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A common trick when fighting a [[Giant Mook]], but often seen elsewhere is to find a way to [[Hoist By Their Own Petard|use their power against them]]. The most simple way to do this is using your own cunning and speed.
Common targets include:
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* [[The Man Behind the Man]], who you really want to be damaged;
* a load-bearing pillar, catching your foe in a [[Collapsing Lair]];
* a container or device connected to their [[Achilles' Heel]];
* a [[Booby Trap|physical trap]];
* a generator or some type of electric outlet, perfect for, but not limited to, [[Mecha
* a big ol' wall;
* [[Innocent Bystanders]] are a good choice for cooler villains, combining [[Kick the Dog|casual suffering]] and [[My God, What Have I Done?|heroic guilt]];
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* off a cliff, if they're charging;
* another enemy, who shoots at the same time;
* the enemy itself, if it's using something like [[Misguided Missile|homing missiles that you can direct back to it]].
While this is usually punches, it can be used on projectiles. Used frequently in kids cartoons to avoid having the heroes actually [[Just Hit Him|hit]] their opponents. In [[Video Games]], this is a fairly common way to defeat the [[Puzzle Boss]], often stretching credulity to the point of [[Boss Arena Idiocy]]. Even without Puzzle Bosses, this is also a favorite way of dealing with large numbers of [[Mook
See also: [[Hoist
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== Anime & Manga ==
* In the third episode of ''[[Black Lagoon]]'', Dutch takes out two ships of the fleet of pirates sent after the crew by a disgruntled client when they incompetently attempt a pincer attack on the titular ship by letting off speed and letting the two annihilate each other with their own guns. Revy then proceeds to take out the rest of the pirate fleet singlehandedly in a [[Crowning Moment of Awesome]].
* The very basis of the ''Hiryuu Shoten Ha'' (Flying Dragon Ascension Wave) in ''[[Ranma
* In ''[[Rurouni Kenshin]]'', the title character defeats his opponent, who is just as fast but larger and stronger, by using Deadly Dodging until his opponent's body breaks under the stress. Yes, Kenshin ran circles around this guy until his legs broke.
** Possibly subverted early on in the manga; Kenshin deliberately doesn't dodge a bottle that was thrown at him, because it would have hit Kaoru.
* In the Asgard arc of the ''[[Saint Seiya]]'' anime, Shiryu uses it on Fenrir, causing an avalanche to fall on his foe.
* ''[[
* When he witnesses the death of {{spoiler|his father}}, [[Mirai Nikki|Yukiteru]] snaps and uses his Future Diary to deadly effect, making sure that there is someone between him and the next person to fire.
* Gin uses the [[Innocent Bystander]] variety of this in ''[[Bleach]]''.
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* ''[[Darker
* The epilogue of the third season of [[Sailor Moon]] includes this in a fight between Sailor Moon and Uranus and Neptune. Usagi refuses to fight them, so she causes them to colide with eachother, defeating themselves for her.
* [[
** Subverted in that it didn't actually work that way; she wasn't even remotely slowed down.
* In ''[[Pokémon Special]]'', Cynthia's Garchomp tried to hit Cyrus's Magnezone with its Hyper Beam but ended up blasting a hole in the Celestic Ruins instead, allowing Cyrus to go inside.
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== Card Games ==
* There's a ''[[Magic:
** It's not alone; several other [http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?multiverseid=205362 creatures] and [http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?multiverseid=107310 spells] have this effect. (Ravnicans, in particular, are good at it...)
** The Planeswalkers get in on the action too, with spells like [http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?multiverseid=24554 Mirror Strike].
* There's a ''[[Yu-Gi-Oh!]]!'' card (not sure if it was ever used in the anime) where the art is basically a guy thrusting his sword at someone... only his arms (with weapon) have disappeared into a portal and are coming up fast behind him. Deadly dodging via magic.
** Magic again: "[http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?multiverseid=89087 Reroute]" from Ravnica block, in flavor text, image, and ability.
*** Actually that is a ''[[Yu-Gi-Oh!]]" card "[http://yugioh.wikia.com/wiki/Dimension_Wall Dimension Wall]"
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* In ''[[Spider-Man]]'', both the film and the comics, Green Goblin remotely launches his hovercraft at Spider-Man, who gets out of its way in time for it to hit Green Goblin himself.
** This is also his common technique for taking down stronger opponents such as Scorpion or the Rhino.
** Used to defeat more than a few supervillains Spidey faced in ''[[Spider-Man:
** Also, used in ''[[The Spectacular Spider-Man]]''. Spider-Man does this while [[Brief Accent Imitation|mocking]] Shocker, goading him into unwittingly blasting a building's supports, causing it to collapse. Spidey also uses this in a sewer system, making the Rhino punch so many holes in the pipes that the steam overheats him, and leaves him exhausted and delirious.
*** Referred to and subverted in one of the later ''Spectacular Spider-Man'' episodes, where Rhino attacks Spider-Man. Spidey believes that he was able to dodge each and make Rhino look foolish. However, it turns out that Rhino wasn't expecting to hit anyone; His attacks were mainly aimed at the supports of the carpark they were fighting in, with having someone to aim at a distraction and a bonus. When Rhino points out his plan to bring the building crashing down on top of them, Spider-Man laments that he fell for a variation of the above trick he used to defeat Shocker. When the dust settles, [[Nigh Invulnerable|Rhino]] tosses off the rubble on top of him with ease, Spider-Man has a bit more trouble.
* [[
* One of the favourite tricks of [[The Flash]]. Makes sense, with his speed.
* In one ''[[Transformers]]'' comic, a rhino-shaped decepticon (Stranglehold) charged against an autobot, who very politely introduced him to the wall.
* Used by [[Deadpool]] to impale [[The Hulk]] on a broken pole.
** The Hulk himself has pulled this trick a couple of times, including ducking the Constrictor's [[Whip It Good|cybernetic whips]] and causing them to hit an electric streetlight behind him and electrocuted the snakelike killer, or rolling out of the way of an electrically-charged Absorbing Man and letting him hit a large pool of water.
* In ''[[Archie Comics Sonic the Hedgehog|Sonic The Hedgehog]]'', this is how Sonic wins the very first fight we see him in, tricking [[Big Bad|Dr. Robotnik]] into hitting Caterkiller.
* In ''[[Asterix|Asterix In Spain]]'', Asterix succeeds in defeating a wild aurochs with this method - after some spectacular Spanish bullfighting, of course.
== Fanfiction==
* In the 19th chapter of the ''[[Naruto]]'' fanfic, Kusari no Naruto, Naruto gets the Ichibi to hit itself in the face twice.
== Films -- Animation ==
* In ''[[
* At the end of ''[[
* Used several times in the starting sequence to ''[[
* Disney's ''[[Robin Hood (Disney film)|Robin Hood]]'' uses this tactic against the [[Mook]] archers, causing them to hit each other. Of course, they don't ''actually'' hit each other with arrows. They just get pinned to walls through the collars or somesuch.
* In the 2009 film version of ''[[Astro Boy (
* In ''[[The Princess and
* ''[[The Incredibles]]'' has Dash cause about half the fatalities in the movie by getting mooks to blow themselves up on scenery during a chase sequence.
* Another Disney hero using this is ''[[Aladdin (Disney film)|Aladdin]]''. His introduction song is all about how he's always one jump ahead of his enemy.
== Films -- Live Action ==
* ''[[First Blood]]'' features the variant with friendly fire.
* In ''[[Who Framed Roger Rabbit?]]'' Eddie Valiant dodges Judge Doom's punch, leading to Doom getting glued to a slowly moving steamroller.
** And then later inverted/subverted, as Doom dodges a punch from a boxing-glove mallet wielded by Valiant... only to have that glove [[Exactly What I Aimed At|punch open the spigot for the deadly Dip]] to kill its creator.
* In ''[[The Rock (
* Also appears in the ''[[James Bond (
* Mr. Miyagi pulls this trick in the opening "fight" of ''[[The Karate Kid]] II'', tricking his opponent into punching car windows and injuring himself.
** The ''[[Karate Kid]]'' remake also features quite a bit of it in the initial fight between Mr. Han and the six boys who'd beaten up Dre. Han barely shows any actual offense at all, mostly maneuvering the boys into hitting each other. When Dre remarks on this in the next scene, Mr. Han replies, "when fighting against angry blind men, best to just stay out of the way".
* The protagonist of ''[[Ultraviolet (
* Used by Kitty Pryde against Juggernaut in ''[[X-Men]]: The Last Stand'', as she tricks him into crashing into a wall behind her; due to their powers being temporarily nullified by Leech, he's promptly knocked out.
** And again in the ''Wolverine'' movie, with Wade Wilson dodging and slicing bullets to take out foes on either side of him with their own bullets.
* In ''[[Kung Fu Hustle]]'', the Landlord defeats the pair of kung fu villains who double as [[Musical Assassin
* Pulled off in the movie adaptation of ''[[The Hunt for Red October]]''. [[Crowning Moment of Awesome|By a]] ''[[Hot Sub
* River Tam from ''[[
* [[Willow]], beginning of the escape from the inn. "Gentlemen? Meet Llug."
* In ''[[Tremors]]'', Kevin Bacon outwits a giant worm by luring it <s>off of</s> out of a cliff.
* Early in ''[[Machete]]'', the title character is lured into a streetfight. He wins it by dodging several attacks, then stepping aside just at the right time for his opponent to shatter his arm on a concrete post.
* ''[[Hellboy (
* In [[Robin Hood: Men in Tights]], Robin and Achoo ([[Running Gag|Bless you!]]) dodge four soldiers while on a hanging platform, leaving them suspended off the ground atop their swords.
* In ''[[
* Jet Li's character invokes this by accident in the final battle of ''[[Lethal Weapon]] 4'' when he reflexively dodges a bullet which hits and kills his brother.
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* In the ''[[Star Wars]]'' EU, this is a space tactic known as the Ackbar Slash. It was developed in the Battle of Endor at the end of ''Return of the Jedi'' for use by large capital ships in close proximity to each other. It has been implied that the only reason it works is because it's generally suicidal and no-one is that crazy.
** And also because the Mon Calamari warships that constitute the bulk of Admiral Ackbar's fleet have stronger [[Deflector Shields]] and better maneuverability than most other ships of their size, giving them a better chance of avoiding enemy fire and of surviving the shots that do hit them.
** Also notable is a trick used by fighters against capital vessels, involving having a bunch of missiles chase an allied fighter, then making a high-performance turn right next to the hostile ship. The missiles try to match the turn, but have to take wider turns due to their faster
** {{spoiler|Make sure the missiles are all fired at the same time}}
** There's also the A-Wing Slash, wherein a group of X-Wings head for any enemy ship, only to peel away at the last minute and reveal the A-Wings that were hiding in the glow from their engines. The Deadly Dodge part comes when an Imperial commander duplicates it with Preybird starfighters in place of X-Wings and proton torpedoes in place of the A-Wings.
* In ''[[The
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* In the [[Discworld]] book ''[[
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* In the first ''[[Kingdom Keepers]]'' book, Finn managed to defeat a [[Dem Bones|skeletal T-Rex]] by making it hit the tracks of ''[[Disney Theme Parks|Big Thunder Mountain Railroad]]'' which causes the weak frame to splinter apart.
* In the ''[[
* In [[Percy Jackson and The Olympians|The Titan's Curse]], Percy takes the sky from Artemis, and Artemis pushed Atlas into Percy, who moved, and allowed the sky to fall on Atlas.
* [[Ciaphas Cain]] uses this in ''Cain's Last Stand'' when fighting three combat servitors. The one hit by the other's plasma bolt isn't taken down by it, but misidentfies its fellow as another attacker as a result of the hit.
* In ''[[
▲== Live Action TV ==
* In ''[[Buffy the Vampire Slayer]]'', "Me Robot You Jane", Buffy defeats [[Mailer Daemon|Moloch the Corruptor]] by tricking him into punching an electrical junction box, frying him.
** In the episode ''Homecoming'', Buffy maneuvers the two German assassins into shooting each other.
* In ''[[Smallville]]'', this is how young Clark frequently winds up accidentally disposing of villains, allowing the writers to have the threat dealt with without Clark ever breaking [[Thou Shalt Not Kill]]. Take him on, and you ''will'' find yourself stuck like a cocktail weenie on a pointy object that [[Made of Plasticine|should rightfully only bruise you.]]
* In the ''[[
* In the second season ''[[The Man
** Played with in the third season episode "The Five Daughters Affair, Part II". Solo and Kuryakin, creeping down a corridor of a THRUSH complex, are menaced by one THRUSH mook ahead of them and two behind them. The mook in front of them sprints towards them, then leaps at Solo as if to tackle him. Solo quickly hits the floor, and the leaping mook takes out the two mooks following the heroes.
* In an episode of ''[[Murder Most Horrid]]'', the fiancée of a murder victim announces that she no longer wishes to live and asks his killers to all shoot her in the head at the end of a song. She takes a bow.
* [[Double Subverted]] in an episode of ''[[
* In ''[[The Sarah Jane Adventures]]'' episode "The Vault of Secrets", Clyde gets two robots to fire at him, and jumps out at the last second, causing them to shoot each other.
* In one episode of [[The Adventures of Brisco County Jr]], the protagonist is about to be shot by four bandits who form a perfect cross around him. He decides to duck at the last moment and the bandits kill each other simultaneously.
* Done unintentionally in ''[[Friends]]'', where Ross accidentally punches a lamppost after being goaded by Joey to hit him. Joey apologizes and states that he merely dodged reflexively, even taking a swing at Ross in response (who doesn't dodge).
▲== Pro Wrestling ==
* [[TNA]] wrestler [[Samoa Joe]]'s favorite counter against high-flying wrestlers is to simply step aside and allow them to crash into the mat (or the concrete floor, as the case may be).
* Happens a lot in wrestling and usually after it happens a tag team usaully breaks up a short time after.
== Tabletop Games ==
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* In ''[[Mutants and Masterminds]]'', the "redirect" feat allows you to pull this off, as does the "trick" application of the Bluff skill.
* Rules for the "Sucker Attack" go back as far as third edition ''[[Champions]]''.
* Third Edition [[Dungeons
** Also available in Fourth Edition for Rogues, including a paragon path as well as various attacks.
*** Monks have at least two reactions like this as well, and the flavor text for a few powers point at this, even though the game mechanics are that of a regular attack.
*** So do a few other classes, mostly as feat- or utility-based powers.
* [[Star Wars]] Saga Edition has a starship maneuver called the "Ackbar slash" which allows you to redirect an enemy attack towards another enemy ship.
== Video Games ==
* To beat {{spoiler|1=GLaDOS}} in ''[[Portal (
* Used in ''[[Super Mario Bros.|Super Mario Galaxy]]'' to trick Bowser into performing a [[Ground Pound]] over a glass cover. Said cover was on top of molten hot liquid that would burn Bowser.▼
** Of course this actually harkens back to ''[[Super Mario Bros.]] 3'', where Mario tricks Bowser into destroying the floor, which covered a [[Bottomless Pit]].▼
▲* Used in ''[[Super Mario Bros|Super Mario Galaxy]]'' to trick Bowser into performing a [[Ground Pound]] over a glass cover. Said cover was on top of molten hot liquid that would burn Bowser.
** Also in ''Galaxy'', this technique can be used to turn Bullet Bills into [[Helpful Mook
▲** Of course this actually harkens back to ''[[Super Mario Bros]] 3'', where Mario tricks Bowser into destroying the floor, which covered a [[Bottomless Pit]].
▲** Also in ''Galaxy'', this technique can be used to turn Bullet Bills into [[Helpful Mook|Helpful Mooks]] by tricking them into colliding with something you want blown up (including a certain boss's [[Attack Its Weak Point|weakpoint]]).
* The old Sega Genesis/Megadrive game ''Taz in Escape from Mars'' requires this tactic against one boss, a bull that one must trick into running into a wall.
** Also used against those 2 gators; you get the stupid to put his net over the smart one.
* Luring enemies into firing at each other and then fighting is an essential combat tactic in ''[[Doom]]''.
* ''[[Marvel
* A variant appears in ''[[Escape
* In ''[[
* Simultaneously played straight and inverted in ''[[Dwarf Fortress]]''. When fighting, both your dwarves and whoever they're fighting can sidestep to an adjacent free tile in order to dodge an attack. Free tiles include open spaces, so battles on top of bridges often result in one or more combatants dodging off the bridge and falling into the water or magma below.
* Played straight in ''[[
** When dealing with the Alatreon, there are two ledges at the edge of the arena. This is the only reliable way to get at these horns while it's still standing - the other ways are knocking it off its feet and putting it to sleep.
* One of the quicker ways to defeat the Garradors in ''[[Resident Evil]] 4'' is to stand with your back to a wall, get them to charge you, and run for it (conveniently, they usually don't swerve after you), causing them to get their claws stuck in said wall and allowing you a free strike to the weak point on their backs.
** ''[[Resident Evil 3: Nemesis]]'' has the Nemesis. If you are skilled or lucky, you can get him to kill zombies for you, since he destroys ''anything'' in his path to get to the player.
* Averted in the fight against El Odio in ''[[
* The mooks in ''[[
* One boss in ''[[Fable
▲* The mooks in ''[[Battletoads (Video Game)|Battletoads]]: Battlemanics'' automatically counterattack when they take damage, so if you get one to hit another they'll fight to the death.
▲* One boss in ''[[Fable I (Video Game)|Fable I]]'' can't be damaged and always strike you. Every few attacks, he will loose a brutal assault that, if dodged, stuck his swords in the ground. This leaves him vulnerable for a while.
** A similar sequence occurs in ''Clive Barker's Undying''. When fighting Aaron, he will stand in the middle of the room when sufficiently injured and keeps attacking with his chain hook. The trick is to let him attack then sidestep when you are in from of the door. If done right, the hook gets stuck in the door and Aaron can be "killed" by decapitating him with the scythe.
* In ''[[Metroid]] Prime 2'', Samus defeats the Grapple Guardian by dodging just as its beam hit an electrified pillar that stuns it for a few moments.
* Played straight in ''Super [[Double Dragon]]''. You can get your enemies to throw knives and boomerangs at each other, although it might take you a while to perfect this fine craft.
* In ''[[I Wanna Be the Guy]]'', during his third attack pattern, The Guy is [[Immune to Bullets|immune to your puny bullets]], and you have to dodge his shots so that they bounce off the walls into him. It's harder than it sounds, because the bullets don't follow usual angles: they always bounce so that they're flying directly at ''you''.
* The Golems in [[
** The Goat Chimera roars when it's about to charge you; unlike the previous examples, you ''have'' to use the lamppost to disable it, as it skids to a halt if you dodge and it runs you over if you try to block. Thankfully it can still be killed the old-fashioned way.
* This is the basic mechanic of the flash game ''Dodge'': your spaceship is unarmed, and you have to maneuver so that the enemies destroy themselves and/or each other with their missiles.
* A fun tactic in multiplayer games of ''[[
* ''[[The Haunted Mansion]]'' has a segment where Zeke is [[Incredible Shrinking Man|shrunken down]] onto a billards table and has to get the ghostly player to hit all the balls into the pockets. In the kitchen, you have to get the plates aimed at you to break every bottle of alcohol.
* The first form of the [[Final Boss]] in ''[[An Untitled Story]]'' is defeated by having his charge shot bounce right back at him.
* Used brilliantly in [[Jade Empire]] by Sagacious Zu against {{spoiler|Death's Hand. Turns out to be a [[Heroic Sacrifice]], sadly}}.
* In ''[[Pikmin|Pikmin 2]]'', the easiest way to clear out areas with Cannon Beetle Larva (which shoot rocks out at you) is to lure them into shooting every other enemy in the vicinity. It also spares your pikmin from being steamrolled by the rock projectiles in the process.
* In ''[[Phantasy Star Online]]'', the easiest way to dispatch a Garanz is to open the menu to keep yourself in non-combat mode and running in circles around it, making it hit itself with its missiles while you take no damage.
* In [[Prince of Persia]] The Two Thrones, [[That One Boss]] fight involves two really big guys. The only way to beat them is to dodge and get an axe stuck in the ground.
* The only way to get a record for the record player in ''[[Minecraft]]'' (other than being really lucky with [[Random Drops|dungeon chests]]) is to get a skeleton to kill a creeper with its arrow.
* In ''[[Tomb Raider|Tomb Raider Anniversary]]'', during the fight with the T-Rex this is the fastest method of killing it, but it's optional since you can just [[Infinite Ammo|pump it full of bullets]] until you reach [[Press X to Not Die|the end of the fight]] where this is in full effect. The force of the T-Rex smashing into the building behind you even leaves you with a conveniently placed stepping stone to get into the next area.
* In the [[Nintendo 3DS]] downloadable game ''[[Video Game/Sakura Samurai|Sakura Samurai]]'', timing your dodges and attacks is the key to victory, as opposed to [[Button Mashing]]. You can dodge most enemies' attacks normally, but it's more effective to time your dodges and backsteps just as the enemy is about to attack, then closing the gap with an attack of your own. Doing this properly earns you "Precision Points", which can be traded in for gold.
* ''[[Fist of the North Star]]: Ken's Rage'': During the second phase of Kenshiro's boss fight with Shin in Chapter 2 of Legend Mode, Shin will use an [[Unblockable Attack|unblockable charge attack]] that will cause severe damage if it connects. If you position Ken in front of a pillar and then dodge at the last second, Shin's hand will get stuck for a few seconds, allowing you to get a few free hits in.
* ''[[Vega Strike]]'' allows a variation of this as a desperation move - if you are under attack from something you can't really deal with (yet), try flying toward something big and armed with turrets (a capship or space station armed better than Habitat or Mining) and buzz within a kilometre or so before it while under fire. In the unlikely (in the early game area, at least) case it was not hostile to your attackers already, after a few stray shells scratch its paint it will be. You still need to pay attention to avoid running into the station or ships it may launch/dock while dodging shots and not be caught between one of those turrets and its target when the [[Beam Spam]] starts.
== Web Animation ==
* [http://epicgoldenaxe.ytmnd.com Epic Golden Axe Maneuver.]
== Web Comics ==
* Bun-bun pulls this twice during the "Oceans Unmoving" arc of ''[[Sluggy Freelance]]''. The [http://www.sluggy.com/daily.php?date=050203 first time] Bun-bun dodges Calix's throwing axe so that it cuts part of the ship's rigging instead, allowing him to do a dramatic rope swing attack. The [http://www.sluggy.com/daily.php?date=060112 second time], Bun-bun dodges ''another'' axe throw, this time positioning himself so that the axe will hit his enemy, Blacksoul, instead. Unfortunately, Calix has been persuaded to leave by a third party and does not hear the insult that's [[Batman Gambit|supposed to incite his attack]], leaving Bun-bun looking pretty silly in front of his archnemesis.
* Inverted in ''[[The Order of the Stick
** Played straight in [http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0808.html this strip], where Roy tricks his [[Dumb Muscle]] [[Evil Counterpart]] Thog into crashing into a series of columns in order to bring part of the roof down on him. "''That's'' how I use my Intelligence score in combat, ''dumbass''!"
* ''[[Bob and George]]'' [http://www.bobandgeorge.com/archives/040225c Teleport out of the way, and he hits the wall]
** Also used against the heroes, where a villain moved out of the way {{spoiler|and Proto Man accidentally shot and killed George.}}
* Just a few Instances in ''[[The Beast Legion]]''
** [http://www.thebeastlegion.com/issue-03-page28-arthropod-attack/ Xeus barely dodges an Arthropod]
** [http://www.thebeastlegion.com/issue-04-page-24-narrow-escape/ Xeus dodges Gorgorath's attack in Issue 04 by managing to counter the Fear Effect.]
* ''[[Vexxarr]]'' crew trying to make a diversion approached Lattrox orbital station they quickly redefined as "flak garden". Carl ''[http://www.vexxarr.com/archive.php?seldate{{=}}040612 lands]'' the ship between two turrets and then... well... suddenly takes off, leaving behind [[Unsound Effect]]s "{{smallcaps|Clommm!!!}}" and "{{smallcaps|Stupiiidiiityyy''!!!''}}" Which immediately was outdone by a pair of [[Attack Drone|interceptor drones]] that solved the insignificant hindrance such as inability to pinpoint the target (that cloaked and grappled the station again) by taking more potshots roughly in the right direction, so they quickly gutted their own launch platform.
== Western Animation ==
* In ''[[
** Also occurs unintentionally during an episode where Aang is training with Katara and Toph, where he ducks a boulder from Toph by burrowing into the ground, which proceeds to hit Katara, who was standing behind.
** And again in "The Headband", wherein Aang is attacked by the school bully. He manages to defeat the bully with his hands held behind his back and an innocent smile on his face, by dodging in such a way that causes his opponent to throw himself to the ground.
*** Put simply,
* Splinter likes doing this in the [[Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 2003
** The [[Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 1987
* [[Bugs Bunny/Characters|Bugs Bunny]] pulls this [[Karmic Trickster|trick]] a couple of times while fighting the bull in the classic short ''Bully for Bugs''.
* The Road Runner also makes Wile E. Coyote run off a cliff in almost every episode ''several'' times.
* [[Osmosis Jones]] did this by {{spoiler|doing some sort of micro-division as Thrax delivers his coup-de-grace, forcing Thrax to become jammed in a false eyelash.}}
* An episode of ''[[
* In ''[[
* At the end of the Hobgoblin's debut two-parter in ''[[Spider
* Used three times in ''Disney's [[
** Lampshaded by Brooklyn
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* Since [[Secret Squirrel]] can't fight the endangered [[
== Real Life ==
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