Perhaps this trope is employed as an alternative to the opposite extreme of Guns Are Worthless and Annoying Arrows. This trope differs from Imperial Stormtrooper Marksmanship Academy in that instead of just the bad guy's mooks being unable to hit the hero as he slaughters them with his own Improbable Aiming Skills, A-Team Firing makes everybody on both sides keep missing. When the fight's over, all the property and vehicles in the area will be chewed up with bullet holes, yet there will be no perforated corpses to match. It's not that the bullets aren't potentially lethal, but everyone's accuracy is so horrible that they seem to hit everything except their foe, even in situations where they have a clear line of fire and you'd think it would be almost impossible to miss. Only a mook or a Red Shirt has anything to worry about, and sometimes even they will be defeated or driven off non-lethally. Heroes and villains can expend enormous amounts of ammo shooting at each other, often with automatic weapons and/or at very close range, yet everybody important is protected by Plot Armor. More Dakka is claimed by many to be the most reliable way of killing something, but strangely there are a lot of shootouts on TV where the number of bullets fired seems inversely proportional to their likelihood of killing or even wounding anyone.
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