| rdfs:comment | - In any combat situation with people riding horses on one side, and ranged weapons on the other, some of the bullets (arrows, etc.) are going to hit the horses. After all, real bullets don't have anyone's name on them, they're addressed "to whom it may concern", and a horse makes a mighty big target. It's pretty inevitable that some of those horses are going to get hit and fall down, probably further injuring themselves. As this trope is very common, the examples on this page favor aversions. Examples of Invulnerable Horses include:
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| abstract | - In any combat situation with people riding horses on one side, and ranged weapons on the other, some of the bullets (arrows, etc.) are going to hit the horses. After all, real bullets don't have anyone's name on them, they're addressed "to whom it may concern", and a horse makes a mighty big target. It's pretty inevitable that some of those horses are going to get hit and fall down, probably further injuring themselves. The problem is this is very hard to fake in live-action film and TV barring CGI or similar advanced effects. Training a horse to fall down on cue is hard and training a horse to fall down at a gallop is nigh-impossible. During the so-called Golden Age of Hollywood horse fall stunts were often done with tripwires, often (but not always) with fatal results. Actually shooting a horse is, of course, cruel, expensive, wasteful, and probably illegal, but is sometimes done where the law doesn't prohibit it. The result is that you can watch dozens of Westerns and never see a horse get shot, no matter how many riders are shot off of them. Because people tend to be sensitive to cruelty against horses, this trope also appears in non-live-action fiction. As this trope is very common, the examples on this page favor aversions. Examples of Invulnerable Horses include:
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