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** The [[Star Wars Expanded Universe]] loves this in general. If a book has "[[X Wing Series|X-Wing]]" in the title (and even occasionally if it doesn't), expect there to be at least one of some sort. X-Wings are actually somewhat slower and less maneuverable than TIE fighters, but there are a few reasons why the canyon trick can work. TIE fighters, with those wings, have greater air resistance, and those pilots who haven't trained in atmosphere often don't compensate for that. And an X-Wing can turn on its side and use its targeting computer to get through a gap only a handful of meters wide, while TIE fighters are almost as wide as they are tall. As ''Iron Fist'' showed, a TIE interceptor can pull off a similar maneuver due to it having a narrower profile than a TIE fighter.

** Though subverted by ''Solo Command'', where the good guys hop through a dangerous asteroid field from large asteroid to large asteroid, and then the enemy battleship ''targeted the large, stationary asteroids'', destroying the good guys due to their use of the feint. {{spoiler|Or it would have, except that one pilot remembered that particular enemy had used that counter-tactic before, and managed to get the attack called off just in time.}}

* In the original ''[[Terminator (franchise)|Terminator]]'', Sarah and Reese are driving flat-out in a parking garage with Ah-nult just behind them. Sarah spots the wall but Reese is too distracted to listen to her (with the gunfire and all). Sarah slams her car into park, but Ah-nult doesn't react in time to avoid hitting the wall at top speed. Of course, him being a cyborg, this is just a minor inconvenience.

* The winged flyers in ''[[Transformers: Dark of the Moon]]'' were able to outmaneuver the Decepticon patrol ships by flying through damaged buildings. Due to their size, they would be more than capable into fitting in places those ships couldn't.

* ''[[Sky Captain and The World of Tomorrow]]''. The title character flies his fighter plane along the streets of New York just above ground level while trying to escape Dr. Totenkopf's robot ornithopters.

* The climax of ''[[Lilo and Stitch (Disney film)|Liloand Stitch]]'' involved Jumba, Pleakley, Nani, and Stitch flying in a giant spaceship to save Lilo from [[The Dragon|Gantu]], who accidentally captured her while attempting to capture Stitch (he escaped), by chasing him down a series of volcano-filled canyons located all over Hawaii. Originally, they were going to go after Gantu by chasing him down with a stolen passenger jet into the capital city of Honolulu, but due to the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks in New York City, the entire scene had to be reanimated into what we see in the final version of the film.

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