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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-Mooks]];
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* 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.
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* At the end of ''[[Chicken Run]]'', Ginger is pursued by Mrs. Tweedy climbing up a rope (OK, a string of Christmas lights). As Tweedy reaches her, she attacks Ginger with a meat cleaver. After a moment, Ginger reveals that not only is she alright, but that Tweedy cut the rope, and falls away.
* Used several times in the starting sequence to ''[[Bolt]]'', once by Bolt getting a homing missile to hit a helicopter, and once by Penny getting one of the motorbiking [[Faceless Mooks]] to electrify another.
* 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 (film)|Astro Boy]]'', Astro uses this to get the Peacekeeper to collapse a skyscraper on itself.
* In ''[[The Princess and the Frog]]'', Tiana and Naveen use this against a trio of dim-witted frog hunters.
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* ''[[Hellboy (film)|Hellboy]]'' dodges Wink's [[Rocket Punch|fist]] and it hits what appears to be a giant meatgrinder. Wink doesn't live much longer after that, obviously.
* 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 ''[[Dragon Ball Evolution]]'', when Goku is forbidden to fight, he defeats some bullies by tricking them into hitting each other and hard surfaces.
* 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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{{quote|...when six are against one in a melee in the shadows, and especially if those six aren't used to a target that is harder to hit than a wasp, and even more so if they got all their ideas of knife fighting from other amateurs, then there's six chances in seven that they'll stab a crony and about one chance in twelve that they'll knick their own earlobe.}}
* 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 ''[[Doctor Who]]'' [[Past Doctor Adventures]] novel ''The Eleventh Tiger'', the Doctor does this to the Gung Fu School bully who challenges him to a duel. The Doctor first flips him onto his back using his attack as a lever, then when the bully decides to kick at the Doctor's head (a kick that he boasts shatters jars, and jars are stronger then heads) the Doctor momentarily blinds him with a reflection of light and then moves his head an inch to the left, allowing the bully's foot to crack into the wooden pole behind the Doctor's head, splintering the pole and his foot. The Doctor then tells the other students to tend to the bully's wounds. Topping this off is the fact this is the first Doctor, who looks like he's 60 if he's a day.
* 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.
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* In the ''[[Doctor Who]]'' episode "The Age of Steel", Mickey also defeats a Cyberman by getting it to punch an electrical generator.
* In the second season ''[[The Man from U.N.C.L.E.]]'' episode "The Virtue Affair", Napoleon Solo escapes from a holding cell and is running through the corridors of the [[Big Bad]]'s lair. Confronted by two [[Mooks]] approaching from opposite sides of the corridor, Solo dodges just in time for the mooks to gun each other down.
** 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 ''[[Farscape]]''. Crichton tries to trick a creature into jumping through a hole blown in the hull that's sealed with an improvised hatch and an electromagnetic field. However, after he dodges it, it misses the hatch and clings to the wall instead. It takes a few more tries and several seconds of frantically dodging to work.
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* A variant appears in ''[[Escape from Monkey Island]]'': the enormous [[Final Boss]] appears in a rehashing of the game's martial-arts-code-breaker puzzle, but can't be defeated in regular combat. The player is [[Guide Dang It|expected to have discovered and remembered]] that combatants will get frustrated and beat at their own head if stalemated, and induce the boss to do so, crushing its controller who was conveniently riding on top.
* In ''[[Persona 4]]'' enemies that miss have a chance of falling down. If it is the last enemy on their feet at the time, you get a free combination attack.
* 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 ''[[Monster Hunter]]''. Certain monsters with very large fangs or horns can get them temporarily stuck in conveniently-placed ledges or walls by application of this technique. Doesn't work once the offending body part has been smashed, though.
** 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.
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** ''[[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 ''[[Psychonauts]]'', interestingly, as not only is it a [[Bullfight Boss]] in terms of the trope definition, it's a [[Bullfight Boss]] in literal terms. He's rather intelligent for a boss of his kind and probably won't end up touching the wall at all.
* In ''[[Super Smash Bros.|Super Smash Bros Brawl]]'' story mode, you can do significant damage to [[That One Boss|Duon]] by {{spoiler|getting his homing missiles to slam into him}}
* The mooks in ''[[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 (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.
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* ''[[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.
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