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It seems that there is no end to the inventiveness of bowmen, especially in Super Hero comics. If a character uses a bow as their main weapon, you can expect that their quiver will hold, at the very least: explosive arrows, arrows that split into nets for capturing opponents, and knockout gas arrows. Furthermore, they will undoubtedly be masters of trick shots, hitting targets around corners or rebounding from behind. While some other types of weapons get similar treatment (boomerangs and yoyos especially), the Trick Arrow is a trope in its own right that seems to appear anywhere there are bows and arrows. Doubly so if the characters are honor-bound not to kill, since there's very little bows are normally designed to do except shove sharp projectiles into bodies. Deconstructing the trope suggests that trick arrows are almost inevitable with superheroic archer characters. They are useful and straightforward starting points for superheroic characters for a variety of reasons, not the least of which is that Robin Hood is a cultural icon in the English-speaking world. In addition, references for the poses and equipment are fairly easy to come by, as well as being readily identifiable by readers. And therein lies the problem: We Have Seen ALL Of This Before, at least with respect to plain vanilla archery. Hence, trick arrows to surprise the readers and to break up the tedium of writing/drawing ordinary pointy-arrow-work. Finally, there is the issue of having an archer as part of a superhero squad whose members include mostly characters with explicit superhuman abilities. Expertise with trick arrows would work to set them apart from "others who just shoot arrows". Characters who use boring old flaming arrows don't fall under this unless the arrows are otherwise complex and/or unlikely. They may be pointless, but at least they're possible. A character who uses trick arrows is almost always capable of successfully pulling off a multishot. Contrast Archer Archetype: simple and sane. Compare Trick Bullet. See also Mage Marksman, who may be capable of creating these through magic. The more bizarre trick arrow types often head into Bows and Errors territory. |
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Aladdin: The Series: the Galafems use magic arrows that can change into anything (water, rope, etc.) with a thought. | |
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In Worm, both crossbow-wielding superheroes, Shadow Stalker and Flechette, have trick arrows: the former has her tranquilizer bolts, the latter has a chain-generator she can use to turn her arbalest into a Grappling-Hook Pistol. | |
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In Guild Wars 2, the thief's shortbow skills in particular show off variations of this trope. Some warrior and ranger bow skills also fit. | |
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In one episode of Samurai Jack, Jack is pursued by the greatest hunters in the universe, each armed with a different weapon. One of them is an expert archer — among his arsenal are arrows that are actually petrified snakes, which proves Jack's undoing when he performs an Arrow Catch. | |
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Hawkeye'': Clint Barton is the premiere user of these in the Marvel Universe. Once you discover just how varied his arsenal is, including acid, rocket, putty, explosive, bola, and suction arrows, you realize that most of the time he's in a jam it can be easily solved with one of them, but writers tend to not remember that. Exploding arrows seem to be his favorites, at least of the ones that have gimmicks. One advantage that Hawkeye has is that he keeps the heads separate from the arrows. Those bandoliers he wears? The capsules along them contain the arrowheads, allowing him to change them in and out at will. One issue of Hawkeye (2012) had Hawkeye (in a new costume without the bandoliers) get into a scrape as he was about to label all of his trick arrows. Consequentially, he had no idea which was which until he either took a good look at the head or just shot them and saw what they did. In Ultimate War, he used a localised mini-nuke arrow on Colossus. Pity that it didn't work. Hawkeye's mentor Trick Shot used trick arrows as well, such as a sleeping-gas arrow he used to knock out some clowns so that his Mooks could steal their costumes. The second Trickshot (Hawkeye's brother Barney) uses trick arrows as well. During the period he impersonated Hawkeye as a member of the Dark Avengers, Bullseye used them as well. The second Hawkeye, Kate Bishop, does use trick arrows sometimes, but unlike Clint, she seems more open to using regular arrows with her enemies. |
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In a parody of the trope, Akane Tendo of Ranma ½ fame once loaded a traditional archery arrow (the kind used at schools, but with a piercing tip) with a sack of catnip, several times wider than the length of the arrow, and which was heavy enough to bend the arrow as she aimed it at a fast-moving, unpredictable, Cat-Fist Ranma. Amazingly, she hit her mark straight on (even though Cat-Ranma batted the arrow away with his paw.) | |
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Champions Online has the Archery powerset which combines trick arrows (Sonic Arrow, Taser Arrow, Explosive Arrow) with trick shooting (Multiple arrows shot at once, Storm of Arrows, and Focused Shot can be upgraded to go through several targets in one shot). | |
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Himiko "Lady Poison" Kudo of Get Backers has trick perfumes, which can do anything from corrode metal to allow fire breath to Mind Control to... she's actually got hundreds of varieties, though she only carries seven at a time. | |
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Appears a couple of times in Sluggy Freelance. In this strip, Alt-Torg has a quiver of talking arrows which includes at least one flaming arrow and one grappling arrow. These are actually somewhat plausible (aside from the talking part). Where things get to silly levels is in a later arc when Riff uses magic arrows that confuse and slow down a monster on impact, until Torg points out that putting a regular arrow through the monster's head might be more effective in taking it down. Justified since this takes place inside a video game, where Rule of Cool reigns supreme. | |
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Monster Hunter normally doesn't do this, instead giving bows "coating" that lets them inflict status ailments like Poison and Paralyze, but they do have a few tricks in their quiver. The Arc Shot is an arrow carrying a payload of spiked ball bearings, which is fired upwards and then subsequently rains down on the map. The Hunter Art Haste Rain fires an arrow that sprays the user with a stimulant that makes them faster, while Blade Wire fires two arrows tied together with Razor Floss that makes them function as Slashing attacks rather than Piercing. Finally, the Dragon Piercer is essentially a firework arrow that hits multiple times as it drills through the monster. | |
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In Bleach Uryu at one point used an arrow that was also a chainsaw. A spiritual chainsaw ''sword''. | |
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Trick Moon: In addition to normal arrows, Trickshot has magic arrows that turn into bursts of ice and acid. | |
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Unsurprisingly we see Oliver Queen using a few of these in Arrow. But only rarely in combat; he prefers killing (now wounding) his enemies the old-fashioned way. They get more use when he needs to set up ziplines, or bugs. Most of his normal arrows are handwaved as being "tranq arrows." Although we never see what the arrowhead looks like on screen, and adding tranquilizer to a normal arrowhead wouldn't decrease its lethality. And in a Mythology Gag he uses an improvised boxing glove arrow in "Guilty". | |
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Hank the Ranger, one of the lead characters of the Dungeons & Dragons (1983) animated series, has a magic bow that seems to be able to fire any sort of bolt. | |
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Bloons Tower Defense 6 has Quincy the archer, whose arrows can bounce from bloons to bloons or explode on them when upgraded. | |
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Scarlett from G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero has a quiver full of Trick Quarrels for her crossbow, and Lady Jaye used Trick Javelins. | |
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And while we're on the subject of the Tales Series, Woodrow Kelvin from the Tales of Destiny remake has a very interesting move called Bassaiga. He sets up his bow so that it looks like he's going to shoot his enemy, but then he pulls his sword out at the last moment and slashes them. How's that for a Trick Arrow? | |
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Green Arrow is a recurring character in the Justice League cartoon from Unlimited onwards, and naturally gets to show off his collection of trick arrows. Huntress, by contrast, prefers "the pointy kind that go right through you." | |
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The Amazon of Diablo II has an entire skill-tab dedicated to these, including arrows that explode, arrows that freeze everything, arrows that split into multiple smaller arrows, and of course the Guided Arrow. | |
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Boomerang has a DC comics equivalent in Captain Boomerang, who even has boomerangs that explode. His son, the second Captain Boomerang, only used "regular" Precision Guided Boomerangs. | |
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The Dukes of Hazzard has dynamite arrows, which are often fired from a moving car. | |
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In Darkwing Duck, Gosalyn's hero identity was Quiverwing Quack in the episode "The Quiverwing Quack". Among her trick arrows were glue arrows, boxing glove arrows, and at least one pencil sharpener arrow. | |
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Parodied as Jimbo in an issue of Green Arrow. | |
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RWBY: Robyn Hill primarily uses regular metal bolts for her crossbow, but she has a few Dust-based ones up her sleeve for special occasions, as Tyrian learned the hard way when he caught an explosive bolt with his teeth. | |
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Rambo character John Rambo has them. Parodied as Jimbo in an issue of Green Arrow. Also parodied in Hot Shots! Part Deux with the chicken arrow. That's a live chicken — or, at least, it was when it was fired. |
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In his appearance along with Speedy in the DC Animated Universe, they both have quantum arrows, which seem to act as a really tiny nuke when fired at the same time. | |
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The Advanced Dungeons & Dragons 1st Edition supplement Oriental Adventures had several non-damaging arrows, including the "frog crotch" (cuts rope) and "humming bulb" (whistles loudly in flight); all of these are based on history, believe it or not. | |
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Wonder Woman Vol 1: Nymphs use lasso arrows to try and capture Diana and Paula in issue 5. | |
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Parodied by Legion of Super-Heroes minor villain Ze Tongue, who had — you guessed it — trick tongues. | |
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Raven from Tales of Vesperia's arrows do everything from laying explosives to healing. His bow can even be used as a double-bladed sword since it's got sharp edges. And while we're on the subject of the Tales Series, Woodrow Kelvin from the Tales of Destiny remake has a very interesting move called Bassaiga. He sets up his bow so that it looks like he's going to shoot his enemy, but then he pulls his sword out at the last moment and slashes them. How's that for a Trick Arrow? |
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One issue of Hawkeye (2012) had Hawkeye (in a new costume without the bandoliers) get into a scrape as he was about to label all of his trick arrows. Consequentially, he had no idea which was which until he either took a good look at the head or just shot them and saw what they did. | |
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In Dead Rising 2, you can combine a bow and arrow with dynamite to create the Blambow, which is just as ridiculous as it sounds, but surprisingly effective. Chuck even got the idea from looking at a poster for an action movie. | |
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In Flash Gordon (1979), the Arborians used ''ice arrows'' as their weapon of choice. Interestingly, there was never any indication that this was anything less than lethal (no Harmless Freezing here), it was simply a way to avoid the ugly messiness of a conventional arrow. Though the ice arrows did turn out to be very handy for putting out fires, especially the larger variant that Vultan and his Hawkman are able to throw down from the air without needing bows. | |
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The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion has a wide variety of enchanted arrows, from standard elemental damage and stat debuffs to making enemies run away in fear or creating an area of light around the arrow when fired. Bows themselves can be enchanted as well, providing even more effects for would-be Crazy-Prepared archers. | |
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No Retreat, No Surrender 2: In the final battle, Scott takes out the last platoon of Yuri's soldiers from a distance away by firing a grenade-tipped arrow from his crossbow. | |
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The tranquilizer crossbow in BioShock Infinite: Burial at Sea — Episode 2 can also fire noisemaker and gas bolts. | |
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The Legend of William Tell: William Tell shoots net arrows a couple of times. Note that his usual bolts are very light anyway and are mostly used for trick shots; it's rare to see him actually injure someone with them. | |
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Superfriends 1973-74 season episode "Gulliver's Gigantic Goof". Green Arrow makes good use of his trademark trick arrows to save the other Superfriends, who have been reduced to tiny size by a Shrink Ray. | |
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Deep Rock Galactic: The Scout's Nishanka Boltshark X-80 crossbow has a wide selection of arrows to pick from, though you can only access certain arrows at a given time. Normal bolts (which by themselves can be magnetized to hit electrified enemies harder and can have radio receivers for retrieval) can be traded for bouncing Bodkin Points, firestarting Fire Bolts, chilling Cryo Bolts, and the tripling Trifork Volley. You also have a stock of Special Bolts that can either be a Pheromone Dart (which makes enemies fight each other), a Chemical Explosion bolt that sickens an enemy until it bursts in a puff of horrid toxins, or a Taser bolt that connects with other Tasers to make damaging electric arcs. Not bad for a medieval weapon! | |
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The Hunter class in World of Warcraft has numerous different "shots" (they can be used with guns as well as bows but otherwise fit the trope). These include several variants of poison shots (scorpid sting, viper sting, wyvern sting, etc.), an "arcane shot" that deals magic damage, a shot that dazes the enemy, and the Aimed Shot (which reduces healing on its target). There's also a trap-throwing arrow, which lays any of the hunter's 5 different kinds of traps where it lands, a flare that reveals nearby stealthed opponents, and Explosive Shot. | |
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Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers: The arrows from Kimberly's Power Bow make an explosion when they hit, and can home in on an enemy. | |
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Yondu from the original Guardians of the Galaxy has sound-sensitive arrows that he can control by whistling. | |
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Guardians of the Galaxy: Yondu Udonta's signature weapon is a self-propelled, armor-piercing arrow controlled via a piece of cyberware and his whistling. He shows it's the only weapon he needs when he uses it to take out an entire squad of Sakaaran goons and one Mook Mobile in the climax. In the sequel, he uses it to take out every single mutineer on his own Ravager ship in a matter of minutes. And he even uses it as Not Quite Flight simply by holding onto it in midair. | |
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Haley Starshine of The Order of the Stick turns from Archer into this trope when she acquires a bow that does cold damage, can freeze the target in a block of ice, and gives them a fresh minty breath. She also once used a smokestick tied to an arrow to counter an Arrow Catch. | |
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Resident Evil: Resident Evil – Code: Veronica has gunpowder that can be added to crossbow bolts. They cause a small explosion on impact that deals higher damage. In Resident Evil 4 and 6, Ada uses explosive bolts with her crossbow. Unlike the Code: Veronica, the bolts' explosion is about equal to a hand grenade and can harm Ada with Splash Damage if they hit too close to her. |
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Skyrim also features Trick Crossbow Bolts, added in the Dawnguard DLC; by mixing up some crossbow bolts with elemental salts dropped from Atronachs, you can get exploding fire, frost or shock bolts. | |
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In Warframe, Ivara has access to a quiver of four special arrows: one can cloak her and allies, one that creates a tightrope for her and allies to walk across, another that creates noise and attracts enemies, and one which puts enemies to sleep. | |
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Red Dragon Inn: Piper is an elven archer whose character gimmick is her special arrow cards which she can play multiple of on the same turn if they're Action cards. Her arrows are all puns involving the word "arrow" with some implausible designs, like "Millionairerow" (gives her 1 Gold), "Pairrow" (an arrow that hits another player with its own bow), "Elsewhererow" (it went missing...), and "Sparrow". | |
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Exalted: Siderials have two charms to do this. The first allows them to fire anything shorter than their arm as an arrow, the second transforms arrows in flight into such things as glass, boulders, enough grain to feed a person, snow, or raw life force. Solars similarly have an Archery Charm that allows them to infuse their arrows with purified Solar Essence, leading to a number of effects ranging from a burning mandala of Essence that detonates on collision to hot steaming death for the undead. |
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During the period he impersonated Hawkeye as a member of the Dark Avengers, Bullseye used them as well. | |
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In Resident Evil 4 and 6, Ada uses explosive bolts with her crossbow. Unlike the Code: Veronica, the bolts' explosion is about equal to a hand grenade and can harm Ada with Splash Damage if they hit too close to her. | |
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In Codex Alera, Bernard is seen using arrows coated with rock salt (which hurts wind furies) against some wild wind furies and later shoots High Lord Kalarus out of the sky with one. In the last book, he upgrades to exploding arrows. | |
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This sort of character is generally easy to build in systems with "effect-based" power creation rules like Champions or Mutants & Masterminds. Take an attack power with multiple alternate modes (which generally come at a significant discount for only being usable one at a time), give it the special effect "bow and trick arrows", add the necessary drawbacks if it's actual equipment that can be taken away, and you're basically done. | |
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Marvel Cinematic Universe: Hawkeye of The Avengers uses these to devastating effect. Mostly he sticks with normal broadheads and explosive arrows, but he also has some that hack computers, melt steel, or act as a grappling hook. He has a special quiver that attaches the desired heads to the arrows selected by pressing buttons on his bow. This comes in handy when he runs out of arrows, he simply grabs a close one and changes the head as needed. From the director commentary: Guardians of the Galaxy: Yondu Udonta's signature weapon is a self-propelled, armor-piercing arrow controlled via a piece of cyberware and his whistling. He shows it's the only weapon he needs when he uses it to take out an entire squad of Sakaaran goons and one Mook Mobile in the climax. In the sequel, he uses it to take out every single mutineer on his own Ravager ship in a matter of minutes. And he even uses it as Not Quite Flight simply by holding onto it in midair. |
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Dungeons & Dragons has, over the years, introduced scores of different magic arrows. At least they've got A Wizard Did It to back them up. The Advanced Dungeons & Dragons 1st Edition supplement Oriental Adventures had several non-damaging arrows, including the "frog crotch" (cuts rope) and "humming bulb" (whistles loudly in flight); all of these are based on history, believe it or not. Dungeons & Dragons 3rd Edition also saw the Arcane Archer prestige class, with the ability to put spell effects into arrows and create a few other trick arrows on the spot once per day each. The Dungeons & Dragons 4th Edition Ranger is an archery fanatic, surpassing previous incarnations. While not using trick arrows per se, the nature of the powers certainly has much the same effect. Notable effects include arrows splitting into two shots mid-flight, knocking enemies back several squares, or outright stunning or dazing opponents. Of course, pretty much every other class can also knock back, stun, or daze opponents, without using arrows. The later-added Seeker embodies this trope even more -– a member of that class can shoot things such as vines or fairies. Most egregious is the healing arrow. Which was invented to heal front-rank fighters. Most of the time it'd heal more damage than it did. Then there's the infamous hollow arrow constructed by engineer players◊, containing a Portable Hole and Bag of Holding which are pushed into each other on impact. Awesome, but Impractical due to the high cost and the relative ease with which most powerful enemies can escape. |
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Hanzo of Overwatch is an Archer Archetype with an arsenal: Sonic Arrow, which grants you echo-location with a noticeable radius; Scatter Arrow, which splits into many arrows on impact; and finally, Dragonstrike — a slow-moving, spirit-charged, wall-clipping arrow that looks like two coiled dragons. | |
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Vow of Nudity: Qalek, the corrupt owner of Spectra's circus, owns several arrows with magnetized tips that repel themselves away from the targets at his archery range, to give to customers who are winning too much. He uses one to ensure she fails when she gambles her right to switch jobs on a single shot at the range. | |
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Fallout 3 has the Dart Gun, which is essentially a crossbow that fires pre-war throwing darts... dipped in radscorpion venom. While it does extremely little real damage, the poison immediately cripples the target's legs, drastically reducing its mobility. Extremely effective against Deathclaws, which are rendered pretty much helpless. Deathclaws are one of the deadliest creatures in the entire game otherwise. | |
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There is a metric crapton of trick arrow varieties in Divinity: Original Sin, as they are the main means of delivering elemental effects onto enemies for non-magical player characters. They also have a slight tactical advantage over magical spells in that their trajectories are not blocked by friendly combatants, so an archer can fire elemental arrows at the enemy from behind the tank's back without having to expose themselves. | |
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Neopets has various arrows that range from serious to silly; for example, the Lava Arrow, "Dipped in smouldering lava this arrow will burn its way through anything," Lovestruck Arrow, like what Cupid has, Arrows of Happiness, which causes happiness, Frozen Bow and Arrows, an arrow tipped with an ice cube, and the Marshmallow Bow and Arrow, an arrow tipped with a marshmallow. | |
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Wonder Woman: Several Amazons shoot a rope arrow to swing down from the cliff to fight the invading Germans on the shore. | |
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The Nakaizumi Ryuu from Gamaran is renowned for the Kyokyu (Mad Bow) and their Kuruiya (Crazy Arrows), arrows specifically made to make the school as deadly as possible. They include Ha (Destruction), a special arrow with a blunt reinforced head that can crack barkskin open, En (Circle), an asymmetrical arrow that can curve midflight, Kiba (Fang), a monstrous arrow with a bladed head and fletching all over the shaft made to spin as it flies towards a target, shredding it to pieces, at the cost of being lethal only at close range. After the timeskip, Nakaizumi Arata comes up with an explosive arrow to send signals and Hao (Lord of Destruction), a monstrous arrow with a huge metal head that is basically a maul and, with the right bow and strength, can rip off limbs and blow gates open. | |
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Avatar: The Last Airbender's Yu-Yan Archers used net arrows, and arrows with tow lines for rappelling and stuff. The one in the Rough Rhinos used flaming arrows by actually equipping his bow with a pilot light for arrows. | |
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Link in The Legend of Zelda has used silver arrows, fire arrows, ice arrows, bomb arrows, and light arrows. The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild adds electric arrows and ancient arrows to the mix, the latter being a rarer one-hit-kill attack. In The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom Link can attach various materials to his arrows, many of which have special effects. |
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Frequently appears in Rocket Robin Hood, sometimes more than once per episode. | |
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Massive Chalice has a six-armed bow that fires bone shards from a particular enemy. It reduces damage but enables the "arrow" to pierce enemies hitting everything in its path. | |
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BioShock: BioShock's crossbow, which, along with firing steel bolts, could fire both incendiary bolts, and bolts which themselves fired deadly electric tripwires. The tranquilizer crossbow in BioShock Infinite: Burial at Sea — Episode 2 can also fire noisemaker and gas bolts. |
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BioShock's crossbow, which, along with firing steel bolts, could fire both incendiary bolts, and bolts which themselves fired deadly electric tripwires. | |
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At one point, GA and Batman faced off against a fire-breathing demon. Thus: | |
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Played straight for the first time in Youngblood (2017). Shaft uses an explosive arrow to take down Suprema, and an arrow that releases a gas to break a villain's mind-control over Sentinel, Suprema, and Doc Rocket. | |
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Alan Moore's run on Supreme introduced the Fisherman and Skipper, Captain Ersatz versions of the Green Arrow and Speedy who used trick fishing lures. | |
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Champions universe Multiple characters, including Crossbow (a hero) and Rainbow Archer (a villain). This sort of character is generally easy to build in systems with "effect-based" power creation rules like Champions or Mutants & Masterminds. Take an attack power with multiple alternate modes (which generally come at a significant discount for only being usable one at a time), give it the special effect "bow and trick arrows", add the necessary drawbacks if it's actual equipment that can be taken away, and you're basically done. |
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Speedy from Teen Titans, who is a (possibly former) sidekick of Green Arrow. In one episode, unable to use his trick arrows or bow, he uses nearby vehicles and supplies to make a giant bow, firing himself as a trick arrow to defuse Control Freak's threat. | |
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In Percy Jackson and the Olympians and The Heroes of Olympus there are a few different varieties of trick arrows, which are most often used by children of Apollo. There are sonic arrows, that incapacitate targets (and outright destroy weaker monsters), arrows that release a noxious yellow cloud dubbed "fart arrows" that are effectively tear gas, and hydra arrows that split apart to create a rope ladder. Later we see Orion use arrows that have built-in time bombs. And in The Trials of Apollo we have the Arrow of Dondona, which, because it was made from a special tree, had the ability to speak (but only to Apollo. And it talks like a pseudo-Shakespearian ham). | |
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In Noob, Gaëa, the archer reroll of Gaea's player, is sometimes seen using element-imbued arrows. | |
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Hawkeye: Clint Barton's arrows get a tour de force in the third episode with the help of Kate Bishop. Which includes but aren't limited to goo, explosive, plunger, grappling line, USB, and even a Pym Particle arrow. Kate tries to pitch a boomerang arrow, but Clint shoots it down on the basis of having a deadly projectile coming back to you is not a very desirable outcome. The finale of the mini-series has Clint and Kate work together to make a bunch of them when having to face the Tracksuit Mafia. The series also has Clint explain that it's easy for him to make new arrowheads but that he requires specialized shafts which are hard to come by and his current supply is in NYPD custody. | |
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The MediEvil games featured a fairly normal longbow weapon (which came in flaming and "magic" varieties), plus a crossbow whose bolts would ricochet off walls at any angle until they reached their maximum flight time and disappeared. Medievil 2 even had a flame crossbow which was basically the same, but it fired flaming bolts. Funnily enough, you get the crossbow before the longbow. | |
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Also parodied in Hot Shots! Part Deux with the chicken arrow. That's a live chicken — or, at least, it was when it was fired. | |
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In PAYDAY 2, both the bow and crossbow-type weapons can be modified to use explosive or poison-tipped arrows. | |
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In Fire Emblem: Three Houses: Fifth Path, Claude is turned from an Archer Archetype to a user of trick arrows such as knockout gas arrows, rope arrows, and foam arrows. | |
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Blackhawk fought a one-shot villain called the Shaft whose gimmick was trick arrows. | |
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In Army of Darkness, as part of a last stand against the Deadites, Ash teaches the wise men in the middle ages how to make gunpowder, which leads to them creating exploding arrows. Not only that, but they don't explode on impact — bowmen have to light the fuse, wait about twenty seconds for the fuse to burn down, and then fire. | |
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Heroes of Might and Magic 5: The Rangers racial ability is largely based around this. Imbue Arrow lets him put any offensive spell on his arrows, who deal more damage by default if they hit one of his chosen favored enemies. For extra fun, he can fire arrows that will hit any enemy stack of favored enemies for full damage each. | |
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Some archery skills in Dragon's Dogma seems to come off as this with the character pulling stuff out of their pocket to ready the skill. Such arrows include Drills, Flash bangs, Poisons, and Whistles. | |
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The Elder Scrolls: The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion has a wide variety of enchanted arrows, from standard elemental damage and stat debuffs to making enemies run away in fear or creating an area of light around the arrow when fired. Bows themselves can be enchanted as well, providing even more effects for would-be Crazy-Prepared archers. Skyrim also features Trick Crossbow Bolts, added in the Dawnguard DLC; by mixing up some crossbow bolts with elemental salts dropped from Atronachs, you can get exploding fire, frost or shock bolts. Dawnguard's main quest centers around Auriel's Bow, a weapon supposedly used by the god Auri-El, which by itself burns the targets of its arrows with sunlight, dealing triple damage to undead. However, it becomes powerful enough to affect the Sun itself when combined with one of two trick arrows; Bloodcursed Arrows, made by dipping regular Elven Arrows in the blood of a Daughter of Coldharbour, blot out the Sun for one day and lets the various monsters of the night (including you, if you became a Vampire Lord) move and attack freely. On the other hand, Sunhallowed Elven Arrows, blessed by the last priest of the Snow Elves, rains down beams of divine light from the Sun and damages every enemy in the vicinity, again dealing even greater damage to the undead. |
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Resident Evil – Code: Veronica has gunpowder that can be added to crossbow bolts. They cause a small explosion on impact that deals higher damage. | |
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Several trick arrows are shown in Treefoot's workshop in Thorgal. They are pretty down to earth though; harpooned, whistling, stunning (with a ball wrapped in some cloth instead of the point), crescent-shaped and saddle-shaped, an inverted crescent on a broadpoint, supposedly for cutting ropes. In the same book, Kris de Valnor uses a crescent arrow to cut off a man's hand. | |
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In addition to normal, pointy arrows, Dungeons of Dredmor features a number of increasingly improbable ammunition. In particular: nuclear warhead arrows, and arrows that fire an Eldritch Abomination. | |
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In Planescape: Torment, Nordom's crossbows usually shoot regular, pointy bolts, but you can find and/or buy all sorts of variations (and even tell the crossbows to make some specific types themselves), such as acid-filled sponge bolts, bolts containing insane wind spirits in the tips, cubic bolts incorporating the essence of order, frog-crotch bolts, and the ever-popular "Rule-Of-Three" pyramid bolts that separate into three bolts. | |
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Red Hood and the Outlaws: Though Arsenal has mostly avoided these, he has used a bomb arrow. Went all out with trick arrows in Issue 5, which has him taking down Crux with an electric arrow, and making a fire with a fire arrow. And when he destroyed most of his arrows to stop Crux, we get brief glimpses at a bunch of other trick arrows that haven't been used yet. |
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Gun had dynamite arrows. | |
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Michelle in Read or Die uses paper arrows that can do pretty much anything (being a Paper Master) — the example that springs to mind was an arrow whose tip split in two, allowing it to wrap around the target (a book) and carry on with it securely held. | |
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The villains in The Magician episode "The Illusion of the Fatal Arrow" are a pair of Professional Killers who use bows and arrows: including some 'realistic' explosive arrows. | |
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Darkhood in Interviewing Leather is a Bad Ass Normal, probably based on Green Arrow. So obviously he has a bunch of different arrows like taser arrows, grappling arrows, and even *gasp* normal arrows. | |
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Parodied in Robin Hood: Men in Tights which has Robin using a Patriot Arrow. As in Patriot Missile. Robin also uses a set of arrows tied in the fashion of a Venetian blind, which when shot separated to pin one of the sheriff's men to a tree by his clothing. | |
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Dungeons & Dragons 3rd Edition also saw the Arcane Archer prestige class, with the ability to put spell effects into arrows and create a few other trick arrows on the spot once per day each. | |
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Big Bang Comics: The robot archer Robo-Hood wears a high-tech quiver that can manufacture whatever trick arrow he needs when he needs it. | |
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Aside from Captain Boomerang, DC has comparatively few villainous users of trick weaponry; you have to dig fairly deep to find the next most notable one, an obscure Green Lantern villain called Javelin who used gimmicked javelins. And there was that one time Signalman became the Blue Bowman, as well. | |
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Ninja Gaiden's Xbox remake had armour-piercing arrows. There are also the "standard" explosive varieties. It should be pointed out that the armour-piercing arrows were not technically "arrows" as such. Rather, they were the cores of Armour-Piercing Fin-Stabalized Discarding Sabot rounds for tank cannons. |
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The Archer class in World of Synnibarr is quite naturally all about this, though most of its "tricks" are actually magical — pardon, based on "Earthpower" — rather than the more mundane type. | |
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Green Arrow, Artemis, and Red Arrow all use trick arrows as their primary weapons in Young Justice. In addition, Artemis uses trick bolts for the compact crossbow she carries while in her civilian gear. | |
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The Dungeons & Dragons 4th Edition Ranger is an archery fanatic, surpassing previous incarnations. While not using trick arrows per se, the nature of the powers certainly has much the same effect. Notable effects include arrows splitting into two shots mid-flight, knocking enemies back several squares, or outright stunning or dazing opponents. Of course, pretty much every other class can also knock back, stun, or daze opponents, without using arrows. | |
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In Fate/stay night, one of Servant Archer's favourite tricks is to make sword arrows: He can create a sword and transform it into a slimmer, aerodynamic shape, which he then fires from his longbow as an arrow. This has various effects, depending on the nature of the sword, and can cause them to explode on contact by overloading them with mana. In the original Visual Novel he uses a sword that can twist space around it as it flies, allowing it to pierce any target; in Fate/hollow ataraxia he uses a sword that moves at ten times the speed of sound and will change course to hit its target, even if it's already missed. | |
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So far in Critical Role, Vex has used burning arrows, lightning arrows, grappling arrows, exploding arrows, and more. | |
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Some Inquisitors in Warhammer40000 use "Stake Crossbows", which fire, well, stakes. They're especially effective against Psykers. | |
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The Angry Archer from Transformers: Animated. (He's basically a villainous version of Green Arrow, though he's also a homage to staff member Aaron Archer and a fan of Robin Hood.) | |
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The Knifeketeer, a recurring superhero identity of Rick in Basic Instructions, is a parody of superheroes like Green Arrow, and thus uses trick knives. The most commonly observed one? A boxing glove knife, natch. | |
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Some editions of Warhammer takes a page from Conan's book and gives the Tomb Kings snake arrows. | |
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In the My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic episode "Equestria Games", the final event in the games is an archery contest. The twist is that the arrowheads freeze what they hit, and the goal is to cover the entire target in ice before the other ponies. Chaos ensues when one participant trips up and fires one into a cloud, turning the entire thing into an ice ball that nearly crushes the audience. | |
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Oddworld: Stranger's Wrath has the main character use a crossbow that fires critters that have various different effects, such as baiting the enemies towards them via Trash Talk, a skunk that serves as a stink bomb, bats that serve as explosives, and others. | |
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Cavewoman: Raptorella uses arrows with explosive heads when she is Hunting the Most Dangerous Game, using Miriem as her prey, in Cavewoman: Raptorella. | |
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Fable has a spell which split one arrow into three; they then Robotech their way to the target. The best/worst part is the spell can be upgraded, and each upgrade adds another arrow, meaning that a Hero can potentially be firing more than six arrows just from one shot. | |
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King Arthur: Legend of the Sword: The blacklegs use signal arrows; first to spring the trap and then during the subsequent chase through the streets of Londinium to show which way La Résistance after fleeing and call more soldiers to that area. They appear to have charges of gunpowder that explode in a cloud of black smoke after being shot into the air. | |
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Hawkeye of The Avengers uses these to devastating effect. Mostly he sticks with normal broadheads and explosive arrows, but he also has some that hack computers, melt steel, or act as a grappling hook. He has a special quiver that attaches the desired heads to the arrows selected by pressing buttons on his bow. This comes in handy when he runs out of arrows, he simply grabs a close one and changes the head as needed. From the director commentary: | |
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In The Wild Geese, Coetzee uses crossbow bolts with cyanide canisters affixed to the tips to ensure that his shots will be immediately lethal. | |
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He used a Kryptonite arrow in Batman: The Dark Knight Returns, with only one remaining arm, no less. (He pulled the string back with his teeth). | |
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In The Hunger Games Mockingjay, Katniss gets some exploding arrows. | |
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Bow in She-Ra and the Princesses of Power describes himself as a member of the "maker's community" because of his knack for building specialist arrows, including dedicated message arrows, sonic arrows that make a loud noise on impact, and arrows that explode into a gooey net. This is lampshaded in one episode when Bow pulls out a magnifying glass arrow, leaving Catra incredulous as to how the Horde had been losing to them. | |
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Final Fantasy: Lost Stranger: After Shogo discovers his "combine" ability, he learns to take arrows and combine them with volatile Bomb Fragments to detonate opponents from a distance. | |
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In Blade: Trinity, Vampire Hunter Abigail Whistler uses various trick arrows. Including ultra violet flashbang arrows, for dusting Vamps. A drill arrow, for penetrating cover. And A virus delivery arrow for taking out the films Big Bad, Drake. | |
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Dark Messiah of Might and Magic gives you the Rope Bow a short ways into the game. It shoots arrows that, upon striking a wooden surface, deploy a rope you can then climb. It becomes a key gameplay mechanic from that point on, allowing you to get into and out of places that would otherwise be unreachable. | |
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Garrett in the Thief series has a fairly wide arsenal of both magical and gadget arrows he can use — most notably the water arrow, used for dousing torches at long range. The first game is unwinnable without them. | |
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Astro City: Prior to his Darker and Edgier turn, the Street Angel used to use non-lethal gimmicked throwing rings ("halos") to snare and catch his opponents. After his Darker And Edgier turn, he replaced them with halos made of high-impact ceramics with a steel core. Quarrel is a more straightforward example of the "archer with trick arrows" archetype; in this case, she has a pair of wrist-mounted launchers that fire a variety of bolts. |
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The standard ammo for the crossbow in Strife is electric bolts, which are a good choice to destroy robotic enemies, though they are useful all around. Poisoned bolts are a completely silent One-Hit Kill on any organic mook and don't raise any alarms, though using them against anything else is a No-Sell. | |
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GURPS 4th edition Imbluements system, when applied to archery, allows an archer to do pretty much anything with arrows, be it disintegrating swords, paralyzing enemies, or shooting a cone of destruction. In Low-Tech including humming bulb, flight (super long range), cutting, and "fire cage". Pyramid #3/39 has an article called "The Arrow of Progress" featuring Ultra-Tech archery. Trick arrows include ones with sensors, ones that trail a rope, ones that have rockets in the shaft, ones that use memory-material to alter the arrowhead, and ones that do all the above and are basically autonomous drones that you only fire from a bow because Rule of Cool. Plus you can include all the Ultra-Tech ammo options up to and including antimatter bomb arrows. |
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Rifts has magic and/or high-tech explosive arrows in just about every setting, for those who cannot or will not use laser rifles like everyone else. | |
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Redneck Rampage had dynamite arrows and a... peculiar... variant in which the arrow was stuck up the bottom of a chicken. It basically amounted to a guided rocket: upon launching it, the whole thing would fly to the target and explode with a loud shriek and a puff of feathers. | |
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In Garth Nix's Keys to the Kingdom novel Superior Saturday, there is a sentient RAT with a bow that shot arrows with a glass tip containing Nothing, basically nothingness that acts like acid, eating away until the target ceases to exist. | |
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The new Tomb Raider reboot gives Lara several different arrow types to play with, primarily fire arrows for extra damage and rope arrows which serve as grappling hooks, to bridge gaps and pull distant objects. The fire arrows can be upgraded into napalm and explosive arrows, whilst the rope arrows can be upgraded with a rope ascender, letting Lara pull heavy objects. | |
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The Evil Within and its sequel have the Agony and Warden Crossbows respectively. They fire various utility projectiles like explosive bolts, freeze bolts, flash bolts, smoke bolts, and others. | |
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Horizon Zero Dawn: Fire arrows, frost arrows, and shock arrows are your standard elemental ammo. Tearblaster arrows will explode into a sonic scream that vibrates the components and armor off a machine (or stuns a human for a few seconds from the blaring noise), Harvest arrows are weak but will cause torn-off materials to somehow triple their yield, and Corruption arrows drive enemies mad enough to fight among themselves. | |
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The Chaos Unreal 2: Evolution mod for Unreal Tournament upgraded both the bolt selection, to include flaming arrows, and the crossbow itself, allowing it to be "charged up" to make regular pointy bolts more useful (they could head-shot unlike the other kinds and when charged would fly further and faster, dealing proportionately more damage as well). It could also fire up to five bolts simultaneously, another staple of trick-shooters. | |
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In The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom Link can attach various materials to his arrows, many of which have special effects. | |
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Terraria allows you to be quite a good archer, providing you with automatic crossbows and arrows ranging from flaming to firework ones. | |
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Unreal Tournament's sanctioned mod Chaos UT introduced a crossbow that could fire exploding arrows or poisoned arrows in addition to the regular pointy kind. The Chaos Unreal 2: Evolution mod for Unreal Tournament upgraded both the bolt selection, to include flaming arrows, and the crossbow itself, allowing it to be "charged up" to make regular pointy bolts more useful (they could head-shot unlike the other kinds and when charged would fly further and faster, dealing proportionately more damage as well). It could also fire up to five bolts simultaneously, another staple of trick-shooters. Another Unreal Tournament Game Mod had a bow that had even more arrow options from normal flaming poison exploding (both small frag grenade and Nuke 'em levels of explodyness) And finally Black Hole and Disintegration Arrows |
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City of Heroes: The "Trick Arrow" support powerset includes, among others, Glue Arrow, Poison Gas Arrow, Oil Slick Arrow, and Electromagnetic Pulse Arrow. For direct damage, Blasters, Corruptors, and Defenders get access to the Archery power set, which allows for flaming arrows and blunt arrows that stun opponents, plus firing multiple arrows at once (Fistful of Arrows and Arrow Rain). Plus, the oil made by the Oil Slick Arrow can catch on fire if a fire or energy attack hit the pool. And then there's Canon character Manticore: millionaire playboy, Badass Normal, and perpetual snarker. Oh, yes, he uses Trick Arrows as well. Teleporting trick arrows, achieved through hacking into the city's Emergency Teleportation Network. |
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Treneth in Visseria does this by payloading his arrows with magic scrolls. He seems to favor fire spells, but has also shown a flare gun effect. | |
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Deadpool: Deadpool once made trick arrows during a team-up with Hawkeye in A + X #8, riffing on Green Arrow's boxing glove arrow by using Hulk Hands (one even went "Hulk smash!" on impact). However, the real trick was that these arrows were all explosive. | |
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Conan the Barbarian (1982): Thulsa Doom has snake arrows. He uses one to kill Valeria as Conan's party are making their getaway with the Princess, and he tries to use one on the Princess as well, only to be stopped by Subotai, who stops the arrow with his shield. | |
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