Deadly Dodging: Difference between revisions

* 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.

{{quote|'''Marvin:''' What a depressingly stupid machine.}}

{{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 ''[[Helm]]'', Leland de Laal discovers this by accident during his [[Training from Hell]] and begins using it intentionally.

 

* 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.

* 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).

 

* [[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 ==

*** 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 ==

== Web Animation ==

* [http://epicgoldenaxe.ytmnd.com Epic Golden Axe Maneuver.]

 

== Web Comics ==

 

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