The ability to cause objects to home in on any target. Sub-power of Lock-On Imprint. Variation of Bullet Manipulation and Homing Effect. Not to be confused with Guaranteed Hit.

Also Called

• Target Locking
• Pinpoint

Capabilities

The user can cause objects, when set in motion, to home in on a target and invariably reach it. It can be used to hit a target from miles away only by throwing a rock that the user has charged, causing it to "lock on" to the user's intended target.

Applications

• Homing Effect
• Ballistics Manipulation
• GPS Manipulation - GPS can pinpoint a location by targeting it.
• Projectile Enhancement - make the thrown object accelerate to speeds greater than that which the user threw it with.
• Throw objects and cause them to follow a target.
• Imitate Flight by making one's body target another subject, then jumping.
• Cause bullets to home in on a target.
• Never lose cellular phone service by causing the out-going waves to lock onto, and enter the target phone, despite lack of service.
• Cause sunburn, or even skin cancer, by charging the UV rays from the sun.
• Light foes on fire by charging a fire source, and causing the flames to follow the target, making a "homing flamethrower."
• Hit targets from vast distances by throwing mere pebbles or stones.
• May cause objects to become a unstoppable force

Variations

• DNA Targeting
• Multi-Targeting
• Remote Lock-On Targeting

Associations

• Bullet Manipulation
• Enhanced/Supernatural/Absolute Accuracy
• Enhanced Gunmanship
• Digital Vision
• Guaranteed Hit
• Lock-On Imprint

Limitations

• The thrown object can't dodge obstructions and will stop following the target if it is blocked by an obstacle.
• Practicing is needed to improve their ability.
• Some targets, those with Density Manipulation, Enhanced Speed or Intangibility, could escape harm.
• Some targets, like those with Invulnerability or those who can obtain it like Metal Mimicry, wouldn't be harmed.
• The target might be able to use the user of this ability as a human shield if they can't cancel their power.
• Weak against Attack Ignoring and Target Lock Disruption.

Known Users

Known Objects

• Flechette SMGs (The Citadel); via Smart Modules
• Smart weapons (Cyberpunk)
• Paingiver/Rocket Launcher (Doom); via Lock-On Burst
• Rocket Launcher (Doom 2016 video game); via Lock-On Burst
• Lock On Assault Rifles (Fortnite)
• Lock On Pistols (Fortnite)
• 40mm Tracker Cannons (Titanfall)
• Archers (Titanfall)
• Multi-Target Missile Systems (Titanfall)
• Salvo Core (Titanfall)
• Slaved Warheads (Titanfall)
• Smart Pistols (Titanfall)

Gallery

Claire Adelheid (Anima: Beyond Fantasy) always target the heart of her enemies by using Gae Bolg, bending itself if the target tries to dodge or parry the attack.

Durham Glaster (Black Cat) can have his bullets (made of his ki) to redirect into his opponent.

Tien Shinhan (Dragon Ball Z) locking onto Cell to hit him with...

...the Kikōhō.

Mercenary Tao Tao Pai's (Dragon Ball) Super Dodon Wave locks on to his opponents' biological waves, ensuring that it will chase them until it hits.

Frieza's (Dragon Ball Z) Tsuibi Kienzan can chase down and cut anything, as long as he maintains his concentration on its movements.

Super Buu (Dragon Ball Z) used his Human Extinction Attack that targeted every remaining human on Earth, purposely sparing only Satan and Bee while Tenshinhan and Chaozu skillfully dodged.

Golden Frieza's (Dragon Ball Super) Grand Death Beam, a ten-fingered, guided version of his Golden Death Beam, will each chase down any target Frieza designates until it has pierced them, upon which the beam will continue towards the next target.

M.O.G.U.E.R.A.'s (Godzilla) Automatic Tracking Laser Cannon can track its targets, hence the name.

Bullseye (Marvel Comics) can throw virtually any object with incredible accuracy and enough force to be lethal.

Darui's (Naruto) Storm Release: Laser Circus fires lasers that he guides towards the target.

All Vander Decken IX (One Piece) has to do is touch his opponent and anything he throws…

…will home in as a deadly projectile.

Monkey D. Luffy (One Piece) using his Gum Gum/Gomu Gomu no Python.

Kaname Hagiri (Yu Yu Hakusho) marks his opponent...

...and all projectiles he launches will strike the bullseyes without fail.

Catastrophbia (Marvel Comics) using his power as the god of war...

to create target markers that zero in pulse blasts from afar upon a target.

Safari (Miraculous: Tales of Ladybug and Cat Noir) is able to target any person she wants with her powered blaster

Using the Geardalinger, Zocks Goldtsuiker/Twokaizer (Kikai Sentai Zenkaiger) can shoot homing blasts that lock on to marks that are placed on his targets.

Videos

Let the woman go. You are under arrest - RoboCop (Unrated Director's Cut) Remastered-2

Snake Man Luffy vs Katakuri - One Piece