What is the Stormtrooper Effect?
We’ve all seen those exciting action movie sequences. The hero, with his gun in hand, is sprinting down the hallway trying to escape. He’s dodging, weaving, and lunging for cover while his captors are chasing after him firing away, missing left and right. Amazingly while explosions are going off all around him the hero disposes of forty or fifty soldiers and comes away unscathed. You have just witnessed “the Stormtrooper Effect”. “The Stormtrooper Effect”, also known as the Stormtrooper syndrome or the Principle of Evil Marksmanship is something that is implemented into most action movies. The Stormtrooper Effect is when a movie, cartoon, book, video game or whatever else has soldiers who seem to have been trained for combat but can’t seem to hit a target to save their lives. “The Stormtrooper Effect” is obviously named after the Stormtroopers from Star Wars. In the original Star Wars trilogy the Empire is basically in control while the Jedis have all been destroyed. It’s kind of curio
