you after you trick them into hitting him too many times, and he replaces them with robotic ones that can fire homing missiles in the hopes that they won't hurt him. Naturally, you get past that part of the fight by tricking the missiles into hitting him, too. | |
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On Obliterated, Paul Yung redirects a heat-seeking RPG aimed at his helicopter by firing a flare gun out the window. | |
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The Man Called Flintstone has Fred and Barney reprogram the missile and then trick the villains inside the missile as it flies off into deep space. | |
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In Blue Thunder, this trope is inverted, in that the protagonist's helicopter is the intended target of heat-seeking missiles fired at him by Air Force interceptors, but he manages to decoy them away using the heat from, respectively, a Chinese barbecue shop and the sunlight reflecting off of a skyscraper. How this manages to avoid killing anyone is rather blatantly ignored. | |
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Red Storm Rising: Inverted in the first Backfire raid on the NATO carrier battle group. Soviet target training missiles launched by TU-16 Badgers decoy US Navy aircraft away from their carrier group, instead of aircraft leading away missiles. Also played straight in the novel, where the anti-sub helicopters of the HMS Battleaxe and USS Reuben James play "decoy" to lure away anti-ship missiles from their respective ships, after it was determined that the Soviets were focusing on the escorts to make the job easier for other Soviet forces to get at the convoys the escorts were defending. And also played straight with the NATO convoys in general, with the use of chaff to decoy missiles away from ships. The problem was that a missile that had flown through a chaff cloud would then attempt to reacquire the closest target in the field of view of its seeker head, which was often — if the geometry was right — another ship. This is Truth in Television, by the way: at least one Royal Fleet Auxiliary ship in the Falklands War may have been lost this way. |
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The Black Lagoon crew divert heat seeking missiles with a flare, before launching their boat in the air and taking the attacking helicopter down with a torpedo. | |
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Homing weapons in the Escape Velocity series may lock onto the originating ship if jammed, provided that weapon has a particular Boolean flag turned on in its wëap resource. The games don't feature any examples, but the modders have added them. | |
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Payday, the movie version of Der Clown, shows Dobbs as he sends a heat-seeking surface-to-air missile chasing his helicopter back into the SAM which is so glowing hot that it must emit more heat than the helicopter's gas turbines. | |
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Deliberately set up in Rogue Squadron, the first book of the X-Wing Series. A Lancer frigate, specially designed to destroy fighters, has just appeared in the picture. Y-wings (slow bombers) can't get close enough for a missile lock without being vaped. The plan is going to be "let the X-wings distract the frigate so the Y-wings can escape," which is suicide. So Corran Horn comes up with a plan: | |
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Japanese pilot Sakio Komatsu earned himself a place in both Japanese and US history books when he intercepted one of six Mark 14 torpedoes fired by USS Albacore at his carrier, the Taihou, with his own aircraft. He might not have gotten credit for it except for the fact that several hundred people saw it happen; it wasn't until about 1950 that US interrogators were actually satisfied it was true. This would turn out to be a "Shaggy Dog" Story anyway. Of the 5 remaining torpedoes, 4 missed, and the last one hit the carrier and ruptured a tank of aviation-grade gasoline for the carrier's aircraft. The fumes from the gasoline later ignited (due to catastrophically bad decisions in damage control) and the resultant explosion sunk the carrier. | |
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In Sword of the Stars, destroyers equipped with the Wild Weasel mission section can spoof enemy missiles into tracking it instead of the more valuable targets. Later patches/addons added the chance of some of these missiles returning "to sender" for a nasty surprise. In the latter case, the firing ship's point-defense weapons will not intercept the returning missiles. The dreadnought Electronic Warfare command section does this along with two other important functions (sensor jamming and long-range scanning). | |
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Done with absolutely no logic in a Secret Squirrel short, where Secret for some reason possesses a "Fly-One-Way-Then-Turn-Around-And-Blow-Myself-Up-Missile." | |
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In the Wing Commander novel End Run, the Hornet squadron commander sacrifices her fighter to take out a torpedo targeting the TCS Tarawa. | |
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The Goodies. In "Clown Virus", the US military launch a target seeking rocket at the Goodies, who run for their lives into an outhouse being used by US soldiers, causing them to flee and the missile to blow them up instead. | |
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In Halo: The Fall of Reach, Jacob Keyes's UNSC Iroquois evades a Covenant destroyer's plasma torpedo but it comes back around. So Keyes charges the destroyer, banking away at the last second, and the torpedo hits the ship and knocks out its shields, letting Keyes finish it off with a salvo of Archer missiles (which are otherwise all but useless against Covenant ships). This maneuver, the "Keyes Loop", helps win the battle and earns Keyes a promotion to captain. | |
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From the Depths: Typically an accidental event caused by a player forgetting to include an Identify Friend or Foe system in their missile systems design. | |
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Captain Jack "Heartbreak One" Bartlett took the missile away from Kei "Edge" Nagase's tail in the second mission of Ace Combat 5: The Unsung War. Bartlett got shot down and it isn't until the end of the game you get to see him again Additionally, it is possible for the player to send an enemy missile back at an enemy this way. However, this results in a miss or player death about 19 out of 20 attempts on ground targets, 4 our of 5 attempts on water targets, and 99 out of 100 attempts on flying targets. In a later mission in Ace Combat 5, Nagase does the same thing with a SAM that was targeting you. She ejects in time, and the next mission is to rescue her. |
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In the Star Fox Zero animated short "The Battle Begins" the pilot of the Androsa boss launches a volley of guided missiles at Fox's Arwing. Fox manages to dodge and shoot down three of the missiles before boosting ahead of the last one. He then manages to trick that missile into destroying Androsa's main laser canon by flying past it while it's firing. While largely impractical, this strategy can be re-enacted in the actual game, complete with the boss reacting the same way. |
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A specialized version of this in BattleTech are the so-called "Nemesis pods" available as ammunition to improved Narc launchers. Unlike regular homing pods, which help friendly missiles with matching guidance systems find the target they attach to, a Nemesis pod misdirects enemy missiles into hitting a "marked" unit belonging to their own side if that unit just so happens to conveniently stumble into their line of fire. | |
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It's possible to do this with the boss Duon's missiles in Super Smash Bros. Brawl. | |
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Done in Futurama. With a burning flag. The episode was anvilicious about flag burning eating. | |
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The Star Wars Episode III example (See Film above) is parodied by Darths & Droids here. With sentient missiles. Not intelligent; just sentient. | |
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The Hunt for Red October: Marko Ramius, the Soviet's submarine captain equivalent of an Ace Pilot; and Bart Mancuso, his American counterpart both do this with a ballistic missile submarine, defeating not one but two torpedoes fired by the lurking Alfa-class submarine Konavalov. Ramius charges the first torpedo, reducing its run to less than its safety arming setpoint and resulting in a dud; when the Konavalov's captain orders all safeties off the second torpedo before firing it, it has the Red October cold until the more maneuverable Dallas interposes itself to draw it away and then crash-surfaces to get away; when the torpedo re-acquires Red October, Mancuso (in temporary command) plays a Game of Chicken with the Konavalov, veering away at the last second so that the torpedo hits its own launch point. There is also the time Ramius dodges a plane-dropped torpedo by making a sharp turn just before hitting a rock, causing the torpedo to be momentarily confused due to the bubbles. |
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In another Wing Commander example, "Maniac" has a nervous breakdown when a heatseeking missile he fired at a Kilrathi fighter misses, and hits a Confed transport instead, assisting the kats in destroying it. | |
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Persona 5 Tactica: During the second phase of the boss fight with Samael, destroying the tower with a Triple Threat attack allows Futaba to redirect its guided missile attack back at it. | |
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The Incredible Mr. Limpet. A wolf pack of Nazi submarines has fired torpedoes at an Allied convoy. The title character discovers that the torpedoes have been modified to follow his "thrum" (the booming call he can make). He uses this to make the torpedoes follow him away from the ships and hit the U-boats that fired them. | |
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This is how you defeat Megaleg in Super Mario Galaxy, by blowing out the Humongous Mecha with its own Bullet Bills. And for the giant robot Megahammer in Super Mario Galaxy 2, where you have to eat its own Bullet Bills with Yoshi and shoot them back at certain points on the robot. |
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Done more than once on JAG. Commander Rabb put himself in front of a "dirty nuke" missile, launched from a diesel-powered submarine and aimed at a Carrier Battle Group, after it closed too close to be shot down to lead it away until it's fuel ran out. And in a separate instance: A similar trick was done with a torpedo, drawing it into one submarine to save another. | |
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The Legend of Zelda: Oracle of Ages uses an interesting variant of this trope: the boss of the 7th dungeon is vulnerable only to its own projectile attacks. However, rather than luring them back to it (they aren't homing projectiles), you have to use the Long Hook to swap places with the big jellyfish and put it into the path of its own attack. | |
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In Star Wars: Clone Wars, Anakin tells his clonetrooper pilots to fire all their missiles across the bow of the destroyer he's flying past. About half of the missiles destroy the droid starfighters pursuing Anakin; the other half start following Anakin, who then leads them into the open hangar of the Confederacy carrier. | |
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In the Marvel 2099 sections of Spider-Man: Shattered Dimensions, it's possible to do this with the homing missiles fired by Public Eye officers. You need to use Accelerated Vision, though. | |
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Battlestar Galactica: Twice in the miniseries, Apollo leads a missile away from Colonial One, saving the president. Later, Starbuck does the same for Apollo. Averted in Season 4 premiere: There are simply too many missiles and while they manage to shoot down the one heading for Colonial One, Zephyr, Astral Queen and a few others do end up getting hit. |
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Frankie in Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow leads an underwater crab robot's torpedo away and ejects when she can't blow it up. Sky Captain uses the robot's own torpedoes to destroy it by leading them back to it. | |
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Noita: If you get covered with Polymorphine, any and all homing spells you fired recognize your changed form as an enemy like any other. Back to Mines! | |
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In the final phase of the battle with I.N.E.P.T. in Yooka-Laylee, the player must defeat him by dodging the missiles he fires at you so they end up hitting him instead. If only he didn't fire them the way they would hit him in the face when dodged... | |
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In Portal, turret-launched missiles, though not true homing projectiles, can be sent wherever you please with cleverly-placed portals. This strategy is essential for the final boss. | |
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In Godzilla (1998), Godzilla pulls a similar sub trick by guiding two torpedoes into one of the subs that fired them. | |
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Played for laughs in SPY Fox in Dry Cereal. When you fix a crashed jet's circuit board, you're able to launch a missile that initially zooms off in a random direction, and we hear SPY Fox say, "I guess that guided missile was misguided." Then it flies back, crashing into a metal door it was initially aimed at, and then he says, "Of course, I planned that. I like a dramatic pause." | |
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In the endgame cutscene for Unreal: Return to Na Pali, Prisoner 849 leads the Bodega Bay's missile back to it, crippling the ship and disabling its ability to pursue her shuttle. | |
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The purpose of the Target Override Pod in Tom Clancy's H.A.W.X. is to lock onto a friendly plane. If a missile starts tailing that plane, the Pod will redirect the missile at the Pod-equipped plane. Then it's all up to the Pod-equipped plane's pilot if the stunt ends up in Taking the Bullet or a High-Speed Missile Dodge. | |
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Mass Effect: Andromeda: Ryder uses such a tactic when attacking the kett armada at Meridian. While they have plenty of hacked Remnant warships backing them up, the kett still outgun them. So Ryder has the Remnant fly very close to the Scourge, that bizarre dark energy Negative Space Wedgie that homes in on Remnant technology, and thereby guides the Scourge tendrils to the kett ships and rips them apart. This works quite well and opens a hole for the Tempest to break through. | |
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Used to introduce us to most of the titular dog's powers in the intro to Disney's Bolt, Bolt grabs a magnetic landmine, and unintentionally gets a homing missile on his tail, which he runs away from, leading it back toward a different helicopter which he jumps over, but the missile hits home. | |
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This is basically the entire plot of the Star Trek: Voyager episode "Dreadnought": a sentient missile with a massive anti-matter warhead is convinced an inhabited planet is its authorised target. Captain Janeway is willing to fly Voyager into its path, but fortunately Torres is able to deactivate the weapon in time. The plot was repeated in "Warhead"; this time the crew were able to convince one of the (literally "smart") weapons to blow up the other missiles and avert a war. | |
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In Revenge of the Sith Anakin makes two missiles following him hit each other by spinning his fighter around. | |
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In YuYu Hakusho, Yusuke escapes several explosive homing shuriken by accidentally misguiding them in this way. | |
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Supreme Commander: Cybran Loyalist siege bots have an unique passive ability of rocket redirection which turns any tactical*ie. they don't get to parry nukes rocket projectiles that hit them back where they came from. Unfortunately, not much of a help as UEF Titans, their direct counterparts, had their rocket launchers removed before the game released and there's only a handful of units that do fire rockets. | |
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In Dexter's Laboratory, Santa Claus defends his sleigh from Dexter's homing missiles by throwing several presents at it, causing the missile to hit the gifts instead and explode harmlessly in the sky. Unfortunately for Dexter, these happened to be his sister Dee Dee's presents. | |
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The final mission of the first Medal of Honor has you sabotage a V2 rocket's guidance gyroscope, then launch it to destroy the base. | |
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