The Principle of Evil Marksmanship is the theory that the “bad guys” in films will invariably be very poor marksmen, almost always missing when attempting to shoot the main characters, or “good guys”. The term, sometimes called the “Stormtrooper Effect” due to the claim that the Imperial Stormtroopers in Star Wars were superior marksmen but in actuality seemed quite the opposite, was first mentioned by film critic Roger Ebert in 1980. Ebert also mentions another, similar rule: the “One-at-a-time Attack Rule”, in which a group of enemies far outnumbers a protagonist, but will attack individually instead of together.
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