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The Straight and Arrow Path

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The Straight and Arrow Path	comment	In some modern-day settings, the normal human members of either side will use guns, and often with less than stellar accuracy, regardless of allegiance. Combined with the idea that guns are easy point-and-click weapons, how do you set apart your ranged combat hero with no cool-looking superpowers? Why, give them a bow and arrow, of course! Not only will it prove that they're a Master Archer who's a much better shot than everyone else, but are cool under pressure as well. Crossbows can fit this trope as well, though they're not quite as cool. Usually, the coolness factor will be ramped up by giving them all sorts of neat arrows that'll come in handy for any situation they might encounter. And of course, their arrows will always be more effective than bullets. This becomes particularly evident in video games, where, to compensate for the slow firing rate, a single arrow will usually do about as much damage as dumping a full magazine of pistol ammo. Unlimited supply of arrows are often included, despite the fact that arrows are pretty large ammunition and not many can be carried in an ordinary quiver compared to bullets. This trope also lets you replace the negative violent connotations that guns bring with them and replace them with the positive violent connotations of the bow and arrow. It's also more believable (if not necessarily more true) to invoke Thou Shall Not Kill with a bow and arrow than with a gun. As this trope only applies when guns or other firearms are typical ranged weapons, this trope is dependent on the setting. Settings where guns are rare do not qualify (as bows or crossbows are the norm there) nor do settings in which both traditional ranged weapons and firearms are both used frequently. Close relative of the Aloof Archer, sometimes overlapping it, though one can exist without the other. This trope regards situations where someone manages to make a bow and arrows a better choice than other, more modern weapons like guns. Often, a hero (or villain) who follows the Straight and Arrow Path can be pretty dangerous with their fists as well; it's all that muscle to pull the drawstring. Subtrope of Archaic Weapon for an Advanced Age. Also related to Guns Are Worthless and Weapons Kitchen Sink. Enhanced Archaic Weapon can overlap, while Annoying Arrows often doesn't. Name not to be confused with No "Arc" in "Archery". Likely to evoke a reference to Robin Hood.
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The Straight and Arrow Path / int_110d4471	comment	Likewise, Arnie's powder-headed arrows from Predator.
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The Straight and Arrow Path / int_1296e5f6	comment	Riley from We're Alive was trained as a pro archer and prefers to use a bow since it's quiet and doesn't alert the zombies.
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The Straight and Arrow Path / int_1367cea0	comment	Worm has two superheroes who are known for their crossbows: Shadow Stalker, who has one in each hand. Flechette, who has a single, extra-large one.
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The Straight and Arrow Path / int_13ed9c3f	comment	Wahrwoorde from Malevil. An Evil Poacher, he preferred to use a bow to commit his crimes in secret and he was a champion archer to boot.
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The Straight and Arrow Path / int_18d2fbe8	comment	Hawkeye: Clint Barton trained under fellow trope-qualifier Trickshot and performed in the circus before turning to crime and then heroics as Hawkeye. He later took up the identity of Ronin, a close-combat fighter. Kate Bishop also currently uses the name Hawkeye. Notably she first took the alias when Clint Barton was dead, but later he gave her permission to use the codename as well.
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The Straight and Arrow Path / int_1af341a1	comment	Bows have been a staple weapon in the Disgaea series, being one of two ranged options. Depending on the game, they're mainly useful for inflicting status ailments or dealing strong elemental attacks. Disgaea 2 onward allowed bow users to potentially make defeated enemies drop Treasure Chests.
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The Straight and Arrow Path / int_1bd85a46	comment	In Superwomen in Love!, Orb Owl has a shortbow-like weapon on her left arm, in a world where all of the other heroes and villains wield either firearms, handheld weapons, or their bare hands.
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The Straight and Arrow Path / int_1c94c9a	comment	SYNTHETIK: The Ballistic CRX-Bow is a powerful crossbow for sniping enemies. This weapon has perfect accuracy and a short reload time, and it can increase its damage by scoring headshots.
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The Straight and Arrow Path / int_226f6b3f	comment	In Haven, Dwight Hendrickson wields a crossbow, which weirds the others out. This is out of necessity because his Trouble makes it so bullets are attracted to him, so he can't use a gun.
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The Straight and Arrow Path / int_24089637	comment	In The Girl from the Miracles District, Robin uses a crossbow despite guns being readily available, likely because it's quieter and as an immortal creature, he likely has more proficiency with it than he would with a gun.
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The Straight and Arrow Path / int_26430aff	comment	In Wolfwalkers Robyn and her father use crossbows to hunt and appear to have much better aim than the Lord Protector's musketeers.
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The Straight and Arrow Path / int_289484d9	comment	Bloons Tower Defense has Quincy as one of the Hero Units introduced in the sixth game. Despite more advanced ranged weapons such as sniper rifles and laser guns being used by other units, Quincy favors his trusty bow and arrow, which includes exploding arrows.
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The Straight and Arrow Path / int_295048d5	comment	Simon the Harrowed, a Healing Church hunter in Bloodborne, is not a fan of guns, so he had a special bow crafted for him by the Workshop: The Bowblade, which also doubles as a sword. While said weapon's description suggests he was scoffed at by most for trying to fight horrific (and sometimes gigantic) beasts with a bow, the mere fact you can meet him at all suggests he made it work at least as well as the guns he hated. This is reflected in gameplay: it takes considerable stamina to nock and fire the Bowblade's arrows, and each arrow takes one quicksilver bullet to fire like any other ranged weapon, but the arrows are potentially the strongest ranged attack in the whole game, are silent and only attract aggro of the enemy you hit, have the most range of any projectile, and a fully charged arrow from behind or interrupting an attack will stagger enemies and leave them open for a Visceral Attack.
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The Straight and Arrow Path / int_2a58e976	comment	RRR (2022): Ram wields a bow taken from a shrine against a squad of British soldiers with guns, grenades, and motor vehicles. He and his spear-wielding Bash Brother Bheem manage to take them all out.
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The Straight and Arrow Path / int_2c5b6cb8	comment	Warframe The Tenno are avid users of bows, albeit ones often equipped with fancy tech to make the arrows deadlier or fly faster than normally possible. Their usage is justified in that the Tenno fought against enemies that could corrupt most high-tech weaponry, which bows and low-tech percussion rifles were immune or highly resistant to. Most bows are completely silent, deal monstrous amounts of damage, can use a variety of Trick Arrows, and often come with innate punch-through power. Played even straighter by The Stalker, a special enemy who hunts down players if they kill a lot of bosses. While the Tenno can use any weapon they choose, the Stalker is always armed with a bow and kunai as his ranged weapon. Managing to defeat him will sometimes make him drop a blueprint that lets you craft his bow, and then possibly use it against him should he appear again.
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The Straight and Arrow Path / int_2e3e7ac2	comment	As with their comic counterparts, Green Arrow and Speedy/Red Arrow in Justice League, Teen Titans (2003)note though only for Speedy and Young Justice (2010). Young Justice also has, as a main character, Artemis Crock, who in the comics usually uses a crossbow, but is an Olympic-level archer. In the series, the longbow is her primary weapon, as Green Arrow's second sidekick.
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The Straight and Arrow Path / int_2ef7cb74	comment	Signum of Lyrical Nanoha. In a world where others use blasters, guns, rifles, and Wave Motion Guns, she, as an old knight, prefers to use a bow and arrow that packs enough explosive wallop to destroy a Humongous Mecha's Deflector Shields when going long-range. Although, it is merely a (rarely used) form of her Cool Sword.
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The Straight and Arrow Path / int_31ca9925	comment	The Dukes of Hazzard: Justified in that Bo and Luke are on probation and can't have guns.
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The Straight and Arrow Path / int_35c619e2	comment	Green Arrow and his former sidekicks and associated characters. The second Green Arrow (the first's son Connor Hawke) was a variant in which the archer is also good in close combat. Connor is one of the six best martial artists in the DC Universe. The first Green Arrow's sidekick Speedy (first Roy Harper, who has since operated as Red Arrow and Arsenal, and then his replacement Mia Dearden) also qualify, as do his enemies Shado and Merlyn as well as Young Justice's Arrowette, whose mother Miss Arrowette was Ollie Queen's Stalker with a Crush.
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The Straight and Arrow Path / int_35f1d3fb	comment	G.I. Joe: Storm Shadow is shown to have carried a bow into Vietnam, which he uses because it happens to be quieter than even a silenced gun. He's considered the best archer in the world in the Marvel G.I. Joe comic. The second-best is Zartan, who uses technological aids to achieve high accuracy. Scarlett, the intelligence officer of the Joes, uses a crossbow as her main weapon. She gets by through not being a primary combatant amongst the team.
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The Straight and Arrow Path / int_36984148	comment	Rambo, definitely. Including high-explosive arrowheads.
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The Straight and Arrow Path / int_37a5b015	comment	The professor in Diary of the Dead is able to kill zombies at 50 feet and farther with bow and arrow. When the group is offered weapons, he picks up the bow and comments it seems "friendlier" than the guns available.
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The Straight and Arrow Path / int_38fa34eb	comment	Wonder Woman The Amazons are often seen using bows and arrows as long-range weaponry and they can be as dangerous as any modern-day firearms, though in the Golden Age, their archery practice was for recreation and as they were much more technologically advanced. Diana has sometimes used a bow and arrow herself. Artemis' favored weapon is a bow, which she uses alongside allies and opponents using more advanced weaponry. In her first appearance back in Wonder Woman (1987) she split an arrow in an archery competition and while working as Wonder Woman mostly left the lasso clipped to her belt and used her bow instead.
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The Straight and Arrow Path / int_402686c8	comment	Bows and the crossbow are decent early ranged weapons in Unturned. They're silent, powerful enough to one-headshot a zombie, and, unlike all other ranged hardware, their ammo is craftable. However, they take up oodles of space in the Grid Inventory (the weapon takes 8 slots, and each arrow takes 2), their durability and that of the arrows is very poor (and craftable wooden arrows can't be repaired, although the durability doesn't affect the damage they deal; non-wooden arrows can be repaired with metal scrap), and the compound bow and crossbow (the two most powerful in the group) can't be crafted, only found, and require both a blowtorch and one point in the Engineer skill to fix up.
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The Straight and Arrow Path / int_410d7c64	comment	Assassin's Creed (2016): Abstergo Rehabilitation Center guards use crossbows against the Assassins during the prison break. Callum uses a bow meanwhile. The in-universe reason is that Callum's training comes from his 15th-century ancestor and the bow was much easier to get his hands on than another long-range weapon but doesn't he look heroic with Connor's bow?
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The Straight and Arrow Path / int_43576f5	comment	In the Supernatural episode "Devil May Care", Kevin uses a crossbow to defend himself.
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The Straight and Arrow Path / int_43cfa7a4	comment	Engine Sentai Goonger and Power Rangers RPM have the Humongous Mecha of both Sixth Rangers using this trope. Its finisher resembles it using a giant bow and arrow made of energy.
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The Straight and Arrow Path / int_45599333	comment	There is an archer among the Regulars of the second test in Tower of God. He manages to kill a few enemies, but in turn is taken out by Levin and his sniper rifle. So this trope gets subverted pretty quickly.
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The Straight and Arrow Path / int_4617a9f2	comment	Oddly enough, Kelly proves a natural at archery trick-shooting in a late-season episode of Married... with Children.
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The Straight and Arrow Path / int_4f115950	comment	Robin (1993): The Rising Sun Archer, Lisa Yurigama, is a young assassin who uses a bow because of its quieter nature as opposed to a firearm since she often works in busy cities and doesn't want to draw attention.
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The Straight and Arrow Path / int_52646e97	comment	Kamen Rider Blade has two users of this trope: Kamen Rider Chalice and Kamen Rider Larc. Chalice uses a bow that also functions as a double-bladed sword, while Larc has a crossbow that fires laser arrows.
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The Straight and Arrow Path / int_52e7a4e4	comment	In his Pegasus form, Kamen Rider Kuuga is able to turn regular guns into the Pegasus Bowgun, which looks like a hybrid between a crossbow and a gun.
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The Straight and Arrow Path / int_558b4c84	comment	Guardians of the Galaxy: Yondu Udonta uses a high-tech (as in "in the year 3000") bow and arrows. The MCU version doesn't do archery but he still uses an arrow as his signature weapon, the difference being that it's a highly advanced Attack Drone.
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The Straight and Arrow Path / int_563d9c1a	comment	Killer Instinct has Black Eagle, the brother of Chief Thunder, who fights with a bow and arrow.
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The Straight and Arrow Path / int_57ad0c07	comment	Resident Evil Claire can find and make good use of a crossbow (Bowgun) in both Resident Evil 2 and Resident Evil â€“ Code: Veronica. In 2 it behaves kind of like Leon's shotgun, firing three bolts in a lateral spread and loading six shots total, and is silent enough to confuse a Licker (it'll home in on any gunfire it hears). In Code: Veronica it behaves differently, fitting all the ammo in it at once and behaving like a semi-automatic handgun with weak damage per shot, though it fires them so fast, plus the need for only one inventory slot (as all the ammo fits inside the weapon), make it a worthy weapon to have. You can combine arrows with gunpowder as well for considerably more damage. Resident Evil 4 has a few. In none of them do the arrows arc at any distance. Regular ranged Mooks carry two-shot crossbows, loaded with Arrows on Fire. It sort of makes sense, as the first two parts of the game take place in an isolated village and a centuries-old castle, though in the military-like island base comprising the final third of the game that also features rotary autocannons and miniguns and electrical stun rods, it gets kind of strange. The "on fire" part seems to be only to make them and the arrows themselves visible at a distance. Ada gets access to a bowgun for herself, operated as slowly as you'd expect a normal crossbow. The main advantage of it is that the bolts are explosive, with about the same power as a hand grenade. In Mercenaries mode, you can play as Krauser. His only ranged weapon is a compound bow as powerful as a Sniper Rifle. In the Remake, it fires explosive arrows for the sake of making him into more of an evil Rambo. Resident Evil 5 The crossbows with flaming arrows make a comeback in the opening parts of the game in a dilapidated shanty town. The wetlands tribesmen in the second part of the game use regular bows fitted with explosive arrowheads. Sheva can herself get into the archery business with the unlockable Longbow bonus weapon, which behaves just like Krauser's bow except the arrows arc at range and there's no aiming reticle of any kind, so drawing a bead is quite difficult. In Mercenaries mode, if she's in the Tribal costume, she plays a lot like Krauser. Resident Evil 6: Unlike the other characters who start with at least a pistol, Ada has a crossbow as a starting weapon.
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The Straight and Arrow Path / int_5921531a	comment	Yukari Takeba from Persona 3. All party members are forced to use more 'old school' weapons due to Japanese laws making obtaining a gun to fight with near impossible, and Yukari has chosen bows due to her role on the archery team. This carries into spin-offs as well.
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The Straight and Arrow Path / int_5ada53ed	comment	Melina Havelock, from James Bond For Your Eyes Only uses a crossbow as a way of demonstrating just how badass she is.
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The Straight and Arrow Path / int_5c600b17	comment	Angewomon of Digimon Adventure can shoot arrows of light from a bow attached to one of her gloves and first appears in the human world. Digimon Tamers has Pajiramon, a Villain of the Week who wields a crossbow in a setting where guns can't hurt Digimon. Digimon Fusion has Zamielmon, a bow-wielding Sizeshifter elf who hunts other Digimon for his own amusement while Revolmon, a living gun, is on the heroes' side and doesn't get to fight very often.
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The Straight and Arrow Path / int_5e91c7b	comment	Claire can find and make good use of a crossbow (Bowgun) in both Resident Evil 2 and Resident Evil â€“ Code: Veronica. In 2 it behaves kind of like Leon's shotgun, firing three bolts in a lateral spread and loading six shots total, and is silent enough to confuse a Licker (it'll home in on any gunfire it hears). In Code: Veronica it behaves differently, fitting all the ammo in it at once and behaving like a semi-automatic handgun with weak damage per shot, though it fires them so fast, plus the need for only one inventory slot (as all the ammo fits inside the weapon), make it a worthy weapon to have. You can combine arrows with gunpowder as well for considerably more damage.
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The Straight and Arrow Path / int_5e91c7d	comment	Resident Evil 4 has a few. In none of them do the arrows arc at any distance. Regular ranged Mooks carry two-shot crossbows, loaded with Arrows on Fire. It sort of makes sense, as the first two parts of the game take place in an isolated village and a centuries-old castle, though in the military-like island base comprising the final third of the game that also features rotary autocannons and miniguns and electrical stun rods, it gets kind of strange. The "on fire" part seems to be only to make them and the arrows themselves visible at a distance. Ada gets access to a bowgun for herself, operated as slowly as you'd expect a normal crossbow. The main advantage of it is that the bolts are explosive, with about the same power as a hand grenade. In Mercenaries mode, you can play as Krauser. His only ranged weapon is a compound bow as powerful as a Sniper Rifle. In the Remake, it fires explosive arrows for the sake of making him into more of an evil Rambo.
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The Straight and Arrow Path / int_5e91c7f	comment	Resident Evil 6: Unlike the other characters who start with at least a pistol, Ada has a crossbow as a starting weapon.
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The Straight and Arrow Path / int_606f5cef	comment	Decision: A bow is one of the last unlockable weapons (by which point the player is likely carrying around a rocket launcher, sniper rifle, and minigun). While it has its uses, the most entertaining one is using it to fire shock collars that turn the affected unit to your side. Mutant brutes carry bows and are in some ways more dangerous than the captains, who carry rocket launchers. Rockets leave a visible that alerts you to the mutant's presence and lets you dodge, arrows don't.
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The Straight and Arrow Path / int_64e846b	comment	I Am Alive and The Last of Us use bows as stealthy weapons with retrievable arrows (in the latter game, the arrows might break). They help emphasise the scavenger world where every bullet and weapon counts.
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The Straight and Arrow Path / int_66394ca4	comment	In Neuromancer 3Jane's vat-grown ninja bodyguard uses a bow and arrow, with enough accuracy to shoot a gun out of someone's hand and only slice the gunman's thumb a little, and even then the cut thumb was an accident caused by the coriolis forces of Centrifugal Gravity. Then he's blinded and is still able to shoot them thanks to a Zen archery trick.
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The Straight and Arrow Path / int_66a1dcea	comment	Tomb Raider In Tomb Raider (2013), Lara Croft's most iconic weapon in the game is her hunting bow, which begins as a makeshift longbow and ends as a professional sports bow. She has access to a nice assortment of guns as well, but for most of the game, the bow is preferable due to its relatively high damage output and the fact that it's completely silent (stealth greatly helps in keeping Lara alive), whereas her other weapons make quite some noise. In Rise of the Tomb Raider, centuries-old ancient bows beat out modern compound bows. While they do the least damage out of the three types of bows available, they also fire the fastest, and since one headshot from any weapon will One-Hit Kill any human enemy (unless they're wearing a helmet, then it takes one to knock the helmet off and a second one to kill), the damage stat of weapons is largely useless, making the ancient bows the clear winner out of the three (with compound bows being powerful but slow and recurve bows being the Jack of All Stats option). While some guns now have silencers making them suitable for stealth, bows still win out since arrows can be crafted on the fly (and the game makes damn sure you don't forget how to do it), but bullets must be found in ammo boxes or looted from enemies. Lara can also unlock a perk that causes bows to automatically lock on to up to three enemies' heads (again, headshots are always one-hit kills). There's really no reason to use anything but a bow once you get that.
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The Straight and Arrow Path / int_69d15cc0	comment	Marvel Cinematic Universe: In Thor, a S.H.I.E.L.D. sniper passes over a Wall of Guns in favor of a bow, revealing himself to be Hawkeye pulling a cameo. Justified in The Avengers. Clint Barton, a.k.a. Hawkeye, uses a bow because his variety of arrow heads come with secondary functions that a bullet could never have, such as explosive, second-stage projectile, and grappling. Barton is also an impeccable shot with his bow, as shown by him casually hitting a moving target while looking the other way. He does use a sidearm at the beginning of the film, however, and eventually runs out of arrows during the assault on New York.
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The Straight and Arrow Path / int_6a6a293a	comment	Robyn Hood: Robyn has no problems in using a bow (albeit a modern compound model) against modern criminals armed with automatic weapons. There is a mystical component to her skill, but she's that good. However, many of her foes use magic, which tends to level the playing field somewhat.
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The Straight and Arrow Path / int_6b85085e	comment	Mortal Kombat has a modern-day setting, with U.S. Special Forces being a major faction in the story. Despite this, some characters still wield a bow and arrow: Nightwolf, introduced in Mortal Kombat 3, can manifest a bow of green spirit energy. Mortal Kombat X introduces Kung Jin, who fights with a bow that doubles as a staff and flamethrower.
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The Straight and Arrow Path / int_6bbde1c8	comment	Hanzo Shimada in Overwatch brings a bow to an arena full of modern weapons and futuristic Ray Guns. He rounds out the repertoire with Trick Arrows, ricocheting shots, and occasionally using dragon magic to chase the arrow with a Kamehame Hadoken.
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The Straight and Arrow Path / int_6d10ab2a	comment	Mortal Kombat X introduces Kung Jin, who fights with a bow that doubles as a staff and flamethrower.
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The Straight and Arrow Path / int_6f734712	comment	And before Arrow, Smallville's Oliver Queen didn't shy away from his trademark bow. As this was his live-action debut and as it was going for a more fancy, Batman-esque take on him, instead of his usual longbows, Green Arrow makes use of Compound Bows (which have the advantage of being easier to fire with) and handheld crossbows, which includes such features as grappling gun mechanisms for him to get about. He tends to use the bow for surprise attacks, stronger threats, or for non-attacking purposes, and use the crossbow when shooting at people, due to the fact he can use non-lethal boltheads with this one that the bow won't allow.
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The Straight and Arrow Path / int_701f0ece	comment	Guts of Berserk is an interesting case, in that he has both a gun and a crossbow. While gunpowder weapons are limited to bombards (that we can see), his artificial arm carries a small cannon inside it and has an Automatic Crossbow that can be attached to it.
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The Straight and Arrow Path / int_74c659e6	comment	Although most people who use bows find themselves seriously outclassed in Rocket Age Martian Chanari tribesmen who use the Bone Bow are generally far more dangerous, due to the sheer power of the weapon in the hands of a strong archer.
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The Straight and Arrow Path / int_76376304	comment	Metro 2033 and Metro: Last Light feature the Helsing, a pneumatically-driven revolver arrowgun. It is quiet to Hollywood Silencer levels, powerful in the proper pressure level (one-shots an armored human on a bodyshot) and absurdly so when overpressurized (on harder difficulties it can kill a Black Librarian in little more than a full reload if it's overpressurized at the start), and the arrows can be retrieved for later use. On the downside, the pressure gauge is hard to read at a glance, it's very slow to fire, and due to the arrows' lack of fletching, it's inaccurate at longer ranges, so much so that a scope is next-to-useless on it.
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The Straight and Arrow Path / int_7a489a43	comment	Paladins takes place in a fantasy world, but still has some modern-looking guns available. This doesn't stop some people from using more archaic ranged weapons. Justified by the Magistrate having strict control over crystals, which are used to power guns in the setting. Unless a character has ties to the Magistrate (current or former) or the criminal underworld, it would be hard for them to obtain firearms. Cassie uses a crossbow with special bolts that can explode or launch hit enemies backwards. The crossbow also has a mechanism to automatically load another bolt after firing. In older versions, she used a bow. Sha Lin wields a normal bow whose shots can be charged up by drawing the bowstring for longer. He also has special Crippling Arrows that can prevent enemies from using movement abilities (or any abilities with the right Talent). The lunar goddess Io uses a magical bow that launches arrows made of moonlight. Unlike Sha Lin, there's no actual bowstring, so she cannot charge up her shots.
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The Straight and Arrow Path / int_7d0c4de9	comment	As does Hawkeye in The Avengers: United They Stand, The Avengers: Earth's Mightiest Heroes, and Avengers Assemble, as well as in Iron Man: Armored Adventures and Ultimate Spider-Man (2012). And Francis Barton, his son, in Next Avengers: Heroes of Tomorrow.
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The Straight and Arrow Path / int_7d28f67b	comment	In The Metabarons: Othon and his retainers used bows and knives (their belief in Bushitaka forbids the use of "modern weapons") against the Purple Endoguard, the Emperor's finest soldiers who have power armour and cogan rifles. It works because Othon at the time, was the greatest warrior in the universe.
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The Straight and Arrow Path / int_7f9dbbce	comment	Far Cry 4: The Recurve Bow is one of the most powerful weapons in the early game, with better range, damage, and accuracy than most sniper rifles. It can kill most human enemies with one shot anywhere on the body, no headshots required. Far Cry 5 adds a Compound Bow, as well. While it has inferior range and firing rate compared to the Recurve Bow, the player can acquire it much earlier.
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The Straight and Arrow Path / int_7f9dbbcf	comment	Far Cry 5 adds a Compound Bow, as well. While it has inferior range and firing rate compared to the Recurve Bow, the player can acquire it much earlier.
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The Straight and Arrow Path / int_807083bc	comment	Magick Chicks: Justified in the case of Callista Archer, who's the captain of Artemis Academy's Archery Club. As such, she has the distinction of being the best shot at the school and she has the trophies to prove it.
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The Straight and Arrow Path / int_81f5d35d	comment	Several Riders from Kamen Rider use this trope. Like Super Sentai above, these weapons act more like laserguns-looking bows or crossbows. In his Pegasus form, Kamen Rider Kuuga is able to turn regular guns into the Pegasus Bowgun, which looks like a hybrid between a crossbow and a gun. Kamen Rider Blade has two users of this trope: Kamen Rider Chalice and Kamen Rider Larc. Chalice uses a bow that also functions as a double-bladed sword, while Larc has a crossbow that fires laser arrows. The New Generation Riders, as well as one of the Super Modes from the title character in Kamen Rider Gaim all use bows doubling as swords. Kamen Rider Zi-O, the 20th-anniversary series of the Heisei era, features Kamen Rider Geiz's Mix-and-Match Weapon, which has two modes: the Time Severe Axe Zikan Zax, with bow mode being the form it takes when Geiz takes to ranged combat.
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The Straight and Arrow Path / int_8458a67b	comment	Sonya Savage in the later series of Danger Girl. She manages to make a bow seem like a sensible choice in a setting where most of your foes are toting automatic weapons (or worse).
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The Straight and Arrow Path / int_88701b75	comment	In The Mouse That Roared, the Grand Fenwick expeditionary force invades New York City with just a handful of longbowmen.
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The Straight and Arrow Path / int_8a836c90	comment	In The Walking Dead (2010), resident redneck Daryl is usually seen preferring his crossbow to firearms. This makes sense as ammunition for guns is becoming scarce and the crossbow has less chance of alerting other walkers. That and crossbow bolts can be easily retrieved after being fired.
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The Straight and Arrow Path / int_8b4e057	comment	The Ptera Arrow is the signature weapon of the Pink Ranger in Kyōryū Sentai Zyuranger. To a western audience, this is more well known as the Power Bow from Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers. Quite memorably, the Pink Ranger uses it to single-handedly destroy a Monster of the Week, a rare instance of a female ranger doing so. This weapon is also notable for firing physical arrows rather than laser beams. This bow can also combine with the weapons of the other four rangers to become a crossbow.
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The Straight and Arrow Path / int_90a9bc9f	comment	The Huntress, whether the Post-Crisis Helena Bertinelli or the Pre-Crisis (and New 52) Helena Wayne. The former is a Gotham vigilante and a prominent member of Birds of Prey, and the latter is Batman and Catwoman's daughter and a member of the Justice Society of America.
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The Straight and Arrow Path / int_9322493f	comment	Kamen Rider Zi-O, the 20th-anniversary series of the Heisei era, features Kamen Rider Geiz's Mix-and-Match Weapon, which has two modes: the Time Severe Axe Zikan Zax, with bow mode being the form it takes when Geiz takes to ranged combat.
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The Straight and Arrow Path / int_93b9b77c	comment	Bows and arrows are regularly seen alongside guns and grenades in Nexus Clash, owing to the Urban Fantasy of the setting and the fact that some of the Planes of Existence visited in the series aren't part of the modern world. The Redeemed in particular has supernaturally good skill with a bow that allows them to match all but the most capable users of firearms.
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The Straight and Arrow Path / int_9e2f90f4	comment	Played with in One Piece. In a world where every pirate seems to carry a pistol and the Marines use muskets, the marksman of the Straw Hat Crew is a deadeye with a slingshot. Which, the particular weapon apart, keeps him within the trope: with the modifications (magic seashells to increase the speed and power of his projectiles and a variety of weaponized plants as Abnormal Ammo), his slingshot is better than most firearms, and he has the training.
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The Straight and Arrow Path / int_9f68876b	comment	The second Yellow Four of Choudenshi Bioman. Oh sure, she could use the standard issue blaster that everyone has, but perforating Mecha-Mooks with arrows looks cooler.
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The Straight and Arrow Path / int_aea45493	comment	In Gekisou Sentai Carranger and Power Rangers Turbo the Pink Ranger gains a bow that shoots two laser beams simultaneously.
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The Straight and Arrow Path / int_af42a07f	comment	Inara, in the final fight sequence of Serenity was to have used a bow and arrow, but it didn't look right in the final cut, so was digitally replaced with a sort of bolt gun. Which explains the apparently weird firing mechanism of that gun. They only did the replacement on the close-ups, though, so she's still got the bow in long shots. The official RPG tried to meet things halfway by explaining it as the Serenity-verse version of the Bowcaster.
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The Straight and Arrow Path / int_b0f977aa	comment	In the Star Ocean: The Last Hope, Reimi uses a bow. Unusually for the trope, the game takes steps to justify/Hand Wave it: she took classes in both eastern and western archery as a curiosity and to distract herself from her Dark and Troubled Past, and was initially on the ship as a Bridge Bunny, not for her weapon skills. It's only after it's discovered that the alien wildlife is immune to the standard-issue railgunsnote They sense the electromagnetic energy of the firing sequence and brace, older weapons have no such systems that she starts backing Edge up in the field.
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The Straight and Arrow Path / int_b32efa54	comment	Robo-Hood from Big Bang Comics is a robot archer superhero (a composite character of Green Arrow and the Golden Age Robotman).
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The Straight and Arrow Path / int_b370ddd1	comment	In Thor, a S.H.I.E.L.D. sniper passes over a Wall of Guns in favor of a bow, revealing himself to be Hawkeye pulling a cameo.
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The Straight and Arrow Path / int_b40c60f6	comment	Storm Shadow is shown to have carried a bow into Vietnam, which he uses because it happens to be quieter than even a silenced gun. He's considered the best archer in the world in the Marvel G.I. Joe comic. The second-best is Zartan, who uses technological aids to achieve high accuracy.
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The Straight and Arrow Path / int_b55b8015	comment	In Ninja Gaiden, Ryu's main ranged weapons are either shurikens or a bow, and yet he can still kill mooks armed with machine guns as well as helicopters, though it's better trying to use your speed to close the distance and attack them in close quarters than it is to try and shoot them with your bow. It's noted in an item description that even a modern ninja tends to prefer a bow to a gun for ranged killing, as a bow is far more silent. Further enhanced by the use of explosive arrows and the APFSDS cores from kinetic penetrator shells for tank cannons.
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The Straight and Arrow Path / int_b8e7bb8	comment	Super Sentai and its adaptation Power Rangers have several characters using a bow and arrow as their individual weapon. Male users of this trope tend to use crossbows, while females tend to use a regular bow and arrow. Most of these weapons fire laser beams, though. The second Yellow Four of Choudenshi Bioman. Oh sure, she could use the standard issue blaster that everyone has, but perforating Mecha-Mooks with arrows looks cooler. The Ptera Arrow is the signature weapon of the Pink Ranger in Kyōryū Sentai Zyuranger. To a western audience, this is more well known as the Power Bow from Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers. Quite memorably, the Pink Ranger uses it to single-handedly destroy a Monster of the Week, a rare instance of a female ranger doing so. This weapon is also notable for firing physical arrows rather than laser beams. This bow can also combine with the weapons of the other four rangers to become a crossbow. In Gekisou Sentai Carranger and Power Rangers Turbo the Pink Ranger gains a bow that shoots two laser beams simultaneously. Hyakujuu Sentai Gaoranger and Power Rangers Wild Force have the Red Ranger gain a secondary unique weapon, the Falcon Summoner, which comes with his last new mecha and can serve as a blaster or bow. In Arrow Mode, it can also be equipped with Red's Beast King Sword/Crystal Saber, which is fired into the air to summon the Falcon Power Animal/Wild Zord; he can also insert four other Gao Jewels/Animal Crystals into the bow itself to summon them alongside the Falcon if the other Beast King Swords/Crystal Sabers aren't available. Wild Force adds a second crossbow-like weapon, the Falconator, but it's almost never used outside of combining with four other U.S.-exclusive weapons into a team cannon. Engine Sentai Goonger and Power Rangers RPM have the Humongous Mecha of both Sixth Rangers using this trope. Its finisher resembles it using a giant bow and arrow made of energy.
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The Straight and Arrow Path / int_b99da0d	comment	The Incredible Hercules: Hercules is known to be a master archer, but because the bow serves as a reminder of Nessus' treachery and Deianira's suicide, he rarely uses one.
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The Straight and Arrow Path / int_bcadd7cb	comment	Warhammer 40,000, one variation of Combi-weapon is a Bolter with a crossbow attachment. It sounds ridiculous, but the crossbow shoots consecrated stakes built to violently disrupt a psychic's power, making the crossbow part a good, if situational, specialist weapon.
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The Straight and Arrow Path / int_bcb32dc6	comment	Bows in Shadowrun have experienced something of a renaissance, both because many of the Native American successor states of the US have elevated them to the status of a cultural icon and because with trolls, strength-boosting adept magic and cyberware added into the mix, it is possible to use bows that deal damage comparable to modern sniper rifles while also remaining silent and impervious to hacking. Poisoned, explosive, and Trick Arrows are also popular on the streets.
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The Straight and Arrow Path / int_bcdcf629	comment	Transformers: Animated: Despite living in the 22nd Century in a city that's the heart of the robotic revolution, the Angry Archer still uses a bow and trick arrows (albeit with some sort of robotic gauntlet on one hand). While he's hardly the most competent of supervillains, he does manage to put them to good use. Rodimus Prime as well, though he uses an Energy Bow.
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The Straight and Arrow Path / int_c0c57462	comment	In Chrono Trigger, Marle uses a crossbownote mistranslated as a "bow" in combat. It makes sense, as real Japanese princesses were often trained in archery for both self-defense and character-building reasons. She's not afraid of using it as a blunt weapon against any enemy that's too close to shoot at.
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The Straight and Arrow Path / int_c0d295c4	comment	Team Fortress 2 One of The Sniper's alternatives for his Sniper Rifle is The Huntsman, a bow and arrow. The bow has slightly lower maximum damage, but charges to maximum damage much faster than the rifle. It fires in an arc and there's a definite delay between the arrow leaving the bow and landing on the target, so using it successfully involves both skill and luck, or lots and lots and lots of corner peeking. The arrows can be also lit on fire by friendly Pyros or by sconces in Medieval Mode. The Medic can also opt to trade his default Syringe Gun with the Crusader's Crossbow. Unlike the Syringe Gun (which features an immense fire rate, huge magazine, but paltry individual damage and features the same parabolic projectile behavior, essentially a glorified nail gun), the Crossbow fires a single shot at a time but has a decent reload speed, deals solid damage to enemies, and heals allies from a distance, generally considered a more Difficult, but Awesome alternative.
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The Straight and Arrow Path / int_c231405b	comment	In The Punisher (2004), the Punisher uses a bow and arrow at one point. Surprisingly justified for an action movie as he makes two silent kills against body armor, since the armor is not arrow proof, and ditches the bow once the building's alarms trip.
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The Straight and Arrow Path / int_c35cdb19	comment	Artemis' favored weapon is a bow, which she uses alongside allies and opponents using more advanced weaponry. In her first appearance back in Wonder Woman (1987) she split an arrow in an archery competition and while working as Wonder Woman mostly left the lasso clipped to her belt and used her bow instead.
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The Straight and Arrow Path / int_c61f3112	comment	Tigress a villain of the Justice Society of America uses a crossbow among her weapons. Appropriately, her civilian name is Artemis Crock.
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The Straight and Arrow Path / int_c72021c5	comment	The Mini-crossbow in Deus Ex is obtained very early on, ammo is cheap and abundant if you know where to look, it's classified as silent by default, and it's the only weapon in the game that can deliver a Non-Lethal K.O. at a distance, thanks to the tranquilizer darts.
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The Straight and Arrow Path / int_cb6abef3	comment	Justified in The Avengers. Clint Barton, a.k.a. Hawkeye, uses a bow because his variety of arrow heads come with secondary functions that a bullet could never have, such as explosive, second-stage projectile, and grappling. Barton is also an impeccable shot with his bow, as shown by him casually hitting a moving target while looking the other way. He does use a sidearm at the beginning of the film, however, and eventually runs out of arrows during the assault on New York.
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The Straight and Arrow Path / int_cdc79ca0	comment	Commando. In "Legend of the Longbow", a British fighter pilot who's crashlanded in France teaches La RÃ©sistance—who don't have any weapons—how to use the longbow to shoot German soldiers and get their weapons. Even after they've got the weapons they need, they continue using the bow because it's now become part of their reputation.
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The Straight and Arrow Path / int_ce700ce5	comment	In Rise of the Tomb Raider, centuries-old ancient bows beat out modern compound bows. While they do the least damage out of the three types of bows available, they also fire the fastest, and since one headshot from any weapon will One-Hit Kill any human enemy (unless they're wearing a helmet, then it takes one to knock the helmet off and a second one to kill), the damage stat of weapons is largely useless, making the ancient bows the clear winner out of the three (with compound bows being powerful but slow and recurve bows being the Jack of All Stats option). While some guns now have silencers making them suitable for stealth, bows still win out since arrows can be crafted on the fly (and the game makes damn sure you don't forget how to do it), but bullets must be found in ammo boxes or looted from enemies. Lara can also unlock a perk that causes bows to automatically lock on to up to three enemies' heads (again, headshots are always one-hit kills). There's really no reason to use anything but a bow once you get that.
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The Straight and Arrow Path / int_d4263e4c	comment	Yeoman from the Wild Cards universe is the setting's premier Badass Normal, capable of taking on super-powered opponents wielding nothing more than a bow. Or less- he's a master martial artist and has killed with just a bowstring.
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The Straight and Arrow Path / int_d45b3eed	comment	Blade: Trinity has Abby Whistler using a bow and arrow as her weapon of choice against vampires.
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The Straight and Arrow Path / int_d5e9a8ed	comment	The Ultimates: In a subversion of this trope, the Ultimate version of Hawkeye ditched the bow and arrows for guns and managed to be just as accurate with them.
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The Straight and Arrow Path / int_d5e9cf36	comment	XCOM 2: The Alien Hunters DLC features among other archaic weapons, a crossbow with swinging, vertical arms called the "Bolt Caster". It can be equipped by anybody that can use an assault rifle, and compared to the latter, it deals increased damage with no range penalties and it can also stun organic targets or shutdown robotic ones. On the other hand, it has to be reloaded after each shot since it only holds one bolt, and it can't take Gun Accessories of any sort. Also, if the soldier using it is killed and the body not evac'd, say goodbye to it unless you have Game Mods.
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The Straight and Arrow Path / int_d632c4d7	comment	Rudy of The Monster Squad similarly uses a crossbow loaded with wooden stakes against the female vampires during the final battle.
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The Straight and Arrow Path / int_d9585734	comment	7 Days to Die has five archery weapons: the primitive, wooden, and compound bows, and the iron and compound crossbows. All five operate in total silence, not alerting nearby zombies and being hard to hear by players, and do decent-to-devastating damage per shot depending on what ammo you load them with and what mods you've installed on the models that allow them. The primitive bow is the first ranged weapon you're likely to get for yourself (the tutorial missions tell you how to craft it) and it's piss-easy to craft but isn't particularly powerful even with high-tier ammunition.
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The Straight and Arrow Path / int_db088973	comment	Hyakujuu Sentai Gaoranger and Power Rangers Wild Force have the Red Ranger gain a secondary unique weapon, the Falcon Summoner, which comes with his last new mecha and can serve as a blaster or bow. In Arrow Mode, it can also be equipped with Red's Beast King Sword/Crystal Saber, which is fired into the air to summon the Falcon Power Animal/Wild Zord; he can also insert four other Gao Jewels/Animal Crystals into the bow itself to summon them alongside the Falcon if the other Beast King Swords/Crystal Sabers aren't available. Wild Force adds a second crossbow-like weapon, the Falconator, but it's almost never used outside of combining with four other U.S.-exclusive weapons into a team cannon.
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The Straight and Arrow Path / int_e293455a	comment	Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Buffy has used a crossbow on occasion, though justified in that her vampires are Immune to Bullets, as well as the fact that wooden crossbow bolts qualify as a "stake through the heart". Faith used a modern compound bow in season 3 of the series, contrasting her with the relatively medieval weaponry that the rest of the Scooby Gang used.
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The Straight and Arrow Path / int_e64a6382	comment	Arknights: In the world of Terra, firearms require mastery of complicated Originium Arts to fire, and both guns and ammo are expensive. This has led to bows and crossbows being commonplace ranged weapons - with about half of the Sniper class operators (including most Marksman Snipers) use a bow or crossbow of some sort. Terran bows have massive draw weight to take advantage of the Ancients' higher strength level, with the Rainbow Six Siege collab event "Operation Originium Dust" having Tachanka note that a shot from a Terran bow at close range has equivalent power to a bullet.
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The Straight and Arrow Path / int_e7e37776	comment	Firefly gives us Inara Serra, who, in keeping with her graceful pedigree, prefers using a bow and arrow over the combustible firearms that the rest of the crew uses, although she's not bad with guns or unarmed combat when she needs to be.
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The Straight and Arrow Path / int_e8fee187	comment	In Pig Hunt, John carries a crossbow while his friends use rifles. He is still the most effective hunter in the group.
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The Straight and Arrow Path / int_ea5b2fb6	comment	Valorant: In a team with superpowered people called Radiants, Sova stands out as a hunter with no superpowers using a bow and trick arrows alongside firearms.
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The Straight and Arrow Path / int_eded135a	comment	In Tomb Raider (2013), Lara Croft's most iconic weapon in the game is her hunting bow, which begins as a makeshift longbow and ends as a professional sports bow. She has access to a nice assortment of guns as well, but for most of the game, the bow is preferable due to its relatively high damage output and the fact that it's completely silent (stealth greatly helps in keeping Lara alive), whereas her other weapons make quite some noise.
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The Straight and Arrow Path / int_ee76546c	comment	In the post-apocalyptic zombie survival sim Cataclysm, the effectiveness of bows varies wildly from update to update. Their main advantage over guns is that ammo is easily crafted, and they don't make noise to attract zombies toward you. However, they are useless against enemies with armor, and the more powerful bows require a high-strength stat.
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The Straight and Arrow Path / int_ef4c300f	comment	Connor of Assassin's Creed III uses one, though he mainly uses it for hunting. He can use flintlock pistols, but they end up damaging his quarry's pelt, reducing the value.
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The Straight and Arrow Path / int_f1b13839	comment	The Camp Half-Blood Series: While the series takes place in the 21st century, most of the demigod and demigod-adjacent characters prefer bows or crossbows to firearms. Though there have been a couple of instances where "modern" weaponry is used, they tend to be limited to mortals without divine heritage. The children of Apollo and Artemis's Hunters will both use bows and arrows with far more efficiency than guns. To characterize him as a more cerebral child of Mars rather than a brutish child of Ares, Frank Zhang is not only talented at archery but also strong enough to use Trick Arrows. He makes his debut in the second book of The Heroes of Olympus.
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The Straight and Arrow Path / int_f50072b	comment	The Pieces Lie Where They Fell: Wind Breaker picks up a crossbow, which becomes his signature weapon, partway through the story.
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The Straight and Arrow Path / int_fa5e90fd	comment	Following the Archer character type, City of Heroes has the powersets Archery and Trick Arrows, both used by Manticore. It's at least on par with the Assault Rifle powerset. The Trick Arrow powerset stacks its powers into the most powerful debuffing set in the game, making it highly desired against Giant Monsters and Arch Villains.
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The Straight and Arrow Path / int_fb9fefa6	comment	In Hc Svnt Dracones a compound bow deals more damage than handguns, is perfectly silent, doesn't require an action to reload, and arrows maintain a stable flight path further than bullets and can be poisoned. Though it requires a minimum of two dots in the Ranged Combat proficiency to use and arrows cost half a credit apiece while 3 clips of ammo cost 5 credits. note Though that's more cost-effective than a handgun or SMG-sized clip which is depleted after two uses, not bullets mind, but uses.
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The Straight and Arrow Path / int_fdb7646c	comment	Celestial Archer of the Great Ten, who was probably intended to fill the traditional superteam role established by Green Arrow and Hawkeye.
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The Straight and Arrow Path / int_fe65c06d	comment	The advertising campaign for Crysis 3, a game set in 2047, puts quite a lot of emphasis on the new bow weapon and its arsenal of Trick Arrows. Justified, in this case, as it's the one weapon that Prophet can use while cloaked.
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