Deadly Dodging: Difference between revisions

* 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]]''.

* ''[[Darker Than Black]]'' gives a [[Crowning Moment of Funny|lovely demonstration]] of why, if you're going to try to attack a waiter in a restaurant, it'd be a good idea ''not'' to [[Mugging the Monster|go after the one who's an undercover hitman for an international crime syndicate]]. Because he ''is'' undercover, Hei [[Cover-Blowing Superpower|tries to act like he doesn't know what he's doing]], but after the guy attacking him crashes into several pieces of furniture and a few people in a vain attempt to hit him, an onlooker comes to the conclusion that "It's true [[All Chinese Know Kung Fu|all Chinese people are martial arts masters.]]"

* 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.

** 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 Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy]]'', depressed robot Marvin is left to defend himself with no weapons against a giant killer robot. He explains this situation to the killer robot, with emphasis on the callous and unthinking humans who abandoned a little helpless robot, and this makes it so angry that it destroys a wall, and then the floor. Unfortunately, it's standing on a bridge several hundred feet above ground level.

* In the [[Discworld]] book ''[[Discworld/Maskerade|Maskerade]]'', Granny Weatherwax first encounters the Ghost when he uses this tactic to fight some muggers threatening her and Mrs. Plinge:

* 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.

* Used three times in ''Disney's [[Gargoyles]]'', Hudson and Elisa both execute the version causing mooks charging from opposite directions to crash into each other, while the trickster Coyote baits his robotic namesake into toppling the steel skeleton of an unfinished building onto himself.

** Lampshaded by Brooklyn

* Since [[Secret Squirrel]] can't fight the endangered [[Everythings Better With Pandas|One-Ton]] [[Averted Trope|Panda]] without getting arrested, he tricks the villain into whacking himself with various objects by acting as an unhelpful bodyguard.