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* Similar to the page quote, the [[Big Bad]] of [[Parasyte]] isn't fast enough to dodge the actual bullets. He ''is'' fast enough, however, to be able to see where the police point their guns, and be able to move out of the way.
* Some of the more [[Badass]] fighters in ''[[Change 123]]'' can pull this off, [[Shown Their Work|with lots of effort spent explaining how it actually works]]. You don't have to dodge the bullet, you just have to make the guy with the gun miss.
== Comic Books ==
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* When the [[Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles]] aren't [[Spin to Deflect Stuff|spinning their weapons]], they're dodging bullets and lasers and so on.
* John Doe of ''[[Nth Man: The Ultimate Ninja|Nth Man the Ultimate Ninja]]'', thanks to a lifetime of [[Ninja]] training. In the first issue of his comic, he dodges a bullet fired at him from point-blank range; later, he dodges a sniper's bullets while running uphill towards the gunman.
* ''[[Sin City]]'' plays around with this. Miho and Wallace generally dance around gunfire. Dwight avoids it most of the time but has been pinned down by enemy fire more than once with nowhere to go. Marv avoids gunfire more often than not but is known to get clipped every now and then ([[Made of Iron|not that it stops him]]). Hartigan was clipped in every gun battle he was invovled in, although considering he was an old man suffering from a heart condition, this is quite impressive.
== Film ==
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* In the ''[[Warhammer 40,000]]'' novel ''[[Grey Knights]]'', {{spoiler|Ligeia's death cultists}} dodge almost all the firepower thrown at them.
* In the ''[[Warhammer 40,000]] [[Blood Angels]]'' novel ''Deus Sanguinius'', the daemon Malfallax dodges the rounds fired at him by the Space Marines. As a princeling of Tzeentch, Chaos god of fate, he has an ability that allows him to see where the rounds go and move appropriately; when the body part enabling this is damaged, he fares considerably worse at avoiding.
* In [[Discworld]], in ''[[
* In John D. MacDonald's ''The Girl, the Gold Watch, and Everything'', the hero activates his [[Time Stands Still|magic pocket watch]] just as his adversary pulls the trigger. Not only can he easily get out of the bullet's way, he uses a ruler and his knowledge of the gun's normal-speed muzzle velocity to calculate just ''how much'' the pocket watch is slowing down time.
== Live-Action TV ==
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* Hicks from ''[[Alphas]]'' is able use his [[Super Reflexes]] to get out of the way of a bullet. He realizes that the shooter is about to fire and drops to the ground before the trigger is squeezed. He follows this up with a feat of acrobatics right out of a [[the Matrix]] which confuses the shooter and causes the second shot to miss as well.
* Parodied in ''[[The Office]]''. Michael Scott's amateur film features his character dodging bullets from point blank range using some awkward and poorly choreographed poses.
== Tabletop Games ==
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* The ''[[Old World of Darkness]]'' has a Dodge skill that allows you do dodge bullets. The difficulty of the dodge depends on your available cover. If you've got good cover, it can be a 6, which is a standard difficulty. If there is no cover, you can still drop to the floor to avoid the bullets, which is difficulty 8, pretty challenging.
* ''[[Mage: The Awakening]]'' has a shield system that allows you to do it, combined with the dodging action, a few different ways depending on the type of magic. For instance, Space causes the area around you to warp so the bullet lightly deflects as you move out of the way, Death 'steals the energy' from the bullet, slowing it down, and Fate just makes you so improbably lucky you dodge out of the way by tripping over a dog or whatever.
== Theatre ==
* [[Older Than Steam]]: In Ben Jonson's 1598 play ''Every Man in His Humour'' a character claims to be able to teach another to deflect bullets with his sword. "Unless it be grapeshot, and spread."
== Video Games ==
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* Non-[[Redshirt Army]] blaster units in ''[[Lego Adaptation Game|Lego Star Wars]]'' have ability to dodge enemies' beam shots while firing back at them.
* Several higher-level mooks and bosses will dodge your bullets in ''[[Red Steel|Red Steel II]]'' if you randomly fire at them. No such luck for you, though...
== Web Animation ==
* Happens all the time in ''[[Madness Combat]]''. The [[One-Man Army|main characters]] are rarely, if ever, hit, and even then, it's usually because an enemy has sneaked up on them.
== Web Original ==▼
* This happens a fair bit in ''[[Survival of the Fittest]]'' although considering that it is a roleplay and handlers are reluctant to allow their characters to die, it is only to be expected. The most ridiculous example happened with Clive Maxwell. He was shot at with an MP5 (a weapon which, mark you, fires around 13 rounds per second) and not only managed to push his '[[Yaoi Guys|friend]]' Liam Black aside but avoid getting hit at all by ''running around the shooter in a circle''. [[Rule of Cool|It was not cool]]. [[Rule of Funny|Nor funny]].▼
== Web Comics ==
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* From [[Scary Go Round]]: "[http://scarygoround.com/?date=20030404 Have you ever tried to jump in front of a bullet? They move pretty fast, you know, ''like a bullet does.'']"
* The RPG-centric comic ''[[Darths and Droids]]'' manages to both lampshade and subvert this quite brilliantly [http://www.darthsanddroids.net/episodes/0009.html at the same time], while also teaching its readers some valuable roleplaying techniques to boot.
* Von Pinn of ''[[Girl Genius]]'' does the [http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20040813 deflection version here], after a [[Bullet Catch]].
* ''[[Bob and George]]'': [http://www.bobandgeorge.com/archives/040317c and let it hit elsewhere]
▲== Web Original ==
▲* This happens a fair bit in ''[[Survival of the Fittest]]'' although considering that it is a roleplay and handlers are reluctant to allow their characters to die, it is only to be expected. The most ridiculous example happened with Clive Maxwell. He was shot at with an MP5 (a weapon which, mark you, fires around 13 rounds per second) and not only managed to push his '[[Yaoi Guys|friend]]' Liam Black aside but avoid getting hit at all by ''running around the shooter in a circle''. [[Rule of Cool|It was not cool]]. [[Rule of Funny|Nor funny]].
== Real Life ==
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