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Bows and arrows are cool. Say what you will about Guns and Badasses going together like bread and X-treme butter, but without copious amounts of Bullet Time, you can not see the bullets in flight. Guns are, by and large, an invisible (and noisy) killer. Not so with arrows; a simple twang, a blurred shaft, and a guy falls down. Up the scale a bit. You have a firing line of armed mooks; again, you'll see the gun smoke but not the bullets. Being cooler collectively than individually, a group (or a single!) archer can cause a rain of arrows to descend upon their foes like Death from Above. Add in some Arrows on Fire for extra fiery goodness, especially if it’s nighttime and they stand out like tracers against the dark. Massive volleys of arrows were Truth in Television, and all arrows need to arc to some degree, but the situation would determine whether or not the archers used the extreme ballistic trajectory loved by Hollywood. A high arc was necessary at extreme distance, simply to compensate for gravity. It could also be useful to deliberately lob arrows at a steep angle so they’d hit enemies who were deeper than the first rank, or perhaps hidden from line of sight by terrain such as a hill. On the other hand a high arc increases flight time, and the further the arrows travel the more energy they lose. Therefore, anti-armor archery such as that of the English during the Hundred Years War was normally reserved for relatively close range using a relatively horizontal trajectory. Hollywood really prefers a steep arc, however, since scores of archers shooting into the air is a really cool pose, and there’s a built-in suspense/payoff structure: you watch with dread as the arrows rise up into the air, perhaps even blotting out the sun as they reach the top of the arc, and then they come hissing down everywhere at once, killing Red Shirts left and right while somehow avoiding the heroes and their Plot Armor. By definition, the Rain of Arrows trope is mutually exclusive with No "Arc" in "Archery". Compare Macross Missile Massacre, More Dakka, Beam Spam and Flechette Storm; see Death In All Directions. |
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Puella Magi Madoka Magica: Madoka does this twice with an Energy Bow. The first time, it's a single arrow that blows away the black storm clouds and reveals a beautiful blue sky. The arrow then bursts into an infinite number of arrows that transcend space and time. The second time, she instantly fires thousands of arrows at a planet sized witch, blowing up everything else in the process. She carries this tactic over into Rebellion, where she uses it against a Nightmare and nearly catches herself in the attack. And then a double assault with her and Homura against the Incubators, annihilating all of them. |
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Alexander: The Battle of Gaugamela involves a veritable rain of Persian arrows on the advancing Macedonian phalanx. | |
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The Ranger in MapleStory gets a skill called Arrow Rain. On the other hand, the Sniper, their crossbow-wielding counterparts, get Arrow Eruption, which is the same but with the arrows coming from BELOW. | |
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Samurai Jack: In "Jack and the Three Blind Archers", although the titular jackal archers are only three, each is capable of rapidly firing dozens of arrows per second. The three are able to annihilate an entire army in mere minutes. Furthermore, they are all blind, and track their opponents on sound alone. Ownage commenced on that mechanical army. | |
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Dragon Age: During the Battle of Ostagar in Dragon Age: Origins, the darkspawn charge is met with a rain of arrows that are also on fire. Dragon Age: Origins – Awakening introduces an archer talent called Rain of Arrows that mimics this trope. Scattershot does it less spectacularly but more effectively. Archers in Dragon Age II have a talent called Hail of Arrows where they fire a bundle of arrows into the air and it comes down in a veritable storm of pointy shafts. Hail of Arrows is the Artificer's Focus Ability in Dragon Age: Inquisition, which causes all archery abilities to be used three times at once. It lives up to this trope when combined with Leaping Shot, which causes the user to shoot multiple arrows while leaping backwards, causing a truly alarming number of hits when used while Hail of Arrows is active. |
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In Yu-Gi-Oh! ZEXAL, two known characters died in this situation, according to ancient flashbacks. One was Mizar, a dragon tamer who reincarnates as a Barian Emperor. The other is Iris, a young, recolored lookalike of Shark's sister Rio; Iris becomes a minor Barian with all the Red Shirts who also died in the assault from Vector's army. | |
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The Disgaea series typically involves a rain of arrows in at least one bow skill per game. In particular, Zielregen in Disgaea 2 rains exploding arrows on the target(s), and Dart Trap in Disgaea 4 somehow creates an explosive pitfall under the target with a rain of arrows. | |
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Similarly to the above example, Champions Online has the "Torrent of Arrows" and "Storm of Arrows" attacks in the Marksman (Archery) powerset. The former involves the character shooting several arrows at the same time in a straight line, while the latter has the character shooting many more arrows at the sky but individually, one after another in rapid succession, where they promptly rain on the enemies. Bonus points if more than one archer use this ability at the same time. | |
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Prince Caspian: During the night raid on Miraz's castle, the army of the Old Narnians is trapped within the courtyard, making them easy targets for the Telmarine crossbowmen stationed along the walls. The Second Battle of Beruna features Queens Susan and Trumpkin the dwarf commanding the Narnian archers, who rain missiles down on the advancing Telmarines. |
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Bleach: Uryuu Ishida, after regaining his lost power, becomes capable of firing 1200 arrows at the same time via the Quincy technique "Licht Regen". His name actually does mean "rain dragon" and, when firing this bow, he lives up to that name. Episode 169 is a notable example. Unlike other examples when he uses this, every arrow is going to hit something. | |
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Romancing SaGa series have this as one of abilities that bow users can learn. | |
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The Ranger class in Fell Seal: Arbiter's Mark can learn an attack called Rain of Arrows which strikes all units in a line four squares long. | |
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King Arthur (2004): Provides a bit of Truth in Television example of how this was used in its final battle. The Woad archers create confusion and chaos in the Saxon ranks whilst thinning the numbers, which the knights then exploit, retreat and after a second volley return to finish the job. Traditionally European medieval armies (especially Frankish and later English) that employed archers used them in exactly this manner: To disrupt the enemy line and sow confusion and chaos that mounted knights could exploit. | |
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In Double Arts, an entire area-saturating barrage is fired at the protagonists. They show off the results of their intense training by using their new dance moves to dodge through them completely unscathed. | |
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The Belgariad: The Asturians specialize in this kind of attack. They fancy themselves a nation of Robin-Hood-esque "yeomen", so Asturian fighting men spend years learning the longbow. A good Asturian archer can have three arrows in the air at the same time. During the prelude to the Battle of Vo Mimbre (seen in Belgarath the Sorcerer), an Asturian force is able to send an arrow storm against a Murgo army on the other side of a river three hundred paces wide. Later, during the siege of Vo Mimbre itself, Asturian archers on the city walls are so effective with their bows that the only way the attacking Angaraks can get within a hundred paces of the walls is to stay inside their mobile siege towers. When fighting defensively, Murgo archers aren't bad at this kind of warfare either. In King of the Murgos, a Murgo force uses long-range archery to slaughter a force of invading Malloreans. The Murgos have a rather unfair advantage, though, in that they're shooting their arrows from hillsides well above the Malloreans. |
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In Mount & Blade you can get the medieval version, just get enough archers and its a good ol' rain of death. Also possible with crossbows, though you need a lot more guys as these ain't of the automatic variety, but you can expect everything to die if you pull it off. | |
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MythBusters: Constructed and fired a replica hwacha (see the description below under Real Life) to test its reputation. It stood up to it. | |
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The Of Pen and Paper series gives this to the Hunter class. All text is from level 1: Knights of Pen and Paper: Just called "Volley" here: Knights of Pen and Paper 2: Called "Hail of Arrows": |
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Tales Series: Tales of Phantasia had one of these, Chester's "Wild Rain" attack. Tales of Destiny 2's Nanaly Fletch and Tales of Hearts' Hisui Hearts both have similar techniques with their bows. Tales of the Abyss has Natalia L.K. Lanvaldear and her Mystic Arte, Astral Rain. In Tales of Vesperia, Raven has a small-scale version, Azure Heavens. |
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Red Cliff: Zhuge Liang (The Strategist and The Chessmaster) manipulates an opposing army into firing a Rain of Arrows at a fleet of decoy ships filled with straw, in order to meet a challenge to produce 100,000 arrows for his side within three days — the arrows were used, but still good. | |
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Brian Clevinger of 8-Bit Theater fame had a mini-comic on his site called Dynasty Memories, but it seems to have been taken down. It featured a strip in which the hero evaded an attack from a single arrow and declares that they have nothing to worry about, then the next panel is filled entirely with arrows. Although the main character, Lao Zhe, says "Those mofos got like a million archers!" but it's actually only one archer firing VERY fast. | |
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In Injustice: Gods Among Us, Ares transports his opponent to a barren wasteland where they become a victim of this as part of his Limit Break. | |
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Ina from Samurai Warriors has a rain of arrows attack, although it is one of the most useless (and I suppose realistic) attacks since the arrows do piddly damage and land in a completely random spread. There are also several instances of arrow raining in the dynasty warriors and samurai warriors games during cutscenes. | |
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The Night Unfurls: During the Battle for Navarus Village, Maia and her company succeed in reclaiming the mayor's estate. This gives her archers a good position to rain arrows at the Black Dogs beneath. A squad of goblin archers pulls off this trope to ambush Kyril and his company during the Battle for Oren. However, it is not effective due to their inaccuracy, as well as their targets being under cover. As such, the goblins are dispatched from a distance rather quickly. |
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In the Tran-ky-ky trilogy by Alan Dean Foster, the Tran are powerful archers, and when Milliken Williams introduces them to the crossbow, they become even better. Crossbow barrages play a critical role in both defeats of Sagyanak's Horde in Icerigger, as well as the defense of Moulokin in Mission to Moulokin. | |
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Dawn of War II: Retribution allows Imperial Inquisitor Adrastia to acquire a hand crossbow with explosive-tipped bolts (because this is 40k) and an Area of Effect power where she shoots a volley of them into the air onto a nearby group of enemies. | |
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Hero (2002): Happens a few times, and couples it with two kung fu masters using their skills to stop the hail of arrows from killing calligraphers. In the end, there's even a Knife Outline of the titular hero's silhouette — of course the outline was made not by the archers pinning him so much as pin-cushioning him and removing his body — his death isn't shown, just the outline. At one point master Broken Sword, doing some calligraphy of his own, has his brush broken by an arrow. He then catches an arrow and uses it as a brush. | |
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In Tales of Vesperia, Raven has a small-scale version, Azure Heavens. | |
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One of the many hazards in Happy Wheels is a crossbow that can be attached to different surfaces (much like the harpoons). It is rather odd how a middle aged cyclist can survive twenty arrows to the ass and eyes though. | |
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In Romance of the Three Kingdoms, Zhuge Liang uses one of these to replenish his ammunition supplies in the lead up to the battle of Red Cliff. With Zhuge's ships hiding in a fog, Cao decides that its too risky to attempt boarding them and instead relies on a hail of arrows to kill anybody who happened to be on deck. Zhuge used mats and straw dummies to collect the arrows. Once he was satisfied with his haul, Zhuge sailed off, only to reuse them in his attack against Cao's army. So famous is this maneuver that the Chinese saying "å”明借ç®â€œ came directly from this. Translated literally, it means "Kong Ming (Zhuge Liang's nickname) borrows arrows". | |
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One of the spells in Spell Swap summons a rain of arrows. | |
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Tower of God: Enryu's Signature Move, the Red Rain, is comprised of the creation of several thousand spears above the enemies head. The rest is just simple logic. | |
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Discworld In Guards! Guards!! (about a dragon attack on the city of Ankh-Morpork), Captain Vimes observes that so many bounty-hungry amateur archers are manning the roofs of Ankh Morpork, the dragon "was going to think it was flying through solid wood with slots in it". The Piecemaker, a ballista used as a handweapon for a troll. It fires a bundle of arrows at once that ignite from air friction and turns into a fireball after some airtime. Minimum safe distance is considered to be one hundred meters behind the weapon, preferably with some sort of wall between. The first time Detritus used it, the entire shooting range was devastated (along with a few seagulls who happened to be on the wrong place, AKA directly above Detritus). Needless to say, any thug in Ankh-Morpork surrenders before Detritus even starts to aim. |
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The Two Towers: Happens during the siege of Helm's Deep. Turns out Elves are pretty good at raining arrow-y death on the Uruk-Hai. It's entirely possible the Battle of Helm's Deep would have been much less tense if Saruman hadn't sent bombs along... because while the Rohirrim only had about 300 men (most of them not soldiers), a couple dozens elves, and Aragorn, Legolas, and Gimli, they had enough bows, and probably enough arrows, to outfit every single one of them, and an enormous stone wall to hide behind. Legolas isn't able to pull off a literal rain, but he manages to create veritable stream of arrows at times.note The Book tells it differently, though. In The Two Towers there are no elves taking part — the sons of Elrond, and only two half-Elven at that, arrive after this battle in the company of the purely human Rangers. There are rather more Rohirrim. And the explosives are necessary to the plot, to explain how the Uruk-Hai force a way through the wall and to demonstrate their essential mechanical soullessness — an industrialized form of warfare that Tolkien loathed virulently, having experienced World War I. | |
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World of Warcraft: Hunters once got the Volley spell, which fired a large number of arrows at a target area, even if the character is using a gun. Volley has since been removed and replaced by Multi-Shot, which hits everyone in an area in front of the hunter. | |
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The Lone Ranger: How the Comanche gets the initial drop on the U.S. Calvary that is under the control of Latham Cole. | |
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S.M. Stirling's Emberverse series, in which one character is trying to bring about the return of feudalism, features a group who intentionally train their militia to produce this effect. He calls it an "arrow storm", and describes the deadly effects with typical gusto and precision. | |
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In the later stages of Stronghold you usually have so many archers/crossbowmen on your walls that they reach this level. | |
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Blue Eye Samurai. In "A Fixed Number of Paths", Heiji Shindo claims to have 500 archers waiting in ambush should violence ensue. Turns out he's not bluffing, and Mizu and Taigen have to run for a narrow gully using a large iron tetsubin lid as a shield. Even then it's clear they'll never make it out of the gully alive until Ringo turns up for a Big Damn Heroes. | |
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Kung Fu Panda: Both featured and subverted; Chorh-Gom prison has hundreds of ballistae lining the ledges and battlements, each capable of firing frickin' enormous, spear-like arrows... but Tai Lung not only uses these to break open his manacles, he's able to toss them right back at the guards, then kick a volley to stab into the rocky walls, providing him with a way to ascend out of the pit. So the rain of arrows starts off as a cool motif for the good guys, only to be snatched away and showing off the bad guy's skills instead. Similarly, the rhinos send down an eye-popping hail of Arrows on Fire, only to have Tai Lung avoid these too by dodging underneath the only protection available, the wooden elevator. |
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Kung Fu Panda 3: In the flashback narrated by Shifu and describing Master Oogway's past with Kai, a rain of arrow is depicted as it is mentioned they fell to an ambush, implying it was what wounded Oogway. | |
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She carries this tactic over into Rebellion, where she uses it against a Nightmare and nearly catches herself in the attack. And then a double assault with her and Homura against the Incubators, annihilating all of them. | |
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Knights of Pen and Paper 2: Called "Hail of Arrows": | |
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The Order of the Stick: The hobgoblins let loose one such volley during the siege of Azure City, complete with a parody of the page quote. This also happens earlier when the group is attacked by an incredibly large bandit force. |
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Tales of Phantasia had one of these, Chester's "Wild Rain" attack. | |
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Persona 3 and Persona 4 have this as a physical skill. There's also a variation called "Aeon Rain", which combines this with Beam Spam. |
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In Yes! Pretty Cure 5 Yes! Pretty Cure 5GoGo!, Cure Aqua displayed the ability to produce a Rain of Arrows any time it was useful (which was less often than you'd think). Although her "bow" is a magically summoned arc of water floating in midair which produces arrows (which seem to be made of water) from nowhere, so we can probably call this justified. | |
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Exalted: "Rain of Feathered Death" is a Charm allowing a character to replicate this Trope. All by themselves. Because they're just that awesome. | |
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In The Lord of the Rings Online Hunters get a skill called "Rain of Arrows", which consists of shooting an inordinate number of arrows into the sky and having them fall around the target. There is also the "Rain of Thorns" counterpart which does the same thing but pinns the targets in place. | |
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During the Battle of Ostagar in Dragon Age: Origins, the darkspawn charge is met with a rain of arrows that are also on fire. | |
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Genesis of Aquarion: Silvia uses her Lunatique Archery technique to destroy the Shadow Angel Titania with a Rain of Arrows in the 9th episode. | |
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300: Does this twice. The first time is a case of ineffective Annoying Arrows. The second time is directed primarily at a single, extremely tough individual. | |
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Equestria Girls: Friendship Souls: As a Bleach crossover, this is the specialty of the Quincy via their technique Licht Regen, which can let one be a one-man version of this trope. High-ranking Soldat can fire hundreds of arrows at a time. Most of the Sternritter can fire thousands. Schutzstaffel member Night Light, as a part of his schtick being he's refined the Quincy base techniques to a level unmatched by all but the Quincy King Sombra himself to make up for how his "unique" abilities aren't suited for direct regular combat, can fire millions of "arrows" (which are actually closer to spears in size). | |
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In Pathfinder, there are feats one can take to ensure a rain of arrows (so long as you have the ammunition, of course). And now, a literal rain of arrows spell that causes impressive physical damage and uses arrows of the same metal as that used by the caster to cast the spell — at the cost of a relatively small area of effect for the level it becomes available at. |
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In Suikoden II, the evil Prince Luca is only killed by his own army betraying him, the heroes forming three parties just for him, and multiple Rains of Arrows. Everyone wanted him really, really dead.The exact sequence was Rain of Arrows (killed his bodyguards), Rain of Arrows (he laughed it off), fight with party #1 (he laughed it off), fight with party #2 (he gets angry), fight with party #3 (he gets well and truly pissed), Rain of Arrows (this time he's visibly hurt), one-on-one fight with the protagonist (gets tired), Rain of Arrows (even more visibly injured), Rain of Arrows (dead after a short speech). Holy hell. | |
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In Blade of Toshubi, the Tiger army used this to soften up the village of Koho. | |
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Dragon Age: Origins – Awakening introduces an archer talent called Rain of Arrows that mimics this trope. Scattershot does it less spectacularly but more effectively. | |
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Dungeons & Dragons: The fourth edition makes rangers the dedicated archer and multiple-attacks-per-turn class, giving them multiple powers to help them embody this trope if they so choose as they advance in level. At seriously high levels, they can get things like Hail of Arrows — usable once per encounter and automatically targeting each enemy in range. | |
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A Thing of Vikings: This is stated as the best tactic to use when fighting dragons if you are not interested in selling your kills as that a single well aimed arrow can cause a dragon to explode. King Harthacnut's army used this tactic during the First Battle of Berk Sound. | |
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In Overwatch, Hanzo has this ability, at first it was shooting an arrow that multiplies into many and now is shooting multiple fast and powered arrows at once | |
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In Dynasty Warriors 6 (and possibly some of the previous ones, haven't played them all), several characters can create this effect with the 'Barrage' special attack, raining down arrows all around them. Two of the playable characters, Yue Ying and Sun Shang Xiang (AKA 'The Bow Princess'), are also capable of pulling this off with their ordinary attacks. Interestingly enough, they're generally considered to be the best characters for fighting on Chaos Mode... the Rain of Arrows is just that powerful.In the crossover series, Warriors Orochi, this attack becomes incredibly useful, due to effects that make projectiles stronger, the fact that she can charge the attack to fire more arrows, and a delay between when you fire and when you hit, which you can use to fire other arrow-swarm attacks. In the online variation "Dynasty Warriors: Online", you can get the movesets of the original characters from 5, and Huang Zhong is the appointed bow user. One of the 6th charge variations on his moveset is this very attack. The fighter using the attack will charge up, shoot upwards, and then stagger out of the way as a hail of deadly arrows rains down where they were just standing. It's strong, but even more deadly if you have an elemental attack bonus on you, causing rains of flaming, frozen, electrified, semi-magical, or forceful arrows on a person. If you are lucky, it has a good charge up time for this amazing attack. |
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The Fellowship of the Ring: The prologue sequence shows the Battle of Dagorlad, where the combined armies of the Elves and Númenóreans rain arrows down on the orcs of Mordor before Sauron himself takes to the field. | |
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Avatar: The Last Airbender: The Yuyan Archers (as seen in the episode The Blue Spirit) normally opt for extreme precision but occasionally fire en masse- in their first attack on Aang he has to use an air dome to repel the volume of missiles aimed at him. | |
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Curse of the Golden Flower: Seen in the climatic battle, when the Emperor's guards shower Prince Jai's rebellion army with missiles. | |
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Basara from Samurai Deeper Kyo is a one-man longbowman army. Even better, he can time the rain of arrows so that it act as a defensive barrier, hitting enemies when they try to attack him up close. | |
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The Einherjar archer party members in Valkyrie Profile 2: Silmeria all share the same Limit Break attack. This Limit Break Attack is also Llewelyn's only positive point in first Valkyrie Profile. |
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The last issue of the short-lived Gargoyles continuation featured a magical version of this. | |
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The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies: In the Extended Version, Thranduil's Elf army attempt to rain arrows on Dain's Dwarf army, only to discover that the Dwarves have an ingenious (and visually impressive) counter-weapon. | |
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Runescape has Sagittare Bolton, who, every time he teleports around the boss chamber, yells out the page header and launches several arrows straight up, which can cause some pretty heavy damage when they come back down. | |
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In Final Fantasy VI, Edgar's first "tool" is a fully automatic crossbow, which pelts every enemy with a generous helping of arrows. | |
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In Lords of the Realm 2, a large group of archers can do this, which can usually turn the tide of a battle, or cost you lots of men or your army if you're on the receiving end of one. | |
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The Familiar of Zero: It took an extended one of these to down Saito while fighting the 70,000 Army. He survived, so said army then resorted to the same thing but with fireballs. He got better. | |
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Werewolf: The Apocalypse: "Blizzard of Arrows", a gift specific to the Amazons of Diana camp of the Black Furies, allows a single character to launch one of these. | |
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Kill Six Billion Demons: Jagganoth is able to combine Super-Speed and a magical Great Bow into shooting a massive amount of arrows into the air before making them return to Earth around him and burrowing anyone nearby in arrows. Because of aforementioned Super-Speed, Jagganoth can be well outside the area of effect before the arrows land — not that they could harm him either way. | |
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The Dragon Prince: Queen Aanya and Duren assist with this to defeat Viren's zombie army and save Xadia from being destroyed by humans | |
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Gladiator: The opening battle. | |
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A Piece in the Game of Gods: As said in part 42, about Cassandra: | |
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Happens in Mulan when Captain Li's army is attacks by the Huns. | |
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Throne of Blood (1957): The final moments of Akira Kurosawa's Jidaigeki Macbeth adaptation features a Rain of Arrows directed at a single, cornered dude. Most of these arrows were allegedly "live" — fired by expert archers just inches away from Toshiro Mifune. Needless to say, he looks pretty damn terrified. | |
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Human archers in Heroes of Might and Magic 5 have an ability called "Rain of Arrows" that covers several squares instead of one at the expense of the damage per square. Only human archers, though, not undead or elven ones. Don't ask why. | |
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The Elf in Dragon's Crown has a skill called Clone Strike which lets her fire a volley of arrows into the air, turning her into a one-woman version of this. | |
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In One Piece's sixth movie, Baron Omatsuri and the Secret Island, the hideous mutant flower Lily Carnation fires a hail of arrows at Luffy, turning him into a Human Pincushion. | |
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Pokémon: One of Zygarde's many Signature Moves is "Thousand Arrows", which invokes this by firing several projectiles into the air that land on its opponents. It's a Ground-Type move that not only affect Flying-Types, but will also knock them to the ground. Decidueye's signature Z-Move, Sinister Arrow Raid, has Decidueye fly into the air, then smother the opponent with ghostly feather arrows plucked from its own body. |
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Kingdom Rush series: Kingdom Rush: Origins has Eridan's Hero Spell Arrow Storm, which drops a huge number of arrows onto an area to deal a great amount of damage. Kingdom Rush: Vengeance has Asra's Hero Spell Toxic Rain, which is this trope crossed with Poisoned Weapons. It inflicts enemies in an area with armor-piercing poison that deals heavy damage over time. |
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The trope namer is quoted in Herodotus's The Histories (and therefore Older Than Feudalism), attributed to a Spartan named Dienekes, though it may have been apocryphal. | |
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The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power: Just when they thought they won the battle, the Southlanders are taken by surprise by a rain of arrows launched by the Orcs hiding in the woods. As expected, some characters are hit multiple times by the arrows and die, and other are badly wounded, including a main character. | |
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Magic: The Gathering: The card Hail of Arrows , complete with very fitting flavor text. The classic card Elvish Archers, with flavor text paying tribute to the Battle of Thermopylae quote that serves as one of the page quotes. Continuing the flavor text trend, the Mardu Horde exhibits great pride in pulling this off with lightning arrows from horseback. |
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The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor. Since it's being used on an undead army — who immediately get back up and shrug off the arrows — it is only dangerous to the two humans fighting with them, and they take cover. | |
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Teen Titans: Speedy seemed to be a one-man Rain of Arrows during most of his guest appearances. Where he pulls all the arrows from remains a mystery... | |
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Cure Selene in Star★Twinkle Pretty Cure has also shown to have this ability. Once during a heated battle, she fired a single arrow into the sky with her Energy Bow which then created a shower of magic arrows that pummeled the mooks. | |
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In South Park: The Stick of Truth the Mongolian Horde, the boss of the Mongolian Beef quest, have the ability "Blacken the Skies" which shoots a storm of arrows at the New Kid and his buddy. If New Kid doesn't block the arrows cause massive damage and the Bleed debuff. | |
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Beowulf & Grendel: When the Geats arrive on Danish shores, a scout threatens them with a "shower of arrows" if they don't identify themselves (he ends up announcing their presence with a summoning horn). | |
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Game of Thrones: In the Battle of the Bastards, Ramsay Bolton's archers loose a volley of arrows onto the soldiers in melee on the field, Ramsay not caring if they struck the Stark men or his own soldiers. When Daenerys Targaryen attacks combined Lannister-Tarly forces on the Goldroad, her Dothraki cavalry fire from horseback into the enemy line. A volley of arrows is also loosed against her dragon... only for them to harmlessly bounce off his plated hide. |
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Troy: As the Myceneans charge against the walls of Troy, Hector commands the Trojan archers - finest in the world - to rain their missiles. | |
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Kingdom of Heaven: Both the advancing Saracen army and the defenders of Jerusalem shower each other with arrows in the final battle. | |
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Fate/stay night: Strangely for a supposedly bow-using class, the Archers don't actually tend to do stuff like this much (with the exception of Atlantia). Gilgamesh, on the other hand, uses historic weapons of mass destruction as arrows because he has so many of them and doesn't see a need to actually use them properly. Hence why his class is Archer. | |
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In Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood and Revelations, Ezio can get the novice Assassins to do this, called an Arrow Storm. The narrator for one official video refers to it as an airstrike, and The Da Vinci Disappearance adds an achievement/trophy called "Airstrike" for killing ten or more guards in a single Arrow Storm. | |
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Power Rangers: Dino Thunder: A common attack used by Trent the White Ranger is generating a salvo of laser arrows and firing them at the enemy. | |
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Warhammer: The Hail of Doom arrow. When fired, it splits into between 3 and 18 arrows. High Elves can provide a Rain Of Arrows fire in two ranks, instead of just the front rank. Repeater bolt throwers can fire four large arrows at a time. note The very quickly removed the high elves ability to fire in multiple ranks after realizing it was a bit good. As of the current edition, everyone can shoot in two ranks while three men per rank can fire with bows past that point. They still aren't particularly effective. |
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House of the Dragon: The primary tactic of the Crabfeeder's forces against the Velaryons and Daemon Targaryen in the islands of the Stepstones is to rain down arrows (including fiery when they attack Daemon on his dragon Caraxes) on them from the cliffs then take cover in caves whenever the dragons are brought in. This kind of attrition has a high cost for the Velaryon forces, until the day Daemon decides to "surrender" as a bait to make the unsuspecting Crabfeeder's forces get out of their caves, then Laenor Velaryon swoops in on his dragon Seasmoke and wipes the archers out. | |
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Total War: Easily done in any of the games in the series. Archers tend to come in companies of around 60-100 that rain arrows down on other companies. Their effectiveness depends on the game, how tight the enemy formation is, the distance, the relative elevation, and good the archers are in relation to the enemy unit. In some games and situations, archers are extremely effective; in others, they're considerably nerfed. | |
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In God of War III, Kratos is able to do this after leveling up the Blades of Exile a few times. | |
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Into the Badlands: Shows up a couple of times in the third season with Baron Chau's forces deploying a large automated arrow launcher. Used both with and without the "hiding from the arrows under a shield" variation. | |
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Opal (the fusion of Pearl and Amethyst) in Steven Universe: Save the Light has an attack named Rain of Arrows. It causes arrows to fall on the field at a designated location for several turns, leaving the team free to use other actions while enemies in the area are continually damaged. | |
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My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic: In "School Daze", when Yona charges the pukwudgies, they turn around and begin to shoot volleys of their quills like this to rain down on her. Only Silverstream using a wagon as a makeshift shield saves her, and afterwards the students remain pinned behind their barricade by the unrelenting rain of sharp quills. | |
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Braveheart: Shown a few times. At the battle of Stirling, the Scottish taunt the English archers into firing their arrows. The Scots then quickly hide under their shields for protection, with mixed results. | |
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Archer units in Conqueror's Blade invoke this trope every time they shoot (especially since most archer units number 20 or more soldiers). There is a literal Rain of Arrows skill for the Longbow hero class (it shoots up to twelve arrows off the bow at once). |
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Van Helsing: The titular character has an automatic crossbow fed by a drum of bolts, using which he can shoot practically nonstop. | |
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Knights of Pen and Paper: Just called "Volley" here: | |
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The Last Samurai: Katsumoto's archers unleash volleys on the Imperial Japanese army before the hand-to-hand combat begins. | |
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Suikoden: The series has the archery units in your army do the Rain of Arrows if you order them to attack. In Suikoden II, the evil Prince Luca is only killed by his own army betraying him, the heroes forming three parties just for him, and multiple Rains of Arrows. Everyone wanted him really, really dead.The exact sequence was Rain of Arrows (killed his bodyguards), Rain of Arrows (he laughed it off), fight with party #1 (he laughed it off), fight with party #2 (he gets angry), fight with party #3 (he gets well and truly pissed), Rain of Arrows (this time he's visibly hurt), one-on-one fight with the protagonist (gets tired), Rain of Arrows (even more visibly injured), Rain of Arrows (dead after a short speech). Holy hell. |
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Calling for one of these is the "magical" power of several bonus characters in Castle Crashers. | |
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The Huntress in Risk of Rain 2 can unleash this as one of her abilities, appropriately dubbed "Arrow Rain". In addition to taking heavy damage, enemies in the area of effect get slowed, allowing the torrent of arrows to deal even more damage to them. | |
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The League of Legends cinematic "Trials of the Poro" sees the titular Ridiculously Cute Critter caught up in a vicious battle between two tribes, culminating in a massive storm of arrows descending on the battlefield while the poor thing cowers in terror. Fortunately folk hero Braum, Heart of the Freljord is on hand to save the poro from the rain with his gigantic impenetrable shield. In the game itself Varus, the Arrow of Retribution, one of the game's two archer champions, has an ability called "Hail of Arrows" which unleashes a brief shower of magical arrows onto a small area. | |
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Done in Ralph Bakshi's The Lord of the Rings, when the orcs lay siege to Helm's Deep. The hail of arrows goes on for a good twenty seconds, at least. | |
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Massed archers can be used in strategy games like Age of Empires, but tend to be rather fragile and only effective against enemies with relatively low hitpoints/armour. That said, some of the archer unique units in Age of Empires II are among the most lethal units in the game, notably the Britons' Longbowmen (who are just as formidable as their historical counterparts listed below) and the Chinese Chu-Ko-Nu, armed with a crossbow which can rattle off three shots in quick succession. |
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Archers in Dragon Age II have a talent called Hail of Arrows where they fire a bundle of arrows into the air and it comes down in a veritable storm of pointy shafts. | |
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At the beginning of Vampire Hunter D: Bloodlust, Borgoff Markus manages to do this with a single-shot, hand-loaded crossbow. The mechanics remain a mystery. | |
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Pretty Cure: In Yes! Pretty Cure 5 Yes! Pretty Cure 5GoGo!, Cure Aqua displayed the ability to produce a Rain of Arrows any time it was useful (which was less often than you'd think). Although her "bow" is a magically summoned arc of water floating in midair which produces arrows (which seem to be made of water) from nowhere, so we can probably call this justified. Cure Selene in Star★Twinkle Pretty Cure has also shown to have this ability. Once during a heated battle, she fired a single arrow into the sky with her Energy Bow which then created a shower of magic arrows that pummeled the mooks. |
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Mages in Negima! Magister Negi Magi will occasionally fire massive salvos of magic arrows at their opponents. Often with Robo Teching. | |
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In Dissidia Final Fantasy Ultimecia has the attack "Knight's Arrow", where she summons a multitude of (stylized, magical) arrowheads to shower the enemy. Depending on input, they either swarm the enemy right away, or hang in the air and aim, delaying the attack. She also uses these arrows during her EX Burst/ | |
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Jeanne d'Arc: One of the cheapest Skills is the Archer ability "Salvo", an area-effect attack that showers the entire selection with random, full-power arrows. It's offset slightly by the randomness of the squares that actually get hit, but use this in confined quarters, thus forcing the CPU to target only the available squares... | |
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Tales of Destiny 2's Nanaly Fletch and Tales of Hearts' Hisui Hearts both have similar techniques with their bows. | |
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Tales of the Abyss has Natalia L.K. Lanvaldear and her Mystic Arte, Astral Rain. | |
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The Lord of the Rings The Fellowship of the Ring: The prologue sequence shows the Battle of Dagorlad, where the combined armies of the Elves and Númenóreans rain arrows down on the orcs of Mordor before Sauron himself takes to the field. The Two Towers: Happens during the siege of Helm's Deep. Turns out Elves are pretty good at raining arrow-y death on the Uruk-Hai. It's entirely possible the Battle of Helm's Deep would have been much less tense if Saruman hadn't sent bombs along... because while the Rohirrim only had about 300 men (most of them not soldiers), a couple dozens elves, and Aragorn, Legolas, and Gimli, they had enough bows, and probably enough arrows, to outfit every single one of them, and an enormous stone wall to hide behind. Legolas isn't able to pull off a literal rain, but he manages to create veritable stream of arrows at times.note The Book tells it differently, though. In The Two Towers there are no elves taking part — the sons of Elrond, and only two half-Elven at that, arrive after this battle in the company of the purely human Rangers. There are rather more Rohirrim. And the explosives are necessary to the plot, to explain how the Uruk-Hai force a way through the wall and to demonstrate their essential mechanical soullessness — an industrialized form of warfare that Tolkien loathed virulently, having experienced World War I. The Return of the King: As the forces of Sauron besiege Minas Tirith, the Gondorians rain arrows down on the horde. Noted victims include the mountain trolls pushing siege towers, and the party of orcs who attempt to batter down the gates. When the Rohirrim arrive to break the siege, they go up against the Haradrim on the Pelennor Fields, who deliver arrow-y death from atop their giant Mûmakil. |
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Hercules (2014): Played for Drama and then For Laughs when Amphiaraus faces a rain of flaming arrows peacefully, eyes closed and arms spread wide, believing it to be his prophesied death. They all miss. | |
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In BoxxyQuest: The Gathering Storm, this is literally the name of Shrimp’s special attack, and boy does it live up to it. The animation is nearly ten seconds of arrows pelting the enemy from all sides. Thankfully, you can only use the attack once per battle. | |
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The Hunter class in Octopath Traveler has an attack explicitly named "Rain of Arrows" (which shoots 5 to 8 arrows at random targets, of which three are guaranteed to hit while the others can hit or miss), with an upgraded version called Arrowstorm (which hits all targets with 5 to 8 arrows each, again with three guaranteed hits and possibly more). The default Hunter H'aanit calls "A torrent of arrows!" for the latter attack. | |
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Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince: At the conclusion of Albus Dumbledore's funeral, the centaurs of the Forbidden Forrest release a ceremonial volley of arrows as tribute to the late headmaster. | |
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Giant Robo: A character pulls this off in the last OVA. The area goes from sand dunes to looking like a wheat field. | |
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City of Heroes has this as the most powerful attack available in the Archery powerset. The game tends to work entirely in Comic Book Tropes and action tropes anyway. | |
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In Guards! Guards!! (about a dragon attack on the city of Ankh-Morpork), Captain Vimes observes that so many bounty-hungry amateur archers are manning the roofs of Ankh Morpork, the dragon "was going to think it was flying through solid wood with slots in it". | |
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In Rogue Galaxy, one of Lilika's special moves, called 'Wild Thing,' resembles the Zielregen from Disgaea greatly, right down to the arrows exploding when they hit the ground. The only major difference is that she doesn't shoot a dividing arrow — she just charges up her bow in midair, and then launches a rapid-fire stream of oddly-arcing arrows. | |
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